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I watched a few excerpts of that show "Buckwild." I don't know why everybody is offended. There is absolutely nothing that we haven't all done before, including Manchin. Unbelievable that they're complaining about a TV show and don't worry about a gas explosion. West Virginia.
Everyone remember it was government, government employees and volunteers that responded to the gas line rupture. I am talking [about] state and county employees working together. They have been trying to serve the public. Government did not cause the gas line rupture. Great job, employees and volunteers.
The honorable Judge Watkins from Putnam County deserves to be put off the bench after all the mental anguish, heartaches [and] expense he has caused some people that went before him. ... He has torn a lot of families, their homes up and their children.
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The picture of the proposed gate for the East End looks like the gateway to a cemetery. Is the message that they're trying to project that the East End is dying or that people on the East End are killing each other off?
I, for one, am very concerned about Dr. Marple's firing. It's a disgrace to West Virginia. It's a disgrace to Kanawha County, and I really wish those Manchins, Joe and Gayle, would stay out of West Virginia. They just make matters worse. Send them back to Washington and I'll never vote for ol' Manchin again.
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Lol!!! Somebody wants a bigger ipad?? Then it won't be called ipad anymore, more like iTable or iTray!
I hope it won't be more expensive than the origional, the price is already a problem for many people trying to justify buying one. Raising it would just hurt the amount that apple sells
What are the chances that will happen tho. Apple rarely makes anything more expensive. They know the price point is competitive with tons of other tablets, and even computers out right now. I doubt they will make it more expensive.
it hasnt even been announced yet? why is best buy already clearing space
I thought bb won't be able to sell it till October. Apple first and then other retailers 6 months later is what ive read.
something seems fishy about this..i could be wrong but
I agree! This would be nice!
Camera would be nice but think we would look stupid taking pictures with it because of the size but if it has one I won't complain! And we can always use better display!
I was also surprised at the weight.... thought it would be on the lighter side...
I think the rear camera will be better suited for business users
the obvious and only way to reduce the weight is to have less battery...then people will complain why is their iPad 2 dies so fast...
No doubt the weight is all in the battery. Unless they invent another new technology I doubt it will be much lighter
The iPad 2 is going to be awesome. Probably won't have a ton of new things, but enough to make it a hot seller...again
This is probably the most anticipated electronic/gadget for me ever, I can not wait. The anticipation is killing me. LOL
I didnt jump at getting the first edition ipad because it didnt have the features I was looking for. However I have patiently waited a year for the second ipad and I am now primed and ready .
What is the process of how these are going to be sold? Is it sold by ordering through Apple first ? How long before you can find them at Best Buys or other stores? And what are the other stores ?
Sorry for the questions, but I suffer from I.K.D. (Ipad Knowledge Deficiency)
Last year we were able to order it online at apple and it was delivered the same day as apple stores started selling them. Bet buy took a while it the las Vegas area to even get them....i wanna say about 5-6 monts later
+1 buddayyyyy I saved money for this for a WHILE haha
Because real football is played in the snow and blistering cold. Nothing like your beer freezing as it's poured from the can. :-)Mee too!!! I live in Texas, and I'm already sick of the cold weather.... (and it just started).
I can't imagine waiting in line for apple products.... Just as I don't see how northern NFL fans can stand to pay to go to a game where it's FREEZING COLD, and enjoy themselves.... More or less while paying so much money to do so.
How ironic that while watching the Bears/Seahawks game today with my manager, he said he went to a game where it was freezing and "his beer froze".
I can't say I'm a fan of frozen beer. I do like it cold as possible, but I at least want to drink it!!!
And just because I said I'm in Texas and I don't understand people enjoying freezing weather, I also don't like having the months of 100 degree + weather for over a month that I witnessed here in Dallas. I'm from Los Angeles. I'm used to perfect weather /year round/. ;-P
I am in fact a bears fan and a chicago native. I hate it up here, we get nasty cold and super humid heat. But if there is one thing adrenaline is good for it's "a bears game in winter"
I love it, BEARS ARE GOING ALL THE WAY. Yaaaaaaaaaaa
I am not surprised /in any way/ that the Bears won today. They are a GREAT team.! I myself am a person for watching the unexpected, the underdog is always my favorite to watch!!! I mean "come on"...... I think it would be better to see the upset of having the Jets win it all.... Since it's been what..... Superbowl 3. It's just my opinion.

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On the heels (but not too closely on the heels) of Monday's call by GLAAD that CNN analyst Roland Martin be fired for tweets he made during Sunday's Super Bowl, the network has announced that Martin has been suspended. Martin initially explained the tweets, which GLAAD said encouraged violence against gay people, as tweaking soccer fans, but the network disagrees. In a statement released minutes ago, CNN says "Roland Martin's tweets were regrettable and offensive. Language that demeans is inconsistent with the values and culture of our organization, and is not tolerated. We have been giving careful consideration to this matter, and Roland will not be appearing on our air for the time being."This is too funny. Roland "Race-Baiter King" Martin is now officially a "homophobe" after CNN suspended him today for tweets deemed "offensive" by a high-level group within the Gay Mafia (i.e. GLAAD). Of course, the all-too-delicious irony for conservatives here is that Martin is a notorious race-baiter and Obama apologist who regularly blames any and all criticism towards Barack Obama as being "RACIST!!!" But now Martin's getting his just desserts, being branded a "homophobe" by the morally bankrupt, but powerful, white, gay mafia that rules the Left. The same gay mafia that killed black actor Isaiah Washington's career back in 2007 for using the word "faggot" in an interview and the same gay mafia that will take down any black liberal who dares to step across the line and hurt a gay, white man's feelings. Shame on CNN for caving to a secular group on what really amounts to political-correction nonsense, but Roland "Race-Baiter King" Martin gets no sympathy for now knowing what it feels like to be criticized for something you aren't.
