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Cult records from the '90s.
Mansun - Six
Ultrasound - Everything Picture
any others?
Frosting on the Beater - The Posies
Tales of Great Neck Glory - Sammy
This World and Body - Marion
EDC - Satchel
Do the Auteurs count?
After Murder Park, of coursesunstroke_house this'd this
I've only recently got into them
been obsessively listening to AMP for weeks now, what a record
Got into them last summer
and just purchased Luke Haines' book Bad Vibes. I can't believe I missed out on the Auteurs for so many years. They are so, so, so good.
- ZooKeepersBoy, chris_81, 8stepstoperfection, and mistersappy this'd this
- mistersappy this'd this
The Holy Bible
it's hardly underrated but some people take that shit proper seriously.
what planet are you living on spumco?
Of course The Holy Bible is a cult 90's record, you absolute fucking bellend. I'm guessing you've never been to a Manics gig - even now, you'll spot a load of idiots dressed like Richey getting a hardon if they play anything off that album.
^^^^ Keep an eye on this one, guys.
Tell me if it looks like MerePseudBagHead's back.
- ma0sm this'd this
Shiner - Luna Divinia
so so underratedspumco, Ravarivax, and waterwings this'd this
You're welcome, thanks for listening
It's usually like casting pearls before swine on here
This is ace
thanks! :)
- Comaboy and incandenza_ this'd this
I really like 'The Egg'
only one I've got, found it through googling for lists of mint post-hardcore a few years back, like you do. all of their stuff is that good, then?
^ I love it how on any forum there's always one guy
who is completely unable to avoid threads he doesn't agree with, and feels the need to take to task not only the people who start those threads, but also the people who are interested in the thread enough to post in it. It's a phenomenon of forums that I'll never be able to get my head around, especially since such activity makes the person protesting look like a total knob.Antelope this'd this
says the chap who disagrees with the idea of The Holy Bible
being a cult 90's album.
Do me a favour.
Okay, a quick look at the last.fm stats for the albums mentioned here so far
Mansun: Six - 50,571 listeners
The Posies: Frosting On The Beater - 28,127 listeners
Marion: This World And Body - 19,920 listeners
The Auteurs: After Murder Park - 16,263 listeners
Satchel: EDC - 6,430 listeners
Shiner: Lula Divinia 5,345 listeners
Ultrasound: Everything Picture - 1,169 listeners
The Holy Bible, the 3rd album from the massively successful Manic Street Preachers, features in 1001 Albums You Must Listen To Before You Die, and commonly seen in many Best Albums Ever lists that are popular with internet publications and in the printed music press, which was sufficiently popular enough for Epic Records to re-release the album in 2004 for it's 10th anniversary - 142,362 listeners.
a 'cult' album
isnt how popular it is
It is to an extent.
Although I guess it's also something that appeals hugely to a particular demographic but has no real traction outside of that demographic, so the Holy Bible probably is a cult album from the 90s, just one that's pretty well-known amongst a DiS crowd.
It's tricky. It was a cult album when it came out.
But by the end of the 90s it was definitely outside of that original cultish area. Almost every album could be said to appeal to a particular demographic, though.
I'll take it over
'this thread, you guys'
hi chupacabrasspiritofjazz this'd this
Whipping Boy - Heartworm
Puressence - Only Forever
Hefner - Breaking God's Heart
I love Breaking God's Heart.
Just about anything Darren Hayman has done is excellent. He's always brilliant live.
Only forever
Best Puressence album by a long way.
The Longpigs - The Sun Is Often Out
Kerbdog - On The Turn
Absolutely yes!
to Longpigsskippingkate and colon_closed_bracket this'd this
Coil - Love`s Secret Domain
The Orb - Orbus Terrarum
Any 90s album/band list for me has to include the following:
Belly - Star
Belly - King
Madder Rose - Panic On
Velocity Girl - Simpatico
Ooh thanks, haven't actually heard that Madder Rose LP
Only heard the first one with 'Beautiful John' on it.
Panic On
most definitely.Splendidmcawesome this'd this
Disco Inferno - DI Go Pop
Blue Nile - Hatsjohnwiddop this'd this
Does cult just mean overlooked/underrated here?
If so then:
Prolapse - The Italian Flag
Drugstore - Drugstore
and a big ^this for Heartwormjack_on_fire and funkycow this'd this
Was going to mention Drugstore & Prolapse
The Heart Throbs - Cleopatra Grip
Slowdive - Just for a Day
Cranes - Wings of Joy
The Delgados - Peloton
The Webb Brothers
2256 listeners. Sad face.Teepee_uk, El_Goodo, and chanticleer this'd this
I am ^thissing this...
...but I'm pretty sure it came out in 2001.
I've always wanted Neil Hannon to cover the first track on that album.
Just checked.
Came out in 2000. My mistake. For some reason I always associate it with the late nineties.
Angel Corpus Christi - White Courtesy Phone
Dr. Octagon - Dr. Octagonecologyst
Tricky - Maxinquaye
Turbonegro - Apocalypse Dudes
Hate to nit-pick, but Maxinquaye was pretty hyped at the time
Didn't it get a Brit nomination too?Antelope this'd this
New Kingdom - Paradise don't come cheap
Shudder to think - pony express record
Swirlies - They spent their wild youthful days
Pale Saints - The Comforts of Madness (though it's largely crap)
Royal Trux - Accelerate (not shit though a bit annoying)
Screaming Trees - Dust (well good)
Sunhouse - Crazy on the Weekend (people absolutely love this album but it's never done much for me, very sought after)
You're right on both counts, cult and irritating, Thank You and Cats and Dogs were better.
- incandenza_ and aazerbeezee this'd this
huh, I always thought Screaming Trees were much bigger than they were...
apparently outside of Nearly Lost You and All I Know, they didn't really sell many albums.
Dust was the one that got rave reviews
But Sweet Oblivion was the best.
- funkycow this'd this
here's some
One Chord To Another - Sloan
Lilys - The Three Way
The two Zumpano LPs
Morphine - Cure For Pain
Los Lobos - Kiko (but colossal head is better)
possibly Keith Richards Main Offender
checkout Dose by the Latin Playboys if you haven't already
blokeys from Los Lobos doing something a bit weirder. WITH FANTASTIC RESULTS
Have their debut, which is fantastic
Somehow _Dose_ passed me by.
Brainbombs - Obey
Appreciated by a small group of sadists,serial killers, high school shooters and people with a dark sense of humour. If the Daily Mail knew about this band they'd go ape.
DaddyOrChips was a big fan
great band
really like this interview
Haha that's great
I was always under the impression they might be bankers or at least pretty wealthy. Shame they never really toured.
Hum - Downward is Heavenward
You'd Prefer an Astronaut could count too, I guess; though "Stars" received a bit of airplay.
The Cult
Live at the Marquee
Pure Cult: for Rockers, Ravers, Lovers, and Sinners
High Octane Cult: Ultimate Collection, 1984–1995
just got this
underrated gag
Polvo - Today's Active Lifestyles
June of 44 - Four Great Points
deus - The Ideal Crash
Polvo and June of 44
I approve
Can't believe no one's said Sugar's Copper Blue
Not the biggest hit and the man on the street would more ofthen than not struggle to know anything off it but it influenced a lot bands and still has many fans today. It's also brilliant.spiritofjazz, badgertastic, and cherrycola this'd this
Jo Whiley and Steve Lamacq
Were playing most creation and 4ad bands regularly through the 90s on Radio 1. Hardly cult. FNM (troll) had four hit singles out of Angel Dust.
