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JAR "Diamond Water" **
So, what up with Chandler Burr spending all his time at the perfume counter at Barney's? I mean, sure, he's the reviewer for the New York Times, so it makes sense that he's got a hometown focus and an urbane sensibility. But really. Come on! That is just not achieving relevancy for most of us. (Actually, I should tread lightly. A Barney's opened up in Union Square here in San Francisco a few years ago, so I can and actually do go and try those niche scents any time I can muster up the courage. But I'm on a rant here—don't bother me with details.)
That's why finding the lovely ladies at theperfumedcourt.com was such a revelation: the opportunity to try and spend time with and truly get to know little tastes of scents that I'd never otherwise smell or smell under great duress at a perfume counter. I consider them to be doing the rest of us an enormous favor—they are the great equalizers. Money, geography, status, grooming, and other barriers to access melt away with help from the hugely democratic institutions of the Internet and the U.S. mail.
Issues of access could not be more relevant than when considering the famously exclusive JAR line. American-born, Paris-based jeweler Joel Arthur Rosenthal (hence "JAR") has turned perfumier. Having a crack at his perfume line is a whole event in and of itself, since it is only sold in person in two places on earth: a shop in Paris, and in the basement of Bergdorf Goodman's in Manhattan. JAR is famous for a few other things: a strictly structured sampling "experience", where a highly-trained nose guides one through the scents. Seven globe jars with linen doused with scents wafted under one's nose in order. Then, once all seven have been demonstrated, one may ask to be sprinkled. (No free-style spritzing here!)
Furthermore, the scents are presented without scent notes, so one's impressions are one's own.
(A quick aside here: I have a mixed reaction to that. On the one hand, I think there is way too much emphasis on notes in both trying to direct how a scent should be received, as well as selling meaningless connotations of luxury. On the other hand, I think you have the right, as a consumer, to know what it is you are smelling. And, as someone who is frequently tongue-tied by the initial experience of scent—I have to go away and ruminate for days about some smells before I know what I think—I can just only imagine how excruciating it would be interacting in real time with an unctuous, besuited, know-it-all scent dispenser: "Peony?" I can see myself serving up, desperate for validation. "Narcissus," he would say, dismissing me with the slightest shrug. I would be crushed. )
Since my perfume budget doesn't afford a plane ticket to New York or Paris (!!), I'll let those who have actually been there speak to whether this regimen adds value to the smell. (Read here and here.)
But it can't be surprising to anyone that all of this jumping through hoops has the desired effect, creating allure and mystique surrounding the House of JAR. When I started to learn more about niche perfumes, "Diamond Water" came up again and again.
A high-concept sales pitch made me want to try it. The cost made me sit up and pay attention: $9 for only .25 ml., making it twelve times more expensive by volume than your run-of-the-mill luxury scent sample. Several influential taste-makers made me spend way more time with this scent than I would have had it been a back-bencher one-out-of-a-dozen Annick Goutal bottles lined up at Bloomingdale's. But having high expectations, as well as spending extra time (and money) on this scent didn't help me to understand or appreciate it any more than my initial set of impressions:
Straight out of the bottle, about a 5 saturation on a scale of 1 to 10. An unimpressive muddled opening—flirting with a burned rubber smell on my skin, but within 30 seconds or so, the two main features snap quickly into place: a true, strong carnation, ringing like a bell (I swear you can smell the wax from the stems) and Tiger Balm. Well, actually super-sharp clove and nutmeg, juniper berry, camphor, and some smoky/leathery notes below. No sweetness, no softness. On paper, the petals are more pronounced.
Now. I am no fan of carnation. If you asked me to start a list of flower scents I do not like, it wouldn't take me long to get to carnation. Carnation sits squarely in a group of flower scents like peony, iris, and narcissus which have that slightly bitter smell that perfume pushers call "clean." I can understand "clean," since it smells to me like soap tastes, but I don't use the term "clean" that way. I call that property, completely arbitrarily, "yellow." I'm not fond of the "yellow" smell.
Next, Tiger Balm. I don't need to drop serious coin to smell like Tiger Balm—the stuff is pretty cheap. (And Heeley's "Esprit du Tigre" is more dynamic and fun-- as my dear friend Karin put it, "it's like the best Tiger Balm you ever smelled.") Put these two things together, and the effect is, well, slightly alarming.
This scent goes through several distinct phases on my skin—first the carnation and Tiger Balm glare at one another for a while. Then, after about 20 minutes, the two elements achieve a crystalline balance, and the connotation I made the first time I encountered it reoccurs every time I apply it: I'm in Chicago a few years back, in January. It is a fiercely bright sunny day, not a cloud in the clear blue sky; there is snow on the ground; the trees are black. I step outside. When it is 14 degrees out, there is no moisture in the air. The cold cracks my lungs. That is the sensation of "Diamond Water": bright white, sky blue, dry cold, light everywhere. Ok. I'll give you diamond water, although it seems strange to get there through "warm" elements like clove and camphor.
The scent breaks down after a while; the carnation softens and smooths out, balanced by the leather element, the little pricks of spices seem more playful now. But then the true drydown phase, which, at least on me, smells remarkably like Vaseline Intensive Care lotion which my mother used extensively when I was a child, and it is a smell I cannot abide. "Diamond Water" drydown is only moderately better. The scent is frumpy and slightly medicinal. On paper, the drydown is spicier, less lotiony, and it keeps its austere, almost architectural structure until only the hot spices remain.
Rating "Diamond Water" presented a raft of conundrums. On the pro side, it is a superb carnation—I can imagine recommending it to a friend who said s/he liked carnation scents. On the con side-- I don't like carnation.
It certainly has a strong point of view—it is distinctive, a quality I rate highly in perfumes, and it generated a powerful scent memory image: that smell and that January day in Chicago will forever be linked in my mind. But, did I mention carnation… and Tiger Balm?
Then there's the whole JAR "thing", which is a fun story to tell a friend. But it's a story to set up sharing a scent that I'm ambivalent about, and in so doing, I'm perpetuating the hype.
And here is where I really got bogged down. Do I downgrade it for its (self-generated) reputation? Can I really dock points off a scent for its ends-of-the-earth efforts to present itself as high-end, when there's a vast universe of scent to compete with? Part of me, I have to admit, gets a secret kick out of the chutzpah it takes to get away with the whole only-at-Bergie's-and-Paris-in-a-certain-order-no-scent-notes shtick. After all, luxury and excellence is something I'd like to think I am paying for when I purchase perfume—I'd essentially be punishing "Diamond Water" for giving me what I'm asking for. But something about the whole JAR routine has gone too far. I can accept a sales campaign that says "We've made a dreamy smell, and you will experience something wonderful when you smell it." But when the message becomes "We've created a dreamy smell—can you prove that you're worthy to smell it?" I get really mad.
"Diamond Water" challenged me to answer some core questions about what it means to be a perfume critic. It made me conscious that if a scent had a marketing campaign that was overtly racist, for example, it would be easy for me to say "There is just so much good juice in the world—these people don't need your business. Take your money elsewhere." On the other hand, the whole luxury industry is so fraught with subtle racism, (or not so subtle—ask a woman of color if she sees herself favorably reflected in the beauty industry), misogyny, impossible standards of beauty, and punishing notions of heteronormativity, that if you were to only smell fragrances from PC houses, you'd essentially have nothing to smell. So that's the sea we all swim in.
But class is a funny thing in our society, and the intersection of class, taste, and money can be quite slippery and relative. Folks can and do, all the time, become educated and achieve privilege above their parents' status. One can earn a fortune, or marry it, or win the lottery. Feeling like you belong sniffing pricey scented linen strips at Bergdorf's is not just an accident of birth in America.
And besides that, aren't the luxury-shilling perfumer and the excellence-acclaiming critic two sides of the same coin, anyway? We're both trying to grapple with subjective notions of exceptionalism and taste, one by producing a product, the other by judging it. We're both saying "Out of all the scents in the world, this is the one you should try/buy." So I recognize that I am a (tiny) part of this whole circus.
I'm not a communist. I don't believe fancy smelly water should be handed out for free, and it's not a right like universal health insurance. JAR is there to make perfume and to make money. So they sell an aura of snobbery I don't like. Fine. I've decided that my job is to rate the scent for itself, and not the story. "Diamond Water" is not a fragrance that I'm crazy about, but it is distinctive, reaching for something strange and beautiful. It earns two "weird but worth it" stars. The hype surrounding it: weird and not worth it.
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Really interesting to read this. And I have thought about the same thing... During fall I was invited to a perfume expo on Milan, Italy. This will take place in end of march and I was so thrilled about the whole thing and really wanted to go there. But then come Christmas and there after a HUGE electricity bill and I realised that I wont afford to go to Milan after all.
Anyway, all I could think of before I realise I couldn´t afford it was what to wear! I have no elegant clothes from fancy brands. Or shoes! Or super chic haircut (I cut my own hair)! I have an alternative style both outside and inside... and I am not the kind of person that rocks a show all by myself... So if I ever go to a perfume expo I guess I will be the ugly duckling. I guess neither me or you are the targeted audience for most niche perfumes.Rita -- Thank your for this in-depth review, and especially for your frankness regarding the shtick and gimmickry surrounding fragrances like this (be they good or bad fragrances). Oh yes, it looks like this particular fragrance line has reached new levels of snobbery. For a really, really exceptional scent, one is willing to forgive just about anything; because, after all, it is about the scent in the end, not the bottle, not the hipster behind the perfume counter with all the attitude, not the hype. So anyway, I'm glad you've presented us here with what your nose tells you, along with all the marketing surrounding the scent (and the lack of information -- something that bothers me about the Nasomatto line as well, despite the fragrances like Duro or Black Afghano being so good).
Back to the issue of perfume counters: Isn't it awful that some places and people exude a vibe that is just such a turn-off? Even if I myself feel perfectly comfortable in the swanky boutiques of Florence, Milan or Paris which I find myself in whenever I travel, I also see the attitude being flipped to people who maybe don't feel so comfortable, and I hate that. So I can perfectly understand anybody who'd rather not stop by the perfume counter; a great perfume should not have any connotations of duress and intimidating salespeople, right? It should be about pure enjoyment and satiating one's curiosity. So, yes, thank goodness there are options for avoiding the bad vibe of some salesfloors.
OK, time for my Saturday errands. (Unbelievably, shops are still closed everywhere in Germany on Sundays -- yes, including supermarkets!)
All the best, Rita. Your write-ups really are wonderful!
Michael~Bloody Frida Yeah. Sick about that whole circus this week, I really am...
~SS That's one huge reason why I value the blog community so much-- individual opinions and impressions mean so much more to me... (Is that what you mean by democracy? The blogosphere certainly gets it's vote on what's worth smelling and what's a stinker...)~Rebella Sorry to hear you feel excluded-- I HATE that aura of elitism and exclusion that so much of the luxury/fashion industry promotes. I'm actually probably, at least demographically speaking, perfectly positioned for much of the hype: white, college-educated (overly educated, let's just be plain...), upper middle-class by any other standards in the U.S. but the Bay Area & Manhattan. But I rarely feel glamorous "enough" when going into department stores.
ReplyDelete~Michael May I just say right now, you seem like the nicest man, ever!! I hope you *are* living La Dolce Vita, because your sweetness just oozes through the blogosphere!
I should say that I've tried both "Duro" and "Black Afgano" on your recommendation-- "Duro," I must say, appropriately enough, was "hard" for me to like. Maybe I need to smell it on a man to get the full effect?
"Black Afgano," however, smells just like hashish, and I liked it a whole lot for it's sticky, resinous sweetness. I could easily see that becoming addictive...This was a fascinating article, to which I could relate, having ended up buying a similarly exclusive (though not similarly expensive) scent by IUNX in Paris. It was presented along much the same lines: in the first instance it could be smelt down an 18" tall metal cone, and spritzed on your person "by application only". By application to the SA, I mean, not by yourself on skin without first clearing certain protocol. I think I bought it because I badly wanted not to look poor by leaving empty handed. How weak and shallow is that?
Oh, and I do agree with you about the charmlessness of carnation...This was a really thought provoking read. I come from much humbler roots than I am likely to experience over the course of my life (knock wood) but I also tend to recoil from overtly classist marketing. If I won the lotto tomorrow, I don't think I'd ever be able to beat the velvetta cheese sandwich and cream of mushroom soup casserole out of me....
The review was interesting, but the rant was valuable reflection. Thanks!- princess gleeJanuary 23, 2010 at 4:15 PM
Although I enjoyed reading your lengthy and very entertaining review of Diamond Water, I would have stayed away due to it's name anyway. Diamond Water? Sounds like wannabe luxury.
Can't say I can recall the scent of a carnation. I suppose I never paid it much attention, so... However, when/if I find myself in Paris or Barney's I know I'll hunt down this Diamond Water stuff by JAR (luxurious sounding too) just to see how unimpressive it really is and secretly hoping to be impressed. ~FlitterSniffer Oh, thank you for that confession. I, too, have bought things, useless, horrible things at makeup/perfume counters that I knew I didn't want even as I was buying them, in order to appear... I don't know what? Not cheap? Knowledgeable? Able to find something that pleased me? I dunno.
I've gotten better at that-- not buying things just to look like I belong, in past because I'm trying to buy less stuff in general.
One detail of your story did intrigue me, however-- what up with the metal cone? Did you have to buy that too in order to apply it to yourself? How pretentious is that?!?!?~Diana I, too, am now enjoying a life of comfort miles above a semi-impoverished upbringing. You bring up an excellent point: I think some of the anger and unease that I experience in snobby settings is the realization that while I may be invited in NOW, there was a whole era of my life when I, my family, my friends, would have been actively excluded. It's though I'm feeling the shaming of an earlier time, even as I appear to belong. I'll have to do some more thinking on that.
ReplyDelete~Princess Glee (I wish there was an emoticon for royalty!!) Carnations aren't the showiest smelly flower, but there are folks out in the perfume world who are huge fans.
As for trying it yourself, it's at Bergdorf's, as I read it, not Barney's (Or Bloomies.) ;) And you might just try it and be impressed-- as in, it leaves a dent in your head, if nothing else.... :-0I read this one right after you posted it, and I've been thinking and thinking about it ever since.
I do *love* carnation; I *love* those cold winter days when the air crackles with static electricity; I've never smelled actual Tiger Balm, but based on the list of ingredients it must smell an awful lot like Porter's Liniment Salve, which anointed my childhood scrapes, and which I *love* the smell of. You'd think Diamond Water would have my name written all over it.
I won't be testing it. I'm happy for other people to make the choice to explore uber-high-end niche houses, but *I* ain't gonna. Probably that's a knee-jerk reaction to the exclusivity said houses promote. Exclusivity annoys me - it a) violates my sense of egalitarianism and b) seems a useless waste of resources. I understand that exclusivity functions as a marketing tool, but isn't perfume expensive enough? Particularly when people are dying of AIDS in Africa (and all over the world), starving in Haiti, and homeless on American streets? I do make sure that my charitable giving far outweighs my perfume purchases, and that helps. Some.
Okay, so I have issues with my own perfume involvement, and this carries over into my reviewing. I don't see myself as being a perfume critic - I'm a reviewer. That means I get to review what I want. Frequently that means I'm reviewing vintage and discontinued scents; sometimes that means I'm talking about the drugstore junk that I used to think was all I could afford. I'm glad somebody else is reviewing the super-niche stuff; I'm happy to read the reviews. But as for my reviews, I'm... specializing.
As I'm commented frequently on other blogs, *I* am the one who gets to decide where I spend my limited perfume bucks, and I absolutely refuse to play the d*&n snobbery game. I will not do it. If a travel bottle of By Kilian Beyond Love comes within my reach at $20 for 8ml, I'll snap it up (actually, I just did), despite my curled lip over the little locked boxes. Good juice, minimum hoopla - that's the formula that makes me want to buy stuff. I know that a lot of people want the whole luxury package, and that may be legitimate for them. Fine. I don't condemn people who respond to that marketing... okay, maybe secretly I do... I think that choice should be available. It's just my choice to turn on my heel and walk away from houses like JAR.~Mals86 I took some time to digest what you wrote-- then I didn't get back to you!! Ack!! Sorry!!
I think you and I are in a similar place-- it's hard to take this hobby/obsession out of context for me. You talk about all the other troubles in the world-- yes!! I struggle with that all the time. The only place I arrived at with that is that pleasure, art, sensuality-- these are all things that make us human-- and, as the popularity of the blogosphere makes clear, then, as humans, we want to communicate all that we experience!!
