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In short, I think you can judge every progressive "ism" by its Utopia. What's vexing about contemporary liberalism is that it doesn't admit its Utopia forthrightly. The Marxists were honest about the dream of the classless society blooming from the withered-away state. The Social Gospel progressives openly promised to create a "Kingdom of Heaven" on earth (Obama did once slip and say that we can create a "Kingdom here on earth," but he's usually let his followers fill-in-the-blank about why, exactly, we are the ones we've been waiting for). To their credit, the transhumanist types are honest about their utopianism; that glorious day when we can download our brains into X-boxes and Vulcan mind-meld with the toaster.
But liberals are annoying in that they have the itch to immanentize the eschaton but neither the courage nor the vocabulary to state it openly. Now, in fairness, the urge usually takes the form of Hallmark-card idealism rather than soul-crushing collectivism. The young activist who recycles Robert F. Kennedy's line "There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why … I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?" has no idea he's a walking, talking cliché, a non-conformist in theory while a predictable conformist in fact. But he also has no idea he's tapping into his inner utopian.
You know what else the aforementioned kid with the RFK quote is oblivious to? That RFK didn't coin the phrase (JFK didn't either, but he did use it first). The line actually comes from one of the worst people of the 20th century, George Bernard Shaw (admittedly he's on the B-list of worst people since he never killed anybody; he just celebrated people who did).
That much a lot of people know. But the funny part is the line comes from Shaw's play Back to Methuselah. Specifically, it's what the Serpent says to Eve in order to sell her on eating the apple and gaining a kind of immortality through sex (or something like that). Of course, Shaw's Serpent differs from the biblical serpent, because Shaw — a great rationalizer of evil — is naturally sympathetic to the serpent. Still, it's kind of hilarious that legions of Kennedy worshippers invoke this line as a pithy summation of the idealistic impulse, putting it nearly on par with Kennedy's nationalistic "Ask Not" riff, without realizing they're stealing lines from … the Devil.
I don't think this means you can march into the local high school, kick open the door to the student government offices with a crucifix extended, shouting "the power of Christ compels you!" while splashing holy water on every kid who uses that "RFK" quote on his Facebook page. But it is interesting.
Jonah Goldberg, "The Campus Utopians", National Review, 2014-02-08
September 23, 2014
September 5, 2014
Tracey Thorn describes the performance of Kate Bush
In the New Statesman, Tracey Thorn laments that she's lost an excuse for not doing live performances herself and loses herself in the performance at the Hammersmith Apollo in London:
Six straight songs and then, just as we are relaxing, the stage transforms, and the drama begins: a multi-sensory performance of "The Ninth Wave", the suite of songs that forms side two of The Hounds of Love (1985). There's Kate on screen in a life jacket, apparently slipping away from us, singing "And Dream of Sheep", one of her most beautiful songs.
I should probably write this somewhere more formal – my will, perhaps – but in case I forget, let me say here that I would be happy for you to play this song at my funeral. I weep as she sings it, partly because I'm imagining my own funeral, but also because we are witnessing a struggle between life and death, where a drowning woman yearns to be saved, to return to her beloved family. "Let me live!" she cries a few songs later. Overwhelming and exhilarating as they are, all the special effects – Kate in a tank, a helicopter search beam strafing the audience – are in the service of the songs and the story.
Why is it so moving? Well, because when finally she is brought back it is not just the fictional heroine, but Kate herself who has survived the years, and those cold seas, and returned to us. The two strands, family love and audience love, intertwine as she shows us how both mean so much to her. "D'you know what?/I love you better now," she sings, as the first half ends and we wipe our tears.
Part two is calmer, more reflective, consisting of one side of the recent album Aerial (2005). Reprieved from death, she now revels in the simple, sensuous pleasures of life. Birdsong on a summer afternoon. The setting of the sun and the rising of the moon. In more conventional hands this could be merely decorous and pastoral, even a little twee, but somehow she has found a way to transform contentment into euphoria. The mood is hypnotic, rhythmic and trancey, and the stage dazzles with images of light and flight; less genteel garden party, more full-on midsummer rave, it could be the ultimate blissed-out headliner of a blistering, sunny Glastonbury.
And her singing voice, which I so worried about? It is a thing of wonder, any youthful shrillness replaced by a richer, occasionally gravelly tone, and with a full-throated power unbelievable in someone who has so rarely sung live. All I can think is that she must have been practising, on her own in a barn somewhere, for the past 35 years. Practising, planning, waiting for all the stars to align – her own desire, the cast of collaborators, the right time and place – in order for this to happen. And it is an ecstatic triumph, a truly extraordinary achievement.
May 9, 2014
Shakespeare: Original pronunciation
Jon, my former virtual landlord sent along an interesting link:
An introduction by David and Ben Crystal to the 'Original Pronunciation' production of Shakespeare and what they reveal about the history of the English language.
April 26, 2014
QotD: Acting
Of all actors, the most offensive to the higher cerebral centers is the one who pretends to intellectuality. His alleged intelligence, of course, is always purely imaginary: no man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be lured upon the stage, as philosophers are occasionally lured into bordellos, his mind would be inevitably and almost immediately destroyed by the gaudy nonsense issuing from his mouth every night. That nonsense enters into the very fiber of the actor. He becomes a grotesque boiling down of all the preposterous characters that he has ever impersonated. Their characteristics are seen in his manner, in his reactions to stimuli, in his point of view. He becomes a walking artificiality, a strutting dummy, a thematic catalogue of imbecilities.
