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Few best-of-both-worlds collaborations work as well as Distant Relatives, which pairs Nas' incendiary rhymes with the keening hooks and global rhythms that Bob Marley's youngest son favors. Together they vent assorted complaints war, poverty, Nas' divorce battle with Kelis in righteous tones that only occasionally lapse into preachiness. B+
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Oky I did that and it worked.
But I was forced to remove the software becouse I will only install it on a brand new server. It justamde too much changes on this box.
What is the problem now?
Well, I had on many of my pages some PHP language. For example:
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And since this install/uninstall this isn't working anymore. PHP is working, becouse it can read .php pages, just this doesn't work.
Damn.. Any ideas how to fix this?
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Sedu Pro Ionic Ceramic Tourmaline Flat Iron (1 1/2")
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Multicultural HairThis is how I straighten my hair. 1. Wash hair with suave shampoo. 2. Massage alot of suave conditioner in hair. I leave it for about and hour. 3. Rinse condtioner out 4. Spray Biolage thermal treatment on wet hair. 5. Blow dry hair 6. rub kera care creme press into hair 7. Part hair in sections and use kera care for individual sections if needed and begin to straighten hair. After Im done straitghtening my hair I tie it up and then wait untill the next morning and style my hair how I want to. I use the sedu at a temperature of 320.Reply to this post
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Redken Smoothdown Works GreatI always thought Redken Smoothdown was a hoax, but I realized how to get the most of out this iron through the Redken system. 1. Use Redken Smoothdown Shampoo and Conditioner. The first few times you wash/condition with it, you will not notice too much of a frizz difference. By the 5th-6th time you wash/condition with it, your hair will be amazingly less frizzy and smooth. 2. Put in BioSilk Therapy on wet hair. 3. Iron with Sedu as you like (in sections). 4. Do not spray other things after ironing, because your hair will become oily much more quickly than if you just leave it natural.Reply to this post
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If You Aren't Happy With Results YetMy hair is thick, curly, and frizzy (Im Italian). Of course always use good quality products for straightening and moisturizing hair, and leave conditioner in for at least 2-3 minutes. Here are my other tips: 1. Find a hairdresser who understands thick, curly hair. My first salvation was someone who texturized (thinned) my hair. Dont let anyone tell you it isnt good for your hair! My stylist has texturizing scissors that take bigger pieces out. She cuts my hair in layers and then "texturizes" the bottom 1-2 inches of each layer, leaving the ends of each layer thinner so there are not blunt, choppy layers. Thin if I wear my hair curly, the curls taper to a thinner look thats not so thick! 2. Only salon products work well enough for me. I HAVE to have Smoothnn Straightening Balm by Eufora. I use a half-dollar size dollop with about 3-4 drops of Pure Polish by Eufora. Theres nothing like it! 3. My hair wont straighten correctly with drying and ironing alone. I have to dry my hair with a hot air brush first. I have the Hot Tools Ionic Hot Air Brush, which works ok but its a piece of crap. It broke after 2 mos. and I am waiting for my replacement. Find a better one. The Ionic technology helps make my hair smoother. Be sure to pull at the roots while drying before your hair can develop kinks near the head. I dry in sections, starting at the bottom. I put my wet hair up at the top of my head loosely with a clip. If the top hair in the clip starts to dry while Im doing the bottom I re-spray the top w/ water. Once I get a kink in my hair from the clip its very hard to get out! 4. Make sure the sections are SMALL! 5. I have the flat iron plugged in while Im drying. The hot air brush leaves my hair somewhat smooth but a little wavy and the ends still curl up with the hot air brush - not what I want. I then iron the small section BEFORE I EVEN DRY THE NEXT SECTION. If I dry it all then clip it up in sections to iron, I develop kinks where the clip was. It works better if I wash my hair and style in the evening. It usually looks too full for my taste at that point, but after sleeping on it it looks better and I can touch it up the next day. I also put a few drops of Pure Polish on my hands and run them through my dry hair to help. I cant get this iron to slightly curl my ends in or out like Id like so if I want the ends not to be poker straight I have to use a wide barrel (1-1/2 inch) curling iron for finishing touches. Then I dont wash it for 3 days cuz I dont want to go through it again!Reply to this post
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Wavy Frizzy Hair To Glam Silky Soft Hair1. Wash hair with Redken All Soft Shampoo and Conditioner I swear by it. 2. Let hair airdry for ten minutes 3. Add quarter size of BioSilk to hands and smooth over hair 4. Blowdry with Babybliss Carrera Hair Dryer cuts drying time in half. Make sure hair is 100% dry to prevent damage from straightener. 5. Rub minidot of Osis Magic between hands and then over hair. 6. Separate hair into two sections (right side and left) then comb mini sections before straightening with Sedu flat iron.Reply to this post
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How To Get Straight And Healthy HairI wash my hair with Garnier Fructis sleek & smooth shampoo and Neutrogena triple moisture hair mask conditioner. Towel dry and apply hask placenta leave in hair reconstructor and leave on for 3 minutes (this will protect your hair from the heat). Then I apply Garnier Fructis sleek & shine serum (this will keep your hair smooth plus keep your frizz & fly aways in check). I blow dry it with a paddle brush and use my sedu flat iron. It works every time!!!Reply to this post
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Harbours Edge B & B Bed & Breakfast Yarmouth
Official Contact Details - Harbours Edge B & BPhone: 902-742-2387
Beautiful historic home (circa 1864) on 2 acres of Harbour frontage in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. Four rooms, all with private baths.
- Price from 90 CAD / Day
- 4 bedrooms
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Last updated: 09/17/2007
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Our beautiful heritage home is on two acres of waterfront property. Situated at the very head of Yarmouth Harbour, you will enjoy excellent birdwatching and incredible views as the activity on the Harbour unfolds each day. Beautiful 3 story , award winning Heritage home. Four private rooms each with their own private bath. Large common areas. Lovely gardens.
Situated in the Town of Yarmouth, we are one mile or less from downtown, shopping, restaurants and Ferry Terminal.
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- If at all suspicious of fraud, ask to see their website, or any other literature they can provide or send to you. Ask them for contact details for guests who have previously stayed on their property insisting on telephone numbers. Be suspicious of emails that originate from free email services (yahoo, hotmail, gmail, etc)
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Maps & GIS: useful websites. Gazetteers
Gazetteers are indexes to places. There are two types of gazetteer - those which simply give coordinates and/or codified information, and those which give a verbal description of a place. The latter will usually also give coordinates. Both types are listed here.
Collections of links
- Place Names (ASU)
Collection of links to web based gazetteers maintained by Arizona State University Libraries. includes world and country gazetteers.
- Geographical Names on the Internet
Links to various country gazetteers. Maintained by the Permanent Commitee for Geographical Names (PCGN) for British official use.
World gazetteers
- NGA GeoNet Names Server
Provides access to the United States National Imagery and Mapping Agency's (NIMA) database of foreign (i.e. non-USA) geographic feature names. Includes approximately 5 million features and 7 million feature names. Use the Text based search page for easiest access.
- Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Gazetteer of places with an emphasis on places important for art and architecture. Produced by the Getty Research Institute.
