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Investigators say Tanner Brown was taking care of a 3 1/2-month-old baby boy and his 21-month-old sister while their mother was at work.
Their mother left for work about 6 a.m. Wednesday, and when she came home at 9:20 a.m., Brown told her something was wrong with the baby.
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A wind gust of 111 mph at the Meteor Crater east of Flagstaff was confirmed by the National Weather Service on Friday.
It's fairly flat land, other than the crater right there," said Doug Green with NWS. "It's exposed and it is subject to pretty strong southwesterly winds."
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H. Brown: Goodbye to all that, we hope
In an SF Weekly piece published yesterday, it was announced that progressive political blogger and gadabout H. Brown – an "irascible" man who has attained a specific sort of fame in equal measure for his political connections, his egregious sexism, and his unfortunate alcoholism -- was leaving San Francisco. Where's he going? The article didn't see fit to mention. It's whatever. One can assume Brown's destination is that netherworld set aside for those whose behavior was enabled by the old school boy's club blinders of the San Francisco progressive movement, still worn at the dawn of the 21st century.
"Last Call For Know-It-Alls: Classic Specimen of Old-San Francisco Bon Vivantery," the article was called. It was written by a man; if a woman had written it, the title might have been closer to: "I Just Bought an Evil Eye Necklace, Don't Look at Me You Cursed Troll."
Do I sound angry? In 2008 at a DCCC, Brown inquired at top volume and in front of an ex-President of the Board of Supervisors if I was the politician's escort. When said political leader bailed on the situation, Brown interrogated me on camera about my knowledge of local politics. I wrote about it, most names omitted, for the Guardian. In the article's wake, I received thankful and supportive emails from men and women across the San Francisco political scene. On his part, Brown sent out multiple emails about me to his prodigious correspondence rolls, one in which he shared an communique from his niece calling me an "ignorant cunt," another in which he addressed an un-cc'ed me about the election night in question: "You tried to make up for your ignorance by wearing revealing clothing. I was mocking you. And rightly so."
Nearly every woman in San Francisco politics has one of these stories. When a male politician was accused of any wrong against a woman, Brown could be depended on to dig through the Internet to find evidence that the victim had been asking for it. Those unwilling to suffer him had to opt out of the hobnobbing happy hours and salons in the homes of city leaders, at which Brown was a constant presence.
Ah, old San Francisco bon vivantery. But I've said it before and I'll say it again, you don't have to care about Brown. You do have to care that this man was your Supervisor's drinking buddy, that he took Speedo-clad swims in the Bay with progressive leaders. You do have to wonder about what that did to the strength of our political movement. And you might want to wonder about the dynamics behind ubiquitous bigots who are tolerated by people who should know better.
"If comedy is indeed tragedy plus time, however, Brown will leave 'em laughing for posterity," wrote Weekly reporter Joe Eskenazi. "Friend after friend recalled anecdotes of offensive, bourbon-fueled behavior invariably culminating with Brown being instructed to "Get the fuck out, H.!" But, always, these were happy memories, if not happy occasions."
None of these friends -- "former supervisors, consultants, academics, political Svengalis, and other city luminaries" – in Eskenazi's article were women. (The writer, whose work on city issues I do appreciate, told me he did interview women, but apparently none of them said anything printworthy.)
Let's remedy that now with a few female voices. Not coincidentally, most of these bourbon-fueled memories took place in ex-Supervisor Chris Daly's since-closed Market Street progressive gathering spot, the Buck Tavern. None are happy.
"This was the first time I was introduced to H. At a benefit at the Buck Tavern I walked in and there were all these progressive journalists sitting around a table with him. He said 'you're the one with the great ass!' He started asking me if I had family members he could date. I was standing there horrified, I just didn't know what to say. I'm a mouthy lady, and even I couldn't think of anything to come back with – not just to him, but to every other progressive journalist who was sitting there listening to him who laughed! I said hi to a few people, and then I left the event."
- Laura Hahn, president of the San Francisco Women's Political Committee
"Really, I don't give much of a shit about one sad dude calling me a slut and a spy (for Newsom or Pinkerton Guards, depending on the year), but seeing some (not all) progressive men continue to put up with him was pretty demoralizing."
- Anonymous volunteer on several progressive political campaigns
"The confrontation started because I came in to wish [ex-Supervisor and then-owner of the Buck Tavern] Chris Daly a happy birthday and have a drink, and H. asked Chris 'Who the hell is she?' To which Chris said, 'She's the President of the Harvey Milk Club.' To which H began, 'You're not even gay, are you?' I replied, 'I'm queer.' 'Queer?!' he said, 'What the fuck is that? Some Shona Gochenauer shit? You're not gay. I can tell you're not gay by looking at you. She doesn't know anything about politics. Look at her -- she's clearly just a vanity president.' He said something about enjoying things because, "that ass isn't gonna last forever, sweetheart. They [the other patrons in the bar] are only standing up for you because they want to fuck you.'"
- Stephany Joy Ashley, ex-president of the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club
"As a purveyor of alcohol, I found that the man was a lawbreaking mooch and a pain to deal with. As a woman, I found him pathetic, insulting, gross, or all three, depending on his mood. The first time I met him he cussed me out for an imagined slight in a way that was actually shocking -- and it takes a lot for cuss words to flummox me. For a time, I simply refused to serve him."
- Siobhann Bellinger, Buck Tavern bartender
"H. is a bully and a sexist. If you want to look at why the progressive movement is failing it's because it alienates youth, women, and people of color. Deifying somebody like him is shutting women out, the message is they aren't welcome. It's not separated from the fact that progressives are really faltering right now with no leadership and very little inspiration."
- Debra Walker, artist and longtime activist
"His behavior symbolized the running joke amongst some progressive men that women were there for their own entertainment to be mocked and harassed with no one blinking an eye. FUCK. THAT."
- Anonymous ex-City Hall aide
These women – and the progressive men who were their allies – were not laughing at the hijinx of a mouthy old man. But people were, and they will be at the party that will be held in honor of Brown's departure and attended by member's of our city's progressive elite.
Supporters say the guy's behavior was a premeditated mockery of San Francisco's political correctness, that he was an actor in the grand tradition of political theater. But if he is remembered by generations to come, it will be as the embodiment of an age-old archetype: the dude that other dudes keep around because he says the shit they can't say to people who aren't them. After all, who can control their own id?
Eskenazi compares Brown to F. Scott Fitzgerald and notwithstanding that both are writers, I'd like to posit an alternative historical precedent for Brown's passionate trolling. Remember Bobby Riggs, the proud chauvinist who taunted tennis legend Billie Jean King until she wiped the floor with him in the widely broadcast Battle of the Sexes match? Man, that guy should have been in politics.
