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Wednesday, July 19, 2006
Chuck Jones - early work
Robinhood Makes Good (1939)
"Who's gonna be Robin Hood?"
In this cartoon, you can begin to see Chuck's unique drawing style emerge, however the animation is pretty standard for the time. Within a few cartoons, the animation in Chuck's films took on a unique style of movement of its own. I'll talk about that in the next post about him.
Chuck Jones is my second favorite cartoon director. He is probably the most innovative of all of them. He experimented more than anybody.
A few innovations:
Stylized cartoons-Dover Boys (1942) was the first cartoon with a couple of graphic looking characters-Dan Backslide and the big chinned hero guy, and the girl. This cartoon influenced the founders of UPA.
Lummoxes- He created the funniest lummox characters, like the ones with the short fat fingers. Nasty Canasta is the apex of them.
Sitcom cartoons-1948-What's Brewin' Bruin introduces his 3 Bears characters in their first starring role. It's like a radio sitcom. The amazing thing is that sitcoms hadn't really been visualized at all so Jones had to invent ways to use visuals to enhance the already familiar family comedies from radio. He did it great and his 3 Bears cartoons to this day are the best sitcom cartoons ever done.
(Does anyone know if the 3 bears are based on a specific radio show of the time?)
Abstract expressions- He invented all kinds of funny expressions that people can't actually make and yet when you see them, you understand them completely.
Pose-to-pose acting. Chuck grew into a style that favored very strong, graphic poses. This style eventually was adopted by UPA and then televison cartoons. It then devolved into pose to pose with no poses at all which is what we have in cartoons today.
Angular, modern looking style- He used all the same principles that the other animators of the period used, but gave a more angular and contrasty appearance to the finished designs. His early coyote drawings are the epitome of this style.
I'll think of many more innovations as I write more posts about Chuck.
The most amazing thing about his career is that, as creative as he was, he seemed to be against entertaining the audience from the get go. He is known for making funny cartoons, but he never really wanted to and only did it for a few short years.
His career as a director started in 1938, right when Tex Avery, Bob Clampett and Frank Tashlin had established WB cartoons as being irreverent antidotes to Disney's sappy infantile sweet sissy cartoons that every other studio was copying.
Chuck started as an animator for Tex Avery, then graduated to Clampett where he did really funny animation in Bob's cartoons - so he sure had the capability and influence to carry on the wacky tradition of Looney Tunes.
Instead he chose to make cartoons like the one above.
In 1939 while Tex made Hamateur Night, Believe It Or Else, A Day At The Zoo, Thugs With Dirty Mugs and Bob made The Lone Stranger and Porky, Porky's Tire Trouble, Chicken Jitters, Polar Pals, Scalp Trouble, the hilarious Porky's Picnic and Naughty Neighbors, Chucks rebelled against all this rebellion and made pantywaist cartoons.
For the first 3 years of his cartoons he only made one comedy per year using an established Warner's star. The rest of the cartoons were slow and aimed at infants.
1939 Daffy Duck and The Dinosaur
1940 Elmer's Candid Camera
1941 Elmer's Pet Rabbit
In 1942, he started making a few more comedies but still made lots of sap. There is a rumor that Leon Schlesinger threatened to fire him if he didn't start making brash crazy comedies like Clampett. Friz corroborates this in an interview I did with him that will appear on the Asifa archives site.
Whether it's true or not, by the output of Jones' first few years, you can see that he obviously had little interest or ability in making funny cartoons.
It took till 1948 for him to finally switch exclusively to comedy and when he did he was great at it. 1948 has most of my favorite Chuck Jones cartoons, because they are still pretty fully animated and they concentrate on entertainment and his timing got good by then.
I'll trace his fascinating development over a few posts.
Chuck is a huge influence on me in many ways and I'll let you in on the influences along the way.
66 comments:
Wow the Foist one ehheh i love chuck jones but i like Clampetts crazier cartoons the best
- Thunderrobot(aka Chet) said...
cool post John,
Chuck Jones is the shizz Nizz
(and hes better than clampet) hahaha
- David Germain said...
John, you just solidified everything I love about Chuck Jones (except for him initially trying to copy Disney of course. I would love to have known what he was thinking at that time.)
There is a rumor that Leon Schlesinger threatened to fire him if he didn't start making brash crazy comedies like Clampett. Friz corroborates this in an interview I did with him that will appear on the Asifa archives site.
No, not fire Jones outright, just bust him back down to animator. But it was Friz who went to the wall for Jones and said "Hey, give the kid a chance."
It took till 1948 for him to finally switch exclusively to comedy and when he did he was great at it.
Yeah, he was making some great comedic stuff from 1948 into the early '50's. But, he did get heavy handed again later on with films like From A to Z-Z-Z-Z (c. 1954), Nelly's Folly (c. 1961), Martian Through Georgia (c. 1962) and of course two films at MGM The Dot and the Line (c. 1965) and The Bear That Wasn't (c. 1966).
Actually, I think what makes One Froggy Evening (c. 1955) so great is that it's really the perfect merging of Jones' two worlds, the comedic and the artistic.
Once again, great post.
Great! Great! Great!
- Gavin Freitas said...
Chuck was the best of all time! Thanks for posting this up John. See if you can grab the "DoverBoys" cartoon. I like the "Smear" drawing with Dan back slide grabbing the girl and then back to the car. That was Chucks best!
Well, Jones said that he makes his cartoons for one person. Himself. Does that mean he just really liked cutesy stuff?
What really amazes me about these early clips is how smooth and inoffensive they are compared to his later work. Those big galoots with tiny feet are angular, grotesque and damned funny. The only similarity I can see with these character designs is a tendency to lean forward and a concentration on facial nuance over body movement.
- tim kelly said...
You've reminded me how much I love his later cartoon, Robin Hood Daffy. Great performances from Mel Blanc, and hilarious facial expressions. This is why I always see the Jones influence more in your work than Clampett's; your determination and success in terrific vocal performances and 12,000 facial expressions in every cartoon. Whenever I think of Jones' work, I immediately think of the dog's expressions of bewilderment and horror in Cheese Chasers; whenever I think of yours, Ren's speech at the end of Sven Hoek is always the first scene that comes to mind.
- Brett W. Thompson said...
Fascinating! :) Thanks so much for these posts, John, I love them :) I was particularly interested the innovations you listed.
What do you think of "Chuck Amuck"? I definitely enjoyed reading it but I hunger for more info like this post :)
Also, anyone remember the name of the big hairy creature Jones created?
- craig clark said...
Great post John. Though I do enjoy later Jones cartoons (Road Runner) a great deal, the Clampett ones, like 'Wabbit Trouble" and "Book Revue" are ones that stood out to me since I was a wee one. Wild 'n' off the wall, yeah.
"...Disney's sappy infantile sweet sissy cartoons..."
Call me infantile, sweet, or a sissy, but Disney's cartoons were hardly the cutest of the period. For every slightly smarmy WYNKEN, BLYNKEN AND NOD there's a wild MICKEY'S CIRCUS or an outrageous COCK ROBIN. The outrageousness isn't the same exaggerated kind that Avery and Clampett pioneered, but for sheer energy some are hard to beat.
Even in the late 1940s, when turning out the mawkish Pluto cartoons, Disney was also producing Goofy shorts full of relatively adult "tired businessman" humor; not my cup of tea, but hardly cutesy-wootsy either.
That said, I'm so tired of the Spumco urge to call things feminine and then dump on them. What an insult to real women and your own fans' intelligence. I thought you created George Liquor to make fun of him, not to become him.
- Gavin Freitas said...
Holy Shit John, you gotta check this out if you already havent:
- I don't really care said...
That said, I'm so tired of the Spumco urge to call things feminine and then dump on them.
You gotta use some terms to describe a characteristic, and you gotta do it according to some frame of reference. John being a mighty lumberjack might have something to do with it. You've seen his wardrobe. He must be a lumberjack.
In any case, I like Jones' early cartoons quite a bit. It's almost like he took on the job of showing Disney what they ought to be doing, if they were gonna go that way. He seemed to want to out-Disney Disney, instead of Anti-Disneying him. They were sissyfied, but for my money they had more charm and style than Disney, and still had an understated Warner's edge that undercut the cutesiness.
- BrianB said...
Very interesting post and a great read. Jones has always confused the hell out of me. I think you're very spot on when you said Jones was experimental and purposely not funny for many years. I enjoy a ton of Jones stuff, mostly the later comedies, but his entire filmography is very interesting itself. I wish I knew more about why he did some of the things he did.
- R said...
The Dover Boys is great! One of my faves. Was Dan Backslide the inspiration for Dishonest John in Beany & Cecil, are were they just both created using the same old movie villain-type references?
That said, I'm so tired of the Spumco urge to call things feminine and then dump on them. What an insult to real women and your own fans' intelligence.
Hmm. Ok.
I, myself am fairly tired of the "fan" urge to get ridiculously outraged at every opinion the man has, just becuase it differes from their own, occasionally.
I'm Also getting pretty tired of comments around here from people who feel like this justifies whining and/or attacking him over just about every tiny little, ridiculous thing.
So what about those of us tired of constantly seeing THIS kind of thing on this blog's comments?
Or will THIS comment now be attacked for getting tired of reading that crap here all the time?
That curious person has a really good point. Whenthere's something that is meant to inform or talk about cartoon directors, there just seems to be people that want to get on someones case, but most John's for some reason or other. Why are there always fights always from trivial things? It makes reading the comments harder than it should be. Although I think he probably could have been a little nicer about it, i think he has a really good point.
- C. A. M. Thompson said...
I never liked Chuck's early cartoons as a kid but when I watched them again on the Cartoon Network I started noticing a lot of things that are technically well done about them. Better than a lot of what Disney was doing, in fact. The problem with them is that they really try to be positive and cute, but the characters in them are so harmless and ineffectual that it's hard to care that much about them.
Later on he was able to do cartoons like Feed The Kitty which is cute and sensitive but is brilliant and one of the greatest cartoons ever made. I guess for some reason it's a lot more fun to watch a big tough bulldog being sensitive than a cute squirrel or mouse.