Country gazetteers
- Ordnance Survey Gazetteer of Great Britain
To access the Ordnance Survey Gazetteer of Great Britain, see Digimap.
- Gazetteer for Scotland
Maintained by the Robertson Trust. "The first comprehensive gazetteer of Scotland since 1885."
- Geographic Names Information Server (United States)
GNIS has information about almost 2 million physical and cultural geographic features in the United States. Also covers Antarctica. Developed by the United States Geological Survey and the U.S. Board on Geographic Names.
- Imperial Gazetteer of India
Full text - can be browsed or searched. Part of a much larger historical resource on South Asia - the Digital South Asia Library.
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Magazine of the painting blogosphere.
James Kalm visits an exhibition of paintings by Devin Powers at Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, on view through November 25, 2012.
Kalm writes that "Devin Powers makes pictures that vibrate with subtle colors and painterly incident Practicing an abstract approach that develops out of crystalline structure and fractal repeated pattern, these paintings maintain a handmade feel while evolving from an austere geometric format with strong linear vectors."
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Edited by artist Brett Baker, Painters' Table highlights writing from the painting blogosphere as it is published and serves as a platform for exploring blogs that focus primarily on the subject of painting.
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A fundamental review of media ownership in the UK needs to take place in the wake of the phone hacking scandal, Unite's Assistant General Secretary, Tony Burke will tell a TUC conference tomorrow (Saturday, 17 March).
Tony Burke will tell the Taking on the media barons conference in London that the scandal emanating from the Rupert Murdoch-owned News International (NI) should make government re-consider how media ownership is regulated.
Tony Burke will say: "I want to see the Labour Party now committing itself to restricting media ownership and committing itself to ensuring that no one person or corporation can control what we read, listen to or see ever again.
"I know that there are those in the Labour Party who may recoil in horror – but I am of the view that the scale of the scandal - being revealed on a daily basis at the Leveson Inquiry - is changing the minds of people in this country.
"We should be mindful that free expression is threatened not just by authoritarian right-wing governments and those who fear public exposure, but also by the handful of global media conglomerates that have reduced diversity of expression and ownership across the globe."
Tony Burke will say that there were eight media giants in the USA from which most Americans gained their information – and this proved the point about the dominance of the media by a few corporations which needs to be resisted.


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A week ago today, police in Galveston County, Texas, found the bodies of two young Black lesbians. Crystal Jackson and Britney Cosby, both 24, had both been murdered and police suspected their sexuality may have been a factor in their killings.
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Tatiana Salem Levy, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
June 7, 2013 | by Matteo Pericoli
A series on what writers from around the world see from their windows.
Although I have an office in my apartment, every day I wake up and take my laptop to the dining room table. The view from my dining room has an amplitude that takes me away, and when I write I need the feeling that space and time have no end. I can't stand writing in enclosed places, nor having just an hour to work.
When I sit at the table, the morning is still quiet; I hear one or another child leaving for school and the birds that often come to visit me at the window. That's when I write best, inspired by the imbalance and the irregularity of the buildings in front of me. Then, throughout the day, inspiration will fail. I get up and lean on the window to see what I can't see while seated: a huge mountain to the right with a statue of Christ on top. In silence, I start talking to the man with open arms until my thoughts get lost and I decide to go back to the chair. And so my days elapse, between the table and the window. —Tatiana Salem Levy
Andrea Hirata, Jakarta, Indonesia
May 3, 2013 | by Matteo Pericoli
A series on what writers from around the world see from their windows.
Since my childhood, I have rarely had the power to control where I can be. Life has not given me many choices. But after writing my first novel, I started thinking of leaving my place of employment, where I worked for almost twelve years. Though writing is a very risky way of making a living in Indonesia, I finally resigned from my job, and now I've got this strange feeling of relief.
The decision to write full-time meant I couldn't afford to buy a house. A friend kindly offered me the use of his apartment in a thirty-six–story building full of newlywed couples in the southern area of Jakarta. I didn't like my working space at first, but the scenery and everything going on outside have worked their magic on me. From a building right in front of my windows, I can observe the speed of the sunrises and sunsets. The voices of children playing, laughing, yelling, and crying on the playground crawl up to the eighth floor, where I write. Their voices sound so innocent from a distance. —Andrea Hirata
Alejandro Zambra, Santiago, Chile
April 5, 2013 | by Matteo Pericoli
A series on what writers from around the world see from their windows.
I'm not sure that my little studio is the best place in the house to write. It's too hot in summer and too cold in winter. But I like this window. I like those trees crossed by power lines and that slice of available sky. The silence is never absolute, or maybe it is—maybe my idea of silence now includes the constant barking of dogs and the uneven roar of motors. I take enormous pleasure in watching passersby, the odd cyclist, the cars.
When the writing isn't happening I just sit there, absorbing the scenery, adoring it. I'm sure those minutes, those apparently lost hours, are useful in some way, that they're essential for writing: that my books would be very different if I had written them in another room, looking out another window. —Alejandro Zambra
Translated from the Spanish by Harry Backlund.
G. Mend-Ooyo, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
March 1, 2013 | by Matteo Pericoli
A series on what writers from around the world see from their windows.
When I was young, every morning I would take our hobbled horse and walk it in the dawn light. My father would say, "Sleep late like a horse. Rise early like a bird." As I walked with the horse, I was very happy to have the little birds fly just above the light of dawn as they sang.
The rhythm of each morning of my life still moves to the beat of my lovely childhood. From the window of my home in the center of Ulaanbaatar, I grasp the pale light in the east. Just as I used to bring in the horses pastured on the wild steppe, I spend time recollecting in my mind many thoughts that have taken flight. The images of life, transected by the window, are a chiaroscuro.
I can clearly see the great seat of learning that is the National University of Mongolia. Sometimes it seems to be an image hanging on walls. A few steps from the window is my writing desk, made from Mongolian pine wood. When I sit at the desk, the world shifts into a different space. The history books grow thicker. There is no time to watch what goes on beyond my window. —G. Mend-Ooyo
Luljeta Lleshanaku, Kruja, Albania
February 1, 2013 | by Matteo Pericoli
A series on what writers from around the world see from their windows.
I usually prefer to write in my bedroom at my childhood home in Kruja. Traces of the old living style are in the yard in the front of window: the sheets hung for drying; the terracotta jars, or magrips, sixty-year-old objects once used by my grandfather as olive oil containers and now cut at the throat, transformed as flower vases; the ruined walls which once fenced in the tomato garden; the alembic, or lambik, which served, in the absence of running water, for washing hands after work. But also present is the invisible, the unseen: the erased objects and the missing human beings; the cut plum tree where my sister and I used to climb up during those beautiful summer mornings; the loud voice of my mother when coming back exhausted from her work; the mulberry tree which brought the insects and the good odor of pegmez, the syrup of condensed fruit; the liming thresholds before holidays; my uncles, my cousins, all those portraits and gestures which once populated this yard.
On this inescapable, familiar stage, I can focus on the pelagic depth of a single and bounded situation. In my case creative freedom doesn't necessarily mean hunting for a new landscape. This environment leads me toward something unmistakable, which is a kind of freedom, too. —Luljeta Lleshanaku
Harris Khalique, Islamabad, Pakistan
January 4, 2013 | by Matteo Pericoli
A series on what writers from around the world see from their windows.