There are, of course, plays that are not wholly nonsense, and now and then one encounters an actor who aspires to appear in them. This aspiration almost always overtakes the so-called actor-manager that is to say, the actor who has got rich and is thus ambitious to appear as a gentleman. Such aspirants commonly tackle Shakespeare, and if not Shakespeare, then Shaw, or Hauptmann, or Rostand, or some other apparently intellectual dramatist. But this is seldom more than a passing madness. The actor-manager may do that sort of thing once in a while, but in the main he sticks to his garbage. […]
It is commonly urged in defense of certain actors that they are forced to appear in that sort of stuff by the public demand for it that appearing in it painfully violates their secret pruderies. This defense is unsound and dishonest. An actor never disdains anything that gets him applause and money; he is almost completely devoid of that aesthetic conscience which is the chief mark of the genuine artist. If there were a large public willing to pay handsomely to hear him recite limericks, or to blow a cornet, or to strip off his underwear and dance a polonaise stark naked, he would do it without hesitation and then convince himself that such buffooning constituted a difficult and elevated art, fully comparable to Wagner's or Dante's. In brief, the one essential, in his sight, is the chance to shine, the fat part, the applause. Who ever heard of an actor declining a fat part on the ground that it invaded his intellectual integrity? The thing is simply unimaginable.
H.L. Mencken, "The Allied Arts: The Cerebral Mime", Prejudices: Second Series, 1920.
March 24, 2014
Interpersonal communication in Shakespeare, or "Juliet and Her Nurse"
Emma Pierson does a bit of statistical analysis of some of Shakespeare's plays and discovers that some of the play names are rather misleading, at least in terms of romantic dialogue:
More than 400 years after Shakespeare wrote it, we can now say that Romeo and Juliet has the wrong name. Perhaps the play should be called Juliet and Her Nurse, which isn't nearly as sexy, or Romeo and Benvolio, which has a whole different connotation.
I discovered this by writing a computer program to count how many lines each pair of characters in Romeo and Juliet spoke to each other,1 with the expectation that the lovers in the greatest love story of all time would speak more than any other pair. I wanted Romeo and Juliet to end up together — if they couldn't in the play, at least they could in my analysis — but the math paid no heed to my desires. Juliet speaks more to her nurse than she does to Romeo; Romeo speaks more to Benvolio than he does to Juliet. Romeo gets a larger share of attention from his friends (Benvolio and Mercutio) and even his enemies (Tybalt) than he does from Juliet; Juliet gets a larger share of attention from her nurse and her mother than she does from Romeo. The two appear together in only five scenes out of 25. We all knew that this wasn't a play predicated on deep interactions between the two protagonists, but still.
I'm blaming Romeo for this lack of communication. Juliet speaks 155 lines to him, and he speaks only 101 to her. His reticence toward Juliet is particularly inexcusable when you consider that Romeo spends more time talking than anyone else in the play. (He spends only one-sixth of his time in conversation with the supposed love of his life.) One might be tempted to blame this on the nature of the plot; of course the lovers have no chance to converse, kept apart as they are by the loathing of their families! But when I analyzed the script of a modern adaptation of Romeo and Juliet — West Side Story — I found that Tony and Maria interacted more in the script than did any other pair.
All this got me thinking: Do any of Shakespeare's lovers actually, you know, talk to each other? If Romeo and Juliet don't, what hope do the rest of them have?
Update, 28 March: Chateau Heartiste says that this study shows that pick-up artists and "game" practitioners are right and also proves that "Everything important you need to know about men and women you can find in the works of Shakespeare".
February 24, 2014
Terry Teachout interview on Satchmo at the Waldorf
Marc Myers talks to author and playwright Terry Teachout about his latest play:
As Terry Teachout was finishing Pops: A Life, his 2009 biography of Louis Armstrong, he had an idea. Realizing that Armstrong's final performance at the Waldorf in 1971 was an operatic moment — a meet-your-maker crescendo in the life of a great artist — Terry wrote a theatrical work where the trumpeter reflects on his life, and his white manager, Joe Glaser, adds his thoughts. The radical device was having the same black actor play both parts.
The result is Satchmo at the Waldorf, a one-man play now in previews at New York's Westside Theatre Upstairs. The show, which opens March 4, stars John Douglas Thompson and is directed by Gordon Edelstein. Terry, of course, is the Wall Street Journal's drama critic, which places him in the tricky position of walking the talk — putting himself out there as a playwright. It's one thing to critique plays and performers and quite another to become the artist behind the work and face criticism.
Flying back from Boston yesterday, I posed five questions to Terry a week from Satchmo at the Waldorf's premiere…
JazzWax: Why place Louis at the Waldorf Hotel—aside from the event being his last performance?
Terry Teachout: One of the themes of Satchmo at the Waldorf is the extent to which Armstrong had lost touch with his original black audience by the end of his life — a fact of which he was well aware, and one that hurt him deeply. It struck me that to use a high-priced uptown hotel as the play's setting would serve as a powerful and telling symbol of this transformation. Even the title ties into it. You hear it and you ask yourself, "What is Satchmo doing at the Waldorf?"
In addition, the setting is an aspect of what I hope is the complexity of the way in which I portray Armstrong, who wasn't a simple man by any means. He's proud, rightly so, that a black man who was born in the Storyville section of New Orleans in 1901 can now play and stay in a hotel like the Waldorf. At the same time, it breaks his heart to look out at the all-white crowd and realize that his own people have turned their backs on him. There's nothing remotely simple about that situation, or about his emotional response to it.
February 14, 2014
Shakespeare's Richard III
John Lennard is a fan of William Shakespeare and it shows in this blog post:
The Imploding I
Shakespeare's Richard III is the principal source of a figure still current in drama and cinema — the witty devil we love to hate. Fusing the role of the (aspiring) King with that of the Vice (the tempter in morality plays, who as a player of tricks and user of disguises was always more theatrically aware than his innocent victims), Shakespeare produced a role that from his first, mesmerising soliloquy, beginning the play, commands both amused and horrified attention. As witty as he is ruthless, and as witting about himself as about others, Richard dominates the stage whenever he is on it, and all his tricks come off marvellously — until they don't.
I've just transcribed the Folio text of the play it calls The Tragedy of Richard the Third : with the Landing of Earle Richmond, and the Battell at Bosworth Field […] and I was struck by how potently verse and punctuation record Richard's force and his final implosion. Here's that famous opening soliloquy:
Enter Richard Duke of Gloster, solus.