Martin, who spent Sunday evening live-Tweeting the game and several commercials, made a remark about an H&M commercial for David Beckham's line of men's underwear. The ad, for those who missed it, features close-ups of the soccer player clad only in a pair of briefs.
"If a dude at your Super Bowl party is hyped about David Beckham's H&M underwear ad," Martin Tweeted, "smack the ish out of him!"
Martin insisted he was taking a jab at soccer fans, not the gay community.
On Monday, Martin published a statement on the matter on his website:
Fam, let me address the issue that some in the LGBT community have raised regarding some of my Super Bowl tweets yesterday.
I made several cracks about soccer as I do all the time. I was not referring to sexuality directly or indirectly regarding the David Beckham ad, and I'm sorry folks took it otherwise.
It was meant to be a deliberately over the top and sarcastic crack about soccer; I do not advocate violence of any kind against anyone gay, or not. As anyone who follows me on Twitter knows, anytime soccer comes up during football season it's another chance for me to take a playful shot at soccer, nothing more.
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Taylor Robert Alexon, 21, of Barnum died Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013 in his home.
He was born Jan. 7, 1992 in Duluth to Deborah Alexon/Scott Carlson and Robert Montminy.
He graduated from Barnum High School in 2010.
Taylor was a gift from God that was blessed with so much talent. He was an extraordinary athlete and guitar player. He was a talented writer of poems and songs. He was an artist. He played baseball, basketball, and football, but music was Taylor's passion. He was compassionate and witty and protected the people he loved. He was a wonderful human being, son, brother and a devoted friend.
Taylor was a member of the Rainbow Club. He was also a humanitarian, and supporter of peace and personal freedom.
The disease of addiction took his life.
Taylor was preceded in death by his maternal grandparents, Kermit and Irene Carlson; and paternal grandfather, Robert Montminy, Sr.
He is survived by his mother, Deborah Alexon Ashton of Roseville; father, Scott Carlson of Barnum; father, Robert (Lisa) Montminy of Esko; brothers, Zachary Carlson of Barnum, Christopher Carlson of Roseville, and Brock Montminy of Esko; sister, Mylee Montminy of Esko; maternal grandparents, Tom and Linda Alexon of Daytona Beach, FL, paternal grandmother, Marilyn Montminy of Sartell; aunts Lisa and family of Sartell and Michelle and family from Bristol, England.
GATHERING OF FRIENDS AND FAMILY: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 20, 2013 in Atkins-Northland Funeral Home Fireside Room, 801 14th Street, Cloquet. To sign the guest book and offer an online tribute, see www.atkinsnorthlandfuneralhome.com
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The field started with 281 competitors from all over the world. That number decreased gradually during the first two oral rounds, with 240 correctly spelling both of their words. The results of a computerized spelling and vocabulary test knocked out most, reducing the number of competitors to 42.
From there, 10 competitors tripped up in the first oral portion of the semifinals. The last segment of the semifinals ushered out another 14 spellers.
The 11 finalists were chosen from the eligible 18 based on their scores from another computer-based spelling and vocabulary test.
Most spellers this year were between the ages of 12 and 14. Almost half were in eighth grade, and more than 63 percent attended public schools. Almost a quarter of the students attended private or parochial schools. Another 25 are home schooled.
Each of the oral rounds aired on different ESPN channels. It's the 20th year the station has broadcast the event; Executive Director Paige Kimble said earlier in the week most contestants say being on live TV was their favorite part of the experience.
Lauren Coccari of Sissonville and her three fellow West Virginia spellers each spelled their words correctly in the first two oral rounds, but didn't score well enough on the first computer test to advance.
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Really? The book you speak of was written by men and vigorously edited by the same church leaders in the vadician who hide and covered up the child molestation and who knows what else.
Read a few books on history and see the death and destruction done all over the world by those who believe. Even here in the USA the bible says that ( err a GOD says ) owning slaves is ok. It says many places that women are below men I can give you many chapter and verse quotes if you like on many of these topics. How do you square what the bible says with how Americans live?
Again not bashing simply point out that the vast majority of hose who say they believe in the bible as being the word of god sure ignore allot of what it actually says.
Of course along that same course many muslims out there do not think all non muslims should be killed. Not all jews are hasidic. Funny how those who follow the books to the letter are thought of as the fringe or radicals by those who follow the same book.
In the end I do not care who you worship or not. Those around me in my circle are of several religions. However they are friends due to who they are and how they act towards others.
You certainly are determined, aren't you? I must admit, it looks as though DD was right, You've latched on and simply won't let go. How are you acting now? It's bordering on rude.
Your circle of religious friends must be tolerent indeed, or perhaps your not as insistant with them as you are here, with the sheild of the computer.
You ARE bashing, plain and simple, and for one who claims logic as his 'religion', your illogical comparisons are annoying to those of us who honestly are logical.
Christianity, like many other religions, has a past that's not all that honorable.
That's logical, it's the human condition.
