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"Does This Look Like AIDS?"
This entry has been cross-posted from Brandon's Blogspot blog, My Feet Only Walk Forward, which is home to Brandon's general musings on life, the world and other matters.
There are those moments in life when an individual opens up his mouth and something so far beyond ridiculous and inappropriate comes out that your first and immediate reaction is to start looking for hidden cameras. As the crazy continues you may even begin to wonder about your own insanity or eyeball your cocktail in an effort to figure out if perhaps you've been roofied and are about to pass out and wake up in a trailer park on the outskirts of Weehawken.
And sometimes when you have those moments you are given a harsh reality check of just how much work there is left to do in this world.
Last night, while at dinner with Keith and the fabulous Chad Pace aka Divine Grace, after a very short foray into Fashion Night Out 2011, we were enjoying delicious margaritas and burritos at Lime Jungle with their signature homemade salsas (try the mango habanero ... it was out of this world), when a gay from New Jersey approached our table.
How did we know he was from Jersey, you might ask yourself, and the answer is that Jersey Gays give off a particular aura that is a combination of old PBR, corn chips, and cheap lube. Oh yeah, and we asked him.
The kid walks up to our table, startling us by his abrupt manifestation, and asks us politely if he might ask us a question. We say yes and the conversation followed:
New Jersey Gay: "Do you think this neighborhood has a higher rate of HIV infection than normal?"
Us: *blink* *blink* *blink* (in unison)
Me: "Well, ummm, I wouldn't know the answer to that question, but I am sure there are resources onine that map out HIV infection rates in a city area, why do you ask?"
New Jersey Gay: "Well let me ask you this ... can you get HIV from, you know, getting a blow job."
Keith: *eyes widen*
Chad: *eyes narrowing*
Me: "Well, you can but the risk of infection is relatively low ..."
New Jersey Gay cuts me off and asks, "But what about, you know, giving one," and he then mimes giving a blow job."
Me: "Well, as I said the risk is low ..."
New Jersey Gay interrupts again,"I have a picture of me with Brittney Spears ... not sure if you guys would even care but a guy like me with a picture with someone like her ... well ... you know ..."
At this point my This-Poor-Gay-Is-Higher-Than-A-Kite-Dar goes off. Chad and Keith start to talk at once.
Chad: "Have you ever heard of the Internet ..."
New Jersey Gay (missing the sarcasm): "Yes ..."
Chad: "You can get this information from the Internet ... you might want to try it."
Keith: "What was your original question?"
New Jersey Gay: "Can you get HIV from a blow job?"
Me: "No, actually, you asked about HIV infection rates in this neighborhood."
Keith: "Why would you ask that? And why would you come up to us and ask that question?"
New Jersey Gay: "If I got AIDS, I would kill myself. I don't want to get tested."
At this point, I am trying to figure out how to best intervene in the conversation and figure out what this guy really needs in terms of immediate information. So I say: "I am HIV positive, and I live a really amazing life."
This statement seems to break through the young, confused, and tweaked man's head for a moment.
New Jersey Gay: "That's really brave of you to say that." Pity was oozing out of his face.
Me, slightly annoyed, "And it's really dumb to not get tested. You should call GMHC and get tested."
New Jersey Gay: "But I heard that if you are circumcized you can't get it. I'm cut. Are you cut?"
I was so shocked that I actually answered automatically, "Yes."
New Jersey Gay: "And you still got It?"
Then the drugs the guy was on must have kicked in good enough to truly short circuit any ability to think rationally, as he slaps his hand on the table, shows us a finger nail with a white half moon on the nail and says:
Right then, Brandon the educator left the building, and Brandon the about to kick-his-ass took over. I said politely, but firmly, "You need to walk away now and go back to your table."
Keith was much less polite and much more forceful. I watched his body contract and compact. I call him the Puma as a term of endearment, but in that moment he seriously looked like he was going to go jungle cat and leap over the table and shred this kid. Keith told the kid to walk away, and though the kid mumbled something about not liking being told what to do. He said so while walking quickly back to his table. A moment later he goes to the bathroom and he returns shortly thereafter with his eyelids fluttering in a manner that says clearly that he is under the influence of some sort of narcotic.
When the conversation started, I really felt that it was a moment for education. The guys questions, though massively ill informed were legitimate. It was obvious that despite the tremendous amount of public education that has happened around HIV/AIDS prevention/transmission that somewhere somehow the public education campaign had failed this kid. From what we could tell from the outside, the kid (aka somewhere in his mid-20s early 30s) was white, probably middle to upper middle class and spoke as if he had received formal education. How he had such little knowledge about HIV transmission or could imagine that AIDS was something that you could identify vis a vis a fingernail abnormality was probably a combination of lack of education and the seemingly very efficacious illegal substances he was on, but the overall situation was so surreal that all three of us, afterwards, would have sworn it was a group hallucination if the kid hadn't still been visible to us less than 10 feet away.
In the end, despite the overall screwed up nature of the situation and the immediate internal emotional drama it stirred up for me as a person living with HIV, the real lesson was that HIV/AIDS prevention education has not reached as broadly or deeply as it should after 30 years of the pandemic. Abstinence only laws and Right wing religious education that short circuits real life saving education has an impact in places that are unexpected (aka not only the Deep South but just across the river in Jersey or in the rural Midwest and Southwest). And, there is a lot of work to do to stop the ignorance that lack of education around HIV and STIs breeds.
And if I ever see the New Jersey Gay on the street ... he may get a free baptism in the Hudson.


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NEW DELHI: It had been a brutal August for India's Congress party: economic growth was wilting, the monsoon rains were failing and the opposition had it cornered on yet another corruption scandal.In stepped Sonia Gandhi to revive the morale of the ruling party's lawmakers, exhorting them at a meeting to "stand up and fight, fight with a sense of purpose and fight aggressively". It was a stunningly assertive speech from the normally temperate matriarch of a dynasty that has ruled India for most of its post-independence era.And yet few at the gathering were aware that just a week earlier she had performed an even more dramatic about-face, agreeing to a raft of economic reforms that would be unveiled on September 13 and 14.Gandhi has no official government post, but as Congress party president and torchbearer of India's widely revered first family, she has the last word on big policy issues: and for her, social welfare has always come before liberalizing the economy.However, more than a dozen officials and party leaders close to the secretive inner circle of the Italian-born leader told Reuters that Gandhi was persuaded of the need for urgent action to avert a repeat of the crisis that took India to the brink of bankruptcy in 1991."This time there was a very grim scenario," said Rashid Kidwai, a Sonia Gandhi biographer who was given an account of the arguments made over weeks by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his new finance minister behind the closed doors of colonial-era government bungalows in New Delhi and even on a plane journey."It's not that she wanted to go for all this, but it was made very clear to her that, if she didn't, there would be far more dire consequences," Kidwai said.Sources said the trigger for the reform campaign in Asia's third-largest economy came with the return of P. Chidambaram as finance minister on August 1.An eloquent Harvard-educated technocrat with a track record as a reformer, he replaced Pranab Mukherjee, a left-of-centre Congress stalwart who had consistently warned Gandhi against radical reforms that could cost the party votes."Pranab was from the old school of Indian politics," said a senior government official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. "The prime minister and the finance minister had to persuade Mrs. Gandhi that good economics was good politics."Her acquiescence in the end led to this month's "big bang Friday" when, a day after taking an axe to costly subsidies on diesel, the government announced that the retail market would be opened to foreign supermarket chains and the bar on foreign investment in both airlines and broadcasters would be lifted.In sum, these were the most sweeping reforms since Singh took office in 2004 and – in the space of 48 hours – they dispelled the image of a prime minister who was losing his mojo as India's high-trajectory growth faltered.A RELUCTANT REFORMERHowever, insiders say Gandhi remains instinctively wary of economic liberalization and trimming the budget deficit. For months, she had held out against cutting fuel subsidies that are aimed at the poor and the country's rural majority, fearing the impact on the Congress