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Wednesday, December 31, 2014
2014 Recap
Finished the year with a 37 mile loop around Seattle, including visits to Golden Gardens, Magnolia Bluff and Leschi, all of which were dominated by the clear, cold, dry weather and views of Rainier.
During the year, I rode more times than the previous year, as well as more miles (about 2,750), 117K ft. elevation gain and 12.1 mph average speed. But, no century ride this year, as the longest ride was 97 miles on CTS #12 (the Flaming Geyser out and back). Greatest elevation gain was on the CTS #10, Renton-Black Diamond-Issaquah Loop, topping out at 3,757 ft.
And, I can count the 2014 Coffeeneuring Challenge as another significant accomplishment, for the 2nd year in a row!
2015 plans include GR2R, CTS again, STP, RSVP, weekly commutes, more coffeeneuring, and keeping the rubber side of the bicycle in contact with the planet while doing so.
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Coffeeneuring 2014 - The Last Word
The Chief Coffeeneur wraps up the 2014 challenge in this report. Note that Washington State leads the way.
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Don't Take Any Placebos
I've read a lot about the placebo effect. Does that mean it won't work on me?
It turns out that placebos operate to some degree outside of our awareness—which means that even when we know a particular medication is a placebo, we can still benefit from it. So don't worry about knowing too much. Just take two placebos and call me in the morning.
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Monday, November 17, 2014
Coffeeneuring #7
Completed the challenge, two years in a row! After a clarification of the rules by the Chief Coffeeneur, the 47 mile Magnolia>Alki>Leschi loop qualifies as the 7th in the series. A crisp, cold day, a hot mocha, homemade PB & J, and a chance meeting with a Cascade Group on the Magnolia Bluff made for a great day in the saddle.
The 6th ride was on Veteran's Day, a 24 mile jaunt to Golden Gardens, with a stop at the Phinney Ridge Starbucks to sip a 2x Americano and admire the destruction caused by a runaway truck that plowed through the guard rail and into the plate glass window. When asked about the incident, the barista, obviously tired of being questioned, said no one was hurt and the driver got away. Such is life in the big city.
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Saturday, November 8, 2014
Coffeeneuring #5
Leisurely 28 miles today down the Burke Gilman Trail and around Magnolia, with a stop at the Magnolia Starbucks for coffeneuring. This particular Starbucks attracts a number of riders who make the circuit on the bluff for the views and the climbs. The double tall mocha hit the spot and provided enough spark to get me back up to the Chittenden Locks and then a return trip on the north side of the ship canal while the sun was still out. In November, those of us in Seattle need to grab the warm and dry while we can!
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Sunday, November 2, 2014
Coffeneuring #4
We're getting into serious autumn up here in the Great Northwest, but it was dry this morning and the BGT beckoned with another coffeeneuring adventure to be had. This time, a traditional counterclockwise North Lake Washington Loop took me around the top and down into Kirkland. There Caffe Ladro served up a terrific double-short latte. There's plenty of room inside and out, bike, dog and kid friendly, a good stop about a third of the way on a 40 mile circumnavigation. A fine ride and made even finer as the rain held off until I made it home.
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Is picture framed wallpaper passe?
Just wondering if the idea of framed boxes of wallpaper is out of style. When using a large pattern like previous Peony Tree post, I wonder if framing in elegant paper panels instead of doing the entire room in more affordable wallpaper might look more custom. Or is this out of date? I do still see this in high end dining rooms, etc. Your thoughts?
I love to see framed wallpaper. If you do it please post for us to see!
I don't think I personally have the wall to do it. Hmm...that
dining room oil painting may find a new home. Just wanted to present the option of a different way to use wallpaper. Everyone seems to cringe when I mention papering the dining room and adding wainscoting. I could do this without the wainscoting!
Lol, here's a shot of the dressing room in my space at the showhouse I'm working on...I hope it's not passe...
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Some of the bedrooms in our local Parade of Homes last month used framed wallpaper as the headboards.


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Use of L-Proline and ATP Production by Trypanosoma cruzi Metacyclic Forms as Requirements for Host Cell Invasion
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The process of host cell invasion by Trypanosoma cruzi depends on parasite energy. What source of energy is used for that event is not known. To address this and other questions related to T. cruzi energy requirements and cell invasion, we analyzed metacyclic trypomastigote forms of the phylogenetically distant CL and G strains. For both strains, the nutritional stress experienced by cells starved for 24, 36, or 48 h in phosphate-buffered saline reduced the ATP content and the ability of the parasite to invade HeLa cells proportionally to the starvation time. Inhibition of ATP production by treating parasites with rotenone plus antimycin A also diminished the infectivity. Nutrient depletion did not alter the expression of gp82, the surface molecule that mediates CL strain internalization, but increased the expression of gp90, the negative regulator of cell invasion, in the G strain. When L-proline was given to metacyclic forms starved for 36 h, the ATP levels were restored to those of nonstarved controls for both strains. Glucose had no such effect, although this carbohydrate and L-proline were transported in similar fashions. Recovery of infectivity promoted by L-proline treatment of starved parasites was restricted to the CL strain. The profile of restoration of ATP content and gp82-mediated invasion capacity by L-proline treatment of starved Y-strain parasites was similar to that of the CL strain, whereas the Dm28 and Dm30 strains, whose infectivity is downregulated by gp90, behaved like the G strain. L-Proline was also found to increase the ability of the CL strain to traverse a gastric mucin layer, a property important for the establishment of T. cruzi infection by the oral route. Efficient translocation of parasites through gastric mucin toward the target epithelial cells in the stomach mucosa is an essential requirement for subsequent cell invasion. By relying on these closely associated ATP-driven processes, the metacyclic trypomastigotes effectively accomplish their internalization.
Infection and immunity 06/2009; 77(7):3023-32. DOI:10.1128/IAI.00138-09
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Interaction with host factors exacerbates Trypanosoma cruzi cell invasion capacity upon oral infection.
