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Oh No!
By Mike Stevens
A Guiltiest Man Tale
"Goodbye Mrs. Fenster, and I hope your arm heals really soon!"
Mrs. Fenster, who lived in his apartment building, had been having pains in her arm, and he'd run into her in the stairwell. Danny Pretest liked Mrs. Fenster, as she'd always been super-nice to him, greeting him with her warm smile whenever she'd see him around the apartment complex.
"Thank you Danny, you're such a good neighbor."
Later that night, as Danny tried in vain to fall asleep, a dark thought kept running through his mind. What if, instead of being the way he was remembering it, the conversation had gone something like this:
"Goodbye Mrs. Fenster, and I hope your arm feels better. I wonder what could be the cause of all that arm pain? If you were a guy, I'd say lay off the wackage, but you're a gal; although either that's a fat roll in your pants, or you're awfully glad to see me! No, I'm only kidding; I'm sure it's a roll of fat."
An embarrassed and angry Mrs. Fenster replied, "How rude!" and disappeared up the stairs.
No, he never would have said that! But the more he tried to recall the actual conversation, the more cloudy his memory became. He had better call Mrs. Fenster just to make sure he was remembering it right. He got out his list of phone numbers, found Mrs. Fenster's number, and dialed it. After a many rings, a sleepy-sounding Mrs. Fenster answered,
"Oh, hi Mrs. Fenster, this is your downstairs neighbor, Danny Pretest calling. Sorry to call so late"
"Oh, hi Danny, is there something wrong?"
"No, the reason I'm calling is to make sure I said I hope that arm heals soon, and didn't say, 'You might want to stop playing pocket pool for hours.'"
"Excuse me?"
"You know, the reason your arm hurts so much is you might be over-wacking your best friend!"
"Well! I don't have anything to do that with; I'm a woman!"
"Yes, I know, but then I could have compounded my mistake by replying, 'Are you going camping, because isn't that a tent pole in your drawers?' I just wanted to make sure I didn't say anything like that. Hello?"
He heard nothing but the dial tone. She hung up! Wow, you call to make sure you didn't say anything inappropriate, and she hangs up on your a**!
The End
© Copyright 2017 Mike Stevens. All rights reserved.
Status: Finished
Genre: Humor
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hahaaha ! Brilliant Next time you bring coffee bring Danny along He can cuddle with me in bed while I drink it and tell me how awful I look when I wake up with a bedhead....pmsl!! Great stuff
Is Danny going to be left with any friends in the world?
Maybe he should run into someone he has reason to dislike and worry that he was being to nice to them.
This is very well written and hilarious. Keep writing, keep writing, keep writing. I'll be back for more.
How incredibly rude of her to hang up on him! Oh yeah, he did mistake one of her fat rolls for a male appendage, in which he then accused her of wacking. My bad.
Still seemed a little rude, though. But great stuff!
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On 8 July 2010 17:57, Henri Yandell <email@example.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 9:36 AM, sebb <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: >> On 8 July 2010 16:22, Henri Yandell <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: >>> >>> IIUC, it means the tag would not refer to any trunk revision. >> >> Strictly speaking, yes, there is no exact match in trunk, because the >> version fixes are deliberately not applied to trunk. >> >>> It gets around having a commit to a tag by hiding the change in the copy. >> >> Sort of. The changes are not hidden, they are shown in the commit e-mail. > > e-mails are fairly worthless though. The issue for me is that while it > is in the svn log history, it's in a trunk->tag copy that many will > assume is an atomic step. AFAIK, it is. > Immutability of tags vs atomic commits. > >>> I'd rather get over the notion that tags can't be modified than be tagging uncommitted code. >> >> All the code is committed; it's just not all in trunk. >> >> However, if you modify the tag after creation as you suggest, again >> the revisions to the tag won't appear in trunk. >> >> AFAICT, the only way to ensure that a tag corresponds to a trunk >> revision is to tag from trunk and then never change the tag => >> immutable tag. > > Agreed; but not agreed on it being important. The need for a tag to > point to a trunk revision is an arbitrary invention of our development > process; instead: > > * Create release branch. > * Develop on release branch. > * Declare release branch releaseable [vote]. > * 'Tag' by making release branch read-only. In SVN terms, mv the > release branch from 7.0.0-release to 7.0.0. Which I think complicates the history even more. > Not saying that's great, just that issue may be in how we're defining > the problem. > >> The end result of the method I propose is similar to creating the tag >> and then updating it, but it's easier to spot violations, because a >> tag should only appear the once, and never in an update commit. > > But obscures history. I may be weird - I seem to spend a lot of my > time in source control history so care a lot about keeping it simple. Huh? I don't see how updating a tag (potentially multiple times) is more clear than creating the tag once. Also, creating a branch for the tagging adds even more places to search for history. > Also I'm bikeshedding - I've not been a Tomcat release manager, so > there may be details that differ from my experience elsewhere. One important item I forgot to mention: if you update trunk, and then create the tag from that, there is a window when trunk will contain incorrect information about versions. I'm not sure how you can prevent accidental use of trunk when in that state - e.g. it might be used in CI systems. The method I describe completely avoids that. But if you have a better method, or want to use something else - that's fine by me. I just wanted to point out what I think is a simple and effective method for creating immutable tags. > Hen > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com > For additional commands, e-mail: email@example.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: email@example.com For additional commands, e-mail: email@example.com
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It might have been the animation; simple character designs, clean and not heavily detailed with the backgrounds looking more elaborate, providing a pleasant viewing experience. Or me being a sucker for romance movies. Or even the theme of going back in time to change things for a better present (At the time of the change) that made it so engrossing, or a mix of all three. Or simply that it's fun. But it's not all fun and games, as it's serious from time to time. The last third is, while the first two thirds are more fun-oriented. The last third is good in it's own right, even with the change and all, but some parts seemed... kinda wacked out. Still good stuff and enough to make me shed a tear or five.
