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|Dev: 2XL Games
|Pub: Reverb Publishing, D3 Publisher
|Release: June 26, 2012
|Players: 1-8 Online Multiplayer
|Screen Resolution: 480p-1080p
by Angelo M. D'Argenio
It's hard to make a racing game unique. The basic formula of "pass other guys in the race" never really changes, and if you aren't looking for a kart racer with crazy explosions and power-ups, you have to find something else that makes the variety of steering, braking, and throttle stand apart from everyone else's. Jeremy McGrath's Offroad combines some interesting RPG elements with a game engine that looks to deliver a real offroad experience, and, to an extent, it does so quite well. However, the game's sparse feature set unfortunately undermines the innovation lies beneath it.
The big gimmick in Jeremy McGrath's Offroad is the leveling system. Over the course of a race, you'll earn XP from performing certain actions. Pass a car, and you'll get XP. Win the race, and you'll get even more XP. Smash into a bunch of fences or tress and you'll get achievement-style XP bonuses. In fact, it's hard to do anything without earning XP in this game.
On one hand, this means that you can continue to level up even if you lose races. This is great for newbies that just can't seem to get the hang of braking around turns or easing up on the throttle.
On the other hand, this means that winning the race doesn't always end up being your goal. For example, finishing a race in first place would net me about 120 XP. However, passing other cars gave me 60 XP each, and crashing into a bunch of fences got me 300 XP. Players looking to level as fast as they can will purposefully drop positions and go off track just so they can earn more XP, and it wasn't uncommon to find lower place finishes netting higher XP than solid first place finishes where I simply stayed ahead of the pack. So yes, you can choose to level grind instead of racing your hardest, and it's kind of goofy.
So what does earning levels get you? Well, unlike other racing games, Offroad starts you out with several vehicles, each with totally blank stats. There are several different vehicle classes from buggies to rally cars, and they each obviously handle differently. However, you get several vehicles in each class to choose from, and each one starts with a rating of 0 in handling, braking, top speed, and acceleration.
Each time you earn 1000 XP, you get one upgrade point to put into any of these categories in any of your cars. This lets you build up your own unique garage of vehicles, each with different stat layouts to be used for different sorts of races. While this is all cool in theory, there really isn't anything preventing you from dumping all of your upgrade points into one vehicle and making the super truck. This also means that racers of a lower level are just blatantly racing worse vehicles than higher level racers, which makes multiplayer more than a bit unbalanced.
All this being said, the upgrade system is actually pretty cool. At the very least, it's fun to see your vehicles get better and better as you progress through the game. It gives you a reason to keep playing after you have already unlocked all the courses and completed career mode, and while that tiny bump in replay value doesn't last long, it's fun while it lasts.
The suite of modes is pretty sparse, and this is probably the game's biggest detriment. Other than arcade mode, career mode, and multiplayer, there's not much to speak of. Career mode doesn't really give you a story or setting to work with. The races mirror Jeremy McGrath's bid for the Pro 2 championship within the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series, but you are never actually told this in game. You simply go from one track to the next, completing races and time trails that don't really differ from the arcade mode in any meaningful way. You'll go through career mode just to unlock all the tracks, but after that you won't really bother touching it again.
Other than the upgrade system, the actual racing engine is probably the most interesting feature of Jeremy McGrath's Offroad. It actually does a decent job of simulating offroad racing. Or at least I'd assume so, considering I have never been in a real-life offroad race. You can't just hammer on the throttle all day, you have to judge how much traction you have on the dirt and use the clutch, brake, and e-brake to get ahead. Performing jumps to cross huge stretches of track is a great way to get ahead, but your engine will stall if you let it rev in the air. You can even bypass entire portions of the track by driving through out-of-bounds areas, though you'll do so at a severely reduced speed. Heck, you can even use other vehicles to help you corner. Ramming into them at high speed provides a barrier that lets you take turns tighter.
It's actually somewhat hard to tell where the track ends and where out-of-bounds areas begin in this game. The track looks like dirt, and anything out of bounds looks like slightly rougher dirt. However, you do have a co-driver that tells you what turns are coming up and when, and that's a decently innovative twist on the offroad racing formula. The only issue is that the co-driver is made up of a very small selection of pre-recorded voice clips. His call out for "turn right" is always the same, as is his call out for any other maneuver you have to make. It makes him sound more like a robot than a real person, which annoyed me enough to turn him off completely.


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Beer Pairings: What to Drink with Roast Chicken
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Roast chicken is such a versatile dish—its sweet and savory flavors may convey subdued elegance, but they're equally at home at a German fast food stand. It's also a versatile companion for beer, pairing with a wide range of styles to fit whatever mood you want to create.
When choosing beers to serve, you'll want to stick with lighter flavors, but some caramel and dark fruit notes can add a splash of interest to the meal. In my view, the grassy, herbal, and spicy flavors of European and English hops make a better match to the savory herbs and garlic in this dish than the citrusy American varieties. Roasted chicken can be a bit greasy, so some carbonation and hops will help to keep your palate clean.
Pairing Pointers
A roasted half chicken (Hähnchen) is a German fast food treat, and the slightly malt-forward Helles style is the beer of choice to drink with it. These easy-drinking, golden lagers have a gentle, malty sweetness that's a great match to the chicken, while spicy/herbal hops complement the savory seasoning.
A rustic dish calls for rustic beers. Belgian farmhouse ales work wonders with chicken. Saisons bring a contrasting fruitiness to the pairing along with herbal and spicy flavors from both the yeast and the hops. A bracingly dry finish leaves your palate feeling fresh.
English best bitters bring some luscious caramel flavor to the table that plays well with the caramelized chicken skins. Hop bitterness is biting enough to cleanse the palate, but doesn't overpower the caramel-to-caramel match. Herbal English hops make the seasoning pop.
For a fruity splash, try a Belgian Dubbel or a German dunkelweizen. Dunkelweizen has less citrusy acidity than its lighter brother, with a dash of caramel that brings some complementary sweetness to the pairing. In combination with the dish, the yeasty banana and clove flavors become interestingly herbal. Belgian Dubbel has similar pairing qualities to the dunkelweizen, but dried dark fruit notes add a dash of figgy pizazz.
