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Do not fret, my dear ones, the Duke of DVD has returned, no worse for the wear after my foray into snow sculpture, to give thee succor. Cling to my bosom, oh ye of frail mind, and let me take away your pain. Give pause as you sit on the side of your bed, bearded neck scratching as you let your head slump forward onto your pale chest, your sausage-like fingers gripping the handle of grandpappy's revolver. Stay your hand! Life is worth living once more, for I bring you once again the gospel of Mario Bava!
Cease your blubbering as Bava's genius washes over you, much like Jesus jumping out from behind a bush to scare you during your morning jog. Only this Jesus has a last name of Sanchez and is dressed only in a fertilizer sack, his turgid member tenting the front as he screams incoherent Spanish obscenities at you. You turn to run but trip over your iPod Shuffle's headphone cord, a moan escaping your lips as Jesus mounts you and begins to thrust in time to the tinny sounds of "Come On Eileen" issuing from your device lying nearby in the grass.
Such is Bava. Let us explore, shall we?
Bava's 1971 flick Bay of Blood opens with a twirling camera whisking us around the woods. We're following a fly, which promptly plunks into the water to its death. This is a fantastic way of establishing the movie we are about to see, which deals with a lot of themes, not just blood-letting. Next we see an old woman in a wheelchair, wheeling her way through an opulent home. She stops before a window, gazing out as rain streaks down. The scene is very lonely, and we get the sense that the woman lives in isolation.
She doesn't, however, live for very much longer! As it turns out, she is the Countess Federica, owner of a wide tract of desirable land around a bay. As she leaves the melancholy window-scape, her husband Filippo jumps out, throws a noose around her neck, then kicks the wheelchair out from under her. Bava's camera lingers for quite sometime, cutting back and forth between the bulging eyes of the Countess and her shuffling, useless feet as she tries in vain to save herself. Soon enough her struggles cease. Filippo thinks he hears a noise and goes to investigate. Finding only the wind causing the front gate to bang, he returns to the scene of his crime, pulling out a doctored-up suicide note, leaving it on a table near the spot where the Countess still hangs.
Suddenly, an unknown assailant stabs Filippo to death! The movie just got way more interesting, to say the least! We next meet Frank and his secretary/lover Laura as they lie in bed, the two wrapped in the hide of a dead animal, as all Italian lovers are in such scenes. Frank discusses how they are set to acquire some lucrative land just as soon as the Countess is taken out by her husband. Seems they have planned this out between them. Frank has to leave, but not before Laura drops the animal hide to display her goodies for him. Alas, we do not get to see this, for which I was greatly saddened.
Next we meet two other players, a bug enthusiast named Paolo and a local fisherman named Simon. Paolo is out trying to catch a rare bug, while Simon literally takes a bite out of a still-living squid in order to kill it. Right off we know that, while Paolo is kind-hearted and aloof, Simon is definitely the type who might do a little of the ol' stabbity-stab-stab when the need calls for it. We then cut to a carload of hippies, two couples in fact, driving around in their Dune Buggy of Love looking for a place to crash so that they can get their drug-fueled hippie sexing on. They end up, of course, choosing the late Countess's house.
First, one of the chicks gets the brilliant idea to go swimming in the bay (of blood!) by her lonesome. She's not in the water for five minutes before running into the floating, bloated body of Filippo. She runs screaming, but doesn't get very far before someone cuts her throat.
Meanwhile, back at the house, the chick-less hippie dude makes the last mistake he'll ever commit: answering the door. He pays for it with a sickle to the face that nearly splits his head in two! Elsewhere in the house, the other hippie couple are gettin' jiggy with it, when our killer arrives and runs them through, mid-coitus, with a stone-tipped caveman-esque spear.
I was really impressed by the depth of Bava's perversion in this scene, as he has the couple continue their sexual writhing even while impaled, for a good 20 seconds, which feels like a long time when you are watching two impaled people continue to fuck.
Very soon, we find out that Simon the Squidman is the killer. He hooks up with Frank the Real Estate Man, who is quick to accept the death of his former partner in crime, Filippo. Arriving next on the scene is Renata and her simpering husband Albert, along with their two kids, who we see in their travel trailer (more on them later). It seems that Renata is the daughter of the Countess, and is assuming that the estate is hers by right. Soon, however, we find out that Simon is also the son of the Countess, and presumably rather a black sheep since he didn't live in the main house and was forced to harvest squid for a living. At any rate, with no will to be found, the two are instantly at odds, and neither hesitate to resort to murder to get what they see as rightfully theirs.
To add once again to the menagerie of characters, we are introduced to the bug guy's wife, who is a amateur fortune teller. Renata and her hubby pay a visit to the odd-ball couple, where the fortune teller insinuates that Simon may be at fault for the death of Filippo, Renata's dad. Renata and Albert leave to go investigate the estate, and when Albert leaves Renata for a moment, Frank (he's the real estate guy, remember?) jumps out of nowhere to try and kill Renata, only to instead be killed by her! Unbeknownst to her, the bug-guy is watching all this and tries to call the cops, only Albert intercepts him and ultimately strangles him with the phone cord!
Albert arrives and gets Simon to basically sign away his share of the estate in exchange for helping him get a new lease on life, and by "new lease" Albert means an end to Simon's life, as he runs Simon through with a spear! So, in the end, we only have Renata and Albert left, foul murder having been done on all sides by all parties involved, except for the unlucky hippies, who should have damned well known better than to have sex near mysterious bays/lakes/inlets.
In what can only be termed the biggest fucking surprise ending since the Vicar's wedding video (hint: he was drunk, marrying an ox, and it was consummated on film), Albert and Renata head back in triumph to their travel trailer, and while standing by their car the trailer door opens and a shotgun appears, gunning down both Albert and Renata, the shooter one of their own children!
