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FEATURES | INTERVIEWS | NEWS | FRIGHTFEST | REVIEWS | BOOTH'S BLOG Interview With Anthony DiBlasi Director Of Cassadaga And Last Shift
By James Whittington, Sunday 7th February 2016
Anthony DiBlasi is a truly talented director whose work is appreciated all over the globe and is really making a name for his himself. One of his best, Cassadaga is showing tonight on Horror and his latest, Last Shift has just been released onto DVD. We decided to chat with this fine fellow about his work and how he created what is being billed as one of the best horror movies of 2016.
HC: Hi Anthony, last time we chatted was at FrightFest about your fantastic slasher, Most Likely To Die, were you pleased with the reaction it got?
AD: I was, I think it played pretty well. I was curious if fans would embrace that style of slasher again, and I was really interested in how people would embrace Perez Hilton in a lead. And I was very happy with the reaction.
HC: Would you consider a follow up?
AD: I'd love to do a follow up. We definitely planted the seeds for another one. For me, it played the same way Scream did, it's more focused on characters you don't want to see die rather than characters you enjoy seeing picked off by the slasher.
HC: Let's chat about your latest picture, Last Shift, how did this project come together?
AD: I approached my longtime collaborator Scott Poiley with a really contained idea about a dispatcher alone on a night shift. Something really contained and very driven by sound design. We started to scout police stations, and found an empty one in our area, and that's when we were really able to flush the story out and cater it to the location we found.
HC: The movie is pitched as being a traditional horror, meaning it utilises the environment and sound for scares, would you say that's accurate?
AD: I definitely do. I some ways I think it's my first true horror film. My other films are very dramatic and psychological in nature but with Last Shift I really wanted to scare people and create and experience. And put yourself in the lead character's shoes. We're always within her bubble for almost the entire movie, which helps with that sense of environment.
HC: Juliana Harkavy is getting some fantastic reviews for her portrayal of Jessica Loren, was it a hard movie to cast or did you write the script with people in mind?
AD: We approached her very early on. We had met her while casting another film and my first AD Mike Finn brought her up while we were in pre-production on Last Shift. I remembered her right away and loved her the first time we had met. So we sent her the script and then really started catering the part for her.
HC: What sort of a budget were you working with?
AD: Small. A lot of people don't like to share numbers, but now that the film is out there and doing it's things I think it's fine too. It was a challenge to say the least but that's exactly what Scott and I wanted. We really wanted to use our skill sets and push ourselves to see what we could achieve on a limited budget and time frame. So we shot the film for 150,000 US in 10 days of production. All night shoot work.
HC: Is it true you didn't tell her about some of the things she'd encounter on set?
AD: Yeah, I like to keep the actor in the moment while shooting and I think getting a real reaction the firs time around is the best way when the cameras are rolling. So keeping Juliana on edge and unsettled was a great way to keep her in character. What better way to be taken off guard on camera than actually doing it, and revealing these monsters to her for the first time while her reaction is on camera.
HC: The movie contains your now signature ability to crank up the tension to nail-biting levels but how do you know such scenes will work? Is it a gut instinct?
AD: Well thanks for that! That's a good thing to be known for! I think a lot of it is gut instinct and also trying to put myself in the shoes of the viewer as much as possible. And I think tension is built with emotion more than anything else, I want an audience member not to just empathize with the protagonist or antagonist, but to slip into their emotional state. Good tension is built when that line is blurred between participant and viewer.
HC: What was the atmosphere like on set?
AD: Well it was a night shoot, which I love; I feel like it adds and air of mystery to things right away, it also puts people in a different state of mind. Switching their rhythms like that, it adds to the performance. We all want to be a little bit more dangerous and mischievous after 10PM. Also the building and area was creepy and at sometimes dangerous. There were a lot of gangs in the area of Florida we shot in, and a couple nights and gunfire really close by. So when that would happen, we'd make sure to stay inside for a while.
HC: So, what are you working on at the moment?
AD: Right now I'm in production on a thriller I developed with an actor friend of mine, Patrick Fischler. We're going to be announcing it soon.
HC: Anthony DiBlasi, thank you very much.
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A few missteps aside, Delmar's Rustic Gourmet offers quality food in a teahouse setting
Published 4:06 pm, Friday, January 31, 2014
For decades, Bonnie Kohl worked in antiques and design. That lifetime of experience is apparent in the layout and decor of her first venture in the restaurant industry, the Rustic Gourmet in Delmar.
Sunlight streaming into the dining room bounces off vintage mirrors on each wall. Chairs and tables are of thin, carefully formed metal. Floral arrangements round out a delicate elegance that makes this space feel like a classic English teahouse. It's certainly more polished and proper than anywhere else serving up sandwiches and crepes.
That this is Kohl's first eatery can be evident at times, too, however, though a lunch at Rustic Gourmet was largely satisfying, the shortcomings not enough to deter a return visit.
I'd gladly pay $8 for another chicken Parmesan sandwich on a pillowy ciabatta roll. The smaller portion — the larger runs for $11, an option with every sandwich — held two fist-sized cuts of breaded chicken. Instead of routine marinara and mozzarella, basil and sun dried-tomato pestos were slathered on the roll, with ricotta and a thick slice of provolone underneath. Succulently sloppy, it was more than enough even with a ravenous, post-workout appetite.
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Rustic Gourmet
785 Delaware Ave.
Phone: 439-0900
Web: http://www.the-rustic-gourmet.com
Cuisine: Sandwiches, soups and salads for lunch with some added American standards for dinner.
Style: Sit-down or takeout.
Ambience: Elegantly decorated with antique influence.
Hours: Brunch buffet, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday; lunch, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., dinner 4 to 8 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Closed Monday.
Credit Cards: MC, V, D, AE
Parking: Large lot on-site
Handicapped-accessible: Yes
There's nothing exciting or overly inspired about butternut squash and apple bisque in a New York winter, though there wasn't anything wrong with our bowl ($5) either. Not overly sweet, salty or drowned with cream, it's a simple, traditionally thick preparation that doesn't stun but will definitely satiate.
Rustic Gourmet's menu isn't vast or adventurous, but it's executed well and with care. The fare is hard to peg into one hole. Lunch offerings fall somewhere between traditional French bistro and American sandwich shop, while dinner drifts strongly toward the states: meatloaf, ribs, pork chop with potatoes and gravy.
A Southern California native, Kohl opened Rustic Gourmet in 2011 after working in the Los Angeles antique business for decades. She then moved to New York and founded a lamp and lighting fixture company before settling in Westerlo. Rustic Gourmet opened as a takeout-only spot before expanding into a full-service restaurant.
