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Scott Wilson's story starts with a tragedy.
He and his fiancee were living in Copper Center, Alaska. "We had just moved into this trailer. We'd been staying in a cabin with no running water and wanted to have a few luxuries like indoor plumbing. The next day was New Year's Eve, and she was coming home for lunch." A state trooper banged on the door at noon and told him that "she got T-boned right at the end of our driveway by an Alyeska truck — there were two of them running in tandem. She only saw one because the snow just whited out everything, so she turned into that white-out behind the truck, and there was another truck behind that took her out."
She had been "the center of my world. She gave me the gift of self." Nine months later, he rolled his truck and broke his back in three places. "I was a grieving, drunken mess.
"I wound up back in Seattle — my mom took me in." Eventually, he tried going back to work. But then "they hit me with past-due child support [from a previous marriage]." Unable to pay, he lost his driver's license. "That put me in a cycle of homelessness."
Eventually, Scott got Social Security benefits when he was diagnosed with an enlarged heart — "I'm a big-hearted guy" — and he got off the streets.
"I needed something to do. I got my first computer through Interconnection when I volunteered some time and helped them rebuild computers. That opened up a whole world for me."
On the Internet, Scott found alternative treatments for his medical condition. "I've been on heart meds for four years. It was starting to rot my brain. I had no energy. I started looking at nutrition and getting off of wheat and getting some good vitamins. I'm not taking any heart meds now, and I can walk down the street and not get winded. I feel 100 percent better.… The paper [Real Change] supplements my income, so I can buy the supplements I need."
That's not the only reason he sells Real Change. "This is a paper that tells people about stuff that really affects them; it's not the 'presstitutes' giving a spin on something. You start uncovering the truth and uncluttering your head of lies. The system's fraudulent. People are going to wake up."
When Scott panhandled with a sign, "My sign simply said, 'A buck or a smile or' and if somebody read it [and said 'Or what?], I'd hit them with the other side, which said, 'Both please! God bless, have a nice day.' And they'd laugh, I'd be laughing, that moment when shared smiles connect. All the problems disappear. That's what I do with the paper — that moment of bliss changes your day. It's what I've got to share."
Scott's philosophy? "To change the world, we need to change ourselves within. We need to be grateful for what we have. With relationships, including those that end, instead of being caught in pain, we need to make them more sacred."
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We're moving through odd times in odd time signatures, with only a few steady drumbeats keeping us on track. Just as drummers are fascinated with splitting time into smaller parts, parts that they can then add, subtract, re-measure, and turn around into some amazingly esoteric piece of drummatica to amaze and delight their audience, so am I fascinated with splitting pieces of today into smaller pieces, putting other pieces around it in an effort to inform and maybe even make you laugh once in awhile.
This blog is about living in odd time signatures — signatures defined by the patterns and rhythms of anyone who struggles to remain inside the normal flow of daily life even as it's redefined to fit our own special, fragmented and sometimes odd, patterns.
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As it is difficult for me to purchase beads here in Portugal because there are no beadshops, I often visit charity shops and buy old rejected jewellery and use the beads. There are a lot of Chinese shops that sell beads but they're often of a poor quality. It has happened that I finished a piece and then found out that the paint came off the beads. Not very nice.
I also buy cheap jewellery on the street. Especially in summer there are a lot of street vendors. Yesterday I bought this necklace for 3 euros (US dollars 3.76)! Isn't that incredible? It's a nice design and there are thousands of beads in it. And to think that the vendors have to make a profit on it as well.
I don't think there are machines that can do the stringing so somewhere in the world people must be making these necklaces for a very low salary. At least it's not a filthy job but it makes you wonder.
It's so intricate! And that's all it cost? Well, I guess considering how poor the economy is, can we really be all that surprised? It's a better way for someone to put food on the table than some other professions I can think of, though. I have to agree with you about the quality of the Chinese beads.
I take advantage of garage sales and yard sales to purchase old, funky jewelry that no one wants any longer and rework it into something completely new,as well. I'll have to consider scoping out some of my local thrift stores, too. With the upcoming release of The Great Gatsby, people are really going to be wanting Art Deco jewelry, which is one of my favourite styles to design.
How's it going in Portugal, Senhora? Weather still holding up? Say hello to your shipmate for me. Take care.
Nice, and yes, how is that possible? But it rather attractive as it is, that "braiding" is coming back around again maybe. Necklaces from the 30's were made like that, a bit sparser in the number of braids as it fit closer to the neck.
When I was selling vintage costume jewelry, I'd buy lots and sell off my specialty which was 30's through 50's.......BUT you couldn't GIVE away the strung strands of beads, sometimes I'd put the exceptional one in my case for sale, but they'd typically sit for forever. The rest of them went into a Rubbermaid 20 quart container. There was an older lady (older than me!!!) who joined up with our bead society and she said she loved the old beads..................well boy howdy, I sold her the whole container full for $5.00 and she still grins at me because she is still using them up. She started beading when she was 79, so she must be in her mid-80's by now. Donna
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That necklace is so pretty that I wouldn't be able to take it apart.
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Hi Beadiecat and Lavella,
You'll be happy to hear that the necklace is still in one piece.
Greeting from Karin.
So have you decided you're just going to wear it, Karin? PS- how goes drydock?
Hi Val,
No, I don't like wearing necklaces. Isn't that strange? I do wear some of my bracelets but I can't stand the feeling of something around my neck.
