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Anonymous Anonymous said...

One great result of mass hispanic immigration into LA, something the LA Times advocated and cheerleaded for.
Bluntly, hispanics don't read papers.Since hispanics constitute the vast bulk of the LA population, the LA Times is doomed.
- I just wish more 'liberal' institutions could self-destruct in that neat little way.

8/13/11, 2:28 AM

Blogger J said...

I thought this things happen only in Israel.

8/13/11, 2:33 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

It's a good thing Menachem Begin wasn't going to speak at that hotel. The robot would have thrown you in to the Chesapeake Bay.

~Risto

8/13/11, 2:38 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"The screenwriter, who was not identified, apparently left his briefcase -- with the computer and script inside -- unattended at a talent agency office."

For the record, this is incredibly weird. Was he high? Really drunk? What's the real story here?

Or is LA just that stupid? I live on the East Coast /hipster

8/13/11, 2:50 AM

Anonymous Henry Canaday said...

Actually, I can understand how a talent agent might be a little worried about the behavior of some of his clients.

Several years ago in Chevy Chase, DC, a box was left on a bench next to a bus stop and in front of our Starbucks one morning. This is about the safest neighborhood in Washington, if not on the entire urban East Coast. There are some well-known people who live around here, people who might have enemies. But it has been 40 years since any of them has stood at a bus stop.

Nevertheless, an alert Starbucks barista noticed the box and called the cops. The entire two blocks around the box were closed and sidewalks roped off for four hours, and no one was allowed to leave the neighboring apartment buildings until the bomb squad had whisked the box away in a caged truck.

And Starbucks was closed for four hours, which may have been what the barista really wanted.

8/13/11, 4:26 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"And Starbucks was closed for four hours, which may have been what the barista really wanted."

Nothing like making $0 an hour, yeah.

wait what

8/13/11, 4:49 AM

Anonymous Marlowe said...

No screenplay survives contact with a producer.

8/13/11, 5:14 AM

Anonymous NOTA said...

My impression is that these bomb squad detonations of random found objects never actually find and destroy bombs, just harmless stuff that's been lost. Is there any good information on this? It looks to me like a vast ritual sacrifice done for the god of security theater,

8/13/11, 6:50 AM

Anonymous Deckin said...

Well, now he's got a new premise for a screenplay, doesn't he?

8/13/11, 7:05 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Who says this blog isn't hateful? It only took a couple of comments to get to the Jooooooooooossss!

8/13/11, 7:08 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

The real problem with living in a police state is the inevitable requirement to CYA by rigidly responding to situations that anyone can claim are similar to a category that rises to the level of being a threat. Negate the possibility of exercising individual discretion by calling it profiling and you get the bizarre world in which we now live.

Still shocking that a corporate, non Irish type like Sailer could get treated like a mad IRA bomber in the 80s. But it is probably no coincidence that, in the present decade, I ran into a paranoid ex-cop in Ireland who was certain that there was a big problem with Irish Americans funding the IRA.

8/13/11, 10:21 AM

Anonymous Trew said...

The cops are always looking for excuses to play with their new toys, instead of doing what they should be doing - good old fashioned beat patrols.

8/13/11, 10:29 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Nothing like making $0 an hour, yeah.

Ah, so this barista owns Starbucks.

8/13/11, 10:34 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I once tried writing a novel. I didn't get very far with it (only about 30 pages), but while writing it, I kept almost all of it in my head word for word. I had backups, but I didn't need them. If you really, really concentrate on writing as well as you can, you end up rewriting every sentence hundreds of times. You read through each sentence so many times while trying to intuit what the next one should say, that they all end up sticking in your mind afterwards. You end up remembering page after page verbatim.

I've read other people's accounts of the same phenomenon. I clearly remember V.S. Naipaul saying once in an interview that he remembered his most recent novel entirely by heart.

If a writer's attitude towards his work is so casual that he needs backups, then I'm not really burning with the desire to read him. If that script is now irrevocably lost, then it probably should be.

8/13/11, 10:43 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Ah, so this barista owns Starbucks."

In the real world, you don't get paid for time when you are clocked out. hth, elitist

8/13/11, 3:28 PM

Anonymous Alex said...

Oh well. The movie was probably going to bomb anyway...

8/13/11, 5:01 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"I tell ya kid, this script - it's dynamite."

8/13/11, 5:43 PM

Anonymous Abe Fauxman said...

Should have left it at Ben Gurion airport instead, much less damage.

8/13/11, 10:13 PM

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