Gavin's Clipboard

2012-02-09T22:27:00.000-08:00

It is my view that no persuasive case has yet been presented showing congressional district conventions choose candidates better than do the party rank-and-file--nor has any similar morality-based case been presented. You often hear the wooden partisan fanatics bumbling about--chattering as if such arguments existed. They're full of it.

Candidates

2012-02-07T23:10:00.000-08:00

Besides your humble servant, two fancy-dress, hyper-conventional candidates currently vie for the backing of Minnesota's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, to run for the US House for the Third Congressional District:

Brian Barnes

Sharon Sund

The seat is currently held by Republican Erik Paulsen.

Debate Invitation

2012-02-04T07:48:00.000-08:00

Dr. Arthur Hippler v. Mr. Gavin Sullivan

--moderated by Grant Steves--

Does Darwinian evolution undermine moral claims of conscience?

Ridgedale Library

Minnetonka, Minnesota

February 25, 2012

2:00 to 3:30 pm

Free and Open to the Public

2012-01-09T14:46:00.000-08:00

Props to the student who noticed this egregious misspelling. Mea culpa!

An Architect's Mysticism

2011-07-14T08:37:00.000-07:00

Taipei 101 [picture] is Taiwan's tallest building. It was designed by C Y Lee. Here are some quotations from the English-language page of the architect's website:

A living building is the information space where life can be found.

Life exists within the space.

The information of space is then the information of life.

Space is the body of the building.

The building is therefore the space, the information, and the life.

2011-07-12T07:14:00.000-07:00

metaphorically speaking, as they strive to rid the world of 'misogyny'

2011-07-11T21:26:00.000-07:00

see previous post and the article and comments section here

a question I emailed to DAG

2011-07-06T10:42:00.000-07:00

Hello Mr. Green,

I want to ask you a hypothetical question:

Alongside others, we are chatting into the wee hours at a hotel bar. At 4AM, you and I amble into the elevator, unaccompanied.

I then say to you:

Don't take this the wrong way, but I find you very interesting and I would like to talk more. Would you like to come to my hotel room for coffee?

You issue a brusque No--and I get off the lift, wishing you sweet dreams.

Arriving at your room, you get on the telephone with a trusted friend. Your friend asks if Gavin Sullivan said anything offensive in your presence.

Your reply?

peace,

Gavin Sullivan
Eden Prairie

2011-07-05T20:39:00.000-07:00

Click on this link and scroll to 4:30 for her description

{Rebecca Watson - Wikipedia entry}

Sorry, Monsieur Strauss-Kahn

2011-07-03T18:42:00.000-07:00

[a snippet from an email I sent to a friend, informing him of my updated viewpoint concerning DSK]

I haven't read MoDo on DSK, but we gringos would appear to have a bit of fessin' up to do. I mean, we were congratulating ourselves at how 'the stereotype had been reversed' and the worldly French were in fact sexist neanderthals while we had taken sincere interest in female plight, etc.--and then we learned that she's a person who has a history of fabricating rape claims and may even have been a hotel prostitute [and let's cut the sheet: that does damage her credibility]. We are dishonest with ourselves if we say 'maybe she's a fraud and he did it anyway'. I mean, if there is evidence that M. Strauss-Kahn raped the woman, independent of her own unreliable testimony, I am happy that it be reviewed. But if there is no evidence for such an interpretation, then he should be released and we should wish him good day, and make clear no aspersion should be drawn from his detainment.

***

7/19/11 update:

Okay...so the hooker reports appear also to be unreliable. My main point remains: If there is evidence of a crime, charge him. If there is no evidence of a crime, then close the books. The accuser's credibility has to be of considerable importance. We further note that our recent Jeff-Feckeish practice of taking stands on criminal prosecutions prior to their adjudication hasn't proved fruitful.

2011-06-23T21:17:00.000-07:00

If you're willing to serve as one of the volunteer readers, an RSVP-email would be much-appreciated--though not required:

gavin6@gmail.com

No--the event is not church-sponsored

2011-06-22T10:41:00.000-07:00

2011-06-16T07:53:00.001-07:00

Rutgers Law School confirms Zerlina Maxwell is a student in the class of 2013. Her claim to have matriculated in 2008 and to have taken only one short break along the way remains unexplained--and prompted my curiosity.