Now is the Winter of our Discontent,
Made glorious Summer by this Son of Yorke :
And all the clouds that lowr'd vpon our house
In the deepe bosome of the Ocean buried.
Now are our browes bound with Victorious Wreathes,
Our bruised armes hung vp for Monuments ;
Our sterne Alarums chang'd to merry Meetings ;
Our dreadfull Marches, to delightfull Measures.
Grim-visag'd Warre, hath smooth'd his wrinkled Front :
And now, in stead of mounting Barbed Steeds,
To fright the Soules of fearfull Aduersaries,
He capers nimbly in a Ladies Chamber,
To the lasciuious pleasing of a Lute.
But I, that am not shap'd for sportiue trickes,
Nor made to court an amorous Looking-glasse :
I, that am Rudely stampt, and want loues Maiesty,
To strut before a wonton ambling Nymph :
I, that am curtail'd of this faire Proportion,
Cheated of Feature by dissembling Nature,
Deform'd, vn-finish'd, sent before my time
Into this breathing World, scarse halfe made vp,
And that so lamely and vnfashionable,
That dogges barke at me, as I halt by them.
Why I (in this weake piping time of Peace)
Haue no delight to passe away the time,
Vnlesse to see my Shadow in the Sunne,
And descant on mine owne Deformity.
And therefore, since I cannot proue a Louer,
To entertaine these faire well spoken dayes,
I am determined to proue a Villaine,
And hate the idle pleasures of these dayes.
Plots haue I laide, Inductions dangerous,
By drunken Prophesies, Libels, and Dreames,
To set my Brother Clarence and the King
In deadly hate, the one against the other :
And if King Edward be as true and iust,
As I am Subtle, False, and Treacherous,
The day should Clarence closely be mew'd vp :
About a Prophesie, which sayes that G,
Of Edwards heyres the murtherer shall be.
Diue thoughts downe to my soule, here Clarence comes.
Everything here serves to present Richard's complete control, and it's an excellent example of the Ciceronian style and balance that characterises much of Shakespeare's most fluent and speakable verse. For all its dynamism the language is exceptionally balanced and structured, bracing opposites within lines ("Our sterne Alarums chang'd to merry Meetings", "That dogges barke at me, as I halt by them") ; within couplets ("Now is the Winter of our Discontent, / Made glorious Summer by this Son of Yorke", "Vnlesse to see my Shadow in the Sunne, / And descant on mine owne Deformity") ; and within the quatrains that dominate the grammatical structure ("And now, in stead of mounting Barbed Steeds, / To fright the Soules of fearfull Aduersaries, / He capers nimbly in a Ladies Chamber, / To the lasciuious pleasing of a Lute"). The whole flows as trippingly as commandingly from the tongue, as generations of great actors have found, and the language is so strong and clear that it can bear very different styles of presentation. The two best Richards I've had the luck to see on stage, Anthony Sher and Ian McKellen, could not have tackled the role more differently — Sher was seriously hunched and scuttling on calipers that became weapons, feelers, probes at will ; McKellen was a restrained and clipped army officer whose only visible deformity was a hand kept always in his pocket — but both could draw equal strength and suasion from the magnificent verse Shakespeare provided.
December 21, 2013
QotD: Baldrick and the workhouse Nativity play
Baldrick: I've been helping out with the workhouse Nativity play.
Ebenezer Blackadder: Oh, of course. How did it go?
Baldrick: Well, not very well. At the last moment, the baby playing Jesus died!
Ebenezer Blackadder: Oh, dear! This high infant mortality rate's a real devil when it comes to staging quality children's theatre. What did you do?
Baldrick: Got another Jesus.
Ebenezer Blackadder: Oh, thank goodness. And his name?
Baldrick: "Spot." There weren't any more children so we had to settle for a dog instead.
Ebenezer Blackadder: Oh, dear. I'm not convinced that Christianity would have established its firm grip over the hearts and minds of mankind, if all Jesus had ever said was "woof!"
Baldrick: Well, it went all right until the shepherds came on. See, we haven't been able to get any real sheep, so we had to stick some wool…
Ebenezer Blackadder: On some other dogs!
Baldrick: Yeah. And the moment Jesus got a whiff of them, he's away! While the angel's singing "peace on earth, good will to mankind," Jesus scampers across and tries to get one of the sheep to give him a piggy-back ride!
Ebenezer Blackadder: Scarcely appropriate behavior for the Son of God, Mister Baldrick! Weren't the children upset?
Baldrick: No, they loved it! They want us to do another one at Easter. They want to see us nail up the dog!
Blackadder's Christmas Carol, 1988.
April 3, 2013
El Neil on acting
In the latest Libertarian Enterprise, L. Neil Smith recounts his brief brush with acting:
It takes a particular kind of individual to be an actor.
I first became aware of this phenomenon in high school, when one of the English teachers cast and directed the only play I've ever been in (although I'd already had lots of stage experience as a musician), Anastasia.
The young lady the director chose to play the lead, I regret to say, was an utter non-entity of whom none of my friends or I (outcasts ourselves in our own way) had even been aware. You might say she was an ultra-wallflower, rather like the invisible girl in that episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer you may remember. And yet she was so utterly brilliant and appealing in the difficult role that she brought tears to everybody's eyes, and she earned a long, well-deserved standing ovation.
I have no idea what happened to her afterward.
There are exceptions, but in general, actors are people so empty, so devoid of personality, they need others to fill them up, writers to put words in their mouths, directors to tell them which piece of tape to stand on, when to move and how, specialists to dress them and apply paint to their faces, and a horde of other creatures exactly like them to inform them — through a sort of neural network like the nervous system of a jellyfish — what they should think and say on their own time.
February 17, 2013
A shocking, lurid tale of depravity that transfixed Victorian London
In History Today, Richard Canning reviews a new book on the trial of Frederick Park and Ernest Boulton, aka Mrs Fanny Graham and Miss Stella Boulton in 1871:
McKenna provides what is certainly the definitive account of the Boulton/Park story, drawn not only from contemporary journalism but also from the full legal transcript, a miraculous survivor housed in Kew's National Archives. It is a miserable tale, if leavened both by McKenna's dramatic verve and, during the show trial held in Westminster Hall, by Fanny and Stella's black humour. The establishment account – that the pair's persistent cross-dressing importuning was a scandal to public morals that must be stopped – soon breaks down. McKenna shows clearly how the men were effectively set up and, to some degree, even entrapped.
