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Richard Pousette-Dart (1916-1992) Lost in the Beginnings of Infinity, 1991. Acrylic on linen, diameter 72 inches. Private collection, Vienna
© Richard Pousette-Dart by ARS, New York, 2007
The Final Cut
Editing as authoring -- one of my themes today -- is not a rehash of Roland Barthes' death-of-the-author. The author may have been misplaced, but he or she is still alive and not just a mask for a group of anonymous meddlers or the imperatives of cultural context. Excuse me for being old-fashioned, but when editing is so extensive and immoral that it is collaborating or co-authoring, texts so wounded must bear the editor's name as well as the pro-forma author's. Editors, particularly those who are ghost writers of one sort or another, must be forced out of the closet, must be held accountable.
Novelist Thomas Wolfe was really Wolfe and Maxwell Perkins. Or was Thomas Wolfe only the public, publicity face of editor and rewrite-man Perkins? O Lost (the original text of Look Homeward, Angel is now in print. LINK Did Perkins improve the text? Could anybody have improved this purple prose? What we really need is transparency.
Authors -- they do indeed exist -- may need some friendly advice or, as they like to say in journalistic quarters, a safety net. We don't want spelling mistakes or lawsuits. We don't want to be embarrassed by too much originality or creativity -- or in Wolfe's case too much lush description, too much "literature," neither of which, by the way, are to my taste.
In Artopia we aim for what might be called an internal dialectic. Count the themes. Enumerate the contradictions. Unveil the layers. Annotate the braids and spirals.
Luckily, the Artopia safety net is managed by my domestic partner, who is widely appreciated as one of the world's most author-friendly editors. Perhaps his sympathetic editing comes about because he is a talented writer himself. But elsewhere, outside of Artopia, one should be so lucky.
I will not bore you with the horror stories I can recount about my experiences -- and those of my colleagues --- at the hands of enemy editors. In some sense the death of the author has been cinched, but not in the manner Foucault imagined. Just check out any of the art magazines. Multiple edits, a house "style" (which always means lack of style) and even quick changes without the author's approval appears to be the rule -- although in some magazines there seems to be time to insert alien opinions.
On the other hand, as a magazine editor myself, I have seen the scraps some noted authors turn in. Editing, in these cases, is not rewriting, but writing. All the publication is paying for is the so-called author's name.
Actually, we writers do indeed collaborate with both colleagues and enemies. We write for actual and imagined friends. We answer fools and idiots, most often denying them credit or credence by keeping their vile identities under wraps. We best the enemies we never have met and who are dead or yet to be born. Not even poetry comes out of the blue.
Metaphorically, the art world has written me. This phrase sounds good, but we must never confuse the euphonious paradox with truth. Only bad poets and post-structuralists are allowed to do that.
Jack Kerouac reading his poems...
Who Wrote On the Road?
My themes are inspired by a constellation of events: 1) Viking's release of a paginated print edition of the original scroll of Jack Kerouac's On the Road, 2) the Richard Pousette-Dart exhibition at the Guggenheim New York flagship from August 17 to September 25, and 3) my own 1967 ARTnews piece on Pousette-Dart.
When On the Road came out in 1957, the literary establishment trashed it. The rest of us were inspired to hit the road. In 1961, by the time poet Joe Ceravolo and I reconnoitered in San Francisco, he had already hitchhiked from New York to Mexico and then up the West Coast. Less reckless, I suffered the Greyhound route. Didn't we already love Charlie Parker? Didn't we already hate the New Yorker and New Criticism? It turns out that On the Road , with its unorthodox narrative, energy and antiheroes (whom we all suspected were thinly disguised real-life "characters"), and not the suburbiana of John Updike, became the true American classic.
Yet how much better is the newly published, original manuscript than the final cut. The language is fresh and still has an avant-garde edge. That edge, over the course of the seven years it took to get it published, was aggressively dulled. Was the makeover strictly for ease of publication? If the higher-ups at Viking were worried about lawsuits, name changes would have sufficed. Maybe in 1957, a long, unparagraphed text was deemed unreadable. But was the rushing, breathing, caffeinated text on the original scroll, typed out in three weeks in 1951, more difficult than James Joyce's Ulysses, then the certain badge of true literary genius? I don't think so.
But now, of course, we Artopians have taken delight in such nonparagraphed wonders as Austrian Thomas Bernhard's typically nasty, but somehow thrilling, Yes or the Hungarian Laszlo Krasznahorkai's masterful Melancholy of Resistance. The latter, even better, is composed of one very, very long sentence. Talk about a run-on!
I discovered Melancholy not because of Susan Sontag's back-cover blurb, but because this was the book that inspired director Bela Tarr's brilliant, seven-hour Satan's Tango. Tarr is the master of the slow and deadpan pan and the long, long take. A 10-minute pan across a Hungarian field? You feel the mud on your feet and in your nose. And then later, through a window you can watch drunken peasants dancing in real time, during the last days of their collective farm. I found Tarr because he influenced Gus Van Sant's LINKGerry, another foray into deadpan single takes.
Some of the restructuring and rewriting of On the Road was the author's own doing. Kerouac was desperate to have his beatnik instruction-manual published. His friends William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, who figure in his book, were already on the road to fame. But who was our Jack listening to? Why did he add adjectives? When he delivered his manuscript to Viking Press in the form of a roll of paper under his arm, he declared he did not want a single comma changed because it had been dictated by the Holy Ghost.
The print version, enshrined in the male dorm rooms of America, is slightly more pedestrian than vehicular, more pompous than pugnacious. The original is more like what On the Road was cranked up to be.
I do not have the patience to compare both texts line by line. Just let me say that now I want to read the posthumous Vision of Cody, built around excised chunks of the original On the Road, but also incorporating Kerouac's verbal sketching-from-life device.
In the meantime, here is a telling demonstration of editing, reconstructed by Howard Cunnell in his introductory essay to On the Road: The Original Scroll (Viking ). It shows the kind of damage done so long ago by Viking editor Helen Taylor. Her "corrections" are in brackets:
They rushed down the street together[,] digging everything in the early way they had[,] which has later now become [which later became] so much sadder and perceptive and blank[. B] but then they danced down the street like dingledodies[,] and I shambled after as usual ["as usual" crossed out] as I have been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time...
Read both versions aloud. One is grammatically "correct," and the other is art. The run-on windup for "the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk..." pushes this often quoted phrase over the top into jazz. How stiff the schoolmarm, tone-deaf, Viking version is.
