Jackson [Pollock] had tickets to a play.
Jackson [Pollock] had tickets to a play. "I've seen this play before, but it's so good I want you to see it. It's by a very important Irishman named Beckett. Waiting For Godot is the most important play I've seen. It's abstract."
We had dinner in a place close to the theater and found our seats about middle orchestra. The theater was not full... I didn't get the point of the play but Jackson did. Every line made him cringe, he got more and more into the play, and by the time Alvin Epstein came out as Lucky in the most thrilling performance, Jackson was beside himself. He started to cry.
People around us were shushing him, turning around. It was a quiet play, only two characters on stage, and every sound was noticed. He started to cry, really cry, and then the crying turned into sobs and then it went into heartbreaking moans. He was out of control. I grabbed his arms, pulled him up out of his seat. His eyes were closed. He was lost, not realizing we were in the theater. "Jackson, come, let's go home," I said. I somehow got him out of the theater and into a taxi, and as we walked out of the theater his crying was so loud it was as though his heart was breaking...
Nothing would make him stop. I tried to think about the play and what had set him off, the futility of no one coming. "I'm here. I'll be there when you need me. Don't be so sad please." "It's not that. It's something else. I can't explain."
- Love Affair, Ruth Kligman (68-69)

Seven Day Weekend.
Topic: by Lenny
Today is my last day of work, like, forever...

I have been writing at a feverish clip, so look to this space starting next week for some red hot literary business.

Until then, remember what Sam Peckinpah wrote:

Top Ten President Bush Explanations For The Bulge In His Jacket
Topic: presidential election
from Late Night With David Letterman...

10. "It's connected to an earpiece so Cheney can feed me answers--crap, I wasn't supposed to say that."

9. "It's a device that shocks me every time I mispronounce a word."
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Bare ambition (certainly we have better things to do)...
Topic: Sex
How to find naked celebrities

When I was a teenaged aspiring film critic, I always read The Joe Bob Report, the newsletter sent out by Joe Bob Briggs. One day, I noticed an ad for The Bare Facts Video Guide, which promised to list all the nude scenes done by every actress you've ever wanted to see naked. Naturally, I ordered it. Soon, it became available in book stores and I always bought the updated version every year.

Now that I'm a journalist, I get to contact people like Craig Hosoda, author of The Bare Facts, and ask him all the questions I always wanted to know when I was a kid. His book now has a CD-Rom companion and he has a website to promote the book, so contacting him through that was a breeze.

read more About.com "Action Adventure" guide here.

O'Reilly Scandal disturbing... and hilarious!
Topic: News and Media
O'Reilly Hit With Sex Harass Suit
Female Fox coworker details lewd behavior of cable TV star

OCTOBER 13 Hours after Bill O'Reilly accused her of a multimillion dollar shakedown attempt, a female Fox News producer fired back at the TV star today, filing a lawsuit claiming that he subjected her to repeated instances of sexual harassment and spoke often, and explicitly, to her about phone sex, vibrators, threesomes, masturbation, the loss of his virginity, and sexual fantasies. Below you'll find a copy of Andrea Mackris's complaint, an incredible page-turner that quotes O'Reilly, 55, on all sorts of lewd matters. Based on the extensive quotations cited in the complaint, it appears a safe bet that Mackris, 33, recorded some of O'Reilly's more steamy soliloquies. For example, we direct you to his Caribbean shower fantasies. While we suggest reading the entire document, TSG will point you to interesting sections on a Thailand sex show, Al Franken, and the climax of one August 2004 phone conversation. (22 pages)

The Smoking Gun article here.

C'mon, Have A Hart...
Topic: by Lenny
the Steve Hart "No good reason for this interview" interview...

SH -- Steve Hart
LF -- Joe "Lenny" Flatley

SH: First off, which do you prefer, Joe or Lenny?

LF: Well, short answer, my name is Joe, but my friends call me Lenny. Call me Lenny.

SH: What are you doing right now, Lenny?

LF: Pecking away here at the keyboard, working on something I have been putting off, comparing "magick" - that's with a 'CK' - with technology. Now I am never gonna get this done. Can I put this interview on my website?

SH: Sure.

LF: Great. When are you gonna be using this?

SH: Well, the project is due tomorrow, so hell. . . I may have the transcript done tonight.