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Outbreaks of severe acute Chagas' disease acquired by oral infection, leading to death in some cases, have occurred in recent years. Using the mouse model, we investigated the basis of such virulence by analyzing a Trypanosoma cruzi isolate, SC, from a patient with severe acute clinical symptoms, who was infected by oral route. It has previously been shown that, upon oral inoculation into mice, T. cruzi metacyclic trypomastigotes invade the gastric mucosal epithelium by engaging the stage-specific surface glycoprotein gp82, whereas the surface molecule gp90 functions as a down-modulator of cell invasion. We found that, when orally inoculated into mice, metacyclic forms of the SC isolate, which express high levels of gp90, produced high parasitemias and high mortality, in sharp contrast with the reduced infectivity in vitro. Upon recovery from the mouse stomach 1h after oral inoculation, the gp90 molecule of the parasites was completely degraded, and their entry into HeLa cells, as well as into Caco-2 cells, was increased. The gp82 molecule was more resistant to digestive action of the gastric juice. Host cell invasion of SC isolate metacyclic trypomastigotes was augmented in the presence of gastric mucin. No alteration in infectivity was observed in T. cruzi strains CL and G which were used as references and which express gp90 molecules resistant to degradation by gastric juice. Taken together, our findings suggest that the exacerbation of T. cruzi infectivity, such as observed upon interaction of the SC isolate with the mouse stomach components, may be responsible for the severity of acute Chagas' disease that has been reported in outbreaks of oral T. cruzi infection.
International Journal for Parasitology 01/2008; 37(14):1609-16. DOI:10.1016/j.ijpara.2007.05.013
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Co-infection with Trypanosoma cruzi protects mice against early death by neurological or pulmonary disorders induced by Plasmodium berghei ANKA
Claudia M Egima
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The objective of this study was to investigate whether the infection of C57BL/6 mice by P. berghei ANKA, which causes severe malaria, was modulated by co-infection with Trypanosoma cruzi. Groups of C57BL/6 mice were infected either with P. berghei ANKA, T. cruzi strain G, or with both parasites. The presence of parasites was checked by microscopic examination of blood samples. Symptoms of neurological or respiratory disorders, as well as mortality, were registered. Breakdown of the blood brain barrier was determined by injecting the dye Evans blue. Histological sections of the lung were prepared and stained with hematoxilin-eosin. All mice infected only with P. berghei ANKA died within 7-11 days post-infection, either with symptoms of cerebral malaria or with respiratory abnormalities. The animals co-infected with T. cruzi strain G survived longer, without any of the referred to symptoms. Protection against the early death by severe malaria was effective when mice were given T. cruzi 15 days before P. berghei inoculation. Breakdown of the blood brain barrier and extensive pulmonary oedema, caused by malaria parasites, were much less pronounced in co-infected mice. The degree of protection to severe malaria and early death, conferred by co-infection with T. cruzi, was comparable to that conferred by treatment with anti-CD8 antibodies. Co-infection with T. cruzi protects C57BL/6 against the early death by malaria infection, by partially preventing either the breakdown of the blood brain, and cerebral malaria as a consequence, or the pulmonary oedema.
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It's not the ad's on TV and radio 24/7 Romney has as well as NEWT.
As I said - THIS IS THE wrong help.
Stevens & Schriefer Group consultant firm and are playing the lead role in crafting Romney's primary and national-campaign-strategy.
They costed Mitt Florida.
I'm going to be open and honest to ya'll, today I voted early and voted for Mitt Romney because I can't stand the other 3. THEN I JUST found this out tonight. "Popular former Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum is predicting that the makeup of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's inner circle of advisers, which includes several strategists who ran former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist's ill-fated Senate campaign against conservative standard-bearer Marco Rubio, will hurt Romneys image with Florida voters. In an exclusive interview McCollum said Sunshine State voters "will not be favorably inclined to that, because most Republican primary voters in Florida know that Charlie Crist flopped on them. He went over to the Democrats' side, it just wasn't the same Charlie Crist they thought they'd elected. IN SHORT - "McCollum: Crist-Romney Ties Turn Off Fla. Voters." Newt just shot-past Romney like a skyrocket in the polls.
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Dont feed into the Newt misinformation. here's what Marco Rubio said about the situation:
Mitt Romney is no Charlie Crist. Romney is a conservative. and he was one of the first national Republican leaders to endorse me. He came to Florida, campaigned hard for me, and made a real difference in my race.
He is referring to the race against Crist.
the staffer show-running Florida for Romney is Brett Doster definitely not a crist supporter. Stu Stevens and Russ Schriefer are former crist advisors, but from what I can gether are the only two worth mentioning. Stevens campaigned with romney in 08 so this isn't anything new. Don't worry, your vote was well spent.
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Date — 2 July, 2012
Schaffhausen, 2 July 2012 – In the Lunar Year of the Dragon, a classically beautiful timepiece from IWC Schaffhausen makes a glittering entry. The Portuguese Automatic Edition Dragon Year captures the dynamism and good fortune of this sign of the zodiac with a dragon engraving on the rotor. The strongly symbolic design of this timelessly elegant watch is paired with an outstanding movement that includes Pellaton winding, a 7-day power reserve and date display. But individuals hoping to secure one of these watches will need to be determined and have luck on their side: the Portuguese Automatic Edition Dragon Year in red gold is limited to 888 pieces worldwide and available exclusively from selected IWC retailers.
On 23 January, millions of people all over the world celebrated Lunar New Year by heralding the symbol for the year 2012: the dragon. In China and many Asian countries, it is a bringer of good fortune and a symbol of power and leadership, strength of character and prosperity. To mark the Year of the Dragon, IWC is proud to unveil the Portuguese Automatic Edition Dragon Year, a limited-edition timepiece that combines the traditional and the contemporary with the art of watchmaking from Schaffhausen. "Our watches have enjoyed an excellent reputation in Asia for many years now," says IWC CEO Georges Kern. "This special edition is a sign of recognition and appreciation to our customers. The enormous significance that is being attached to the Year of the Dragon inspired us to create the Portuguese Automatic Edition Dragon Year." Since its debut in 2004, the Portuguese Automatic with date display has established itself as one of the most successful Portuguese models ever to leave Schaffhausen. The balanced design of the dial with its appliquéd Arabic numerals, railway-track-style chapter ring and slender feuille hands retains the classic appeal of the legendary original Portuguese first manufactured in the 1930s.