- Duck Dodgers said...
what do you think about Chuck Jones' psychological rebuilt of Daffy's persona?
You know...the ego-maniac, greedy character he developed for cartoons like "Ali Baba Bunny" or "Beanstalk Bunny".....he changed one of my favorite characters ever into a fool for Bugs' antics!!
Look at "Rabbit Fire" or "Rabbit Seasoning"...I love them cartoons...but he ruined the character!!...that is not my Daffy...it is another character!..why do not use another new character?..A platypus, a mongoose, a pellican...everything but not me old Daffy...there, Chuck, are you happy?...You made me cry......
Post about Ultimate Fighting at some point.
You are a huge fan, supposedly, so I was wondering what your thoughts are on the whole Chuck Liddel vs Silva craziness.
Chuck is the director I can relate to most because of his strengths & weaknesses.
From reading his books I feel that Chuck was trained more for fine and constantly doubted his own abilities. I remember reading that he didn't know why he was in art school because everyone there was better than him. Surely working next to comic geniouses like Avery & Clampett had this same reaction on him.
I also wonder if part of the reason it took so long for his cartoons to be "funny" is because it took him longer to come into his own. He's very influnced by many people and you can either learn from them or imitate them and unfortunately I think he tried to imitate them but then couldn't so he started experimenting and eventually came into his own. As any artist of any medium will tell you, sometimes you fall into your own while others really have to work at it and it takes longer because of that. Again, these are only my theories.
None the less, Chuck has always been my favourite, I don't care what anyone says.
- David Germain said...
Look at "Rabbit Fire" or "Rabbit Seasoning"...I love them cartoons...but he ruined the character!!...that is not my Daffy...it is another character!..why do not use another new character?..A platypus, a mongoose, a pellican...everything but not me old Daffy...there, Chuck, are you happy?...You made me cry......
Dodgers, I talked about that in a Daffy Duck post I made about a month ago. Check it out right here.
Also, anyone remember the name of the big hairy creature Jones created?
In Water Water Every Hare (c. 1952) he's called Rudolph but later on Jones dubbed him as Gossamer.
It seems to me that perhaps because Jones made pseudo-Disney cartoons at first that he was then able to "rebel" so successfully with the more "experimental" cartoons in the 1940s, the cartoons with the stylized animation (DOVER BOYS) or the "darker," more psychological humor that shows up later (Bugs more often messing with the minds of his tormentors, not just using physical violence).
The father of Charles Ives (1874-1954), one of America's great avant-garde composers, was a small-town bandmaster. When he found his son beginning to experiment with unusual harmonies, etc., he urged him to first get a "traditional" musical education, saying, "Before you can write music the wrong way, you have to know how to write it the right way."
Perhaps Jones had to make cartoons the "right way" (the conventional, mainstream, Disney way) in order to be able to then deform and derange them as effectively as he did.
- Franky said...
My favorite Chuck Jones has sappy elements but is an awesome comedy - Feed the Kitty featuring that dog, Marc Anthony.
Chuck Jones isn't all bad. He directed two really good cartoons - Long Haired Hare and Homeless Hare.
-Eric A.
- JohnK said...
>>It seems to me that perhaps because Jones made pseudo-Disney cartoons at first that he was then able to "rebel" so successfully with the more "experimental" cartoons in the 1940s<<
He could have rebelled right away like Clampett and Avery..
- fabiopower said...
Hello John, What do you can say to us about the Bg�s, with different forced �angles, that can be seen in the �lost cartoons of Jones…?
- fabiopower said...
Also is part of the influence of Chuck Jones?
- Peggy said...
"He could have rebelled right away like Clampett and Avery."
I dunno. Different people have different trajectories. Some burst forth wildly, others take a while. Jones just wasn't from the Anarchic Rebel Cartoonist mold.
Someday I need to do some fact-checking on another theory I have about Jones.
- Taco Jack said...
What an insightful post from AnJaka. /snark
By the way, who was the 'narrator' in The Dover Boys? I always get a kick out of the way he punctuates their name.
Great post, John.
I'd love to read Peggy's theory. Come on, Peggy! Out with it!
I think it's obvious that Jones wanted desperately to be a gold-plated Disney character animator from the get-go, a Frank Thomas or Eric Larson, not a silly/goofy/kwazy cartoon animator or director.
I think that working at WB was a compromise for him in his mind from the start, and he was frustrated almost his entire career about it although less so by the 50s. He had a huge inferiority complex--that much is plain from his autobiography, which is hard going. He comes across not as a man who loves simple old cartoons OR Bugs Bunny(the Bugs I know), but as a talented, amazing draftsman and animation director who's also a pompous, boring egomaniac in the bargain. Sad to say, but hey--HE wrote the book.
We look at and love his cartoons today, millions loved them then, but in all those years he really thought he'd have been a star animator or animation director at Disney's if he'd had the chance, but he knew Disney thought little of the WB studio. Anyway, that's why he was so obsessively making those "Disney audition" cartoons with Sniffles, Elmer and the candle, etc. in the early days. Thank godness he got in a groove of another kind.
- I don't really care said...
...sometimes you fall into your own while others really have to work at it and it takes longer because of that.
Different people have different trajectories. Some burst forth wildly, others take a while. Jones just wasn't from the Anarchic Rebel Cartoonist mold.
Is it possible that with Clampett and Avery there, he felt he should find some different territory? His sense of humor was never like theirs, and he only would've made bad imitations, probably. He seemed to be experimenting with a more contemplative,toned down performance style, maybe as a counterpoint? Jones had a pretty big ego, and maybe he didn't want to be the 3rd wild cartoonist, he'd rather try to be Jones.
Look at "Rabbit Fire" or "Rabbit Seasoning"...I love them cartoons...but he ruined the character!!...that is not my Daffy...it is another character!..why do not use another new character?..A platypus, a mongoose, a pellican...everything but not me old Daffy...there, Chuck, are you happy?...You made me cry......
I have always considered the Jones verison of Daffy a vast improvemnet over the just "daffy" Daffy Duck,Jones improved the character. "The Scarlet Pumpernickel","Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2 century", and the greatest Daffy cartoon,"Duck Amuck", are Daffy's best.
- I don't really care said...
I'd like to think if Clampett had stayed put, we'd have had more Daffy like he was in BOOK REVUE... not just daffy, but a really witty and funny performer. Beats anything Jones did with him.
"I'd like to think if Clampett had stayed put, we'd have had more Daffy like he was in BOOK REVUE... not just daffy, but a really witty and funny performer. Beats anything Jones did with him."
Jones made Daffy an actor as well as comedian in the cartoons I listed above, he made Daffy far more versatile. Just like Calmpett did with Bugs, he made him a great actor. Clampett's Daffy cartoons were fine but Jones' Daffy cartoon made Daffy a truely great character.
1948 is probably my favorite year for Warner shorts, period. So many hits that year! Even with Clampett gone, and the studio moving into a squarer style, we still have some great wild animation from the likes of Emery Hawkins and Manny Gould, and fantastic cartoons like "What's Brewin' Bruin", "Scaredy Cat", "Two Gophers from Texas", "Dough Ray Meow", "Gorilla My Dreams", "I Taw a Putty Tat", "Daffy Dilly", "You Were Never Duckier", "My Bunny Lies Over the Sea"... Man, what a great year for animation!
- I don't really care said...
Jones made Daffy an actor as well as comedian in the cartoons I listed above, he made Daffy far more versatile.
I can't see it that way... Clampett's Daffy, it seems to me was capable of just about anything, while remaining in character... Jones' Daffy restrained his parameters. I don't mind what he did, I just feel really cheated that Clampett wasn't around anymore to duke it out with Jones for Daffy's soul...
I really don't think he was interested at first in rebeling the same way Avery and Clampett. Personally, I think he started his career hoping to someday work for Disney. (notice that out of all of them ,he was the only one who eventually did, briefly, work for Disney)I think it was just something he had to get out of his system.
John, I notice you like to take potshot at Disney's cartoons of the mid to late thirties, and I admit they lack the vitality and sophistication of the wartime cartoons, but I think you have to put these films in some kind of historical perspective when you start comparing them. After all, most of Disney's cutesy color cartoons were made to entertain people that were suffering from the devestating effects of the Great Depression. Most of the movie going audience was made up of women and children. (ever wonder why so many mindless Busby Berkley type musicals were made during this era?)People were looking for mindless escapism, and Disney's colorful fantasies provided them with a few minutes in another world. Now, by the time the war in Europe had started to invade the consiousness of the kids who had now become cynical teenagers, the WB artists were finding a new audience.
"I can't see it that way... Clampett's Daffy, it seems to me was capable of just about anything, while remaining in character."
That'a pretty much what Jones did,Jones' version of Daffy is a struggler while Clampett's Daffy was nuts. They weren't complete opposites though, Jones' Daffy was still wacky when he was "Duck Dodgers" or "Drip along Daffy" but another dimension was added to the character.
- I don't really care said...
Not just a struggler... sometimes an outright loser, like when he is greedy and conniving. Maybe it is an additional dimension, but it's one where the witty and flamboyant nutcase gets lost. I probably wouldn't make an issue of it, had somebody kept making those kind of cartoons, too.
- Roberto González said...
Very interesting post.
I have yet to decide which Daffy I like the most. I used to love Jones' Daffy until I knew Clampett's. I think I prefer Clampett's but I like Jones' especially when he is not paired with Bugs. Jones has great Daffy-Porky shorts and of course that great cartoon called The Scarlett Pumpernickel, which is one of my faves ever and I liked it better than What's Opera Doc.
- C. A. M. Thompson said...
Personally the two Daffy cartoons that always made me laugh the hardest were Clampett's Baby Bottleneck and Art Davis's Stupor Salesman.
I like most of Jones's Daffy cartoons too but I miss the complete unpredictability of the earlier Daffy who definitely made me laugh harder. It's kind of sad that that character gets overshadowed by the Chuck Jones Daffy who is easier to emulate and has more catch phrases.
"Not just a struggler... sometimes an outright loser, like when he is greedy and conniving."
