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Birthdays are weird. I feel like they often just end up reminding people of the things they thought they would've had/accomplished by "this time next year" or whatever. It's just weird. I'm 21 now, but I'm definitely not even close to feeling like an adult. This was my last real exciting milestone birthday. Now I have 30 to look forward to...ok, this is just getting to be a bummer.
ANYHOW, I do have some good things to say tonight! Not only did I make my first Etsy sale last week, I was mentioned on a blog because of my Etsy! Check out http://tamsytrends.blogspot.com/ to see a pair of my shoes featured in the latest entry.


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i am just past midway of The Husband Tree and i'm LOVING it!5 stars for sure!!
Oh you got my message!Thank you for the link :) And thank you for the awesome book.
I've had someone report a sighting of Wildflower Bride in bookstores. So it's out. YAY!
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I was recently sent a link to an interesting academic research paper. It's worth reproducing the summary in full:
Could saving the traditional pub be the answer to Britain's binge drinking problem?This sounds all well and good in a motherhood-and-apple pie kind of way, but it's extremely questionable whether it's achievable in practice. For a start, many of the traditional pubs have gone already, so it would be a case of shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted. And, while the planning system certainly can effectively stop certain types of business from opening up, it can't magic desirable ones into existence in the absence of customer demand and willingness of businesses to invest.
A research study finds evidence for the traditional pub as a site for restrained and responsible social interaction for young adults. The UK government wants further controls to restrict high street bars but on the other hand is concerned about the decline in the number of traditional public houses or pubs. A recent article published in Planning Theory & Practice, Young adults and the decline of the urban English pub: issues for planning, by Marion Roberts (University of Westminster) & Tim Townshend (Newcastle University), discusses whether the English Planning System should distinguish between pubs for the 'public good' and licensed premises associated with 'social ills'?
Roberts and Townshend bring together two issues that have pre-occupied the British government; the decline of the British pub and young people's drinking. The number of public houses in the UK has fallen by nearly one quarter in the space of three decades. Meanwhile alcohol consumption amongst young adults remains a key policy concern. The authors discuss evidence from research into local variations in youth drinking cultures in England*, which found that young people reported drinking in a restrained and responsible manner in 'traditional' pubs. Young adults in their study reported having one or two drinks on a weekday evening or sometimes not drinking alcohol at all. Such behaviour could be contrasted with heavy drinking at high street bars or at house parties.
"I've got one group of friends who I would go out clubbing with and they like to get completely wrecked… My other group of friends are more like me and like to go down the pub and have a glass of wine and stick to soft drinks after that. It depends who I am out with."
While recognising the adverse effects of excessive alcohol consumption, the authors point out that going to pubs reinforces social ties and networks. This evidence lends support to arguments for the contribution of pubs to social sustainability and paradoxically, to health, or at least a healthier mode of alcohol consumption.
The article explores the difficulties the English planning system faces in seeking to distinguish pubs that might be identified with a 'public good' from other types of licensed premises more associated with 'social ills'. The Use Class Order in the English planning system does not provide an adequate distinction between different types of drinking establishment. The authors suggest a new use class established for traditional pubs where the majority of patrons are seated. The UK government is already providing special support to 'community pubs', through the Localism Act 2011 and the Community Services Grants. The study found that its sample of young adults were prepared to travel to meet friends and that their pub going routines were rarely confined to their 'local'. This suggests that while the Localism Act may be effective in supporting well-organised community groups, it does not meet the needs of a younger, mobile demographic.
"It may seem paradoxical to support going to pubs as part of a healthier lifestyle", says Marion Roberts, "and it is important not to romanticise pubs as there are issues about the extent to which young women feel welcome or comfortable in them and that applies to other groups. Nevertheless, the planning system has been called on by politicians to help local pubs to survive and it does seem that this issue should be taken seriously."
It would also in practice be very difficult to come up with a watertight definition to distinguish "good" from "bad" businesses and, in reality, the character of a pub is often determined by its clientele rather than the other way round. People might not normally regard Wetherspoon's, specialist beer bars or upmarket dining pubs as sources of trouble and social ills, but they certainly don't conform to the classic image of the traditional local. It would be like trying to separate out healthy and unhealthy takeaways through planning law. Qualitative planning criteria are very unlikely to be workable.
A further important point is that the relationship between young people and pubs has been severely eroded by the much greater efforts made in recent years to combat underage drinking. A generation ago, underage drinking in pubs was widely tolerated so long as no trouble was caused. This taught young people how to drink responsibly, and also got them used to the habit of pubgoing. Now, when they will not get served until they are indubitably 18, and even then are constantly harassed to provide proof of age, it is hardly surprising that they go much less and feel more negatively about pubs than they once did. Yet I doubt whether a deliberate policy of turning a blind eye to well-behaved under-18s in pubs is going to find much favour in official circles.
As so often, while politicians spout weasel words about the virtues of pubs, the reality on the ground is that they continue to encourage the policies that have harmed them. They like them in theory, but not in practice. The report is, like many academic publications, bizarrely silent on the factor that in recent years has done more damage to traditional pubs than any other.
It is also very doubtful whether the widespread view that pub drinking is somehow more responsible than at-home drinking has any validity except in the context of socialising the under-25 age group. On average, adults drinking at home will drink less per sitting than those in pubs and are less exposed to risk. Plus, forty years ago, when at-home drinking was largely irrelevant, pubs were by no means all calm, well-behaved establishments – rowdy and even violent behaviour were far from unknown and, back then, if you wanted to see drunks, you found them in pubs.


