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Maker Faire 2010 HHA
Mitch is setting up a huge Hardware Hacking Area (HHA) again this year at the 2010 Maker Faire! The Maker Faire is at the San Mateo County Fair Grounds, on Saturday May 22 and Sunday May 23.
Anyone and everyone can volunteer! No experience necessary!
We will be teaching zillions of people how to make cool things, and teaching everyone how to solder! We need lots of volunteers to help out. It's tons of fun, and for doing a 4-hour shift, you get in to the entire Maker Faire for free (all weekend)!
Here are the shifts available to help out at the huge Hardware Hacking Area for the Maker Faire.
If you'd like to help (and get a free pass for the entire Faire!), please edit "Volunteer Sign-up" section, and fill your name into a time slot that is not already taken. (All time slots are 4 hours.) After you fill in your name, please email me (maltman23 AT hotmail DOT com).
Training Sessions[edit]
If you can find the time, it will be way helpful if you come to one of the two training sessions I will be giving.
- Saturday, 15-May, 1pm -- at Noisebridge
- Wednesday, 19-May, 8pm -- at Noisebridge
Both sessions will be the same. In each session I will:
- give the big picture of how the Hardware Hacking Area will work
- discuss the various tasks that need to be filled at the HHA
- show you how I teach people to solder
- give you a kit to make that you can take home with you
- answer any questions you may have
- ask for your input to help make the HHA way cooler
Volunteer Sign-up[edit]
After adding your name to your time slot, please email me (maltman23 AT hotmail DOT com) as soon as you can with the following information:
1) The name (first and last) you want to give to the Maker Faire people when you arrive for your free "credentials" (as they're calling the passes for volunteers). 2) The 4-hour shift you want.
If all time-slots are full, please email me. We can use your help.
Saturday, 22-May:
time slot | volunteer |
8:00am to 9:30am | Mitch, Jimmie Rodgers, Rolf van Widenfelt, Michael Shiloh, Andreas Stadler |
9:30am to 1:30pm | Matt Holland, Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson |
10:30am to 2:30pm | Aaron Falk, KT Falk, Robert Fletcher |
11:30am to 3:30pm | nana, Sean C |
12:30pm to 4:30pm | Chis Lombardi Remy Goldberg |
1:30pm to 5:30pm | Michael Toren, Laura Khalil, Jonathan Lassoff |
2:30pm to 6:30pm | España Sheriff, Don French |
3:30pm to 7:30pm | Crystal Allen,Ted Scharff |
4:30pm to 8:30pm | Robert Stone |
Sunday, 23-May:
time slot | volunteer |
8:00am to 9:30am | Mitch, Jimmie Rodgers |
9:30am to 1:30pm | Jason Abele, Ali Hadiashar |
10:30am to 2:30pm | R Miloh Alexander, rebecca weinstein, Charles Collicutt |
11:30am to 3:30pm | Steve Camuti, Nina Alter |
12:30pm to 4:30pm | Jason Snell, David Dymesich, Pavla Dlab |
1:30pm to 5:30pm | Todd Anderson, Jeff Keyzer |
2:30pm to 6:30pm | Jim Stockford, Prakash Jalan |
HHA Volunteer Info[edit]
The Hardware Hacking Area is lots of fun! No soldering experience necessary. I'll show you everything you need to know.
We'll be teaching zillions of people to make cool things, and we'll be demonstrating Brain Machines to everyone (which attracts a huge, enthusiastic, curious crowd to the area!).
The Faire is open to the public between 10am and 8pm on Saturday, and between 10am and 6pm on Sunday. We'll be hopping the whole time, with 54 solder stations happening at once!
Getting to the Faire and the HHA[edit]
The San Francisco Maker Faire is in the San Mateo County Fair Grounds. Please consider getting to the Faire by means other than by car. Last year there was an all-day traffic jam (both Saturday and Sunda) on 101, which made it take hours (yes, plural) to get past the Faire exit. From the Caltrain Hillsdale Station it is only about a few hundred yards walk north to the San Mateo County Fair Grounds. Here is a map: Hillsdale Station
Once at the Fair Grounds, look for the registration tent. Give your name to the friendly person there, and say you're helping with Mitch's Hardware Hacking Area in the Maker Shed, and they will give you the credentials. Keep in mind that registration may take awhile if there is a line.
Please show up at the Hardware Hacking Area a few minutes before your shift starts.
The Hardware Hacking Area should be easy to find once you get into the building that is being called the Maker Shed, which is a very, very large building. The Hardware Hacking Area will be one large corner of it.
If you have any problems at all, or any questions, please give me a call on my cell phone: 415-377-5993
The San Francisco Maker Faire 2010 is taking place at the San Mateo County Fair Grounds.


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I have been following and joining in on the fun whenever I have pasta over at Presto Pasta Nights for the past few years. My cupboards are always full of pasta in countless shapes and sizes. It is simply too hard to resist at our local Italian grocers, especially since they have expanded!!! I want to have pasta every day of the year!!!!
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1 scant cup drained oil-packed sun-dried tomatoes
1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil
1 teaspoon salt-packed capers, rinsed, soaked in cold water for 10 minutes, then rinsed again
2 cups cherry or grape tomatoes (9 ounces), quartered
3 tablespoons freshly grated Parmigiano-Reggiano or Grana Padano cheese
1 tablespoon chopped fresh chives plus more for garnish
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1 pound spaghetti
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Throughout President Barack Obama's first four years in office, he prided himself on his ability to bounce back when much of Washington thought his presidency was in peril.
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Derek Lowe (2-3, 4.43) vs Manny Parra (1-2, 5.79).
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As for the game, Derek Lowe goes against Manny Parra. Here is what I know about Manny Parra:
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Cuckoo for my clock
January 29, 2013
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Hello there! I hope you'll indulge me today while I show you something new to our home. It probably isn't too exciting to most, but it is a piece that makes me so happy I can't even explain it. :)
It's actually a kind of weird how it came about. Without going into too much detail, let's just say I have very little from my childhood. I have no toys, no Christmas ornaments – only pictures (that I treasure) and a small box of papers/trinkets from my entire childhood. All of it was lost along the way, (I touched on why a bit here), so everything that I do have means the world to me.
For some reason, a couple months ago, I started thinking about one item from when I was a kid in particular. It was a small cuckoo clock my parents got when I was very young – I don't think there was a time when I didn't remember it in our homes.
I have no idea why all the sudden I couldn't stop thinking about this clock. I hadn't though of it in about 20 years – it was the oddest thing. I had this deep ache for it though – it was just something that reminded my of my childhood. It was quirky and fun and symbolized good memories for me.
I thought about it for weeks and then dropped it. Until one day a couple weeks before Christmas when my Dad came by for a bit. We were sitting at the kitchen table and he starts telling me how he had a clock that he was going to have refurbished. My ears perked up and I asked him which one, and what do you know…he had that cuckoo clock I had been thinking about for weeks!! I thought it was long gone since the last time I'd seen it was in my Mom's storage. All of that was lost a long time ago.
Could NOT believe it.
I had no idea he had "saved" it at one point years ago, and he had had it for about ten years – but it didn't work and it was broken and dirty.
Seriously, freaky. I pretty much begged him for it, and I think he was surprised at how badly I wanted it. I just couldn't believe that the one thing I had been reminiscing about for weeks was actually still around.
So for part of my Christmas Dad had it refurbished. He brought it down last week and I tell you what…I was just plain giddy:
I seriously could have cried. We hung it up and messed with it a bit (everything has to be just so for this to work properly).
