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The Torontoist reviews RED SNOW
Updated January 19, 2010
Red, Red Snow
by Dave Howard
Continuing their mission to celebrate comics masters of the past century, Drawn and Quarterly have now brought Susumu Katsumata's award-winning short story collection Red Snow to North America in a tastefully designed and thoughtfully translated release.
Originally published in Japan in 2006 where it won Katsumata the prestigious 35th Japanese Cartoonists Association Grand Prize, Red Snow is a collection of often poignant, elemental, almost fable-like short stories set in the beautiful but complex and brutal world of rural Japan. Katsumata's work is gekiga manga, which can be most easily (but perhaps not entirely faithfully) described as a more sophisticated form of manga intended for adult audiences, the equivalent of the "graphic novel" tag used here in North America (it's probably best to just look this short article about gekiga in wikipedia).
Though the settings are loosely drawn from Katusmata's youth growing up in the countryside in the 1940s and '50s, time and place seem to be stuck in a pre-industrial fiefdom of indentured workers who never own the land they work on. Small entrepreneurs live hand to mouth and must work very hard for their daily bread – fishermen, local woodcarvers, attendants serving the naturally occurring hot springs, and the dark presence of prostitution all make appearances. Katsumata's balance of primal setting and complex characterizations repeatedly draw attention to pressure exerted by the harsh environment on the roles people play in their emotional relationships.
For example, in "Echo," we meet a character who is grateful to have neighbours to talk to and the possibility of a young man to marry his daughter – not surprising, considering he hadn't seen anyone else for the previous six months. In "Red Snow," the collection's final story, we learn of a seasoned sake worker who as a youth fell into one of the giant vats of brine and almost died, an accident that prevented him from ever rising to the post of overseer.
Throughout the stories, the presence of spiritual or supernatural characters – a wronged soul returned from the dead, the occasional talking animal providing commentary – bring a sense of ethical balance to an otherwise unfair human system .
Another common theme is the confinement of women, and the constantly changing grey areas among the roles of employee-servant-caregiver and prostitute. In the first story, "Mulberries," a village boy meets an indifferent and unrepentant village girl stealing mulberries from a neighbour's bush. Her indifference is revealed to not be a typical young girl's coyness but a respite from the much more adult problem she is grappling with – her mother is pressuring her to begin prostituting herself at the spa. I was reminded of Alice Munro's short story "Thanks for The Ride," where the darkness of impending adulthood permeates otherwise innocent social decorum.
Katsumata's ability to blend different cartooning styles as part of the text – one panel is cartoony, the next is a beautiful vista of a mountain side, a third is in photo-reference – is very effective and evocative.
Like all good short stories, the works become deeper on multiple readings, with earlier images, actions and conversations taking on new meanings. I found myself re-examining what I thought each story was trying to say. There are poetic passages throughout, and the downtrodden characters make ethical choices against all odds. In Katsumata's world where there is injustice there is an understanding, and a kindness as well.
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Updated December 7, 2009
December 7, 2009
Flipped!: David Welsh on Susumu Katsumata's Red Snow
by David P. Welsh
While many of the comics in the gekiga category, at least the ones available in English, might fairly be described as gritty, Drawn & Quarterly has offered a new example that's earthy in every regard. Susumu Katsumata's wonderful collection of short stories, Red Snow, examines the lives of people who live off the land. Katsumata renders this world with vigor and authority and without condescension, which is more than enough to move it to the front of the pack of comics that chronicle a rural experience.
Katsumata doesn't merely succeed by comparison. Though his stories share a pre-modern, agrarian setting, they vary in tone from sentimental to scathing. Red Snow is a collection in retrospect, first published in Japan in 2005 by Seirinkogeisha. These tales, originally published in the legendary alt-comics anthology Garo, weren't conceived to contribute to a larger whole, and, if they do, it's the opportunity to admire a gifted, perhaps under-appreciated cartoonist.
I found Katsumata's style of illustration to be wonderfully blunt. Characters are rendered with cartoonish charm but also with sturdiness and force. They aren't merely cute; they suit the lives they lead. As in the work of Osamu Tezuka and the legion of creators he influenced, the exaggerations of their visual conception don't limit their ability to function in dramatic contexts. Brutal exchanges aren't less shocking, and sex doesn't lose its erotic charge. Katsumata can create a fully realized world, rural but not bucolic with a population that's stylized but real.
The stories in Red Snow differ from the bulk of translated gekiga in that they traffic in magical realism, with an emphasis on the realism. Mixed among the brewers, farmers and lumberjacks are figures from folklore like the water imps known as kappa. Their presence doesn't derail the narrative; they really just another part of the population with their own idiosyncrasies and issues. Their oddness contributes to the sense of time and place; it makes the characters' belief in the mysteries around them concrete instead of quaint.
They also differ in the shared focus on both male and female characters. Much as I admire the bleak short stories of Yoshihiro Tatsumi, they do strike me as dominated by the male perspective. The women in Katsumata's stories are much more likely to be equal partners in drama. They work, they yearn, they struggle, they fail, just like their husbands, fathers, neighbors and lovers. "Pulp Novel about a Sack," a sly, shocking look at the women left to their own devices when the men go off to sea, is one of my particular favorites in the collection. It encapsulates so many of the things I like about Katsumata's approach -- the earthiness of the subject matter, the resourcefulness of his characters, and the frankness of his storytelling.
In the tradition of the publisher, Red Snow comes in a very handsome package. The hardcover volume has an attractive design, and the contents have been flipped to left-to-right orientation with Drawn & Quarterly's usual care. Taro Nettleton's translation flows nicely, and translated sound effects are incorporated neatly into the panels, presumably by font designer Rich Tommaso. While neither is essential to appreciating Katsumata's comics, the two text pieces included here (an interview conducted by the editor of the Seirinkogeisha's 2005 version and an appreciative overview that appeared in a South Korean comics magazine) are welcome enhancements.
Drawn & Quarterly isn't a manga publisher in the way that Viz and Del Rey are. Drawn & Quarterly's mission is apparently to publish excellent comics of any provenance, so perhaps the fact that they've published two of 2009's best translated comics from Japan (this one and Tatsumi's A Drifting Life) is just a natural result of their overarching intent. Beyond the quality of the individual books, I very much appreciate the way the publisher is incrementally introducing gekiga to English-reading audiences, focusing first on its founder, Tatsumi, and subsequently unveiling other examples of the category. Last year's Red-Colored Elegy by Seiichi Hayashi offered a long-form example that, while not as bracing today as it must have been when it was first published, did reveal what must have been an essential building block of all of the illustrated tales of disaffected youth that have followed. Red Snow is an engrossing, vibrant next step in the gekiga education that Drawn & Quarterly is offering, giving a further example of the range of experiences that the category explored.
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RED SNOW review in Japan Times
Updated November 30, 2009
Perfectly rendered rural disquiet
by David Cozy
Comic books and graphic novels are treated, nowadays, with a level of respect that would have been unthinkable when they were purchased more often in drugstores than in bookstores. Indeed, it is no longer controversial to say that such works can be art, and that as such they are as worthy of our attention as film, music or literature.
This is not because comics are better now than they used to be; the quality has always been there. Publishers such as Canada's Drawn & Quarterly, by resurrecting work produced in the bad old days when comics were dismissed as disposable pulp, have made this clear, most strikingly with the work of Yoshihiro Tatsumi, the inventor of the sophisticated style of manga known as gekiga.
Tatsumi and his most adventurous contemporaries found a welcoming venue in the avant-garde magazine Garo. It is no surprise, therefore, that when Susumu Katsumata, a generation younger than Tatsumi, decided to forgo an academic career in nuclear physics to become a professional cartoonist, Garo was where he first marketed his work. His four-panel strips began appearing there in 1966 and were, according to editor Mitsuhiro Asakawa, "rather orthodox." Though Katsumata did, Asakawa tells us, occasionally deviate from this orthodoxy, it was not, one suspects, until he began creating short stories such as the 10 collected in "Red Snow" that he found a form suited to his ambition.
With great sympathy and perception, but without rose-colored glasses, Katsumata here evokes his Tohoku childhood. Though simply drawn, the stories are never actually simple; each tale blossoms when reread, and each gives a vivid glimpse of the hard lives of the rural poor among whom Katsumata grew up.
