tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-282442222024-03-07T06:38:11.741-05:00This & That by Dangerous DianeMusings. The personal is universal.My Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04951037484578046264noreply@blogger.comBlogger391125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28244222.post-30801541156053971252015-03-19T15:25:00.002-04:002015-03-21T07:21:39.581-04:00"Milk" Video Art 1976For a limited time you can watch "Milk" on Tom Sherman's Vimeo page.<br />
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Spodarek: "I first made video art in the MFA program at at Eastern
Michigan University from 1973-1975. Using a Sony PortaPak I made black and
white videos using myself in autobiographical 'stories.' After graduation and
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the best is "Milk" (1976, 10 min, b/w) Description: While expressing
my own breast milk into a glass I reflected on society’s attitudes toward
breast-feeding in public and my husband’s reaction to the milk in his coffee.
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<br />My Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04951037484578046264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28244222.post-80273924743025598352015-03-11T21:56:00.002-04:002015-03-12T05:23:43.064-04:00Update Hearing 3-11 for Prezidor Probini on the tragedy of killing Guler Ugur 12-31<br />
Today was a hearing for Preizdor Probini for which the DA's office had informed anyone who inquired that nothing would happen, that there would be no plea deal, that it was not necessary for anyone to attend because it was a simple postponement for an actual court date.<br />
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But something did happen. The fact that "friends of Guler Ugur" attended resulted in an article in the new york press.</div>
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This proves that if you stand up for those you love, if you let the courts know that someone's life matters, like Guler's did to so many people, something happens. In this case, more press. Why is this man's attorney saying that it is a simple interpretation of the law, the fact that he was entering an intersection on a green light and that IF he had stopped he would not have been charged with a crime. Why is anyone treating this as an accident? It is not an accident.</div>
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When Probini killed Guler he: 1. was driving with a "suspended license" 2. was illegally passing on the right; 3. was speeding (proved by the fact that when he hit Guler she flew 80 feet); and 4. was driving his mother's car (what is her liability?)</div>
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My Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04951037484578046264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28244222.post-91728257931756018782015-03-02T08:37:00.001-05:002015-03-02T08:43:47.221-05:00Guler Ugur update infoCorrection (?)<br />
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I have been sent an email from someone who attended a meeting in the DA's office about the charges against Prezidor Probini who killed Guler Ugur. Apparently, Probini turned himself in earlier than the press reported including "The New York Times." There is also speculation about a previous felony charge of "armed robbery."<br />
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In my earlier post I did not publish the link to the court documents that I read that stated Probini had two previous felonies pending against him including "armed robbery." This is unfortunate because now these sites no longer carry "free" content. I will continue to check. The March 11th hearing will determine what charges will be made against Probini based on "evidence." There is no mistake that Probini killed Guler Ugur. His whereabouts before and after constitute evidence.<br />
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I am not a believer in "internet" info. How often do we hear people say "I read it on the internet," but don't know and/or cannot site the source. One third of all internet content is inaccurate, (James Fallows, international writer for The Atlantic, did the research). Most of my blog is simple writings about personal experience. When I write about "other" information that I find interesting or hurtful to people or the environment, I like to share it and usually provide a link. The story about the death of my friend however, makes me realize that even court documents that are previously published as "public info" can disappear.<br />
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<br />My Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04951037484578046264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28244222.post-31402847086745708042015-03-01T13:01:00.001-05:002015-03-11T21:35:44.941-04:00February 2015 - Birthday - Drinking - Florida - Guler <br />
I missed the opportunity to post during the month of February (due to a very long flu illness) and now it is March 1st. February, my daughter's birthday month (as well as my own). We always celebrate with a birthday dinner. This year, we went to the restaurant on the corner of Washington and Bethune, only a half block from our front door. Above affordability, it is a once a year treat. And it was the first time I have had a drink (red wine) with my daughter because I quit drinking 18 years ago. Now, after realizing getting drunk is just as over-rated as sobriety, I enjoy drinking again. Friends ask: "What is it like to drink after 18 years?" Simply, it's okay. Obsessing about not drinking was actually more harmful - for me - than now that I'm drinking occasionally. (But I did write a good show: "The Drunk Monologues.")<br />
Here's one of Guler's favorite photos she took from my show at the NY Fringe performance:<br />
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I have been sad about Guler's death. I was in Florida when I heard about the man who killed her in his mother's car, while he was on bail for two previous felonies. This is the part I can't get over. It was no accident. Everyone calls it an accident. No, it wasn't. An accident - by definition - has unknown causes. If a two-time felon drives without a license in a borrowed car, (and illegally passes on the right and is speeding), all the causes of the unfortunate event are known and preventable. I flew back to NYC from Florida for the memorial but got the flu and was in bed for days and unable to go out for weeks.<br />
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I was helping my parents out in Florida, a place that is very alien to me after being in New York. There, people throw out racist and anti-Obama comments as often as they talk about the weather. In this mix my parents - who voted for Obama - said they keep their political beliefs to themselves because the vitriol from the senior set is extreme. My mother, who has dementia, however, says everyone she knows in Florida are Republicans because they want to pretend they are rich despite their working class backgrounds. My parents, 92 and 87 are living together in different ways. My father plays tennis every other day and my mother struggles to put words together to communicate what she thinks and feels. <br />