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*Combined with efforts from the Senior Network Architect, Director of Central Systems and Network Services and Systems Administrators, the Network Security Administrator is responsible for hardware, software, processes and procedures relating to network and system security
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I upgraded Facebook (to 126.96.36.199) on my 9800 this week and now when I load it, none of the menu functions (people, notifications etc) work at all and when I toggle out of Facebook to the BB home screen I get the following message: "Uncaught exception: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError" I've deleted/uninstalled a couple of times but with no joy - any ideas please?
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In Praise of the Gurus
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Although still cloudy, the land was clear of mist and fog this morning, when the gong sounded clearly across the Garchen at 3.00am, waking the monks and nuns in order to attend the full-moon day sojong for ordained sangha at 4.00am, administered by Khenpo Lodrö Dönyö Rinpoche. Laypeople began arriving at the Monlam Pavilion two hours later to receive the Mahayana Sojong vows bestowed by the Gyalwang Karmapa.
On the top tier of the stage, the great tormas rose magnificently, set against a translucent blue sky peppered with white clouds, projected on to the new screen background, installed three days ago. This screen will be used for visual effects during the Marme Monlam on 16th January, and stretches the width of the stage, concealing the Read the rest of this article


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NASCAR: Danica's Silver Spoon Racing Concept
There are 3 comments on the BleacherReport story from Feb 5, 2012, titled NASCAR: Danica's Silver Spoon Racing Concept. In it, BleacherReport reports that:
Racin' with Russ - the latest episode for Danica Patrick 's entry into stock car racing - has me and a lot of other race fans up in arms about how the diminutive princess of racing will gain entry into this year's Daytona 500 without ever having been in a Sprint Cup race before! Yes, she's pretty and yes, she is certainly marketable, whether it be ... (more)
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Don't be concerned with what NASCAR does or doesn't do. They are going to take care of their now 2 fan favorites. There won't be a caution they don't like when it allows those 2 to get their laps back. If you though you saw bogus calls before, wait until fan favorite 2 gets in trouble. There will be enough debris on the track to get her back on lead lap every time. Never will forget the 7 lap caution at Pocono a few years back when Jr was running up with eventual winner Kurt and he broke a shock. NASCAR ran a 7 lap caution that allowed them to replace the shock and they didn't care who knew it. I hope she wrecks every damn race and takes FF1 out with her.
#2 Feb 6, 2012
She is no fan favorite of mine! I wish she would leave NASCAR for a career for which she is more suited. Doing skank commercials for GoDaddy fits her skill set much better than pretending to be able to drive a stock car at 190 mph.
NASCAR seems to be hell bent on trying to re-stimulate interest by turning itself into a circus on wheels.
I hope she scatters her motor in the first turn of the first lap and craps her pants in the process. Then she can broaden her horizons and do commercials for adult Depends!
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From fiscal years 2008 through 2012, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reported spending about $114 billion on 60 programs providing financial assistance to farmers, including about $28 billion in crop insurance subsidies. Those programs existed during the effective period of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (2008 farm bill). Most were administered by the Farm Service Agency...
Inspectors General: USDA Office of Inspector General Resources, Accomplishments, Coverage, and Quality
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During the 3-year period from fiscal year 2009 through 2011, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Office of Inspector General's (OIG) total budgetary resources decreased by about 8 percent. In contrast, the total budgetary resources for all other cabinet-level OIGs increased by approximately 6 percent over the 3-year period. The USDA OIG's authorized full-time equivalent staff (FTE) increased...
