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Africa's electoral history presents a damning trajectory of electoral flaws that seem to be breeding and inseminating variegated forms of insecurities particularly as from the 1990s following the third wave of democratization. This paper attempts a synthesis of Africa's electoral problems overtime and its consequences for peaceful co?existence, tranquillity and development. It examines specific factors that have spurred election related violence such as the particular character of the competition for accessing the State and its resources, organizational challenges in conducting credible elections and indeed the use of intimidation and repression as tools of acquiescence, etc. The paper contends that though Africa has made appreciable progress on the path of democracy, the rising trend of election related violence presents worrying security challenges on the continent and in fact threatens the sustenance of democracy and good governance. Given the strategic importance of human security to development, the electoral history of Africa calls to task the intellectual input of scholars for solutions. This paper makes a modest contribution to the search for solutions that would stem the tide of election related violence on the African continent. It highlights the need to strengthen critical elements in Africa's electoral processes such as fairness of electoral laws, establishment of a level playing field for all competitors, independence of electoral institutions and establishment of credible judicial mechanisms to speedily adjudicate election disputes.
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The story of Sonny Liew: How an unassuming S'porean comic artist took a big risk & hit the big time
Relatively Famous: Sonny Liew talks to us about life after 'The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye'.
Goodman Arts Centre is a fascinating place indeed.
The sprawling campus still looks very much like an old school, with low-rise slab blocks, stairs, few lifts and classroom-sized areas spaced equally apart on long corridors.
And the first thing, of course, that you notice, is the logo of the National Arts Council (NAC) — displayed quite prominently at both the main entrance (from a small road you would chiefly access by car) and its back gate, which faces the main road, a short stroll from Mountbatten MRT station.
That's where we found ourselves as we trundled through the maze of blocks — past dance studios, theatre rooms, workspaces with canvases displayed outside, choir and band rehearsal rooms. We cautiously skirted the air-conditioned offices of the NAC, and then found ourselves crossing an open space flanked partially with three exponentially-larger-than-life Javan mynah statues to a C-shaped slab block that was five storeys high.
And while one would expect to envision the imagery of the NAC's offices casting a bird's eye view over the hive of activities of all the art forms, companies and artists at Goodman Arts Centre, it turns out to be the other way round for Singaporean comic artist Sonny Liew.
His studio/office/workspace, as it stands, is at the top floor of the furthest-out block in the campus. Standing outside his door, which is spray-painted "THE SECRET ROBOT SPY FACTORY", one actually enjoys a comprehensive top-down view of the NAC block.
We had a bit of time to study a series of potted plants with signs like "CAUTION: Whomping Willow" and "Mandragora Officinarum (Mandrake)", remnants of a Harry Potter-themed party held at his studio not too long ago, before we spied a backpack-carrying Liew in a black tee, jeans and running shoes crossing the lawn downstairs.
And everything we read about him was true — he may be 42, but doesn't look a day older than 25, and cuts a lithe physique thanks to his regular running (he has at least nine pairs of running shoes parked just inside his studio door, alongside three pairs of flip-flops and at least one pair of socks).
It might be the fact that he does for work what most boys can only dream of — short of playing computer games competitively for a living — living the world of DC, Marvel, reading and drawing, day in, day out; essentially, getting to be a boy every day for work, and for life.
A cordial love-hate relationship
The irony of his studio location does not escape the very meek-looking Liew, who read philosophy at Cambridge University before going to the Rhode Island School of Design as one of his first official steps toward kicking off his comic-drawing career.
He tells us, with a chuckle, about the day he returned to Goodman from a whirlwind America trip that saw him sweep a historic half of the record-setting six Eisner awards he was nominated for, when he happened to run into none other than NAC Deputy CEO Paul Tan:
"He was parking his car, I was walking past him… He actually did say 'hello, oh yeah congratulations', and he actually made it a point to say the name of the book, The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye. But you know, he was off the record, I suppose — a conversation in a car park."
Despite the now-quite-widely-known move to pull a $8,000 funding grant that rocketed Charlie Chan to local, and then international fame, as well as the terse congratulatory message that wouldn't even mention Liew's graphic novel title, the fact is Liew and the NAC do have a reasonably close working relationship.
