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Poets of Action: The Saint Louis Black Artists' Group, 1968-1972 (Part 1-4)
St. Louis has always been careful to cover its tracks, razing its history so it can start over again with a clean slate. Occasionally, though, the past sticks a foot in the door of the future and demands to be let in. One such stubborn caller, whose voice has been muffled, but not quite silenced, is BAG.
Between 1967 and 1972, St. Louis was home to an arts cooperative known as the Black Artists' Group or BAG, which brought together and nurtured local African American experimentalists involved with theater, visual arts, dance, poetry, film, and jazz. The members of BAG, inspired by the formation of artistic collectives around the country, particularly Chicago's Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), fused ideas of artistic modernism with the local experience of blacks, Afrocentric ways of viewing art, and traditional forms of blues, jazz and narrative expression with social activism and a communal focus. But unlike other artistic collectives of the period, BAG was fundamentally committed to a collaborative interweaving of its members' diverse artistic mediums. Most significant, perhaps, were BAG's theater and music components. The musicians built on the free-jazz vocabulary developed by John Coltrane and others before his death in 1967, and their innovations later energized the seminal mid-'70s loft- jazz scene in New York; meanwhile, BAG's actors and directors developed a theater which provided an engaging synthesis of avant-garde European techniques with cultural traditions of African Americans and issues of importance to progressives generally.
The group, in embracing much of the program of the Black Arts Movement, was emblematic of an emerging social phenomenon; many of its founders, in the words of former BAG saxophonist J. D. Parran, "were entering new territory culturally and politically as well as artistically." During their time in St. Louis, these artists not only contributed to the cultural richness of the city, but also created a strong model for interartistic cooperation and arts-driven social activism.
BAG emerged from two parallel trends towards consolidation in the black St. Louis arts world of the late 1960s, in theater and in jazz. Although rooted in the underground free jazz scene that emerged in St. Louis during the mid-1960s, the musical segment of BAG found fertile soil in a St. Louis that had produced a number of nationally recognized black musicians during the 1940s and 1950s, including Clark Terry, Miles Davis, Grant Green, and Jimmy Forrest. The amateur and semi-professional local music scene also was lively at the time, with members of the black community actively participating in drum and bugle corps, school music programs, church choirs, and dance and jazz ensembles.
The St. Louis scene changed to reflect the times following the bop era, with a small but healthy cadre of free jazz musicians developing new sounds and interests. Noted trumpeter Lester Bowie started out as a participant in this scene, but decided that the opportunities for his music were better in Chicago and moved there in 1966. The free jazz community that Bowie left behind was relatively concealed from the St. Louis music- listening public. Many of these musicians made their livings playing bebop or rhythm and blues, gathering to rehearse newer styles at the home of saxophonist Oliver Lake or in Forest Park. Local jazz radio host Dennis Owsley, who came to St. Louis in 1969, describes these free-jazzers gathering at Art Hill in Forest Park and playing in different intrumental combinations. These groups almost never included a complete rhythm section, mirroring their future nonstandard groupings.
The free and avant-garde jazz scene that Lester Bowie found in Chicago became, in many ways, the model for the musicians remaining in St. Louis. The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) had been formed in Chicago in May of 1965. Composed primarily of members of the South Side African-American community, most AACM musicians had experience in blues and gospel. They had met as part of the Experimental Band, a group exploring European classical concepts such as polytonality, chromaticism, and serialism as well as free jazz and collective improvisation under the leadership of Muhal Richard Abrams. Many of the future BAG members worked along similar musical lines, developing and building upon the vocabulary of late-period Coltrane and free musicians such as saxophonists Albert Ayler and Archie Shepp. At the same time, BAG members explored modernist European ideas including serialism and the work of composers such as Stravinsky and Schoenberg, fusing elements from a wide variety of sources into their musical aesthetic. When future BAG members first began experimenting, "traditionalists said they were crazy," remembers former BAG trumpeter Floyd LeFlore. Yet, LeFlore claims, such experimentation allowed leeway for musicians to "mess up" and make mistakes as part of their process of artistic development.
In St. Louis, Lake's group The Lake Art Quartet debuted at the Circle Coffee House in LaClede Town in 1967. Saxophonist Julius Hemphill, originally from Fort Worth, settled in St. Louis in the late 1960s after earning his bachelor's degree in Music Education at Lincoln University in 1966. Despite his musical education and navy band experience, Hemphill was initially excluded from the blues and bebop scene by club owners and other musicians due to his atypical style and tastes, one former BAG member recounts. With Chicago's AACM as a model, Hemphill, fellow Lincoln University alumnus Oliver Lake, and other black St. Louis musicians began to consider forming a similar cooperative to facilitate wider exposure and garner additional playing opportunities. Lake describes returning from a visit to Chicago and calling a meeting of his like-minded musician friends. "In our meeting," he recalls, "I suggested that we become a branch of the AACM. Julius [Hemphill] then suggested that we form our own group which included all the artists we had been associated with-poets, visual artists, dancers and actors."
While future BAG musicians developed plans for a collective, impetus was also underway to form a black theater company in St. Louis. Actor and director Malinke (originally Robert) Elliott had been discussing with Country Day School English teacher Russell Durgin the possibility of establishing such a company to provide a focus for the young and developing black theater community in St. Louis. Elliott says, "Out of these discussions we decided that the best way to bring everyone together was to initially have some kind of common experience of working together." Eventually Elliott and others decided on a performance of French playwright Jean Genet's The Blacks as their first collaborative effort. The Blacks (first published as Les Negres in 1958) is a play within a play that, according to one critic, "stands as the obituary of [white] mastery." The play depicts whites watching a group of blacks enact the fabricated story of a rape in a minstrel-show atmosphere, which reinforces the whites' image of them, but meanwhile other blacks are engaged in subversive activities elsewhere.