Chavez - Ride the Fader
(and Gone Glimmering, while we're at it.)wecancreate, Comaboy, and fellover this'd this
- refined_decline, funkycow, and Antelope this'd this
- ThisTemporaryLife this'd this
a few more:
Harsh 70's Reality/Whitehouse - The Dead C
Love Tara - Eric's Trip
Flying Saucer Attack - Flying Saucer AttackPoprivet this'd this
All 3 but especially "Back in Denim"
Sparklehorse - Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot
Shack - WaterpistolAegis this'd this
- ourbenightedstate and Antelope this'd this
Grifters - Crappin You Negative
Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die
Six by Seven - The Things We Make
I've been meaning to listen to The Grifters
I promise I'll do it tonight.
Helium - The Magic City
Babes in Toyland - Spanking Machine
Souvlaki by Slowdive fits the bill
Panned at the time, but clearly an influential album to all those nu-gaze and soundscape bands out thereAntelope and ourbenightedstate this'd this
I'd argue it's just as good as Loveless
if not better.
fucking listen to these you fucking cunts
Jessamine - The Long Arm of Coincidence
I've said it before, but this album is a secret masterpiece. fans of it have got to be few but fervent. their other records
are great too. it's all brilliant drumming in the nimble, low-key lineage of Jaki Liebezeit, crawling basslines and creeping
analogue synths, craggy guitars, cool vocals, and subtle dynamic eruptions.
The For Carnation totally cribbed from them (in a good way). also RIYL Slint (obviously, I guess), Mogwai's early stuff,
Can (obv, again), Liars' creepier stuff... I don't know, it's pretty unique, really. think of them as a really murky US equivalent
to Stereolab and Broadcast, if only in terms of the way they draw from both krautrock and early electronic music and weird
film soundtracks.
Red Red Meat - Bunny Gets Paid
Loftus - Loftus
see, you lot should have no excuse; these have both had Best New Reissue status from Pitchfork - Loftus just the other day,
actually. pretty much everything Tim Rutili sings on is some kind of fire-damaged, craggy, mysterious gold.
the first is a stone cold classic and has a claim to BEST ALBUM OF THE WHOLE DECADE status. it is right up there, and
if you're scared of albums that don't have proper songs or whatever, well fuck, these are all songy as shit. I mean these are
classic songs, right here. why the hell am I talking about this as a cult concern? what is wrong with the world?
have any of you ever heard 'Gauze'? fuck off you've never heard 'Gauze', go and listen to it NOW and tell me how remorseful
you are for all those years you hadn't heard 'Gauze'.
the second one is a bit more 'difficult' and abstract and that, but it is properly otherworldly. blues limping through dimensional
rifts, half-dead, out of its mind. also there are moments where it might make you cry towards the end of the record.
RIYL... Tom Waits, I reckon. also classic Stones, old blues recordings with the howls in the red.
Duster - Stratosphere
Valium Aggelein - Hier Kommt Der Schwartze Mond
these are both Duster, really. w/r/t the first one, I just about prefer 'Contemporary Movement', their subsequent release, but that's
a noughties album. either way, this band is fucking essential; seriously RIYL Deerhunter, because I swear Coxy must be tumescent
for this lot. like Jessamine, this is Earthbound slowcore space rock, but the tunes are a lot more accessible than them. the songs are
littered with sleepy, gauzy indie rock melodic hooks. I'm telling you, Deerhunter robbed their sound off these guys, which I'm fine
with, because who wouldn't want more of that. their aesthetic, their melodic sensibility, almost wholesale. also RIYL Bedhead, which
seems a redundant one, because I bet you don't even know Bedhead and how great they are.
the latter... again, Mark Richard-san did a great write-up for it in his old, sorely missed Resonant Frequencies column, so you should
be clued up. never mind. never have you heard a more perfect companion album to a cloudless sub-zero night in mid-winter, ice-chip
stars blinking in the deep, dark blue sky, breath hanging mistily before your wide, wonderstruck eyes, up with unseen satellites in their
unhindered circumnavigation of the magnetic field.
Disco Inferno - In Debt
everyone ought to know how good The 5 EPs and D.I. Go Pop are by now (a lot good, you twats), but pre- and post- that peak, they
were still in rareified territory. this one, before their sampler-mangling creative unshackling, is in the spirit of the best spindly, arty post-punk,
after Martin Hannett turning a ropey punk band into one of the greatest ever by way of immitating his dub idols. most of all, it's a
continuation of the The Durutti Column's post-industrial saudade.
all of this gives me the chills: what seperates them from other mere innovators is the prominence of heart in the music. these shimmering
arpeggios are played on your heart strings hooked up to the delay unit of your fragmented memory. Vini Reilly with better lyrics.
got a bit carried away there. xoxoafan, refined_decline, and chasingabee this'd this
please excuse the weird formatting
not sure how that happened...
I enjoyed that
It's a bit like reading Aquarius reviews if they were needlessly aggressive
I'm working through this now. I'm only on Jessamine, they're a lot like Slint in the way I find them kind of cool but it doesn't really have much of an impact on me.
I felt like I had to swear a bit
people have just ignored my great recommendations in the past. :(
thing with Jessamine is they're definitely a mood band.
good times for listening to Jessamine: 1) in a darkened room, reading sci-fi. 2) going on a long walk in between showers on a bruised autumn night. 3) playing a really tense, scary computer game.
also cheers
I like writing about music. haven't really gone off on one like that for a while, it felt good to cut loose.
OK Jessamine are growing on me now.
I think the first album's doing more for me despite not being terribly different.
I'll get back to you after I've listened/absorbed you list, but for now I'm going to make my own recommendations that no fucker will listen to :D
cool :D
I promise I'll pay attention to your list.
The formatting was really weird
but i think you should write more about music. Send some shit to sean, he deserves it xanal_schwarzenegger this'd this
Holy shit
Jessamine are truly amazing.thankyou for introducing
Plone - For Beginner Piano
Yo La Tengo - Painful
Galaxie 500 - This Is Our Music
I have shed a lot of tears to this record
when my cat died.
it's an album about Richard Youngs' dog, Sapphie. (she died, which made him really sad).
might be the saddest record I've ever heard
fucking heart-wrenching, soul-scouring catharsis. it's in his voice, it's so bare and honest. the melodies are so fragile.
O.L.D. - Lo-Flux Tube/Formula
Ever wondered what Alan Dubin and James Plotkin did before Khanate? O.L.D. (or Old Lady Drivers) started off as a wilfully idiotic grindcore band in the late 80s before gradually becoming more bizarre and industrial-tinged, almost like a precursor to Plotkin's Phantomsmasher project.
The instrumentation brings Godflesh to mind (aggressive drum machines, scree-ing guitar, guttural bass) only more damaged and rhythmically diverse and occasionally strangely melodic, too. Dubin' angry cat screech is very much present at this juncture.
