Here is my Facebook post about this. Maybe I'll write more later
Thursday, March 6, 2025
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
Wanting to save a post from X
I should say that the caption on the illustration of this post contains a word that I normally don't say -- and would prefer not to include, but the rest of the post is well worded.
Thoughts from the US
— dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 (@dave43law) March 3, 2025
"In my life, I have watched John Kennedy talk on television about missiles in Cuba. I saw Lyndon Johnson look Richard Russell squarely in the eye and and say, "And we shall overcome." I saw Richard Nixon resign and Gerald Ford tell the Congress that our long… pic.twitter.com/2whmo3oJfR
"In my life, I have watched John Kennedy talk on television about missiles in Cuba. I saw Lyndon Johnson look Richard Russell squarely in the eye and and say, "And we shall overcome." I saw Richard Nixon resign and Gerald Ford tell the Congress that our long national nightmare was over. I saw Jimmy Carter talk about malaise and Ronald Reagan talk about a shining city on a hill. I saw George H.W. Bush deliver the eulogy for the Soviet bloc, and Bill Clinton comfort the survivors of Timothy McVeigh's madness in Oklahoma City. I saw George W. Bush struggle to make sense of it all on September 11, 2001, and I saw Barack Obama sing 'Amazing Grace' in the wounded sanctuary of Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
"These were the presidents of my lifetime. These were not perfect men. They were not perfect presidents, god knows. Not one of them was that. But they approached the job, and they took to the podium, with all the gravitas they could muster as appropriate to the job. They tried, at least, to reach for something in the presidency that was beyond their grasp as ordinary human beings. They were not all ennobled by the attempt, but they tried nonetheless.
"And comes now this hopeless, vicious buffoon, and the audience of equally hopeless and vicious buffoons who laughed and cheered when he made sport of a woman whose lasting memory of the trauma she suffered is the laughter of the perpetrators. Now he comes, a man swathed in scandal, with no interest beyond what he can put in his pocket and what he can put over on a universe of suckers, and he does something like this while occupying an office that we gave him, and while endowed with a public trust that he dishonors every day he wakes up in the White House.
"The scion of a multigenerational criminal enterprise, the parameters of which we are only now beginning to comprehend. A vessel for all the worst elements of the American condition. And a cheap, soulless bully besides. We never have had such a cheap counterfeit of a president* as currently occupies the office. We never have had a president* so completely deserving of scorn and yet so small in the office that it almost seems a waste of time and energy to summon up the requisite contempt.
"Watch how a republic dies in the empty eyes of an empty man who feels nothing but his own imaginary greatness, and who cannot find in himself the decency simply to shut up even when it is in his best interest to do so. Presidents don't have to be heroes to be good presidents. They just have to realize that their humanity is our common humanity, and that their political commonwealth is our political commonwealth, too.
Watch him behind the seal of the President of the United States. Isn't he a funny man? Isn't what happened to that lady hilarious? Watch the assembled morons cheer. This is the only story now."
- Charles Pierce
Wednesday, February 19, 2025
Mystic Tycoon
My sister-in-law found this clip of me acting. It's a trailer for an audio podcast series called "Mystic Tycoon" It was originally called "Secret Trillionaire."
Director: Amy Omar
Producer: Adam Kinyon
Production Company: Best Dressed Films https://www.bestdressedfilms.com/
I am embedding this video from FB. I am trying to get permission to post it on my YouTube channel. I can provide excerpts to you privately, if necessary.
I haven't embedded from FB before. I think this works. I hope it continues to work. The clip shows me acting as the evil Lisa in this series.
Looking at this ad, it appears that the video clip that we filmed was a teaser for an audio series on Pocket FM. I personally haven't recorded any audio for that series, so I don't know much about it, other than what is filmed here.
#MysticTycoon #mystictycoon #PocketFM
*****
Another, shorter excerpt on FB
I'm not in this one, but it's another video from the same source
Monday, February 3, 2025
headshots
When you're an actress,
you are supposed to have a headshot. The headshot is your brand, a bit like a trademark.
In 2020, when I was filming a self-taped audition, I got a still from my slate that I really liked. This is a version with the background removed
I really like this photo. It is warm and welcoming. I think I've been booking more gigs since I've been using it.
There is a problem, tho. It's five years old and I don't have those glasses any more. I think I need a new one. It's actually not so easy to get that exact expression.
Here are some selfies I've been working with -- trying to make a new shot that I like as well
So far, I'm not sure I like any of them as well as the first. Of course, I'm five years older, so I'm not going to look quite as good -- but, also the expression is not quite the same.
