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THEESatifaction, Poor Moon and Retribution Gospel Choir all have new music out today, March 27th!
Today brings us the following brand-new releases: awE naturalE from THEESatisfaction, "Illusion" EP from Poor Moon and "the revolution" EP Retribution Gospel. Below you will find some exciting things that are going on for all 3 groups, for more information please visit our artist pages for each band!
Stream awE naturalE by THEESatisfaction
THEESatisfaction are Stasia Irons and Catherine Harris-White. Stas was born and raised in Tacoma, Cat in Seattle and Hawaii. The pair live/laugh/love/dance and create right here in Seattle. They write, produce and perform their own material, funk-psychedelic feminist sci-fi epics with the warmth and depth of Black Jazz and Sunday morning soul, frosted with icy raps that evoke equal parts Elaine Brown, Ursula Rucker and Q-Tip. They met by what was clearly cosmic happenstance at the University of Washington and haven't stopped the flow since. The group have a few upcoming shows including a hometown in-store, today, March 27th, at Easystreet Records in Seattle WA and at Nuemos on March 29. See below for a full list of dates.
What people are saying about THEESatisfaction:
"With their soulful take on contemporary R&B, Seattle-based THEESatisfaction proves that women rappers have strengths all their own." [Album Review] – BUST
"THEESatisfaction's Stas and Cat are conjoined, beat-made MCs, producers, partners, and lovers with nothing in this world or the next to hide. Their collective brain lobes contain hiphop acumen and insight. When their voices harmonize, it sounds like a human Moog synth rendition of keys Stevie himself would have played. Rangewise, Stas and Cat graze tonally into Ella Fitzgerald and Tina Turner. On the beat, rapped side of the equation, the Seattle duo spreads into Quasimoto's refined and raw oddness." [Feature]- The Stranger
"THEESatisfaction's Catherine Harris-White and Stasia Irons sing-rap with confidence over a breezy vocal loop. It's a soulful, bouncy, promising glimpse of what's to come." [Track Review]- The FADER
Tour Dates
Mar. 27 – Seattle, WA – Easy Street in-store (Queen Anne)
Mar. 29 – Seattle, WA – Neumos CD release
Apr. 04 – Nantes, FR – Stereolux
Apr. 05 – Amiens, FR – La Lune Des Pirates
Apr. 06 – Lille, FR – Aeronef
Apr. 10 – Lyon, FR – La Marquise
Apr. 11 – Angers, FR – Chabada
Apr. 12 – Tours, FR – Temps Machine
Apr. 13 – Poitiers, FR – Confort Moderne
Apr. 15 – Madird, SP – La Casa Encendid
Apr. 17 – Lisbon, PO – ZDB Gallery
Apr. 19 – Dublin, IR – Twisted Pepper
Apr. 20 – Bristol, UK – Start the Bus
Apr. 21 – Glasgow, UK – Arches
Apr. 23 – Brighton, UK – Hope
Apr. 24 – London, UK – White Heat
May. 26 – George, WA – Sasquatch! Festival
Stream "Illusion" EP From Poor Moon
Poor Moon is Christian Wargo (Fleet Foxes, Crystal Skulls) Casey Wescott (Fleet Foxes) and brothers Ian and Peter Murray (The Christmas Cards). The band, named for frontman and primary songwriter Christian Wargo's favorite Canned Heat song, began four years ago as a long distance project with demos being created and sent back and forth while Wargo and Wescott were touring in support of the Fleet Foxes 2008 self-titled debut and Ian and Peter living in the Bay area. Their first shows were at intimate Seattle house parties where they used playful throwaway monikers like Rabbit Kingdom and Cookie Mask. It wasn't until the band opened up for Daekon at Seattle's Neumos (under the name Peppermint Majesty) that things began to really take form. Recording began and the four longtime friends became a band and Sub Pop didn't hesitate to pursue them with unabashed enthusiasm. And it worked.
"Illusion" was recorded in a variety of bedrooms, practice spaces, the Murray residence, as well as AVAST! and Fastback studios in Seattle, Washington with the help of engineer Jared Hankins with guest performances by many a musician friend.
What people are saying about Poor Moon:
"…sun-bleached mix of folk-rock and pop is truly lovely, and the hazy vocal melodies come into sharp relief when the harmonizing kicks in."- Chicago Reader (Show Preview)
"…dreamy pop and echo-heavy acoustic shuffles."- Portland Mercury (Show Preview)
Tour Dates
Mar. 27 Seattle, WA – Tractor Tavern
Mar 28 Boise, ID – Neurolux
Mar 29 Salt Lake City , UT – State Room
Mar 30 Denver, CO – Hi-Dive
Mar 31 Omaha, NE – Slowdown
Apr 02 Minneapolis, MN – Cedar Cultural Centre
Apr 03 Chicago, IL – Schubas
Apr 04 Evanston, IL – SPACE (IL)
Apr 05 Columbus, OH – Wexner Center
Apr 06 Toronto, Canada – Drake Hotel
Apr 07 Montreal, QC – Il Motore
Apr 09 Burlington, VT – Burlington City Arts Center
Apr 10 Portland, ME – SPACE
Apr 11 New York City , NY – Le Poisson Rouge
Apr 13 Boston, MA – Museum of Fine Arts
Apr 14 Washington, DC – Black Cat
Apr 15 Philadelphia, PA – Johnny Brenda's
Apr 16 Cleveland, OH – Beachland Ballroom
May 28 Gorge, WA – Sasquatch! Festival
Jun 02Sonoma, CA – Gundlach-Bundschu Winery
Stream "the revolution EP" from Retribution Gospel Choir
"the revolution EP" is the first new music from Retribution Gospel Choir since the band's 2010 album 2. These four incredibly anthemic tracks were co-produced with Matt Beckley, and they show the band moving in an exciting, new direction, at speed.
The band will be hitting the road in the beginning of April playing a handful of UK shows, with 7 US dates to follow. See below for a full list of shows.
About 2
"For the past few years, Low leader Alan Sparhawk has fronted another band, Retribution Gospel Choir, whose psychedelic scrawl seems a more natural fit for the label that brought Soundgarden into the world. And now Retribution Gospel Choir have signed with Sub Pop, so everything is as it should be." – Pitchfork
"You'll get no wisecracks from us; the combination of shiny Top 40 production and Sparhawk's grungy, visceral guitars is intriguing to say the least." – The Onion (AV Club)
"Sparhawk generally seems re-energized, channeling Crazy Horse and crafting the sort of genuinely rousing chorus that Low never would've indulged." –Spin
Tour Dates:
Apr 04 Sheffield, United Kingdom – The Harley Hotel & Bar
Apr 05 London, United Kingdom – Old Blue Last
Apr 07 Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue
Apr 27 Brooklyn, NY – Union Pool
Apr 28 Washington , DC – Red Palace
Apr 30 Nashville, TN – Basement (TN)
May 01 Memphis, TN – Hi-Tone
May 02 Bloomington, IN – Bishop Bar (IN)
May 03 Chicago, IL – Schubas


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Australian opposition launches election campaign
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Opposition leader Tony Abbott, a strong favorite to become Australian prime minister in national elections next month, officially launched his conservative coalition's campaign Sunday with a speech that offered few clues to how his spending promises would be paid for.
The Liberal Party-led coalition's launch took place in the east coast city of Brisbane, the capital of Queensland state, a major battleground for the Sept. 7 elections.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd represents a Brisbane electorate and will officially launch his center-left Labor Party's bid for a third three-year term in power next weekend in the same city.
The election comes as economic conditions worsen in Australia, where tax revenues have retreated with the cooling of a mining boom that kept the resource-rich nation out of recession during the global economic crisis.
Abbott's coalition has consistently out-performed the ruling party in public opinion polls for more than two years, despite Abbott's low personal approval rating.
The 55-year-old former Roman Catholic seminarian and Rhodes scholar urged voters to trust his government to return the Australian budget to a surplus after five consecutive deficits delivered by Labor since the global economic crisis.
"The worst deficit is not the budget deficit, it's the trust deficit," Abbott said.
He reminded party faithful that Rudd had been elected prime minister in 2007, but was then dumped by his own government colleagues in a leadership showdown less than three years later. Rudd was restored to power in June in a similar internal showdown which prompted a third of cabinet ministers to resign.
"If the people who worked with Mr. Rudd don't trust him, why should you?" Abbott asked.
"My friends, you don't expect miracles: just a government that is competent and trustworthy and a prime minister who doesn't talk down to you," he said.
Abbott has promised to give priority to repealing taxes introduced last year on mining company profits and on Australia's worst industrial polluters for their emission of global-warming carbon gases.
But he said he will not cut additional welfare payments to most Australian families to compensate them for higher electricity prices under the so-called carbon tax.
Abbott promised to match Labor's pledges to increase funding for services to disabled people and for education.
Most controversially, Abbott has promised a generous new taxpayer-funded maternity leave scheme that would match working mothers' salaries for up six months and for up to 75,000 Australian dollars ($68,000).