I foudn Daffy this way when Freleng was in conrtol of him like in "Show Biz Bugs", not the Jones toons. As much as I respect Friz "Show Biz Bugs" is one of his most over praised cartoons,Daffy was basically a villian and it got even worse in those Daffy and Speedy toons during the 1960's.
"Maybe it is an additional dimension, but it's one where the witty and flamboyant nutcase gets lost."
I see this when he's preforming his roles like "Drip Along Daffy" he is very much "Daffy".
- Roberto González said...
Anybody here ever watched the Timberwolf flash cartoons Chuck Jones created in his very last years? I don't know how many influence he did really have on them but I found them pretty good, considering the fact that he hadn't done a single funny cartoon in the previous years and you have to go way back in time to find the classic and funny ones, and the fact that they were new characters and the cartoons were done in flash.
I am glad to see that Chuck Jones grew out of the 'cutesy animal' phase.
- I don't really care said...
I see this when he's preforming his roles like "Drip Along Daffy" he is very much "Daffy".
He's very much Jones' later Daffy. For some reason when the 50's arrived, Daffy was purely a foil. I don't mind him being used as a foil, but what happened to the rest of him? I'll take A PEST IN THE HOUSE as an example of Jones getting Daffy right. I don't think he ever did another one in that vein.
- Operation GutterBall said...
How about 'Inki At The Circus'? There's a sequence when they run into the circus tent that looks like Jim Tyer stuff. I know this is impossible since Jim was an East Coast guy.
" Most of the movie going audience was made up of women and children. (ever wonder why so many mindless Busby Berkley type musicals were made during this era?)"
Boy, if you think Busby Berkeley's great musicals of the early-to-mid 1930s were for "women and children" you haven't made yourself sit down and really watch them.
They were FAR from "mindless"--in fact, they were downright smutty at times(MOST times), and deliberately so. They had killer music(witness the fact that most of us, even people in their 20s, know all the songs introduced in thopse films), they were brilliantly, breathtakingly staged--even the ones with a fair share of "corny" dialogue. Ruby Keeler was imho a barely passable(okay, POOR) actress with a strange dancing style who was so pretty and watchable that she's redeemed by the staging of Berkeley's amazing, jaw-dropping musical numbers which were FAR, far more than simple goofy camera shots of legs. There was sex sex sex aplenty in the best of these(including nudity, either in silhouette--with all the edges clearly shown, fellas--or women wearing no bras and barely anything else): the audience was MEN and women, adults with a very mature and sly funnybone that got all the dirty jokes(and there are dozens)BB put in those films. The dialogue in "Golddiggers of '33", "Footlight Parade", and "42nd Street" among others is crackling and witty; here's a bit from 42nd Street:"[there goes] Anytime Annie: she only said "no" once and then she didn't hear the question!".
And this from "Footlight Parade": [Joan Blondell kicking her chiseling, loose sister out of her room after finding her trying to screw her boyfriend: "Get out, 'countess'; as long as there are sidewalks YOU'LL have a job!"--then kicks her in the ass on the way out! So much for the kids! The "Shanghai Lil" number from "Parade" shows every kind of vice, including a brief, moody opium-smoking scene and this line from the title song: "She's every sailor's pal! She's anybody's gal! Drink a toast to Shanghai Lil!"
Long comment but I really think these films are so racy, so clever and SUCH genius that I hate to see them reduced to being thought of as silly mindless fun for the kiddies...they were fun, alright--I can just imagine the fun couples had after any one of these when they got home. But you made a good point about the depression, and there's no doubt that the Disney output and others did fill a need in the audience for some good clean fun, loads of schmaltz. It's just that Berkeley wasn't quite like that. Check his films out again.
- JohnK said...
...just in case anyone misinterprets me, I think Chuck Jones is brilliant.
- Dave_the_Turnip said...
In a DVD i have that sums up Jones' career pretty quickly ("Extremes and Inbetweens: A Life in Animation"), Jones says that the way he went about the characters is as simple as Bugs is a winner, Daffy is a loser.
Now while I believe that Daffy's reactions to being foiled by Bugs in cartoons like "Rabbit Seasoning" are hilarious, i saw "Book Revue" for the first time on a collection of cartoon DVDs i bought last week.
The Daffy in that cartoon blew me away. He was much more rounded. Not just zany and impulsive but a captivating entertainer. I watched his entire monologue with awe (and cracked up at him scatting to Red Riding Hood).
I think maybe that's where the difference lays. Jones took the zany screwball duck, and he turned him into a character that battles against the odds but mostly fails. Even in the cartoons where he's paired up with Porky, he can never get a break. "Robin Hood Daffy" stands out in my mind as a good example for that.
To make a point though, i think that's one of the magical things about those old cartoons. The fact that the characters acted differently depending which director was at the helm. It is something i would like to see more of in animation today.
"He's very much Jones' later Daffy. For some reason when the 50's arrived, Daffy was purely a foil. I don't mind him being used as a foil, but what happened to the rest of him ?"
The role he was in had him as a foil but he still was "Daffy", hs reactions,movements,etc. still remained looney. He wasn't as nutty as Clampett's version but Jones never made him completely settle down.
"I'll take A PEST IN THE HOUSE as an example of Jones getting Daffy right. I don't think he ever did another one in that vein."
What about Daffy Dilly ?
- I don't really care said...
Maybe. Can't remember it clearly, but we are still in the 40's...
- Jorge Garrido said...
I like Chuck, but I read somehwere he would hvae been happy if all the cartoons made efore 1948 were lokced in a vault. He seemed to really dislike that Clampett/Avery/Woody Woodpecker rebellious irreverent style.
-" ...just in case anyone misinterprets me, I think Chuck Jones is brilliant.
really? woulda never guessed it judging from your golden collection commentaries
- JohnK said...
>>-" ...just in case anyone misinterprets me, I think Chuck Jones is brilliant.
really? woulda never guessed it judging from your golden collection commentaries <<
I only did one Chuck Jones cartoon and it was a remake of one he did better before and I said that.
don't forget Waikiki Wabbit, though eddie did most of the talking
Its frustrating that they're being so damn stingy w/ the Tex toons. I actually expected them to have a dearth of Clampett's material, not based on merit but given the circumstances(you know).
But man, all I want is some Tex and vintage Tash toons
Meanwhile, the Jones selections are mediocre. Its obvious they're magnanimaously pandering to the nostalgic Turner and Nick rerun crowd but even they realize their fave toons are yet to surface
- Nate Birch said...
On the subject of Daffy...I like Chuck's more.
Clampett's Daffy always just struck me as just Bug Bunny turned up...the were both the same basic crazy trickster character that nearly every Clampett hero was.
Jones gave him a unique personality. And yeah, he was a jerk and a loser. So what? Jerks and losers can be entertaining characters too.
I mean, we all like Ren don't we?
- mark said...
this is such a cool article! i'm really enjoying reading this
- Roberto González said...
>Clampett's Daffy always just struck me as just Bug Bunny turned up...the were both the same basic crazy trickster character that nearly every Clampett hero was.<
Hummm...He was very different to Bugs Bunny. He is totally different to Bugs in The Great Piggy Bank Robbery.
Jones had an amount of early wacky Daffy stuff, What Makes Daffy Duck (if it is the one I am thinking of) is another one.
I think Daffy was still a little wacky in Duck Amuck or Deduce, I Say. And I don't mind if he's a jerk...but he seems too mean and less likeable in some parts of the Bugs-Daffy shorts. I enjoy when he's a jerk but he's kind of unaware of it (A Pest In The House, Nasty Quacks) or when he's totally nuts so you can't tell if he's being a jerk on purpose or it's just his mind being completely wacky (McKimson's Boobs In The Woods).
Jones didn't create a new persona for Daffy, he simply stripped away certain elements from Daffy's already established character, leaving only the selfish part intact.
Daffy shows signs of self preservation and malice as early as 1940 in Freleng's "You Ought To Be In Pictures". This side of his personality also appears in Clampett's "Draftee Daffy", where the little black duck tries to kill the "little man from the draft board." There's also Tashlin's "Nasty Quacks". These cartoons also contain the emotional and exuberantly "daffy" parts of Daffy's persona. His emotions were at a higher pitch in this era.
That makes for a richer character. Daffy had never been as dimensional a personality as in the 40's. He could be a hero or villian. It's only in the 40's that we see Daffy feel lust (think of the many Tashlin cartoons he starred in).
Besides, Jones was using the selfish, greedy Daffy in the early 40's, too. Just look at "Tom Turk and Daffy".
"Maybe. Can't remember it clearly, but we are still in the 40's..."
Daffy Dilly was made in 1948, the toon was about an old millionaire who will give a fortune to anyone who can make him laugh before he dies, Daffy tries to see him but he is being thwarted by the millionaire's butler. Daffy is both a struggler and very nutty here, he even dose the classic "whoo-hoo!".
- C. A. M. Thompson said...
"What Makes Daffy Duck" was by Art Davis, the most underrated cartoon director of all time.
The hardest I ever laughed at Daffy is probably Davis' Stupor Salesman tied with Clampett's Baby Bottleneck.
- Jorge Garrido said...
>Besides, Jones was using the selfish, greedy Daffy in the early 40's, too. Just look at "Tom Turk and Daffy".
Didn't Artie Davis REALLY direct that?
- lastangelman said...
1.)Didn't Artie Davis REALLY direct that?
Quite a few cartoons Art Davis directed gets attributed to the other directors. His influence as an animator really stands out in a Sylvester The Cat cartoon directed by Friz Freleng, Canned Feud, check it Out! After Clampett left, Art Davis seemd most likely to carry on the looney style, til Warners downsized him
2.)John K said (Does anyone know if the 3 bears are based on a specific radio show of the time?)
Nope, this one was a Michael Maltese-Ted Pierce original, not based on any running radio show or characters. Yep, this beats the Flintstones and The Simpsons anyday.
"Art Davis seemd most likely to carry on the looney style, til Warners downsized him"
But why ? He did some very good cartoons in his all too short tenure as a director.
- Jeff Schiller said...
Actually I feel that Jones' turning point was early 1942. There we get some truly funny cartoons like "The Draft Horse" and "Dover Boys". There was still "sap" in the form of Inki up to 1950, but it shows a steady decline from about 1942 on. Even the few remaining Sniffles after 1942 are funny with Sniffles undergoing a major change in terms of character and tone.
I think by early 1942, Jones had lost the battle (and thank God he did!).
JohnK: What do you think about "The Draft Horse"?