party's fortunes.She only agreed when Singh and Chidambaram spelled out that new growth generated by reforms and improved investor sentiment would have a trickle-down effect and provide funds for welfare spending in time for elections due by mid-2014."They explained to Mrs. Gandhi that social benefits for the poor will need deep pockets," said a Congress party source who declined to be named because the discussions were confidential.Reuters reviewed more than 30 letters written by Gandhi to the prime minister and U.S. diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks that portray her as passionate about social issues, and attached to protecting the poor.That means the sudden burst of reforms could be cut short if Gandhi – who Forbes magazine ranks as the world's sixth most powerful woman – sees no benefits for the rural poor on whom her party relies for votes.Indeed, party sources said she will now focus on passing a bill on universal food security in December, a populist plan that would cost billions of dollars at a time when her government is under intense pressure to rein in spending."She just wants enough budgetary resources available to finance her welfare schemes," said Swapan Dasgupta, a prominent journalist and commentator who leans towards the opposition."She has never spoken about reforms. What she has done is make Congress think of reforms as a low priority and a political liability – she has ingrained that mindset in the party."A request to interview Gandhi was declined.PARAMOUNT POWERSonia Gandhi, 65, carries the authority of a political family that, after India won independence from Britain in 1947, drove a vision of democratic socialism to uplift the vast rural masses. With that came a mind-boggling range of controls that tied the economy down and kept it closed to global markets.A turning point came in 1991 when a slump in exports following the collapse of the Soviet Union and a leap in oil import costs due to the Gulf War tipped the country into a balance of payments crisis.Manmohan Singh, then finance minister, responded with shock treatment, devaluing the rupee by nearly 19 percent. So determined was he to push this through, when the prime minister of the day got cold feet, he reportedly blamed the infamous inefficiency of India's telephone system to pretend that he couldn't contact the central bank in time.His moves to prise open the economy set the stage for a long run of dazzling growth that peaked at 9.7 percent in 2006/07.Although Gandhi appointed Singh as prime minister when the Congress party returned to power eight years ago, she has a far more socialist mindset than the Oxford-educated economist who drove that first round of reforms.Sources close to the Gandhi family say she has been strongly influenced by her late mother-in-law, former prime minister Indira Gandhi, whose policies were considerably left of centre.Sonia Gandhi initially declined the throne of the Congress party after the 1991 assassination of her husband and former prime minister, Rajiv, but she finally agreed to enter politics six years later to lift the flagging fortunes of the party under her family's brand name.As party president and chairperson of the ruling coalition, she has kept a low and almost enigmatic profile, appearing to stand above the political fray. When she went abroad for surgery last year there was no official word on her illness, and the media tamely accorded her the privacy a royal might expect.But Gandhi wields extraordinary power behind the scenes, shaping policy out of the public eye with a tight circle of decision-makers and relying on back-channel negotiations to manage relations with fractious coalition alliesRatings agency Standard & Poor's, warning earlier this year that India could become the first of the emerging market BRICS economies to lose its investment-grade rating, took a swipe at her resistance to policies mooted by Singh."The Congress party is divided on economic policies. There is substantial opposition within the party to any serious liberalization of the economy," S&P said."Moreover, paramount political power rests with the leader of the Congress party, Sonia Gandhi, who holds no cabinet position, while the government is led by an unelected prime minister … who lacks a political base of his own."A BENEVOLENT MATRIARCHGandhi gives little away about her thinking on economic policy, but dispatches from the U.S. embassy in New Delhi during the early years of Singh's tenure show she made "repeated objections" to proposed hikes in fuel prices, which are heavily subsidized to cushion the poor."Key leaders (including Sonia Gandhi) have opposed the price hikes, criticized the way they have been handled, or urged Congress to capitulate to … demands for a 'rollback', and the party is finding it difficult to speak with one voice," one of the cables said.Describing a leader who projects herself as a benevolent matriarch, the dispatches were scathing about one of her pet projects, a scheme guaranteeing 100 days of paid employment per year for rural citizens. "At worst, the jobs plan is political patronage run amok and horrid economic policy," one said.Gandhi also set up the National Advisory Council, a government-funded think tank that offers legislative guidance on social policy and the rights of disadvantaged groups.A batch of letters Gandhi wrote as chairperson of the council, which were recently released under the Right to Information Act, illustrate where her priorities lie.Writing to the prime minister and several ministers, she drew their attention to issues such as legal entitlement to subsidized foodgrains, child labor, housing for the poor and "indiscriminate acquisition" of agricultural land for private companies. In one letter, she closed by urging a minister: "You may like to have the matter examined appropriately".WARNINGS OF IMPENDING CRISISHow was Gandhi persuaded that, as one government official put it, "if you are not growing you are distributing poverty"?For one thing, the economy was in trouble. Growth had dropped to its lowest clip in three years, the fiscal deficit was blowing past official targets, and the government was under heavy fire for sitting on its hands as the crisis mounted.With Mukherjee gone from the Finance Ministry, Singh and Chidambaram made their move, warning Gandhi of a possible slump in the rupee and even a repeat of 1991, sources said."There were three meetings over about four weeks … to tell her that if we don't do all this it will be bad politics," said the senior government official.Singh also tackled Gandhi at length on the issue in July during a flight from Delhi to the northeastern state of Assam.Adding his voice at a separate meeting, Commerce Minister Anand Sharma explained to Gandhi that opening up to global supermarkets like Wal-Mart Stores Inc could tame the corruption that plagues the state-run food distribution network – a compelling argument after two years of graft scandals that have damaged her government.When Gandhi returned in September from a medical check-up abroad, the stage was set for 'big bang Friday'.And although the reforms triggered the walkout of a key coalition partner from the government, reducing it to a minority, she has resisted calls for a U-turn and even plans to join a street march in favor of the retail sector reform.Gandhi's ambition in all this is to ensure that the Congress party returns to power in 2014, with her son – Rahul – at the helm of the government after eight years waiting in the wings."What she is concentrating on is really the need to be re-elected," said M.J. Akbar, a former Congress party lawmaker and once a trusted Gandhi family insider. "The only thing wrong about this reforms business though is … they left it too close to the election." – AGENCIES
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Melanie and Madison Snow finished 19th overall, 11th in the GTs, in the 51st Rolex 24.
DAYTONA BEACH — Things might not have been perfect for Melanie and Madison Snow in the Rolex 24 At Daytona, but that was tough to tell in the pits Sunday afternoon at Daytona International Speedway.
The Rolex 24 rookies made history, becoming the first mother-son tandem to run in the event, and that was not lost on them as they stood shoulder to shoulder, smiles on their faces. At one point, they even came off as quasi-race geeks — with mom Melanie admitting she could not wait to get home and re-watch the race so she could see son Madison take on some of the sport's best.
It was Madison Snow who took the wheel in the No. 62 Snow Racing/Wright Motorsports Porsche GT3 for the final stint of the race Sunday. And the 17-year-old did well for himself, improving one position in guiding the car to a 19th-place finish overall — 11th in the GT class.
"It has been an amazing experience," Melanie Snow said. "We did everything we came to do. This race, the drivers, the crew … we did everything right. We just had a few issues with the car that slowed us down. But we were running hard and running together."
The 40-year-old Snow is no stranger to racing alongside family. She and her husband, Martin, are the only husband-wife duo to win a race in the American Le Mans Series. She said there were a bit more nerves racing with her son.
"There was a learning curve, but he hasn't let anything bother him," she said. "He has driven great. I'm so proud of him. But definitely (there were more nerves). The first stint, none of us had been here before, so I was definitely nervous during that first stint for both of us."
Madison said his buildup to the Rolex started about a year ago. But listening to his mother tell it, the young driver was born to race. Melanie said Madison gets his calm behind the wheel from his father.
