Although Bridget Kelly fell into her subpoenaed E mail

Although Bridget Kelly fell into her subpoenaed E mail “Time your traffic problem at Fort Lee” (the 2 lane closures for four days ( the  GW Bridge) in the 20 subpoenaed Governor Christie retribution “Bridge gate”…..a cryptic 7 words:, the song and dance repartee into Hoboken and “Strangers on the Bridge”Frank Sinatra singing, Nelson Riddle arranging….

Major Bowes amateur hour, the tip of the bumper to bumper“mumbo jumbo”

A  song and dance litterbug. 

“Right Bridget? “  “Right”  

                                                                                             II

On hearing that Mickey Rooney has two movies  emerging on the 2014 scene at age 93, Kirk Douglas  “The Champion”  cumulative silver screen’s credits  at 97. And the RKO actress,Dina Merrill at 92, born with a silver spoon in her mouth, sitting o n the Board at the once viable Lehman Brothers  before they went belly up like Moby Dick, falling into the bottom line and the land locked boondocks of Wall Street bankruptcy.

                                                                                               III

Appearing on the Culver City, California Metro Goldwyn Mayerstudio lot, a staggering 6th grader apple cheeked “newsboy” for an interview in a  Marjorie Kinnnan Rawlings “The Yearling” for the role of Gregory Peck’s son (the subsequent flick) Jody and his symbiotic relationship with a fawn as we cried, on hearing Islip, Long Island, was  issuing  ammo, to rid the town  of the  animals.

The “Mick” , was enshrined in the Judge Hardy flicks, FayHolden, his mother, the father & Judge Lewis Stone, and hisfirst love…. girl friend, Judy Garland.

Rooney played out inner needs as a telegraph  scrub, deliveringthe wires handed to him by  the manager, played by James Craig, the Mick  pedaling his bike, as we did during WW2,delivering telegrams to Gold Star mothers on the fates of theirinnocent sons, trapped on  Normamdy Beach,( France) invasion and Germany’s Battle  of the Bulge.

“The Human Comedy” by William Saroyan,  transcended family life before it got caught up with the  consequences of death andloss.. …lives  cut short by the Hitler like aggression on theContinent  and North Africa…. a prelude to Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan wastelands and nightmares.

                                                                                                  IV

Mickey Rooney like Artie Shaw, the “Begin the Beguine” band leader, Buddy Rich on the drums, was a Hollywood High School environmentalist, later hitching Lana Turner and Ava Gardner while the Mick dating  two teen age blondes, one of which we tried browsing on the phone, the gig to n o avail.  

Meanwhile his “sister” Judy Garland, swept into her role  “The Wizard of Oz”, belting out “Over the Rainbow” her dog “Tot”his bark unlike Rin Tin Tin’s, Lassie, an d the Thin Man’s(Nick and Nora Charles) fox terrier Asta (*Skippy in real life)

In contemplation, “Ninotchka” Garbo, Luise Rainer Norma Shearer, Hedy Lamar, Joan Crawford, Deanna Durbin, Olivia deHavilland, age 97, residing London, England, all retired from their personas on the silver screen, living out their real lives.

Right, “*Skippy”? Right!

January 17, 2014 The City that never sleeps.

                                                                                                                        

“Say it ain’t so, Professor Titus” UCLA’s Political Science ”Politics”

“Say it ain’t so, Professor Titus” UCLA’s Political Science ”Politics”  . Erlichman and Halderman ,two of his prize Machiavelli  oval office mercenaries.

                                                                                    II

“All the King’s men” playing out in 2014 frigid weather time, two lanes of the nation’s largest b ridge The  George Washington closed for four days, Email corroborating the closures because  the Democratic Fort Lee, New Jersey  Mayor, for failing to indorse Governor Christie ,a Republican, for reelection in Trenton, the State’s capitol..

Whether Machiavelli or Huey Long (Broderick Crawford)would  apply the same “politics” we don’t know. Whether John Ireland would recognize the closures as retribution, we don ‘tknow. What we do know that the operatives craving attentionfrom their higher ups, without being caught in their nefariouscages, are victims of their own cream cheese banditry.

