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Saturday, August 30, 2014
Keep calm and #mosaic on apron now available in PINK and GREEN
A really short post to update you on what's new in the shop. The mosaic apron KEEP CALM AND MOSAIC ON in pink ...and green! If you click on the images you will be directed to the item at the shop. The apron costs $22.89.
Thank you to those who already bought this and other items. You, along with my readers, are the backbone of mosaicology.
Please keep spreading the news and...don't forget to check out mosaicology shop.
Grazie mille!!
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Saturday, July 5, 2014
spinning inspiration
As I was translating something about San Francisco, I came across a mosaic mural which afterwards disappeared as I proceeded with my work. Then I thought why not find that mural again to post it here. It seemed really nice. But I found something way better. A mosaic pebble artist whose work is exquisite, rich, vibrant and happy. His name is Jeffrey Bales and here's where you can find more about him and his work.
The above mosaic step stone isn't in San Francisco but the garden pebble mosaic here below is and this is how I discovered this wonderful artist.
Labels: outdoor mosaics
Monday, June 16, 2014
|mosaic work by Nirit Keren - taken from Pinterest
Nirit Keren is a mosaic artist who sets out to explore the medium in a way that is bold and very personal. I will give you one good reason why she is an inspiration to me: She's not superfluous. Eloquence and minimalism is the trend I am more inclined to be inspired by. Somethings are implied, not shown (off). Modesty is good when coupled with superb craftsmanship.
Labels: modern mosaics, mosaic artists
Monday, June 9, 2014
Let me go wild
Show some ethnic love and be versatile with this unusual pair of earrings. Wear these with anything. From plain and casual to chic. Tribal inspired, turquoise, lovely earth-sea blend and a peculiar "cherry on the top" addition in the middle. Actually it's red resin. By SimoneSutcliffe.
Labels: jewelery, mosaic artists
Thursday, June 5, 2014
Mosaics made in #Greece: PREVEZA
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I couldn't believe the sweet and bright colours of this mosaic. After a long silence, I decided this is it. I will continue to post on mosaicology posting pictures of mosaics from the world. Pictures I hope you haven't seen or maybe have had the chance to glance upon once. Here's my trying to bring memories back. Or build new ones. This image is from Preveza in Greece.
Monday, March 10, 2014
Care for some roses?
Jane Davies is an intriguing mosaic artist. She recycles materials in a way that the result is full of colour, life and balance. See for yourself. This is her website: Jane Davies. Find her on Twitter or Facebook.
Wednesday, March 5, 2014
intoxicate yourself.
I love this ring and how Simona Canino has managed to blend amethyst, mirror mosaic and smalti here. What else can I say other than PERFECT. And some info about the meaning of the word *amethyst* from Wikipedia:
Amethyst is a violet variety of quartz often used in jewelry. The name comes from the Ancient Greek ἀ a- ("not") and μέθυστος methustos ("intoxicated"), a reference to the belief that the stone protected its owner from drunkenness. The ancient Greeks and Romans wore amethyst and made drinking vessels of it in the belief that it would prevent intoxication.
Interesting, right?
To buy the ring click HERE.
Labels: jewelery, mosaic artists, precious stones, Simona Canino
Monday, February 17, 2014
girl with a pearl earring - #mosaic
|image credit Jane Perkins - http://www.bluebowerbird.co.uk/info.htm
Here's one of my favourite paintings "remade" by Jane Perkins, an artist who makes mosaics using a variety of materials. What a gifted artist!
Labels: alternative mosaics, modern mosaics, mosaic artists
Saturday, February 15, 2014
live and let live
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Friday, February 7, 2014
Tesserae. By Greek #mosaic artist Olga Goulandris
Sharing some pictures from Olga Goulandris's recent mosaic art exhibition in Athens. Authentic work, fantastic textures and material blending. Also a creative way of presenting mosaics. A video is also available here (in Greek) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYPArw2swyE&feature=youtu.be
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Waiting is hard!
Well, I am having thoughts about this group. It seems as if not too many people are interested. Thanks Leslie : ) It's just you and me so far!! I appreciate you joining me on the journey. Perhaps there aren't too many out there who are waiting as long as we are. Or maybe I just need a different title. So..it's been 15 months now. We have had a few close calls, but no match. I guess that is good in that we know that we are not off base. I know that we will get "the call" but it's the…See More

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Finally, I've remembered my password. I made an account in Skype months ago because of my friend, Con. She said that it's more convenient talking there than on Y!M. Also, my cousin, Courtney, sent me her birthday gift through it. And after my one & only conversations with them using Skype, I have forgotten my username and password. I am not really used signing in my account there. Last time, I had to ask Con for my username and think of my password again since my relatives abroad preferred using Skype. For how many days already, I had been trying to open my account but my password won't do. But now, I successfully opened it!
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Popeye: San Francisco Messenger
Ryan sent this over to me. It's of him and fellow CBNC rider Steve Tortorelli, plus a ton of our friends (Marc, JDR, Crihs, Adam, Alex) featured in Popeye's March issue, with their bags and bikes. Rad stuff.
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Thank you BBQ
A few weeks ago, I got the hair brained idea to build a
screen… divider… divider with door… divider with french doors for Mike and my new apartment. It wound up being quite a project, yet with the help of my fantastic dad's building skills (and physical laboring) and tools borrowed from friends, Josh and Lillian, we managed to complete the undertaking. I seriously couldn't have done it without dad, Josh, Lil, an Mike. Here is the finished product:
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Originally, I wanted to take everyone out to dinner, but Josh and Lillian had already taken out steaks for a BBQ and invited us over. I felt bad changing my treat dinner into crashing their BBQ, but I brought a thank you mini pumpkin, beer, shrimp, and veggies to hopefully show my appreciation.
When we got there, the steaks had already been marinated in Black & Tan beer. Lillian had thought up this master creation while BBQing a mushroom on a fire pit and determining Black & Tan to be the only viable liquid. Turns out it tasted great so we were treated to Black & Tan steaks.
As my dad said, there was a "bicycle seat of a steak" as well
Lillian also cut up some sweet potato fries (<3) and had some bok choy on the stove when we arrived.
Lillian even made a black & tan sauce to pour over top.
Josh carved up the steak for us
My additions to the menu were grilled asparagus (grilling veggies is so novel to New Yorkers!) and skewers of shrimp and tomatoes.
It all made for one beautiful plate
It was a great meal and so nice to have since I don't get much BBQ.
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Baby's got Bach. And Metallica. Maybe a little Ramones? (Just no "Beat on the Brat," if you please.) Seriously, your kid was born to rock. Not to get too scientific, but there are studies that show babies naturally sync up their movements with the beat of the music they hear.
I guess this explains the "Single Ladies" baby dance. And yes, classical music is said to be the best because of the musical structure and how it primes your kiddo's brain for spatial learning, but that also means that Jethro Tull, Rush, and progressive metal bands, all of whom put out music with the same complexity as Amadeus himself, is also beneficial.
Here are a few albums that you and your baby can listen to together, even if you don't feel ready to throw on some Iron Maiden.
Andre 3000 (of Outkast fame) was a busy, busy boy a couple years ago, producing a cartoon series along with his music. Picture Olly Olly Oxenfreed sung to an Outkast beat and you've got it -- and you'll probably dance as much as your baby!
Easily one of the first companies to start converting adult music to kid format, Rockabye has a huge collection to choose from, including the Rolling Stones, Bon Jovi, Nirvana, and Carrie Underwood. The only catch? Everything has been converted to a lullaby tune. Pretty rockin'.
TMBG are scions of alternative rock -- (if nothing else, you probably remember "Istanbul Was Once Constantinople") -- worshipped and adored by fans both indie and mainstream. And now, your baby. Yup. These guys have been making kids' music since ... well, since they had kids. They've amassed quite a catalog of children's tunes, ranging in topics from science to the alphabet, but even if your little guy isn't old enough to appreciate the content, he'll still love the music.
