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My flatmate and I visited ShushinoEN in London's Aldgate East for a Sunday night treat. Although the restaurant looks a bit unsightly from the outside, it's trendy and modern inside. We loved the multi-level setting with a range of sunken seating, high bars and benches.
The menu had a huge range of appetizers, sushi and noodles. Which are also available to take away (hard to resist, when the restaurant is just around the corner!).
In the end we settled on spicy edamame, wakame seaweed salad, scallop nigiri, spicy tuna rolls and salmon maki. The food was freshly prepared and looked great served on a tremendous wooden board. But most importantly it tasted delicious.
I'd really recommend a visit to this great restaurant. Looking forward to trying some of their noodle dishes (and sake cocktails!) next time.


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Senator Obama image damaged by connection of pastor controversy but lifted by Hispanic Man Bill Richardson.
They're calling it the pastor disaster. Once again this week, drama inside the Democratic party dominated the attention of US voters.
A black clergyman who isn't running for anything. Reverend Jeremiah Wright is a fiery and influential churchman who used to lead the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, where Obama and his family worship.
The Rev. Wright performed the senator's wedding and the baptism of both of his children. He served as a spiritual adviser to the Obama campaign. Then excerpts of Wright's videotaped sermons found their way onto TV.
They displayed deep anger about the long history of racism against African-Americans and the role the US plays in the world. Wright urged his followers to abandon the familiar phrase "God Bless America" and say "God Damn America" instead.
Just days after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, he blamed the US. "We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon and we never batted an eye. We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost."
But today his image was lifted by the endorsement of the N.M. gov, Bill Richardson.
Declaring that Sen. Barack Obama is an "extraordinary American," Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico endorsed Obama for the Democratic nominee for president on Friday.
Barack Obama will make a great and historic president," Richardson said, Obama standing at his side. "[It] is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for our nation and you are a once-in-a-lifetime leader."
"He's done the kind of work that you want from your public servants, somebody who's driven not just by raw ambition, not just by an interest in personal aggrandizement," Obama added. "He's been somebody who's been motivated by the desire to make the lives of his constituents and working people a little bit better.
As a Hispanic-American, I was particularly touched by his words," Richardson said, putting his arm around Obama and declaring in Spanish that he is "a man who understands us."

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NMJC's Hayes, McLeod, and Burr Heading to CNFR
The College National Finals Rodeo begins its sixty-ninth finals this Sunday, June 11 and runs all week, concluding the final round Saturday evening June 17. Called the "Super Bowl for College Rodeo "and "The Best of the Best" over 400 intercollegiate cowgirls and cowboys from over 100 colleges and universities that make up the eleven regions of the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association will converge on the city of Casper, Wyoming, to compete for individual and team titles to be CNFR Champions for 2017. NMJC's Head Coach Marty Eakin said, it will be a very exciting time for NMJC team ropers Wyatt Hayes (Header), Tyce McLeod (Heeler), and saddle bronc rider Preston Burr, all three have a great opportunity to show case their talents and compete in their event, as they represent New Mexico Junior College at the highest level of college rodeo".
Wyatt Hayes from Val Marie, SK, and team roping partner Tyce Mcleod from Waldeck, SK, earned their way impart, to the CNFR by winning the Tarleton State University and Howard College Championship team roping titles during the late spring NIRA/SWR season which allowed them to finish fourth in the region. Hayes and McLeod team roping runs will be during both Monday, June 12th Tuesday, June 13th CNFR-slack, and then their third go round run will be during the evening CNFR- performance June 14th.
Preston Burr from Stratford, TX will return to his second CNFR in saddle bronc riding. He finished second in the NIRA/SWR to qualify by winning the SB Championship at Vernon College rodeo and second in the average at both the ENMU and TSU rodeos. Preston will compete in the CNFR Matinee this Sunday afternoon, June 11 titled "Bulls, Broncs, and Breakaway". Then his next draw will be Tuesday, June 13 CNFR-slack and third go round CNFR -performance June 16.
All three NMJC Cowboys will have three go rounds during the week to qualify in their event. The top twelve cowboys per event will come back on Saturday evening, June 17, CNFR Championship Performance. You can follow the college rodeo finals on the internet at www.cnfr.com .


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by J.R.
The Hockey Hall of Fame announced its inductees today and it included two Conference III greats.
First up, from the Hall, Chris Chelios:
Chris Chelios, a native of Chicago, Illinois, after two successful seasons with the Wisconsin Badgers (1981-83), joined the Montreal Canadiens and was named to the NHL's All-Rookie team in 1984-85 and was also runner-up as Rookie of the Year to Mario Lemieux. He was part of the 1986 Canadiens' Stanley Cup winning team and won the James Norris Trophy as Defenceman of the Year in 1988-89. Traded to Chicago in 1990, Chris went on to play nine season with the Blackhawks and was a five time first or second team All-Star and two-time Norris winner. Chelios continued his career in 1999 with the Detroit Red Wings, winning Stanley Cups in 2002 and 2008. He finished his 26 year playing career at the age of 48 with the Atlanta Thrashers and Chicago Wolves in 2009-10.
Chelly, born in Conference III, spent time with the Blackhawks:
And with the Will-Eventually-Become-The-Jets:
These days, he works on Red Wings broadcasts…:
…sometimes goes to parties:
He also stays busy in the off-season:
Also announced as an inductee today, Brendan Shanahan. From the Hall:
Brendan Shanahan was born in Etobicoke, Ontario and after two seasons with the London Knights (OHL) was selected by the New Jersey Devils in the 1st round (2nd overall) in the 1987 NHL Entry Draft. A member of the New Jersey Devils for four seasons, Brendan was signed as a free agent by the St. Louis Blues in 1991. He player four seasons with the Blues and had back to back 50 goal seasons in 1992-93 and 1993-94 – being named a 1st team NHL All-Star in 1993-94. Brendan went on to play two seasons in Hartford before being traded to the Detroit Red Wings in 1996, where he played nine seasons winning the Stanley Cup on three occasions (1997, 1998 and 2002). Signed as an unrestricted free agent by the New York Rangers, he played two more seasons before retiring in 2008. Representing Canada internationally on numerous occasions, he was a member of Canada's 2002 gold medal winning team.
Shanny played for the Blues:
He was the NHL's hatchet man:
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A few times I've thought of taking a photography course but I'm usually put off because the only courses available are either too expensive or over subscribed or because I need access to a DSLR (why?) to do them. Lately I've been thinking that perhaps a design or an art course may be better for me and help me understand my own work better. Perhaps then I'd know what it is I like about these shots because I don't know why I like them but I do. Flickr set: I don't know why I like it but I do
I don't know why I like it but I do January 3, 2011
Organic November 13, 2010
Organic, originally uploaded by CyranDorman.
About a month ago I won a photography competition and for the last four weeks I've been enjoying my prize of a months supply of organic fruit and vegetables. And I really mean enjoy. As well as the organic potatoes, onions, carrots (some of them purple!) I've had cabbage of various varieties, the biggest aubergine I've ever seen, satsumas, apples, pears, a mango, chestnuts, organic ginger and garlic and so many other things I've forgotten about. This is so the perfect prize for me, a veggie who likes vegetables and is on a limited income. I also received this fruit, I have no idea what it is but it was pretty enough to take a pic.
(This is a heavily processed and stylised pic, sometimes my camera's limitations makes it necessary to get creative. )
Book Launch November 11, 2010
So, after months and months and rewrites and rewrites today I received an email to tell me that the Pulp Idol – Firsts book will be launched on 8th December.
The book contains the first chapter of novelists who, like myself reached the final of this years Writing on the Wall competition. It's my first experience of what it will be like to be a 'real' writer and at times I've wondered if I wanted to be.
This has been my first experience of having to rewrite based on an editors notes. And then having to rewrite and having to rewrite again. It was frustrating at times although I know it was being done for the best, to ensure that my/our work is to the highest standard it can be. I'm hoping to use this book as a spring board, to get the attention of agents and publishers and so it isn't really a complaint. More of a frustration. Given that this was just one chapter I can't imagine how much rewriting needs to be done for an entire novel. But I'm willing to learn.
So, I suppose I should start shopping for dresses and practising my elevator pitch. This could be the start of something truly wonderful.
How to knit a stylish and attractive 'hounds tooth/check style' pattern October 24, 2010
Almost every knitter who's seen my netbook cover has asked me how it's done. So here it is. It's incredibly simple, even a beginner knitter can and has knitted this pattern. And as I've seen, it's very effective. (I can't remember which knitting pattern I first saw this in but I've never forgotten it.)
2 different colours of wool, (colour A and colour B)
Suitable knitting needles (the size of knitting needle most appropriate to the wool you're using can be found on the label.)
Using colour A and suitable needles, cast on an uneven number of stitches.
Row 1: Using colour B, slip 1, knit 1, [slip 1, knit 1], repeat from [ to ] to last stitch, slip 1.
Row 2: Using colour B, purl across row.
Row 3: Using colour A, knit 1, slip 1, [knit 1, slip 1], repeat from [ to ] to last stitch, knit 1.
Row 4: Using colour A, purl across row.
Repeat rows 1 to 4 to form pattern.
There you go, it's that easy.
When using Colour A on a right side row, knit every first and last stitch. When using colour B on a right side row, skip every first and last stitch. You will need to make a tension square in order to gauge correct number of stitches when making a garment using this pattern, the finished piece is tighter and will give less length than if using stocking stitch.
Looking at Flickr September 12, 2010
Thamesmead Underpass, originally uploaded by CyranDorman.
This shot works so much better in Lightbox. Click on the photo or press L within the flickr page and you get to see it against a black bockground.
I'd been slightly resistant to the new flickr but my sister kept telling me that I'd get use to it and we're all just too resistant to change. I like to think that I can go with the flow but it's taken me a while to get into it. One of my absolute favourite features however is the option to see every photo against a black background by either clicking on the photo or pressing L within its page.
But about the picture and Thamesmead in general, I went for another visit recently to the place where I lived for a good few years in London. It's worth reading the Wikipedia page about it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thamesmead There are many parts of Thamesmead like this and I think that the key to living there is in appreciating the beauty rather than paying attention to the rubbish and well frankly, the smell. In other parts of Thamesmead there are lakes, vast lakes, home Geese and Swans and Ducks, surrounded by fields of horses. One thing I really wondered when I started watching Misfits recently, (filmed almost entirely on location around Southmere Lake) is what did they do with the wildlife?
Have a look at the other pics in my Thamesmead set: www.flickr.com/photos/astrogirl72/sets/72157622907218918
Security Risk? August 13, 2010
Security Risk?, originally uploaded by CyranDorman.
Taken by the shops by Central Station in Liverpool. Not a particularly good photo and I was about to take another shot at it when a security guard appeared and told me that I wasn't allowed to take photo's in there. I suffer from anxiety and have trouble speaking to those in authority, yes even security guards and so a stammered "Why?" was all I could manage. "Security." was his response. I wish I'd responded further but my anxiety meant that I put my camera away and left. Needless to say it was the last photograph I took that day..
Day 76 March 22, 2010
2/52 A rose by any other name, originally uploaded by CyranDorman (offline for a bit).
On Wednesday (17th/Day 76) I was so busy writing that I forgot to take my 365 picture.
On each day since I've taken a photograph that could be included in my365. I could carry on only having missed a day. But I don't want to.
The 365 project just isn't giving me what I need from it.. And frankly, there are far to many pictures on my photostream that are there only out of desperation. Too many photographs taken too late on with no inspiration to them, sometimes processed in the hope that something might happen because I thought I had a better shot that day. In short it's too much stress. And I don't want to resent my camera.
Instead I've started a 52×7. That's still 365 photographs per year but at a far more relaxed pace. It also takes into consideration the days when I want to post more than one shot for my 365. And I'm hoping that it will help me develop by allowing themes. I'll be trying water droplets and smoke shots again but perhaps this time over the space of a few days, giving me time to learn from the previous days results.
And choosing my seven best pictures from one week should leave something on my photostream that I'm happy to have there. Early indications seem to show this to be the case.


text: whitehill wrote: > G'day from Australia > My roof lining fabric is beginning to come unstuck around the edges including the sun roof. > I note that there is a reddish crumbly substance that may have once secured that lining but I need to know what is best to restick the fabric in place. > Any ideas? Ah, if only it were that simple. That reddish crumbly stuff has lost it's stickum, although when you try to scrape it off the roof you wouldn't believe so. You could try something like 3M spray adhesive, but the original stickum stuff will fail in other places, foiling your efforts. I think your best bet is to replace it all together. First remove the seats and lay plenty of drop cloths around the interior or you will get little sticky globs of that red stuff on places you don't want it, and that stuff stains. (DAMHIK.) Peel off the original liner (gently, if you want to reuse it, or try to keep it in one piece if you want to use it as a template for replacement fabric). Then scrape that red stuff off. The hard part is putting the liner back. You can try the 3M spray adhesive. But be aware you probably have little bumps of the red stuff that didn't come off, and that will show under the liner, making the liner look like crap. You may be able to put some sort of padding between the roof and the liner, but I don't know what you'd use. You may be able to find some fabric that comes with thin padding, but I don't know where you'd find it. I believe this is one area where taking it to a pro (i.e., upholstery shop) is worth the money. But if the car isn't worth putting that kind of money into, then maybe stripping the liner out, cleaning off the red sticky stuff, and spraying the exposed areas with flat black paint may be "gut genug" (good enough). Good luck. -- Kent McLean '99 A4 Avant, w/ quattro, V6, Tiptronic, :) '91 200 TQA #1, backup car gone but not forgotten: '94 100 S Avant, "Moody", now with new owner '91 200 TQA #2, up in smoke 2 '89 200 TQ, "Bad Puppy", up in smoke


text: Someone asked me if I saw signs of the financial crisis on the streets of New York. A question that is hard to answer. You come across many people that seem to have a hard time trying to make ends meet, but in a city like New York this is always the case. However, this time two facts did make me conclude that the crisis is still very much alive in the US. The first was a Swiss taxi driver that used to work on Wallstreet as a broker for many years, a career change that indicates that the possibilities for people to find an appropriate job are extremely limited. The second was the sign with the growing number of the United States' national dept. A dept so large that it is frightening.


