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Mark Zuckerberg is many things, not least a student of the classics. He reads Latin and ancient Greek, and his personal motto is said to be Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit, or, loosely translated, "Maybe one day we'll look back on all this shit and laugh." Lately, though, he's probably meditating on another Latin phrase: annus horribilis. Because it's been one lousy year for the 26-year-old CEO, despite (and also because of) the success of his dormitory-born company, Facebook, aka the most trafficked social-networking site on earth. His squirrely media appearances have been called Nixonian, his hoodie choices have been savagely and publicly critiqued. His occasionally Orwellian quotes have been obsessively parsed. He's even been stalked by a Gawker paparazzo.
He might as well get used to it. When the movie based on his college exploits and Silicon Valley conquests hits screens this fall, he'll become the first tech nerd to be granted Hollywood celebrity. But then, that's what happens when Tinseltown turns your life into film, your callow college years into fable, and your billion-dollar company into a metaphor for American ambition and the inherent loneliness that lurks just beneath its dark-blue interface.
In early October, with much fanfare and an eye on the Oscars, Sony Pictures is releasing The Social Network, its liberally dramatized, completely unauthorized, and (its makers hasten to add) thoroughly researched Facebook origin story. In this telling, Zuckerberg (played by 27-year-old Jesse Eisenberg) is no mere code monkey with a fondness for dead languages and flip-flops. He's a tragic archetype right out of Sinclair Lewis: the driven, wounded trickster-genius accused of stealing a million-dollar idea and throwing his friends under the bus, all in an attempt to summit the American dream. The filmmakers — Hollywood A-listers, all — can't be accused of thinking small. Justin Timberlake, who plays Mephistophelean Napster cofounder and Facebook partner Sean Parker, calls the story arc "very Greek." Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, creator of The West Wing and A Few Good Men, compares his version of Zuckerberg to Shakespeare's Richard III, saying of his protagonist, "Give him a hunchback and a clubfoot and you're pretty close." As for the film's acclaimed director, David Fincher: He jokes that he's made "the Citizen Kane of John Hughes movies."
The Fight Club auteur may jest, but his Kane comparison isn't far off. Like William Randolph Hearst — Orson Welles' inspiration — Zuckerberg is the most recognized and recognizable figure in his era's new media, and Facebook is as vital to mainstream culture as Hearst's publishing empire once was. Like Hearst, there's a tang of the ruthless and untoward about Zuckerberg. Like Hearst, he has a talent for pissing people off. And it doesn't hurt that he's an absurdly young, grotesquely wealthy Harvard dropout. That's why Silicon Valley's first true — or rather "truthful," in Fincher's distinction — zeitgeist film isn't Linux: Revenge of the Fallen. (The news of a possible Google flick, no doubt inspired by The Social Network, generated little heat, probably because the company's motto is "Don't be evil.") With Facebook, there's just enough moral ambiguity, blended with just enough brand recognition, to attract Hollywood's attention.
For Silicon Valley, The Social Network ends decades of celluloid neglect. Oh sure, moviemakers love hackers, the same way they love Magical Black Men and Rapping Grannies. Fictional tech-heads always come in handy whenever the hero needs to pop open a locked door or drain a bank account; they roll their eyes at n00bs and proudly display Boba Fett figurines on their desks. But silicon minstrelsy doesn't confer much respect: Until The Social Network, the computer business has been denied a mainstream biopic or a resonating social drama. (Even the titanic Gates-Jobs struggle for the soul of the PC, the Valley's very own Cain and Abel tale, warranted nothing more than a TNT Original.) Hackers have Hackers and WarGames and Sneakers,but they've never had their very own Wall Street: an empurpled, self-important, this-is-our-moment movie that makes splashy myth out of quotidian reality — where everybody looks sexy-tormented in the bargain.
Ironically, for all the prerelease rumblings about a Facebook movie (and this film has garnered far more than its fair tonnage of rumblings, practically confirming its currency), Facebook as we know it today barely makes an appearance in The Social Network. "From a plot standpoint, you could've told the same story about the invention of a really good toaster," Sorkin says. "The fact that it's Facebook just makes it ironic — that the world's most successful social-networking device was the work of a socially awkward guy."
For the studio marketers, Facebook's popularity and visibility are presumably helpful. But for the filmmakers, Zuckerberg was the draw. Like Facebook itself, the unreadable public Zuck is a fascinatingly content-free platform, a cipher that avid minds can't help but fill with their own interests and obsessions. "I'm not gunning for Mark in any way," Sorkin says. "I'm not blind to his jerky qualities. I wrote all about them. But if anything, I'm more apt to identify with him … We all get called losers." Fincher, whose umber oeuvre (Se7en, Zodiac, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) hardly feels compatible with the story of a tech startup, is similarly taken with Zuckerberg — though he seems to admire the guy's stones more than his vulnerabilities. "I know what it is to want to do it your own way. I sort of know what that anger is. I have nothing but respect for him. I look at him and go, you did it. You fuckin' did it." But which Zuckerberg are these guys addressing, exactly? The poker-faced Valley whiz kid? Or their own creation — Citizen Zuck? Soon, it may not really matter. If early buzz on the film is any indication of potential impact, The Social Network could be widely regarded as the definitive portrait of Zuckerberg. Myth is about to overwrite reality, whether the man in question Accepts or Ignores it.
Ben Mezrich had a problem. What will the next best-selling Ben Mezrich book be about? he wondered, lazing in his palatial Back Bay lair. Suddenly, the phone rang. It was Destiny calling.
"Hello," said a mysterious voice. "I'm the wronged, forgotten cofounder of Facebook, and I want to tell my story."
OK, so that's not exactly how the seeds of what would become The Social Network first took root in the winter of 2008. But sometimes, telling a story with literal precision isn't the point: The factual record can take you only so far, and then deeper, truthier truths must be allowed to suffuse the interstices. This seems to be the journalistic philosophy of Mezrich, an author of thrillers turned chronicler of real-life nerd adventures. Mezrich is most famous for Bringing Down the House, a dramatic tale of wily MIT math freaks using advanced card-counting techniques to milk Las Vegas blackjack tables for millions. (An excerpt appeared in Wired in 2002.) The story was optioned and eventually used as the basis for the movie 21. A public fact-checking ensued, and Mezrich readily admitted he'd enhanced his account with composite characters and reimagined scenes. Despite these concessions, he also maintained the book is a "99.9 percent true story."
Since Bringing Down the House, Mezrich's potboiler writing style and nonchalant attitude toward verisimilitude have earned him a slew of critics, Facebook now among them. The company publicly derided him as the Jackie Collins of Silicon Valley when Mezrich published The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook. A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal — the germ cell for The Social Network. Like Bringing Down the House, many of its individual facts are hotly contested. But one thing he's sure of, according to Mezrich: "Facebook is scared of the movie, scared of the story I told."
