September 18, 2011
Well, I get up this morning, flip to the Op-Ed page of the New York Times and, *##*!!!, Maureen Dowd mentions the plot of The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance in “Eggheads and Blockheads?,” her discussion of the Republican Party’s embrace of stupidity, in the persons of Texas Governor Rick Perry, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, et [...]
Posted in art, film, General | Tagged Barak Obama, film, James Stewart, John Ford, John Wayne, Maureen Dowd, Montgomery Clift, Red River, Stagecoach, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Westerns
![World Trade Center, view south from teh corner of Lispenard and Chruch STreet, September 11, 2001, 9:01 (EDT) [approximate time based on chronologies of the day]](http://ayearofpositivethinking.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Schor-WTC-1-150x150.jpg)
September 10, 2011
I have often wondered how many people in the metropolitan area saw some part of the events of September 11 in New York City with their own eyes, from streets and buildings in Manhattan, from Brooklyn, from New Jersey. Was it a million of us? Was it more? I have never seen speculation on the [...]
Posted in art, General | Tagged Jerry Bruckheimer, September 11, The Tribute in Light, The World Trade Center
April 24, 2011
Hello. A Year of Positive Thinking has been on hiatus since late February while I moved out of the loft where I lived and worked for 33 years into the apartment where I grew up. All moves are overwhelming endeavors and often fraught. The circumstances of this move had particularly infuriating aspects contributing to a [...]
Posted in art, General | Tagged Ilya Schor, Naomi Schor, Resia Schor
February 26, 2011
When I was ending my work on A Decade of Negative Thinking by rewriting its introduction, President Obama had just been elected and for a selfish moment I actually worried that if the situation in the country improved as much as we all hoped that it would, the book I had literally spent a decade [...]
Posted in General | Tagged ACT-UAW, feminism, Planned Parenthood, Rep. Anthony Weiner, Rep. Charles Rangel, Rep. Jerry Nadler, Union activism, Wisconsin protests
January 22, 2011
The firing–whatever you want to call it — of Keith Olbermann–matters. Many people find/found him abrasive, he was/is often self-important and pompous, sure, he has a big personality, he’s loud, though with a kind of self-aware panache, a flip side that suggested that something like real (as opposed to luridly fake, cf. Glenn Beck) humility [...]
Posted in art, General | Tagged Al Franken, Amy Goodman, Jon Stewart, Keith Obermann, Rachel Maddow, satire
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