I love all the detail in the wood (but not too much – it's actually simple compared to some) and it was JUST as I remembered it. The roman numeral face:
And that little door for the bird to come out of course. :)
I anxiously waited for us to get it just right, and then Dad turned the hands of the clock to set it and that bird came out and did his "cuckoo":
It filled me with JOY.
You know how when there's a song from a certain time in your life, and you hear it years later and you almost feel like your in a time tunnel and you can close your eyes and there you are again?
Well, when I heard that cuckoo it took me back to a very happy time in my life and it was emotional, I have to admit. I spent that whole afternoon and evening hanging around the clock, waiting for that little bird to pop out.
When it did I was JUST STUPID with happiness. I would do a little dance and would yell out to my son and husband, "DID YOU HEAR IT?? ISN'T THAT AWESOME???"
Of course they did…I just had to make sure.
Now when the Bub hears it and I'm not there, he makes sure to tell me how many times I missed the cuckoo. I love that he's already in love with it and it will become a memory from his childhood as well.
Dad told me that my grandparents actually bought this overseas for him and Mom, so I talked to my grandma to find out more. She said they got it in 1977 in Lucerne Switzerland. They bought one for each of their four kids, and as far as she knows, this is the only one left. Can you believe they traveled home with four of these in their suitcases?
My grandparents traveled often and to some truly amazing places, so I love that this symbolizes their adventures too. I've done a little bit of research on it and I believe it's a Bucherer cuckoo clock. Like I said, it was a mess, so things like the chain and some of the woodwork were replaced and are no longer original.
But it works and I feel like a kid when I get pull down those chains with the heavy pinecones on them every day, just like I remember my parents doing 30-(something) years ago.
It hangs on a skinny wall between our black doors in the basement – we have it down there so it doesn't wake us up all night, and I just because I think it fits in perfectly:
I can't tell you how thrilled I am to have this in my home – I'm so excited about it. I guess you could say I'm "cuckoo" for it. Ahhh yes…I went there. Did you have any doubt? ;)
Do you have lots of things from your childhood? Is there one item in particular that you miss and wish you had? Do you have a cuckoo clock that makes you dance around when you hear it every hour? :)


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Second, look at the elf. Yes, that's an elf. See, a lot of people would have you believe that Gary was lying through his teeth when he said that Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings had little influence on D&D. They'll point to all sorts of evidence to prove their point, but they rarely look at how elves were depicted in the original three AD&D books. To my mind, they have more to do with fairy tale elves than with the Nordic-inspired demigods-among-men of Middle Earth. I mean, just look at that guy facing off against the giant frog. Aside from the really big nose and ears, he's even got the Hat and the Shoes. That's no Legalas or Elrond there, my friends. Heck, even the Keebler Elves are so non-traditional that they don't wear the Shoes anymore.
But neither of these points is why I was obsessed with this illustration as a youth. Immediately beneath this piece of artwork are the descriptions of two 9th-level magic-user spells, temporal stasis and time stop. Now, if you look at the picture, you'll see that the elf is making the universal "Stop!" motion with his hand. And if you look at the giant frog, you'll see that he does appear to be caught in mid-jump. To me, it was clear that the elf had just cast one of those two spells on the frog. The problem -- aside from the fact that time stop has no somatic component, thus making the hand gesture needless -- was that no elf could possibly cast a 9th-level magic-user spell. So how was he freezing the frog in place like that? Some of my friends argued that he was doing no such thing, but I always made the case that the placement of the illustration suggested otherwise. Throughout the PHB, the illustrations generally related to the text, so why not here? Was he some sort of uber-elf who could cast such high-level spells? Had Tramp not read the AD&D rules or, worse yet, did Gary not care about the lack of "realism" in the book's illustrations?
I still have no definitive answer after all these years, but I still think about that picture.
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I always saw this pic as a low-level gnome about be some lucky frog's dinner.
While I agree the LotR did not have a big influence on D&D, it's always been my interpretation that gnome were Gary's idea of little fairy/brownie/lawn gnome type PCs.
And I think his hand gesture is just the universal defensive "I'm about to die" stance.
My $0.02.
--TimI, too, assumed that this was a gnome. Couldn't giant frogs only swallow small creatures like gnomes, dwarves and halflings? It seems like an elf would be taller in relation to a frog that size.
Also, I always assumed it was unrelated to the nearby text. Just a filler illustration of a gnome having a bad day.I have not picked up a copy of AD&D 1 ed. in many years. I recall that elves had a level cap ("...and were a class!"), but was there any min/max/munchkin way of getting an elf, or elf class, to 9th level. Maybe A ring or a scroll?
But I like your initial theory... the picture is directly tied to the copy/text on the page. Whether Trampier, or some anonymous editor, considered the rules or not, I too think it was intentional, in first or "afterthought."I have not picked up a copy of AD&D 1 ed. in many years. I recall that elves had a level cap ("...and were a class!"), but was there any min/max/munchkin way of getting an elf, or elf class, to 9th level. Maybe A ring or a scroll?
In AD&D, elves were limited to 11th level as MUs. They were not a class; that was true only in Moldvay, Mentzer, and the Rules Cyclopedia version of the game (and arguably the three little brown books, but it's a tendentious argument IMO). It's possible he's used a scroll to cast the spell, but there's no evidence of it in the picture and the risk of failure would be high.I had no idea AD&D 1st Ed elves where that different from the Tolkien-clones they have become.
To be fair, the Tolkien connection came early. By all accounts, Dave Arneson's Blackmoor campaign was heavily influenced by Tolkien's conceptions. Likewise, by the time you the early 80s rolled around, most elf illustrations are more Tolkienesque in inspiration, even if the descriptive text lists them as 5 feet tall or shorter. Even 3e uses this same description, so it's deep in the D&D DNA.I have recently seen some professional 3rd/4th Ed art for elves at the artist's website (I can't recall his name). I was amazed to notice both the male and female elves on a racial "police line-up" where considerably taller and more buffed than their human counterparts, so much so they looked like professional Nordic bodybuilders. The half-elves where *only* slightly taller than humans if memory serves me right.
If elves are listed as averaging 5ft in the latest editions then this is most comic.
Some D&D art as been accused of misrepresenting the way the game works and what is possible to do under the rules (like the goofy barbarian on the cover of revised AD&D 2nd Ed mentioned in one of your recent posts), so I guess this trend is only aggravating as time passes.
From what I have seen, older D&D art does in fact do a much better job of representing "the game". This is a fact, regardless of one's personal aesthetic preferences.
It is a curious mental exercise to wonder just how many 3rd/4th Ed battles look anything like the popular "wall of action" panels we see these days. I'm guessing the total number should be something approximate of zero.Oddly enough, the jpg file is labeled "brownie"...
I always presumed the picture depicted an elf, gnome, or halfling fighting a giant frog.
Do non-giant frogs have fangs? If so, then perhaps he's a brownie...
And I never really thought the picture actually depicted one of the spells on the page. There are many pictures in those books that didn't quite fit the page they were placed on.I greatly prefer weird, Chaotic, fairy-tale Elves. In my OD&D campaigns, that's the explanation for the weird multi-classing -- between adventures, they trot off to hollow hills or rings of toadstools, and sometimes they come back with wildly different personalities. That's why they're not to be trusted.
The pic is easy. The giant frog is a Shape Changed evil Arch-Mage about to eat a poor innocent Elf. :)Oops...forgot to add this:
Check out the cover of "D 1-2: Descent into the Depths of the Earth" for an idea of how elves were sometimes thought to dress.
The elf in the central background has the big buckle, pointy hood and everything!