That story originated with Eduardo Saverin, who contacted Mezrich in 2008 through a friend. He said he was the cofounder of Facebook, its former CFO and the original investor. He claimed he'd been betrayed by Zuckerberg, screwed out of millions by a guy he thought was his friend — a fellow nerd who'd shared his (rather earthbound) dreams of being popular, gaining entry to selective social clubs, and, of course, getting laid. "Eduardo was an angry kid at the time," Mezrich says. "He'd been expunged from the story of Facebook. I built a relationship with him over a couple of months." Saverin was already suing Zuckerberg, but he also seemed to want his side of the story told, and Mezrich wanted very much to tell it. He invited Saverin and his friends to the Vegas premiere of 21, hoping the full red-carpet treatment would keep him talking. It did — to a point. "I was close to a draft when Eduardo freaked out," Mezrich says. "Mark found out he was talking to me and made it part of the settlement that Eduardo couldn't speak to me again." (Saverin wound up with a reported 5 percent of the company, worth roughly $600 million. He didn't respond to an interview request.)
Around the same time, twin brothers and Harvard alums Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, along with their college friend and former business partner Divya Narendra, were also in the process of suing Zuckerberg for intellectual property theft. The twins had hired Zuckerberg in his sophomore year to code a social-networking site; he'd agreed to do it but never finished the work and launched his own competing site — then called Thefacebook — a few months later. Court records also brought to light a personal blog Zuckerberg had kept his sophomore year at Harvard. In one beery entry, he called a girl who dumped him a "bitch" — and then carried out a devilish hack, inviting readers to follow along. The result was the Facemash, a makeshift hot-or-not game fueled by photos plundered from university databases. The irresistibly cruel little time-waster went viral across Harvard's networks, making Zuckerberg a campus celebrity. (Its success was why the Winklevosses hired him.)
Even as Mezrich sorted through this pulpy trove of material, Facebook was hitting a bad patch. The company's notorious Beacon ad-caster was becoming a media football. The 23-year-old Zuckerberg, previously renowned as a wunderkind, came across as defensive and chilly in a 60 Minutes appearance. (One blogger described him as "genetically unable to smile.") Did the Valley's golden boy have a dark side? Had he been a bit of a scamp back in his school days? And was he still? Suddenly, Mezrich had a real character on his hands — and a potential movie in the offing: "I was thinking, this is Superbad in the midst of a multibillion-dollar company." He didn't wait to write the book: He dashed off a 28-page treatment (awkwardly titled Face Off and immediately leaked to Gawker) and sent it to Hollywood, where, he says, "Sorkin saw it and went bananas."
Suffice it to say, Sorkin didn't see the movie as Superbad. He saw a chamber epic, recounted Rashomon-like, with three different perspectives from the film's main characters: Zuckerberg, Saverin, and the Winklevosses. "What drew me to it were the themes that were as old as storytelling itself," he says. "Friendship, jealousy, loyalty, power, love, betrayal. The kind of things that Aeschylus would write about — but the invention at the center of it couldn't be more contemporary." With Sorkin aboard, Sony sealed the deal on the property, and Mezrich and Sorkin proceeded to work in parallel, completing the book and screenplay at roughly the same time — highly unorthodox for Hollywood, but then, so was making a movie about a website.
"Sorkin came out to Boston and was eager to get going on it," Mezrich says. "We sat in a room in the Four Seasons, and I just handed him chapters. I had all this incredible documentation that had been given to me by … well, I don't want to say who. You can figure it out." Sorkin is even cagier about the research he conducted (citing court-imposed gag orders and ongoing lawsuits involving his sources), though both he and Oscar-magnet producer Scott Rudin stress that a vast amount of shoe-leather reporting, independent of Mezrich's material, went into the script. (Mezrich and Sorkin did tour a couple of Harvard's "final clubs" together to get a feel for the invitation-only men's societies, which allegedly obsessed Saverin and Zuckerberg and may have inspired the early Facebook's "exclusive" ethos.) The movie and book versions converge on several points (the primacy of sex, partying, and social acceptance), but there are key differences: Mezrich implicitly takes Saverin's side, while Sorkin's script unfolds as a series of legal depositions, thus highlighting the tale's ambiguities. (He also axed Mezrich's disputed account of Zuckerberg eating koala meat on a yacht and a digression about a Zuck assignation with a Victoria's Secret model.) Rudin, meanwhile, assiduously solicited Facebook's involvement, even slipping the company a copy of the script and eventually showing senior officials a cut of the movie. Facebook's official spokesperson inadvertently contributed a line to the movie: Critiquing the script, he said, "Every creation myth needs a devil." (Sorkin loved the line and put it in.) Nevertheless, Zuckerberg and Facebook elected not to cooperate with the movie. (Or this story. The company provided only this statement: "The story presented in The Social Network doesn't match reality. It's a portrayal designed to lure people into movie theaters rather than tell an accurate story.")
But by that time — in fact, from the moment its existence became public in August 2008 — "the Facebook movie" (as it was known) had a more fearsome enemy than Facebook: the Internet. The doubters were merciless, blog and troll alike. They smelled classic Hollywood fad-phreaking — or maybe a fiendish corporate Face-plot to invade the multiplex. Such brutal, know-nothing speculation might be enough to put a sensitive screenwriter off the Internet entirely; and indeed, Web aversion was why the project leaked in the first place. You'll have to forgive Sorkin: He'd never used Facebook before.
He created a group page to conduct research without realizing that the page was viewable by anyone on the Web. "I'd heard of Facebook the way I'd heard of a carburetor," he admits. "I really didn't know what it was." He wised up when Gawker and like-minded snark factories instantly began cracking A Few Good Pokes jokes. (Sorkin had his defenders, as well: those who pointed out how he makes smart people look sexy and technical subjects feel accessible, even thrilling.) But the carping quieted when Fincher, fresh off an Oscar nomination for Benjamin Button, signed on. Contempt turned into curiosity. Sorkin, Fincher, and Facebook? Was there something we weren't seeing?
"I didn't want to do Revenge of the Nerds," Fincher says. "I don't believe in this Mountain Dew-swilling, people-who-haven't-bathed, staring-at-phosphorescent-screens-with-luminescent-white-skin hacker stereotype. These are people who make stuff. I feel like they're kindred spirits."
Still, he acknowledges that these kindred spirits are whole-cloth movie characters, not carbon facsimiles of actual persons. Fincher encouraged his actors to break free of their real-life counterparts. It's how he'd approached casting, after all. "There were a lot of people — more than one, more than two — who said, 'Justin Timberlake? Sean Parker is more like Art Garfunkel,'" he says. "But I need Mark to look across a restaurant table at Sean and say, 'That's what it looks like to have arrived.'" Timberlake, who once met Parker briefly (but before he was actually cast in the film, he says), sees the big-screen version of Parker in purely cinematic terms: His character's job is to "send the movie into Gordon Gekko land," a place where the temptations of a new Wall Street beckon.
