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Photography by Malcolm Johnson

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Crime on the Waterfront: The Source Material

The movie On the Waterfront is actually based on a series of articles in the New York Sun dubbed “Crimes on the Waterfront,” written by investigative reporter Malcolm Johnson. The series won the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting and describes the deep corruption around the harbors in New York and New Jersey. At the time, a lot of men had gone off to fight in WW2 and the mob infiltrated blue collar shipping trade until the number of crooked harbor masters and longshoremen outnumbered the honest ones. To stay employed and also stay alive, even the honest men were forced to deal with loan sharks and pay kickbacks or they would end up dead under a pier. Although the writer of On the Waterfront somewhat denied it for many years, a book put out in 2005 revealed that this did serve as the basis for the screenplay for the film. 

I read some of the articles from the book, On the Waterfront,  which was all the articles published incrementally along with a forward by Budd Schulberg (writer of the screenplay for On the Waterfront) and Haynes Johnson (son of the original writer), and they are very repetitive since they were meant for readers of the paper, aka readers that would drop in and out as the articles were published far enough apart that they needed to be recapped. They are also fascinating in the detail which the environment of the mid to late 40s along the American East Coast was described.

The idea presented in the articles, and the movie, is that you could not live in this area without being affected by the mob in some way. All jobs in the area are related to shipping in some way, whether it is as a shop owner or working as a longshoreman, so dealing with the mafia was a necessary evil. The way it is described, it is similar to the feudal system with all of the protection payoffs to loan sharks and crooked land owners. Only a couple of people ended up living like royalty while everybody else pays a portion of their living to them. This is the perfect setting for the film as the main character is trying to stay clean so that he can get out of his situation. But as stated before, the mob has a thumb over all aspects  of the business around the harbor, and even if they don’t control somebody directly, they will always have control over a loved one of that person that can influence them. From picketing, to riots, to murder, the environment was thick with drama and this is what makes the articles, the book, and the movie into the great pieces of American history that they are.

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Jones and Necro take on a missing demons mystery that leads to an underground operation run by the notorious mob boss, Bumpy Guts. Join Jones as they solve their way out of being chased by a gigantic hell hound, scrap with thugs, and possess demons to solve the case of the smuggled souls." Hop on over and check out his work! He's rad! His stuff is rad! His stories are awesome and great and he's just the best. 🥰

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Cleveland Browns Johnny Manziel throws a pass to Malcolm Johnson. (Gregory Shamus/Getty Images)

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TRANSPARENCY FROM SOURCE TO FORK RETHINKING OUR FOOD SUPPLY CHAIN WITH PATAGONIA PROVISIONS By Malcolm Johnson When you turn over a package of wild sockeye from Patagonia Provisions—six ounces of lightly smoked, ready-to-eat Alaskan salmon—the first thing you’ll see is this simple sentence:   This is Salmon It’s a statement that may seem overly obvious, or far too general to mean much of anything. Of course it’s salmon; you already knew that. And besides, consumers these days want detail, and a lot of it. But those three words are more assertion than identification. This, the people at Provisions are saying, is what salmon should be—wild, sustainable, and harvested by a community that knows its own survival is closely bonded to the survival of the miraculous, red-fleshed fish that so faithfully return to the river of their birth. Starting its journey in the mountains near the small town of Yakutat, the Situk River wanders some 20 miles from its beginnings before flowing into the cold seawaters of the Gulf of Alaska. Not so long ago, there were endless rivers like it along the West Coast of North America, each home to abundant runs of Pacific salmon. Today, though, the Situk is one of the precious few. While so many other rivers and runs were diminished or destroyed by overfishing, pollution, and urban and industrial development, the Situk’s wild fish populations continued to thrive. It’s a river that has always provided for those who live near it. In present-day Yakutat, a long-held respect for salmon is still very much alive, and the community’s bond with the fish is one of the reasons Patagonia Provisions chose to source sockeye there. Setting out to create positive change in the commercial salmon industry, the company knew it needed to work with people who saw salmon as a resource to be honored rather than exploited. “Salmon is more than an industry for them,” says Paul Chanswankul, one of the managers of Provisions. “It’s a way of life. It’s heritage, something that’s been going on for so many generations.” There are a number of critical issues facing Pacific salmon fisheries, but one of the most fundamental problems is this: when you catch a salmon in the open ocean, you don’t know what river it’s from. There are physical signifiers that show you what species it is, and you can tell if it started its life in a hatchery or a spawning bed, but that’s about it. And since salmon always return to the place they’re born, the population that mingles in marine waters is actually a mix of separate sub-populations, each originating in, and belonging to, a specific river. Without knowing where an individual fish is from, you don’t know if you’re contributing to the further decline of an already threatened run. It’s only by fishing in-river that you know exactly what run you’re drawing on and whether that river’s population is abundant enough to be responsibly fished. Using short-soak nets anchored to shore, the Situk sockeye fishery—where Provisions fish are harvested—is highly selective, minimizing fish caught unintentionally, and leaving a large net-free area through which fish can pass on their trip upriver to spawn. Carefully monitored and carefully performed, it’s the sort of fishery that Patagonia is proud to partner with. It’s good for all involved—the fishers are supported in their way of life, the community carries on with its traditions, and consumers who don’t have the opportunity to catch their own fish get access to some of the world’s best food. The Provisions program is just a start. However, it’s an opportunity to demonstrate that, for the industry as a whole, supporting well-managed, small-scale local fisheries like this—and in the future, areas of Bristol Bay—is a responsible and good way to go. Caught mindfully in a clean, free-flowing river—for Patagonia, this is what salmon should be.

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#AHauntedHouse review

The film is a basic parody of the Paranormal Activity franchise, with a guy’s girlfriend moving in, whilst he wants to document the move, strange things start to happen, so he fits the house up with cameras in order to catch the weird goings on, we then find out that the girlfriend is being haunted because she made a deal with the devil in order to get a pair of shoes. We then get the couple trying to live with the ghost, then trying three different people to try and excorsise the ghost after it has taken over the girlfriend.

When I was at university, I did my dissertation/thesis on parody movies. My basic premise, was that, if you hadn’t seen what the parody was based on, would you find the film funny? Now I haven’t really seen much of the paranormal activity films so I thought this would be a good reason to watch the film

Say what you will about “The Wayans Brothers” or at least Marlon, Scary Movie was a good film, and one which didn’t need to be repeated, but of course, with any “cash cow” people go back to the well far too often, eventually diluting what they first made. The Scary Movie franchise is basically a parody of a parody at the moment, and the basic premise of Scary Movie 5, is basically this film. Only this is done with the original filmmaker.

Now, the film itself, is bad. Its just a lot of dick and fart jokes, don’t get me wrong, I love me some dick and fart jokes, but the way that it happens here is just too much, to the point of cringe worthy, and the extension of the jokes, they go on for far too long, to the point where it is just embarrassing.

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Marsha P. Johnson (born Malcolm Johnson) was one of the well known drag queens who led the fight for gay rights during the Stonewall Riots of 1969. After the success of the rebellion, Marsha P. Johnson and her friends formed S.T.A.R. – Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries.