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More Angles For Bounce Back Vs. BearsPosted by on December 23, 2009 – 9:09 am
Are you tired of reading the term bounce back as it relates to the Vikings-Bears game this weekend? You might be, but this is the last blog entry we'll dedicate to the term.
Here are some more angles that point to the Vikings being able to bounce back on Monday night with a win over the Chicago Bears…
– The Vikings are in a big spot, and so is WR Bernard Berrian. He'll be going up against his former team for the 4th time since signing with the Vikings as a free agent a couple of offseasons back. In this season's earlier matchup, Berrian was 1 of 4 Vikings receivers with 6 receptions, and he had 74 receiving yards to boot. In 2008 against his former team, Berrian was a key contributor in both games, hauling in 10 catches for 203 yards and 2 TDs, including a 99-yard TD reception at home in Week 13 that broke the Bears back.
– Adrian Peterson is another offensive player with a nice history going against the Bears. In 5 career games versus the division rival, Peterson has averaged 127.8 yards per game and he has 9 TDs. His best performance was during his rookie season at Soldier Field, when he torched the Chicago defense for a then-franchise record 224 yards. He also tied a team mark with 3 TDs in that game and set a new franchise record for total yards with 361. Peterson's 53-yard kickoff return late in the 4th quarter is what set up K Ryan Longwell's game-winning 55-yarder.
– We mentioned in an earlier post today that we should expect the Vikings to get back to the basics and run the ball this week, just as they did 2 weeks ago when they hosted and destroyed the Cincinnati Bengals. These games aren't played on paper, we know that, but on paper the Vikings realize a couple of key advantages that will help them get back to the basics of running the football and, as a result, scoring lots of points. Chicago has the NFL's 25th-ranked rushing defense, yielding 128.5 yards per game, and they have the league's 21st-ranked scoring defense, allowing 23.0 points per game. In contrast, the Vikings have Peterson and an offense that averages 28.3 points per game, 3rd-best in the NFL.
– We've been hearing all these pesky stats about the Vikings playing on grass and at night and on national TV and all of that. The fact is, the Vikings are a disappointing 2-3 in games played on grass fields. But Chicago isn't exactly the NFL's gift to grass fields. They are just 4-5 on grass fields this season.
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By Youcef on Dec 23, 2009 | Reply
Favre is not the problem and I can prove it. Read my article: http://miniurl.com/24571
By gary on Dec 23, 2009 | Reply
It might be an advantage to practice outside to prepare for a cold weather game.
By Dakotahoss on Dec 23, 2009 | Reply
Despite these poor performances, I put money down on season tickets for 2010 and got tics to the 2 possible playoff games for this year. I am a Vikes fan and have followed them since their first game. Just remember guys, "any given Sunday", any team can beat any team. It's just a matter of who shows up!!!
By Randy on Dec 23, 2009 | Reply
Hey, been a Vikings fan forever!!! but here we go again–I haven't gotten over the Falcons yet—who comes back next year? Farve or Childress? Seems as though we can't put a good game together when we need to. Anxious about Monday—hope we can get a weeks rest.
By Vike fan in Illinios on Dec 23, 2009 | Reply
The OL is a major issue with this offense. We have a quarterback and running back that are Pro Bowl talents. However, if not given a hole to run through or time enough to pass the ball, losses will be the result. Where's Mike Tice, he could get this OL line fixed and not to mention, make them down right mean. We need a huge blowout on Monday night and carry it forward. Remember TJ got us this far last year. Let's see if Brett can get us further. Stomp some Bears.
By OLD SCHOOL on Dec 23, 2009 | Reply
We need that second seed or you won't be using any playoff tickets Dakotahoss!!!! They will lose the first game they play. The biggest game of this year is monday night on national T.V.. If they show up and pound the bears….all is well! If they show up and lose……it's over! This team will continue to circle the toilet! It will be over! The media will continue to tear this team apart from the inside out! If they win……the media will start to lay off and believe the favre -chilly thing may in fact be over ! They need to pound the bears….37-10 type ponding! Not a 17-14 type deal….a pound job, and then the same against the Giants, or hope Denver or Dallas beats the Eagles!
By OLD SCHOOL on Dec 23, 2009 | Reply
Can anyone explain why…if we beat the bears…go 6-0 in div., but lose to the Giants…and Philly ends up 12-4 also, that they woyuld have the second seed…even though we have a better div. record and the same conference record?! That's what i've been reading.
By PAVikesFan on Dec 23, 2009 | Reply
U would be mistaken on that one…If we both end up 12-4, the Eagles would have 2 losses vs. the AFC (Raiders,Chargers)…We would have only 1 loss, (Steelers), therefore, they have 10 conference wins and we have 9.
By BeeCharmer on Dec 24, 2009 | Reply
why am I blocked
By BrianC on Dec 24, 2009 | Reply
If we beat the Bears, but lose to the Giants, that would give us a 9-3 conference record. If Philly wins out, their NFC conference record will stand at 10-2. This gives them the tie-breaker edge and the #2 Seed, if both Vikes and Eagles end the season at 12-4. At least, this is my understanding. Corrections, anyone?
By PAVikesFan on Dec 24, 2009 | Reply
I just wrote that above yesterday. Yes, it's correct
By OLD SCHOOL on Dec 24, 2009 | Reply
Let's hope the Eagles go down then or the Giants have nothing to play for next week ! Like I said before, we need the second seed!
By paul on Dec 24, 2009 | Reply
Correct me if i'm wrong, but the last time Favre won a cold weather game on the road was back-in 2003.
By Stephanie on Dec 25, 2009 | Reply
Paul, Brett (the Packers) won at Chicago in the last game of the season in 2006.