Who's Who in The Social Network
Photo reference: Getty; Portraits: Bernd Schifferdecker
The spirit of pure invention was in full force when it came to building the 'Berg himself. "I watched all the videos I could find online," says Jesse Eisenberg, who was asked not to meet Zuckerberg. "They proved to be not that helpful. Mark never gives these grand speeches, not the way Aaron Sorkin crafts speeches. The challenge was reconciling the tabula rasa of Mark, his passivity, with these more grandiose, more aggressive monologues." Running up against the impregnable wall of Zuckerberg's clammy media appearances, Eisenberg turned to studying his own highly intelligent, socially awkward friends and relatives (including one cousin who actually works at Facebook). He also read books on Asperger's syndrome, though he's quick to admit he doesn't know if Zuckerberg actually has it. At least it was a starting point: a way to explain the character's emotional terseness and androidal reactions to humor and hugs, alongside Sorkin's sudden bursts of perfectly articulated oratory.
And so, just two years after Mezrich first put fingers to keyboard, teasers and trailers for The Social Network began to appear. And, to everyone's surprise, they were … kind of awesome. One moody preview features the song "Creep," by Radiohead, covered by a Belgian girls' choir, and knits footage of mundane Facebook usage together with tense, Fight Club-ish images of splintering male friendships and nightmarish bacchanals: Women writhe, champagne spurts, nerds code. Darkly.
The Web gasped, genuflected a bit. And then bestowed upon the trailer its highest honor: a gazillion parodies. In one, the real-life Zuckerberg's famously sweaty meltdown at the D8 tech conference (where probing questions about privacy had him shedding his trademark hoodie) has been underscored with the "Creep" soundtrack. The effect is uncanny: Fact and fiction blend seamlessly. And creepily. This, one senses, is Facebook's ultimate nightmare.
erica takes mark's hand and looks at him tenderly …
erica: Listen to me now. You're going to be a very successful computer person. But you're going to go through life thinking that girls don't like you because you're a nerd. And I want you to know, from the bottom of my heart, that that won't be true. It'll be because you're an asshole.
The Social Network arrives in the midst of an image crisis for Facebook that extends far beyond the silver screen. The company's aggressive and often unilateralist push toward user transparency — publishing friend lists, broadcasting user activity on and off the site via "instant personalization" — has helped land it somewhere south of the IRS in user satisfaction, according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index. In the teeth of this, Zuckerberg has been deployed as figurehead and chief spokesgeek. If Hollywood then paints him as a Kane-like robber baron with a serious humanity deficiency, well, that's bad, right?
Not necessarily. A little infamy never hurt any American corporate overlord — just ask Donald Trump. Facebook might even count itself lucky. The Social Network makes no mention of the privacy controversy, the site's greatest PR liability. What's more, the movie more or less declares Zuckerberg an unalloyed (if slightly evil) genius. He's got some ripping speeches, too, and all the most quotable lines, all the best fuck-you moments. (And fuck-you moments, as we all know, are coin of the realm, the riffs moviegoers repeat on the ride home — and then in their status updates.) Best of all, the movie steers well clear of the real Zuckerberg's less, er, mythic qualities. Citizen Zuck is charismatic, restrained, often dryly, witheringly funny. The "real" Zuckerberg, on the other hand (according to The Facebook Effect, the corporate history he himself authorized), was often given to swinging a fencing foil in the faces of friends and associates, and quoting the movie Troy. "Now you know who you're fighting!" he'd declaim in his Achilles persona, often apropos of nothing. The movie doesn't go there: no foils, no Troy, no epic-dorkdom. On the advice of Sony's lawyers, Sorkin says he even obligingly cut a line referring to recently unearthed instant messages that may or may not cast new light on the Winklevosses' claims against Zuckerberg. And nobody in the movie brings up that insane-looking Facebook Illuminati symbol, which the flesh-and-blood Zuckerberg custom-stitched into the inside of his hoodie.
Citizen Zuck is, frankly, way cooler than all that. Real or un, Aspie or norm, it's all irrelevant: He's an American icon now, up there with Gatsby and Gantry and Babbitt — and he might yet prove to be the best thing that's happened to Facebook in a long while. At the very least, he's given the man himself a much better movie to quote around the office, something a little more Greek than crummy old Troy. As a classics man, he ought to appreciate that. Maybe one day, he'll look back on this and laugh. Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit, right? Right. But that's a big forsan.
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Of the many things that this virtual space made possible was my "put your foot in my dissertation project" – and the support of all the participants from around the globe who willingly (and eagerly) shared their feet with me! So before I list the dissertation acknowledgements, I want to get to announcing the winners of my foot project contest. In addition to getting a credit in the dissertation (as well as its future published form…), participants were entered into a random drawing to win a signed 11by17 inch print of one page from the dissertation, with three runners-up receiving a signed-mini excerpt. I ended up with just shy of 100 feet from the individuals, families, and groups listed below. I'm both grateful to have gotten all of these and also grateful to not have gotten more! For not only did I end up retracing all of them for clarity of line quality, I then turned each of those tracings into brushes, which I used to then draw the distinct footpaths that make up these trio of pages. (While this sequence was not displayed as a triptych in the dissertation, I'm hopeful there will be a way to display it properly in its next form.) Every SINGLE one of the feet submitted appear on these pages – though I understand if you can't identify your own easily! There is also a different sequence with only men's 10.5s overlaid on top of my foot outline, which perhaps I'll share at another point. I was really pleased with the tremendous variety in foot shapes – and I think it helped make my visual argument – if our feet are this distinct – then how different must be the ways in which we learn… (Note, this is a screenshot of three separate, still unlettered pages in low-res.)
Contest winners, randomly drawn:
Runners-up: Cathy Peet, Sue Uhlig, Steph
Grand prize winner: A. David Lewis
Since I knew all of the opening round of winners to some degree or another, I decided to spread rewards around further and drew again, and then one final time for good measure. And so:
2nd Runners-up: Cathy Rosamond, Devin Berg, Tracy Dawson & Parkes High School, NSW Australia
2nd Grand Prize Winner: Edgar Castro
3rd Runners-up: Ronelle Kallman, Donald Davenport, @cogdog
3rd Grand Prize Winner: Sean Kleefeld
Special prize goes to Hattie Kennedy and Damon Herd for sending their feet in from the UK within 20 minutes of my posting it! Winners will be notified by email and I will mail rewards to provided addresses.
All have my gratitude for their contribution and for all the support of this project. The roll call:
Hattie Kennedy, Damon Herd, Carly Piirainen Davis and family, Ruud Cox, Maudi Cox, Alyssa Niccolini, Linda Allen, Marta Cabral & anonymous, Sarah Chauncey, Paddy Johnston, Leigh Graves Wolf, A. David Lewis, J. Nathan Mattias, Devin Berg, Cathy Peet, Russell Willerton, Chris Moffett, Paul Tritter, Charles Shryock IV, Cathy Rosamond & Family, Adam Bush, Marcus Weaver-Hightower and family, Kathleen Moore, +M, Jennifer, Louis Bury, Rebecca Kuhlmann Taylor, Gray Evelyn Taylor, Remi Holden, Marcelle, Marcos, Tim, Steph, Anna Smith, Sharon Farb, Leslie M, Todd Grappone, Eliza Lamb, Donald Davenport, Vanessa Chang, Sean Kleefeld, Lauren Albert, Ivory Kris, Maggie Whitten, Kurt Hozak, @cogdog, Edgar Castro, Ronelle Kallman, Sue Uhlig, Pedro Cabral, Adele Holoch & boys, Tracy Dawson & Parkes High School, NSW Australia, Elizabeth Branch Dyson, Samantha Cooper, Jesse Carbonaro, Tracy Scholz, Michael Hoffman, and Dean Sousanis.
|A first test of all the feet re-traced on a single page
Below, you'll find acknowledgments from my dissertation, more or less as they appear. (I'm thinking to do a more visual version of this for its post-dissertation form.) Since it isn't readily available anywhere else just yet, I thought it was important to share my words of gratitude in full here. I can say that the next steps for this work have been determined and that it will be available in published form not too far off, of which I will speak of much more at a later time. As for my own next steps? Those remain to be determined...
