A 1990s Modern Moron Movie Review

Herion's dark slumbers fuel its infested minds, and you can't stop dreams, they move in crazy pieces. (Jim Carroll)

It was a dream, not a nightmare, a beautiful dream I could never imagine in a thousand nods. I saw this girl next to me who wasn't beautiful until she smiled, and I felt that smile come at me in heatwaves... soaking through my body and out my fingertips like shafts of color and I knew somewhere in the world, there was love for me. The poetry in the movie is from Carroll's 1993 book, "Fear of Dreaming."

"Basketball Daries" is laden with delicious deceits and dialogue. This 1990 movie was inspired by a book, written by Carroll when he was 17-year-old.

This isn't a typical drugs are bad for you flick, it's a story birthed on poetry in which the author details his time on the streets of New York as a homeless child slamming dope while playing high school basketball for a championship caliber team, if not the U.S. champions in the 1960s, I honestly cannot remember. Regardless, Carroll was a gifted basketball player. 

"People Who Died," a featured song was written and performed by the Jim Carroll Band. and it has that 1970s rock 'n' roll punch.  

Mark Wahlberg is great as Mickey, teammate and friend to Jim, marvelously portrayed by Leonardo Dicaprio. The all-star cast also features Juliette Lewis, Bruno Kirby, Lorraine Bracco, twins Cynthia and Brittany Daniel. Michael Rapaport and Ernie Hudson. 

...in the end, using junk is just another nine to five gig, the hours are just more inclined to shadows. (Jim Carroll)

A solid four and a half star rating for "Basketball Diaries."

Mark Izzy Schurr 

  

 

Library Legacy, A Modern Moron Book Review

Coach Sam Babb was at the right pardine shifting interpretation of the universe in 1931, fueling the success of women's basketball. 

The sport of basketball was invented in 1891 and the 1932 and 33' Oklahoma Presbyterian College women were arguably the toughest and best team in the entire realm of female sports, past or present.   

Simple facts, the OPC Cardinals won 89 straight games, including two consecutive championships between 1931-34.' These Oklahoma college girls awoke at 3 a.m. during basketball season for practice in depression era America and were required to maintain a B average or higher. 

The list of rules included eating healthy and no sweets during the season, although some players cheated by consuming one of the players' homemade fudge now and again to celebrate certain victories. Their measure of tenacity on and off the court has embedded coach Babb and his players into the heart of time itself.

Coach Sam Babb was 39-years-old in 1931 and previously the head coach of both the high school boys' and girls' basketball teams somewhere in Oklahoma, because the prior coach of the girls' team had sexual liaisons with one of the players while married with three children.  

Babb was truly a good man, he wanted young women to succeed in life and basketball decades before women's sports were popular. Babb was the one who enforced the B average for all players on his team. Many of his players started life after college making $75.0 or more a week using their college degree. Earning nearly $400.0 a month in the 1930s after college was a fantastic start to a career, especially for a woman.

The first women's college basketball championship was played in 1926 and before the OPC women's rise to fame, the Dallas Golden Cyclones were the powerhouse team. By 1931, the Cyclones were often referred to as the Dallas Damsels, queens of the basketball universe. 

The Dallas Golden Cyclones won the AAU championship in 1931. The following year, the Cyclones still had their 20-year-old staller stud, Babe Didrickson, named female athlete of the year by the Associated Press in 1931. Didrickson also set national records in track and field, including the 80-meter hurdles, javelin throw and the long jump. 

Coach Babb for the Oklahoma Cardinals had his own star player in Doll Harris. Harris was not just a clutch shot maker, she was also the assistant coach much of the time. Harris also learned about fund raising and scheduling games. Fund raising for women's basketball in the early 1930s was an arduous task, yet coach Babb and Doll Harris got the job done. 

On February 10, 1931, the Cardinals faced the Cyclones and their All-American player, Babe Didrickson for the first time as heavy underdogs on their home court, The Buzzard's Roast. Cardinals guard Hazel Vickers held the mighty Didrickson to six points, enroute to a 33-28 victory. Three days later, the Cardinals beat Dallas on their court 22-21, as 100 of their fans also made the road trip. 

"Dust Bowl Girls" is a book I found by accident at one of the Santa Rosa libraries. and also details Indian life in Oklahoma in the 1930s. This book sparks interest and enlightenment, a solid five-star rating. 

Give Doll the ball was often heard at The Buzzard's Roast. 

Juanita 'Bo-Peep' Park, a sophomore guard for the Cardinals often drove the team bus and did many of the repairs. 

College days or high school days, what does it matter? There're days that will forever be cherished in my heart. In remembrance of the sweetest friendship I have ever been part of-Toka Lee Fields. Fields wrote this in Doll Harris's yearbook. Yes, the players were nonblood family, and winners on and off the court. 

Mark Izzy Schurr 

 

 

Rude and Raunchy Margaret Cho, A Modern Moron Review

 

 More raunchy than the likes of Sam Kinison, Redd Foxx, Richard Pryor and George Carlin at times, and she hates Trump passionately, Margaret Cho rocked the casino tonight.  

To administer oral sex on a woman whose panty heaven fits your mouth like an oxygen mask. Cho was extremely graphic joking about oral sex, and verbally X-rated without being offensive. I understand, it's not humor for everyone, but I liked it. 

The Opener was equally vivid about his sexual liaisons, and I laughed with a chorus of others.   

Headphones or speakers? Cho terminology for vaginal or anal sex. 

A lesbian who hates men but loves their genitals. An aroused Johnson is a turtleneck, Clo said. My Documation of tonight's show is far less graphic than what she actually said.  

A gasless nymph, an absurd aspiration, yet hilarious in her stand-up. 