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Thursday, October 30, 2008
Happy Halloween!
And just what the hell are you doing reading this?!?! Its Halloween for Christ's sake! You should be be out hustlin' candy and conducting terribly cliche seances. You should be out smashin' windows, gettin' high and tryin' to bang chicks dressed like sexy pirates or what have you (or, for you ladies - cavemen). No huh? Well then, if you insist on being a wet blanket you can at least check out these fine blogs listed below for more spooky audio goodness, or you can re-live you worst childhood nightmares over @ Kindertrauma. Also, be sure to check out my 'monster' tag for some previous posts of the haunted persuasion. Now if you'll excuse me, I got a date with a box of Alexander the Grape. Happy Halloween!
Devil's Music
The Hound Blog
Funky 16 Corners
Planet Mondo
Like Dynamite to Your Brain
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Monday, October 27, 2008
Winchell's Donut House Presents: The Red-Devil Halloween Spooktacular Part 2
Okee Dokee. Me and the Dick over @ Devil's Music got a lot of monster / Halloween related platters between the two of us. In lieu of steppin' all over each others toes (gigantic hairy ones in his case), we decided to join forces and go punch for punch on a two-headed mix so spooky that one post cannot contain the horror (two posts can't really contain it either, but we wanna be done before Christmas). His satanic majesty is runnin' the opening shot on this two-parter as we speak. Be sure to stop on by Devil's Music and fill up on some more Halloween goodness. As for my part in this musical travesty...
Eddie Bell - The Great Great Pumkin
RedBoy: While fronting the Polka band the Versatones in the late 50's, singer Eddie Blazonczyk Sr. musta ate a bad cheregi (for my Warsaw peeps!) or somethin' cause he promptly got on the rock-tip and and made some sheckles for Mercury records before cutting this insane-o 63' disk concerning mystic oracle and all around advice jocky the Great, Great Pumpkin. And just who are you to argue greatness?
"My name if the greeeeaaaat pump-kin! Whadda ya want sonny boy!"
Dicky Doo & the Don'ts - Flip Top Box
DevilDick: Before The Beatles, the earliest artists for Swan Records were Dicky Doo and the Don'ts and Billy and Lillie, who both scored hits in early 1958 to start the label off on a successful footing. "Dicky Doo" was the nickname of Dick Clark's young son, and singer Gerry Granahan used it as the basis for the group name. They scored a top-30 single with "Click Clack" (Swan 4001), but several follow-up singles could only muster mid-chart placement (40s-60s at best). Their second record (Swan 4006) paired the silly "Nee Nee Na Na Na Nu Nu" with the strange "Flip Top Box," and this record alone would have been enough to kill off any thoughts the public may have been harboring that this was a serious group… I don't know, sharing a coffin with anyone seems pretty serious to me?
Morgus & the Daringers - Werewolf
"Scooby Ooby Dooby Ooby Newbie Ahbba-Gisen. No-one under stood him, but you bet your life they listened! Owwwwwwwwwww!"
RedBoy: This Beat-Werewolf is, like, speakin' my language man! Check out your's truly's 'Things That Go 1-4-5 in the Night' mix for the skinny on faux-Morgus, as well as the yin to this killer cuts yang.
Dave Gardner – Mad Witch
DevilDick: If this here one don't send a chill down yer spine then you are certainly of the un-living!
This is a devil's music MUST for Halloween. I can damn near feel the wisp of the witch herself as she fly's by on her broom & smell the witch's cauldron a bubblin' & feel the breath of the ghouls who dance around the pot in eager anticipation of what's to come!!
I did see an original 78 of this track done by none other than Mel Allen of yep, this week in baseball fame, but some other Halloween geek (ah, hum, red boy) snatched that up on me… Oh yeah, and believe it or not this guy wound up a drug addled comedian of all things…
Dead - The Poets
RedBoy: I love how the Poets aren't fuckin' around with this title. No cutesy play one words; no atmospheric innuendo - just plain ole' D-E-A-D. This 1958 cut has been a perennial favorite for awhile now. Variations abound for this lesser known flip to 'Vowels of Love' including both black and red 'Flash' labels as well as a later billing as simply 'Poet'. By any name this is a great low-key Halloween tune.
The Monotones – Zombi
DevilDick: Ever fallen in love with a Zombi? Well apparently the Monotones did that very thing for this cut. These guys were no strangers to spooky and kooky cuts (The Legend of Sleepy Hollow) and this aint no Book of Love! The Monotones formed in 1955 when the seven original singers — all residents of the Baxter Terrace housing project in Newark, New Jersey began performing covers of popular songs. God I love Jersey!
Denny & Lenny (w/ the Hollywood Ghouls) - Monster Love
RedBoy: In the proud tradition of makin' the last dance of the evening a slow one, we're gonna wrap this Halloween hash up w/ a lttle 'Monster Love'. 63' is a little late for this kinda vocal styling, but I ain't complainin'. All you boils out there hold your ghouls tight, dim the torches, slip on a Magnum glove and show some 'Monster love'.
Red-Devil Halloween Spooktacular Part II
Well...it's been swell, but the swellins gone down. Be sure to checkout the Devil's Music for part uno of this Halloween craptacular! We now return you to our regularly scheduled program.
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Thursday, October 16, 2008
Over Ten-Thousand Served!
10,ooo hits and countin'! Let me ask you a question: who actually reads this dreck? Wait! don't answer that...
Seeing as how I just-so-happen to reach this milestone while the candy-corns a' popin', I'm gonna do what is in the nature of a musical misanthrope to do, namely, throw down a celebratory mix - and a spooky one at that.
Remember when makin' mix tapes was a pain in the dick? Me too. I find it ironic that younger kids hold the mix tape up to some form of reverence, especially when technology has effectively taken the tedium out of running out of tape on the b: side of a ninety minute Maxell right at the end of Gimme Shelter (Sonnova bitch!). Now don't get me wrong, I can appreciate an antiquated medium (ehem), but seriously...mix tapes just suck. Regardless, they still get you laid, right?
My intentions with this mix are not nearly as lofty as gettin' laid. Instead I just wanted to throw a little 'Diabolos in Musica' onto the leaf pile with nary a single word spoken or a "Boo!" to be had (OK, Baron Daemon doesn't count). With no approximations of the 'Boris' brogue extant, instead dig these choice instrumental cuts of haunted ham:
Morgus & the Derringers – Morgus Creep
Unlike the 1959 tune 'Morgus the Magnificent' by Morgus & the Three Ghouls, it's doubtful that this song / group is directly related to the Louisiana horror host of the same name. And even though these bums are nuthin' but a bunch o' creole creeps tryin' to cash in on the main man, they're still a pretty freakin' good act!
Barron Daemon – Ghost Guitars
Yup, another horror host commin at ya, this time from Syracuse NY. Fairly popular in his day, this 1963 disc by the Baron still holds regional sales records in NY state! Dig that crazy tone!
(Note: What the fuck is with the purposeful misspelling of the word D-E-M-O-N. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I didn't know that the P.M.R.C. was pokin' their ass into the instro trade. Next thing I know, a clergyman is gonna show up at my door to warn me about the dangers of Dungeons & Dragons...not that I play that shit or anything.)
The Surf Men – Ghost Hop
So-Cal surf 'N' spook from the bowels of 1962 brought to you by ex-members of the Expressos. This track is pretty ominous, even more so when you consider how light and airy the flip is (Paradise Cove). I know most Ho-dads dig the B-side, but for this red boy it's 'A' all the way!
The Crossfires - Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
One of, if not thee greatest surf band (It's really a toss-up between them & Eddie Bertrand) that ever walked a fret-board. Featuring future 'Turtles' Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman, this disc is some serious-ass surf...and you ain't even heard the flip yet. See my previous post for the whole skinny.
The Deadly Ones – It's Monster Surfing Time
One of my favorite long-plays, this album pretty much encapsulates all of the best attributes of homogenized surf culture. Couple that with a pinch of Famous Monsters of Filmland and a little Testors plastic cement and you got one monster of a studio-spawned Ax-hangin' romp. Ideally, I would have included 'Creature in the Surfer's Lagoon', on this mash-up, but I gots a fairly noisy scratch on that band, and Lord knows we're all about quality here (*cough*).
The Mysterions – Transylvania
A jangly 1960 rock cut also available on Warwick records. The Mysterions is actually a rather apt name, as I admittedly know shit about this tune. Oh well...
The Tarantulas – Tarantula
Hard to imagine Ahmet Ertegun co-signing this cut. Perhaps he was busy shoving his finger up some poor unsuspecting girl's ass (You're gonna have to read Josh Alan Friedman to catch my drift). The flip ' Black Widow' is equally cool, though it is a decidedly more low-key affair than this eight-legged mover. You gotta love the disks overall spider theme.
The Big Guys – Zombie
Much like 'Hooks' Coleman's 'Black Widow Spider', this little "Momento Mori" by the 'Big Guys' is inspired by the 3rd movement of Frederic Chopin's Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 35 (Watch here as Vladamir Horowitz fucks some shit up!). At first I found the 'Zombie' title a little strange, but in retrospect, I doubt they could fit '3rd movement of Frederic Chopin's Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 35'. on the label. Personally, I think they should have went with 'corpora lente augescent cito extinguuntur. "
Kenny & the Fiends - House on Haunted Hill
