She's the prettiest little thing doing the weather.
At CBS News 2 Los Angeles:
Friday, November 23, 2018
Jonathan Neumann, To Heal the World?
"A devastating critique of the presumed theological basis of the Jewish social justice movement―the concept of healing the world..."
From Jonathan Neumann, at Amazon, To Heal the World? How the Jewish Left Corrupts Judaism and Endangers Israel.
Thanksgiving with Jennifer Delacruz
She's so lovely.
Happy Thanksgiving from Coronado! pic.twitter.com/rnHUIQiUKx
— Jennifer Delacruz (@10NewsJen) November 23, 2018
Kristen Van Dyke Biking in Southern Utah
She used to be at Portland's CBS News-affiliate KOIN 6 News. I used to watch her on YouTube a lot, when I was covering the occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Eastern Oregon.
A really cool lady. She's now the chief meteorologist at KSTU FOX 13, in Salt Lake City, Utah.
A really cool lady. She's now the chief meteorologist at KSTU FOX 13, in Salt Lake City, Utah.
What a wonderful day in southern Utah 😍
— Kristen Van Dyke (@kvandykewx) November 23, 2018
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! 🦃🍁 #southernutah #mtblife #utahisrad https://t.co/mf33P5JBkI pic.twitter.com/aGjBkV2nWZ
Caroline Glick: President Trump, Israel and Anti-Semitism (VIDEO)
Ms. Caroline's remarks on October 30, 2018, in Dallas, Texas.
And buy her book, The Israeli Solution: A One-State Plan for Peace in the Middle East.
And buy her book, The Israeli Solution: A One-State Plan for Peace in the Middle East.
Perpetual War Over Political Culture
The big question is who's to blame?
Both sides?
I don't think so, personally. It was back in 1992 when Pat Buchanan that America had entered a state of cultural warfare to determine the "soul" of the country.
What's different today is the breakdown of the old media hierarchy and the institutionaliztion of the demonizing, destructive, anti-American ideologies of the campus left inside America's top ranks of cultural, educational, and economic power.
But see Politico:
Both sides?
I don't think so, personally. It was back in 1992 when Pat Buchanan that America had entered a state of cultural warfare to determine the "soul" of the country.
What's different today is the breakdown of the old media hierarchy and the institutionaliztion of the demonizing, destructive, anti-American ideologies of the campus left inside America's top ranks of cultural, educational, and economic power.
But see Politico:
How Everything Became the Culture War https://t.co/01J8gAA398
— POLITICO (@politico) November 4, 2018
Thursday, November 22, 2018
New Interview with David Foster Wallace
Actually, it's not "new." It's an interview by Eduardo Lago from 2000, previously unpublished.
Wallace is most famous for his novel, Infinite Jest.
At Electronic Literature, "A Brand New Interview with David Foster Wallace":
Hat Tip: The Young Hegelian, at the comments at Althouse, "At the Thanksgiving Café..."
Wallace is most famous for his novel, Infinite Jest.
At Electronic Literature, "A Brand New Interview with David Foster Wallace":
"The internet is almost the perfect distillation of the American capitalist ethos, a flood of seductive choices with no really effective engines for choosing." https://t.co/IPHPRMjtfV— Electric Literature (@ElectricLit) November 20, 2018
Eduardo Lago: I know you’re not teaching right now, but can you talk a little bit about the reading lists of your courses?More.
David Foster Wallace: Most of what I teach is writing classes where we’re concentrating more on the student’s own writing. When I teach literature classes, I’ve taught everything from freshman literature, where the department will buy an anthology and I will teach them John Updike’s “A & P,” and John Cheever’s “The Five-Forty-Eight,” and Ursula le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walked Away From Omelas,” “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, a lot of very what I consider to be very standard stories that are in all the anthologies. I’ve tried teaching more ambitious or strange or difficult fiction, but with freshmen and sophomores their preparation isn’t very good and it doesn’t work well. Graduate literature courses are usually themed courses, so what the reading lists are depends a certain amount on how I design the course, as I’m sure you know. I’ve taught a fair amount of Cormac McCarthy, who’s a writer I admire a great deal, and Don DeLillo and William Gaddis. I’ve taught quite a bit of William Gass, but usually his earlier books, and I teach poetry … I’m not a professional poet but I’m an avid reader of poetry, so I teach most of the contemporary poetry that’s available in book form.
