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Continuing Fox's non-stop attacks on the Wisconsin protestors -- which included Fox & Friends' reversing Gallup poll results to falsely claim most Americans side with Republican Governor Scott Walker -- Fox & Friends tried a new tactic during today's broadcast, claiming that the "union protestors" are "attacking the free market."
Here's how the co-hosts got that idea. Some protestors in Wisconsin are circulating flyers that call for a boycott of businesses that made, or whose owners made, donations to Walker's 2010 campaign. The Fox & Friends co-hosts didn't try to claim that these businesses did not donate to Walker, or that this boycott is somehow illegal or unethical. Instead, co-host Steve Doocy teased the story this way:
DOOCY: Union protesters in Wisconsin now encouraging people to boycott small business owners. Why are they dragging the free market into that debate?
On-screen text was aired that read, "Targeting the free market." Doocy repeated the tease later in the show with a slight change, asking fellow co-host Brian Kilmeade, "Why are they attacking the free market?"
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REYNOLDS: Well, actually, I got an e-mail over the weekend saying that this flier was being passed around and we, you know, basically was going to kind of slough it off but, you know, the more I thought about it, the more kind of upset I got about it. It was simply one of the -- one of the reasons that I've never really contributed to Scott Walker through the company. I've done that individually. And so somehow, somebody is now going back into the contributors' list and syncing that up with where they are employed or what businesses they run and boycotting them from there.
The boycotters "somehow" went through the "contributors' list?" This isn't a mystery -- bi-annual campaign finance disclosures are required by Wisconsin law. A simple Google search turns up the donors to Walker's campaign. Voila: Gary Reynolds' $10,000 in donations to Scott Walker, complete with disclosure of his occupation and employer! So what we have here is group of individuals legally using public information to call for a boycott. I'm not sure this qualifies as "attacking the free market."
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I'd say that doesn't sound like a "small business."
This isn't the first time during the Wisconsin protests that Fox has brought on guests posing as concerned citizens who are actually GOP officials or activists. Earlier this month, Your World guest host Chris Cotter interviewed "Wisconsin parent" Dave Westlake, but didn't mention that Westlake ran for Senate in the 2010 GOP primary. And yesterday, Fox & Friends interviewed "upset Wisconsin parent" Amber Hahn without mentioning that she is a local GOP official.
Why is Fox hiding their guests' backgrounds to make them seem like average Americans? Maybe it's to hide the fact that most average Americans, unlike Fox, back the Wisconsin protestors on collective bargaining.
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Hey guys.. I need some help from the BMW experts out there
So I'm trying to buy a new BMW 328i Coupe and have been having the worst luck making a deal. At first I was trying to get a 2011 328i Coupe in Mineral White and must have navigation, but apparently there is only like 1 left in the country according to the dealership and it has this M Sports package that makes it around $47k and the M package is not even something I want in the car. The dealership won't budge on the price at all and it annoys me because 2011 is basically over and it was a demo car. I think they are just being like this because I'm a girl and I don't really have that much negotiating skills.
So now I was thinking of just ordering a brand new 2012 model and waiting the 2-3 months, but I need your help! What price should I be able to get this down to? I know the value package is gone for the new models.
2012 BMW 328i Coupe Mineral White, Black Dakota Leather, Bamboo Trim, Automatic with the Premium Package, and Navigation. I was thinking $43,500 after all taxes and fees. Help me! Thanks!
The key is to shop around any if you want deals stick to a 2011.
The previous post mentioned Edmunds, there you can email a bunch of your local dealers' "Internet Sales Departments", give them the specs, ask for a quote, then ask one if he likes to beat the other's quote.
The best part is you don't even have tell them you are a girl.
You are in a tough spot. You are trying to find a fairly specific car at the end of a model Year You can't order a car at this point and the 2012's wont be available for a few months.
That said, this dealer is an idiot if he refuses to deal. Either wait and order the e92 you want or settle for a car in a different color.
This is just off the top of my head, but I've been doing this for probably longer than you/ve been alive, but I think there is a very slim chance of getting what you want out the door for $43,500.
BMW North America (and other German/European brands) are not like American auto makers that build like crazy and then have loads of last year's model they need to sell. BMW NA tries very hard to import exactly the number of cars they think they can sell that year. So, the tables are kind of turned here from what it might be like at a Cadillac dealer. In this situation there is more demand than supply of a specifically optioned car and you have less bargaining power. All that said, BMW may offer dealers non-published incentives to sell the 2011 stock.
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I don't think it makes much sense, but unless the dealer has a ton of these still on the lot, they're going to try to force top dollar for those who really need a specific model/optioned car. You can always tell them to keep you in mind if they decide to come down on the price. I'm sure the tide may change and they may be more willing to negotiate a fairer deal when it suits them.
Best advice I can give is work with the Internet sales department of the dealership. They are more willing to bargain with you then the regular sales people. I was able to get my 335is that I ordered for about -750 under invoice by going this route. Made two local dealers fight for my business then went with the one with the better offer.
Well, how much are you tryna take off? You probably won't be able to take so much off especially since it has M sport (a great package btw)
You could probably get a CPO 328 with no options... there are a ton of those around.
Last time I went shopping for a car, a few years ago, I found the car that I REALLY wanted but the dealer did not want to budge on the price at all. I ended up walking on the deal and buying a car slightly less from somewhere else. Every day I regret not giving in to the dealer's demands hahahaha.
But since this car has an option you don't care for, I would just skip it and look elsewhere. Keep your options open for CPO.... You could get one for like $10,000 cheaper than brand new but only like 30,000 miles which is still new to me.
Agree with the internet department and use email to narrow down your search to dealers that are willing to negotiate. Not sure how much the girl thing will affect the negotiating, but if you are using email, they won't even know.
Also, you might want to wider your preferences a bit to get a better deal. Chose a couple colors or be more flexible on options. You could also try carsdirect.com or local warehouse clubs like costco or sams club.
Good luck!
Through my insurance company (USAA) I was able to buy my 328, a Lexus GS350, and my wife's RX350 for $500 over invoice. Possibly other insurance companies or warehouse stores can negotiate a similar transaction.
I agree with the others who said deal with internet sales advisors over the other salespeople. These folks tend to be more straightforward. Also, depending on your area try to hit as many dealerships as you can and get them to compete for your business.
In my recent purchase experience, I emailed dealerships in San Antonio, Austin, and Houston to see who could give me the best deal. In the end, the Austin dealership was the most helpful. They were the only ones who emailed me a full breakdown of the invoice price and MSRP of each individual option. Other dealerships were either afraid to or unwilling to do the same. Rather, they wanted to just use a single price which concealed where they were getting their numbers from.
They quoted me a price of 2% over invoice for ordering a car from the factory to my spec (before incentives were applied) I *may* have been able to get a better deal elsewhere but honestly I liked the way I was treated and felt they earned my business. Other dealerships were trying to tell me that Edmunds' invoice price was wrong even though the price breakdown given to me from BMW of Austin matched Edmunds dollar for dollar. Nothing pisses me off more than going to a dealership and having their prices not line up to my own calculations.