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Bernard Kerr - Queenstown Dreaming
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Black and White Wednesday
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Nice angle, Justine. Poor tulip :(ReplyDelete
Perfectly simple..and simply perfect!ReplyDelete
Really lovely in black and white.ReplyDelete
love tulips and bw it is so stunningReplyDelete
Lovely shadow and light in this one... beautiful!ReplyDelete
Such a lovely photo.. I just love that soft light!ReplyDelete
The lighting is beautiful! I never imagined that a tulip in b&w could look so lovely.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous26 January 2011 at 16:03
This is lovely Justine. The lighting is gorgeous and there is a wonderful softness about it. DiReplyDelete
Your black and white conversions are so graceful.ReplyDelete
Simply fabulous, and fabulously simple.ReplyDelete
Gorgeous soft light..... i love this...ReplyDelete
That is so pretty. Gee- I need some flowers around here :) It brings me calmReplyDelete
the tones in this black and white photograph are stunning! Beautiful!ReplyDelete
This is lovely in black and white!ReplyDelete
Tulips are one of my favorite flowers! Great photo.ReplyDelete
Thanks for dropping by my blog. Hope you'll visit again soon!
Beautiful, beautiful composition! Love that it's not a "perfect" tulip but that it's bent like that. Very pretty light.ReplyDelete
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What a wonderful composition, Justine! I love how the black and white emphazises the shape of the tulip!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous26 January 2011 at 20:02
Great photo.ReplyDelete
I felt just like this tulip at the end of the day yesterday.ReplyDelete
they are my absolute favorite flowers and this photo is amazing!!!!!ReplyDelete
This is a really emotional shot! I love the dark shadow on the bloom. Nice.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous26 January 2011 at 23:36
I always like it when my tulips spread out like this. I think they are relaxing.ReplyDelete
Justine your lighting is always so superb, such beautiful lines!!!!ReplyDelete
Really love the angle and the lighting is perfectReplyDelete
Stunning. I love the composition, the balance between the black and white, and that the white is so nice and bright.ReplyDelete
This is a great shot for black and white. It looks gorgeous!ReplyDelete
This is gorgeous!ReplyDelete
How very, very pretty.ReplyDelete
Oh, I love this. Very elegant composition.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous27 January 2011 at 05:36
Absolutely lovely composition and perfectly done in monochrome.ReplyDelete
Tulips make me smile! Gorgeous capture, Justine.ReplyDelete
This is absolutely beautiful and stunning!!!ReplyDelete
Love this one!!! Perfect in B&W!!!ReplyDelete
love this beautiful tulip!ReplyDelete
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I remember once when I celebrated my anniversary to the priesthood, I invited to the seminary many of the friends God has blessed my priesthood with. Of course, people from my former parishes were also there. I received several gifts that day: shirts, personalized Parker sign pens, perfume and several checks even. But in connection with today's Gospel, I remember one particular gift that a parishioner from my first parish gave me — a small pad of stick-ons. Yes, stick-ons. It was not even the kind that you buy in a bookstore. It was obviously a free promo material given by a pharmaceutical company and its name was printed on every page.
I smiled when I got that gift. On the first page, he wrote: "Padre, pagpasensyahan nyo na po ito. Libre ko lang po nakuha ito pero dalawang oras naman po ang binuno ko para makarating sa seminaryo nyo. He, he, he. Maligayang anibersaryo po!" (Father, this is not much. I just got this for free but I did spend two hours braving the traffic just to get to your place). Not that I didn't appreciate all the other gifts I received that day. I did. But that one really got my attention. Her note took my attention away from the gift and directed my attention to the heart of the giver.
Jesus in today's Gospel reminds us of the kind of gift that catches God's attention. Observing everyone who has put in their gift to the altar, Jesus said of the poor widow's oblation of two small copper coins, "Truly I tell you… this poor widow has put in more than all the others. All these people gave their gifts out of their wealth, but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on."
Jesus teaches us today the essence of a gift. Gifts are only an extension of the giver. Likewise, we are being taught how to receive a gift. We are to look not on the gift but on the affection of the giver. It's all about the heart of the person.
As a sage once put it: all give some, some give all. Fr. Joel Jason
REFLECTION QUESTIONS: Is your "I" included in the gifts you give? Do you appreciate and pay attention to the "I" that is sacramentalized by a gift that you received?
May the whole of my life be a gift blessed, broken and shared. Amen.


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There are times that I worry (yeah, not a good alpha/redpill trait) that I may burn out at some point. I find myself wondering "what if I push and try to expand my boundaries so much that I lose control…like Icarus or Phaeton and just burn out…plummeting down to levels worse than when I was a white knighting blue pill beta."
There have been a few times in my life when I just launched into doing something and pulled off what I set out to do. Why do I concern myself with the possibilities of something bad happening?? I know growing up, raised a lot by my Grandma (a post will be coming on that)…she constantly worried…never a thought to what may go right but always what may go wrong and of course the absolute worst case scenario would consume her thoughts and language. I need to learn to harness that spirit and mindset that I had during the times I just acted. I find it curious too…why is it that the APA, etc. find issue with alpha types, ex. Rahm Emanuel, who have by some been labeled a hypomanic. Why is it that credentialed organizations have labeled those who excel as having some type of disorder or deficiency? Is it to help soothe the psyches of those who aren't as successful…they can sit back and think "thank goodness I don't suffer from….? Objective for myself is to work on worrying less on what may go wrong and focus my thoughts on what actions I can be taking to propel me forward….key taking action. I find that sadly ironic that I point out TAKING ACTION…reviewing some books that I have and the highlights that I made…they all focused on taking action, thinking/studying less…..at least I'm not thinking about starting a blog anymore….