The Marleys
Would you ever believe a Marley family song to be appropriate for the ears of a tot? Believe it, because both Ziggy and Bob have kiddie records. Ziggy curated his dad's record, which includes the iconic "One Love." His own record reflects the importance of music in his childhood, with awesome collabos with people like Paul Simon and Jamie Lee Curtis.
There are now three albums in this series, which are rocking compilations featuring all kinds of artists. Jason Mraz, Sarah McLachlan, Moby, and even MC Lars contributed to the series. And seriously, how can you go wrong with a track called "The Poopsmith Song"?
There's no excuse not to let your baby rock out, because he was totally meant to.
Play on, little man, play on.
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My son used to fall asleep to Marc Anthony and Metallica and Audioslave after rocking out to it as a baby.
Our baby loves rock music. Even in the womb I would feel her start bouncing around when the music was on. I went to a Weezer concert at 8 1/2 months pregnant and she rocked out the whole time.
We have the Rockabye Baby Pixies album. It's really good.
We also have a Johnny Cash children's album. It's about as weird as you'd think it would be.
My little girl always liked Tool! They go through phases. For a while they were stuck on SOAD, megadeth, and the 'piggie song' from Green Jello.
Didn't you see the episode of MythBusters where they tested if plants responded to music?
The rock plants grew the best! Rock on!
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Judging from conservative rhetoric, the debate over health-care reform is in truth a fight over the future of American democracy and capitalism. Stopping the health-care bill is being described as an essential step toward restoring America to its rightful owners and rightful course.
"Friends, this is a critical battle for the heart and soul of America, and for freedom itself," Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina told a rally in Washington over the weekend. "Freedom fighters are outnumbered in Congress, but not in America. If you continue to stand up and speak out, we will save freedom in America."
Sarah Palin, the former governor of Alaska, made a more personal contribution to the hysteria. Health care reform would not merely threaten the foundations of America, she warned, it would lead to government-mandated abandonment of our loved ones and family.
"The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of productivity in society,'whether they are worthy of health care," Palin wrote on her Facebook page. "Such a system is downright evil."
While that's some pretty impressive demagoguery, Palin, DeMint and others are mere pikers compared to the master of the genre. To appreciate true genius in explaining how government health care will destroy all that is good and Godly about this country, you can't do better than the Great Communicator himself, Ronald Reagan.
In a recording back in 1961, Reagan patiently explained, step by step, how the then-controversial proposal to create Medicare would lead to an America in which freedom was a distant memory. In post-Medicare America, government would dictate to its citizens where they would be allowed to live, what they would be allowed to study and what career they could pursue.
It's a great case study in how elusive the line between reality and fantasy can be, particularly in the hands of a master illusionist.
Reagan begins by noting that under Medicare, the federal government would pay doctors for the care they provide. From that single data point, he weaves a portrait of America that none of us would recognize.
"First you decide that the doctor can have so many patients — (the patients are) equally divided among the various doctors by the government," Reagan says in a perfectly reasonable sounding conjecture. "But then the doctors aren't evenly divided geographically, so a doctor decides he wants to practice in one town, and the government has to say to him, 'You can't live in that town, they already have enough doctors, you have to go someplace else,' and from there it is only a short step to dictating where he will go."
Note the graceful transition as one "what if" glides effortlessly into the next, and then the next, until suddenly the listener finds himself led into a crazy country in which federal bureaucrats dictate where doctors can live and work. As the Gipper notes, "this is a freedom that I wonder if any of us have the right to take from another human being." (The effect is even more convincing if you listen to Reagan's words rather than read them.)
To hear Reagan tell it, they won't stop there. Once government starts dictating to doctors where they can live and practice, it will do the same for all Americans, in all lines of work.
"Pretty soon, your son won't decide when he's in school where he will go or what he will do for a living," Reagan warns. "He will wait for the government to tell him where he will go to work, and what he will do." Once Medicare becomes law, Reagan concludes, Americans will "spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it once was like in America, when men were free."
Today, almost half a century later, we know how things turned out. Medicare did become law, as Reagan feared, but the rest of his horror story never came to pass. Government is not dictating where we can live or what we can study or what career we can enter. We remain a free people, in many ways far more free than we were in 1961. And Medicare is now so popular that even as Republican leaders rail about the dangers of "socialized medicine," they make sure to exempt Medicare from that criticism.
In other words, conjecture is a land of many possibilities. There was nothing in the original Medicare bill that would have let government dictate where physicians could live and work, just as there's nothing in the current reform bill that will create "death panels" or a government takeover of health care or subsidize health insurance for illegal immigrants. But words like "could" and "might" let you claim almost anything.
September 15th, 2009
10:23 pm
Andy is a little confused about abortions and the law. If someone wants an abortion, they can get one in this country. That's called Rowe v. Wade. And unless and until it's overturned, that's the way it is.
When a healthcare bill is passed, it will be silent on abortions, because the S. Ct. has spoken. The S. Ct. has said it's part of the health care options a woman and her doctor can opt to choose.
Glad to clear this confusion up.
Meanwhile, mostly Republoputzobozotards and some Democrats are insuring that nothing will change and a financial meltdown will repeat again:
Repubozoputzotards stalling financial reform
September 15th, 2009
10:23 pm
*****And the word "moran" does not appear in the Merriam-Websters online dictionary. *********
That's what makes the photo I linked so funny. And telling.
Friend of your's?
And I may or may not do your googling for you.
Come to think of it, I won't.
Not now anyhow.
September 15th, 2009
10:25 pm
godless heathen
September 15th, 2009
10:13 pm
Good point, josef. I know a couple of good ol' boys that drove all the way to Washington DC last weekend to be in the Tea Party on the mall. These boys are fired up. And they are armed to teeth.
So, film it and make a documentary on the making of an American Taliban. It'll be a real blast.
September 15th, 2009
10:25 pm
It's amusing to see the ignorant Repubos think they can change the law of the land by inserting an amendment in the health care bill. The Repubozos on Senate Finance have been told that they won't get an abortion restriction anywhere in the heath care bill. Abortion is the law. That's a little like the Repubozos trying to say if you need a laceration repaired, the doctor can't use a Z-plasty to make it plastic.
Get the ignorant Repuboputzotards out of the way between doctor and patient.
September 15th, 2009
10:27 pm
The term teabaggers is a derivative from the term moron shleppers who don't know wtf they stand for and can't define any of the words that end with ism they use. It also derives from the term black hater and racist.
September 15th, 2009
10:29 pm
"No matter how you look at it, it would certainly go a long way in improving health and reducing costs. Why are our "leaders" so silent?"
When more than 35% of the people in our country qualify as obese, it astounds me that no one is addressing this obvious way to bring health care costs under control.
"It is my stance that preventative health care (i.e. education) will be facillitate by a free, universal health care system where resources can be allocated for such."
That is the promise, but like the promise of less ER visits once the purchase of mandated insurance goes into effect, I don't believe it will happen as witnessed by the failure of the Massachusetts plan to reduce the frequency of ER visits. In the end, josef, you really can't change human nature via social policy. It is far wiser, IMO, to harness human nature rather than trying to fight it. Only when health care consumers can back in control of their own spending can we begin to expect people to make responsible choices.
"In other words, yes, you could sit and watch someone die and not pay that small share to keep them alive."
It must be nice to live in your simplistic conservative=bad world. No thinking required.
September 15th, 2009
10:30 pm
H-'d say, "It's shabbas for Chr-ssakes! Rest!"
I think you're on to something, josef. They certainly need to give it a rest. The hate/fear mongering from the right wing nutter butters is beyond boring.
