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A Bloody Good Time 07.26.12: The Worst Godzilla Monsters
Posted by
Joseph Lee
on 07.26.2012
Godzilla's had some easy fights in his career...
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Welcome to A Bloody Good Time.
Last week I presented my top ten sci-fi/horror films. Here's what you had to say.
Michael L
Good lists, although I think even the people who made Aliens see it as less of a horror film and more sci-fi action. One film that I thought was underrated was Faculty, which was written by Kevin Williamson (Scream 1, 2 & 4). It does a good job of sending up the Body Snatchers plot while embracing it. About the only thing that keeps it from being better is the mediocre acting in some quarters (including Jon Stewart).
I did enjoy
The Faculty
, and it just missed the list, along with a handful of others. Robert Patrick is particularly entertaining in it.
Andrew Crow
Really, really great list here, Lee. While I think Aliens is a Top 3 or 4 in terms of quality alone (I still prefer it over the original, but I won't argue anybody who prefers the original; they really are both just amazing movies), it being just out of the Top 5 due to its lack of legitimate horror is acceptable. I'm surprised Prince of Darkness wasn't on here. It's one of Carpenter's best for the things Carpenter does best (mood, dry "here it is" direction, constant building to a conclusion), and is a blend of sci-fi and religious horror that works very well.
Prince of Darkness
is pretty much the only John Carpenter film I haven't seen. It's on my Instant Queue though, if that means anything.
FCT in 3D
Your last 4 are a joke. You call mimic great because of the death scene involving the 2 kids?
I'm sure pretty much everyone would disagree with you. And no, I called
great because "it's a solid thriller with amazing special effects." It was right there in the write-up.
I'm a little disappointed you didn't include any George Romero in this. Granted "Night of The Living Dead" the black and white, the cheesy-ness of the effects, it is still more a social experiement in terror considering the era it was released in. Preyed upon the issues of the 60's. Still a pretty heart pounding movie for me to this day. A simple movie. Why can't movies be like that anymore?
I don't consider Romero's
films to be science fiction, and I think the general consensus would agree. There's no real "science" to be had (except in
) as the dead just get up and walk. It's more supernatural than sci-fi, but I'll admit there's a real fine line there between the two.
This week I'm getting into something more lighthearted, as sort of a break for me. I've got some fun ideas ready for the next month though, two of which are by request! But let's go back to a discussion we had a few months ago about
. I looked at what I thought were the best of his opponents. This week, it's time to get nerdy again as we look at the dumbest, weakest and silliest of the Godzilla monsters.
: Varan
Varan looks like Toho really wanted a flying squirrel monster, or someone wanted to use two Rodans in
Destroy All Monsters
but decided to use this little known monster (who came from
Varan The Unbelievable
) instead. Personally, I can't look at him without laughing. There are some dumb looking monsters on this list and there were even dumb ones on my best list (one of Godzilla's best opponents is a giant moth), but Varan really does take the cake.
The only reason he ranks this low is that he hasn't had much to do withe Godzilla series outside of his one and only appearance in
Destroy All Monsters
. Varan is so lame he didn't even get to participate in the fight against King Ghidorah. Let's put this into perspective. Godzilla's kid even got to blow smoke rings at it. You know you're in a bad spot when Godzilla's kid is getting in more damage to the biggest and baddest monster of them all than you are.
: Baragon
Speaking of lame monsters, Baragon looks like a mutated reptile dog. He walks like a dog, has giant floppy ears and doesn't really do much. Like Varan, he came from another film, that of
Frankenstein Conquers The World
, aka the one with the Toho sized Frankenstein monster that looks like a caveman. Baragon also doesn't do much in
Destroy All Monsters
, but I think he's higher than Varan on this list because he actually looks dumber. And by dumber, I mean he looks like he has a low IQ.
Baragon would get a much bigger role in
Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack
as one of the three guardians of Earth. It's Mothra, King Ghidorah...and Baragon. Obviously they just wanted an easy opponent for Godzilla to kill off when he goes on a rampage, and Baragon was the one selected to get killed. His big powers are that he can dig and jump high. Is it any wonder he failed so quickly?
: Kamacuras & Kumonga
There's designing a stupid looking monster and then there's just being lazy. Creating a giant spider and giant praying mantis as opponents for Godzilla is lazy. The Kamacuras appear first, trying to eat Godzilla's son and are easily dispatched in
Son of Godzilla
. Then the Kumonga makes its appearance by eating a Kamacuras and (surprise) trying to eat Godzilla's son. Godzilla wins the battles without too much effort,
A giant spider is scary sure, but it's not really something that belongs in this series. Giant praying mantises (mantii?) are just silly, and as expected they aren't much of a threat to Godzilla, one of the reasons
Son of Godzilla
is one of the worst of the series. The insects and arachnid also show up in
Destroy All Monsters
Final Wars
, where they do a little more but aren't obviously the lesser of the gathered kaiju.
: Ebirah
But at least giant insects and spiders are threatening. Is there anyone that would be scared if giant shrimp showed up? Okay, yes, a giant anything showing up would be scary, but in this universe a giant shrimp is the equivalent of sending the Army against Godzilla. Actually, I think the Army actually gets better towards the end of the series, while Ebirah just dies and doesn't show up again until
Final Wars
, where he has to form a team with Hedorah just to pose any threat, and they still fail. Easily.
You know why a giant shrimp monster is a terrible idea? Because it can't do anything. It has claws and at one point throws rocks at Godzilla. They devoted an entire movie to this. Jet Jaguar only had one appearance ever, but Ebirah gets two and a whole movie about him on top of it. Luckily he was only used sparingly, and probably only brought back in
Final Wars
as a nod to continuity.
: Hedorah
Hedorah is the smog monster. A monster made out of pollution, smog and sludge. I know that it has some fans but I am not one of them. For one, I think
Godzilla vs The Smog Monster
is one of the weaker Godzilla movies because of how bizarre it is. Also, it's just a dumb looking monster that seems like it would be more at home on
Captain Planet
than fighting the King of All Monsters.
Like Biollante or Destoroyah, Hedorah has several forms, but unlike them, they all suck. I know that the big message of the movie was Godzilla fights pollution, and that's a little too on the nose for a series that should just be big and dumb and full of monsters fighting each other. I want to see a badass monster show up and give Godzilla a hard time, not something that more or less defecates on him as a fighting maneuver.
: Gabara
The monsters get even lamer as Gabara is the main foe of the worst film in the entire series,
Godzilla's Revenge
, before never showing up again. He's more or less just a bully that picks on Minilla throughout the film and eventually the son of Godzilla stands up to him and kicks his ass. That's right. Gabara got his ass kicked by Minilla. When he comes back later for revenge, Godzilla has had enough and sends him packing.
It's probably good that Gabara was only the creation of some kid's dream, because I don't think he would last in the actual Godzilla universe. If Hedorah was the creation of anti-pollution propaganda, then Gabara was created to promote anti-bullying, years before it became the craze it is now. He probably should have learned how to be a star.
: Titanosaurus
On appearances alone, Titanosaurus looks dumb but at least he resembles a dinosaur, and could potentially hold his own. But he's utterly useless (he only does any real damage with Mechagodzilla helping him) and has an incredibly annoying roar. Yes, some of the reasons I select these monsters are petty, but listen to
and tell me you'd want to hear that in anything, let alone during a monster battle.