Thanks to all mentioned below and thanks to all who've been supporting this project all along or just visiting for the first time… Onward! – Nick
We don't get where we're going alone. The journey that has been making this work has emerged from the conversations, advice, inspiration, and support of those mentioned here, to whom I express my deep gratitude.
I am moved by the openness from the outset with which my advisor Professor Ruth Vinz embraced the decidedly unfamiliar territory that is my work, and for her wise understanding that meaning making takes many forms. As I meet others whose efforts to forge their own paths were stopped short by those who possessed a narrow concept of what research can look like, I'm particularly grateful for Ruth's trust and encouragement for me to follow my curiosity in the directions I needed to go. My advisor Professor Robbie McClintock's courses with his colleague Frank Moretti were a wellspring of edification, and the thoughtfulness and humanity that both modeled in their teaching have left a lasting impact on my thinking. I have a sense that Robbie understood where I was headed before I did, and with a few thoughtful words that stayed with me throughout the entire process, he helped me stay on track and deepen my exploration between our ways of seeing and ways of learning.
I had the good fortune to happen upon Professor Maxine Greene's 90th birthday talk as my first outing at Teachers College. That unexpected occurrence was a jolt of inspiration, which led me to her class, and has since spiraled into an ongoing conversation that I cherish. Maxine's commentary as she read over my pages has been a constant source of delight, and I'm extremely fortunate to have that opportunity to engage with her spinning,whirling mind. (Sadly, Maxine passed away two weeks ago, just a few weeks after the defense. I wrote about her here.)
Professor Mary Hafeli came on board near the end of this journey as final reader but immediately brought with her tremendous insight, support, and encouragement for which I am grateful and eager for conversations to come. (Please note, while university formatting requirements allow only a candidate's first two committee members to appear on the title page, both professors Greene and Hafeli also served on my committee, and I want to make special note of that here.) Even at a distance, Professor Graeme Sullivan has been a steady and extremely generous rock of support and counsel. His work and dedication are ever an inspiration to keep pushing forward. And to Mary Sullivan, for all her kindness, warmth, and encouragement.
There are many faculty members at Teachers College whose contributions have helped shape and buoy this work throughout. This includes courses and conversations with Judy Burton and Barbara Tversky, conversations and boundless encouragement from Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz, Lalitha Vasudevan, Olga Hubbard, Sheridan Blau, and the aforementioned Frank Moretti, whose absence is a tremendous loss to the intellectual and human community of Teachers College.
I'm grateful for the support and advice from Vice Provost William Baldwin and Provost Thomas James, and additionally grateful to them and the award committee for the support and recognition of the Provost's Doctoral Dissertation Grant. A big thank you to Rocky Schwarz along with his team at TC's Business Services Center, including Aklilu, Michael, Isaac, and Chan, for their generous support and dealing with my difficult and usually nearly last-minute printing requests. Margaret Scanlon and Carey Reed in the English Ed office were a bit of sunshine and a big help sorting through things throughout my time at Teachers College. To Russell Gulizia for ensuring this all came together properly.
I'm indebted to the conversations over the years between my friend and collaborator Professor Fred Goodman, who is always prompting me to turn things over and look from other sides. My conversations with CharlesMcGee serve as a constant source of inspiration and are ever present in my thinking and my voice.
I cannot emphasize enough what the impact of Professor CathyDavidson's championing of this work early on has meant, and I am deeply grateful for her support and that of the HASTAC community all along.
I've benefited from terrific, inspiring, and supportive colleagues at Teachers College, including Andrea Kantrowitz, Marta Cabral, Tara Thompson, Daiyu Suzuki, and Razia Sadik. I can't say enough about Suzanne Choo, the best partner I could have in navigating graduate school – our collaborations and spirited bickering made this adventure so much the better. Ryan Goble got me into this in the first place, and our conversations and his humor have helped sustain me over the years. I am grateful to list Timothy K. Eatman, Adam Bush, Donald Blumenfeld-Jones, Bill Ayers, Jim Hall, Anastasia Salter, and Adam Bessie as colleagues and collaborators. I've been fortunate to draw together wonderful colleagues in comics and education from across the country, including Christy Blanch, Yen Yen Woo, Stergios Botzakis, Jarod Roselló, Marcus Weaver-Hightower, and Andrew Wales. Friends old and new whose counsel and insight have helped broaden my thinking: Susanne Beechey, Andy Malone, Matt Sikora, Sambuddha Saha, Andrew Butler, Adam McGovern, Remi Holden, Alexander Rothman, Andrea Tsurumi, Paul Hirsch, Lou Bury, Daniel Powell, Mark D. White, and Meg Lemke. A special shout out to Leo Tarantino and Stephanie Huffaker, who read chapters as I finished them and kindly shared their insight.
The support of REDACTED and the team at REDACTED Press has been incredible, and I'm eager for our next steps together.
Thank you to Donald Brinkman for supreme generosity and boundless curiosity, and for putting on an amazing solo exhibition at MicrosoftResearch! (Video interview from that occasion.)
So much of this work has grown from conversations I've had in public forums. Thanks for sharing the work to Sydni Dunn and NickDeSantis respectively, at The Chronicle for Higher Education, Katya Korableva for Russia's Theory&Practice, John O'Reilly of the UK's Varoom Magazine, Maureen Bakis, Nate Matias, Hannah Means-Shannon, Patrick Cox, Brooke Sheridan,Chris Malmberg, Anthony Salcito of Microsoft's Daily Edventures, Hybrid Pedagogy & Jesse Stommel, Brett Terpstra, Nicolas Labarre, Morna McDermott, Paul Thomas, Anastasia Salter, Matt Finch, and Siddhartha Mitter. A big thanks to Professor Jill A. Perry of the Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate who has been a rock of support and counsel all along.
I am grateful for my involvement with the Association for Interdisciplinary Studies and its similarly difficult-to-define membership, including Bill Newell, Julie Klein, Roz Schindler, Rick Szostak, Angus McMurtry, Tanya Augsburg, Jennifer Dellner, and James Welch, III. A similar shout out goes to the folks of Imagining America and their PAGE graduate fellows for welcoming me and their vision for and dedication to intersecting arts and scholarship, academia and the larger public. Thanks to the support of the Stanford Graphic Narrative Project/Ideograph Journal and my new friends and colleagues there: Angela Becerra Vidergar, Vanessa Chang, and Haerin Shin.
To my students at Teachers College, Parsons, back at Wayne State University, and on the tennis courts, from whom I have learned so much from about learning and teaching, and whose interactions have inspired me to constantly expand my thinking.