Economists, business leaders and some of Abbott's own political allies have condemned the scheme as unaffordable.
Less than half the AU$5.5 billion a year the scheme is expected to cost would be paid for by a 1.5 percentage point tax increase to be paid by Australia's 3,000 biggest companies.
Mothers are currently entitled to the equivalent of the minimum wage — AU$622.10 a week — for 18 weeks for maternity leave.
Rudd argued that paying AU$75,000 to "millionaires or billionaires" was "unfair, unfunded and economically irresponsible."
It would lead to cutbacks in health and education spending as well as in the AU$37.4 billion high-speed fiber-optic national broadband network which is being rolled out across Australia. The opposition has promised a cheaper, slower alternative.
"I still cannot believe that on the question of priorities for Australia's future, Mr. Abbott has judged that a AU$22 billion paid parental leave scheme is his core priority," Rudd told reporters, referring to the cost of the scheme over four years.
Abbott, who has struggled to win over women voters, was supported by two of his daughters, Frances, 21 and Bridget, 20, who spoke of his positive influence as a father.
According to leaked diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks in 2009, former U.S. ambassador Robert McCallum reported to Washington that Abbott was a "polarizing right-winger'" with a "propensity for insensitivity and controversy."
Rudd's predecessor Julia Gillard, Australia's first woman prime minister, was applauded by feminists around world for a speech she gave to parliament a year ago in which she branded Abbott a misogynist for a string of allegedly sexist comments.
Sunday's launch contained relatively modest new funding promises: AU$200 million for dementia research, an extension of drug subsidies for the elderly and new interest-free AU$20,000 loans for trade apprentices similar to those available to university students.
A poll by market researcher Nielsen published in Fairfax Media newspapers on Saturday found the coalition was leading Labor 53 percent to 47 percent.
It was based on a random national telephone survey of 2,545 voters over four days last week. It had a 3 percentage point margin of error.

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After falling behind in the first half of the first seven games this season, the Lions jumped out to a quick lead last week against the Jaguars, raising hopes in Detroit that maybe the Lions would finally prove to be a team capable of playing well for 60 minutes.
Yeah, not quite.
Instead, the Lions got off to their usual sloppy start, with penalties, turnovers and blown coverages allowing the Vikings to get out to a quick 10-0 lead.
On Minnesota's first possession, the Lions' defense allowed Jarius Wright to get wide open for a 54-yard gain, then allowed him to get open in the end zone for a three-yard touchdown. The Lions then responded on offense with Matthew Stafford throwing an off-balance, sidearm interception to set Minnesota up in field goal range for a 10-0 lead.
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Prior to joining the Blue Devils, Ziogas was the head coach of the Bristol Seicheprey American Legion Post No. 2 team for nine seasons (1994-2002). He guided the team to a state championship in his first season, turning a team that went 15-15 before his arrival into a 46-11 team and zone and state champions. In his nine seasons, the team compiled a record of 307-91 and advanced to the final four of the 1997 Legion World Series after winning the state championship and winning six zone titles.
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Posted: Feb 19, 2008 12:28 am
Post subject: Geoventure 2008 - September 5-7
The MBGA is hosting this summers BIG EVENT
Geoventure 2008
in beautiful Birds Hill Park.
Last years event was lots of fun, and mtolympus has prepared a brand new adventure cache challenge for 2008!
This years event will once again be a weekend campout and hopefully have something for everybody.
* A well treed group use site with modern, heated washrooms and a cook shelter for our exclusive use
* Friday night caching
for brave souls
* Saturdays adventure cache challenge
* Family friendly group caching
* A Saturday BBQ and Bonfire
* Saturday morning pancake breakfast
* The many features Birds Hill Park has to offer (hiking, biking, rollerblading, horse back riding and the beach)
Cachers are welcome to camp, or just come out for the day.
this link
to see pictures and logs from last years event.
The planning is still ongoing, and we welcome any suggestions. One thing that will change for sure is the adventure cache challenge wont start so early in the morning!
Geoventure 2008 will be held the weekend of September 5-7 in Birds Hill Park.
Birds Hill Park
is a jewel located close to Winnipeg, and out-of-town Geocachers are invited to come join in for the weekend. Campers and trailers can set up at the group site, or trailers requiring full service hookup can reserve a site at the nearby Birds Hill Park provincial campground.
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Put this date on your calendar!
Geoventure 2008 will be held the weekend of September 6-7 in Birds Hill Park.
Camping is available Friday and Saturday nights. The cache challenge
will run Saturday afternoon followed by a supper and bonfire.
will start a little later this year to give people more time to arrive. One idea being discussed is to start the day with a pancake breakfast.
If you have any other suggestions about the event, please feel free to post them here.
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If wanting to camp for this glorious event, what is the cost, and also are any supples need...like wood for bonfire and so on. And is there a powers supply at this site to charge GPS units?
I fell like a little kid, so many questions and is it time to go yet???
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If youre camping, the cost will be about $14/night. Thats what Birds Hill Park is charging for group use campers.
This years event will be held in the same Group Use site as last years event and you can see some pictures of the site and read some information about it here:
GeoVenture 2007
Its a group use area with a cook shelter that has running water. Therere a couple of outlets at the cook shelter, but they may be in use so you may want to plan to bring some extra batteries along. Campers can set up anywhere around the grassy area of the group site. You should plan to bring whatever you normally bring to sustain you camping. There will be a group potluck supper and possibly pancake breakfast on the Saturday. Youre on your own for any other meals. As we get closer to the event more details will be available. There will likely be firewood provided for the common fire pit. There are heated modern washrooms within walking distance of the site, and nice heated showers a short drive (or bike ride) away at the main Birds Hill Park campground.
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Hey there everybody, this is mtolympus, the creator of "Capital Punishment," the cache for GeoVenture 2007, and also the soon-to-be-experienced "Selenitic" for GeoVenture 2008. My wife and I have had a lot of fun exploring the backwoods of BHP to create this cache, and are excited to see people race it. It's turning out to be quite a friendly cache, so don't expect too much bush-whacking or bog-walking, though I'd like to get some in there if I can. This year we'll do our best to make it a cache that translates over onto geocaching.com, and hopefully get it live shortly after the caching adventure race. Expect a good couple hours, and that's if you're a good guesser...
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Anyone heading out to BHP for the Geoventure 2008 and needs a Manitoba Provincial Park Pass (annual), one was just dropped in Eric The Ent cache. This will be a kinda FTF for the taker.
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GeoVentures coming up soon! Check the
updated listing
for pictures of the site and facilities. Waypoints for parking, equipment drop-off and washrooms as well as a bookmark list of the 31 Birds Hill Park caches have been added.
If youre planning on coming to the MBGA sponsored potluck BBQ, have a look at the cache listing to see what others are bringing. Please post your
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Mike Pelfrey was better in his last start, but he's still not there. At one time he was 9-1, now he's 10-5. He needs to get back to his earlier form starting tonight against Arizona if the Mets are to break out of their downward spiral that has been the month of July.
Without a sound Pelfrey the Mets have no chance of making a second-half run at the NL East, which is slowly fading away, and made even more unlikely with the Phillies' acquisition of Roy Oswalt.
Pelfrey is 0-3 with an 11.40 ERA in his last four starts. Included in that span was giving up four first-inning runs in his last start against the Diamondbacks.
The first inning has been a recent trap for Pelfrey.
"(In eight of my) last nine starts, I've given up a run in the first inning and I need to find a way of stopping that,'' Pelfrey said. "Whether it's throwing more pitches in the 'pen, I don't know.''
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Monaco's Miani Wins Melges 20 2014 Audi-Tron Sailing Series In Riva Del Garda
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Riva Del Garda, Italy - The Audi Melges 20 fleet racing the 2014 Audi-Tron Sailing Series in Riva Del Garda completed three more races on Sunday, congratulating Monaco's Guido Miani aboard Out of Reach with tactician Gabriele Benussi and crew Massimo Gheraducci as champions. Miani headed into Sunday's competition in second overall, yet delivered a winning performance worthy of the top trophy.
Achille Onorato's Mascalzone Latino Jr. claimed second and Roberto Martinez aboard his Audi g-Tron Fratelli Giacomel Melges 20 finished out the podium positions in third.
With three more races added to the overall scoreboard, a single discard went into play throwing out each team's worst score.
Miani's twentieth place finish in the Race Four was his discard, and with bullets in Races Five and Six, he proved to be the top team in Riva this weekend. Pasquale Orofino's Raffica celebrated with a win in Race Four, ultimately helping him move up a spot to finish fifth overall, just behind American Russ Lucas on Shimmer in fourth.
The heat gets a little bit hotter as the mighty international Audi Melges 20 fleet anticipates the World Championship coming up in late August.
Early Riva leader Dario Levi on Fremito D'Arja had a difficult day falling from grace to finish ninth overall, however remains high atop the 2014 Audi-Tron Sailing Series after four events. Miani is seated second overall, Orofino is third, Onorato is fourth and Giancarlo Capolino on Legionario is fifth.
