Zonitics’ Edward Boyd’s been beatin’ the “J.J. Walker for U.S. Senate”-drum of late. Count me in.

Check it, y’all: get Willona and Penny and Booker and Michael and all them up in the house, and you might just get some shit accomplished in Big Guv’ment land — like, getting a laugh track added to C-Span, maybe. “Not gettin’ hassled, not gettin’ hustled” indeed.

…And speaking of 70s horror shows (“temporary layoffs! Good Times..!”), I stayed up late last night to watch The Possession of Joel Delaney (Shirley MacLaine, Perry King, 1972) — one of those high-profile “realistic” occult flicks so popular in the late 60s, early 70s (this one fits nicely between Rosemary’s Baby and The Exorcist). The grainy filmstock, the multi-tracked and Altman-esque dialogue mix, the local color, and the on-location New York tableau (the story moves from Park Avenue to Spanish Harlem to the Hamptons) makes it worth checking out, I think. It’s not really all that scary, but it’s certainly disturbing — particularly the last few minutes of the film, which eerily prefigure the German film Funny Games.

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