LF: You can do it faster than that! Just hand in the tapes, do it now, wake that professor up! (laughs)

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Lenny
Topic: by Lenny
Hi everybody...

As you all have undoubtedly heard (and probably forgot), I am "hitting the road," getting out of Providence and moving on to new challenges and greater things. Or I'm throwing my life away. I haven't decided yet. (Hi mom!)

My phone is getting disconnected on October 15. So don't call me. Seriously. It just won't work. I'll let you know what my new number is soon as I have one, but in the meantime you can get a hold of me here or at: studio@production68.net

I have to apologise to all of you I have lost touch with or just plain owe 'phone calls to. I'm sorry, I am terrible at keeping in touch (but obviously I am not THAT sorry, or I would have done something about it)...

Where am I going, you ask? For the most part I am undecided, but I know I will be in Pittsburgh and vicinity for the near future at least, and then I'm moving to New York City. I am planning on doing some travelling while I have the chance, so don't be surprised if I call you asking for a place to crash.

You can check out my weblog -- https://mediafaction.tripod.com/blog/ -- if so moved for my writing, music and any other artistic endeavors.

take care and I'll talk to you soon...

- Lenny

Hail Kerry! Hail Satan!
Topic: presidential election
The year 1966 was a banner year for the Prince of Darkness. Approaching the dog days of summer in that momentous year, Anton LaVey, a decadent, ex-circus entertainer, also a Jew, formally founded the Church of Satan in San Francisco. The date: June 6, 1966, or 6-6-66.

Across the nation, in New England at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, a young man spent the year 1966 in his somber new residence, the Tomb. The Tomb is a gothic, mausoleum-like stone building just off campus, adjacent to an ancient cemetery complete with Masonic tombstones, odd-shaped crypts, and what is called the "garden of the dead."

The young man's name was John F. Kerry (really John F. Kohn, Jewish). The Tomb, in fact, is the home of Chapter 322 of the Order of Skull & Bones, a satanic, clandestine lodge of Freemasonry first organized in 1832. Each year, fifteen (15; 1+5=6) carefully chosen young men of preferred bloodlines take up residence inside its thick walls. At their initiation into The Order, each man lies naked inside a coffin and "bonds" with his fellow bonesmen by confessing his sexual thoughts and deeds from birth. Then, each initiate is given, as a memento, a human bone with his new name "inscribed" on it.

...John Kerry has been, as we all know, richly rewarded for his faithfulness to Lucifer's cause. Pretending to be an Irish Catholic, Kerry first became Massachusetts Lt. Governor, serving under a fellow occultist, super-liberal Governor Michael Dukakis. Then he joined "Mr. Chappaquiddick," Ted (Catholic and Rosicrucian) Kennedy as a U.S. Senator, being elected from the state popularly known as The Peoples Republic of Massachusetts.

ConspiracyWorld "article" here.

Wiregate: Bush was wired.
Topic: presidential election
Oct. 13, 2004 | Speculation continues to run wild about President Bush's mystery bulge. Since Friday, when Salon first raised questions about the rectangular bulge that was visible under Bush's suit coat during the presidential debates, many observers in the press and on the Internet have wondered aloud whether the verbally and factually challenged president might be receiving coaching via a hidden electronic device.

Now a technical expert who designs and makes such devices for the U.S. military and private industry tells Salon that he believes the bulge is indeed a transceiver designed to receive electronic signals and transmit them to a hidden earpiece lodged in Bush's ear canal.

read the rest of the Salon.com article here.

Genetic factors in homosexuality.
Topic: Sex
Survival of genetic homosexual traits explained
00:01 13 October 04

NewScientist.com news service

Italian geneticists may have explained how genes apparently linked to male homosexuality survive, despite gay men seldom having children. Their findings also undermine the theory of a single "gay gene".

The researchers discovered that women tend to have more children when they inherit the same - as yet unidentified - genetic factors linked to homosexuality in men. This fertility boost more than compensates for the lack of offspring fathered by gay men, and keeps the "gay" genetic factors in circulation.

The findings represent the best explanation yet for the Darwinian paradox presented by homosexuality: it is a genetic dead-end, yet the trait persists generation after generation.

"We have finally solved this paradox," says Andrea Camperio-Ciani of the University of Padua. "The same factor that influences sexual orientation in males promotes higher fecundity in females."

read the entire article here.