Next up are three marquee class events — the U.S. National Championship in Newport, RI on August 21-23, the World Championship in Riva del Garda on 25-30 and the North Americans shortly thereafter in San Francisco, CA on October 3-5.
TOP TEN RESULTS (FINAL - After Five Races)
1.) Guido Miani/Gabriele Benussi, Out of Reach; 1-9-6-[20]-1-1 = 18
2.) Achille Onorato/Malcolm Page, Mascalzone Latino Jr.; 2-3-12-[13]-4-2 = 23
3.) Roberto Martinez/Enrico Fonda, Audi g-Tron Fratelli Giacomel; 12-[28]-4-12-2-4 = 34
4.) Russ Lucas/Harry Melges, III, Shimmer; 16-6-3-4-10-[23] = 39
5.) Pasquale Orofino/Branko Brcin, Raffica; 5-[18]-13-1-15-8 = 42
6.) Alessandro Rombelli/Danielle Cassinari, STIG; [28]-2-7-25-3-7 = 44
7.) Alexey Bunzya/Konstantin Besputin, Synergy; 20-4-[21]-3-16-5 = 48
8.) Francesco Farnetti/Michele Ivaldi, ITA-157; 4-17-9-[31]-7-16 = 53
9.) Dario Levi/Nicolo Bianchi, Fremito D'Arja; 3-1-1-22-[30]-28 = 55
10.) Manfredi Vianini Tolomei/Lorenzo Bodini, Maolca; 8-[20]-10-7-20-15 = 60
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|View Poll Results: Vote for your favourite Lucky☆Star character(s)
|Izumi Konata
|Hiiragi Kagami
|Hiiragi Tsukasa
|Takara Miyuki
|Shiraishi Minoru
|Kogami Akira
|Narumi Yui
|Izumi Soujiro
|Izumi Kanata
|Kuroi Nanako
|Kobayakawa Yutaka
|Iwasaki Minami
|Kusakabe Misao
|Minegishi Ayano
|Patricia Martin
|Tamura Hiyori
|Hiiragi Inori
|Hiiragi Matsuri
|Takara Yukari
|Anime Tenchou
|Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 610. You may not vote on this poll
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|2007-09-15, 07:13
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Lucky☆Star - Favourite Character(s) Poll
Welcome to the long awaited Lucky☆Star - Favourite Character(s) Poll , the place when you can adorn you favourite characters and support them expressing all of your love!
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|2007-09-17, 13:58
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Australia
Age: 33
Woo! First one to post and vote.
So, my selections were Konata, Kagami, Minami, Misao and Hiyori.
1.) Misao - Her voice and character for the absolute win, naaaa~. Her seiyuu could read the phonebook and I'd be in stitches.
2.) Hiyori - An episode of Lucky Star just isn't complete without a Hiyori yuri-flavoured fantasy
3.) Minami - I don't really know why I like Minami's character and it frustrates me that I can't pinned it down, but there you go.
4.) Kagami - She's so full of wonderful bitey snark that I just love so dearly. She's the ideal straight-man to Konata
5.) Konata - Aya Hirano really deserves props for the way she's developed Konata. She's so outlandish and random that it's a joy just to watch her on screen, especially when paired with Kagami.
Kuroi sensei gets an honourable mention for her sniff.
|2007-09-17, 14:24
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Australia
Age: 33
1. Konata: She's a tiny, lazy, flat-chested otaku with a love of dating sims and an often disturbing view of life. And she's voiced by the brilliant Aya Hirano. She's also Kagami's foil. What's not to love?
2. Kagami: The endearing tsundere who has a great grasp of 'snark' and a penchant to over-eat then fret. The 'normal' one who bounces off Konata to make a great comedy team.
3. Minami: There's something strangely compelling at watching Minami on screen, and I think a little bit of it has to do with her social awkwardness. It wouldn't be a Lucky*Star episode without Minami either: Blushing profusely and hiding into her hair, or lamenting her lack of curves.
4. Misao: AKA Konata mark II. As soon as Misao first opened her mouth, I haven't been able to stop laughing. Her seiyuu deserves major props for making such a minor character one of my favourites in this brilliant show. Misao's voice FTW.
5. Hiyori: Yuri-vision. Need I say more?
Kuroi didn't quite make the cut because I only love her for her sniffles, and the occasional 'pound Konata on the head'.
|2007-09-17, 14:25
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Houston, TX
I stopped at eight, but looking over the list, I realize I could have chosen most of the others and felt almost the same conviction about my selections. I'll edit in my rationale behind each choice later; thanks to Saimoe, I've had some practice articulating the reasons that certain characters resonate with me.
Just to record my votes for now, in the order in which they appear in the poll: Konata, Kagami, Miyuki, Soujirou, Kanata, Nanako, Misao, Matsuri.
Misao is bound to do extraordinarily well in this poll for a side character--it helps that she probably has the highest adorability-to-lines-uttered ratio in the series. I'm sure she'll get a deservedly large share of votes based upon Mizuhara Kaoru's performance.
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|2007-09-17, 16:04
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Join Date: Apr 2007
1) Kona-chan ... if there were (more) girls like her on this lonely planet, this world would be a better place imho...
2) Kuroi-sensei, I can really sympathize with her, she's close to a female version of myself with some minor differences (- mmorpg, + manga). I also love her fake Kansai-ben
3) Akira-sama ... I composed a poem dedicated to her. What more can I say?
4) Tsukasa... gentle, shy, embarrassed, confused, sleepy, ....
5) Patty... she's a gaijin otaku, just like me. She's visiting Holy Places in Japan and searching for true "Japanism" (as Sodom would say..). I show support and respect!
6) Minoru ... because without him, LC wouldn't have been the same! Lots of funny EDs too. Thanks Minoru-san ^^
|2007-09-17, 17:04
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Join Date: Sep 2007
The 5 I'm voting for, in order of preference.
1. Kagami-sama - Before I knew Tohsaka, Sawachika, Chidori, and a certain Flame Haze, there was Kagami. Pretty much always going to be my #1 Tsundere (despite Shiraishi's protests)
2. Misao - The fang, the voice, the brilliant mind. Towards the end I would judge episodes almost solely on whether or not they had enough Misao. Probably my #1 favority of LS, but just doesn't quite have the same sentimental value as Kagami.
3. Nanako - Another fang, another winner. Plus the Leftovers, internets letdowns, and pride over her Kansai dialect. My super-prediction for the final episode was hooking it up with Kona-Dad, but I guess somethings would just be too perfect.
4. Konata - If she wasn't so damn entertaining, I probably would've dropped the series long ago. Kagami just wouldn't be the same without her.
5. HiyUri- Name says it all. Her dramatic falls and lack of memory seal it.
Honorable Mentions
Ayano - Always around when Misao is, so how could I not love her? Didn't quite get to speak enough, but the hair-down picture is enough for me. If only we got to see her dark-side that was hinted at.
Kona-Dad - I don't know how a shameless Lolicon like him couldn't make my list, but the top 5 were just too good. Still, asking your daughter for help with ero-games, showering your loli-ism to your daughter, niece, and their friends, yet still being the master of Love in Ep. 22 makes him my #1 Dad over Haruhi's from Ouran (Real one, very tough choice with Tamaki though)
Mi-Mi-Miracle Mino-run-run - made Lucky Channel bearable. Most of his ED's were pretty good too.
Hell, I liked pretty much everyone... except Miy-useless-ki and Akira. The only 2 Miyuki scenes i enjoyed were the eyedrops one, and winning the race with her chest. But neither would've been the same without Konata obsessing over her figure.
My Dream Miyuki Ending:
Mystery Dentist : Hmm, I see a potential cavity forming. Lets fix that up.
Miyuki: Ohhhh don't worry about it, i'll just brush more.
Mystery Dentist : (takes off goggles) WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK I AM? GIIIIIIIGAAAA DRIILLLLLLLL BREAAAKKEERRRR!!!!!
Miyuki: I have been drilled out of space-time and no longer exist.
|2007-09-17, 17:36
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Isn't this poll missing quite a few key charas like Gottouza-sama?!
I voted for everyone except for Miyuki, Ayano, Older Hiiragis, and Animate Tenchou. I voted for Miyuki's mom based on her moe-death pose in 23... Man that woman's damn cute. Of course, as always, Kagamin is #1.
|2007-09-17, 17:43
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: UC San Diego
Age: 28
Well... I would have voted all of them, but... I think I better not. I voted for my top 4 favorite characters: Konata, Kagami, Nanako, and Anime Tenchou. Each of them is just too unique. Konata is classic Otaku, Kagami the classic tsundere, Nanako the lovable teacher, and Anime Tenchou the overeacting...shop owner? Still much love to other characters, just not as much
|2007-09-17, 17:47
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Last Engage
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Florida
Two of my votes come in pairs:
Konata and Kagami, the greatest comedy duo of the year.