Marzuraan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_vQJltFHhk
Last Look: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap2FHwECFpo
Iceburn Collective - Meditavolutions/Power of the Lion
Brooding heavy jazzrock ensemble given to dissonant heads and noisy abstraction. While rather meandering their material always had a definite compositional structure that allowed much improvisation while still maintaining a sense of direction. In this way, and musically, they foreshadowed Kayo Dot and (the more cohesive moments of) The Mars Volta rather heavily to my ears.
Trills & Cones (Expansion): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwixXgQBzuA
Power Of The Lion part I: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7D2Cl46o5Y
Gastr Del Sol - Camofleur
Final album from this amorphous collective based around guitarists Jim O'Rourke and David Grubbs. Lovely eclectic and experimental indie/math-rock.
Black Horse: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6LKlG5wxx0 (The arrangements are fucking brilliant on this by the way)
Blues (Subtitled No Sense of Wonder): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO77MeRhNKY
The Monsoon Bassoon - I Dig You Voodoo
Sole album from this band most notable for containing Kavus Torabi who would go on to form the brilliant Knifeworld, as well as play guitar for, Cardiacs and Guapo amongst others. In fact, there can't be many Cardiacs fans who aren't aware of this. Excellent wonky Math-pop-prog-rock(?)
King Of Evil: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i3BMnrCOxg
Wise Guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kMjAF0nF98
Ved Buens Ende - Written In Waters
Back in the mid-to-late-90s major players in the Norwegian black metal scene began straying from the purist template pretty heavily. While other bands began to experiment with electronic influences, VBE kept the rawness and atmosphere of black metal but approached the form in a very idiosyncratic way. Ugly, dissonant riffs and weird crooning vocals go up against powerful basslines that refuse to simply follow the riffs and incredible drumming. Definite shades of early Voivod and Bruford/Wetton/Fripp-era King Crimson here. VBE also only managed one album, but mastermind Carl-Michael Eide evetually went on to form Virus who offer a less 'black' but still amazing take on this style.
I Sang For The Swans: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMPfYr7JiZM (this one starts with a hell of a RIFF)
Den Saakaldte: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMztimW-vDI
Didn't mean to write so much, this is what happens when I drink on my own.
^ Gastr del Sol
From start to end that is a brilliant album.Comaboy and chasingabee this'd this
Moose - XYZ & Honey Bee
Great unsung shoegaze-country classics.Juninho10, freddiehubbard, and Aegis this'd this
XYZ is absolutely gorgeous
Love their earlier EPs as well. Never quite got into Honey Bee though.
King of the Slums - Blowzy Weirdos
Possibly the most Mancunian album in the world ever. Happy Mondays punk-funk with withering MES-style social observations.
Begs the question
How did they go so so so wrong on that second album, National Coma? It was fucking dreadful, a rubbish Lilys rip-off that was devoid of any redeeming features and tunes, I'm still cross...!
The Last Good Day of the Year is an incredible song.
Never really got into the rest of the album.
(is that really from the 90s? Fuck.)funkycow this'd this
It's stuffed full of great tunes
Really good live act too.
- ThirstyDog and freddiehubbard this'd this
Stina Nordenstam - Dynamite
Genuinely creepy, stripped-down Scandinavian noir.AdamCrump this'd this
- yuggy this'd this
The Frank & Walters - s/t
8-track mini album combining their first 2 EPs. Ridiculously good.Aegis this'd this
The High Llamas - Gideon Gaye
plus the Madder Rose, Belly, Whipping Boy and Morphine albums other people have mentioned.
Crazyhead - Desert Orchid
Lard - The Last Temptation Of Reid
Skinny Puppy - Too Dark Park
Monster Magnet - Spine Of God
Young Gods - TV Sky
God Machine - Scenes From The Second Storey
DJ Shadow - Entoducing
cult record?
It went Gold here (100,000 Copies), but no certification in the US
Why do think it isn't a cult record?
Highly influential, critically acclaimed, but the sales figures don't necessarily reflect it's importance.
"It went Gold..."
*ding ding ding*
(automatic disqualification)
Kwest tha Madd Ladd - This Is My First Album
One of the funniest, filthiest & funkiest hip hop albums ever made. Kwest's flow is breathtaking at times & his lyrics are frequently LOL funny.
Ultramarine - Every Man and Woman is a Star
Gorgeous and summery Electronic Folk album.
dEUS "Roses"
Also, who remembers Libido? They were good.
awesome! thanks so much for the recommendation...
I like/might fit the bill too:
trumans water - of thick tum
joel r.l. phelps and the downer trio - 3
rex - c
a minor forest - flemish altruism
us saucer - tender place come from nothing
magnog - magnog
Scarce - Deadsexy
Still one of my favourite records.
The Mystics
They did this song:
The main guy was the one who produced Supergrass, I think. Basically you can hear loads of Supergrass sound in the album. I guess they were just too old to really get popular.
Much Against Everyone's Advice.
Used to absolutely love this band.
Radial Spangle - Syrup Macrame
They were a post-Nirvana signing to Geffen, had links with Mercury Rev and Flaming Lips but were a lot edgier, John Peel liked them enough for a session. The second album is really quite odd, some abrasive slacker rock along with some gorgeous countrified stuff Calexico would have killed for, lovely.
The Julie Dolphin - Lit
They chaged their name to I forget what, this album was nigh on perfect to me. Like Lush, but a more urgent and darker sound. The girl singing goes from coquetishness to angry to whispery, the production is stunning, sounds like a top 40 record. Again, had some Radio 1 airplay and support but didn't get anywhere, shame.
Verbena - Souls for Sale
I think they supported Foo Fighters early on, they have a very bluesy sound and surprised they weren't bigger, boy/girl vocals, amazing riffs and swagger to them, kind of like Come on some happy happy drugs...!
Come should qualify for this too, but am too upset about missing their reunion show recently :( 20:20 is dark, Nico type dark grunge blues.
Mr Sadpunk, given your love of Scarce I can happily endorse the above for your consumption.
Pulkas - Greed
I caught them supporting Jesus Lizard in 97/98
It was a massively overlooked record, the critical response was good, however, the band had massive rows with their label (Earache) which led to them receiving little or no tour support & poor distribution.
They were brilliant live and on the night in question actually outdid Jesus Lizard (a rare off day for them.) It's a post hardcore record that kicks hard. I can't help but feel had they been American, things would have been very different
Levitation - Coterie
Much as I love HOL, this has to be Terry Bickers' finest hour.
Superstar - Greatest Hits Vol 1
Teenage Fanclub/BMX Bandits-associated Scots indie band on Creation. Stuffed full of killer hooks & choruses. Virtually erased from history now for some bizarre reason.
Bettie Serveert - Palomine
Jacob's Mouse - No Fish Shop Parking
Sophia - Fixed Water
Pretty much every Smog album prior to Knock Knock
- chris_81 and RockyORourke this'd this
The Downward Spiral
After all of the NIN news/threads recently. It holds up.
"...sold over 5 million copies worldwide."
I think past a certain point, 'cult' is superseded by religion or something.
Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
definitely a cult album
Hash Jar Tempo
Name taken from Ash Ra Tempel, Roy Montgomery & Bardo Pond jam together and make some amazing space rock.
I love Roy Montgomery...
but I find Hash Jar Tempo to be boring. I blame Bardo Pond as they're a band I really want to like, but it seems like a bulk of their stuff is meandering bullshit.
