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Cracker Barrel Country Store Releases: Neal McCoy's Pride Deluxe EditionPosted By: Neal McCoy
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LEBANON, Tenn. (Oct. 31, 2014) – Cracker Barrel Old Country Store® will release the latest project in their exclusive music program, country music singer Neal McCoy's Pride: A Tribute to Charley Pride: Deluxe Edition, on Nov. 3. The CD is available exclusively in all 633 Cracker Barrel Old Country Store® locations and online at crackerbarrel.com. The digital album will also be available for purchase at select digital retailers. The album, which retails for $11.99 with 13 songs originally made famous by Pride, contains two exclusive bonus tracks that are not found on the original edition released last year by Slate Creek Records. The project was a labor of love for McCoy, who worked with Pride early in his career and built a lifelong friendship with the iconic performer.
"It's really neat to have this package," said McCoy. "It's a real tribute from me to Charley, and my way of just saying, 'Thank you for letting me get my foot in the proverbial door and giving me the opportunity to make my dreams come to life.' Charley told me years ago, 'Neal, if you put on a great show and be nice to people, you'll last a long time in this business.' I adopted that. And it has worked. It certainly did for him. So, thank you, Charley Pride. And thank you Cracker Barrel for allowing me to expand the album into a Deluxe Edition so I could share two more of my favorite Charley Pride songs. I hope everyone that comes to Cracker Barrel for a great meal will check out the album."
"Cracker Barrel is proud to join with Neal in paying tribute to the legendary Charley Pride with a Deluxe Edition version of his album that we know our guests will enjoy," said Cracker Barrel Marketing Manager Julie Craig.
The album features McCoy performing three songs as duets. He sings "I'm Just Me" with Raul Malo, "Roll On Mississippi" with Trace Adkins, and Pride's signature song, "Kiss an Angel Good Mornin'," with Darius Rucker.
Pride: A Tribute to Charley Pride: Deluxe Edition was produced by veteran music producer Garth Fundis who, as a young studio engineer, was present for many of Pride's original studio sessions with producer Jack Clement. The 13 songs on the album are:
1. "Is Anybody Goin' To San Antone"
2. "I'm Just Me" (duet with Raul Malo)
3. "Kiss an Angel Good Mornin'" (duet with Darius Rucker)
4. "Kaw-Liga"
5. "You're So Good When You're Bad"
6. "It's Gonna Take a Little Bit Longer"
7. "Roll On Mississippi" (duet with Trace Adkins)
8. "Just Between You and Me"
9. "Mountain of Love"
10. "Someone Loves You Honey"
11. "You're My Jamaica"
12. "Why Baby Why" (*)
13. "Let Me Live" (*)
(*) exclusive bonus tracks
The legendary Charley Pride is one of the country music's most successful singers, having achieved 29 No. 1 hits and three GRAMMY Awards (including Best Country Vocal Performance, Male in 1972). He was named the CMA Entertainer of the Year in 1971 and CMA Male Vocalist of the Year in 1971 and 1972. Pride joined the Grand Ole Opry in 1993 and was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2000.
In 1981, Pride was introduced to McCoy after the younger singer won a nightclub talent contest in Dallas and soon hired the newcomer to be his opening act at his concerts. McCoy continued to work for Pride until 1986 when he left to pursue a recording contract. McCoy is best known for his two No.1 hits, "No Doubt About It" and "Wink," as well as for songs such as "For a Change," "They're Playin' Our Song," "You Gotta Love That," "Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye," and "The Shake." He has earned three Platinum and four Gold albums. In 2014, McCoy toured with Blake Shelton on the "Ten Times Crazier Tour." For more information, visit nealmccoy.com.
About the Cracker Barrel Old Country Store® Exclusive Music Program
Neal McCoy's Pride: A Tribute to Charley Pride: Deluxe Edition is the latest CD release in the Cracker Barrel Old Country Store® exclusive music program. Since 2005, Cracker Barrel has released CDs with a wide variety of artists, some of which have debuted in the top three spots on a range of Billboard's charts including Top DVD Music Videos, Top Country Albums, Top Contemporary Christian Albums and Top Bluegrass Albums. The Cracker Barrel Old Country Store® exclusive music program includes CDs with Alabama, Rodney Atkins, Mandy Barnett, Clint Black, Jason Michael Carroll, Steven Curtis Chapman, Dailey & Vincent, The Charlie Daniels Band, Ronnie Dunn, Edens Edge, Sara Evans, Bill Gaither, Vince Gill and Paul Franklin, Amy Grant, The Grascals, Merle Haggard, Alan Jackson, George Jones, Alison Krauss & Union Station, Montgomery Gentry, Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out, Craig Morgan, The Oak Ridge Boys, Brad Paisley, Dolly Parton, Smokey Robinson, Kenny Rogers, The Secret Sisters, Ricky Skaggs, Michael W. Smith, Aaron Tippin, Randy Travis, Josh Turner, Wynonna, and the Zac Brown Band. For details, visit crackerbarrel.com.
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Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc. provides a friendly home-away-from-home in its old country stores and restaurants. Guests are cared for like family while relaxing and enjoying real home-style food and shopping that's surprisingly unique, genuinely fun and reminiscent of America's country heritage…all at a fair price. The restaurant serves up delicious, home-style country food such as meatloaf and homemade chicken n' dumplins as well as its made-from-scratch biscuits using an old family recipe. The authentic old country retail store is fun to shop and offers unique gifts and self-indulgences. Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc. (Nasdaq: CBRL) was established in 1969 in Lebanon, Tenn. and operates 633 company-owned locations in 42 states. Every Cracker Barrel Old Country Store® location is open seven days a week with hours Sunday through Thursday, 6 a.m. – 10 p.m., and Friday and Saturday, 6 a.m. – 11 p.m. For more information, visit crackerbarrel.com.
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Neal McCoy – PridePosted By: Neal McCoy
You can still purchase Neal's tribute album to Charley Pride, Pride, on his iTunes store!