Zerlina Maxwell links

2011-06-14T17:39:00.000-07:00

http://facebook.com/ZerlinaM

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/zerlina-maxwell/11/b7b/945

http://twitter.com/#!/zerlinamaxwell

http://www.netrootsnation.org/node/1710

http://www.netrootsnation.org/speakers?uid=18069

http://www.salon.com/life/broadsheet/2010/07/16/domestic_violence

http://theloop21.com/users/zerlina-l-maxwell

[main blogpost]

Big Deal on Madonna Street - "I soliti ignoti" - 1958

2011-06-14T14:59:00.000-07:00

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Deal_on_Madonna_Street

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052216/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhTR_Ng2DKg

2011-06-13T21:29:00.000-07:00

used not in the phony, Jeff Feckian sense--but seriously

2011-06-08T12:36:00.000-07:00

In late April 2011, Kelly Pieklo commented on my blog.

I responded briefly here and more lengthily here.

Several Documents

2011-06-08T10:33:00.000-07:00

1. Jeff Fecke's Open Letter to Gavin Sullivan

2. My response to Fecke's Open Letter

2011-06-07T21:29:00.001-07:00

with one conceivable exception, later noted

2011-06-01T11:03:00.001-07:00

It Was Frightening

2011-05-20T21:40:00.001-07:00

eclipsing Hegemommy's--briefly--in its mindless fanaticism

irrelevantly--

2011-05-20T21:06:00.000-07:00

and somewhat funnily--I rarely see Wikipedia this bad:

Helen and Sam did the best they could do to promote a sense of togetherness in the family, and they made sure their children to had a chance to participate in the some sorts of things as they did as kids

My Encounter With YCRBYCH

2011-05-20T21:01:00.000-07:00

YCRBYCH, a set on Flickr.

Jeff Fecke on the Web

2011-05-06T23:03:00.000-07:00

http://twitter.com/#!/jkfecke

http://moderateleft.com/

http://fecke.tumblr.com/

2011-05-06T00:53:00.001-07:00

Dear Elizabeth:

In October 1984 I harmed you. I can scarcely begin to understand the degree to which, in your eyes, my behaviour has affected you in its wake. Still, I stand prepared to hear from you about just how, and in what ways you've been affected; and to begin to set right the wrong I've done, in any way you see fit. Most sincerely yours, Will Beebe

2011-05-06T00:48:00.000-07:00

In this post I will assume the reader has read Dear Rapist… in full.

2011-04-29T09:39:00.000-07:00

Perhaps one of the reasons the White House only now did the reveal on the president’s birth certificate was to allow enough time for these people to more deeply invest in this idiotic talking point.

2011-04-28T20:35:00.000-07:00

We--Fecke and Pieklo's readers--have to pretend it's nothing but a coincidence that their moral assessments operate in lockstep with their political priorities. You're not allowed to say that's weird.

The Pieklo-Fecke ur-value

2011-04-28T20:33:00.000-07:00

"Others are required to take our moralistic and character judgements at face value."

2011-04-22T13:20:00.001-07:00

http://www.swmetroteaparty.com/

2011-04-18T21:53:00.001-07:00

As I mind-read the crowd, I think a portion here might claim the group to be non-religious--but one cannot seriously assert this: I've heard two impassioned Jesus-Christ peons in a row--with apparent 100% participation. If you want your group to be credibly non-religious, you would need to send an open message to meeting participants: We will not engage in group prayer specific to any one religion, from this moment forward.

2011-04-11T08:16:00.001-07:00

Rep. Jenifer Loon, similarly, often addresses the public as families--a formulation against which citizens would, in a more perfect union, push back [as the 'unwitting' quality of its dissing-the-unfamilyed looks nakedly insincere].

2011-04-09T01:39:00.000-07:00

Jeff Fecke's post--cached here, said:

Crazy Cold Way Down There

By Jeff Fecke | March 31, 2011

I don’t even know what to say about this. I’m going to have to write something. But the level of evil here is breathtaking:

On December 23, 2010, [Bei Bei] Shuai, a 34-year-old pregnant woman who was suffering from a major depressive disorder, attempted to take her own life. Friends found her in time and persuaded her to get help. Six days later, Shuai underwent cesarean surgery and delivered a premature newborn girl who, tragically, died four days later.