His name comes up in at least seven mentions from a cursory search of the NAC's website:
Liew is also the recipient of the NAC Young Artist Award in 2010, and the arts council has indeed gone on to involve him in various initiatives and projects as a mentor and an artist.
That didn't end with their funding withdrawal, which caused Liew and his publisher, Epigram Books, inconvenience in having to paste over their logo in his first run of printed copies, but also saw him go on to massive heights.
And so he says he sees this as a double-edged sword:
"On one hand you have to raise the profile, hard sell the books; on the other hand, I'm not sure (if) it would prevent some people from reading it, because as much as some people are excited about the fact that there's some notoriety attached, there are other people I'm sure who also see that as being a negative thing, 'oh this is anti-government'."
Making the NAC clam up
More importantly, though, he worries that this entire episode has made the government body retreat further into its shell instead of stepping out to engage artists like him in conversation — especially about the tricky issue of "sensitive content".
"I hoped the book would be a sort of a way for the NAC to address some of the issues that we've raised, but I think it's actually pushed things backwards a little bit because their reaction has actually been to, kind of clam up and not want to discuss the issues as much.
Even the publishers are feeling sort of a backlash in that they are much more… (they tend to) scrutinise the grant applications a lot more now… because they don't want to repeat the same mistake, even though Jeremy Tiang kind of happened again, but in general, they are more careful."
That being said, Liew still holds out hope that perhaps sometime later on, this conversation, between Singapore's regulators and content creators like him, will someday be opened up properly. Whether the public is involved in that discussion is another story, but past experience showed him the NAC was reasonable, for instance, with technicalities about grant conditions for comic artists that they eventually managed to get the council to modify.
Imagining alternative universes
Now it was never actually articulated what exactly it was in The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye that resulted in the NAC withdrawing its funding, apart from the official line of there being "sensitive content", and that "the retelling of Singapore's history in the work potentially undermines the authority or legitimacy of the government and its public institutions".
One possibility is Liew's imagining of an alternate universe where Lim Chin Siong's Barisan Sosialis was not clamped down upon through 1963's Operation Coldstore, took power and was able to still bring Singapore to where it is today.
"It's just one possible (scenario)… you can say that okay, what would they have done, or what could they have done? And you could have argued that given the constraints at that time, maybe they were forced to do similar things to what the PAP did. But that's just a maybe, right? They could also have done very different things."
The idea to do that chiefly came from Philip K. Dick's book The Man in the High Castle, although Liew also says there are, of course, many alternative timeline stories that exist.
"I mean, the whole point at the end of it — when it kind of collapses on itself — I think that was for me at least, to indicate that reality is what it is, and any speculation is just… it can be fun to kind of imagine what the possibilities or constraints were.
But we can only really have the present, and reality is what we have, la. So it's just more a theoretical exercise rather than saying what could have really happened, because we don't really know what could happen in these alternative universes."
A "semi-active dissident"
Has this whole thing made Liew a dissident? No, he says, for to his mind, one should not be too antagonistic because you would not get a positively-motivated response to the point you wish to make.
Liew describes himself as "centre-left", rather than far left, and stresses he isn't an activist — his efforts, even when he throws his weight or voice behind certain causes, remain at the fringes of lobbying activity.
Save for someone tabling a billion-dollar merchandising deal, which he would pretty much sign right away, he's also cautious about accepting offers that have come his way thus far. Liew has only had items made in collaboration with Kinokuniya, which for him was a huge supporter of Charlie Chan Hock Chye, and has turned down offers to make T-shirts and boiled Charlie Chan rock candy.
"There's a part of me that still remembers Calvin & Hobbes, and Bill Watterson refusing to merchandise his characters, and there's something to that, I would say."
A 5-year-old Singaporean
Liew was born a Malaysian, but he's been living here since he was five, and became a Singapore citizen five years ago. He did not have to serve NS, but he admits he did feel a bit of FOMO (although we had to explain to him what that was — fear of missing out) when his JC friends went through it.
In fact, he thinks that if he were younger when he obtained citizenship, it's possible he would have enlisted — if perhaps just so he would understand and be able to contribute to discussions his friends had throughout those two years.
"I remember at the time I was like, 18. I felt left out, and thought about enlisting, at some point… it was just something I thought about. But my friends were like, 'don't be stupid!', and as much as they talked about it all the time, they told me, 'if I were you, I wouldn't do it, why would I?!' So, yeah."