September 15th, 2009
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September 15th, 2009
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Expanding Medicaid is part of what is being considered. How do you know when you might become one of the vampires? I like the catastrophic coverage idea, but too many people wouldn't go to the doctor even if they had to pay only a few hundred dollars. I sometimes go to the walkin blood lab and pay just to avoid the hassle.
September 15th, 2009
10:30 pm
changed my mind. and looks like, much like your party, you lose:
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During the 2009 Tea Party protests against the tax policies of the United States Government,the use of the phrase "tea bag" was used by Fox News Reporter Griff Jenkins and reteaparty.org. (March 2009 Note the date. )
Salon.com, however, pointed out that "teabagging" has long had another meaning.[8][9][10][11][12]
The term "tea bagging" was quickly co-opted by those critical of the movement. For example, MSNBC's David Shuster who on April 13, accused the protesters of "going nuts for it" and "whip[ping] out the festivities"; wanting to "give President Obama a strong tongue-lashing and lick government spending."
MSNBC's Rachel Maddow made similar remarks. On April 14[17] and 15,[18] MSNBC's Keith Olbermann made remarks in the same vein, and on April 15, CNN's Anderson Cooper said "It's hard to talk when you're teabagging."[19][20]
September 15th, 2009
10:31 pm
Thank G-d you're here! I was beginning to feel I was the only one of "our kind" left! BTW, have you done the Melungeon thing yet? Was thinking about you today during my lecture, the Melungeons being part of it…
September 15th, 2009
10:34 pm
As I recall, the first new-age tea party included a little ritual (or, at least the plans for it) whereby a dumptruck load of tea bags were to be dumped somewhere — Boston harbor, perhaps? I suspect the phrase "tea bagger" may have been associated with that failed bit of symbolism so they had to improvise.
September 15th, 2009
10:35 pm
Yeah, Rachel Maddow, one of the precious few from the left who refuses to let Fierce Advocate off the hook. My hero! (or is that heroine–never sure if the pc speech police are going to call me in with no habeas corpus on that one!) Anyway, I like her and listen to what she has to say…
September 15th, 2009
10:36 pm
You didn't qualify the "rampant fraud" you alluded to because specifics are hard for you. If you mean the 10% Medicare Fraud, it's dwarfed by the 100% insurance fraud of dropping people when they get sick which has no meaning for you because you haven't grasped it in months.
Health Care reform is about insuring the uninsured, basically so we can prevent tax payer dollars from paying for their care at tax funded tertiary inner city hospitals when they get end stage diseases they shouldn't have gotten in the first place if they were picked up and treated early on.
It's also about keeping you and your employer from getting screwed by insurance companies but you've totally missed that Bruno.
Do some reading.
September 15th, 2009
10:36 pm
"How do you know when you might become one of the vampires?"
I work in health care, Tn, though I don't want to give out any details for obvious reasons. Every doctor can tell you who the vampires are–they want the most expensive tests and procedures available whether it makes sense or not. Somehow it seems to fill a pyschological need to be fussed over.
September 15th, 2009
10:37 pm
Still waiting to see the homophobia here you alluded is coming from liberals. Is that stashed in the same bag where you're going to pull 400,000 Afghanistan troops from since the US doesn't have 80,000 to put in Afghanistan rightnow?
September 15th, 2009
10:37 pm
Do a Google news search and you will find no instance of Tea Party Attendees calling themselves tea-baggers
But you will find videos of participants unloading trucks of tea bags, opening the boxes and hamming it up on camera. Had they consulted their contracted linguist, Frank Luntz, I feel positive he would have told them to choose another symbol
September 15th, 2009
10:37 pm
Still waiting to see the homophobia here you alluded is coming from liberals. Is that stashed in the same bag where you're going to pull 400,000 Afghanistan troops from since the US doesn't have 80,000 to put in Afghanistan right now?
September 15th, 2009
10:40 pm
Check out videos of interviews of the so-called te cabaggers or whatever the F at the Mall this weekend and you'll find a collection of 60,000 of the dumbest people on the planet who can't define why they're there.
"Ah wants mah Kontrah back from the black man…so ah kin… ah kin.. ah wants it back anyway.
"Mah healthcare plan is whatever Rick the defeated Santorum says 'cause well cause…."
September 15th, 2009
10:41 pm
Ah never saw so many people here at once from the Faux University of "ah don't remember."
September 15th, 2009
10:42 pm
Public Option,
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September 15th, 2009
10:43 pm
"You didn't qualify the "rampant fraud" you alluded to because specifics are hard for you."
I've read varying estimates over the years, although hard numbers are hard to produce since successful fraud is never caught, and therefore never counted. I'm sure if you google " percentage of waste and fraud in health care" you can find a range of estimates.
"Health Care reform is about insuring the uninsured, basically so we can prevent tax payer dollars from paying for their care at tax funded tertiary inner city hospitals when they get end stage diseases they shouldn't have gotten in the first place if they were picked up and treated early on."
Again, you're making an assumption that human nature will fundamentally change via social policy. People are people, and most don't like seeing a doctor, including myself. Forcing people to purchase health insurance isn't going to create a health conscious mindset. In fact, it would be easy to construct an argument for the opposite effect.
"It's also about keeping you and your employer from getting screwed by insurance companies but you've totally missed that Bruno."
I'm both self-employed and self-insured.
September 15th, 2009
10:43 pm
756 dead in Afghanistan and growing. It will hit 3000 soon.
September 15th, 2009
10:43 pm
I work in health care, Tn
Bruno is just a more twisted version of Broun, if that's even possible.
September 15th, 2009
10:43 pm
can rangle push the draft again?
September 15th, 2009
10:46 pm
Public Option…
"The term teabaggers is a derivative from the term moron shleppers who don't know wtf they stand for and can't define any of the words that end with ism they use. It also derives from the term black hater and racist."
Shleppers? Oy, shaygets, and was ist es that their shlepping? Red'n mamaloschen?
What's that about about defining words? Nur sag ich as Normal would say.
September 15th, 2009
10:49 pm
These folks cannot even give a straight number about how many people were in Washington DC. Not one of these idiots can cite a reliable source when they give their outlandish figures. Like Glenn Beck who cites "1.7 Million protesters" citing the "University of …..I don't remember"!!! Rush Limbaugh even claimed 2 million citing a British Tabloid that reported no such thing. It would be funny if it weren't pathetic, which by the way, pretty much describes these poor lost souls
BTW, the Tea-Party movement has finally been exposed for what it is; an umbrella group of crazy birthers. Here's a recent interview with the "Tea-Party" leader Mark Williams where he calls the President "an Indonesian Muslim turned welfare thug and a racist in chief".
ROFLAMO. All that's left is to call the guys with the butterfly nets.
September 15th, 2009
10:51 pm
"Bruno is just a more twisted version of Broun"
You're so clever, TaxPayer. No run along while the adults have a discussion here.
September 15th, 2009
10:54 pm
I'm sure if I google waste and fraud in health care I'd get a lot of worthless hits. I know where the waste and fraud in health care is and so does anyone who spent their adult life in healthcare. But I also know you do what you always do–make a broad sweeping statement without any specificity or documentation.
Most of the Medicare fraud by a long shot is not physician billing–it has to do with devices.
And what you and none of the Repubozos will acknowledge Bruno, is that the only reason Medicare is headed for the red in eight years is because Bill Frist and the Repubozos forbided competitive pharmaceutical purchases by Medicare in Part D–hence the donut. The Repubozos made the donut and it's why many elderly patients can't get the drugs Rx'd for them that are crucial to their health–and I'm going to lay one on you Bruno–people get more illnesses when they get older–surprised?
Further the agreement the pharma made with Emanuel that today the Blue Dogs asked Waxman to include in a House Bill–won't happen would keep Medicare the way it is and headed for broke unless its bidding process for drugs can be revised to conform to the bidding process all private hospitals use.