On March 14, 2011, Shuai was arrested, jailed, and charged with murder and attempted feticide. Had Shuai, who is being represented by National Advocates for Pregnant Women and local attorneys, not been pregnant when she attempted suicide, she would not have been charged with any crime at all.

As someone who’s suffered depression and attempted suicide, I can tell you that this is as profoundly evil as anything I can imagine.

I’m gonna go eat, and cry about where this country is heading these days. For your listening enjoyment, the incomparable Laura Nyro.

Prof. Jessica Pieklo on the web

2011-04-08T10:29:00.000-07:00

http://twitter.com/Hegemommy

http://www.hegemommy.com/

http://www.care2.com/causes/author/jessmasonp/

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/womenontheverge

http://womenontheverge.net/m/news/view/-Member-Spotlight-hegemommy-

http://law.hamline.edu/Newssummary.aspx?id=1536&terms=pieklo

2011-04-08T10:14:00.000-07:00

Prof. Pieklo has acknowledged suffering from depression--the same psychiatric malady, she has said, which took her mother's life.

See:

http://twitter.com/Hegemommy/status/55069859855351808

Here is a screenshot of Prof. Pieklo's deleted tweet:

Here is Prof. Pieklo's tweet in text form:

Hegemommy: MT @completelydark: Standing w/ @johnmoe on depression. It took my Mom & it came standard w/my brain kit too// same here

2011-04-07T22:26:00.001-07:00

upon her words

munchkin

2011-04-07T21:25:00.000-07:00

even one of ultra-humble munchkinhood

2011-03-31T21:59:00.000-07:00

protecting that individual's identity--I select a gendered pronoun at random

2011-03-30T22:47:00.000-07:00

to hop onto the rhetorical bandwagon

2011-03-30T22:27:00.002-07:00

2011-03-30T22:27:00.001-07:00

2011-03-30T21:34:00.001-07:00

My idiosyncratic sampling of the local hyperpartisan leftosphere...

Jessica Pieklo and here
http://twitter.com/hegemommy/

Jeff Fecke
http://twitter.com/jkfecke/

Robin Marty
http://twitter.com/robinmarty/

Jeff Rosenberg
http://twitter.com/jeffrosenberg/

2011-03-30T20:41:00.000-07:00

for public employees, in the present context

2011-03-24T23:47:00.000-07:00

your cunning linguist ironically blends meanings 2a and 2b.

2011-03-17T23:07:00.000-07:00

put another way, Christians traditionally have loved Jesus in part because He relieved them of the guilt they would otherwise bear. In contemplating their debt to Christ, Christians have traditionally pondered their utter abjection in His hypothetical absence--so to speak.

2011-03-17T23:01:00.000-07:00

and I'm a Mass-attending Catholic atheist, as I think y'all are aware

2011-02-22T23:22:00.000-08:00

I share the Megan McArdle-Will Wilkinson skepticism, on the public employee unions.

2011-02-06T22:01:00.000-08:00

"I can tell you that Gavin’s actions toward Jessica should make him a pariah"

2011-02-06T20:45:00.001-08:00

I have never once in my life stalked anyone--and am incensed by Fecke's oafish indolence, in lobbing his various ungentlemanly, moronic charges.

2011-02-06T20:25:00.000-08:00

In his astoundingly stupid attack piece, Fecke says I 'published' Prof. Pieklo's course syllabus.

This is inaccurate: Prof. Pieklo--or Hamline--published it.

I make no apology for referring readers to relevant, on-point publicly-available information--and consider it absurd for Fecke to seek to stigmatize the discussion of publicly-available information.

In my blogpost I was asking Fecke to contact Prof. Pieklo--to condemn her for her irresponsible charge. The only reason I linked to Prof. Pieklo's syllabus was to provide Fecke with Pieklo's contact email address.

Fecke claims to see my inner motivation for linking to Pieklo's publication: To force her into a conversation with me against her will. (Huh?)