Everything else, she said, he gets from her.
"I raced with him until he was five months in the womb," she said.
And Madison said it did not take him long outside the womb before he was finding something to race. He said it started with kart racing around age 4, moved to a Porsche at 14 and this weekend was driving alongside the sport's elite in the twice-around-the-clock Rolex 24.
"It has been emotional," Melanie Snow said. "We have given each other little jabs here and there, and Wright Motorsports prepared our car and did an amazing job."
And Madison said he was happy to have his mother in the pits alongside him — although he did throw in a jab typical of a teen.
"No one else has their mom in the pits while they're in the car," he said. "That is good and bad. Good, because you have the support, but bad because you have someone else to nag you."
Still, he called the experience "awesome," and said it has inspired him to continue honing his craft. .
"This lets me know that I can race with these pro drivers out there and keep up," he said.
And mom said the two are already looking forward to next year's Rolex 24.
"We ran really well," she said. "When we were out there, we did great. We just had those two things happen and that is mechanical. You really can't predict that. We will come back and try it again."


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In order to get cheap commercial insurance, you have to know exactly what coverage you need and don't need. You should also know how to get agents to offer competitive bids rather than attempting to do your comparison shopping online. Using the internet for price comparisons is often recommended, but while this is an effective strategy for retail products, it's not the best practice for insurance quotes. Before getting into the specifics of lowering your premiums, let's step back and define what exactly commercial insurance is.
Commercial insurance is a generic term that, depending on package you purchase, offers coverage options ranging from office buildings to the contents of delivery vehicles. Most small and medium size business will purchase a business owner's policy, or BOP. A BOP typically contains coverage for the building itself, coverage for borrowed and rented vehicles, and business interruption and contents insurance.
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Talking to several agents over the phone or in person is the most important tip for getting the lowest commercial insurance premium possible. Insurers expect prospective customers to do their pricing on the internet to be reluctant to ask for special discounts. For instance, if you talk to an insurance agent, you can ask if a discount is available if you go a certain amount of time without filing a claim, and you can ask what security measures qualify for discounts.
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An excerpt from Laurence Freeman OSB, "A Theology of Experience" from MONASTERY WITHOUT WALLS: The Spiritual Letters of John Main (Norwich: Canterbury Press, 2006), p. 232-3.
John Main [once] recounted about the response to a talk on prayer he had given to a Trappist monastery in Ireland. The abbot had made an impromptu request for an hour's conference on contemplative prayer and led him into a stark church lined with two choirs of silent, hooded monks.
He spoke from his heart about meditation. At the end of the conference the monks filed out silently, but, at the end of the line, one of the oldest monks stopped by him and whispered a question: "What was the mantra?" Father John told him, "Maranatha." The old man absorbed it for a few moments and said, "You know, I have been waiting 40 years to hear this."
To those who heard him pass on the tradition of Christian meditation, John Main's personal presence and authority could be life-changing. His words were a powerful restatement of an ancient teaching brought alive in a fresh and challenging way. . . . . For him, the medium of communication was not essentially a human personality but the Holy Spirit, who is equally present in speaker and hearer and in the living Word that connects them. He spoke and wrote with the authority of one who had been led directly into the living heart of the tradition and who had thoroughly appropriated it personally, but it was the living tradition, not just his private experience, that he meant to communicate.
"In your own experience" is a phrase often found in St Paul that John Main also used often in both his oral and written teaching. He had confidence in the teaching itself to do the work of persuading through experience. The Buddha delivered his dharma with personal authority but told his disciples to test it for themselves in their own experience. Christian teaching, similarly, insists on faith developing in to knowledge (gnosis). John Cassian's experientia magistra ("experience is the teacher') expresses a profoundly Christian truth: that Christ is the teaching and the teacher and, if we can faithfully meet the time-tested spiritual conditions—silence, stillness, and simplicity—we will be led into experiential understanding of this unity. So, as John Main would say, the first task of the human teacher is to "phase himself out as quickly as possible" and lead people to see Christ as the "teacher."
There is strong emphasis on experience in John Main's teaching. Meditation for him is a way of experience in faith not of belief alone. Only in the contemplative experience is this really understood. He did not develop a systematic theology or a teaching that depended on always finding something new to say. His imagination and intelligence might have led him to follow this path, but it was in fact his own experience—based on his daily meditation—that was so real it did not let him forget his own discovery that Christian prayer is about participatory knowledge, not thought: "By thought you will never know Him, only by love" (Cloud of Unknowing).
After meditation: an excerpt from Archbishop Rowan Williams, "Archbishop's Address to the Synod of Bishops in Rome," October 10, 2012; full text at www.archbishopofcanterbury.org.
". . .I believe [meditation's] potential for introducing young people to the depths of our faith to be very great indeed. And for those who have drifted away from the regular practice of sacramental faith, the rhythms and practices of [meditation] are often a way back to this sacramental heart and hearth. What people of all ages recognize in these practices is the possibility, quite simply, of living more humanly - living with less frantic acquisitiveness, living with space for stillness, living in the expectation of learning, and most of all, living with an awareness that there is a solid and durable joy to be discovered in the disciplines of self-forgetfulness that is quite different from the gratification of this or that impulse of the moment.''
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Monday, August 13, 2012
The Continuing Evolution of TV Economics
To date, the majority of what's available on Netflix and Hulu is pre-existing material. In other words, the production of this content was paid for under the existing TV model, where broadcasters pay a license fee and producers sell to multiple markets in order to finance their shows.
But if the number of cable subscribers continues to drop, subscription fees and advertising revenues will also drop, making it even more difficult to finance original programming.
TV's evolution from a business standpoint has been very interesting. Initially, when there were limited choices over the air, every program got a substantial audience. A show didn't have to be the best, it only had to be the best in it's time slot, and the competition was less than half a dozen shows. Everything had a sizable audience, which meant that everything was able to attract solid advertising revenue.
Then came cable and the 500 channel universe. With more choice, viewership for individual shows fell. That meant less advertising revenue and budgets were reduced as a result. That's where reality programming came from, whether it was Survivor or the Home and Garden channel. Cheap programming became the standard instead of the exception.
Now, with OTT, the ground has shifted again. In a 500 channel universe, competition was still somewhat limited. A show was still competing against everything on in the same time slot, there were just a lot more shows. OTT is built on the idea of on-demand programming, which means that a show is now competing against everything on at the moment and everything in the libraries of OTT service. And if people continue to dump cable, then newer shows are cut off from that revenue stream.
The trend has been towards a continuing fragmenting of the audience into smaller and smaller chunks for each show. We could theoretically reach a point where a show is competing against every show ever made as well as every movie ever made.
As the audience for each show gets smaller, how do you finance a show? Lower budgets are not the answer if you're competing against past product made with good budgets. This is especially true for animation, as older shows date less badly than live action and children are less sensitive to when a show was made anyway.
I'm very glad that I'm not depending on the TV market for my livelihood anymore, and I wonder how aggressive TV animation studios are at finding new revenue streams. Budgets have been shrinking for years and will continue to shrink. Even The Simpsons is being done for less money (since 1991, viewership is down by 66%). At what point does the creation of animated TV become unsustainable? And what replaces it?
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- Charles Kenny said...
It's a tough proposition alright, although I don't think we're peering into the abyss just yet.
While the size of the audience is certainly changing, it is only in regards to who is watching at that particular time. Networks whine that live viewing is down, but DVR viewing bring numbers back up.
In addition, people will demand new content. They always have and I see little reason that they will stop any time soon. Perhaps with a 500+ channel universe there is an incentive to over-create new content. Perhaps the market is currently too large and we will see a "correction" to a more reasonable sized one.
Now I will point out that I am a "cord never"; a consumer that does not and has not ever had a cable subscription. You can be certain that a pretty much every teenager today will be a "cord never" having been immersed in the internet since birth. I'm doubting that networks, studios and cable companies are even contemplating this and as such are in for a big shock over the next 5-10 years.
