one thing today

“…when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”  —  Audre Lorde Audre Lorde was an activist who dedicated her life to confronting all manner of injustice. She  made it clear in her writings and speeches that silence is the oxygen injustice breathes. Power thrives when people doubt their own eyes, when they’re told that the story they witnessed isn’t the story that occurred. And that’s why Lorde’s words feel even more urgent today. We live in a time when institutions rewrite events before the truth has even settled. When videos contradict official statements, and people holding cameras are treated like threats. When accountability is promised in press releases but avoided at all costs in practice. In moments like these, speaking out becomes more than expression. It becomes evidence.

I'm watching Margot Robbie on Kimmel and as I've said before and now say it again - she could turn a gay man straight. She is the current queen of movie star dazzling can't top it beauty. Watch her in Tarzan with Alexander S who honed the most beautiful male body in world history in the movie.  The above photo inaugurates my new occasional bit -  What in the World Were They Thinking Photo # 1.

  … just yesterday my feel got thinking its great  to still be not gone and do what I do do And not think my tv doesn’t like me  And lets me enjoy the genius and think about when he was young  and had to have people get girls off his car When now its time to turn white While songs I’ve taken in life  tell me again of trouble and prison and moon shingles and jangles and salt spray  as we move our bodies and sway Taking youth for granted and old age as dream While people sit in rooms and wait for what’s next  Listening to lonesome stranded sisters  and seeing thru see thru blouses and offers from natures and wait watchers and doing imitations of him  sans intimidations and attitudes like  first is first and second is nothing  nothing's happening everything’s happening  snow and guns and zeitgeist philosophers still   and tears and quiet and new songs,  dreams in and on and then some.  It was Diane Keaton day on TCM...

  One kiss, one man to save it for One love for him alone One word, one vow and nothing more To tell him I'm his own One magic night within his arms With passion flower unfold But I will try to love only one man And no other man in the world 

  Song of My City is 2025 17-minute "ode" to 1970s New York City. It features iconic imagery from classic films like  Taxi Driver  and  The Warriors , set to music by the Velvet Underground and Philip Glass.

Bringing Back the Dead … 1999 … never even heard of it. Nobody does off center city curly swirl fryndies like Scorsese … nick cage w/those eyes, ving r, Rosanna A, gone Sizemore … fab no name characters actors who deserve names … horses and whores and smelly men. Overnight central one minute out. Don’t make em like this that now. Shish kebab shenanigans and  Senagalian ragheads. That’s gotta hurt. Better bring it all. Do. Does. Things have changed. O looka that and what I can do call I live in the land of the free and home of the brave I think