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Best Texas songs, #100-80 Best Texas songs, #79-60 The Spotify playlist for songs #59-40 59. Tum Tum, "Caprice Music" For years, the Dallas hip-hop community's had a love affair with the Chevy Caprice Classic. Tum Tum's "Caprice Music" was an ode to that car culture, illustrating the unique trend ... More >>
Jesse HugheyWe've already mentioned a handful of them, but today being Halloween, perhaps reading about one particularly excellent pumpkin beer will inspire some of you homebrewers not to waste the chunks of gourd left behind from carving your jack-o-lantern.On the other hand, the scary results o ... More >>
Bud PorembskiHophead Jesse Hughey through a haze of Americana. Jesse battled 17 other folks. Kobayashi totally didn't. Competing against no one, the great wiener swallower Kobayashi wolfed 69 hot dogs in New York City. It was a world record and personal best for Kobayashi on July Fourth, and he s ... More >>
Kristy YangTuna "doma" towerWith the holidays upon us, money is tight. What better time than now to take advantage of the many happy hour food specials available throughout the city? Several Dallas restaurants are feeling the pinch, too, and are offering up great discounted food specials to ... More >>
Wolf Parade, Ogre You AssholeGranada TheaterNovember 16, 2010Better than: finding out after the fact where the opening band got their name. Jesse HugheyMaybe the band was oblivious to the muddy sound that buried the vocals. Or maybe it just didn't matter to them if the audience could hear the wor ... More >>
Jesse HugheyOne of the most exciting bits of beer-related news I've received in the last year came in an interview with Guinness brewmaster Fergal Murray at Trinity Hall in March as he was touring the country making the case for celebrating St. Patrick's Day with his products. Intrigued by outsta ... More >>
Jesse HugheyAs a countdown to the Dallas Observer's "Best of Dallas" 2010, City of Ate is serving up 100 of the favorite dishes we crave, savor and hope to scarf down again soon. These dishes are in no particular order. Some are little known, others celebrated. Some are pricey, others can be eate ... More >>
Photo by Jesse HugheySomwhere in here is a dish Jesse swears is really good. (We think he's just angling for an iPhone.) Luckily, his sense of taste is better than his vision.As a countdown to the Dallas Observer's "Best of Dallas" 2010, City of Ate is serving up 100 of the favorite dishes we ... More >>
Jesse HugheyLibertine Bar co-owner Simon McDonald, with a few possible beer choices. Each week City of Ate will give you the lowdown on a local happy hour in Quittin' Time, with the details on why you should or shouldn't take up the featured bar or restaurant on its drink specials.Where: The Libe ... More >>
To get the Happy Hours App, click here or search Happy Hours in the iPhone App Store.In this week's cover story, Jesse Hughey and the editorial monks working in the stoney basements of the Dallas Observer have cataloged 50 bars and clubs happy hour specials.The really, really awesome ones. But ... More >>
Jesse HugheyThe last time I went to a Flying Saucer beer festival (the fall 2009 fest at the Fort Worth location), I learned that tasting the big, bad, high-gravity and high-ABV beers before trying lighter brews can throw off your tastebuds and make the latter drinks seem puny by comparison ... More >>
Jesse HugheyEach week City of Ate will give you the lowdown on a local happy hour in Quittin' Time, with the details on why you should or shouldn't take up the featured bar or restaurant on its drink specials.Where: National Sports Lounge (music warning), 3606 Greenville Ave., 214-887-9500When: 3 ... More >>
Jesse HugheyOne recent trend in the culinary world, the concept of the "gastro-pub," is a boon for beer lovers. Pubs that focus their efforts on good food tend to serve higher quality beers and wines than your average bar. The late, great Zymology on Lower Greenville was one short-lived example, ... More >>
Jesse HugheyMile High Barley Wine, one of three beers available in the Samuel Adams LongShot six pack.Homebrewing is a labor of love, the creative pursuit of some new twist on beer or refinement on a standard style. Few homebrewers expect anything more than a fresh supply of tasty beer and perhap ... More >>
Jesse HugheyShoveling the sidewalk can wait.For all that I wrote last week about seasonal beers that fall outside of the usual dark and heavy winter warmer classification, the first thing I wanted once it was safe to send Lady Hophead on a beer run ... was a porter. Along with a few old favorites ... More >>
Jesse HugheyGordon Biersch 8060 Park Lane 214-369-2739 Dude Factor: 5, or David Hasselhoff, on a scale of 1 (Adolphus Busch) to 10 (Charles Bukowski)I can almost imagine the German-American (I'm guessing) restaurateur who founded this chain irately shouting down a customer who asks if they serve ... More >>
Jesse HugheyDelaware's Dogfish Head landed at No. 2 on the Hophead Beer of the Year list for 2009, thanks in large part to its creative approach. But the brewery isn't just forward-thinking with its innovative beverages--it also has a healthy respect for the past, and goes so far as to resurrect ... More >>
Jesse HugheyStone Vertical Epic 09-09-09 Belgian-style imperial porter.San Diego's Stone Brewery is known for creating some monstrously, even arrogantly hoppy brews. So it was somewhat of a surprise when I sat down to try a pint of the recent 09-09-09 Vertical Epic Belgian-style imperial porter, ... More >>
Jesse HugheyMay a grand Constellation be formed by a union of American virtues. --Revolution-era toast, per Richard J. Hooker's "The American Revolution Seen Through A Wine Glass" (though we like to think that beer mugs were hoisted to these words as well).Two British ales recently proved to be r ... More >>