But to deny that Christianity and Christians have not 'matured' and gone beyond that is to ignore the current deeds of Christians worldwide, such as Childfund (where is the Islamic equivelent?) and dozens of other organizations.
There are damn few NON Christian groups or organizations doing these things, and these Christians groups have saved tens of thousands of children worldwide.
Where are the Muslims in this?
Where are the atheists?
Stop gibbering about the past, NO people or peoples have an untarnished past.
And to base ALL your 'logic' of Christians on the past misdeeds of SOME and hold that to the many is NO different than guilt by association, an illogical and bias trait.
Yet your very silent on the CURRENT misdeeds of the muslims, I couldn't help but notice that. Have you even read the MANY posts that jack 404 has put up?
Tell you what, let's be fair, and you find and post ALL the news on Christian misdeeds, sanctioned by a Christian group or Church.
We have no control or affiliation with past deeds by other Christians, just as you have none on your forebears.
It is illogical to denounce any religious group for historical events before their time if they hold no claim to it. It's no different than holding the current German people responsible for Hitlers Third Reich. It's just rude.
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As NY1 continues to examine mayoral candidate Joe Lhota, political reporter Courtney Gross looks at his time spent at Georgetown in the 1970s and his early business career as an investment banker in New York City.
Initially waitlisted, Joe Lhota arrived in Washington D.C. in 1973 to study business and accounting at Georgetown University. But he quickly turned to politics -- at least on campus.
"He instantly impressed me as the first great manager I ever met who, while a happy-go-lucky college student, first whiteboard I had ever seen. Organized to a hilt, giving out instructions," recalled Jim Smith, Lhota's college friend.
He helped run the student president campaign of his friend Dave Ralston. Friends say the issues Joe honed in on were typically town-gown, like dorm life.
"Joe was in favor of 24 hour inter-visitation between men and women in the dorm rooms," Smith said.
Before deciding to run for mayor, the last time Joe Lhota ran for elected office was actually here at Georgetown. He ran for the student senate in 1975. And he won with just 211 votes.
His platform was printed in the school newspaper. He called for an investigation into the campus bar.
But his attention did gravitate off campus.
Lhota interned for then-freshman congressman Bill Cohen, a Republican from Maine who was one of the first to break with his party to vote to impeach Nixon.
"He was on the House committee, judiciary committee, when they started the Watergate hearings. I remember sitting in those hearings and I didn't realize how historic all of that was going on," Lhota said.
And he went once to watch Barry Goldwater, a conservative senator from Arizona, debate on the Senate floor.
Post-college Lhota turned back to business.
He came back to New York and was a municipal banker for 14 years.
"Joe was one of those guys who was primarily a financial guy, and then really knew his politics," said Brad Higgins, Lhota's former colleague at First Boston.
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Ratings: 52 | Reviews: 52
3.98/5 rDev -7.7%
vibe: 3.25 | quality: 4 | service: 4 | selection: 4.25 | $$$
There is certainly a lot of beer going on here. My only complaint would be that there seems to be a haphazard style of organizing it for display. Stuff here, stuff there, stuff everywhere. Don't be too let down when you walk in and the place seems old and run down. There certainly is a lot here that will keep you happy. But if you live in San Francisco, or this is out of your way, I can't really suggest the trek. It is 1.5 miles from Jupiter though, if you feel like doing the two-fer thing.
06-20-2013 16:53:42 | More by RblWthACoz
4.21/5 rDev -2.3%
vibe: 3.25 | quality: 4.5 | service: 4 | selection: 4.5 | $$
I must say that this establishment met all my expectations regarding being highly disorganized and also a gold mine of beer. I was lucky enough to be witness to a Pliny the Elder beer event. I entered the store at about 4:30pm on a Wednesday. I first noticed a case of Blind Pig sitting in an aisle, opened but no price tags on the bottles. I immediately knew this was a significant find, after having searching various San Fran liquor stores for Pliny/ RR and only scoring a bottle of Damnation at Whole Foods on Haight Street.
So I keep searching through the train wreck of beer selection at Ledger, and eventually find a case of Pliny which still had about 15 bottles left, w a price tag of $4.18. So I grab one bottle, mindful of the fact that my checked luggage only has so much room before I reach the 50 pound limit. Also factoring in that I enjoy my home state New Glarus beers much more that Pliny. So I know I am sitting on a gold mine, and I keep searching.
Then I start talking to an older guy in the store w his 20 something college? kid. He tells me that earlier this year he stood in line for 5 hours at a Pliny the Younger event, etc etc. I grab a second bottle as I see a frenzy developing. Meanwhile an older foreign dude that works at the place said he just put the case of Pliny out an hour ago, and that he has one more that his is shelving that day. So dude's kid gets a hand basket and puts maybe four bottles in, after asking jefe if there is a limit on bottles. Then some other bozo comes in and swoops up the remainder of the case, which at that point was about 8. So I talk w my guy for a while longer, then head for the check out. I cashed out, then look at the glassware at the store entrance for a short time. I go to my car, and see another patron giving the stink eye to the guy who walked out w the 8 pack of Pliny. He pulls out in his Subaru, and I follow shortly afterwards. I come around the corner in the parking lot, and I am blocked in. I say WTF, then see the Pliny pig walk to the back of his vehicle holding the front headlight ensemble for his vehicle. I believe he made a wide and hasty turn, bumped into the guard rail and knocked out his head light…..
