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April 26, 2014: Download TCPBlock v4.2
Download the new 4.2 version. It runs on Mac OS X 10.6 or later. With TCPBlock 4.2 you get cryptographical hash network connection filtering for applications, a rather unique feature in the Mac firewall world which provides a greatly enhanced security compared to file name only filtering. See the "Hash Check" section below.
Note that TCPBlock is not compatible with Yosemite.
In OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) Apple has introduced a new security requirement called kext signing (a kext is a kernel extension or a driver). This is a means of enforcing security, but also a way for Apple to control what kernel extensions third party developers can release for OS X.
To continue to use TCPBlock you first need to disable the kext signing security setting.
Download TCPBlock v2.10 if you need support for Mac OS 10.5 or PowerPC.
TCPBlock is a lightweight and fast application firewall for Mac OS X 10.6 or later developed by delantis.com.
The Mac OS X firewall protects you from connections that come from outside of your computer. But what about the software from your computer that opens new connections to the internet? With TCPBlock you can prevent selected applications on your computer from opening connections to the network.
TCPBlock is implemented as a loadable kernel module which contains all the blocking logic. You can configure it in the System Preferences TCPBlock preference pane or with the tcpblock command line utility. All the configuration changes are made persistent in a configuration file on the hard disk. At system boot time the TCPBlock kernel extension reads its configuration from disk and is ready to go.
How to use it
With TCPBlock you can filter the access of applications to particular IP addresses and ports additionally to just allow or deny an application's network access at all. It also supports filtering for an IP address range or a port range, for details see the advanced configuration section.
In System Preferences open the TCPBlock preference pane. You can choose to enable the firewall, to block all connections to the network and you can specify if your application list is a black list with items to disallow or a white list with items to allow connecting.
In the Application List tab use the + button to add new applications to the list. Use "Select Applications" from the + button menu to add applications or choose "New Item" and type the Unix command name of the application.
An Application List entry has the format name/address/port, where name means the application's name, address can be an IPv4 or IPv6 address and port means the TCP or UDP port. You can use "*" to match any address or any port.
In the Connecting Apps tab you have a live view of the current network activity. It displays the last up to 100 network connections. To include connecting apps in your application list select one or more items in the connecting apps table and click the "Insert name/*/* into App List" button. By checking the include address or port options you get a new application list item containing the particular address or port your app connects to.
"Insert name/*/* into App List" means: The new rule applies to the inserted app and every address or port it connects to.
"Insert name/*/port into App List" means: The new rule applies to the inserted app, every address and the specified port.
"Insert name/address/* into App List" means: The new rule applies to the inserted app, the specified address and every port.
"Insert name/address/port into App List" means: The new rule applies to the inserted app, the specified address and the specified port.
Note that, due to the limited knowledge of filenames in the Mac OS X kernel only the first 16 characters of the command name are used for name comparisons. Any characters above this limit are truncated.
Hash Check
If you enable the hash check function then for each application binary a cryptographical hash checksum is computed and the connection filtering is done by the app's name and its hash. This function is especially useful in TCPBlock's whitelist mode: changing a single byte of the app's binary leads to a different hash and the app's network access would not be permitted anymore. Also this implies that if you upgrade an app then you have to recompute its whitelisted hash: use the "Rehash" button to do this.
With hash checking enabled a malicious app can not bypass TCPBlock by renaming and giving itself the name of a whitlisted application because the hash of the malicious app is different to the whitelisted app's hash.
If you enable hash checking then the new background process tcpblockd is started. tcpblockd makes use of the OS X kqueue feature to get notified by the OS X kernel for every new process which is created or when a process dies. It asynchronously passes this information to the TCPBlock kernel extension. Due to the asynchronous communication the OS X kernel never has to wait for the tcpblockd. Nevertheless the tcpblockd adds some load to your system because it has to read the executable binary file and calculate the cryptographical hash for every process you start on your system.
The tcpblockd is using the SHA 1 algorithm to calculate the hash. It creates the same hash as you would get with the command line tool "shasum" which is part of OS X.
Advanced configuration
Use the command line client /usr/local/bin/tcpblock to configure TCPBlock or to monitor its activities.
tcpblock -h lists all the available options.
The TCPBlock configuration is stored in the file /etc/tcpblock.conf. If you edit this file then immediately execute tcpblock -c to load the changed configuration. This file is overwritten if you configure TCPBlock with the preference pane or the tcpblock utility.
Range filtering
TCPBlock supports rules for matching an IPv4 address range or a port range. IPv6 range filtering is not supported.
Specify a port range with minPort-maxPort, e.g. 443-445 matches ports 443,444 and 445.
Address matching is supported through octet range addressing with the format minOctet-maxOctet. Rather than specify a normal IP address, you can specify a range for each octet. For example, 192.168.3-5.1 will match the three addresses 192.168.3.1, 192.168.4.1, 192.168.5.1. An octet set to * is translated to the range 0-255, e.g. 192.168.3.* is translated to 192.168.3.0-255 and matches all IP addresses from 192.168.3.0 to 192.168.3.255.
The following are valid range rules:
You can add a range rule by editing a rule in TCPBlock's Application List or from the command line with tcpblock -a.
Note that in the Application List or with tcpblock -g you see the original, unparsed rule string. Use tcpblock -G to check if your range rule is correctly parsed. tcpblock -G returns the range of each octet and the port range like it is recognized by TCPBlock's parse logic.
Global rules
You can define a global rule by setting the application's name to "*". For example, if you have a trusted network like 192.168.42.1/24 you can whitelist it with the rule */192.168.42.*/*. In this way any app can connect to any IP address and any port in your trusted network.
Support for Notification Center
In OS X Mountain Lion or later TCPBlock uses the Notification Center instead of Growl notifications. In the TCPBlock Preference Pane you can enable the TCPBlockNotify login item. Click a notification to add or remove the affected app from the Application List.