But didn't Updike and all his ilk get rewritten at the New Yorker? Maybe that is what has always been wrong with Updike. Well, there is always the stupidity of his dreary subject matter. We wanted literature and we got Updike. We wanted greatness and we got Philip Roth. We wanted the Kerouac that Ginsberg loved, but instead we got a new meaning for Taylorism.
By the way, when can we expect a DVD and/or online version of the taped-together, handmade, foolscap scroll, so we can read it the way our Cousin Jack actually wrote it -- which is like a vertical version of a biblical scroll or, preternaturally, like a rather long blog?
Nina Leen, The Iracibles, 1951. Photograph (Life Magazine)...
Pousette-Dart, Unedited
Curating, which is the art of selecting from finalized artworks, is also a kind of editing. Although sometimes a curse, it can also be a kindness. Time now proves that Franz Kline's dealer, Martha Jackson, was right in refusing to show his full-color abstractions. Nevertheless, many curatorial mistakes have been made, and we have a duty to look at things more than once. Or twice.
Richard Pousette-Dart (1916-1992) just won't go away, but it is not only the current show at the Guggenheim that needs editing, it's the whole career. Pousette-Dart is a painter I have long admired. But he was painfully uneven. The curator of record here is Philip Rylands, director of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, who has opted for an ordinary précis of the twists and turns that Pousette-Dart left behind.
Was it that Pousette-Dart did not avail himself of Clement Greenberg's advice, that art-bully's editing? Many did, and they can be said to have made their paintings in collaboration with their favorite art critic. I have often noted that Greenberg LINK to old Blog is the greatest unacknowledged artist of the '50s and '60s. Not because of his own pathetic watercolor nudes, but because he edited so many paintings before they left the studios of the artists of record. Masking tape was Greenberg's paintbrush. The tape told the artist where to cut the canvas. Greenberg was also infallible when it came to deciding which end was up.
Did Pousette-Dart move out of New York City too soon? Was it that he had mystical aspirations? That he also wrote credible poems?
I am also puzzled that the exhibition is "organized in collaboration with the estate of the artist, the artist's widow Evelyn Pousette-Dart, and with the support of the American Contemporary Art Gallery, Munich." My italics.
I suppose it is better that all cards are on the table (in this case, on the Guggenheim website). Perhaps it is a question of semantics. Is "support" different from "collaboration"?
Exhibitions are expensive. But which exhibitions in museums have been subsidized by art dealers or the artists themselves? As it turns out, many are supported indirectly, and some directly. Over at the Whitney, for example (as is customary in all museums), it is perfectly clear from the labels beneath the outsized paintings that you can buy a Rudolph Stingel from the Paula Cooper Gallery. So while the party lasts, please stand in line.
Transparency is better than subterfuge, right? Read those wall texts; read those labels!
If Pousette-Dart exhibition is a fair sampling of kinds of paintings the artist made over the years, which I think it is, then we have a problem. Did he have no self-curating ability, no critical sense? Once he breaks out of Picasso-influence, he gets even more uneven. I still think that his apprenticeship pieces are as good as the early work of Pollock or de Kooning, but probably not better than their efforts at catching up, as I asserted in my ARTnews piece in 1967.
Where was my safety net then? If I remember correctly, someone -- Thomas Hess, John Ashbery? -- took out the Pousette-Dart poems I had included, but no one stopped me from extravagant praise. When hired by editor-in-chief Hess (a well-known critic and curator himself), I was warned that artists did not like to be compared to other artists. Even favorably? I guess favorable comparisons were OK, but poetry was not.
But there it is in black-and-white: I nailed the artist's mystical side, probably forever relegating him to the minor leagues. No one then even whispered about Pollock's high-school fascination with Theosophy, Ad Reinhardt's love of Zen, or Barnett Newman's Kaballah fix. Hess later went on to emphasis Newman's debt to Jewish mysticism when he wrote about that artist's "Stations of the Cross." And for this he took a lot of flack.
Pousette-Dart was one of The Irascibles. He signed Barney's letter to the New York Times protesting the idiocy of the Metropolitan's 1950 contemporary art show, which was definitely unsympathetic to what would soon be called Abstract Expressionism. Fifteen of the signatories made it into Nina Leen's famous 1951 photo in Life magazine: Theodoros Stamos, Jimmy Ernst, Newman, James Brooks, Mark Rothko, Pousette-Dart, William Baziotes, Pollock, Clyfford Still, Robert Motherwell, Bradley Walker Tomlin, de Kooning, Adolph Gottlieb, Reinhardt, Hedda Sterne. Students everywhere should memorize this list.
Only Tomlin and Sterne, the one woman in that photo, are now less famous than Pousette-Dart. Well maybe Pousette-Dart is more famous than Stamos and Brooks and Baziotes. After all, his son Jon is the Pousette-Dart of the Pousette-Dart Band.
For some reason, Pousette-Dart pére couldn't quite package himself; he seems to have had the crazy idea that each painting was an adventure, which is a recipe for failure. The odd thing is that his allover paintings, most of which have a mystical aura, are his most successful. These are the paintings that even Greenberg, who was decidedly antimystical, should have liked, strictly on formal grounds. That the extremely formal and the mystical should so dramatically coincide contains a lesson of some sort, but one I will leave for another time.
Near the end of his career, Pousette-Dart tended to use the thick black lines he began with, but now made by stippled impasto. To suggest stained glass? To effect a synthesis that would also include his love of writing and hieroglyphics? Oh, I hope not. I think it was Light he was after. His best paintings are Light objectified. The dark side of insisting that art is a process, not a product, is that sometimes you get stuck with a less than perfect result. What we need is a skillfully edited Pousette-Dart. Next time around, only the allover "mystical" works, please.
Pousette-Dart, Night Landscape, 1969-7. © Richard Pousette-Dart by ARS, New York, 2007
A Kink in Time
I remembered I had written about Pousette-Dart before. So after a long search through my unseemly archives, I found the November 1967 ARTnews. My article was called "Yankee Vedanta," probably titled by the executive editor, poet John Ashbery (who was also one of my poetry mentors). The title was pulled from my text:
Richard Pousette-Dart is an impassioned pacifist, a vegetarian and a poet, filling numerous notebooks through the years with poems, notes, speculations about painting as a spiritual process and, though he professes no specific religion (his religious thought might be called Yankee Vedanta), his writings are filled with unapologetic references to God. A less fashionable sensibility is hard to imagine.