The bloggo world is far more egalitarian-- and supportive, as I'm sure you've noticed!!-- than the snoots that sell perfume. Maybe someone will catch on to that some day?
I'd love to hear more about your ideas of what sets apart a critic from a reviewer-- perhaps you'll post on that some day?


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TROY - It was a barn burner at Alparon Park with Loyalsock running away from Troy 60-35.
Early in the fourth quarter Troy cut it to 41-35 but then the Lancers scored three straight times to pull out the win.
Loyalsock had 559 total yards to Troy's 277 but were also called for nine penalties for 96 yards.
Scoring began at the 9:51 mark of the first quarter as Loyalsock's Kyle Datres ran for a 20-yard scoring strike. He kicked the extra point to put the Lancers up 7-0 with 9:51 left in the first quarter.
Troy struck back as Josh McClaren kicked a 48 yard field with 5:23 left to cut it to 7-3.
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The scoring wasn't done yet in the opening quarter as Troy's Jed Wright hit Justin Bradley on a 2-yard pass play for a touchdown. McClaren's kick was good and Troy cut it to 14-10 with 1:46 left in the first.
Datres struck back in the second, this time with his arm. He hit Phil Krizan on a 39 yard scoring strike just nine seconds into the second quarter. Datres kicked the extra point to extend the lead to 21-10.
Isaac Havens cut into the Lancer lead again, rushing one yard for a score with 5:31 left in the opening half. Troy cut it 21-18 on a two point conversion as Havens passed to Wright.
The Lancers came back with Datres scoring on a 39-yard run with 5:12 left. He added the extra point to put Loyalsock up 28-18.
Troy was able to get some of the points back as McClaren hit his second field goal, a 21 yarder, with 23 seconds left to cut it to 28-21.
Loyalsock wasn't content to keep its lead to one score, though. Datres found Mike Dougherty for a 58-yard pass play touchdown with three seconds to play in the half. Datres missed the kick but put Loyalsock up 34-21.
Troy rallied to start the third quarter as Wright hit Chris Westerfer for a 32-yard scoring strike with 5:43 left in the quarter, cutting the deficit to 34-28.
Loyalsock was able to stay one step ahead, though, as Omar Little scored on a 30-yard run with 2:48 left in the quarter. Datres added the point after to extend the lead back to 41-28.
Early in the fourth quarter Wright rushed for a 7-yard scoring strike to cut the lead to 41-35 after McClaren's extra point.
However, from that point on it was all Loyalsock.
Datres ran for a 54 yard scoring strike with 9:21 left to make it 48-35 after the extra point. Bobby Oler then added a 36 yard rushing touchdown followed by Dougherty scoring on an 11 yard touchdown run to make it a 60-35 final.
Wright led Troy on the ground with 110 yards on 20 carries while Nick Stephani added 44 yards on four touches.
Through the air Wright was 5-for-11 for 44 yards with one pick and the two scores.
Westerfer had the one 20 yard scoring catch while Darton Harwick had a catch for 11 yards.
Datres had 217 rushing yards on 14 carries for Loyalsock while also throwing for 203 yards on 7-for-10 passing.


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And yet, the two films are united in their attempts to push the same cultural button that transcends labels such as "independent" and "Hollywood." There is a collective sense that women have suffered a reduction in humanity throughout cinematic history because--a whole encyclopedia's worth of movies written and directed by women notwithstanding--the dominant, enduring cinematic stories have been told by men about men.
Argue all you want about the accuracy of that diagnosis; what's true is that it's perceived as reality. Women are still regarded as underdogs by much of the female population--and by a good percentage of men, as well. What you get in Girls Town and The First Wives Club are two totally different movie vocabularies applied toward the same goal of vindicating downtrodden women. The filmmakers behind both stories strive to trigger remarkably similar emotional responses in ticket buyers; the psychology behind their characters, and the assumptions made by filmmakers about the psychology of their audiences are what assign these flicks to different species. In the end, although both conjure surprisingly full-blooded female characters, neither can summon convincing dilemmas to test the mettle of these brave anti-heroines. As a result, they all wilt like paper dolls.