Jesse Hughey When you think about brewing hot spots, what come to mind? Some obvious international destinations include Belgium, Germany, Ireland and the Czech Republic. As for the U.S., craft breweries are everywhere, but we think of the West Coast--especially Portland and Seattle. There's alw ... More >>
Patrick MichelsEach week, Pairing Off attempts to find just the right bottle of wine to go with ordinary food.Maybe I'm jumping the gun on this. Then again, writing a corn dog piece around state fair time seems far too cliche.So what the hell--it's summer, the season of food on a stick, and our own ... More >>
The Strange Boys got a little bit of love from Rolling Stone this week, though the small blurb mentions only Austin, neglecting to point out the band's Dallas origins. Writes Austin Scaggs in Smoking Section: "They are four kids from Texas who will blow you away with their Sixties garage-rock-reviva ... More >>
Sure, 2008 may be done, but the list-making still continues... This year, five contributors to the Dallas Observer's music section were asked to participate in the Village Voice's annual Pazz & Jop critics' poll, which compiles the lists of hundreds of music critics across the country into one m ... More >>
Unfair Park just informed readers about a new reason to party: your daughter's first period! No, seriously. Apparently, advertisements for menarche party planning have been spotted on at least one SUV in town. The idea, according to Menarche Parties 'R Us, is to "Create a life time of memories for y ... More >>
I bid farewell to 2008 by, like Ricky Bobby, thanking little baby Jesus for giving us specialty holiday brews. What better way to soothe the white-knuckle stress of shopping, the friction of family gatherings and the frustration of assembling crappy toys than with a high-ABV beer? Jonathan Shikes ... More >>
If the potential for boredom and awkward conversation make you dread the family togetherness that comes with the holidays, allow me to make a suggestion: Farkle. Basically, Farkle is a game in which you roll six dice and gain points for 1s, 5s and various number combinations. The winner is the first ... More >>
Art Conspiracy inexplicably got left off Good Friday, but really, the event deserves an entry of its own anyway. As in past years, volunteers will auction off art created on site between sets from local musicians. More than 150 artists participated in the charity arts event. This year's conspiracy b ... More >>
As if the free mixtape he offered earlier this month wasn't enough, Anonymous, a.k.a. rapper Anttwon Thames from the Greedy Grove, has leaked another track, SupaPowers. In fact, he promises another next week. If he's offering all this for free but still holding onto his best stuff for the album, he ... More >>
Alley Oops 1115 N. Beckley Ave., Dallas All you really need to know about Alley Oops is that it's cheap, it's small, and almost everything is deep fried. I love it. Sandwiches range from about five to eight bucks. So you want a soup or salad with that greasy Philly or burger? Why don't you ask for ... More >>
"Fat" is such a harsh word. How about "Big-Boned Pimp"? Three Dallas rappers who have each had a taste of commercial radio success just collaborated on a song all but guaranteed not to be played on the air. That is, unless Tum Tum, Lil Wil and Fat Pimp offer a completely bowdlerized radio edit of " ... More >>
Fortunately, the breakup of Tiger Moth the band didn't leave as much wreckage as the airplane of the same name. Well, that didn't last long. Just five months after Darryl Smyers hipped us to the band and four months after he raved about their eponymous EP, Dallas blooze-rock band Tiger Moth has cal ... More >>
Jesse Hughey Lewis Black built his entire stand-up comedy career on appearing as though he's about to blow a blood vessel from sheer outrage at world's stupidity. Years of Daily Show segments and television specials have proven that the closer he comes to suffering an onstage stroke, the bigge ... More >>
Gutterth's Compilation One will finally be available tomorrow, July 23. You can take a peek at the artists and songs included on the two-CD compilation at this page on Gutterth's site. It's packed with great bands and solo acts--Emil Rapstine, The Great Tyrant and MOM, to name a few—along wi ... More >>
Models and clothes like this will be on display at The Door tomorrow. (Nice.) Tomorrow night, The Door in Deep Ellum will be filled with skinny, pretty, intricately styled people, and on this occasion it won't just be emo boys. The Pin Show is a showcase of local fashion talent, be it apparel ... More >>
We always appreciate it when visual artists and musicians collaborate, whether it's by putting on a big event, holding a concert in a gallery or museum, or complementing live music with interesting visuals. But we don't want to overlook the smaller ways in which visual artists and musicians wo ... More >>
Denton's beloved independent music, books, movies and more store, Strawberry Fields, reopens tonight at its new location next to Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studio. Last month, a rent hike forced the venue out of its former Oak Street location, which had been the home of many a DIY rock show. The sto ... More >>
Denton gothic folk-rock collective Pinebox Serenade has finally completed Let The River Take Them Home, the follow-up to the band's 2005 self-titled LP, and the band has a little incentive for you to get your order in now. The album won't be officially released until next month, with a July 12 ... More >>
Just got word that The CW network, The O.C.-wannabe Gossip Girl and Dallas' own Lisa Loeb--or a trifecta clubs editor Jesse Hughey calls "The Holy Trinity of 'Who Cares?'"--are set to join forces tonight on your television sets during the 7 o'clock hour. Loeb's guest-starring role on the show take ... More >>
