Susie Duncan Sexton's Blog, page 13
February 14, 2015
Enough...enough. No more denial from any one of us. EARTHLINGS (film)
“As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields.” - Count Leo TolstoyI watched the documentary EARTHLINGS which arrived from AUSTRALIA today, and now I'll never be the same. I care even more than I did already about even-ing up the score on behalf of all of those species so much in need of help from the human species! Thanks, Roy, for sending the film and for seeing to it that I got my eyes opened up even more than they are already!
THIS DOCUMENTARY IS ABSOLUTELY AMAZING, and I highly recommend that the earthlings who call themselves/ourselves "humans" view this important film before any more time passes. You'll rediscover your heart with this entry which should be required viewing. We must all change; we must all care; we must all stop the madness and the denial and make this world right. Now!
I am still reeling from the importance of the film and am sorry that I waited so long to watch what all of us need to witness - young and old, the compassionate and the callous. I am totally disenchanted with the human race: why are people so insanely cruel, why has society failed to evolve? We should hang our heads in shame. We shall none of us be pleased with ourselves for allowing this disrespect for life to continue - as we advance into what must become the "civilized" 21st century - and for looking the other way and for failing to speak up no matter what the consequences of activist caring might be.
(Oh, begone, you nasties who hurt and murder all species! I am so ready to take on that world and round those creeps up, starting in my own hometown. Those sexed up church goers making money hand over fist on animal slaughter? Some of our "finest" citizens.)
Required viewing, especially for those who are young enough to attempt to reverse the damage humans have wrought, throughout the ages, due to ignorance and thoughtlessness and greed and certainly an insatiable appetite for unbridled cruelty. I highly recommend that we finally begin to educate young minds to seek to be kind.
As they say, "a must see" - no more looking away. Our looking at/seeing/seeking the truth cannot compare to the pain and suffering we inflict upon every other species second by second by second. Enough...enough. No more denial from any one of us.
“We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate for having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein do we err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with the extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings: they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.” ― Henry Beston, The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod
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Susan Carpenter: "I saved this to bookmarks to view at some point today. Thanks in advance for the post and for tirelessly holding up the mirror so that people can really see what their actions are doing and the negative impact this is having on society as a whole."
Thank you, dear friend Susan - you made my day! Sometimes I feel like I have not even begun to fight the good fight. I know you know how that is! You are terrific!!
Still haunted and wanting to sob...or better yet DO something to stop the hatred for and the annihilation of earth, nature, and all species. Oh,how I envy those other nations who are not headed to parties, or playing at "sports" or lounging in recliners, or purchasing fast food, or running about on highways and through the skies due to sheer boredom with their own monotonous, self-serving existences. Those other beautiful, organized nations from whom we could learn to adapt, to display loyalty and acceptance, to enjoy each day and season, to LIVE out lives in a peaceable kingdom.
Postscript
As evidence of what I mean, the Hoosier state has gone all nasty once again in record time. Please read and thanks for contacting perhaps some kind legislators? if there are any benevolent senators and representatives left who are not being bought off.
Say “No” to Giving Factory Farms the Right to Harm: SJR 12
We are fast becoming either the laughing stock OR the business model for the rest of this nutsoid nation. Rachel Maddow needs to feature Hoosierland NOW. We are crazier than Mississippi or Oregon. A few Hoosiers getting very rich and calling the "shots" while attending the churches on the corner. Disgusting...obvious...murderous and greedy as all get out!
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Read about movies and nostalgia, animal issues and sociopolitical concerns all discussed in my book Secrets of an Old Typewriter and its follow-up Misunderstood Gargoyles and Overrated Angels - print and ebook versions of both are available on Amazon (click the title).
The books are also carried by these fine retailers: Ann Arbor's Bookbound and Common Language; Columbia City's North Side Grille and Whitley County Historical Museum; and Fort Wayne's The Bookmark.
And you can download from iTunes.
Meet other like-minded souls at my facebook fan page
Visit my author website at www.susieduncansexton.com
Join a great group of animal advocates Squawk Back: Helping animals when others can't ... Or Won't
February 9, 2015
Inherent Vice: dollar signs and control freakism
DEEP, DEEP THOUGHTS: I need to live in a rainforest if one still exists?
Importing adorable calves to raise for 4-H beef contests is evil stuff!
And INHERENT VICE needs to be seen my lots of people who need to get their fancy-ass toes stepped on really firmly! [More about the film here.]
I was too young to see this film by the director of There Will Be Blood and The Master ... but it was a subtle powerhouse! Upon review.
Enough for now. Still thinking about the greedy and the harm that they do no matter who they THINK they are and where they are and how churchy they pretend to be.
The mean people in this world did not lose their minds, as they never possessed intellectual capabilities in the first place. Their brain cells = dollar signs and control freakism oozing outta their empty cerebellums! They can be recognized and identified with their heads still stuck in/up their...navels?
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Thanks for these responses!
Annie Gagnon: "You are so right, Susie. Some of the most evil are found in church. I was deathly sick with pneumonia, and my husband called and said he wasn't coming to church as he had to bring me to the emergency room. The pastor said, 'She isn't dead yet; come to church first!' This is a greedy, evil world we live in. Same pastor - I asked him months before to pray that things would work to quickly get things done on our land we, and he said, 'I am going to pray you lose everything and move closer to the church where you should be!' I pray to God, but don't attend church for this and many other reasons."
Kat Kelly-Heinzelman: "Susie, just move to Washington; it is like living in the rain forest or even London. That is why it is called the Evergreen State; it is always green because of all the rain. LOL"
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Read about movies and nostalgia, animal issues and sociopolitical concerns all discussed in my book Secrets of an Old Typewriter and its follow-up Misunderstood Gargoyles and Overrated Angels - print and ebook versions of both are available on Amazon (click the title).
