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Yesterday, we kicked off our week-long State of the Phillies series by breaking down the past, present and future of the first base and second base positions. Our mission over these next few days is to identify where, exactly, the Phillies can improve this roster. The outfield is one such area, although the free agent market isn't exactly bursting with talent there either. In today's story in the Daily News, Ruben Amaro Jr. tells Ryan Lawrence that the trade market could offer some possibilities. Here, we break it down.
This is the position that offers the most options for the Phillies thanks to the relative abundance of center fielders who are scheduled to hit free agency. Like most of the other positions on the market, though, this one does not offer a ton of high-end options, meaning to land one a team will have to open up the checkbook.
BREAKDOWN: Like most aspects of this Phillies team, center field was a tale of two halves. The first half featured Shane Victorino posting a below-average batting line of .261/.324/.401 with nine home runs. The second one featured John Mayberry Jr. posting a line of .258/.330/.399 with six home runs. The first three months saw the Phillies get poor bang for their buck (a $9.5 million salary for Victorino). The final two months saw the Phillies get about the bang they paid for in a $480,000 salary for Mayberry. All told, the Phillies were about league average, with below average marks in on base percentage and runs scored (funny how those two categories seem to be related).
II. Future Salary Commitments
2012: $9.5 million, 5.34 percent of luxury tax threshold (Shane Victorino, Opening Day)
2013: None
FLEXIBILITY: Plenty. End of story.
III. 2013 Organizational Depth Chart
- John Mayberry Jr., 29, pre-Arb (2.095 ST) under club control through 2016
- Nate Schierholtz, 29, arb-eligible, $1.3 million in 2012 (4.078 ST) under club control through 2014
- Tyson Gillies, 24, AA
BREAKDOWN: Mayberry spent most of the half playing center field. He can handle the position defensively, and performs well enough against left-handed pitchers that he is in the conversation. But at this point he projects as a rotational guy at best. Schierholtz spent some time in center field but he doesn't appear to have the range to be a viable everyday or even platoon guy. I did not list Michael Martinez because he really shouldn't be in the conversation for anything more than organizational depth. Gillies posted an .809 OPS in 339 plate appearances at Double-A Reading. This is a make-or-break year for him. The Phillies saw some reason for hope last season, but he'll need to stay on the field and perform while he is there for the entire first half of 2013 before we start talking about him as a potential big leaguer.
IV. Potential for Personnel upgrades
FREE AGENT MARKET: Aside from the bullpen, this is the vacancy that has the greatest volatility for the Phillies moving forward. There are so many options available that there is plenty of potential to grab a guy at a reasonable cost will ends up having a big season and making a difference in the lineup. Identifying which guys will fall into that category is the tricky part. I don't think even the Phillies know what direction they will head at this point. The smart play is patience, since the only clear difference-maker available is Josh Hamilton, and that situation is so unique that I find it hard to believe that the Phillies would make a serious push. Patience could be difficult to exert, since the center field market has all the makings of one in which agents and players will spend the early part of the offseason waiting for the first domino to fall. Michael Bourn and B.J. Upton are likely the first two dominos, but both have the right combination of potential and red flags to lead to a stalemate with teams who target them. Which would likely leave players like Angel Pagan and Melky Cabrera and Shane Victorino waiting around for the top of the market to get set. Those five are the clear everyday options who will be available. Cody Ross and Scott Hairston probably are not everyday options, although it would not surprise me to see one of those two land with the Phillies. At least right now it wouldn't. That could change as we look deeper at the position, which we'll do between now and the start of free agency. At this point, though, the Phillies' likely path is impossible to predict.
TRADE MARKET: Buster Olney reported earlier this week that Chris Young is very much available from the Diamondbacks. There are plenty of reasons why such a deal probably wouldn't make sense for the Phillies. For starters, Young is a career .224/.311/.409 hitter away from Chase Field, compared with a .254/.325/.465 hitter at home. Secondly, he is a career .228/.299/.419 hitter against righties. Since roughly 2/3rds of his plate appearances are going to come against righties, that can be a problem. Third, he is due to make $8.5 million in 2012, along with a $1.5 million buyout of an $11 million club option. If the Diamondbacks are not expecting anything in the way of prospects in return, $10 million for one season of Chris Young would not be the worst idea in the world. Still Gerardo Parra would make a lot more sense. But he'd also seem to make more sense for the Diamondbacks to keep. Which is why trading for players is not easy.
Denard Span has spent all season hearing his name in trade rumors. Again, this one falls into the category of not being worth the price it would likely cost to obtain him. Span hit .283/.342/.395 this season, but over the last three years that line is .271/.334/.367. He is affordable at $11.25 million over the next two seasons. But it still would appear to make more sense to go with a lower-cost free agent option instead of spending prospects on a player who really hasn't shown above-average hitting ability since his first couple of years in the league.
V. Center field: In conclusion
Judging by the emails I have received, there is a contingent of fans who would like to see the Phillies bring back Shane Victorino instead of pursuing change for change's sake. My intuition tells me that this is unlikely to happen, mostly because Ruben Amaro Jr. and Charlie Manuel have both said publicly that they believe that change for change's sake can be a good thing. That being said, the market has a funny way of affecting these decisions, and it could very well shake out that Victorino is the most cost-effective option.