In case you missed his posting, Friday was Rich Lopez's last day as the Dallas Observer's clubs editor. Now that he is raking in the big bucks as a freelance writer and bookstore clerk, I have the formidable task of taking over for him. That means club owners, music booking agents, promoters, m ... More >>
It's distasteful to rip musical acts donating their time to perform for a worthy cause. So we'll just say that this Sunday night, Naked Mom on the Lawn, GOAT, Imaginary Friends, Daddy Dub and Bill's Clinton will light up the Torch Lounge, 5361 Sears at Greenville Avenue, and DFW NORML will be ... More >>
If you're an e-friend of John Freeman--or his defunct DIY venue--chances are you recently received a bulletin item letting you know that you can still donate toward Sloppyworld's outstanding legal fees. We spoke to the Dutch Treat today, and he clarified (again) that Sloppyworld will not reope ... More >>
Big ups to our writer Jesse Hughey, who has graciously compiled this here lovely lineup for this weekend's Rubber Gloves anniversary blow-out (as promised this week in the paper version of Unfair Park.) Props to ya, Little D. The list is after the jump. --Jonanna Widner
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This book is a great one to read for any family who has a set of rainbow colored play silks. The book shows a dance troop of small children who dance with their silks and as they cross paths you can see the colors that are created when colors mix. Fun to try at home after reading the story.
This book is all about how combining the primary colors can create other colors.
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I recommend this book for pre-K to 2nd graders. They could create a color wheel similar to the one in the back of the book.
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This book is an example of an informational book because it shows what colors you mix to make other colors. It is really neat how they mix the colors together with only three different color scarves. This book is for any age, but primarily for primary age students
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As part of the Adult Summer Reading Program's "Stuff You Should Have Read in High School" week the Dexter District Library welcomes back Al & David Eicher to present "When Mark Twain Came to Michigan".
This lecture will focus on a period in Samuel Clemens life when he took the name, Mark Twain, and came to Michigan. The program focuses on Twain's own words taken from a diary that included his travels in Michigan which was the beginning of his World Tour. The diary provides interesting comments about the St. Clair Flats and sites along the way to Mackinac Island and other parts of Michigan. The lecture will also include stories of his early childhood.
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In the middle of July the stock market finally awoke from its QE-induced coma and realized that the Federal Reserve's tapering, which has been going on for the last six months, was for real. Like a child who becomes accustomed to a parent who threatens punishment but never follows through, the market had been in denial to the Fed's withdrawal of monetary stimulus. Now, thankfully, the ending of Fed asset purchases will be the pin that pops this QE-inflated market and economy....
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But please do not confuse the end of QE with the Fed's actually fighting inflation and selling trillions of dollars worth in Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities (MBS), because that will never happen.
The Fed has increased its balance sheet by an unprecedented $3.5 trillion since 2008. The Fed accomplished this by purchasing Treasuries and MBS from banks in exchange for Fed credit. A credit from the Federal Reserve is a nuanced way of saying "new money." This new money is transferred as a credit to the banks with the idea that the Fed can and will reverse this transaction at its discretion.
As an army releases reserves, the Fed (with the help of private banks) has marched many of these new dollars into the economy to "save us" from deflation. Once the job is done, the Fed intends to call these dollars back and shrink its balance sheet back to pre-crisis levels.
This all sounds great in theory, but as we will soon see, the practical applications of shrinking the Fed's massive balance sheet have become impossible without creating a monetary depression.
For the past few years the central bank's credit inflation has been predominantly deployed in bonds, real estate, and equity assets. But recently this new money has leaked into the government's manipulated Consumer Price Index calculation. So our government no longer can promulgate the lie that inflation is some elusive goal that it cannot achieve. And the argument that stronger economic growth is around the corner in a context of low inflation has been fully debunked.
That is why the market sold off last week. In a word, it is inflation. The Employment Cost Index (ECI) component in the GDP data put the Keynesians on "high wage inflation alert."
But most people will be blindsided by the temporary period of deflation that will result from the end of the Fed's massive asset purchases, as the monetary spigot for the primary beneficiary of the Fed's credit -- namely stocks and bonds -- gets turned off.
As with the housing market in the mid-2000s, we are about to relearn the lesson that many equity investors (especially those on margin) can afford to hold on to an asset only when prices are rising.
But on the other end of this cyclical period of deflation lies a period of inflation that will make the '70s seem like an era of hard money. This is because to fight inflation the Fed will have to bring home trillions of those "money troops" it sent into the economy. Calling the money back is going to be far more difficult than deploying it was.
