Marvin Fisch

Marvin Fisch

November 26, 1924-December 4, 2008

Posted in comments to Huffington Post today

I felt inspired and posted a comment under a story about Mike Huckabee's comments on The View this AM.

I don't like how this is being used as a wedge to drive between the black community and the LGBT. What about all the black LGBT people? Does discrimination have to be mutually exclusive? How many of us LGBT people "passed" out of fear and intimidation of being found out for who we truly are?

I was in the dept. store on saturday after the rally here in an AA neighborhood. While I was at the counter, a middle aged AA woman was just glaring at me, and my friend...I kept thinking to myself, what is going through her mind? I have no idea, But I had on a teeshirt that said "Stand up to H8"...Did she not agree?

Since the election , many times when I see an AA woman, I can't help thinking to myself" What have I ever done to you that you should vote against me?".>I know that is not a totally rational thought, but if i was to give in to my lower nature, you see where I"m going> Unfortunately, a lot of people too often give in to their lower natures. and that's the problem...The gays and the black community should be allies, not enemies...WE all suffer from oppression and it's not a contest. And for those that dare to compare(talk about slipperly slopes) I have been spit on, called names, beaten up, ostracized, ridiculed, denied employment advancement..shall I go on?

Liberals are...drum roll...Pacifists and JEWS!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/29/gop-congressman-democrats_n_139091.html


you mean, like JESUS?

Proposition 8

Here in California, they have decided to put civil rights on the ballot for the masses.

Here's a comparison of the attitudes:

First...the Yes



Now the No...

The poisoning of the minds of the young...

This was on BloggerInterrupted..Thanks to him for shining a light into the darkness.

Quick tour of National Parks of the Southwest

Preserving the world in Kodachrome(tm)

Since I got my Nikon f4, I have had a revival in my interest in phtotography. But since I started school, I haven't had a lot of time to take pictures. Coincidentally, I have been favoring using Kodachrome(tm) to shoot with, especially since it's no telling if and when Kodak might discontinue making this lovely film. So..Here are some of the first fruits of my labors. KC tends to scan rather densely, the actual slides are exposed perfectly.

My Friend Ted Hall

My friend Ted Hall, one of the most talented film/music sound mixer geniuses in the business, passed away on July 26th. Ted supervised and engineered dozens of feature film projects for me over the years and should get 99.9% of the credit for the way these projects, dvds, laserdiscs,etc turned out. He worked on almost all of my MGM projects, Paramount Paramount for me and others and for many more over the years. He will be sorely missed, not just professionally but personally and the world has lost an audio genius and amazing human being at too young an age. If you have a dvd of a movie and it sounds good at home, Ted gets a lot of the credit. He,under the tutelage of Bruce Botnick, was instrumental in changing how home video sounded.

Back to something that's good in the world.

FISA BILL

Senate just rubber stamped the house bill that guts the 4th amendment as well as give the telcos immunity. Don't let the congress think we have short memories.

By any other name...

Holiday Stroll

Oceana

Taken on the 4th of July in Santa Monica, CA. Thought it was an appropriate image to represent where things are going...

What's that smell?

It's your Constitution, being used as kindling...


House Passes Wiretap Bill Shielding Telecoms
House Passes Wiretap Bill Shielding Telecoms

Hidden Hiroshima

I won't post the pictures myself but i urge everyone to go to this site and view them as a reminder of what was wrought on our fellow humans..
These images were more or less hidden for the past sixty years.

http://faculty.ucmerced.edu/smalloy/atomic_tragedy/photos.html

The site has taken down the pictures as they are now not certain the even show was actually Hiroshima, instead, it may have been devestation from an earthquake nearly 30 years prior...

USC BOUND

or rather..RE-Bound!

Found out this week that I was accepted to the Masters' program I applied to at USC.

I say re because I started my academic life as a Trojan WAY back in 1983 at the tender age of 17.  For various complicated reasons I did not get my bachelor's degree from there and landed at NYU.

So in a way this is life coming full circle, and also finishing unfinished business...

Very happy about this. After about twelve years of not very good news, this is some really great news at last.

Onto the next phase of life...Farewell film business..Hello, Mr. Chips...

Classes start in June, a lot to do, not to mention that it now cost THREE times as much to go to USC as it did in 1983!($400/unit then, $1200 now)

Times sure have changed...I felt at times like the lone democrat amongst my friends during the height of the Reagan era on that campus. During the 1984 campaign, Walter Mondale appeared on campus and was heckled by the students. We made the Evening News(rememeber the Evening News?)...Then George Bush Sr. appeared with his wife George Washington to cheers of four more years.  The highlight of that appearance for me was seeing someone holding a sign that read "Jane Wyman was Right!"...