Anyway, Ledger has a ginormous selection of beer and other spirits. Be patient while you search through the shelves, and you will find something good. I did visit at 10am the next day, and the aisles were clear. I believe they stock the shelves during the day, and get interrupted by the waves of customers coming through. So it depends on what time of day that you come through. They have a dedicated parking lot also, which is a definite plus in Berkeley. There is a Trader Joe's a couple blocks down the street, which has a decent selection of beer and their own parking lot.
01-19-2013 23:45:43 | More by Tiburon
4.31/5 rDev 0%
vibe: 3.5 | quality: 4.5 | service: 3.75 | selection: 5 | $$
Recently moved to the area and have been looking around without success for a great craft beer store. I heard about this store from a friend whose also into craft beer.
Rode my bike to check it out, and their selection is massive. Bring some spare time when you're there because you're going to have to dig. There's very little organization to the store other than most belgians are on one side of one of the aisles. Also be careful about what you buy, particularly with IPAs. They don't really rotate their stock or remove old beers (least not that I could tell). But the price tags all say when they got the beer which is nice. Prices are some of the best I've seen, and pretty reasonable with a great selection.
I wouldn't say the staff is all that knowledgeable, I asked about when/if they would be getting certain beers like Double Bastard, Darkness, or Firestone Walker Anniversary beers and they didn't know even when they were usually released let alone when they'd be getting it.
Overall best selection I've come across in the Bay Area and that includes SF. friendly staff and prices are right in line. In the area I'd highly suggest checking it out.
10-12-2012 20:51:40 | More by CommanderOfAwesome
3.85/5 rDev -10.7%
vibe: 3 | quality: 3.5 | service: 4.5 | selection: 4 | $$
A fairly run-of-the-mill liquor store that just happens to have an amazing, if extremely disorganized, beer selection. There is an aisle of imports and a couple of islands of domestics, with a good selection of regionals and locals, but a scattering of good East Coast offerings (Including some oddballs that are hard to find out West, such as Victory's Otto). Did I mention that it was disorganized? Because it is - take some time and pick through the selection carefully because there are treasures back in there somewhere. I didn't speak with the staff, but I overheard some conversations with customers that suggested they are friendly and knowledgeable and love beer themselves.
01-08-2012 01:14:14 | More by Seanibus
4.1/5 rDev -4.9%
vibe: 3.5 | quality: 4.5 | service: 3.5 | selection: 4.5 | $$
visited on December 23. Pretty non-descript look from the outside, but what a joy on the inside. Two aisles of beer seemingly randomly dispersed. It would easy to spend at least an hour digging through the inventory, but the 20 minutes I had was very enjoyable. Very high quality selections from Russian River, Alesmith, Belgians, etc. Some selections were a bit dusty, which in a way is a good thing (you know it might be a little old rather than trying to guess among dusted bottles). Prices were reasonable. A very solid east Bay bottle shop.
12-24-2011 01:35:42 | More by coldriver
4.38/5 rDev +1.6%
vibe: 3.5 | quality: 4.5 | service: 4.5 | selection: 4.5 | $$
Unlike any liquor store I've ever been to; it's like your grandfather's basement with stuff filling every possible space, leaving just enough room for mobility. But imagine that the stuff was booze.
Fine selection of brews from all over the world and some excellent local stuff. They've get tons of RR, some FW, the Bruery, Alesmith, etc. They also had SA Infinium which I had never seen in person. Great selection of glassware as well.
It's a lot like a great used clothing store where most of the stuff is actually pretty good but you've got to dig through a lot of it to find the gems.
Some folks have mentioned the mold in the coolers, and I noticed it too. Don't know what's going on with it, but luckily it didn't affect anything I bought or wanted anyways.
Glad I stopped in while staying in Berkeley. Will def be go to when back in the area.
12-20-2011 03:57:50 | More by Heavenisbeer
3.74/5 rDev -13.2%
vibe: 3 | quality: 4 | service: 3.5 | selection: 4 | $$
Worth your time if you're around Berkeley and need some beer.
Impressive selection of Belgians for sure. Tons of stuff from Witkap to Petrus to Chouffe to a few I didn't even know. Prices are decent and stuff can be scattered which is kind of bad if you are in a rush but great if you're looking to do a little beer hunting and see what's around.
Good selection of craft stuff; definitely didn't recognize some bottles on the shelf and was unfortunately on foot so couldn't buy too much. Great selection of beer glasses too if you're looking to build a beer den. Prices are about on par, if not a dollar better, than most other places.
Service was good; received a greeting upon entering and I think I was helped by the one guy who knows where every beer in the store is. Recommended if you're in the area or considering "quality of earest liquor store" while apartment hunting.
10-06-2011 06:13:51 | More by TheStove
4.44/5 rDev +3%
vibe: 4 | quality: 4.5 | service: 4 | selection: 5 | $$
Looks like any other liquor store on the outside but is a treasure trove of cool finds when you enter.
This quickly becoming my go to place in the Berkeley area. The selection is diverse and huge. No matter what mood you are in you will find something to suit you here. The shelved beer isles are the place to seek new beers. They have an incredible selection of crafts, Belgians, and Uk beers. I am especially fond of the English ales they have on the shelves. They always have something new in the coolers. I did notice some dust covered beers on the bottom shelves which could be rotated. The prices are average. I don't find the staff to be as paranoiac as some of the other reviewers have. Young looking people are treated with a certain level of suspicion at any place that sells liquor. Once you show your ID you are fine. Cool place that also gives away free beer newspapers and magazines.
