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With its long (and sometimes bloody) history,
it's not surprising that more than a few ghost sightings have been
reported in San Antonio. The settings vary: Behind a two-century-old
home, a night watchman hears the sound of a woman's cries coming
from the depths of a sealed well. In a downtown hotel, employees
repeatedly see a maid dressed in a 19th century uniform. And in
an art center, a photographer feels a hand on his shoulder and turns
to see a dark shadow in the room with him.
These are just a few examples of the spirited
encounters which have occurred in San Antonio. The historic homes
and museums of the Alamo City are filled with reminders of long
dead residents, ones many people believe still roam the area.
"San Antonio is a very haunted city,"
says Docia Williams, an author and tour guide who leads groups on
night excursions of the city's "occupied" buildings. The
lively guide has interviewed policemen, night watchmen and residents
of private homes throughout the city and searched the library's
archives. She has gathered documented material for her "Spirits
of San Antonio" bus tour and for two ghostly tomes, Spirits
of San Antonio and South Texas and Ghosts Along the Texas Coast,
published by Wordware Press. "The
older the place, the more likely it is things have happened."
One of San Antonio's oldest buildings, the
Alamo, is also reported to be one of the most haunted. Today's night
watchmen have heard unexplained sounds in the old mission, but the
hauntings date back to the days of the historic battle. Following
the battle, Mexican soldiers were said to have run from the Alamo
shouting "diablos" (devils). The reference could have
been to their opponents -- or to some other presence in the mission.
Another story deals with the order that was
issued to burn the Alamo following the Battle of San Jacinto. Soldiers
entered the old building, but soon fled, refusing to carry out their
mission. Their leader came to speak to the men. Entering the building,
he was met by six ghosts holding swords of fire -- rumored to be
the ghosts of the Spanish priests who built the Alamo.
Other ghosts are believed to be the spirits
of over 180 men killed at the Battle of the Alamo. Their bodies
were unceremoniously burned by their opponents in funeral pyres
(only the body of one Texan, the brother of a Mexican soldier, was
permitted a Christian burial.) The exact location of the pyres was
never known, but one was believed to be at the site of a boarding
house called Ludlows. Old records show the boarding house was located
in the 800 block of East Commerce -- the same spot occupied since
1988 by the Rivercenter Mall.
Few people who stroll through the well-lit,
busy mall would think of it as a haunted or spooky building, but
unexplained events have occurred here, especially on the anniversary
of the battle. According to an interview Docia Williams conducted
at the Brentanos Bookstore, a clerk noticed lights going on and
off throughout the day of March 6 and books moved without human
The priests who haunt the Alamo are in the
company of nuns not far away at the Southwest Craft Center, located
at 300 Augusta at Navarro. Today a gallery and working studio for
many San Antonio craftsmen, the building was once a girls' school
run by cloistered nuns.
"The only men ever allowed here were the
doctor, if someone were very ill, and the parish priest who said
the mass on Sunday," says Williams. "No other men were
allowed. Now there are all these male teachers and security guards."
So from a ghost's point of view, it's not surprising
that some strange occurrences have taken place. "The photography
teacher was in the darkroom not too long ago, and he came out and
felt a hand on his shoulder kind of shoving him," says the
tour guide. "He turned around and there was nothing but a dark
shadow. About a month or so later, the same thing happened to him,
but this time it was a misty white shadow." The dark shadow
was explained as a nun's habit, but what about the white apparition?
That second incident took place in the summer, a time when the nuns
of the school always changed into a white habit.
Downtown, the Menger Hotel at 204 Alamo Plaza
also has its share of spooks. Theodore Roosevelt was a frequent
guest here, and, according to some, he still is. "They think
Teddy Roosevelt still hangs around," explains Docia Williams.
"There was a buzzer on the front desk to buzz the desk clerks
if they were in the back office. It has been disconnected for years,
but it still goes off periodically. They say Teddy Roosevelt was
very impatient and would buzz it long and strong. I was there one
day when it went off."
According to hotel employees, the former president
is not the only phantom resident. On the third floor, guests have
seen an elderly man walk down the hall, then mysteriously disappear.
Those who have seen the apparition believe it is the ghost of Captain
Richard King of the King Ranch in South Texas. The rancher was an
occupant of the Menger, and in 1885 his funeral was even held in
the hotel parlor.
If Richard King haunts the third floor, then
Salie White claims the fourth. A chambermaid in the 1870s, Salie
was murdered by her husband, and the hotel paid for the burial.
The employee whose devotion never died is often seen with a feather
duster or broom, wearing a long skirt and a bandana.
Several San Antonio museums are also rumored
to be haunted. The Institute of Texan Cultures is supposedly haunted
by the ghost of its former director, a pipe smoker. Williams says
late night employees still report smelling his tobacco smoke. And,
when night watchmen make their rounds, they often find the doors
of the hearse in the Castroville exhibit mysteriously open. They
close the hearse doors, make their rounds, and return to find them
open once again.
Another allegedly haunted museum is the Jose
Navarro house at 228 South Laredo, home of one of the signers of
the Texas Declaration of Independence. Located next to the jail,
the home is said to have cold spots, rocking chairs that move without
human help, and furniture that rearranges itself. Not far away,
the Spanish Governor's Palace, built in 1749, is allegedly haunted
by the spirit of a former servant in the home. The woman was killed
by robbers, and her body was thrown into a well behind the home.
Today the well is capped, but night guards still report hearing
her moans, says Williams.
Although the itinerary of Docia Williams' "Spirits of San Antonio" tour changes, one thing remains constant: all tours are conducted at night. The reason is simple, says Williams. "No self-respecting ghost would be out in daylight."