I'm not sure exactly what life lesson Bava is going for here, but damn if he didn't get some sort of point across to me. As the children run off to some sappy music playing, we hear one of them exclaim "Boy, mommy and daddy sure are good at playing dead!" Fin. The end. The end result is a body count second only to the aforementioned Vicar wedding video, and a moral lesson on the nature of, um, nature and man's greed brings nothing but death, and you can probably sprinkle a little bit about how bug-collectors shouldn't fornicate with fortune tellers, oh and how sexy secretaries draped in animal hides can only mean bad things for land developments planned around the murder of invalid Countesses.
Got all that? Good. I must say that while this isn't the best Bava film (see my take on Lisa and the Devil for that honor!), it has immediately captured a place in my heart for many reasons. First we have Bava's trademark camera (he was the Director of Photography for this film as well as the director). Stunning shots of the bay, rain falling on water, and even the way a squid slides off a corpse's face. All of these things are rendered with an eye for detail, a nuanced control that few others ever achieved, and certainly a rarity in the realm of horror. The plot itself is also a wonder, taking us on a breathless ride through greed and murder, with some excellent special effects accompaniment that gives it that extra edge.
The WTF-ness of the ending is just the icing on the cake. The children murder the parents, thus completing the circle of how the movie starts. Bay of Blood was called Ecologia del Delitto in Italy (and also goes by the super-awesome name of Twitch of the Death Nerve), and the Italian title gives us a little more insight as to what the movie was intended to be. For me, it's a tour-de-force of crazy killing, fucked-up endings, and trademark Bava insanity. Two and a Half Thumbs Up for this one, kiddos.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Bay of Blood (1971): Or How I Learned To Stay Out Of The Real Estate Market
Posted by The Duke of DVD at 8:00 PM
Labels: '70s, 2-3 thumbs, Hippies, Mario Bava, Naked Hippie Sex, Psycho Killer
9 comments:
- dfordoom said...
While I generally adore Bava's films, this one left me cold I'm afraid. Too much reliance on gore, which Bava (a master of atmosphere) didn't need to do.
- February 2, 2010 at 11:00 PM
- Jay Clarke said...
Big fan of this one. For its influence as much as its bodycount. Though not as flashy as Blood & Black Lace, I just love its if-five-minutes-goes-by-without-a-gruesome-death-something's-wrong attitude!
- February 3, 2010 at 11:08 AM
One of Bava's best and a real trendsetter in retrospect. And the big German girl is way hot!
- February 3, 2010 at 11:36 AM
- Chet Of The Undead said...
Cling to my bosom, oh ye of frail mind, and let me take away your pain.
Ummm...thanks, but can I cling to the bosoms of the chick on the cover there instead and just PRETEND that they are yours? ;)
Cease your blubbering as Bava's genius washes over you, much like Jesus jumping out from behind a bush to scare you during your morning jog.
You are SOO right about that man!! The hijo de God is SUCK A FREAKIN' prankster, don't even get me started on the time he brought in the Holy Ghost to Pants me while he....or the time when he lit one of Buddha's farts and....uhh...nevermind! ;)
This movie sounds a little farmilar, like perhaps I may have perused it ina drunken, Cheetos fingers and mouthed stupor in the early hours before dawn.
I may have to try and watch it again sometime.
Thanks for the Memory Jog dude...oh and the review!
- February 3, 2010 at 11:49 PM
- Al Bruno III said...
Once again this site offers up a fine sampling of prose and insight.
Also I laughed so hard at some of the parts of it I got a nosebleed.
- February 4, 2010 at 5:39 AM
- Mark Hodgson, said...
Which DVD did you watch? I'm trying to find the best uncut version...
- February 4, 2010 at 7:17 AM
- The Duke of DVD said...
Dearest readers, thank you for all the kind comments!
@dfordoom - I'm sorry it left you cold, but please give it another chance! Sure, there's gore, but it's tastefully done, and the cinematography more than makes up for some hatchet facials.
@Chet of the Undead - You may indeed cling to a busty Euro-babe's bosom, if you must. I'll *sniff* try to be understanding *runs off to cry in the corner*
@Mark Hodgson - I watched the Anchor Bay DVD that came in my Bava boxed sets. The transfer was fairly pristine, with only a minimal amount of grain and/or pubic hairs.
- February 4, 2010 at 3:07 PM
- Tenebrous Kate said...
I'm really enjoying your Bava Appreciation Series, Duke!
In addition to what everyone else has noted about this justly-beloved movie and its justly-beloved director, I'm just going to chime in and note that Claudine Auger is really a stunner in her role as Renata. Seriously, is it just me or did Bava's films feature some of the loveliest leading ladies?! That lucky bastard...
- February 4, 2010 at 4:05 PM
- dfordoom said...
I guess I've just always had a preference for Bava's gothic horror movies, rather than his giallos. To me gothic horror is where his true genius lay.
And science fiction! Surely his most underrated movie is Planet of the Vampires!
- February 5, 2010 at 6:44 AM


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If Wenger was to spend big on one of Europe's up and coming talents, that money should defiantly go towards luring Stevan Jovetic to the Emirates Stadium.
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The Montenegro international possesses fabulous technical ability with a great first touch to match, putting him in a position to pass with efficiency and unlock defences, whilst he can cross the ball extremely well from both sides of the pitch. Jovetic is two-footed, takes a great penalty, free-kick and corner, and he is an all round top talent who at times, resembles a young Robin van Persie.
Wenger demands that all his players can at least play in two positions, giving him the ability to change tactics during games without changing personnel. Jovetic can play up front as he has an eye for goal, shown by his tally of eight goals in the Serie A this year. He can play on either wing cutting in from the left-hand side or whipping crosses in from the right, and can also play as a creator sitting behind the striker in the traditional trequartista role. Jovetic is effectively a technically proficient version of Theo Walcott - and a step up in quality too.