You seem totally unaware of this Medicare architecture Bruno–not surprising.
I really appreciate you cluing me in to what people are and how they feel about seeing a doctor since I've been seeing people seeing me and other doctors since I was in the first year of med school. You think we're so stupid we don't talk to them and know how they feel Bruno? But the vast majority of them get better as a result of seeing us.
We don't have the number of people who refuse to see a physician that the Repubozos like to claim or put in street language–you're asserting that the unswashed social masses aren't as enlightentend as the sophisticated Brunos and won't get health care.
You're also oblivious to the 3 card monte or shell game where insurance companies collect premiums for years from employers and employee average 12,500 employer now and 4500 employee now and then cut their insurance when they get sick.
I don't want to force people to buy the same crap insurance they have now. I want them to have a public option and competition for the crap insurance nscompanies. But they're afraid of it. And the Repubozo hookers like Snowe, Enzie, Grassley who have raked in millions from their insurance company johns are afraid of it because they don't want the Bunny Ranch to shut down.
And so what if you're self-employed and self-insured. Your premiums will go up to double or triple in 10 years just like everyone elses and so will the hospital bills or drug costs should you incure them.
September 15th, 2009
10:54 pm
Public Option–
Homophobia–what about all those who keep defending Fierce Advocate on his bloody cr*p on DADT and "be patient, it's coming, just look how far we've come…" Or how about those who say I'm being didactic and…oh what the hey…I need to go shopping at K'chak's shoe store for this one…and it wouldn't hit home if I did…
September 15th, 2009
10:54 pm
No Broun. You just start talking like an adult and give me reason to stay.
September 15th, 2009
10:57 pm
Try this Bruno–you'll google enhance your reading or not since you're a google afficianado. Bing has similar apps:
September 15th, 2009
10:59 pm
"Your premiums will go up to double or triple in 10 years just like everyone elses and so will the hospital bills or drug costs should you incure them."
Hmmmm–so the premiums I pay myself are going up?? I agree that medical costs will continue to rise until we address the waste and fraud problems in a meaningful way.
And once again, if you're an MD, then I'm Buzz Aldrin.
P.S. Have tried three times to post links to estimates of fraud and waste, but the system won't print the posts. Again, google in "percentage of fraud and waste in health care".
September 15th, 2009
10:59 pm
I'm both self-employed and self-insured.
That is hardly an accomplishment much less a meaningful response to the generic issue,
"It's also about keeping you and your employer from getting screwed by insurance companies but you've totally missed that Bruno."
that extends beyond your perception of reality.
September 15th, 2009
11:02 pm
"You just start talking like an adult and give me reason to stay."
I wouldn't want to take responsibility for you hanging around, because frankly, I think that you are one of the posters who has driven ABM away with your childish insults and throwaway posts.
September 15th, 2009
11:03 pm
I'm not someone that defends Obama's lack of actioon on a number of things including "don't ask don't tell" or who supports prohibition to gay marriage Josef. But to be clear, I haven't seen anyone advocating that Obama's doing that in here and that's what I asked you about. Obama has also filed worse civil rights briefs in the federal appellate courts than Bush and that seems to escape you.
It's an affront on gay rights and dilutes our military to have a "don't ask don't tell" and there have been a lot of well publicized cases of losing valuable people.
But it's also an afront on a father's rights to be at Gitmo for 8 years and counting and not charged and to have no access to evidence against him. It's an affont when people are let out after years who are totally innocent and were tortured not to be able to sue for this egregious treatment because the Bush and now Obama administration are claiming "state secrets."
And it's particularly interesting but escapes most people here that the most effective litigator for these rights, Georgetown Law's Neal Katyal is now in the crazy position of arguing against his former briefs in the same cases as Obama's Deputy Solicitor General aka point guard in the federal courts for the Obama administration–mainly because his boss the former Dean of Harvard Law hadn't tried a case in a court room or argued an appeal in a courtroom until the one she did the other day that she's going to lose by a big majority last week.
September 15th, 2009
11:07 pm
I don't understand what your self employment or self insurance has to do at all with the reasons for health care reform. Your "vampire" statement is total BS.
I really appreciate your clinical acumen and insight into the mind of a patient though–where else could I have gotten such hard to elicit info? LOL
Bauccus care will be announced tomorrow and ripped to shreds immediately. And the Max Tax should be. He's a hooker getting 3 million bucks from the insurance companies and his bill is a total insurance company enrichment bill.
September 15th, 2009
11:07 pm
September 15th, 2009
11:02 pm
"You just start talking like an adult and give me reason to stay."
I wouldn't want to take responsibility for you hanging around, because frankly, I think that you are one of the posters who has driven ABM away with your childish insults and throwaway posts.
You thinking for ABM might have an even larger impact on any decision ABM may have made. That's mighty presumptuous of you to think that you know the man's mind.
September 15th, 2009
11:12 pm
Why didn't Joe Wilson throw his shoe at Obama the other night?
September 15th, 2009
11:12 pm
September 15th, 2009
11:18 pm
Public Option…
It's late and I have to get my tired self to bed. We can continue this ad infinitum. I don't expect you to see what I see or read between the same lines as I. That's as it should be in a free and democratic society.
September 15th, 2009
11:21 pm
Good night all!
September 15th, 2009
11:22 pm
g'night, josef.
September 15th, 2009
11:56 pm
Sorry, Public Option or No Bill, not everyone can be a crazy azz doctor like U. U rock,man.
September 16th, 2009
12:18 am
September 16th, 2009
5:08 am
Tapes lead Senate to cut off ACORN, On hidden camera, staff advised 'pimp' how to evade taxes.-Urinal
What, only about a week late?
September 16th, 2009
5:17 am
But Scott believes it would be a mistake not to acknowledge the racism swirling around the health care debate because its potency could derail efforts at reform. He acknowledges that bigots represent a minority — "What speaks for America is what happened last November," he said — but he thinks ignoring them "would be doing a disservice."
"Nothing is more important than health care. We're this close to getting something that will lift this nation to another level. We must not let the hate win."-Queen Pinko, Urinal
Right on cue, race mongering.
September 16th, 2009
6:08 am
I hope everybody slept good last night after their four page Reagan Bash Fest. Thanks Jay.
It is indicative of a declining and sick culture to destroy every thing that is good. Reagan's decency will live on forever.
September 16th, 2009
6:56 am
"Reagan's decency will live on forever."
And unfortunately, so will his political legacy
September 16th, 2009
7:08 am
Where is the decency in arming a killer such as Saddam and turning a blind eye as he proceeds to kill his own with the support of the Reagan administration.
September 16th, 2009
7:14 am
Look, the majority of those protesters in Washington DC couldn't care less if Bozo was green with pink stripes. Carter has stooped to an all time low, if that is possible for him, by accusing those who don't agree with Bozo as racists. It's always the last thing you do when your cause is failing. The race card is the favorite ploy of the left but this time, it is not going to work, despite ACORN's , Carter's, Kayne West's and Sharpton's best efforts. Admit that ACORN has problems and is in need of reform. The left would gain more credibility by doing this than killing the messenger….. but the left can do no wrong can it….. if all else is failing, call them racists. That ought to do it.
September 16th, 2009
7:16 am
This OboboCare debacle and Obobo MUST BE STOPPED!
September 16th, 2009
7:17 am
Carter is a Jackass.
September 16th, 2009
7:22 am
"Reagan's decency will live on forever."
look. I'm sure the guy had some good points, but jeezy-creezy, let's not start the beatification process quite yet:
- supported (and funded) the Saddam regime
- supported (and funded) the Contras, despots that went around killing nuns and priests, raping women and executing children – with Reagan saying they were just like the patriots that fought for US independence
- meanwhile, he cut funding for community mental health programs, job training, college loans, food subsidies, child daycare centers and centers for the elderly.