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Weihenstephaner Original Premium: Snappy and refreshing with a spritzy splash of spicy licorice and a center of softly-sweet bready malt. It's got the sweetness to meet the meat and the spice to speak to the seasoning.
Stoudt's Gold Lager: Subtle balance of sweet malt and spicy European hops. This beer is a great example of the style, and a crisp and refreshing counterbalance to roasted chicken.
Sam Adams Rustic Saison: Although lighter and a little less complex than some examples, this beer is a delightful quaff nonetheless, and a delicious match to the dish. Herbal hop and yeast flavors really picked up the herbal flavors in the chicken, with some light fruit notes giving contrast.
Dupont Avril: Intended as an everyday table beer, Avril is lighter and simpler than Brasserie Dupont's other offerings. It has a gentle sweetness and cracker-like malt flavor with delicate banana/fruity flavors riding on top. Crisp and highly carbonated, it takes care of the rich chicken fat.
English Best Bitter
Furthermore Proper: This beer is slightly malt forward, with caramel flavors that carry on a deep conversation with the crisp, caramelized skin of the chicken. This bitter is dry-hopped with German hops, which adds some spicy complexity to the match of hops and herbs.
Franziskaner Dunkel Hefe-Weisse: This is a very nice pairing. The subdued caramel in the beer speaks to the chicken, while the balanced banana and spice yeastiness take on interesting herbal notes. It clears away the fat leaving your mouth clean and refreshed.
Belgian Dubbel
Ommegang Abbey Ale: Dark fruit flavors offer a nice contrast to the savory chicken, like adding fig compote to your plate. One warning: the alcohol notes become a bit hot in combination with the dish, more than when the beer is tasted alone.
Westmalle Dubbel: A drier, spicier example of the style, this one does more to cleanse the palate. The caramel and fig flavors both complement and contrast the chicken. Enhanced hops play well with the dish's seasoning.
What's your favorite beer to drink with roast chicken?
About the Author: Certified Cicerone Michael Agnew is the lead educator and owner of A Perfect Pint. He conducts beer tastings for private parties and corporate events. His beer musings can be read in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, his own Perfect Pint Blog, The Hop Press at Ratebeer.com, the City Pages Hot Dish Blog, and in respected national beer magazines.
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It's the longest river in the United States, 2,540 miles – longer than the Mississippi by almost 200 miles. Its watershed covers about one-sixth of the 48 states, draining all or part of nine states, more than half a million square miles. When Lewis and Clark set out from St. Louis to explore a land unknown, they traveled by way of the Missouri River.
Now we'll be going the other way, from the source in the Centennial Mountains of southern Montana downstream, retracing the epic route in reverse. We'll see that some things have changed dramatically, thanks to increased human population and the impact of civilization. And we'll see that some things have remained the same.
Our team to explore this river of adventure isn't quite in the class of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, but they're all experienced, capable and creative media explorers. Correspondent Richard Bangs is author of over dozen travel books and the executive producer for Great Escapes. His colleague in adventure P.V. Scaturro joins him on this trip, as he did on the Great Escapes: Colorado in 2003, as co-producer. Photographer Didrik Johnck again focuses his digital eye on the action, as on Great Escapes: Texas where he shot and edited the videos. Finally, Andrew Locke of MSNBC's Interactive Media team comes aboard as video and audio producer.
While we'll use some of the traditional conveyances of the original journeys – canoes, horseback, boots – we'll cover most of our miles by stitching together a highway route along the great river, following main roads, dirt tracks and byways. Our vehicle of choice is distinctly modern: the new Ford Hybrid Escape, the most in-demand four-wheel drive car available today. It runs on a high-tech improvement on the standard internal combustion engine, with better mileage, cleaner emissions, and quieter performance.
From source to sea
One of the mysteries of the Missouri remains its source. Map makers like to mark it at the confluence of the Gallatin, Jefferson and Madison rivers at Three Forks, Montana. But some think that the feeder with the highest volume should be traced to its beginnings and claimed as the true font. Others contend that the first occurrence of moving water in a river shed farthest from the mouth wins the prize.
So our journey begins on the banks of the Yellowstone River, one candidate for the source. Although it's designated a "tributary" of the Missouri, when the Yellowstone joins the Missouri at Buford, North Dakota, it is the larger of the two streams, and as such may claim bragging rights as the real source. There are other reasons for visiting the Yellowstone: it's the longest remaining undammed river in the contiguous United States, and it gives its name to the charter member of the National Parks system.
Then we'll head west to little-known Centennial Valley, and ride up an obscure brook called Hell Roaring Creek to where water first bubbles from the ground. This creek has only recently been recognized the tributary farthest from the river's egress, over 2500 miles away, when it joins with the Mississippi.
To complete our mission, we explore Three Forks, where the combined stream is first called the Missouri. Then we follow the river as it swings north, passing through the Gates of the Mountains, a narrow canyon with sheer walls over 1,000 high. At Great Falls, Mont., the river cascades over five waterfalls, dropping more than 500 feet in 12 miles. Meriwether Lewis called it "a superbly grand spectacle," and we'll see if times have changed in this mid-Montana town.
Turning east, the river slices through the Missouri Breaks and a designated Wild and Scenic stretch near Ft. Benton, with archaeological sites, bird nesting areas, sandstone bluffs and the White Cliffs where Lewis and Clark camped. It slows and fattens as it feeds Fort Peck Lake, one of the largest man-made reservoirs in the world, amid the classic landscape that inspired Charles M. Russell and many other "cowboy artists," breathing with history and the wide-open spaces of the West.
Beyond Fort Peck the Missouri flows into North Dakota, where it is at last joined by its larger tributary the Yellowstone. Now we're in the Badlands: sculptured into fantastic shapes by the erosive power of the Little Missouri, small buttes and peaks surrounded by deep gullies and ravines. This is the area a young Teddy Roosevelt hunted and later ranched, leading him to comment, "I never would have been President if it had not been for my experiences in North Dakota." It is sure to be an off-road test for our hybrid Escape.
