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The Interrupters

by Pier Marton | Feb 13, 2012 | Afri, Care, Death, Film, Health, Human Rights, Native, Politics, Racism, Sci/Nat, STL, Wars, Women

To Javon Thompson A Promising Student of mine (at Carnegie Mellon) – shot and killed at age 18 – THE INTERRUPTERS played on Frontline (PBS) Tuesday February 13 This interview on Fresh Air (NPR) with its director, Steve James (of “Hoop Dreams” fame) and the great...

The Brain Bleed Blog Grand Opening!

by Pier Marton | Feb 11, 2012 | Care, Death, Ego, Health, Ideas, Jewish, Juif, Sci/Nat

Information overflow in one major direction: what happens when everything implodes… I am in good company: not only my father, the photographer-artist Ervin Marton, but Joseph Kessel, Jean-Pierre Melville, and Nusch Éluard, all French Resistance fighters – but they did...

EVERYTHING depends on YOU…

by Pier Marton | Feb 10, 2012 | Asia, Books, Care, Death, Ego, France, Health, Hispanic, Human Rights, Humor, Ideas, Mystery, Poet, Racism, Software, Spectacle, Teach

… the good and the bad. You are in charge, even if you are dying. To be remembered till the end… – Samuel Beckett ” Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” “I can’t go on, I will go on.” – Don Miguel “Don’t Take Anything Personally....

My Reincarnation – The Film

by Pier Marton | Feb 9, 2012 | Asia, Care, Death, Eco, Health, Humor, Ideas, Mystery, Native, Now, Time, Travel, Women

(was at) Webster University Film Series My review: Neo-realism from Italy? No, but overflowing with what is “real” for Tibetan exiles – across time and space. “I am not afraid of dying, I am afraid of living.” – Yeshi Silvano Namkhai Everybody would like to be...

Greti Herman does what she can…

by Pier Marton | Feb 8, 2012 | Antisemitism, Care, Death, Ego, History, Human Rights, Jewish, Judaism, Magyar, Middle-East, Native, Politics, Racism, Shoah, Time, Wars, Women

My friend Pini’s mother in the Los Angeles Jewish Journal: Greti was soon banned from school. Some nights, Nazis pounded on the family’s apartment door, forcing them outside, on hands and knees, with a bucket and brush… … Greti dashed across the street… A half-hour...

George Carlin: Clean Language

by Pier Marton | Feb 8, 2012 | Books, Care, Eco, Humor, Ideas, Media, Now, Poet, Politics, Spectacle, Teach, Text

From Brain Droppings by George Carlin The Status Quo Always Sucks Some Favorite Redundancies added bonus exactly right closed fist future potential inner core money-back refund seeing the sights true fact revert back safe haven prior history young children time period...

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To ride the unbalance* between:
1. excellence and a kind, singular and porous identity that contains some of the scruples, humor, humility, musicality & the beauty of a harsh and confusing, yet benign and rich reality – away from distractions.
2. the stupidity and blindness of complacency, violence, injustice, pretense, egos, short-term… wishful… and group “thinking,” and empty talk – in all of their surprising embodiments. And the false sense of fullness all of this provides.
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An appeal for a world NOT so caught up in anthropo/ego/euro/ethno/oculo/esthetico -CENTRISM.
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1. Beware of those who claim to be strong – they are often dangerous.
2. Unmask the hoax of “centrality” – ask an “EX-centric” for assistance?
3. Perceive the arrogance of normalcy: everybody, in one way or another, is handicapped… which brings us back to 1.
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*Not unrelated to “There is beauty and there are the humiliated. Whatever difficulties the enterprise may present, I should like never to be unfaithful either to the second or the first.” — Albert Camus