Drydock is postponed for a couple of months as my boyfriend needs to go into surgery on the 21st. I'm cleaning the waterline of our boat at the moment and we'll go into a marina on Monday and prepare for things. We've been at anchor all summer.
Your birthday is very soon. I hope you have a nice day!
Greetings from Karin.
Yes Seabeads, there are beaders in African states and elsewhere who make this stuff for peanuts. But that said it is their only source of income. This is a beautiful example that you posted.
Hey, Karin,
No, not so much. I don't like wearing chokers and turtlenecks because I feel like I'm being strangled. If I were to believe in reincarnation, I'd think I might have been hanged in a previous life.
I will pray that he comes theough his surgery all right.
Yup, this Sunday. I'm one of those weirdos that likes to have a big deal made out of my birthday.(lol) The rest of the year I really don't much like being the centre of attention, but my birthday is the exception to the rule. The greedy child in me is alive and well.(lol). Supposed to be fair weather this weekend, hurrah!
Hi Karin,
Glad you left the necklace in one piece; I haven't worn a necklace in ages; come to think of it , I usually don't wear any jewelry. Best wishes for your boyfriend; just found out that my sister's daughter's cancer came back (just six months after she was 'clear'; non-Hodgkin Lymphoma). Are you okay? Cleaning the waterline from the deck or barge?
Stay safe,
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Have a very Fun & Happy Birthday!
Ooo, thank you, I will! Sunday can't come soon enough!(lol) Yesterday was my late grandmother's birthday. It's been 25 years since she passed away, but I still miss her a lot. One of the things I miss the most is us calling each other on our birthdays. I still have the last birthday card she sent me. I keep it as a loving reminder of hoe much my Grandma Smyder meant to me. I lost her too soon. She was the one who encouraged me to really celebrate my birthday. She was the best grandma, ever. If she were still here, she'd definitely want my jewelry.(g)
It will take me months in making this piece.. one can see the creativity and hard-work of a person on this.. I was dwelling on the fact that the people who make these crafts are underpaid.. But those who make the beads are more underpaid.. The people who make these beads here in India are from villages. I have heard from my friends that seed bead makers get around 25-50 cents as per US currency for every gram or kilo depending on the people paying them.
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King Kong Lives (1986 film)
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King Kong, after being shot down from the World Trade Center, is kept alive in a coma for about 10 years at the Atlantic Institute, under the care of surgeon Dr. Amy Franklin (Linda Hamilton). In order to save Kong's life, Dr. Franklin must perform a heart transplant and give Kong a computer-monitored artificial heart. However, he lost so much blood that a transfusion is badly needed. Enter adventurer Hank Mitchell (Brian Kerwin), who captures a giant female gorilla in Borneo (Mitchell theorizes that Borneo and the island from the first movie were once part of the same landmass), bringing her to the Institute so her blood can be used for Kong's operation. The transfusion and the heart transplant are a success, but Kong escapes along with the female, who is dubbed "Lady Kong." Archie Nevitt (John Ashton), an insane army colonel, is called in with his men to hunt down and kill the two apes. Lady Kong is captured alive by Nevitt's troops and imprisoned; Kong falls from a cliff and is presumed dead, but soon returns to try and rescue his mate. But as Franklin and Mitchell soon discover, Kong's artificial heart is beginning to give out. Kong then is successful in saving his mate. After being followed, attacked, and shot by the military, Kong kills the military colonel and dies slowly at a military base. After this event, Lady Kong is back on Kong Island, with their happy, newborn son.
King Kong Lives received almost universally negative reviews. Roger Ebert stated that "The problem with everyone in King Kong Lives is that they're in a boring movie, and they know they're in a boring movie, and they just can't stir themselves to make an effort. "[1]
Despite its marketing campaign, King Kong Lives was a box office flop, grossing $4.7 million during its theatrical run.[2] Actor Peter Michael Goetz received a cheque for post release royalties that came down to 3 cents. He has it stapled to the film poster in his house, having never cashed it. Template:Citation needed
Video games
Two official video games based on the movie were developed and released only in Japan by Konami and titled King Kong 2: Ikari no Megaton Punch for the Nintendo Entertainment System, and King Kong 2: Yomigaeru Densetsu for the MSX. The Famicom game totally discarded the human aspect of the story and players played as King Kong who has to travel around the globe fighting giant robots and certain military forces in order to save the female Kong. The game was designed as an action adventure game with some science fiction concepts. The MSX version, on the other hand, plays from the perspective of Mitchell. This version is a role-playing game.
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Robert Milliner Chief Executive Partner, Mallesons Stephen Jaques held the inaugural role for five years, and was the driving force behind a number of changes and lobbying to Government and regulators regarding the practice of corporate law in Australia.