EL: Do you consider yourself an accessible writer, and do you know what kind of people read your books?
DFW: That’s a very good question. I think the sort of work I do falls into an area of American fiction that, yes, that is accessible, but that is designed for people who really like to read and understand reading to be a discipline and to require a certain amount of work. As I’m sure you know, most of the money in American publishing gets made in books — some of which I think are very good — that don’t require much work. They’re almost more like motion pictures, and people read them on airplanes and at beaches. I don’t do stuff like that. But of the American writers I know who do some of the more demanding fiction, I think I’m one of the more accessible ones, simply because when I’m working, I’m trying to make it as simple as possible rather than trying to make it as complicated as possible. There’s some fiction that’s very good that I think is trying to be difficult by putting the reader through certain sorts of exercises. I’m not one of those, so within the camp people usually talk about me being one of the more accessible ones, but that camp itself is not regarded as very accessible and I think it tends to be read by people who have had quite a bit of education or a native love of books and for whom reading is important as an activity and not just something to do to pass the time or entertain themselves.
I think I’m one of the more accessible ones simply because when I’m working, I’m trying to make it as simple as possible rather than trying to make it as complicated as possible.
EL: I’ve read in a number of places that you intended Infinite Jest to be a sad book. Can you talk specifically about that aspect of the novel and what else were you intending to do when you started writing it?
DFW: I think what I meant by that was that there are some facts about American culture, particularly for younger people, that seem to me to be far clearer to people who live in Europe than to Americans themselves, which is that in many ways America is a wonderful place to live from a material standpoint, and its economy is very strong and there’s a great deal of material plenty, and yet — let’s see, when I started that book I was about 30, sort of upper middle class, white, had never suffered discrimination or any poverty that I myself had not caused, and most of my friends were the same way, and yet there was a sadness and a disconnection or alienation among I would say people under 40 or 45 in this country, that — and this is probably a cliche — you could say dates from Watergate, or from Vietnam or any number of causes. The book itself is attempting to talk about the phenomenon of addiction, whether it’s addiction to narcotics or whether it’s addiction in its original meaning in English which has to do with devotion, almost a religious devotion, and trying to understand a kind of innate capitalist sadness in terms of the phenomenon of addiction and what addiction means. Usually I would tell people I meant to do it a sad book because when I did a lot of interviews about Infinite Jest all people would seem to want to talk about was that the book was very funny and they wanted to know why the book was so funny and how it was supposed to be so funny, and I was honestly puzzled and disappointed because I had seen it as a very sad book, and that was my attempt to explain to you the sadness that I’m talking about.
EL: How would you define your literary generation?
DFW: Boy.
EL: If you believe in that.
DFW: Can you explain the question a little bit, say who are the writers of the generation?
EL: Perhaps I mean that you belong in a certain age group that has inherited a literary tradition that you are trying to transform somehow. In other words, what are young American writers today like yourself — in a certain type of fiction because there are many different approaches to literature — doing. Do you think you belong in a group where your original work plays a role, or something like that?
DFW: Well, I don’t know. See, when people would ask me that question before it was because I was very young and I was in the youngest generation, and I think there’s probably a whole new generation now. A generation in American fiction is probably every five or seven years. Usually when people talk to me about my work, the other younger writers they lump it in with are William T. Vollman and Richard Powers, Joanna Scott, A. M. Homes, Jonathan Franzen, Mark Leyner. Those are all — I think Powers and Scott are in their early 40s, I’m 38, I think it’s all sort of writers now in their later 30s and early 40s and I think we all started publishing books at about the same time. And that group of younger writers, as I’m sure you know, we’re only a small percentage of the younger writers who are out there. There are plenty of active, productive young writers who do what I think is called Realism with a capital R: the sort of traditional, third person limited omniscient, central character, central conflict, classically structured kind of fiction. I know a couple of the other writers I get lumped in with, whom I just mentioned to you, and if there seems to be something in common, it seems to be that we all, particularly in college, were exposed to a great deal of first of all literary theory and continental theory, and second of all, classic American postmodern fiction, which means Nabokov and DeLillo and Pynchon and Barth and Gaddis and Gass and all these guys. And both of those exposures, it seems, make it constitutionally more difficult to do traditional stuff, because some of the best classic postmodern fiction really, at least for me, exploded or destroyed the credibility of a lot of the sort of conventions and devices that classic realism uses. Nevertheless, I think that what gets called classic American postmodernism — which would be, you know, metafiction or really high surrealistic fiction — has a very limited utility. Its essential task appears to me to be to be destructive — to clear away, to explode a lot of hypocrisies and conventions — but it gets rather tiresome rather quickly. Now that’s being kind of general. I myself personally find John Barth’s first few books interesting and then it seems to me that all he’s done since is work out certain techniques and certain obsessions over and over and over and over and over and over again. I don’t think any of the writers that I’ve mentioned, myself included, are comfortable with the idea of simply doing more of that kind of fiction. On the other hand we’ve all been influenced by it a great deal and I think for a whole lot of different reasons don’t see and understand the world in the way that classic realist fiction tries to capture or mirror.