When the Fed buys Treasury debt, most of the interest payments made go back into the government's coffers. In fact, by law the Treasury has claim to all income derived from the Federal Reserve; less expenses. So the Treasury pays the Federal Reserve an interest payment and in return receives most of that payment back. This is a pretty good deal for the Treasury, considering the Fed's profit is in the neighborhood of $91 billion a year. This means the Treasury not only didn't have to find a real buyer for the newly issued debt but also did not have to worry about paying interest on that debt.
But it gets even better -- as the bonds mature, the Fed has been rolling over the principal. Therefore, it is as if the $2.4 trillion of newly issued Treasury bonds sold to the Fed since 2008 don't even exist. The Treasury gets reimbursed on its interest payments and never even has to worry about what the cost would be for the private market to purchase that debt. To sweeten the pot, the Fed has pushed rates down to unprecedented lows, leading to relatively-modest debt service payments on all its record-breaking $17.6 trillion of outstanding debt.
However, if the Fed really wants to fight inflation, it will have to raise interest rates. Ending QE will provide only temporary relief from a weakening currency. To accomplish this in sustainable fashion the Fed will have to shrink its balance sheet to around the same level it was prior to the Great Recession.
How does the Fed shrink its balance sheet? When the Fed purchases a bond from a bank, it creates a credit that can be taken back at the Fed's discretion. Taking the credits back is called a reverse repo -- the Fed sells the assets back to the banking system and takes back the cash.
But the Fed cannot just conduct reverse repos in the trillions of dollars without putting extreme pressure on the market for private short-term loans. So the government is not only going to have to sell the more than $2 trillion in bonds into the market; it will have to start paying real interest on that debt as well. And the private market will have to finance all the new annual deficits, which will no longer have the luxury of a trillion-dollar-plus annual QE program from our central bank.
The net effect of all this would be surging interest rates and economic collapse. This is why I do not expect the Fed's balance sheet to significantly contract for many years if at all. And I predict inflation will become a huge problem, especially after the central bank launches another massive QE program in 2015 to re-inflate falling stock prices.
Our government is in a horrific trap because of the record amount of debt it has issued and has allowed the central bank to monetize. This is why every time the Fed tries to fight asset bubbles and bring inflation under control, it will result in a monetary depression. This is also why nearly every central bank has decided that the only real long-term objective is to fight deflation and ensure that inflation will prevail.
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Shiny Hose In The SummerI like wearing shinny pantyhose under shorts in the summer. My favorite colors are tan and beige . I also wear black sometimes. I usually wear slouch-socks with girls high-top gym shoes. People stare but do not say any thing. I have gotten afew smiles from women and acouple guys. I have worn plain pantyhose but i like the shinny ones better.
It's good to hear that you wear pantyhose in public with shorts, and shimmery and shiny ones that can be noticed right away. Like you, although I adore pantyhose in general, I have a preference for very shiny ones... I love the way they reflect the light differently as you move your legs! I also agree with you on wearing pantyhose in the summer. For the majority of women, pantyhose is a garment reserved for cold weather, but why not during the summer? I could not abandon the sexy feeling of my pantyhose-clad legs just because it is a little hot outside. There are several very sheer pantyhose that help keep the legs cool and prevent your legs feeling sticky when you sweat a bit. Pantyhose is definitely a must, all year long!
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Fitzpatrick is the better QB by a mile. Jackson is Cleo Lemon part 2.
Could the Bills be losing faith in Fitz???? Perhaps they think he needs to be pushed??? What a Circus!!! Prediction: Tavaris Jackson will be the starting QB by week 4...This cant be good for Ryan Fitzpatrick with Tavaris Jackson breathing down his neck..QB controversy in buffalo!!!!!!
Fitzpatrick is the better QB by a mile. Jackson is Cleo Lemon part 2.
In the last 48 hours the Seahawks have dropped two players that could probably outperform the starters in the same positions on the Jets.
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Fitz is hands down the best QB on the roster. He's still a JAG, though, and the Bills were idiots for signing him to an extension early in the season rather than waiting.
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(This review contains vague statements which could be construed as spoilers for Puella Magi Madoka Magica.)
Let's try something a little different for Colony Drop. Today we are going to take a look at the anime that hardcore otaku are falling all over themselves about… except this time, the show's actually going to be good. The show could have fallen at any moment, but Puella Magi Madoka Magica somehow stayed strong throughout. Be warned, however, that it's less a magical girl cartoon and more a very easy puzzle about the rules of magical girls, told very cleverly and with fantastic atmosphere.
My first contact with Madoka was in the earliest publicity. It was being presented as a humble magical girl anime, something entirely different from what it ultimately turned out to be, but the main staffers were turning some heads already. Director Akiyuki Shinbo, the most overworked man in Japanese cartoons since Hajime Yatate, was coming off the massive sales success of Bakemonogatari, and by all indications this was SHAFT's Next Big Thing. But "Shinbo's making anime" could mean anything. So could "Yuki Kajiura's doing the music," for that matter.