Awesome cover...I have recently seen some professional 3rd/4th Ed art for elves at the artist's website (I can't recall his name). I was amazed to notice both the male and female elves on a racial "police line-up" where considerably taller and more buffed than their human counterparts, so much so they looked like professional Nordic bodybuilders. The half-elves where *only* slightly taller than humans if memory serves me right.
Is it possible you saw the racial line-up on paizo.com for the Pathfinder product? It's on p. 11 of the Pathfinder RPG Alpha document (free download with registration).Immediately beneath this piece of artwork are the descriptions of two 9th-level magic-user spells, temporal stasis and time stop.
Let's go through the whole spell section and look at the location of the illustrations:
p.47: Below locate object, above prayer, depicts locate object.
p.50: In the middle of insect plague, depicts insect plague.
p.56: In the middle of fire trap, depicts fire trap.
p.57: Below warp wood, depicts warp wood.
p.65: At the bottom of the page below dancing lights and erase, depicts dancing lights.
p.68: Below read magic and above shield, depicts shield.
p.69: Below write, relates to write.
p.71: Below mirror image, depicts mirror image.
p.81: Below Leomund's secret chest, above magic jar, depicts Leomund's secret chest. (He's holding a little replica chest, as per Leomund's secret chest, not a large gem or crystal.)
p.83: In the middle of enchant and item, related to enchant and item
p.90: Below Otto's irresistible dance, depicts Otto's irresistible dance.
p.92: Below gate and above imprisonment, related to gate.
p.93: The picture in question, below shape change, above temporal stasis.
p.97: Below massmorph, depicts massmorph.
p.98: Below demi-shadow monsters, above major creation, depicts demi-shadow monsters.
So, in thirteen of the fifteen cases, the art certainly has as its subject spell which has text immediately above the illustration. In the fourteenth, the art's subject is the spell immediately below the illustration. Accordingly, it is basically certain that the illustration in question is either of shape change or temporal stasis; it is not a depiction of time stop. Further, the overwhelming rule strongly suggests that it depicts the spell immediately above it, shape change, not the spell below it.
That much exegesis we can reach based on the position of the illustration. With that, we then note that if the illustration depicts a magic-user who has cast shape change to take the form of the frog in order to attack the elf, the illustration conforms to the rules of the AD&D game. To reach the conclusion that the illustration is of the elf casting temporal stasis, however, we add to the exception to the usual positioning rule the necessary belief that the illustration be erroneous, depicting something (nearly) impossible in the game.
(There is the qualification of "nearly" above because one exception does exist. In principle, a human magic-user of sufficient level to cast temporal stasis could use magic to alter his form to appear to be an elf, with either polymorph self or shape change. This seems unlikely because no other illustration in the spells section seems to show the effects of two spells, and it would be unwise for the caster to retain elf form when threatened by a giant frog.)
So, the most likely conclusion seems to be that we have an illustration here of shape change. Any other conclusion requires this illustration to be unusual in several ways at once, which is unlikely.Hm. Steven's hypothesis seems logical. It'd be easier for me to follow if I had the book in question. (unlikely to ever happen, I entered the hobby late, I doubt I could find these books anywhere, and honestly, I'm fairly happy with third edition, though I do find this blog fascinating and illuminating in many ways, even if I disagree with a few of James' opinions.)
ReplyDelete"I doubt I could find these books anywhere"
Actually, the books are not hard to find at all. Around here, you can find a copy in just about every second-hand book-store.
Failing that, there's
Amazon, Abe Books, A Libris, and eBay. Not to mention places like Noble Knight and the Hit Pointe.
Or you can buy a PDF copy from Paizo.
It's actually a great time to be a fan of old RPGs.The solution is elementary. Recall that Lawful Good magic-users can have Brownie familiars. The picture is of a Brownie familiar narrowly saved by its off-screen master by way of a Temporal Stasis spell. The humor is that the Brownie held up his hand in a desperation gesture and the frog magically froze at the same time. But actually it was the archmage behind him with the 9th level spell the whole time.
ReplyDeleteHe also bears no resemblence to the elves in the MM and elsewhere in the PHB and DMG. :)
That's not entirely true. The wood elves in the Monster Manual bear a strong resemblance to him, as they have very large and exaggerated ears and rather "pointed" features. You're right that it's not identical, but there is a "family resemblance.""Remember that to raise an ability score above 16 requires 10 wishes, with each individual wish raising it by only 1/10 needed for the next score."
Yeah, but Gary was always extremely stingy about ability score increases. I always read that as him saying that this was a specific area where he felt wishes could be abused rather than a guideline that should be generalized to wishes applied to other areas.
Level caps he kept increasing. (oD&D → AD&D; PHB → UA.) Plus, he allowed for individuals to exceed the level caps based on ability scores.
Plus, ability scores and levels are very different scales. Going from an 18 to a 20 in an ability score is moving from mortal-range to godlike. Levelling from 18 to 20 is well within mortal capabilities. And allowing a wish to raise an individual's level cap by one level still requires that individual to earn the new level itself.
But, of course, Steven's analysis perhaps makes the whole discussion moot.Yeah, but Gary was always extremely stingy about ability score increases. I always read that as him saying that this was a specific area where he felt wishes could be abused rather than a guideline that should be generalized to wishes applied to other areas.
Venturing a bit off topic here, but it's fun since James hasn't provided us with new fodder for discussion (hint, hint :D ):
While Gary outlines 10 wishes to raise ability scores from 16 and on-higher in the DMG, there were plenty of other ways to raise them in the Lake Geneva campaigns, including magic pools, forbidden fruit, moving levers, and other various random-ish effects of the dungeon environs, divine intervention, DM whimsy, etc. So, I think that the DMG text was written to discourage people from "wasting" wishing on simple ability score additions vs. on much more important things like escaping encounters, raising PCs, etc., etc. Wishes were also much more common in OD&D than in AD&D, so acquiring 10 wishes is by no means impossible. Perhaps Trent Foster will chime in here, since he's written some good stuff about wishes several times :D
Allan.The shapechange possibility seems to have been covered pretty exhaustively. But for what it's worth, I always assumed that this was an illustration of that spell in action. In my interpretation, the little guy is a brownie, and he has picked up the material component the archmage used to cast the spell (which the rules state is dropped when the spell is cast, IIRC). The foolish brownie has threatened to break it (thus ending the spell), and the frog/archmage is gently reminding him that he can beat the snot out of a brownie even in human form. It also seemed to me that the frog was grasping for something and speaking (entirely possible), and has just lost patience. "Now!"
Sorry for the ramble :).Can anyone enlighten me about the rationale behind level caps?
I don't think it can be anything to do with game balance, since the concept of the level seems itself to be a balancing device - it's a property you can apply to an adventure, which sets an appropriate threat for a particular party, and a metric (or even an exchange rate) you can apply to PCs to make sure everyone in the party is of roughly equivalent power.
So what's the idea? Did EGG just think it was silly to have certain races involved in certain kinds of adventures? Is this a kind of continuum between the statuses of PC (capable of progress - historical, if you like) and monster (unchanging, consistent - in Said's terms, Oriental)?As I understand Gary's explanation... Gary conceived of the game world as being human dominated. Logically, with their long lives and other advantages over humans, demihumans should be dominant. By putting level caps on demihumans, human can then logically dominate the game world.
