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WASHINGTON (AP) — "Calvin and Hobbes" creator Bill Watterson says he made a brief, unannounced return to newspaper cartooning to raise money for a good cause — and because he thought it would be funny.
Watterson collaborated with "Pearls Before Swine" cartoonist Stephan Pastis on three strips that ran this week. The strips made fun of Pastis' drawing ability, and Watterson drew one panel in each — the first time his art has appeared in the funnies since "Calvin and Hobbes" ended its run in 1995.
Watterson tells The Washington Post (http://tinyurl.com/qhh5xrm) he got the idea several years ago after seeing a strip in which Pastis mocked his own drawing by comparing it to Watterson's. He says he joined up with Pastis to benefit a charity that raises money to fight Parkinson's disease.
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Illustrating 'Moby-Dick' – Starbuck, Stubb and Flask
How do you "see" a novel? When you read, are you giving faces, costumes, and audible voices to the characters? Is the narrative played out in your head as your eyes scan the words? Or do you concentrate on the deeper levels of meaning, turning the characters into vehicles that exist only to convey ideas or act as a mouthpiece for the author's worldview? I think it's a fascinating line of inquiry, and one which I have long been obsessed with. How do we read?
For me, since the earliest books I can remember reading were lushly illustrated fairy tales, collections of myths, and dinosaur books, the visual elements has been inseparable from the narrative element of reading. When I eventually graduated to books without pictures, I would devour the cover images, looking for any kind of clue as to what the characters might look like. Often, I simply resorted to elaborately visualizing them in my head, creating details where they were lacking and quickly growing frustrated with authors who refused to acknowledge this lust for visual detail in their readers. Which, I know, might make me one in a small minority.
All of these issues were brought to the fore when I began my project to illustrate Moby-Dick. Once I began, I marveled at how inconsistent my own visualizations were but after careful thought, this began to make sense. If I think back to how my wife looked last night walking out of the airport concourse after her trip, I see her complete figure, largely in silhouette, but whole and complete. If I think back to how she looked when I showed her last night's Moby-Dick illustration, I see the top of her head mostly, her short glossy black hair shining as she peers down at the page, and perhaps I see a bit of hands as she holds the illustration. Gone is just about everything below the torso. It just doesn't exist because it doesn't have to.
One of the greatest challenges in illustrating Moby-Dick has been creating images of characters that I knew would appear again and again and again, in drastically different situations, affected in all sorts of ways by what was currently happening in the narrative. In casting these whale men and mates and harpooneers as almost ship-like constructs, this problem became magnified. How to show emotion? How to demonstrate action? How to show them changing? In this sense, relying on the illustrations to be highly symbolic has been crucial.
So, when it came to the three mates, Starbuck, Stubb and Flask, I knew that I wanted to capture something unique, instantly recognizable, and deeply symbolic (at least to me) for each. I knew I would have ample opportunity to revisit them again and again throughout this project, but as is the case with any drama, first appearances mean the most. Fortunately, Melville is generous with his prose, and gives enough descriptive detail to get even the most uninterested reader started on a good visualization. First, Starbuck…
The chief mate of the Pequod was Starbuck, a native of Nantucket, and a Quaker by descent. He was a long, earnest man, and though born on an icy coast, seemed well adapted to endure hot latitudes, his flesh being hard as twice-baked biscuit. Transported to the Indies, his live blood would not spoil like bottled ale. He must have been born in some time of general drought and famine, or upon one of those fast days for which his state is famous. Only some thirty arid summers had he seen; those summers had dried up all his physical superfluousness. But this, his thinness, so to speak, seemed no more the token of wasting anxieties and cares, than it seemed the indication of any bodily blight. It was merely the condensation of the man. He was by no means ill-looking; quite the contrary. His pure tight skin was an excellent fit; and closely wrapped up in it, and embalmed with inner health and strength, like a revivified Egyptian, this Starbuck seemed prepared to endure for long ages to come, and to endure always, as now; for be it Polar snow or torrid sun, like a patent chronometer, his interior vitality was warranted to do well in all climates. Looking into his eyes, you seemed to see there the yet lingering images of those thousand-fold perils he had calmly confronted through life. A staid, steadfast man…
Those who have read the novel before know that Starbuck is the one man most qualified to stand against Ahab, to block his mad, monomaniacal mission and thus save the lives of everyone on board the Pequod, and yet he fails repeatedly to do so. Starbuck is no coward, yet he seems to lack the vision necessary to see beyond his narrow role as first mate, as Ahab's subordinate, and as a crucial cog in the orderly running of the ship. While Starbuck almost takes that final step, and even contemplates murdering Ahab, he stops short. Not only does he lack the support of the crew, he feels bound by his duty to the ship and to Ahab and sees breaking those obligations as perhaps a crime worse than the mad pursuit of what he feels is a dumb beast. Starbuck was, for me, the easiest to see, and the easiest to illustrate. Beginning with his "long, earnest" lines and his almost perfect subservience to Ahab, I saw Starbuck as Ahab's sword. A lean blade of a man, there to further the captain's will. A perfectly forged tool, balanced, lethally effective, and yet lacking in any real independence. I gave Starbuck the sober grays and blues of the stormy New England sea, an odd radio antenna to signify his near total control by Ahab, and two forward looking eyes on his blade-like face to demonstrate his blindness to alternatives.
