I'm going out of order. Still Alice resonated deeply with me due to working with hospice families, and them dealing with seeing their loved ones wither away.
I wouldn't change anything in my past...even the abuse. I think it makes me aware of the trauma that others are living through, and I have enormous empathy for them.
A memory I would pay to forget?? Election night 2016. Hugely. Beautifully.
I would implant the ability to care about other human beings regardless of their race, sexual orientation, religion, and whatever else people feel separate us. I'm so tired of all the hate. Stay glorious, E. Jean!!
Welcome to the Brainwash Cafe. In order to gain entrance you must answer six questions:
1. Which of these movies about erasing memories is your favorite?
1.-Memento! Fine film making. Splendid!
2 What is it about you—what trait—makes you unforgettable?
My practical jokability...and my penchant for inventing new words.
3. Would you give up a year of your life to wipe a cruel, treacherous or evil event entirely from your brain?
Hell-to-the-no. Cruel, treacherous and/or evil events give us character.....ok, except for when the Orange Shit Gibbon was elected, but he doesn’t really count. Does he?
4. If you had power over your fellow human’s minds to implant one idea, what idea would you implant?
The idea would be that everyone would la y down their guns and make some art every day.
5. What small, ridiculous thing would you pay to forget?
Still Alice was excellent, but I have to go with The Notebook as my favorite because I love the story and it’s a great movie to curl up on the couch with my pup and escape for a while.
E. Jean! I’m tickled pink to see you receive the honor, recognition, and respect you so richly deserve. You are utterly stunning in that gorgeous dress! You look so HAPPY! You’re more than an inspiration, my dear. You are a guiding light! A cheerleader extraordinaire! A wealth of wit, wisdom, and whimsy! You glow! You gleam! You go, girl!!!
Oof. I’m trying to stay focused here but we’re awaiting the imminent arrival of our first grandchild and she is taking her sweet-ass time so I’m a bit ditzy this morning. Well, ditzier than usual, anyway. And so excited that I can barely see straight and wait…um, where was I? What was the question again?
There are iconic photos of Gloria Steinem where she always reminded us of who we were and what we deserved. But now as iconic, you and Robbie stand. I think u should take your 83 mil and commission a very large sculpture of u two, your hands and heads held high.. I am picturing something the size of Mt Rushmore. Hmmmmm….Perhaps in Florida?
I’ll have to watch all the movies on the list before I choose (do love the Bourne series but a bit tooo much risk and loss to be a fav). Thanks for the challenge!
I’m articulate in all situations-and have been noted as such by colleagues and strangers.
No on the memory wiping front. Life is already short and rapidly draining. What if that year was the best one ever?
I’d implant genuine and lifelong curiosity about others (the other). Maybe if we really knew and understood each other….
I’d pay $1 to forget that one time I rudely called another person out in a very large meeting and made her fell small and made me an insensitive sot. I’d pay her a compliment instead and ask a more curious question!
EJC you look so happy and fabulous at that event! It warms my heart to see you relaxed and with the person who has been your warrior.
As to movies, I watch very few mostly because I don’t like to sit still for hours and I find it difficult to silence my inner critic and just enter into the story. Maybe that’s why Memento stuck with me so long. I watched it while I was prepping a case in which the violent events had taken place over a decade prior and my client, whom I did not trust, insisted on his innocence. The victim was obviously traumatized. I consulted with memory experts and read a lot and learned how much memory is confabulation and fragments, despite our preference for a chronological, linear recital. Trauma fragments it further. As to my own memories, I’ve found myself wondering how my life “then” was so packed with emotions and activities that multiple experiences seemed at the time to be essential yet I don’t recall them now, when I am at peace. That’s the best thing about memory: it fades. Its usefulness is protective, not predictive. I read Marcus Aurelius (Stoic philosopher), whose wisdom I think is best accessed with age. Let it all go. Let the bad memories wash over you and do not hold them. Look forward and remember that compassion and kindness are uniquely human, must be cultivated, and are free to offer. It is a wonderful release.
