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Just after mile nine, I started to hurt. The course dumped us onto Brook Road, a four-lane strip that passed the Union Theological Seminary and its network of soccer fields, tennis courts, and fitness trails. The road rose ahead, reminding me of how far I had to go, and I didn't like it one bit. My hamstrings and quads throbbed. My arms shot out at odd angles. So this is what it means to lose your form.
I scrambled for one last survival strategy. Run like you're riding. I picked people ahead of me, ran up behind them sucking up their draft, then passed them. When people passed me, I jumped on their heels and did my best to stay close.
We turned onto Cary Street and dropped 70 vertical feet over two-tenths of a mile to the finish. I wanted to hurtle down the hill like the human bowling balls around me, yet I remained the pained pin—upright and wobbling. I cranked my arms and mercifully crossed the line. I lived to race another day—but next time I might make it a 5-K.
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A facelift for my daughter's doll and a viral video about a toy monkey teach lessons about redemption
Not long ago, a video of a little boy reunited with his long lost toy monkey, Ah-Ah, went viral, garnering over 1.5 million views. Ah-Ah, who'd been Liam's beloved companion since infancy, went missing on a camping trip in 2009. Three years later, Liam's mom found what she thought was a similar monkey on eBay and bought it; it turned out to be the monkey. Liam's reaction was potent. Now 7 or 8, Liam is clearly old enough not to need the stuffed animal anymore, but when he sees Ah-Ah, he bursts into tears, and sobs, "I forgot what he looked like!" Watch the video. If it does not reduce you to a teary-eyed puddle, I don't want to know you.
In the video, we see old photos of a pristine Ah-Ah with a very little Liam, as well as shots of present-day Ah-Ah. Liam's mother points out the monkey's singed fur, the mulch embedded in Ah-Ah's paws, and the jagged tag that Liam cut as a toddler. To Liam, even half a lifetime later, Ah-Ah was immediately recognizable.
How can you not think of Margery Williams' classic lines from The Velveteen Rabbit: "And about his little soft nose and his round black eyes there was something familiar, so that the Boy thought to himself: 'Why, he looks just like my old Bunny that was lost when I had scarlet fever!' But he never knew that it really was his own Bunny, come back to look at the child who had first helped him to be Real." Those words cause us parents a little ache. Kids see The Velveteen Rabbit as a story about love and magic—the bunny becomes real!—but grown-ups know it's about love and loss, how the world of fantasy and innocence and make-believe fade away, but love endures. (We hope.) Most kids aren't as sentimental as we parents are; like the Boy, they look forward. The Liam video is potent because this kid can still look back. He and his mom are together in the wonder of finding Ah-Ah again. He hasn't left his childhood—or her—behind. Parent and child are both aware of the wonder and mystery of being lost and being found and growing up.
KJ Dell'Antonia at the New York Times Motherlode blog wrote her own lower-lip-tremble-inducing response to the video: "My babies are at home with me, growing up, but still sleeping in beds surrounded with stuffed animals that are more nuisance to me than nostalgia," she wrote. "My mom's baby—the one she taught to believe in her stuffed animals, the one she gave a stuffed bear to one year, saying, 'He told me he needed to come home to live with you'—is, of course, me, and that bear is long gone, as, in a sense, is the child who cried into him when she needed him, and slept with him every night."
In its unity and completeness, the Ah-Ah tale is a lovely story of redemption. In The Spiritual Life of Children, Robert Coles interviewed children of many different backgrounds and learned that kids, even secular ones, seek meaning and faith. And this particular narrative works for our own tradition, says my own mom, a Renowned Jewish Educator: "This story reminds me of why exile was so shattering for the Jewish people," she told me. "Pre-Diaspora, God or the shekhinah was there to protect. And suddenly it felt as though God was absent." Is it such a stretch to think of the shekhinah, God's feminine presence, as a motherly change agent? I'm not saying the shekhinah is an eBay-er, but I am saying that the return of Ah-Ah is proof that mystical things happen, through a combination of human (in this case, maternal) agency and forces we don't understand. Ultimately, there is reunion. On a small scale, the blue monkey comes back. On a more metaphysical scale, we try to have faith in a Messianic era of harmony. Stories like this help us believe.
Which brings me to—forgive me for bringing up a holiday so soon after we've endured a seemingly endless string of holidays—a Hanukkah story: the tale of Isabel Montina, Maxie's special lovey. This isn't precisely a story of reunion, but one of restoration.
First, a little (not-so) secret: I am a control freak. I've read parenting books. I know how to head off disaster. Which is why I oh-so-cleverly bought duplicates of all objects I thought my children would bond with, just to avoid an Ah-Ah situation. (Ha-Ha.) Parenting Lesson #1: You can't prepare for everything, and you can't shield your child from all pain. When Maxie was 2, she fell in love with a random Garnet Hill doll, a Hanukkah gift from aforementioned Grandma. At first it had an old-fashioned painted-on face, a soft fabric body, and fuzzy green overalls. But Maxie took it everywhere and slept with it every night. For four years. She loved it so much and so well that it began to disintegrate.
The face started to fade, then peel off. We tried holding its chin and forehead together with Band-Aids, but new facial holes kept appearing. Eventually, its head was a grayish-white skull-like expanse with bits and strings of tan panty-hose-esque mesh pulling across it here and there. I wish I had a picture of Isabel Montina (always "Isabel Montina," never just "Isabel"—Maxie could never explain the name, though she called her Baby just as often) at her worst. You'll have to take my word for it: By last Hanukkah, just after Maxie's seventh birthday, Isabel Montina's face was truly monstrous. Maxie's big sister Josie was scared of her.
As the doll grew more and more Night of the Living Dead-like, I created a standing search for "Garnet Hill soft doll" on eBay. I was not as lucky as Liam's mom; even after years of saved searches, I found nothing. Eventually, Josie began noodging for me to get Baby fixed as a Hanukkah present for Maxie. Maxie, a typical younger sister, began echoing her: "Can you fix Baby?" But that would have meant sending Baby away, and Maxie had never slept apart from Baby. I couldn't imagine she really understood what it would be like to be without her Baby, and besides, what if fixing it made it worse, made it Not Baby? (Parenting Lesson #2: Who, exactly, was I really worried about here? Anyway.)
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Making fun of Cory is now on hold indefinitely until I put my life back in order. I don't really need one more thing in my life to feel guilty about, so I'm gonna stop beating myself up about not updating. Also I'm still super bummed about that post that got deleted. It was pretty good.
Sorry, y'all. I'll be back in a month or two if everything goes as planned, AND once I can actually stick to a regular — say, weekly — schedule.
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A flicker of annoyance passed over her face, then went away. "So melodramatic, Marcus. […]"
Well, Severe Haircut Lady (I'm still half-convinced that's supposed to be a crude dogwhistle for "lesbian") has a point. Pronounced Winston has just given the hammiest performance about "the Bill of Rights" ever, probably to match her Movie Mobster act.
What I find interesting here is this: he's been imprisoned and brutalized for no obvious reason, and so far has just been reacting with fear and shock. But what makes him find his "spine" again is a spurious political argument about national security.
In other words, he doesn't feel that what was done to him was unconditionally wrong. He just thinks it was done for the wrong reasons.
Am I reaching? Possibly, because that's ascribing a lot of rationality to someone who is being traumatized practically as we speak. Still, we're careful and experienced readers here, aren't we? We all know about how texts are at odds with themselves.
I don't really need to bore you with Derrida and deconstruction; just recall William Blake's comment about Paradise Lost, that how Milton was "of the Devil's party without knowing it". To convey the seductive power of evil, Milton chooses to make his Satan admirable — but can we really say, on the basis of Paradise Lost itself, that Milton was not likewise seduced? Or, in more precise terms, that the text, in the character of the androgynous Lucifer, displays an irreconcilable ambiguity at its very core? The only way to settle such ambiguities is to say — ah, but we know that the God of Protestant Christianity is good, from sources other than Paradise Lost, and because we are good Protestant Christians.
But we're not — well, most of the people likely to read this aren't. Apologies to any good Protestant Christians out there, for using you as a rhetorical device. I'm sure you can deal with it.