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Sunday, June 27, 2010
A Not-So Brief History of The Dead
At the end of the last installment, the movie version of The Dead hadn't gotten off the ground (although I did fairly well with it anyway). Moreover, I was without an agent, and nobody would publish me anymore. However, at the World Science Fiction convention at Baltimore, in 1998, a guy by the name of Brian Kerr sought me out...he's a big Samurai Cat fan, and he had an idea. He worked for a a vanity publishing house called BuyBooksontheweb.com (they're now Infinity Publishing), and he said that Buybooks would be happy to pay the setup costs on my books, reprints and new stuff...I had a new installment int the Zorachus series called Blood and Pearls, and wanted to get that published (the new York folks didn't want it), and so I was delighted to go along with the deal. Buybooks published Blood and Pearls and the next two books in the series, and reprinted Sword of Samurai Cat and Samurai Cat Goes to the Movies...a lot of people asked me about The Dead, and we reprinted that too. It soon proved itself to be the best-selling book of the lot...there was some interest in it on the net throughout the early 2000's, and I finally decided to do something I'd always wanted to do, bring out an illustrated version of it.
For my money, my best art has always been my horror stuff...I'm not really interested in funny cats (although some of the Samurai cat pictures are pretty choice technically) and the pinup material did not come naturally to me...I really enjoy painting naked chicks, but the skill to do it properly was very much acquired...I really had to work at it. But evil looking art has always been a snap for me. Needless to say, the subject matter in The Dead played directly to that...I spent about five months knocking off 36 highly ill-tempered illustrations, and Buybooks (now Infinity) was willing to oblige me, God bless 'em. They also allowed us to clean up the numerous typos and referential mistakes in the first edition, which were entirely my fault...when I first gave the manuscript to Buybooks, it was the one I had on my discs, which was also the one I gave Ace/Berkley, which was, of course, not copy-edited. Oops. Compounding the problem is the fact that I'm completely oblivious to typos, because I'm so used to reading foul manuscripts...typos roll right off me, and so I didn't do a very good job looking at the ms. I got back from Infinity. Anyway, the new edition came out...no one seemed to notice the illos or the improved copyedit.
I went about my business, mostly working on Flaming Sword, the latest Zorachus book. Then, early in 2009, Jacob Kier from Permuted Press got in touch with me. In case you haven't heard, Permuted Press specializes in zombie and apocalyptic fiction, and Jacob had read the book awhile back, and had really liked it...I went for the deal, and the new Permuted Press edition that's out now resulted. We got Brian Keene, J.L. Bourne and Taylor Kent to write us some very nice blurbs, and the latest incarnation came out in Nov. '09. There were a bunch of really nice reviews...have no real idea of how things are going to turn out this time, and that's about all there is to tell.
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The "War On Christmas": It's Baaack! 16 Nov 2007Posted by Jessa in Religion.
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Bill O'Reilly is at it again this year railing against the supposed "War on Christmas". The focus of a recent tirade were the recommendations of the Holiday Display Task Force of Fort Collins, CO regarding display of religious symbols on public property.
One of the suggestions was to use white lights rather than colored ones for decoration. This was a particular target of ire for O'Reilly's guest, Dan Caplis:
You have this arrogant minority that wants to go to the point of stripping away Christmas trees and colored lights. I mean, this sounds like something out of the old Soviet Union.
Setting aside the mistaken statement that Christmas trees are banned (they're not), it's a truly amusing statement. Colored lights make Baby Jesus happy, and only godless commie pinko bastards use white lights. I had no idea that God was so picky about decorations.
But let's look at the statement more closely. The implication is that Christmas is not as much about celebrating the birth of Jesus as it is about having the right decorations. So maybe the biggest culprit in the secularization of Christmas is Madison Avenue. From November 1st onward, we are bombarded with advertisements showing us what we should do to have the perfect Christmas. We must decorate profusely (preferably with a theme so that we have to buy new stuff every year). We have to find the perfect gift for everyone we know. We have to buy new clothes to wear to parties. The Christmas meal must be so fabulous that people will talk about it for months. But we can't eat too much because we are concerned about those extra holiday pounds. Oh, and don't forget the family cards, the travel, and the rushing around at work so that you won't get too far behind while you're on vacation. And if you don't do all of it just right, everything is ruined.
Notice anything? None of it has anything at all to do with the religious aspect of Christmas. In fact, most of the traditions we now associate with Christmas (including those that are so loved by O'Reilly and his ilk) did not have anything to do with Christianity until the Church co-opted them from pagan celebrations that also occur around the winter solstice. This is why many non-Christians (including atheists) have no problem with decorating a tree.
So if you want to fight back in this "war", you can start by refusing to buy into the hype. Stop digging yourself into debt buying crap for everyone. Stop obsessing about the fact that your neighbor's house has more lights on it than yours does. Don't panic if things aren't exactly perfect. And for Pete's sake, don't have a coronary if someone wishes you "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas". There are much bigger problems in the world.
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After working through the first couple of Berkeley Review lectures, I've realized a couple of things. First of all, every test-taker needs to develop a study-plan which is tailored and suited to the individual. For the most part, I did not do this and was intending to use an approach favored by the denizens of SDN. After a couple of days, I've concluded that the Berkeley Review materials are too in-depth for me. In fact, on several occasions, I found myself referring to the ExamKrackers lectures in order to figure out what the hell the Berkeley authors were talking about. Secondly, for the most part, I already understand most of the science pretty well. What I need are lots of practice problems and passages that I can do (part of the appeal of the Berkeley materials is the huge amount of practice passages that are included in it). So, to get the best of both worlds, I sat down and worked out a study schedule largely from scratch trying to target that particular area.
Anyway, after a couple of days banging my head against the wall, I decided to bail on the BR materials and keep using EK instead. For the next two months, I'll be reading and reviewing those – three lectures a week – along with passages from the BR books which coincide. There are also some 30-minute exams over the lectures which I'll be doing altogether as one big timed exam on the weekend, and then I'll spend another two days reviewing the mini-exams as well as working more passages and reviewing those too.
I should be busy, but it's a more coherent than what I was going to do and also leaves me a lot of time to work problems, which is what I think will help me a lot more. Once I'm done with content review, I'll spend the last month until the exam doing timed full-length AAMC exams and reviewing them, while I finish up the remaining BR passages. I'm excited – it feels a lot more realistic and useful than what I was going to do beforehand.
The other thing which I've learned is that it can be really difficult, if not impossible, to know your standing without taking a timed practice exam. It doesn't really make a lot of sense to try and extrapolate from a couple of passages on the same topic what your score on the entire exam will be 3 months hence. I did that the other night and was able to work myself into a frenzy, convinced that I was going to wind up with a 21 on the MCAT. I have no idea how I became this neurotic, but I'm going to try and ignore scores until I start taking actual, timed exams. Until then, I promise I will not visit SDN.
Edit: I cannot imagine taking an exam like the MCAT without studying.