Of course, he was showing at the Betty Parsons Gallery, which had been the home of Newman, Pollock, and Reinhardt. The elegant Mrs. Parsons had spiritual interests of her own, which I happened to share. But here I edit myself, because I would prefer to write of her sexuality than her spiritual discipline. Suffice it to say, she once played tennis with Greta Garbo, and writer Patricia Highsmith was a buddy.
I cannot find my original Pousette-Dart manuscript, probably typed on horrid, non-acid-free yellow foolscap, so I can't tell if the Basic English (my fabulous unedited sentence quoted above notwithstanding) was mine or the result of heavy-handed Elements of Style editing. Other articles, such as Louis Finkelstein on de Kooning, Rackstraw Downes on Neil Welliver, and Al Brunelle on Kenneth Noland's horizontal-stripe paintings were slightly more dense. But I was a novice.
For your amusement, please note that the cover price of ARTnews then was all of $1.25. (This was, believe it or not, the Artforum of its time.) The full-color cover is a detail from Benjamin West's Death of Gen. Wolfe, 1770. The first three pages have full-page ads for Liquitex, Christie's ("Fine Pictures by Old Masters") and Aquatec; the back cover was an ad for Grumbacher paints. Obviously, advertisers knew or were led to believe that ARTnews was read by a large number of working artists.
Even in 1967 there were discreetly placed but timely ads from galleries whose artists were anointed by articles in the same issue. (But not by the some would say too proper Betty Parsons.) Which came first, the ads or the articles? Well, the exposure afforded by a magazine article should at least be thanked. And an ad is always the best way.
Elizabeth Baker, now editor-in-chief of Art in America, was then ARTnews managing editor. Among the editorial associates (i.e., reviewers) were names you might recognize: Scott Burton (who became a sculptor), Suzi Gablick (an artist who was then in the process of becoming a critic), Kim Levin, who later became one of my successors at the Village Voice, and Marcia Tucker, who evolved into a Whitney curator and then went on to found the New Museum. Editor's Letters include: "Ad Reinhardt, a solitary thinker and mystic. A salutary influence in the art world. His passing has created a void for those who knew him. Rollin Crampton, Woodstock, N.Y. (Yes, there was a Woodstock before the Woodstock of 1969 virtually wiped out that upstate haven's venerable position as a summer art colony.)
The Reviews and Previews were assigned at $4 each: Robert Mangold, Marisol, Jules Olitski, Mark Tobey, but mostly dozens and dozens of artists now lost both to art history and the art market. Some texts are a solid paragraph and others a single Zen sentence or two like: X..."paints pictures over the mantel: Mediterranean village, creamy New York skyline, a host of golden daffodils. His woodcuts too are attractive." Or the really, really negative: Y..."offers nudes, landscapes, river scenes of gold and pink cast." All and all, 82 pages of edited texts, but unedited nostalgia. Articles paid $150, which covered three month's rent for my tiny apartment in the Village, Greenwich Village. The East Village had not yet yet been invented by the realtors.
Thinking of braids, Artopia recommends the following:
Wenda Gu's braided hair pieces at Dartmouth College LINK, described in Grace Glueck's N.Y. Times Review and showcased in the accompanying slideshow LINK.
The giant braid of Tunga's At The Light of Both Worlds, first shown at the Louvre, but now at P.S. 1. This is an image of it when it was at the Louvre:
And, last but not least, John Perreault's "The Braid: A New Paradigm for Art" in the online journal theartsection LINK.Go to archive: Vol.1, No.3 (Aug.07).
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The Psychology Of Externalities: Only I Can Benefit
from the welcome-to-the-world-of-entitlement dept
Either way, though, Clay Shirky recently brought up a point that touches on the psychology associated with externalities. He was talking about the silliness of Mannie Garcia claiming copyright on Shepard Fairey's iconic poster, and noted that people seem to view externalities quite differently, depending on how they impact them. For example, nearly the entire benefit of the photo that is being fought over was added by Fairey. That is, the only reason that the photo has any significant value these days is because of Fairey's poster. It's an externality from the poster. And yet, rather than recognizing that it has received a free benefit, both the AP and Garcia want to demand money from Fairey for causing the externality.
But, at the same time, the AP of course has no trouble profiting off the externalities of others. The fact that people make news that allows the AP to report on it, is an externality. The fact that tons of people are willing to talk to reporters and give them quotes and educate them is an externality. The fact that the AP learns about some stories from other news sources or researchers its stories via Google or any internet technology is an externality. And it has no problem benefiting from every one of those externalities, and would be quite upset at the thought that someone would come back later and try to charge them for it.
And, yet, when it comes to the other direction, suddenly the AP says that no one else might benefit from externalities. Only it may benefit from externalities.
Of course, this is not just limited to the AP. It's a common psychological problem when it comes to externalities. Look at almost any dispute that's being caused by the modern internet and you can find someone who's upset about some externality not being "fair." We see it with the blame being put by the entertainment industry on "piracy." We see it with the blame being placed on aggregators and Craigslist by newspapers. We see it in trademark, copyright and patent disputes. And it's always psychological. Recent behavioral economics studies have shown that rationality gets tossed out the window the second someone thinks that someone else is benefiting too much. Even if you would benefit more yourself, seeing someone else apparently benefit more seems unfair.
This thinking is both pervasive and dangerous -- even if it's natural. It leads to a destruction of value (or, at the very least, a hindrance of it). It focuses on pulling others down, rather than looking at how we can all, individually, be better off. Both Mannie Garcia and the AP benefited greatly from Shepard Fairey's externalities. But because they feel he benefited too much, they want to sue him. And all that does is prevent them from benefiting from similar externalities in the future. The same is true in pretty much every industry that we talk about. It's as if people don't realize how much they benefit from externalities. They assume that benefiting themselves is "normal." But the second anyone else benefits, it's "theft" or a massive problem that needs intervention. And that's a problem.


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Eric Shirk, a spokesman for Gov. Tom Corbett, said the administration does not anticipate the finding of major problems and views the audit as an opportunity to showcase the progress made in protecting the environment from gas drilling pollution. He said the department doubled the number of inspections of oil and gas sites since last year.
"We've been taking our job very seriously ... and we're always looking for ways to improve," Mr. Shirk said.