Brown was allowed to establish through constant bullying both online and off that only men have the right to feel comfortable in our city's high-powered progressive circles. As San Francisco continues to cozy up with its new moderate identity, I hope he is remembered less for being a bon vivant and more as a sign that our once-vaunted avatars of progressivism were spending too much time pounding double shots at the Buck Tavern -- while the world changed around them.
Heh, that made me laugh.
You know it is what we all think and saying as much does less net damage than supporting conservative candidates for one's own political self preservation does.
This garden of the narcissists has to be weeded and pruned because it inhibits grassroots organizing.
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned be she Debra Walker by the voters or Leah Shahum at the hands of Richard Ernst.
Once the narcissist has been dissed, once the proper tribute is not paid to the station, then things begin to get serious. Call it the Carole Migden syndrome. But when it is other people getting screwed, the sociopathy of the narcissist rules.
How much abusive crap did the sanctimonious identitarians tolerate from Carole Migden without a word of dissent because she threw wads of corporate cash at them?
You'll never guess who we ran into at brunch this morning!
You of all people would surely know that.
Mission gentrifiers, on the other hand, love to brunch.
Gotta love it.
Brunch is a little like breakfast, a little like lunch, and it comes with a side of cantaloupe.
Lenin would turn in his grave.
No need for breaking out the rocking chairs. You just fight from a different point and with different tactics. I'll post from D.C. and then from New York and then from Cuba. Richard and I are more mobile cause we aren't tethered to property.
I'm trying to finish a play called 'Revenge Pussy' that Caitlin and her gang will just love. It's set in a space between 3 triple bay windows in an alley in the Mission (dancers and winos and the like move underneath).
Got the outline and the shit just froze.
Going to see a new Keefer play tomorrow night hoping for some inspiration.
Working on a graffiti murals project with the cops here (say, huh!?!) and a critique of cop shows from around the world.
I know cop shows like no one since I've probably spent a thousand hours watching them over the last year or so.
Marathon em from Australia to France and all U.S.A..
Running from the radio with Sgt. Preston of the Yukon in the late 40's to the 'Bridge' series running on 3 continents in different forms now.
Good to talk to youse guys and hope they don't shut down the thread too quick.
It's become a gathering place for defeated Progressive shock troops.
Wish they had bourbon.
Where are all the girls?
Despite what the Guardian says, no one worships women more than I do.
I've given up drinking 3 pints of ale every day after 25 years of that, do not enjoy being drunk and/or hungover anymore.
And after cleaning up Joe Lynn's room almost 5 years ago now, I got an Irish inheritance, a taste for the finer hard stuff.
I keep my alcohol bottled up, saved for non-school nights, sipping two ounces of tasty Willets Rye every Fri/Sat.
boring all the time. Twelve steppers have replaced the addiction of drink with the addiction of being preciously tedious all the time.
Again, it is this 20% of people who can't handle their shit, be it maintain their identity when someone else contests it, know when to say when on their alcohol and substances and who have to draw absolute lines in the sand to save them from themselves, vegetarians, 12 steppers, Kinsey 1's and 6's, you name it. And then they have to externalize their therapy process by ritualized two minute hate of the enemies of the status.
weird reason, a dozen or so women posted here in support of the slap-happy Ross.
It turned out that half of those women were the same KrisKraft posting under multiple names, but it was still weird.
Good luck, harold. You're one of the good guys.
Lovers and haters,
Totally stoked. Accepted the gift on an airline ticket to D.C. on May 9th from my daughter and son-in-law.
Day, Date Flight Class Departure City and Time Arrival City and
Time Aircraft Meal
Fri, 09MAY14 UA671 XN SAN FRANCISCO, CA
(DEN) 4:20 PM 757-200 Purchase
Fri, 09MAY14 UA377 X DENVER, CO
(IAD - DULLES) 11:13 PM A-320 Purchase
Here's my song for departure:
A new adventure.
his airline itinerary, his phone number, and his personal correspondence with "friends" on the comment pages of a website must be pretty socially isolated. I might empathize with his plight (like the guy who posts about his problems with DPH) if it weren't for the misogyny and elitism (I'm a great writer, look at me. By the way, I'm drunk and stoned so I'm not totally responsible for being an asshole).
cheap anonymous shots around.
It's true that people rarely leave an area where they have strong ties to family, friends and employment. Of course, the US wouldn't have become such a hotbed of opportunity for the masses of dispossessed that came from Europe, Asia and lands south of the border if human migration for better opportunities wasn't part of our shared history. Currently lots of boomers are migrating overseas for much cheaper living situations to spend their final days, while poor families from Central and South America continue to trudge north to the US for much better opportunities here than they could ever hope to find in the feudalistic countries where they were born. Wealth inequality is a huge issue in the US, but it's even more entrenched in most countries south of the border.
I assume the peoples who fled Asia 12-20,000 years ago and crossed the frozen Bering Strait to the US were just as dispossessed as people currently pushed out of SF because their wealth and incomes don't permit surviving and flourishing in the homeland.
The original farewell piece on SF Weekly was a nice tribute since many people have crossed h's path over the years, for better or worse. It's also fun to hear some of the "oldtimers" come out of the woodwork too in response to Caitlin's "the other side of h's story." I hope he gets a huge farewell party and is able to achieve one or two last goals before we get the news of his passing, assuming some of us aren't gone ourselves before then.
Hey guy/gal/whatever,
I know, I know, it's almost as if I'm using this chance to use a much-read thread featuring me to blow my own horn from a taller soap box than my own.
What's next, ads for my friend's new just-opened brilliant play?
Which reminds me ...
The divine and divinely talented Krissy Keefer opened the latest of the couple of thousand productions she has produced at Dance Mission at 24th and Mission on Thursday just past (I always take BART but it is readily accessible by Muni lines.
Play is:
Hemorrhage: An Ablution of Hope and Despair
("Lots of drums" says the woman the Chron called: "The lesbian Cecille B. DeMille of San Francisco")
January 24-February 8, 2014
Dance Brigade presents
Hemorrhage: An Ablution of Hope and Despair
January 24-February 8, 2014
Thursdays-Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 6pm
(Please note showtimes Sat, Feb 8 are 4pm & 7pm)
Tickets are available at www.brownpapertickets.com or 1800-838-3006
$30 reserved seating/Dance Brigade supporter
$22 general admission, in advance
$27 general admission, at the door
In the audience tonight will be:
Your own Bulldog who persuaded Ms. Keefer to run against Pelosi
Doug MacAbee, who drove Keefer and her Dance Brigade and their Taiko drums in a good sized motor home after I caught a post and tore off the rear bumper in 2006.