Stubb was more complex, and more personal. To me, Stubb's near constant joking seemed something that masks a deep fear, a terror of accepting reality. At his heart, I have always thought of Stubb as little more than a coward. Melville writes…
Stubb was the second mate. He was a native of Cape Cod; and hence, according to local usage, was called a Cape-Cod-man. A happy-go-lucky; neither craven nor valiant; taking perils as they came with an indifferent air; and while engaged in the most imminent crisis of the chase, toiling away, calm and collected as a journeyman joiner engaged for the year. Good-humored, easy, and careless, he presided over his whale-boat as if the most deadly encounter were but a dinner, and his crew all invited guests. He was as particular about the comfortable arrangement of his part of the boat, as an old stage-driver is about the snugness of his box. When close to the whale, in the very death-lock of the fight, he handled his unpitying lance coolly and off-handedly, as a whistling tinker his hammer. He would hum over his old rigadig tunes while flank and flank with the most exasperated monster. Long usage had, for this Stubb, converted the jaws of death into an easy chair. What he thought of death itself, there is no telling. Whether he ever thought of it at all, might be a question; but, if he ever did chance to cast his mind that way after a comfortable dinner, no doubt, like a good sailor, he took it to be a sort of call of the watch to tumble aloft, and bestir themselves there, about something which he would find out when he obeyed the order, and not sooner.
What, perhaps, with other things, made Stubb such an easygoing, unfearing man, so cheerily trudging off with the burden of life in a world full of grave peddlers, all bowed to the ground with their packs; what helped to bring about that almost impious good-humor of his; that thing must have been his pipe. For, like his nose, his short, black little pipe was one of the regular features of his face. You would almost as soon have expected him to turn out of his bunk without his nose as without his pipe.
True, there is little there, or even in the remainder of the novel, to paint Stubb as a coward but it is a feeling I have never been able to lose. Stubb's stubborn refusal to treat matters of life and death as anything other than a joke has never seemed to me to be carefree or valiant. Rather, it is an unwillingness to accept and to engage with the realities of a dangerous life. Nothing communicates cowardice better than the color yellow, so Stubb comes complete with yellow streaks down his head and back. The pipe is there too, of course, as it must be. And it is great fun to draw. But at all times, Stubb hides the yellow cowardice behind him out of sight if he can. He is one-eyed, since he can only see the world in one way, as a joke.
Flask is perhaps the least developed and most one dimensional of the mates. A small, furious man with a monstrous yet hilarious temper. Melville describes him thus…
The third mate was Flask, a native of Tisbury, in Martha's Vineyard. A short, stout, ruddy young fellow, very pugnacious concerning whales, who somehow seemed to think that the great Leviathans had personally and hereditarily affronted him; and therefore it was a sort of point of honor with him, to destroy them whenever encountered. So utterly lost was he to all sense of reverence for the many marvels of their majestic bulk and mystic ways; and so dead to anything like an apprehension of any possible danger from encountering them; that in his poor opinion, the wondrous whale was but a species of magnified mouse, or at least water-rat, requiring only a little circumvention and some small application of time and trouble in order to kill and boil. This ignorant, unconscious fearlessness of his made him a little waggish in the matter of whales; he followed these fish for the fun of it; and a three years' voyage round Cape Horn was only a jolly joke that lasted that length of time. As a carpenter's nails are divided into wrought nails and cut nails; so mankind may be similarly divided. Little Flask was one of the wrought ones; made to clinch tight and last long. They called him King-Post on board of the Pequod; because, in form, he could be well likened to the short, square timber known by that name in Arctic whalers; and which by the means of many radiating side timbers inserted in it, served to brace the ship against the icy concussions of those battering seas.
Notice that Flask, too, is shown to be something of a jokester. Yet his temper, his hatred of the whales, his view of the great beasts as something that had "personally and hereditarily affronted him" casts his humor in a vastly different light than Stubb's. Flask lacks some of the details of the first two mates, being depicted as short, stout, ruddy and pugnacious. To me though, these words conveyed magnitudes and Flask ended up being short, stout, hopefully ruddy, and with great waves of flaming anger radiating from his tiny musket ball-shaped skull…
Clad in a greatcoat the color of dried blood, Flask's great eyes stare furiously forward, searching for whales to summarily slaughter. I chose this piece of found paper very careful as well for the heading "The parts of a pattern." After all, what else are the mates, if not pieces of the pattern of the novel? In spite of their humanity, each functions more as a symbol, almost a set piece, designed to define or contradict Ahab. Their roles, their lives, are unimportant. How they function in the hands of Ahab, whether or not they further his mad schemes or obstruct them in some way, that is all that counts. The pieces are slowly falling into place for the great voyage.
(I had originally meant to post this almost a week and a half ago. Numerous daily life obligations, technical difficulties, and everything else under the sun conspired to keep me away. I hope to remedy that this week with 3 or 4 more posts, if you can tolerate that. Also, Daryl, I owe you an email which will arrive no later than tomorrow. I don't expect to be home until around 9 this evening, and then I need to finish today's illustration. As Melville so succinctly put it, "Oh, time, strength, cash and patience!")


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Aiken Technical College 64, Clinton Junior College 50
Playing in Rock Hill, Aiken Tech (7-9) opened up its Region 10 play with a win on the road.
Keith Crump led the team in scoring with 29 points and added five assists.
Silver Bluff 66, Barnwell 45
Silver Bluff (9-7, 4-1 Region 5-AA) continued its solid region effort with the 21-point victory.
Jaylen Lawrence led the Bulldogs with 19 points, and Donte Wright was not far behind with 18 points. Silver Bluff will host Bamberg-Ehrhardt on Tuesday.
Aiken JV 42, North Augusta 31
Aiken (9-3, 4-0 Region 5-AAAA) stayed unbeaten in region play with the win over county foe North Augusta.