But I'm not sure I ever really understood his explanation. Go hit his Q&A threads at ENWorld or DF to read it from the horse's mouth.Robert - thanks for the response, I will. In the meantime, OT, I thought James might be interested in (maybe annoyed by) this:
He makes the point that 4e is the tabletop adaptation of WoW, and he explains exactly how (that seems completely misguided as a marketing strategy to my addled old brain, but what do I know?). Here's where I get off the train:
This is a game of combat -- as much as the original D&D was, if not more so. This is not a game of out-of-combat nuanced roleplay and complicated social mores. This is a game where your character is an optimized killing machine. Yeah, you can take intimidate or bluff if you really want to, but honestly, you have a charisma score, do you really need more than that? Especially when most of the time, your intimidate skill will take a back seat to your Riposte Strike at-will power or a well timed Shadow Wasp Strike. Your characters will feel most at home in a darkened corridor, decimating all around them... Thieves are now rogues and are way better at killing than thieving (there's nothing that even says you need to take thief skills)... it makes sense, now, that the gnomes are absent from the game right now. In the older game, their best trick was being illusionists... and there is no illusionist, and unless 'shadow' will be an illusionist power source, there's not going to be. Illusions don't really fit the structure of the new game -- they're not used much as it is, and they don't fall into the same role structure as the others.
So it sounds like the plan is to reduce the world to the kinds of interactions you can get from a computer, making most of the scenery non-interactive, reducing the player options to combat and leveling up. Only without the graphics. I don't think I get it.What makes you think that's an elf? Does he have pointed ears? (I cannot tell from the online picture, and don't have a copy of the combined D1-2 module handy).
1- Well, even from the viewer's distance, the figure looks smallish compared to a human.
2- He's also casting an attack spell and holding a wand; I'd wager he's a magic-user.
3- And that looks like chainmail hanging down over his jumblies from under that tunic of the stereotypically woodsy colors of brown and green.
Small + magical spells + chainmail + woodsy = Elf [or half-elf].- AnonymousSeptember 9, 2010 at 7:33 PM
I've always thought of this as a play on the old "shapechanged into a frog" trope - instead of being unwillingly turned into a frog, the spellcaster has turned into a GIANT frog on purpose.
ReplyDelete That's no elf and that's not time stop. A magic user has shaped changed into a giant frog and is now turning the tables on a hostile brownie or gnome.
I believe this is a play on how magic users were not formidable in melee and even a tiny fey could take one out. Well, here is a surprise for that cocky little guy.


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- The lime flavor is not a dominating one,in fact there is a very faint taste of lime which gets even better the next day.


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Now, I was going to make some sarcastic remark about TiVo making all the wedding guests wear fuzzy antennae and providing logo-riddled party favors, but when I checked the photo source I discovered they actually did.
Reality, you win. I just can't compete with your superior level of absurdity.
"Uh, girls? When I suggested a 'diaper cake' for the shower, I meant those cutesy things made of actual diapers. But hey, this is...nice. Really."
I can't be certain, but it looks like there's a beer can embedded in this cake. Which, from the ad exec's perspective, is perfect: the customer gets a cake AND a sample of your product. From the look of that cake, though, I think I'd just take the beer.
Besides, in the battle of the beers you know the one that teams up with Playboy is gonna win every time:
Now that thur cake is Classy with a capital "C", but you can't deny that the can placement is a stroke of genius. Srsly, is there any location on earth that gets more of men's undivided attention than a woman's chest? [waving] Hey, fellas, I'm up here. Hellooo! I said...oh, never mind. I think you just made my point anyway.
(Note: Yes, even the beer can is cake. Amazing, right? [shaking head] It's sad to see great talent wasted - I mean, c'mon: Coors Light?)
Lucinda M., Joy D., Kyla Z., and Summer R., I'm thinking I should get in on this racket. Tell you what: write www.CakeWrecks.com all over the next wedding cake you see, and I'll give you...well, nothing. But I might post the photo here if you send it to me. How's that?
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- Glassgrrl Studios said...
Maybe I'm nitpicking, but is that little speck above the bikini supposed to be a naval? 'Cos it's in entirely the wrong place, and should be up there at the waist.
That's all.
Except to echo 'ewww, Coors Light?...' - March 12, 2009 at 9:34 AM
- mustdestroyalltraces said...
seeing the tivo wedding makes it twice as funny. maybe they used the theme like a sort of vip pass.
"oh, i see you want cake. sorry, antennae are required for a slice of this." - March 12, 2009 at 9:35 AM
- Unknown said...
I want a stuffed tivo!!
- March 12, 2009 at 9:37 AM
oh wow...
I LOVE to look at your blog. I check it out daily as I know many, many devoted viewers do. The cakes are often hilarious and the commentary can't be beat. But the stories behind most of these cakes would be PRICELESS! You should make it a requirement for every cake that just leaves one speechless. :P (Although...I have to admit that your scripted scenarios are often better than anything on tv!) - March 12, 2009 at 9:37 AM
- Tammy said...
The mustard color of the Corona cake is just putrid. Maybe we should have some French's instead of Corona.
- March 12, 2009 at 9:44 AM
I've got to agree with you. It's sad that such a pretty beer can is a Coors Light can....bleh.
- March 12, 2009 at 9:48 AM
- Elleah said...
Those are sad.
- March 12, 2009 at 9:51 AM
- Dorci said...
I wonder if the wedding guests' teeth were all black after eating that cake. Would've made for an interesting wedding night!
- March 12, 2009 at 9:58 AM
- Jeff said...
Did you follow any of the links in the Engadget article? Because this cake is hilarious.
- March 12, 2009 at 9:59 AM
- Scritzy said...
Can you imagine what the bride and groom's teeth looked like after eating that black frosting on the little TiVo cakes?
Black teeth are so lovely for photos. I'd love to see their wedding album. - March 12, 2009 at 10:03 AM
The Tivo cake is for a wedding??? WHAT!? And yep, the playboy cake - serious class. Must remember that one for my 8yr olds birthday (not).
- March 12, 2009 at 10:04 AM
If you follow the link about the TV-inspired wedding, then follow a further link about "bad cakes", you get this:
which I think is a worthy contender for its own "Cake Wrecks" posting! - March 12, 2009 at 10:05 AM
- Unknown said...
That diaper cake is kind of cute. A reminder of what's to come. Start cutting those diaper coupons.
The Playboy cake makes me think there's going to be body shots going on..and not off the cake. But they could've picked a better beer!
And that Corona beer cake looks like it got...well..let's just say, wet. LOL
~Amy B - March 12, 2009 at 10:06 AM
- bigSIS said...
Another headless cake. Well, like you said, they don't know there's a face up there anyway....
- March 12, 2009 at 10:08 AM
- Susan said...
I do like the plush Tivo's, but I also have to say that it took me a while to realize what the veil on the Tivo bride cake was. It looked like cobwebs to me for a while.
- March 12, 2009 at 10:09 AM
- Kara said...
Ahh yes, the extreme talent of being able to hold beer cans between your breasts.
- March 12, 2009 at 10:12 AM
- Melissa Hale said...
At least the cakes, except the Corona cake which looks like slime, are nicely done. - March 12, 2009 at 10:22 AM
- Cheryl said...
I for one love TiVo! I might not have a TiVo wedding cake, but if my husband had wanted that as a groom's cake, I'd be fine with it (though I didn't know about the whole groom's cake thing when we got married).
- March 12, 2009 at 10:23 AM
Those wedding guests would be thrilled with their black tongues and lips after eating the TiVo cakes. Hawt!!!
Angie (from over at www.HalfAssedKitchen.com) - March 12, 2009 at 10:32 AM
- Unknown said...