BLAKE SHELTON'S TEN TIMES CRAZIER TOUR 2014Posted By: Neal McCoy
Neal McCoy is excited to announce that he will be touring with Blake Shelton on the Ten Times Crazier Tour 2014. Joining Blake and I on the road will be The Band Perry and Dan + Shay. A complete list of dates, cities and venues will be announced shortly. Here is the first round of cities on the Ten Times Crazier Tour 2014:
Austin, TX
Dallas, TX
Little Rock, AR
Chicago, IL
New York, NY
Dairen Center, NY
Albuquerque, NM
Phoenix, AZ
San Diego, CA
Fresno, CA
Sacramento, CA
Mountain View, CA
Spokane, WA
Tacoma, WA
Vancouver, BC
Boise, ID
Salt Lake City, UT
Denver, CO
Las Vegas, NV
Los Angeles, CA
The first opportunity to buy tickets for these cities will be through Live Nation's Country Megaticket 2014 campaign, where fans can purchase multi-show country music packages at Megaticket.com beginning next week.
Cruise RafflePosted By: Neal McCoy
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Register to win a Country Cruise for 2
January 12-19, 2014 with Neal McCoy, Trace Adkins, Wynonna and others.
Call 1-855-LUV-NEAL (1-855-588-6325) to purchase your tickets with a credit card.
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I try to keep the books in my house as Montessori-friendly as possible. However, the exact meaning of what is "Montessori-friendly" when it comes to books can be a hotly debated topic. I know that I cannot settle that debate here, so I will just add my personal thoughts. For me, and my family, we shy away from fantasy. By fantasy, I mean adult created ideas that don't actually happen in real life -- talking animals, for example.
Mama and Baby! (Indestructibles) -- perfect for even mouthy babies!
Animals (Baby Touch and Feel)
Touch and Feel: Farm
Machines at Work Board Book
Farm Animals
Dear Zoo: A Lift-the-Flap Book
I Can -- Nora could read all day
Say Goodnight
Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes
This is separate from fiction, though. Fiction is loved and celebrated here! Fiction is something that has not happened, but is not impossible. We love fiction and read lots of it around here!
The Little Airplane
A Child's Book of Art: Great Pictures - First Words
The Black Book of Colors
Actual Size
The Odd One Out
Before After -- high on my library book list!
Planting a Rainbow
Egg: Nature's Perfect Package
Feathers: Not Just for Flying
One Gorilla: A Counting Book -- beautiful illustrations
Renoir's Colors
Me on the Map
All the Colors of the Rainbow
Tom and Pippo Go for a Walk -- We love every book in this series, it is the perfect fiction for toddlers
Can You Say Peace?
Here Is the Tropical Rain Forest
Show Me Happy
The Queen's Hat -- This walks a tight fantasy/fiction line but was so well loved I added it
Hello Baby!
Lola at the Library
Mama Miti: Wangari Maathai and the Trees of Kenya
Last Stop on Market Street -- a wonderful message and great fiction
The Storm Whale
Nora's Chicks
Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt
A Seed is Sleepy -- all the books in this series look amazing
Walk This World
Design Line: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Animalium: Welcome to the Museum -- one of the most beautiful books I've ever seen
Farm Anatomy: The Curious Parts and Pieces of Country Life
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Conservatives commenting on the Beeb might occasionally note the high quality of radio and television that it provides. I lived in the UK for several years and was surprised and pleased at what the BBC made available. I understand the complaints about the mandatory license fee and the governmental role — but there IS a distinct up-side, and I should think that an appreciation of this is also part of the conservative (or, at least, intelligent and educated) response. Some of us, while appreciating the virtues of the market, do not automatically assume that it is without its flaws.
There is no question that the BBC is capable of high-quality output, and nowhere is this more readily noted than in the United States. When Americans hear my accent, they often ask about Doctor Who, Fawlty Towers, Monty Python and so forth; they wax lyrical about English drama and comedy; if they have visited Britain, they often tell me stories about the joys of Radio 4 on a long car journey; classical music enthusiasts lionize Radio 3. All very well. But quality is not an excuse for government intervention. I have never heard an argument for the public funding of the BBC which didn't essentially come down to the belief that the market is incapable of producing quality broadcasting, and that the people cannot be trusted to choose their own entertainment. In my experience, pro-BBC types will reluctantly agree with the complaint that the license fee is essentially a tax, but nonetheless fall back on the assertion that it is a tax for our own good. It is fine to take this position, providing one is prepared to accept the consequences of such a belief — namely to own the conviction that Britain, land of Shakespeare, is incapable of cultural excellence without government intervention.
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March 30th, 2013 07:37 PM #1Member
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For some reason I really dig Huck. Though I'm not sure it's a name that can stand on its own. That said, I don't really like Huckleberry as a longer version.
1 –*What kind of kid do you think of when you hear the name?
2 – What longer alternatives can you think of that would work w/ Huck as a nn?
3 –*Are there any other names similar in style that you could suggest?
Thanks so much!
March 30th, 2013 07:45 PM #3
haha, I think of Huck from Scandal, and, of course, Huckleberry Finn. I think of an adventurous little boy with convictions, maybe a little bit of a loner. Sort of a combination of the two Hucks, haha.
Henry "Huck"
Hawthorne "Huck"
Huxley "Huck"
Henry's my favorite in general, but for the nn Huck, I like Huxley best.
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March 30th, 2013 07:54 PM #5
Huck would definitely be Southern. He'd be the kind of boy to spend all day playing in the woods with his dog and toy shotgun. I can't think of any intuitive long forms other than Huckleberry; honestly I think you could use Huck as a nickname the same way you'd use Buddy or Buster.
What about Henry nn Huck?
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March 30th, 2013 10:40 PM #9
I don't really have anything productive to say except that I met a baby Huckleberry, nn Huck, about two years ago. I was incredibly skeptical (and excited!) at first, but I was totally won over by the end of our meeting. Huck seemed so natural on that infant. That said, I can't say I would give it as a stand alone first and one would definitely need some gall to pull of Huckleberry! I do like the suggestion of Henry.


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Long-time readers know that I am not a gender-difference denialist; I fully accept that there are many ways in which men and women tend to be totally different, and believe it's foolish and counterproductive to pretend otherwise. But there are other differences between the sexes which have little (if anything) to do with biology and everything to do with societal expectations. Take car repairs, for example; though many women don't care for getting dirty, there is no earthly reason for a woman not to learn basic techniques that could get her out of a jam or save her money (especially if there's no man handy to do them). My father would not let me drive alone until I showed him I could change a tire, and though I absolutely hate doing it and generally prefer the "stand on the side of the highway and look frustrated until a man stops and changes it for me" method (which for me never takes more than five minutes to work, at least in the daytime on a busy highway), I think it's still a good thing that I know how to do it in a pinch…even if I do (as per Daddy's lesson) stop as soon as I can thereafter and ask the first convenient man to make sure the lugs are tight enough. But see, that's not really helplessness; that's just recognizing that I simply don't have the upper-body strength necessary to tighten those babies as tight as they probably should be. And for all his bad qualities, I do have to give Jack credit for one thing: he insisted I learn how to perform every simple car repair he could teach me, from changing spark plugs to replacing a brake master cylinder. Since Grace's dad didn't believe in letting her be ignorant of cars, either, I haven't had to do any of those repairs myself in over twenty years; however, it's still nice to know what is involved in them.