The Hornets were led in scoring by Jordan McKevie with 11 points and will next play Wednesday at South Aiken.
South Aiken JV 41, White Knoll 18
South Aiken (9-1, 4-0 Region 5-AAAA) stayed in its winning ways with a blowout of White Knoll.
Terrance Prandy led the T-Breds with 11 points. South Aiken will next host Aiken on Wednesday.
Aiken MS 54, Ridge Spring-Monetta 40
Three players scored in double digits for the Gators (6-3) in the win.
Anthony Tyler scored 16 points, Calvin Mathis scored 13 points and Lorenzo Davis added 11. Aiken Middle will play at Kennedy on Thursday.
LBC MS 62, Jackson 38
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Kennedy MS, Schofield 28
Kennedy (9-1) got 14 points from Tancey Richardson against Schofield (8-3), and every Eagle scored. Jordan Lyyes led the Rams with 10 points. The next game for Kennedy is Tuesday at North Augusta.
Silver Bluff 42, Barnwell 15
Silver Bluff (11-4, 5-0 Region 5-AA) stayed unbeaten in region play in the blowout victory.
Ashanti Brown led the Bulldogs in scoring with 16 points, and Roxanna Cheek had 12. Silver Bluff will host Bamberg-Ehrhardt on Tuesday at 6 p.m.
Aiken JV 26, North Augusta 25
Tyesha McKevia led the Hornets (7-2, 2-2 Region 5-AAAA) with 10 points.
South Aiken JV 26, White Knoll 19
Keisha Whitaker led the T-Breds with eight points.
Aiken MS 37, Ridge Spring-Monetta 4
Aiken (8-1) got 14 points from LaKayla Odom and 10 points from Demetria Hart in the dominating win. The Gators will play at Kennedy on Thursday.
Jackson MS 35, LBC 33
Iyceiss Drayton turned in a 24-point performance for Jackson (4-6) in the close win.
Jackson will next host North Augusta on Thursday.
Schofield MS 22, Kennedy 20
Schofield (9-1) squeaked by Kennedy (7-3) for the rivalry win.
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Gerard N. Magliocca is the Samuel R. Rosen Professor at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law. Professor Magliocca is the author of three books and over twenty articles on constitutional law and intellectual property. He received his undergraduate degree from Stanford, his law degree from Yale, and joined the faculty after two years as an attorney at Covington and Burling and one year as a law clerk for Judge Guido Calabresi on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Professor Magliocca has received the Best New Professor Award and the Black Cane (Most Outstanding Professor) from the student body, and in 2008 held the Fulbright-Dow Distinguished Research Chair of the Roosevelt Study Center in Middelburg, The Netherlands. He was elected to the American Law Institute (ALI) in 2013.


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Life is Ugly So Why Not Kill Yourself*
Brad is at Tassajara Zen Monastery where there's no Internet access. Here is an oldie but goodie written for SuicideGirls to tide you over till he gets back.
Often in my writing for SuicideGirls I've talked about girls, but I haven't talked a lot about suicide. Last week a friend of mine attempted it, unsuccessfully thank you Jesus. 25 years ago another friend managed to do it successfully and I'm still bummed about that. When I lived in Chicago my band used to play at a place called Batteries, which was booked by Jim Ellison of the band Material Issue. I was pretty torn up when I found out he'd killed himself in 1996. They played their song Valerie Loves Me at a club I went to this week, which got me thinking even harder about suicide and its consequences. I've known a couple people, including an uncle and a co-worker, who managed to commit slow suicide by drinking themselves to death. And I, myself, have come pretty close to doing the deed too.
We used to get into these long philosophical debates around the kitchen table of the punk house near Akron City Hospital where nearly everyone on the scene seemed to hang out 24/7. In one debate it seemed like almost everyone in the room agreed that suicide was a perfectly viable option and that it was up to the individual alone to decide whether to do it or not. I'm not sure I was the only one who disagreed. But I was certainly in the minority. I imagine a lot of "alternative" type people feel somewhat the same way as my friends did, that suicide is an acceptable option.
Intellectually, it's easy to come up with a convincing argument that suicide is nobody's business but that of the person who kills herself or himself. But in practical, real world terms this is never the case. Suicide is devastating to everyone whose lives a person touches. No matter how much of a loner you are, there are people who care about you and it's never easy to deal with someone you care about killing themselves. In the case of my friend Iggy who hung himself in 1983, he seems to have been deliberately trying to hurt his girlfriend who'd recently dumped him. But she dumped him because it was the only way she could think of to make him deal with his alcoholism and general destructiveness. I don't blame her. I would've done the same thing. What he did was really nasty and mean. And I don't think it really solved his problems.
Most religions forbid suicide and imagine horrible punishments awaiting in the next world for those who take their own lives. If you dug through the Buddhist literature I'm sure you could find some variation on this. There must be a sutra or vinaya text somewhere saying what kind of future incarnation awaits those who commit suicide. But I don't know about it since I'm a pretty lousy Buddhist scholar. This, in itself says something, though. Because even if such a text exists it's not greatly emphasized. There are a couple scholarly articles on the Internet about the matter. Here's one. Here's another. And here's one more.
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Vietnamese Buddhists who set fire to themselves to protest the Viet Nam War. For a while there that seemed like one of the most enduring images the general public in the West had of Buddhism. People on this side of the planet had already been taught by their early scholars that Buddhism was a Nihilistic religion filled with talk of suffering and emptiness. So it probably came as no great surprise to hear about Buddhists offing themselves. Buddhism isn't nihilistic, though. And I don't think those guys did anyone very much good by going up in flames.
