text: OverviewBack to top Lenny & Larry's - Muscle Brownie Triple Chocolate - 2.29 oz. Item# :84853UPC# :787692835133 Brand:Lenny & Larry's Size/Form:2.29 oz. Ship Weight:0.05 Servings:1 Dosage:1.41 oz. Flavor:Triple Chocolate Lenny & Larry's - Muscle Brownie Triple Chocolate - 2.29 oz. Lenny & Larry's Muscle Brownie Triple Chocolate is packed with 20 grams of high quality protein, has 0 grams of trans fat, is low in cholesterol, fresh baked, good for you and tastes incredible! Whether enjoying Lenny & Larry's Muscle Brownie Triple Chocolate as a snack or a meal replacement, you never have to feel guilty eating a brownie again. No sugar alcohols are added to this chocolaty treat! Eat Brownies, Get Muscles! All Natural 20g Protein Fresh Baked Low Cholesterol N High Fructose Corn Syrup N Trans Fats Muscle Brownies are BETTER than Protein Bars!Once you taste this award winning All Natural Muscle Brownie with 20 grams of high quality protein, fresh baked, 4 great tasting flavors and 0 grams of trans fat, you will be a fan for life! To quote a major retail buyer..."This is the BEST tasting Protein Bar I have ever tasted!" They didn't have the heart to tell him it was a brownie. All NaturalEating All Natural just seems to make sense. Think about it; if you had to choose between eating chemicals and other artificial ingredients versus eating all natural ingredients, where is the dilemma? With over 3000 preservatives and additives available, we know it is almost impossible to completely avoid artificial this, preservative that, but you have to start somewhere. Why not start with All Natural snacks? Since we are a society that is always on the go, and we are always looking to grab a quick fix for energy or a meal replacement, choosing All Natural snacks is a great way to satisfy these needs. Almost all foods are processed in some way, but that doesn't make them all bad. Canning fruits and vegetables is a process, salt goes through a process, sugar goes through a process, wheat from the field to become bread is a process but all of these can be All Natural. Unless you are growing all of your own foods, starting with organic soil, most all foods go through some processing. Lenny & Larry's could have easily taken shortcuts to produce their products like using preservatives, hydrolyzed gelatin or collagen, sugar alcohols and more, but they made a conscious choice very early on to stay with All Natural ingredients. Make good choices in life, starting with eating All Natural. Why Protein?Lenny & Larry knew in the early 90's that people didn't get enough protein in their daily nutritional plans. Lenny & Larry also knew not everyone was a 'bodybuilder in training' and consuming massive amounts of protein so you can be bigger than the person beside you, wasn't for most people. True bodybuilders represent a small segment of the population but they are amazing athletes and their hard work is second to none. Bodybuilders and hardcore endurance athletes definitely need more protein than most Americans to help muscle growth and repair tissues broken down in training. People from all walks of life; teachers, construction workers, office athletes, kids, computer programmers and the superior aged folks still need added protein. Did you know that proteins are the essential building blocks for muscles, hair, skin, nails, blood and internal organs? Did you also know that proteins help build the cardiac muscle (heart)? Our bodies need protein to maintain our cells, tissues and organs. A lack of protein in our daily nutritional plans can result in slow growth, reduced muscle mass, lower immunity, and weaken the heart and respiratory system. Next to water, protein is mainly what your body is comprised of. It just makes sense to eat more protein. How much protein do you need? No matter what anyone tells you, it depends on YOU! No Sugar Alcohol, ever.If your protein bar of choice is loaded with sugar alcohols, then re-think that bar. Most people don't even know what sugar alcohols are. Sugar alcohols are neither sugars nor alcohols. What are sugar alcohols? A sugar alcohol (also known as a polyol, polyhydric alcohol, or polyalcohol) is a hydrogenated form of carbohydrate, whose carbonyl group (aldehyde or ketone, reducing sugar) has been reduced to a primary or secondary hydroxyl group (hence the alcohol). Sugar alcohols have the general formula H (HCHO) n+1H, whereas sugars have H (HCHO)nHCO. In commercial foodstuffs sugar alcohols are commonly used in place of table sugar (sucrose), often in combination with high intensity artificial sweeteners to counter the low sweetness. Now, the definition above is great for understanding the scientific meaning of sugar alcohols but what does all that information mean? It means by using sugar alcohols in protein bars, you can still get the sweetness of sugar with approximately only ½ the calories of real sugar. Sound good? Well, if you enjoy bloating, diarrhea and flatulence, then we say stick with your protein bar. An over consumption of sugar alcohols, like many other incompletely digestible substances, can cause bloating, diarrhea and flatulence because they are not absorbed in the small intestine "The American Dietetic Association advises that greater than 50g/day of sorbitol or greater than 20g/day of mannitol may cause diarrhea." The most commonly used sugar alcohols include sorbitol, mannitol, xylitol, maltitol, maltitol syrup, lactitol, erythritol, isomalt and hydrogenated starch hydrolysates. Recognize any of these from your protein bar? Does your protein bar carry a disclaimer that says "may cause gastrointestinal discomfort?" We hope not. Using sugar alcohols in protein bars also lets a company make a cheaper product, allows them to list lower carbs or lower sugar and then they add maltitol syrup and hydrolyzed collagen…yummy! They're Good For YouPeople often ask "Why are Lenny & Larry's products so good?" If we had to point to one thing; Lenny & Larry's snacks have always been All Natural. Lenny & Larry's feels using only All Natural ingredients separates them from everyone else. Many companies use sugar alcohols to sweeten their products and to help lower calories, carbohydrates and costs; they use chemicals to preserve their products; they use inferior proteins such as hydrolyzed collagen, which is a protein derived from the skin and bones of pigs, cows and fish. Yuck! Shouldn't the product inside the package taste better than the package it comes in? Lenny & Larry's thinks so.They release no product before its time. When they launch a new snack, they have typically spent a minimum of one year in developing and testing. With Lenny & Larry's snacks, you can taste the difference. Lenny & Larry CultureLenny & Larry's is like a family. They don't have employees, they have team members. No one punches a clock here because they all love what they do and they think it shows in our great tasting, healthy snacks. Every company has a mission statement and Lenny & Larry's is no different. They got together with their team and asked one question; What does Lenny & Larry's represent? They collectively yelled out...FUN! So, here is their mission statement; It is the mission of Lenny & Larry's to become the leader in the healthy snack foods market by creating great tasting, high quality, all natural products with added health benefits that make you happy when you eat them. They make healthy snacking fun! Company HistoryLenny & Larry's began in 1993. One day while having coffee after a morning workout at Gold's Gym in Venice, California, two friends had the crazy idea of putting protein in muffins. Combining a fitness background with an interest in nutritional baked goods and promotional fun, former American Gladiator ("CYCLONE") and good friend, decided to create and market high protein muffins, cookies and other all natural baked goods. After months of planning they came up with some great tasting, healthy products and 'their guaranteed to make you smile logo.' Guess What? Everyone loved it and away they went! After 15 years, they continue to make the best tasting, healthy snacks on the market. We believe the product should taste better than the package it comes in. As executives with a hands on philosophy, the principals of Lenny & Larry's take an active role in the research and development as well as the sales of their successful product lines. Being family men and sports enthusiasts, they have set a company objective of creating and producing healthy baked goods for both young and old. Lenny & Larry's mission is to continue to create and distribute healthy baked goods as well as to encourage physical fitness and a healthy diet. They appreciate everyone's loyal support. Let's get healthy together! Private LabelSome of the largest specialty retailers, smoothie shops, coffee houses and more, have called on Lenny & Larry's to create private label baked snacks for them. Private label (sometimes called co-manufacturing) is a great way for some companies to launch a brand, save money, take the guesswork out of research and development and not have the responsibility of actually manufacturing a product. We are happy to discuss opportunities with anyone. If we aren't the right fit, we can usually point you in the right direction. We know what it is like to start a business and not have the resources or contacts to make it successful. We love to help people and we think it shows in how we conduct business. LENNY & LARRY'S Named to Inc. 500/5000 listLenny & Larry's, makers of Muscle Brownie, has been recognized by Inc. Magazine in their annual Inc. 500/5000 list, an exclusive ranking of the fastest-growing privately held companies in America. Lenny & Larry's is ranked No. 1314 on this prestigious list, which is considered the standard of entrepreneurial success. This achievement puts Lenny & Larry's in rarefied company, especially if you consider that there are nearly 7 million private, employer-based companies in the U.S.A. This elite group of companies Lenny & Larry's has joined, has over the years included companies such as Under Armour, Microsoft, Timberland, Vizio, Intuit, Jamba Juice, Oracle, and Zappos. Lenny & Larry's is a leading maker of all natural, protein enriched, baked goods including the world famous Muscle Brownie and the vegan favorite, The Complete Cookie. The company has experienced impressive growth over the past 5 years. Barry Turner, Founder and CEO, of Lenny & Larry's declared "Everyone at Lenny & Larry's is extremely excited and proud to be recognized on this exclusive list!" Don Croutch, President, commented "We could not have achieved this award without our customers, our retailers, our distributors and our team." "Now, more than ever, we depend on Inc. 500/5000 companies to spur innovation, provide jobs, and drive the economy forward. Growth companies, not large corporations, are where the action is," says Inc. Editor Eric Schurenberg. In a stagnant economic environment, median growth rate of 2012 Inc. 500|5000 companies remains an impressive 97 percent. The companies on this year's list report having created over 400,000 jobs in the past three years, and aggregate revenue among the honorees reached $299 billion.