The books are also carried by these fine retailers: Ann Arbor's Bookbound and Common Language; Columbia City's North Side Grille and Whitley County Historical Museum; and Fort Wayne's The Bookmark.
And you can download from iTunes.
Meet other like-minded souls at my facebook fan page
Visit my author website at www.susieduncansexton.com
Join a great group of animal advocates Squawk Back: Helping animals when others can't ... Or Won't
February 4, 2015
Got (almond) milk? Books, movies, politics, culture, and AGRIganda
A photograph of my bed? Wow! A really firm mattress is possible! Thanks to delightful Sheryl Mandel for sending this ...
Well, Sheryl, I am on the 7th of my nine lives, and if I were to pull out a book to read from that bed, I'd be lopsided...as usual! So I just try to sleep with my 18 year old (actually 90 in cat years!) cat who has saved me from doing away with myself for all of those 18 years. He is hanging on to life with all of his being. I should be so tenacious; he is my rock, and he never nibbles the corners of all of my books either.
Day I read a book - I loved this review. Can you believe that I was enjoying this very sort of conversation basically with myself on Sunday? Regarding BUT HAVE YOU READ THE BOOK jazz, my mother ALWAYS asked that question. Guess what? She very seldom had actually read the books herself; I preferred to write my book reports based on the more enjoyable movie versions!
But she sure loved to give that impression that she had read the books. Usually Harlequin Romance type stuff from the 50s. All the ladies sorta did that. Tickles me!
People may claim to be reading - or that a book is "a good read" - but these days comic books are far preferable to the crazy crap available. And I am not condemning comic books, believe me. Lust, flying brooms, lords of rings, sci-fi lunacy, pulp fiction, religious zaniness, fluffy trends, recipes with lots of inane photos of food, survival bullsh*t, unreal realities...good grief...even I have pretended to read some of the unending stream of crap! Just to be nice!
Dime novels or classic novels and cinematic treatments (via scripting) really are two different forms of media for sure and should be evaluated as such. My best example is A Beautiful Mind. Now THERE IS A BOOK (and the movie sucked), a very intellectual book and the only kind I choose to bother with at my age. (Not too many of those being created these days either.)
Ah, well, back to Tolstoy's War and Peace; then I'll bookmark it and get some well-deserved sleep!
Sometimes I feel the state of education/literature/culture, all the way around, is in the toilet. How does anybody ever get smart. In spite of it all I guess? I give up!
Sadly, our state's education system is in the commode. "Governor" Pence and his cronies see to it that our superintendent of schools whom we elected (Democrat) is totally being stripped ... of her powers, that is! Outrageous.
And, this just in, welcome to Salem, Massachusetts: Indiana Senate Backs Religion-Based Employment. Guessing that by now the KOCH BROTHERS have bought off our newly-elected Republican legislators and are fast becoming owners of the Hoosier State. What a pity! The Kochs think we are utter doofuses, and the Kochs only worship $$$$$$$$$$ and control. They are simply using God, folks...wise up!
I can vaguely member that our state might have been kinda okay once, not monumentally so, but pretty decent. I am a patriot (Hoosier-iot?) to even give a damn. Come back to us, Indiana! KICK THE KOCHS OUTTA HERE!
Then there is this chestnut: Indiana Senate approves bill making short-barrel shotguns legal. My pal Lorraine observes, "Hunting lobbyists are some of the strongest groups out there. Backed and supported by the NRA, and states' hunting laws are expanding all the time (I won't say anything about the 99% of legislators who are NRA card carrying members...)." Lorraine has nailed it here! May these screwballs disappear into the sunset one of these days really soon, too!
Indiana ... tears on my face.
Wondering why Hoosier lunacy is not yet being discussed by Rachel Maddow and Anderson Cooper and Jon Stewart? Our educational system being flushed down the toilet; the governor is a hand-maiden of the Kochs; total melt-down of an otherwise inconsequential state. Inconsequential though can be preferable to sinister and crooked.
Honestly, CNN and MSNBC are missing the boat not discussing the idiocy going on in this backward state. We need national coverage...the state has gone brain-dead. Quite alarming!
As further evidence of cultural decline, just look to such fun, family "sport" as pig-wrestling. My friend Sierra commented on this blog entry: "Pig-wrestling? And they fight to continue this? Jaw dropping with the knuckle draggers here. I would like to become a tornado, with my arms stretched out, spinning and slapping all these people, as i spin through the state. Wow, wouldn't that be fun? Swooooshhhhh - slap, slap, slap!"
Right on, Sierra - yet, this farm propaganda (AGRIganda?) continues ...
Ag women coming together for annual Midwest conference
CANNOT believe what I read: "Welcome to the World of 'AGvocacy'"???? Well, bajillions of us are not "buying" into that concept. We humans need to stop consuming other species for breakfast, lunch and supper! And we should not be poisoned by Monsanto products - no more forever! And referring to dairy farming as an "industry" is very telling.
Milk Industry Fights Back Against "Anti-Dairy Folks"
Tragic for any sensible citizens who may still exist, and the other species that are four-footed or who fly or swim are also doomed. A few barons at the top are in charge and have one goal: profit for themselves. No question about it.
Farm propaganda ("AGRIganda") can just take a flying leap! Now excuse me, while I go refresh myself with a frosty, delicious glass of almond milk, before retiring to my cat and my bed o' books.
Thanks for these comments!
