Sacramento Homeless blog

This is a reprint of a post from a year and a half ago , with some minor changes. The issue of aggressive efforts to fix stalled lives has been coming up a lot lately, in the haunts I frequent, in HWS. Yep. We people stuck in the Big Muddy Muddy of Homeless World Sacramento need the Wolf. That is, we need someone like Pulp Fiction 's Winston Wolfe who is a Fixer of any – and I do mean any – problem. You might recall the character The Wolf in Pulp Fiction, played by Harvey Keitel, who was called in to fix the fix that Jules and Vincent found themselves in. Seems the movie's principle characters had a bloody corpse in the backseat of their Dodge. The Wolf had been called to the scene by Marsellus Wallace, boss of our sociopathic protagonist heros, to clean up the incriminating mess, which he did lickitysplit – and in impressive fashion, otherwise. We need someone like The Wolf in Homeless World Sac. Not to clean up incriminating messes, but to straighten up to make fly ...

A new claymation film, titled $9.99 , got a rave review today in the New York Times online. A central character is a sinister homeless man who turns into a grumpy and sarcastic angel, pictured above (yeah, yeah, he's the guy with wings), who is voiced by Geoffrey Rush. The Times review tells us the story in the movie is both "elusive and strange." To watch [the film, by Israeli writer Etgar Keret] is to enter an eerily realistic parallel universe where people and emotions are at once perfectly recognizable and completely bizarre. You can view the trailer with clips from the film at the Times website. More from the review about the film: The gestures and expressions of these handmade citizens of a meticulously realized city are given more poignancy by the slight hesitancy imposed by stop-motion animation. They seem to be pausing to think before each action or utterance, even when they are being rash, heedless or irrational. And the environment around them is dense with ...

Yep. We people stuck in the Big Muddy Muddy of Homeless World Sacramento need the Wolf. That is, we need someone like Pulp Fiction 's Winston Wolfe who is a Fixer of any – and I do mean any – problem. You might recall the character The Wolf in Pulp Fiction, played by Harvey Keitel, who was called in to fix the fix that Jules and Vincent found themselves in. Seems the movie's principle characters had a bloody corpse in the backseat of their Dodge. The Wolf had been called to the scene by Marsellus Wallace, boss of our sociopathic protagonist heros, to clean up the incriminating mess, which he did lickitysplit – and in impressive fashion, otherwise. We need someone like The Wolf in Homeless World Sac. Not to clean up incriminating messes, but to straighten up to make fly right fallen lives. Damn it, the most frustrating thing about the world I'm in has to do with all the impressive men who have so much to offer the world and no means out of their mudhole to offer it. What...

The national and international media have published a whole world of misleading, uninformed crap relating to homelessness in Sacramento – since late February when the Oprah Show misrepresented * the homeless situation here and in our nation. The Sacramento Bee, that once noble newspaper, has been fully as bad as any news source in writing about the homeless. The Bee, SN&R and the local TV stations have all done a great disservice to the subjects of their stories and their readers. But the last words in a review of The Soloist, a movie that premiered today, says something that is right [about homelessness, anyway – I don't know if it's right about the movie which I haven't seen]. Here's the last paragraph of the review , written by Carla Meyer. Successful as a portrait of an unlikely friendship and as a look at the modern world of newspapering, "The Soloist" truly distinguishes itself in its thoughtful depiction of homelessness as a problem impervious to q...

John Leguizamo, as Frank Diaz, and David Castro as the son, Justin, in "Where God Left His Shoes." On February 18, the film " Where God Left His Shoes " will be screened at The Crest theater on K Street to benefit Faith and Homeless Families Initiate , "a 2009 pilot program of the Ending Chronic Homelessness Initiative [which will match] ... homeless families with faith communities to mentor and help them obtain self-sufficiency and permanent housing." Now, this new initiate of an initiate is very very likely to do good work for a good cause, efficiently and effectively rising to its ambitions, helping many homeless Sacramento families. The little-seen arthouse film to be screened to raise money for the pilot initiative has gotten mostly good reviews [5 of 7 reviewers at rottentomatoes.com call it Fresh, whereas only two give it a thumbs-down Rotten rating.] And even in the bad reviews I've read, star John Leguizamo's performance is bountifully l...