During the planning period for the play, Elliott remembers that Lake and other musicians contacted him about collaboration with their planned artistic collective. Eventually, the actors and musicians decided, according to Elliott, that by integrating music into the production, The Blacks "would be a perfect vehicle for us all to get together, collaborate, have a common experience, and would be a great foundation to establish a group." The production, Hemphill recalls, served as a catalyst for the formation of BAG in bringing together a range of black artists from various disciplines: "A number of people before that I didn't know, mainly actors, were cast in the play and there was a concentration of talents there." The performance took place in July 1968 at Webster College's Lorretto-Hilton Center, and in both its emphasis on social commentary and its integration of music and drama, it presaged many of the multimedia performances BAG would undertake. The following month, the artists mounted a presentation of music, dance, and poetry at the City Art Museum, and the well-attended concert was also the first occasion that the BAG musicians performed as a large ensemble.
As BAG continued to develop, its members formulated a coherent guiding philosophy, the goal being "to bring performances and arts instruction of high quality to the St. Louis community..., to synthesize the proud black past with the black present, and to bring together many art forms into a unifying experience."
Many of the musicians in BAG already lived or subsequently took up residence in LaClede Town, a federally funded, mixed-income housing complex built on sixty five acres between Channing, Ewing, and Laclede Avenues and Olive Street on the edge of downtown. LaClede Town, with its racial and economic diversity, small-scale design, and its residents' varied mix of professions, proved an excellent breeding ground for artistic endeavor as well as for social activism. Architectural historian Ramin Bavar contrasts LaClede Town with the superblock complexes typical of the time (including the neighboring Pruitt-Igoe), recounting that "[l]ittle stores were placed throughout the project for various uses such as: a barber shop, laundry, a small grocery, coffee shop, and a bar with a sidewalk café. The project was designed at human scale and it tried to bring back some of the old ways of life." Planners envisioned the complex as an "urban utopia." To the sometimes-idiosyncratic director Jerome Berger, one of the most important principles was diversity, and he tried to keep LaClede Town integrated; during the late 1960s, the project was 50 percent white, 40 percent black, and 10 percent other minorities, including many immigrants to the U.S. BAG trumpeter Floyd LeFlore fondly remembers his days living in LaClede Town and the "real cultural experience" LaClede Town's racial, socio-economic, and immigrant mix provided for his children.
LaClede Town's Circle Coffee House, where saxophonist The Lake Art Quartet got its start, hosted poetry readings, productions by improvisational theater groups, and performances by future BAG saxophonists Hamiett Bluiett and Julius Hemphill. In many ways it became the center of life in the community. Open to unusual artistic ventures, the Circle Coffee House was where Parran first heard the instrumental combination of a sax- duo sans rhythm section, as Hemphill joined forces with then-St. Louisan David Sanborn. Hemphill recalls the help that BAG members received from LaClede Town director Berger: "[He] allowed us to use his office so that we could put out mailings to people around the community about our group's projects. We got non-profit status, incorporated, and put on our initial program at the City Art Museum." Berger believed the success of the housing community depended on the participation of residents in its cultural life. He provided musicians performing at the Circle Coffee House three months of free rent in order to encourage a creative and active social environment within LaClede Town.
The BAG members living there and elsewhere soon began using the Gateway Theater on Boyle Avenue (in St. Louis's Gaslight Square district) for more elaborate multimedia concerts and presentations, including the group's weekly performance series held Sunday evenings. The series included varied offerings, such as dance and music, but primarily strove for collaboration and a multidisciplinary approach. Thematic material evolved out of current issues in the black community and out of historical issues related to the African-American cultural experience. The phrase "layers of transparency," according to Malinke Elliott, summarizes how participants' interaction was geared in this multimedia setting, which also included films developed for rear-screen projection during shows. "Our idea was that no one element of theater should dominate; the lighting and everything was ... one seamless tapestry," he says.
Perhaps it was the complex interweave of various artistic mediums with trenchant cultural themes that led BAG poet Bruce Rutlin (then known as Ajule) to comment, "We're not artists. We're cultural aestheticians." Because of the interartistic diversity of performances, reviewers sometimes had difficulty characterizing BAG productions, calling them everything from ballets to operas to dance dramas. Elliott draws a parallel between the heavy emphasis on improvisation in the theater component and the free jazz of the BAG musicians. "A lot of times people would approach us and ask to see the scripts for the performance, and we had no scripts," Elliott remembers; "It had all been improvised and worked out in rehearsing. We collaborated continuously."
As BAG began adding more performances and artists, the participants took their artistic collaborations to a variety of venues around town, including Washington University, St. Louis University, the Loretto-Hilton Center at Webster College, the Page Park YMCA, and the Pruitt-Igoe housing project. Many of the performances on college campuses were enabled through the student activity funds that became available with the advent of the student protest movement. Performances began to draw a diverse crowd, which LeFlore says included intellectuals, white progressives, "right-on black brothers," people from the St. Louis County suburbs, and residents of the city's north-side African-American neighborhoods. The typical audience was about 60 percent black and 40 percent white, and Elliott recalls that audiences "were usually very raucous and spirited. ... People would get caught up in the moments of the drama, where they would shout things..., or spontaneously applaud, or even augment the drama by jumping into the aisles and doing their own thing."