By Stu on Dec 26, 2009 | Reply
Chester Taylor,long one of the most underrated backs in the league recently commented that we(the players) were our own worst enemy. How badly you lose a game speaks to the value of preparation before each game,even before the season. Do you have a recipe for believing in your own success, or when strong oppositon comes do you fold?Also, winning games comes easier against teams lacking belief in themselves or their leadership.Through the first two thirds of the season the Vikings played like one of the top 4 teams in football…after that, on the road anyway, they would have been crushed by the Colts or even the Chargers. Dallas, Arizona, New Orleans might all have them for breakfast on the road. If you can't win on the road, you can't be considered a truly great team, no matter the talk of potential. Sometimes having nothing to lose breathes new life into a team( Carolina for example )What will it be for the Vikings? It's hard to stay motivated in this age of luxury with so many distractions. They gotta love the game enough to do whatever it takes. It's just a game, but Vikings, if you're going to play, show up!
By Kirby on Dec 27, 2009 | Reply
If we beat the Bears, but lose to the Giants and Philly wins out, the conference record won't matter. Both teams will be 12-4 but we will have the better division record giving us the 2nd seed. If, however, we lose to the Bears, but beat the Giants and Philly wins out then Philly would get the 2nd seed. Here both division records would be 5-1. It would then come down to conference record in which case Philly would be 10-2 and we would be 9-3 giving Philly the 2nd seed.
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Josie Duggar (Baby #19): Hospitalized Again!by Free Britney at . Comments
As Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar plan to welcome their 20th child next year, their recent trip to Israel brought more medical duress for their 19th, Josie-Brooklyn.
Next week's season finale episode of the soon-to-be-renamed 19 Kids and Counting shows Josie rushed to the hospital during the family vacation, in dire straits.
She was "congested" says Jim Bob, as Josie cried in the hospital.
As the little girl struggles, the rest of the family must decide if they're going to continue their trip around the country they traveled so far to visit as a group.
At the same time, there was no debate over whether having a 20th baby was a smart decision. She admits it's not for everyone, but Michelle never wavered.
The stress of their "littlest little," who was born prematurely and has endured myriad health woes in the last year and a half, being sick hasn't stopped the Arkansas family from expanding, as we know, given their impending arrival.
What do you think? Is 20 kids too much?
Its almost like you just can't read or something..I don't know how many times I have said this, and it will be the last time because this has become so pointless. I SAID OVER AND OVER AGAIN I AGREE THAT THEY WERE WRONG IN ALL SITUATIONS INVOLVING HER HEALTH. Your not going to change my mind on how I feel about this family, and i'm not going to change yours, so why is this even going on anymore?
You didn't way how you know so much about this family. Its seems that your information, like all of ours, is limited to what the Duggars want us to know. No Courtney, these girls have not had much in the way of choices. They have been nannies and housemaids from an early age, Michelle's choice to have babies considerably easier.
JB and Michelle's choices concerning Josie show an ongoing and appalling disregard for her needs that have placed Josie in danger more than once.
Your idea of being loving parents? Definitely not mine.
Like you said, no i dont agree with what they have done with joise and her health. They don't dump her on the older kids, I constantly see michelle holding her and taking care of her. The girls constantly say they love helping. They don't have to help if they don't want to, they don't have to dress,do things, and live like they do. They actually like it, doing things for others is what they are always saying is something they enjoy and it's a big part in their religon. They don't have to any of this, but they say they like to. You say that I only see what they show on tv, exactly, so you don't know what they do outside of the show, but in the show they are a very loving, helpful, and amazing family..minus the dumb health choices and having another baby..
Courtney, You know for a fact the kids are happy....how? Do you live in this household? You know for certain these older daughters have always loved being nannies and household maids? Like all of us you only see what you they want you to see. So you agree with me then that the Duggars totally disregarded Josie's well being by taking her on an international tour? How about them leaving her with a sibling barely out of her teens while they both went to El Salvador? Josie developed a high fever and prolonged seizure. Maybe someone should tell these folks that Josie is a high risk toddler who is in need of constant vigilance by her parents. Sure didn't take long for them to dump Josie on an older sibling, did it?
Obviously you didnt read my comment from before where it clearly said i thought it was completely wrong she was taking there, but you must not watch it good enough. She is always holding her children, teaching them, rocking the babies to sleep, doing things with them, spending time with them. Im not gonna argue about a damn show when everything your sayin is the complete opposite. If you dont like what they do or how they live, get over it. It aint your life to worry about. The kids dont mind it one bit and are very happy kids, and that is all that matters, and there health, but like i said before i do not agree with what they did to joise.end of disscusion.
Courtney, Please tell me about the "concern" for Josie in leaving her with a sibling barely out of her teens while JB and Michelle go to El Salvador. Josie seizured and was hospitalized.
Tell me about "concern" when it comes to taking a high risk toddler across the world and exposing her to possible infection and the risk of inadequate medical care.
Tell me about "concern" when Michelle is fantasizing about another pregnancy while standing over the incubator of her critically ill newborn.
I have followed this show and have yet to see Michelle holding her children, rocking, or cuddling them.
Take off the rose colored glasses Courtney.
It's funny how everything you say you have never heard or seen her do, she does or has done all the time! they always talked about joise and her concern. She is always holding her kids, doing stuff with them, and teaching them. You don't get to see what happens every single day. Theres no point in bringing this any further because you either one, don't watch the show every time theres a new episode, or two, watch it, but just don't pay attention. Its got to be one of those because your comment was waaaaaaay off!
She does take care of her kids. They are always going to do activites together as a family and doing special birthday things, but they show no love? The older girls are constantly saying that they enjoy and they choose to help out with the kids. They aren't forced to do it. They are all helpful and loving people. The kids, older and younger, are learning things that they will need in life. It's great! Parents hardly teach that anymore, parents hardly even talk to their kids anymore. This family is a very close, loving, and supportive family. I think it's crazy to say that what they are doing is wrong. The only thing they did wrong was take joise to forgien country and to have another kid after the complications with joise. Otherwise they are raising and teaching this family amazingly! Besides, it's their life. You don't have to like it, but it's not your life.