Akira and Minoru - yes, even Akira. For as much as we love Shirashi being bashed to the point of explosion, someone had to be the one to light the bomb.
I also voted for Misao - something about her voice and mannerisms are just amusing to me. I also voted Patty, for being a voice for people like us (and playing a great Mikuru). Hiyori for her creative endeavors, and Meito, the Anime store owner. His actions would make Kamina proud.
Of course, the whole cast made the show great, but these people really stood out.
|2007-09-17, 18:06
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Monterrey N.L. Mexico
My love for Miyuki remains as strong as ever. plus, I can now vote for my other favorite character Akira.
I also feel the need to give credit were credit is due, and that means Tsukasa also gets a vote.
Nanako and Hiyori are cool as well.
|2007-09-17, 18:14
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: New York, NY
I would have liked to vote for everyone since the supporting cast of this show was so amazing. However, I will limit myself and voice my super duper favorites.
Kona- initially my favorite character from the show, her open-otaku and gaming nature really resonated with me, and I was a bit jealous as to how she could be like that. I've often been pretty shy with my hobbies.
Kagami- a character that grew on me and brought me over to the tsundere dark side, her sensuality, sensitivity, and all those tsundere qualities made her very appealing. About halfway through the show she overtook Konata for my top character.
Akira- Her switching back and forth between happy idol and pissed off woman were great, she managed to create a very comical rapport with Minoru that made the last couple of minutes of the show very unique.
Minami- What can I say, I like the quiet type, and I enjoyed watching her character grow and overcome a lot of her shyness and insecurities to be close with her friends.
Misao- Overwhelming cuteness, and the ability to say exactly what's on her mind make her very endearing.
Patricia- The way gaijin should be portrayed in anime, she trumped the stereotypes in character and in speech. Takes top spot for me in supporting characters.
Hiyori- Her dedication to her craft and urge to see her friends in uh, new and interesting ways, were a source of fun throughout.
|2007-09-17, 22:26
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Top 3, despite voting for about 7 characters.
1. Tsukasa - She will always be the cutest moeblob on the show. I also have her character songs on repeat once in awhile. Scary, isn't it?
2. Misao - WHAT A HUGE SHAME for her to be introduced so late in the series and have little spotlight. The hyper voice, the fang, the absurdity of her personality! Argh!
3. I'd like to say Konata or Patricia here, but number three goes to... Soujirou Izumi: Awesome-kun wins at life.
|2007-09-17, 22:45
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Canada
My all time favorite has to be Patricia.
Our favorite blonde transfer student always makes me smile with her outlandish remarks. Part of me always asks myself, "Would I have said the same thing in her shoes?" whenever she makes a rather otakuish remark.
Second goes to Miyuki. I actually enjoy the way she explains things to her friends whenever they ask, it reminds me of myself as I always seemed to be able to give rather coherent responses to whatever random question du jour that some of my friends would ask.
Third goes to Minami! It's hilarious how far she seems to be from Nagato level whenever she acts or speaks, but even though I know that she isn't quite like your average tall quiet mystery girl in anime, I can't help but be surprised and amused every time she does something super cute or Konata harrasses her.
|2007-09-17, 22:57
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Drill Drill Drill
Join Date: May 2006
Konata - Without her, I can't imagine how Lucky Star can be this funny!
Kagami Sama - She is like a joke partner for Konata, always comes out with funny expression disagreeing with Konata
Tsukasa - Balsemic Vinegar~
Shiraishi - Lol @ Everytime he does something in the real show (eg. laughing his a** off on the bus trip )
Misao - Awesome voice , funny as hell , I think she is the 2nd most funny character in LS behind Konata
Patricia Martin - Again, awesome voice and love the way she pronounce things. "I don't understand your difficult japanese" Hahaha
Tamura Hiyorin - Another member of the otaku group
Anime - Tenchou - Well, I think I voted because of VA of Sousuke but nonetheless, he is funny but not enough screen time
and Kanata - really pretty and I just loved her, loli mother
|2007-09-17, 23:09
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You are salt?
Kagami- her anger cuteness got to me so fast.
Miyuki- She was my favorite from the first ep ^_^
Kanata- Her motherly-ness + loli= godly
Kuroi-sensei- A gaming teacher! thats rare lol
Yutaka- little sister cute~
Minami- Shy cute
Misao- her voice really stood out to me
Ayano- wish she got more lines lol, sidekick/other buddy cute
Patty- her voice was also unique and short hair works for her!
Hiyori- Her drawings and fantasys were super cute!
Inori- hot...lol
yukari- another mom with godly cuteness
Anime tenchou- he cracked me up EVERYTIME he was shown lol
My all time favorite is still Miyuki <3
|2007-09-17, 23:55
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Taking in Life's hits
Join Date: Jul 2007
Whenever I see a multiple-selection character poll like this one, I get the urge to select everyone just because I can. But if I did that, there wouldn't be a point in having a poll. I think I'll hold off on voting to rewatch the whole season and let it all sink in before I make my choice.
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HappyTimeMan No. Snews always has the goods but he's given us clues in his posts. His last post was the longest I've ever seen him write. edited to add his postQuote:--------------------------------------------------------------------------------It's funny how when somebody will be voted off in the near future, they're sometimes edited to look safe. Other times, they edit in the reasons why and it looked obvious the whole time.I think MB's trade secret is that he flips a coin to decide whether the editing will be obvious or surprising. Then because it's completely random, you can never guess what's going to happen based on editing patterns that might otherwise be picked up by the neural networks in your brain after 10 seasons.If they could only keep the results secret we would all be wondering tho perhaps not caring.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------I'n guessing that the obvious would apply this week and Jeff goes.
Snewser -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mer - si.Blame the long post on a tall glass of cabsav.
callmecrazee Re: hi-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To set the record straight, I've never ever made any F2 predictions. If you'll check, I've never made any end game predictions, other than to agree with mersaydeez that Ulong gets stomped.
Snewser-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- One of my problems is that I can't keep track of what people are actually claiming. Is Merseydeez saying that Jeff definitely goes this week? Who is saying Jeff definitely goes? Anyone?When Jeff "quits", does that mean he leaves the game? He spirit is resigned? Or he basically collapses in a challenge?
biancaxxx Re: hi-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- well everyone should probably talk for themselves...and i dont mean to hijack cmc and mer's spoiler, but i checked it with my source and i was told he quits the challenge, first ulong to unhook his pack etc. i wasn't told if he was booted or not though. i'd just assume he is *shrugs
MersaydeezRegistered User Re: Hungry like the wolf-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Snews,To answer your question... I never said Jeff was going for sure this episode. I don't know if he does or not. My information was that he got hurt and quit and that it ended up really hurting Ulong. No specifics on which episode it happened.
Mersaydeez Re: Just some spoilers...-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Quote:--------------------------------------------------------------------------------No, she said who few pages back: You wann know the quitter? Then she specifically says: Jeff--------------------------------------------------------------------------------True, but if he was to only quit a challenge - he would still be a quitter. Either way, the way it was told to me, it sounds like he quits the game... but we won't know this for sure until the show airs. I have nothing else to add to it as of now, so I'm done discussing it.
Jericoholic43 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Quote:--------------------------------------------------------------------------------but if he was to only quit a challenge - he would still be a quitter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Didnt you specifically say he quits the show. I may have misunderstood you but It seems your changing your info again
Mersaydeez--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Oh please, I'm not changing my information again, I was pretty much stating the obvious with that quote. I believe he quits the show, that is what I got from what I was told. He could quit the challenge and still be a quitter. He could also quit the challenge and quit the game. It's not impossible.
callmecrazeeRegistered User(3/1/05 4:04 pm) Re: Re:-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Quote:-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: Mersaydeez and CallmecrazeeDo either of you have a "boot" spoiler for this episode?(enough with the quitting already). --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Nope. But when Jeff bags it because he's hurt, (and gives his rice bag to a woman maybe - which is maybe why Ulong gets hurt in the deal), maybe the team decides he's useless hurt or not and votes his sorry ass out. If I'm wrong, I'll be absolutely 100% clearly wrong - no hedging my bets saying it could mean both things. Quitting the challenge means quitting the challenge. Quitting the game means quitting the game. One does not sort of maybe could be is almost like is just the same as the other.*cough* mersaydeez *cough* If Jeff quits *the game*, I will earn the flames and take my lumps.