We wondered, then, if his Malaysian relatives and friends might have asked him why he did this work for Singapore, instead of doing the equivalent for Malaysia.
"Some friends who were comic artists, when the book came out, they asked me, 'are you going to do something like this for Malaysia?', and I told them, no, you guys should be doing it yourselves, because you're *in* Malaysia — and then, some of them would say, you know, you can get into real trouble here."
But he doesn't think his friends are afraid of incarceration or persecution for doing something like what he did with Charlie Chan — he thinks it's more that they simply don't have the inclination to do so.
A ton of work for not much money
Charlie Chan was really a lot of work, though — over the span of between two and three years, Liew did nearly the whole process of production: thumbnailing (storyboarding), pencilling (drawing everything in pencil), inking (going over it with pen), colouring and lettering (putting the words in).
He had help with adding flat colours to some of his book (he would later have to add shading on his own), and he acknowledges his editor for doing "a lot of the heavy lifting" on the project. Let it be known, however, that several of the images that looked like paintings were in fact real oil paintings — now hanging or propped up around his studio — that he spent a full day or two doing, just so he could incorporate photographs of them into his book.
And on the whole, Liew was investing all that time and energy into it with no idea if anyone would actually read or buy it — it was entirely possible, at the time, that it would tank.
In September 2016, Liew transparently published his earnings from Charlie Chan Hock Chye on Facebook to highlight the challenges with working on independent projects like this. Here's the main bit:
"CCHC took about 2 years to complete – the research and bulk of the writing and drawing took about 18 months, followed by another 6 months or so of editing and polishing. In between I did a few other things, such as the book on Georgette Chen, and a couple of illustration projects here and there.
Leaving aside the inbetweeners, here's the breakdown of the moolah from CCHC so far (note: comics tend to receive lower advances in the book world as they're more of a niche market than, say, literary fiction):
Epigram Books Advance: SGD$9000
Epigram Royalties (2015): SGD$5,333.23
Pantheon Books Advance: USD$25000 = approx SGD$33,750 (1.35 exchange rate)
Less Agent's Fee and Epigram Cut= SGD$20,000
French Advance: 15,000 Euros = approx SGD$23,000 (1.5 exchange rate)
Less Agent's Fee and Epigram Cut= SGD$13,200
Italian: USD$3617 = approx SGD$4900
Less Agent's Fee and Epigram Cut=SGD $2,800
SG Lit Prize= SGD$10,000
Total= approx SGD$60,000
That translates into, over 24 months, about 2.5k/month."
And that was money he had to wait quite a while before getting, all in — even for such a successful book, which truly lends credence to the cliché of a struggling artist.
In fairness, that was in September 2016, and the book has gone on to a number of additional print runs, so there's likely to be more revenue from it. But on the whole, it was a mighty big risk Liew took, going all-in on Charlie Chan Hock Chye.
Still doing superbly
Now, don't get us wrong — Liew is doing remarkably well for himself. Even before his breakout success with The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye, he had previously done work with both American giants DC and Marvel.
He's in talks for a huge project he himself is excited about, and which we were very excited to hear about as well, but we regrettably can't share its details till it's confirmed — only that it's so huge that even the non-geeks in the room like us knew it.
And there is also his next big book on capitalism that he's working on, which we're likely to see the fruits of in the coming three years or so.
We also haven't talked about his wildly successful first venture into theatre — "Becoming Graphic", a complex, multi-layered masterpiece using various forms of media directed by Edith Podesta and which featured Liew sitting on stage and drawing live.
The play was commissioned and ran six shows exclusively at the Singapore International Festival of Arts, over four days — all were sold out.
But ultimately it's true — this life is a tough one, and not every Singaporean comic artist (or indeed, any Singaporean artist) is going to find a runaway success like Liew did with The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye.
Is there anything we can do as a society to support the arts better? To get an idea of the answer, it might perhaps be worth returning to Goodman Arts Centre's campus, where the only places to eat there are too expensive for the resident artists, and the deceptive proximity their workspaces have with the NAC's offices eventually betrays a cold distance and communication breakdown that continues to exist between them.
