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Extreme, Extreme!
September 17, 2014 | by Benjamin Breen
The literature of laughing gas.
What's mistake but a kind of take?
What's nausea but a kind of -ausea?
Sober, drunk, -unk, astonishment.
Everything can become the subject of criticism—how criticise without something to criticise? Agreement—disagreement!!
These words were set to paper in 1882 by William James, one of the most celebrated proponents of the new science of psychology, and a newly minted assistant professor of philosophy at Harvard. James was in many ways the paragon of an eminent Victorian—his writing tends to summon images of the author ensconced beside a roaring fire in some cozy wood-paneled study in Cambridge. And yet here James comes off as utterly, absurdly stoned.
Because he was.
After huffing a large amount of nitrous oxide, James set out to tackle a prominent bugbear of 1880s intellectual life: Hegelian dialectics. He came up with a stream of consciousness that centered on a kind of ecstatic binary thinking:
Don't you see the difference, don't you see the identity?
Constantly opposites united!
The same me telling you to write and not to write!
Extreme—extreme, extreme! Within the extensity that "extreme" contains is contained the "extreme" of intensity
Something, and other than that thing!
By George, nothing but othing!
That sounds like nonsense, but it's pure onsense!
Thought much deeper than speech … !
Medical school; divinity school, school! SCHOOL!
Oh my God, oh God; oh God!
The Future According to Stanisław Lem
September 12, 2014 | by Ezra Glinter
In his 1971 novella The Futurological Congress, the Polish science-fiction writer Stanisław Lem describes a group of futurologists who have gathered at the Hilton Hotel in Costa Rica to stave off planetary disaster. Overpopulation and resource depletion are at crisis levels; famine and political collapse are just around the corner. Even before the conference begins, events take an ominous turn. Guerrillas kidnap the American consul and start mailing in body parts, demanding the release of political prisoners. As Professor Dringenbaum of Switzerland explains how humanity will soon resort to cannibalism, rioting breaks out in the streets. In response, the Costa Rican government deploys new types of chemical weapons, intended to make the rebels docile and peace-loving. They induce feelings of empathy and euphoria, and come with names like "Felicitine" and "Placidol." Planes barrage the city with LTN, or "Love Thy Neighbor" bombs.
Among the conference attendees is Ijon Tichy, an unflappable cosmic adventurer with the habit of getting into outlandish scrapes. Having inadvertently received a premature dose of the drugs through the hotel's tap water, Tichy has the foresight to take refuge from the bliss-inducing crackdown in the building's sewer system. Nevertheless, he winds up inhaling a near-lethal dose of psychotropic chemicals and tumbles down a dark rabbit hole of hallucinations. When he finally wakes up in the year 2039, after having been cryogenically frozen for decades, he finds a world where such substances have ceased to be used for crowd control and have become, instead, a way of life.
The novella—masterfully translated by Michael Kandel and recently adapted as The Congress, a part-live action, part-animated movie by the Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman—is more a satire than a poker-faced dystopia. Rather than solving its problems, humanity learns to mask them using comically sophisticated pharmaceuticals. In the "psychemized" future, you can take drugs like "gospelcredendium" to have a religious experience, and "equaniminine" to dispel it. Books are no longer read but eaten; they can be bought at the psychedeli, a kind of one-stop psychem superstore. For a friendly conversation there's "sympathine" and "amicol," for an unfriendly one "invectine" and "recriminol." Even acts of violence and revenge are sublimated into ingestible form.
Folman's movie adopts this premise, but reframes it as a critique of the entertainment industry. Instead of Ijon Tichy, the movie's main character is the actress Robin Wright, who plays a fictional version of herself. At first, studio executives want to scan her to create a digital avatar that will take over all of her roles. Twenty years and a switch to animation later, they want to produce a drug that will enable anyone to "be" Robin Wright, or at least to believe that they are. The Congress itself is a Hollywood bash celebrating the new age of chemical entertainment, rather than an academic conference on humanity's doom. As in Lem's novella, however, this future promises not social and scientific progress, but technological hedonism and senescence. Read More »
Smack Talk, and Other News
September 10, 2014 | by Dan Piepenbring
- In celebration of its many contributions to arts and letters, Boston has approved a plan to turn a section of the city into the first-ever Literary Culture District. "Plenty of respected (if banal) institutions supported the effort to turn downtown Boston into a literary district … What's baffling, though, is the metrics by which we've decided to judge their progress—more plaques, more street fairs, and more statues, not more writers, more affordable apartments, and more books."