In any case, I'm not terribly concerned with scholarly research or mass opinions. I scanned through those articles I linked to, but I really didn't read them in depth. It's interesting to know the history, but not really necessary. Buddhism, as far as I'm concerned, is more about our own experiences than about received wisdom from others. My own experience tells me that suicide is not really a viable option. It ultimately cannot possibly solve the problems it's intended to solve and it causes a whole lot of unnecessary suffering and grief.
People kill themselves to put an end to their suffering. Ian Curtis of Joy Division did it to end his suffering over his marriage and finances. Pete Ham killed himself because he was suffering over the fate of his band Badfinger, the world's greatest power pop band. Kurt Cobain killed himself to end his suffering from all those stomach-aches. Of course these are all over-simplifications. But it's clear that all of these people, as well as anyone else who has ever taken their own lives, did so because they saw it as a way out of suffering. It's certainly not something you do just for the hell of it.
But the idea that committing suicide will end your suffering comes from the belief that you and the world in which you live are two different things. You believe that you can leave this world and thereby leave suffering behind. But my own sense after years of zazen practice is that this is not true. I've spent a long time watching the boundary line between what I call "me" and what I call the rest of the world blur and fade. I'm no longer certain at all where the dividing line is. I'm beginning to even suspect that that guy Buddha may have been right when he said it doesn't exist at all. In fact I've had a few times when this apparently nonsensical notion has come up and bit me on the ass in ways I cannot possibly deny.
So what I'm saying here goes a little further than just the old "the show must go on" type thing where people say you have a responsibility to your friends and family not to go off and shoot your brains out in the greenhouse. You also have a responsibility to yourself and even to the universe as a whole not to do that. Even if committing suicide solves the immediate problem by ending a poor relationship or making it so your stomach doesn't hurt anymore, the suffering you thought was yours alone spreads out like a wave to those parts of the universe you've been taught to think of as separate from you. It's impossible for me to believe that even the person who dies does not, in some way, continue to suffer just as greatly after suicide as before. I no longer believe it's possible to leave this world. And that's as far as I want to speculate about that. Anything I might say about the mechanism involved in how this happens would just be a load of stinky brain farts. Still, I have a very deep and unshakable feeling that this is true.
Anyway, please forgive the grimness of this little piece. What my friend did last week got me thinking hard about the matter. So SuicideGirls readers, don't kill yourselves! Life is beautiful, so why not eat health foods instead?*
*This title of this article comes from a punk rock compilation album put out around 1979-80 by New Underground Records. The Descendents and Red Cross are featured. I'd love to find a copy of this or its sequel Life Is Beautiful So Why Not Eat Health Foods.


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Weiner and fans bond at New York City reading
NEW YORK (AP) — Jennifer Weiner had so much to share with her readers.
The author of such best-sellers as "Goodnight Nobody" and "In Her Shoes" spoke before around 100 fans Tuesday at a Barnes & Noble on Manhattan's Upper West Side. They came out on a humid evening for the chance to learn more about her new novel, "All Fall Down," and to hear the latest from a woman they think of as a friend, whose stories are in some ways their stories.
"She's very relatable, especially for young women," said Shira Zeif, 32, a kindergarten teacher. "She gets very personal with her characters and you feel like you know her, too."
As her followers on Twitter would have already learned, Weiner has been in a good place. "All Fall Down" has received strong reviews, with her hometown Philadelphia Inquirer calling it her best, and is in the top 40 on Amazon.com. The new book, Weiner explained Tuesday, tells of a woman who seemingly has everything — a big house, a husband and daughter, growing fame as a blogger — yet finds herself increasingly unhappy, hooked on painkillers and eventually forced to get clean at a rehabilitation center.
It was a story so wrenching that Weiner dropped her usual happy resolutions for a more ambiguous ending.
"You can't pick up a newspaper or a magazine without the issue slapping you in the face," said Weiner, who spoke on stage with Hoda Kotb of NBC's "Today's Talk." But, of course, the book is also personal. She noted that her family has a "boatload of mental illness" and talked about her father, who left when Weiner was a teenager, saying he wanted to be a "fun uncle" instead. Years later, she would receive a call from police in Connecticut informing her that her father had died and, to her shock, had been using crack and heroin.
"He's not a jazz musician," Weiner remembered thinking. "He's a Jewish psychiatrist."
The audience, virtually all women, commiserated, laughed and rooted for her. They loved the story of how a devastating breakup inspired her to write her debut novel, "Good in Bed," and how she got a contract with Simon & Schuster after numerous rejections.
They nodded in sympathy when Weiner, the mother of two children, spoke of adjusting her writing time to family life. They have followed her very public campaign to get more women reviewed in New York Times and other newspapers and magazines, and applauded when Weiner revealed that The Times, which had long ignored her work, would be praising "All Fall Down."
Interviewed by The Associated Press after the event, Weiner said that when she first gave readings she assumed about 12 people would show up, "eight of them women she knew from Weight Watchers." She has long learned not only to make peace with fame, but to thrive on it, whether tweeting live updates about "The Bachelor" or fretting about what critics think of her. She doesn't see social media and publicity tours as distractions from her work, but as extensions of it, an ongoing dialogue between herself and her fans.
"They feel like they know me, and in a way they do," Weiner, 44, told the AP. "A lot of times, I feel like I'm talking to a bunch of people I went to summer camp with."