Like Gabara, this one is so bad he only appeared once in the series, in
Terror of Mechagodzilla
. I'm not sure why they suddenly decided Mechagodzilla needed help from this thing but they did. It ended up hurting Toho in the long run, as it was the least attended of all of the films and effectively ended the Showa era, before the series was rebooted with
Godzilla 1985
. Titanosaurus killed the series for nine years.
: King Caesar
King Caesar is actually an ally of Godzilla's and teams with him against Mechagodzilla in
Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla
. He doesn't fare well on his own against the robotic version and it's only when Godzilla returns from recharging that he's able to avoid being killed. He wouldn't return until
Final Wars
, where he teams with Anguirus and Rodan and still manages to get defeated. He's just lucky Godzilla didn't kill him.
King Caesar is built up to be much more important than he looks. A cross between a lion and a dog, he's proof that Toho monsters shouldn't be furry, as they don't look very good in this series. It's just a personal opinion of mine. Even Toho's King Kong looked kind of bad in the fur department. I chalk it up to the limitations of the costume design, but it doesn't change the fact that Caesar was one of my least favorite monsters.
: Zilla
You just knew this had to appear on this list somewhere. If we judged just from his appearance in
Final Wars
, he's a joke of a monster that Godzilla defeats with ease and shouldn't be mentioned again. But we can't, since he wouldn't have made it into the Toho series if he didn't first appear in the terrible remake of
. The reason he's called "Zilla"? Because the remake took the "God" out of the name, according to fans and Toho.
I've said many times that I'm not a fan of the remake, and I'm also not a fan of their version of Godzilla. There's an argument that if the movie wasn't named
, it'd be a perfectly acceptable monster movie. That's also not true because the monster just sucks in general. What respectable kaiju is actually killed by the military? He's also a lot smaller than other monsters in this series and that makes him less threatening.
: Minilla/Minya
If there's one thing I hate more than the American Godzilla, it's Godzilla's ugly and stupid kid. The Showa series hit its low point after Minilla was introduced and it never really took off again, outside of the introduction of Mechagodzilla. He's dumb looking, completely useless and there only for comedic relief. The problem is that his appearances are never funny. He also gets to
Godzilla's Revenge
and while his voice isn't what you'd expect, it's somehow worse.
Toho had some guts in putting in a son for Godzilla again in their Heisei series. One of the incarnations actually looks like Minilla some and I believe it blows smoke rings at one point. But at least that version actually gets to grow up and become a threatening Godzilla in its own right, instead of playing hopscotch with his father's tail and getting picked on by Gabara.
That's it for me. Who is your least favorite Godzilla monster? Leave some comments here on or my
. Next week, by fan request, I'm going to rank the Alien and Predator films collectively. You probably already know the top three if you were here the last two weeks. But hey, you could see me trash
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, and who doesn't love a good movie trashing?
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Princeton Campus
- Nassau Hall. Princeton's
protocol requires that this building be placed first in
every Princeton photo collection. This main administration
building was once George Washington's capitol of the
United States. A fierce combat took place in and around this
building during the Independence War.
- Nassau Hall viewed from a different angle.
- Nassau Hall after light snow (January 2009).
- Entrance and Two Tigers.
- Two Tigers and a rear view of Nassau Hall.
- Putnam Sculpture and a side view of Nassau Hall.
- Commencement of 1961 in front of Nassau Hall. I was there.
Historic Alexander Hall
- Alexander Hall. This building has a
complicated history, but it is clear that many important meetings
were held in the auditorium of this building.
- Back of Alexander Hall. Many exciting events take place here.
- John Witherspoon (1723-1794). He came
from Scotland and became the 6th president of Princeton University in 1768.
Witherspoon was the first president who knew how to build a college of the
form known today. He invented the word campus. He was a
Presbyterian minister and was a strict moralist. Thanks to him,
my PhD diploma of 1961 says "This person is morally perfect!"
Pyne Hall is in the background. This old building is used for many different purposes, including the comptroller's office, student meeting rooms, cafeterias, etc.
Firestone Library seen from Washington Raod.
- Firestone Library. This building is
also Princeton's landmark. In addition to a study place for students,
the library contains many books and documents of historical
- Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library
contains many inportant manuscripts, including PhD dessertations.
Let us look at
- View from the opposite direction.
- Entrance. This climatic-controlled building has its entrance. You can go in and ask for a xerox coy of Feynman's PhD thesis.
- Feynman's Thesis. Selected pages available from the University Archives, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library. Courtesy of Princeton University Library.
Prospect Garden Fountain.
- Prospect Garden used to be the
presidential mansion located at the center of the Campus. It is now
used for a faculty club.
- Another View of the Prospect Garden.
- Fountain at the Garden.
- Art Museum has a very respectable
collection of art works. I once asked the museum director how he got
those expensive items. He said Princeton has many rich alumni.
- Picasso Sculpture used to be in front of the Art Museum. This art piece called the "Head of a Woman" was constructed by a Norwegian artist Carl Nesjar in 1971 under the supervision of Pablo Picasso. This sculpture has been moved to a corner of the campus near the railroad station. The campus made a mistake.
- Extension of Picasso's Imagination. The Princeton Alumni Weekly in its issue of April 6 (2011) carried this drawing of the Picasso woman. It related the woman's face with book pages.
A Tense Moment in the Stadium
- Palmer Stadium. Princeton's Football
- Jadwin Gymnasium.
- DeNuzio Pool. Princeton's Swimming Pool.
- Lake Carnegie. This lake is relatively
narrow but long, and it is ideal for canoe race (1983). This lake is between
the campus and the US Route 1.
Lake Carnegie during the winter time (1960).
Frozen Lake (1960).
Lake Carnegie on Sunday morning (2007).
- McCosh Health Center. If you become
tired and exhausted, you can spend one, two, or even three nights here under
nurse's care. I spent three nights here in 1961. I was 25 years old, and
the nurse was about 50 years old (like my mother). It was like home.
Cleveland Tower of the Graudate College
Entrance to Graduate College Quadrangle
Pier Sabatier (right) in gown. The other person is also in gown but bare-footed.
- Graduate College (1961, 2000, 2008).
In 2008. I went to the Graduate Collge in 1958 for the first time. Fifty years later, in 2008, I went there again. Every thing seemed to be the same, but there was one difference. There are now female students. Princeton used to be an all-male univerity.
The Graduate College has a history. When Woodrow Wilson was the president of the University, he was interested in building the Graduate College building at the center of the campus, perhaps near the Prospect Garden. The College was to include residence halls for graduate students. However, the rest of the University was against his idea. At that time, the concept of graduate education did not sound exciting to the University community. Eventually the College was built at a location about one km away from the center of the campus. Woodrow Wilson was so upset that he had to seek a new position. He became the governor of New Jersey, and then the president of the United States. Let us look at a photo of
- Woodrow Wilson in
Versailles with Raymond Poincare, the president of France (1920).
- Cleveland Tower at the Graduate College.
- Graduate College Commons Room, where many things happen.