                                                                                 III

The neurons in their Huey Long brains see a parallel with TrickyDick’s Nixon’s impeachment, during Watergate’s doomed break in, Senator Sam Irwin in,  the  process  having no historic aftermaths  until cyber space ‘s revelations earlier today.

Scanning the Watergate  for a break I n of party politics was but a prelude to wiring the oval office. But here the Govern or’steam of conniving dwarfs,  devoid of any malpractice  of their neuron short circuiting...

A cover up of the public service scene?   Doesn’t it border on vindictiveness, Governor Huey Long?

                                                                                IV

Machiavelli’s advice for the Prince’s ear,  may not be applicable in  cyber space as in Italy’s royalityl 4 centuries ago. To look the other way on the bridge.. Mercyy ! dumbing rush hour commute…..dowqn 300 neurons of citizens daily demands a neuron rethinking. Group therapy and the couch to rehabilitate“all the  the Kng’s men”

“The low lives may be rehabilitated .But the mentality fromWatergate remains. To discredit the Fort Lee Mayor for his failure to endorse the Republic Governor is blackmail at its worst.

A open the arteries and veins of public servants not willing to pay the price to justify their existence To exploit an a major advantage (in  power) comes back to haunt them. And  2 lanes of the George Washington Bridge closed for four days.

“The Republic be damned” claimed Governor Huey Long as reported by John Ireland at the Governor’s mansion.

“All the King’s men”

January 8, 2014 The George Washington Bridge, leading into Fort Lee and the City that never sleeps

A laser like “mush”, cracked Jack London

A laser like “mush”, cracked Jack London, driving his troika ofGerman Shepherds, across the tundra of Antarctica, the frozen ice toward the ensnared ship of scientists, trapped in theblockade, unable to navigate micro inches since Christmas Eve.  An SOS plucked out of the  below zero wind drifts by a Chinese Empress rescuer, but their Charlie Chan  number one son tested as they were, got stuck in the those thick lie ice trappings, only the laughing penguins, pigeon toeing their own homestead,snaring the great multi skin pigmented hunters, wind chill 7 below.

                                                                            II

Was this the same “Sea Wolf” captained by Edward G. Robinson? The”Bounty” by Charles Laughton in his sadistic Captain Bligh ego trip? The whaler “Moby Dick”; the crew undermined by a harpooned mammal. Melville capturing theferocity in a annotation, foreshadowing the voyage back to portin Massachusetts…

Meanwhile the chopper , its props spinning, capturing the dancing penguins like they were the Rockets at Radio City Music Hall. Charlie Chan and his numero uno  son, testing the frozen carpet as a landing strip, the “wheels down”, the ice holding…Charlie Chan and the number one son, throwing open the doors, the 50 some  Russian scientists, glee on theirfaces…..a blessedness that goes back a hundred some years as Admiral Perry and other Antarctica  pioneers sought to map ,exploring the unknown at the tip of our Continent.

                                                                             III

Amelia Earhart , Colonel Jacqueline Cochrane of IndioCalifornia, breaking the ice, in their own idiom for  discovery? Where does one draw the line?  Their lives resonant of the riddle of existence. Their quest.

Put that into your DNA  fodder: neurons  nesting among the frontal lobes, cranium, cortex .

As the scientists began their trek to the chopper, the penguins stood in their solemnity, clapping up a storm, the helicopter’s sound as a whirling dervish and spinning Filipino yo yo.

The crew’s twenty two stood at their ship’s railing as the chopper returned for their second tri p, rescuing the last of the scientists, the Charlie Chan and number one son chopper into apattern, the penguins into their audition, marveling at humancollaboration, clapping their wings.

Jack London’s laser like “Mush” resounding thru the scene.  

January 2, 2014. The city that never sleeps during a blizzard, the howling winds at 7 degrees below, two feet of snow on the ground.