tele-v watch

watch on hbo.  = or, az pr. 
DEADWOOD              [ eventually > Treme.

Deadwood notes -- safari bkmrks (fr phone) to dlcs / dlww

az prime   .. JUSTIFIED


- Wolf Wall St
        / Glengarry Glen Ross.  Wall Street.  Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.  /maybe.
~ The Amers s2   // s3 about to start. 
AHS Coven / maybe.                      } so az pr gets FX.  (incl Fargo?)



also on hbogo:
- Defiant. 
.. new comedy Togetherness             //veep. comeback. getting on.*





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netflix:
           //~brit detective / prison//
Happy Valley  **  yorkshire.                 ... The Missing /BBC find..
Hinterland  **  london>wales.                           [ The Fall  ~ /lost int s2.    /n ireland/
Wentworth *
Broadchurch  dorset, engl                  ... Lilyhammer /norway/  , Wallander /sweden/
Peaky Blinders   1919 birmingh,england.


       // dramas //
SOA                                              [ done:  Top of the Lake.  Rectify.
Rescue Me
Longmire ~
The 4400  *                                                    [  The Returned.  /s2 in France??
Fringe

         //comedy / edge //
Skins     *                                                       [  Terriers
The Guild  *
My Name is Earl   /fla?
Bojack Horseman
Boondocks  /chgo/


        //docs//
Of Two Minds.
The Anonymous People.
Brother's Keeper. 
Slavoj Zizek.  ~ 


        //movies.//
The Family.
There Will Be Blood.  /other Coen Brs

when people say they fear the police.. also, when confronted with criminal element they will have no one to call upon to protect them. ..feeling of vulnerability and utter helplessness

After the Eric Garner Decision by Amy Davidson 2014/12/15  | The New Yorker:



When Mayor Bill de Blasio ran for office, he talked about radically cutting back one such measure, the N.Y.P.D.’s stop-and-frisk policies, which had become not only a civil-rights violation inflicted on a generation of mostly young black and Latino New Yorkers but counterproductive. There were almost seven hundred thousand stops in 2011. There have been fewer than fifty thousand this year, and crime is still falling. De Blasio’s recent proposal to have the police deal with the possession of small amounts of marijuana by issuing summonses, rather than by making arrests, is designed to help reduce the disparities in arrest rates and prevent arrest records from derailing young people’s job prospects and their futures. His announcement, on Thursday, that every N.Y.P.D. officer will take a retraining course whose goals will include not letting “adrenaline” and ego get the best of them is intended to help prevent deaths like Eric Garner’s.


 .. Loretta Lynch in 2000: “We live in a time where people fear the police,” she said. “But we must also understand that when people say they fear the police, as bad as that is, they are also expressing an underlying fear, that when they are confronted with the criminal element in our society they will have no one to call upon to protect them. And that feeling of vulnerability and utter helplessness is the worst feeling that we can inflict upon fellow-members of our society.” 



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Eric Garner Jul17; John Crawford Aug5; Michael Brown Aug9; Tamir Rice Nov22 ...

11/29 reading re Ferguson....
grand jury announcemnt: declined to indict on ~ Mon 11/24 pm


thenewinquiry.com/essays/in-defense-of-looting

eugenefischer.com/2014/11/26/tabclosing-ferguson-edition

themarooncolony.com/2014/11/28/the-curator-for-1128-ferguson

theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/11/barack-obama-ferguson-and-the-evidence-of-things-unsaid/383212



12/3 reading re Eric Garner.... 
grand jury announcemnt:  declined to indict on ~ Wed 12/3 pm


www.google.com/search?q=Eric+Garner+John+Crawford+Michael+Brown+Tamir+Rice&oq=Eric+Garner+John+Crawford+Michael+Brown+Tamir+Rice&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i65.269j0j4&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=91&ie=UTF-8

 Eric Garner Jul17;  John Crawford Aug5;  Michael Brown Aug9;  Tamir Rice Nov22


salon.com/2014/12/04/rand_paul%E2%80%99s_terrible_night_he_wrecks_his_2016_campaign_with_an_awful_eric_garner_answer/

... real-life exs of Eric Garner, John Crawford, Tamir Rice, Ezell Ford and Michael Brown, just counting back to August.   cops 21x more likely shoot a black suspect than a white one.



thefreethoughtproject.com/open-carry-protest-held-walmart-john-crawford-killed-holding-toy-gun

gently swinging toy rifle picked up from the shelf in the store.  while talking on phone. surveillance ftg suddenly drops. 


...Ezell Ford 25 yrs ld.  LA.  mental illness.


washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/12/04/some-thoughts-on-eric-garner

dailykos.com/story/2014/12/03/1349181/-When-your-hopes-are-rejected-Life-after-the-public-lynching-of-Eric-Garner


vox.com/2014/12/4/7337157/no-indictment-eric-garner
Why wasn't the cop who killed Eric Garner indicted? - Police credibility. 

and bcs:

newyorker.com/news/amy-davidson/eric-garner-grand-jury-didnt-see
What the Eric Garner Grand Jury .. - The New Yorker | good point:/  an over-[valuing] of white *intentions*. As any prosecutor knows, there are offenses on the books that don’t turn on a will to murder, or crude racism, or even unkindness. Officer Pantaleo says that he didn’t want to kill anyone; Officer Wilson was scared. Each of them might still have been charged with a crime.    //yes. can commit a crime without ~ trying to be bad, do wrong.   can be guilty without having had bad intentions.   /wh is it? murder one, th requires intent ~ show motive (or is that just to reduce doubt, show reasonability of why wld do).  anyway not necess for other convictions. //


themarooncolony.com/2014/12/05/the-curator-for-125-eric-garner-america-black-men-and-confronting-this-legacy




~earlier

http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2014/08/michael_brown_and_our_obsession_with_respectable_black_victims.html


Michael Brown & Our Obsession With Respectable Black Victims - The Root | 
"Unarmed Teen Shot By Police Days Before He Was Scheduled to Leave for College"   OK? And what if Monday was to have been his first day of standing on the corner not doing a damn thing?


http://gawker.com/what-black-parents-tell-their-sons-about-the-police-1624412625
see below (dated as earlier today post)




 notes           



Treyvon Martin   Febr 26  2012  Florida   17 yrs ld /barely! b.  5 Feb 1995  was "16"  3 wks earlier. 
a jury acquitted Zimmerman July 2013  of second-degree murder and of manslaughter charges



police shootings    grand jury declines to indite


2014

Eric Garner NY July 17     John Crawford OH Aug 5    Michael Brown MO Aug 9    Tamir Rice  OH Nov 22

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Eric Garner    July 17   NY   Staten Island     /chokehold  -illegal nypd  -ruled homicide by MedExmr  /on cam learly no aggression.     43 yrs ld    six children.


John Crawford  Aug 5  Ohio   (fr Beavercreek)   22  yrs ld   Dayton area Walmart   /surveillance cam, no pointing of  (toy) gun   - and OH is open carry anyway. 
                                  

Michael Brown    Aug 9    St Louis Mo  Ferguson      18 yrs ld.