In the first, "Mulberries," we watch two country children, a boy and a girl, move through their days, the boy not having much luck selling the loaches he has gathered and the girl, during a break from her chores at a rustic hot spring, stuffing herself on mulberries with an avidity that suggests not greed but hunger. We watch as the boy continues to be a boy and as the girl, experiencing menarche, moves away from him and toward, it is hinted, a bleak adulthood in which she will be pressured to prostitute herself to guests at the hot spring. The boy, immersed in fantasies of himself as a stylish musician, does not grasp what is happening to the girl, but he is finally perceptive enough to notice her sadness, and that is where the story ends.
There is no action to speak of; the art does not draw attention to itself. In place of resolution, the story leaves us only with uncertainty about the children's future, an uncertainty much truer than any resolution could have been, and much more conducive to keeping the story alive in our minds after we have turned the last page.
We are far from men-in-tights territory here, but Katsumata does not shy away from the fantastic. His fantasy is always integral to the harsh realism of his work in that it derives from the myths and legends native to the rural Japan about which he is writing.
Kappa, for example — which Katsumata describes in an interview as "a half human creature living in the water, much like a miscarried fetus . . . an amphibian" — surface in some of the tales. But even with these water sprites wandering through them, Katsumata's stories are always firmly anchored in the mundane.
The protagonist of "Torajiro Kappa" is an entirely human boy with a very real problem: the man for whom he works beats his wife. The boy appeals for help to a kappa — consider the kappa an imaginary friend if you must — but though the kappa is nearly killed in his attempt to help the boy, he fails for reasons to do with mysteries the boy has yet to penetrate, and what is worse, the battered woman sides not with the kappa but with her tormentor.
In the wake of this defeat the kappa leaves the village; the story, we see, is as much about the end of childhood and its enchantment as about a duel between men and mythological creatures.
The prostitution looming over the young woman in "Mulberries," the battering of a wife in "Torajiro Kappa": Katsumata's sympathy for the hard lot of these rural women is, along with sex and death, a recurring thread running through several of the tales collected in "Red Snow." Although the cartoonlike simplicity with which Katsumata draws his characters, and his ever-present lightness of touch, can cause one to forget it, the world he gives us is no rural idyll. Rather, it is a rural reality that, thanks to Katsumata's skillful rendering, is very much alive.
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Deb Aoki thinks RED SNOW is magical.
Updated November 16, 2009
The Bottom Line
by Deb Aoki
Lust-filled monks and farmers' wives rub shoulders with kappa, kitsune and forest gods in Red Snow, a collection of charming, yet dark fables for grown-ups.
Compared to the gritty, urban gekiga tales of Yoshihiro Tatsumi, Red Snow offers similar themes of sex, depravity, obsession and innocence lost but with rural, pre-industrialized Japan as its backdrop. Katsumata deftly mixes humor, fantasy and melodrama and wraps it all up in surreal, sensual and distinctively Japanese imagery. A gekiga gem that's magical, memorable and utterly unforgettable.
-Charming fables for grown-ups that mix myth, humor, romance, sex and melodrama
-Deftly mixes the hardships of rural life with whimsical flights of fantasy
-Simple yet delightful artwork that offers moments of wry comedy and poetic grace
-Katsumata is an equal opportunity storyteller who creates engaging male and female characters
-Gorgeous, gift-worthy hardcover edition gives Katsumata's art the first-class treatment it deserves
-While mostly stylized and suggestive, some sex scenes include descriptions of rape and violence
-Several not-so-common Japanese words and cultural references are left without annotation
-Includes strong language and mature situations, so it's not for younger teens
Guide Review - Red Snow
Before it known was the land of high-tech innovations, Japan was a land of forests, mountains, seashores and rice paddies. Sure, there were samurai and merchants, but there were also hardworking farmers, craftsmen and laborers who struggled to keep a roof over their heads, and food on their tables.
It's in this world that Susumu Katsumata set Red Snow, his collection of gekiga-style short stories. While the gekiga of Yoshihiro Tatsumi focuses on a relentlessly grim vision of urban Japan, Katsumata's Red Snow depicts sex, scandals and depravity in the Japanese countryside but also moments of nostalgia, magic and slice-of-life humor.
Many stories in Red Snow seem similar to fables -- but with an adult twist. Desire is a pervasive theme in these stories, expressed as young love, pre-pubescent flirting, sexual abuse and perversity. Young and old, men and women alike are depicted as unabashedly sexual beings, sometimes in surprising ways.
In Pulp Novel About a Sack, a traveling monk visits a village where the men have left to work as migrant laborers. While the monk attends to the townswomen's spiritual well-being, women want him to attend to their other needs, and it may be more than he can handle.
With its matter-of-fact approach to sex, Red Snow has an earthy, sensual quality to its storytelling. These stories were created when Katsumata was in his later years, so he doesn't shy away from depicting middle-aged men and women as unabashedly sexual beings who have desires just like young adults.
But that's not to say that Red Snow is pornographic -- sure, there's some strong language and mature themes that make it unsuitable for younger readers, but Katsumata depicts these scenes tastefully by using clever visual metaphors, like a bottle of sake yeast that pops open in the snow, or a woman's foot peeking out from under a flowing sheet to suggest intimacy.
The other theme that pervades Red Snow is wistful nostalgia for pre-industrialized Japan, when life was harder, but also simpler and a little more magical. In several stories, talking tanuki (raccoon dogs) and kappa (water spirits) interact with humans to bring a touch of fantasy, humor and uniquely Japanese charm to these otherwise dark fables of human desires.
Katsumata originally drew yon-koma (four panel comic strips), so his use of exaggerated facial expressions shows his 'gag comics' roots. But there are also numerous examples of Katsumata's artistry. The Dream Spirit displays Katsumata's mastery of page and panels, as he draws a monk transforming himself into a crow to seduce a woman. Robes fly and passions flare in a scene that is surreal, sensual and quite beautiful to behold.
Red Snow is not your typical manga collection, but for fans of gekiga, indie comics and folk tales, Katsumata offers an unforgettable glimpse into a Japan that is rarely seen and is rapidly disappearing. A gekiga gem for grown-ups that will surprise and delight fans of comics and Japanese culture.
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RED SNOW a gekiga gem!
Updated November 9, 2009
This Week's New Manga: InuYasha Gets BIG, Red Snow Debuts
by Deb Aoki
While mid-month tends to be slow for new manga, there's lots of intriguing series and one-shots making their debut this week from CMX Manga, Drawn and Quarterly, TokyoPop and VIZ Media.
Topping this week's list of new releases is the VIZ Big edition of Inu Yasha, which collects the first three volumes of Rumiko Takahashi's long-running adventure series in a larger format. With 56 volumes in the regular run of Inu-Yasha, we can look forward to at least 18 more VIZ Big volumes to come.
Also new and well-worth picking up is Red Snow, a new gekiga gem by Susumu Katsumata from Drawn and Quarterly. Like their prior releases of manga by Yoshihiro Tatsusmi, D and Q pulled out the stops to give this award-winning collection of short stories of rural Japan the deluxe, hardcover treatment.
If hard-boiled action is more to your taste, VIZ Signature has Jormungand, which is chock-full of gun-slinging and international intrigue, ala Black Lagoon.
For something a little more heart-warming, but with a touch of supernatural suspense, try Deka Kyoshi, which features an undercover cop who gets assigned to an elementary school class after their teacher dies under mysterious circumstances.
Or for something sweet, light and fun, check out Mikansei No. 1, a romantic comedy about a time-traveling 23rd century teen who tries to make it as a pop star in the 21st century.
Here's what's especially new and notable for this week, and the rest of the list by publisher to follow.
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Comic Book Resources review RED SNOW
Updated November 9, 2009
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Red Snow
by Susumu Katsumata
A woman falls in love with the spirit of a chestnut tree only to see it chopped down. A traveling monk becomes the unwanted play thing for a group of lonely house wives. Anothe rmonk dreams of sexual conquest. A battered wife puts up with her husband's alcoholism and abuse because that's the only time he can sexually gratify her.
As my poor attempts at encapsulation suggest,, this collection of short stories by the late gekiga artist Katsumata deal with the give and take between the sexes, set against the backdrop of a rural, feudal Japan. Katsumata makes no bones about the second-class status and hardships that women in this particular culture must endure, but has no interest in being one-sided. The women here can be just as abusive and manipulative as the men, they just aren't always as successful in getting their way, and their fall can be a lot greater.