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In summary, as of August 2012, USDA had fully addressed three of our recommendations, made significant progress toward addressing two, and made some progress toward addressing one.Why GAO Did This StudyFor decades, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has been the focus of federal inquiries into allegations of discrimination against minorities and women both in the programs it administers and...
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The McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program (MGD Program) provides donations of U.S. agricultural products and financial and technical assistance for school feeding programs in the developing world. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), with about $200 million in funding in fiscal year 2010, the MGD Program served about 5 million beneficiaries i...
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Matt Damon says that he normally has a no nudity clause in his contracts, but that isn't the way it worked for his Liberace biopic. "Normally I'd say no to nudity, but I just did a lot of it playing the long-term partner of Liberace, Scott Thorson, in Behind the Candelabra. I mean, it's tastefully done…But this movie's not going to be for everyone. I had to come out of the pool, go over to Michael Douglas, straddle him on a chaise lounge and start kissing him. It's not like I kiss him just once. We drew it up like a football plan… Michael was a wonderful kisser."
The military spouses group that denied membership to a lesbian wife at Fort Bragg will be reviewing their policy after media picked up on the snub. The group is sanctioned by the military, but isn't a government entity, so DOMA doesn't apply.
Up until President Johnson, the United States had policy for a full nuclear strike against China and the USSR if the president went missing or was killed during a conflict, even if the conflict was conventional, and even if it didn't involve Russia or China.
Illinois is moving forward with plans to pass marriage equality during the lame duck session of the legislature in January, much faster than expected. I have a lot of friends in Chicago that I may need to buy wedding presents for soon.
Out billionaire David Geffen has donated $100 million to the UCLA Medical School for scholarships. Geffen was alarmed at the debt medical students were accumulating while attending school. He's previously donated $200 million to the school.
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4Chan rigged the voting in Time Magazine's Man of the Year awards to give the prize to North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un.
Liam Hemsworth was filmed getting into a fistfight outside a bar, bloodying the nose of his opponent and rubbing his head into concrete after a rock was allegedly thrown at Hemsworth.
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Berlin (AFP) RB Leipzig are determined to defend their hard-earned status as the new Bundesliga leaders with a win at Freiburg on Friday to pile the pressure on faltering Bayern Munich.
Leipzig, sponsored by Austrian energy drinks giant Red Bull, went top last Friday with a 3-2 win at Bayer Leverkusen, setting a new Bundesliga record in the process.
Word on the wire is that Red Bull are in "advanced talks" to add Swindon Town to their portfolio of company-owned football clubs.
Swindonhave scheduled a press conference to make a "significant" announcement this afternoon, with reports suggesting that the League One side are set to be bought out by the international caffeine peddlers.
Berlin (AFP) New boys RB Leipzig are level with leaders Bayern Munich on 24 points at the top of the Bundesliga table in Germany's top flight and on a record run.
AFP sports looks at five reasons why the Red Bull-backed outfit from the former East Germany city is still unbeaten after their first ten games:
Lots of cash, cautious signings
Unlike many other newly-promoted teams in their first Bundesliga season, RB Leipzig are not wanting for cash.
Berlin (AFP) The promotion of RB Leipzig to the Bundesliga has caused resentment amongst hardcore fans of traditional teams, sparking fears that "plastic clubs" could ruin the traditional culture in Germany's top flight.
RB Leipzig are backed by Austrian energy-drinks giants Red Bull, who took over a football licence and founded the club in 2009.
Berlin (AFP) Scottish teenager Oliver Burke scored his first Bundesliga goal on Sunday as new-boys RB Leipzig drew 1-1 at Cologne to remain unbeaten in Germany's top flight.
Leipzig are backed by Austrian energy drinks giants Red Bull and are unpopular with fans of Germany's traditional clubs due to the commercialism they represent.
Berlin (AFP) Just seven years after being founded, RB Leipzig, sponsored by energy drinks giants Red Bull, will play in the Bundesliga next season after their second division promotion was confirmed Sunday.
Goals by Sweden's Emil Forsberg and Marcel Halstenberg sealed their 2-0 win at home to Karlsruhe, in front of 42,559 fans, which means they will join second division champions Freiburg in Germany's top flight next season.
Defensive breakdowns from the Union sealed their fate in a wild Saturday night match at Red Bull Arena.
The Philadelphia Union entered Red Bull Arena underdogs and hopeful for a victory and a guaranteed spot in the 2016 MLS Cup Playoffs, however victory was not to be for the Union this evening.
Rate the players in the 2-0 loss at Red Bull Arena
We saw another new lineup with changed spots for Andreas Ivanschitz and Joevin Jones. The Seattle Sounders gave the Red Bulls a run for their money, but ultimately failed to turn any of their 15 shots into goals. As always, it's time to rate the individual performances that made up the loss.
Seattle loses 2-nil in a match where for the first sixty minutes they dominated all facets that aren't a goal.
