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DisneySuiteFreak's Summer Nightastic Photo Intensive Trip Report; updated 3-17-2010!
Hi everyone, and welcome to my first T/R on the Dis. Sorry this is so tardy, but I got sick (again) this time after my trip. So I went on vacay from June 11-26 worked for a few days, and then had to stay off work for another week and a half because of bronchitis. :sick::sad2: Needless to say I had lots of work waiting for me when I got back. :scared1:
I'm not as witty and talented as some of you when it comes to retelling the story of what we did, so I'm going to do more of a photo T/R and use as few words as possible. I know some of you post photos of yourselves and your families on this site, but I am not comfortable doing that on pretty much any site because we come from a small town where everyone knows everyone, or everyone knows someone that knows everyone; and that's all I need is for someone to recognize me as the slacker who posts all the time on the Dis boards! Ha-ha! Ummm...yeah, I cherish my anonymity. I'll refer to my son as DS and my husband as DH. :) Simple enough. :goodvibes
My family and I go to Vegas and/or Disneyland at least once a year. This year we went to Vegas and Disneyland twice because we bought discounted APs through the DL website. :yay:
I've been going to DL off and on since I was a kid. I was too young to remember my first few trips. I know I went because I've seen the pictures. ;)Anyway, our first trip as a family was back in 1997 when my DS was just 8 years old. It was the perfect age to take him because he remembered everything and because remembered and loved everything, he became my official 'Disney Partner' after that trip. For a few years he was just as obsessed w/ all things Disney as I was…Now he's kind of grown out of it, but he still likes Disney and is still my DL partner, just not as obsessed about going as I am I guess. :sad: (Oh well, they have to grow up sometime I guess…) We've gone to DL and Vegas every year since 1999, and in 2001 we went to WDW! One day I would like to go back there, but I have to say after being in WDW in the summer and being in DLR this past summer, DLR beats WDW hands down! It's miserably hot and humid in WDW. California has really nice weather compared to WDW where you spend half your time trying to find a way out of the extreme heat and humidity. We normally go to DLR in the winter for the Holiday overlay. We went a couple of times in October and it was pretty busy, hot, and the wildfires were burning which bothered my asthma. We prefer the winter to October because of the fire thing and because the parks are just magical during the holidays. Unfortunately, the last few trips that we've gone during the holidays, I've gotten extremely ill, probably from the combo of asthma/allergies, thousands of people and dirty hands in the parks, flu season, and it was extremely cold and sometimes rainy. So we decided that since we have APs we should take a trip in the summer and that's how this trip came to be. :banana: This was our first trip as a family during the summer to DLR. We really enjoyed the 'June Gloom' weather! It was perfect! Cool in the mornings, warm in the afternoons and cool/cold at night.:yay: Honestly, I didn't get sick on this trip. I got sick after I came home. :sad2: Some people on the plane and also at work were coughing and ill and I think that I caught it from either of those 2 places. Oh well. At least I wasn't sick on vacay!:cheer2:
Our first trip this year was in January. If this T/R generates enough interest I may work backwards and post some info about our DL Holidays trip, and maybe even do a walk down memory lane like Sherry did (Hi Sherry!) or a never ending T/R like PPB or Wazowskilover. (You all are my heroes for putting in so much work on your T/R's.) :worship: But for now this T/R will cover what we did from June 11-17, 2009 in DL. I'll probably link to a Vegas T/R later as soon as I finish this T/R.
I guess I'd better leave some room here for any future linking that may need to be done...
Day 1, June 11 is below on page 1 or
Part 1 Beginning, Magical Fireworks take one
Part 2 Main Street shots and
Part 3- End of Day 1 & beginning of Day 2 -Barona Casino, Joes Crab Shack and Do we make it to DEP?.
Day 2, June 12
Part1- Disney's Electrical Parade
Part 2- DEP continued
Part 3- Nemo's Submarine Voyage
Part 4- Tomorrowland & Main Street Long Exposure shots and
Part 5-End of Day 2
Day 3, June 13 Seaworld
Part 1- Beginning, Food Porn, Dolphin Discovery Show
Part 2- Dolphin show, Flamingos, Cirque De La Mer
Part 3- Fishtanks, Sea Lions Tonite Show
Part 4- Ignite Show
Part 5- Shamu Rocks
Part 6- Shamu Rocks continued
Part 7- Drumline & Dancers
Part 8- Shark Encounter
Part 9- Electric Eels, Piranhas & end of Day 3
Day 4, June 14 Disneyland - Pirates, Fireworks, Fantasmic, Indy and Ice Cream...
Part 1-Entrance & Pirates
Part 2-Pirates
Part 3- Magical Fireworks take 2
Part 4 - Fantasmic
Part 5 - Fantasmic
Part 6 - F!, HM, and Indy
Part 7, Gibson Girl Ice Cream and Main Street
Day 5, June 15 Long Beach Aquarium aka Aquarium of the Pacific and Knotts Berry Farm
Part 1-Entrance, Sharks and Sea Lions
Part 2-Touching tanks, Friendly Manta Rays, and Shorebird Santuary
Part 3-North Pacific Diving Birds, Jelly Fish and another touching tank
Part 4-The Untouchables, Sea Otters, Shrimp and Crabs
Part 5- Knotts Berry Farm First Impressions and rides
Part 6- Knotts Berry Farm Ghost Town and Ghost Rider - Aaack! also Kiddie rides...
Part 7- Knotts Berry Farm More Kiddie Rides and reflections on our day
Day 6 Disneyland all day and night!
1. Entrance, Pirates
2. More Pirates
3. Yes, even more Pirates!
4. Haunted Mansion
5. More Haunted Mansion
6. Some Fantasyland shots, IASW
8. IASW 3, Toontown, Castle Area and Snow White's Grotto
9. Hub area, DCA, HM exterior queue shots, DCA again
10. Busy shots, Theme Parks are Busy, Celebrate a Street Party shots, Roger Rabbit, Toon Town and the Golden 1/2 hour or what's left of it
Our trip started off in Vegas baby! We left home on June 9 and pretty much arrived in Vegas in the wee early morning hours of June 10.
Unfortunately the airlines lost my DH's luggage, so we spent an extra couple hours waiting around the airport hoping in vain that it would magically appear on the luggage carousel. That didn't happen. :sad1: We had to file a claim with the airlines, wait while they did all their paperwork, etc. From there we went to the Rent-a-car facility where we spent an extra 45 minutes in line waiting because there were only 2 people working, so no separate express line even though we were express members of Dollar RAC.
So since my DH is not a Disney Freak like DS and I am, the deal is he gets one whole day in LV and then we drive to DLR. After DLR, he gets an extra week -10 days in Vegas. So because our flight came in late, our luggage got lost, and the RAC facility was slow, we ended up having to stay in Vegas a little later than I had originally planned. Luckily for DH, I am not too anal about plans and am open to flying by the seat of our pants. The main thing is we get there in one piece! So instead of getting to DLR in the early am on June 11 as I had hoped, we ended up getting there in the late afternoon/early evening hours. After getting settled at the Fairfield Inn which we highly recommend , we just made it in to the park to see the new fireworks show for the Summer Nightastic promotion they had going on. I believe it's called Magical. (Someone correct me if I'm wrong; it's been awhile since our trip.) :rolleyes1
So these were my first 2 photos on the way to DL: http://suitefreak.smugmug.com/photos...84_uc5CF-L.jpg
This is when you know you're really there!:yay::cool1:
We thought it would be crazy busy in the parks because this was the day they had the VIP viewing going on and Grad night happening later that night, but actually it was fine. There were a lot of people there, but not as bad as the days that were to come. There was a VIP section set up in a mini stadium type seating right on Main Street and the singer who performed the songs in the fireworks show was there along with a bunch of other VIPs. We managed to walk right up and get a space right in front of the hub, in front of the Partners statue. It was a decent spot. Then people started edging their way in and a guy put his daughter on his shoulders. I mean, I understand that happens, but it just doesn't look good in the photos.:rolleyes1 Unfortunately for me, I am short, so it's difficult for me to avoid getting people's head/body parts in my shots if they step in front of me or in my field of view. I won't be able to shoot over their heads and see through my viewfinder. :sad1: I couldn't move back because people were packed in between me and the stands where the VIPs were. I hindsight, I should have just ignored the castle and shot higher up in the sky so I would have gotten better photos and that probably would have solved the issue of people's heads and body parts in my photos. (Although I think I did try this and I still had issues w/people's body parts in my field of view, so I kind of gave up on getting good shots this night…) I needed to go wide and high, but couldn't go wide because some person's arm kept getting in my field of view. I think I decided to just suck it up and try to see if I could post process it out later, but I'm not that good at PP, so it hasn't happened yet. :rolleyes1 On a regular night, I would have had better shots from further back on Main Street or anywhere else but right in front of the hub. Oh well…
I had heard that the shells for this show seem to be shot off further to the left and that is correct. Most of the fireworks seem to be further to the left than I remembered from any other fireworks show I have seen at DL. This is FYI, for anyone who is concerned about photo taking, not that I'm an expert or anything (because I'm still learning); just sharing my experiences.
