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March 2009
Lots of ups and downs since my last update. Several of my workmates and I are under threat of redundancy despite being very busy. Our employer is using the economic downturn to target staff on contracts which they feel are less profitable to themselves rather than to remove the least useful and least experienced as would normally be the case.
I have a date for my GRS (Gender Reassignment Surgery) in Montreal, Canada. The date is 14th April 2009. I have provided all the test results, blood tests, urine tests etc that were required and all were within normal levels except my ECG (Electrocardiagram), heart rate recording which is abnormal. As a result I may not get to surgery after all. My surgeon wants a cardiologist to confirm that I am fit for surgery before I can proceed. I've only got a month left to try and get this professional opinion so I'm not sure how things will turn out at the moment.
I am comfortable in my environment now, people in general no longer take any notice of me, which is exactly what I want, when I look in a mirror I see a woman reflected there, so apart from the big issue with my operation and potential redundancy and those occasional days when Kathryn hates me my life is actually going very well.


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Singles, dating organizations conform to love into the period of COVID-19
It is difficult to become familiar with a potential partner when you must remain two metres aside. But singles and people within the industry that is dating social distancing has set the phase for an appealing social test as romance techniques online.
Considering that the pandemic hit, Mandia Nantsios has seen a surge in her own social media marketing traffic, with possible suitors attempting to make an association.
Nantsios, 23, is definitely an Ottawa musician and influencer would youn't utilize dating apps, but recently came across somebody via a combined group hangout platform called home Party. Which is resulted in video clip dates, chatting over cups of wine sipped in split living spaces.
"this is certainly a good time for you to become familiar with individuals," Nantsios stated. "Everybody has time and energy to link. It simply forces you not to ever hurry any such thing. I am taking a look at it as a confident."
From in-person to online
Dating businesses are hoping to make the most of this brand brand brand new digital market by pivoting from in-person to matchmaking that is virtual.
Once the virus hit, bookings for Dashing Date's speed-dating occasions arrived to prevent. The business has made the jump to hosting its occasions on Zoom, and offers Twitter talks that are live exactly exactly exactly how better to date far away.
CEO Kavita Ajwani stated although some singles are opting to just simply take a rest now, lots of people are deciding to devote their hours that are extra the search for love.
"there is certainly a silver lining for singles they've plenty of choices at this time. You will need to stay linked now inside your," Ajwani stated.
Local app Wandure additionally scrambled to fully adjust to the brand new truth. Launched final December, Wandure is centered on getting individuals to fulfill in actual life right after matching on the web.
Now, for a set cost of $5, Wandure will set you right up on a video that is home-based, with an associate of the group assisting a trivia evening. Co-founder Chelsea SauvГ© stated they will have really seen a rise in their figures.
"There are those who are quite stressed by the reality that their dating life has reached a standstill for an indeterminate duration. In these times it really is particularly clear exactly exactly how wonderful it might be to own you to definitely talk about this with — that psychological contact," SauvГ© stated.
Virtual dating etiquette
Nicole Soon, 36, stated there is an additional benefit to dating that is virtual it really is better to be confident if you are on house turf.
"It's more soothing, there is less anxiety and you will become more your self. I believe everybody else gets very first date jitters, therefore it is good to talk over a display screen," quickly laughed.
Quickly has had up internet dating in a big method during her 14-day self-isolation in Vancouver — she recently cut quick a five-month visit to Asia — and said she actually is struggling to steadfastly keep up because of the influx of communications she actually is now getting off their bored stiff singles.
However for Sarah Martin, 23, that is been set faraway from two of her three jobs, having more hours to blow on relationship doesn't always make those connections as pleasing.
"You have all enough time on the planet but no inspiration. I am half into it since it does not feel just like it will go anywhere," she stated, noting that a number of her conversations have actually fizzled due to "pure boredom."
Then you will find questions regarding simple tips to date virtually. Would you dress to wow, at the very least through the waistline up? Can you consume liquor? Should you be worried about the illumination?
Melissa Guenette is waiting to understand long-lasting effects for this social test.
The Ottawa media that are social, 34, is not presently dating, it is hearing from solitary buddies that are utilizing internet web web internet sites like zoomer.love to arrange coffee or cooking dates, or to view a Netflix film.
The situation is compared by her into the Netflix series adore is Blind, where singles become familiar with one another without seeing one another. Guenette wonders if self-isolation might simply influence individuals to begin centering on substance over area.
"as you're perhaps perhaps not to locate the man aided by the six-pack who would go to the gymnasium and consumes boring chicken and quinoa. Now you might be in search of you to definitely spend time and luxuriate in pizza and Netflix with you firstmet, anyone to hibernate with — your quarantine friend. Or even a person who you need to proceed through a doomsday scenario with — the following epidemic."

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22 August 2016, 13:44 | Updated: 8 May 2017, 17:09
Anyone for a spot of smokin'-hot Grombré?
We love a good hair dye trend at PopBuzz HQ but let's get real, that entire #GrannyHair fiasco turned out to be way much effort. Topping up the roots every 5 minutes? Wasn't exactly ideal for our laid-back, low maintenance lifestyles.
But now, thanks to Instagram, the trend has evolved into its next form and it's everything we've ever dreamed of. Behold Grey Ombre.
Get ready to update your aesthetic to 'mysterious goth icy mermaid Queen with red lips who travels through the darkness within a cloud of intoxicating smoke.' 'CAUSE IT'S AMAZING.
With Grey Ombre, you can forget about ALL about those high maintenance woes, 'cause roots literally don't matter no mo'!
Not only is this glo-up perfect for a chic low maintenance look, it'll give you the perfect Summer lift to those goth vibes you've made your own.
For girls with long dark hair, trying to maintain a summery pastel shade is an absolute nightmare. But don't sweat - 'cause your season is coming.
The ~icy lewk~ looks even more AMAZING on short hair too.
You don't even have to go all out for the ombre to have a striking effect. Keeping it subtle works too!
Match it with a red lip and your daily dose of eyeliner for that killer Ice Queen vibe.
And it looks incredible on days where you don't have time to style your hair.
Yaaaaas, serve me those dark roots!
Finally, a hair dye trend that speaks to our dark and twisty souls.
Ooohh, it looks even better when the grey is even darker. *faves and sends to my hairdresser*
FYI, it also looks amazing on blonde hair too.
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Miranda Gore Browne's passion for baking took her all the way to the final of series 1 of The Great British Bake Off. Now the author of two essential baking recipe books – Biscuit and Bake Me a Cake as Fast as You Can – she is also the owner of an enviable collection of cookbooks. Here, she gives The Happy Foodie an exclusive tour…
Decisions, decisions, decisions…. which are my favourite cookbooks, and why? It really is little wonder I can't decide, as I look at all the piles of cookbooks that are so plentiful in our hallway, utility room and kitchen. They are still in stacks, having been squirrelled away for months while we lived in a building site and renovated our house. One thing that is very clear is that we need more bookshelves – soon! Rediscovering all my cookbooks has been a merry reunion made even sweeter by our separation over the last year.
I will start with an apology to The Happy Foodie for taking so long to come back with my favourite cookbooks. I have, however, had the loveliest of times being reunited with old friends… dreaming of 'diabolical roses' after late nights re-reading Elizabeth David's Italian Food, rediscovering my Padstow food journal and the menus from anniversary meals at Rick Stein's Seafood Restaurant, sharing my grandmother's handwritten recipe book with my children, and discovering recipe cuttings I thought I had lost, but which are tucked in the pages of other books. I have cooked recipes that I haven't enjoyed for years, and all in all I've had a wonderful foodie adventure. It has really reminded me just how important all of these books are to me.