Prof. Pieklo has directed strong accusations against me: It is true that I believe people lobbing strong charges should defend them, that much is true, though I can't see how linking to her syllabus would matter--or constitute 'putting pressure' on Pieklo.

For clarity, my paragraphs above respond to Fecke's statement here:

But when you start publishing Jessica’s course syllabus online in an effort to force her into a conversation that you want to have — and that she has made clear that she doesn’t — you’re crossing the line from troll to stalker. That is, yes, misogynist, dear Gavin. (If you can’t understand why pointing out the employer of a woman is not just misogynist, but McCarthyite, my point is proven more.) And it makes you someone I have absolutely, positively no interest in ever hearing from or dealing with again.

2011-02-06T20:18:00.000-08:00

In other words, Fecke clearly knows zilch about his blogpost's subject. (To put forth one example: Few right-wing blogs supported John Marty for Governor--and then supported Margaret Anderson Kelliher in the primary!)

2011-02-06T20:13:00.000-08:00

I'm not complaining of being ignored, of course--I'm complaining about her evidence-free suggestion that my criticism of her public statements constitutes misogyny.

2011-02-06T20:06:00.000-08:00

Hamline Law syllabi are published here--and, as Jeff Fecke should have been aware--not published by me.

(When I publish stuff the URL isn't going to be law.hamline.edu!)

Fecke stupidly implies that calling attention to Pieklo's publications constitutes abuse. Pshaw!

2011-02-03T22:50:00.000-08:00

in this instance, meaning Jeff Rosenberg

2011-02-03T14:46:00.000-08:00

Better here

2011-02-03T00:02:00.000-08:00

i.e. illegitimate participants within the marketplace of ideas, people whose chirping needn't be acknowledged

2011-02-02T23:00:00.001-08:00

Which is simply to acknowledge, of other participants, that their community involvement is welcome and that they are not viewed as morally substandard.

No admiration is required. Note also that this principle--making our 'default setting' to acknowledge the good citizenship of our neighbors--has an entirely respectable pedigree and isn't in fact weird, as Pieklo, Fecke and Rosenberg all implicitly assert.

2011-02-02T22:49:00.001-08:00

finding a person or an idea which doesn't meet your criteria and then bashing them for it

2011-02-02T22:46:00.000-08:00

and hence, I have argued that Jeff Fecke and Jessica Pieklo garner more community esteem than they should

2011-02-01T21:07:00.000-08:00

2011-01-24T23:23:00.001-08:00

munchkin-level

[speaking of myself, at least]

2011-01-23T21:11:00.001-08:00

perhaps not coincidentally--on the same Care2 website where local feminists Prof. Pieklo and Robin Marty appear

2011-01-23T21:03:00.000-08:00

until I'm finished with this first point, that is

2011-01-23T20:17:00.001-08:00

Pieklo has made the assertion repeatedly--here and here, for example.

I have responded by returning Pieklo's charge of dishonor--though unlike the Hamline professor, I feel obligated to present my case to a candid suburb--that's why I've stated my criticisms of her plainly, for all to review. At no point could I ask the public to accept my accusation sight-unseen--in Prof. Pieklo's preferred manner.

2011-01-23T20:04:00.001-08:00

or 'two dozen assertions'--size matters not

Jared Loughner's posting, quoted:

2011-01-23T19:03:00.000-08:00

Why Rape?

…there are Rape victims that are under the influence of a substance. The drinking is leading them to rape. The loneliness will bring you to depression. Being alone for a very long time will inevitably lead you to rape.

[source]

2011-01-22T02:34:00.002-08:00

within his own blog's comments section

2011-01-22T02:34:00.001-08:00

within his own blog's comments section

2011-01-22T01:16:00.000-08:00

I'm happy to clarify, should anything here be confusing or insufficiently argued, assuming you've read my previous Pieklo-related posts.

Feel free to email. If not-for-publication, please put NFP in the subject line and I will respect it, whether from friend or foe.

2011-01-22T00:54:00.000-08:00

Should any person emerge willing to take Prof. Pieklo's side--in epistolary dialogue--I will happily accept.

