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Diary of a Man in Despair
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DescriptionFriedrich Reck might seem an unlikely rebel against Nazism. Not just a conservative but a rock-ribbed reactionary, he played the part of a landed gentleman, deplored democracy, and rejected the modern world outright. To Reck the Nazis were ruthless revolutionaries in Gothic drag, and helpless as he was to counter the spell they had cast on the German people, he felt compelled to record the corruptions of their rule. The result is less a diary than a sequence of stark and astonishing snapshots of life in Germany between 1936 and 1944. We see the Nazis at the peak of power, and the murderous panic with which they respond to approaching defeat; their travesty of traditional folkways in the name of the Volk; and the author's own missed opportunity to shoot Hitler. This riveting book is not only, as Hannah Arendt proclaimed it, "one of the most important documents of the Hitler period" but a moving testament of a decent man struggling to do the right thing in a depraved world.
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Friedrich Reck (1884-1945) was born Friedrich Percyval Reck in Masuria, East Prussia, the son of a prosperous conservative politician and landowner. Having initially complied with his father's wishes to pursue a military career, he left the army to begin medical studies. By the beginning of the First World War, for which he was ruled unfit to serve, he had begun work as a full-time theater critic and travel writer. In the following decades he became a well-known figure in Munich society, the author of both literary historical novels and popular entertainments including Bomben auf Monte Carlo (Bombs on Monte Carlo), a best-selling comic novella and the basis of a hit musical film starring Peter Lorre. In October 1944 he was arrested for the first time; in December of the same year the Gestapo returned to detain him again; in January 1945 he arrived at the Dachau concentration camp, where he was to die shortly after. Paul Rubens (1927-2003), a self-educated native New Yorker, mastered the German language as a member of the U.S. occupation forces after World War II . Richard J. Evans is Regius Professor of History and president of Wolfson College, Cambridge. He is the author of The Third Reich at War.
"Very, very rarely one comes across a book so remarkable and so unexpectedly convincing that it deserves more to be quoted than to be reviewed.... I beg you to read this bitterly courageous book by as good a German as one could well imagine." --Frederic Raphael, The Sunday Times "It is stunning to read, for it is not often that invective achieves the level of art, and rarer still that hatred assumes a tragic grandeur." --The New York Times "Observations set down with passion, outrage, and almost unbearable sadness. . . astonishing, compelling, and unnerving." --The New Yorker "In his visceral loathing of the Nazis, Reck was not, of course, unique. From our perspective, however, he had one great advantage over most of his like-minded friends: he possessed the makings of a great diarist. True, he was not at the centre of things, but he knew the world and had contacts in it. He was something of a connoisseur of rumours, collecting and savouring stories about the latest Nazi scandal or atrocity and adding to them his own trenchant reflections. And if he was a slightly gullible listener, he was a very acute observer.' --The Financial Times
"Unlike many memoirs of the Nazi period, this one is not a totally gloomy account of persecution, brutality and horrors. The dominating quality is its tough exuberance and (often black) satirical humor. From a great height of aristocratic disrelish Fritz Reck-Malleczewen looks down on the Nazis as lower middle class scum, vengefully greedy for power, with Hitler as their avatar, at once sinister and ridiculous' --The Wall Street Journal
"Unlike many memoirs of the Nazi period, this one is not a totally gloomy account of persecution, brutality and horrors. The dominating quality is its tough exuberance and (often black) satirical humor. From a great height of aristocratic disrelish Fritz Reck-Malleczewen looks down on the Nazis as lower middle class scum, vengefully greedy for power, with Hitler as their avatar, at once sinister and ridiculous' --The Wall Street Journal


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En español | I don't know about you, but I hope to live a long, healthy life. My father lived to 82 — even with three separate bouts of cancer — and my mom is still going strong at 76.
I'd rather bet on living to 100, and plan accordingly, than run the risk of outliving my money. Frankly, I'd rather get hit by a bus than run out of money in my later years.
And if 30 or more of those years will be spent "in retirement," it turns out I can't afford not to be healthy.
I found this out the easy way, by using AARP's newest online tool, the Health Care Costs Calculator.
The tool, which was produced and sponsored by Optum, is our latest effort to help people identify and plan for costs they will face in retirement. It turns out that health care is a much, much larger expense than I had ever imagined — even for those with supplemental Medicare and retiree health benefits through their employer. In fact, according to the calculator, I should expect to spend about $311,000 — out of my own pocket — on health care during my 30-plus years of retirement. Most of the sticker shock comes from the cost of premiums, deductibles and coinsurance requirements. The tool also considers costs associated with specific diseases that run in my family (hello, cancer), and provides some tips on how to manage those diseases (hello, vegetables).
Apparently, I'm not alone in my naïveté about retiree health care costs. In a recent AARP study, we found that almost two-thirds of respondents have never tried to figure out how much their health care will cost them in retirement. And when we asked them to give a ballpark estimate of how much money they might need, over 40 percent guessed that they would need less than $100,000 to cover their health costs throughout retirement.
Clearly, the tool fills an all-too-common gap in the retirement-planning process. Check it out as you make your retirement plans. In the meantime, here are a few things to keep in mind about health costs:
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When you're choosing the best Medicare plan for you, the lowest premium may not be the lowest-cost plan overall. Even Part A charges an annual deductible of more than $1,100. And if you do end up hospitalized with just Part A coverage, let's hope you don't stay long: After two months in the hospital, you're expected to pay almost $300 per day out of your own pocket. After three months, you'll be charged almost $600 per day.
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Hey guys,
Ill keep my initial post short and see where it leads. Admins, if this post is misfiled, please feel free to move it to the proper sub-forum.
Ill start by saying that I have little current programming experience.
What I have is an old engineering application that currently will not run in windows, the source looks like a batch file to the best of my knowledge, perhaps old VB code. (hard copy not electronic format)
This app does calculations to determine when a product (more information to the person that helps) will fail, based on pressure ratings, bend radius, bend repetitions, tensile strength etc...
Some people have asked me if I wanted a java app or a winforms app. and im not sure which way to go, if theres a simple conversion, or if it truly requires a 100$ / hr programmer.
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Hi everyone! It's Annie Jaffrey from www.youtube.com/AnnieJaffrey! BH Cosmetics asked me to do a guest blog post and I'm excited to be here! A new school year is just about to begin and I want to teach you the first lesson of the year: How to look amazing on your first day! Follow the steps below to re-create my look:
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The Chelsea striker celebrated his 33rd birthday over the weekend at Il Bottacio in London, a big-name affair featuring appearances by Ashley Cole, Florent Malouda, William Gallas, Michael Essien and more. But the real star was Drogba's birthday cake, featuring him riding dirty with a trio of naked frosting ladies.
Sad that the world might never have known about Drogba's cake if it hadn't been Tweeted by "car customizer to the stars" Yianni, who was in attendance. So yeah, definitely an athlete's party. Also a sure sign: a topless woman serving the cake. (This is the NSFW part, not the confectionery breasts).
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It looks like the Bluth family is still going to need a lawyer, as Henry Winkler is set to return to Arrested Development in the revived series which will appear on Netflix. The movie rental company went a long way to restore good will with the public when they picked up the cult favorite for what will be the fourth season with at least ten new episodes. Perhaps they had some legal counsel from Barry Zuckerkorn (Winkler) on how best to handle their previous faux pas. No word yet on if Bob Loblaw (Scott Baio) will lob any law bombs. Hit the jump for a quote from Winkler on rejoining Arrested Development.
THR reported that Winkler will reunite with the Bluth family in the new season. He is expected to appear in multiple episodes. Here's what Winkler tweeted the other day:
"I am supposed to be memorizing an Arrested Development scene with Maybe for today … don't tell anyone I was here OK?????"
Ron Howard also recently talked about creator Mitch Hurwitz and the writing team's approach to these new episodes:
"[Creator] Mitch [Hurwitz] isn't trying to re-create something. It's been away for a while, and part of the fun that Mitch has been mining and exploiting is, what's new to discover about these people? What's delightfully unchanged? He and the writing staff and the actors have a fantastic sense of that."
In case you're not familiar with Winkler's character's antics, here's a look at the best of Barry Zuckerkorn (speeded up and flipped for copyright issues and such):


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Earlier this year we published a rumor that the first three games in Capcom's famed Devil May Cry series would be getting an HD re-release.
Today, G4 reports that all three games have been rated by the ESRB for release on both the PS3 and the Xbox 360. It's looking more likely than ever that we'll soon be adding another storied franchise to the list of games that we're surprisingly excited to buy for a second time at higher resolutions.
Tokyo Game Show 2011 is next week. Announcements on the way?
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Arming teachers in schools: An argument against
Because we trust our children to teachers doesn't mean we should trust teachers to protect them against armed assailants
Author's Note: Let me be clear that I am not opposed to armed protection in schools. I think local governments, police, schools and their communities should decide that. I urge these groups to put school shootings in context. Second, I want to thank George T. Williams for debating this issue with me. He sets a gold standard for respectful, well-reasoned discourse. We hope to spark discussion which may lead to ideas better than our own.
Kids probably spend more time at school than any place except home. And less than two percent of all youth homicides occur there. Children are safer in school than at home or on the highway.