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I can't say I have ever really been excited for prom. I like the social aspect of going out with friends to a fancy dinner and enjoying an extra-late evening full of activities, but I never much enjoyed parading through crowds and posing for cameras.
I can't say I have ever really been excited for prom. I like the social aspect of going out with friends to a fancy dinner and enjoying an extra-late evening full of activities, but I never much enjoyed parading through crowds and posing for cameras.
I'm not really able to fake a smile convincingly, which made photos a real drag. For me, it's either a genuine smile or me grinding my teeth together and looking goofy.
I will say, the prom experience in St. James is very different than the prom experience I had at Minnewaska Area High School.
Juniors and Seniors at MAHS (at least when I was young enough to attend) used to park their cars discreetly behind the building. This didn't stop us from driving fancy cars, but no one really got to see them.
We then paraded through the halls to the home economics room where we were briskly given a breathalyzer. If we didn't pass the breathalyzer test we were not allowed to walk during the grand march. I don't recall anyone failing, but I do remember seeing some nervous faces.
The next step was to line up in a back hall and wait to walk through the grand march alphabetically. The gym was dark and the cameras were much less technologically advanced – even six to eight years ago those cameras really struggled to get a nice photo in the large, dark gym.
Basically the only usable photos from the night came before or well after prom's grand march.
The after-prom activities were basically the same. There was fake gambling and delicious food – with a hypnotist finishing up the night. We were, however, given another breathalyzer before post prom and not allowed to leave.
I suppose living near Sterns County – recognized as one of the drunkest counties in the nation – made us guilty by association. I've heard stories of after-prom activities in that part of the state that included an empty house and a keg of beer, so maybe the precautions my school took were necessary to keep us kids out of trouble. All-in-all it made for a pretty fun evening.
If I could go back, having seen the St. James prom this weekend, I would say a fun tradition to begin would be the parking and driving of fun cars to the prom. It was entertaining to see the creative ways the juniors and seniors of St. James High School found to get themselves to the prom – ways that included semi's , stretch limos and even a fire truck.
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Don Martin - department store 2, The Genius of "Ignorant Humor"
My own idea of what cartoons do is to make the unbelievable believable, which requires great talent and skill. Not all cartoonists are equally gifted in this area.
My pal Eddie has a term he uses when he likes something funny. He calls it "Ignorant Humor". I think that's a funny term too, but hope he never uses it in front of a layman or cartoon executive, because it might give the impression that cartoons are stupid and easy to do.
I hope I am not misinterpreting your term, Eddie. Feel free to add your complete definition in the comments! I'd love to make an elaborate post of it.
I think by "ignorant" he means "low-brow" - the category that includes Tex Avery, Mad Magazine, The 3 Stooges but for some reason often excludes Charlie Chaplin, The Marx Bros. and Laurel and Hardy and Frank Miller.
Many critics thumb their snooty noses at pure comedy or "ignorant humor". Why is that? Because the pure comics don't contaminate the ice cream with pathos, heavy seriousness or important issues?
The top ignorant comics like the 3 Stooges, Jerry Lewis and Don Martin are actually extremely intelligent.
It takes a lot of not only talent and skill, but intelligent sophisticated planning to pull the audience along a trail of completely preposterous events and logic.
These top humorists are among humanity's greatest heroes, because they take us away from all the ugly things in life for a few minutes and let us cleanse away worldly poisons with laughter.
The sophistication in what Eddie calls "Ignorant comedy" and could also be called "generous comedy" lies not merely in the content itself but in the execution of it. The staging, he structure, the momentum, the acting, the sincerity, the performances, the creative invention, the pure joy of craziness.
If "Ignorant Humor" were truly ignorant, then everybody could make Tex Avery cartoons, Don Martin comics and 3 Stooges shorts. On the other hand just about anybody can criticize them. That doesn't take much intelligence. Luckily, most people just enjoy the fruits of their genius.
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33 comments:
- mike f. said...
With all due respect to our pal Eddie, I wish you guys wouldn't popularize "ignorant humor" into an everyday term. It has unintended negative connotations that'll just provide ammunition to the Mike Barriers of the world.
Raw comedy, Distilled comedy, Unabashed comedy, Vulgar comedy, Sketch comedy, Low comedy, Burlesque humor, Surreal humor...
Almost any term would be preferable to "ignorant" humor.
- Keeno said...
ain't no word of a lie!
there's so many thangs that can make someone laugh, from a witty comment on the absurdity of life, to someone getting a kick up the arse
who's to say what's good or bad?
it's like music
some times a good old 12 bar blues played on a 3 string guitar can touch you as profoundly as a piece of Mozart with its complex arrangements and myriad of emotive sections.
so how does your man get out of the tuba?
does the last part of that cartoon end with a big *PARP!!!*?
- Whit said...
The Hudson Brothers were some executive's idea of an updated Three Stooges. They had like seventeen hundred different TV series and failed every time. In 1977 some exec even tried launching 'new' Three Stooges-type film shorts starring the Hudsons and 'internationally renowned comedy sensation Bob Monkhouse'but that effort thankfully never got off the ground. The Hudson Brothers today take turns pissing on Emil Sitka's grave.
- Kali Fontecchio said...
Yeah I agree with Mike, ignorant does have a negative connotation. It literally means that the reader is inexperienced and uneducated.
How about.... funny pictures, hahaha.
- Rodrigo said...