What a day that was!
Sterling Moss not being available, reserve driver, MacAbee leaped in and drove for over 12 hours as the rolling Keefer campaign headquarters went from stop to stop either leading or following Gavin Newsom's limo and caravan (cops actually must have thought we were with him cause they let us park in front of or behind him at all stops -
Gus Murad's Medjul's was really cool stop).
Here's the girl on the trail:
The Cohens will be there (Becky and Daniel)
The lent the motor home.
Luke Thomas (best photographer in California) and his lovely bride Laila will be there.
See you at Dance Mission tonite!
that I doubt that many here would get. For their benefit:
I first met h. Brown at a fundraiser for the amazing Krissy Keefer, back when she was running for Congress. Some time later, h. attended a Green Party holiday party where he held my newborn baby girl.
I was confused by Caitlin's original article about her bad experience with h. I fail to comprehend why h. was not mentioned by name in that piece. Instead, he was referred to repeatedly as a "progressive leader".
I don't know anyone who calls h. a "progressive leader." I certainly wouldn't. He is a gadfly with extensive knowledge of local government, mostly gained by watching many hours of SFGovTV. Most SF media outlets do not cover City Hall with any depth, if at all. The writings of h. often filled this gap.
I wouldn't call Aaron Peskin a progressive leader either. His voting record on the Board of Supervisors was just so-so. I also wouldn't point to Daly's Dive as being the be-all, end-all of political discussion. Daly took ownership of that bar only after serving 10 years on the Board of Supes as part of the much vaunted Class of 2000.
As a volunteer in a variety of organizations and campaigns, I have had good and bad experiences. Many of the worst were with powerful local female politicians. Some of them were very disrespectful to me, and in a few cases they were downright mean.
But, I have a very thick skin. As a Green Party member, a blubber-like outer layer is practically a requirement, given the endless criticism hurled at us.
I think this Bett Middler song describes my relationship with Ms. Donohue.
I've never been a "Progressive leader". I've always been an unpaid flack for campaigns. Peskin called me a 'pundit' which is, I'd guess, a step higher than a gadfly.
I got my power, as you mentioned, from spending at least 12 hours daily watching the BOS and all of the other commissions and agencies online thru SFGTV and then turning out regular columns in which I mixed lots of attempts at humor and sex.
Edgy, yuh know?
At my peak I could email several top supes during meetings and they'd answer me and sometimes use my prompts when they got the floor back.
Like Albert Brooks line in ... what was it? ... 'Network'?
"I say it here, and it comes out there." (pointing to TV will William Hurt is doing a pretty good imitation of Dan Rather)
A friend has been reading this thread (but not commenting) and he said that my performance reminds him of a line from a British officer's report ...
"Since my last report he has reached rock bottom and begun to dig."
Thanks again, Erika
I have read some these comments posted here, not all as there is just to many. What I get from what I have read is there seems to be a trend, male and female paying homage to H then on the other side of the rock there are the self described victims that blame H for their miserable life. The ones that are paying homage to H seem to far out number the ones that are posting and saying look what H has done to me.
H will always be remembered as he has touch many lives here in San Francisco, .Happy trails H.
I for one will miss you.
Oh yeah,
I've fallen into situations in which I rubbed shoulders with famous people since I was about 5 years old and Jimmy Hoffa picked up my dad at our house cause pop was an organizer on the docks at Kroger's in 1950 or less.
Two years later I was scurrying around in parking lots putting Adlai Stevenson bumper stickers on the backs of cadilacs.
Many years later after my nightclub failed in St. Louis (who knew that Preludin and bourbon wasn't a good fuel for a business model?) ...
So, I ended up at the LA Times as a clerk and the owner, Otis Chandler was a billionaire sportsman who had entire magazines created for him so that he could win an award and be on the cover and one of these magazines (he made Warren Hellman look like a skinflint) ...
One was a racing magazine cause Chandler (hell of a nice guy by the way) and Otis' people created the LA Grand Prix so that he could be partners with Sterling Moss in one of those 24 hour things.
They had categories of course.
Still, even when there was a special category for a certain kind of antique racing cars from a certain era (like maybe 1928 to 1932 and a certain horsepower or whatever), even with Sterling Moss as his partner it took a couple of years for them to win the category.
But LA had a world class Grand Prix event.
Same with track.
That's when I met Chandler.
He was (he died in 2006 at 78) running the most successful ad agency in the world at the time called the LA Times where we set the record for revenue (1.5 billion a year) and this was the 70's.
Selling ice water in Death Valley we were.
He bought all the competition.
So, I'm a clerk jogging to work and they see me and recruit me as the slowest ringer in history for the 'Corporate Games' where the rest of the team was inconsequential but the thing was to get Otis a trophy and his picture on a magazine created for that express purpose (but, of course, Otis had the best management team in media and they made money off of all these magazines).
I believe Otis won his trophy for placing first in a category of something like, 'Chairman's of the Board with controlling interest' or something like that.
But, I was a mainstay in other events where we never won but did if you know what I mean.
I ran in every event and seldom fell down or shat my shorts.
I was a team guy first.
Again, he was a great guy and Tom Johnson was his top dog brought in from LBJ on
his way to running CNN for Ted Turner.
As God is my witness, I'm Forest Gump with an IQ.
So, yeah, 'Guest' that's my Stirling Moss story.
Why do I tell it?
Cause this Guardian attack upon me is not about me commenting as a joke about someone having a nice ass (forget that one entirely) ...
This is about Steven T. Jones trying to convince the world that I'm a bad person and a terrible writer.
Marke B. has been kind enough to allow me to establish my case that I'm not a prick most of the time and all of us are pricks some of the time.
Except for women.
They're 'cunts' some of the time.
Language is my specialty.
You figured that out yet, Steve?
Keefer play, 'Hemorrhage' was the best show ever presented in the world and I'll be back at you with Luke Thomas pictures and a review for you to read tomorrow.
Go Giants!
babies. Political correctness has hijacked and neutralized the progressive movement and Caitlin isn't even the worst example.
Please be civil to your daughter and son in law.'
Remember, you will be on their turf. They are doing you a big favor by taking you in.
Keep the liquor consumption low.
I'll have my own place,
Thanks for your advice but I'll have my own place. A 2 bedroom place there backed against the mountains goes for $400 a month or less.
I'll drink to that.
Warriors are fun to watch, huh?
I would like to express all my love and gratitude for my Uncle Harold Brown. I am his niece Jessica from St. Louis and therefore have not got to spend much time with my uncle while growing up. Within the last few years though, I feel that I have developed a close and deep emotional bond with him.