Ezell Ford       Aug 11  LA   25 yrs ld   "Every officer in this area, from the Newton Division, knows that — that this child has mental problems”


Tamir Rice  Nov 22   Cleveland Ohio   12 yrs ld    by playgr   toy gun   ~was pntg   shot immedly


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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforcement_officers_in_the_United_States,_August_2014




cbsnews.com/news/cop-who-shot-tamir-rice-was-distracted-and-weepy-say-ex-bosses
Dec 3...Tamir Rice, 12, died the day after the Nov. 22 shooting, which sparked protests in Cleveland. A grand jury will consider whether to bring charges against the rookie officer, Tim Loehmann.

Sep 24 ... A grand jury in Ohio decided Wednesday not to indict any police officers for the shooting of John Crawford III, who was killed by police at a..

M Brown press cnfr announcing no indictmnt Mon pm Nov 24. 

Eric Garner NY Grand Jury announced yesterday Wed pm 12/3 no indictmnt.  

Don't get in trouble with police they will kill you. Save all receipts and buy sth to place yrslf every hour.

gawker- What Black Parents Tell Their Sons About the Police

... It makes people afraid to have black babies, because they won't stand a chance. As a black woman, nothing will stop me from bearing and raising my future child, but nothing will stop me from raising them in fear. Being a black parent, especially of a black boy, comes with the added onus of having to protect your child from a country that is out to get him—a country that kills someone that looks like him every 28 hours, a country that will likely imprison him by his mid-thirties if he doesn't get his high school diploma, a country that is more than twice as likely to suspend him from school than a white classmate. There are so many things I need to tell my future son, already, before I've birthed him; so many innocuous, trite thoughts that may not make a single difference. Don't wear a hoodie. Don't try to break up a fight. Don't talk back to cops. Don't ask for help. But they're all variations of a single theme: Don't give them an excuse to kill you. I needed advice on how to do this, so I reached out to a small group of people. For black parents, I asked: What rules, warnings, survival tactics are you giving your children as you raise them? For black youth: What have you been taught? What did you learn on your own?



8/21/14 9:56am
-Hocofaisan:

I grew up in the Hamptons of NY.  One of the only less than 10 (if I gave the exact number it would identify me to schoolmates) black kids in the entire school district of which my siblings were a significant percentage of that.

My parents being immigrants from the Caribbean were all about assimilation.

French last name, French first names. Edge applying for jobs.

No rap music allowed in the house. No slang allowed. Pronunciation classes.

My parents gave us the talk at 7 years old:

Always act as if you are an ambassador of your race.

You must work twice as hard for half as much.

The burden of proof is always on you.

White people fear you, and some envy you (we were upper middle class).

Don't get in trouble with police they will kill you. 
If a police officer is present, leave. 
If you can't leave shut up and keep your hands in view.

Keep all reciepts [receipts], and if you are in a strange place buy something to place yourself every hour. 

Even with the talk, my mother had to fight tooth and nail to keep us out of manufactured trouble in middle school and high school. Threatening to sue the school district on 2 occasions to keep things out of our records or to get grades changed on assignments. I always wonder how my life would have turned out if I wasn't fortunate to have a father to made enough that my mother had the option to work a parttime job so she could fight the school district.



 -I'm AFAM and I got ALL of this. We were given Anglo-Irish or Spanish (middle) names. ...I asked my parents (at about age 8) why we couldn't join the country club. Mom: "If someone's wallet goes missing, they will blame you." I understood. A few years ago I went camping: one WM, his black girlfriend, their neighbors (black couple and son). The cops let us know that other campers complained about our "noise" and called them (it was late pm). We were issued citations for disorderly conduct. The WM and I are attorneys. When the cops (WM) came up, I let him do the talking and hung back. I looked around at the rest of us. Every other black person (1) made no eye contact with cops; (2) said not one word while they were there; (3) pretended to be busy cooking/tidying/setting up .

the thing that makes you awesome is the thing that

// the thing that makes you awesome is the thing that makes you suck, always
am at this tumblr srch via ggle for jacob clifton *makes you awesome* *makes you suck" "always"
bcs reading it here: //  Find The Lady - The Good Wife 3-1 'The New Day' recap by jacob clifton | TWoP: The thing that makes you awesome is the thing that makes you suck, always. Alicia's higher standards of personal behavior and development make her awesome, but they're also the main sucky thing about her.
//and i recognize it as sth I've read twopj saying before, maybe more than once, a refrain -- the context I am thinking of is re PLL, I think, re Hannah.



tumblr.com/search/jacob+clifton


'Frozen' is obviously the best movie of all time, but the thing nobody ever mentions is how at the end, Elsa becomes God, or at least a Goddess: If she can bring winter and summer, then she’s covered the whole board. She’s the Black Swan.  [televisionwithoutpity.com/show/pretty-little-liars/unmasked-1/9]
But the only way that can happen for sure in the real world is if you understand that you are not the Anna to anybody else’s Elsa: That movie works like a dream, where you are all the characters at the same time.
Your unconditional love for yourself is what powers the change, but you can’t change until you accept what already is, which is the paradox that fuels any successful therapeutic or spiritual change. You can’t change What Is until you accept What Is //y. read him saying this ~ on his blog ~ knees up ? as a ~diatribe.  .. sth re have to accept cannot fly... //; the paradox is that by that time, you’ll be so much higher for having transcended it that all that poison and garbage just turns into fuel for the furthering of your awesomeness.
Which is why 'Frozen' is the best movie of all time:
Holding both parts of yourself in alignment, for the rest of your life;  **
being at peace with the part of yourself that will never be at peace.
Understanding that the thing that makes you awesome is the thing that makes you suck, always;
that being ashamed of that part of yourself leaves it without any way to be effective except at hurting you from the inside.  So do you want to fight your demons until you’re both bleeding, or do you want to love them into serving you?
-Jacob Clifton, http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/show/pretty-little-liars/free-fall/6/


** Ali Smith [The Accidental] Talks About Her New Book, ‘How to Be Both’ - NYTimes |   .. how to reconcile, how to be tolerant of all the possibilities, to recognize how fine it is to be us & to be in the world.



Everybody knows that you can’t love other people until you love yourself, but nobody ever tells you that the opposite is also true: You can’t really love yourself until you love everybody else, because they’re just the pieces of yourself that you said no to. — Jacob Clifton



/more re Frozen:

That’s the really subversive part, to my mind: Every Disney princess is secretly rescuing herself, because she IS the kingdom. —  Jacob Clifton re 'Frozen'

//I keep hearing Elena's pronunciatin of it.  her voice: Okay, we'll watch Fwozen."//



/ in re pll
It’s like that old joke:   Q: “What’s more of a surprise than a necklace made of human teeth?” A: “Two human-tooth necklaces, several months apart.” —  Jacob Clifton, PLL 3x19: Recaplet   // oh, nice "A" //



I broke a lot of bones as a kid so I know that at some point I was relatively fearless, but those days are gone. And I actually did think of Emily Fields during that conversation with myself, and how sometimes you get hurt and you still just keep doing the thing? Do people not understand that the world is fraught with danger?
I realize everybody does this all the time, but it’s amazing and beautiful to me on a level I cannot explain. I mean, I get along with athletes better than I do most people because I am fairly intense and serious in real life, and I admire them a lot. Athletes, people in the military. Suze Orman.. But it’s still a language that sounds to me like animals, just nonsense. Like how do people save money, what is an IRA, how does your money make other money?  How can people just eat broccoli?  How do you not quit playing football the exact moment that someone first touches your body without your permission?
How do you get hurt and not immediately run screaming from the source of the pain, never to return?
-Jacob Clifton in his latest Pretty Little Liars recap.  //dfntly hv read this.  may well have dlcs pgmrkd. //





