Sunday, February 12, 2012

Roquemorean tales, part 2: "principles schminciples"


From early 2008. Pressure group manages to force Rocky and His Friends
to take down all those flags in the Student Services Center.
Glenn Roquemore
"Irvine Valley College has removed the Vietnamese flag from an atrium display of flags from all over the world, in response to threats by Vietnamese immigrants in the area to hold a protest of what they view as an inappropriate honor for the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, The Orange County Register reported. A spokeswoman said that the college was trying to be 'considerate.'" 
Inside Higher Ed, Feb. 27, 2008
SEE ALSO Roquemorean tales, Part 1

Corvino on Tuesday

*At Saddleback College
February 14th, 12:00 p.m., McKinney Theater
Dr. John Corvino - The Gay Moralist

John Corvino holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin and is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. He is the editor of Same Sex: Debating the Ethics, Science and Culture of Homosexuality and the author of numerous articles and opinion pieces, which have appeared in regional and national print media, at the online Independent Gay Forum (www.indegayforum.org), and in dozens of journals and anthologies. Currently he is working on a book, Debating Same-Sex Marriage (with Maggie Gallagher) for Oxford University Press, as well as another book for OUP (yet to be titled) presenting a moral defense of homosexuality.

*From Social {Live} Events

At IVC:

EVENT: Feb 16: Jazz Ensemble Together w/ Guest High School
TIME: 8pm
DATES: 2/16/2012
DEPT: Music
DETAILS: GENERAL: $8.00 STUDENT/SENIOR/MILITARY: $5.00 YOUTH: $2.00
LOCATION: IVC PAC Main Stage

Sunday Morning Coming Down


Over a at the OC Weekly online, Red Emma reviews Hector Tobar's The Barbarian Nurseries.

excerpt:
"Too many questions," says Araceli Ramirez, the protagonist of Hector Tobar's new killer novel The Barbarian Nurseries to her two young wards as the Mexican housekeeper from the South County McMansion (in what seems a lot like Ladera Ranch) and the boys arrive at the downtown rail yard loop where Amtrak passes warehouses, the Los Angeles River and Metropolitan Jail on its slow approach to Union Station. Brandon and Kennan Torres-Thompson, presumed kidnap victims, are on the adventure of a lifetime, assuming your life has been short, privileged and dominated by video games and fantasy-adventure series, here something called, perfectly, The Saga of the Fire-Swallowers, which sounds a lot like the various series the Bibliofella's young reader son consumes like popcorn.

Araceli has been employed by a wealthy family residing fifty miles south, on idyllic and hyperbolically-christened Paseo Linda Bonita in Laguna Rancho Estates (see what I mean?). She's been transformed, first from a complex, creative person with a rich past, a family, talent and artistic ambitions, into one of those one-dimensional shadow beings called domestic help. Then, with the two rich white boys in tow, she suddenly becomes a suspect perp in an Amber Alert drama with accompanying nativist-racist politics, an opportunistic prosecutor, the totally predictable (and not disappointing) media spectacle and the genuine if startlingly sweet curiosity of two children. Raised in the picture-perfect confines of the gated, gardened, upscale life, they ask her about the concrete river, homeless people, the whole concept of the city, as if their little big brains, so familiar with the virtual and the fantastical worlds, lack a place to put it all.
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Roy's obituary in LA Times and Register: "we were lucky to have you while we did"

  This ran in the Sunday December 24, 2023 edition of the Los Angeles Times and the Orange County Register : July 14, 1955 - November 20, 2...