Old Man River
Then the old man rolls south to Bismarck, North Dakota's capital, though many areas set aside as tribal lands for the region's first inhabitants, and through open range where the buffalo still roam. Past Pierre, the river turns southeast and forms the boundary between South Dakota and Nebraska, running through America's heartland. At Yankton, the water works its way through Gavin's Point Dam, the last on the Missouri, and meanders down to Sioux City, Iowa.
The Missouri is joined by the Platte River just beyond Omaha, and forms state boundaries between Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri and Kansas, until it reaches the largest and bluesiest city along the Mighty Mo', Kansas City. Count Basie, Lester Young, Charlie Parker and other innovators in jazz and swing started their careers here, syncopating to the rhythms of the river. Then the Missouri turns sharply eastward, across the heart of the state that proudly wears its name until it finally blends its currents and its history with the Mississippi at Missouri Point, a few miles north of St. Louis.
Looking back on his exploration of the Missouri River a bicentennial era ago, Col. Meriwether Lewis wrote, "It seemed as if those scenes of visionary enchantment would never have an end." For those who join us on our great escape down the Missouri river, we can make that enchantment last a little while longer.


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Behind two of history's greatest polar explorers is a Kerryman. His name might be dwarfed by Scott and Shackleton, but at the South Pole Inn in Annascaul and to the people of Ireland, Tom Crean is a hero
The South Pole Inn is just the type of pub you would drive by one your way somewhere else. Dingle perhaps, or maybe you've got plans to drive the Ring of Kerry.
Word to the wise: don't drive by.
In an instant, in a flash of orange and blue, you would be consigning the curiously clandestine tale of one of the world's bravest explorers to the rear view mirror.
What a waste.
Tom Crean passed away in 1938, but in his pub, The South Pole Inn, he remains a presence. His rugged face, with pipe in mouth, adorns worn wooden walls while shelves are weighed down with books and magazines attesting to the man who put Annascaul on the explorer map.
It doesn't take paragraphs of explanation or endless biographies to give you an instant picture of Tom Crean. His nickname should be enough: The Irish Giant.
Then again, where Crean went was no place for the weak of body. Or mind.
At the age of 15, Crean left his home of Annascaul on the Dingle peninsula to begin a life with the Royal Navy. Nine years later, he set out on his first Antarctic expedition with a certain Robert Falcon Scott. The rest is history.
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Probably the most unusual thing about Tom Crean is how little he's known. This is a man who served in the British Navy as a teenager, fought in WWI and survived three of history's most gruelling Antarctic expeditions during one of which he received the Albert Medal for Bravery.
Why then, is he so easily forgotten when we laud the likes of Amundsen, Scott and Shackelton?
Curator of the Kerry Museum in Tralee, home to the Tom Crean room, Helen O'Connell has written extensively on the subject. For her, the expedition teams were considered on the basis of brains and brawn. Crean fell into the latter:
"Discussions about the great explorers tend to focus on the leaders and leadership styles. That has meant the contribution of seamen like Crean, who were the backbone of Polar expeditions, has been obscured. The implication is that they were only there to provide the necessary muscle power."
It's implications like that which lead to Crean being described in his Wikipedia entry as a "tough and dependable polar traveller".
If you ever needed a definition for faint praise, you've found it.
As Helen attests, the Kerryman's actions speak for themselves. Slowly but surely, he is being recognised for how unique he really was:
"The value of men like Crean became even more apparent on Terra Nova [during the Terra Nova expedition, Crean was awarded the Albert Medal for bravery for his life-saving actions], and Scott was generous in his praise of his work."
Caitríona Hickey knew all about Tom Crean before she moved to Annascaul five years ago. Her husband served the odd pint in the South Pole Inn, and Michael Smith's book Tom Crean: Unsung Hero – Antarctic Survivor owns pride of place in her collection.
Even so, she was still surprised the day she inadvertently found his grave:
"We live just minutes from the pub, so naturally I knew that was there, but I had no idea about his grave. I was exploring some of the small roads with my young daughter near where we live and happened upon this graveyard. Curiosity drew me to go for a wander and a path mown through the long grass lead me directly to the family tomb. He has been such a hero of mine for so long, so I was fascinated to find his final resting place. What a gentle giant he appears to have been."
Tom Crean: Irish Giant or Gentle Giant?
Both, it would seem.
A Gathering to celebrate Tom Crean will take place this year in Annascaul, County Kerry, from 21-23 June
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Stefano Domenicali could continue his formula one career with F1's newest team.
Gunther Steiner, a former Jaguar and Red Bull chief, is now heavily involved in the Haas Formula project, with Nascar team co-owner Gene Haas having secured a two-year license to enter formula one, beginning either in 2015 or 2016.
The latest reports from Italy, where Haas will have its first car manufactured by the chassis maker Dallara, suggest 2016 is now the most likely debut date for the new American team.
"We've got the option to start in '16 if we think it is not doable in a good, professional way for '15," admitted Steiner.
The Italian reports also said Haas officials are set to travel to Maranello to meet with Marco Mattiacci, the new sporting chief at Ferrari, Haas' likely 'power unit' supplier.
And Haas said the team will rely on its "technology partner" for more than just a turbo V6.
He said Haas will also outsource the "transmissions, KERS systems, suspensions, steering wheel. All of those things are going to come packaged to us," he revealed.
"So our main thing is just focusing on the construction of the aero and chassis and getting to the races," Haas added.
Having not yet turned a wheel or fired a spark-plug, Haas already has its critics. Juan Pablo Montoya said recently the team is "crazy" to base the team at an extension of its Nascar facility in Kannapolis, North Carolina.
Other F1 veterans agree with the outspoken Colombian.
Former McLaren driver John Watson said that with Dallara to build the cars in Italy, "Why base yourself in North America when everything has to be flown from Europe to North America to be assembled to be transported back for a European season?
"I would imagine you're already starting on the back foot by basing your team in North Carolina," he told Sky Sports.
Another former driver, Johnny Herbert, said the rate of parts development in F1 also means an American headquarters makes little sense.
"The updates are a big part of what formula one is about," he said, "and that's something they've really got to think long and hard about because I think it would be a miscalculation basing in America."
Haas, however, also plans to have a 'satellite' operation in Europe, while Steiner explained that having a main headquarters in the US is made possible due to F1's logistics.
