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Zombies and resurrection
by John MacBeath Watkins
Those resurrected in the Bible bring no terror with them back from the dead, but those in zombie movies bring nothing but terror back with them.
Lazarus lay dead in his tomb four days before Jesus resurrected him, so why was he not a zombie? A later reference to him speaks of him dining with Jesus at his sister's house, and his main trouble seemed to be that the chief priests wanted him put to death because the miracle of his resumed life has caused people to follow Jesus.
And when Jesus rose from the dead, with the wounds that killed him still famously visible, people experienced awe and wonder, but not terror, according to biblical accounts. In fact, he seems to have had rather pleasant conversations with his friends following his death.
So when did it become a bad thing to come back from the dead?
It is usual to trace the mythologies of zombies to Voodoo practices imported from Africa, but I think the modern incarnation goes back a different direction. After all, nothing in Voodoo belief says zombies will experience an overwhelming need for nutritional and tasty brains. That sort of zombie is a creation of popular culture, which in my opinion goes back to practices in European culture, not in Africa.
The 18th and 19th century resurrectionists can't have helped. Medical schools needed cadavers to dissect, and even laws that consigned the bodies of those executed to dissection could not supply the need. Medical schools began paying people to bring them corpses, and not inquiring too closely into where those corpses came from. The gravediggers were, with dark humor, called resurrectionists in Britain.
A buried corpse did not legally belong to anyone, so digging it up and selling it was in a legal gray area, frowned upon but not something you could do time for.
Mary Shelley's 1818 novel,
, tells the story of a doctor who can animate the inanimate, and while the story of his monster's creation is left ambiguous, the fact that he makes the monster eight feet tall so that the bits he needs to make won't be too tiny suggested to later interpreters that he made the body from parts purchased from resurrectionists.
The ghoulish associations with those returning from the dead can only have increased with the
Burke and Hare murders
of 1828.
William Burke and William Hare were Irish immigrants to Scotland. Hare's wife operated a lodging house in Edinburgh, and when a lodger died of natural causes owing 4 pounds, Burke and Hare filled the casket with dirt and stole the body, selling it to Dr. Robert Knox, who made is living giving medical lectures that featured the dissection of human cadavers. He was paid not by the university, but by the admittance fees paid by students to enter the lecture. It was a bit like a band playing for the cover charges collected at the door of a bar instead of a set fee.
No cadaver, no paying audience. So, Knox didn't mind paying grave robbers.
But Burke and Hare didn't stop there. Once they found out there was a market for corpses, they felt no need to wait on nature, and began killing people they assumed would not be missed -- a prostitute here, a mute boy there, a retarded teen known as "Daft Jamie," who students recognized as soon as Knox uncovered the body. Knox denied Daft Jamie was missing, and quickly dissected the body before inquiries could proceed.
Burke and Hare killed 16 victims before they were caught by tenants at the boarding house who became suspicious, found a body hidden under a bed, and contacted the police.
This sort of thing affects the culture on a level of which we are seldom conscious. One of the assumptions that built itself into our minds was that we had done something to the dead that might not please them. That assumption was behind ghost stories that had been with us for probably thousands of years, but the resurrection of the dead was a notion that gave them the possibility of corporeal form.
Now, Voodoo gave us the word "zombie," but it gave us a very different sort of zombie from those that now exist in popular culture. The Voodoo zombie was revived by a bokor, or magic practitioner, and because the zombie lacked a will of its own, it would do the will of the bokor.
In 1937 Zora Neal Hurston tried to track down how zombies were made -- she was pretty sure it was some psychoactive drug -- but was unsuccessful. A Harvard ethnobiologist named Wade Davis wrote two books on the subject,
The Serpent and the Rainbow
in 1985 and
Passage of Darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian Zombie
in 1988. His findings remain controversial, but in any case, they dealt with the Voodoo zombie, not with the flesh-eating monster of popular culture.
Flesh-eating zombies did not arrive on the scene until the 1968 film,
Night of the Living Dead
. The film didn't use the word "zombie" to describe the soulless, aggressive, and comestible-challenged risen dead who featured in the title. The notion that the risen dead would eat brains didn't come along until
Return of the Living Dead
in 1985.
Zombies now live in the
uncanny valley
, where things not quite human horrify us. The uncanny valley is a concept from robotics, that tells us as things become more human, they become more likeable, but only up to a point. Beyond that point, graphing the likeability of the created object goes into a valley before resemblance to humans increases and likeability increases again.
The Brave Little Toaster
is likeable because it is more human that a real toaster. Damon Knight wrote a 1988 short story called
in which a man has his consciousness implanted in a prosthetic body. The first body isn't very realistic, the second is more so, but less successful, and the man complains to the technicians, "The first model looked like a tailor's dummy; so you spent eight months and came up with this one, and it looks like a corpse."
But the corpses of Voodoo did not want to kill people; they had no will of their own. It is the culture of the resurrectionists that invented that sort of monster. The modern zombie does not answer to a bokor, or serve anyone at all. More likely, it is a creation of science or a disease visited upon mankind from some virus that science is helpless to defeat.
Scientists by their very nature trifle with forces they don't fully comprehend. It's their job. Trifling with forces you do understand is the job of engineers, technicians and doctors. Those professions take what science has learned an use it to control our world.
Our culture's anxiety about science is the fear of the unknown, the fear it may awaken some force that we cannot overcome. It is the fear that we will lose the control that science promises.
And, of course, for the bored and self-satisfied, there's that business of wondering how you would cope with disaster. Reassuring fantasies of survival like Robert Heinlein's
Farnham's Freehold
have entertained us for many years, and survivalists and preppers have shifted from fallout shelters in case of nuclear war to dreaming of that economic apocalypse that will sweep away all the detritus of civilization and let people of true worth survive while the parasites fall.
The zombie apocalypse makes this fantasy comfortingly remote. It allows people to dream of the day when science can't save us, the politicians are spineless, the military is all bluster, but we can survive because we have the good character and the survival skills to do it.
Or not.
The Stonewall Riots and the history of a movement
by Jamie Lutton
I have lived on Capitol Hill and run a bookstore here since 1987. I have watched the happy partying that happens every late June around the time of our gay rights parade, on the anniversary of the Stonewall riot. Hundreds and hundreds of LGT people and their families show up from out of town, even from out of state to celebrate with us and see our parade.
