Daughters of the Shadow Men

Celia has kicked him out, but Klaus has some compensation. He took the money Celia gave him to gamble and lose and put it in the bank!  His million dollars will last him forever, hers a month.  It all depends on who is spending it.

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Dante, his dad, and I had a circus of misunderstanding last night.  His uncle brought him to his dad's from his mom's across town, because he was there and on his way home saving his sister gas.  His dad was not home, so he asked to drop him off here.  His dad never did call, or so I thought, so I spent the night sorta wondering where he went now.  I told Dante his dad was very mysterious now days maybe comes with being a movie maker. Dante played his games and went to sleep on the floor, and I took these photos of him in his cool birthday togs his mom bought him along with a text phone, and dark glasses he bought himself. 

Dante is cool in this photo!  By the way I got a notification of a phone call on my phone which came in around 9 pm or so last night as I was down getting Dante from his uncle.  Dan said he had gone to play basketball was all and got home he thought in time for his son.  His son was now over to my house!  I did not think to check my messages either on my phone or on my computer.  I get two signals.

Well, Dante and I had a good time even if he had to sleep on the floor which he preferred to the recliner.  I bought him cereal and fruit from down to Doc's this morning.  When I got my messages this morning I invited his dad and him back over this afternoon to swim.  All is well that ends well with sons and grandsons! 

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Celia assures Roger she is quite violent enough to stab herself if her suicide threats are not enough to make them turn him loose.  She also reveals her reasons for being angry at Aunt Santhea for announcing she intends to use her millions to fight legalized abortion. Celia is pro choice and feels she would have been a horrible mother.  Her three children were better off aborted. She says she has been willing to commit suicide for years to join them, but people keep trying to stop her.  Roger declines her offer and chooses jail instead.

Celia always glamorous if suicidal 

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As you know, I try to keep as good of track as I can of women I know who have met with extreme violence from a man. There are three women who live in here who were nearly murdered.  One was abducted from an adult store where she worked, shot five times, and left in the desert for dead. I suppose the killer who came into the store posing as a customer thought that a fitting fate for one who would take such a job.  She spent months in the hospital having numerous operations since her body was deformed by the bullets.  Her baby was taken by relatives after her husband died the same year she was shot with a melanoma. She is not able to take care of the child yet.  

Another woman who lives here went homeless for two years with a nervous breakdown after her wealthy husband kicked her out, keeping the kids. Her story is mirrored by another whose wealthy husband did the same thing.  One battles in here with another abusive husband who has given her black eyes and knocked out her teeth.  She is a tiny thing so she can hardly ever get the best of him even though she tries to give him as good as she gets.  She has been taken to jail and the hospital and the homeless shelters because of domestic violence, but comes back for more punishment perhaps because she misses someone to care.  I say that seriously because if she is alcoholic too she is going to know some of the fault lies with her.

Another woman here I regard as strikingly beautiful was hit over the head with a club, raped, and left in a coma.  Naturally she is permanently disabled with brain damage. I am sure there are others living here I do not know who were traumatized by male companions. 

I swam in the pool a couple of days ago with another one I had not met that I felt very sorry for.  She is paralyzed from the waist down, an animated very pretty woman who was shot 13 years ago by an enraged boyfriend of her best friend.  He missed her and the bullet hit her in the arm, riccocheted through her lung and into her spinal cord.  She says he was shot dead by the police but not before he had condemned her to a life in a wheelchair and numerous operations to take care of ensuing problems. She also had 3 little kids at the time. She had one more after she was shot, with the doctors thinking she could not have any more children. Sounds like she carried it to full term.  

We tend to think only of the murdered victim, but when man wages war with a gun there are always numerous victims who are not quite dead but left so maimed and hurt they sometimes wish they had been killed.  This beautiful woman told me she has not seen the girlfriend but once since, perhaps by mutual desire not to be friends any more. 

So why are so many abusers so angry that they want to hurt somebody else before they hurt themselves?  What has happened to turn so many that vindictive, that crazed? 

I think it is clear we do not study the causes enough.  We obviously have a huge problem in raising our children, mainly sons, so they won't become abusers, either of their women companions or of their children or hers. Is it because women who might feel helpless to vent their frustrations unleash them on their children? These violent sons must reflect some of their mothers' inability to be as violent as they might like to be. For surely women have to play a part in these dark dramas. They have raised these sons who go looking to kill.  

A child murdered every six days in Arizona?  Is that possible?  Perhaps we do live in the dark ages, not knowing why so many turn so violent.  If we knew surely we would do a better job of raising our children so they would not turn into the troubling souls who hit our headlines every day as though competing with one another to see who can cause the biggest bloodbath.

Are video games a cause?  Gun too available? Drugs and alcohol abuse creating an unstable mentality? Maybe all of these.  Is soul somehow not being nurtured in our children, perhaps as important as food on the table to prevent their frustration from turning violent? 

I have addressed legalized abortion as a cause of opening the door to more violence, simply because it is too hard for many to grasp that killing the unborn is acceptable when a few months later it is not.  I think it sends the wrong message to the unstable that some violence is all right. We are saying women cannot be expected to control their violent impulses to expel the unborn child, so we need to keep legal the abortion solution that will prevent their unwanted children from coming into a dark world of poverty and pain.  A lot of people deserve to be put out of their misery if that is the case. Maybe that is what the killers are trying to do, because obviously a person behind a gun is desperate and doesn't care if he is killed, is in fact,  often asking for suicide by cops.   