None of this is overt. Katsumara delivers all his stories in sleight-of-hand style so that the book's themes only seep into your brain slowly, and with multiple readings. This is a book I'll be pulling off my shelf and musing over for some time to come.
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Updated November 2, 2009
Manga Friday: 'Red Snow' by Susumu Katsumata
Gekiga stories of Japanese rural life a hundred years ago
by Andrew Wheeler
From a Western perspective, it would be understandable to assume "gekiga" meant "short, depressing Japanese comics stories," even if that's not the most accurate definition. (Gekiga can also be long depressing Japanese comics stories, of course.) And, since the current exemplar of gekiga for those of us in the English-speaking world is Yoshihiro Tatsumi, there's a sense that those short, depressing stories need to be set in the modern world, that gekiga is a literature of urban ennui and the dislocations of modern capitalism.
But gekiga is wider than that; Katsumata is another one of its masters, and his collection Red Snow is filled entirely with stories of a rural, pre-war Japan – but one as filled with bitter unhappiness and struggle as any badly-thrown-up Tokyo apartment building of the '60s. His rural landscapes have nothing of nostalgia about them; these are insular, stifling, dull little farming communities, full of equally dull and small-minded people, out in the middle of nowhere.
A few of these stories have supernatural elements, but the only creatures that appear are kappa – mischievous water spirits that fill the role of leprechauns or pixies in Japanese folklore, and were thought of as being equally as common and prosaic. The fantasy in Red Snow isn't numinous or uplifting – it's just yet another annoyance in a small village full of them, just one more damn thing to have to deal with. Kappa are no worse than the rich guy in town who thinks he has the right to seduce any woman around – who's also called "kappa."
Katsumata's stories are earthy, encompassing the sound of a monk killing his fleas and the violent battles of young kids over minor, pointless thing. They're similarly clear-eyed about sex, which rarely works out well for the women in these villages, with their extremely limited choices. If they're not old women shattered by being raped as a young bride (as in "Cricket Hill"), they're prostitutes, or unmarried women getting older but still trying to preserve their virtue, or middle-aged wives beaten by drunken husbands. (They do occasionally get some fun in – as in "The Sack," when they trade a monk around town for favors, keeping him tied up in a sack when he's not performing.)
The men are physically stronger, and have a bit more control over their lives, but they still don't have a lot of hope – they're farmers or small shopkeepers, doing the same hard work over and over again until they die. Katsumata shows many scenes of men making charcoal, or sake, or carving wood – their work might not be all of their lives, and might not be the part of their lives that they prefer, but it's ubiquitous and never-ending.
That covers sex and death – Red Snow also touches on the third major theme of rural life: drunkenness. There's the husband who has to get drunk to have sex with his wife – but who always gets angry and starts beating her first. There's the sake workers in the title story, obsessed with sex even though one of the overseers insists they must remain celibate while preparing the fermentation broth – and the girl who cajoles one of them into stealing half-fermented sake yeast for her.
Katsumata doesn't flinch from showing rural life in its nastiness and ugliness, but he doesn't revel in it, either – these aren't cautionary tales, or sensational ones, but matter-of-fact stories of regular people leading regular lives. They're all just trying to get by, to have a little happiness in their lives – just like the rest of us. Most manga stories would romanticize this setting, either making it a pre-industrial paradise or a hell populated by every supernatural creature the manga-ka ever heard of. But Katsumata take a middle path – these lives are not easy, but they're recognizable normal human lives, in real village with solidity and depth. And the stories in Red Snow may well be the closest any of us will ever come to living in a society like this. I'm certainly happy I don't live in villages like these, but I'm also happy that Red Snow gave me a window into this now-vanished world.
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RED SNOW review on Manga Recon
Updated November 2, 2009
Red Snow
by Ken Haley
Drawn and Quarterly continues to expand their collection of gegika titles with Susumu Katsumata's Red Snow. This book is a collection of short stories depicting life in rural Japan with an interesting blend of folklore, reality and Katsumata's own observations from his younger years. The result is a fascinating collection of work unlike anything I've come across before.
Each story is self-contained; they run the gamut
from tales that are solidly realistic in nature, to stories dealing with kappa, curses and other such supernatural elements. At times I found it difficult to nail down just what each tale was about or depicting. Things like the bizarre tale of a kappa fighting to defend an apparently abused wife, or the strange relationship between a young boy and the daughter of an innkeeper feel a bit more straightforward in terms of themes and messages. But then there are stories of lonely village women kidnapping a monk and passing him around over a period of several months, and a tale of a young woman who's apparently in love with a tree spirit, and just what they're trying get at seemed a bit more nebulous and vague. Regardless, I still felt they were entertaining and interesting reads and found the casual manner with which Katsumata seamlessly weaves tanuki and kappa into slice-of-life stories fascinating to behold.
Katsumata's artwork is like nothing I've come across in my manga reading before now. Vastly different from the current shonen fare, and from even classic seinen series of yore, the visuals look old but fit the setting of the tales perfectly. It gives the stories an aged feel appropriate to the settings and era in which they take place. While the visuals are different, the pacing definitely reminded of Tezuka's Black Jack and the few Ishinmori books that I've read. The paneling is very grid-like: there are few splash pages, oddly shaped panels and the like. His use of toning is wonderfully done and I found myself flipping through to make sure that he actually used them. It's just integrated so perfectly that it doesn't jump out at all unlike some of the manga of today which lathers it on.
Red Snow is certainly an interesting read and I definitely suggest seeking it out, if only to get a taste of the gekiga genre, which isn't exactly huge in the US market. This was my first look at the D&Q gekiga releases and I'm glad I had a chance to check it out as it's just so different from almost every other manga I've read, both visually and with regards to its content. Very interesting and I'm tempted to seek out more of their releases.
Red Snow will be available in November 2009.
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Updated October 28, 2009
Review: Red Snow
by Michael C. Lorah
Drawn & Quarterly's importing of Yoshihiro Tatsumi's "gekiga" manga to English-speaking shores has been very welcome in many quarters, particularly my home. My appreciation for comics from the East is blunted somewhat by the focus on genre-centric titles and incredibly long running serials. Tatsumi's short stories and human gravitas really hit the mark for me, and I looked forward to D&Q's latest gekiga "discovery," Susumu Katsumata.
Well, Mr. Katsumata's work isn't quite on part with Tatsumi's comics, though the short story collection Red Snow does have several positives. Setting all his stories in the pre-industrial Japanese countryside of his own youth, Katsumata's comics are securely anchored in the details of rural life. Permeated with a sense of melancholy and small-town corruption, each tale beckons readers to explore the darker side of small town life.
Infused with an exceedingly dry, black humor (a village of women whose husbands have gone away to work keep a monk in a sack and pass him from home to home each night) and Japanese folklore (kappas abound), the tales in Red Snow are perhaps a little far removed from the experience of many Western readers. That distance may prevent Katsumata's work from reaching the same level as Tatsumi's work has achieved on these shores, but each story reveals intentions that reach across cultural barriers when you take time to explore it.
Katsumata's illustration has certain limitations, with spotty anatomy and inconsistent faces, but his use of exaggeration to convey emotional qualities is very effective. The backgrounds are much more consistent than the figures, establishing each scene in a specific pre-industrial reality. Clear and structured, Katsumata's page layouts are easy to read for even a novice comics reader.
Susumu Katsumata's Red Snow is a solid collection of gekiga stories. The work doesn't muster the same snap as Tatsumi's comics, but readers interested in darkly humorous manga that explores the underbelly of rural life will likely find several gems in Katsumata's book that justify the time spent exploring his work.
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The Stranger gives colourful review of RED SNOW
Updated October 26, 2009
Mother(fucking) Nature
A New Manga Collection Explores Sex and the Wilderness
by Corey Kahler
The first story in Susumu Katsumata's collection of 10 gekiga, "Mulberries," begins with a typically comic situation—an early adolescent boy and girl bicker back and forth. Within just a few pages, however, the girl has nearly been raped and the boy has been given relationship advice by a mythical creature, while Katsumata also pauses to close in on bugs and the silhouettes of bathers in the distance. These moments don't climax to any resolution, however. Instead, these observations of rural life—sharp contrasts of serenity and cruelty—pull the reader into the book and set the tone for the remaining stories.