I have managed to clear a shelf in our utility room for a large number of cookbooks which are now lodging comfortably above my collection of mixers. My more honoured cookbook friends are roosting on a rather more luxurious shelf in my heavenly new kitchen. This is to be my "shelfie", and its occupants have been shuffled endlessly over the last month as I've tried to settle on which need to be with me in the kitchen at all times.
So, the books that have made it through the process are the ones that have shaped me most, have inspired me, have kept me company and have comforted and reassured me over the years.
The first books that encouraged me to bake and cook were not actually cookbooks; they were the storybooks of my childhood. The bedtime stories of Little Grey Rabbit and the birthday cake in a bee-hive at the bottom of her garden. The dresser piled with cakes and meringues as the Brambly Hedge mice prepared for a summer wedding. The beautiful illustrations by Shirley Hughes in the Lucy and Tom books. I was over-joyed to find Peter Rabbit's Cookery Book in my stocking (when I was about six). On re-reading this, I recalled immediately having loved it so much, but being disappointed that it didn't have more recipes for baking, or indeed for chocolate. I did, however, make a lot of Pig-wig 'conversation peppermints' (which I don't think any of us really liked very much) and plenty of Mrs Rabbit's currant buns!
My love of food and stories continued as I tried to replicate Swallows and Amazons picnics with sticky iced buns, and as I devoured the seasonal recipes in The Lark Rise Recipe book. The Cadbury's Chocolate Cookbook quickly came to dominate my childhood baking with its fabulous 1970s photography that captured the taste of an era to perfection. At last, I had found a recipe book that would allow the sweet tooth of my chocolate passion a free rein. Packed with gloriously Wonka-like recipes from 'Popper bars' to 'Frosted malted bars', 'Owl madeleines' and 'Chocolate concrete', it was what I rushed home from school for. I made all of its sickly delights – many of them eaten straight from the pan. Some never even made it into the oven, and those that did filled the kitchen with a comforting chocolatey fug.
My cookery 'coming of age' came at Christmas 1989. With Delia holding my hand, I perfected choux pastry, chocolate mousse, tarts and bread – always quick to add my own twists and variations as I worked my way through her (Delia Smith's) Complete Cookery Course. This is one of the few cookbooks that was squeezed into my rucksack and went with me to university as well. The pages are stained and marked, the loose cover long gone, and there are many cuttings and handwritten notes for recipes and cuttings stuffed between its utilitarian brown covers. Delia's Summer, Winter and Christmas books joined me soon after, and nurtured my love of seasonal and celebratory baking (as did Nanette Newman's Summer Cookbook).
In the late 1990s, I travelled to Vancouver to be my cousin's bridesmaid, and after only a couple of days baking, sewing and arranging flowers I was renamed Martha for the rest of my stay. I brought home a stash of Martha Stewart magazines, signed up for Jane Packer floristry courses, walked wistfully around cook shops and cake shops during my work lunch-break in London. I collected biscuit-cutters, baked endlessly and made foodie presents tied with ribbons from my ever-growing collection. My first Martha Stewart book was Good Things and this still remains a much-loved favourite. Her Baking Handbook and Wedding Cakes (not shown on photo as it is too large for this particular shelf) also make it onto my kitchen shelf and are truly inspiring. In Martha Stewart, I had discovered someone who loved all the things I loved doing – decorating cakes and biscuits, cooking for friends, crystallising flowers, and for the first time I felt it was ok to celebrate all these things I loved. Perhaps, just perhaps, I could dream that they might become my life.
Living by some gorgeous allotments in our first house together in London, my husband and I transformed our 12-feet square paved garden into a tiny productive plot (the allotment waiting list was years long). Fork to Fork by Monty and Sarah Don made me even more determined one day to live in the country, but in the meantime we grew our own rhubarb to make chutney and endless puddings and tarts, and we planted an olive tree and a pear. When we ran away to our tiny Sussex village, Annie Bell's Vegetable Book gave us an endless repertoire of recipes for every vegetable we could grow or find. I began to apply this same theory of cooking and baking to all types of seasonal produce, voraciously exploring different ways to bake and cook plums, blackberries and cobnuts and any produce I could lay my hands on.
When Jamie Oliver bounced onto our TV screens, I was addicted instantly to his energetic style and his simple heartfelt cooking. This was just how I felt about food and exactly how I loved to cook and bake, with friends and family in the kitchen laughing and chatting and loving cooking and eating together. My brother was working as a manager at Waterstone's when Jamie was on one of his first book signings. He met Jamie and asked him to sign me a copy of The Naked Chef. I cherish his message on the inside cover.
I love Nigella Lawson's How to Eat for its innovative, yet logical, content – packed with ideas for a spring lunch or autumn supper. It helped me to refine my own recipe journals, and I have a record of all the menus I cooked for friends and events during this time. Nigella's How to be a Domestic Goddess also joins the select bunch on my shelfie.
After years as a food buyer at Marks & Spencer, travelling with product developers and visiting amazing restaurants, my obsession with taste and flavour was fuelled by the gift of The Flavour Thesaurus by Niki Segnit. If I were to have to choose my desert island cookbook, I think this would have to be it. It's a book that lets your taste buds dream, and which can be read like a novel…but only with a sturdy pencil and pad to hand, because it entices me to make endless lists of recipe ideas, places to visit and food to buy, taste or try.
Another thing that inspires me to travel, to try new things and to recreate them at home is the wonderful writing in Amaretto, Apple Cake & Artichokes by Anna del Conte. For me, food is about creating memories, and just reading the title convinced me it would do that. My mother–in-law was a neighbour of Anna in London and was lucky enough to be able to enjoy her real cooking and talk to her about her love of food and writing.
Nigel Slater's 30-Minute Cook has been a stalwart friend during long years of juggling working long hours and the demands on my time made by sleepless children. In my weariest of hours, I have opened the door of a near empty fridge and grabbed my well-thumbed copy from the shelf to make a quick and reassuringly good meal. Thank you Nigel for being there! Toast should also be on my kitchen shelf, but I think someone must have borrowed it (and I suppose it is not officially a cookbook!)
Here, then, is my cookbook shelfie, with all of the above, and some significant others listed below.
Significant others on my bookshelf:
Twelve: A Tuscan Cookbook – Tessa Kiros
Falling Cloudberries – Tessa Kiros
The Great British Book of Baking – contains my first published recipes from The Great British Bake Off
Crust – Richard Bertinet
My Grandmother's recipe book – 1935
My recipe journals – full of cuttings and handwritten recipe collection
My books – Biscuit; Bake Me a Cake as Fast as You Can!
Thank you for letting me share my 'shelfie' with you,
With love,
Miranda Gore Browne's indispensable cookbooks, Bake Me a Cake as Fast as You Can and Biscuit, are out now.


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Here's this week's podcast for Playtime with Bill Turck and Kerri Kendall, our radio arts partner. Third Coast Review news and reviews are highlighted and our writers sometimes appear on the Sunday afternoon arts radio show. Playtime broadcasts on WCGO, 1590AM and 95.9FM, each Sunday from 1 to 3pm and streams on Facebook. You can listen to each week's Playtime here on our site. Here's host Bill Turck's description of what you'll hear on Playtime's latest edition.
Hour One
A rockin' show. in the first hour we talk food and art with editor from Third Coast Review, Nancy Bishop, along with food writer Bob Benenson. Find out why Victoria Reeves is selling out shows across Chicagoland; she has a piece from her one-woman show.