The problem with cord nevers today is that their legal options for viewing new content are extremely limited. E.g. Netflix lacks a lot of new shows and I've had to wait two whole years for an Adventure Time season boxset. That's hardly doing Cartoon Network any favours is it?
The way I see things, the ultimate model that will develop is one whereby a significant chunk of a show's funding will be put up by fans beforehand, a la the Kickstarter model. Since animation, like you say, has a longer shelf-life than live-action, the remainder of the revenues can be made up in the long tail.
In any case, having more content to compete with should ensure that the quality of newer stuff is ever-increasing. Rising tide lifts all boats, etc.
- August 13, 2012 11:27 AM
- JPilot said...
Add to that content being also streamed, or purchased on iTunes/Apple TV, content created specifically for the Web such as Seinfeld's Comedians in Cars getting coffee. Cable specialty channels will forever be the home of the Kardashians and Here comes Honey Boo Boo. Are we really going to miss them?
- August 13, 2012 2:53 PM
- Pete Emslie said...
As I just recently mentioned on my blog, as of several weeks ago I have now joined the ranks of those that have cut the cable. Despite the hundreds of channels that were available, I found that I was really only watching less than a handful on a regular basis. Mostly I watched CNN and CBC Newsworld, with only Turner Classic Movies providing my entertainment.
I never developed a taste for "reality" shows, as I saw them early on for what they were - cheaply produced dreck, requiring no talented writers or performers in their creation. As TV became more and more saturated with this low-budget nonsense, I found there was no justification in my paying the exorbitant monthly fee for cable anymore. I suspect that many of my generation, those who grew up with the great shows of the 60's and 70's, are likely feeling the same way and also canceling their cable.
The old model worked. I was happier when we had no more than a dozen channels, with the big three American networks (before the idiotic Fox came along) producing shows of quality entertainment and lasting value. Back then we all watched the same shows and could discuss the latest episode of "All In The Family" or "MASH" the following day. We had a shared culture in those years that sadly is missing today. The audience is so fragmented now that, as a society, we can't relate to each other much anymore.
I'm afraid I don't see much value in the "new model" of today. With bigtime corporate advertisers pulling out of television, nobody will have any money to produce anything of quality. I respectfully disagree with Charles, as this "Kickstarter" phenomenon is a passing fad that cannot come close to replacing paid advertisers. The inherent problem with crowdfunding is that everybody is contributing out of goodwill, at best receiving trinkets in return for their donations. These are not investors, and should a crowdfunded project actually achieve wild success, those that made it possible will not share in the spoils. As soon as that bitter truth becomes apparent, crowdfunding is going to go away.
- August 13, 2012 3:19 PM
Pete Emslie said:
"The inherent problem with crowdfunding is that everybody is contributing out of goodwill, at best receiving trinkets in return for their donations. These are not investors, and should a crowdfunded project actually achieve wild success, those that made it possible will not share in the spoils. As soon as that bitter truth becomes apparent, crowdfunding is going to go away."
Dun Dun DUUUN!!!
It's the cart before the horse...purchasing the item before it's hatched, and the fact that no one really spends $20,000 on a hammer or $30,000 on a toilet seat when completing their said project.
And indeed, what does the future hold if regular ol' TV's growing mold? Will everything media, news or shows eventually become like music on I-Tunes? With 10% of every show/pilot/doco/film going to Apple upon purchase? And a crazy virus filled online torrent black-market running along side it? With a system like that it'd completely devalue our whole gig. What a shame, what a shame.
- August 13, 2012 10:00 PM
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- August 13, 2012 11:30 PM
- Thad said...
I agree with most of what Pete Emslie wrote.
There are also no legal obligations in crowdfunding, which makes it seem like a scam to me. (The Onion has already tactfully pointed this out.) Kickstarter absolves itself from all responsibility in spite of being the platform. They will not force the creator to commit to his or her project. The creator doesn't have to stay on-schedule, or even deliver the promised goods and project! How long will that stable model last?
- August 14, 2012 1:00 AM
- warren said...
I'm just glad I'm not in TV animation work anymore. I'm worried that market is Canada is gonna erode even more.
Before I skipped South, the going rates for TV storyboards were on a steady decline, budgets were shrinking, and cost-of-living inflation does exactly the opposite of that.
HOWEVER - the big congloms like Cartoon Network keep doing new stuff fairly regularly - even if their Cartoonstitute attempts are sporadic, WB is doing well with the DC Nation merge, Nickelodeon struggles by the looks of the rate at which they they cancel shows, and Disney seems to be trying hard to pass those guys and compete with CN.
Movie studios like DreamWorks are also flipping franchise characters into new shows,using assets built for film and modified for TV production.
All of those networks still operate on the old model. You'll be fine as long as the ONLY place to get that new stuff is on your channel. Kids will want to see 'Adventure Time', so parents subscribe to the channel package that has CN because it's the easiest and most reliable way to get it.
AND we still have Netflix, for other TV cartoons that aren't in rotation anymore - like the French co-production of 'Iron Man Adventures'. Pretty handy when you don't have the Boomerang subscription.
It's the small fry producers that'll get pinched, as usual. I wonder how Teletoon and YTV are planning to handle Cartoon Network North?
Indie artists will always find a way to make the stuff they want to make and get it seen, somehow. I think the Kickstarter thing will get replaced eventually, but hey, now we ALL get to see what producing is kind of like, and why insurance bond contractors exist.
- August 14, 2012 12:49 PM
- GW said...
I feel the need to point out that competition isn't what makes filmmaking great. It might help the consumer with cut prices and better service but ultimately, from what I've been able to gather from looking at animation worldwide, it's not competition that improves the industry. It's creative cooperation, decent time schedules, assured pay allowing for creative experimentation(which you won't see much in capitalism), a balance between self improvement by hard work and pragmatism of choosing the best method.
On that last point, I'm specifically thinking of the tendency of the US animation industry as a whole to jump from one media to another before they've fully demonstrated the potential in the old one.
I don't know how shows will make enough money to remain at a good quality, but there's several possibilities. Pete Emslie could simply follow his own ideas to their logical conlusion: have another website like Kickstarter that does allow people to profit if a work becomes successful. It's my opinion that if you hadn't tried to win the argument, you would have noticed that, and you've demonstrated your self that competition isn't always a good thing.
I suspect that there's still hope. There's the possibility of taking advantage of game consoles with their large audiences to market your shows. XBox is heading in the direction of offering more media, but they need to loosen their grip and let others provide the content.
- August 18, 2012 12:28 AM
- Martin Juneau said...
I have to agree with Pete too. I think the TV model was better when we having a handful of cables networks with the main networks along than got 100-200 networks who serves the same thing in every networks (No matter who own them.). The TV duegst shrunk, there's multiplications of channels who create and TV quality gets very low. For a while, only Prise 2 (A network themed of olders series here.) gets my interest currently.
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Lisa Marie (Cannon) Bonny, 42, Senior V.P. Of Small Business Treasury Management At First National And PNC Bank
Lisa Marie (Cannon) Bonny, 42, of Louisville, Ky., entered eternal life Tuesday, August 28, 2012.
From the day of her birth Lisa was always special to those who knew her. She was Valedictorian of her class at Sacred Heart Academy in 1988 and Magna Cum Laude at Indiana University Bloomington. Beginning her profession as a teller, she served her entire career at First National and PNC Bank as Senior V.P. of Small Business Treasury Management.
She was preceded in death by her mother, Cathy O'Hare Hollingsworth.
Survivors include her adoring husband, William H. "Billâ€; her children, Cole and Peyton; father, Art Cannon (Ada Zarumba); second father, Joe Hollingsworth; aunts, Sally Kirchner, Mary Etta Hund (Al), Carolyn Orbell (Dr. G. Michael), Mary Jane Grewe (Jim); uncle, James Cannon (Mary Lou); half-sisters, Stacy Alstott (Craig), Melissa Cannon; former step-mother, Margaret Browning; as well as a host of others who loved her dearly.