Authorized means: The notifier is authorized to modify your app list, which is a privileged operation. Therefore it asks you for credentials. It will stay authorized until you uncheck it. If you click a TCPBlock notification in the Notification Center the notifier asks you if you want to add or remove the affected app from your Application List.
The notifier ignores range and global rules.
Support for Growl notifications
Install Growl on your computer if you not already have it. TCPBlock will not install Growl for you.
In the TCPBlock Preference Pane enable the sending of Growl notifications. This will register three types of notifications with Growl: "Block outcon", "Allow outcon" and "Allow incon". As default only the "Block outcon" notification is displayed. If you want to see the other types of notifications you have to open the Growl Preference Pane and configure there the notification display options for the TCPBlock application.
If more than one notification of the same type is sent at the same time they are coalesced into a single notification to avoid flooding your display with to many messages. Note that not all Growl display plugins support coalescing.
You can set the TCPBlock log level with a slider in the preference pane.
Your options are: No logging at all, log only the blocked connections and log all connections. The last option logs both blocked and allowed connections. All the log information is written to the file /var/log/system.log in Leopard and /var/log/kernel.log in Snow Leopard.
TCPBlock is donationware.
If you use it please consider supporting its maintenance with a donation to delantis.com.
Donate $10 via PayPal to email@example.com.
Thank you for supporting TCPBlock!
October 20, 2011
TCPBlock v2.10 is released. What's new:
Filter UDP Protocol
Additionally to the TCP protocol TCPBlock filters and blocks the UDP protocol. UDP provides a minimal, unreliable, best-effort, message-passing transport to applications and upper-layer protocols. As we know from the Windows world many trojans are using UDP to communicate. With TCPBlock you can filter the two most widely used internet communication protocols.
For blacklist users no configuration changes are required. If you are using a TCPBlock whitelist then you may wish to include in the list some basic system services like NTP or DNS, which are using UDP.
Report if apps are connecting over TCP or UDP
In the Connecting Apps tab and in the TCPBlock Network Monitor you can see which communication protocol is used.
Improved logging
You can set the TCPBlock log level with a slider in the preference pane. Your options are: No logging at all, log only the blocked connections and log all connections. The last option logs both blocked and allowed connections. All the log information is written to the file /var/log/system.log in Leopard and /var/log/kernel.log in Snow Leopard.
Incompatibility with nginx resolved
An incompatibility which causes your Mac to crash if the nginx web server is used together with TCPBlock is resolved.
September 25, 2011
TCPBlock v2.9 is released. Here you have a summary of the new features:
Support for Growl notifications
Install Growl on your computer if you not already have it. TCPBlock will not install Growl for you.
In the TCPBlock Preference Pane enable the sending of Growl notifications. This will register three types of notifications with Growl: "Block outcon", "Allow outcon" and "Allow incon". As default only the "Block outcon" notification is displayed. If you want to see the other types of notifications you have to open the Growl Preference Pane and configure there the notification display options for the TCPBlock application.
If more than one notification of the same type is sent at the same time they are coalesced into a single notification to avoid flooding your display with too many messages. Note that not all Growl display plugins support coalescing.
The notifications will give you a quick overview of the current network activity of your Mac.
Option tcpblock -mt displays a timestamp when network activity occurs
You can let the command line network monitor work unattendedly overnight, and write all network activity into a log file. With the timestamp you can see when the connection happens.
Improved detection of the process name an incoming connection connects to
TCPBlock now maintains a list of all programs on your Mac as soon as they are listening for incoming connections. If an incoming connection is made then TCPBlock looks in its list for the program which is serving the new connection and display its name. You can configure TCPBlock to notify you about incoming connections.
TCPBlock Kernel Module stability improvements
Kernel programming is an immense responsibility. You must be exceptionally careful to ensure that your code does not cause the system to crash, does not provide any unauthorized user access to someone else's files or memory, does not introduce remote or local root exploits, and does not cause inadvertent data loss or corruption. The TCPBlock kernel code has been carefully reviewed and improved.
|What's new
|April 26, 2014
|Solved an error related to connecting apps display.
|April 12, 2014
|Cryptographical hash filtering.
Optionally block incoming connections too.
Support for Mac OS 10.5 removed.
|January 15, 2014
|Support for Notification Center added.
Notifier resolves hostnames.
Added ignore list to notifier.
Preference Pane authorization timeout removed.
Block incoming connections too.
Improved filtering of UDP connections.
Filtering of specific addresses for each app.
Filtering of specific ports for each app.
Filtering for an IP address range or a port range.
Global rules.
Support for PowerPC removed.
Support for Mac OS 10.5 removed.
|October 20, 2011
|Filter UDP Protocol.
Report if apps are connecting over TCP or UDP.
Improved logging.
Incompatibility with nginx resolved.
|September 25, 2011
|Support for Growl notifications.
Option tcpblock -mt displays a timestamp when network activity occurs.
Improved detection of the process name an incoming connection connects to.
TCPBlock Kernel Module stability improvements.
|December 8, 2010
|Network Monitor shows incoming connections too.
Connecting Apps tab shows incoming network connections in light gray
and apps already included the Application List in dark gray.
Connecting Apps table automatically scrolls to the end of the list.
The configuration of the previous version is reused.
Minor GUI changes.
|December 1, 2010
|Support for 64-bit kernels added.
|November 26, 2010
|Initial setup simplified.
Set application to be blocked within few mouse clicks.
Connecting Apps tab shows live network activity.
|November 13, 2010
|Sort application list.
Edit the application name.
|November 4, 2010
|Public release.


