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|data10 = [[Dreamland: A Compilation]]
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''"My girlfriend and I had broken up, we hadn't emailed or spoken to each other for about three weeks."''
''My girlfriend and I had broken up, we hadn't emailed or spoken to each other for about three weeks.''


'''Karma Crash''' is the name of a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[The Other Side (Series)]]. It was originally broadcast on November 5, [[2000]].
'''Karma Crash''' is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[The Other Side (Series)|The Other Side]]. It was originally broadcast on November 5, [[:Category:2000|2000]].


== Synopsis ==
== Synopsis ==
Although Joe has broken up with Kate, hadn't spoken or e-mailed in 3 weeks, she still wants to see him.  She calls, desperate to see him
right now.  She comes over to Joe's; they hug and kiss.
2:40: Late Friday afternoon, while Joe's at the station working on the
show, Kate shows up, summoned by an e-mail that Joe insists he didn't send.  She
proves that she received the e-mail.  They're both exhausted.  They
fight.
7:50: Joe re-injured his left foot, has trouble getting around; his
house is a mess.
8:30: Joe recounts his dream of a white rabbit with its throat slit,
bleeding to death.
9:10: Larry recounts his e-mail correspondence with Rosalie.  She
doesn't answer him enough.  They have an '8-year history'.  Joe thinks
Larry's treating her badly.
16:00: Kate has 2 tumors, names them 'Joe' and 'Frank'.
16:50: Joe talks about Kate's gay friend Glendon (sp?), who moved
files from Joe's old computer to his new one.  Glendon gave Kate
excerpts of Joe's journal about his relationship with another woman 2
years before.
19:00: Joe's driving east on San Vincente, between 26th and
Bundy.<ref>26th is the Santa Monica/Los Angeles border; this stretch
is about a mile long, in the expensive Brentwood neighborhood;
Brentwood country club is on the southern side of San Vincente.  San
Vincente goes through Santa Monica's wealthiest neighborhood.</ref>
Joe says motorcycle cops wait with radar guns to bust speeders.  Joe
fantasizes pushing one of them over, fighting.  He hopes it will end
up with someone taking care of him.
20:50: In his next fantasy, he drives to the ER at Cedars-Sinai, tells
them that he's going crazy, imagines that someone will take care of
him.  'You know LA: it's a lonely town.'<ref>Joe seems to have a lot
of friends.</ref>
21:40: Rosalie's parents were death-camp survivors.  He met her acting
together 8 years ago.
22:40: Joe and Kate are at Wolfgang Puck's on
Montana<ref>[https://m.yelp.com/biz/wolfgang-puck-cafe-santa-monica Yelp]
gives it 2.5 stars</ref><ref>the street that divides the wealthy
people from the trash</ref> Friday night.  She drinks her and Joe's
wine.  She reminds Joe of all her grievances with him.  Joe hits her,
they leave.  They sit in his car to stay warm.  She recounts her
childhood trauma, her infancy in a foster-home, more.  Joe feels
blamed.  She gets mad because Joe is insufficiently sympathetic.  Joe
wants to go home, get some sleep.  Kate wants to keep talking.  He
tries to kick her out of his car.  Joe tries to drive off.  She falls,
but isn't hurt, wanted to scare him.  Now she's ready to go home but
can't find her keys.  Now Joe has to decide what to do: he doesn't
want her to spend the night at his home.
29:50: Joe recalls eating in a restaurant in Manhattan years ago when
a car drove into it.  The driver was dead; a woman, his passenger, was
distraught.  Only Joe went out to look at what happened; everyone else
went on as though nothing had happened.
32:10: Larry recalls his earlier correspondence (at minute 9:10) with
Rosalie.  He wrote her a poem.  He used a line from <i>The runaway
bunny</i>, which he has to describe to Joe.<ref>Larry reads <i>The
runaway bunny</i> at a birthday party for his mother in [[Bitter Pill]].</ref>
Larry wrote her, 'Today, I am 50 years old.'<ref>Larry
was born in 1942; this show was released in 2000.</ref>
36:30: Joe drives around, trying to figure out what to do.  She won't
stay in a hotel.  Kate pulls the keys out of the ignition, throws them
into a lawn.  They fight to get them first; Joe wins.  She walks; Joe
won't leave her on the street so follows in her car.  She walks
towards Joe's home - Kate expects Eva<ref>Joe's uncle Ben's eldest
daughter, Eva, born in 1934, thus 4 years older than Joe, is visiting
for a week.</ref> will let her in.  Joe drives home to warn Eva, but
Kate doesn't show.  Joe drives around looking for her, then returns
home, finds Kate there.  She undresses and gets into his bed.  Joe
gives her a valium; she sleeps.  Joe sits, watching her.
42:40: Joe recalls the night, over 20 years ago, when his wife left
him.  They lived on Columbus Avenue in Manhattan.  She told Joe she
wanted to leave, dressed, packed her stuff, cried, left.  Joe had been
longing for and fearing her departure.
46:30: Jack Kornfield tells about the difficulties that even Zen
masters (lamas, monks, etc.) have troubled relationships,
imperfections.  Women in the community tell of their problems as
women.  He quotes [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Wetzel Sylvia Wetzel]
on the difficulties of women in the Buddhist community, how
men and male images dominate.
51:10: Joe tells of driving in rural upstate New York years ago,
stopping because an injured dog is howling in pain in the middle of
the road, won't let anyone get near him.  Someone shoots the dog.  The
experience haunts Joe for years.
52:20: Years after this incident, Joe's therapist, tells Joe
he's like that dog: in pain but won't let anyone near.  Joe finds this
useless.
52:40: Joe says that 'they' say that god will not give anyone
more pain than they can endure - Joe thinks this nonsense.  Joe points
out that the nature channels are full of pain.
53:20: Kornfield talks about why people enter spiritual life, quotes
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumi Rumi].  He quotes 'the Hindus',
'The child in the womb sings, "Do not let me forget who I am!", but
the song after birth becomes, "Oh!  I've forgotten already."'<ref>Jack
Kornfield is the only source I can find for this 'quote'.</ref> The
true seeker admits how little s/he knows, how vast the universe is.
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="width:100%; overflow:auto;">
<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">Legacy Synopsis</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
*Joe had broken up with his girlfriend, but she wanted to see him.  She visits.  They walk together with her in tears.  She meets with him again at the wrong time and they argue about Joe having sent an e-mail which he can not remember.  He is working non-stop.  They argue about work.  They argue about getting back together.
*Joe had broken up with his girlfriend, but she wanted to see him.  She visits.  They walk together with her in tears.  She meets with him again at the wrong time and they argue about Joe having sent an e-mail which he can not remember.  He is working non-stop.  They argue about work.  They argue about getting back together.
*Joe injured his foot and can not keep up with his life.
*Joe injured his foot and can not keep up with his life.
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*Joe driving - imagines confronting a traffic cop.
*Joe driving - imagines confronting a traffic cop.
*Larry - Working with an actress and having a magic/wonderful experience.
*Larry - Working with an actress and having a magic/wonderful experience.
*Joe and friend start argueing at dinner and he strikes her.  She tells stories of how she suffered while growing up.  She gets angry that Joe doesn't sympathize for her.  She will not leave his car.
*Joe and friend start arguing at dinner and he strikes her.  She tells stories of how she suffered while growing up.  She gets angry that Joe doesn't sympathize for her.  She will not leave his car.
*Joe remembers hearing a car crash and his investigation.
*Joe remembers hearing a car crash and his investigation.
*Larry - Responds with another poem.
*Larry - Responds with another poem.
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*[[Jack Kornfield]] - A meeting of Zen Masters, who struggle with their own issues.  Women encountering difficulty with being priests.
*[[Jack Kornfield]] - A meeting of Zen Masters, who struggle with their own issues.  Women encountering difficulty with being priests.
*Joe driving in upstate NY countryside.  Encounters traffic problem due to a dog hit by a car.  Pain.
*Joe driving in upstate NY countryside.  Encounters traffic problem due to a dog hit by a car.  Pain.
*Kornfield - What draws people to a spirtual life?
*Kornfield - What draws people to a spiritual life?
 