What are your ideas as to why we are seeing so many victims that just a casual swim with two other people in the swimming pool one could be a woman paralyzed by an enraged boyfriend's gun and the other her caretaker?  The shooter was not even her boyfriend but her best friend's. Made my blood run cold.   

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Doc put the tiger to sleep with alcohol I don't know how many years ago, but the tiger appears to be waking up.  Doc the tiger rushed me down this morning to film the last two episodes of Aunt Santhea.  He was so charming in the last one at the piano, I could not help but marvel at the range of this man's talents.  How could he have spent 10 years homeless?  What happened? 

It is my theory that an addicted person needs attention first and foremost.  Without attention there will be no motivation for reform.  So I have put top priority on giving this man attention.  I know if he goes down, it will be like the Titanic sinking and he might take me into the depths with him.  I have to try to get to him before he does that.  I know this series has made him happy in spite of himself, brought him out of the shell he has built around himself.  A guy in here said the other day he could not understand how Doc could just associate with one person day after day.  Me.  I said I didn't know how he could either, but I suspect he is to the stage where if he didn't associate with me, he would be gone. 

I could not be nearly as funny without Doc.  I have to have him present to bring out the funny in me.  Take that anti-abortion speech.  It was not one bit funny when I practiced it by myself.  As soon as I started saying it to Doc and got his reaction, I could see how to make it funny.  He inspires my funny bone.  He was the one playing with the camera.  He is the one who makes me lighten up.  And I am the one who tells him to get serious. 

We have made a good creative team. He has been worth trying to help.      

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The long awaited real Aunt Santhea reveals what she is going to do with the millions she inherited.  She gives a speech to her relatives that she expects to give all over the world. You have never seen an anti-abortion speech like this one.  With Doc's help, it is funny, and that takes comic genius.  So don't be afraid to watch it.  There will be a laugh or two in it that you won't expect. 

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Doc told me to get this series done before he died, which set a fire under me.  I guess he must be feeling poorly. No wonder. Every character he plays is an alcoholic. 

Remember if you have missed any of the episodes, they are all numbered now in my videos.  GerryKing40 on Youtube.  This episode is No. 14. There will be 18 episodes in all of Aunt Santhea.  Doc has outdone himself in the ones we shot today.  He is now calling himself a comic genius. 

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Aunt Santhea is deliriously happy until Susan shows up with the real Aunt Santhea in tow.

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My grandson Dante is in the third episode and I love to watch it as I think for someone so young he has real stage presence.  His father says he has a bigger part and is even better in Episode 8, so I can't wait for that.  The camera is of course much better in this series than mine, and the cast is quite large, made up of former theater students at Metro, who were taught and inspired by Raymond. 

I have heard that all the great theater seats Raymond worked so hard to find and install are being torn out at Metro for a simple classroom. I hope it is not true as that will make Raymond feel bad, but he has to forget about what the principal does to change his program which suggest disapproval.  Yes, his program for high school students was extraordinary even if it could be said to be controversial, but Fernando who took over is capable of a great program, too. And a small theater is so essential in any teaching program which I am afraid the principal will find out with loss of serious theater students.  I hope not, but again we can no longer worry if the principal strips the program. 

I admire Raymond for the way he has used minority actors in the Caffeine series, giving them opportunity according to their talents, one reason he was loved.  Raymond is also very bold in what subject matter he will cover, which you might find a little shocking, puzzling, disconcerting as well as bold in some of these episodes.  He would always step outside the box.  He thought that was the only way to reach kids, especially those who were bound to become the outspoken playwrights and actors and directors of the future. The second season of Caffeine not shot yet will also reflect his new vision.  He always comes up with new vision through change. Raymond is always changing, always surprising people which I think is the mark of a true artist    

Raymond is busy working on his new one man show for the festival combining monologues and song.  I can't wait to see it.  That will be the weekend, July 17, 18, and 19 in Boulder, Utah in case you go!

Again here is the link: http://caffeinetv.net   Five episodes have now been posted.  I hope you will post comments, criticisms, reactions here after viewing.

Raymond in Boulder at last year's Heritage Festival.  Here is the festival website.  Check it out.  I have a story in there about my cowpunching. 

http://boulderutah.com/heritage/

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Folks we are getting close to the end of the series.  The next episode will actually be Lawyer Howard reading the will and dispensing millions.  My sister Linda was over today and watched some of them.  This is a learning experience about how to improve our next series if we do one.  She told me I needed to go through and label the episodes in order, so I am going to try to do that. I have been practicing my english accent so I can play the real Aunt Santhea. 

Dan came over and wrote out an agreement for him and Linda to sign to have Scott represent them, so that the interested parties will go ahead and buy an option for a year on his screen play based on Linda's book.  Scott has gone down to L.A. and found these people, so now we will all wait with bated breath.  Scott said they were sending the script to Charlize Theron to play Linda when she was young and beautiful and quite mad.  I hope she will do it!   

By the way two more episodes of Caffeine have been posted.  Here is the link:  http://caffeinetv.net   That makes five.  My son Dan says this his son and my grandson is very good in another episode, no. 8, I believe.  I can't wait. 

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