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Slope of Hope Blog Posts
Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.
Casey Serin Reincarnated
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Numb. That’s what it feels like. Or doesn’t feel like, I suppose. Numb. Not depressed. Not saddened. Just no longer subject to the psychological millstone collectively hanging around the neck of the nation’s psyche. Yet it’s still hard not to fill affected in some way.
On Saturday morning, in a short span of time, I was greeted by a series of realities. The first, known to us all Friday night, was the commutation of the Stone sentence. Let me say at the outset this has nothing to do with politics for me. I’ve always viewed Presidential pardons and commutations that weren’t plainly an act of grace and decency to instead reek of corruption (such as, for instance, Clinton’s pardon of Marc Rich). Let’s face it, Stone is one of the smarmiest looking guys on the planet. This whole thing stinks to high heaven.
(more…)Mark Twain and the Lamb
I’ve got a strong video recommendation for you, in case you have Netflix (which is most of you). The Mark Twain Prize for Dave Chappelle ceremony. I’m not sure how I missed it, unless it came out very recently, but it was a presentation from late last year which honored Chappelle.
There were a galaxy of stars at the event, as you can imagine, including Jon Stewart, Lorne Michaels, and Sarah Silverman. In his acceptance speech, Chappelle held out special praise for his mother, who was there. He told the audience that, as a child, he was very sensitive and cried easily, and she said the following to him, which knocked me out: “Sometimes you gotta be a lion to be the lamb you really are.” Beautiful!
As he was uttering those words, there was a camera shot back to his mother who was silently mouthing the words as he spoke them (which was really cool, since it was the spoken equivalent of someone doing great air guitar). The amazing thing is that Chappelle has the legendary status that he does, and he’s still only 46 years old. Anyway, it’s a terrific show, and if you want a taste of his recent work, here it is below, and it is brilliant, as always.
(more…)Ask Me.
It just feels like the right time to trot this, one of my favorite clips, out. I’ve probably mentioned, whenever I meet a new person, I typically tell them, “We’ve met before, haven’t we?” Just for the hell of it.