Hour Two
Lainie Petersen's theater report with new shows at the Lyric Opera, Second City's That Sunday Show and a return of The Boys in the Band. Local jazz great Chris Greene on some upcoming shows with the Chris Greene Quartet. Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter Ray Grant is back with his new song, and Patricia Frontain, from Chicago PD with a special announcement for filmmakers.


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Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Hack/Slash: My First Maniac
This is probably no great victory for the creators, given my penchant for acidic, hypercritical reviews of even the best books on the market, but I'm finally ready to commit to collecting new Hack/Slash trades as they are solicited. So long as creator/writer Tim Seeley steers clear of the "expanded universe" genre mash-ups that put me off earlier samplings of his series, I suspect he will continue to entertainment at his consistent level of quality.
So for, my favorite stories have focused on the titular heroine Cassandra Hack working solo in her formative years as a stalker of '80s slasher movie archetypes. Thanks to the one-shot Me Without You, I've also warmed to her deformed sidekick Vlad, who only makes a cameo appearance here. From Dr. Loomis to the Dream Warriors, I'm a lot more interested in this type of material with strong protagonists around, and Hack delivers. This story, heavy on internal monologue in the form of diary entries, makes getting reacquainted with the character a solid read. I suspect Seeley has hung out with his share of Suicide Girl types, since Hack's voice is true for that generation of strong but damaged grrls. Actress Allison Scagliotti seems to agree, and offered a new introduction.
I've seen flashbacks to Hack's origin a few times, so while I kept up with the scenes involving the Lunch Lady killer, I suspect the opening sequence as written could confuse the uninitiated. It was wise to give the first full issue over to the aftermath of Hack's initial kill, showing her inability to fit into normal society afterward (or even before, really,) and her need to direct her innate hostilities toward positive ends.
The second issue is the true start of the main story, as Hack questions her crusade in the early stages of her first mission, and tries to figure out how exactly a broke sixteen-year-old dropout makes her way in the world as a monster killer. Her first target is Farmer Fig, a rural legend that plays out stories of
the "farmer's daughter" to a grisly end. Hack isn't sure she believes in these legends, if there are truly any more "lunch ladies" out there, and whether she has what it takes to do anything about it if there are. In order to go "undercover" amongst people her age, the typical victims of "slashers," Hack is far more successful at winning friends and influencing people than she ever was just being herself. Finding some kind of happiness and acceptance also makes Hack wonder if the new life she's chosen is really for the best.
One of the things I dig about this series his how fully it just goes for it. A group of girls getting in a fight doesn't result in pulled hair or torn skirts, but bloody mouths with missing teeth and eyes swollen shut. Cassie Hack may only be "Canada legal," and exploiting her nubility is a tad uncomfortable, but I like how the artist also draws her kind of awkward and seemingly not yet comfortable in her movements. This isn't a 24-year-old actress in a pink blouse playing at being a teeny bopper, but more like a real young adult taking on more than she might be able to handle. Tim Seeley still provides covers for the individual issues, and his Cassie Hack is much more polished and highly functioning "indie-professional," but also very much model pretty. The interiors by Daniel Leister aren't meant for Marvel/DC, but in the same sense guys like Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko weren't suited for the Silver Age norm. His characters seem elongated and gawky, his aesthetic a bit too far off the mainstream path, which makes him perfectly suited for horror material of this stripe. From faces to figures to background to storytelling to action to gore, I find no fault in anything Leister offers in this book. He's apparently been the artist on this series since 2009, and I hope that he continues, because this is the perfect marriage of artist and material. If he ends up on Titans or some such shit, I'mona get pissed.
I spent a lot of time discussing the art, but you should note that I'm not interested in picking out a new project for Daniel Leister. I enjoy the art because it so soundly depicts Tim Seeley's involving story. Tack on one of the versions of the Lunch Lady origin, and My First Maniac is ready to be directly adapted into a hit motion picture. Anyone who is a fan of post-'70s horror, specifically but not exclusively the slasher subgenre, will find the book to exemplify the best in those types of shows. Cassie Hack is the final girl/slayer of choice, there's an inventive killer making the rounds, there are complications and twists to keep up interest, fun but developed characters, gratuitous sex, and no small amount of violent action. Seeley brings the goods on Hack/Slash, and there's no need for guilt in the pleasure.
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The controversy over the G-spot is about to heat up again. Either science has been using the wrong techniques or wrong technologies in the hunt for the mysterious pleasure button allegedly located inside a woman's vagina, or the spot simply doesn't exist, according a new review of existing research.
"Objective measures have failed to provide strong and consistent evidence for the existence of an anatomical site that could be related to the famed G-spot," writes Amichai Kilchevsky, a Yale urological surgeon, and his colleagues, in the most recent issue of the Journal of Sexual Medicine.
Those are fighting words to a legion of G-spot believers who have vociferously battled any G-spot denials for decades.
But Kilchevsky searched through all the medical and scientific literature -- everything he could find between 1950 and 2011 -- in a hunt for proof. He found none. The research team admits that some women swear there is a distinct "area in the distal anterior vaginal wall" that leads to orgasms if it's stimulated. It's possible, Kilchevsky admits, the right investigatory tools haven't been brought to bear, although that seems unlikely since everything from MRI scans to plain old fingers have been tried.
"My view is that the G-spot is really just the extension of the clitoris on the inside of the vagina, analogous to the base of the male penis," said Kilchevsky.
Kilchevsky's argument is supported by anatomists who say that the clitoris is like an iceberg. You can see just a little. The rest extends well into the vagina.
We all start as female in the womb. Males develop male anatomy only if their cells are signaled by androgen hormones. Then, labia turn into a scrotum, a clitoris into a penis. Kilchevsky thinks there's no evolutionary reason why women would have a separate spot capable of generating orgasms. It certainly isn't required for reproduction.
Yet some women -- and and some doctors and researchers -- have been insisting that not only is there a G-spot, but that figuring out how yours works can mean wonderful, intense, orgasms.
"Lots of women feel almost as though it is their fault," they can't find it, Kilchevsky said. "Men are upset they can't stimulate it for their partners. The reality is that it is probably not something, historically or evolutionarily, that should even exist."
He blames the porn industry and G-spot promoters for encouraging the myth.
"It's like penis size," he said, with a laugh. Male porn stars aren't typical at all (that's why they're porn stars), but "now men are all talking about penis size. "The reality is, most men have the exact same-sized penis."


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[](/sites/default/files/uploads/2012/08/President_Obama_146225976_480x360.gif)Less than 100 days before the US presidential elections, the Obama administration is openly denying Israel's sovereignty over Jerusalem. Can this be a vote-getter?
Last week, the Emergency Committee for Israel released an ad titled, "O, Jerusalem." The commercial showed administration officials squirming when asked to name the capital of Israel, and highlighted the recent refusals of White House and State Department spokespeople to acknowledge that Jerusalem is Israel's capital city. The underlying message of the ad was that the administration's policy is out of step with the views of the majority of Americans.
Barack Obama's position is certainly a political outlier. The 1995 Jerusalem Embassy Act, passed nearly unanimously by both houses of Congress, explicitly stated that it is the policy of the United States that Jerusalem should be recognized as the capital of Israel. The law granted the president a right to postpone the transfer of the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem on national security grounds. But the law's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital was unconditional.
During his visit to Israel earlier this week, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney highlighted the fact that he holds the consensus view of the American public on Jerusalem.
In his speech in Jerusalem on Sunday afternoon, Romney said simply, "It is a deeply moving experience to be in Jerusalem, the capital of Israel."
The Palestinians were predictably enraged.
Also predictably, the Palestinians chastised Romney for another statement he made that was equally rooted in America's bipartisan consensus.
Romney noted that other things being equal, cultures that uphold and protect political and economic freedoms are more prosperous than cultures that don't.