Drex Morton: "This was read is such fun and informative... I love the bed and the library photos...Wish the realities portrayed were mine... Wait - the book stacking IS me, much to my family's lament... And, thankfully, Harper Lee has reemerged just in time..."
Kathy Bostwick: "Well written!!!!"
Kelly Ross: "Love almond milk, no animals eaten here!"
Paul Hoofard: "J' aime bien."
Nancy Becker: "Susie, you are a wonderful fighter!!! I love your energy and commitment. Animals need a voice like yours so keep up the good work!!! I think that animal rights and the environment are two good issues to get worked up about. Important issues that deserve strong action. Counting on you to call it like it is!!!"
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Read about movies and nostalgia, animal issues and sociopolitical concerns all discussed in my book Secrets of an Old Typewriter and its follow-up Misunderstood Gargoyles and Overrated Angels - print and ebook versions of both are available on Amazon (click the title).
The books are also carried by these fine retailers: Ann Arbor's Bookbound and Common Language; Columbia City's North Side Grille and Whitley County Historical Museum; and Fort Wayne's The Bookmark.
And you can download from iTunes.
Meet other like-minded souls at my facebook fan page
Visit my author website at www.susieduncansexton.com
Join a great group of animal advocates Squawk Back: Helping animals when others can't ... Or Won't
Well, Sheryl, I am on the 7th of my nine lives, and if I were to pull out a book to read from that bed, I'd be lopsided...as usual! So I just try to sleep with my 18 year old (actually 90 in cat years!) cat who has saved me from doing away with myself for all of those 18 years. He is hanging on to life with all of his being. I should be so tenacious; he is my rock, and he never nibbles the corners of all of my books either.
Day I read a book - I loved this review. Can you believe that I was enjoying this very sort of conversation basically with myself on Sunday? Regarding BUT HAVE YOU READ THE BOOK jazz, my mother ALWAYS asked that question. Guess what? She very seldom had actually read the books herself; I preferred to write my book reports based on the more enjoyable movie versions!
But she sure loved to give that impression that she had read the books. Usually Harlequin Romance type stuff from the 50s. All the ladies sorta did that. Tickles me!
People may claim to be reading - or that a book is "a good read" - but these days comic books are far preferable to the crazy crap available. And I am not condemning comic books, believe me. Lust, flying brooms, lords of rings, sci-fi lunacy, pulp fiction, religious zaniness, fluffy trends, recipes with lots of inane photos of food, survival bullsh*t, unreal realities...good grief...even I have pretended to read some of the unending stream of crap! Just to be nice!
Dime novels or classic novels and cinematic treatments (via scripting) really are two different forms of media for sure and should be evaluated as such. My best example is A Beautiful Mind. Now THERE IS A BOOK (and the movie sucked), a very intellectual book and the only kind I choose to bother with at my age. (Not too many of those being created these days either.)
Ah, well, back to Tolstoy's War and Peace; then I'll bookmark it and get some well-deserved sleep!
Sometimes I feel the state of education/literature/culture, all the way around, is in the toilet. How does anybody ever get smart. In spite of it all I guess? I give up!
Sadly, our state's education system is in the commode. "Governor" Pence and his cronies see to it that our superintendent of schools whom we elected (Democrat) is totally being stripped ... of her powers, that is! Outrageous.
And, this just in, welcome to Salem, Massachusetts: Indiana Senate Backs Religion-Based Employment. Guessing that by now the KOCH BROTHERS have bought off our newly-elected Republican legislators and are fast becoming owners of the Hoosier State. What a pity! The Kochs think we are utter doofuses, and the Kochs only worship $$$$$$$$$$ and control. They are simply using God, folks...wise up!
I can vaguely member that our state might have been kinda okay once, not monumentally so, but pretty decent. I am a patriot (Hoosier-iot?) to even give a damn. Come back to us, Indiana! KICK THE KOCHS OUTTA HERE!
Then there is this chestnut: Indiana Senate approves bill making short-barrel shotguns legal. My pal Lorraine observes, "Hunting lobbyists are some of the strongest groups out there. Backed and supported by the NRA, and states' hunting laws are expanding all the time (I won't say anything about the 99% of legislators who are NRA card carrying members...)." Lorraine has nailed it here! May these screwballs disappear into the sunset one of these days really soon, too!
Indiana ... tears on my face.
Wondering why Hoosier lunacy is not yet being discussed by Rachel Maddow and Anderson Cooper and Jon Stewart? Our educational system being flushed down the toilet; the governor is a hand-maiden of the Kochs; total melt-down of an otherwise inconsequential state. Inconsequential though can be preferable to sinister and crooked.
Honestly, CNN and MSNBC are missing the boat not discussing the idiocy going on in this backward state. We need national coverage...the state has gone brain-dead. Quite alarming!
As further evidence of cultural decline, just look to such fun, family "sport" as pig-wrestling. My friend Sierra commented on this blog entry: "Pig-wrestling? And they fight to continue this? Jaw dropping with the knuckle draggers here. I would like to become a tornado, with my arms stretched out, spinning and slapping all these people, as i spin through the state. Wow, wouldn't that be fun? Swooooshhhhh - slap, slap, slap!"
Right on, Sierra - yet, this farm propaganda (AGRIganda?) continues ...
Ag women coming together for annual Midwest conference
CANNOT believe what I read: "Welcome to the World of 'AGvocacy'"???? Well, bajillions of us are not "buying" into that concept. We humans need to stop consuming other species for breakfast, lunch and supper! And we should not be poisoned by Monsanto products - no more forever! And referring to dairy farming as an "industry" is very telling.
