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I'm a man without a corporation. ~Paddy Chayefsky

Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Cuts for Cooky: Bernard Hermann's Antimacassar

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From Welle's "The Magnificent Ambersons," it was supposed to have run with the end credits. It was cut by RKO, and along wit...
Tuesday, December 15, 2015

99 Homes: Carver Spells it Out

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Andrew Garfileld's Dennis Nash having a while ago shook hands with the devil, has just bought back his family home from Michael Shanno...
Saturday, September 26, 2015

Ishmael Beah

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The Middle East flight from madness has begat the Euro crisis, which has certain people decrying the influx of foreigners into the west. N...
Thursday, September 10, 2015

A Bus Story

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GROUNDWORK Edward Bernays deployed one of the most nefarious psych strategies in history that took hold of Madison Avenue and has been a...
Monday, August 03, 2015

Women Should Play Sports: Ronda & Leticia Bufoni

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I thought Rashard Evans made a very perceptive comment pre-fight to UFC 190, Rousey v. Correia; he said it was Ronda's imaginati...
Sunday, June 07, 2015

Susan from LA, to Dick Fuld

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Here's an everywoman some seven years  after the fall of 2008. Amidst the NYT's Neil Irwin proclaiming just today, that the Jobs R...
Monday, April 20, 2015

Sputter THIS

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[T]he resolution of two cases last week clearly indicates that enforcement actions for conduct leading up to the...
Saturday, April 11, 2015

Bureaucrooks Gone Wild, The Taming Episode

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The lifestyle that Robert Rizzo enjoyed during his run as Bell city manager included a stable full of thoroughbreds, among them a gelding...
Sunday, March 29, 2015

Lucero: Llorar

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Rancheras were made fun of by us East Los kids, and I suppose the obviousness and sometimes corniness of these popular Mexican songs bring...
Wednesday, March 25, 2015

David FeBland

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Artist's Statement Some years ago, I began to produce paintings that expressed my best and worst impulses set out in the context o...
Saturday, March 07, 2015

There's a sucker born every minute: The Beanie Baby Bubble

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A new book by Zac Bissonnette goes into the Beanie Baby Bubble  uses that manic time to delve into the why of collective mania. Today, wit...
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