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The totals are in — and Grammy award-winning rock 'n' roller Rick Springfield, perhaps best known for his 1981 hit "Jessie's Girl," drew the largest crowd in Secret City Festival history.
A whopping 2,305 tickets were sold for Springfield's Saturday night concert on the UCOR Concert Stage.
"And that doesn't include workers and children," said Jane Gibson, with Oak Ridge Recreation and Parks and the Secret City Festival committee.
"Last year's 38 Special was the next largest," she said, pulling in 1,764 concert-goers.
The Dirty Guv'nahs drew a crowd of just under 750 for the Friday night concert, which Katy Brown of the Oak Ridge Convention & Visitors Bureau said "was typical of the Friday show."
The Dirty Guv'nahs were "very entertaining" and "appealed to a different audience (than Springfield)," she said.
"We've had people come from all over the country to the festival," Brown said. "And that was true for this year. We had people from Florida, Michigan and South Carolina (to name a few) who came to see Rick.
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However, she said the committee "was very impressed with the way the Dirty Guv'nahs run their business."
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Over the horizon we hear the faint hum of something so familar. It almost whispers to us in the breeze. Gently in our ear at first tickling the hairs on the backs of our necks. Then, louder and with more force. It's the sound of air and time being whipped into submission. Pft-pft-pft-whoosh-whoosh-whoosh. Blades like daggers of hope cut through the sky and there in all his glory and Banana Republic stands Dimples (Jeff Probst), our fearless leader and cruise director. 16 unknowns sit in anxious anticipation and prepare for the adventure of a lifetime. The camera pauses and hiccups on their faces. We hear things like, "I'm a former federal agent", "Everyday I strive to become more like my Savior" and "We ain't never had a dumbass win the game yet, have we?" *dips toes ever so gingerly into a giant blow of glitter* Oh yeah, we're gonna have a good time this season.
In one gulp I downed the Appletini I was sipping and waited for Dimples to say my lines. I say my lines because I feel as if they're a part of me. They pulse through my veins. They tickle my no-no. Simple and iconic, I wait every season for this one sentence. Say it Dimples, say it dammit! The music swells as my heart pounds loudly in my chest... the blades whir faster and faster as I lean in and hold my breath... here it comes... the camera focuses tight, Dimples hangs precariously out the side of the chopper and... "39 days. 18 people. ONE Survivor!!!" *claps and giggles* Cue the Hay Dee Doh Dee Doh's.
The chopper lands on the beach and out tumble our 16 hopefuls. They've already been divided up into their tribes which are as follows: Omarion (Ometepe): Ashley, Grant, Kristina, Phillip, Natalie, Matt, Francesca and Ashley. Zappa (Zapatera): Mike, Stephanie, Ralph, Julie, Krista, Steve, Sarita and David. Dimples welcomes the newbies to Survivor and amidst the cheers we see some guy in a suit, Jax from Sons Of Anarchy, some dude with dreads, and random girls wearing giant hoop earrings. If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times - never go into the jungle without your J. Lo accessories. I'm glad these gals came prepared. It's all smiles and giddy tinkle dancing for a while until... hark, who goes there? Another helicopter? Yes, another one.
The door opens and out leaps an old friend with his trademark baseball cap. It's Boston Rob! He's greeted with cheers, fist pumps and gasps of awe. Rob smiles as he kicks the sand and does his "Aww shucks" thing. Then, without warning the Earth opens up and out shoots a short stocky devilish character. It's Lucifer (Russell Hantz). The Freshman team, the Junior Varsity if you will, all look at each other with pained horror on their faces. It's like they all turned into the portrait of Dorian Gray simultaneously. "Oh no!", cries Mike the Iraqi war veteran. "I'm gonna stare him down", declares Stephanie. (I didn't give Stephanie a very glowing pre-season review, but if it turns out that she has death-ray vision, we could definitely be friends.) Now, Francesca, on the other hand, takes a look at both veterans and blurts out, "They're sizing us up like prey!" Bitch, shut your face! Are you an idiot? Those are the last people you want to piss off before the damn game has even started. In my mind, Franny Franny Bo Banny has just signed her walking papers.
With a good old fashioned draw for buffs, it's time to figure out where these two hardened veterans will end up. Boston Rob draws yellow - that's Omarion. His tribe erupts into cheers. Lucifer has drawn purple - that's Zappa. His tribe collapses into a pile of tears and patiently waits for the waves to take them out to sea. It's clear who the "hero" is this time around. But did you know he's also a Messiah? More on that later.
The cheers and tears are abruptly interrupted as Dimples announces, "Now, for the twist." *eyebrow raises* This is Redemption Island after all. OK so when you are voted out at Tribal Council you will not be going home. You will be taken to the Nicaraguan Ludus where you will train day in and day out in preparation for your time in the arena. In other words, you have to go to a stinky island all by yourself and build your own fire and catch/kill your own food. When the next person voted out joins you, you will then fight to the death and the winner gets to stay at the Ludus. At some point in time, the last gladiator standing will get to return to the game. I like it. I like it a lot. It reeks of loin cloths, starvation, solitary confinement and the definite possibilty for someone to go mad. Hooray! Thanks Burnett. Redemption Island doesn't scare our resident demon one bit though. To Lucifer, the Ludus is merely a spa where he can pumice his hooves and spread goat's blood all over his body in private. He welcomes the challenge. He'll smack that bitch upside the head, call her Sally and grind her bones for snorting. Redemption Island, Shmamemption Island.