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Carnival of Venice, Italy
he Carnival in Venice is said to have originated from an important victory of the "Repubblica della Serenissima" (Ancient name of Venice), in the war against Ulrico, Patriarch of Aquileia, in the year 1162. To celebrate this victory, dances and reunions started to take place in SAN MARCO SQUARE. The term "carnevale" comes from the Latin for "farewell to meat" and suggests a good-bye party for the steaks and stews that Catholics traditionally gave up during the weeks of fasting before Easter. The masquerade aspect of Carnival is
even older: the Romans celebrated winter with a fertility festival where masks were worn by citizens and slaves alike. Another hypothesis suggests that the word comes from 'Carrus Navalis', which was in times past a Roman festival in honour of Saturn. This was celebrated with horse drawn carriages that used to carry men and women in fancy dresses and masks and singing obscene songs. Today's concept of Carnival, as celebrated in certain countries, could have possibly originated or at least associated with this hypothesis.
When the carnival first begun it was celebrated from December 26 and reached its climax the day before Ash Wednesday, also known as "Mardi Gras". Carnival was the stage of lavish masked balls, Commedia dell'Arte plays, musical celebrations and costumed parades that included the different segments of society. Eventualy the mask became the symbol of the Carnival.
Thus Carnival of Venice is considered one of the world's most famous festivals and fills the whole city with musicians, acrobats, clowns,
magicians, puppeteers, beautiful masks, elaborate costumes, and parades. People come from around the world to participate in masked balls and general festivities in the ancient Venetian tradition, and to enjoy theatrical and dance performances, exhibitions and concerts along the canals, squares and the magnificent palaces of the city. Carnival traditions are the same, but every year the theme is different.
During the period of Carnival it seems that every excess was permitted and the fact that everyone wore masks seemed to abolish all social division. All the open spaces (campi) and the streets were thronged with people intent on partying, carousing, singing, dancing and playing games. The most common costume (the baùtta) was composed of a black silk hood, a lace cape, a voluminous cloak (the tabarro), and a three-cornered hat and a white mask that completely covered the wearer's face. This allowed revelers to go around the city incognito. It would be exciting to visit the Casini, where you could play a game of chance.
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On this day in 1971 the amazing album 'Imagine', by John Lennon, with the smash title track and 'Jealous Guy', was certified Gold.
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A wedding is easily one of the most memorable occasions in the human experience. The loving relationship at the core of a wedding has a great deal to do with its memorability, of course, but careful planning and hard work make a huge difference, too. Here are a few tips that can help make a wedding even more memorable:
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Summer Gazpacho
Yield: 6 servings (serving size: 1 cup)
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Recipe Time
Prep Time:
Chill: 1 Hour
Nutritional Information
Amount per serving
- Calories: 121
- Fat: 5.0g
- Saturated fat: 1.6g
- Protein: 3.7g
- Carbohydrate: 17.7g
- Cholesterol: 8mg
- Iron: 1.5mg
- Sodium: 421mg
- Calories from fat: 35%
- Fiber: 3.3g
- Calcium: 54mg
- 1 yellow or orange bell pepper, seeded
- 1 medium cucumber, peeled and seeded
- 1 medium onion, peeled
- 1 garlic clove
- 3 pounds tomatoes, peeled and seeded (about 6 medium)
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 1/2 cups spicy-hot vegetable juice
- 1/3 cup red wine vinegar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 6 tablespoons reduced-fat sour cream
- Cut bell pepper, cucumber, onion, and garlic into large pieces. Reserve 1/2 cup cucumber. Combine bell pepper, remaining cucumber, onion, and garlic in a food processor; process until finely chopped. Transfer mixture to a large bowl.
- Cut tomatoes into large pieces. Reserve 1/2 cup tomato. Process remaining tomato in a food processor until finely chopped. Add to bell pepper mixture.
- Stir in olive oil, vegetable juice, vinegar, and salt. Cover and chill 1 hour. Spoon into 6 bowls. Chop reserved cucumber and tomato. Top each serving with chopped cucumber, chopped tomato, and 1 tablespoon sour cream.
- Note: Don't over process the vegetables; they need to be finely chopped, but not pureed.
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Summer Gazpacho Recipe at a Glance
- COURSE: Soups/Stews
- CONVENIENCE: Entertaining, Family
- CUISINE: Spanish
- MAIN INGREDIENT: Vegetables
- DIETARY CONSIDERATION: Meatless
- COOKING METHOD: Food Processor
- OCCASION: Winter
- PUBLICATION: Oxmoor House
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My mom went to St. Pius here in Tulsa from kindergarten through eighth grade. St. Pius is a private catholic school. There were 26 kids in her eighth grade graduating class. Kids she played basketball with and kids she went to girl scouts with. Kids that she's still friends with now. The most important people in my mom's life are the same people who were the most important when she was ten, aside from my brother and I of course. The bonds that my mom formed with Lisa, Kevin, and Dee are lifelong. These are a few of the names I hear every day, and a few of the people sitting around my dining room table every Sunday night.
My mom lost touch with all of her friends when she moved to Kansas City, Missouri with her parents when she was fourteen. In 2003, my mom, my brother, and I moved from Great Falls, Montana to Tulsa. We live in the house that my grandpa grew up in. When we first moved back, my mom would occasionally go to dinner with an old friend, but it was pretty rare.
Then my mom joined Facebook.
In 2009, she reconnected with her friend Dianne (Dee). My mom and Dee played basketball together when they went to Pius, and they were best friends. At that time, the Pius girl's basketball team was even coached by my grandpa. Basically, my mom and Dee "go way back". Soon enough, my mom, P.J., and I were all going to Dee's house a few times a month to have dinner. Dee had two kids at the time, Lexy, who's my age, and Ali, who's P.J.'s age. We all get along great. Lexy is so beautiful and Ali is incredibly smart and funny. Now, Dee has another baby, his name is Holden and I'm crazy about him. He's absolutely adorable, he's three months old and just the most perfect baby in the world. My mom and Dee have been through death, divorce, and due dates together, and I hope to be as close with Dee's girls some day.
After everyone had been friends on facebook a while, they created "The St. Pius Happy Hour Group." Its a private group, invite only, very exclusive! My mom reconnected with Kevin and Lisa, two of the most important people in my life, but more on them later.