I really like negotiating via email as its not as much of a high pressure situation, and you have time to analyze the prices they throw at you. The best way to walk into a dealership is with a price already negotiated, so that you're just signing papers and picking up your ride.
Good luck in your car shopping and let us know if we can help!
You need to state when you need the car, how much effort you are willing to put forth for getting the best price.
Also if you order the car you get what you want. Ordering via the internet or know BMW dealerships is the best way to go if you don't mind traveling to get the car.
The dealer whether Reeves, etc in Tampa maybe able to deal with you too. I would check Bert Smith, Reeves, and Fields since they are all close via the internet and see what they can do.
There is no better pricing I am aware of unless you do Euro Delivery than USAA pricing. It is close to wholesale as you will get...
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Like many people said start at the TMV price and shop around. Not all BMW dealerships are the same. Some will be more willing to help you out than others. Its possible they might give you a hard time because your a girl. I had a similar but different bad experience at Freehold BMW in NJ a few years back because the sales reps would not take me seriously. At the time I was 25 years old but being asian I looked like I was 20 lol! I was looking for a 3 series convertible and after 5 min of negotation the rep tells me "hey, not everyone can afford a BMW". The next day i went to BMW of Morristown and they treated me like a valued customer. I got a good deal and bought the car i wanted on the spot.
...also, the number of dealerships in an area may very well play a role. If one dealership is the only game in town...
If you are totally hot, fly me down to FL, let me stay with you, I will get you invoice +$500 in pricing.
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By far my best experiences purchasing a car, new or used, have come using the internet sales team. You negotiate on your own time, aren't held captive while the salesman and the manager play ping pong with you for several hours, and you can be in negotiations with several dealrships in your region or country at the same time.
For example, I recently purchased a CPO 2008 335i last Memorial Day, and went into to the dealership to test drive and see what kind of deals they had. When I first got on the lot, a salesman walked out and told me the car and every other CPO was $2000 off sticker price for a Memorial Day deal, plus 0.9% for 36 months through BMW. I thought, "perfect", the $2000 off right there put the price of the car below what KBB and other online sites estimated the value at, plus the financing was 1.5% less then what my local credit union pre approved me for with perfect credit. Flash forward to after the test drive during negotiations, the salesman says he made a mistake, and my car wasn't one that receives the $2000 discount, and the financing was going to be 3.5% for 36 months, despite the actual window of the car being painted with a huge 0.9%. Their excuse was that the 0.9% promo is no longer available. Naturally, I immediatly walked out of the BMW dealership despite their pleas.
Fastforward an hour later while I am playing a round of golf. I e-mail the same dealers internet sales director, who gives me the exact same car with $2000 off discount, an extra $1000 off for their "internet special", and the 0.9% financing. All of this took only 3 email exchanges and the car was mine before I reached the back 9. After the round I went back to the dealer, where the same salesman walks out to me with a "I knew you would be back" look. I quickly walk past him, tell him I purchased the car through their internet sales director with all the goodies initally promised, and his jaw dropped. It took me 20 minutes to sign the papers, and while they were waiting for me to come in the car was washed and detailed. When you negotiate on your own time it's much easier to be stern with dealerships because you aren't a captive audience, and you really have no clue whose on the other end so you can be as blunt as you want to be if you are usually a nervous person. This is especially true if you are going to trade in your vehicle when they can't take your car for "inspection" for several hours and prevent you from a timely walk out if negotiations go sour.
I also purchased a G37 Sedan for my wife last year via the internet after test driving, and actually had 5 dealerships in Texas (where I'm from) negotiating with me before I finally got the right price. This dealer even delivered the car for me at no extra cost and the papers were signed via next day air. Obviously some dealerships and salesmen are genuinely good folks that will take care of their customers, but after experiencing the joy of online car purchases, I will never roll the dice into the dealership again except to test drive.
I had left a deposit for a factory order 328i sedan just a week ago. It will have M-sports package, premium package, heated seats, harman kardon and xenon headlights. The MSRP was over $45,000 and the invoice price was over $42,000. I was able to get it for $40,990 including all non-DMV related fees.
It certainly helped that it was a cash price and the dealership has a > $1000 holdback for the car at this time. It is also my local dealership where I will do the maintenance. But I would not even pay the invoice price for the car you described.
Edmunds TMV price is way too high in my experience with several cars.
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Was it the same for you and it would have been a funny/awkward situation if it was the sales advisor you walked out on before assigned to it.
Nope, I only dealt with the Internet sales director and the regular finance people after the price and details had been agreed to. I'm sure different dealerships do it differently though.
That said, I would have loved going through my same salesman/manager tandum after the internet deal went through. It would have been awkward for them and hilarious for me.
While I was waiting for the car to be brought around to pick up, I chatted with the internet sales director, and she basically told me that in the showroom the salesmen and regular managers are told to go by the standard "let me run it by my manager" make the customer wait routine, while the internet sales team is told to be firm in negotiations, but if the customer is savvy, they already have a pre-determined bottom line without needing approval, so they can cut to the chase much fatser. She said every year internet sales have picked up for her despite overall decline in total sales at her dealership. It's just too convenient to be able to get the hard work out of the way before you even go into the dealership.
you can use www.carsdirect.com
Costco Auto Buying program
Autobytel is pretty good. Allows negotiating with different dealers through internet
It's an expensive car. Unless you need it asap order a 2012 with exactly the color and options you want.
I prefer to go into the dealership for my negotiating session fix...if you do, make an appointment later in the afternoon for test drive and afterwards sit down and negotiate. Later is better because they'll want to go home too. I'd say 3 hours before closing..1 hour for test drive...2 hours for negotiating.
Make it fun...bring up every crazy excuse in the book why their price sucks, and your price is fair. This means you have do your homework like the previous posts say - cost of the car and any incentives. Keep the mood light and be reasonable ($500 above invoice is hard, $1000 is reasonable).
Start at invoice and if you get to $1000 above (before incentives) stick to that number and if after a 1/2 hour they don't meet that price leave. Then work them over on email for a couple of days and if things look good make another appointment in the middle of the week when it's light. You'll get their full attention and be able to close the deal.
Oh yeah bring someone for support.
Maybe you can consider Euro delivery too I think it's $2K off invoice?
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Three of the four images are owned by cousins who descended from James William "Harvey" Dunaway (1829-1880) and his wife Treasy Humphress Bateman (1820-1901). Could this be the link that June's been hoping to find?
June created this graphic to illustrate who owns what.
Contacts In May 2010,
I'd posted about June's detective work trying to identify a cabinet card. That post disproved a caption identifying the couple.
A distant relative saw that blog post and sent June a copy of the exact cabinet card. This couple turned out to be the Newmans. The tintypes above show some other couple. It was an online Family Tree photo reunion.
