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Wacky Races | |
Genre | Racing Comedy |
Written by | Larz Bourne Dalton Sandifer Tom Dagenais Michael Maltese |
Directed by | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
Voices of | Daws Butler Don Messick John Stephenson Janet Waldo Dave Willock Paul Winchell |
Narrated by | Dave Willock |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 17 (34 segments) |
Production | |
Producer(s) | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
Running time | 20 minutes |
Production company(s) | Hanna-Barbera (Warner Bros. Animation) Heatter-Quigley Productions (Orion Pictures Corporation) |
Distributor | Taft Broadcasting (1968–1987) Great American Broadcasting (1988–1991) Turner Program Services (1992–1996) Warner Bros. Television Distribution (1996–present) |
Broadcast | |
Original channel | CBS |
Picture format | 4:3 |
Audio format | Mono |
Original run | September 14, 1968 | – September 5, 1970
Chronology | |
Followed by | The Perils of Penelope Pitstop (1969–1971) Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines (1969–1971) |
Related shows | Yogi's Space Race (1978–1979) Yogi's Treasure Hunt (1985–1986) |
Wacky Races | |
Genre | Racing Comedy |
Written by | Larz Bourne Dalton Sandifer Tom Dagenais Michael Maltese |
Directed by | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
Voices of | Daws Butler Don Messick John Stephenson Janet Waldo Dave Willock Paul Winchell |
Narrated by | Dave Willock |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 17 (34 segments) |
Production | |
Producer(s) | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
Running time | 20 minutes |
Production company(s) | Hanna-Barbera (Warner Bros. Animation) Heatter-Quigley Productions (Orion Pictures Corporation) |
Distributor | Taft Broadcasting (1968–1987) Great American Broadcasting (1988–1991) Turner Program Services (1992–1996) Warner Bros. Television Distribution (1996–present) |
Broadcast | |
Original channel | CBS |
Picture format | 4:3 |
Audio format | Mono |
Original run | September 14, 1968 | – September 5, 1970
Chronology | |
Followed by | The Perils of Penelope Pitstop (1969–1971) Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines (1969–1971) |
Related shows | Yogi's Space Race (1978–1979) Yogi's Treasure Hunt (1985–1986) |
Wacky Races is an American animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera.[1] The series, inspired by the 1965 slapstick comedy film The Great Race,[2][dubious ] features 11 different cars racing against each other in various road rallies throughout North America,[3] with each driver hoping to win the title of the "World's Wackiest Racer." The cartoon had a large number of regular characters, with 23 people and animals spread among the 11 race cars.
Wacky Races ran on CBS from September 14, 1968, to January 4, 1969. 17 episodes were produced, with each episode featuring two different races.
One of the unused plans for the series was that the races would be part of a live-action quiz show made by Merrill Heatter and Bob Quigley Productions in which contestants would bet on which Wacky Racer would cross the finish line first. Although the game show concept was eventually scrapped, the series still retained a Hanna-Barbera/Heatter-Quigley dual production credit.
It is one of the few Heatter-Quigley series not currently owned by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's subsidiary Orion Pictures Corporation since September 11, 2014 (though the Japanese dub of Wacky Races had involvement of Streamline Pictures, such as Tom and Jerry, Looney Tunes and the TV Tokyo version of The Powerpuff Girls), the MGM studio also where the Hanna-Barbera team got its start with Puss Gets the Boot. In 1988, a made-for-TV movie, Around the World with the Wacky Racers, was planned as part of Hanna-Barbera's Superstars 10 series of TV movies, but it never got past the concept stage.
The villains of the series, in a purple, rocket-powered car with an abundance of concealed weapons and the ability to fly. Dastardly (voiced by Paul Winchell, in a manner that Winchell would use several years later to portray the Smurfs' nemesis Gargamel) is an archetypal mustache-twirling villain; Muttley (voiced by Don Messick) is his trademark wheezily snickering, anthropomorphic dog henchman.
Dastardly's usual race strategy revolves around using the Mean Machine's great speed to get ahead of the other racers, and then setting a trap to stop them and maintain the lead, but most of his plans backfire, causing him to fall back into last place. Sometimes he would be so far ahead that if he carried on without trying to cheat or stop the other racers, he would have surely won that particular race.
Dastardly's rocket car was arguably the fastest car in the series, as evinced by Dastardly's repeatedly zooming to a stunning lead from far behind. Dastardly never saw victory. He came close at least three times: once when he crossed the line first, and is seen to do so in the original and official footage, but a tampered replay viewed by the judges showed him cheating, and another time when he was battling with three other cars to finish first, but he stopped to pose for the photo finish. He also came close to winning another race, but he stopped again, this time to sign an autograph for Muttley.
Dastardly never even officially finished in the top three. In fact, he only crossed the line five times: thrice in last place, once in fifth place (beating the Army Surplus Special), once in fourth place (in a photo finish) and that once in first place (but after viewing a tampered replay probably adjusted by the Judges, he was "disqualified for stretching a point"..."his car's nose cone"). Later on we also see a mechanic must have extended the nose cone to fool even Dastardly himself.
He is sometimes foiled by the finishing line itself, where he makes a sprint at the end to gain the lead, but while sneering and looking behind him at the other competitors, fails to notice that parts protruding from the Mean Machine (often sails or rockets) are too big to get under the finish banner and he subsequently crashes into it.
Often it appears that if Dastardly had not bothered to cheat, then he might have won fairly. Upon tasting defeat, Dastardly would utter his catchphrases, "Drat!!! Drat!!! And Double Drat!!!", "Triple Drat!" and even "Curses, foiled again!" This is often followed by Muttley's snickering. His other main catchphrase was "Muttley, do something!"
Rock and Gravel Slag (voiced by Daws Butler and Don Messick) are cavemen driving a wheeled boulder. If their car is ever destroyed, the Slag Brothers will usually reconstruct it from scratch simply by using their clubs on any large boulder they can find. The Slag Brothers can also summon up a Pteranodon to help them. They accelerate by hitting the car (or at times, each other) with their clubs. They will sometimes directly attack other drivers with their clubs or by launching rocks at them. The Slag Brothers' character design was re-used for Captain Caveman.[citation needed]
Big Gruesome (a lurching, huge humanoid character voiced by Daws Butler) and Little Gruesome (a purple-skinned vampire voiced by Don Messick) are monsters driving a hearse-like car with a belfry which houses a dragon, ghosts, serpents, and other horror-themed characters as well as storm clouds. The Gruesomes can summon these creatures to either help them along in the race or fend off other drivers. The Gruesome Twosome are quite prone to foul play and use their range of creatures to scare off or sabotage the other competitors. Little Gruesome acts as the brains of the duo while Big Gruesome acts as the muscle. However, they aren't without a sense of decency, as they used their sea serpent power to help the other racers cross a stretch of water after the bridge was taken out by Dick Dastardly.
A scientist (voiced by Don Messick) in a boat-shaped airplane-like car which can change into just about anything that moves, from mundane vehicles (such as a motorcycle) to outlandish ones (such as a giant bowling ball). He often uses his car's multitude of gadgets to help out the other drivers if they all get caught in the same trap. His alliterative name is a pun on the phrase "patent pending". Most of his gadgets seem to be defensive as opposed to Dastardly's offensive devices.
An air ace (voiced by Daws Butler) whose name is a combination of the Red Baron and the Blue Max, in a car/plane hybrid that is capable of limited flight, usually just enough to leapfrog over racers or obstacles in its path. The Haybaler has a mounted machine gun which is used sporadically. The machine gun can fire bullets, pepper, and other substances. The Haybaler's transformations from plane to car seems to have significantly weakened its flying ability, and Max often has to bail out when the Haybaler breaks down. The character and name of his vehicle are partially derived from the barnstorming stuntmen of the 1920s.