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ORANGE, Calif. – For almost the whole game, the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps football team hung around. A three minute stretch to close out the game put some distance between the two teams on the scoreboard as Chapman pulled away for a 42-20 win over CMS in a SCIAC football game on Saturday night at Wilson Field. The loss dropped CMS to 2-6, 1-5 in SCIAC while Chapman improved to 7-1 overall, 5-1 in in conference play.
With 2:39 remaining in the fourth quarter, CMS got within one score at 28-20 after freshman QB Trey Reynolds capped off a 16 play, 83-yard drive with a 7-yard touchdown run. Reynolds ran for 43 yards and threw for 217 yards but did throw three interceptions on the night.
After the CMS touchdown, Chapman recovered an onside kick and then answered with a rushing touchdown of its own by Cody Chapple to stretch the lead back to two scores at 35-20 with 1:35 remaining in the game. CMS' last-ditch effort on its next offensive possession ended with an interception thrown by Reynolds which Drew Demarco returned 45 yards for a Chapman touchdown to make the score 42-20.
CMS trailed by just a score of 7-0 at halftime in part because CMS forced two Chapman fumbles in the first half. Twice CMS managed to get within four points of Chapman in the second half. On the opening possession of the second half, CMS drove all the way to the Chapman 6-yard line but the drive stalled and CMS settled for a 23-yard field goal by freshman K Matthew Aven to narrow the score to 7-3 with 9:38 remaining in the third quarter. On the drive, senior WR Kris Otterholt had two of his game-high nine receptions including a 19-yard catch from Reynolds. Otterholt had 86 yards receiving for the Stags while senior WR Greg Wilson added 78 yards on four catches including a 49-yarder.
Chapman answered quickly with its ground attack. After a 42-yard kickoff return, Chapman went 52 yards on five plays, all on the ground, to go ahead 14-3 on a 7-yard touchdown run by Chapple. The Chapman running back had four touchdowns in the game and 102 yards rushing while Kean Stancil ran for 159 yards for Chapman.
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Traditionally, when a team loses in a manner so ugly that the contest can barely be witnessed live, let alone reviewed on tape, the mantra is to just burn the tape. Well, sometimes writers who cover that kind of game follow a similar mantra: burn the copy. This was such a game. That's what I had to do to with the first draft of this column, which I wrote the night after the game. I torched it. I am glad I did. It afforded a cool-down lap to see things in their proper perspective, which is always the best way to go.
Beuller? Bueller?….Frye?
We all knew this game was a proverbial gut-check game. With one SEC loss, and the East division leader hosting the Gators, the margin for error had been eliminated and the team had to rise to another level. It sank. Nobody answered the bell. The stethoscope was in the right place but detected no heart. Regardless of all the problems the team has had forced upon them by the catastrophic volume of injuries, there is still a ton of great athletes and football players taking the field for the Gators, and some of them had to step up and make a play. And if you could count more than three men on the team who did, you had better eyes than I have.
That was the most telling storyline of this game. Not that the offense played terribly for the second-straight week, not that the defense got shredded like scrap wood, and not that as feared Tyler Murphy was not a magician – and when he has forced to run for his life with nobody to throw to and nobody gaining yards on the ground, that he would be just as human and just as unable to make the offense go with the wave of a hand as Jeff Driskel was. The most telling storyline of this game was that nobody outside of Solomon Patton and Kelvin Taylor took the reigns and made a play.
The quarterback and the defensive line get somewhat of a pass, for different reasons. Tyler is excused because as I said when this happened to previous quarterbacks, no signal caller from college to the pros can do anything without at least a little time now and then to get his wits and execute a play. As for the defensive line, how can you hold the group that accountable Saturday, the way they were being held? I've been watching football for a number of years and cannot recall any game where the offensive line held as egregiously as the Tigers did Saturday afternoon without ever being flagged. At one point, on consecutive plays, Bullard was dragging a lineman behind him who was clinging to his arm and jersey like Tarzan to a vine. The ref was looking right at him. Right at him. Never even flinched toward the flag in his pocket. At some point, this corrupt officiating has to be addressed by the Athletics Director or other administration at UF in an official manner, but that will not happen for a long time (if ever), so we are left with the directive of having to be good enough to beat a football team and an officiating crew every week. Business as usual at UF.
But clean officiating would not have saved this day for Florida.
Guys Up Front Played Like Behind
The unit that was the most disappointing was of course the offensive line. After being utterly dominated the week before by LSU, the offensive line had its manhood challenged by the coaches. They did not respond to that challenge. Not even a little. That was more difficult to stomach than it was to watch. As much as the OL has labored due to injuries this year, there is no excuse for playing THIS badly. The majority of the Florida offensive plays Saturday – pass or run – were all-out jailhouse breaks for the Tigers' defense. And it was not just Gator linemen being whipped by speed rushes, being pushed backwards like children and being confused by stunts or blitzes. On most plays, it was clear that nobody had any idea who they were supposed to block. Most of the rushers who came free untouched did so by running right past a Gator offensive lineman who chose to let his run past and instead wait to block some mystery rusher to be named later.
While Florida has seldom been in this dire a depth situation, there have been times in the past where linemen have had to play out of position and injured starters had to be replaced by backups who otherwise should never be on the field in meaningful SEC play. The 1996 season comes to mind, where OL Coach Jimmy Ray Stephens had to shuffle linemen all year due to games being missed, particularly late in the year when they lost an offensive tackle and the center. While All-SEC snapper Jeff Mitchell was lost for the year in the eighth game of the season with a busted knee, little-used and overmatched reserve Wylie Ritch stepped in and did what he had to do to open running lanes and keep Danny Wuerffel's jersey just clean enough to win a national title. And the rest of the line raised their game at the end of the year to overcome the loss of Mitchell and the temporary loss of future All-SEC tackle Zach Piller.