Mass shootings anywhere are senseless and horrific, but they are especially so when children perish. We understandably feel shocked, outraged and driven to react.
But I have serious reservations that arming untrained teachers is a wise reaction.
Humbled by a firearms training Simulator
I got my teacher's certification after student teaching in an elementary school. I also carry and have completed numerous tactical pistol trainings alongside law enforcement, which had as their stated objective to condition participants "to respond instantly to any threat...to prevail in any encounter."
Then, I was humbled by a firearms training simulator. I killed an undercover cop, two innocent bystanders to a bank robbery and got myself repeatedly killed without saving anyone.
An active shooter in a densely populated environment might not present a "high-level skills" task for a tactical expert. I question whether most lay people would agree. Add elevated heart rate, tunnel vision and auditory exclusion and even simple tasks become complex.
I don't think teachers armed for the purpose of protecting students and staff can be equated with private citizens carrying. When I carry, I have no responsibility to protect others. I can choose to flee and leave others to danger. Nor does society have any expectation I will assume risks to protect others.
I can't imagine teachers armed for the purpose of protecting students and staff feeling that same freedom. We've seen the heroic sense of responsibility teachers have when they are unarmed. The recommendation to arm them is with the expectation they will protect others.
Responsibility should be accompanied by qualifications and competencies. The greater the responsibility, the more qualifications and competencies needed.
Because we trust our children to teachers doesn't mean we should trust teachers to protect them against armed assailants. We also trust our children to doctors and babysitters.
We trust teachers to educate – in no small part because they generally must have a college degree with requisite hours in teaching methodology and subject content, successfully complete student teaching, and pass a certification exam.
Pandora's Box of Questions
Just as the question of whether citizens should be permitted to possess firearms is not answered by one person's misuse of them, so too the question of whether arming teachers with no training or demonstrated competency is a good idea is not answered by one assistant principal holding an armed intruder at gunpoint until police arrived.
I also don't think state laws that permit someone who has reached adulthood without a felony conviction to carry for personal protection set appropriate standards for arming teachers for the purpose of protecting students and staff against an armed assailant.
I accept cost is a factor. Otherwise we'd have sufficient numbers of School Resource Officers in every school. What number it would take to secure against a determined, deranged individual is unclear.
Fort Hood proved a mass shooting can occur on a "secure" military base. But we shouldn't accept politicians saying we can't afford any training for teachers who are willing to arm themselves to protect students and staff. Let us remind politicians – we are the political reality.
If we accept that teachers armed to protect students and staff should receive some training and demonstrate some safety and competency, then we open a Pandora's Box of questions that must be answered:
- What training is adequate?
- Who will provide and pay for it, and the teachers' time and expenses?
- Who will assess mastery of the training and how?
- What if a teacher fails the assessment but wants multiple chances at the training?
- What about the workmen's compensation claims for injuries during the training?
- What about the lawsuits for negligent training?
I choose to have guns in my home knowing there is incontrovertible evidence that doing so makes it statistically many times more likely there will be a death or injury to me, my family or guests by one of those guns.
I use the evidence to keep my guns as safely as possible. Accidental gun deaths show too many gun owners and their children don't abide by the four basic cardinal rules of gun safety.
Numerous states permit gun ownership and carrying without knowing these rules.
Parents and teachers should be educated on the evidence of significant increased risk of accidental gun injuries and deaths posed by guns carried by teachers who are not required to have any training or demonstrate even basic gun safety.
This risk may be why SHOT Show and Crossroads of the West – two of the largest gun shows in the country – don't rely on state laws, but instead prohibit their Second Amendment enthusiasts from bringing any loaded firearm into the shows. They both cite safety concerns. This may also be why Utah educators have mixed reactions to guns in schools.
There's another reason we shouldn't task teachers with the armed protection of our schools. We already ask too much of them. In addition to educating, we expect them to maintain order, discipline, and nurture self-esteems.
When I carry, I have a heightened vigilance. Without it, what's the point of carrying? Vigilance requires attention.
So does teaching. Which task do we want attention taken from – educating or protecting against an armed assailant?
Bottom line: To the extent a community decides it needs armed protection in schools against heavily armed assailants, it shouldn't rely on teachers with no training or demonstrated competency to provide it.


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When it comes right down to it, there is only one question which remains unanswered from the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
As we are about to look back on the first decade following the most catastrophic event to occur on American soil, most of us may reflect on how our lives have changed in the years since 9/11. Some people are still haunted by the images they remember from that fateful day, others forever angered by the acts of cowardice intended to punish our country simply for living free.
Interestingly, in the first issue of the Island Reporter following Sept. 11, 2001, five stories dominated the front page:
The community gathering in support of 9/11 victims and their families
An alligator killing a longtime resident and environmental advocate
City Council approving the proposed budget and previous year's tax rate
Judie Zimomra being appointed Sanibel City Manager
The herbicide poisoning of five Australian pines on Periwinkle Way
We found these stories interesting for several reasons.
First, because - other than the article related to Australian pines, which were all but eliminated along Periwinkle Way three years later by Hurricane Charley - many of yesteryear's headlines remain as relevant in 2011 as they were in 2001.
Zimomra, for example, is about to celebrate her 10th anniversary as City Manager. The council will convene this weekend to complete the first public hearing on next year's proposed budget, which had been introduced in July with a millage rate identical to last year's final approved rate. And the debate continues over the city's so-called "controversial" Nuisance Alligator Policy, enacted in the months following the fatal incident.
Second, because after nearly 10 years, islanders - and nearly every American we have spoken to - still wonder why we were attacked. Why would our country be hated for the freedoms we enjoy? In retaliation to the attacks, who do we intend on punishing in our continuing "War on Terrorism," and will that war ever end? Is there hope that our children will live in a world where everybody lives by the "Golden Rule" most of us were raised by: "One should treat others as one would like others to treat oneself." And why, even after a decade, does the pain of 9/11 still feel like a new wound?
Why? Unfortunately, we may never know the answers.
On this Sept. 11, we are encouraging our readers to gather with our fellow Southwest Floridians at the Broadway Palm Dinner Theater and attend their "Remember 9/11 Tenth Year" program, which begins at 11:30 a.m. Tickets are complimentary and available at the Broadway Palm ticket office, located at 1380 Colonial Boulevard in Fort Myers.
Several islanders will be a part of the program, including Sanibel art gallery owner Leoma Lovegrove, who will debut her 18-foot-by-10-foot patriotic mural - with the name of every 9/11 victim painted on it - along with guest speakers Sandra Stilwell and Jason Maughan. In addition, several members of NYPD Local 1013 will take part in the event.
Remember the fallen, honor the heroes and hope for all mankind. We pray that after 10 years, some additional healing will take place. And, above all, peace will be in our future.
- Reporter editorial


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It's still hard to believe the horrifically embarrassing performance we witnessed Monday night.
Not from the Steelers, mind you.
From ESPN.
The network that recently paid $15.2 billion to extend its NFL deal delivered what might have been the most surreal broadcast in American sports history.
Before we get to the part about the sideline reporter who couldn't speak English, the analyst who couldn't pronounce Roethlisberger and the studio host who mistook a light-bulb malfunction for a national security crisis, we'll throw it to Stuart Scott (Stu).
That is precisely what Chris Berman (Boomer) did at the beginning of "Monday Night Countdown."
"Good evening, Boom," Stu said. "Legendary field, legendary quarterback (analyst) Steve Young. Really, Boom, all we need is you in the corner of the end zone covering the game after Dwight Clark makes The Catch."
Boom would have a legendary night, all right. But let's not get ahead of ourselves. Stu quickly went to the sideline reporter who couldn't speak English.
John Sutcliffe guessing that's his stage name was making his "Monday Night Football" debut. He normally works for Spanish-speaking ESPN Deportes. Shame on ESPN for throwing him into an impossible situation in perhaps its biggest game of the season.
This was planned. The website sportsgrid.com went to the trouble of confirming as much in a story on Sutcliffe, under the headline, "This Man's Presence on 'Monday Night Football' Confused a Nation."
The story quoted a network spokesman who called the Sutcliffe experiment "the most recent example of ESPN utilizing ESPN Deportes and International commentators on U.S. domestic outlets."
Once again, ESPN leads the way.
You had to feel for Sutcliffe, who came off as a mix of Latka from the old sitcom "Taxi" and Yoda of "Star Wars" fame. His post-halftime report on what Mike Tomlin told him: "We have to take care of better the ball."
But back to the beginning. Stu asked Sutcliffe whether the Steelers would go with injured Ben Roethlisberger or Charlie Batch.
Sutcliffe: "Stu, the answer is Ben Roethlisberger. He came out, he did the pro pre-game ability test, it was fine ... "
Now back to the studio for the fake laughter-filled "C'mon Man" segment, followed by analyst Jon Gruden's first butchering of Ben's surname ("Roth-ulz-berger").
Sutcliffe began his next report: "Stu, you can talk about the Niners, 10-3, NFC champions, but talking to them over the weekend, this is an opportunity to send a message, who they really are."
