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Lillian Gish, Natalie Wood, Marilyn Monroe



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Some days, I love my IUD more than others.

Hey guys! In honor of Friday the 13th (the last one of 2009!), FEARnet.com is showing 13 FREE episodes of ‘Fear Itself’! Cool, eh?

Here’s the link!: http://www.fearnet.com/shows/fear_itself/index.html

Are any of you superstitious?

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We all know that 2008 was the worst year of my life, so it's understandable how stoked I was for 2009 to come.

It's not even halfway through November and I'm already chomping at the bit for 2010 to come.

2009 was my year to come up...

I have a feeling 2010 will be the year for the rest of the universe to come up. I am hoping shit lines up for me and some amazing things happen for me.

It also seems like 2009 was a really shitty year for a lot of people I know, so maybe 2010 will be to their 2009 what 2009 was to my 2008.

I already know of one good thing that'll come after tax season.

Maybe Joe will finally get a new job.

Maybe Jason will finally get a job, as well.

Maybe 2010 will be the year I can buy property.

Maybe Joe will be able to get his debt situation handled.

Maybe 2010 will bring PPS into a new building that I can bike commute to.

I'm feeling good today.

Teasers:

About 25 icons on my art-journal

Please don't hotlink if you take any. Credit is welcome.

National Call for Sat April 10, 2010: The 75 Anniversary of the WPA

Joblessness is as bad today as it was during the 1930s –It’s time to take the fight to D.C.

On April 8, 1935, Congress passed the legislation creating the largest public works program in history. The Works Progress Administration (WPA) created 8.5 million jobs during the depression of the 1930s.

Let’s mark the 75th anniversary of the creation of the WPA by telling the government that today’s jobless crisis is as bad today as it was back then and that we need the same kind of bold, sweeping jobs program that the people demanded in the 1930s – Now!

Martin Luther King Jr. dedicated the final months of his life to starting a movement for the right of all to a job or a guaranteed income – we need that movement now more than ever.

It’s time to say no: to a jobless recovery - to an economy based on permanent high unemployment and low wages - to trillions of $ for Wall St., and trillions of $ for war but nothing but joblessness, foreclosures, evictions, layoffs, low wages, union busting, hunger and homelessness for workers and the poor.

There are more than 20 million unemployed and underemployed people in the country today. We need a real WPA-type program that is big enough to insure that those who need work get work – work that is socially useful that pays union wages and benefits.

Call issued by
the Bail Out the People Movement

 

To endorse this call
go to http://www.bailoutpeople.org/apr1010endorse.shtml

To volunteer or organize transportation from your area
go to http://www.bailoutpeople.org/apr1010volorgcent.shtml

To donate go to http://www.bailoutpeople.org/donate.shtml

Bail Out the People Movement
Solidarity Center
55 W. 17th St. #5C
New York, NY 10011
212.633.6646
www.BailOutPeople.org
Email: bailoutpeople.org/cmnt.shtml

A Famous Man

Last winter a famous figure walked in Behagnies. ( for his was one of those names that all men know )

From ONTD (cross-posted to a few other comms):
http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/41013070.html?view=6275614798#t6275614798

Lost Chaplin film discovered in $5 can bought on eBay



When Morace Park bought a can of nitrate film on eBay for $5, he was surprised to discover that it contained footage of Charlie Chaplin.

The inventor was utterly astounded when his friend John Dwyer, a former member of the British Board of Film Classification, told him that he had discovered rare footage of the performer, and possibly an unknown Chaplin work. Unlike many nitrate films, the contents of this 1916 can were still intact.
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Hello All!

I wanted to let you know about a new magazine (that I'm self-publishing) called Zelda! It's aimed at aficionados of early 20th century style and culture (pre-WWII), and has features not only on historical topics, but on what's going on in vintage lifestyle culture today. It might be something you'd love! If you'd like to check it out/purchase, you can visit http://www.zeldamag.com !

There's a great feature on the 1933 King Kong in our premiere issue, and Madame Yevonde's color portraiture from the 30s that is to die for!

Enjoy! ;)

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It's neat. Just another excuse to text, too:)

I've decided that this winter, I am trying to only buy warm-weather clothes from non west coast companies.

Everything in stores here is paper thin and doesn't keep me warm for shit.

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Argue if you will, but I honestly believe Dead Alive/Brain Dead is one of the best horror films ever.  Sure, it makes you gag and laugh more than it probably scares you, but funny/disgusting is what makes this movie so great.
It's so fucking gross...I love it :D

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It’s frustrating to see many leftists posting affirmations about the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall – and by extension, the destruction of the German Democratic Republic and its absorption by (reactionary, imperialist) West Germany.

Of course, it was even more frustrating back in 1989, when the events were actually unfolding. And many of today’s progressive and radical-minded young people at least have the excuse that they have not had the opportunity to hear arguments for the other side.

Whatever its faults, the GDR was a workers’ state that provided jobs, housing and health care for all its residents. Its leadership was significantly to the left of the Soviet Union, particularly in the 1980s. It provided aid and support, including military aid, to national liberation movements throughout the world, including the struggle against apartheid in southern Africa. It provided a safe haven for refugees from fascist terror in countries like Chile and Argentina. The GDR also provided jobs and education for guest workers and students from Asia, Africa, and the Middle East – many of whom were terrorized or driven out after reunification.

The Berlin Wall was erected in 1961 in response to provocations from U.S. imperialism and its West German junior partners to destroy the attempt to build socialism in eastern Germany. The disgusting myth that the Berlin Wall was erected to “destroy freedom” of Berliners is just the opposite of the truth: the capitalist powers wanted to crush the working class’s freedom to build a society free of the profit motive.

I remember the anger I felt the first time I saw the film Hedwig and the Angry Inch, because of the way it portrays the lives of gay, lesbian, bi and trans people in the GDR. In fact, East Germany was far ahead of any country in the world in queer rights and freedoms, as well as women’s rights. This was only natural since the gay liberation movement as we know it grew up within the German socialist and communist movements of the 19th and early 20th centuries. All of this progress was wiped away when the GDR fell.

The German Democratic Republic had a right to defend its sovereignty from imperialism. I am proud to be a communist who defended the GDR in its darkest hour in 1989, when I was just 18 years old. I first met Workers World Party right around that time, and an article by Joyce Chediac called “The Other Side of the Berlin Wall” in WW newspaper showed me that this was the revolutionary organization for me.

Those who cannot defend the right of a workers’ state, a revolution, or a resistance movement to defend itself will never be able to carry out a successful revolutionary struggle. Sincere revolutionaries have to learn this lesson, and it is incumbent on those of us who lived through those terrible setbacks to help educate new generations.

More on the GDR:

The Role of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in the international struggle against Racism, Apartheid and Colonialism, from African National Congress
http://www.anc.org.za/un/conference/ababing.html

Same Sex Rights in East Germany by Leslie Feinberg
http://www.workers.org/ww/2004/lgbtseries1104.php

Gains Cut Short by 1989 Counter-Revolution by Leslie Feinberg
http://www.workers.org/ww/2004/lgbtseries1230.php

The Forces of Socialism Against the Counter-Revolution by Sam Marcy
http://www.workers.org/marcy/cd/sam89/1989html/s891116b.htm

Crucial Issues in the Struggle Over GDR Course
http://www.workers.org/marcy/cd/sam89/1989html/s891123.htm

Significance of the Communist Vote in the GDR by Sam Marcy
http://www.workers.org/marcy/1990/sm900329.html

100,000 Honor Luxemburg-Liebknecht in Berlin by Greg Butterfield
http://www.workers.org/ww/2000/germany0127.php

 

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