- Bicycles parked at the Graduate College quadrangle. Since classes are held in the main campus (1 km away from the College), graduate students need transportation.
- Proctor Hall has been and still is the main dining hall of the Graduate College. When I was a student (1958-61), we had to wear black academic gowns, but I did not like the gown.
- Pierre Sabatier was an exchange student from France loved to be formal (1958-59). In this photo, he (tall man) is wearing the gown in preparation for the Proctor-Hall dinner. As in this photo, he used to insist on French way of living. I like to know who the other person in the photo was (photo courtesy of Dieter Brill). Like to see Sabatier's recent photo? another photo! He is now an important person at the Univ. of Montpelier in France, and likes to worry about the physics of waves.
- I was also wearing the gown. I am the tallest person in this photo.
- Princeton Inn seen from the Graduate College ground. It used to be a very expensive hotel, but it is now used as an undergraduate dormitory called Forbes College.
- Woodrow Wilson in Versailles with Raymond Poincare, the president of France (1920).
- Marriage Penalty. Married students
live in this village called "Butler Barracks." These temporary
buildings were built in 1945 for WWII veterans, and
the streets in this village are named after the famous
generals such as Eisenhower and Patton. The University later took
over these barracks to accommodate married graduate students.
These barracks are now more than 60 years old, but they still
play an essential role in Princeton's graduate education. They keep saying
these barracks will be replaced by luxury apartments soon, but they were
still there in January of 2011.
Blair Hall and Blair Beach
- Dormitories The campus of Princeton
University largely consists of undergraduate dormitories. Dormitory buildings
constructed in recent years.
- Blair Hall Blair Beach Dorms.
- Princeton Inn used to be an expensive hotel across the golf course from the Graduate College. It is now one of the undergraduate colleges called "Forbes College."
- Wilcox Hall. One of the undergraduate dining halls. This building was completed in 1961 with a gift from the Wilcox estate. Ferdinand Wilcox was from the Class of 1900, and died in 1958.
- Chefs making omelettes for Sunday brunch.
- Students enjoying a late brunch. There were no girls on campus when I was a student (1958-61). The Wilcox Hall was for meetings of campus groups.
- Eating Clubs on Prospect Avenue.
- Prospect Avenu after light snow.
Woodraw Wilson School
Engineering School
- Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
This building was constructed while I was a graduate student (1958-61). The style was
controversial because its appearance is quite different from those of other buildings
of the University. The construction was funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, a
financial giant at that time.
- Wilson's Bust in the main lobby of the building.
- Future Secretary of State. This undergraduate student was studying the world during the winter break (January 2002).
- The Department of Economics is next to
the Wilson School. Here is another view of this Econ
building. As this department is mentioned often in the media, many
young people come to study economics. Their ultimate aim is the Nobel
prize in economics.
- Department of Computer Science. Princeton has
a very strong computer science program in the tradition of John von Neumann.
Here is a
photo taken from a different direction.
- Entrance to the Engineering Quadrangle.
I was inside this quadrangle sometime ago, but not in recent years with my
camera. I hope in the future to take some photos inside this quadrangle.
I am particularly interested in their chemical and electrical engineering
Entrance to Palmer Lab.
Entrance to (old) Fine Hall
(now called Brown Hall)
- Palmer Physical Laboratory.
The first physics building, where Feynman and Weinberg studied.
I was old enough to studied here. Photo courtesy of the Princeton
University Library.
- Front of the Palmer Lab. Incoming graduate students of 1968.
- Old Photo of Palmer Laboratory, a postcard from Pat Klein through eBay.
- Another Old Photo, from Dada Mecantile (Pioneer, California).
- Fine Hall was next to Palmer Lab. This building was for the mathematics department, but Wigner's office was there. The physics library was also there. I spent more time in the Fine Hall library than in Palmer Lab. I used to take naps there when I was tired. Indeed, the Fine Hall Library was my Princeton address. This building is now called Brown Hall.
- Palmer Lab became the
"Frist Campus Center" and the "Center for Asian Studies." When I
was a student (1958-61), I was a very unusual student because of
my Asian origin. Times have changed.
- Jadwin Hall. The physics programs are housed in Jadwin Hall. This is a photo of the Jadwin quadrangle.
- Jadwin Hall Entrance. Two young physicists in front of the entrance.
- Cosmic Ray Laboratory.
This building, now called the Elementary Particles Lab, was
built as a temporary building during the WW-II period. This
is one of the permanent temporary buildings on the campus. My
physics career started from this building.
Forrestal Campus of Princeton.
- The James Forrestal Campus of Princeton
is about 10 km away from the main campus. This place has a very interesting history,
but I still do not know whether it is legal to take photos of this place or post them
on webpages. This research center was constructed originally for fusion research.
- Project Matterhorn. Encouraged by the success of the hydrogen bomb in 1952, American scientists initiated a program to develop controlled fusion for generating clean energy using only hydrogen isotops. This project was heavily funded by the U.S. government. I remember seeing two huge energy-storing flywheels. The idea was to release the energy in a very short period of time to create high enough temperature to trigger a thermo-nuclear reaction. This was one of the ideas which did not work. Yet, they tried every possible method for more than 30 years.
- Princeton-Pennsylvania Accelerator Center. While the U.S. government was making a heavy investment in this research center, physicists in the Princeton-Philadelphia area came up with an idea of building a high-energy accelerator. When I was a student (1958-61), I worked on a rapid cycling bubble chamber to be used with this accelerator. Unfortunately, this accelerator did not have a long life.
- PPPL. These days, the main function e of this Forrestal campus is the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, still heavily funded by the U.S.government. It serves as the world headquarters of plasma physics.
Einstein's House on Mercer Street
- How did Einstein come to Princeton?
- Einstein settled down at this location on Mercer Street.
- Fuld Hall at the Institute for Advanced Study. Einstein and von Neumann used to work here.
- Back of Fuld Hall.
- Einstein Page.
- John von Nuemann Photos.
- Library. I am with an Italian history professor from Naples. The Institute is known for its physics and mathematical programs. Equally strong is its history program.
- Westminster Choir College. This is a
music college in Princeton.
- Main Building of the Choir College.
- Christmas Morning at Einstein's House. The student choir of this college used sing Christmas carols in front of Einstein's house to tell Einstein the Christ has come.
Brown Hall of Princeton Theological Seminary
- Princeton Theological Seminary
is one of the most Prestigious Presbyterian seminaries in the world.
This building, called Brown Hall, is most visible from College Road
linking the Graduate College of the University and the main campus
of the University.
- Alexander Hall is another
- Modern-style residence halls.
- Miller Chapel is a very important place of worship for the future Christian leaders studying at the Seminary.
- Main Library. This Seminary is at the level of graduate school, and is a research institution.
- Templeton Hall is the main administrative building of the Seminary.
- MacKay Campus Center where student activities take place.
- Apartment Building for visitors from foreign lands.
Princeton Garden is the only movie house in Princeton.
- Princeton Garden.
This was one of the two movie theaters operating
when I was a student. I watched Melina Mercurie's
"Never on Sunday" here in 1960. Forty two years later, on
January 11 (2002), I was standing next to the box office.