If you think about how many moments in our daily lives are about ignoring or negotiating the sex lives of straight people — from jokes about dads with shotguns on the porch, or about what’s going to happen on your wedding night, or “I saw mommy kissing daddy’s [whatever],” to how you deal with your son-in-law, to what being a grandparent is really about — and think about just how much of etiquette, social interaction, communication are about getting around the sticky subject of straight people fucking, you can understand why straight people get so weird about gay people: There’s none of that social filter built in, the sexual aspect is not blurred out like it is with straight people. […] “Coming out” is going to keep being everybody’s business until those things equalize, and I don’t know that they ever will. But especially here — and in Pride season, when so much is written online about “these gays aren’t as gay as they used to be” — I think it’s important to think about this distinction, between socially mediated sexuality vs. sexuality-as-identity.”
— Jacob Clifton, Why Anderson Cooper Is A Thing
This is also why I wish people stop saying “I don’t care, it’s none of my business” on every coming-out article’s comment section. Because it’s fucking your business, whether you like it or not.


......“When you talk about your boyfriend, or your wedding, or joke about polishing your shotgun on your front porch when your daughter’s boyfriend shows up for her first date, you’re taking part in a grand tradition of understanding that sex happens, and we don’t have to talk about it. But if a gay man brings these things up, we don’t have those buffers in place: Your head goes to sex, because that’s what makes gay people interesting: Essentially, default straights who just happen to accidentally have sex with other ones, somehow.
“How do I explain this to my children?” you say, buggers and blowjobs hanging over your head like the Sugarplum Fairy. But what kids know, and you have forgotten, is that life—day-to-day, romantic, mundane—is a lot larger than that. Children have no stronger interest or opinions about gay sex than they do about straight sex, because they don’t actually care about sex: They care about social behaviors, weddings, romance and fairytales. It’s why we invented those things in the first place.






Being an adult means understanding and taking ownership of the effect you have on the world and the people around you, because your intentions don’t mean shit. — Jacob Clifton




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twopj re Art ... to show you that / how to be / not alone.  ....... Steve Earle saying same. _________________

Art exists purely to show you a way out—of loneliness, of darkness—into a very select club of unique individuals which, as it turns out, includes absolutely everyone.
I cannot think of a higher purpose on this planet than to do your part in that great work. Finding the exits, pointing them out. Being the first through the door to make sure it’s safe. Opening the windows, letting the light in. Sometimes dragging people screaming across the threshold, but mostly just shrugging if they don’t want to hear it yet. Because the thing about loneliness is, it’s not a natural state and it’s not something that finds an equilibrium: It’s a negative space, a vacuum, with whole worlds poised and trembling to come rushing in.
Faith, Hope, Charity, Love: These are all verbs that accomplish it, on their way toward some other purpose. Art is the only human activity that was designed—specifically, and solely—for the purpose of reaching across time and space so that one person can say to another person, ‘There. I have felt this too. And now we are both so much less alone.’ To shred the dark into little pieces, and put things right again.”
—  Jacob Clifton,  www.zap2it.com/blogs/american_idol_recap_finding_the_exits-2011-05

//cf just today 11/30/14 read pitchfork 2007 intrvw steve earle
Pitchfork: There's a scene in Heartworn Highways where Townes reduces someone to tears.
SE: Oh, yeah, Uncle Seymour.
Pitchfork: I've actually seen you do that before. I saw you perform "Christmas in Washington" and make Nanci Griffith cry.   //oh. she also cried at TVZ memorial as Earle sang Fort Worth Blues.  I cry at that too.//
SE: It happens. I've made myself cry. If you're doing it right, you will. It's a drag to even try and put it into words. You're in danger of looking like a megalomaniac if you do. But it's my job. I'm supposed to make people cry, but not by manipulating.
What art does it let people know that they're not alone.    That's what its function is.
It lets us know that fucked up shit doesn't just happen to us.
We can take that past the decimal point and figure out that we're not necessarily bad people, that things can get better, and we hang in there.
The difference between us and the animals is not an opposing thumb. It's the fact that we make and consume art. /hmm. seems true?  despite my knee-jerk agnst anyth sounds like elevating us above *other* animals.  my: we are animals.  but ok, among animals, we are the ones who make art?  or ~ the political ones.  same thing?  we are the ones who make art: *because we need it* - bcs in the polis we are alone while together.  ~but not for sure that other animals d n also experience that worlding.   and if not, anyway, I always want to say they are the better spirits.  ~ bcs all in.  all world.  ~d n suffer fr being their bodies. ///
That's one of the most fucked up things about American society. We think art is an elective. We call them elective subjects in school. But it's not an elective, dude. It's sustenance to human beings, just like food is. This is what keeps our souls from dying. It's what keeps us from becoming Dick Cheney.
Pitchfork: Writing songs allows you sentimental shortcuts.
SE: Gregory Corso used to get really pissed off when people referred to songwriters as poets. Including Bob Dylan. I totally get that. //y.// One of my scariest moments, every year is reading at St. Marks on New Years Day  /neat - Poetry Project ~ 12 hrs poets reading/, which I've done for several years now. I'm up there with some of the best poets in the world, and I'm reading poetry. It's scary as shit, because it is a purer form of the art. I have the advantage of the effect sheer tonality has on emotion at my disposal when I'm writing songs //y//, and it is cheating. [laughs] I'm pushing two buttons at one time. That's why it's so powerful.
The reason music became so powerful to our generation is that it's art you can consume in your car, and we were driving around a lot.  /cool. int.

... Townes was fully aware that Bob Dylan invented his job. Make no mistake about that. I am, too.

.. .[David Olney] told me years later, but years ago now, that he used to worry about me because I seemed to change personas really rapidly. I had done it by that point several times in my life, and become what seemed to him a different person on the surface. He worried about me losing myself, but then he figured out that wasn't really what was happening.  //rt, okay:// I was in danger of losing myself, but not because of my haircut or whatever clothes I was wearing.

/and now, sober, Steve Earle seems to me to excell in honesty.  living his real life.  I am not reading thinking he is so smart - only that he has his moments - but "I believe every word you're saying." [Here's to you old Skinny Dennis The only one I think I will miss I can hear those bass notes ringin' Sweet and low like a gift you're bringin'  You play it for me one more time now You got to give it all you can now Well, I believe every word you're sayin' Just to keep on, keepin' on, keep on playin'  Well, I can just get off of this L.A. freeway Without getting killed or caught..   Guy Clark, but writ by? Rgr Creager]  ... eg re racism, and his position on this is a more likeable one, too, than the person who defends agnst any charge of being racist ~  (rather than defend, we shld always listen)   :

