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O.J. Simpson Dead, Avatar of the Bloody, Modern American Gender War

  O.J. Simpson has died; legendary footbll star, cum celebrity Simpson, was acquitted of murdering his ex-wife and a young man, ( possibly her lover). His murder trial was the trial of the 20th Century, above the Nuremberg Trials or the Leopold/Loeb Trial. When this Blogger was growing up, men and women lived lives of quiet desperation, leading to many suicides. Quiet suicides, such as sticking one's head in an oven, with the gas on. In 2024, men and women live lives of noisy desperation, leading to unsuccessful suicides, or successful murders, mainly femicides. Alas, this Blogger prefers the era of quiet desperation. The Simpson Saga was  t he bridge between the lingering Eisenhower Era of quiet desperation, and the modern, noisy NETFLIX desperation, with many failed suicides and a lot of murders of former lovers, mainly women.. This Blogger's ancient mother, had survived World War I, the Great Influenza, the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression,  World War II, the Kor...

Gerry Maxey's VENICE FIRST LOVE

The VENICE FIRST LOVE episode of VENICE BEACH SKETCHES. VENICE FIRST LOVE , a variant on Turgenev’s short story, is about  a shy college student, who  stalks the dazzling coed of his dreams, only to discover, to his dismay, that he is not that great a stalker after all. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsxeY4Xsx4M&feature=youtu.be VENICE BEACH SKETCHES explores the decline of the American male as a heroic figure as a result of the gender wars in contemporary California. Each episode is a variant of a short story or play from Turgenev, Coward and Sartre .

Gerry Maxey's VENICE REMATCH

MICHAEL SANFORD and LISA MARIS star in the VENICE REMATCH episode of VENICE BEACH SKETCHES. VENICE REMATCH is a variant on Noel Coward’s BRIEF ENCOUNTER; a rapidly failing screenwriter accidentally meets his highly successful ex-wife just as he is about to marry, MISS BUTTERMILK AEROBICS. Old hopes, pains, passions and disappointments reappear to cry havoc once again. VENICE REMATCH is an episode of VENICE BEACH SKETCHES- A TOUCH OF CHEKHOV in Contemporary Venice, California. Synopsis: Over five episodes, VENICE BEACH SKETCHES explores the decline of the American male as a heroic figure as a result of the gender wars in contemporary California. Each episode is a variant of a short story or play from Turgenev, Coward and Sartre. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMm0NaB_E_w