Now and then I will talk to some of the young people, and ask them what they know about the real Stonewall. Almost all the young ones, under 30 at least, seem ignorant and indifferent. This shocked me, it is as if a young black American did not know who Martin Luther King was, or worse did not care. But then I realized; this event is not taught in the schools, not even in college classes, unless you go and look for this history on your own in an electvie class. It surely is not required knowledge, like knowing about Hitler and the Holocaust, or about our Civil War..
The history of the LGT struggle for civil rights has then generally been forgotten, even by those it affects personally..
It is as if the world that gays and lesbians had to live in before 1970 has been swept under the rug of history. No one wants to tell this story, and when it is told, it devolves to being a story about men in high heels in New York outside a bar, throwing cobblestones at cops..
There is a lot more to it than that. I read
by Martin Duberman when it came out in 1994, and have recommended it ever since to my customers. This book is a LGT view of the late 1960's, early 1970's, and the real history of the gay right's movement back to the 1930's. The struggle for civil rights for the LGT community was a long and difficult one, and it took more than one riot to change things...but it took a riot, it seems, to get ordinary people, the average Joe and Jane who was LGT, to look up and notice that they were strong, and could say 'no' to being called foul names, harassed, arrested, and beaten. .
This author, tracked down and interviewed dozens of LGT people who lived in New York city at this time, and who were eyewitnesses to the riots.. He chose six people, two men, three women and one transgender person to interview, taping their testimonies and transcribing them. This gives the book a feeling of candor, and immediacy. . . The riots at the Stonewall bar on Christopher Street are not reached until the page 181 of this 282 page book; the rest of the book is these people telling their life stories. This helps give context to the events of that night and the nights following.
I was on the edge of my chair reading it by the time I got to the days of the riots, even though I knew the general outcome, the details and the events of that night were suprising to me.
One thing that outraged me was reading about the 'ritual' of a police raid on a gay bar. The cops would arrest those people without I.D.'s, men in women's clothing, women in men's clothing, and always some of the employees. The would seize the cash the bar had, scream abuse, hit or shove the other clients, shut the bar down for the night (till they were paid off). The raids were even timed by the police to happen once a month or so, early in the evening, so the bar could re-open quickly. They would even call ahead so the bar's Mafia owners and workers could leave, so only the gay employees would be arrested.
The police had a interest in keeping the geese that laid golden eggs alive, so the bribes would keep coming in. The Mafia owned the bar and paid off the police, so that it had an outlet for the illigal liquor it wanted to distribute, that was stolen out of distilleries, or did not have 'tax' stamps on it. It also was a very profitable business for them..
But the LGT people who were the clients were beat up, humiliated and arrested. And this happened over and over.
One thing that is forgotten in 2013 is that gay bars were the main way ordinary gays and lesbians could meet each other, socialize, network. The constant threat of being arrested, fined and jailed finally was too much for them that night, and starting with the transvestites who had just been loaded into the wagon, who fought back. the people who had just been kicked out of Stonewall, took on the police, throwing bottles, rocks and cobblestones..
The riots lasted on and off for three days.
When word got out about the riots, the 'respectible' gay rights movement was appalled, and not supportive. One rich gay man on Fire lsland even said "How can we expect the police to allow us to congregate? Let's face it, we are criminals, you can't let criminals congregate." Gays and Lesbians who had 'made it' and were well off still thought of themselves as 'criminals', but did not want to change the status quo.
The people who capitalized on the riots, and organized the first gay rights parades, and other political actions were veterans of the civil rights movement, anti-war movement, the women's right's movement, and had been educated through their activities there, to make the 'jump' to demanding civil rights for gays, lesbians and transgender peoples
This author's detailed history of 'respectable' gay rights organizations that, before Stonewall, have little to do with the ordinary LGT men and women who rioted on June 28th. It is a history of the people who were financially exploited by the police and the Mafia who finally could not take it any more, and who wanted to hold the hands of their lovers in public . To be able to be 'out'
Another history of this riot and these times is
Stonewall, the riots that sparked the gay revolution
by David Carter
Gay Power
by Betsy Kuhn. But this book is the first that was written, it uses an excellent interview technique, and is still my favorite book on the subject..
America is a much better place, because these heroic people rioted that night, saying 'no more'. Police corruption has greatly decreased in American police forces because a strong reform movement in the 1970's. The unholy marriage between the Mafia and the police in the cities has been eliminated, partly because police unions have successfully campaigned for higher wages for the police. The police is not just a force of white men, they reflect the population they serve; black, Hispanic, female and gay police are common.. The police, then, no longer see the minorities in the neighborhoods they patrol as suspect population to be controlled.
The LGT population has wrestled back their bars from the clutches of the Mafia, as LGT people are no longer automatically seen to be criminals.
The country, then, is a better place for everyone.
Apple, Amazon, railroad barons and anti-trust
by John MacBeath Watkins
Apple's antitrust trial is under way, and it could have a large effect on how we buy and sell books. But to understand why Apple's lawyer refers to the government's case as "bizarre," and why the government is bringing the case it is, we need to look at a little history.
In 1967, the Safeway grocery store chain, then the second largest in the country, signed a consent decree with the Justice Department in which they agreed to stop engaging in predatory pricing -- selling below cost in order to drive the competition out of business.
A generation later, in 1983, Safeway correctly perceived that the Reagan Justice Department would take a different view of their activities, and asked to be released from the consent decree, and was freed of its restrictions.
Under Reagan, the Justice Department was
trying to eliminate as many as possible
of the 1,300 antitrust decrees filed starting in 1890. The Reagan administration was influenced by Milton Friedman's theory that if we stopped enforcing much of the antitrust law as it then existed, consumers would benefit because larger companies would have greater economies of scale. Friedman, in effect, repackaged
laissez faire
"free markets" and effectively argued for a shift from keeping one company from dominating an industry -- what antitrust had meant since 1890 -- to simply policing price fixing.
So the Justice Department shifted its strategy from trying to prevent companies from attempting to obtain monopoly power to concentrating on price-fixing, and still seems to follow the Reaganaught philosophy. Making your ideology a part of the institutional structure has got to be what real political victory looks like.
That ideology is the prism through which the Justice Department viewed Apple's agreement with publishers to use an agency model, where the publishers set the price of e-books and the on-line retailer sells the books.
