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The new issue of Just Above Sunset - Volume 3, Number 34 for the week of Sunday, August 31, 2005 - was posted on the web late last night. This is the weekly parent site to this web log and contains, in magazine format, extended and corrected versions of current events items that first appeared here, along with a wealth of new material.
In this week's issue the first five current events items center on the drama in Crawford and its implications, and include an exchange with our Major Cook in Baghdad. Additionally, as Henry Kissinger brought up Vietnam in this context of Iraq, we cover that and Ric Erickson, editor of MetropoleParis, has some pointed words there. The Vietnam War also plays a part in the Canadian item this week – as something we did up north in the late sixties is causing a lot of anger today, and again, Ric in Paris adds some exclusive detail to that story.
In the features section, "Our Man in London," Mike McCahill, tells us that on the telly over there London has become somewhat American, while "Our Man in Paris," Ric Erickson, tells us of "Smoke" - and other matters in Montparnasse (with six new photos). And there is a lot going on in over here - Hollywood becomes less Hollywood as the house that George and Ira Gershwin bought from Carole Lombard, where they did their best work, has been demolished for something new (three photos). And there's a bit about the pope and whether he answers to the law or not.
Bob Patterson is back with questions about reality television - we all have those - and with his weekly book roundup.
Photography? Paris in August from Don Smith, "Our Eye on Paris" – locally, "the last of America's great rail stations" here in Los Angeles, looking much as it did in 1939, and in the plaza next door, that mariachi band (you'll see a man and his guitarrón).
And of course there are the usual pithy quotes - this week on dissent, as that seemed appropriate given the Sheehan business - and a link to one more new photo album that will take you back to the romance of the rails in the late thirties.
Direct links to specific pages -
Current Events ________________
The Day the Wheels Fell Off: Three Items from Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Chatting With Baghdad: What's gone wrong with the narrative?
Missing Link: A Vacuum Where the "Noble Cause" Should Be
Momentum: From Brighton, New York to Paris, France
Wrap-Up: This is the way the world ends - not with a bang but a whimper …
Echoes of Vietnam ________________
Oh Henry!: Kissinger's Worse-than-Vietnam Analysis [completely new]
Inside Story: Angry Canadians [new, exclusive material added]
Features ________________
Our Man in London: Lost In Transmission
Our Man in Paris: Smoke Saved!
Local History: We Don't Do That - We Obliterate Our Past
Religion and the Law: "Ha, ha - you can't TOUCH me!"
Bob Patterson ________________
WLJ Weekly: from the Desk of the World's Laziest Journalist - Reality TV as Dadaist Entertainment
Book Wrangler: Take off your glasses, Joe! - or, The Saga of the Fighter Pilot versus the Hausfrau
Guest Photography ________________
Our Eye on Paris: August
Local Photography ________________
Union Station, Los Angeles
A Mariachi Band
The Usual ________________
Quotes for the week of August 21, 2005 - Dissent
Links and Recommendations: Another New Photo Album, Fire in the Hollywood Hills (21 photos)
Teaser: A man and his guitarrón…
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