In the afternoon when the sun is blazing and in early evening when its orange hue allows me to stare into the horizon, I look out of this window in my office that opens into a terrace but offers a wider view. I see the palatial houses and imagine the few who live there in luxury. Then I think of the many who serve them—who hurl rolls of newspapers onto their porches, bring groceries, drive cars, sweep floors, toil in the sizzling kitchens. They dwell in shanty settlements ensconced within the affluent neighborhoods or live in crammed quarters in the backyards of these houses.
Before dusk I can look beyond the trees and catch a clear glimpse of the thin-looking white minarets of the Faisal Mosque, one elegant and expansive structure on the slopes of the Margalla Hills. These minarets remind me of the worst dictator we have had. He lies buried in the gardens of this mosque while we still struggle to rein in the beasts of ignorance and bigotry he unleashed.
Last week when it stopped raining after several hours, I decided to go beyond the window and walk across the terrace to look over the street from above. I saw a young girl squatting by a small puddle and folding paper into boats. An odd mix of intense sorrow and great hope enveloped my heart. —Harris Khalique


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- 1 to 2 large garlic cloves
- Several sprinkles of sea salt
- 6 ripe plum tomatoes
- Handful of grated Pecorino (about 1/2 cup)
- A generous splash of olive oil (about 1/3 cup)
- 1 pound linguine
Sauté the almonds in a little olive oil until tan.
Put basil, garlic, and salt in food processor and chop. Put aside.
Put in almonds and pulse until size of orzo.
Put tomatoes, almonds, basil garlic, cheese, and olive oil back in food processor and whir briefly. Add some fresh-ground coarse pepper.
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- Carbohydrates62 g (21%)
- Fat22 g (34%)
- Protein16 g (33%)
- Saturated Fat4 g (21%)
- Sodium338 mg (14%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat3 g
- Fiber5 g (18%)
- Monounsaturated Fat13 g
- Cholesterol11 mg (4%)
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In this week's episode of Glee, Sue decides to resurrect the school newspaper so she can spread false rumors around McKinley. Brittany tries to get Santana to come clean with her feelings, while Finn and Rachel stake out a motel to investigate whether Quinn is cheating on him.
The episode opens on Brittany's internet talk show, "Fondue for Two." Her first guests include Mercedes and Tina, who she's grilling for scoop. Brittany actually blurts out that Santana plays for a "different team," which shocks her glee club cohorts.
At school, Rachel approaches Sam to ask if he wants to go to prom together, but he tries to skirt her advances. "I don't think I'm going," he admits before adding, "You're just not my type."
Terri and Sue plan to go behind enemy lines, which is why the Cheerios coach is dressed incognito as David Bowie (and then as Ann Coulter). Sue reveals that she wants to revive the school newspaper, The Muckraker, where they don't confirm facts, just report straight rumors. Terri observes that Sue is always trying to destroy New Directions from the inside, whereas she suggest they get Will out of the glee club to destroy them.
Perfect timing, April Rhodes has returned! It turns out her all-white production of The Wiz failed miserably, so she's creating her own Broadway show, Crossroads: The April Rhodes story. She's returned to McKinley because she's low on funds and needs to borrow the auditorium she bought for Will.
Rachel asks Finn to sing a duet together, but he declines because he's dating Quinn. She retorts that Quinn doesn't care about his feelings and shows him proof: A rumor in The Muckraker that suggests Sam and Quinn have been secretly hooking up at a hotel. As Finn blows up on Sam, Santana yells at Brittany for saying she plays for a different team. Brittany just meant that she went from the Cheerios to the New Directions, but it's been construed a different way.
Will complains to April that there are so many rumors being thrown around on campus, and that they're destroying the glee club. April says they're suffering from "The Mac," comparing New Directions to Fleetwood Mac during the height of their internal strife between group members. Will decides to do Mac's album, "Rumours," as this week's lesson, and kicks it off by singing "Dreams," which was written as the band was breaking apart in an attempt to keep them together. Will asks them to each choose a song and put their own spin on it.
Artie confronts Brittany on what's going on between her and Santana. She says that her relationship with Santana doesn't count as cheating — at least, that's what Santana says — which leads Artie to blurt out, "God, Brittany, why are you so stupid?" She rushes off in tears because — until now -- he was the only person who had never called her that. Artie begins to sing "Never Going Back Again," as Puck, Sam, Finn and others join in on guitars.
Outside the infamous motel, Finn and Rachel are on a stakeout in order to catch Quinn and Sam in the act. Rachel says she doesn't understand why Finn and Quinn got back together if he's never really trusted her. Just then, Finn sees Sam exit the motel room ... with Kurt! Finn is shocked, thinking Kurt is cheating on Blaine with Sam.
Santana decides to privately express her feelings to Brittany by singing "Songbird." Brittany ponders why Santana couldn't just sing that in front of the club, but Santana isn't ready to come out publicly. Brittany suggests Santana be her next guest on "Fondue for Two," where Brittany will ask her to prom and all Santana needs to do is say yes.
After Rachel begs Kurt not to cheat on Blaine, she and Finn go on another stakeout. He admits that Quinn has always been so protective of her feelings, whereas Rachel had been very open about her own. Sam exits the hotel room again ... with Quinn this time, and Finn is crushed.
Brittany decides to become a hard-hitting journalist, so she joins The Muckraker. Her first interview is with Will, but the questions become excessively inappropriate and eventually lead to speculation that he's leaving New Directions. He confronts Sue why she's spreading rumors, and she merely replies that he could actually go to New York. She's really just trying to get rid of him.
The latest edition of The Muckraker has photos of Finn and Rachel cosy together on the stakeout, which angers Quinn. After an intense fight, Quinn and Finn decide they just need to trust each other, so they sing, "I Don't Want to Know," but they don't seem into it at all. Rachel suggests Finn would be better off doing duets with her, but Quinn retorts that if he wants to keep dating, he's no longer allowed to sing with Rachel.
Emma spies April and Will practicing for the musical in the auditorium, where April asks Will to come to Broadway with her, but he wants to focus on getting the kids to Nationals. Later, Emma admits she's been taking her OCD medication and it's really helped her germ phobia. She tells Will that he, too, should take a chance and think about going to Broadway with April.
Rachel decides to do her own interpretation of "Go Your Own Way," with a feminine twist. She still manages to do a song with Finn since he's playing the drums. A fight erupts in the rehearsal room, forcing Sam to reveal that the motel is actually his new home. His father lost his job and the house, so they've been living there.
Sue celebrates with April and Terri over drinks. Wait, what? It turns out, Terri had asked April to come back to McKinley to get Will to leave and go on Broadway. While it sounds malicious, April just thought Terri was doing what was best for Will. Sue says the next Muckraker will reveal Will's plans to leave, which will then make it actually come to fruition.
Rachel and Finn decide to visit Sam at the motel, where he says he'll likely have to drop out of glee club. His family is doing so badly, he's had to sell his guitar, which New Directions secretly bought back. Sam is overwhelmed by their generosity, and Rachel says they'll do anything they can to support him so he can stay in the club.