Publishers wanted this because they saw Amazon attempting to dominate e-book sales. Amazon was selling many e-books at a loss in order to attract people to the Kindle and Amazon as their bookseller. But as Amazon's dominance of the market soared to its current 65% share, they became worried that a.) the perception of the value of their traditional, printed books would decline, and b.) Amazon would so dominate the e-book scene that it could dictate what they could charge.
Remember, the antitrust laws were passed in large part because farmers found that monopoly railroads were charging so much to take their crops to market that the farmers were failing. In a sense, they were consumers, because they were buying transportation services, but the concern was not with the retail price customers were being charged for the grain, it was for the way grain producers were being squeezed by the carriers.
Now, Wal-Mart (for example) is free to squeeze producers as hard as it wants -- I know someone who refuses to wholesale to them because he wants to sell to a diverse group of retailers who he can bargain with freely -- and the Justice Department seems not to care about predatory pricing as long as consumers get low prices. Some communities
fight the arrival of Wal-Mart
because they fear having their towns hollowed out, with local retailers deliberately targeted to be driven under. And Wal-Mart isn't the second-largest seller of groceries as Safeway was in 1967,
it's the larges
The problem is that the driving factor here doesn't seem to be economies of scale, although Wal-Mart is well run, so much as pricing power. If Amazon can dominate the market for e-books, it can appropriate more of the profits from them, squeezing producers the way the old railroad barons did.
The government narrative is a bit different. Conspiracies to raise prices are an old story; even Adam Smith's 1776 tome,
The Wealth of Nations
, mentions them. Their assumption is that pricing power lies with the producers, who are conspiring to charge consumers more.
Now that the original theory of antitrust law seems to have been forgotten, that's what they're left with. And it's a real issue -- prices on e-books jumped right after the iPad was introduced, and have fallen since the Justice Department took action against the publishers. The five publishers who had signed on to Apple's agency model have already
signed consent decrees
with the Justice Department, and Penguin's CEO has already
given testimony
that seems to bolster the federal case.
Why should readers care if the publishers get squeezed? Well, remember, Amazon is a publisher, too. The more it squeezes other publishers, the more it can take the business of publishing in-house, where its vertical integration makes it a lot easier to make money. Ultimately, it may be a question of whether we want one gatekeeper for the long-form discourse books represent, one that decides what is for sale and what gets promoted.
This means there is another possible motive for the publishers to have preferred the agency model: They may have worried about their survival, about being supplanted by Amazon.
Of course, it's possible the next disruptive technology will make the entire discussion moot, but so far, I see nothing on the horizon
Great quotations, and who really said them
by Jamie Lutton
I like dictionaries of quotations. Even with Google, you can't find the quote unless you know it, or part of it in advance. One the things I have found out in my reading, however, is that a lot of sayings we
come from the Bible or we
are so and so, have been changed as they became popular.
And many quotes are attributed to the wrong person; the internet sources do not always catch this error.
When I was a kid, older people, at parties, or after a few drinks would edge up to someone, roll their eyes, and say "Come with me to the Casbah
to be funny-suggestive. This supposedly came from a steamy 1938 film
with Heddy Lamar and Charles Boyer, but this exact quote is not in the film. On it's own, this corybantic phrase was popular for decades, but I have not heard it recently. If anyone has recently heard this phrase, let me know; my Dad was the last person I knew who would use it in fun with my mother, rolling his eyes at her..
"Hell Hath no Fury like a Woman Scorned" is not, after all from Shakespeare, but other playwright, William Congreve, in his play
The Mourning Bride
written in 1697. This pithy "quote" has been worn down into a weak cliché.
President Richard Nixon, who as we recall had to leave the White House in disgrace for ordering the Watergate break-in, really did say "I am not a Crook
but not in denying his involvement. He said this when questioned about his finances by the press. ..the whole quote goes "And I think, too, that I can say that in my years of public life, that I welcome this kind of examination because people have gotta know whether or not their President's a crook. Well, I'm
a crook. I've earned everything I've got."
This fine denial is now dropping out of common use. Up till only a few years ago, jokers would still make two peace signs with their hands, hold their arms high while hunching their shoulders and mutter "I am not a crook" to make others crack up. Now sadly falling out of use.
Emma Goldman as it turns out did not ever say "If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revoluion". This pithy phrase was dreamed up by a anarchist t-shirt printer in the early 1970's, then went viral. The real quote is better, but does not fit onto a t-shirt. "I insisted that our Cause could not expect me to become a nun and that the movement should not be turned into a cloister. If it meant that, I did not want it. I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things"
It was not Mark Twain, nor even George Bernard Shaw who said "
Wagner's music is much better than it sounds"
. It was Edgar Wilson "Bill" Nye, a popular American humorist and short story writer of the late 19th century, who is now generally forgotten.
Most places online swear that Lincoln did say "You can fool all of the people some of the time, some of the people all the time, but you can not fool all the people all of the time
This quote has not been tracked down to it's original source, despite decades of looking for it. Like others, may have been fabricated after his death.
In the book
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
, published first in 1843, Charles McKay collected all the popular sayings and slang of the time in the back of the book, with examples given. The only one that is still in common use, however, is
Does your mother know you are out?" This origianlly was directed to deflate the pretentions of young men who "smoked cigars in the street, and wore false whiskers to look irresistible' (page 624-625; chapter Popular Follies of Great Cities)) but now seems to be used by old men toward young, pretty women as a pick-up line. Also becoming obsolete.
A playwright and reviewer of the 1920's and 1930's, George Kaufman, has had many of his sayings stolen from him by later misappropriation.. He is best known for writing
The Man Who Came To Dinner
You Can't Take it With You
. When he saw his co-author's Moss Hart's new home in the country, he said "This is what God would have done if He had money". This is usually thought to have been said about the Hearst estate by H.L. Mencken.
Some are just good.Said to a bore "madam, do you have any unexpressed thoughts?"
this is usually attributed to Oscar Wilde.
A rant about Christmas, by Gerge Bernard Shaw that I find sometimes attributed to Oscar Wilde, goes, "I am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas. It is an indecent subject; a cruel, gluttonous subject; a drunken, disorderly subject; a wasteful, disastrous subject; a wicked, cadging, lying, filthy, blasphemous and demoralizing subject. Christmas is forced on a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press: on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred; and anyone who looked back to it would be turned into a pillar of greasy sausages
There is an epigram written by Dorothy Parker in one of her columns in the 1930's about all the quotes that end up being attributed to Oscar Wilde
I never seek to take the credit/we all assume that Oscar said it
The quote that I believe made the word "gay" jump from happy, or, as in "gay girl" meaning prostitute, to meaning "homosexual man'' is the quote about Walt Whitman "He was a gay old pagan who never called it a sin when it was a pleasure", James Hunker in 1915 in his book
Ivory, Apes and Peacocks
, in chapter 2. Walt Whitman said about himself "Do I contradict myself? Very well, I contradict myself (I am large; I contain multitudes)" in
Leaves of Grass
Words to live by.