So glad you included the link to the tivo cake...I thought that one tivo cake was wearing a cobweb wig--the link clarified that it's supposed to be a wedding veil.
Still--black icing on a wedding cake??? eww...smile for the camera! - March 12, 2009 at 10:35 AM
- Little Scarf Girl said...
The article about the computer-generated cake error was already featured on Cake Wrecks, wasn't it?
But the TiVo cakes are cute. :D And so are the plushes. Just not for a wedding. - March 12, 2009 at 10:36 AM
So.... who gets to eat the polkadot crotch? Just askin'
- March 12, 2009 at 10:47 AM
- sendingtheclowns said...
You know you're getting old when you just don't see anything tasteful or classy about a cheesy-looking, headless cake of a bustiered, gartered bimbo with a BB stuck in her *abdomen*.
Guys are SO lame and tacky! Is that black fur around the cake?
Nice touch. =^==^=
The beer bottle "cake" looks like it was made out of diarrhea. (Sorry!) - March 12, 2009 at 10:54 AM
- Viewtiful_Justin said...
Perhaps the TiVo cakes were for TiVo execs or people who love TV or something...whatever the case, it's still kind of pathetic and al ittle shameful.
- March 12, 2009 at 11:08 AM
- Shannon A. said...
I think that corona bottle actually looks like a shiny Turkey leg, like the ones you get at a RenFaire or something....GROSS.
- March 12, 2009 at 11:10 AM
I usually only put a cell phone in my bra. But that's me. Maybe if I used a beer can, I'd get a date.
- March 12, 2009 at 11:13 AM
- Unknown said...
Jeff and Exit..: that cake is already on here somewhere. You'll see it if you stay up all night looking at every cake wreck entry ;).
I think that last cake, though I am sure it is the "ideal woman" (no mouth, no brain..) may be spiked with STDs...Yuck! - March 12, 2009 at 11:31 AM
- Alisa Knits! said...
Apropos the diapers cake:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/55587/saturday-night-live-pampers - March 12, 2009 at 11:33 AM
- Zita said...
Hey, that last one...isn't that a cup cake? ROFL
- March 12, 2009 at 11:36 AM
Is the frosting on the beer bottle cake *made* from beer? Cuz it looks like... beer jelly. And now I want to hurl.
- March 12, 2009 at 11:37 AM
- peewee said...
that diaper cake KILLS ME!!! HAHAHAHAHA!
- March 12, 2009 at 11:53 AM
Reality, you win. I just can't compete with your superior level of absurdity.- Jen, Cake Wrecks
That is perhaps my new favorite quote. Love! - March 12, 2009 at 12:03 PM
- Unknown said...
Far be it from me to 'poo-poo' your cake-wreckery, but isn't that Coors cake actually a jelly with icing piped around the bottom? That is why it has that odd translucent look about it?
- March 12, 2009 at 12:08 PM
- Unknown said...
It might just be me, but I think the Corono "cake" might be a very large Jello (shooter) cake thing. It certainly looks like the cake (sans can) that the people I lived with right out of college made one time... vaguely translucent and very gross.
- March 12, 2009 at 12:28 PM
- Dusty said...
I love Tivo! I want a tivo wedding!! haha. great post!
- March 12, 2009 at 12:45 PM
- Latex Lily said...
It's a cake Rack!
- March 12, 2009 at 12:48 PM
- Kathryn H said...
The Corona cake looks like a roasted human leg. MMM. crispy skin! The best part...
Hey! Maybe this is a photo shoot to accompany the recipe for "Beer Can Human" - March 12, 2009 at 1:11 PM
- Jill said...
I must say, normally a corporate sponsored wedding cake is the height of tacky, but ... it's... TIVO. I can't say anything negative about tivo. I love tivo. I also love cake. So I get this.
WV: hateab, as in I eat too much cake so I hate my abs. - March 12, 2009 at 1:22 PM
I know you're always looking for the baker of the cakes ... the Tivo cake was crafted by the incredibly talented Debbie of "Debbie Does Cakes" and can be seen here on her Flickr stream: "http://www.flickr.com/photos/debbiedoescakesnet/495655936/" Having her as a Flickr contact is like getting a Sunday Sweet every day!
- March 12, 2009 at 1:23 PM
I may be misremembering, but I vaguely recall the TiVo cakes were from a wedding where the couple had met on a TiVo community forum, so at least that sort of makes sense...
- March 12, 2009 at 1:33 PM
- Heidi D said...
The lovely lady lumps cake would not surprise me if it was a 15 year old girl's birthday cake. Nope. No surprise. Not after the other classy gems that have been passed of as kids cakes.
Yup. - March 12, 2009 at 1:43 PM
- Amethyst Rose said...
I hate to nitpick but being a avid loler "srsly" is lol speak. The definition can be found here: http://speaklolspeak.com/page/Srsly
looks like you broke your own rule Jen! - March 12, 2009 at 1:46 PM
- Norkio said...
I think I'm gonna order that last cake for my daughter's 3rd birthday!
- March 12, 2009 at 2:03 PM
Mmmm....black icing! Not only is it good for black teeth for photos, but think of the dark green horror they'd encounter on its exit during their honeymoon. Sexy!
- March 12, 2009 at 2:09 PM
- Unknown said...
I Just want to know what is that red thing down by the girl Tivo's legs
- March 12, 2009 at 2:18 PM
Um, that is some freakishly wide cleavage on the Playboy cake. Did she have her third boob amputated to accommodate the beer can?
- March 12, 2009 at 2:27 PM
I would love to go to the Tivo wedding. I'm assuming that I would be able to bypass all the boring parts and get to the buffett line sooner.
And that Coors one? Brrrr!!!! A frosty beer can would not feel good on my chest. - March 12, 2009 at 3:15 PM
I'm all in favor of having a sense of humor at weddings and this certainly fits the bill. I think the TIVO cakes are cute as the dickens! Not that I'd go near the black icing--not while there were photographers around!
In defense of these cakes at a wedding, if you check out the link you see that they did have a *real* wedding cake as well, and it is quite gorgeous. - March 12, 2009 at 6:26 PM
- Miranda said...
Am I the only one who thinks black (and red) icing tastes awful? I've had people look at me like I'm nuts and swear that there's no difference, but I can taste a difference. So that TiVo cake, though cute ... yuck.
I think the Coors bikini cake is very well done, even though it's tacky. - March 12, 2009 at 6:52 PM
- Lisa Marie said...
This is FANTASTIC!!! Must. Blog. About. Cake!
- March 12, 2009 at 7:04 PM
- munchy365 said...
I saw this and the first thing I thought of was this blog. http://failblog.org/2009/03/12/apology-herpes-fail/
- March 12, 2009 at 7:05 PM
- mandacorry said...
When I looked at the Corona cake all I could think of was peanut butter. Peanut Butter and Beer. Sounds like my refrigerator in college, but I digress.
- March 12, 2009 at 7:12 PM
- Sihaya said...
You *know* that last cake was probably for a twelve-year-old's birthday party, a la the Playboy Cakes entry.
- March 12, 2009 at 7:54 PM
- Brianna T said...
I'm telling you, a "bizarre concept, well-executed" category would fill up fast on this site!
- March 12, 2009 at 9:16 PM
- Heather said...
The diaper cake is fantastic, artistically. It's not a printoff, it looks like someone drew/freehanded all of it.
The idea is a wreck, but the cake is really good... - March 12, 2009 at 9:39 PM
I love the whole cake mistake idea...but maybe Tivo meant something to those newlyweds. It just seems mean spirited to call their special day absurd.
Other than that those other cakes are just wack. - March 12, 2009 at 10:41 PM
- The Snarky Nutritionist said...