Sadly for Brittany, Santana decided not to show up for "Fondue for Two," and is called out by Jacob for planting fake rumors about her and Karofsky. In front of Brittany, Santana reveals that she's in love with Karofsky. Aww, can't these two kids make it work?
The Muckraker hits stands and the club questions whether Will will leave them for Broadway, but he insists he'll be there to take them to Nationals. The episode closes on Sam leading the group in "Don't Stop."
What did you think of the episode? Your homework until next week: Hit the comments with your arguments on whether Finn should be with Rachel or Quinn. Seriously, I really want to know because I can't decide!
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Why tackle a subject as old as the human race, one that has been talked about, written about, and thrashed over by thousands of persons? Is there some new discovery that reveals more than has ever been known? Has modern science and cosmology opened up previously unknown regions of the universe? However you might answer the questions, it is very likely that, like our ancestors and Val Webb, our descendents will go on thinking about, writing, arguing and even fighting over the questions that arise around that which she calls the "Sacred" and that many refer to as "God".
I was not far into the second book before it seemed logical to review it along with the first, as it is a continuation of the subjects covered in the first.
One who chooses to tackle such a material had better have a background of education and experience that gives them the kind of wisdom required. Val Webb is one of those few who qualify. She has written on such topics as "Abstracts on Microbiological Methods", "Development of Staff Training at the Wesley Hospital", "A New Theology for Bolivia", and "Florence Nightingale, The Making of a Radical Theologian".
She was born and grew up in Australia, where she earned two Bachelor of Science degrees in Microbiology. After an eighteen month stint in England, she and her husband, Maurice moved to Rochester Minnesota with their first two children, where he took a position as a surgeon and head of the Department of Gynecologic Surgery at the Mayo Clinic. There they had their third child and spent almost the next thirty years in the U.S. They have since moved back to their homeland of Australia.
She has two Bachelor of Science degrees in Microbiology, a Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies and a Ph.D. in Systematic Theology. While in Rochester she founded and directed the Val Webb Gallerie, where she practiced her skills in sketching, etching and water color.
As much as conservative Christians would like to able to quit all this fussing and settle the issue of GOD, that is not in the cards. Instead, what Val Webb refers to as "the Sacred" and "the Divine" continues to intrude into human life, world wide. We are presently in a time where more people in the U.S. are classifying themselves as "spiritual", rather than "religious", but that does not lessen our need to reach out beyond ourselves to make contact with the great "out there".
Karen Armstrong gave us an epic work in her "A History of God", tracing the God concept back through Judaism, Islam and Christianity. Webb reaches out still further, giving us many beautiful gems from the major world religions, plus the more recently unearthed treasures of the Native Americans and Aboriginal Australian people.
One thing which became still more evident to me from Webb's book is that in this realm of human thought, perhaps more than in any other, we encounter the limits of human language. If we are discussing such things as "desks", or "chairs", or "cars, trucks and highways", or even the more abstract ideas such as "speed", "volume", "depth", we will not have a great degree of confusion nor miscommunication. But when we go off into the realm of "Tao", "Brahman", "I am what I am", "God", "Yahweh", "El", "Allah", "Redeemer", "Creator", and on and on, language becomes a very feeble tool for clear communication.
Whereas for some the question "Is there a 'God'?" seems crucial, for many the question has changed more toward "What Is there?, "Who are we?" and simply, "Why?"
While her book is full of memorable quotations from throughout the world, plus those from herself, I will choose one paragraph that represents this wisdom:
The ability of Formlessness to remain formless or take any form gives rise to contradictions in GOD-talk—known yet unknown, present, yet hidden, closer than our breath yet not contained by the highest heavens, goodness yet wrathful, unchanging yet changing, Three-in-One yet One-in-three, within us yet transcendent, speaking yet staying silent, and so on. The formless "I am" can be whatever form is needed, and the Formless "I will become" is poised on the brink of millions of predicates willing to give it form. This adaptable, evolving GOD is so unlike the unchanging Greek Deity Christianity first inherited.. According to Catholic theologican Edward Schillebeeckx, "GOD is new each day, He is a constant source of new possibilities. . . GOD is absolute freedom. And that means that, as long as human history has not been completed, as long as the totality of history has not yet been given, we cannot know GOD''s being—there is always something more and so there is always openness. And even the totality of history does not coincide with GOD's activity." ( Pg 67)
Some, on first introduction to such a book, will say "Why bother with such esoteric gobbledy-gook; what difference does it matter?" Val answers that question with evidences from both history and the present, that what we think about such questions does very much matter. How we behave both as individuals and as cultures and nations comes from our beliefs about the nature of reality, sometimes permitting or even demanding our being violent against persons or groups, as our God orders, or, on the contrary, fostering support, kindness and compassion toward them. Put more simply, our God tells us who are "we" and who are "they". The consequences are vast.
After leading us on a path that traversed both human history and all parts of our planet, Webb concludes the first of her two books with a chapter "What is Truth" which offers up her own present thinking on this perpetual human challenge. Because she, like I, began our early church life within conservative Christianity and eventually traversed toward Process Theology and panentheism, I found her conclusions very comfortable.
The second book is a valuable continuation of the theme of the Sacred within human life as she addresses the question of the many ways in which we connect the amorphous Sacred to specific and ongoing areas of our lives. The first chapter heading is indicative of her intent: "Pinning Down the Sacred". She includes such subjects as "Sacred Places", "Sacred Things and Symbols", "Sacred Texts and Holy Books", "Rituals as Religious Action", These, plus still other relevant chapters, provide a very good over-all coverage of how the "Sacred" plays a powerful, universal and ongoing daily role in the lives of all who inhabit our planet earth.
Who will appreciate and want to read her books and who will not? While I found the volume of offerings from the world's religious literature to be an abundant treasure of stirring and inspiring gems, I believe there will be those who will find the first of the two books unsettling and disturbing. The book will not be a "treasure" to those seeking a straight path to "the Truth". She tells of a 1999 meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant denomination in the U.S., in which a prayer guide asked members to pray that the world's nine hundred million Hindus might be convicted of sin and see Jesus as the light of the World. Many other fundamentalist Christians, including the growing group in third world countries, would be highly incensed at Val Webb's failure to give us a simple, clear picture of God. Well, such is the world we inhabit. One man's treasure is another mans trash.
The second of the two books will probably be less unsettling to the conservative readers, as it presents more "information", but fewer challenges to belief systems.
Fortunately, those who seek the wisdom and inspiration that Val Webb offers is growing. Readers from other world religions will be inspired by her work, as will some who consider themselves atheists.


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Comic Book Legends Revealed #258
Welcome to the two-hundred and fifty-eighth in a series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false. Click here for an archive of the previous two hundred and fifty-seven.
Comic Book Legends Revealed is part of the larger Legends Revealed series, where I look into legends about the worlds of entertainment and sports, which you can check out here, at legendsrevealed.com. I'd especially recommend you check out this installment of Basketball Legends Revealed to learn about a felon who asked for a LONGER prison sentence to honor his favorite basketball player!