Police confidence in pressing the serious charge of 'conspiracy to solicit, induce, procure and endeavour to persuade persons unknown to commit buggery' (as opposed to the minor offence of outraging public decency) was nonetheless misplaced. Buggery had until lately incurred the death penalty and still carried a lifelong penal sentence. No such charge had been brought for 240 years. The problem which attended the endless, farcical medical examinations of Boulton and Park reflected sodomy's millennial history as the nameless or invisible crime. Few Victorian doctors could claim to have seen evidence of the extreme anal dilation which purportedly occurred after the 'insertion of a foreign body'. Of the half dozen who inspected the pair – both inveterate sodomites, as McKenna concedes – only one remained certain that the corporeal evidence supported conviction. They were acquitted and the notion that 'the impurities of Continental cities' had reached London was rooted in legal terms for a quarter-century – if paradoxically seeming somehow to be affirmed.
McKenna lays bare a fascinating tapestry of interrelated personal histories, only partially capable of reconstruction. Frederick's elder brother Harry, already twice disgraced, was hiding in Scotland under an assumed name. Their father, a judge, was urgently shipped off to South Africa during the trial of his younger son. Impressively, Frederick's mother – amusingly a literal 'Mary Ann' – took to the stand to defend his moral character. So successful was she that the identification of Frederick/'Fanny' as a theatrical mother's boy exonerated him entirely from the imputation of vice.
November 18, 2012
Having (in)famous ancestors
John Scalzi is having mixed reactions to all the Twitter updates about Lincoln and theatres:
Man, if I see another joke about Lincoln and theaters, I might just have to shoot someone.
— John Scalzi (@scalzi) November 18, 2012
Fun fact: John Wilkes Booth is my great-great-great(etc) uncle. It's true. Also: He has the same birthday as me.
— John Scalzi (@scalzi) November 18, 2012
And he wrote about his infamous relative a few years ago:
Every family should have an interesting skeleton in the family closet. In my family, it's John Wilkes Booth, assassin of Abraham Lincoln, who, of course, was the President of the United States during the American Civil War. Booth assassinated Lincoln not long after the cessation of hostilities between the Union and the Confederacy, by sneaking into the President's box at Ford's Theater (the show: Our American Cousin) and shooting him in the back of the head with a pistol. Booth then leaped from the box to the stage, shouting "Sic semper tyrannis" ("Thus it is with tyrants") and "The South is avenged." He broke his leg but managed to escape nevertheless. However, eleven days later, he was discovered in a barn, burned out, and then shot (by himself or by a soldier, it's unclear). He died shortly thereafter. Some maintain that Booth's body was never positively identified, so it's possible he actually escaped. Either way, he's dead now.
For the record, I'm not a direct descendant — my line goes through one of his nine other siblings, making him something along the lines of a great-great-great-great-great-grand-uncle. Whenever I mention my relationship to him, though, people's eyes get wide, their jaws go momentarily slack, and some people actually back up a step, as if a long dormant assassination gene might suddenly fire up, and they'd be the unlucky recipient. I get a kick out of that. Then I go for the extra point my mentioning that John Wilkes and I have the same birthday: May 10, 131 years apart. By the time I mention I get edgy handling pennies and five dollar bills, people begin to wend their way to the nearest door.
September 26, 2012
Shakespeare's Henry V: public choice theory in the 15th century
In The Freeman, Sarah Skwire points out that the opening act of Shakespeare's Henry V — while boring to those hoping for battle and carnage — explains the public choice economic theory of rent-seeking:
Shakespeare's Henry V — a favorite of theater companies and movie studios — begins with an invocation of the muse of fire, presumably because only her powerful heat and light can provide the inspiration necessary for Shakespeare's great task of bringing forth so "great an object" on "this unworthy scaffold." The prologue promises, after all, that we are about to see the armies of two great monarchies clash at the famous battle of Agincourt. A plea for divine aid seems only reasonable.
After all that buildup, however, the opening scene of the play has to be one of the dullest stretches in all of Shakespeare's writing. Promised a ferocious battle with knights and horses and blood and thunder, we are given instead more than one hundred straight lines of a highly technical legal discussion between the Bishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of Ely. It is historically accurate. It is important. And it is exceptionally tedious.
It is tedious, that is, unless you are familiar with one basic piece of Public Choice theory.
Gain without Mutual Benefit
One its core concepts is the idea of rent-seeking. Unlike profit-seeking, which aims at mutually beneficial trade, rent-seeking is the attempt to use the political process to capture a bigger slice of wealth for oneself. Unlike trade, there is no mutual benefit. No wealth is created. The only profit is to the rent-seeker, and possibly his cronies. With that in mind, the opening scene of Henry V is gripping. It is no longer more than one hundred lines of fifteenth-century legal trivia. It is more than one hundred lines of some of the most explicit, uncensored, behind-the-scenes rent-seeking action in literary history.
August 30, 2012
Exaggerating your points to make them seem more important than they are
Geoff Chambers does a bit of Google searching to track down a few of the claims made in Stephen Emmot's critically acclaimed one-man show "Ten Billion":
The reviews were full of superlatives. The Times' critic calls it "utterly gripping, terrifyingly lucid"; Time Out: "monumentally sobering"; Billington in the Guardian: "one of the most disturbing evenings I have ever spent in a theatre"; the Financial Times: "one of the most disturbing shows I have seen on a stage"; the Mail on Sunday "certainly the most scary show in London". Almost all of them cite Emmott's conclusion: "We're f*cked".
Here are some of the key "facts" (or "f*cts") cited by Emmott and picked up by critics. (It is of course impossible to check whether the critics have quoted Emmott correctly, since no record of what he says exists):
1) A google search uses as much electricity as boiling a kettle.