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Antwerp. To hear this name is enough for fashionistas from around the world to make them weak with excitement. Home to a gazillion bloggers, fancy and less fancy boutiques, and of course, the only Belgian Lomography Headquarters, Antwerp's definitely worth the visit. But behold: you will find much more than you expect in this vibrant city! -
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Dear friends! Thank you so much for so excellent tour. It was unforgettable! The Nature of British Columbia really impress. The Rocky Mountain Train is the great train and the trip on this train is the great! The service is on the highest level! Thank's a lot to all our guides and drivers! The towns and the hotels are very pleasant. All the time we remember our trip with great pleasure and some sadness that it had been finished. Thank's once and once more. Sorry but one negative feature. You proclaim that you worry about all of you passengers and therefore it's not possible to smoke. But sorry you're cunning because you don't worry about all of you passengers, you don't worry about some passengers at all. If you worry about all of you passengers you create smoking areas. I had lost some months of my life during this trip due to dysfunction of nervous system due to impossibility to smoke. It was the great kick on my health. By the way do you know that smoking has some essential benefit to our health, such as the prophylaxis of demention, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's diseases and so on. Smoking increase the efficiency of thrombolysis in stroke and infarction patients and so on. By the way you can smoke everywhere in Japan. The Japanese is the most smoking nation and in spite of this the Japanese has the most long length of life. I'm telling about this as a Professor of Medicine (I'm Professor of Neurology). Therefore if you proclaim the care about all of you passengers, realize please this proclamation honestly. Sorry for this verbose opus but it's cry of my soul. We wish very much to participate in your tours once and once again but this discrimination will stop us for sure. Thank's a lot! Kind regards, Irina and Vitaly.
First, no one at Viatour told us there were 3 levels of railcar, so we were relegated to the lowest level. Then, we paid for the deluxe accommodations, 4-5 star hotels. We had them, except in Kamloops, where we had to stay in a tiny no-star hotel with a room so small that even with a double bed it could only fit one night table. And, the bathroom was TINY!! Barely enough room in the shower for an adult. I feel we were gypped on that hotel. Surely the other 2 hotels in Kamloops had to be better. The train was great, the scenery gorgeous, but it did get boring sometimes traveling on the train with nothing but trees on both sides.
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Evidence from two double-blind, placebo-controlled trials and one comparative trial suggest that cream made from the herb Oregon grape ( Mahonia) may help reduce symptoms of psoriasis, although it does not seem to be as effective as standard medications.
In a double-blind study published in 2006, 200 people were given either a cream containing 10% Oregon grape extract or placebo twice a day for 3 months.27 The results indicate that the people using Oregon grape experienced greater benefits than those in the placebo group, and the difference was statistically significant. The treatment was well tolerated; although, it caused rash or burning sensation in a few people.
Benefits were also seen in a double-blind, placebo-controlled study of 82 people with psoriasis.11 However, the study design had a significant flaw: the treatment salve was darker in color than the placebo, possibly allowing participants to guess which was which.
Another study found that dithranol, a conventional drug used to treat psoriasis symptoms, was more effective than Oregon grape.12 Regrettably, the authors fail to state whether this study was double-blind. Forty-nine participants applied one treatment to their left side and the other to their right for 4 weeks. Skin biopsies were then analyzed and compared with samples taken at the beginning of the study. The physicians evaluating changes in skin tissue were unaware which treatments had been used on the samples. Greater improvements were seen in the dithranol group.
A large open studyin which 443 participants with psoriasis used Oregon grape topically for 12 weeks found the herb to be helpful for 73.7% of the group.13 Without a placebo group, it's not possible to know whether Oregon grape was truly responsible for the improvement seen, but the trial does help to establish the herb's safety and tolerability.
Laboratory research suggests Oregon grape has some effects at the cellular level that might be helpful in psoriasis, such as slowing the rate of abnormal cell growth and reducing inflammation.14,15
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Lennon and Maisy 'Call Your Girlfriend' Robyn YouTube video goes viral, featured on Today Show
The Today Show Thursday morning featured an adorable new twist on Robyn's "Call Your Girlfriend" by a 12-year-old and an 8-year-old that's sweeping the Internet.
Lennon and Maisy (aged 12 and 8) are sisters. This isn't their first cover song, but it's such a unique and special twist on the original song, that's it has been getting attention from Buzzfeed and other National media.
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Chinese Marry Off Dead Girls as Ghost Brides
Posted on June 21, 2009
Arranged marriages are nothing new, and in China, they even reach beyond the grave.
A grieving father and four accomplices have been arrested in China for digging up the corpse of a teenage girl to serve as a "ghost bride" for the man's son, who died in a car crash.
The people arrested had dug up the body of a girl who poisoned herself after failing exams last year. The father had apparently paid upwards of $5,000 to the men who dug up the body for him.
Marriages after death are relatively common in rural China. In these occurrences, a ceremony is performed and the bodies buried together.
The long-outlawed practice survives today: last year, a gang in southern China was arrested for creating corpses for ghost marriages when female bodies ran short.


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First Images From Frankenweenie Spin-Off Short Captain Sparky Vs. The Flying Saucers
If you saw Frankenweenie during its theatrical release, you'd have caught a glimpse of Victor's opus, Sparkysaurus.A similar film-within-the-film premise has given rise to Captain Sparky vs. The Flying Saucers, a new short made just for the DVD and Blu-ray release.
The two first images from the film premiered over at USA Today.
Captain Sparky was directed by Mark Waring, an animation supervisor on the original feature. He explained one of the key creative problems to USA Today:In the short, there are a few sections of [Victor] trying to very early use stop-frame technique. The whole thing's stop-frame, so how do you make it look more stop-frame than it actually is?Waring says they solved this by trying to make the film look handmade - the camera gets bumped, hands get in frame, strings are visible. Not really a direct solution, but perhaps the ideal misdirect.
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The Price of a Picasso
Last night was another glorious success for the art auction house Sotheby's, taking in $230 million from 60 lots sold. Best selling was Cezanne's still life, Les Pommes, pictured above, which went for $41.6 million including the buyers premium, $10 million higher than the estimated price. French impressionist art is trending again, after a few years where the market has been dominated by post-war and contemporary works.