- Among the many anti-Amazon domain names owned by Amazon: www.fuckamazon.com and www.boycottamazon.com. Your dissent will not be tolerated, peon.
- Elif Batuman on awkwardness, America's latest bugbear: "We have a hand signal for awkwardness, and we frame many thoughts and observations with 'that awkward moment when … ' When did awkwardness become so important to us? … 'Awkward' implies both solidarity and implication. Nobody is exempt."
- Apocalypse fiction as immigrant metaphor: "The same way X-Men comics are sometimes considered as representations of the American civil rights movement, the apocalypse genre represented my shifting understanding of 'home' … For immigrants, solitude and the trap of memory are central conditions. The appeal of [apocalypse fiction] is that it renders this so finely."
- The art of drug branding: the haunting, grimly comic logos on baggies of heroin. "References in the names reflected the addict's illusions of grandeur (So Amazing, Rolex, High Life) but also the insidious destructive nature of drugs and the ultimate endgame (Flatliner, Dead Medicine, Killa)."
For Man and Beast
May 13, 2014 | by Dan Piepenbring
The Internet will lead a traveler down strange byways. I no longer remember where I started, but here I stand, at the end of a circuitous and occasionally treacherous path, suddenly full of facts about Merchant's Gargling Oil. Let's not linger on how I got here. I'm as confused as you are.
Merchant's Gargling Oil is "a Liniment for Man and Beast," a catch-all salve first produced by George W. Merchant, a druggist, in 1833. Who can guess what compelled Merchant to whip up that first batch of petroleum, soap, ammonia water, oil of amber, iodine tincture, benzine, and water? Who still can say what frame of mind found him slathering this unguent on his skin? And who, at last, will stand up and tell me why Merchant saw fit to market his concoction as "Gargling Oil" even though he intended it primarily for external use?
These mysteries belong to the ages. More certainly, we can say that Merchant's Gargling Oil was intended to treat burns, scalds, rheumatism, flesh wounds, sprains, bruises, lame back, hemorrhoids or piles, toothache, sore throat, chilblains, and chapped hands; that the Merchant business was successful enough to produce a promotional line of almanacs, songbooks ("songsters"), and stamps; and that horses were evidently crazy for the stuff. Beyond that, this Gargling Oil is awash in contradictions. For instance, despite its external uses, you could, if you wanted to, take it internally: Read More »
My California Trip
June 26, 2013 | by Rex Weiner
We were gathered in the publisher's corner office just off Park Avenue on a snowy afternoon in February, looking at the intriguing series of ads that had been coming in over the past few months. Professionally photographed, seductively styled, they showed a shiny steel apparatus encircled with golden buds of weed damp with the resins prized by discriminating potheads.
"The question is," said Thomas King Forcade, founder and head of the publishing empire he'd built under the Trans-High Corporation banner, "what the fuck is it?"
"Shit to Gold!" declared the ads appearing in the magazine where I was employed, all full-page buys. "Paid in cash," said the sales director of High Times, the monthly publication dedicated to the ways and means of marijuana. I was on the masthead as a contributing writer on diverse topics, mostly of a cultural nature, on a career trajectory common to New York writers who toil in diverse editorial fields. Penning pieces for anyone who paid, from garish girlie mags to in-flight journals and the glossier monthlies, my expectation was to be sitting behind the publisher's desk one day in a similar corner office with a Park Avenue view.
Leaning back in his chair and torching an overstuffed reefer with a switchblade that doubled as a lighter, Forcade said, "More importantly, you dig—" taking a long drag and holding the smoke for a pensive moment before expelling the finished thought in a low tight voice—"does it really work?"