The craziness began around this time last year. Kevin and Lisa were dating at the time, those two and my mom were the "three best friend that anyone could have!" Kevin started bringing my mom and Lisa to The Tin Dog, a little bar between 31st and 41st and Harvard that could only be described as a shit hole. Pardon my french. They used to go out on Thursday nights, which then expanded to Thursday night and Friday night. And now, they all go to the Tin Dog Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. But I suppose I shouldnt say "they."
Over the summer, my mom grilled out every night. Lisa and Kevin would come over, and Lisa would bring the girls. We'd all sit around, eat bar-b-q, and watch Saturday Night Live or The Little Mermaid.
Lisa is one of the most beautiful people I've ever met. She has a beautiful face, a bangin' bod, and all that, yeah, but her personality is beautiful. She's more than my mom's friend, she's my friend. We text about boy troubles, school, and work. I'm really close with Lisa in a way that I'm not close with anyone else. And my mom and Lisa? Well, simply put: my mom almost named me after her.. They are attached at the hip, I've never seen two people get along so well. And of course, they went to Pius together.
Kevin. I couldn't write a paragraph that would do him justice. Kevin went to Pius with Dee, Lisa, and my mom. Kevin was the most likable person on the face of the planet. He was loud, sweet, funny, and WILD. He knew everything about his iPhone and would help you buy the best camera in the store. I've never had a stable father figure, and I wouldnt say he was like a dad, but he was like a big, tough, protective older brother that teased me relentlessly. I chose to spend my sixteenth birthday at Goldie's with Kevin and Lisa instead of having a big party like normal people do. I absolutely loved him. Everyone did. Lisa and Kevin were absolutely perfect for each other. To this day, I cant even see her with anyone else.
In August, my mom and Lisa went on the trip of a life time to Italy. They were they for two weeks. Meanwhile, I stayed with my grandparents in Kansas, but I came home a few days early so I could be here for the first day of school. On August 13th, at about 11 o'clock in the morning, I got a call from my mom, from the other side of the world. I had just left Kevin a voicemail, telling him I was in Tulsa and I wanted to see him. When I answered the phone, my mom sounded physically sick. "Something terrible has happened," my mom said. "What!? Is Lisa okay? Are you okay? What happened?" I said. "Kevin has been in an accident." Silence. I was standing in the hall way, I sat down on the floor. "Is he gonna be okay?" I asked. Silence. "He didn't make it, baby," my mom whispered after what was perhaps the longest pause I've ever heard. "Kevin Gabel? Our Kevin? Lisa's Kevin?" I practically yelled. I immediately burst into uncontrollable hysterics. I asked her where Lisa was, and she said that Lisa was laying in the bed next to her. I couldnt even talk to my mom, I was crying so hard. I got off the phone, and called my grandparents, who had just gotten the news. My grandma was crying. I could hear P.J in the background crying. I got off the phone. I was completely alone in Tulsa. I was supposed to be staying with Mattie, but I stayed home alone until my grandparents and PJ could make it here.
Lisa and my mom spent the rest of the time in Italy laying in bed, or sitting on the porch. I bet they didnt talk much. I bet they cried a lot. I've never heard much about that part of the trip. Lisa and my mom got home the day before the funeral. They walked in the door, I hugged my mom and told her how happy I was that she was home, she was crying. The minute I saw Lisa, I started bawling. Lisa and I stood on the front porch, and held each other and cried for the longest time. I've never cried so hard. The next day was the first day of school, I missed it to go to the funeral. It was held at St. Mary's Catholic Church. Every pew was packed. People were standing. There were SIX priests at Kevin's funeral. Normally, there's one, maybe two. At Kevin's, there were six.
Life went on. Sometimes we still cry. I think about Kevin every day. We talk about him every day. I miss him in a way that I will never miss anyone. Kevin hit a truck a 31st in Harvard on his motor cycle. He bled to death. The man who was driving the truck died only a few months later, which makes the reason for Kevin's death even more of a mystery to me. I dont thikn everything happens for a reason, because there is no valid reason in my eyes for someone that so many people loved to just be ripped away so viciously and fast.
Enter Scott. Scott is amazing. He didnt go to Pius, but he went to Bishop Kelley, so my mom has known him for years. Scott really saved my mom and Lisa after Kevin died. He comes to Sunday dinner, he plays ball with my brother, he takes my mom out on the weekends. They stay out ridiculously late, and act like they're 17. They're best friends. After Kevin died my mom stayed in her room for days, she cried a lot and once I heard her ask herself, "why do my friends keep dying?" I've never seen her like that. Now that Scott is around, I see the color returning to her cheeks. She laughs more, she started cooking again, and she's not sad. We joke that Scott is the "community husband." He'll come over and fix the fence, mow the lawn, take out the trash, troubleshoot the wifi. He helps out my mom, Lisa, and Dee with all the handy-type tasks around the house, since they're all recent divorces and dont have a guy around to do that kinda stuff. I love Scott. he stayed in the hospital with my mom and I for my surgery for 22 hours, after he got off work, no sleep. It's just little things that make a huge diffence. I hope I can become as close to Scott as I was with Kevin. But we'll have to put him in a plastic bubble so that nothing happens to him.
I have a big family now. A big family made up of little pieces of other families. Every Sunday my mom cooks a big dinner. Scott and Lisa come over, and Lisa bring her girls, Ella and Lex, sometimes Dee comes, she brings all three of her kids if she's not too busy at home with the baby. Michael is always there. My mom refers to him as her other kid, he practically lives at my house. And sometimes Mattie comes, my mom loves Mattie more than she loves me, hahaha. We eat good food, listen to good music, and talk about all the crazy things my mom, Lisa, Scott, and Dee did when they were my age. I think they're all reliving it right now, and I'm loving being a part of it. We all still miss Kevin. But I can feel him there on Sunday nights. As cheesy as it is, I know he's with us in spirit.