To make matters worse, in the middle of taking photos my battery died! I knew it was low, but didn't realize how low. I had a spare battery, and should have swapped it out before the show, (duh!) but I thought it would last. I thought wrong. So I ended up missing quite a bit of the show because I had to remove the camera from the Quick Release plate on my tripod (which was anything but quick!) and then swap the batteries, put it back on the QR plate and then connect all that back on the tripod and put away the dead battery so I wouldn't lose it. What a :headache:!
Anyway, this is some of what we saw, straight out of the camera, no PP…
No hands or body parts where they don't belong (excepts for heads or course)
And then suddenly, 'the hand' appears…and pretty much stays there for the rest of the show…
<Sigh> I hate when that happens...
'The hand' was why I couldn't go wider. If I went any wider, I would've had their whole body in the shot. :rolleyes1
Anyway, it was beautiful, magical, wonderful! I teared up when Dumbo came floating out! I always tear up at the first Fireworks show I see at any Disney Resort! Nobody does Fireworks like Disney! That's all I can say. Hands down, Disney wins every time. I still think RDCT and the Holidays fireworks shows are better, but I still enjoyed this one. I wish they could find a way to incorporate Dumbo into RDCT and that they bring it back. I believe they will from what I've heard. I also wish they would've sold the music for this fireworks show in DLR -- I totally would have bought it!
After the fireworks, we turned around, and this is what we saw:
Yep, it's summer alright…
So instead of fighting the crowds, I decided to stay and take some photos of the area…
Turned around, and it was still crazy crowded, so I decided to take a few more…
This is getting long and I'm getting tired so I think I'll end here and post some more later...
Hi, DisneySuiteFreak!!!:cool1::cool1: I was so pleased to see I got a mention in your TR!:banana: Yep, I was time traveling down memory lane to DLR and other places in photos, and then I jumped forward again for a Pre-Trip Report for a trip that never happened! (I was supposed to go to DLR 3 days ago on my b-day and the plan fell through at the last minute, so basically I did a Pre-TR for nothing!!) So now I may have to step backwards in time again in photos a bit to fill the gap before moving ahead to the next DLR trip, which will likely be Halloweentime and then Christmastime!!! So I am all over the place. Somehow, at some point, several of us must have decided (like PPB and Wazowski) that doing a never-ending TR with little blasts from the past would be a good idea, because we can just keep adding to it when we take new trips to DLR, and then all the photos past and present and all the info are in one place and easy to find! So I think you can tell how much everyone here likes Trip Reports and likes pictures of DLR, whether old or new, so yes, by all means, when you are done with the TR for your June trip, please share with us your recaps and photos from trips past! I know I would love to see them!!
I must say I was really looking forward to your Trip Report and was hoping you would do one soon because I KNEW your photos would be amazing and you did NOT disappoint! Love, love, love those fireworks photos - even with the hand!! The things that you, WazowskiLOVER and Nostalgic Dad can do with those Nikons are just incredible!! Really, your photos are so crystal clear! I had to chuckle about the body parts getting in the way - which is one of the annoyances at DLR that we can all relate to. Last December, I was trying to get a nice nighttime PhotoPass shot in front of IASW Holiday, but there was a line of hundreds of people in the shot (very cluttered looking) and the photographer was very concerned about making sure that one person's Mickey balloon got out of the frame! He actually had our whole line of PP customers waiting for this person with the balloon in the IASW lilne to move! Never mind the 200 other people in our photo as they wait for IASW Holiday - let's get that evil balloon out of the way!!!!:rotfl::rotfl: That is one of the most spectacular and photogenic nighttime sights in DL, and there is no way to get a clean shot without people in it unless you happen to be there after the park closes! Arrrgggghhhhhh....
Anyway, I am glad you are feeling better, and I can't wait to see more of your great pictures!!:yay:
Wonderful pictures! I look forward to seeing more!
Thank you DisneySuiteFreak, those are absolutely fantastic photos, sure wish I could take pictures that nice ... :thumbsup2
You are the reason!!
DisneyFreak, your pics are AMAZING! You are the reason we decided to stay at the Fairfield, you made it look soooo inviting! I hope you know that your pictures were the deciding factor?? Anyway, what a camera and what skills!
I love it!! Tell us more, we want more!! :worship:
:cheer2: :banana: :yay: :woohoo: :thumbsup2
End of day one, part of day 2 DH Birthday!
When I last posted, we were still in the park taking photos and waiting for the crowds to clear. I forgot to mention that the fireworks show started pretty late this night. I figured it was because of all the hoopla involving the VIPs, but wasn't sure. I was surprised because F! was supposed to show this night at 9pm due to the VIPs & Grads. I remember reading all about various people who had managed to book F! for the dessert seating at 9pm when everyone was supposed to clear out at 9pm due to the Grad night that was supposed to take place. Well, at 9pm, fireworks were still going off. It finished shortly after 9 and then there was the whole parade of thousands of people that sadly, slowly, and reluctantly filed out of the park. Anyway, it was funny because the CMs were hurrying to clean up the area and clear people out, but not one CM said a word to me about leaving. I took just those few photos I posted because I knew we had to get out of there. But before I could pack up and leave, I saw a large group of people walking en mass towards Adventureland. It was interesting, because immediately following the show, I didn't see where they all went (they disappeared or were moved), but wherever they were, they re-emerged and now were going to get settled for F!.
I posted a question on the DL forum back in June about whether or not anyone got to stay for F! dessert seating at that time, but I don't know if anyone responded…So we started toward the front gates, and it was pretty weird to see all the stores closed up, but they were. They all had roll up doors that were closed or were locked up tight with no one in sight.
Here's a pretty horrid snapshot, but you get the idea.
We slowly made our way to the front and I managed to snap a few photos. Mind you some of these are yucky; just quick snapshot type shots, nothing artistic.
There were a ton of people (of the few people left in the park) vying to get a shot with this display, so I just took a quick snapshot.
Stopped to take a few more shots…
We were bummed because the Opera House was closed during our trip for renovation and, believe it or not, we never got a chance to see the show w/ Steve Martin in all our prior trips! We just never made it a priority thinking it would be there for a while, and now it's not. :sad2:
We saw the graduates being allowed in to DCA:
For some reason there were cars parked here, I don't know why. I didn't even notice it until I got home and opened up the photo. I was trying to get a shot of the Celebrate flags.
The display that was set up to promote the movie UP:
People were coming in as we were going out. Lucky for them, sucky for us…
And of course the Summer Nightastic sign:
We went over to McD's so DS and DH could grab some cheap and quick meals for themselves.
When we got back to the room, DH asked me if I wanted to go to San Diego with him to Barona Casino for a little bit of fun and gambling. At Barona there is no alcohol, so anyone over 18 can play in the casino. DS didn't care to go. He said he'd rather sleep or go on the computer and play games. So DH and I went and played. While we left DLR, we saw the fire and lasers from F! going off and this was at around 10:30pm, so I'm guessing that either they did 2 shows of F! or the one show they had was really delayed. Not sure which, but I was surprised to see the lasers, smoke and fireworks since only the 9pm showing was listed.
Anyway, Barona was pretty fun! For a Thursday night, there were a lot of people there playing, but not to the point where it was oppressive and you couldn't move. We had a lot of fun! I got on a Blazing 7's machine that kept paying me and paying me. I put in $60 to start with and immediately got some 7's. Mixed 7's are worth $200 and solid 7's are worth $300. I played it up and down and up and down. My DH was worried I would give it all back, but in between I had been cashing out. I took home $1900 from that machine. I felt badly for the people around me because they were not winning and had been there on their machines well before I ever sat down on mine. They kept freaking out every time I would hit the 7's. Poor things, they couldn't do anything on their machines… Meanwhile, DH was on another machine and hit for $1000 on it, played a little more and cashed out another $300. So it was a fun/productive night. It was a sufficiently long 2 hour haul from DL though since it's on the outskirts of San Diego in the boonies. Most of it is on the freeway, but to get to Barona, there is a long and winding road that you must drive through. Once you do it a few times, it's fast, but if you haven't done the drive in like 10 years like us, you have to feel your way around and go slowly so as not to run into anything on that long and winding road. By the 2nd time we went (later in the trip) we did the return trip in 1 hour 45 minutes.:woohoo: We liked the casino. Everyone was very nice and friendly. It reminded us of how the Vegas casinos used to be before they got all corporate and concerned more w/ shareholders ROI than treating their players well.