She had such good luck with the last photo posted here, that she's crossing her fingers that a Dunaway descendant will be able to figure out who is in the tintypes.
I hope so too! I'd love to write another reunion story.
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The Hudson boys lacrosse team's three-game winning streak came to an end.
The Explorers fell to 7-4 on the season after losing a 13-12 decision to Olentangy in overtime May 2 on the road.
"The roller-coaster ride of the season continues," Hudson head coach Dave Blue said.
The Explorers rallied from a 9-7 deficit to force overtime.
Hudson had a 5-3 lead after the first 12 minutes.
"We got off to a good start, but we missed opportunities, turned the ball over and permitted several Olentangy goals in the second and third quarters," Blue said.
The Explorers had chances to win the game in both the fourth quarter and overtime.
"We had several chances late in the game," Blue said. "In overtime, we had two chances and both times, the Olentangy goalie came up with the big stop."
Zach Nye led Hudson with six goals.
"Zach was outstanding on the offensive side," Blue said.
Bo Lori added two goals and one assist and Gabe Vehar finished with two goals.
Grant Elffers and Brent Zubal each scored once for the Explorers and Logan Malson and Mick Mougey each had an assist.
Chris Motter won 25 of 26 draws and Hudson goalkeeper Jake Krone made six saves.
Olentangy (10-3) outshot Hudson 36-34. The Explorers had a 46-37 edge in ground balls.
Hudson's junior varsity team improved to 7-2 with an 8-6 win.
The varsity team was scheduled to host Shaker Heights May 6 at Hudson Memorial Stadium. Results were not available at press time.
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Trojans Take Game One of Series at Washington, 5-4
March 22, 2013
SEATTLE - USC baseball got on the board early and was able to hang on to a 5-4 victory in game one of a three-game Pac-12 series at Washington on Friday evening.
The Trojans (9-13, 2-2 Pac-12) wasted no time getting on the board, plating a run in the top of the first, three more in the top of the second and one in the seventh inning behind a 3-for-5 night with 2 RBIs for James Roberts (Cupertino, Calif./Archbishop Mitty) and a 2 RBIs, 2-for-4 night for Blake Lacey (Clovis, Calif./Clovis HS).
Junior lefty Bob Wheatley (Villa Park, Calif./Orange Lutheran HS) held the Huskies (4-16, 0-4 Pac-12) at bay in his longest outing of the season, going eight complete innings, allowing two earned runs on 12 hits, while striking out five and walking three.
In the top of the first, leadoff hitter Bobby Stahel (Needles, Calif./Palos Verdes HS) worked a walk and he went first to third on a one-out single from Blake Lacey (Clovis, Calif./Clovis HS). James Roberts (Cupertino, Calif./Archbishop Mitty HS) scored Stahel on an RBI groundout to put the Trojans up, 1-0.
In the top of the second, after a one-out single from Jake Hernandez (Rancho Cucamonga, Calif./Los Osos HS), he advance 90 feet on a stolen base. The Trojans then mounted a two-out rally, as Stahel walked, Adam Landecker (Calabasas, Calif./Calabasas HS) knocked one of his three hits of the day to load the bases. Lacey then singled down the right field line to score two more runs and put the Trojans up, 3-0. Roberts then singled to the shortstop to drive in the fourth run of the day. After an error by Husky starter Nick Palewicz loaded the bases, he was pulled for reliever Tyler Davis who got the final out to end the inning.
Davis was solid for the Huskies, allowing only one run on five hits through 7.1 innings of work. He struck out seven while walking just one.
The Huskies got on the board with one run in the third, but Wheatley settled in and minimized the damage.
In the Trojans' half of the seventh, with runners at second and third, the Huskies intentionally walked Greg Zebrack (Northridge, Calif./UPenn) with one out. That came back to haunt them, as pinch hitter Conner Sullivan (Orange, Calif./Orange Lutheran HS) was hit by the first pitch to score a run and put the Trojans up, 5-1.
The Huskies added a run in the bottom of the eighth, which was Wheatley's final inning to make things 5-2 heading into the final frame.
In the bottom of the ninth, Nigel Nootbaar (El Segundo, Calif./El Segundo HS) entered to close things out. The Huskies made things interesting, scoring two runs on a double down the right field line from Alex Smith to pull within one, 5-4. Nootbaar got the final batter to ground out to him on his first pitch, preserving the win and his third save of the year.
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I get to shoot a 5" XD fairly often and it is a fine weapon. It's as accurate as anything else out there I would say. The only problem I had with it, it's a little to big in the grip for me(small hands). I like them real well.
i have heard nothing but good thing about XD's, but most of what i hear is the 4"er. does anybody have any input on the tactical .45 with the 5" barrel. if so, how did it fit and did you like it. shots groups just as good?
I get to shoot a 5" XD fairly often and it is a fine weapon. It's as accurate as anything else out there I would say. The only problem I had with it, it's a little to big in the grip for me(small hands). I like them real well.
If it's anything like my 5" Tactical 9mm, you'd be very pleased. But, like any other brand named handgun, it's objective. IMO, the SA XD service/tactical is a quality made firearm. Certainly a lot less ($) than my favorite SigSauer.
I own one and can say I'm extremely pleased with it. It's accurate, reliable with whatever I feed it, has what I'd consider good ergonomics, highly visible sites and the 13 + 1 capacity makes the whole package that much better.
I like it so much that I'll be adding the 9mm Tactical at some future point.
Best Wishes
While at the range last night, I shot a friend's XD45 Tactical, and it is definately a great gun. The gun was very accurate, my groupings were nice and tight. I would give it a
I have one and it is my favorite of my collection. It is a very accurate, reliable and smooth shooter.
I bought the 4".
1) Didn't figure an inch more barrel length or sight radius would improve the function of the gun. It's a carry/drawer gun for me, not a target gun.
2) I like the looks of the 4" MUCH better.
I'm glad i got the 4". More accurate than I expected. Ragged hole 10-shot groups at 7M. Carries well, even IWB. Currently more holster options.
.45ACP Service on the right. 9mm SubCompact on the left.
Nice! Held all three barrel lengths today 3", 4" and 5"... I'd say it all just depends on your needs.. If it's a carry or a range gun.. I'm drawn to the accuracy claims of the 5" but I'll probably realistically end up with the .45 compact 4" if I go XD which is quite likely, because I like the "convertability" of the grip-extending mag.. and for it's JOB (in-home rather than at-range) it's longest task would be maybe 5-7 yards. If you don't mind a full-size and you're a stickler for tiny groups at 25 yards, the 5" is you.
What's that on those grips? I held the XD today and that's one thing I noticed with most the pistols.. Stock grips seemed a little not-so tacky. I think I'd prefer a bit more sticky feel to the XD.
Answering my own question.. I'm seeing there are decal-applied grip "textures" available for a lot of these poly-framed guns.
Can't remember if I mentioned..