In the comics world, I've benefited greatly from the support and camaraderie from Scott McCloud, David Small, Ben Katchor, Lynda Barry, Matt Madden, R. Sikoryak, Karen Green, Kent Worcester, Gene Kannenberg, Jr., and Charles Hatfield.
For the inspiration and all that their work has made possible for comics: Alan Moore, Scott McCloud, Art Spiegelman, Françoise Mouly, Will Eisner, David Mazzucchelli, Frank Miller, Marjane Satrapi, Lynda Barry, and Chris Ware.
A special thank you to my earliest comics collaborators: Joe Jokinen, Matt Kaspari, Kyle Roberts, and Tim Newell.
Thanks to Russell Willerton and Everett Maroon, who responded to my call for help in sentence diagramming!
To my dear departed dog Sledge and his ways of seeing that stick with me and run through this work.
To my brother John, his wife Autumn, and their growing family – a kaleidoscope of different eyes to learn from. A conversation with Aurora Sousanis about testing day at school followed by watching her learn a new skill on the monkey bars has served as an essential lesson to me about what's important in learning. To my brother Dan, with great appreciation for opening my eyes to distinct ways of making in the world.
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ZG, ZA and Wouldn't it be Cool if there were 5 Mans that Felt like Raids
WoW is buzzing with folk talking about the two revamped instances, Zul'Garub and Zul'Aman.
"Too recycled!"
"Too long!"
"Too hard!"
And, of course, the occasional show off: "Too easy!"
Lissanna did a good post on the topic, rounding up some thoughts and getting some substantial discussion going.
I've done ZG. I haven't gotten around to ZA yet.
I loved ZG. It was awesome. I know the recycled material offends purists who are too good for "lazy content", but not me. I really enjoy the theme of Cataclysm, where I can go back to all those places near and dear to (or strongly despised by) my heart and see what they look like a couple of years after my services.
ZG was no exception. I didn't have time to read up on the story, but I was very interested to know that more evil trolls invoking spirits have moved in since I cleared the place in hopes of achievements and tiger mounts.
I'm told ZA is a copy-paste of the original, which is a little disappointing (dudes…dudes! I killed you people years ago! What are you doing back here?), but at the same time, ZA was a brilliant instance. I loved the complexity and creativity of the fights. Especially the fire egg boss that took me so long to figure out and that made me so proud when I finally understood. I'm sort of glad I'll get to re-experience those fights.
Now let's look at the complaints surrounding the instances:
Too Long
It took my group a little over 2 hours to complete ZG, and we had a patient, kick-ass tank in heroics gear talking us through. We had a group simultaneously do ZA, without an experienced guide, and it took them barely a few minutes more than us.
Contrarily to what Lissanna says, ZG has very little trash. Much less than the other Cataclysm 5 mans. I also don't recall doing much in terms of CC. The instance has a feel of a modern raid, with just enough trash to avoid falling back into the Trial of the Crusader trap.
What took up our 2 hours, were the wipes as we struggled to grasp the novel mechanics of the fights. Without wiping, I think we could have easily gotten through the instance in 45 minutes, which is pretty much the same time as the other Cataclysm heroics.
I can't speak for ZA.
How do these line up with the other heroics from Cataclysm? Well. I remember pugging them during the week of their release. Once the hardcore, now-Sinestra killers were finished with them (I loved those runs!), Cataclysm heroics took well over 3 hours to pug with an average group. As the instances became better known, the players got better geared and the fights themselves were nerfed, the average pug run was shortened to about 45 minutes, with Deadmines still taking the better part of an hour.
Too Hard
I recall a tweet saying: "Don't bring your alt to the new 5 mans!".
I'd like to make a correction: "Don't bring your alt to the new 5 mans yet!"
The fights are actually perfect for gearing alts…once you know them on your main. These fights aren't gear checks. They're all mechanics. Do the right thing at the right time and they're a breeze. Trust me. Our DK soloed the better part of the first ZG fight.
But prepare to die a lot learning the fights. The mechanics are more complex (and interesting) than "pick up adds and don't stand in the fire". Think Stonecore, but less shitty.
Once you've mastered being at the right place at the right time, though? This is the perfect place to gear your alt.
5 mans should be accessible to anyone!
While I don't necessarily agree with this statement (I think regulars should be accessible to anyone, heroics should involve a minimal effort), I'd like to point out that my guild had two teams complete the instances Thursday night. And we are your casual, chilling, social raiding guild. At 6/12, with anywhere from 0 to 2 raids a week, we're not Sinestra killers.
And we did ZG and ZA. We wiped, we ran back, we adjusted our tactics, but at no point did we feel like we were banging our heads against a wall.
Which is actually better than Stonecore and Grim Batol the week those instances were released.
Could an average Pug do the instance? Probably not. Not yet. The instances take too much communication and, as social bloggers everywhere constantly moan, communication is difficult in PuGs. But once people run the instances with their guilds a few time and learn the fights, I think ZG and ZA will totally be puggable, and will be comparable to the other Cataclysm heroics in length.
Conclusion: I'd sort of like a raid-style 5 man
I like fights that make me think. I like having a really small team to think with. So I like hard 5 mans.
I thoroughly enjoyed running ZG with the fantastic people in my Thursday group (I was even very tempted to ask our DK out on a date. He was HAWT.). It felt like a raid, except there were only 5 of us and the fights took slightly less wipes than a raid to learn.
The whole time I was thinking, what if there was an epic 5 man designed like a raid? One instance you don't do often, that you save for an afternoon where you have 5 hours to yourself. A huge instances with twists and turns, Original Stratholme or Blackrock Depths style. A fight were you really need to think before engaging the bosses.
And really, sure, I think 5 man heroics should be accessible to anyone. Anyone with a brain, instead of only a face for rolling.Explore posts in the same categories: General WoW
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22 Comments on "ZG, ZA and Wouldn't it be Cool if there were 5 Mans that Felt like Raids"
April 30, 2011 at 12:14 pm
I completey agree. I've both pugged and done guild runs in both instances by now (no, I haven't pugged ZA actually), and on four different characters. Overall I really enjoy the instances. Even with "hardcore" raiders, we managed to wipe plenty of times on various bosses. And with my pug I did really well. Succeeding with timed in ZA is no easy task. The instances get thumbs up from me.
May 1, 2011 at 1:44 pm
These are similar to the 3 ICC heroics that came out in Wrath, and having said that, probably easier. Heroic Halls of Reflection was tougher than any of these when it first came out.
The first boss in ZG is tough, but that is entirely due to the mechanics of the fight. Once you have learnt it, it's not so bad. The other bosses are all do-able by anyone who has the right gear for it. Jindo needs good dps to finish, but again the mechanics are simple.
I think Blizz have good the difficulty about right. Anyone who is saying there is too much trash in ZG clearly never went there in its original raid incarnation; the trash was tough, and there was loads of it. Switching most mobs to neutral has improved things no end.
Paladins need a mana nerf? I'm already desperate for mana on Nefarian, and have to use every trick in the book to keep that little bar alive; please don't say we need a nerf!
