my dear, sweet professor

from the man who coined "safe, legal, and rare" during his tenure as a clinton advisor...
comes this little gem in today's paper
skim the article, then pretend to be a young female reporter for the washington post
and direct your attention to popkin's final quotation

DIY: ironic* film fest

*colloquial/modern usage; "perverse appropriateness"

::all films are available from your nearest netflix shipping facility::

feauturing 8 documentaries and 2 docudramas
showcasing 2 foreign films!!!

FEAR
-september 11 (2002)
11'09''01: onze minutes, neuf secondes, un cadre (france)

i first saw this film in a cineopolis in mexico and left the theater wondering whether it been suppressed or simply ignored in the united states (perhaps because of the indignant/insensitive japanese contribution?). sean penn directs one of the 11 short films.

-united 93 (2006)
-world trade center (2006)

FREEDOM
-gunner palace (2004)
-occupation dreamland (2005)
-in the shadow of the palms (australia 2005)
-baghdad ER (2006)
-operation filmmaker (2007)
-operation homecoming: writing the wartime experience (2007)

FORENSICS
-uncovered: the whole truth about the iraq war (2003)

i screened this film at a now-defunct independent coffeeshop called ashton's in decatur, georgia. it spurred a year of war protests and a lifetime of political activism for me.

-iraq for sale: the war profiteers (2006)
-no end in sight (2007)

i sat alone in a nearly empty theater in la jolla, california to see this film. i gave it a standing ovation. for sensibility's sake.

as long as we're alive, feminism isn't dead

BILINGUAL SENSE OF HUMOR
new apartment is a piece, but my window graffiti sent the plumber into stitches




ILLEGAL PATRIOTISM in the sanctuary city
annual non-sanctioned/non-coordinated/non-taxpayer-funded fireworks, as seen from the par-summit of our own mount olympus