Some of Bardo's mid to late 00's stuff is pretty dull.
Their early stuff is great though, you should give the first album a try if you haven't already. You may reconsider after that.
This and Kingsize
are both true cult records.
Giant Steps
has it's own website celebrating it. So that's certainly their most "cult" record (it's also their certifiable masterpiece).
Vampire Rodents - Lullaby Land
Kind of an unknown album that is one of my favorites from the 90s. Weird, cut up college style industrial rock mixed in with ambient chill out electronics, pounding beats and an indian ragga at the end for good measure. It's like Nine Inch Nails but really really really good.
Wheat - Hope & Adams
Never seemed to gain much attention over here despite both Lamacq and Peel giving the singles loads of airplay & NME getting behind them. 'Don't I Hold You' is still one of my favourite songs everFlailing this'd this


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|2013-01-02, 17:35
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Knight Errant
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Age: 30
Secondly, Industrial production today is not the same as the industrial production of your grandpa. That type of industry, driven by unskilled, cheaply payed workers who do repetitive and monotonous tasks is gone. It was destroyed by the Japanese in the 70s and 80s. Industry today is built on fewer skilled workers, not a mass of unskilled drones. Many people want to cling onto that idea, but it is a dead one. If you want to go back to those days, then prepare to go back to cheap, unreliable and flimsy products.
The primary factor in an industries success is not how low it's wages are, it's how productive it's workers are. 5 skilled skilled Japanese or Americans will always beat a legion of uneducated Chinese farm boys.
If Chinese industry is to beat American industry in the next 20 years, it will not be because of it's cheap labor. It will be because Chinese companies were willing to embrace the innovations that western companies weren't.
People blamed Japan's success on low wages too, they were wrong, Japan did not become an industrial behemoth based on cheap disposable factory labor. It became a behemoth because it was better then everyone else, and everyone else only responded by trying to block Japanese products and factories from being built.
If the basis of China's success is only it's wages and warped currency, then we're quite fortunate. Chinese industrial growth will inevitably collapse in that case.
But if China is genuinely better then us (and it's entirely possible that they are), then building a wall and plugging our ears will achieve nothing. They'll just keep getting better and better, and we'll just stagnate.
The reason American(and also European) industry took such a dive in the last 30 years is because they took the easy way out and still tried to compete with the rest of the world based on low wages, rather then focusing on improving worker productivity. And one of the best ways to improve productivity is to expose industries to the full force of the world market.
If we look at some of the best manufacturers in the world (think Toyota), they have not closed down their plants at home, because their workers cannot be easily replaced by cheap foreign drones.
I agree that Outsourcing is something that should be discouraged, but for me it's a question of labour laws, not tariffs.
|2013-01-02, 17:59
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I disagree with you all.
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And even if that wasn't the case... That'd mean higher wages for some other third world countries. It still wouldn't bring the jobs back to the West.
- they aren't beating them now.
- what "uneducated Chinese farm boys"? Why are you talking like that's all China has to offer? What they have is a vast array of variously trained workers who, for equal training, are much cheaper than their Western counterparts. They can make quality (though maybe not top quality), if the money's right. They can also make crap, if that's all the retailers in the west are willing to pay for. Labeling is... negotiable.
It doesn't matter, though. The point is, you're right: the Chinese are better than we are at getting the goods out for cheap. That's actually an argument for protectionism: if you can't win, don't play. So until and unless someone comes up with a way to turn superior knowledge of American (or in the case of my country, French) history into a decisive industrial advantage, protectionism seems the way to go.
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|2013-01-02, 19:40
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Knight Errant
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[QUOTE=Anh_Minh;4497970]They won't be (they already aren't) the cheapest in the world, but they'll still be cheaper than Western workers.
And even if that wasn't the case... That'd mean higher wages for some other third world countries. It still wouldn't bring the jobs back to the West.
[quote] One thing to bear in mind is that economics is not a zero sum game. One region of the world doing well does not mean that another region will be harmed.
And as I said, wage costs are only a small part of the story.
As for our welfare and social services, we all know it could be made more efficient. We often get too little for what we spend, as money is siphoned off into inefficient services and private interests.
Equating "quality" with cost is a mistake you make when thinking in terms of hand made production or old style mass production. In both quality is indeed expensive, as the quality of the product is proportional to the amount of time spent repairing defects after it has been produced. Modern manufacturing focuses on not manufacturing any defective products in the first place, and so "quality" comes, basically, for free(as little time is spent in repairing defects).
|2013-01-03, 02:00
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I disagree with you all.
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Also, where were made your $100 boots? Because, while I've never paid attention to footwear, I've got plenty of mid-range clothing. All made in the far east.
|2013-01-03, 02:22
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While $60 is alot to compare, I would rather take a $27 safety boot with steel-toe inserts than a $15 one with hard leather head. At least I don't have to spend $3000 for a lawyer to fight my company or my insurer for $10,000 per toe.
However, you do have a point. The poor will make do with "whatever works"; which is sometimes a risk to their work safety and health.
|2013-01-03, 07:56
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Knight Errant
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What really caused the collapse in American industrial employment was because they moved to much more efficient manufacturing methods. Because the market was already "saturated" with goods, consumers wouldn't buy more, so ultimately companies had to cut their excess industrial capacity (IE workers ). America employed less people in manufacturing, but still probably makes more then at any previous time in history.
All that said, American manufacturing employment is now expanding again, after 30 years of shrinking.
Something to note though, just because it's "Made in China", doesn't tell the whole story. Where was the leather cured? where were their machine tools made? It's only the final step that counts in terms of whether it has a "Made in X" mark, whereas in reality nothing is ever purely made in one country.
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|2013-01-21, 12:35
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Good Inauguration. Decent speech, a good benediction, and fairly soaring and encompassing poem.
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GOP really doesn't waste any time does it. Will be interesting if the governor denies it though.
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Join Date: Nov 2007
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Loli marriage FTW - *gets bludgeoned to death with a paddle*
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But, aside from the Presidency... don't forget the other parts of government:
Posted that - because it's true. There does exist a faction within this country, who look to take down the Federal government, in favor of increased state-by-state power. That's the legacy of the Confederacy for you.
|2013-01-23, 14:10
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Have some salt
Not that the Teabaggers are worth talking about, but there's nothing wrong with promoting States' rights.
As a side note, I just realized I'm still a registered Democrat when I was sure I changed it on my last DMV form. Fuck that. Changed it right away online.
Though I guess I might have stayed Democrat to take advantage of the way primaries work since I didn't know any better Until I realized your vote for president doesn't count in California anyways. Though at the very least the Democratic primary was the most +EV way of having your vote matter here but that's no longer the case anyways thanks to open primaries being activated... one of the more sane things my state has done.
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Le fou, c'est moi
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Location: Las Vegas, NV, USA
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The State of the Union Address is beginning.
I wonder how many other Americans are actually glued to the *other* major event on the other coast, as the drama heats up.
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A total of $8,000 has been raised for the ALS Association from the Walk to Defeat ALS held at Lions Club Park in Rolla Saturday morning.
A total of $8,000 has been raised for the ALS Association from the Walk to Defeat ALS held at Lions Club Park in Rolla Saturday morning.