The wild card here was the writer, the porn game mogul Gen "Butch" Urobuchi. My eyebrows raised at this, and the red lights were going off in my head. Urobuchi and his company Nitroplus are known for extreme shock-value material (link absolutely not safe for work). Juxtaposed with Ume "Wideface" Aoki's adorable character designs, Madoka was already starting to look a little devious. For better or worse, and expecting a complete disaster, I put the show on my to-watch list.
The early episodes certainly confirmed any suspicion one might have had upon seeing Urobuchi's name. Two middle-school friends (one of whom is the title character) are approached by an older girl and an animal mascot, who attempt to recruit them into fighting witches as Puella Magi (magical girls; we're told the Latin is wrong). That part's innocuous, but the execution is not.
The incredibly creepy mascot, Kyubey, has one dead-eyed facial expression, the voice of a little boy and the persistence of a door-to-door salesman (or a child molester). He is shot like the Devil. Even the older girl Mami, playing the role of big sister, smirks ominously and watches our heroines from clock towers for no stated reason. Shinbo screams at you through his angles and shadows and framing that hey, guys, this is not as it seems! The "witches" are abstract terrors who live in an alternate universe that you've seen in the opening animations of a thousand Shinbo shows and which can only be described as "Shinbo Land". Nobody is telling you that anything is wrong until a few episodes in, but everything you see and hear (Kajiura's score included) is as ominous as it could possibly be.
As Madoka progresses, it becomes a story about the increasingly vicious rules of a cruel ecosystem consisting of magical girls, the witches they kill, and the average folks the witches feed upon. Fans voraciously theorized and debated every week between episodes, and a lot of people got it very right very early (I was about 80% on my personal Madoka "What's Really Good?" scorecard). In every episode, a few of the rules are heavily implied by circumstantial evidence. The cliffhanger endings usually reveal something that the viewer strongly suspected by spelling it out directly, either using Kyubey or the mysterious transfer student (and, for much of the show, exposition device) Akemi Homura.
Even the most oblivious viewer is not allowed to miss Madoka's twists, and it's likely that you'll see them episodes in advance. These revelation scenes are often a bit of an "oh, you" chuckle, particularly one where Kyubey actually turns to the viewer and confirms something which the show had spent weeks making painfully obvious. Quite a bit of the appeal of the show was that you did know, and the dread that crept up over you as these girls tiptoed into cosmic slavery.
In the first few weeks people were calling it a deconstruction of the magical girl tropes: after all, if an unknown life form approached little girls and offered them superpowers in exchange for killing monsters, wouldn't that be a little scary? Isn't the whole enterprise suspect? But Madoka doesn't linger with these questions any longer than it needs to: it pulls down its core elements almost immediately. It is in the wake of this that it builds up a new system. And make no mistake, the show is about the system.
As is the fashion, these rules pile up on the girls and crush them a tiny bit more every week. A major criticism against the show has been that these characters are little tragedy boxes who the show drags through mud without even the courtesy of letting us get to know them. I'll agree with this to a point: the show is certainly more about the rules than the girls themselves. Often the girls seem to exist merely to function as cogs, who only begin to feel human in their final moments. As the series progresses, however, these characters actually go somewhere: a place other than tea and cake, slow Jun Maeda deaths or hackish, School Days-style shock value trash. What's more, Madoka bucks anime's trends even further by, shock of shocks, ending well.
If you'll allow me a brief meta-aside: anime endings tend to suck. If you've been watching anime for any length of time, you know how this can get. You put six or 13 hours (or, god forbid, a hundred if you watch Shonen Jump stuff) into watching some cartoon and it stubbornly refuses to offer any kind of payoff on any of its great ideas. There's some bullshit deus ex machina or a "to be continued in a videogame/manga/manga videogame/action figure series". Or maybe you're watching a two-season Sunrise show, in which the whole thing was sabotaged behind the scenes at the first ratings dip in order to sell more model kits, gashapon toys, or Pizza Hut.
Because Madoka is an unraveling puzzle, it's particularly important for the show to have a decent ending. If the writer cops out at tying together all the strings that have been laid out, then the whole show was a cop-out and we've all retroactively lost six hours of our lives (plus all the Internet discussion!). This is a common situation when you're watching TV anime, and usually you can count those hours as lost ahead of time.
Well, I'd like to congratulate Butch for not copping out one bit on Madoka. The last three episodes blow the system open and our heroine — who has spent the entire show thinking quietly, long and hard, about what she is going to do about this crazy business — actually solves it. I'll leave the details to you when you watch it, but the ending of Madoka is sastisfying beyond any expectations I held for the show, well worth the wait, and kind of reminiscent of Shin Getter Robo.
(About "the wait": because they were originally scheduled to run right around the earthquakes and tsunamis in Japan, and because of images that were even more uncomfortably close to the disaster with each successive episode, the final episodes were delayed a month. During this period, fans agonized even harder over the ending. Sadly, the most worthless of the fanbase shamelessly whined that a major disaster was keeping them from their cartoons.)
There's a lot of noise to the effect that Madoka is an epoch-making show, and the most common comparison is Evangelion. I don't know about all that just yet — it's huge in otaku land but it certainly doesn't appear to have become any kind of mainstream cultural phenomenon, unlike Eva — but I'll tell you one thing: the biggest parallel between these shows is that hacks will be trying to make "dark" magical girl shows for the rest of the decade, all of which will miss the point.