Though the restaurant is on Delaware Avenue, it's out of sight from the town's main drag, just south of the high school in a building shared by a doctor's office. This ensures no foot traffic other than patients next door, a tough reality given how easy it can be to zip past Rustic Gourmet and not know it's there. But our server, cheerful and attentive, said they do just fine and have generated a steady stream of regulars over the past couple years.
A rack of baked desserts is laid out in a deli counter by the entrance, but you if you stick with a few silky scoops of housemade vanilla ice cream you'll be just fine. (At $2.50 for a small scoop, it's a tad pricey.)
Our only major gripe at lunch was the crepe special. A Cordon Bleu, it was, again, a classic rendition, though the portion, not the taste, was the issue. It was $9.50 for one, which had minimal filling and could have fit comfortably in my friend's small hand. My friend finished hers in three bites, was reduced to picking at chips the rest of lunch and would later tell me she ate again after she got home. We weren't looking to be stuffed with something the size of a football, but for nearly 10 bucks we expected enough for a meal. This seemed especially odd, given the ample portions for everything else we had.
For just $8, a fragile pastry is framed around a heaping mix of seasonally rotating mix of meat, vegetables and cheese for Rustic Gourmet's "Inchwich." Chicken breast was stacked with spinach and feta on our trip, the chicken a bit dry but the blend ultimately a winner.
Soda, tea and some bottled drinks are available, along with mixed rum, vodka and tequila options, a small but affordable and decent wine list and about a half-dozen bottled beers, including a few Ommegangs from Cooperstown. Every beer is described in brief, which is nice for the lesser-knowns but not worth the ink to print Heineken as a "World-standard crisp, refreshing lager."
Lunch for three – two sandwiches, a crepe, a bowl of soup, three drinks and dessert – came to just under $50 after tax and tip.
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Chapter Leadership Workshop
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The program includes presentations on issues of interest to chapter leaders, such as membership recruitment and retention, finances and chapter operations, recruiting and motivating volunteers, sponsorship and educational programs and other aspects of running a successful chapter.
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If you are thinking about starting a walking program or are already an exercise walker, you won't want to miss the "Walking Workshop" at 10 a.m. presented by Diana Tanton, CFT. You will learn how to turn your walking program into a total fitness program.
Find out what condition you're in by participating in the free fitness assessments offered from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The fitness assessments will measure your cardiovascular fitness, strength, and flexibility. Please dress to participate.
Making a big splash this summer. Brush up on your "Waist Management Skills" at 1 p.m.
Please pre-register for the Walking Workshop, Fitness Assessments and the Waist Management Lecture by calling (989) 479-3261 ext. 408, or call Diana (989) 479-3553.
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A sprinkler system helped minimize damage at a Lakewood strip mall this morning when a fire broke out inside one of the businesses.
West Pierce firefighters responded to the business at 3901 100th Street Southwest about 8:30 a.m. and found smoke coming from the eaves of the building.
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On September 14, the U.S. House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution will hold a hearing on HR 5388, the bill to increase the size of the U.S. House by one (a seat which would go to Utah) and also give the District of Columbia a voting member.
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Making Congress larger could be a good idea.
The state legislature of New Hampshire is about the same size as Congress, and partly because of its size, it doesn't get a lot of bills passed, and doesn't have such a behemoth of a government that liberties have been curtailed and poverty strengthened.
If Congress were to be, say, doubled, conceivably it would be even more cumbersome and thus less able to pass tyrannical legislation.
Then again, consider the financial costs: Members of Congress cost us a heck of a lot just by existing.
With staffs and salaries and perks and bennies, each of the miserable beings is a terrible burden.
Enlarging Congress would be a good idea, but ONLY if the scope of the government is reduced and Congress returns to being the proper part-time body it was meant to be.
And giving the District of Columbia a member is an even worse idea, for several reasons.


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It's done, folks. The window seat and built-ins are built, painted, filled, drawered, cushioned, pillowed, and ready for me to lounge on whilst eating bonbons and perusing books all day without a care in the world.
This project has been about a year and a half in the making (that was terrifying to type). But with good reason. I started this project and then decided that if I was going to do this we might as well install all of our new hardwoods first in case a future homeowner was fool enough to tear out our window seat. Of course that decision led to the entire main floor remodel, and mostly our kitchen remodel. Eating takes precedence over lounging, which is why the window seat kept getting pushed to the back burner. But no more. Let the lounging commence!
I'll give the "how to build" in a separate post, but the basic premise is pretty simple: build cabinet boxes for your drawers and side cabinets, add shelf units on top, put on a seat cushion, and then go crazy with pillows, hardware, sconces, and whatever you can find to fill your bookcases. Lest you think I know how to style things, I don't. I just threw a bunch of stuff up on the shelves in a way to make it look lived in rather than stark and cold. That's the best I can do.
Two things I expect will change down the road. One, I'll need more room for lounging so I expect a lot of these pillows will be on the floor or the nearby couch more than on the window seat. Two, that side table may move to make way for kids' lego creations. As it is, three out of the four baskets are already filled with kid stuff – cars, airplanes, blocks, and the old school game Guess Who. And don't even get me started on how much stuff we can fit in those huge, super functional drawers.
Yes, I went for brass again just like in our kitchen. We added brass drawer pulls and these amazing brass sconces I've always wanted to find the perfect spot for in our house. And I think I did.
Also, you can see I went with the gray seat fabric (after this debate). I just thought it was a little classier and more of a neutral base to allow future pillow changes.
And now for the fun part. Because if you are reading this you obviously are a person who loves befores and afters. Here is what the space looked like after we moved in (and after we started tearing out some of the old, weird built-ins off to the right):
While the old window seat is totally what sold me on the house, it was pretty unimpressive. It was too low, didn't highlight the windows, and had no storage. So it had to go. We tore out the old window seat and built-ins, which left us with an ugly yet blank slate:
Then after we installed our new hardwood floors, I started building up the new window seat:
To where we are now.
UPDATE: To see a shot of the space at night, click here.
For those interested in sources, they are:
- Cushion Fabric – Warehouse Fabrics Inc.
- Throw – Crate and Barrel (out of stock)
- Pillows – Etsy, HomeGoods, Ikea, DIY Painted
- Sconces – Cedar and Moss
- Drawer Pulls – Schoolhouse Electric
- Baskets – Pottery Barn
- Pink Planter – CB2
- Turquoise Buddha – CB2
- Gray Boxes- Ikea (similar)
- Bamboo Shades – Overstock
- Marble table – Overstock
If I didn't include one of the sources you want to know about, just ask in the comments. I'll try to tear myself away from window seat lounging long enough to respond.