The amount raised this year is up from last year's event, which raised $6,745.
The local event has grown each year in both the number of participants and amounts raised.
Organizers with the ALS Association St. Louis Regional Chapter estimated that about 150 people attended the local walk.
ALS stands for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a progressive, fatal neurodegenerative disease that attacks nerve cells and pathways in the brain and spinal cord. It is also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease. In 1939, baseball player Lou Gehrig brought attention to the disease when he was diagnosed with the condition.
Doug Barrett, an ALS patient, cut the ribbon during a ceremony to kick off the walk.
The walk in Rolla was one of 180 walks scheduled this year by ALS Association chapters nationwide to increase awareness for ALS and raise funds for local patient programs and national research.
ALS affects about 6,000 Americans each year. Every 90 minutes, someone is diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's Disease.
There is currently no cure for ALS and the cause is undetermined. ALS is usually fatal within two to five years after diagnosis.
When the motor neurons die, as with ALS, the brain's ability to start and control muscle movement dies with them. With all voluntary muscle action affected, patients in the later stages are totally paralyzed. In most cases, their minds remain unaffected.
Over the last year, the number of patients that the ALS Association St. Louis Regional Chapter serves increased approximately 13 percent.
The ALS Association provides patients and families with respite care; equipment loan, family mentor, augmentive communication and assistive technology programs; nutritional supplement, transportation and emergency assistance.
Caregiver recognition, community partnership programs and a pen pal program for children also are provided.
The ALS Association St. Louis Regional Chapter provides programs and services at no cost to the ALS patients and their families in eastern Missouri and central and southern Illinois.


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'Small Is Beautiful, Especially Small Taxes on Small Farmers': Demonstration Planned by Cannabis Growers in Supes Chamber Next Tuesday
They've issued the following press release:
If the goal for cannabis compliance is to eliminate environmental degradation, reduce the black-market sales of cannabis and bring existing farmers into the fold; many things that Humboldt County, and the State of California, are doing are having exactly the opposite effect on small farmers.
Typically, when new business ventures are presented to a county or municipality with their tax revenue, new jobs and economic growth, local governmental authorities give these companies tax credits, fee waivers and financial incentives to attract their businesses to the area. What the County is currently doing is exactly the opposite: High application fees and taxes up front, significant engineering and compliance costs, and unrealistic regulations are driving the compliance seekers back under the trees, back into their diesel consuming indoor grows and out of the process toward a governable industry. We urgently encourage the County to consider incentive programs to encourage small farmers to move forward in this process. Currently, government agencies are only using a big stick and beating the small, willing and compliant permit seekers back out of the system.
An example of an incentive system at work is currently evident with United Airlines expanding in Humboldt County because they are being given tax breaks, incentives and encouragement to do business. The Board of Supervisors and local leaders have given United reduced docking fees and assurances of full and profitable planes. These are carrots to encourage new business. The County should take a similar approach with the small cannabis farmers seeking to join the regulated market.
We recognize the complexity and fluidity of the process and the fact that the County is getting a lot of pressure from other agencies and environmental groups to slow environmental degradation, reduce the black market, monitor water use, and save the fish and amphibians. We appreciate the County's hard work moving this process forward and believe that small compliant farms can be the County's ally in this effort. Small compliant farmers are willing to pay reasonable fees for entry into the cannabis market and strive to make our farms as environmentally friendly as possible. However, the current heavy-handed taxes and fees, coupled with ballooning compliance costs and an ever-lowering market value for the cannabis that we produce are seriously imperiling the future viability of our farms. We believe that the extreme up-front taxes represent a short-sighted vision, and the County should look at the potential medium- to long-term economic benefits including sales and employment tax revenue resulting from a healthy legal cannabis economy built on small farms.
The Salmon Creek Association of Small Farmers hopes that the County will consider the following request:
- Repeal the 2017 taxes on Interim Permits. The levying of 2017 taxes appears deceptive, did not provide any additional benefit to those farmers that were taxed, and unfairly penalizes the earliest and most willing permittees.
- Reduced taxes on 2018 Interim Permits. These permits provide minimal certainty to the small farmer and therefore should not be taxed at the full amount.
- Consider developing a system for rebates or deferred tax payment plans targeting small growers that is exactly the opposite of the payment plan sent out with the 2017 tax bills – "pay in full by February 28, 2018 or get fined an additional 25%". That is not a way to build trust in a new government program or foster new economic growth.
Find a mechanism to cost-effectively leverage enforcement of the ~8,000 non-applicants without relying on small farmers taxes.
- Work to streamline the compliance process for those small farms where environmental degradation is NOT occurring.
Small is Beautiful, Especially Small Taxes on Small Farmers.
Signed by The Salmon Creek Farm Association of small, outdoor, farmers looking for carrots, not sticks:
Huckleberry Woods, Hope Springs Farms, Cherry Valley Farms, Fire Robin Farms, Bamboo Farms, All in The Roots Farm, Grindstone Ridge Gardens and others. For further information write to firstname.lastname@example.com. The time of the demonstration will be announced later.


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Staples wung to a loss in the third quarter hurt by restructuring costs and slower sales.
The office supply chain retailer reported a loss of $596 million or 89 cents per share in the latest quarter on Wednesday.
But excluding those charges, the company reported quarterly earnings that narrowly beat nalysts' expectations. Ex-items earnings came in at 46 ents a share, compared to expectations of 45 cents per share.
Revenue declined to $6.35 billion from $6.57 billion a year ago. Analysts expected Staples to report $6.45 billion in revenue, according to a consensus estimate from Thomas Reuters.
Following the earnings announcement, the company's shares rose 1.4 percent in pre-market trading. (Get real-time quotes for Staples here.)


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ESA's 'Cosmic Vision'
Space science is playing a prominent role in Europe's space programme. It has been the core of European cooperation and success in space since the early 1960s.
ESA was created in 1975 and has continued a tradition of innovative thinking and long-term perspectives that form the basis for ESA's scientific programme.
The Horizon 2000 plan, which included the Cassini–Huygens mission, was prepared in 1984. Horizon 2000 Plus was drawn up in 1994–95 and is coming to fruition now with a wealth of scientific satellites and space telescopes in orbit producing great results.
In the first years of the new millennium, ESA began building its future in space science with Cosmic Vision 2015–25. This is a way of looking ahead, building on a solid past and working today to overcome the scientific, intellectual and technological challenges of tomorrow.
More than a philosophy
ESA's long-term scientific programme is based on a vision, built on strong pragmatism and consolidated ability.
To explore our Universe, its mysteries and laws, and advance our understanding of nature, this vision has to capitalise on:
- the current scientific challenges;
- the prevailing priorities in space research;
- the available know-how, resources and technological investment towards maximum scientific return;
- the maintenance of European industrial and technological competitiveness; and
- the consolidation of ESA's ability in worldwide space science.
Cosmic Vision in context: today's achievements
The Sun–Earth connection is being explored by the SOHO mission in combination with the Cluster quartet and Proba-2, while Ulysses, launched in 1991, completed its mission in 2009.
Large astronomical observatories, from the Hubble Space Telescope to XMM-Newton and Integral, are providing breathtaking images and mind-boggling results, confirming Europe's capability in spectroscopy (the science of 'finger-printing' celestial bodies).