We did not see any such heroics taking place Saturday in Columbia. And it is a real shame. The offensive line is the single obstacle that the rest of the team cannot overcome. And that unit has unfortunately destroyed what was potentially one of the top two or three stories (or at least biggest feel-good stories) of the year in Tyler Murphy's quarterback play off the bench. Not that any other units on the team did anything to compensate for the offensive line, or even to do their jobs to a passable level.
Linebacker play was undisciplined and overall atrocious for the second-straight game. The defensive backs were at times – all the critical times – simply awful. The wide receivers dropped passes all day, when they weren't doing volleyball sets to the Missouri defense of course. There was just 3:23 left in the game when the Gators made only their second big hit of the day, and that by a backup – Jarrod Davis. You can't go on the road in the SEC and make two good hits all day and expect not to get buried like the Gators did Saturday.
Back to Reality
All that having been said, all those finger having been wagged at the players (and they certainly were nothing compared to what the coaching staff will be giving them the next two weeks), the reality of the situation is that while the 2013 season is deteriorating fast, it is not the 2013 Gator team suffering these losses. Not the team that was supposed to be playing, at least. We all know that the offense started the game without its starting quarterback, starting running back, starting right tackle, starting wide receiver and probable starting tight end all due to injury, and had their starting right guard playing with a badly torn pectoral muscle. But the defense that played so badly Saturday has nearly caught up to the offense in injuries. After the first play of the game, the Gator defense played Missouri without its starting nose tackle, starting defensive tackle, starting linebacker and starting safety. And of course, the Gators have seen missed games or substantial parts of games from a second starting linebacker, two starting cornerbacks, the starting center and the starting left offensive tackle.
Between injuries, suspensions and ejections, the Gators have lost just one player shy of half of their starting 22 at some point or another this year.
At some point you have to just say, "Okay 2013, we give up. You got us."
We have that luxury as fans. The players do not. And that's the hope going forward.
What Changes Await?
This week, Coach Muschamp said that changes were coming and that he would "fight my @ss off" because his back is against the wall. The assumption by many fans is that Muschamp's talk about his back being against the wall is in reference to his coaching tenure – that he is feeling the heat from Jeremy Foley, fans, boosters, what have you – and that he feels he is in a fight for his job.
For those who are chalking this up to the proverbial "vote of confidence" kiss of death, I would offer this question:
With what degree of certainty do we believe his "back against the wall" comment refers to his coaching tenure?
Because there is no reason I can think of that would rule out the possibility that he was talking about the SEC East race in 2013, or simply the prospect of having a strong overall season in 2013.
To win the East, UF has to win its last three and have Missouri lose three of its last five (or have them lose two and then have Florida win a three-way tie-breaker, but that is highly unlikely given that Florida is currently last in all tie-breaking categories). Missouri still has to play South Carolina, Tennessee, Ole Miss and Texas A&M, all of which have a decent chance of beating them. The Tigers losing three SEC games this year is not a long shot at all. Florida has two weeks to prepare for UGA, who is having almost as many injury problems as Florida is, and their defense reeks as badly or worse than Florida's offense does. South Carolina just lost to a Tennessee team that UF dominated. Vandy is Vandy. Florida can very well win those three games if they solve some of their OL issues. They won't have to solve all of them, just enough.
And anyone who has been a Gator fan since 1992 (or an LSU fan since 2007) knows that you absolutely can win a division title in the SEC with two losses, even when the competition is great.
So, why would we assume that Champ is talking about his coaching tenure? He is 15-4 in the last season and a half against the toughest schedule in the nation over that span. Why would he feel his job is in danger? Because a faction of fans pining for Spurrier dial-a-score games are upset that our offense is struggling without four or five starters (depending on the tight end projection) out for the year and three other starters missing games or large chunks of games? The Gator offense was not "sexy" but it was playing pretty decently given all those personnel losses before the OL started to play two weeks ago like they just picked up the game.
I don't think that Coach Muschamp feels his job is in any danger, and I think he is correct. And if he did, I seriously doubt he would start to talk to the media about it in such a way, like his neck is out there on the block. I think he was talking about this season alone. He knows he has his third-straight stellar recruiting class coming in this year and 2014 is when his program will be taken over by more of his signees than Meyer recruits, and he feels the future is bright and the sky is the limit. I think he was talking about this year and this SEC East race when he mentioned his back against the wall.
I think there are jobs on the line right now, but not Muschamp's. The jobs of one or more assistants may start to be more closely evaluated, and certainly the starting job of a number of under-achieving players may be on the line over the next couple of weeks. Muschamp benched the best punter in the nation from last year, even after he threw the best pass of the year for the Gators against LSU, and of course he demoted both the first- and second-string placekickers. So he is not shy about benching entrenched starters who are not doing their jobs.
Unfortunately, the one area that needs to be "coached with the bench" more than any other is the unit that has no bench with which to coach: the offensive line. The coaching staff will have to make some changes in scheme, game plan and strategy, and probably some practice and game approaches over the next two weeks to try to salvage the season with a win over Georgia. However, I am very curious as to just how much can be done with this offensive line. If they cannot play markedly better than they have the last two weeks, it won't matter what changes are made. They won't work.
Long Range Plans
For those who grumbled or just got a good laugh over the brief mention of the Gators' remaining stake in the SEC East (stranger things have happened), there is still hope for the more long-range future. The future beyond December, 2013. And that hope can be found in a place where few Gator fans look to for anything but scorn: Tallahassee.
FSU should also serve as a prime example of why we should look to the future with high expectations and why nobody should mess with Coach Muschamp until he has had a chance to right the Gator ship. Jimbo Fisher has been building the program at FSU for seven years. That's how long since he was hired as the head-coach-in-waiting. It's taken seven years of mediocre-to-terrible teams to get to the point of looking this good (and still, against mostly horrible competition).