In a breakfast meeting with American supporters in Jerusalem on Monday, Romney noted that Israel's per capita income is significantly higher than the per capital income of Palestinians in areas governed by the Palestinian Authority, just as per capita income in the US is higher than per capita income in Mexico, and per capita income in Chile is higher than per capita income in Ecuador.
It is hard to think of a milder criticism of Palestinian society than Romney's comparison of the Palestinian economy to the economies of Mexico and Ecuador. Romney could easily have gone much further without ever leaving the confines of received wisdom. For instance, he could have mentioned – as Obama did in his speech in Cairo in June 2009 – that Muslim societies under-invest in education relative to non-Muslim societies.
Or he could have highlighted – as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton often did during her tenure in the US Senate – that official Palestinian institutions indoctrinate Palestinian children in a culture of death, teach them to hate Jews and aspire to become suicide bombers in a jihad aimed at Israel's physical eradication.
It was predictable that the Palestinians would condemn Romney for his run of the mill support for Israel and his milquetoast criticism of the Palestinians, because they reject every criticism of their behavior and take umbrage at every step anyone takes that suggests acceptance of the Jewish state or recognition of Jewish history.
This behavior is common to all groups in Palestinian society, from Hamas to Fatah to the so-called liberal reformers. In line with this, while Hamas condemned visits to Auschwitz as helping "Israel to spread the lie of the Holocaust… and garner international sympathy… at the expense of the Palestinians," the supposedly moderate, liberal Palestinian for Dignity organization condemned the EU for upgrading its trade ties with Israel.
The EU is the largest financial backer of the PA. Its policies towards Israel are in complete alignment with what the purportedly moderate Palestinians claim they want in a peace deal with Israel, including the partition of Jerusalem, and the expulsion of 600,000 Jews from Judea and Samaria and the neighborhoods built outside of the 1949 armistice lines in Jerusalem. And yet, as Shoshana Bryen from the Jewish Policy Center reported, for simply upgrading EU trade ties with Israel, Palestinian for Dignity announced its members "will organize to protest the latest manifestation of EU complicity and to challenge its presence and operations in Palestine."
Given the routine nature of Palestinian hysteria at Romney, and the bipartisan consensus upon which Romney's remarks were based, there was no reason either his remarks or the Palestinians' response to his remarks would spark any controversy in the US. Indeed, given the fact that both US law and the majority of Americans respect Israel's determination that Jerusalem is its capital city, it could have been taken for granted that Obama would keep his head down and hope to avoid further discussion of the issue.
Certainly, given that he had made statements similar to – indeed stronger than – Romney's statements about cultural causes for economic prosperity, it could have been assumed that Obama and his surrogates would have disregarded PA spokesman Saeb Erekat's ridiculous characterization of Romney's statement as "racist."
Given that it is election season, and then-candidate Obama's stated support for Jerusalem as Israel's capital in 2008, the Obama administration could reasonably have made its own endorsement of Jerusalem as Israel's capital city.
But amazingly, the Obama administration has taken the opposite tack. Obama and his media surrogates seized on the Palestinians' criticism of Romney as proof that by embracing the American consensus on Israel, Romney had committed an unforgivable diplomatic faux pas.
First there was the White House's statement Monday on Jerusalem. Rather than keeping quiet, Obama doubled down. In a press briefing, White House deputy spokesman Josh Earnest not only refused to acknowledge that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel. He drew attention to the difference between Romney's position and the administration's and denied that Israel has a capital.
In Earnest's words, "Our view is that [Romney's position that Jerusalem is Israel's capital] is a different position than this administration holds. It's the view of this administration that the capital should be determined in final-status negotiations between parties."
At the same time, Obama's media surrogates have focused their wrath on Romney's statement about the cultural sources of economic prosperity.
Foreign Policy's David Rothkopf condemned Romney's statement as racist.
The New York Times' Thomas Friedman accused Romney of "not knowing what he was talking about."
Both Rothkopf and Friedman – and a chorus of their colleagues on the even more hysterical Left – laced their broadsides against Romney with frontal assaults against top Republican donor Sheldon Adelson and other Jewish American supporters of Romney. These denunciations were – at a minimum – infused with anti-Semitic innuendo.
Rothkopf wrote that in embracing Israel, "at a fund-raiser to pander to big donors – including Sheldon Adelson," Romney displayed "a willingness to sacrifice US interests in exchange for political cash."
Friedman's entire column was a screed against pro-Israel American Jews who contribute to the campaigns of candidates that support Israel. He argued that in pursuit of these American Jewish dollars, Republican politicians have abandoned America's national interest. In other words, Friedman alleged that American Jewish money is causing Republicans to betray their country.
Friedman wrote, "the main Israel lobby, AIPAC, has made itself the feared arbiter of which lawmakers are 'pro' and which are 'anti-Israel,' and therefore who should get donations and who should not."
On their face, Obama's repeated assaults on Israeli sovereignty over Jerusalem, and his surrogates' attacks on pro-Israel politicians, make no sense. For the past two years, Democratic leaders have insisted that support for Israel is bipartisan.
Last year, Democratic National Committee chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz demanded that her Republican colleagues avoid making Israel a "wedge issue," that would distinguish Democrats from Republicans.
But again, Romney's statements in Jerusalem did nothing of the sort. They were the embodiment of the bipartisan consensus. It is Obama who is distinguishing between the parties' positions on Israel.
Obama is making his hostility to Israel a wedge issue.
As Republicans repeat traditional positions, the Democrats are rendering conventional statements of amity with the Jewish state controversial. It is the Obama White House and its surrogates who are attacking those who recognize Israel's capital as diplomatic flamethrowers. It is the Democrats who are demonizing American supporters of Israel as disloyal.
Obama's assault on Romney is an extension and amplification of his Jewish proxy J Street's campaign against Congressmen Allen West of Florida and Joe Walsh of Illinois. Last month, J Street released ads attacking West and Walsh for being even more pro-Israel than most of their pro-Israel congressional colleagues. After Romney returned from Israel, J Street released a new ad attacking Romney for being nearly as pro-Israel as West and Walsh.
What has changed? Why are Obama and his surrogates now highlighting Obama's hostility? Why are they making opposition to Israel a partisan issue and attacking Republicans for being pro-Israel?
Much of the answer was provided by by J Street president Jeremy Ben-Ami last week. In an interview with The New York Times, Ben-Ami explained, "Every single number indicates that there is simply no such thing as a Jewish problem for the president. The people who only vote on Israel didn't vote for Obama last time and know who they are voting for already."
In other words, Obama has given up on the pro- Israel vote. He's going for the anti-Israel vote and the indifferent-to-Israel vote. True, Obama outrageously markets his anti-Israel platform as pro- Israel. For instance, J Street attack ads on pro-Israel Congressmen West and Walsh present them preposterously as "anti-Israel."
So, too, Friedman and Rothkopf write that by supporting Israel, Romney is harming Israel, because it is Israel's vital interest to be diplomatically coerced into surrendering to its Palestinian enemies.
Although this seems merely ridiculous, it is actually insidious. These arguments are implicit messages to three groups. For out-and-out anti-Semites, they reinforce the paranoid belief that Jews and Israel are so powerful that even the president is afraid to openly say what he thinks about us.
For socially conscious Israel-haters, the messaging enables them to continue bashing Israel without fear that they will be accused of being anti-Semites.
And for American Jews who are indifferent to Israel, the messages give them cover to vote for Obama without having to admit that they couldn't care less about Israel.
Obama's reelection campaign strategy has mystified many observers. Why, they wonder, is he playing to his base instead of moving to the Center? Like his attacks on free enterprise and Catholics, his attacks on Israel seem to indicate that he doesn't care about getting reelected.