The last place I ever saw Kevin alive at was Joe Mama's Pizza downtown, where we all had dinner before my mom went to Italy. Last week, on my birthday, I went back there for the first time. It wasnt that sentimental, until Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd started playing. I cried in the restaurant. I talked to Lisa though, and she made me feel alright, she has a really good way of doing that.
My mom knows the best people.
I want to do what Augusten Burroughs has done. The challenge I'm facing right now is that a lot of my stories are a little questionable for a school project. Maybe in 20 years I can write a really powerful book like he did and it will be made into a succesful motion picture and it'll be made into a motion picture and I will be Stalling favorite student ever. Hmph.
To be quite frank, I actually feel bad for my mom sometimes. The fact that she even puts up with some of the things she does from my twelve year old brother is completely astounding to me.
P.J. is twelve (as of last Tuesday), but mentally he's about four years old. I love him to death, he's funny and sweet when he feels like it, but the poor boy just has no common sense, and he never considers the long term consequences of any of his actions. God love him, but I dont know if its a boy thing, a twelve year old boy thing, or a P.J. thing. He's already been in trouble this year for stuffing the toilets at his school with paper towels and gotten forbidden from the mall for throwing rocks from the top of the parking garage.
Today was a day at my house packed with first day of spring yard work and sunday cleaning. After an intense struggle with the lawn mower, P.J. was extremely worn out and just HAD to go in his room for a three hour long conversation with his VERY serious girlfriend… Relationships between twelve year olds are very trying times, you see. Poor P.J. lives in constant fear of embarrassment by my mom and I. He will hide out in a closet, the bathroom, the garage while on the phone to avoid any mortifying comments that the "love of his life" might hear through the phone. Today however, must have been a very confidential conversation, because he his in the backseat of the locked car in the hot ass garage with the windows up. I dont know how he didnt have a heatstroke.
Anyway, we hadn't heard a peep out of P.J. since his battle with the lawn mower and out twelve inch tall grass earlier that morning. After he'd been hiding out for about an hour, he calls my mom. She asked him where he was and he said he was stuck in the car. My mom went out to the garage and I didn't hear anything from either of them for about fifteen minutes. I thought surely someone had been killed, but couldn't get my lazy self off of the couch to ensure the liveliness of my family. My mom then comes barreling through the back door, screaming for Michael. "MICHAEL! I need your boy scout expertise! P.J. is tangled in the seat belt!!" So Michael goes out and gets in the car, and I followed. So here's the three of us, jammed in the backseat of my moms Honda Accord, and P.J. has the damn seat belt wrapped around his ankle so tightly that its cutting off his circulation. We're trying to free his foot for about ten more minutes. Mind you that P.J. has been in the hot car for an hour and half, so it smells like sweaty pre-teen boy, (much like the halls of TSAS after lunch). We had to end up cutting the seat belt in half with the hedge clippers because seat belts are thicker than you'd think, and the knot that idiot was stuck in was tighter than we'd thought. So now, not only has P.J. broken the automatic locks, pulled off the back of the passenger seat, but has also managed to destroy the seat belts in the back of my mom's car. Needless to say, she was thrilled. She took fifty dollars of his birthday money to help pay for the seat belt replacement. I just dont understand how he managed to get so tangled in the seat belt of a PARKED vehicle.
I've been having a hard time finding a story with a really good, deeper meaning like the other ones I wrote, so I think tonight I'll just treat you to a few select quotes that are within earshot tonight at PJs birthday dinner.
Ugh mom do something interesting so I can write about it ugh
Over break I spent some time with my grandparents and recorded a story they told me so I could write about it later.
My mom just told me that she wishes she would have saved all my baby teeth, and made a necklace out of them, and Lisa said that it was cute an she wanted to do that with her kids. I personally think wearing the teeth of small children is weird.


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The TV List 10.12.12: Top 10 South Park Episodes
Posted by
Michael Ornelas
on 10.13.2012
From "Scott Tenorman Must Die" and "Imaginationland" to "Trapped in the Closet," "Woodland Critter Christmas," "You're Getting Old" and more, 411's Michael Ornelas counts down the top 10
South Park
episodes of all time!
Welcome back, loyal 411 readers. It appears that my picks last week went over alright with the masses (that or the new comment system bailed me out), so I'm back with a new topic that could easily screw up that good will (I wouldn't have it any other way!). Before that, however, I want to talk about my non-TV viewing. I checked out the Emmy-winning
Game Change
made for TV movie and was really impressed. Granted I don't know anything about politics or how accurate it is, but it told a great story and was well executed. On top of that, as someone who's only seen a handful of Bond films, I'm going through all of them as we approach the release of
. So far I've watched
Dr. No
From Russia with Love
, and
. I'll post my ranking of all of them at the end of the run.
This week's topic is the 10 best
South Park
South Park
is in the midst of its sixteenth season and only has four episodes left in it. With relatively short season (they've fallen into a fourteen episode format in the past several years),
South Park
has managed to sustain its longevity (it's contracted to last at least through a twentieth season). The problem with
South Park
, however, is the same thing that makes it brilliant – it's produced completely in six days every week. This leads to many ideas being overthought or not thought out enough and ultimately the premises are much funnier than the execution. But the other side of that coin sees
South Park
put out some hilarious and topical content that, when done well, is a crowning achievements in TV comedy. So let's dive in and honor some of the great episodes that this show has given us.
Before I start, I have one thing to address: I will count an "episode" as a story arc, so you could see a two-parter or three-parter on this list, as long as they tell one primary story and require that many installments to do so.