If Michelle and Jim Bob took complete care of their children, it would be different. As early as possible, they passs them off to an older child to raise. Doing choirs are one thing, but these children do all the laundry, cooking, cleaning, and take care of the younger kids. Michelle does nothing but kiss JimBob and get pregnant. The older kids even discipline the younger ones. Michelle and JimBob do not know how to be parents. Plus some of the kids are becomming just like them. No compassion or love. Just meeting needs.
Those older girls are from 16 and pregnant. They are well mannered, and do not dress like sluts. Atleast 3 or 4 of the older girls are older than 18. They all home school, and are a very close family. Can you say that about your own family? Plus, Jim Bob takes care of all of their children, medical care, and anything else that they need. They aren`t living off of wellfare. They have worked hard for what they have. The older boys have their own companies, and make their own money. Having a lot of kids or more than one or two without the use of welfare, and those kids are happy then who are you to judge? You might not agree with how they live their life as a very conservative southern Baptists family . But they always have smiles on their faces, and their parents give them one on one time, if you ever watch the show. Maybe not as much time as a one or two kid family, but they have lots of love there. They also care about other people in other countries, and give back a lot too.


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Great venue for this lecture. Some interesting research about the Lincoln assasination was shared. I thought Mr. Kauffman's talk about John Wilkes Booth during the war years was particularly good.
Why did a handsome, popular, theatre idol murder President Lincoln? Was Booth's act a result of a Confederate conspiracy? Was he a Confederate spy acting as part of a larger plot or simply a lone gunman? Was he a player in an internal Union scheme? Was a White House spy involved? Many theories have been proposed and discarded. Examine the controversies surrounding Lincoln's assassination anew — at the very scene of the crime — during this eye-opening session.
Join renowned experts Michael Kauffman, author of American Brutus; Frank J. Williams, Chairman of The Lincoln Forum and Chief Justice (ret) of Rhode Island; and H. Donald Winkler, author of Stealing Secrets and Lincoln and Booth: More Light on the Conspiracy, for a rounded view of the conspiracies and realities of the horrific events of April 14th, 1865.
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BIOGRAPHY for James Abbott McNeill Whistler
1834 (Lowell, Massachusetts)
1903 (London, England)
Massachusetts / England/France
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figure, landscape, and portrait painting, etching
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Born in Lowell, Massachusetts, James Whistler became one of the most influential late 19th-century American painters and etchers, although he lived primarily in England. He worked in a wide variety of styles that included Impressionism, Symbolism, and Art Nouveau. He was especially influential in the Tonalist movement and was a catalyst for those who wanted to break away from prescribed academic methods, credited with being the first American modernist to influence European art.
He also created 179 lithographs, having received a commission in 1879, and from that time, he worked in graphics, pastel, and watercolor, and favorite subjects were subtly delineated cityscapes or ships at docks.
He was raised both in New England and in Russia where his father, an engineer, was commissioned by the Czar to build the Moscow-St. Petersburg railroad. In 1847, Whistler went to London for his sister's wedding to Seymour Haden, a key figure in 19th century etching, and association with this man stimulated Whistler's interest in that medium.
After the father's death in 1849, the family returned to the United States, and he entered the Military Academy at West Point where he did illustrations for student publications and also worked as surveyor and cartographer in U.S. Coastal and Geodetic Surveys.
In 1855, determined to have a fine art career, he sailed for Europe and never returned to the United States. He studied in Paris with Charles Gleyre and became a part of avant-garde circles that included Henri Fantin-Latour, Alphonse Legros, Edouard Manet, Gustave Courbet, and Edgar Degas. In 1859, he settled in England but stayed in close touch with his Parisian friends.
His style was independent of realism and of those such as John Ruskin who thought art should have a moral purpose. To many his paintings were a mystery because they seemed dreamy, abstract, and somewhat ghost-like. For some of his works, he chose musical titles to remove them from narrative context.
Ruskin accused him of doing paintings that were like "flinging a pot of paint in the public's face," and the two faced each other in court when Whistler sued Ruskin for damages. Whistler won the lawsuit but was awarded only one farthing, which left him financially broke and bitter. However, he gained a lot of attention and positive recognition.
Matthew Baigell
Dictionary of American Ar
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While in Europe, although he liked to pose as a dashing Tidewater cavalier, Whistler never became an officer, and saw little action in the Civil War. This insufficiency troubled him, and it accounts for a peculiar adventure he undertook in 1866, when he sailed from France on a ten-month trip to Chile - a long and grueling trip across the Atlantic and around Cape Horn - to be present at a Spanish naval blockade of the port of Valparaiso. Whether Whistler thought his being there would make an ounce of difference in the outcome of Chile's small colonial rebellion, one cannot tell. In the event, the Spanish warships bombarded Valparaiso and reduced most of its waterfront to rubble, while Whistler, along with most of the Chilean officials, fled for the hills. By the end of 1866 he was back in Paris with a few misty, blue seascapes of Valparaiso to show for his trip, but no honorable scars.
Valparaiso was as close as Whistler ever got to the Orient, but he was seen in France and England as a cultural bridge to Japan. The formal beauty of Oriental art obsessed him, especially Japanese prints, which were available by the ream in Paris and London, as well as Chinese blue-and-white porcelain, of which he amassed a choice collection. Through the study of Japanese concision, he brought an esthetic of hints and nuances into late-nineteenth-century painting. His abhorrence of narrative, his refusal to moralize through art, his preference for the exquisitely designed moment over the slice of life, these were new, and they epitomized his ideal of Art for Art's Sake.