I'll be back to share the "how to" on all this soon. And you thought this was a long post…
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Silence is best, rather than explaining or justifying what you feel. True friends know you even when you are in silence.
Sometimes there is so much you want to say and get off your chest. It is better to keep your mouth shut and not put your self on their level. Silence is golden! ~ Lee Smith
Before I would raise my voice to make my point understood but with time I learnt it is just a waste of time. It is better to stay silent. There is no point in arguing with fools. They will argue till they bring you down to their level and then will win with their foolishness. Silence is golden! ~ Prem Latha
When it is a family member who is completely unreasonable, when no compromise can be met, when there is nothing left to say because everything has already been said, when nothing seems to make any difference and the other person just refuses to be reasonable. I have learned to just let it be what it is and let go and say no more. It is what it is and you can't make someone care if they don't. ~ Kim Dayton
I once received a letter from someone close to me with very hurtful and misguided thoughts. I know this person all to well, and had I responded, my feelings would not have been validated and perhaps even be further minimized. Instead of subjecting myself to that, I chose not to respond. I have never responded to that injurious letter. This person who wrote it, I know is troubled that I never took the time to respond. But God is with me on this when I say, if you have nothing nice to say, say nothing at all. My silence has spoken volumes and I remain true to this that it is a powerful way to respond. ~ Diane Dacko
I pray first before I talk to the person. Sometimes I have to whisper and speak gently so they can hear. Most of the time, I spoke at dawn after their restful sleep when the world is quiet. My voice is low, gentle, direct to the point and truthful few words. I find it very effective! ~ Len Roderus
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Thursday, November 21, 2013
Actually day went really well I have a pretty good day at therapy. Unt I ilgot a phone call from my exoyfriend .I then have the worst panic attack I have since I was at the hospital. Not sure why but I started shaking, crying and melting down
I felt very panicky.
I guess I overacted but I am only human and most people overreacted at time. My family did come to my rescues. They help me role-play and calm me down. I was calm down enough to do exercise., Okay I did overreacted but I also turned to my family for help did the right evidently and this anxiety depression is a learning things that I am going
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Teacher: " George Washington not only chopped down his father's Cherry tree, but also admitted doing it.
now do you know why his father didn't punish him?"
One Student: " Because George still had the axe in is hand."
While walking down the street one day a US senator is tragically hit by a truck and dies. His soul arrives in heaven and is met by St. Peter at the entrance. 'Welcome to heaven,' says St. Peter. 'Before you settle in, it seems there is a problem. We seldom see a high official around these parts, you see, so we're not sure what to do with you. 'No problem, just let me in,' says the man. 'Well, I'd like to, but I have orders from higher up. What we'll do is have you spend one day in hell and one in heaven. Then you can choose where to spend eternity. 'Really, I've made up my mind. I want to be in heaven,' says the senator. 'I'm sorry, but we have our rules. 'And with that, St.Peter escorts him to the elevator and he goes down, down, down to hell. The doors open and he finds himself in the middle of a green golf course. In the distance is a clubhouse and standing in front of it are all his friends and other politicians who had worked with him. Everyone is very happy and in evening dress. They run to greet him, shake his hand, and reminisce about the good times they had while getting rich at the expense of the people. They play a friendly game of golf and then dine on lobster, caviar and champagne. Also present is the devil, who really is a very friendly & nice guy who has a good time dancing and telling jokes. They are having such a good time that before he realizes it, it is time to go. Everyone gives him a hearty farewell and waves while the elevator raises...The elevator goes up, up, up and the door reopens on heaven where St. Peter is waiting for him. 'Now it's time to visit heaven. 'So, 24 hours pass with the senator joining a group of contented souls moving from cloud to cloud, playing the harp and singing. They have a good time and, before he realizes it, the 24 hours have gone by and St. Peter returns. 'Well, then, you've spent a day in hell and another in heaven. Now choose your eternity. 'The senator reflects for a minute, then he answers: 'Well, I would never have said it before, I mean heaven has been delightful, but I think I would be better off in hell. 'So St. Peter escorts him to the elevator and he goes down, down, down to hell. Now the doors of the elevator open and he's in the middle of a barren land covered with waste and garbage. He sees all his friends, dressed in rags, picking up the trash and putting it in bags as more trash falls from above. The devil comes over to him and puts his arm around his shoulder. 'I don't understand,' stammers the senator. 'Yesterday I was here and there was a golf course and clubhouse, and we ate lobster and caviar, drank champagne, and danced and had a great time. Now there's just a wasteland full of garbage and my friends look miserable. What happened? 'The devil looks at him, smiles and says, 'Yesterday we were campaigning....Today you voted.'
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During the last few minutes, she was seen desperately throwing the coin, muttering and sweating. The moderator, alarmed, approached her and asked what was going on. Her reply was, "I finished the exam in half and hour, but I'm rechecking my answers."
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I read one movie review of "Brave" that said Merida's hair was a character in the film in its own right -- very true!
It' is an amazing effect. One thing you can never fault about Disney is that they make fantastic female heroes.
But how does she deal with the frizz...that is what I want to know.


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On May 21 in Moscow, Russia, ring legend Roy Jones (54-7, 41 KOs) collides with WBO #1 cruiserweight Denis Lebedev (21-1, 16 KOs) in a fight which is presently advertised as no other than the "Battle of Two Empires". The fight card, which will also see heavyweight promise Vyacheslav Glazkov (9-0, 6 KOs), bantamweight hope Alexander Bakhtin (26-0, 11 KOs), rising light heavyweight Ismayl Syllakh (15-0, 12 KOs), and a heated clash between Maxim Vlasov (19-1, 10 KOs) and James McGirt Jr. (22-3-1, 11 KOs) is expected to be a sellout.
Promoter of the show Vladimir Hryunov, who also acts as a manager for both Denis Lebedev and heavyweight hope Alexander Povetkin, encourages both local and foreign fans to take part in a contest where they can secure a rare chance of seeing the entire show from ringside with the most comfortable seats. To get a pass (which actual costs 50.000 rubles, and corresponds roughly to 1.650 US dollars) one should compose a short poem in either Russian or English, which will meet the following requirements:
1. Roy Jones Jr., Vladimir Hryunov and Denis Lebedev must be mentioned in the rhyme. Kostya Tszyu's name is appreciated as well. Kostya helps Denis Lebedev in his preparations for this fight.
