Star (Wars)Treatment

Austin was so excited about the name of the new Star Wars movie he tweeted about it:

#starwars Episode 7 THE FORCE AWAKENS Great title!!! - AUS10

But OMG thought he might like these that are a little more relevant.

Political Positions

New York on Monday, LA on Tuesday Jake was spotted at LAX on November 4th.

Looks like his "home" might be in New York, but not his polling place is not.

Austin was sure enthusiastic about voting the day before

Americans! Tomorrow is Election Day. VOTE VOTE VOTE!! Here is a link to find out where you go. http://www.whosay.com/l/Emw9z2r  - AUS10

Civic Duty?  Or thought of possible hanging chad? 

Speaking of politics.

What ever happened to Nailed?

It looks like the movie went into witness protection.   It got a new name and new location and all connection to David O. Russell is wiped away or is that Russell wiped away any relation to it.

"Screen Daily reports that Arrow Films has snapped up the UK rights to the film that’s now called “Politics Of Love” with plans for a 2015 release."

No word if or when it can return to the US.

Guy's Guy

Austin pulled out the poetry to celebrate Guy Fawkes Day

Remember Remember The 5th Of November - AUS10

          The Fifth of November

    Remember, remember!
    The fifth of November,
    The Gunpowder treason and plot;
    I know of no reason
    Why the Gunpowder treason
    Should ever be forgot!
    Guy Fawkes and his companions
    Did the scheme contrive,
    To blow the King and Parliament
    All up alive.
    Threescore barrels, laid below,
    To prove old England's overthrow.
    But, by God's providence, him they catch,
    With a dark lantern, lighting a match!
    A stick and a stake
    For King James's sake!
    If you won't give me one,
    I'll take two,
    The better for me,
    And the worse for you.
    A rope, a rope, to hang the Pope,
    A penn'orth of cheese to choke him,
    A pint of beer to wash it down,
    And a jolly good fire to burn him.
    Holloa, boys! holloa, boys! make the bells ring!
    Holloa, boys! holloa boys! God save the King!
    Hip, hip, hooor-r-r-ray!

But did he learn that from college or watching friend Natalie Portman (come on if she's friends with Jake, Austin's friends with here)   in V is for Vendetta?

Why does OMG think with that cinephile  it would be more of a Vendetta.

But just in case England's rubbed off on the fella.  BYOF

Fireworks people fireworks.

Gyllen'crawlin'

Even though Nightcrawler had a great opening weekend at the box office topping the list with Ouija, both at $10.9 million, doesn't mean Jake stopped promoting the movie.

Jake stopped by to see old friend Jon Stewart on Monday night to talk about the movie and much more.

Jake was in his element talking to Jon who's first question, was how many times did Jake as Lou Bloom actually blink in Nightcrawler as only Jon can.  And Jake countered with the interesting effects of kale.  And who really was his inspiration for Lou.

Jake was on - quick, happy, charming and witty as wever.

Giggles and dimples... are always always welcome Jake.

Capped Off

Boston.com  summed it up well, when they said:"On the scale of how “Boston” a celebrity is, Jake..." "is more Jimmy Fallon than Mark Wahlberg. It’s more of a Boston-at-heart kind of deal for the non-local.

They mentioned about Jake's summer's on the Vineyard"

“Every time I fly over… I land in Boston and drive to the Cape or wherever I go, that drive is always where I feel like my heart is here.”

"He couldn’t tell you where the nearest T stop is if he tried, but, after chatting with him last weekend, I can say he’s as blunt as any Bostonian fighting for a seat on the Green Line."

Jake wouldn't attempt a  Boston accent (“give me three months of preparation, I think I might be able to pull it off,” he said),

 They go on to say that he "is probably used to being on the receiving end of some good-natured ribbing from his long-time best friends who hail from Massachusetts. They aren’t afraid to give him the business when it comes to sports and pretty much forced him into becoming a member of Red Sox nation."

“Some of my closest friends all lived and grew up in Boston or around Boston,”  “So, just due to the fact that they are all my boys and they’re all Red Sox fans, I’m a Red Sox fan. I have to be. I have no choice even though I live in New York.”

 So that's the only reason you keep wearing this?

 So the Yankees cap is the one your forced to wear for work?

Out Spotlight

Today's Out Spotlight was a poet, teacher and playwright who helped pave the way for the Harlem Renaissance. She was one of the nation’s first celebrated female African-American authors. Today's Out Spotlight is Angelina Weld Grimké

Angelina Weld Grimké was born February 27, 1880, to a prominent biracial Boston couple who divorced soon after her birth. Her father, Archibald Grimké, was a lawyer, the second African American to have graduated from Harvard Law School. Her mother, Sarah Stanley, was European American from a Midwestern middle-class family. Grimké's parents met in Boston, where he had established a law practice. Angelina was named for her father's aunt Angelina Grimké Weld.