But even if a woman is as lucky as I was, and has boyfriends and family members who don't intentionally keep her as helpless as possible, she still has to endure endless societal pressure (not just from men but from women and institutions) telling her not to take risks, not to do anything that might scare her and get her in trouble, not to explore her existence without the help of a man (or worse, of Big Brother). And though early feminists seemed to be making some progress against that, their successors have embraced it and are its most vociferous proponents. "Feminists" demand that young women be protected not only from physical harm, but even from ideas or pictures that might upset their delicate sensibilities, rattle their chains or force them to question their preconceptions for five minutes. And they march arm-in-arm with religious conservatives and police-state functionaries to restrict women's sexual choices and send armed thugs to hunt, entrap, rape, brutalize and cage them in order to "send a message" that utilizing one's sexuality to win economic independence is too dangerous an activity for women. Their propaganda reveals their incredibly low opinion of women's competence; sex workers are said to be unable to place their own ads online, and touring is reframed as a criminal "circuit" in which helpless, ovine women are passively trucked around by evil "pimps". The idea that the female brain might actually be capable of booking hotels and writing ad copy is completely alien to the narrative.
Maggie McNeill, "Boy Juice", The Honest Courtesan, 2015-01-08.
March 11, 2016
QotD: Learned helplessness
February 3, 2016
Brace yourself for the predictable bullshit about "trafficked" prostitutes at the Super Bowl
In Reason, J.D. Tuccille explains why the usual media coverage of underage/trafficked/sex slave prostitutes being shipped in to cater to the depraved masses at the Super Bowl are so much hysterical nonsense:
When the Carolina Panthers and the Denver Broncos face off in San Francisco, experts warn us to expect Cam Newton and Peyton Manning to face burial under a tidal wave of human flesh — not the opposing team's defensive line, as you might expect, but a writhing mass of sex slaves inundating the Super Bowl and the Bay Area.
Or so government officials and moral panic types would have it.
"Super Bowl host cities typically see a jump not just in tourists, but also in some crimes, including human trafficking and prostitution," San Francisco's KGO warned earlier this month on Human Trafficking Awareness Day, an annual event held every January 11.
"The good news is that we are continuing our efforts to fight human trafficking," San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón said the same day. "The bad news is that the problem continues to increase."
Gascón made his comments at a press conference deliberately tied to the big game, in anticipation of a wave of "trafficked" sex workers descending on the area.
That term – not "prostitution," but "trafficking" — is a deliberate choice, selected to confuse people accustomed to the plain language established over the long history of the buying and selling of sexual services. The reason why is obvious. While the trade in sex was once frowned upon in itself, that's no longer necessarily the case. A YouGov poll published this past September found Americans almost evenly divided, with 44 percent favoring legalization of prostitution, and 46 percent opposed. That's up from 38 percent support for legalization in 2012. Amnesty International is among the organizations seeking to recognize people's right to, in the organization's words, "the full decriminalization of all aspects of consensual sex work."
Opponents of commercial sex find themselves on the wrong side of shifting public opinion, so they pull a little rhetorical sleight of hand to get around that inconvenient word "consensual." The implication of the "trafficking" terminology is that prostitutes are slaves — and they're being hustled off to a major sporting event near you.
"Coercion is much rarer than 'trafficking' fetishists pretend it is," insists Reason contributor and former call girl Maggie McNeill. "The term 'trafficking' is used to describe many different things along a broad spectrum running from absolutely coercive to absolutely not coercive, yet all of them are shoehorned into a lurid, melodramatic and highly-stereotyped narrative."
December 5, 2015
Los Angeles comes up with a new way to use technology to make life worse
Nick Selby on a new Los Angeles initiative to come up with the worst possible use of technology:
… the monumentally over-reaching idea posed by Nury Martinez, a 6th district Los Angeles city councilwoman, to access a database of license plates captured in certain places around the city, translate these license plates to obtain the name and address of each owner, and send to that owner a letter explaining that the vehicle was seen in, "an area known for prostitution."
Councilwoman Martinez feels that prostitution is not a "victimless" crime, and that by discouraging johns, the incidence of the crime can be reduced. Martinez told CBS Los Angeles, "If you aren't soliciting, you have no reason to worry about finding one of these letters in your mailbox. But if you are, these letters will discourage you from returning. Soliciting for sex in our neighborhoods is not OK."
The Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to ask the office of the City Attorney for their help implementing the plan.
Have Ms. Martinez and the Los Angeles City Council taken leave of their senses? This scheme makes, literally, a state issue out of legal travel to arbitrary places deemed by some — but not by a court, and without due process — to be "related" to crime in general, not to any specific crime.
There isn't "potential" for abuse here, this is a legislated abuse of technology that is already controversial when it's used by police for the purpose of seeking stolen vehicles, tracking down fugitives and solving specific crimes.
September 24, 2015
QotD: Sex trafficking
I am often asked if, by calling "sex trafficking" a myth, I'm saying that there is no such thing as coercion in sex work. The answer, of course, is "not at all"; what I'm saying is 1) that coercion is much rarer than "trafficking" fetishists pretend it is; 2) that the term "trafficking" is used to describe many different things along a broad spectrum running from absolutely coercive to absolutely not coercive, yet all of them are shoehorned into a lurid, melodramatic and highly-stereotyped narrative; and 3) that even situations of genuine coercion rarely bear much resemblance to the familiar masturbatory fantasy of an "innocent" middle-class girl in her early teens abducted by "pimps" from a shopping mall, bus stop or internet chat room.
Maggie McNeill, "The Face of Trafficking", The Honest Courtesan, 2014-10-10.