The associations and musical give-and-take between St. Louis's avant-garde musicians and Chicago's AACM didn't end with the formation of BAG. LeFlore remembers a reciprocal agreement of sorts between the two groups, with joint performances in Chicago and St. Louis on a regular basis. Trumpeter Lester Bowie, former St. Louisan and a founder of AACM-outgrowth The Art Ensemble, was an important link between BAG musicians and their colleagues in the Windy City, especially since his brother Joseph was a trombonist in BAG. "They would come down here, we would go up there," said Hemphill of the AACM members; "We had a kind of exchange program." This reciprocity between artistic collectives also came to include other cities, including performances with the Artists' Workshop in Detroit. The cooperation led to an affinity of style; LeFlore says there is still a distinctive sound to former BAG and AACM musicians that no one else has: "That will always be a part of me. I can hear it in my playing now."
The atmosphere in St. Louis at the time of BAG's formation was not particularly receptive to the new sounds being explored by Lake, Hemphill, and their musical comrades. Lake describes the lack of new-jazz venues and audiences as part of the impetus for forming the Black Artists' Group: "In St. Louis, it was about doing it or nothing would happen. If we wanted to get exposure for what we were doing, the only way to do it was to make it happen ourselves. Once we did realize that, things happened for us, we were really successful in St. Louis." Hemphill concurs regarding BAG's interest in taking a proactive promotional role, saying, "In the '60s, there was a lot of interest in exploring unfamiliar territory, in putting on concerts instead of waiting for someone else to do it, in playing in places other than clubs." Members of BAG actively promoted their own productions in response to the lack of established performance venues.
Despite a rich tradition of black music in St. Louis, few career opportunities existed for St. Louis's black musicians. African-Americans were excluded from careers in the St. Louis Symphony, the advertising industry, and the socialite gig scene. Local recording opportunities were mostly limited to vanity pressings and demos, many produced by saxophonist and recording engineer Oliver Sain in his studio on Natural Bridge Road. In Chicago, the AACM managed to develop fruitful relationships with critic John Litweiler of Chicago-based Downbeat magazine, the most widely read jazz magazine in the U.S., and producer Chuck Nessa of Chicago-based Delmark Records. The AACM's Roscoe Mitchell recorded his first album in 1965, but such opportunities for exposure were not readily available to BAG's musicians. Oliver Lake, for instance, didn't put out a record as a leader until 1971, when the Arista label released NTU Point From Which Creation Begins. Thus Hemphill started his own local record label, Mbari, to counteract the lack of opportunities to record and document the music of BAG and other new musicians. In liner notes to Arista's 1978 re-release of Hemphill's 1972 LP Dogon A.D. on the Mbari label, reviewer Robert Palmer wrote that in the six years since its original release, the album had "become an underground classic, and reviewers in various publications have compared it to the finest works produced by improvising musicians during the past decade." While suffering from poor distribution, Mbari reflected BAG members' proactive role in attempting to develop a niche in the St. Louis arts community.
Difficulties certainly existed in garnering exposure for music and drama which increasingly stood outside the mainstream. Oliver Lake describes the struggle to achieve visibility for such music and its attendant social ideas:
It could be that there is a singular way that they would like everyone to operate within a certain system. Somebody doing something outside of that isn't really brought forward or put in the mainstream. Because of this practice, people are not aware that there's another thing happening that is completely different or from another angle which might make them think a little more. The more docile and trained they keep the masses, the less trouble.
Former Washington University ethnomusicologist Ingrid Monson suggests that black jazz musicians in the mid- and late-1960s hoped that their music would continue to be popular with African-American audiences, even as the music moved farther towards experimental, avant-garde, and free jazz. (She describes groups led by arts leaders such as Amiri Baraka using federal money to drive through the streets of New York blasting the free jazz of Sun Ra into African-American neighborhoods.) But jazz critics stopped promoting free and avant-garde music after Coltrane's death in 1967, says local jazz radio host Owsley, who claims, "When Coltrane died it was like the sun went out."
Instead of embracing the increasingly dissonant and seemingly esoteric music, large portions of the African-American music-listening community turned to R&B, soul, Motown, and funk, even as jazz critics turned their attention towards fusion, a new electrified blend of jazz, rock, and other styles. Of course, part of the commercial marginalization of jazz was due to repression by reactionary police agencies (through drug charges, removal of caberet cards, and so on) and an increasingly conservative music business network, both of which limited opportunities, especially for black experimentalists. However, BAG musicians such as Lake continued to work in the free and avant-garde tradition of late- period Coltrane and his '60s sidemen.
In addition to finding performance space, developing audiences, and creating recording opportunities, BAG members worked to gain nonprofit status and incorporate. Unlike their AACM counterparts in Chicago, BAG members actively sought and obtained financial grants from local organizations such as Monsanto, the Danforth Foundation, and the Missouri Council for the Arts, as well as from the New York-based Rockefeller Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. In April 1968, the Rockefeller Foundation approved a grant of $100,000, which, paired with a matching grant from St. Louis's Danforth Foundation, was for the establishment of Artist-in-Residence programs and Cultural Enrichment Centers in St. Louis and East St. Louis. In press releases, the Arts and Education Council of Greater St. Louis, the administrator of the combined grant, noted, "The cultural enrichment centers would be an extension of an experiment now being conducted in East St. Louis on a limited scale, under auspices of Southern Illinois University, by Miss Katherine Dunham." The reputation and recognition that dancer and artistic leader Dunham already enjoyed by that point was one key to the grant applications' success.