Clemson was the first team they've faced that is not horrible, but their defense has always been horrible, and their offense has been falling apart the last few weeks – this was just the final rung on the ladder they have fallen off since opening the season so strong against Georgia (which defense is miserable and facilitated their offense as much as they could). But lack of complete buy-in aside, the Semis look great in the context of their competition and they are a smoothly-running machine that is making their fans giddy to watch them every week.
It took Jimbo seven years to get here.
Muschamp had to take a year to clean up and clean out a broken program. He has been coaching a bought-in program for just 20 games now. That's one game over 1.5 years. Jimbo took seven. And he still has not won anything worth mentioning at parties.
Everyone in Gator Nation is fawning over FSU this year, and some want Muschamp fired. Even though 'Champ won 11 games last year and crushed FSU, in only Year Two of his head coaching career. Now he's having troubles in Year Three – troubles, I might add, that everyone predicted and knew were coming even before all the injuries. Jimbo took seven to get here. If FSU had fired Fisher two years ago, they'd still be terrible and would still be terrible three years from now and be at another coaching crossroads decision of whether to fire or wait it out. But the FSU Athletics Director and administration had enough faith and belief in Fisher to stick it out through all those ugly, ugly years. You think losing to LSU and Missouri feels bad? Try losing to Wake Forest three years in a row and see how that fits.
If you are confident the coach will get you there, you give him the time to do it. Jeremy Foley is confident in Muschamp. So are a ton of Gator fans. Some are not, but they are basing that on short term results and not looking at the great job he did getting the program from the dumpster fire of 2010 to the 11-win team of 2012.
We're watching the sausage being made, which is never pretty. And this year, a lot of the machinery has broken down. But if we shut down the sausage factory now, all the sausage will spoil and we'll have to wait for a new shipment to come in and start all over again.
And there will be no guarantee that the new owner will do any better. There is no guarantee Florida will hire the next Abe Froman, sausage king of Chicago.


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Goldman received his bachelor's degree from Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash., and a master's degree from Lewis and Clark College in Portland.
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Skalka received his bachelor's degree from Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Penn., a master's degree from Central Connecticut University in New Britain, Conn., and a Doctor of Education degree from the University of Michigan.
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The Pittsburgh Panthers visit to Wallace Wade Stadium this Saturday is their first ACC road test.
It also marks the resumption of a long dormant rivalry, one that has produced some compelling, high-quality football.
The teams have met 17 times, with Pitt winning nine, Duke eight. Pitt beat Duke back in 1929 in the first game played at what is now Wallace Wade Stadium. The two programs met six consecutive years from 1937 through 1942, with Duke winning four times.
Several of these games had national-title implications, including a 10-0 Pitt win in 1937 that wrapped up a national title and Duke's 7-0 win a year later, that sent the Blue Devils to the Rose Bowl.
National titles weren't at stake again until the 1970s. Pitt football hit rock-bottom, going 1-10 in 1972. Johnny Majors took over the following year and revived the program, bringing in practically an entirely new team his first season.
Duke's Mike McGee was in his fifth season at his alma mater when 1-2 Duke traveled to 2-1 Pittsburgh on October 4, 1975. Majors' most successful recruit was junior tailback Tony Dorsett, on the way to a 1,600-yard rushing season.
Duke assigned linebacker Carl McGee to shadow Dorsett and the Blue Devils held him to a modest 84 yards, on 19 carries. But Pitt quarterback Robert Haygood and Dorsett each scored from a yard out, while Duke's offense struggled. Duke's best scoring opportunity came to naught in the third quarter when Leroy Felder intercepted a Bob Corbett pass in the end zone.
The final was 14-0.
Dorsett finished fourth in the 1975 Heisman voting, trailing winner Archie Griffin, Chuck Muncie and Ricky Bell, all running backs. Duke had played Bell earlier that season.
Duke thought it could get revenge in 1976, this time back in Durham. Duke began the 1976 season with an upset road win over Tennessee, a loss to South Carolina and a victory over Virginia.
Pittsburgh kicked off the campaign ranked ninth in the AP poll. Despite losing Haygood to a season-ending knee injury, the Panthers posted wins over Notre Dame, Georgia Tech and Temple.
They came to Durham ranked second, trailing only Michigan.
McGee's Blue Devils were accustomed to playing national powers. Southern Cal, Alabama, Stanford, Washington and Florida had all appeared on Duke's schedule under McGee's tenure.
"Duke players loved playing that kind of competition," McGee says from his home in Colorado. "They responded to that kind of challenge. We competed with anyone."
Mike Barney, a tailback on that 1976 Duke team, says they fed off McGee's combativeness. "Mike McGee had us thinking we could beat anyone. He knew how to motivate us. We had a toughness. We could play smash-mouth football. We were excited to play somebody like that. We saw it as an opportunity."
Tony Benjamin was Duke's fullback. A Pennsylvania native, he had considered Pitt "but Majors brought in so many players, that it discouraged me. Based on how we had played them the year before and based on our win at Tennessee, we thought we had a chance."
A crowd of 37,200 showed up to see if Benjamin was right.
The early returns were promising. Duke controlled the ball for almost 11 minutes in the first period and converted a 4th and inches in its own territory as part of a 75-yard drive. Art Gore finished it off from four yards out.
The lead didn't last long. Pitt struck back on a four-play, 76-yard drive. The last 66 came on a Matt Cavanaugh to Willie Taylor bomb, when Duke corner back Bob Grupp gambled on an interception and lost.
Making only his second start after the injury to Haygood, Cavanaugh was a wild-card. Any rational defensive strategy against Pitt started with Dorsett. "We had a good game plan for Dorsett," McGee recalls. "But we didn't expect that from Cavanaugh."