Here's another celluloid-related cut, this time inspired by the 1959 William Castle film of the same name. Also available on the 'Dot' label, 'House' is backed by the ubiquitous 'Part 2', but before you go cryin' foul about it's exclusion, the tracks are virtually identical save for some panning. Trust me. You ain't missin' much.
Jack Marshall - The Ghoul
Perhaps most famous amongst miscreants for his 'Munsters Them', Marshall is far from a one note guy. As is evident by this little 1966 B-side, Jack can certainly throw down. Shit! he's got more brass behind this cut than a Mexican firing squad, and unlike said squad, is more than twice as likely to hit you square between the eyes. What better track to send you packin'?
...and tyin' this whole train-wreck together is this 7 inch EP on the 'Sound' imprint outta Glendale California. As I'm sure you know, Halloweeny sound-effect platters are a dime a dozen, but thanks to Goth / Industrial music and Radio Shack, fairly competent theremin playin' is not.
Well...I'm whupped! Hope you dig this little foray into the world of instro-mental excess. Thanks again, dear reader, for all the laughter and the tears. Keep your orbs peeled for some more Halloween junk, including a special Halloween mix with that asshole over @ the Devil's Music. Until then...
Blues for the RedBoy Presents: Things That Go 1-4-5 in the Night!
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Labels: 1950's, 1960's, 45rpm, Halloween, Instrumental, Mix, Records, Rock and Roll, Surf
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Oooowwwwwwwww! - Goes the Lobos
There is just something plain eerie about country music (when it's done right).
Every time I spin 'Ramblin Man' by Hank Williams, or any cover of Leon Payne's 'Psycho' for that matter, I get the coyote shivers (the nervous disorder, not the canuk). Now, factor in some haunted 'hollars' and the spectre of poverties-past and those weepy lap-steel riffs can go from sad to foreboding in less time than it takes to brew up a slippery-elm tincture.
Of that strange breed of haunted hayseed, Red Sovine's 'Phantom 309' springs to mind, that and the enclosed offering by one Jimmy Kish of Nashville TN.
Kish, a self-professed entertainer, singer, song writer, square dance caller, and airplane pilot (since 1953), was a regionally famous band leader and disc jockey for WHK in Plainsville Ohio before hosting his own weekly T.V. show "Ten-O-Two Ranch" in the early 50's.
While national success eluded Kish, he released some eclectic country records up into the early 70's, including this strange little ballad concerning the well known South-Texas legend of the wolf-girl of Devil's River (Mwahahaha...oh, sorry).
In 1835, a group of American colonists, led by Dr. Charles Beale, were camped at Lake Espontosa, a renowned haunted location near what is now Carrizo Springs in southwest Texas. Half a mile away from the Beale group, John Dent and his pregnant wife Mollie Pertul Dent, both from Georgia, had built a brush cabin. Dent had come to trap beaver in the Devil's River area, north of the present day Del-Rio, but was also on the run from the law for the murder of a fellow trapper in Georgia. The Dents were to prove fortunate in their choice of a site distant from the lake. A band of Commanches raided the main Beale camp and massacred most of the inhabitants, afterwards throwing the bodies of the victims and their carts into the lake.
One night in May 1835, there was a severe thunderstorm and Mollie went into labor. She appeared to be having problems with the birth so Dent decided to ride westwards for help. He arrived at a Mexican goat ranch on the Pecos Canyon, and told them desperately about his wife's condition, begging for someone to ride back with him.
But as the Mexicans prepared their horses to leave there was a furious crash of thunder and a bolt of lightning struck Dent from his horse killing him instantly.
After a considerable delay the goat herders mounted up and followed Dent's directions. However, darkness fell before they had got over the divide to Devil's River, thus delaying the search. Finally, at sunrise the next morning they located the Dent's isolated cabin. But what they found outside the cabin, in an open brush arbor, was Mollie Dent lying dead, alone. She had apparently died in childbirth, but there was no trace of the baby anywhere. The child was never found, but fang marks on the woman's body and numerous wolf tracks over the area made the goat herders naturally assume that the infant had either been devoured or carried off by lobo wolves.
But this was just the beginning of the story. Ten years later, In 1845, a boy living at San Felipe Springs (Del-Rio) reportedly saw 'a creature, with long hair covering its features, that looked like a naked girl' attacking a herd of goats in the company of a pack of lobo wolves. The story was ridiculed by many, but still managed to spread back among the settlements. Around a year after this incident, a Mexican woman at San Felipe claimed she had seen two large wolves and an unclothed young girl devouring a freshly killed goat. She approached close to the group, she said, before they saw her and ran off.
The woman noticed that the girl ran initially on all-fours, but then rose up and ran on two feet, keeping close to the wolves. The woman was in no doubt about what she had seen, and the scattering of people in the Devil's River country began to keep a sharp watch for the girl. There were similar reports by others in the region during the following year and Apache stories told of a child's footprints, sometimes accompanied by hand prints, having been found among wolf tracks in sandy places along the river. A hunt was organised to capture the 'Lobo (or Wolf) Girl of Devil's River' as she had now become known, comprising mainly Mexican vaqueros. On the third day of the hunt the naked girl was sighted near Espantosa Lake running with a pack of wolves.
The cowboys managed to separate the girl from her wolf companions and cornered her in a canyon, where she fought like a wildcat clawing and biting frantically to keep her freedom. They finally managed to lasso her to keep her still, but while they were tying her up she began to make frightening, unearthly sounds somewhere between the scream of a woman and the howl of a wolf. As she howled, the monster he-wolf from whom she'd become separated appeared and rushed at her captors. Fortunately one of the cowboys reacted quickly and shot it dead with a pistol, at which the wolf girl fell into a faint. Securely bound, the men were now able to examine the girl and noted that despite a body covered in hair and her wild mannerisms, her appearance was human. Her hands and arms were well muscled but not out of proportion, and she lacked the ability to speak, only making deep growling noises. She moved smoothly on all fours, but was rather awkward when made to stand up straight.
The girl was put on a horse and taken to the nearest ranch, an isolated two-roomed shack amid the desert wilderness. She was put in one of the rooms and unbound, the cowboys offering her a covering for her body and food and water, but she refused, cowering in the darkest corner. They then left her alone for the night, locking the door and posting a guard outside. The only other opening in the room was a small boarded up window.
But as night fell the cowboys heard terrifying howls coming from the wolf girl's room. The strange cries carried through the still night air, unsettling her captors and soon finding answers from among the wolf pack in the wilderness beyond the shack. Soon there were long deep howls coming from all sides as the pack drew closer to the house, and occasionally strange howling screams from the girl answering them from inside her dark room. Suddenly the large pack of wolves charged into the corrals, attacking the goats, cows and horses and bringing the cowboys outside shooting and yelling to drive them away. In all the confusion the wolf girl managed to tear the planks from the window and escape into the night. The howls soon abated and the wolves crept back into the wilderness. The next day not a trace of the girl could be found.
So there you have it folks, the wolf-girl of Devil's River. Ya gotta love a good folk-tale, and this certainly is the season for spinnin' some awfully fanciful yarn. Some might call Jimmy Kish and his Slim-Whitman-esque howl "Old Hat", but at ten gallons, that's an awful lot of hat.
Wolf Girl of Devil's River - Jimmy Kish
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I'll Give You Somethin' To Cry About...
Let me tell ya, Unkle Lancifer and Aunt John over at Kindertrauma are some stand-up guys...er, one guy and a girl...I think. Anyhoo, you would figure after that whole I.N.S. black-tar heroin debacle which resulted from my last babysitting gig, that perhaps they would have gone a different route with regards to potential babysitters. But no, these two, being the good Christians that they are, have found it in their hearts to give this old drug-mule a second chance...so stop on by, but for Christ's sake don't fuck up my gig, cause I'm in the hole twenty large to a guy whose first name is a city, and I desperately need the money.
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The Art of Andrew Wodzianski
Inspired by the short-story 'Wolf-Alice' by British author Angela Carter (Highly recommended).
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Tuesday, October 7, 2008
The Incredibly Strange Blogger Who Stopped Posting and Became a Mixed-Up Zombie !!?
B-movie director Ray Dennis Steckler maintains that he envisioned his 1964 masterwork 'The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed Up Zombies' as a companion piece to 'Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb'.
If one were to follow that line of reasoning, then that would make Steckler's original title of 'The Incredibly Strange Creatures or: How I Learned to Stop Living and Become a Mixed-Up Zombie' exceptionally clever for an admittedly one-note 'mench'. Shame then that an ill-timed cease & desist order parlayed that mouthful of a title into the ridiculous film we have all come to know and love today.
(Note: Stekler's film held the distinction of being the longest film title in it's day, surpassed only by the 1967 film adaptation of Peter Weiss' 'The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade'.)