Let's begin!
COMIC LEGEND: An Alabama printer refused to print Alias #1 because of "offensive material."
STATUS: True
A couple of weeks ago, in an installment of Comic Book Legends Revealed, I noted that Marvel decided to change Black Panther's costume so that his face was not visible on the cover of his first appearance, Fantastic Four #52.
And I noted that while I do not know definitively WHY the change was made, the odds lean pretty heavily towards it being some concern on the part of either Marvel upper management (or even Stan Lee) that having a readily identifiable black superhero might cause too much controversy for Marvel at the time (1966).
At the time, I noted that such fears (whether they were well-founded or not) likely would have revolved around the distribution system at the time, as distribution of comics at the time was, while coordinated on a national level, was carried out on a local level. So Marvel might have worried about a Southern distributor. However, I also noted that a reader suggested that Marvel was worried about the PRINTER side of things.
And in response to that, a number of readers wrote in to note that there might have been cause for Marvel to be worried, at least in relation to a fairly recent situation involving a printer and Marvel Comics…
First, Jay Potts (writer/artist of the awesome World of Hurt web comic, which you can – and should – check out here) wrote in to say:
Although I don't dispute that distributors in the 1960s may have had concerns about moving books that featured Black characters, as recently as 2001, there was one high-profile incident of suspected racism on the part of a printer. The first issue of Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Gaydos' "Alias" had to change printers from American Color Graphics in Sylacauga, Alabama to Quebecor Printing after American Color Graphics refused to print the issue due to what it alleged was "offensive" content. The printer didn't indicate what part of the issue he found offensive, but bear in mind that this was the issue that featured the much-discussed interracial sex scene between Luke Cage and Jessica Jones. I hate to ascribe ACG's reluctance to print the book to some lingering prejudice, but I shook the Magic 8-Ball and it said "All Signs Point To Yes."
Jay is correct, and it's something I've been meaning to feature in Comic Book Legends Revealed for awhile, so now is as good of a time as any!
As Jay noted, American Color Graphics refused to print Alias #1.
Alias #1 had the following labeling on the cover…
So here is the aforementioned "offensive" scene (WARNING – As this is the scene that has the "explicit content," you might not want to keep reading if you don't like seeing, you know, explicit content)…
Now, when Jay notes that the scene includes interracial sex, obviously he is correct. But the scene also highly suggests that the characters are engaging in anal sex.
And as reader Jim Stamford wrote in to note that Alabama has very strict rules when it comes to content involving sodomy.
Heck, they were one of the states where sodomy was illegal (before the United States Supreme Court overruled all of those laws in 2003)!!
So it very well could have been the sex itself that made the printer wary.
Thanks to Jay Potts and Jim Stamford (and also Andrew Collins) for writing in about this one! Here's Bendis being interview on the topic (he doesn't make a guess as to why the content was deemed "offensive").
COMIC LEGEND: Two Golden Age characters named Captain Wonder managed to be take offs of other, more popular characters without actually being influenced by each other!
STATUS: True
Reader Hope wrote in to get the lowdown on the two Captain Wonders, so here you go, Hope!
Our story begins in Canada around the beginning of World War II.
From the moment that Canada declared War on Germany in 1939, Canada began rationing foreign currency.
But as 1940 came to a close, Canada found its trade deficit with the United States growing, so they decided to implement more drastic changes, including, in December of 1940, the War Exchange Conservation Act.
This Act involved the banning of importing any non-essential products from the United States. For instance, why import baseballs from Rawlings when Canada could produce their own baseballs and not further their trade deficit with the U.S.?
One major casualty of this were pulps, and by virtue of that, comic books, as well.
Comic books had become very popular in Canada by the end of 1940, with Superman, Captain Marvel and Disney comics being especially popular sellers.
So now with U.S. comics banned, Canadian comic companies sprung up to deal with the demand for comic books.
The first four were Maple Leaf Publishing, Anglo-American Publishing, Hillborough Studios, and Commercial Signs of Canada (the latter three were in Toronto, Maple Leaf was in Vancouver).
Hillborough was formed by a group of artists working together.
In 1941, they came out with their first book, Triumph-Adventure Comics #1.
Eventually, they teamed up with a new company called Bell Features.
Bell put out their comic, now called Triumph Comics…
Both Triumph and Bell's other notable series, Wow Comics, were noted by their black and white interiors to save money (Wow actually originally tried to get by with just cheap coloring – that did not last long).
One of the characters from Triumph was created by Ross Saakel and he was called Captain Wonder.
Captain Wonder was a young man who was raised by a yogi from youth after his parents were killed. The yogi eventually turned to the Gods of Old and asked: "Oh, Gods, may I present a young Canadian who has lived with me for the past twenty years! His parents were killed by a criminal! And now he wishes to return to Canada to exterminate all such malignant doers! Will you aid him in his task?"
After this, a dazzling flash of lightning transforms the young Canadian. Standing there clad in a colorful costume he now has the three gods' gifts – the strength of a hundred men, great wisdom, and speed, the power to fly like a bird and swim like a fish.
Sound familiar?
Meanwhile, in 1943, Timely Comics introduced a brand-new hero in the pages of Kid Comics #1 – Captain Wonder!
While saving the life of a scientist, Jeff Jordan was exposed to chemicals which gave him superhuman strength.
Teaming up with a young sidekick named Tim (whose codename was, well, Tim) – he donned a colorful costume and fought the Nazis and the Japanese in World War II.
Sound familiar?
Both Captain Wonders certainly evoke OTHER classic Golden Age heroes (Captains Marvel and America, respectively), but they are also not tied to EACH OTHER.
Pretty strange.
The Timely Captain Wonder, by the way, was recently brought back for J. Michael Straczynski and Chris Weston's The Twelve series…
So there ya go, Hope! I hope this info helps you out!
COMIC LEGEND: The tagline for the film Barb Wire originated as a shot against another Dark Horse Comic.
STATUS: I'm Going With False
When the film adaptation of Dark Horse Comics' Barb Wire came out in 1996, starring Pamela Anderson…
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one of the taglines for the movie was "Don't Call Me Babe."
This is a reference to the cover of the first issue of Barb Wire's ongoing series, by the great Adam Warren…
(Barb Wire debuted in 1993 as part of Dark Horse Comics' "Comics' Greatest World" project…
Many, many places (including the Wikipedia page for the Barb Wire movie which I am about to quote – but it is really LOTS of places) state:
The entire "Don't call me Babe" leitmotif of Barb Wire comes from the original advertising for the Barb Wire Dark Horse comic book, in which she said those words to differentiate herself from a buxom, slightly airy comic book heroine named "Babe" created by John Byrne.
Only problem, of course, is that not only did Barb Wire debut in 1993, but the specific comic where she makes the "Don't Call Me Babe" line ALSO came out before Byrne's Babe made her comics debut (a few months later).
So it is extremely doubtful that they are making a joke reference to a character who had not yet actually appeared in a comic book. Heck, even if it DID come out after Babe, I think it's a bit of a reach to presume its intent was to take a shot at the comic Babe.
I'm pretty darn certain that the joke is a fairly standard bit where Barb Wire is meta-fictionally taking issue with how Dark Horse is promoting her.