The tribes then separate and head off to their respective camps. Over at Zappa, Lucifer is making the necessary "Howdy do's" and turning all the hands he shakes into stone. A shrunken head, a pair of pitchfork sharpeners and a photograph of Anton LaVey tumble out of his pants pocket as he tells his tribe in a moving speech that he's not there to sabatoge nothing from no one. It would be stoopit for him to come back and play that way. *thunder claps in the distance* He just wants to spend his days petting squirrels, playing fair and ultimately winning. Lawyer Dave isn't buying it for one second. Steve, however, eats it up with a spoon and continues his odd and creepy petting of Lucifer that started on the beach. I think Ole Stevie is a little starstruck or maybe he's just a lovey dovey touchy feely kind of a guy looking for some male companionship with a short stocky servant of Satan in a remote Central American country. I don't know. I'm not sure yet.
One man who's definitely not looking for someone to snuggle with is Ralph. Ralph, our resident ginger decked out in overalls and an impressive display of back fur, looks like he's either about to till the soil or break out into a Scottish dance. He's glorious and fascinating and I want to make macaroni art in honor of him. Ralph is a hard worker and wastes no time sketching his plans for a home on the side of the tree. You put one beam this-a-way, another beam that-a-way and you've got yerself a pretty decent shack. Something tells me Ralph has built hisself a makeshift shelter or two late at night deep in the heart of the Appalachian Trail with only the moon for illumination. You can't very well set up your moonshine operation in the daylight, duh. You gotta push that still up the side of the hill when the rest of the mountain folk are sleeping and only the hoots of owls and the chirping of nighttime insects are awake to keep you company. Survivor also sees the potential of this glorious creature as he gets his own soundtrack that sounds like something out of Oklahoma! or Paint Your Wagon.
Over at Omarion, construction is also well under way. You know how Jesus was a carpenter? Well, so is Rob. And, you know how Jesus had disciples? Well, so does Rob. Pretty Pony Matt is beside himself with joy... and harmony. In fact, he wants to call his new home Camp Harmony. Isn't that precious? Pretty Pony told us earlier he wanted to be more like his Savior so naturally I expect that by the end of the season his luscious blonde locks will be gone, he'll wear a trademark baseball cap and that physique of his will turn into a mash of beer and Fenway hot dogs. With Lucifer at Zappa and Jesus at Omarion, we've got a classic clashing of the titans on our hands. It's good versus evil. It's Jacob and the Man In Black. It's Laverne and Shirley. It's Tom and Jerry.
Pretty Pony isn't the only one who's seen the light and been saved. Natalie, too, sighs and smiles that creepy smile you always see on one those freshly scrubbed Mormon wife faces. Actually, the more I think about it and the more I see all the women fawning all over Boston Rob, the more I think calling him Jesus might not be the way to go. He's more Warren Jeffs than Christ the Redeemer, don't you think? He's Roman Grant. He's Bill Henrikson. *shrugs shoulders* He's a Sheik with a harem. It's a little disturbing, but a lot of funny. Let's roll with it.
So, while Rob is busy swatting the girls away with branches and banana leaves, Phillip sees his chance to slide in and take over the spot of "leader". His approach is a little different than Rob's though. While Rob politely declines the ladies offers of assistance and feet washing, Phillip pretty much just elbows them in the ribs and steals their shovels. Francesca doesn't take too kindly to Phillip's demands while Andrea just shrugs it off and doesn't really care. She's a farm girl who knows her way around a hammer, but she also knows that some men in this world just need to be men. Whatevs. No biggie. Let him beat on his chest and swing his willy around. She could care less.
Oh wait, did I forget to mention that Phillip is a former federal agent? Well, it's a good thing Phillip is going to tell you (and his tribe) all about it himself. You see, Phillip has worked for all three Intelligence Agencies (4-H, VH-1 and the Girl Scouts of America). He's extremely adept at keeping a secret - except the one about him being a former federal agent. And, he's also a human lie detector. Now, I don't want to exactly call Phillip a liar, but ummm, how do I put this? Pants on fire! You know Phillip is probably just a DeNiro fan with a touch of the schizo in him and he just saw Meet The Parents for the 200th time last week. I fully expect him at some point to take Rob into the shelter, hook him up to some coconuts and twigs and ask him all about his porno viewing habits. It'll probably come out at some point that Phillip has also worked for SD-6, Division and the Babysitters Club. Phillip is about as "federal" as I am sober.
So while Phillip is regaling everyone with his tall tales from when he worked with Nikita, Kristina is over at the supplies station sifting through the nails and ropes looking for an Immunity Idol clue. Rob knows exactly what Ms. Kristina is up to and in an instant a rivalry is born. Both are smart, both are cunning and both are now out for the other's blood. Rob quietly sidles up to Phillip and mentions that keeping an eye on the girls and splitting them up might be the way to go. There's 5 of them and 4 men. Phillip agrees and together they plan to talk more later. Clearly, keeping a secret like only a former federal agent can, Phillip pulls Kristina into the woods and tells her that Rob is after the girls. *bites fist* Kristina is bursting with fruit flavor to hear this. She needed a fellow Rob-hater on her side and now she has one. The two form a quick alliance and know that Rob needs to go sooner rather than later.
Back at Zappa, Lucifer and Stephanie are seemingly, innocently looking for Tree Mail, but we all know that Lucifer is really just putting the Jedi mind trick on the first young girl he's found himself alone with. Stephanie actually shows a little gumption and mocks Lucifer's speech about him being a changed man right to his face. To my surprise Lucifer doesn't bang her over the head with a machete and use her skins as a coat. Instead, he makes a quick alliance with her and advises that from now on they keep their distance. I guess evil must recognize evil kind of like gin recognizes tonic. They see each other and then jump together and make something gorgeous. The only problem with all this evil gorgeousity is that Dave and Sarita saw Stephanie leaving Lucifer's company. Mike joins them and together they discuss how Lucifer is doing what Lucifer does - getting his hooks into a cute young girl and then turning her into an evil villainess. Not so fast guys. What makes you think Stephanie wasn't already a little bit evil anyways? She's a self-described brat. Of course she's evil.
