Eugene Navakas

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Eugene Navakas

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Lit. Ph.D. turned TV writer. Art junkie.
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And a mist of orgeat for the road.
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Lol. Maybe that's the second thing that drew my like.
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Keats/Yeats/sweats was precisely what got my like!
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I've spent a lot of time watching Shelley Duvall over the past week, and she was never less than electrifying, and a pleasure to watch, even in the smallest role. This piece went out on @guardianfilm today just hours before we heard the sad news. Hope I did her justice. RIP.
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My longest-standing grievance is "immanent."
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And this is just the city proper, not the county!
This is my favorite map showing how big LA is compared to some other places.
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There are so many, but a great one I tend to see mentioned less often is Friday Night Lights.
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JR, by William Gaddis Pitch black, ruthless, routinely laugh-out-loud satire. Also long, but that doesn't seem to be an obstacle in this case!
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You're welcome! One of the odd things about this one is that the sky above the smog layer was entirely blue and sunny. The actual pollution stats are far better than even a couple decades ago, but the camera zoom makes it feel like complete, unrelenting haze.
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"Here's hopin' those goons used up their big booms." --Elena, the bees' knees, the cat's meow, prohibition flapper
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Aretha Franklin, A Change Is Gonna Come
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Remembering the extraordinary evening of the Writers Guild's celebration of the Best 101 Screenplays, during which I had the good fortune to stand next to this Mount Rushmore of screenwriters. Frank gone now, and Robert too; but Larry and George still thankfully with us, standing strong.
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An excellent excuse to post a link to dazzle camouflage, used extensively during WWI and pioneered by the painter Edward Wadsworth and the Vorticists: www.google.com/search?clien...
dazzle camouflage - Google Searchwww.google.com
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Love a good foreword. Also have been known to flip straight to Acknowledgements right after.
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lol. At least they're not on the same bill with Free Beer.
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Dig it! I was certainly thinking of the smudged boundary between industry and nature.
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Hey! Good to hear from you! Thank you so much. It was so smoggy that I couldn't even make out the downtown LA skyline, but then I rounded a corner to that.
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Ah! Makes sense. I kinda like Crete's 'taur.
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I am intimately aware of Mr. Johnson--even read a couple of his manuscript letters last summer!--and I get it, but he's wrong.
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(Though I suspect you know that.)
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The work itself is the point, right? Not the only point, sure, but there's more to life than the market. Glad to hear you're getting back to it!