In 2004, the late Robert Hughes wrote,
When you have the super-rich paying $104m for an immature Rose Period Picasso – close to the GNP of some Caribbean or African states – something is very rotten. Such gestures do no honour to art: they debase it by making the desire for it pathological. As Picasso's biographer John Richardson said to a reporter on that night of embarrassment at Sotheby's, no painting is worth a hundred million dollars.
The price of these most expensive paintings is a matching up of the buyer's subjective appreciation and the size of his wallet. Since the spiritual moral and aesthetic value of art is strictly speaking incalculable, and since a unique and beautiful work of art only ever exists once, the mistake is to treat them in these auctions as effectively infinite in value. That is where the pathology comes in—the object is treated as capable of absorbing infinite desire, the consumer is consumed by the object he desires, and that consumption is marketed as a model of artistic appreciation.
Still, individual buyers may be free from such pathology, though it inflames the art market. And Picasso is the world's favorite status commodity for more than superficial reasons; his paintings represent the world's vision of its ideal self: egotistical, erotic, enacting messianic compassion, and wrestling like Jacob with the limits of space and time.
John Crowe Ransom Was Wrong
D. G. Myers earlier this week defended the use of literary history as an aide to the study of literature. Literary history is a shortcut to the advantages of wide reading and long experience, without which there is no good literary criticism, and without which one cannot begin to read anything with profit. He's entirely right, but to admit that is to admit the limits of literature as an object of scientific scholarship.
Literary history works as an antidote to the dominance, in the undergraduate classroom, of New Criticism (named and championed by John Crowe Ransom and other southerners), which held that each word should be read closely with a mind towards its relation with the whole, and that nothing but the words of the text should guide a reader's interpretation of it. Spin-off theories have replaced the sovereignty of the words with their own absolutisms, but, no matter the theory, professors have pointedly avoided teaching the literary context of the particular text, lest the innocence of the student's imagination be tainted by suggestion. The reader is left to confront the text, like Francis Bacon's inductive acolytes confront Nature, with nothing but curiosity, scepticism, and vast patience.
Literary criticism has always struggled to prove its rightful place at the table of the sciences. Ransom's defense of close reading was a renewed effort to make literary scholarship scientific, by defining the scope of its study to that which uniquely belonged to literature and could not be found elsewhere. The outline of his ideas appears in his seminal essay from 1937, "Criticism, Inc." It is suggestive that he offers the structures and linguistic tricks of poetry, as opposed to prose, as his prime example of the specific branches of knowledge which the critic ought to master. Close reading works better with poetry than with prose, since the working assumption of the critic, that every word is in an intricately balanced unity with the whole, holds up more often.
Since the beginning, English literature has been indebted to the study of classical literature and language, and for precision and breadth has never equalled it. The eighteenth century curriculum in England of the classical Greek and Latin literature was a model of education which cannot be replicated by the study of English. It was a synthesis of grammar, rhetoric, history, and ethics. Close reading sat alongside comparative literature, history, ethics, sociology as a profitable interpretative enterprise, in part because their knowledge of antiquity drew chiefly on the famous literature. Now that classical history has become scientific; that archeology, numismatics, the study of accumulated minor primary sources, etc. take up much more of the burden of historical inquiry, the famous primary texts are no longer quite so available as a vehicle for the transmission of humanistic values and the civilizing of the imagination and taste.
When the vernacular replaced the antiquities as the touchstone of a common culture, the study of English literature inherited the responsibility for transmitting that humanistic education. But it also inherited the same problem. Studying history and sociology through literature doesn't get very far. The New Critics rejected that burden, devoting themselves purely to the text as an inherently interesting problem. Literary history goes the farthest one can go, now, to remedying the problem, by reincorporating the intellectual, cultural, political, and religious problems of the past back into the literature. It can become again the ground of humanistic education in the way that the antiquities once were. That, I think, is the natural home of literature. The science of literature serves that end, and not the other way round.
The City Is a Home for the Children of Multiculturalism
Jason Peters at Front Porch Republic conceded Mark Signorelli's right to be discontent with the archetypical Odyssean narrative of the Return Home, a discontent which Signorelli expressed in an essay titled "Going Home Again? Not Likely":
If I am correct, it seems there is a certain kind of arch-typical narrative that has become quite popular here at FPR, and in some sense, emblematic of its defense of place and home. It is the "Going Home" story, the story of someone rejecting the allures of wealth and status in the big-city, and returning to the fixed traditions of his or her hometown. While such narratives are of great interest, in and of themselves, and while they clearly emerge from the sincere experiences of their authors, I find myself entirely unable to sympathize with them. I suspect, moreover, that, taken together, such narratives tend to distort more about the reality of twenty-first century America than they make clear.
But Peters missed the second part of Signorelli's remarks, which was a preference for the archetype of Aeneas, a man who, his home having been destroyed, wanders as an exile in search of a place to build a new one. Peters briefly advised persons in Signorelli's predicament to be as Booker T. Washington and "cast down your buckets where you are," before defending his own dutiful return to a home still worth caring for.
That advice doesn't square at all with the story of Aeneas, who spent many years wandering through the Mediterranean: he didn't settle in the first place he landed, and his first effort to build a city in Crete was rebuked by Apollo. In Carthage, where he could have happily cast down his rusty bucket, his piety compelled him away.