So the rift here, in Little Brother, becomes one between Marcus reacting the way he does because that's the only thing he's feeling sure of right now — his rights as an American — and of him reacting the way he does because of a narrative logic embedded in liberal political practice: you cannot infringe upon my rights, because there's already a proper class of people for that, people who don't have rights, the un-American "militants", "enemy combatants" and "terrorists". Go hassle one of them, that's what my tax money is for!
So I rattled my wrists, wanting to get to my phone and unlock it for her, and she just looked at me coldly, checking her watch.
"The password," I said, finally understanding what she wanted of me. She wanted me to say it out loud, here, where she could record it, where her pals could hear it. She didn't want me to just unlock the phone. She wanted me to submit to her. To put her in charge of me. To give up every secret, all my privacy. "The password," I said again, and then I told her the password. God help me, I submitted to her will.
The position of the phone in this scene is amazing. It's like you're reading the account of someone betraying their comrades-at-arms from the resistance after weeks of torture.
Except it's just a phone.
Except it's not just a phone, not for Marcus (and Cory). He loves his gadgets more than he loves any living person. As far as we can tell, anyway.
You might be wondering at this point what dark secrets I had locked away on my phone and memory sticks and email. I'm just a kid, after all.
The truth is that I had everything to hide, and nothing. Between my phone and my memory sticks, you could get a pretty good idea of who my friends were, what I thought of them, all the goofy things we'd done. You could read the transcripts of the electronic arguments we'd carried out and the electronic reconciliations we'd arrived at.
See, he's right. Pronounced Winston's condition — and ours out here in the real world, arguably — is that of cyborgs, our flesh and minds intertwined with electronics, social networking accounts and all sorts of machines that make our current way of life possible. It is a serious violation.
There's something really liberating about having some corner of your life that's yours, that no one gets to see except you. It's a little like nudity or taking a dump. Everyone gets naked every once in a while. Everyone has to squat on the toilet. There's nothing shameful, deviant or weird about either of them. But what if I decreed that from now on, every time you went to evacuate some solid waste, you'd have to do it in a glass room perched in the middle of Times Square, and you'd be buck naked?
Even if you've got nothing wrong or weird with your body — and how many of us can say that? — you'd have to be pretty strange to like that idea. Most of us would run screaming. Most of us would hold it in until we exploded.
It's not about doing something shameful. It's about doing something private. It's about your life belonging to you.
I don't have a critique of the concept of privacy. I don't think a critique of the concept of privacy is necessary. Call it a bourgeois weakness in my otherwise total rejection of individualism or something.
Maybe it's to do with my personal history, and with the fact that I've been deprived of privacy and self-determination for pretty long periods of time. I don't know. I'd be happy to talk about it if you want, and figure out my position in greater detail. But as it is, I agree with Marcus.
They were taking that from me, piece by piece. As I walked back to my cell, that feeling of deserving it came back to me. I'd broken a lot of rules all my life and I'd gotten away with it, by and large. Maybe this was justice. Maybe this was my past coming back to me. After all, I had been where I was because I'd snuck out of school.
Again, I can't help but sympathize, which kind of goes against the purpose of this whole blog, but whatever. Anyone would feel like they must've deserved it somehow in this situation, when their previous vision of a basically fair and predictable world is completely shattered.
They re-shackled and re-hooded me and left me there. A long time later, the truck started to move, rolling downhill, and then I was hauled back to my feet. I immediately fell over. My legs were so asleep they felt like blocks of ice, all except my knees, which were swollen and tender from all the hours of kneeling.
No smug shit so far, just the facts and the visceral horror of imprisonment.
It's not very horrific, though, the way Cory/Marcus tells it. Legs being "asleep", in particular, is a really lighthearted phrase that I find completely at odds with what's going on here. Numbness, immobility, paralysis, powerlessness, yeah, I'd go with some associations like this. Being asleep? That's safe and peaceful.
I don't think Cory has a very good imagination for "powerlessness" or "not being safe", is what I'm trying to say. And here's some corroboration:
Then we were moving again, and this time, it wasn't like driving in a truck. The floor beneath me rocked gently and vibrated with heavy diesel engines and I realized I was on a ship! My stomach turned to ice. I was being taken off America's shores to somewhere else, and who the hell knew where that was? I'd been scared before, but this thought terrified me, left me paralyzed and wordless with fear. I realized that I might never see my parents again and I actually tasted a little vomit burn up my throat. The bag over my head closed in on me and I could barely breathe, something that was compounded by the weird position I was twisted into.
Seriously, Pronounced Winston, this is what scares you? Leaving "America's shores"? Not torture and imprisonment and death?
I suppose it's excusable for the character, because we understand that the protagonist has never had to fear for his life — plus, the shock of it all must be a thing, too. It's not implausible that this little bit of ideology, "taken off America's shores", being brutally torn out from the protection of the nation-state, would push him over the edge.
So! Let's call it accidental competence and move on.
(Note also the vomit, directly related to the piss/excretion/abjection theme. Not subtle, but plausible and thematically sound.)
Anyway, they arrive somewhere and put him in a cell.
The next time they came to question me, I was filthy and tired, thirsty and hungry. Severe haircut lady was in the new questioning party, as were three big guys who moved me around like a cut of meat. One was black, the other two were white, though one might have been hispanic. They all carried guns. It was like a Benneton's ad crossed with a game of Counter-Strike.
And the smug shit returns with a vengeance, complete with a videogame reference. What even is this? Is it worth it to analyze how this fragment addresses race and ethnicity? Fuck no it's not. It's Pronounced Winston trying very hard to be an unfunny dickhead when his life is in peril. Next, please.
The interrogation room was modern, with fluorescent lights, ergonomic chairs — not for me, though, I got a folding plastic garden-chair — and a big wooden board-room table. A mirror lined one wall, just like in the cop shows, and I figured someone or other must be watching from behind it. Severe haircut lady and her friends helped themselves to coffees from an urn on a side-table (I could have torn her throat out with my teeth and taken her coffee just then), and then set a styrofoam cup of water down next to me — without unlocking my wrists from behind my back, so I couldn't reach it. Hardy har har.
"Hello, Marcus," Severe Haircut woman said. "How's your 'tude doing today?"
Writers often speak of characters having "a voice" — a unique, recognizable way of speaking. In Little Brother, Doctorow discards such quaint notions without a shred of pity. He knows that the only voice that's necessary is the booming divine proclamation of the author, put into any number of convenient mouthpieces, or displayed in contrast to ludicrous strawmen. Acknowledging that his characters are basically interchangeable — that an intimidating military interrogator doesn't have to speak differently from a callow high school youth — elevates Cory's book to the highest plane of literary achievement, alongside What I Did On My Summer Holidays, by Peter, age 5, the World of Warcraft User Manual and the DSM-IV.
I didn't say anything.
"This isn't as bad as it gets you know," she said. "This is as good as it gets from now on. Even once you tell us what we want to know, even if that convinces us that you were just in the wrong place at the wrong time, you're a marked man now. We'll be watching you everywhere you go and everything you do. You've acted like you've got something to hide, and we don't like that."
In an effort to convey how evil this woman and her entire institution is, Cory has her talk like a B-movie gangster. "You're a marked man now"? Please.
The hammy cartoon villain act goes on for a while, with the "severe haircut woman" (isn't that some kind of dogwhistle?) demanding that Marcus remove his super leet teen haxor phone locks that the literal US military has no idea how to circumvent. Your tax dollars at work!
The word "no" was on my lips, like a burp trying to come up, but it wouldn't come. "Why?" is what came out instead.
Again with the icky bodily functions; burping is this close to vomiting. We get it already. Also: "trying to come up but it wouldn't come"? You're pretty rich, Doctorow, hire a goddamn editor already.
"We want to be sure that you're what you seem to be. This is about your security, Marcus. Say you're innocent. You might be, though why an innocent man would act like he's got so much to hide is beyond me. But say you are: you could have been on that bridge when it blew. Your parents could have been. Your friends. Don't you want us to catch the people who attacked your home?"
But as soon as she switched to this BS about "safety" and "security," my spine came back. "Lady," I said, "you're talking about attacking my home, but as far as I can tell, you're the only one who's attacked me lately. I thought I lived in a country with a constitution. I thought I lived in a country where I had rights. You're talking about defending my freedom by tearing up the Bill of Rights."
Well, someone has been paying attention in all the political discussions on Slashdot.
