www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/m... Voice of sanity

www.milibrary.org/events/23191 Thursday, Oct 2 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm 57 Post Street San Francisco, CA 94104

mailchi.mp/filmcomment/... Crashing into the zeitgeist against who-knows-what headwinds, Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another is a kick-ass, madcap, antifascist action flick—imagine Lizzie Borden’s Born in Flames on big-budget steroids, served over ICE... Not only tumultuous but funny.

bampfa.org/event/everyt... Doomshow (1963) -Ray Wisniewski Little Stabs at Happiness (1959-63) w Jack Smith -Ken Jacobs New York Eye and Ear Control (1964) -Michael Snow Award Presentation to Andy Warhol (1964) -Jonas Mekas Wednesday, Oct 1, 2025 7 PM BAMPFA 2155 Center Street Berkeley, CA

www.milibrary.org/events/23191 Thursday, Oct 2 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm 57 Post Street San Francisco, CA 94104

Working my way through the pile #3: Surprised this 1949 Hal Wallis production isn't better known. A noir "Woman's Film" (from a novel by June Truesdell) cum pop psychology drama (Spellbound et al), directed by perennially underrated Wm Dieterle, it asserts a rape victim's right to self defense.

As did Jabotinsky & the Revisionists. I don't know any term to describe their contempt for Diasporic Jews other than "antisemitic." If you have a better term, please advise.

Do the White Thing, rather

www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025... Not a good omen

Recalls his first 2017 convo w James Comey except now as a public threat

I’d never seen this one.

What latter day Riefenstahl is documenting the proceedings?

Mourners are gathering in Arizona for a memorial service honoring the life of slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/o... Addressing the present moment In this urgent, wide-ranging & clear-eyed piece, M Gessen recalls the Polish-Jewish teenager whose act of despair, assassinating a Nazi diplomat in Paris, provided the Nazis with their pretext for the 1938 state pogrom Krystallnacht.

booksoup.com/event/2025-0... Date: Mon, 9/29/2025 Time: 7:00pm - 8:00pm Place: 8818 Sunset Boulevard West Hollywood, CA 90069

Thurs Sept 25 2220 Arts + Archives 2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles The Whirled (w Jack Smith) --Ken Jacobs, 1961 Senseless --Ron Rice, 1962 New York Eye and Ear Control --Michael Snow, 1964 DMT (based on Jackie Cassen’s light show) --Jud Yalkut, 1966 www.acropoliscinema.com/films/everyt...

AOC: We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was. A man who believed that the civil rights act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake… His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans.

Does the NYT define this term? And if not, shouldn't it be placed between quotation marks? (I'm not allowing myself to imagine that the hed was AI generated.)

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/m... Esther left out Arthur Penn's easily found 1966 film maudit THE CHASE in which RR has a secondary but key role (as does Jane Fonda). It's a fascinating Great Society text, see The Dream Life pp132-38, w a terrific cast & significant Brando performance

If he wrote song, as Horst Wessel did, they'd all be singing it, goose-stepping in line.

www.sfcinematheque.org/screening/j-... Everything is Now in San Francisco SF Cinematheque presents/J. Hoberman introduces Jack Smith's Scotch Tape (c 1959) & Ron Rice's The Flower Thief (1960) w Taylor Mead Fri, Oct 3 @ 7:30 pm GRAY AREA / GRAND THEATER 2665 Mission Street

www.villagevoice.com/remembering-... Redford on Quiz Show “the most polished, least sentimental, and best movie that he ever directed.” JH, VV 9/17/94

us18.campaign-archive.com?e=68e7433329... Haaretz: "With Kushner, informed by Netanyahu & his confidant Ron Dermer despite years of being played by them, advising Trump on the path forward for Gaza, things may get worse before they get worse." Look at that smirk--it's the Art of the Schlemiel

us18.campaign-archive.com?e=68e7433329... "There has always been an anti-Zionist Jewish left; indeed, it is the emergence of a Zionist consensus, post 1967, that has been the historical oddity." B. Balthaser, Citizens of the Whole World: Anti-Zionism the Cultures of the American Jewish Left p4

Reading CLR James' 1952 reading of Moby Dick (kinda his version of On Totalitarianism). J sees Ahab as a megalomaniac whose passion for destruction is the source of his charismatic hold on Pequod crew. I considered Trump's literary analog Pere Ubu but perhaps Ahab is better. Have others said same?

Our sociopathic Dear Leader's theme should really be the Sammy Davis anthem "I've Gotta Be Me (Who Else Could I Be?)." I'd almost pay money to hear him croak out the words in some Atlantic City casino lounge or better the opening of his new White House "ballroom." www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXYn...

and having been assassinated, the most useful (think Horst Wessel) or as someone said upon hearing that Elvis had passed--"Great career move!"

That's our Eric. Staying in the race & kowtowing to the Man.

Why not if the $$$ is there except that Sept 11 (!) was Eric's last day to get his name off the ballot...

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/... Two cheers for the Dems

www.scmp.com/news/china/m... WTF?

us18.campaign-archive.com?e=68e7433329... Why would Bibi, Ben-Gvir et al "rush to memorialize an American ultra-Christian pundit who floated conspiracy theories against Jews?" Why indeed? Kirk's "religious absolutism, culture-war agitation & disdain for liberal institutions" mirrors their own.

"Kirk seems poised to be the next evolution of Horst Wessell"--Violet Lucca, A Closer Lucca

www.moviemaker.com/south-park-c... FYI

Wild how political alliance with Zionism sweeps all sorts of wild statements about Jews under the table

gothamist.com/news/columbi... Back to school

booksoup.com/event/2025-0... Everything is Now... in LA (Sept 29, 7pm Book Soup)

meduza.io/en/feature/2... That's for public consumption. Privately, killer Putin could be telling our Dear Leader than Zelensky ordered the hit.

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/... Suggested hed: Mad bomber Bibi names boardwalk of shame for his BFF

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/n... Oligarchs panic. "The time to act is now... The financial capital of the world risks being handed over to a socialist this November. We cannot — and will not — let that happen.” Aw. Imagine the bribes being promised Eric & Curtis. Fight plutocracy, support Mamdani.

Railroad Daddy in a priceless ad:

At this point he's a still useful lightning rod for Trump

gothamist.com/news/trump-v... The Dear Leader returns to Queens booed by fans inside stadium & cursed by thousands stuck outside struggling thru Secret Service security screenings. "Videos show the crowd mostly booing when Trump appeared on the stadium’s jumbotron during the national anthem."

gothamist.com/news/cuomo-i... "Cuomo suggested Adams staying in the race was a Republican plot to allow Trump to take over New York City, calling Mamdani,  ”President Trump's dream candidate.” Machiavelli cubed: Cuomo sez, scared of him, Taco Trump is bribing Eric to stay & get Mamdani elected

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/u... NYT thought her remarks sounded like something out of Philip K Dick. “Cars now steer themselves thru our cities, robots hold steady hands in the OR & drones are redefining the future of war,” she said. She talked about “1st-generation humanoids.” She should know!

This is the sort of antisemitism that Christian Zionists, neo Crusaders & Bibi Netanyahu are proud to exploit.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/n... Nice pot o' gold at the end that rainbow. Eric might be NYC's most successfully corrupt mayor ever.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/n... NYT tries another tack. Suggesting that Mamdani is just another pol & baiting his supporters: "So far, there are no obvious signs of revolt from the left."

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/w... Trolling Trump?