Milk Industry Fights Back Against "Anti-Dairy Folks"
Tragic for any sensible citizens who may still exist, and the other species that are four-footed or who fly or swim are also doomed. A few barons at the top are in charge and have one goal: profit for themselves. No question about it.
Farm propaganda ("AGRIganda") can just take a flying leap! Now excuse me, while I go refresh myself with a frosty, delicious glass of almond milk, before retiring to my cat and my bed o' books.
Thanks for these comments!
Drex Morton: "This was read is such fun and informative... I love the bed and the library photos...Wish the realities portrayed were mine... Wait - the book stacking IS me, much to my family's lament... And, thankfully, Harper Lee has reemerged just in time..."
Kathy Bostwick: "Well written!!!!"
Kelly Ross: "Love almond milk, no animals eaten here!"
Paul Hoofard: "J' aime bien."
Nancy Becker: "Susie, you are a wonderful fighter!!! I love your energy and commitment. Animals need a voice like yours so keep up the good work!!! I think that animal rights and the environment are two good issues to get worked up about. Important issues that deserve strong action. Counting on you to call it like it is!!!"
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Read about movies and nostalgia, animal issues and sociopolitical concerns all discussed in my book Secrets of an Old Typewriter and its follow-up Misunderstood Gargoyles and Overrated Angels - print and ebook versions of both are available on Amazon (click the title).
The books are also carried by these fine retailers: Ann Arbor's Bookbound and Common Language; Columbia City's North Side Grille and Whitley County Historical Museum; and Fort Wayne's The Bookmark.
And you can download from iTunes.
Meet other like-minded souls at my facebook fan page
Visit my author website at www.susieduncansexton.com
Join a great group of animal advocates Squawk Back: Helping animals when others can't ... Or Won't
January 29, 2015
We are all worthy of blame.
St. Patrick's Parish: Cancel Animal Fighting Contest - Support this petition!
How about getting this crap cancelled in Indiana too - nothing "FAIR" about this thuggery. It is not wholesome, but kinky and evil and humiliating - not cute but tragic and ignorant and a horrid example for all.
AND Adding "beer tents" to the mix? C'mon...unbelievable. The dark ages are over.
Let's not support it and let us talk about ending it before the summer arrives. "Planning stages" time? Victimizing living beings - degrading and heart-breaking. PLEASE find another money-making photo-opportunity.
Bill would legalize Indiana fenced-in hunting preserves
America can be so barbaric. We all murder mammals ... yet that is what WE are. We murder other humans and we murder every species. It is evil, and we are setting a horrible example by which murder will proliferate until we stop slaughtering everything and anything that moves and that breathes and that has intelligence and an emotional life.
Shame on the entire human race everywhere! Just everywhere - those who murder and those who allow murder and those who pay for murder by consuming flesh! We are all worthy of blame.
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Read about movies and nostalgia, animal issues and sociopolitical concerns all discussed in my book Secrets of an Old Typewriter and its follow-up Misunderstood Gargoyles and Overrated Angels - print and ebook versions of both are available on Amazon (click the title).
The books are also carried by these fine retailers: Ann Arbor's Bookbound and Common Language; Columbia City's North Side Grille and Whitley County Historical Museum; and Fort Wayne's The Bookmark.
And you can download from iTunes.
Meet other like-minded souls at my facebook fan page
Visit my author website at www.susieduncansexton.com
Join a great group of animal advocates Squawk Back: Helping animals when others can't ... Or Won't
January 28, 2015
It is just amazing to observe and very frustrating.
Query: Who can explain small towns to me?
Kat Kelly-Heinzelman: "They are places where everyone knows everyone and what you're doing, even when it is supposed to be a secret. LOL. How is that for an explanation?"
Laura Reed: "Inbox me with what you would like to know ... Do you live in the same town that I do? LOL"
Beth Kennedy: "A mini-society, like a classroom, where everyone is connected for good or for bad."
Drex Morton: "I went to High School in small town Shepherdstown, West Virginia. It was a memorable time!"
Sharon Ball Myers: "I have heard they differ in many ways...ours, the one we both know & love, is one in which news of a sneeze travels within hours! But a friend from Churubusco says it is entirely different there & likes the anonymity enjoyed by residents much more. Though friendly & nice, they don't need to know what you ate for breakfast! LOL. Just an observation...."
I love those responses! What I know I actually would not at all mind broadcasting. I've been in the same small town nearly my entire life since birth and what I have gathered from observing is plenty, yet I still am constantly surprised by the goings on, even though nothing has ever changed.
Some people seem to matter because they see to it that they are considered important yet invisible. Others are supposedly inconsequential. I'm tired of watching that odd phenomenon perpetuating itself daily; I'm tired of nutsoid gossiping; I'm weary of the lack of caring but plenty of remarks about "praying"...ha!
You know, come to think of it, those movers and shakers who manipulate the puppet/marionette strings are masters of the disappearing act. Indeed, they are invisible to the locals they manipulate as the self-considered VIPS trot around the globe and visit sunny spots and live way out where you cannot view their big-ass houses. BUT they do emerge in photo ops from time to time! Lucky us to catch a glimpse now and then.
Fickleness drives me up a wall. I appreciate the folks who way too often go unnoticed and who are just plain nice for no ulterior motives....just nice! And there are many of those!
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Query: How's come females who are just a tad older are not credited with having great ideas or maybe even some intellectual ability? Why can't all age groups be equal, I wonder, and appreciated without bias?
Beth Kennedy: "Great question, Susie!"