The device in the advertisement was called the Pot-A-Lyzer. Selling for $299.99 from a PO box in Huntington Beach, California, the Pot-A-Lyzer promised to transform ordinary marijuana of the lowest grade into super-weed equal to the headiest strains known to cannabis connoisseurs. Mexican ditch weed, for example, could be imbued with the psychoactive punch of Maui Wowee, Thai Stick, or Colombian Gold. Ergo, shit to gold. Read More »
314 Bedford
March 12, 2012 | by Christopher Bollen
"Love amid apocalyptic urban debris, love amid pimps and drug pushers, love on staircases scattered with used needles … can barely pay the rent." This was not an atypical note to find myself jotting down in my early twenties, part of a scribbled, half-legible foray into a novel I would never write. I wrote this in 2002, three years into my very first no-lease, single-occupant New York apartment and one year before I would eventually leave it, fleeing on grounds of emotional distress for a nondescript studio in Gramercy across from the Thirteenth Precinct (note my subconscious need for police protection). The cloying repetition of the word love suggests a rather flagrant tendency toward romanticizing crime and poverty, the ellipses symptomatic of someone too undisciplined to develop a thought. The only real character of this imaginary novel is the building. At least it was for me during the years that I called 314 Bedford Avenue, between South First and South Second streets on the grimy, sun-bleached south side of Williamsburg, my home.
To pass by the six-floor tenement now is not to see the building I lived in a decade ago. DuMont Burger has replaced the Puerto Rican dry cleaners in the street-level store front, where I never recall a single person entering or exiting with pressed shirts or anything approximating a claim ticket. Green metal café tables have taken the place of the wheelchair-bound homeless man with no legs who lived and slept seated for nine months of the year outside the entryway, his single mode of communication being "don't touch me!" whenever anyone asked if he needed help. The building's facade, still the color of a sick tongue, seems to have been water blasted, and the fire escape has been skinned and painted. As New Yorkers, we all live in a peculiar state of location upgrade, a kind of reverse Manderlay, where places we had once known have outpaced our own internal soft-focus (as an exercise, I recommend replacing the word nature with real estate developers in the opening page of Rebecca). Memory must do the decay work of time, and it is here at 314 that I remember the black, rusted iron gates of the front door, the hallway swabbed in yellow plaster, the chipped linoleum floor tiles attempting a marble mosaic, the five flights up to my apartment where, even drunk at 2 A.M., I had to be careful not to step on syringes, used condoms, sleeping prostitutes, and take-out ketchup packets. Read More »


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Mekong Delta Discovery Small Group Adventure Tour from Ho Chi Minh City
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September 2011
Front of the boat at Mekong River
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May 2011
My wife and I enjoying being rowed along a tributary of the Mekong River in a long tail boat. The women who row these boats were exceptionally skilled .
Traffic in the Delta
January 2011
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South Africa
This was one of the boats we encountered on our trip up one of the channels.
See you again
January 2011
our boat engineer came back with fresh coconut for each of us. 'What a treat.'
January 2011
Elephant fish
Local fruits
January 2011
snack of local fruits and honey bee tea
Ride, ride , ride
January 2011
From the boat to a multi cab transport. Yeheyy.
'8' of us.
January 2011
We're all enjoying
Ready to go
January 2011
Can't wait to ride the boat thru the narrow waterways.
Tasty Fruit - Durian!
July 2010
Being from the U.S, I had never tasted durian fruit. Our tour guide stopped along the way and negotiated the purchase of one that I could share with the rest of our small group.
Steering the Boat
July 2010
The "captain" of our small boat let me get behind the wheel and steer us down the Mekong River - quite an experience!
July 2010
One of the highlights is the stop in the village to have lunch - elephant ear fish. The meal was beautifully prepared and served. And the fish was tasty!
Mekong River
July 2010
This is a picture of me sitting on the bow of the boat with the Mekong River behind me.
Seeing the Locals
July 2010
What makes this kind of adventure fun and educational is being able to experience the culture of the local people. There are many opportunities to do that - fishing boats, house boats, fish farms, villages, and more to see.