"The cars this year went from Europe to Bahrain for the test," he said, "then they flew direct from Bahrain to Australia, from Australia direct to Malaysia, then to Bahrain for racing and now they're on the way to China."
Steiner said update parts can then be flown by the team straight to the race locations.
"It doesn't make a difference if you come from America or Europe in that sense," he explained.
Haas does, however, acknowledge the critics, adding that the perception of likely failure will have been fuelled by the USF1 debacle of a few years ago.
"I'm sure most people are betting that we will fail," he admitted. "That's why it's going to be successful because if we don't fail, then we've done something that other people haven't."
And an ideal tool to help stave off failure would be a highly experienced F1 figure, like the former Mercedes and Ferrari chiefs, Norbert Haug and Stefano Domenicali respectively.
"I think now he (Haug) is basically doing DTM commentating, and Stefano I have no idea what he's going to do in the future or if he has figured out something," said Steiner.
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On Tuesday, Hannah Jane Hurdle-Toomey, one of the last living children of an African-American slave, will be watching intently on TV as an African-American family takes up residence in the White House, a national monument built by slaves.
"At last, the time has come," said the 76-year-old retired Oregon pastor whose father, Andrew Jackson Hurdle, was born into slavery in North Carolina in 1845. "This at least will give our young African-American children hope that they, too, can achieve. We had just about collectively given up."
Sometimes, history puts things right.
On the front lawn of the South Carolina state Capitol, hard by the Confederate flag waving in the breeze and next to the monument honoring Confederate soldiers, stands a forbidding statue of one of America's most notorious white supremacists.
"We have done our level best. We have scratched our heads to find out how we could eliminate the last one of them, and we would have done it if we could," declared Benjamin Tillman, a South Carolina governor and senator, speaking of black Americans on the floor of the U.S. Senate in 1900. "We stuffed ballot boxes. We shot them. We are not ashamed of it. We of the South have never recognized the right of the Negro to govern white men, and we never will."
On Tuesday, when the first black man in American history recites the presidential oath of office, Benjamin Tillman officially becomes moot.
For a nation sucker-punched by an economic crisis, a world rocked back on its heels by terrorism and a planet gasping for relief from a steadily warming climate, the inauguration of President Barack Hussein Obama offers a breathtaking moment of audacious hope.
Unemployed Americans with evaporated medical insurance are hoping Obama's promised health reforms come through before they get sick. Vulnerable Americans living along the nation's coasts are hoping Obama does something about climate change before the seas rise any higher. War-weary Americans with sons and daughters in the U.S. armed forces are hoping Obama can bring the precarious interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan to a secure conclusion. Black Americans still victimized by systemic racial inequalities are hoping that Obama will address the nation's unfinished business of equal opportunity.
And every American who is hoping to send a child to college, care for an elderly parent or simply retire without having to take a full-time job as a Wal-Mart greeter is praying that Obama can chart a way out of the nation's deepening financial crisis.
"I didn't vote for Obama," said a woman hurrying out of an unemployment office in downtown Columbia, "but if he can create some jobs down here, a lot of us will be willing to change our minds."
The nation's 44th president will scarcely resemble all the Establishment white men who came before him. In fact, even as the Obamas finally integrate 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. after more than 200 years, outgoing President George W. Bush and his wife, Laura, will be heading back to Texas to a newly-purchased home in an exclusive, 82-percent-white Dallas neighborhood where, until just a few years ago, home sellers routinely attached "racial covenants" to their property deeds to prevent blacks from buying in.
But President Obama, the son of a black father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas, will look very much like the new, multiracial, multicultural America he will begin to lead—a nation that, by the time Obama's two young daughters reach middle age, will no longer have a majority white population.
Yet not only Democrats or liberals or African-Americans will be rejoicing on Inauguration Day. Polls show that more than three-fourths of Americans—many of them Republican and conservative and white—are pulling for Obama in these perilous times, far more than the 53 percent of the electorate that voted for him.
"You'd have to be irrational not to want the new president to succeed," Newt Gingrich, one of the Republican Party's ideological standard-bearers, recently told The New York Times.
There is another national yearning out there as well, one as old as America's founding sin of slavery—the hope that, 146 years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation and nearly 46 years after Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke of his evocative dream, Obama's presidency might finally salve the wounds of America's enduring struggles over race.
Today, of course, all Americans have the right to vote, or live where they choose, or eat where they want.
The nation can look back at the grainy newsreels of little black girls being escorted by federal marshals into public schools; or the faded photographs of red-faced sheriffs unleashing vicious dogs on peaceful protesters; or the museum displays of "Whites Only" signs posted above water fountains and restrooms, and take comfort in the notion that such Old South anachronisms are locked away in America's shameful Jim Crow past.
What's more, liberated from the rigid categories of "black" or "white," 2 percent of Americans now identify themselves to census-takers as members of two or more races—like Obama, the progeny of interracial unions that not so long ago triggered arrests and even public lynchings.
"We're very excited about the potential for Barack Obama to ignite a very productive discussion about race and culture," said Louie Gong, president of the MAVIN Foundation, an interest group for people of mixed racial heritage. "For the first time, people who aren't multiracial and who have never been concerned with racial issues are really thinking about what it means to be mixed."
But all of that substantial progress only casts into sharper relief how much remains to be done in a nation where some experts say it will take another 500 years for African-Americans to bridge the income gap with whites, where Hispanic immigrants are vilified by TV pundits denouncing them as vectors for leprosy, where the party of Lincoln does not have a single African-American among its 219 senators and representatives in Washington and where many inner-city schools remain as racially segregated—and educationally deficient—as they were half a century ago.
"The reality is that, for African-Americans, we have lost all the progress we had made since the 1960s," said Gary Orfield, co-director of the Civil Rights Project at the University of California at Los Angeles and a leading expert on school desegregation. "For whites, it is a lost opportunity to prepare" for the nation's multiethnic future.
Contrary to the fondest hopes of liberal Americans—and the insistent declarations of conservatives—America is decidedly not yet "post-racial."
Race, particularly the historic divide between blacks and whites, is still the abiding subtext of many of our national conversations.