Actually there's more than one kind of homelessness, and Signorelli touched on only one of them. His sort is the peculiar emptiness engendered by the spirit of modernism, and from which an educated man learns to take some refuge in the wisdom of the classics. "On the street where I grew up," Signorelli writes, "isolation was the norm. It was the kind of place where people came home from work, turned on the television, and had done with the outside world. The kind of place where next-door neighbors did not know one another's name." In response, he says, "one of the ruling impulses in my life since early adulthood has been a desire to get as far away from my hometown as I can."
There's another kind of homelessness, never unknown, but now in the United States almost as common as the modern ennui, and that is the problem of having many homes. There are grown men and women raised in homes with parents of different faiths, parents of different races, different nationalities, adults who spent their childhood moving from place to place every four years, crossing state lines and national boundaries. If their parents divorced and remarried they have stepfathers and mothers, each with another new history. These adults marry into again new cultures. Not all of these accumulated homes are worth living in. Some are like Signorelli's hometown. But others are enduring expressions of community. It isn't apparent by what rule couples should decide where to settle. They fit neither the departure narrative nor the return narrative.
And I begin with couples as an ethical unit, but marriage itself is a conceptual problem, a fuel to the multicultural fire. Each difference between a married couple increases the difficulty in communication and understanding, increases the basic tension between the insistent demands of their backgrounds. How do you raise your children among their grandparents when your in-laws are in Des Moines and your parents are in Miami? What if your in-laws live in Milan, or New Delhi? How do you raise your children faithfully when you, a Lutheran, can't receive the Eucharist of your Roman Catholic wife?
I'm not discussing multiculturalism (or better, cultural pluralism), where communities with radically different cultures lead separate existences from neighborhood to neighborhood, and for which the problem is protecting the heritage of local and national history and law from the imported doctrines of an alien people who demand provision for their robust dissimilarity. I'm discussing the moral duties of the people who live in the borders between those communities. Those borders grow more complex year on year, strange combinations of tribal loyalties overlap, and the population living in them grows larger and larger.
In the absence of a series of friendly Apollonian soothsayers, it takes people a long time to work out how to solve the riddles of their moral duties. There's no doubt humans have a common desire for home: some people learn to locate it in their family, some in a landscape, some in a club, some in a profession with a few friends. The fullest and most beautiful expression of home is larger than any one of these things, but for a child of multiculturalism the search for that home is difficult and can cause massive unhappiness.
There is a natural institution which can harbor and endure this sort of cultural anarchy, even putting it to good use: the city. Intercollegiate Review's Danielle Charette observed that "conservatives often use "cities" as a stand in for what is wrong in America: poverty, family breakdown, and crony capitalism. It's true that those issues tend to concentrate more in urban zip codes. But it's also true that cities are a magnetic testament to the human desire to congregate and experiment." That embrace of experiment offers an endless supply of new beginnings, a place where strange ideas are constantly crashing into one-another, a place to build a half-way home while you sift through your soul to find the seeds of a more enduring piety.
Willa Cather's Will Laid to Rest
This month Random House will publish a collection of Willa Cather's letters, reports the NYT. Cather wished that her novels would be read and interpreted on their merits alone, and to that end, and for the simple sake of privacy, ruthlessly protected her personal material from publication. She fortified her position in her will, banning excerpts and even simple quotations from print. Her biographers have had to make do with paraphrase ever since, until now. The NYT reports,
Ms. Stout and Mr. Jewell [the scholar editors], in their preface, acknowledge that publication of the letters "flagrantly" violates Cather's wishes, expressed in a will that partially expired in 2011 with the death of her nephew and second executor, Charles Cather. But publication, they argue, advances the deeper purpose of Cather's restrictions: cementing her status as a major literary artist.
The death of the last living executor of her will, Charles Cather her nephew in 2011, removed the last mechanism she had built into the will to enforce her wishes. The Cather Trust, to whom the copyright belonged, quickly dropped the prohibition on publication, as well as a ban on film adaptation. The proceeds will go back to the Trust and the Willa Cather Foundation, which promotes Cather's life and work.
Since under the terms of US copyright law, the letters had been scheduled to revert to the public domain in 2017 anyway (70 years after her death in 1947), it's possible the Trust is trying to manage the process before it gets out of their hands completely.
The passing of Charles Cather illustrates the crucial role of family members and close friends in protecting a person's interests after their death. Ms. Stout writes in her preface to the anthology that Cather "no longer belongs entirely to herself…She belongs to everyone." Public-spirited admirers don't care as much as family about a person's desires., and they will justify actions that would have outraged the person they act in trust of. Will we grieve at her loss, reading her published letters? Probably not: the whole thing has passed into history.
The same thing holds true of the fate of the Barnes Foundation, recently relocated to Philadelphia, which was precisely the last thing that Barnes ever wanted for his collection. In his case, his wish that his paintings never be removed from the walls of his estate was adhered to perfectly until 1988, when Violette de Mazia, his trusted pupil, died (Barnes had no children). Just five years later, a collection of the best paintings were sent on a world tour. Will we feel a pang of conscience, walking through the reconstructed modernist building? Probably not. Time has swallowed up Barnes' passion, and we are left with a tidy residue.