The first period ended 7-7. James Wilson blocked a Grupp punt out of the end zone for a safety early in the second quarter.
It stayed 9-7 for most of the second period. Barney recalls Pitt lineman Randy Holloway "really clogging things up. We had a hard time moving him."
Then the roof caved in. Or the wheels came off.
Whatever idiom one uses, it was one of the worst three minutes in Duke football history.
It started when Duke's star quarterback Mike Dunn threw an interception at the Duke 35. A few plays later Andy Schoenhoft had Cavanaugh wrapped up for an apparent sack but Cavanaugh somehow found Taylor in the end zone for a 10-yard touchdown.
Duke had a three-and-out and Grupp punted off the side of his foot. Pitt went 49 yards in 25 seconds, with Cavanaugh and Jim Corbett connecting on the 27-yard score.
Dunn had been banged up on the previous drive and was replaced by Dale Oostdyk. McGee wanted to get some points back but Oostdyk was intercepted by Bob Jury at the Duke 37.
It was Oostdyk's only pass of the 1976 season.
Pitt had 15 seconds, time enough for Gordon Jones to outrun Earl Cook on a fly pattern down the left sideline.
The half ended 30-7.
"We made a couple of critical mistakes and the next thing you know, we were chasing them," Barney laments. "We went into the locker room wondering what happened."
Benjamin has similar memories. "It's just debilitating how quickly it can happen. That's the sport. One little mistake and that's how momentum shifts. When momentum is on your side, that's the kind of thing that can happen."
It got worse before it got better. Pitt took the second-half kickoff and added to its lead when Cavanaugh found Jones from the Duke 24.
This made it 37-7.
Facing a defeat of epic proportions, Duke dug deep.
"We had the mindset that we could compete with anyone," Benjamin says. "We had a tremendous amount of pride. Coach McGee was a tough-minded coach and that translated into a tough-minded group. We weren't going to stop playing just because of the score."
Dunn was Duke's ace in the hole. The 6-4 sophomore was an elite pass-run quarterback, good enough to lead the ACC in total offense in 1976. "An outstanding athlete and a great leader," McGee recalls. "I can still see him stretching out for a first down."
Barney calls Dunn "a great guy to go to battle with. He was ahead of his time. He was a fierce competitor. He would put his body on the line and do anything to win a game. He gave us a chance against anybody."
Dunn led a 58-yard drive. Barney scored from a yard out and Dunn hit Benjamin for a two-point conversion.
Dorsett finally got loose from Carl McGee and scampered 32 yards, to the Duke 35. Cavanaugh hit Corbett for 31 more, to the Duke four. Dorsett took it in. It was 44-15, with 2:51 left in the third period.
Dunn hit Chuck Williamson with a 55-yard score, Williamson making a juggling catch in traffic. Dunn ran for the conversion and it was 44-23.
The visitors used up five minutes before Dorsett lost a fumble at the Duke 32. Duke responded with another scoring drive but burned five valuable minutes in the process. Barney's 1-yard touchdown and another two-point conversion made the score 44-31, with 5:31 left.
It ended that way.
Dorsett ended the game with 129 rushing yards on 31 carries, while Cavanaugh set a school record with five touchdown passes, completing 14-17 for 339 yards.
Benjamin led Duke with 71 rushing yards, while Dunn passed for 197. Tom Hall had six catches, for 74 yards.
Pittsburgh went on to win the national title after completing a 12-0 season with a 27-3 win over Georgia in the Sugar Bowl. Dorsett won the Heisman by a landslide over Ricky Bell of Southern Cal.
Duke finished 5-5-1.
The programs haven't met since. But Benjamin vividly recalls the day Duke went eyeball to eyeball with the nation's best team and didn't blink. "We competed for 60 minutes and never backed down. I still take great pride in that."
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Even as Microsoft isn't having much success with its "PC-Plus" strategy, now Google's taking a shot at device arithmetic.
Google Chairman Eric Schmidt spoke at the AllThingsD Dive Into Mobile conference today, and referred to Motorola's upcoming devices as "phones-plus," saying that the smartphone-making subsidiary's product pipeline is "phenomenal." Schmidt was responding to a question about whether Moto's incoming devices were phones or tablets.
The tidbit is quite a tease, since "phablet" has become a part of our accepted vernacular, and presumably he would have just used that portmanteau if Motorola had some jumbo smartphones en route.
His comments also suggest that perhaps Google is getting close to draining out the uninspiring pipeline it inherited, and rumors continue to circulate about what Motorola's "X Phone" will look like. That was about all the detail investors got out of Schmidt today regarding what Googorola is planning.
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Monday, January 22, 2007
Uh-Oh, He Went There
Of course with a title like that, you're going to get some traffic; unfortunately, just like Pat Maddox's blog post today, Java People Must Be Stupid, a title which draws in traffic doesn't always necessarily draw in a whole lot of thoughtful comments as well. Must be some astrological thing, it's a good day for provocative titles that result in minimally thoughtful discussions.
The big theme in the dumber comments on Ramon's post was that Rails is obviously better than Seaside, because you can generate HTML programmatically in Rails too. The thing is, Seaside's advantage is not the ability to generate HTML programmatically. That's like, you're packing for a trip, so you compare a black sweater and a white spacesuit, and you say the sweater's better because it's hard to keep white clothes clean. These are completely different things. The sweater might be easier to wear on the plane, but if your destination is above the atmosphere, the spacesuit is going to be your only option.
Seaside doesn't generate HTML programmatically because that approach has some inherent superiority. Seaside generates HTML programmatically because it's necessary in the context of Seaside's design, and Seaside's design is the interesting part. Seaside uses a completely distinct paradigm for Web applications, and it's a paradigm where template files are much less useful. You could add templates to Seaside very, very easily, but it would be a bad idea.