Honorable Mentions: Make Love, Not Warcraft (season 10), Professor Chaos/Simpsons Already Did It (season 6), and Le Petit Tourette (season 11)
Woodland Critter Christmas (season 8)
"What did I just see?" were the first words out of viewers' mouths after that blood orgy scene. One of the darkest twists this show has ever taken (arguably darker than the Scott Tenorman episode), the Satanist belief of the Critters was something that nobody could have seen coming. This is probably the
South Park
episode that I have watched the most (at least by choice). The framework of classic Christmas-time cartoons laid out a solid formula for the show to follow, and they dished out a fantastic parody that is just sick on so many levels. This episode isn't for everyone (I think that goes without saying), but if you're a fan of dark comedy, this redefines the genre. The tenth place spot on this list was almost a literal coin toss between this and "Le Petit Tourette" but after some tie breaking from friends and my love of how different this episode is in comparison to the standard format of the show, this stole the number ten spot.
Good Times with Weapons (season 8)
Many of the episodes that I love of the series are "kids being kids" episodes, wherein Stone and Parker exaggerate and distort common acts of kids and play up the naïve factor ("The List" was the second closest to making this top ten). Everyone knew that kid who, if he'd hurt someone, would spout "don't cry" or "don't tell" as the first words out of his mouth. If you were lucky, you'd get an "are you okay?" but that was rare. The mix of that common childhood character and the show's great representation of anime-stylized animation created an absolutely hilarious episode in which the kids, just being kids, buy weapons and play fight with them, but of course it gets out of hand and someone gets hurt. The lengths that Cartman goes through to hide Butters is a wonderful exaggeration on being "that kid." But even before that moment (the ninja star to the eye), the episode still hit on all cylinders because there was also always "that kid" when you'd pretend to be superheroes and he had all the powers he wanted and didn't honor the limitations of the game. Again, that kid had to be Cartman here. This is just a great episode from start to finish, and holds up today just as much as it did when it first aired.
Trapped in the Closet (season 9)
This is the famous episode that caused Isaac Hayes to leave the show, Tom Cruise to play hardball with Viacom at the risk of him pulling out of the third
Mission: Impossible
film, and the Church of Scientology to add another enemy to their pretty extensive list. The name of the episode parodies R. Kelly's epically long music video of the same name and uses it to jab at John Travolta and Cruise for their being Scientologists. In addition to all that though, they make the religion look absolutely ridiculous as only
South Park
can. The thing is, they were just using the truth and putting their snarky tone on it to open many eyes toward what Scientologists actually do and what they believe (as the words on screen so blatantly pointed out in the clip above). The episode was actually submitted for an Emmy was one of the announced nominees, and on top of that, it was ranked #17 by TV Guide in a list of best TV show episodes of all-time. This was a revolutionary episode and one of the most important ones in the show's history, so there was no doubt in my mind that this would make this list.
Tsst! (season 10)
This episode would place higher if the third act of the episode was able to match the brilliance of the first two. At the peak of nanny shows,
South Park
had a natural parody as the worst-behaved kid in television history happens to be Eric Cartman. But instead of letting any of the TV nannies find success in changing him, they turn to the dog whisperer, Cesar Milan, and have him discipline Eric as though he were an animal. This was so well done, and seeing Cartman as a subservient child to his mom was a riot as we've never got the chance to see that from him in the series without it being a ruse. The episode kind of lost me with the actual physical embodiment of Cartman's "good self" taking over his body after wanting to kill his mom in her sleep, as the transformation scene was a little too supernatural for an episode more grounded in reality. They put it back on track, obviously, with the obedient Cartman stuff (although Cartman's mom having feelings for Milan also could have been better executed) but I just feel this episode could have been a little better. It's still hilarious though and one of my favorites, so even as is, it's good enough for me to put it at number seven.
Night of the Living Homeless (season 11)
As a huge fan of zombie movies, I thought this episode nailed that parody by paralleling homelessness with the mythos of an undead virus. The idea that homeless people flock to areas with a high concentration of people with spare change was a good starting point, but then they did the scene Kyle's dad who gave the last of his change to a homeless guy and then realize he didn't have enough money to get home and started asking "change?" with the rest of them was the brilliant parallel of "becoming one of them." Between the clip above, the town's homeless expert failing to commit suicide so many times to avoid a brutal death (and in the process living through several self-inflicted gunshots), and all the zombie movie references, this episode is the strongest one-part episode from what I consider to be the show's strongest season.
The 10 Episodes of TV I Enjoyed Most This Week
Key & Peele
– "Episode 11"
Up All Night
– "Jerry Duty"
– "Sunshine & Frosty Swirl"
30 Rock
– "Governor Dunston"
American Dad!
– "Killer Vacation"
Modern Family
– "Snip"
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
– "Pop Pop: The Final Solution"
The League
– "Training Camp"
– "Beirut Is Back"
Modern Family
– "Schooled"
…and the worst episode I watched:
The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer
– "A.O.L.: Abe On-Line"
You're Getting Old (season 15)
There was a lot of fuss after this mid-season finale aired about a year and a half ago, and immediately talks of "is
South Park
over?" began to find its way into conversation about the show. Stan is growing up, and with that, he's realizing that a lot of what kids his age like is absolute crap. And the show represents that literally, as music sounds like farting and things are starting to appear fecal in nature, and…it's just messy. This was one of the very few times I've laughed at fart and poop jokes as an adult, but the show got away with it because it wasn't gratuitous and very relatable as almost everyone grows up and grows out of what they used to like after the realization that it's really not all that great. The diagnosis of cynicism was really clever as well. The fact that the show came back and made it very clear that it wasn't actually ending was great, and felt a little bit like when they returned from the season 1 cliffhanger of who Cartman's father is and aired an episode about Terrance & Phillip just to screw with the viewers. It was actually around this time, however, that I hoped that the show
be ending its run after a couple of really disappointing seasons, but then they used the second half of season 15 to do all the Mysterion episodes which I thought were fantastic, and season 16's second half has been really solid so far, so I guess news that they're sticking around through at least a twentieth season could still provide us with some quality television. This episode may find its way down the list as time goes by, but for now I think it's the most recent great episode.