- Princeton Play House. The other movie theater was called "Princeton Playhouse" on Hulfish Street behind the Nassau Inn. At this location, there is an Italian restaurant called "Mediterra." In 1960, in this movie house, I watched a Soviet film entitled "Cranes are flinging." A Soviet actress named "Tatyana Samoilova" starred in this film. I have a story to tell about this Russian lady.
- Campus Railroad Terminal. It takes ten minutes to reach Princeton Junction from this small campus station. This building seems to be empty these days, as the railroad became less important.
- Princeton Junction. The railroad station on the other side of the US-1.
Stores around Palmer Square
- Palmer Square and Princeton Tiger.
They seem to worship the Tiger in Princeton. This Square on Nassau Streent
is on the opposite side of Alexander Hall.
- viewed from the west side from the Square.
- viewed from the east side.
- Palmer Square Shops on north side.
- Visitors from France resting on a bench on Nassau Street (2008). They came fron Nice on Cote d'Azur. Their boy is interested in coming to Princeton for his college education. It was very easy to talk to them because I was at their place twice.
Hamilton Jewelers on Nassau Street.
- U Store,
Princeton University Store. Like to buy
Princeton things from this
- Entrance to U Store at University Place.
- Nassau Street Stores. Most of the U-Store transactions are now handled by designated retailers on Nassau Street.
- Shops on Witherspoon Street. There are also good restaurants.
- Shops on Chamber Street. Princeton needs some exclusive stores.
- Princeton Shopping Center. Resting Place.
- Hamilton Jewelers, located at the center of town (across Nassau Street from Nassau Hall). This European-style building tells Princeton was a place for rich people. It was Woodrow Wilson who strengthened Princeton's academic programs. Among the many reforms he introduced, Wilson developed the graduate school which was initiated one year before he became the president of the University (1902-1910). Yet, Princeton still could not completely shake off its reputations as an exclusive university for sons and daughters of rich and famous people.
Brooke Shields'87 and her signature
Princeton's Annex Restaurant on Nassau Street.
- Nassau Inn and Restaurant. I once stayed
in this hotel (1991).
The hotel has a restaurant called "Yankee Doodle." There are
photos of many famous Princeton graduates, including John
Foster Dulles, James Baker, Donald Rumsfeld, Brooke Shields,
Michelle Obama, and many others.
- Brooke Shields .
- Green House Restaurant adjacent to the Nassau Inn. It used to be there, but no longer. It is now a
- Swiss chocolate store.
- In 2008, Nassau Inn looked like this.
- Annex Restaurant. Moderately
priced place on Nassau Street. I used to go there very often.
- This place became an Italian restaurant called "Sotto." The barber shop is still there.
- Witherspoon Grill on Witherspoon Street.
- Princetonian Diner. Moderately priced diner on US-1.
- Hyatt Regency Hotel, near the
intersection of Alexander Road and US-1. This hotel
is relatively new, and did not exist when I was a student.
I meet my friends and colleagues at the restaurant in
this hotel. Actress Brooke Shields used to come here with her
mother. Often I go there with my wife.
I like their food and environment.
Photo by Orren Jack Turner (1947)
- Orren Jack Turner Photo Studio. Orren
Jack Turner (1920-2008) was an American soldier during World War II. After the
war, he inherited his father's photo studio on Nassau Street. The studio was on
the second floor of this gray building directly
across the street from Nassau Hall. His father opened this studio in 1909 and
started taking photos of Princeton's football games.
- In 1947, he produced this photo of Albert Einstein, and used to own its copyright. He then donated his copyright to the U.S. Library of Congress. This photo is now in the public domain.
- In 1961, Orren Jack Turner photographed me the day before by commencement. In this photo, I am with my father.
- In 1959, my mother sent me a Canon camera, and I started taking photos. I am not a professional photographer, but I seem to know how to combine them to produce abstract concepts. For instance, I produced my own concept of the Garden of Eden.
- Einstein's House. I am standing in front of the house in which Einstein lived until 1955.
- La Hiere's French Restaurant. on
Witherspoon Street.
Einstein used to dine here. I used to eat there occasionally when I was a student. I went there again in August of 2008, and took this photo.
- P-rade. Parade of Princeton Alumni.
Annual Event. Affluent Society!
- Einstein Magazine tells more
about Einstein.
|Nassau Hall
In addition to the University, Princeton hosts many interesting research and commercial organizations.
- Sarnoff Corporation. On
the east side of the US-1,
there is the campus of Sarnoff Corporation. It used to be the David
Sarnoff Research Laboratory of RCA (Radio Corporation of America).
RCA disappeared, but Sarnoff did not.
- Campus of Sarnoff Corporation.
- David Sarnoff converted Maxwell's equations into electronic industry.
- Dow Jones Co. is about 10 km from
Sarnoff Co. This company is known to produce a four-digit number
everyday telling how American companies are doing. This is a big
company with a large number of researchers.
- Tight Security. I was not able to enter the campus. I did not have security credentials.
Hyatt Regency Hotel
- Hyatt Regency Hotel accommodates
many visitors to Princeton. It has elegant lobbies and dining places.
- The Dining Area with tropical environment.
- Fish Ponds enhance the environment of the main lobby and the dining area.
- Many Interesting People. I meet many interesting people in this hotel. These three young ladies are from the Princeton area. I asked them why they are staying in this hotel while their homes are so close. They said the hotel has an excellent swimming pool. They were staying there in order to swim.
- Birthday Parties. There are many birthday parties held in this hotel. In 2004, I gave my wife her birthday party in this hotel, but I did not invite anyone else. As for party decorations, I used a balloon left over from someone else's birthday party.
- Otsuko is a Japanese pharmaceutical
company. The company's North American operational base is just next to
the Hyatt hotel.
- Another View of this huge building.
Nordisk Corporation in Princeton
Johnson and Johnson in New Brunswick
- Novo Nordisk is a Danish pharmaceutical
company, and its American headquarter is near Princeton's Forrestal campus.
- Flags. The company is proud of its Danish origin.
- Johnson and Johnson is one of the
giant health-care companies, and its headquarters is in
New Brunswick about 50 km north from Princeton. In the area between
these two citites, there are dozens of J & J establishments. I could not
go to all of them to take photos, but their New Brunswick base seems to
be very important.
- Rutgers. To us, New Brunswick is known as the home of Rutgers University. The Johnson and Johnson headquarters is right next to the main building (where the president's office is ) of Rutgers.
- J&J Research Center next to the company headquarters.
- Another J&J Building. This tall building serves as the landmark of New Brunswick.
- New York City is only 60 kilometers away from Princeton. It takes one hour to go to New York by train or bus. I used to go there very often.
|Sarnoff Corporation
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In 2010, Partners for Sacred Places and the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice concluded a pilot study of the economic impact of houses of worship. We found that 12 Philadelphia congregations contribute $52 million in annual economic value to the city of Philadelphia, for an average of $4.3 million per congregation. By assessing over 50 different factors, we have pioneered a new quantitative approach to understanding how congregations impact local economies. Congregations must now be understood as critical economic catalysts, suggesting an important shift in community investment policy and practice.