2. The 7th of May is a deadline for all contestants to send their poems.
3. Several poems will be chosen to take part in the second stage of the contest.
4. The winner of the contest would be defined by means of the open fans' voting between the 8th and the 15 of May.
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THE Mwanza Regional Basketball (MRBA) League has been postponed to next weekend, the volleyball body's official confirmed yesterday.
The regional volleyball RBA league's coordinator, Kizito Bahati has confirmed the league has been pushed forward to give a room for a completion of the new court at Mirongo Primary school.
"We were expecting our court to have been completed this weekend. The constructors have failed to provide the ground on time, therefore we have now decse other courts in order to finish the league on a scheduled date,'' he said.
The former Mwanza hero and national team player said they will now use St Augustine University of Tanzania(SAUT), Butimba Teachers Training College(T.T.C), Bank of Tanzania(B.O.T) and Mwanza Eagles Courts.
Meanwhile, Bahati said they have already prepared the fixture for the league and they have grouped teams in two groups A and B.
Group A comprises of Mwanza Profile, Catholic Allied of Health and Sciences (CUHAS), Mwanza Eagles, Hoops, Kisesa, St Augustine University of Tanzania (SAUT) and Mwanza Dolphins.
Group B teams include Mwanza planet, Bugando Heats, Bugando warriors, St Francis, Babylon Force na Butimba Spiders. He called upon various basketball stakeholders to come and support the regional league.
According to him, the league will be used to select best players who will represent the region in the Taifa cup tournament to be held in November this year.


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This will be my last article for The City Paper, so I'd like to express my thanks and gratitude to The City Paper for giving me the opportunity to write a weekly column, and to my editors William Williams and James Nix for catching my mistakes, which hopefully weren't too many or too egregious. I would also like to thank my readers, because I know their time is valuable, and I really do appreciate the time they invested in my work. And I want to especially thank the readers who took the time to comment online: Loner, Captain Nemo, Govskeptic, Yogi, Dargent7, Budlight, Pswindle, Bfra, BenDover, Brrrk, and all the others ... thanks so very much!
Where do we go from here?
I hope to continue doing what I've been doing, which is trying to keep the spirit of the Confederacy from rising up like an impossible-to-kill Jason in a third-rate horror flick, intent on committing mindless mayhem and destroying lives. Quite seriously, that is how I see the current incarnation of the Grand Old Predators. A better analogy might be Jurassic Park, with raptor-like Republicans running around trying to exterminate anyone and everyone who's more highly evolved.
Is it a stretch to say that they're trying to kill us? Well, perhaps not intentionally, but stupidity can and does kill. A party that denies the clear evidence of global warming; that strips away the safety nets from the poor and elderly; that demands guns in bars, parks, trunks and schools; that insists being scared justifies mowing down minorities; and that obviously intends to keep doing the same reckless things in the Middle East, is going to get many Americans killed, and god-knows-how-many foreigners. Someone needs to stop the tiny-brained predators from wreaking so much havoc, so operating on the premise that the pen is mightier than empty noggins as well as the sword, I have tried to make other people aware of what I see so clearly myself.
The Republican Party has changed dramatically in recent years, in its hard shift to the far right, where grammar-challenged rubes like George W. Bush, Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann can become stars of the highest magnitudes. In my early working days, I was a Reagan Republican — perhaps a bit like the character Michael Fox played on Family Ties — because I was very concerned about the economy and my taxes. Like many young people intent on living out the American Dream, I wanted to have the finer things in life: nice cars, a nice house, etc. I preferred to enjoy the fruits of my labor, so it made sense for me to support fiscal responsibility on the part of the federal government. But the "trickle down" theory proved to be economic voodoo because rich people don't have to spend most of the money they make. "Trickle up" might work much better because ordinary Joes and Janes will spend most of what they make, with the people who own businesses, stocks and bonds being the main beneficiaries.
But in any case, what I didn't realize at the time, perhaps because it seemed so far-fetched, was that the spirit of the Confederacy was about to rise from the grave and reanimate. Thus, a vote for "fiscal responsibility" became a vote for chauvinism, racism, homophobia, intolerance and irrational religion (for instance, all the sins of heterosexual Christians can be forgiven freely by grace, but a homophobic God singles out gays and Muslims for "special consideration," in the form of an eternal hell).
A vote for the GOP also became a vote for a return to feudalism, with a few rich layabout lords prospering from the incessant toil of their lowly serfs. As a result, today average Americans are working themselves into early graves while being told that the retirement plans and medical insurance they fund are "entitlements" the nation can't afford, when trillions of dollars have been wasted on two wars fought on false premises. Meanwhile, super-wealthy businesses like Apple and individuals like Mitt Romney claim to "believe in America" while keeping most of their moolah stashed offshore. They obviously don't "believe" in America enough to pay their fair share of the expenses of the wars being fought, at least ostensibly, to protect it.
This is not the American that I dreamed of, in my youthful idealism. I wanted the best of both worlds — prosperity and equality — not the worst of both, which is where the GOP will undoubtedly take us if we don't stand our ground. The Confederacy may have lost the last few battles of the Civil War, but its spirit lives and raves on today in the bigotry and intolerance of the Tea Party. Those of us who agree with the stand abolitionists took against the enslavement of African-Americans must now take a similar stand against our own enslavement, and the enslavement of our children and grandchildren.
Where do we go from here? I may not have the opportunity to write another column in these days of diminishing paper and ink, but I will definitely continue to write and publish online. And as the primary author of the Burch-Elberry Peace Initiative (www.thehypertexts.com/peace.htm), I will continue to seek a peaceful settlement to the conflict between Israeli Jews and Palestinians, which could be the key to world peace.
I believe it is a fundamental truth that on this planet, peace requires justice, and justice requires equality. Three times in its history the United States has made terrible decisions to subvert justice and equality, which resulted in large-scale holocausts. One holocaust was the ethnic cleansing and genocide of Native Americans. Another was the enslavement of African-Americans. The third, in my opinion, is American support of the ethnic cleansing and slow genocide of Palestinians. In the first two cases, massacre after massacre resulted, with the oppressors insisting that their victims were the "problem." But it turned out that Sitting Bull wasn't really a "terrorist," just a man forced to the warpath because his people lived on the brink of extermination. It turned out that John Brown wasn't really a "terrorist," but a man willing to risk his life to end the terrible treatment of African-Americans. And one day in the future, if the human race survives, I have no doubt that the more enlightened people who study the actual causes of 9-11 will shake their heads sadly and wonder how so many Americans of our era could have been so blind.