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You know an area is on the up-and-up when a well-known name in the local dining scene makes an appearance, and that seems to be the case for up-and-coming Northwood Village with the recent addition of The Garage VV, the latest addition to the neighborhood enclave's restaurant row. A few months ago ... More >>
They come and they go. West Palm Beach has been like a revolving door for restaurants in the past decade, and this is one city where you can truly say everything old is new again -- at least when it comes to the buildings they occupy. In the past several months, several new establishments have ope ... More >>
Tastemaker #14, Tim Lipman, and his wife Jenny, are the cool kids behind Coolinary Cafe, Jupiter's 47-seat eatery that is so often so packed, reservations are recommended for the nightly seatings. What's most impressive, however, is that Lipman changes his specials menu twice daily. Such frequent ... More >>
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Rabbit tostadas. Gator sausage. Wild boar tenderloin. They're all on the menu -- or have been -- at Coolinary Cafe in Palm Beach Gardens, which opened in March.Tim Lipman, the 32-year-old chef/owner, and his wife, Jenny, are the cool kids behind this hip 47-seat eatery. Lipman has an arsenal of stan ... More >>
A fan of clean beaches, or the doggy beach in Jupiter that's one of few in SoFla? Check in on Saturday, May 8, at Riverwalk in Jupiter for the Friends of Jupiter Beach Food and Wine Festival. A number of restaurants from the north end that usually don't strut their stuff are involved in the ... More >>
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I started doing weekly workouts in the pool and decided it was time to learn how to swim (crawl style) and breathe at the same time. I've been a backstroke-swimmer or doggie-paddle-swimmer all of my life because of this inability to front crawl and breathe at the same time. But frankly, it became too embarrassing to be 47 years old and have to swim like this: stroke stroke stroke stroke (swallow pool water) gasp wheeze cough sputter, stroke stroke stroke stroke... Soooo I finally learned the front crawl and breathing at the same time. Bought some goggles (which helps immensely), got some professional instruction, and now I am a 47 year old fishie getting my cardio in the pool without sucking down a ton of pool water in the process. Might seem like small potatoes to many people, but to me? This is epic.
Mid-afternoon yesterday I had the feeling that my eating had been horrible, and I was bumming because of how few calories I thought I had left for the day. I knew I would go over calories because I was not going to make it wthout eating for the rest of the day. My co-worker, who knows I tally online, said, "Go enter your foods. It will make you feel better. I think you'll be surprised." So I did.
Lo and behold, I was on track for protein, carbs, fats, etc., AND I had a whopping 500 calories left for the day! Oh, the change in mood was amazing. I was mentally cooking and planning and calculating the delicious wonders I would have for dinner. What a treat!
So I learned a few things yesterday:
1. I am eating healthier than I give myself credit for
2. Logging foods is totally worth the effort
3. Other people are noticing my healthier habits
I have a workout scheduled for 5:30 today. It will be my second week of having a third workout for the week. Next week I increase to four per week. Baby steps.
I have run across a number of quotes lately that have inspired me. These were all found at, of all places, a quilt show at our botanical gardens last Friday.
�And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom�. --Ana�s Nin.
"Everybody can be great because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love". -- Martin Luther King.
�How does one become a butterfly?� she asked pensively.
�You must want to fly so much you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.�
�You mean die?�
�Yes and no,� he answered. �What looks like you will die, but what�s really you will still live.�--Trina Paulus from Hope for the Flowers
Each time I have been successful with behavior change and weight loss I had a certain "feeling" that I have never been able to identify. It is an ease and contentment that leads to doing what I need to do when I need to do it. The first time I lost any significant amount of weight, I remember the feeling of the "off" button being pushed while I was eating. I would be eating, and then I would feel this desire to stop eating. Simply like an "off" button had been pushed. My friend described it as knowing when you're full, but that's not it. I have felt "full" and stopped eating (and sometimes continued to eat, knowing full well I was overeating). This was different. It was my brain stopping me without my choosing to stop. I never was deprived by this off button--I ate all I needed to to remain healthy-- but I was losing weight because it was making me stop eating when I should.
I can't find that button anywhere.
I recently had some health issues pop up--gallstones, arthritis in both knees, a torn meniscus in one knee, vomiting and nausea from the gallbladder issues--and some bad habits have returned. The only workouts that I have continued doing are my twice-weekly 1/2 hour training sessions that are now limited to my upper body/core. I know I need to trade in the elliptical and treadmill cardio sessions for swimming, but I hate the time it takes to get the same workout, not to mention the extra showering, shampooing, packing of bags, washing of swimwear (handwashing each time as opposed to tossing workout clothes into the hamper) and waiting for a lane to swim in, etc. So my 5x week workouts and 2x week training sessions have whittled down to the 2 training sessions-- I feel like a slug. Rather than suck it up, biting the bullet, and just doing what I need to do, something in me kinda gave up. I eat A LOT, and usually way too late at night (I tallied last night's "binge", and it was 1350 calories between 8 and 11 PM--prior to that, I had stuck to nutritious foods and 1500 calories for the day). I don't get enough sleep. I'm not drinking enough water. I work FAR too much. I eat in front of the TV... IN BED! Talk about taking bad habits to the absolute limit! And I can't find that off button. My behavioral "off button". My beloved, natural, self-control-without-deprivation, off button.
Today is so close to the first day of fall (Friday?). The weather is BEAUTIFUL. I am going to change shoes right now and go for a gentle walk outside (gotta baby the bum knee for now). The leaves are changing, and I have 1/2 hour left of my lunch hour. Should be quite pleasant.
If anyone has some ideas for cardio and for lower-body strengthening that is safe for arthritic knees and torn meniscii (Sp?), please leave me a note or e-mail me. Thanks!
I have had a two-month period of fluctuations that only recently gave way to me falling below 200 lbs. I am still wavering slightly above and below 200, but getting under 210 was a chore. A depressing, irritating, CHORE. Then the weather broke. I could feel fall in the air. It wasn't cold. It wasn't chilly. Leaves aren't turning yet. It was a feeling and a smell. As I got into my car a week or so ago, the air felt different, and there was a beautiful fall smell in the air. My outlook and attitude did an instant flip, and I was happy. My workout that night was fun, and the next morning I was at 199. I wish I knew what it is about fall that makes me so happy and motivated. I'd bottle it and sell it. I'd drink it down like tequila. It is just the absolute bomb.