The highly anticipated audit, which will arrive just before the election campaign for governor heats up, is sure to draw a lot of attention from the Corbett administration, the gas industry, gas drilling opponents and the Democratic candidates for governor. Mr. Corbett is a Republican.
Mr. DePasquale met with the editorial board as part of an effort to keep the public updated on what he's done since taking office in January.
He said he plans eventually to audit spending of the impact fee imposed by counties on gas drilling, but said it's too early to do that now because much of the spending has not begun.
He highlighted his agency's finding that seven of 17 charter schools audited so far had received a total of $2 million in improper lease payments.
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Mr. DePasquale said the state used to require deeds to prove someone else owned a building before approving a lease payment, but that practice ended amid staff reductions in the Department of Education.
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Mr. DePasquale also highlighted his agency's cost-cutting measures, which include cutting its vehicle fleet in half and allowing auditors to work from home rather than traveling to a work site.
Rather than having auditors travel to a distant school district, for example, someone else in the agency who lives closer visits a district, scans in documents and emails them to an auditor. Agency officials are able to monitor computer usage to ensure someone working from home is actually working and auditors now have far more limited times to complete an audit.
"They won't always be on their computer, but this is why we put a very tight timeline on the audits getting done. We're going to find out very quickly - and internally we know this - who is more and less productive," Mr. DePasquale said. "There are some that may not be (productive) and we will track through whether they meet their budget hours or not."
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Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Do As I Say, Not As I Do
Should we be surprised anymore?. I'm sure it was all a misunderstanding, or a Liberal plot.
18 comments:
- Anonymous said...
One reason for Harper's justification in this delay.
"I will have to ask my wife since she goes to all the social events instead of me. I don't know what she has received."
- 8:06 PM, July 30, 2008
- Steve V said...
Cons will just fluff this off, but if you want to claim Mr. Clean, kind of nice to keep your hands washed. What's the point of this legislation then, if you don't have to comply?
- 8:12 PM, July 30, 2008
- Anonymous said...
My comment is more of a jest since the PM is known to avoid most social events and let Baird to escort Laureen.
- 8:15 PM, July 30, 2008
- kody said...
Antlers and a Christmas Hamper.
Yup, a scandal in the making.
I suggest you encourage Dion to shout this from the rooftops, as a defense to his failure to pay back hundreds of thousands of dollars from political donors.
- 8:48 PM, July 30, 2008
- karmat said...
Sorry, not newsworthy or of interest at all. Gee, I wonder how much those antlers will bring him on the blackmarket. Ooooh! What a joke!
- 9:34 PM, July 30, 2008
- Anonymous said...
yeah, following the law is such a waste of time.
- 10:03 PM, July 30, 2008
- Steve V said...
The law the white knight brought from mount purity.
- 10:08 PM, July 30, 2008
- Anonymous said...
I like Holland's thoughts:
"...Liberal MP Mark Holland accused Harper of violating his own legislation."
Slow news day, unless of course he had been visiting the poppy fields of the Golden Triangle or the green mountains of Colombia.
Nah, slow news day.
- 11:21 PM, July 30, 2008
- Steve V said...
I'm not suggesting anything epic here, but anyone being fair has to acknowledge it's pretty rich to ignore your own legislation, legislation that you continually reference to present yourself as champion. It's only a big deal, because Harper has always made such a big deal about this sort of stuff.
- 11:25 PM, July 30, 2008
- Anonymous said...
I certainly thought Harper was more organized than that.
- 11:31 PM, July 30, 2008
- Red Tory said...
AdScam! Shrieeeeeeeek!!!
Works for everything.
- 12:09 AM, July 31, 2008
- Greg said...
AdScam! Shrieeeeeeeek!!!
Works for everything.
I wonder why?
- 6:48 AM, July 31, 2008
- Anonymous said...
The Globe and Mail's running with it, the Globe's running with it!!!!
Dion should jump on this, seriously!
THIS is the scandal we've been finally searching for.
Sure Cadman backfired, why with the tape fiasco, and....ahem... the Libs losing 20 points in Quadra,
the Mulroney inquiry just made the committee look like partisan hacks,
the "in and out" raised serious questions about the degree of partisan Liberal infestation in our governmental bodies,
Bernier's ex's, ex's ex's actions of a decade ago?? 'nuff said,
But ANTLERGATE!!!
- 8:12 AM, July 31, 2008
- RuralSandi said...
Con reactions - when it is us - make fun, mocking remarks.
If the tables were reversed...Steve Janke would be all over it and his readers would be saying "good catch", Lieberals yadda, yadda.
Double standard anyone?
- 8:17 AM, July 31, 2008
- kody said...
C'mon rural sandy,
lighten up.
You're party's so incredibly mockable right now, we can't resist.
If the likes of Ottlib are suggesting that Harper needs to do more to cut fuel prices,
imagine how you'd all react if Harper proposed the largest fuel tax hike in living memory while fuel prices are at historic highs,
while abstaining or backing down on every important vote in the last session?
How can we NOT mock????
- 8:44 AM, July 31, 2008
- Anonymous said...
Scouring for faux scandals in every nook and cranny,
while backing down on every important issue of the day,
then coming up with the worst policy imaginable at the time,
is mind bogglingly mockable.
- 8:48 AM, July 31, 2008
- RuralSandi said...
Lighten up? I'm laughing at the double-standard of the CONS...absolutely hilarious if you ask me.
Harper told everyone he was different, accountable and made some rules he doesn't even follow himself - yup, that is funny. He's laughable alright - because he's such a phony and we can see it, but his trolls refuse to - resort to nonsense like "lighten up" and bash Liberals at every turn.
Your guy is a big phony and you people refuse to see it - that is laughable.
- 9:22 AM, July 31, 2008
- JimBobby said...
Whooee! Who gives antlers as a gift?
"Previous gifts in that report include a desk decorated with antlers Harper received from U.S. President George Bush at a summit in Montebello, Que."
Ah... I ain't just antlers but a desk decorated with antlers. Sounds like ol' King Steve is on the horns of a dilemma. At least it came from one of Harper's deer friends. Conservative Party or Stag Party?