I wish everyone who reads this final article the best of luck, but sometimes we have to make our own luck in this world, so I hope you will join me in the continuing struggle to establish a lasting peace, which requires real justice, which in turn requires real equality, both at home and abroad. Unfortunately, the self-avowed "greatest nation of all time" has not always lived up to its stated ideals. But if we keep evolving, we just might escape the fate of those other dinosaurs who failed to evolve, and of course the dodos.
Michael R. Burch is a Nashville-based editor and publisher of Holocaust poetry and other "things literary" at www.thehypertexts.com
Great final column, Mr. Burch. Good luck to you, as well.
It turned out that John Brown wasn't really a "terrorist," but a man willing to risk his life to end the terrible treatment of African-Americans.
He believed he was God's instrument of wrath and killed five pro-slavery Southerners for no other reason except they were pro slavery. Sounds like a terrorist to me.
At one point I believed the world, the country, was evolving. But recently, I think the opposite. We're devolving, and quickly. IMO, the internet has given voice to the fringe that was once relegated to the corner. Now, any bigot or conspiracy crackpot can put out their beliefs for all to see and like-minded people can organize.
This is just an observation. I'm not advocating the end of the internet or infringing upon the 1st amendment. Good luck Mike.
So, on today's last edition the editors have a great final Editorial to end on
in another section that I hope all will read. Then we have this UN-official
Friday editorial showing what is hopefully not the South-Comm position
full of anger, spitefulness, derogatory and demeaning self-righteousness
to those in large numbers that don't agree with this particular writer.
Mike is right in the above statement on any bigot can put out their beliefs
for all to see. I suggest he has done just that with virtually ever word written
in this section for far too many weeks, but to the delight of a few like minds.
Far too much bitterness toward the state, nation, and neighbors by Mr.
Burch on many issues for my taste. Good riddance at least for now.
Thank you Mike.
Mike, I have always enjoyed reading your articles. I wish you all the best!
I've enjoyed reading your good jokes for sometime now, Mike. But your favorite joke subject seemed to only be in anti-Republican, pro Democrat, nature in favor of the illegality of the "man in office".
I hope you can enjoy your future as long as I've enjoyed my past.
Thanks for another accurate article. I'll miss this place.
"So long and thanks for the fish."
To the rest:
"What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow? "
What do you mean? An African or European swallow?
Question: Who's the real traitor - Snowden or Obama?
Buenos dias, damas.
What a glorious day! The final chance for you pathetic, retarded, liberal dirtballs to spew liberal stupidity and give each other virtual liberal cybergasms.
Go about your worthless day as usual, libtards.
Then, die. The world will be even better then.
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An interesting article from Oklahoma State University.
Question: Who's the real traitor - Snowden, Manning or yogi?
Fixed that, and it's yogi.
I left a 'goodbye, y'all' comment in the last thread (what I thought was the last thread) but I see the lights are still on. Answering BudLight's question-comment here instead...
Howdy, BudLight. I guess the lights are still on, until when, this weekend? Until the hosting contract runs out? That could be a month or two, or to the end of the (fiscal) year. Or maybe they'll ask for a prorated refund? Good luck with that!
As for the hatred the Left has for the Right, that's just how they've been newly-wired (or in the modern vernacular "Community Organized").
The far-Leftists have wormed into the heart of, and taken over, the once-proud Democratic Party (of which I was a member, having voted for Jimmah Carter in '76). Those in charge of today's Democratic Party (having destroyed the Blue Dog coalition) would like nothing more than to grab and maintain absolute one-Party control of this little Republic; they cast longing, jealous eyes on the People's Republic of China with it's 'new' economic engine running a limited version of capitalism and strong big-government, top-down CONTROL of all the People's business. And CONTROL is what they seek, absolute, unchallenged and unrestricted Big Federal Government, with Democrats in Charge.
Our new Democratic Leftists are best termed 'statists'. Their mindset is authoritarian. They've been working their way into our education system since they left hippydom back in the '70's; now, nearly all of our institutes of 'higher' 'learning' are chock-full of radicalized leftist professors running these universities as 'factories', churning out little dirty socialists, ready-made to lean far-Left. They've taken control and institutionalized 70's radical leftism and made it our main stream culture. Media and Entertainment industries are tuned to far-Left (except for a few outlets that are under attack: eg. Rush Limbaugh, who is now targeted by Media Matters for America (MMFA) operatives running "StopRush" and "FlushRush" hives on Twitter and Facebook; full-time, round-the-clock, paid to keep the Sandra Fluke incident top and centered in the minds of advertisers. Brown Shirts seeking to "SHUT UP!" any dissent and criticism.).
Leftists who are the New Democrats divide and conquer people by segmenting: race and gender, for example. They excel in creating 'victim classes', then they enhance the victim's negatives, and ply to their 'needs'; exploiting the needs they've created and maintain for votes to keep themselves in power. See: the War on Women, the Gay Marriage debates, the various 'social welfare' programs intended to be safety nets but in actuality are vote-nets.
Blacks have been exploited since Lyndon Johnson's 'Great Society' (LBJ famously said to two like-minded governors on Air Force One "I'll have those n*gg*rs voting Democratic for the next 200 years." ). Blacks have been allocated a cordoned-off place in the new Democratic Party, a "Plantation' they must never leave for fear of being called 'Uncle Toms' (see the treatment they've given Allen West, Lloyd Marcus, Thomas Sowell, Condoleeza Rice, Herman Cain, Dr. Mildred Fay Jefferson, Alan Keyes, and Clarence Thomas, to name but a few). Democrats created their conditions and exploit them for their votes, and will (and do) shame them if they dare think outside their chalked-off Leftist box.
In this particular site we find but programmed, foot-soldier Leftists who can't think for themselves. Look in any hard-core leftist hell-site: Daily KOS, Democratic Underground, Huff'n'Blow, hundreds more, you'll find these brown-shirted foot soldiers being groomed, going forth and mindlessly backing whatever narrative they've been given to back: that abortion is good for People (ask Margaret Sanger which 'people' she targeted with her abortion mills); that gun control is necessary to keep our "THE CHILDREN!" safe; that religious beliefs are old and outdated, and should be forced out of schools, public events and even out of traditional holidays. Especially targeted is Christianity. Notably excepted, of course, Islam gets a pass because they are still seen as OTHER, and as a 'victim class' that Democrats can exploit.