But this is not the case. Evidently, Obama's campaign strategy is to conduct multiple micro-campaigns rather than one national campaign. Apparently his data indicate that he will win or lose the election depending on how a few key districts in swing states vote. Based on these data, his campaign strategists have plainly concluded that some of these decisive districts are populated by anti- Semites, Israel-haters and indifferent Jews for whom his absurdly marketed anti-Israel positions resonate.
Aside from that, these positions clearly resonate with him. Consequently, they will certainly form the basis for his policy towards Israel if he wins a second term in office.
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The Childhood Need for Protection Isn't Just Part of Childhood
Independence and autonomy are vital, and sometimes the childlike part of us needs to be able rely on others to protect us.
This post comes out of the experience of a close friend's depression. I'll call my friend Denny (not her real name). It is more thinking out loud about the issue that lay at the core of the depression — I'm not offering any hard and fast answers or interpretations. This is thinking out loud as I process my friend's experience for myself.
Denny's Story
Denny had a quite awful childhood of physical and sexual abuse. As a result, Denny was for a time, during adolescence, quite aggressive and 'feral'. This is hardly surprising. I suppose as a result of these experiences Denny would have been diagnosed as suffering Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Due to the help of some skilful and caring therapists and support of many friends Denny moved a long way along the path of healing. Denny gradually learned that some people were trustworthy and that it was possible to have the need for affection met in safe ways. Denny even ended up in a stable and caring romantic relationship.
Denny still got depressed. And it was due to a need for protection. Denny was drained by having to care for herself the whole time, by the responsibility to care for her own safety. This was quite a dilemma: part of being an adult is being responsible for our own needs and looking out for our own safety. And yet having to do this all the time was draining. To give over the care for our safety to someone else is simply being childish, isn't it? To let go of this responsibility was scary as well. And in some ways seemed so unnecessary — Denny had nothing to do with the abusers in the past, and all Denny's current friends were supportive.
Denny got so depressed that she ended up in a psych ward (and a fairly unfriendly place it was too). But it was here that she was able to let go of her need to protect herself. This institution (even one so poor) would not let her die. Letting go was an intense experience — she slept little and spent one whole night feeling rage and anger — spreading it through her body, keeping breathing, and rushing to the toilet. At the end of this Denny realised that she was entitled to be protected.
This is the beginning of the story, not the end. Denny will need to re-organise her life to some extent (more in some areas and less in others, I suppose). And this will be a process of recovering from that night of rage and anger and starting to experiment with a different way to live. What this all means isn't clear and it could be quite a while before Denny knows what it could mean.
The Need for Protection
There are many aspects to this story: the poor state of psych wards; the failure of social protection for children, by institutions and individuals; the place of diagnosis and its usefulness; and many others.
The aspect I want to reflect on here is the need that children have for protection, and the possible consequences if this need is not met.
If a young person is not protected, especially if they are abused by a family member, it is quite likely that this person may conclude that they are not worthwhile in some very fundamental way. And this is a tricky need to meet.
Much of our understanding of adulthood gets in the way of this need's being met. To ask to be looked after isn't encouraged. Autonomy and independence are central values to our Western culture, which I think can lead to unnecessary suffering.
I want to say that I value autonomy and independence very highly (some think too highly). I think that they are of very great benefit most of the time in most relationships. And sometimes they get in the way.
Autonomy and independence are adult virtues (and I do think they are virtues). And sometimes we need to deal with the childlike parts of ourselves which we carry around inside us, one part of which is the need to be protected by others — being able to not look out for ourselves all the time, but sometimes being able to rely on others to do this for us.
I think that supportive groups can be very helpful in processing this issue. The relationships developed need to be strong and deep. And there will need to be room for the development of virtues other than autonomy and independence, although this may be after the autonomy and independence have been solidly established.
Perhaps this is the move from independence to interdependence. Perhaps it is more than this. It does seem to me to be about the social aspect of our self. I haven't reached any settled conclusions about what the need for protection means for us and our thinking about our experience. I do think a safe and supportive space can be of enormous assistance as we seek to make significant changes in our lives.
Have you had the experience of being able to rely on others to protect you? If so, has this been significant for you? Has being able to rely on others to care for your safety been a significant part of your life? Has not being able to rely on others affected your life in a major way (or perhaps only in minor ways)? I'd like to hear about your experience of being protected by others — or not — in the comments.
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Right back at you, Phil Emery. And welcome back to the NFL, Marc Trestman.
The Chicago Bears won't stage their first practice of training camp until Friday, but already they've had one prominent player challenge general manager Emery's temporary hold on contract negotiations and at the very least set an off-field tone for Trestman's first camp as the team's head coach.
Bears place-kicker Robbie Gould spoke extensively about the topic Wednesday night on ESPN 1000 in Chicago. He was respectful of the franchise but questioned Emery's contention that a tight salary cap has limited his options. Ultimately, Gould said, the approach will cost the team more money to keep the players it wants and implied that others will have divided motivation this season as a result.
"At the end of the day if you have all these guys [unsigned], they have to take care of No. 1," Gould told ESPN 1000 co-hosts Jeff Dickerson and Michael C. Wright.
The wound is clearly fresh for Gould, who acknowledged that he approached the Bears earlier this month to extend a contract that will pay him $2.925 million this season before expiring. The Bears rebuffed him because "they said there was no money," according to Gould.
At last check, the Bears had about $1.6 million in salary-cap space available for 2013. That's barely enough to sign emergency replacements during the season. But as we have learned many times, NFL teams can create space whenever it's important enough to them to do it.
"Let me put it to you this way," Gould said. "If they wanted a guy, they're going to find a way to sign him if it meant that much to them."
Gould will turn 32 in December, which is about middle age in kicking terms, and predicted he will be the most sought-after place-kicker on the free-agent market in 2014.
"I'm not too worried about it if they will re-sign me or not because I have all the leverage," he said. "If they don't want to re-sign me now it's going to cost them double at the end of the year.
"If they were smart they would try to get their core group of players and re-sign them before the end of the year and try to make it work, but a lot of us are sitting in a great position. You might see a lot of guys exit the Bears, [so] this year has to be pretty special, because if it doesn't go as well as planned I can see them completely rebuilding. Or they might find a couple guys they think is their core group and get rid of some of the other higher-paid guys."
Everything Gould said Wednesday night rings true to me, and it falls in line with what we discussed earlier Wednesday. Emery's approach is defensible in the big-picture sense of responsibly building a roster, but it risks a negative reaction among players that could affect short-term success.
I'm not surprised at all that Gould feels the way he does, but it's unusual to hear it articulated publicly so early in the process. I know that he is the Bears' player representative and has made strong public statements before, but I was still a little surprised to hear such an extensive discussion on the topic on the eve of training camp.
Uncertain contract situations can consume teams just as easily as it can motivate them. In his first NFL training camp in nearly a decade, it will be up to Trestman to keep players focused on the field as much as their finances. Have fun with that one.
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The Northern Beltline will likely generate an economic impact of more than $7.1 billion during construction and $2 billion annually after it's built, according to a report being unveiled this morning.
The study commissioned by the Coalition for Regional Transportation said that the nearly 53-mile interstate linking Interstate 20/59 in southwest Jefferson County to I-59 in northeast Jefferson County will create jobs, generate tax revenue and improve traffic safety.
The study, completed by Sam Addy of the University of Alabama Center for Business and Economic Research, shows that the Birmingham area should reap the vast majority of the benefits of the beltline's expected economic impact.
