"hollywood trash": January 2009

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

girlfriend pass (i think she tells the story best...)

Originally uploaded by "Shanty" Cheryl

"shanty" cheryl strikes again! (and we're all the better for it...)

Thorns of Life
Originally uploaded by "Shanty" Cheryl

talk about guts...cheryl was so sick when she took these shots of the secret "thorns of life" show this past weekend in long beach, ca, that she had to go out to the band van to to chug shots of wild turkey --

STILL she got right up front, to the point of personal injury (a bashed-in shin...as shown above), and, she climbed some very scary scaffolding in an effort to capture the insanity of the evening from above...she's quite something, dude~

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

oh mrs. parker...

algonquin roundtabler and remarkable writer, dorothy parker, gave her entire estate to dr. martin luther king when she died in 1967. if you don't know about mrs. parker click on the link and you'll learn more than you ever wanted--

she left him all of her copyrights and about $30 grand -- she didn't even know him...

parker fought against injustice most of her life and was quite outspoken on the issue of bigotry -- she was a founding member of the writer's guild, ('member when all those hollywood writers struck last winter and your t.v. scheduling got all screwed up), that was a huge part of her legacy...

in the 50's, she was blacklisted for her leftist views and couldn't find much work...

when king was murdered in 1968, as stipulated in her will, parker's estate was transferred to the n.a.a.c.p.

oh if she could have been here the last two days--who knows, maybe she was~

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

but it was...

i don't have a t.v. so i don't know if anyone has begged the question: what can gil scott heron be thinking today? america the beautiful took a huge leap forward to truly becoming an america of and for "we the people"

how about cheney in the wheelchair, huh? bye, bye--

YEA FOR THE WE PEOPLE!!

Sunday, January 18, 2009

REVOLUTION BABY!

i was talking to some people yesterday in west hollywood about the inauguration and asked if there, 'was going to be some kind of group celebration out here by the pacific'

let's see, as i recall it was me; uh, that would be one WHITE person, and a guy; yet another WHITE person or some sort of CAUCASIAN, and another guy; who happened to be HISPANIC, i reckon. we all had tears in our eyes and chills talking about what this meant--WHITE & HISPANIC!! it's a chance, it's exciting and it's definitely a change in the universal mapquest: we keep misreading the directions to happiness and sometimes they fly out the window altogether!

i wasn't able to vote, much to my sadness, because i couldn't walk and i didn't know anyone out here yet...but, i'm going to the inauguration celebration tuesday because, in my own life, this beats landing on the moon...

i mean, i love the father of our country, ol' GW, but all those old-1700-white- dude's-thatched-powdered-wigs must be spinnin', i tells ya,' spinnin'~