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Death Rides a Horse
|Death Rides a Horse
American theatrical poster
|Directed by
|Giulio Petroni
|Produced by
|Henryk Chrosicki
Alfonso Sansone
|Written by
|Luciano Vincenzoni
|Lee Van Cleef
John Phillip Law
|Music by
|Ennio Morricone
|Carlo Carlini
|Edited by
|Eraldo Da Roma
|Distributed by
|United Artists (US)
|Release dates
|August 31, 1967
|Running time
|120 minutes (Italy)
114 minutes (US)
Death Rides a Horse (aka Da uomo a uomo, or As Man to Man) is a 1967 spaghetti western directed by Giulio Petroni, written by Luciano Vincenzoni, and starring Lee Van Cleef and John Phillip Law.[1]
Plot summary[edit]
Bill (John Phillip Law), a boy whose father was killed and mother and sister were raped and murdered in front of him by a gang, sets out 15 years later to exact revenge, having used the time to become an expert marksman with a gun.
Each of the outlaws bears a characteristic that Bill memorized while watching his family slaughtered. One has a tattoo of four aces on his chest, another a scar, one a distinctive earring and one a necklace bearing a skull.
As he begins his journey, a gunfighter named Ryan (Lee Van Cleef) is released from a prison after serving 15 years there. He was framed for an armed robbery by the very men who murdered Bill's family.
When they meet along the way, Ryan gets the better of Bill, who is blinded by vengeance, but he does Bill no harm. When the tables are turned later, Bill reciprocates, helping Ryan escape from a jail. But even though Bill has successfully killed the man with the aces tattoo, the more experienced Ryan insists on tracking the other outlaws alone. An equally determined Bill sets out ahead of him.
Bill is captured by the outlaws, beaten and buried alive from the neck down. Left to die in the hot sun, he is rescued by Ryan, who shoots several men standing guard. Preparing for the gang's return, Bill notices that Ryan is wearing a necklace with a skull. Ryan admits he was present during the murders. He gives his word that once the outlaws have been dealt with, he will remain to face whatever justice Bill seeks.
In a final shootout during a sand storm, the last remaining man who killed Bill's family has him dead to rights, only to be killed by Ryan's thrown knife. Bill nonetheless insists on revenge. Ryan's gun is empty, so Bill tosses a bullet to him. He has just one bullet left now himself. Ryan turns his back and walks away, daring Bill to shoot him in the back. Bill fires, but it is only to kill a surviving outlaw. A grateful Ryan then watches him ride away.
- Lee Van Cleef as Ryan
- John Phillip Law as Bill Meceita
- Carlo Pisacane as Holly Spring Station Master
- Luigi Pistilli as Walcott
- Anthony Dawson as Bert Cavanaugh/Manina/4 Aces
- José Torrès as Pedro
- Carla Cassola as Betsy
- Archie Savage as Negro Soldier
- Mario Brega as One-Eye
- Guglielmo Spoletini as Manuel
- Angelo Susani as Paco
- Giuseppe Castellano as Sheriff
- Franco Balducci as Lyndon City Sheriff
- Romano Puppo as Lyndon City Deputy
- Walter Giulangeli as Mr. Meceita
- Elena Hall as Mrs. Meceita
- Bruno Corazzari as bartender
- Natale Nazzareno as member of Pedro's gang
- Felicita Fanny as Marita
- Ignazio Leone as minister
- Nerina Montagnani as minister's wife
- Nino Vingelli as card player
- Remo Capitani as member of gold escort
- Giovanni Scarciofolo as Cavanaugh henchman
- Jose Terron as Walcott henchman
- Mario Mandalari as Walcott henchman
- Ennio Pagliani as Walcott henchman
- Giovanni Petrucci as Walcott henchman
- Vivienne Bocca as Bill Meceita's sister
- Richard Watson as bartender
- Claudio Ruffini as Prison director
Wild East released this in its uncut theatrical version on a limited edition R0 NTSC DVD in 2011.
