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Peer Pressure Makes False Memories

andrewjflores47 — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 17:16:49 +0000

In a study trial lawyers are sure to find of interest, Israeli scientist Micah Edelson has found that people’s recollections of recent events can be altered by peer pressure. Jen Quraishi in Mother Jones

An eruv & the 405

andrewjflores47 — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 17:13:07 +0000

An eruv is a ritual enclosure surrounding a neighborhood. It can be a fence, a wall, a piece of string — or a freeway. And it must be unbroken. Mitchell Landsberg in the Los Angeles Times

Politics over principle

andrewjflores47 — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 23:35:46 +0000

This is an obvious case of goverment overreaching. Is it surprising? I’m sure one could google Rep. Darrell Issa decrying federal government interference and advocating state rights and less government. What would that guy say if he weren’t in power? Does he realize how corrosively transparent his political motives appear when compared to his stated principles? I doubt he truly cares about anything more than power. I am no fan of Ms. Nichols. Yet I feel bad she is likely going to have to kowtow before Mr. Issa and his imperial prerogative.

The bin-man from New York who speaks Irish

andrewjflores47 — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 23:38:32 +0000

Perfecting His Irish on the Job – The jolly trash man was going about his route in the Rockaways, Queens, when he spied a woman in front of her house.

“Cé hé bhfuil tú?” he greeted her.

Naturally, the woman replied, “Tá mé go maith.”

“Ceart go leor,” the trash man shot back.

This exchange — roughly: “How are you?” “I’m fine.” “Ah, grand!” — was in Irish, the Gaelic language that survives only in parts of Ireland — and to a lesser extent, along the garbage route of Ed Shevlin, 51. The route winds through the Belle Harbor section of the Rockaways, where conversations were once commonly conducted “as Gaeilge.” COREY KILGANNON NY Times

Behind closed doors

andrewjflores47 — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 18:47:25 +0000

Yes, he chose to retire. It’s probably because he wasn’t going to get White House support in his re-election campaign. Rather than actually work hard, tirelessly campaign and fight for what he believes Rep. Dennis Cardoza, D-Merced is going to “retire”. Or in Washington-speak that means he’s going to be a D.C. lobbyist and make boat loads of money. What a tough break?! Something tells me he supported Hillary in 2008. So, there isn’t a place for him in the Obama White House or Administration…and also probably why the White House won’t support his re-election bid. It’s the way politics works. He knew that getting into this business. Good riddance…he makes himself seem very small and petty with these rants (if you can read between the lines or see behind closed doors with your mind’s eye).

Merced Democrat Cardoza to retire from House — The newly announced retirement of Rep. Dennis Cardoza, D-Merced, culminates a decades-long San Joaquin Valley political career and eliminates a potential primary battle with his longtime friend, Rep. Jim Costa, D-Fresno, in a newly redrawn congressional district. Michael Doyle in the Fresno Bee Richard Simon in the Los Angeles Times — 10/21/11

California Dem rips White House ‘inaction’ — Dennis Cardoza didn’t simply announce his retirement. The California Democratic congressman went out with guns blazing Thursday, torching the Obama administration as he revealed he would not run for reelection in 2012. ALEX ISENSTADT Politico — 10/21/11

Thanks Rough & Tumble for bringing this to my attention!

Six-figure salaries, and homeless…really?

andrewjflores47 — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 18:25:50 +0000

Six-figure salaries, but homeless – I’m glad these workers found jobs. It’s certainly a strange plight. However, if they didn’t find themselves in such a precarious situation I don’t think the reporter or Jarvis Green would give a damn about them. I also wouldn’t have known they ever existed. – Blake Ellis CNN Money

Reading, writing and recitation

andrewjflores47 — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 18:17:05 +0000

Elliott Gould on Groucho Marx, Ingmar Bergman and acting – An only child growing up in Brooklyn, Gould said he was “very withdrawn and shy and inhibited and repressed.” So at age 9 his parents brought him to a “song and dance school” to help him. “There were others like me, and I felt, well, in terms of communicating, if I memorized a routine maybe I could be able to communicate through routines.” -
Susan King, 24 Frames LA Times blog
I saw the blog post title and thought I wonder what Elliot Gould might share. The italicized line above resonated with me. Which part? I’m not an only child. I’m the oldest (of two). I didn’t grow up in Brooklyn. Although, that would have been cool (and I’d be a hipster by default). I grew up in West Covina. It was a safe place to grow up which was great don’t get me wrong…yet I always feel embarrassed sharing it. It’s as dull and uninspiring as a slab of concrete.
The part that did resonate was the part about being very withdrawn, shy, inhibited and repressed. I found inspiration from his solution. I know what you might be thinking…oh no, another aspiring actor (they are certainly the bane of Los Angeles). Rather I feel inspired to do more reading. Perhaps even re-read a book or play or two (which I never do) in order to find passages that might help me speak my mind. I will probably put them in writing (somewhere here) before I decide to memorize anything for recitation.