Last Friday I looked at a 5" XD .45 13 round (I'm guessing it's the 9621 model with std 3-dot sights)... For sale as a used gun at local shop.
Rifling and rest of gun looked excellent.. enough not to be able to tell from a new gun.. incl box, holsters, mags and paperwork like a new one.. Story is a local officer used to qualify, then sold it off to the shop.. very few rounds through it.
Asking $460+tax
Whata ya think? I got the hots for it I think.
(currently looking at what lawn equipment and junk lying around I can sell off quick).
Sorry for the lag.
I pulled the tape off the XD9SC, as it snags in concealed carry. I left a strip down the front-strap. Works great.
I left the full grip on the XD45. I trimmed it along the top for appearance. It's been on a few months now. No peeling, no shifting. Awesome on the range. My range in FL has no A/C, so some times, it's 90 in there. You need the tape. The tape also helps a lot with follow-ups and recoil control.
As of last week I have a 3",4",and 5" XDs I love all three. The 5" is the best for me most likely because of the extra weight.
I have a 5" tactical allblack C.A. (only two 10rd. mags)legal ,
I love it .
1)The only kind of a problem is the first box of ammo or so the slide did not stay back when empty then went away after a few box's?
2)The sights were 1 foot off to the left & any that knows "SA" xd's is a b*t#h to move the sights on witch is a good thing ,& the last thing you what is your sight coming off out in the brush ,hunting, practce, target ,etc.
So I hope this help someone make the right(XD)decision!
I love my XD 40 tactical. Great gun to shoot and no fear moving out to 15, 20 and 25 yards with it. I may put a Houge overwrap grip on it if I can cut down the portion of the backstrap that would impede the grip safety. If not, I'll be hitting the TrugripUSA site soon. The 3 dot sights are easy to acquire. My guess is that you will find the 45 to be everything you want in a tactical pistol. I'm a bit old fashioned and still only like 45's in the form of a 1911 so the .40 was my choice. I picked it up for $400 used at a store near my home. It had only had one mag run through it when I bought it. The second mag was never even loaded. I couldn't pass up that kind of deal!!!


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We have known the famous store designs produced by the collaboration of Prada and Dutch Architect Rem Koolhaas's OMA. But this month's Wallpaper covered an Interesting article about their collaboration for the fashion show set designing, which started from 2004 onwards.
Check out their latest work below
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|Grid of Blue foam seats for the S/S 2012 Prada menswear
Here instead of having a traditional Catwalk flanked with spectators, there was field of Blue foam blocks where the spectators will be seated on carefully placed on a spread of artificial grass. As wallpaper has written about this experimental design that "Prada has questioned the peculiar spectacle of the catwalk. Who is the spectator and who is part of the spectacle? Are the lucky 600 guests with their own blue seat really the audience or an essential part of the show? Are the real spectators the millions who watch the show, live or not, on Prada.com, Wallpaper.com and other media platforms"
Some of their previous Fashion Show sets.
S/S 2010 womenswear: The show was bisected by a wall featuring projections of scenes from grand hotels
What I noticed from all the above examples is that a) the set itself is like a beautiful and intriguing art installation b) they have continuously experimented with the interaction between the modelling walk area and the audience.
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American Fandom goes to, err, War
Following our post on Heinlein and racism on Friday, maybe we should just do an American Week on the WSB? It seemed to have raised some interesting discussions across the Internet, as N.K. Jemisin writes.
There's still a lot of debate going on right now post-Readercon and Genevieve Valentine's complaints of being sexually harassed there. It appears the same person who did the harassing popped up at Worldcon serving drinks at a party (and apparently being up to his old tricks).
This in turn drew some support from people called SMOFs (Secret Masters of Science Fiction and no, we're not making this up!), one of whom said that the incident, "which probably happens at every convention every weekend, was blown up [and the reaction to it] caused a huge overreaction."
N.K. Jemisin has much to say about this and more at her blog:
On Heinlein and fandom:
the larger literary continuum in which Heinlein's work existed was both created by *and contributed to* that flawed society. Heinlein's work is one of the reasons why SFF has spent years calling itself progressive, and utterly refusing to listen to complaints about the racism embedded in the genre's bones. That resistance is one of the things that's made my career a greater struggle than a white author's might be. The reason I read FF in the first place was because, when I first got active in SFF fandom and tentatively complained about some stuff that bothered me in the first Heinlein works I'd read, Heinlein fans yelled at me that he wasn't racist or sexist, and Farnham's Freehold was the proof of that. After I read that book I realized two things: a) that Heinlein was racist as *fuck*, and b) most of science fiction fandom was too.
On harassment:
Then you complain about the behavior of Valentine's friends. But you don't mention that Walling's friends have not only protected him from con rules enforcement, but they've gone after some of the women who've complained about his behavior in the past. Some of the authors haven't been invited to other cons as guests, some of the con staffers have been marginalized until they quit. In other words, Valentine's friends are hurting his reputation, but Walling's friends are hurting women's careers.
And Nick Mamatas adds some more.
What's your position? We'd love to hear from you, as always, in the comments.
Top Ten Japanese SF Novels
Over at SFWA, Nick Mamatas and Masumi Washington list, and comment on, the list of all-time best Japanese SF, as voted on by readers of Japan's SF Magazine in 2006.
1. Hyakuoku no hiru to senoku no yoru
(Ten Billion Days and One Hundred Billion Nights) by Ryu Mitsuse (1967)
An epic, cosmic adventure in the manner of Arthur C. Clarke, covering the evolution of humanity, the lives of Plato, Christ, and the Buddha, a future technodystopia, and the very heat death of the universe itself. For pure "sensawunda," it gets no better. Haikasoru will be releasing this book in its first English translation in November 2011. Longtime US SF readers may remember Ryu Mitsuse's "The Sunset, 2217 A.D.," which appeared in Frederik Pohl's Best Science Fiction for 1972.
2. Hateshinaki nagare no hate ni
(At the End of the Endless Stream) by Sakyo Komatsu (1966)
Thematically similar to Mitsuse's epic, Komatsu's story involves a young physicist shown an hourglass, the sand of which never stops flowing. Even stranger, the glass was discovered buried in a stratum associated with the Upper Cretaceous. The hourglass is key to a billion-year war in which humans are pawns…and then humans begin to vanish. Sakyo Komatsu was one of the grandmasters of Japanese SF—three of his books appear in this top ten list—sadly, he passed away in July 2011, at the age of eighty. – continue reading!
Nick Mamatas on the Nebula Awards
The winners of the Nebula Awards have been announced – it was a diverse list of nominees that included Amal El-Mohtar, Ted Chiang and N.K. Jemisin, and Apex Book of World SF series contributors Aliette de Bodard, Shweta Narayan and Nnedi Okorafor.
There have been various comments made about the eventual winners, most outspoken of whom was Nick Mamatas, who commented, sarcastically, that
"At least SFWA managed to, for the most part, hold back the tide of black and brown people on the nominating ballot."