As we walked out of Liew's office, we would belatedly notice a tall concrete human-shaped statue, hand stretched forward as if to offer an allowance, looming over a host of smaller sculptures in the yard below — perhaps an all-too-apt reminder of the mindset and system that's bogging down our artists of today.
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March 18, 2008
A Good Trade
Once upon a time I purchased 5 skeins of Rowan 4 Ply Soft to make a sweater to go with the cute daisy skirt I made last Spring. Unfortunately, I didn't have the fabric with me when I was shopping and the wool purchased - while lovely was too pink. Thanks to the magic that is Ravelry and a Monday holiday, I photographed and inventoried all my fiber. Since I was no longer sure what this pink yarn wanted to become - I listed it under the "Will Trade or Sell" header. Low and behold, I got a couple of messages. One lot of fiber I sold and the other - this one - I traded. This is what I got in exchange. This lovely pink Sundara sock yarn. This is destined to become a pair of socks for me. Apparently I am only allowed to have pink hand knit socks. This grey Regia sock yarn is destined to become a pair of earl grey sock designed by Stephanie (otherwise known as the Yarn Harlot). I think these will be a nice change from the boring rib socks I usually make for JB - because nothing breaks up boredom like endless stockinette and cables :) Tonight is knitting at Great Yarns! look for finished object pictures later in the week.
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The first experiment was a failure. In the 1970s, Yale University offered tuition to a group of students in exchange for a percentage of their future incomes. Adapting a 1955 idea by economist Milton Friedman to sell "human capital investments," the university paid the students' tuition. In return, the university hoped to recoup its investment by having the group collectively repay it as a share of each individual's income.
It didn't work out. Low-earners paid back at different rates than high-earners, leaving frustrated students holding the bag for others. It was, in the words of one higher-education policy expert, "an utter disaster."
After lying nearly abandoned for 40 years, that former disaster has reemerged in a financing model called modern income-sharing arrangements (ISA), which aim to fix some of the earlier flaws posed by similar arrangements (students pay back their own commitments out of future earnings, for one thing). The model is attracting a new generation of startups, as well as investors, eager to bail out American students drowning in $1.3 trillion in student debt. The Brookings Institute estimates as much as 40% of students who entered college in the early 2000s may default on their loans by 2023, based on historical trends.


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Wednesday, September 09, 2009
Top Stories:
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This is your loyal blind scribe, with today's recap.
Segment 1 – Sports scores, Prelude to the Dream, Bubba mad at Tyler's school
The show started off with some messages from the fans, then into
Manson's "Dueling Der Dersâ€. We then heard "Roadhouse Blues†as bumper
music. Bubba hopes they don't have some program director listening to
the sow, Bubba wonders why you'd even have that. Bubba said the Rays
are pathetic, he thinks they lead in blowing ninth inning games. Bubba
said he really admires Nick Swisher, he remembers the time he knocked
one out, Spice said he's a class act, Bubba said you don't see that
much in baseball. Bubba recapped some sports scores, Bubba then asked
for people to order the "Prelude to the Dreamâ€. Bubba went over the
past winners; Bubba said Ned would love to be in Eldora. Bubba said
he'll be firing up the theater for this event, Brent said it's on the
Pay-per-view channel, not HBO. Bubba suggested you watch it at seven,
as you'll be able to catch some behind the scenes stuff. Bubba went
over the people who will be there. Ryan in Richmond thanked Bubba for
the Two-Finger Culdesac, Spice said he's tried it, Tasha isn't into
it. Jim in south Decoda asked about Danica Patrick possibly going to
NASCAR, Bubba said it's not true, he said that it might happen, just
not now. Bubba said Tyler's school didn't offer the Obama speech,
Manson said his kid's school didn't either, Bubba said he's a little
flipped out about that, Bubba thinks it's a right-wing thing. Bubba
thinks it's hypocritical for Tyler's school to tell them not to judge
people, but not to play the speech. Bubba said he has the speech, but
he won't play the whole thing, he could if he wanted to, but he
decided not to, Bubba thinks we're becoming a country of pussies.