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The first few years I made my own hamantaschen, I only made poppy (mun) and prune fillings because that's what I had recipes for from Dad's handwritten binder-of-goodness. And the reason Dad didn't have any other fillings was because those were the only two acceptable ones, the traditional Ashkenazi fillings that our antecedents had made in Minsk. And since those were the only acceptable ones, that meant that all other varieties were verboten in the house when I was growing up. Sure, I'd seen raspberry and apricot in the bakeries; I'd even tried them a few times at other people's Purim gatherings. But I'd never thought to make them myself.
(Okay, so there was the one year I had a jar of raspberry jam open in the fridge at Purim and I might have tried to make a few raspberry hamantaschen. But they might have bubbled over and this might have been before I was using silpat and parchment paper and it might have been a major effort to get baked-on, burned raspberry jam off of my old cookie sheets. And I might have vowed to never again try jam in hamantaschen. Ever.)
Over the years, I've gotten more comfortable with Dad's mun and prune recipes and expanded on them, hopefully to the better. And, eventually, I did tiptoe up to and over the new frontier and decided to try apricot filling. I still haven't tried raspberry again, though.
All of these benefit from being made at least a day in advance, so keep that in mind.
Orange-Prune filling
1 lb pitted prunes
1 juice orange, thinly sliced and seeds discarded
1 cup water
1/4 cup sugar
1 tsp lemon zest
1 tb vegetable or other neutral oil
juice from 1/2 lemon
1/8 tsp grated nutmeg
3/4 cup medium-chopped walnuts — small pieces, not dust.
Put the prunes, orange slices, water, sugar, and lemon zest in a medium saucepan. Bring the mix to a boil, then reduce to a simmer over very low heat, cover, and let it go for 45 minutes.
Remove the pan from the heat, uncover, and let it cool for 5-10 minutes, stirring gently once or twice. You should have a very soft compote, no matter how firm your prunes were to start.
Pick out the orange pieces, which at this point will just be very soft rind. If you're not a huge fan of orange, you can discard them, but I pile most of them up on a cutting board, finely dice them, and then dump them back into the prune mixture.
Add the oil, lemon juice, and nutmeg to the pot.
Blend the prunes (and orange) until you get a thick, course paste. You want identifiable bits of prune. I've always been able to manage this with the firm application of a dinner fork (like I was beating eggs), but feel free to use a blender or food processor.
Stir in nuts.
This is not a juice orange, clearly. I couldn't find one – I could find sweet lemons, prickly pears, and kumquats, but no juice oranges. So what did I use? A blood orange. Which wouldn't have been my first choice of alternate, but navel oranges are even less optimal.
(Ironically, I got a juice orange in a mishloach manot on Purim, when it was too late to do any good.)
I added a dollop of orange juice concentrate – you can see it in the lower left corner – and so feel free to change up to 1/4 cup of the water with OJ. Don't use more than that, at least not without reducing the sugar.
The 'after' picture. It's easy to pick out the orange bits and even easier to mash this up without fouling an appliance.
Poppy filling (mun)
1.5 cups poppy seeds, ground
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup raisins, finely diced
1/4 cup honey
1 egg
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tb lemon zest
Throw everything into a bowl and stir.
I've been reading through Marcy Goldman's excellent Treasury of Jewish Holiday Baking and in her Purim section, she is very firm on the necessity of grinding your poppy seeds. (Which I'd never done.) She is also equally insistent that you need special equipment for this task, that a regular coffee/spice grinder or blender won't work, and has a Cook's-like mini-essay on her attempts to find one. My own investigations were much briefer – I looked on Amazon – and, not liking what I saw, I decided to give it a try in my spice grinder.
I don't know what kind of grinder Ms. Goldman was using, but where she ended up with high-velocity intact seeds, my little Krups was more than up to the task. (I also ground my own cinnamon for this, throwing a few bits of Vietnamese bark in there afterward.) I had to do it in shifts, but it worked just fine. And let me tell you, the difference it made in the final product was significant.
…and after.
Ginger-Apricot filling
3/4 cup water or orange juice
1/4 cup lemon juice
12 ounces dried apricots, chopped roughly
1/3 cup sugar
1/4 cup candied ginger, finely diced
1/4 cup golden raisins, diced
Combine all ingredients in a medium saucepan. Bring to a boil and then reduce to low heat and simmer, covered, for 10 minutes, stirring once or twice. Make sure you have enough liquid for the apricots and raisins to soften and begin to break down.
Let cool for five minutes.
Unlike the prune mixture, this won't break down with just a fork, so you're going to need an appliance. I recommend a food processor or an immersion blender. Or a regular blender, if that's what you've got. The end result should be a course paste.
The original recipe doesn't call for ginger, but I realized at the last minute that I didn't have golden raisins and adding a cup of regular ones would make for some pretty odd-looking hamantaschen centers. So I upped the apricots, quartered the raisins, and threw in a handful of candied ginger cubes, which are possibly the single best reason Whole Foods should be allowed to exist.
I don't have a food processor and, for whatever reason, totally forgot about the immersion blender, so I beat the apricots to death with the paddle attachment. It worked, but I wouldn't recommend the process. The mixture was less jammy than… slick. I think you can tell from the picture. It tasted fine and it looked fine in the hamantaschen, but…
As can be seen in the top picture, I had leftovers. The prune and apricot fillings make great toast partners. The poppy seed mixture will go into a cake. All's well that ends well.


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Let me take you back to 1992. I was a 17 year old naïve freshman at OSU who came from a very small town. I graduated with 63 people and played in a high school band of 30. I was told I was too quiet, too anxious, too inexperienced and too overweight to even consider making The OSUMB by many people in my hometown. I drove 3 hours one way every Tuesday and Thursday to attend summer sessions in order to learn the techniques necessary to make the band. Tryouts came and went and I returned home cut from the band. Much like every other experience in my life, I refused to give up and came back for a second time in 1993. I again drove 3 hours one way every Tuesday and Thursday for summer sessions and again I was cut from the band. A month later I was literally packing my things to return home and transfer to a new school as the ONLY reason I wanted to attend The Ohio State University was to fulfill my dream of becoming a member of The OSUMB. On that same day I was packing, I received a phone call. On the other end of the phone was a staff member of The OSUMB. She informed me that someone had been released from the band and they would like me to join the band as his replacement. I made one call to my mom and dad to inform them and then literally ran to the stadium as my dream had finally come true… I was a member of TBDBITL! Reality set in very quickly though… I was in a room full of strangers, I had just replaced one of their friends, I was still quiet, naïve, anxious, and overweight. Would these people even accept me for who I was? The answer to that question is a resounding YES. I was welcomed with open arms into a row of 11 men and 2 women. Each person went out of his/her way to help me understand the new part I was playing, how to read charts, where to get my uniform, what I needed to buy to complete my uniform, where I needed to be and when, how to memorize my music, and many other little things I never would have considered as a naïve rookie. It very quickly became apparent to me that for the first time in my life I wasn't being judged by my peers because I was quiet and overweight. For the first time in my life I was immediately accepted as one of them and they didn't care where I was from or what I looked like… I was simply a member of their family. My new family never made me feel like an outsider, they never made fun of me, and they always looked out for me.