And the film's producers undoubtedly liked the line so used it in advertising for the film.
Okay, that's it for this week!
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it had to be the Anal. that's the first thing I thought reading those panels. the subtext is even in the narration in the post-coital panel which is more aftermath than after-glow.
Man, I really wish some of the old Canadian Superhero comics would come back. I mean I've never read them, but there are enough characters to be able to launch a new comic company with a few ongoing books if their rights were bought. ANd I'd be proud to have my own line, and company of "Canadian" Superheroes.
Okay, now I REALLY don't want to read about Jessica's date with Iron Fist.
Good stuff, Brian. A few random comments:
1.The ALIAS anal sex vs. interracial sex controversy: I also tend to go along with the idea that the printer balked over the issue of anal sex. Heck, I still recall being shocked that MARVEL, even under the MAX umbrella, would publish such an extreme scene. For that matter, didn't Bendis/MAX try to retcon the scene at a later date? I seem to recall something like that, but I could be wrong.
2. Captain Wonder: Weird case of synchronicity.
3. Barb Wire: Damn you, Brian, for making me recall, even for a moment, that truly lousy film.
I'm told that the movie version of Barb Wire is pretty much a scene by scene remake of Casablanca. But I haven't seen Barb Wire, so I'm reluctant to say the claim has any merit.
I'm told that the movie version of Barb Wire is pretty much a scene by scene remake of Casablanca. But I haven't seen Barb Wire, so I'm reluctant to say the claim has any merit.
Barb Wire is, indeed, basically a re-envisioning of Casablanca set in the future (with additional action sequences, though, naturally).
Personamanx: Some of them have come back, Nelvana has been featured in Alpha Flight as the mother of Snowbird, and Doc Stearn is the father of the Dark Horse superhero Mister Monster! I wouldn't count out a complete revival unlikely in the next few years either
Thanks again Brian for answering my question about Captain Wonder
Canada declared war???!!!
I think THAT'S an urban myth…heh heh heh…:-)
and Captain Wonder #2 didnt feel at all peculiar fighting crime in those short shorts?
I'm feeling more than a bit uneasy looking at him in them…I'm thinking I'd have refused to print that instead…
He put what WHERE?!
OK, I may need to rescind my implication of racial prejudice on the part of American Color Graphics. I remembered the sex scene and the controversy, but it had been a while since I read that issue. I forgot how…rough it was. ACG's objections could have been about the type of sex involved, not the parties engaged in it. Even for a longtime comics reader the scene is rather intense, so that wasn't completely fair on my part.
Thanks for for featuring my question and the mention!
Wow, I thought people were joking when they said Bendis fantasizes about Luke Cage.
Yup Canucks have been known to declare war..sometimes two years before the US…at least with the justifiable wars.
heh heh heh
Reading about Captain Wonder, I couldn't help but think of the "Wonderman" superhero takeoff cartoon from TV Funhouse. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_IQ44VNQ64
"Wonderman! Fights a constant crusade to stop crime…and get his alias laid!"
Todd: don't knock Canada — they got into World War II before the British did! (Unlike, say, the US, which started off selling ammunition to both sides.)
Regarding the Canadian banning of comics, is there any proof it was a complete ban? I know there was an issue with the plates at one time, which forced Canadian printers to make copies based on already printed materials, but I've never heard that Canada banned American entertainment. Especially not Disney, since it was Disney that produced the first National Film Board short: a cartoon for war bonds starring the Seven Dwarfs.
Wasn't there an illustrated GRENDEL novel by Matt Wagner that also had problems with a printer? I'm afraid I don't remember the details.
The Alias scene does look like it's supposed to be anal sex, but this is where their daughter was conceived so maybe not.
It's a long night, Mark. The two aren't mutually exclusive.
Regarding the Canadian banning of comics, is there any proof it was a complete ban?
I don't think there ever was a specific banning of comics, but rather that people lumped comic books in with the ban on pulps. So the ban was more an effective one than a literal one. So if someone had pushed for the argument that superhero comics technically were not banned, then I think they probably would have had an argument, but no one ever pushed the issue (it being war-time and all).
Oh I know, I'm more wondering was it an attempt to retroactively hush the matter up.
@trajan23: I think I remember Bendis confirming the Luke/Jessica scene was intended to be anal sex, rather than retconning it. But my memory may predate whatever you're remembering.
I'll never read my beloved Power Man & Iron Fist comics the same way again. I've got to steal a phrase from the Transformers fanatics: Brian Michael Bendis just raped my childhood.
Pretty funny about the mutually exclusive. At the time when it came out it seemed pretty clear it was Anal in regards to the something different and "do anything"
Its good to know thats how Cage gets down people..keep it in mind for the new Thunderbolts series.
It's true, what I valued in Power Man & Iron Fist was its wistful air of innocence. Like that time ROM: Spaceknight vaporized a prostitute while her pimp looked on in horror.
I was a little disappointed to see Luke using real cuss words in Alias, though. I would have loved it if Jessica kept cussing like a sailor while Luke stuck to his classic "holy spit" and "sweet Christmas."
Bendis is sitting on a Luke Cage: Origins story about Luke's time in prison.
Was ALIAS 1 the issue that had a full page panel* of her sitting on the toilet? and started out with the F word being repeated a half dozen times?
If I'm remembering those correctly, I can see the cumulative effect making someone reconsider whether they really wanted to print that.
*Yes, I know a full page panel is called a splash, but I didn't want to go there . . . .
Was ALIAS 1 the issue that had a full page panel* of her sitting on the toilet? and started out with the F word being repeated a half dozen times?
No bathroom scenes, but it did open with "fuck" as half of the first six words in the comic (including being the very first word in the comic).
Thanks for the mention, Brian!
I've always had my own special enmity reserved for the Barb Wire movie. I've never seen it, but it was produced by the same studio that produced the Mystery Science Theater movie that came out the same year. However, the MST3K guys have been vocal in talking about how the studio (Gramercy, IIRC) devoted something like 90% of their budget to advertisements for Barb Wire and practically nothing for MST3K, with the studio barely even distributing it. The result? Both movies flopped at the box office. As a longtime MSTie, that always rankled me…
The MST3K movie wasn't that good, was it?
Bendis is sitting on a Luke Cage: Origins story about Luke's time in prison.
Well, if he can still sit on it, it can't be that bad.
So you run a story about the Alias sex scene, Barb Wire, and…
Excellent. Yes, I am 13 years old.
"I was a little disappointed to see Luke using real cuss words in Alias, though. I would have loved it if Jessica kept cussing like a sailor while Luke stuck to his classic "holy spit" and "sweet Christmas.""
I have to admit, if those two pages above were exactly the same, except for a balloon from off-panel that said "SWEET CHRISTMAS!!" in the last panel of the first page, it would go from making me feel creepy and a bit disgusted to thinking it was the greatest two-page sequence in comic book history.
@Alan Vickers:
Yup. A prose novel written by Greg Rucka and illustrations by Matt Wagner. Grendel Prime
Anyway, the story goes like this, the printer that backed out did so, because one of the employer felt offended by the materials in the book. So Dark Horse had to find another printer and the book got printed.