In this collection, the late Katsumata explores his own rather harsh but somehow still idyllic youth in Japan's countryside in the years after World War II. The typically cartoonish characters live out their dramas among fine etchings of farmlands, mountains surrounded by rain clouds, and landscapes filled with animal life, reflecting Katsumata's upbringing and enlivening the standard manga style. Katsumata even goes so far as to include a two-panel close-up of a pissing bull, finely detailed. This moment aside, the landscapes are beautiful to observe, but they are the backdrop to a rough existence where women are regularly assaulted (though in the story "Torojiro Kappa," beatings serve as part of the woman's sexual gratification); monks disregard their religion for drink and lust, as in both "The Dream Spirit" and "The Sack"; and nature is quick to kill, occasionally with supernatural means, as in "Kokeshi."
Katsumata plays with the interaction of nature and society most of all in the titular story. Here, a young man's sexual encounters with a prostitute and, later, a young admirer overlap the ideas of affection and base sexual desire by projecting these concepts into the setting of the characters, using the process of sake brewing, snowstorms, and hard labor to investigate these ideas more fully.
Although life is tough in Katsumata's world, stories such as "The Specter," "Kokeshi," and "Wild Geese Memorial Service" imagine nature as a symbol for trying to do more than just survive. With mythical creatures screaming "perverts!" at townspeople, talking tanuki with testicles exposed, and obese mountain hags appearing in the snow, the stories aren't idealizations of nature simply as an innocent model that humanity should return to. Instead, Katsumata gives a voice (sometimes a literal voice) to nature that interacts with modern society and tries to improve humanity while keeping all its profanities intact.
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Awesome review of RED SNOW in the Miami Herald!
Updated October 20, 2009
by Richard Pachter
• Red Snow. Susumu Katsumata. Drawn & Quarterly. 240 pages. $24.95.
This sweet compilation of short stories seamlessly blends fantasy and reality in a pastoral, pre-industrial setting. Katsumata is a fluid, imaginative artist with a light touch, and the humanity of his characters shines throughout, especially when he casts his affectionate eye on sex, magic and the sexes.
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Chris Oliveros interviewed by Publishers Weekly
Updated August 12, 2009
Over at Drawn and Quarterly, publisher Chris Oliveros was on hand to talk with PWCW about gekiga, the "literary" manga genre focused on capturing a gritty sense of reality . On the heels of the success of Tatsumi Yoshihiro's acclaimed manga biography, A Drifting Life, D&Q will publish two more gekiga books this fall, Red Snow by Susumu Katsumata, winner of the Japanese Cartoonists Association Award grand prize in 2006, and the edgy Box Man by contemporary creator Imiri Sakabashira.
"With each passing month we're discovering more and more gekiga artists, " Oliveros said. "There's amazing work out there." Oliveros compares gekiga to American independent comics. "The themes are similar." He said. "But it preceded independent comics here [by 30-40 decades]. Here it was [superheroes like] Aquaman.You could see the beginnings of indie comics in the underground comics, but it doesn't have the subtlety that gekiga has."
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Sunday, May 06, 2007Taylor Callahan (Pendergrass, Ga./Greater Atlanta Christian) broke Valparaiso's career hits record Sunday, while Shannon Robinson (Toronto, Ont./John Redmond) surpassed the Crusader single-season hits record as Valpo split a doubleheader with Oakland Sunday in Rochester, Mich. The Crusaders dropped the opener in nine innings, 2-1, before bouncing back with an 8-2 victory in the nightcap.
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Washington Harbour offers spectacular views of the Potomac River. Visitors can see the Kennedy Center, Washington Monument, Roosevelt Island, and the Key Bridge, while dining at a Georgetown waterfront restaurant. This historic Georgetown location features luxury condominiums, office space, a public boardwalk and waterfront restaurants that offer seasonal outdoor dining and Sunday brunch. Washington Harbour was flooded in April 2011 causing extensive damage to many of the businesses. The restaurants have been renovated and reopened in 2012.
3000 K St. NW, Washington, DC (202) 944-4200
The restaurant offers contemporary American cuisine and is especially popular for happy hour and brunch during the summer months.
Tony & Joes
3050 K St. NW, Washington, DC (202) 944-4545
The seafood restaurant was completely renovated and reopened in 2012. The new design provides an open floor plan with a focus on the waterfront view. The menu has been updated to include a variety of new dishes.
Nick's Riverside Grill
3050 K St. NW, Washington DC (202) 342-3535
The American restaurant was also renovated in 2012. The design is a split level with a large bar, a fireplace and dining rooms that overlook the Potomac River and the fountain side of the harbour.
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The players are off today before returning Wednesday to begin preparations for the Rams in Sunday's opener.
Here is the breakdown of player participation against the Giants
(64 snaps, which includes three penalties)
DL: Albert Haynesworth 46, Phillip Daniels 43, Cornelius Griffin 51, Andre Carter 61, Lorenzo Alexander 17, Kedric Golston 26, Jeremy Jarmon 9.
LB: London Fletcher 64, Rocky McIntosh 57, Brian Orakpo 54, Chris Wilson 10.
DB: Carlos Rogers 59, DeAngelo Hall 62, Fred Smoot 12, LaRon Landry 63, Reed Doughty 30, Chris Horton 40.
Analysis: Other media will make a big deal out of Haynesworth's playing time but he played 72 percent of the snaps — that will be the norm this season. Just because he's making $41 million guaranteed doesn't mean his playing time should jump to Andre Carter territory. Every team in the league has a defensive tackle rotation. … Fletcher was the only defensive player to play every snap … Interesting situation at safety. Horton started but played only five snaps in the last six drives.
(49 snaps, not including fake field goal)
RB: Clinton Portis 24, Ladell Betts 19, Mike Sellers 18.
TE: Chris Cooley 43, Fred Davis 13.
WR: Santana Moss 47, Antwaan Randle El 32, Devin Thomas 14, Malcolm Kelly 32, Marko Mitchell 1.
Analysis: Portis should be fresh for the Rams — he carried only 18 times. Randle El played more than Kelly, who started, so enough with the chatter about the Redskins having a No. 2 and 3 receiver — it's basically Nos. 2 and 2A. … The five offensive lineman and QB Jason Campbell played every snap.
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BullbeggarBull"beg`gar\, n. Something used or suggested to produce terror, as in children or persons of weak mind; a bugbear. And being an ill-looked fellow, he has a pension from the church wardens for being bullbeggar to all the forward children in the parish. --Mountfort (1691).
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The two weeks leading up to the Super Bowl produce all sorts of interesting anecdotes about the players involved. Not surprisingly, the starting quarterbacks are particularly popular subjects with the media.
According to an article in the New York Post by Kevin Kernan, soft-spoken Baltimore Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco was quite the stud in high school. In the article, Flacco's coach for three of his four years at Audubon (N.J.), Mark Deal, recalled the time that Flacco stood at midfield, took one step and threw a ball off the top upright, just as he'd said he would.
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"Now, remember, he's 50 yards away, the end zone is another 10 yards and it's the top of the upright, about a 75-yard throw,'' Deal said.
Kernan also talked to Flacco's dad, Steve, who said he taught Joe to horse-collar opponents when Joe played safety.
Joe Flacco at safety? It's true.
"We used to call him the 'Long Arm of the Law,' " Steve told Kernan. "He'd yank them out of their shoes."
The Ravens certainly hope Flacco is throwing more 75-yard darts -- like the game-tying touchdown he threw to Jacoby Jones in Baltimore's Divisional Playoff win over Denver -- and making fewer horse-collar tackles on Sunday.


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<Brennen> A book by MarshallBrain. Chapters are available on the web. The oddest combination of condescension, sometimes common sense, and don't-rock-the-boat-ism. I started off just sort of ridiculing it, but the more I think about it, the more I feel like it embodies a whole mindset that's all over the place, and is probably worthy of a few minutes' serious consideration.