.. But it's also important to remember that for southerners-- and people from Boston //wh? :)// -- it takes effort every day of our lives to overcome racism, because it's ingrained. I'm not a racist, but I do have to work at not being a racist, because of where I grew up. I don't ever lose sight of that, and I'm totally okay with being mindful of it. I had to work hard, and I have to work really hard not to instill it in my children. But it only takes one generation to drop the ball.
Pitchfork: Are there any parallels to rehab? Is it a discipline?
SE: Discipline's a bad word to use when it comes to not taking drugs. There's discipline involved, and I'm a very disciplined person when it comes to my work, but discipline can‘t save me from being a drug addict. What saves me from being a drug addict is sort of the opposite. It's me realizing that I don't really control anything. //y good right. ~ it's about not having the need. not so actually deeply fully needing.  f you *need* you will take what you need wherever you can.  can'd discipline yrslf not to.  bcs you actually need.  //
 I'm not sure racism works like that. /good, thinking, right./  There are too many people and too many forces out there that want you to believe that the other is a threat to you, for their own agenda. They want to divide people. So you have to overcome it every day of your life. People are trying to teach it to your children. It's like the immigration thing. It's not people coming here from other countries that are taking people's jobs. People's jobs are being shipped away to other countries. The idea of building a fence to keep people out to save jobs is a total red herring. It's a complete and total bald-faced lie being told to take attention away from something else that's taking away your job.  //this makes me think of jaime.  the confidence of opnion. that seems probably right to me, while I also hesitate at the overt intent ascribed to the ~ bald-faced liars.//

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Two hours of Big Brother is equal to sixteen hours of the History Channel or a single episode of Laguna Beach, if you look at it right. If you want to see war strategy in action.  Whether it’s the nightly news or a sci-fi show, a show is not brainless if you engage with it; the quality of the entertainment is always directly dependent on the quality of the viewer, how much you are willing to risk in engagement.  It’s about interaction, the quality of how you choose to spend your time, and what you do with the information.
It’s about intimacy. —  Jacob Clifton  [televisionwithoutpity.com/show/doctor_who/the_long_game.php?page=6]



This sense of momentum can be as fleeting as it is delicious, so I don’t want to say that the season is ramping the fuck up heading into its middle next week, but that long-ago feeling that absolutely anything could happen on this show //y//, that feeling we lost somewhere in Mexico?  /maybe. s5? well I liked it all.  going to Mx was anyth happening. nancy in prison and th others in denmark, as the pre-s8 story, th was anyth happening.// Way back. This episode felt about two hours long; here’s hoping it’s a sign of things to come. Good work. Excellent work.   —  Jacob Clifton  [weeds/boomerang-1]





  ************     Their feelings make the weather.   ************
Midsummer Night’s Dream, oh  .. but I like these parts specifically, the parts where Titania and Oberon are having a fight — .. and she’s gone away, won’t come back, and Oberon’s jealous and mad and nuts about it. So the moon is off, and the seasons act weird, and people have animal heads, and love potions, and fairies are all around being dumb, and the whole thing is just this circus of thunder and mistakes and rude mechanics. Their feelings make the weather. When she left him, she broke the universe.—  Jacob Clifton, The Good Wife recap





The answer is never the answer for longer than it takes you to find it. —Jacob Clifton   7/9/14   morningafter.gawker.com/the-very-erotic-journey-of-true-bloods-sookie-stackhous-1601997131






“I was thinking about this the other day and I just remembered I need to ask my siblings about it, but like, is there such a thing as Typing anymore? Do people learn to do that in school? It seems weird, like getting elective credit for breathing in and out at a constant rate.”  Jacob Clifton, Television Without Pity  //on our times.






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_________________  ^ to dlww draft save ~ just to have, or maybe arrange: one post wh he says re art, and then wh read fr steve earle this a.m.

one post ~ lovelyish as descriptive, abstract:  ~ 'their feelings make the weather'  /

- one post cmmts applied worldview
 'you'  -thing that makes you awesome is the thing that makes you suck.   -cannot love self without loving others bcs they are the parts of yrslf said no to.

.. worldly ~ re 'socially mediated sexuality': , you can understand why straight people get so weird about gay people: There’s none of that social filter built in, the sexual aspect is not blurred out like it is with straight people.


~incidental worldly (our times) cmmts  eg typing class like elective credit for breathing

~ incidental re shows, eg pll tooth necklaces

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Or to put it another way, I’ve always wondered what Carrie would have thought about Nick, say, ten years ago.  The thing in him she loves, that binds him to her, the blinding brightness they share: Did Abu Nazir put it there, while he was tearing him apart? Or just crack him open and let it out?    Do they love what’s broken in each other, or do they love what that breaking revealed?
Because if it was always there, it’s still there now, and they have a shot. But if it’s gone... One more thing Quinn was right about.—  http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/show/homeland/a-red-wheelbarrow-season-3-episode-8/10/


It’s not that I hate Dan for these things, it’s that it makes Serena impossible to love because she accepts these “accusations,” when the proper response is, “Call me in two or three years when you grow the fuck up and stop hating people for having things, because that is not my fault. I’m the one stretching here, and you burn me every time I do.”  [re Gossip Girl]





Being smart is something that is handed to us, but integrity and self-love and becoming a force in the world are all much, much harder.  —  Jacob Clifton  http://girlslikegiants.wordpress.com/2012/03/07/engaging-television-an-interview-with-writer-jacob-clifton/
mm girls like giants  "bcs I like Giants!  all girls feel too big stimes .. "
// ~ "makes me think God's a woman too" - thing called love //
/ re smart handed to you, said in recap pll, how Emily - being hufflepuff is the hard thing.  being smart, dear reader [~readership self-selecting], is given to you.

Good Wife recaps - twopj

twopj  jacob clifton  Good Wife recaps  (s3....)                                        12/2/14  ....




s3e2
https://web.archive.org/web/20140709070313/http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/show/the-good-wife/the-death-zone-1
p1
Eli's brought in -- by way of secret stairway jiggery-pokery -- a fellow fixer, Mickey Gunn, played by awesome Michael Kelly imdb.com/name/nm0446672    who was one of the greatest parts of Generation Kill,    for some kind of very secret meeting.   
p10  /the-death-zone-1/10
Mickey: "Good work? But you caught me leaving Burke's office because I was turning him down."    Kalinda & Eli: "Total lie."
Mickey: "No, but anyway, there's always going to be a nanny or a hooker or something. Or a dude, if they're a Republican. Mickey out."   Eli, kinda desperate: "Wait, let me try again!"  //Mickey, at door, turns ~ shrug, okay ... and I notice huh he has a distinct southern drawl, I like that ---- so then it's neat to read jacob's cmmt here:
The more southern Mickey gets, the hotter he is.   Just putting it out there. Green socks or no.





