Amidst the craziness of the 2022 election season, we are doing another screening of our hit short documentary How America Killed My Mother at the historic Studio 35 Cinema & Drafthouse this Friday, May 6! Doors open at 11 PM, the screening starts at 11:30 PM and will be followed by a Q&A with myself and more, so please see the details below and let us know if we can get into your outlet's weekend list of activities, etc as y'all see fit:

Ticket link: How America Killed My Mother - Fri 6 May 11:30 PM - Studio 35 Cinema & Drafthouse

V.I. Lenin proclaimed: “For us, the cinema is the most important of the arts.” The leader of the Russian Revolution said this around 1922, the year Benito Mussolini’s blackshirts rose to power in Italy, and later decreed: “Film work facilitates fascist penetration.” Both extremes of Left and right recognized the central role motion pictures could play in propaganda, in reaching the masses with their messages and agitating them to take action. Albanian director Roland Sejko’s The Image Machine of Alfredo C. is about an Italian cameraman who shot newsreel-type footage for Il Duce’s fascists and then for the Communists in Albania.

Senior Crawl is this thing where graduating Ohio State students all wear white shirts, and walk from the various bars while signing each other’s shirts.

I didn’t graduate college so it’s usually this thing where you analyze the idea of signatures. As a graffiti writer, the idea of writing your name seems relevant. But because booze is involved, writing on a drunk college girl’s shirt seems problematic.

While I will quickly respond I-O if someone yells O-H…I wasn’t a senior graduating from Ohio State.

Interacting with normal people used to be a sort of exoticism for me.

Awhile ago, a white sorority girl was crying out of empathy for some things she had heard had occurred to me. The fact a white sorority girl even knew I existed….

The weirdest thing about this conversation. I told a white sorority girl she had been the first white sorority girl I’ve interacted with to my knowledge.

At a certain point, as I was reading the book I’d recently been sent, a strange transformation began occurring: Gradually, as I moved ever deeper into it, I wasn’t so much reading as quietly singing a hymn . . .  participating in a chant.

The book is A Promise to OurChildren: A Field Guide to Peace, by Charles P. Busch, an online version of which was sent to me by Adam Vogal, president of the Oregon Peace Institute.

What’s making some Ohio progressives – who haven’t fled to Austin or Portland – take a serious pause post primary is the discouraging results by both Morgan Harper and Nina Turner.

The belief that young lefties have been fleeing “Red State Rising” Ohio for more than two decades was further solidified as both Harper and Turner were overwhelmed by establishment Dems Tim Ryan and incumbent Rep. Shontel Brown.

Nina Turner was endorsed by both Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, but she could only muster 34 percent of the vote. Harper fared worse against Tim Ryan – who’s sounding more and more Clinton-esque by triangulating on the issues and political tribes – as she garnered roughly 18 percent (90,000 votes).

No doubt a mix of special interests and fear of Trump both worked against Turner and Harper.

Both were targeted as being “too woke or liberal” even though many of Harper’s policies are simply common sense. Pushing for more electrical vehicles, easier access to mental healthcare, and eliminating the Senate filibuster.