Berman reminded us of who he really is a self-absorbed, melodramatic gas bag when a transformer blew outside Candlestick Park just before kickoff. It had to be a scary moment, but by the time ESPN returned from a break, it was clear that the situation was hardly calamitous.
Just some light bulbs.
Yet, Berman apparently saw an opportunity, as our civic observer @JanePitt tweeted, to "lead America through uncertain times."
"Bringing back eerie memories," Berman said, invoking the 1989 earthquake that shook Candlestick Park before a World Series game.
Boomer was there in '89, you know, and would not let go of the analogy, even though he was quick to point out, "There has not been an earthquake."
Nope. Just some light bulbs. Yet Berman and play-by-play man Mike Tirico proceeded as if the free world were in peril.
Berman: "Mike Tirico and the guys are getting set to call the game, scrambling to a telephone. Michael, you guys all right?"
Wait, Tirico had to "scramble" to get to a phone? And he might have been injured?
Was this a scene from "Armageddon"?
Tirico, striking a cool professional tone amid the crisis: "Chris, we heard, or felt, no shaking ... "
Berman: "Well, I mean, that at least is the good news, Michael, on the non-shaking."
This went on for a bit. Finally, Boomer said, "Can you tell the mood of the fans? Panic wouldn't be the right word, but do you feel they're settled in calmly enough, Michael?"
You half-expected Boomer to ask if tents had been set up for possible victims.
Tirico said nobody was panicking. That probably should have sufficed, but Boomer went on. He again hearkened to 1989 and proceeded to confuse us in a way Sutcliffe could only dream of.
What follows is an actual transcript of Boomer's monologue:
"I will say this and I don't want to get anybody crazy because we were in the upper deck at the World Series like so many of the other folks in the disaster; the earthquake in San Francisco, during the World Series. And I will say ... the image that I will have on those running the stadium and those very quickly scrambling to positions of authority, if you will, and getting to where they can, without power, San Francisco has this down. They're really good at it, OK?"
Finally ready for some football, ESPN opened with a shot of Roethlisberger kneeling in prayer.
Tirico (honestly) said, "He's not Tebowing, he's Ben-ing."
Early in the second quarter, Tirico asked Sutcliffe what he'd learned of the outage.
"Some man told me he remembers the earthquake of '89, the last time the power was lost in this stadium. But to be honest, you can tell that they're running like hell trying to fix it."
"Good hustle John," Tirico said. "Thank you."
No, no, thank you ESPN, for putting those 15 billion dollars to good use.
And for keeping us calm during a time of great national angst.
I have to admit, it was downright painful to watch Berman and ESPN try and flub their way through the game. Berman was rambling about nothing, and that sideline reporter was barely coherent.
I don't care for ESPN anyway but my goodness this was a new low for them.


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As for our latest economic crisis, I couldn't resist stealing this from Angry Bear:
Dear American:
I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship with a transfer of funds of great magnitude.
I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country has had crisis that has caused the need for large transfer of funds of 800 billion dollars US. If you would assist me in this transfer, it would be most profitable to you.
I am working with Mr. Phil Gram, lobbyist for UBS, who will be my replacement as Ministry of the Treasury in January. As a Senator, you may know him as the leader of the American banking deregulation movement in the 1990s. This transactin is 100% safe.
This is a matter of great urgency. We need a blank check. We need the funds as quickly as possible. We cannot directly transfer these funds in the names of our close friends because we are constantly under surveillance. My family lawyer advised me that I should look for a reliable and trustworthy person who will act as a next of kin so the funds can be transferred.
Please reply with all of your bank account, IRA and college fund account numbers and those of your children and grandchildren to email@example.com so that we may transfer your commission for this transaction. After I receive that information, I will respond with
detailed information about safeguards that will be used to protect the funds.
Yours Faithfully Minister of Treasury Paulson
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Dear American
Posted by CL Psych at 9/23/2008 09:24:00 AM
2 comments:
LOL. Yep, that nails it. The 700 billion dollar tax gift to greedy and irresponsible financial institutions feels a lot like those email scams.
Unfortunately, while we can trash the email, it's a little late to trash the current administration. They already have their hands in our pockets.
- Tuesday, September 23, 2008 11:07:00 AM
Hmm, looks legit but all my money is tied up in Nigeria at the moment.
- Tuesday, September 23, 2008 1:33:00 PM
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Friday, May 30, 2008
Das Geheimnis von meinem Birthday-Blues
Speaking of which, look who recently published his autobiography! And he's not the only '60s Euro star who has written one: check this out! What do you think the chances are, of these being translated into English? Ja, I agree... but in Germany, both of these stars have recorded Audio CD versions of their books.
Thursday, May 29, 2008
His Name Rhymed With Horror
I've been spending some time with the Wallace-krimis again, which has tempted my closer study of Vohrer. His films are sometimes guilty of exposition passages filmed too expediently or carelessly, but on the whole he was remarkably inventive and -- at the very least -- a master of what the Germans call stimmung: mood. Rialto seems to have greatly appreciated what Vohrer brought to the series because, after a fairly early point, he begins to receive a pre-credit possessory card (like the one above) in addition to his actual main titles credit (like the one below, from Neues vom Hexer, 1965).
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Trust Me, You're Going to Love This
"Back when I was 22," Mr. Perkowski writes, "I over-earnestly pulled off two feature films based on Edward D. Wood Jr. pulp novels and old screenplays: DEVIL GIRLS and THE VAMPIRE'S TOMB - shot on Super-8, 16mm, video, with acres ofstock footage and scrupulous dedication to the angora-ed one. Recently, through acts of dark alchemy, I've assembled them into a viewable form after noticing 9th generation bootlegs floating around of a rough cut of the first film. Here are some rough teaser trailers, with Phil Proctor of The Firesign Theatre doing the voiceovers..."
Here's a link to a couple of fabulous trailers for these homunculic hommages: DEVIL GIRLS (based on a Wood pulp novel) and THE VAMPIRE'S TOMB (based on an unfilmed Wood script that was to have starred Bela Lugosi as "Dr. Acula."). Frankly, I find far more cinematic verve in these trailers than Ed Wood himself ever mustered, and their expressionistic bent, high energy and Super-8/16mm origins actually suggest (to me, anyway) what Andy Milligan -- or, dare I say it, a more nascent Guy Maddin -- might have made of this musty old Wood material.
YouTube is also hosting a rough cut trailer for another Andre Perkowski production, the Hong Kong action pastiche A BELLY FULL OF ANGER, which you can find here (if you can take it).
Should any information be forthcoming about where the re-emergent Wood tributes can be obtained in their entirety, I will let you know.
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Bava Book Wins IPPY Award
I was surprised and also pleased to discover that this year's Gold Medal recipient, RETURN TO THE CAFFE CINO, is a history of the off-off-Broadway night spot where Andy Milligan got his start as a dramatist. In fact, the book contains a number of the gay- and S&M-themed plays originally produced at Caffé Cino, including (surprise of surprises) "The Brown Crown," written by my friend and former Milligan repertory player Hal Borske! I guess I'll have to buy it now. Anyway, major congratulations to Hal for being part of the IPPY Awards' #1 choice.
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
The Last Three Hours of 24:1
We finished watching the first season of 24 last night, which was very exciting if also somewhat disappointing. The finale brings to mind all the reasons why most drama doesn't go the "real time" route. As Alfred Hitchcock realized after making ROPE (1948), cutting is necessary to drama; I would add to this that, while real time is an engaging complement to suspense, a certain degree of time manipulation is necessary for drama to achieve its fullest potential, and suspense cannot exist without dramatic content. The real challenge of drama is not to subvert its rules, as this show does quite brazenly, but to find ways in which to innovate within their perimeters without being so crass as to break them.
In 24 SEASON ONE's final couple of hours, we discover who the second mole at CTU is (the truth is actually tipped-off in the opening montage of every episode). As the commentaries confess, the answer was improvised pretty much as that episode was being prepared, which meant that the actor had no idea that he/she had been playing a traitor for the bulk of his/her performance. This upset the actor, and it does result in a performance that doesn't work quite so well in hindsight as it did when it was in progress, through no fault of the performer's own.
A major character also dies just minutes before the end, an infuriating death that was dealt into the game for -- the creators admit -- no better purpose than to inform the viewer that all bets were off where future seasons were concerned. Anything could happen here, and they had better learn to expect the unexpected. Apparently the actors had no idea how the show was going to end either, because an alternative version was shot (included in this set as a bonus), in which this character survived. Oddly enough, this alternate version isn't particularly satisfying either, for the simple reason that the preceding wrap-up took so much screen time that both endings had to be rushed through. So one is left with the feeling that the storyline simply stops, in keeping with its internal clock, rather than draws to a satisfying conclusion.
My friend Michael Schlesinger wrote in response to yesterday's blog, and his engaging remarks warrant sharing in full:
You're absolutely right about the repetition of certain phrases (my favorite, which came in later seasons: "Chloe, I'll upload the data from my PDA and explain everything when I get back to CTU!"), but you danced around the more telling point: to paraphrase FDR, Bauer is an SOB, but he's our SOB. The right-wingers who make this show clearly see him as a hero, but most of us at home see Bauer as basically a bad guy who just happens to be working for us, and much of 24's brilliance is getting us to root for him instead of booing him.