I'll come back to the last part (hopefully after a shorter break this time); for now, feel free to enjoy that moment of self-assured libertarian chest-pounding in all its unabridged glory.
We doin' this.
This chapter is dedicated to Barnes and Noble, a US national chain of bookstores. As America's mom-and-pop bookstores were vanishing, Barnes and Noble started to build these gigantic temples to reading all across the land. Stocking tens of thousands of titles (the mall bookstores and grocery-store spinner racks had stocked a small fraction of that) and keeping long hours that were convenient to families, working people and others potential readers, the B&N stores kept the careers of many writers afloat, stocking titles that hbrghl smaller stores couldn't possibly afford to keep on their bhgfrtl limited shelves. B&N has always ugbhlbhh had strong community outreach proghhhhrams, and I've dongbhrgbe soHHHme of my best-attended, best-organized signings at B&N stohoHOHGHOres, including the grrrrRRRRBAAGRGHeat eveeEYA EYA EYA IA IA GRBBLLRLB FRRRGH HNNNG HNG BRAAAGH ALL HAIL THE DEVOURING VOID, THE END OF THINGS! THE UNSLEEPING ONES ARE COMING FROM BEYOND THE ABYSS
I'm not sure what Cory's thinking. I don't expect him to care about, or be capable of understanding, the broader economic context of chain bookstores, their place in manufacturing mass ideology, their role in determining what sorts ideas are publishable and so on, but surely he could at least muster a bit of liberal hand-wringing about the work conditions in those places? We don't have Barnes & Noble here, but our biggest chain of bookstores, Empik, has recently been voted Worst Employer of 2011 by a bunch of people on a website. I can't imagine how this would be even the tiniest bit better in the USA, which doesn't even have half of our increasingly shaky and dead-lettery labour protections.
But no, because "families and working people". There, he said the magic buzzwords, you can shut off your critical faculties now.
The reason I harp on this is because Nerds tend to talk a lot about "critical thinking"; the overlap with insufferable Internet atheists, in particular, is significant. I don't mean this in a HA HA U SAY U SMRT BUT U AKSUALY DUM way — okay, I kind of do, but that's not the whole point. I'm also interested in putting together some sort of thesis about Nerd Reason — what do Nerds understand by "proper" or "logical" thinking?
My first suggestion is that Nerd Reason is oriented towards solving discrete problems with a narrowly defined set of rules. How do I write a line of code that makes the guy on the screen jump when I press a button? How do I disprove an argument by pointing out its fallacies? How do I make someone want to have sex with me?
You see the problem, of course, especially with the last example. "Making" someone want to have sex with you is already pretty sleazy and manipulative (to say nothing of structural power imbalances and rape culture), but the ethical question is external to the "problem" that the Nerd needs to "solve".
I just wanted to put this down and post it before tumblr deletes it again and I completely lose my train of thought. Discussion of the next chapter will follow shortly. I'm sure you can't wait.
Last time, Pronounced Winston et consortes were captured by a bunch of armed assholes and dragged off to God knows where.
Vanessa looked at me and bit her lip. She was scared. So was I. So was Jolu, his eyes rolling crazily in their sockets, the whites showing. I was scared. What's more, I had to piss like a race-horse.
Piss becomes the major theme of this segment, actually. The next bit is all about Marcus trying to convince his captors to let him go to the bathroom, which they do; they even go so far as to uncuff him. A lot of time and love went into making the pissadventures of Pronounced Winston relatable. Make of that what you will.
As my bladder cut loose, so did my eyes. I wept, crying silently and rocking back and forth while the tears and snot ran down my face. It was all I could do to keep from sobbing — I covered my mouth and held the sounds in. I didn't want to give them the satisfaction.
Dude's leaking fluids all over the place. Excretion is, of course, a sign of abjection: the substances we push out of our bodies are, in a very basic sense, not-ourselves, disgusting waste, reminders of our own mysterious, squishy, gurgling, churning insides, very different from the idealized view of the human creature as a noble, rational and moral being. Pronounced Winston is adrift on the limitless abhuman ocean of the Piss Dimension.
The man who came in was wearing a military uniform. A US military uniform. He saluted the people in the truck and they saluted him back and that's when I knew that I wasn't a prisoner of some terrorists — I was a prisoner of the United States of America.
No, Marcus, you are the terrorists.
"Hello, Marcus," Severe Haircut woman said. "We have some questions for you."
"Am I under arrest?" I asked. This wasn't an idle question. If you're not under arrest, there are limits on what the cops can and can't do to you. For starters, they can't hold you forever without arresting you, giving you a phone call, and letting you talk to a lawyer. And hoo-boy, was I ever going to talk to a lawyer.
Like I said, I gotta give Cory some credit here. This is perfectly consistent with what we've learned about Marcus: he thinks he's the coolest and most badass kid in town, he's got all the adults figured out, he knows how to play them like a fiddle. He's seen all the videos on the Internet about his "constitutional rights" and what to do if a cop pulls you over. He's gonna play hardball with these heavily armed people who've just kidnapped him because he's an American, for fuck's sake. You can't treat an American this way.
He's an idiot.
"Am I under arrest?" I repeated. They can't make you answer any questions if you're not under arrest, and when you ask if you're under arrest, they have to answer you. It's the rules.
See? It's the rules.
"I'm not going to unlock my phone for you," I said, indignant. My phone's memory had all kinds of private stuff on it: photos, emails, little hacks and mods I'd installed. "That's private stuff."
"What have you got to hide?"
"I've got the right to my privacy," I said. "And I want to speak to an attorney."
"This is your last chance, kid. Honest people don't have anything to hide."
"I want to speak to an attorney." My parents would pay for it. All the FAQs on getting arrested were clear on this point. Just keep asking to see an attorney, no matter what they say or do. There's no good that comes of talking to the cops without your lawyer present. These two said they weren't cops, but if this wasn't an arrest, what was it?
In hindsight, maybe I should have unlocked my phone for them.
You see what I mean, right? First of all, this is in-character, and second of all — this is the first time Pronounced Winston ever admits he was wrong about something. I actually don't have a complaint here!
Well, apart from the fact that it's hard to even call it "wrong". The very fact someone's asking questions instead of just hauling him off for a 48-hour torture session just to soften him up means he's incredibly lucky (or privileged, we might as well say). He's not wrong about the phone and the lawyer as much as he is wrong about the entire fucking world and his place in it, and he's about to learn that in a fairly nasty manner.
Well, how much he will actually learn is up to Cory. I'm not holding my breath.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends. I heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.
Things aren't looking too hot for Pronounced Winston right now; he's been captured by some military-looking people and is being whisked off to an undisclosed location. Oh, and they're also beating him up I guess?
I'll drop the act for a while: the upcoming section is actually quite believable and, in a purely technical sense, well done. That's why I'll be glossing over most of it. Cory already has an army of fawning sycophants at his disposal; feel free to ask one of them if you want to hear nice things about Doctorow. Here at Sensible Tits Dot Tumblr Dot Com, we are serious about our mission: being a dick to a rich nerd.
Who were these clowns? They weren't wearing insignia. Maybe they were terrorists! I'd never really believed in terrorists before — I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terrorists somewhere in the world, but they didn't really represent any risk to me. There were millions of ways that the world could kill me — starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia — that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists. Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions. Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
It's a subtle thing, and therefore almost definitely unintentional, but Marcus frames "terrorists" as an environmental hazard. Car accident, earthquake, someone blowing you up – these things happen, right?
The first and most obvious layer of this framing is depersonalization and naturalization. People speak of accidents or natural disasters in terms of "acts of God": mostly unpredictable, mostly unpreventable, caused by an inscrutable higher power or stupid random chance. But, shock of shocks, "terrorism" is nothing like that. "Terror attacks" have material and historical causes and are expressions of ideological positions – they are, in a word, political. "Unsanctioned political violence" is an okay start of a working definition of terrorism, although probably insufficient as a deeper analysis.
So, that's number one: pretending that there's no difference between the IRA and a hurricane. They both arise spontaneously and in a historico-ideological void to lay waste to decent, law-abiding folk, just because. Nothing human or comprehensible about either of them, nope.
But there's also another level to this framing. It expresses an amusingly perverse truth about the US empire: that in order to uphold it and enjoy its benefits, including the privilege of not having to think too hard about the world, one must put up with the occasional swarm of genetically engineered bees, inexplicable drought or bomb in a major city.
