An improvised short about a bickering couple on a holiday in the Caribbean; storied, shot, edited and directed by Simon Fraser; dialog and performance by Dave Pearce and Jennine Profeta; produced by Diana Galligan; music by Jim Clayton.
This short was the impetus for creating the IMPROVideo Project.
Plan each day but don’t get in the way of each day. Don’t get in the way of your plans.
Why is it that the political right always castrates itself? Given that all they really have is balls, it seems painfully ironic.
Yesterday, in response to the recent electoral protests in Iran, Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Hoseyni Khāmene’i addressed a circus tent full of men who all looked relatively the same – much like a Republican convention, where even the women look like stodgy Caucasian men desperate to hang on to their semblance of Old World power. But I digress.
Thomson Reuters reported on the speech by Khāmene’i, excerpting several pieces of the monologue that seemed noteworthy, such as, “… I am urging them to end street protests, otherwise they will be responsible for its consequences, and consequences of any chaos…” and “… If there is any bloodshed, leaders of the protests will be held directly responsible.”
While – yes – Thomson Reuters is a Western news source that is not necessarily friendly to the Iranian establishment and – yes – these quotes are excerpted from their original context, neither of these facts affect the point I am about to make.
Cause watch me now; I’m going to except them even further.
“… they will be responsible for its consequences…”
“… leaders of the protests will be held directly responsible…”
Did you catch that? Did you hear what just happened?
Essentially, what Khāmene’i has done is placed all the responsibility for the outcome of these protests – all of it, positive and negative – on to his adversaries. No matter how many people are killed by riot police or secret police, no matter how many are left maimed or made into refugees, no matter how much bloodshed results, there ain’t no flies on the Ayatollah.
But if his adversaries have all the responsibility, then Khāmene’i must have no responsibility. And if Khāmene’i has no responsibility, then dig this – he has no power. Allow me to italicize this for emphasis – the Supreme Leader of Iran has abdicated all power. In much the same way, the wielder of a gun has no power if they cannot take responsibility for (i.e. control) their weapon. Eventually, they will shoot themselves in the face.
And like most right-wing extremists, he did it to himself. All that’s left to happen now is for several thousand individuals to be murdered so that these fundamentalist numb skulls can express their fear with bullets. Because the Ayatollah has no responsibility, I assume the triggers will simply go off by themselves. Good luck to all those in their line of sight.
Sayyid Ali Hoseyni Khāmene’i, the Ayatollah of… fizzle fizzle ssssssssss…
I received a piece of spam mail today. The subject was “How To Give a Female an Orgasm – Without Effort”.
And I thought, “Ya, it’s having to make an effort that always seems to get in the way. If I just didn’t have to do all that heavy lifting, all the roadie work, sex would be so much better.”
And if I could get this liberation from labor in the form of capsule I could ingest twenty minutes before I was planning to find myself in a sexual situation, wouldn’t the clouds just open up? For her at least.
And if I could do all this from the comfort of a reclining chair positioned in front of a television with a colostomy bag and oxygen tank nearby… I mean wow.
If you’re going to cheat labels away from camera and you have multiple labels in the scene, make sure that the labels are not all facing the same direction. It is a highly uncommon experience to see all beer labels at a party (for instance) all facing the same direction. It destroys the reality of the image you’re trying to pass off as real.