July 7, 2015
QotD: Laws as blunt instruments
On June 25th, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation seized the venerable San Francisco escort website, MyRedbook, under the usual vague and evidence-free charges the US government always uses when it wants to destroy peaceful businesses who have hurt no one. This time […] the pretenses are "money laundering" and "racketeering", but others cases include "conspiracy", "mail fraud" and "tax evasion". You may believe that these are actual crimes, but the truth is they aren't (except on paper); they're simply blunt instruments defined so vaguely that any competent prosecutor can jam nearly any business into one or more of them. Here's how it works: "racketeering" can mean criminals operating a legitimate business, like when a mobster owns a restaurant. So a "racketeering" charge usually means "we think you committed crimes but can't prove them, so we're just going to assume you're a criminal and prosecute you for owning a regular business." Any money you've deposited is then called "money laundering" on the grounds that you deposited "criminal proceeds" from your imaginary crimes into your legitimate account; "tax evasion" is based on the pretense that you have failed to pay taxes on imaginary income they can't prove you actually made; "conspiracy" means merely talking about committing the imaginary crimes, and so on. And if you believe that the targeted business is protected by the presumption of innocence, think again.
Maggie McNeill, "Bread and Circuses", The Honest Courtesan, 2014-07-11.
April 20, 2015
Everything is "interstate commerce"
Last month, Elizabeth Nolan Brown reported on another case where the "interstate commerce" excuse is used to justify federal charges for a purely intra-state activity:
Until 2010, Oregon entrepreneur Lawrence George Owen, 73, owned one restaurant, eight strip clubs, and two adult-video stores in the Portland area. At these businesses, Owen installed ATM machines in case customers needed to take out cash. With that cash, customers could do an assortment of things — tip dancers, buy food and drinks, leave the establishment and go grocery shopping. And sometimes, customers used the cash to privately pay some strippers for sex.
Now Owen faces federal charges for "conspiring to use interstate commerce" in promotion of prostitution.
The charges are the results of a nine year joint-effort by Portland's vice squad and the FBI. Between 2006 and 2009, undercover Portland police officers arranged for 18 acts of prostitution with dancers at three of the clubs. After that federal agents took over, searching Owen's businesses and the homes of his alleged co-conspirators and seizing $843,000 in cash.
Owen, it should be noted, was living in Mexico most of this time. He is currently on a U.S. Marshall's hold in a Portland jail, after being detained by federal agents in late February.
You might be wondering how Owen faces federal charges if all of the alleged prostitution-promoting took place in Portland. Promoting prostitution is only a federal crime under certain circumstances, such as when the perpetrator transports or coerces an individual across state lines for prostitution purposes. Using mail, telephone calls, or other "facilities of interstate commerce" in service of prostitution will also do the trick. But the FBI has no evidence that Owen enticed or transported strip-club employees from outside Oregon, nor that he used mail or telephone calls to help facilitate their prostitution efforts.
When the FBI wants to make a case against someone, however, they'll find a way. In this case, the FBI decided that ATM machines count as "facilities of interstate commerce."
April 5, 2015
1 in 20 British students have earned money through sex work
A rather surprising result from a new study by Swansea University:
Nearly five percent of U.K. students have engaged in some form of sex work, according to new research that contradicts conventional wisdom about the sex industry in several significant ways. For starters, more male than female students participated in sex work. And while money was one motivating factor, students also cited flexible scheduling and personal enjoyment or curiosity among their main reasons for getting involved.
The research was part of the Student Sex Work Project, a 3-year initiative led by Swansea University. Researchers surveyed more than 10,000 students from England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, whittling the final data sample down to 6,673. Students answered questions about their attitudes toward sex work — broadly defined as "the exchange of sexual services, performances, or products for material compensation" — and any personal experiences with it.
Among the key findings: 4.8 percent of student respondents had done some sort of sex work, including 5 percent of male students surveyed and 3.4 percent of female students. [While the report mentions transgender student sex workers, it does not include any specific numbers.] Nearly nearly 22 percent of respondents had considered doing sex work.
Of the male students surveyed, 2.4 percent had engaged in what researchers call "direct sex work," aka prostitution, as had 1.3 percent of female students. Three and a half percent of male respondents and 2.7 percent of females had done "indirect sex work," which includes things such as stripping, porn acting, nude modeling, webcam or phone sex services, and nude housecleaning. A combined 1 percent of students surveyed were involved in sex work in an auxiliary manner, such as working as a receptionist or a driver for an escort company.
February 28, 2015
Lady Hamilton
Maggie McNeill recounts the life of Horatio Nelson's beloved Emma, Lady Hamilton:
Unfortunately, Greville spent far beyond his means, and by 1783 he needed a new source of funds; he decided to acquire them by marrying the young heiress Henrietta Middleton, but since it was common knowledge that Emma was his lover he had to be rid of her. He therefore convinced his uncle, Sir William Hamilton, to accept her as his mistress. Hamilton was an art collector, and no doubt viewed the now-famous beauty as a valuable find; he also wanted to facilitate his nephew's marriage so as to eliminate his frequent requests for money. The deal was therefore made without Emma's input or knowledge, and she was shipped off to Naples (where Hamilton was the British envoy) under the guise of a six-month holiday while Greville was supposedly away on business. She was, in other words, "sex trafficked", sent from one owner to another in a different country.
But though Emma was furious upon discovering what was really expected of her, she eventually adapted to her situation. Hamilton's home was beautiful and his art collection renowned, and he was a widower who, far from viewing her as an embarrassment, instead encouraged her modeling, singing and other performance. The form for which she became known was called "attitudes"; this consisted of an act in which she would wear a simple gown dressed up by scarves and shawls which helped her to evoke images from history and classical mythology by posing. The audience was then supposed to guess who she was portraying. Though this may sound a bit silly to modern ears, the effect was apparently very striking; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote, "The performance is like nothing you have ever seen before. With a few scarves and shawls she expressed a variety of wonderful transformations. One pose after another without a break". Within a few years of her first performance in the spring of 1787, a number of other actresses took up the art; over the years Emma herself evolved from mere posing into acting out short pantomimes, most famously portraying Medea.
Sir William eventually married Emma on September 6th, 1791; he was sixty and she twenty-six. The match gave her the title by which she was forever known afterward, though friends still called her "Emma". It also gave her the duties of a diplomat's wife, among them entertaining Horatio Nelson (then a mere post captain) when he came in 1793 to request reinforcements from the King of Naples. By the time he returned in 1798 he had lost an arm, an eye, most of his teeth and the majority of his health, but had won both the Battle of the Nile and worldwide fame. Sir William invited the great man to recuperate in their home, nursed by his young wife, and it was at this time that the two began their affair.