Penelope Pitstop (voiced by Janet Waldo) is the lone female among the Wacky Racers. She is a Southern belle dressed in a 1930s racing costume. The Compact Pussycat is a fancy pink convertible fitted out with all manner of girlie beauty supplies—effectively, a beauty parlor on wheels. Penelope often takes time during the race to maintain her appearance, which causes the other racers to lose ground when her gadgets malfunction. The other male racers are very chivalrous towards her, and rarely attack her car, sometimes even allowing her to pass them. Turbo Terrific driver Peter Perfect is particularly fond of her, frequently calling her "Pretty Penny". Penelope also had her own cartoon, The Perils of Penelope Pitstop, which also featured the Ant Hill Mob.
Two soldiers, one a sergeant (voiced by Daws Butler) and the other a private (voiced by Paul Winchell), racing in an army tank/jeep hybrid with a small steamroller's wheel attached to the front. The Army Surplus Special makes use of its tank facilities while racing, including its cannon, which can spin around to face forward or back, and the hatch, where Sergeant Blast rides. The Surplus Special is equipped with a supply of land mines and back-mounted thrusters. The Surplus Special is capable of firing its gun backwards to propel itself forwards for extra speed. As their names suggest, Private Meekly is very meek and merely follows orders without question, while Sergeant Blast "blasts" orders in a stereotypical drill-sergeant voice.
The Bulletproof Bomb (occasionally referred to as the "Roaring Plenties") is a 1920s limousine sedan, driven by a group of seven pint-sized gangsters all of whom sit in the front seat: leader Clyde (voiced by Paul Winchell), Ring-A-Ding (voiced by Don Messick), and five others. Clyde is a pastiche of Edward G. Robinson's character in the film Little Caesar and of the male half of Bonnie and Clyde. Their typical method of improving the speed of their car is "Getaway Power", which is achieved by extending their feet through the floor of the car and running, much like Fred Flintstone's method of propelling his "cave car" in his own series. On occasion, the Ant Hill Mob would use their tommy guns against the other racers. Their name is derived from the film The Lavender Hill Mob.
The Ant Hill Mob reappeared in the spin-off series The Perils of Penelope Pitstop, with Clyde in a silver outfit and his wingmen, with new names, wearing blue outfits and riding in a living car, Chugga-Boom. The Mob were the protagonists in this series, along with Penelope herself, and were constantly rushing to her rescue.
Luke (voiced by John Stephenson) is a hillbilly who tends to drive steering with his feet while half-asleep, in one episode he refers to himself as Dog-Nosed Luke; Blubber (also voiced by Stephenson) is his timid pet grizzly bear, clad in a scarf and early aviator's helmet with goggles. The Chuggabug is constructed of wood and is powered by a coal-fired pot-bellied stove in the rear of the vehicle. The stove can be prone to exploding, usually if another competitor blocks the exhaust. Luke tends to use old-fashioned means of improving the performance of his car. He pours various liquors into the stove for a quick speed boost (but the stove would often explode afterward). He has also been shown using various balloons and gum type traps.
A gentleman driver (voiced by Daws Butler) driving a dragster. The Turbo Terrific, despite its name and Peter's adulation, is highly unreliable; it often falls to pieces in the middle of a race, usually after Peter praises it for how well it is doing. Peter Perfect has a crush on Penelope Pitstop (whom he calles "Pretty Penny"), who often returns his affections. The Turbo Terrific seems to be able to sprout an additional four rear wheels, giving eight wheels in total, for extra speed.
Rufus Ruffcut (voiced by Daws Butler) is a tough, muscle-bound lumberjack, while Sawtooth (voiced by Don Messick) is his anthropomorphic pet beaver. The Buzzwagon is a wagon made of logs, with buzzsaws for wheels, hence its name. The buzzsaws gives the car the ability to cut through almost anything, destroying the object in the process. For instance, in one race through a densely wooded area with a route full of long curves, Ruffcut is able to temporarily take the lead by carving straight line shortcuts through the foliage. Unfortunately, the buzzsaws have a tendency to detach from the vehicle and cut through the other racers, in one case cutting two wheels off the Ant Hill Mob's car.
Every episode is introduced and commented on by an unseen Narrator (voice by Dave Willock), who often communicates with the racers as they drive. The racers respond by speaking to the audience, breaking the fourth wall. Dick Dastardly has oddly nicknamed the Narrator 'Boopsie', used as a female character's nickname in Doonesbury shortly thereafter.
The other characters seem to get on with each other, they are often seen (especially Pat Pending and usually Peter Perfect and Penelope Pitstop) helping each other out of traps set by Dastardly. They also at times use "dirty tricks" on each other (Army Surplus shooting other cars or Gruesome Twosome using their Dragon). Some of these tricks are as bad as Dastardly's, but they seem to get away with them.
Episode # | Episode title | Original airdate |
WR-1 | See-Saw to Arkansas (35–1) Creepy Trip to Lemon Twist (35–2) | 9/14/1968 |
WR-2 | Why Oh Why Wyoming (35–3) Beat the Clock to Yellow Rock (35–4) | 9/21/1968 |
WR-3 | Mish-Mash Missouri Dash (35–6) | 9/28/1968 |
WR-4 | Baja-Ha-Ha Race (35–11) Real Gone Ape (35–8) | 10/5/1968 |
WR-5 | Scout Scatter (35–7) Free Wheeling to Wheeling (35–10) | 10/12/1968 |
WR-6 | By Rollercoaster to Upsan Downs (35–9) The Speedy Arkansas Traveler (35–12) | 10/19/1968 |
WR-7 | The Zippy Mississippi Race (35–15) Traffic Jambalaya (35–17) | 10/26/1968 |
WR-8 | Hot Race at Chillicothe (35–16) The Wrong Lumber Race (35–18) | 11/2/1968 |
WR-9 | Rhode Island Road Race (35–19) The Great Cold Rush Race (35–13) | 11/9/1968 |
WR-10 | Wacky Race to Ripsaw (35–20) Oils Well That Ends Well (35–21) | 11/16/1968 |
WR-11 | Whizzin' to Washington (35–22) The Dipsy Doodle Desert Derby (35–24) | 11/23/1968 |
WR-12 | Eeny, Miny Missouri Go! (35–14) The Super Silly Swamp Sprint (35–23) | 11/30/1968 |
WR-13 | The Dopey Dakota Derby (35–27) Dash to Delaware (35–26) | 12/7/1968 |
WR-14 | Speeding for Smogland (35–28) Race Rally to Raleigh (35–25) | 12/14/1968 |
WR-15 | Ballpoint, Penn. or Bust! (35–30) Fast Track to Hackensack (35–29) | 12/21/1968 |
WR-16 | The Ski Resort Road Race (35–33) Overseas Hi-Way Race (35–34) | 12/28/1968 |
WR-17 | Race to Racine (35–31) The Carlsbad or Bust Bash (35–32) | 1/4/1969 |
Penelope Pitstop and the Ant Hill Mob were spun off into another cartoon series in 1969 titled The Perils of Penelope Pitstop. In the same year, Dick Dastardly and Muttley were given a spin-off series titled Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines. The series is sometimes mistakenly known as Stop The Pigeon, after the show's working title and theme song. Both series ran for two seasons.
The basic ideas behind Wacky Races and some of the characters were used again by Hanna-Barbera in later years:
A Wacky Races video game was produced in 1991 for the NES, in which the player took the role of Muttley, sent on missions from Dick Dastardly to defeat the other racers. Another game based on the series was also released for the IBM PC, ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 in 1991. A Mega Drive/Sega Genesis game was also developed, but cancelled before release.
A Wacky Races game was released for the Sega Dreamcast in 2000. This game featured all the characters from the series playable with their vehicles. This game had a variety of modes such as Arcade Mode, Adventure mode, and Battle Arena. This game allowed multi-player for up to four people. Voices for the video games' renditions of the characters included Jim Cummings as Dick Dastardly, Clyde, Private Meekly, Big Gruesome, Rock Slag, and Gravel Slag; Billy West as Muttley and Little Gruesome, Janet Waldo reprising her TV role as Penelope Pitstop, John Stephenson reprising his TV role as Luke, Scott Innes as Professor Pat Pending, Gregg Berger as the narrator, and the late Greg Burson as the Red Max, Sergeant Blast, Peter Perfect and Rufus Ruffcut. An expanded version of the game entitled Wacky Races Starring Dastardly and Muttley was later released on the PlayStation 2.