- he undermined clean air and water regulations
and, lastly, let's not forget his complete disregard for the US Constitution, which he had taken an oath to uphold.
decency??? maybe you and I just have a different definition of the word …
September 16th, 2009
7:36 am
USinUK, And thet's why he is worshipped by the NeoCons…
…and lest we forget: MR. PRESIDENT, BRING OUR TROOPS HOME NOW!
September 16th, 2009
7:37 am
Public Option or No Bill
September 15th, 2009
10:43 pm
Well, it would have to hit 1,000 first. But the casualties are unacceptable. Let's talk?
September 16th, 2009
7:40 am
Normal –
"USinUK, And thet's why he is worshipped by the NeoCons… "
I thought it was because he single-handedly (*cough*) brought down the Soviet Union …
September 16th, 2009
7:41 am
Normal … oops, I nearly forgot … WOLVERINES!
September 16th, 2009
7:42 am
David McKalip, M.D. nails this issue.
"But the biggest bait and switch has been the selling of the public option as a key component of health system reform. He started this in the spring. But it has been clear from the beginning that the insurance companies would never allow this to happen. In fact, the insurance companies have been spending at least $12 million to support health care reform created by them and about a dozen other special interests over the last several years. So, much to the chagrin of many who hoped the public option would be a Trojan horse for a single payer system, Obama began throwing that plan under the bus as described by Salon.com*. Of course this had long been planned since the real goal has always been a mandate of each and every person to buy health insurance from private companies. That is why liberal blogger Greg Palast is also complaining about the betrayal of Obama and calling him a charming liar and his health care approach "fascist" — on Air America too!
He uses another great deception to sell this as a means to get rid of "pre-existing conditions". As it turns out the trade off is that everyone must buy insurance — while ignoring the fact that 30 states have state subsidized policies for those with pre-existing conditions that work. Mandated will be insurance that will be created by the government, approved by the government, the purchase of which will be enforced by the government. In fact, the rationing rules created by the government will also apply to private insurance. The insurance companies will receive free customers courtesy of the government mandate and will be guaranteed profits in perpetuity. Obama then gets to claim a victory for Democrats in 2010 after he announces what will be hailed as "the September compromise" — perhaps even in the name of the recently passed Senator Kennedy who put his seal of approval on the same plan introduced by then-Republican-Governor Romney in 2005."
GUARANTEED PROFITS in PERPETUITY for the hated insurance companies. Ya gotta love it.
September 16th, 2009
7:45 am
Normal –
"And thet's why he is worshipped by the NeoCons…"
What's up with the name calling?
September 16th, 2009
7:50 am
USinUK, that was a good movie, I guess my favorite of Patrick's was "Point Break" with Keanu. I loved the bank scene where, as they left the bank they robbed wearing Presidents masks, he wore Nixon's and raised his arms doing the "victory sign", like Nixon always did and said "I am not a crook" as he left with the money. It still makes me laugh. He will be missed.
September 16th, 2009
7:51 am
MIKE, who did I call names?
September 16th, 2009
7:54 am
Normal –
my fav Swayze flick is still Road House … couldn't be bothered with Point Break (the keanu factor) … I'm willing to suspend my disbelief for a movie, but Red Dawn asked just too much …
September 16th, 2009
7:55 am
Interesting discussion on the term "tea baggers". Basically what's been established is that the conservative mind doesn't exist in the gutter but the liberal mind will always reach for the gutter.
September 16th, 2009
7:58 am
September 16th, 2009
7:55 am
Interesting discussion on the term "tea baggers". Basically what's been established is that the conservative mind doesn't exist in the gutter but the liberal mind will always reach for the gutter.
What are you talking about.
September 16th, 2009
7:59 am
Many Employers to Raise Cost of Health Benefits, Survey Finds
As businesses contend with rising costs, many workers face an erosion of health benefits next year, according to an annual survey released Tuesday by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research and Educational Trust.
Forty percent of employers surveyed said they are likely to increase the amount their workers pay out of pocket for doctor visits. Almost as many said they are likely to raise annual deductibles and the amount workers pay for prescription drugs.
You think that $30 copay stings a bit now? Wait until it's $50, yeah, $50 per prescription.
September 16th, 2009
8:00 am
"Basically what's been established is that the conservative mind doesn't exist in the gutter but the liberal mind will always reach for the gutter."
@@. seriously. are you REALLY going to try to assert that conservatives are purer of heart than liberals? REALLY??? cuz, if you are, I have a whole list of Republican sex scandals to refresh your memory … and, darlin', they're not "white bread" sex scandals … I'm talking diapers, wet suits with (ahem) "steely dans", sex clubs …
so, you may want to re-think that particular strategy …
September 16th, 2009
8:03 am
About the racism tag. I was thinking back last night to the time right after, or maybe it was before, the president was elected. Some media pundits made the prediction that anyone criticizing the president would be tagged a racist in an attempt to silence opposition.
If nothing else, leftists are predictable.
September 16th, 2009
8:05 am
@@ –
"Some media pundits made the prediction that anyone criticizing the president would be tagged a racist in an attempt to silence opposition."
hahahaha … try supporting that with a link next time … it'd be more credible …
September 16th, 2009
8:07 am
"conservatives are purer of heart than liberals?"
No, no, no! They have purer MINDS than liberals. Which might very well be truer than we'd like to think. Living in a non-reality based world can do that do you, you know.
September 16th, 2009
8:08 am
I'm talking about the citizens. Yes…I do believe that many of them don't dwell in the gutter. I didn't know what the term tea bagging meant until you guys brought "enlightenment". I'm not a total innocent but damn!!!!
You leftists know it all.
September 16th, 2009
8:10 am
I see, @@. As soon as President Carter cried out "racism", you shut right up. Is that how it works.
September 16th, 2009
8:11 am
Point Break.
Good Movie! The only detractor was Keanu "Cant Act" Reeves.
September 16th, 2009
8:12 am
Mike, if you are talking about me using "Neocon", then here is something
I want you to read. It was written in 2004 but when I read it, I thought it was a good non-partisan explaination of Conservative and Neo
Conservative. A word or phrase can be taken out of context and be made to seem a slur, but neocon is, in no way, in the same bed as racist, bigot, moron, bed wetter, etc.
Read it, and tell me what you think…
September 16th, 2009
8:14 am
They have purer MINDS than liberals. Which might very well be truer than we'd like to think. Living in a non-reality based world can do that do you, you know.
Conservatives certainly have purity of essence.
"Women sense my power, and they seek my life essence. I do not avoid women, Mandrake. But, I do deny them my essence."
September 16th, 2009
8:18 am
@@ –
"I'm not a total innocent but damn!!!!"
sorry, but that made me chuckle.
I heard the term used first by John Watters in an interview some 10 years ago (during the same interview, he also introduced the term "helicoptering", which also made me laugh) … it was also referred to in Sex and the City about 8 years ago …
maybe it's just we "leftists" that would watch those programs … but, given their ratings, I don't think so …
September 17th, 2009
11:03 am
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It took 1,100 pounds of wool, 90 people, and 30 days of knitting, but the world's largest sweater is done.
The garment, which has entered the Guinness Book of Records as the biggest ever, was knitted in Istanbul, Turkey as part of a campaign by the Turkish government to encourage people to turn down the thermostat to save on energy costs.
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This is one of the Best tasting casseroles around. Fast and easy. I used a rotisserie chicken from Sam's Club. Guest always ask for this recipe.
Hearty Tex-Mex Squash-Chicken Casserole
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Excellent Dish! This is one of those dishes you make when you have a lot of summer squash from the garden. It also made enough to freeze for another meal. I'll make sure this goes into my "Food We Like" file. My husband LOVED it. I used my homemade salsa in place of the picante sauce, no fat sour cream, reduced fat cheddar cheese, and reduced fat cream of celery soup. I don't think it altered the taste. I think next time I'll add a jalapeno pepper as one reviewer suggested.