The family wishes to express sincere gratitude to Louisville Oncology, 5-A Oncology at Suburban Hospital, and the Palliative Care Unit at Baptist Hospital East. They would also like to thank her special friends, Ali Falkner (mother: Marinell Baker); Tracy Duncan, Val Hall, Jacinda Sipes; care-giver, Mary Ann Henley; as well as the vast group of friends who have provided loving care.
Funeral services were held at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, September 1 at River Valley Christian Church of Goshen, 12650 W. US 42, with entombment following in Cave Hill Cemetery. Visitation was Friday from 2 to 8 p.m. at Ratterman & Sons, 3800 Bardstown Road as well as Saturday from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. at the church.
The family has asked that expressions of sympathy be made in Lisa's honor to the Lisa C. Bonny Living Trust Children's Endowment fund at any PNC Bank or to Hosparus of Louisville. Online condolences may be made at www.ratterman.com.
G. Edward "Ned†Durell, US Navy Veteran
Ned Durell of Sarasota, Fla., died on July 26, 2012. Ned was a 22 year veteran of the US Navy, a dedicated volunteer at Sarasota Memorial Hospital for 25 years, and a devoted member of St. Boniface Episcopal Church on Siesta Key. He was a loving husband, father, and grandfather, a member of the Elite Fisherman's club, an avid golfer and a wonderful storyteller.
He is survived by his wife of 40 years, Ann Altsheler Durell, his children Michelle Hiers (Alan), Michael Durell, and Mark Durell, all of Tampa, Fla., stepchildren Bob Snyder (Tina) of Louisville, Robin Snyder, and Edith "Edye†Morton (Dennis) of Sarasota, sister-in-law Lee Hancock (Jack) of Louisville, grandchildren Anne, Nikolas, Kyle, Matthew, Christina, Kayleen, Natalie, Abigail, Maria and Brit.
Ned was preceeded in death by his brother, Brit Durell, his sisters Betty Lane and Jeanne Seelbach.
The family requests any memorial donations be made to St. Boniface Church of Sarasota or the Sarasota Memorial Hospital Volunteers Auxillary Fund.
Addie E. Poe Cummins, 85, Member Of Augusta Christian Church
Addie E. Poe Cummins, 85, "Heaven has a new Angel.†Born July 12, 1927 in Mason County, Ky., and passed away August 26, 2012.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Martin And Jo Emma Poe; brother, Howard Poe; and beloved husband, Wilbur P. Cummins.
She was a devout Christian who loved everyone she met. She was a member of Augusta Christian Church.
She leaves behind to cherish her memory, children, Larry R. Cummins, Diana Abbot (Frank) and Alice Lewis (Richard); brothers, William E. Poe, Harold E. Poe and Mervin Poe; along with eight grandchildren, 20 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.
Funeral Service was held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, August 29, 2012 at Oldham County Funeral Home, 706 W. Jefferson St., LaGrange, Ky., with burial following in Floydsburg Cemetery. Visitation was from noon to 2 p.m. prior to the service.
Memorial contributions may be made to WHAS Crusade for Children, 520 W. Chestnut St., Louisville, Ky., 40202.
Mildred E. Bronger, 88, Retired From IBM
Mildred E. Bronger, 88, of Louisville, passed away Thursday, August 23, 2012.
Millie retired from IBM after 42 years. A devout Catholic, she was a member of St. Stephen Martyr Church for over 60 years.
Preceding her in death were her parents, Valentine and Louise Kleinhenz Bronger; brothers, Valentine "Bud†Bronger and Jerome Bronger; sisters, Theresa McDonald and Mary Dolores Bayer.
Mildred's survivors include her sisters, Mary Rita Pierce and Marcella "Peachie†Ebersold (Norb) of Milltown, Ind.; brother, Clarence Bronger (Barbara) of Spring, Texas; and sisters-in-law, Jeanne Misback and Ruby Bronger. She was special "Aunt Mimi†to niece Rita Spalding (Gene) and nephew William Bayer (Francie), as well as 20 other loving nieces and nephews and numerous great-nieces and great-nephews.
Her funeral Mass was celebrated at 11 a.m. Tuesday, August 28, 2012 at St. Stephen Martyr Catholic Church, 2931 Pindell Avenue, with burial following in St. Michael Cemetery. Visitation was 2-8 p.m. Monday, August 27, 2012 at Ratterman & Sons Funeral Home, 3800 Bardstown Road.
Donations may be made in her memory to St. Vincent de Paul Society. Online condolences may be sent to www.ratterman.com.
Natalie Michelle Curry, 27, National Spokesperson For Core Cell America
Natalie Michelle Curry, 27, died Thursday, August 30, 2012 at Jewish Hospital in Louisville.
Natalie lost her long battle due to complications from Fanconi Anemia and Interstitial Lung Disease. Natalie made medical history when she received a cord blood transplant in Paris, France in 1989. Her passion and mission in life was to raise educational awareness of Stem Cell/ Cord Blood Preservation. She was a national spokesperson for Core Cell America where she performed speaking engagements, weekly blogs, and monthly webinars. Natalie enjoyed writing poetry, acting, movies and travel.
Survivors include: father, Brad Curry (Cindy) Floyds Knobs, Ind.; mother, Lea Ann Stiller (Jeff) Floyds Knobs, Ind.; sisters, Audrey and Emily Curry, Brooklyn, N.Y.; step-sisters, Emily and Ashton Stiller , New Albany, Ind., Leah Huber, Starlight, Ind. and Dawn McLean, Floyds Knobs, Ind.; step-brother, Brandon Missi , Floyds Knobs, Ind.; grandparents, James and Dee Curry Floyds Knobs, Ind. and Darrell and Eva Lee Jacobs, Elizabeth, Ind..
Visitation was from 2-8 p.m. Monday and after 9 a.m. Tuesday at Kraft Funeral Service, 2776 Charlestown Road, New Albany, Ind. Her funeral service was 11 a.m. Tuesday at Trinity United Methodist Church with private entombment following in Kraft-Graceland Memorial Park in New Albany, Ind.
Contributions may be made to the Fanconi Anemia Research Fund, 1801 Willamette St. Suite 200, Eugene, OR 97401 or Hope Lodge in Association with American Cancer Society, 2806 Reading Rd., Cincinnati, Ohio, 45202, In Loving Memory of Natalie Curry.
A special thanks to Natalie's grandmothers, her family and caring nurses.
Online condolences may be made to www.kraftfs.com.
Marcella Wenzel Moore, 91, Lifelong Member Of St. Therese Catholic Church
Marcella Wenzel Moore, 91, of Louisville, passed away Friday, August 31, 2012 at home surrounded by her family after a long courageous battle with cancer.
She was born on January 25, 1921 to Fidelis and Mary Wenzel. She was a graduate of Ursuline Academy. Marcella was a very active lifelong member of St. Therese Catholic Church, where she was a volunteer at the fish frys, annual picnic cake wheels, a member of the St. Monica Sodality and the German-Paristown Association, where she helped run the Monday morning Bingo and Meals on Wheels. She was an inspiration to all who knew her.
She was preceded in death by her husband, James C. Moore.
She is survived by her four children, Jeri Seidenfaden (David), Rondi Cobb (Skip), Tom (Maria) and Michael (Tee); her grandchildren, Lori Bushong (Bart), Jeff Seidenfaden, Jennifer O'Bryan (Dan), Melissa Brinley (Sean), Kristen Clark (Chris), Tom Jr., Betheny Tems (Brian) and Justin Krockenberger (Lauren); and 12 great-grandchildren, and one due in January.