And make no mistake, we do love it! I mean, how could you not appreciate the audacity of a man who' cinematic output includes the likes of 'Rat Pfink A Boo Boo' and 'The Horny Vampire'!
Far from being Steckler's only laps in judgement, ole' Cash Flagg envisioned 'Creatures' as the 'World's First Monster Musical', a distinction dubiously attributed to Del Tenney's beach-party dust-up 'The Horror of Party Beach', though 'Creatures' bested 'Beach' in it's race to the box office by several months. And you might as well forget the fact that Steckler stole the Del-Aires' thunder by populating 'Creature's' soundtrack with his very own composition - albeit, less surf and more soul - titled 'Zombie Stomp'.
But which came first...the zombie chicken or the zombie egg?
While most people believe the 1964 Danny Ware cut of 'Zombie Stomp', pressed on REL records, to be the Real McCoy (the label confirming the track's tie-in to Steckler's 1964 film) the fact of the matter is Steckler double-dipped for his 'Stomp', the original cut of the tune being released by Bill Gholston on the same REL imprint one year prior.
Where as Danny Ware's disk backs 'Stomp' up with another track from the film (the string-drenched 'It's Incredible'), the original release bookends 'Stomp' with a weirdo tune about Frankenstein riding in a Volkswagen' titled 'Monster's A Go-Go'!
Upon closer inspection the core tracks on both versions of 'Stomp' sound exactly the same, but the vocals are obviously different (the Ware version is better). I personally can't imagine the initial release enjoying brisk sales to inspire a second crack at the zombie-themed soul market, though Ray Dennis Steckler did posses the foresight to hire Arch Hall Jr.as his romantic lead in 'Wild Guitar'...so I guess I have no choice but to trust his judgement implicitly.
Zombie Stomp – Danny Ware
Zombie Stomp – Billy Gholston
Monster A Go-Go – Billy Gholston
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The Ghost Song
With October in full western swing, were gonna throw some corn-pones into the cauldron in the guise of a little creepy 'country'.
There is a consensus amongst wise-witchy-women (not to mention assorted mountain folk), that a little pinch o' salt is just the ticket to ward off evil spirits, not that harp blower Floyd 'Salty' Holmes can be put off by such chicanery.
Take this 1954 cut in which a vengeful frog-throated spirit seeks to settle old scores w/ the man who "Shot his Great Grandpa". Besides being an all round unconventional spooker, this side illicits a certain sentimentality in this RedBoy, as my own Great Grandfather was shot in a barbershop during a Fairland Oklahoma bank robbery back in the 1930's, though he managed to tuff it out and stick to this side of the other side.
I have to admit, it saves me a lot of trouble havin' to haunt the man responsible. I mean, I barely have the time to post, much less orchestrate revenge from beyond the grave. Good thing then that ole' 'Salty' here tows the infernal line for all of us:
"Holmes was born in Glasgow, Kentucky. He became a virtuoso on the harmonica, specializing in the style known as "talking harp" which imitated the human voice (much like Sonny Terry). He also played the jug and guitar. He formed the group The Kentucky Ramblers in 1930, who changed their name to The Prairie Ramblers in 1933 and began broadcasting on Chicago radio station WLS with new vocalist Patsy Montana. They continued performing and recording under this name until 1952, playing country, hillbilly music, gospel, and pop songs. They were the backing group on Montana's platinum hit "I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart". Group members included Jack Taylor on bass, Chick Hurt on mandolin, and Alan Crocket and, later, Tex Atchison on fiddle. They made over 100 recordings between 1933 and 1940, including as session musicians.
While a member of the Prairie Ramblers, Holmes befriended Gene Autry, who invited him to Hollywood to star in westerns in 1936 and 1944; among the films Holmes appeared in are Arizona Days and Saddle Leather Law. In a scene of Arizona Days, Holmes plays two harmonicas using both his mouth and nose. The Prairie Ramblers also backed Autry on some of his recordings in the 1930s."
It's worth noting that Holmes was married to Sun records honey Gene Chapel (Welcome to the Club / I Won't be Rockin' Tonight) for a spell, whereby they made the 'Opry' rounds before callin' it quits in the late fifties. Yet of all their collaborative efforts, nothing stands the test of time like a brassed-off spook.
Ghost Song – Salty Holmes
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The Art of James Bama
Original source paintings for 1960's Aurora model kit box-tops.
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Wednesday, October 1, 2008
"That's Your Mama, Son! There's the Monster Over There!!!"
October is finally here, thus kicking off this RedBoy's month long ode to Halloween. Always an important day on my calendar, I intend to keep this month's posts on the "all together ooky" tip. Check back regularly for some spooky action, as well as a forthcoming collaboration with fellow Halloween enthusiast DevilDick over @ 'The Devil's Music'
So…shall we begin?
Like the majestic Wombat, the Gila Monster is a woefully underappreciated animal in the annals of Rock & Roll. In fact, much like the Wombat, only one individual to my knowledge has had the foresight to extol the virtues of this venomous reptile on the recorded medium of wax.
Who is this giant among men of whom I speak, why none other than Huston Texas' own Joe Johnson.
While not officially sponsored by 'Hollywood Film Corporation','Gila Monster'was initially conceived and recorded as a tie in to the 1959 HFC film 'The Giant Gila Monster' (Note: Check out the crowd scenes in 'The Giant Gila Monster' for a young, pre- '99 Chicks' Ron Haydock!). Joe Johnson pulled out all the R & B stops on this pounder. From that opening salvo of a scream to the ghetto breakdown which brings this monster home, it's tuff to top this scaly bastard "lickin' around" on the "Shela Monster" prowl.
Funny story...upon trackin' this disc down, I gave it a spin and was just about to rock out to the screamin' guitar break I have come to know and love, when all of the sudden I got hit with this weird-ass rag-time solo and a completely different take on the vocals. At first I assumed I got horn-swaggled, that is until I discovered that the promo version of 'Gila Monster' and the standard release version are two different recordings!
The promo is obviously the original take, sliding effortlessly into that cool guitar break; where as the standard version randomly pastes a piano solo right in the middle of the tune like a goddamn postage stamp. Lord knows why they would try to improve upon perfection, but at least it gives us twice the 'Monster' to dig.
In the interests of evolutionary science I have managed to track down a promo in addition to the official release, and am now passing the savings on to you, the consumer. Please enjoy a double helping of 'Gila Monster', warts and all!
Gila Monster (Promo) – Joe Johnson
Gila Monster (Release) - Joe Johnson
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Thanksgiving Feast in Minnesotaby Bill Davidge / Columbus Blue Jackets
November 23
We want to thank the Wild for displaying such great dinner time traditions for the Thanksgiving Holiday season. The CBJ came in and feasted on the Wild 4-0, breaking a streak of six consecutive games where the home team has won in this series.
The motto tonight for a period in this game was "it is better to give then receive" … oh, sorry that is Xmas, I got my holidays mixed up… and there are no holidays in hockey!!
Dan Fritsche was the first to say grace as he deposited a Brent Burns turnover into the back of the net to extend the lead to 3-0 as it goes to the score sheet as a shorthanded goal, the 4th of the year for the CBJ.
We would also like to give thanks to Michael Peca for returning to the lineup as he produced a goal and an assist. He now has 2g-7a in the last 10 games that he has been in the lineup. He added a couple of hits in a display of defense and offense for the CBJ. He saw action on the point of the first PP unit and he did an admirable job of dishing and shooting the puck (3 shots).
It was a special thanksgiving treat to have Pascal Leclaire in the nets for an ailing Fredrik Norrena(flu). He played wonderful with his composure and patience came to the fore front. He was on the top of his game. It wasn't as if Minny did not pressure him during the night. It came against a solid offensive attack, a team that has too much pride to fold the tent and retreat. Pascal collected his NHL leading 6th shutout of the year, a franchise record, and dropped his goals against to less than 2.00.
We also bless the play of our super star Rick Nash that collected a goal and an assist. He worked well with the line of Peca and Zherdev. He remains humble and forth giving in his time and effort on and off the ice.
The face-offs for the night were exceptional as the team moves into the top 3 of the NHL. They were 69% on the night with Federov going 92% (11-1) and Malhotra going 10-4 for 71%.
Curtis Glencross had four shots on goal to lead the team. He showed what the true team member category is all about, as he stepped in on Sean Hill, as Hill buried Rusty Klesla in the offensive zone.
Thanks are given to the team's tight play in all three zones as their effort stymied the offensive attack of the Wild. They killed all nine of their PP; they were 2-5 on the PP. The CBJ moved the puck around and had several opportunities to bury a couple of more.
A guy that stands tall on the defensive corps is Jan Hejda… four blocked shots, three hits and such composure in the defensive zone corners; he is a highlight film on positioning and stick position.
*Throughout the season, AAA will bring you the Broadcaster's Blogs - "Davidge Dishes" and "Rimer Ramblings". The Columbus Blue Jackets broadcasters will try to keep you update on all the behind the scenes action through their blogs, especially when the Blue Jackets hit the road. The next road game is 11/26 @Edmonton.