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Originally 179.00, regularly goes for 89.00-99.00
For those that don't need a heavy bag stand this is a better deal then the recent FP:
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MIX MASTER ICE ( 828 ) Jan. 24, 2013 at 11:51pm
This look like it might not be for bigger adults. The thing is almost 100 pounds lighter than the one with the heavy bag arm that was recently 69 bucks. I wouldn't trust this unless it was for kids maybe.
MIX MASTER ICE ( 828 ) Jan. 25, 2013 at 12:51am
SonyZ3compact ( 844 ) Jan. 25, 2013 at 9:34am
The pullup bar on this one is in the back vs the front of the other FP deal meaning you have alot more space to do variety different pullup exercises.
Nanda () Jan. 25, 2013 at 5:18pm
Walmart has "Everlast Power Fitness Station" for $49.00 + $2.97 Shipping or Free Store Pickup
Item Description: Improve your fitness level using the Everlast Power Fitness Station. Constructed with heavy-duty steel, this fitness stand has high stability and durability. Its powder-coated finish is tough and long-lasting. With a VKR-stand design, this Everlast fitness station can be used for vertical knee raise exercises, pull ups, dips, crunches, and push-ups. It can help provide a complete upper body workout so you can shed those extra pounds. With a strong and durable construction, this VKR fitness station ensures safety and proper balance during your exercise sessions.
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10 Things 90s Kids Will Have To Explain To Their Children
1. Topanga was at some point in human history considered not only a legitimate first name for a human being, but the kind of name that would inspire in malleable teenage boys a life-long infatuation. Topanga, in our day, was leading lady name-material. Topanga (pronounced Tah-payne-ga, for those who will have only ever seen in it written down) is the name of the quintessential girl-next-door who will live, along with Feeney, in our hearts forever.
2. At some point, we carried around little plastic eggs with tiny screens on them — in these screens lived our hearts, our pets, our raison d'etre, our very own Tamagotchi. We loved them, we listened to their tiny electronic screams of malnourishment, and we occasionally forgot to pick up their poop for long enough that they died a tortured, poop-filled death. They were perhaps our first foray into the life-consuming world of electronics and self-absorption, later to be fully manifested by Facebook.
3. The black Power Ranger was black and the yellow Power Ranger was Asian because…we were so completely ahead of our time and beyond the capacity to even think in terms of something as inconsequential as race that… uh… I don't know. Casting directors were racist in the nineties.
4. Long before he was spending his days foisting his mediocre children on us, Will Smith was actually the perfect human specimen. He also undoubtedly holds some world record for saving the world the most times while simultaneously delivering flawless catchphrases and giving cool guy nods to the camera. The Men In Black rap song, at the time, was created and received by the public without the slightest trace of irony. Really. He was that good.
5. In some inevitable shift of the time-space continuum in which James Cameron continues to rob humanity of all that is good and sacred in this world, Fern Gully will be known as that movie that ripped off Avatar. It will be up to us to crusade for what is right. It is up to us to explain that Fern Gully was not only a predecessor to Avatar, but far better, in that it contained both Tim Curry as a singing pile of molasses and Robin Williams rapping about animal testing in the pharmaceutical industry. (As a side note, if you have not recently listened to the full lyrics of the "Batty Rap," I recommend you do, as they are horrifying.)
6. A neighborhood boy who completely disregards your family and puts a ladder directly under the teenage girl's window to climb up at his discretion is not only acceptable, it's charming. It's the kind of stuff that would make said family take the ladder boy under their wing and into their heart. The nineties were a simpler time, one where we didn't have to worry about things like breaking and entering. Clarissa today would have steel bars on the inside of her window and her father would continually remind her that the next-door boy with his ladder and his touchy hands have no place in his household.
7. Though on the surface, they are the exact same thing in every conceivable way, whether you liked The Backstreet Boys or N*SYNC said more about your character than all of the terrible macaroni art you could ever make for your child psychologist. Essentially, liking *NSYNC meant you liked Justin Timberlake, as he was clearly the Seabiscuit in that race from the get-go. You even liked him with his terrible, icy-blond mini-fro. Liking the Backstreet Boys gave you a bit more of a cultured palate, as there was no clear Diana in those Supremes. Nick was kind of the wholesome, if northern-Florida-redneck safe choice (save for his humiliating younger brother, Aaron). Brian was the shy, sensitive type. AJ was the hottt, dangerous meth addict. Kevin Richardson was mute with sexy, sculpted facial hair. No one liked Howie. Choosing between the two groups was like choosing between two beloved children, but once that line was crossed–there was no going back.
8. "I wanna really really really wanna zig a zig ahh," has a meaning, and all true nineties kids know it, but we must never share it. Like the Illuminati, it must remain between us, the keyholders. With great power comes great responsibility.
9. Lisa Frank is not the name of a woman, it is the name of a movement, a culture, a way of living. It is a theory, a concept, a belief in something greater than yourself. It is the belief that all girls are entitled to dolphins covered with rainbows, jewel-encrusted frogs, and unicorns in acid-trip colors hugging each other. It is the ideology that no notebook is complete until it literally hurts your eyes to look at from so much color saturation. It is the hope that no school supply, no matter how insignificant, will be left un-bedazzled. It is the knowledge that your eraser cap, and that of your granddaughter's, and her granddaughter's after her, will not be some boring little nub–it will be a diamond covered with butterflies in a rainbow of colors. It is the dream of a better tomorrow.
10. Incredibly depressing women in Indiana covered in cats and glass figurines they buy at The Hallmark Store used to troll the web 1.0 to invest thousands of dollars in tiny stuffed animals filled with plastic beans. That happened. Beanie Babies were not just significant, they were the first example most of us had of envy, greed, and wrath. If someone messed up that little heart-shaped Ty tag, so help you God, that was the end of whatever contact you had with that monster of a human being. That tag-less Beanie Baby was now trash, and you had to deal with the consequence. It was at that moment, that de-valued Beanie Baby moment, that most of us accepted the truth… we'll never have nice things.
