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*There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America*
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{Batman voice} “I am discernment.” My alter-spirit: [email protected]
MikeDunnAuthorToday in Labor History May 14, 1771: Utopian-socialist Robert Owen was born on this day in Wales. In the early 1800s, he made a fortune in textiles. However, he tried to run his mills on higher principles than greed. One of his reforms was to offer prices at his company store that were only slightly higher than their wholesale cost. This was in marked contrast to his competitors, who paid their workers only in scrip and charged exorbitant prices at their company stores. In 1810, Owen implemented the eight-hour workday for his employees. And in 1817, he came up with the slogan, “Eight hours labor, eight hours recreation, eight hours rest.” He also provided free schools for the children of factory workers.
In 1824, he travelled to America and invested his fortune in an experimental socialistic commune at New Harmony, Indiana. It only survived for two years. However, it changed many aspects of American culture. Residents created the first public library and public school system open to both boys and girls. The town also became an important center of scientific research in the mid-1800s.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #socialism #utopia #EightHourDay #library #robertowen
“I'm gonna drive all night, get some speed
I'm gonna wait for the sun to shine down on me
I cut a hole in my roof, the shape of a heart
And I'm goin' out west where they appreciate me
I'm goin' out west where they'll appreciate me”
- Tom Waits
I'm gonna wait for the sun to shine down on me
I cut a hole in my roof, the shape of a heart
And I'm goin' out west where they appreciate me
I'm goin' out west where they'll appreciate me”
- Tom Waits
After some time investigating the tried, tested, successful script-writing formulas such as the 8-sequence thing, or the 3 Act format (as evangelized by the Little Miss Sunshine author), I was blessed by a superclear inspiration last night which now has me finally feeling the way I need to feel about this insanely time-consuming endeavour.
Form needs to advertise truthfully or I’d be damned, so this is now a biopic, its full title being *TEN SONGS ABOUT THE FIRST NOWELL*. ⛈️⚡️
Is this the kind of vibe that is being referred to when some cool kid talks about “being in one’s feelings”? Whatever the case, for me it is what is #NowPlaying
I. Lento—Sostenuto tranquillo ma cantabile
As for how the screenplay is going, I would liken myself at this point to an aspiring chef who has all the right ingredients gathered, more than sufficient enough to make a real good, substantial dinner, but who is not sure yet which recipe will work (well, if at all, to be honest).
Anyway though l am shooting for a completed script before the end of next month. ¡Sí, se puede!
Anyway though l am shooting for a completed script before the end of next month. ¡Sí, se puede!
I have nothing but cheers and a “good for you, fellow writer” as regards the success of Mr. Joseph Nguyen and his *Don’t Believe Everything You Think*, yet, also, I’ve got to add that this book’s title is literally a bumper sticker on a car I rode by in Berkeley many years ago.
Statistically speaking the car was likely a green Subaru Forester, but that’s not the point, the point is this idea is such powerful advice that I often remind myself of it often, never will forget it.
Statistically speaking the car was likely a green Subaru Forester, but that’s not the point, the point is this idea is such powerful advice that I often remind myself of it often, never will forget it.
After reading the Noah Hawley piece in The Atlantic about his experience at some past Jeff Bezos Santa Barbara “camp out” I used my calculator app to divide one trillion by ten thousand.
…Because I had the idea “if Bezos has a trillion dollars, then how much money should someone who happens to be about 0.0001% as good & hardworking as he is expect to have?”
($100 million)
Of course, our economic system doesn’t work that way - by *fairness* or logic.
👍 on the article.
The first 2 sequences I wrote in 2 weeks, but in the 3 since I’ve been limited to rewriting certain key dialogues, going deeper into individual characters, plus deeper research into real world tech details. Suspension of disbelief goes only so far. There’s no impact where there’s 0️⃣ correlation to actual human behavior or with “the way things work” in the real world. But today I know what each character is destined to do + what needs to happen between where I am now and the exact closing scene.
Today in Labor History April 15, 1912: Eight members of the Musicians union died in the sinking of the Titanic. According to survivors, they played their instruments until nearly the end. One survivor said, “The music they played served alike as their own immortal requiem and their right to be recalled on the scrolls of undying fame.” Five weeks later a concert was organized by the union to benefit the musicians’ families. It was held in a theater donated for the evening by impresario Flo Ziegfeld. The evening ended with “Nearer, My God, to Thee,” the hymn the musicians played as the ship went down.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #music #musicians #union #titanic