But while one might think this a betrayal of hospitality, the truth is that Sir William definitely knew about and seems to have even encouraged the affair; he and Nelson respected and admired one another, and Emma and Nelson had similar feelings for one another. Indeed, the relationship soon developed into a ménage a trois; after the Neopolitan Revolution of 1799 the ailing Hamilton was allowed to retire and return to England, accompanied by Nelson, who openly moved in with the Hamiltons despite having a home (and wife) of his own. In fact, the arrangement became such a huge scandal that the Admiralty ordered Nelson back to sea to keep him away from Emma. The public, however, was fascinated and the Hamiltons seemed completely unconcerned with what anyone said; when Emma gave birth to a daughter on January 31st, 1801 she named her "Horatia", flagrantly advertising her paternity.
January 12, 2015
The oldest game … as a video game
Elizabeth Nolan Brown on an interesting video game in development:
First, choose your city: Toronto, Vancouver, or Montréal. Next, decide whether avatar Andrea (Andréa, if you chose Montreal) will work on the streets, in a massage parlor, or as an escort. Then try to get screwed literally without being figuratively fucked by the cops—an ultimately no-win situation when it comes to The Oldest Game. Developed by a team of Canadian academics, the project is meant to highlight how the country's new prostitution law, C-36, makes life more difficult and dangerous for Canadian sex workers.
The law, which took effect in December 2014, "continues to criminalize various aspects of sex work, often removing safeguards and strategies that place sex workers in dangerous situation, placing at risk the very vulnerable people the bill ostensibly exists to protect," note the game's creators.
Through various encounters with clients, colleagues and law enforcement in three difference Canadian cities, players will experience how the legislation changes the way sex workers live and work, and play through the additional challenges sex workers will face when trying to remain safe.
Sandra Gabriele, a Concordia communications professor and one of the project's co-leads, is interested in using games as a form of journalism.
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On December 6th 2014 (the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women in Canada), Bill C-36 officially came into force. Replacing Canada's previous laws on sex work, which were struck down as unconstitutional on On December 20th, 2013, the new bill have drawn a great deal of criticism for placing sex workers at even greater risk than they faced under the old legislation. The Oldest Game, a newsgame about sex work developed at Concordia University in Montreal QC, demonstrates how Bill C-36 will impact the lives of sex workers in Canada. Developed by Lisa Lynch, Sandra Gabriele, Amanda Feder, Martin Desrosiers, Stephanie Goddard, Ben Spencer, Esther Splett and Natalie Zina Walschots. Follow is on Twitter at @The OldestGame and visit our website, http://www.theoldestgame.com !
January 7, 2015
QotD: It's all about the men
Probably the most common stereotype of anti-sex worker feminists is that they're all misandrists, and on the surface that certainly seems true. But a closer examination of the issue reveals a deeper motivation which more closely resembles an obsessive concern with men at the expense of women. Feminists are willing to deny models income in order to deny lads' mags to men, and would rather see women in the porn industry unemployed rather than know that men can watch porn videos. "Sex trafficking" fetishists are willing to undermine the entire edifice of civil liberties for both sexes in order to stop men from having access to commercial sex. Anti-sex worker screeds go on and on about "ending men's demand for sex", or "teaching men they aren't entitled to sex", or "look at the awful things men say about 'prostituted women'!" Men this, men that, men the other thing; men, men, Men, MEN, MEN! No matter how vociferously prohibitionists insist that their motive is women's protection or "empowerment", sex work prohibition has absolutely nothing to do with women: it's all about the men.
Nearly every Western society has a long tradition of viewing sex as something "dirty" and "demeaning"; the idea of punishment is inextricably bound up with the concept of "correction", so buried in the misandrist rhetoric spouted by prohibitionists is the notion that if Big Nanny just spanks men hard enough and often enough, they won't have those dirty thoughts any more. The underlying pretext of punishing men for male sexuality, and restricting them from enjoying same, is not to hurt them but rather to "help" them by making them more like (asexual, idealized) women. To be sure, "fallen" women are to be "helped" as well wherever possible, but when it happens it's merely a happy byproduct of the campaign to "improve" men; those women who refuse to be "saved" and to dutifully recite the feminist catechism thereafter will be thrown under the bus without the slightest hesitation.
Maggie McNeill, "All About the Men", The Honest Courtesan, 2014-05-09.
December 29, 2014
Western states and the female franchise
An interesting story from Maggie McNeill, discussing the career of Lou Graham, Seattle's most famous madam:
As Thaddeus Russell explains in A Renegade History of the United States, the reason so many western states gave women the right to vote long before the eastern ones (or the country in general) had absolutely nothing to do with high-minded egalitarianism and everything to do with pragmatism and arse-kissing. You see, frontier populations are always disproportionately male because they tend to lack the sort of amenities "good" women tend to want. Accordingly, frontier towns fill up with lonely young men desperate for female company and usually possessed of money drawn from whatever industry the town is built on (whether that be mining, trapping, trade or whatever). Naturally, whores arrive to capitalize on this and so the minority of frontier populations which are female are usually made up largely of working girls. These ladies soon amass a disproportionate share of the wealth, and madams tend to become fabulously wealthy; in order to win their favor (the better to secure donations and investment in civic projects), city fathers all over the western US granted them suffrage. Seattle did this on November 23rd, 1883 and almost immediately regretted it; by the time the city had actually granted suffrage, the whores had been outnumbered by recently-arrived "good" women, who immediately repaid the "bad" sisters who had won the vote for them by electing "progressive" prohibitionists to enact new laws (and vigorously enforce old ones) restricting saloons, brothels, gambling and other "vices". The result, naturally, was a dramatic loss of tax and license revenue, and by the time women's suffrage was revoked by judicial fiat in 1887-88 the city's finances were in shambles.
Talk about your unintended consequences!
December 9, 2014
The intra-feminist arguments over sex work and video game portrayals of it
Noah Berlatsky talks about feminist videographer Anita Sarkeesian's criticism of the portrayal of sex workers in video games and how that contributes to negative views toward all women and the sex workers who take issue with Sarkeesian's presentation:
In her series of controversial videos critiquing sexism in video games, Anita Sarkeesian often focuses on the way games treat sex workers. She points to games like Hitman: Absolution, in which characters can dump the dead body of a stripper over a railing as a way to distract police; or Saints Row, in which characters are encouraged to steal prostitutes from one pimp and deliver them to another; or Grand Theft Auto, where having sex with a sex worker increases health much like quaffing an energy drink. Sarkeesian concludes that sex workers in many video games are viewed as commodities and objects, rather than as people — and that they are often targeted for violence. In Red Dead Redemption, for example, the player is rewarded with an achievement for kidnapping a sex worker and murdering her.