And, for a good pun, a 150 years ago, in 1863, the favorite novel of both the Union and the Confederate soldiers was Victor Hugo's epic novel
Les Miserables
, which had been translated into English in 1863. The soldiers of the Army of Northern Virgina went so far as to call themselves 'Lee's Miserables'.
The sexual politics of Get Smart
by John MacBeath Watkins
We are living in what may turn out to be the golden age of free media, the time between "information wants to be free" and the discovery that those who provide it move on to other activities once it turns out they won't be paid.
One of the bonuses of this period is the availability of free entertainment in the form of shows we would formerly have had to rent from a video store of by watching commercials on television.
And one of the pleasures I've enjoyed recently is watching old episodes of
Get Smart
, a situation comedy about an inept secret agent.
James Bond drove rare and fast cares, Ferraris and the like. Maxwell Smart drove sports cars on the economy end of the scale -- a Sunbeam Alpine, Volkswagen Karmann Ghia, and Opel GT.
The beautiful women who populated the Bond films were either Bond girls who fell under his spell and had sex with him, or villains who were less impressed and tried to kill him, only to be defeated.
Bond was the super-competent, super-masculine hero. Don Adams (born Donald James Yarmy,) who created the Maxwell Smart character, actually had the backstory a Bond actor should have had. He joined the Marines in World War II, hit the beach at Guadalcanal, was was wounded and invalided out with blackwater fever, which almost no one survived, and after kicking that, became a drill sergeant whipping Marine trainees into shape.
After he mustered out, he went into show business. He was short, ordinary-looking, and had a funny voice, so he became a comedian, and created the character of an inept house detective.
Mel Brooks and Buck Henry had the idea of turning that character into a secret agent comedy. They selected the lovely, obviously intelligent, and somewhat taller Barbara Feldon to play his love interest and partner, Agent 99 to his Agent 86.
Many old shows are time capsules for the culture they were designed to appeal to.
Amos & Andy
has become an embarrassment, and many old programs represent a culture long gone.
This happens in literature as well.
Lady Chatterley's Lover
was shocking for its sexual frankness and breaking through class lines. Now, it seems rather tame.
The Bond franchise moves on, in part by going back to its roots in Ian Fleming's novels, where Bond's love of women was as much a weakness as a display of masculinity, giving him hostages to fortune.
But Get Smart was part of the sexual revolution just as much as
Midnight Cowboy
or I am
Curious (Yellow)
. While other shows were giving us displays of sexual freedom,
Get Smart
showed a future with more equal relationships between sexes.
It is still part of its time. Smart, as the man, is supposed to lead, and defeat the bad guy. But he's inept. He has the good fortune to be paired with the more competent 99, and both are aware of his ineptitude. 99 understands that Smart gets by on good intentions and good luck, and chooses to help him. They fall in love in the chaste manner of 1960s prime-time television, not the quick fall into bed of the Bond films, and they have twins.
99 does not give up her work. Smart becomes a nappy-weilding secret agent, 99 at his side (the twins seem to require remarkably little care.) Of course, Smart is not the feminist's dream -- neither character is seen doing housework, but the assumption seems to be that it's 99 doing it.
Don Adams had a working wife as well. He was married to Adelaide (Dell) Efantis, a singer who performed as Adelaide Adams, and he took his last name on stage from her stage name.
99 never gets a name, but that appears to be a humorous device to keep emphasizing the incongruity between the dehumanizing aspect of "givin' you a number and takin' away your name," as the lyric for the them song of the show
Secret Agent
said, and the affectionate relationships and domestic happiness of the character Barbara Feldon played. The character in
Secret Agent
inhabited a different identity in every episode, and viewers never knew his name.
Actually, the theme song for that show, performed by the ragin' Cajun, Johnny Rivers, has proven more enduring than the show. It encapsulates everything Agents 86 and 99 lampooned.
Secret Agent
theme song:
There's a man who leads a life of danger.
To everyone he meets he stays a stranger
With every move he makes,
Another chance he takes.
Odds are he won't live to see tomorrow.
Secret Agent Man.
Secret Agent Man.
They've given you a number.
And taken away your name.
Beware of pretty faces that you find.
A pretty face may hide an evil mind.
Ooh be careful what you say.
Or you give yourself away.
Odds are you won't live to see tomorrow.
Secret Agent Man.
Secret Agent Man.
They've given you a number.
And taken away your name.
Swinging on the Riviera one day
Layin' in a Bombay alley the next.
Oh don't let the wrong word slip.
While kissin persuasive lips.
Odds are you won't live to see tomorrow.
Secret Agent Man.
Secret Agent Man.
They've given you a number.
And taken away your name.
Under the weather, and the cat
John MacBeath Watkins
On Sunday, I was under the weather. Bunny, my rumpy Manx, decided my fevered head was the warmest place to perch.
My favorite veteran
by John MacBeath Watkins
Here's a picture of my favorite veteran, my father, John L. Watkins. The picture was taken in 1944 when he was a 2nd Lt. in the Army Air Force. He retired as a Lt. Col. in the Air Force, a veteran of WW II, Korea, and Viet Nam.
Dared and Done: A dark secret, a happy ending
by Jamie Lutton
Everyone likes a love story where the hero and heroine have to overcome barriers to be with each ohter, succeed, and live happily ever after. This is the plot of many of our fairy tales, legends and mythology. fiction, movies and televion is populated by this sort of story.
The rarity is finding such a story in real life. Even rarer is hearing about poets falling in love, and live happily every after. Most of the time, it seems, that when poets fall in love you get tragedies like the story of Ted Hughes and Silvia Plath, or that, as Tolstoy said, 'happy families are all alike', and the story of the romances are not interesting.
The story of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning's romance, elopement and happy marriage in the face of adversity is a wonderful, gripping tale, and should be better known than it is nowadays. The romance of these two is known in a general way from English literature classes, the way we know that Shakespeare was English and lived in the time of Elizabeth l, but the details of their romance have been largely forgotten.