In his investigation of narrative structures in Spaghetti Western films, Fridlund ranges Death Rides a Horse, together with Day of Anger as prime examples of a "tutorship variation" that further develops the play on age/experience between the protagonists in For a Few Dollars More, with Lee Van Cleef playing the older partner in all three films. In the "Tutorship" films, a younger protagonist seeks the more or less reluctant partnership of an older one, but differences of motivation eventually bring them into conflict.[2]
In popular culture[edit]
- There are several influences from and references of Death Rides a Horse in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill:
- Just like whenever the angered hero of Death Rides a Horse encounters one of the bandits who wronged him and killed his family, footage of the original wrong which is being avenged is superimposed over the hero's face; the same thing happens in Kill Bill whenever The Bride confronts one of the Deadly Vipers.
- The main theme of Death Rides a Horse is used in Kill Bill. It is the trilling flute and mixed choral piece played when The Bride calls out O-Ren Ishii and her bodyguards at the House of Blue Leaves.
- The scene where the main character, Bill, watches his family being murdered is, in part, reenacted in the animated scene of Kill Bill. Here the skull necklace is depicted as a skull ring, worn by the man who kills O-Ren's father.
- Bill, taken captive by someone he is out to kill, is buried alive and left to die. The same thing happens in Kill Bill to The Bride.
- "Death Rides a Horse" is a 1970 reggae single from the Hippy Boys. It appears on the B-side of Max Romeos single "melting pot" on the Pama Unity label
- "Death Rides a Horse" is a name of a track on the Russian Circles album Enter
- Fridlund, Bert (2006). The Spaghetti Western. A Thematic Analysis. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company Inc. ISBN 978-0786425075.
- Hughes, Howard (2010). Spaghetti Westerns. Harpenden: Kamera Books. ISBN 978-1-84243-303-4.
External links[edit]
|Wikiquote has quotations related to: Death Rides a Horse
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Death Rides a Horse.
- Death Rides a Horse at the Internet Movie Database
- Death Rides a Horse at AllMovie
- Death Rides a Horse at the TCM Movie Database
- Death Rides a Horse is available for free download at the Internet Archive [more] (alternative link)


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Mount Shasta House Rental Photos and Description
3 Bedrooms + Convertible bed(s), 2 Baths, (Sleeps 6-7)
The Cattuzzo House in McCloud is conveniently located near all recreational activities in the Mt. Shasta area. We have tried to make the Cattuzzo House a family friendly place to relax and unwind. We have furnished the house with extremely comfortable furniture while leaving some of the old McCloud features and finishes. The outside includes a completely fenced yard with a large lawn area. The home is within easy walking distance of shopping, restaurants and the McCloud golf course.
Keywords: McCloud house, Cabin, Retreat, Vacation rental, Mt Shasta
- Suitability:
- children welcome
- non smoking only
- pets not allowed
About The Owner
We currently make the San Francisco east bay our home. I have been self employed as a general contractor for 30 years and my wife thoroughly enjoys being a preschool teacher.
The Owner purchased this house in 2005
Why The Owner chose Mount Shasta
Whether it was camping, boating or staying in cabins we used to rent, our family vacations usually involved getting outside into the fresh open air with our 3 daughters and yellow lab. One of our favorite places to camp was always the Lake Shasta area. During these trips, if we were not on the boat all day, we would come up to the McCloud area to play in the rivers and waterfalls to escape the heat down at the lake. It was during one of our trips to McCloud in 2005 at the town's Heritage Day Festival that we decided to look for a second home in this area. I have never found another area where everyone was so down to earth and friendly. Still to this day I can feel my blood pressure lower when I go north to visit the town or work on the house.
What makes this house unique
This house instantly reminded me of my grandparents home up in Washington when I first saw it. I remember sitting in their living room watching the TV and looking at the fire through the glass doors on the wood burning stove.
Guestbook comments from the manager
We thoroughly enjoyed our stay here in this very comfortable home! The wood burning stove with the glass door is awesome- we loved building a fire and watching it burn while drinking hot cocoa. We spent the day sledding @ bunny flat & loved it. Lots of small & large hills for the kids. Input from the kids: "It's roomy and warm!", "I like the dart game", "Dogopoly was my favorite game" & " The big bear scared me". The house was very clean- Thank you !!