2) It takes 3,000 litres of water to make a hamburger, (that's 10 trillion litres of water annually to sustain the UK's burger industry).
3) It takes 27,000 litres of water to make a bar of chocolate
4) Animal species are currently going extinct at a rate 1,000 times their natural level.
5) Bangladesh will be under water by the end of the century.
TL;DR for those who don't feel up to reading the whole thing: 1) false, by a factor of 100. 2) true-ish, but massively misleading. 3) false, or Emmott eats humongous chocolate bars. 4) false, even though Wikipedia thinks it's true. 5) false, the land area of Bangladesh has actually grown over the last 50 years thanks to land reclamation projects.
August 29, 2012
QotD: Government funding for the arts "stinks in God's nostrils"
There's at least a third reason to stop state funding of the arts, and it's the one I take most seriously as a literary scholar and writer. In the 17th century, a great religious dissenter, Roger Williams (educated at Cambridge, exiled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony), wrote the first case for total separation of church and state in the English language. Forced worship, said Williams, "stinks in God's nostrils" as an affront to individual liberty and autonomy; worse still, it subjugated theology to politics.
Something similar holds true with painting, music, writing, video and all other forms of creative expression. Forced funding of the arts — in whatever trivial amounts and indirect ways — implicates citizens in culture they might openly despise or blissfully ignore. And such mandatory tithing effectively turns creators and institutions lucky enough to win momentary favour from bureaucrats into either well-trained dogs or witting instruments of the powerful and well-connected. Independence works quite well for churches and the press. It works even more wonderfully in the arts.
Nick Gillespie, featured guest for "Economist Debates: Arts Funding", The Economist, 2012-08-29
May 21, 2012
The perils of misreading
I saw a Twitter update from MHQjournal, linking to a brief news piece:
#Theater: One-Man Play Takes Controversial look at Robert E Lee http://goo.gl/news/SyBu Hope they did enough research to get the nuances right.
I slightly misread the name of the play as "Robert E. Lee — 50 Shades of Gray", and thought it was a very odd notion to have the very paragon of an upright, pious southern gentlemen reading from a modern erotica novel…


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November 28, 2014
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Anyone who dabbles with video production will have heard the same old adage: viewers can forgive poor-ish video, but poor audio will ruin your content. As such, the average integrated microphone and pocket-sized portables aren't suitable for certain users, but bulky high-end audio recorders aren't suitable for certain filming situations. Such is the market where Zoom's H6 Handy Recorder is aimed.


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Complete! View from above. It looks amazing. Feels pretty great too!
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Here are some kids from the neighborhood painting the sun coming up over Mount Hood in the area of the design that points east. The kids did a great job helping with the sun and stenciling birds and flowers. This intersection painting is at NE 13th Ave and NE Beech St. The goal of the Beech St. Project is to create a happy corridor with more plants for the pollinators to enjoy and beautiful street paintings and mosaics to see. There is also a small bench to stop at and chat with neighbors. The corridor connects the Albina Library, Ariadne Community Garden, and runs near Irvington Park and Two Plums Park. Prior to the Beech St Project there was already an amazing mural on the side of the library facing Beech. We have a beautiful community and beautiful street.
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ARLINGTON, Texas Manny Ramirez is apparently cutting his long dreadlocks for another shot at the major leagues.
The Texas Rangers said Wednesday they had agreed to terms on a minor league contract with the 41-year-old slugger, who hasnt played in the big leagues since 2011 with Tampa Bay.
Rangers general manager Jon Daniels said part of the deal was Ramirez, twice suspended for testing positive for banned drugs, agreeing to cut his hair and comply with our minor league rules on appearance and discipline.
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Pure Spirits
- Address:
17 Tank House Lane
Toronto, ON M5A 3C4Neighborhood:
Distillery District
- Cuisine:
SeafoodPrice: CAN$31 to CAN$50
Pure Spirits
- Dining Style: Casual Dining
- Website: http://purespirits.ca/
- Phone: (416) 361-5859
- Hours of Operation:
Lunch: Daily - 11:30am - 3:00pm Dinner: Daily - 5:00pm - 11:00pm
- Payment Options: AMEX,Diners Club,MasterCard,Visa
- Cuisine: Seafood, Canadian
- Executive Chef: Andre Walker
- Dress Code: Casual Dress
- Accepts Walk-Ins: Yes
- Additional Details: Bar Dining, Beer, Counter Seating, Entertainment, Full Bar, Non-Smoking Restaurant, Patio/Outdoor Dining, Smoking Area, Smoking Area (patio only), Takeout, View, Wheelchair Access, Wine
- Catering: We cater to any size event from 20-700 and specialize in weddings. Menu selections include hors d'oeuvres, canapes, mini appetizers, three course - five course prix fixe menus to fit any budget.
- Private Party Facilities: There are fantastic party spaces in our sister restaurants across rom Pure Spirits Oyster House and Grill. They are Archeo Restaurant, The Boiler House Restaurant and the Fermenting Cellar event space.
- Private Party Contact: Kristy Dennison 4162032363
- Entertainment: At the slightest sight of summer, we open the doors to our patio where you can sit and take in the beautiful Victorian Industrial architecture that the site is famous for.
Grab a seat at the Oyster Bar where you can mingle with a Chef shucking your oysters to order and teaching you about the amazing flavours and how to best match it to our selelction of local beers.
Visit during the Christmas Market (Nov 30-Dec 16) and sit in front of log burning fire pits while carolers sing in the distance.