Neither Robert Browning nor Elizabeth are that popular anymore. Our grandparents read a lot more old poetry than we do, and these two used to be revered as greats. Robert Browning, especially, is considered the best English poet of the mid 19th century. I have been hearing about one poem of Robert Browning's all my life. but nothing else - My mother, who loved to read poetry aloud, or from memory, read
My Last Dutchess
to me, over and over
. to the point where I still mutter "too soon made glad'' under my breath, now and then...and I often pull this poem out and hand it to people who, say, only like Edgar Allen Poe's dark visions and no others.
There was a popular movie about the Brownings made 50 years ago, that was fairly accurate as far as it went - The Barretts of Wimpole Street. But there has never been a good, complete biography of this couple until 1995, when Julia Markus wrote the well-researched
and well-written
Dared and Done; the Marriage of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning.
This book is a week by week account of how they had came to know and fall in love with each other.
Both were published poets moving in the same circles in 1840s London. Elizabeth Barrett was by far the more popular and successful poet of the two, and was a few years older. . She had been an infant prodigy; had begun to read at write poetry at age six,and reading and writing epics in Greek and Latin before she was 10; reading and studying Milton, Pope, and Shakespeare.
Intrigued by a poem that Robert Browning had just had published,, Elizabeth wrote a witty reference to it in one of her next poems. The intellectual circles of the time read poetry journals the way we read the Internet; it was a way of communicating ideas in verse form to each other. Elizabeth Barrett often put 'politics' in her poetry as a habit; she frequently wrote poetry denouncing slavery, and advocating, like Byron, Greek independence.
This poem she wrote provoked a letter from Robert Browning to Elizabeth, praising her work. In his first letter to her, Robert Browning wrote "I love your verse with all my heart, my dear Miss Barrett".
They corresponded for several months before they ever met in person. These letters are carefully annotated and selected to show the growing affection they had for each other. I have sat down and tried to read their collected letters on my own. I found them difficult to follow as they are full of classical allusions they slung back and forth to each other; referring to Greek and Roman and Italian poets that I have never read and am only distantly aware of.
Dared and Done
makes this couple as people a lot more accessible than their love letters on their own..
The drama in their story, what makes their letters of courtship fascinating to the modern reader, is that her father had forbidden her - and all her 11 siblings - from ever marrying.
This forced Elizabeth and Robert to have to 'hide in plain sight' while they grew to know each other over a year and a half of meeting and writing to each other, to then decide to elope and marry.
Robert, it seems, fell in love with Elizabeth after meeting her only a few times; it took him over a year of secret meetings and many many letters back and forth to win her heart, and to persuade her to disobey her father and elope with him.. The best of the letters are here in this book, annotated by the author.
Julia Markus, while researching the family's history in the West Indies, discovers the dread secret that the father was trying to hide, this discovery is the great achievement, and core of this book. Elizabeth's fathers bewildering behavior, in the eyes of modern readers, is made explicable.
Elizabeth's father believed that they had 'black blood' in the family, who had lived in Jamaica for centuries. He was afraid that some of his grandchildren might look 'mixed'; so he wanted to have no grandchildren at all. This was an age of growing racism towards blacks in the West, to justify slavery. Race was the 'new idea' of the time, and being thought 'part-black' would have destroyed the Barrett's upper-middle class standing. . Elizabeth Barrett herself was dark complexioned, her husband's nickname for her was 'the Portuguese'. I urge anyone who wants a better undertanding of English Victorian mores, and paranoid racism of the 1840's should not miss this couple's biography.
It is also a lively account of two great spirits who were able to find each other and in the teeth of family opposition, run away and be happy together. There are so few happy love stories in the world, this one should not be missed by any lover of poetry, or biography.
Julia Markus also makes clear that Elizabeth Browning chafed at the restrictions of her age, and was a feminist, torn between family affection and wanting her freedom. In her case, happily, freedom won, and she was able to have a happy marriage. Some of her best poetry, like
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are from her married life. The author also makes clear that Robert Browning saved her life; she was on the verge of death from opiate abuse and depression the winter before their meeting.. His passionate attachment to Elizabeth, his respect for her mind and his tender care of her is preserved in these letters, as well as her joy at finding a true soul mate.
3-D printing for food -- it's what could be for dinner
by Jamie Lutton
Sometimes, there are stories in the news about technological advances that are so unbelievable, they are not credited. The story of '3-D Printers' making food from plant waste is one of them.
NASA has just given a $125,000 grant to a company to develop a '3-D printer' that would make food out of plant waste. The scientists demonstrated the machine using mealworms, but, according to the article, the technology might be able to use lawn clippings, algae or any kind of plant waste. The inventor has made the extravagant claim that 3D food Printers, could one day eliminate world hunger.
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The first use would be to preserve food for long voyages into space, to Mars, and at the proposed Mars colony, because present forms of preservation, such as rations now fed to Astronauts (think TANG) do not produce food that ''keeps'' for long enough. And if food can be grown from waste, it is not inconceivable that an algae tank on a long voyage could recycle human waste back into food, adding a few vitamins and other nutrients, plus some flavorings. (!)
When I emailed an distinguished scientist/engineer I know and told him about it, he insisted that this idea was not possible, demonstrating Arthur C. Clarke's First Law of Impossibility :
"When a distinguished but elderly scientist declares something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he declares something is impossible, he is very probably wrong"
I directed his attention the NASA article. He still did not believe it. . I think it sounded like a 'perpetual motion' machine to him, as the claim that edible tasty food could be made out of plant waste is, on the surface, incredible. But this is what the Earth itself does; miniaturizing and shortening the process is what this machine is supposed to do.(Not a perpetual motion machine, of course, since it's powered by the energy of the sun.)
I believe. this invention, one related to it, may be the inventions of the century.
There are a lot of justified worry about famine and food shortages in the world today. At any one time, some part of the world, or another, is on the verge of famine. In many countries that have "enough" food, children are stunted from not getting enough protein or vitamins in their diet. Some insist that there is enough food for everyone, only it is poorly distributed. Others protest the development of 'Franken foods', or genetically altered foods like corn or tomatoes, or rice that has been altered to have more vitamins in it, called 'golden rice'. Yet while the arguments go on, poor people suffer from malnutrition on every continent.
