New Wave Cinema 2.0: The Films of Spike Lee

Posted on Updated on by Geoff CarterCategories:Movies

By Geoff Carter In The New Wave 2.0 series, The Pen in Hand Blog will be considering the work of today’s best and most influential filmmakers, artists whose singular visual styles and visionary senses have stretched the boundaries of cinema. Drawing upon Francois Truffaut’s definition of an auteur, these pieces will be looking at writer/directors whose …
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Kickass and Sunny’s Baby Bump

Posted on Updated on by Geoff CarterCategories:Family, Humor, Kickass

Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, endorses the keeper’s comment that the outstanding feature at the river-side clan gathering, hosted Saturday by Ohm and Andy, was Sunny’s baby bump which has taken on the proportions of the giant pumpkin. Everyone had a comment, and little girls came to gently poke at …
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Kickass and Disney Characters

Posted on Updated on by Bill StokesCategories:Humor, Kickass, Politics, Wisconsin

Photo by Guillermo GR on Unsplash By Bill Stokes  Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, in his eagerness to be helpful, is pointing out Wisconsin job opportunities to the Disney characters who are losing their Florida jobs for saying certain words, like “stupid, dumb, outrageous, unbelievable, racist, homophobic and constipated.”          GOOFY: You are …
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Kickass and Dog Genes

Posted on Updated on by Geoff CarterCategories:Humor, Kickass

Photo by Geoff Carter By Bill Stokes   Kickass, the doorstop dog, confesses to snooping in the keeper’s out-basket and finding the following:          “Dear Mr Darwin:           “I write to you with respect and with the hope that you will see fit to examine some of your early findings to explain why I feel like a dog …
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Dialogue on Crime and Punishment: Letters to Quantico

Posted on Updated on by Geoff CarterCategories:Law, Social Commentary

Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Dave S., Mark M., Mark O., Dennis Curley, and Geoff Carter ABC Television-ABC Photo, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons The New York Times: “Two Men Acquitted of Plotting to Kidnap Michigan Governor in High Profile Case” (April 8.2022) My Take:   This ain’t your Efrem Zimbalist Jr.’s FBI anymore. Acquittal sounds valid. FBI hired loose …
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Kickass and Prosser Choking

Posted on Updated on by Bill StokesCategories:Humor, Kickass, Politics, Wisconsin

Royalbroil, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, fresh from blaming the lousy spring weather on the cats, now sees the upside-down condition of the justice system, the prevalence of legislative gerrymandered minority rule, and the resulting paralysis of the executive branch, all due to application …
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Cinema Today: The New Wave 2.0

Posted on Updated on by Geoff CarterCategories:Movies

Dziga Vertov, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Geoff Carter In his seminal work “A Certain Tendency in French Cinema” from Cahiers du Cinema, Truffaut coined the term “auteur” as he thought it should apply to the art of filmmaking. Cinema, he maintained, should consist of personal autobiographical chronicles, and be the product of one mind …
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Kickass and Howling Cats

Posted on Updated on by Bill StokesCategories:Humor, Kickass

Alvesgaspar, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper is in serious need of therapy in this winter that refuses to end, and he—the keeper places much of the blame on cats. In the prolonged winters of his northern childhood, romantically inclined tomcats gathered near the window …
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