A classically beautiful timepiece
Even the slightest modification to this model's heritage has to be clearly thought through and meticulously researched. This was particularly important in the case of the Portuguese Automatic Edition Dragon Year. For the colour combination, IWC's watch designers selected classic black as the symbol of eternity, and precious gold as the hallmark of the successful generation currently influencing China's fortunes. The case, made of 18-carat red gold, is combined with a black alligator leather strap, a slate-coloured dial with twinkling sun-pattern finish and red gold numerals, hands and hour indices. Thanks to its stylish combination of individual elements, the watch radiates a consummate beauty. The small seconds at "9 o'clock" and the power reserve display as its optical counterpoise at "3 o'clock" give the dial a harmonious balance – classical, elegant and immediately unmistakable. The solid, convex sapphire glass has an antireflective coating on both sides and protects the watch from the stresses and strains of everyday use. The diameter of the case is 42.3 millimetres, the height of the case 14 millimetres. The compact dimensions, the clear lines and the distinctive design put the watch in a class of its own.
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The classical, large dimensions of the case house the voluminous IWC-manufactured 51011 calibre. It features some of the greatest advances ever made in the development of the automatic movement: highly efficient Pellaton winding, a 7-day power reserve and the date display. The see-through sapphire-glass back provides a fascinating view of the unique mechanism at the heart of the Portuguese Automatic Edition Dragon Year. Set into the rotor is an 18-carat gold medallion with an uncannily life-like engraving of a dragon, a magical depiction of the energy and resolve ascribed to this sign of the zodiac. The engraving "DRAGON YEAR – ONE OUT OF 888" makes it crystal-clear that this elegant watch is intended for a very small group of individuals. The Portuguese Automatic Edition Dragon Year in red gold is available exclusively from selected IWC retailers. The size of the limited edition was determined by the symbolism attached to Chinese numerals, which associates the number 888 with sustained riches and good fortune. And with the dragon as a further symbol of good luck, IWC wishes wearers success and the ability to stay on top of everything in their lives.
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The Golden Notebook
HarperPerennial, 1994 - Diary fiction - 623 pages
Lessing's powerful and liberating feminist classic--now available in a beautiful trade paperback edition. Alternating between a conventional novel, involving Anna and her friend Molly, and Anna's journal entries, the notebooks reflect various aspects of Anna's personal and political upheavals.
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BUILD is a program for UW Undergraduates to enhance their leadership skills by attending workshops and events throughout the year. Students then reflect on their own leadership skills and abilities, identify areas of improvement, and gather specific examples of their growth through BUILD. Each student who attends 8 BUILD Program events over the autumn, winter, and spring quarters will earn a certificate and entrance to an invitation-only reception, where they will be recognized for their achievements.
BUILD focuses on 4 areas of leadership development: Professionalism, Self-Discovery, Skill Development, and Community & Culture. To earn the BUILD Certificate, students must engage in all 4 areas by attending identified events and reflecting on their experience with those events.
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Telica's Multiservice Switching System Achieves NEBS Level 3 Certification; Passing Stringent Test Further Proof of Carrier-Class Design of Plexus 9000 System.
MARLBORO, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 13, 2000
Telica, Inc., a leading developer of intelligent multiservice switching systems, today announced that their flagship solution, the Plexus 9000, has been certified as NEBS Level 3 compliant. NEBS certification provides the highest level of assurance of a product's reliability when placed in the central office of a telecommunications service provider. Unprecedented in the industry, Telica's Plexus 9000 moved from conception to product release, including NEBS Level 3 certification, in less than a year.
"We designed the Plexus 9000 to exceed the reliability and availability of current switching systems," said John St. Amand, president and CEO of Telica. "These tests show that our solutions not only meet rigorous design guidelines, but can also easily be deployed in new and existing networks. Our customers, including ILECs and CLECs, agree that we have a truly carrier-class system, and NEBS Level 3 certification is further proof."
NEBS (Network Equipment Building Systems) certification tests are an extensive set of rigid assessments that evaluate the performance and quality of network equipment. To receive certification, the equipment also undergoes environmental and safety tests such as flammability, Zone-4 earthquake vibration, thermal shock, changing temperature, mechanical shock and electrostatic discharge. In addition to passing the NEBS requirements, Telica's Plexus 9000 also met every SBC and Bell Atlantic supplementary deviations to the NEBS tests.
"Our experience in testing the Plexus 9000 easily demonstrated that Telica has the knowledge and understanding required to build a NEBS-compliant system from the ground up," said Dwight Moore, vice president of East Coast Operations for National Technical Systems. "The system passed the rigorous NEBS testing process in the shortest time possible, which is clear evidence of a solid design that should stand up well in the challenging service provider environment."
About Telica
Telica is a developer of intelligent multiservice broadband switching systems for ILECs, CLECs and next generation service providers. Telica's Plexus 9000, a carrier-grade edge switching system, enables service providers to simplify their network architecture, normalize the switching and transport of voice and data traffic over a unified broadband packet network and enable highly cost-effective switched voice and data service delivery. Telica has received funding from Prism Venture Partners, Highland Capital Partners, Oak Investment Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners and Nassau Capital. Redback Networks (NASDAQ: RBAK) added its financial support on the corporate investment side. Telica was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Marlboro, MA, with offices in Colorado, Texas, Virginia and Canada.
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Activision Blizzard Announces Guitar Hero 5, New Call of Duty 85
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Blizzard hasn't existed as an independent company since 1994. They have existed as a subdivision of other companies; being bought out, sold, or merged six times. See wikipedia for the full series of transfers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blizzard_Entertainment . Most recently Vivendi (which they were under) merged with Activision. The name of this new company is Activision Blizzard.