Imaginationland (season 11)
This trilogy won an Emmy award and the sheer scale of it was incredibly impressive. The episode kicks off with the boys looking for a leprechaun and Kyle betting Cartman $10 that it doesn't exist (but if it
exists, he would have to suck Cartman's balls). So naturally they find it and it warns them of a terrorist attack. The boys end up finding out that the attack is on the imagination after they are taken to Imaginationland and witness the attack. Butters is left behind which sends us into part two. I'm not here to give a synopsis, just a justification for the pick and the ranking. The fact that the animators were able to represent the likeness of so many famous and iconic imaginary characters is awe-inspiring. The references are plentiful and they even manage to bring back the Woodland Critters when the evil imaginary characters are introduced (and naturally they're the
twisted). If you haven't seen these three episodes, check them out because they are definitely a step in the right direction for animated storytelling.
Ginger Kids (season 9)
The show has always claimed that it doesn't leave anyone out or single anyone out when it comes to who it might offend. This episode arguably fostered a distaste for "gingers" among its fanbase, which is terrible…but it's just so funny. I'd argue that this is the funniest episode of the series – the fact that it's so well-structured and great storytelling propels it to third on the list. It seemed like it was around this time that
South Park
plots stopped letting Cartman get away with all of his horribleness and have to deal with the consequences of his actions. Not only did this episode do that, but it put Cartman in the shoes of what he hated so much…and he managed to redirect his hate elsewhere and serve as a dictator amongst redheads. The ending scene of this episode where the other boys tell Cartman he's not really a ginger is priceless.
Scott Tenorman Must Die (season 5)
This episode is the quintessential
South Park
episode. It still, to this day, has the most shocking moment in the show's history in the revelation that Cartman feeds Scott Tenorman's parents to him in a chili con carnavale as revenge for Tenorman selling Cartman his pubes for something like $12. It took Cartman's character to a dark place that he could never recover from, and as a result has gotten even more terrible in the eleven seasons since this episode aired. It was such an overreaction that the first time I saw this episode, I had to rewatch the closing scene several times to believe that I really just saw that on television. And it was more and more hilarious every time. Of course, Scott Tenorman gets his (just?) revenge in the 201st episode of the series (entitled "201") and reveals to Cartman that they actually shared a father and were half-brothers, which is devastating to Eric. Also in this episode (the listed one, not 201) is Cartman trying to train a pony to bite Scott's genitals off which gives some pretty funny moments as well. All in all, this episode is a perfect 10, a score that I think
South Park
has only earned from me one other time…
Margaritaville (season 13)
This episode, to me, is the show's masterpiece, and I'm willing to accept that maybe not everyone agrees with me. This episode isn't the funniest of all their episodes, but the parodies they weave together to parallel the economy, religion, and the American mindset in general are unfathomably clever. What's odd is that Parker and Stone themselves have said they like this episode a lot more in premise than their execution of it, but I think they hit it out of the park here (as did the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, as it won the Emmy award for Outstanding Animated Program (half-hour or less) at the 61st Annual Primetime Emmys). I absolutely loved this episode as soon as it aired, and was skeptical if it would hold up, and in most ways it has. The jokes aren't as funny because
South Park
in general (and more specifically in the later seasons) relies on topical humor, so they're bound to out-date eventually, but I find that the story is still perfectly executed. This was easily in my top three when I started compiling this list, and when I had my top ten, I just couldn't justify not putting it first.
Hopefully you enjoyed my picks and have some of your own that didn't make my cut. I got it down to about 20 episodes and had a really difficult time narrowing it down. I was surprised how many early episodes made the top 20 but not the top 10, but the show definitely hit its stride around season 7. I'd call season 11 the runaway best season as it had 4 episodes in the top 20, with the ninth being a runner-up. Anyway, that's all I've got for you this week.
I don't know my topic for next week, so I'm definitely open to your suggestions!
Shows of which I have seen every episode (including shows still on the air):
Da Ali G Show; American Dad!; American Horror Story; Andy Barker, P.I.; Andy Richter Controls the Universe; Angry Boys; Aqua Teen Hunger Force (including name changes); Archer; Arrested Development; The Batman; Batman Beyond; Batman: The Animated Series; Beast Wars; Better Off Ted; The Big Bang Theory; Big Bite; Black Mirror; Bob's Burgers; The Boondocks; Bored to Death; Boss; Breaking Bad; Brickleberry; Bunk; Childrens Hospital; China, IL; Clerks: The Animated Series; The Cleveland Show; Clone High; Comedy Bang! Bang!; Community; Conan (on TBS); The Critic; Curb Your Enthusiasm; Delocated; Dexter; The Drunk & On Drugs Happy Funtime Hour; Eagleheart; Eastbound & Down; Ed; Entourage; Episodes; Family Guy; Firefly; Flight of the Conchords; Franklin & Bash; Freaks & Geeks; Friends; Frisky Dingo; Futurama; Game of Thrones; Go On; Happy Endings; Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law; Homeland; House of Lies; How I Met Your Mother; Hung; The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret; The IT Crowd; It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia; Jackass; Jon Benjamin Has a Van; Justified; Key & Peele; Kid Notorious; The King of Queens; The League; Louie; Lucky Louie; Luther; The Middle; Modern Family; Monk; Mr. D; Mr. Show with Bob & David; My Name Is Earl; NTSF:SD:SUV::; The Office (UK); The Office (US); Parks & Recreation; Party Down, Portlandia; Rhett & Link: Commercial Kings; Scrubs; Sealab 2021; Seinfeld; Sherlock; The Simpsons; Sons of Tucson; South Park; Spiderman: The Animated Series; Sports Show with Norm MacDonald; Star Wars: Clone Wars; Summer Heights High; Superjail!; Tenacious D; That '80s Show; Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!; Titus; Tosh.0; Trailer Park Boys; Twin Peaks; Ugly Americans; Undeclared; Up All Night; The Venture Bros.; Viva La Bam; The Walking Dead; We Can Be Heroes; The Whitest Kids U' Know; Wildboyz; Wilfred; Workaholics; 30 Rock
Shows I'm currently watching:
Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes; Cheers; Dinosaurs; Mad Men; Malcolm in the Middle; Manimal; Most Extreme Elimination Challenge;
The Powerpuff Girls
; Psych; Shameless (US); Sons of Anarchy; That '70s Show; Tiny Toon Adventures; The Wire
Shows on my radar, but haven't yet started
All in the Family
; Animaniacs;
Battlestar Galactica