The Artist-in-Residence Team, or AIR Team as it came to be known, operated on the Missouri side of the river and overlapped to a great extent with the personnel, goals, and activities of BAG. The program was designed to place professional artists in a variety of mediums in work/living spaces throughout inner-city St. Louis, where they could conduct classes for youth and hire several part-time youth apprentices to assist with their work. The AIR Team "was created out of the conviction that the inner city of St. Louis needs the presence of creative, professional working artists living and working in its midst just as it needs lawyers, doctors, educators, etc.," according to a publicity brochure. The Arts and Education Council selected Hemphill, BAG's first chairman, as the director of the AIR program, and named BAG's Lake the director of the AIR Team's music component. "This partnership developed as a result of the similar goals that both these groups have set for themselves," the BAG-AIR consortium announced.
"The whole [BAG] concept really came together when we got some grants together," Floyd LeFlore maintains. This grant money allowed salaries for members of BAG, both musicians and artists in other mediums, to teach free classes and private lessons for disadvantaged African-American youths in St. Louis. The idea for classes also may have originated with the AACM in Chicago, which opened its free music school in 1969 and at times had up to fifty inner-city youths enrolled. The goal of the BAG-AIR center, said Hemphill in the SSt. Louis Post-Dispatch, would be "to make black people more aware of their creative potential."
Eventually the cultural enrichment center component of the grant and the Artist-in- Residence component came to operate independently. Katherine Dunham proceeded with her cultural enrichment centers in East St. Louis, while the BAG-AIR group developed different goals and objectives. "The St. Louis group went for younger artists, mostly local," reported Norman Lloyd, the Rockefeller Foundation's director of arts programs, in June 1969; "These younger artists do not want to accept Katherine Dunham's role as leader, since they want to develop their own style. ... The program, therefore, has been split into two parts-one for St. Louis and one for East St. Louis."
As BAG expanded its membership and received more funding, the group was able to move into its own building, complete with living quarters, performance space, and a teaching area. By July 1969, the BAG-AIR group had obtained (for a nominal annual rent of one dollar) a building on Washington Avenue, located several blocks from the Pruitt-Igoe housing project. The building would serve as a center and site for classes. Monsanto soon renovated one first-floor room for the group; another room served as space for theater and dance workshops, rehearsals, and classes. Upstairs was a huge loft, ideal for a painting studio. "Twenty four hours [a day] for the next several years, you could walk into the BAG building and something would be going on," Malinke Elliott recalls of the nonstop teaching, rehearsing, and performing that took place at the center.
BAG members instructed young, mostly African-American aspiring artists over the course of several years at the center, usually averaging an enrollment of about fifty students at any given time. The teaching staff came to include Bruce Rutlin (creative writing), Georgia Collins (dance), Thurman Falk (film), and Emilio Cruz (visual arts), in addition to the BAG musicians and actors. Elliott's sister Marian Hill, BAG's staff secretary, served as the center's "house mother," proctoring the students and helping them to solve problems such as lack of money for instruments and books. Successful musicians such as clarinetist/saxophonist Marty Ehrlich and guitarist Kelvyn Bell, both now playing in New York, emerged from the BAG classes, as well as other artists such as poets Michael and Jan Castro.
Continue to Part 2...
Photo Credits:
Oliver Lake playing soprano: Photo 2001 by Roscoe Crenshaw
J.D. Parran: Photo 2001 by Roscoe Crenshaw
Julius Hemphill/Floyd LeFlore: Photo ca. 1969, courtesy Oliver Lake
Cast of a BAG play: ca. 1969, courtesy Oliver Lake


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Highlights of the week:
1. National Pancake Day
2. National Frozen Yogurt Day
3. Hill Repeats with coach!
4. Colorado
Tuesday night, I had a dream. A dream about pancakes. It just so happened that when I woke up in the morning, on Wednesday, it was National Pancake Day. I couldn't believe it…pretty sure my dreams predict the future ;)
Then my friend, Nicole, texted me Thursday morning, and told me it was National Frozen Yogurt Day. First off, I was like, I swear it's National "XXX Food" Day every day. But let's be real, fro yo is my favorite food. It has taken over my LOVE of ice cream, which you can read about here, mostly because self serve fro yo is the best. You can try all the different flavors a place offers, put on whatever toppings you want, mix and match flavors. It's A-mazing. So, I wasn't going to miss out on the chance to celebrate my favorite food.
Of course I got my usual, Cake Batter and Peanut Butter, with oreos, cookie dough, coconut, and strawberries. YUM! And went to my favorite fro yo place, Yummy Yogurt, in Solana Beach.
Fortunately, early in the day I had gotten my butt kicked by Beth, Keith, and Jose at Torrey Pines. My whole goal was to just not let the three of them catch me. Let me tell you it got CLOSE. We got to Torrey Pines, and we were all going to do 4-5 repeats. So, we all take off, and immediately, I'm like shit…I'm going to get passed. I would go back and forth in my head, don't let them catch you, oh shit, they are going to catch you. Although it got REAL close, I made it! Not gonna lie, felt pretty good, since they are all pro's, but it made me hungry to get faster and stronger. That is why I love to workout with other people. It fires me up. No pics from this ride, it was all business :)
Then it was off to Colorado on Friday…
My best friend from college, Betsy…
…picked me up from the airport. Immediately it was girl talk and catch up time! Betsy had to work on Saturday, she's a Vet, so I woke up early with her and headed out on a run. Betsy lives right near the Cherry Creek Running path, which is beautiful and easy. I haven't ran on something this flat in a really long time. It was great running weather too. 40′s and sunny. Needless to say, I was happy :)
It was a nice change of scenery, and a great way to kick off my week in Colorado. My sister came down and picked me up and we headed to the mountains for the weekend, and Betsy was just going to meet us there later Saturday night. They were expecting a big snowstorm this weekend, and well they got it. Our drive up was a bit scary, mostly because my sister drives a '96 Jeep that is essentially dying, the four wheel drive doesn't work, it starts shaking uncontrollably at 75mph, two of her doors don't open, they are stuck shut, she has to hit unlock/lock 3x in order for the doors to either lock or unlock, and her mechanic told her that the bottom could drop out at any time. I was like, "is there an "eject" button?" At least her heat works ;) The second reason is because it was a complete white out on the drive up.