In short its a naming thing; the small company exists as it always has. The large company (which now happens to have 'Blizzard' in its name exists as *it* always has). I would not worry too much about the quality of either of their offerings much until I am given a reason.
I realize they changed their name to capitalize on Blizzard's reputation, but can't we just call them "Activision"?
One my last hopes for the gaming world was blizzard. Now that they have whored out, its down to just Bioware and Bethesda...
If we are lucky EA will buy them out and siphon all of the edge and creativity right out of them.
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The 119th meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium will be held on Tuesday, March 31, 2015 at 7pm at Parsons The New School, 2 West 13th Street, in the Bark Room (off the lobby). Free and open to the public.
Two presentations:
1. Rick DesRochers on The Family Act Goes to School – The Marx Brothers, Vaudeville, and Americanization.
The link between the Marx Brothers in their vaudeville days and the popular comic strips of the early twentieth century can be seen with the Marx Brothers' beginnings in the third-tier vaudeville circuit where they formed the core comedic trio of Chico, Harpo, and Groucho – their apocryphal names created in 1910 during a poker game after the comic strip character "Knocko the Monk." The comic strip Knocko the Monk spawned a fad of nicknames ending in O, prompting vaudevillian Art Fisher to nickname Harpo for his harp playing skills; Groucho for his personality and his "grouch" bag that hung from his neck for safety; Chico for his penchant for "chasing the chickens" – the girls. By bookending the vaudeville performances of the Marx Brothers and their school act beginning in 1910 with Fun in Hi Skule to their highly successful 1932 film, Horse Feathers, this lecture will examine how the Marx Brothers commented on and satirized progressive education reforms through their multiple versions of the school act, and the immigrant experience of being Americanized through public school education reforms.
Rick DesRochers, Ph.d., is an Associate Professor of Theatre at Long Island University Post. He has served as the Literary Director of New Play and Musical Development for the Joseph Papp Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival and The Goodman Theatre of Chicago, as well as the Artistic Director of the New Theatre in Boston. He holds an M.F.A. in stage direction and dramaturgy from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and a Ph.D. in theatre from the City University of New York, Graduate Center. He is the author of The New Humor in the Progressive Era – Americanization and the Vaudeville Comedian for Palgrave Macmillan, and The Comic Offense from Vaudeville to Contemporary Comedy – Larry David, Tina Fey, Stephen Colbert, Dave Chappelle for Bloomsbury.
2. Ian Lewis Gordon on The Boy Comic Strip: Towards an International History of Comics
Trying to write international histories of comics presents numerous problems including most obviously command of a range of languages. But beyond that what sort of organizing principles would best capture the interplay across countries and cultures. Should people try to write histories that trace artists and influences across national boundaries with attention to whom influenced whom and the extent of that influence and similar sorts of questions? Or perhaps focusing on genres of comics, like various incarnations of the mischievous boy in comics, might show more about similarities and differences across different comics traditions.
In this discussion I will examine a range of "mischievous boy" comics to talk about some of the possibilities of using genres to create international histories of comics. How can we use this cavalcade of kid strips to talk about the history of comics? I think these strips show the similarities and differences across cultures. For instance the mischievous boy is not something that is particular to a given culture. But what these strips tells us is that this plays out in different ways. Some of this is cultural difference writ large and some of it is cultural difference writ small. I will look at comics from America, Australia, the UK and France to suggest a direction for research.
Ian Gordon is an Associate Professor in History at the National University of Singapore. For the academic year 2014-2015 he is a visiting scholar at NYU's Department of Social and Cultural Analysis. He is the author of Comic Strips and Consumer Culture, and editor of two collections Comics & Ideology, and Film and Comic Books.
The 118th meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium will be held on Tuesday, March 17, 2015 at 7pm at Parsons The New School, 2 West 13th Street, in the Bark Room (off the lobby). Free and open to the public.
William H. Foster III on The image of African Americans in early American Comic Books: 1940-50.
William H. Foster III has been a writer since the age of 8 and published since age 11. Poet, essayist, playwright, and editorialist, he has written 15 books and 10 plays. He is presently a Professor of English at Naugatuck Valley Community College in Waterbury, Connecticut. Professor Foster holds a BA from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, MA, and a Masters degree from Wesleyan University.
A long-time comic book collector and researcher, Professor Foster has been an expert commentator for both CNN News and National Public Radio. He was a consultant on the historical image of Blacks in both comic strips and comic books for the Words and Pictures Museum of Fine Sequential Art in Northampton, MA, and also a consultant to the 2004 exhibit, "Heroes, Heartthrobs, and Horrors: Celebrating Connecticut's Invention of the American Comic Book" presented by the Connecticut Historical Society.
His exhibit on the "Changing Image of Blacks in Comics" has been displayed at a number of venues across the country, including Temple University's Paley Library, the 1998 Comic-Con International Comic Arts Conference, the 2000 Festival of Arts and Ideas and in 2012 for the Texas Visual Arts Association in Dallas.
He presented his research at the 2001 conference of The International Association for Media and History in Leipzig, Germany and at the 2002 Conference on Analyzing Series & Serial Narrative at John Moores University in Liverpool, England.
In 2007 Professor Foster's exhibit was displayed at both the Geppi Entertainment Museum in Maryland and the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art in New York. He was an invited speaker to the 2007 International Symposium on Langston Hughes at Central China Normal University in Wuhan, China.
In 2008 he was appointed to the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Comic Art. In 2010 his research was sited in the Encyclopedia of African American Popular Culture. In 2011 he appeared as an expert on the PBS series, History Detectives. In that same year he spoke at the International Popular Culture Association conference in San Jose, Costa Rica. In 2012 he was an invited speaker at the Atl.Com Festival in Malmo, Sweden, and the Comics Forum in Leeds, England. In 2013 he lectured at the Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA., the New School in New York, and at Trinity College in Hartford, CT. He also appeared as an expert commentator in the PBS documentary, Superheroes: A Never ending Battle. He was also tapped to be a judge for the 2014 International Comic Con Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards.