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My Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04951037484578046264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28244222.post-33109534536567357772015-01-18T17:41:00.001-05:002015-03-01T12:38:41.881-05:00Guler Ugur extraordinary Photographer killed by Prezidor Porbeni<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Guler Ugur was my friend, one of the most extraordinary women I knew. Full of spirit and talent, she always brought me flowers when we met. The last was a single large yellow sunflower. Her memorial will be at the Tribeca Synogogue for the Arts February 8th.<br />
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Guler Ugur was killed by Prezidor Porbeni,
who fled the scene after hitting her in his mother’s SUV on December 31, 2014
at 6 pm. Guler was crossing 113<sup>th</sup> Street and Amsterdam
Avenue on her way to St. John Divine for the annual New Year’s eve concert. He was driving with a suspended license, illegally passing on the right and speeding. When he hit Guler she was thrown 80 feet and declared dead at St. Luke’s on the same block.<br />
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Porbeni turned himself in (ten days later with his lawyer), <u>only</u> after the SUV
he was driving was posted on the Internet for five days. Porbeni is 28-years-old and has a criminal history including two pending felony cases: an armed robbery and a separate crime of beating and punching his pregnant girlfriend in the stomach and choking her until she
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In a police report I read that Porbeni said he left the scene because he was scared. This is pathetic.
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Guler was a beautiful woman. Her personal life is as extraordinary as her professional life. Born in Turkey to Muslim parents, she was the oldest of eight. Her family moved to Germany where, (she told me), after
years of sexually abusing her, her father sold her into marriage when she was
12 or 13. She ran away and was placed in foster care, where her foster parents kept her home from school and used her as a domestic slave. Running away again, she
was able to eventually grow up away from adults who were supposed to protect her. She came to New York as a very young photographer and I met her in my job as an immigration paralegal and was able to help her obtain a working visa as an extraordinary photographer. She supported herself (and others) with her successful career and converted to Judaism. She was more than a friend, she also photographed my gigs and head shots for many years.<br />
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More recently, before it got too cold I went hiking with Guler twice. Days before she was killed, we spoke on the phone. She was happy. We made plans to spend some time in Florida. Her death was so sudden. It is impossible to understand the
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In the law of cause and effect, Guler would be alive today
if it wasn’t for Probini's previous criminal activity and his actions moments before he killed Guler. Shouldn’t he be charged with manslaughter? He didn’t have a license, he
passed on the right, and he had to be speeding for her to be thrown 80 feet. He shouldn’t have
been driving period. And why was he even free with two pending felonies? Who paid for his bail? If you drive with a suspended license and you kill
someone, - and flee the scene - (can't help but wonder what or who was in his car when it happened) isn't the appropriate charge manslaughter? In his two priors, he threatened the lives of others. Killing Guler is no accident. One felony. Two felonies. Now Three. This is an accident? This is a man with a history. Unless a judge can get him off the street, sadly his next crime is predictable and it will not be an accident either.<br />
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My Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04951037484578046264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28244222.post-33009928162449744882014-12-10T19:04:00.004-05:002014-12-10T19:06:06.664-05:00You can stop terrorism<div class="MsoNormal">
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Please do not buy ivory and do not buy anything that is fake ivory because it’s
not. The fact that merchants will identify that carved elephant (like all over
Chinatown) as fake obviously means that NOT buying ivory will make a
difference. DON’T BUY IVORY. Pass it on. Please. Humans are not the only species
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My Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04951037484578046264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28244222.post-66856973213149346092014-11-27T10:52:00.001-05:002014-12-02T09:47:18.418-05:00Reasons to not eat turkey Thanksgiving 2014Thanksgiving is a good day to give thanks by respecting life.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beautiful turkey, Ontario, Canada<br />
ph cr: diane spodarek</td></tr>
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<b>Reasons to pass on turkey this year: </b></div>
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300 million turkeys are
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Baby turkeys start their lives in huge incubators</div>
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They will never see their mothers</div>
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After a few weeks they are crammed with thousands of others
in massive windowless sheds</div>
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Turkeys are fed, drugged and genetically manipulated to grow
as large and as quickly as possible, some so large their legs break beneath
them</div>
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In 1970 the average turkey weighed 17 pounds. Today turkeys
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At 5 months they are sent to the slaughterhouse</div>
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What happens at a modern slaughterhouse is so vile and
disgusting I cannot write it here.</div>
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For more info:</div>
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My Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04951037484578046264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28244222.post-63839548326938255972014-11-25T10:56:00.002-05:002014-11-25T11:13:31.279-05:00Leslie Feinberg - My Interview with Leslie from 1996<div class="MsoNormal">
Leslie Feinberg died November 15, 2014. Author of “Stone Butch
Blues” & "Transgender Warriors," she was a gender outlaw and political activist. I interviewed Leslie for "Downtown
Magazine" in 1996 (it ceased publication in 1997) in a café in the West Village.