Cuauhtemoc CosbyRegistered User(3/1/05 4:05 pm)Reply ezSupporter Re: Re:-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Quote:--------------------------------------------------------------------------------That's right.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Well, then, you're a ****ing idiot. And Snewser, do you not know the boot for the episode? Is that why you're asking? Edited by: Cuauhtemoc Cosby at: 3/1/05 4:08 pm The Lonely Knight Registered User(3/1/05 4:15 pm)Reply ezSupporter Re: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Quote:--------------------------------------------------------------------------------The only one I believe is Snewser.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------I believe Snewser too, but he hasn't posted any spoilers so there's nothing to believe or disbelieve."Everyone is wrong in the end" probably means that all of the spoilers get at least one thing wrong. Hell, ChillOne got some stuff wrong too. That doesn't mean you throw the baby out with the bathwater. Edited by: The Lonely Knight at: 3/1/05 4:20 pm BrocktonRox23Registered User(3/1/05 4:17 pm)Reply ezSupporter Re: Re:-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Quote:--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Well, then, you're a ****ing idiot.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Thanks! So does that mean everyone who doesn't agree with you is a ****ing idiot or is it personal?Quote:--------------------------------------------------------------------------------If I'm wrong, I'll be absolutely 100% clearly wrong - no hedging my bets saying it could mean both things. Quitting the challenge means quitting the challenge. Quitting the game means quitting the game.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Exactly my point. Cuauhtemoc CosbyRegistered User(3/1/05 4:19 pm)Reply ezSupporter Re: Re:-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Quote:--------------------------------------------------------------------------------So does that mean everyone who doesn't agree with you is a @ucking idiot or is it personal?--------------------------------------------------------------------------------It has nothing to do with my personal feelings. Almost no spoilers are 100% accurate down to the very last thing. Why pick on Mersaydeez? Everyone is so impatient. Instead of just waiting it out (which is all there is to do), they nitpick and nitpick about insiginificant details, when it's not like that alone would close the thread.
SnewserRegistered User(3/1/05 4:21 pm)Reply Re: Re:-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cosby, answer to your first question is No. I always get confused with double negatives, tho. Like...Do you not know?NoNo, you don't know or no, you don't not know?RightHuh?Answer to the second question, because I have a short attention span, I wanted the cliff notes to the discussion straight from the source. When I queried people who read this entire thread, I got different answers about what it all boiled down to, depending on who I asked.
MersaydeezRegistered User(3/1/05 4:23 pm)Reply ezSupporter Re: Re:-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I said, he could quit the game and he could quit the challenge. Meaning two things. Not either thing. From what I heard, it sounds like he quits the game. End of story. Would I bet my life on it? No! Because I wasn't there. This is the information I got, and I trust what I was told. I posted it here for everyone, and things are looking to be correct. If that doesn't make it a source spoiler, then I guess this is in the wrong place.
BrocktonRox23Registered User(3/1/05 4:27 pm)Reply ezSupporter Re: Re:-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Quote:--------------------------------------------------------------------------------I said, he could quit the game and he could quit the challenge.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Well, saying it that way means you're right no matter what happens so how is that a spoiler? MersaydeezRegistered User(3/1/05 4:29 pm)Reply ezSupporter Re: Re:-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I love how you edit that to make it seem like an entirely different thing. My spoiler is that Jeff gets hurt and quits, which I posted almost a couple days before episode 2. 1 is looking good, now lets see what happens with the other
SnewserRegistered User(3/1/05 4:35 pm)Reply Re: Re:-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Relax, guys. This discussion is good.So, I think we're coming to a consensus on the correct interpretation of the Mersaydeez spoiler. That is, Jeff quits the challenge, and he also quits the game (i.e. leaves without being formally voted out).
MersaydeezRegistered User(3/1/05 4:40 pm)Reply ezSupporter Re: Just some spoilers...-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brock - point taken. It's up to you what you want to beileve. I feel like a broken record, but the information I got was that he got hurt and quit accompanied with words like... "who could of predicted that" "that really ended up hurting ulong". From that, I believed it to be a game quit. And that is what I posted. CMC, who has had credible spoilers came on here with some other information, that he only quits the challenge. What I was saying is that he could of quit both. That is all. end of discussion, I don't see the point of clarifying myself anymore in this thread.
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Scientists with different areas of expertise set off to explore the surroundings with school kids and members of the public. From spiders to sparrows, foxes to fungi and bats to buttercups, the team has it covered!
What a perfect opportunity to learn more about nature on our doorstep. This year we were at Arnos Vale Cemetery in Bristol, and the weather was spectacular! From 9am on Friday 25th to 3pm on Saturday 26th May, the experts were seeking out species from across the site.
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Recording everything that's going on, from the best moments of the event to the latest species tally, was the Wildscreen Media Team. You can catch up with all of the action on the Bristol BioBlitz Blog, watch one minute interviews with some of the naturalists and have a look at the highlights of the event captured in the BioBlitz Bristol Flickr page.
Some of the Wildscreen team volunteered as guides to help out the naturalists. A few of the activities included sweeping for insects, listening to bird song, identifying plants and completing the all important recording sheets to keep track of what's been found.
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Stalking Chelsea
Last week I jumped right in, taking the crosstown bus to Chelsea. I was armed with my concealed must-see list, which is the only way to go. Why haven't I kept all of these the way art criticKim Levindid, as proven by her show at Ronald Feldman a while back?
People will collect anything. Aside from a major collection of American modern dinnerware and some outsider art, I collect face jugs, lightning rods, and gear-shift knobs; I am accumulating those little plastic bag-closers and I cherish a few examples of the plastic grass that comes with takeout sushi. But Marilyn Karp, artist and mate of art dealer Ivan Karp,is the queen of collectors. See her sumptuous and inspiring new Abrams book called In Flagrante Collecto: (Caught in the Act of Collecting). She even collects other people's abandoned shopping lists.
About a third of the way through my art list, I do a little triage. There are now so many brand-new galleries at street level that you can just look through the windows into their one-room showcases to expand your horizons. It's a little bit like the windows in Amsterdam's red-light district.That there are more than enough discreet "gentlemen's clubs" surviving on some of these high-rise-condo megablocks makes the metaphor perhaps too apt.
Question: where does all the young art go at the end of the month? Answer: into storage. The secret of the art world is that the front end has, as its main purpose, the creation of customers for art warehouses. Storage! That's where the real money is.
Biographies in plastic sheets at front desks everywhere proclaim so many too recent MFAs that you begin to wonder if you are looking at real art or bad class assignments. I will not bore you with the stories of dealers swooping down on would-be painters before they graduate. They want them young, dumb, and cheap. And that's what they are getting.
On the other hand, in ARTOPIA we are always positive; we do not yield to negativity. We broadly proclaim that art is like nature. Thousands of seeds must be produced to result in one daisy. Art is profligate.
And art is still full of surprises.
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Postcard for Street Poets & Visionaries, Oliver Kamm/5BE Gallery
Who would have thought that the first time out I would come upon an authentic genius? Holland Cotter's little review in The New York Times did not really prepare me. But one must give him credit for the stretch.
Drawn to the exhibition of the UbuWeb Collection at the new Oliver Kamm/5BE Gallery (621 West 27th Street, to October 14) by the promise of found poems -- under the title "Street Poets & Visionaries" -- I was nevertheless blown away by a modest lineup of framed pages from David Daniels' The Gates of Paradise on the opposite side of the room.
Not that the "Street Poets" part of this double-headed is inconsiderable. "In the tradition of Jim Shaw's 'Thrift Shop Paintings,' " UbuWeb.com (weblished byKenneth Goldsmith, poet and editor of I'll Be Your Mirror: The Selected Andy WarholInterviews) has been salvaging the kind of hand-wrought, overwrought signage that many may have noticed on the streets, but have not been bold enough to seize for future delectation. THIS LOOKS LIKE A GOOD PLACE TO MASTURBATE is only a beginning. Are we not charmed by "Barbra Streisand is Strictly a 'Pelican: which has a 'pouch' for ' Puchis for 'Slippers.' Cyanide?"
Some, however, are quite horrible: "My only Son Kidnap at birth in the hosp His name Ezekiel..." This is not the place to repeat the rant against Mongo Santamaria. But it is always good to be reminded by the handmade sign that says: YOU ARE BEING MANIPULATED BY THE MEDIA!!! DON'T BELIEVE WHAT YOU SEE/READ/HEAR!!!
The Kamm Gallery wall of handouts and handmade signs is convulsive in a way that would put Andre Breton to shame. Or is it life that has put the Pope of Surrealism on the back-burner? We sense Artaud instead. Where should we pray? Nowhere is safe, or as one announcement screams: ANY PEDOPHILES WHERE YOU PRAY?
So many of these signs are in caps that I began to wonder if writing in all capital letters is not a bow to Bauhaus typography, but rather a sign of instability or rage. Well, probably not, after all ARTOPIA is always in caps, and there is no instability or rage in ARTOPIA, right?
In any case, you can see some of these raucous rants for yourself by going to www.ubu.com and clicking on the word "outsider" in the paragraph describing the Kamm Gallery Show.
There's lots more too, and I was glad to find this site. It's my kind of stuff, a virtual museum of Fluxus and other not-exactly-lost causes. Check out a clip of Joseph Beuys making a fool of himself trying to be a pop singer; writings by LaMonte Young; films by Yoko Ono and Robert Breer. And, as they say, much, much more.