"On the day after Obama's election, I went to the post office, and the postman couldn't find anything to call me but 'girl,' " said Hurdle-Toomey, whose father, the former slave, died three years after she was born in 1932. "I went to the gym to work out, and a woman asked me if I would do her laundry. You would think there was a committee set up to remind me I am just one generation away from slavery."
Obama never campaigned to become the nation's first black president. He wants instead to be seen as the first president who happens to be black. And black political leaders are acutely sensitive to the distinction, mindful that a successful president must govern from the center and not be seen as beholden to any particular interest group.
"I don't think we are going to be walking up to him and saying 'Brother President,' " Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), a leader of the Congressional Black Caucus, told a forum at Williams College in November. "He's not the Black Caucus president. He is the president of America. He's the leader of all Americans."
Others, however, emphasize that they will be looking to the new president and his Justice Department to focus on issues of justice and equality.
"Although Obama's candidacy has fantastically and forever shattered the shackles in the American psyche that a black person can't make it in America, it says nothing—yet—about what blacks as a people can achieve," said Rev. Al Sharpton. "Until we have reached that tipping point where race does not negatively affect millions of people of color—as opposed to just one—there is still much more work for me and other civil rights leaders to do."
Lonnie Randolph Jr., the president of the South Carolina chapter of the NAACP, is similarly wary. He has been struggling for years to force state officials to repair scores of rural schools —attended mostly by impoverished black students — where the roofs leak, the bathrooms are filled with sewage and there is no working heat or air conditioning.
"The inauguration is not going to solve the problem in our schools," Randolph said. "Ceremonially it's a nice event. But one out of 44 presidents and we are supposed to be happy? This is just a very small step."


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On Father's Day I decided to go out to put some long miles in rural country. This adventure included one of my favorite spots to climb. Known as Alma Hill Road, in Alma NY, it happens to be the highest point in Western New York at 760m above sea level. At 4 miles and 1000 feet of climbing on dirty, grainy, rain washed road at an average of 5-6% gradient (steepest around 12%), it will quickly tell you whether you are in climbing shape, or if you aren't, readily provide a poorly done road before you to blame and vent your frustration onto.
This breezy, rainy day here in the enchanted mountains region saw me riding to Alma, Wellsville, and down south into darn rural Pennsylvania before I took the difficult highway 6 with 15mph headwind and rain to Port Allegany. From there, I rode up north to Eldred PA, switched left onto Duke Center, and climbed back into New York via one of the leg tinglers of this area, Oil Valley Road (546). From there it was all downhill to Olean, NY which is, kind of home at the moment for me.
Uff! All this trouble just to show you the kind of places I ride in! Check out the pics, all of them taken by me on the saddle while riding at good pace - an artform I call cyclophotography. Enjoy now and come ride with us sometime. This is a great place if you enjoy carefree cycling, among little but Mother Nature. Contact me if you have questions.
110 Miles
7 hours saddle time
Route 44 at Ceres into Pennsylvania
Brimmer Brook Road To Alma, NY
Breathtaking descent into Wellsville, NY
Road south to Eleven Mile, entering PA
Route 44 to Coneville, PA
Whitney Creek Road, a mellow climb with a connection to Route 6 via a fast descent on Fishing Creek Road
Route 6 to the beautiful borough of Port Allegany
Route 155 towards Eldred, PA
Oil Valley Road up to Knapp Creek, NY (while the glory days of petroleum in the north east are over, this region was, for several decades in the late 1800's, the most important oil-producing region in the world. Known since the1860's as the Oil Regions, western Pennsylvania (and the adjacent area in southwestern New York) has an oil history that predates European settlement. Read more here)
Final descent into Olean, NY. We're back in the Enchanted Mountains. Thank you for checking!
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This story was published July 8, 2013.
Lac-MÉGANTIC — As the wreckage in downtown Lac-Mégantic cools, investigators can begin the long process of trying to establish how a 72-car train carrying hundreds of thousands of litres of crude oil destroyed the centre of this small town.
At least five people were killed in the blast, a toll that is expected to rise in the coming days. More than 40 people are still unaccounted for 48 hours after the blast.
Transportation Safety Board investigators recovered two black boxes from the runaway train on Sunday and have started to examine some of the cars.
The black boxes record the train's throttle position, speed, brake pressure and other data that may hint at the cause of the fatal crash.
Investigators have so far only been able to access a small part of the devastated area because much of the blast zone is still too volatile. They will interview witnesses in the coming days, including the conductor who parked the train outside of the southeastern Quebec town before it barrelled into the city centre.
Teams from the Sûreté du Québec, Transportation Safety Board and provincial coroner's office are all waiting to gain access to parts of the blast zone.
"It's a very challenging site," said Don Ross, who is leading the nine-member TSB investigation team. "It's a huge accident with horrendous consequences. As soon as the fire department and the other experts will allow us to go in, we're ready to go and we'll be going in."
After two days of intense firefighting, parts of the area surrounding the centre of the explosion are knee-deep in water.
Firefighters have been working non-stop since early Saturday morning and by Sunday had managed to extinguish the oil-fueled blaze that razed several blocks of the city. The city's downtown core was almost completely destroyed by the blast. It housed a mix of commercial and residential units in historic buildings.
"The flames are extinguished. We've beaten the fire," said Lac-Mégantic fire chief Denis Lauzon. Most of Lac-Mégantic's firefighters are volunteers, Lauzon said, and they've been on the front lines since the train exploded early Saturday. They're part of a 150-person contingent that has been working non-stop to control the heap of smoldering oil tankers.
His team has been taking breaks only to eat and sleep but they've been relieved by firefighters from departments across Quebec and neighbouring Maine.
Firefighters were using high-pressure water to cool two train cars, which remained dangerously hot on Sunday night.
One of those volatile areas is the site of the collapsed Musi-Café, a popular bar where dozens of people are believed to have been gathered when the runaway train sped through town and exploded just after 1 a.m. on Saturday.
"There are more than 100 officers working on the scene and we're going to be here until we have everything worked out," Brunet said.
Detectives are visiting the families of the roughly 40 missing people. They have been accompanied by health workers tasked with helping people deal with the emotional trauma of the growing crisis.
"Right now we're looking for victims," said Sgt. Benoit Richard of the Sûreté du Québec. "We haven't been able to identify the five victims yet."