At around 3:30am, we decided we needed to eat and got a comp from the casino. The food was really good, the server was nice and friendly. We had breakfast and rushed through it because we needed to hurry to beat the rush hour LA traffic. We left around 5am and got back to Anaheim just before 7am. Then it started raining. I told DH, there is no way in heck that we would buy umbrellas in DLR because it's expensive. So I made him take me to a Walgreens and we got 2 for $8 or something like that. In DL it's $10 each, IIRC. We got stuck in the rain on our last trip and had to buy some. Due to the weight limits on luggage, I didn't want to bring them with us. While driving to WG, we saw a whole bunch of buses w/ Grads in them going home. They must've been exhausted.
By the way, it's now June 12, 2009, day 2 of my DL TR… So you know what happened next???
We slept in! :scared1:I was surprised because even our DS slept like a log. None of us woke before 2pm. All I can say is that those blackout curtains in the room at Fairfield Inn work really well!! :teeth: We had no concept of what time it was. We laid around for a bit and then realized OMG! It's 2:00pm!!! Half the day was gone! Oh well, we had fun anyway…I guess we were more burned out than I thought we were from traveling, being in Vegas the first night (and you know we didn't really sleep there), driving to Anaheim and then going to Barona! Hello? What were we thinking? Well, I won't cry over spilt milk, and we did make enough money to pay for our trip, so I'm not going to complain about that. We do tend to go, go, go on vacation and then totally crash and burn. So I wanted to take it a little easy on this trip and rest when needed because I really didn't want to get sick again on my vacation! Unfortunately, we went, went, went, and then we crashed and missed out on some Disney time…<sigh> Okay our sleep schedule is whacked due to the time difference anyway; so we rolled with it.
Today, however, was a very special day! It was my DH's birthday! I couldn't get irritated on his birthday…And that's another reason why we planned this trip – so that he could get his Birthday Fun card! :yay: Yay! Right? Right….
Except that the birthday boy decided he really didn't want to go to DL right away. Uh, uh. Instead, he wanted to go to a clam bake somewhere. I had posted on the Dis looking for a place that served a clambake a few months ago didn't get much of a response. Well, the closest thing to clambake was the steam pot at Joe's Crab Shack in Garden Grove. So after making me do a last minute internet search again, we found that Joe's has the kind of food he wanted for his birthday. So that's where we went for lunch. After we woke up, got ready, etc., it was almost 3pm by the time we piled into the car! Good grief!
We loved Joe's Crab Shack and decided we will eat here at least once a trip. We ordered 2 steam pots and shared everything famiy style. It was more than enough food for the 3 of us. We had Lobster, Crab Legs, Mussels, Clams, I think there were oysters, potatoes, onions, corn cobs,, etc. There were different types of flavored butters to go with the food which Dh liked. To me, the food had so much flavor that I didn't need the butter. DS didn't either. I believe they season everything w/ Old Bay and there are some other choices too, IIRC.
I forgot to take picture of the food, but trust me, it was really good. Even my picky DS liked it.
For what we paid, we got so much food and the quality blows away anything you could get in DL or DCA. IIRC, we paid about $90 including non-alcoholic drinks for 3 and the 2 steam pots full of seafood, then add in tip. I think DH also ordered a side of corn. He said that if you go and order extra corn, order it with the food because it wasn't a tasty as the other corn cobs because it wasn't steamed with the Seafood and all the flavoring/seasoning.
DH birthday continued...
So before we go to DCA, we have to take the car back to the hotel. We do this, find parking with no problem and head out to DCA intending to catch the DEP. Its now 7:50pm. We head straight to the Guest Services. DH got his gift card. The gal working behind the counter was very happy that we had registered in advance and it was pretty quick. There was no one in line at DCA guest services, so if you have to do this, I would suggest going to DCA to get it, as DL City Hall can get crazy busy. Coming up Were late, were late, for a very important date and did we make DEP or not???
I heard about your Birthday trip being canceled and I was sorry to hear that! :sad1: That sucks when plans fall through like that at the last minute. NostalgicDad is the bomb with photography. I can only hope to one day be as good as he is. I get a lot of clunkers too as you will see from my DH birthday post above!:sad2: I know Jaz is studying graphic arts so she's obviously the bomb too with a great eye for photography. I wish I could be as knowledgable a those two! But thanks for lumping me in there with them! :banana:You made my day!:yay:
It is hard to get great photos when the park is crazy busy and you and I tend to go when it's crazy busy like during the Holidays, so I hear you on the Photopass thing. At least you had a good photographer who wasn't just rushing you through it. We didn't do any photopass on this or any trip. Everytime we go, it seems the parks are so busy that you just can't find them anywhere, and when you do find them, there is a looooooooooooonnnggg line of people waiting. The few times we did get our photos taken, there were other people behind us in the shot and I thought why should I pay for that? So we just don't do it. I've had a few Photopass photogs take our photo with my camera and that's great that they'll do that. I was thinking that it would be fun, if I have time, to keep this thread going with photos from previous trips. I just wonder though...At a certain point I'm going to run out of photos without us in it and then I'll have to reveal myself! :lmao:
DisneySuite, I totally get what you are saying, and no, I'm not thinking it's going to be the Taj Mahal! ha ha!! I've stayed at budget/moderate and nice hotels, I'm just happy with clean sheets, good air conditioning, safety, and proximity to the hotel! The lemon water looks great too! ; ) I also like that it's close to restaurants, especially McD's for my son who has to have his fix!! Thanks for the "warning" about the reality of it all though! lol...
Great start - your pictures are lovely, especially the evening ones from after the fireworks. :)
Just found your TR. I'm on board. Great pics so far. I understand how you don't want your personal information out there. My wife doesn't like it for me to show our family on the web and especially the kids. We stayed at FFI on our first visit to DLR and we enjoyed it.
Can't wait to hear more!!
Love your fireworks pics!! They are awesome. How fun to go down to a casino?? I never thought of doing that. :goodvibes
I'm loving your TR and your pics are wonderful! Looking forward to reading more! :goodvibes
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October 31, 2009
The Boonville First Baptist Church kicked-off the beginning of a yearlong celebration on Saturday October 31 with the placing of a banner that stretches 33 feet across and five feet in height across it's church building Saturday with the words "Standing Up For Jesus for 200 years ; 1810 -2010 with green letters on a white background. The banner was donated by Otis inc. of Lyons Falls, New York. The first worship service was actually held in November 1809 but the Church was not charted by the American Baptist Churches till the following February 1810. The Church was organized with Seventeen members. Headquarters for the American Baptist Churches is Valley Forge, Pennsylvania though each American Baptist Church is autonomous.
Over fifty congregants stood in front of the Church Saturday Afternoon in the pouring rain to see the banner put into place and to hear Rev. Joe Feller proclaim "Our bicentennial year has begun. It is our year of Jubilee." He was referring to the Biblical Passage where God told the Hebrew Nation to celebrate every 50 years with the cancelling of debts and having a yearlong celebration. The First Baptist church has no debts to cancel but is in fact celebrating the paying off of two big projects for the church the renovation of eight stain glass windows and the placing of a twenty feet handicapped assessable ramp in the front of the building. The church anticipates refurbishing it's front doors, a large stained glass window that covers the front of the church and the placement of a handicapped assessable bathroom.
The Rev. Feller explained that the yearlong celebration will focus on two weekends: one in March and the other in May, as well as several events in July and several smaller events throughout the year. The church is also selling t-shirts and canvas bags at no extra cost to its congregants. There will also be several smaller items given away throughout the year at no charge to the congregation or community.
Church members were considering closing the doors just a few years ago with less than 12 in attendance, now attendance averages around 55 and new people are coming all the time. "Were coming to life;" said congregant Marilyn Fowler. "I really believe that 2010 is going to be our year. " Several other congregants voiced the same. "Our Church is dedicated to it's members and to the community we serve; said member Ed Simanowski. "We're always looking for new ways to get involved with the community."