Before leaving on his trip to Chile in 1866, he made a will on January 3lst in favor of his mistress, Jo Hiffernan, giving her power of attorney to manage his affairs during his absence in South America, and on February 2nd departed Southampton on board the Seine. He stopped in Jamaica and Colon, then crossed the Isthmus by land. Journeying south down the Pacific coast, he stopped in Peru, and in March arrived in Valparaiso, after a journey of six weeks. There he witnessed the bombardment of Valparaiso harbor by the Spanish fleet. It is presumed he returned to England by way of Cape Horn, but in any case, he was back there by November, at which time he parted amicably from his mistress.
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Whistler House Museum of Art
The following is from Peter Kostoulakos, ISA - Fine Art Consultant, www.pkart.com
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
The Daily Chronicle Obituary
It is twenty-five years since the famous case, "Whistler versus Ruskin", was tried. In the history of art it might two hundred years, so completely has the point of view of the critics and the public changed, so completely has the brilliant genius of the man whom Ruskin called a "coxcomb" been vindicated. And yet, even now, there are no standards by which one can judge his work, by which one can form an estimate of his true place in the ranks of the world's great artists. That he is among them is not doubted; just how high up among them is not so clear. It is only once or twice in a century that the originator of a new style in art or literature appears, and it takes at least a century for the world to recover from the dazed condition into which it is thrown by such a man's work.
The Daily Chronicle
, July18, 1903;
American Art Review
, Vol. XVI No. 2 2004.
Biography from Spanierman Gallery:
James McNeill Whistler, whose radical art and leadership in the aesthetic movement had profound impact on both American and European artists working in the late nineteenth century, was one of the most original and influential artists of his time. Known for his brilliant and devastating wit, Whistler was an extremely controversial figure who at times alienated his colleagues and the public at large. However, his tremendous contribution to his era was acknowledged by all. In 1907, the critic Charles Caffin wrote: "He did better than attract a few followers and imitators; he influenced the whole world of art. Consciously or unconsciously, his presence is felt in countless studios; his genius permeates modern artistic thought."
Whistler spent his early years in New England, living in Lowell and Springfield, Massachusetts. At age nine, he moved with his family to Russia when his father received an appointment to build railroads from the czar of Russia. Whistler received his first art instruction in Saint Petersburg, attending drawing classes at the Imperial Academy of Science. In 1848, he joined his half-sister Deborah in London, following her marriage to the English doctor Seymour Haden who later became well known as an etcher. A year later, after the death of his father, Whistler returned to America and entered the United States Military Academy at West Point. There he ranked first in the drawing class taught by Robert W. Weir. However, his poor grades in chemistry led to dismissal from the academy in 1854. He worked for a brief time at the Winans Locomotive Works in Baltimore and then for the drawings division of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, where he received his first training in etching.
Deciding to become an artist, Whistler moved to Europe in 1855. He settled in Paris and took up a bohemian life, associating with a group of young English artists and becoming close friends with French painters Henri Fantin-Latour and Alphonse Legros. He studied briefly at the Ecole Imperiale et Speciale de Dessin and the following year continued his studies with Charles Gleyre, at his Paris atelier. Dutch and Spanish art of the seventeenth century were of great interest to Whistler during the late 1850s, however, the French Realist painter Gustave Courbet was the most significant influence on his early career.
After his painting
At the Piano
(Taft Museum, Cincinnati) was rejected by the Salon in 1859, Whistler moved to England. In London, he became acquainted with the English Pre-Raphaelites, especially Dante Gabriel Rossetti with whom he shared a taste for Japanese prints and Greek art and design. Whistler gradually adopted elements of oriental composition and spatial design, incorporating these in particular in his views of London at night. By 1872, Whistler had begun to use musical terms as titles for paintings and to formulate his own version of aestheticism. Whistler's highly abstract works were often the subject of attack, and it was upon seeing Whistler's work at the Grosvenor Gallery in 1877 that John Ruskin made the disparaging comments that resulted in Whistler's bringing suit for libel in 1878. After the trial, the artist briefly visited Venice where he became part of an international group of artists that included the American painter Frank Duveneck and his students.
In the 1880s and '90s, Whistler continued to paint landscapes and seascapes capturing ephemeral effects and portrait-arrangements combining realistic portrayals of often elegant figures and delicate color harmonies. He also continued his involvement with printmaking, creating etchings and lithographs. He settled in Paris in 1892, opening the Académie Carmen there in 1898. In the last decades of the nineteenth century, Whistler's art gained international recognition. A large exhibition of his paintings was held in New York in 1889, and in the same year he was awarded medals in Munich, Paris, and Amsterdam.
Whistler's works are in numerous private and public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; the Tate Gallery, London; the Louvre, Paris; the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D,C.; the Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts; the Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio; the Art Institute of Chicago; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Lisa N. Peters
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Reflections on just another evening of music
Been a while since I posted, I know, but I've been busy on so many fronts that I just couldn't provide updates. Never mind, I'm here right now!
I had the great pleasure of playing last night in my lead guitar gig with Anne Castellano & The Smoke. We were playing at Strange Brew in Norwich, CT – a first visit for the band, and my first time at the venue. We were providing support for Ohio act, The Saturday Giant, who's in the middle of a 39 date tour.
A few reflections and thoughts on the night.
