I’ve never had much attraction for Whoopi Goldberg. I never found her funny or talented except in the way certain overblown characters mock their humanity. Whatever it would take for a person to be willing to appear on Hollywood Squares would be enough to guarantee that we would never meet except by unfortunate accident.

Whoopee says that it wasn’t “rape, rape” and "All I'm trying to get you to understand is when we're talking about what someone did and what they were charged with.” She also said something about how they look at things differently in Hollywood. I can’t recall the exact quote and I don’t want to go looking for it because her picture might come up again and I don’t want to go through that twice in one morning.

I read the grand jury testimony so I know what Polanski did. In the process of a photo shoot he managed to finally get her naked in a hot tub. Then he relocated her to a room and performed oral sex on her. Then he penetrated her against her will which had been compromised by a Quaalude he gave her. I’m familiar with what Quaaludes do. They were very available at one time. Then, he penetrated her anally. Here’s the point where serious outrage can make an appearance but anywhere along the route will do.

During the course of the legal process, he paid the girl off and his pricey lawyers did what they were hired to do and cut a deal with the judge. Apparently the judge backed off on the deal and it looked like Mr. Repulsion was going to prison so he did a Houdini to the old country where he’s been plying his trade and living among his peers in various locations. He went to Switzerland to accept an award and he got arrested which is where he is now. I’m less than a hundred kilometers from where he is at this very moment.

I lived in Hollywood for awhile. I knew some people and that was an in for all kinds of things; meaning I got to got to certain parties and the upstairs rooms at certain clubs. That’s not a big deal. All sorts of people know people and some of them aren’t even people. Hollywood is one of the centers of psychopathy on the planet; like D.C. and NYC and anywhere that large populations congregate to grant a larger selection of victims. In Hollywood, the money men run the place. Anything goes depending on who you are and I mean ‘anything’. Thirteen year old girls and boys are as available as after dinner mints; younger ones too.

Satanism and its sister cult, Scientology are very big and very powerful. There are some heavy players in the satanic subculture. You won’t have heard about them because they really do keep a low profile. They celebrate the four low Holy Days in grand style. Ritual murder happens and that’s just the way it is. Normal people can’t grasp what some of these people get up to. It’s another order of thinking.

As a writer and a cultural anthropologist, I have more than a natural curiosity about things. I’ve also got a great deal of caution when it comes to things like this. I wanted to know about certain things but I didn’t want that to be known so it’s a slippery shelf.

When you’ve got a certain kind of ‘in’ in Hollywood you can run into just about anyone. Ancient celebrities, the up and comers and all of those who make their money being around them are ubiquitous. Where I lived, I could look down on Milton Berle’s pool. I was on a street called Wolf Drive, if I remember correctly. Other times I lived in the heart of Hollywood. The strangest people in the world are there and you see them every day. You see young children selling themselves on the street. Not much gets done about any of it. There’s a huge brooding demon that squats over the whole town. I’ve seen him.

So when Whoopee says things are different there you may rely on that being true. There’s no moral compass whatsoever. It’s the most natural thing in the world for people to screw each other over on a routine basis. It’s they way things get done. The surprise in the Polanski matter is that it ever came to light in the first place. These things are usually handled discreetly. They happen every day there. Parents know what’s happening and many of them willingly offer their kids because of the possibility of fame and fortune.

Six months was all I could take of the place, although I came and went over the years at brief interludes. I’m not going to name drop. It would serve no purpose. Their world is not my world. My world these days is pretty much me and the dogs and my consort and her mother. I might not speak to another person- except whatever salutations are exchanged at the check out counter or the cash register- for long periods of time. I don’t really have anything to say to anyone because whatever interests me does not interest others most of the time. I had the good fortune to receive a visit from a reader recently and that was wonderful. It had been nearly a year since the last time this happened. I’m a recluse and I like it just fine.

I’ve seen the world that Polanski moves in over here. I’ve been to St. Tropez and other places. I’ve seen the enormous yachts and the glitterati glittering about. I’ve never seen people take themselves so seriously. They love their importance among their fellows and, like in Hollywood, they scheme together. They look for the angles. They set out after each others husbands and wives. Scammers move among them like barracuda around a reef. When you don’t want anything from anybody you see things that others can’t see because their vision is compromised by their desires.

I don’t know what to think about Polanski getting arrested. I don’t care much one way or the other. He’s into dark things, this I know, so… who knows exactly what brought him to this pass? I do believe in Karma and that’s what we have here. I also am aware that this is The Apocalypse, more rather an apocalypse and things happen at these times that don’t happen at other times. All sorts of people are being exposed and destroyed in various ways. There’s a force of judgment loose and it’s going about …passing judgment. It’s going to increase as time passes and there are going to be some big surprises.

I hear from a lot of people who tell me that the reptiles and other soulless husks have got everything sewn up. I see people imagining all kinds of things. The fact is that nobody knows what’s coming, including the people who think they’re running the show. They are not running the show. They are mere object lessons. They are being manipulated by a force that cares less about them than they do about their victims. They are in hard hands with no mercy on the horizon. Polanski and his apologists are just more of the deluded who demand one standard for themselves and another for everyone else.

Young girls and boys are simply party favors at the grand buffet, where the high steppers strut their arrogant disregard for the restraints that their lessers are confined by. They think the party is going to go on forever but that is not the case.

Someone wrote to me this morning to tell me that I can’t be very aware and awake if I don’t know that ‘all’ the natural disasters are being caused by the illuminati. That’s ridiculous. I don’t doubt that they are up to things like this but there are a number of things happening simultaneously and the only connection between them is the times in which they occur. We are at a certain point on the cosmic clock. You can think of the cosmic clock as a three dimensional item where planets are passing in relation to each other through a continuum.

