tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54808160708324999892024-03-13T08:04:49.630-07:00Poetry-Arts ConfidentialEntries about current events, arts and entertainment (including the competitive sport of poetry).Terry McCartyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11773608967317465220noreply@blogger.comBlogger2044125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5480816070832499989.post-58902518340727365382024-03-08T02:48:00.000-08:002024-03-08T02:48:55.893-08:00Regarding Sen. Katie Britt’s SOTU Response<p>What I saw of the Katie Britt SOTU rebuttal (couldn’t bring myself to endure the whole thing) reminded me of fundraising appeals that either come from televangelists or hucksters preying on seniors who watch MeTV, Buzzr, etc.</p><p>Obviously, it was intended as a soft-sell version of Trump’s standard apocalyptic Hulk Smash bigotry and Bidenphobia. But it seemed like an audition video for a local TV news anchor position—heavy on smiling while reading copy off the teleprompter. With the occasional look this is serious face.</p>Terry McCartyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11773608967317465220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5480816070832499989.post-51198069770052027752024-02-10T17:43:00.000-08:002024-02-10T17:43:27.396-08:00THE NEW YORK TIMES gives Donald Trump water wings.<p>Quote below is from an article by Rebecca Davis O’Brien titled WHY THE AGE ISSUE IS HURTING BIDEN SO MUCH MORE THAN TRUMP. </p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(54, 54, 54); color: #363636; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px;">“It is the perception of how you communicate,” said Carol Kinsey Goman, a speaker and coach on leadership presence. “When Trump makes those kinds of faux pas, he just brushes it off, and people don’t say, ‘Oh, he’s aging.’ He makes at least as many mistakes as Joe Biden, but because he does it with this bravado, it doesn’t seem like senility. It seems like passion.”</span></p>Terry McCartyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11773608967317465220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5480816070832499989.post-49865756818595524722024-01-15T02:55:00.000-08:002024-01-15T02:55:29.325-08:00Yes, Best Buy said this.<p>Happened upon the paragraph below on the Best Buy website. As most people know, Best Buy soon plans to murder sales of physical DVDs/Blu-rays/4K discs both in their stores and online.</p><p><br /></p><h3 class="heading mc-tb-sec-header heading-6 mb-50 block mt-200" id="mc-tb-sub-header-689c4ef4-9f0a-4f90-b5b0-7824d048285a-0" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(4, 12, 19); color: #040c13; font-family: "Human BBY Digital", "Human Fallback", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin-bottom: var(--size-50); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--size-200); padding: 0px;" tabindex="-1">Benefits of ownership.</h3><p class="mc-tb-bodycopy mc-tb-bodycopy-l" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(4, 12, 19); color: #040c13; font-family: "Human BBY Digital", "Human Fallback", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0 0 var(--size-100);"></p><div class="bodycopy inline" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline;">With streaming media increasingly available, you might wonder why you'd want to own a physical copy of movies and TV shows on your Blu-ray Discs and DVDs. Well, you might want to be entertained in a part of the world without Internet access — like when you're watching <a href="https://www.bestbuy.com/site/tv-home-theater/tvs/abcat0101000.c?id=abcat0101000" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;">TV </a>in a remote cabin get-away or keeping the kids entertained while they're in the car. Plus, serious fans of certain TV shows like to own libraries of their favorite movies and shows for marathon watching sessions or loaning to friends.</div>Terry McCartyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11773608967317465220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5480816070832499989.post-16466529995343090402024-01-11T01:21:00.000-08:002024-01-11T01:21:07.223-08:00New Poem: MASTODON FIGHT<p> get ready once more</p><p> two mastodons enter the stadium</p><p> for more roars and tusk-butts</p><p> ></p><p> the media loves rematches</p><p> even if most of the public doesn’t </p><p> ></p><p> watch Donald dance away </p><p> from what he stirred up on 1/6/21</p><p> heh heh, nothing to do with me</p><p> they got overexcited on their own</p><p> you don’t mind if I squash civil liberties next time</p><p> ></p><p> see Joe bark at those who</p><p> dare to bring up Israel and Gaza</p><p> and his failure to distance from Bibi’s slaughter </p><p> he says look, I cut insulin prices</p><p> and got both parties to agree on infrastructure </p><p> ></p><p> someone asks why he doesn’t tout the accomplishments </p><p> instead of always shouting OOGA BOOGA TRUMP</p><p> the crowd boos the question </p><p> Joe resumes the stump speech </p><p><br /></p><p> this