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The Culture Club December, 2011 Meeting

Sunday, 12 18, 2011.... Noon to 2pm...at the 1736 Ninth Ave Meeting Hall... Please join us.

The Bill of Fare:  Roast turkey, gravy, mashed potatoes, vegetable dip plate,  two pies, and juice.

Your cost:  ZERO.

Only for members of SHARP, the Sunset Heights Association of  Responsible People...

Dues, $10 per year, can be paid at the door..


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Also, we will be honoring our three senior membersL

102 year old Marian Olsen.

95  year old Hal Gilliam.

94  year old  Vern Waight..


Our resident Professor, Lowell Pratt of Menlo College..will interview  these stalwarts.


All in all, a  Day to Remember.

Do come.

Cheers,...

Jack Barry and May Pon....hosts.

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Jeremy Friedlander, cousin of Woody Allen. ???

Folks, here is what I get, when I ask our SHARP board member, and State of Cal. Attorney General  staff attorney, Jeremy Friedlander, for a "blurb" to describe the substance of his upcoming talk about his day at the  U.S. Supreme Court:

"Jeremy Friedlander, a Deputy Attorney General for the State of California, argued a criminal case in the United States Supreme Court in October 2008.   He says it was like pitching a game in Yankee Stadium without a major league fastball.   He did not get knocked out of the box, but a few line drives came close to his head.  In conversation with Lowell Pratt on Monday evening, November 14th, 2011,..... he will discuss the experience in layperson's terms, with particular emphasis on how the Supreme Court is unique. 


 If you want to hear about felony murder, he can talk about that too.   "......


My comment:
Does it seem like Jeremy is a fan of Woody Allen, if not  the intimidating scene that is the U.S. Supreme Court.  ?   


Come to the Sunset Heights Culture Club,  at 1736 9th Ave, Monday, 11 14 2011 at 7pm.
Learn how to "win the battle" on days when you don't have your best fastball.


What is to be inferred about  U.S. culture, from how the U.S. Suprem Court is run?


How much of Jeremy's success does he attribute to living here in Sunset Heights?   


Bring your friends with you.....
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Where/when: Monday, 11 14 2011, 7pm,  1736 9th Ave,  above Moraga Street, S.F.


presented by SHARP board member,  Jack Barry.  Hosted by SHARP.
 (Sunset Heights Assoc. of Responsible People.)  <sharpsf.com> 


   

S.H.A.R.P. Board Mbr. in the U.S. Supreme Court.

Jeremy Friedlander, Esq..... is a member of SHARP's board, and its Secretary, and is a staff trial attorney
for the California Attorney General's Office.

A few years ago, Jeremy represented the  Attorney General Office before the US Supreme Court.
He won the case. ... On Monday, November 14, 2011...Jeremy will be our guest subject, for the November Meeting of the Inner Sunset Heights Culture Club, at 7pm, at:

The SHARP Meeting Room,  1736 Ninth Avenue, between Moraga and Noriega. Admission: Free.

Jeremy will be "In Conversation with Professor Lowell Pratt.  After the interview there will be questions from the audience.

Tell your neighbors and friends who have any interest in how the highest court in the land works, and how it is different than the lower courts.

presented by Jack Barry, and hosted by SHARP, your 110 year old Neighborhood Association, which has ITS regular public meeting, this month on 11 21  2011.

Friends:  Here is the report by Jonathan Farrell of the Sunset Beacon and Richmond Review.... , and the on-line publication, .The DIGITAL JOURNAL....  He has given us his permission....    <run a Google check of this reporter's other writings.... He is tops

from THE DIGITAL JOURNAL:

Set in 1957 Indiana, "The Swan" a novel by Richmond District author Jim Cohee is receiving good reviews. And, this is much to his surprise especially when the novel was set aside by Cohee for over two years; until his wife pulled off the shelf and told him to submit it.

Professor, Lowell Pratt of Menlo College interviewed Cohee before an audience of over 15 people on Oct. 10 at a meeting of the Sunset Heights Association of Responsible People.

"My first novel 'The Nineteen Steps to Whatever' was rejected 50 times," Cohee said. The audience laughed when he noted that he was beginning to wonder if it was 'karma' coming back to haunt him as he had been an editor, often the one who sent out the very type of rejection letters, he got. "I wrote ‘The Swan’ in five months; working seven days a week,” Cohee told Pratt that Monday evening at the SHARP clubhouse on 9th Ave & Moraga. Cohee said that he read and researched a lot, at least more than a dozen novels, as well as other materials to get a sense of direction and context for his novel. Cohee said that the Midwest is magic for storytelling. Yet interestingly, "The Wizard of Oz" was not on his list. Among the novels he read that Cohee said helped him along in the process, besides classics like Jack London's "Call of the Wild," was "Dr. Sax" by Jack Kerouac. This according to Cohee was the ‘book idea’ that he had in his head most of the time while writing the "The Swan." Like Kerouac's “Dr. Sax”, Cohee weaves a story concerning a traumatic incident. The main character in “The Swan” is ten-year-old Aaron Cooper. Because Aaron witnessed the death of his younger sister, Pookie, the trauma has left him unwilling to speak. Aaron copes with life's challenges by disappearing into his own imagination. He envisions being captain of the Kon Tiki, driving his sled in the snowy Klondike, and tiger hunting in India. Aaron is guarded by secret friends like deposed Hungarian Count Blurtz Shemshoian and Blurtz's wonder dog who protect him from the creature from the Black Lagoon-who hides in Aaron's closet at night. The tales he constructs for himself, the real life stories he is witness to, and his mother's desperate efforts to bring her son back from the brink, all come to a head at an emotional family dinner. Structured upon childhood memories of Cohee’s own growing up in Indianapolis, The Swan is a fictional memoir about enduring love and the weighty nature of mortality. Cohee also said in his chat with Pratt that he used “benchmarks from the 1950’s throughout the story.” “Howdy Doody” “Slinky” and cap guns, that those of the Baby Boomer generation would recall. Reference to the Cold War is one of the benchmarks which lend itself to Aaron’s “secret agent” type of capers in his imagination. Cohee read passages from the book, which pleased the audience.  Among them was local writer/journalist Steven Winn. “I do think it's a very delicate and complicated matter to take on the voice of a young boy and channel adult sensibilities through him,” said Winn. “That's a great and worthy achievement,” said he.

 When asked later, if The Swan could be brought to the screen like Stephen King’s novel “Stand By Me,” that also is a recollection of a childhood set in the 1950’s, Cohee replied, “I don't know about The Swan as a movie: most of the novel takes place in the boy's head.” “Aaron is tiger hunting, driving dog teams, sailing log rafts, etc. and that might be hard to film,” Cohee said. But, “If a producer is interested, I'm interested,” Cohee said. He also pointed out it's not a coincidence that the publisher Indiana University Press is in Indiana, the book is set in Indiana. That is something he is very pleased about. Yet even more so was that, “it was my wife Linda Kay Smith who rescued the project, insisting that I send it out and recommending Indiana University Press. For more info visit web site http://www.iupress.indiana.edu or call (800) 842-6796.

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Here is the facade of the new SHARP Building, on Ninth Avenue, between Moraga and Noriega...  The SHARP Meeting Room, site of the meetings of
the Inner Sunset/Sunset Heights Culture Club....  occupies all the space behind the garage.   This gorgeous building also contains two residential units, above, and a
lovely backyard, planted all with native plants.

Come to the SHARP monthly membership meetings, on the 4th Monday, or the Culture Club Meetings, on the 2nd Monday, both at 7pm.

...jackbarry... (jackbarry99@gmail.com)