May 2, 2011 at 8:43 pm
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May 2, 2011 at 10:02 pm
I for one hate the new design of dungeons period in Cataclysm. They take too long to complete and the difficulty has nothing to do with that. Make instances hard but make them shorter. I can't spend 2 hours running a 5 man "raid" when I have a REAL raid to run in the same night. So for a player like me these new dungeons aren't even an option. I'm not a hardcore raider (only 12/12 normal) but I don't like coming out of a real raid and then having to run a dungeon that is just as tough as the raid I just got out of. Make the instances shorter. Less trash and less bosses. Dungeons shouldn't take this long to run. Not fun imo.
May 3, 2011 at 3:35 am
Just going to say I would LOVE a 5-man "raid." I don't have time to raid with my guild anymore, but I like the people so much that I hang around as a social member. Because it's a fairly hardcore progression guild, the time commitment is just too much. But what about a 5-man dungeon that takes, say, 3-4 hours to complete by a good group and resets every week? Something that requires the same level of coordination from the team as a raid (though, easier because there's less people, I'll grant you). Probably wouldn't drop the same level of loot, I guess, since a 5-man no matter how difficult is perceived as easier than a 10 or 25 man group but… I would love that. I can't set aside 3-4 nights a week to raid with my guild, but I could definitely set aside one night a week to get a raid-like experience with me and 4 other guildies.
Sounds amazing…
May 3, 2011 at 9:14 am
Absolutely agree – and the nerfs are already hitting (some well deserved, but I hope they don't down-town it too much).
I actually completed my first run of Z'A on my warlock who's not epic'd out or anything, and my crazily geared tank did it much later.
Now that I know both instances, they both take ~1 hour or so, not much longer. And the difficulty level is fantastic – it does feel like a mini-raid and I appreciate it all the more for it.
More of this sort of tiered dungeon content, IMO!


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Mumbai is one of the fastest-growing tourist spots in the world, and for good reason. Also known by its earlier colonial name, Bombay, it's India's largest city and a melting pot of the nation's many cultures. You'll find all kinds of restaurants here to represent those cultures, serving many different dishes from around the subcontinent as well as around the world, along with religious sites important to all of India's religious minorities as well as the majority Hindu population. Catch a movie or even watch one being shot in the hometown of Bollywood - or enjoy one of the many theatrical performances around the city.istockphoto.com
New Orleans, Louisiana
A mix of black, Caribbean, Creole, French, German, Haitian, Vietnamese, and many other cultures comes together in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Big Easy is a great weekend destination, but the longer the trip, the better. Festivals throughout the year draw in millions, such as the Creole Tomato Festival, the French Quarter Festival, Satchmo Summer Fest, Southern Decadence, and the world-famous Mardi Gras and Jazz Fest. New Orleans has as much history as it does party, and visitors would be remiss to neglect the historic colonial architecture of areas such as the French Quarter or Uptown, historic cemeteries, St. Louis Cathedral, and the National World War II Museum. Experience the occult and voodoo at the Tomb of Voodoo Queen Marie Laveau or attend a Gnostic Mass and classes on magick at the Alombrados Oasis.Photoservice/istockphoto.com
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New Zealand is a destination that provides both a gorgeous landscape and a rich cultural experience. Here you'll find diversity both geographically and culturally, with natural attractions from glaciers and fjords to glowing caves and geothermal lakes. Summer in the Northern Hemisphere, of course, means winter in the Southern Hemisphere, and New Zealand is a fantastic destination for winter sports - plus the lengthy flight is much cheaper in the off-season. Visit Auckland for some casual sophistication and Queenstown for a truly exciting destination full of extreme sports, and make sure you experience some of the country's indigenous Maori culture too.istockphoto.com
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Known for its party culture and world-renowned beaches, Rio de Janeiro is a nonstop celebration. Catch a game at Maracanã Stadium, once the world's largest (and still currently South America's), and take on the nightlife for some great samba. Visit in late winter, usually February, to take part in the phenomenon that is Rio's Carnaval, probably the world's most famous of its kind.istockphoto.com
Rome, Italy
The capital of Italy should definitely be on your travel bucket list, if not right at the top. Home of the Colosseum, Trevi Fountain, and Pantheon, it's just asking to be on your Instagram feed. Make sure you get a taste of the local gelato (outside of the main tourist spots, so you don't get overcharged) and a slice of thin-crusted Roman pizza before you leave. Rome also holds Vatican City within its borders, where you can find St. Peter's Basilica and some of the greatest art in the Vatican Museums.istockphoto.com
Santa Fe, New Mexico
The capital of New Mexico is the oldest and - at an elevation of 7,000 feet - highest state capital in the country, as well as possibly the trendiest. The beauty of the city comes not only from the natural scenery but also the native-influenced architecture, Southwestern culture, and mouthwatering cuisine. Festivals celebrating religious holidays, arts and crafts, wine, music, film, and more occur throughout the year, and with the city situated between both mountains and desert, there are also plenty of more active adventures. It's not hard to see why Santa Fe is known as the City Different, particularly when you take a look at its amazing Southwestern cuisine, a mix of Mexican, Hispano Spanish, French, Mediterranean, and Portuguese flavors, as well as its diverse population.
Santorini, Greece
Repeatedly ranked the world's top island by multiple travel publications over the years, the Greek island of Santorini welcomes approximately two million tourists visit every year. Its fame as a breathtakingly romantic getaway is largely thanks to Oia, a town with gorgeous sunsets that are only more stunning when serving as a backdrop for the white buildings and blue domes perched on its seaside cliffs. Lava from the island's volcanoes makes up the sands of its renowned beaches, many of which are varying colors, such as the Black Beach, Red Beach, and White Beach.istockphoto.com
Seoul, South Korea
Seoul is a city full of cutting-edge technology, Korean pop culture, centuries-old traditions, and impressive skyscrapers as well as temples and palaces. Check out one of Seoul's amusement parks or arts centers, and take a load off at a sauna or spa. Seoul also has plenty of culinary schools just for tourists, so you can learn how to make Seoul specialties such as tteokbokki (rice cakes in a spicy sauce) or pajeon (a type of Korean pancake made with scallions).istockphoto.com
The city-state of Singapore is a leading East Asian destination and the second most densely populated country in the world with 5.6 million people packed into only 300 square miles of land. A lot of those people are workers and expats from around the globe, which makes for an impressive culture and cuisine, with influences from the Chinese, Malay, and Indian communities that have thrived here. It's also one of the safest countries on the planet, although that doesn't make it boring; Singapore has some of the best food, shopping, and nightlife along with many beaches and tourist resorts.istockphoto.com
South Africa
South Africa offers everything from safaris to cosmopolitan city life to beaches to historical sites. Enjoy iconic street food like bunny chow, hit world-class beaches like Camps Bay Beach, and stay in affluent hotels in the Western Cape. Hotel rates aren't bad at all, particularly in the summer when it's wintertime here, and safaris and tours won't drain your wallet either.istockphoto.com
Tokyo, Japan
The Japanese capital boasts a population of over 13 million people and 23 separate wards, each with its own distinct personality, so a single visit here will barely scratch the surface of what this great city has to offer. Don't leave without trying the best sushi in the world or exploring Tokyo's shops full of funky fashions, anime paraphernalia, the latest electronics, and snacks in literally every flavor you can imagine (and some you can't). In addition to the city's many quirky attractions, Tokyo also offers the best of traditional Japanese culture - the city is full of Shinto shrines, Buddhist temples, and opportunities to participate in or observe tea ceremonies, martial arts, or calligraphy lessons. There's simply no city in the world that's anything like Tokyo.istockphoto.com


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There is also full width decking with table and chairs provided at the front of the house for you to take in the views of the sea front.
