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Red and Ted Fight Evil
 




 

at-will worker societies definitely not sexy tales for Media Magicians … and  the”other fine messes, Ollie, you’ve gotten us into” don’t get copy: tales from a Laurel and Hardy take on the continuing criminal enterprise system that is Capitalism with an Eye to Total Educational Institution Destruction
John Steppling:

Word: writers reading from their work to the accompaniment of imagery to set the mood.

Or perhaps it’s something else entirely. Why these images, for ‘audio A’ and those other images for ‘audio B?’ The image sequences don’t seem to be ‘literal’ interpretations of the spoken text.
But, as Yogi Berra said, “It ain’t over till be be finale of seem; then we can all go out for ice-cream, my treat…’
That is, it ain’t like this stuff is set to ‘program music.’

This is the shits of America, the more and more irrelevant prattlers of Democracy Now  as we see this pig of a human, three-star general, retired, now getting his triple dipping blood money for a book full of fluff, lies, in this shit story of his shit life as a Murder Incorporated General — Why We Lost: A General’s Inside Account Of The Iraq And Afghanistan Wars by Three-star Criminal General, Daniel Bolger, worth 502 pages of forest-killing propaganda, a faux memoir. This general who’s been to war college after war college on how to bomb, destroy, drone, blast humanity.

Presented by Douglas Valentine.  Douglas Valentine is author of The Phoenix Program, a meticulously researched, ground-breaking history of the CIA’s complex ‘neutralization program’ used in Vietnam; the comprehensive, two-volume history of United States drug policy from 1900 through 2010, The Strength of the Wolf (1900-1968) ,  The Strength of the Pack (1968-2010) and

Contrarian values escalated to the highest peak.  Uppercased and placed on a silver pedestal.  Super human friction fundamentals scratch against the metal spike, working out all the rough edge elementals.  Flashpoint of retardation as the species takes a high voltage dose of vaccine liquidation straight to the head.  Recalcitrance flows through the muddy stream until reaching a waterfall of sludge and scrap iron plating.  Pencil neck, bureaucratic, chicken hawk, fuck faces fudge numbers to get a bigger budget for their war profiteering schemes of madness.  Evaluation ceremonies in the high

For those who are not familiar, Bunraku is an old form of Japanese puppet theater, its distinctive characteristic being that the puppeteers are on the stage with their puppets, dressed in black so that the audience can pretend not to see them.
While many old art forms have conventions that are unrealistic by modern standards, there is something particularly unsatisfying about bunraku: you can pretend not to see the puppeteers but you cannot fail to see them.

I really enjoyed recording this interview for the recent TED Radio Hour on NPR on creativity. I’m particularly delighted that Dame Gillian Lynn is in the piece too retelling with me the story of her discovery as a child that she wasn’t ‘sick’, she was a dancer.
Click here to listen.
The full program also features  interviews with Sting, Elizabeth Gilbert and Charles Limb.

Note: I was asked to publish this piece in my School Yard Fights, apropos of the mission in the column — to explore the fight left in those who profess allegiance to education, both as mentor and student. This column has taken twists and turns, and as always, it weaves back to the essence of the oppressed in academia and the PK12 adventure in neutralizing humanity and critical thinking.