We can categorize the dozens of ways congregations benefit their communities in three broad areas: 1) through direct spending; 2) the value of day care and K-12 educational programs; and 3) a range of catalyzing or leveraging economic values, such as Open Space, Magnet Effect, Individual Impact, Community Development and Invisible Safety Net [see Graph 1].
Types of Local Businesses Supported by Congregational Spending and Activities [Table 1]
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Building Suppliers
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Corner Stores
|Custodial Services
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Since its founding in 1989, Partners has focused on understanding how congregations use their assets—including their buildings—to serve the wider public. Co-founders Bob Jaeger and Diane Cohen knew that congregations hosted a wide variety programs, ranging from soup kitchens to day care centers to job training.
The study, published by Jaeger and Cohen as Sacred Places at Risk [SPAR], found that urban congregations provide over $140,000 [in 1997 dollars] in resources to support community-serving programs each year.
In addition, the project confirmed that 4 out of 5 of those benefiting from church or synagogue-hosted outreach are not members of those congregations; in effect, sacred places serve as de facto neighborhood community centers.
Although groundbreaking, SPAR did not attempt to look at all of the ways that congregations impact their communities. While the tools that SPAR made possible were effective, they were limited. They measured the value of space and volunteer time of some social programs, but couldn't account for the vast and more complex impacts of lives improved. In 2007 Partners convened a small group of researchers from academia and the non-profit sector to propose the concept of a larger valuation study, and included in that proposal several factors outlined by Associate Director, Tuomi Forrest. The proposal sought to factor in the value of green space, trees, building projects, tourism, and visitors to congregations, as well as the impact on public safety and housing values, support for local business and vendors, budget and taxes, affiliated Community Development Corporations and a congregation's role as an incubator for new businesses or non-profits.
After securing a grant from William Penn Foundation in 2010 to pilot this new study, Partners joined with Dr. Ram Cnaan of the University of Pennsylvania's School of Social Policy and Practice, and began to lay out a new, ambitious, quantitative approach to understanding the full value congregations provide to their local economy – an approach that could be used by government, policy analysts, and advocates.
According to our calculations, the overall estimated annual value of the 12 studied congregations is $51,850,178 [see Table 1] This estimate translates into an average value of $4,320,848 per studied congregation.
Participating Congregations [Table 2]
First Baptist Church of Paschall
Arch St. United Methodist Church
Jones Tabernacle African Methodist Episcopal Church
Shiloh Baptist Church
Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Gloria Dei (Old Swedes') Church
Calvary United Methodist Church
The Church of St. Luke and the Epiphany
Congregation Rodeph Shalom
St. Mary's Church, Hamilton Village
Summit Presbyterian Church
This value is over 30 times higher than that established in SPAR. Clearly congregations are important employers; purchasers of local goods and services; magnets for bringing in cash, volunteer time and other resources from outside the city; educators of pro-social values; and providers of important value through the 'invisible safety net' of programs, counseling, and other services that help individuals and families be productive workers and citizens.
For policy makers, community and business leaders, and funders interested in a particular facet of economic life, this data should help guide their investment. For those interested in tourism, understanding how congregations attract travelers regionally and nationally is critical. For those wanting to strengthen commercial corridors, understanding the flow of people from a congregation and how they support local business, or how congregations incubate small ventures is critical. Even in an area where the overall value is relatively low, like open space, we found two congregations with significant green space and trees. In effect they manage mid-size urban parks that contribute the the economic and environmental well-being of the city and region.
Partners for Sacred Places will continue to work with the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice and other academic/research advisers. We will now refine the valuation methodologies where need be, slightly expand the scope of factors studied, and most importantly conduct a wider study, randomly selecting congregations from multiple cities or states to get a national picture of the Halo Effect of sacred places.
Links to media stories about the event
February 2,2011, Philadelphia Inquirer: A study asks: What's a church's economic worth?
May 20,2011, BBC News: The unpaid volunteers saving millions for the state
Read the full report on Partners' Halo Effect study.
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An overview of exciting fellowship opportunities for Penn students. 5:00-6:00 pm in the CURF Fireside Lounge (2nd floor of the ARCH building, 3601 Locust)
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The Whitaker Foundation allows biomedical engineers early in their careers to study, pursue an internship or do research overseas for an academic year.
Fellows are the pre-doctoral component. They must have a BS or MS in biomedical engineering (or in bioengineering if with an emphasis on biomedical engineering). If not currently enrolled, the applicant's latest degree may not have been obtained more than three years prior to the start of the grant.
Scholars are the post-doctoral component. They must have a doctorate and use the award to conduct post-doctoral work. Fellows and Scholars choose and define their own overseas component which may vary from studying at a university to working at an intern at a policy-making organization. Any outstanding overseas institution that provides excellent professional experience in biomedical engineering may be chosen as a host institution. Fellows' grants will run for one academic year. Scholars' proposals may be for as little as one academic semester or as much as one academic year.
Eligibility and Qualifications
- Must have degrees in biomedical or bioengineering, as above, received within two years of beginning the grant.
- US citizens or permanent residents only.
- Sufficient language abiliy to carry out the project as proposed at the time of departure.
Application Procedures and Selection Criteria
Applicants need to be nominated by their home institution. CURF will coordinate nominations with the School of Engineering.
Application consists of:
- Application form.
- One-page essay of motivation and personal experiences (that lead applicant to seek the grant).
- Two-page essay of previous research experience.
- Two-page plan or proposed study, internship and/or research.
- One-page essay of future plans.
- Three letters of recommendation.
- Language report.
- Official transcripts.
- Letter of invitation from host institution.
Those seeking nominations must inform CURF by December 15. Hard-copy applications must be sent in time to reach IIE offices in late January as well as submitted on-line. Final decisions will be made and applicants notified by mail in mid-April. Grants must begin between July 1 and March 31 and are generally for one year.
Deadline: January 2, 2015
The Foundation awards undergraduate scholarships to students who have outstanding potential and intend to earn a PhD and pursue research careers in mathematics, the natural sciences, or engineering.
Each scholarship provides up to a maximum of $7,500 annually for up to two years of undergraduate study.
Eligibility and Qualifications
Nominees must:
- plan careers as academic researchers/scholars in math, science or engineering
- apply as a sophomore or junior
- be US citizens, US nationals or permanent residents with intent to become citizens
- have very high grades (generally 3.80 or higher)
Application Procedures and Selection Criteria
To be considered for Penn endorsement, applicants should plan to complete essay and the online application (including recommendations) by the campus due date.
Application consists of
- Description of current research
- Description of proposed graduate study and research
- Three letters of recommendation from faculty or research supervisors
- transcripts
Carnegie Fellowship
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace offers up to ten one-year internships. Carnegie Junior fellows assist with research and editing for Carnegie senior associates in areas including nuclear nonproliferation, arms control, democracy, economic reform, immigration, and regional studies. Junior fellows are paid a monthly salary and receive health insurance.
Eligibility and Qualifications
Graduating seniors and graduated students who are not enrolled elsewhere are eligible. Applicants do not need to be U.S. citizens; they must, however, be eligible to work in the United States.
Applicants must have very strong academic qualifications (gpa generally 3.80 or higher) and interests that match those of the Carnegie Endowment. Interesting related life experience is important, whether work, research, internships or service which reflect both diligence and a commitment to the area of focus.