The banner was being unveiled to coincide with All Saints Day which takes place on the Christian Calendar each year on November 1. The Church at the same time the banner was being unveiled was also preparing to be open to youngsters that night where they were expecting to give out over 400 donuts, cups of hot chocolate and bags of treats. The banner will stay on display for the entire bicentennial year.
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Zac Brown Band Unveils New 'Behind The Album' Video For 'The Wind'
In a new video posted on their website, the members of the Zac Brown Band talk about the story behind "The Wind," the band's high-octane, bluegrass-infused, fun-loving new single from their upcoming new album, Uncaged.
"'The Wind' is our homage to bluegrass music but played as a rock and roll band," says ZBB member Clay Cook.
The video is titled Uncaged Episode 1: The Wind, the first in a series of 'behind-the-scenes' type clips that the band is unveiling in the lead-up to the release of Uncaged on July 10.
WQYK's Steve Austin loves the bands new single saying, "Zac Brown Band is a band of serious musicians and 'The Wind' is just another great example of that. Even their tour bus has instruments all over the walls so they can constantly practice and play."
Zac himself calls the song a "barn burner," a description that Coy Bowles then has some fun with–and raises a good point. "I don't know if anybody knows what that ['barn burner'] means…but everybody knows what it means."
"It's just really fast," says Cook.
Zac says that "The Wind" is "probably the most 'country' song we've ever done." And while bluegrass isn't a sound you hear much on country radio, it is a part of the Zac Brown Band's DNA. "Bluegrass fits dead center for me," Brown said in an interview this past spring with CBS Detroit station WYCD.
Uncaged is set for release July 10. Check out the Zac Brown Band's Web store for some unique Southern Ground album bundles that include deluxe CDs, T-shirts, prints, and more.
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Tuesday, February 5, 2013
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The Team Roster form available below, MUST be completed and emailed to League Registrar Rob Oldfield when a player is added or released. If the form is not emailed, the player is ineligible and your team will incur a forfeit if he is listed on your lineup for the match. This policy was announced at the League Meeting on April 3, 2011 and is effective immediately.
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1. I am pleased to receive you today and to receive the Letters accrediting you as Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of your countries; Belarus, Niger, Sweden, Thailand, Benin, Sudan, Iceland, Jordan. I would like to thank you for conveying to me the courteous messages of your respective Heads of State. I would be grateful if you would express in return my respectful greetings and cordial wishes, for them and for their high mission at the service of their compatriots. Through you, I would also like to greet the civil and religious authorities of your countries, and your citizens, assuring them of my esteem and friendship.
Undoubtedly, there are two essential elements on which it is right to exercise a joint influence: dialogue and negotiations between the peoples who are called to live together on the same land; and the phenomenon of globalization with the growing contrast between the rich and poor countries that create the inequalities that are becoming much more evident.
Long-term peace presumes that the least developed countries benefit from economic growth and appropriate aid. The first prospect must be to support the local economies and to form people who will take charge of the future of their national community to bring about the country's necessary autonomy. From everyone, this calls for much greater solidarity and coherent behaviour.
Likewise, it implies education for everyone. The young generations, particularly sensitive to such tragic situations, need strong signs if their hopes are not to be in vain.
5. At the time when your mission to the Holy See is beginning, I offer you my cordial wishes. As I invoke an abundance of divine Blessings upon you, upon your families, upon those who work with you and upon the nations you represent, I ask the Most High to crown you with his gifts.
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I dont get the understanding of what get your understanding is.
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I don't understand! Are we supposed to pick a number and you tell us what we win? I pick 3!
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This thread is incomprehensible, but if I was going to guess at a meaning, I'd say you were in a match where your kills were 1 while the enemy team's was 9, and someone said "we got this"?
If so... eh, I wouldn't have been so confident, but you hadn't lost it yet, either.
^I was on a team where we went 1-16 and my teammates would /ff but I refused to vote yes because the enemy Shaco was spamming "u mad bro?" after each of his kills. We eventually came back and at the end I said "gg u mad bro?" Well worth the report if anyone reported me
I don't think that comment alone would be punishable, though I dunno if you might have said anything else that was worse.
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HV/Series/Episode/ Work by: Joe Frank · Harry Shearer · Jean Shepherd · Art Silverman
Hearing Voices from NPR®
067 Jean Shepherd 1: A Voice in the Night
Host: Harry Shearer of Le Show
Airs week of: 2010-07-14 (Originally: 2009-08-12)
"Jean Shepherd 1″ (52:00 mp3):
Hour one in this two-part tribute to radio raconteur Jean Shepherd:
Jean Shepherd used words like a jazz musician uses notes, winding around a theme, playing with variations, sending fresh self-reflective storylines out into the night. Marshall McLuhan called Shepherd "the first radio novelist." From 1956-1977 Shep spun his late night stories over WOR radio, New York City. PBS gave him a TV series, "Jean Shepherd's America." In 1983 he co-wrote and narrated the film version of his "A Christmas Story."
Shep inspired a new generation of spoken narrative artists who tap into the American psyche. Among them was Harry Shearer (Le Show), who hosts this two part tribute to Jean Shepherd. Shearer interviews Shep's co-workers, friends and fans, including Robert Krulwich, Joe Frank, Paul Krassner, and Jules Fieffer.
Thanks to Mr. Shearer, KCRW- Santa Monica (and Sarah Spitz), NPR, and Art Silverman for production support, and for allowing us to re-air this two-hour tribute. This is part one; part two is next week.
One time I woke up at 3 o'clock in the morning. My radio was still on, and a man was talking about how you would try to explain the function of an amusement park to visitors from Venus. It was Jean Shepherd. He was on WOR from midnight to 5:30 every night, mixing childhood reminiscence with contemporary critiques, peppered with such characters as the man who could taste an ice cube and tell you the brand name of the refrigerator it came from and the year of manufacture. Shepherd would orchestrate his colorful tales with music ranging from "The Stars and Stripes Forever" to Bessie Smith singing "Empty Bed Blues."
–Paul Krassner (from "How the Realist popped America's cherry")
The Realist: series of Jean Shepherd essays, Radio Free America, issue #42, #44, #48, #50.
Jean Shepherd – The Great American Fourth of July – PART 1
Dialing through the AM whine and static, I landed upon the chuckling voice of a man who immediately sounded to me like the aural personification of what was, up until that moment, my bible of irreverent, hip "outsider-ness"— Mad Magazine! Suddenly, there in the dark, I found myself in the presence of a grownup who not only used words like "clod," but actually talked about "kidhood" with such accuracy that my fevered 11-year-old brain immediately sensed a kindred spirit! That's all it took — one tale about Flick, Schwartz, Randy and Ralph — kids just like kids I knew! — growing up in a Midwestern steel town under the weary beer-soaked gaze of "The Old Man"… and I was hooked!
–Vin Scelsa, WNEW- NYC (from WFMU "Excelsior, You Fatheads!")
Fan sites: Flick Lives | WFMU | Shep Bibliography.
10:15 P.M. The WOR news and weather are out of the way. A bugle sounds, and a sprightly theme song comes trotting on the air. The theme has a double meaning: it is the one that calls the horses to the gate at Aqueduct, and it is the Bahn Frei Overture, composed for an operetta by Eduard Strauss, the only member of the Strauss family who did not make good. Presently, Shepherd's clear, rowdy voice intrudes. "Okay, gang are you ready to play radio? Are you ready to shuffle off the mortal coil of mediocrity? I am if you are." There is a noise like a mechanized Bronx cheer (BRRAPP!)— it is Shepherd blowing his kazoo. At other times he twangs his Jew's-harp (BRROING!). "Yes, you fatheads out there in the darkness, you losers in the Sargasso Sea of existence, take heart, because WOR, in its never ending crusade of public service, is once again proud to bring you — (EROICA SYMPHONY UP) — The Jean Shepherd Program!"
–Edward Grossman, "Jean Shepherd: Radio's Noble Savage" Harper's Magazine Jan 1966
Man, there was this clown. And he was a real happy guy, a real happy guy.
He had all these greens and all these yellows and all these oranges bubbling around inside of him, and he had just one thing he wanted in this world. He just wanted to make people laugh – that's all he wanted out of this world. He was a real happy guy.
Let me tell you about this clown. He used to raise a sweat every night out on that stage, he just wouldn't stop. That's how hard he worked. He was tryin' to make people laugh. He used to have this cute little gimmick where he had a seal follow him up and down a step ladder, blowin' "Columbia the Gem of the Ocean" on a B-flat Sears Roebuck model 1322-A plastic bugle – a real cute act. But they didn't laugh.