When I read the term "ignorant humor" I thought of something else. I was thinking in terms of when you may have a stupid/goofy character that is purposefully mistaken or misinformed for the sake of humor. Like when Stan Laurel would spell words out wrong. Or when Patrick the starfish makes a ridiculous observation. Or Jim Carrey and Jeff Bridges in one of my all time favorites: Dumb and Dumber.
There's different levels of subtleties with this type of humor, but the audience loves to see how the idiot interprets he world. But like you said, the creative mind behind it doesn't get the credit he/she deserves. Ironically, it does take intelligence to make something stupid. And I mean stupid in a good, funny, and entertaining way.
It's fun for the audience to
- Bitter Animator said...
Is there more to this one? That's not the end, right?
- Mr. Trombley said...
Dear Sir, I have read on the internet that there are people who believe that animation must be "believable", but I have never seen it for myself. Nor is there any general believability in contemporary cartoons, so I must question the efficacy of there philosophy.
I do not doubt these people exist, but where are they? Do they know who silly they sound and hide?
- Eddie Fitzgerald said...
I understand why Mike and others object to the term "ignorant," but I don't see why we should stop using it.
Let's face it, ignorance is funny, in fact that's what ignorance is: funny stupidity. Sometimes stupidity is just too horrible to laugh at, but ignorance is almost always laughable. It's as if the stupid person willfully chose to be stupid.
I guess in real life people don't choose to be stupid, they just are, but in our frustration we can't help thinking that they choose to be that way, and there's something funny about that. It's nice to have a word that reflects how we feel about things, as opposed to the way they really are.
I admit that ignorance is a vague term that lends itself to misunderstanding, but for me that's its strength. I love words like that. It's great that "bad" can mean "good" if it's spoken in just the right way.
The English language is a marvelous instrument that allows for amazing precision on the one hand, and loose, intuitive speech on the other. Why shouldn't we take full advantage of that?
Mike's right, the use of terms like "Ignorant humor" probably will provide ammunition to critics of funny but, really, there's nothing we can do about that. Why worry about what you can't change? The term is much too useful to put aside just because a critic might misuse it.
- MasterK said...
Definately agree about the negative connotations of ignorant.
- David Germain said...
If "Ignorant Humor" were truly ignorant, then everybody could make Tex Avery cartoons, Don Martin comics and 3 Stooges shorts.
Some have tried. How many times has anyone here seen some sketch comedy show attempt a three stooges routine? 99.999999% of the time it's pretty awful. Sadly, most people wold attribute that to the Stooges being awful. Nothing could be further from the truth. The problem is that the imitators executed it wrong. They ignorantly assumed that "the Stooges are just 3 goony guys slapping each other" and then that's all they do. What they DON'T do is put the same comedic rhythm or timing behind the violence. THAT'S where the Stooges shine.
The joke isn't simply that Moe is slapping Curly, it's WHEN he's slapping Curly. Usually, Moe waits until Curly is feeling good about himself (because he thinks the train noises he's making are wonderful or whatever) and THEN Moe slaps him and brings him back down to Earth.
There's also a certain rhythm to the Stooges violence. It's like they all hear the same song in their heads and are merely dancing to it.
Those two aspects are what the imitators haven't even tried to incorporate into their Stooge routines and it looks all the worse because of it.
This of course is all similar to what happens when people attempt Monty Python as well.
- Ray said...
Aristotle had this figured out in the Poetics over 2000 years ago...
Comic heroes have to be of a "lower type", it is the hero's ignorance of common logic, inability to predict sh** from happening, and misunderstanding (or not listening to) others, lack of awareness...these attributes create situations for COMIC MOMENTS. Don Martin knew this quite well
An interesting example comes from Rowan Atkinson, who said that Mr. Bean is someone who appears to be a bumbling idiot (lower type) who is really quite clever. He is the opposite of Inspector Clouseau (who thinks of himself as quite brilliant but is really just a bumbling idiot).
I like to think these two types are represented somewhat by Ren (the Clouseau type) and Stimpy (the Mr. Bean type)
- Booo Tooons Ltd. said...
You know, Dave, I take issue only with the last sentence.
The Pythons will be the first to point out that there's never been anyone really trying to do what they did, in essence. Sure, 'Saturday Night Live' and 'Laugh-In' all got called Python rip-offs in the seventies, but it was only because America hadn't seen pure sketch comedy done at all.
In fact, Barry Took, who's responsible for 'Flying Circus' and getting the Pythons together, has said that what he predicted and what happened were totally opposite. He said that 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' would not be very popular, but highly copied, but that what actually happened was they were hugely popular and never copied..... unless you count Mr. Show.
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- pappy d said...
Ignorance is the human condition. Ever notice that once you learn enough about a subject to really appreciate it, you're confronted by the vastness of your own ignorance? What you've managed to digest with your petty pound of wet grey meat won't make a dent in it. You never suspected there was so much to learn. I've come to think it may be the beginning of wisdom.
Eddie's a natural idealist. He has a high regard for lofty ideas but knows that high-minded abstractions create a vacuum that longs to be filled by a loud fart.
People who don't know what he means by "ignorant humor" are typical of the folks who control what kids watch. They hope to use the powers of imagination to foster the growth of better human beings, but humor keeps interrupting to remind us of the human truth about who we really are.
- Bob said...