Her mother left when Grimké was a toddler and committed suicide several years later. Grimké had a strained relationship with her father, whose lineage of notable abolitionists set high expectations for his daughter.

Grimké excelled academically, publishing her first poem at age 13. She earned a degree in physical education from the Boston Normal School of Gymnastics. which later became the Department of Hygiene of Wellesley College. After graduating, she and her father moved to Washington, D.C. to be with his brother and family.

In 1902, she began teaching English at the Armstrong Manual Training School and wrote poetry in her spare time. In 1916 she moved to a teaching position at the Dunbar High School, renowned for its academic excellence, where one of her pupils was the future poet and playwright May Miller. During the summers, Grimké frequently took classes at Harvard University, where her father had attended law school.

Although Grimké was called to write, she felt pressure to please her father by not publishing anything that could tarnish the family name.
 Grimké wrote essays, short stories and poems which were published in The Crisis, the newspaper of the NAACP, edited by W.E.B. Du Bois; and Opportunity. They were also collected in anthologies of the Harlem Renaissance: The New Negro, Caroling Dusk, and Negro Poets and Their Poems. Her more well-known poems include "The Eyes of My Regret", "At April", "Trees" and "The Closing Door". While living in Washington, DC, she was included among the figures of the Harlem Renaissance, as her work was published in its journals and she became connected to figures in its circle. Some critics place her in the period before the Renaissance. During that time, she counted the poet Georgia Douglas Johnson as one of her friends.

Grimké wrote Rachel – originally titled Blessed Are the Barren – one of the first plays to protest lynching and racial violence. Highly successful, it ws the first play by a black woman to be staged in a public theater.The three-act drama was written for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), which called for new works to rally public opinion against D. W. Griffith's recently released film, The Birth of a Nation (1915), which glorified the Ku Klux Klan and portrayed a racist view of blacks and of their role in the American Civil War and Reconstruction in the South. Produced in 1916 in Washington, D.C., and subsequently in New York City, Rachel was performed by an all-black cast. Reaction to the play was good. The NAACP said of the play: "This is the first attempt to use the stage for race propaganda in order to enlighten the American people relating to the lamentable condition of ten millions of Colored citizens in this free republic."

Rachel portrays the life of an African-American family in the North in the early 20th century. Centered on the family of the title character, each role expresses different responses to the racial discrimination against blacks at the time. The themes of motherhood and the innocence of children are integral aspects of Grimké's work. Rachel develops as she changes her perceptions of what the role of a mother might be, based on her sense of the importance of a naivete towards the terrible truths of the world around her. A lynching is the spectrum of the play; it authenticates the African-American experience.




The play was published in 1920, but received little attention after its initial productions. In the years since, however, its significance has been recognized as a precursor to the Harlem Renaissance, and one of the first examples of a political and cultural trend to explore the African roots of African Americans.

Little is known of Grimké’s personal relationships, but her work often alludes to suppressed emotions, and several of her unpublished poems feature explicitly lesbian content. Her diary includes entries about her female lovers.

At the age of 16, Grimké wrote to a friend, Mary P. Burrill:

I know you are too young now to become my wife, but I hope, darling, that in a few years you will come to me and be my love, my wife! How my brain whirls how my pulse leaps with joy and madness when I think of these two words, 'my wife'"

Two years earlier, in 1903, Grimké and her father had a falling out when she told him that she was in love. Archibald Grimké responded with an ultimatum demanding that she choose between her lover and himself. Grimké family biographer Mark Perry speculates that the person involved may have been female, and that Archibald may already have been aware of Angelina's sexual proclivity

Around 1913, Grimké was involved in a train crash which left her health in a precarious state. Nevertheless, when her father took ill in 1928, she tended to him until his death in 1930. After his death, she never published again. Afterwards, she left Washington, DC, for New York City, where she settled in Brooklyn and lived a quiet retirement as a semi-recluse. Although her work was well received, Grimké retreated to solitude for most of her life.

She passed away  June 10, 1958, in New York, New York.

 “I oft have dreamed the bliss
Of the nectar in one kiss.”

Conan and airplanes and bears... oh my

We've known that Jake needs a few things with him when he flies:

His special earplugs,  The Rescue Relief drops,  but now we need to add tissues.

Why?  It seems like Jake gets a wee bit emotional on the plane.

This time blame it on the bears.

Jake was on Conan explaining how the Disney documentary Bears got him more than choked up.  Even just talking about it got him a littler verklempt.

Check Jake out talking about the watching Bear here

                         Jake Cried Watching "Bears" on an Airplane

From him talking about the Mama Bear and her cubs, it sounds like he can identify but maybe more with gosslings.