Violence against sex workers is a serious problem, both nationally and internationally [PDF], and Sarkeesian makes a good case that the games she discusses treat that violence as fun, enjoyable, or even laudable. But Sarkeesian's videos have not garnered much praise from those most directly affected by these tropes. On the contrary, many sex workers have argued that Sarkeesian's videos contribute to the objectification and stigma that she claims she is trying to reduce.
Much of the criticism of Sarkeesian has centered around her terminology. She doesn't call sex workers "sex workers." Instead she refers to them throughout her video series as "prostituted women." That's a term often used by writers who see all sex work as automatically exploitative or harmful to women, and by those who want to criminalize sex work. Sex workers have repeatedly tried to ask Sarkeesian on social media to reconsider her language, but she hasn't responded, and has continued to use the term. For example, in this recent tweet she says that fans of Grand Theft Auto have been harassing her by sending her images of "gameplay of the use & murder of prostitutes." The fact that gamers are using images of sex workers to harass Sarkeesian seems like it fits into her analysis—violence against sex workers is deployed in a misogynist way, in order to harass and intimidate a woman. But at the same time, Sarkeesian, by referring to the "use" of sex workers, seems to buy into the same logic, treating sex workers as things or utilities, rather than as human beings. (Sarkeesian did not respond to a request to comment for this article.)
This seeming contradiction is tied to longstanding tensions between some strands of feminist cultural criticism and sex workers. Sarkeesian's criticism of video games is in a tradition of feminist analysis that goes back to the 1980s, when theorists like Andrea Dworkin argued that "Pornography is used in rape — to plan it, to execute it, to choreograph it, to engender the excitement to commit the act." Dworkin saw sexualized images of women as directly implicated in misogyny and violence against women — which could mean that women taking part in pornography, or in sexualized imagery, were seen as themselves culpable or morally flawed. Thus anti-porn feminists like Julie Burchill declared that, "When the sex war is won prostitutes should be shot as collaborators for their terrible betrayal of all women." Anti-porn feminists and video games here come together in celebrating violent attacks on sex workers.
November 28, 2014
QotD: Sex on the western front, 1914-1918
… while the soldiers on other fronts had to make do with the usual assortment of camp followers, local girls and any brothels which survived the operations that brought the lines to that spot, both sides on the Western Front were able to avail themselves of the services of established brothels in the towns near the front on each respective side. Well, the officers could, at least; proper brothels which had existed before the war generally displayed blue lamps, signifying that they were forbidden to enlisted men by military regulations. Lower ranks had to content themselves with makeshift red-lamp facilities, sometimes the new French Bordels Mobiles de Campagne, but more often just commandeered pubs or other buildings whose facilities might consist of little more than, as one soldier reported, "a stretcher, with a very thin sheet and blanket."
In 1914, Western civilization had not yet sunk into the modern madness of pretending that healthy young men can simply "just say no" to sex without ill effect (or that they should); with rare exception, absolutely nobody in military leadership imagined that they could really stop men from visiting brothels by ordering them not to. Of course, the British tried to anyway; unlike the Germans (who issued the troops both condoms and disinfectant) and the French (who issued entire brothels), British military officials issued only the epigrammatic advice from Lord Kitchener while quietly allowing the troops to visit French brothels under the excuse that they didn't want to offend their allies and hosts. Since blue lamp facilities were established houses staffed by experienced professionals with a supply of condoms, they had no problem with sexually transmitted disease. The same, however, could not be said for the red lamps, and since the troops were issued neither prophylactics nor proper information, STIs ran rampant. Over 400,000 cases were recorded among British or Commonwealth troops during the course of the war, 150,000 of them on the Western Front alone; altogether roughly 5% of the men were infected at least once, three and a half times the infection rate among French troops and fully seven times the German rate.
By 1915 nurse Ettie Rout persuaded the New Zealand authorities to begin issuing prophylactic kits to their troops, and Canada soon followed suit; Britain's response was to garnish the pay of soldiers who contracted STIs and treat them in separate, second-rate hospital facilities in order to punish and shame them. Considering that an English Tommy's pay was a scant one-fifth that of his counterparts from Canada and Australia (sixpence a day vs. two and a half shillings), it's hardly surprising that infected troops preferred to hide their infections and/or treat them with ineffective patent medicines or folk remedies.
Maggie McNeill, "Red Lamp", The Honest Courtesan, 2014-11-11.
October 16, 2014
Italian recession officially ends, thanks to drugs and prostitution
As Kelly McParland put it, it's "another reason to legalize everything nasty":
Italy learnt it was no longer in a recession on Wednesday thanks to a change in data calculations across the European Union which includes illegal economic activities such as prostitution and drugs in the GDP measure.
Adding illegal revenue from hookers, narcotics and black market cigarettes and alcohol to the eurozone's third-biggest economy boosted gross domestic product figures.
GDP rose slightly from a 0.1 percent decline for the first quarter to a flat reading, the national institute of statistics said.
Although ISTAT confirmed a 0.2 percent decline for the second quarter, the revision of the first quarter data meant Italy had escaped its third recession in the last six years.
The economy must contract for two consecutive quarters, from output in the previous quarter, for a country to be technically in recession.
It's merely a change in the statistical measurement, not an actual increase in Italian economic activity. And, given that illegal revenue pretty much by definition isn't (and can't be) accurately tracked, it's only an estimated value anyway.
July 15, 2014
Reason.tv – Maggie McNeill on Why We Should Decriminalize Prostitution
Published on 14 Jul 2014
"There is a very common form of rhetoric that's used against us … that sex work isn't work. That it's a dodge. That it's a scam. That it's a form of exploitation," says Maggie McNeill, a former sex worker turned activist who blogs at The Honest Courtesan.
"We still pretend that there's a magical mumbo jumbo taboo energy about sex that makes it different from all other human activities."
McNeill sat down with Reason TV's Thaddeus Russell for a wide-ranging interview where she responds to the feminist critique of sex work, explains why research on trafficking may not be reliable, and says why prostitution should be decriminalized.
"The problem is that there are already laws for these things," states McNeill. "We have a name for sex being inflicted on a woman against her will. We call it rape. We have a name for taking someone and holding them prisoner somewhere. We call that abduction. … Why do we need [prostitution] to be laid on top of all these other things that already are crimes?"