Season #1 is rather uneven--they don't really understand the cliff-hanger concept, often ending the show with the take-out instead of delaying it till next week. But it greatly improved as it went along, reaching its pinnacle in the absolutely remarkable fifth season. So stick with it.
And most importantly: you're exhausted from watching several episdoes in a row? You're not supposed to watch several episodes in a row!! It's a goddamn serial! One chapter a week--just like the good old days. Where's the delicious tingle of suspense if you see the resolution two minutes later? I'm allowing you one episode a day, no more. I have spoken.
Unfortunately. watching one episode per day from a boxed set release is a luxury beyond the means of DVD reviewers, who are obliged to jump into the deep end and gulp down almost as much water as they swim in. Also, if the real viewing mandate is one episode per day, what's with the "Play All" option on each disc, which indicates a covert encouragement from the show's producers to watch as many as four episodes in a sitting? It doesn't really matter: any progress I make with subsequent episodes now will probably have to be limited to one episode per evening, if I intend to get anything else done. But Mike's endorsement of Season Five is tantalizing indeed.
As my comments have shown, we agree that Season One is uneven; a number of plot threads are dropped without closure (for example, Kim never learns about the fate of her girlfriend) and I also noticed that a couple of episodes cheated themselves of better cliffhangers, which sometimes appeared at the end of the first act in the next episode. But real time is a hugely difficult challenge for any dramatist (Beckett excepted, perhaps), and this group of episodes meet that challenge far better than most. It's one of the most impressive feats of construction I've seen in a TV show, maybe the most impressive; I also find myself looking fondly back at some of the throwaway characters, like the woman cop who takes a bullet in the alley or the fed-up, due-in-court-on-a-DIY-charge waitress whose car Jack commandeers, the latter played by Kathleen Wilhoite (a welcome return by a likably quirky actress I used to see often in 1980s television).
I have my quibbles, but I can't argue with the commonly held belief that 24 SEASON ONE is riveting television.
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
24: If 6 Was 16:9
Donna and I watch as little commercial television as possible these days, so, while we were vaguely aware of the 24 phenomenon, we didn't actually give the show a spin until this box set came into our hands. I don't know how well the subsequent seasons hold up, but the first season episodes are fairly addicting and seem tailor-made for marathon viewing sessions. I think we've done as many as seven in a day, which is, of course, nothing compared to what Jack Bauer (Sutherland) and company are going through. However, watching a show this suspenseful, actionful and unpredictable can take a certain toll on one's psychological health; I personally hit a bump a little more than halfway through the season where I was feeling so emotionally exhausted by the whole thing that I had to take a break. Your mileage may differ, but I would recommend maybe a few episodes a night, tops. Beyond that, believe it or not, it can begin to tear at you.
The series was photographed by Rodney Charters (whose name I first noticed on the old FRIDAY THE 13th series, when he shot David Cronenberg's "Faith Healer" episode) and other Canadian cameramen in a widescreen format, and is presented here in mostly handsome 16:9 with semi-muted color. However, it appears that the series was shot wide in consideration of its future DVD release and domestic/overseas HD broadcasts, and initially shown (and indeed framed) in standard ratio. In the course of viewing, I noticed a couple of glaring camera gaffes that turn the old "boom mike" shots we used to see in unmatted VHS releases topsy-turvy; 24 ushers in a new era of unmatted widescreen transfers that expose area not meant to be seen in the periphery of the image.
Example #1: Here's an image from episode "7:00am to 8:00am," found at 12:40 on Disc 2. Here, Counter Terrorist Unit agent Nina Meyers (Sarah Clarke) finds an abandoned building and phones headquarters, and the silhouette of a camera operator edges not once, not twice, but three times into frame. I've brightened the image slightly to better accentuate the little red bead on the camera, which was very noticeable on my TV display.
SIGHT & SOUND June 2008
Sunday, May 18, 2008
Robert Heinlein on Blogging
This Robert Heinlein quote appeared as "Quote of the Day" over at the House Next Door blog's "Links for the Day," today. It was given no citation or context, so I cannot say what brought this prophetic insight about, but, to me, it says very concisely what I was trying to say about the dangers of blogging a week or two ago. The irony of announcing that I intended to step back from blogging, only to redouble my efforts here, has not been lost on me, I assure you, but over the past week, this blog has been valuable to my personal decompression. As for my goals, I'm working on them.
Saturday, May 17, 2008
First Look: VIDEO WATCHDOG #140
This issue is unusual for presenting, for what I believe is only the second time in our 18-year history, a feature article licensed from an existing book. When I read Rikke Schubart's SUPER BITCHES AND ACTION BABES: THE FEMALE HERO IN POPULAR CINEMA 1970-2006, I was greatly impressed by the quality of its writing and analysis -- but also frankly surprised by it, considering the book's unabashedly exploitative title. I was particularly pleased by its chapter on Japanese actress Meiko Kaji, whose work in the "Female Prisoner Scorpion" and "Lady Snowblood" films I admire, so I decided to license it from McFarland and Company, in the hopes of introducing Ms. Schubart's work to an audience that might otherwise overlook it. It was a treat to subject such quality writing about such a picturesque subject to a full color layout. Also in this issue is David Del Valle's heartfelt tribute to the equally colorful Hazel Court, whom he befriended for many years. With our focus given over to these two actresses this month, VW #140 is particularly rich in images of dazzling feminine beauty -- but there is a good deal else to recommend it.
For proof, in the form of a near-complete list of contents and free sample pages, visit the "Coming Soon" page at our website here.
JPL at THE LAST MOVIE
I also want to note that I told John's daughter Dawn about the great outpouring of affection that followed the news of his death online, in numerous blogs and discussion groups. I assembled links to all the JPL memorial blogs and threads I could find and sent them along to her, so that she can read them and print them out for preserving/sharing with other family members.
Friday, May 16, 2008
Thursday, May 15, 2008
More On JPL
Though the cause of John Phillip Law's death remains unreported, it was disclosed by Chris Casey today on the Spaghetti Western Web board that John's good friend, actor Ted Markland, had been keeping the confidence that John was told he had about six months left to live. With this in mind, I'm thanking God that I finished the Bava book when I did and was able to get it into his hands.
Addio, Diabolik
I'm in shock. John and I met several times: I was a guest in his home, a passenger in his cluttered car; we went to the movies together, and were collaborators on a wonderful DVD commentary track (which I'm so grateful to have now as a souvenir of our rapport). We talked about the things we'd do the next time I came out to California. When I sent him an inscribed copy of my long-promised MARIO BAVA ALL THE COLORS OF THE DARK, he sent me an effusive note of congratulations. (It's thanks to John that the Bava book contains those never-before-published shots of Catherine Deneuve as Eva Kant. He had complete stills sets filed on every picture he had ever made.) I was very much looking forward to seeing him again in LA next month; there was even some talk of having him present me with the Saturn Award. And now this.
I can't believe we won't have a next time, that I won't be able to introduce him to Donna. The cause of his death hasn't yet been reported, but the facts aren't going to make this news any easier for me to digest. He was a youthful 70, still handsome, still a very young guy in spirit and hadn't lost any of his professional ambition. He was always auditioning, checking his car phone for messages from his agency; he loved to work and loved knowing that a handful of the films he made had become cult pictures, movies that earned him a niche in popular culture, that would outlive him: THE GOLDEN VOYAGE OF SINBAD, BARBARELLA, DEATH RIDES A HORSE, DANGER: DIABOLIK (of course), CQ and -- as I always insisted whenever in his company -- THE LAST MOVIE. On the occasion of our first meeting, he was so impressed that I knew and loved his crazy Sergio Bergonzelli movie BLOOD DELIRIUM that he ran back into his house and came back out with a large rolled Italian poster bearing the title DELIRIO DI SANGUE as a gift. I'm told it may be the next best thing to one-of-a-kind because the film never had a theatrical release.
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
He Does It Because He's Driven
There's an interesting little thread about the movie over on the Mobius boards that provoked the following Ballardian outburst from Yours Truly, worth preserving here:
Someday, long after we are all gone (maybe sooner), all the digital mapping done of actors like Christina Ricci to achieve scenes in movies like this will be reused to create super-realistic fetish videos in three-dimensional, interactive, holographic PalpaVision. No plot, just light and shadow and synthetic flesh. It's inevitable, given the ways of devolution, that the trend of remakes will eventually devolve to three-dimensional re-imaginings and re-explorations of individual scenes and shots. Movies like SPEED RACER are a training ground to get us there.
Dish HD Giveth and Dish HD Taketh Away
HOWEVER. And it's a BIG, mother-loving HOWEVER.
Overnight, without warning, all 15 of Dish Network's VOOM channels suddenly disappeared, including my beloved Monsters HD. (The night before, ten of the channels vanished from the Dish channel grid, also without prior warning.) After struggling through the English language with a Dish tech for several unsatisfying minutes, I asked to be referred to their supervisor, who informed me that Monsters, World, Kung Fu, Gallery, Rave, Animania and nine other VOOM channels are presently off the Dish schedule... even though there are new channels assigned for each of these stations on the programming grids on the Dish website. I was told that Dish is currently negotiating with the provider of these stations for their return, in which case they will either be reintroduced as a special package (for which we'll likely be charged a still higher monthly rate) or reintegrated into the lineup. Of course, they might be gone for good. Well, not for good -- for ever.