What do you think? Is Mamatas right? Is he wrong? As always, we welcome discussion.
Editorial: On Japanese SF, by Nick Mamatas (Haikasoru Week)
On Japanese SF
By Nick Mamatas
In Issui Ogawa's The Next Continent, the "war on terror" is a political afterthought thanks to an American retreat from the Middle East; Japanese businesspeople see themselves as a counterweight to Western globalization; and engineers can do anything from building undersea vacation spots to constructing a wedding chapel on the moon. Environmental problems have been solved or mitigated, capitalists aren't all ruthless, and the state is neither utterly incompetent nor a single piece of legislation away from tyranny. Societies that work are a radical vision in today's Western science fiction, but they're refreshingly common in Japan.
Japanese science fiction has any number of futures to choose from. In the world of Mardock Scramble by Tow Ubukata, private property is so valued that a vending machine in a hotel hallway is given precedence over a human life. In Chōhei Kambayashi's Yukikaze series, the fighter pilot hero is out solely for himself in his war against the alien JAM. His motto isn't "Death before dishonor," it's "Not my problem." In Jyouji Hayashi's The Ouroboros Wave both individualism and strict hierarchies have been supplanted by a kind of corporate mutualism. Though we can talk about the typical themes and plots of Japanese SF, it's important to keep in mind that there is no single Japanese future, no ubiquitous theme.
I am often asked what differentiates Japanese SF from its Western parent. Frankly, with a few name changes, in many cases there is no difference at all. Japanese SF authors grew up reading US and UK SF and have fully embraced the idiom. But some traits stand out.
Japanese SF often builds scenes in ways that are reminiscent of the manga panel as opposed to the motion picture. So flashbacks operate a bit differently, comical characters appear in otherwise serious scenes, and conversations don't necessarily happen in what a Western reader would perceive as "real time." Backgrounds are often sketched out in the boldest of strokes—the famous professor, the dying sun! On the other hand, scenes will always be given as many pages as they need to complete the story, which is suggestive of the serial nature of both manga and the Japanese bunkoban paperback.
Japanese SF is far more likely to feature a teenage girl as a protagonist than Western SF.
Japanese hard SF doesn't foreground the "hard SF attitude" described by Kathryn Cramer as "a love of hardware for its own sake—and the hard-nosed Ayn Rand voice that we now identify as libertarian." Though this isn't to say that stories with a libertarian theme are unknown; Project Itoh's Harmony, a Utopian satire about universal healthcare, certainly qualifies.
Japanese SF tends to be short. Most of the longer books we've published via Haikasoru were available as two, or even three, volumes in Japan. These volumes are released serially—sometimes a month apart, and occasionally even a week apart. (I think this compares favorably to the Western method of waiting for initial sales figures. How many trilogies are missing a final concluding volume?) An exception is Natsuhiko Kyogoku's existentialist epic Loups-Garous, which was an oddity for being quite long and published in a single volume in Japan.
And most importantly at of all, in Japanese SF, the future is Japanese. I remember a conversation I had with someone when I first starting working for Haikasoru. "Isn't it funny," he said, "that all these future alien invasions and catastrophes and discoveries are supposed to happen on a little archipelago?"
"As opposed to happening on a continent largely empty of anything save corn fields and SUVs?" I asked him. "And not even the whole continent—just the middle bit!" Science fiction has many futures; it's about time Western readers were exposed to a few of those visions of which they may not otherwise conceive. At Haikasoru, we're just trying to do our part in creating a truly international future.
Haikasoru Week: Interview with Nick Mamatas
An Interview with Nick Mamatas
by Charles Tan
Hi Nick! Thanks for agreeing to do the interview. This is Haikasoru's third year. What are your plans for 2011?
We're pushing ahead with a lot of fun books. I'm very excited about Ten Billion Days And One Hundred Billion Nights by Ryu Mitsuse, for example—as far as its importance and popularity in Japan it's roughly analogous to, say, Dune! We also have our first science fiction, as opposed to fantasy, novel by a female author coming up: Cage of Zeus by Sayuri Ueda. And we're doing some experiments with high-quality associational novels; for example we're releasing Miyuki Miyabe's Ico, based on the video game no less than Guillermo del Toro calls a "masterpiece."
Sounds like an interesting selection! How have your criteria in selecting books and authors to translate been changing and adapting? For example, Ueda is a new name while for Miyabe, this is if I'm not mistaken, the third book that you're bringing over.
Not especially, though we've tested some theories. Is it better to offer 500 to 800-page epics or short novels of the sort very common in Japan? We're still not sure, actually. What we are aiming for in general hasn't changed: high quality work that is easily recognizable as some subgenre of SF or fantasy or horror so that we can say to retailers and the public, "Yes, this is Japanese SF but it's not just a novelty. This is hard SF!" or whatever—military SF, Utopian satire, etc. We're also counter-programming a bit in that we like to offer SF with positive visions of days to come, rather than the now very common "grim meathook futures" of contemporary Western SF.
With the data you've accumulated over the past two years, who do you think is your core audience? Your titles have been nominated for the Shirley Jackson Awards (horror) and the Philip K. Dick Awards (sci-fi) so I'm interested who your perceive your target market to be, especially if there's a lot of crossover from the different genres.
The core audience, that is the people who buy our titles the first week they are available or have them on reserve at their local library, are fans of anime and manga or Japanese popular culture generally. With each book, we have to win part of the traditional SF, or fantasy, or horror audience. We are finally starting to get reviews and notices from the SF mainstream that go beyond, "Hmm, well this certainly is an example of Japanese science fiction, isn't it?" and that's a good sign, as are the award nods. The PKD award has informed my reading decisions for years, so I was especially thrilled when Harmony was nominated.
How have the fans of anime and manga been receiving the books?
They like them for the most part, of course. It's interesting that manga/anime reviewers will often focus on character relationships within a story—often comparing them to characters in manga and anime in fact—while SF/fantasy reviewers will scrutinize the science fiction elements more closely. But any book that can withstand multiple types of reading is a good one, in my view.
What are some of your favorite titles (and why), either previously published or the ones that are going to be published this year?
As we only do a handful of titles, I actually do like them all. My favorites were Harmony and The Next Continent. Harmony presses all my buttons—I love utopian satires (which people often confuse with dystopian stories for some reason) and it works very well. The Next Continent is pure SF—engineers, nay, ENGINEERING, is the hero. And it cleverly deals with the social and political ramifications of lunar colonization as well. For upcoming titles, the three I mentioned previously really stand out for me.
How many titles are you planning on releasing this year and what's the schedule like (i.e. 2 titles every 2 months, etc.)? How about the backlist, are older titles getting reprinted?