is what we get</p><p> when we don’t have big donor money</p><p> or super PAC clout</p><p> to push for real change</p><p> to keep old men with outmoded methods </p><p> away from oval offices and nuclear footballs </p><p><br /></p>Terry McCartyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11773608967317465220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5480816070832499989.post-75459089036973352892023-12-31T23:37:00.000-08:002023-12-31T23:37:36.905-08:00Best Films of 2023 Second Draft<p> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">In no specific order:</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON/ANATOMY OF A FALL/FREMONT/OPPENHEIMER/THE HOLDOVERS/PAST LIVES/FERRARI/TALK TO ME</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Honorable Mention: NAPOLEON/MASTER GARDENER/BARBIE/DUMB MONEY/AIR</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Flawed But Worthwhile: SALTBURN/PRISCILLA/MAY DECEMBER/THE COLOR PURPLE 2023</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Watchable Underachiever: THE KILLER </p>Terry McCartyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11773608967317465220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5480816070832499989.post-73724894556589002092023-12-27T03:52:00.000-08:002023-12-27T03:52:04.534-08:00Some of the music I listened to in 2023<p> In no specific order:</p><p> Jessie Ware: THAT! FEELS GOOD!</p><p> Pretenders: RELENTLESS </p><p> Peter Gabriel: I/o (Bright Side Mix)</p><p> Son Volt: DAY OF THE DOUG (Doug Sahm tribute)</p><p> Flatt & Scruggs: ORIGINAL THEME FROM BONNIE AND CLYDE</p><p> Bruce Springsteen: THE LIVE SERIES: SONGS ON KEYS</p><p> The Beatles: 1962-1966 (expanded 2023 reissue)</p><p> The Who: WHO’S NEXT/LIFE HOUSE boxset</p><p> Bob Dylan: THE COMPLETE BUDOKAN 1978</p><p> Wilco: COUSIN/CRUEL COUNTRY</p><p> Elvis Presley: ALOHA FROM HAWAII 50th Anniversary </p><p> Cindy Wilson: REALMS</p><p> Billy Joel: PIANO MAN 50th Anniversary Dolby Atmos mix</p><p> Little Richard: LITTLE RICHARD IS BACK</p><p> Gene Vincent: I’M BACK AND I’M PROUD </p>Terry McCartyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11773608967317465220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5480816070832499989.post-55851588410371747042023-12-20T01:20:00.000-08:002023-12-20T01:20:40.077-08:00New Poem: THE TRUMP TRAIN STOPS IN COLORADO<p> Captain Sedition dealt at least a temporary blow</p><p> Now let’s see if some of the Republican Party will follow</p><p> An off-ramp where the Never Trumpers can try to grow</p><p> A base devoted to real issues instead of Immigrant baiting and going low low low</p>Terry McCartyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11773608967317465220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5480816070832499989.post-61957850862642346352023-12-04T17:14:00.000-08:002023-12-04T17:14:16.878-08:00First draft of three: Best Films of 2023<p> Will update later this month and, for the last time, in January:</p><p> In no specific order:</p><p>KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON/ANATOMY OF A FALL/FREMONT/OPPENHEIMER/THE HOLDOVERS/PAST LIVES/AIR</p><p>Honorable Mention: NAPOLEON/MASTER GARDENER/BARBIE/DUMB MONEY</p><p>Flawed But Worthwhile: SALTBURN/PRISCILLA/MAY DECEMBER</p><p>Watchable Underachiever: THE KILLER </p><p><br /></p>Terry McCartyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11773608967317465220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5480816070832499989.post-26686921106327534162023-11-02T13:40:00.004-07:002023-11-02T13:40:29.830-07:00The Beatles and Now And Then<p>Now And Then may not be John Lennon’s best-ever song, but the new, orchestrated and augmented version has an undeniable poignance with the surviving Beatles in the final act of their solo careers.</p><p>At this writing, I haven’t gone on to Facebook and Reddit to experience the reactions of first and second generation Beatles fans, who are often less forward-thinking (usually spouting knee-jerk racism towards Yoko Ono) than the Fab Four were.</p><p>Kudos to Giles Martin, with the aid of Peter Jackson’s software, for a crisp, immediate remix of Love Me Do (the version with Ringo on drums).</p>Terry McCartyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11773608967317465220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5480816070832499989.post-90965291745443404912023-10-15T01:39:00.003-07:002023-10-15T01:39:56.807-07:00New Poem: HERE’S TO THE PARENTS<p> here’s to the parents</p><p> you know which of them I’m talking about </p><p> the ones who default to discipline if humiliation doesn’t work </p><p> who slap and hit well into teenage years</p><p> who throw the approval preserver</p><p> only if the child abandons his/her/their dreams</p><p><br /></p><p> taking junior on long summer vacations out of town</p><p> all the better to ward off bad influences </p><p> but what if the child gets hurt by others saying no</p><p> and the parent or parents choose to end this by saying:</p><p> don’t you know I’d pay her to go out with you</p><p> if I