Later in 2007, another game called Wacky Races: Mad Motors for the PlayStation 2 was released by Blast on June 12. A new video game for the Wii and Nintendo DS consoles titled Wacky Races: Crash and Dash was released on June 27, 2008. This game was developed by Eidos.[5]
A three-disc DVD release of the complete series was made available in Japan on August 10, 2001, and had both English and Japanese audio. In Britain Warner released a three-disc set with no extra features, which was only available in Virgin Megastores. The complete box set of Wacky Races was released on July 31, 2006 as an HMV exclusive but is essentially the standard Volumes 1–3 with no extras. The Australian release of Volume 1 and 2 was made available in 2005 and Volume 3 released in 2007.
Warner Home Video released the entire series, with commentaries and other extras, in a DVD box set on October 26, 2004. A two and a half-hour VHS video was made available in the 1996. All 34 episodes can be purchased on the iTunes Store.
DVD Name | Ep # | Release Date | Additional Information |
Wacky Races – The Complete Series | 34 | October 19, 2004 |
The show gave the results of each race at the end of each episode, (the first, second, and third placings are given by the narrator, and we sometimes saw some or all of the other cars cross the finish line). The show never indicated a particular scoring system or way to determine who won the Wacky Races as a whole. However, based on FIA's 1962–1990 Formula One points-scoring system in use when the show first aired (9 points for 1st place, 6 for 2nd and 4 for 3rd), the Slag Brothers would finish with 87 points, followed by Rufus Ruffcut and Sawtooth with 79, and then The Ant Hill Mob with 74. Based on this, the cumulative totals for first, second, and third place finishes for each contestant are presented below:[6]
Contestants | Car Name | Car # | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | Top 3 | Points |
The Slag Brothers | The Boulder Mobile | 1 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 14 | 87 |
Rufus Ruffcut and Sawtooth | The Buzzwagon | 10 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 13 | 79 |
The Ant Hill Mob | The Bulletproof Bomb | 7 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 11 | 74 |
The Gruesome Twosome | The Creepy Coupe | 2 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 12 | 69 |
Penelope Pitstop | The Compact Pussycat | 5 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 68 |
The Red Max | The Crimson Haybaler | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 63 |
Professor Pat Pending | The Convert-A-Car | 3 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 59 |
Luke and Blubber Bear | The Arkansas Chugabug | 8 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 58 |
Peter Perfect | The Turbo Terrific | 9 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 56 |
Sergeant Blast and Private Meekly | The Army Surplus Special | 6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 33 |
Dick Dastardly and Muttley | The Mean Machine | 00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Grand Totals | 34 | 34 | 34 | 102 | 646 |
To win, one did not actually need to be in one's assigned vehicle; apparently all that was necessary was for the driver to cross the finish line in a conveyance of some sort (a flying carpet or a giant ice cube would do), although racers were apparently prohibited from simply walking across. Oddly, however, disqualification would result if a driver crossed the finish line "in the wrong vehicle."
The Ant Hill Mob in The Bulletproof Bomb, Luke and Blubber Bear in The Arkansas Chugabug, Peter Perfect in The Turbo Terrific, and Penelope Pitstop in The Compact Pussycat, hold a joint record for the most wins, each finishing first four times, although one of Pitstop's wins was a result of Dastardly being disqualified for cheating. All the remaining competitors won three races each, except for Dastardly and Muttley in the Mean Machine, which failed to win at all.
The records for the most second place and Top 3 finishes are both held by The Slag Brothers in The Boulder Mobile, with 8 and 14 respectively, while Rufus Ruffcut and Sawtooth in the Buzzwagon have done so 6 and 13 times. The Gruesome Twosome in The Creepy Coupe hold the record for the most third place finishes, with 6.
In most episodes, Dick Dastardly would usually finish last. However, his highest finish occurred in "See-Saw To Arkansas", where he finished fourth.[7]
Not pictured: Bulletproof Bomb #7, Arkansas Chuggabug #8, Buzzwagon #10
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BMA writes to NHS boss over 111 'concerns'
The organisation representing British doctors has written to NHS bosses to call for a delay in the launch of a new non-emergency telephone advice line.
The 111 service, replacing NHS Direct, is due to launch in England on Monday.
The British Medical Association's letter to Sir David Nicholson follows reported problems in trial areas.
Health Minister Lord Howe has said some areas will have more time to go live with 111 while "thorough testing" to ensure reliability is carried out.
Lord Howe has already admitted the new 111 telephone advice service - which the government has said will ease pressure on emergency 999 phone lines - had run into "teething problems".
But the BMA said that in several areas it seemed to have been completely unable to cope with call volumes or suffered severe IT failures.
It said patient safety was being put at risk.
'Effectively crashed'Dr Laurence Buckman, chairman of the the BMA's GP committee, said: "There have been widespread reports of patients being unable to get through to an operator or waiting hours before getting a call back with the health information they have requested,
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He said the "chaotic mess" of 111 was "placing strain" on overstretched parts of the NHS, such as the ambulance service, and potentially placing patients at risk.
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- This includes people needing fast medical help, but who are not a 999 emergency
- Trained advisers who answer the phones offer basic health advice and direct the caller to the most appropriate service for their needs - A&E or GP out-of-hours services, for example
"The BMA has been warning the government about the problems with NHS 111 for almost two years. They must finally act to ensure that patient safety is guaranteed," he added.
The BMA said it had written to NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson to call for a delay to the launch of 111 until it was "fully safe for the public".
Dr Buckman said: "We cannot sacrifice patient safety in order to meet a political deadline for the launch of a service that doesn't work properly."
The Department of Health has already sanctioned an extension of up to six months of the original 1 April 2013 deadline for regions struggling to set up the new service.
The NHS Direct 0845 4647 service will continue to be available to callers in areas where the NHS 111 service is not yet available, Lord Howe has said.
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My new band Positive No (ex Dahlia Seed / Tao & the Get Down Stay Down) is playing our second show. It looks like we will be recording our debut single for Little Black Cloud with J Robbins at the end of next month but more news about that coming later. We will also have a band shirt available for sale here next week. It looks like this.
The indie-Pop classic Dunebuggy LP is almost sold out. Buy now or forever hold your peace.
Thanks again for all your support and reading this long list of happy news.
Nov 3, 2012
November 3rd, 2012 Update
I just finished putting together the Malhombre single. They are limited to 500 copies and will be sold in record stores for this coming Record Store Day which also happens to be Black Friday, November 23rd. This handsome 7" features April March and Melissa Auf der Maur on vocals with art/packaging by Nick Zinner of the Yeah Yeahs + Kenneth Close.
If you are a record store and would like to purchase this release, please drop Cobraside a line or me at email@example.com .
All three members of Gauchiste are also in the Southern Lord Records band Loincloth and are finally playing some shows. (Loincloth - not Gauchiste)
The Dysrhythmia shows...
Nov. 16, Long Branch, NJ @ Brighton Bar w/Dysrhythmia
Nov. 17, Brooklyn, NY @ Public Assembly w/Dysrhythmia and Stats
The Sunn O))) / Dead in the Dirt shows...
Dec. 14, Portland, OR @ Roseland/Peter's Room
Dec. 15, Bellingham, WA @ The Wild Buffalo w/Black Breath
Dec. 16, Seattle, WA @ The Neptune Theatre
Dec. 18, San Fransisco, CA @ The Mezzanine
Dec. 19, Santa Cruz, CA @ The Rio Theatre
Dec. 20, Los Angeles, CA @ The Fonda "The Power of the Riff" presents with:
High on Fire, Corrosion of Conformity, Black Breath, Void Ov Voices
Finally, back home...