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Laptop computer, two pairs of shoes and an Airsoft gun taken, recovered.
An Ionia woman and man were arrested early Thursday morning for allegedly taking items that didn't belong to them from a home where she was baby-sitting Wednesday night. Both were arraigned Thursday in 64-A District Court.
Victoria Merrifield, 18, was charged with receiving and concealing stolen property – less than $200, and lying to a police officer, a violation of Michigan law since January.
Devin Petipren, 18, was charged with larceny from a building – $200 to $1,000.
According to Detective Cory McDiarmid of the Ionia Department of Public Safety, Petipren took a laptop computer, two pairs of shoes and an Airsoft gun after Merrifield let him into the house. They were arrested later at the home of an acquaintance in Ionia. The property was recovered by police.
McDiarmid recommends that parents and guardians use caution when selecting someone to watch their children, and ensure that that individual knows the rules about phone and Internet use – both of which can be a distraction – and who can come and go in the house.
"Make sure it is someone you know well, or is recommended," he said. "She invited people over who weren't welcome in the house. If a child care provider fails to recognize the rules, seek another child care provider."
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GALT - One by one Wednesday afternoon, close friends, acquaintances and complete strangers made their way toward the railroad tracks where a Galt police officer was gunned down Tuesday. They brought flowers, stuffed animals and other items, building a makeshift memorial for a man who lived and died to protect others.
GALT - One by one Wednesday afternoon, close friends, acquaintances and complete strangers made their way toward the railroad tracks where a Galt police officer was gunned down Tuesday. They brought flowers, stuffed animals and other items, building a makeshift memorial for a man who lived and died to protect others.
Flags in Galt flew at half-staff and residents held a tearful candlelight vigil as the close-knit community mourned the loss of Kevin Tonn, a 35-year-old officer who was assigned to the Galt Police Department's canine unit.
One woman who said she didn't know Tonn sobbed as she placed a stuffed toy dog at the memorial site, which was set against the backdrop of Galt's signature water tower and a charming row of Fourth Street businesses. Someone else left toy police cars. Then there was Teauna Miranda, 39, who fell to her knees and cried, shaking her head at the thought of losing someone dear to her.
"We dated for years, and he was one of my best friends," Miranda said, lifting her sunglasses to wipe tears from her eyes. "The most ironic thing is where this happened. He loved that building, and he loved that tower. I don't know how many pictures he took of the sunrise over that building. It's just so sad that it happened here."
Tonn was shot once in the head while trying to detain a man who used the same weapon to take his own life moments later, authorities said. The Sacramento County Coroner's Office on Wednesday identified the gunman as Humphrey Kenneth Gascon, a 30-year-old Galt resident. Gascon had been arrested for driving under the influence in Nevada but had no history of violent crime, said Sgt. Jason Ramos, a spokesman for the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department, which agreed to oversee the homicide investigation.
Tonn encountered Gascon while investigating a burglary that occurred shortly before 11:30 a.m. Tuesday in the 200 block of F Street. Authorities have determined that Gascon did not burglarize the home, but he matched the description of the man who did, Ramos said Wednesday.
According to authorities, Tonn approached Gascon as he was walking along the railroad tracks between 3rd and 4th streets. A struggle ensued. Tonn was shot.
A second Galt police officer arrived and called for help. Gascon fled across the tracks toward 4th street but stopped in a grassy field and shot himself once in the head, authorities said. Neither officer fired a shot, Ramos said.
Tonn was unconscious but breathing, said Lt. Jim Uptegrove, a spokesman for the Galt Police Department. He was rushed to Kaiser Hospital in south Sacramento, where he died less than an hour later.
"I just keep expecting him to call and say, 'Hey, I'm on the news. Record it for me,' " Miranda said. "But he's never going to call."
Tonn served with the Galt Police Department for more than three years. He lived in Galt for about three years but moved to Elk Grove in November, Miranda said. Tonn previously worked as a firefighter and paramedic in New York and served in the Army Reserve as a military police officer.
Those closest to him said he loved his family, his friends and his police dog, Yaro.
People grieved Tonn's death together Wednesday evening during a candlelight vigil at Galt Community Park. Firetrucks and police cars lined parking lots and surrounding streets. Candles lined walkways leading to a small pavilion, where about 200 people crowded together in the cold to share memories and tears.
"If he were here, he would say he can't believe he has gotten so much love and support from all of you," said Robin Gist, Tonn's girlfriend. "He would be so thankful. I wish he could be here to see this.
"Kevin will be OK. He's in a good place, and he will watch over all of us. He will. He will make sure that all your families are safe."
Residents expressed shock and sadness. One woman said she worried for the first time Tuesday night when her sons were out late.
"We'll get through this as a community," Galt Police Chief Bill Bowen said. "It will be rough, but we will."
Others weren't so sure.
Miranda told a story at the vigil that touched many hearts. She said Tonn drove to Lake Tahoe one Christmas Eve, returned with a truckload of snow and filled her front yard with it so her children could have a white Christmas in Galt.
"He was selfless," Miranda said. "If he knew you wanted something or if there was something that would put a big smile on your face, he would go out of his way to do it. He was an amazing man, and Galt will never be the same without him."
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The Browns still have a chance at the Browns' second-best Thanksgiving-time record in the last 10 years,
The wild-card race hasn't changed.
The Browns are one of six teams that are just one game behind the two teams in the lead for the second wild-card spot. With six games to play, there's time.
The wild ideas are gone. A 1-4 skid and getting outscored 31-0 in the previous day's second quarter tend to leave a mark.
For the first time following any of the recent defeats, head coach Rob Chudzinski did not use his Monday-after briefing to say, "Our goals are still in front of us."
His team is coming off the franchise's second-most lopsided defeat (41-20 at Cincinnati) since 2010 (41-9 at Pittsburgh). The other loss that was by more than 21 points was 34-12 at Denver last December.
The Browns led 13-0 at Cincinnati. They could have been as good as 5-5 after 10 games for only the fourth time in 15 years.
Instead, they head into a home game against Pittsburgh at 4-6. There have been worse years, but the team has been 4-6 before, too, and that never ended well.
Pat Shurmur's 2011 team was 4-6 on its way to 4-12.
Romeo Crennel's 2008 team likewise faded from 4-6 to 4-12.
Crennel also was 4-6 in 2005, not long before one of the most infamous losses in franchise era, 41-0 at home to Pittsburgh on Christmas Eve. First-year general manager Phil Savage was fired during the week after that game, then rehired before the season finale, by which point president John Collins got the boot instead. The final record was 6-10.
Butch Davis' 2003 team was 4-6, and then began the home stretch with a 13-6 home loss to Pittsburgh. The final record was 5-11.
The point is that 4-6 has been nowhere ... and didn't look like anywhere by the end of Sunday's implosion on the Ohio River.
By halftime, the early lead seemed like ancient history. Yet, Chudzinski tried hard to turn the page, putting extra inflection on his words when he said, "It's Steeler week."
"The Cincinnati game," he said, "is one we can learn from and grow from for the future if we approach it the right way.
"It was one game, and we have six more to go. There's a lot still out in front of us."
Given the team slump, he would have sounded foolish not to be vague about what exactly it is in front of his team.
Chudzinski said he is "excited" about playing three of the next four games at home. The remaining schedule, in order:
• Home to Pittsburgh (4-6)
• Home to Jacksonville (1-9)
• At New England (7-2 going into Monday night's game at Carolina)
• Home to Chicago (6-4)
• At New York Jets (5-5)
• Rematch at Pittsburgh
First up: The Steelers.
The Browns are 0-6 against Pittsburgh with Chudzinski as an assistant coach (2004, 2007, 2008). The Steelers were division champions in all three of those seasons, though, and have struggled through much of this year.
Beating Pittsburgh to improve to 5-6 would count for something.
The Browns' records after 11 games in the last 10 years have been 4-7, 3-8, 4-7, 3-8, 7-4, 4-7, 1-10, 4-7, 4-7 and 3-8. Their record against Pittsburgh in the last 10 years is 3-17.
Put yourself in Chudzinski's shoes. The man is 45 years old with his first shot at being a head coach. He is not submitting to either history or Sunday's miserable game.
"We have a very close team," Chudzinski said. "These guys will fight for each other and compete.
"I'm confident our guys will respond."
Reach Steve at 330-580-8347 or on Twitter: @sdoerschukREP