New Basquiat Murals: Warhol's Touch Still Golden
Artinfo reported Wednesday that an old girlfriend of 1980s graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat is preparing to unveil a trove of personal ephemera from their days living together in the East Village. The apartment, which Alexis Adler owns, is still decorated with Basquiat's skeletal scrawls: a mural that reads "Olive Oyl," a painting of crowns and the words "Famous Negro Athletes" on a door, and the word "Milk" on a radiator. Seeing that a mini-retrospective of Basquiat's works at the Gagosian gallery is attracting over 4000 visitors a day, that his's paintings regularly sell at auction for over $10 million, and that in 2012, for the second year running, sales of his paintings, clocking in at €80m, far outstripped the take of any other artist born after 1945, this is no empty news for New York City, and great business for Adler.
Basquiat's heads are stitched together like Frankenstein's monster, psychotic rage and despair leaking out of the skull. His later work became rude, childish, and weak. Perhaps fame undercut his sense of righteous fury. But aside from any consideration of the merits of his work, it goes to show that Andy Warhol's sympathetic touch still reaches out from the grave and turns to gold all the labors of his reverent Maenads.
Basquiat didn't find a critical audience until 1979, where he started making appearances on Glenn O'Brien's (now the GQ style guy) cable show TV Times. Glenn was a early member of Warhol's Factory, and editor-in-chief of his literary outlet Interview. Basquiat introduced himself to Warhol in 1980, and the two collaborated heavily after that. In Victor Bockris's Warhol: A Biography, long-time Warhol assistant Ronny Cutrone describes the relationship:
It was like some crazy art-world marriage and they were the odd couple. The relationship was symbiotic. Jean-Michel thought he needed Andy's fame, and Andy thought he needed Jean-Michel's new blood. Jean-Michel gave Andy a rebellious image again.
But it wasn't until in 1981 when an article, entitled "The Radiant Child," appeared in ArtForum praising Basquiat that he came to the attention of a wider art audience. The author of the article was René Ricard, also an Andy Warhol protégé.
After Warhol's death in 1987, Basquiat became isolated and depressed, and eventually died overdosing on heroin. Basquiat's unhinged violence curiously balances Warhol's soporifics. Warhol was a sort of anti-Tao, a placid centre unleashing chaos around him.
I leave you with a gratuitous illustration of Warhol's seeming ubiquity: Andy Warhol met one of his "superstars," the transvestite Candy Darling (who also committed suicide at a young age), in 1967 at a gangster-owned club called the Tenth of Always in NYC, while sitting with Velvet Underground lead Lou Reed. Candy was performing in "Glamour, Glory and Gold," a play written by drag queen Jackie Curtis, another Warhol star. On stage alongside Candy and Jackie was one man, in his first-ever acting job, playing all six male parts. His name was Robert de Niro.
Tilda Cows Come Home to MoMA
Eighteen years after sleeping in a box among jumbled artifacts of British culture in an exhibit by Cornelia Parker, Tilda Swinton, minor celebrity, is reprising her tumblrbait act, The Maybe, first performed in 1995, at the Museum of Modern Art. At unscripted times throughout this year you might find her outside the atrium.
The odd thing about the exercise is its total lack of ambition or humor or irony. The event (it is vaguely in the genre of performance art) doesn't register its own banality. The most excitement the museum scraped from the exhibit was that it wouldn't always be there. MoMA said in a public statement,
No published schedule for its appearance, no artist's statement released, no museum statement beyond this brief context, no public profile or image issued. Those who find it chance upon it for themselves, live and in real—shared—time: now we see it, now we don't.
The art world is either thrilled that their beloved Swinton is on display, or just dutifully descriptive of the emperor's latest stunt. Jerry Saltz is laboriously non-committal. No-one, hardly even the museum, appears to be interested in the exhibit as a work of art. There are at least as many posts reporting the reaction of twitter to the event as reporting the event itself.
The one humane bit of insight among the effusive detritus was from the New Republic. Jason Farago points out that Swinton earned her notoriety by being the subject of that original 1995 piece, the design of which wasn't even hers, but one Cornelia Parker's. In it she slept alongside Napoleon's rosary, Turner's watercolour box, Charles Dickens's last pen, Robert Maxwell's shoe lasts, one of Churchill's half-smoked cigars, the manuscript of Wilfred Owen's Strange Meeting, Charles Babbage's brain, and with Faraday's Magneto Spark apparatus, among other things. Says Farago,
It was Parker's work that made Swinton's more than just a performance cliché, and without that context it's hard to see the new The Maybe as anything other than an empty gesture by a movie star with an incomplete command of art history.
(A wikipedia contributor back in 2007 specifically disputed that Parker was the author of the original show, asserting that she merely helped Swinton prepare it. That assertion has since stood on Swinton's wiki page, but the only reporting I have been able to find is from a piece by the Independent in 1995, which supports Farago.)
Secondly, Farago points out, the exhibition is curated by Klaus Biesenbach, a notorious populist in the tradition of Andy Warhol. The MoMA under Biesenbach has displayed its fair share of impassioned interactive depravity. But the tiredness of the sleeping Swinton suggests that those other peculiar exhibits were utterly banal as well, the humdrum titillation of being brushed by nude bodies as you walked through the exhibit, for instance, hardly worth mentioning.
Still, at least Swinton looks like David Bowie.
Old Town Dies a Little Death
The City Council of Alexandria, VA reaffirmed its plan last Saturday to develop the waterfront on the west bank of the Potomac. The vote reapproved zoning and density changes, and in addition removed language in the city's zoning ordinance that formerly allowed residents who would be most affected by the zoning changes to force a supermajority vote of 6-1 to have them approved.