Jan. 19, Raleigh, NC @ King's
My new band Positive No has two events coming up. We have never played out for the world yet so these are among our very first public performances. I am stil doing Ringfinger but this project has kind of taken over these past 6 months or so. I am trying to think of the last time I played out live in a band besides the demise of Dahlia Seed in 1996. I think it was 2000 while I was in a N.J. group called Down with the Ship featuring drummer super star Dave Witte. (yes, Municipal Waste Dave). Needless to say, it has been a long while and I am STOKED!
We play live on WRIR, Saturday November 10th, somwhere between 5pm and 7pm.
We are also playing our first show on December 20th at Strange Matter in Richmond, VA. We are the opener, the second band is Invisible Hand, and the Babies are the headliner.
The newest label signing is a Seattle, Wa band called Universe People. They just wrapped up a video and will be revealing the details of their album along with the video any minute now. Check out this interview with the trio on Jet City Stream by Marco Collins and get a little hint of what to expect from their release. Thanks for the shout out in the interview gals and guy!
We are still hoping to have the record out by Feb of 2013. Pressing plants have been annoyingly backed up lately so my fingers are crossed that we can meet that release date. Our goal is to include a cool poster inside each LP too so not only does the music rule but the packaging will too!
Stephen Brodsky's EP is being mastered ...again - I know, right? The line of songs has changed one more time but it looks like we have a finalized now and if all goes well we should have it out by March. I PROMISE THIS EP IS WORTH THE WAIT. The music is beyond beautiful and the art / vinyl will sure to please too.
I have been friends with Stephen for a very long time and this new material is my favorite by him. Ever.
The Dunebuggy LP in red and blue vinyl has been a bit of a disaster. We blew out of the first 100 copies on white vinyl and have tried to get another 100 repressed but both versions have showed up warped / unsellable. We salvaged a mere 30 or so copies but that was it. I have no idea when we will get the parts back from the pressing plant but we hope to do a final repress in 2013.
There is a magical band from Richmond called White Laces. A few of them used to be in a Little Black Cloud Records band called Cinemasophia so if you liked that record (how could you not?), be sure to check out White Laces.
One last thing. For those of you affected by Sandy, my heart goes out to you. I have donated to the Red Cross and beg those with even a few dollars to spare to do the same.
Aug 20, 2012
Little Black Cloud Welcomes Universe People to the Family
Once upon a time there was band from Seattle, WA called Welcome on Fatcat Records that I liked a lot. I mean A LOT.
In fact I worshiped their album Sirs so much that I named it my favorite record in 2007. I loved them for their strangely wonderful combination of raw '60s mod garage Rock with the cool Kim Deal side of the Pixies blended in. They delivered an unbelievably interesting combination of something old and new but they sadly faded away. leaving fans like me hoping that someday an offshoot band would sprout up.
Enter Universe People in 2012 and one very happy me.
Welcome's female bass/volcalist player Jo Claxton has a new band and I enjoyed their songs so much I pretty much begged to put them out. I worship their angular female fronted energy that has the power of UK Riot Grrrl bands like Huggy Bear with a post punk dose of The Fall added in. (Also for fans of Delta 5, Country Teasers, Wire, Dolly Mixture, The Stranglers, and The Breeders off the top of my head)
So there it is. We have a new member of the Little Black Cloud Record's family : Universe People!
Their debut album will be released February 12th, 2013 but in the meantime enjoy their band page and follow them on Facebook. A video is in the works right now for their first single so stay tuned for that in weeks to come!
Read on for their official bio:
Once upon a time, Jo Claxton accidentally wandered from her hometown of Sydney, Australia and ended up in Seattle, WA. In 2010, several years and several bands later, she approached Kellie Payne to play bass and sing with her. The idea was to make simple, angular songs based around sweet but stark girl-vocal harmonies. Jo had recorded six demos in her basement in the winter of 2010 to get things rolling. Next, Jo needed some drums, so she contacted the ever-popular drummer about town named Dave Ramm. This was in a vanishingly small window of time when he was not actually in a band, in March 2011. Universe People were born and began playing out in Seattle. Early in 2012, they recorded 10 songs for a full length LP at the all analog Pool Recording Studio, in Portland OR.
Dave also plays drums in Wimps, and Kellie plays drums in Eyes and Teeth.
Don't mistake Universe People for a Czech-Slovak UFO space cult. But they could melt your brain and take you to outer space if you let them. Let them!
Aug 9, 2012
Get to Know Malhombre (With Special Guests April March and Melissa Auf der Maur)
We are releasing a debut single on October 16th by Malhombre, a Richmond, VA artist who is new(ish) to our music community but has been making tremendous music for decades. Read on to learn more!
Malhombre is Frederic Blasco.
Born in Paris in the late '60s, he began playing guitar in his teens and has dedicated himself to the musical arts in both France and America (Richmond, VA / NYC) ever since.
In 1997 Blasco began leading a musical project called Blasco Ballroom that for a brief time included Sam Fogarino who would later join Interpol. When the Blasco Ballroom evaporated after the release of their one full length recording , Blasco decided to focus on playing keyboard for other musicians and put his own art aside. He first toured with Cordero, then April March, and eventually landed in Interpol for their 2004 tour. Following his stint with Interpol on the road, he then played with Mikael Jorgensen from Wilco, the Secret Machines, Adam Franklin(Swervedriver), Depedro (solo project of Jairo Zavala from Calexico). He also joined Magnetic Morning, when Sam Fogarino and Adam Franklin decided to flesh out their project.
In short, Frederic Blasco has played with many incredibly talented and respected musicians but after years of letting others take the spotlight, he is ready to step back into it. This leads us to the present tense where Frederic Blasco has recently returned back to Richmond, VA.
Malhombre is his newest creative venture that began as a solo project but more recently has developed into a full band that explores the space between the seductive charm of Serge Gainsbourg and the bleak balladeering of The Tindersticks.
His debut single on Little Black Cloud Records represents the first step in Malhombre's dazzling musical timeline; before his present band line up was secured. Here a gifted group of guest musicians have helped him flesh out his first two songs "Musique Rock" and "Fini", and it is these recordings that grace the two sides of this single.
The hypnotic A side entitled "Musique Rock" was inspired by the 1999 French film Une Liaison Pornagraphique and features April March on vocals. Here she sings entirely in French with a delicate melancholy tone and to round out this song beyond guitar, Steve Weiss drums (he has also played with AM and Depedro).
"Fini" on the AA side is a smouldering, breathy duet sung in French and English and takes place between Blasco and Melissa Auf der Maur of Hole /Smashing Pumpkins / MAdM. The music also features several friends of Blasco who have played with a myriad of bands such as Cracker and Sparklehorse. As the title "Fini" suggests, a love affair has ended and the man has drunk his way out of her heart.
Together these two songs celebrate a classic sexy '60s French ballad style that sounds modern yet timeless. They describe affairs of the heart but avoid the trappings of a sappy love song.
The 7" will be limited to 500 copies on deep red opaque vinyl and comes housed in a handsome die-cut sleeve designed by Kenneth Close. Artwork also includes a Slept In Beds image taken by Nicholas Zinner (Yeah Yeah Yeas).
Publicity : PRawr / Talia Miller - firstname.lastname@example.com
Contact info : Tracy Wilson - firstname.lastname@example.com
Distribution : Cobraside - firstname.lastname@example.com
Band Site: http://malhombre.bandcamp.com/
Aug 4, 2012
Gauchiste Debuts a Short Film for the Song "Choeur II"
Straddling the stillness and razor-sharp menace of the music, this is a short film for "Choeur II," by Gauchiste member Tomas Phillips and filmmaker Dean King.
Jul 7, 2012
July Update
Hello and a happy Summer to you,
The best news I can offer is that I am employed again and a new full time job means I can afford to put out new records again, YAY! And speaking of new records, there will be at least two coming out this year.
The first of these two releases is a 7" single mostly sung in French by the Richmond, Va artist Malhombre. It features guest vocals by two amazing women, April March on one side and Melissa Auf der Maur on the other. There will be lots more information about this release in the weeks to come but first we are trying to finalize the artwork. Like all of our releases, the cover art is as important to us as the music. Our goal is to have the single come with a hand stamped envelope nestled into the front cover that will contain a two sided insert. The front will be a spectacular image taken by Nick Zinner (Yeah Yeah Yeahs) from his Slept in Beds photograph series and the back will contain all the details about the recordings.
