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After you write your book, get an agent and get it published, then (if your agent didn't sell it to some big, bullshit publisher with a heavy-duty hype department, in which case you do whatever dumb-ass thing they tell you to do), you have to somehow get someone to read the sucker...and review it. That's close to impossible. The pages with this notification have thousands of media boys and girls listed, one of whom may hype your book. They have to justify their existence somehow, right? G.

July 3, 2023

"On or before July 14, 2023" the host of my website is bagging it for lots of exquisite reasons. So am I. You can see the last 20 years or so here:

https://web.archive.org (stick everyonewhosanyone.com in the box).

They're getting rid of my email address, too. Use this:

gerardjones@proton.me

If you want to read my written stuff, click this:

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Thanks. G.

Gerard Jones
gerardjones@proton.me

California

University of Southern California
School of Cinematic Arts

http://cinema.usc.edu

University of California, Los Angeles
School of Theater, Film and Television

http://www.tft.ucla.edu

San Francisco State University
Department of Cinema

https://cinema.sfsu.edu

She was the first hippie, for one thing. I've mentioned that. Yeah, well, she was. I have proof. Documentary evidence. You could look it up. There's a picture of her in the school paper at San Francisco State: The Gater. The picture was taken in the spring of 1963. Ginny's dancing on the lawn across from the library; her hair's kind of in her face, but you can still tell it's her. Jim Moss is in the background, egging her on. And the first time the word "hippie" was used to describe the sort of person who we all know now as a "hippie" was in the caption to that picture. She may even have had some flowers in her hair—which, in my book, makes her the first hippie.

Ginny Good, Chapter Fourteen, Pacific Heights, Fall, 1964

https://vimeo.com/showcase/8958116

San Francisco Art Institute
Film and Media

http://www.sfai.edu

Elliot came back into the picture sometime in May of 1967. He'd recovered from most of the short-term effects of his father having blown his head half-off. He was going to school at the Art Institute and teaching a class in airbrush technique. He had a girlfriend, too—a cute little Korean chick with nice tits, extra slanty eyes, one of those Asian overbites and vestiges of some difficulty with the English language.

Ginny and I ran into them on Haight Street a couple of times—the first time we were in the middle of the block, between Ashbury and Clayton. Ginny and Elliot were sheepish with each other. I kind of liked the cute little Korean chick myself. She was noticeably not wearing a bra and didn't seem to mind me looking down the front of her loose fitting paisley shirt. She seemed to sort of like it, in fact. The cute little Korean chick kept trying to squeeze Elliot's Zippo out from the tight pocket of his Levis. He kept moving away, like he was embarrassed by her familiarity and obvious affection. That was all that happened. We went our separate ways.

Ginny Good, Chapter Twenty-Two, Haight Street, Spring 1967

https://vimeo.com/showcase/8956322

Chapman University
Dodge College of Film and Media Arts

http://www.chapman.edu/dodge

Pepperdine University
Film & Media

https://seaver.pepperdine.edu

Stanford University
Department of Art

https://art.stanford.edu

University of California, Berkeley
Department of Film and Media

https://filmmedia.berkeley.edu

University of California, Santa Barbara
Department of Film and Media Studies

https://www.filmandmedia.ucsb.edu

University of California, Santa Cruz
Film and Digital Media

https://film.ucsc.edu

Loyola Marymount University
School of Film and Television

https://sftv.lmu.edu

Los Angeles City College
Cinema Television Department

https://www.lacitycollege.edu

University of California, Riverside
Theatre, Film, and Digital Production

https://theatre.ucr.edu

American Film Institute
Conservatory

https://conservatory.afi.com

California Institute of the Arts
School of Film and Video

http://filmvideo.calarts.edu

New York Film Academy, Los Angeles

https://www.nyfa.edu/los-angeles

Occidental College
Media Arts and Culture

https://www.oxy.edu

University of California, San Diego
Film Studies

https://iah.ucsd.edu

Virginia Dixon Good was born on March 5, 1941. She spent her childhood in one or another of those sleepy little seaside communities down along the Southern California coast, north of San Diego. Her mother was too busy for kids. She had three daughters. Ginny was her second daughter. Sandy was her third. I forget the first daughter's name. I can't remember Ginny's mother's name, either. I might have blanked it out. Her father's name was George. George F. Good. I never knew what the "F." stood for. There were so many things I never knew.

Ginny's mother couldn't have said for sure why she'd even had kids except that having kids was what one did. Kids were annoying. She couldn't understand what the hell they were talking about, for one thing. She didn't know what the Salvadoran maid was jabbering about half the time either, but at least the maid understood what she was saying: "Rosalie! God damn it! If I find one more grain of sand in this kitchen, I'm going to kill you! Do you understand?"

Ginny Good, Chapter Two, Del Mar, 1941-1962

https://vimeo.com/showcase/8964731

Academy of Art University
School of Motion Pictures and Television

https://www.academyart.edu

California State University, Northridge
Department of Cinema and Television Arts

https://www.csun.edu

California College of the Arts
Film

https://www.cca.edu

Santa Monica College
Communication and Media Department

https://www.smc.edu

Oregon

University of Oregon
Cinema Studies

https://cinema.uoregon.edu

Portland State University
School of Film

https://www.pdx.edu/film

Washington

University of Washington
Cinema and Media Studies

https://cinema.washington.edu

Whitman College
Film and Media Studies

https://www.whitman.edu

Olympic College
Film Department

https://www.olympic.edu

University of Puget Sound
Communication Studies

https://www.pugetsound.edu

Alaska

University of Alaska Fairbanks
Theatre & Film

https://www.uaf.edu

Hawaii

University of Hawaii
Academy for Creative Media

http://acm.hawaii.edu