As someone who is planning a wedding, I guess I can understand accepting a sponsor when I see how much a full blown traditional wedding costs. Which is why my guests will be eating regular store bought sheet carrot cake. Hey, it's already white!
- March 13, 2009 at 1:02 AM
- Melanie said...
I remember the horror of changing diapers the day after someone gave the kids bright colored frosting. I see the Tivo cakes and wonder how many guests were certain they were bleeding internally the next day.
I have to second the comment on the navel placement for the playboy cake...I don't think they're naturally that low. Or shiny. Or dot-like. - March 13, 2009 at 5:34 AM
- Unknown said...
I gotta say...the Coors can is amazing. I can't tell that's not a real can from that photo.
WV: nonetype
Make of that one what you will. :D - March 13, 2009 at 10:28 AM
- sendingtheclowns said...
Anonymous said...
"...but maybe Tivo meant something to those newlyweds. It just seems mean spirited to call their special day absurd."
I agree! It MUST have meant something to the couple- {only they know and they haven't talked}- or they wouldn't have HAD these.
I don't think we were calling their special day absurd at all...((chuckle*snort)) They shouldn't care less what others might think.
It's not mean-sprited 'cause we're not laughing at them--just at the cakes. And they can't hear us.
And hopefully they don't read this and all the stuff about the..well..stuff. - March 13, 2009 at 10:46 AM
- Nonna said...
The Tivo cakes are cute but for a wedding ? Black frosting...never except for a groom's cake !
- March 13, 2009 at 2:00 PM
The beer part in the Corona cake looks more like ballistics gel.
- March 13, 2009 at 11:00 PM
Wow, those diapers must be from the 70s! Awesome!
- March 14, 2009 at 1:09 PM
I like the Johnson that is hilarious. The body is really funny and know I can't choose a favorite.
- March 16, 2009 at 9:31 PM
the corona cakes is the best! Fred Smilek is the acting president of the Society to Save Endangered Species. It was founded two years ago by Fred Smilek along with his two best friends Charles and Jonathan. http://www.fredjsmilek.com
- March 18, 2009 at 2:20 PM
I guess everyone was mesmerized by the boobs on the Playboy cake. Was nobody else creeped out by the dark, curly hair around the cake?
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It will get better, I said, through gritted teeth. Both the Sweeties are dancing. And someone somewhere is strumming a guitar that's filled with snow... you know... cocaine. The disjointed script trundles along at a lunatic pace.... and goes nowhere. Shahid No. 2 is a baddie. How do we know?? He scowls and wears blinkers as he tries to out race a horse during the Derby. It will get better, I said. My popcorn is running out. So is my patience. Sweety Priyanka's demented brother ( Raj Thackeray, do you love your ridiculous send- up or do you love it??), decides he wants the guitar and all three Sweeties for himself. There is news for him - some Black dudes from Angola want ditto ditto. Mr. Floppy Hair is still stuttering\lisping\sluttering, while the preggie bride is going berserk with a sten gun. By now I'm ready to accept it is not going to get better.
Gawd!!! Could this be the same man who made the brilliant and visually stunning 'Omkara'? Bollywood has FINALLY got to Vishal Bhardwaj. 'Kaminey' ??? Neigh, neigh.
41 comments:
(But it certainly did take media attention away from Shahid Kapur and his 'Kaminey', which is likely to become the biggest blockbuster of all time. Smart.)
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Hajmola-Sir-Hajmola !!! - August 19, 2009 at 12:02 AM
- Priyanka said...
Oh my God! He tries to out race a horse??? Thats the scene in the trailer???
I sooo wanted to see this movie. But now, this is the fourth not-so-rave review I'm reading! :( - August 19, 2009 at 12:03 AM
- Unknown said...
This is what I wanted to hear, a real review. Life Partner atleast does not pretend and so ok. Why did the critics get overboard with this pathetic movie? Thanks for an honest review. All thunder and lightning and no rain.
- August 19, 2009 at 12:14 AM
- Shaunak Mukherjee said...
Back fresh from the late night show of Kaminey with the exact thoughts ringing in my head.
Pret-ty disjointed storyline. Bad guy wants Lisp but ends up with Stutter, maharashtrian polit wants Stutter but ends up with Lisp. They exchange. Then get exchanged back. Two gangs fire at each other. Enter third gang and everything's ablaze.
It's like ping pong with guns.
Best part of the movie was the camera angles and photography. - August 19, 2009 at 12:19 AM
- Garima said...
I actually disagreee.... i think its a pretty decent movie. Shahid is very well away from the chocolate boy looks he is always shown as and we are so bored of.
I would call this movie in the genre of Crime-Comedy.. and not the slapstick one.. which is a good thing. I could actually sit in a movie and enjoy the fast pace, and the growing confusion, and laugh at the lisps and stutters.. and wait for the next scene! Actually the finale shot of the entire gand war! Was comical.. and i dont think Vishal B. was trying to portray it as a serious one!
The performance of all the side actors, Michail, the Bhau, the Diamond stealer fell right into place especially since they are pretty unfamiliar faces.
The scene of bhau and Michail teasing the gun and dancing.. is very good. The Bong dacoits yes, they are funny!!!
The scene of Shahid running with the horses.. was not a race.. my take on it, was beautifully depicted.. he is focused has blinkers.. and just running towards his finish line.. without even looking anywhere else.. goes with the baddy personality for sure!
Over all.. a good watch.. and defi a breather from the masala movie.. but yes.. the name for Priyanka should not have been Sweety.. agreed.. I defi did enjoy the popcorn with the movie! - August 19, 2009 at 1:01 AM
- The Panorama said...
Ha ha ...good review!! I was considering watching it but changed my mind after reading your post:)
- August 19, 2009 at 1:27 AM
- ZB said...
@Panorama: Dont decide based on any review. The movie is definitely worth a watch. I liked it. Of course there are flaws, but its a movie, and a movie is a movie. :)
- August 19, 2009 at 2:06 AM
- Snigdha said...
Oh no...I was sure you will love this movie. After ages,we got to see a movie that does not insult the intelligence of viewers. It was an edgy, different, racy and engaging movie. The four stars are totally justifiable. I loved it. Think of movies like Om Shanti Om and Rab ne bana ddi jodi and you will experience a sense of respect for Vishal and his genre of films.
- August 19, 2009 at 2:35 AM
- Lisa said...
Mani Ratnam did the "Maharashtra chauvinist baddie" bit better in "Guru," I think.
- August 19, 2009 at 2:51 AM
- Amulya Nagaraj said...
yeah i definitely guess the movie will not appeal to any morons who prefer bollywood to stick to the popcorn boy falls in love et all flick and never even heard of slick movies made by Tarantino etc.
I'm not comparing it to Tarantino movie but it is sleek, has a subtle plot and beautifully shot action scenes.
And no, he is not trying to race with horses. - August 19, 2009 at 3:11 AM
- Vee said...
How many Maharashtrians you know that you can say 'never met a marathi girl named Sweety.' Thats irrational.
You like ur New Yucks (New York) and Kambakht Ishqs way too much and adorn them duds with 4 stars.
Ever seen a Nuri Blige or Tarantino? Guess never... Thats why. - August 19, 2009 at 4:12 AM
- VikR said...
Very disappointing review Ms Dee. If you only have an acquired taste for movies, why review all of them, let the critics do that. This is a badass movie, one of its kinds for Hindi cinema; it is not the movie's fault if you did not get it.