The slivers on an iceberg are all I've mentioned in last night's "Live and Livid" tour at Graton Resort and Casino. My tongue must tread lightly talking about her act on the clock. 

The spider was Schurr Shot with my Pro 7 Moto. 

Mark Izzy Schurr 

  

 
 

Modern Moron Book Review

Eating all the Halloween chocolate, blaming in on her little Brother, and lying to her mom about brushing her teeth every night, Olivia now faces the consequences of Hada, the tooth fairy's greedy sister. 

Skeletina and Olivia journey into the in-between world. Skeletina exudes positivity from beginning to end.     

If your ever sad and scared, having Skeletina around is always a good thing. Released this year, Susie Jaramillo's "Skeletina and the Greedy Tooth Fairy" is riddled with cool artwork by Jaramillo. A story geared for the very young works well with adults too. Bravo to Jarmillo, four and a half stars easy for nearly three dozen pages of a clever story and sly artwork.

Mark Izzy Schurr 

Schurr Shot

The mystic vapers of laughter and creativity weaves into the fabric of time amidst the chaos of the human spirit.  

Adorable gods radiate passion to live, to have purpose, goals, a sense of understanding and humor. 

I dwell among others, but I'm always apart. I have lost all feelings, nothing has meaning, I feel the pull of the next world calling me, but I resist, there can be no final peace for me until I snap the perfect Schurr Shot. 

My heart and mind have returned to the here and now, I no longer follow dictates, save my own. 

Mark Izzy Schurr

 

The Caressing Ambience of the Camera's Eye

To crest the waves of insanity while soaring through the shores of serenity. 

 

At long last my mind is keen and my thoughts are clear. Decades have passed since my last hit of LSD, and nearly a half a decade since imbibing alcohol. 

The trendiness of unfriendliness has ignited my desire for solitude. The sweet sensation of the written  word dissolves unreciprocated smiles. Shafts of moon light on the sands of the seas reaches into the mystic vapors of imagination. It threads the fabrics of fantasy and fact into a blissfully bizarre realm of love and laughter.   

My camera's eye harbors hope, joy and inspiration. Amidst the shores of Medicine Lake, I snapped these pictures. 

The caressing ambience of inner space, where time has no meaning, and the savage ignorance of humankind is washed away in the waters of eternity, and I admired the allure of campsite 66, the two pictures below. This campsite was the gateway to the entire shores of Medicine Lake. 

Sunday, the 9th, the American bald eagle graced its presence in the eyes of my Sony DSL camera. I captured a cool shot of a bald eagle, yet I cannot get a volleyball pancake on camera, but the season starts again soon, as does youth basketball. 

Local volleyball and basketball are my two favorite live sporting events these days, and it's not easy for me to get a perfectly focused action shot, as you can see, but I like some of my Schurr Shots. 

They weren't beautiful until they smiled, and I felt that smile, and the soothing sensation of bliss dominated my soul because of these three hitchhikers in Oregon last month. Below, the Aftershock competing in Sacramento in March. 

Mark Izzy Schurr 

 

Jaiden got ups. 

Another Modern Moron Book Review

Hoka-he, it's a good day to die, kill them all, (whites) Crazy Horse said to his Oglala warriors before a battle in the Black Hills War.

Several U.S. Cavalry soldiers including General George Armstrong Custer and Captain William Judd Fetterman were pulverized battling Cheyenne and Sioux warriors. 

The U.S. Army lost every battle during an entire summer in the Black Hills War. Custer's dead body was left nude with an arrow in his groin in Little Bighorn. Captain Fetterman's throat was slit by American Horse, and all 80 of Fetterman's soldiers were slain by the native American warriors, thus learning in battle; the Indian's were not lazy savages, they rode horses better, shot better and outnumbered the U.S. Cavalry in the Black Hills War.

The Native American's were here 100s if not 1,000s of years before the white man came and fucked everything up with power and money for the sadistic few. Killing babies, raping Indian women and breaking treaties because of gold, oil and / or lavish lands. 

On Nov., 29, 1864, before the Black Hill war, more than 100 Indian women and children were brutally slain by 700 soldiers from the Third Colorado Cavalry under the command of Colonel John M. Chivington. Reproductive organs from Cheyenne and Arapaho women were used to decorate the saddles of the Bloody Third's horses and some of the children's heads were severed.

"The massacre lasted six or eight hours. I tell you Ned, it was hard to see little children on their knees and have their brains beat out by men professing to be civilized. They were all scalped and horribly mutilated. You could think it impossible for white men to butcher and mutilate human beings as they did. Every word I have told you is the truth and this they do not deny. I expect we will have a hell of time with the Indians this winter," a U.S. officer wrote in a letter to a fellow solider.

June 25, 1876, the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Crazy Horse and his Cheyenne warriors along with Sitting Bull and his Sioux sensation attacked General Custer and his 210 cavalry troops, killing every single one of them. Fleeing U.S. soldiers 100s of yards away from the battle grounds and waving white flags were still slain. General Custer was 36-years-old, the same age as Crazy Horse. 

In April of 1877, Crazy Horse surrenders, and that was the year the Indians were no longer a serious threat to whitey. By 1883, Sitting Bull is fully subdued by the Army and touring America with show business entrepreneur William Cody, aka Buffalo Bill. Little Annie Oakley, five-feet tall becomes friends with Sitting Bull while touring with him. Sitting Bull names her Little Sure Shot and that remained her show business name. 

"Killing Crazy Horse the Merciless Indian Wars in America" was released in 2020 and written by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard. A very solid four and a half star read I acquired from the Sonoma County library. I merely scratched the surface talking about this fantastic history book. This book details how both the Indians and whites were nefarious. 

Mark Izzy Schurr