So I think what I’m trying to say, in a long-winded way, is [that] probably the group I get lumped in with has been heavily influenced by American postmodernism, and of course by European postmodernism too — I mean Calvino — or Latin American writers like Borges and Marquez and Puig. But nevertheless we are also uncomfortable with some of the self-consciousness, and for me in particular some of the intellectualism, of standard postmodernism, and are interested in trying to do fiction that doesn’t seem to be formulaic or “traditional” but nevertheless has an emotional quality to it; is not meant simply to be about language or certain cognitive paradoxes, but is supposed to be about the human experience, what it is to be particularly an American and yet not be a John Updike or John Cheever traditional story.
Hat Tip: The Young Hegelian, at the comments at Althouse, "At the Thanksgiving Café..."
Gerald Posner, Case Closed
Following-up, "Misspent Conspiracism."
See Gerald Posner, at Amazon, Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK.
See Gerald Posner, at Amazon, Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK.
Misspent Conspiracism
At Quillette, "My Misspent Years of Conspiracism."
A (rare) essay from me about how I became a JFK conspiracy theorist, why I am not one now, and why you shouldn't be one either.
— Jamie Palmer (@j4mi3p) November 22, 2018
Includes a section on the shockingly inept and unethical Garrison investigation heroised in Oliver Stone's 1991 film "JFK." https://t.co/EjVS9oefC7
Unfriend Facebook
Heh.
On Twitter:
On Twitter:
Facebook is bad https://t.co/Cu2XNslxHg
— Michelle Goldberg (@michelleinbklyn) November 16, 2018
Margaret Walker, Jubilee
At Amazon, a fantastic book and wonderful Christmas present, Margaret Walker, Jubilee (50th Anniversary Edition).
Nathaniel Philbrick, Mayflower
At Amazon, perfect for Thanksgiving, Nathaniel Philbrick, Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War.
As a Ring of Fire Closes In, a Mother Calls Her Daughters: 'This is How I Die'
This is the front-page story at today's Los Angeles Times.
Harrowing:
Harrowing:
.@MelissaTweets #CampFire #Paradise 🔥 https://t.co/WSynQAA6Ew
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) November 22, 2018
Megan Parry's Thanksgiving Forecast
Happy Thanksgiving everybody!
I hope you have wonderful weather.
Here's the lovely Ms. Megan, for ABC News 10 San Diego:
I hope you have wonderful weather.
Here's the lovely Ms. Megan, for ABC News 10 San Diego:
Wednesday, November 21, 2018
Rains Threaten Northern Californian Burn Areas
"Sorely needed" rain is expected in Northern California, but the precipitation could cause more harm and endanger the search for those lost in the wildfires.
At LAT, "Approaching storms raise threat of mudslides in California burn areas."
Also, "Rescuers fear rains will wash away victims’ remains; 870 still missing in California fire":
At LAT, "Approaching storms raise threat of mudslides in California burn areas."
Also, "Rescuers fear rains will wash away victims’ remains; 870 still missing in California fire":
Sorely needed rain coming tomorrow to help firefighters but, it will be heavy at times & could lead to debris flows or flash flooding. Flash Flood Watch WED PM-FRI PM. Hope all in area remain safe! @CAL_FIRE #CampFire #CaliforniaFire #CaliforniaWildfire pic.twitter.com/v3fXwu1hLQ— Sandhya Patel (@SandhyaABC7) November 21, 2018
The cadaver dog alerted to a corner of the charred metal frame, what probably was once the kitchen of a mobile home in Paradise, Calif. Searchers in white jumpsuits walked over, with shovels and gloves, to sift through the debris.
After about 10 minutes, they determined there were no bodies or bones in the rubble — just burned sausages.