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Maybe I'm just "old skool" or whatever, but I feel as if one of my cherished forms of expression, art: Hip Hop, has been completely stolen by the Marketing Departments of every publishing house within the recording industry. Well, the big publishing houses anyhow.
I do not intend to show links to anything here, as this is all opinion, and I am pulling it from memory. Feel free to check minute facts on your own time.
Hip Hop, as a movement, is still around today. And even though it is still referred to as such, a large portion of what is commonly referred to as "Hip Hop", is actually just Pop music. But calling a new artist a "Hip Hop" artist gives him/her some strange sort of street-credibility. As if "Hip Hop" were invented purely to promote half-assed rappers. Or worse yet, a black guy with a microphone should immediately be classified as "Hip Hop". Just because he's black. And probably "urbanesque". Or whatever.
This is so, so, so not the case. So, if you are reading this, and previously considered Nelly to be a Hip Hop artist, please let me explain why you are completely and utterly wrong.
Hip Hop, as a movement, started sometime in the mid seventies, most likely in The Bronx, NYC. Kool Herc, Bambatta, Apache, Fab 5 Freddie, Funky 4 Plus One, Sugarhill Gang (the jury is still out on their authenticity, just so you know), Kurtis Blow, on up to BDP and on and on and on and on. There are several accounts of where it actually started (different parks and neighborhoods within The Bronx), when it actually began to gain steam (down to the actual month, which specific party, hour of a specific night, etc), and who coined the hyphenated phrase we use today (this is of little significance to me, as it was probably a journalist who was on the outside anyway). I want to stress that the origins of Hip Hop are highly contested, as all underground movements which turn out to be explosively lucrative always are. And any historian MUST keep in mind that EVERYONE involved with HIP HOP in its infancy was probably under the age of twenty. Very few bothered with school. And there are absolutely NO official records of ANYTHING surrounding the movement at that time (save for some party fliers, which hardly count as "official"). No contracts, no written agendas, no "mission statements". These were kids, acting out of frustration and the overwhelming desire to express themselves and have fun in the process. It grew on itself, those involved grew older, the economy got worse, and the need for this art form increased as those who were producing it were finding themselves more and more isolated from mainstream America politically, socially, and certainly economically. So read what you want about the details, believe what you want, but I would take it all with a big ol' heaping handful of salt. It's all hearsay.
But this is about what it means to BE a Hip Hop artist.
In the early days, the culture was still building itself. But by the time it was developed enough to have a solid identity, Hip Hop had become the inner workings of a culture made up of four related groups: The DJ, The B-Boy, The Graffiti Artist, and The MC. There was significant bleed-over between these four groups, but all four were (and still are) considered distinct and necessary parts of the Hip Hop whole. They were dubbed "The Elements". Which begs the question, which came first? Where did they come from?
It is safe to say that the beginnings all centered around the DJ. Now I am not just saying that because I spin records. It simply makes sense. The Bronx, early seventies = relatively poor community made up of mostly African Americans and Puerto Ricans. If you lived there, the majority of your social life revolved around your neighborhood park. That's where the hoops were, that's where the baseball diamond was, that's where all the boys would be, so that's where all the girls went too. DJ Kool Herc is the first noted DJ to just "show up" at a park with his mobile sound system, plug it into a street lamp, and start playing James Brown, Reggae Dub, and the like. When he and others like him would show up at a park, a neighborhood party would bust out. This went on for a couple of years, through dozens of local kids starting their own DJ collectives and whatnot.
Soon, the B-Boys started to show up. They were just groups of kids who had their own style of dancing, which they preferred to exhibit during a break-down, or "the break" in some regular song played by the park DJs. Soon, the DJs began to recognize that these kids were going crazy during "the breaks", so they would buy two of the same record and play them on both turntables, "looping the breaks". So the B-Boys and DJs started their relationship.
B-Boys were typically younger kids, middle-school age, who had big brothers who would paint subway cars and walls. Graffiti artists. At that time, many graffiti artists were indeed gang-related. It all started out as territory marking, or "tagging", which is little more than just writing and/or spray-painting a printed name or moniker onto something easily seen by rival gangs. To mark territory. Textbook stuff. But as the "tags" grew more and more complex, they began to be recognized for their unique artistic bend, and split off from direct gang relation. The B-Boys learned to bomb (paint graf) from their brothers, and the older brothers took an equal interest in the B-Boy style. Graffiti had landed as the third element.
Now there had always been a microphone laying around for the DJ to use. "Uh, yeah, Jenny, your dad is here to pick you up." Or, "Happy birthday shout-out to Mingo". That kind of thing. It wasn't until DJs started to book warehouse parties, where they would charge cover (and typically hire B-Boy crews as security for the event), that they needed some sort of true crowd control. Then the microphone started to get used by the DJs sidekick, who would "work the crowd" by instigating "call-backs" and such: "now when I say hip, you say hop" or "DJ Starsky is tearing up the tables tonight boys and girls! Y'all better DANCE!" and the like. But the DJ was still the main focus as the B-Boys danced, the Graffiti artists bombed, and the MC paid homage to everyone else.
Then, at some wildly contested point in time, one of those MCs started to rhyme over the instrumental breaks. My guess is that there was a really charismatic guy who was familiar with The Last Poets (look them up, that shit is amazing), and hating being upstaged by some quiet dude who just happened to have the cash to buy equipment and records. So this charismatic fellow grabbed the mic and started to be funny and witty to the crowd, throwing rhymes in there as part of his shtick. And so, from the meager job of MC, the "Rapper" is born. And here is where Hip Hop found its most lucrative method to getting paid. DJs made some money at parties, but nothing big, as it was someone else's music they were playing. B-Boys had no venue beyond the subway platforms to ply that art form, as it was really difficult to sell "action art" on a large-scale. And Graffiti artists were considered outlaws, so there was no money in that. And most of the elements of being an MC were completely unnecessary without a DJ behind it all.
But Rapping. Yes, rapping… that could be done on its own. And it could be completely original. It could be the most pure and easy to understand of all the Elements within Hip Hop. It could be the torch-bearer for all the feelings of disenchantment, frustration, and utter lack of hope which fueled the movement as a whole. This "Rap Thing", could be the meal ticket out.
It took a couple more years to really catch on, but it is safe to say that in 1979, "Rap" was first laid to wax (King Tim Iii), AND made a hit (Sugarhill Gang). From there, it took off.
Now that's just the early portion, and how Hip Hop got its foot in the door. Rap is NOT Hip Hop, although it is an piece of one Element: MCing.
Side note: Today, most cannot imagine "Hip Hop" as existing outside of SOMEONE rapping something over studio produced beats. Well, there was a time. The beginning, in fact, had nothing to do with rapping at all.