With New York Red Bulls playing a high-press throughout the night there was the opportunity for the Seattle Sounders to get out on the counter. They did well, for the first 55 minutes or so.
The forward line is Joevin, Jordan Morris and Aaron Kovar as the Seattle Sounders face New York Red Bulls on FS1 at 4:30 PM.
Without Clint Dempsey Sigi Schmid will look to Joevin Jones and Jordan Morris to continue their goal scoring magic. Those two are listed as forwards in the 4-3-3 with Aaron Kovar on the right.
FS1 has coverage starting at 4:30 PM Pacific. It is also on Spanish radio (El Rey 1360) with English radio on KIRO 97.3 FM Seattle.
Sigi Schmid's 500th MLS game is a road trip out to Harrison, New Jersey to face the New York Red Bulls. Like the Sounders, Red Bull has seven losses and a draw.
Sunday's return to MLS action for the Seattle Sounders offers another chance to show that their road win before the Copa break isn't an anomaly. New York Red Bulls offer a strong test.Red Bull has three wins in a row and are 5-2-0 at home. The Sounders are a paltry 1-4-1 away from Seattle. Both teams will be down a DP.
New York will push up and their midfield will fly around but no, they don't have wings.
Energy drinks can pick you up and they usually do, but a crash always follows. New York started 1-6-0 before their Red Bull kicked in and oh my did it kick. Just three points in seven matches but then 16 points in the next seven going 5-1-1 in that stretch.
Win, lose, or draw? No, seriously, what's going to happen in this game, because we're not sure.
It's almost the night we've all been waiting for, folks: Star Wars Night. Oh, also, D.C. United's biggest rivals are coming. But Star Wars!
It seems we can't all agree on an outcome for this game.
Matches between these two have been hotly contested, but that intensity might not carry into Yankee stadium for the upcoming fixture.
The Reign's upcoming match versus Houston provides both clubs a measuring stick of each team's depth, with the absence of Jess Fishlock and Carli Lloyd respectively.
The Rochester Rhinos were held scoreless at Red Bull Arena as goalkeeper Tomas Gomez shined in his first start for the team.
A very young attack-minded New York Red Bulls II team hosted the traditionally defensive Rochester Rhinos on Sunday afternoon. Despite the best efforts of Brandon Allen and Derick Etienne for New York and Rochester's Steevan dos Santos and Kenardo Forbes, the match ended scoreless.
DC United head to Red Bull Arena in Week 26 for the third and final episode of the 2015 Atlantic Cup.
The winner of Weeks 24 and 25 is ChestRockwell with a combined 30 points. As a prize, you receive 30 pink plastic flamingos goats to decorate your lawn with. Set them up, crack open a cold beer, and gaze upon them with pride.
Union fans are upset. Red Bull fans are upset. Maybe now it's an actual rivalry.
Word got around today that the U.S. Open Cup quarterfinal match between the Philadelphia Union and New York Red Bulls had finally been scheduled, and like most good compromises no one seemed happy with it.
Two wins a row! Really!
The Philadelphia Union are finally emerging from a run of Chivas USA terribleness with yet another much-needed win, this time on the road at Red Bull Arena for a franchise first. A pair of second half goals from Vincent Nogueira and C.J. Sapong are what lifted the Union to their second straight victory giving them their first win streak of the 2015 season.
Red Bull fans are raising money to tell Red Bull where they can stick it.
Last Friday Freedom Kicks focused like a laser on NYCFC's Lampardgate fiasco. Today, we're going to get started with a little NYRB Petkegate fiasco.
Look, if you're sick of all these soccer-related fiascos, you can treat yourself to theGreenport Peter Pan fiasco, although that's also straight out of New York.
Former Montreal Impact Head Coach Jesse Marsch is set to replace the fired Mike Petke as the new head coach of the New York Red Bulls, according to a report by Empire of Soccer.
In a brief statement released by New York Red Bulls today, the club confirmed that Mike Petke will not return as the club's head coach in 2015.
According to a report in the Daily Mirror, England and Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard has been has added to the 'discovery list' of the New York Red Bulls, meaning that they will have first option on signing him if he moves to Major League Soccer.
Gerrard has been at the centre of much speculation about his future, as Brendan Rodgers has opted to leave him out of the Reds' starting eleven in numerous occasions this season.
HARRISON, N.J. – Good afternoon from Red Bull Arena, where the Revolution will face the New York Red Bulls in the first leg of the Eastern Conference Final at 1:30pm. Weighted road goals are once again in play, so it won't be surprising to see the Revolution to step on the accelerator again.
What's at stake: Both teams are looking to seize momentum in the first leg and use it to their advantage in the second leg.