Brunet said police could not say if they had interviewed anyone from the Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway, which operated the train. The MMA issued a statement Sunday evening suggesting the explosion may have been caused by a brake failure that occurred after it was docked Saturday morning.
"Everybody that's linked from near or far in this case will be met by investigators," Brunet said.
The SQ said that it would be treating the explosion site as a potential crime scene — standard procedure for major disasters, according to Brunet.
"Every time Sûreté du Québec has to investigate, we need to rule out any foul play," he said.
"If there is any criminal intent or criminal act, we're going to look at it, but right now we cannot say that it is a criminal act," he said. "We can only say that we are looking at it as if it was."
The bodies recovered from the fire have been sent to Montreal for forensic analysis and identification, said Genevieve Guilbault, a spokesperson for the Quebec coroner's office.
"Given the intensity of the fire, we can deduce that many of the bodies are severely burned. That complicates identification, but all necessary means at our disposal will be used to identify them," she said.
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I'm trying to show that
$$\lim_{n \to \infty} \left[\sum_{k=1}^{n} \frac{1}{k} - \log n\right] = -\int_0^{\infty} e^{-t} \log t \,dt.$$
In other words, I'm trying to show that the above definitions of the Euler-Mascheroni constant $\gamma$ are equivalent.
In another post here (which I can't seem to find now) someone noted that
$$\int_0^{\infty} e^{-t} \log t \,dt = \left.\frac{d}{dx} \int_0^{\infty} t^x e^{-t} \,dt \right|_{x=0} = \Gamma'(1) = \psi(1),$$
where $\psi$ is the digamma function. This may be a good place to start on the right-hand side.
For the left-hand side I was tempted to represent the terms with integrals. It is not hard to show that
$$\sum_{k=1}^{n} \frac{1}{k} = \int_0^1 \frac{1-x^n}{1-x} \,dx,$$
but I'm not sure this gets us anywhere.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.


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Mickey Rooney is trying to make a comeback at the tender age of 90.
His lawyer, Michael Augustine, says the veteran actor has to revive his acting career soon, or he'll die, and "in very short order," CNN reports.
The actor of once "National Velvet" fame (opposite the late Elizabeth Taylor) now claims he has no money since his stepson has allegedly been leeching it away.
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Rooney filed a temporary restraining order on his stepson Christopher Alber after Alber kept food and medication away from the actor, the BBC reports.
Augustine said that Rooney was so poor that he often wears the same clothes, and has only one pair of shoes to his name. A large sum of money—about $400,000—had allegedly been taken from Rooney's bank account.
"He's available, he's marketable and we're going to get him working," said Augustine.
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Jeremy Jackson
Jeremy Jackson is a former child actor best known for his role as Hobie Buchanan, the son of David Hasselhoff's star character Mitch Buchanan on the successful syndicated TV show Baywatch. Jackson played Hobie Buchanan from 1991-1999. Fans of Baywatch saw Jackson grow from a youth into a young adult. Here is a picture of a young Jackson from the show:
Jackson was also a fairly successful pop singer during his reign on Baywatch. Jackson recorded an album and had two top 10 singles, toured across Europe, was invited into the World Music Hall of Fame, and was inducted into the Young Hollywood Hall of Fame in 1996. Here is one of his album covers:
The success of the Baywatch show eventually went to Jackson's head. He left Baywatch after the 1999 season because he felt that the show was beneath him and he viewed himself as entertainment superstar. Jackson also became heavily involved with drugs around this time, and remained so for several years. Jackson eventually became addicted to crystal methamphetamine and was arrested in 2005 for setting up an illegal methamphetamine lab in his home. Jackson was sentenced to six months in rehab for this transgression.
Another thing that Jackson is apparently addicted to is plastic surgery. Jackson is only 26 but has had so much plastic surgery that he looks like he's already in his late 30s. He had his nose filed down and now looks like a tranny as one can see in the pictures below:
He also sports a long mullet and appears to wear mascara and a lot of makeup in these pictures:
He put up a MySpace page in 2005 or 2006, which he claims he uses to meet women. He currently markets himself as "Mr. MySpace" and "the most notorious cyberstud on MySpace.com." Jackson has also said "MySpace is about the ass. There's an unlimited supply of ass. It's ridiculous!"
It's unclear as to why Jackson needs to use MySpace to meet women. Perhaps he is trying to overcompensate because everyone assumes he is gay based on all of his plastic surgery, mascara, and his wardrobe. It doesn't really matter anyway because Jeremy Jackson is one washed-up celebrity!


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Meg Cabot to Release Middle Grade, Adult 'Princess Diaries' Spinoffs (Exclusive)
Five years ago, Meg Cabot published the final volume in her beloved young adult series, "The Princess Diaries." In a note to fans on her website, Ms. Cabot said that after 16 books, she needed a break from writing about the awkward geek-turned-princess Mia Thermopolis.
"I know she needs a rest, and so do I," she wrote.
Everyone's rested up, apparently. Next summer, to mark the 15th anniversary of "The Princess Diaries," Ms. Cabot will release two new novels featuring Princess Mia, one aimed at middle grade readers and one for adults. In the adult novel, Mia is older and engaged to be married. Mia's wedding plans are interrupted by a scheming usurper who attempts to force Mia's father from the throne.


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Synchronicity has guided my life for some time now and I've come to learn that when something is seemingly dropped into your lap randomly, it's usually not random at all. A week ago, out of the blue, I received an email about a documentary called FEMME: Women Healing the World starring and produced by Sharon Stone with a link to a free preview of the film. I don't watch much TV in general unless I feel like I'll gain something positive from it but there was something about this piece that called to me. After watching the documentary, I was in awe of how beautifully the director represented the concept of the shift of rebalancing of feminine power happening in the world right now. I was intrigued, to say the least.
FEMME is an inspirational voyage of women around the world who are actively transforming and healing global society on a daily basis. It highlights the movement toward women regaining equilibrium and standing tall in their feminine essence once again, transforming the so-called man's world into one of equality of the feminine/masculine energies.
As a woman who has really stepped into my personal power and feminine energy over the past few years, I wholeheartedly believe a documentary like FEMME was long overdue but I was shocked to find that the creator behind this brilliant film is a man. I sat down with Emmanuel Itier at the Conscious Life Expo in Los Angeles during his film screening to get the low down on how and why a man got involved in such a project.