</div></div>
 
 
== Interesting Facts ==


== Music ==
{{Doris Dub (Tosca)}} [Intro]


== Additional credits ==
From the broadcast, 'You've been listening to Joe Frank "The other
side".  This program was called "Karma crash" with Larry Block,
Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield, and Joe Frank; production by
J. C. Swiatek and Bob Carlson; music coordinator: Thomas Golubi&#263;;
production assistance: Esm&eacute; Gregson'


== Commentary ==
== Commentary ==
{{commentary}}
I lived there for 20 years, didn't find it lonelier than anywhere
 
else.[[User:Arthur Peabody|Arthur Peabody]] ([[User talk:Arthur Peabody|talk]]) 22:20, 18 January 2022 (EST)
 
== External Links ==
 


I was one of the proles who lived far south of Montana.[[User:Arthur Peabody|Arthur Peabody]] ([[User talk:Arthur Peabody|talk]]) 22:20, 18 January 2022 (EST)
== Footnotes ==
[[Category:Karma_Style]]
[[Category:Karma_Style]]
[[Category:Serious_Monologue]]
[[Category:Serious_Monologue]]
[[Category:Larry Block]]
[[Category:Larry Block]]
[[Category:Jack Kornfield]]
[[Category:Jack Kornfield]]
[[Category:2000]]
[[Category:Show]]
[[Category:The Other Side]] [[Category:Show_by_date|20001105]] {{Airdate|airdate=2000-11-05}}
{{Series|series=The Other Side}}{{Cast|cast=[[Larry Block]], [[Jack Kornfield]], Joe Frank}}
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