Application Procedures and Selection Criteria
The center of the Carnegie Junior Fellows application is the essay. An essay written specifically for the competition will most likely be more successful than a previously written academic paper tweaked to fit. It needs to be "an original piece or thought." Essays are no more than three pages. The topics change each year. Applicants can choose from among five topics.
The cover letter is also an important selection document, not a pro-forma statement. It should be a thoughtful exploration of the applicant's purpose in applying as well as highlighting the applicant's qualifications.
In addition, an applicant must provide a resume, two letters of recommendation (strongly recommended that at least one be from a member of the faculty in the applicant's major field), and official transcripts.
This current year's application forms and essay questions will be posted here when available. The essay questions change every year. Applications, including all supporting materials — transcripts and letters of recommendation — are due to CURF January 2. A CURF committee will narrow the applicant pool to select two Penn nominees by January 15. The Carnegie Endowment will invite a selected number of finalists for an interview and select the winners in mid-April. Junior Fellows begin their fellowship year on August 1st.
Truman Scholarship
The Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation, the federal memorial to the former president, awards merit-based $30,000 scholarships to college students who plan to pursue careers in government or in public service, and who wish to attend graduate or professional school to help prepare for their careers. Truman Scholars participate in leadership development programs and have special opportunities for internships and employment with the federal government.
The Foundation defines public service as employment in government at any level, uniformed services, public-interest organizations, non-governmental research and/or educational organizations, public and private schools, and public service oriented nonprofit organizations such as those whose primary purposes are to help needy or disadvantaged persons or to protect the environment.
Eligibility and Qualifications
- Applicants should be full-time junior (that is, normally in the third year of college enrollment.) If the applicant is a resident of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa or the Northern Marianas, the applicant must be a senior.
- Applicants must be either U.S. citizens or U.S. nationals.
- Applicants should hope to be "change agents," in time improving the ways that government agencies, nonprofit organizations or educational institutions serve the public. They should want to work in government, education, the nonprofit sector or the public interest/advocacy sector. A strong interest in getting a master's degree, a doctorate, or a professional degree such as a law degree or a Master of Public Administration, Master of Public Health, Master of Social Work, Master of Education, Master of Public Policy, or Master of International Affairs is also preferred. Scholars may attend graduate or professional school in the United States or in a foreign country.
Truman applicants should be extensive participants in two or more of the following s ets of activities: student government and/or campus-based extracurricular activities; community service-related activities that are not organized by a school or a fraternity/sorority; government internships, commissions or boards, advocacy or interest groups, nonpartisan political activities, military/ROTC, or partisan political activities and campaigns. Involvement with organizations or activities related to the applicant's career interests is helpful as well.
Very high grades (generally 3.80 or higher) and a sufficiently strong curriculum to gain admittance to a first-rate graduate institution are required. One or more courses relating to the applicant's career interests are necessary.
Application Procedures and Selection Criteria
Penn may nominate up to four students; the Truman Foundation does not accept applications directly from the candidates. Students who are studying abroad during their junior year may apply. The following items are required by CURF:
- Completed Truman Scholarship application
- Three letters of recommendation
- Policy proposal
- (Unofficial) transcripts of all colleges attended
Applications are due to CURF January 2, 2015.
The Penn Truman Committee will screen the applications and nominate up to four applicants. Those applicants may then be asked to improve their applications up until the final national submission deadline of February 3.
The Truman Selection committee will identify up to 200 finalists who will be interviewed in late Feburary or early March. Winners will be announced very soon thereafter.
The Davis Projects for Peace is an invitation to undergraduates to design grassroots projects that they will implement during the summer. The projects judged to be the most promising and do-able will be funded at $10,000 each. The objective is to encourage and support today's motivated youth to create and try out their own ideas for building peace.
Eligibility and Qualifications
Any Penn undergraduate students are eligible, freshmen through graduating seniors. Students can make proposals individually or the can make group proposals. Groups can include students from other schools.
Qualifications are not those of the student, rather they focus on the project. Questions to be considered include, how well does this project appear to foster peace, how "do-able" is the project and does the project have the necessary pre-approvals.
Application Procedures and Selection Criteria
Students submit complete proposals to CURF. A selection committee will decide which proposal Penn can recommend and will forward them to the Davis UWC Scholars office.
Must prepare a written statement which describes the project (who, what, where, how) including expected outcomes and prospects for future impact (not to exceed two pages) as well as a budget (one separate page). Proposals should include pre-approval of all involved parties and organizations involved in the project. The two-page proposal and one page budget should be submitted electronically to CURF.
- January 10, Application due electronically to CURF by 11:59 pm.
- February 13, Penn's recommendations are forwarded to Davis UWC Scholars office.
- March 12, Final decisions received from Davis UWC Scholars office.
- March 31, Grant payment request letters — completed by CURF and students – due.
- April, any needed alternates announced.
- Summer, projects begin
- September 15, Final report due to Davis UWC Scholars office.
Charles B Rangel International Affairs Program
The Rangel Graduate Fellowship provides up to $35,000 annually towards tuition, room, board, books and mandatory fees for completion of two-year master's degrees in international affairs or another area of relevance to the work of the Foreign Service (such as public administration, public policy, business administration, foreign languages, economics, political science, or communications) at a graduate or professional school approved by the Rangel Program. (see list of partners.)
Eligibility and Qualifications
Applicants must be U.S. citizens.
Must be seeking to enter graduate school in the fall for a 2-year US program in preparation for a career with the US Foreign Service and have financial need (generally those receiving federal financial aid as undergraduates.)
Applications must be received by January 14, 2015
Interviews for finalists will be in mid-March. Offers made to fellows very soon thereafter. Fellows must then pass final review. See http://careers.state.gov/officer/selection-process#nogo for details of final review.
Application Deadline: January 15, 2015
The Evelyn Jacobs Ortner Center on Family Violence will award up to 4 undergraduate research fellowships for projects to be begun now and completed during the 2015-2016 academic year.
Students may receive grants of up to $500. Each student application must be endorsed by a faculty research advisor who will supervise the project throughout the semester. Funds have been provided through the generous support of the Trustees Council on Penn Women.
All full-time Penn undergraduate students enrolled in any school who want to undertake research pertinent to violence in relationships (for example, child abuse, sexual abuse and sexual assault, battering, psychological abuse, economic abuse, teen dating violence) are eligible to apply. Projects exploring empirical and normative issues of violence in relationships in any part of the world are eligible. Applicants are expected but not required to conduct research that will contribute to the writing of a senior thesis or an independent study course during the 2015-2016 academic year. Work may involve travel to libraries, archives, field or interview sites, government agencies, NGOs, or other institutions.
All proposals that include human subjects (whether through primary data collection or the use of existing data) must receive IRB approval from the Office of Research Administration prior to receiving funding. Applicants who are funded must be prepared to submit an IRB application within two weeks of announcement of award.
Funds will be disbursed directly to the student – 50% upon decision (or, if involving human subjects, submission of IRB materials) and 50% upon completion of the reporting requirements (see next paragraph).
