by joe | Jun 26, 2011 | Sports
Is there anything more reliable than the gleeful venom of the Saturday Letters in the Sports page? Here’s a beauty, one of many, from today’s L.A. Times: My suggestion to whomever buys the Dodgers and doesn’t get the stadium parking lot, concessions,...
by joe | Jun 24, 2011 | News & Politics
The New York Times reported today that the courier’s cellphone taken in the raid on Bin Laden’s Abbottabad compound “contained contacts to a militant group that is a longtime asset of Pakistan’s intelligence agency…” Here’s...
by joe | Jun 22, 2011 | Human interest
The Pakistani guys in my local 7-11 store would always call me “Boss.” I would gently upbraid them, explaining that my name is Joe and that they needn’t call me “Boss.” The funniest of these guys is named “Win.” Whenever I...
by joe | Jun 21, 2011 | News & Politics
Keith Olbermann’s new show on Current TV is reviewed by Mary McNamara in the L.A. Times: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2011/06/tv-review-keith-olbermann-comes-out-swinging-on-currents-new-countdown.html She argues, well I think, that Olbermann...
by joe | Jun 19, 2011 | Jungian Psychology
Again, quoting from The Portable Jung, “The Phenomenology of the Self…” (In case you can’t tell I like this book) Jung’s essay on the shadow… here’s a quote from pg 147. He has just talked about a patient’s projections. But it’s...
by joe | Jun 17, 2011 | Jungian Psychology
Again, quoting from The Portable Jung, “The Phenomenology of the Self…” his essay on the shadow: here is one of my favorite quotes: Projections change the world into a replica of one’s own unknown face. Pithy. Scary as hell. And so true. That’s the beauty...
by joe | Jun 12, 2011 | Jungian Thriller
My main character spends some time at West L.A. Division, sometimes called the jewel in the LAPD’s crown. In this scene, he walks up the street, and here’s what he encounters… Moody walked up Butler in a daze toward Santa Monica Boulevard. He stopped...
by joe | Jun 9, 2011 | L.A./Jung Playlist
Going back the conference “Myths of L.A.,” I remember some of the speakers talked about how Jung had the realization of the city as the self. Think about it. Los Angeles, perched on a far cliff of western civilization… personal myth can emerge…...
by joe | Jun 9, 2011 | L.A./Jung Playlist
http://www.junginla.org/t/publicprograms/2011/summer/month/june/
by joe | Jun 7, 2011 | Jungian Thriller, L.A./Jung Playlist
When I had first decided to write a Jungian Thriller set in Los Angeles, I remember attending a weekend conference called “Myths of L.A.” It featured many wonderful speakers and the overriding theme was the collective “shadow” of the city of...