I think the offending parts were about a lesbian character having sex with another lesbian.
Kind of ironic tho', that Rucka wrote the book and ends up creating a very famous lesbian character named of Kate Kane (aka Batwoman) years later.
Andrew Collins wrote:
I've always had my own special enmity reserved for the Barb Wire movie. I've never seen it, but it was produced by the same studio that produced the Mystery Science Theater movie that came out the same year. However, the MST3K guys have been vocal in talking about how the studio (Gramercy, IIRC) devoted something like 90% of their budget to advertisements for Barb Wire and practically nothing for MST3K, with the studio barely even distributing it. The result? Both movies flopped at the box office. As a longtime MSTie, that always rankled me…
This is true. I heard the story from Michael Nelson himself at a convention the summer the MST3K movie came out.
Brian Cronin wrote:
The MST3K movie wasn't that good, was it?
It was a damn sight better than BARB WIRE. But then, most things are.
I'd move to Alabama if it would mean getting issues of New Avengers with Jessica Jones blacked out.
The MST3K movie was basically just another episode of the show, so if you like the show I'd think you'd like the movie.
The problem with the MST3K movie was that the movie they were watching was too good.
…as distribution of comics at the time was, while coordinated on a national level, was carried out on a local level.
Extra "was" there.
Wow, so nobody really knows what went on in the bedroom in Alias #1, yet y'all infer just one thing about Luke Cage. Man, I think you need to get laid, preferably with someone who knows a li'l something about kink (or at least cunninglingusim).
And somebody gets giddy over the word "TANG" on the cover of a comic, but misses the big phallic boat thrusting out of the water with "SPEED" and "SAVAGE" written boldly just below it? Wow, those censors allowed ANYTHING up in Canada!!
And it's amazing Barb Wire made it past the cover of issue #1. Aiming her gun at someone in back of her while driving a motorcycle– that's gotta be worse than texting while driving! I can only imagine how much easier it is when she whips out that shotgun in the back while going a good 60-70 mph or more…
All in all, though, interesting stuff….
oops, the words were above the boat….. my memory failed me– far too occupied with other things. hehehe.
That first panel of Alias has some sort of Cro-Magnon cave woman.
To be fair folks, the ALIAS issue could be It doesn't have to be
"A-it was about race"
"B'-It was about anal sex"
it could be
"C-Both of the above"
It's quite possible that the implication of anal sex was seen as a negative, and the fact it was a black man doing it with a white woman made it 'worse'.
A double whammy if you will.
I'd love to think that race was definitely not an issue, but considering I know firsthand how some folks still react to the concept of interracial relationships, I'd certainly wouldn't rule it out as a factor.
They call him Captain Wonder, as in 'I wonder if the Twelve will ever be finished'.
Don't know if the dudes were racists, prudes, or both. Any way you look at it, it's depressing.
BTW, I don't know if I ever found a concept as absurd as "sodomy laws" before. Authoritarian laws usually make me angry (and this one does), but it's also so silly as to be hillarious.
I have nothing to add to the discussion except to say it's been about 30 minutes since I read it, and I still can't stop giggling about Ritchard's comment.
The Alias controversy is pretty stupid, and I bet it's a mix of both issues.
@The Mutt:
"Okay, now I REALLY don't want to read about Jessica's date with Iron Fist."
That, sir, is the funniest thing I have read, heard, or imagined all week. You win.
Well, it's clearly unpleasant for Jessica, so I'd say that definitely makes it anal, or possibly iron fisting.
And I do think the printers almost certainly objected to the sex. If they were refusing to print something due to an interracial relationship in 2001, they would've missed out on a lot of business. It was just too commonplace by this time.
(By the way, last I heard– and I think the figures I saw were from the late '90s– interracial marriage was more common and more accepted in the South than in the Northeast or the Great Lakes area. And it was most accepted in the West.)
(I know nobody here even brought up the topic of racism as a Southern thing, but I see that so often that I thought I'd state the facts prophylactically.)
So Luke likes to hit it from behind and he's "gifted down there" what's so wrong with that?
I mean damn he's like 9 feet tall and he's a man. What do you expect?
What is it with all the kid sidekicks named Tim?
There's Captain Wonder and Tim
The Black Terror and Tim
Superman and Tim http://dialbforblog.com/archives/83/
And then, of course, there's Tm Drake, who unlike the others, at least has an alter ego…
More may happen in the South, but I wouldn't say they're more accepted.
My parents are from Mississippi, dads black, moms white, they got together in the late 70s, had me in 81, and to this day we still aren't invited to any family functions. (and that's ignoring the fact my parents were, almost literally, run out of town. Hence me being born & raised in New Orleans and not Mississippi)
Another relative who married a black woman a few years ago is treated much the same, just effectively written out of the family.
So in other words…yeah, that very racist attitude still definitely exists, I'm not saying it exists more in the South than anywhere else…but I have no doubt that if some of my relatives run a publishing company, they would refuse to publish that issue no matter WHAT kind of sex Luke & Jessica were having.
You know, I'll never understand John Byrne. The guy now keeps saying superhero comics should be for kids, etc.
But years ago, when he was younger and less uptight, Byrne said something in an interview that I never forgot. It's freaky how many major superheroes have such sexual names, or at least names that you could oh-so-easily imagine as nicknames for porn stars.
Iron Fist. Power Man. Superman. Iron Man. The Hulk. The Thing. She-Hulk. Wonder Woman. Mister Fantastic.
So yeah, John Byrne raped my childhood.
The MST3K movie wasn't that good, was it?
It was always a favorite for me and my friends in college, but yeah, it wasn't their best work. Not necessarily their fault though. The studio heads were constantly asking for re-writes because they "didn't get" the riffs the MST3K guys were doing in the early takes. In retrospect, I wish they had skipped the movie and just done a full season 7 of the show. The six episodes they did were some of the best of the entire show…
Looking at the cover of Triumph Comics #9, I can't help but wonder who the hero is at the top of the list of characters appearing in the issue.
I've never heard of "JOHNSTON the Druggist before.
Tony– More accepted doesn't mean accepted by everybody. There are families like your in the North as well. My statement was based on surveys taken at the time, that showed more opposition to interracial marriage in the North than anywhere else. This doesn't mean there wasn't a lot in the South as well. And still is, I'm sure.
I only live on the edge of the South myself, but I do know that around here most people accept it, even if they don't like it. And I see a lot of White mothers around with Black kids.
By the way, my grandfather kicked my aunt out of his house when she dated a Black guy around 1970 or thereabouts (back when it was really shocking). I don't think he would've done such a thing twenty years later (although of course, by that time all his kids had moved out anyway), but it's possible he might have.
I am certain that today, everyone in my family would be accepting of such a situation, or at the very least, keep their feelings to themselves. But I know other families that would put up a fight about it.
Strangely enough, some White girls I've known who're quite racist in a lot of ways have had Black boyfriends.
Barb Wire vs. "Babe": I always assumed that was something of an in-joke reference. That when the name 'Barb Wire' (short for 'Barbara Wire'?) was first proposed at Dark Horse, maybe someone hastily misread the name as 'Babe Wire'. It would be very in character for a tough woman to object to such an error and the creators ran with it.