The complex three-year legal fight over the plan between the council and a large number of Old Town residents has ranged across several city bureaus, private clubs and businesses, in council and mayoral elections, and up to the Supreme Court of Virginia. At stake is the nature of Old Town, and by extension, the city—whether it will be primarily a neighborhood enjoyed by its residents, or a destination exhibited to tourists as a haven of pleasure and nostalgia. Two new hotels are to be allowed, the profits distributed between the developers and the city treasury, with public land along the waterfront to be improved as compensation to the locals.
The lynchpin of the original design is a pier jutting out from a new public park, situated on what is currently the parking lot of the Old Dominion Boat Club, in existence since 1880. The Alexandria Planning Director said of it, ""The King Street pier is the soul of the plan." The ODBC holds some of the best real-estate in the entire country, on the Potomac at the foot of King Street, the main artery of the town's commerce and administration. It's a bastion of leisure and friendship for the long-time residents of the town, many of whom were born in the town of parents who made it prosperous in the 1950s. Though negotiations between the city and ODBC to sell the ratty-looking parking lot broke down in 2010, the city has not given up the hope of acquiring the land. It has pressed on the Boat Club's domain by forcibly sharing its old easement right-of-way in an alley parallel to King Street with a new organic restaurant Virtue Feed & Grain, and defending its decision against the club's appeal in a costly court case. It remains unclear whether the city will try to take the parking lot under eminent domain law, and also unclear whether the amendment to the Virginia State constitution approved in the November elections, heavily restricting eminent domain action, is sufficient to protect the parking lot.
Roger Scruton was able to say in 2009 that Old Town Alexandria, along with Georgetown, exhibits a benign adaptation between architectural beauty and human needs which has survived decades of a national culture of modernist urban planning. Clearly the waterfront redevelopment won't bulldoze the narrow streets, elaborate Georgian brickwork, and jumbled mix of homes and businesses which support a network of friendships and local loyalties. Indeed, there is a good argument for opening up the waterfront to more local residents. Large portions of it are ugly and disused. It's still possible that the details of the development could be integrated in a wholesome manner with the rest of the town's aesthetic character.
But that will take personal discipline and restraint from its council members, where formerly that restraint was imposed by the law. Most worrisome from Saturday was the vote to sweep away the power of residents to petition for changes in zoning regulations. The council takes the view that it isn't a change but a clarification of an earlier ambiguity: The right of petition, it holds, is against map changes only, not the wording of regulations.
Speaking from personal experience, since I work part-time as a barista at the Grape & Bean, a wine and coffee bar in Old Town, those who oppose the redevelopment are most likely to voice their thoughts in public, and most likely, it seems, to possess the keen emotions of civic piety. Those in favor have not voiced their opinions, if they have them, except to vote overwhelmingly for those council members who ran under the Democratic Party ticket. All six took the six open council seats, defeating the three Republicans, two Independents, and one Libertarian who ran against them, two of whom were incumbents, and five of whom opposed the redevelopment as planned. There is no doubt the election was affected by the decision of the council, taken in 2009, to move the traditional local election date from May to November to coincide with the general election, and to take advantage of the turnout of voters who have no opinion on and little stake in the results of local politics. The argument over the redevelopment isn't cleanly split by party—the one dissenting vote on the recent council vote comes from Democrat Vice Mayor Allison Silberberg, who explicitly ran against the plan. But none of the other members were interested in her compromise offer to reduce the number of hotels planned from two to one.
Beautiful civic life takes decades and centuries to create, and a few years to destroy. The sobering lesson in this story is that even the most determined conservators, if in a democratic constitutional order remain a small minority of the population, are unable to prevent the degradation of civic beauty.
Et In Arkadia Ego
After Jordan Bloom tells the tale of the $5 million animatronic zoo cum children's chapel for a San Antonio megachurch, Rod Dreher points out that it's not the cost that staggers ($5 million for these churches is relatively pocket change), but the purpose—cultural relevance. The idea is to compete with theme parks and pizzerias for the kids' attention so they'll stay for the Word of God.
John Hagee is your average megachurch the-end-is-nigh, bless-Israel-so-you-may-be-blessed prosperity preacher, with an aging choir, a corpulent belly, a multimillion dollar TV ministry, a son groomed to take over the empire, and a massive retirement package. He needs your pity more than anything.
With room for 850 boisterous children cascading over the room, it's hard to imagine those wonderful toys surviving long, but it's not all bad. The model Noah's ark is at least a rudimentary architectural symbol of the congregation's theology, which is more than can be said for the main stadium, which only says that the guy standing down at the bottom middle with the mic is really important and you'd better listen to him.
But it's a skin-deep symbolism. The electronic elephant symbolizes…a live elephant. It was important to the ark designer "that it really feel more real than just a playground." "We never wanted a curtain to look behind. No place where it gave it away," he said. Of course there is a curtain, the plastic which covers the hydraulic innards. A kid who can't find the curtain (and they will try) is impressed by the design quality, but that's more reason to believe in the ingenuity of technicians than in the providence of God. That's why pastor Hagee acknowledges that their real value is entertainment. We wonder how long it will be before the kids get bored and start demanding to see pterodactyls nesting on the church rooftop. The cleverer ones will have overthrown the entire enterprise as soon as they ask "so how did all the animals on the earth fit into this ark? And didn't the animals come in two by two?"
The power of sacred architecture is in the fitting combination of its beauty and its meaning. Hagee's chapel is gaudily commercial and theologically spare, powerless to move the soul to God. His church has nothing to say, and no idea how to say it. The larger story here is that the parents and retirees who paid for the building are raising children who are bored with church, and a pachyderm playground is their best idea to get the little ones' attention.