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VERNON — Stafford 18-year-old Kenneth W. Thompson Jr. pleaded guilty Thursday to manslaughter and assault charges in a traffic crash last year that killed a young boy, the boy's grandmother and his uncle.
Thompson's guilty pleas came as selection of a jury was about to begin in the case.
"He pleaded because he knew he was going to be found guilty in a trial," said Yvon Bergeron, whose 7-year-old son, Jeremy, died in the June 23, 1990, crash at Route 32 and Orcuttville Road in Stafford.


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Preliminary data show Illinois recorded its 4th wettest year on record in 2009.
Statewide average precipitation in 2009 was 50.3 inches -- 11 inches above normal, said state Climatologist Jim Angel of the Illinois State Water Survey.
That's the fourth-wettest year for Illinois since 1895, he said.
According to the water survey, the wettest year on record in Illinois was in 1993, when there was 51.2 inches of precipitation. Next was 2008, when there was 50.5 inches. Illinois has seen "two back-to-back exceptionally wet years," Angel said.


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Went down to the National Museum to check out The Image of Our Landscape exhibition; it's a pretty engaging visual trip through 19th century Singapore through paintings, prints and photographs. There were over 130 original paintings, prints and photographs (yeah… nothing like the real thing!), albums and illustrated books – many displayed for the first time.
As is typical of this museum, way-finding the exhibitions is not so 'in-your-face'. The first part of the exhibition, featuring the common sites through which travellers to 19th century Singapore traversed and made sense of the landscape is located at the Canyon – the basement of the new wing at back of the old museum; while the second part is located at The Balcony. This part of the exhibition explores the industry of print making and photography which catered to an essentially European audience.
Some of these images, especially those never seen before are so eye-boggling; a rare 1872 photograph of High Street (that was the place to shop in the 1960s, and not Orchard Road) and Boat Quay by Bourne & Shepherd of India, a 1890s oil painting by Dutch artist Hugo Vilfred Pedersen of Chinatown's Trengganu Street as well as a photographic panorama of Singapore town in the 1880s.
In 19th century Singapore, anyone venturing out of Singapore town did so at the risk of losing his life. It was reported that the areas of Bukit Timah, Chua Chu Kang and Pulau Ubin were menaced by man-eating tigers. They were a menace when large areas of Singapore's forests were cleared for roads and plantations.
Wrote Marsita Omar in a National Library Board article: "The first record of tigers is found in the first newspaper in Singapore, the Singapore Chronicle, dated 8 September 1831. There it was reported that a Chinaman was killed by a tiger and that probably the same tiger killed a native shortly after that. Singapore then was still covered by thick virgin jungle and it was home to pigs and deer which were food to tigers. The island formed part of a larger hunting ground for these tigers. Being good swimmers, tigers had been known to swim cross the Straits of Johore into Singapore.
When the cultivation of gambier and pepper took off in the 1840s, plantations extended beyond town and encroached on virgin jungle. By the late 1840s, the number of plantations peaked at 600. Chinese plantation coolies became easy targets for tigers. Reports of encounters with tigers increased in the 1830s and 1840s. In 1835, G. D. Coleman and his convict workers were laying out a new road through a swamp in the jungle near town when they were attacked though no one was killed.
Ravages by tigers grew so intense that it was said by the middle of the 19th century, tigers claimed one life a day. This could be doubted although not improbable. At first, estate owners tried to cover up the truth but by mid-1840s they gave up. In 1859, one village near Bukit Timah was abandoned due to too many attacks. Bukit Timah was nicknamed "A Tiger Resort". It was reported that 390 lives were killed in 1857. It was likely that the actual number was more as many tiger attacks went unreported.
The government gave a reward of $20 for every tiger killed but the increasing number of casualties led to the reward being increased to $50 then to $100. Tiger hunting became a rewarding sport offering money and adventure. Pits of 4 to 4.5 m were dug and traps set. Tigers caught were hauled out alive and put into strong rattan baskets which the tigers could not bite through. Indian convicts who were experts in hunting tigers were also employed by the government. With so many tigers killed, their numbers dwindled and they eventually perished. One French Canadian named Carrol made tiger hunting a business for himself. Occasional reports of tiger attacks were still heard towards the end of the 19th century; a man was killed by a tiger in Thomson Road in 1890 and two tigers shot at Bukit Timah in 1896. The last wild tiger, roaming in Chua Chu Kang area, was killed in the 1930s."
Travellers' impressions of Singapore through paintings and prints are significantly important being the only surviving visual records of Singapore's early development. This of course was way before photography became the dominant medium for recording images. The paintings and prints vividly captured the hilly topography of the landscape, the town, the lush vegetation, wildlife and the settlers.
This poignant image shows a Malay man in traditional dress looking across the foothills of Mount Faber towards Temenggong Abdul Rahman's village at Telok Blangah ceded to him by the British in the 1820s.
In the 1820s, the Bugis people from Sulawesi established a village in the eastern part of Singapore beterrn the Rochor and Kallang rivers. Every year, Bugis traders traversed the Malay Archipelago between June and November, collecting local produce such as edible seaweed, bird's nests, tortoiseshell, gambier, shark's fins, rattan, spices and sandalwood. At the end of their voyage, they arrived in Singapore and sold their cargo to Chinese merchants, who would in turn store it in godowns along the river, awaiting shipment to other parts of the world.
South Bridge Road, constructed in 1833 by Indian convict labour was one of 19th century Singapore's busiest streets. For almost a good decade, between 1885 till 1894, the steam tramway ran the full length of this bustling road lined with import and export businesses and goldsmith shops. Prominent landmarks were the Sri Mariamman Temple on the left and the Jamae Mosque, next to it.
Another view of the Sri Mariamman Temple and Jamae Mosque at South Bridge Road. The former was originally a wood and attap temple and rebuilt in brick by Indian convict labour in 1842-1843. The mosque with its distinctive twin minarets was a prominent South Bridge Road landmark


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I teach the 14-18 year old Sunday School class. It is by far the best calling in the church. The youth in my class are amazing. Here's an article on LDS.org about one of them.
Sunday, May 18, 2014
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Jeremy Gloff's CD release party for his 16th collection, 21st Century Love Songs, shook up the Magnum Opus art show Saturday night at the Ritz in Ybor.
Judy Tampa and her Bunko Squad had their release party for Tainted the following night at the lovely Springs Theatre, with music and magic by My Little Trotsky and Harry Hayward, respectively. (Full disclosure, my Ronny played on both CD's.)
Before we headed over to the Springs, we stopped into the new Seminole Heights establishment, Ella's Folk Art Cafe, just down the street. Rebekah Pulley was playing and we can't ever get enough of her. It was great seeing a venue made for live, original music packing in the locals who came to listen and enjoy it, not just to drink and drown it out.
For a weekend at least, good music flourished around Tampa, and this season looks promising. I snagged a brief (by no means complete) concert report from Jennifer and Bev at WMNF's ND Hour (9-10 a.m. @ wmnf.org).
11/17 Awesome New Republic, Crowbar
11/19 Song writers night at Tre Amici @ the Bunker
11/19 Ronny Elliott @ Sloppy Pelican
11/19 Roy Zimmerman with Grant Peeples
@ Unitarian Universalist Church of Tampa (UU Dome) www.uutampa.org
11/19 Shawn Kyle @ 5 art Gallery 906 N. Armenia Ave, 210
11/20 Eilen Jewell/Sarah Borges at Skippers
11/20 Geri X, Pat Macdonald (Timbuk3) & Margot West at New World Brewery
11/20 Mustard Plug, The Toasters, Voodoo Glow Skulls at Crowbar
11/21 The Revival Tour in-studio on The Saturday Asylum 2 p.m. on 88.5 WMNF
11/21 Revival Tour 8:00 PM at State Theatre in St Pete
11/21 My Little Trotsky and November Foxtrot Whiskey @ Cafe Hey, 1540 N. Franklin St.
11/21 Poetry 'n Lotion, Jim Morey & Infinite Groove Orchestra at New World Brewery
11/22 GeriX Ella's Folk Art Cafe, 5119 N. Nebraska Ave
For more local show listings, the Saturday Asylum (Saturdays from 2-4 p.m. on WMNF) has a nice, long concert report at 3 p.m.
Thanks to Jeremy Gloff & Khalid Hameed for the photos.


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American politicians have always liked to talk about how they were born in a log cabin (or the contemporary equivalent) and worked their way up. In anticipation of hearing a lot of tales of upward mobility, I did a systematic search for information on the class background of the 16 Republican candidates. I'll consider the father's job for all except Ben Carson, who was raised by his mother. In cases of fathers who changed careers, I took the job when the candidate was about 10, which means that Jeb Bush's father is counted as a businessman and Rand Paul's as a doctor.
I distinguished three classes: working class (employed doing manual work), middle class (manager, professional, or own a business or farm), and upper class (large employer). By this definition, only four of the candidates can claim the coveted working-class background. They are Ben Carson (mother had various unskilled jobs, including domestic servant), John Kasich (father was a mail carrier), Mike Huckabee (father was a firefighter), and Marco Rubio (father was a bartender). Ten had middle-class backgrounds, and two (Bush and Trump) had upper class backgrounds. At the time the candidates were growing up, in the country as a whole I think the breakdown would have been about 60% working class, 40% middle class, and only a few (less than 1%) upper class, so the middle and upper classes are over-represented among the candidates, which isn't surprising. I was struck by the fact that at least seven of the fathers were self-employed (I don't know about Chris Christie's). That makes sense given the ideology of the Republican party, but it may apply to both parties: since a politician in the United States is a kind of entrepreneur, children of self-employed people may have an affinity for the profession.
While I was at it, I also recorded the universities that the candidates had attended. Five had undergraduate degrees from Ivy League colleges, and one from Stanford. Except for Huckabee, all of the others had attended at least moderately selective colleges, as defined here.
PS: a spreadsheet with the occupations is here.