could </p><p><br /></p><p> here’s to the parents</p><p> who create children </p><p> that become nervous adults </p><p> and choose not to have children </p><p> of their own </p>Terry McCartyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11773608967317465220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5480816070832499989.post-26085166022854319742023-09-28T23:39:00.002-07:002023-09-28T23:39:14.073-07:00New Poem: VARIATION ON MELLENCAMP’S SMALL TOWN<p> grain elevator, giant oil derrick, red/brown brick streets</p><p> train station which became Boy Scouts facility</p><p> elementary school that felt ultramodern in the 1960s</p><p> large and small churches teaching different versions of Jesus’s teachings </p><p> car races which some classmates never survived</p><p> drive-in eateries and motels which tried to survive the freeway bypass</p><p> ></p><p> newspaper ad said help save our town, buy at home</p><p> but the next city was just a half-hour away by car</p><p> some migrated there, others to other small Texas towns</p><p> only a few dared move out of state</p><p> to see if neutrality healed wounds and strengthened bonds</p><p><span> </span></p><p> </p>Terry McCartyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11773608967317465220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5480816070832499989.post-64465666010157008822023-09-23T01:37:00.001-07:002023-09-23T01:37:14.877-07:00New Poem: KEN BURNS AT BOHEMIAN GROVE <p>WELL. WHY SHOULDN’T I GO THERE?</p><div class="k31gt" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: medium; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Favorit, "Helvetica Neue", HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 15px 0px; min-height: 1.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: var(--post-padding); padding-right: var(--post-padding); padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 540px; word-break: break-word;"><p style="border: medium; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">because old (mostly white) boys still run the world</p></div><div class="k31gt" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: medium; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Favorit, "Helvetica Neue", HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 15px 0px; min-height: 1.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: var(--post-padding); padding-right: var(--post-padding); padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 540px; word-break: break-word;"><p style="border: medium; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">and I make long TV shows</p></div><div class="k31gt" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: medium; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Favorit, "Helvetica Neue", HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 15px 0px; min-height: 1.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: var(--post-padding); padding-right: var(--post-padding); padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 540px; word-break: break-word;"><p style="border: medium; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">about old (mostly white) boys </p></div><div class="k31gt" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: medium; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Favorit, "Helvetica Neue", HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 15px 0px; min-height: 1.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: var(--post-padding); padding-right: var(--post-padding); padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 540px; word-break: break-word;"><p style="border: medium; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">with occasional girls in support</p></div><div class="k31gt" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: medium; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Favorit, "Helvetica Neue", HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 15px 0px; min-height: 1.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: var(--post-padding); padding-right: var(--post-padding); padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 540px; word-break: break-word;"><p style="border: medium; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.></p><p style="border: medium; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">please don’t ask me about Jann Wenner</p></div>Terry McCartyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11773608967317465220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5480816070832499989.post-47631510701003508962023-09-16T21:33:00.003-07:002023-09-16T21:43:23.824-07:00Summing up Jann Wenner’s Boomer-centric racist/sexist comments.<p>David Marchese of THE NEW YORK TIMES got ROLLING STONE co-founder Jann Wenner to admit that there is no place for Black and female artists in the Wenner pantheon because of “articulation.” So Joni Mitchell, Grace Slick, Janis Joplin, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield and Otis Redding were relegated to nevers or also-rans.