Denise Santoro: "Because society is obsessed with youth and beauty. Once someone is past their 'age' requirement, they get swept to the side. We have experience and have more to offer than a face and a body, but no one considers that. The more the media exploits younger women, airbrushing photos, plastic surgery and perfection, the more it will happen. Sadly, the more of an impact it will have on teen girls. I fear once the older generation like mine is gone, we're in trouble. People don't have the morals and ideals I was brought up with. We read books; we're taught to respect our teachers and mentors...therefore, older women have more to contribute. If I were Kim Kardashian, the butt implants would embarrass me. They think shaving off Barbie's boobs will change the way society looks at women. They need to start with the media. You could put the most intelligent older woman on a panel and a silicone bimbo next to her who just nods her head. People would ask the bimbo the questions. Thanks to social media we have discussions like this, blogs, things like that, and they're changing things a little bit; however, women over the age of 20 are disappearing more and more each day beneath a pile of glitter."
Kat Kelly-Heinzelman: "Some people might think it is time for older woman to be put out to pasture. Not me, but others think that. LOL. We have brains and we know how to use them. We were taught to respect our elders and do our homework and do our chores but this current generation isn't taught any of that ... so what happens after we are gone? It will be really sad - that is what."
Perfect! It seems like every age group has its detractors, but ZOUNDS this aging female crap is the pits. Misogyny is rampant in America whether admitted by anybody or not!
Women cooperate with objectifying themselves...cleavage drives me nuts! Not jealous, just embarrassed.
Whoever in this world imparted to females to adjust themselves at every turn and follow trends and actually change body parts under the knife or via laser surgery? This country is as clueless as any others that we typically demean for under-rating females and their/our very possible important contributions to society via brain power. It is just amazing to observe and very frustrating.
People have become fluffy and flaky and fickle (alliteration lives). I cannot believe that even the art of conversation is dead, totally dead, but what great responses. I am hopeful now!
Thanks for this feedback!
Paul Clifford Schrade: "Susie is quite a woman and a celebrity in her own right! Kudos to that talented and humane lady!"
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Read about movies and nostalgia, animal issues and sociopolitical concerns all discussed in my book Secrets of an Old Typewriter and its follow-up Misunderstood Gargoyles and Overrated Angels - print and ebook versions of both are available on Amazon (click the title).
The books are also carried by these fine retailers: Ann Arbor's Bookbound and Common Language; Columbia City's North Side Grille and Whitley County Historical Museum; and Fort Wayne's The Bookmark.
And you can download from iTunes.
Meet other like-minded souls at my facebook fan page
Visit my author website at www.susieduncansexton.com
Join a great group of animal advocates Squawk Back: Helping animals when others can't ... Or Won't
Kat Kelly-Heinzelman: "They are places where everyone knows everyone and what you're doing, even when it is supposed to be a secret. LOL. How is that for an explanation?"
Laura Reed: "Inbox me with what you would like to know ... Do you live in the same town that I do? LOL"
Beth Kennedy: "A mini-society, like a classroom, where everyone is connected for good or for bad."
Drex Morton: "I went to High School in small town Shepherdstown, West Virginia. It was a memorable time!"
Sharon Ball Myers: "I have heard they differ in many ways...ours, the one we both know & love, is one in which news of a sneeze travels within hours! But a friend from Churubusco says it is entirely different there & likes the anonymity enjoyed by residents much more. Though friendly & nice, they don't need to know what you ate for breakfast! LOL. Just an observation...."
I love those responses! What I know I actually would not at all mind broadcasting. I've been in the same small town nearly my entire life since birth and what I have gathered from observing is plenty, yet I still am constantly surprised by the goings on, even though nothing has ever changed.
Some people seem to matter because they see to it that they are considered important yet invisible. Others are supposedly inconsequential. I'm tired of watching that odd phenomenon perpetuating itself daily; I'm tired of nutsoid gossiping; I'm weary of the lack of caring but plenty of remarks about "praying"...ha!
You know, come to think of it, those movers and shakers who manipulate the puppet/marionette strings are masters of the disappearing act. Indeed, they are invisible to the locals they manipulate as the self-considered VIPS trot around the globe and visit sunny spots and live way out where you cannot view their big-ass houses. BUT they do emerge in photo ops from time to time! Lucky us to catch a glimpse now and then.
Fickleness drives me up a wall. I appreciate the folks who way too often go unnoticed and who are just plain nice for no ulterior motives....just nice! And there are many of those!
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Query: How's come females who are just a tad older are not credited with having great ideas or maybe even some intellectual ability? Why can't all age groups be equal, I wonder, and appreciated without bias?
Beth Kennedy: "Great question, Susie!"
Denise Santoro: "Because society is obsessed with youth and beauty. Once someone is past their 'age' requirement, they get swept to the side. We have experience and have more to offer than a face and a body, but no one considers that. The more the media exploits younger women, airbrushing photos, plastic surgery and perfection, the more it will happen. Sadly, the more of an impact it will have on teen girls. I fear once the older generation like mine is gone, we're in trouble. People don't have the morals and ideals I was brought up with. We read books; we're taught to respect our teachers and mentors...therefore, older women have more to contribute. If I were Kim Kardashian, the butt implants would embarrass me. They think shaving off Barbie's boobs will change the way society looks at women. They need to start with the media. You could put the most intelligent older woman on a panel and a silicone bimbo next to her who just nods her head. People would ask the bimbo the questions. Thanks to social media we have discussions like this, blogs, things like that, and they're changing things a little bit; however, women over the age of 20 are disappearing more and more each day beneath a pile of glitter."
Kat Kelly-Heinzelman: "Some people might think it is time for older woman to be put out to pasture. Not me, but others think that. LOL. We have brains and we know how to use them. We were taught to respect our elders and do our homework and do our chores but this current generation isn't taught any of that ... so what happens after we are gone? It will be really sad - that is what."