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s3e4

/huh, this comment at imdb epsd page:  imdb.com/title/tt2063495/?
-We had a black female hot-shot attorney there making sure that there were no problems involving race regarding accepting //and offering - so: making// of [plea] deals. What egg she must have had on her face when the real killer was discovered. //hmm. this sounds racist.  real killer is black? (maybe it is the witness guy? if black then not the cop.) anyway it's no egg on her face if guilty person is black.  irrelevant to overseeing plea deals to ensure racially indiscriminate.//  Wasn't this a perfect example of stereotyping?  //yikes, again. sterotyping *against* the cute white guy?  no. he is not looking guilty bcs anyone is stereotyping, but bcs of circumstance. /


web.archive.org/web/20140709081115/http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/show/the-good-wife/feeding-the-rat-1/

s3e4

p2   [...-1/2/
cute young dad, Dolan: "Are you the public defender? Because you're dressed like you're going to the opera."
Alicia: "No, this is pro bono. Because you're so super poor."
Dolan: "That's actually why we're here. See, I couldn't get any '80s money /the old school  dot dot dot atm/ so then I looked at greeting cards and I was going to get a squirt gun for my kid, and then that was the last time my life made any sense."
...
Travis Dolan used to work for Parks. I don't know if that's a hedge fund or like Leslie Knope //haha parks & rec// or what, but either way he's adorable and we know he didn't do it. But now Cary Agos is saying that Dolan saw the cops coming and ditched his own gun and ran toward the back of the store -- which is going to end up being kind of true, but not about Dolan //the cop guy? robber was dressed like cop?? also, did the witness see the cop?//-- and Cary and Alicia agree to offer him second degree. Which is two degrees more than he should be going to jail for, because we know him and we know he didn't do it. But everybody else on this show doesn't know him as well as we do. Not quite yet.


p3   [...-1/3/
Eli: "Kalinda! You should be at my beck and call!"     Kalinda: "I am capable of like infinite work, it doesn't matter to me. Full-time, part-time, I am going to find the clue immediately before the third commercial break regardless."


p4
Will: "Oh, hell no. You said no, I said no. We agreed no. That lady is insane, no. No to that."
Diane: "I think probably we say yes to that, though.


p5
Peter: "Imani, I'd like you to meet Cary Agos. He is by the far the most irritatingly white person you've ever seen. He's like an Abercrombie & Fitch ad ..."  
Imani: "I have memorized your record, and you do show a marked bias in your pleas." 
Also, though, the drug laws in this country are institutionalized racism, gerrymandered around class lines and enforced haphazardly, for the purpose of putting black people in jail. So there's only so much of this conversation that you can actually have, on this show, before you come up against that.
They can throw around code words and coded comparisons, like "crack" vs. "cocaine," but that's really what we're talking about.


p6
Julius: "I'll talk to him or something. Hey, who's going to break up with Legal Aid?"
Diane: "I'll do it. I will go down there in person and just punch Conrad from Weeds ight in his stupid beautiful face.
p7
Will: "Come on, Diane, you don't have to break up in person. Just make a call."
Diane: "Yeah well, that was the plan, but my guilt was getting to me.  Also, you should get a look at the Legal Aid guy before you ask any more stupid questions. He is totally Conrad from Weeds."


..p7
Not only is Alicia confident about this "poor man's deposition" idea, she's so much so that she would also like to get about six other plates spinning at the same time, and Cary over there just bitching himself pink the entire time: Kalinda is at the crime scene, asking Julius questions on the phone, and then he runs those questions to Alicia, and she asks them on record at the hearing, and then Julius relays them back to Kalinda, and the whole time Fierstein's like, "Yeah, I know what she's doing, but I am a hippie and I believe in justice and zucchini bread and gay cinema and I need you to chill."

//actual dialogue fr springfieldspringfield//
Alicia: And how far was the shooter inside the store?
Cary: Your Honor, again, objection. This is a preliminary hearing.  The defense is using this as a poor man's deposition, to get a preview of our case.
Judge: Yep.  Heard it the first time, Counselor.  Got it.  Overruled.
Alicia:  And how far was the shooter inside the store?
Imani:  He's killing us.
Cary:  Get used to it.  /? I guess bcs this judge./
Kalinda: Where did he say the shooter went?  [Julius hands post-it to Alicia]
Alicia: Where did this person go after you saw him shoot?
Witness: Back into the store to hide.
Alicia: So you saw him hide?
Witness: __ .   No, I'm just .   He went toward the rear of the store.


p9 re Will ~ being committed, not wild ~ twopj:
I also think that people do change. Never as much as they say they do, because life in part is a story that we're telling everybody else, but still. So the question is always, "Are you just being really enthusiastic, or was this a legitimate epiphany?


p13
LEGAL AID
Diane: "Hey, sorry to just drop by your ... what seems to be a daycare facility for bored legal interns and crazy people ... but I just wanted to say hi. And some other things."
Coyne: "No problem. Just let me clear a space off this table we got from the garbage so you can sit down and drink tea out of this chipped cup. I'm sorry I can't offer you snacks, but at Legal Aid we derive our nutrition from helping people." 
Diane: "How is that possible?"
Coyne: "It is not. But it's better than admitting that we are starving to death."
Diane: "How did things get to this point? You're like Big Edie over here."
Coyne: "I was just like you, man. A litigator at Portman & Michaels, on the partner track. But I just just couldn't take the meetings. I turned on, I tuned in, I dropped out. This is where it's really happening, man. On the streets."   ...
Diane: "Well, I'm sure that is hard, but I just wanted to say that we won't be doing any more pro bono work for you. We hate poor people, and do-gooders."
Coyne: "That's a stone bummer, man. Don't stress about it."
Diane: "I mean, seeing the abject nature of your fight against an uncaring and monolithic system has been eye-opening, but I'm really more interested in siphoning off as much money as possible from the bankrupting of America right now. Like a... Like a remora, or some other kind of parasite."
Coyne: "I get that, man. I really do. I grok that."
Diane: "Maybe when I get my shit together, I will extend our pro bono services to you again, but frankly that seems totally unlikely right now."
Coyne: "That's no problem, man. We probably won't be here when or if you do. We just lost our state funding, so, whatever."
Diane: "Wait, what? What the hell are you going to do? Your fight is a righteous one!"
Coyne: "You know, we can still knock on doors and yell at rich people. One thing I've learned in the not-for-profit world is that eventually, someone steps up."
Diane: "Do they?"
Coyne: "Yeah. I mean, apparently not you, but someone. At some point. Anyway, have a great afternoon! If you'll excuse me, I have to smush all the slivers of soap in the communal bathroom together, to make one soap. That's what my day looks like."
Diane: "Okay. It's good to finally meet you in person. I wish, uh... I don't know what I wish. I wish the world were different."  *
Coyne: "That sounds good! I'll be here waiting. And throwing the pages of my novel manuscript into this pot-bellied stove, one at a time, so the interns don't freeze to death in their fight for justice. It's my only copy, so..." 

*  p19     Wishing the world will change is, in the long run, a much bigger hassle than just changing it your own damn self.


p15
Julius: "I'm not on this show a whole lot so my understanding of the law may be rusty, but putting this on an innocent man? Isn't that how our client got into this mess?"
Diane: "Um. We're defending our client."
I mean, I guess I see your point, your stoner high school point //well I dunno if it is stonerish, it just is a very basic ~ isn't that unfair? ~ unsophisticated sort of qstn. so y v m seems silly for head of litigation to say.  (ppl say this show serious  but like th Elsbeth crazy mental imagery s6 epsd seemed like Bstn Legal eccentricity.  but was Bstn Legal ever this silly in hvg experienced lawyers act like strategy innocents? // 
but anyway that's a separate case. One which doesn't exist. So we can cast doubt all over the place -- I mean, this happens in like every episode //right bcs trial defense is always about showing reason for reasonable doubt//  -- and not feel bad about it, because it's not a frame job because there is no case //I do think there was a time I was bothered by this, watching trial scenes, d n fully get that charged wld still hv to be separately brought against anyone upon whom suspicion was cast. so this puts that well:// Fishmonger hasn't been arraigned, hasn't been accused, hasn't undergone anything harsher than a visit from the Boot Fairy [kalinda], and he doesn't even know about that. So I feel like that line was an awkward bone thrown to us -- because we are nitpickers who don't understand basic shit -- which we aren't, so it ended up just making things weird for everybody.