He is the author of two collections of essay on Blacks in Comics: Looking for a Face like Mine (2005) and Dreaming of a Face like Ours (2010). He is currently at work on the third book in the series. Website: finallyinfullcolor.com
The 117th meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium will be held on Tuesday, March 10, 2015 at 7pm at Parsons The New School, 2 West 13th Street, in the Bark Room (off the lobby). Free and open to the public.
Kent Worcester on Ten Great Cartoonists You've Never Heard Of
In recent years there has been a flurry of scholarly interest in comics and cartooning, much of which has focused on a relatively small number of cartoonists. This illustrated talk will make the case for looking beyond the usual suspects and will highlight the "lost art" of ten highly talented creators who are not yet on the comics studies radar. Perhaps one or two of their names will be familiar to devoted fans of political cartooning, but very little has been written about any one of the following: M. Verne Breitmayer, Jesse Cohen, Pele deLappe, Phil Evans, Jimmy Friell, John Olday, Charles Peattie, Donald Rooum, Laura Slobe, and Ben Yomen. This presentation will also feature a "hidden bonus track" – cartoons by a famous nineteenth century writer who was also a capable illustrator.
Kent Worcester teaches political theory at Marymount Manhattan College. He is the author, editor, or coeditor of eight books, including A Comics Studies Reader (coedited with Jeet Heer, 2009) and The Superhero Reader (coedited with Charles Hatfield and Jeet Heer, 2013). His latest book is Peter Bagge: Conversations (2015). He regularly gives public talks on New York City and Comics on behalf of the New York Council for the Humanities' Speakers in the Humanities series.
Cartoon by Rooum.
A special meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium will be held on Monday, March 2, 2015 at 7pm at Parsons The New School, 2 West 13th Street, in the Bark Room (off the lobby). Free and open to the public.
To celebrate Will Eisner Week, a series of international events timed around the March 6th birthday of comics innovator Will Eisner, we offer two presentations:
THE CONTRADICTIONS AND IMPORTANCE OF WILL EISNER, a talk by Paul Levitz.
Will Eisner was the most successful businessman of comics' first generation of great cartoonists. Paul Levitz discusses how Eisner's journey between commerce and art contributed to his importance to the evolution of the field and the graphic novel, based on Levitz's upcoming Abrams ComicArts' book: Will Eisner: Champion of the Graphic Novel.
PAUL LEVITZ is a comic fan (The Comic Reader), editor (Batman, among many titles), writer (Legion of Super-Heroes, Worlds' Finest, and many others including four NY Times Graphic Books Best Sellers), executive (30 years at DC, ending as President &Publisher), historian (75 Years of DC Comics: The Art Of Modern Myth-Making (Taschen, 2010)) and educator (including teaching The American Graphic Novel at Columbia). He won two consecutive annual Comic Art Fan Awards for Best Fanzine, received Comic-Con International's Inkpot Award, the prestigious Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award, and the Comics Industry Appreciation Award from ComicsPro. His Taschen book won the Eisner Award, the Eagle Award and Munich's Peng Pris, and is being released in revised form as five volumes. Levitz also serves on the board of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.
A presentation by Danny Fingeroth and Arie Kaplan.
Born two years apart, Orson Welles (1915-1985) and Will Eisner (1917-2005) were each giants in their fields, Welles in film, Eisner in comics. With 2015 marking Welles' centenary as well as the 75 th anniversary of the launch of Eisner's groundbreaking series, The Spirit, we look at the similarities and differences of the two men's bodies of work.
From the turmoil of the years leading up to World War II, Welles—already legendary as the radio voice of The Shadow, his War of the Worlds broadcast and The Cradle Will Rock Broadway landmark—blasted into the world of movies with Citizen Kane in 1941. Eisner, having helped put comics on the map with Sheena, Hawks of The Sea, and numerous other features, in 1940 launched The Spirit, which took comics to a new level of sophistication.
Like many of his generation of comics creators, Eisner was quick to credit Welles' influence on his work—even lampooned him as "Awsome Bells" in a Spirit story—and often visually homaged Welles distinctive filmmaking style. Welles was known as a fan of comics, although his awareness of The Spirit is unknown. Still, both came out of the same crucible of high and low culture—from German Expressionist cinema to the avant-garde work of Man Ray and Salvador Dali to the stories of Guy DeMaupassant and O. Henry—as well as the turmoil of the Great Depression and a world headed inexorably toward war. And both were acknowledged as creators whose work regularly rose above craft to the level of art, who created characters and told tales that endure beyond their lifetimes. Their innovations reverberate through our popular culture to this day.
Tonight Danny Fingeroth and Arie Kaplan will compare the work of Welles and Eisner who, in different media, but with a shared obsession with telling their stories their way—innovating instead of imitating—changed everything in their given fields.
DANNY FINGEROTH was Group Editor of Marvel's Spider-Man comics line and has written many comics, including Spider-Man, Darkhawk, and Iron Man. He is the author of the books Superman on the Couch: What Superheroes Really Tell Us About Ourselves and Our Society; Disguised as Clark Kent: Jews, Comics, and the Creation of the Superhero; and The Rough Guide to Graphic Novels. With Roy Thomas, Fingeroth edited The Stan Lee Universe, featuring rarities from the comics legend's career, and with Mike Manley edited How to Create Comics from Script to Print. Fingeroth has spoken about comics at The Smithsonian Institution, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Columbia University, and has written about them for publications including The Los Angeles Times and The Baltimore Sun. He was Sr. VP of Education at The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (MoCCA), and has taught comics writing and history there and at The New School, NYU, and the MiMaster Art Institute in Milan. Fingeroth is a programming consultant to Wizard World comics conventions, inventing, organizing and moderating a diverse array of panels at their nationwide shows. Find out more at http://www.dannyfingeroth.com.