Perfect! It seems like every age group has its detractors, but ZOUNDS this aging female crap is the pits. Misogyny is rampant in America whether admitted by anybody or not!
Women cooperate with objectifying themselves...cleavage drives me nuts! Not jealous, just embarrassed.
Whoever in this world imparted to females to adjust themselves at every turn and follow trends and actually change body parts under the knife or via laser surgery? This country is as clueless as any others that we typically demean for under-rating females and their/our very possible important contributions to society via brain power. It is just amazing to observe and very frustrating.
People have become fluffy and flaky and fickle (alliteration lives). I cannot believe that even the art of conversation is dead, totally dead, but what great responses. I am hopeful now!
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January 25, 2015
Flexibility of an open mind: Finding stuff!
A tease/announcement: looking diligently for something for three full days...found it...and am now at peace for a short time.
As near as I ever get to being Sherlock Holmes, I finally figure out where something got lost and re-locate the misplaced thingie! Via my secret formula! Works every time that secret formula does!
What is that secret formula, you may ask?
The cliché of THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX works here. Try to retrace your steps, yes, BUT be flexible in how you view what it is you believe you have lost?
Way too often the mind "sets" deter the imaginations gone wild and the impending discovery (such as was in this case an important document).
Was it an 8 by 10 size or otherwise? Was it folded three ways or otherwise? Was it paper-clipped together? Or stapled or multi pages or just one?
Too often, one's mind remembers the lost object incorrectly and when poring over a box's contents or a drawer's contents or the haphazard arrangements of papers all over the floor? Well, 11 times outta ten the frantic searcher bypasses the lost object.
Yes, I have tried to discover lost objects so often that I have now lost my sanity, but I have also found lots of stuff! Go figure?
The retrieval lay somewhere in FLEXIBILITY OF AN OPEN MIND, I have found!
(WARNING: Now be advised that others in the household frequently refuse to accept and abide by this tip; that makes for some fireworks, but it always works. Prevail. Do not back down in the face of those inevitably challenging family members who do not wish to bother to get on board with this foolproof method!)
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On another note ...
Hey, politicians, instead of creating ever more novel ways that YOU can turn a profit for yourselves one way or another (and raise our taxes for all manner of fluff projects), take a look at this "counter" and make yourselves useful and stop the war on other species!
More Than 150 Billion Animals Slaughtered Every Year
No need to vote for any of you on any level until you give a damn about the number one issue (rather than yourselves and your promoters): climate change and mass slaughter. Get your heads out of your butts. Stop preening and do something that counts for all living beings!
Thanks for this feedback!
Dee Turner: "The older I get, the more I seem to forget where I have put things. If all else fails I invoke the help of Saint Anthony to please come around... naming whatever is lost that has to be found! Then name it and keep searching with a positive expectation. Don't forget to say THANKS for his help when it finally shows it, as it inevitably does!"
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The books are also carried by these fine retailers: Ann Arbor's Bookbound and Common Language; Columbia City's North Side Grille and Whitley County Historical Museum; and Fort Wayne's The Bookmark.
And you can download from iTunes.
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As near as I ever get to being Sherlock Holmes, I finally figure out where something got lost and re-locate the misplaced thingie! Via my secret formula! Works every time that secret formula does!
What is that secret formula, you may ask?
The cliché of THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX works here. Try to retrace your steps, yes, BUT be flexible in how you view what it is you believe you have lost?
Way too often the mind "sets" deter the imaginations gone wild and the impending discovery (such as was in this case an important document).
Was it an 8 by 10 size or otherwise? Was it folded three ways or otherwise? Was it paper-clipped together? Or stapled or multi pages or just one?
Too often, one's mind remembers the lost object incorrectly and when poring over a box's contents or a drawer's contents or the haphazard arrangements of papers all over the floor? Well, 11 times outta ten the frantic searcher bypasses the lost object.
Yes, I have tried to discover lost objects so often that I have now lost my sanity, but I have also found lots of stuff! Go figure?
The retrieval lay somewhere in FLEXIBILITY OF AN OPEN MIND, I have found!
(WARNING: Now be advised that others in the household frequently refuse to accept and abide by this tip; that makes for some fireworks, but it always works. Prevail. Do not back down in the face of those inevitably challenging family members who do not wish to bother to get on board with this foolproof method!)
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On another note ...
Hey, politicians, instead of creating ever more novel ways that YOU can turn a profit for yourselves one way or another (and raise our taxes for all manner of fluff projects), take a look at this "counter" and make yourselves useful and stop the war on other species!
More Than 150 Billion Animals Slaughtered Every Year
No need to vote for any of you on any level until you give a damn about the number one issue (rather than yourselves and your promoters): climate change and mass slaughter. Get your heads out of your butts. Stop preening and do something that counts for all living beings!
Thanks for this feedback!
Dee Turner: "The older I get, the more I seem to forget where I have put things. If all else fails I invoke the help of Saint Anthony to please come around... naming whatever is lost that has to be found! Then name it and keep searching with a positive expectation. Don't forget to say THANKS for his help when it finally shows it, as it inevitably does!"
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Read about movies and nostalgia, animal issues and sociopolitical concerns all discussed in my book Secrets of an Old Typewriter and its follow-up Misunderstood Gargoyles and Overrated Angels - print and ebook versions of both are available on Amazon (click the title).
The books are also carried by these fine retailers: Ann Arbor's Bookbound and Common Language; Columbia City's North Side Grille and Whitley County Historical Museum; and Fort Wayne's The Bookmark.