Here's the skinny on Canadian comics…
Around 1940, the Canadian government placed a ban on 'non-essential' goods shipped from the US. It was a trade bill that (as I read it) embargoed items to prevent competition in a wartime economy. It included a whole host of items, which included comic books.
This left a gap in the market. Enter Cy Bell, a Toronto sign-maker who quickly became Canada's premiere comic book publisher of what became known as Bell Comics. The imprint was cheaply made in every respect. The comics were printed in black-and-white and the strips were mostly created by kids still going to high school. Many of Bell's features were amateurish, bordering on outsider art, and often were plagiarized from 'banned' American comic books obtained on the black market (I've seen stories lifted from Quality and DC comics of that era) or newspaper strips like Flash Gordon. There were a couple of exceptions to this– artist Adrian Dingle, who created the two great characters of the era Nelvana and The Penguin (not the Batman villain) who was art director of Hillborough, which as Brian pointed out published the first Canadian comic and was subseqently bought out by Bell) was a bona fide commercial artist (who became a landscape painter).
As Brian says, the range was printed in black and white, mostly because they didn't have the sophisticated 4 colour presses of the US. They printed Wow Comics 1 in colour (a lot of it off register) but it cost too much and took too much time on the existing equipment– they printed in 2 colour and 1 colour before settling on black and white.
Bell's range of comics, which tended to have a lot of features coming and going (Captain Wonder I think barely made more than a handful actually) was a modest success. With the war ending and the non-essential goods ban being lifted, Bell's plan was to expand the line and start printing in colour and try and compete in the US. He bought a colour press from a newspaper in the US, announced new books featuring solo adventures of characters, even changed the name of The Penguin to the Blue Raven… and then disaster struck. Wartime rationing was still in effect and the Canadian government wouldn't grant Bell the paper necessary to compete, the expansion halted and the line effectively folded. For a while Bell just reprinted stuff from Timely and other publishers and then he got out of the comic book business altogether.
In the 1970s the characters and the Bell comics were bought by the two men who went on to found the animation studio, Nelvana (who used the character Nelvana for its name). Nelvana has been subsequently bought by Corus Entertainment and they own the characters and the comics. (While Byrne's Alpha Flight certainly references the characters, they're never seen)
I've read just about all of the Bell comics range (the National Library and Archives in Ottawa have a complete set). The work by Dingle really deserves to be reprinted as his art is gorgeous and Nelvana does Grant Morrison weirdness 50 years before Morrison and The Penguin, in spite of the ridiculous costume, is a noir masterpiece. The rest of it is somewhat formulaic and amateurish but fascinating to read as its wish fulfilment art on the part of the teenagers doing it. I wish it would be reprinted because it is a fascinating period in Canadian history.
I live in the South, and not even the Deep South. Just the middle South.
I can see lots of ways in which my neighbors would find Alias (the whole series, not just #1) immensely offensive.
It should be remembered, the sexual and racial aspects of Jessica Jones' life aside, that the first storyline is particularly dicey material for many conservative Southerners. Jessica is asked to locate a missing woman who is very quickly revealed to be Captain America's lover. The story deliberately puts a hint of illicit scandal on the relationship. In later issues, a president who is obviously George W. Bush is presented as glad-handing superheroes in order to built political support among the public at large. The story suggests at one point that Captain America might be the murderer.
There's also profanity, sexual content, and general nastiness that an Alabama printer could find 'offensive' even without the racial and political content. After all, Alabama is not just the South. It's also the Bible Belt.
Personally, I'm sure the interracial scene was a factor. I also think the political content was a factor. I also think a conservative printer in the Deep South might have refused to print the book without the interracial sex and the political content as well, just because of all the swearing.
In case the above is too critical, I personally think 'Alias' is the best thing Bendis wrote and suited his character-heavy, decompressed, sometimes plotless, occasionally ponderous style much better than straight superhero comics. One expects to see an emphasis on character-driven stories and slow building tension in a hardboiled PI story.
Adam Weissman wrote:
'What is it with all the kid sidekicks named Tim?
There's Captain Wonder and Tim
The Black Terror and Tim
Superman and Tim http://dialbforblog.com/archives/83/
And then, of course, there's Tm Drake, who unlike the others, at least has an alter ego…'
This deserves a column. – I suggest calling it 'A Brief History of Tim".
Brian from Canada: don't knock Canada — they got into World War II before the British did!
'Fraid not selfriend, Canada entered WWII on September 10th 1939; Britain entered on September 3rd.
Yes, it would be awfully odd to have Canada enter the war before GB, especially since we were still flying the Union Jack and singing God Save the Queen at that point.. GB entered first, either with or shortly followed by the Commonwealth countries
Sorry, what's problematic about the word 'tang'?
Tang, in the sense referred to by the poster above, is a shortened form of poon tang, which is sexual slang for the lady parts downstairs. The pussy, if that's not clear enough.
Thanks Jack. Nope, that one's new to me.
Tang, tang, tang!
You're right. I'm almost positive it was the same printer. They basically have a policy that if any one is offended by the material they are printing, they won't print it. I believe in the case of the Grendel book they had actually started the printing when an employee complained about the content. It was the lesbian sex scene in question there.
-Wasn't the WHOLE point of "Alias" that it was an adult comic? "Adult" in this case meaning sex. Remember that the protagonist was supposedly turned into a sex slave by the Purple Man. So the sex scene should not have surprised anybody. Not that I ever cared for the comic, I have a somewhat better impression of what being an adult is supposed to be.
-The only Captain Wonder I knew about was the one that was a male Wonder Woman, a fantasy of Steve Rogers that was turned real by Dr. Psycho. So thanks for the info. And yeah what happened to "The Twelve?" Now that's a mistery!
-And people actually wonder if a line as generic as "Don't call me Babe" is a slight towards an existing character? Geez, comics fans (and pros) DO overthink things sometimes.
Every time someone mentions that Alias scene and balks at it's "graphic" nature, I wonder where they hide the time machine they used to get here from the 1890s.
I didn't leave my time machine anywhere. I question the use of characters created for kids to read being used in those settings. By all means write those stories but JJ was an invented character so just invent all the other characters as well.
"By all means write those stories but JJ was an invented character so just invent all the other characters as well." I hate to break it to you, but Luke Cage is an invented character also. He's not a real person. When you get over the shock, we'll discuss Santa Claus.
Overheard in a line outside a movie theatre, next to a poster for Barb Wire, in NYC in 1996: "I didn't know RuPaul had a new movie coming out!"
I always wondered why Barb Wire wasn't called Barb Dwyer (you know, barbed wire)? Not obvious enough a pun?
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FWIW, I'm pretty sure JJ being used as a sex slave by the Purple Man was retroactively written out (though I don't think it was ever explicitly stated to begin with). Her reacting by saying "people always ask if he raped you; like if he didn't, it wasn't a complete violation". Maybe because they didn't want her to be the "raped superhero". But in the original story it did seem like she at least had to watch a lot of PM's debauchery.
Which was all a retcon anyway because the Sub-Mariner killed Killgrave in Emperor Doom.
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