This situation must come as quite a surprise to my friend David Sehring, the head guy at Monsters HD, who e-mailed me not long ago to inform me of some of the great new titles headed to the high-definition channel this summer -- including the English-language version of BLACK SABBATH. Just within the past few weeks, Monsters HD has shown a number of Hammer titles new to their lineup, including ONE MILLION YEARS B.C., THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN, HORROR OF DRACULA (a different transfer than the standard ratio version aired last month on another HD channel) and an especially exquisite-looking presentation of the 1959 version of THE MUMMY. I assume it's carried by other satellite providers, but not by any that I know of in this country.
Many indignant Dish subscribers will likely find themselves now in the uncomfortable position of wanting to dump what is essentially, without the VOOM channels, a pricier subscription service to fewer channels and sign up with the cheaper, more HD-generous DirecTV-- but knowing that would entail returning their DVR hard drives. In my case, that's more than 50 movies in standard and high def that I'm storing in permanent HD quality or waiting to be dubbed for burning to disc. And a lot of the stuff I've recorded from Monsters, World and Kung Fu doesn't turn up on other HD channels.
Dish is promising to have more than a hundred HD channels in place by year's end. Will the VOOM channels be among them? Stay tuned.
In the meantime, please add your name to this online petition to bring Monsters HD and the other VOOM channels back.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
If they ever make a Christopher Lee biopic...
PS: As reader Bob Cashill notes, "... and Ralph Fiennes for Peter Cushing!"
Monday, May 12, 2008
Happy Birthday to Bob Burns!
Cumpleaños felices, Jess Franco!
I did not want the day to pass without wishing you a Happy Birthday. It seems that a month never passes that doesn't produce some never-before-seen movie from your infinite past; it is a continuing process of discovery and delight for so many of us. The new DVD releases of EUGENIE and CECILIA are very beautiful indeed. This year I became a big fan of Eddie Constantine's films, many of which are hard to see in America, and seeing the early films he made with Bernard Borderie and others has given me new insights into the movies he made with you.
I hope that both you and Lina know that your work is loved a great deal by many people all around the world. Although its subject matter is often strange or extreme, it nevertheless makes us feel affectionate toward you both. We all wish we could be with you this evening, toasting your talent and your continued health on this happy occasion! But though we may be scattered all around the globe, you are in our thoughts today and we will still be toasting to you and your generous gift to cinema! I hope this letter finds you in good spirits and engaged in the creation of new work.
Warm regards from your friend and fan,
Tim Lucas
The Heart and Soul of Iron Man
While it's not perfect, I greatly enjoyed the new film version of IRON MAN with Robert Downey, Jr.; it's probably my favorite of Marvel Entertainment's filmed origin stories to date, and it promises to become one of their most successful movie franchises. One of its few disappointments is that Gene Colan's name is missing from its long list of creative credits because, for me and many other Marvel readers of my generation, Gene "The Dean" Colan was Iron Man. He gave a once clunky character a dimension of streamlined gladiatorial majesty that went significantly beyond even what Jack Kirby had summoned to earlier TALES OF SUSPENSE covers, a dimension that somehow made the armor transparent enough to suggest the spirit of Tony Stark striving within it. That aspect of Iron Man is often visible in the screen character's body language and, whenever I see it, it's clearly stamped Gene Colan -- everywhere except on the screen.
My reason for going into all this is that I awoke today to internet reports that Mr. Colan is not well; his liver is failing him. Writer Clifford Meth, with the approval of Gene's wife Adrienne, is organizing a fund-raising auction over at his Everyone's Wrong and I'm Right blog and seeking auctionable signed books, art and other goods from any professional willing to contribute. I know that quite a few professionals in different branches of the entertainment world read this blog regularly, so I'm doing what I can to get the word out. If you can, please contribute work. If you can't, please follow the auction and bid.
My best wishes to Gene Colan, and my thanks for many years of some of the most exciting comic art I've ever marvelled to. (I loved his blue Stilt Man in DAREDEVIL, too...)
Sunday, May 11, 2008
The Loves of Mimsy Farmer #1: Robbie Douglas
The episode finds Robbie Douglas (Don Grady) unable to focus on his studies due to the pheromonious allure of fellow student Janee Holmes (Mimsy). Father Steve Douglas (Fred MacMurray) insists that Robbie stay at home over the weekend until he finishes writing a theme for his history class, a project that threatens him with missing out on a pre-arranged date at the lake with Janee. Above, we see the girl of Robbie's dreams meeting Bub, a role essayed by William Frawley for the show's first six seasons.
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Consider Yourself Nudged
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
Criterion Goes Blu-ray in October
Our first Blu-ray discs are coming! We've picked a little over a dozen titles from the collection for Blu-ray treatment, and we'll begin rolling them out in October. These new editions will feature glorious high-definition picture and sound, all the supplemental content of the DVD releases, and they will be priced to match our standard-def editions.
Here's what's in the pipeline:
The Third Man
Bottle Rocket
Chungking Express
The Man Who Fell to Earth
The Last Emperor
El Norte
The 400 Blows
Gimme Shelter
The Complete Monterey Pop
For All Mankind
The Wages of Fear
Alongside our DVD and Blu-ray box sets of The Last Emperor, we'll also be putting out the theatrical version as a stand-alone release in both formats, priced at $39.95. Our Blu-ray release of Walkabout will be an all-new edition, featuring new supplements as well as a new transfer; we will also release an updated anamorphic DVD of Nicolas Roeg's outback masterpiece at the same time.
Exciting news on the one hand, but alarming news on the other, as Criterion collectors will be compelled to double-dip on numerous titles. It seems a purely commercial step to add the likes of THE COMPLETE MONTEREY POP and GIMME SHELTER to a list of initial Blu-ray offerings, as both were originally shot in 16mm and are not likely to add much to their original issues in video quality. That said, Criterion should sell a bunch of them.
Signing up for Criterion's newsletter at their website will entitle you, as a subscriber, to the following special deal: $10 off any order of $60 or more placed at criterion.com through Monday, May 26.
Thanks to VW's Sam Umland for the tip.
Postscript 5/8/08: Reader Aleck Bennett makes a couple of good points...
"Just a quick note on the CC BD offerings: while I agree that the COMPLETE MONTEREY POP and GIMME SHELTER 16mm elements probably wouldn't benefit tremendously from the higher resolution BD offers, I do think that they'll both show improvements in these releases. The higher storage capability, combined with much more efficient codecs (standard-def's MPEG-2 is a notoriously 'lossy' and inefficient codec) will allow for less noticeable compression, leading to a more pleasing viewing experience. Maybe not by *much*, given the 16mm origins, but I'm hoping it'll be noticeable... However, where I think the BD releases will surely shine is in the audio department, given BD's support of lossless audio formats. While the sound mixes used on the standard-def DVDs are pretty nifty, uncompressed versions of the 5.1 mixes should be a real treat. Assuming, of course, that they'll be offering uncompressed versions of the 5.1 mixes!"
Monday, May 05, 2008
Thursday, May 01, 2008
The End of Blogging Days - A Rumination
Now I'll let you in on a little secret. This past weekend, while feeling very frightened and frazzled at the prospect of losing my oldest continuous friend to a recently discovered mass of malignance, I took a silent vow that I would discontinue this blog if he didn't come out of his nine-hour surgery alive. Over this long and suspenseful weekend, I happened to see somewhere -- borrowed from the Cox & Forkum Editorial Cartoons site -- a cartoon of William Shakespeare sitting in front of a computer keyboard, his hand hovering tentatively above the keys. In a thought balloon were the words, "To Blog or Not to Blog... That is the Question." It gave me the feeling that something apocalyptic was in the air, something extending well beyond me to include other bloggers, as well. Could the End of Blogging Days be upon us? So soon?
Fortunately, my friend -- the Best Man at my wedding 33 years ago -- did survive his operation. His wife tells me that his squash-sized tumor had weeded through the musculature of one of his thighs, which had to be sliced through and repaired with muscle from his abdominal wall; this will require him to wear a knee brace from now on, but the mass was extracted before it could infect any of his organs -- so it's a more than fair trade-off. It was cleanly removed, and I'm grateful to be able to look forward to talking and laughing with him for whatever time is now naturally left to us.
But Monday, the day of my friend's operation, did not come and go without its losses. Two of my fellow film bloggers -- Matt Zoller Seitz of The House Next Door and Raymond Young of Flickhead -- announced around that time that their blogging days were over. Matt announced his decision to give up print journalism entirely (including his gig as a reviewer for THE NEW YORK TIMES, an even bigger step) to pursue filmmaking in an interview with his succeeding House blogmeister Keith Uhlich, while Ray simply said "Adios, amigo" with no further explanation.