; Becker; Boardwalk Empire; Boston Legal; Boston Public; Boy Meets World; Californication; Castle; Chappelle's Show; Chuck;
Covert Affairs
; Criminal Minds; Dallas; Death Note; Doogie Howser, M.D.; Downton Abbey; Dr. Who; The Drew Carey Show; Everybody Loves Raymond;
; Frasier; The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air; Fringe; Girls; The Good Wife; Greg the Bunny; Happy Days;
; Home Improvement; Home Movies; Homicide: Life on the Streets; House; In Living Color; The Jeffersons; Just Shoot Me!; The Kids in the Hall; King of the Hill; Lie to Me; The Life & Times of Tim; Lost; M*A*S*H; Metalocalypse; NewsRadio; Northern Exposure; Oz; Person of Interest; Pinky & The Brain; The PJs; Reaper; Reno 911!; Rescue Me; Robot Chicken; Roots; The Shield; Six Feet Under; The Sopranos; Spin City; Sports Night; Stella; Suits; Taxi; The Tick; The Twilight Zone; Upright Citizens Brigade; Weeds; The West Wing;
White Collar
; Will & Grace; The X-Files; 24; 3rd Rock from the Sun; 8 Simple Rules
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Using Microsoft Office Project 2007, you can estimate and track basic cost (cost: The total scheduled cost for a task, resource, or assignment, or for an entire project. This is sometimes referred to as the current cost. In Project, baseline costs are usually referred to as "budget.") information for your project. You can use a variety of types of costs, and Project 2007 calculates those costs for you as the project progresses.
Costs are an important aspect of project scheduling and control. Project 2007 provides for several types of costs. By using Project 2007, you can enter and track the following types of costs:
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Budgets can be created and tracked from either of two directions, by using either a bottom-up (bottom-up estimating: An estimating method in which the base costs of individual work items or resources are calculated into task, resource, and project cost totals.) or a top-down (top-down estimating: An estimating method that uses the actual costs of a previous, similar project as the basis for estimating cost totals of a current project. This method is often used when there is limited information about the project.) estimating method. Project 2007 supports both methods.
In a bottom-up approach, base rates or per-use costs for resources, and fixed costs or cost resources (cost resources: Resources that don't depend on the amount of work on a task or the duration of a task, such as airfare or lodging.) for individual tasks (task: An activity that has a beginning and an end. Project plans are made up of tasks.) are estimated. Project 2007 calculates cost totals for resources, tasks, and the entire project. This method (also known as bottom-up estimating (bottom-up estimating: An estimating method in which the base costs of individual work items or resources are calculated into task, resource, and project cost totals.)) helps produce reliable and accurate results.
When you create a bottom-up budget in Project 2007:
Note Budget resources are more appropriate for use in top-down planning. They can be applied at the project level only by assigning a budget resource (budget resource: A budget resource captures the maximum capacity for a project to consume money, work, or material units for a project. Budgets can only be applied at the project level by assigning a budget resource to the project summary task.) to the project summary task (summary task: A task that is made up of subtasks and summarizes those subtasks. Use outlining to create summary tasks. Project automatically determines summary task information [such as duration and cost] by using information from the subtasks.).
Project 2007
then calculates the total estimated costs of completing all tasks in the project. If this total is not in alignment with your budget, you must adjust pay rates, resource assignments, and so forth.
After you refine the estimated costs, you can save a baseline plan (baseline plan: The original project plans [up to 11 per project] used to track progress on a project. The baseline plan is a snapshot of your schedule at the time that you save the baseline and includes information about tasks, resources, and assignments.), thereby establishing a budget for the project.
With a budget in place, you can compare actual expenditures against the amounts that you planned to spend and then make any necessary adjustments to stay within the budget. In most instances, all that you have to do is enter actual cost amounts for each task. Project 2007 calculates the task's cost based on the project's progress. You can also enter specific costs, if needed.
Note You can view cost totals for tracking purposes in any of three ways: in the Project Information dialog box, in Project views (particularly the Task Usage and Resource Usage views), or in a report. Using Visual Reports, you can also export this cost information to other programs, such as Microsoft Office Excel 2007 and Microsoft Office Visio 2007.
In a top-down approach to budget estimating, overall resource, task, and project cost totals are estimated based on previous experience of similar projects. If you have a fixed maximum amount of money that you are able to spend on a project, a top-down budgeting method is preferable to a bottom-up method.
When you create a top-down budget for your project:
Rate-based resource costs are costs of work resources (work resource: People and equipment resources that perform work to accomplish a task. Work resources consume time [hours or days] to accomplish tasks.), such as people or rental equipment, to which you assign standard and (if appropriate) overtime rates (overtime: The amount of work on an assignment that is scheduled beyond the regular working hours of an assigned resource and charged at the overtime rate. Overtime work indicates the amount of the assignment's work that is specified as overtime work.), usually assessed on an hourly basis. When you assign a resource to a task, Project 2007 calculates the total resource cost by using the specified hourly resource rates and the time (or duration (duration: The total span of active working time that is required to complete a task. This is generally the amount of working time from the start to finish of a task, as defined by the project and resource calendar.)) that it takes to accomplish the task.
Note By default, Project 2007 uses standard resource rates to calculate costs for the entire amount of work used to complete a task. Project 2007 does not automatically calculate additional hours as overtime work, unless you specifically assign the additional hours as overtime.
Because work always represents the total amount of work completed, the amount of overtime work is included in, not added to, the total amount of work. For example, if a person is scheduled to work 40 hours over four days, consisting of 8 hours of regular work and 2 hours of overtime work per day, you assign 10 hours of work per day, and then designate 2 hours of those 10 as overtime work. Project 2007 calculates the cost of the hours specified as overtime work by using the specified overtime rate. The remaining hours are calculated at the standard rate.