Is Madoka a great show? Without a doubt. Is it a masterpiece? I feel like the speech about entropy and Kyouko's origin story were so ridiculous by themselves as to disqualify it from that title… but let's give it a couple of years. There's some silly stuff in that Gundam show too.
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TO tell you the truth, I really didn't like the fact that the show ended with Madoka wishing the big problem away. I wanted something that forced the protagonists to work; this just felt anti-climactic.
Excellent review. I felt much the same, especially comparing the ending to Shin Getter Robo. Most of my friends have attempted to compare it to Gurran Lagann, but that really doesn't work.
I really liked the speculation/guessing aspect of the show. In most other shows, you just sort of watch as the story, or an approximation of it, unfolds, but with Madoka, you feel an almost innate desire to guess what'll happen next and analyze the universe's mechanics. Without that, it just becomes another 'dark' cartoon.
@genericpersona: Gurren Lagann's the new Evangelion. Haven't you heard? People will compare it to everything now. Star Driver, Amagami, etc.
I'm going to go with Serial Experiments Lain as the closest comparison. Magical girl stuff aside, it works because it's a really well-paced, well-structured thriller with an extraordinary sense of atmosphere. As you say though, it gets hung up on rules at the expense of characters. This emphasis on rules seems to be a recurring motif in recent (last five years or so) anime; it's what made it impossible for me to take Death Note seriously, it's what sent Eden of the East over the edge into absurdity, and it's what ruined the last hour or so of Summer Wars. I'm sure if someone would care to analyse it properly, it could provoke some interesting observations though.
But yeah, that gripe aside (and the fact that Madoka seems to exist entirely to look at people in an earnest way, start sentences that hang poignantly unfinished, and then burst into tears), it was an unexpectedly wonderful show.
>Director Akiyuki Shinbo, the most overworked man in Japanese cartoons since Hajime Yatate
Like many, I too presumed that he can't possibly work on so many shows, until I read a rather detailed research post.
It turns out he REALLY did a lot of work himself, such as drawing the storyboard for many episodes in his shows, using several pseudonyms.
This man is a true workaholic.
I liked it, but this is a far cry from being some unprecedented masterpiece.
My largest gripes were the shallow characters and more importantly, the utterly contrived drama that sacrificed logic and good writing for overdone shock value, because you're supposed to develop or flesh out your cast first if you want to invoke any sort of sympathy. Simply placing them tragic in circumstances is the kind of crap I expect from the hacks over at KEY and KyoAni.
Other than that, it was a decent show with a very satifying ending.
Nice review. Perfectly sums up the series. Now bring on the imitators. I look forward to dark magical girl show #32:My little sister can't be this dark and magical.
To be fair, the ending does require the characters to work, doesn't it? Madoka solved the 'reborn into a life of torment' problem, but the rest are thrust right back into a straight-up grimdark magical girl show where they regularly die fighting against shadowy magical beasts.
I may give this a try now that it has the CD seal of approval. I admit, I've hesitated because I've never liked anything SHAFT in general and Shinbo in particular has produced. Mostly because he is all too willing to cater to big creepy pedophiles (if he isn't one himself), and the premise for Madoka is kind of a giant playground for that kind of person to skulk around in in an oversized trench coat and/or unmarked white van.
Also because I keep getting frustrated hearing gushing fanboys squeal like there's never been a really fantastic magical girl subversion show. Utena did pretty much everything I've heard this show be praised for in 1997, including the Faust-Mephistopheles angle!
I'm a slightly torn about this ending myself. Emotionally speaking, it absolutely worked and the result was quite touching.
From a critical perspective…I'd easily give the execution high marks, by all means, but the specific solution they used to wrap everything up still feels sort of whimsical and open to debate as opposed to truly necessary.
I'd still call the end of Madoka a good ending, mind you, just one that is far from perfect.
In response to your meta-aside though, I'd play the role of devil's advocate and say Sunrise ended their most recent two season shows relatively well, at least compared to what actually preceded the final episodes. In fact, in both cases (00 S2 and CG R2) I was expecting a significantly worse resolution. Call it damning them with faint praise, if you will, but their problems had more to do with shoddy overall execution instead.
Rosenritter: the level of otaku magical girl creepiness is something I never got around to in the review, but there really isn't any. They're pretty tasteful. I think the really successful shows realize that they can leave the sleaze for the fans to make themselves.
The main bit of otaku creepiness was the way Shinbo begins every single scene featuring the girls with a shot of their legs followed by a pan up their bodies. Other than that, it was pretty restrained.
> The main bit of otaku creepiness was the way Shinbo begins every single scene featuring the girls with a shot of their legs followed by a pan up their bodies. Other than that, it was pretty restrained.
There's actually several different pan-up techniques in play; probably the most common, the three-cut one, is a canned SHAFT money-saver more than anything else.
There have been "dark" magical girl shows before Madoka, though.