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MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY has finally gone on record to defend his scary weight loss, saying that he lost all the weight "in a really healthy way."
Matthew McConaughey used to have one of the hottest bodies in Hollywood… but not anymore. After undergoing a drastic weight loss for his intense role in "The Dallas Buyers Club," the sexy actor, who used to look so good shirtless, is now nothing but skin and bones.
Over the last few months, celebrity gossip websites have been posting photos of the recently married actor's new physique, and it's got fans expressing distress over his alarming transformation.
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Tetra Coffee Table
Considering the prime real estate it occupies in your living room, a coffee table should have something to say for itself.
We spotted the clever Tetra in Paris several years ago. It's designed like a piece of origami, with four surfaces that pull out in spiralling levels to create greater square footage, or push in to contract the whole kit and kaboodle into a neat little square.
DWR's Rotor Coffee Table works on a similar principle, but its pull-outs extend all the way down to the floor, rendering the bottom-most layers useless for floor-seated dining or a group game of scrabble. The two are very close in price: Tetra is $1476, Rotor is $1498.
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The Oscar-winning actress has recently signed a new talent deal with HBO, which should mean good things, right?
She's worked with HBO before, most recently on the pilot for 'Tilda,' co-starring Ellen Page. The network passed on the project.
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fresh produce
where do you generally purchase your fruit and vegetables? i am having a difficult time finding good quality, not crazy expensive produce. today at whole foods everything I was trying to buy looked horrible. i went to the farmer's market the other day and while it is plentiful it's not always convenient and certainly not inexpensive. ralph's, trader joe's and gelson's are convenient but pretty sad as far as quality/prices. it seems like a very long time since I have had a strawberry, peach, avocado etc. that I could rave about. where have you found the best fruits and vegetables???
Marina Farms has had pretty good produce, if you're over on the Westside. I've found certain Ralph's to have a nice selection, in particular thinking of the one on Sepulveda just south into El Segundo. There seems to be a lot of variation in what is carried maybe dependent on what people in that area like to eat - I think you could do well in an area with a large Asian or Mexican population.
For cheap, I've gotten nice buys at El Rancho, a little produce store on Culver Blvd., but it is not going to have everything. And there's something that is leaving me flabbergasted... I venture to 99 Cents Only for paper goods mainly, but their fresh produce section has been growing and I've said what the heck and tried a few things. I recently got a small watermelon there that looks like a Dulcinea, the type Gelson's carries - delicious, $1, the size of a cantaloupe. I also got a huge (2 pint?) box of strawberries that were terrific for $1 - not anemic, not off-tasting, but red, juicy beauties with a lot of flavor. I've now picked up some chilies, limes, etc., there. So far, so good. I'm just amazed.
The watermelon had a label from Farmer's Best in Mexico - http://www.fb.com.mx
Super King. I'm convinced that, unless you insist on organically grown, this is the best place for produce both for freshness and for value. But be warned. It is a very busy market and gets extremely crowded at times. Navigating the parking lot or the aisles inside can be challenging. On the plus side, they usually have 10-12 checkstands operating so there is rarely much delay in the cashier line.
I alternate between farmers markets (Hollywood or Larchmont), Korean supermarkets, Jons and some small Latino markets in my neighborhood. I buy only when things are in season (it's too early for peaches right now), and for pricey items such as cherries, only in small quantities. I also lucked out a few times at Grand Central Market with some promotions.
It's not organic, but I ended up with surprisingly good asparagus (3 bunches for $1) and some even more surprisingly good packaged strawberries (.85 cents) last month.
Superior Super Warehouse. HIgh turnover so quality is usually excellent and prices are low. Same stuff they carry at Bristol Farms. Eg this week 3/$1 for Filipino mangoes, a week are two ago it was 4/$1 on the regular mangoes (big ones, too). Cherries were $1.99/lb. Probably dont have one near anyone who shops at Gelson's, though.
Sometimes Henry's and sometimes Fresh & Easy (the Mother's day special strawberries were excellent)
However if you're buying out of season or early in the season then chances of getting anything good is reduced, no matter how much you spend.
Thanks everybody! I'm going to check out all the places mentioned. When I said it has been a long time since I had a great peach or strawberry (or even apple and grapefruit) I meant YEARS- when I was a kid they were sweet and juicy (or crisp) and as the years have passed there has definitely been a decline in quality. And It's not just my palate improving. Is it the soil? Is it genetic engineering? Most fruits, even from the farmer's market, are mealy or otherwise lacking in taste and texture. I miss the fruit of my youth (literally)!
Here in LA, like when we lived in OC, I've found that ethnic markets have great deals if you're willing to pick and choose and be flexible when you go shopping. For example, I might go to the store with bean sprouts in mind but find the bok choy is much fresher because it's on sale and turning over quickly. A Grocery Warehouse on Sunset has been great and is my go-to for a variety of items. Jons is always good too, with the same caveat, and equally great prices for staple herbs and veggies rotating every week.
Of course, we're not talking about organic ... for that, I think there is no option but pay out or subscribe to a weekly box delivery.
re: mangetoutoc
Went on my first visit to 99 Ranch and have to say that would be my go-to place for veggies overall on budget, partly because I can get so many things that aren't at other places, like fresh water chestnuts (worth it), green papaya, etc. One of the supermarkets in Koreatown also had a great veggies section, was a little higher priced but is a much nicer store to shop in, far far fewer offbeat veggies than 99 Ranch though.
And what mangetoutoc describes about what's interesting and fresh, and picking that up instead of what you came for is why I'm now looking up recipes for Thai eggplant and just deep-fried comedy-large oyster mushrooms.
re: Cinnamon
I am a little farther than I'd like from places like Vallarta, Jons, Superior, but we now have a Super King in Altadena, and I finally got off my duff and am pleasantly surprised at the trip.
First off, great sales, $1.69 15% fat ground beef, $1.49 boneless chicken breasts, and a huge bag of spring mix for $1.50. Next I was impressed by the quality, as a prior poster said, it's not for organic only people, but I thought the produce section was quite fresh and a good selection.
The deli counter had at least 7 or 8 different fetas, I got a French feta myself, and they also had cheeses in a "packaged" area, along with a variety of smoked meats and sausages. I noticed Kasseri and some other European cheeses, like Ementhal, etc. The butcher counter area seemed to have very high turnover of product, they were the busiest area in the store, and the store and parking lot were a zoo!
They also had some items I usually go to specialty stores for, saving me a trip, for instance the olives selections, peruvian yellow ahi (pepper) sauce, fair priced ghee choices (priced like you would see at your average Indian grocer). Loads of grains, rices, beans.
I liked all the Mexican and Armenian treats at the bakery area too, and I ended up buying a small package of 4 baklava, and a slice of Tres Leches.
Definitely need to read labels, there are plenty of unhealthy options, sugary cereals and cookies with margarine, etc.
Where are you located? In Sherman Oaks, at Hazeltine and Riverside, there's FarmBoy, a fairly comprehensive Korean Grocery. Everything (fruits, veggies, even flowers) is seasonal, inexpensive, and they even have some Korean specialties like Bi Bim Bap, Chap Chae, and Bulgogi.


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Groupon takes fresh hit after earnings miss
Groupon takes fresh hit after earnings miss
Groupon shares tumbled 16 percent in after-hours trade to $3.28.
The company made its stock market debut at $20 per share a year ago and peaked above $31 dollars a share before analysts soured on the company's prospects.
Revenue increased 32 percent year-over-year to $568.6 million in the third quarter and was up 38 percent in constant currency, as Groupon increased its subscriber base to more than 200 million worldwide.