As a side note about me, I have not had a relationship with my own father since I was 13 because in short he was an alcoholic, violent, and just generally dangerous and unhealthy to be around. As a young person I did have a few great male role models. My most memorable of which was my "uncle" Vernon.
Vernon was a loud-mouthed, tequila drinking, very wise, articulate, and smart ass old man. I knew Vernon when I was maybe around 15-19, until he passed away from a heart attack. I missed him greatly and found a similarly kindred soul in my uncle H. Vernon was Native American and had moved to St. Louis after working in the music industry in the security realm. I loved Vernon so much because he told everyone everything that was on his mind. The catch with that is sometimes you have to hear the things you don't want to hear. Vernon would often tell me that I would catch navel phenomena due to my mid drift showing all the time.
I love people like this because, one, I am on of these people and I was raised that if a friends needs to hear something then it is your duty as a friend to not bite your tongue just because you don't want to hurt their feelings. If they are your friends and you are expressing how you feel because you care, then they will understand and maybe not change but at least hear your opinion. Two, the world needs more people like this because sometimes people don't have friends who will tell it to them how it is and that is unfortunate.
Anyway, I would spend a lot of time at Vernon's because he was great to be around and due to his health conditions he needed help around the house for various things, cooking, cleaning and the like. I would hangout over there for a few hours at a time and he would tell me stories about his days touring with bands and seeing the world. I have a tendency to cuss too much, but this was never a point of judgement at Vernon's house. When things get heated, heated language is in order, no one and no topic was off limits for ridicule. As someone who likes tequila now, I can appreciate what adding a few layers of 1800 will do. He was a blast and absolutely hilarious. He was more of a ladies man and while he had plenty of guy friends, on the holidays there would be a constant procession of all of his ladies bringing him homemade goodies. He made everyone so happy. He was really the first person in my life who I lost. I had not experienced a close family death at that point and I was truly devastated when he passed.
At some point, I started getting my uncle H's emails and I realized that I had a real uncle with all these same qualities that I loved about Vernon. H is also a loud mouth, which comes off in a different way often since we mostly only communicate online. He has amazing stories and always has his eyes on everything which really impresses me. In St. Louis, there is no real way to keep up on the nitty gritty of what is really going on around here. This is sure to make anyone less than best friends of most, but I have an extra special place in my heart for those with the courage to say what is on their minds.
As someone who considers themselves a social justice advocate, I relate with the dilemma of saying what needs to be said and possibly burning some bridges in order to do so. We actually come from a whole family of these people for better or for worse, I guess it depends on who you are. We have loving titled ourselves, with H being the shit disturber, I am a boat rocker, and his daughter is a bridge builder. The world needs all of us. What has been really great for me is to have H as a sounding board and someone to talk to who really understands me. We have long on going discussions about the things we see in the world. To speak for myself, what upsets me is not the problems, but all of the simple solutions that go ignored as well as all the people who get fucked over so others can make tons of money. It has been so meaningful to know that I have someone close to me who not only gets it but cares.
I have to be honest as I sit here and type I am getting a little teary eyed, because having him in my life really means a lot more to me than I guess I identified before. I do not have a lot of great male role models in my life, but I don't think that I could ask for a better one. Yeah H might not be a perfect human being, but he also would not hide his flaws and would probably be the first to agree and poke fun of them too. H is a satirist because if you really think about all of the things that we think about all the time it gets really depressing. Life has to be funny and it takes a good smart ass to do this. Unfortunately, these people are too far and few between so often they are under appreciated when they are around. Whenever I need something to brighten my day I will skim through my emails from H and either find a great song to listen to, a funny story, or some kind of crazy political drama that gets my juices flowing and I join in the rant or rave.
H gives me hope, makes me laugh, listens, cares, and is truly an amazing guy. He doesn't have boundaries where most people would and that opens the world in ways most people are not aware of. Ben Franklin warned that most people die when they are 25, but they are not buried till they are 75. H was in a rut one day and I reminded him of this and told him that he should still be happy because he has not let his figurative fire go out on the inside, which as someone who recently turned 26 sometimes, I feel the wind blow against my flame sometimes, but luckily have someone with an older and stronger flame to turn to.
I would challenge people not of these general persuasions to sit and reflect about their lives for a while. First, think about a time recently that you were angry about the way something turned out. Think about it........ Why were you angry........... What did you do about it?................... If you answered nothing, then I am afraid you did not heed Mr. Franklin's warning and you might want to start this story over. Even if the only thing you do is reflect, vent, or take a few shots and banter with the crowd, this shit is important. In the least, bottling up anger no matter how large or small is not good for your health, should be dispelled immediately and turned into ridicule and laughter at every chance possible. If you need help, get a hold of H. There is also the chance he gets to you first ;)
With Love,
harold, you said: "Think about it........ Why were you angry........... What did you do about it?................... If you answered nothing, then I am afraid you did not heed Mr. Franklin's warning and you might want to start this story over. Even if the only thing you do is reflect, vent, or take a few shots and banter with the crowd, this shit is important."
Isn't this what Caitlin did by writing this column? Although I think you're getting a little too much press and it's gone to your head.
A deep examination of how the left has failed in SF, with an emphasis on the blame being firmly on the transition of progressives away from their traditional values and in favor of political correctness, card playing, identity politics and injecting of envy into every sphere of endeavor.
No, Caitlin achieved her goal which was to strengthen her credentials amongst the identitarians by going on on a limb, taking a personal risk in the lion's den to prove that there still is so much work to be done, so much women hating in the progressive movement, that we really can't move forward until that is all cleaned up.
Only those truly enlightened whose language passes the test may participate. And I'd like to clarify the "dried up husk of a woman" remark from this weekend. Progressives are a spent force. They only play defense and have no coherent, affirmative, positive engaging and mobilizing agenda. They don't get paid if they contest the framings fo those who pay them. It is those people who ran for office prepared to play nice with developers, who supported the Eastern Neighborhoods gentrification plan, and distinguish themselves by offering to throw the community a few crumbs around the edges who are dried up husks.
Other women Walkers' age and older are not dried up husks, this has nothing to do with age and everything to do with political exhaustion. Jane Morrison and Denise D'Anne are engaging dynamos with solid consistent liberal to progressive values when compared to Walker and they're decades older.
I'm not sure she gives good anything else.
Putting this in terms that progressive stalwarts will understand: whenever you spend resources defending an allies' feelings and demonstrating to your clique that you find allies' feelings more important than social injustice, you're not doing the work to stop evictions and people are being displaced.
than actually try and enjoy life. They lack a sense of humor and proportion. They are mired in their world of identity politics, and riddled with envy.