We're moving it around a bit. In January we did Mardock Scramble, which was so huge-800 pages—that it was our only release. This month we have Rocket Girls: The Last Planet, then in May Mirror Sword and Shadow Prince by Noriko Ogiwara, in hardcover, which is related to Dragon Sword and Wind Child. VIZ put out that book in 2007 and we just put it out in paperback in November. We're also doing a paperback of The Book of Heroes. A couple of our books are being reprinted—Battle Royale: The Novel (the new edition we did last year) is in its second run, and All You Need is Kill is on the verge of reprinting, thanks largely to the movie developments.
How about eBook releases, what are developments on that front like? For example, The Ouroboros Wave and Mardock Scramble are available on Amazon and the iBookstore (in the US as we don't get it here in the Phil.), and you released a novelette for Mardock Scramble as well.
We have a number of books available on Kindle and iPad, and we should be rolling out versions for Sony and Nook and the other e-reader formats soon. So far we have Lord of the Sands of Time, Usurper of the Sun, Brave Story, Yukikaze, Loups-Garous, Slum Online, The Next Continent, Harmony, The Ouroboros Wave, and Mardock Scramble available, and the two Rocket Girls books should be live in a few weeks. The one fun thing about the ebook is that one can really easily see jumps in sales based on some well-placed online reviews or even mentions by fans. So we're trying to encourage those, of course. The ebook reader really fuels impulse buys!
So is it fair to say that your entire backlist will be available as eBooks? Are there plans to make the eBooks available outside of the US (Amazon's the only one that sells outside the US but adds an additional $2.00 charge)?
We don't have digital rights to some of our titles, but we should have almost everything in digital formats by the end of 2011. We have worldwide English rights for most titles; right now they are available on Kindle and iPad in the US, the UK, and Canada but we're looking to distribute into other areas with significant numbers of English-language readers as well.
Moving back to the editorial side, how do you decide on the translators for each book?
At this point I have a small number I rotate between—partially it's simply a matter of keeping everyone busy, but not too busy. Partially it's serendipity. When I met Edwin Hawkes, for example, he mentioned that his favorite Japanese SF novel was Mardock Scramble, which we happened to have the rights for. With Ico, translator Alexander O. Smith brought the book to our attention, and also took care to note that the game on which the book is based is being re-released for the PS3.
And of course, if someone has done a certain author's book, we try to retain them when we do another book by that same author.
How about book design and cover art, how involved are you with the process?
Very. I try to keep the internal design fairly consistent, and we'll do a few test pages here and there to take a look at the designs we use for scene breaks and whatnot. We design many of our books in-house, but ship some out to a couple of different freelancers, though we usually provide a template.
With the cover art, we've been working with consistent fonts in order to build a brand, but now that we have some traction are experimenting—Mardock Scramble looks a little different than the other paperbacks, for example. For the art, sometimes we use the Japanese art, as in The Stories of Ibis and The Ouroboros Wave, or we'll commission original art as with The Book of Heroes—the cover artist for that one was painter Dan May and we literally had to scan a canvas. The Rocket Girls covers are also original art, from Japanese artist Katsuya Terada. Sometimes we just whip something up in-house, as with Mardock Scramble or Harmony.
Do you think the cover art has a significant impact on whether it'll be picked up by anime/manga fans as well as genre readers?
Well, we don't use mangaesque covers; even the Rocket Girls books and Usurper of the Sun, while betraying some hint of manga influence, don't really qualify. And our books appear in the SF/F section of bookstores, rather than the manga section. However, it is tricky—what we don't want to do is "whitewash" our books; we're selling Japanese SF and there's a certain visual aesthetic that goes along with it. We could look like every other book on the shelf, but we'd rather have our books be distinctive in a way that, we hope, pleases both audiences.
Thanks Nick. Here's my last question. Are there any challenges you didn't expect or discoveries that you encountered, after working with the Haikasoru line for the past two years?
One challenge is that every aesthetic or plot choice an author makes is, as a default, chalked up to either the translation or cultural differences, whether it's true or not. If an American author decides to be terse, for example, in the spirit of Raymond Carver, that's one thing—if a Japanese author makes the same choice, for whatever reason, critics and reviewers may assume that the choice was just an artifact of translation or an error.
The solution is easy though: more Japanese titles in translation, so that people can see the range of artistic choices Japanese writers make!
Haikasoru Week!
Following our first Author Week – featuring Ekaterina Sedia – which was both a success and a lot of fun (with more forthcoming), we've decided to do, in addition, a series of weeks focusing on genre publishers of international fiction, starting with the most exciting imprint to come around in a long time – Haikasoru, the Viz imprint dedicated to publishing Japanese science fiction in English translations, edited by Nick Mamatas.
During the week, we'll have an exclusive interview with Nick Mamatas; an original novelette by Tow Ubukata; a review of Housuke Nojiri's Rocket Girls, and The Last Planet, reviewed by Anil Menon; and a guest-editorial, On Japanese SF, from Nick Mamatas.
And, to celebrate the first Japanese title to be nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award this year, we have four copies of Harmony, by the late Project Itoh, to give away!
As before, this post will remain at the top of the blog for the remainder of the week. To enter a chance to win a copy of Harmony, simply post a comment below with your name and e-mail address. We will choose 4 winners at random at the end of the week. And, this being the World SF Blog, we'll ship them anywhere in the world.
We hope you enjoy's this week's unique look at current Japanese SF!
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Apex Book Company, publishers of The Apex Book of World SF and the forthcoming Apex Book of World SF 2, are currently running a special offer wherein many of their books will be available signed, and all orders of paper books will come with a free e-book edition. While we are unable to provide signed copies of The Apex Book of World SF, we're working on a special special promotion, which I hope we'll announce next week! Please consider ordering directly from Apex to support this excellent independent publisher.
Apart from The Apex Book of World SF, you could try WSB editor Lavie Tidhar's An Occupation of Angels or HebrewPunk, the remarkable horror & religion anthology Dark Faith, or pre-order Nick Mamatas' (editor of the Haikasoru line of Japanese SF novels) forthcoming book for writers, Starve Better. Or many other fine books!
Please consider picking up some great books, and supporting our great publisher in the process!
Anti-Racist Anthology? On the problems of Editing
Nick Mamatas recently pointed out new UK anthology Never Again: Weird Fiction Against Racism and Fascism (edited by Allyson Bird and Joel Lane), which is, in Nick's terms,
"an anti-fascist and anti-racist anthology, yet hasn't managed to include stories by any prominent writers of color."
When he asked the editors about it he was told that
"There are relatively few non-white writers of horror or supernatural fiction in the UK, and it happened that none of the writers whom we targeted on account of their fiction were non-white. Would you have preferred us to target and include writers on the basis of their skin colour, not their writing?"
The full thread and Nick's reply can be found here. A discussion on Nick's blog is here.
Writer and editor Maurice Broaddus, meanwhile, has dedicated a guest-post over at Jeff Vandermeer's blog to the subject, remarking:
As editors, we don't have the luxury of hiding behind this as a defense, because this is a straw one at best (and no amount of "my best friend is black" style waving is going to save you). Not to mention that this is a fairly ignorant, or at least ill constructed, "defense" because it's not like these two possibilities are mutually exclusive.