Read more at http://thoughtcatalog.com/2011/10-things-90s-kids-will-have-to-explain-to-their-children/#3uCJrSTmQWIHfzdp.99
by janessa27September 24, 2012 at 11:22 AM
Lol- I am a 79 kid but loved N'Sync and still love Justin Timberlake! I also had a digi pet- in highschool....with my pager!:)
September 24, 2012 at 11:52 AM
I am an 80's kid but love this!
September 24, 2012 at 12:19 PMLol! I was born in 86 so I totally grew up in the 90s. The author is right, nobody liked Howie LOL
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Lol- I am a 79 kid but loved N'Sync and still love Justin Timberlake! I also had a digi pet- in highschool....with my pager!:)
by SisterPeachSeptember 24, 2012 at 2:32 PM
Okay, this cracked me up!
September 24, 2012 at 2:41 PMI was a little sad none of my fb friends, clearly 90s kids, have taken notice since I posted this.
I really am tempted to look up Robin Williams' Batty Rap. Oh the memories. Lol.
Quoting SisterPeach:
Okay, this cracked me up!
by kerryketSeptember 24, 2012 at 8:30 PM
Ha, can relate as I was raising my 90's kid.
by Mrs.wilcox01September 24, 2012 at 8:39 PMI was born in 88.I miss being a kid .sigh
by LindaClementSeptember 25, 2012 at 12:28 AM
I saw this somewhere else recently... I love #10!!
by gmadianeSeptember 25, 2012 at 12:25 PM
my daughter loved backstreet boys and n sync, lol
by taniamorse85September 25, 2012 at 11:54 PM
Holy ****! I just googled the Batty Rap lyrics, and horrifying is putting it mildly! Now, I can't believe that was in a kid's movie. Here they are, for anyone who wants to read them.


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The arrest of a terror cell in Sydney last week, men who were conspiring terrorist acts up to and including a public beheading, should suggest to all that multiculti - as a doctrine - is dead.
It is dead. But the Australian establishment will continue to defend it.
Muslim immigration will not be ended. Muslim 'refugees' will continue to arrive. Muslims will not be encouraged to return 'home'. Rather they will be told that Australia is 'home' and be urged to attend Aussie sausage sizzles with national flags fashioned into hijabs and to hold 'interfaith days' and Mosque open-days. But then too, our New World Order regime will continue to invade Muslim countries and will avoid any push for a settlement in Palestine in order to serve Israel, thereby providing Muslim fanatics with the only 'justifications' they have – and the recruits they desperately need.
It is madness. It is a muddled mess where the true interests of Australians are not on the agenda.
If the Australian government can spend a fortune on sucking up to 'moderate Muslims' (sic) here and can afford to send the Australian army to Iraq to defeat an army of jihadi fanatics whom the New World Order financed and armed in the first place, then the financial means are on hand to save the lives of thousands of Australians from the drug scourge and from the army of Chinese triads now descending upon our society to market drugs and launder money on a massive scale. The army could close the borders from the refugee threat. Yet, our government prefers to go for foreign adventures instead and waste the resources of us all and risk the lives of our soldiers.
We are tired of all of it. We demand fundamental solutions.
We demand a policy of radical neutrality on the Middle East. We demand an exit strategy that gets us out of the whole mess favouring neither the Arab nor Muslim causes and certainly not the cause of Israel which violates the rights of the Palestinians. We demand a dismantling of multiculti and a policy of re-settlement of aliens who cannot fit here. For these things we may as well cast coins into a wishing well, because our New World Order politicians will never grant our desires; we must think of fighting in our own national cause and removing them. Our identity and our safety depends on that!


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- White Lace and Promises said...
Sweet pinks. If I had seen the pick bird, I think it would have been mine. I love them all. I've kinda gotten stuck and my house is full to the brim with all the things I love. I can't hold another piece of anything except maybe a little bit of room in my ironstone cabinet and my milk glass cabinet. Every inch of your place would be my happy place.
- May 3, 2014 at 9:47 AM
- Penny @ Penny's Vintage Home said...
You have a lovely display of pink china in your dining room cabinet! HPS....hugs, Penny
- May 3, 2014 at 11:13 AM
- Deborah Montgomery said...
Beautiful pink china, I love it. I didn't know that washing would prevent crazing? Does the dust cause this? Nice to have those little pitchers your mom used when you were a baby. so sweet.
- May 3, 2014 at 12:21 PM
- Michelle Pitts said...
Hi Deb...no Australian climate is very dry and most china is made in England where is is cool and moist so in order to stop the crazing in our climate it pays to hand wash the china regularly to keep it moisturised.
- May 3, 2014 at 1:43 PM
- Francie...The Scented Cottage Studio said...
Michelle your pinks are all wonderful. Never thought about dryness causing crazing, good reason not to put old china in a dishwasher !
- May 3, 2014 at 9:47 PM
- Cheryl said...
Ahhhhhhh such fabulous treasures! I think I need some more girlie treasures like yours!
big hugs!
- May 4, 2014 at 12:24 AM
- Beverly said...
Happy Pink Saturday, Michelle. I am so glad you joined us today. Thank you for always making Pink Saturday special.
We have had a dark and rainy week here, but today is beautiful. The sun is shining and there is a gentle breeze.
You have so many beautiful pieces. I love the display in your china cabinet.♥
- May 4, 2014 at 1:38 AM
- My name is Riet said...
You certainly have lost of the most beautiful pinks. I love all that China. How special that you are from heritage. Many Dutch people did emigratie to Australië for many years after the war.
Have a Nice sunday.
- May 4, 2014 at 3:40 AM
- RobinfromCA said...
Your china is beautiful! I love to see china all washed and shiny in a dish drain - I have no idea why it's so appealing to me but it is. I also love that little bird. So sweet.
Enjoy your rainy weekend ~ we are in a drought and jealous!
