Saturday, July 03, 2004
4th of July Weekend Rant
We at Hazleton Pravda wish to extend a happy 4th of July, Independence Day celebration to everyone in the Hazleton and surrounding areas excepting of course, CANT DO and the Powers-That-Be as they represent nothing of the freedom from tyranny that our July 4th holiday stands for. This is a celebration that the working class should embrace as it was meant in theory to be the success of OUR revolution against oppression. Be grateful that you don't have to see your boss. Take pleasure in a cook out or some downtime. You have a break from the rat race and the meat grinder. Take advantage of it. Read a book expand your mind. Think about changing your occupation to anything, but a factory slave!
Yes, our great nation is 230 years old now. It has weathered the years and changed to meet the challenges of the world around it excepting of course, the Greater Hazleton Area which has been content to try to turn back time at every opportunity and at least halt the progress that is going on all around everywhere in the rest of the world. Thanks to CANT DO and the Powers-That-Be for doing a great job of halting progress into the 21st century for Hazleton! You guys are just doing a fine job of keeping us all downtrodden and poor. Thanks for replacing the mine barons with middle-management scum and hypocritical factory owners who take no cares as they aid in the destruction of our already polluted environment that is the NEPA!
Potholes
Hazleton’s most notable urban trait and attribute is back with a vengeance. Potholes and roadway disrepair in general is once more an acute problem of *trumpets* …The Greater Hazleton Area! I had to bring this to mention because I was driving just the other day in Hazleton and the roads were such a wonderful lumpy wavy-gravy mess that I swore I had a flat tire. I actually stopped my vehicle and got out to check. It wasn’t me it was the pasta-vista that I was travelling on.
Now it is understandable that there is ceiling to budgeting road repair and it is reasonable to point out that the extremes of weather destroy roads and that makes for an ever on-going battle between entropy and PennDOT, but come on! The roads shouldn’t look like minefields year round. The potholes are akin to mine shafts and that is just ridiculous. The roads should at least be passable for a vehicle without pulling off a tie-rod end or busting a ball-joint even when you are driving less then twenty miles an hour!
This has been an on-going bit of Hazleton nonsense for years. Many of my peers spoke of this when I was very young going back some 25 years. They re-named Hazleton ‘Pothole City’ in honor of its well done roadways and the city’s dedication to maintaining them. Now 25 years later and things haven’t changed. The roads still suck, although we had that glory period a few years back where the roads were in such disrepair that things HAD to be fixed. Perhaps that is gonna happen again. Perhaps not. All I know is that the roads SHOULD be better up-kept then they are. Some amount of road weathering is understandable (I can’t stress that enough) but the mess many traffic areas like 15th Street and Alter to name a couple is just unacceptable. Maybe if the Powers-That-Be pooled some of that money they’re using to wipe their asses with Hazleton and the Hazleton Area could be fixed up for real! Let’s not be called Pothole City, folks. It’s bad enough we’re called Hazleton (spelled-did wrong and we’z likes it dat way!).
Marlon Brando Dies at 80
Well, another great actor of the caliber such as Richard Burton, William Holden and Anthony Quinn has passed on. He will probably be remembered forever for his performance as Don Corleone in ‘The Godfather’ and rightly a great performance that was. I liked him best as Jor-El in the 1978 film ‘Superman.’ That film left far less of a pasta after taste in my mouth. ‘The Young Lions’ was another great film of his. However, it is for his later screen appearances that I feel we at Hazleton Pravda should give praise to Brando. It was in films like the remake of The Island of Dr. Moreau and Don Juan DeMarco where you got to see a lot more of Marlon Brando and I mean A LOT more! Having ballooned up to a size equal or surpassing the measure of his status, Marlon Brando once more commanded the screen simply because he was all you could see in the damn frame! The man became huge and he revealed in his girth. His boundless excesses of sloth and gluttony make him truly a remarkable person to be admired and perhaps feared by the precepts of excess we abide by at Hazleton Pravda!
Marlon Brando admitted to having an addiction to food. He just loved to eat! He even had a lock placed on his frigerator to keep himself out, but giving into his cravings he actually was found breaking into his own fridge! That’s great! Not to mention he fathered like 11 kids through three marriages. Why? Just because he didn’t HAVE to pull out. He was Marlon Brando! The man just went for it. He was all Id all the way! He will be missed. Hey, 80 years is a pretty good run anyway.
--Gombeggar
"I have always considered my life a private affair and the business of no one beyond my family and those I love. Except for moral and political issues that aroused in me a desire to speak out, I have done my utmost throughout my life, for the sake of my children and myself, to remain silent...But now, in my seventieth year, I have decided to tell the story of my life as best I can, so that my children can separate the truth from the myths that others have created about me, as myths are created about everyone swept up in the turbulent and distorting maelstrom of celebrity in our culture."