It's not that it's rude to naturalize terrorism as an inexplicable force of nature, because Terrorists Are People Too. It's that the hegemonic order of knowledge is built on such naturalizations – and in both directions, when you consider the discourse of modern neoliberal economics, where particular dynamics emergent from specific historical circumstances are taken as immutable laws of nature. And even further – the production of knowledge is the production of power.
In a sense, what some random idiot said about me recently on Twitter is true: I am "anti-science", if by science we take to mean this production of knowledge-power, and the assertion that this production is not only admirable, but beyond criticism.
If we are working, here, towards some sort of definition of "Nerdism", it has to be noted that Nerdism, and Cory, embraces this kind of "science" with unsurpassed enthusiasm. Essential to the Nerdist ideology is the position that science is "pure", non-ideological, that there is some kind of Platonic ideal of knowledge that knowledge-workers access through a mystical communion with the Laws of the Universe, and that this pure knowledge only becomes tainted with ideology when it comes into contact with the sphere of the social.
To reject this silly belief is to take a first, tentative step towards an epistemology worth a damn, and a politics of liberation.
Sitting in the back of that Hummer, my head in a hood, my hands lashed behind my back, lurching back and forth while the bruises swelled up on my head, terrorism suddenly felt a lot riskier.
And lest I forget to mention, there's also the racialization of "terrorism" and "terrorist", though that is probably not the best word for it. I think even Cory is aware of this aspect, in his adorably bumbling way? This has been covered to Hell and back, so I won't belabour the point: currently, in mainstream US discourse, "terrorist" stands for an ethnic and/or cultural Other. White People Can't Be Terrorists.
I actually managed a kind of sleep there, kneeling with the circulation cut off to my legs, my head in canvas twilight. My body had squirted a year's supply of adrenalin into my bloodstream in the space of 30 minutes, and while that stuff can give you the strength to lift cars off your loved ones and leap over tall buildings, the payback's always a bitch.
I'm just going to note the gendered slur here with malicious glee. It's not entirely fair of me; a lot of feminists will still use it negatively, simply since it's such a deeply ingrained cultural thing even if you actively try to fight it, and I never give them too much shit about it. But this is Cory we're talking about, here.
We were all in the back of a truck, a big 16-wheeler. I could see the wheel-wells at regular intervals down the length. But the back of this truck had been turned into some kind of mobile command-post/jail. Steel desks lined the walls with banks of slick flat-panel displays climbing above them on articulated arms that let them be repositioned in a halo around the operators. Each desk had a gorgeous office-chair in front of it, festooned with user-interface knobs for adjusting every millimeter of the sitting surface, as well as height, pitch and yaw.
Then there was the jail part — at the front of the truck, furthest away from the doors, there were steel rails bolted into the sides of the vehicle, and attached to these steel rails were the prisoners.
I spotted Van and Jolu right away. Darryl might have been in the remaining dozen shackled up back here, but it was impossible to say — many of them were slumped over and blocking my view. It stank of sweat and fear back there.
No, you spotted the "slick flat-panel displays" and "gorgeous office chairs" and "user-interface knobs" first, Marcus. Good to see that all this unprovoked violence hasn't made you lose sight of what's really important in life: shitty gadgets.
Darryl groaned and looked at us, then down at his side, then he groaned and his head went back again.
Last time, Pronounced Winston's feverish douchebaggery has claimed its first victim, as his friend and only likable character so far, Darryl, was stabbed for associating with the biggest asshole in town. Well, we don't know that, but we don't know anything else about this completely random crime either. It is something of an example of conceptualizing "crime" as a faceless, pointless force of nature, or perhaps a social contagion.
Vanessa took off her jean jacket and then pulled off the cotton hoodie she was wearing underneath it. She wadded it up and pressed it to Darryl's side. "Take his head," she said to me. "Keep it elevated." To Jolu she said, "Get his feet up — roll up your coat or something." Jolu moved quickly. Vanessa's mother is a nurse
and she'd had first aid training every summer at camp. She loved to watch people in movies get their first aid wrong and make fun of them. I was so glad to have her with us.
Yeah, it's a good thing you brought a woman along in case some nurturing needs to get done. She may be Strong, but she also knows her place! I do believe I shall swoon.
Pronounced Winston takes out his phone and dials 911, but the line is obviously busy as hell. The Scooby Gang figure they'll just walk over to the road and stop an ambulance or a cop car, because a) cops are their friends, and b) nobody could possibly need the help of paramedics more than them.
Credit where credit is due: Cory quickly demonstrates why this is a spectacularly bad idea under the circumstances.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it. The car skidded to a stop just in front of me, and I jumped back and lost my balance and ended up on the road. I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by. I looked up and saw a bunch of military-looking guys in coveralls, holding big, bulky rifles and wearing hooded gas masks with tinted face-plates.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me. I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true. You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears. I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
I did a little fistpump, not gonna lie. Maybe they're the People's Army, finally arriving to execute Marcus for his Internet posts about creeping sharia, the gold standard and how women never want to date nice guys like him.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level. I didn't even breathe. Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe, so quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me. I was pushed roughly but dispassionately onto my stomach and something went twice around my wrists and then tightened up as well, feeling like baling wire and biting cruelly. I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
I've kind of stopped remarking on the quality of the writing now, because I'm trying not to focus too much on individual sentences, but it really did jump out at me here that Marcus is able to tell that he's being brutalized "roughly but dispassionately". You know how people who claim to give writing advice will tell you to get rid of all the adverbs? I don't think that's anywhere near a universal rule, but in this case, Doctorow, being a rank amateur, should have damn well listened.
My impression of the casual "tranny hooker" bullshit was that it was your standard casual privileged thoughtlessness combined with a desire to exhibit, in the narration, how cool Pronounced Winston is. Given the overall preachiness of the books (ha ha, just wait until you get to the afterword and other backmatter) it seemed clear to me that Doctorow was writing this book to an imagined mass of flyover-country kids who weren't cool or lucky enough to grow up in SF or NYC, and who thereby (in Cory's conception) couldn't possibly be acquainted with such charming local color as "tranny hookers," &c, and but if these imagined kids encountered them, they would probably be totally scandalized, the poor hayseeds.
But then there's Winston who is obviously totally blasé about such things, "oh hey tranny hookers and winos, no big deal," and we (or at least Cory's imagined flyover hayseed audience) are meant to be super impressed with Winston's casual dismissal, this kid's so cool he's not even freaked out by transsexual prostitutes.
Which of course is a double dose of contempt, when you think about it, because there's the obvious barefaced hatefulness of "tranny hooker," added to which there's the supposition that the flyover-kid audience is going to be really impressed with Winston's blasé-ness, because they couldn't possibly know any trans people or sex workers, because those only exist in really interesting places with lots of charming local color, like where Winston lives.
Then the world changed forever.
Remember when I stopped posting and the world changed forever?
"The world changed forever" is an interesting journalistic cliché, in that it not so much describes or analyzes an event as enacts it. Three thousand people, or three hundred thousand, could die of malnutrition or some natural disaster in the span of five seconds, but it is the voice of the privileged interpreter of reality that decides whether this mass death will be a chapter in the history of the world, or a footnote.
It's also telling, not showing, yet again. "Look, this is important because I say so!"
We felt it first, that sickening lurch of the cement under your feet that every Californian knows instinctively — earthquake.
But it's not an earthquake: soon a black mushroom cloud rises in the sky, and the ghastly realization strikes us: Cory is going to make us suffocate on hamfisted 9/11 references.
Anyway, there's a lot of yelling and running about, and somehow there are loudspeakers everywhere telling everyone to report to shelters immediately, and the chapter ends, and the next one "is dedicated to Borderlands Books, San Francisco's magnificent independent science fiction bookstore".
We passed a lot of people in the road on the way to the Powell Street BART. They were running or walking, white-faced and silent or shouting and panicked. Homeless people cowered in doorways and watched it all, while a tall black tranny hooker shouted at two mustached young men about something.
Yeah, he literally wrote "tranny hooker".
I fervently wish there were horrible, hurtful, dehumanizing words to call Cory's friends in retaliation, since he thinks nothing of being an utter dick to mine; I must resort to calling them "piece of shit nerds", which is accurate, but perfectly harmless. (This is sometimes known as "privilege" and also "hegemony", maybe you've heard of it).