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A loss so disgusted me, I tuned out from ALL sports-related nonsense entirely for a few days. I'm still so pissed off, on so many levels. I know it's a 4 year plan, and I'm very thankful for what Pete has built, but it's getting REALLY old.
Becoming a contender is right there, in front of them, if they so choose.
I'm still just as pissed.


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The effects of the recession appear to be easing in the titanium industry, raising hopes of recovery. At the same time, new opportunities are presenting themselves that could lead to the availability of lower-cost titanium products in a number of applications previously priced out of titanium. Thus, the recovery may coincide with a somewhat transformed business landscape.
The titanium industry, like many others, was battered by the economic downturn. The faltering of the economy in late 2008 was preceded by a falloff in titanium prices well before, partly due to delays in titanium-intensive programs at Boeing Co. and Airbus SAS.
The onset of the recession merely exacerbated existing conditions in the aerospace sector, which initially declined more dramatically than other sectors and depressed scrap markets to the point that in some places alloy scrap was less expensive than CP scrap. Scrap became a very depressed market in the recession partly because prices were so low, leading some suppliers to choose to hang on to supplies until prices rebounded. This helped to slow down the plunge in scrap prices, a trend that was not duplicated in other markets, like melt products.
Prices overall continued their slide and have remained depressed. For some products, 2009 prices were nearly 80 percent below their 2006 highs. In contrast to 2007 and 2008, when titanium facilities were running at more than 90 percent of capacity, in 2010 those same plants have been running at roughly 65 percent of capacity and in some cases at less than 50 percent. Even in China, where capacity was expanding rapidly a few years ago, plans for new facilities have been scrapped and some existing facilities shut down.
Research for a recent study by Thintri Inc. indicates that a recovery is indeed under way. Driven largely by the reactivation of Boeing and Airbus programs, demand for 6 aluminum/4 vanadium alloy has improved significantly this year. For example, in mid-2010 the price for alloy plate was above $30 per pound for thicknesses under 1 inch, up nearly 15 percent from a year earlier.
At this point, however, the recovery is spotty. Some suppliers have seen no turnaround at all and a few question its existence. Others have noted an apparently sustained increase in demand, with rising prices and extended lead times.
Overall, the Thintri survey of prices for products ranging from sponge to plate appears to confirm a real recovery that can be expected to continue and broaden, barring unexpected issues in the greater economy.
The change in market activity is especially pronounced in scrap. Titanium scrap differs from other types of scrap metals in that it is generated primarily during manufacturing rather than recovered from later-stage products like automobiles, ships, etc. For that reason, scrap availability depends on the percentage of scrap resulting from manufacturing. Aerospace has a uniquely high "buy-to-fly" ratio, with up to 80 percent of the titanium consumed ending up as scrap. Thus, the slump in aerospace had an inordinate effect on scrap prices, which softened considerably in 2007 and 2008 but have rebounded rapidly this year. To the extent that scrap prices are an early indicator of overall industry activity levels, the turnaround in scrap prices in recent months is indeed a positive sign.
One prime question relating to the current rebound is how much of the activity is actual growth in demand and how much is just restocking of inventory that was gradually depleted during the recession. At the moment, while there is no question that some percentage of the recovery is in fact restocking of inventory, it is equally clear that a real recovery is going on, primarily in aerospace but in other sectors as well.
While almost no one believes titanium prices will reach their peak levels of 2006 anytime soon, a number of industry participants in the Thintri survey believe that titanium shipments may reach the volume levels of that time. There is a growing industry consensus that if nothing out of the ordinary occurs, such as an unexpected economic crisis, a conservative projection would allow for a steady, positive growth rate throughout the next five years. Prices have already turned around and lead times have increased significantly. Assuming the economy continues a relatively modest recovery and resists a double-dip recession, prices and demand, as well as capacity utilization, can confidently be expected to continue growing for several years.
Another positive aspect of the current economic situation is that an aerospace "dip" or slump in aircraft construction widely anticipated for 2012, based on nothing more than historical cycles, will probably not occur. That short-term decline has already occurred, ahead of schedule, in the opinion of most industry players, making continued, uninterrupted growth more likely.
Renewed activity by Boeing (primarily with the 777 and 787) and Airbus (A350 and A380) are largely driving the current recovery, at least in its early stages. The sequence of events has been contrary to what was expected by industry participants as recently as last year. At that time, most in the titanium business expected the aerospace market to recover in pace with the general economy, but today the aerospace market is clearly leading the recovery and other markets are following.
Pushed (or pulled) by aerospace activity, other titanium markets are seeing upticks in activity, much of it outside North America. Power generation and desalinization projects, added to expanding offshore oil and gas exploration and new mining activities, together offer promise for a range of titanium products.
Other established markets, like medical and defense applications, offer a mixed picture. Medical markets, generally a source of stable growth and somewhat resistant to the ups and downs of the economy, most likely will continue at a reasonable pace, given the aging of the baby boomer generation. Defense, however, looks less promising as a consumer of titanium than it did a few years ago, given likely cuts in defense budgets. Chemical processing, a major demand driver for CP in normal times, will probably recover a little later, when the construction of chemical processing facilities rebounds.
Broader trends, like increased energy consumption in Asia, argue strongly in favor of rising oil prices, which will certainly lead to more exploration and drilling, which in turn will boost demand for titanium in the oil and gas sector. While oil has averaged about $78 per barrel so far this year, conservative economic estimates project oil at $100 per barrel within a few years, with some going as high as $170 per barrel. In some parts of the world, the use of liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers, which use titanium plate heat exchangers, is growing rapidly.
Against the backdrop of the recovering titanium business, new technologies developed in the past few years have emerged that promise to bring titanium to new applications and expand existing markets.
Certainly in the current economic climate, low prices for titanium products have not led to increased demand and new markets, the reason being that the real issue is cost relative to demand. As the economy recovers and demand rises, prices will again increase, and a number of promising applications that could dramatically benefit from titanium will still have to use inferior materials due to the relatively high cost of titanium.
However, new low-cost processes, some of which are already commercially available, do offer the promise of reducing costs significantly.
After a surge in the past decade in the number of low-cost titanium processes under development, many have since been abandoned or delayed but several are ongoing and showing promising results. Initially, most efforts were concentrated on replacing the costly and inefficient Kroll process with another method that would provide raw materials that could, for example, replace sponge with another form extracted more immediately from ore. While some such efforts continue and are showing promise, the more substantial gains today appear to be in methods that provide for improved performance on established processes.
Methods that provide titanium powder, which could substitute for sponge and be used to fabricate a broad range of titanium products, including rolled products, probably offer the greatest potential for cost reduction, some of which may be commercially available soon. Today these methods remain somewhat controversial, with disputed claims on cost, quality, purity and performance, but in some cases proponents claim to be near proving their case.
However, there are other techniques, already commercialized or very close to commercialization, that are proven to bring about significant cost reductions later in the process chain. For example, techniques for machining titanium, and casting forms that provide titanium at costs approaching or matching those of aluminum or steel, are now available, with more on the way. Soon, rolling mills providing milled products at reduced cost over what is available today will likely be online. Rather than being revolutionary, some of these methods are simply evolutionary, and the result of years of development.
Consequently, the broader economic recovery offers opportunities to capture entirely new markets and expand established ones if those opportunities are recognized and grasped.
Satisfying this latent demand will require reliable, sustainable supplies as well as low prices. For example, titanium has established a beachhead in the automotive market (particularly with trucks, where it is used widely in turbocharger compressor wheels), but this relatively small market could become enormous were titanium parts to become available at low cost while avoiding supply issues.
In some applications, like chemical processing, where titanium is already used where needed simply because there are no alternatives, lower-cost titanium will have relatively little impact.
J. Scott Moore is president of Thintri Inc.
(www.thintri.com), a New York-based consulting firm, and the author of The Titanium Age Markets, Low Cost Processes and Latent Demand, a study recently published by Thintri. Moore received a doctorate in materials engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and founded Thintri after working in industry for 13 years. The Titanium Age attempts to paint a picture of titanium markets and their evolution over the next five years and evaluates latent demand in such markets as the automotive, consumer, industrial (including oil and gas, and mining), aerospace, defense and medical sectors.
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UPDATED: Former top diocese official suspended, investigated for financial transactions, inappropriate adult relationshipBy MARK HAYWARD
New Hampshire Union Leader
May 06. 2013 9:55PM
MANCHESTER — One of the top former priests in the Catholic Church in New Hampshire has been suspended from his priestly duties after allegations arose of an "inappropriate adult relationship" and potentially illegal financial transactions on his part, officials said.
The Diocese of Manchester on Monday announced the suspension of the Rev. Msgr. Edward J. Arsenault in light of investigations by the Diocese and the New Hampshire Attorney General. The FBI has also been asked to assist, according to a state official involved in the investigation.
The diocese said it started looking into Arsenault after receiving word of the relationship earlier this year.
"The review discovered evidence suggesting improper financial transactions by Msgr. Arsenault involving diocesan funds," the statement reads. "Because the diocese was concerned that illegal acts may have been committed, it reported the matter to the New Hampshire Office of the Attorney General."
During most of the 2000s, Arsenault held top administrative positions for the Diocese. As part of the job, he often faced reporters during the priest-sex abuse crisis of that decade.
In 2009, he left New Hampshire to head St. Luke Institute, a Maryland-based institution that delivers psychological and spiritual care to priests. The institute has also delivered counseling to priests accused of sexual abuse of minors.
St. Luke announced Monday that Arsenault had resigned Friday, given the New Hampshire investigations.
The investigation also appears to involve Catholic Medical Center, where Arsenault served on the board of directors until 2009.
The Manchester hospital on Monday released a statement acknowledging a consulting contract it signed with Arsenault after he left the hospital board.
The contract ended in 2010, when Arsenault was at St. Luke.
"We do not know whether this contract will have any bearing on the current investigation, but in the interest of openness and transparency, we have asked for this review. We will cooperate fully with the Attorney General's investigation," reads a statement issued by CMC President & Chief-Executive Dr. Joseph Pepe and Joseph Graham, the chairman of the CMC board.
A top state prosecutor said the investigation started when representatives from CMC and the diocese contacted the Attorney General's Office about two weeks ago.
Jane Young, a senior assistant attorney general who oversees the Criminal Justice Bureau, said the investigation is in its infancy. At the present, it revolves around the financial matters, but there is no telling where it may lead, she said
"These type of investigations, financial investigations, in general take longer than other investigations," Young said.
Nothing has emerged to indicate any improprieties with children.
"An inappropriate adult relationship, that's not something at the moment that is in our scope," she said.
She said the state could share information that it uncovers with the diocese, depending on how it received the information.
Young said the FBI is assisting in the investigation at her request. She said the FBI lends expertise to such investigations, and if an investigation moves into another state, the FBI can smoothly handle the cross-state issues.
She would not answer questions about whether Arsenault is cooperating, or if he is residing in New Hampshire.
Diocesan spokesman Kevin Donovan said Arsenault had his public ministry suspended May 1, and is the only priest to be suspended as a result of the investigation. He said no other diocesan personnel have been affected.
In a statement, Bishop Peter Libasci said: "I am committed to reviewing our internal diocesan operations to ensure that any issues are identified and corrected, as necessary. We will do this in the light of day."
In its statement, the diocese said it cannot discuss the matter further, but will release more information when appropriate to do so.
CMC said it asked the attorney general to review its contract with Arsenault in light of the discovery of the transactions involving diocesan funds. The CMC contract would have been signed when Alyson Pitman Giles was the president and chief-executive of the hospital.
Reached Monday, Giles said she knows nothing about an investigation and has not spoken to anyone about it. Giles said it would be inappropriate for her to speak about any hospital matters and referred questions to hospital president Pepe.
According to the Diocese, Arsenault was ordained in 1991. He was named secretary for administration in 1999. He was named chancellor in 2002, and then moderator of the curia, which handles administrative duties, in 2004.
He was granted permission to resign from this position in February 2009.
Donovan said priests receive a salary based on their years with the Diocese, not their position. He did not provide Arsenault's salary.