So Rap continued on, making headway as it pushed into popular culture, in the hopes of making money. Blondie gave it shout-outs. Slick Rick and Doug E Fresh got all kinds of air play. Run DMC, LL Cool J, and Def Jam up and running. And then the Beastie Boys hit. If no one had figured out just how lucrative rap could be before then, they were pretty square on it soon after.
But it STILL wasn't Hip Hop, as a total movement. It remained what is called "braggin' rap". "Rap" being the operative word. The title is pretty self-explanatory. No purpose beyond self-promotion to make more money and/or get laid. Just like every other rock star out there. Being poor and black did not automatically guarantee substance in the product. But it would, very quickly. The ideas of social justice, speaking out against institutional racism, historical recognition of black efforts, intelligent public assistance programs, remembrance of cultural (mainly African) roots, and general harmony between all members of the population (US and beyond) were to become more prominent subjects used by Rap artists.
I would say that it wasn't until Public Enemy and BDP hit the scene that Hip Hop was being honestly represented. Rap is fine, but it isn't Hip Hop without the other elements. And it certainly isn't Hip Hop without the message of the movement itself: self awareness and social consciousness. They had DJs, MCs, B-Boys, and Graf artists (along with other things, particular to the groups).
Public Enemy and the BDP family had their share of braggin' rap too. As did their other contemporaries (Tribe, Jungle Brothers, KMD, etc…), but the main message was consistent with that of the overall Hip Hop movement.
I want to take a second to point out that these groups were from the East Coast. West Coast groups were starting to gain in popularity as well. Too $hort, Sir Mix-a-Lot, and the Fila Fresh Crew had been making some waves out west. But they were essentially mimicking the style of their East Coast contemporaries. It wasn't until the explosion of Gangsta Rap out of LA/Oakland that the West Coast had a style that was truly their own. I would also like to point out that while the West Coast groups claimed to be Hip Hop, their style was self-dubbed Gangsta Rap. Emphasis on Rap. Again, there's nothing specifically wrong with that, but it isn't Hip Hop by default, damnit.
So. How does this all boil back down to Nelly? Well, he has no DJ. He has no B-Boys. He has no Graffiti artists. He has no socially conscious message.
But he does have a group of fellas that back him everywhere he goes, he sings ballads with other popular music stars (of all popular genres), and has his own clothing line. That, my friends, is NOT Hip Hop. It does however, sound like a description for the lead singer of a Pop Music Boy Band.
For the record, I wrote this little rant in the span of about 45 minutes, so pardon the editing mess. After writing this, I went out on the interweb to check some of my references, and it turns out that there's a billion other people saying the EXACT same thing as me. Some are much better. But fuck it. I already typed this out, and it's still important to me, regardless of how many other ass-monkeys have written about it. Word.
Hmmm…. Hip Pop. For the first time, I agree with that silly-ass "urban dictionary" thing. Yes.
Friday, February 18, 2005
Don't Call it Hip Hop, damnit.
Posted by Fist of Trueness at 2/18/2005 02:46:00 PM
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Today I had to walk to town to buy water. It's not safe to drink the water here, you must use bottled water to do everything from brushing your teeth, to cooking. And so, you can imagine how much water is needed in one day, to drink, to cook rice, etc. As I was walking back to the villa from town, carrying a heavy jug of water, I came to a spot in the road where it had flooded from all the rain last night. I stopped to weigh my options. It was 32 degrees. I didn't really want to backtrack to go down the sidestreet to the beach, because it would add another 15 minutes to my walk home, and I was already hot and sweaty. I thought about wading through the flood, it looked like it might go up to somewhere between my ankes and my knees. There was no way around it, a cement wall was on one side, and some thorny bushes were on the other side.
The water was getting heavier.
There was no shade.
I was dripping with sweat.
I just stood there and watched the cars drive through the puddle, slowly, so not to splash the water up into their engines.
And then, a bus pulled up beside me, and the driver told me to come in. I gratefully stepped up inside, and stood in the doorway as he drove through the flood. He let me off on the other side. I tried to offer him a few pesos, to thank him for his generosity, but he refused.
That would never happen in Vancouver. The bus would just drive through the flood really fast and splash all the innocent pedestrians with the dirty water. I know this, because I have experienced it several times. There was a time I even boycotted public transit because of this.
But here, things are different, the people are friendlier, they are more aware of the people around them, and they will help you out if they can. They find it strange that I do not accept a ride, when I walk to town...the fact that I would rather walk in the heat seems foreign to them.
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Bonus Comics - August 21st, 2009, 8:17 pm
Here are some comics that I just felt like drawing that have no point in them at all.
They could be about stuff that happened, or they could be about stuff that didn't.
Either way, hope you like!
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Well, we're back in France.
Our plan is to spend a few days touring the area around Boulogne and Calais, because it's something we rarely do. We came last summer for a few days with Andrew (my Australian brother) and Debbie, but felt it could do with another coat of looking at. We're not quite sure how we came to be in a hotel for all the time we're here, but there you go!
The blog will be at [watch this space]
… And we're going again in August. The blog continues from above.


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It's been an extremely quiet weekend – so far, anyway! I still have to go visit a client and get files from the office and call Kelly to update her on all her cases since she's been away, but man, it has been so quiet! Kris, Betsy, Sabrina and Joey went to NY to see Jessica's play. Their cousin – Jessica's husband – got them two tickets. Don't know if they were able to get any other tickets, so two of them may have had to make other plans. John got 'em a hotel room in NJ for a couple of nights and they should be on their way home about now. Last night, Danny and Tori went to her house, and the only company I had were Milo and Gatsby! I didn't know how to act! John didn't even call at 10:30 like he usually does – so he must've been busy. I was so bored, I went to bed at 10:45 and then woke up at 4:15, fed Gatsby and went back to bed. Had choir this AM from 10:15 to 2 and here I am. Whoo hoo! It was nice to have Nancy back after her family's recent tragedy. She is still hurting for her poor son. At the same time it was terrific to have her expertise. Practicing without her really brought home how important it is to have somebody really good directing all of us. Not that Drew was bad, he did his best, but Nancy is really the expert.
Anyway, this week should be typical – visit clients, catch up (HAH!) on paperwork and go to court – if I'm lucky to do it all in that order!
I am still having fun playing with all the toys I got for my birthday! I am still in shock over the iPod. It is such an amazing thing. I think I have every CD I own plus some of Kristin's music on it and I still have two thirds of the memory left. Probably a comment on my music collection, eh? Still getting the palm/phone thingie up to speed. That thing is awesome. I feel like I'm carrying fort knox with me every time I go out!
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The Mirror of a Parent's Eye
UPDATE: Be sure to read the comments for this post. One makes me think that this theory goes too far -- that there are parallels between narcissism and autism but that they are fundamentally different.