Momento! And I never want to forget how brave you are Jean and how inspiring! And all of you please forgive me! I had emergency kidney surgery a few days ago and begged the dr to patch me together enough for five days of my book launch. I am loaded up with pain pills and scheduled for another operation this week and here are some where it gets stupid. I was be of three authors chosen for the CBS mary Calvi Bookclub’s pick. Readers have to vote and today at six is the last day. You can vote a hundred times. If I get it, I get a tv segment and I will be able to have sales enough to sell my next novel. Please forgive me! https://cbslocalcorp.wufoo.com/forms/clubcalvi-what-should-we-read-next-april-2024/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR3gpLh2GNTQzKWpep0TkziDE4tyuswWH3xuAJtuHOjAKR
I read Bourne Identity in one (long) night. If I were looking at my life from the outside I’d change everything; but from where I sit today the only thing I’d change is the time with my children. I wouldn’t want to forget even the worst of my life for it happened for a reason that led me to my next step. And if I had the power to instill anything into humankind it would be heartfelt empathy.
Oh all these movies are so great! But I'll jump right in and answer these questions:
1. Still Alice is my favorite because it shows how Alice still retains some sense of herself up until the very end.
2. This is a hard one -- physically, my hair (I keep it quite long) and personality-wise, how much I like to read.
3. I don't think I would have an evil, treacherous moment wiped from my brain because even though I wouldn't be able to remember it anymore, it still would have happened in reality, and wiping it from my memory wouldn't change that.
4. I would implant the idea that everyone should stop hating journalists (I've encountered way too much of it lately!)
5. I would pay to forget a really dumb class I took last semester. Being a broke student, I would pay maybe $10.
Bonus: I would never want to forget any of my pets, some of whom are no longer with us, who have all been best friends to me since I was little. They are truly the best parts of life! Also E. Jean, I loved your Times100 Gala dress! So fabulous!
The Notebook, what a powerful movie! Sexy in places, so sad in others. True, mad love!
My passion is what makes me unforgettable. When inspired, my passion is unstoppable (if not stumped by the powers of hate that be).
I would not wipe away any year. No matter how difficult they may have been, last year being brutal, there were also great things that happened. You have to take the good with the bad.
If I had the power to implant a thought into people’s minds, this one: Do unto others as you’d have done to you.
If something is ridiculous, why would I pay even a dime to forget about it? Money is too difficult to earn. Need more of it, not less😀.
First let me say you look wonderful in your gala gown, and I am glad you had a good time.
As to your questions:
1) Which movie?
The Bourne Identity.
2) What is it about you—what trait—makes you unforgettable?
I don’t know that I am unforgettable. I do say a few surprising things, now and again, and I think that might make people remember me.
3. Would you give up a year of your life to wipe a cruel, treacherous or evil event entirely from your brain?
No. I might be tempted, but instead of wanting to actually erase my memories of betrayals and grief, I find myself instead fantasizing about having a Time Machine and a stack of coconut cream pies in the Time Machine. The Time Machine is set to all the moments when I met people who would later betray me, and at each juncture where the Time Machine stops, I would get out of the machine with one of those pies. When the person turned to meet me, and he or she said, “Hi! My name is…” I would interrupt him or her and shout, “I know who you are, motherfucker! And I would throw the pie in his or her face, then get in the Time Machine to travel to the next destination.
4. If you had power over your fellow human’s minds to implant one idea, what idea would you implant?
It would be a download of a course I teach in discerning disinformation. I would give everyone on Earth an excellent bullshit detector.
5. What small, ridiculous thing would you pay to forget?
I would actually pay to remember my regrets as they seem to fuel my creative work. I apparently compost them to sprout exotic flowers in the ground where I have unsuccessfully buried them.
6. And . . . How much would you pay to forget it?
No thank you. I will keep them and hope to collect a Pulitzer one day for the trouble of having them and repurposing them.
I'm going out of order. Still Alice resonated deeply with me due to working with hospice families, and them dealing with seeing their loved ones wither away.
I wouldn't change anything in my past...even the abuse. I think it makes me aware of the trauma that others are living through, and I have enormous empathy for them.
A memory I would pay to forget?? Election night 2016. Hugely. Beautifully.
I would implant the ability to care about other human beings regardless of their race, sexual orientation, religion, and whatever else people feel separate us. I'm so tired of all the hate. Stay glorious, E. Jean!!
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E. JEAN CARROLL
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Adorable, Irresistible Reader!