2011-01-21T17:14:00.000-08:00

cleaned up a bit here--see Phoenix Woman for earlier, messier edit

Caveat: I have since learned that the Mercury Rising blog suffers from execrable ethics--and will rewrite reader comments so as to deceive readers and defame forum participants. Comments appearing under my name, at Mercury Rising, may not be of my authorship.

2011-01-20T08:21:00.000-08:00

Learn more at facebook - Search for

women on the verge

She has an introductory video on her group's main page, there.

2011-01-20T07:24:00.000-08:00

See http://womenontheverge.net/blogs/entry/Done-Being-Quiet

If she edited it, alas--I guess I failed to get a screen-capture. In any case: What would happen if a male Hamline professor participated in a tiny online political community in which his closest associate gaily suggested genital mutilation--as punishment to polite critics? That professor would be unemployed within 24 hours. Prof. Pieklo does same--and receives not a peep of criticism. I object.

2011-01-20T00:29:00.001-08:00

2011-01-19T23:27:00.000-08:00

as Pieklo has been saying--with obvious reference to me--on Twitter, on her blogs and on her 'national' radio program

2011-01-19T23:09:00.000-08:00

despite self-delusion's frequent temptations, toward which one also seeks dynamic confrontation

2011-01-19T22:06:00.000-08:00

Women on the Verge Radio Program

2011-01-19T21:43:00.000-08:00

This is today's episode [scroll to 20:43 for Prof. Pieklo's pity party] of what is billed a national [internet] radio program.

Prof. Jessica Pieklo appears on the program, apparently, as a regular panelist, within the attempted more-feminist-than-The View format.

This is the shows main website.

2011-01-15T19:39:00.000-08:00

oops - his head was already shaved at the time of the outrage

2011-01-13T14:29:00.001-08:00

Loughner does not appear to have had any coherent partisan motivation, though it seems plausibly non-coincidental that the event occurred in Arizona, the nation's most gun-crazed state.

While his ideology appears incoherent, Sarah Palin certainly used the wrong word in calling him apolitical. (One can have unhinged views which are nonetheless political, i.e.) It appears to me, Walter, that your posting on this topic might be accomplished with greater brevity--and quite non-controversially: "Tea Partiers don't deserve blame for the shooting." (In this we agree.)

Sarah Palin has put forward the formulation that--to paraphrase--'the criminal alone is responsible', and no one else should be called out. Like you, I reject blaming anyone baselessly--though I'm a bit hesitant to categorically rule out, say, Arizona's fanatical gun culture, as having played some role. Let me put the question another way--so that you can help dispel my confusion:

What if a politically-active liberal Democrat committed a similar act, and the victim was a conservative Republican? Would you actually respond by saying 'Democrats--and the Dem Party--should be held blameless in the crime?'

Affiliational groups, whether voluntary or involuntary, are funny things. Most of us accept it as reasonable that the dishonorable conduct of our family members somehow reflects upon our own reputation--and their successes seem to justifiably elevate our own status.

Other affiliational groupings also have this same oddity--which has the socially-beneficial effect of making us all intensely concerned with the thoughts and behaviors of our teammates.

2011-01-11T07:01:00.000-08:00

among Catholics, during homilies

2011-01-10T23:16:00.001-08:00

among American Catholics

2011-01-09T00:02:00.000-08:00

and on a bad day i might ask you to tell the story as lengthily as possible

2011-01-08T23:59:00.001-08:00

To be both redundant and to say the same thing twice.

2011-01-08T23:57:00.000-08:00

well, that is a bit sanctimonious, I will now admit

2011-01-08T23:45:00.001-08:00

alleged

2011-01-08T23:43:00.001-08:00

yes--of course I am asserting a personal conjecture

2011-01-08T23:15:00.001-08:00

to sketch a political cartoon with words

2011-01-08T22:57:00.000-08:00

a reasonable person might surmise from reports

2011-01-06T21:02:00.000-08:00

the moderate-progressive, thus far victorious faction--supporters of Superintendent Melissa Krull

2011-01-05T00:08:00.000-08:00

that came to a head with the school board's decision to adopt a wide-ranging educational restructuring