The New York Red Bulls will face the winner of the Revolution-Crew Conference Semifinal series after beating first-seed D.C. United3-2 on aggregate following Saturday's second leg at RFK Stadium.
After getting a 2-0 jump in the first leg at Red Bull Arena last weekend, Peguy Luyindula's 57th minute goal proved to be the difference despite strikes from Nick Deleon and Sean Franklin in the 37th and 91st minutes, respectively, givingD.
FoxSports continues their summer of soccer with a match between the Seattle Sounders and the New York Red Bulls. The 4:30 PM Pacific game on Sunday June 19th pits two teams with mid-table records against each other after a two week break for the Copa America. Clint Dempsey will not be present for Seattle.
The best thing about the Baby Bulls giving Bethlehem Steel FC the horns? It's over.
Hopefully, this was not a performance that is a sign of things to come for Bethlehem Steel FC. Things started out poorly for BSFC when Josh Yaro tapped in an own goal on a botched clearance in the first minute.
It should be another physical battle when Steel take on NYRB II at Red Bull Arena tomorrow night.
Bethlehem Steel will travel to Red Bull Arena tomorrow in hopes of righting the ship after a somewhat disappointing home opener that saw the side drop three points to FC Cincinnati. There's a lot of interesting things to look out for here in terms of players and future MLS standouts for both the Union and Red Bull affiliate clubs.
An ongoing poll ranks New York Red Bull fan hate.
Once A Metro, a New York Red Bulls fan community, is currently polling their reader base to determine which MLS teams they despise the most. The Philadelphia Union, probably mostly due to pity, currently sit just fourth in total vitriol. More competent rivals D.
Poetry Corner Kicks notes a similarity between the Union and an old joke.
Well, the Philadelphia Union are in last place. I once heard a joke that went like this: Q: What do you call a person who graduated last in their class in Med School? A: Doctor. The Union are technically a first-tier professional soccer team here in the states, but they are last in their class.
D.C. United's fan favorite is on the block today: who do you have?
The Esky Award is named for Alecko Eskandarian, former D.C. United forward whose career was cut short due to concussions. Eskandarian vaulted into fan favorite territory with his spitting out the Red Bull goal celebration, which remains one of the best goal celebrations in team history.
Don't call it a comeback! The laughingstock of the league just won two in a row against the top teams in the Eastern Conference. Could it get any better than that?
Following the late winner against DC United, the Union pulled off a new trick; taking 3 points from Red Bull Arena. Red Bull showed a growing dominance on the game in the first half, but two second half goals saw the Union pull off the win.
It is now time to vote for the D.C. United fans' favorite player of 2014.
Berlin (AFP) A potential transfer for Manchester United-reject Bastian Schweinsteiger to Red Bull New York has been ruled out by the club's head of global soccer, according to a report on Saturday.
"Bastian Schweinsteiger is a great player with a great career. But there have been no conversations, he isn't and will not be a topic for us," Red Bull's Oliver Mintzlaff told German daily Bild.
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The whole thing is eerie and yet oddly familiar. The brutal slaying on November 15th, 1959, of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas was one of the first 'home invasion' stories that shook America to the core for the sheer brutality of the crime. It unsettled the population not just in Holcomb, but everywhere.
Of course, the book, In Cold Blood, written by Truman Capote, is about these killings and if we are to trust the film Capote, he got the idea from the press clipping in the New York Times the next morning and then telephoned his editor at the New Yorker (William Shawn at the time, who had a long and impressive tenure before Tina Brown was appointed editor) and said simply, "I've found my next story." Soon, what started out as an article quickly became a full-length book that would take consume several years of Capote's life.
No doubt a great deal of research went into the making of Capote just as Capote put four years of his own life into the making of the book In Cold Blood and getting to know the murderers themselves, even to the point of having mixed feelings about them – on the one hand seeing and knowing what they were capable of, and yet also seeing them as men and not monsters. As Capote says in the film, "It is as if he (Perry) and I had grown up in he same house…only he went out the back door and I went out the front."
In the final account, all of this matters, but the highlight of this film is really the acting of Philip Seymour Hoffman as Capote, along with a terrific supporting cast of characters such as Catherine Keener as Harper Lee (author of To Kill a Mockingbird) and Chris Cooper as the detective on the case. Nobody could have played Capote as convincingly as Hoffman does, down to the voice, the mannerisms, the quick wit, and the self-interested aspect of Capote's character that could be cruel and even manipulative to get what he wanted, which is exactly what he did with the two men indicted for the Kansas murders – Perry Smith (Clifton Collins Jr.) and Dick Hickock (Mark Pellegrino).
It was Perry especially that he led along, constantly pumping him for more information for his book, even to the point of providing both convicted felons with better counsel to keep them alive longer, for purposes of getting yet more information for his book.