Rate-based material costs are the costs of consumable material resources, such as building materials or supplies, to which you assign standard rates (but typically not rates calculated per hour). To assign costs for material resources, you set the rate per unit of material, such as a rate per yard or a rate per ton. When you assign a material resource to a task, Project 2007 calculates material cost totals by multiplying the specified material resource rate by the number of material units used to complete the task.
Work resources sometimes have a cost rate table (cost rate table: A collection of information about a resource's rates, including the standard rate, overtime rate, any per-use cost, and the date when the pay rate takes effect. You can establish up to five different cost rate tables for each resource.) applied to them when costs are calculated. A cost rate table is a collection of rates and per-use costs for material and work resources. Project 2007 provides five cost rate tables, named A through E (the names cannot be changed), so that if a resource charges separate rates for separate types of work, you can assign as many as five separate sets of rates to that resource. For example, if a carpenter charges a higher rate for finish work than for framing, you can apply one cost rate table to the finish work assignment and another to the framing assignment.
In each cost rate table, there are up to 25 rows that you can use to enter future rate changes (such as pay rate increases or material cost changes). For each rate change, you specify the date that the change takes effect. For example, if you know that a resource will receive a pay increase in six months, you can set Project 2007 to automatically start using the new rate at that time.
Note If you are using Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007 and working with enterprise resources (enterprise resources: Resources that are part of an organization's entire list of resources. Enterprise resources can be shared across projects.), your organization may choose to put restrictions on rate tables. For example, your organization may designate rate table A for billing rates and rate table B for nonbillable rates. Contact your administrator (administrator: Sets up and manages user accounts, assigns permissions, and helps users with network or server access issues. This person can also manage and customize various elements in Project Professional and in Project Server.) for more information.
Per-use costs are one-time fees for the use of a resource, such as equipment. Per-use costs never depend on the amount of work done. Instead, they are one-time costs that are incurred every time that the resource is used. Although a per-use cost for a work resource depends on the number of assignment units (assignment units: The percentage of a work resource's time, or units, that the resource is assigned to a task.) used, a per-use cost for a material resource is applied only one time. For example, if a brick layer has a per-use cost of $100 (instead of an hourly rate) and it takes three brick layers to complete a task, the cost is $300. But a per-use delivery cost of $100 for a material resource like cement is applied only once per delivery, whether 10 tons of cement are delivered or 100 tons.
Note Per-use costs are set on the Costs tab of the Resource Information dialog box.
Fixed costs are costs for a task that remain constant regardless of the task duration, the amount of work that is performed by the resource, and the number of assignment units.
Note A rate-based resource cost can increase when a task takes more time than projected, but a fixed cost does not. For example, if a carpenter is a rate-based resource (that is, if he or she is paid hourly) and is scheduled to complete a task in five days but actually takes seven days to complete it, the carpenter is paid more than was budgeted. If the carpenter is paid a fixed cost for the work, however, the cost remains the same, regardless of how long the task takes to complete.
You can assign fixed costs to a task to which rate-based resource costs are also assigned. For instance, if a rate-based resource that is assigned to a task also incurs travel costs, you can add the travel costs to the same task as a fixed amount. Fixed costs are included in the cost totals, both of project phases (on summary tasks (summary task: A task that is made up of subtasks and summarizes those subtasks. Use outlining to create summary tasks. Project automatically determines summary task information [such as duration and cost] by using information from the subtasks.)) and of the whole project.
Note You set fixed costs in a task view (such as a Gantt Chart) by applying the appropriate Cost rate table, and then setting the cost amount in the Fixed Cost field.
Unlike fixed costs and per-use costs, cost resources (such as lodging or airfare) are created as a type of resource and then assigned to a task. Unlike work resources, cost resources cannot have a calendar applied to them. The amount of the cost resources doesn't depend on the amount of work done on a task.
If you have installed the Infrastructure Update for Project 2007, then cost resources can affect the start or end date of a task. For example, if you have a task that begins August 1 and ends August 15, and you assign a cost resource with a value of $500 on August 21, the end date for the task is extended to August 21 to account for the cost resource assignment.
Cost resources are used when you want to apply (to a single task) multiple separate miscellaneous costs that aren't changed by the amount of work that is performed on the task. For example, an executive working on a new project proposal might have three separate cost resources applied to him or her: one for airfare, one for food expenses, and one for hotel room expenses. In this way, several "fixed" costs can be applied to a single task. Unlike with work resources and material resources, cost rates cannot be applied to cost resources.
Note Cost resources are created on the Resource Sheet. (On the General tab of the Resource Information dialog box, click Cost in the Type list.) After you create the cost resource, you can assign it to tasks as needed. After the cost resource is assigned to a task, you can set the amount of the cost by using the Task Information dialog box for that task, the Assignment Information dialog box for that task, or the Task Usage view that has the Cost table applied.
When assigning costs to tasks and resources, you can specify when the costs accrue (accrual method: Determines when the cost for a resource is incurred and when actual costs are charged to a project. You can incur costs at the start [Start] or finish [End] of a task or prorate them [Prorated] during the task.). If cash flow is a critical factor in your project, you may want to change how costs accrue for individual tasks, to make sure that they accrue only when you have sufficient funds available to pay for them.
Except for per-use costs, which always accrue at the start of a task, Project 2007 prorates costs by default and calculates cost accrual based on the percentage of the task completed, distributing the accrual over the whole duration of the task. However, you can also have costs accrue either at the start of a task (if you have a lump-sum amount that is payable at the start), or at the end of the task (if you are holding payment until the work is finished).
Note The accrual method can be set in any of several ways, depending on the type of cost. For most types of resources (including work, material, and cost resources, and also per-use costs) you set the accrual method on the Cost tab of the Resource Information dialog box. For fixed costs, you set the accrual method by using the Fixed Cost Accrual field.