We forget that a lot of the food we love, and is common, is ''artificial'. Ice cream is my favorite example, plus frozen vegetables and TV dinners, and in particular fresh milk and juice. These foods only possible because of home refrigeration and factories that process food for huge numbers of people; this allows people to have fresh green vegetables in the middle of the winter, even if the local produce is poor.
I have been in grocery stores where the fresh produce was terrible, in small towns or in bad neighborhoods, but there always were frozen peas and broccoli available in the freezers. Americans don't eat green vegetables as much as they should because of the marketing of junk food.
The idea is that delicious food that is tasty could be 'printed' on the long voyage to Mars, on in the Mars colony after it arrival. Food such as pizza, Mexican and Italian dishes could be fabricated. Real 'meat' dishes could also be fabricated in the future, using a different technique.
Dutch scientists a few months ago, have successfully grown meat, that is, muscle tissue, in the lab:
The cost of producing 'hamburger' looks to be $200,000 for one patty, but the scientists claim when the process is perfected, the price would quickly drop. There is a huge demand for meat, as countries Westernize and develop the taste for red meat, chicken and fish.
Another force driving this is that 'meat' of this type would not damage the environment or be cruel to animals grown in less than humane ways for food. . France M. Lappe in her book,
Diet for a Small Planet
back in 1972; pointed out that feeding grain to cattle and eating the cattle was terribly inefficient, and bad for the environment. As the Earth's population Westernizes, the demand for meat only goes up, straining the environment.
My thought is that both these technologies could be used to make dog and cat food first, and free up the fish, chicken, beef, etc, that is diverted into making pet food, and so it could be available as human food. . Pet food companies compete vigorously with companies that make, say, sausage or stew, driving the prices up for these food byproduct. There have been complaints that the pet food companies worldwide outbid the poor nations who try to buy food for their people, as cheap protein that is diverted into pet food.
There might be a lot of resistance to eating manufactured food at first, but this is a good first step...the cats and dogs will have less sales resistance. When this idea is discussed online, the first reaction is to mention
Soylent Green
, a 1970's SF film based on Harry Harrison's
Make Room! Make Room!
in which, in the overpopulated future, people were turned into 'soylent green' after they died, and served as food.There was such a thing as 'soylent brown', a powdered soy product you could at one time buy (I shudder to think it may still be in production.) My brother Jon proudly kept an (unused) jar of it in his vegetarian kitchen, just for notoriety and laughs.
If the Marines can't protect the president from the rain, call in the Air Force!
by John MacBeath Watkins
My conservatives friends assure me that it's a terrible scandal that President Obama asked a Marine detailed to him to hold an umbrella for him.
The basis for this is that the Marine Corps does not allow male Marines to use umbrellas. Nor do the Army. All allow females in their service to use umbrellas.
The Air Force, however, has long been more agile in adapting to new technologies, like those invented later than the hat. Air Force officers are allowed to use an umbrella, hold it for someone, and generally treat it like the useful item it is.
You can even get an umbrella with a U.S. Air Force insignia for $21 from the
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We've got you covered, Mr. President! We may as well face facts. The Marines, my conservative friends assure me, cannot protect the President from the rain (unless they detail women to the duty, which doesn't seem to have occurred to them.) I'm sure the Air Force will be happy to step in and provide protection with highly-trained personnel of either gender.
Of course, the service chiefs have not yet had their say. They may decide that if a Marine can take a bullet for his President, he can also hold an umbrella for the CIC. Hell, they may even decide that if he wants to shoot down enemy aircraft with a Stinger missile, he's allowed to hold that even though it isn't part of the uniform.
(Edited to add: They Navy changed its rules in 1987 to allow both genders to use umbrellas. Dang, they're catching up to the Air Force!)
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Well we are back and had another great time! Currently fighting off the Post WDW Blues and Work! Tons of pictures coming. Stay Tuned.
Well we are back and had another great time! Currently fighting off the Post WDW Blues and Work! Tons of pictures coming. Stay Tuned.
Yeah! You are back again? I totally understand the Disney Blues...can't wait to see photos!
Have a Magical Day, Month, Year!!!
When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable ~ Walt Disney
~A man's character can be judged by the way he treats his dog.~
Oh, I guess I'm not going to look at your photos. I saw the thread title and got all excited. Geez....thanks....
Working hard for that next WDW trip! December 2013
I can sympathize. We had serious post WDW vacation blues. Made worse by remembering all the fun we had and all the things we still missed on this trip! Not sure when we are going back but hopefully we are going to DL in Feb next year. Can't wait to see pics!!
Have a Disney Day!
You don't have to walk on water, it's how you walk on land.
Welcome back. Cannot wait to see the pictures.
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Past Trips: June 2006-POR; June 2008-POP; June 2009-CBR; June 2010-VB/AKV Kidani; October 2010-BLT; April 2011-BWV; December 2011-AKV Kidani
Let's get a set up. Loved the Villas at WL! The decor was awesome and highly recommend this resort.
The lobby
A few Mousekeeping surprises
A few Master Bedroom & Bathroom pics
Second or Kids Bedroom
Wow! Very impressive!
Have a Magical Day, Month, Year!!!
When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable ~ Walt Disney
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Set 2 - More Resort Pics
Kids Bathroom or Second Bedroom. Can you see me?
Not so Hidden Mickey's all over the Hallways.
Looking down from the 4th Floor
Someone is getting a big Magical WDW Surprise
How about some Main Pool Action?
That's all for now. I took 128 pics and not including what my DW took. I told you tons of pics! All with our iPhones.
It was wonderful!
How about some more?
Some nice decor.
Inside the Lobby, but leads all the way down to the pool!
Waiting for dinner at Whispering Canyon Cafe.
Dinner time!
A view from our balcony.
A few from the ferry heading to the MK!
My DTS favorite color monorail
Let's get this party started!
That's all for the moment. Back to work. What do you think I do all day post pics of our WDW trip?
Some more pics:
First character of the trip and another princess checked off.
Interactive Mickey Picture inside his meet & greet at Town Hall
Waiting for Mickey & Minnie. Mickey's Fan Mail & Scrooge McDuck's Money Bags
Yay Mickey and Minne with all the boys!
A look down Main Street
Castle looks good!
A not so hidden Mickey in Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger Spin
Outside the COP and a tribute to The Sherman Bros.
Waiting on SM.
Ready to Launch!
More later....
I need to think about something happy, in the events of last nights senseless act of violence. Thoughts and prayers to the victims and their families!