Welcome to the Brainwash Cafe. In order to gain entrance you must answer six questions:
1. Which of these movies about erasing memories is your favorite?
1.-Memento! Fine film making. Splendid!
2 What is it about you—what trait—makes you unforgettable?
My practical jokability...and my penchant for inventing new words.
3. Would you give up a year of your life to wipe a cruel, treacherous or evil event entirely from your brain?
Hell-to-the-no. Cruel, treacherous and/or evil events give us character.....ok, except for when the Orange Shit Gibbon was elected, but he doesn’t really count. Does he?
4. If you had power over your fellow human’s minds to implant one idea, what idea would you implant?
The idea would be that everyone would la y down their guns and make some art every day.
5. What small, ridiculous thing would you pay to forget?
I don’t remember...
6. And . . . How much would you pay to forget it?
$42.50?
Still Alice was excellent, but I have to go with The Notebook as my favorite because I love the story and it’s a great movie to curl up on the couch with my pup and escape for a while.
E. Jean! I’m tickled pink to see you receive the honor, recognition, and respect you so richly deserve. You are utterly stunning in that gorgeous dress! You look so HAPPY! You’re more than an inspiration, my dear. You are a guiding light! A cheerleader extraordinaire! A wealth of wit, wisdom, and whimsy! You glow! You gleam! You go, girl!!!
Oof. I’m trying to stay focused here but we’re awaiting the imminent arrival of our first grandchild and she is taking her sweet-ass time so I’m a bit ditzy this morning. Well, ditzier than usual, anyway. And so excited that I can barely see straight and wait…um, where was I? What was the question again?
There are iconic photos of Gloria Steinem where she always reminded us of who we were and what we deserved. But now as iconic, you and Robbie stand. I think u should take your 83 mil and commission a very large sculpture of u two, your hands and heads held high.. I am picturing something the size of Mt Rushmore. Hmmmmm….Perhaps in Florida?
Love and congratulations!
1) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
“I apply my personality in a paste”
2) What makes me unforgettable? The fact
that I never turn down a conversation
with anyone (try to get a word in!)
3) I would easily give up the year to wipe
out the cruel, treacherous time my sister
stole my email PW, and I was unaware
for 8 months. Still hard to forgive her.
4) I would ensure that every human on the
planet had EMPATHY.
5) I have no personal regrets.
6) I will never forget my rescued dog Sadie.
I’ll have to watch all the movies on the list before I choose (do love the Bourne series but a bit tooo much risk and loss to be a fav). Thanks for the challenge!
I’m articulate in all situations-and have been noted as such by colleagues and strangers.
No on the memory wiping front. Life is already short and rapidly draining. What if that year was the best one ever?
I’d implant genuine and lifelong curiosity about others (the other). Maybe if we really knew and understood each other….
I’d pay $1 to forget that one time I rudely called another person out in a very large meeting and made her fell small and made me an insensitive sot. I’d pay her a compliment instead and ask a more curious question!
EJC you look so happy and fabulous at that event! It warms my heart to see you relaxed and with the person who has been your warrior.
As to movies, I watch very few mostly because I don’t like to sit still for hours and I find it difficult to silence my inner critic and just enter into the story. Maybe that’s why Memento stuck with me so long. I watched it while I was prepping a case in which the violent events had taken place over a decade prior and my client, whom I did not trust, insisted on his innocence. The victim was obviously traumatized. I consulted with memory experts and read a lot and learned how much memory is confabulation and fragments, despite our preference for a chronological, linear recital. Trauma fragments it further. As to my own memories, I’ve found myself wondering how my life “then” was so packed with emotions and activities that multiple experiences seemed at the time to be essential yet I don’t recall them now, when I am at peace. That’s the best thing about memory: it fades. Its usefulness is protective, not predictive. I read Marcus Aurelius (Stoic philosopher), whose wisdom I think is best accessed with age. Let it all go. Let the bad memories wash over you and do not hold them. Look forward and remember that compassion and kindness are uniquely human, must be cultivated, and are free to offer. It is a wonderful release.