All grant recipients are required to participate in monthly seminars during spring semester, which will include discussions of research issues and strategies in the field of family violence. All grant recipients also are required to submit a written summary of their work (no more than 1000 words) and make a short oral presentation about their completed research by the end of the 2015-2016 academic year. The presentation will be at an Ortner Center meeting, which will be open to interested persons at Penn and community-based agencies and others the awardee may choose to invite.
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Please prepare the following in one .pdf document, named "YOUR PENNKEY":
- A statement not exceeding 1000 words describing the aims and rationale for the research project. Indicate as concretely as possible your preliminary research plans.
- A budget of your anticipated research expenses. Appropriate items include research travel, housing, food, and phone costs, book and document costs, fees to use archives, survey costs, etc. List and provide the amount and rationale for each item.
- A copy of your PennInTouch transcript.
- A copy of your resume.
Click here to go to the web-based application, where you will be asked to fill out a form and upload the above prepared document. Applications are due no later than January 15, 2015.
You must submit all these materials in a single file in .pdf format. No other format will be accepted. To create a copy of your Penn transcript, go to Penn InTouch and print your transcript to pdf. (If you don't have Adobe Acrobat installed on your computer, download the free installer or use a Penn computer that has Adobe Acrobat installed.) Print and save each document as a pdf, then create a single pdf file as indicated above by navigating to Acrobat's "File -> Create -> Combine Files into a Single PDF" feature.
Letter of Recommendation
In addition, your faculty research advisor must separately submit a supporting letter of recommendation on your behalf indicating the role the advisor will play in supervising your research in the spring semester of the 2015-2016 academic year. In this letter, your faculty advisor should discuss the feasibility of the project and the adequacy of your preparation to undertake it. The letter should make clear the nature and extent of your contribution in formulating and carrying out the project.
The letter should:
- Review and comment on the student's projected budget
- Discuss the project's feasibility and the adequacy of the applicant's preparation to complete it
- Describe the extent of the student's contribution in formulating and carrying out the project
- Advise the student on any applicable Institutional Review Board or related issues
- If applicable, please indicate what supplies or support might be provided by your lab or budget
Please request the letter as soon as possible from your faculty research advisor via the Recommendation Request Form, and inform your faculty research advisor whether you have chosen to keep their letter confidential and waive your right of access to it.
Decisions about proposals are expected to be made by February 1, 2015.
Dr. Wallace Genser
Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships
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Philadelphia, PA 19104-6244
Questions concerning this grant should be directed to Professor Susan B. Sorenson, Director, Ortner Center, e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com, phone 215.573-1169.
The Samuel Huntington provides an annual stipend of $10,000 for a graduating college senior to pursue public service anywhere in the world. The Award allows recipients to engage in a meaningful public service activity for up to one year before proceeding on to graduate school or a career.


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Chapter 2: Getting down the Tour Bus2 Reviews
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"Hey guys, we're just going to order, because we can see you guys didn't". Pete said while Isaab giggled. The guys nodded and continued talking. They walked to the counter and ordered their coffee. Pete paid for them, which Isaab just obliged to. She was sick and tired of 'arguing' with Pete about paying for stuff like that. She had finally gotten used to Pete paying for her stuff and spoiling her. She hated it, but loved Pete more for showing his affection.
They walked back to the table, talked about random stuff to each other because the other guys were too busy talking to each other, or just ignoring Pete and Isaab. They reached a point in their conversation, to which Pete asked what the heck was in her purse; she took out the contents, carefully. She didn't want to attract attention. She had her basic necessities, cell phone, wallet, brush. Then she had what you would call entertainment, her iPod, her GameBoy DS (which Pete had given to her for Christmas), and her PSP (which she bought herself, on her own terms), and her digital camera (a spare one Pete had that he never used so he gave it to her).
"Hey Pete, let's take a picture". She said while turning it on. "Come on" and Pete leaned to her and made that signature face when he or someone else was taking pictures of him. Isaab smiled but her eyes had this demonic look to it. Its spooked the hell out of the guys and looked at her with scared and shocked looks, except Pete, he was still busy looking at the camera. Pete, holding the camera now, pressed the button and it flashed in front of their eyes. They looked at the picture. "Oh my good God, that is one scary ass look you have there" Pete said pointing at her face.
"That's how it is, when I want a picture of me and my closest friend and he make that really annoying face. I get angry" she responded while turning the camera off and putting it back into its case then into her bag.
"But still, you didn't need to make it look that scary ass" he pointed out. They finished their coffee had headed back into the bus.
"Hey Pete, you wanna play?" Joe asked Pete pointing at the game console. Pete nodded "Whoever wins plays against Patrick" they chuckled.
"No, I am not going to play. I wanna go back to sleep" he said heading back to his bunk.
"How about you, Isaab?" Pete asked Isaab while Joe turned the TV on, muted it, and switched on the game.
"No, go ahead. I'll just watch you guys" she said sitting down on the sofa. They played the game, a two-player fighting game. Isaab started cheering them on, but ended up taunting them.
"Come on Joe, kick his ass!!!" She yelled at Joe while Pete just laughed. "Heads up Pete, sooner or later Joe's gonna get pissed and you'll get your ass handed, I swear" she said laughing. Soon, she got sleeping again, damn air con. Pete looked back after he hit Joe with a very good move, he saw Isaab drifting off. PAUSE!!!
"Oh, what the hell?" Joe yelled. Pete signaled to shut up. He gently shook Isaab.
"Isaab, wake up" he said. She woke up immediately woke up from her shortest slumber.
"Hmm?" She asked. "Why don't you go sleep on my bunk" he offered. She nodded and stood up and walked there slowly, Pete slapped her but to speed her up and just for the fin of it. Once out of the earshot, Joe finally spoke up.
"Can you not be so... you?" Joe asked.
"What?" Pete asked defensively. Joe glared at Pete.
"You know what I mean. She's taken and MY sister". Joe said making a point. He didn't want to see his only and younger sister getting hurt. "Stop it-I just kicked your ass there." After he just pulled a really good move against Pete.
"Well, you can't blame me for trying. Plus, for once, I actually care about this girl. I am not about to hurt her". He said hoping to convince Joe and himself.
"Well, for one: you don't know if you are or not hurting a girl, or anyone else as the matter of fact. And two: she has a boy friend, remember? Ryan Ross." he pointed out.
"Yeah, but how long that going to last?" he asked
"You are hopeless, Pete, hopeless" Joe finally said, and won the game.
"Wake up, Bell, wake up" Joe was again trying to wake up his sister. This time it worked, quickly. She opened her eyes slowly and stretched out.
"Where are we?" she asked.
"We're at the hotel. Everyone's inside already. We're all alone now so hurry up". He answered. She got up and grabbed her stuff and got down the bus. Her pursed started to ring and play "Lying is the Most Fun..." by Panic! At the Disco. It was Ryan. She handed her bulk stuff to Joe, who had no things on his hands, must've brought them down, with Isaab's stroller bag. Shooeing him away into the hotel, she picked up her cell phone and flipped open her phone, and pressed the green button.
"Hey Ry"
I never intended to make Isaab talk to Ryan until next chapter. But someone requested, and I followed. Gwad, I am such a goodie-goodie.