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s3e4

p~3
David Lee: "Also, don't put your kids in private school."
Alicia: "Don't tell me what to do with my kids, David Lee. My daughter is a trainwreck and I need to get her away from the Internet, before she does a dance."
David Lee: "That's cute that you think I give a shit about you. No, I'm saying don't put them into private school unless you make Peter pay for half of it. You have to create a fiction on paper that you can't afford it, or else he will make you pay him alimony."
Alicia: "I have forgotten how family law works, or how money works, and apparently believe that life is the Honor System today. Also, stop planning for a divorce that is obviously going to happen."
David Lee: "Okay, small words. Peter is going to be pissed when you divorce him, because you are key to his political success and because he will have jumped through about fifty billion hoops, including the Jesus hoop, in order to make sure you don't leave him. When it comes down to it, he is going to sue you for everything. Things you didn't even know were possible. Don't blame me, it's the goddamn feminists. He is going to sue you in the face. As your lawyer, it's my entire job to think about these things. It is your job as a client to do what I tell you. Cool?"


p5
Eli: "Adam Spellman. Do you know who that is?"
Kalinda: "I am Kalinda, of course I do. He is a businessman, and head of the Chicago Black Leadership Council. His address, social, and current weight are on this index card which -- what's this? -- you've had in your left ear the entire time. Now it has vanished! Or has it? Check your breast pocket."





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s3e5

p14
Peter: "You might hear about a plea bargain that I'm about to do. Kind of tarnishes my name and the name of the office, and will desperately need spinning, but it's for a good cause. Several, actually."
Eli: "How about you just delay it until you get the speech?"
Peter: "Can't. It's now or never, and ethically I have to do it."
Eli: "Whatever, try to keep it quiet but otherwise go for it and heeeeey, what's your deal with Kalinda Sharma and why won't she work for me on your behalf?"
Peter: "What? Who? Nothing. Who? When? Donkey balls. Space program. Who?"
Eli: "Mmkay."

Alicia: "Caitlin is fine. I don't overidentify with her in a self-aggrandizing way, but she's a cool customer. And David Lee is bugging me about it, so that makes me want to do something to piss him off. But there's just something about Martha that reflects so well on me, in my own estimation."
Will: "You know what they say. A students make great professors, B students make great judges, and C students make partner."
(Tiger Mother: "First prize is a set of steak knives. Second prize is, you're fired.")


p15
Alicia: "I still don't understand this concept of having friends and making art. Are you trying to learn a useful skill or trade? Because I can pay for dance lessons..."
Grace: "It is not about dance lessons! It is about how this girl is totally weird and I think that is awesome and she likes me which is also awesome and putting art on the Internet is a good way to express yourself without the risk of social reprisal because it's through a mediating technology and I'm really self-conscious which is why I like the Internet and I feel like you have these standards for my friends that are bogus and have nothing to do with me and then I feel like I'm displeasing or disappointing you just by liking what I like because it's always, 'Oh, she's a lesbian or a Christian or something,' or, 'Oh, stop joining a cult on the Internet,' or, 'Oh, she's too nerdy and she's a grown woman.'


p16
Cary: "Pike's ordered four witnesses murdered since he went inside."
Colin: "What a fantastic reason for me to be a witness against him."
Alicia: "Way too dangerous. No way."
Everybody:  That was interesting.
Cary: "Sweeney, it's up to you."
Alicia: "Do not do this."
Everybody, now just staring at her:  Again, what a super interesting response.
Celeste: "Alicia, it's his decision?"

p17-18
David Lee: "[Flips the hell out.]"
Alicia: "Your niece is good. Good lawyer on paper, good in an interview. She'll find a great job immediately."
David Lee: "[Flips out so bad.]"
Alicia: "I'm pretty sure that's actually the definition of nepotism..

David Lee and his infernal Bluetooth abruptly vanish back into the Hell portal and all that's left is like wisps of smoke and the smell of sulfur and thunder in the distance and Celeste is all, "What happens right now is that we are going to go get a drink right now," and Alicia's like, "You might have to carry me to where the liquor is, but oh yeah."

WHERE THE LIQUOR IS

Celeste: "Hire his niece, and then make her life hell."  Alicia: "That is actually a very good plan."  Celeste: "Like you would ever do that."  Alicia: "I would totally do that. I do complicated mean schemes all the time. I am not a good person."  Celeste: "Please. You obviously are. You're cool. I just don't like women, they're boring."  Alicia: "(Drunk pseudofeminist hackles raised, as though that sentiment carries any weight whatsoever beyond "Check out my transparent neurosis," which she immediately explains.)  Celeste: "I don't like women. They're all competing with me."  Alicia: "Don't men compete with you?"  Celeste: "Not really."
 // ~int?: //
Which, this recap is already pretty long, but: You are always going to be sexualized. //but I d n feel that?  do I make it not happen or jnot perceive it?  I think it's not simply not perceiving. maybe, feel & act like is not happening. so.  this is another way?  a personality. trivially, anyway, in hs or whtvr, wldn't some ppl be characterized as just not seeming sexual?//  That is not going away. And it's not even the problem, because it's true of every person without regard to gender or sexuality:
The problem is that men are on top, and have had several thousand years to develop a complex sociological system to ensure that they stay on top, which is where the inequality comes in, because your body becomes their weapon.
(My point of entry into all of this is that, as a gay man, your body and personhood are just as threatening to this system of power as a woman's, so you're subject to a lot of the same punishments and requirements as a woman, complicated by certain other privileges that you get for being a man, the same way other rights and privileges go exclusively to women. This particular part of the equation, however, is the same. I say this not to complain, but because when I talk about this stuff it comes off as talking about feminism -- which can often get, as a man writing for mainly women, dicey -- so I want to be clear that all I'm talking about is real, empirical life.)
So in a male-run industry, which is every industry because see above re: men, you have to have in your toolbox ways of dealing with this obvious, omnipresent thing. /hmm. / And they're broadly generational, but always specifically personal: You can be a Diane, with that firmly patrician indulgence of it that says, "Okay boys, now back to work," and that's fine. /okay maybe am closest to that. place self above (her) or outside (me) of the heirarchy, dynamic.//  You can be a Kalinda, who sees it as just another way to achieve what she was already doing, which is controlling your mind, and in my opinion that's the best way.  //th is most int here.  ie manipulate.  "use them right back."  wh is wh alicia said to the america ferrara character when she said she felt used, being offered help by firm by way of eli.//  You can be an Alicia, which most of us are to an extent, and involves staring through the person at objects on the other side of the person until they stop it, like with Colin.  /hmm.  just d n react to wh putting on you?//
Or, you can be the one that was missing before now: The Celeste.   Someone who is so blatantly oppositional and so used to sexualizing everyone, including herself, that it comes off as scary and jagged. /jaime ish or no.  just as in: angry.  calling ppl out.//
The Walking Hatefuck. So yeah, men aren't competing with her on any level that registers as competitive, because she ruins the curve by getting there first so they can't use it to dehumanize her. But opens her[self] up to conflict with women, because she is a traitor and a Bechdel heretic, but also because she's grossly forcing a question for which most of us spend the majority of the day finding workarounds. To stay level and safe, socially, part of it is making sure everybody gets out alive, and she's ... not interested in that.