Some thoughts on good and evil:
:Is it true that good triumphs over evil? Do people who follow the path of goodness generally succeed? And do those who follow the bad path fail? In general this is the case. Think about Adolf Hitler. He was evil incarnate. The entire world fought a war to stop him and he lost. Think about criminals. Eventually they are arrested and put in jail. Think about drug dealers. They die from taking the drugs they sell. Or they are killed by other drug dealers. Or the police capture them. Think about dishonest people. Eventually, they are caught in their dishonesty and pay the price. People who do the right thing are rewarded. Those who do not pay for it. Either they pay for it directly (by going to jail, for example), or they pay for it when their conscience starts bothering them.
<Brennen> Or, like most of the drug dealers I've known, they make a little cash on the side and eventually graduate from college with less debt than, say, me.
:Why is it that good triumphs over evil? Why is it that this is such a consistent fact of life? Why is it that you can reliably predict the future of a person's life based on his goodness or evilness? First, most people are fundamentally good and they do not tolerate bad. Society as a whole has an interest in promoting goodness, so it does. When someone lies to you, for example, you find you cannot trust that person. Therefore, you stop doing business with that person. So do other people. The lying person goes out of business or loses his job. The second reason is that bad acts often have bad consequences associated with them. That is simply how the world works. You might do something bad once and get away with it. Maybe twice. Maybe many times. But in general the natural consequences of bad acts catch up with you and you reap what you sow.
<Brennen> I don't even know where to start.
And this, this is priceless:
:Get a haircut—There is nothing more ridiculous to an adult than a person in a suit who has a non-suit haircut. Get a professional, business-like haircut to go with your suit. You may feel silly when you first look at it. Here is a fact: You and maybe a few of your friends are the only people who feel that way. The whole rest of the world expects a haircut that matches the suit. In this same category goes, "Shine your shoes." If you are going to do this, do it right.
Ok, I have got to stop now.
<Brennen> Well, one more - check out Figure 1. Also,
:Why in the world would you want to do any of that? What does it accomplish? Have you ever had a successful adult businessman pull up to you in his Lexus and say, "Come on, let's go bash mailboxes together! I have a bat in the back seat!" Of course not.
You know, that never did happen when I was a teenager, but I do ''so'' wish it had.
:Many of your peers don't have any goals, and that is why their lives are often so random and pointless. Instead of trying to figure out a better way to kill your neighbor's cat, you could instead be learning about our society and economy and figuring out a way to build a business or career that will make you a millionaire.
If only someone had mentioned this ''before'' I invested so much in that crossbow...
And, finally:
:Do not hang out with college students; many are clueless.
Fuckin' A right, man.
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What are some reasons why we read poetry? Why turn to a poem over a novel, a play, a philosophical treatise?
How to Write a Poem
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"The imminence of a revelation not yet produced" is a remarkable formulation for describing the process of the future unfolding, and it is what I hope to signify by the term the "pragmatist sublime."
What is the difference between a poem we call mawkish, or overly sentimental, and a poem that carries the right amount of sentimentality and wit?
If Ashbery's poems are premised, if distantly, on a hope for the future, a hope for new imaginary communities, a hope for a new way of speaking, Creeley's poem are cynical about the future, isolated from community, and unable to even speak.
So what are some other major facets of Ashbery's relationship to American pragmatism?
I want to start with a problem: an overwhelming, close to paralyzing sense that an essay about John Ashbery's poetry is like a representational critique of a cubist painting.


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Several Midlands attorneys have been named Super Lawyers and Risings Stars in the 2013 edition of the "South Carolina Super Lawyers." Among the firms and attorneys included:
Bluestein, Nichols, Thompson & Delgado: Marti Bluestein and John Nichols, Super Lawyers; and Allison Sullivan, Rising Star; Callison, Tighe & Robinson: Michael W. Tighe and M. Malissa Burnette, Super Lawyers; and Kathleen McDaniel, Rising Star; Fisher & Phillips: Cheryl L. Behymer, Michael D. Carrouth, G. Daniel Ellzey, Stephen C. Mitchell, Jonathan P. Pearson and J. Hagood Tighe, Super Lawyers; and Karen L. Luchka and Edward Rawl, Rising Stars; Gaffney, Lewis & Edwards: Amy L. Gaffney, Super Lawyer; and Mary D. LaFave, Rising Star; Haynsworth, Sinkler Boyd: Frank W. Cureton, J. Donald Dial Jr., Randolph B. Epting, Thomas R. Gottshall, Manton M. Grier, John B. McArthur, Stanley H. McGuffin, Stephen F. McKinney, Hamilton Osborne Jr., William H. Short Jr. and Benton D. Williamson, Super Lawyers; and William R. Johnson, Lindsey C. Livingston and Tigerron A. Wells, Rising Stars; Sowell, Gray, Stepp & Laffitte: Biff Sowell, Bobby Stepp, Becky Laffitte, Cal Watson and Monty Todd, Super Lawyers; and Tina Cundari and Amy L.B. Hill, Rising Stars; and Turner, Padget, Graham & Laney: Reginald W. Belcher, John E. Cuttino, Catherine H. Kennedy, Lanneau W. Lambert Jr., Edward W. Laney IV, Thomas C. Salane and Franklin G. Shuler Jr., Super Lawyers; and Shannon F. Bobertz , Matthew R. Cook and Nicholas Gladd, Rising Stars.
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With its gripping depiction of American slavery, 12 Years a Slave is being praised as the year's best film by many critics, including Rolling Stone's own Peter Travers. It's an eye-opening true story that follows Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free black man who is abducted and sold to work on a cotton plantation.
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Northup's story has also inspired an eclectic group of songwriters who paid tribute to the film on its musical companion, Music From and Inspired by 12 Years a Slave. Curated by R&B singer John Legend and featuring a score from composer Hans Zimmer, the album includes original tracks and covers from artists like Alicia Keys, Gary Clark Jr., Alabama Shakes and Cody Chesnutt. The full LP is available below as an exclusive stream.
Chris Cornell, solo artist and frontman of Soundgarden, contributed a new song called "Misery Chain" with Civil Wars vocalist Joy Williams. In a press release, Cornell talked about the inspiration for the track.
"I was moved by this film and the story in a way that transcends any film experience I have ever had," he said. "I was inspired to write a hundred different songs, but finally landed on one based on what I believe is an extremely important message I took from this man's journey. Compassion, basic human rights and love must be our priorities above race, religion or commerce. Every generation needs a reminder of that simple idea."
Music From and Inspired by 12 Years a Slave will be released on November 5th in digital format, with a physical release to follow on November 19th. The album is available for pre-order at iTunes and Amazon.
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Man Crush of the Week: Robert Griffin III
Somehow I haven't given RG3 Man Crush of the Week every week he's been alive, even though he probably deserves it.
When the Redskins traded a million picks for RG3, it seemed like another typical Redskins move that was bound to backfire on them, cripple the franchise for the foreseeable future, all while Griffin presumably would tear every ligament in his knees early in the season.
None of this happened. RG3 is the most dynamic player in football, if not the best. And he's just getting started.
He's super humble, despite just setting the rookie quarterback rushing record on Monday Night Football defeating the defending Super Bowl champs. More impressively, the Redskins are now 6-6 and might even make the playoffs as they're only a game out of the NFC East lead. And he still hasn't blown out his knees.
Griffin isn't just Michael Vick 2.0. He's the complete quarterback. He can actually throw the ball too, currently third in QB rating, just behind Aaron Rodgers and Peyton Manning. He might rush for 1,000 yards. And hasn't killed any dogs.
On Monday night Griffin wasn't at his most impressive, having thrown four touchdown passes the week before. But in a game the 'Skins had to win, he lead them to victory. And even more amazingly, he attended the Wizards game against the Heat, sitting courtside, and the Wizards won their second game of the year, not coincidentally.
Douchebag of the Week: David Stern
In the world we currently live in, Bud Selig is the most likable commissioner in sports, despite him dedicating his life to being just the opposite. But compared to Roger Goodell and his replacement refs and Gary Bettman and his outward disdain for his own sport actually being played, there's not a lot of competition. Previously David Stern would have been the easy call for most likable commissioner. And he's done nothing but tarnish his legacy the last couple year.
Starting with the lockout and followed by the Chris Paul Lakers veto, Stern is certainly going out with a bang. But when he decided to fine the Spurs $250,000 for resting their stars, Stern has now stepped into the realm of roster management in an even more invasive way than anyone in sports has before.