2011-01-03T22:11:00.000-08:00

ranked spiritually

Eden Prairie School Board Accountability

2011-01-03T22:02:00.000-08:00

You can find it, gentle reader:

The Facebook group is:

Eden Prairie School Board Accountability

2011-01-01T23:55:00.000-08:00

a label selected solely for its predicted ability to amuse Sheila Kihne

2010-12-23T00:48:00.001-08:00

to use a humorously loaded label

2010-12-22T23:39:00.000-08:00

a rarity here, though--in my defense--without any of the obfuscation which normally accompanies dogmatism

2010-12-22T23:31:00.000-08:00

not a quotation, just my characterization of her statement

American Hot Wax

2010-12-22T23:22:00.000-08:00

For people interested in being confronted with an intelligent right-wing perspective on race--which implicitly provides most of the scholarly and ideological muscle needed to put forward a non-racist, public-spirited argument in opposition to desegregation efforts--I offer Amy Wax' short, fascinating Race, Wrongs, and Remedies.

Wax' two appearances on Bloggingheads also [both] merit your hour:

opposite Brown University economist Glenn Loury

opposite The American Prospect's Adam Serwer

DVD

2010-12-16T11:42:00.000-08:00

12 Angry Men - Lumet - 1957
8½ - Fellini -
Across the Universe - 1+2
Afterlife - Koreeda - 1998
Agent Cody Banks
All Quiet on the Western Front -
Amarcord - Fellini
As You Like It - BBC - 1978
au hasard Balthazar - Bresson - 1966
Bad Day at Black Rock -
BAD live - E=MC²
Bangkok Girl -
Black Narcissus -
Blow Up - Antonioni - 1966
Bottle Rocket - 1+2 - Anderson
Branded to Kill - 1967
Bread and Tulips -
Brick -
Brief Encounter - Lean - 1945
Brother Ali -
Brother Minister The Assassination of Malcolm X
Bye Bye Birdie
Cars
Chuck Close
Citizen Kane - 1+2 - Welles - 1941
Closely Watched Trains - Jirí Menzez - 1966
Cries and Whispers -
Cries and Whispers - Bergman -
Danton - 1+2 - Wajda - 1983
Dead Boys - Live at CBGB - 1977
Diary of a Chambermaid - Buñuel - 1964
Diary of a Country Priest - Bresson - 1951
Dirty Projectors - Rise Above [Audio CD]
Doggystyle - Snoop - audio cd
Doubt - Shanley - 2008
Dr. Mabuse - 1+2 - Lang - 1933
Dr. Zhivago - 1+2+3 -
Dragonball Evolution
Duck Soup -
Elvis Costello - [live concert]
F for Fake - 1+2 - Welles - 1972
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off - Hughes - 1986
Fiddler on the Roof - Jewison - 1971
Film Noir Classic Collection - Vol 5
Foreign Correspondent - Hitchcock - 1940
From Here to Eternity - Zinneman - 1953
Going My Way + Holiday Inn
Good Morning - Ohayo - Ozu - 1959
Grand Illusion - Renoir - 1937
Hamlet - Olivier
Happiness -
Hard Day’s Night - The Beatles
Hard Days Night - 1+2
Harlan County USA - Kopple - 1976
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Askaban
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Heart of Gold - 1+2 - Demme - Neil Young
Heavy Petting - 1+2+3 -
Henry V - BBC - 1979
Henry V - Branagh - 1989
Henry V - Olivier - 1944
High Fidelity
Hobson’s Choice -
Hold Steady - [rockumentary] -
Hoop Dreams - James - 1994
Hotel for Dogs
House of Games -
How Green Was My Valley - Llewellyn - 1941
How the West was Won - Ford - 1962
I Love Your Work -
I Was Born, But... - Ozu - 1932
Igor
Iraq in Fragments -
Jacques Brel - AUDIO
James Brown - audio - In a Jungle Groove
Jeanne Dielman - 1+2 - Akerman - 1976
Jetsons - 1:4
Jetsons - 1:4 - [dupe?]
Jules et Jim - 1+2 -
Julie & Julia -
Juliet of the Spirits -
Kagemusha - 1+2 -
King Lear - Welles - 1953 - CBS TV
Kobayashi - 1+2+3+4 -
L’amour l’après-midi - Rohmer - 1972
L’avventura - 1+2 - Antonioni -
L’eclisse - 1+2 - Antonioni -
La boulangère de Monceau - Rohmer - 1963
La Guerre est Fine - 1966
La prise de pouvoir par Louis XIV - Rossellini - 1966
Le genou de Claire - Rohmer - 1970
Le million -
Les triplettes de Belleville - Chomet - 2003
Lightnin’ Hopkins -
Love’s Labour’s Lost - BBC -
M - 1+2 - Lang - 1931