- Special Events: Nuit Blanche Sept 29th - all night exhibition of art
Christmas Market - Nov 30th - Dec 16th - celebrate a German style holiday market with live music, fun foods, mulled wine and a 40' Christmas tree and thousand of lights to get you into the spirit of giving
A word from Pure Spirits
Pure Spirits Oyster House and Grill located in the Historic Distillery District offers both indoor dining as well as patio dining where visitors can take in the beautiful Victorian Industrial Architecture. We are well known as the best fresh seafood restaurant in Toronto. Pure Spirits is proud to serve a selection of oysters from both the East and West coasts of Canada as well as unique offerings from abroad. Casual dining attire and a love of great food is required. Our friendly staff are trained to guide you through our extensive selction of local beers and wine that match perfectly with our menu. Whether on a schedule to visit the spa, the theatre or the local art galleries we are geared to get you out on time or offer a relaxing extended stay on the patio to enjoy the sites. Pure Spirits is a must visit spot in the City of Toronto.Continued
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135 reviews since July 31, 2014
- Food4Service4
- Ambiance4.1Noise LevelModerate
fit for foodies (66)neighborhood gem (58)great for outdoor dining (56)special occasion (49)good for groups (42)romantic (40)hot spot (30)notable wine list (21)great for lunch (19)vibrant bar scene (13)late-night find (12)kid-friendly (8)scenic view (8)great for brunch (8)Show More
- great timrgeoffrey1969Dined on 11/22/2014We shared the steak for two fish. Lovely presentation, excellent food. Steak was perfection and the winter veg was a lovely mix. Our server was excellent.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Excellent fine!JaneDined on 11/15/2014This restaurant was the only one in the Distillery district that had reservations open for Saturday night, which made me a bit nervous. The minute we walked in the door I realized my fears were unfounded. The ambiance was very Distillery district, it was quiet enough for normal conversation, and the menu met everyone's tastes. Our waiter was excellent - he served the wrong dish to my husband but they rushed the replacement, and very generously compensated us for the trouble. I would return.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Pure SpiritsJerielDined on 11/15/2014Food was delicious as always. Our server was busy most of the time. She forgot to bring our order of oysters. It wasn't really her fault since she was super busy with tables. Aside from that, my wife and I had a great night celebrating her birthday.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- TerminatorsDined on 11/14/2014Ben was our server. He was very attentive and knowledgeable. he was very adept about wine pairings for food and we enjoyed hearing about his culinary experience in France. Overall though, I would say it was an excellent team approach. We were greeted warmly and our request for a booth was honoured. Servers smiled and worked well together. The bartender was happy and well able to suggest a bourbon as it was bourbon week in Toronto and I wanted to try one (Woodford Reserve was recommended and enjoyed). We've tried most of the other restaurants in The Distillery District and Pure Spirits is our favourite. And it's just down the lane way from your favourite theatre group 'Soulpepper Theatre'.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- A favouriteOpenTable Diner Since 2014Dined on 11/4/2014A great place to dine but also to bring guests and friends. Can always guarantee the quality of food and service. Always feeling happy by the end!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- A great spot for business lunches!PhilippeKVIPDined on 11/4/2014Pure Spirits delivered on all fronts. Great food, good service and an atmosphere that allowed me to have a productive business lunch!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Loved ItOpenTable Diner Since 2011Dined on 11/1/2014We went here for an anniversary dinner. The food, ambiance, and service was all impressive. The evening there was fun and enjoyable. We would recommend this place to anyone and will be back.Special Features:
- Excellent Food!!OpenTable Diner Since 2014Dined on 10/31/2014Best seafood I've ever had. Also they were really accommodating to my friends birthday and gave us a free dessert.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Good but not greatOpenTable Diner Since 2009Dined on 10/30/2014I thought the food was good but I did have to send it back to the kitchen because is was not hot. One of my guests said the same thing but she was too hungry to send hers back so we did not get to enjoy our meals together. From the time I sent my meal back to when it returned was approximately twenty minutes. The service was friendly but slow and I am unsure why since the restaurant was not packed. I also thought the restaurant was a bit dark and could have used a bit more light. I will give the restaurant another try because when I finally got my meal back it was good but please take note of some of the comments.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Very disappointingtodinerDined on 10/30/2014We were looking forward to a nice dinner with out of town friends in Toronto's funky Distillery District. The architectural ambiance did not disappoint but the food was a total letdown. Our soups (gumbo) arrived lukewarm and the salmon had to be sent back as they were overdone to the point of disbelief. When we pointed this out to the server, he tried to persuade us to eat the blackened mess (rather than dealing with it efficiently). One of our friends ordered oysters and said they were excellent. Overall a disappointing evening.Special Features:
- Good ExperiencesammyDined on 10/25/2014The restaurant was nice, good ambiance, the food was good, and the service was great. The oysters were good, the waitress knew the differences between them, and her recommendations were good. The sauces for the oysters were limited, but very tasty.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Pure SpiritsmnbnycVIPDined on 10/25/2014This is a very pleasant dining experience housed in the old distillery buildings in east Toronto, the décor and ambience are very well accomplished and the tables are well spaced in general. Somehow the noise level managed to be manageable which is an unusual pleasure in a restaurant these days. Service is relaxed but attentive and very good. The seafood is excellent, well prepared and served. Prices are very reasonable and the wine list of reasonable length and is affordable.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Great servicescotybDined on 10/18/2014The service was great, they moved a 4 seat booth down to 2 people without us asking or anything so that there was lots of room. Was very appreciated. The servers were patient and laughed with us. Food was great and so were the drinks. I'll be back for sure.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- DeliciousOpenTable Diner Since 2014Dined on 10/18/2014Food was great for seafood lovers. Excellent service and reasonably priced.Special Features:
- Great spot in the DistilleryAdamDined on 10/18/2014Great oysters. Great sea bass, tuna or salmon. Very good wine list. Beautiful spot in the distillery district. Very good service.Special Features:
- Fish Lover's FantasyOpenTable Diner Since 2014Dined on 10/18/2014A great restaurant. First, lovely welcome and on time reservation availability. We ordered the Seafood Platter for Two and it was outstanding. Excellent waiter with a balanced sense of engagements, responsibility and fun. We will definitely return to Pure Spirits.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Distillery dining failTorontolocalDined on 10/13/2014We came here because it was the only place open on Thanksgiving Monday that mostly served fish. While I really really appreciated all the Ocean Wise fish they served (good job!) the food overall was mediocre... particularly given the price. I understand they charge that much because it is a tourist trap, but as a Torontonian, if you want me to come back you need to improve the quality of the food for those prices, or decrease your prices by 25%. The tartar was boring, the paella was WAY TOO salty and the Kingfish, while the most interesting, just didn't work as a whole dish (since it is served in the Caribbean often, why not serve it in that manner?) Also the server was inattentive and slow.