Planetary science is also proving to be a big success story for Europe, with SMART-1 completing its mission at the Moon in 2003 and Huygens landing on Saturn's moon Titan in 2005.
Now Rosetta is on its own way to Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, Venus Express is in orbit around Venus, Mars Express is exploring the Red Planet and BepiColombo, the joint ESA/Japanese project for a mission to Mercury, is due for launch in 2015.
Over the next decade, ESA's science programme is due to open windows into new realms of astronomy and astrophysics.
Herschel and Planck, launched in 2009, have already been studying the cold Universe and looking for echoes of the Big Bang, respectively.
Gaia, set for launch in 2013, will count and track a billion stars in the Milky Way and beyond. The James Webb Space Telescope, a NASA observatory with major ESA involvement, will explore the very first stars and galaxies.
Solar Orbiter will venture closer to the Sun than any previous spacecraft, and Euclid will explore the nature of the mysterious dark energy thought to be accelerating the expansion of our Universe.
Meanwhile, ESA's first Large-class mission, Juice, is destined for Jupiter and its ocean-bearing moons Europa, Ganymede and Callisto in 2022.
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Congratulations to Jon Davis who recently got his PhD
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Congratulation to Jon Davis who got his PhD and his thesis titled "Temporal Meta-Model Framework For Enterprise Information Systems (EIS) Development".
His examiners including Dr. Richaed Soley, OMG, USA.
Jon Davis's Thesis Summary
40 years on, approximately 70% of software projects have failed [1], and today, despite continuing technology advances, enterprises are still facing the challenges that their software systems do not meet their evolving needs. This thesis addresses key issues associated with large-scale enterprise software development. It has developed a Temporal Meta-Model Framework for semi-automated Enterprise System Development, which can help drastically reduce the time and cost to develop, deploy and maintain Enterprise Information Systems.
Despite ongoing continuing technology developments, there has been no fundamental change to the outcomes and issues of large scale software production in today's Enterprise Information Systems. A recent analysis of software projects [2] by the Standish Group determined that 31% of projects are cancelled, 52.7% of projects overrun and only 16.2% they are completed on-time and on-budget.
This research project proposes that the performance of the analysis and requirements gathering, with an efficient collection of this information, can also perform the bulk of the design phase for an EIS application, largely as a simultaneous activity, with the collective design requirements stored and available in a suitable model. This research aims to develop a meta-model structure and framework that will allow EIS style applications to then be executed automatically from this model with the availability of a set of specific runtime components.
This expectation is based on the highly structured nature of Enterprise Architecture (EA) that influence the design of EIS applications which I summarise as visual and interactive applications that prompt for the entry of appropriate transaction data and user events from the application users, use rules based workflow sequences and actions, and utilise database transactions in a (usually) relational database environment to complete the actions. As EIS applications are typically structurally repetitive they tend to be a technically simpler subset of possible computer applications. They consist of applications such as logistics, human resource, payroll, project costing, accounting and other general database applications.
This thesis addresses user requirement and system design issues associated with large-scale software development. The main objective of this thesis is to develop an alternative development methodology by proposing a model standard for defining and producing Enterprise Information Systems in a much cheaper and simpler way, exploring additional benefits that might be derived from subsequent usage of a model based framework.
This thesis achieves its objectives through the following solution development:
- The definition of a model structure that will adequately model the application features required in EIS applications encompassing the user interface, business logic workflow and transaction processing capability.
- Design accelerator mechanisms to expedite and simplify population of the model by users, with user specified model data such as rules and relationships between application objects, wizards for model data entry sequences, user interface templates, external model reverse engineering and additional model objects that will facilitate integration between multiple models.
- Design of a prototype that would be used to automatically execute the EIS application models. This runtime engine is expected to be service based utilising any combination of technologies and deployment strategies. The high level design will document the key features and attributes of the runtime execution environment.
- Definition of an interface language specification that could be used to access data and application services from external applications. Based on a service-oriented architecture (SOA) all functions of the solution will be available for de-centralised cloud access and integration using common standards.


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It was a hot summer day on July 26, 1984 when I drove down Highway 401 to see a Bruce Springsteen concert at the CNE in Toronto. I had been hooked on The Boss ever since seeing him deliver a marathon show in January 1981 at the Ottawa Civic Centre.
In 1984, Springsteen's album Born in the U.S.A. was mammoth, delivering hit after hit — Dancing in the Dark, Glory Days, No Surrender, Darlington County, and the title track, Born in the U.S.A.
Certain albums can freeze time. And no matter how many years go by, the minute you hear that album, you are transported back to that period of your life. In the summer of 1984, Songs from Born in the U.S.A. blasted from car radios at red lights. You could hear the Boss everywhere, at a party, at the beach, the unmistakable voice singing I'm on Fire, volume reaching across Vincent Massey Park from a boom box that required 8 "D" cell batteries.
In those days, I wrote radio commercials for CFRA/CFMO (now BOB FM) and I was lucky enough to have my own office. An office that had a tiny cassette player with surprisingly loud volume — which I put to maximum use for hours on end, playing nothing but Bruce Springsteen music. It's a wonder that none of my co-workers punched a hole through the wall.
Since my first Bruce concert, I was determined to own every album he ever made, and I knew all the words to all the songs.
I spent most of the summer of '84 hanging out with two guys: Jeff Cohen (now the owner of the legendary Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto), and Barry Kaplan (now an Ottawa real estate agent). We had one thing in common: the ability to talk about Bruce Springsteen for hours and hours. Jeff even started dressing like "Born in the U.S.A." Bruce Springsteen, right down to the bandana tied around his head. I tried that look too, but I could never get the bandana tight enough and it would slide down and cover my eyes.
Not only did Jeff have the look, he had all the connections. And it was through Jeff that I learned a couple of things on July 26th, 1984. Number one: Bruce Springsteen enjoys a hearty swim at his hotel on the day of a performance. And number two: In Toronto, that hotel was the Harbour Castle.
It was early afternoon when I arrived in Toronto, almost six hours before I was meeting a friend at the CNE to see Bruce Springsteen. I had left Ottawa ridiculously early because I had visions of Highway 401 construction containing me and my Acadian for an entire day and missing the show.
I thought about killing time by going straight to the CNE, eating some pogos and standing in line for the Twister ride, but then I had a better idea: I decided to try to get Bruce Springsteen's autograph.
The concierge at the Harbour Castle Hotel didn't flinch when I marched right up and asked, "Hi, where's your swimming pool?"
I grabbed an elevator, and up I went. I arrived at the indoor pool area, where three kids were having a great time splashing about. Besides the kids and a hotel towel guy, there was no one else, which neither surprised nor disappointed me, as I had little faith that my hotel side trip would actually lead to anything interesting. I started to walk away from the pool area when a sound made me turn around. In hindsight, my about-face was likely due to a rather loud gasp from the towel guy. Which was quickly followed by a gasp of my own.
Bruce Springsteen had just slipped through a back door and entered the pool area. He wore a navy T-shirt, camouflage pants, and a baseball cap, all of which were being peeled off and tossed onto a patio chair. Now clad only in his regular-guy swim trunks, the Boss dove into the swimming pool and swam right by me. I froze. I knew that getting Bruce's autograph would be tough, considering the fact that he was now wet.
