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to get tangled up in cognitive dead ends, like
wondering how it was the Beatles could af-
ford to quit touring, if touring had made them
so much money.
Maybe there’s even a branding opportu-
nity here. Templeton might openly embrace
the interpretative lens she always uses by
means of a title for her column of reviews,
something like Progressive Feminist Theater.
She could go even further toward clarity by
employing a rating system, but instead of
stars she could use something more appro-
priate, like vaginas.
The Beatles documentary at issue, for ex-
ample, might get a 3V (out of 5) rating, for
the Whoopi Goldberg interview and the shot
of a young Sigourney Weaver, with her un-
mistakable “jawline and twinkling eyes.” On
the downside, it spent too much time focused
on The Beatles.
I’ll grant you that using the genitals of ei-
ther gender as a way to rate movies is pretty
dicey. Two and a half penises is not a pleas-
ant thought, or quite appropriate to your pa-
per. I’m not married to that part of it.
Something, though … there has to be
something that’ll capture and communicate
Templeton’s overriding cinematic concern;
and thus, hopefully, turn what seems like an
aesthetic and literary handicap into a coup de
grâce.
Timothy Shaw
Eugene
THANK YOU, EUGENE
When my team and I started our business
in Eugene, we were told that start-ups in Eu-
gene are notoriously challenging. Far better,
they said, to move to a more fertile city like
Portland or Seattle. Funding would be chal-
lenging, gathering committed interns and
employees difficult, and receiving guidance
and mentor support incredibly hard.
However, with the help of my team and
the Eugene community, we have brought
our business to a point where we are begin-
ning to nurture relationships with other local
business owners and tap into the sense of de-
cency and community that all people in the
Eugene-Springfield area know and cherish.
ugene Weekly
We teamed up with St. Vincent de Paul
in
early February to sponsor the Truffle
.75 x 3.25
Shuffle, a family-friendly race that raises
money that goes toward veterans. We have
Week 1: been 9/15/16
welcomed in the downtown commu-
Week 3: nity 9/29/16
and have professional relationships with
a number of local businesses in the area. We
have been ably helped by RAIN Eugene
and the people we met there. We have been
guided, warned off riskier strategic paths and
received into the fold despite a much lower
starting price.
The app we built connects people to lo-
cals and their activity groups. So when we
think back on it, there is no more poetic a
starting place than Eugene, Oregon.
Ben Nye
Eugene
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CROSSWORD COMMENTARY
Hey Matt Jones, here’s one for ya: “____”
me.
Edmond Stansberry
Eugene
VOTE STEIN
Brian Willson was at an Al Nakba Aware-
ness Project movie showing of Blood On
The Tracks this past Wednesday, Sept. 21,
in Eugene. Willson had his legs cut off by
a munitions train in Concord, California, in
1987 attempting to stop the shipment of arms
to Nicaragua. I was inspired by a few things
that Willson said about politics. According
to Willson, Trump is likely to be the less ef-
fective evil compared to Clinton as Trump
will not have a majority support in Congress
compared to Clinton’s bipartisan support. So
while Trump may want to do truly evil stuff
like build a wall and cut Social Security, he
likely won’t have the votes.
Clinton is much more dangerous than
Trump when it comes to foreign policy.
Trump wants to be friends with Putin and
maybe dismantle NATO while Clinton is
ramping up McCarthyism and may get into a
shooting war with Russia over a no-fly zone
in Syria.
I believe I don’t deserve a Bernie Sanders
style bailout if it means that the U.S. is simul-
taneously embroiled in a bloodbath interna-
tionally. That is why I support Jill Stein over
everyone else. That is also why I’m no longer
concerned as much with the possible “spoil-
er” effect for Clinton. Stein will bail me out
while simultaneously getting the U.S. out of
all of our foreign entanglements including
wars and bad trade deals. Go to Jill2016.com
to find out more.
John Thielking
Eugene
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