</p><p>Regarding Jann Wenner’s criteria for Caucasian male rock star myth/legend status: there are people who want to be mythic and pursue validation by someone Important (Bono, Bruce Springsteen). And then there’s Jann chasing already mythic Dylan, Lennon and Jagger with the hunger to be validated by them. </p><p>And here’s Wenner’s part-apology, part don’t cause my book to be pulled statement:</p><div class="css-k964ob" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 600px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: calc(100% - 40px);"><p class="css-1il0jfh evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-secondary,#363636); font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In a statement issued late Saturday by a representative for Little, Brown and Company, the publisher of his book, Mr. Wenner said: “In my interview with The New York Times I made comments that diminished the contributions, genius and impact of Black and women artists and I apologize wholeheartedly for those remarks.</p></div><div class="css-k964ob" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 600px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: calc(100% - 40px);"><p class="css-1il0jfh evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-secondary,#363636); font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“‘The Masters’ is a collection of interviews I’ve done over the years,” he continued, “that seemed to me to best represent an idea of rock ’n’ roll’s impact on my world; they were not meant to represent the whole of music and its diverse and important originators but to reflect the high points of my career and interviews I felt illustrated the breadth and experience in that career. They don’t reflect my appreciation and admiration for myriad totemic, world-changing artists whose music and ideas I revere and will celebrate and promote as long as I live. I totally understand the inflammatory nature of badly chosen words and deeply apologize and accept the consequences.”</p></div>Terry McCartyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11773608967317465220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5480816070832499989.post-41020507760502214182023-09-11T01:57:00.001-07:002023-09-11T01:57:31.227-07:00New Poem: RECURRING DREAM MOTIFS 2023<p> looking for clothes</p><p> trying to pack a suitcase</p><p> can’t find clothes</p><p> clothes apparently lost or stolen</p><p> look all over for missing clothes</p><p> find a bunch of concert T-shirts on a table</p><p> all the shirts are too small</p>Terry McCartyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11773608967317465220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5480816070832499989.post-23533750159562491272023-08-28T20:04:00.000-07:002023-08-28T20:04:12.032-07:00UCLA Medical and its mask-optional policy for staff (including oncolgy)<p>At the end of this post isa letter I sent to an oncologist whose department saved my life in the summer of 2021 at UCLA’s Ronald Reagan Hospital (I had a bone marrow transplant to treat multiple myeloma).</p><p>Sadly, 2023 is not the pandemic summer of 2021 and UCLA has recently changed to please restive, mask-averse, mask-optional staff when administering infusions of anti-cancer medication. God help us if this becomes future hospital policy.</p><div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(54, 54, 54); color: #363636; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17.333334px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; orphans: 1; padding: 0px; widows: 1; width: auto;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: Arial, monospace; font-size: 13pt; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sent this to [local oncologist] last night: After last Tuesday at the UCLA Porter Ranch medical center, I feel I must say that I am not comfortable with staff being maskless around me during the process of dispensing medication, administering IVs and the Darzalex infusion itself. If this change in policy keeps happening, then please transfer me to a different location. UCLA may give medical staff freedom of choice as to whether or not to mask. I’d like to not risk being home bound or hospitalized due to their actions.</span></div><div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(54, 54, 54); color: #363636; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17.333334px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; orphans: 1; padding: 0px; widows: 1; width: auto;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: Arial, monospace; font-size: 13pt; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"> </span></div><div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(54, 54, 54); color: #363636; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17.333334px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; orphans: 1; padding: 0px; widows: 1; width: auto;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: Arial, monospace; font-size: 13pt; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;">After sending the above, received a voicemail at 8:14 a.m. from Porter Ranch (replied this afternoon) essentially telling me that [local oncologist] can mask and (presumably) the nurse or nurses attending to me will—but policy will be the same wherever I go within the UCLA system.