Nobody could ever credibly make those allegations about h. brown.
I'm so proud of my family. Jessica's grandmother (my sis) once shut down an entire hospital when she organized the nurses to join a union and the administration fought it, then shut the place down instead.
Jessica was big in Occupy St. Louis.
Whole family of shit disturbers.
Here's what she looks like (taken in my Skid Row room in the Tenderloin (note my use of pegboard mounted on sticks salvaged from campaign signs to create vertical storage in a room that's under 100 square feet)
Column I did at the time ...
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> boys and girls,
> This is a Luke Thomas shot of my
> sister's daughter's daughter and her guy
> on a Phish road trip visit to my Skid Row
> abode.
> Remember when you used to meander
> across the country following great scenery
> and music?
> They still do.
> This is Jessica Lake and she's finishing up
> her masters at the University of Missouri
> at St. Louis where her mom got her law degree
> and her grandmother (my almost-twin sis) got
> her masters in nursing. The Browns are a
> legacy family for that institution.
> Jessica and her guy, Mike bought a house
> together back in St. Louis (1,200 sq. ft. for
> under a hundred K) ...
> As Angela Alioto nods when we speak of such:
> "God bless the child that's got it's own."
> lol
> Good pic huh?
> I don't get many relatives visiting me here.
> Most of my back home folks are religious nut
> jobs who think that SF is teetering on the
> brink of Hades.
> Two of my sisters once came to visit me but
> like Edward Snowden, they wouldn't leave the
> airport and come into town.
> They thought the devil would get them.
> Had to visit them at a hotel near SFO.
> But, the grandkid turned out OK, huh?
> Go Giants!
> h.
boys and girls,
Go to Fog City for review w/pic.
boys and girls,
Go to Fog City for review w/pic.
boys and girls,
Hell of a time relaying the photo but the
two of you would get along famously without me
in between.
again, thanks for the soapbox on my way out
from a provider on their way out
Go Giants!
Yet you're posting your ravings here endlessly, so when is that going to happen (please let it be soon) and will it be permanent? Are you raffling off the chance to put a stake in your heart to make sure?
It's a ploy for attention from a consummate attention whore. Most people would just freakin' leave, but not h. He's like a turd that won't flush.
If Caitlin had any decency, she would apologize
She's doesn't have the spine to apologize affirmatively.
Caitlin should no more have to apologize, especially at the behest of David Sloane, than h Brown should have to apologize, they own their work and each of their work products speaks for itself.
What is it about some people that their sense of self esteem is predicated upon the validation of others and collapses if contested?
Oh noes, someone said something coarse that I don't like, stop the show and let's deal with it because the feelings of the activist, author or advocate are much more important than the consequences of failing to politically contest corporate power.
I'd suggest that she "grow a pair" but she'd probably just play another card.
Political correctness has ruined progressive politics.
Instead of engaging crazy man, which will result in more crazy, she left it alone.
Then later it's terrible to mention that Brown is crazy?
This is an interesting one sided thing here. Maybe she should have let it go for good, it's not nice to torment those who seem to have an obvious hardwiring issue.
Political Correctness and card playing is the basis for progressive thought and politics.
But she was weak and couldn't resist one last poke at the guy who skewered her self-righteousness and femininity with a single deft barb.
We need h. brown and his lilting satirical swagger a lot more than we need Caitlin and her "mouth for rent" broadsides of bitterness and fury.
The fall back progressive stance is, I'm the real victim here and it's your fault that I am upset.
Your stance is "my intolerant and screeching pal should be able to run wild, if it's pointed out he is a clown, then he is the real victim, of whatever"
Soon after high school I dropped these types who couldn't behave, I couldn't make excuses for their behavior. it's good to have enablers it seems,
That is the progressives' downfall.
But yes, if Caitlin could have thought quicker on her feet, or simply ducked the whole thing, she wouldn't need to make a fool of herself years later.
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I still have 102 days here. Yes, the move is permanent. At my age you have to assume that. I love San Francisco and consider it to be the best city in the world and I've been to London and Paris and Rome and Madrid and New York and Naples and Venice and Zurich and Istanbul and Athens and many many other cities. For me, San Francisco is the best.
But, I've been here for most of the last 35 years and it's time for a new adventure.
I didn't choose to drive this most-popular thread on the Guardian.
The Guardian chose to attack me when they heard that I was to be honored by some friends and enemies at a roast.
I don't mind the tussle.
I've flacked on this site off and on for years.
Backing a variety of candidates and issues.
I hadn't even read anything here for the last couple of years and only came back to defend myself.
That's because most of the core posters here are human scum.
No kidding.
Anonymous too.
I don't like to deal with people like that.
If I want to be ridiculed and disrespected and lied to and about?
I'll get married again.
This thread is pretty much played out anyway.
Caitlin and Jones are cowards.
They attacked me and then went away and hid under their desks when I responded.
I don't blame them.
I'm a pretty formidable debater and writer.
The Guardian used to be the spear tip of SF Liberals/Progressives
Now, they're in their death throes and trying to build circulation by attacking the most articulate voice of SF's Left for the last 20 years.
It won't work.
I'm popular but not that popular.
Anyway, this thread is pretty much dead due to lack of general interest so I'd like to wish the staff of the Guardian good luck on their search for new jobs.
If I had to choose a historical reference to the conduct of Jones and Donohue on behalf of the Guardian I'd say something like ...
'Guardian trapped in Donner Pass tries to eat h. brown!'
I'm indigestible folks.
Too old.
Too tough.
Is that Valentine's Day I see on the horizon?
Love to y'all.
Here's a Neska/LaFlamme song for the occasion.
She did it at my night club in 1978.
Best love song I ever heard.
Happy job search, Steven T. Jones.
A song for the day ...
It's 'Food Stamp Blues' by Neska/Linda LaFlamme/Rudman
She wrote this when she was playing at my night club in St. Louis over 35 years ago.
Here's her most popular song ...
She's one of my best friends and into her 70's just drove a 6,000 mile round-trip from Northern Virginia to Oakland through blizzards to comfort a sick friend.
Has offered me her couch til I get into my own place (she lives 30 miles from my son).
She's the best person I ever knew in my life.
And, one of my very best friends for decades.
A message to you, Caitlin.
My friends are gold.
Your friends are assholes.
Pitchers and catchers report in 18 days.
go Giants!
Your howls that the Guardian let people post opinions that you don't agree with, so you packed your bags and left. Quite comical your position now.