Spice said a lot of the rumors drive this Country, Bubba said it
doesn't matter what school you go to, it should've been shown. Bubba
said last year, Tyler's school had a mock election, Obama won the mock
election, Bubba wants to call the Principal and call him out on not
playing the speech. Bubba said he's disgusted that they always beg for
money. Bubba thinks it's a sign of disrespect to not play the speech,
there's a certain amount of respect you show to the president. Bubba
thinks it's a black issue, Bubba said they should've made it optional
to attend; he said if he was Principal, he would've made attendance
mandatory. Spice wonders where the brain washing part of it comes in.
Bubba said he's going to hire a private investigator to look into the
Principal of Tyler's school. Bubba thinks they should stop making the
musical recital mandatory, no one would go otherwise; they then went
to commercials a few seconds later.
Segment 2 – emails, Obama Speech audio, various callers
Coming out of commercials, we heard a promo for
GradyClothingCompany.com. We then heard some messages from the fans,
then into "Rocky mountain Way†as bumper music. Bubba thinks the
caller was incredibly stupid, Bubba then plugged the show's Twitter
page; Bubba said he's caught some flak for people not having their
individual pages. Bubba said Ned wrote that he held an unloaded gun on
Garnet for some oral sex; Manson said his house is a circus. Bubba
said he's trying to get to bed by 9:20, Brent said he's in there by
8:45. Bubba read some emails, the first email of the day said they
didn't vote for Obama, but they'll defend him for this. Another email
thinks the signal in Orlando is crappy, the emailer wondered why they
have Brent concerts. Bubba said he's listened to the Orlando station,
it comes through great. Another email wondered what is so wrong with
Obama's speech. Brent said a lot of emailer from Canada is disgusted
over the situation. Another emailer said they love the new signal in
Richmond, the emailer asked about the Twelve Boobs of Christmas, Bubba
said they're finalizing the information. Another emailer said that he
gets an error message when he types the show's name in iTunes. Another
email thinks it makes the US look bad that schools aren't showing
Obama's speech. Another emailer said the guys are the only ones who
don't act like idiots, the emailer said his Mom is a racist; he now
has to serve three days of detention, Brent thinks this is like the
movie "Birth Of The nationâ€. Another email asked about Lumber
Liquidators, Bubba said you'll save roughly 50% on what you'd normally
pay for. Steve in Alabama said people are going to have to wise up, he
admitted to be a racist, he didn't vote for Obama. Steve said he's
racist against people who are idiots, he said nigger is not black; he
thinks nigger is a slang term for down trash. Bubba took a call from a
woman who said she doesn't have a problem with Obama's speech; she
wishes more parents were like the guys. Bubba expressed his disgust
with the hypocrisy of Tyler's school. We then heard some clips of
Obama's speech; the guys think he's dead-on. Bubba called Heather, he
asked her to set up an appointment between them and the principal,
Bubba said he's very close to pulling Tyler out of private school.
Bubba took a call from a guy who said he was reminded of MJ in school;
we then heard Manson's bit about that, where MJ is a hall monitor. The
bit ends with Bubba and the guys giving him a swirly. From "Bubba's
new and Misc Hits Vol. 4â€, track 2. They then went to commercials a
few seconds later.
Segment 3 – Tyler's school update, Fabrizi calls in
Coming out of commercials, we heard "Seasons In the Sun†by Terry
Jacks as bumper music, Bubba challenged Manson to name the tune, he
got the title, he wasn't sure on the artist, Bubba told him he'd never
guess, Bubba told him, Manson wondered where he dug it up from, Manson
thinks he's a one hit wonder. Spice thinks you can't Google the
statistics on this, Brent said he's never heard this song, Manson said
it was a number one, Bubba sang along to it for a little, Bubba had
flashbacks as to where he was when the song was popular. Bubba called
Heather; she said she went into the office. Bubba asked her if she
through a fit, heather said she didn't, someone in the family should
be level-headed. Heather said the office lady told her something, she
said they'd like to schedule a meeting, he wasn't in at the time, the
Principal is working car lines. The woman said it's not going to
happen on the air. Bubba thinks they've been banned from the school,
he thinks they've been blackballed, mirly for exposing the school as
hypocrites. We then heard a clip about Obama's speech, Manson said his
kids didn't see the speech, Manson said he just doesn't care. Bubba
said Al-kida does a great job with screening phone calls, Bubba said
he can call Fabrizi about his son's school, Spice asked Bubba to call
him. Spice said he's an acception to the rule of dropping out of
school, and going into a big job. Bubba said this is just common
sense. Spice said he just found out that Tasha's son's school didn't
air the speech; Spice thinks the kids don't care. Bubba said people
are making a big deal out of it, when it's not a big deal at all.