A wonderful property to spread out and relax in. Airlie is close to all amenities whilst remaining fairly secluded. Parking on street at rear of house.
There are also buckets & spades, a cricket set, cool bag and picnic cups and plates to use whilst out and about, DAB radio in master bedroom and Fraser the bear -for little ones who need company in their bedroom at night! We ask kindly that all items be replaced before leaving the property so that future guests may also enjoy them.
Please note: Rear garden is for the use of the upper flat and the front garden is for use of Garden flat.
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"Wonderful, the views, are incredible, watching the light changing on the sea and goatfell" - A.M-Glasgow, 2007
"Superbly equipped-all we needed and a lovely house. We'll be back!" - J.Mclllellan, 2007
"Once again 3 weeks of heaven! house as usual easy to be in, spacious and handy for the kids to go to beach etc." - The 'Macs' Glasgow 2008
"Well equipped, views from decking just superb, loved it." - Anne & family Aug 2009
"We were most impressed by the cleanliness, space and convenience of the house." - Karen, Mike & family Aug 2009
"Dear Colin, Thank you so much for the use of Airlie gardens again, it is such a tonic for my parents with the space, views and convenience of the house in Brodick. You know we've booked again for 2012!" - John and Linda
May , Arran and Airlie gardens, great, thanks S.C May 2013
Once again, we enjoyed Airlie gardens, we got great weather too, so sitting on the decking was just heavenly- W.H and co June 2013


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Kristen Stewart Channels Jackie O. On The June Cover Of Elle UK
K-Stew is having a Jackie O. moment on the June cover of Elle UK! Here's how you can get her retro look!
Kristen Stewart, 22, looked seriously sophisticated in a 60s-era bouffant and pastel makeup for her cover shoot. The 'do takes you from girlie to grownup in an instant and the makeup is pretty for every day. If you dig Kstew's retro vibe, you can copy it with a few tricks.Her coif is the key to the overall Jackie O. feel. And to get it, you need mile-high hair. Blow dry wet hair using a large round brush. Go section by section, blowing hair away from your face and curling ends under.Use a set of hot rollers like John Frieda Volume & Curl Body Boost Hair Setters to take your volume over the top. These heat up in just 2 minutes. Roll your front strands around a curler away from your face. Use the accompanying clips to secure. Repeat around your whole head. Leave the curlers in your hair while you do your makeup for about 15 to 20 minutes. Take curlers out and backcomb the front strands. Spray a strong hold hairspray like L'Oréal Elnett Satin Extra Strong Hold Unscented Hairspray to keep the style in place and then brush through lightly to get the front straight back.Kristen's makeup combines pale pink lipgloss, flushed cheeks and heavily lined top lids, which can be achieved with a black liquid eyeliner.HollywoodLifers, do you like Kstew's look? Sound off below!
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Retro Snack Foods That Are Primed For a Comeback
Sure, cheese dips and slices are great party snacks when paired with crackers or a crispy chip, but when was the last time you saw an old-fashioned cheese ball? Soft cheese is shaped into a ball with the help of cream cheese and topped with nuts and/or fruit for a sweet and savory delight. The first cheese ball was made in the early 1800s and weighed over 1,200 pounds. It was so large that it was called "The Mammoth Cheese." While creating a giant cheese ball may be out of the picture, preparing this snack shouldn't be, especially with the right recipe.Brent Hofacker/shutterstock.com
One of the foods New Englanders know and love, the fluffernutter is believed to have been created by Paul Revere's great-great-great-granddaughter, Emma Curtis, during World War I after she shared a recipe for a peanut butter and marshmallow creme sandwich. At the time, people were encouraged to forgo meat once a week in support of the troops. The sandwich became an instant hit in the early 20th century and has captivated the taste buds of children for decades. Other than having a delightful name, the fluffernutter is such a treat because it's only three ingredients: peanut butter, marshmallow creme and bread.Brent Hofacker/shutterstock.com
Ambrosia salad
Any dish named after the food and drink Olympian gods consumed for a fruitful life and immortality is worth bringing back to the snack table, even if it is sickeningly sweet. It's rumored that ambrosia salad gained popularity in the Southern U.S. when a cookbook titled "Dixie Cookery: or how I Managed My Table for Twelve Years" featured the dish in 1867. Ambrosia salad became a standard at Southern picnics and dessert tables, despite being one of those salads that isn't a salad at all. So, what's in ambrosia? It's typically made with sour cream, whipped cream, canned mandarin oranges, canned pineapples, maraschino cherries, coconut flakes, crushed nuts and mini marshmallows. If that sounds like too much for a daily snack, consider taking inspiration from ambrosia and making cookies instead.AS Food Studio/shutterstock.com
Pigs in a blanket
Betty Crocker's 1957 book, "Cooking for Kids" contains the first written record of "Pigs-in-a-Blanket." The snack - chopped sausages wrapped in dough and baked - quickly became a household staple and popular party hors d'oeuvres before fading in favor of other party snacks like dips and charcuterie. Pigs in a blanket are a quick, yet tasty snack that can be spiced up with cheesy dough and garlic. We like to keep our pigs in a blanket recipe simple, though.vm2002/shutterstock.com
Cheese fondue
If you grew up in the '70s, one of the foods you certainly remember is the cheese fondue. The history of cheese fondue is hazy, but one tale dating back to the 18th century claims the snack became popular when natives of Switzerland needed a way to feed families with aged cheeses and stale bread during the winter. Villagers realized if they heated the cheese and added seasonings and herbs, a new, delicious snack could be devoured with the stale bread. The rest is history. Fondues blew up in America a few decades ago, but it's about time you consider breaking out your mama's fondue pot and serving this snack to your friends at your next soiree. You can't go wrong with melted cheese, after all, and the recipe for a classic cheese fondue is pretty simple.Margouillatphotos/istockphoto.com
Jell-O molds
Why were there so many gelatin-based dishes in the '60s and '70s? This wobbly, mildly mystifying relic of another era might be a little offputting, but it's about time to reconsider the Jell-O mold, at least when it comes to desserts. A strawberry jelly filled with canned fruit makes for a light snack at the end of the long day that's shockingly satisfying, especially in the middle of summer.serts/istockphoto.com
Pimento cheese
One of the Southern foods all Northerners need to try, pimento cheese is a spread created with cheese, mayonnaise and pimentos, which are large, red-shaped chili peppers. The spread can be eaten with crackers, bread or any vessel perfect for scooping. This is the perfect snack to make its way back to the party table at any get-together. Be sure to prepare it extra spicy, and this recipe for pimento cheese does just that.Raz Marinka/shutterstock.com
Ants on a log
Ants on a log is a timeless snack. Achieved by smearing peanut or nut butter on a stick of celery and topping it off with a few raisins, this snack is not only rich in protein, but it's also a relatively healthy snack. A little savory, a little sweet, once you have ants on a log again, you'll wonder why you haven't been eating this every afternoon for years.Brent Hofacker/shutterstock.com