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Decorating for Halloween doesn't have to be hard. In fact, it should be as easy as possible just to make more time for finding the perfect costume and unwrapping all of that candy. In the spooky spirit of the holiday, here are six easy Halloween decorating ideas to try this October:
Feeling candy corny
Bunting is always an easy way to decorate. You could do black or orange bunting, or if you are feeling extra festive, try making some candy corn style bunting. Just take white, yellow, and orange construction paper or card stock, cut into triangles, trim, glue together, and tape along a piece of string.
Pillow talk
Make yourself a hand painted Halloween accent pillow. All you need is a white pillow insert and some fabric paint or even a black sharpie will do. Trace your design lightly in pencil first so you can get it just right. Then color it in! Think of other things you could paint besides a spiderweb … like a skull and crossbones, some bats, or the word "BOO."
Bats all around
Grab some black construction paper or card stock and cut out some bats. Tape them up all over your house or hang them from your ceiling or light fixtures with string. The bats in this photo are flying out from behind a curtain!
Batty entrance
Use some of those bat cut-outs to decorate a wreath. Get a straw wreath from from a crafting supplies store and use hot glue to stick on a few bats. Hang on your front door!
Use that noggin
Create a spooky candle holder with a styrofoam skull from a crafting supplies store. Just take a knife and carve a small hole in the top of the skull and add a black candle. A couple of these would be a perfect addition to a table at your Halloween party. It will look extra spooky when the wax starts running down the candle and onto the skull. (As with every burning candle, do not leave this unattended!)
Who needs more orange?
Orange. Orange. Orange. Halloween doesn't have to be all about orange. Spray paint your pumpkins to match any room in your home. You can find some really great metallic or glitter spray paints at crafting supply or home improvement stores. Use painter's tape to cover up the stem before you spray!
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The Echo Arena in Liverpool and the Arthur Ashe Stadium at the US Open are an ocean apart in more than one respect, but Andy Murray's thoughts are already turning to Britain's Davis Cup tie against Poland on Merseyside later this month.
Not long after his first-round victory over Ernests Gulbis here in the main arena in the small hours of yesterday morning, the 22-year-old Scot was named in a provisional six-man squad for a tie vital to Britain's Davis Cup future. John Lloyd's team must win to avoid relegation to Group Two of the Europe Africa Zone, which includes the likes of Georgia, Lithuania and Monaco. Britain last played at that level 13 years ago.
Injuries and difficult scheduling have seen Murray miss two of Britain's last three matches. This tie starts on 18 September, only five days after the US Open final, but Murray insisted: "I love playing Davis Cup. I really, really enjoy it. It comes at tricky times of the year, but while I'm fit and healthy I will play as much as I can. If I feel I'll risk myself, I won't play, but I'm planning on playing."
The British squad will eventually be reduced to four players, with the main question being the identity of the second singles player alongside Murray, who is set to partner Ross Hutchins in the doubles. Hutchins, who with his partner, Stephen Huss, suffered a disappointing first-round defeat here to Olivier Rochus and Guillermo Garcia-Lopez, is the world No 37 in doubles.
Ken Skupski, another doubles specialist, is in the provisional squad primarily as a practice partner, with James Ward (world No 203), Josh Goodall (No 249) and 19-year-old Dan Evans (No 309) competing for the remaining singles spot.
"I want Dan Evans to play the second singles," Murray said. "We need to start looking to the future. He's a good player and talented. I don't know him that well, but he needs to grow up mentally, which I needed to do at that age as well. Davis Cup is the perfect way of doing that. You will see after one or two matches whether he likes that atmosphere or not and I think he will. I can't wait to play with him and get used to the future and get a team spirit."
Lloyd is understandably delighted to have Murray on board. "This is a big match for us," he said. "Right from when the draw was made he said that he was going to play."
For the moment Murray's focus will be on his second-round match here tomorrow against Chile's Paul Capdeville. Even though other results have opened up the draw for Murray – Ivo Karlovic and Stanislas Wawrinka, who were potential third- and fourth-round opponents respectively, are both out – the world No 2 knows the danger of getting ahead of himself. Murray trained with 26-year-old Capdeville, the world No 87, at the Sanchez-Casal academy in Barcelona and says he is a player who "does everything well".
Much the same could have been said of Murray during his 7-5, 6-3, 7-5 victory over Gulbis. He generally played within himself, knowing that the big-hitting Latvian would make plenty of mistakes, although Murray himself suffered occasional lapses of concentration, such as dropping his serve to love when leading 4-2 in the second set.
Murray also had to cope with the courtside presence of Brad Gilbert, his former coach, who is commentating for television and interviewed his former charge after the match.
The Scot was later asked about Gilbert's comment that, two years ago, he would have been screaming at his coach if he had dropped his serve to love. When did Murray's attitude change? "Soon after I stopped working with Brad," Murray said. "I didn't enjoy travelling with one coach. I found it stressful. There was a lot of bickering and it carried on to the court. When I started with Brad, it was fine but after a while, I felt quite tired. I wasn't enjoying it. I enjoy working with the guys I'm with now and there's no point getting angry."
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So I listened to an interview with Christopher Nolan's faithful DP Wally Pfister, and he started talking about how The Dark Knight Rises will be amazing and cap off a perfect trilogy, and I couldn't help but start geeking out. Here we are, a year and a half away from its release, and I'm already getting pumped. I'm was not even a huge Batman fan, but Batman Begins surprised the hell out of me when I saw it, and it was that film alone that got me excited for The Dark Knight. Then that film came out and, again, I was blown away. I'm not a super hero fan. What I know about super heroes comes from the film adaptations that have been made. I am a big film geek, so it's kind of hard not to absorb at least some of the mythos of Spiderman, Iron Man, and Superman when the majority of the blockbusters nowadays are about them. However, I would consider myself a casual Batman fan, but that is because of Nolan's films. They are so good that they genuinely got me interested in their inspiration. Somehow Nolan's Batman films strike a chord with me that no other super hero series has.
All the latest TDKR news has gotten me to think about some of my favorite moments in the last two films. So I've decided to count down my top 10 moments in the Nolan Batman films.
#10 Two-face is Born- The Dark Knight
Harvey has just experienced the worst night of his life. Having finally woken up, he realizes that half his face is destroyed. He sees the two headed coin he gave Rachel, which at first makes him think she made it. But then he turns it around and sees the charred side, confirming her death. He proceeds to rip the cloth off his face in agony. This scene is amazing because it encapsulates everything Harvey feels in one brief moment. And the score is just this piercing, ear-splitting sound that gets louder and louder. No dialogue, just Aaron Eckhart acting his heart out.