I think ignorant humor is great because its humor that ignorant people understand, not like snobby critics. Sometimes stupid things make me laugh like fart noises or chicken faces, I can't explain it but it's funny and to me I guess thats ignorant humor. Sometimes comedians have to explain why their jokes are funny or make some sort of logic to their humor to tell a joke and that's a different type of humor. For me when I watch popeye the studiest things make me laugh like popeye's pipe it makes noises that are really funny or when bluto mumbles words when he's angry. Cartoons are great because they can visually make something funny and that's an artform of itself.
- Jay said...
Ooo! teacher, can I be the pedant? Please?
I think one reason "ignorant humor" sounds negative is because the adjectival form "ignorant", in modifying "humor," implies that the humor on display is itself stupid. But if you called it "ignorance humor," though, people paying attention to the words would better understand that it is meant to classify a *type* of humor: humor *about* stupidity.
I think Eddie's on the right track that this is probably about the most precise label one could come up with for it, even if many critics would semi-intentionally misunderstand it. And whatever you call it, when done well it can be some of the funniest and most sublime comedy imaginable.
- DonB said...
>> Is there more to this one?
>> That's not the end, right?
I'd like to know what happened to that guy in the tuba too. Gee, I hope he ain't dead!
- Ted said...
Isn't most humor ignorant humor? Humor generally relies on a turnaround in expectations (which a lot of drama relies on too, of course). This usually hinges on the observer's ignorance of the facts, tho this is usually in combination with one of the other ignorances below, otherwise things would be in keeping with expectations.
1) People acting in a way not in keeping with good sense is one way of violating regular expectations; that is, the subject's ignorance of a) facts or b) what generally is a good idea (Ren whizzing on the electric fence being an example of the first, Sven and Stimpy's general activities being an example of the second).
2) Literalism is another way of going about it; the willful ignorance of the artist (Old Man Hunger in Big House Blues, or Symphony in Slang). There's probably some other aspects I'm missing.
So is Eddie's idea of ignorant humor specific to 1b, or is it more wide ranging? If it's specific to 1b, "Ignoramus Humor" might avoid the problems associated with Ignorant Humor. If it's wider than 1b, "Humor" might cover it...
- ByTito said...
it´s only ignorant humor, but I like it!!
- Kris said...
I love low-brow comedy, and to be honest I was always baffled by anyone who couldn't laugh at the Three Stooges. Poking people in the eyes isn't inherently funny, but those guys could really poke a man in the eyes and make it HILARIOUS.
I have heard people call it juvenile, but honestly it's no more juvenile than the Marx Brothers, and the fact that both are juvenile is part of why they're so damn funny.
- Adam T said...
Another thing I would lump in this category would be blooper reels and 'America's Funniest Home Videos' type tv programs. They may be a subcategory, 'Accidental Ignorant Humor.'
My take on it is that 'Ignorant Humor' is secretly enjoyed by all, but because it has such mass appeal most people feel ashamed to like it publicly. It's 'common' to like the 3 Stooges.
I think it's because 'Ignorant Humor' makes us remember how flawed we all are. Sophisticates who poo-poo this sort of stuff think we're further removed from the rest of the animal kingdom than we really are. But nope we're still horny, peeing, pooping, blood-lusting creatures at our core just like every other animal on this planet.
I really believe a well timed fart is ALWAYS funny. Somebody falling down, as long as they don't get hurt too bad, is ALWAYS funny. People who disagree are deluding themselves.
And one last thing 'Ignorant Humor' is much more satisfying to me than being sarcastic or witty which seems to have taken over, because it's so much more direct. It reminds you that something is actually inherently funny instead of reminding you that the world sometimes sucks the big one.
- I.D.R.C. said...
I'm pitching ignoramus humor. Hasn't Moe called Curley that? It's perfect.
There is a big difference between asinine and brilliantly asinine. They are about 180 degrees apart. Many critics cannot tell the difference. Many critics could not find their own ass with both hands. Rowan Atkinson's BEAN gets panned all the time. The guy's got real chops.
- Ryan Cole said...
I guess in real life people don't choose to be stupid, they just are, but in our frustration we can't help thinking that they choose to be that way, and there's something funny about that. It's nice to have a word that reflects how we feel about things, as opposed to the way they really are.
Wow Eddie, it's kinda like ignorance is a cartoony expression all on its own, since it's not really a realistic term (in that sense). No wonder it can be so humorous.
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I agree. It's the job of the cartoonist to make the audience accept the impossible as obvious fact. "See things as they are not." - Zim
Golden Aged animation did this with expertise. I'd love to hear your theories about why that was so, John. I don't know too much about early comics, but Golden Age cartoons "created" conventions kinda borrowed from strips? Obviously you had a lot more creative freedom back then, but it seems that people were more accepting of new conventions (for them to stick). Just curious.
Seems like the only new conventions today are being conceived in anime, as off the wall and confusing as I find them to be.
- Ryan G. said...
Whats the last comedy that has won an oscar. It seems that comedy is very hard to do right, but the good ones are never rewarded critically.
- Raff said...
What's good is that you put "Ignorant Humor" in quotes, hinting that it's actually smart and only seems ignorant superficially. "Ignorant" Humor might describe it better. It's hard to say without fingers or over the phone though. "Quoteunquoteignorant Humor"
These top humorists are among humanity's greatest heroes, because they take us away from all the ugly things in life for a few minutes and let us cleanse away worldly poisons with laughter.
Who's doing that now? Benny Hill and the others are all gone!