- ktmowDined on 10/12/2014Food was not bad, but I found the steaks and sides a bit over-seasoned and salty. Texture of the steak was on the soft/mushy side. Oyster was fresh. The ambiance and dim lighting made me feel sleepy. Given the quality, the food was overpriced.Special Features:
- Distillery District Dining GemBrianDined on 10/5/2014As foodies, this was a first time event at Pure Spirit. A really neat looking resto, charming "warehouse/loft" atmosphere, original floor and super long drinks/Oyster Bar. The welcoming hostess was efficient, the wait staff super friendly the service a little slow. We opted for the open menu rather than the Fixed Price four course at $45 p.h. We shared an appetizer of sweet pot fries which we specifically requested "not to be over crisped" and ten minutes later, they arrived over crisped. They tried again, ok. The halibut and veg were excellent, no issues. A pricey meal for two approximately $130 tax in. We will go back in the summer months.Special Features:
- Sunday dinner after KuriosGoodnotGreatDined on 10/5/2014This was our first time at the restaurant. We have been at the distillery and enjoy trying different restaurants. We were a little disappointed when they did not let us order the fish N chip off the lunch menu. We were at the restaurant at 4:30. The food was very salty. I ordered the soup special to find our it was more of a stew then a soup. We never said anything because we do not believe in complaining about food at the restaurant. ( Never know what they would do to it in the kitchen). Please know that if you would have not sent me this request I would not write a review.Special Features:
- Great oysters!VickyDined on 10/4/2014Was at the bar for some beer and appetizers. The weat coast royal miyagi oysters was so good as well as mussels in white sauce. However the calamares tasted more like tempura. Nice ambiance!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Great spot for date nightMooseDined on 10/4/2014Ambience was great !. Lots of Cozy Booths! Best of all the food was great !Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Pre Cirque DinnerLeaCDined on 9/26/2014My husband and I had our Pre show dinner here. The location was great. Easy to find parking. We sat outside in their huge patio. Service was slow but very friendly. Oysters were delish as was the fix pris menu. The paella was ok...nothing special. Hubby's steak was perfect. We will def come back.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Needs some workLlm19Dined on 9/25/2014Awesome food but very slow service. 45 minute wait for oysters and appetizers!! Great ambiance thoughSpecial Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Good, not outstanding.LaskerfanDined on 9/25/2014Comfortable and pleasant decor. Friendly, cheerful service, though they made a couple of small mistakes. Outstanding gumbo. Vegetables very good. Dessert good, not outstanding. Most important aspect was pickerel we both had. Could have been better. Like most chefs, s/he overcooked it. Delicate white fish like pickerel needs a very light hand. Think about sushi, which is mostly raw fish. Cooked fish should be just barely cooked. Given that weakness with the fish, Pure Spirits is relatively expensive for what it offers.
- Another lovely eveningMarthaDined on 9/19/2014This is our second time Pure Spirits. We love it. The food is wonderful, tasty, imaginative but not too "out there" Fish is fresh and the wine list varied and not too pricey. Great friendly ambiance with exceptional service.Special Features:
- OpenTable Diner Since 2012Dined on 9/19/2014Pricy but food was excellent. Service was very good. Worth dollar for dollar.Special Features:
- SkipOpenTable Diner Since 2011Dined on 9/16/2014Distillery District is beautiful but plan to have dinner somewhere else. Every restaurant in the Distillery is poor quality and overpriced, especially Pure Spirits. We were seated in the worst spot in the restaurant even though it was empty. The service was slow and our food arrived at different times, so each of our guests started eating their appetizer/main courses at different times. The waiter was inattentive despite the fact that there were few other customers in the restaurant. The quality of the seafood was similar to what you would find at a Milestones/Jack Astors type of restaurant, and was almost inedible. It really was not an enjoyable experience.
- Amazing ExperienceLoveTODined on 9/13/2014I went there Saturday night for dinner. I emailed ahead for an electrical outlet needed for my portable oxygen machine so I wouldn't need batteries. The staff was so welcoming and accommodating that I was quite touch by it. Everything was ready and waiting for me, including an extension cord, if needed. The food was superb and Patrick our waiter couldn't have been kinder. It was a perfect experience and I will be back.Special Features:
- Great Dinner OptionRawrawthelittlelionDined on 9/6/2014Quick service & amazing food. Had the 30 day aged Rib Eye steak reco by the waiter, was the best steak i've had!Special Features:
- michaelVIPDined on 8/30/2014I have been here several times and the food and service is always excellent, this time even better. Fish dishes exceptional and modified per my diet really well. Service also great. We will be back.Special Features:
- Just okayDiner53Dined on 8/30/2014We had reservations for a pre-show dinner and although the restaurant was virtually empty inside (many diners opted for the patio), we were seated by the kitchen and a noisy thoroughfare to the patio. Really? After voicing our concern, we were moved to a more suitable table. Not a good beginning! One member of our party of 4 was interested in ordering raw oysters and our waiter was very good at describing that evening's selection. The oysters were excellent, but the rest of the meal was nothing special. The fish cakes were tasty enough, but they were more balls than cakes, the rib eye was overly salty and the papparadelle was a little light on the lobster. Thankfully, service was prompt and we had plenty of time to attend our show.Special Features:
- great oysters worst wine listlaurenbutterflyDined on 8/29/2014We had great service and amazing oysters. The mussels and clams were fresh and delicious. The paella was disappointing. Overcooked and bland. Much better the first time we had dinner there. The wine list is truly awful. The wines are mostly generic and the only decent wines on the list are never in stock. What a shame.Special Features:
- ServiceMikeDined on 8/28/2014We decided a night out, as my wife received a raise at work. Reservation was easy to do online. Upon arrival, the environment was rustic and charming.The hostess outside was great but the one inside seemed distracted and not as friendly. We were seated by the window overlooking the patio, which was awesome.We were right next to the hostess' desk and can overhear their conversation.It was clear that the second hostess was distracted as she wanted to leave work early as she "has work at 6 am the next day" The food is pretty good had the fish cakes ribeye steak and linguini.We waited 1 hour for our entrees, as they had overcooked it.So I got a second beer on the house. We would come back to try sitting out in the patio during the day.Special Features:
- Distillery - a neighbourhood gemGlobalFoodieVIPDined on 8/27/2014Summer is a great time to spend at the Distillery. Pure Spirits has a more casual, friendly environment, food quality is consistent. Service is fine but can be a bit more polished. The only negative comment I have is that I wish they carry more good quality Niagara and Prince Edward County wines on the menu. It is important to promote our own wine producers as they have come a long way and made giant steps in producing internationally award-winning wines.Special Features:
- DisappointedfoodfanDined on 8/23/2014This was a special birthday celebration. We treated our friends who were too polite to say their food was not great. We enjoyed 2 dozen oysters and a good bottle of wine. The two men had the linguine and were hard pressed to find any seafood in either dish, except mussels. Our other guest had the paella. For $35 we hoped for better than "okay". I had the lobster pasta which was good. For $400, we left feeling burned.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- AMAZINGOpenTable Diner Since 2014Dined on 8/23/2014Best night out in a long time! Server Arthur was perfect. Food was outstandingSpecial Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- norepeatDined on 8/22/2014The food was excellent, although portions were not big, nor were they consistent. Two of us had the same meal and one was obviously a smaller portion than the other. Service was extremely slow. We waited for over an hour for our main courses. I asked our server about a certain drink, and he said he would check with the bartender. 25 mins later asked him again before I got an answer.
- OpenTable Diner Since 2012Dined on 8/22/2014One of our favorite summer time restaurants. This time food was too salty.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- An expensive mistakelovgdfood5Dined on 8/18/2014Lesson learned...never order pasta dishes in an expensive seafood restaurant. Tiny 2 pieces of lobster with thick parapadella noodles and oily sauce plus undistinguished stuffed squash pasta were a huge disappointment. We will not return.


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'House of Commons Journal Volume 8: 14 January 1665', Journal of the House of Commons: volume 8: 1660-1667 (1802), pp. 582. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=26697 Date accessed: 24 November 2014.
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Sabbati, 14 Januarii, 16 Car. IIdi.
Wilford's Nat.
Poor Relief.
Wood and Coals.
Navy Debt.
Supply Bill.
MARTHA Wilford did, this Day, take the Oaths
of Supremacy and Allegiance, in order to her
being naturalized.
And the Certificate, on her Behalf, being read;
Ordered, That the Name of Mrs. Martha Wilford
be inserted into the Bill of Naturalization.
Ordered, That Sir Robert Atkyns have Leave to tender
an additional Bill for the better Relief of the Poor.
Which Bill being tendered;
And the Question being put, That the said Bill be
It was resolved in the Affirmative.
And the additional Bill for Relief of the Poor was read
the First time.
The Question being put, That this Bill be read the
Second time;
Resolved, &c. That it be referred to Mr. Waller, Sir
Tho. Higgons, Sir Tho. Meres, Sir John Talbot, Sir Robert
Atkyns, Sir John Coriton, Sir Rich. Braham, Mr. Sandys,
Mr. Pryn, Sir Lanc. Lake, Sir Wm. Lowther, Mr. Milward, Mr. Jones, Sir Tho. Allen, Mr. Hungerford, or any
Three of them, to inspect the former Laws touching
Wood, Coals, and other Fuelling; and to prepare and
bring in a Bill to regulate the Assize of Wood; and to
prevent Abuses in the Buying and Selling of Wood,
Coals, and other Fuelling.
A Petition of several Merchants, Tradesmen, Artificers,
Victuallers, and others, was read.
Resolved, &c. That the said Petition be committed to
Lord Richardson, Sir John Coriton, Sir John Duncombe,
Sir Wm. Lowther, Sir Tho. Meres, Sir Winston Churchill,
Sir Rich. Oatley, Mr. John Jones, Colonel Tho. Robinson,
Mr. Pryn, Sir Tho. Tompkins, Mr. Hungerford, Mr.
King, Sir Cha. Harbord, Sir Lanc. Lake, Mr. Milward,
Sir Nich. Carew, Sir Tho. Clifford, Mr. Swinfein, Mr.
John Vaughan, Mr. Wm. Coventry, Lord Fanshaw, Mr.
Scawen, Mr. Secretary Bennet, Sir Rich. Ford, Mr. Garway,
Sir John Brampston, Sir Tho. Gower, Colonel Sandys, Mr.
Pepis, Mr. Tayler, Sir Solo. Swale, Colonel Leg, Sir Tho.
Strickland, Sir Rich. Temple, Sir Wm. Tompson, Sir Geo.
Reeve, Sir John Goodrick, Sir Hen. Herbert, Mr. Morrice,
Sir Herbert Price, Mr. Westphaling, Sir Fra. Goodrick,
Sir Wm. Killigrew, Sir Fra. Clarke, Sir Edm. Peirse,
Mr. John Trelawney: And they are to meet at Two of
the Clock in the Afternoon, on Monday next, in the
Inner Court of Wards: And to send for Persons, Papers,
and Records: And they are to examine the Matter of
the Petition, and the Nature of the Debt; and whether
it were a Debt adjudged to be satisfied within the Time
limited by Act of Parliament: And report the same,
with their Opinions therein, to the House.
The House then resumed the Debate upon the Bill for
raising a Supply for his Majesty.
And several Votes and Orders of the House being
And a Debate being, Whether the City of London
should be further eased in their Assessment, above the
Proportion allowed them of the Forty thousand Pounds;
The Question being put, That the City of London shall
be further relieved;
The House was divided.
The Yeas went out.
And so it passed in the Negative.
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