- 12:04 PM, July 31, 2008


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For the past several years I have projected the preseason AP Top 10 nearly six months in advance and I have correctly projected at least nine of the Top 10 teams each year. It is one of my more popular blogs in the off-season and this year with its overwhelming popularity I have decided to expand it for the first time to 24 teams! I will mention it now and I will mention it numerous times throughout today's blog but this is NOT MY preseason Top 24 for next year, it is where I project the AP Top 24 to come out at the start of the season. I have also strategically projected 24 teams and not 25 because I feel confident that all 24 of these teams will be in the preseason Top 25 while leaving room for a wildcard team that could slip into the Top 25 due to injuries, suspensions, transfers or preseason magazine projections.
Most AP voters usually look at a couple of criteria when they evaluate a team for the upcoming season. First they look at the number of returning starters that the team has coming back particularly at the offensive skill positions. A team that returns its starting QB and a combination of its RB and WR's is often times more highly thought of than a team that loses its starting QB but returns its entire offensive line. Similarly a team that returns most of its starters on offense but loses a lot of its defensive playmakers usually is more highly thought of than a team that returns a majority of its defensive starters but loses its skill position players on offense.
Another factor that is heavily weighted is the performance of the team in the bowl game, which undoubtedly is the lasting image of that team in the off-season. A team coming off a huge bowl win usually is more highly thought of than a team that is coming off a bowl loss regardless of what their schedule looks like for the upcoming season.
Using these criteria and a few more, I project the preseason AP Top 10 every year at the conclusion of the previous season, which in most cases is nearly six months in advance. Now as you all know, a lot can happen from now to August including injuries, suspensions, transfers, etc. If you want to see how I have performed with my Top 10 projections refer to my January 30 Blog. Also it should be noted that a couple of teams have been moved up or down to reflect what has happened since that last blog, which includes national signing day.
Now let's take a look at this year's projected Preseason AP Top 24 and keep in mind again these are NOT MY preseason Top 24 teams!
#24 Florida-The Gators have had two sub-par seasons finishing 8-5 and 7-6 in 2010-11 but 2nd-year HC Will Muschamp looks to have the Gators on the upswing. They return 10 starters from a defense that allowed just 299.5 ypg last year and one of their keys to their season will be if they can get better QB production from Jacoby Brissett and Jeff Driskel.
#23 Oklahoma St-Mike Gundy has done a tremendous job here and while they lose their starting QB Brandon Weeden and WR Justin Blackmon, Gundy was in a similar position two years ago losing two of his "triplets" in QB Zac Robinson and WR Dez Bryant and the Cowboys would respond with an 11-2 season. Expect good production from the QB position no matter who lines up behind center as Gundy and the Pokes are becoming one of the more consistent programs in the country.
#22 Texas-Similar to Florida, the Longhorns have had two sub-par seasons but looked poised to rebound in 2012. They again have one of the top defenses in the country, signed a great incoming frosh class including another PS#1 RB in Johnathan Gray and the big question remains whether or not they can get better QB play from David Ash or Case McCoy.
#21 Boise St-The Broncos lose their 4-year starting QB in Kellen Moore who won an NCAA-record 50 games and they also lose RB Doug Martin who could go as high as the 2nd round in the upcoming 2012 NFL Draft. However, HC Chris Petersen is 73-6 in his first six seasons and the Broncos, no matter who fills in at the skill positions, will be the media's favorite to win the MW.
#20 Stanford-Yes, the Cardinal lose all-everything QB Andrew Luck and two possible 1st Round DC on their OL. However, the Cardinal signed arguably their best recruiting class in school history which includes RB Barry Sanders, Jr and three of my Top 10 PS#OL. While they will be hard pressed to duplicate the 23 wins they have had in the last two seasons, 2nd-year HC David Shaw seems to have this program in reload rather than rebuild mode.
#19 Nebraska-You have to expect that Nebraska will be more familiar with their conference opponents this year. The Cornhuskers have lost four games in each of Bo Pelini's first four seasons but their 2nd-year in the Big Ten will see them return both QB Taylor Martinez and RB Rex Burkhead along with seven starters on defense.
#18 Ohio State-While the Buckeyes will not be eligible to go to a bowl game or be ranked in the coaches' poll like USC the past two years, they still have the opportunity to be highly ranked in the AP poll this year. The Buckeyes signed a Top 10 class loaded with DL and QB Braxton Miller, who led the Buckeyes in rushing last year as a true frosh is a perfect fit for Meyer's spread offense.
#17 Virginia Tech-Last year the Hokies were my #1 Surprise Team and finished the regular season 11-1 and in the Top 5. While they lose RB David Wilson early to the NFL Draft this year, QB Logan Thomas returns for his second year as the starting QB. VT has won at least 10 games eight straight seasons and the Hokies should once again be the preseason favorites in the ACC Coastal Division.
#16 Wisconsin-The Badgers lose their dynamic QB in Russell Wilson but keep in mind they also went to the Rose Bowl the prior year with Scott Tolzien at QB. This year Heisman candidate RB Montee Ball returns after scoring 39 TD's in 2011 and Wisconsin has won at least nine games in 5 of Bielema's first six seasons as HC.
#15 TCU-The Horned Frogs take a big step up in competition this year moving to the Big 12 after a dominating run in the MW/CUSA which saw them win at least 11 games in seven of the last nine seasons. While three of their expected returning defensive starters were recently expelled from school, the Horned Frogs on paper seem ready for the challenge returning record-setting QB Casey Pachall, their top three RB's and their top two WR's.
#14 Clemson-Yes the 70-33 Orange Bowl loss to West Virginia will hurt the Tigers in the minds of many AP voters but they do return QB Tajh Boyd and the electrifying Sammy Watkins. Dabo Swinney has done a solid job recruiting the past couple of seasons and will bring in new DC Brent Venables from Oklahoma to shore up the defense.
#13 Kansas St-Last year Bill Snyder got my vote for National Coach of the Year and got the most out of his team once again with a 10-win season. This year their best players return on both sides of the ball in QB Collin Klein who accounted for 40 touchdowns last year and LB Arthur Brown who is the vocal leader of an improved Wildcat defense.
#12 Michigan St-The Spartans are a rare example of a team losing their best skill position players in QB Cousins, WR's Cunningham and Martin and RB Baker on offense but will still be one of the preseason favorites in the Big Ten. They return eight starters back from a defense that allowed just 18.4 ppg (#10 NCAA) and HC Dantonio has led MSU to back-to-back 11-win seasons.