Oh you know, a few little… things… here and there, but not really. And he was booking out on all these tank towns, playing the Rotary Club and the Kiwanis Club and the American Legion hall, and he just wasn't making it. And he had all these wonderful things going on inside of him, all these greens and yellows, and all these oranges. He was a real happy guy, and all he wanted to do was make people laugh. That's all he wanted out of this world, was to make people laugh.
And then something began to grow, something that just wasn't good began to grow inside of this guy…
You know it's a funny thing. Something began to trouble this clown… you know, little things… little things once in a while would happen that would make that crowd begin to move. But they were never the right things.
Like for example that time the seal got sick on the stage, all over the stage, the crowd just… just broke up. Little things like that, and they weren't supposed to be in the act, and they weren't supposed to be funny. This began to trouble him and this began to bother him, this little thing began to grow inside. All those greens and all those oranges and all those yellows… they just weren't as bright as they used to be. And all he wanted to do was to make that crowd laugh. That's all he wanted to do.
There was this one night in Dubuque when he was playing this Rotary Club. All these dentists and all these druggists, all these postmen sitting around, and they were a real cold bunch – nothing was happening. He was leaving the stage when he stumbled over his ladder and fell flat on his face, just flat on his face, and he stands up and he's got this bloody nose and he looks out at the crowd and that crowd is just rollin' on the floor – he's knocked 'em flat out. This begins to trouble him even more. And he sees something – he begins to see something… hmmm?
And right about here things began to change, but really change. Not the least of which, our clown changed his act. Bought himself a set of football pads, a yellow helmet with red stripes, hired a girl who dropped a five-pound sack of flour on his head every night from maybe twenty feet up. Oh man, what a bit! That just broke them up every night – but not like Dubuque!
And all those colors? All those yellows, all those reds, all those oranges? A lot of gray in there now, a lot of blue. And all he wanted to do was to make this crowd laugh, that's all he wanted out of this world. They were laughing all right. Not like Dubuque, but… they were laughing.
And the dough started to come in, and he was playing the big towns, Chicago, Detroit…. And then it was Pittsburgh one night – real fine town, Pittsburgh, you know. About three quarters of the way through his act, a rope broke. Down came the backdrop, right on the back of the neck, and he went flat. And something broke. This was it. It hurt way down deep inside.
He tried to get up. He looked out at the audience and man you should… man you should have seen that crowd – they was rollin' in the aisles! This was bigger than Dubuque!
This was bigger than Dubuque! He really had 'em going…
This was it. This was the last one. This was the last one. This was the last one. He knew now. Man he really knew now. But it was too late. And all he wanted to do was make this crowd laugh – well, they were laughing. But now he knew.
That was the end of the clown. And you should have seen the bookings coming. Man, his agent was on the phone for twenty-four hours. The Palladium… MCA… William Morris. But it was too late.
He really knew now, He really knew.
He really knew now…
William Morris sends regrets.
Jean Shepherd, born/raised Hammond, Indiana:
While the South has been drenched with Decadence, the Midwest has been swimming in a turgid sea of Futility. It is dotted with cities and towns that have never quite made it… The city is too close to the farm, while beyond the last Burma Shave sign the prairie rolls flat as a tabletop endlessly to the horizon. Everywhere are evidences of faded ambitions and forlorn whistles in the dark… It is this incongruity that produces men who are compelled by secret dark inner urges to warn of the futility of the sad earthly posturing of Man. Of these there are two very common Midwestern types: the Humorist and the hellfire fundamentalist Evangelist… Ade himself pointed out in an essay on Indiana that humorists of the nonprofessional but practicing variety can be found every few feet along Main Street… Almost all of their humor is of the school of Futility… Futility, and the usual triumph of evil over good. Which is another name for realism.
–Jean Shepherd, from intro to The America of George Ade
Time magazine: "That Old Feeling: Shepherd and His Flock" | "The Heyday and Dark Nights of Radio Legend Jean Shepherd".
Jean Shepherd: A Voice in the Night, Part Two
I listened to your show this morning (8/16) with great interest. I, too, discovered Jean Shepherd in high school. You are right — he made people feel connected through their common humanity. The late fifties & early sixties were a time when I and most young people I knew felt very alienated. There was a big disconnect between how reality was being described by most people and how it really was.
I remember listening to the news when John Glenn orbited the earth and was trying to describe the sight of our planet from space, something probably imagined by every educated human being, but now actually being witnessed by an American for the first time. What a significant occasion for mankind! As an astronaut — a technician, really — he stumbled through some sort of inadequate report and I felt that familiar, disheartening sense deep inside me, a feeling that we were being cheated yet again — "Man," I thought to myself, "they should have sent a POET up there!" Later that same night, I was vindicated to hear Shep say the same thing on his show…
I was just introduced to jean sheppard today on HEARING VOICES….what a fantastic storyteller!
thank you,thank you,thank you
Listened to this broadcast today via Armed Forces Radio in Europe. Many thanks for a wonderful, intelligent show. Am looking forward to part 2!
As a child,in the late 60s,and 70s,I used to listen to Shep all the time on WOR.There are those that keep his shows alive in the 21st century,like Max Schmid of WBAI,who always has three or four shows on his website.
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Like legions of others, I listened to Shep every night while in my teens in the 70's. My dad was a great fan and introduced him to us. I even had the privilege of meeting Shep at booksignings at the old Brentano's on 8th St. I cherish my signed copies of Wanda Hickey and The Ferrari in the Bedroom.
Thanks to Harry for bringing this incredible talent to a new generation, and reminding the rest of us of how much he brought into our lives.
I grew up listening to Jean Shepherd on my father's transistor radio tucked under my pillow at night. His stories transported me to a world that took me away from all of my childhood worries. He was one of our great American storytellers and is so sorely missed.
We no longer have people like Shepherd who could wax poetic on almost any topic imaginable.
In listening to this great retrospective, all of the people who were interviewed have nothing but respect and reverence for this man, just like me.
I love radio; it is the medium of the mind. The imagination can soar to a place where you can swear you have been. That's exactly what Shepherd did; I smelled the red cabbage and meatloaf, I saw the goofy gang of friends, I had the weird parents. Thank you Jean Shepherd. Thank you Harry Shearer for this great retrospective, and most of all thank you NPR.
Jean had stopped broadcasting the year I came to the US but I heard a him a couple of times in WBAI in NYC and I especially remember the story of the steel mill job which reduced me to a helpless wreck, convulsed in paroxisms of laughter; a near death experience but, in hindsight, not a bad way to go.
gracie Harry, grazie
Having lived in the Bronx in the Shepherd era, Jean was and is one of the greatest memories of that time. I couldn't wait for his broadcast !!!!
I must have been permanently affected because I have learned from the Master how to think "out of the box". I only wish I had 10% of the storytelling mastery that Jean Shepherd did. The world would be such a better place if the population could see the world filtered through the eyes of this wonderful giant. I miss him greatly to this very day and am greatful to have NPR continue to stay at the top of the world in my eyes for presenting this opportunity to hear Jean again.
It brings tears to my eyes at the loss of his greatness !!!!!!
I remember driving home with a friend one Christmas Eve from Philadelphia after seeing "Sound of Music" in first run. Shepherd was telling the story of being a G.I. stationed at Fort Dix in New Jersey and going to the USO canteen in New York on a cold, wet Christmas Eve, alone and deeply separated from his Gary, Ind. home. We rode home quietly, listening to his hypnotic voice weaving a tale of a lonely soldier and were caught for the entire hour. His shows were often magic to me. Also remember very clearly his recitation of the "Cremation of Sam McGee" by Robert W. Service. Great Stuff
Can someone help me track down the date of the original broadcast of the story featured in part I — the one about the 'slow' coding class? i want to hear the rest!
Many thanks to Harry Shearer for airing these tributes to Shep.
I grew up in northern NJ in the 60s and my brother and I would listen to those WOR broadcasts in our bedroom most nights, and marvel at this man who spun such great stories.
He is so under-appreciated (the year he passed away, the NYT magazine didn't include him in their annual memorial issue, even though there were a couple of Hungarian performance artists and others like that who made the cut) that it is great that Harry gave him this hearing again.
I've been downloading podcasts of his shows from the 60s and it is amazing how prescient he was about our culture!