Macbeth - RSC - 1979
Macbeth - Shakespeare for Kids
Mad Men - 2:3
Mama Roma - 1+2 - Pasolini - 1962
Mary Poppins - 1+2 -
Max Rules - Adventures of a Super Spy
MDWA - 1+2 - P
Measure for Measure -
Merv Griffin - 1G Hollywood Legends - interviews
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Midnight Cowboy - 1+2 -
Minute Men -
Mishima - 1+2 - A Life in 4 Chapters - Schrader - 1985
Mouchette - Bresson - 1967
Mrs. Miniver - Wyler - 1942
My Architect - Kahn - 2003
My Dinner With Andre - 1+2 -
My Fair Lady - 1+2 -
Myra Breckinridge
Naked Kiss -
Nights of Cabiria - Fellini - 1957
North By Northwest - 1+2 - Hitchcock -
Notorious - Hitchcock
Othello - Olivier - 1965
Paris Je T’Aime -
Passing Fancy - Ozu - 1933
Patti Smith - Dreams of Life - Sebring - 2008
Persepolis -
Pete Seeger - audio - games/activ’s for kids
Peter Pan -
Pickpocket - Bresson - 1959
Pigs and Battleships - Imamura - 1961
Pirates of the Caribbean - Dead Man’s Chest
Pitfall - Teshigahara - 1962
Placido Domingo - My Greatest Roles
Pokemon - Advanced Battle Vol 9
Pokemon - Absol-ute Disaster
Pokemon - Adv Battle - The Scuffle of Legends
Pokemon - Eight Ain’t Enough
Ponyo
Portrait of Jennie - William Dieterle - 1948
Race to Witch Mountain
Raisin Arizona - Coen Brothers - 1987
Rear Window - 1+2 - Hitchcock - 1954
Rebecca - 1+2 - Hitchcock
Red Desert -
Rembrandt - Korda - 1936
Richard III - 1+2
Richard III - BBC version
Rushmore - Anderson - 1998
Samurai - Miyamoto - 1954
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors - 1+2 - Parajanov - 1964
Simpsons - 1:2
Spartacus - 1+2 - Kubrick - 1960
Spellbound - Hitchcock - 1945
Summertime - Lean - 1955
Sunset Boulevard - 1+2 - Wilder - 1950 [1st disk remains blank--and ready to be recorded upon]
Supplements to 3 films by - Teshigahara - Criterion
Suspicion - Hitchcock - 1941
That Hamilton Woman - Korda - 1941
That Hamilton Woman - Korda - 1941
The 400 Blows -
The Agronomist - Demme - 2003
The Apartment - Wilder - 1960
The Bad Sleep Well -
The Birds - Hitchcock - 1963
The Boondock Saints -
The Clash - Westway to the World - Letts - 2001
The Color of Pomegranates - Paradjanov - 1968
The Face of Another - Teshigahara - 1966
The Friends of Eddie Coyle - Yates - 1973
The Furies - Mann -
The Gospel According to St. Matthew - Pasolini - 1964
The Graduate - [2 copies?]
The Graduate - 1+2 -
The Great McGinty - Sturges - 1940
The Handmaid’s Tale -
The Hidden Fortress -
The Hit - Frears - 1985
The Human Condition - 1+2 - Kobayashi - 1959
The Juliet Letters - Brodsky Quartet - 1992
The Lady Eve - Sturges - 1941
The Lady Vanishes - 1+2 - Hitchcock -
The Last Picture Show - Bogdanovich - 1971
The Life Aquatic- 1+2 - Anderson -
The Lost Weekend - Wilder - 1945
The Magic Flute - Bergman - 1975
The Office - 2:1
The Office - 2:3
The Office [UK] - 1:1
The Passenger - Antonioni - 1975
The Private Life of Henry VIII - Korda - 1933
The Red Shoes - Powell & Pressburger - 1948
The Royal Tenenbaums - 1+2 - Anderson
The Science of Sleep -
The Sound of Music - Wise - 1965
The Thief of Bagdad - 1+2 - 1940
The Third Man - Reed - 1949
The Winter’s Tale -
The Winter’s Tale - BBC -
This Gun for Hire - Tuttle - 1942
To Catch A Thief - 1+2 - Hitchcock - 1955
Tokyo Drifter - 1966
Tosca - de Bosio - 1976
Touch of Evil - 1+2 - Welles - 1958
Touch of Evil - 1+2 - Welles -
Un chien andalou - Bunuel - 1929
Underdog Vol 1
Variety Lights - Fellini - 1950
Vertigo - Hitchcock - 1+2 -
War Games
Welcome to the Dollhouse
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane - Aldrich - 1962
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? - 1+2 -
Where the Wild Things Are
White Heat - Raoul Walsh - 1949
Who are the Debolts? - Korty - 1977
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Nichols - 1966
Written on the Wind -
Year One
Yi Yi
Yojimbo -
You Can’t Take It With You -
Yu-Gi-Oh! -
Žižek! - Taylor - 2005