Spice thinks the media made this to be a big issue. Bubba tried to
call Fabrizi, only to get no answer, Bubba played the god Father
Music, Bubba hung up and said he's done with him, Bubba thinks Fabrizi
is all teeth. Bubba thinks it's disrespectful for Fabrizi to do that
with him. Bubba said Fabrizi was on the warm line, Bubba said re-dos
don't sound as good as live content, Bubba thinks he'll have some
ridiculous excuse. Bubba went to him, Richard said he left his ringer
off, we heard The God Father music under the conversation. Bubba
recapped the situation for him; Richard said that school makes up the
rules every day, Richard said that's why he pulled his son out of
there. Bubba thinks Richard spent ten grand on his jet ski, Bubba said
the motor blew out right after the warrantee expired. Bubba said Jimmy
Kleavis wants to kick Richard's ass, Ned thinks the conversation is
bad ass, Spice thinks this is some extreme stuff. Bubba said he went
to Caddies on Saturday, he said it is an awesome place. Bubba let
Richard go a short time later. Bubba thinks the C-dos are horrible
jetskies. Bubba said Honda does a great job with their products, Ned
thinks Bubba is a Honda mark. Skid from St. Pete said he'd never
purchase a product from C-do, Bubba found it was Portor, Portor is mad
because Bubba has a bad phone mix. The guys think Portor is a cop,
Bubba sarcastically said Portor got him, Bubba joked that he and Jim
coats are gay, he said he broke up with David G, Bubba Eviled him a
few seconds later, Ned thinks Grady Jud is a pitcher, they then went
to commercials a few seconds later.
Segment 4 – A Manson Classic
Coming out of commercials, we heard Manson's "Paul and young Ron†bit.
This was all we heard for this segment.
Segment 5 – Lex and terry photo, Bubba calls Kenny Kenny, Bob Barker
on WWE audio
Bubba told the people of Jacksonville to vote for Dan Quiggle, Bubba
said there's reports about how lousy John Thrasher. Bubba thinks Terry
from Lex and Terry has gotten incredibly fat, Bubba thinks Lex has
maintained, Bubba thinks they could hang out with Lex, Bubba thinks
Terry is a fag, Bubba finds Terry to be pathetic. Ned thinks Terry is
gross. Mike thinks a man's man shouldn't go on twitter, Bubba said
it's a marketing thing, mike said he's an electrician, Bubba thinks
Mike is not in the business for social networking, he got Eviled a few
seconds later. Brent thinks Bubba will be racing this weekend, Bubba
wants to call Kenny Kenny, Spice hit the gong, Manson rang the bell,
we then heard an anti-racing bumper as the line connected, Bubba had
to leave a message, the guys continued the sound effects as he left
the message. Bubba wonders why Kenny isn't picking up his phone, Bubba
called him back, he got sent to voicemail for a second time, Bubba
thinks it's pathetic. We then heard a clip of Bob Barker on WWE, the
guys clown him for his voice, we then heard the Price is right theme,
Spice sang some words to the song, Spice thinks Bob Barker is like Ned
on television. Bubba said since Drew has hosted the show, the lawsuits
with the models have stopped. Bubba thinks he should be a gm for the
night, Ned thinks he can cut a promo better than Bob can, Bubba thinks
Bob isn't alive. Brent thinks bob Barker has nothing on Richard
Dawson, Ned thinks Richard didn't have pockets in his pants, Bubba
said bob can act, he finds him smooth. Spice thinks Chovo should just
leave after getting his ass kicked by Bob Barker, as bob roughs him up
a little, the guys cracked up at this, Bubba thinks they should've
kicked the guy in the nuts. Spice thinks Bob Barker could kick Ned's
ass. Manson wonders if they're going to bring Stephen Hawking on, they
then went to commercials a few seconds later.
