In "Beau is Afraid," Ari Aster's third film, we're taken on a surreal and chaotic journey with Joaquin Phoenix as Beau, a neurotic man tormented by inherited mental illness. It's a cinematic experience unlike any other. With a budget of $35 million, A24 has given Aster carte blanche to create a unique and unsettling movie that runs for three hours. But trust me; this is a movie you cannot miss. Ari Aster says, "Beau is Afraid" is like "if you pumped a 10-year-old full of Zoloft and had him get your groceries." Just remember, you've been warned.

This author is all in on Robert F Kennedy Jr for President. After my first four months of retirement, I decided to pay more attention to Bobby Kennedy Jr., Glen Greenwald, Matt Taibbi, Catalyn Johnston, Scott Horton, Dennis Kucinich and others. Let me explain why I will support RFK Jr., while not discussing his candidacy for several paragraphs.

I still read the New York Times and Washington Post's official take on things, but mainstream media seems to be always moving in lockstep with the Oligarchy and the Military Industrial Complex. When I moved out of the country (to Thailand) I wanted to escape a dysfunctional country. Maybe America looks more dysfunctional from afar, but there are recent major stories to backup the view that America's descent into madness or fascism is accelerating.

(Note: This is the edited text for the introduction to the April 13 screening of Tender Comrade and Sahara at the Academy Museum for this series commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Hollywood Blacklist. The double feature included a discussion with screenwriter John Howard Lawson’s granddaughters Andrea Lawson and Nancy Lawson Carcione moderated by series co-presenter Ed Rampell.)

Friends, film fans, Angelenos – Comrades! Welcome, and thanks for joining us for the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures’ film series, The Hollywood Ten at 75, which commemorates the 75th anniversary of the Hollywood Blacklist. Tonight, we launch the series with an appropriate double feature written by the first two members of the Hollywood Ten to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee.

Our Green Emergency Election Protection Coalition Zoom #133 begins with ANDY MOORE of the National Association of Non-Partisan Reformers, a nationwide coalition of organizations working for election reform.

The great ANDREA MILLER of the Center for Common Ground fills us in on her great grassroots push in Virginia.

NORM STOCKWELL of Progressive.org then explains the aftermath of the progressive movement’s huge Supreme Court victory in Wisconsin, which will stretch deep into the 2024 presidential election.

We then hear from the great ANNA GYORGY about German’s monumental decision to shut down ALL its atomic reactors, which finally closed on April 15.

In tandem we hear about the world-changing ENERGIEWENDE, Germany’s incredibly rapid and effective shift toward a 100% green-powered energy supply in the world’s 4th-largest economy.  

Anna is joined by SCOTT DENMAN and by LINDA PENCE, both legendary long-term safe energy activists with great things to say about this European dawn of Solartopia.   

PART TWO:  SECOND HOUR…..please also put this on the air where you can…