The Gates of Paradise
I am not so sure the two parts of the UbuWeb Collection exhibition really and truly go together. They are united by words and a sort of wild use of typography, and certainly by the sensibility that appreciates the visionary whatever form it takes and wherever it comes from. We ourselves have seen some of the people who post similar street signs. Stefan Zweig's only published novel, the flawed but irritating and ultimately devastating Beware of Pity, has taught me just that.
But David Daniels, from what I can tell from the two interviews available on the internet, is not mad. He may be quirky and a little bit opinionated, but he seems benign.This is not the countertenor David Daniels, I hasten to add, but the visual poet David Daniels, 73, residing in Berkeley. He has a long, white beard. He is self-taught, as it were, and makes shaped poems.The Gates of Paradise is four-hundred pages. I think of it as the first internet poetry masterpiece, and you can see it/ read it at www.gatesofparadise.com or through a www.ubuweb.com link.
His poetry is shaped like flowers, fountains, animals, goblets; there's even one shaped like a man urinating ("THE PAEAN TO VARIOUS NEW YORKERS PISSING ON THE SIDEWALK GATE"). The words that make up these images, jammed or spread out -- Daniels uses Word and writes/draws on a computer -- are rants, hymns,sound poems cobbled from the internet, gushing from inside, and, oh yes, transcriptions of what people think he said during his discussion sessions. Apparently he charges money for these, and this supplements his Social Security check; he has also delved into Bonsai, and in the past he made some money as a painter copying masterpieces. Inspirations: a beloved uncle was a typographer; and his son, a poet and translator, gave him an anthology of "bad poetry."
Or, since Daniels clearly has some art background, are these really drawings made with words?
David Daniels: The Transformation of Diogenes from Psychits Barrel to Solid Lead Cocktail:
There have been shaped poems before. The Greeks even had a word for it: tecknopaegnia. And we know Robert Herrick's altars. Much later Tommaso Marinetti invented parole in liberté (rather like the proverbial "explosion in a shingles factory" ) and then Guillaume Apollinaire,one of my spiritual uncles, invented Calligrammes: Poems of Peace and War.
What is different about the shaped poems of Daniels is that they are narrative, Dickinsonian. But because they also exhort, we can also think of Blake.
Then too, whatever formal education Daniels garnered stopped before the wretched postmodernisms that have deniedambition and originality and irony, leaving all the irony to philosophy -- where it doesn't belong. Daniels was never disabused of attempting to compose a masterpiece. Is that his secret? This is not only the first move of Elder Art, I say itis also the first move of Neo-Modernism and the remodernization of culture, which will, of course, leave out all the bad stuff like racism and sexism. Daniels' enthusiasm is infectious.
From Daniels' introduction:
Each of the over
350 gates of The Gates Of
Paradise is an icon of our world, with idea,
picture, meter, prose, or melody all shaping each other. I
have been making words out of pictures and picture out of words
for over sixty years. The Gates of Paradise is a poem that exhibits some of
the many ways I've seen living and dead human beings struggling to find happiness
inside of themselves and outside of them. These gates are paradisiacles of people and
animals, and objects, from dancing body parts to Las Vegas lounge singers, from Brooklyn
Dodger fans to cyborg Babbits, from nerve wracked saints to L. A. bottom feeder rabbits, from
lovely air heads to heads of state to heads of lettuce, from black holes to pear shaped planets withone often transforming into another as the poems proceed...
This is only a fragment, and my version of the shape is approximate.
For another tempting taste:
The fifth page has a wonderful title line: THE WHAT IS THE PEARL WASHED UPON THE OCEAN OF BEING GATE. The next three lines of the page go something like this:
Yes The Heart Of The Heart Of The Mind
Is An Upside Down Throbbing g Split Bulb Of
A Pearl Tulip Refraction Pa rticle Wave Plumb
But then the lines turn into a heart, sort of. You have to see it to believe it, so I advise you go immediately to www.thegatesofparadise.com and take a look at the pages. Once you get the pdf page, make sure to enlarge it so it is easier to read. Otherwise you are on your own. The poetry in poetry is what cannot be summarized or made into a précis. Who said that? Well, whoever did was certainly right.
Some help: The shape of the poem is the versification that thwarts intended meanings just enough to allow the "truth" that inspiration creates. And here is myillustration of this:
The distance between intentions and expression is the tension that is the inspiration for living words in a poem as opposed to whatever it is you thought you wanted to say for yourself in your newest butterfly-shaped poem
The dis-
tance betwe
en inten tions and
expression is the tent
ion that is the inspiration for
living words in a poem as op
posed to whatever it is
you thought you wanted
to say for yourself in
your new est moth-
. shaped poem
about me
The great thing of course is that you can see/read The Gates of Paradise on your computer (and two more recent cycles). Or print the pages out one at a time and read them, or hang them on your wall and read them there. They are pictures you hear when you read them. The Years (in color) is autobiographical -- as if The Gates is not -- but has an entry for the year 2133 that begins "YOU KNOW? IT'S NOT SO BAD BEING DEAD? YOU DON'T HAVE TO WORK?"
And since I'm in a quoting mood, I'll end with the two quotes that begin The Gates of Paradise:
When I'm caught between two evils, I like to take
the one I never tried.
--- Mae West.
A book must be an ax for the frozen sea within us.
--- Franz Kafka.
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My Opera Accident
To explain the Artopia hiatus, I should first tell you about my Opera Accident. I was trying out my new iPod on St. Marks Place on my way to Kim's Video, listening to the scary Polish contralto Ewa Podles having a go at an aria from Handel's Renaldo ("Tale stupor m' occupa../Such stupefaction possesses my senses") when I hit a sidewalk crack and went sailing. To land on my thumb. Thumb dislocated, tendon snapped. At the E.R., the kind doctor said: Writer and artist? We'll definitely have to fix your thumb. After all that's what separates us from the apes.
Did she mean my thumb, or being a writer and artist?
For awhile my hand was Frankenstein gruesome, but now the stitches have faded and the stainless-steel pin with its blue map-tack head is out. I am mending, but still in a chic thermo-plastic splint that could pass for a Michael Jackson glove.
I am right-handed, so of course I landed on my right-hand thumb. Cutting food is difficult; turning on the ignition of our trusty country Honda nearly impossible. I have to lean way down and poke my left hand through the steering wheel. Unaccountably, women seem particularly curious about how I manage my fly. Answer: Most of my pants have zippers. And, oh yes, my September exhibition at the Lab Gallery had to be rescheduled. The top-secret new work requires sewing, so I like to say that rather than sew, I was sewn.
And looking at art? You don't need your right-hand thumb to look at art. You don't squint one eye and hold your thumb out in front of the other eye to take a bead on a painting.
In point of fact -- as proven below -- I have been out and about searching for art. It is a habit hard to kick. Since my thumb was inoperative, it was a little difficult to take notes, as is my wont. And although writing helps me see (sometimes I have to scribble in order to see), I often compose without looking at my jottings, which in any case are sometimes illegible.
But there is another, more important, reason for my hiatus. As an art elder, I believe it is my duty to maintain certain standards.
Even Critics Need a Break
The art world shuts down in summer. How did this come about, this closing off of all art commerce in July and August? And why is the break, alas, being compromised, to the dismay of traditionalists like myself?
The museums have always stayed open. Since it was such an odd idea that anyone would want to look at Picasso in July and August, they implied they were doing so for the schoolchildren on the loose and for the poor who did not have the means to vacate the concrete jungle. But in reality, the museums expected tourists, which they now have. And need.
In my youth, the gallerists -- who were called art dealers then -- departed to the potato fields of Long Island, which the artists had pioneered and where even then the rich could be reached. The artists and poets wanted to rub shoulders with Jackson Pollock and Bill de Kooning, who were Hamptons fixtures.
Since the shutdown corresponds to the space between the ending and the beginning of the academic year, one theory has it that the relationship is causal. Some artists are schoolteachers; but gallerists and collectors are not. So there goes that theory.
Is it the heat? Before air conditioning, city offices used to shut down on Fridays so workers as well as executives could flee to The Shore, The Island, or The Mountains. But now, even with universal air conditioning, dress-down Fridays end in mid-afternoon. How else can you catch that early train to Fire Island?
The Times and other backward publications like Time Out tried this year to promote the notion that staying in the city was chic; the kids are all doing it because their rents in Williamsburg are so high. Give me a break. Neither on the Long Island Railroad nor the LIE have I seen any lessening of youthful escapees. Let's face it, watching movies projected on a bed sheet hung up on a Williamsburg tar beach is not really fulfilling, or particularly fair to the films. A roof is not the best place for cross-class hooking up.
The truth is that since Roman times, a summer retreat has been de rigeur. The gentry still leave London. Even colonial Philadelphians headed for the Jersey Shore. And many still do. The Long Island Algonquins had Fire Island summer encampments where the breezes were plentiful, fishing was easy, and shells to be made into wampum were in abundance.
We must hang tough. I will not tolerate "gallerists" who say they have to pay rent and utilities all summer anyway so they might as well be open. Open for what? Boring group shows? I don't really believe that European tourists buy enough art to make it worthwhile. I want to see the sales receipts!