- August 19, 2009 at 4:43 AM
- parwatisingari said...
anyway it would be better than DevD, at least we know its a shut your brain movie.
from the sound of it vishal bhardwaj has got over Shakespear and is trying out PG wodehouse-- now I get it, a midsummer nights dream. - August 19, 2009 at 5:30 AM
- aa said...
Goodness, Shobhha, was a mean-spirited review! You didn't like Love Aaj Kal or Kaminey....not that they were masterpieces, but I thought they were well above the average and had some freshness and originality....which, to be a little mean-spirited myself, is way more than one can say about any of the bodice-ripping, Jackie Collins imitations that you have written (going by as much as I could bear to read, which was usually 2-3 chapters). You have a pretty superior point-of-view on almost everything, could you measure up to your own exacting standards?
- August 19, 2009 at 6:28 AM
- VikR said...
A loved your comment....time Ms Dee did a reality check!
- August 19, 2009 at 7:26 AM
- Unknown said...
bibB received 1124 comments while your this piece got only 15. why?
Your blog also seems similar to quality of 'kaminey' which u have reviewed. The moment big B's blog is out daily, hundreds of comments are ready to pour in. why? there must be something magnetic in his aproach. have u ever analysed? Ofcourse i am fan of your writings and do read your articles anxiously.
g.b.pathak - August 19, 2009 at 8:10 AM
- Unknown said...
bibB received 1124 comments while your this piece got only 15. why?
Your blog also seems similar to quality of 'kaminey' which u have reviewed. The moment big B's blog is out daily, hundreds of comments are ready to pour in. why? there must be something magnetic in his aproach. have u ever analysed? Ofcourse i am fan of your writings and do read your articles anxiously.
g.b.pathak - August 19, 2009 at 8:10 AM
- Unknown said...
1124. But I prefer to comment here because my comment is not lost in a sea of comments. Shobhaa can read each and every comment. Here we can mildly criticise her and she will not mind it so much. And we are not in awe of her. Rather we admire her. We are not forced to praise her to be in her good books. And there is variety and unpredictability of a woman here which is quite attractive.
- August 19, 2009 at 9:14 AM
- Unknown said...
were you spaced out when you watched this movie, madam cynic? i suggest you go and watch it again, in a better frame of mind and you'll get all that you missed at first. and you really have a grouse against mainstream bollywood stars, have'nt you? any past rejections?
- August 19, 2009 at 9:19 AM
- Gajendra said...
achcha nehi hain kya......oh no.....
- August 19, 2009 at 10:19 AM
- Mariya said...
With all due respect to your opinion ma'am, the movie certainly wasn't as bad as you project it.
And why would you contradict yourself in two successive posts. I was expecting a better review from you, But you are entitled to your opinion, so all's well :) - August 19, 2009 at 10:37 AM
- Sharma, Nishit said...
Thanks for posting your review...i was planning to go for the kaminey thus weekend but nw i would download it and see at home with no worry of losing 100 bugs on a crap like kaminey......
- August 19, 2009 at 12:09 PM
- vC said...
the only review I wud finally agree with....
I guess it hurts more when u expect more from a movie... - August 19, 2009 at 12:30 PM
- MOHAMMED FARHAN KHAN said...
hmmm...i havn't seen yet ...but believe so from critics that it will be muchhh muchhhh better than ...kambhakt ishq and all ....
- August 19, 2009 at 12:41 PM
- Harish said...
thats what one of my friends told me.. that it should be called - haseena and not kameena.(kaminey) lol.
Speaking of the condom thing... Condom the word doesnt get an A certificate now a days.. even the other C word doesnt get an A certificate.. we live in an era where kids ask.. "is this a condom balloon"
Speaking about Priyanka... I heard that she plays a very bold part...
we once glamorized the sati savitri image... now is teh age of the Slutty Savita...
Bollywood has come of age. - August 19, 2009 at 12:58 PM
- Easelworks said...
Shobha, there's a reason why you couldn't go beyond writing stuff like 'Starry Nights', 'Socialite Evenings' and so on... and it reflects amply on your 'review' of 'Kaminey'. Just let it be!
- August 19, 2009 at 1:35 PM
- krish said...
hy thr...
Common babes i disagree .....it is actually a damm good moive..................way ahead of its time......anyway.......v all hav likes and dislikes.......remember u did not like dev d too.......de it seems u more into kjo stuff.....
kris - August 19, 2009 at 3:30 PM
- Unknown said...
That was a harsh review Shobha darling wink wink…
U guys get a grip Shobha is just saying that the hyspe doesn't translates into the movie..
Thank God I saw it on Friday without the hoopla and thought it was a good time pass… but later on listening to all the FANATSTIC reviews I was scratching my head ..did I c the same movie lol
I THINK VISHAL deserves applaud for just naming his movie KAMINEY !! and the movie has a philosophy
part 2 -
Have u ever read the Cheesy comments on BIG B site..wth morons replying totally out of context as if they r writing letter to God almighty//atleast here u know u can speak ur mind… andd oooooooo AB wl stop writing if people wl comment in bad way..oOOllooo loo some moral policing in blogs 2…. HYPOCRIT saala :) - August 19, 2009 at 3:56 PM
- Sun said...
shobhaa de, age has caught up with you! kaminey is a fab film.
- August 19, 2009 at 5:05 PM
- Jogeshwar said...
What's wrong with Indian filmmakers, why do they still ridicule stuttering?? This is the only disability some people still laugh at. It is not fun, watching such a film is a very uncomfortable experience for a person who stutters. From time immemorial - they have often been misjudged as fools, psychopaths and figures of ridicule in our society. Literature, film, newspaper and television repeatedly take up and even intensify these wrong, one-sided and distorted pictures. People who stutter are often discriminated against. They often cannot go into normal social interactions. They sometimes attempt, or even commit suicide.
- August 19, 2009 at 9:04 PM
- Rachel Abraham said...
if its a gud movie,the sound cud go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what is going on....
arrey,aaj kal aise hardly films hote hain jisme kuch dhum hain...
honestly speaking,hindi movies has bcum a complete masala based ones with no themes at all...
apart frm the yesteryear classics as'abhimaan','aradhana','aandhi' and yes,of thre semi recent lot,i guess'kya kehna'gained applause and helped in creating an awareness amng the yngsters...'baghban' had a theme,but the way it was portrayed was wildly terrific/amazing..he he
there is not a single movie in list worth whiling away our time.I personally,would like our bollywood directors to grow up and generate matured films with the ral thing(theme)...running around the trees,walking around in mauritius,spain or wearing semi clad dresses and skiing does not hit reality...life is all about challenges that meet with bitter hardships.ofcourse,movies are meant to be entertainer,therefore,apart from humour,i guess ther cud be a little inputs abt the real life like circumstances too...isn't it?..the 'hardships' has to be emoted well and shown to the public,there lies the creativity.I bet this will surely be a challenging one for the nexgen directors...!
Gud write-up SD,such honest and satirical criticism,should atleast hit the heads of the movie makers,who consider the audiences as a mere lump of solid clay...!! - August 19, 2009 at 11:43 PM
- Sidhusaaheb said...
Well, after all, Omkara was scripted by Ol' Will. Wasn't it?
:D - August 20, 2009 at 1:41 AM
- Unknown said...
OMG! Abhie takk jitne bhi reviews padhe all r praising "Kaminey" but i think this one is different .....