08-28-2011 06:16:00 | More by BerkeleyBeerMan
4.41/5 rDev +2.3%
vibe: 4 | quality: 4 | service: 4.5 | selection: 5 | $$
This is by far one of the wildest corner stores I've ever stumbled upon. Any review on Yelp will immediately tell you that it's a messy yet incredibly overwhelming place to buy drinks, and they're not kidding. Ledger's Liquors has no isles, but rather crates of different beers stacked over each other in the middle of room to create passageways. However, this messy vibe only enhances the charm of this store. In fact, I wouldn't dare come close to criticizing this store for anything due to them holding by the far the most diverse, colorful and well stocked collection of beers that I've seen yet. Any corner store with a Samuel Adams' Utopia for sale seems worth a shot!
There's a lot of amazing beers to choose here, that's for sure. However, a lot of light enters this store and it concerns me when that does for the beers that are always sitting out in the open. Their coolers are nice and dark to maintain beer quality, although I did find a bottle of Scaldis Prestige inside one of them that was covered with mold... haven't seen that before, and hope that is taken care of by now. Despite that, the staff is very helpful, and they especially know their glassware and aged ales - the most helpful combination of knowledge, if you ask me!
Its funky vibe is part of its fun, and with the ridiculous selection of beverages, how could I not return? Overall, a great corner filled with good prices!
07-20-2011 08:30:47 | More by magictacosinus
3.74/5 rDev -13.2%
vibe: 3 | quality: 4 | service: 3 | selection: 4.5 | $$
I visit this place every time I visit friends in Berkeley.
The store is a nondescript front on University, and the inside pretty much bottles, bottles, bottles. The selection includes all of the Bay Area favorites: RR, 21st Amendment, Lagunitas, Moylan's, et al. as well as many other California brews. Beyond this, they have fun stuff like Jolly Pumpkin and a slew of other domestics. Their foreign collection is pretty good as well. However, I am curious about how long some of the bottles have been there on the floor.
The staff has been friendly, unlike some notes of the previous posters who have claimed a paranoid response from whoever is working. Their prices for PtE, for example, are the best I have ever found. The rest of their pricing is very reasonable.
I will always stop by here when in the area.
07-02-2011 18:42:58 | More by eyeenjoybeer
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The Sundance Film Festival announced Wednesday that Seattle filmmaker Robinson Devor's documentary "Zoo" has been accepted into the 2007 festival's documentary competition. The film examines the widely reported case of an Enumclaw man who died in 2005 after having sex with a horse.
I don't suppose anybody has any idea about the appropriate vehicle to protest this? Is there a way someone can say to the overlords at Sundance that bestiality is not pushing the envelope of artistic expression, but is just pushing human society into the crude, coarse hell of anti-civilization?
You feel that hard, pit in your stomach? That's your better instincts telling you that in a couple years, bestiality will be old hat on the screen.
"And the days will come when people will say to the mountains, 'Cover us!'"
The people who are saying that the film is the best Bond movie ever are mistaken. It isn't really a Bond film, is it? The whole tone of the movie is different. Whereas the Bond films are famously tongue in cheek, this film has absolutely no sense of irony or absurdity. Where Bond films are generally thrilling with the creativity of the gadgets in action, this film is tense with the principle gadget being the brutalized body of the main character himself. Where you usually walk out of a Bond film feeling a rush, this film left me very disturbed...in a violated kind of "I never wanted to see stuff like that kind of way."
Just so we know what we are talking about, I am referring to the fact that I never wanted to see my beloved Bond, James Bond, stripped naked and bound in a cane chair to then have his scrotum viciously beat on while he screams in agony. Nope, never wanted to see that.
(Yeah, maybe that counts as giving away a spoiler. But I'm feeling really mad that somebody took my Bond away this morning. But really, I look at it as more of a warning to those who don't like to get violated than giving away a plot point. I felt completely disgusted that none of the Christian critics had cued me in that a truly perverted, vile scene was coming. What the hell is wrong with us in the Church these day?! We've gotten so avant garde that we are afraid to send out a loud, resounding "BLECK!" when we get slimed by the culture? And watching that scene was getting slimed, my friends. The fact that you didn't register it as such just means your innocence has been lost.)
Now, it may be that the whole problem was with the idea of the James Bond franchise in the first place. Here is a character that is the embodiment of the Sexual Revolution. eh? He's free (no troubling conscience), he's fabulous (terribly clever, cool cars, limitless money, exotic places, never gets caught by a stray bullet) and he's getting tons of sex with only gorgeous women (no AIDS, vd or pregnancy in this universe). And that's all a lie, isn't it?
So, by this reasoning, Casino Royale is one more deconstruction of the web of boomer lies....? Maybe. The film feels much more cynical than enlightening. It seems to me to be one more shredding of a beloved hero, for no good reason except to take something people love and spit in their eye.
See, the thing is, the James Bond franchise was formerly fun because the films were always winking at the lies of the popular culture, and the Sexual Revolution in particular. We all knew that his life was the stuff of fantasy. We weren't looking for realism in Bond andy more than we were in Superman (before we saw his 2006 reincarnation stuck in an adolescent cruch that had him knock up chick and then become a deadbeat dad). Did anybody really need Casino Royale to shatter their faith in Octopussy cliques and albino assassins?