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Investigators return to Exeter plant where woman's body was foundBy JASON SCHREIBER
Union Leader Correspondent
March 08. 2013 2:15PM
EXETER - State and local investigators returned to an old concrete plant Friday morning to continue their search for clues after a woman's body was found inside the burning building a day earlier.
The State Police Major Crime Unit, Exeter police, and the state fire marshal's office were back at the scene at 2 Hampton Road where the body was found by firefighters on the second floor Thursday morning.
The state attorney general's office has labeled the death "suspicious."
An autopsy is being performed today to determine the cause and manner of death. Senior Assistant Attorney General Susan Morrell said autopsy results may be released later Friday. It's not known whether the woman's identity will be released at the same time.
"Sometimes the autopsy may tell us the cause of death and the identification issue may take longer," Morrell said.
Authorities have not said how long the body is believed to have been inside the abandoned City Concrete plant or its condition when firefighters arrived.


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A conference of alternative-energy proponents last week in Durango ended with a resolve to broaden the use of solar technology in the residential market.
Its a logical move because the sun is available year round, said Gregg Dubit, executive director of conference co-host Four Corners Office of Resource Efficiency, or 4CORE.
The other co-host of the half-day session Friday at La Plata Electric Association was Silicon Valley-based Optony Inc., a consultant with offices in the U.S. and China that offers planning, implementation and management services in the solar industry.
At the end of the conference, municipal and utility representatives and solar-system installers agreed to form a work group. They hope homeowner associations and the general public will support their goal.
Participants in the work group would share ideas about how to eliminate barriers and streamline their communitys entry into the solar market, Dubit said.
Optony, through the Southwest Solar Transformation Initiative, offers local roadmaps for communities that cover permitting, planning and zoning, financial options and solar-market development.
Stakeholders of the initiative in Southwest Colorado are Durango, Pagosa Springs, Cortez, La Plata County, LPEA and Empire Electric Association.
The Southwest Solar Transformation Initiative is part of the U.S. Department of Energys Rooftop Solar Challenge, a program announced a year ago. The Department of Energy approved Optony to lead regional teams in increasing solar-energy use among businesses and homeowners in Colorado, Utah, Nevada and the San Joaquin Valley in California.
Mary Beth Miles, the sustainability director for the city of Durango, sees the work group as a way to use the collective purchasing power of communities to acquire solar panels and inverters at a reduced price.
Doug Sparks, member services manager at Cortez-based Empire Electric, said the cooperative developed a solar garden two years ago to allow small investors to enter the solar field.
Its a garden because its too small to be a farm, Sparks said. Five individuals and public radio station KSJD in Cortez have 48 solar panels in a field behind the Empire Electric office.
Empire made net metering, connecting private solar arrays to the grid to offset power use, available in 2008, Sparks said. A one-page application is user friendly, he said.
James Dickhoff, planning director for the city of Pagosa Springs, said broad discussions can show how to share ideas and work together.
Its a way to define what local entities should look at, Dickhoff said.
Thomas Yurysta, a senior project manager from Optony, spoke at the conference about the increase nationally in solar energy development, projections for the future, policies, programs and funding.
Dubit said widespread use of solar can produce energy efficiency and that it makes sense because energy prices are rising.
LPEA rates increased on Jan. 1. The base charge increased from $15.60 per month to $20.50; the use charge rose from 10.4 cents per kilowatt-hour to 11.3 cents per kWh.


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BERKLEY -- A 27-yearold Middleboro man died in a two-carsh crash early Friday morning on Route 24 in Berkley
State Police said Dylan J. Storch was driving a 2003 Saab sedan that overturned and bust into flames shortly after 1:30 a.m. north of exit 11. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
The other vehicle was a 1999 Dodge Durango driven by Danne Picot, 23, of Lynn. Picot and two passengers were taken to Rhode Island Hospital with injuries that were not considered life-threatening.
The right lane was during the investigation. The scene cleared and all lanes were opened shortly before 5:30 a.m.