</span></div><div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(54, 54, 54); color: #363636; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17.333334px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; orphans: 1; padding: 0px; widows: 1; width: auto;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: Arial, monospace; font-size: 13pt; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"> </span></div><div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(54, 54, 54); color: #363636; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17.333334px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; orphans: 1; padding: 0px; widows: 1; width: auto;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: Arial, monospace; font-size: 13pt; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Given the recent rise in Covid-19 infections and the likelihood of further vaccine hesitancy, I find it very saddening that your colleagues and peers approve mask-optional policy in oncology treatment areas.</span></div>Terry McCartyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11773608967317465220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5480816070832499989.post-41442596258287359322023-08-24T19:02:00.004-07:002023-08-24T19:02:49.685-07:00TRUMP MUGSHOT POEM<p> lower that granite unlearned head</p><p> glare harder than a junkyard dog</p><p> put it on X Twitter to thank Elon</p><p> believe no MAGA faithful will run away</p><p> fear more swing voters looking for refuge</p>Terry McCartyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11773608967317465220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5480816070832499989.post-78833694252694210592023-07-26T18:14:00.000-07:002023-07-26T18:14:14.083-07:00New Poem: POEM FOR SINEAD O’CONNOR<p> forgive us because we didn’t think</p><p><span> </span>didn’t want to find out why you did it</p><p> instead we went along with the crowd’s anger</p><p> over how dare you question infallibility </p><p> ></p><p> some of us (myself included) were such cowards</p><p> returned your albums to used music stores</p><p> didn’t want to be reminded of non-music discourse </p><p> not realizing disturbing peace was vital to you and your art</p><p> </p>Terry McCartyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11773608967317465220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5480816070832499989.post-4878429929106165412023-07-07T22:28:00.000-07:002023-07-07T22:28:07.859-07:00New Poem: UP AND DOWN THE HILL<p><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.1px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">the 15-year-old boy with heightened emotions </p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">now the 63-year-old man calmly seeing an oncologist </p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">infused, injected, transplanted, revived</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">taking medication, getting sleepy, hoping for days outdoors</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">looking back at the girl I thought I loved at 15</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">lying to myself about how I could have been her ideal</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">imagining all sorts of happy alternate universes</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">in this one: didn’t listen, never gained her trust, never was a confidant</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">taught to fear, warned to avoid, harangued to PAY ATTENTION </p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">in spite of this, eventually thought for myself,</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">and was blessed/burned by consequences </p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">at 63, want more years before affairs must become ordered</p><div><br /></div>Terry McCartyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11773608967317465220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5480816070832499989.post-49547208892535370652023-06-20T20:17:00.002-07:002023-06-21T00:35:32.596-07:00Various potential scenarios for TCM’s future.<p>Warner Bros. Discovery’s David Zaslav loves Turner Classic Movies (best known as TCM) so much that he’s making deep cuts in its key staff and re-appointing a previous head of the channel.</p><p>Here are some possible aftereffects:</p><p>1. No more TCM Film Festival. It’s a pricey annual diversion for a subset of the channel’s fanbase. But the festival, through its restoration premieres and star/director appearances, generates a lot of value and goodwill. Zaslav may consider it a waste of time and resources. And if the festival goes, expect huge and passionate pushback.