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Imagine school that day. The loudspeaker crackles to life. "Uhh, attention kids — I mean students. Would Claire Matthews, I repeat would CLAIRE MATTHEWS please come down to the principal's office? There's an urgent matter we need to discuss. No one is going to stab you. Uhh, that's all. CLICK." The math class where this particular Claire Matthews currently sits all turn to her. "Oh my god, Claire, that was so weird! Did you hear those muffled noises?" "Yeah, Claire, I'd think twice about listening to that." Claire is just so confused. Her teacher chimes in. "I think you'd better go, Ms. Matthews." He motions to the door with one of those "I don't make the rules!" expressions on his face, which gives way to one of those "LOL I'm totally a Follower" faces the moment she leaves the room. Should've been paying attention to the news on your iPhone, Claire!
Hot off (what I think was) a semi-decent episode last week, the latest The Following continued in that direction with an outing that was at once bonkers, glib, and oddly focused. Just like its colorful cast of characters! Network show that it is — and hot off a nice write-up in the latest Entertainment Weekly — the show offered a tidy catch-up opening that juxtaposed Hardy and Parker's CIA/NSA/Homeland Security briefing with a scene of Follower HQ in full swing. Or should we say Follower U, for how much this whole operation feels like serial killer state college? Practicing stabbing techniques, tracing phone calls, deprogramming kidnapped little boys. Top it off with chill Professor Carroll always down for a quick Poe discussion section, and you've got the best years of your life. I know I missed fall admission, but maybe I can still get my application in for spring?
At office hours, Prof. Carroll listens intently to one of his newer Followers, Amanda, as she outlines plans for her "chapter" in the "book." (Maybe they should bring in a guest lecturer for a class about the limits of metaphor?) The idea: test the power of love, as well as Ryan Hardy's sanity. The method: killing a bunch of women named Claire Matthews, in the hopes of flushing out Joe's Claire Matthews. The weapons: spear and nail-guns. Writes Joe on the margins of her essay, "Amanda, I think your work shows a lot of creative potential! B+."
Moments later Amanda just gets right to it when she sidles up to a random woman at a local diner, asking her to "tell Ryan Hardy that sometimes love hurts." "You've got crazy eyes and I really need to go!" is what the random woman should say, but before she can get to this her other friend has sat back down. "What's up?!" this friend, Claire nee Matthews, asks with genuine curiosity. Amanda answers honestly, telling Claire she currently has a speargun pointed at her from under the table. Then she shoots her. Writes Joe, "I really like this part. Very weird but good weird. One question: speargun? Feel like a silenced pistol would do the trick but stylization can be fun, too. Keep writing!"
Hardy and Parker show up soon after to study the scene and ID the body, whose name obviously gives Hardy cause for concern. "DON'T LET CLAIRE FIND OUT ABOUT THIS!" he screams. And we can assume, somewhere far offscreen, Claire's Internet and cable have just been turned off. She can't even read this recap! At best she's able to re-read her husband's book about the lighthouse, which suuuuuuuuuucks.
Remember Paul and Jacob? They're BACK, turning up at Jacob's mom's place to get some much-needed medical assistance for Paul. But before we get to that, Jacob's mom has some stuff she needs to air out. "Help me understand this, Jacob!" she asks, a perfectly reasonable request from the mom of an alleged murderer. "I don't think I could explain…" "You're a murderer!" "STOP SAYING THAT, MOM!" In Jacob's defense, he is not technically a murderer (not until later in the episode, anyway). But try telling that to mom! She lays out the truth of Paul's situation — he's got sepsis, and will likely die if he doesn't get a blood transfusion soon. From, you know, a hospital. Suffice it to say Jacob is not thrilled by this option. He hates hospital! Plus he's wanted for murder everywhere.
Emma, meanwhile, continues her seduction of Professor Carroll. But where post-Charlie stabbing he was so turned on, such a psycho-sexual dynamo, operating in a less-frenzied atmosphere Joe seems… cold. Distant. GUYS, RIGHT?! Roderick watches the whole bedroom drama play out from just outside the bedroom and thinks to himself "I can use this!" Which he does, later, at the freshman orientation mocktail party. Spying Emma spying Joe, Roderick approaches her to talk. She's having none of it. He presses, trying to get under her skin. "Joe LOVES his wife, Emma. And yet he slept with you. You? You've got a boyfriend. I think you understand gray areas." Then, to really mess with her, he recites some of the many messages Jacob had left for her. Emma is so over this catty b*llshit and storms off. I'm sure it'll blow over.
What she doesn't know is that however many miles away, one of her former lovers is preparing to leave this world he loved (to stab) so much. We flash back to the first night Paul and Jacob Followed together. It was Jacob's mission, but when he couldn't kill? Paul wound up covering for him. "You owe me!" Paul playfully offered. Tussled his hair. Now, in the present, Jacob is asked to pay that debt…with ASSISTED SUICIDE. Jacob grabs a nearby pillow. Caresses Paul's face with a tenderness I assume he never felt with Emma. Hovers over his friend…and then smothers him to death, Cuckoo's Nest-style. So one-third of the original Follower tripod is now dead. On the plus side? Jacob notches his first kill. Way to go, buddy!
Hardy and the FBI team learn there is one last Claire Matthews out there for Amanda to kill, and track her to what looks like a college steampunk Mardi Gras rave, because everyone was tired with "Golf Pros; Tennis Hos." All too quickly they identify Amanda and Roderick's sex pal, Louise, who in turn have identified their Claire Matthews. Everyone's running. Followers are stabbing. Cops are helping. Followers are killing. Hardy chases down Louise outside the party. "What are you going to do, Ryan, shoot me?" And in a victory over that sort of lame thriller setup, he DOES. We all cheered!
Finally Hardy catches up to Amanda and Claire, who has a nail-gun pointed at her face. Hardy pleads with Amanda to put the gun down and walk away. "It doesn't work that way! She has to die!" When Ryan points out that the Claire she's holding hostage isn't Joe's Claire, the English major in Amanda just SNAPS. "IT'S A FREAKIN' METAPHOR, RYAN!" Even near-killing or -death, the characters on The Following have a grave respect for literary technique. Hardy presses forward, confessing his love for (Joe's) Claire. As a trade, he suggests, he'll offer himself in her place. Dude's got crazy eyes. He keeps walking. Amanda balks — which is just the moment he needs to grab her gun and apprehend her.
Joe and Roderick quickly learn of Amanda's apprehension and Louise's demise. Neither of which seem to faze Roderick, who it turns out was pretty "meh" on the whole Louise thing. Good thing Follower U is just overflowing with serial killer strange, bro! And anyway, there's some good news mixed in with the bad — somehow, through efforts conducted entirely off-screen, they've managed to track down the original Claire Matthews. Joe flashes that devilish(ly annoying) sexy-professor smile.
Later Emma is prompted by Roderick to see what's at the front door. And just like you guessed, it's Jacob — angry, newly murderous, hated-by-his-mother Jacob. "Hello, Emma" is his cold greeting. But things are about to get WHITE HOT.
On that note: solid ep! Are you guys with me in seeing some subtle improvements these past two weeks, or should I consider this revised assessment of mine the first sign in a full-on psychological collapse? I have been playing an unhealthy amount of "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" lately. But who knows!
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