When the auto was invented there were a number of people working independently on producing a car. The same goes for most things that appear in this world. Certain forces rule at certain times. Civilization, if you can call it that, has reached a nexus and things are going to be shaken up. There’s a purpose to it all and a dynamic. All kinds of things are going to happen; are happening.

I believe in a greater good. I do not believe in the world of appearances that give power to temporary things. I am convinced that everything is under control and not by the fools who imagine it is them who hold the reins. Grant yourself the freedom to be confident no matter how thinks look and your fortune will follow suit.

Fade Away

The New Shangri-La

I'm still wondering how he managed to get alone with a 13 year old girl (or boy) in the first place. Were there no parents, no manager, no crew or assistants or anyone else in the place besides him and the girl?...Apparently not.

What kind of people would let their 13 year old daughter go to a photo shoot alone, with a 44 year old man? It just doesn't make sense.

Jack

appolonius demonstrates that he has more common sense than the nations of france and poland

thank you

as i recall (i can't remember where, though) some sort parental permission was given. a parent who wanted "success" for her/his daughter, and no doubt was aware of what hollywood demands, per appolonius' point

That was really beautiful,appolonious,imho.

This line, especially, struck me as brilliant: When you don’t want anything from anybody you see things that others can’t see because their vision is compromised by their desires.

Agree with you re: Polanski case. And I, too have always believed in the 'greater good' , over the proverbial 'dark side'.

Lovely to read this ,this morning.

~LAM

intentions this morning to switch topics and write on Whoopee Goldberg and Roman Polanski. Sigh, and it was going to be a good rant too.

Unfortunately you beat me to the post this morining and your effort was brilliant.

Like I said already, they do know. In this case a girlfriend was supposed to come along but Polanski dissuaded that at the last minute according to the Grand Jury report.

I've seen this sort of thing at work. You can't do anything about it in Hollywood. You would get locked up... or worse. You don't fuck with these people on their home ground.

conventional wisdom aside (in this location), you're no slouch and I love the way you hand it to them. You and J.D. have one thing in common. You push the envelope far beyond what you actually believe just to get a rise out of them. I appreciate it. There's no hypocrite quite like a liberal hypocrite. When conservatives do it you kind of understand because of the war between their loins and their minds. With liberals it's the sort of thing you saw from Ms. Whoopee Cushion. Her statements reveal a cancer at her center that is worse than the Bush administration.

they wouldn't recognize truth if it hit 'em in the face like a wet noodle. They just go on their oblivious way, they never stop to think, they never even stop to wonder what it would be like to be able to think.

being neither a liberal nor a conservative. Although both political systems are corrupt, it remains best to keep them roughly balanced in power and influence. The corrupt keeping the corrupt almost honest via their mutual corruption.

Being an outsider, it's relatively easy for me to kick sand into the machinery depending on which side I think needs a bit of deflating. It is also, I freely admit, pure fun. No matter who I kick I am righteously kicking a hypocrite, or a very bad person, in the arse. When nearly everyone is a bad guy of some sort, one becomes spoiled for choice.

As for my posting style, yes, I have always pushed the envelope. If nothing else, that way, whenever I do dial it back and produce something meticulously reasoned and thoughtful, everyone is thereafter stumbling around on this board in a state of shock. Not unlike yourself, eh?

Meh, it's a hobby.

Free and objective thinking compromises self-interest as well as the atheist posture of most of the people here. They know what's going on. They just don't care. It interferes with their tight associations with the ones committing the horrors. They really do believe they might get a piece of the action.

or avocation as the case may be.

Some of us have freed ourselves from financial concerns and can employ ourselves full time on our time for our reasons. Since I am bankrolled by God I have to assume he likes my work (no joke there). I'm learning. I'm eager to learn. That is one of the benefits of 'arrested development'. It doesn't always have to have negative connotations. Sometimes it is a real asset, like my MPS where all the characters talk to and like each other... not one "Bad Jack" in the bunch.

"Free and objective thinking compromises self-interest as well as the atheist posture of most of the people here."

Free and objective thinking are removed from self-interest, otherwise it wouldn't be free and objective. the atheistic posture comment of yours is interesting. it seems you are convinced of a supernatural order of things (assuming this is not the order of natural science). again, this defies definition. it makes no allowances for the chaotic occurance of events. not chaotic in the sense that it defies cause and effect, but chaotic meaning a high level of variables affecting each other on an order of magnitude that is intellectually unfathonable by the human mind. but small parts of the chaos are observable and understandable. your God orientation will say that is exactly what God's dimension and power is, but it is more definable as the realm which we do not have the intellect to master, even though we can understand the methodology and components when viewed in small segments. nothing supernatural about human's intellectual limits.

so you've seen shit in hollywood. what's the big deal. it's common knowledge that its the home of neurotic narcistic people, predominantly form certain ethnic origins that defy anchors, convention and doing what they're supposed to. if the movie industry could do math, they'd be working in Houston. They can do sayances and get naked and play with their appendages. So they do it. This is nothing noteworthy. Just in need of psychological counseling.

knowledge has withdrawn from the conscious decision to employ self-infecting restraint to principle and precident, otherwise the free association of thoughtless benign action would reconstitute the pure intentions of the otherwise free alliance between the perpendicular to truth and the more common staid reliance on society norms.

It isn't as stoic as you think.

On the one hand you have cosmic indifference to objective analysis while on the other hand the angels are masturbating waiting for the bottomless pit to open up and swallow atheistic ambition and all the followers of darker matter.

But when Buzz Lightyear returns, the dark matter resurfaces as an agent of Zurg and all is good again in the battle of stupidity that reigns supreme in the Universe of free thought.