For the first time in 36 years of playing live, I had a tube fritz out on me, killing the clean channel of my amp – didn't have a spare tube, but wouldn't have been able to replace it anyway (not quickly at least). Played the whole set through the dirty channel and rejigged all my pedals to make things work – got compliments, so it seemed to hit the spot
[a relief, for sure]
As ever, music has the power to help me overcome whatever angst this compromised set-up was giving me, and we played a tight set
[a tip for any up and coming musician – practice way, way more than you gig – the gigs will be much better for it]
The Saturday Giant is a loop-based one-man band, creating his loops live; quite complex sonic architectures. I use loops to practice improvisation
[so much better than a metronome]
I've never incorporated them into my live shows, because I'm still a little too song-based
[verse, chorus, middle 8, solo, etc.]
and prefer to focus on playing/singing rather than tap-dancing on all the pedals to control multiple parts.
With that said, The Saturday Giant is very, VERY good at what he does – at times his sonics touch upon Sigur Ros, etc. though with more of a hip-hop beat going on underneath. And several of us agreed that his version of The Pixies Where Is My Mind was one of the better we'd heard. Definitely worth checking out if you get chance to see him.
This morning, Jane asked me how the night went, and I was telling her all of the above. As we were talking, I realized that I wasn't complaining about the venue at all. Typically, there's some aspect of the venue that creates angst/leaves a bad impression – be it mic stands that don't stay up
[oh, that one really, really annoys me]
monitoring that sounds like cloth over the speakers, sound men
[not meaning to be gender specific, but I've yet to meet a sound woman]
not listening/reacting to what's happening on stage, playing in spaces not designed for a solo performer let alone a band. Either that, or the audience
[or lack thereof]
not being supportive of the music. I have to say it, Strange Brew is a GREAT venue to play. Jason was friendly and collaborative in setting up sound, the audience were listening and with us in the performance. In another place
[and sadly, I fear, another time – that has passed us by]
Strange Brew would be filled to the rafters. On a Thursday evening in downtown Norwich CT, it still had a reasonable crowd when we played, though it thinned out a little for The Saturday Giant – a pity, people missed a great performance. Hats off to Strange Brew, though – I look forward to visiting again, as a player and listener.
So, another night of music, of togetherness, of humanity. Live music is a power for good in our lives, thank you for supporting it in whatever way you can.
A little trip to New Hampshire
Just got back from a long weekend, camping in New Hampshire. What a great time! Some thoughts and reflections on the experience.
We were camping just outside Lincoln-Woodstock in the White Mountains region, so the first day was spent visiting a couple of river gorges.
First off, my favorite place of the weekend: Lost River Gorge – a long descent to the bottom of the gorge, then back up via caves and remarkable geology. The girls had a great time going through the cave formations and, when the cave permitted someone of my width to get through, so did Dad!
A bite to eat and then on to Flume Gorge – a longer trek here, less fun for the kids but with many more significant geological formations – vertical canyon walls, rushing waterfalls, vertiginous drops. Here are a couple of pics from the gorge itself:
Also, I now officially know where the treasure is buried:
I also wondered how much HR Giger was inspired by nature when he designed the original face-hugger for Alien:
Next morning, we were up early to take the kids to the Thrillsville Aerial Park at Alpine Adventures in Lincoln. Fantastic times
[highly, highly recommended]
and both kids proved themselves to be willing to face whatever fear they had and keep going:
That afternoon, we drove over to Mount Washington, the highest peak in the north-east of the US – an 8 mile drive up the Auto Road proved that I'm still able to pull up some adrenaline when I need to! Of course, the summit was swathed in clouds, but we can at least say we've been there! And, continuing a trend involving t-shirts and mountain tops, I made sure that my Spindrift Guitars t-shirt went with me :)
All in all, it was a lovely weekend, though I do have to say that the region as a whole appeared to like Bro-country a little too much for my tastes… Despite that, I look forward to returning in the coming years – at a little over 3 1/2 hours drive away, it's more than earned some more of my time!
As always with camping, I look forward to my own bed tonight, appreciate the wonder of rock, wood, water, fire and air, and value the sense of having disconnected from the machine even if just for a few days.
Thursday Insight – Interesting times indeed
Those following along at home will know that I've been fairly quiet of late
[aside from lots of posts linking songs and videos]
There's a good reason of course: this artistic life doesn't keep the roof over our heads, nor food on the table and, frankly, I needed to get some paying work. Which I did. But to do so, I took a very structured choice to put all
creative projects on hold. I couldn't give myself fully to growing my business while also diving deep into the pool. Neither effort would be successful – and, while my soul needs creativity to be successful, a LOT more rides upon my ability to put food on the table. It was a weird time all right, and I can't say I fully enjoyed the sensation of constraining my creative energies.
But it is what it is
[and I still played the guitar throughout!]
Business done, and can now turn my attention back to those projects that have been lingering:
- Grope – the record progress well, some vocals to retrack and mixing, but it's sounding pretty much as I wanted it to.
- Vincent Tuckwood Band – I've recorded and performed my original music in a band setting as Monkey68 for a number of years. With the release of Sparse, and my solo work under my own name, beginning to get some traction, like my recent public access television appearance:
it doesn't make sense to maintain two separate brands – so Monkey68 will be retained for more esoteric recording excursions, but the band will now be under my own name.
- RUFUS – this novel was about 30,000 words in when I put things on hold, I like what I have, and Rufus (and his journey) is pretty cool, though I admit I have some story arcs to refine before I can take it much further, not least of which is the presence of a very dangerous, yet passive suite of bad guys – they're bad all right, it's just that a lot of it's under cover – I have to figure them out before I can go much further.
- ASYLUM – originally a short film project (that got to about 1/5 of its funding target via KickStarter), I always knew that Sol's journey was more than the short film, and over the last few months, the expanded story has been tickling at me – too early to share specifics, but I have begun mapping out the book. Like ESCALATION, I believe it's going to be a quick write. One thing I do know is the title of the novel, which won't be Asylum, but I'm not sharing it just yet
[yes, I am a real tease]
It's interesting to dive back into these pools, and their welcome embrace. Like many artists, I wish I could do so without the constraints of considering where the next buck is coming from, but I've managed
[so far]
to balance things out. For a long time now, I've been putting faith into building a body of work that folk can dive into when they become interested. With 4 novels, a handful of screenplays, a poetry collection and one record out, that faith is beginning to feel justified now. With what's coming it'll feel even more justified.
