The review I just read in my paper

[David Morris]

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/tulsi-gabbard-veterans-hearing-surfing

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) missed a hearing on the Veterans Affairs crisis
because she was surfing with Yahoo News reporter Chris Moody,
according to Honolulu
Civil Beat
<http://www.civilbeat.com/2014/10/gabbard-missed-veterans-hearing-to-surf-waikiki/?cbk=542f5bcc76163>
.

Gabbard's office had initially told Civil Beat that she missed a Senate
field hearing on veterans chaired by Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) because she
was at another hearing. But more recently Gabbard's office said that she
was stuck with Yahoo News reporter Chris Moody who was doing areport
<http://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-surf-video-042620249.html> on her
surfing in Waikiki. Gabbard, according to Civil Beat, had thought she would
be able to make the hearing but she ran out of time.

On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 9:40 AM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Um, why should there be surfing? Here in CA, surfing has always been
> minority sport, one we glimpse occasionally in passing a beach where
> surfing is popular. Surf culture is more prevalent, and that is addressed
> in the novel. If surf culture, i.e., stoners shredding on the guitar, etc,
> is absent from the film, that would be cause for alarm.
>
>
> 2014-10-06 2:10 GMT-07:00 Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>:
>
>>
>> Patrick Bahners: Glücksritter und Tagediebe auf Gangsterjagd (on page 11
>> of today's FAZ)
>>
>> Two interesting points in this critique:
>>
>> Bahners calls it a "big disappointment" that PTA couldn't find a
>> "film-stylistic equivalent for the oceanic topography of the novel". What
>> he means - "(d)as Leitmotiv des Surfens wird überhaupt nicht ins Bild
>> gesetzt" - is that the movie has no surfing. Is this true? If so, that's a
>> legitimate point of criticism, imo.
>>
>> The second objection to Anderson's adaptation is that it leaves out the
>> theme of total surveillance and that this - I'm not sure Bahners is serious
>> here - could be the starting point for conspiracy theories. Well, I don't
>> know about the influence the NSA or similar organizations have on movie
>> productions, but I thought the P-list might enjoy the speculation ...
>>
>> "Im Roman erkennt Sportello die Muster im roten Fadengewirr, weil er
>> Zugriff auf eine Frühform des Internets erhält, ein Datennetzwerk der
>> Sicherheitsbehörden mit Knotenpunkten in den Universitäten. Die entgrenzte
>> Kombinatorik, das lebensphilosophische Projekt der Gegenkultur, überlebt
>> ironischerweise als geheimes Regierungsprogramm. (...) Dass die von Pynchon
>> 2009 ins Auge gefasste Totalüberwachung in der Verfilmung von 2014
>> entfallen ist, ergibt einen unnatürlichen Mangel [- the German title of IV
>> is 'Natürliche Mängel'.kfl], der Ausgangspunkt für Verschwörungstheorien
>> sein könnte. Doch wenn das zutreffen sollte, stünde das mit Sicherheit
>> nicht in der Zeitung."
>>
>>
>> -
>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
>>
>
>
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