Mickey Ice Cream Time!
Time for 999 Happy Haunts!
Country Bear Grand Finale!
My favorite animatronics as a child! My Favorite was Max. For what ever reason.
Brer Frog telling a story
Don't throw me in that briar patch! Wait a minute, Yes please!
Zip a dee do da!
Alligator still not working.
BTMRR at night! Very pretty!
Although I miss Mr Toad, I still like Pooh!
More later. But hug your kids extra hard tonight, and be grateful for what you have. Some folks were just going to see a movie that they were excited to see or they wouldn't be there at midnight. But never came home. Sorry to be preching and off my soapbox.
Very nice photos...and you are right...let's hug our families extra hard tonight. Be thankful for all the Blessings in life.
Have a Magical Day, Month, Year!!!
When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable ~ Walt Disney
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Great pictures CBFETT. We have been considering staying in the Villas at the Wilderness Lodge. We have eaten several times at Whispering Canyon Cafe and it is such a beautiful resort.
My thoughts and prayers are with the victimes and families tonight. It is such a sad day when something like this happens. And I agree, we should hug our children a little extra every night.
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Past Trips: June 2006-POR; June 2008-POP; June 2009-CBR; June 2010-VB/AKV Kidani; October 2010-BLT; April 2011-BWV; December 2011-AKV Kidani
Disney photos are a marvelous distraction! Thank you.
There are 10 kinds of people in this world... Those who know binary and those who don't.
I am sure it is a very tough time for everyone in that community right now and I hope all your loved one are safe! My brother and his family actually lived in Aurora for a few years before moving to Firestone/Longmont CO. So I was gonna save this set for later, but thought this might give everyone another distraction. We have close friends that go to WDW often and we like to play a game with them and them with us. Whoever is there will post pics on FB and the other has to guess where (Specifically) that photo was taken. And let's say we do go for things that aren't easy! The goal is to stump the other and be the ultimate WDW Knowledge King!
So for those that want to guess, take a shot.
F. This is a Super Easy one!
Well I got to say I'm surprised no one took any guesses. Oh well, time for more pics.
When I was a kid, this car was decked out with the coolest paint job. And I thought it was the fastest car of all. Oh how I dreamed of taking it for a spin!
In front of the New Dumbo.
A couple inside the new waiting area.
Up in the sky.
After the ride.
New Barnstormer.
Casey Jr. New play area.
And this is what happens to your kids. Soaked!
Anyone remember me. I'm Elliott, Pete's Dragon!
POTC at night.
Star Tours!
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Time for some TOT action!
More cool theming!
Cool signage!
Sorcerer Mickey or Magic Mickey as one of my DTS used to call him.
The only one brave enough to ride Dinosaur.
More later. Still have a ton!
I'm still not a big fan of this ride. Too Loud!
EE! Need I say more? One of the best rides in all four parks! Even with the Disco Yeti issue!
A couple of shots under the netting at The Tree of Life. Really does obscure the view.
Here is what happens every time we go to AK. It pours!
Digging these statues at Camp Mickey & Minnie
Ranger Donald!
Another princess. Check!
Our pics on our iPhone came out better than the PhotoPass guy here.
Another princess check!
Mickey & Minnie
Paradiso 37! Yummy but over priced.
An approaching storm. The deck at Paradiso 37.
Either I'm in trouble or heaven! The Wall of Tequila at Paradiso 37.
Trouble! But Ahhhhhh!
At DTD. A mickey made from all Vinyalmation Mickey's
Cool Table!
Candy Apples anyone?
The boy who wants to be Chef Mickey!
From the WL Boat at night on the Seven Seas Lagoon
Our day off, time to ride the monorail and visit the Poly, GF and Contemporary.
Waiting for Pan
An Original! The Jungle Cruise.
Great photos! Thanks for sharing!
Yeah more great photos! Your quiz was too tough for me sorry! I just love the picture of your daughter on the coaster.
Very cute kids! Love your pictures!
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Instead of going from store to store with arms full of bags at the local mall, Saturday's Cotton Block Art Market offered an opportunity for people to browse several things in one shop.
Cedartown native Dwain Rutledge's table alone featured wooden birdhouses as well as jewelry and knitted scarves from his daughter and son-in-law.
Rutledge, who now lives in Rome, was at the art market last year and was happy to return. "They do a great job with this," Rutledge said. "It's a great way for artists to set up and showcase their work and they don't charge us a penny."
He said that he had people come in and pick up last-minute gifts and come away with something that Rutledge was glad to make.
While he keeps some of his work available at Old Havana Cigar Co., Rutledge has had people call him for special orders after seeing him at shows.
Such was the case after last year's art market when someone contacted Ann Pullen, one of the event's organizers, about having Rutledge make something for them.
One of the new artists that had a table at this year's market was Adam Sikes, who along with Mike Tappan makes up Brothers Music Collective and had cigar box guitars for sale. "I try to make each one aesthetically pleasing as well as technically sound," Sikes said. "As a musician, I think it's silly to have something shaped like an instrument but it just sits on the shelf."
Sikes played a number of his instruments throughout the day and offered anyone to give them a try. "To me, any guitar is a piece of art anyway," he said. "I just kind of prettied up what guys have been doing for a hundred years already."
Sikes is originally from South Georgia but moved to Rome and has only recently begun to take some of his work to area shows. "The art scene here in Rome is amazing. People really do seem to appreciate it here."
"With such a wide variety of items here, from cigar box guitars to cardboard dinosaurs, it brings in a lot of different people, from adults to children," Pullen said.
"There has been a steady flow of people through here for most of the day," said Paula Blevins, who has also worked to put on the art market. "We have had a lot of the same crowd come out from the past, but we have also had a lot of new faces."
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If you were going to get a ridiculous big X-Mass bonus would you buy this brush http://www.coutellerie-faget.com/eng...sp?id_item=278 . I'ts a Plisson High Mountain Badger with a handle in true horn. It would be my second brush in my "collection."
If you were going to get a ridiculous big X-Mass bonus would you buy this brush http://www.coutellerie-faget.com/eng...sp?id_item=278 . I'ts a Plisson High Mountain Badger with a handle in true horn. It would be my second brush in my "collection."
I haven't herd great things (good but not great) about this brush company or Simpson's for that matter but It is a personal choice. I don't think I would spend that much on just the fact its real horn. It would be a nice conversation piece.
But i have heard good things about the SR and Shavemac bushes. They are on my list!