Here is a picture of the man himself, meet Malhombre.
This tremendous photo is by PJ Sykes.
The other record coming out this year is a 12" EP from Stephen Brodsky, frontman to the band Cave In. Right now we have 5 songs mixed and ready to go but there could end up being one more snuck into the line up. I should have an update about this shortly. In other Steve happenings, he recently played a show with the legendary band Codeine in Brooklyn. Check out this video of Stephen playing the aptly titled song "Cave In" with Codeine; Stephen's apparant enthusiasm for sharing the stage with them is pricess.
In other major news, all three members of Gauchiste are now members of the mighty Loincloth (a Southern Lord Records band) . Tannon Penland was already a member of both bands but just last month it was announced that Tomas Phillips and Craig Hilton have also joined forces and this means we can expect some Loincloth live dates in the Fall. YES! And do to so many requests we have done one last repress of the Gauchiste CD in the metal tin. They are available from our webstore right now and Cobraside Distro should have them back in stock lthe week of the 23rd.
Also do to high demand, we did one more limited repress of the Dunebuggy LP. This second press of 100 feature a change in the color vinyl (was white); 50 in blue and 50 in red. Collect all three and feel super patriotic! Our web store should have these two new colors in about two weeks. I will announce it here when they are in stock. This also means our distributor Cobraside will have them in a few weeks too.
A happy belated birthday to Runhild Gammelsæter! And what could be a more appropriate news story on her big day than physicists finding the elusive particle believed to be the key to understanding the universe? If you are familiar with Runhild's debut solo release Amplicon you will understand why the date of this discovery couldn't be better.
Last but not least my new band Positive No has finished a 5 song and we have a 6th one in the works now. This means we are about half way towards having enough material to record a full lenth and should have enough songs to start playing out by late Summer. We now have a permanent drummer, Will Thompson who had been playing with Thao With the Get Down Stay Down. We are still on hunt for a permanent bass player (hence why we haven't played out yet) but hopefully we will secure the final piece of this puzzle soon. This does mean I have been a little distracted from working on Ringfinger material but I do plan on recording an EP of new material in the near future.
Over and out,
Jun 18, 2012
Watch the New Gauchiste Video : viols
This is a Little Black Cloud Records first and I am thrilled to finally offer a music video for one of our artists. The video was shot by myself and my better half Kenneth who does all the graphic design for the label. It was animated and edited by Jason Quarles and I deeply thank Kenneth and Jason for all their help and hard work as well as Gauchiste for giving me their blessing to experiment with visuals put to one of their songs.
Our goal was to create something that wasn't filled with stereotypical images typically associated with heavy music. The idea was to study our surroundings and discover the weight, beauty, and unearth darkness in surprising places like delicate orchidaceae that upon closer investigation look monstrous and erotic or a simple swinging rope curled accidentally like a noose.
The song viols comes from the self titled Gauchiste album that came out earlier this year on the label. It is available on CD, LP, and the digital format.
Visit Gauchiste here
Facebook LBC here
Apr 19, 2012
Hopscotch Music Fest in North Carolina
Did you see the line up this year for the amazing Hopscotch Music Festival this September? Not only are acts like Roots, Built To Spill, Yo La Tengo, Sunn o))), Liars, Zola Jesus, etc playing (...the list goes and on and o) but tucked at the end of this tremendous list of talented people are two people near and dear to my heart; Craig Hilton and Tomas Phillips.
Those two gentlemen also happen to represent 2/3 of Gauchiste and I am so happy they will be performing this year.
See ya in September!
Apr 17, 2012
Apr 15, 2012
Thank You
The Friday night Dunebuggy record release party was a blast. Thanks to all who came out to support the event, Dunebuggy for letting me be a part of this record, Hi-Fi for letting us take over the room for a few hours, and Kenny / Paulie for donating their DJing skills. The night felt like a reunion of sorts, not just because Dunebuggy was a band that came and went in the '90s and this is the first time many people are hearing all of these songs but for all the old familiar faces who came out to say hello and celebrate this release.
My head spins when I think about all the incredible friends and talented people who were all there on Friday. There were so many of my creative heroes in one place; lots of great writers, label /record store/distro people, and holy cow - the musicians! Sorry to get all mushy here but when I think of how lucky I am to know such inspiring people, it is hard not to gush. I may be in the occasional band or run a small label but at the end of the day, I am a music fan first and foremost. Check out this list of bands that were represented in one way or another on Friday. If you grew up on the East Coast in the past three decades loving indie music, I think you will understand why I am so honored to have so many of these people all in the same room at the same time.
Dunebuggy, Dahlia Seed, Positive No, Merel, Radio 4, Garden Variety, Nolan Gate, Coheed & Cambria, Rorschach, Teen Idles / Double-O / 3/ Bert was in too many bands to list them all (HA!), Cave In, Old Man Gloom, and Ancient Sky to name a few.
Here is a picture of Keith Renna (Dunebugggy drummer), me (Dunebuggy guest vocalist), and Jon Procopio (Dunebuggy singer/guitar player). We haven't all been in the same room together at the same time in probably 12 to 15 years so needless to say, Friday wasn't just a record release party, it was like seeing family.
Mar 30, 2012
Dunebuggy Pre-Orders : Available Now!
Head on over to our web store and order yourself up the Dunebuggy - S/T - LP that is limited to just 100 copies.
What come with this record you ask? White vinyl, a ful color matte finish jacket with art by band member Jon Procopio, a lyric sheet insert, and a digital download card. And if that isn't enough. The first 15 people who place a pre-order will also a get bonus free 7" single that Dunebuggy released on spinART Records back in the '90s, a split with the band Moped, and an indie Pop classic to boot.
Unsure if you want to buy this record without hearing it first? How about you stream the whole LP for free and hear the Pop perfection for yourself. GO HERE.
Mar 21, 2012
The Gauchiste 2nd press LP is in stock now !
We pressed up another 100 LPs. The only difference between this pressing and the first is the color of the font on the cover; we went with blood red this time rather than olive green.
Once this press is sold out it will be out of print for good so grab your copy ASAP.
Mar 7, 2012
Dunebuggy Record Release Party : NYC
Hello friends!
If you find yourself in NYC on Friday, April 13th please drop by our free Dunebuggy record release party to say hello.
Dunebuggy's LP comes out via Little Black Cloud Records on 4/17 and you are cordially invited to their listening party that is taking place 4 days sooner than their official street date. You will not only be among the first people on the planet to hear all of these these songs ,you will also have the opportunity to buy their record, hob nob with the band, and hear a DJ set including some of our favorite '90s indie bands.
Come celebrate the long awaited release (like 17 years!) from Dunebuggy, a posthumous collection in LP form that marks the first time many of these songs have ever been heard. Those that have been previously released feature alternate recordings or mixes and all tracks have been freshly re-mastered. Not only will we be playing the record for all to hear for the first time, but we will also have it available for purchase for $20. For those who buy this record at the event they will also be given an extra special bonus prize. The records are limited to just 100 copies and come on white vinyl so needless to say they are VERY LIMITED. Attending this party will give you the best chances of actually getting your hands on a copy. Founding Dunebuggy members Jon-Michael Procopio and Keith Renna will be in attendance too, making this the next best thing to a reunion show.
If the release of their incredible music isn't enough, the party will be held at our favorite East Village bar Hi-Fi (AKA THE Hi-Fi BAR) which to many of us old timers might be better known as the location of NYC's seminal indie rock venue Brownies (RIP). Who could ask for a better, more appropriate location for this record release.
And the icing on the cake? DJ's Lightning's Girls (Little Black Cloud Records owner) and KJC (the label's art director) will also be Djing their most beloved '90s indie Pop records (vinyl!) in the vein of The Lemonheads, Blake Babies, Helium, Beat Happening, Built To Spill, Pavement, ETC.