Momento! And I never want to forget how brave you are Jean and how inspiring! And all of you please forgive me! I had emergency kidney surgery a few days ago and begged the dr to patch me together enough for five days of my book launch. I am loaded up with pain pills and scheduled for another operation this week and here are some where it gets stupid. I was be of three authors chosen for the CBS mary Calvi Bookclub’s pick. Readers have to vote and today at six is the last day. You can vote a hundred times. If I get it, I get a tv segment and I will be able to have sales enough to sell my next novel. Please forgive me! https://cbslocalcorp.wufoo.com/forms/clubcalvi-what-should-we-read-next-april-2024/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR3gpLh2GNTQzKWpep0TkziDE4tyuswWH3xuAJtuHOjAKR
I read Bourne Identity in one (long) night. If I were looking at my life from the outside I’d change everything; but from where I sit today the only thing I’d change is the time with my children. I wouldn’t want to forget even the worst of my life for it happened for a reason that led me to my next step. And if I had the power to instill anything into humankind it would be heartfelt empathy.
You look wonderful!!
Oh all these movies are so great! But I'll jump right in and answer these questions:
1. Still Alice is my favorite because it shows how Alice still retains some sense of herself up until the very end.
2. This is a hard one -- physically, my hair (I keep it quite long) and personality-wise, how much I like to read.
3. I don't think I would have an evil, treacherous moment wiped from my brain because even though I wouldn't be able to remember it anymore, it still would have happened in reality, and wiping it from my memory wouldn't change that.
4. I would implant the idea that everyone should stop hating journalists (I've encountered way too much of it lately!)
5. I would pay to forget a really dumb class I took last semester. Being a broke student, I would pay maybe $10.
Bonus: I would never want to forget any of my pets, some of whom are no longer with us, who have all been best friends to me since I was little. They are truly the best parts of life! Also E. Jean, I loved your Times100 Gala dress! So fabulous!
The Notebook, what a powerful movie! Sexy in places, so sad in others. True, mad love!
My passion is what makes me unforgettable. When inspired, my passion is unstoppable (if not stumped by the powers of hate that be).
I would not wipe away any year. No matter how difficult they may have been, last year being brutal, there were also great things that happened. You have to take the good with the bad.
If I had the power to implant a thought into people’s minds, this one: Do unto others as you’d have done to you.
If something is ridiculous, why would I pay even a dime to forget about it? Money is too difficult to earn. Need more of it, not less😀.
I would erase Mulhollund Drive since my boyfriend and I were parked up there when a police officer came around and watched us!
Interesting questions.
These movies are so diverse hard to pick...
Bourne Identity, no matter how small you are, there always is a way.
My smile, I have been told that it can light up a room.
Never, I needed each and every one of those experiences to become who I'm.
Love and tolerance, no matter what.
My freckles... lol
Nothing.
My dog Lucy.
🙌🌸
Thank you all so much! Another operation tomorrow and I am trying to be BIG BRAVE and E. Jean about all of this!! xx
Dearest E. Jean,
First let me say you look wonderful in your gala gown, and I am glad you had a good time.
As to your questions:
1) Which movie?
The Bourne Identity.
2) What is it about you—what trait—makes you unforgettable?
I don’t know that I am unforgettable. I do say a few surprising things, now and again, and I think that might make people remember me.
3. Would you give up a year of your life to wipe a cruel, treacherous or evil event entirely from your brain?
No. I might be tempted, but instead of wanting to actually erase my memories of betrayals and grief, I find myself instead fantasizing about having a Time Machine and a stack of coconut cream pies in the Time Machine. The Time Machine is set to all the moments when I met people who would later betray me, and at each juncture where the Time Machine stops, I would get out of the machine with one of those pies. When the person turned to meet me, and he or she said, “Hi! My name is…” I would interrupt him or her and shout, “I know who you are, motherfucker! And I would throw the pie in his or her face, then get in the Time Machine to travel to the next destination.
4. If you had power over your fellow human’s minds to implant one idea, what idea would you implant?
It would be a download of a course I teach in discerning disinformation. I would give everyone on Earth an excellent bullshit detector.
5. What small, ridiculous thing would you pay to forget?
I would actually pay to remember my regrets as they seem to fuel my creative work. I apparently compost them to sprout exotic flowers in the ground where I have unsuccessfully buried them.
6. And . . . How much would you pay to forget it?
No thank you. I will keep them and hope to collect a Pulitzer one day for the trouble of having them and repurposing them.