As film bloggers go, Matt and Ray were major players; I visited their sites regularly, read most of their postings, and I will miss the distinct personalities they brought to the blogosphere. I had an attachment to Flickhead because I saw it as an incarnation of Ray's late, lamented fanzine MAGICK THEATRE, and in my early months of starting to read The House Next Door, I felt myself drawn closer to Matt by my discovery of his first feature, HOME (introduced to me by occasional VW contributor David White), and shortly thereafter by his blog's stunning report of his wife Jennifer's fatal aneurysm, just two years ago (nearly to the day)... as she was performing tasks at her computer. The impact of that posting was all the proof any of us needed that blogs do indeed form communities of the heart, not just of the head, and that the rending pain and disorientation felt by one blogger could be sent down the wire to be shared by everyone who read their work or shared their particular discipline. It was not long after acknowledging the second anniversary of Jennifer's passing with this touching short film that Matt made his announcement, so it is hard not to imagine that it had something to do with prompting his decision.
While I feel jubilant for both Matt and Ray, in that their decisions suggest a newly determined re-engagement of life and all its outgoing possibilities, it will take awhile to lose the habit of wondering what they might be thinking about this and that. At the same time, there is something about the very nature of cyberspace that allows such disappearances to heal over quickly, like the metallic skin of the T-1000. We feel a sense of disappointment that their words won't be there for us tomorrow or the next day or the next day, but regardless of the high quality of their work, the void they leave behind will likely not be felt for long. What Matt and Ray introduced into the blogosphere is still there, and, should it be taken down, something else by someone else will fill its place. Ether minus ether remains ether; you cannot subtract from it.
Come this October, I will have been doing Video WatchBlog for three years. That's three years in which I have initiated no new novel or screenplay project. This blog's numbers are not great in the great scheme of blogs, but they are respectable for a film blog, especially so for a film blog devoted to such outré films and things as I discuss. Last week, Video WatchBlog scored its highest number of daily hits ever when the NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN song posting more than doubled my usual daily average of 14-1500 hits. This proved to me that there is a larger audience out there, interested in things that interest me, that generally do not come here because the larger number of our interests do not coincide. They come here for a day or two, then disappear when our headline topic changes. In fact, this blog tends to attract wider response when it covers things like Bond, contemporary music (my Bob Dylan posts were BIG), comics, erotica -- things other than the horror and fantasy cinema that embody my core historian interests. I sense that large numbers of people aren't as turned on by horror and fantasy cinema as they used to be, at least not in a serious and lasting way as I was, and probably you were, but today's fans don't have the Universal films of the Golden Age and the Hammer and Eurocult films of the Silver Age in theaters to help turn them on. What they do have, that we didn't have back in the day, is a lot of information sources of unequal volume and value vying for their attention -- most of them in the form of blogs.
All around us, our growing indifference to the world outside our computer screens is causing newspapers with over a century of experience and tradition to topple, venerable bookstores to close, magazines to fold, literature to die. The vox populi has found a soapbox for itself, but here's the bitter truth: anyone with the talent to have earned publication in print -- like Matt and Ray -- is likely to find that blogging, while attractive in the short run, really isn't built for the long run. It starts out as a fun thing, but soon enough you realize that it's not a job, it just feels like one; it's not a career, because it doesn't help you to make the hand-to-hand, face-to-face connections that are necessary to anyone's professional advancement. What it is, blogging, is a daily deal with the Devil to keep producing, to track your numbers and referrals, and to stay abreast of the birth and death dates in the IMDb and all the other blogs kept in your personal blogroll. It's no way to live... but, by and large, neither is the way we live.
As this world of ours continues to place all its hopes for information and community like so many eggs into this ether basket, people ought to know what I am not ashamed to admit: that, sooner or later, it becomes the secret wish of all bloggers to stop blogging. The instant gratification of this format is nice, but it only lasts for an instant. It wouldn't surprise me if all the blogs I check each day -- rather than reading some of the acknowledged great writers whose works I've never read, finishing Thomas Pynchon's most recent book, or starting in on Alexander Theroux's new and forbiddingly long novel -- disappeared off the face of the net within the next year or two. One thing I can promise you about published writers, and generally about any writer of quality: once they have tasted publication, they are in it for keeps, and they will swim upstream toward maintaining that livelihood as long as there is breath left in them. As for Matt Zoller Seitz, to whom I send my best wishes and highest hopes, he's jumping into another stream with stronger rapids -- filmmaking -- but it's still a form of writing and, these days, perhaps the ultimate form of publication.
No, I'm not resigning this blog yet, but, like the wretch who lives in a small room containing nothing but a chair, a table and a loaded revolver, it's something I contemplate every day. For better or worse, so far, other contemplations have won the upper hand.
Donna tells me it's a beautiful day -- 77° outside. So I think that's enough blogging for today.


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My 1st post here on Gunco.Lupe, Magnus, Aviator, Grendeljaeger, 7.62x39, Sniper69, cowdawg and Sang were the first to welcome me over.Talking WHAT'S UP EVERYONE!
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Arora Hotel
Rooms: 76 Standard rooms, 12 Deluxe rooms, 4 Family rooms. 154 twin beds + 30 French beds TV Satelite, Air-Conditioning Split, Mini bar, Direct dial telephone, Internet-Cable/Wireless,Hair-Dryer, Sea view/Pool view balcony, Safe-Box. Our Services: 24 hrs. Room service Doctor, Coiffeur Laundry Services Mini market, Generator. Outdoor swimming pool with children section, Indoor pool, Turkish bath, Sauna, Massage Fitness Centre, Table tenis Private sandy beach 25 m, Disco,
Imbat Otel
The Hotel Imbat, one of Kusadasi's finest hotel resorts, is located high on a hill with an expansive and panoramic view of the clear turquoise blue waters of the Aegean Sea. Only 3 kms from the center of Kusadasi, the hotel offers you a lively, friendly atmosphere. During the days you can swim at our private beach or in our pools, or visit our superb Turkish bath. The evenings are for sitting idly in our outdoor bars or dining by the sea in one of our restaurants. Afterwards, bars and disco will keep you going until dawn. Pleasantly furnitured rooms will make you feel staying in your own home. Hotel Imbat offers 299 smoking and non-smoking rooms, 3 handicapped and 9 suites with balconies that face the Aegean Sea. All room offer direct telephone, air-conditioning and mini bar. Enjoy a fabulous buffet breakfast on the indoor/outdoor terrace overlooking the sea. The All Inclusive system will operate between 07:30-00:00 in limited bar and food Outlets. * 310 rooms (9 suits, 3 handicap rooms) 650 beds. * All rooms with balconies, Direct telephone, Air-condition, Mini bar * Private beach * Water sports * Swimming pool (for children and adults) * Terace Bar, Lobby Bar, Snack Bar, Santi Bar. * Disco with the most recent popular music everyday between 23.00 – 01.00 o'clock. * Animations * Conference Hall * Billiards, table Tennis * Shopping Center, hairdresser, Laundry * Health Service (At doctor's control) * Fitness Center, Sauna, Turkish Bath, Massage * Safe boxes in Room * Private Parking, Lift. * The Hotel is 18 km to Ephesus and 75 km to the Izmir
Pine Bay Holiday Resort
This 5-star resort is situated on a 421,000m² property, in Camlimani Bay, Kusadasi. It offers a wide variety of entertainment, facilities, and services close to 1.2 km private beach and private marina. Pine Bay Holiday Resort provides comfortably furnished guest rooms and bungalow accommodation, some with LCD TV. Guests enjoy many different options for relaxing, dining, and swimming. Facilities include a tennis and basketball court, billiards, table tennis, and darts. Para sailing, canoeing, and camp nights are also some activities on offer. The friendly staff creates an inviting atmosphere for guests and can offer tips on what to do and see during your stay. Room numbers: 551.
Hotel Ozcelik
You will be amazed by the high standard comfort and quality of Ozcelik Hotel, which is located in the center of Kusadasi, opposite of Yacht Harbour, facing the sea. We will be glad to serve you and provide you the quality with our swimming pool, poolside bar and lobby bar. At the Roof restaurant with the superb sea view you will have delicious Turkish and International Cuisines. Perfectly decorated, all sea viewed 60 rooms including 2 disabled rooms and 5 suites. Make use of the broadcasting radio stations and hotel special music program in your room. Room doors have special locks, which can only be opened by smart cards designed for each room.