Here's why. Think about named routes. Jamis Buck praised these today, and his praise certainly had some merit. Jamis Buck is, of course, a very, very smart programmer. But think about named routes. What is a named route, exactly? If your Web application could be conveniently and comprehensibly viewed as a single codebase, what would a named route be?
Named routes would be labels, the last relic of goto still surviving in Java and Perl -- and probably many other places as well -- like a Loch Ness icthyosaur lurking somewhere in Scotland, millions of years after the extinction of all its cousins. There's a reason that the guy who created Seaside calls his blog HREF Considered Harmful. An explicit, hard-coded href is completely identical to a goto. It is the same thing. And although the implementation of named routes is beautiful, the basic idea is only slightly more elegant than the basic idea of a named goto.
Say you've got an app which you're building first without Ajax, and then with Ajax. This is a very common development practice, because Ajax is often a pain in the ass to debug. Assume you're building such an app, and assume further that all the hard stuff happens on the server side, and the Ajax stuff is just cosmetic. If you build this app first without Ajax, you get to code all the hard parts in the context of standard Rails error messages -- in effect using your server and browser almost as a de facto IDE. Then when you do the last little Ajax bit, the cosmetic bit, all you're really doing is changing the views and a few controller render calls.
If you were in Seaside, you wouldn't have to do that. Seaside views HTML as a stream, and the same component can generate the same HTML on the stream whether the stream's sent out as a complete page load or an incomplete page load. Different divs in the page can come from different objects in Smalltalk, and the same set of objects can be used for rendering as Ajax or in the original Web 1.0 style. It makes no difference at all. You have complete control. And while you can emulate that kind of componentized system in Rails, with multiple levels of nested partials, it isn't elegant at all. In fact it's so heinously inelegant that you can really only do it for trivial cases. It's kind of like the way you can really only do trivial flow control if you're using goto.
But let's take it even further. Say something changes. You have a series of steps to fill out, in a form. If Pat Maddox is working for you, you can already fill out those steps in any random order, and it's not going to matter. But in most cases, you'll have to revise your system. Like say you've got a form, and the form has twenty fields, and those fields all live inside one form which you display to the user with a render call. And suddenly you want the user to be able to enter the form fields in any order, and have them saved immediately. And further, you want these form fields to be accessible at any point, anywhere in the application, where before they were only accessible at specific points, on specific pages.
To transform a code base this way, it might be possible in Rails, if you have a good team. In fact I think that's the whole point of the restful approach, and if I understand correctly, that's why people are so excited about it.
But to transform a code base this way, in Seaside? There is no transformation. You get all that for free. It's built in. That's the whole point of Seaside. Dismantling your entire design just to save form fields in a different order isn't necessary if you aren't using the 2007 goto anywhere in your code base.
At best, a Web application framework built on URLs gives you a command-line interface in the "Location" box. At worst, you get a tangled nest of gotos. But with a continuation server, you get an entire app on every page load. Everything you need is right there. The type of flexibility and detailed control which users take for granted in desktop apps is absolutely achievable in Web apps -- but it might not be achievable with Rails.
That is the question that makes Seaside interesting. Is what Seaside does without breaking a sweat even possible with Rails?
I still work with Rails. I love Rails. I'm just saying all this to offset the stupidity of the comments in Ramon's blog about Rails being able to generate HTML programmatically. It's not about being able to generate HTML programmatically. It's about being able to generate Web apps programmatically.
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Seaside is certainly an excellent framework, much for the same reasons as Rails — it's opinionated in the way a web-application should be built. It's opinions are, however, very different.ReplyDelete
That being said, your comparison of URLs to goto statements isn't just wrong, it's dangerous. Using a goto statement to jump to a label in your code is considered bad form because it encourages unstructured programming and spaghetti code. The program is still just as powerful, but much more difficult for people to maintain and build on because it's no longer grouped into some sort of logical structure.
A URL on the other hand is a name. In the case of the web, it references a resource. If I give you a URL, you should be able to dereference it and retrieve a representation of that resource. What's more, it's not good style to change that URL. On the web, URLs aren't part of the implementation — their part of the interface. URLs are one of the primary reasons the web has succeeded to the extent is has today.
In this respect, comparing URLs to goto's doesn't make much sense. URLs are much more like messages being passed to a webserver, possibly with other arguments (in the query string or body.) I'll agree that Rails dispatching using labels could be improved, there'd be advantages to dispatching to the controller / action you're referencing and decoupling that for URL generation (much like Camping does.)
Yea, I went there, I couldn't resist. They're both awesome frameworks, why shouldn't they be compared.ReplyDelete
If you like REST, use Rails, but if you think manually binding pages together with manually passed parameters sucks and can be improved upon, use Seaside.
Justin, using a URL is also a jump to a label, and also encourages unstructured programming and spaghetti web sites where pages are all bound together and tightly coupled to the next in the work flow. His comparison is quite accurate.
REST is "an" answer, it's not "the" answer. Stateless apps have their place, so do stateful ones like Seaside apps. Web sites benefit from statelessness, but real hardcore complex applications, benefit from state.
Justin: Perhaps some of your concerns stem from Giles' comparison to goto, which programmers basically consider trash. URIs really are like gotos, conceptually, but that's where the similarity ends - it doesn't mean that URIs are a bad idea like gotos. Far from it, because as you pointed out, they're responsible for the web's success.ReplyDelete
To me, Giles is saying that you can't directly compare Rails with Seaside. Yeah they both help you create web applications, but they answer the question "What exactly is a web application anyway?" differently.
I still haven't played with Seaside (shame on me!), so I might be entirely wrong about it. It seems though that the difference is a level of abstraction. Rails encourages you to think of your application in terms of resources. Indeed DHH himself has said "We don't abstract away standards," with the relevant standard here being URIs and web resources. Seaside, on the other hand, seems to be more about writing application code without caring about the exposed resources, and letting the framework handle that transformation.