'Suppose it's up to one of us, isn't it.
- Pat McMicheal said...
I definitely fit into this category!
Don Martin, Mad and the 3 Stooges were my reasons for living as a boy!
- Sarcastro said...
Whats the last comedy that has won an oscar.
Annie Hall in 1977. Go figure. Before that you have to go all the way back to It Happened One Night in 1934.
I think we're skewing the definition John's using a bit. An ignorant character doesn't, necessarily, mean it's ignorant humor. For instance, I'd hardly call the court scene in Duck Soup ignorant comedy even though it is based on Chico's ignorance of good English. That comedy is based on the wittiness of how he is mangling the language and Groucho's impeccable timing in his responses. On the other hand, the mirror sequence with Groucho and Harpo is pure ignorant humor. Unbelievable, goofy... kind of stupid; And absolutely uproarious.
In my most humble opinion of course.
- Peter Gray said...
Its great seeing new things here...he sure has a interesting strange style...
I'm British and collect comics here...we had some top cartoonist in comics here...check out Ken Reid he was even stranger than Dr Seus..
Would a kid dare to put these pictures up on the wall...its like its from another world.
I can still get Mad comic here in special comic shops...we need more Mad artists I say...:)
- Jim Rockford said...
Anyone that thinks cartoons should be believeable should have an anvil dropped on their heads!
We have grim reality constantly surrounding us for that,cartoons as you put it should be an escape.
Its hard for me to believe there are people who have no sense of humor and cant enjoy true inspired comic lunacy.
Nobody watches the Three Stooges and thinks,"thats so unrealistic,Moe would have killed Curly with that blow from the pipe wrench" (at least nobody I've met)
Anyone who cant suspend their seriousness and seperate themselves from the sober realitys of the world long enough to enjoy a cartoon needs help!
- Great Big Radio Guy said...
[Bitter Animator said...
Is there more to this one? That's not the end, right?]
Yes, there's more. And if my memory serves me well in my advanced years, the sound effect is quite possibly the most appropriate Don Martin ever did.
And it will destroy you. Go, John!
- Captain Napalm said...
Personally, I think the funniest thing of all is seeing a person who IS genuinely smart and talented and imaginative get fucked over anyway. You can talk all you want about humanity, but when you get right down to it, few things about life are as funny as it's unfairness.
Also, I rarely, if ever, laugh at something because it "provides an escape" - I think it's really more of a duality that works as a whole. That's what I love about Clampett: He uses cruelty and pain and fear to be funny, but adds a surreal touch that gives the cartoons a sense of possibility that transcends the immediate situation, like a ray of hope that looms over the battlefield while paradoxically energizing it. So the sheer weirdness of his cartoons isn't neccesarily funny in and of itself, but it adds dimention to the humour, so you find yourself saying "oh, wow" as you're laughing at it. If you can find me a LESS escapist cartoon than "Draftee Daffy" , I will be very impressed indeed. The whole thing is about a failed attempt at escape from the political Here and Now of it's time. Kind of a "better face reality if you don't wanna get fucked up even worse" cartoon. Shows what a simplistic cliche most people's idea of Clampett is. He's my hero for all the things that nobody realizes he was really doing.


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I always end up with the same ole thing..
Too many CHOICES!
Too many people...
The new bar downstairs-it must be for evenings...
I just found your blog about a week ago. I'm in heaven here. Going to Paris is my big travel dream. One day, I'll get there. For now, I can travel in your blog.
I've read about Laduree many times and it is going to be one of the first places I go to for some delicious pastries.
O.K., you need to shoot photos of French Bulldogs when you go to Paris this month. I saw that box at Ladurée with the Frenchie on it the last time I was there, and just couldn't justify parting with Euro 26.00 to buy it (Yes, I know it was full of good things). But it is my dog on the box. Please, look for Frenchies, for me!ReplyDelete
You, in the USA, have the best wedding cakes I have never seen! They should be displayed in the windows. Then, I would shoot them!Anyway, we will have une pyramide de macarons for my wedding!ReplyDelete
Anne, you can get American-style wedding cakes in Paris at Wedding Cakes Avenue.ReplyDelete
Your detail here is just great!
Nice one Carol!
Carol, That painting is wonderful. Look at all the detail you did... wow. I love love that black dog with the white paws in the last photo. What an adorable pup.ReplyDelete
a happy friday...as always enjoy my pb fix. you will have to stop by and see my most adorable alpacas today ^..^
have a wonderful day...
I didn't think there was any place in Paris that didn't let pups in!! Your posts always make me hungry for macarons...and Paris!!
What a great way to spend a bit of an afternoon...those choices are CHOICE indeed... i'd have to work my way through them. ;-)
And aren't we lovin' that Bo has those two white paws? What personality. Cute "perfect" dog.
A good dream to have, and a charming watercolor of your dream. Have a great weekend, Carol!ReplyDelete
No choice for me - always the caramel...anything with caramel. xvReplyDelete
Hmmm, perhaps we should start a petition telling Obama we want you to do his dog's official portrait!?!ReplyDelete
I went to Laduree Bonaparte this morning! The windows were full of muguet (lily of the valley) for May 1. It was my inaugural visit and I never would have thought to go if I hadn't started reading your blog! We got a selection of macarons (and a strawberry bergamot charlotte as a palate cleanser) at Laduree and then walked down Rue Bonaparte and got a selection at Pierre Herme, and then had a taste-testing in Luxembourg Gardens. . . Laduree's rose flavor was the winner in our competition. . . but the results are probably skewed and warrant a second round. . . Anyway it was my favorite morning in Paris, so thanks for the inspiration!ReplyDelete
Absolument délicieux et magnifique… merci ! DavidReplyDelete
SUSU! I ALWAYS get the same ole 4 macaron flavors too :)
Ca m'énerve but what can I do? I'm a creature of habit...