Look, what a team does with its players is up to them. I'm pretty sure the Spurs, the most successful organization of the new millennium, knows what they are doing. I mean, Tim Duncan is basically 90. I have no problem resting him. Or anyone, really. Yet because the game was nationally televised against the league's favorite Miami Heat, it ended up being a big deal. At least to Stern.
Oh, also he hates the Spurs. And this was essentially a personal vendetta against a team being great/boring. A $250,000 fine isn't just uncalled for, it is obscene. Now it opens up cans of worms where the league can dictate what teams do with their players. It's a really bad precedent, but hopefully one that won't last due to Stern retiring.
This week Stern sited random 2010 discussions about reporting injuries, something he must have been desperately looking for as a justification for the fine. Because Stern acted like a child whose parents wouldn't buy them a new Leonardo action figure even though this one was totally different than one you already had (we've all been there).
And if that wasn't bad enough, Stern is going to allow a team to actually be called the Pelicans. For real.
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What Is Battle Rap?:
Battle rap is a style of hip-hop that stems from the quest to be competitive within the culture. Although, battle rap is sometimes directed to anonymous rivals or used as a forum to sharpen ones lyrical swords, it could be utilized in calling out detractors when made specifically for an individual.
Elements & Style:
Braggadocio is the crux of battle rap. Battle emcees focus on boastful lines and self-glorifying rhymes about one's proficiency or level of success, accompanied by verbal insults hurled at the other party directly or subliminally. Battle rappers often go as far as researching the dirty past of an opponent in order to dig up some self-injuring facts. These are then incorporated into the rhymes to downgrade the opposing party.


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it's rare to find one tires that can do all those things and do them well...
my '91 F-150 had old all season tires.. which were fine for summer, not so good for winter.. where we already have over 16 inches of snow on the ground.
welp, today i broke down and bought two front tires... went with the recommendation from the tire guy... glad I did too. (235/75/R15 for you tire nerds) :tongue:
Went with Yokohama Geolandar A/T-S (all terrain + Snow) these are mounted on the front of the truck.. dang if I don't have some serious stopping traction now, even in the deep as hell snow where I live. I have never owned a pair of tires that handle the snow so well.
Rear tires are dedicated Firestone studded snow tires, which I got last winter. So now my little truck kicks the snow's ass :tongue: and laughs at it.
Come spring I'll replace the rear all season's with another pair of the Yoko's.
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Bund[bo̵ont, bo̵ond]
- The definition of a bund is stone or earth formed into an embankment to hold back water or an alliance, generally in a religious or political society.
- An example of a bund is a dike.
- An example of a bund is a group fighting for socialism.
or Bund
nounpl. bunds ,
- a league or confederation
- a political organization; specif., the German-American Bund, a former pro-Nazi organization in the U.S.
Origin of bundGerman ; from root of binden, bind
Related Forms:
- bundist
in India and the Far East, an embankment or quay, or an embanked road along a waterfront
Origin of bundAnglo-Indian ; from Hindi band, embankment, dike ; from Persian bändär, harbor
An embankment or dike, especially in South Asia.
Origin of bundHindi band, from Persian, from Middle Persian, from Avestan *banda-, from Old Iranian; see bhendh- in Indo-European roots.
- An association, especially a political association.
- often Bund A pro-Nazi German-American organization of the 1930s.
- often Bund A European Jewish socialist movement founded in Russia in 1897.
Origin of bundGerman, from Middle High German bunt; see bhendh- in Indo-European roots.
Related Forms:
- bund′ist
(plural bunds)
- a league or confederacy; especially the confederation of German states.
From German Bund ("alliance, league")
(plural bunds)
- A secondary enclosure, typically consisting of a wall or berm, which surrounds a tank or fluid-handling mechanism, intended to contain any spills or leaks.
- The most important of these [secondary containment] provisions are bunds, which are enclosures capable of holding liquids that may escape from the vessels and pipes within the bund wall. — Second progress report on the Buncefield investigation [1]
(third-person singular simple present bunds, present participle bunding, simple past and past participle bunded)
- To provide berms or other secondary enclosures to guard against accidental fluid spills within.
- Plant room floors are generally bunded and/or waterproofed to contain any leaks or spillages of liquids and fluids from faulty tanks, plant or pipe work. RIW Ltd. Waterproofing Products
bund - Investment & Finance Definition
A German Treasury security.
Variant of bund
or Bund
nounpl. bunds ,
- a league or confederation
- a political organization; specif., the German-American Bund, a former pro-Nazi organization in the U.S.
Origin of bundGerman ; from root of binden, bind
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When the instructions say, "Apply a small about of anti-seize compound to the receiver threads," they really mean it.
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When the instructions say, "Apply a small about of anti-seize compound to the receiver threads," they really mean it.
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It rained all this weekend, so I stayed inside and dryfired. No pun intended.
I got some load development done for the 9mm. I've been wanting to try a somewhat lighter bullet in the M&Ps, as they tend to shoot high (as much as 6″ high at 25 yards) with 147grn. bullets. I got in a shipment of excellent Montana Gold 124grn. CMJs last week, and loaded up four batches of 25 rounds each, with some once-fired Remington brass and various charges of Ramshot Competition powder.
A note here – Ramshot Competition is a shotgun powder, and there is little/no data for using it in the 9mm cartridge. Hence, if you want to work up a load for this powder, use EXTREME caution. I started out using data for VV N320, which shares a very similar burn rate with Ramshot Competition, and worked up from the minimum load in 0.3grn. increments. Oddly enough, I found the best accuracy with the heavier loads, and almost no change in split times from the lightest to the heaviest. This coming weekend, I plan to chrono the two heaviest loads to make sure that they make major – they shot very soft.
…How about some reloading drills?
Hang an IPSC, IPDA, or 8″ plate target out at 7 yards. Start with your pistol loaded with two rounds and holstered. You'll need two magazines on your belt, loaded with two rounds each.
Start with your hands at sides. On signal, draw and fire two rounds, reload and fire two more rounds, reload again and fire two more rounds. 7 seconds clean is a good starting goal. Under 5 seconds is very good indeed.
In USPSA and Multigun, we don't do a lot of static reloads. Lay out 3-4 shooting boxes in the shape of a triangle or square, around 5-6 feet on a side. Put three targets (steel plates if you have them) out at 7-10 yards. Start in one box, fire one shot on each target. Reload while moving to the next box, then fire another shot on each target. Repeat until you run out of boxes. When you get bored running this drill with your pistol, break out your shotgun or .22 rifle and give that a try.
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Anti-gunners are just simply vile.
It has come to my attention that there may be readers out there who do not know the most efficient way to reload their pistol. This is a totally unacceptable state of affairs, and your humble writer shall attempt to assist.
First, a few caveats. We're talking automatic pistols here. I rarely shoot revolvers, know little about them, and would not presume to advise anyone on how to reload them. Also, I'm going to describe the technique from the perspective of a right-handed shooter. If you are some unfortunate genetic mishap who favors the Sinister over the Dexter, just reverse the instructions.
Okay, so your gun has locked back empty. Nuts. Don't just stand there and do the stupid-face. If you're in the middle of a IPSC stage when you run dry, just keep on doing what you're doing. If you ran dry during a run, keep moving to the next position. If you ran dry during a stand-and-shoot string, just get on with the reload, quick as you can. Now if you're in the middle of a bullet exchange, you might not want to stand out in the open while reloading. What is the saying, "Get Off The X?" Good advice. If there's a chance you might take incoming fire, go ahead and get to some cover.
Okay, ready to commence with the reload? Good. First, bring the gun back into a high-ready position, about 10-12 inches from your face; the instructors at Blackwater call this "the Workstation." Do not drop the gun down to waist level and fiddle with it. Keep your gun up and your head up. With your right thumb, depress the magazine release and allow the depleted magazine to drop free*. With your left hand, get a grip on your spare magazine; basepad in your palm, index finger extended along the front of the magazine. Ideally, you should touch the nose of the exposed bullet with the tip of your index finger, but if you can't reach, don't worry about it. You want to grip the magazine in such a manner that you can present it directly to the gun, without shifting it around in your hand.
With that right hand, turn the pistol so that the magazine well is pointed towards your magazine pouch. What you are doing here is ensuring that the magazine can move from your belt carrier all the way up into the gun in a straight line. This is one of the secrets to a smooth and fast reload.