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The Consequence of Cohabitation
A participant writes on a "Why Are You Conservative?" poster at the Conservative Political Action Conference at the Marriott Wardman Park in Washington, DC. (photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
"The pro-life movement is definitely very appealing to younger evangelical Christians. … Definitely pushing the whole gay marriage thing, that's more toward older folks. I don't feel like our generation really cares about that at all."
—Josh Kunkle, a senior at Manchester College on NPR
While some conservative mainstays boycotted the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) this year to protest the inclusion of GOProud, an advocacy group "representing gay conservatives and their allies," younger attendees came in droves. Polling data shows that Millennials — those born after 1980 — are more likely than any other generation to support gay marriage. This trend was reflected at CPAC, too.
Princeton philosophy professor Kwame Anthony Appiah characterizes this attitudinal shift as "the consequence of cohabitaton." He says today's college students are less homophobic because they've grown up knowing other gay peers — people they may or may not have liked, but who are nevertheless "just part of the normal range of what's around" and therefore "the idea that these people are particularly horrendous is just not one that you can sell."


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Shooting down the walls of Heartache
Robin Brownlee
June 27 2008 06:26PM
A moment of silence, please, to honour the retreat into oblivion of the self-appointed sports radio icon who for many years has graced websites and talk shows in the third-person under the handle of THE WARRIOR.
THE WARRIOR, who in real life is a car salesman in Killeen, Texas named Howard Kinsel, has decided to step out of the spotlight. Here's how he put it recently in a post on HFboards.com.
"The Warrior will be here to take your questions pertaining to the Oilers. the draft and Sports radio. THIS WILL BE THE WARRIORS FINAL THREAD as I wont be returning to Edmonton. Pronger, Comrie, Higgins and now the Warrior all run out of town. It's a fish bowl and the Warrior has had it."
Howard and I, Team 1260 listeners might recall, have had our differences over the years. Most notably when he'd call Bob Stauffer and I on Total Sports and chide me for being what he considered an Adam Oates fan boy, or worse, because of a puffy, feel-good column I'd written during Oates failed single season with the Edmonton Oilers.
Listeners might remember just a couple months ago when Howard waded in on the Chris Pronger kicking incident, ranting that Stauffer and I were only criticizing the cowardly act because we had something personal against Pronger. Or just last month, after I'd called out a HFboards.com poster who goes by the name Bank Shot, for suggesting Stauffer and I were making things up about the Oilers being interested in Mike Cammalleri, Howard wrote:
"Look, Bob bought his way onto radio and Brownlee has been reduced to an internet blog. Robin is in the twilight of a mediocre career as a journalist and can fire at bank shot because they are at an equal level -- two guys posting on the internet on fan sites." I suspect Howard's stated reason for not coming back to Edmonton this summer is as big a load as many of his calls. My guess is times are tough at The King of Dodge -- the Texas dealership website featuring Howard -- and he's passing on the trip north this summer to flog more gas-chugging Hemis before they become boat anchors as oil approaches $150 a barrel.
That, or Howard's post is just one of those "please pay attention to me and tell me you like me" pleas. Then again, that would be insincere. That would be grandstanding. That would be . . .
All that said, I've always had a soft-spot for blowhards like Howard because I tend to be one myself. And coming from a never-was like Howard, it's not so bad being called a has-been. All in all, The Brownlee gets a kick out of THE WARRIOR in a twisted sort of way that makes me wonder if I'm not well.
Talk to you soon, Howard.
-- Listen to Robin Brownlee every Thursday from 4 to 5 p.m. on Total Sports with Bob Stauffer on Team 1260.
Look I have seen the guy in action. He is all about helping out minor hockey and self promotion. he loves the publicity possitive and negative. Its when they stop is his mott. I think most of what he does is for reaction. Anyway he will be missed
AN UPDATE: Sadly, Howard's heartfelt swan song over at HF has been locked down by the No Fun Police after just 44 posts and 1,685 views. While topic threads like the POT AND THE KETTLE, which begins with a deep thinker writing "Another reason to hate Brownlee" in bold face, rolled along for 168 comments and 4,844 views without a padlock slapped on, Howard's FINAL POST is shut down with all the finesse of a kick in the pills. The Brownlee thinks that's no way to treat a sports radio icon.
Milli: Burke's looking like a stooge after bungling so badly with Bert and everybody is piling on. That's all good, but you can get that anywhere. THE WARRIOR? Now, that's exclusive to ON. Hmmm exclusive.
The way Stauffer clings to his love for Lupul is as pathetic as anything the Warrior's ever espoused on that show.
I don't think he should've taken a shot at what Robin's doing for a living right now; but, when it comes to hockey comments, Stauffer says some pretty dumb things, too, and here lately, Brownlee's close to pimping Ryan Malone.
And I'm not sure what the general consensus was when the Oil signed Souray last summer, but if guys weren't going nuts with disagreement, well, then, let's just say that there are more dumb comments floating on the Edmonton airwaves than those emitted from the Warrior.
June 30 2008, 03:56AM
i agree with Oildude, that was one of the funniest moments ever on Total Sports. maybe The Warrior took that above picture right after the call.
Anyway we can get a transcript to that segment of Total Sports?
Any possible way to get a transcript or audio of that Total Sports segment?
I know there are guys out there who like "Le Canard", but personally I can't stand the guy. I just don't get some guys. You know, I would like to think I know something about sports, after playing through minor hockey, and moving onto coaching. But in no way do I feel the need to call out guys on stuff, and scream into a telephone to tell media "how it is". Lets look at this for example... how many years has Le Canard had an inside look at the Oilers, with the availability to the players and coaches like the media does? I wonder if he can rattle of stats like Stauffer does? Maybe I'm crazy but if you really are interested in the team, the players, and how the organization works, you should maybe do some listening, instead of talking. All that, with the way he shouts into the phone like an intoxicated guy at a party who thinks everyone is hard of hearing, makes me highly disklike what he brings to my afternoon drive home from work, and when I go on HF once and a while. Good Riddance.
The Warrior was part of the Edmonton scene the same as that goofy house behind the Shell station in Lendrum, done up like a castle, is part of the Edmonton scene. Bizarre to behold, memorable in its own way, but neither would be missed if it disappeared.
Ya that's nice, but where is the post trashing Brian "mouth of the south" burke for the bertuzzi mess? You guys musta had to much long weekend koolaid!!!!
I dunno Robin, you guys are so much funnier than anywhere else.....but hey. it the weekend i guess
June 28 2008, 01:46PM
Hey Bob,
What is the general consensus on KLowe and how other GM's feel about him? Has he been completely alienated by other GM's therefore his inability to make a trade? Is everyone on Burke's side? It would be nice to hear your opinion on this considering how bad the Ducks screwed up on Bertuzzi. If the Oilers made the same mistake, they would be the laughing stock of the league. Just because it's the Ducks, i dont think people really care that much...
Good blog Robin,The best ever was when you hammered him on the radio,just about pissed myself laughing and I for one don't and never will consider you a hack.Keep up the good work.
AN OFF-TOPIC ITEM: I keep reading the Oilers could take Joni Pitkanen to salary arbitration -- that was erroneously reported in The Journal the other day and has today been repeated by Sportsnet -- and that's NOT the case.
Philadelphia filed for arbitration on Pitkanen before they traded him to the Oilers and even though the hearing was not held, he is now exempt under terms of the new CBA.
I keep reading the Oilers could take Joni Pitkanen to salary arbitration — that was erroneously reported in The Journal the other day and has today been repeated by Sportsnet — and that's NOT the case.
You're getting ever closer to becoming a full fledged blogger Robin - we usually add something about the incompetence of the mainstream media at this point.
mc79: Can't go all the way -- my gig with CP dictates some fence-sitting.
Mainstream media or otherwise, there's no reason to get something so fundamental wrong when the CBA is available for all to read. Failing that a call to the agent or team -- isn't that what having access is about? -- is the best way to get things straight.


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THORNTON – The Thornton Trojans have become a force to reckon with at home.
The Trojans held off a late rally by Westminster Tuesday night to get a 49-34 victory over their league rivals and improved to 7-0 at home.
"Kids play with extra energy at home," said Thornton's coach Sercan Fenerci. "They have some fans here and it helps out a lot."
More importantly for Thornton (10-6 overall), the Trojans improved to 2-0 in the East Metro League – they beat Prairie View 42-41 in their league opener on Jan. 18.
