1. The Devil’s Advocate
Time Stamp: 9:40
- I know I don’t have to say this but…
- Financial ruin due to lack of preparedness
- Blaming COVID-19, the Government, etc
- Lack of food, supplies, planning
- Blaming society
- Frustration with ‘the herd’ or ‘government’
- But you don’t participate in the government
- You exhibit the same behaviors as the herd
- Death of a loved one
- No one cares
- Your circumstance is not special
- The bottom line is Responsibility to the Responsible.
- Financial ruin due to lack of preparedness
2. Infernal Informant
Time Stamp: 33:57
- This is how Mother’s Day was born
https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/10/us/mothers-day-history-trnd/index.html- Suffragist and writer Julia Ward Howe first suggested the idea of Mother’s Day in the United States in 1872. Howe was a pacifist and saw the holiday as a chance to unite women and rally for peace. For several years, she held an annual Mother’s Day meeting in Boston.
- However, West Virginia activist Anna Jarvis is credited with creating the holiday that is celebrated today.
- In 1908, Jarvis campaigned for a national observance of the holiday in honor of her mother, who was a community health advocate. Her mom had organized several Mother’s Day Work Clubs that addressed child rearing and public health issues, and Jarvis wanted to commemorate her and the work of all mothers.
- However, Jarvis later became disillusioned by how floral and greeting card companies commercialized the holiday and said she regretted starting it.
- It became an official US holiday in 1914 when President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the second Sunday in May as a day of “public expression of our love and reverence for the mothers of our country.”
- Insure.com’s Mother’s Day Index, which assigns an annual salary to the work that moms do at home, was valued at $93,920. That represents a 32% increase over last year because of all the extra work moms have had to do during the coronavirus pandemic.
- So on Sunday, it’s mom’s turn to be taken care of.
- ‘We can’t stay home’: how America’s poorest state is trying to reopen
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/10/mississippi-poorest-us-state-attempts-reopen-economic-strain-of-coronavirus- Mississippi has taken a cue from Trump and is attempting to reopen while this week the state reached its highest numbers of coronavirus cases and deaths
- To the north, towering hotels and casinos, lights dim, doors shut – a sign of a once-booming tourist industry that evaporated overnight last month. To the south, turquoise sea and white sand, hundreds of sunbathers enjoying recently reopened beaches.
- In this medium-sized city, known for its hedonistic nightlife and its seafood, most reopening is being done by halves.
- Republican governor, Tate Reeves, allowed restaurants to host dining at half-capacity, retail stores to reopen with restrictions and up to 20 people to gather in groups outside.
- Three days before the governor’s latest guidance, Mississippi announced its highest number of daily cases and deaths.
- Other states in the south, including Georgia, Texas and Florida, have also moved to open despite growing numbers of cases.
- Reeves has taken cues from Donald Trump, who has encouraged states to open in the face of White House taskforce guidance, which states that phased reopening should not commence until a 14-day decrease in the number of coronavirus cases has been seen.
- Earlier this week, leaked guidance from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicated that the move to open up could lead by 1 June to a daily death toll across America of 3,000, an increase of 70% on the current rate.
- Tens of thousands in Biloxi, where 25% of the economy depends on tourism, suffered the same fate. Loosing their jobs and suffering
- Mississippi is America’s poorest state: before the pandemic, 20% lived below the poverty line and 600,000 of 2.9 million residents had limited access to healthy food.
- “I don’t have time to worry about it,” he said. “I have to take care of my family. I just have to lay my faith in God.”
- “The cure [should not] be worse than the problem,” Gilich added – echoing a catchphrase Trump has used.
- Trump says “We have to be warriors,” he said on Wednesday. “We can’t keep our country closed down for years.”
- Lea Campbell, a frontline healthcare worker and community organizer with the Poor People’s Campaign says “People are making a willful decision to put other people at risk, and I have seen the consequences of doing that,” Campbell said, as a gentle breeze wafted over her garden. “If they had seen what I have, I think their behaviour would be different.”
3. Creature Feature
Time Stamp: 56:45
- What We Do In The Shadows
https://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/what-we-do-in-the-shadows
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_We_Do_in_the_Shadows_(TV_series)- premiered March 27, 2019, on FX.
- Based on the 2014 film of the same name written by Clement and Taika Waititi
- What We Do in the Shadows, based on the feature film by Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi, returns for its second season, documenting the nightly exploits of vampire roommates Nandor (Kayvan Novak), Nadja (Natasia Demetriou), Laszlo (Matt Berry), and Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch) as they navigate the modern world of Staten Island with the help of their human familiar, Guillermo (Harvey Guillén).
- Clement created the series. Clement, Waititi, and Paul Simms are Executive Producers with Scott Rudin, Garrett Basch, Eli Bush and Stefani Robinson. What We Do in the Shadows is produced by FX Productions and stars Kayvan Novak, Harvey Guillén, Natasia Demetriou, Matt Berry and Mark Proksch.
- According to Jemaine Clement: “We stay pretty basic ’70s/’80s vampire rules, with a little bit of ’30s.
- They can turn into bats.
- They can’t go in the sunlight; they don’t sparkle in the sun, they die.
- They have to be invited in; in a lot of literature vampires have to be invited into private buildings, but this is a documentary so it’s the real rules which means they have to be invited into any building.”
- The main influences on the series are Fright Night, Martin, The Lost Boys, Nosferatu, Interview with the Vampire, Vampire’s Kiss, and Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
- The song used in the opening credits is “You’re Dead” by Norma Tanega.
- Principal photography for the first season took place from October 22 to December 18, 2018 in Toronto, Ontario
- Writer/producer Paul Simms said that series does not use CGI effects: “There’s no fully digital characters or anything like that. One of the movies we really talked about a lot when we were conceiving the show was Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula where he went back to really doing as many effects as possible in camera and figuring out ways to do that.
- cinematographers D.J. Stipsen and Christian Sprenger’s influences for the series was the work of Michael Ballhaus and production designer Thomas E. Sanders on the Coppola-directed Bram Stoker’s Dracula: “We referenced that film for the general sumptuousness of the vampires’ mansion, which was our main set. Our take, however, was that the Staten Island vampires have let their place go. The former glory is evident but now exists in a worn, faded and distressed state.