Look at the edge of the magwell**. That's where you want the magazine to go, so look at it. You are essentially going to look the magazine into the gun. The left hand comes up and indexes the magazine at the magwell opening. Some people find it helpful to touch the back of the magazine to the rear of the magwell opening – I've never done so, but if it makes you faster or less fumble-prone, it may be worth a try.
Seat the magazine firmly with a single stroke. Resist the temptation to give the magazine an extra tap or two, it's a huge waste of time and it makes you look like an idiot. Seat the magazine the first time.
Now, since the slide is locked back, you have to get it back into battery. There are two main methods of doing so, and believe me, the debate between the proponents of each method is second only to 9×19 vs. .45 ACP. In short, you can either depress the slide release with your thumb, or you can grasp the slide, pull it back slightly, and release it.
In my opinion, the only reason to use the slide rack technique is if you are physically incapable of depressing the slide release, or your gun of choice doesn't have one. The slide rack requires the fairly complicated coordination of both hands***, which can be difficult under stress, especially if your hands are sweaty/bloody. Further, I have seen a large number of shooters induce feedway stoppages due to riding the slide forward; it's surprisingly easy to do. Pressing the slide stop is easier, more reliable, and much faster.
Okay, we're almost done. Last step is to re-establish the two-handed firing grip on your pistol, and continue shooting/fighting/whatever. Don't neglect this step. I've lost count of the number of blown shots I've seen come right after a reload. Take an extra tenth of a second, get your grip back, and get the hits.
This post took me about twenty minutes to write. A good emergency reload can be done in under 1.5 seconds. Time to practice!
* – If you're the gunfighting type, you might want to make sure that you have a spare magazine before you ditch the one in your gun. If you're a gamer like me, you've probably preplanned your reload points, so you don't need to worry about it. Whatever floats your airship.
** – Some schools of thought opine that one should keep scanning for bad guys, even while reloading. I disagree with this – your attention, visual and otherwise, needs to be at the task at hand. On the other hand, if you're some major stud who can reload in under a second while blindfolded, well, you are way past needing my advice…
*** – Someone here will probably mention Coarse vs. Fine motor skills. Let me head this off right now – you're an idiot. Everything you do with a pistol, from racking the slide to hitting the slide stop to pressing the trigger is a fine motor skill.
…you should be attending Todd Green's practice sessions at the NRA Range in Fairfax.
$85, for three hours in a small-group practice session with one of the premiere instructors in the shooting world. This really should be a no-brainer.
There's one coming up this Sunday, and there may still be room. Go sign up.
As the old saying goes, "Three times the guns, three times the fun!" Nobody ever mentions the end part of that saying, which is, "…and three times the stuff to carry." Hauling your gear around the range and keeping it clean and organized can be daunting. Most shooters, myself included, can benefit from some forethought and planning in this regard.
For most of my 3-gunning career, I've used an Eberlestock* Phantom pack to haul my guns and gear around. It's a wonderful piece of gear, but lately I've decided that it's just not all that well-suited to multigun competition. The big benefit of the Phantom, aside from the flawless build quality, is that it keeps all your guns and gear in one place. The problems with it, well, there are a few, and I'll likely detail them in a future post. Suffice to say that it's not my cup of tea, and I'm ready to change over to another system.
So when looking for a gear-hauling system, it's probably a good idea to start by listing all the gear you're going to be hauling. In fact, why not write down a list of all your match gear, and stick a copy of it in your range bag?
Here's mine:
This is all the stuff that goes in the pistol bag. Not shown are my AR magazines, magazine carriers, shotshell carriers, sling, and bipod. Those will all go in the long gun case.
This is enough equipment and supplies for one day at the MGM Ironman, or an entire local 3-gun match. All in all, it takes up about 3000 cubic inches of space, and weighs about 40 pounds.
Coming soon, Part 2! In which I expound at length on rifle cases, airline transport, and why only complete and utter weenies haul their gear in carts…
So this past weekend, I tore down the Limited gun and gave it a good scrubbing. Good thing, too, because I discovered a fairly major part failure.
Pardon the lousy picture. See what's wrong?
Yup, the rightmost leaf of the spring is broken off. Said leaf applies tension to the grip safety on a 1911-pattern pistol. No clue where the broken piece ended up – probably the same place as my bike keys…
Fortunately, I keep a handful of Wolff sear springs in the shop. An hour of tweaking and fitting later, I'm back to about a 3# trigger on the Limited gun – not as nice as it was before, but probably about as low as I want to go with the current parts. It's reliable and safe, which is the important thing.
Moral of the story – either a.) know how to do basic maintenence on your guns, and keep an adequate stock of spares, or b.) have a spare gun. Ideally, both. Brownells can help you with both the parts, and the knowledge. Check out their article by Jack Weigand, on the tuning of 1911 triggers*.
Now about that spare gun…
* – If you monkey around with the trigger group on your 1911 and turn it into a surprise machinegun, it's not my fault. In fact, I will probably point and laugh at you.
So, here are some matches that TWotM is planning on attending in the 2010. List subject to change.
Note – This so far only covers the Washington, DC arm of The Way of the Multigun. Our Rocky Mountain department should be annotating this list shortly…
Hola amigos, I know it's been a long time since I blogged at you, but I finally have some down time to do a writeup on the tactical rimfire match that we ran a couple of months ago.
Once a month, I help to run a tactical rifle match at our local range. Three stages, with targets from contact distance to 400 yards and a round count of 100-150.
Well, in the last few months, a lot of the guys around here had picked up rimfire rifles in various "tactical" configurations- GSG-5's, Tactical Solutions AR-22 uppers, Nordic Components 10/22 conversion kits, and other similar rigs.
|From Tactical Rimfire Match
I figured that with everyone buying these things, and ammo costs being what they were, why not set up a side match that would allow us to shoot from the same positions, at steel targets, but on a shorter range?
As luck would have it, Hoser, our Match Director had recently acquired a set of steel targets for our club so we could run matches for Sportsman's Team Challenge. He thought these targets could pull double duty for this match and Team Challenge. So, the decision was made to use the Team Challenge steel, while cribbing the props, shooting positions, and rules from our regular Tactical Rifle match.
|From Tactical Rimfire Match
It was decided that we'd run the side match during our August match. Fourth Sunday of the month rolls around, and it turns out that all of the rifle berms had been booked for a 4H black powder shoot. Had we not planned on doing the rimfire match, we'd have had to just pack up and go home. So, intent on mashing lemons into lemonade, we reserved one of the pistol berms, set up a course of fire and broke out the bulk packs.
|From Tactical Rimfire Match
The results were an unqualified success. Everyone had a good time, and we were able to run through two courses of fire, a standards stage, and then broke out a dueling rack for some one-on-one competition.


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Several Ruby interpreters have been updated, TextMate gains some IntelliSense, and there's a lot to do in Baltimore on this episode of Ruby5. Not to mention that the May 2010 BugMash is officially in the books!
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Rails Rumble, Debug Anything and Speeding up Rails
Get your mind in the Gutter, agree that Programming is Not Math, be a RubyCritic, master Vim Plugins for Ruby, review 3 Ways to Create Classes in Ruby, and take a trip to RailsPacific.
Take a peek into your app, think about accessibility, write polyglot web apps, learn Rails, say goodbye to 1.8.7 and 1.9.2 support
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To the Editor:
Most people I speak with have no idea who their County Commissioner is or what they do. This position is purposely non-partisan so they can serve their entire constituency. They set policy and fund health and human services, public works, public safety, transportation, and libraries. The budget is approximately $1.6 Billion.
If you live in Hennepin County you are paying taxes to them. In this year's crowded race, it is important for you to vote for the very best one in the August 14th primary election—Paula Pentel.
Having served on the Golden Valley City Council with Paula, I know firsthand that she asks the tough questions, does her own research, analyzes and makes tough decisions always with an eye toward increasing the quality of life for all residents.
She is one of the most thoughtful, deliberative, analytic yet empathetic people I have worked with. Her educational and professional background in urban studies, chair of the Golden Valley Planning Commission and Councilmember has prepared her extremely well to move into the role of County Commissioner with ease. Having been raised in North Minneapolis and now living in the Western Suburbs, Paul Pentel truly understands the varied urban and suburban needs of this District.