ARIE KAPLAN has written comic book stories and graphic novels for DC Comics, Dark Horse Comics, MAD Magazine, IDW, Bongo Comics, Penguin Young Readers Group, Capstone, and other publishers.
He is the author of the award-winning nonfiction book From Krakow to Krypton: Jews and Comic Books (Jewish Publication Society, 2008). His latest nonfiction book is Saturday Night Live: Shaping TV Comedy and American Culture (Lerner Publishing Group, 2014).
Arie's also a screenwriter for television, videogames, and transmedia. His television writing credits include TruTV Presents: World's Dumbest…, the PBS Kids hit Cyberchase, and MTV's TRL.
Find out more on his website, http://www.ariekaplan.com.
Paul Tumey on Forgotten Funnies:
Images of America in the Comics of Percy Winterbottom, Dwig, and Ving Fuller
Forgotten today, the works of these three cartoonists were widely published and enjoyed a respectable readership in their successive eras. Presenting rare comics and original research, comics scholar and writer Paul Tumey paints a four-color triptych of lost comics masters:
Percy Winterbottom was a pen name for George Beckenbaugh, a humorist/cartoonist who had a brief career in comics in the late 1890s until he died in 1901 at age 36. He conceived of Klondike, a strange, satirical comic strip, presented in deliberately comically primitive art and language, about a parade of larger than life American archetypes that reflect what American music scholar Greil Marcus has called the "old, weird America."
Clare Victor "Dwig" Dwiggins came of age in idyllic rural America in the late 1800s and worked in comics from 1900 to the 1950s. He enjoyed a boyhood much like that of Mark Twain's characters Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. Working at first in whimsical illustrations and screwball comics, Dwig later sought to recapture his magical childhood in syndicated comics like School Days, and Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, reflecting the rise of nostalgia in industrial America.
Ving Fuller's career spans the 1920s to the early 1960s. He was the barely successful cartoonist brother of famed Hollywood maverick filmmaker Sam Fuller. Creator of the first psychiatrist in comics, Doc Syke, Fuller made urban screwball comics that dealt with a host of post-war American neuroses, including gags about the atomic bomb that first appeared mere weeks after Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
When juxtaposed together, the lives and work of these three obscure cartoonists tell a larger story that helps shed light on American comics and culture in the first half of the twentieth century.
Paul Tumey was a co-editor and essayist for The Art of Rube Goldberg (Abrams ComicArts 2013). He was also a contributing editor and essayist of Society is Nix (Sunday Press, 2013). His essay on Harry Tuthill appears as the introduction to The Bungle Family 1930 (IDW Library of American Comics, 2014). His work can be read regularly in his column, Framed! at the online Comics Journal (www.tcj.com).
The 112th meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium will be held on
Wednesday, February 25, 2015 at 7pm at Parsons The New School, 2 West 13th Street, in the Bark Room (off the lobby). Free and open to the public. Please note: This event was snowed-out in January and is now rescheduled! Please note Wednesday date and 7pm starting time!.
Nick Thorkelson on Herbert Marcuse and Pedagogical Comics
Nick Thorkelson will talk about his projected book-length nonfiction comic on Marcuse, the German philosopher who was a mentor to the 1960s radical movements. The talk will also survey the field of pedagogical comics, from Rius and Rifas to Gonick and Sacco, and Nick's contributions to that field which include The Underhanded History of the USA, The Comic Strip of Neoliberalism, Economic Meltdown Funnies, and short comics about Mr. Block, Kenneth Patchen, Yiddish poets, radical Christians, and the origins of modern jazz.
The Marcuse book situates Herbert Marcuse in the world of German anti-fascist refugees (Brecht, Adorno, Fritz Lang, Walter Benjamin, etc.), their debates regarding "high" and "low" art, and their contributions to American culture, which arguably include film noir and its poor relations, Crime Does Not Pay and The Spirit. The book will incorporate Nick's latest comics story, "You Had to Be There," about the German historian George Mosse who excited midwestern college students in the 1960s and 70s with his explorations of the detritus of European popular culture.
Nick Thorkelson is a former editorial cartoonist for the Boston Globe who creates comics and cartoons for groups working on industrial safety, worker rights, social welfare, peace, and the environment. For the last ten years he has worked closely with historian Paul Buhle on a series of nonfiction comics, including a 4-pager on the 50th anniversary of Herbert Marcuse's One Dimensional Man which appears in the current issue of Jewish Currents.


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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars My Two Cents...
A Surprisingly Honest Adventure!
I admit, I was skeptical when I first heard about this book. I was expecting some cheesy imagining of what heaven could look like. But as I began to read this book, I saw a story unfolding before my eyes.
This is not some biblical study on what heaven is like. This is also not some overactive imaginary description...
Published on July 6 2012 by Adam
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Hummm I don't know??
This story is not bad. I can't even imagine where they found enough interesting stuff for a movie. Kind of drags on a bit. Not the best book I've ever read, but in all fairness not the worst. It is not a "you have to read this" book
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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars My Two Cents...,
Adam (Saskatoon, SK) - See all my reviews
A Surprisingly Honest Adventure!
I admit, I was skeptical when I first heard about this book. I was expecting some cheesy imagining of what heaven could look like. But as I began to read this book, I saw a story unfolding before my eyes.
This is not some biblical study on what heaven is like. This is also not some overactive imaginary description of it either. It is the story of a family who walked through the valley of the shadow of death and how they emerged from the other side.
The story is about Colton, the son of the main author (a pastor) who had a near death experience where he found himself in the heavenly courts and witness to some amazing details. But the story is told from the perspective of the Father and the horrors of watching your son almost die. And then as life progresses, the boy gives glimpses of the glory he witnessed by revealing very specific details of information concerning their family that he literally has no other way of knowing... Examples include how Colton told about his Grandfather, his second older sister (who was miscarried), and a whole bunch of details about heaven that a child his age would not have any knowledge of even with the background of church, Sunday School, and being a pastor's kid.