Situated close to the Kuşadasi centre on the main promenade, Paloma Rina Hotel sits opposite the picturesque yacht harbour. The Hotel is 70 km. from the Izmir airport, approximately 20 km. from the ancient city of Ephesus and the house of Virgin Mary. Paloma Rina Hotel is in a very comfortable area for all kind of shopping and excursion. Restaurants Our main restaurant is open for a sumptuous breakfast buffet and a la carte dinner specializing in both local and international cuisine. Late breakfast, lunch and snack is served in the Bistro. You may also enjoy pastries, coffee and tea in Dream Café & Bar. Room Service is available between the hours of 10:00 and 22:00. Rina Kuşadasi Hotel has a total of 86 rooms. The beautifully appointed 72 apart rooms with self catering facilities and 14 standard rooms are delightfully designed for the maximum comfort and pleasure. The 72 apart rooms are equipped to a high standard and contain the following: • Balconies overlooking the swimmingpool area with waterfall feature or garden • Split controlled air-conditioning and heating, Ceiling Fan in bedroom • Direct dial telephone • Open - Plan living / dining area and kitchenette with coffee machine, kettle and refrigerator • Remote Control colour television and International satellite television programmes • In room safe deposit box • Hairdryer • Electric current 220v / AC 50 CYCLES • Non-smoking rooms and handicapped rooms are available Spend your holiday as busy, or as relaxing, as you wish. There are organized pool activities, games, table tennis, billiards, and darts. Our guests may also enjoy a private ethnographical museum on our
Our hotel has 227 standard rooms, which have different bed options. In our standard rooms, which we have designed by considering every detail for your comfort and convenience, you will find everything you need. In each of our rooms, there is balcony, split air conditioner, key-card system, direct telephone, safe box, LCD TV, hair dryer, telephones in the bathroom, internet connection, fire warning system and mini bar. Food is an essential pleasure for most people rather than a need. If you can't imagine a holiday where you can't eat everything you want freely, then Ephesia Hotel is the address for you. Didym, which is our main restaurant and provides open buffet in dinners, offers traditional Turkish cuisine and delicious samples from world cuisines. With its indoors and outdoors section, you will find different flavors and experience unique moments. Our professional team works to make your special days even more special. We organize invitational events that you might need such as group meals, engagement and wedding meals, cocktail and party in the garden against the unique view of Ephesia Hotel.
Atinc Hotel
Atinc Hotel has the wonderful view of the Aegean Sea, beautiful Pigeon Island and fascinating cruise ships from your balcony. The picturesque sunset view will make the hotel unforgettable for you. There are perfectly decorated and most of them sea viewed 75 rooms including 5 suits. Most of the rooms are renovated and redecorted with a modern style. It is situated on the coast line of the town, within easy access to the shopping area so it is your comfortable home in the heart of the Kusadasi. Atinc Hotel is open all year around and accomodate you with an understantding of the traditional Turkish hospitality in your vacation. Atinc Hotel is an ideal stop both for recreation and business vacation. ROOM FEATURES: Carpet Flooring, Private Bathroom shower /wc /hairdryer, Satellite Colour Tv, Mini Bar, Direct Dial Phone, Split System Air Contdationing, Private Balcons, Safety Box, Wi-fi Internet Activities * Swimming Pool with childreen section * Pool Bar * Table Tennis * Table Game of Football * Darts * Sauna * Massage Room * Turkish Bath * Beauty Center * Tv Room * Meeting Room * Conferance Hall * Internet Cafe * Rigolo Cafe Restaurants: * Indoor restaurant (capacity of 150 person ) * Outdoor restaurant (capacity of 150 person ) * A La Carte Restaurant : Pizzeria Vesuvio * Rigolo Cafe & Restaurant Bars: * Lobby Bar * Pool Bar * Snack
Kusadasi Hotel Derici
This very comfortable hotel is located right in the city centre, by the sea front. The Derici is a good choice for both long and short-term stays with all the modern facilities it offers. Though located in the city centre, our hotel is a very peaceful setting. Our staff here are ready to make sure you enjoy your stay with their professional experience, warmth and hospitality. The lobby is decorated with modern furnishings and lively colors. Right in front of the lobby, there is a patisserie, also open to the public with a lovely breeze from the sea. Free wireless internet access is available in public places as well as rooms to keep you connected to the world while you're enjoying your holiday or business trip. Rooftop terrace swimming pool and the terrace bar offers you the magnificent sunset of Kusadasi. The conference and meeting rooms, fitness club, sauna, massage, beauty center, Turkish Bath, indoor heated swimming pool is offered for your pleasure during your stay at Kusadasi Hotel Derici. Breakfast is open buffet served inside, and dinner is served on the roof of the hotel with a breath-taking view of the sea, city and castle, especially at sunset. The hotel outdoor swimming pool is also on the roof. Hotel with best views in Kusadasi. Each room has a Balcony, 24 hrs Room Service, Satellite TV, Music Broadcast, Air Conditioning, Mini Bar, free wireless internet access. Our recently renovated rooms provides you the comfort of your home during your summer holiday or business travels during
Grand Efe Hotel
The Grand Efe Hotel is located by the sea in Ozdere which is a small holiday village 33 km away from Kusadasi. The hotel gives you the chance to enjoy your holiday with its advantage of being built on a big area by the sea. With its green gardens, delicious meals, water sports, clean and comfortable rooms you will have a relaxing holiday and forget that you are kilometers away from your home as the hotel will give you the luxury of your home's comfort. Grand Efe Hotel is ready to meet your needs with its various activities. The hotel gives you the comfort of enjoying the sun while having a snack at its pool bar. It is a must to see in Ozdere - 33kms away from Kusadasi. Having Fun: You won't get bored during your stay at Grand Efe Hotel as the hotel offers you fun and joy with its free open-air disco, game hall, TV room, mini club, live music and animation team. The hotel has two restaurants where you can have your breakfasts and dinners open buffet, a snack bar, pool bar, lobby bar, pink bar, disco bar and a roof bar where you can enjoy eating various cuisines and also tasting not only the Turkish traditional drink raki but also kinds of delicious world famous
Charisma hotel
Charisma hotel - Hotel
133 de luxe rooms offer you the unique taste of technology and comfort.The rooms are equipped with jacuzzi, LCD screen television, split aircondition, minibar, electronic safe box, hairdryer and free internet connection. From the rooms even from the jacuzzi you may watch the outstanding view of the Aegean Sea. To spoil yourself; Royal Suit, De Luxe Suit or Normal Suit wait for you with their magical decoration. oda_ana01.jpgStandart Rooms Sea view and balcony, jacuzzi, individual controlled air condition, LCD screen tv, internet access, satellite tv system, minibar, electronic safety box, hair dryer, telephone, electronic keylock system The Charisma De Luxe Hotel with its big swimming pool with jakuzzi, a children pool and a heating indoor pool, provides the guests pleasure and a relaxing time. The indoor pool is 40 m² and 30 ºC which is open all the winter season. The outdoor pool with jakuzzi is 400 m². The children pool is 80 cm deep and the size is 25m². The own sandy beach is 60 metre
Adakule Hotel
Looking down to the blue of Aegean Sea, right at the heart of the ancient Ionic lands –and therefore surrounded with unique historical places such as the unparalleled ancient city of Ephesus and the famous pilgrimage, The House of Mother Mary– and five minutes away from the crowded and fun town of Kuşadası, surrounded with cliffs of serenity, the quiet, the monumental Hotel Adakule offers you an almost private castle with its exclusive beach of its own private bay and its all around facilities, which include multi-sports areas. The area of a standard room is 26 sqm. Each standart room has: - Direct telephone in the room & bathroom - Central air condition - Satellite tv - Minibar - Safe box - Bathtub - Hair dryer - 24 hours room service - Carpet flooring and toilet floor furnished with ceramic tiles - Sea / Nature / Mountain views - Free wireless internet connection is accessible from all rooms. Kids Club Activities (Summer Season) -Kids club activities for all day held by the animation team -09:00pm is the starting time for the kids animation and disco!!! -Open and closed areas for specially designed for kids club activities (the open area for summer has kids-pool) -Babysitting service Sports -Football -Mini-football -Tennis court (available for night-matches) -Table-tennis -Billards and pool -Dart -Scuba diving -Water-sports (water-skiing and etc.) -Basketball -Beach Volley -Fitness center -Aerobics and Plates -Water aerobics
Our new 5 star resort will provide you with the highest comfort facilities, while you enjoy a holiday like you've never experienced before. The resort is ideally positioned along the endless beach of the Aegean Sea, beautiful green pine forests and wonderfully landscaped gardens. Whether you are interested in art, history and archealogy or a nature lover, enjoy browsing through villages or going diving in different regions, "SEALIGHT RESORT HOTEL" Kusadasi offers you endless possibilities all year round. # 255 Standart RoomsSatellite lcd tv and music broadcast (on tv channels) # Individual a/c # Electronic safety box # Balcony # Carpet coverd floor # French or twin bed # Bathroom with bathtub and hairdryer # Minimum 1 adult, maximum 3 adults (extra bed) # ActivitiesTennis courts, group lessons, fitness center, table tennis, volleyball, basketball, waterpolo, aerobics, gymnastics, stretching. # The entertainment team will offer you all day activities and pool games as well as shows in the amphitheater and live music. # The animation team also features a mini club ( 04 – 12 years ) with several activities. A special children's buffet, highchairs during meals in the main restaurant are also available. # Sports "Bowling " Bar features 2 bowling lanes ( 12+ years ), darts, billiards, table football, air hockey, game tables backgammon, chess, cards, etc. Wide screen TV with
Kustur Club