So what do you think? Comments, as always, welcome.
Haikasoru Week
For the rest of this week we're going to focus on books by Haikasoru, the English-language imprint of Japanese SF published by Viz and edited by Nick Mamatas. Charles Tan reviews Slum Online, Loups-Garous and The Next Continent. [note that these reviews first appeared on Charles' own blog, however we thought they were so good we wanted to run them ourselves!]
Nick Mamatas on The Anarchy of Translation
Over at the Haikasoru Blog, Nick Mamatas talks about translation:
We get similar issues cropping up all the time with Haikasoru titles. If a character has a family name that translates into "Thermometer" for example—and no, it's not a standard Japanese family name—do we call the character "Ms. Thermometer?" Even if the book is about a futuristic medical utopia? (Ultimately, the translator and I decided against. It just sounded silly.) When doing a medieval fantasy, what do we call clan leaders if the heir to the emperor is "prince"…which is itself a bit unsatisfying? Well, we might go for "duke" or "baron", but that doesn't quite capture the provincialism of the distant landlords—the clan heads are also not quite peers; they rank below what a westerner might call a duke or baron. "Head chieftain" is perhaps a close and almost literal translation, but that sounded a bit like "Boss President" to me. There's also "laird" but that term has a regional specificity that would shock many readers out of the story. In the end, I went with "headman." Though the translation isn't over yet, so we might come up with something else… Because we're doing popular fiction here, I try to keep editorial notes and footnotes to an utter minimum. Luckily, thanks to the popularity of Japanese pop culture these days, many of our readers are familiar with Japanese terms and the accoutrements of daily life. So far we haven't had to explain or apologize.
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06 exhaust leak
heres a dumb question......just got installed greddy sp2 cat back and helix downpipe(no cell)knock. how do i know if theres a leak in my exhaust? I sorta smell fumes with my windows rolled down, and is kinda loud(heard sp2 isnt supposed to be that loud). If not when i get the ap will it even be louder??
post #2 of 8 Old 08-23-2006, 11:03 PM
Just my imput, but usually when you get a new exhaust you smell fumes for a few miles. I had a custom 3" mandrel bent exhaust on my 94 Talon and it smelled for a few days of driving. For one, the gaskets will heat up and cause some of the smell, and the main smell will come from the special oil on the pipe that companies will use to keep the pipe from stress cracking while they mandrel bend it.
As far as leaks, get someone to peak there head under while you rev it. It will give you an idea of a possible leak, and where it might be coming from.
The loudness. Sorry dude, I havent done enough research on that exhaust to give my input.
Hope this helps man
As far as leaks, get someone to peak there head under while you rev it. It will give you an idea of a possible leak, and where it might be coming from.
The loudness. Sorry dude, I havent done enough research on that exhaust to give my input.
Hope this helps man
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Look around all of the joints where the exhaust parts meet. If you see carbon build-up you have a leak. If you're fully cat-less, you're going to have more odor due to the lack of them.
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post #4 of 8 Old 08-28-2006, 08:11 PM Thread Starter
I understand. thanks for the info. well running this setup for about a week now but have decided its way too loud for me. any other options you guys suggest while not taking away from performance???
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I like the GReddy Evo2 exhuast. It sounds nice but not too much louder than stock.
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post #6 of 8 Old 08-28-2006, 10:48 PM Thread Starter
Originally Posted by Kjott21
I like the GReddy Evo2 exhuast. It sounds nice but not too much louder than stock.
still a little loud for me though
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Sell me your SP2~! I think that it is one of the quieter exhausts out there. I've been searching for a SP2 and GReddy EVO2.
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Ill sell it to you whaen my friend gives me his sti catback, I traded him for my stck oem one. You might know him, his name is Lateef, a subaru mech from Rockland. I believe hes SQC.
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The Berklee World Strings and vocalist Mayssa Karaa perform Hafez Nazeri's The Passion of Rumi at the Berklee Performance Center in Boston, Massachusetts in November 2012.
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Africa's last polar bear mourns partner's death
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Wang, the only polar bear in Africa, has taken the death of his life-long partner very hard, tearing up toys and grass in the enclosure they shared, and two weeks after his loss he is still grieving.
The 30-year-old Geebee was found dead on January 13 in the pool of her Johannesburg Zoo enclosure after a heart attack. The two had been partners since they arrived at the South African zoo in 1985, each of them barely a year old.
"When we found her dead he wouldn't let us to her," the zoo's chief vet Katja Koeppel told Reuters on Friday.
"He refused to go back into the night room. He stayed out in the sun."
If not pacing about, Wang stood by Geebee's body and barely ate his rations, she said. After 24 hours, Koeppel had to sedate Wang to retrieve Geebee's remains.
For days afterwards, he was inconsolable, cutting up his toys and even bending the steel door of his pen, she added.
On Friday, Wang often nestled his head beneath his formidable front paws, as though trying to shut out the world. Occasionally he raised his head to sniff the air.
"He is coming to terms with it," said Koeppel.
Geebee arrived nearly three decades ago from Canada, while Wang came from a zoo in Japan. Despite being life-long partners, they did not breed because females must be in temperatures below 20 degrees Celsius for a minimum of 30 days. Continued...


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i figured lots of people bump their own shit no one wants to see...or they bump shit right above em no one wants to see..so im just surfing the wave...thought about bumping it again for the sake of bumping..people will realize..you did already! oh i forgot, i also used it to underline the quote...like chicken no head and so on...
wanna battle i out-skill you anyday...
cant believe you smacktalk my letters posting your gayness
Im not takin it personal but I dont think its toy at all. lol the ones that say psyke are oldddd.
Im not sayin im nasty either. Idk people`s opinion I guess
hmm thread is dyingg
mone: super dope
just quick exchange with soar crits?
skope nvm those bitchy bitches...only thing you need is a bit more flow and make it less complicated and you will do it good keep postin in here and you get mine crits
mone ur fills are awesome
swae- u tried using an eraser?
God...I really don't understand what's going on in half of this thread.
Buggin out on someone for using a quote?
Kids talking like they fucking king of their city when they're trash?
Boosting kids egos for no reasons?
Come on...
Mone, that fill is hot, but the letters don't really flow.
Swae, that A is horrrrible. Fix that up, and work on the O and the bottom of the S.
Fuck the Fame, the O is too thin, the Y is awkward, and the U is fatttt. The piece on the page back is bad. It has nooo flow. Idk what the first letter is either...
Skope, do simples. Those are bad. Post in the Toy BB Thread.
Ribcage, shut the fuck up. You don't know what you're talking about. You're in no position to give crits.
Nose, shut the fuck up. It's a god damn quote. People quote shit all the time next to their pieces. Grow the fuck up.
Plankton, lower your ego. You got good can control, but your letters are weakkkk.
Baite, define your letters more. Your pencil is mad light. Can't tell what it's supposed to be.