"Getting the league wins are huge and we are taking care of what we need to do," Fenerci said.
The Trojans did much of their damage thanks to their defense, which held Westminster to only six points in the first half and went on a 15-point run in the second quarter.
Thornton, which held an 8-4 advantage after the first quarter, opened the game up in the second. A basket by Daezionate Hernandez and a trey by Donovan Gomez pushed the Trojans advantage to double-figures.
The Trojans pushed their advantage to 23-4, before a basket by Jon Rossini scored a basket with two minutes left in the half.
"We played great defense in the first too, but we just didn't hit shots," Fenerci said. "Defense is where it all starts. As long as we get a stop and rebound the ball we will be in good position to win games."
Westminster did battle back in the fourth quarter; Anthony Sarno scored 11 points for the Wolves in the fourth quarter to cut the Trojans lead to 40-29. However, a basket by R.J. Brewer sealed the victory for Thornton.
Gomez had a game-high 17 points, while Samuel Shumate added 11.
The Trojans will look to keep stay perfect in league on Friday when they travel to Rangeview.
Westminster (1-15, 0-3 EML) will try to get back on track on Friday at Prairie View.


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- Learning from the Stones: A Go Approach to Mastering China's Strategic Concept, Shi. Authored by Dr. David Lai.
- The author introduces a new approach to learning about the different ways of strategic thinking and interaction in Chinese culture. It is through learning the Chinese board game called go,that is a living reflection of Chinese philosophy, culture, strategic thinking, warfare, military tactics, and diplomatic bargaining. The author suggests that a little knowledge of go will take U.S. leaders a long way in understanding the essence of the Chinese way of war and diplomacy.
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- Chinese Information Warfare: A Phantom Menace or Emerging Threat? Authored by Mr. Toshi Yoshihara.
- The author explores what he perceives to be China s pursuit of information warfare (IW) as a method of fighting asymmetric warfare against the United States. The author examines those aspects of IW--PSYOPS, Denial, and Deception--that China believes provides the greatest prospects for victory in a conflict.


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"We chose the system because we knew we were going to be getting more and more digital formats like RED and Phantom," said Billy Fong, producer and technical manager at VHQ. "We wanted a simple, streamlined way to process those file formats for postproduction and grading on our Pandora system."
Founded in 1984, VHQ is one of the region's leading media and postproduction companies, and now has facilities across Asia in Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta and Shanghai. The company has won numerous awards for groundbreaking work in film, broadcast and commercials.
In 2008, VHQ invested in a new Pandora Revolution colour corrector. Since then, the facility has seen a sharp increase in file-based projects, especially with the rise of the RED camera, so the need for data management for a wide range of file formats was clear.
In 2010 VHQ decided to ramp up their data pipeline with the Revolution Express kit. This upgrade includes the YoYo file management software and Pandora's proprietary PCI card. The PCI card is installed in the Mac Pro running YoYo and formats data for the colour corrector in real time. With the Revolution Express configuration, VHQ can now plug in a firewire drive containing RED footage, for example, and stream the material directly through the Pandora Revolution, applying colour grading straight off the disk to DPX and any number of other file formats.
"This saves VHQ an incredible amount of time that would otherwise be required to prep the material," said Adam Welsh, sales manager for Pandora/YoYotta. "The system has no ingest requirement and conforms & converts from R3D to DPX with colour in real time. On top of that, it can handle multi-format mixed timelines, including Phantom, Arri, ProRes and others. With the Revolution Express, you just get straight to work.
"We looked at a number of other options, but found they did not offer the efficiency and flexibility of the Revolution Express with integrated YoYo combination," added Fong from his office in Singapore. "We're in the process of consolidating all of our storage on a central server, and we find the Mac platform easier for mounting different drives or media. Plus, YoYo's working directory is on the same server, so we don't have to keep copying content from one drive to another, which makes it more efficient."
"The Revolution Express has become our turnaround system," explained Fong. "You could do many of these functions using various other tools and plug-ins, but it's so much more streamlined if you can do it all in one sweep. We're already using YoYo on almost every project to prepare files, add timecodes and export media."
"VHQ is one of the industry leaders in Southeast Asia," said Welsh. "We're delighted they chose to join the growing number of facilities around the globe who are rediscovering Pandora for managing their data workflows."
Pandora International Limited is a pioneer in the design and manufacture of creative colour correctors for the worldwide postproduction industry. The Revolution is Pandora's non-linear, resolution- independent, software colour corrector - the fastest on the market always working in real time regardless of resolution, number of layers or complexity of grade. Pandora has been established for over 20 years and is dedicated to creating technologies crafted from the wish list of the artist. Pandora is a privately held company based in London. For more information, visit http://www.pandora-int.com/


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"Kerry Tribe works primarily in film, video, and installation. Focusing on the mechanics of representation—particularly cinematic representation—its metaphoric potential and its engagement with reality, her art addresses processes of thought and their relationship to subjectivity, narrative, place and time. Employing image, text, sound, structure, and space, her work plays upon the internal workings and ingrained habits of the mind, its unavoidable quirks, flaws, and shifting fault-lines. Stimulating both reflexive experience and a reflection upon such experience, she prompts an unusual type of self-consciousness, a disorienting and discomforting awareness of the gaps between perception, cognition, and memory, the fluidity—and ultimate unreliability—of each." - Cary Levine
Here & Elsewhere (2002) 10:30 min.
In Here & Elsewhere, two synchronized videos are projected side by side, creating a vertical seam where they meet. What might be called the project's "narrative" revolves around an interview between an older man who remains off camera (British film critic and theoretician Peter Wollen) and a thoughtful ten year old girl (his daughter Audrey). Periodically the visuals cut away to quotidian interior shots of the girl at home and exterior locations in and around Los Angeles. Although the video is structured as a loop, the questions the girl is asked trace a series of themes, each of which builds on the preceding dialogue. As the interview unfolds, their conversation touches on history, memory, intersubjectivity, temporality, epistemology and photography. Wollen's questions are loosely adapted from FRANCE / TOUR / DETOUR / DEUX / ENFANTS (1978), an experimental video series made for television by Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville. The relationships that emerge between the images on either side of the central vertical seam serve as a structural score for ideas addressed in the interview, such that the continuity, friction, gaps and overlaps that result from their simultaneity underscore the girl's desire to speak a coherent articulation of time, space, image and identity.
H.M. (2009) 19 min.
H.M. is a two-channel presentation of a single film based on the true story of an anonymous, memory-impaired man, the famous amnesiac known in scientific literature only as "Patient H.M." In 1953, when he was 27 years old, H.M. underwent experimental brain surgery intended to alleviate his epilepsy. The unintended result was a radical and persistent amnesia. Though he was no longer able to make lasting memories, his short-term recall, lasting about 20 seconds, remained intact. He lived anonymously in this condition for more than half a century until his death on December 2, 2008, in a Connecticut nursing home. His case is widely credited with revolutionizing our understanding of the organization of human memory.
H.M. consists of a single 16mm film that plays through two adjacent synchronized projectors with a 20 second delay between them, so the viewer sees two simultaneous side-by-side projections of two different parts of the same reel of film. The structure of the installation and the nature of the material together produce a sensation of mnemonic dissonance much like that experienced by Patient H.M.
The roughly 18-minute loop weaves together reenacted, documentary, found and animated elements and lies somewhere between an experimental documentary and an independent narrative film.
Several ancillary projects were produced in conjunction with H.M., including a series of letterpress prints, drawings, and photographs.
The Last Soviet (2010) 10:45 min.
"Shared memories are inevitably an amalgamation of divergent perspectives cobbled together to form a semi-cohesive narrative. Our romance with the indexical nature of photography means that these narratives tend to solidify when accompanied by images; yet our awareness of the fact that mediums using mechanical or digital reproduction are vulnerable to acts of manipulation, has resulted in increased scepticism about the veracity of the photographic image. The Last Soviet reveals that these acts of manipulation are nothing new." KERRY TRIBE: THE INVENTION OF MEMORY – Anne Elgood
"The Last Soviet (2010) tells the story of Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev, who was stranded on the Mir space station for 311 days in 1991 during the collapse of the Soviet Union. Video footage of a model of the interior of Mir constructed in Tribe's studio is intercut with various archival materials related to this moment in history, including film footage of a performance of the ballet Swan Lake that was used to censor Russian news broadcasts of the political turmoil, images of tanks on the streets of Moscow, and photographs depicting aspects of the Russian space program. Throughout the image sequences, a male voiceover recounting the forgotten cosmonaut's story from a personal point of view in English with Russian subtitles alternates with a female voiceover giving a historical account of the period in Russian with English subtitles. Tribe constructed the dialogue, which was recited by actors, so that there is a brief delay between the stories and the images that they apparently explain, enacting the fragmentary nature of historical accounts that are cobbled together through individual memory and bits and pieces of archival documents. Although The Last Soviet deliberately invokes the language of the documentary, it is impossible to distinguish fact from intentional fiction, calling into question the reliability of memory and the ways in which we invoke it to catalog and record our lives." - Corrina Peipon
Greystone (2012) 30 min.