We were planning to go for this movie tomorrow parr lagta hai abb nai. If Vishal Bhardwaj will know so many ppl cancelled their plans after reading your review He'll raise objection on your blog.....hahaha
"But you are a big girl now so can handle controversies"
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Movies in Chennai - August 20, 2009 at 4:09 PM
- Sun said...
for those of you looking for perspective, check out Shekhar Kapur's review of Kaminey on www.shekharkapur.com
- August 20, 2009 at 4:16 PM
I haven't watched the movie yet...but yes... have heard a lot about it...and that's why also expecting a lot... :/ ... seems like 2009 has been a cursed year for bollywood... haven't seen any bolly movie this year so far, which i would like to watch ever again :/.
- August 21, 2009 at 11:36 AM
finally And :
Kaminey - The movie seems to be different because it generates the shadow of fear but above all the continuity - claps for the editor.
And yes, Vishal jee - good job if not excellent.
Because it could be much better if love angle was as powerfully emotional as Charlie - The bad character.
Last 10 minutes or so - it is another movie or so called bollywood movie And momentum is lost. The music reminds me Late R.D. Burman sahab.
Priyanka - Excellent.
***star if not ****
Cheers !!!
But yes, violence should be less if possible. - August 23, 2009 at 2:50 AM
- Duggu said...
Hi, I watched the movie this weekend. And am sorry to say that, movie was much much much better than your reviews. I completly disagree with your reviews, and i guess you were sleeping while watching movie thts why u got confused
- August 24, 2009 at 12:06 PM
- ANAGHA said...
I do NOT agree 1 bit with the reviewer, Shobha De....
I fail to understand how can she so outrightly reject this movie....
Vishal Bharadwaj like always DID impress...
In a different way this time...
God level direction and awesome plot...
A lil too violent but message is conveyed perfectly...
I would give it 8.5/10 - August 25, 2009 at 9:40 AM
- athi said...
well not a mind-blowing movie or anything... but better than so many I have seen in recent times.
And its heartening to see shahid do something other than dancing and romancing. Priyanka had a blink and miss role, but loved her calculating bitchy part. - August 25, 2009 at 1:25 PM
- Unknown said...
well all i can say dat u ddnt go for the detailings the movie had..or u wern't interestd in the movie form the very beginnin...well ur point of view but pointless...
- August 30, 2009 at 4:44 PM
- Unknown said...
the trailers are very well ....
Work from home India - November 7, 2009 at 10:01 AM


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During the late 1940's and early 1950's, several different radio programs brought in Hollywood stars to reprise their performances from popular films. Among them, Screen Directors' Playhouse offered something that no other show had: the directors. Imagine, if you will, listening to a radio play of A Foreign Affair and then hearing Marlene Dietrich and director Billy Wilder share their thoughts on the making of this classic film.
In addition to Wilder, you'll hear directors like Tay Garnett, Robert Siodmak, and George Marshall in this set of 16 digitally remastered and restored episodes. This star-studded extravaganza brings you Bette Davis, Jimmy Stewart, Fred Allen, Kirk Douglas, Olivia de Havilland, Betty Grable, Lucille Ball, Cary Grant, Barbara Stanwyck, Bob Hope and many more Hollywood greats. These well-crafted adaptations of Jezebel, Call Northside 777, One Way Passage, The Sea Wolf, The Dark Mirror, and more feature high production values and outstanding supporting casts.
Includes Program Guide by Elizabeth McLeod with photographs of the stars and information about the series.
Episodes Include: Trade Winds 05-29-49, Jezebel 08-12-49, The Uninvited 11-18-49, Spiral Staircase 11-25-49, Call Northside 777 12-09-49, One Way Passage 12-30-49, The Sea Wolf 02-03-50, It's in the Bag 02-17-50, Champion 03-17-50, The Dark Mirror 03-31-50, When My Baby Smiles at Me 05-05-50, Miss Grant Takes Richmond 05-19-50, My Favorite Wife 12-07-50, The Lady Gambles 12-14-50, A Foreign Affair 03-01-51, The Great Lover 03-22-51.
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Stocks barely move as fiscal threat looms
U.S. stocks closed nearly unchanged Monday, after a day of uneven trading plagued by investors' fears about the approaching "fiscal cliff."
The Dow Jones industrial average finished down 0.23 point at 12,815.16. It had spent the day trading gains and losses, never rising more than 46 points or falling more than 32.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index edged up 0.15 point to 1,380. The Nasdaq composite fell 0.61 to 2,904.26.
The closing level of the Dow was revised twice after trading closed. The New York Stock Exchange had experienced a trading glitch during the day, forcing it to alter its normal procedure for determining the closing prices of some stocks.
Trading was very light. The federal government and the U.S. bond market were closed for Veterans Day, and no economic reports were released.
The fiscal cliff refers to government spending cuts and tax increases that are scheduled to kick in at the beginning of the new year, unless a divided Congress and the White House can work out a compromise before then.
Some traders thought the tentative trading action was nearly inevitable because there has been no positive or negative news about the economy or the possibility of a deal to avoid the fiscal cliff.
"Nothing good is going on," said Scott Freeze, president of Street One Financial in Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania. "Everything forward-looking remains dreary."
Last week, after voters returned a long-deadlocked and divided government to Washington, the Dow dropped 434 points in two days and had one of its worst weeks of the year.
Even if lawmakers work out a compromise, as they usually do, the political fight until then is sure keep investors on edge, pitching the stock market back and forth until it's resolved. Economists say the cliff could cost the economy $800 billion and 3 million jobs and would plunge the U.S. back into recession.
President Barack Obama, a Democrat, and House Speaker John Boehner, a Republican, have spoken of compromise but appear to be taking firm stances on some issues. Obama will meet with labor representatives as well as other progressive groups Tuesday. He'll hold separate meetings with the business community Wednesday.
The effect on the markets has been widespread. Fiscal cliff worries were blamed for keeping a lid on European markets and Asian markets, which closed mostly lower.
In Greece, lawmakers passed a new austerity budget, and the country's international lenders drafted a report saying it had made progress in righting its finances. Greece is hoping the other euro countries will give it another $40 billion in bailout loans. The budget and the report are crucial steps toward that goal.
Still, the new bailout isn't a sure thing: Some of the potential lenders must seek approval from their parliaments. Greece's main stock market index closed down 3.6 percent.
Freeze was among the underwhelmed. "At this point, all the Greek news is just noise," he said. "None of these bailouts really solve the underlying problem. Now if all of a sudden Spain became incredibly solvent and its unemployment rate went to 5 percent, then you'd see" a reason to buy.
Across Europe, there were other reminders that the debt crisis is far from solved. The Banking Association of Spain, a country where hundreds of thousands of borrowers have fallen behind on their mortgages, said it would curb evictions of some struggling homeowners. In Portugal, demonstrators planned protests against a scheduled visit from German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Germany helped bail out Portugal last year and insisted that the government there cut spending as a condition of getting the money, a sore point for some in Portugal.
Among U.S. stocks making big moves:
— Leucadia National announced it would buy the investment banking firm Jefferies Group. Jefferies' chief will run the combined company. Leucadia, a holding company with investments in eclectic industries including beef processing and medical products, dropped 66 cents, or 3 percent, to $21.14. Jefferies soared $2, or 14 percent, to $16.27.
— Sherwin-Williams, the paint company, jumped 5.8 percent after announcing it will buy Consorcio Comex, a privately held rival based in Mexico City. Its stock rose $8.22 to $149.06.
— Best Buy leapt after announcing it had named a new finance chief, a former executive of the upscale kitchen store Williams-Sonoma. Analysts hope the new numbers cruncher can help turn around a chain that has struggled to keep up with online competitors. Best Buy's stock rose 55 cents, or 3.6 percent, to $15.85.