Stay tuned, next week we are going to see a film in which we learn that not only didn't the prince marry Cinderella, but rather, the corporate climate of corruption which is the DARK REALITY beneath the trappings of monarchy, refused the poor little fool health insurance to treat the ACTUALLY REAL TB that she got while ingesting fumes from trying to make herself slippers out of broken shards of her REAL filthy basement HUD-assisted low income housing, because the REAL shoes that she should have gotten from a VERIFIABLE government contractor were IN FACT made of cheap materials in a third world sweat shop and fell apart. All that stuff about a fairy god-mother and glorious pumpkin carriage were the result of crystal meth haze which her step-mother got her addicted to so she could profit off the kid as a sex-slave.
Aren't you glad you know the whole story now? Buck up you idealistic fools! Movies are hard, then you die.
Oh yes, another disturbing note... When I was in film school, my radical feminist lesbian professors were quite adament that we all leave Northwestern with a keen sense of what they called "the male gaze" in cinema. The "Male Gaze" is a fundamentally skewed-with-patriarchy way of seeing the world and especially women that, my professors contended, was predicable of pretty much all of classic Hollywood cinema. They used to endlessly dissect camera angles and lighting in shots to reveal cues of the male desire to dominate and dehumanize women. A lot of times I thought my professors were nuts and paranoid. But every now and then they had a point.
Well, I gotta say, there is something icky in Casino Royale that feels very much like what we could call "the homosexual gaze." The women in the film, first of all, spend much of the film very ioconically made up - shall we say, like Liza Minelli or a Marilyn impersonator? Then, the women all end up as victims of sick and/or violent acts. All three are tortured or threatened with torture. Can we say the disdain of women is part of the homosexual "culture," even unofficially? (Cause I have seen it first hand, and I'm not in a mood to deny my own experience today.) Anyway, I don't recall women being tortured as part of the traditional Bond canon.
Then, there are the many loving and languid shots of the - admittedly picturesque - torso of the star, Mr. Craig. A more notable one of these was Bond coming out of the water - and the camera almost cuts off his head to focus on the middle of his body. I don't remember the same kinds of voyeuristic shots holding on the mid-section of Sean Connery.
Finally, there is the afore-mentioned, extended, gratuitous, sado-masochistic torture scene in which a naked and slimey Bond, James Bond, is first complimented on his fine body by the lascivious male villain, and then, well, whipped on his privates. In between screaming in pain, Bond cries out for more evidencing a sick enjoyment of the sexual torture. It is a kind of moment that deserves to be dissected by film scholars for evidence of the "gay gaze." (Oh yeah, and as I learned in film school, it deosn't matter if the filmmakers are gay here. This stuff is systemic.)
But maybe all that feminist film theory stuff in film school just has me seeing goblins everywhere!
If you like your action tense, brutal and perverse, go see Casino Royale. I certainly wouldn't let my kids go.
Barb N. on The Nativity: "It is what it is."
Well, the picture fails terribly in many areas - casting, direction, production design, and, of course, writing, and so it would be lamentably forgettable, except for one thing. The film repeats over and over a shocking technical blunder that we just don't get to see in Hollywood films these days. Long after we stopped trying to follow the film's mess of a story, my sister and I were waiting expectantly for the sound boom to peek-a-boo into every scene.
I've scanned both IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes, and nobody seems to be commenting on what is to me an astounding technical gaff...pun intended. I can't figure out how this could have happened in modern technically obsessed Hollywood. And then, I can't figure out why the critics are covering for this kind of inexcusable screw-up.
It starts early in the film and goes all the way to the end. My sister noticed it before me,
"Hey, what's that black thing bouncing on the ceiling."
"Humph. It's the boom."
"The what?"
"The boom...Maybe it's going to be a plot point. You know, maybe the whole story of his life is actually being made into a fiction movie."
A scene or so later, there it was again. A dark fuzzy ellipse bouncing down between the two actors.
"There it is again."
"Yeah. What a mess. Is it possible that nobody was watching dailies of this project?"
"No. No. It HAS to be on purpose."
"Yah think? Why not? This film is so beyond credibility that the idea that the whole thing might be a film in a film is intriguing."
A few scenes later it was back. Bobbing in and out. And then again a scene later."
"I know what it is. Will Farrell is really tall. Maybe the boom operator is having a hard time adjusting to the fact that he is towering over Dustin Hoffman."
"No, no, no. I'm telling you it is on purpose. They couldn't have that many screw ups in the film."
But then, there was the boom again, hovering over a scene with just Emma Thompson and Dustin Hoffman. I think the boom must have intruded into the screen about fifty times during the film. How weird is that? Does this mean that the director was not looking into the camera enough? Or that the cinematographer was asleep? Or that the producers didn't have time for the dailies? (Help me out here, Jan.) Whatever it is, Stranger Than Fiction ends up being truly much stranger than any other movie I have seen for a while. The one thing Hollywood can usually boast about is technical craft.
Putting a good spin on it, watching for the boom to peek into the scene was really the only suspense in this terrible film. Pass. A big booming one.
for just over four years, and each year she rebounded and spent precious
time teaching at the opening retreats of our Writing Program. She
joined us as recently as this July to teach at the 2006 Summer Writing
Program retreat in Malibu.
I first met Delle at Northwestern University where she headed up the screenwriting department. I remember thinking on the first day of class with her, "This lady has got to be a Christian." She stood out from the bitter, intolerant nostalgic Marxists on the film department faculty there because of her grace and passion for beauty, and her genuine respect for each student.