Pacific Standard Time

andrewjflores47 — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 23:00:29 +0000

Los Angeles Stakes Its Claim as a World Art Center – Adam Nagourney, NY Times

I’d like to visit and explore -

Autry National Center
Art Along the Hyphen: The Mexican-American Generation

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Artistic Evolution: Southern California Artists at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 1945-1963

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
Asco: Elite of the Obscure, A Retrospective, 1972-1987

Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University
California Art: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
California Design, 1930-1965: “Living in a Modern Way”

Cultural Happenings
Cultural Happenings

Japanese American National Museum
Drawing the Line: Japanese American Art, Design, and Activism in Post-War Los Angeles

A+D Architecture and Design Museum
Eames Designs: The Guest-Host Relationship

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
Edward Kienholz: Five Car Stud 1969 – 1972, Revisited

Craft and Folk Art Museum (CAFAM)
Golden State of Craft: California 1960-1985

Getty Research Institute
Greetings from L.A.: Artists and Publics 1945-1980

Fowler Museum at UCLA
Icons of the Invisible: Oscar Castillo

Sam and Alfreda Maloof Foundation for Arts and Crafts
In Words and Wood: Sam Maloof, Bob Stocksdale and Ed Moulthrop

Eames House Foundation
Indoor Ecologies: The Evolution of the Eames House Living Room

Pomona College Museum of Art
It Happened at Pomona: Art at the Edge of Los Angeles, 1969-1973, Part 1: Hal Glicksman at Pomona

UCLA Film & Television Archive
L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema

Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE)
Los Angeles Goes Live: Performance Art in Southern California 1970-1983

Fowler Museum at UCLA
Mapping Another L.A.: The Chicano Art Movement

Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA)
MEX/LA: “Mexican” Modernism(s) in Los Angeles, 1930-1985

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
Mural Remix: Sandra de la Loza

Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles
Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960-1980

J. Paul Getty Museum
Pacific Standard Time: Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting and Sculpture, 1950-1970

University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach
Peace Press Graphics 1967-1987: Art in the Pursuit of Social Change

Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
Phenomenal: California Light, Space, Surface

California African American Museum (CAAM)
Places of Validation, Art, and Progression

Norton Simon Museum
Proof: The Rise of Printmaking in Southern California

Mingei International Museum
San Diego’s Craft Revolution-From Post-War Modern to California Design

California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside
Seismic Shift: Lewis Baltz, Joe Deal and California Landscape Photography, 1944-1984

Crossroads School, Sam Francis Gallery
She Accepts the Proposition: Women Gallerists and the Redefinition of Art in Los Angeles, 1967-1978

Lions and Tigers and Bears…

andrewjflores47 — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 20:45:02 +0000

OH MY! This story seems so unbelievable. What I wouldn’t give to see video of the chaos that must have ensued…This is a made for tv movie. Or it could be a video game (first person shooter, of course). Imagine you are the sheriff (and the only law enforcement officer) of a small town with an animal preserve. The game starts with a message that all the animals have been set free. It is your job to hunt them.
What an opportunity to experience big game hunting?! You don’t even have to go on safari…
As I read the report I also cringed a bit. (I cringed more when I looked at these photos.) I understand animal rights groups decrying the death of so many creatures. However, from a public safety perspective what else is there to do. It seems to take hours just to locate, capture and then relocate a black bear or mountain lion here in southern California! There were more than 20 large dangerous animals wandering around Zanesville.
I wonder what happens to the preserve now that it’s empty. Will it disappear into civic history and folk lore? Or will someone decide to start it up again?
I am having a difficult time getting the image of deputies with assault rifles roaming around in the back of pick-up trucks hunting big game. It’s both exhilirating and disturbing.
Perhaps this was all a disaster just waiting to happen…

5%

andrewjflores47 — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 18:45:53 +0000

ordinary matter — the stuff of the periodic table, including interesting assemblies of matter like galaxies, stars, planets and people — is a paltry 5 percent. – By ROBERT P. KIRSHNER, NY Times