Greystone, a 30 minute narrative short, revisits one of the 20th century's most shocking and mysterious society murders. Filmed on location at Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills California, in the very rooms where the killings took place, and using only dialog appropriated from dozens of Hollywood feature films that were also shot within the storied estate, Greystone proposes a series of explanations for how a Los Angeles oil tycoon and his personal assistant might actually have arrived at their deaths.
As a location, Greystone Mansion has become an iconic setting for allusions to excessive and destructive wealth (Indecent Proposal, The Big Lebowski, There Will Be Blood) and to a bizarre space outside the logic of normal social relations (Flowers in the Attic, X-Men, House of the Damned). Taking as a starting point a series of serendipitous relationships between cinematic and actual history, it is perhaps the gaps in those relationships—the distance between cinematic representation and historical account—that become the true subject of the film, resulting in a haunting and at times humorous meditation on the nature of memory, perception and the elusiveness of objective truth.
"The dialogue is both uncannily familiar and awkwardly stilted, as if the actors are skipping lines or reciting from different pages... the script both propels the narrative and fractures the illusion, reminding us that we don't in fact know what really happened." - Los Angles Times
Critical Mass, (ongoing) 25 min. performance with Emelie O'Hara and Nick Huff
Hollis Frampton's groundbreaking experimental film Critical Mass (1971) captures an argument between a couple and cuts it up into a series of rhythmic, repetitive snippets. In this project a live performance of the classic structural film is staged with actors Nick Huff and Emelie O'Hara as the young couple. Critical Mass is Tribe's first live performance project and continues the investigation into personal and historic memory found in her film and video works.
Citical Mass (1971) by Hollis Frampton on Youtube [1]
Kerry Tribe's work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at The Power Plant in Toronto, Modern Art, Oxford, Camden Arts Centre in London and Arnolfini in Bristol. It has been included in recent significant exhibitions at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC. The recipient of a Creative Capital grant and a USA Artists Award, her work is in the public collections of The Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum, The Hammer Museum, The Orange County Museum of Art and The Generali Foundation, among others. She was a fellow at the American Academy in Berlin in 2005-2006, received her MFA from UCLA in 2002, and was a Whitney Independent Study Program Fellow from 1997-98. Tribe is represented by 1301PE in Los Angeles, where she currently lives and works.
More information: http://www.kerrytribe.com/ [2]
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8g-Pf36Hxw&list=PLYtGvzgKo9sL8dUi2XY3MX9htUtOyHywW
[2] http://www.kerrytribe.com/
[3] https://www.calarts.edu/event/2013-04-23/structuring-strategies-presents-kerry-tribe


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This married former A list tweener turned reality star would probably be less than thrilled to know his wife hooked up with his brother in a one night stand before he dumped her
. She then moved on to the other brother she is married to.
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jonas or nick carter and younger aaron carterReplyCancel
That Jonas chick is crazy. Anyone hear her talk—she doesn't sound all there or too bright…ReplyCancel
kevin is gay so i don't think it would bother him if she is /has screwed someone else
aaron carter was boning lilo and hill duff at same time
he may be gay now but back then…
Thor's wife?ReplyCancel
I worked at a retail store when The Jo Bros were huge and their merchandise would fly off the shelf. Than came Bieber and it was his stuff and I imagine it is One D now…these people have a short shelf life. Tweens are finicky these days and not very loyal like the old school BSB and NKOTB fans. My cousin is a 40 yr old professional woman that goes on NKOTB cruises!ReplyCancel
oh, that there is Oliver, btw. tehehehe
Danielle Jonas isn't particularly attractive either. What gives?ReplyCancel
@Vera—she reminds me of Hailey Duff a little—but Hailey is prettier and seems less brain-deadReplyCancel
derek.. i would kill to go on a nkotb cruise!!
and miley banged thor when he came out of the shower and liam did…he proposed.. which is why elsa wanted to run her off so bad. liam stuck it out w/ chipmunk to land hunger games and bigger parts and raise his profile even though he/elsa knew she was screwing his bro thor..love the famewhoring is thicker than blood in that family non??
Danielle Jonas = Fame HoReplyCancel
i cannot follow comments without posting something. instead of idle chatter i just do that…
when the asteriks show up in my email it reminds me that i didnt have anything to say really i just wanted to read the comments of others.ReplyCancel
@Derek – I think she looks like a dark haired pre "septum repair" Tisdale, but Tisdale is prettier and can sing.ReplyCancel
@fancy. That is a good idea. There have been a couple of comment threads I wanted to follow, but since I didn't have a good guess or something to contribute, I had to say goodbye. *sob*
Maybe though, we should pick a joke star as a guess for threads we want to follow later. RDJ and Betty White are taken I think. I'll let you go first. Any star you want to pick, or do you just want to keep you **? IReplyCancel
HA! what a fun idea. RIGHT OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD…Nikki Sixxx will be my go to.
i saw a porn star the other day named Nikki Sexxx. i saw what she did there…and i was impressed.ReplyCancel
i use three other devices sometimes and i dont have to post to be notified on those. this laptop is fairly so i gave up and quickly decided "well i guess u cant have it all". lol
i tried to click notify me and then refresh but that doesnt work. i tried to hit enter but that doesnt work either. but Riven i will try those both again. perhaps i wasnt patient enough to allow the page to fully refresh. maybe i didnt give it enough time to work. will let u know…ReplyCancel
I thought Nicky Sixx was a member of Motley Crue. Never mind, I just processed that is was Sexx not Sixx. Okay, now that Nicki Sexx and Gary Busey have been taken that really limits my choices.
Should I pick Chloe Grace Moretz? I'm one of the few that like Sav and miss him. That would get his RSS buzzing and he can come back and post! Yaaay!ReplyCancel
i still cant get comments without posting something. oh well
i posted the nikki sixxx (tehehehe) guess and it hit me that the story as to how i arrived at using nikki might need a little clarification. ((embarrassed))
my ex and i were having some random conversation which took several twists and turns and we wound up Google ing the top porn stars. i saw THE NAME nikki sexxx and was impress at what she did with THE NAME is what i meant…
like when drag queens make up their names. i always get a giggle. they are really good at that for some reason. the porn star not so much, but a good try.
…that is all.ReplyCancel


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I was reading a thread about Orochimaru and Sasori and I was thinking about how everyone says Orochimaru is weak in the way that he was killed and stuff but I was thinking... Where is Orochimaru's real body?
All we know is that he's missing his hand and part of his forearm and that his "real" form is the white snake. But his technique only transfer's his soul to the other body so then wth is the white snake all about? I think its what happens to the body when he transfers his soul into it, kinda like a representation of him inside the body and he just uses the skin and technically "body" to move around. Because if all he was doing was jumping from one body to another then it isn't much of an immortality technique, just jumping from inside one body to another. So there that explains the white snake I think.
Now if he transfered his soul out of his old body into a new body then what happened to the old body? Does it turn all black and dead like his arms did when Sarutobi cut his soul arms off? Probably. But I think that Orochimaru new about this problem before he did his first successful transfer and probably had Kabuto preserve his body in some liquid or ice or something so his body didn't decay for just in case......HE WANTED TO COME BACK!!!
hehe so theres my question. Do you think Orochimaru's body is still around and if so would he transfer back into it to show everyone why he was called a Sannin at one point?
I bet if this were to be true then he's probably much stronger than his bodies have been (since all he's really been trying to do is learn all the jutsu's in the world) and when he comes back maybe he will be an end boss or something for Sasuke?
Sidenote: The only monkeywrench in all this is Kabuchimaru and what his purpose is at all...He might just be an interesting mini boss before Orochimaru, dunno though, or it could just be that he's another random character that Orochimaru kinda spawned without his knowledge that Naruto will level up on.
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3.) Now, once you click on this fx icon and choose Color Overlay, a Layer Style window will pop up. Find the #1 on the screen shot below. You will leave the Blend Mode as Normal and leave the Opacity at 100%. All you will need to do here is click on the little color block to change the color.
Once click on it, the Select Overlay Color window will pop up. Look for the #2 on the screen shot below. You will click on the TOP color square... this is your foreground color. Now look for the #3... I usually just run my mouse over a certain color in my photo... your cursor should change to a little eyedropper, then just click anywhere on the picture to choose your color. Then hit OK on the Select Overlay Color window and hit OK on the Layer Style window. Viola... your word art now matches your layout.
4.) Now we are ready to turn it into a sticker. The first thing you need to do is activate the layer with your element on it. Then, holding down your CTRL key, click on the thumbnail part of the layer. (There should now be marching ants around your element.)
5.) Now we want to put a new layer underneath our element layer. So, making sure your element layer is activated, hold down your CTRL key and click on the New Layer icon in your layers palette as shown below. (Holding down your crtl key will just ensure that when your layer is added, it be automatically added underneath the active layer.)