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s3e6

p5
ALICIA'S OFFICE
Sample Dialogue: "The IT guy put on proprietary software, so he could charge your firm for every megabyte he stored. That's why it rejected the transferring of your files. It's really corrupt. You don't need to be paying to store files. In fact, it slows the system down."
Alicia: "You are a genius!"
Zach: "Thanks. Oh, your boss was in here. Will?"
Alicia:  (TILT.)
Zach: "...All right, I better go. Love you."
Alicia: "Whew, that was a close one. Good thing he suspects nothing!"
Zach: "...Oh, and Mom? I'd like a car."


HEARING
Team L/G: "Chen, we have the backing of the US State Department."
Team Cary: "Everybody, we also have the backing of the US State Department."
US State Department: "Actually Dana's uncle [Dan Golden /who was Peter Florick's lawyer, wh is mentioned, so good continuity ~ but, wldn't he also be on the side of the Floricks ie Alicia who is defense in this case? but I guess he d n know that, and she wld not think to go to him?  Diane went to Eli, not to Alicia, asking re contacts at state dept.] is more powerful than Eli's ex-wife. Taiwan's feelings be damned because we're more worried that China will be angry if we are nice to them, and I don't know if you know this but China is scary as shit."

/p1 recaplet
Diane gets Eli to call his ex-wife Vanessa (Parker Posey), who works for the State department. In return, she asks Eli to vet her for a state senatorship.  ... Mostly it's about how fun you find it to watch Alan Cumming and Parker Posey act at each other -- depending entirely on if you like them and/or it is still the mid-'90s, which I do, and I guess it still is -- so it worked.
I may hate Generation X but I reserve the right to absolutely love those two ladies, and I do.



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s3e7       11.6. 2011     Executive Order 13224     3-7 Recap      Look At All This Paper!  - Alicia takes on Bob Balaban single-handed while Will has hilarious showdowns with both Peter and Cary. Also: Dana's fate revealed

p~4
MARWAT CASE
Tveit objects to looking at the requisition list for this particular time because of the Classified Information Procedures Act, which is like his favorite Act and he should marry it.
Childs: "And can I also state for the viewers that 13224 also has broad application when a terrorist hires a lawyer, and Danny is kind of a terrorist, because we must have suspected him of being a terrorist, or else we would not have kidnapped and tortured him. Which we did not do."
p5
What's funny and is interesting is, this episode is about the AUSAs and Treasury feeling their way around L/G's privilege and us getting outraged about that, because the point is that Danny is a tortured American. But if this show were called The Good AUSA and we were focused on state interests, then this would be about a defense law firm feeling their way around clearance levels and checks and balances, and us getting outraged about that.










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s3e8    11.13.2011    Death Row Tip        3-8 Recap   Nothing Is Very Clean  -  A Death Row inmate, sex with Santa Claus, and post-traumatic hookups. 

p2

ELI GOLD & ASSOC.
Eli: "What's going on there?"
Alicia: "He killed his girlfriend or something. Why are you bugging me?"
Eli: "My computer's acting up again!"
Alicia: "That doesn't sound very important, except that we've been noticing our computers acting up again all season, so either this is just a narrative way of explaining Zach's continued presence in a law firm, or Skynet has us in its sights. We will see."
Eli: "I hope it has to do with Derrick Bond and Lemond Bishop. Anyway, really I was just dragging you out of your job that you are doing so that you can be human furniture again in a meeting with that adorable James Carville analogue."

Mickey Gunn: "Why am I here? Besides to be adorable."
Eli: "I have a problem with your candidate that used to be a Republican and whatever, that you used me to vet him and now want to continue to use me to Eli him.  ... It is mostly okay but I have this messed up picture."
Mickey: "This picture is awesome but I see what you mean."

p3
Mickey: "Hey, I heard you guys were under investigation. I won't put my candidate in the hands of some firm that's going under indictment."
[Right then a horde of cops, Stormtroopers, all manner of shit going on behind him.]
Alicia: Shudders and tries to think of how best to body-check him if he turns around right then.
Eli: "What? No way. We are growing! Blooming!"
Alicia: "Yes. A rumor is often a sign of jealous competitors. Or a looming indictment because of my husband's jealousy. Sometimes because of Glenn Childs or Lemond Bishop, but usually it's a Peter thing."


STATE'S ATTY
Kalinda is, of course, going through Cary's shit all alone in his office.
Dana: "Hey, have we met? It's my last day.//ha ha bcs this was wh she said when first appeared few eps back. her deal.//  I'm Dana Lodge."
Kalinda, twinkling: "I'm Kalinda Sharma, and you are hot."
Dana: "So, you're just trying to steal those Adrianne Iver crime scene photos, yes? Let's giggle and look at them together."
Kalinda, sparkling: "Done and done."
Dana: "Adrianne Iver, a 28-year-old flight attendant, quit her job after her boyfriend proposed... Oh wait, you totally represent her boyfriend Tom LaVere, don't you?"
Kalinda, incandescent: "You're gaming me! That's adorable. Let's keep flirting."
Dana: "What I think happened is, they fought and she tried to flee to Canada, so Tom shot her with his Walther P99 handgun."
Kalinda, adorable: "'Walther P99 handgun' is this episode's 'Chinese Wall.'"
Dana: "Yeah. So my scenario is that he buried the body here, and then coincidentally the Almighty Vice Lords picked the same pit to bury a 22nd Disciple. Hey, are you and Cary in love?"
Kalinda, doing sexy jazz-hands: "Not exactly."
Dana: "Are we in love?"


p4

AKA TRIAL WHICH JUST HAPPENS TO BE HAPPENING THIS SECOND
AKA's Prosecutor: "Try AKA as an adult for this crime!"
AKA's Defense: "AKA came forward because he wants to remake his life!"
Kalinda, at the back: "Yeah, as a stone killa. I'm so sure a 14-year-old lieutenant would confess to anything except being a giant bad-ass."


L/G
Kalinda: "They keep saying they have solved all the murders."
Diane: "That's so ASA. Listen, we got the French guy right here. I think a clue will happen right now out of the blue because it's almost time for commercials."
French Guy: "Oh, did I not mention this footage where he says he knows the identity of the Vice Lord that killed the dead guy?"
Diane: "No, you did not."
French Guy: "Sorry. I had to bring my assistant to Death Row because he likes pretty women."
Alicia: (Death glare that goes on way too long, even though it's setting up the rest of the episode; it's weird because this show and this episode are so all about amazing editing, but then just this one shot is just really bad. It's like she rolls her eyes all the way around her entire head.)
Diane: "Just to review, the guy who can help our client is being executed in 36 hours."
TV Audience: "Thanks for the assist."

p6

GOLD & ASSOC.
Eli, verbatim: "I have to be blunt, sir, because that's how TMZ is gonna report it, FOX is gonna repeat it, and Jon Stewart is gonna finish it. Here. Comes. Santa."
They sit there for awhile chewing on that one.
Eli: "Jokes are okay. But this is a joke about you fellating Santa. And Santa's expression [Which is O.O] does not help."
Eli's Strategy: Same as always, get out in front of it. His one trick.
[reaplet p1: Eli's story is probably the most mirthful this week, as that wonderful James Carville-like guy is back and we finally meet his fairly charming candidate, whose college years included a penchant for taking candid photographs where he's blowing statues. Eli wants to get the pictures out there, because I don't know if you've figured out Eli's million-dollar strategy yet, but it's called disclosure. Every time. ]
Eli: "You're the Facebook Generation, sir. Every candidate under forty has some dumb photo from some dumb college buddy. Krystal Ball and the reindeer nose?"
Everybody: (Tries to remember that, because it seems like forever ago, because we are the Facebook Generation. Except for Alicia, who can barely work her phone. Moms!)