I mean, obviously I don't claim to be an expert on the many and various ways Shaft like to display the thighs and skirt hems of teenage girls, but I'd still suggest it's rather convenient that they managed to come up with a money-saver that also lingers suggestively over the female characters' legs and lower parts. Even Gainax were happy to settle for a book in front of the mouth or a silhouette.
I dunno, I think it is about as hacky as School Days, except School Days is actually entertaining.
You explained the appeal of the show better than any of the fanboys, but even so I just don't get how the stuff you mentioned as positives are in fact positive. GUESS IT'S JUST NOT MY THING, I'LL GO BACK TO WATCHING CARTOONS WHERE PEOPLE TALK AT EACH OTHER FOR 30 MINUTES.
I feel like saying "Yes, I agree" to everything said in the post.
Rosenritter: Have you watched any shows that SHAFT was the production company, or Shinbo the director?
I'm just finding your blog after hearing your interview on ANNCast. I clicked on your link from this interview and found this review.
I wouldn't touch magical girl with a GPS satellite but somehow I got into this show. Thanx for explaining to me why I like it.
I'm sure after reading a couple of your blogs that many will find you work harsh. Keep up the harshness. I like this blog.
TheBigN: Yes, I have.
Bakemonogatari - Felt parts of the snail girl arc kind of dubious. Dubiousness SUPER confirmed in the snake girl arc. Ugh.
Tsukiyomi - Do I really need to say anything here?
PaniPoniDash - Not as egregious as the above examples, but I do recall some shady posing of the little teacher girl.
MariaHolic - Not necessarily pedo, but full of creepy misogynistic garbage. Emotionally tormenting a young lesbian is incredibly funny, guys!!!
Given that these are also the only Shaft/Shinbo shows I've seen, that's… a pretty nasty batting average.
Please note that I've never finished any of these series, nor will I. Please don't try to pull the argument of "If you watch more, it changes!" I can't watch more of that kind of stuff. It bothers me too much, makes me too angry. I'll only say that I have very personal reasons to feel this way and why this kind of awful garbage leaps out at me.
The fact that a lot of otaku don't even seem to register that some of this stuff can be really stomach-turning to others really says a lot about the fandom.
Rosenritter: you ever seen Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei? It's his one show where any one of his weird pedophilic tendencies that appear throughout could be taken as deliberate commentary on utter superfluousness of said tendencies.
I'd say that Madoka Magica's probably his best show since then, especially because it's probably the closest that Shinbo's style has ever come to reaching actual Utena-style visual meaning rather than superficial (but awesome) quirkiness. Madoka Magica also has a much lower quotient of "fan service" then Bakemonogatari, etc., so there is that.
For a review meant to be positive it felt overwhelmingly negative and particularly jaded to me.
I'm really not sure why the author watches anime given his critiques here.
And though I watched the show after everyone else had (and did not get the benefit of having a conversation with anyone as I was watching it) I felt Madoka was significantly less on-the-nose and predictable than the author makes it out to be.
I obviously do not understand this site well enough if someone on it liked Madoka that much, which is a good thing for me. Makes me want to read more just so I can really understand what's going on in this blog.
I gotta be honest though I don't really see how you predicted certain things. Especially for example the entirety of episode 10. I really had no idea how Homura would be involved in THAT way, just that she was important.
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FUKUSHIMA, Japan — Emergency workers racing to cool dangerously overheated uranium fuel scrambled Saturday to connect Japan's crippled reactors to a new power line, with electricians fighting tsunami-shattered equipment to restart the complex's cooling systems.
Though the power line reached the complex Friday, making the final link without setting off a spark and potentially an explosion means methodically working through badly damaged and deeply complex electrical systems at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant on Japan's northeast coast.
"Most of the motors and switchboards were submerged by the tsunami and they cannot be used," said Hidehiko Nishiyama of Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency.
Operators of the plant, which have prompted global worries of radiation leaks, hope to have power reconnected to four of the complex's six units on Saturday, and another on Sunday. However, even once the power is reconnected, it is not clear if the cooling systems will still work.
The storage pools need a constant source of cooling water. Even when removed from reactors, uranium rods are still extremely hot and must be cooled for months, possibly longer, to prevent them from heating up again and emitting radioactivity.
Along the northeast coastline, meanwhile, where the tsunami killed thousands of people and obliterated entire villages, rescuers pulled a man alive from a wrecked house eight days after a massive 9.0-magnitude earthquake began the cascade of catastrophes.
He was too weak to talk and transferred immediately to a hospital, a military official said, declining to be named because he was not authorized to speak with reporters. Japanese media reports said, however, that the man returned to the house a week after the disaster and was trapped only for one day.
As Japan crossed the one-week mark since the twin natural disasters spawned the nuclear crisis, the Japanese government conceded Friday it was slow to respond and welcomed ever-growing help from the United States in hopes of preventing a complete meltdown at the Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant.
The natural disasters claimed more than 7,200 lives, with many thousands more missing.
Emergency crews at the nuclear plant faced two continuing challenges: cooling the nuclear fuel in reactors where energy is generated and cooling the adjacent pools where thousands of used nuclear fuel rods are stored in water.