Like others who have written in, I listened to Shep on my old tube radio every night on WOR. Saturday nights were special, as he broadcast live from The Limelight in Greenwich Village. I learned of Jean Shepherd from my Mom – a big fan, and for my 8th grade graduation(1967), she took me and 2 friends to The Limelight to see him live. This was an absolute highlight. Also saw him for many years at Richardson Auditorium at Princeton U., where he performed at the annual reunions. He is sorely missed.
Flick Lives! Excelsior!
Unlike many of Shep's listeners who were city raised, I was a kid in the late '50s down the Jersey Shore, way down the Jersey Shore, that is, in a quiet town of 3,000 or so on a small barrier island, Brigantine. The expanse of open sea and sparsely populated islands between WOR's transmitter and my bedroom radio made reception possible, if the skies were clear and the wind was northerly. It was a hit-or-miss affair most nights, the signal wavering in and out, too often out just as one of his great stories was winding to a conclusion and my eyelids became ever heavier. I especially liked and remember best his stories about his time in the Army, service highlighted by duty in a Mess Kit Repair Battalion. His was a great voice in the night for a 12 year-old, sorely missed and so fondly recalled by a 65 year-old living now on a far distant coast.
My dad worshiped Jean Shepherd. I found 'Wanda Hickey' in his bookshelf at about age 12 and devoured it and anything else by Mr. Shepherd that I could find at the library.
When A Christmas Story hit HBO a few years after its release, I watched it and kept thinking 'There is something VERY familiar about this story!'. Well of course there was.
Now I have a daughter of my own and each holiday season we have a traditional Xmas wrapping night with Ralphie and family on the tube. I'll have to send my dad the URLs for these rebroadcasts – it will make his day! Thanks Harry!
Like Bob Krist (above), I listened to Jean Shepherd in the dark in my bed with a LAFAYETTE transistor radio under my pillow. I loved his stories. In high school, Bill Scheuerman and I would swap these stories and our reactions the next day, if we were not poking each other with our pencil points.
The theme song came back to me in an unusual manner. I was running a field test on a well, I was sitting in a chair under a tall bush. I was about to ham it up for a digital video that I was going to make for my kids and for a few appreciative friends. I took off with silly riding gestures and the tune became Shep's theme song.
I learned about Shep from my 8th grade English teacher, which means 1956/57. I actually met him once, sort of. He did a Saturday morning show for a while and did a remote from a store about three miles from where we lived. Oddly, he had no PA, so hearing him was an effort, but I managed to catch much of what he was saying into the mike. At a couple of points I smiled in reaction to what he said and he looked to me for reaction, smiling in return. It is a solid, if fleeting memory. I could not stay to the end of the broadcast, to actually meet him, but I got close enough.
I joined the Navy in 1962 and thought I'd have to give up Shep. No, I was stationed in Virginia and Maryland, two years each. I could get the WOR signal fairly well in both places. He also had "Jean Shepherd's America" on PBS in the early 70s, I think.
Turned on WNPR last night to find Jean Shepherd telling me a story to ease me to sleep, just like in high school. I was probably the only kid who went to bed by 10:15 to hear him. Flick lives!
Thank You – this is great!
Started listening to Jean when I was 12 in my summer place: Amagansett, L.I. A boy named Mike McCleary told me about him. I was hooked right away and so were my parents. I listened for as long as I could (years), but eventually married and moved to VA and couldn't hear WOR. Saw Jean at the Limelight once. I still listen to tapes of his show.
Mike – if you're still out there somewhere, Thanks! Leave me a message at: 212-462-9043.
Jean Sheperd was one of a kind. if you started to listen to one of his stories you couldnt stop listening and once you listen to one of his stories you had to hear them all. he was habit forming. there is no way you can talk about american culture in the 1950 & 60's without mentioning his astounding wacky sense of humor and eye to detail.
thanks for all the memories shep.
Many hundreds of complete Jean Shepherd broadcasts are available free on iTunes (podcasts= the brass figlagee) The one about the code school is from 4/13/65, and it's also on the 2-hour NPR tribute, "A VOICE IN THE NIGHT."
Also find hundreds of his broadcasts on ebay under his name, and from http://www.oldtimeradio.com of Max Schmid.
Anyone wanting a 500 page description and appreciation of Shepherd's work, try my book EXCELSIOR, YOU FATHEAD! THE ART AND ENIGMA OF JEAN SHEPHERD.
Shepherd is alive and well at the flicklives.com site and on the email@example.com email discussion group, as well as in his books andin his videos such as Jean Shepherd's America. His movie creation, A CHRISTMAS STORY, can be seen for 24 hours straight starting Christmas Eve on Turner's cable TV.
Im this teenage in a dinky a coal town in Wyoming Valley Pa, see. And I could get this WOR AM radio thing,from NYC, pimples in full bloom me, listsening to Shep cured my pimples, churned up my mind. Jean's kazoo, he was the pied piper that lured me to march to live in Greenwich Village later. His words there. Just likie he said, I saw what he saw and lived in the Village. Thank to Shep's magic, converted, I've lived like him in NYC over 45 years.
One stary night, youth me, put on this navy pea coat see, a, village coat of the era, went to the LimeLight and saw Jean. In the flesh, after his show, I just handed a beat up paperback of In Go We Trust… To sign. Not a word was exchange, I was his archtypal kid listener and he knew me, communicated without words. He signed the book and just kind of nodded an "Ok, I understand. You are one of us."
An episoded teen age years, I, in this Pensy Prep type 4 year military school on Long Island; I, priveleged me, had one of the first transister radios ever, it hummed radio under my pillow after lights out, risking demerits and eternal damnation, me listening in the dark, ear pressed to the metal speaker cover, to Jean on WOR, just across from the LI Sound from, he was there in the dark under the pillow and there in station WOR.
After that, he, and Catcher in The Rye (hey, was Jean Shepherd Holden Caufield?) spaced out my life with whacky Shepherisms cult. To this day I am a nutty Shep apostle.
Jean Shepherd was the best Storyteller we've ever had. His radio show was imaginative and very entertaining. His books and movies became classics.
[…] Tap, Le Show) is himself such a fan that he hosted "Jean Shepherd: A Voice in the Night" (Part 1, Part 2). One time I woke up at 3 o'clock in the morning. My radio was still on, and a man was […]
I am the Producer & Director of the upcoming Documentary/Film on Jean Shepherd. Entitled: "Shep" Life and Career of Master Storyteller Jean Shepherd….
If you would like to share a story like Charles from NY I would love to hear them
Stay Tuned!
It's Christmas morning in Medford Ma . While listening to a talk
show WRKO in Boston and a man was telling a story about a mouse that he was battleing because the mouse prevented him from getting to his bureau. He told the story in such great detail that I couldn't help thinking of Jean Shepherd! Like others
I couldn't wait to hear his stories every night. Those were the
days when you could use your imagination while listening to
the radio. I'm 78 and I can still hear his voice like it was yesterday.
Talking about the episodes of the gang members was the most
entertaining to me. I felt like I was right there with the gang.
On a scale of one to ten, he was definetly a ten!
Actually, Jean Shepherd had radio shows in both Philadelphia Pa. and Cincinnati OH before moving to WOR.
Fortunately living in Pittsburgh I was able on most evenings to listen to his shows. This was especially true in the winter. My 49 ford when driven to good locations added to the listen-ability at all three locations.
Then I got an old Hallicrafter S53A. Still never as good as the old linear tuner in the ford. Went overseas in 57 and when I returned he was harder to get as the spectrum got more crowded.
Today, thanks to the internet I can relive the wonder of his storytelling.
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Adhvik Mahajan who will be seen playing the role of Soham Singh Maan in Colors' upcoming new daily soap Gurbani, talks about his character and journey in this industry.
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You will be soon seen in the daily soap, Gurbani. How do you feel?
I am very excited for the show. I am hoping that I do well and win over the hearts of viewers through my performance. The storyline of the show Gurbani is very interesting and that is one of the reason I am positive about the role I am going to play.
Tell us something about your character in the show...
Soham Singh Maan is the name of my character. I play a very simple boy living in the village of Punjab who is a workaholic and helpful person. People in the village love me a lot and always come to me for any advice and solutions to their problems. When he gets a chance to go abroad he declines it and chooses to stay in the village itself as he loves the environment. Meanwhile, he falls in love with a girl and the twists and turns that take place are interesting.
You are paired opposite new comer Shefali Sharma in the show. How was it working with her?
Even I am a new comer. The only difference is that I have acted in a few films earlier. However, Shefali Sharma who essays the role of Gurbani belongs to a theater background and is a skilled performer. In my opinion the casting of the show is superb as each and every actor is talented.
