the helplessness of liberals facing the tea party evil unfolding

has to do with some feeling that it's their fault. they took their eye off the ball during the Clinton years and let this unaddressed pain and its ignorant hateful expression metastasize.

Polanski's The Ghost Writer

In an interview he called it a film for adults. I think it was fun and suspenseful, a Hitchcock type of strength, but not for adults, not in the real sense. It's not a real film, just an entertainment, like Scorsese's Shutter Island was--in fact, they share a lot -- must be zeitgeist. Great filmmaking of course, just a stunt as entertainment, by which I mean stunted.

a celebrity

whose children have become screwed up porn stars just wants to lose himself in provincial Chekhovian world where nobody knows he's famous

fuckups

the comforting thought sometimes that others are too

forces militating against art in the world

are like thugs keeping doctors from ministering to patients in critical condition

Being Right, the last refuge

as the world burns, be unrepentant, never a misstep, never having been wrong. a kind of coccooning. everyone does it, from enviros to tea partiers. anodizing ourselves. anodyne more like.

Hyena Rule

Don't a be a hyena. A snickering wound licking scampering opinionator.

art as triumph over sex

finds a new relation that doesn't exclude it, but relegates it, calms it, says yes but there is more