Fantastic draw like usually !!!
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Are you saying that you tried to entice Ozzie to Paris knowing that he would be EXCLUDED from Ladurie? Quelle horreure! (or maybe horreur?) I suppose I can't blame them...Ozzie is the consummate gentlemen but with such temptation....ReplyDelete
I love your "I dreamed my dog went to Laduree" watercolor and I am so wanting one of those pastries in your photographs right now...especially that chocolate-carmelized creation in your scarf post.ReplyDelete
Has Barack taken you up on the offer yet?ReplyDelete
I think Ozzie has been dreaming of going to Laduree! And NOT to have his portrait painted!ReplyDelete


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Punctuated with the sounds of ringing phones and clinking china, President Barack Obama's new legislative diplomacy has Republicans wondering what took so long.
Obama pressed ahead Thursday with his bipartisan political outreach, eliciting a cautious welcome in a capital that has been riven by gridlock and partisanship over how to lower deficits and stabilize the nation's debt.
Obama had the Republican House Budget Committee chairman, Paul Ryan, and the committee's top Democrat, Chris Van Hollen, to lunch at the White House, a day after he dined with a dozen Republican senators in what the White House said was an effort to find common ground with rank-and-file lawmakers.
Few were willing to guarantee that the engagement would yield results. Previous presidents have tried to develop relationships with members of Congress with varying degrees of success, though some of the biggest pieces of legislation, such as the 1964 Civil Rights Act and a Social Security deal in 1983 required cross-party efforts by Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Ronald Reagan.
"We're not naive about the challenges that we still face; they exist," White House spokesman Jay Carney said. "And there are differences."
Obama has negotiated directly in the past with House Speaker John Boehner in hopes of finding a large deficit reduction deal, but those efforts have faltered as the president pursued deals with tax increases that Republicans oppose. Most recently, neither side worked hard to avoid $85 billion in automatic spending cuts and instead devolved into partisan finger-pointing over which side was more to blame.
Boehner said Obama's new approach represented a 180-degree turn. "He is going to, after being in office now over four years, he is actually going to sit down and talk to members," Boehner said. "I think it is a sign, a hopeful sign, and I'm hopeful that something will come out of it. But if the president continues to insist on tax hikes, I don't think we're going to get very far."
Carney argued that Obama's new talks with congressional Republicans did not signal a shift as much as an attempt to seize an opportunity after automatic spending cuts kicked in last Saturday but months before another fiscal deadline looms. But in briefing reporters Thursday, Carney noticeably dialed back his criticism of Republicans and emphasized the "common ground" that existed between the parties.
"The fact is, this should have been happening all along," said Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., one of the dozen Republicans who joined Obama for dinner Wednesday night at a hotel a few blocks from the White House.
Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., a veteran of Washington politics who got an ice-breaking call from Obama this week, said he appreciated his talk with Obama but said that type of engagement should have occurred much sooner.
"He's the first president in my experience, and I've known or worked with eight, who's had almost no personal relationships here in the Senate, on either side as far as I can tell," Alexander said.ms
Obama may be attempting his charm blitz later than most presidents do. Some presidents have found common ground with opponents sooner, others have not. Former Republican Senate leader Trent Lott, speaking at the 2009 ceremony unveiling his majority leader's portrait in the Senate, said he and President Bill Clinton maintained a friendly relationship even though they quarreled bitterly in public.
"Even if I did or said something stupid — or vice versa, excuse me, Mr. President — the main thing about it is that quite often we'd call one or the other and we'd laugh about it," Lott said as Clinton smiled and nodded at his side.
Senate Historian Donald Ritchie said that Reagan, during his first year in office, called every member of Congress. "His congressional liaison found that that worked against him in the long run because members of Congress expected the president to call them on every issue," Ritchie said.
Indeed, Ritchie said, no matter what the relationship is between a president and Congress, lawmakers inevitably complain that presidential outreach is not enough and presidents regularly argue that members of Congress demand too much.
Obama's outreach comes as Senate Democrats appeared to move toward easing passage for a spending measure to pay for day-to-day federal operations through September. Appropriations Chairwoman Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., said there's a "delicate balance" between supporting Obama administration priorities and going too far as to "sink the bill."
Mikulski said the Senate would give agencies including the Agriculture, Homeland Security and Justice departments their detailed, line-by-line budgets as part of legislation advancing next week to head off a government shutdown at the end of March. Other agencies would run on autopilot essentially at last year's funding levels. The automatic cuts — 5 percent to domestic agencies and 7.8 percent to the Pentagon — would apply whether or not an agency received its detailed budget.
The House passed its version of the legislation Wednesday.
Obama plans to address Republicans and Democrats in the House and Senate separately next week, the next step in his approach to spell out his agenda to lawmakers.
White House aides say the effort to reach out to rank-and-file members is designed to let the president explain his policies without the filter of party leaders, with whom he has dealt with in the past.