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text:
I was once alive!'
a dead man cries at the heavens;
all ghosts shift and sputter so jealously
at the living beings on earth
'if only we had been Angels'
then the heavens clench the redness of every bloodshed
from wars and illnesses alike
into a stigmata presence of a fresh wound bleeding out
from Jesus Christ's Hands and Feet
nailed through during a shivering winter
of crucifixions
as alleluias and amens
from ever weeping cherubims and angels
mourn innocent unblemished suffering -
winds scour the sky for axioms
as weeping Mary floats her prayers
through vibrant winds
and songs of heavenly protection
saints and sinners start a brawl:
I wonder how that ends?
Never mind,
it is still going on
What have we become?
We who used to sit in my bedroom
listening to Beatles records on headphones.
We spoke of the future.
We planned our advance.
How many cups of coffee have we consumed
in the over 30 years we've known one another?
A private village buzzing with secret flies.
An isolated two merged in one thought.
Teenage boys. Teenage men.
Men. Yes, we became men.
Grown up. Living in our own apartment.
Peanut butter and coffee in the cupboard.
Bread and margarine in the fridge.
Macaroni and Cheese for supper.
Living the good life!
University. Late night studies.
Crammed in between the parties.
Laundry day. Bags and bags of
rumpled semen stained clothes,
dumped like angry bitches
into industrial machines.
Video games and cigarettes.
Philosophy and politics.
We and our gang of other anxious young men
gathering in groups for comfort.
Planning on how we'd get laid.
Mostly going home alone and jacking off.
We grew older. Old.
Yes, I suppose we are now old men.
Just a wee bit past middle-aged.
Infrequently connecting. Suggesting times
we could meet.
Dinner and a Movie perhaps? Have we become that old?
Life goes on and has gone on.
Marriages begun. Marriages ended.
Husband. Father. Having Kids. Children. Teenagers. Young adults.
Grandfather now.
You've lost your hair. I didn't take it, but still it is lost.
Mine remains, but rude strands of grey pop
up like alabaster whores
on parade.
Keep it between ourselves, but I colour mine now.
Oh yes. Like a vain woman rushing to her
makeover session, I plop
The gunk on my head and
wait for it to pretend for me.
I'm crabby in the mornings. Irritated in the afternoons. Pissed off
by the coming of the night. Adulthood.
Isn't it grand?!
Do you still listen to the same music we used to love?
Pop on a Beatles song and sing along, planning on how
to change the planet?
Me. I don't give a fuck about the planet anymore. Let it rot
into stinking piles of dung.
I'm involved in my own existing now.
Are you?
We're in the final stages of living. Neither sad nor morbid.
Simply a fact.
Good twenty, thirty years left.
Let's promise each other to meet again
a few more times before our funerals.
Asleep, where the dreams
curved away, leaving
you behind.
Those instant pictures that
shape the false
Do you remember
those shadows?
This is the only time
the dusty photo albums
reality shows.
Stranded on islands.
Strangers of different
We were even strangers
when we met. We never did
get to
know one another.
This is what I realize.
Falling asleep
the best
defence to facing
We can be what we want to be.
That is the promise
we gather to ourselves.
Flickering moments of
intensity that
crawl away
like wedding bands
thrown into the trash.
Asleep, where the dreams
curved away, leaving
you behind.
The flash of urban
machine demonstrates
Rubber slithering
on absorbing iron.
Interlocking harmonized echoes
scan in electromagnetic
Tracks dispersed across
the spectrum
of nothing.
That is this country.
We who've been in residence here
know the
detachment of our flag.
Walking shoes
walking men.
Back and forth, back and forth.
Sonar devices clamped like cancer
to their ears.
Listening to private noises
in the middle of a cluster.
We were thinking alike.
Hide in trains and
the vacuum
Nylon stockings over face.
The photographed sequence of
choreographed events
cascade over and over
into paths never spoken of.
Age one on the mounted
message is clear as drizzled wings
sneered by ornaments in drag.
A double tone of tolerance
is wanted but is not welcomed.
Were we still dancing when the
music did not mean anything to
us anymore?
Artificial roses on the table.
Plastic food in the fridge.
We sat for dinner in solemn
My plate was full.
My heart was void.
Null and void.
Void and null.
When I break out of
my chrysalis, will you
still remember
how to comb your hair?
Across the snowing intemperance
streamed colours named,
yet not used.
Null and void.
Void and null.
In the obscurity
of the humiliated
androids sob.
Neoprene murmurs
shriek out
cellophane fabrications.
Listen for prosthetics
to the surface
of heartbeats
and silence.
Promenade like
falling sleet
to chambers
of hurting.
Infra-red warmth
on and off
through the body.
In the shadows
of perspective
mud rots
tones of
Agitated odours twitter
in the stimulating scent of corsages
corrupted and bronzed.
Submissive to sleeping
hands gesturing
symbols of
Please let me
hold you
one more time.
Like an assassin,
the hinting of a new period
requests its entrance.
Under sheets of
seasonal heat,
swings in enlightened
Please let me
hold you
one more time.


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Reach For The Sky is a good Ratt album. If you like this band, or are into other similar bands like Dokken or Motley Crue, Poison or Quiet Riot, this should be right up your alley. While I don't think this is Ratt's best album, it does contain some of Warren DeMartini's best guitar solos. Warren flat-out RIPS on a lot of these guitar lines, very cool stuff. If you own the first three Ratts (EP, OOTC, and IOYP) this would be a good purchase, especially if you can get it used for just a few bucks. Standout tracks: City To City, I Want A Woman, Way Cool Jr, Chain Reaction, No Surprise, What I'm After.
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This is Ratt's fifth album. This isn't like the straight forward raw heavy metal of there Out Of The Cellar days but still a good pop metal album. Overall the album isn't very consistent with some great songs, some solid songs and some filler songs.
1.City to City- 10/10 A great opener. The riff is great and the lyrics are cool. Pearcy's vocals are enjoyable and the guitar solo is excellent. The chorus is very catchy too. This should have been a big hit. An underrated classic.
2.I Want a Woman- 10/10 Another great catchy song. This was a minor hit on MTV. The riff is catchy and the chorus is good too. Warren DeMartini's solo is great and the harmony line is excellent too.
3.Way Cool Jr.- 8/10 The albums only real hit song. Not one of the better songs but still a good song. This song is slow and bluesy. This actually reminds me a bit of classic Def Leppard. The guitar solo is excellent too.
4.Don't Bite the Hand That Feeds- 10/10 A great song with a good heavy riff. The chorus and vocals are good too. Another great guitar solo too.