6.) Now we want to expand the area within the marching ants. Go to your top menu and choose Select and then Modify and then Expand.
7.) When your Expand Selection window comes up, (in this case) I typed in 15. You can always type in a smaller number of pixels for a thinner border or a larger number for a larger border. Then click OK.
8.) Now you will notice that the marching ants around your element have expanded.
9.) Now refer to your Tools Palette and choose your Paint Bucket Tool. (If your Gradient Tool is the icon that shows on your tools palette, you can simply right click it and choose the Paint Bucket tool like I have.) Then click on your TOP color box and change the color to white.
10.) Now, making sure your white border layer is active, simply click somewhere inside the marching ants to fill the expanded area with white.
11.) This will be the result. Now, you can leave it like this if you like, or you can read on to learn how to add a realistic shadow behind it that makes it look almost like it's coming unstuck in places!!
11.) To add our shadow, we will repeat Steps 4 and 5. (Simply click on the icon of the WHITE BORDER layer and then CTRL + click on the thumbnail part of the layer. Then hold down your CTRL key again and click on your New Layer icon.)
12.) Since we want the shadow to be directly behind our "sticker" we will not expand this layer. So skip that step and move right on to Steps 9 and 10, except now we want our color to be black.
13.) Now, make sure your "shadow" layer is active and reduce your opacity to somewhere around 50-65 (depending on how dark your background color is.)
14.) Now, since real shadows appear a bit blurry, lets put a bit of a blur on it. First, hit CTRL + D on your keyboard to get ride of the marching ants. Now, go to Filter and choose Blur and then choose Gaussian Blur.
15.) When your Gaussian Blur Settings window comes up, slide the lever so that it says somewhere between 3-5... 3 being less blurry and 5 being more blurry. You will already notice the shadow beginning to show behind the word art.
16.) Now, in order to make the shadow look even more realistic, we will use our warp tool to warp it just a bit so that appears as if the sticker is coming unstuck in certain places. Go to to your top menu and choose Edit and then choose Transform and then choose Warp.
(**Notice comment from a Photoshop Elements user --- lynette said...
Awww...shucks. I don't think PSE has a warp tool. But, I can get a similar effect using the perspective, skew, and distort tools.Thanks again!!!)
(**NOTE: GREAT instructions from another Photoshop Elements user:
There are two things you can do. Both will give the most realistic effect, but you can do either.
First, go to Filter--Distort--Wave
These are the settings I use
Generations: 5
Wavelength Min: 455
Wavelength Max: 470 (you have to enter this number before Min)
Amplitude Min: 1
Amplitude Man: 4
Scale Horiz:100
Scale Vert:100
Type: Sine
Then click OK
You can stop there or do this next
Brush size: 600
Brush pressure: 50
Click on the bloat tool on the left of the liquify screen. (It looks like an oval with arrows pointing out)
Then you click on the edge of the shadow to bring out whatever part you want. If you mess up you can click revert on the right side of the liquify screen. Keeping the brush really big makes it easier to get a more realistic effect.
Click OK
Then you can expand the shadow with the move tool if you want it more pronounced.
17.) Once you click on Warp, you will see a grid appear over your element.
18.) Each dot you see on the grid is a warping point. Just click on one of the points and (very slowly) pull it diagnally as shown below. (You only need pull each point slightly... too much of a shadow will appear fake and unrealistic.)
**This will also work for photo frames. Just follow all of these steps on your photo and you will be able to create sort of a "curled" photo frame effect. Again, here is our finished layout:
On my layout, I used:
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Eddie & Hannah: a London couple
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If you were to ask me to close my eyes and picture a London couple, like raincoats and Burberry ads, I would come up with Eddie Redmayne and his girlfriend Hannah Bagshawe, seen here holding hands last night on their way out of the Groucho Club after an event.
Eddie's been at home for work lately on the Wachowskis' Jupiter Ascending.
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News about Taste, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
Would a Potato Chip Lover Tire of Eating Only Chips?
Research suggests that most people would quickly get tired of eating even a favorite food, and might even lose weight.
December 22, 2015, Tuesday
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Museum of Food and Drink Takes a Look at Flavor
Whether "natural" or "artificial," edible chemicals affect how people perceive taste and smell, an exhibition demonstrates.
October 21, 2015, Wednesday
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The Hummingbird's Special Sweet Tooth
Nectar makes up about three-quarters of a hummingbird's diet, yet birds seem to lack the receptor that vertebrates use to taste sweetness. Researchers say they have solved the mystery.
August 26, 2014, Tuesday
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A Nose for Their Favorite Foods
Dogs have 60 times as many smell receptors as humans, but they have less than one-fourth the number of taste buds.
August 5, 2014, Tuesday
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Gary Beauchamp
A scientist of taste and smell on chicken sashimi, nail clippers and finding reassurance in a stargazer lily.
May 4, 2014, Sunday
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A Taste You Hate? Just Wait
Are there really foods that we don't like, or just foods that we haven't liked yet?
February 26, 2014, Wednesday
When a Food Writer Can't Taste
With my tongue impaired, I was like a deaf musician.
January 12, 2014, Sunday
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The Quest for a Natural Sugar Substitute
Why is it so hard to make a low-cal soda that actually tastes good?
January 5, 2014, Sunday
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Food Corporations Turn to Chefs in a Quest for Healthy Flavor
At companies like PepsiCo and Kellogg, white-coated lab technicians join with white-jacketed chefs to give consumers the taste they want with less salt, fat and sugar.
July 24, 2013, Wednesday
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Why Does My Food Have Less Flavor?
If food does not seem to taste as good as it used to, the problem may be that you are losing your sense of smell as you get older.
December 6, 2012, Thursday
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Behold the wisdom of Alexyss Tylor, wisdom made more clear by my helpful annotations--
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Chauncey DeVega's Secret Valentine's Day Crush--The Indomitable Alexyss Tylor
Behold the wisdom of Alexyss Tylor, wisdom made more clear by my helpful annotations--
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Gordon's (LL and Common-free) Hip Hop Valentine's Mix
When I decided to make this thing, I gave myself two rules: No LL and no Common. Why? Cause I'm sick of folks mentioning those pandering, yella negroes whenever someone starts talking about rap love songs.
Lookin at the Front Door—Main Source
Bonus: One Love--Whodini:
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
A Valentine's Day Poem as Chosen by Chauncey DeVega
Jerome Oakbridge
Black Love
Like two caramel hands
Intertwined, Outstretched, Supportive
Black Love
Strong like steel
Shirley Chism
Black Love
A king and a queen, fighting, loving, strong
Fighting white supremacy as a family
Deuce deuce
Four four
Sojourner Truth
Black Love
The force of negritude indomitable
Ujoma, Ujima, Kujichagulia, Nia, Kuumba
So strong
So fierce
So powerful
Like George and Wheezy sitting under that shade tree, loving, fighting, joying
Don't come knocking
No, don't come knocking
No, don't come knocking
No, don't come knocking till mornin' comes home
Loving, kissing, holding, supporting
Erykah Badu
Black Love
Black ivory and black melanin
Everywhere and all peoples
Black Love
Black Love in the hour of chaos
Black Love in the hour of peace
Black Love, oh I need me some black love
I need me some black love like Valentine's day in our month of Black History
Ohh I need me some black love
A Week of Valentine's Day Love and Inspiration
All this week we are going to share our love with you through poetry and song.
We begin today with a little taste of what is to come throughout the week:
Saturday, February 9, 2008
Hillary Clinton cries again..and Bill Clinton is a Pimp Daddy
As The Associated Press reported:
You know what is so funny? Billary didn't shed a tear in public when Billie Bob was using his magic cigar with Monica Lewinsky, but now she cannot seem to turn off the water works. So sad. ol'Hillary we actually thought more of you:
Friday, February 8, 2008
Friday Five: 5 Overlooked Expressions of Victimology
In light of yesterday's Victimology Blues post, this week's Friday Five features expressions of victimology that tend to come from the relatively privileged. Since mainstream media accuse only minorities and women of "playing the victim," the following statements are never linked to victim mentality:
1.) White people are being denied college admission and work promotions because Affirmative Action rewards mediocre minorities in order to promote diversity.
2.) Immigrants are taking all of the jobs that rightfully belong to Americans like me.
4.) When a woman accuses a man of domestic violence or rape, law enforcement and the courts are biased against the man.
5.) The secular left and the Jews are persecuting Christians by trying to remove Jesus from our government and culture.
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Victimology Blues Part 2: Privileged White Men as the New England Patriots
Read Part 1 here
Throughout their great run over the last seven years, the New England Patriots have sounded like a broken record: "We get no respect…Nobody believed in us…It's us against the world." All successful sports teams spout these clichés, but the Patriots have perfected them. The Patriots continued to play the put-upon underdog role, even as they became the first team in NFL history to complete a 16-0 regular season, and won two additional playoff games before being upset by what turned out to be the better team in the Superbowl.