And you can download from iTunes.
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January 22, 2015
Time to say "NO MORE" mean and stupid behavior: Otter hunting ok'd in Indiana
Oh, Calgon...or SOMETHING...take me away! From this ingrown state!!! (I need to go live in my son's basement.)Indiana tentatively OKs limited river otter trapping season
So we are on board yet again to slaughter (squirrels and) river otters for their...PELTS????
The weirdest most illogical statement ever..."Many other states that have reintroduced otters have implemented trapping seasons for river otters and they've still seen their otter populations thrive and increase." ~ a DNR nut!!! So Hoosiers will KILL otters BECAUSE they have increased and after the slaughter for FUR pelts, they will "thrive and increase"?????? HUH?
DNR imported the frolicking harmless, clownish, adorable otters in 1993--on purpose. Now, the otters are eating tooo many FEESH???? If we allow the river otters WHICH WE IMPORTED to be murdered by idiotic rednecks (fun and games), they (the river otters) will be healthier and MULTIPLY??? WTF?
HOPEFULLY THE REDNECKS STOP MULTIPLYING! As if they would even know what that term means? Probably think it's a damned math term?
I am getting so old and soooo disgusted by this Hoosier crap that I am about dead now! I am willing to protest like hell though, against this and against pig wrestling...and any other mindless cruelty that we are surrounded by.
And there is a crap-load of nastiness going on all of the time. Time to say "NO MORE" mean and stupid behavior to whoever does this OR promotes it!
Arghhhh and double arghhhh! PRAISE THE LORD AND PASS THE AMMUNITION!
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Thanks to these kind hearts for their empathy!
Reynard Red Fox: "Goodness me ..that's insane!"
June Wilson: "Crazy!!! Absolutely insane!"
Don Sexton: "I love it! Wonderful writing – with perfect pictures."
Kim Elizabeth Johnson: "I never realized how backward and unevolved Indiana is. But Michigan is not much better...kill, kill, kill. Is Susie the only one who cares in her home state? Where is the outrage? Where are the rights of those who enjoy wildlife ALIVE?"
Melanie Varner: "Sooo, what do we do? Because we have to do something."
Join this group: California-based River Otter Ecology Project with Megan Isdaore. There ARE good people in the world...on Facebook. ACTVISTS who get things done. Check them out! Yay!
Judy Kramer: "I don't even know what to say. In Michigan, we let kids at six shoot deer and put them in the paper with their so-called trophy!!! Now I know why I have so many more squirrels to feed - they are coming here to get away from Indiana and that's just fine!! Susie, you and I are kindred spirits. My 'Up North' local paper shows these 'trophy pics,' and this chick has a column in the Sunday Free Press with the same sh*t. If I wasn't such a news hound, I'd cancel it!!!"
I love Judy forever!!!!!! We, too, get to see trophy pix of youthful hunters who have pulled the animal's tongue out and to the side, and the kids have their tongues out as well? Not to be believed.
The rampant racism in these various publications is one thing; the sensationalism is another; and the gun advocacy and utter disregard for other species is yet another. Sports, sports, sports and smug Bible-thumping and sheer hatefulenss -- those are the stories.
Save me from the so-called SPORTS world of ignoramuses...and their photo ops of debauchery! And pig wrestling 'shots' for summer fun are the most eerie and kinky photos in the world. (I wanna go after the clucks who promote pig wrestling, too, before they ever hold those "contests" again...even one more time! Youth ganging up on another species, several of them against one frightened being!) Time to speak up...time to be kind. So tired of the bullying crap!
Oh, wait...obits. We still have obits in our papers, obits that poor grieving souls have to pay for now besides horrendous funeral expenses.
Media in its traditional sense has become useless and manipulative, beholden to corporate America and special interests. Very sad situation for all of us!
(And don't forget the politicians. They have already started coming outta the woodwork with DECLARATIONS OF ELECTABILITY. Here we go again. Vainglorious claptrap, special agendas, manipulations and gang warfare. my stomach hurts already, and just think of all the expensive signs dotting the landscape. What's it all about? Same old same old! It's all so local and so clique-ish, no matter what level of government. It is all high school. High school never ends; good luck to communities, good luck to states, good luck to America...HIGH SCHOOL ALL OVER AGAIN!)
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The books are also carried by these fine retailers: Ann Arbor's Bookbound and Common Language; Columbia City's North Side Grille and Whitley County Historical Museum; and Fort Wayne's The Bookmark.
And you can download from iTunes.
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January 13, 2015
He prayeth well, who loveth well.
save Indiana from being sold off for greed... senate panel considers banning local limits on factory farms
obviously republicans care neither about human nor animal welfare...protest this effort...no matter what party you are affiliated with...do not let human greed destroy our state...do not be fooled by these efforts...this is blood money...this is a horror...this is terrorism...even if bible verses get attached along the way...horrid! pay attention to who and what and why...you'll be amazed. do not be duped by those you may even know who will slaughter for money.
Kim Elizabeth Johnson: "Another Republican who will be unhappy until profit wins out over what's best for the animals, the environment, and the residents!" that's right, kim!
well, enough is enough...NC is poisoning its populace with these lagoons of blood and guts and waste...cancer everywhere...so IF one cares not for the rights and welfare of animals, the human species should at least matter to the...human species? this is absolutely atrocious...and the republicans stacked the deck this last election with the help of the Koch brothers and Monsanto...shameful...and tragic.
frightening.
(shhhh...but animal enthusiasts are more supportive of human achievements than old friends and family are...amazing...totally amazing...but I gotta keep that discovery under my hat! LOL! thank heavens for facebook and for open and intelligent and accepting minds!)
