REDRUM, REDRUM
My caption wouldn’t have “chats with” but, rather, *embraces* “White Phosphorous Rice.” Not for *us*, but for a very bad tradeoff that has my head spinning. “Jelly-boned swine, slimy, belly-wriggling, shortsighted, self-serving invertebrate, miserable sodding rotter, flaming sod of a snivelling, dribbling, dithering palsied pulseless lot that make up *unwakeableup* America today” might also be included. For Godssake, they’re positively dancing *in bad makeup*!
What if you held up the *Redford Rice* frozen pose to a mirror…like Kubrick did through seven-year old Danny with “Redrum” in the film version of Stephen King’s THE SHINING? What (or who) would it spell? I’m going to create an article in this space over time…by bouncing off of the lines that readers send in…in response to the visual image here. Stay tuned in this space, if you will. Then, hopefully, we’ll kill all the upbeat talk about all of our so-called sacred, *positive* icons/ideas. Giving Light a chance.
Don’t lighten up when you contact me at rmoxman@yahoo.com.* Blessings, Ricardo.
*My “dueleft” email address is dead for now. I’m in the process –like thousands of others– trying to find out why I lost access to my email there overnight, without warning…and, apparently, without any real recourse to alter my status with them.
Qs & As
Q: Doesn’t the fact that Redford’s done so many good turns on behalf of the environment, and been involved in so many socially-conscious projects (like “Incident at Oglala: The Leonard Peltier Story”) create a basis for giving him some slack here?
A: No.
Q: What’s the point of knocking celebrities? Especially decent ones who are going through the hoops necessary to collect their well-deserved accolades.
A: The “point” has a lot to do with addressing priorities and habits. And reminding readers that options are available. If one can castigate a poor slum dweller for jumping at the chance for a paying gig by joining the armed services, one can certainly call millionaires on the carpet for offering up their much sought after imprimatur to politicos’ purposes. In both cases, integrity and all that’s decent demands…another move. Committing suicide, murdering and giving testimonials in the name of patriotism, economic pressures and making the expected career moves won’t wash. For Godssake, get some drops for the mental dropsy and myopic vision. Deserved? If you want to talk about who deserves what…let’s start with innocent civilians, not superstars. Let’s talk about what responsibility that elite corps has respecting all humanity. And let’s begin by placing the *verboten* topic
of common U.S. citizens’ role in all the rigamarole on the table. Let’s be more creative in this realm than Redford has been with his *work within the parameters allowed*. And let’s stay totally away from what Helen Caldicott tried to do when she locked arms with Robert Mc Namara in the name of stopping nuclear proliferation. For Redford, something similar is the next logical step to dancing in the dark with Ms. Darkness.
Q: Don’t you think it’s clear to the American public that Redford is simply going through the motions, not endorsing anything or anyone?
A: Not at all. At the opposite end of the spectrum from “Guilt by Association” is “Somewhat Clean by Association.” The latter refers to the impact on Rice’s image. Imagine someone posing with a major Nazi, an SS Major(ette), upon receipt –or in anticipation– of an award. Take Jesse Owens turning down Hitler’s hand as a grand example of the polar opposite of the drunken Redford. And to address the thrust of your question…let’s not even condescend to address the “American public.” Rather, why not zero in on those in the inner circle, the progressives, leftists et. al. What percentage of those dummies do you think have the stomach for considering the subliminal, deepest truth of current events? Very few. And as a totally brainless example, I give you today’s report of an “accident” in England. The vast majority of “alternative people” who I’ve contacted since the explosions –the largest in Europe since the end of WWII, I’m told– seem to buy the basic media line that there’s zero reason at this point to believe that the oil refineries blew up for any reason other than…the *accidental* in life. You know, malfunctioning machinery, human error, that sort of thing. The inadvertent slip. The Powers do not have to slip a *mickey* of any kind to the gullible amnesiacs. Even those who pride themselves on not being sucked into the vortex of mendacity that’s the warp and woof of our American fabric are mouthing off about the refineries as per The Powers’ lines. But read the little paragraph I just came across in an AP report:
“Police said the blasts appeared to be accidental, though they occurred just four days after an al-Qaida videotape appeared on the Internet calling for attacks on facilities carrying oil “stolen” from Muslims in the Middle East.”
So…now you know what to get Redford for Xmas. Or at least I hope you know that you could do worse than to send him a decent bio of Owens. He owes us. Rice, as Mitch Hedberg once joked, is only good if you’re really hungry and you want 2000 of the same thing. Well, we’re talkin’ 2005 here and addressing only one grain of truth, but fact is…Sundance is not *hungry*.
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