Anybody with a lick of football sense knows that the Patriots' underdog shtick is laughable. It's clear that
This mindset of victimology isn't limited to the current generation of privileged white men. Throughout this country's history, in fact, the most successful purveyors and beneficiaries of victim mentality have been elite Christian white males. Consider the American Revolution: our nation asks us to extol people who framed their taxation at the hands of the British as the greatest injustice in history (while they owned and raped other human beings and excluded from participation the vast majority of its residents.[2] Consider the "threats" posed by Bloodthirsty Injuns, Black Brutes, the Yellow Peril, the Red Scare, and more recently, Middle-Eastern terrorists (internationally) and Mexican immigrants (domestically). I don't wish to single out white men—many people have partaken in these various forms of fear mongering[3]—but elite white males have benefited most from them.
The point is that despite what certain bloated, racist drug addicts and Easter Island-headed token negroes seem to suggest, victimology is not the exclusive domain of black people or "minorities" of any sort. To the contrary, victimology is imprinted onto the very core of the "traditional" (read: Anglo, Judeo-Christian) American history and identity favored by liberals and conservatives who vehemently oppose multiculturalism and "revisionist" history.
The strategic rationale for fashioning one's group as victims is clear: the public sympathy gained from victimhood can mean the difference between political support and indifference or opposition. Victimology allows activists to rally the troops, to build solidarity by conceiving an existential threat from outside. This strategy is often effective in the short run. Over the long term, though, emphasizing such a strategy can only be detrimental to the less privileged and to those concerned with social progress. But this strategy has different implications depending on the status of those wielding it.
When it comes from the privileged, victimology signals one of two things about the privileged victimologists: 1) that they have no respect for the intelligence of their adversaries and the public at large, or 2) that they have a tenuous grasp on facts and common sense. Either way, their victimology both reflects and contributes to a stunning disconnect from reality. It's both disheartening and scary to know that there are people in positions of power and authority who think that elite white men are disadvantaged. Because it helps to reinforce privilege, this kind of victimology, by default, has an adverse effect on the less privileged. To return to the original analogy, not only have the Patriots played the victim; they've used this perceived victimhood to fuel their dominance, as their "everyone's against us" attitude bolsters their intensity in walloping opponents.
When it comes from those who aren't as privileged, victimology has a more insidious result: crippling political discourse and collective action. An emphasis on victimhood leaves people ill-equipped to deal with problems that do not fit the convenient "one of them wronged one of us" narrative. Because of the lure of victimology, discussions about practical strategies to put a dent in a serious problem—such as crime, low academic achievement, teen pregnancy, and fatherless children—too often turn to slavery. Victimology leads otherwise sensible people perpetuate batshit conspiracy theories. Victimology does not simply prompt political actors to exploit symbolic victims who have been harmed by those from other groups; victimology encourages actors to crave victimhood. Every year, a few bleeding-hearts stage "hate crimes," usually on college campuses. These actions are obviously aberrant, but the mindset isn't. Hate crime hoaxers aren't insane; they are merely expressing pathological victimology politics taken to the logical extreme. Relying on fear and demonization of the other in order to define and build political communities is the only mode that a number of less privileged people know.
In short, I am troubled by the extent to which victimology is embedded in our culture.[4] One need not be a Nietzschean to argue that victim mentality exemplifies rhetorical (if not psychological) weakness. While there is certainly virtue in overcoming hardship and victimhood (as the history and resilience of scores of oppressed people attests), there is no inherent virtue in victimhood. Sometimes, victimhood, while life-changing for the victim, has no broader social import beyond the person involved; sometimes, claims of victimhood are absurd, and sometimes, "victims" are idiots or miscreants who deserve neither sympathy nor millions of dollars for making the bad decisions that allowed them to be victimized. But the issue is not whether victims exist (of course they do) or whether certain figures warrant the victim label; the issue is what role victims should play in the narratives (both backward-looking and forward-looking ones) that construct our political identities and frame our political action.
Next—Victimology Blues Part 3: The Racist Duke Lacrosse Team, the Hooker, and the Suckers Who Blindly Supported Them.
[1] The analogy breaks down once we move beyond perceptions and outcomes—more specifically, beyond the success to cries of victimhood ratio. Because the best, most deserving teams almost always win, especially in big games, the NFL is closer to a true meritocracy than
[2] This does not, however, absolve those who refuse to acknowledge the brilliance, or at least the effectiveness of the rhetoric and institutions that these elitist, racist slave owners crafted.
[3] And as Zora correctly implies, all of us, even those who are from historically disenfranchised groups, carry some form of privilege, depending on the context.
[4] But this isn't an American phenomenon either. Pick an issue locally, nationally, globally—immigration, multicultural education, The West Bank, secularism vs. public religious expression—each side of every major conflict deals in the politics of victimhood. Victim mentality pervades all societies, garroting political discourse and identity.
Bill O'Reilly Cautions bro'Bama that He Best not Avoid the "Fair and Balanced" Fox Network
By the way, isn't this theme song a wonderful bit of (deservedly) forgotten hip hop history?
Monday, February 4, 2008
The Power of White Women's Tears Redux for Super Tuesday
I love being right...
Courtesy of Reuters News Service
from: http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSN0442454120080205?sp=true
By Ellen Wulfhorst
NEW HAVEN, Connecticut (Reuters) - An emotional Hillary Clinton and rival Barack Obama pushed for votes in the U.S. Northeast on Monday, the day before a coast-to-coast Democratic presidential showdown that is neck-and-neck in opinion polls.
On a visit to Yale University in Connecticut, Clinton's eyes glistened during an introduction recalling her law school days there. It was an echo of her emotional display before the New Hampshire primary, credited with helping turn the tide for her eventual victory in the state.
"Well I said I wouldn't tear up," the New York senator said. "Already we're not exactly on the path."
Obama, an Illinois senator, campaigned in New Jersey and Connecticut ahead of "Super Tuesday" voting in 24 states, the biggest single day of voting ever in a U.S. presidential nominating race.
"We cannot wait to bring change to America," Obama said in East Rutherford, New Jersey, where he was joined by Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy and Caroline Kennedy, his niece and daughter of the late President John F. Kennedy.
Republican front-runner John McCain, hoping to score a knockout blow over rival Mitt Romney, invaded the former Massachusetts governor's home turf and told supporters in Boston he could win the state.
"I believe we have every good shot at carrying the state of Massachusetts tomorrow," McCain, an Arizona senator, told hundreds of supporters jammed into historic Faneuil Hall.
In New Jersey, he said Romney presided over a "big government, mandated health care plan" in Massachusetts and he promised to compete in the general election for votes in traditional Democratic bastions in the Northeast.
"When I get the nomination I will come back and compete for New Jersey, New York, Connecticut and these states in the Northeast," he said in Hamilton, New Jersey.
Romney swept through Tennessee and Georgia before dashing to California, the biggest prize, where a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll showed him taking a lead over McCain. McCain also hastily scheduled a stop in California on Tuesday.
"If I win California that means you're going to have a conservative in the White House," Romney told reporters after eating breakfast with voters at the Pancake Pantry restaurant in Nashville.
The presidential contenders in both parties are aiming on Tuesday to win a big share of national convention delegates who choose the nominees. More than half of the total Democratic delegates are up for grabs, and about 40 percent of the Republican delegates.
Obama and Clinton have waged a bitter battle for the Democratic nomination in November's presidential election, competing for votes from coast to coast after splitting the first four significant contests.
The physical toll of the campaign showed on Clinton, whose voice was hoarse and faint after days of nonstop activity.
A coughing spell also brought tears to her eyes in New Haven and forced her to pause and sip water at an event where she contrasted her universal health care proposal with Obama's, which she contends could leave up to 15 million uninsured.
"My objective is to get everybody into this system," Clinton said. "I am running for president because I know we can do better than we have."
Polls show tight Democratic races in many of the biggest states, although a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll showed Obama opening a 6-point lead on Clinton in California, which has 441 delegates to the nominating convention -- more than one-fifth of the total needed to win.
Because Democrats distribute delegates in proportion to their vote statewide and in individual congressional districts, candidates can come away with big chunks of delegates even in states they lose.
As a result, neither Obama nor Clinton are likely to deal a knockout blow on Tuesday, prolonging their battle for the nomination to March contests in Texas and Ohio and an April contest in Pennsylvania.
"The likelihood is the nomination will be decided somewhere in those states," Clinton strategist Mark Penn told reporters in a conference call. "This race will continue until someone has the delegates necessary to secure the nomination."
In contrast, many Republican contests are winner-take-all when awarding delegates, meaning a strong day by McCain could give him a commanding lead.
McCain said in Boston he hoped "to do well enough to hopefully draw this process to a close, but if not we'll be prepared to continue to go out and campaign."
Romney has tried to take advantage of conservative qualms about McCain's views on taxes, immigration and campaign finance reform. He said the race would not end after Tuesday.
"Across the country, conservatives have come together and said 'You know what, we don't want Senator McCain. We want a conservative to be in the White House,'" Romney said.