But, we made it! We decided to stop in Frisco, one of our favorite towns, and grab a bite to eat. So, we stopped at my favorite breakfast place, The Log Cabin, and the coffee shop Rocky Mountain Coffee (my new favorite coffee shop) for a muffin and hot chocolate.
It was time for some winter activities. We headed to Keystone for some outdoor ice skating. Neither one of us had ice skated in a few years, but I wanted to try and do every cross-training winter activity offered in Colorado. So, this was step 1.
We had worked up a bit of an appetite after a good hour and a half of pretending we were Disney on Ice ;)
BUT…here is where the weekend got interesting. What is the best way to spend 3hrs in Colorado?
1. Getting locked out of your running car in a snowstorm
2. Skiing in-16 below windchill
3. Driving 30 miles in 3hrs – the traffic was soooo bad on I-70 on the way back to Fort Collins from the mountains that we seriously had only driven 30 miles in 3hrs (we even left at 3, before the traffic usually gets bad), and we still had a lot of miles to go. It ended up taking about 5 1/2hrs to go from Breckenridge to Fort Collins which is normally a 2hr drive. It was PAINFUL. We saw people watching movies on their ipads, people practically sleeping and driving at the same time, people put their car in park a few times, we tried making friends with a few people, we sang out loud, and laughed a lot though, it was some quality sister bonding time.
Dinner with my sister and Betsy…
The Colorado adventure continues this week…

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Before you toss out all of your wine bottles, corks, and mason jars, try these quick tricks that can turn those items (and more!) into festive holiday decorations.
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A piece of art consisting of a canvas painted blue with a white line down the middle sold at auction for $44 million. Let that settle in for a minute. Something that took half the skill of the average house painter sold for more money than most people will ever see in their life.
After making the Book of R'lyeh image, I thought it would be fun to imagine what it would be like if Lovecraft's work found its way into other movies and shows. For instance, just imagine Gordon Shumway's surprise when he discovers the truth behind this city full of cats.
The Book of Eli is a movie about a guy named Eli, who has to take a book across the country at the behest of the voice he hears. (Some spoilers after the jump)
The world is a brighter place today. Created eons ago by the Master, the Scumdogs of the Universe, led by Oderus Urungus, have caused war, chaos, and death to spread across the galaxy. And while they may have saved us from the Master, most of their time was spent sacrificing virgins to the World Maggot and having sex with what ever they could find. We can only hope that without their leader, the Scumdogs fall apart and leave us alone!
Over the years, we've seen Jason Voorhees kill, seemingly be killed, and then rise to kill again, with little to know explanation as to why. But I think I've figured it out.
Noticed I screwed up the permalinks for my site after updating a few things on the back end. I fixed it, then realized I that I actually broke them a while ago, and Google indexed all the incorrect links. This means if you came here from a Google search, or a link someone else posted in the last month or so, you probably didn't find what you wanted. I'm hoping that Google re-indexes the right links in a timely fashion, but in the mean time, I'll link a few of the more popular pages here:
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- Creepypasta
- Yes, you can legally own a grenade launcher
- Suzy's Notebook
- The Illuminati is after Tila Tequila
- New Evidence on the Slender Man
- Did you know Harry Potter was racist
- The King in Yellow
- The Elder Sign
- There's something about science fiction and lingerie that just goes together
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Since the 70′s UVB-76 was a short wave radio station that would constantly play a buzzing sound, but at random times, it the buzzing may stop, and you would be greeted to people talking, or maybe some morse code. Yesterday, we were greeted by something a little unexpected though.
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– North Georgia College & State University head softball
coach Mike Davenport has released the much-anticipated schedule for
the 2010 season that features a 42-game slate and matchups with
some of the best teams in the southeast.
Coming off their most successful season in school history that saw the Saints post a record of 50-5 and vault to the #1 team in the country before advancing to the NCAAA Division II National Championships, Davenport and his 19 players will look to repeat as Southeast Regional Champions.
North Georgia opens the season at home the second week of February, hosting a tournament and welcoming Northern Kentucky, Valdosta State, and Delta State to town for the weekend. After a doubleheader on the road at Mars Hill, the Saints will make their third straight appearance at the UAH Charger Chillout, facing six different teams from around the country in the classic.
North Georgia will wrap up the month of February with a home doubleheader against Queens University of Charlotte, a rematch of last year's Southeast Regional. After the Saints host in-state rival West Georgia the first week in March, North Georgia will open their defense of the Peach Belt Conference regular season championship with a road trip to Francis Marion and UNC Pembroke.
After four grueling conference games in the state of North Carolina, the Saints travel back home to welcome LeMoyne College and 2009 World Series Participant, and National Runner-up, Alabama-Huntsville to town for doubleheaders, before jumping right back to league play with another long road trip, this time heading south for double dips at Flagler College and Armstrong Atlantic.
North Georgia will stay in conference play the next three series, hosting USC Aiken, which handed the Saints their only Peach Belt Conference loss last season, before opposing in-state rivals Augusta State and Georgia Southwestern.