At the end of the interview, Minnie Bruce Pratt came into the restaurant and Leslie
stood up from her chair and walked towards her as if there was nothing more
important in the world than that moment. When I heard of Leslie’s death today, that
18-year old image of the two of them greeting each other in the cafe returned.<br />
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Re-reading the interview after 18 years, so much has changed -- and yet so much has remained the same. I remember Leslie fondly.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">photo credit: Leslie Feinberg self-portrait in setting sun<br />
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The opening:</div>
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DS:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I read <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Transgender
Warriors (“Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Denis Rodman,”
1996)</i> I could see a lot of similarities in the stories in that book and
those told in the first person narrative in your novel,<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Stone Butch Blues.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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LS:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would say that there is nothing in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Stone Butch Blues</i> that is autobiographical but then, of course, I
wrote from what I knew in terms of class relations -- what jobs realistically
would be open in what period of time to someone, when those jobs would close --
things like that. But, it is completely a novel and a work of fiction and that
was important to me for two reasons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>One, I made a choice to write fiction because I actually felt I would
write more truth or go more to the heart of emotional truth in fiction; plus, I
wanted to create a vehicle for gender theory that was accessible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And you can’t always use your own life
to do that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can’t draw on
enough experiences, but through fiction it’s wonderfully flexible for that
purpose.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, I found that to be
true to fiction and to be fair to your characters and to your reader, you’re
really going to have to allow characters to develop on their own paths, their
own relationships, etc. It may sound metaphysical to someone who doesn’t create
fiction, but if you’re going to create characters, you’re going to have to
close your eyes and picture them and listen to them speaking instead of trying
to put your own experiences into their mouths.</div>
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Excerpt from the end:</div>
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DS:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The history about transgender people, except for Joan of
Arc, was new to me and the law about the three pieces of clothing, wow, I could
be arrested right now!</div>
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LF:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even if the laws are different in different places; it
doesn’t have to be a three piece law on clothing for some cop to pull you over
or a store detective to pick you up.</div>
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DS:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it was a law.</div>
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LF:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There have been specific laws around the country.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They’re a masquerade.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All the pictures even from the late
60’s of drag queens and transgender people being rounded up and put in police
vans, they all had some laws, masquerading, cross dressing, not wearing three
pieces of women’s clothing, wearing fly-front pants, they were all gender
laws.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were all saying okay
I’ve got a reason to drag you in, you don’t have the right label on your
clothing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s absurd but the
harassment is real.</div>
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DS:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve recently come across the fact that it was not only the
drag queens but also the drag kings that were responsible for Stonewall.</div>
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LF:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the front lines, yeah.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And that was true of all the years before fighting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you could pass in society as not being
gay then you didn’t need to be all together, but if you were hunted and hounded
wherever you went, you looked to find a community of people like you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And you had no place to go except to
stand and fight and so a lot heroic individual battles were fought.</div>
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DS:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And some of the women were not even in drag, they were just
in what they considered comfortable.</div>
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LF:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t know about a lot of other cities but in the blue
collar bars women did cross dress.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I mean they wore suits and ties...</div>
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DS:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And passed.</div>
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LF:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whether
they did or not depended on their degree of masculinity, their body type.</div>
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DS:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes not necessarily passing but preferring to wear the
masculine garb.</div>
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LF:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would say most people cross-dressed especially if it was a