Gross billings increased five percent year-on-year to $1.22 billion.
But Paul Ausick of 24/7 Wall Street said the markets are nervous about Groupon because of its accounting methods for billings.
"The company is currently being quizzed by the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) on its method for estimating future refunds," he said, adding that the stock was facing renewed pressure.
But chief executive Andrew Mason said Groupon's "solid performance in North America was offset by continued challenges in Europe."
He added that the expansion to Groupon Goods "has evolved into a second major category that our customers clearly love. With deals on everything from designer sunglasses to big-screen televisions to most-wanted toys, we think it will be a great gifting destination this holiday season."
Groupon shares were listed on the Nasdaq last November in a blockbuster public offering that raised a whopping $700 million and triggered fears that investors were overvaluing hot Internet startups.
Groupon, which rejected a $6 billion takeover offer from Google a year ago, has enjoyed phenomenal growth since its founding in 2008 but has been dogged by questions about its business model and accounting methods.
Groupon makes its money by selling members deals for discounts on activities, items, or services and then splitting the money with the businesses involved.
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Derrickson And Cargill Together Again For DEUS EX: HUMAN REVOLUTION!!
The Kidd here...
Another day and yet another video game property moves forward (Quint is looking more and more like a genius every day) and this one brings the SINISTER pairing of Scott Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill (better known to most of you as Massawyrm) back together to tackle the big screen adaptation of Square Enix's DEUS EX: HUMAN REVOLUTION for CBS Films, with the duo penning the script and Derrickson then heading behind the camera to direct.
The DEUS EX series has been going strong since its launch back in 2000, but it was HUMAN REVOLUTION just last year that really took the series to a whole new level in both its gameplay and its mainstream popularity.
The film will very much remain based around ex-SWAT security specialist Adam Jensen, who has to come to terms with mechanical augments in the not-too-distant future to unravel and expose a global conspiracy during this time of great advances in technology and science.
I exchanged messages with Cargill once the announcement was made, and he informed me that he has long been a fan of the DEUS EX series, and while, he's quite familiar with all three games in the franchise, it's HUMAN REVOLUTION that he knows the best.
There's no targeted time frame for the script to get finished and then to head into production just yet, but he let me know that everyone was pretty excited to get things moving forward as of now.
I was a big fan of SINISTER, which has me hopeful here, but furthermore, when you put a video game property in the hands of fans of that particular game, you can't help but be optimistic... not an easy thing considering the track record of video game to movie adaptations.
Fingers crossed.
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Nov. 15, 2012, 2:37 p.m. CST
Am I first?
by Pigdog
Nov. 15, 2012, 2:38 p.m. CST
Jimmy's End: watch the trailer of Alan Moore's first film
by walt
Nov. 15, 2012, 2:38 p.m. CST
Can this be possible?
by Pigdog
Nov. 15, 2012, 2:39 p.m. CST
Yes you are pigdog. Congratulations.
by MrWug
Nov. 15, 2012, 2:41 p.m. CST
If this gets made it'll be amazing and beautiful... Will likely need so so so much CGI though.
by happybunni
Nov. 15, 2012, 2:42 p.m. CST
So will the Illuminati be the villains still?
by Beebop
This could work as a movie, although it's played out as a game (see what I did there?) The game's great. The visuals could be great in the movie, too - just thinking about the double-level Chinese city and the Antarctic installation.
Nov. 15, 2012, 2:42 p.m. CST
Man, who researches this stuff -
by Anderson
Nov. 15, 2012, 2:43 p.m. CST
Man who researches this stuff -
by Anderson
Deus Ex has had a whooping three games, two of which were published nearly a decade ago. That hardly counts as "going strong".
Nov. 15, 2012, 2:51 p.m. CST
I never asked for this
by jonsolo
I really enjoyed the gameplay of Human Revolution, but it doesn't seem like it would translate well to film. I'd still rather see a Bioshock movie.
Nov. 15, 2012, 3:05 p.m. CST
by Rob
Really amazing when you think about where the dude began and where he is at now. He's living the dream.
Nov. 15, 2012, 3:15 p.m. CST
Because video game movies have worked out so well in the past.
by Raptor Jesus
Jesus Titty-fucking Christ. Enough with the 'guaranteed to tank' movies, please.
Nov. 15, 2012, 3:15 p.m. CST
Sinister *SPOILER*
by rockhpi
I seem to be be in the minority, but I felt that Sinister, while having some very effective moments, lacked an ending. I figured out that the children were responsible and guessed what would happen at the end pretty early on (and I'm not that great at seeing ahead, so I assumed the movie wanted me to figure it out). But if you give that many clues so far ahead of time, you need to change it up so we're getting something we're not expecting by the time it's the protagonist's turn. "Here's what happened to the last family. And the same thing happened to the family before them. And the family before them. And the one before them too. Annnnnd now it happens to the current family, the end." I don't insist on happy endings for every movie, but I kept waiting for the dad to figure out this pattern and do something to break it but he walked right into it like a dope. It's kind of like how W.C. Fields said that you can't show a man walking, and a banana, and walking, and a banana, and then he slips on the banana. You need to show him avoid the banana and fall in the manhole. In this movie, the man just slipped on the banana.
Nov. 15, 2012, 3:18 p.m. CST
For Christs sake with this Quint is a genius crap
by Logan_1973
I dig the guy but WTF? Video game adaptations have been happening for 20 years. I suppose his next big genius prediction will be superhero films becoming the next big thing.
Nov. 15, 2012, 3:18 p.m. CST
Congratulations Massa!
by quicksilver80
Please don't screw this up, I love that game
Nov. 15, 2012, 3:21 p.m. CST
Also, I expect to see a lot of gold and black in that movie
by quicksilver80
Nov. 15, 2012, 3:35 p.m. CST
Deus Ex moves forward yet Halo remains in limbo??? I call bullshit!!!!!
by kindofabigdeal
Nov. 15, 2012, 3:36 p.m. CST
Quint's next big preditction....movies based on board games.
by kindofabigdeal
Nov. 15, 2012, 3:40 p.m. CST
Another movie for Harry to shit on in his dinky little Internet teevee show. Congrats Massawyrm for being what he never will.
by reflecto
Nov. 15, 2012, 3:51 p.m. CST
Like LV_426 suggested, the simpler the concept, the more the filmmakers can expand on it, instead of whittling down a massive game universe to fit a 2 hour movie.
by openthepodbaydoorshal
Like a game based on F.E.A.R. Basically a Swat team for paranormal events. Not to be confused with Ghostbusters or Hellboy. Not at all!
Nov. 15, 2012, 3:54 p.m. CST
I never thought Carlyle would be writing movies, this is so crazy to me.
by Randy
Nov. 15, 2012, 4:07 p.m. CST
Why dont we pull Marc Webb from Spidey and have him do a remake of Legend of Billie Jean?
by kindofabigdeal
Nov. 15, 2012, 4:38 p.m. CST
Don't get all the Halo love.. for the game or the movie
by SlickyVonBoner
Grew up on PC shooters and in comparison.. Halo is a completely average game. Sorry.
Nov. 15, 2012, 4:47 p.m. CST
Yeah, dumbing down is totally taking gameplay to a whole new level
by NotEnoughBiehn
Did you just copy a press release for this?
Nov. 15, 2012, 4:51 p.m. CST
" he informed me that he has long been a fan of the DEUS EX series, and while, he's quite familiar with all three games in the franchise, it's HUMAN REVOLUTION that he knows the best.". sounds like a polite way of saying I don't know shit.
by moorE12
Nov. 15, 2012, 5:01 p.m. CST
You rule, Massawyrm
by Green
Nov. 15, 2012, 5:05 p.m. CST
by quicksilver80
Halo was big because a great shooter for consoles. I also grew up on PC shooters, but I prefer Halo multiplayer, the pace suits me better. Saying it is average is pretty narrow minded in my opinion
Nov. 15, 2012, 5:26 p.m. CST
Hope this doesn't turn out looking like a blade runner clone.
by Jason
Cos the game was awesome! Except the lame ending(s).