PACKER APPEAL
So the bad news is that Ricky Packer picked up two 14-year-old girls from a shopping mall, raped them over three days, then slit their throats. Yeah.
Coyne: "All we need is mitigation."
Alicia: "It's just ... My daughter's their age..."
IT IS YOUR FUCKING JOB. HOW MANY EPISODES BEFORE YOU UNDERSTAND HOW THE LEGAL SYSTEM WORKS. MOMS!
[p1 recaplet: Alicia spends the whole time asking her dipshit questions like, "Is the death penalty really okay? What is its role in society?" and "How do appeals generally work?" and "What do defense attorneys do again? I keep forgetting, is it being really judgmental about their clients instead of doing their jobs?" and whatever else happens when she's busy being the audience insert for an audience so goddamn stupid they cannot possibly exist.]

Packer: "My mom, she's always talking about redemption. Right? But redemption from what? From being a man?"
Chills. All over. Ugh. I kind of feel like I'm on Alicia's side with this one, even though I always make fun. Especially because in this case it's not about getting him off Death Row, just messing with his head. But then you still have this thing of, What if it accidentally worked, what if some kind of Diane/Alicia/Kalinda magic accidentally happened and he got loose? That would be awful. But this -- that possibility, but moreso the ugliness of this situation -- is the price of democracy, and the death penalty is 100% not okay, so put your big-boy pants on and deal with the situation on the ground.


p7
SOME LESBIAN BAR OR SOMETHING
Dana: "What do you want? Why did you 'phone' me on my 'phone'?"
Kalinda: "First, to make out. Second, to get footage from a blue light camera."
(A what? Dana, phrase your answer for us here at home.)
Dana: "Now why would you want access to our anti-gang cameras? Also known as what you said before."
Kalinda: "For on this one drug corner about that murder you already solved."
Dana: "But we already solved it."
Kalinda: (Ties a cherry stem in a knot with her tongue.)
Dana: "Okay fine, but you have to give me something."

p12
ALICIA'S HOUSE
Jackie: "I have come once again on Chris Noth's behalf. Listen, is that a Jewess?"
Zach: "Oh, Grandma."
(Ding-dong.)
Jennifer: "It is I! The horrible tutor, dressed like an asshole with my face painted. Is Grace here? We might be lesbians together, we might have Aspergers together. You just never know. I can tell you one thing, though, and that is that we are going to film it."

WILL'S OFFICE
Will: "Aren't you playing around in the Legal Aid sandbox?"
Kalinda, verbatim: "I was. Now I'm here."
Will: "Oh shit. Kalinda Robot Talk. What's the problem?"
Kalinda, without pausing: "An ASA in Peter Florrick's office is asking about your relationship with Judge Baxter. Are you in trouble."
Will, verbatim: "I'm in something. I don't know what I'm in."
Kalinda: "The ASA is Dana Lodge."
Will: "Isn't it her last day?"   // :)
p13
Kalinda: "This is Peter, right? This is coming from him?"
Will, verbatim, good line: "I don't know. I don't know anything anymore. I used to be able to read the political tea leaves, now I can barely tell why people say hello to me in the morning."
Kalinda, same: "Then *use me.*"
..."What's the deal with Tom Baxter? You pay him off?"
Will: "I did not. But. That's a good idea, because I can see why they would think that. Because I gave him a shitload of money that Jacob can't remember why."
Kalinda, verbatim, again awesome: "Okay, then *ask for my help.*"

p17  ~

It can get to a place where the whole world seems turned against what you know in your heart: That just by feeling this way, sending this radiation out, you know you look crazy to the world... So then the problem is that it's Kalinda, because she is the ultimate absorber of radiation; she bounces nothing. But she can pretend. A person could go crazy.
And yet, there's the nuclear option, which is just to ask. Maybe she'll lie, maybe she won't know she's lying, but it's the only way to finish it, because you can't know, anymore, how much of this castle you just built inside your head. To level it is to ask.

[p1 recaplet:
Dana's like, "Don't worry, I'm not a lesbian" and Cary's like, "Neither was I, until I met Kalinda." Like wanting to make out with both Cary and Kalinda proves a goddamn thing. ...
After the guns die down, Cary and Kalinda go feel post-traumatic for a little while, and then sort of make out for a second, and then Cary realizes that she is maybe playing Jedi mind tricks on him, maybe she doesn't even know she's doing it, and just walks away in the middle of their makeout, and then I guess probably she wonders also if she is doing Jedi mind tricks even when she doesn't know she is doing it.]

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If you have ever had or overheard a conversation about the show lasting more than a few seconds, probably you made it to Kalinda. One of the most unique, sophisticated, beautifully drawn characters probably ever on television. Queer, silent, driven, empty, full, beautiful, ugly, and overqualified for any position whatsoever — from Pope to assassin — Kalinda’s faults lie so deep and are so infinitely terrifying that you end up with this weirdly paradoxical need to protect her.—  Jacob Clifton - The Good Wife, the first two seasons


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s3e10       12.04.2011      Parenting Made Easy       3-10 Recap       The God Of Small Things  - An emergency shuffles several key relationships, while Caitlin's first arbitration pits Alicia against Martha and Michael J. Fox.

Caitlin: "Why do you believe..."
Objection: Calls for speculation. Sustained.
Caitlin: "Um, why were you fired?"
Objection: Same deal. Come on, Caitlin.
Alicia: "Step by step. Just ask her what happened."
What Happened: Sexual harassment.Martha: "Gosh, what happened there? I'm so sorry you were harassed."
Deb [from Dexter]: "He tried to touch me and I pushed him away."
Martha: "In a bedroom? No? The staff lounge, with people around? How frightening."
Deb: "Everybody gets that shit from him."
Martha: "He's a massager of women, right? Known for that?"
Deb: "I guess so -- which is itself a problem -- but mostly it's the fact that I resisted him touching me, and then got fired the next day."The Provost is a creepster with a creepster beard that looks and talks like that Will Farrell character that was always in the hot tub with Rachel Dratch talking about "my lover" this and "my lover" that. Case closed, creepster.Provost: "This is ridiculous! I am just a tactile person! I am accustomed to invading other people's space and touching their bodies! I have tenure, you see."
Martha: "You are a toucher of all genders, yes?"
Provost: "I always stop when they tell me to. And then I fire them."
p4
Caitlin: "Why didn't you tell Deb that you were replacing her the next day?"
Provost: "I thought telling her we were downsizing was better than saying it was because her students hated her. Think of it as one last boundary-violating caress."







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s3e11     What Went Wrong
p8
Diane's asking her to make a choice, without promising to fulfill her end of the bargain:
Trade Will for me, shame for alliance, complications for power. Men for women.




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