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Do you watch any television shows?
Being in India you cannot skip watching television shows. I do watch many of the television shows when I get the time. Sony TV's daily soap Bade Acche Laggte Hai is one of my favorite shows so far.
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The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa
Little Boy: The Arts of Japan's Exploding Subculture
Japan Society/Yale University Press, 298 pp., $60.00
Asakusa, in 1929, had seen better days. Asakusa usually has. That is the elegiac charm of this district in the east of Tokyo, flanking the Sumida River, the scene of the newly translated novel by Kawabata Yasunari, written in the late 1920s. Since the late seventeenth century, a warren of streets just north of Asakusa, named Yoshiwara, had been a licensed brothel area, whose denizens, ranging from famous courtesans to cheap prostitutes, catered to townsmen, but also to samurai, who sometimes found it necessary to disguise their identities by wearing elaborate hats.1 Asakusa itself really came into its own as a hub of pleasure in the 1840s. By the late nineteenth century the grounds of Asakusa Park, with its lovely ponds and miniature gardens, and its Senso temple dedicated to Kannon, the Goddess of Mercy, were given over to all manner of entertainments: a Kabuki theater, jugglers, geisha houses, circus acts, photography booths, dancers, comic storytellers, performing monkeys, bars, restaurants, and archery stalls where young women were reputed to have offered a variety of services.
Asakusa's wildest days are said to have been in the 1910s, after the Russo-Japanese War, when Russian girls, performing gypsy numbers in dance revues, known as "operas," added an exotic tang to the Sixth District, where most of the theaters were. The main attraction was to show off women's legs. Reviews featuring young women performing swordfights were designed for this purpose also. Some of the opera houses actually provided the real thing. An Italian named G.V. Rossi was brought over from London to stage operas at the grandly named Imperial Theater, only to find a scarcity of singers. In his production of The Magic Flute, the same singer had to play both Pamina and the Queen of the Night, with a stand-in on hand when the two had to appear in the same scene.2
The first movie houses in Japan also were in Asakusa, as was Tokyo's first "skyscraper," the Twelve-Story Tower, or Ryounkaku. Soon the silent movies, accompanied by splendid storytellers known as benshi, were even more popular than music halls or theater, and Chaplin, Fairbanks, and Bow became the stars of Asakusa. As is usually true of entertainment districts, even the best of them, Asakusa was marked by an ephemeral quality, by a sense of the fleetingness of all pleasure, which was perhaps part of its allure. But Asakusa, in the twentieth century, really did live on the edge; the entire quarter was almost totally destroyed twice: first in the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, which hit just as people were cooking their lunches, and incinerated the mostly wooden houses in a horrific firestorm; and again in the spring of 1945, when American B-29 bombers demolished much of the city and all of Asakusa, causing the deaths of between 60,000 and 70,000 people in a couple of nights.
After the 1923 earthquake, the famous park was a charred wasteland, the Twelve-Story Tower no more than a ruined stump, and the opera palaces were rubble. Only the Kannon temple survived. It was thought by some that the statue of a famous Kabuki actor striking a heroic pose had held off the approaching flames. (The temple did not survive the American bombs, however, and had to be reconstructed.) And yet, fleeting as its pleasures may have been, Asakusa could not stay down for long. The movie houses and opera halls were rebuilt, and the park, with its pickpockets, prostitutes, Kannon worshipers, dandies, and juvenile delinquents, sprang back to life. In 1929, the Casino Folies was opened, located on the second floor of an aquarium, next to an entomological museum, or Bug House, which had somehow survived the devastation of 1923.
The Casino Folies, named after the Folies Bergère in Paris, was not especially wild, although it was rumored—apparently without any basis in truth—that the dancing girls, sometimes in blond wigs, dropped their drawers on Friday evenings. But it spawned not only talented entertainers, some of whom later became movie stars, but great comedians too. The most famous was Enoken, who appears in Kurosawa's 1945 film They Who Step on the Tiger's Tail. Everything that was raffish and fresh about Asakusa between the wars was exemplified by the Casino Folies, a symbol of the Japanese jazz age of "modern boys" (mobos) and modern girls (mogas). The cultural slogan of the time was ero, guro, nansensu, "erotic, grotesque, nonsense." Kawabata Yasunari was one of the writers whose early work was infused by this spirit, and it was his book that made the Folies famous. He hung around Asakusa for three years, wandering the streets, talking to dancers and young gangsters, but mostly just walking and looking, and reported on what he saw in his extraordinary modernist novel, The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa, first published in 1930.
The novel is not so much about developing characters as about expressing a new sensibility, a new way of seeing and describing atmosphere: quick, fragmented, cutting from one scene to another, like editing a film, or assembling a collage, with a mixture of reportage, advertising slogans, lyrics from popular songs, fantasies, and historical anecdotes and legends. There is much ero, guro, nansensu there, related in the chatty tone of a congenial flaneur, telling stories about this place or that, and who did what where, while trolling the streets for new sensations. This fragmentary way of storytelling owes a great deal to European expressionism, or "Caligarism," after the German movie The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. However, as Edward Seidensticker, quoted in Donald Richie's excellent foreword, points out, it also owes much to Edo period stories.
Kawabata himself professed to hate his early experiment in modernist fiction and quickly went on to develop a very different, more classical style, but he still made an important contribution to the Japanese Roaring Twenties. Besides the novel, he also wrote the film script for Kinugasa Teinosuke's expressionist masterpiece, A Page of Madness (1926). One of the most remarkable things about The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa is that it was serialized in a mainstream newspaper, the Asahi Shimbun, which is, as Donald Richie says, as though Ulysses had been picked up by the London Times. This testifies to the high-mindedness of the Japanese press—almost unthinkable in our age of Murdoch—but also to the willingness of the Japanese public to accept avant-garde literature in a popular newspaper; it probably helped that the avant-garde expressionism was mixed with accounts of Asakusa's low life.
Mixing high and low is of course part of modernism. Like many artists in the 1920s, Kawabata was interested in detective fiction and Caligarism is often marked by a fascination with violent crime. The use of slang and the references to popular culture of the time must have made The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa extremely difficult to translate, and Alisa Freedman has done an superb job, even though the full flavor of the original can never be fully reproduced.
The narrator/flaneur introduces the reader to various characters, low-life types like Umekichi, who skins stray cats to sell their pelts, and his girlfriend Yumiko, who poisons an older lover on a riverboat by kissing him with arsenic, and Haruko, dressed in gold crepe, and Tangerine Oshin, "the heroine of every bad girl worth the name," who had "done" 150 men by the time she was sixteen. These are the people who drift into the Scarlet Gang. But there are others, more of the guro than the ero variety: the man in the Asakusa fairground with a mouth in his belly, smoking through his stomach; or the female tramps who dress like men; or the children who clean public toilets because they love modern concrete. The narrator is only interested, he writes, in "lowly women." The lowest kind of prostitutes are the teenagers, known as gokaiya, who sleep with rag-pickers and bums. Tangerine Oshin was one of them.
In true modernist fashion, it is never clear to what extent these people are meant to be real, or pure figments of the narrator's imagination. In fact, the narrator is the first to point out the fictional quality of his story. Artifice is the point. Yumiko, after disappearing from the story for a long stretch, returns near the end of the novel as a hair oil seller. Selling oil, in Japanese, means fibbing, making up a story. Yumiko and the narrator discuss how the story should go on. The writer compares his story to a boat, like the boat on which Yumiko entertained her lover before murdering him, meandering, without a plotted course. This is where traditional Japanese storytelling meets modernism. Both share this quality.
None of the characters in Kawabata's novel has the depth of such modernist antiheroes as Franz Biberkopf in Alfred Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz or Joyce's Bloom. Compared to them Yumiko and the others are flimsy as rice paper. It is in conveying atmosphere that Kawabata, like so many Japanese literary flaneurs, excels. Here is the first sentence of Chapter Four:
While she did her Spanish number (and I did not make this up—this is a true story), I clearly saw that the dancer on stage carried on her biceps needle marks from a recent injection, though a small piece of adhesive tape had been stuck on top. In the grounds of the Sensåøo Temple at around two in the morning, sixteen or seventeen wild dogs let out a terrific howl as they all rush after a single cat. That's what Asakusa is all about. You come to sniff out the scent of a crime.