The family wishes to express gratitude to the doctors and staff at CBC, also the Third Floor Park Tower nurses and staff and the wonderful Team from Hosparus and caregivers from Home Instead and all her dear friends. A special thanks to Drs. Ignacio Montes and Albert Hoskins.
Her funeral Mass was celebrated at 11 a.m. Tuesday, September 4, 2012 at St. Therese Catholic Church, 1010 Schiller Ave., with burial in St. Michael Cemetery.
Expressions of sympathy can be made to Hosparus or the Lymphoma Society.
Benjamin Joseph "Bud†Sandman, Jr., 87, Commercial Illustrator
Benjamin Joseph "Bud†Sandman, Jr., 87, died Wednesday August 29, 2012 with his loving family by his side.
He was a prominent Louisville Commercial Illustrator. He was a US Navy veteran of World War II and a former member of Hunting Creek and River Road Country Clubs.
Mr. Sandman was preceded in death by his mother and father, Lucille and Benjamin Sandman; two brothers and two sisters.
He is survived by his devoted wife, Jean H. Sandman; daughters, Lynn Marie Worland (Tim), Mary Carol Pittenger (Wallace), Jeanne Patterson (Malcolm); sons, Benjamin Joseph "Joe†Sandman III, and John H. Sandman. He deeply loved his seven grandchildren.
His funeral Mass was celebrated 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at St. Albert the Great Catholic Church, 1395 Girard Drive. Private burial followed at Calvary Cemetery. Visitation was from 4-7 p.m. Tuesday at Pearson's, 149 Breckenridge Lane.
Memorials can be made to Hosparus or St. Albert the Great Catholic Church.
Joe Price Peden, 82, CEO And Chairman Of CONNA
Joe Price Peden, 82, died Wednesday, August 29, 2012, after a 20-year struggle with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Born in Hopkinsville, Ky., he graduated from Hopkinsville High School in 1948 and the University of Kentucky in 1953, where he was a member of Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity. He married Mary G. Eades in 1954.
Joe worked for Kroger in Nashville, Tenn., then joined his brother Don in Hopkinsville to open Peden Brothers Super Mart. Joe and Don moved to Louisville to start Convenient Food Marts in 1959. The company later became CONNA Corporation. When CONNA was acquired in 1986, Joe was serving as CEO and Chairman of the Board.
Joe was very active in the community, serving as president of the Louisville Chamber of Commerce (now GLI), president of Sales & Marketing Executives of Louisville, president of the KY Chamber of Commerce, and president of the National Association of Convenience Stores. Joe was active in 4-H as a youth, in the inaugural class of Leadership Louisville, and a supporter of Junior Achievement.
Joe was an avid golfer, fisherman, and hunter, as well as a huge University of Kentucky sports fan.
Joe's greatest source of fulfillment came from his faith and his involvement with his church. Joe and his family joined Westport Road Church of Christ in 1958, and he served as both Deacon and as Elder. He loved the church family at Westport Road as his own, serving as a mentor and surrogate father and grandfather to many.
Joe was preceded in death by his parents, Lucian Harlan and Mary McDonald Peden; and his brother, Warren Peden.
Joe is survived by his brother, Donald Peden (Alice); his wife of 58 years, Mary G. Eades Peden; his children, Jeffrey Peden (Nancy), Terry Widner (Melly), Mary Kathleen Allen (Gary), and Melinda Simpson (Taylor); and his grandchildren, Adam Allen (Katie Beth), Kellye West (Dan), Ryan and Darcy Simpson, and Bailey Widner.
His memorial service will be at Westport Road Church of Christ on Saturday, September 8, 2012, at 11a.m., with visitation from 9 a.m. until time of service. Visitation will also be held at Westport Road Church of Christ on Thursday and Friday, from 2-8 p.m.
Donald Joseph Lish Sr., 77, Retired Clerk For The US Postal Service
Donald Joseph Lish Sr., 77, passed away Sunday, September 2, 2012.
He was a retired employee of the US Postal Service where he was a payroll clerk. A Navy veteran of the Korean conflict, he was a member of the American Legion Highland Post 201, USS Rochester 124 Organization where he served as treasurer, St. Athanasius Catholic Church and was a Kentucky Colonel.
The family would like to express their gratitude to the staff and nurses at both Golden Living Hillcreek and Hosparus for the wonderful care shown to Donald during his illness, and to also his family.
Survivors include his wife, the former Shera Chasteen; children, Gina Kuzuoka (John), Donald J. Lish Jr., (Glenda) and Vickki McKnight; two sisters Judy and Debi Lish; a brother Dave Lish; five grandchildren, Jesika (Jerod), Samantha (Brett), Gabrielle, Ian and Kevin; and two great-grandchildren, Claire and Wyatt.
The funeral service will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday at Ratterman and Sons, 3800 Bardstown Road, with burial following cremation at the Kentucky Veterans' Cemetery, Radcliff. Visitation was from 2-8 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.
In lieu of flowers, expressions of sympathy may be made to the St. Vincent DePaul society or to Mass of the Air.
Michael Anthony Reese, 20, Member Of The Divine Savior Lutheran Church
Michael Anthony Reese, 20, of Mt. Washington, Ky., passed away August 31, 2012 at Norton Suburban Hospital.
He was a native of Minnesota and a member of the Divine Savior Lutheran Church in Shepherdsville, Ky. Michael was a 2010 graduate of Bullitt East High School and attended Morehead State University.
He is survived by his parents, Jeff and Ann Reese; sister, Louise Reese; brother, Ben Reese; grandmother, Helen Houvinen; aunts and uncles, Robin and John Braun, Micky and March Doran, Judy Burns and Mark Reese; girlfriend, Ashley Lynch; and many cousins and friends.
A celebration of his life was held 7 p.m. Wednesday at Schmid Funeral Home in Mt. Washington with burial following in Ely, Minnesota. Visitation was from 5 p.m. until service time on Wednesday.
Expressions of sympathy can be made to the Christina Gabehart Cystic Fibrosis Fundraiser in c/o the funeral home.
Online condolences can be made at www.schmidfh.com.
Gwendolyn D. Williams Wilson Berry, 80, Retired From Phillip Morris USA
Gwendolyn D. Williams Wilson Berry, 80, of Louisville passed away peacefully on Friday, August 31, 2012.
She was a native of Nashville, Tenn. She was retired from Phillip Morris USA and a member of the Bethel Baptist Church.
She is survived by her daughter Margie A. Harrison (Charles); two stepsons, James Allen Wilson (Jackie) and Leon Wilson; three sisters, Jacquelyn Lewis, Carol Jean Tate and Gladysteen Bennett; step brother, Fount Hayes; sister-in-law, Ruth Berry; and a host of nieces, nephews and other relatives and close friends.
Her funeral was at 11 a.m. Saturday at her church, 3540 Garland Ave. Burial was in Evergreen Cemetery. Visitation was from 6-9 p.m. Friday at Bethel Baptist Church. G.C. Williams Funeral Home Inc. was in charge of arrangements.
Scott C. Slusher, 48, Photographer/Artist
Scott C. Slusher, photographer/artist, passed away on Monday September 3, 2012 after a hard fought battle with cancer.
Born on May 5, 1964, Scott was a talented, professional photographer with an eye for making ordinary objects, unique images. He was a graduate of Waggener High School class of 1982. On August 28th 2012, Scott earned his associates degree in visual communications from Ivy Tech Community College. He was the vice president of Art Sanctuary and an avid and active supporter of the arts. During his life, Scott owned and operated Eye Chart Photography and freelanced his photographic talent to help promote local arts and artists. Scott was always known to say, "I don't take pictures, I create images." He was preceded in death by Martha Hanley.
Scott is survived by his brother, Chris Slusher; stepfather, Ron Hanley; father, Thomas Slusher; stepmother, Phyllis Slusher; sisters, JoLynn Slusher and Natalie Smith; nephew, Kyton Smith; several aunts, uncles and cousins; and special friends, Lisa Frye, Susan Mackowiak, Greta Harding and Halie Gamwell.