Traditions must be maintained.
I find it horrible that the New York Times makes its gang of art reviewers file all summer long, thereby undercutting the season previews that spark the fall. How can we look forward to autumn in New York if art is just business as usual through the whole summer? We can't. The art season must be in tune with the theater season, the dance season, the concert season, the opera season. Misplaced greed is no excuse. Are we not nomads?
Tilling Marina, L.I.
My secret summer hide-out is little, lovely Tilling-on-the-Bay, halfway between the Brooklyn Bridge and Montauk Point, with a town beach on Fire Island across the Great South Bay.
Tilling (not its real name) has had its fashionable moments. Once a whaling village, it was already a resort by the time of the Civil War. Later the Ashcan School found it picturesque; Glackens had an eye for the dock at the bay. But now the rooming houses and hotels are gone. And the theater where Irving Berlin performed and probably sang "Yip-Yap-Yaphank" and "Oh How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning" in honor of Camp Upton (a nearby army training camp during WW I ) is an IGA superette. Camp Upton is now the Brookhaven National Laboratories and is not to be confused with the once nearby Camp Siegfried, which was the summer playground of the German American Bund and its Young Siegfrieds in the late '30s. See Marvin Miller's: Wunderlich's Salute, Malamud-Rose, Smithtown, N.Y., 1983, for all the awful details.
Camp Siefried, Yaphank, L.I., 1937
Nowadays, Tilling blends Colonial Revival with actual Colonial, thus creating a picket-fenced, Norman Rockwell stage set. Where are you Judy and Mickey? Where are you the New Urbanism? Where are you The Truman Show? Where are you Seaside, Florida?
Typical Tilling House, 2005
On Tilling-on-the-Bay Day, for a fee you can even throw plastic balls at the mayor suspended over a tub of water, and if you're lucky he will fall into the drink. The mayor smiles; everyone cheers. But not The Mothers in Black, who, although they stand at the Tilling crossroad every Friday to protest the war in Iraq, have been precluded from marching. Costly insurance is required.
The fashionistas came in the '60s and again in '90s. But now that a certain fashion magazine editor and a famous photographer of hunky, Aryan youths (once found hanging out at the Tilling deli) have left, there are just enough celebrities to make it pleasant. The beautiful daughter of a genius Italian film director and a Swedish movie star is our official celebrity, and we need no one else. Although Tilling -- Sister City of Sainte Maxime, France -- is sometimes referred to as the un-Hampton or the Secret Hampton, it is actually closer to the English village of Tilling (which is probably Rye) in E. F. Benson's hilarious Mapp and Lucia books. Then too, more than one of the volunteers at the Tilling-on-the Bay Historical Society or at the Methodist thrift shop could pass for Miss Marple.
Tilling Fences Make Good Neighbors
Tilling has a dark side. The original Fire Island Beach -- where the whaling ship inlet was before sand closed it off -- once banned blacks, Italians, and schoolteachers. I can understand banning schoolteachers, but Italians? And there is worse to tell.
Tilling'sOldest Building
The thrift shop I pass every day, which is Tilling 's oldest building (c. 1750), was the slave quarters for the Tilling Farm. Slaves in Tilling? Slaves on Long Island? Slaves in New York?
Because of "Legacies: Contemporary Artists Reflect on Slavery" at the New-York Historical Society (170 Central Park West, through January 7, 2007), I have been thinking about slavery.
Slavery on Long Island, Slavery in New York
Fred Wilson: Liberté/Liberty, 2005
Who's for slavery? None of us, although in some places slavery in one form of another still exists. It is not entirely free labor, as Lowery Sims calls it in her concise catalogue essay for "Legacies." It is more precisely cheap labor, for even slaves have to be housed and fed, which does cost something. At the risk of stepping on Nazi toes, I'd call it forced labor. Furthermore, you were owned, became a kind of meat machine that could be bought, sold, traded, and even bred. Even up North, until very late in the game, the master (or mistress) owned your offspring too. You were 2/3 of a man (or woman). That's how colonial census-takers counted slaves in all of New England and Long Island.
Nevertheless, referring to slavery as free labor does put the onus where the onus belongs: on profit. No doubt, some owners convinced themselves they were Christianizing savages by stripping them of their own culture and inflicting the penitence of hard labor, with no time off for good behavior. But in reality it was a cheap way to get servants and farmhands, far better than dealing with the contracts of indentured servants from Ireland.
Now we have machines. Or so it goes. Now we do not need to buy flesh and handle the whip. We can dangle baubles, iPods, and designer sneakers as motivation. Or, yes, health care.
And yet, when we see those manacles, tags, and irons in Fred Wilson's presentation Liberté/Liberty or read even bits and pieces of the runaway slave narratives, we are appalled at the first and curiously moved by the second. Is it because we too want to subjugate -- or, on a more positive note, are also in bondage?
An African or an African American will have a more personal response to these artifacts and stories. And what are we to feel if we are descendents of both slaves and slave-holders, which might be more common than supposed?
Although indentured servants may have been treated miserably, there was hope. There was an end point. Slavery was forever. Those of Eastern European descent -- I myself am half-Polish although my grandfather came over with an Austrian passport -- will not rejoice to learn that the cognate of slavery and slave is Slav, since Slavs were the common slaves of the Middle Ages.
I missed the Historical Society's more historical "Slavery in New York" show, but the Amsterdam News newsprint handout is still available, as is the thick catalogue ."Legacies" is the contemporary art follow-up.
The exhibition includes 30 artists and one collective, The Anti-Slavery Group. As it happens, three of the artists are MacArthur Fellows: David Hammons (here represented by one of his Body Prints, made by pressing parts of his body into margarine and pigment and then onto the paper); Kerry James Marshall, showing close-ups of spectators of "the lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith on August 7, 1939 in Marion, Indiana" in the form of pictures in lockets; and Fred Wilson. Art by these three works, as do photographs by Lorna Simpson, Marc Latamie (a beheaded statue of Napoleon's Josephine on Martinique), and Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons. Cheers too for Joe Lewis's neon sculpture Mandela and Anne Frank Forever, The Endless Column and Glenn Ligon's Condition Report (I Am a Man). But what does "works" mean in the context of a social-statement exhibition? It means the strange confluence of formal and social values.
You know the phrase "If you want to send a message, send a telegram." Art, like the examples mentioned, is better than propaganda because it makes you think. What exactly are the connections being made? Why am I puzzled, moved? In some cases the context improves the art. During his 15 minutes of fame, the charm of Leonardo Drew's art escaped me; fiber artist Sheila Hicks is better. Here, however, his huge minimalist pile of cotton batting, gleaned from abandoned mattresses, resonates with slavery's cotton bales -- and vice versa. Was this kind of content part of his art all along?
* * *
History is strange. We turned a blind eye to slavery in the North. Something as simple as discovering a slave burial ground while excavating near New York's City Hall in 1991 has changed all that; the scholarly information about northern slavery leapt from the footnotes to popular consciousness.
We always knew that both Jefferson and Washington had slaves, but that was in Virginia. Now we know that in the 1700s, 40 percent of the households in New York City owned at least one slave. We know that slaves built the wall that Wall Street is named after. That at the foot of that very same street was the site of a slave auction; New York City was second only to Charleston in its slave trade.
And it wasn't just New York City -- of which, unfortunately always the worst is expected -- but all of New England and Long Island, too.
William Floyd Estate, Mastic, L.I.
This past weekend, we went at long last to visit the William Floyd Estate in Mastic, out in Suffolk County. William Floyd was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence -- and a direct ancestor of John Nichols, author of The Milagro Beanfield War. The house (owned by the Fire Island National Seashore division of the Parks Department of the Department of the Interior) "preserves 250 years of change," from Colonial times to 1976. Inside the house I asked the excellent tour guide if there had been slaves. Slavery was on my mind.
Oh, yes, at least 14. She pointed out a painting of a Floyd slave cabin framed in wood that was salvaged from demolition. Were the slaves were all black? No, some were Native American, she answered. (Now there's an underwritten history!)
So what if there was a labor shortage! The Floyds were already rich when they came from Wales, and no one forced them to get richer by starting a huge flax farm and cutting down the old-growth forest for timber to sell.
The study book "Discovering the African-American Experience in Suffolk County, 1620-1860" by Grania Bolton Marcus (Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities, 1988) tries to make the case that slaves were an economic necessity, but the documentary material -- inventories, wills, sales advertisements -- underline the horror and the inhumanity of it all. That the Greeks had slaves was no excuse.
There is something chilling about "the inventory of the estate of James Sell Late of Brookhaven" (1757):
20 fating Catel....................£58
4 Oxen and 4 Steers............£33
10 cow and 3 Farrow Cows...£42
18 Four Year old Cattle
and 3 three olds...£34
15 Yerlings.........................£15
107 Sheap and 33 lambs......£31
4 Mares and one Colt......... £66
2 Yerlens 3 horses.............
10 hogs and 12 pigs.............£09
8 negrows Slaves.............. £292
3 Molato [mulatto] boys.........£40
4 Cows and Calves..............£14.....
Or how about this advertisement in the May 13, 1805 Suffolk Gazette:
A Negro Woman, in every respect suitable for a farmer -- she is 25 yearsold, and will be sold with or without a girl four years old...