- May 4, 2014 at 6:12 AM
- SwedishCorner ~ DownUnder...Pernilla said...
Lovely, lovely pinks! Gorgeous china :) Everything is displayed so beautifully. Seems like Winter is here... even in S-E Qld!! We had a cold night (8°C), but looking forward to an awesome sunny day with a top of 22°C. Hugs♥ ~Pernilla
- May 4, 2014 at 7:49 AM
- Julia said...
Que bonito post, me he paseado por tu bloc y me ha encantado, te invito a ver el mio, estamos celebrando el dia de la madre, y si te gusta y no eres seguidora espero que te hagas ahora, gracias por visitarme. FELIZ DIA DE LA MADREElracodeldetall.blogspot.com
- May 4, 2014 at 5:35 PM
- Jillian's Bella Rosa Antiques said...
Beautiful and what a fun collection... minus the cleaning . :-P
I need to organize my office area and group pretty pinks together like your did. Thanks for the inspiration! And thank you for stopping by my blog!
- May 5, 2014 at 10:29 PM
- Jeanie said...
Your photos may be old toyou, but they are new to me and your china is simply charming. It looks lovely together in the arrangements you have made.
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At the start and end of everyday. I could say during though my job is not at a table most the time. You'll find me at a table thinking, discovering, catching up, snooping, trying to get people to like something, creating a digital self and impotently communicating with the people not at my table. I communicate with myself most the time, all the time in a delirium of bouncing whirling thoughts of the usual things such as dealing with the eternal problem of whys. Why haven't I got a 'proper' job, as in a higher paid 'respectable' job. Why don't I ever feel thirsty though always dehydrated. Why does electricity make stuff light up or why am I always tired. Why is my dirty coffee cup round and why am I always tired. Why despite the greatest togetherness of communications and knowledge does exploitation and persecution still exist. Why did my ideas and many rehearsals of becoming a real life Tom Cruise lead me to sit at this table. Despite eating greedily like a pig and exercising hard do I always look gaunt and ill. The only thing that makes me look healthy is a tan which I know is slowly making me look older. Why am I getting slower and achy despite drinking green tea. Why do I flip from one art to another trying to find an answer. I play and sing the guitar trying to be Bob Dylan. I write to be James Joyce. I take pictures to be William Klein. I even think about painting to be Edvard Munch though know I can't paint, write, sing. Asking why will make me crazy, not asking why will make me crazy. Why after a time, after repetition, after a routine does everything become mundane. We always want what we don't have and of course we don't know what we've got till its gone just like a big yellow taxi. What makes something beautiful or moreover what makes us find such solace in it. Beauty is not fixed, its forever in a perpetual motion just like boredom. Beauty and boredom are one and all as opposites and intertwined in each other. Something is always not boring to some one, just as beauty diminishes becoming bland. You can only look at Monet or Bridget Bardot for so long. You'll find me at a table bored certainly not beautiful. I'll be searching for an honesty, honest in beauty for liberty of the mind and body. You'll find me at a table just as i'll find you at a table, working and wondering. Not daring to ask why too often. Forget it you don't have time or energy. Go on distract yourself with working, marrying, children, providing until you sit another table.
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This semi-autobiographical novel is an epic journey of a child's first understanding of love and art, written in little over 3000 pages with no chapter divisions and split into several books. Proust's work is noted to be very influential, if not the most influencing book, especially at the publication time of 1922, yet not popularly read today. The first 'Way by Swann's' begins with Proust as a child when he realises he has a nervous condition as he can't sleep until his mother kisses him goodnight. For me, his ability to write in such depth about his own psychology as a child and the way in which he is able to decipher every moment with a deep understanding is a pleasure to read. Proust excels in beautiful prose regarding how he and certain people in his life perceive nature, place and affection.
As the first part takes place partly by his summer house next to the almost regal Swann house. The second part focuses on Swann, who is neurotically obsessed with Odette, a frivolous woman who he falls in love with. At first I found the beginning of this story quite lengthy without any real significance until Swann becomes neurotic himself. This again is where the novel excels, in the understanding of relationships and of the human experience. Proust enables us to understand the precise moments of obsession to such a point that it becomes rational and almost a study of psychology.
The third part of the book is a shorter piece returning to Proust as a young boy familiarly obsessively falling in love with Swann's daughter. This subsequently reveals the ending of Swann's story with regards to his lover and makes you feel like the entire story has been well-rounded despite the open ending and narrative ambiguities.
This volume is a very nostalgic intricately involving piece reflecting the hindsight of memory and passion which transcends time. The lengthy piece extracts the condition of anxiety to the point of obsession, leaving no significant thought astray in the complex condition in which at some point, we all suffer. Proust's ability to extract incredible meaning, at length, from minor occurrences are wonderful to read if not stifling in conception.