Join me in helping her win this upcoming primary race so we can elect her as county commissioner in the general election on November 6th.
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Reporting from Washington — The NAACP is expected to approve a resolution at its annual convention condemning the "tea party" movement for harboring "racist elements that are a threat to our democracy," a spokeswoman for the civil rights organization said Monday.
The proposed resolution states that the "movement is not just about higher taxes and limited government but something that could evolve and become more dangerous," NAACP spokeswoman Leila McDowell said. Delegates gathering in Kansas City, Mo., will consider the resolution as early as Tuesday.


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Pros – Overall great training and great co-workers. Overall it was a great job and I was able to gain experience in many different facets of the industry. I feel the experience and knowledge gained outweighs the negatives.
Cons – Long work hours. Little room for growth as the senior managers have been with the company forever and there are just not many senior positions. Monday evening meetings can last until well after 11pm AFTER working all day....complete waste of time and disregard for personal time. Project Managers WITH FAMILIES beware!! Be prepared to work long hours and many weekends at your families expense....no work/life balance.
Advice to Senior Management – Get introduced to the 21st century. Old technology has been replaced many times and will drastically improve company efficiency and performance. WAY WAY too much paperwork needed. NO MORE MONDAY NIGHT MEETINGS!!!! COMPLETE WASTE OF TIME!!!
No, I would not recommend this company to a friend
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For Immediate Release
Springfield, Greene County Launch Community Information Service
The City of Springfield and Greene County have launched a new Web-based community information service designed to deliver timely electronic information updates directly to subscribers.
The Nixle service (www.nixle.com) is free for both subscribers and participating agencies and offers the options of subscribing via e-mail, the Web and/or text messages. There is NO advertising or Spam on Nixle.
Nixle requires participating agencies to go through an authentication process to participate in the service. Subscribers can be assured that information sent through Nixle is coming from the participating Springfield-Greene County agencies and is not based on rumors or hoaxes. As of today's launch, the City of Springfield, Springfield Police, Springfield-Greene County Health and Springfield-Greene County Emergency Management have established accounts. Citizens can subscribe to all four and any future local accounts through one registration.
Citizens can subscribe at: www.nixle.com. The registration process is quick and free. (Standard text message charges would apply for those who choose text-based delivery, but don't have unlimited text cell-phone plans.)
The information provided via Nixle includes road-construction updates, police information, emergency management/public safety alerts and advisories, health advisories, public meetings and special events, with more added as the service grows.
Citizens who already subscribe to Twitter can receive Nixle updates by following these Twitter accounts: www.twitter.com/cityofsgf; www.twitter.com/sgchd; and www.twitter.com/gcoem.
Nixle is a privately funded LLC based in New Jersey and California. Launched earlier this year, Nixle has more than 1,250 cities or towns in more than 40 states using or reviewing the system for their communities. It will hold its formal launch on National Night Out on Aug. 4, 2009 in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Justice.
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If you're a college bound high school senior, chances are you've already received or, are about to receive at least one rejection letter from a college or university.
Before you start crying and feeling bad about yourself, please note that these letters oftentimes are not a reflection of your qualities as a person or as a student. Rejection letters are received by even the best of students for a variety of reasons.
Here are a few reasons why you may have received a rejection letter from a college or university and some tips on what to do next.
The 7-11 Factor
Does the college you applied to have famous alumni, an awesome football team international students? If so, these may be some of the reasons they did not accept your application for admission.
In general, Ivy League universities and other high level institutions often reserve admission spots for the children or relatives of famous alumni or donors with deep pockets. They also offer some top notch students the ability to apply through the early admission program. Often, these schools also have sports teams and so they reserve spots for incoming athletes as well as for cheerleaders. Once these groups have been factored in, only about 15-20 percent of the total admission seats remain open.
These colleges often offer athletes big scholarships and so they offset that money by admitting international students and others who must pay full price for tuition.
By this point, only 7-11 percent of the total admission seats remain. All applicants that don't have special connections to the institution will have to compete for these very few remaining seats.
Overwhelmed Staff
In some instances, the sheer numbers overwhelm the admissions staff. Every institution only has so many seats they can offer for admission in a given year. If the institution is well known and respected, chances are there will be dozens of applicants per seat. If this is the case, the college may simply have run out of seats before they were able to even review your application. This is why it's so important to apply to colleges as early as possible.
Zip Code
Diversity is a big thing for many colleges. They want to show that a nice cross section of the community is represented within their student body. In order to do that, they will limit how many students they will accept from any given zip code. In Illinois, many of the suburbs with the best performing students only have one zip code. Some of the best and brightest have to compete against each other based on where they live. Students from Chicago and other locales that have more than one zip code then, have a better chance of being accepted to these institutions.
Similarly, colleges may have quotas based on age, religion, race or other factor. When this occurs, students who don't meet these specific factors may find it more difficult to be accepted to these institutions.
If you weren't accepted to a college you applied to, don't despair, there might be some hope for you yet. In some cases, the rejection letter may address the reasons why you weren't accepted. Work on changing the issues that affected your admission status and apply again for the next enrollment period. If a reason is not listed, contact the admission officer that rejected your application and politely ask for an explanation and for a second chance. In the instance that someone else who was accepted opts to attend a different college, you may be given the opportunity to fill that now empty seat instead.
Hopefully, you applied to several colleges and at least one of the others did offer you the chance to enroll. However, if this did not occur, you can always attend a community college during your first year of college and then you can re-apply.
Don't ever take a college rejection letter personally. Admission officers look for a certain kind of character to admit. Chances are, the admissions officer did not feel you would be a good fit at that specific institution. Do more research on that college and you may later find that the admission officer in reality did you a favor by steering you from a place that would've required you to be someone or something that you're really not.


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The New City Fire Department, with help from neighboring departments, is battling a fire on Central Avenue in New City, just off Little Tor Road at Germonds Road near the Palisades Interstate Parkway.
As firefighter arrived at the 7 Central Ave. home, the blaze had already done extensive damage and firefighters were investigating reports that someone might have been trapped in the house.
Firefighters from Congers and Nanuet were also assisting, along with police and medical crews called in to standby.


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To the editor:
On Sunday, May 19, the 13th Annual Trav's Trail Run was run at Maudslay State Park on the 3-mile Travis Landreth Cross Country Course. Travis was a Newburyport High All-Scholastic distance runner, an All-American at UConn and a member of multiple national teams. He was training with the NIKE-sponsored Farm Team in California, while pursuing his dream of becoming an Olympian at the time of his death. Travis was an inspiration to all who had the pleasure of knowing him.
Trav's Trail Run is the sole fundraiser for the Travis Landreth Memorial Scholarship Fund. All proceeds from the race help fund six separate scholarships for a number of high school and post-collegiate runners who are currently pursuing their dreams as Travis had. This year's race was highly successful; more than 300 entrants raced on the superb cross-country course.
The race committee would like to thank the following for their generous contributions as well as their help and support: Greater Boston Running Company, New Balance, Rob Kovacs and Maudslay State Park, Institution for Savings, Whirlaway Sports Center, Emergency Ice, Stina Lindroth and the Joppa Flats Running Club.
Special thanks go to all who ran for their support. See you at Trav's Trail Run on May 18, 2014.
Don Hennigar
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DURHAM — Authorities were dealing with two crashes on eastbound Interstate 40 on Monday morning, backing up commuter traffic.
One accident was on the left shoulder of the road near Fayetteville Road, Exit 276, according to the state department of Transportation.
Another was near Miami Boulevard, Exit 281, and DOT said that incident closed three lanes.
There was no report about injuries in either crash.


text: Hi list! Some time ago I've suggested that one can use keywords in clauses, e.g. (iter (:for i :from 1 to 10)) instead of (iter (for i from 1 to 10)) This way, one have to import just one symbol iter:iter into her package to use iterate. I made a patch and sent it to this mailing list, but it didn't pass through, maybe due to size limitations or by some other reason. After that, I created a fork, http://sourceforge.net/projects/iteratekeywords/ but several commits were made to iterate since that and my code seem to be outdated. I suggest re-doing my changes so that they could be merged into main iterate repository. But before doing that I'd like to see explicit confirmation that my changes will be accepted (patch is very big and contains about hundred of changes).