5.I Want to Love You Tonight- 10/10 An excellent power ballad. This should have been a hit. Stephen Pearcy's vocals sound very good. The soft part is excellent and the chorus is awesome. The guitar solo is excellent and has a ton of emotion and a great harmony line.
6.Chain Reaction- 9/10 A great fast song that reminds me of Van Halen. The riff is excellent and the chorus is catchy too. The solo is one of the best on the album too.
7.No Surprise- 7/10 A pretty good song. I don't really like the chorus but it's not a bad song. More great lead guitar though.
8.Bottom Line- 8/10 A good catchy song. the riff is good and the chorus is catchy as hell. The solos are excellent too. A good song but not a classic.
9.What's It Gonna Be- 10/10 A good catchy pop metal song. I like the riff and chorus a lot on this song. Another excellent solo too
10.What I'm After- 7/10 This is a pretty good song although it is really poppy. More great lead guitar too.
Overall the album isn't very consistent with some great songs, some solid songs and some filler songs. Maybe the bands most commercial album. This was not there most succesful album but it did have some good anthems and a suprisingly good power ballad. Warren DeMartini solo's are great as always and this is a solid hair metal album although it is probably the bands worst album with the classic line up. I think if they had spent maybe another few months on this album it would have been a classic because there is plenty of great songs on this album
Stephen Pearcy- Vocals
Warren DeMartini- Lead Guitar, Backround Vocals
Robbin Crosby- Guitar, Backround Vocals
Juan Croucier- Bass, Backround Vocals
Bobby Blotzer, Drums, Percussion, Harmonica, Washboard
Ratt may not have been a top-40 metal band but they never ceased to put out good music (except for some Detonator tracks)…Reach For The Sky is just a good, solid album with lots of hooks, great lyrics, and unique among the Ratt albums. The first few albums were very similar in style…though I love them lots still…and this album is different."Don't let your dreams be clouded, Aim your sights high, Search your true feelings, And Reach For The Sky." – Ratt, Reach for the Sky
Ratt's fifth release (fourth on major label), "Reach For the Sky," continues their swaggering style, their sleazy LA-style lyrics, and the Ratt sound forward through the end (*sniff*) of the 1980's. While some songs take a bit of a musical twist on typical Ratt stuff, this album is still distinctly, undeniably RATT in all of their glory.Actually, I like the amount of sleaze in this release more than I do in their '85 album "Invasion of Your Privacy," and this album is neck-to-neck in competition with their 1986 "Dancing Undercover" for sexual inuendoes and lyrical sleaze. DeMartini's guitar also continues to blister, ingiting your stereo with "I Want a Woman," "Don't Bite the Hand That Feeds," and "City To City." "Chain Reaction" is fast, driving, and heavy, and "Bottom Line" is probably one of the best tracks on this album.While I wouldn't recommend this CD to a beginner looking to experience Ratt, this IS a solid release, and established Ratt fans won't have a problem wearing out their stereos with this album.For the Ratt experience, I recommend in this order: 1) "Out of the Cellar," 2) "Invasion of Your Privacy," 3) "Dancing Undercover", then 4) "Reach For the Sky." Their fifth major release, "Detonator," has its good moments, but doesn't stack up to their 80's releases.
By C.S.Hair metal 1980's style is often criticized but filled a carloads of individuals who have little or no knowledge of the genre. One of the bright spots on a seemingly mythical dark tale that is often told about 80's rock are the Los Angeles, California outfit known as Ratt. With so much competition in the area – Motley Crue Dokken,and the already established Van Halen to choose from and to rock out to,it would seem impossible to gain a foothold of originality in this over- crowded marketplace.With the cannonfire like drum beat and sound of Bobby Blotzer, the raspy and rough vocals of Stephen Pearcy, the dual guitar attack of Robbin Crosby (rhythm) and Warren De Martini (lead) combo and the penetratingly solid bass playing of Juan Crouchier (a former Dokken memeber),Ratt created a balanced metal sound . The bass like tonation of Blotzer and Crouchier work in poisionous tandem with Crosby and De Marini on "Reach" and they strike a smooth balance – no one group of musicians overwhelm the other in the playing and recording process, making 'Reach For he Sky" a gem based on production alone. Blotzer begins the assault with a funk -filled double bass-drum beat that fuels "City To City", while De Martini sprinkles the ingredients of wailing guitar riff on top of Pearchy's opening screams and Crosby's vicious co – lead on "I Want A Woman". The next track "Way Cool Jr" is record company driven, elementary school pop all the way as a early resting point after the fast start created by the opening tracks.. The band step back into the club after a couple of drinks and set the tempo again with Blotzer opening up the floodgates for the reamaining musicians to jump over and in with his potent snare drum poops, slick cymbal/ hi- hat work, and stop on a dime breaks in pace on "Don't Bite The Hand That Feeds ""Playing to the female auduence that fuels the industry, the boys hit the ballad button on "I Want To Love You Tonite".In stark comparison to the blatant commercialism of "Way Cool", the polished harmonies, smooth beat and polished craftiness of De Martini's solo over a tone setting rhyhtm riff by Crosby make for a more honest representation of how the band can work it's magic in slow- down mode. "Chain Reaction is "Reach For The Sky's version of "Communication Breakdown" with it's Motley Crue like break neck tempo capped by Pearcy's suggestive line- "the only thing that sets me off will bring you to your knees"If unconvinced or partially sold on the merits of Ratt the funky 'No Surprise" with it's backing vocal intro. heavy De Martini riff and avalanche of an intrusion by Blotzer with his opening beats make a strong case for crowd favorite in tandem with the stop and go,hard edged flow of "Bottom Line" where Blotzer fills in space beautifully around the exploits of his talented bandmates and wakes up the neighbors with his cymbal crashes and snap of the wrist drum rolls on " What's It Gonna Be" hi- lighted by the army of guitars gathered up by Crosby and De Martini that make for an rock- anthem flavored closing solo. Though Pearcy and the gang may always be regarded as little or nothing songwriters, the pieces fall in place on "Reach For The Sky" in smoother symmetry than the spotty hit and miss nature of the previous LP "Dancing UnderCover". This is Ratt N' Roll arguably at it's best, making 'Reach For The Sky" one of their top two or three albums and a worthy five star ranking.C.S. 2-9- 04


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Braintree: Crime drops to year-long low, according to statistics
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Crime in Braintree reached a year-long low in December, according to the latest police statistics.
During the course of the month, there were 203 crimes reported to Essex Police in the Braintree town area.
The figure, the latest available from the police.uk website, compared with 218 in November.
Antisocial behaviour, burglaries and vehicle crime all fell, while drug offences, violent crime and public disorder actually rose.