Shrimp cocktail
Shrimp, or prawn, cocktails were the go-to party treat in the 1970s and remain one of the most iconic foods in Ameria. While the shrimp cocktail never died in some parts of the country, this formerly super-famous appetizer has been overlooked for trendier dishes such as bruschetta and hummus. But we think there is no time is better than the present to bring this fancy snack food back into the spotlight.Dream Big Photos/istockphoto.com
Pizza bagels
Was anything easier than running into your house after hopping off the school bus and popping in some pizza bagels? Whether you choose the prepared frozen variety or a homemade creation of your own, this retro treat was a childhood staple. The snack lost its appeal a bit thanks to the aging of the audience it was once marketed toward, but it's time a new generation is introduced to the tiny pockets of saucy, cheesy joy. The recipe for a pizza bagel is easier than it even sounds and easily customizable.Shutterstock
Seven-layer dip
A seven-layer dip (clearly) has seven layers, most commonly made of refried beans, guacamole, sour cream, chopped onions and tomatoes, cheese, olives and meat. You may have forgotten the joys of this Tex-Mex appetizer, but now that you remember it, it should be No. 1 on your list of dips to serve on game day.Brent Hofacker/shutterstock.com
Rice pudding
Rice pudding, before it was a sweetened delicacy, was a staple snack in Europe in the 1300s. The pudding was originally savory and included ingredients like broth and almond milk. By the 15th century, when rice was considered the food of the elite, it was finally sweetened and made similarly to how we know and love it today. Make rice pudding in your slow cooker and enjoy it at any time of the day and makes for a snack that will stick to your stomach for some time.Guas Alex/shutterstock.com
Dirt cups
Be honest, the last time you consumed a dessert that resembled a pile of dirt with worms emerging from its center was probably when something of the sort wouldn't only be enjoyable but also amusing. (Look, mom, I'm eating dirt!) This snack is great for children, the Halloween season, or both, and only takes crushed Oreos or cake and a few gummy worms to create.Elena Veselova/shutterstock.com
Snow cones
Snow cones made their grand debut in the summer of 1919. Texan Samuel Bert served the frosty snack at the State Fair of Texas and, by 1950, was selling an estimated 1 million snow cones per year. The sugary treat is created by pouring colored corn syrup over a cup of crushed ice. It will not only keep you cool on a hot summer night, but it will also be a hit among the young as you introduce them to timeless flavors and the old as you remind them of summers past.James Kelley/istockphoto.com
If you have heard of divinity, chances are your grandmother always had a few at the ready for you ahead of every visit. Popular in the South, divinity is a mixture of sugar, corn syrup, egg whites and a sweet flavoring like vanilla extract. The result is a nougaty-like candy perfect for sharing with the entire family. If you hadn't heard of divinity until now, consider making it as a part of a vintage-inspired holiday menu.Warren Price Photography/shutterstock.com
Peanut brittle
Peanut brittle was reportedly an accidental creation. While attempting to create taffy, an 1890s Southern woman added baking soda rather than cream of tartar to her mix and continued cooking until it hardened into a crunchy brittle. Whether this tale is true is unknown, but what is certain is that this nutty, lightweight snack is a favorite.Brent Hofacker/shutterstock.com
Butterscotch pudding
Butterscotch pudding deserves a comeback, and fans of the tasty concoction agree. Once described as a "supreme confection," by The Chicago Tribune, this is a wonderful snack easy enough to make with the entire family or with the little ones hoping to become aspiring chefs. It can also be served alongside other retro recipes you might have forgotten existed.
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I have a problem with my neighbor, a large German shepherd named Clutch. He is a big, pushy, noisy fellow who earns his kibble as a police K9 dog. In fact, he has actually attacked people, and he doesn't hesitate to remind me that he is top dog in his class at the police department. He even has his own house behind the big house next door.
My name is Bella, and I am an 18-month-old golden retriever. My human seems to love me as I am, but I am not sure that he really respects me because I don't act like Clutch. I just lie around the house, go for long walks and curl up next to him. He looks at Clutch like he really admires him.
How do I show him how tough I can be? I can't imagine even getting angry, let alone biting anyone. This seems to be my nature.
Is this what life as a dog has come to be? I remember the old days (last year) when all I had to do was just sit up, beg and give my owner the "retriever look."
What can I do to regain my self-respect and admiration from my guy?
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Looks like you have Clutch envy. First and foremost, Clutch is not unemployed. He has a job to really bark about. He saves lives (mainly his officer partner). Although I'm sure your human is impressed by a lifesaving woofer, in the real world, who needs a law enforcer as a sidekick?
If you want to impress and be admired, be the dog you were meant to be. A golden brings much to the dog bowl: lots of exercise, fun, affection and a devoted buddy for life.
I guess if you really want to impress, get a job! May I suggest becoming a therapy dog? This is dog Mecca for a golden retriever. Once you've become an expert on the job, your owner will give you even more respect. And you, too, can become a Big Dog on the block!


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The Counterjihad Vienna Conference was held in Vienna on 10 May 2008. Keynote speaker Serge Trifkovic argued that:
- an education campaign about the teaching and practice of Islam should result in legislative action that would exclude Islam from the societies it is targeting - not because it is an intolerant "religion," but because it is an inherently seditious totalitarian ideology incompatible with the values of the West.[1]
Baron Bodissey (Edward S. May) described the event as a 'working meeting':
- One of the purposes of our meeting in Vienna was to move the center of gravity for our activities out of the United States and into Europe itself, among the people who will bear the brunt of Eurabia and who thus have the greatest incentive to resist it.
- There will undoubtedly be more European workshops, and I (and other Americans) may well be involved. But action in a distributed network should be planned and executed close to where it is most needed and where it will be the most effective.[2]
He added that: "Although we covered a broad range of future actions, the particular focus of the Vienna conference was "Defending Civil Liberties in Europe", so that the emphasis was on what would be called "First Amendment issues" if we were dealing with the United States. [3]
- Serge Trifkovic
- Stefan Ullrich
- Christine Dietrich
- "Holger Danske"
- "Aeneas"
- Paul Weston
- "Henrik"
- "Rolf Krake"
- "Zonka"
- Edgar K. Selzer[4]
- ↑ Dymphna, Counterjihad Vienna 2008, Gates of Vienna, 12 May 2008.
- ↑ Baron Bodissey, Slouching Towards Vienna, Gates of Vienna, 16 May 2008.
- ↑ Baron Bodissey, Slouching Towards Vienna, Gates of Vienna, 16 May 2008.
- ↑ Baron Bodissey, Slouching Towards Vienna, Gates of Vienna, 16 May 2008.


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