Emmanuel is no stranger to sharing powerful messages through film. He started at the tender age of 15 in France after having a vision and hearing a poem in his head during math class. He was moved to film the vision and the rest is history. Now at 46, he has 5 more documentary projects on the slate and is gearing up to hit the road again to start filming.
One of the messages in the film that stuck with me (being a woman and a mother) is the fact that in ancient times, many cultures revered woman as sacred because of their ability to birth new life. As a husband and father of three (two boys and one on the way), Emmanuel says he has the utmost respect and appreciation for woman, teaching his boys to do hold the same outlook. His views on woman aren't the societal norm but he aspires to change this through creating empowering and educating projects like FEMME: "The power of women is a given since they give life to every human being. Men have to recognize, we owe you our lives! Beyond this fact, I believe women are a strong equal partner to men, and are the necessary complementary balance men need."
When asked why he chose to create a feminist movie, he was very matter of fact: "I realized no man had ever done a feminist movie therefore I decided it should be done – et Voila! It sounds easy but obviously it was a huge endeavor on 5 continents, 20 countries and 500 interviews over 3 years…but it's in the doing that you become. It's by making that things exist."
The title of the film was originally going to be The Goddess but Emmanuel felt the film needed a broader reaching name, a more open name. He says, "The femme energy is in all of us. In the belly of the mother, we are both male and female for up to three months."
The cast of FEMME is a collection of 100 women from around the world ranging from Shamans to successful business women. The process finding all these women contributors started by making a list from the internet and those he knew but many came to him from referrals and leads from others. "It was a domino effect. I had to go with the flow. I had to become this very fluid, feminine humble servant. I realized, I'm not going to direct the movie, I'm going to let it direct me. There were many well known and not so well known women included in the film but in the end, it created a beautiful canvas of many voices, no one taking over anyone else." This follows the theme of one of his main messages from the film: Equality for all.
Emmanuel Itier makes no excuses for being a bit crazy and blunt but his messages are powerful and very much re-evolutionary in nature. My final question to him during our interview was to sum up the message he hopes to relay with FEMME. He says too many people talk about making changes but never do anything believing they can't make a change or they're waiting for someone else to do it. His message was simple, yet loud and clear. "Together, you and I, feminine and masculine, we are and we create life. Shut up, let's join forces, and get to work."
I thoroughly enjoyed my time chatting with the quirky yet grounded creator/director Emmanuel Itier and I have no doubt he'll continue to change the world one film at a time. Whether you're a man or a woman, I strongly encourage everyone to watch this re-evolutionary new documentary, FEMME: Women Healing the World. You won't be disappointed and I assure you, you'll walk away with a vastly different view of what femininity truly is and how desperately the world needs it now more than ever.
It comes as no surprise that Emmanuel won the Conscious Life Award for Best Documentary at the Conscious Life Expo in Los Angeles at the screening of FEMME. To follow his worldly journeys and see the other great projects he has in the works, Emmanuel can be reached through his company, Wonderland Entertainment Group. (photo credit: Rick Carter)
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90 days. Charentais melons aren't found in your grocery store - they're too fragile to ship. A true cantaloupe, the fruits have smooth skin with light green stripes, maturing to creamy yellow. The delightfully scented, creamy orange flesh is filled with unsurpassed flavor. One of the sweetest rewards of home gardening!
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Harvesting: Harvesting at the right time is very important with melons. Commercial growers harvest before melons are ripe, forcing them to ripen off the vine. Unfortunately, the last few days of ripening on the vine put a lot of sugars into the melon; bottom line is that melons taste significantly better when vine ripened. How do you know when melons are ripe? Several indicators. 1) The color of Charentais changes from pale green to creamy yellow. 2) The blossom end (opposite the stem) yields slightly to gentle pressure. 3) Unlike muskmelons, Charentais and other cantaloupes do not abscise, or slip from the vine when ripe; cut from vine, rather than pulling or twisting, to avoid damaging plant and fruit.
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It seems a little unfair to start an interview with Andy Falkous by bringing up his old band , but one of the main reasons The Future Of Left is such a hotly-tipped act for 2007 is due the fact that it sprung from such high pedigree. While Falco maintains that Mclusky was an "unfocussed affair", they left a sizable gap in the underground radar and a lot of rabid fans feeling more than a tad bereft. And while the Jon Chappel-led outfit Shooting At Unarmed Men rattled out of the gate in a timely fashion, fans have had to wait almost two years for some new music from Falco and Mclusky's stickman, Jack Egglestone.
This was down to injury - Egglestone suffered a breakage - and then finding the right person to complete the band. This dubious honour eventually fell to Kelson Louis Tregurtha Mathias (formerly of Jarcrew), who came in on bass. The trio toured fairly extensively in the latter half of 2006, showcasing an ever-growing set-list of jagged punk-rock songs, filled to brimming with witticisms and non-sequiturs courtesy of Falco. DiS caught up with him just before Christmas. In Cardiff. On his way to buy cat-litter at Tesco.
When last we spoke you were about to head into the studio to record your first double A-side.
Ah, no – that's now all been done. We've been in the studio twice, done two weekends, in which time we recorded all the other ten songs – five of which are mixed – and the double-A-side, which is 'Fingers Become Thumbs' and 'The Lord Hates A Coward' (listen to these on the FOTL MySpace). It's already been released digitally and it'll be made available as a seven-inch sometime towards the end of January (it's out on January 29 – read the review here). The second single and the third single have both been recorded as well. Since we're not in the habit of writing mediocre songs, we don't actually have any B-sides. The second single will be 'Small Bones, Small Bodies' and if it proves to be a big flag-waving, knees-up and down the country stylee Chumbawumba hit, I'm sure that'll be it, because it sounds just perfect. The third single will be 'A Dead Enemy Always Smells Good', which probably has less commercial appeal, but fuck it, it rocks.
So it sounds like you've basically recorded your debut album.
Well, all of the songs are at least pencilled in for the record. But I think the whole idea is that, you have these songs, and I think the mark of a good band is that you treat them like starting points. But if you develop them as you should, then new songs emerge like highly evolved siblings that kick the crap out of the first batch.
