NIGHT PORTER

The Third Reich had disappeared in 1945, but the images of its death camp horrors have gripped the imagination of filmmakers and holocaust survivors beyond the death of Hitler, but in 1974 Italian director Liliana Cavani explored the reincarnated sadomasochistic relationship between a SS officer and her concentration camp sex slave played by Charlotte Rampling. Dirk Bogarde's character has been hiding as a well-mannered night porter of a Viennese hotel, until Lucia checks into his establishment.

Critics loved the film for its raw sexuality, while Roger Ebert attacked the portrayal of a victim's surrender to her past.

Personally I found the movie scintillating and Charlotte Rampling's Lucia was a courageous performance for a young actress.

Kinky and controversial without going hardcore.

There are no nice Nazis.

To see NIGHT PORTER go to this URL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j5yPB7BAOQ

Le Beaute de la the Haute Savoie

Le Beaute de la Haute Savoie

The northern wind hummed against the hotel room's windows. The blonde actress stripped off her clothes and lay naked on double bed. The pillow embraced her face. Downstairs in the hotel bar the film crew celebrated the film's wrap. Wine wine and more wine. The English loved their drink and loved the cold. Belgrade gave them all the cold they could handle. Not the actress. She was thin. A pale beauty from Quebec. The douvet provided warmth. To her skin. To her flesh, but not her spine. It was winter in Yugoslavia. Tomorrow she was flying back to Paris. Her home, but in two days she was traveling across the Atlantic to Montreal. More cold weather with her family. She shut off the lights. Her next role was that of Marie Therese Louise de Savoie-Carignan. 's best friend. The Princess of Lamballe could have walked from the doomed queen, but honor required honor. The mob screamed, "Off with her heads." Marie Therese Louise de Savoie-Carignan's head ended up on a spike. Her skull danced before the doomed queen's windows. An English movie star was casted as Marie Antoinette for the French TV Series. She possessed lovely hair. The blonde actress shivered in her bed. The twin spires of Vlaska glowed outside the window. Another place in her life. Montreal, Paris, LA, Hong Kong, Berlin, New York, and the North Pole. Why couldn't she be in the Sahara once? But in truth she had no worries. She was a working actress and actresses liked work. Especially in 1989.

E Pluribus Unum Forever

Last May sixty male attendees of of Baraboo, Wisconsin junior prom gathered on the steps of the Sauk County Courthouse and more than 50% of them gave the Nazi salute. No one said anything, until someone posted the photo online and people questioned the school administrators about the picture.

Lori Mueller, the Baraboo School District leader, wrote in a letter that the district was “not in a position to punish the students for their actions” because of their First Amendment rights.

The outrage centered on the boys, but also accused the photographer. The former local teacher and educator Peter Gust posed the photo, which he said was a wave goodbye. This coming from a longtime white supremacist.

The school district has refused to investigate the incident, despite rumors of racism within the 94% white high school, on the grounds that a Nazi salute is not forbidden under the 1st Amendment.

Ignorant commentators of RT.com have supported the the school district stance.

NJAB wrote, "You don't have to so far back in time. Walk into your nearest kindergarten and ask, "who wants a candy?" See how many "Nazi" salutes you get."

JEFF stated, "That's how it is in USA, there is free speech unless it happens to really offend you. Then the freedom is cut off."

And LINDA 60615 from Chicago believes, "Far left doesn't want free speech for everyone."

They claimed that the boys were giving a roman salute, however there is no statue or painting or fresco from the Imperial Roman Empire showing the salute.

Augustus of Prima Porta comes closest and it ain't close at all.

The salute first appeared in THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE EAGLE STANDARDS (1810) by Jacques-Louis David.

Also in Ave Caesar Morituri te Salutant, by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1859), although 'we who are about to die, salute you' has been been attributed to a single Roman, slave, or gladiator.

The Bellamy salute was promoted by the Knights of Labor, although with the rise of nazism in Germany and America President Franklin Delano Roosevelt substitute the hand on the heart during the Pledge of Allegiance.

There was never a Roman Salute and the boys from Baraboo are the face of racism and hatred in America.

The Proud Boys under the Erich Roehm wannabee.

The dozens of Patriot Prayer ps fuck your Christian TV god.

And all the other race haters go fuck yourself.

The 1st amendment was not written for you.

Slavery perhaps.

Because in the end you're all racist and that is sad, because none of the Founding Fathers were white.

Why did George Washington wear a wig?

To hide the kink.

Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.

That is the answer.

I don't care about your racist questions.

E pluribus unum or out of many one.

Always.

Honest To Goodness Patriot

"I didn't vote for him but he's my president, and I hope he does a good job."

John Wayne - On John F. Kennedy's election

Disgruntled GOP voters should learn from that as well as Democrats.

We are one.

e pluribus unum.

Latin for 'out of many one'.

ps Donald Trump is no president of mine.

I am truly a hypocrite."

Trump Tricks Turkey

Donald Trump pardoned the White House turkey, but had the CIA rendition the bird to black-ops site, where his son shot it for sport.

He thought it was a leopard.

# 2 how do you feed the White House horde with one turkey?

One bird was barely enough to serve a white family of five in the 1950s.

With a lot of turkey helper stuffing.

Hmmmmm genetically modified food.

"Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)" (1972) by David Hockney

Why would anyone sell such a piece of iconic beauty capturing a time never to be seen again?

The owner must have seen it too much.

At one point all beauty fades to gray.

ps $90 million buys a day of beer drinking in Thailand.

For everyone.

The Threat of the Immortal Kilogram

A year ago a bus depot worker discovered a kilogram of cocaine outside of Hartford CN. The police have asked the public to tell what they know of this dropped item. No one has said anything, but everyone who has ever seen SCARFACE can tell the Filth that a kilogram consists of 35.274 ounces and the weight of a kilo has been based on the Le Grand K, which was forged in 1879 in Paris.

The cylinder of platinum and iridium has been kept under lock and key because its mass, a little over 2 pounds, is the official definition of the kilogram.

This Friday,the international General Conference on Weights and Measures will meet in Versailles, to vote to redefine the kilogram is expected to be unanimous according the NPR a mere formality after years of work. Going forward, the world's system of mass measurement will not be based on some special hunk of metal, but rather on unalterable features of the universe — such as the speed of light, time and Planck's constant, a number that helps scientists figure out the energy of a photon of light, given its wavelength.

The approximate numerical value of Planck's constant is 6.626 x 10-34 joule-second.

Mathematics are the poetry of mystery.

I prefer Tony Montana

Drawings 1978 by Peter Nolan Smith ( a non-artist )

A theater.

A bank.

Battery Park Marine Fire Station.

Tugboat.

A warship.

Desertion.

Whaling ship.

Junkie space.

A good thing I never tried to be an artist.

THE BRITISH INVASION by Duncan Hannah

Burning California

Autumn fires are scorching Ventura County and Malibu. Firefighters are overwhelmed by the wind-driven blazes and residents flee their houses with a car filled with family and possessions. Nothing can stop these conflagrations from burning communities to the ground. A friend's house was in the path of the Butte County fire. They have no idea if they have a home anymore. There is no relief in sight. Good-bye paradise.