No doubt, Capote never thought for a second that they stood a chance of getting off or even of winning a stay of execution which would have drawn out the writing of the book long after Capote had most of the information he needed. At a certain point, it became a grim death vigil as Capote waited for the men to die (by hanging) so that he could finish he book, and although the title was decided upon about mid-point in the process, he tells Perry Smith, "I don't yet have a title; I haven't written a word," an outright and self-serving lie to keep Perry talking, as Capote not only had a title, but was on the final and last part of the book.
In the final account, he is like anyone doing his job: to show the book to Perry would be to lose a major resource, as the book did not present Perry in the light he would no doubt have wanted – as a sort of wrongly convicted cowboy expecting a great deal of sympathy. And why not? Why shouldn't he think this? Capote leads him properly up the garden path and, in his gentle and sympathetic manner, pumps him for as much information as possible, eventually getting around to the night of the actual murders.
Perry does come to trust Capote, even to the point of turning over his personal diaries (no doubt invaluable in a case like this), even writing Capote postcards signed "Amigo." What Perry fails to see in his naïveté is that, as Truman tells him toward the end, "This is my job." He may have seemed to befriend Perry, but in reality, he has lied to him throughout to get what he wants: a means to an end.
In effect, Capote uses both men, but most especially Perry, to get the information that he needs for his book and he succeeds, with Hoffman's performance, smoothly, convincingly, moving in like a friendly snake who will eat you when he's done with you or a game of cat and mouse in which the mouse will eventually die, of course, only Capote tells lie after lie to the convicted killer, even telling him that he does not have a title for the book when he is three quarters into it and just waiting for the last chapter to see how it will end – in execution, which he likely knows well yet cannot rightly finish the book until there is some real resolution.
But the story is not unfamiliar to most Capote fans (who had read the book) or even movie buffs that had seen the original film, In Cold Blood, starring James Woods. But here it is truly Hoffman who has captured the fey, the original, the selfish, the generous, the loving and the cold and the very real emotions that Capote felt and the conflicting feelings he seems to have felt over the two killers, on the one hand seemingly having some empathy yet at the same time, after visiting the funeral home where the family is being waked, he cannot resist a peek inside each coffin, and what he sees is gruesome.
The Clutter family are laid out in their best clothes – pretty, staid, in character for this part of the country with one exception, their faces and heads are twice the size of "a blown up balloon" and are covered in a white cotton gauze that has been sprayed with something lending a twinkling Christmas tree effect, Capote tells us. Each member of the Clutter family was shot in the face or head.
To note, Perry had done his best to make each family member comfortable before killing them – an odd fact. He had tucked the daughter into bed, prevented his partner from raping the young girl, had placed a pillow under the brother's head and provided a box for Mr. Clutter to stand on to relieve the pressure of his arm and hand which had been chained to a pipe in the basement. Then something went off in Perry and he slit Mr. Clutter's throat very suddenly and then went quickly from room to room, shooting each family member point blank.
Capote may be fey, he may come across as less serious than he really is and the chief officer on the crime, played incredibly and believable by Chris Cooper, remains less than convinced that Capote is up to any good, but is kind to him nonetheless, realizing the men have more in common than originally thought.
Cooper does warm up in time, but you have to imagine a small town detective trying to manage and understand this effete New York boy who has honed in to write a book about the biggest tragedy that Holcomb has ever seen. It seems almost gruesome and while perhaps as writer to writer, we can understand Capote's motives, it does seem a bit grisly and one wonders how well he slept after seeing some of the things he did see. The Holcomb murders were particularly grisly – not to say that any murder isn't but these we particularly gruesome in part because of the remote location, the tying of each family, the desperate pleading we can hear from Mr. Clutter as he insists there is no ten thousand dollars and losing his life because of it. As Perry says, "He [Mr. Clutter] looked at me like I was the kind of guy that would kill him. Like he was afraid of me. It was then that I cut his throat."
It is almost because he was expected or assumed to be a killer that Perry became one. Other than that, he seemed like an okay guy, which sounds completely perverse but is the truth. Perry (and this is why Capote managed a relationship with him) was in many ways quite a gentle man who kept extensive journals, who drew, who was part Indian, who was relatively peaceful – that is, until he shot the Clutter family to death. At least in the film adaptation he doesn't seem like a bad guy; he seems like a perfectly normal guy, but then, so many killers seem quite normal on the surface of things. Never judge the book, right? Ted Bundy is a great reminder of this.
Given the dozens of stories in The New York Times every day, one wonders why the Clutter family in particular struck a nerve with Capote, but it did, and he wasn't alone in this somewhat macabre fascination. The murders shook everyone one in the country; and it shook and stirred something in Capote, enough that it would produce arguably his finest work. In Cold Blood was the last book Capote would ever completely finish; other books and stories exist but all remain unfinished. At last, after four years of research, of living and breathing the Clutter case and the two convicts and thousands of pages of transcripts and interviews and journals, Capote had a painstakingly accurate book entitled simply In Cold Blood.