#11 West Virginia-In my January 30th Blog, I had the Mountaineers #10 because at that time they were still a member of the Big East. I did write that if they were to join the Big 12 for 2012 they would be taking a step up in competition and I would lower them a bit and move South Carolina into the #10 spot. With the recent release of the Big 12 schedules, the Mountaineers still don't drop too far with the dominating 70-33 Orange bowl win over Clemson still fresh in the minds of many voters. They also return 14 starters including QB Geno Smith who should be more comfortable in his 2nd-year of Dana Holgorsen's offense.
#10 South Carolina-The Gamecocks were #11 in my last blog, but now move up a spot thanks to WVU's move to the Big 12 and the fact that HC Spurrier welcomes in another talented incoming frosh class. The Gamecocks do return 13 starters including QB Connor Shaw and get back RB Marcus Lattimore who missed the last six games with a knee injury. They also get last year's SEC East winner Georgia at home.
#9 Florida St-The Seminoles were a darkhorse pick for the National Title last year but an injury to QB Manuel saw the Noles drop to 2-3 at one point in the season. FSU would respond to win seven of its last eight games including wins over Florida and Notre Dame in the bowl to cap off the season and this year they return at least 15 starters including QB Manuel and defensive stars DL Jenkins and DB Reid who passed up the NFL to return. FSU looks to also bring in one of the best frosh classes in the country and should clearly be the favorites in the ACC.
#8 Michigan-The Wolverines were one of the biggest surprises in college football last year winning 11 games and a BCS Bowl under first-year HC Brady Hoke. This year they return seven starters on offense led by QB Denard Robinson and RB Toussaint who should be more comfortable in the 2nd-year of the new offense. UM also return seven starters from a defense that allowed just 17.4 ppg (#6) which was nearly an 18 ppg improvement from 2010! Michigan finished #12 in the final AP poll and figure to be the favorites to win the Big Ten this year along with a great incoming frosh class.
#7 Arkansas-The Razorbacks were #9 in my last blog and I have seen more positive stories about a possible improved defense under a new DC. They have had their most successful B2B seasons since 1988-89 going 22-5 the last two years. This year they return 13 starters including QB Tyler Wilson and will get back 2010 All-SEC RB Knile Davis who was out all of last season with an ankle injury. Last year the Razorbacks lost only two games to the top 2 teams in LSU and Alabama (both on the road) and this year the Crimson Tide and Tigers have to travel to Arkansas.
#6 Georgia-I was one of the few people in the country last year to pick Georgia to win the SEC East over South Carolina thanks to a favorable SEC slate that had them avoiding Arkansas, LSU and Alabama out of the West and the Bulldogs would not disappoint taking home the SEC East crown. This year they return 15 starters including QB Aaron Murray, leading rusher Isaiah Crowell, their top two rec's and a 1st-Team All-American candidate on D in OLB Jarvis Jones. They also signed PS#2 RB Keith Marshall (In for spg). Again the Bulldogs AVOID LSU, Alabama and Arkansas out of the SEC West and will be the favorites to repeat as SEC East Champs.
#5 Oklahoma-The Sooners were the preseason AP #1 team last year and clearly underachieved losing three games including a 44-10 beatdown in Bedlam. They did win their bowl game over Iowa, return 15 starters including QB Landry Jones who will play better than last year's finish and WR's Kenny Stills and Jaz Reynolds. HC Bob Stoops brings his brother Mike Stoops to coordinate the D again (DC here when Sooners won national title in 2000) and the Sooners have won at least 10 games in a season 10 times since 2000!
#4 Oregon-The Ducks have become a fixture among the nation's elite under HC Chip Kelly with three straight BCS appearances and last year captured their first Rose Bowl win since 1916! While QB Darron Thomas and RB LaMichael James are gone, their replacements are plenty capable as QB Bryan Bennett and RB's Kenjon Barner and De'Anthony Thomas return with some valuable game experience and the Ducks do not open with a marquee non-conference game like they did last year vs LSU.
#3 Alabama-The Crimson Tide were my pick to win the National Title last year and they did just that avenging an earlier loss to LSU by dominating the Tigers in the BCS Championship game 21-0. Nick Saban signed yet another Top 5 recruiting class and this year the defending champs return seven starters on offense led by QB AJ McCarron who played magnificently in the title game. While the defense returns only four starters from last year, keep in mind in 2010, the Tide returned only 2 defensive starters and were the Preseason AP #1 team!
#2 USC-Last year while the probation-stricken Trojans were not eligible to play in the Pac-12 title game, I picked them to be the best team in the South and clearly they were just that going 10-2 (7-2) beating their crosstown rival Bruins who were the de facto Pac-12 South Champs 50-0 in the regular season finale! The Trojans locked up their spot here with the surprising return of QB Matt Barkley who is clearly one of the Heisman favorites in 2012. He will have plenty of skill position talent surrounding him with his top 2 WR's Robert Woods and Marqise Lee back and 1,000 yd rusher Curtis McNeal also returning. A case could be made at the end of last season that no team in the country was hotter than USC winning seven of their last eight games with a 3OT loss to Stanford their only blemish. With 15 returning starters, another talented recruiting class albeit only 15 players coming in, the Trojans clearly will be one of the favorites to take home the crystal ball.
#1 LSU-Last year LSU was picked 2nd in the SEC West behind Alabama and would go on to have arguably the best regular season in school history going 13-0 winning the SEC Championship and would beat EIGHT Top 25 teams! While the National Title loss to Alabama still stings, many of the Tigers' star players return for 2012 including Heisman candidate DB Tyrann Mathieu along with their WR Odell Beckham, Jr and their top 4 rushers. Throw in QB Zach Mettenberger, who Miles said last year was his best pure passing QB and a home game vs Alabama and the fact the SEC has won six straight National Titles and the Tigers will be the favorites!
There you have it - My projections for the AP Preseason Top 24. As mentioned a couple of times in this article, these WILL NOT BE THE TOP 24 IN MY MAGAZINE. As you know, I tend to go out on a limb in a lot of cases and have a lot of surprise picks in my magazine. Those will be unveiled at the start of June when my magazine hits the newsstands but when the first AP poll comes out in August this year, go ahead and take this list and compare it and you'll find that probably find at least 23 or maybe even all 24 teams in the Preseason AP Top 25 this year!


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Police received a call at 6am today (Thursday) to say a silver Ford Fiesta was in the canal, near Elland Bridge.