More to be revealed.
Also all of these are with my computer glasses. None of them are with the progressives that I use most of the time.
Here's a picture with the progressives, just for clarification. Obviously, the expression on this is even less right.
A couple more 250331
Sunday, February 2, 2025
Errors made by Kamala Harris during the Campaign
Kamala Harris made two critical errors.
1. When asked what she would have done differently from Biden, she shouldn’t have said “nothing.”
He was unpopular. She needed to distinguish herself.
She could have said something like “I believe in loyalty. I believe you shouldn’t throw your boss under the bus. I know Joe has tried very hard to increase the amount of food getting into Gaza and to reduce civilian casualties. I don’t know for sure that I can do better, but I certainly would like to try.
Israel has been a long time ally of the United States, and a good ally. I’m not sure Netanyahu is a good ally, though. Because of the corruption charges pending against him, he has a motivation to keep his country in a state of perpetual crisis. The perceived crises strengthen his support amongst voters, but this motivation is resulting in escalating violence in the region.”
2. When asked about inflation, she should have said “the inflation that Joe encountered early in his term, was a direct result of Trump‘s policies of not enforcing the antitrust laws, particularly in the wholesale food distribution market. Joe has brought that Trump-induced inflation under control.“
3. Instead of saying those things, she made a very tone deaf statement, about two days before the election, about how she wanted a strong defense — while Trump was telling a war weary population that he was the “peace candidate,” and did not adequately counter the inflation message.
Of course Trump was lying about being a peace candidate. In the short time following the election, he began making aggressive statements, threatening the sovereignty of peaceful countries who have been long time friends. But from the perspective of those listening before the election, particularly those who didn’t like all the money being spent on foreign wars, he sounded better than Harris.
Item number one above cost Harris the votes of black men and Muslims. Item number two above cost Harris a lot of white working class votes.
If the campaign had been longer, she might’ve corrected these problems. Unfortunately, she did not have time to fully formulate her platform and talking points in response to input from the populace. Of course, there is the issue of Trump being a professional performer with tremendous charisma who tapped into anger well, but Harris made critical mistakes in how she responded to the press.
Friday, January 17, 2025
2023 updates
I moved these from my primary log of ongoing updates
News from 2023
Performance
- Oct 10 & 18 recording VO for Count of Monte Cristo
- June 8&9 -- recording VO for undisclosed commercial -- very pleased that new XLR mic is giving satisfactory results -- after struggling with USB mics for years.
- April 14 -- filming "Fear of Getting Old" Bridgeport CT d Leo Caserta
Courses
- Netflix CD's -- Actor's Connection
CLE
- 11/8/23 "One-Day Patent CLE Seminar" NYIPLA in person
- 11/1/23 "Is It Obvious? Let's Reconsider. Design Patent Obvioiusness vs Utility Patents" NYIPLA in person
- 9/7/23 JPPCLE -- on Zoom
- Dartmouth Lawyers Association’s July 18, 2023 program entitled, Generative AI and Its Legal Implications in IP Law,
- 6/22/23 "Anti-counterfeiting Procedures in Latin-America and Europe" IIPS
- 6/10/23 "From Madoff to SBF to Trump: The Changing Role of White Collar Prosecutions" Columbia Law School & a conversation with Dean Lester & Preet Bharara
- Dartmouth Lawyers Association’s May 24, 2023 program entitled, Town Hall,
- 2/3/23 "The New Unified Patent Court and "UPC Land" IIPS
Media consumption
- Live shows attended: Lindsey Stirling 8/1/23; Sweeney Todd 7/15/23
- Recordings purchased; Josh Groban (20th anniversary edition of Closer); Mat & Savanna Shaw (2 albums); Lucia Micarelli & Leo Amuedo (Saudade, 2 Christmas Singles), Tony Ann ( Emotionally Red, Emotionally Blue, Emotionally Orange, Something I could ..., Rain); Jackie Evancho (Behind my Eyes, Carousel of time); Connie Talbot (4 singles with Boyce Avenue); Adam Lambert (You Make me Feel...); William Goldstein (Collaborative Composition); Voces 8 & Eric Whitacre (Home):
- Movies seen in theaters: Trolls, Wish, Spiderverse, Oppenheimer, Barbie, Mission Impossible VII
Other events attended
- NYYM Sessions in April, July & November -- all on Zoom
- 40th Law School Reunion, Columbia -- in person
- 50th High School Reunion, Livermore, CA -- in person
Sightseeing videos
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