Back at Omarion while the girls flirt and Pretty Pony makes an altar, Kristina steals the shovel and heads out to the beach on a mission. She knows the Idol must be at some sort of landmark and her "Idol Antennae" tells her it's under some rocks. Boom, bam, done. Bitch found the Idol. She doesn't spend too much with it as she doesn't want to get caught so she quickly buries it under a tree and heads back to camp. Now, just when I was thinking Kristina is a pretty tough cookie she decides that at some point she'll share her secret of having the Idol with someone else. WTF? Did she go to the Phillip Sheppard School Of Serecy after she graduated college? Don't tell someone! Keep that shit to yourself. Ugh... so disappointing.
What's also disappointing is that like every other Idol holder before her, Kristina now thinks that she's the most powerful person in the game. Uh, no, you're not. Look, you have an Idol and you can save yourself if you smell trouble a'brewing. That's about it. Maybe you can use it as leverage at some point, but you're not almighty and you're certainly not in control of the game. This isn't Bad Girls Club. It's not like one person really ever runs things (no matter what Sash tells you). There are still a hell of a lot of votes swaying in the wind in your own tribe and unless you make some pretty trustworthy friends fast, you're as helpless as if you never found the Idol in the first place.
Kristina must have gotten a whiff of what I was thinking because off she goes to make some friends. Only... who do you think she chooses to buddy up with? Bigmouth Idiot Francesca and Former Brownie Troop Leader Phillip. Oh Christ. "Oh Christ" is right as an argument quickly ensues and Phillip in his tighty pinkies refuses to let anyone get a word in edgewise. He was a former federal agent in case you haven't heard and no one speaks unless he tells them to. If they speak and they say something that he doesn't like, then the speaking will desist and everyone will go back to earning badges and selling cookies. It was a huge gooey mess and I'm sensing that Kristina is furiously paddling up Shit's Creek.
This brings us to our first Immunity Challenge of the season. Dimples instructs the tribes that they will push giant blocks up to the base of a temple that will create stairs. Teams will then race up the stairs and someone will hack away (in a very human sacrifical head on a slab type of way) at several ropes. After the ropes/heads are severed, another set of stairs will descend. Tribes will then climb up to the top of the stairs and piece together a giant block puzzle. First tribe to complete their puzzle wins Immunity fire in the form of flint. Survivors ready, go!
The tribes race to the blocks that prove to be heavier than anyone imagined. Zappa pulls into the lead right out of the gate as Dimples taunts the players saying, "Looks like they'll just slide over the tracks, but they don't! Tee hee hee." He's so evil. Omarion struggles with spindly lady arms and Phillip whispering in everyone's ear about how he's a former federal agent and worked with Inspector Gadget. Zappa gets all their blocks up first and Moonshine Ralph hacks away at those ropes like they're teeny tiny little daddy long legs. He finishes in what seems like seconds. Zappa begins to work on their puzzle while Phillip is down offering his tribe a great deal on Trefoils.
Omarion eventually finishes assembling their giant steps and now it's time for Pretty Pony to hack away at the ropes. Pretty Ponies are more for flying over rainbows than they are for wielding an axe and let's just say it takes young Matthew a little longer than it took Ralph. So now Omarion is finally at their puzzle and they've got the great puzzle master Rob on their team so there is a distinct possibilty of them being able to catch up. And, that's exactly what happens. Zappa loses their lead, Lucifer takes over, pushes everyone off of Chichen Itza, the gods respond favorably and ZAPPA WINS IMMUNITY!!!
With their heads hanging low, Omarion makes the walk of shame back to camp. Everyone with long luscious hair goes for a dip in the ocean while Kristina decides that this is the perfect moment to tell someone she has the Immunity Idol. She reveals her secret to Francesca who seems to not really believe Kristina. She keeps asking, "Where?", "Why?", "How did you find it?", "Where's the clue?", "Can I see it?". A frustrated Kristina is all like, "Look, bitch, shut the fuck up. I have the Idol. I want to use it to get Rob out so get your head out of your ass and let's do this." Alright, so maybe she didn't use those exact words, but I'm close. Anyhow, Kristina's Grand Master Flash Plan is to have Francesca get all the girls to vote her out, she'll use the Idol and then Kristina, Francesca and Phillip will vote Rob out. Who the hell uses their Immunity Idol on the first day?! Does this strike anyone else as completely and ridiculously stupid? As a matter of fact, it's so stupid, it's stoopit. What happens after Rob is gone Kristina? I'll tell you what happens. You're stuck with two stupid idiots and the rest of the tribe hates you. You go home next is what happens smart ass! Krsitina's problem is she's too caught up in the theatricality of it all. She's so hell bent on getting out Rob, the Boston Rob, that she's shutting the door on common sense and reason. Common sense and reason are like opportunity, you don't slam the door on them and if you refuse to let them in, they may not ever come back.