Capote's research is impeccable. But as any good writer will tell you, research is more than half the battle. Get that down and the rest of the story comes more easily, and so it is that through a series of intimate interviews, even having the killers mug for a professional shoot in The New Yorker, Capote gains their trust to his own benefit, never really for their benefit no matter what Capote may have said at the time. Most of his deeds were self-serving.
Perhaps Capote was drawn to the story because of some ability to relate to Perry Smith, although he could not have known this at the time. For whatever reason, the Clutter case appealed greatly to the writer, perhaps because it was so dark and so unusual for the time. Perhaps because these were ordinary people (as he himself had been to some smaller extent), but ultimately what kept him involved was yes, the story and the knowledge that this could and would propel him to greater heights if done right and some prescience that this would strike a chord with the American public. A book on the subject, like any book about killers or true crime, would tend to sell well. Do it Capote-style and it will sell and be written extremely well – a genre unto itself.
Much of the photo-shoot (for The New Yorker, presumably) is sickening, stomach curdling to see these cold-blooded killers mugging for the camera, each knowing full well that the murders had brought celebrity to their names. The sad truth is, it did.
America simply could not turn away from this awful crime no matter how much it may have wanted to. In the photographs, they are showing off their tattoos, their muscles, their cheap smiles, their tattoos, rather ironically, of religious conviction paired with daggers and skulls. The minds of the two were never, it seems, entirely made up as to who they were or where they were going. It should be no surprise then that they found themselves in the middle of Kansas in a small town like Holcomb, though it seems this much was planned, that although murdering the family was never part of the plan, it happened regardless.
Perhaps the inability to turn away was that home invasions were not yet as prevalent or commonplace as they have become today. Turn on the news now and you'll see a home invasion at least every two weeks, with murder, rape and the killers getting away with a few bucks (as the killers in In Cold Blood escaped with no more than "$50 dollars total").
As it turned out, they had botched the job entirely and selected the wrong house. They were in search of another house that they believed had about $10,000 dollars or so hidden in a safe, though whether or not such a house even existed is hard to verify.
The story is fascinating in and of itself but it is the ever-morphing Seymour Phillip Hoffman who carries this role. His manner is perfect, the lines well delivered and even more, he seems to pull off looking like Capote, and while part of this is costume, more than a good half of it is facial expression and manner, including a tone of voice that is almost bang on the money. Clearly, Hoffman too did his research for this role as he seems to do for every role he is in, whether star or not; every time we see him, he is transformed.
This is not the Freddie Miles of The Talented Mr. Ripley or any such film. One is absorbed right away into the character and the atmosphere of the film: the flatlands of Kansas, the simplicity, the harsh winter, and awfulness of what had occurred.
Capote believed that destiny had handed him In Cold Blood and that it was the book he was meant to write. Fate had led him to that story in The New York Times that morning. Perhaps this is likewise the role Hoffman was destined to play – let's just hope he keeps acting and doesn't stop as our Capote ceased to write after this book. More likely, this role can only propel Hoffman more into the spotlight and the further fame which he so well deserves for this and other roles.
One should note that as grisly as this film may be, there are some very funny (read: laugh out loud) scenes simply because of the way Capote was that one can't help but laugh along with him. Even when that razor sharp wit of his seems cruel, it still comes across as funny and maybe we feel a little guilty for laughing at things that we shouldn't. His cutting wit can be, at times, quite cruel, and worst of all, he involves and engages us in it so we laugh along with him.
It is the same dry wit used in Breakfast at Tiffany's with the ever-graceful and still sorrowful Holly Golightly and her fifty-dollars-for-the-powder-room – a life full of a false glamour, both sad and glittering at the same time and all with a pervasive melancholy.