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February 02. 2013 4:38PM
Belmont voters take little time to add money for rescue boat
By DAN SEUFERT
Union Leader Correspondent
BELMONT – Residents took a little more than 90 minutes to discuss the proposed $7,002,206 budget at the town's deliberative session Saturday, making only one amendment to better fund a rescue boat for the fire department.
"It was the quickest town meeting I have ever been associated with," said Selectman Ronald Cormier Jr., who has been a selectmen in town for nine years.
On the proposed budget, Article 7 asked voters to approve $10,000 for the purchase of a rescue and fire suppression boat, with the money to come from the town's Fire/Ambulance Equipment and Apparatus Special Revenue Fund. The town isn't sure yet if it will buy a new or used boat, Cormier said.
The budget committee had recommended $10,000 for the boat, but the selectmen had recommended $25,000.
Voters chose to amend the article to the $25,000 figure.
"There was some discussion and the people felt they needed more for the boat," Cormier said.
Article 4, which would raise $355,000 to replace 3,750 feet of water line within Belmont Village, did not draw much discussion. The town hopes that all of the project's costs would be paid for by a government Community Development Block Grant Program.
Also going without much discussion was Article 6, which asks voters to approve $180,000 for a new fire department ambulance, with the funds to come from the Fire/Ambulance Equipment and Apparatus Special Revenue Fund.
The new ambulance would replace two town ambulances, both of which will be used as trade-ins or sold outright to help pay for the new ambulance.
Voting will take place on March 12 from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Belmont High School.


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In His Portraits, Cézanne Treated His Sitters Like Fruit
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Paul Cézanne is one of the great Post-Impressionist painters of the 19th century, renowned for his radiant landscapes, intense portraits, and complex still lifes. His influence extends to every aspect of Post-Impressionist inquiry, from the search for empirical truth in painting, which he saw as including imbalance and lacunae, to the capturing of the instantaneity of vision, and the calling of attention to the dimensionality of the canvas space. His paintings of apples, card players, and the landscape of Mount Sainte Victoire, which he saw from his window in Provence, France, are some of the best-known images in Western art. His mature works are striking for their vivid palette, sensitive brushstrokes, and swirling, unstable compositions full of impetuosity and vigor that paved the way for the advent of Cubism and abstract painting.
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Posted on November 9, 2012
A book came in this week, a small tome from the turn of the last century, and, as will sometimes happen in spite of all my precautions, I opened it to take a look and wound up sitting down to read all 312 pages. No wonder I never get around to building that banana box bonfire.
The illustrations were passable, and the narrative was extremely choppy. The characters existed largely as names on paper: they did very little. And yet the story, minimal though it was, struck me and I was sorry to see it come to an end.
This jewel of literature is A Book of Birthday Gems, published in 1901 by M.A. Donohue of Chicago. It is a Birthday Book, a genre of literature you can still find, primarily in calendar form. In those days, they were often diaries, with a quote for each day and a space to write down your experiences. The quotations may be Scriptural or from Great Literature, or they may come from one certain author (I get lots of copies of the one filled with quotes from A.A.Milne.)
But this is not that kind: Donohue had another idea. This birthday book comes with three days to a page, each having a proverb, a text (Scripture), and a chunk of Great Literature. Facing that are three blanks where your friends can autograph the box opposite their birthday. So about half those pages I looked at were really easy to read.
This copy has a couple dozen autographs. I have not figured out yet which of these is the owner of the book, but I have deduced a few things about her. First, she is female, because so are the majority of her friends. Second, though she may have lived out west (the book came in a donation from Colorado: that's another blog.) she was NOT from Texas. Three or four people wrote down their hometowns, and most of them are from Sweet Home, Texas. My assumption is that you wouldn't write down your home state if you were signing there. (Anyhow, a Texan will tell just about anybody she's from Texas, but she won't bother to tell other Texans. They can tell.)
Third, the community must have been rather diverse: I find Burkes and Culpeppers, but also a Korniakovsky, a a Gephart, a Fusselman, a Vance, and a Lebold. Mind you, this could as easily have been a high school class in Chicago.
The Smiths interest me, however. Three of them have signed the book, and all have a refreshing taste in punctuation, Mertie Smith signs her name and puts a period at the end. Mayme Smith, however, finishes her signature off with a comma. Their brother Edward, showoff, signs himself "Edward,Smith."
Interesting though they were, the heroine of the story signed her name rather farther along in the book, and went into more detail than anyone else in the book, noting that she was born in 1882, in Belfast, Co. Antrim, Ireland. This was just enough information to freeze my eyes on the page. Born in 1882. This book was published in 1901. There is no reason at all to be transfixed by the fact, but I couldn't turn the page, held there by the notion that someone born in 1882 had been nineteen years old once, and put her name down in the box for December 18.
Well, perhaps I will have a glass of egg nog in honor of her 130th birthday, but for now I must get on. It is November 9, for which I see the proverb is "Running hares need no spurs", which is undoubtedly true but leaves me pretty much where I was, while the text is a gloomy note from Ecclesiastes, and the literature bit is a quotation about "executive women", which I don't understand either, but sounds unpleasant. Not all these gems can be diamonds.
(Note to publishers of autograph books: Donohue had one great innovation for which archivists and historians would bless you. At the end of a book is an alphabetical index of autographs, where your friends are expected to sign their names a second time. Handwriting being what it is, this at least gives the reader the first letter of the name.)


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Richard Cybenko
September 10. 2013 5:35PM
The U.S. Marshals Service District of New Hampshire/Joint Fugitive Task Force has named Richard James Cybenko as New Hampshire's fugitive of the week.
Cybenko, 28, is wanted on warrants for multiple offenses involving fraud, larceny, and smuggling contraband into a prison. Cybenko has an extensive history of home repair scams around the country, and is still active, though his whereabouts are currently unknown.
Also known by the aliases Richard James Hall, Richard Jewett and Albertico Guzman, Cybenko is described as 5-feet-10, 235 pounds, with brown eyes and brown hair. He has tattoos on both arms, his chest, back and right ankle. He has a 6-inch scar on his neck.
The U.S. Marshals Service advises the public not to attempt to apprehend a fugitive, who should be considered armed and dangerous. Instead, report any information to the U.S. Marshals Service's Concord office at 225-1632.
For more information visit usmarshals.gov/district/nh


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Centenarian gets honorary high school diploma
EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A Rhode Island centenarian has received something she'd wanted for more than eight decades: her high school diploma.
East Providence resident Mary Moniz (MOH'-neez) received the honorary diploma from the Fall River, Massachusetts, school department on Saturday. She turned 100 on Monday.
Moniz attended high school in Fall River. But she went for only two years because her family moved back to the Azores amid the Great Depression.
In 1949, she moved back to the United States. But she never completed high school. Her son says she always regretted not finishing.
She says she had wanted to be a history teacher. She worked for a metal products company for 16 years. She says she's honored to get her degree.
Her family arranged the honorary diploma by contacting the education commissioner in Massachusetts.


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Hillsborough attorney says Quesada investigation active, aggressive
BEDFORD - Hillsborough County Attorney Patricia M. LaFrance assured residents progress is being made toward solving the apparent home invasion in which a Bedford anesthesiologist and his wife were brutally attacked 12 weeks ago.
"Bedford police and state police are making progress along with consultation with my office," LaFrance said in a telephone interview Friday.
"We do have a sense of what happened. However, we are not prepared to share that at this time," LaFrance added.
She revealed little about the crimes, would not specify progress being made nor attempt to ease public concern over the Nov. 24 home invasion at 7 Proclamation Court that left Dr. Eduardo W. Quesada, 52, and his wife, Sonia Quesada, 29, seriously injured.
"I'm not prepared at this time to give out any more information at the risk of jeopardizing a future prosecution," LaFrance said.
"I realize it's very frustrating for people and scary," LaFrance said.
"My first obligation, the chief's first obligation, is obviously to find the person or persons responsible for committing this crime. We owe that to Dr. and Mrs. Quesada. We owe that to the people of Bedford to put their minds at ease," she said.
Officials don't know if the Quesadas' house was targeted and still are trying to determine who the suspect or suspects are, she said.
She urged residents to take "normal precautions" and not "be paralyzed by fear."
The criminal investigation into the Nov. 24 home invasion is active and aggressive, she said.
Six weeks after the home invasion, police found Sonia Quesada dead and Dr. Quesada unconscious at his mother's 49 Kensington Lane home in Bedford. There was a large amount of prescription medication in the room.
"We are looking at them as two completely separate investigations with the obvious exception that they involved the same people," LaFrance said.
The state Medical Examiner's office has not yet determined cause and manner of Sonia Quesada's death, but has said it does not appear to be homicide. They are waiting for toxicological tests results, which could take at least eight weeks.
LaFrance would not say if a suicide note was found at the 49 Kensington Lane condominium or whether the couple had legitimate prescriptions for the drugs found there.
While the probe into Sonia Quesada's death is ongoing, LaFrance said "I'm not sure I would characterize it as a criminal investigation. ... We would call it an untimely death."