Or this, about a character the writer is thinking of including in his story:
Another one I would add, a truly sad foreigner, was the leader of the water circus troupe that came from America that year. Someone put up a hundred-foot ladder on the burnt-out ruins of the Azuma Theater, and the troupe leader jumped from the top into a small pond. There was a large woman who jumped from fifty feet like a seagull, and she really did look like one, too. Beautiful.
Casual, quickly noted in passing, a little sexy, absurd: ero, guro, nansensu. This spirit was all but snuffed out by the late 1930s, when militarism suppressed everything frivolous and pleasurable. And then the bombs finished Asakusa off entirely. Materially at least. For once again, vitality would not be denied. Donald Richie, as a young American with the Allied occupation, met Kawabata in Asakusa in 1947. Neither spoke the other's language. They climbed up the old Subway Tower building and surveyed the wreckage. Richie writes in his afterword:
This had been Asakusa. Around the great temple of the Kannon, now a blackened, empty square, had grown…places where, I had read, the all-girl opera sang and kicked, where the tattooed gamblers met and bet, where trained dogs walked on their hind legs and Japan's fattest lady sat in state.
Now, two years after all this had gone up in flames…the empty squares were again turning into lanes as tents, reed lean-tos, a few frame buildings began appearing. Girls in wedgies were sitting in front of new tearooms, but I saw no sign of the world's fattest lady. Perhaps she had bubbled away in the fire.
The Yoshiwara still exists in name, though it has been sadly reduced to a few streets of tawdry massage parlors, knows as "soaplands," after the Turkish embassy protested against their earlier designation as Torukos, or Turkish baths. ↩
For a loving description of those days, see Edward Seidensticker, Low City, High City (Harvard University Press, 1991).↩
The Yoshiwara still exists in name, though it has been sadly reduced to a few streets of tawdry massage parlors, knows as "soaplands," after the Turkish embassy protested against their earlier designation as Torukos, or Turkish baths. ↩
For a loving description of those days, see Edward Seidensticker, Low City, High City (Harvard University Press, 1991).↩


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A good babysitter is hard to find and the fun ones are even harder to find. When you do dig up a diamond in the buff, it's best to keep her satisfied. You don't want to entrust your household and your cock to just any old rapscallion with a couple of tight holes, now do you?
You may remember Ashlynn Leigh from Friends and Family 2, a really fucked up tale of dysfunctional family life. Well, she's back in DTMWIAFTB 6, a really fucked up tale of dysfunctional babysitting gigs. When her employer arrives home from a rotten day and realizes the wife and the kids are out he rejoices. And when he finds Ashlynn still crashed out on the bed long after her duties are complete … he rejoices even more. Why? He' s going to use every hole on her body like they were his boss and he's going to use his cock like it was a truncheon. And he's going to apply the truncheon with excess pressure to his boss over and over again until he feels better. And when you watch her deep throat his prick down to his nards; suck him in 69; take him into her tight slit and then into her asshole before licking her own ass juice off his prick; explode from multiple ass-gasms; and swallow his load while tickling his balls with her tongue it should make you feel better too.
Blonde Kaylee Hilton is psyched about the party she's attending tonight, but right now she's babysitting. Her employer, Mr. John, is up to his eyeballs in work, but would rather be up to his nut balls in Kaylee after he sees a naked picture of her on her phone when she goes to change. She doesn't care as she insists she looks much better naked in person. Because his wife called and said she'd be late yet again, Mr. John uses the opportunity to do a little sight-seeing and a little slut fucking. Kaylee has unbelievably nice tits with long nipples and a ripe clamshell with pierced clit. Instinctively, she also knows the kinds of angles that sell movies. Employing a floor POV, she takes a thick dick into her asshole in RCG, while fingering her swollen little clit for the camera. It's a really hot shot that complements her other skills like deep throating, modeling and ball sucking.
Though Megan Foxx snared the coveted box cover spot, the prize here might be Nicki Blue, an attractive young thing with beyond shoulder-length sandy blonde locks and smooth, pale skin. She's looking for her own prizes in her employer's dresser and jewelry box. She latches onto a pink pair of silk panties and a giant red dildo. We'd say she crams it where the sun don't shine, but that could mean her chin or eye socket as sunless as she is. We're glad to report that she buries the toy deep into her ass, warming it up for the real thing, which happens when her employer returns home suddenly to retrieve the laptop he forgot in 5 … 4 … 3 … 2 … 1 …
He seems less appalled that she's fucking herself than the fact that she's defiling what was a 10th anniversary wedding gift for his wife. Nevertheless, he's thrilled she'll do about anything to prevent her agency from finding out she violated the rules of her employment. That means getting her ass violated, which happens almost immediately. She gives it up in every way imaginable, CG, RCG, mish, and doggie, taking a celebratory cumshot to the face.
Finally, there's Megan Foxx, one of the new crop of stars that borrow their stage names from the Hollywood set because of their apparent look-a-like status. While that's okay, we swear the moment a Joyy Bayhar or a Whoopee Goldburg starts tearing up the porn scene it might be time for a hiatus. Megan has long brown hair, blue eyes, shapely figure and a large handful of tits that are just begging to be grabbed and groped. She can't wait for Mr. Strong to come home and help her "clean his daughter's room". Feel free to agree or disagree here but, somehow, slurping up his cock seems like a roundabout way to tidy up a living space. What's even worse is that all their oral, vaginal and anal activities just end up making more of a mess. Hey, at least that mess is concentrated mainly on her facial region, unlike the clothes and other things strewn about the entire area.
The babysitter fantasy has always been right up there near the top of the fantasy list, and for good reason. Happily, the boys at Devil's Film have it down to a science.
Stars: Megan Foxx Ashlynn Leigh Kaylee Hilton Nicki Blue
Categories: Anal New Release Teen All Sex Babysitters High Definition
Running Time: 122 minutes
Released: 04/2011
Studio Name: Devil's Film Devils Film
Series: Don't Tell My Wife, I Ass Fucked The Babysitter
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Many of you have asked about the impact Hurricane Ida had on your children as it moved through El Salvador. As we receive specific details from the El Salvador office about they've been affected we will contact you.
The good news is that no children were physically hurt. But we understand that you want…
Sponsor a Singing Bunny!
Apparently, a singing bunny has made its way into our child sponsorship program in El Salvador. The Compassion Bloggers saw it.
Sponsor a singing bunny in El Salvador.
You can also view the singing bunny video in YouTube.
Thanks for the video Patricia.
You're invited to a live video chat from El Salvador with the Compassion Bloggers.
It's taking place on Wed., Nov. 11 at 9 p.m. CST at www.livestream.com/compassion.
See you there.
Do You Sponsor a Child in El Salvador?
More specifically, do you sponsor a child in one of these three child development centers in El Salvador?
ES526, Bethel Student Center
ES808, Cachorros de León Student Center
ES782, Comisión de Amor Student Center
If you do sponsor a child in one of those three centers, let us know. These are the centers that the CompassionBloggers will visit…
Compassion Bloggers in India
Since April 26, and through May 2, five bloggers have been experiencing firsthand what Compassion's ministry to children in poverty is all about.
Visit compassionbloggers.com to travel across the world to the impoverished neighborhoods of Kolkata, East India, and through their stories, pictures and videos rediscover hope.
Dominican Republic Blog Trip
And they're off! Well, not yet. But they will be on November 2.
Be a part of the five-day experience (November 2-7) as these bloggers learn and talk about our ministry in the Dominican Republic (DR) first hand.
Melanie – BigMama
Jennifer Donovan – 5 Minutes for Mom
Mary Ostyn – Owlhaven.net
Tim Challies – Challies.com
Shaun Groves – Shlog
Blog Trip to the Dominican Republic
The Compassion Bloggers are at it again.
Uganda last February. The Dominican Republic this November.
Here's who's going. Go ahead and get familiar.
Jennifer Donovan – 5 Minutes for Mom
Mary Ostyn – Owlhaven.net
Tim Challies – Challies.com
Marlboro Man, from ThePioneerWoman.com
Melanie – BigMama
Shaun Groves – Shlog
A Smart Risk
Shaun Groves wrote this post. It's been approved by the powers-that-be.
About Shaun Groves
Be careful going around having ideas and talking about them. You might just get put to work. That's what happened to me.
About a year ago, I think it was, I started talking to the folks at Compassion about a crazy new idea. I…
A Little Can Mean a Lot
Our SpotLINK guest contributor today is A. She currently serves as a worship leader and choir director. She blogs at Be Thou My Vision and co-maintains Women in Worship, a site connecting Christian women who are passionate about worshiping and serving God through music and the arts.
I remember when I first felt God leading me…
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