Davenport and the Saints will then return the favor to Alabama-Huntsville, traveling to take on the Chargers for a doubleheader on March 30, before gearing up for a stretch run that includes home series' against Tusculum, Columbus State, and Lander University.
North Georgia will end the season just like they did a year ago, traveling to GCSU to take on the Bobcats, before making their way to Florence, South Carolina, to defend their title at the 2010 Peach Belt Conference Tournament hosted by Francis Marion University.
The Saints return eight starters from 2009, including PBC Pitcher of the Year and All-American Sarah Phillips in the circle, while All-Americans Leslee Smith and Courtney McGuire will enter their senior seasons after combining to crush 21 home runs last year.
With the Saints coming in at #3 in the final NFCA Division II Top 25 of the 2009 season, North Georgia will likely debut in one of the top two spots in the country when the preseason poll is released by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association in January of 2010. The Saints were ranked 11th in last year's preseason poll, before rising to the top spot in the nation in final regular season poll.


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Sleepy Hollow (2013) – Created by Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, Phillip Iscove, and Len Wiseman – Episodes 1 and 2, "Pilot" and "Blood Moon" – Starring Tom Mison, Nicole Beharie, Orlando Jones, Katia Winter, John Cho, and Clancy Brown.
The main strength and weakness of SLEEPY HOLLOW is exactly the same thing: the show feels like it's written by stoned high school kids at 3 in the morning.
I get it. Not the stoned part, but I get being a high school kid staying up late with his pals and getting to that point in the night when you become convinced that everything you say is hilarious, when you are quite convinced that in your tired, riotous mind, you are thisclose to uncovering the secret of the universe. I get it. What separates me from Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci is that no one gives me millions to turn my late night madness into a network television show.
Two episodes in and I'm hooked. If nothing else, SLEEPY HOLLOW is not going to go quietly into that cold night of television cancellation. Orci, Kurtzman, Phillip Iscove, and Len Wiseman (better known as Mr. Kate Beckinsale) toss everything and the kitchen sink at your television screen, and the result is something half-mad, half-brilliant, and half-terrible. (You get three halves when it's that late and you're that tired.) When this slapdash approach works, such as when the Headless Horseman picks up an automatic rifle and begins blowing a cop car away, HOLLOW has me smiling from ear to ear. When it doesn't, like Ichabod Crane leads Lieutenant Abbie Mills through a secret passage from the 18th century that contains witch's bones, Revolutionary War gunpowder, a metal staircase, and whatever other plot device a particular episode is going to need, I can't help but roll my eyes.
One assumes that our fearless producers have an idea where everything is going, but HOLLOW feels like a show without a particular plan except to never let any moment go past without some darker secret or mysterious backstory being churned up. The show feels both headless and rudderless, as if we're passengers on a boat that can't steer and where the driver doesn't know where he's going except forward.
It's a show that feels like there's little thought given to how any new revelation fits into the larger scheme. It's a show that's going to doing lots of stupid things along the way, but what I love is that it's going to do this in an effort to please you.
HOLLOW is a bit like pro wrestling in a way. One week you're a face, the next you're a heel, and the audience (usually) just goes along with it because wrestling.
SLEEPY HOLLOW loves to pull this switch. Andy Dunn (John Cho) is a good guy, and then he's a bad guy, and then he's an agent of Satan, and then Satan kills him by snapping his neck, and then his corpse is standing up and he comes back to life, and then he's stealing a cop car, and then he's working with a witch, and then … you want more? All that happened in two episodes.
Everyone in SLEEPY HOLLOW has layers; ironically, the least complicated character on the show is Ichabod Crane (Tom Mison), who was a Brit loyalist during the Revolutionary War, then a traitor, than a secret agent for George Washington, then beheaded the soon-to-be Headless Horseman (who is actually one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse), then died, then was reborn in 2013, and is visited in his dreams by his dead wife.
Who's a witch.
But a good one.
Our lead is Lieutenant Abbie Mills (Nicole Beharie), who's a good cop in a decent-sized town who is about to go to Quantico to be Clarice Starling, except that when Clancy Brown gets killed, she decides to stick around in Sleepy Hollow and address the issue of having seen a witch or demon or Satan when she was a kid. And she's got a sister, who went crazy.
Beharie and Mison are fantastic together, and their chemistry is what carries the show between it's ridiculous set pieces. When stories like SLEEPY HOLLOW happen, I want the characters to get past the weirdness of the set-up and just get on with the show. If I run into Ichabod Crane come back to life, I can be expected to freak out for a few days. But on a TV show, just get on with it. It's a little annoying that in the second episode, there's still some doubt in Abbie, but the show doesn't push too hard at it, so hopefully we're past it now.
You can totally judge the importance of any character on this show by how complicated their backstory becomes. And it's great. And it's awful. And that's what happens to your 3 AM hilarity. You wake up. Some things are still funny. Some things aren't. But it really doesn't matter because it's time for breakfast. Just like it really doesn't matter if everything in SLEEPY HOLLOW makes sense three episodes later. This is a show designed to give you an hour of good times once a week. For all of its blather about a big, dramatic backstory with a war of witches and General Washington and Headless Horseman and the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse, SLEEPY HOLLOW isn't designed to be LOST or Twin Peaks where super fans obsess over every little detail. This is a show designed to give a Headless Horseman an automatic rifle and let him blow things up.
There's enough serious stuff on TV. Right now, I'm loving SLEEPY HOLLOW's approach.
And it's not even 3 AM and I'm not even stoned.