The kids had climbed out of the pool and disappeared. Even the towel guy was nowhere in sight. That left just two people in the pool area: Bruce Springsteen. And me. I did my best to blend in, sitting casually in a patio chair next to the hot tub, stealing only the occasional glance at the Boss, who, as it turned out, was a Spitz-like super swimmer. Ten laps of the pool. Twelve. Fifteen. I kept my head down and waited for that amazing moment, when Bruce Springsteen would be dry enough to sign an autograph. Bruce finally climbed out of the pool, toweled himself off, and just as I summoned the courage to ask for his signature, walked straight past me and jumped into the hot tub. Yet again, the Boss was wet.
"It's really nice in here," I heard the words but didn't think they were being directed at me. "Yes, I'm talking to you." A gruff but friendly voice from the hot tub. "Why don't you come on in?"
The fact that I was wearing street clothes was a minor detail. I wanted more than anything to be super cool, to say the right thing, even be a bit aloof. "I guess I could come in for a minute or two." So, in the hot tub I went, shorts, T-shirt, sandals and all. Bruce was kind enough to ignore the fact that both of my sandals quickly floated to the surface of the hot tub and one of them was sucked onto a filter.
I couldn't bring myself to admit why I was in the pool area in the first place: for the slight possibility that he would be there. I was nervous but I couldn't look nervous because that would give away the fact that I knew who he was, which I did, but I didn't want him to know that I knew who he was, and that made me even more nervous. I abandoned any hope for an autograph, because that would give everything away. Bruce Springsteen was my rock and roll hero, he was in amazing shape, he was sitting across from me in a hot tub.
Then a funny thing happened. We had a lovely conversation. We talked about things that anyone would talk about … weather, movies, the Toronto Blue Jays. Why it's a good idea to swim every day. Which carnival ride is the scariest. Bruce was engaging, he was funny, he made me laugh. The time flew by and about an hour later Bruce finally said "I gotta go … it's sound check time." I responded with, "I know. I have tickets to your show tonight." He looked a bit surprised. But nothing prepared me for what he said next. "Would you like to join me for sound check?"
I often wonder how many people in my shoes (or, waterlogged sandals) would have jumped at the chance to join Bruce Springsteen for a pre-show sound check. Probably all of them. But, in that Toronto hotel hot tub, I turned down the invitation from the Boss. I felt it was more important that I earned his respect. I didn't want him to think I was a "groupie." Do I regret my decision? Sometimes. But at least I had my pride. As much pride as someone can have while trying to pull her sandal out of a hot tub filter.
Moments before Bruce Springsteen disappeared through the back door, I took advantage of the fact that he was finally dry, and asked for an autograph.
Friday night at Scotiabank Place was my 31st Springsteen show. But I will never forget one show in particular, where it was impossible to wipe the smile off my face, after a sweet afternoon with the Boss. Just don't call me a groupie.
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by Eric Ratcliffe » Sat May 29, 2010 2:57 am
He emails everyone. he'll probably ask you for chaps email soon enough. not sure why the fuck he doesn't just join the damn board.
by S.F. Jude Terror » Sat May 29, 2010 3:01 am
He's emailed the Outhouse press email repeatedly about Bubba's top ten vs top ten. I think he's trying to reach Hawk.
by Zero » Sat May 29, 2010 3:07 amGotham City Sirens #12
I often wonder why DC have so many prosaic and bland artists and writers on their books. When I began reading comics Marvel always seemed to have someone interesting and different on every book while DC tended to be a sludge of middling similarity. This probably wasn't the case but it's an impression that stuck and one that came back today.
Peter Nguyen's art is DC house style dreck. It's got nothing fancy, no bells, no whistles and, aside from one panel of Catwoman winking that looks like it's from a better book, nothing that made me ever want to look at it again. Combined with a colour pallet that does its best to make any scraps of colour stand way too far out against the mood of the title and my eyes would thank DC not to put this chap on anything I'll be reading any time soon.
Tony Bedard isn't an awful writer though. He did some interesting things on Exiles and his work at Crossgen was good enough for him to escape that trainwreck. It's just that here he hasn't made anything stand out. Catwoman's sister seems like an interesting idea, but her madness isn't handled as anything special and she never really seems as on-edge as she could. The rest of the girls are so well known by now they don't really need any extra characterisation, but the flipside to that is when they act like generic cyphers for the plot it's very noticeable. Selina and Harley could've been anyone here and that's really a waste of this book's great cast.
Pretty poor show by DC slipping the readers a filler, when I'm sure most of their readers would prefer a skip month to forgettable missteps like this.
by Punchy » Sat May 29, 2010 7:13 am
by thefourthman » Sat May 29, 2010 9:28 amLast email I got from Newton was two days ago cause I was saying that taking Superman out of his books and keeping the names the same was stupid. Which it is, doesn't matter how good they have been it was stupid. His reply was something along the lines of how many times have those books not featured him in the past forty years which seemed horribly irrelevant to me, but whatever.
by thefourthman » Sat May 29, 2010 9:29 amI'd almost forgot about the fucker. I used to get several emails a day from him when I was a nuramamod (that sounds like a city full of terrorists.)
by Mr_Batman » Sat May 29, 2010 9:58 amNewton?
by Flynn the Pirate » Sat May 29, 2010 11:25 amGotham City Sirens #12
Writer: Tony Bedard
Art: Peter Nguyen and Jack Purcell
I've been a pretty big fan of this title for a while. It's fun. It's quirky. It's highlighting a trio of characters that are having largely non-Batman-related hijinks-adventures in and around Gotham City. What's not to love, right?
This issue, apparently.
I hated this. I really truly did. The story was hinged on whether or not you had read the Catwoman tie-in during Blackest Night. Since I didn't, I had almost no clue what was going on with Selina's sister, save for the little bit of exposition that Maggie herself provides. As with most cases of this, it really just hits the high points, which is to say it only gives a skeleton outline and the reader who didn't buy that issue is forced to either search Wikipedia for information or track down that issue.
Another extremely bothersome problem here. Last issue, Paul Dini started a story about Ivy starting a job at Star Labs. Yeah, that story's cliffhanger was picked up here, but it felt like it was picked up almost as an afterthought. Bedard just sort of throws it together in two or three pages, almost like commercial breaks from the story he wants to tell.
Which brings me to my biggest complaint about this issue. The story felt like such a radical departure from the direction the book has taken up to this point that I honestly just spent most of the last few pages saying to myself, "Really? I mean, seriously? This is lame." Again, maybe it's because I committed the unpardonable sin (no pun intended, given the story in this issue) of not reading the aforementioned Catwoman issue, but to go from dealing with bottom-tier Batman villains or former sidekicks to fighting against a demon-possessed former nun with a sword and wire-fu moves is kind of a major departure, I think.
At the end of the days, this was a stinker. Hopefully, Dini will be back next month to salvage this, but this was absolutely terrible.
2 out of 10 for it at least being readable.
by Starlord » Sat May 29, 2010 12:31 pmAm I the only one who actually reads everyone's reviews? Or is it just my review nobody reads.
by Punchy » Sat May 29, 2010 12:31 pm
I wait until the front page article.