Source : Brando's Autobiography, Songs My Mother Taught Me
"Even today I meet people who think of me automatically as a tough, insensitive, coarse guy named Stanley Kowalski. They can't help it, but, it is troubling"
Source : Brando's Autobiography, Songs My Mother Taught Me
We at Hazleton Pravda wish to extend a happy 4th of July, Independence Day celebration to everyone in the Hazleton and surrounding areas excepting of course, CANT DO and the Powers-That-Be as they represent nothing of the freedom from tyranny that our July 4th holiday stands for. This is a celebration that the working class should embrace as it was meant in theory to be the success of OUR revolution against oppression. Be grateful that you don't have to see your boss. Take pleasure in a cook out or some downtime. You have a break from the rat race and the meat grinder. Take advantage of it. Read a book expand your mind. Think about changing your occupation to anything, but a factory slave!
Yes, our great nation is 230 years old now. It has weathered the years and changed to meet the challenges of the world around it excepting of course, the Greater Hazleton Area which has been content to try to turn back time at every opportunity and at least halt the progress that is going on all around everywhere in the rest of the world. Thanks to CANT DO and the Powers-That-Be for doing a great job of halting progress into the 21st century for Hazleton! You guys are just doing a fine job of keeping us all downtrodden and poor. Thanks for replacing the mine barons with middle-management scum and hypocritical factory owners who take no cares as they aid in the destruction of our already polluted environment that is the NEPA!
Potholes
Hazleton’s most notable urban trait and attribute is back with a vengeance. Potholes and roadway disrepair in general is once more an acute problem of *trumpets* …The Greater Hazleton Area! I had to bring this to mention because I was driving just the other day in Hazleton and the roads were such a wonderful lumpy wavy-gravy mess that I swore I had a flat tire. I actually stopped my vehicle and got out to check. It wasn’t me it was the pasta-vista that I was travelling on.
Now it is understandable that there is ceiling to budgeting road repair and it is reasonable to point out that the extremes of weather destroy roads and that makes for an ever on-going battle between entropy and PennDOT, but come on! The roads shouldn’t look like minefields year round. The potholes are akin to mine shafts and that is just ridiculous. The roads should at least be passable for a vehicle without pulling off a tie-rod end or busting a ball-joint even when you are driving less then twenty miles an hour!
This has been an on-going bit of Hazleton nonsense for years. Many of my peers spoke of this when I was very young going back some 25 years. They re-named Hazleton ‘Pothole City’ in honor of its well done roadways and the city’s dedication to maintaining them. Now 25 years later and things haven’t changed. The roads still suck, although we had that glory period a few years back where the roads were in such disrepair that things HAD to be fixed. Perhaps that is gonna happen again. Perhaps not. All I know is that the roads SHOULD be better up-kept then they are. Some amount of road weathering is understandable (I can’t stress that enough) but the mess many traffic areas like 15th Street and Alter to name a couple is just unacceptable. Maybe if the Powers-That-Be pooled some of that money they’re using to wipe their asses with Hazleton and the Hazleton Area could be fixed up for real! Let’s not be called Pothole City, folks. It’s bad enough we’re called Hazleton (spelled-did wrong and we’z likes it dat way!).
Marlon Brando Dies at 80
Well, another great actor of the caliber such as Richard Burton, William Holden and Anthony Quinn has passed on. He will probably be remembered forever for his performance as Don Corleone in ‘The Godfather’ and rightly a great performance that was. I liked him best as Jor-El in the 1978 film ‘Superman.’ That film left far less of a pasta after taste in my mouth. ‘The Young Lions’ was another great film of his. However, it is for his later screen appearances that I feel we at Hazleton Pravda should give praise to Brando. It was in films like the remake of The Island of Dr. Moreau and Don Juan DeMarco where you got to see a lot more of Marlon Brando and I mean A LOT more! Having ballooned up to a size equal or surpassing the measure of his status, Marlon Brando once more commanded the screen simply because he was all you could see in the damn frame! The man became huge and he revealed in his girth. His boundless excesses of sloth and gluttony make him truly a remarkable person to be admired and perhaps feared by the precepts of excess we abide by at Hazleton Pravda!
Marlon Brando admitted to having an addiction to food. He just loved to eat! He even had a lock placed on his frigerator to keep himself out, but giving into his cravings he actually was found breaking into his own fridge! That’s great! Not to mention he fathered like 11 kids through three marriages. Why? Just because he didn’t HAVE to pull out. He was Marlon Brando! The man just went for it. He was all Id all the way! He will be missed. Hey, 80 years is a pretty good run anyway.
--Gombeggar
"I have always considered my life a private affair and the business of no one beyond my family and those I love. Except for moral and political issues that aroused in me a desire to speak out, I have done my utmost throughout my life, for the sake of my children and myself, to remain silent...But now, in my seventieth year, I have decided to tell the story of my life as best I can, so that my children can separate the truth from the myths that others have created about me, as myths are created about everyone swept up in the turbulent and distorting maelstrom of celebrity in our culture."
Source : Brando's Autobiography, Songs My Mother Taught Me
"Even today I meet people who think of me automatically as a tough, insensitive, coarse guy named Stanley Kowalski. They can't help it, but, it is troubling"
Source : Brando's Autobiography, Songs My Mother Taught Me
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