That's just the way things are running, for the nonce.
Oh, and Cheers!, and safe travels! to all.
I guess Snopes is a valid source only if it supports your views, yogi?
Hmmmph. Mike Burch. < spit >
Like you, I must say this isn't the America I was raised in. In my youth, Congress paid attention to the people in their districts. They didn't have a retirement program or a medical program in their favor then. They were just common citizens serving the people.
A retirement program was set up when Harry Truman left office because he had not become a multimillionaire while in office.
Congress then decided they deserved one themselves. Harry Truman wanted to put term limits on members of congress when he got the term limit on the Presidential seat but he could not get that passed. After all, they were elected by the people and they wanted every opportunity to make their "part time" job a career.
Now they're considering to relieve the president's term limit so the usurper in office can "win" another election with only a few more dead people's votes.
Mike Burch: I too have alway enjoyed reading your articles. Will miss the CP & most of the posters on the board. Keep up the good writing & best wishes to you & family for the future.
Where does yogi come up with these "hairbrain" ideas? He is totally wacko!
I think he's on the "paranoid nutjob" email list.
Good morning, Nashville....and farewell NCP.
Thank you, Mike Burch, for your excellent articles and for your personal feedback to your readers.
You are a voice in the wilderness, Mike.....a "loner"....that's a good thing, not a bad thing, in my view.
Only a "troubled" loner would dare to question the Confederate 4-G Network: God, Guns, Gays & Guvmint....pro-God, pro-Gun, anti-Gay, anti-Guvmint.
Only a "troubled" loner would dare to question the wisdom and efficacy of Zionism and the US-Israel special relationship.
Only a "troubled" loner would dare to question the virtues of Manifest Destiny in America...and in Palestine.
Keep it up, brother Mike...we "loners" need to circle our wagons and fight the orchestrated mass hysteria all around us. Let's keep in touch.
Good luck!
Only a "troubled" loner would dare to question the wisdom and efficacy of Zionism and the US-Israel special relationship.
Loner, if you and Burch keep rubbing up against each other like that, you'll have a 'Reichstag Fire' going in no time!
Hi, Loner. I will miss reading your well-written and insightful posts. :)
Serr8d, I left a reply to your comment...here's the link:
...and thanks for that excellent list of modern-day Uncle Toms and Aunt Jemimas....they done got their minds right, boss....and the GOP got its token blacks, eagerly willing to be exploited by their white handlers....."We support Col. West, now call us racists."....it's an old trick that doesn't fool the well informed and astute observer.
Thank you, Blanketnazi2, for your kind words....the truth is, I'm just a hominid on a mud-ball, I'm just going with the flow...when it comes to the metaphysical, what in the hell do I know?
Serr8d, your homophobia is showing...or is that masking latent desires?
LOL - at least you are one of the smart ones that know this truth.
Serr8d: 'Reichstag Fire'??
You mean 'Knesset Fire', don't you?
As we know, your fantasy is a 'Capitol Hill Fire'....the South done gonna rise again.
Just happened to log on today after a year or two away. Farewell to all. I posted on the editorial about why we need newspapers, too.
Out of the grooveyard...is it a zombie poster? No...it's Funditto!
Better late than never.....welcome home...though the home be sinking into the sinkhole of oblivion....let's rider her down together.
Only "loner" strokes his own liberal schlong in public, seeking freaktard virtual libtard approval. Then, "loner" feels validation by pushing the "post comment" button--quite a skill.
Let's all ride her down together....we're all in the same boat....this thing is goin' down.
Funditto! Good to see you!
Lord, you liberal morons are pathetic.
I am PLEADING with you--look honestly in the mirror, and say "I am pathetic. I spend my life online and on facebook thinking I matter."
Then, turn your stupid computer off, get a job, and be productive.
Am I asking to much from you libtards?
...and as the Great Ship slips into the abyss, Jughead raves on with a mindless but vulgar homophobic rant....is this Jughead clown actually Clinton Brewer?
"Funditto! Good to see you!"
Er....um....loserbreath...you are "seeing" a computer screen. Not real, just like your comparable sexual encounters.
Just admit that you are a LOSER, Loner, and you have taken the first step to being useful on this earth.
If you cannot do that, please commit suicide asap and increase our collective IQ instantly.
"the Great Ship slips into the abyss"????
WTF?? It's a web site shutting down, drama queen. Get a friggin grip, and grow a pair.
Jug: Pay your taxes, slackard... and quit your incessant and sophomoric whining....I'm relying on working stiffs like you to keep me in the lifestyle that I've grown accustomed to...I love to work at nuthin' all day...but I'm takin' care of bizness...and workin' overtime....party on, my fellow retirees, Jughead in Nashville is picking up the tab!
Moonglow1: Bye Mike and fellow posters. It has been great fun communicating with everyone. Great editorial today. I will miss The City Paper.
I am very sad to see the City Paper go, as it is Nashville's best paper.
While I do wish Burch and everyone here the best of luck, I still am puzzled how mr. burch was allowed to write articles with such bias. Some of the criticism for the GOP is well deserved, but not all. Being a moderate independent, I am so tired of the liberal media in America.
Mr. Burch, I leave you to respond to these thoughts / articles:
Why did you never mention in any of your articles the recent "war on women" by the democrats (Weiner, Spitz)? If the exact same situation had occured in the GOP, you would have definitely written an article slamming the GOP candidates....
Why no article on the Boston Bombings? You wrote several articles saying there is "terrorism" in middle tennessee because people didn't want a mosque to be built, but it is ridiculous to call that "terrorism". I would bet you would feel much safer looking like a muslim in America than an American (Christian, Jew, or atheist) in the middle east. Yet when two thugs who bomb innocent people of a nation that ACCEPTED them into this country, and even provided scholarips to them to become educated, you write nothing? If two Christians bombed a mosque, would you sit on the sidelines?
Martin Luther King was an inspiration to this nation. Today's civil rights leaders- not so much...
Currently no union worker in Detroit paid anything into their retirement or healthcare funds. The same is happening in NYC. Yes unions need retirement and healthcare security and no this is "entitlement", but public unions need to pay into the system and should be be allowed to pay nothing and leave the burden to the taxpayers.
While a lot of us disagree on many issues, I think we can all agree that Nashville is a great place and I wish the best of luck and peace and happiness to all of you.
Jughead's disdain for poetry is linked to his deep-seated fear of homosexuals....he despises metaphors and similes....misled and under-educated, he wants anal sex with analogies, etc....he hates "egg-heads" and artsy fartsy lefties....he's a Poster Boy for today's Republican Party in Tennessee....knuckle-dragging, semi-erect troglodytes, on a mission from God.