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We've been talking about the berry lip for ages on this blog; every time fall rolls around it's the seasonal look that I look forward to the most.
A juicy berry lip is rich and elegant and more wearable than a straight, classic red. And there are tons and tons of colors to choose from! From raspberry to cranberry to "wine berry," here are a few of my favorite berry hues. Post yours in the comments!
- Clinique Different Lipstick in Angel Red: this gorgeous wine color was part of the signature look created for this year's Latin Grammys, and no wonder - it's rich, satiny, and so dramatic.
- MAC Mattene Lipstick in Rougette: this semi-matte hue goes on true to shade; what you see in the tube is exactly what you get on your lips. It's a cool-toned wine berry that makes a perfect retro matte mouth. (see recap of all the Mattenes)
- Lancome Le Rouge Absolu in Ruby Silk: looks red in the tube, but goes on deep magenta berry. I first spotted this shade on the Thakoon runway a couple of seasons ago, and now it's one of my staple lipsticks for creating a cool-toned berry lip.
- Lancome Color Fever Lipstick in P.S. Kiss: Already sold out Lancome's website, P.S. Kiss was one of the most hyped shades of the season...and with good reason. It's stunning. A full application is a little harsh on me, so I "stamp" it lightly on my lips for a less intense, berry-hued finish. When applied straight from the tube with the usual "swiping" motion, it's a rich, deep burgundy. And did you know it smells like Juicy Tubes? (Still available at Nordstrom - get it now!)
- Shiseido Shimmering Lipstick in SL8: This deep violet berry looks intensely shimmery in the tube, but the shimmer is more subtle and wearable once it's on the lips. Terrific texture and staying power make it a must-have!
- MAC Lipgelee in Lu-Be-Lu: the sheerest of the bunch, this is a glossy magenta raspberry with no shimmer. Super-easy to wear and feels great on the lips.
- NARS Lip Gloss in Boogie Nights: this deep metallic raspberry shade has been a Beauty Addict staple for years! Top with a dab of Chanel Glossimer in Pinup at the center of the lip for a multi-layered effect. (See review)
- Estee Lauder Pure Color Gloss in Cranberry: the reddest of the glosses listed here, Cranberry looks like a classic ruby in the tube, but takes on more of a fuchsia cast on the lips. Cool-toned and shiny with just a smidge of shimmer.
- MAXalicious Glaze in Secret Rendezvous: berry perfection right at the drugstore! Secret Rendezvous is a medium shimmering red berry that smells rather realistically of chocolate and provides even, smooth coverage with good pigment. (See review)
- Estee Lauder High Gloss in Jewel: the darkest of the High Gloss shades, Jewel is a deep burgundy berry with tiny flecks of shimmer. Dramatic and gorgeous.


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Thursday, October 4, 2007
Red State, NRO Cover the Draft General Pace Movement
We need to ensure that membership in the Draft General Pace Facebook Group continues grow. Please spread the word. The website will go live soon. More to follow.
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National Review wants Pace to run because National Review is controlled by conservative Roman Catholics.
Pace seems to have served honorably for many years, and appreciably stood up to Rumsfeld on occasion.
But Virginia has gone far enough in the direction of snubbing, disdaining, fearing and even hating homosexuals. Electing Pace would be a clear step further in that direction.
Certainly I will not vote for him.
- October 4, 2007 at 8:52 PM
- Brian Mazanec said...
Scott-- We appreciate your comments here but obviously completely disagree with your spin of some of Gen Pace's comments regarding same-sex sexual activity. Pace stood up for he UCMJ which clearly does not condone or support adultery or homosexual activity, this is a far cry from "fearing and even hating homosexuals." Gen Pace believes children deserve a mother and a father, not two "moms" or "dads" choosing to deny a child that most healthy environment. This idea is clearly popular in Virginia, with nearly 60% of voters supporting the Marriage Amendment in 2006 despite a multi-million dollar distortion campaign to defeat it and an unusually tough political environment. Gen Pace's values are Virginia values.
- October 5, 2007 at 3:19 AM
- Prospero said...
PLEASE run Pace against Warner: the USA and the South need more people like Warner easily elected to the Senate, so the patriots can put their money into tougher races, like who succeeds Dominici. If "Pace's values are VA's values", then that goes a long way to explaining why Southern Whites are frequently morally and intellectually bankrupt.
- October 6, 2007 at 12:04 PM


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Jepara, Central Java
For years I've always wanted to go to Jepara ― Java's oldest trading port and the centre of Indonesia's popular over-wrought carved lounge set production ― but I have never mustered the extra effort: I have been too worn out by the marvels of Demak and Kudus along the heavily congested North Coast road.
Now Lion Air flies Denpasar to Semarang direct, daily, and my advisor on all things Islam-Majapahit and North Coast Javanese Soedarmaji Damais says I must see the tomb of the legendary 16th century princess Ratu Kalinyamat (Ratu Jepara) who once sent 500 warships to Malacca to battle with the Portuguese.
Once committed, I even toyed with the idea of going to picturesque Karimun Java island one hour by fast boat from Jepara but ended just getting a car and driver on line from the Central Java based Karimun Java Tours.
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In Jepara I stay at the refreshingly local Palm Beach Resort on a beach just south of the main harbor. It is the preferred weekender for Semarang yuppies ― a large demographic group who all have large cameras and think of the beach as a large outdoor restaurant.
It is still fasting month and amazing feral street bands are playing in the night market when we check out downtown on our first night.
Next day, early morning, I visit the tomb complex ― mosque, royal graves, museum ― which is a gem of coastal Islam-Majapahit architecture and landscape design. The gates and courtyard walls are still predominantly 16th century red-brick design and the cemetery gardens within are a riot of color ― bright yellow codeum (puring batik/crotons), blood red cordylines (andong) and plumeria (kamboja) abound.
The mosque front is similarly decorated with carved limestone panels which all date from the 16th century. The mosque interior is quite Byzantine ― almost Damascus church-like ― in it's colour and detailing.
Ratu Kalinyamat is famed for having meditated for months in a dark forest, naked, her body covered only by her long hair, to gain strength to avenge the murder of her young husband. She is believed to have formed a divine alliance with Ratu Kidul, the legendary Goddess of the South Seas who is rumoured to have imparted some of her 'powers'.
Today, Ratu Kalinyamat's tomb dispenses holy water from a nearby well that is supposed to have magical powers.
The museum has a fine collection of old bits and pieces including some Balinese-baroque-looking teak door leafs (lawang) and turned timber pavilion columns, identical to those on the entrance pavilions at the Makam Sunan Kudus nearby.
The complex custodian (Juru Kunci) is a learned man: together we lament the loss of many fine old timber-framed mosques in Java and the importance of architectural conservation. The nearby Makam Sunan Muria (the artist's saint) has been ruined by restoration he comments.
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As it's still early morning we make a dash for the main harbor and fish market to check out the local scene.
The town's 300 meter long jetty is another riot of colour ― North Coast sailors don't hold back in the fashion stakes. One fisherman has 'teamed' his outfit with the faded indigo of his boat's nets (See photo above).
There is Javanese dangdut music blaring from every mast, a five star warung on wheels serving triple-by-pass bakwan donuts and a host of hombres ready to pose and prance for the cameras. It is etho-cinematographer heaven.
The nearby fish market, surrounded by local tall boats, is equally vibrant.
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On the way back to our hotel we discover the Hok Tek Tong Chinese Temple, the oldest in Java, founded during the 15th century by Kung Fu masters from the fleet of famed Chinese Admiral Cheng Ho. Under the main altar table I find votive images to all the main deities — Hindu, Muslim and otherwise — of Java.The museum of the Demak Mesjid Agung has the original Hindu — early 16th Century doors from Majapahit palace in East Java and the original columns from the old palace's pendopo agung now form the Serambi veranda of the mosque complex. The doors are amazing for their bright poly-chromatic design — almost in the ornate style of Sebatu, Bali.
Day Two was spent in Demak — visiting the tombs and museum of the magnificent 16th century Mesjid Agung — and Semarang, a city I've never really 'cracked'.
The graveyard behind the mosque has some beautiful central Javanese pavilions which house the tombs of the founders of the Mataram-Islam dynasty, Raden Patah and his brothers, who were sons of the last Hindu King of Majapahit.
From Demak it is one hour drive west to Semarang capitol of Central Java, in Dutch colonial times.
We drove through the old Dutch colonial era part of Semarang which is a living museum of dying buildings. In one quarter I found an outdoor cockfighting arena and related market place at an intersection of magnificently decayed early 19th century buildings. Ficus trees grew out of the roof drains to such an extent that the roads below were in permanent shade.
We stayed hard on Chinatown in the fabulous 60s era METRO hotel — a marvel of Soviet era decoration and friendly Central Javanese service. All lifts lead to the legendary massage parlour in the basement.
One could spend a week exploring old Semarang — also site of another magnificent 16th century timber-framed mosque, the Mesjid Agung.


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I've just released version 1.1 of MediaInfoFetcher. This is a application that can be used to find Film and TV Show meta data, and store it in various formats. It also can be used to rename media files using this data. The latest version can be found here.
Changes are as follows:
- Able to rename Films with data fetched from the web.
- Added new Film source for fetching film information from www.imdb.com.
- Updated stores to store film information.
- Added new MP4 store for storing metadata in mp4 files used in iTunes.
- Added support for renaming .mp4 and .m4v files.
- Film posters are fetched from the Internet and stored in .mp4 and .m4v files.
- Updated to the latest format changes of www.tv.com site.