For days, hundreds of searchers have been methodically working through the destruction left by the massive Camp fire, looking for clues that someone couldn’t escape, such as a wheelchair or a footprint. They scour places where people may have tried to protect themselves from flames: under a mattress, inside a bathtub.
So far they have discovered 81 bodies — people who died in cars and homes; people outside, probably trying to outrun the flames. But with 870 people still missing and more than 12,600 destroyed homes to comb through, their grim mission is far from over.
“We have so many souls unaccounted for, I believe that this search for remains is going to go on for a long time,” said state Sen. Jim Nielsen (R-Gerber), whose district includes Paradise. “Could be weeks.”
And now, a pair of incoming storms are threatening to hamper recovery efforts. In a worst-case scenario, the downpour could flood the ruins and wash away human remains, leaving authorities unable to find and identify every victim of California’s deadliest wildfire on record. Authorities fear bones could sink underwater, making them harder to spot and drowning any scent that cadaver dogs rely on to find them.
Paradise narrowed its main road by two lanes despite warnings of gridlock during a major wildfire »
Deborah Laughlin last heard from her son and his pregnant wife just after the couple evacuated their Magalia home. It’s been almost two weeks, and she has no idea whether they survived.
“Please don’t tell me he died,” said Laughlin, tears in her eyes, from the cafeteria of Bidwell Junior High School in Chico. “Please.”
She said she is clinging to hope that they’ll be reunited soon. The 63-year-old lost her home in Paradise. She’s afraid of the approaching storms because she knows there are still people who are missing, people who may have died in the fire.
“I’m scared,” she said. “I’m scared they’ll be washed away and people’s remains will never be found.”
Meteorologists say the Camp fire burn scar — which is larger than the city of San Jose — could see up to 6 inches of rain through Saturday, with the heaviest downpour expected overnight Thursday. The forecast has triggered a flash flood watch for possible rock slides and debris flows. Light rain was beginning to fall Wednesday morning in the Sacramento Valley, with stronger showers expected later in the day.
“That rain is going to get in that ash, it’s going to turn into it a paste-like substance,” said Monterey County Sheriff’s Cmdr. Joe Moses, who is helping in the recovery effort. “It’s going to stick to everything and slow things down.”
Officials are preparing for an long, wrenching cleanup...
Miluniel Louis
Not sure who this is, but she's nice.
Here, "Miluniel Bush of the Day."
Plus, Playboy photos of Miluniel Louis.
Here, "Miluniel Bush of the Day."
Plus, Playboy photos of Miluniel Louis.
Tuesday, November 20, 2018
'Close to Me'
From yesterday morning's drive-time, at 93.1 Jack FM.
The Cure.
The Cure.
Smashing Pumpkins
9:17am
More Than A Feeling
Boston
9:13am
How Soon Is Now?
The Smiths
9:07am
Brain Stew
Green Day
9:03am
Don't You Want Me
The Human League
8:52am
Lose Yourself
Eminem
8:48am
Here I Go Again
Whitesnake
8:44am
No Rain
Blind Melon
8:40am
Love Is A Battlefield
Pat Benatar
8:36am
Close To Me
The Cure
8:25am
When You Were Young
The Killers
8:21am
Sweet Home Alabama
Lynyrd Skynyrd
8:16am
Shout
Tears For Fears
8:10am
Alive
Pearl Jam
8:04am
'It's Only Rock 'n Roll'
A new live performance of "It’s Only Rock ‘n Roll," from the Stones' Voodoo Lounge tour.
Plus, the upcoming 2019 world tour:
Plus, the upcoming 2019 world tour:
See you in the US next year! 🇺🇸 https://t.co/TSFFpTUFPU #stonesnofilter pic.twitter.com/ULS4mTs4Gb
— Mick Jagger (@MickJagger) November 19, 2018
It's great to be playing back in America. Feels like we're coming home. https://t.co/t2FnkLmIyb pic.twitter.com/TNuqi3YtYu
— Keith Richards (@officialKeef) November 19, 2018
The Rolling Stones have just announced details of their US Tour 2019: https://t.co/cimRWrDl07 🇺🇸
— The Rolling Stones (@RollingStones) November 19, 2018
There will be a fan pre-sale Weds 28 Nov 10am (local time) - If you want access to the pre-sale then enter your details here: https://t.co/yQWLqONHsv by Tuesday 27 Nov 9am EST. pic.twitter.com/zobo3Po4y9
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