Now, Rob on the other hand is absolutely no idiot. You can dislike him if you want, but the guy's smart. He knows something is up with Kristina. He knows she's a planner and a schemer. He knew in a millisecond that she was searching for the Idol clue. Originally, he thought about getting rid of Francesca because she was so cunty on the beach, but he begins to wonder if maybe Kristina isn't the better idea. So, he grabs his halo and his disciples and off they go to have a little meeting. Rob tells them he suspects that Kristina has the Idol. Pretty Pony is aghast and delighted all at the same time. The information is shocking, but isn't it just like a Savior to know something like that without even having proof? Rob then instructs his entire congregation to split the votes and be safe. The men will vote for Francesca and the women will vote for Kristina. He reiterates how very very important it is for them not to fuck this up. One person voting wrong is one like bad batch of gin... it'll ruin your week.
Meanwhile in another corner of the camp, Phillip is talking about his "hyper state of arousal". Ewww. Kristina knows it's probably been a good 72 hours for Phil without his meds so she drags him over to some log and whips out the Idol. *smacks head* Him?! You choose to tell him about the Idol? The great secret keeper from Troop Beverly Hills? Oh, give me a fucking break. *shakes head in disgust*
And now, ladies and gentlemen, we arrive at our first Tribal Council. Grab your torches and some fire. Take a seat and get cozy because what's about to happen is something dreams are made of. Dimples starts with a softball question to Rob about what happened right when they arrive at camp. Rob replies that they worked on the shelter. Easy enough.
Dimples then asks Pretty Pony if Phillip is the leader at camp now. Pretty Pony shakes his tresses in the night air and says something about counterproductivity not exactly being good leadership. Francesca says a girl will probably go home and then Kristina says she doesn't feel safe which is why she brought her stuff with her. It's all nice and easy and comfortable. You know, the usual first day Tribal Council stuff.
Dimples tosses another softy to Francesca and wonders how the idea of Redemption Island comes into play. She replies that it's definitely something to think about it and even if Rob were to go home, which he won't, he'd probably come right back into the game. Then... *giggles* Phillip's head explodes and he, for God knows what reason, tells everyone how he takes issue with what Francheeska said because Franchesterca and Krispina told him earlier to vote out Rob. *pours another glass of Scotch and scoots chair closer to television* Well, Francesca denies the claims while Rob just sits there and smiles.
Phillip shouts "Excuse me! Excuse me! Excuse me! I'm a former special agent Jeff!" Apparently, it's in a rule book somewhere at Langley that you're not allowed to interrupt special agents when they're talking. I think I heard about it while watching The Recruit. If memory serves Colin Farrell references it. *rolls eyes* So then... THEN!... Phillip says that his vote tonight will be going to Francessca. Franfresca. Frantiticaca. It's going to Fran-somebody. That much we know.
THEN Kristina tells Phillip he's probably unstable and most likely a little crazy. *chugs* Oh no she di-in't! Oh yes, she did! Fabulous! Phillip retorts by outing Franflimsca and KrispyKrema for approaching him because Kristopherkross actually has the Immunity Idol. Kristina and Francesca are immediately devastated and put both their heads into their Shitty Creek stained hands. Meanwhile, at home, I sat smugly and thought to myself, "Told ya so! Dumb bitches."
The camera flashes to Dimples and he's more dimply than ever! He's beaming! He loving every minute of this and licking it off his fingers one by one. I don't know about you, but I was naked and pouring Jell-o all over myself. I like to do that when I'm happy sometimes. So anyhow, the madness continues and Phillip reveals he has a mouth drying disease and Kristina whips out the Idol and Rob takes it and now he wants it and she won't give it to him and it was so gorgeous and beautiful that I never wanted it to end. But, like the adage goes, all good things must come to an end. Let's vote.
If anyone would like to play the Immunity Idol, do it now or forever hold your peace. I gotta say I expected Kristina to play it, but she didn't! Balls! Big giant balls! In the end, the splitting of the votes worked and Franscaraca, Francherubca, Franchessclubca is the first person voted out of Survivor: Redemption Island. *sighs and collapses*
So, what did you guys think? Not a bad way to start the season, right? Who are you liking so far? Who's chapping your ass? How long do you think the veterans will last? Will they have lions at the Ludus? Will Phillip ever meet his cookie quota? Comment it out bitches and have a great day!


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The building is most significant in the history of sports stadia for being the the world's largest self-supporting dome at the time of its construction. The difficulty in getting natural light into the stadium led to the development of Astroturf, an artificial replacement for grass. In the early 1960s, ex-mayor Judge Roy Hofheinz proposed the construction of a fully air-conditioned indoor stadium in order to bring baseball to Texas. Judge Hofheinz, the eventual owner of the Houston Astros baseball team, was largely inspired by the Colosseum, which had its own movable roof system. In 1965, this became a reality when the 18-story high, 9 level domed stadium opened. It would also become the home of the Houston Oilers NFL team, as well as other college and professional sports teams. After the Astrodome was opened Judge Hofheinz said that "Nobody can ever see this and go back to Kalamazoo, Chicago, New York, you name it, and still think this town is bush league."
Made primarily of concrete and steel, the Astrodome is a circular stadium occupying over 9.5 acres that has 9 levels. During construction over 40,000 cubic yards of cast-in-place concrete, 2,500 tons of reinforcing steel, and 9,000 tons of structural steel were used. It currently has the ability to hold 62,439 football fans, 54,816 baseball fans, and 67,925 professional boxing/wrestling fans. The dome itself is over 700 feet in diameter, and rises 208 feet above the playing field. The dome was originally comprised of semi transparent lucite panes, allowing natural light to enter the stadium. Some of the panes were eventually painted to compensate for sun glare. As a result Astroturf was first developed there to compensate for the lack of natural light reaching the interior of the stadium.
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