Saturday, August 22, 2015
Score name kiddo and 48 years later..
48 years ago The Hippie Temptation aired. Now normally I would spend today bitching about this infamous event in my life. HOWEVER, today is an awesome day! My new great nephew, Jeffrey Irving Summers, was born in Cleveland to his proud parents Justin ( my nephew ) and Kelly! And this lucky boy has an amazing name! He was named for my brother in law ( and his grandfather ), Jeffrey MacKanin, and my dad ( the BEST dad ever ), Irving Summers. So, Jeffrey Irving, welcome to life and grow up to be a wonderful boy and a good man. You have two names to live up to! How can you not be a great kid with two names like that? Congrats are in order to grandparents, the great aunts and uncles, aunts and uncles and cousins! And special congrats to Jeffrey Irving for making his timely appearance much to the overwhelming joy of his parents!
Monday, February 2, 2015
NO Shades of Gray
I cringe whenever I see the media gush over a horrible movie that is about the poorly written porn ( please do NOT legitimize this trash by calling it "erotica." the degradation of women and the glorification of sexual sadists is NOT erotica. It is porn ) novels of "Fifty Shades of Grey."
Over half a life time ago I fell in love and had an affair with a rich, famous ( more so in the years after our breakup ) and drop dead gorgeous man. No, I won't go into the details but will say once I broke up with him things got really ugly. He went ballistic and stalked me for a few years. That was not pleasant.
I should have seen the red flags. He was selfish, self centered, jealous, possessive and rash. He acted more like a not very nice teenage boy rather than like a grown man. After I broke up with him ( in the early 1970s ) I lost my memory of him. When I remembered him and our relationship it was devastating. I did not know what to call it then but now know it was/is PTSD. It has been a hard time for me in recent days because of reliving the old memories, the old hurts.
I HATE this movie and I hate the media's handling of it. I don't give a crap how many millions of copies of the books have been sold. I don't care how many people go and see the trashy movie that will opening on ( this is such an insult ) on Valentine's Day. Men abuse women and these books and this movie glorifies men who do that.
In the 1970s there were historical romance "bodice rippers" where the feisty young heroine is raped by the hero, the "rape fantasy." How many rape victims would see their rapist go free ( often to rape again ) because women on the jury had been reading "romances" where the hero ( handsome, rich, often titled ) would rape them and then at the end of the book they are married and live happily ever after?
These books, the media gushing over it as if it is so romantic and so sexy... it is dangerous. There will be naive women who will end up in hospitals, who will end up in the morgue because of this movie, because of these books. Beating, raping, violating women, tying them up and whipping them, chaining them as if they were a slave, what the hell is wrong with women who seem to think that because a book is a best seller and the media acts as if this behavior is ok, that it is somehow normal?
Men who abuse women sexually are sexual sadists and many are narcissist psychopaths. Shame on every woman who has read this trash and somehow thinks it is "romantic." There is nothing romantic of being the victim of abuse. There is nothing romantic about being stalked. And shame on you if you legitimize this trash by going to see the movie.
Whips and chains? Sorry. There are no shades of gray in me. There never has been and there never will be. I am a good woman. I am a loving and I hope, a kind woman. I am also no one's pushover. I am lucky because I grew up in a house where my parents loved, honored, cherished and respected each other. I know I have worth as a woman, as a human being.
50 Shades of Grey devalues women and promotes violence against us. Men like the one in this book ( and the man whom I had formerly been involved with over forty years ago ) do not have romantic conquests. They have victims.
Over half a life time ago I fell in love and had an affair with a rich, famous ( more so in the years after our breakup ) and drop dead gorgeous man. No, I won't go into the details but will say once I broke up with him things got really ugly. He went ballistic and stalked me for a few years. That was not pleasant.
I should have seen the red flags. He was selfish, self centered, jealous, possessive and rash. He acted more like a not very nice teenage boy rather than like a grown man. After I broke up with him ( in the early 1970s ) I lost my memory of him. When I remembered him and our relationship it was devastating. I did not know what to call it then but now know it was/is PTSD. It has been a hard time for me in recent days because of reliving the old memories, the old hurts.
I HATE this movie and I hate the media's handling of it. I don't give a crap how many millions of copies of the books have been sold. I don't care how many people go and see the trashy movie that will opening on ( this is such an insult ) on Valentine's Day. Men abuse women and these books and this movie glorifies men who do that.
In the 1970s there were historical romance "bodice rippers" where the feisty young heroine is raped by the hero, the "rape fantasy." How many rape victims would see their rapist go free ( often to rape again ) because women on the jury had been reading "romances" where the hero ( handsome, rich, often titled ) would rape them and then at the end of the book they are married and live happily ever after?