Homer, the one on the chick in jeans is nice. The one on the chick in the black pants is eh. The O and E are weak. Overall though, good shit.
Ravine, the way you connect the top loop and bottom loop of your B (or top loop and leg on your R) is really weird. You have it where both bars are coming out of the backbone individually, and overlapping a little. They should flow into each other to create a single bar. If you don't get what I mean, I'll make some shit on MS Paint to show you. On the first one, watch your widths, and the bottom of your A is fucked up. Second, again, the bottom right of your A is weird, and the L doesn't really flow. If you're going to have the backbone like that, make the backbone of all the letters like that. The third is kinda bad. It doesn't flow, and feels really...generic. 4th is just...weird.
Phaze, do simples. You got cool fills and all, but your letters are pretty bad.
SicK, not too bad, but not too good either. just work on it.
That's everyone on the last 3 pages critted.
Pen freebie for a battle on AMA. The N is too fat and the extension going into the middle is wack, but I'll fix that when I sketch it out. The bottom of the S is weird, too much dead space, but again, I'll fix it when I sketch it out. Few other small problems I need to fix. I think it has some potential.
That S and P are atrocious.
Heres your exchange MONE ...ohh and good shit mine is kinda sloppy my bad.
havent posted much heres what ive been up to.
yo cats tell me a better server cause this is clearly a dying dinosaur which has been striken by disease called "toys"
no but seriously this has been the only tread wat kept me going here on bs,but now it hurts my eyes to watch this shit wish i would ve joined earlier back in dem glory days,when grass was green and sun was bright.....
n if any of u have beef shit with me come bitches,im in dem mood
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bait, its just a website bro, you have a sick style, go out and paint that shit and dont worry about people seeing your sketches when 99% of them will never drive through your city anyway.


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The British, being mostly English - and thinking a movement is something best and most healthily accomplished in private, before breakfast - got the joke and all but ignored surrealism.
It didn't really cross the Channel until the summer of 1936, with a Bond Street show - well-attended, with 40,000 visitors, though not quite the 150,000 anticipated for Tate Modern's 'Surrealism: Desire Unbound' show (20 September to 1 January). There were major collectors - Edward James and Roland Penrose. There was also the odd artist and the odd fan - George Melly, mostly. The odd writer, too - poet David Gascoyne, still alive in the Isle of Wight, and Maurice Richardson, who wrote The Exploits of Engelbrecht and drank for The Observer . But that was pretty much that for surrealism as a British art movement.
Then, years later, surrealism popped up again, only this time in places quite apart from Bond Street galleries. We embraced the word itself - surreal thing. We used it to make jokes, very good ones, too. The Goons, At Last the 1948 Show, Monty Python - especially Terry Gilliam's animations - Vic & Bob, The Fast Show, The League of Gentlemen: a 50-year thread of surrealistic comedy. You won't find that in France, Spain, Germany or even America - though the impossible violence of Tom & Jerry and Itchy & Scratchy are a surrealism of their own sort.
And we took surrealism into our advertising, starting three decades ago with the Silk Cut ads, which made a visual pun - a major surrealist device - on the cigarettes' name. Rapidly, the avant-garde art movement propounded by intellectuals in French brasseries became a dominant language in British advertising. When, recently, the British public were invited to select the best TV ad of all time, they voted for the determinedly surrealist surfing horses ad for Guinness.
Jonathan Meades is a writer, eater and the maker of the TV film tvSSFBM EHKL, the centrepiece of a week of BBC surrealism. The film's 'surreal' title is an encryption that should be cracked easily by a nation that produced Bletchley Park and cryptic crosswords*. Like all the best surreal films - Buñuel, Monty Python, Gilliam's Time Bandits - it features dwarves and nuns. Its central point is that there's always been surrealism, only it wasn't called that. It's just a word for art that depicts our inner worlds rather than external reality. See Hieronymous Bosch. See William Blake. See The Bible, too. And Lewis Carroll - a children's writer here, a major figure sur le continent.
Surrealism's dreamy notions were quite familiar to the English, yet we didn't take to it as an art movement. Why, Jonathan? 'Well, there's a link between surrealism and religion - particularly Catholicism - and we Brits are deeply irreligious. Protestantism fails to turn the figurative into the concrete and plastic.' In other words, Church of England churches are not home to Virgin Marys. You don't find Christ's foreskin in British cathedrals - as you do in southern European ones. Rather, the surrealist impulse emerged in Jonathan Swift, in comics such as Meades's particular favourite) Marty Feldman, and in Lewis Carroll. 'It's no coincidence, either, I think, that Carroll was a clergymen at the very high point of the Church of England's power.'
So why did surrealistic imagery so suddenly re-emerge here at the turn of the 70s? Meades thinks it's a baby-boomer thing - a generation raised on the Goons, and growing up to the sound of the Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour and Syd Barrett. In 1968, there was a Magritte retrospective in London, followed by a major surrealism show in 1971 - when Buñuel films were almost mainstream in their appeal. It was also around that time that Hipgnosis (the 'g' is not silent, by the way) began designing surrealistically inclined album covers for Pink Floyd and others. Jonathan even appears on a few of them - the founders of Hipgnosis were friends of his. 'There was a distinct aesthetic shift which happened in the mid to late 60s, a very strong reaction against the pervasive naturalism of the 30s, 40s and 50s.'
And why did surrealism sweep through our advertising? Necessity was the mother. Increasing restrictions on tobacco advertising in the 70s forced advertisers to be allusive rather than direct with their advertising. Surrealism was an obvious source of inspiration. 'It's about national culture,' said Jorian Murray of ad agency, BMP DDB, who has worked on pan-European campaigns. 'German ads - it's the old cliché but it's true - are so rational. French ones tend to the stylish and the sexy. Ours leave the answer to be decoded. British people expect to be entertained by their ads. Their view is: we know you're marketing to us but do it well: tell us a good gag and we'll buy your product.'
And who was the young ad man who created that revolutionary, surrealist campaign for Silk Cut? Charles Saatchi, the world's greatest collector of dark, mannered, associative contemporary art - Damien Hirst's sheep and Meret Oppenheim's fur cup and saucer: discuss. Like, really surreal, innit?
*The film's hidden title is Surreal Film - the first word in the title involves shifting each letter forward one letter in the alphabet, the second word does the same thing only backwards.
tvSSFBM EHKL will be shown on 29 September on BBC2.


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We offer observations on the human condition from a twenty year old mind trapped in an 80 year old body.
I think, I am, I fail to plan, I am not.
America is a land for the wealthy, owned by the wealthy and governed by the wealthy.
Fox News promises pie in the sky if you believe their lies.
Youth shares bullshit on Facebook while being shit on by corporate America.
Children are physical beings trapped in a world of gadgets.
Disguised police cars should be illegal. If you want to arrest me, show the badge!
People who work in supermarkets rarely blow their tops. Why?
I wave at all tiny children. I am 80 which gives me wave freedom.


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