Interesting times indeed!
Why I gave the National Association of Broadcasters, DiMA and CCIA the Shirt off my Back during Congressional Panel
Because it, like, toooootally makes sense that, in the digital era, songwriters are governed by a temporary law passed in 1947!
Originally posted on The Trichordist:
Diverse group of Washington DC lobbyists.
The major webcasters and broadcasters decided to convene a nearly secret last minute congressional panel to urge Congress and the DOJ to keep in place the 73 year old "temporary" consent decree that forces songwriters to let companies like Clear Channel, YouTube, Sirius, Pandora, Amazon and Spotify use our songs without any negotiation whatsoever. The consent decree also empowers a single appointed-for-life federal judge to arbitrarily decide what a "reasonable" rate is for songwriters. In effect we have been forced by federal courts to provide subsidy to corporations that have a combined market cap of more than a trillion dollars.
As I demonstrated in this an earlier post as a songwriter I received less than $17 dollars from Pandora for over a million spins of my song Low.
How is this a "Reasonable" rate?
The panel was hosted by Greg Barnes of…
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Centre of gravity and playing the guitar
Warning – this is a guitar geek post – go no further if you're not interested in such matters.
I recently spent some time back on my Fender Stratocaster, a guitar I wrote about here, and that feels so incredibly comfortable. I was trying to work out why my strat (a long scale guitar), felt small to me, while my Telecaster (same scale length) felt much longer.
There are a number of factors that go into it, of course:
- neck width – my tele neck profile is thicker
- color – my strat has a rosewood neck, my tele's is maple – as I look down, the lighter wood is more visible
- radius – my strat has (I think) a 9.5″ radius, where my tele has a compound radius fretboard, which looks wider at the body, because it flattens out
But, of all the variables, I think it comes down to how each guitar hangs on the strap.
Believe it or not, I've spent the past few days paying a lot of attention to how I stand and hold each guitar.
On a strat, the strap button is above the 13th fret, on a tele it's above the 16th fret. And because it has a longer body, my strat hangs kind of diagonally, putting the pickups in front of my right hip, so I tend to pick/strum closer to the neck pickup. Here's Stevie Ray Vaughan and his strat (no picture credit, unfortunately), showing how the strat's neck often ends up more diagonal and in front of the body.
The tele, however, hangs more horizontal and puts my picking hand closer to the bridge pickup. Take a look at this picture (credited to Laurie Paladino) of The Boss
[who has been known to play a tele just a few times!]
to see how the telecaster hangs more horizontally and away to the side of the body:
Angling the tele the same way as the strat feels really, really odd. Similarly, angling the strat to the horizontal feels just WRONG!
And, it turns out that the reason these guitars feel so markedly different in size, isn't down to size, but instead to the fact that my left arm has to extend further out to reach the end of the fretboard on the tele – no matter what height I have the guitar on my body. Interestingly, I also notice that I 'hunch' over the strat more when I'm playing, like I'm coiling around it. This isn't an uncomfortable feeling, it's kind of warm and centered. I don't get the same sensation playing the telecaster – it's a great guitar, but just doesn't have that mojo I get with the strat.
As I think about spiritual and physical centre, and striving to remain in balance with the energies within me and around me, this all seems to make sense – and perhaps explains why I feel like I'm coming home when I play my strat – or indeed why the guitar seems to have a life of its own.
Either way, it's just another reminder of how blessed I am to have these instruments in my life, and how grateful for the music they help me channel.


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These days the red carpet can be a little bit meh, with a sea of identikit nude strapless dresses. Many A Listers take refuge in beige fishtail-kick gowns, in the hope they'll avoid being slammed on worst dressed lists. Unless your name is Rihanna - blending in is the new standing out.
A beige floor-sweeper might stop you from being fined by the fashion police, but it won't win you any style points from Anna Wintour. We wondered what was going through Anna's head when she was stood next to a nearly-naked Rihanna at the CFDA Awards earlier this month. But it looks like she finds a visible thong less offensive than a mermaid gown.
Anna Wintour and a nearly naked Rihanna at the CFDA Awards [Getty]
Wintour spoke to students at Central Saint Martins this week and went on a red carpet rant. She said:
"The red carpet, in the United States, has become too much of a business. It's a fact that celebrities are paid to wear everything, and to me that sometimes comes across as very manufactured and not individual. I was just recently at the Tony awards in New York, and, God, they need your help. Let me tell you, it was a disaster. So, there are opportunities, but don't expect the Oscars the first time out.
They have all these teams of people telling them what to do, what to wear, how to do their hair, make-up. And they're so scared of being criticized, whereas, you know, what's wrong with looking different? How many mermaid fishtail strapless sequins [gowns] can we see?"
'It was a disaster!' Anna Wintour on the Tony Awards red carpet [Getty]
Anna isn't the only industry giant with fishtail fatigue. Tom Ford said earlier this year: 'What's worn on the red carpet has nothing to do with what's going on in contemporary fashion. It's a bubble of 1950s Barbie clothes. It's quite different to what real people are really wearing.' Ouch.
But not all stars wear nude mermaid gowns - some prefer rocking up in the nude. Literally. Yesterday we introduced you to the red carpet nearly-naked gang - women like Rihanna - who take their underwear off before facing the flashbulbs. In recent years a red carpet risk usually equals a thigh high slit - or in Kendall Jenner's case two.
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Shane L. Wilkinson, 20, of Bennington, pleaded innocent Monday in Bennington criminal court to a felony count of grossly negligent operation with a serious injury resulting. Wilkinson was released without bail.