An unpaved road through what Floyd family writers always referred to as "the pathless woods" led to what a drag queen I once knew used to call a marble orchard. The grass between the stately tablets was strewn with Tropical Storm Ernesto's dead branches. Outside the fencing of the family graveyard, white wooden crosses (possibly later additions) now mark the slave graves. Death does not erase the line; slaves are not even equal in death. And this was a good family; they fought on the right side of both the revolution and the War Between the States. One Floyd years later -- William Floyd (1871-1943) not only invented an automobile starter but wrote a book called "War Resistance" and another titled "The People vs. Wall Street." Like his ancestors, he was a rotten poet:
As to the man the wife is,
So unto the Floyd is Mastic.
Though it breaks him, he retains it,
Useless each without the other.
But it is too easy to condemn. The past, someone once said, is another place. But is it?
It is far too easy to note that most of the lawn dogs (and the roofing dogs) in Tilling are Mexican/Latin American. When I commented what hard workers they were, their otherwise benign overseer remarked that they worked like slaves.
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My Massage Envy clientele of return people is growing exponentially, every time I happen to have a cancellation and a window and get a new client, he/she returns...which is fantastic, wonderful, and makes me feel all cozy (and proves my calling), but at the same time my hours at said Massage Envy do not grow (there is only that much time a person has in a week on top of a full-time job and 2-hr commute each day). What means those very customers of mine, whom I all love, can't get to see me often enough as they want to. The potential of some of them eventually dropping me as their only therapist exists, as folks sometime have to wait 5-6 weeks to get an appointment (and yes, I am booked that far out). Speaking about professionalism and integrity and work ethic...
Sometimes I get so overwhelmed of how much I have to squeeze into a week, I have tears. Usually it happens on Monday, when I realize the weekend (was there a weekend?) had passed, and I am back to repeat the cycle of "real" work and all the other things. Yeah, I train twice a day too...
Speaking of training, I mentioned it to my dad (who was surprised since I "promised"? him not to race, but had to explain being fit is not going to stop being my priority regardless of long racing) - and he was like: "In healthy and fit body there is a healthy and fit soul!". The Soviet Era propaganda echoed, and I have to agree with it (even if he spends his days on the couch for the last 10 years).
And, training-related, I mentioned I signed up for a Metabolic(?) Bootcamp at Pure Austin gym, that very fancy and expensive gym I am a part of now. Well, let me just tell you, even at a fancy gym, a Bootcamp is just not hard enough for a person who had been working out at a serious level for a couple of decades, even after 4 months of complete ill lay off. While anything will make you feel the burn if you do it 2.5 minutes straight (that's their designed intervals of exercising same muscle group, then 1 minute rest, then next 2.5 minutes) - it does not leave me sore, nor do I feel challenged. By 3rd day the instructor began giving me an extra sandbag to carry when squatting, lunging, whatever...And I paid extra for this class. I usually run in the morning, then come to the gym, workout on cardio machines for an hour to "warm up", and after the Met Camp consider that I am ready for a workout now, like, I seriously long for something, but it's finally time to go home:) One more week, and I am on my own. The good thing, it showed me I've drastically improved since mid-January come-back to the gym, and put me on solid twice-a-day routine. I'll be doing it on my own now.
Speaking of my own, my routines are getting better, stronger, with a lot of said "metabolic" (or, what I call Plyometrics, or keeping your heart rate high) add-ons. I am thoroughly enjoying my weight lifting and all the various high intensity jumps, and my dumbbells/barbells/racks are almost fully back to where I left them.
But, despite all that, and a very mindful eating (yet not Whole30-restrictive), my scale is stuck. I am trying hard not to get discouraged, as I am not ready to plunge into some dieting, nor am I capable of any sort of hard track/hill interval sessions (which seem to be helpful).
Went to my friends birthday bash. Even danced some!
Just as I read and posted on my FB this article, stating that getting back in shape after a long (very long) break takes twice the time you were on a said break, and I was making peace with not seeing good running until mid-summer (when it'll be hot and humid and I won't be running anyway, so make it mid-Fall), I suddenly had 2 (two) great runs in a row. Saturday I ran 14 miles on roads, and the first 4 were the slowest (while still sub-11! I know, how exciting), and then I kept accelerating and holding and accelerating and holding...Them were some mid-9's in there! I was thrilled. And then this morning, already with humidity coming back, I ran the 6M Great Hills loop on 58:57 - making it average of sub-10 for my most difficult route (and taking full 5 minutes off the last time I had here a "good post-ill run"). It's the little things...
As far as summer (and humidity) coming to Austin, there are two things we have to confirm it: the state flower Bluebonnets spread their color all over the sides of the highways, and a naked guy riding his bicycle on Shoal creek, the route I take when I walk/run or even drive back from work at 4 pm (to avoid highway traffic, and because it is a pretty road with wide shoulders for walkers and bikers and fewer cars and neat houses lined up, and most importantly, it's shaded). So, yeah, this 60-something years old skinny dude in a purple jog-strap is back. How exciting!
Speaking of naked people, apparently, in our family it's a trait. Larry did his trail route on Saturday and ran into a naked 20 year old girl being photographed (semi-professionally) by the creek with a waterfall. Totally but-naked. I think he won this one, as I bet the girl was prettier to look at than Austin naked biking fool. (And no, none of it is April's Fool writing).
Past weekend two inspirational things happen. My Texas friend John Sharp decided to go Independence Texas Relay 200 mile SOLO, and he did just that. While the thought of running roads, in Texas, for 200 miles, flat, no views, in the already developing heat and humidity, sounds repulsive to me, I totally admire his accomplishment. He has been training and racing really well, this weird guy and friend of mine, quirky as he is, he gave his word, and he kept it. Well deserved accolades. Another being Jared Campbell from Salt Lake City (we stayed with him and his wife last summer, they now have a beautiful baby-girl). This guy is a mountain climber, multiple Hardock 100 finisher and of other crazy things (solo and as races). Nicest guy you can ever meet. Well, he finished Barkley marathons (Google that one if you never heard), and while I am not ever going to try this "race" (I will be lost within 8 miles just like the original prisoner in the story), the fact that Jared had done it twice (the full 100, and once the Fun Run of 60 miles) leaves me speechless. And he looked fresh - and clean - as a daisy like he is about to keep on going for another stroll (loop?). Inspiring stuff!
With this "inspirational" stuff, I'll let you watch yet another cool video I dug out (many are out there, I know), the gist of which is: dreams may be difficult. high and seem unattainable, but put the hard work in, the daily grind, the boring ugly "same thing over and over again", and you will get to them, those dreams. I promise. And keep on dreaming!
One more video on Barkley and Jared below.


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Sure everyone has they're own reasons for why they'd be less inclined to drive just that bit more around the beltway, but why does it seem to be such a universal value among it's fans that United should remain playing in the district? Why are fans so stubborn on this issue? Maybe it's the same reason Kevin Payne is...
It seems to me that if you move United out of downtown Washington the club will in one way or another die. I don't mean the team will fold, no I think it's safe to assume that if the league survives then United will survive I wouldn't worry about that, but the soul of the club could invariably be lost very much the same way that Redskins lost their magic after moving to Landover. Anyone who would argue the latter of that point obviously never attended a Skins game at RFK. The place rocked, the Skins won, and you could still afford to go to more than one game a year.
Something very similar I fear could happen to United if they leave the district. I mean lets face it, for whatever reason attendance WILL drop. There's nothing to argue against it. Less people will come. Sure die hards and supporters will make the beltway trek, but the fair weathers, the soccer moms from VA, why would they sit an hour on the outer loop to make it out for a Thursday night game? We have to be realistic about this and admit that after the magic wears off this new stadium (however nice it is) it will be the same as Frisco and Commerce City... with a slightly more enthusiastic supporters section. DC could easily be lost in the sea of mediocre soccer stadiums that sadly do exist in this country.
With all of that outlined the club would then have to raise ticket prices as they already would have had to do in compensation for playing in a brand new stadium. This would only exacerbate the problem.
I've been going to games since I was a kid and I've dedicated a great deal of my young life to supporting United, but even I would be hard pressed to renew my season tickets if such a stadium is built. I've thought about it for quite awhile now and I have to admit that it's not a certainty. I have also wondered to myself that if I feel this way then how do many other supporters feel? If I'm starting to hedge my bets than there must be a lot of others that won't continue attending games. It's a scary prospect for a club that has built up what I am proud to say is one of the most genuine and authentic sporting atmospheres in the country.
Let's hope this new study from PG county forces the councils hand and United can get to work on it's real stadium at Poplar Point. All in all though we should be happy that the wheels are finally moving again... even though their in the wrong county.
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