Segment 6 – Tucker Carlson on the Phone
Coming out of commercials, we heard some O.A.R as bumper music. Bubba
played tucker Carlson's bumper and brought him on. Bubba said he got a
ton of response from people who liked his text book documentary;
tucker thinks he should slow down when he talks. Bubba said Contessa
is wearing some green today, Tucker said he doesn't watch MSNBC that
much. Bubba said he's not buying what they're selling; he's just
looking at Contessa. Tucker said a lot of women on TV look different
than they do off camera, Bubba got caught off guard with a guy who
looks like a fatter version of tucker. Bubba said they're experts on
women as porn stars. Bubba wonders if he'd have to chew his arm off if
he woke up next to her, Tucker said no. Bubba asked if Tucker could,
would he go for Tucker, Tucker said maybe. Bubba thinks Contessa and
her husband won't last, Tucker said Contessa is beautiful enough to
cry on his shoulder. Tucker said he's not focused on boobs, he said it
doesn't mean anything to him, Ned thinks he's a weirdo. Bubba said
he's crushed some boobs. Bubba wondered who the most beautiful woman
in Television, tucker thinks someone on Fox. Bubba said Paul moony was
Richard Pryor's best friend, Paul said that Barbra dated Pryor. Brent
said he's mad that she got a job in broadcasting; Brent said she was a
miserable person at Howard's wedding. Bubba went over the really cool
people at the wedding; Brent thinks Jone Rivers was miserable. Tucker
said he can't get over the guys's comments on Walters, tucker said he
doesn't like her now. Bubba finds the view to be disgusting, Bubba
said he had Rosie O'donald all wrong, he never liked he work, Tucker
asked how could Rosie be one of the meanest person ever, Tucker said
he doesn't like her gun control policies, Brent said he doesn't like
her stants on that, Bubba said he likes her honesty, Manson said he
likes her, Bubba said she just doesn't care. Bubba thinks after you've
been checked out; you should be able to have a gun. Bubba thinks
Tucker should agree with him on this, Tucker said he's okay with
restrictions on caring guns to certain places. Tucker said every
police department he's heard of doesn't' want people to have guns.
Tucker thinks his fingerprints aren't anyone's business, Bubba said
you need to go through the hoops to get it done. Tucker thinks words
can hurt people. We then heard a clip from Tucker's Textbook special;
Bubba thinks Tucker sounded good, he thinks he's on a zany bar. Tucker
said they did really well on it, Bubba thinks the Bubba Army helped
him out. Bubba asked tucker if he knew what Hulking up was, Tucker
said he thinks it's when someone injects you with roids. Bubba wonders
if Jeff Cats contacted tucker, Tucker said he'd love to do that. Bubba
thinks people from L.A are plastic, Brent said he loved living in
Orange County, Tucker thinks it's an interesting town. Tucker asked
how Hogan is; bubba said Hogan is doing well, Bubba thinks he's glad
it's over. Tucker thinks it's embarrassing Linda is dating Charlie
hill, bubba said Charlie has no self-respect, Bubba said he heard that
Charlie runs the show, Tucker finds the situation embarrassing. Bubba
compared Charlie and tucker. We then heard another clip from Tucker's
textbook special; Bubba mocks one of the people in the clip. Bubba
said people have no idea how shady the world is. Tucker said the point
of school is too learning stuff, not a social agenda. Bubba remembers
the days when they didn't have vending machines in schools. Tucker
thinks the LGBT should be taught in school. Bubba asked Tucker about
Obama's speech, bubba recapped the situation at Tyler's school, Tucker
thinks the speech was boring, Tucker said he's against the idea, bubba
wonders why you shouldn't run it. Bubba wants to fight tucker, Spice
told him to stop being a political pundent, Tucker called his
teacher's boring. Tucker thinks people are mad about Obama's agenda,
Bubba said he'd like to use Tucker's bowtie to strangle him, Tucker
thinks it's just propaganda. Tucker wonders why schools showed the
O.J. verdict, Tucker said he's for the civil rights movement. Bubba
said a lot of people, who can't deal with Obama as President, Tucker
said his skin color has nothing to do with him. Bubba said the problem
is that everyone is in for a profit. Bubba wondered what happened to
people who were proud of someone in the Whitehouse. Bubba said you
have the right to complain about the president, Tucker said it's not
his job to defend Glen Beck or Rush Limbaugh, Tucker thinks Limbaugh
sucked up to bush a little too much. Bubba said that they point out
people they like, Tucker thinks it's stupid; Tucker thinks Obama's
health care plan is horrible. Bubba said he doesn't have a problem