Current plans call for the $3 billion construction of the beltline to be completed in 21 years. About 70,000 jobs would be created statewide during the construction phase. Of those construction jobs, approximately 33,525 would be in the Birmingham area, according to the executive summary of the study obtained by The Birmingham News.
A BBA spokesman declined to comment on the report prior to this morning's presentation of the study.
After construction is complete, the beltline is expected to bring another 20,000 jobs each year statewide. Nearly 12,000 of those will be in Jefferson County alone.
Construction of the beltline is also expected to be a shot in the arm for residential and business growth over the next 30 years in the six-mile wide corridor adjacent to the beltline.
By 2040, the population of the beltline corridor is expected to increase 22.3 percent. The beltline is expected to bring 3.4 percent of that increase, or about 6,500 more people than would join the population without the beltline.
The beltline is expected to bring an additional 372 new businesses to the area, for an additional 4 percent commercial growth.
The study also examined the socioeconomic and environmental effects of the Northern Beltline, which will eventually be named Interstate 422.
"The highway will not unfairly or disproportionately affect minority and low-income populations," the report states. "Instead it presents development opportunities that can benefit these groups."
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Hi. I guess I'm part of what came out of all those great parties and wild times of radio in Tulsa in the Sixties that my dad remembers so fondly. Part of that magic that brought my mom and dad together was Tom Gordon. I think that had he not met Casey, my parents would never have met and ... well, I wouldn't be here. I'm sorry to say that I learned of his death over email...technology of today makes everything so impersonal, but it doesn't make tragedies any easier. I didn't really know Tom -- we'd talk a little on the phone when he would call for Daddy, but I've been in California for the last few years, and I've definitely missed his talk and his laughter. When I was little, Tom told my parents that as soon as I turned 15, I was his - he claimed me. Of course, he relinquished his hold on me, but he will always hold a little piece o' my heart.
Maia, I added your comments to the Tom Gordon page.
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Thumbing through the last guestbook....concerning the Riverside Drive-In, when did it close? There's a small empty lot between the Red River Apartments and house west there. Could that have been the entrance? There's a treeline on the west side of the apartments that looks pretty old.
In response to your question...it seems as though Teddy Jack Eddy started to show up shortly after the move to KTUL. I don't recall him on KOTV before the move but I could be wrong. I don't remember Gary Busey being there right away at 8 but Gailard would know for sure. I will try to see if I have any photos from those years..I do remember taking some slides occasionally and I may have some stored away. If I find some, I'll scan them and send some to you....I just hope I can still find them. I do remember taking some slides of Wayne Johnson, Toby Brown and Mike Denney in the studio and Kent Doll as well. He was at TCI the last I heard. I did take some slides of our old sets that I worked on but it's been years since I've seen them. I hope they're still around.
Thanks, Gil.
I grew up in Tulsa and I'm collecting Tulsa Stories at my website,
beehappyintulsa.com I'd love to collect a billion! Visit my site. This site
brings back the memories, don't it? ;>) -Nancy Bee
Just found the KELI page so I'm writing again...my daddy, Forrest Brokaw Jr, was the news director at KELI for years. As celeb family ;>) We got to go up there during the fair and we got to watch the Bell's fireworks from up there. We just felt so speeeecial! We were also one of the ones everyone gave the evil eye to when we got to go to the front of the line when Zingo opened cause we were Press.
Remember when they had the contest to suntan KELI onto your skin? Hope all those who participated don't have skin cancer now!
By the way, when daddy left there it was because they transferred him to the sister station in Amarillo. I had to leave all my co-workers at Casa Bonita. Waaaaaaa.
That's all for now, folks.
I was art director at Channel Eight in the early '70's and just came across your site!
Great job. It has brought many memories back in full living color. I would
like to inform those interested that Dennis Paine, the art director that
hired me in 1971 passed away last November at age 51. I know there are those
out there that will remember him. He and I were there when Gailard Sartain
moved from 6 to 8 and made a truly memorable time in my life. I was witness
to many studio events while watching the taping that made working there so
much fun. The people made it even better..great people to work with. Monte
Toon followed me in early 1974 and today I'm a freelance illustrator living
in Tulsa. Best wishes to all those I used to work with and hope this site
Thanks, Gil. Sorry to hear about Dennis Paine. Monte Toon can be seen on the KTUL page. Question: was Teddy Jack Eddy with the show by the time it moved to Channel 8?
As Rob Walker has noted, Tom "Count Gordonski" Gordon, one of the Rockin' Big 97 KAKC jocks in the late 60s, has died. Tom was the first person I met in radio, when I was a starry-eyed fourteen year old. He was incredibly sweet to me, then and always.
Jim Peters, who worked with Tom then, has written a lovely remembrance of him, which he faxed to me and asked me to post here.
Here it is (added as a page linked from the
KAKC page...webmaster).
1970's American Freedom Train loco is parked at the B&O Museum in Baltimore - saw it a week ago Sunday - will try to e-mail a pic. May also have a spot I did for it from a "kit" they supplied that aired on 6 & 8.
It parked at the old Midland Valley terminal by 6 off Third Street when Tulsey and had "moving sidewalks" or conveyor belt walk ways to keep people moving thru the cars.
Incidentally did anybody ever take a train from the Midland Valley terminal
any where????
Regarding the "Freedom Train": It was a product of the Truman years, coming to Tulsa in 1947 or '48. On board were (or so we were told) many of the original documents relating to the founding and development of the United States. At the time, as part of the hype, tin-pan alley had delivered an upbeat song:
"Here comes the Freedom Train,
You better hurry down!
Just like a Paul Revere,
It's heading into your hometown...."
Pathetically enough, the melody managed to match the quality of the lyric.
I was born in the "brick monster" at 21st and Utica. Lived hear all my life. Greatest town in the the country to have grown up in.
In the early 70's, it was not uncommon to see J.J. Cale, Eric Clapton, Freddie King, or once or twice George Harrison at one of the local clubs. Including the Magician's Theatre, the Nine of Cups, The Jail, The Observatory, or the Ranch out on the Beeline.
Remember the Glencliff at 33rd and Peoria? Remember the Sheridan Drive Inn at 55th and Sheridan? Remember Sparky's? The riverbottom? Tulsa Tops? The cow pasture behind the Riverside drive-in? Sandy's, Burger Chef, Jerry's, Pennington's, Miller's, Webers (in its original location), Tallboy, Kip's, Cup's country club, Dutche's Party Barn, The Cimarron Ball Room, Mike's in Southland, The Machine, the Front Page News Club, BOOT's drive in, the old "BATES MOTEL" out on Garnett? The ZINGO road to Keystone before the expressway? Playboy Burgers? The Delman, The Continental, The Circle, The Orpheum, The Belaire, ??????????????
Whew! Many of the things you name have cropped up here before, but many have not. I think we will be seeing some follow-ups on your note, Rod.
Well, well, well. There's much to tell, and little time. Hate to come back in touch with you with the following, but...There's no easy way to put this: my friend, colleague, sharer-of-the-heartiest-laughs-of-my-life, that High Master of Rant, and Ranting Master of High Tom Gordon - has left the planet. He died yesterday (?) or the day before. Jim Peters relayed the news to me tonight. Count Gordonski's last incarnation was as a courier in the St Louis area. He contracted pneumonia, refused to slow down (much less quit smoking, no doubt), and eventually had to be forced to a hospital by his wife Vicki. There, he weakened further and then.. he is gone.
Peters has written an obit which I will try to relay to this site as soon as I can get it from him.
And then we'll catch up on happier matters. For now, please excuse me, I'm
It's good to hear from you Robert, we've been looking for you on the internet without success. I'm sorry that you must make your entrance on this sad note. Casey Morgan will forward the obit, which will be published here, linked from the KAKC page.