Along with Corker, the lawmakers in attendance at Wednesday's dinner were Sens. John McCain of Arizona, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Saxby Chambliss of Georgia, John Hoeven of North Dakota, Dan Coats of Indiana, Richard Burr of North Carolina and Mike Johanns of Nebraska.
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A Unique Voice (an extinct concept)
A Specific Personality
Specific Mannerisms
Disney characters belong in a category by themselves.
They are neither realistic specific individuals culled from observation of human nature, nor are they imaginative creations from a cartoonist's mind.
They are creatures in limbo. Neither real nor cartoon.
Most Disney characters have one simple personality trait and a visual gimmick to help us see it. Tramp leads with his butt, Sneezy sneezes, Captain Hook sneers, Smee wiggles his fingers, etc.
The odd one even might have 2 traits although I'm struggling to think of one that does. These one and maybe 2 trait characters have been recycled for decades by animators and executives whose only influence seems to be other Disney cartoons or Disney imitators.
It's as if there is a group of people who live in a tent somewhere in the middle of the earth and have no contact with the upper world. They have never seen real humans interacting, so can't caricature real human psychology in its infinite variations. They have also never seen any other artists' characters or interpretations of humanity. They have only other Disney and Disney imitations to study. Actually, in the last 20 years, they have started to be influenced by Saturday Morning cartoon characters, so now we have a strange mix of stock Disney with stock Filmation characters.
For decades, we've have endless repetitions of a small handful of stock stylized cliched characters. Why is this so?
It all started with Walt Disney himself. It took him years to get to the point where his characters evolved even one superficial trait. His first star character had not a single trait.
Mickey is The Ultimate Bland Character
He's made of circles and ovals and has no personality.
He doesn't even have a distinct voice. It's just Walt in falsetto-which sounds exactly like anyone else doing a falsetto.
He's very cute though and is a good character to train your youngest kids to understand cartoons with.He makes a good logo.
The drawings are very well constructed but there is no design.
It's not a specific puppet and it doesn't have a personality.
He has a mildly distinct voice, unlike the later generations he spawned.
This basic generic boy design has been in continuous use for 6 decades now...
It's very good drawing but suggests nothing unique about the character
he is merely a well constructed symbol of "boy". Any boy.
How Many Times Can We Use The Same Kahl Boy?tone him down and re-use him
None of these characters have a personality or a unique look, nor a unique voice - nothing to make him a character. It might as well be a talking stick with a wig.
a Saturday morning cartoon version of Pinocchio in drag.
Again...Note that the bland fish is the same "design" as the bland boy in drag.
Take the same basic generic design and add uncomfortable proportions and use vague shapes for the details...
Here's a movie that has 2 bland lead characters. Once in rodent form, and then again in human form.
Nondescript in design (a realistic rat with googly eyes) and in personality.
When he runs on all fours like a real rat it's amazingly animated. When he stands on 2 legs and acts, he acts just like every Disney character from the last 30 years, not like an individual.
Here's a Disney bland boy that brags in the movie about how bland he is. And he gets the girl anyway. The Sassy one.
The design is slightly different than the regular Disney boy. He has a big nose now and no jaw. That probably took a lot of guts to make those changes , but it made him even wimpier than the regular bland lead. The expressions and gestures are still the same as every Disneyesque character, whether boy, girl, man or rat. He still acts like the girl in Rescuers - with a bit of Medusa thrown in.
I have to admit, this is the first time I've seen a movie where every character actually tells you what their personalities are-even the one that admits to not having one.
Disney wanted you to know what each of his characters' single trait was. He named each character after his one trait to be sure you got it. Happy, Sneezy, Grumpy etc...
But he also wrote scenes that demonstrated what their characters' simple personalities were.
Now the movies are so unsure of whether the story is carrying itself, that they have the characters tell you not only everything they do (exposition) but...who they are. I don't think there is even a word for that yet.
But it's completely acceptable, even to the critics whom the movie calls worthless.
I just want to make the point that they aren't going because of the rich personalities or story. These movies must have some other attributes that bring people in. For now, I'm just focusing on personality and character.
I have a theory that I don't totally believe. Most animated features want to outspend the competition. The films are built on special effects, spectacle, details, crowds and a showing off of how much money they can burn. With that kind of story maybe strong characters would distract the audience from the impressive flying money.
Maybe the film makers think you need a central character with no distinctive traits so that you can piggy back him through the movie and experience the expensive special effects, wobbly cameras and spectacle through him.
You project your personality onto the blank slate and go on a roller coaster ride.
Why are there blands then if it's not on purpose? Because the cartoon makers don't actually think about what they are doing or why. They just do it by rote. I doubt they even realize these characters are bland. They just have watched so many Disney, Bluth and Pixar movies growing up, that they automatically absorb the stock formulas and repeat them robotically when they get their chance to make a film.
Marc Deckter, on the other hand gives them more credit than that. He thinks they are completely aware of the blandness they wring and that it's on purpose.