Scholar Unearths 50 Unpublished Kipling Poems
50 previously unpublished poems by Rudyard Kipling will be included in a massive three-volume collection of his complete poetry, soon to be published by Cambridge University Press. (Complete, of course, until someone discovers another unpublished poem. The energetic man wrote over 1,300 and gave many brief forgotten lines away as gifts.)
We all owe thanks to the scholar responsible for this new collection, Thomas Pinney, who has for years been scrupulously editing authoritative collections of Kipling's assorted letters, prose, and poetry, and has personally hunted across the country for many of these new poems.
You can read the press release here, though for added value Alison Flood at the Guardian has scooped a few lines from the new poems, and included in her post a terrific complete poem called "The Press", which no doubt draws on his contempt for American journalists. The American press hated Kipling for his taciturnity, but he hated them more. Here's an excerpt of a magnificent passage from his little-known PJ O'Rourke-style work, American Notes, where he speaks his mind to a Chicago reporter who crashes funerals to interview the widows and overturns wreaths to see who sent them.
HE (with his note-book ready)—…How do you regard it?
I—It makes me regard your interesting nation with the same shuddering curiosity that I should bestow on a Pappan cannibal chewing the scalp off his mother's skull. Does that convey any idea to your mind? It makes me regard the whole pack of you as heathens—real heathens—not the sort you send missions to—creatures of another flesh and blood. You ought to have been shot, not dead, but through the stomach, for your share in the scandalous business, and the thing you call your newspaper ought to have been sacked by the mob, and the managing proprietor hanged.
Alison Flood gets wrong Kipling's lines from his "Epitaphs of the War", "If any question why we died / Tell them, because our fathers lied." She attributes them to his regret at his enthusiasm for the war, but that's wrong. George Simmers at an excellent little blog, Great War Fiction, has this to say:
Time Stops at the National Gallery of Art
A woman with flaming red hair, sunken eyes, and a Cyclopean chin materializes on several canvases of the superb pre-Raphaelite exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in DC, Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Art and Design, 1848–1900. If you have ever found yourself helplessly mesmerized by the neurotic hyperrealism of the Brothers, one look at her face should be enough to shock you out of medie-Victorian dream land. Her unfortunate aspect is testament to human weakness and the impossibility of making a perfect work of art.
To this day one is tempted to chalk up admiration for pre-Raphaelite work to aesthetic adolescence. Dante Gabriel Rossetti was only 18 when he wrote The Blessed Damozel, the most famous and representative of poems to emerge from their movement. As late as 1984 the NYT could write, "the revival of Victorian art as a serious genre, instead of being treated as a joke for most of the 20th century, has been slow and its total rehabilitation is still anything but assured."
The work of rehabilitation is even now incomplete, but this new exhibit, imported from the Tate Gallery in London, and embellished by NGA curator Diane Waggoner, goes far toward completing it. It adds to the paintings the array of sculptures, poems, stained-glass, murals, and tapestries with which the Brotherhood decorated the private drawing rooms of their political patrons. You see that they were aiming at a complete overthrow of the English mannerist aesthetic, inherited from Raphael and elaborated in England by Sir Joshua Reynolds. The Brothers did for the fine arts what Wordsworth and Keats had done for poetry.
The paintings are difficult to assess. They beg to be regarded as serious, thoughtful, and exciting to the imagination, but to the degree the electric greens and purples of Arthur Hughes stimulate they eye they perversely escape the mind. Their first important critic, Walter Pater, could say nothing better of Rossetti than that his meanings are "always personal and even recondite, in a certain sense learned and casuistical, sometimes complex or obscure." Here Feeling is illuminated and embalmed. True Love is drowned, rejected, or doomed. Most of the paintings tell striking stories, but, with some exceptions from William Holman Hunt and Ford Madox Brown, rather than offer an interpretation of the story they attempt to render their hermetic power. Read More…


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A lot of eyebrows were raised in Helsinki this week when some unconventional undergarments went on sale in a local market—the images aren't the most work-safe, so we've kept most of them after the jump. An example of the hairy chest tank top can be seen below.
"Hairy Underwear" is the latest work of Finnish art duo "Tärähtäneet Ämmät" —a name that translates to something between "loony ladies" and "nutty tarts," according to the artists Katriina Haikala and Vilma Metteri.
Needless to say, the pants didn't seem to be flying off the shelves, but the work certainly calls into question our obsession with airbrushed beauty and our society's endemic sexual objectification.
Check out the underwear and the full pants, vest top,hairy tights ensemble—complete with "Bad Face Day" hat—after the jump. Remember, not exactly SFW.


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"We believe we will be able to use our joint expertise, complementary assets and geographic coverage to develop a business that can run smoothly and efficiently to better partner with our customers and suppliers," McCann, Fyffes executive chairman, said in the release.
The ChiquitaFyffes senior leadership includes Tom Murphy, chief financial officer; Coen Bos, chief operating officer for fresh fruit; Brian Kocher, chief operating officer for salads and healthy snacks; Kevin Holland, chief administrative officer; James Thompson, chief legal officer; and Manuel Rodriguez, corporate responsibility officer.
The senior executives will be based in Charlotte and Dublin. The combined company's board of directors will have an equal combination of directors from both companies and one mutually agreed upon director, according to the release.
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