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who won the first contest in Iowa, also remains in the Republican race, and has siphoned conservative votes from Romney in some contests. He is aiming for a strong showing in the South.
(Additional reporting by Jeff Mason in New Jersey, Claudia Parsons in Tennessee, Steve Holland in Massachusetts; Writing by John Whitesides: Editing by Chris Wilson)
(For more about the U.S. political campaign, visit Reuters "Tales from the Trail: 2008" online at blogs.reuters.com/trail08/)
Chuancey DeVega Says: The New England Patriots have Lost and I am Rendered Speechless
Florida Evans said it best:
Sunday, February 3, 2008
Jim Brown: A Pre-Superbowl Respectable Negro of the Weekend
By Dan Wetzel, Yahoo! Sports
February 2, 2008
Dan Wetzel
Yahoo! Sports
Some of that is his natural personality; some, presumably, part of a calculated (and understandable) attempt to navigate a public life that impossibly asks him to be all things to all people.
Woods glides through the world like one of his shots toward the green; a breathtakingly precise, yet soft-landing approach.
It takes a tough guy to criticize Tiger Woods, to demand more, to square off and to risk the inevitable backlash of challenging such a personality. In the end, you can't really win.
Jim Brown has no such concern, of course, no such fear. His approach to life – particularly in addressing social issues – is like his old football running style. He just squares his shoulders, buries his head and blasts right at you.
That's how Brown, the product of the contentious 1960s, believes it needs to be done; the same way Woods, a far calmer generation later, probably feels his way is best.
Brown recently criticized Woods for being "too politically correct" in not speaking out sooner or with more force when a Golf Channel anchor said opposing players' best bet to stop Woods was to "lynch" him.
"He should have come out right away," Brown told ESPN. "Instead, he waited until it was politically correct (to comment)."
Even then, Woods brushed the entire episode aside.
For Brown, much of the backlash for criticizing Woods was swift and thorough. In some quarters, he was as vilified as the announcer. But as you'd expect, he isn't backing down.
"Someone asked me a question and I gave them an answer," Brown told Yahoo! Sports at a Super Bowl charity golf event this week. "And the answer, I thought, was very thoughtful and very meaningful.
"And if it is understood, a lot of people will go into their history and learn something about who developed this country, who helped develop it, who are the people who made it as great as it is today and at what cost."
Here's the thing with Brown, he asks questions and gives answers that few of us in comfortable positions sometimes want to hear. This includes me.
It's not that you have to agree with him, but simply contemplating his point can take energy, thought and even study in a day and age that prefers instant, simple-minded agreement or dismissal.
But life isn't "Hannity & Colmes."
Brown's point is that in the fade of history the true meaning of lynching had been forgotten.
"Lynching was the weapon of the greatest terrorist group in this country, the Ku Klux Klan," he said. "That was their weapon of choice. So if you don't know that, then you should really become educated because a lot of people have suffered many years because of the sickness of that terrorist organization."
To Brown "evil is evil." To joke about lynching is no different than joking about a hijacked plane on 9-11 orphaning a child, a roadside bomb in Fallujah taking out a Marine's knees, or an explosive-packed car murdering innocent shoppers in some far off land.
It's not just about race, it's about rememberance and perspective. It's a point that, at the very least, makes you stop and think.
Woods has been criticized for not being as socially outspoken as many great athletes of Brown's era. Clearly, Woods has the kind of immense power that was unattainable a generation ago.
His response is that he is socially active through his charities, which is a fair point. And he certainly doesn't have to apologize for not being Jim Brown or thinking like Jim Brown.
Brown has no more the final say on this than anyone else. If Woods thought Kelly Tilghman's two-week suspension was enough and this was, indeed, no big deal, then that's fine.
But Brown certainly can have a say. The worst thing that happened from the lynching fallout was some of the instantaneous, outright dismissal of everything Brown and others articulated.
The powers that be, especially in golf, wanted no part of looking in their sport's historical (or current) mirror. So they rallied with a simple message, "Just move on, it's no big deal, just an innocent mistake."
It would seem that at least some in the golf establishment and some of its lock-step media were as angry with Golf Week at attempting to continue the debate than the magazine's terrible choice of cover art.
But that's always the moneyed-power reaction; kill all discussion, protect the status quo. Woods – knowingly or not, purposefully or not – became their perfect spokesman on the issue.
That's Tiger's right, of course. But doing what Brown demanded – examining the past, educating people to history, challenging Woods' approach and opinion – can never be a bad thing either. Even if it becomes rarer and rarer in a sports world now mostly devoid of socially outspoken stars.
"(Athletes don't speak out today) because the most difficult part of the struggle is over," Brown said. "Now an African-American athlete can enjoy pretty much everything that everyone else can enjoy.
"When you are in an era when you can utilize the fruits of someone else's labor, it takes a thoughtful person to think the battle still goes on, the struggle still goes on and there (are) still barriers that we still have to break down."
At age 71, Brown refuses to stop challenging athletes to think about the world outside of endorsements, parties and public relations. No matter how much it costs him in all of those things.
"That's the life I live," he said. "The life I live is to try to be a part of change. A lot of youngsters, once they become educated they become advocates. They really try to do the right thing."
It's too simplistic to say Brown's approach is always right or always wrong; just as it would be to say about Woods'. Both have their merits.
Here's what is wrong in discussing race in America: taking the easy route and just say be quiet, just say it's over and no one cares anymore, to just say the other side's opinion has no merit or meaning.
The thing is, it takes courage to listen.
Jim Brown, no doubt, has that courage; the courage to fight even against an overwhelmingly popular conventional wisdom articulated by no less than Tiger Woods.
Maybe, in the end, he changed few minds in golf or anywhere else, but America remains a better place because Jim Brown, all these years later, keeps trying to fight these mostly un-winnable fights.
Thanks again Jim.
Friday, February 1, 2008
Zora on Film: Has Hollywood Helped Pave the Way for Obama?
Boyd goes on, though, to say that such representations — especially those like 24's, beamed weekly into American living rooms — "may have unconsciously made some things in society seem less troubling" than if there'd been no pop-culture pictures of a black president.
I'm betting that a lot of folks will take issue with Dr. Boyd's response. Leaders within the African-American community have been pushing for decades to have more positive representations of Negroes in the media. The result is that we regularly see African-Americans playing the roles of well-to-do professionals who are in positions of power. (For some reason, television casting directors love seeing African-American women in the role of judges -- the Law & Order spin-offs must be the most consistent employer of middle-aged, black female extras in the industry.) The irony is that the majority of the most blatant stereotypical imagery we see in popular culture today is produced by ourselves and for ourselves --> T_ler P_rry.
With Hollywood favorites like Denzel Washington, Bill Cosby and Will Smith, we've been looking pretty damn good on television and film over the last two decades (local news broadcasts not included). Some might say, too good. The problem is that the progress we've made on the cinematic screen does not reflect the progress we've made on the street. Liberals in Hollywood are producing symbols that are not grounded in reality. These symbols may actually be negatively affecting African-American progress.
The power of the media in shaping American perceptions of reality has been a regular theme on this blog. Because we are still a very segregated nation, most white Americans get a lot of their information about black Americans from the television. In places with marginal black populations like New Hampshire, Vermont, Montana, Utah and New Mexico, media images are even less likely to be balanced by real life interactions with African-Americans. If all they're seeing is images of well-off, powerful Negroes, then tales of black poverty and racial discrimination must fall on deaf ears.
I live in a small, New England town where I can count the number of African-Americans on my fingers and toes. All of us are professionals who are associated with the local college. We are surrounded by a lot of deep and profound poverty. It is nearly impossible to talk with Whites who have grown-up in this area about racial inequality and discrimination. From what they can observe, African-Americans have actually moved ahead of Whites. Most of them barely have a high-school education, so you can forget about discussing symbolic imagery and media manipulation with them.
All of the positive images of African-Americans are surely feeding what social theorists would term realistic group conflict. This is especially likely in this time of economic difficulty with the competition for jobs and benefits growing more fierce each day. We should not have been surprised at all that Obama lost in New Hampshire. Bill Clinton wasn't surprised. He knew immediately why Obama lost and sought to nourish the seeds of conflict with his comments on the "race card." The Clinton camp knew that they couldn't win the South Carolina battle, but they are looking long-term at the war. For all of Obama's talk about "hope," he has to also acknowledge (at least among his strategists) that he also inspires a lot of fear.
With all of the black presidents we have seen on screen, only African-Americans are more likely to elect a black president. For them, the symbols represent possibilities that were perhaps unimaginable before: "Maybe we can win? Maybe we can be successful?" For other groups, the media symbols of Negro success are more likely to inspire fear, or apathy at the very least. I would argue that the lack of support for Obama among Latino Democrats is further evidence of this.
Does this mean that we should go back to being portrayed as maids and field hands? Of course, not. We do, however, have to make sure that we are portrayed in a balanced and realistic manner. It doesn't serve any of us to live in a "fantasy land."