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Finch wrote:Are there any online resources, then, for attempting this sort of thing? Translating from one language to the other seems to be the best option thus far, and as I'm only starting Greek, I'll probably be doing G->L much more than L->G at first. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
pster wrote:Here is a three way French-Greek-Latin dictionary:
Phillatius wrote:Have you seen this?
http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Comparat ... _and_Latin
gfross wrote:Now, with regard to learning to read in non-modern Greek (Homeric through Byzantine), I haven't been able to find any printed materials of the quality of Hans Ørberg's. Many texts follow the outdated pedagogical tradition of a short text (not connected discourse), a small vocabulary list, grammatical explanations, perhaps one or two exercises dealing with the declension or conjugation of pertinent parts of speech, and two translation exercises (Greek-English, English-Greek). Those I have seen have to be supplemented by exercises prepared by the instructor of the course.
Here's what we need for Greek:
η μεν Κρητη εστι νησος, η δε Ελλας εστι πατριδα. η Κρητη εστι εν θαλασσᾳ και ο Ροδος. ο γαρ Ροδος εστι νησος. ο τε Λεσβοσ νησος εστι και ο Ροδοσ. ο μεν Ροδος εστι μεγαλοσ, ουκ εστι μεγαλοσ ο Λεσβος.
Or something like that (with tighter vocabulary control--I've got three particles going. Ugh). But a lot more. Like 300 pages more.
cb wrote:hi markos, have a look at the genders of the islands Ῥόδος and Λέσβος, double-check your use of πατρίς and also check your dative ending of θάλασσα (for this last point you may want to look at my summary of the history of the 1st decl endings here, pgs 8-10: http://www.freewebs.com/mhninaeide/pharrnotes.pdf )
i agree that an immersive book in attic would be great. i remember a fellow aussie wrote about this somewhere on the net, trying to find the article... here it is, the first link on this page: http://jeltzz.com/essays.html
cheers, chad
Sinister Petrus wrote:Here's what we need for Greek:
η μεν Κρητη εστι νησος, η δε Ελλας εστι πατριδα. η Κρητη εστι εν θαλασσᾳ και ο Ροδος. ο γαρ Ροδος εστι νησος. ο τε Λεσβοσ νησος εστι και ο Ροδοσ. ο μεν Ροδος εστι μεγαλοσ, ουκ εστι μεγαλοσ ο Λεσβος.
NateD26 wrote:[T]his is far too repetitive to be anything close to genuine Greek.
Sinister Petrus wrote:The idea behind the repetition is to drill in how εστι(ν) works. So that you never forget how. Ever. After, say, fifty sentences of this sort of thing, μεν... δε... is also clear (if you see μεν, δε is one to be ready for). If you see ο/η/το, εστι(ν) is the verb. If you see οι/αι/τα/ο και ο/κτλ, εισι(ν) is your verb. Pay attention to the reading—and there should be lots of it—and you'll not make (many) mistakes in reading. My poorly written sample is probably not even 1% of what a first chapter would include.
Sinister Petrus wrote:I'll bet all the tea in China that your university text had a large portion of its text in English. I'll bet that amount again that the grammar, save for a few examples, was wholly in English. Classical language textbooks, save for a isolated examples, are at least a century behind modern language teaching techniques. I love my Latin and Greek teachers, but they were teaching memorization of paradigms/grammar rules as the key. I hold them in high esteem, but their instruction didn't teach me to read Greek and Latin as such. I did learn to decode them. Vast amounts of basic, comprehensible beginner Latin taught me how to read.
Sinister Petrus wrote:(I assume based on your dim view of immersion techniques that) You managed to learn how to read Plato by memorizing vocabulary lists and paradigms. Good for you. Seriously. Just realize that you are in a very small minority. I have no clue how I'm going to get to Plato without some serious pre-reading of Greek. I suspect the majority of language learners are like me (if my reading in second language acquisition theory and personal, albeit anecdotal, experience are the norm).
NateD26 wrote:1. A neuter plural subject takes a singular verb. weird rule but it took me a while to get used to it.
2. How many connected sentences with the copula included do you have in mind to appear in the first
chapter? Every sentence? Just a few on the first page? Doesn't the concept of how it works become
clear after a while?
Sinister Petrus wrote:Back on topic, I've been thinking about learning Latin and Greek at the same time. The more I think about it, the less I think it is a possible (or necessarily desirable) thing. Are Latin and Greek even that much alike?


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"I'm just amazed by this," said board member Bob Heltman. "I'm perplexed. (It) sounds foolish as hell to me."
"I don't think we need to be stepping back in time," agreed Chairman Tom Wilson, referring to the days when illegibly marked paper ballots had to be hand-examined by elections officials, slowing returns.
House Bill 607, sponsored by Reps. Bert Jones (R-Rockingham) and Justin Barr (R-Albemarle), would require that all state boards of elections tally paper ballots using optical scanners and would prohibit the use of touch screen voting systems currently used by Henderson and 35 other counties.
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"In a big election, it'll cost about $25,000 just for the paper ballots," said Henderson County Director of Elections Beverly Cunningham. She told the board the cost of buying optical scanners, special machines for the visually impaired and private voting booths will cost the county around $500,000.
None of the 36 counties currently using touch screen machines have private voting booths to allow ballot marking, Cunningham said. The booths average $150 each.
Wilson said the touch screen system used by Henderson County has been proven to be efficient and accurate. By comparison, if someone makes a mistake on a paper ballot and crosses it out, he said, optical readers often won't be able to read it.
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The bill proposing paper ballot exclusivity passed the House on its first reading and was referred to the Committee on Elections.
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If two more people file to run for at-large seats on Hendersonville City Council, Cunningham told the board, they will have to hold a city primary.
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