In an affidavit, Officer Jason Burnham of the Bennington Police Department said he was dispatched to a one-vehicle crash on South Stream Road, near Coleville Road, in Bennington on May 15 around 6:30 p.m.
When he got to the scene, Burnham said there was a woman, Jessica Gilbert, 29, laying on the ground screaming and saying she couldnt move her legs. Burnham said he also noticed Wilkinson, who he knew from past professional encounters, yelling, I am going to be blamed for this, among other things.
Burnham said police determined that Wilkinson was driving a 2002 Subaru Legacy north on South Stream Road when he crashed while trying to pass another vehicle. Based on a crash reconstruction investigation, police said Wilkinson was speeding.
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Citizen's arrest for Wayne Kramer's tasteless immigrant drama Crossing Over.
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Trustees at the state's biggest black church and its pastor are at odds and heading for court.
Conception far from immaculate in teenybop retelling.
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Calvary Chapel pays millions for swank digs on the Intracoastal. And it's all for a few pregnant girls?
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Yes, God takes over WPLG-Channel 10 after the Jimmy Kimmel show goes off the air. Well, not God per se, but a facsimile by the name of Bill Keller, a convicted felon. Keller -- a middle-aged fellow with burnt orange hair, a burnt orange face, burnt orange glasses, and sometimes a burnt orange suit - ... More >>
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What can holy hip-hop offer a gangsta?
Broward makes a federal case of it: No glass pipes for the kids this holiday season
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World War III, World War Three or Third World War is a hypothetical successor to World War II.
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- World War 3 Illustrated, a political comics anthology
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- World War III (Mac album), 1999
- World War III (Madina Lake album), 2011
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- WWIII (album), from the industrial band KMFDM
- World War III (Suburbs song), a single from the band The Suburbs
- "World War Three", a song by the band D.O.A..
- "So Long, Mom (A Song for World War III)", a song by Tom Lehrer
- "World War III", a song from the Jonas Brothers, off their fourth studio album Lines, Vines and Trying Times
- "World War III", a song from the band Bad Religion's first EP
- "World War III", a song on the Ruff Ryders label, featuring Snoop Dogg
- "World War III", a song from the album Heavy Metal Maniac, by the Canadian band Exciter
- "The Third World War", a brief black-humor recording of nothing but explosions, by Jackie Kannon in 1963
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Colin BaneBode Miller lets loose over the new U.S. Ski Team Speed Center at CopperIf you live in Colorado and love alpine ski racing, get ready for a season of unprecedented access to the best of the best, thanks to Tuesday's grand opening of the new U.S. Ski Team Speed Center at Copper Mount ... More >>
Welcome to the online version of The Edge 2011-2012, Westword's annual insider's guide to winter activities. This season has already seen plenty of snow, and that's just the beginning, as the 25 resorts profiled below have added new terrain, lifts, features, events and restaurants. To sort it ... More >>
This week's cover story on the new Colorado Snowboard Archive collection at the Colorado Ski & Snowboard Museum, and the history of the effort by snowboarders to get respect alongside skiing, sent us digging through our online archives dating back fifteen years as we covered the subject from ... More >>
Photo courtesy Vail ResortsShaun White picked up his Epic Pass yesterday after signing on to make Northstar-at-Tahoe his home resort and agreeing to represent all six of the Vail Resorts properties (including Vail, Beaver Creek, and Breckenridge here in Colorado) in what Vail Resorts CEO Rob ... More >>
Commuters passing Federal on 6th Avenue on their way into Denver may have noticed construction on what is shaping up to be an epic new mountain bike and BMX skills park, designed by Gravity Logic and pro rider John Cowan. The park will be operated by Winter Park's Trestle Bike Park crew in pa ... More >>
Yesterday the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board approved the addition of Ski and Snowboard Slopestyle events at the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia. The announcement came yesterday from the 123rd IOC Session in Durban, South Africa, and follows an April announcement tha ... More >>
The new U.S. Freeskiing National Team announced its first official team roster today, following April's news that Ski Halfpipe will be an Olympic medal sport at the 2014 Games in Sochi and that Copper Mountain will host the first Olympic qualifier for the event in December 2013. Three of the ... More >>
Last week the International Olympic Committee officially announced that Ski Halfpipe will debut as an Olympic medal sport at the 2014 Games in Sochi. That's big news for one local ski resort: For U.S. athletes the road to Sochi will begin at Copper Mountain, host of the first Olympic qualifie ... More >>
Damn ams! The USASA Nationals competition moves from snowboarding to freeskiing this weekend at Copper Mountain, with opening ceremonies on Saturday and competition running Sunday through Wednesday, pitting amateur skiers against each other in Superpipe, Slopestyle and Skiercross events. An ... More >>
The 2011 U.S. Alpine National Championships kick off today at Winter Park with the Men's Giant Slalom Nationals, and continue through the weekend with Women's GS tomorrow, Men's and Women's Super G on Saturday, and Men's and Women's Slalom on Sunday.