Thanks for the Kudos, Loner. Your a sweetheart.
Now, remove the semen-soaked tampon from your azz, go sit in the corner, and try to matter.
Liberal POS.
I love metaphors. I hate snarky trainwrecks from libtards who think they actually can write, and that someone actually cares.
Please, Boner, move to NYC, Chi-town, or the left coast where you can be part of the problem in full force.
Tennessee does not want you. I know that makes your panties wilt, but get used to it, bubba.
And, go f*&ck yourself, girly-man.
"Someone needs to stop the tiny-brained predators from wreaking so much havoc, so operating on the premise that the pen is mightier than empty noggins as well as the sword, I have tried to make other people aware of what I see so clearly myself."
Burch, as well, I have enjoyed your articles and point of view, especially when I find it directly opposite to mine.
For instance, in the above statement, you failed to mention a couple of democratic tiny brained predators who want to do such things as limit the size of a soft drink at fast food restaurants but someone that same size drink is OK served at 7-11. The higher court got it right in denying that one. But what about the kooks in CA who want to let anyone choose any gender bathroom they want so they can feel good about themselves? Or what about the current buzz about our fat folks being observed in their neighborhoods to determine which zip code has more obesity problems. Isn't pointing out and singling out a person because of their size - profiling? Isn't that against the law? And then there is the newest TN crazy idea that a 0 to 20 grade on a paper lowers a kid's self esteem so we need to start giving them a 50 if they fail. So 50 is the new 0 (or 20).
Anyway, the republicans do not hold the patent on small pea brain syndrome. There are some mighty dems who also can lay claim to that condition.
Also thanks Serra8d for your respectful reply to my question.
OK, that's it for a minute. When is Wonderwoman or Superman going to swoop in and save the day for CP?
Oh! and this, written by my favorite writer and poet Jeff Goldstein blogging at proteinwisdom...
"Obama was never a good man. He's a Marxist, mentored by a communist, friends with terrorists both domestic and foreign who adopted critical race theory and married it with black liberation theology, who was then polished into a shiny ruse to take advantage of years of carefully-sown white cultural guilt and sold as a post-political, post-racial centrist pragmatist." - See more at: http://proteinwisdom.com/?p=44030
About as good a summation of our Dear Leader as can be realized.
Serr8d, my old friend, Goldstein is a hack...he strung together a rosary of right-wing canards and you think it's a sacred object....Goldstein is miffed about BHO's lack of enthusiasm for more US-bankrolled, Jews-Only "settlements" in the Occupied Territories...and BHO's lack of enthusiasm for war with Iran...and things of that nature...he's a friggin' de facto Israeli agent.
Goldstein's your favorite? LOL


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The turnout for Maggie Brown's recent benefit was truly astounding. Thank you to everyone who attended, all the volunteers who helped with organizing and working at the benefit, all the business and individuals who donated items for the auction and food items for dinner and the bake sale and to Shooter and everyone at The Bluffs Bar for hosting. Your time and effort are very much appreciated. Your love and support for Maggie and the rest of our family is heartwarming and at times overwhelming. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.


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TG: Moonlighting is one I remember well, as I was watching it with interest when it collapsed.
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Also when he was starring in "Moonlighting" - remember that TV show?
It ran for about three months in the fall of 1993, I think, and it starred Ally Walker and Billy Campbell in a sort of updated, more literary "Moonlighting" -- it was *great*
'Moonlighting'-style banter that' GH 'plans to tap into.
The episode had some decent twists to go along with the "Moonlighting" - like comedy and showed potential for improvement.
Obviously, I included the "Moonlighting" - like cop / writer drama on the list because of Nathan Fillion.
I understand Bones writers fearing the so-called Moonlighting curse, which is absurd because that particular show broke down due to actors' egos and poor writing.
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In the fullness of time Cybill Shepherd made herself into a big star, thanks to a TV series called Moonlighting, which also raised the fortunes of Bruce Willis, her co-star.
"Moonlighting" creator and head writer Glenn Gordon Caron left the series after production problems and widely reported disputes with actress Cybill Shepherd.
I have every mixtape, EP and LP they've ever made starting with "Moonlighting", the limited edition EP's, the Beat Thieves mixtapes, Subhurban Sprawl, etc.
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THOUSANDS of pounds could be poured into a fund to repair the roof of Sunderland's historic Minster.
The Minster is in the running to clinch nearly £171,200 of funding, which would be used to repair the south side roof and improve facilities for visitors.
The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has backed the church's proposals for the cash injection, which is nearly two thirds of the project's total costs.
If successful, the funding would go towards a host of improvement plans for the city's church, including replacing the south aisle lead roof, repairing stonework and training volunteers.
The church is through the first round of bids and now has up to two years to submit a full plan of action to compete for the cash award.
Sheila Bamber, Canon Provost at Sunderland Minster, said: "This is an important building and a historic site.
"The Heritage Lottery Fund support will help us to ensure that it is preserved.
"It will also support our work to reach out to more people, to encourage them to visit this iconic building." Known as Sunderland Minster, the church's full title is Minster Church of St Michael and All Angels and St Benedict Biscop.
A church dedicated to St Michael has stood on the site for more than 1,000 years.
The parish of Bishopwearmouth, which is south of the River Wear, was founded in about 940AD, with an original stone church built shortly afterwards.


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Abdul Wahid Al Farsi, vice president – external affairs, Oman Tourism Development Company (Omran) said that contracts for building a five-star and a four-star hotel, part of the massive Oman Convention and Exhibition Centre (OCEC), will be awarded in September this year, Times of Oman reported. "One of these hotels is a five-star property, while the other one is a four-star hotel. We are now evaluating the bids (financial and technical bids submitted by contracting firms)," Abdul Wahid Al Farsi told Times of Oman. The operator for the four-star hotel will be Crown Plaza, while an operator for the five-star property has yet to be finalised. Each hotel will have 300 rooms, bringing the total room capacity to 600. Omran , the Sultanate's tourism development and investment arm, is developing Oman Convention and Exhibition Centre, which is being built some four kilometres from Muscat International Airport.
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Q&A with Thomas Woodruff
What follows is a Q&A with Thomas Woodruff, a New York-based artist whose "Freak Parade" series is currently on view at the Haggerty Museum of Art. He is the chair of the illustration and cartooning department at the School of Visual Arts in New York. (My review of "Freak Parade will be published here tomorrow morning).