Does anybody remember a traveling museum on tracks called the "FREEDOM TRAIN" that made it's stop in Tulsa for a couple of years in the '70's. I remember my brother took a field trip from school to see it downtown, and the way he described it when he got home was amazing. I couldn't wait till I was old enough to go on the inside of it, but it never transpired. I've often wondered if other's found it just as mysterious as myself?
Randy is working at KCFM today. I will forward your email address to him.
Where is Ed Dumit? We know he has no PC at home and is NOT on the web but hear he still does stuff for KWGS. That and the OK Mozart stuff.
Can't someone get him on-line THERE at KWGS to peek in and contribute to this pool (or is it cesspool) of knowledge?
Time again to go after our non-web friends like Roy Pickett, too, for some
Just found out that former KVOO-TV/AM 'caster Len Morton will be guest-hosting the Sports Answerman phone-in show Friday morning at 8:30 on KQLL 1430AM.
By the way, I recently saw a flick at the Admiral Twin. It's in a bit of
disrepair, but still lots of fun.
Didn't Gil Felini or Falini - mentioned in one of the band squibs -- used to work at KOTV as an engineer, too? Had forgotten all about him.
There was a George (can't remember exact name here) Leemaster that also worked at 6 in the '70's and went on to become one of the leading video switcher design engineers in the US and nationally for the Grass Valley Group.
So for all of the Rube Goldberg seeming things George Jacobs played with
at 6 - good people DID come from the Engineering side!
This is a great sight. I remember cruising Peoria while visiting some friends here in Tulsa. I had never seen anything like that.
My question is about the construction crew of the Falls apartments. My husband
worked there in his late twenties. He is now fifty and we are running into
folks that are in their thirties claiming to have worked there. Does any
one know the construction dates of the Falls year to
I am thinking 1976, but it's a guess...
Born and raised in T-town, now reside in Dallas (sorry!), but a very close friend gave this link to me and I'm now re-connected to the city I'll always cherish as Home. Grew up in the sixties with Gailard and Gary (Mazeppa and Teddy Jack Eddy), Mr. Zing and Tuffy and witnessed, first-handedly King Lionel's creator flip-off local TV viewers. Life goes on; memories never die. "Know what I mean?"
Re the flip-off: wasn't that a different 'caster on the news program?
Anybody remember the Rogues 5 Band featuring I.J. Ganem and Randy Ess.... I used to play the bass in that group... What a great time at all the Pepsi dances and experiences of playing on Dance Party.... The Battle of the Bands at Oertle's parking lot... What a wonderful time in our highschool years .. 64-68... Thanks for this site and I'll be watching for more Tulsa Memories. Wish kids today could experience the fun we had as teenagers when nobody got hurt...
Randy Ess? Yes, my brother Alan was the bass player in "Randy Ess and the Invisible Band" in the late 70s/early 80s...and Randy's band, "Tulsa" more recently. Here's a still of Randy with the Rogues V.
Thanks for the visit, Terry!
I was tickled to see your taking notice of Uncle Hiram's kid show. I was his clown friend "Elmer" throughout his stay. Hiram Higsby was an oldtime show biz pro... not "big time", but old time. He was with an act called Hiram and Henry on the old National Barn dance out of Chicago, and had a vaudeville history. Our program was slanted for younger kids than the other kids' show in Tulsa at the time. He was a grand old man.
Pretty neat that we got the picture of the old "Uncle Hiram" button, thanks to Joe Taylor! See the "Other kiddie shows" page for more about this show.
Does anyone but me remember Barnabas the balloon committing suicide on Spanky's Club House? Barnabas was a penny balloon with an evil-looking face painted on it. He would inflate and then Spanky would have a conversation with him. Barnabas' lips didn't move or anything. His whole thing was inflating and deflating. One day Barnabas became extremely aggravated and threatened to keep inflating until he burst. Spanky took him up on his threat and a day was set for Barnabas' self-inflicted death to be telecast on local TV. If I remember correctly, Spanky made a contest out of this and the kid who guessed the nearest time of Barnabas' death won a prize. It did happen. Baranbas got bigger and bigger. I don't remember what he was saying, but he kept talking until "POP" he blew himself into pieces. I often wonder how many kids who saw this have been marked for life. When I tell people about Barnabas, I sometimes doubt if it actually happened.
Thanks Mike for your great site which brings back wonderful memories of the early seventies in Tulsa. Every Saturday night there were 10-20 people crammed in an efficiency apartment @ 11th & Memorial watching the Uncanny Film Festival and laughing our a.... off! The Marx Bros. were the favorite movies of the bunch as were the skits of Mazeppa and Teddy Jack. On more than one occasion we would all be at the old Magicians Theatre, somewhere on south Main I believe, and see Gary Busey sitting-in with the Band of the evening. What a great time to live in Tulsa! Thanks again Mike.
You're very welcome, Bill.
Love the pics! Miss you guys..hope we can get together soon :)
Hi, I also watched Mazeppa during my highschool days. I remember "Bo Velvet"....Could someone please email me a picture or some information on "Bo Velvet". Thank you!
I remember Tulsa in the 60's also. Worked at the Dairy Queen 1960-61 62. Would love to hear from old employees or patrons. Also Central High alumni from that era. I still carry a Mazeppa Uncola card.
I've been a local starving musician since playing teen towns in 1963. The Caravans took 2nd place in the KTUL talent show at the fair that year. I played on dance party with The Fine Arts Quartet in 1964. KOTV gave us one mike and said "Have your singer sing into this and it'll pick up the rest of the band." (The famous 'channel six mix')We anticipated this problem. We ALL sang, even our drummer Don Brown (Brother of 20/20's Bob Brown). So we took our PA, set our amps in a semi-circle in front of the stage and played to the single mike. We were told it was the best sounding band that had been on to date. Later they had bands record at Gil Fellini's 3 track studio and lip sync. I appeared again with The Chessmen in 67 doing "I am The Walrus". Lastly, Soft White did a film by local architect Allen Hill which we submitted in lieu of lip-syncing in 1968. Ah, what fun! Check out Downing's Street online at www.Tulsamusic.com. Love your site!
I know Mr. Don Brown from our days at the now defunct Whitney Supply Co., and have played a little guitar myself with his group. Jim is the son of Jim Downing, Tulsa Tribune columnist for many years. Hi, Jim, thanks for writing in!
I have very fond memories of growing up in Tulsa with Gailard, Leon and the incredible music scene. I read the World online since I have been away from T-Town. What a great new site!
Glad you like it, Peter!
I saw the article in the paper today and it reminded me of how I used to be mortally frightened by the Fantastic Theater music. I never stayed up to watch the actual show (too scary), but one afternoon I was in the house by myself, and a preview for Fantastic Theater came on, I was so scared that I could not move, but somehow managed to get up from the couch and run outside. Enjoyed listening to the audio clips about Fantastic Theater. I had not heard that music for about 30 years, but like an old smell or an old song, it came right back to me.
Great music, isn't it?
Great site!! Saw the article in Sunday paper. Thanks for the memories!!
You're welcome, Dave.
Must be "sweeps week" at the studios of "America's Religious Town Hall" in Dallas.
Is one of the longest running off-network and syndicated churchy "public affairs" Sunday morning or wherever shows on TV in the US. Think they haven't changed the set or panel since early color TV days.
Noticed the tape from Wednesday that my Librarian here at GoodLife TV was packing up. Instead of talk of the Talmud or how tall a 900 foot you know who really is - was "Sports: Women in Boxing".