Scott made the conscious decision to donate his body, upon his death, to the University of Louisville Department of Anatomical Sciences and Neurobiology in hopes of providing research and progression of medical science to fight cancer.
There will be a memorial service for Scott at Art Sanctuary, 1433 South Shelby St., from 1 – 5 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 16. Scott's family is asking that all expressions of sympathy be the form of donations to the University of Louisville James Graham Brown Cancer Center in Scott's name.


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Several songs on Alanis Morissette's new album, "Havoc and Bright Lights," out Aug. 28, deal with her experiences as a new mom. To hear her tell it, though, the road to motherhood for Morissette — who gave birth to her first child, a son named Ever, on Christmas Day 2010 — kicked off with far more havoc than anything else.
Ever's birth left her mired in postpartum depression and great physical pain for over a year, an experience she has described as feeling like she was "covered in tar."
"Hormonally, circumstantially — everything changes overnight," says Morissette of what she now more mildly refers to as an "about-face lifestyle." "My whole body was completely overtaken by this new experience."
But if childbirth left Morissette reeling, the musical challenges she faced went beyond the physical and emotional.
Morissette, whose 1995 release, "Jagged Little Pill," sold over 15 million copies in the US, has seen her last two albums of new material, 2004's "So-Called Chaos" and 2008's "Flavors of Entanglement," fail to even hit the gold-album threshold of 500,000 copies sold.
Her new album's first single, "Guardian," was both a declaration of love and protection for her son, and an accounting of how in the process of becoming a mother, she unwittingly abandoned her own care.
"The chorus is about him, and the verses are about how I was treating my son really consistently, and I wasn't offering that to myself," she says. "So the verses are about growing my own inner parent, for my own inner kid."
It's questionable, though, whether Morissette's inner child can inspire music lovers' inner record buyers, since "Guardian" failed to hit either the Billboard Top 100 or the iTunes singles chart.
But Morissette's sales numbers might be in for a sizable boost, as she's in discussions for a possible role on "American Idol." "I am having conversations about the idea of being in that mentor position," Morissette tells The Post (later saying that the roles of both mentor and judge are possible). "I'm excited about it."
If this comes to pass, Morissette will join the recently-hired Mariah Carey on the show, and if anyone can relate to Morissette's recent difficulties it's Carey, who gave birth to twins Moroccan and Monroe in April 2011.
Carey's pregnancy was so difficult that she told "20/20" that while bedridden, she feared she "wasn't going to be able to walk properly again." Husband Nick Cannon told Billboard that the birth "inspired her on so many different levels" that Carey would have an album out by year's end, but that album never materialized.
She finally released a single called "Triumphant," with Rick Ross and Meek Mill, several weeks back. Critics felt it was anything but, with Spin noting their disappointment, and MTV feeling that Carey was "holding back," adding, "in all fairness, I'm sure she is busy with Dem Babies" (Carey and Cannon's nickname for the twins).
Given the average pop star's well-oiled machine of a life, though, childbirth is often just successfully integrated into the process.
Since giving birth to daughter Willow Sage in June 2011, Pink has announced a starring role in the sex-addiction comedy "Thanks for Sharing," and recorded a new album, "The Truth About Love," which drops Sept. 18. The album's first single, "Blow Me (One Last Kiss)," was released last month, and became a Top 10 hit.
Then there's Jay-Z, whose "Glory" — a song for newborn daughter Blue Ivy Carter, whose cries are featured on the track. The sentimental, single made her the youngest person ever to chart on Billboard at two days old.
And Adele, who announced her pregnancy in June, has said she'll take at least two years to allow herself mommy time, meaning we'll probably get an album called "24" that details the pains and joys of childbirth, and will bring us to our knees.
It remains to be seen what effect motherhood will have on Morissette's career, "American Idol" notwithstanding. "I'm not sure that's gonna help or hurt her any at this point," says Esquire music critic Andy Langer. Having "storylines for a Pink or an Alanis Morissette that didn't exist last time around is probably good careerwise. It gives them one more thing to talk about, but 'I'm a parent' is not a unique story."
Morissette has immersed herself in an online mommy community, doing blogs for sites including iVillage, where she wrote, about motherhood, "I remain baffled at how little I was prepared for what was to come," and, "I remember crying out on a walk up the street, startling a dog."
As for her new record, confronting this major event in her life head on is, she says, her natural way — sales be damned — of creatively connecting to the world around her. "For me, success is defined in different ways. My ego would love to sell 100 billion records," she says. "Sometimes there's confetti, and sometimes there's tumbleweeds, but I can't control that. What I can control is showing up."


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Paradox- Drifting Feather: Polish Jazz Vol. 26 (Polskie Nagrania Muza, 1971)
"I thought it a paradox to play jazz without drums, with a bassoon and cello, which hums and groans in bebop diminshed fifths. At that time, the very sound combination of the bassoon, trombone cello and bass mae me happy and inspired me to [play] some musical tricks and jokes on the borderline of jazz and folk. I don't hesitate to to write pieces in the spirit of of Polish folk music, to draw original examples from the rich sources of folklore, Polish and European. Continuing our work in 1971, with some changes in instrumentation (alto sax, trombone, cello, bass and guitar), we realize that our sound resembles a folk band manned by modern jazzmen. However, I think this is where our originality lies, and the lack of drums makes no difference to the soloists,who can swing well enough by themselves." -Andrezej Brzeski
An excellent and unconventional 1971 Polish jazz classic. I find the string arrangements- including cello- especially superb. My pal Baker just brought this back for me from his recent stay in Poland. Been loving it, so I up and scrounged this 320 mp3 rip. Looks like it might've originated from a FLAC upload on Avax. Those are my own LP image scans, up above. Anyone with tips on where my good man should dig for sweet vinyl in Warsaw, Kracow, etc? The real local lowdown would be forever appreciated....Enjoy!
Download Link: Paradox- Drifting Feather: Polish Jazz Vol. 26 (1971)
Polskie Nagrania Muza SXL 0745
Andrzej Brzeski: trombone, arranger, bandleader
Michał Górny: Cello
Stanisław Kulhawczuk: Double Bass
Sławomir Piwowar: Classical Guitar
Włodzimierz Szląskiewicz: Alto Saxophone
A1 Malaguena 13:15
A2 Intymne Życie Wuja Leona / Uncle Leo's Intimate Life 3:58
A3 Czy Są Świeże Jaja, Czyli Na Podwórku Pani Bronki / Do You Have Fresh Eggs, Or In Mrs. Bronka's Backyard 3:30
B1 Lotne Piórko / Drifting Feather 5:05
B2 Pietrek / Pete 3:50
B3 Kokoszka Babuni / Grandma's Hen 4:12
B4 Ploteczki Cioteczki / Auntie's Chitchat 6:40
3 comments:
- inspire121 said...
Maybe one of the reasons Polish jazz is on such a different trip is that it was something that was out of State control during the Communist era.
The BBC did a radio programme about a trip to Poland by a British jazz group in 1956 - the programme is not available, but a story about the event is - see
- May 9, 2011 at 8:01 AM
- musique said...
This is great music, thank you! The polish jazz scene was (and is) quite big and many-sided.
- May 10, 2011 at 2:30 AM
- Jo/No said...
Wow, what a find! Thanks!
By coincidence my brother gave me another Polish Jazz lp for my birthday last weekend. Not sure which number though as I don't have it here at the moment. Solo piano, probably late 70s. Nice one too.
- May 31, 2011 at 3:49 PM
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I don't know if this will grow or not, but the beginnings of this story kinda came to me between hitting the snooze button this morning.
I sensed him before I saw him. I always do. I was just sitting there, minding my own business, playing a little blackjack when I felt his presence over my right shoulder.
"Hi Lucky."
"Big A."