And 2 Batman books in a row is lame-sauce! I hate Batman!
by Flynn the Pirate » Sat May 29, 2010 12:34 pm
I try to read all of the reviews. Not always successful, as some of the shorter ones end up getting breezed over whilst breezing over the responses and banter.
by Eric Ratcliffe » Sat May 29, 2010 12:46 pmGotham City Sirens #12
So Tony Bedard seems to be the go to guy for fill ins on a lot of different books. When Mckeever had to leave birds of prey he stepped in and when the blackest night one shots needed to be wrote, there he was. But that is also a problem as to really get a full understanding of the events of this issue...you had to read the catwoman blackest night issue.
Also for a plot that was being heavily built up, the Ivy situation seemed to be handled way too easily by the character who suddenly goes full on villain again which I found a bit odd.
Even Harley seemed to suffer from a case of stupidity this issue over all. The only person showing any intelligence was S3elina's nutjob sister. Ivy almost threatening a child was unlike her as well, it just seemed like this was put together in a hurry and it shows.
Score: 6
I wish to have Paul Dini back now.
by Starlord » Sat May 29, 2010 12:47 pm
I just wondered because I threw my pick for next week right in the middle of my review to see who would notice it.
by Flynn the Pirate » Sat May 29, 2010 12:57 pm
I did. And since I think I'm one of the only people who actually likes Judd Winnick (don't throw anything, please), I'm looking forward to it.
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The NHL Lockout talks took a turn for the better yesterday it would seem. Many of the sources following the meetings closely tweeted saying they received texts from players involved in the talks have said that it was the best and most productive day during this whole debacle.
The NHL has entered into crunch time during the lockout. Both sides have admitted that they are fast approaching the point of no return in saving the season and the idea of having the players talk to owners has seemed to have turned the corner. At least based on yesterdays' meetings there has been an air of cautious optimism about the end of the NHL Lockout.
I missed parts of the happenings as I was on the ice with my team, but I half expected that by the time I got home, I would check my twitter feed and other sources to find that the meetings had concluded after an hour and that the season would most likely be cancelled. Imagine my surprise to find out that the meeting was still on-going and that they had breakout sessions of smaller groups.
With the Board of Governors (BOG) meeting taking place today, there is as good of a chance as ever for both sides to table an offer and discuss it in-depth. Jason Brough of NBC's Pro Hockey Talk has reported that the players intend to present the owners when the two sides reconvene after the BOG meetings. There has also been rumours on the social media front that Gary Bettman has already put together a schedule for a 60-game regular season. I don't know whether that schedule has been drawn up prior to these meetings or as a result, but it certainly seems that the closer the threat of cancelling the season comes, the harder the two sides are trying to find common ground. Despite these rumours and the potential presentation from the players, Nick Kypreos has tweeted to say that "important to note with so many optimistic, no new written proposals have been shared yet."
However, throughout this long-drawn, farcical process the fans' hopes have been brought up again and again, only to be crushed. However, this time there seems to be a common consensus among people that there is some real progress. The only thing that we are now nervously anticipating is the conclusion of the BOG meeting and wait for news whether or not someone will torpedo the progress from yesterday. As Samuel Savolainen, NHL correspondent for Urheilulehti said in his column, the BOG meeting is the place where someone can add fuel to the flames and if that happens, I think we can pretty much kiss the season goodbye.
Should there not be an NHL-season, it would do irreparable damage to the NHL's brand, not only in the USA – where a year-long lockout would most likely render hockey a redundant sport – but worldwide as well.
At the end of the day, whether a deal is reached today or in the coming weeks, the only thing even the most disgruntled fan will care about when the deal is made and when the puck is dropped. Despite the lockout and the whole CBA process has probably changed my view on the NHL forever, I'm still anxiously waiting to hear the outcome of these talks. Maybe I wont follow with the intensity as I have but, I guess time will tell.
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Baseball Commissioner Allan H. (Bud) Selig announced that Ken Griffey Jr. will be honored with the Commissioner's Historic Achievement Award. The presentation will be made at a press conference tonight prior to Game Four of the World Series.
This will mark only the 12th time ever that Major League Baseball has bestowed the Award, which was created in 1998 to recognize achievements and contributions of historical significance. Griffey is the first recipient of the Award since 2007, when Rachel Robinson was honored for continuing the legacy of her late husband, Jackie Robinson, and for her service to Major League Baseball.
Griffey was a 13-time All-Star in his 22-year Major League career, playing for the Seattle Mariners (1989-1999, 2009-2010), the Cincinnati Reds (2000-2008) and the Chicago White Sox (2008). "The Kid," who guided the Mariners to their first two Postseason berths in franchise history in 1995 and 1997, was the youngest member of Major League Baseball's All-Century Team, which was unveiled in 1999. With 630 career home runs, the unanimous 1997 American League Most Valuable Player (.304, 56 HR, 147 RBI, 125 R) currently ranks fifth on the all-time list. One of the most popular players of his generation, the 10-time Gold Glove-winning center fielder concluded his career in 2010 with 50,044,176 All-Star votes from fans, the most of any player in the history of Major League Baseball, and his single-season record for most All-Star votes stood from 1994 until 2011. In 2007, Commissioner Selig expanded Griffey's idea to wear number 42 on Jackie Robinson Day to allow on-field personnel throughout Major League Baseball to wear Jackie's number as part of the festivities, a tradition that has continued annually since then.
Commissioner Selig said: "Ken Griffey Jr. was a gifted all-around player with a perfect swing, a brilliant glove and a childlike joy for the game. From the time he was just 19, Ken represented Major League Baseball with excellence and grace, and he was one of our sport's greatest ambassadors not only in Seattle and Cincinnati, but also around the world. I am most appreciative for all of Ken's contributions to our national pastime."
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Organized by Multi-Modal RDU and McKinney (and hosted at McKinney's offices in Durham), this discussion, open to the local community, featured the participation of our local U.S. Representative David Price, an important supporter of multi-modal transportation and environmental protection efforts in Congress, and Representative Earl Blumenauer of Portland, founder of the bi-partisan (or "bike-partisan" as he likes to call it) Congressional Bike Caucus and long-time bicycling advocate in Washington.
The room was packed with passionate cycling advocates and community members who were there to talk about bicycle and pedestrian planning on the local and national level. In addition to Reps. Price and Blumenauer, the roundtable discussion was led by representatives from the East Coast Greenway Alliance, the Mountains-to-Sea Trail, the Open Space and Parks Advisory Committee, the Durham Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Commission, and our Performance Bicycle CEO David Pruitt, who was there both as part of the local community and also as a representative of the bicycle industry.
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A controlled burn on Red Ridge Road in the Animas Valley north of Durango got out of control Thursday afternoon, scorching one acre, said Karola Hanks, fire marshal with Durango Fire & Rescue Authority.
The landowner built his burn piles, obtained a burn permit and informed dispatch he would be burning, Hanks said.
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My daughter loves horses, vintage things, and food! So we came up with the idea of a "Country Fair" party.
We had a bit of snag when none of her little friends showed up! (Easter holiday took them all away!) But we partied hard despite the upset.
Doilies, paper garlands, milk bottles, striped straws, and mason jars all came together for decor. We baked mini pies and churned homemade ice cream, munched fresh kettle corn, and watched her favorite movie, The Black Stallion.
Thanks, Christine!
(Images: Christine Ralston)


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