Friday or Saturday night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s
like all day long you wear crummy clothes at the factory and then you want to
dress up and look nice, well what do you like to get dressed up in.</div>
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DS:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yeah, I was cross-dressed in ‘82 in a bar on Avenue A where
I had a few drinks with a male friend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>After a few beers, without thinking, I went into the women’s bathroom
and three guys pounded on the door yelling, “come out you faggot.” I was
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LF:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Right.</div>
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My Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04951037484578046264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28244222.post-68785459843821986552014-11-08T07:19:00.001-05:002014-11-08T07:19:17.932-05:00Facebook's MisogynyFB loves its misogyny. It only brings it more publicity. No shame. Do you see any nudity?<br />
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With all the scum in the world that truly hurts women, do we really need to support a <i>corporationman</i> who continues to sell your personal information for profit? FB creates nothing but $ for itself by your participation. Why is FB popular? Because of its -----------misogyny? facial recognition policy? spying? marketing? selling your personal information? </div>
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heres the BBC link on the photo/story: </div>
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<a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-29831637">http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-29831637</a></div>
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My Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04951037484578046264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28244222.post-89862395820923387542014-10-14T14:22:00.000-04:002014-10-15T11:26:05.647-04:00The Sober Monologues or Sobriety is Over Rated<br />
"The Sober Monologues".<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Live Performance: "The Drunk Monologues" ph: Guler Ugur </td></tr>
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A new project - sobriety is over rated. </div>
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After 18 years sober, it is time to test the waters. </div>
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There are many, including those in AA who believe you cannot go back. Why not? There is the claim that if you are sober for any length of time and pick up a drink, you will be back when you hit your bottom; in other words you could never drink socially ever again - you will simply be the pathetic person you were when you quit drinking.<br />
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I have never believed that I had to give my will over to a higher power to stay sober. But I have never wanted to test it before. Here's the thing: isn't it more useful to understand the desire before the drink? Otherwise, without knowing the cause of why one chooses to get drunk, it remains unresolved.<br />
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I'm also interested in others who may have done so successfully - or not.</div>
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Comments will go through the admin (me) because without it, I get annoying spam comments about viagra and jewelry.</div>
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My Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04951037484578046264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28244222.post-21183406639495752672014-05-22T10:44:00.003-04:002014-10-14T14:08:08.331-04:00Finally leaving Florida and getting closer to drinking againI'm happy to soon return to New York where the visual landscape is more than whiney people who came here from someplace else. I have not seen a black person in 6 weeks. I am surrounded by climate change deniers and Obama haters including my parents' neighbor who thinks it's okay to tell me a joke about a paraplegic who rings a woman's doorbell with his penis.<br />
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My father is 91 and mom is 86. Every time Dad pours a glass of red wine he says "doctors orders" because his doctor told him he is in such good health that he should just keep doing what he has been doing. Someday I will join him. I miss red wine with intense longing and when I do have a glass - after 19 years of sobriety - it will not be walmart red wine. (Sorry dad, cheaper is not better.) My father also plays tennis about four times a week.<br />
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The rest of the view included exposed butt cheeks and breasts in the all female waitstaff; mounds of fried food the same orange color as the waitstaff's panty hose; and mounds of fat bodies sitting at tables devouring the orange food. Off to the side was a play area for the children where they threw something at a target.<br />
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My parents are 92 and 86 and when my father asked me to drive him to the "hoochie coochie" place, I complied. But I was not happy. What could be more disagreeable on a beautiful sunday afternoon for this nature lover? Sitting in the shade looking at: tits and ass, the confederate flag, fat bodies, and artery clogging food. What is in that oil that makes all the food the same color?<br />
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Minimum wage for waitstaff is $2.31, and has not changed since 1991. In addition to the low wage, these young women have to put up with objectification. Why is Hooters a family restaurant? I was embarrassed for the children and the young (male and female) adolescents who sat with their families waiting for the food with the obvious message that ass and boobs, fried food and confederate flags are normal. The scene was ugly. And everyone around me looked hungry.<br />
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<br />My Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04951037484578046264noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28244222.post-81412321449352060652014-03-06T21:58:00.002-05:002014-03-12T08:49:43.726-04:00ROCK & READ - COME TO MY DETROIT GIG 3-17 MondayTHIS IS GOING TO BE AMAZING! CHECK IT OUT.<br />