So this is songwriting along the lines of Darwin's Theory?
Yeah! Absolutely! That's the idea at least. I can see a clear development between the new stuff and an early song as I become familiar with it. There's a clear line of development between, for example, 'The Fiber Provider', and the song that became 'A Dead Enemy Always Smells Good'. It's weird to step back from your body of music that you've developed over time and look at it as an evolving thing. It's not like you think about it in those terms at the time. You don't say, "Oh, here's a riff here, and here's a time signature and a certain key. Let's see how we can exploit this!" We pick up our instruments and we play and then we wait for Kelson's top lip to start quivering in some bizarre Fonz-style rock guy manner and Jack starts grinning and that's when the rock starts happening. There's not too much analysing when we play – it's pretty much from the head and from the groin.
You shied away from saying "and from the heart"…
Yeah, well, heart comes into it later, you know? That's when you have to string some vowel sounds together and make some sense out of it. The words are usually the last things that come. As far as I'm concerned it's all about the rock and it's all about the tunes. I'm not going to stand there and let mediocre words dominate the proceedings – that's my own personal pride coming into play. There's no point in writing great lyrics for some farce of a song. I mean, I'm going have to sing that damn thing over and over again, and if it's some meaningless, ninth-rate, Razorlight-style twaddle, my cock'll shriek every time I open my mouth on stage!
Not a fan of Razorlight, then?
Well, I'm not a fan of anything, really, so don't worry about it.
How much of the debut album is down on tape and how much is still rattling around in your head?
I don't know about in my head – that's a strange, insidious constituency – but on tape it's basically it's about two-thirds there. Maybe a bit more. Five of the songs need re-mixing, perhaps because we're a bit bass heavy, and there isn't enough bass coming through yet. And by bass I mean bass-frequency, because believe me, there's plenty of bass guitar. So it's just a case of going back and tweaking it a bit with Rich (Jackson) who recorded it.
What's he like to work with?
He's a fantastic guy to work with, because he knows his stuff – he understands that a great big drum sound is essential to what we do – and he's full of ideas, but he understands his role in the whole thing. I don't want to make it sound as though we always know exactly what we're doing, but we've got a pretty good idea of what direction we're going in and what we want. Some people who call themselves producers have a picture in their head of what they think a band should sound like, and I pity the fool who tries to tell us how we should sound. Ask is one thing, but tell is another – that's another bloody story altogether. When it comes to the recording process, the last thing a band wants to come up against is someone else's ego. As much as it sounds like bullshit management-speak, everybody has to be going in the same direction.
It sounds like you've had problems with this in the past...
Not particularly, but I'm very conscious of it not happening like that. I mean, I'm very conscious about spelling it out to people like that. Working with Steve (Albini) a lot was great. Steve just basically gets on doing his job. The Albini sound – if I may be so crass – is all to do with the fact that he actually mics up the drums fucking properly unlike most the other cunts out there. The whole idea that he actually gives the band direction is frankly ludicrous. He's not shy to suggest something that he thinks is appropriate, but as he says time and time again: "it's your record". If you come up with an idea that he thinks is a bad idea, he'll still get on and get it done for you because that's his job. I mean that's not a rule – there are some bands out there that need their hands held through the recording process and who need someone directing them. We're just not one of those bands. But yeah – you know me – I'm angry about stuff that hasn't even happened to us yet.
Looking forward to your gig at the end of January?
If our gig on the 30th (at London's 100 Club) is anything like the last time we played in London (at the Luminaire) it'll be one of the best nights of my life. That probably wasn't the best we've played. We've only done four great gigs as a band. The best one we played in a clinical sense, so far, was probably the Zanzibar in Liverpool in front of about seven people. The thing is though – and this is a bit token-like for a band – if people actually dance and sing along it makes everybody in the room take the moment more seriously and it validates what's happening on stage. To see an audience dancing like that is heart-warming to say the least.
Aaaaaaaaah, bless...
(Laughs) Isn't that beautiful? Doesn't it make you sick?
The last time I spoke to you, you sounded fairly cynical about where FOTL was going as a band and what your prospects were – and you said the reaction people were having to your new music was quite shocking. Has the positive reaction at the gigs have put you in a better mood in general.
They have, but, well... er... The second you start going into cruise control, and start expecting everything to go fucking well, is the second it all goes wrong. It's an amazing thing. If you go on stage full of ideas and inspiration – which is how you should go on stage – and you expect nothing back. If you start from a position of the pessimism, and the crowd actually gives you something back, it can be a very magical gig. It's a sign of weakness for a band, from a creative point of view, to get on stage and expect that electricity to just happen for them. I mean bands should fucking play just as hard, if not harder, into a vacuum as they do to a receptive audience. We always had this thing in Mclusky, that we should always be trying to win people over – whether you actually are or not. I don't care if you're biggest fucking fan of my music there is, I'm still going to try and smash you over the head with it. I'm never just going to run through a set in such a way that'll mildly satisfy you. I think bands that do that are disgusting.
Has Mclusky's song catalogue – at least in a live sense – been retired completely?
Of course it has! I mean, if someone wants to give me half-a-million pounds to play them a bunch of Mclusky songs, I could do with the fucking money. But otherwise it doesn't make any fucking sense to play them. It would be disrespectful for a start with regards to Kelson, who apart from touring with Mclusky and liking a couple of our songs didn't have anything to do with that band. In a way it's a shame and I did have a bit of a melancholic moment with my girlfriend a couple of weeks ago. I was playing through a Mclusky song for the first time in ages and I realised: "I'm never going to play this song again". It was a very real sad moment in a way – I'd never had that kind of moment of clarity before. But then it went as quickly as it came. And the new shit's far more exciting to me than the old shit. The new girl always wears better shoes.
And she doesn't want to hear about the old girlfriend.
Yeah (laughs). Well, not too much anyway.
The Future Of The Left are playing the 100 Club on the 30th January – win tickets here. Attendees will be encouraged to record images and films of the performance with cameras/phones/general magic machines. Posters will be put up around the venue to let people know this is okay - and moreover so the security don't give them any hassle - and the footage, if submitted to the band, will be used in a video for another future single! What fun!