We would love to turn this fantastical record release party for Dunebuggy into a reunion of sorts for those of you who grew up in the NJ/NY/CT indie Rock / Pop scene in the '90s who probably also grew up going to shows (and playing shows at Brownies).
A huge thank you to Dunebuggy for letting me put out this album and Mike from Hi-Fi for giving us his bar for a few hours.
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Mar 6, 2012
Feb 28, 2012
Label Update
No rest for the wicked here!
We will have the second press of the Gauchiste LP in house and ready to ship next week. To keep things interesting and fresh we have changed the color of the font on these covers to a rusty blood red. We have just a few copies of the first press in stock so order ASAP if you want one of those.
And speaking of interesting, Tomas of Gauchiste has a new limited solo Pro Tape release (Morceau de Nature )out under the name LAC. You can check it out / buy it here. He has also done a collaberation with Luigi Turra called "Vignettes Amplifie" which is available through this site.
Craig & Tomas from Gauchiste has also released "Le goût de néant" on Absinth Records and it should go without saying that Loincoth, Tannon's other band, still rules.
The Dunebuggy S/T collection is due April 17th. The LPs are at the pressing plant now and it looks like we will have a record release party in NYC mid April. It will be open to the public, free to get in, and there will be copies of the LP for sale there along with a bonus prize with purchase. More details about the event will be posted here soon.
Stephen Brodsky has finished recording three out of four new songs for his upcoming Little Black Cloud EP. He has been working with an old friend and recording studio genius named Phil (has worked with New Pornographers, Okkervil River, and St Vincent to name a few) and together they have managed to create my favorite of Steve's solo material to date. At this pace I am guessing we will have this out by Summer? I hope!
Ringfinger has an EP waiting to be recorded and the only thing holding this up is a lack of funds. This goes for my other band Postive No as well. We have 4 songs in the works with a 5th on the way. Our goal is to record and release this material later this year too but in the meantime, you can check up on the new demos as we post them here.
Feb 14, 2012
Street Date Set For Dunebuggy : April 17th, 2012
My introduction to the band Dunebuggy began where the foundation of my passion for music did, at a record store. I started working at Flipside in Pompton Lakes, N.J. while I was a junior in high school (late '80s) and remained at the shop for nearly 5 years. During that time period my social circle and our regular customers were one and the same. From this music obsessed community came two people who began playing music together while still in high school and eventually settled on the name Dunebuggy. Although we all grew up just a few towns away from each other in Northern New Jersey, it was only when I began working at Flipside did I meet Jon Procopio and Keith Renna. We all were around the same age but more importantly we were interested in Alternative music now referred to by most as "indie rock". We liked a lot of bands (grunge, twee, shoegaze, punk, and harcore) and at the top of the list were groups like The Lemonheads, The Blake Babies, The Replacements, and Pixies however we also followed a lot of complex guitar bands like Polvo and The Treeople too (crazy guitar tunings, timing, and wacky chords). In turn the music we were interested in making for ourselves would follow along similar lines.
By the early '90s I was determined to take my love of music and apply it to starting my own band. I didn't know how to play an instrument yet but I liked to sing and was drawn to the the guitar; mostly because my first serious boyfriend and our roomie at the time played guitar and there was always one around to pick up and strum. What few people know is that it took a prodding from Jon of Dunebuggy get me to write and record something. He offered me a side on a split 7" with Dunebuggy and I agreed to try to at least give it a whirl. If my first song was suitable for public consumption then it would go on to become the flipside to their song Vanillaroma. (Their second release that was also scented like Vanilla ALA the car freshener) From this experiment the Dunebuggy / Brokenmouth split single was born. Jon, Keith, and I played together for the next 5 years on and off again. As a footnote I've been playing music under different names ever since this debut and I am indebted to Dunebuggy for giving me my start in music. Not only was Dunebuggy a damn fine, truly talented band but they were among the first men I knew who treated female musicians as equals. (Thanks guys!)
I was never an official member of Dunebuggy but I occasionally sang on their songs, practiced with them from time to time, and Jon became the first of a string of second guitar players in my band, Dahlia Seed. Needless to say my connection to Dunebuggy goes back a long way but even if I didn't practically grow up with the two founding members of the band, I would still be obsessed their music. I don't think they they ever thought they wrote songs as good as the bands we grew up worshiping but after revisiting their catalog for this collection to be released on my label in April of this year, I discovered this truth. Dunebuggy wrote incredibly memorable, complex pop tunes I place on the same alter with songs from that time period by Built To Spill or Pavement. While Dunebuggy released a handful of singles and played out live a decent number of times, they broke up before they ever had a chance to catch on nationally or release a full length record. Until now! I am absolutely thrilled Keith and Jon have been willing to let me dredge up our past and give these songs are proper release in 2012.
Below is a a brief bio of the band as well as the details of this upcoming release.
Artist : Dunebuggy
Title : Dunebuggy
Street Date: 4/17/2012
Cat#: LBC 006
Format: LP (100 copies / white vinyl), digital
Years Active - 1991-1996
File Under : Pop / Rock
Hometown: NYC / NJ
Members: Jon-Michael Procopio, Keith Renna, Michael Reilly, and guest vocals by Tracy Wilson
RIYL: Melodic Indie Guitar Pop, Lemonheads, Built to Spill, Unrest, Archers of Loaf, Pixies, Blake Babies, Pavement
Associated Acts : Dahlia Seed, Melting Hopefuls, Brokenmouth, Cogs, Jungle Creeps
Born of suburban boredom, the D.I.Y. aesthetic of skateboarding, and an obsessive appreciation for well-crafted pop tunes, Dunebuggy had the great fortune of being part of the inspiring New York City music scene of the mid 90's. What started as a duo of friends (Keith Renna and Jon-Michael) butchering cover tunes by their favorite punk bands, evolved into an original power trio with the addition of bass player Michael Reilly, and was occasionally complimented by vocalist Tracy Wilson (Dahlia Seed).
Drawing a heavy influence from both the Boston music scene(Lemonheads, Pixies, and Blake Babies) as well as inspiration from legendary bands such as the Replacements, Sonic Youth, Minutemen, and the Pretenders, the band focused on becoming a tightly knit unit intent on creating clever indie rock with pop hooks.
Dunebuggy's sound is punctuated by quirky phrasing, angular guitars, and imaginative lyrics. The bands goal was always to put the songs first, doing what was best for the them as a whole, and attempting to craft short works of pop perfection with a healthy dose of experimentation. Hard hitting, inventive drumming grounds the entangled and intertwining bass and guitar work. Indie pop, heart on the sleeve songs are shrouded in lyrical intricacies and cryptic prose.
Dunebuggy would go on to open for indie rock legends such as Archers of Loaf, Blonde Redhead, Air Miami, Superdrag, Damon & Naomi, Spectrum and the Apples in Stereo.
Stream two songs: here. and here via YouTube
Publicity : PRawr / Talia Miller - firstname.lastname@example.com
Feb 1, 2012
2012 Release Schedule
The Little Black Cloud 2012 release line up is looking like this:
* Dunebuggy - S/T collection on April 17th.
* Stephen Brodsky EP in the Summer.
* Ringfinger 3 song EP in the Fall.
* Positive No single in the Winter.
Jan 24, 2012
Cobraside to the Rescue!
Hey record stores!
The new Gauchiste CD + LP is available via Cobraside Distribution right now.
Here is their new release list for next week and their contact information can be found there too.
PS: Cobraside sells to accounts world wide.
Jan 23, 2012
In Stock NOW! (sort of)
I just found a single lonely copy of the Dynamic Truths LP, first pressing. It's a miracle!
It is waiting to be purchased via the webstore so if you wanted a copy of this gem, act NOW. Go here to buy it.
Jan 18, 2012
Gauchiste Press Update
Two things to share today.
Here is an interview with Loincloth where they talk about Gauchiste. Tannon plays in both bands and both records came out on 1/17/2012. Very metal!