Room Features Club Kustur Holiday Village Kusadasi has 450 rooms with 980 beds in total.consists of 24 family rooms, 64 Triple bed rooms, 6 Suites, 4 royal suites, 102 Bungalows and 252 Double rooms.Kusadasi Kustur Club Holiday Village has all rooms equipped with Direct dial telephone, Balcony or terrace, Satellite tv, Split air condition, Shower, Bathtub, Wc, Hair dryer. Room Views : Kustur Club Holiday Village Kusadasi has rooms with garden and sea views are available. Dining and Wining : Holiday Village Kustur Club Kusadasi has a main restaurant 550 pax Indoor and 650 pax Outdoor capacityoffers various of delicious dishes.As an alternative You can experience A'la carte restaurant with capacity of 200 pax which offers delicious tastes from all over the world and many other food options such as fast food restaurant Snack bar, Pool bar and Around the clock bar offers you choices of drinks and tastes. Cake and coffee service will be on 24 hours. Facilities and Services : Holiday Village Club Kustur Kusadasi has Outdoor swimming pool with water slide, Children's swimming pool, Children's playground, Mini Club, Turkish bath, Massage, Billiards, Disco, Animation programs, Air hockey, Tennis court, Boccia, Mini golf, Mini football, Volleyball, Basketball, Cycling, Chess, Archery, Mini club, Gym hall, Zoo, Garden, Tv corner, Game room and Water Sport. Moreover Hairdresser, Laundry, Doctor, Baby sitting, Parking without fee, Shopping center are other facilities for your comfort.You will love this unspoiled region. Kustur Club Holiday Village will offer you unforgetable moments and perfect service without doubt. Hotel Location : Kustur Club Holiday Village Kusadasi is located right at the sea shore with a splendid charming beach.Amazing nature, Boundless green and blue all combined each other. Unspoiled palmy, leafy walks leading to the sea.Its only 3 km to Kusadasi city center. Kusadasi has a residential population of 50,000 which rises to over half a
Akdeniz Apart Hotel
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One of the oldest hotels in town, the recently renovated Akdeniz is located in the heart of Kusadasi. It features self-contained, affordable accommodation with an outdoor pool and a terrace. The rooms of the Akdeniz Apart Hotel offer air conditioning and a well-equipped kitchenette. They include living areas, dining tables and private bathrooms with hairdryer. The outdoor Bistro Blue Restaurant is situated on a terrace extending on Aslanlar and Saglik Caddesi, Kusadasi main shopping streets. Guests can choose an a-la-carte selection of Turkish dishes from the Aegean Coast. Guests of the Akdeniz Hotel can walk to Kusadasi Beach and to the lively Bazaar, both within 500 meters. The famous Library of Celsus in the ancient site of Ephesus is a 20-minute drive from the
Korumar Hotel Deluxe
With its superb location commanding a beautiful sea view, this 5-star hotel offers you the ultimate in luxury, hospitality and stylish accommodation. Korumar Hotel Deluxe offers its guests an incomparable view of Pigeon Island and Kuşadası. The hotel has one of the biggest outdoor swimming pools in the Aegean region. Alternatively, you are welcome to soak up some sun on one of the 2 private beaches or on the private sandy bay. Choose from informal terrace dining with spectacular sunset views or more formal indoor dining. The restaurants serve a fine selection of international dishes. For business guests, the hotel provides 6 meeting halls all with sea views, suitable for large international conferences, seminars and meetings. Hotel Rooms: 272.
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Predictable rhythms are important for teens, giving them anchor points in their days and weeks. Odds are that you already have some sort of rhythm in your life. Even something as simple as bath time, pajamas, brushing teeth, story time is a bedtime routine that children can come to know and count on.
Perhaps you go to the library on Thursdays or you bake together on the weekends. Anything that you do on a regular basis is your routine.
Creating a family routine from scratch, adding new elements to an established routine, or altering schedules when life situations change can be a bit intimidating. Being consistent with your schedule helps establish rhythm, but it doesn't come naturally to everyone.
Here are five tips to keep in mind when creating routines and establishing a rhythm in your home:
1. Keep it Simple
Pick one element to add in to your routine and work on getting that woven into your rhythm before you add another. Decide what your top priority is and focus only on that.
Maybe you want to start incorporating a crafting day into your week or a daily story time. Focus on blending that one addition into your schedule before you move on to adding in another layer.
Be Realistic
It is good to have a goal in mind of where you would like to be eventually, but create a schedule based on the way things are at this moment in time. Do what will work for your family the way things are right now.
If, for example, your young child needs to take a nap in the afternoon, don't plan to run errands or arrange afternoon play dates until after naptime. Save those outings for a time when you know your child is more receptive to activity and it will be more enjoyable for all of you.
This is the season of life to be realistic about your time constraints, obligations, and the ages and stages of your children.
2. Stay Flexible
Allow yourself to make changes if things aren't working. Perhaps the day you chose for crafting is creating stressful afternoons because there isn't enough time to devote to a project between nap time and dinner preparations. By staying flexible you can play around with your schedule until you find a day and a time that are a better fit.
Don't be tempted to over-schedule your days. Allow your family to have some downtime. The purpose of routines is to allow your days to run smoother so that your family can enjoy them.
Don't be tempted to fill up those spaces with more activities and commitments when things are running smoothly. Instead, enjoy the quiet and the slow days.
Be Open to Change
Be willing to make changes as your family changes. One thing I have learned to be true about family life is that it exists in a fluid state: children grow, situations change, life happens.
Being willing to re-evaluate from time to time gives you the freedom to create a routine that meets the needs of your family.
3. Lower Your Expectations
Yes, I said to lower them. You don't have to do it all and I would encourage you not to try. Evaluate what is essential and then eliminate what you don't need. Take out the extra steps and keep things basic.
Start Small
Lets say one of the things you want to add to your routine is to start serving your family a warm breakfast every morning. Don't overwhelm yourself by attempting a different menu every morning of the week or by preparing complex, time-consuming recipes you've never tried before. Seek out something simple and tried-and-true that you already know how to make well. Perhaps make it a goal this first week to serve a hot breakfast for two mornings and then next week aim for four.
Get the basics established and once you have a solid foundation you can build on to your routine from there.
4. Make it Personal
Your family's rhythm isn't going to look like any other family's rhythm. That is okay. Family routines are very personal and each household's will be unique. The only "right" routine is the one which works the best for you for the place where you are today.
Don't Try to Keep Up with the Joneses
Many of my own early attempts at creating routines for my family were doomed to fail from the beginning because I was trying to copy the beautiful weekly and daily routines I saw on the blogs I was reading. I was overwhelmed and it wasn't long before those early plans were abandoned.
I set myself up for failure because I trying to do everything my family already normally did PLUS all those neat things I saw other families doing – whether or not they were truly relevant to our life.
Creating routines based on your family's personal needs means that the changes you seek to make have a greater chance of being successfully implemented.
5. Stay One Step Ahead
Plan and Organize
Once you know what is essential, do some prep work to make it easier to follow your routines. If you want to have a daily nature walk, try establishing a designated place to have coats, hats, mittens, boots within easy reach by the door. You'll be more likely to take a nature walk if you can get dressed for the elements quickly and easily instead of having to gather the proper wardrobe from all over the house or retrieve items from the mini-van.
If I know that on Wednesday I want to do watercolor painting with the children, then my task on Tuesday night is to make sure we have the proper paper, paints, brushes, aprons, and any other materials relevant to the task. Doing this ahead of time allows us to spend less time on prep-work during our painting time and more time on creating.
What is Right for You
Some family routines are more structured, some are more free-form but both types of schedules provide value to the kids who count on them and find comfort in their familiarity. An hour by hour routine doesn't work for my family, but for many families it works very well. Do what is right for your family.
I think you'll find that a little rhythm and a basic routine can go a long way toward simple days.
Excerpts of this article were taken from Simple Kids


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I have no interest in tearing down The Bradley Method (TM), but simply, things need to be updated. I must admit, I longed for updated videos, workbooks, and handouts, just like my students. My class evolved over the years into something that was uniquely my own. Frankly, it was time to leave and write my own curriculum.
I am incredibly blessed with a team of women to work with, each having a unique skill-set and having an appreciation for each others' strengths. We have created a new childbirth education program called Birth Boot Camp. It includes online classes and also live, instructor-led classes. I'm dying to tell you all about it:
First, the online classes are what inspired the program in the beginning. I hired a professional videographer, Ceci of Ceci-Jane Photography (you've all seen her birth videos) to record and edit my newly written curriculum. My live classes are peppered with birth stories that illustrate my points on various topics. Instead of me telling the stories, you'll hear from the couples themselves, as it's all edited into the classes. We also interviewed several professionals on various topics, including chiropractic care, doulas, massage therapy, fitness, and you'll hear from several midwives throughout the 10-week series. It's childbirth education -- documentary-style! These professionals, and many more, have contributed to the completeness of the Birth Boot Camp curriculum.
I roped in some pretty great people to help me, including someone you might recognize. Sarah Clark, author of Mama Birth, has been an integral part of the program. In fact, she even wrote all the relaxation exercises! She will be at the workshops, teaching new instructors tips and games for their classes. Our Board is diverse and well- rounded.
Oh yeah! And we have current birth videos!
For more information, check out the Class Descriptions to find out more about what Birth Boot Camp teaches. We are running an introductory offer until May 1 (Tim McGraw's birthday) of $200 for the online classes.
Currently, live classes are being booked in CA, OK, and TX. Check with your instructor on her prices.
Keep up with what we are doing at the Birth Boot Camp Facebook page. If you would like more info about Birth Boot Camp, visit our website or contact us here.