I hate that. He always has to go there right away. And he's supposed to be subtle. Ass.
"Been here long?"
"A while. Playing a little cards. You?"
"Well, you know me, Big A, I've got a place here. I love this town. Everything about it just calls to me."
"Yeah, I think I heard that somewhere."
I finally glanced over and gave him the satisfaction of a look. A new look for him this time around – red riding leathers, no helmet of course, black boots, black hair tied back in a ponytail and sunglasses. The sunglasses were kind of a given, I suppose.
"Nice outfit. You look like one of the cavemen in that insurance commercial."
"Thanks. You, as always, look well put-together."
I've never been sure how to take his compliments, and I wasn't in Las Vegas to think, so I just went for face value.
For once he didn't press the issue and stopped talking. So we sat there playing blackjack for a while. Me playing green chips, him moving quickly from green to black to purple all the way up to the yellow $1,000 chips in a couple of short hours. He lost just enough hands to keep from getting thrown out, but not quite enough to keep the eye in the sky from getting suspicious.
"A, looks like we've got company."
"You got a mouse in your pocket? I'm not the one that's been sitting here counting cards for three hours."
"Yeah, but I'm not the one who took twenty grand in chips out of my safety deposit box this morning. Chips, I might add, that came from a casino that was exploded a couple decades ago."
I hate that he always has more information than he rightfully should. I suppose, to give him his due, that he does have people literally everywhere in this town. But it's still annoying. I'll grant that visiting a box that hasn't been touched in 25 years might raise an eyebrow or two, but I'm still blaming the attention of the lummox in the off-the-rack suit on my unwanted companion's unabashed card-counting. Either way, the brutes in suits might have had a few questions for me that I wasn't fully prepared to answer at exactly that moment, so I looked at my old pal Lucky.
"Might I suggest California? I hear Sacremento's nice this time of year. My bike's out front. You'll know which one. You owe me one."
"We're not even. This doesn't even come close. Nowhere near to close."
"You really know how to wound a guy, Big A."
"Bite me." With that, I grabbed Lucky's keys from the table, tossed a green chip to the dealer and headed for the cage. I spotted another security lummox between me and the cage, so I decided on discretion as the better part of valor, tossed a couple grand in chips into the air and used the resulting pandemonium to make my less-than-subtle way to the exit. As I glanced back towards the table where I had left Lucky, I noticed that he and the two guards were having a beer and yukking it up like long-lost frat brothers. Which for all I knew, they might have been.
He was right, I knew which bike was his right away. It was big, loud ostentatious black thing with flames painted on the gas tank. Subtle. I swear, the thing looked hungry. I put the key in the ignition (apple key chain? Really?) and headed off down the highway, turning immediately to the East as I recalled Lucky's nod toward California.
Okay, so looking back on it, maybe opening a 25-year-old lock box wasn't exactly the most under the radar move I could have made. I know that people take out safety deposit boxes in this town all the time. But not all of them pay the rent on those boxes with automatic debits from numbered accounts. And I just had the bad luck to run into the same security guard that rented me the box the first time, on his first day of the job 25 years ago. Little bugger had a good memory, that's for sure. And I guess I hadn't changed much since then. Ok, make that not at all. So it might have been my fault we got spied after all. But I'm still blaming Lucky. After all, he's been taking the blame for things for a couple millennia now, so what's one more little incident?
Maybe I should back up a little. My name is Adam. No, I don't have a last name. Yes, that Adam. No really, you can feel for the rib if you like. But it's better if you don't. I'm ticklish.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
A beginning
Posted by John G. Hartness at 10:20 AM
5 comments:
- DrChako said...
I like.
- BadBlood said...
- BamBam said...
That's what I like about those two. They both have the ability to show good taste in more than just wives.
I also like. I like lots.
- Instant Tragedy said...
This is another example of the gift that you have...
- Human Head said...
This is definitely a nice start. Will be keeping an eye out for more.
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VATICAN CITY — Argentine Jorge Bergoglio has been elected pope, the first ever from the Americas and the first from outside Europe in more than a millennium. He chose the name Pope Francis.
Tens of thousands of people have been celebrating in St. Peter's Square, after the news that cardinals meeting in the Sistine Chapel have chosen a new pope.The crowd
gathered in a cold rain to watch the smokestack atop the chapel. And people jumped for joy when white smoke poured out, a signal that the cardinals had elected a successor to Pope Benedict.
Many chanted "Habemus Papam (hah-BAY'-moos PAH'-pahm), or "We have a pope," as the bells of St. Peter's Basilica and churches across Rome tolled.
The pope is due to emerge shortly on a balcony overlooking St. Peter's Square to deliver his first words as the Bishop of Rome.
He was elected on the fifth ballot -- chosen in one of the fastest conclaves in years. And a quick decision hadn't been expected, since the church had been in turmoil after Pope Benedict's surprise resignation. The election also came amid revelations of mismanagement, infighting and corruption in the Holy See bureaucracy.
The names mentioned most often among cardinals who could be chosen as pope included Angelo Scola (SKOH'-lah), the archbhishop of Milan, and Marc Ouellet (wehl-EHT'), the Canadian who heads the Vatican's bishops' office.
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Recall that women on average are more physically attractive than men. So women of all races are on average more physically attractive than the "average" Add Health respondent, except for black women. As the following graph shows, black women are statistically no different from the "average" Add Health respondent, and far less attractive than white, Asian, and Native American women.
The only thing I can think of that might potentially explain the lower average level of physical attractiveness among black women istestosterone. Africans on average have higher levels of testosterone than other races, and testosterone, being an androgen (male hormone), affects the physical attractiveness of men and women differently. Men with higher levels of testosterone have more masculine features and are therefore more physically attractive. In contrast, women with higher levels of testosterone also have more masculine features and are therefore less physically attractive. The race differences in the level of testosterone can therefore potentially explain why black women are less physically attractive than women of other races, while (net of intelligence) black men are more physically attractive than men of other races.
Psychology Today… WHY DO YOU HURT ME SO. Where's the reflection on the role of racial microaggression in framing this post? Where's the discussion of the social invisibility of black women? The objectification of women — they're just more naturally attractive, indeed!
Y'all, I am flummoxed. That someone would SERIOUSLY SAY that black women are ugly because they are too manly and that that would be printed in an… ostensibly SERIOUS periodical… really just appalls me.
ETA: They pulled the article but someone uploaded an archival copy here.


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World Bank launches $200m Ebola fund
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The World Bank has announced that it is allocating $200m (£120m) in emergency assistance for West African countries battling to contain the Ebola outbreak.
The money will be distributed to the governments of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea as well as to the World Health Organization (WHO).
The number of people killed in the outbreak has reached 887, the WHO says.
The World Bank's announcement came as African leaders including 35 presidents discuss the crisis in Washington.
World Bank President Jim Yong Kim - an expert on infectious diseases - said that he was "deeply saddened" by the spread of the virus and how it was contributing to the breakdown of "already weak health systems in the three countries".
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"I am very worried that many more lives are at risk unless we can stop this Ebola epidemic in its tracks," he said.
The BBC's Paul Blake in Washington says that in the the short term, the money will be used to pay health workers, dispel rumours about the disease in local communities and address the immediate needs of getting sick people into health facilities.
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The package is now awaiting approval by the World Bank's Board of Directors, though officials say the confirmation could come as early as this week.
The World Bank and International Monetary Fund say preliminary research suggests the epidemic is likely to shave one percentage point from Guinea's economic output this year.
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• Nigeria has recorded its second Ebola case - one of the doctors who treated a man who died from the virus after his arrival from Liberia
• Liberia has ordered that the bodies of people killed by the Ebola virus must be cremated following the refusal of some communities to allow the burial of victims on their land.
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Touching the body of someone who has died of Ebola is particularly dangerous.
Airports in Nigeria are now screening passengers for Ebola on their arrival
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