Please check out my published works. I can't promise you there's a headless horseman shooting a machine gun in any of them, but I can promise that guy would fit right in to most of these books.
The Haunting of Kraken Moor (horror)
Gunfighter Gothic (weird western)
Stuffed Animals for Hire: The Christmas Operation (children lit)
Dreamer's Syndrome: Into the New World (urban fantasy)
Rise of the First Woman: A Dreamer's Syndrome Anthology (urban fantasy)
Harpsichord and the Wormhole Witches (cosmic pulp)
Adventures of the Five (children lit)
Marvel Comics on Film
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Early reccommendations for your Summer reading list from visitors to the 2014 Tucson Festival of Books.
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Common bird is considered playful and intelligent, connected to mythology and symbolism.
Dungeons & Dragons, the first fantasy role-playing game, taught players to create imaginary worlds using math, maps, and lots of dice
Hear an excerpt from a novel that imagines an alternate life story for Anne Frank's sister if she had survived The Holocaust
Novelist, essayist Edmund White visits Tucson, to discuss career, latest writings.
Author Craig Johnson talks about the inspiration for his Sheriff Walt Longmire mystery series.
Take a humorous look at both the good and the bad of holiday greeting cards from author and former professional card writer David Dickerson
Her name may be a familiar one, but what does being an NPR librarian actually mean? Find out about her new book "Learn Something New Every Day: 365 Facts to Fulfill Your Life"
An interview about having fun on the darker side of the literary street with the Sierra Vista-based author of horror and fantasy.
The U of A Poetry Center's spring symposium brings together cutting edge literary talent for a celebration of the creative freedom of poetry.
The creator of the prehistoric world of The Clan of the Cave Bear series talks about the inspiration for her work.
Go backstage at a rehearsal for Arizona Theatre Company's newest production, a stage adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby".
Although he was reluctant to call himself a poet, he was considered a great one by his friends and colleagues.
An exhibit at the U of A's Poetry Center celebrates verse written by celebrities like Leonard Nimoy, Jimmy Carter, Viggo Mortensen and Dolly Parton.
The best-selling fantasy author will be the guest of honor at TusCon 38, November 11th - 13th in Tucson.
Her first book in ten years explores her own life and that of the Sonoran Desert in a non-linear fashion.
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What happened was tragic. A family outing nearly turned into a disaster for their pet. While a family ate a waterfront dinner, their white shaggy dog was tied to a long rope in the truck flatbed.
The shiny red pickup truck was parked near the café where they ate. For whatever reason, the beloved pet decided to jump out of the back of the truck. The rope was long enough to let the pup jump, but too short for the animal to reach the ground below. The white puff of hair was tied mid-air, fighting for his life.
My sister heard the dog from the boat she was docking at the marina. She ran, and ran, and ran. The dog fought for a while and finally quieted. My sister thought she was too late. She removed the collar and rope from the white mass of fur. She laid down the shaggy dog in her arms. She whispered a prayer.
The family eating had heard nothing of their dog's yelps for their help. They knew nothing of the struggle their dog had just lost. My sister cried.
Moments later, by a real miracle, the dog slowly began to awaken: eyes opened, breathing started. The family was found in the restaurant. They came outside laughing from their happy meal together with no idea of the trauma outside.
Their dog had lived, but what is to be learned from this horrible situation? The canine did not break its neck, did not fully suffocate and suffered no broken bones. But, who knows if that pup will ever be quite the same. How long was the brain devoid of air?
Sara Anderson, owner of Dogz and director of Boxers and Buddies in Reno, is outspoken about the protection of dogs being transported in the back of pickups. She strongly recommends they be transported inside the correct size airline crate or other appropriate traveling carrier. She also points out that the crate must be secured to prevent it from sliding around in the pickup bed. And, even more important, pets must never be left in their crates in severe weather.
"Too many times I have seen well-meaning but uninformed owners, who truly adore their dogs, lose their companion forever by allowing him or her to ride in the back of a pickup unsecured. Even the best-trained dogs are in danger. Sudden stops, unexpected potholes, a bump in the road or swerving to avoid an object can launch an unsuspecting dog off a truck and into traffic," Anderson said. She added, "Many times dogs that survive the fall are hit by oncoming cars. Dogs that survive can be frightened and disoriented, causing them to lash out at good Samaritans attempting to help or save them."
What many of us might fail to foresee is that dogs attached to a single lead or chain can jump or be thrown off the side of the truck, breaking their necks, slowly strangling them or dragging them along the road before the owner realizes what happened and can safely stop and pull over. Even dogs that are "legally" cross tied in the back of a pickup can suffer sunburn, eye injuries from bugs, stones and other road debris, or get painful particles lodged in their throat, eyes or nose.
If a dog must ride in the back of a pickup, there are several steps that should be followed to enhance safety. First, make sure they're in a kennel-type crate or covered wire crate that is tied or strapped down. Make sure it is securely fastened to the truck bed as unsecured plastic crates have been shown to shatter on impact, potentially injuring or killing the dogs inside. Provide water; in warm weather, you can use ice as it will melt slowly and have less chance of spilling.
Peggy Rew, American Red Cross dog and cat first aid instructor for the Northern Nevada Chapter, also feels strongly about people being prepared pet parents.
"Dogs don't belong in the back of trucks due to weather elements (too hot, too cold, too windy) or safety issues of being improperly secured," she said. "If there's no room for them inside the vehicle, please leave them at home where they are happy and safe."
"This is an extremely dog-friendly community," Diane Blankenburg, community programs/development director for the Nevada Humane Society, told me.
