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Archive for February, 2004

The Coppola building in downtown San Francisco holds a special place in my heart. Aside from housing one of the finest production facilities in the city, it is the place that a bunch of my favorite films have been produced.

From George Lucas’ ode to the fabulous fifties to Francis Ford Coppola’s first Godfather film, this building has seen some of the finest examples of cinematic creativity ever produced outside the Hollywood system.

This building always makes me smile when I see it, and more so at night when it looks like the Emerald City.

My roommate was a deadbeat. She moved in, left all her “valuables” here and then disappeared. I know she is alive since she works at the same place she always has. My repeated attempts to contact her have failed since she won’t come to the phone for fear it is one of the fifty or sixty debt collectors which are seemingly much more motivated than I am to reach her. Her loss could be your gain.

She owed me a tidy sum when she disappeared and now I aim to recoup (pennies on the dollar I tell you!) some of what she owes.

First item up for bid is a rust-colored sueded leather coat the likes of which hasn’t been seen on the street since Starsky first frisked Hutch. We’re talking Huggy Bear type pimpin’ overcoat here ladies. The cuffs and collar are decked out in muppet hair splendor (faux fur for the tv impaired)!

She was a big girl but apparently she was able to fit her mass into a medium sized coat.

I’m asking $35 but will hand it over to the highest bidder. If you’re interested in viewing the coat, shoot me an email and I’ll glady produce a photo.

If one wanted to explore the history of Organized Labor Unions in the United States, you’d have to begin with the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. The phrasing used most often in defending the advent of organized labor is in “pursuit of happiness” which sought to cut work hours and gain higher pay. A ragtag collection of printers were the first to go on strike, in New York in 1794; cabinet makers struck in 1796; carpenters in Philadelphia in 1797; cordwainers in 1799. To be sure, it was poor living and working conditions and the unrepentant pursuit of profit by factory owners that pushed the working man to seek to improve the workers’ conditions, through either negotiation or strike action, that set the tone and need for such organizations.
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In light of the growing debate over the same sex marriage licenses San Francisco has seen fit to issue, I have simply this to say to the conservative “family values” zealots attempting to halt the civil ceremonies…

“The only thing that can truly destroy family values is ignorance and hate.”

Thank you and good night!

Come and join me in guessing the winners and losers of the Academy Awards!

Yesterday, for the 19th day of Ed, the Red Queen and I were extras in the new Richard Gere movie featuring Juliette Binoche, titled “Bee Season.” Looks like someone is trying to capture the buzz (pardon the pun) of the documentary hit, Spell Bound because the movie is about a father who takes his daughter’s rise through the ranks of a spelling bee quite seriously. (To Be Continued)

That’s what I tell all my friends who say, “I should write a [insert literary endeavor here]!” The whole thought is essentially, a writer writes and a coward talks about writing. I rarely ever say that because people usually think I’m calling them names.
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Many people jumped at the chance to defend suspected terrorist and former Intel employee, Maher “Mike” Hawash, when he was “detained” as a “material witness” by the feds. Of course, most people believed that the man they “knew” would be incapable of terrorist leanings. Then, in August, all his friends had to eat crow when Hawash was indicted and plead guilty to one of three indictments levied against him. Ahhh, nothing like a steaming pile of crow to make you wish you’d just kept your big yap shut.
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Wow. Just finished watching the Collector’s Edition of Sunset Boulevard for the tenth time (not today, but in my life you louts!). This film is quite possibly my second favorite noir film of all-time. I’m a fan of Billy Wilder’s work and have been since I first viewed Double Indemnity when I was in grade school.
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Today, our government raised the bar in the ridiculous pursuit of wasting time. Representative Heather Wilson, R-N.M spent the better part of the morning pontificating on indecency and how the networks conspired to poison her children. Apparently, her children were bottle fed and have never had the misfortune of seeing a real live breast. I can’t begin to imagine how utterly (pardon the pun) damaged her children must now be in light of their tragic exposure to one, dark, shiny breast.
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