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New Braunfels Herald Zeitung (Newspaper) - October 4, 2005, New Braunfels, Texas Page 2 — Herald-Zeitung — Tuesday, October 4, 2005 TOUR CONTINUED FROM Page 1 Airman missed birth of his daughter he was needed in the wake of the Gulf Coast hurricanes. He spent most of his free time getting to know his baby daughter, Harley, and talking to his toddler, Hunter. He did not watch much television. " Hie TV news media decided at some point the only thing people want to see is bad news. That's the reason for the negative image of what is going on over there," he said. "They don't show all of the humanitarian assistance. What we're doing over there is important." While he re-acclimates to civilian life, Evola said he planned to avoid any negative coverage of the war or President George W. Bush. "I think he's doing a great job," the soldier said. "I support him because he takes care of the military, and he Rian*i»aljiSl -ii/'' Law enforcement officers in New Braunfels and Comal County arrested the following Sept. 30-Oct. 3, 2005: Mirna Salas Abbott, 34, New Braunfels, intoxicated assault with a vehicle; accident involving injury. Jeremias Alvarez, 26, Snyder, motion to adjudicate/possession of less than 2 ounces of marijuana. Jim David Anderson, 18, Canyon Lake, violation of the Clean Air Act. Belinda Babbitt, 24, New Braunfels, speeding. Carl Michael Baker Jr., 36, Canyon Lake, no safety belt; failure to maintain financial responsibility; no driver's license. Dudley C. Bell Jr., 69, New Braunites, making a false report to a police officer. Jeremy Franklin Benton, 26, Spring Branch, no insurance. James Richard Browning, 59, Bulverde, theft by check between $20 and $500. Timothy Jay Brummer, 45, Canyon Lake, illegal dumping between 5 and 500 lbs. 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Gibson, 24, Universal City, driving while license invalid. Patrick Brian Gleason, 22, New Braunfels, expired license plates; violation of promise to appear. James Michael Gomez, 25, New Braunfels, public intoxication. Manuel Gomez, 58, Seguin, public intoxication. Robert Gomez Jr., 20, New Braunfels, no driver's license; failure to stop at stop sign; possession of marijuana; public intoxication; failure to appear/theft. Lisa Gonzales, 36, New Braunfels, speeding; failure to maintain financial responsibility. Ernest Band Gonzalez, 50, San Antonio, driving while license invalid. keeps his word to us." Evola will be retiring from the military in April, in part because it is time to stay home with his family, but also because of the president. "I want to have his signature on my retirement papers," he said. "I also want the flag I get to have flown over the capitol while he's in office." While he is waiting for his flag, Evola will be getting up to speed on the city's street projects and his new team. He was promoted to foreman of the street crew less than a month before he left for his second tour, not much time to get to know the guys. He made a good start Monday morning, when the crew gathered to welcome him back to the job with breakfast tacos and coffee. They were pretty quiet, but Evola said he knew they would warm up. ''I've got a bunch of pictures to bring and show them," he said. "I know once we're out there working, they'll start asking me questions. I've got plenty to tell them." TRIAL CONTINUED FROM Page 1 New trial scheduled later this month "I was ready for trial," Peterson said. "I spent the last two weeks getting ready for this trial in serious fashion. But we had a material difference of opinion on trial strategy." Peterson said Gomez turned down three plea offers made by District Attorney Dib Waldrip — one several months ago that would have required Gomez to serve only IO years in prison. "He's turned down all offers," Peterson said. "We also had a difference of opinion on who would testify at trial and what they would testify to." Ramsay appointed attorney Tom dirk to represent Gomez and set trial for Oct. 31. Peterson said he'd already provided Clark with his files. "I'll be communicating with Tom so we have a good transition in Rudy's best interests," Peterson said. Matters of Public Record Kim Neal Grier, 47, Marion, theft between $1,500 and $20,000; possession of between 4 and 200 grams of a controlled substance, penalty group I. _ Marcus Jermaine Henderson, 22, San Marcos, speeding — 100 mph in a 70 mph zone. Melissa Ann Hernandez, 30, Crystal City, interfering with public duties; public intoxication. 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A quarter of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in the United States have no history of smoking. The occupational contribution to development of COPD is significant. Endotoxin is a ubiquitous and poorly recognized environmental and occupational exposure that may cause non-tobacco related COPD. In recent studies, chronic inhalational endotoxin has been associated with the development of obstructive lung disease in both humans and murine models. Despite the importance of endotoxin related lung disease, it has not been well studied. The primary objective of this study is to investigate the biology underlying the development of chronic obstructive lung disease due to long term endotoxin exposure. We hypothesize that specific genes and genes grouped by function or interaction play a role in the development of endotoxin related lung disease. To test this hypothesis, we will select candidate single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and associated genes by integrating high density customized genotyping data in an exposure-naove "newly hired" cohort of cotton textile workers with gene expression data in a phenotypically validated murine model of chronic endotoxin exposure. Wewill also use contextual information such as functional annotation and protein-protein interactions to re-rank SNPs that fail to reach genome wide significance. Candidate regions will then be tested in a chronically exposed "long term" cohort of cotton textile workers. Validated regions will then be annotated for putative biological function, and an interaction analysis will b performed on all validated regions to infer disease causing mechanisms underlying chronic inhaled endotoxin and obstructive lung disease. As part of the research training program, the principle investigator will complete a Master of Public Health with a concentration in Quantitative Methods in order to acquire the necessary epidemiology and biostatistics skills, as well as relevant bioinformatics tools. This research project will be performed under the mentorship of an established investigator in genetic epidemiology who has studied endotoxin-related lung disease for the past 3 decades.
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