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My mother didn't remember my birthday. Memory is no longer an option for her. We spent the day at Green Key Park in New Port Richey. She enjoyed looking at the people especially the ones with lots of tattoos, some in scooters and a drunk disabled man who overturned his scooter to the amusement of his drunk friends. Half way into the mangrove walk we rested. My mother says few words now. She pointed
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My Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04951037484578046264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28244222.post-19264574139545393652014-02-09T11:46:00.001-05:002014-02-09T12:22:11.759-05:00I Was Hoping for a Woman "I was hoping for a woman" now on SOUNDCLICK.<br />
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<a href="http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=12678314">http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=12678314</a><br />
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I wrote this song for Helen, my flatmate in Newtown, New Zealand.<br />
She was hoping that a woman would move into the empty house next to hers. While she was away in Australia, a man moved in.<br />
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My Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04951037484578046264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28244222.post-91429792919615617872013-12-31T11:09:00.003-05:002013-12-31T11:10:12.670-05:00LAST BLOG POST OF THE YEARA joyous and peaceful happy new year to everyone who has stumbled onto this blog.<br />
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In 2013 a grateful list:<br />
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I had work published in three anthology books.<br />
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Moved to a new apartment in Westbeth Artists' Housing - after being on the wait list for 15 years!<br />
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Visited my folks often in Florida and Canada. My parents at 91 and 86 have a good quality of life. My dad plays tennis most days and mom, even with alzheimers, enjoys nature and walking.<br />
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Last entry for 2013. I hope to post all past and present work in my own webpage: dianespodarek.com. Still looking for the right host. Any recommendations?<br />
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My webpage in the literary section at Westbeth's Webpage:<br />
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<a href="http://westbeth.org/wordpress/artists/literary-artists/">Artists Page Westbeth Artists</a><br />
<br />My Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04951037484578046264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28244222.post-17056042251267009502013-12-31T10:24:00.000-05:002014-01-11T14:36:31.523-05:00Another reason to be a FB Virgin Or just repent<div class="MsoNormal">
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Do you need another reason to quit FB or are you just going
to bitch about it? Because now FB is collecting what you don’t publish. If you
type anything over five characters and stop to think that maybe you shouldn’t
call your boss a hoe or say your ex has bad hygiene, FB has it! FB is now
tracking and collecting everything you type but hesitate to publish within ten minutes. So even if you delete, FB owns you!</div>
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I am a FB virgin. I have never had an account because FB has
always lied about its selling and marketing and advertising of content and
images (and IPO), which doesn’t seem to bother anyone except artists and
radicals like myself who don’t want to be another pawn for corporate profit and
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So the next time you think you are working out your
thoughts, moving around adjectives and nouns and verbs, remember, once you type
it, you have ten minutes to delete it before MZ owns it.<br />
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one link: <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2525227/Facebook-tracks-type-DONT-post-update-comment.html">One link from Mailonline UK</a><br />
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My Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04951037484578046264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28244222.post-37330062590863398512013-12-17T18:00:00.002-05:002013-12-17T18:00:23.475-05:00Stars in the Fire AnthologyNew Anthology Publication<br />
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Estrellas En El Fuego (Stars in The Fire): The Alternative
New Year’s Spoken Word/Performance Extravaganza 2014 Anthology, Rogue Scholars
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My Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04951037484578046264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28244222.post-7403773404794409582013-12-14T07:42:00.002-05:002013-12-14T07:47:36.931-05:00REVERIE Ultra SHort MemoirsMy monologue "Train Birth" will be published in the anthology REVERIE Ultra Short Memoirs by Telling Our Stories Press<br />
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It's a paperback & an ebook<br />
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Hooray for books!<br />
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There is a belief that Edward Snowden is part of a right
wing conspiracy to take down President Obama. Something about the whole thing
just doesn’t smell right, including Glenn Greenwald, the lawyer/journalist who
broke the story who is now living in exile in Brazil. Are both of these
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It was recently “leaked” that Snowden and Greenwald will
received 250 million dollars from Pierre Omidyar to create an internet “general”
news site. Is Snowden a
journalist? Pierre Omidyar, billionaire, was born in Paris of Iranian parents and
moved to the US when he was a child. He is uneducated like Snowden and like
Snowden is a whiz at computer programming. His billions come from profits from eBay,
the company he founded. So, who backed <i>him</i>?