Mary Louise Schumacher: What was your first great art experience?
Thomas Woodruff: I will never forget my first trip to the Metropolitan Museum in New York. I went by myself when I was in the 8th grade. My father dropped me off in front on his way to work. I remember climbing the intimidating stone stairs in the Great Hall and coming face to face with the Van Goghs, which I knew from a book given to me as a birthday present. Seeing them in person was like seeing great celebrities in the flesh. The idea that he was right there where I was standing, the arabesque of the brushstrokes and the purity of the colors burned into my brain, and those scars are still vestigially there. I also remember going into a schoolboy swoon over the Jules Bastien-Lepage canvas of "Joan of Arc" nearby. I recalled the same woozy feeling in front of his canvas in the Milwaukee Art Museum just a few weeks ago when I visited for the first time; his "Wood Gatherer" is another strange, extraordinarily beautiful and deep image... formal and sentimental simultaneously.
MLS: I have to ask. What were you thinking about when you began working on "Freak Parade," and at what point did you realize this was a project you'd dedicate five solid years of your career to?
TW: I never knew when I started where the parade would take me. "Anatomy Boy" began as a homage to the artist and anatomist Andreas Vesalius. Then, the boy seemed to need a pet, so the "Siamese Wolves" was born. The rest presented themselves, little by little, and before I knew it, five years passed and 32 images emerged. Some of the images had been waiting in notebooks for years to come to life. Others seemed to reflect what I was feeling at the time, and others just appeared almost magically, and I had to capture them quickly, before they would escape my grasp.
My previous projects had dealt with my reaction to the death of specific friends, issues of wellness and illness. The specter of the AIDS epidemic was subtext to everything, somehow influencing every brushstroke I made. When I finally understood the theme of the "Freak Parade," I realized it was about a more universal malady, the unnecessary need for us all to be the same. I noticed this malignant pressure for bland conformity all around me, in the local shopping mall, in my travels abroad, and it worried and saddened me deeply. With pictures and words, the "Freak Parade" became structure for me to work through my thoughts on what seemed like an important idea that had been suppressed, ignored or overlooked .
MLS: What attracts you to creating a cycle of images, like something from a medieval manuscript?
TW: The number of images were determined by the number of pages in book signatures, sets of eight. Once I decided to make a parade I saw the project not only as an exhibition, but also as a book. I had been doing a lot of printing projects as chairman of illustration and cartooning at the School of Visual Arts, so I became interested in ideas about type and pagination, which became ideas in the work.
MLS: Forgive the clichéd question, but what are your influences? I can't help but wonder what you read, watch and think about as I think about the fantastical work in "Freak Parade." Do you have a thing for fantasy, medieval art, what?
TW: My influences are many, and I mean MANY. We live in an information age, and I believe the modern artist must cross-reference myriad sources, blend high and low, and speak in multiple tongues. This piece speaks equal parts Warner Brothers cartoons, French Romanticism, symbolism, tattoo iconography, Archimboldo, Whistler, Jay Ward, James Ensor, Watteau, Caravaggio, George Stubbs; the list goes on and on. In truth, I look to whatever source materials will help me get the damn job done right. The great thing about making art is that there is a record, so all of the artists I love have a concrete legacy. Their work is left to help me out. They are a "posse" of dear friends, and I can use their solutions to assist mine. God bless their assistance; couldn't do it without 'em!
MLS: What was it like to finally unveil "Freak Parade" and, now that it's been traveling for some years, what have you learned from the ways that people responded to it?
TW: The response has been fantastic, more than I imagined. I know it's a lot to look at, and I worried about giving too much: too many images, too many words, too much information that's too pretty yet too disturbing; and what I've found is that people are willing, in fact eager, to look, reflect, and contemplate these images. People seem willing to give the images some time, allowing their eyes perhaps to see, their hearts perhaps to swell, and their pulses perhaps to quicken. It has been extremely gratifying and humbling, because I'm very "old school" when it comes to pictures. I know when I look closely at carefully crafted images I receive enormous rewards. I'm glad this kind of looking has not become completely obsolete, crushed by our current cultural penchant for quick-cutting-low-attention-span-distraction-tactics.
MLS: It's been a decade since you began the work, have your thoughts on the homogeneity of culture and "otherness" changed at all in those years?
TW: Not really, not enough has changed in relation to the global homogeneity, in fact it may have gotten worse. Perhaps our economic problems will stall the corporate march. Every day I see or read something to make me pause: McDonald's fascist elimination of small potatoes, Iranian youth's addiction to rhinoplasty... don't get me started.
MLS: What is up with those great wall colors? Was that your doing? They're not exactly the pristine white we're used to seeing in museum spaces.
TW: I love seeing work on colored walls! I hate white... it's so quaint and old fashionedly modernist.. so puritanical and withholding of pleasure. If my art involved banks of fluorescent tubes in grids, well then sure, but these are dark, sparking PICTURES, so why not paint the walls, lower the room wattage and make the whole thing SPECIAL?
MLS: Can you tell me something about the iconography or the raw material that seems to visually tie much of the project together -- the carrots, coral, carnations, pearls, skin, mushrooms, ribbons, stumps, and so on?
TW: Structurally, the parade is a theme and variations. Visual motifs are slowly introduced, then reused in other ways. The red coral is a virtual circulatory system, the ribbons are always magenta, the pink carnations can be a bouquet in one image and the head of a flamingo in the next, later the eyes of a skull, or the scythe of the reaper in the final image. I like the formal constraints of this exercise, and I also love the aspect of my little freaks putting on they're creative display with limited resources... high and low theory once again I'm afraid.
MLS: I've heard this might be the final stop for the "Freak Parade" tour. Is that true? Does it seem like it's time for the parade to come to a close? What happens to it now? Will it remain intact?
TW: Actually the parade marches on! The next stop is the contemporary museum in New Orleans. The context will change some of the works' meanings, and I look forward to all the new interpretations. Other venues are still being considered. I love the work traveling.
MLS: What have you been working on since "Freak Parade."
TW: Since completing the "Freak Parade," I have been working on my next book "Turning Heads," which are images that are meant to be seen upside-down and right side-up. The "Planet" series are motorized paintings on black silk velvet. Their machinations can be seen on YouTube! I am also working on groups of paintings inspired by the four temperaments or humours. As uncool and out of fashion as it may seem, I love making "programmatic" series, inspired by theme and content, closer linked to classical musical composers than to contemporary artists. Ah well. As the song says, "I'll always be a rebel and I'll never be any good!"
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