As a child I only had interest in instinctive drives such as food and play. An animal intention without thinking of cause or reason. It was something I did and must be done. I am well aware that we are animals although we regard ourselves differently due to one evolutionary vice. Somewhere in our history, between being wild and creating space ships we somehow thought about why. Why don't I use this club to hit something and it will be more effective than a fist; led to great advances on humanity to our current limit of devastation; nuclear power. In the moment of childhood when we realise 'why' might not be very obvious. Some say it's when we look in the mirror and discover our self. Schooling is the institute or whys and what if's. We are nurtured to think outside of our understanding in a proposed hope of bettering ourselves to become more useful or successful, more at peace with eradicating the anxiety of the unknown. 'Why' is irreparable, insatiable, leading to question ourselves of the reason are we doing this? Why does it happen? Why not? Philosophy is born from the condition of why. Forever attempting to orientate normalities of the way we live. This is our greatest ability yet also our greatest vice. We are forever desiring, imagining something else. Something more than what we have as we have been not only nurtured from growing up, yet will perpetually continue to and is irreversible. As a child it's easy to think I was completely happy playing and eating until I wanted what the other kid had. This is an animalistic instinct such as being bigger or better. When the question of why can't I have it, or why is it like this becomes apparent we become philosophers. One of my earliest memories was when I climbed a bookshelf inevitably destroying things. It would have to be the case that I climbed because it was instinctive, not contemplative. It couldn't have been why would I climb this, it would be I'm climbing it. The moment we think about why is the moment we lose our loss of innocence. The transition from child to adult where we cannot be so naive. From this moment, we question every thing from nature to technology, from how can I get that to the very reason we exist at all. This is also the beginning of anxiety. If we don't know something we have to! If there is a something better how do we get it! These haves have driven us to spectacular heights and will always do so yet the vice of questioning, the polar opposite is yearning, desire and dealing with not having. The American dream is the owner of can do, can be, and why not! Though a fundamental flaw is this very basis of anxiety; that if we all achieved our desires society and civilisation will be unable to operate. Once our basic freedoms and previsions are obtained, such as working for food and shelter and an acceptable level of choice and liberty is obtained; questioning and anxiety prevail. Those without basic liberties and amenities will always be bemused by someone's subtle despair of thinking about the whys. Those born into comfort with know this but will not be able to escape it. We know that many suffer without food and water yet we gauge in it. This is not to say we are all unhappy and depressed, I'm suggesting that we are designed from an evolutionary and social basis to eternally question and desire without limits making us anxious, as we can never know everything, because we don't have it. I am not only referring to consumerist society of tangibility, it was well understood in modern advertising that lifestyle desire represented in products is much more effective. We long to be something that we are not; we lust for experiencing things, which seem out of reach though possible. We lead busy lives of work to earn, to buy food, shelter and some entertainment, which will also never end. Of course there are distractions to our questioning. Having children defers all thoughts to the routine of looking after them. We have little time or energy to think about why. Some would say that breeding is our purpose, a biological preservation of race. When children leave home it could well be that our questioning anxiety returns though by that time familiarity and that lust for life is diminished. We wake up and work the best part of the day, get home tired to eat, watch TV then it's time to rest to do it again. During this life long routine there are small moments of bliss. You could be busy and stressed without thinking of anything else when you hear a piece of music. Music that seems to dive deepest into your rhetorical self bringing a calm euphoric meditative moment of self-awareness. Art attempts to decipher our unanswerable questions. Pleasure such as bathing in the smothering warmth and shine of the sun on a hot day. Gorging into a fat greasy burger. Getting drunk. Getting high. Laughing with friends or finding peace and affection in the arms of a lover. These moments are distractions from our why questions or some would say are the answers to them. But all these things have a limited appeal. In the sun we get burnt. A burger, a joke, a lover has limited lifespan and appeal to us. We always want something else. Something more. We turn that club into a spaceship.
Written by Russell Whitehead..
Charles Bukowski "The man with the beautiful eyes"
the man with the beautiful eyes
when we were kids there was a strange house
all the shades were always drawn
and we never heard voices in there
and the yard was full of bamboo
and we liked to play in the bamboo
pretend we were Tarzan
(although there was no Jane).
and there was a fish pond, a large one
full of the fattest goldfish you ever saw
and they were tame.
they came to the surface of the water
and took pieces of bread from our hands.
our parents had told us:
"never go near that house."
so, of course, we went.
we wondered if anybody lived there.
weeks went by and we never saw anybody.
then one day we heard a voice
from the house "YOU GOD DAMNED WHORE!"
it was a man's voice.
then the screen door of the house was
flung open and the man walked out.
he was holding a fifth of whiskey in his right hand.
he was about 30.
he had a cigar in his mouth,
needed a shave.
his hair was wild and uncombed
and he was barefoot in undershirt and pants.
but his eyes were bright.they blazed with brightness
and he said, "hey little gentlemen, having a good time, I
then he gave a little laugh and walked back into the house.
we left, went back to my parent's yard and thought about it.
our parents, we decided had wanted us to stay away from there
because they never wanted us to see a man like that, a strong natural
man with beautiful eyes. our parents were ashamed that they were
not like that man, that's why they wanted us to stay away.
but we went back to that house and the bamboo and the tame
goldfish. we went back many times for many weeks but we never
saw or heard the man again.
the shades were down as always and it was quiet.
then one day as we came back from school
we saw the house.the man with the beautiful eyes
it had burned down,
there was nothing left,
just a smoldering twisted black foundation
and we went to the fish pond
and there was no water in it
and the fat orange goldfish
were dead there,
drying out.
we went back to my parents' yard
and talked about it and decided that
our parents had burned their house down,
had killed
had killed the
because it was all too beautiful,
even the bamboo forest had burned.
they had been afraid of the man with the
beautiful eyes. and we were afraid
then that all through our lives
things like that would happen,
that nobody wanted anybody
to be strong and beautiful
like that, that others would never
allow it,
and that
many people
would have to
from The Last Night on Earth Poems
La mamma morta from Andrea Chénier
They killed my mother
At the door of my room;
She died and saved me!
Later, in the dead of night
I was wandering with Bersi
When suddenly
A pale glow flashes
And it lightens ahead of me
The dark street!
I look!
My home was burning!
So I was alone!
And all around me, nothing!
Hunger and misery!
Deprivation, danger!
I fell ill,
And Bersi, so good and pure
Made a market of her beauty
For my sake -
I bring misfortune to all those who loves me!
It was in that grief
That love came to me!
A voice full of harmony and it says:
'You have to live! I am the life itself!
Your heaven is in my eyes
You're not alone!
I'll collect all your tears!
I'll walk with you and support you!
Smile and hope! I am love!
Are you surrounded by blood and mud?
I am divine! I am oblivion!
I'm the God that descends on Earth
From the Empyrean, I turn Earth
Into heaven! Ah!
I'm love, I'm love, love
And the angel approaches with a kiss
And the Death is kissing you.
My body is a dying body.
So take it
I've already died!
