Murphys claims to be the beginning point of Joaquin Murrietta’s campaign of vengeance against Anglos.
Placerville used to be known as Hangtown due to its inhabitants’ proclivity for lynching.
A coffee shop in Yuba City, California:
The eagle later died from complications due to COVID-19.
Commercial consciousness has permeated every aspect of life so thoroughly that we no longer take note of it, like the background hum of forgotten machinery.
The scientistic jargon of commerce simultaneously elevates its speakers at its listeners expense and converts every idea into an object. It quantifies feeling in order to excrete lies.
I sat all morning in the college sick bay
Counting bells knelling classes to a close.
At two o’clock our neighbours drove me home.
In the porch I met my father crying –
He had always taken funerals in his stride –
And Big Jim Evans saying it was a hard blow.
The baby cooed and laughed and rocked the pram
When I came in, and I was embarrassed
By old men standing up to shake my hand
And tell me they were “sorry for my trouble”.
Whispers informed strangers I was the eldest,
Away at school, as my mother held my hand
In hers and coughed out angry tearless signs.
At ten o’clock an ambulance arrived
With the corpse, stanched and bandaged by the nurses.
Next morning I went up into the room. Snowdrops
And candles soothed the bedside; I saw him
For the first time in six weeks. Paler now,
Wearing a poppy bruise on his left temple,
He lay in the four foot box as in his cot.
No gaudy scars, the bumper knocked him clear.
A four foot box, a foot for every year.
–Seamus Heaney
1939-2021. Truly a king among men.
The Louvin Bros. 1959.
Never forget the clumsy efforts of the ruling class to plaster over their bottomless mendacity with carefully orchestrated images.
Such a claim, repeated uncritically by elite media corporations, should immediately provoke skepticism, right?
Pinkowitz on Two Thousand Maniacs!
economics of regional exploitation film production
narrow profit margins/ low overhead including non-pro actors, etc.
drive-in theater venues as a marginal space/audience– note less segregated than other venues, not an “ideal” audience (the “classy” or normie-type audiences Hollywood studios were after)
other aspects of viewership: audience identification with the grotesque caricatures of Lewis’s film. an ironic identification as “redneck” “cracker” etc.
narratives often include characters who function as stand-ins for readers/viewers
ex. Lottie Mae and Beeder in the final image of Feast. the non-pro extras, residents of St. Cloud, who watch the dunking machine/boulder dropping atrocity
social content of Maniacs: a non-Southern version of the South but also references to CRM and “Massive Resistance” campaigns against it. racist violence of lynching (the atrocities against the Yankee tourists but also the toy nooses, off-camera torture/killing of black cat
note absence of Black people in Pleasant Valley
analepsis 