As I said, I was skeptical from the beginning, but I really appreciate how this book was written. I think that anyone can find encouragement within its pages and I heartily recommend it.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Makes a believer out of anyone!,
This is such a beautiful book ! So many people of have questions about heaven, well all you have to do is read this book and all your questions will be satisfied!
57 of 68 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Heaven Is for Real- An Honest Review,
atanali "-Atanali-" (Ont. Canada) - See all my reviews
This review may be a little...different. It has taken me a while, because after reading this book, I sat back and thought about it. What do I say, and more importantly, what do I believe?
Summary: This book is intended as a true account of a boy who visited heaven, as told by his father and a co-writer, Lynn Vincent.
Writing and Theme: The book is largely written as an account of Colton Burpo, who claims his spirit left his body and went to heaven while he was in a serious operation at the hospital. Over time, he tells of his experiences in heaven with Jesus and other people from history.
I would rather that the father had been the only author, as since this is to be a true account, it is a crucial point to this book's integrity. As there is a co-author, it's hard to tell if she "spiced things up". The work itself is fairly well written, and keeps your attention.
Theological and Topical Points: This is where it gets hard. First, I'll look at it from the skeptical point of view.
Does God really let people see heaven? To be honest, I don't know. In the Bible there are accounts of people going to heaven without physically dying, but they never returned.
In this age and nation, we need to consider other elements. Please don't take offense, but these questions unfortunately have to be asked. Is the boy a pathological liar? Is the father a pathological liar? Is he using his son to be published? Is he using his son to gain fame? Did he omit details and/or explanations for this said miracle, making it to appear in favor of a miracle and in turn, Christianity? How much profit will this book bring the Burpos and their ministry?
I know, it sounds awful, but with all the stories and scams that fly around nowadays, these questions must be asked.
Now from a different point of view, this book is quite inspirational. It provides encouragement and comfort for us, and in that respect, I would recommend reading it. I enjoyed the whole book, and only after did I start to ask questions. But whether this book is true or not, it is a beautiful story. I am not telling you to take it as truth, but maybe view it as a possible miracle. To be sure, it should encourage your faith, and make you search deeper as to how strong your faith is.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Hummm I don't know??,
Ce commentaire est de: Heaven is for Real Movie Edition: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back (Kindle Edition)
This story is not bad. I can't even imagine where they found enough interesting stuff for a movie. Kind of drags on a bit. Not the best book I've ever read, but in all fairness not the worst. It is not a "you have to read this" book
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Too much...,
L. Hahn "MI5 FAN" (Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
Not for me, way to religious.
Found it just too silly, not believable. Waste of my time and money.
I am sure the parents took great relief in their sons return to life, but come on....kids just don't talk like that.
4.0 out of 5 stars Something to think about,
Lyle G. Appleyard "Reading Farmer" (Stonewall, Mb. Canada) - See all my reviews
I read this book for my Toastmaster Book Club.
This is the true story of a young boy wakes up from surgery and starts to tell stories about going to heaven and meeting Jesus and family members who have passed away before he met them. his father, who is a priest, coaxes the stories out of the boy without trying to lead him. The boy's stories are very convincing to his father and he does start to believe the boy.
There will be naysayers who say that this book is a hoax. In fact, just as I reading this boo, it was in the news as one of the people involved somehow with the book disavowed it. The young boy in the story, who is now a teenager, stands by his story.
The one thing I was disappointed about was that the father never found out for certain whether his son was dead on the operating table or not. This is an important part of all out of body experiences.
This was a book that I don't think I would have normally read. I am happy to have read it. It was not hard to read and I was always curious about what the boy would talk about next.
3.0 out of 5 stars interesting, but not great,
Sheilah ""Strive not to be a success, but... (Manitoba) - See all my reviews
I read this book as it was given to me as a gift by a close friend, it isn't my normal genre, but the concept was very intriguing to me.
Overall, I would have to say that the book is quite boring; I found that the author spends more time talking about his life and life in his "one-horse town" than the experiences of his son, which is what the book markets itself as. I am not really interested in the life a pastor in a small town, and in truth, his life is not exceptionally interesting, he is a good man, there is no doubt of that, but he is - in the end - just an ordinary guy surviving life.
The writing style of the book is decent, not a work of art, but it sort of feels like the author is having a conversation with you. He writes like he talks, which at times takes away from the story, and other times makes it more natural. I think that given the topic of this book, this style of writing gives it more credibility, had I read a book that sounded like someone writing a story I don't think the message that this book is trying to convey would have been believable. In other words: how am I to believe this book when it sounds like I am reading Lord of the Rings? Its lack of eloquence and poetic writing gives a more realistic tale.
The funny thing about this book is that even though it is a bit boring, and the writing style isn't great, I would still recommend this book. I will admit when I read the book I was highly skeptical, and with the author writing so much about himself rather than his son's experiences I started considering the book to be more a brag book than anything else. However, when you get into some of the things the son said regarding his experiences in Heaven, it just tugs at this inner feeling that what he is saying is true, and that even though you don't know why you know it's true, you just do. This book has certainly made me rethink some of my previous opinions. I think, in the end, the thing I take away from this book is that it makes me happy.
In the end I give this book a rating of 7 out of 10, and would recommend people to read it.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Heavenly,
I chose to read Heaven is for Real: A Little Boys Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back by Todd Burpo for BookSneeze and I read it in one sitting. I liked it. A lot.
This is a particularly Christian book written by a specifically Christian author, telling the story about his 4-year-old son's trip to heaven and back. It is a moving story. Anyone who has a child will be powerfully impacted by such a tale. Most people in general will love it.
I had first heard about it when in first came out - radio talk shows were flooded with stories and callers and "experts" on the book and its topics. But when you read the story and how the author captures the simplicity and innocence of the boy, you will be taken in. I read the book fairly quickly and enjoyed it! It was very thought provoking and I was always waiting to hear more from Colton. The fact that after this book, you are left thinking about many things and feeling inspired as well as enthralled, it speaks a lot about the story as well as the author. I would definitely recommend it - a future movie perhaps?? Hollywood just may do that.