</p><p>2. No more TCM Cruises. Repeat the above pricey annual diversion statement. But this likely wouldn’t spark outrage on the level of ending the film festival.</p><p>3. No more TCM branding—books, wines, etc.</p><p>4. Fewer hosts. Guessing Zaslav is bottom-line fixated enough to see Eddie Muller’s film noir showings and Jacqueline Stewart’s Sunday night silent films as nonessential programming to be discarded for more showings of familiar fare (Cary Grant, 1940s Humphrey Bogart, Doris Day, 1950s William Holden, Audrey Hepburn). The host rotation of Ben/Dave/Alicia should be safe.</p><p>5. Moving from cable to exclusive online app.</p><p>6. Moving from cable to expanded curation niche subset of Max.</p><p>Let’s find out (with trepidation) what Zaslav chooses to do next.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Terry McCartyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11773608967317465220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5480816070832499989.post-87283097034551909072023-06-17T02:02:00.004-07:002023-06-17T02:02:47.621-07:00New Poem: The Silence of the DNC<p> Trump goes low, they say nothing</p><p> better to watch slow crack of GOP ice</p><p> an erosion that could last until 2024</p><p> ></p><p> let the lies speed like stock trading </p><p> allow the primaries to be Trump-centric</p><p> easier than speaking truth right now</p><p> to malignant power </p><p> ></p><p> Trump goes lower and lower</p><p> <span> </span>and they foolishly think they’re going high</p><p> by saying nothing </p><p><br /></p>Terry McCartyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11773608967317465220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5480816070832499989.post-74278184265157247852023-06-09T01:55:00.002-07:002023-06-09T01:55:25.224-07:00DONALD TRUMP’S GREATEST FEDERAL INDICTMENT HITS<p> 1. An Innocent Man</p><p> 2. Tell Me Why</p><p> 3. The Ghost of Pat Robertson </p><p> 4. Classified (I Don’t Think So)</p><p> 5. Lawyers Guns and Money </p><p> 6. You’ve Got To Hide Your Government Documents Away</p><p> 7. Jail Doesn’t Suit My Lifestyle </p><p> 8. Georgia On My Mind</p>Terry McCartyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11773608967317465220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5480816070832499989.post-62281091379792757122023-05-26T02:45:00.003-07:002023-05-26T02:45:35.801-07:00New Poem: INTO THE CORNFIELD WITH FLORIDA RON<p> Florida Ron wants you</p><p> actually he wants you not to think</p><p> just be comfortable with your bigotry</p><p> no reading about past and present injustice </p><p> no teaching your kids unpleasant history </p><p> no having to deal with non-Christians</p><p> no dealing with Christians who read the Bible wrong </p><p> no crossing the path of LGBTQ people</p><p> just let him wish everything you don’t like</p><p> into the magic cornfield where it disappears </p><p> and pray he’ll never turn on you</p><p> for a quick lunge at even more ignorant voters</p>Terry McCartyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11773608967317465220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5480816070832499989.post-16191832611188426982023-05-14T23:27:00.002-07:002023-05-14T23:40:15.047-07:00New Poem: CODA TO THE SILENCE OF THE BOSS<p> Bruce sings My Love Will Not Let You Down </p><p> can’t say the same for the ticket prices</p><p> so I learn to live with what I can’t rise above</p><p> listening to live shows for a fraction of the cost</p><p> paid by celebrity guest singers and well-heeled fans</p><p> as the Jersey Man sings from a seldom-changing setlist </p><p> about aging, death and being the Last Man Standing</p><p> and I remember when I paid a ticket broker’s price</p><p> (cheaper than Dynamic Pricing today)</p><p> to sit in the now dead Los Angeles Sports Arena</p><p> and buy a T-shirt (since lost) with the saying</p><p> THIS IS NOT A DARK RIDE</p><p> this was a mere 35 years ago</p>Terry McCartyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11773608967317465220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5480816070832499989.post-91902078281488493792023-05-06T00:32:00.004-07:002023-05-06T00:32:42.646-07:00New Poem: ON THE CORONATION I’M NOT WATCHING <p> people dressed to the tens enter Westminster Abbey</p><p> supporting the monarch who waited quite long for his chance</p><p> yes, he’s more forward-thinking than his parents tended to be</p><p> but one can’t forget the grim withholder who created human wreckage </p>Terry McCartyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11773608967317465220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5480816070832499989.post-36989895080962314752023-04-18T17:22:00.004-07:002023-04-18T17:25:47.344-07:00New Poem: POEM ABOUT FOX NEWS/DOMINION SETTLEMENT <p> Move Along Nothing To See Here</p><p> Move Along Nothing To See Here</p><p> Move Along Nothing To See Hete</p><p> We’ll Tell Smaller Lies Now</p><p> Tomorrow Night: Tucker and Elon Outtakes </p>Terry McCartyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11773608967317465220noreply@blogger.com0