These books, the media gushing over it as if it is so romantic and so sexy... it is dangerous. There will be naive women who will end up in hospitals, who will end up in the morgue because of this movie, because of these books. Beating, raping, violating women, tying them up and whipping them, chaining them as if they were a slave, what the hell is wrong with women who seem to think that because a book is a best seller and the media acts as if this behavior is ok, that it is somehow normal?
Men who abuse women sexually are sexual sadists and many are narcissist psychopaths. Shame on every woman who has read this trash and somehow thinks it is "romantic." There is nothing romantic of being the victim of abuse. There is nothing romantic about being stalked. And shame on you if you legitimize this trash by going to see the movie.
Whips and chains? Sorry. There are no shades of gray in me. There never has been and there never will be. I am a good woman. I am a loving and I hope, a kind woman. I am also no one's pushover. I am lucky because I grew up in a house where my parents loved, honored, cherished and respected each other. I know I have worth as a woman, as a human being.
50 Shades of Grey devalues women and promotes violence against us. Men like the one in this book ( and the man whom I had formerly been involved with over forty years ago ) do not have romantic conquests. They have victims.
Thursday, January 8, 2015
THE PEN IS MIGHTIER THAN THE GUN
RIP to the slaughtered satirists and the others who were also killed by Muslim extremists in Paris less than a day ago. It is heartwarming to see how Paris and all of France ( and yes, the outpouring of solidarity, the outrage over this act of evil, from around the world ) has stood defiantly and unafraid in the face of terrorists who worship nothing but the nightmare hag known as death ( it matters not what they call their "god" --- what they worship is death and carnage ).
Yes, I am a writer of fantasy. But I have written sarcastic and satirical things in my day and my night. I hope to continue to do so. Everyone who knows me knows that I am and have always been and always will be rabid when it comes to the First Amendment of the Constitution. Free speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion; this is what is important to me as a writer and as an artistic person. The PEN is mightier than the gun. The pen shouts the message of freedom that will not be silenced by the pathetic roar of a gun or by the slashing sweep of a sword.
The pen will not be silenced. The pen will not go quietly into the long, cold dark night. Rather, the pen will paint and write and sing a brilliant hue. There will be shades and graffitis of the pen to make a fireworks display of expression from humanity. We will band together with our creative spirits and never be cowered by evil and those who live their lives to destroy rather than create.
CH Summers
Yes, I am a writer of fantasy. But I have written sarcastic and satirical things in my day and my night. I hope to continue to do so. Everyone who knows me knows that I am and have always been and always will be rabid when it comes to the First Amendment of the Constitution. Free speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion; this is what is important to me as a writer and as an artistic person. The PEN is mightier than the gun. The pen shouts the message of freedom that will not be silenced by the pathetic roar of a gun or by the slashing sweep of a sword.
The pen will not be silenced. The pen will not go quietly into the long, cold dark night. Rather, the pen will paint and write and sing a brilliant hue. There will be shades and graffitis of the pen to make a fireworks display of expression from humanity. We will band together with our creative spirits and never be cowered by evil and those who live their lives to destroy rather than create.
CH Summers
Wednesday, January 7, 2015
Hippie clip collages and stuff...
I am thinking of making some more ( I made two in the past ) collages using the hippie clip and also some pics of myself from way back when. I also am thinking of seeing about making statement shirts that tell the story of that clip and of Steve Job's right brain ( the urban legend ). And then maybe take a trip to San Francisco. I can not believe I have not been to SF since 1979!!!!! And I haven't been to Seattle since 1984 or to Hollywood since 2007. It wasn't part of my New Years' resolution but seriously wondering if I should park the cat with Julian ( Bobby and Julian seemed to hit it, maybe because Julian has cats ) and take a visit to these places. Hammy... need to see about doing a Kickstarter campaign to fund a documentary of some of my wild past to these places... no resolutions but definitely ambitions...
Saturday, January 3, 2015
Happy 2015! I just started putting up some of my writings for hollyWEIRD ( my other blog ). I hope to post more there and also more here.
On one note, I have been trying to contact CBS since August and they have not responded except for a little nibble from the local station and then no more response ( since October ). I will try and continue with this but I am losing patience and if they do not respond soon I will sue them. MY face@ NO permission EVER! But there could be if they would just make nice ( sigh ).
On one note, I have been trying to contact CBS since August and they have not responded except for a little nibble from the local station and then no more response ( since October ). I will try and continue with this but I am losing patience and if they do not respond soon I will sue them. MY face@ NO permission EVER! But there could be if they would just make nice ( sigh ).
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