Taken from http://lyricstranslate.com/en/la-mamma-morta-they-killed-my-mother.html#ixzz2wvYeTW8K
Filming: Apostle's Manoeuvre
Action. All is silent as the crowds surrounding the scene stare silently. They are still, allowing movement to transcend into the scene. The two leading characters begin the rhythm of action reaction, playing off each other's fantasy. Rudy, playing the mature father, has a disarming charm that was once used more rebelliously. This rebellious nature now sits opposite incarnated in his son. Leo is a character of youthful trends just as most of us were, though has abilities yet unflourished. In his stare stirs a quiet stubbornness in opposition to the mellow laid back demeanour of his father. Cut.
The short film is titled 'Apostle's Manoeuvre' which I found referred to the phrase 'To rob Peter to pay Paul; that is, to borrow money off one man to pay another.' Apostle refers to a missionary, an advocate of a certain cause. They are filming at the Rialto Bingo Club in Coventry which consists of an unusual yellow room with a few bingo tables and machines. Strangely most of the hall has been hollowed out, holes are craters where tables once fastened.
Noise resumes as the actors and crew discuss various perceptions. There are two cameraman, two lighting directors, two sound engineers and various other continuity and production staff to ensure smooth operation. "Ok lets go again" calls Brian the director, pursuing the cycle of re-enactment and repetitions of scenes that become hypnotic in a rhythmic dance of paradynamic shifts, creating memories of motion, sound and footprints.
Camera rolling, sound, clapper board, scene 3 take 4.. Action.
I stand back from the scene waiting for the decisive moment that a photographer encaptures. I see a film set as three spheres, an isolated existence, surrounded by a fortress of crude machinery escalating high and covering the floor with cables of spaghetti, lights and lenses. Surreal equipment with cameras with detached steering wheels and tentacle like apparatus reaching ceilings. Three point lighting, sound equipment with dead animal fur imitation covers. The first of the three spheres is the played scene with the actors, the new existence which is created by the filmmakers. The second sphere is the filmmakers with their machines. The third is the voyeurs, extras and assistants clouding the others watching how the scenes are orchestrated. Its almost like a organic cell of our body, each with a crucial role in a larger system of rules and function.
The clapper board snaps before every scene like a switch of existences, breaking one reality for another. The new scene, this new reality has the capability to re-enact each moment to become perfect. Each take pushes for a greater significance. Brian shouts 'cut' signalling the end of the shot, bringing us back to reality.
The actor is curious. The players hide their anxiety of performing a life not their own, clouded in desire and pretence one step closer to true escapism. Action and scenes roll one after another. Brian cuts the scene again, relaxed and confident, confides with the actors to refine nuances. The director is like a psychiatrist, working with people to get the most out of their persona. The director pursues a journey for our vision based on his own, in order to create a certain suspension of disbelief, a certain truth.
Beth and Amiee play characters distracted by the outside world, on mobiles and flirting yet perform their characters menial tasks with mouth and tongue in cheek. They are exuberant actors, bursting with admirable excess energy that only performers harbour. A condition that any artist desires and learns to live with.
Tired faces of concentration, repetition and performance allude in ore of a film set, breaking walls of reality, dancing with morals, extracting pinnacle moments. Soon the final 'it's a rap' will echo across all spheres. A sharp uncomfortable snap thrusting us back into our own realities like the transition from the cinema theatre to the sobering auditorium, or being awoken from a deep numbing dream. I am informed that this bingo club has already closed for business, possibly making this filming one of its last stories to tell. It will soon become yet another empty vessel of the economy, where memories echo in the hollow spaces, where noise once sung yet forever captured in film for the briefest of moments.
Prospero, Tempest – William Shakespeare
Hast thou, which art but air, a touch, a feeling
Of their afflictions, and shall not myself,
One of their kind, that relish all as sharply,
Passion as they, be kindlier moved than thou art?
Though with their high wrongs I am struck to the quick,
Yet with my nobler reason 'gaitist my fury
Do I take part: the rarer action is
In virtue than in vengeance: they being penitent,
The sole drift of my purpose doth extend
Not a frown further. Go release them, Ariel:
My charms I'll break, their senses I'll restore,
And they shall be themselves.
You do look, my son, in a moved sort,
As if you were dismay'd. Be cheerful, sir.
Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air,
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
Act IV Scene I.
Metamorphosis & Other Short Stories by Franz Kafka
While reading Kafka's short stories I quickly understood how prestigious they have become to the significance of literature and society. His writing inspired the term 'Kafkaesque' which means unusually sinister; though I would suggest that his works reach much further into social senses with regard to a symbolic reflection into everyday life.
Metamorphosis is the most unusual story about a man who wakes up to find himself turned into a beetle. Usually my interest would wane at such a premise though it soon became apparent that symbolically, the theme represented that either Kafka saw the working man as an insect, a cog in the machine serving a higher power without value of life and worked without question for a low wage and status. His life was no more than a life of an insect. Further, it could be that the unfortunate victim Gregor Samsa had not in fact turned into a beetle and that actually he had gone insane.
On his deathbed, Kafka ordered his friend to destroy most of his works. Least not forget that Kafka was a successful insurance executive and writing was his hobby in his spare time. Only a few of his stories were published in his lifetime. Thankfully his friend Max Brod, failed his request and sent them for publication instead in hope that Kafka wasn't in his right mind with that decision.
Some his short stories not over a page long, create a powerful insight into our existence in our society and humanity. 'The Consideration of Amateur Jockeys' reflects upon the unsatisfying position of winning and competition and how ridiculous it is to be surrounded by contempt and envy over such trivialities.
Some of his stories such as 'The Rejection' delve deeper into his and our psychology. 'In The Penal Colony' is a powerfully uncomfortable story of a torture machine which is sad to represent the sinister foreboding of looming war.
I would summarise that Kafka's stories are an unusually menacing reflection upon society with use of surrealism and plays on the conflictions of decisions and paralysis of life. Even though I wouldn't consider his works to be most treasured, I understand the necessity of his unique writing.


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