A Few Words on the Hillary-Obama Debate
Fittingly, 2 songs were running through my head during the debate.
One great parody came to mind as well--just substitute Obama and Hillary as needed:
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Wrestlers, Black Elvis, and our 2008 Presidential Candidates--You Know, Sometimes You Can't Make This Stuff Up
The stars must have really aligned because it seems that professional wrestlers are now giving endorsements to candidates. In this corner, we have Hulk Hogan endorsing Obama (I don't know if this is a gift or a curse):
If we were taking bets here at We Are Respectable Negroes who would you pick to win this battle royal?
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Movies and Fun for Ghetto Nerds
Monday, January 28, 2008
The We are Respectable Negroes News Roundup
But, we have to feed our Obama fever first.
1. Obama wins, no he dominates in South Carolina. As I pointed out in an earlier post, Obama did a Lamont Sanford on Hillary. Jesse won South Carolina in '84 and '88 so Obama's victory wasn't a total surprise. However, this victory will be remembered as the moment where Billy Clinton got his ghetto pass revoked. He hated on MLK, he cast the Obama campaign as being a "fairy tale," and accused Obama of playing "the race card" (whatever the hell that is--I think we need to do a whole post on non-sense statements such as this one). Billy Bob, as The New York Times and The Washington Post have suggested, you need to be reigned in lest you do more harm to ol' Hillary's campaign. Apparently, there are still some black folk who think Bill was right for having his wife's back. You know what, and please readers help me out with this one, am I the only person who is starting to suspect that Bill Clinton is maybe, just a little bit, jealous of Hillary? Could his foot in mouth syndrome be rooted in a little resentment for his wife? And now with the Chapaquitic/bootlegger/family dynasty of funky ol' dirty drawers wearing Marilyn Monroe lovers/Kennedy endorsement, Hillary and Bill are going for blood--I suspect Bro'Bama may eventually need to get his razor out for the big payback.
2. My boy Edwards may play the kingmaker. I sincerely hope that Edwards does well enough on Super Tuesday to hold up either Hillary or Obama in order to make sure that his platform is represented. Bob Novak, rumor monger extraordinaire is hinting that an Edwards-Obama deal is in the works where Edwards, in exchange for his support, becomes Attorney General in the Obama administration. Interesting prospect, but I think Bro'Bama may have to groom Edwards a bit for the position:
I can see it now, "My name is Olive Branch, you are all living in a digital simulation. This world you take to be 'real' is only a simulation. My father is not a 'terrorist,' no, he is your liberator, a man sent to wake you from your slumber. Please, come with me and be witness to the desert of the real." Readers, if you would like to join Junior Laden's peace crusade you must stop here and pick up some appropriately styled clothing.
4. I interrupt this news update to bring you a damn, dirty ape news update. It seems that one of these damn apes outperforms us upright walkers on tests of basic memory. If true, this test does give me some solace, because the ape's ability to retain simple information (in all likelihood to the exclusion of more complex data) explains the popularity of minstrel-hop and crap-rappers:
10. Random news happenings. Holy Sand is apparently a drug. Oprah, my least favorite handerkerchief head is being reminded that she is black. Apparently, Oprah's viewers are upset that she has ostensibly "chosen" race over gender in supporting Obama for president. Ha Ha! Sacha Baron Cohen padded his pants for his role in Sweeney Todd. Thank goodness because after seeing Borat and then Sweeney Todd I was beginning to develop an inferiority complex. We have discovered a source of anti-matter (Scotty I need more power!) Astronomers have discovered a new blackhole of unimaginable denseness and mass at the heart of a quasar (doesn't that sound sexy?). Guess what the quasar's name is? OJ287..insert joke here.
11. The near shooting incident between Iranian speed boats and the U.S. Navy in The Straights of Hormuz may have been orchestrated by a prankster with the nom de guerre of "Filipino Monkey" (which takes Crank Yankers to a whole 'nother level doesn't it?). It could still have been a misunderstanding, or maybe a set-up, sort of like The Gulf of Tonkin incident which "provoked" The Vietnam War. In related news, researchers have documented how Bush and Company orchestrated a campaign of truth distortion prior to the 2nd gulf war. FYI, "truth distortion" is Neo-Con speak for lying. Did you know we will be in Iraq until at least 2012? Not a surprise to us respectable negroes and thinking people everywhere, but lest the unwashed masses (and many Republicans) be fooled again, we suggest that all citizens annually watch both The Fog of War and Eisenhower's prescient speech where he warns against the dangers presented by the military-industrial complex.
Sunday, January 27, 2008
Chauncey DeVega says: Obama wins South Carolina!
Friday, January 25, 2008
Friday Five: How do you spell it?--5 "black" terms with indeterminate spellings
1.) sə-'dĭt-ē
2.) 'bü -zhē
3.) 'ĭg-nĭnt
4.) nĭm
5.) ô 'sʊk-ē 'sʊk-ē
I invite everyone to offer their best guesses about how any of these five is spelled…and feel free to offer other relevant words/pronunciations. For your convenience, I've included a handy pronunciation key. Cut and paste away!:
\ ă \ as a in pat
\ ā \ as a in ace
\ ä \ as a in father
\ au \ as ou in out
\ b \ as in baby
\ ch \ as ch in chin
\ d \ as d in did
\ ĕ \ as e in bet
\ ē \ as ea in easy
\ f \ as f in fifty
\ g \ as g in go
\ h \ as h in hat
\ ĭ \ as i in hit
\ ī \ as i in ice
\ j \ as j in job
\ k \ as k in kin
\ l \ as l in lily
\ m \ as m in mom
\ n \ as n in own
\ ng \ as ng in sing
\ ō \ as o in no
\ ô \ as aw in law
\ oi \ as oy in boy
\ p \ as p in pop
\ r \ as r in red
\ s \ as s in yes
\ sh \ as sh in shy
\ t \ as t in tie
\ th \ as th in thin
\ th \ as th in the
\ ə\ as u in cut
\ ü \ as oo in loot
\ ʊ \ as oo in foot
\ ûr \ as ur in fur
\ v \ as v in vivid
\ w \ as w in away
\ y \ as y in yet
\ z \ as z in zone
\ zh \ as si in vision
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Bill Clinton Must have Eaten a Luther Burger Before this Speech Honoring Dr. King
He must have eaten a Luther:
Maybe that tired, black preacher affected speech lulled brother Clinton to sleep?
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Chauncey DeVega says: It's True, I Caught Cloverfield from a Toilet Seat
I will not make a habit of writing movie reviews because my girl Zora has staked out this turf and made it clear to me that if I sit on her porch she will shank me (Are you impressed? I picked up some of that prison speak while watching The History Channel). On Monday, in honor of Doctor Martin Luther King Jr., I, like all negroes everywhere, went to the movies (in my case 2), bought my monthly comic books (Walking Dead is returning to form; The Punisher and Barracuda have upped it one more level in their on going "feud"; I just discovered Pax Romana and it looks promising; and The Ultimates is mixed at this point--beautiful art, but too dark, and the characters are sort of blah), and went to Chipotle for a pork carnitas fajita burrito.
On that day, I was blessed to see a great movie, There Will be Blood (TWBB), and a horrible movie, Cloverfield. The former is an undeniable classic. As I told a friend, by comparison, TWBB makes P.T. Anderson's body of earlier work look like a set of movies shot by well-intentioned (but untalented) 5th graders. TWBB is the work of a master, working with a master actor (Danielle Day Lewis), on a set of universal topics (greed, the human heart, faith, nationalism, religious zealotry, family, and human frailty).
By comparison, Cloverfield is the work of an amateur who is grappling with a motif and genre he does not understand. Yes, I took the bait. Yes, I was excited by the viral marketing. I also believed that JJ Abrams had the skill to reimagine the monster movie genre, and perhaps introduce something new to science fiction story-telling. I was wrong, horribly wrong. Cloverfield is the girl in the 5th grade who promises to show you something special if you go behind the bushes with her, but instead you see nothing. By analogy, one thinks Cloverfield is a beautiful woman, but instead your love/lust object is oiling up her inner thighs and playing a man like he is a naive trick. I have long asserted that in order to either innovate upon, or to reimagine a genre, one must have mastery over it. Cloverfield demonstrates that JJ Abrams has neither mastery over, nor any particular insight into, this particular sub-genre of science fiction.
Don't be mistaken, I am not a film snob. I know and love bad movies. In fact, I am a connoisseur of them (They Live, Armageddon, Flash Gordon, etc.) As a point of reference, I was one of those unfortunate souls whom saw Prince's magnum opus, Under the Cherry Moon, in the movie theater--a film so horrible that the audience cheered when Prince, our protagonist, is contemplating suicide because his death would have mercifully ended the film. Under the Cherry Moon is the first film I contemplated walking out of before its conclusion. Prior to watching Cloverfield, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe occupied second place on my list of worst movies of all time:
Postscript: courtesy of the Internet Movie Database here are some answers to the mysteries of Cloverfield--http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1060277/faq#.2.1.34


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