Bøger af Rick Edelstein

Victor Veranda Session: With blatant honesty and disturbing wisdom Victor Veranda answers questions about: Relationships; Sex; Climate Change; Racism; and Spirit. His rhyming responses may upset some but truth has a way of doing that.

A recent college grad aspiring to be a writer- for material- gets a job as a Courtesy Assistant in an upscale residential hotel. The female and male residents challenge his moral and sexual parameters.

Aggressive Ignorance: Jenine, a facilitator of Choose Your Life seminar returns home early to her lover (yes, both are women) because Jenine psyched out in front of hundreds of adoring acolytes. Playing the recording of seminar, Jenine insults the participants as crippled clowns performing in a circus of deceit. Dealing with women's issues, black, white male, gay concerns, Jenine insults with wit and authority and ultimately reveals that she has been living fallacious lies. It is a dramatic, effective, relevant experience. Her: Humorous and revealing are the limitations of the male gender as two dudes share their attitudes and beliefs re women, sex, and sub-textual weaknesses. And in the face of truth or lies, make pragmatic decisions in their life.

An ex-con gets a spiritual visitation with the words resonating inside, "You Will Know" and "Bodega." He does not know what this means but he does lease an out-of-business Bodega, putting a sign in the window, "Come in and figure things out." Subsequent scenes involve a woman standing strong in the face of her macho man; AND a powerful, important, challenging event between an old Jew and a contemporary rhyming Rapper, dealing with personal and international issues.

One particular day- which shall change his life forever - wearing his invisible cloak of solitude, 27-year-old Jaytee walked into an open air market. Stopping at a stand a particular cam-corder attracted Jaytee's attention. Looking through the view-finder at an individual, placing a lever arrow at N, B or F, what is revealed is a phantasmagorical impossibility. The same day he encounters the woman of his life but he also has to make a terrible choice. Response from writer/actor, John Considine: "This clobbered me with so much surprising enjoyment and lasting feeling of satisfaction and quiet sadness/nostalgia, that I'm still blindsided by its power."

Two stories, each with two male characters. Moods: Two men reveal their darkest secrets one to the other through dry humor and sarcasm. They picture life like a web of dark and grey areas. Dissatisfaction may lead to crime in order to gain some self-respect. Will it be a crime in the end? Role Players: Two men discuss their role in life as a father or husband or a single man in the dating scene of single bars, and how the new roles changed their life. Interesting point of view upon marriage, fatherhood, sex nowadays and potential jobs. Their discussion brings into focus the differences in thinking between women and men and how they feel about the new definition of the sexes.

An African-American man is gunned down by police and his close family prepares for a wake in his memory. The wake brings forth various interesting characters and reveals all sorts of dark secrets.

One particular day - which shall change his life forever - wearing his invisible cloak of solitude, 27-year-old Jaytee walked into an open air market. Stopping at a stand a particular camcorder attracted Jaytee's attention. Looking through the view-finder at an individual, placing a lever arrow at N, B or F, what is revealed is a phantasmagorical impossibility. Jaytee also encounters the woman of his life but he'll have to make a difficult choice. ...you'll have to read this.Response from writer/actor, John Considine: "This clobbered me with so much surprising enjoyment and lasting feeling of satisfaction and quiet sadness/nostalgia, that I'm still blindsided by its power."