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intends to spend 8 billion to back general news sites with the intention of
making the government more transparent and making the world a better place. I
am not a journalist so I say bullshit! And Omidyar tried to keep this info
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 15.0pt;">Pierre Omidyar: We want to do a better
job bringing important investigative stories or deep human stories that tend to
be overlooked to a broader audience and we can use technology to figure out how
to do that. It isn’t as simple as just throwing something in their faces about
an important issue. That’s just like a public service ad and will likely be
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<u><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 15.0pt;">Technologists understand our users</span></u><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 15.0pt;">
and break down how user engagement increases from somebody that maybe just <u>tries
your product</u> once and then goes away, to a different kind of person that
progressively gets more and more engaged and then becomes <u>just totally locked
into your product</u>. That’s something people in Silicon Valley spend a ton of
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“Lucky Me: My Life With - and Without – My Mother Shirley MacLaine” by Sachi Parker.</div>
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First, Shirley MacLaine says she's devastated about the lies in the book and doesn’t know
why her daughter would say such things. Really? Did she really think there
would be no payback for abandoning her daughter?</div>
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Second, the book is not well written but the content is
fascinating. (Maybe she should have written it herself without help.) When questioned about
the truth of her claims, Satchi said in an interview that everyone in Hollywood knew everything that is in the book. If so, MacLaine should be in jail for
child abuse and others who knew and didn’t report it, as well.</div>
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I am neither a lover or hater of Shirley MacLaine but I did
read her autobiographical book “Out on a Limb” many years ago. I knew something
was amiss (it’s dripping with narcissism) when there was more in the book about her Russell Terrier than her daughter. So now we know why. She never saw her. Sachi says she still
loves her mother, (and that’s her right) but shouldn’t children be allowed to hate
mothers who abuse or abandon their children for art?</div>
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According to Parker, MacLaine left her with her father who
lived in Japan at the age of two (really!). She went on to make more money than
anyone needs. Instead of using this money for her daughter (she gave her
nothing, wouldn’t even pay for college) MacLaine sent $65,000 a
month to the father, (who sexually abused Parker) for over twenty years.
MacLaine believed that the man she left her daughter with was not the real
father, (even worse) but rather was a clone of her husband who was on a secret government
mission in space (which cost $65,000 a month.) When MacLaine found out – after
23 years apparently – with the evidence Parker showed her that the man was a
con, MacLaine divorced him.</div>
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As they say in art and life: you can’t make this stuff up.<br />
Bravo to Sachi Parker for having the courage to tell her story.<br />
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** photo credit: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Photo<br />
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No "free use" photos of Sachi Parker on the internet. However, she looks exactly like Shirley MacLaine before she got really big.<br />
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Kreider laments how often he gets ask to write, create, and perform for free. Common, but when he mentioned the Huffington Post, i was really pissed. This publication makes millions in profits, enough money to pay its writers but chooses not to, so I choose not to read the HP, especially when they can't even recognize their own hypocrisy when they chastise fast food corporations for not paying a living wage to their workers. HA HA HA HA HA.<br />
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I agree wholeheartedly with Tim albeit that I have submitted my work for publication for free: this year I am published in Grisly Shorts, and in the forthcoming "Ultra Short Memoir" and a 20 year anniversary issue of poets from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. Since I was the first runner up (to winner Paul Beatty) in 1990 in the very first Grand Poetry Slam I was happy to be invited to be included in the publication. For that I will publish my poem/song "Lose the Day, The Rose Bordello Song". I wrote it when I was living in New Zealand after my partner told me that going to a prostitute in his country didn't count as a betrayal because it was legal there. He had a five year old son at the time and I asked him how he would feel if he ended up in the brothel and unbeknownst had sex with his daughter.<br />
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But I digress, as words lead me away from the point, as they always do, I wrote a response to the NYT article, impulsively, unable to stop my disdain for corporate greed:<br />
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<i>Great! But sorry you didn't mention how writers are now
expected to pay submission fees to have their work considered by literary
magazines. A quick look this morning shows fees at some literary publications
at $22 per story, poem, etc., which also publish on the internet. Some use a
submission app for which you have to pay to submit! Shame on the Huffington
Post, the queen, that says let them eat cake. Will she also require a fee to
submit? She's probably wondering how she can get in on that action. Artists
need to keep their integrity. Don't work for free and don't pimp yourself in
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Well! this posting is all over the place. How many times can I say I hate FB? I guess there is no end. Especially since the radiator is cold for the seventh day in a row and I waited for the three maintenance guys to return to fix it. Instead they argued about the source of the problem. I'm still waiting.</div>
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The reading at TheaterLab was a huge success. Produced by Vincent Marano, the six plays were read by professional actors who brought the plays to life. Reading part of the EstroGenius Annual Festival.<br />
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