People are crowding into the BART station, which I understand is fancy Bay Area talk for the metro, and—
"Screw you!" I heard Van yell behind me. "Pervert! Get your hands off of me!"
I strained around against the crowd and saw Van looking with disgust at an older guy in a nice suit who was kind of smirking at her. She was digging in her purse and I knew what she was digging for.
"Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too."
Yeah, God forbid she defend herself from sexual assault by any means necessary. Pronounced Winston knows better. It's also another piece of Strong Female Characterization, that is to say, a lot of yelling and posturing and being tough, just so long as it's understood that the boys are still in charge.
The crowd in the station is pretty brutal, people are falling down, and the Marcus Gang decides to go back up top.
We popped free like Champagne corks an eternity later, blinking in the grey smoky light. The air raid sirens were still blaring, and the sound of emergency vehicles' sirens as they tore down Market Street was even louder. There was almost no one on the streets anymore — just the people trying hopelessly to get underground. A lot of them were crying. I spotted a bunch of empty benches usually staked out by skanky winos and pointed toward them.
"Skanky winos" now.
You know, I'm having a really big problem grasping why Marcus insists on being such a tremendous piss wizard to anyone who isn't white, male, cisgendered and bourgeois as hell (I don't think we've hit homophobia and the other cool prejudices yet, correct me if I'm wrong). Normally, after this many instances of it, I would have assumed this was good characterization: that we're supposed to detest this smug, condescending prick and eagerly await some sort of comeuppance.
Option two is, of course, that this is how Cory always talks, or at least, how he imagines a teenage clone of himself in San Francisco would talk. Nothing deliberate, just regular old casual hate speech.
Option three is very implausible, but it keeps coming back to me: that Cory knows perfectly well what he's doing. That he explicitly wants to construct a Nerdism in which everyone is included so long as they know their place — beneath him, being shat on 24/7.
It is of course not necessary for this to be deliberate, because that's what the text ends up doing anyway, but the idea of Doctorow as not just clueless, but actively malicious is one I'm finding very hard to shake.
We moved for them, the sirens and the smoke making us duck and hunch our shoulders. We got as far as the benches before Darryl fell forward.
We all yelled and Vanessa grabbed him and turned him over. The side of his shirt was stained red, and the stain was spreading. She tugged his shirt up and revealed a long, deep cut in his pudgy side.
So I guess he got stabbed by one of the undesirables in the crowd. Possibly they mistook Darryl's embarrassed silence in reaction to Marcus yelling racial slurs at strangers in the crowded station (this is what I imagine he was doing this entire time) as agreement.


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Actual Cancer Deaths Decrease for Second Year Running
Marking what many cancer researchers are calling an important trend, the actual number of cancer deaths in the United States fell by more than 3,000 from 2003 to 2004, the most recent year for which mortality data are available. The steady decline in the rate of cancer deaths also continued.
The downturn from 556,902 deaths in 2003 to 553,888 in 2004 marks the biggest single-year decrease ever and the second consecutive year in which actual deaths - not just the death rate - have dipped.
"This decrease in actual number of cancer deaths, coupled with our SEER data showing a decline in the rate of cancer deaths since 1991, is extremely encouraging and highlights real progress," said NCI Director Dr. John E. Niederhuber.
The new mortality numbers were released as part of an annual report released by the American Cancer Society (ACS), Cancer Statistics 2007, which reports on the most recent mortality data, as well as providing cancer incidence and mortality estimates for the current year. Last year's publication showed a decrease of 369 cancer deaths from 2002 to 2003, the first-ever reported decline in cancer deaths since such statistics have been reported.
The new report has sparked intense optimism.
"This second consecutive drop in the number of actual cancer deaths, much steeper than the first, shows last year's drop was no fluke," said ACS Chief Executive Officer Dr. John R. Seffrin.
Even though the mortality rate has been decreasing for some time, added Dr. Gabriel N. Hortobagyi, president of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the fact that the number of cancer deaths has decreased during a time of continued population growth "is very encouraging."
The drop in deaths was largely attributed to the reductions in smoking prevalence over the past several decades, improvements in cancer screening rates, and the use of increasingly effective treatment regimens. Screening's impact was most evident for colorectal cancer, which had the greatest reductions in cancer deaths among both men and women from 2003 to 2004.
According to Dr. Brenda Edwards, associate director of the NCI Surveillance Research Program, collaborative research is ongoing by the NCI-sponsored Cancer Intervention and Surveillance Modeling Network to better understand the impact of risk factor reduction and prevention, screening, and treatment on trends in death and incidence rates for cancers of the breast, colon-rectum, lung, and prostate.
The report, led by Dr. Ahmedin Jemal, from the ACS Department of Epidemiology and Surveillance Research, notes that cancer still accounted for about 23 percent of all U.S. deaths in 2004, with only heart disease responsible for more. Also, with the exception of a few cancer sites, Dr. Jemal and his ACS colleagues wrote, "[Cancer] incidence and death rates are consistently higher in African Americans than in Whites."
Although improvements in treatment for some cancers have lagged behind those seen in screening, Dr. Hortobagyi said he was optimistic that, with the pattern that's begun to develop with the newer targeted agents, that would start to change.
The pattern, he explained, begins with a "biological signal" in early-stage trials that a drug could be effective. It then moves into larger trials where it demonstrates some prolongation in disease progression and survival in previously treated metastatic disease. Finally, it transitions to testing in an early-stage disease with a curative intent.
"We've seen that with breast cancer and colorectal cancer, for example, and we're starting to see it in other tumors, as well," he said.
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Interview: DJ Muggs
posted July 31, 2014, 12:22 pm by Carlita | Filed Under Editorial, General Interest, Interviews | Leave a Comment
When a music connoisseur mentions the words "DJ Muggs", several things come to mind. One of the best hip-hop producers of all-time? One of the best producers of all-time, period? That guy from Queens behind all your favorite Cypress Hill classics (he's working on the next album right now) and the unforgettable House of Pain's "Jump Around"? The guy who's collaborated with U2 and Depeche Mode and just recently released an EP this week called 'Vita E Morte' with a new multimedia collective featuring Andrew Kline, Brevi, and Sean Bonner named Cross My Heart Hope to Die (CMHHTD)? Yeah, that dude.
Interview: José James
posted July 21, 2014, 9:24 am by Carlita | Filed Under Editorial, Interviews | Leave a Comment
One of the best things about summer, besides the abundance of outdoor shows to choose from, is the time to delve into new albums en route to said shows. June yielded several road trip and airplane friendly albums including José James' standout latest offering, 'While You Were Sleeping'. Known for merging the old with the new via the blending of neo-soul, electronic, hip-hop and classic jazz influences on previous efforts, José boldly brings touches of punk and folk into the foray this time around. On the experimental tip, he puts a trademark Generation X/Y blurred stamp on your definition of genre.
Festivals: Rocklahoma Sights, Sounds (Day One)
posted May 30, 2014, 7:45 am by Brian Rutherford | Filed Under Festivals | Leave a Comment
Last week, Pryor, Oklahoma played host to the eighth annual Rocklahoma. Whether you made the trip or just stayed at home and barbecued for Memorial Day weekend, chances are you're still recovering. Although some logistical problems immediately came into play over the weekend, such as check-in traffic and cell phone signal and the overwhelming choice of terrific bands, we were there to get in close for a look at most of the action. Here we go…
We missed their show, but from everything we're told (including their peers) Blackstone Cherry is not a show to be missed. Check out their youtube video for "Blame it on the Boom Boom"
Interview: Mark de Clive-Lowe
posted February 20, 2014, 10:39 am by Carlita | Filed Under Editorial, General Interest, Interviews | Leave a Comment
In the world where we live or die on the hot single, as a music fan nowadays, it's rare to find cohesive albums that hold your attention with intricate production from start to finish. E-digging in the crates yet again, I came across such a gem called "Renegades" by New Zealand born, LA based producer, musician and orchestra bandleader Mark de Clive-Lowe. I immediately explored more of his diverse discography and found fiery music cutting across at least five genres (latin and classic jazz, soul, electronic, broken beat) from someone drawing comparisons to other avant-garde producers like Quincy Jones. Fortuitously, as is the case in LA, that same week, I attended Mark's live "CHURCH" show which brought the music (which will be on his upcoming album dropping in June) to life and had the whole crowd dancing with some spirit-filled tambourine shaking.