They believe the Fiesta and a Renault Clio had been stolen from a house in Broad Lea, Elland, either overnight on Tuesday, June 17, or the early hours of Wednesday, June 18.
The Fiesta had stolen number plates.
Firefighters went into the canal to see if anyone was trapped in the car, but the vehicle was empty.
The Renault is still to be recovered.
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NFL draft: Biggest first-round busts
You'd think a first-round draft pick would guarantee you a good chance of landing a successful player. Not so. Picks at every single position in the first round have failed to pan out, whether from lack of talent, injuries, front-office follies or bad attitudes. Here are the worst picks at every draft position of the first round. – Jay Busbee
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Miley Cyrus shows off her toned tummy in a crop top while heading to a studio to work on her music on Friday (March 1) in Glendale, Calif.
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Neil Lutsky, Psychology
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Overview and Context
About the Course
Principles of Psychology is an introductory course in which I do a number of things that emphasize quantitative reasoning. The course satisfies Carleton's Quantitative Reasoning Encounter requirement (QRE). This will be my 40th year teaching introductory psychology.
The audience for the course is very broad since nearly every student at Carleton takes introductory psychology. This course will be their primary, and probably their only, exposure to the field.
The course size is normally 35 to 40 students, but this fall I'm co-teaching with a colleague and we're doing a course that has 75 students.
Key QR Assignment Description (links to section in this page)
How Quantitative Reasoning (QR) and Literacy are Approached
I was heavily involved in the development of Carleton's quantitative reasoning initiative, Quantitative Inquiry Reasoning and Knowledge (QuIRK). I was one of the primary authors of the original grant that launched the initiative. Part of the orientation of QuIRK from the start, and part of my own orientation, has been to emphasize quantitative reasoning, not quantitative literacy.
Quantitative reasoning is a voluntary, intentional habit of mind. Whereas, I think "quantitative literacy" implies that thinking quantitatively is like reading--you develop a skill and then it's there automatically. I don't think quantitative sophistication has that same character at all. Quantitative reasoning is less automatic and more voluntary. Surely there are things you need to understand and appreciate and learn, so there is background knowledge of varying degrees of sophistication that you can bring to quantitative and non-quantitative issues. But it's not the same. Quantitative reasoning is not something you achieve by mastering something.
Design and Implementation of QR Goals
Motivation to integrate QR
There was a combination of motivations. I have a personal commitment and passion for teaching quantitative reasoning. I care deeply about it and I enjoy doing it. At the same time, I think it's something that needs to be done in order to educate students broadly and to represent the field that I'm teaching.
I personally believe that quantitative reasoning is a fundamental understanding and appreciation that will benefit our students as they go through life, which is why it's one of the things that I most strongly seek to emphasize.
I address quantitative reasoning in the context of psychology because I think quantitative reasoning is important in the same way that I think writing is important. In introductory psychology, and in other courses, I emphasize writing because it's a general skill that students should be developing. I feel the same way about quantitative reasoning. And I have the opportunity to do this because psychology is so popular.
Finally, I would say that the quantitative methods and values are a very important characteristic of psychological science. Part of what I do in teaching psychology is to teach students the content of psychology, but also the way of thinking scientifically that is so essential to the field.
QR goals
What I'm primarily concerned about in my teaching is I want students to see numbers and quantitative claims and have them bring to mind the kinds of questions that might be asked about those quantitative claims. In this way, students will be in a position throughout their lives to make sense of the claims that are being made and to understand the strengths and weaknesses. I want them to understand both the power and the limitations of quantitative claims.
I also want students to appreciate the value of using quantitative information when they construct arguments, which again, is a very active orientation. It's not a literacy. I want students to develop an appreciation for the power of numbers and what numbers bring to an argument. I want them to employ that tendency when they are thinking about questions that will arise as part of many aspects of their lives--academic work, professional work, their lives as voting citizens, their experiences reading newspapers like The New York Times, and when encountering health information and health claims.
Pedagogic approaches used
My students learn quantitative reasoning within a meaningful context of using it for a purpose. They look at numbers in order to answer questions they care about and write up arguments. This is an active orientation. Learning in context is very different from having a homework assignment where you have to calculate ten correlations and tell the instructor what they mean. The focus isn't just on the thing itself. In this way, students can see the potential value associated with quantitative reasoning, and the value in being able to share what they've learned with other people.
Usually when I do this course, I'm primarily presenting information for two out of three days a week. I'm interacting with the students, but I'm primarily lecturing. The third day is mainly discussion.
Knowing the course is successful
I collect data in a course evaluation questionnaire. In this questionnaire, I ask students to rate each project that they do. And I ask them, "Tell me something you learned from the project." This is one way that I get a sense of what students are taking away from the course.
Later in the course evaluation questionnaire, I ask some questions about psychology as a science and their own sense of competence with respect to statistics. I have evaluated that data, and the results are consistently positive compared to a control group I had about ten years ago. This was a course where we didn't have the QR module, and there were differences between the two.
I also use a grading rubric that helps to reinforce the things that we've been talking about. This not only gives me grading information, but it also draws students' attention to the importance of quantitative reasoning.
Key QR Assignment of the Course
Introducing Introductory Psychology Students to Quantitative Analysis assignment description from the Pedagogy in Action collection of teaching activities: (links to section in this page)
In this assignment students are given a dataset to which they have contributed that includes personality variables and measures of happiness and well-being. Their task is to pose a question that involves a subset of variables in this dataset, run a data analysis, and write up a short paper reporting what they have found.
This project is generally done during the first two weeks of the term to emphasize the scientific nature of psychology early on, but it can be done at any point during the course when personality psychology is taught.
In order to collect the data, students go to a website I set up and complete a questionnaire online. The questionnaire primarily includes a number of questions that relate to a particular model of personality or individual differences. It assesses what are called the five factors of personality.
Also in this questionnaire are sets of questions related to happiness and well-being. There are a number of scales, subscales, and components. The questions are standard questions from well-known personality measures and highly reliable.
Although I ask to collect this data from the students, I don't require it. If a student is uncomfortable and doesn't want to do it, that's fine. I don't know if the student has done the survey or not because it is done anonymously. The students use an ID number that I give them at the beginning of the term to log in to the survey. The ID is on their syllabus, which I randomly hand out. I don't know if the individual students complete the survey or not, but usually almost all of the students in class respond.
One reason I administer the survey this way is that later in the term, after we have completed the project, if they want to see their results they can do so using their ID number.