Do you have any idea what the street value of this mountain is? Echo Mountain is celebrating its 5th birthday party this year with $5 Friday night lift tickets for the next five weeks, tonight through April 18. And wait, there's more! Echo's annual Liptricks Not Lipstick terrain park contest ... More >>
Crested Butte Mountain Resort celebrates 20 years of hosting the U.S. Extreme Freeskiing Championships this week, a truly extreme action sports event that predates the X Games and other extremism in sports lexicography by about four years. The resort bills itself as "the birthplace of Big Mou ... More >>
AlliSports.comBreck Freeride team member Eric Willet, center, wins Men's Snowboard Slopestyle at the Toyota Challenge in Ogden, UTBreckenridge Ski Resort is getting a good return on investment from its Breck Freeride Team and its stepped-up park & pipe programs: Yesterday, Breckenridge snowbo ... More >>
The park and pipe crew at Buttermilk is a well-oiled machine after a decade of hosting the Winter X Games, making crazy stuff like Torstein Horgmo's triple flip, Kelly Clark's 1080 and Shaun White's tight pants possible, year after year. And the best part? Each year, Buttermilk's left with a ... More >>
Photo by Colin BaneVenture Snowboards onwers Lisa and Klemens Branner at Winter Park during SIA Snow Show's On-Snow Demo Days Now that the SIA Snow Show is officially over, after two days of on-snow demos at Winter Park following the trade show at the Colorado Convention Center, it's hard to ... More >>
Photo by Sarah AustinNever Summer Snowboards co-founder Tim Canaday shows off his 2011/2012 line at the SIA Snow ShowWe sifted through a mess of 893 snow sports brands representing at the SIA Snow Show to find the Colorado companies we love most, then asked them to show off their best boards ... More >>
Sebastian Toutant's decision to skip Denver Big Air pays off in X Games goldDenver Big Air organizers at the Denver Sports Commission and the LG FIS Snowboard World Cup were right to be upset that top riders like Canadian Sebastian Toutant (aka "Seb Toots") stood them up in favor of getting i ... More >>
Photo courtesy US Ski & Snowboard AssociationZach Stone (Canada), Rocco van Straten (Netherlands), and Michael Macho (Austria) on the podium at Denver Big AirMore than 14,000 snowboarding fans turned out for the LG FIS Snowboard World Cup Big Air competition on the Denver Big Air ramp in Civi ... More >>
Photo by Kate LevyThe Armada Skis team (left to right: Spencer Milbocker, Alex Bellmare, Ben Moxham) wins the Nature Valley Big Air Challenge on the Denver Big Air ramp Let's face it: If you build a 106-foot launch tower and then send competitors -- some of them as young as 14 -- careening do ... More >>
Wes Selby.At this weekend's X-Games in Aspen, all of Wes Selby's competitors will be paid to race in the Snowmobile Snocross. Selby, however, is essentially paying to compete. Raised in Granby where he still lives, Selby is the only privateer racing in the Snocross Sunday.
Britt Chester By now you've seen the monstrosity that's been constructed at Civic Center Park. Turns out it wasn't a mini-skyscraper skyscraper after all. It's a ramp, as you can see here in the photo taken just a bit ago from the top of structure by our always intrepid scribe and resident d ... More >>
The 100-foot launch tower erected in Civic Center Park for the Denver Big Air competition will see its first official action today at 5 p.m. (doors open at 3:30 p.m.) for the Nature Valley Ski Big Air challenge, a Battle of the Brands format that will pit the ski teams from Icelantic, Line Sk ... More >>
If you're looking to try something new, this is the weekend for you: January is Learn to Ski & Snowboard Month and Winter Trails Month, it's been dumping in the mountains and there are more camps, demos and competitions this weekend than you can shake a snowboard at. Here are a bunch of good ... More >>
We'll have some locals to root for when the Denver Big Air competition erects its 102-foot tall monument to skiing and snowboarding in Civic Center Park next month: In addition to the pro athletes invited to the Nature Valley Challenge Big Air Freestyle Ski event on January 25 and the LG FIS ... More >>
Photo via SkiCB.comGreetings from Crested Butte, reporting nearly a foot of new snow this morning.If you're planning a holiday ski vacation, you might want to go ahead and start it early: It snowed all weekend at most Colorado resorts, and it's expected to keep coming down until Thursday, whi ... More >>
Breckenridge is hosting the first stop of the Winter Dew Tour this week for the third year in a row, and the event's Peak 8 festival village opens today. All of the main-event finals action will happen on Saturday and Sunday, but head up today anyway: The format for the Nike 6.0 Open lets new ... More >>
Photo by Sarah AustinBreck Freeride team rider Colby West tests out the Dew Tour superpipeThis week, Breckenridge is hosting the first stop of the Winter Dew Tour for the third year in a row. The Nike 6.0 Open runs December 16-19 and, since they've completely redesigned the Freeway terrain pa ... More >>
Snowangel catches big air over City Hall manger scene. The holiday lights of Denver's City and County building will stay on through Big Air, but the statues of the nativity scene will be replaced with edgier characters that appeal to snowboarders. A "Living Extreme" decorative theme will focu ... More >>
Yet another reason to head for the hills this week: The new Summit Action Sports Film Festival in Breckenridge opens tonight at 5 p.m. at Brooklyn's Tavern, 500 South Main Street, with screenings of the People Crew's Cheers and five other ski and snowboard films. The festival continues tomorr ... More >>
Earlier this month we joined Boardistan and others in bitching about the pre-sale prices for the Denver Big Air contests coming to Civic Center Park January 25-26. This week, the Metro Denver Sports Commission announced new lower prices: Tickets for the Nature Valley Challenge Big Air Freesty ... More >>
At the leftover Yam Jam on Friday, skiers and snowboarders alike gathered to face it off freestyle in a casual post-Thanksgiving competition. They were facing off against each other -- the skier and snowboarder events were separate -- but the real rivalry was, of course, between those who fav ... More >>
Nobody's reppin' the local scene as hard as the new Snowboard Colorado magazine, and the third issue hit core snowboard shops this week. To pick up your free copy, look for the brand-new magazine racks made from Colorado beetle-kill wood. That's Skylar Holgate on the cover carving a big turn ... More >>
The good news? Tickets are on sale this week for the Denver Big Air ski and snowboard competition in Civic Center Park, January 25-26, a two-day event sanctioned by the U.S. Ski & Snowboard Association (USSA) and the International Ski Federation (FIS). The Denver Big Air contests will include ... More >>