Interview: Twiztid
posted January 16, 2014, 10:41 am by Carlita | Filed Under Editorial, General Interest, Interviews | Leave a Comment
Peeping Juggalo fan favs Twiztid's first independently released mixtape , "A New Nightmare" (I, still a horrorcore newbie) frightened, impressed and intrigued me. Putting the break with Psychopathic Records (Insane Clown Posse's label) behind them, they ventured out on their own and had a very successful 2013, punctuated by their Abominationz Tour and headlining Rob Zombie's Great American Nightmare. In their 16 year career, this Detroit duo's (Madrox and Monoxide) done a lot, working with the likes of Tech N9ne, Swollen Members and Royce Da 5'9, to name a few.
Top Albums: Staff Picks for Best Albums of 2013
posted December 31, 2013, 3:38 pm by Brian Rutherford | Filed Under Top Albums | Leave a Comment
It's that time, minus one or two, our staff picks are in. Below, find the best indie music had to offer our beloved staff. Some in lists of albums, others in songs and some with both. Thanks for reading in 2013, and join us as we spend the next few weeks exploring what's to come in 2014. Read more
The Best Music of 2013 – At Least According to G.W. Hill
posted December 31, 2013, 12:11 pm by GWHill | Filed Under Music News | Leave a Comment
Early in the year I thought this was going to be a pretty mediocre year from music. I wasn't hearing a lot of stuff that was really exceptional. The thing is, as the year progressed, that really changed. In fact, it wound up quite difficult to get this list to any kind of decent length. I had to make some tough cuts to get it into a small enough format to work.
Live Review and Interviews: Red Bull Sound Select with El-P and special guest Killer Mike, Thurz, Warm Brew and Azizi Gibson
posted December 20, 2013, 10:59 am by Carlita | Filed Under Editorial, General Interest, Interviews, Live Show Reviews | Leave a Comment
'Tis the season to wrap up 2013 and if you were looking to turn up one last time before putting on ugly reindeer sweaters, jingling some bells and shutting it down until 2014, Red Bull Sound Select's LA show provided the perfect opportunity to do so. Mixing LA-based rising talent (Thurz, Azizi Gibson and the group Warm Brew) with an East Coast producer/artist on top of his game right now (El-P who brought along his Run the Jewels partner Killer Mike), you'd have to search far and wide to find a line-up like that for $3. On a cold (ok, it was 50) night, I ventured to the historic Troubadour to peep these acts. Read more
Interview: Johnny Richter
posted December 17, 2013, 1:02 pm by Carlita | Filed Under Editorial, General Interest, Interviews, Music News, Releases | Leave a Comment
After an intense start to 2013, MC Johnny Richter wraps up his year on a high note with the release of FreeKING Out, dropping today. Obviously, you might recognize him as a former member of platinum selling Orange County based group, Kottonmouth Kings. Breaking ties, channeling storied pasts, potential accusations and personal strife, Johnny focused his energy positively in response and connected with Souls Assassins producer G-Rocka to create his first solo EP in Cypress Hill member DJ Muggs' studio. Approaching almost 20 years in the business, he faces this next phase of his career with a significant supportive fanbase and a larger than life persona and image that's unforgettable. Read more
"Waking Up In Vegas"- 2013′s Life Is Beautiful Fest Review and Artist Interviews
posted October 28, 2013, 11:00 am by Carlita | Filed Under Festivals, General Interest, Interviews, Live Show Reviews, Music News, On The Verge | Leave a Comment
To say that I had a great time this weekend in Vegas at the first annual Life Is Beautiful music, art and food Fest would be an understatement. The Killers, Imagine Dragons ( whose set featured Cirque Du Soleil Mystere performers) Childish Gambino (who did a dope cover of "Rolling in the Deep"),Janelle Monae (who flew in from NYC after performing on SNL on Saturday),Alabama Shakes (love them), Danny Brown, Allen Stone (always fun live), Wallpaper and a slew of great rising Nevada reppers (including Red Bull Sound Select Tour Bus performers American Cream, Moondog Matinee and Ekoh and Homegrown Stager Sabriel ) and other talents from around the U.S.(The Kingston Springs, Tink, Cosmic Suckerpunch to name a few) all made the traffic I faced driving from Los Angeles worth it.
Everywhere you turned on each block of the downtown Fremont St. vicinity stimulated the senses. Whether it be the 3-D art painted on sides of buildings, the fire-shooting ant, the various indoor and outdoor music stages, the culinary village that featured air-conditioned tent chef demonstrations (came in handy to get a break from the sun) and the ridiculously tasty gourmet food under $10 (how often do you find that at a festival?), it all definitely outweighed the serious walking concertgoers did, traveling around from place to place (in hindsight, it was good calorie burning).
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Interview: DJ Colette
posted September 19, 2013, 7:42 am by Carlita | Filed Under Editorial, General Interest, Interviews | Leave a Comment
Growing up in my house, hours of booming, "ass-shaking" music filled my ears. Disco, dance and house music, in particular, made my little feet want to move constantly. Arriving in LA years later, a friend put me onto DJ Colette who not only brought those great memories flooding back but made it modern-day relevant. Repping Chicago and DJ collective Superjane, Colette released her first independent album on her own label, Candy Talk, When The Music's Loud a few weeks ago. Featuring the blazing electronica title single and 80's Adonis inspired "Hotwire", DJ Colette's clearly dropped another album full of club bangers. Read more
Exposed in the Grid – Adventures in Music & Mischief
posted September 4, 2013, 10:30 am by Danielle Martin | Filed Under Editorial, Exposed in the Grid, Festivals, General Interest, Live Show Reviews, On The Verge, Worldly Venues | Leave a Comment
In an ever-changing global music and arts culture, one certainty still remains. The city that never sleeps, New York City, continues to wear the crown of trend-setting tastes. In a column every-so-often, special reporter to Music Emissions, Danielle Martin will take on the beast known as the five boroughs and all it has to offer…
Aly Tadros live at Joe's Pub*
Folk music… This is definitely NOT your parent's folk music. For the longest time, I had a slight aversion to folk music based on my experiences as a child listening to my Grandfather's folk and country songs on the 8-track (hokey, etc. did not fit in with my rock/alternative mindset)…
Interview: Madchild from Swollen Members
posted July 24, 2013, 9:01 am by Carlita | Filed Under Editorial, General Interest, Interviews | Leave a Comment
A legend and crucial character in Canadian hip-hop, Madchild's reputation precedes him. An undeniably skilled lyricist and potential loose cannon fiery personality, he's dropped several unforgettable verses over his 14-year career. As a critical member of four-time Juno Award-winning Swollen Members (along with Rob the Viking and Prevail, who I spoke to earlier this year ), his talent speaks for itself. Achieving mainstream success, the bumpy road's been filled with addiction detours and legal bans that prevented this brilliant artist from reaching his full potential. Back and better than ever, Madchild's recently returned to the Canadian and U.S. stage (now allowed to return), rocking the Vans Warped Tour and is poised to drop his latest solo album, "Lawn Mower Man" in August. Read more
Contest: F.Y.E. Presents The Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival Flyaway!
posted July 9, 2013, 1:11 pm by Brian Rutherford | Filed Under Contest, Festivals, General Interest, Music News | Leave a Comment
SCOTT IAN'S METAL UNDERWORLD SELECTS TOP RELEASES FROM MAYHEM FESTIVAL LINE UP. Wanna go? Read more
Interview: Omar Rodriguez-Lopez from Bosnian Rainbows
posted June 21, 2013, 11:02 am by Carlita | Filed Under Editorial, General Interest, Interviews | Leave a Comment
As a music fan, there are few things better than when members of great bands get together and create a new great band. New alt rock band Bosnian Rainbows (comprised of Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Deantoni Parks from Grammy-winning The Mars Volta, Teri Gender Bender from Le Butcherettes and Nicci Kasper who's worked with Kudu and KRS-One) have joined forces to create said type of band and will release their self-titled debut on June 25. Combining left-field creativity and performance art sensibilities, this group has melded to form its own attention-grabbing entity. Read more
Episode 122: Unsigned and Wound Up 10
posted April 30, 2013, 5:27 pm by Brian Rutherford | Filed Under Editorial, General Interest, MP3, Music Emissions presents Unsigned and Wound Up, Music News, On The Verge, Podcast, Releases | 6 Comments
Welcome to another edition of Unsigned and Wound Up, volume 10 ladies and gents. The top three vote-getters will receive a professional review from a staff writer. The top vote-getter receives an interview feature.