She had a similar experience of witnessing a dog dangling from a lead over the side of a pickup truck. Fortunately, he too was saved.
"Most people love their pets deeply and treat them with the same care as their human family. But some of these same caring people can easily not realize dangers that exist," Blankenburg said. Her advice: "Please be sure to secure pets when transporting them in open-air vehicles — they are depending on us!"
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Looks like Neo and trance drew the short straw and got me :lol:
You'll want to add Zero Djinn to your friends list (or look out for a name with Zero at the start in the guild roster) for me. If we can i'd like to try and catch you both for some tombing at the same time (doesn't mean you'll be restricted to playing with me only when your both on by no means, if you want to come join in give me a call). It'd mean not only do i get to know you both, but you also get to know each other ;)
Feel free to call me anytime during the weekend if you have any questions or jsut want to chat.
I'll be calling out oppurtunities for anyone to join me tombing all weekend most likely so if any of you (thats every last one of five) want to join just shout your name out. We have a general meeting place in tomb districts near the left fire (if your facing the entrance to the underworld).
oh and some other contact:
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13-04-2005, 15:10 #21IGN: Zero Djinn
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13-04-2005, 15:13 #22
Hey guys,
I've played a little bit with some of you in the last two BWEs, but most of the time it was Celine who took control of the computer. So now the odd question follows... I was wondering whether I need to be mentored or not. I kind of feel guilty that I was snuck into the guild because I play together with Celine on one account, but I never really played *that* much with you all so I was thinking I should. Therefore I propose that I will play with you guys in pve pre-searing and post-searing when needed and maybe in gvg if a spot is open.
Anyway, I was ordered by Ceeltje to check a few things out concerning game mechanics which I will try to do when I'm alone between dinners and everything. Next to that I have the full intention to join with you guys in at least pve.
1. I intend to do pre-searing with a new character, the blinding elementalist/warrior idea. I already have some experience with elementalists, since you may remember the mesmer/elementalist (Split Personality) that I've played and Celine has progressed to somewhere around Yak's Bend. Still, I want to learn a bit about melee fighting, so instead of trying out the blinding idea immediately in gvg, I'm going to get her through pre-searing. When I create her I can team up with a new member or someone with free time on his/her hands.
2. I intend to help people with post-searing gameplay if there is a spot open in parties. Just whisper me when you see me. When I'm not in a guild party already I will come over to help; no problem.
- If it is just into post-searing then I hope to use my elementalist/warrior, "Laetitia Celeste"
- If it is somewhere further than I have progressed up to but before Yak's Bend, then I will use my mesmer/elementalist, "Split Personality" ~lvl 9
- If it is beyond Yak's Ben then I will use Ceeltje's ranger/necromancer, "Celine of Dii" ~lvl 15
3. If there is a spot open in gvg or tombs (does that work with a lvl 20 premade?) then I will intend to use a mesmer/monk who specialises in fast casting, energy stealing, party healing and resurrection/vengeance.
I hope I'm not too late in mentioning this, but I just realised myself. I will try to be online at least between the following hours. Mind you that I may go afk for an uncertain amount of time to look after Celine, Larys or Laetitia. I figured out that I cannot be present at the start of the BWE this Friday. We won't be back from the hospital yet.
- Friday 19:00 GMT - Saturday 4:00 GMT
- Saturday 10:00 - 17:00 GMT
- Sunday 10:00 GMT - Sunday 2:00 GMT
Is this okay?
Last edited by Kirsty; 13-04-2005 at 15:25.
13-04-2005, 15:15 #23Originally Posted by raphiel20
Joke aside - Im looking forward to playing in the tombs with you Raph :)King of Trance - Elemetalist/Necromancer
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13-04-2005, 15:27 #24
Originally Posted by raphiel20
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Anyway, to all inductees: By all means, I encourage you play with as many guild members as possible. The mentors are there to introduce you to the guild, and also to give you a couple of people that will be available for you to play with. (I hope that makes sense...)
To Luc: I don't think you need a mentor, but if you're looking for company in pre-sear, I'll be starting a new char (N/W). Just message me in-game, and we can set something up.
13-04-2005, 15:39 #25
We will see on Friday with whom I can best team up for presearing because I will start pretty late on Friday.
13-04-2005, 16:31 #26
Ahoy hoy.
Just had my broadband thingy upgraded and due to the general uselessness of ntl, it took me off the net for nearly 2 days, lol.
Anyway, details about me : I'm in England, so GMT = my time
I still don't have a definite plan for what/where I'll be playing but I imagine I'll start with a bit of PvE and maybe try some PvP on Sunday.
I think I'll try a Ne/Me called Wen Vengeful from Lvl 1, I also have Wen Noble(lvl8-9 if he's still on my account )Mo/Me and if I can join PvP with the unlocked skills, then I'm happy to try a Monk of some sort to help out there.
I can give a decent estimate of when I'm on too ( working during the day fri and sat :( )
Friday: 2200-0100 gmt
Sat: 2000-0200 gmt
Sun: Probably all day
Looking forward to it! :D
13-04-2005, 18:09 #27
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Are you still recruiting?
13-04-2005, 18:32 #28
Originally Posted by The Eternal
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Originally Posted by Xircon
13-04-2005, 18:38 #29Originally Posted by The Eternal
As for all the other new people who are joining us. Be sure that we have a character name for you. I think most of you are already on the game list. Is there any of you that are not?
13-04-2005, 18:51 #30
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I have a old character from february beta, Corin Cohen (stupid name..)
Ill probably creatate a new W/Me , The Eternal
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