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India's prominent weekly newsmagazine 'Outlook' in its issue dated July 30, 2012 resorted to what one can perceptively call a cheap jibe at President Obama of the United States. It replicated the 'Time' July 16. 2012 Cover showing Indian Prime Minister and the label 'The Underachiever'. The Indian magazine issue referred carried a photograph of President Obama on the Cover similarly titled 'The Underachiever'.
By no stretch of imagination can the Indian PM be compared to President Obama in terms of decisive political and strategic leadership. Three things come to mind for this cheap jibe, namely that the Indian magazine was nudged by the Indian Establishment for a riposte, or that Outlook was toadying to the establishment on its own, or finally that misplaced nationalism got the better of objectivity of the Editor-in-Chief.
Whatever be the reason the Outlook riposte left a bad taste in every right-thinking Indian especially for a magazine that claims a stature for itself in India. The riposte timing could have been staggered and the Cover should not have been an exact replica of the US Magazine and plagiarising the same title.
Journalistic and intellectual bankruptcy is the reaction that immediately comes to mind. This is not the first time that Outlook has distinguished itself negatively. Soon after India's nuclear weapons tests in 1998 its Editor-in-Chief Vinod Mehta had criticised then PM Vajpayee and argued that what was the need for nuclear weapons tests since China had not fought a war with India after 1962 and Pakistan had not attacked India after 1971. Pakistan's attacks on Kargil and the Kargil War came soon after and China has resorted to noticeable military brinkmanship against India.
Reverting to US President Obama's stature, what stands out is that under his decisive political leadership, the United States could finally delink itself from Iraq and turned the tide in Afghanistan. On Afghanistan, India's policy establishment is fervently hoping that the United States never makes a military exit from Afghanistan. President Obama in his personal signature style of decisive strategic leadership has asserted that the United States would partially exit from Afghanistan in 2014 and thereafter continue to be militarily embedded in Afghanistan with a sizeable military nucleus embedment even beyond 2014.
Finally President Obama cannot be remotely compared with PM Manmohan Singh because unlike the Indian PM, he is not "remote controlled" by an authority outside the Government. President Obama takes independent decisions without reference to any Remote Controlling Authority.
President Obama is a good friend of India and in relation to India's military threats, namely Pakistan and China, he has done nothing to jeopardise Indian security. Rather he has upheld India's strategic sensitivities and therefore did not deserve a cheap jibe as has been done.


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Jirayr Sefilian is free!
One of the first political prisoners of the Movement was released today after 2 years in jail. Jirayr Sefilian was jailed in 2006 for a possession of a handgun - a pistol given to him by the President of Gharabagh for his heroism during the war.
Shortly after his release Sefilian visited the Azatamartik who are on hunger strike at Yerablur.
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The rise in body armor among the civilian population has been trending upward the last several years due to a variety of factors--economic fears, lower cost of armor (especially soft panels and steel plates), and a better understanding of the capabilities of these systems have all helped in the proliferation of civilian owned/used body armor.
Most plate carriers or body armor systems on the market are marketed toward the military/LE community however; the features and prices reflect it as well. One offering out now on the lower end of the cost spectrum is the Condor XPC. It comes to market around $60-90 and claims to offer some of the features of the top notch offerings out there so I snatched one up to see if it's true.
-Cost. It's probably going to be the driving factor for most folks looking at this rig.
-It can be used with just soft armor, plates, or a combination of the two.
-Available in black, tan, OD green, and multicam.
-Hook and loop sections on the front and back for nametapes, patches, ect... These sections can still be used with MOLLE compatible accessories.
-Fully adjustable cumberbun.
-Did much better in my drag test that I expected honestly.
-Adjustable shoulder straps.
-Shoulder strap padding is better than some of Condor's previous offerings that I've seen.
-Comes in S/M (takes 10x12.5'' plates) and L/XL (takes 10.5x14.5'' plates)
-I'm not a fan of the mesh interior lining. They say it's for cooling but I'd prefer some normal cordura for increased durability.
-The hydration tube loops seem like they don't integrate well into the design. I'd like to see them redesigned.
-There is a map pouch in the front. It doesn't fold down like many other carriers though. That's probably just a personal preference thing however.
-I have a bunch of plate carriers; the stitching on this isn't as heavy as some of my high end carriers--no doubt about it. But, for most non-military folks it'll likely hold up just fine. Time will tell I suppose.
Here's a review/overview video with some shooting, a drag test, a discussion of the features of the carrier, and just my thoughts on it overall:


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For my pops, who loves hot rods. I contacted his favorite magazine, Ol Skool Rodz.
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Thank You, Bats!
I meant to post this sooner as this piece was sent to them over a month ago.
For Cancer Bats, who lent their musical talent to my very first video of Sal, I created this piece as a thank you.
I was told that it now hangs in the studio with them :)
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Saturday, October 24, 2009
Silly Labbit
I have yet to paint him but this will be at the DCon show coming in November in Pasadena.
Little hands and little faces...awww...
This little labbit will have a rider on his back :) Stay tuned for more updates.
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Collab Rollie Part 1
The Rollie Show is just around the corner. As mentioned, I am doing a couple of collab pieces with other participating artists, Nemo and NervisWr3k.
First up, NervisWr3k vs. Jay222.
NervisWr3k sent me his half first to let me finish the rest of the half. An ugly mutation of this union came about.
NervisWr3k did a great job and had details coming out from every angle. I could not disappoint.
Stay tuned for Nemo's collab piece that I've sent out for him to finish.
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
My Symbiote
For the Symbiote Contest being held over at Spanky Stokes, I've submitted photos to Spanky awhile back ago.
Up top shot of his slimy forehead.
Currently, he's being displayed at Terminal22. Go see his smiley face in person!
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Special Delivery For Dragatomi
For the amazing couple at Dragatomi, I created this piece using a mini Munny as a thank you.
This is roughly 9" tall; big alterations from a humble mini Munny's beginning. I hope they'll enjoy it as much as I did making it. My favorite piece thus far:)
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Rollie Pollie
The Rollie Show on October 30th:
You still got time, folks. Get your rollies in!
Here's a peek of my submission for the show:
This guy started out as a standard ol' roll-on; 2 1/2" tall. The outcome: roughly 9" (more/less).
Be on the look out for a couple of collab pieces I'm doing with Nemo and NervisWr3k for the show.
"The Rollie Show"
Fri, Oct 30 | 7pm
@ All The Right
3561 Junction Blvd
Corona, Queens
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Monday, October 12, 2009
Mr. Fuel @ Dragatomi
Behold. Awesomeness.
My favorite from the bunch.
Pen and ink. That is all. Check his work out here.
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Creative Color [via denyse schmidt]
I can totally see myself over indulging in a project such as this. Filled with color and simplicity, these colorful adornments created by quilter and Textile Designer Denyse Schmidt would add character to many different spaces. I can see a bunch of them stacked randomly in a cute dish/bowl. I can also see these as Christmas tree ornaments as well..yes, I am quirky enough to do so! LOL. You can find the how-tos of this project along with a great feature on Denyse in the Summer 2009 issue of Creative Home (psst...i love this issue of Creative Home by the way..it's filled with lots of color goodness...as usual!)
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Seems Viggo Mortensen isn't a big fan of digital effects in movies, or at least the overuse of them, as it sounds as if he isn't too thrilled with The Hobbit movies.
Of course, Mortensen played Aragorn for Peter Jackson in the Lord Of The Rings, and he even says the sequels for LOTR even started to get out of control.
Here is what he had to say about it to The Telegraph:
Peter was always a geek in terms of technology but, once he had the means to do it, and the evolution of the technology really took off, he never looked back. In the first movie, yes, there's Rivendell, and Mordor, but there's sort of an organic quality to it, actors acting with each other, and real landscapes; it's grittier. The second movie already started ballooning, for my taste, and then by the third one, there were a lot of special effects. It was grandiose, and all that, but whatever was subtle, in the first movie, gradually got lost in the second and third. Now with The Hobbit, one and two, it's like that to the power of 10.
I guess Peter became like Ridley Scott – this one-man industry now, with all these people depending on him. But you can make a choice, I think. I asked Ridley when I worked with him (on 1997's GI Jane), 'Why don't you do another film like The Duellists [Scott's 1977 debut, from a Joseph Conrad short story]?' And Peter, I was sure he would do another intimately scaled film like Heavenly Creatures, maybe with this project about New Zealanders in the First World War he wanted to make. But then he did King Kong. And then he did The Lovely Bones – and I thought that would be his smaller movie. But the problem is, he did it on a $90 million budget. That should have been a $15 million movie. The special effects thing, the genie, was out of the bottle, and it has him. And he's happy, I think…"