The paralells between autism and narcissism are striking. Now, before I even get started here, I must warn you not to jump to conclusions about people. If a child is autistic, that doesn't mean his or her mother witheld attention during infancy. It isn't that simple.
Long before I heard of NPD and knew more than what I had learned on a TV show about autism, I spotted the similarity between autism and what was strange about a certain narcissist I knew. Both seem held back from paying any attention to you. Their obduracy is invincible. It's almost as though they think they don't dare pay any attention to you and at the same time couldn't do so if they tried -- like it's a knee-jerk reflex to withold attention from you.
Both seem not to know that others have . . . what to call it? It's such a basic assumption that we hardly have a word for it. But what I mean is that they don't seem to know that others have a soul, a self, an inner life, a mind. To them you are but an object.
At best, to an adult narcissist, even the others in his immediate family are but one-dimensional cartoon characters, extras in a crowd scene of the stageplay of his life. Consequently, you could ask him any question about his wife's or children's characters, and he wouldn't know the answer. Is his wife religious? He doesn't know. Is his daughter loyal? He doesn't know. Is his son excitable? He doesn't know. You couldn't even give him three character descriptions, one of each, and have him match these three people to them. He would therefore not know better than to believe any preposterous lie somebody told him about one of them.
Ask any narcissist what he or she thinks you think about anything. They will act stunned by the question, as though you spoke it in Greek. The question makes no sense to them! Because you might as well ask them what a tree or a stone thinks. At best, they are taken aback by the notion that there is some correct answer and that you may tell them whether they are correct about what you think. That does not compute in the brain of a narcissist. He can't imagine that you needn't be thinking whatever he (the author of his fiction) decides to make-believe you think.
All but the narcissist have bit parts in his world. They are one-dimensional (cartoon) characters without depth or significance in his eyes. They are of no more interest to him than extras in a crowd scene. And worthy of as little individual attention. Just there "to swell a progress" as the poet T.S. Eliot would say (in "The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock"). In other words, just there to be of use in a story about him, focusing all attention on the star of the show.
Since he pays no attention to other people, he notices nothing about them. It's as though he somehow manages to block out even the look of their face so that he can't recognize anybody or remember their name. Consequently, people are all the same to him.
One narcissist I knew was so successful at viewing others as part of the furniture that in 50 years never did learn to distinguish his daughters. He never got names straight! Half the time he called Terry "Ka-terry" and Kathy "Te-kathy." Often, it was worse than that. He'd sometimes get halfway through a rant at, say, "Terry," before he'd use the name and Kathy would have to tell him what her name was. Over the phone he'd keep forgetting which one he was talking to. Though they were different as night and day (one was a narcissist) they were both the same to him. If he ran into one of them in an unusual setting, such as in the grocery store or on the street, he would stand gaping at her as though wondering why that woman was looking at and approaching him (= he didn't recognize his own daughter) until she said, "Dad" and started talking talking to him!
Truth is stranger than fiction, eh?
Now notice how similar this is to the behavior of an autistic child. Though his physical development is normal, and his intelligence and language may be normal or even superior, an autistic child treats others as though they are inanimate objects. He doesn't make eye contact, and he doesn't seem to know that others have thoughts and feelings he could share. He pays no attention to others and makes no eye contact with them.
Maxson McDowell gives this example in The Image of the Mother's Eye: Autism and Early Narcissistic Injury:
An autistic child seems not to know that his or her mother has a subjective self. An autistic boy, for example, was playing with his mother when she hurt her finger with a toy hammer and gave a sudden exclamation of pain. Though he was emotionally attached to his mother the boy paid no attention to her exclamation.
Her cry had no more significance to him than the sound of the hammer pounding a piece of wood. A piece of wood and his mother are all the same to him -- though he is emotionally attached to his mother because she takes care of him and he needs her. Rather like a baby blanket he needs. In other words, he seems to have no concept of mind.
Now notice how similar this is to the behavior of newborn infant.
Clearly, something has gone wrong. Something didn't happen, or something broke, during that child's psychological development. Personality is a system of "insincts, impulses, feelings, images, memories, ideas, and attitudes, some conscious and and some unconscious." Much of the framework and foundation of personality is formed before we have any language to think with -- integrated information more profound than words and absolutely essential to the development of a human person-ality. This child is in the same predicament as a gosling that hatches and imprints on the first thing it sees -- which had better be his mother, because if it isn't (if, for example, it's a human caretaker), he is going to grow up to be a pretty weird goose. His behavior will indicate that that he thinks he's a human.
Autistic children characteristically refer to themselves in the third person. I will bet my bottom dollar that narcissists think of themselves in the third person, too. That is a strange way of relating to one's self. Normal people think of themselves in the first person as "I" except when distancing themselves from themselves because they are upset with themselves. But even then normal people don't think of themselves as "he" or "she." They think of themselves in the second person, as when a tennis player playing badly bawls himself out by thinking, "You couldn't hit a backhand in today to save your soul!"
What has gone wrong to make people think of themselves as "he" or "she?" It's like they're relating to a charcter in a novel. Everybody has a personal narrative, but it's memoir, not a work of fiction about some ficticious "he" or "she." Weird.
Normally, at the breast, his mother's eyes are about the only shapes at the focal-length an infant's eyes can bring into focus. The iris and whites sharply contrast to attract his attention. Their shape has sharply defined edges. They move to attract his attention. And they gaze lovingly into his eyes 70% of the time, in long gazes that average 20 seconds at a crack. How's that for attention?
It is through the eyes where we come into contact with the inner person of other human beings. Normal people look at the eyes on another person's face. People suffering from autism look at the mouth. And I will bet my bottom dollar that narcissists look at the mouth too.
All infant primates gradually learn to maintain continuous eye contact with their mother. Not others' eyes -- their mother's eyes. Which means they recognize her eyes. Which means they have a mental picture of their mother's eyes. They learn to follow their mother's eyes. Which means they know she is looking at something else when she glances away and that they want to share what she sees.
That doesn't sound like much does it? But it literally means that "I see it, and I know that she sees it too." In other words "she" is no inanimate object. In other other words, the infant now knows that Mother is another conscious being. Now she will notice that he begins to relate to her. Within his concept of her self, his concept of his self forms. In other words, his person-ality begins to take shape. At about eight months, an infant develops a sense that he and his mother each have inner mental states that they can share. If he could speak, he would say things like "I want that toy, and she knows I want it." Something he'd never think about a piece of wood.
He doesn't see himself. Mother is the only mirror he has. Mirroring is being looked on with joy and basic approval by a delighted parental figure. So in the mirror of his mother's eye, the infant sees himself as lovable. Soon the mirror of his father's eye is just as important.
Narcissistic parents refuse to mirror their children. Instead they demand that their children mirror them. And thus the curse is passed from generation to generation.
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