Dear Gavin,

2010-12-09T18:59:00.000-08:00

Our e-mail system crashed for several days from Thursday through Sunday, and I just got your first e-mail last night.

I do monitor comments and don’t publish all of them. It’s my own personal blog, and I figure I’m not running a newspaper. It’s a spot for my homilies, or just sharing things like whats on my mind, as is any blog.

I would just take a little issue with your blog post though. This congregation is anything but spineless. The congregation doesn’t hire and fire clergy; clergy like me are sent to the parish and can be pulled at the discretion of the Archbishop. We can apply to be sent to a parish, and then the Archbishop may send us to that parish, and we can ask for a transfer but must leave after 12 years in a church and go to another church. In Fr. Mike’s case, he voluntarily resigned, and was not fired. He also still is a priest. I haven’t heard from him in quite a while, but let him know he’s got my prayers and support and whenever he feels like contacting me I’m sure he will. Hopefully he’s working through some issues and I know the Archdiocese is giving him support as well, and he’ll remerge in another role to serve our universal Church and Archdiocese.

You also need to take into consideration our job as a priest is different than other jobs; we are more public people. Fr. Mike committed a misdemeanor crime, and I think cops need to patrol areas and set up stings to keep parks safe. Actions have consequences; remember the senator at the airport who got caught in a similar situation quickly lost his position and was shoved out by the party. It should be illegal for anyone to engage in inappropriate behavior in a public place; there are kids and others around who enjoy the park, and I’m glad they set up stings to check this out. I used to jog in that area a lot. I’m pretty sure he simply went before a judge and got a fine, but I’m not sure. He could not very well come back and work in a church environment when that is in the press, so his leaving I think was prudent. No one here pressured him at all; in fact he’s gotten numerous cards and letters which have been sent on to him, and people aren’t spineless at all, but just sad and trying to move forward and also sad for him but hopeful that he gets the help he needs to move forward as a priest and as a man. He helped me quite a bit, and was supportive of my work and I do wish him the best and keep him in my prayers. I think the Archbishop and Archdiocese handled it very well; they were out here that weekend, the staff was there for the people, and the Archdiocese also had someone here to talk to the older school kids and I did that as well. Like I said, I think they are moving on and healing, and the Archdiocese is helping Fr. Mike.

Again, I don’t publish all comments because it’s my own private blog, and you can do the same thing on your blog if you so desire. So I wouldn’t approve yours because then someone would easily find your blog and probably be hurt by seeing their parish described as “spineless,” so I think you can understand. You’re entitled to your opinion as is everyone else, but my blog is for my opinions, not an open forum.

Have a great weekend and thanks for the e-mail,

Fr. Paul