2.0 out of 5 stars Heaven is for real - Heart warming,
Ce commentaire est de: Heaven Is For Real Deluxe Edition (Hardcover)
Rev. Todd Burpo's book is an endearing little read. A story of a struggling little family with its share of misfortune leads into the central theme of Todd's son coming down with peritonitis which because of inept diagnosis almost leads to his death. The little boy is spared and then comes a series of the boy recounting his experience with Jesus and God. All of it very real and clothed with the honestly and innocence of a small child. It's reminiscent of the old expression, "Honestly, you can't make this stuff up."
I have given it two stars. To be sure it is not great literature and does not have the same impact as a novel such as "The Shack" by William Paul Young. On the other hand it is non-fiction telling the story of very real events. The reader will not come away with theological elevation but it is memorable.
27 of 34 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Boy's Fantasy,
This is a book retelling a little boy's story of what he told his family about an encounter during an operation. The book written by his father and a co-author details this story. Could this be a little boy's Narnia? Narnia is promoted as fiction, a fantasy land of C.S. Lewis. Though a mysterious interesting world it is fantasy. Think James Frey and how he promoted his book as a memoir. Later admitting to Oprah once Frey was exposed that the story was embellished, as the book wouldn't sell if labelled fiction. Is this a visit to a heavenly realm or just a fantasy. Could an operation be a medicated scary situation causing hallucinations and dreams for a young boy? The authors tell the story of a boy visiting heaven. Could the promotion of a heavenly visit hone in on peoples curiousity of a heavenly experience thus driving sales of this book to the best seller list. The characters of this heaven remind one of the sunday school picture book with angels' having wings and heavenly beings wearing sashes. Possible the boy had seen one to many movies and been exposed to cartoon versions of the childrens bible found in many homes.
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While "*****" and "weird" can be synonyms, "gay" has never meant "weird".
While "*****" and "weird" can be synonyms, "gay" has never meant "weird".
Stalking is when two people go for a long romantic walk together but only one of them knows about it.
I am probably going to get attacked for saying this but.....
I don't think it should matter, if its obvious the person is not saying it too be rude, or make somebody feel bad, then what is the problem? Its a common phrase used. But if its said and means to have no harm too a gay person, well then I don't see a problem.
Just my opinion.
Har har har
What sucks is that now it seems the term "Gay" is changing from a positive word to a negative one.
"Gay" should always mean "To be happy" and not "Stupid."
Here's something I have to get off my shoulder. I don't see why people have to say that they are straight when they talk about their friend or family member being gay. Sorry if this was a slight derail, but this seems like the perfect place to get that off my chest.
People used to say derrogatory things all the time about blacks (using the N word), Jews (using the K word) etc etc and it was accepted as ok. Then the groups being slandered decided enough is enough!
My point is, why has it become "ok" or accpted, to use the phrase "That's so gay" when all it really means is "That's so stupid"? And if it is used to describe something "gay" (whatever that might be) you can be assured it's not being used in a nice context but probably pointing out a sterotype.
I have some really cool friends who have kids, and they all seem to get it, the kids that is. Some even tell their peers to stop saying that when it comes up, or they question them with "What do you even mean when you say that?" Of course they have really cool parents that teach them that saying something like that is not nice. Why is it so hard for some adults to get it?
I was riding the bus a few years ago, and a bunch of teenagers got on after I did. They were sitting near me, and started the macho I'm-so-tough talk, saying "that's gay"...calling each other "my ni**a" (even though they were Vietnamese (?!))...When I got to my stop I just told them that homophobia is different from racism in only one way- you never are sure when someone gay is right next to you. Shut them right up.
Amnesia used to be my favourite word, but I forgot it.
I have an honest question and hope for an honest response.
What if....
You're walking down the street and these two guys just start making out.
Would it THEN be okay to say "that's so gay!"?
haha, i just had to ask because i joke around like that around my gay coworkers and they make fun of me for being straight, etc. but i suppose it's different when it's not said in a hurtful way but more in a humorous way and with people who understand your attitude about it.
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One other that I'd like to add to the mix is I loathe when someone says that something is "retarded" or that they are acting like a 'retard'.
I cringe when I hear both phrases - the one Onut describes and the one I describe.
I see what you mean, but when you hear it don't take it too personally because most people mean no harm too gay people. Its simply just an over used phrase, its like when you are around someone who does things a certain way or says a certain way, sometimes you pick it up without noticing. Then you start saying it and its just one big chain.
Basically what I am trying to say is don't take it personal and laugh it off, that someone it dumb enough to use that phrase!
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Har har har
The Jimmy Kimmel video?? THAT was soooooooo gay!
Just countin' the days til the next visit!
"I do not agree with a word that you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
~ Voltaire
I can't decide which is the bigger tragedy in all of this: that one's sense of self is so frail that a simple word can damage them or that one would seek to silence others in order to relieve themselves of potential discomfort. Personally, whether I do or do not say the things mentioned in this thread is up to me. Should I choose to, the decision to be offended by them is up to the listener. And if they do offend someone then perhaps that is more an opportunity for that person to reevaluate themselves then for them to attempt to change me.
Another bit of wisdom:
"The reaction to any word may be, in an individual, either a mob-reaction or an individual reaction. It is up to the individual to ask himself: Is my reaction individual, or am I merely reacting from my mob-self? When it comes to the so-called obscene words, I should say that hardly one person in a million escapes mob-reaction."
~ D.H. Lawrence
It's much better to enlighten someone.
12 or 13 year old Valley girls say that "That's so gay",
BUT, I don't want to offend any intelligent 12 or 13 year old valley girl.
Scientific studies show, each time you say that phrase, your IQ drops 10 points,
It really is about as offensive as the "n----r" word or the "f----t" word
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