What is you other brush?
This one here http://www.classicshaving.com/catalo...30/2179606.htm would you - I'm new at this- consider this a good brush.
Absolutely not. No brush is worth almost $400. I don't care if it was handmade by the Pope.
If you're looking for a brush, there's a lot of options out there that are way more sensible, and may actually be better brushes. I don't own one, but I think I've read Plisson owners on here saying they're nice, but nothing that special. Might I reccommend you put $105 aside for the B&B forum brush?
This is one of the many 'diminishing returns' items... after about $100 to $150 or so, you are just spending more and more but not really getting a lot in return.
If you've got $400 extra to spend, get a nice $150 brush and then blow the rest soaps and creams you don't have!
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I have the Plisson and it's a really nice brush. I have not had any problems with it and it is a joy to use. Another option you might consider is a Rooney's Finest. Another fantastic brush that if I had to choose between the two, I'd take the Rooney's.
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Aaron- you're right, thats better use of the funds, and you can learn a lot more in the mean time.
or, take the $400 and buy an assortment of brushes (SR, shavemac, rooney, vulfix, EJ, superior, etc.). that way you can see what you really prefer.
it would be fun to sort through the thread recommendations and make the picks.
The Plisson HMW and the Rooneys finest are very different brushes and are both outstanding performers. If you do decide to buy a Plisson, Atkinsons of Vancouver (google it) offer good prices and -20% for members. There's been a lot of hand wringing about value for money on this forum recently. Although I don't own one (yet) Savile Row seems to be the current winner in the bang for the buck stakes so it might be worth trying one of these to get a benchmark.
Doesn't look like its worth it.
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I agree, I don't think its worth it either. Plus I don't know how to explain to my wife the credit card charge of $400 from www.coutellerie-faget.com. (Don't get mad at me that was the name of the website.)
If your WANT list is short, why not go for it-
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It's not made in England. So that's a no.
(only kidding )
I'd probably only fork out that kind of money for it if I was stark raving bonkers.
Now where's my debit card?
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If you take it as a luxury item, fine, but don't expect drastically different performance or feel for that money. If it was me, the answer would be a resounding "no".
In a word, NO - for all of the reasons expressed above.
In my highly biased personal view, the only reason to get this brush (or any other brush that costs this much) is to own a very expensive, somewhat rare brush purely for the sake of doing so.
Definitely: "NO"
If i wasn't a brushaholic i would never, ever have bought my horn handled HMW Plisson #20 nor my Simpsons Manchurian Polo #14; they aren't worth it.
There's ABSOLUTELY NO NEED to buy a shaving brush more expensive than a SR or a Shavemac, still without doubt the best value for price brushes on the market.
I'd rather spend the money on creams, aftershaves, and use a more affordable quality brush.
I am a "bang for the buck" shopper, and can't stand the thought of spending that much on a brush. Heck, spending $1000 on a pair of "bookshelf" speakers to me is insane (odd having an audiophile say that, huh?).
Get the B&B brush for $100. Then you have $300 to blow on Mama Bear soaps!


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These durable storage baskets are made from wicker and wire, designed to be used with Winsome's Milan Collection of shelving, all available with a matching antique walnut finish.
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By Mama Fish
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Comments about Winsome Milan Antique Walnut Storage Bench with 3 Wired Baskets:
This bench was exactly like I thought it would be. It fits perfectly under our living room window and we use it to store toys. It was super easy to put together. The directions say you need two people, but I did it myself at 9 months pregnant and with the "help" of my three year old. I am very pleased with the end results!
Quality is a little low
By GreenWeaver
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[...], one of the cuts for the shelf was not completed. If we hadn't had a jigsaw to complete the cut ourselves, we couldn't have assembled it and would have had to send it back. The stain/finish was not completely applied, so we had to use a stain pencil to "color in" two small unfinished streaks on one side. But if it weren't for the problem requiring us to drag out the jigsaw, it would have been easy to assemble. Be aware that the finish is lighter than antique walnut, more like chestnut. All that being said, the bench itself is quite sturdy solid wood, and the baskets are larger than I envisioned and very well made. (The first time it was sat on, it creaked loudly, but it's been silent ever since.) We needed a narrow bench at the bottom of our bed to provide a place to sit and it's perfect for that. Be careful, though, not to put your feet too far back or you'll knock the baskets into the back wall of the chest. We put felt "dots" on the basket bottoms and backs to prevent them from scratching the wood. I made a simple cushion for the top, and it looks great. The shelf and baskets are large enough to hold slippers and some extra warm socks, though I think I might line them with some of the same fabric I used for the cushion and store some of my knitting in one or two of them.
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The bench is perfect for my entry. It is great for storing daily wear shoes and pet supplies!
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We used this to hold TV components (hard drive, blue ray, receiver, etc.). The TV is mounted over the fireplace and large low windows are on either side. This fits on the side under a window and everything fits. We drilled a hole in back for the wires. The baskets are perfect for the manuals and other odd bits.
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I was looking for storage for my sunroom. This piece of furniture is perfect as its a beautiful bench too! It has a nice rich color and matches my decor perfectly! [...] I am quite impressed!
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Use it in hallway for people to sit on to remove or put on their shoes.
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I wanted a bench to put at the end of my bed that would also have room for some storage. It gives me a place to put my bedspread when not in use and also a place to sit (other than on the bed) when dressing in the morning. I like that the bench is solid wood. It was very easy to put together. And the 3 baskets that came with it match perfectly and appear to be quite sturdy. Altogether a handsome piece of furniture and yet one that doesn't take up much space.
I loved the look. It was exactly right.
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The only negative was that the back was of thick cardboard and came partially damaged. Rather than send it back, the part damaged was in back anyway, and the baskets covered the damage. Damage was not structural. The bench was just as I expected it would look. Used it in the bedroom underneath a window and since it is outside a master bath, used baskets for additional bath items. Love it.
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This piece is well constructed, good value and is actually made of real wood (unlike many comparable units, which use some type of reconstituted wood). It was easy to assemble and looks great in our hallway, where it serves as a place to sit and take off/put on shoes. Good buy!
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I put this together myself in less than 30 minutes! Wood quality and attractiveness is EXCELLENT! We keep it by our stairs in the entryway for the kids to put their school items in. The height is perfect, and it's not so deep that you trip into it when you walk by it. The baskets are great quality and sturdy enough for boys to use!
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