with Republicans; the last thing they need to make a deal over is the
speech for kids. Bubba said obama has the it factor and the pop
culture grasp. Bubba said Tucker over thinks everything, bubba said
the average guy wants to know about Hollywood stars. Brent asked what
changed our Country than the Patriot act, Tucker said he's not clear
what it did, he thinks the War on Terror has evaded our rights, Bubba
said you can't figure out what it does, Brent said it violates the
constitution. Bubba said he has a big problem with Tyler's principal,
Tucker thinks he should read the speech to his kids, bubba said it
would take him forever to do it. We then heard a clip from Obama's
speech. Tucker said Obama has talked about himself for the past three
years, he wonders who cares, Bubba said there are some kids who are
probably like Obama. Ned thinks Tucker hates blacks, he wondered if
it's hard to breathe with a big white hood over his head. Tucker
thinks it's disheartening Obama said kids won't be a Reality TV star,
Tucker said he agrees with Obama's speech, bubba thinks Tucker hates
blacks, tucker cracked up at this. Brent wishes someone told him he
wouldn't make it as a football player, bubba thinks the marines saved
Brent, the guys think Brent would be in jail. They then went to
commercials a few seconds later.
Segment 7 – dirty songs on the radio, bubba's future plans
Coming out of commercials, we heard "hope It Gives You Hell†as bumper
music. Bubba said he was listening to Sirius Hits 1, he said the songs
are filthy, he uses the song "My Weena†as an example, Manson said the
title means something else. Bubba said he gets so mad that had they
done something like that, they wouldn't have lasted. Bubba wonders
what they did differently than what's happening now. Manson said
there's a lot of seamen references in songs, Spice said they're afraid
to say stuff like that. Bubba said it's a slippery slope if they can
expand their syndication markets, bubba said the radio industry
disgusts him. Brent said in this day and age, a physical newspaper are
gone. Bubba said when their contract is over, he's thinking about just
leaving regular radio all together. Bubba said the rules have changed
every day, the rules no longer apply, Bubba said there are some people
who had a hand in them getting fired, that are no longer working in
the Political field. Bubba said he's over it Brent said they might
have Rodney King on tomorrow, they then ended the show a few seconds


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I am angry for two reasons this evening:
1. Seeming ignorance of real-world issues. I was reading about Max Payne 3 a week ago and I came across a comment that really stirred me up. Rockstar's VP of Development talks about going down to Sao Paulo, the new location for Max, and getting tons of real-world documentation for the game. They scanned people living in the favelas, they did 3d scans of locals to be authentic!
'Oh, I'm sorry, you're a Brazilian in America, you're a little too thick to model our game characters after. We want thin sickly people, so we're actually going to grab some locals just to make sure they look right. And to get their tattered clothes.' And continuing on, Barrera, the VP, says, "The favelas are like little mazes. We looked at the structures and how they are built and said, 'Oh this would be fun.'
There is something about the article, which you can check out in GameInformer #195, that just doesn't sit right with me. I know you want to go grab reference, I know you are there to get the mood and documentation to help create a game in that setting. But, whether or not it was just the reporting or the reported, these are opportunities to actually bring to light real-world issues in a more constructive manner. Go out on a limb, bring awareness of Sao Paulo's troubles to a teen male audience and see if you can get the issue to resonate... I doubt it will, but I'd love to see Max Payne 3 do just that.
2. Plagiarism is repulsive. I'll keep this short since it's quite late, but I spotted on TIGSource a sidebar noting that the new iPhone game Blopo is actually a complete ripoff of the game Tumbledrop.
Tumbledrop is a cute, well-put-together flash physics puzzle game made in Unity and freely available at: http://www.tumbledrop.com/
Blopo (originally named Blogo), is a not very cute, not very clean or flashy version of Tumbledrop, and you can see it in action here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7wcLLRW0A8
Ripoff? So incredibly obviously a ripoff. I just think it's sad that people who can make games don't come up with their own ideas. COME ON! Be creative! Make your own damn work. I can't deal with this anymore, I'm going to sleep.


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