Delle was an amazing person and absolutely defied any easy categorization. She was always kind and full of hope and optimism. I loved her and it makes me sad to think that I will have to wait who knows how long to see her again. Please say a prayer for Delle today, and her daughter and friends and family.
Below are excerpts from a recent email she wrote.
The time has come for me to begin my journey to God through the sacred
corridor of hospice.
The cancer has gotten so far ahead of us that the side effects from the
drugs we're using to overtake it have themselves become debilitating.
Rather than allow further treatment to beat me down, I want to invest my
remaining strength and time in Ramona, God, friends, and getting my
house in order so that my loved ones are not left with a monumental
mound of Delle-dom through which they must sort and sift. To complicate
matters more, because Medicaid has paid for two years of my medical
treatment, if things are left just so, they will come back after my
death and take much of what I hope to leave to the Remarkable Ramona.
This isn't news to any of you who have laid a loved one to rest. One of
my mantras is, "I will not leave a mess!" ...
So many have prayed for so long that I would be delivered from this
horrific disease. Thank you. Thank you for every last prayer and
please do not feel that those prayers have been in vain. I certainly do
not. November 5 is my ***fourth*** "cancer-versary" and for a gal with
Stage IV Ovarian, this has been an extraordinarily long haul. Not only
that. These have been wondrous years for me and Ramona and for me and
the Lord. He's still working with me, even now.
My other mantra is "I'm Yours, Lord. All yours!"
I catch glimpses of Him from time to time, eyes full of compassion and
mercy. He is beautiful to behold.
Pray that my faith holds, that my family's faith holds . . . and that as
the dust settles all will be well. ...
It has been a privilege to share this journey with each of you.
P.S. Remember, brothers and sisters, either we believe in eternal life
or we don't.
A friend of mine had warned me aout the movie in advance by saying, "I wanted to walk out at least twice it made me so angry." Myself, I didn't get as angry, because I have taken to watching the relentless and pathetic ravings of grayhaired baby-boomers with kind of a sick fascination these last few years. I sit there watching them with a cruel grin, the way one watches lobsters hissing while they go headfirst into a pot of boiling water. "You're going down, boys and girls. Your power is gone. And you are the only ones who don't know it. Pass the melted butter."
Anyway, much more egregiously than in Saving Private Ryan, Flags of our Fathers seems to be trying to make the case that nobody who fights in a war is a hero. They just end up there on battlefields and then their bodies get chopped up by the whims of meglomanical politicians and generals. And they die confused and angry and wondering what the hell we are all here for anyway?
This kind of tedious angst absolutely fits from a generation that decided to rebel against everything in their youth, and now have nothing in which to believe. But the thing that makes it my business, is that it absolutely undercuts any fun I might have at the movies, watching a story where the filmmaker has no coherent point of view!
Movies are supposed to be better than the real. That is, they are supposed to offer some kind of coherent, intelligible meaning. The audience is watching to try to put together and then either assent to or reject whatever the filmmaker is communicating. If the filmmaker is basically communicating, "Heros? Whatever. What does anything matter anyway?" then the viewing experience will be alternately disquieting and then confusing and finally irritating to the audience.
So, nobody in the theater clapped at the end of Flags of Our Fathers ...unless you count the nods we got to my sister's exhalation, "Thank God that's over" as being a kind of accolade.
Maybe I should get more specific here....
The movie makes the classic story mistake of making much ado about nothing and missing something much bigger in the process.
So, the basic storyline is, "Nevermind those 5,000 guys who died fighting the Japanese on Iwo Jima. The BIG story is how there were two photographs taken of these guys raising the flag!!!! God, CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?! They had TWO flag-raisings on Iwo Jima!!!!! IT'S STUNNINGLY MIND-BLOWING!!!!!! TWO FLAG PICTURES!!! QUICK! SOMEBODY CALL CLINT EASTWOOD!!!!!"
I remember once a student of mine coming to me with a pitch for a movie. The idea was basically flawed in the same way as Flags of our Fathers. The pitch was all about the story of the first "First Man" of the United States. That is, the first guy married to the first female president. So, the movie story kept talking about the woes of the first first man trying to pick out china and then decorating the White House and trying to get the kids off to school all while the first lady president is dealing with avoiding WWIII.
See the problem? The big story is THE FIRST FEMALE PRESIDENT! The first, "First man" is the stuff of a comic sub-plot on the side.
This was the problem with the original West Wing concept, btw. In exactly one week, Sorkin and company figured out that the West Wing was only interesting because of its proximity to the Oval Office, and that the Presidency needed to be what the show was really about.
Okay, so, the first flaw of Flags is, as my sister said to me halfway through the movie and then many times thereafter throughout, and in the car going home, "I really didn't care about the drunk Indian guy. I wanted to be back on that beach with the Marines." Yup.
I can only surmise that the reason the movie, and the book on which it is based, spend so much time on non-essentials in this story, is because they think that politicians conniving to raise money for war bonds is innately more compelling than watching 5,000 Marines die.
For the Watergate generation, however, unmasking dirty politicians is always what it is about. "See, if we can unmask corruption in the establishment, maybe nobody will see the rot and inconsistency and meaninglessness of our own disastrous sexual revolution racked lives. If we can say that "The Greatest Generation" wasn't really that great, maybe we can drown out the voices of our kids who hate us for our selfishness? If we can say that there are no heros, even on a place like Iwo Jima, then maybe we can rid ourselves of the uneasiness we feel for our own pampered narcissitic lives?"