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Tour Review: Cold War Kids
posted April 9, 2013, 9:37 pm by nlathy | Filed Under General Interest, Live Show Reviews, Music News, Tour | Leave a Comment
Cold War Kids shared a special moment with a sold-out crowd at the Newport Music Hall in Columbus, Ohio April 9.It's not a band, which interacts much with the audience. But the crowd was prepared to be wowed by their heroes. And the fans were rewarded for their devotion. Cold War Kids rock hard. "Mexican Dogs," the second song, was where the they started to cut loose.
Nathan Willett put on a good show whether he was singing vocals sans instrument, playing guitar, sitting at the piano or shaking the maracas. The new album, Dear Miss Lonelyhearts, was well represented in the set, which took a little more than an hour. Among the new songs, "Miracle Mile" was the biggest hit with the crowd. The band was entertaining throughout the night, moving about the stage effortlessly. Read more
Interview: Rival Sons' Jay Buchanan
posted March 26, 2013, 9:09 am by Carlita | Filed Under Editorial, General Interest, Interviews | Leave a Comment
As a kid on the 70's/80's cusp, classic rock played an integral part of my childhood. Artists like Pink Floyd, Dire Straits, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Free rattled from our car's speakers crisscrossing the country on frequent road trips and their songs remain imprinted on my cerebellum permanently. Nerdily scoping the regular late night show music schedule in Los Angeles (like I am prone to do) to see who'd be coming soon, I stumbled upon Rival Sons playing Jimmy Kimmel and gravitated to their latest album Head Down along with their previous one, Pressure and Time with songs like pointed "Burn Down Los Angeles" and sorrowful "Jordan" that now stay on repeat automatically. They took me right back to my favorite period of time blending modern and classic folk, rock, blues and funk, making me want to dance immediately. Live clips of these Long Beach, CA natives (who've opened for AC/DC, Judas Priest and Alice Cooper) playing live sealed the deal that this band was f-in dope.
I chatted with Rival Sons' frontman and lead singer Jay Buchanan right before he left for their latest European tour about "standing on the shoulders of giants", the band's secret name for him, working with noted producer Dave Cobb, his love of books and hidden wealth of knowledge that could possibly keep us alive on a stranded island and more. Check out the videos and interview clips below!
Interview: Del Tha Funkee Homosapien
posted March 4, 2013, 9:41 am by Carlita | Filed Under Editorial, General Interest, Interviews | Leave a Comment
Tags: DJ Toure, Del Tha Funkee Homosapien
Interviewing DJ Toure of the Bay Area Hieroglyphics crew a few weeks ago, I luckily connected with another member of the crew, the ringleader, legend and most colorful member, Del Tha Funkee (or The Funky) Homosapien during a tour stop through Southern California recently. One of the best freestylers in the game, which he proved, making the crowd go nuts during his packed show at the Constellation Room, his albums I Wish My Brother George Was Here and No Need for Alarm were two of the my favorite albums of the 90's. As a member of futuristic Deltron 3030 and Gorillaz multi-platinum "Clint Eastwood" collaborator, his musical history has been varied and full of influential tracks. Watching his documentary , "The 11th Hour", before the show, a portrait of a gaming, funny creative genius (peep the scene when he talks about porn) emerges.
Taking the stage that night with A-Plus from the Souls of Mischief, they rocked for 90 minutes before I got to catch up with Del after the show. Check the videos and interview clips below and follow Del on Twitter for more deets on his new album!
Interview: Daru Jones
posted February 17, 2013, 5:23 pm by ROCKthusiast | Filed Under Interviews | Leave a Comment
Tags: Blunderbuss, Jack White
I don't think anyone could have predicted the kind of year Jack White had in 2012. From a Grammy-nominated album to touring the world over with two backing bands to putting vinyl records in balloons, White sure knows how to keep busy. He also knows it takes special people to want to come along for the rock 'n' roll ride. Fortunately for White, Buzzards drummer Daru Jones is just that type of person – Grateful. Humble. And talented as all heck.
'David Bowie Is'…Here Now
posted September 23, 2014, 7:50 am by Carlita | Filed Under Editorial, General Interest, Music News | Leave a Comment
For American fans of fashion and music icon David Bowie, the wait is over. The much buzzed about 'David Bowie Is' exhibit opens today at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art, its only U.S. stop. Enthusiasts will be able to follow the many transitions and transformations that occurred during his life. Assembled with intricate care and deference to the legend, the traveling exhibit follows a young boy in Bromley, already called "an exhibitionist" by fifth grade, with grand, specific ideas of stardom. Sketches, paintings and storyboards of stage sets, memorable costumes and album covers reveal a visual artist in control of every part of his image, down to every last detail.
Press Release Roundup: September 22
posted September 23, 2014, 7:12 am by Brian Rutherford | Filed Under Music News | Leave a Comment
Music journalists get hit with a steady helping of press releases every day. For the music fan without that kind of sensory overload, a lot of music news can pass by without being seen. Every Monday, I will weed through and compile a list of some of the most intriguing press releases to come across my virtual desk.
Introducing: Robin Joel Sangster
posted September 22, 2014, 10:11 am by Brian Rutherford | Filed Under Bio, Editorial, General Interest, Introducing, On The Verge | Leave a Comment
In addition to our ever-popular UNSW contests every month, Music Emissions is constantly striving to introduce you to the most underrated indie artists in the globe. With that said, we introduce you to Robin Joel Sangster.
Robin Joel Sangster
No one ever said being indie is easy, much less for London-based musicians going against the tide. Thirty-three year old singer songwriter Robin Joel Sangster knows this all too well.
"Don't confuse making music and being famous, there are too many famous people," says Sangster. "Most real musicians have to keep making music (whether it sells or not) or they would probably keel over and die. Most of the famous people out there should just concentrate on the latter."
Although he has had no formal training, growing up under parental influences such as Van Morrison, James Taylor and Loudon Wainwright III sort of speaks for itself. These days, RJS, has found inspiration in artists like The Decemberists, Otis Redding and Brandy Clark, helping mold his own original score and sound, subsequently resulting in his 2013 LP, "Upstream." Read more
Interview: Butcher Babies' Heidi Shepherd
posted September 19, 2014, 9:09 am by Carlita | Filed Under Editorial, General Interest, Interviews | Leave a Comment
Wading (or slashing) through a mountain of e-mails, while trying not to spontaneously combust in the Los Angeles heat recently, I stopped in my tracks once I saw the twisted cover of Butcher Babies' upcoming EP. Bold and brash, I couldn't take my eyes off it and 'uncovered' an amazing LA based metal band fronted by two strong ladies Heidi Shepherd and Carla Harvey. Read more
Charles Martel's Top 1000: Part 48
posted September 17, 2014, 12:30 am by CharlesMartel | Filed Under Recommendations from the Writer's Mind, Video | Leave a Comment
What makes me select the videos for inclusion in these blogs? Putting aside availability, the main criterion is a track which is unlikely to be familiar to most who will follow these blogs. After all, introducing new music to people is what it is all about. Occasionally I run across an excellent classical piece which, while more familiar, demands a hearing. And if something is unusual or unique, then that is also up for consideration. I try to avoid excessively long pieces wherever possible, but sometimes something is so good that it just cries out to be included. Of course, the higher up the list we go, the less likely a track is to be unfamiliar.
Nearly there now.
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Press Release Roundup: September 15
posted September 16, 2014, 9:40 am by Carlita | Filed Under Editorial, Music News, Press Release Roundup, Releases | Leave a Comment
Music journalists get hit with a steady helping of press releases every day. For the music fan without that kind of sensory overload, a lot of music news can pass by without being seen. Every Monday, I will weed through and compile a list of some of the most intriguing press releases to come across my virtual desk.