#9 Joker's Pencil Trick- The Dark Knight
Come on, you knew this was going to be here. The pencil trick was one of those "holy ****" moments that everyone talked about. As the mob discusses how to deal with Batman and Gordon's plan to seize their money, the Joker interrupts with his mocking laughter. When asked why they shouldn't just kill him now (he did steal from them), Joker decides to entertain them with a magic trick. He sticks a pencil into the table and says he'll make it disappear.
And then he smashes a guy's head into the pencil, killing him instantly…
Funny and insane at the same time, this was the moment in the film that cemented just how unpredictable this Joker was going to be. I remember everyone in the theater gasping, then laughing, precisely because of how unexpected it was. Best of all, it is perfectly Joker.
#8 Bruce Purges His Fear- Batman Begins
Bruce gets the idea to become that what he fears when he sees a bat flying around in Wayne Manor. He proceeds to climb down into the caverns underneath the mansion. He suddenly gets surrounded by hundreds of bats. Bruce closes his eyes and remains calm. This scene is fantastic because of what it represents: the beginning of Batman. The music also really pumps you up. When that thunderous score kicks in and the bats pour out, I gets geek chills. Just an all around well done scene.
#7 Joker Relishes the Chaos- The Dark Knight
The Joker has unleashed chaos into the streets of Gotham. Having just escaped capture, and knowing the pain he has inflicted, he sticks his head out of the police car and lets the night wind blow in his face. This scene is great because it shows the Joker basking in the chaos. It is a moment of pure ecstasy. The moment may be brief, but it perfectly captures the nature of the Joker.
#6 "I Never Said Thank You."- Batman Begins
Batman and now Lieutenant Gordon meet in front of the Batsignal for the first time. They discuss how Batman has inspired hope for a better future for Gotham. However, Gordon questions the possibility that Batman's presence may cause "escalation" in the fight against crime. As Batman is about to leave, Gordon says that he never said thank you, to which Batman responds, "And you'll never have too." Cue epic exit. I love this scene because it cements the relationship between Batman and Gordon. Before Batman, Gordon was miserable being helpless among all the corruption. Batman was the inspiration he needed to show that there are still good people like himself in this world, willing to fight against crime. I also like it because it perfectly sets up what is to come in The Dark Knight, which got everyone pumped. It really is a cheer worthy scene.
#5 Bruce's Training- Batman Begins
In this scene, Ra's Al Ghul trains Bruce in both the physical and mental capabilities needed to fight crime. Bruce is forced to confront the idea that it was his father's fault his parents are dead, due to his inability to act. All the training in the world doesn't matter if you don't have "the will to act," and it is through Ra's training that Bruce is able to channel his anger and learn self-control. I just love everything about this scene. The editing, the dialogue, the acting, and especially the music are all perfect. Most importantly, it strikes all the right emotional chords. A personal favorite moment of mine.
#4 The Joker Corrupts Harvey Dent- The Dark Knight
The Joker has announced that he will blow a hospital up if Coleman Reese isn't killed in an hour. He uses this opportunity to confront Harvey Dent and convince him to embrace chaos and make things fair. Honestly, I love this scene because of the dialogue. The Joker's "agent of chaos" speech is one of my favorites of any film. Part of what makes it so good is that much of what he points out is startlingly true. Oh, and he's dressed like a nurse. That's just awesome. The scene could have just ended there and it would have been satisfying, but then it ends with one of the best explosions in cinema history. That is why Nolan's Batman films are so epic, they stay story oriented without sacrificing the spectacle.
#3 Batman/Joker Interrogation- The Dark Knight
Nolan has said this is his personal favorite scene in the film, and it's not hard to see why. The first time Batman is able to dissect his new foe up close; it begins as an almost casual conversation between the two. However, it quickly dissolves into an "enhanced interrogation session" as Batman proceeds to beat the information out of him. But it's obvious that the Joker has the upper hand. The scene demonstrates how the Joker can go from hilarious in one second ("No, you complete me.") to downright chilling the next (laughing as Batman beats him up). It's also significant because it is the first time Bruce completely loses the control he fought to obtain in Batman Begins. Most importantly, it captures the essence of the Batman/Joker relationship. Destined to be a classic scene.
#2 Batman Takes the Fall- The Dark Knight
Harvey is dead. The Joker has won, the white knight has fallen. Harvey represented the hope for a better future for Gotham City. What hope does Gotham have if their best and brightest can succumb to madness? The news of his crimes will destroy this hope. So Batman does the unthinkable. He decides he will take the punishment for Harvey's crimes in order to preserve what he represented. Gordon is forced to make the hard decision of calling for his arrest. As the cops chase him down, Batman rides off, battered and broken.
Some people have a problem with Batman's decision to take the fall. They say it's unnecessary, as he could have just pinned Harvey's crimes on the Joker. But that isn't the point. Batman takes the fall because he can. His anonymity allows him to be more than just a hero fighting crime. If Gotham needs him to be the scapegoat, he will. That's the sacrifice he can make. And that is why this scene is so damn good. And the score! My god, the score. What a great ending to a great movie. But what moment could possibly be better than this? Well…
#1 Birth of Batman- Batman Begins
Doesn't need an explanation, just watch.
That is a perfect Batman moment. The way the heroic, hopeful music swells up as the camera pans over Batman watching over Gotham City is just... amazing. I imagine every Batman fan must have peed their pants in excitement seeing this scene. Simple and elegant, this one moment captures Batman like no other.
There you go, my personal favorite moments from Christopher Nolan's Batman films. I can't wait to see what Nolan and co. have in store for us in The Dark Knight Rises. The fear of film #3 sucking is noticeably absent, at least for me, and that is precisely because Nolan is one of a few filmmakers who understands that story comes first. I know he will deliver a satisfying conclusion. Bring it on.
Oh, and anyone who says Batman should die at the end...no...just...no.


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I had to laugh reading the one reader review for The Maytrees at BN.com shortly after the book published last year, which fumes - "This book is HORRIBLE. I dont (sic) know what type of audience she was writing to but I was
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The, presumably, young woman is right, The Maytrees is not for her nor for anyone else who is young enough to be always looking forward and never looking back, who has never spent moments lost in bitter-sweet memories of times past or wondered how life might have turned out if a different path had been taken; nor is it for someone who has never stopped to wonder what the point of life is in the first place.
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