And here is a Gauchiste interview - the first one! (and it even includes a proper band photo that not even I have seen before!)


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New Economic Numbers
Or, "How the Government Blizzard of Statistics Can Make You Drool Like You Just Took a Baseball Bat To The Left Temple".
The Bureau of Labor Statistics has released the July employment numbers, and they don't look good. But then again, they do. Let's see if there's some way to tangle some sense out of this.
Nonfarm employment was little changed (+32,000) in July, and the unemployment
rate was essentially unchanged at 5.5 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. Employment levels in most of the major industry sectors were little changed over the month.Unemployment (Household Survey Data)
Both the number of unemployed persons, 8.2 million, and the unemployment rate, 5.5 percent, were essentially unchanged in July. The unemployment rate has shown little movement since December 2003. The jobless rates for the major worker groups–adult men (4.9 percent), adult women (4.9 percent), teenagers
(17.6 percent), whites (4.8 percent), blacks (10.9 percent), and Hispanics or Latinos (6.8 percent)–also were little changed over the month. The unemployment rate for Asians was 4.3 percent in July, not seasonally adjusted. (See tables A-1, A-2, and A-3.)Total Employment and the Labor Force (Household Survey Data)
Total employment rose by 629,000 to 139.7 million in July, and the employment population ratio–the proportion of the population age 16 and over with jobs–increased to 62.5 percent. The civilian labor force also increased over the month, rising by 577,000 to 147.9 million, and the labor force participa-
tion rate rose to 66.2 percent. (See table A-1.)
First, a caveat. I'm not an economist. Numbers make me feel dizzy and give me the desire to lay down and drink Scotch for a couple hours. Given that, though let me see if I have this right. The economy added 32,000 jobs – according the the non-farm (payroll) survey, but 629,000 overall. Does this mean that American farms added 597,000 jobs?
Not necessarily. The first survey – the one with the small number – is only a survey of employers' payrolls. That's the number of jobs added where one person is paying another person to work for them: restaurants, movie theaters, WalMarts, etc. The second number – the household survey – is a survey of how many people are getting paid to do some work. That includes not only "farm" jobs (a throwback to the 1800s or earlier in the US) but also people who are working as freelancers and who have started their own businesses.
Considering that, these numbers don't look quite as bad as first indicated. Of course, not being an economy stud, I could well be wrong. I rely on you folks who might have a different view of it to correct me on the factual part of things.
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Published July 24, 2014, in the Waterloo Region Record.
There has been substantial commentary about the implications of late June's federal byelections on the next general election scheduled for Oct. 19, 2015.
One of the story lines raised by the media was which opposition party is most likely to challenge Stephen Harper's Conservatives for the most parliamentary seats, and hence the ability to form a government. However, a fairly consistent pattern in public opinion polls has emerged over the past year putting the Liberals in first place since Justin Trudeau ascended to the party leadership.
Despite the New Democrats' role as official Opposition, and NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair's dominant role in question period, it appears as if more Canadians see the Liberals returning to their historic role as the natural alternative to the Conservative party.
The particular set of constituencies contested in the recent byelections is in no way representative of the nation at large. Three of the four are safe party sinecures. While Alberta might be changing somewhat from the solid Conservative fortress it has been, that is most likely occurring in urban areas, not rural seats such as Macleod or boom towns such as Fort McMurray.


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Courtesy photo The Rollinsford Town Crier entertains the American Heritage Girls Troop #222 with bedtime stories befitting the colonial era.
ROLLINSFORD -- Last month, the American Heritage Girls Troop #222 of Dover, spent the night at the Paul Wentworth House in Rollinsford. The girls ages 9-13 experienced not only life in this historic dwelling but a very full itinerary orchestrated by ARCH (The Association of Rollinsford Culture and History) members.This house was originally built in Rollinsford around 1701. It was removed from town in 1936 and rebuilt in Dover, Massachusetts, and had been missing from the town's landscape for almost 70 years.Owner Ken Rendell generously donated the house to the town in 2002. During the months of September and October of 2002, historic building specialist Stephen Bedard worked with his crew in Dover, MA, to dismantle the Wentworth house and return it to its native soil in Rollinsford. Steve was hired to take the dwelling apart, piece by piece, and transport it back to NH, where it it has been reassembled within sight of its original lot.
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We consider sun's light as white as it enters the atmosphere it scatters and give us a color sensation for every object. Though we perceive light reflected from moon as white, why does it not scatter?
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Light coming from the moon is simply reflected light from the sun, so it will scatter the same as sunlight. Its color may be somewhat different as the moon is not a mirror, but it travels through the same atmosphere on the way to the ground as if it came from the sun. Now, I believe your question may relate to another effect, the perception that moonlight does not cause color. This effect is caused by the fact that moonlight is much less intense than sunlight. We have two types of receptors in our eyes called "rods" and "cones" that perceive light differently. One detects shades of grey (rods) and the other color (cones). Rods are more sensitive and work better in low light than cones. In the low intensity light of the moon, the rods give the world an appearance that it is grey. As light becomes brighter, the cones start perceiving the color around us. You can verify this effect if you have a light that can be adjusted for brightness in a dark room. Take a colorful object and watch it as you turn the light down. The object will become grey. The light does not scatter any differently, but your eye can no longer see scattered light as colorful.
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A Sad Day For Local Blackberries
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Debs and I know of several places not too far from home where we can forage for the wild blackberries we use in our wine and jam making. A gallon of wine takes six pounds of blackberries and we usually aim for three gallons a year. That's a lot of fruit. Of all our secret little locations, it's an old disused airfield not more than half-a-mile from home that provides the bulk of our harvest. Or did, until developers got their hands on the land.
A great blackberry location - before the bulldozers arrived
Spanking new houses are already flying up on the far side of the vast grass expanse that until recently provided one of the few remaining semi-wild spaces close to our rapidly expanding town.
There are signs up everywhere telling people 'Keep Out - Private Property'. We decided to ignore them on this occasion, we were there to say goodbye to a rather special place we've come to know quite well. Our first visit since last blackberry season.
Heavy machinery had done it's job. There wasn't much left. We didn't stay long.
A sad sight for pickers of wild blackberries
An up-rooted elder
A couple of stunted elders and a lovely sloe added to our last haul of wild autumn fruit. Their tangled roots had provided homes to a fair few rabbits. All gone now.
At the far end of the airfield stood a small forgotten orchard of Victoria plums. I'm told they're gone too.
I realise, of course, that this is progress. I also realise that people need homes, but that doesn't stop it all from being rather sad. We'll miss our disused airfield, will Debs and I.
I suppose a new housing estate on the Somerset Levels, close to the current flooding, is just what people need. I hear the estate will have its own little lake. That made me smile. Give it a few years and I suspect nature will take it all back. Permanently.
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While living in Brazil for a couple of years, I learned a lot. One thing I learned was that a Brazilian meal is not a meal unless there is meat involved. For every lunch and every dinner I had with native Brazilians, there was an element of meat involved. When I got back to the United States and started college, there was a Brazilian restaurant a few short miles away. They had all you could eat meat. It quickly became one of my favorite restaurants. Of course, as a college student, I couldn't afford to eat there very often, and I couldn't afford to have meat in every meal. I wish I could have known about grocerycouponcenter.com back then. I would have found all the meat coupons I could on the free Get Grocery Coupons database.
It used to be that humans had to hunt if they wanted to eat meat. Luckily we have gotten way beyond that era. Now we can go to the store and buy almost any kind of meat. But today the hunting comes in if you want a good deal on your favorite meat products. So we hunt for printable meat coupons online, we hunt for printed meat coupons in the mail and newspaper, and we hunt for the stores with the best prices on meat.
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Just like anciently, we have to hunt, just for coupons and deals instead of for animals. And back then, if we spent all day hunting other duties got left behind. The same applies today. It is easy to spend all day hunting for the best deal, but please don't. Set priorities and stick to them. If you hunt smarter, then you won't have to hunt for as long. We have given you a few ideas on how to hunt smarter; now go out and put them to good use!


