Really worth reading

Dose of Sanity, a psychiatrist sums up his approach to assessment, partially based on an examination of a 24-hour day. Since medical/psychological help is sought, then clearly something is amiss or aberant, at least from the patient's POV. Here, the larger part of the book is explaining the errors of psychiatry, when not approached from a medical basis, including is the over-prescription of America and the pop self-help gee-whizes who sell an idea, regardless whether it helps people or not.

This is not a self-help book. It is a book detailing an approach by neuropsychiatry which might replace the norm. That author hopes that many people aggrivated with typical pill-prescribing docs who treat their patients with insane and inane treatments, including those in his own field, drop that which doesn't help and move on to real medicine, based on blood tests, medical workups and asking questions, rather than a script after 45 minutes.

It was enlightening and worth reading. It's short, 235 medium sized font and set so just about any layperson could read it.

Quick books, quick review

Shel Siverstein, Runny Babbit, not very good work. The recurring theme of letter transpostion was clever for two poems, but not a book. Hmpht!

Jack Prelustsky, poet, A Pizza the Size of the Sun, fanciful, whimsical, fun. Coupled with James Stevenson (greyscale) illustration make for a good book of poems. Adults might also find many of the poems quirky and cute as well.

English Freshly Squeezed by Carol Diggory Shields is interesting. While not every page is gorgeously crafted, it does use each topic in each poem. One topic, exclamation marks, using them the ends of each sentence, crafted in such a way that they are not wasted or added only for color. If a school or class wanted to demonstrate grammar and poetry, this is it! A+ material for introducing grammar with clever, helpful, fun poems.

Howl's Moving Castle

director

Miyazaki borrowed some ideas from his earlier works to put together another tale of where love conquers all, a girl protagonist, and magic. The musical score is very similar to Spirited Away, but not disenchanting. Here, he addresses shallowness, greed and eny. There has been something about his work -- something, but here in the post WWII, mixed with Hong Kong feel -- VonTrap sandwiched there too, is American Girl series, the dolls, coupled with other sales items like movies. I'll have to see if there is much on him. He seems to be writing for a daughter who never ages.

It has rewatchability and has no strong adult content. The war in the backdrop plays a role in character coloring and a theme of pointlessness of war. In the end [SPOILER -- the war is called off, for a boy's heart cannot be won by a jealous queen]

I think, if I had a little girl, she would very much like this movie. The English version I saw had some voices, which seemed to me like Billy Crystal. I can only hope that Wikipedia is correct here for the voices:

Character	Japanese version	English version
Howl	Takuya Kimura	Christian Bale
Grandma Sophie	Chieko Baisho	Jean Simmons
Calcifer	Tatsuya Gashuin	Billy Crystal
Young Sophie	Chieko Baisho	Emily Mortimer
Witch of the Waste	Akihiro Miwa	Lauren Bacall
Markl	Ryunosuke Kamiki	Josh Hutcherson
Madame Suliman	Haruko Kato	Blythe Danner
Prince Turnip	Yo Oizumi	Crispin Freeman
Lettie		Jena Malone
Suliman's Servant	Mitsunori Isaki
Heen (Dog)	Daijiro Harada	--same as JP--

Still, I would rate Spirited Away, for sheer re-watchability as my favorite of his work. Since ... Moving Castle is based on a book, I will have to get that some time.

I think another recurring element in his work is smoke and clouds. Perhaps difficult for some to master, but he seems to have a team that realistically renders these ambiguous gases and makes them live. The film incorportates, as do all his films, different styles of motion, stills, animation. Some of the humor is very subtle and some visual humor is, well worth watching and can't be written as funny.

After some further reading, he directed (English name: Lupin IIII) I have never seen all of this, but some of it was included in an '80s laser disc arcade game. Lupin has many sequels and some TV episodes. From what I saw of it, it was definately the forerunner for physical comedy and slapstick found later in Poke'mon and other cartoons.

I was already thinking about seeing Howl's Moving Castle, when MR mentioned that I should watch it then bitch about it.

Ken Lay

returns from the dead, having faked his own death after the verdict of his guilt, in light of the verdict being tossed out by the judge. Now, having lots of time and money, Ken hopes to enjoy the unembalmning, but sees no need for further botox injections, as the embalming fluid has made him, "fresher" looking. Okay, none of that is true or nice to write, but hey ... there is no way he was innocent of all charges there. I guess, it makes a small bit of good news to his family, of little confort to those who lost because of the illegal trading.

Blade of the IRS

Wesley Snipes tried to not pay taxes, then claim he needed taxes back. What wild ideas! I think all of that heavy martial arts moves he learned might be useful in prison, if he goes. Filing for tax refund of $12 million, can't come without a penalty. Vampire Blade and investigator at 1900 Pennsylvania Ave may have some interesting dodging and figures to fight, by his own making.

poker tip

Don't play with somebody if they have a machete. If they're drunk and they have a machete, you're just asking to play, Scarface, if you ever saw the movie. An Indiana man gets 50 years for kiling another poker player with a machete. Okay ... so, why did you have that? Did you like, uh ... come in after cutting down folliage from the backyard then? The sad thing is, he could get out in 25 with "goood" behavior. This non-English speaking defendant seemed remorseful, but butchered death --- machete? Come on man! This isn't Havana!

Calling a bluff

I support the Ohio police is killing this man. Undoubtedly, there will be a flood of soppy-eyed bleeding hears claiming illegiimate killing, but I think they erred on the side of caution to hospital patients. The man claimed he was going to kill one of them, made a move toward an are where he might have a weapon. Should the officers waited until he had the weapon drawn on a person or them ... I think not.

For the families of the officers in the shooitng, I prematurely offer my sympathy for the crap you'll have to endure with those who would rather a robber shoot their family, than fatally defend their family. If somebody comes in to hurt your family ... like the man recently charged with killing a family, leaving two alive who he kidknapped and raped, then killed the boy. The girl was fortunate enough to survive the weeks of rape and made a break when the felon brought her inside a restaurant with him.

Would you stand by and let him take your kids and kill your family? Hell no you wouldn't! If you were a reasonable person you would grab the nearest weapons -- lamp, chair, pencil and charge after him, stopping at nothing but your death or his.

For the Ohio police stopping a man who would, likely have later done more crime, of a more violent nature, I salute your quick action in bringing down the man. The officers tried a stun gun, but it was ineffective. They tried, but the suspect clearly wasn't going to stop.

helpful local crime search engine

I looked up this street and found, suspicious person seen. Whatever that means. Anyway, it was quite useful. Who know it existed?

I hope that other cities have this as well.

Absolutely Fabolous

Rapper Fabolous whose lyrics include gang warfare with snipers is shot by men. In the car were unregistered (illegal) handguns -- shock! Fabolous is in hospital, likely to find trial proceedings against him. Hey, live and die the "g" life, ass*****! You say, you write, you die it!

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