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Jacksonville neighborhood gets clean water
Updated On: Jul 26 2014 11:52:13 PM EDT
Living without clean drinking water has been the reality for people living in the Larsen community -- until now.
Jacksonville Mayor Alvin Brown signed a bill Saturday that provides money for water lines in that neighborhood, where many had been relying on well water.
People said they are grateful and they've been waiting for the change.
"We raised our children with dirty water, and we had a home day care and it was nasty," said Mary Seymour.
Seymour said that's what life was like in Larsen, the small Jacksonville community about three miles from downtown.
The "water was brown in our tub, turned everything orange. Everything was pure orange. We had to use snowball, snowball every day. That's how nasty the water was in this neighborhood," Seymour said.
Many of the residents said they went to the park or the store for water to drink. Seymour has since been able to get city water and now everyone in Larsen will join her.
City council member Lori Boyer sponsored the bill after hearing from residents trying for years to get clean water. JEA stopped installing water and sewer lines back in 1980s so homes built before that without water lines would not get them put in unless residents paid for them.
Boyer said that, combined with possible water contaminants from nearby city facilities, meant it was time to act.
"They had clean drinking water when they built their houses with their wells. It's now got contaminants reaching into it and we're partly responsible for that from city facilities," said Boyer. "It's just not right that we wouldn't participate in the solution."
The total cost of the project will be $900,000. The city will pay $413,000 and Builders Care, a nonprofit construction company, will pay the rest.
"To us at Builders Care, this is what we were called to do and really what this is going to do is help spawn other projects," said Builders Care Executive Director Matt Wilfort, adding that "we can come out in the Larsen community (and) provide those low to no construction cost services on the inside of some of these homes as well."
Work is set to start in 30 to 60 days and hopefully be completed within a year.
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text: Fact Check: Bill Clinton Lies About Medicare on 9/11--and NPR Repeats Print article Send a Tip by Joel B. Pollak 12 Sep 2012 post a comment Yesterday, on the 11th anniversary of 9/11, former President Bill Clinton hit the stump for President Barack Obama--breaking a campaign pledge not to launch political attacks on 9/11, and flat-out lying about Romney/Ryan and Medicare. Clinton's lies expanded upon of his attacks at the Democratic National Convention last week--and National Public Radio broadcast his fabrications without further comment or necessary fact-checking. Here is the litany of lies--which NPR calls "breaking down the numbers and the policies"--that Clinton told a cheering audience in Miami, packed with seniors: [Obama] didn't weaken Medicare--he strengthened it. He didn't weaken Medicare Advantage--he strengthened it. But if you repeal the health care law, and you repeal these savings, you are going to weaken Medicare Advantage, you are going to weaken Medicare, it is going to run out of money quicker, you are going to really weaken the senior drug program. Those are the facts. That's the arithmetic. According to NPR's Gren Allen, even the mathematicians in the audience swooned. But everything Clinton said was false. Consider the real facts and numbers: Obamacare cuts $716 billion from Medicare--according to the Congressional Budget Office!--and Medicare's own actuary warned the cuts will hurt services. Obamacare cuts $145 billion from Medicare Advantage--and Democrats have long resented Medicare Advantage for offering seniors the option of private insurance. Clinton's claim about Medicare running out of money sooner is false--and ignores the fact that Romney and Ryan have a plan for saving Medicare in the long run. The "senior drug plan" was established under President George W. Bush--over the objections of liberal Democrats--and can be reformed outside of Obamacare. Those are the facts. That's the arithmetic. NPR does not consider the other side of the argument, nor does it note that Clinton violated the Obama campaign's promise about politicking on 9/11; instead, it gives credit to Clinton for bringing up the memory of the attacks before ripping into the GOP. It is to be expected that a disbarred politician who was impeached for lying under oath might lie. But one (really!) expects more from taxpayer-funded NPR, which has exceeded even its own sorry history of bias.


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Spend the weekend stocking up on these essential items. By Claire Fontanetta
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