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The law giver, of all beings, most owes the law allegiance. He
of all men should behave as though the law compelled him. But it is the
universal weakness of mankind that what we are given to administer we
presently imagine we own. - H.G. Wells
All Americans to
be under house arrest, public school children undergo practice drills where
they are relocated to "secret locations" (FEMA camps).
On March 16, 2003 a Ganett News Service headline read, "Red Alert? Stay Home, Await Word." Tom Baldwin went on to report that, while speaking at a news conference alongside Governor James E. McGreevey, Sid Caspersen, New Jersey's Director of the Office of Counter-Terrorism, stated, "If the nation escalates to "red alert," which is the highest in the color-coded readiness against terror, you will be assumed by authorities to be the enemy if you so much as venture outside your home." The article also stated, "A red alert would also tear away virtually all personal freedoms to move about and associate." It went on to report that Caspersen said, "You literally are staying home, is what happens, unless you are required to be out." On February 14, 2003 article in the Washington Post reported that Washington DC area schools were planning to prevent parents from picking up their own children in the event of a terrorist attack. This is an incredibly dangerous trend that we see developing. The Federal Government has done almost nothing to beef up security on our borders since the September 11th attacks, and doles out visas at record levels to people coming to America from countries listed by the State Department a sponsors of terror. Meanwhile, emergency managers across the country are saying that if there is a red alert citizens will have to stay in their homes. Almost as soon as I started reporting the news about national house arrest and school Lockdown and relocation on my syndicated radio show, the already bizarre story got ten times worse. I received a call on-air from a parent in Bolton, Massachusetts saying that he had gotten a letter from the Nashoba regional school district telling parents that they would not be allowed to pick up their children during a red alert. He faxed our office a copy of the document, which states that not only will they deny parents their right to pick up their children, they will bus the children to a "secret location" that cannot be disclosed to parents. Do you really believe that terrorists will carry out a strike and then have the resources to attack the secret location where the children will be? That's ridiculous. This is about the State setting a precedent that they can order you to stay in your home, or that you will be considered an enemy (the definition of extreme martial law) and that your children are their property. I have also received internal documents from the US Postal Office in Kansas City, Missouri and Austin, Texas stating that armed guards will make Federal employees stay in the building for days in the event of a terrorist attack or red alert. I have now received faxes and calls from parents in multiple states, big cities and small towns (that's right, you're not safe even in the country) that are even worse than the fax that we've posted, but the parents are afraid to come forward. I talked to the parents of two different children who are attending school in Milbourne, Arkansas. For the last week their children have been put through what can only be described as brainwashing more severe than the conditioning undergone by Hitler youth. The children in the Milbourne Elementary School have been denied breakfast and lunch while being forced to watch terrifying video of terrorist attacks and archived battle footage. On Friday, March 21, 2003 the children were supposed to get out early from school for spring break at 12:15. One of the parents only lives a mile away from the school in the rural community of only 1500 people. He became concerned when his 10 year-old son did not arrive home on time. As he was calling the school, his son rode up to the house on his bicycle an hour and a half late. The distraught father told me that after his son told him that he was denied food and was forced to watch the "red alert" videos for three or four hours a day. He reported that school employees told the children that they were not going to be allowed to leave. Then men in dark blue uniforms with rifles locked the children and their teachers in their classrooms. The children's fear intensified when they noticed that their teachers did not know what was going on and were afraid themselves, trying the lock in vain attempts to get out. The children were then marched outside where flat faced prison-style school buses were waiting. The parents I talked to said their children clearly saw "US ARMY" on the side of the buses. The children were then marched back to their classrooms and the uniformed men (not local police) disappeared. The children were only then allowed to go home. In 1999, infowars.com obtained an Associated Press report about a federal program administered by FEMA that was training schools to load children (handcuffed, in many cases) on school buses and take them to "emergency centers." We have seen hundreds reports of this kind of training going on across the country. The government is clearly turning our schools into preparation centers for the police state. Charlotte Izerbyt, former Head of Policy for the Department of Education (1980-1984) had provided me three years ago with internal Department of Education documents where they gleefully announce that the public schools would be used as a system to brainwash our children into accepting a societal shift into authoritarian control. It is absolutely vital that all parents contact their local school districts and demand that any attempt by the federal government to implement these programs be stopped. Listeners have sent us dozens of local news reports from around the country where police in black uniforms and ski masks yell and scream while brutally manhandling children as young as twelve years of age in lockdown drills. In 2000, Ft. Worth Texas' "Police Officer of the Year" was killed at one of these drills.
The framers gave us the Second Amendment not so we
could go deer or duck hunting but to give us a modicum of protection against
congressional tyranny. - Walter Williams
Kean Threatens More Terror if no 9/11 Police State Bill
Liberty Think | November 29 2004
Chairman of the 9/11 cover-up Commission (and bin Laden business associate) Thomas Kean made some veiled threats on NBC's Meet the Press Nov. 28, 2004: MR. RUSSERT: Governor Kean, you said Americans are not going to be as safe. Do you believe if we don't pass this bill now, you, in effect, are risking lives? MR. KEAN: I think you could put it just that way, yeah, because we know there's another attack coming. You and I can't say if it's next week or six months from now. But it's coming. And unless we take steps now--and 80 percent of the American people want this bill passed. Unless we take these steps now, it's going to be the new Congress going to come in; there are inefficiencies in the way the new Congress organizes, always. It's going to take at least six months. So six months where none of these things will happen: not better security at the borders, not more help for local people, nothing. Nothing. And I don't think we can wait that long, and I think it does, in essence, risk lives. http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/november2004/291104keanthreatens.htm Police State ID Card Bill Passes Without Congress
Even Reading It
3,000 page bill passage mirrors first Patriot Act sneak-through...
December 7, 2004 If you were a member of Congress, would you vote "yes" on a 3,000 page bill that you never had a chance to read? Most reasonable people wouldn't. Most reasonable people would want to read and study legislation before deciding how to vote; especially legislation as monumental as the intelligence reorganization legislation or the so-called 9/11 bill. And monumental it is. The legislation would greatly affect various intelligence and military agencies and procedures; financial systems; international relations; not to mention civil liberties. In addition, the Congressional Budget Office estimates that the legislation will cost $14.4 billion to implement between 2005 and 2009. That's $14.4 billion on top of the normal annual budgets for the various governmental agencies involved. Yet this monumental legislation will be voted on by members of Congress without those members having had time to read, let alone study, the bill. It's just after 2:00 p.m. ET on Tuesday, December 7th. The U.S. House is expected to vote on the 9/11 bill sometime today or tomorrow. But at this moment, there isn't a copy of the final bill available for House members to read. So, is there a provision in the bill to establish a national ID? No one seems to know. Or at least the people who do know aren't saying. What else is in the bill that the select few in Washington are keeping secret? Who knows? Anything could be...and that's the point. Remember how passage of the Patriot Act was handled? Members had only two to three hours to read the final 400-page bill before they had to cast their vote. The legislation that created the Department of Homeland Security was handled in the same way. So, here we go again. Everyone is talking about this monumental legislation as if they've read it. News reporters, commentators, political analysts, think tanks; 9/11 families; and yes, members of Congress are busy sounding off as experts trying to convince the American public that Congress should pass it. Have any of these people actually read it? Their opinions are just based upon someone else's opinions that are based upon other people's opinions and so on. The House version of the intelligence reorganization bill is in two volumes. Volume 1 is 1,778 pages. Volume 2 is 1,586 pages. How many pages are in the final conference report and what exactly has been added or deleted at the last minute? Well, as of 2:00 p.m. ET, the final report is not available for members to read. But the vote on that enormous bill will be held within hours. We urge a "no" vote because we believe the bill has a national ID provision in it. In addition, we urge a "no" vote, simply because members of Congress should know what the bill says in print before voting on it. --------- UPDATE: December 7th at 7:38 p.m. The U.S. House passed the conference report on the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act by a vote of 336 "ayes" to 75 "noes." http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/december2004/071204billpasses.htm |


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