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The books are also carried by these fine retailers: Ann Arbor's Bookbound and Common Language; Columbia City's North Side Grille and Whitley County Historical Museum; and Fort Wayne's The Bookmark.
And you can download from iTunes.
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Join a great group of animal advocates Squawk Back: Helping animals when others can't ... Or Won't
obviously republicans care neither about human nor animal welfare...protest this effort...no matter what party you are affiliated with...do not let human greed destroy our state...do not be fooled by these efforts...this is blood money...this is a horror...this is terrorism...even if bible verses get attached along the way...horrid! pay attention to who and what and why...you'll be amazed. do not be duped by those you may even know who will slaughter for money.
Kim Elizabeth Johnson: "Another Republican who will be unhappy until profit wins out over what's best for the animals, the environment, and the residents!" that's right, kim!
well, enough is enough...NC is poisoning its populace with these lagoons of blood and guts and waste...cancer everywhere...so IF one cares not for the rights and welfare of animals, the human species should at least matter to the...human species? this is absolutely atrocious...and the republicans stacked the deck this last election with the help of the Koch brothers and Monsanto...shameful...and tragic.
frightening.
"Farewell, farewell! but this I tell
To thee, thou Wedding-Guest!
He prayeth well, who loveth well.
Both man and bird and beast.
He prayeth best, who loveth best
All things both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us
He made and loveth all."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
(shhhh...but animal enthusiasts are more supportive of human achievements than old friends and family are...amazing...totally amazing...but I gotta keep that discovery under my hat! LOL! thank heavens for facebook and for open and intelligent and accepting minds!)
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The books are also carried by these fine retailers: Ann Arbor's Bookbound and Common Language; Columbia City's North Side Grille and Whitley County Historical Museum; and Fort Wayne's The Bookmark.
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January 8, 2015
and pineapple is an appropriate welcoming sign
awww, what the hell? two statuses at once! it is very difficult to type while wearing mittens! (that was the first!)
and the second is that I finally made US some SUNSHINE PASTA SALAD, a recipe from 35 years ago...the last time I whipped that dish up was when I fulfilled my middle sister's yearning for that treat when she was suffering from pancreatic cancer...
made it for her several times...she asked that I leave the pineapple OUT...but now I have resumed the inclusion of pineapple...
and pineapple is an appropriate welcoming sign from ages past...and hey, I am a welcoming sort!!!
"Hey, planet Earth? Get a grip! Only you humans can do that. Begin today." ~ Surreal gods and goddesses, Incorporated
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Don Sexton: "It is good to find your mittens – especially at -10 degrees. P.S. The salad was spectacular!!!!!"
Paul Hoofard: "LOL!"
Drex Morton: "An excellent writer always leaves you wanting something more... And now I want pineapple pasta salad..."
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and the second is that I finally made US some SUNSHINE PASTA SALAD, a recipe from 35 years ago...the last time I whipped that dish up was when I fulfilled my middle sister's yearning for that treat when she was suffering from pancreatic cancer...
made it for her several times...she asked that I leave the pineapple OUT...but now I have resumed the inclusion of pineapple...
and pineapple is an appropriate welcoming sign from ages past...and hey, I am a welcoming sort!!!
"Hey, planet Earth? Get a grip! Only you humans can do that. Begin today." ~ Surreal gods and goddesses, Incorporated
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thanks for the feedback!
Don Sexton: "It is good to find your mittens – especially at -10 degrees. P.S. The salad was spectacular!!!!!"
Paul Hoofard: "LOL!"
Drex Morton: "An excellent writer always leaves you wanting something more... And now I want pineapple pasta salad..."
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The books are also carried by these fine retailers: Ann Arbor's Bookbound and Common Language; Columbia City's North Side Grille and Whitley County Historical Museum; and Fort Wayne's The Bookmark.
And you can download from iTunes.
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January 6, 2015
Old Type Writer: Submission to "ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS…." (With an Homage to Cinematic Hitch!)
Enjoy the latest "Old Type Writer" column Submission to "ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS…." (With an Homage to Cinematic Hitch!) - you can read the column in its entirety at this link: http://talkofthetownwc.com/oldtypewri... In tribute to post-holiday survival and inspired by a rediscovery of the classic TV series Alfred Hitchcock Presents, the column details in comic fashion the shenanigans of one Squiggy Squirrel in the late 1980s and the familial turmoil that his hijinks prompted. Enjoy! (And any time you see a phrase in red font in the column, click for a videographic surprise!)
Excerpt: "Sleet causes her automobile to skid now and then. She notices a plump, ginger-colored squirrel very still as it reclines on its pudgy side, its fluffy plume of a tail slowly swishing in the swirls of wind sweeping across the roadway. She swerves to avoid the tiny appealing rodent no doubt previously scampering friskily from bare, stark tree trunk to tree trunk and tight-rope walking among multiple limbs." Read the rest at http://www.talkofthetownwc.com/oldtyp...
In the column at the link ... Photo by Don Sexton; Hitchcock drawing by Andria Anderson.
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...And how about that Sarah Palin?
Palin is so beholden to the good ole boys and I think those lecherous fellas encourage her outbursts...probably even write them? Cuz they basically are not only NRA sportsy country club hunters but they are also courtin' redneck votes if rednecks ever manage to register...
She is a creation of some sort...I think they pay her to dream up some other new ways to abuse animals....AND liberals! I detest her at this point. Some clowns actually follow her so-called lead...hopefully she stumbles really badly one of these photo op days!
Sarah Pariah! She reminds me of a sorority pledge who never got to go active! Nor should have!
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And you can download from iTunes.
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