"In hindsight, we could have moved a little quicker in assessing the situation and coordinating all that information and provided it faster," Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said Friday.
Also Friday, Japan's government raised the accident classification for the nuclear crisis from Level 4 to Level 5 on a seven-level international scale. That put it on a par with the Three Mile Island accident in Pennsylvania in 1979, and signified its consequences went beyond the local area.
Edano also said Tokyo was asking Washington for additional help, a change from a few days ago, when Japanese officials disagreed with American assessments of the severity of the problem. AP


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The winners from Friday were Jason and Moose of Grime Time. They ended up taking out The Super Baldio Brothers which comprised of Earl and his first ever high profile partner in Steph B. Grime Time showed the field they were the team to beat from the very start and placing 4-0 in the prelims with a +9 cup differential. Defiance (Eric S. and Coy) came in 2nd in prelims with a 3-1 +8 over Straight Flexxin (Grant and Jay) with a 3-1 +7. Defiance also had a notable win over Get Mitch Or Die Trying during the regular...
This past Saturday, the Coed Double Bracket ECBPC and 2v2 WSOBP Satellite was held at our newest venue, Union Jacks of Annapolis. The coed brackets were run concurrently, with Hunter and Dresa taking Bracket 1 over Carrie and Earl. Kessler and Chelsie took down Bracket 2 over Anna and Grant. The winning teams faced off in a best of three matchup, where Hunter and Dresa won two straight to emerge victorious.
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Even though the O's are in the driver's seat in an AL East pennant race, it's hard to ignore that another pro football season is quickly approaching. The perennial Pick'em and Survivor Yahoo groups are back, still free to play, and still holding the coveted $40 Nobles bar tab as the reward for the grand champions. Use the links below to join the Maryland Beer Pong groups. Good luck everyone!
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Sigh... as luck would have it the Random Partner Tournament last week had two of MDBP's state champions partnered together. Jason and Earl of "Back By Popular Demand" went through the tournament with ease and played Moose and Bill in the finals.
But these things just happen in random partner tournaments so there is nothing we can do about it. I really feel like it opens up the social aspect of MDBP and will allow for more tournament variety in the future.
Next week is the 1v1 Tournament LFG!
Congrats to Jeff, Lauren, and Earl of "Cinderella and Her Step Slingers" for taking down the CoEd 3v3 tournament. They played in a what some would call surprising finals entry against Fireballers + Natasha. Now we know Jeff, Earl, and Lauren are MDBP vets, but TJ, Kurt, and Natasha have shown that they are here to play with their impressive performance throughout the tournament.
Sometimes these ladies really show up to game in these CoEd tourneys. I witnessed Andressa hit approximately 14 cups while partnered with Nick and Kosta to send multiple games into overtimes. Bria is also another break...
This past Saturday at League we had a field of 13 teams compete for 2 VA10K bids. It was a rough tournament for some of our elite players as Grime Time and Swoll Titty found themselves in the loser bracket early. But for Straight Flexxin (Jay and Grant) it seemed easy. They have finally avoided the 2nd place finish that they have been haunted by. They finished 1st place in the finals against Swoll Titty (Earl and Jeff). They lost their first game in the finals and managed to overcome the nerves to take down 2 members of Maryland's A-Squad....


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Comment on Breaking Amish on TLC by LR.
The money comes from the production company. The cast members get paid a sum of money for participating, and the production co pays for travel (plane, train, cabs), hotel, food, and any activities or purchases that happen on camera. For example, the bit about Rebecca and Abe being short on cash at the grocery store was probably staged, as there was certainly a production assistant nearby who could pay for it.


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In an earlier post I described networking modes in VirtualBox. Combining those modes you'll get some kind of swiss knife in realizing somehow exotic networking modes in your VMs.
What if you want your VM that is configured for Host-Only mode access the internet?
Port forwarding using NAT is an option. But for me that sounded to complicated. I had the following requirements:
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Doctors at the University of Virginia Medical Center are remembering Dana Reeve, the wife of Christopher Reeve. Dana died Monday night after battling lung cancer.
Reeve was known best for her incredible courage and support.
A heroine: that's how the University of Virginia's Dr. John Jane remembers Dana Reeve, wife of Superman actor Christopher Reeve.
"I think that's a fact. She was equal to him in her bravery and devotion," he said.
Dr. Jane operated on Christopher after a horse-riding accident in Culpepper back in '95 left him paralyzed. Through it all, Dana stuck by her husband's side. Together they fought to find a cure for spinal injuries and advocated for the rights of the disabled.
"It was just remarkable. They obviously loved each other. It was perfectly clear," said Dr. Jane.
"Dana I think is the wife we all hoped we would be. Right with her husband; [she] believed in him and he believed in her and they had this wonderful love story between the two of them," said Kathy Lewis, with the Christopher Reeve Foundation.
A chapter in their story ended in 2004 with the death of Christopher. In 2005, Dana - a non-smoker - was diagnosed with lung cancer.
"I thought how unfair. How unfair," said Dr. Jane.
But despite the tragic news, the 44-year-old had the same strength many had seen in her husband.
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