Nov. 15, 2012, 5:39 p.m. CST
Massa - please re-visit Deus Ex 1
by Goodbye_America
Best of the series - has a lot to offer, notwithstanding its dated looks!
Nov. 15, 2012, 6:15 p.m. CST
Massawyrm is also known as Carlyle on Spill.com
by Kyle DeMattio
JSYK - Just so you know
Nov. 15, 2012, 6:48 p.m. CST
DON'T fuck this up, Massawyrm!! I don't want to see another Prince of Persia!!
by AntonStark
Human Revolution would make a great movie without changing a goddamn thing. Just film the cut scenes, dialog scenes and action scenes and that's the movie we want to see. This is my favorite game series and I would hate to see it fucked with. Either make it right or leave it the fuck alone.
Nov. 15, 2012, 8:18 p.m. CST
Deebo12, I concur...
by Wu-tan Monkey
The first game despite its basic graphics, was brilliant.
Nov. 15, 2012, 9:39 p.m. CST
The game practically writes itself...
by Norman Colson
human revolution was amazing. The trailer, the music, the story the characters the future world we all know and see. yeah it'll look like blade runner but imagine that with this generations' cgi. it'll be a sight to behold but what they'll probably do is not o.d. on the budget and make it a more personal story.
Nov. 15, 2012, 11:41 p.m. CST
Awesome. Congrats Massa!
by Steve Lamarre
Nov. 16, 2012, 12:10 a.m. CST
who to star as Adam Jensen? the obvious choice is Keanu Reeves. you have to think Neo was a big inspiration for Adam Jensen in Human Revolution.
by AntonStark
on the outside, Adam Jensen is slick and kind of brooding in a gen x kind of way. but underneath he's also kind of gritty. maybe Ethan Hawke would be a better choice?
Nov. 16, 2012, 12:14 a.m. CST
fuck yes. ethan hawke for adam jensen!!!!!
by Norman Colson
that cat can act his ass off!!!! loved him in training day!
Nov. 16, 2012, 12:22 a.m. CST
Ryan Reynolds in Blade 3 LOOKED like Adam Jensen. he was fantastic in Safe House. he redeemed himself for Green Lantern in my book.
by AntonStark
he's got the look. he can do the action. he has the box office draw. if you guys could get him to turn off his goofy charm, like he did in Safe House, he would be the perfect person to star in this. and it would finally provide him the big franchise he's been looking for. god damn. if you guys can get Ryan Reynolds you might also get the budget you need to do this justice. fuck me. if you can get half the Green Lantern budget you have an epic movie on your hands!
Nov. 16, 2012, 12:32 a.m. CST
Deus Ex HR was one of the best games of the last years! Soooooo good!
by MariusXe
Only problem was that the main character was a bit flat... you know... the sunglasses at night, long leathercoat wearing, fighting machine. That should be updated for a movie. Was fine for a game though.
Nov. 16, 2012, 12:37 a.m. CST
Those werent sunglasses... his eyes are fiberoptic cameras.
by Norman Colson
was you not paying attention to the game.
Nov. 16, 2012, 12:39 a.m. CST
Also to add...
by Norman Colson
The pop up shades acted like some sort of augmented reality HUD if going by the look of the trailer. which would look cool and be practical in that world. ex swat officer made into a fighting machine.
Nov. 16, 2012, 2:53 a.m. CST
Too bad the Total Recall remake stole all the game's imagery
by The Kusabi
Leaving this movie (if it's made) to be accused of ripping off that piece of shit, which itself ripped off this movie's source material...
Nov. 16, 2012, 3:18 a.m. CST
kusabi - i know, right!
by AntonStark
total recall completely ripped off Deus Ex i walked out of the movie thinking that the director and star might as well have made a Deus Ex movie except of course that the movie they did make completely sucks i actually like the first couple underworld movies and i enjoyed die hard 4, but the total recall remake was a pile of shit
Nov. 16, 2012, 5:01 a.m. CST
Keep the renaissance look and mood!
by David Cloverfield
I fucking loved the game's mood. Those streets bathing in the artificial orange light, the clothes (ridiculous-awesome collars) pointy beards... The story wasn't bad either. The boss fights were atrocious though, but still a great game. Can't think of a better game-to-movie source material. Just please, take it seriously and keep it grounded. There was this great documentary about Human Augmentation when the game came out. Human Revolution could almost happen.
Nov. 16, 2012, 5:02 a.m. CST
And good luck Massa!
by David Cloverfield
Good for you.
Nov. 16, 2012, 6:36 a.m. CST
by Cleave
Massywyrm's writing the Deus Ex movie! Wow good job getting that gig
Nov. 16, 2012, 12:44 p.m. CST
Loved the humour in Deus EX.
by bioforge
DE:HR just shat on everything that was cool about DE. The trailer rocked , the game not so much. Still its the right time for a movie and I trust Massa.
You know, video game adaptations tend to keep being terrible, but I will cross my fingers and hope they are good every time. One of these times I will be right. I really hope I am for this one, as Deus Ex is one of my favorite series, and also has a HUGE amount of cinematic potential. The series is more about big sci fi ideas that would translate really well if given a good story.
Nov. 17, 2012, 3:04 p.m. CST
Deus Ex is a good candidate for a video game to film adaptation because it isn't so embedded in the public's consciousness
by lv_426
Mega-franchises like Halo or even Assassin's Creed already have so many die-hard fans, that it will be similar to making a film of Lord of the Rings or the Star Wars prequels. Too much noise and pressure to adhere to every word from the books or extended universe canon. Deus Ex has complex backstory and world building for sure, but not so much that it will ultimately stifle the filmmakers from being able to craft a story out of the game's lore. Not that it will be easy, but it is doable. I also agree with those saying the Renaissance designs and fashions should be kept in the film. I could see some of it maybe being toned down a bit for a live action movie, but it should be there as an aesthetic element. That was some kick ass design work that the developers did on Deus Ex: Human Revolution.
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LucasArts Teases Monkey Island iPhoneWith LucasArts having essentially confirmed plans to bring its vintage adventure games to the iPhone and iPod Touch, the company is now using the same heavy-handed tactics to suggest that The Secret of Monkey Island is on the way.
"For our Monkey fans - an iPhone sized wallpaper. No reason. Wink wink nod nod," reads a Twitter update from the studio. The company used the same "wink wink nod nod" phrase when it said it couldn't announce iPhone ports but they "would make sense."
The image is among those LucasArts is using to promote the impending release of The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition, which updates the classic adventure with new music, voice acting and redrawn graphics. Of course, the old graphics are there too, with the $10 downloadable game slated to hit PC and Xbox 360 come Wednesday, July 15.
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I see the beauty in all things and in myself. I accept my beauty and acknowledge others.
I intend for today to fulfill its highest potential.
Today I intend to be awe-inspired. As I notice the creations of the world, they move me to awe. They are magnificent and command my attention. I am awe-inspired.
Thank you. I am grateful for this course.
Just signed up today and truly love the intention for the day. Thank you Dawn and spirit for writing such wonderful, inspiring affirmations. Looking forward to great guidance each day and to creating my own.
So I just signed up today and the first affirmation was to be awe-inspired. Just this morning I saw an amazing sunrise, yet didn't pay much attention to it. Coincidence?
A fantastic lesson made plenty of notes imagined having a sensuous beautiful bath massaging with some bath oil. Candlelit with music not sure what. I became slightly aroused by the thought it. Looking forward to the next lesson but have plenty to get on with. :-D
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