Although the figure of 203 crimes was the lowest in 2012, it still represented a rise from the same month in 2011 when 177 offences were recorded.
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While many Fourth of July celebrations were cancelled due to the wet weather, some folks didn't let the rain get in the way of their festivities.Some people braved the rain to check out the fireworks show in Stone Mountain on Wednesday. Stone Mountain says it will hold its "Fantastic Four" celebration featuring fireworks and a laser show on July 4, 5 and 6, regardless of the weather."We always want to look for the safety of the guests and the safety of the show technicians, but we can shoot the fireworks in the rain," said Paul Creasy of Full Spectrum. The Wiley family drove in from Butts County for the show after their hometown of Jackson cancelled its Fourth of July fireworks event."Whatever it takes to sit out and watch the fireworks," said Carol Wiley. Other towns were forced to cancel their plans.Lawrenceville officials called off its "Prelude" fireworks show late Wednesday afternoon. The yearly event at the historic square was set to include the musical "South Pacific" by the Aurora Theatre followed by fireworks."We tried to hold out as long as we could and we looked at the weather maps. We kind of waited through the afternoon because it looked like it might be holding a little bit west, but when you get to a certain point looking at all these events that were going to be happening outdoors, we just had to consider the safety of others and when you look at that radar, there were more bands of rain coming," said Mark Mulling of the Lawrenceville Tourism and Trade Association. The organizers in Lawrenceville said they couldn't reschedule the fireworks show because of the way it was organized with the Aurora Theatre. They also say they lost thousands of dollars for the stage and the fireworks. Some people said they saw the cancellations as an opportunity to see more fireworks over more days."When the other communities that have cancelled theirs and they start up again, then we have more that we can go see since we like them so much," said Wiley.Click here for a list of scheduled Fourth of July events in the metro area.
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On behalf of St. John's Episcopal Church in Gloucester, I would like to thank the community for their support of our recent Country Cupboard Fair held on Saturday, Nov. 17. It was our most successful fair ever. The parish hall and sanctuary were packed with people purchasing our own hand-made crafts, vintage jewelry, Vermont artisan cheeses, thrift shop treasures and an assortment of cookies at our first Cookie Walk, all for the benefit of outreach work St. John's does in the community. Particular thanks go to Shaw's Market on Railroad Avenue for their generous donation of fish for our fish chowder luncheon and to the Gloucester Daily Times for helping to get the word out about the fair. We at St. John's were delighted to welcome so many new visitors to our church and parish community. We invite anyone and everyone to join us each Sunday at 8 and 10:30 a.m. To learn more about St. John's services and outreach activities, please visit our web site at www.stjohnsgloucester.org.
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On Saturday, Nov. 10, the Phyllis A. Marine Association held a scrap metal drive to raise money for the nonprofit organization.
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We want to thank Kevin and Merl Hunt of North Shore Scrap Steel for providing us with the empty Dumpster and removing a full Dumpster. Charlie Foster graciously allowed us to use his property for the drive and his son-in-law even cooked us a barbecue lunch! Boots Parsons helped to organize the whole project at Foster's.
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The word was created by Steven Fox and not Claire McGowan
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It is odd, the links were removed. I did noticed that the manual function button no longer allows toggling the AF sensors mode with 1.2.5. I'm wondering if it's a "feature" or if we're going to see a 1.2.6 firmware real soon.
I have done the update to day and de M-fn button still toggles the different AF modes on my Camera maybe a settings that isn't correct?
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Prepare for DarwinA column article, Mission: Professional by: Steven Savage
So, last I checked, DC's semi-reboot has eleven Batman titles. That's a lot of Batman, and though Batman and company sell, it's still a very high number.
Of course, do we expect them all to succeed? No. In fact I'm sure people at DC are looking to see what works and what doesn't Batman-wise and indeed in the entire semi-reboot. There's gonna be some Comics Darwinism going on.
I think that may be the future of comics as we move more and more into an age of fast-printing, multiple-distribution models, and e-comics.
Let's face it right now no one is quite sure what's going on, what's going to sell (and what's going to sell in the future), what methods work now, and what methods will work in the future. Throw in the fact that some comic companies have inherited decades of cultural relevance they can use - or squander - and it's got to be a strange time to work in comics.
That makes me think that it's time for some Intentional Darwinism in comics - because it'll be easier to do. Release comics in ways that cut your losses if they don't work, that test the market, that are able to be evaluated for inclusion or exclusion.
In fact it's easy to do:
- One could try out comics as e-comics and see which survive, vastly cutting printing expenses and distribution expenses.
- Print-on-demand allows small authors to try out their plans on, well, a small-scale. I'm sure as POD advances it'll be applied to comics more and more, allowing big companies to test out sales even easier.
- The internet allows for faster feedback and data, better promotionals, more information gathering - in fact you might be able to test the waters easier.
- Multimedia is becoming more the norm - and gives you new ways to test viability. A comic can have a special code for a website, an e-comic can be bundled with something else, etc. This gives new ways to try distribution and gauge reaction.
- Comics can come out in many formats at the same time - letting companies find out what works.
So more and more there are reasons to actually release comics with the complete understanding some will fail - because it's easier to determine failing and easier to cut losses.
Of course that is something larger companies can do far easier than smaller ones - which could mean that smaller companies and indies will need to figure out how to compete with Darwinism. If companies can just throw titles out and see what survives, smaller ones and indies will need their own strategy to deal with it.


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A spectacular, 28-yard run by Florida St. Seminoles quarterback E.J. Manuel set the Noles up to respond after an opening-drive Oklahoma Sooners touchdown. Manuel broke at least part of two or three tackles before using his hand to find his balance as he pushed up the sideline. FSU couldn't do much once it got within scoring reach, with a sack by Tom Wort ending progress, but Dustin Hopkins belted a 53-yard field goal anyway to make it 7-3, Oklahoma, in the first quarter.
Nick O'Leary, he of the bare hands and arms like an uninspired NCAA 12 character, made a tough catch-and-run-and-get-hit-and-keep-running to convert a needed first down. O'Leary has two catches for 11 yards, but oh so much grittiness all over the place.
FSU was more eager to take shots downfield than the Sooners were on their first drive, though little came of it. Oklahoma kept working screen passes, however, so expect Landry Jones to look for Ryan Broyles deep sooner (LOL!) or later. At one point, Manuel hit a receiver in the end zone, but the catch was overruled by a holding call.
There was another holding penalty on that drive-killing sack.
For further reading, news, discussion and more: Check out Oklahoma Sooners blog Crimson and Cream Machine and FSU blog Tomahawk Nation.


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