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The Libby Museum was established in 1912 and is on the registry of national historic places.
It is a museum of natural history featuring an Abenaki Native American collection & a Governor Wentworth collection. The Libby Museum offers summer day camp programs for children 4 & up. The museum also features various artists throughout the season.
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April 04. 2013 10:10PM
Bedford Market Basket opening delayed
By HENRY METZ
Union Leader Correspondent
BEDFORD - The harsh winter is why the new Market Basket on Route 114 won't be opening as soon as had been anticipated, according to a company spokesman.
"This was a tough one," said David McLean, operations manager for Demoulas Supermarkets Inc., owner of the Market Basket chain. "Mother Nature really dealt us a blow, so some of the exterior work slowed down because of all the snow we encountered."
McLean said while the interior of the supermarket is complete, exterior work such as topcoat paving of the parking lot, curbing and finishing touches on the landscaping and some siding work have had to wait until the better weather arrives.
"I don't have a precise date, but hopefully within a month or so we'll be open," McLean said. "We look forward to serving our Bedford customers soon."
The company had hoped to open the Bedford store this month. Bedford's development director, Rick Sawyer, said none of the necessary inspections have been completed at the site, something that must be done before the store can open.
McLean said store employees have been training for several weeks at other Market Basket locations, specifically in Manchester and Hooksett. The Bedford store will employ "somewhere in the neighborhood of 300" people, he said, adding that figure is a conservative estimate. "We don't want to over hire," McLean said. "After the grand opening and things settle down a little bit, if we need to hire more people we will. But we want to make sure the people we've hired get to work the hours they hoped they would work."
The Bedford store will be the 30th Market Basket in New Hampshire. Demoulas has 69 Market Basket stores in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine. McLean said the company is in the process of building five more supermarkets.
The Bedford store will be the first Market Basket to feature what McLean described as a full-service "gourmet fresh meat case." The Bedford store will also come with a Market's Kitchen, common to newer Market Baskets, which serves, among other items, rotisserie chickens, submarine sandwiches, salads and pre-made family sized meals.
In 2011, competitor Hannaford Brothers sued the Bedford Zoning Board in an effort to block construction of the new Market Basket, alleging the board improperly granted Demoulas a variance to build its 78,500-square-foot building, which sits on the site of the former Golfland miniature golf course and Slammers Sports Bar and Grill. Hannaford argued that in 2008 the zoning board limited its newest supermarket on Route 101 to 40,000 square feet even though it too was located in a commercial zone. The town has said issues with the land at the Route 101 location limited the size of Hannaford Bros. store.
Last year, a Hillsborough County Superior Court judge ruled in Market Basket's favor, saying that Hannaford was not an abutter and therefore had no legal standing to challenge the zoning board's decision to grant the variance. The Hannaford Route 101 store is located about 3 miles west of the Market Basket store on Route 114. Hannaford appealed the court's decision to the state Supreme Court, which heard oral arguments on the case late last year. No ruling has yet come down from the court.
Sawyer said Market Basket has posted a bond in the event that Hannaford prevails in the suit. The bond, he said, would be used to raze the new building and bring the lot back to the condition it was in before construction began.
Hannaford has also sued the town over a March town meeting vote at which residents approved a zoning change for the site of the new Market Basket from mixed use to commercial 2, which has no footprint restrictions. That case is scheduled to be heard in July.


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Timothy J. Dobias
October 01. 2013 6:08PM
The U.S. Marshals Service District of New Hampshire/Joint Fugitive Task Force has named Timothy Joseph Dobias as New Hampshire's fugitive of the week.
Dobias, 26, is wanted on warrants from Keene police for heroin sales and Troy police for failure to maintain his sex-offender registration. Authorities say he has access to firearms and should be considered armed an dangerous.
He is described as 5-feet-10, 175 pounds, with blue eyes and brown hair. He has "Baylee" and "Brayden" tattooed on his chest. He was last known to be living in the Keene/Troy area.
The U.S. Marshals Service advises the public not to attempt to apprehend a fugitive. Instead, report any information to the U.S. Marshals Service's Concord office at 225-1632.
For more information visit usmarshals.gov/district/nh


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Animal print sweater – Dixie DIY freebie pattern
60 comments:
- Anonymous2 November 2012 at 16:28
Haha, sewing sabbatical, my foot! I guess you just couldn't stay away ;-)ReplyDelete
Your jumper looks great! Will definitely give that pattern a go.Replies
Haha, seems like it eh!?! I don't think they'll be much sewing from now on though, because everything on my list is tricky and I do need to get my sewing space sorted first!!!Delete
This is a neat top! and major swoon over your shoes...ReplyDeleteReplies
Hehe, thanks!Delete
ooooh, cute! the animal print makes it look very chic. i'm glad you like the pattern!!ReplyDeleteReplies
Wow, I'm honoured that you stopped by and commented Dixie! Thanks so much for sharing such an awesome pattern with us...for free!!!Delete
Cute AND cozy! Looks great. :)ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks Sue!!!Delete
What a cute sweater, its exactly the type of thing I've been looking for.ReplyDelete
And your shoes...... droooooool!!!!!! LOVE THEM!Replies
I look forward to seeing your version then ;o)Delete
SNAP! I've made the same top in the EXACT same fabric! :)ReplyDeleteReplies
No!!! Really!?! How brilliant! We obviously have totally awesome taste ;o) When do we get to see yours?Delete
Cute!!!!!!!!!!! And I'm glad you're also an animal print lover! xoReplyDeleteReplies
Oh yes, I always seem to gravitate towards animal print...and florals!Delete
Wow! The shirt looks super sexy and comfy! Win, win! Looking forward to giving this pattern a go. Can't go wrong with free and awesome :)ReplyDelete
Have fun tomorrow! I so wish I could go.Replies
Thanks Mela, you should totally try it!!! So sorry you're not coming tomorrow...booo!Delete
What a gorgeous top, the fabric is lovely, and I love your hair do! :)ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks so much Lynne!Delete
I love this on you... Ohh cannot wait to see in personReplyDeleteReplies
You certainly will Rachel!Delete
Love it!! I think this baby might be bumping its way to the top of my sewing list... I love that grey leopard - looks adorable with your red t-bars!ReplyDeleteReplies
Elisalex, you will totally rock this top...do it, now!Delete
Woot! I have been stalking your blog all day thinking "She must have finished by now!" LOVE IT!ReplyDelete
I want one.
Haha, you're too funny! Don't worry, as soon as you get the pattern home, you'll whip it up in no time at all!Delete
- Anonymous2 November 2012 at 20:58
You look fabulous and I love the print! Have a great time tomorrow!ReplyDelete
Girl, you are quick on the damn uptake. Love your version. Gotta get off my lazy ass and make one (or ANYTHING really) soon.ReplyDeleteReplies
Hehe, only cause it was such an easy and quick make ;o)Delete
- Anonymous2 November 2012 at 21:27
I am 99.9999 per cent sure that's the fabric I used for my make of Renfrew. It's such a great, stable knit, isn't it? Love your top!ReplyDeleteReplies
No way!!! Where did you get yours from then? I remember thinking how much I loved your Renfrew fabric...could it be that I went out months later and subconsciously copied you? Probably! You'll be able to tell me if it is exactly the same tomorrow ;o)Delete
This looks awesome :) I don't know if I would be able to pull off the drapey look but it's uber cute on you!ReplyDeleteReplies
I'm sure you could Johanna, give it a go...it's fee ;o)Delete
Great new top Marie, love how comfy raglan sleeves can be - maybe I'll be as lucky as you and find a suitable knit at the market at your meet up today :) Gonna download this pattern when I get home tonight thanks for sharing the link!ReplyDeleteReplies
I never got to ask Claire...did you find suitable fabric for it today?Delete
I like this. Neat fabric! You wear this well.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you Linda!Delete
Lovely top! I downloaded Dixie's pattern as well - it just looks so darn comfy!ReplyDeleteReplies
I can totally see you in this Sallie, can't wait to see your version!Delete
This looks great! I just bought some sweater knit fabric I'm planning to do this with. I love that it looks so cozy and I bet people would never guess it's handmade. It looks very fashionable, especially with the asymmetrical hem.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks Shona, can't wait to see yours! I agree that it doesn't look handmade and it is quite edgy...love it!Delete
Sweet as! For a pretty non eventful piece like a pullover its absolutely adorable. I like your styling too.ReplyDeleteReplies
Aaaw, thank you!Delete
- Anonymous4 November 2012 at 19:17
Gorgeous top. My kinda print too. It suits you so well :-)ReplyDeleteReplies
Oh yes Janene, I've seen you rock animal print more than once ;o)Delete
Very cute! I just printed this pattern the other day but I didn't pay attention to it being only one size. We'll see how that works out for me. It looks so dang cozy!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you and good luck!!!Delete
- Anonymous5 November 2012 at 22:26
Adorable! This looks so cute on you! And I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE the leopard print-- I want one just like this! I just made this top, too, but mine didn't turn out very well (totally my fault, not Dixie's)... I'm afraid to show you guys!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks so much Sonja! If I had any confidence in my grading down skills, I'd gladly make one for you ;o) Don't be afraid to show us yours, I've shown my failed projects before and people's comments always cheer me up loads ;o)Delete
Very cute on you Marie!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you Justine!Delete
You tempted me to try this pattern, it loks so cute on you!ReplyDeleteReplies
Oooh, yay...do it!Delete
Off to check it out now! Thanks MArie! Looks fab on you! You just look so hot girl!ReplyDelete
Gosh, thank you Portia! I think this will totally look hot on you too ;o)Delete
Just gorgeous. But I expect no less from you! :PReplyDeleteReplies
Wow thanks, that's so kind!Delete
You look fabulous! I have yet to make anything with animal print, but you always look great in them. Your red shoes and lips really complete the look.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you Becca! I bet you would rock animal print ;o)Delete
Marie, are such eye candy! :-)ReplyDeleteReplies
Haha, thanks Adrienne!Delete


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