So it's really not an either/or...just because in Seaside you don't actively expose and link resources doesn't mean they're not exposed and linked to the world. It just means that you don't really have to think about it, whereas in Rails you're encouraged to think about it.
Of course, a hybrid approach probably provides the most power and simplicity... ;)h
Hey, that was a great article. Thank you. (I must admit I didn't read it all the way through though. The white-on-black theme is just a little too hard to read after a long day of driving. You definitely piqued my interest with the bit about named routes as a goto.)ReplyDelete
Doesn't Seaside stores state in the URL itself, making it impossible to bookmark your progress through the webapp?ReplyDelete
I'm sure you can get a RESTful Seaside webapp, it's just you'd be working against the whole continuation-based foundation of it. Similarly with Rails, you need to do extra work if you start to go outside its target area.
If URIs are part of your application's interface to the world then it is impossible to NOT think about them and still expect a quality interface to emerge "magically". You have to decide what resources should be referencable and bookmarkable. This is exactly what the routes file does.
Ramon does not claim that Seaside is magical: he says that "REST" and "statelessness" (i.e. Web Architecture) is "an answer" not "the answer". Which implies that he accepts that there are tradeoffs.
On the other hand, recent posts from the seaside guys have started to pull back from the whole ubiquitous-continuations thing, so I'm not convinced that Ramon represents the party line.
Continuations aren't entirely ubiquitous in Seaside, it's true, but using explicit hrefs sure seems to carry the exact same risk as explicit gotos, for the exact same reasons, and I don't see why anybody would rather read a W3 spec than create something useful. Obviously exposing URIs to other applications is very useful, but if you want sophistication comparable to desktop apps, you need a system free of URLs for the same reason you need a language free of gotos.ReplyDelete
href is less harmful than goto, because it's incredibly useful for text links, but for application links, it's almost exactly the same thing as goto.
Rails is a fantastic system for creating what people think of as Web apps. Seaside gives you the ability to maintain state in a way you previously couldn't do with Web apps. It's definitely **an** answer, not **the** answer, but the last thing in the world I want on my blog is language war. Language wars are for programmers who are insecure in their own abilities and identify with what a language can do instead of what they can do.
And honestly, it's not just that it's an answer rather than the answer -- Seaside and Rails might also be answers to utterly distinct questions.
Anyway, as to the idea that my comparison of URLs to goto is not just wrong, but dangerous, first of all, it's not my comparison, it's Avi Bryant's. Second, I'm never wrong; and third, I'm always dangerous.
And with that I'll jump into my helicopter and go skiing in the Alps while shooting Nazis and snapping a bullwhip.
Seriously, of course it's a dangerous idea. "Dangerous idea" is a redundant phrase. If it's not dangerous, it isn't an idea. But the dangerous idea comes from Avi Bryant, not me.
Damn, all this talk about Seaside is really exciting.ReplyDelete
It's good to see that word is spreading. Alongside Rails, the next several years in web application development are going to be exciting.
- Mike RobertsJanuary 30, 2007 at 5:52:00 PM PST
Hi, nice screencast. You commented that Seaside should support REST. I'm not so up on REST but further to a previous comment Seaside does actually support bookmarks. It is maybe not so integral or obvious in the framework as many of the other features but it is reasonably easy to make permanent URLs.ReplyDelete
The way you do this is to hook into #updateURL: so a component can modify the contents of the URL before the state information gets added.
You can then define what happens when you navigate to this URL by hooking into the #start method of a customised render loop. It's then up to you how you configure the app.
I wrote a simple document server in Seaside that used this technique for categories and search. If someone bookmarks the whole of a permanent URL that contains the session state, it doesn't matter because if the session has timed out, you still have enough information to configure the application based on the bookmark.
I'm not sure that's a good description of the REST features in Seaside, a screencast would be much better!
Checkout Lukas Renglii's Seaside pages. I'm sure this appears in one of his tutorials/ESUG presentations.


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Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Bangkok Wing Chun - The Science of Self-Defense
Big thanks to my senior student Shane and my camerawoman First on Fire for helping me create these excellent new videos to promote my martial training kwoon, Bangkok Wing Chun! The first video features knife defense training and part of the Wing Chun mook yan jong form. The second video has us doing some blindfolded sticky hands (chi sao) practice. And the third video is a compilation of Wing Chun trapping, bridging and punching drills, chi sao, Jeet Kune Do freestyle sparring, yoga/stretching and pranayama deep breathing. If you're in the Bangkok area and interested in Wing Chun, Yoga, and/or Pranayama lessons be sure to check out BangkokWingChun.com and get in touch with me to schedule a private session. Also be sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel for more fighting and conspiracy videos coming soon. Peace!
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Who is threatening you such that you need to learn self-defense. I never learnt self-defense, and I never needed to defend myself against anything or anyone.
- October 30, 2012 at 1:49 PM
- Eric Dubay said...
Good for you. I hope you continue to never need it.
- October 30, 2012 at 6:42 PM
- PeterCottontail said...
If you were to use that against someone who was hell bent on cutting you open your fancy dancing would become as useful as a feather to a jet plane.
Your students should know that no techniques are impervious. Especially to a three round burst from a well equipped self defense novice.
- October 31, 2012 at 9:15 AM
- Eric Dubay said...
Fancy dancing.
- October 31, 2012 at 9:58 AM
- Actor/ Stunt Fight / Personal Trainer in Asia said...
Do you like exchange Wing Chun training?
I am in Bangkok right now...
I was training in Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo and Hong Kong.
Wich level you have?
- December 6, 2012 at 6:23 AM
- Eric Dubay said...
Thanks for the message Steve! I've sent you an email. Peace
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