Once the students have completed the survey, I add data from the most recent cohort of students to a dataset that I have from past students, creating a fairly substantial database. I upload this database to the course page so that it is available for students to use.
Next I give the students handouts with the assignment, and we go over them in class. The handouts list all the variables that are represented in the dataset and provide instructions.
Each student must propose a research question to investigate. Before they go ahead with their analyses, I ask students to share their question with me in order to make sure the questions are not unduly complicated and they can actually be answered by the data.
I go over with students some simple data analyses and what they tell you; statistical significance; and a few other statistical tools. I only cover the basic statistics that they're going to need to do this project.
As an example, I describe what a correlation is, and what different values of the correlation mean. I strongly emphasize correlation doesn't necessarily mean that there is causality, which is a very important quantitative reasoning point. People impute causality, whereas, I'm trying to establish for students a warning light that says correlation doesn't necessarily mean causality. I want students to come to appreciate that because it is a fundamental, broader awareness that students ought to have when they encounter quantitative claims.
I also ask students to read the methods section of their textbook. They are motivated to comply by the immediate need for this information.
This project is also an opportunity I have to talk to students about what a true experiment is, what the power of a true experiment is, and why we're doing isn't an experiment. I talk to them about the fact that people use the word experiment loosely in the world. People will say, "I conducted an experiment and found this." But they really didn't do an experiment even if they have collected some data. I'm highlighting that one of the things that I want students to think about when they leave my course is, "Is this really an experiment?"
In writing up their papers, I emphasize that they should anticipate the questions that a reasonable reader would have about what they're presenting and what they're claiming. They should ask themselves, "What are the questions that someone might raise? How might I answer those questions? Do I have an answer for those questions or not? What information do I need to include in the paper so that those questions would be answered by the material that's incorporated in the paper?"
There are some other quantitative elements of this project as well because I have them do a little bit of background reading on the topic of the relationship between personality and subjective well-being. This provides the framing context. The readings will cover topics like the relationship between specific personality variables and measures of subjective well-being.
However, they can choose a different question from the readings as long as it relates to personality. Let's say a student wanted to ask the question, "Do males and females differ in this particular personality trait?" That would be a fine question to investigate.
- Time for instructor to set up the project. Some of the behind-the-scenes work is fairly time-consuming for me as an instructor, such as constructing the websites for this project. Sometimes software systems change, necessitating an overhaul. There were times when I had to redo it entirely for various reasons. I've changed the focus several times, resulting in different measures. That required a fairly substantial renovation. In addition, every year after the students enter their data I have to take that data and format it and compute subscale variables because there are ten different questions that relate to each particular personality variable.
- Some questions are too complicated to answer with the dataset. Sometimes students will generate really smart, interesting questions that are too complicated to answer using the kinds of data analyses that I want them to use in this project. In that case, I ask them to simplify their question. We'll talk about it and try to come up with some alternative or some simplification that is, in fact, viable.
- Just do it. Quantitative reasoning is so much a part and parcel of psychology itself. It's just a natural thing to do.
- Obtain support. I've had the benefit of good support from the IT people at Carleton. That has been helpful. It's not something that people are likely to be able to do completely on their own. I think cultivating collaboration with academic technologists who are supporting your work--which most institutions have--is an important thing to do.
- Emphasize the broader value of quantitative reasoning to students. Students are eager to learn. They want to develop skills and appreciations that are going to help them. Make the case for the value of quantitative reasoning.
- Have fun. Enjoy what you are doing. I use a lot of cartoons such as from the New Yorker when I'm presenting. Especially with quantitative reasoning, presenting it in a way that makes it fun goes a long way.
DocumentsKey QR Assignment online description (from the Pedagogy in Action collection of teaching activities): Introducing Introductory Psychology Students to Quantitative Analysis
Key QR Assignment description (Word doc) (from the Pedagogy in Action collection of teaching activities): Introducing Introductory Psychology Students to Quantitative Analysis


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|2012-09-14, 16:59
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Yes, but osananajimi is basically anyone you've known since your childhood. It doesn't really always mean childhood friend. He and Sakura weren't exactly "friends". She was his friends sister. I haven't watched much of the anime but in the VN he's says pretty clearly that he never really talked to her until he hurt his arm and she decided to help him out.
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To be exact, they are childhood acquaintances who became friends later on during High School.
Shinji and Shirou were closer to being childhood friends (classmates is a better description IMO) and Shinji introduced Sakura as his little sister to Shirou 4 years before the show/game starts. They didn't really interact much, but she sort of watched him from afar and after a while Shirou's Main ProtagonistTM ended up melting her heart and she ended up stalking him for sometime before getting enough courage and asking if she could help him around his house. They've been together since then, a year and a half before the start of all routes.
|2012-09-15, 09:56
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Actually to amend that, she had been visiting the house a short while before he actually let her help him. And wouldn't leave until he agreed. She mentioned she expected him to hate her, and he went all tsundere, agreed, and gave her the key to his house thereafter, stating, "You beat me". Because he had never thought she was that stubborn (since she was still very much the super stoic empty eyed girl we saw in Zero, just older).
|2012-09-23, 21:54
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Yo, I haven't exactly frequented this part of the forums (or most of the forums really) because I just beat FSN a while back but I had a quick question for someone who's beat FSN and watched Fate Zero; I was planning on getting some of my anime friends together and having us all watch Fate/Zero because of all the glowing reviews I've heard about it, but does it have spoilers for those who might want to go on and play FSN?
Spoiler for FSN spoilers:
I just thought it'd be cool to see something as a group but only like 2 of them have actually played the game/watched the anime for FSN so some of the others might not appreciate getting spoiled is all
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|2012-09-23, 22:12
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Well, it's stand alone in the sense that, you can still tell that it's a Grail War and all the characters are introduced again in it. So if you just watched Fate/Zero and never were going to watch FSN, it wouldn't stop you from being able to tell what was going on.
But all the FSN stuff would be spoiled that happens later on, and you wouldn't understand any of the connections between the characters and things that make them more significant if you knew from FSN already. You won't know their "history," so to speak.
Practically half of FSN is spoiled in the very first episode, lol.
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In terms of magus strength, how GOOD is Illya in terms of magic and fighting? Other than HF ending, magic capacity and mystic eyes of enchantment, what else can she do? What other spells and abilities can she do?
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This might help:
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