The look of Flags is great. There are some beautiful tableaus of the starkness and horror of war. Some of the bloody effects were badly executed and border on slasher-cheesy, but the main look of the battle scenes was quite effective. We just get far too little of it.
I went to the movie expecting to see fleshed out some of the myriad heroic stories of which I have read so much in my weird obsession with battlefield heroics. There were none of the Iwo Jima stories here. Just an obsession with a minor factoid that should have been a two minute scene at best in the larger story.
As with every Eastwood film, the directing of the actors here is horrific. The characters are all made to be one dimensional stereotypes - remember the "bad bully guys" in the gym and the redneck Christian trailer dwellers in Million Dollar Baby? Well, here we have "crooked corporate lobbyist guy", "arrogant clueless senator guy", "angry brutish general guys" and lots of "clueless farmboy soldier guys." And many more. They could make a dictionary of stereotypical characters from Clint's filmography. Really, really a bad actor's director.
Flags should be buried with a jubilant jazz-styled riff of TAPS. Don't hit this beach. Pass, Marines.
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Thursday, November 30, 6pm
Benefit Concert/Dinner for the Daughters of St. Paul, Hilton Garden Inn
1110 South Ave @ Lois Lane
Call for ticket reservations: 718-477-2100 ex 244
Saturday, December 2, 1pm
St. Malachy's Church (The Actor's Chapel)
239 W 49th St. @ Broadway
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Sunday, December 3, 3pm
St. Paul's Church, 214 Nassau St.
free will offering, call for info: 732-572-1200
Wednesday, December 6, 7pm
Bala Golf Club, 2200 Belmont Ave.
Call for ticket reservations: 215-676-9494
Saturday, December 9, 7pm
Sunday, December 10, 3pm
Daughters of St. Paul Convent
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free will offering, call for info: 617-522-8911
(Contact at UST is Sr. Maura Behrenfeld, FSE, Director of Campus Ministry, 713-525-3589 for more information.)
Special thanks to Bill Cork for making all this "See Barb in Houston" stuff happen!
at noon at Texas A&M University, Galveston, sponsored by Catholic Student Organization.
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- NAME: Greg Graffin
- OCCUPATION: Musician
- BIRTH DATE: November 06, 1963 (Age: 50)
- EDUCATION: Cornell University, University of California, Los Angeles
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Racine, Wisconsin
- Full Name: Gregory Walter Graffin III
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Greg Graffin is the frontman of the punk group Bad Religion, which created albums like How Could Hell Be Any Worse? and Into the Unknown.
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Born on November 6, 1963, in Racine, Wisconsin, Greg Graffin is the frontman and co-founder of the punk band Bad Religion. The band's self-titled debut album and 1982 follow-up, How Could Hell Be Any Worse?, were both well-received. Their third album, Into the Unknown, however, met with less success. Bad Religion officially disbanded in 1984. In 1997, Graffin recorded a solo album, American Lesion. Graffin holds a Ph.D. in zoology from Cornell University,
"Science is the first expression of punk, because it doesn't advance without challenging authority. It doesn't make progress without tearing down what was there before and building upon the structure."
and has taught life sciences at both Cornell and UCLA.
Early Years
Greg Graffin, punk rock's professor emeritus, was born Gregory Walter Graffin III on November 6, 1963, in Racine, Wisconsin, and raised by parents Walter and Marcella. In 1976, his family moved to the San Fernando Valley, where the self-described "average Wisconsin kid" quickly found himself an outcast among the local mix of pot fumes and rock 'n' roll.
One Sunday night during his youth, Graffin got his first ear full of punk courtesy of the Los Angeles-based KROQ's "Rodney on the ROQ" show. The irreverent lyrics and stage-diving electricity captured Graffin's imagination immediately. At age 15, while attending El Camino Real High School, he helped form the punk band Bad Religion with friends Jay Bentley, Brett Gurewitz and Jay Ziskrout.
From the start, the young garage band showed a knack for self-reliance that stood out in the grass-roots punk scene flourishing around them. The teens fashioned together posters and flyers to promote their gigs. With a $1,500 loan from Brett Gurewitz's father, they rented studio time in an abandoned office building in Hollywood and recorded their first album. In 1980, Bad Religion was featured on KROQ, and it was Greg Graffin's clear vocals and erudite lyrics that announced their arrival to Los Angeles' hardcore punk scene.
Commercial Success
Bad Religion's self-titled debut album sold out quickly and their 1982 follow-up, How Could Hell Be Any Worse?, was also well-received. Their third album, Into the Unknown, however, met with less success. The band had taken a different approach for the album: A 1970s progressive-rock style built around a Roland Juno 6 synthesizer. While Graffin felt that the new direction fell within Bad Religion's artistic values, their fans disagreed. Jay Bentley quit the band while recording the album and, in 1984, the group officially split.
During his time away from the band, Graffin enrolled at the University of California, Los Angeles, graduating with degrees in biology and geology. In 1987, he and his bandmates reunited and began a prolific career that has included worldwide tours and a string of more than 14 albums. In 1997, Graffin recorded a solo album, American Lesion.
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Who thought of making this movie? It was terrible.
well. this movie is cheese to the max. but a fun watch. more of a guy movie. but was worth watching.
Very unrealistic in almost every aspect. Was more of a comediy because of it. See it if you want some laughs.
Simply, a stupid movie. Waste of time.
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