Sorry friends no "jiggle" on this show as clerics of all (except Islam and Buddhism) religions and mostly over 100 years in age, charted the moral decay and change in the US.
What next - women soldiers on the front lines? That WAS a question.
Maybe ARTH as we call it - needs to retire.....
This show used to play in the wee hours after the Mazeppa show, I think. Here is a Bruchas-like feat of memory...how about these names: Bishop A.A. Leiske and Bob Leiske, Othal Hawthorne Lakey... oops, that's all I can remember. There was a ARTH credo that was read on every show...
What a TRIP! I saw the article in the World today and rushed in to find this site. My hubby of almost 30 years have "very fond" memories of Mazeppa! I had a curfew of midnight when we were dating, but we'd come back to my house, carry his tiny black and white tv out to the patio, and after mom and dad were asleep, we'd watch Mazeppa and make love on the chaise lounge! Probably one of the highlights of my life, was to meet Mazeppa in person at the Sheridan bowling alley and receive a piece of paper on which he wrote, "Lawzeee Pretty Judi, love, Mazeppa", and gave me a kiss and a squeeze. I carried that slip of paper in my wallet, until it basically turned to dust! I adored him then, and still do!
LOVED the site... thank you for helping me recall a very FUN and happy memory!
- Judi Grove
I'm sure Mazeppa himself will enjoy reading your story. Thanks, Judi!
Speaking of "cultural activities" like Jello Jumps, one of the first news stories I saw when I first went to OKC was of "Spaghetti Wrestling" at a "club" really a bar in SW OKC. Felt like I was in Atlanta - where "gentlemen's clubs" were of this ilk. The pretty but rather bovine female contestants (sorry this was NOT co-ed) looked like they had a good time. The club claimed it spent xx hours cooking the spaghetti each week to fill the "ring". Wonder how much they spent on sauce??? It must have been a slow news day...It DID air in Sports.(BTW the way later they tried chocolate pudding wrestling at the club - ended up being a money losing deal....).
At KOCO we had a female photog - whose name I forget. She was from the Midwest
and was a big bodied but not fat person. Invariably at the State Fair - you
had freak shows and entertainment of "marginal" redeeming value. Among them
one year - woman's "wrestling". She looked more like a wrestler than the
actual "athletes" who were pretty scrawny, tattooed, and on a "pre-release"
tour... She came back from shooting a zzz story (5 had a lot of them then)
on them for a late cast, more than a little irate. The "promoters" and her
male reporter both thought she would be "perfect" to get in the ring and
tried to encourage her to participate on a different level. She didn't. She
was a news photog, not a female "Geraldo"...
Here is a poster to illustrate your comments from a new site that carries old Tulsa event posters... http://www.dreamscape.com/posters/tulsa.html
This is a cool website! I just got thru reading the article in the Sunday Tulsa World about this site. It's so neat seeing the shows I watched with my brother when we were kids. Mr. Zing & Tuffy Show; The John Chick Show-he was a sweet man!; and of course Mazeppa's!!!! I still have my Mazeppa's 7-UP Uncola Underground Card. I wonder if anyone else still has their card- I got it at KELI radio station way back when. Keep up the good work--I love your website & I will be back visiting it. I was born, raised, & still live in Tulsa. Anyone that wants can e-mail me at email@example.com See ya!
It seems that lots of people have managed to hang onto their Uncola Underground cards! You can always print up a new one from this site---go to the bottom of the main page to find the link. Thanks, Sherrie!
"Six Degrees of Separation from Norman Corwin."
Was going thru the old guestbooks about the guys and gals at Central High on their radio program doing one of his works.
I used to work - 12-13 years ago - at NAB,the National Association of Broadcasters. The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery did an amazing little show on broadcasting one year - they had Groucho's duck (under plexiglass) from "You Bet Your Life", appearances of early TV stars and old scripts and video/sound clips and stills from a lot of 50's shows.
I attended the gala and at a preview session heard we had a VIP with his daughter - walking thru the exhibit. I knew of Norman Corwin from other folks's writings of him. It WAS him.
I guess he was brilliant but one of the Smithsonian people who got to spend time with him while there, said - he was still mad at folks now long dead in management (at his previous employers') for not recognizing his genius and getting his "due" credit.
Maybe he didn't get his due....
Or call that "Brush with Greatness"... Writers for TV seem to get little respect, despite their importance to the production.
I had not been working at KAKC very long and was learning about the music library. I found a record of Dinah Washington one night that I liked; so, I played it on my late evening music program. After I finished, I started the 78rpm record on the other turntable, but then got occupied with preparing stories for the 10pm newscast.
I became so absorbed in ripping the AP wire that I didnt realize until it was almost too late that I had not cued up another record. The three minutes was almost elapsed from the current record. I only had time to flip the Dinah Washington record over before the other song finished. (For the young folks: The 78rpm records lasted only about three minutes.)
Being inexperienced, I did not know that on the flip side of each Dinah Washington record was one which was quite racy for the time. Actually it was VERY suggestive. The title on the label seemed innocuous enough: Trombone Man. But when Dinah started singing the first chorus, I knew I was in trouble. Where is my Daddy? Where is my Daddy, with that big looong slidin thang! The words became more and more suggestive until at the end, Dinah was squealing at her highest register.
I got no adverse calls from the listening audience, and the boss men didnt
have anything to say about it the next day. I figured either that I was lucky
or that no one was listening to KAKC who was offended. (Maybe no one was
listening---period.) But I learned one thing: Be sure to audition BOTH sides
of Dinah Washington records before they were played.
I especially like Dinah's version of "Trouble in Mind" and her Fats Waller tribute album.
Mike Ransom - NOPE not the Sandy's logo we knew so well when we were so poor! (re the photo in Guestbook 44, which is the immediately previous Guestbook to this one...webmaster)
Who can remember any wacky radio promotions? When I worked in Amarillo - KGNC radio (I think) sponsored a JELLO JUMP at a park. The had a large 3' tall swimmming pool full of LIME jello cube-lets and room for 5 or 6 folks at a time to search for keys - some to a car, some to a treasure chest or something like that. I think folks had :30 at a clip in the tank. It was HEEE-larious to see what folks would do for a Chevy. Don't think anyone ever found that key - it was "lost to the ages".
More hilarious when someone's key chain fell out of their shorts while in the jello tank, dumping THEIR keys in the mess! Bogus keys were found for the next few hours....some wise deejay forbade any new contestants from entering the pool WITH wallet OR house keys....
Now can used jello be donated to a food bank?
Is the Admiral drive-in still open? I know the Capri is gone and the Riverside was only a story when I lived in T-Town.
Is the drive-in still open in Pawhuska?
Was up in VT about 3 years ago and that state still proudly had 3 working drive-ins, usually grass-paved. Now ya know there ain't much Winter traffic up there when the snows start burying cars - it kinda hurts business. But then again a lot of the reasons people went to a drive-in was NOT for the movie! They probably wouldn't have noticed the snow on the windshield obstructing their view....
Yes, the Admiral Twin is open for business...read a recent article about it from the Tulsa World on the Tulsa Drive-In Theatre page on this site! The Corral Drive-In, Pawhuska, is listed as dead on Driveintheater.com. There are 11 operating drive-ins left in Oklahoma.
Just consolidated and archived Guestbook 44 - take a look! This is #45.
In #44, we entered the world of Tulsa past via The Twilight Zone, discussed old record shops and drive-ins. We visited Sandy's Hamburgers, Weber's Root Beer and Tastee-Freez (the latter two of which are still in existence!) Heard from Boyce Lancaster, Jr. that his dad is still going strong in Orlando. Tulsa TV Memories will be featured in the Sunday Tulsa World--watch for a link to the story!


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