Run The Jewels
On the hip-hop front, one of our fav duos, Run The Jewels dropped a track for free download, "Oh My Darling Don't Cry" off their eagerly awaited album 'RTJ2′, coming out on October 27. If you missed it,I got a chance to chat with El-P in December about working with Killer Mike on this new album. Fingers crossed, 'Meow The Jewels' also gets released. Peep the track and our interview below: Read more
Interview: K.Flay
posted September 11, 2014, 9:57 am by Carlita | Filed Under Editorial, Interviews | 1 Comment
As a traveling music lady, multitasking road trips and long airplane rides (putting on headphones blocking out screaming babies and religious song singing flight attendants-yes, this happened) present themselves. Prepping for this flying and driving time to check out new albums, it was a must K.Flay's 'Life As A Dog' landed in my mix. First hearing about this female indie pop/rock MC in various circles, I've always appreciated her real left-of-center style (not posing Minaj Anaconda style on covers), raw lyrics and relatability (like you've known her years and could chill on the regular).
Press Release Roundup: September 10
posted September 10, 2014, 8:58 am by Carlita | Filed Under Editorial, Festivals, General Interest, Press Release Roundup | Leave a Comment
Music journalists get hit with a steady helping of press releases every day. For the music fan without that kind of sensory overload, a lot of music news can pass by without being seen. Every Monday, I will weed through and compile a list of some of the most intriguing press releases to come across my virtual desk.
Red Bull Sound Select
Red Bull Sound Select just announced "30 Days in LA" featuring 60 acts in 30 venues across the city during the month of November. Angelenos will get a chance to see Future Islands, Cut Copy, Run The Jewels, The Julie Ruin, Warpaint, The Head and The Heart, Thurz, Azizi Gibson, Courtney Barnett and San Fermin and more. To get tix, click here!
Jenny Lewis
Singer-songwriter Jenny Lewis has added some new East Coast dates to her latest fall run. Currently in the UK, she recently played the iTunes Festival with Beck, promoting her release, 'The Voyager'.
Charles Martel's Top 1000: Part 47
posted September 10, 2014, 12:30 am by CharlesMartel | Filed Under Music News, Recommendations from the Writer's Mind, Video | Leave a Comment
There are songs, and indeed whole albums which I used to like, but no longer do. If I had to say why I would say that I have grown out of them. The reasons for this are complex, and generally do not have anything to do with over-familiarity. A song I have grown out of is likely to be one which I used to think was clever (especially lyrically) or technically good, but as the years have passed I now regard as being either not as technically good or original as I thought they were or, in the case of lyrics, not that clever but smug, trite or even puerile. A classic example of this is "Mary Long" by Deep Purple. Occasionally, and this is very rare, I come across a song which I used to like because of the views it expressed, views which accorded with my opinions when I was younger, but no longer do. The Kinks' "Get Back in Line" is one of the few examples I can think of.
Well into the top 100 now.
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Interview: Swollen Members' Prevail
posted September 5, 2014, 8:46 am by Carlita | Filed Under Editorial, General Interest, Interviews | Leave a Comment
Among the onslaught of hip-hop albums dropped during these busy summer months, few received the constant rotation in my headphones more than Swollen Members' 'Brand New Day'. One of my favorite groups north of the border, this Juno Award-winning trio (with thriving solo careers as well) released their 11th album together. In an industry that's seen many historic hip-hop groups fracture and drift apart, the brotherhood combo of contrasting MCs Madchild and Prevail with Rob The Viking guiding the production continues to work 15 years later.


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Pronunciation: /spəˈdɪl /
(In the card games ombre and quadrille) the ace of spades.
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- The black aces are always Matadors: the Ace of Spades is spadille and is always the highest trump card and the Ace of Clubs is basta, which is always the third highest trump.
late 17th century: from French, from Spanish espadilla, diminutive of espada 'sword' (see spade2).
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Little girls won't be able to resist the charm of this birthday celebration. The props and decorations are sparkly, the games are sweet and inviting, and the cake and lemonade are deliciously pink.
You're in Luck! That's what it means when the tips of a horseshoe are pointing up--and your child's friends will feel lucky indeed when they receive one of these invitations. To make each card, simply fold in half a
5 1/2- by 8 1/2-inch piece of white card stock. Then cut out a horseshoe from pink craft foam or construction paper and glue it to the front of the card. Apply gold glitter dots for horseshoe nails. Use colored markers to add the message and any decorative details you wish, then print the party details inside.
Heads and Tails Party guests will get a real kick out of donning these pony headbands and tails when they arrive. Fashioned from felt and yarn, they make perfect props for prancing through the pony games.
The headband: For each ear, fold a 9- by 2 1/2-inch piece of white felt in half so that the shorter edges match up. Trim the sides and top (but not the fold) of the doubled felt to resemble a pointed ear. Sandwich the cutout around a child's headband, using double-sided tape to stick the inside surfaces together (A). Then cut out pink felt ear linings and tape them to the fronts of the ears. For a forelock, arrange eight 12-inch strands of yarn in a bunch and tie it (as if it were a single strand) around a 10-inch length of yarn. Tie five more bunches to the 10-inch length. Drape the ensemble around the base of an ear, tying the ends snugly behind it (B). Make a matching ensemble for the other ear.
The tail: To fashion a pony tail, arrange six dozen or so 2-foot strands of yarn into a bunch. Tie a 3-foot string or doubled length of yarn around the center of the bunch (C) and tie the ends around your child's waist.
Magic Pony Wands These glittery wands add a touch of enchantment to the festivities. Before the party, paint foot-long wooden dowels with pink or lavender acrylic paint. You'll also need an assortment of inexpensive silk flowers (sold at most craft stores) with the stems trimmed to about 1 1/2 inches long, curly ribbon, and glitter glue. At the party, let each girl choose a flower she likes. Tape the stem to the upper dowel, then wrap ribbon over the tape. Once the flowers are attached, the girls can use glitter glue and more ribbon to finish decorating their wands. After all, Magic Pony Wands are unique--just like their owners!
Horse, Horse, Pony Have everybody sit on the floor in a circle with their wands for this equine spinoff of duck, duck, goose. One girl plays the part of the Pony, trotting around the outside of the circle and using her wand to lightly tap her friends on the back, saying "horse, horse, horse ..." as she goes. When she taps someone and says "pony," that girl jumps up and trots behind her around the circle and back to the empty space. Then the first girl sits in the empty spot and the second girl becomes the Pony.
Prancing Ponies Divide the girls into pairs and explain that each team will be a pony: One girl will be the front (she should wear her headband) and the other girl will be the back (she should wear her tail and place her hands on the waist of the girl in front). Line up the ponies along a pink-ribbon starting line. When the music starts, the ponies must prance to the finish line. Once the race is over, the girls in each pair can swap roles and prance back to the starting line.
Magical Merry-go-round You don't have to grab the ring to win a prize in this pony game--everyone who participates gets one. Before the party, package a party favor for each guest in a small decorative box or gift bag. When the party winds down, have the girls form a circle and turn on some music. Hand each person a package and ask the girls to pass them around and around the circle until the music stops. Then everyone gets to open the one they're holding and take home the trinkets inside.
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• A day or two before the party, make the pony headbands and tails (see above). Paint the dowels for the pony wands (above) so they'll be ready for the girls to decorate at the party.
• Turn your home into a beautiful pony palace! Decorate with pink and lavender balloons and streamers and strings of white twinkling lights.
• Remove the top of a big box and cover the sides with pink wrapping paper and bows. Set it in a central location so guests can put their party gifts into it.
• During the party, play some spirited classical music for your pony guests to prance to.
• Pony favors: Party guests will love taking home ponytail holders, pony stickers, and miniature toy ponies (sold at many craft stores or dollar stores).


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LAWL!! i'm waiting for the parents to say, "be grateful" or something of the sort. what a perfect opportunity to teach your child not to be an asshole, and what happends? nothing. on to another present to look for a "real" xmas gift. FAIL
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The Chinese Chevrolet Sail (photo) is one BEV that already exists as a prototype. Reportedly, Chevrolet will be working with several different cars and www.accessibleadventuresvt.org will be testing them in various locations across the globe. However, the US is not scheduled to be part of any of these tests.
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4/27/2010 Dr. Veronica Lawson Gunn '91 To Speak at Baccalaureate Service The Baccalaureate Service for the 161st Session of Rhodes College will be held May 14. »
3/16/2010 How Schools Can Promote Civic Engagement in the 21st CenturyThe education symposium to be held at Rhodes has been organized by St. George's Independent School. »
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