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BUFFALO—U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Pauline Manuel, 57, of Buffalo, New York, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara to conspiracy to commit money laundering. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, a fine of $500,000, or both.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert C. Moscati, who is handling the case, stated that Manuel shipped a package containing nearly $110,000 from Buffalo to Houston, Texas at the request and direction of her son, David Manuel, and others. David Manuel pleaded guilty on June 1, 2012 to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine. He admitted to conspiring with others to purchase up to 20 kilograms of cocaine at a time in Houston for transport and resale in Buffalo.
Pauline Manuel was arrested along with 19 others for their involvement in a multi-kilogram cocaine distribution network. She is the 17th defendant to be convicted.
The plea is the culmination of an investigation on the part of special agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Safe Streets Task Force, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge Christopher M. Piehota; the Drug Enforcement Administration, under the direction of Wilbert L. Plummer; Acting Special Agent in Charge, New York Field Division; and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, under the direction of Resident Agent in Charge Frank Christiano.
Sentencing is scheduled for September 28, 2012 at 1:00 p.m. before Judge Arcara.


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Monday, August 24, 2009
Cheddar Squash Strata
I made this a couple of weeks ago. It was SOOOOO great! It would be really great as the weather gets cooler!
4 T. butter
3 lbs yellow squash, sliced
1/2 medium onion, chopped
2 eggs
1/2 c. milk
1 T. light brown sugar
1 t. salt
1 t. ground sage or 1 T. chopped fresh sage
2 1/2 c. whole wheat bread cubes
2 c. grated sharp Cheddar cheese
In a large saucepan, melt the butter over medium heat. Saute the squash and onion until tender, about 12 minutes.
Preheat the oven to 350. In a medium bowl beat the eggs. Add the milk, brown sugar, salt, and sage and mix. Add to the squash and onion mixture. In a 2-quart casserole layer half the bread, half the squash mixture and 1 c. of the cheese. Repeat layers, ending with the remaining cup of cheese. Bake for 45 minutes.
Makes 6-8 servings.
2 comments:
- Nicole said...
Wow that looks delightful! I'm hungry now!
- Friday, September 04, 2009 2:37:00 AM
- Lindsay said...
that looks AMAZING!
- Wednesday, September 09, 2009 10:10:00 PM
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Tapping fingers: Give them sticky tack to rub back and forth with their fingers. My personal favorite brand is:
Girls with ADD / ADHDJuly 01, 2012
Tapping fingers: Give them sticky tack to rub back and forth with their fingers. My personal favorite brand is:
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- Lisa R. said...
This is a wonderful post. I am definitely pinning your ideas for dealing with girls with ADD/ADHD. I love the ball idea!
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- July 1, 2012 at 4:27 PM
- Nikki Sabiston said...
Great point! I also usually get a class full of wiggly worms every year (including 3 girls this past year!) I also have a son with ADHD so I get it all day long! I have had success with the office idea as well, but I have never tried headphones - I think I'll work on that for next year. What kind do you use?
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- July 1, 2012 at 9:08 PM
- Michelle Johnson said...
Thanks for posting this article. My daughter has ADD and many of her teachers have failed to acknowledge it because she isn't hyperactive in class. She wants to please her teachers so much that this is all she focuses on, and misses the lesson.
- July 1, 2012 at 9:48 PM
- Michelle said...
I'm glad you ladies found some helpful information with this post. I know I personally learned some new tips when I began reading about the difference between girls and boys with ADD/ADHD.
For headphones, I've tried two different types. My tech teacher gave me some broken headphones that I cut off the cord and used. I've also bought some of the headphones at Home Depot ,that guys who use a jackhammer use. These are by far the best ones, but they are pricey. I think several years ago when I bought mine they were $25/piece. Sometimes your librarian also has broken headphones that she/he will donate to the cause. Good luck!
- July 2, 2012 at 11:49 AM
- Owl Things First said...
Great post! I found you on pintrest! I have two daughters with ADD. My son doesn't have it...strange, huh? Anyway, my oldest finally got help in ninth grade, and I've been more on top of things with my youngest. It presents itself completely different with girls, but I ache for the social problems it creates. Thanks for getting the word out!
Owl Things First
- July 12, 2012 at 7:43 AM
- Lynda Sander said...
As far as headphones go, remember that some kids ( my ADHD daughter included) NEED noise to focus. She is allowed to listen to classical music while working and the difference is amazing. The way my ADD husband explains it to me (he has the same tendancy) is that it cuts out the constant stream of dialog going on and that white noise is almost annoying to him, like a constant buzzing to the rest of us. So, if quiet phones don't work try giving them some classical to listen to!
- February 3, 2013 at 5:49 PM
- Laura Kirschner said...
Michelle, I appreciate the articles about girls with ADHD. It is just so hard for them, when they do not have the perfect social skills we expect of girls.
Great blog and TPT products! Laura
- August 14, 2013 at 10:44 PM
- I am Bullyproof Music - Lessia Bonn said...
As an adult with ADHD who works with ADHD and ADD girls all the time-- thank you so much! This is great. So useful.
- October 15, 2013 at 11:46 AM
- Katie Piggott said...
The ball idea sounds awesome...I only wish I had access to them!
How do you keep the kids from being distracted by the sticky tack (or losing it or sticking it to the carpet/walls/tables, etc)? I have ADD and I know that would have been a major distraction for me. I wouldn't be staring into space, but I wouldn't have been listening either.
I teacher kindergarten and I have one little girl who is on the moon most of the day, she has a new best friend who is almost as bad (I'm not sure whether to be glad the new friend has brought her back to earth, or frustrated that they now distract each other). I'm not really sure what to do with them most of the time, none of the tricks that worked great with my ADHD boys last year work!
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Military Explores Foul-Smelling Weapons
January 18, 2002
Bullets, guns, grenades, mines, tanks and missiles: the military has many weapons with the power to injure or kill people. But what if you want to disable and capture the enemy rather than cause a mortal injury?
Law enforcement officers have a wide variety of non-lethal weapons that attack the senses to subdue people. Bright, flashing lights can blind people temporarily; loud noises (stun grenades) can stop people in their tracks; tear gas, mace and pepper spray are chemicals that may cause intense pain. The military is now targeting another sense to attack: smell.
Chemical and Engineering News reported that the US military has asked the Monell Chemical Senses Center to develop smells that can be used to disperse crowds and prevent entry to specific areas. The Monell Chemical Senses Center is focusing on biological smells because these odors are thought to be recognized by people around the world. Researchers are working with odors from garbage, human waste and burnt hair to make the perfect stink bomb. The military hopes that a stink bomb will make people run away in disgust or stay away from a place that smells bad. In tests already performed, some of the odors have caused shallow breathing, increased heart rate and signs of nausea.
What smells would you use in a stink bomb? On second thought, don't tell me. I don't want to know.
Odor Warfare. Stinky Bombs. Chemical and Engineering News, January 7, 2002, p. 25.
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Oberlin, Ohio - DePauw was outshot by host Oberlin, 54-28, but the Tigers scored on 16 of their 21 shots on goal on the way to a 16-11 North Coast Athletic Conference win at Oberlin.
The Tigers finished their season at 8-6 overall and 3-5 in the NCAC, while the Yeomen wrapped up at 6-9 overall and 2-6 in conference play. It also marked the first winning season in DePauw's five-year history.
Ben Sherman scored the game's first goal just 2:05 into the contest before Oberlin countered 35 seconds later. The Tigers took the lead for good just 13 seconds later and scored three times in a 2:03 stretch for a 4-1 lead.
DePauw held a 7-2 lead after one quarter and 10-4 at halftime before grabbing its laregest advantage at 14-6.
Sherman led the Tigers with five goals and added an assist, while Steen Jorgensen followed with three goals. Austin MacDonald assisted on a team-high three goals. DePauw goalie Charlie Robson turned away 16 Oberlin shots.
Eric Hager paced Oberlin with five goals and Reese Koburov added two. Calvin Filson recorded five saves for the Yeomen.
Oberlin won 24 of the 31 faceoffs and held a 38-19 advantage in ground balls. Seven different DePauw players had two ground balls each, while Kinori Rosnow led Oberlin with 15.
DePauw had 16 turnovers to Oberlin's 19 and Donny Bleifuss led the Tigers with four caused turnovers. Oberlin's Erik Zeug also caused four turnovers.