Girls Town is a drama with a shimmer of coolness surrounding it, winner of a filmmaker's trophy at this year's Sundance Film Festival and well-documented in the alternative press for the collaborative improv sessions that produced the final script. Director Jim McKay had only directed documentary shorts and music videos before he wrote a skeletal synopsis about the exploits of three urban American teenage girls angry about their lives.
He cast queen-bee indie actress Lili Taylor, Brucklin Harris (Zebrahead, Juice), and newcomer Anna Grace, then scheduled them for five-day-a-week bull sessions based on their characters and how they'd relate to the obstacles that confront them.
Girls Town is gritty enough in its portrayal of an unwed teenage mother with a talent for car repair and vandalism (Taylor); the smart girl accepted to Columbia who can't explain her attraction to thuggish friends (Grace); and the poetry-scribbling homegirl with a temper who can't stand when anyone, even her own mother and her brother, offers her advice.
Unfortunately, the film offers little more than the anti-style strut suggested by that adjective, "gritty." It's a syndrome that has plagued so many big winners at Robert Redford's overhyped Sundance--the chronic confusion of a good idea with a good story. Director McKay obviously believes that audiences will hear tales of improvisational rehearsals, be duly impressed, and surrender their judgment at the start of his rambling, street-wise adventure.
And if this had been a one-woman show by Lili Taylor, some of us would be willing to make the leap. Whip smart, subdued, intuitive Taylor easily ranks among the best film performers working today, and she dominates Girls Town with another acute portrayal. When she and her homegirls are hanging out in the rest room, scribbling graffiti and bullshitting about boyfriends, math tests, and the prom, the film crackles with electricity. Unfortunately, after the suicide of a dear friend results in the discovery that she was raped, which in turn prompts one member of the trio to admit she also has been assaulted, the improvisational quality sours into what feels like a prefab consciousness-raising. The reason for this is simple: Newcomer Anna Grace, who plays the surviving rape victim, is in way over her head alongside Taylor and Harris. Her confession has the tentative, whiny quality of a girl who may have confused an unpleasant sexual experience with a brutal assault; the performer registers no discernible trauma at this horrible crime. We automatically grant her sympathy at the drop of the "R" word, but she frankly doesn't earn it with this weak performance.
The suicide of a friend (the uncredited Stockard Channing) is also what spurs the formation of The First Wives Club, a series of snazzy one-liners in desperate search of an original idea to unite them. The bad news turns out to be the good news: Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn, and Diane Keaton indeed play to type as, respectively, a brassy Jewish-Italian housewife, a self-absorbed movie queen, and a neurotic career woman, but they all possess more energy and confidence playing these predictable roles than we've seen from them in years. The script fails to match their enthusiasm with its patched-together tales of vengeance accomplished with curious ease. Screenwriter Robert Harling doesn't bother with too many details of financial mismanagement and maneuvering, because his seasoned comediennes will supply the gas to make this vehicle go. They do, but by the abrupt and rather forced song-and-dance number that closes this flaccid comedy, the noxious fumes of self-satisfaction leak out and stink up the theater. Midler, Hawn, and Keaton, who have been so damned grateful for every minute of screen time, wear out their welcome in a big way.
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Discussion of NoSQL concepts, products, and vendors.
Thoughts and notes, Thanksgiving weekend 2014
I'm taking a few weeks defocused from work, as a kind of grandpaternity leave. That said, the venue for my Dances of Infant Calming is a small-but-nice apartment in San Francisco, so a certain amount of thinking about tech industries is inevitable. I even found time last Tuesday to meet or speak with my clients at WibiData, MemSQL, Cloudera, Citus Data, and MongoDB. And thus:
1. I've been sloppy in my terminology around "geo-distribution", in that I don't always make it easy to distinguish between:
- Storing different parts of a database in different geographies, often for reasons of data privacy regulatory compliance.
- Replicating an entire database into different geographies, often for reasons of latency and/or availability/ disaster recovery,
The latter case can be subdivided further depending on whether multiple copies of the data can accept first writes (aka active-active, multi-master, or multi-active), or whether there's a clear single master for each part of the database.
What made me think of this was a phone call with MongoDB in which I learned that the limit on number of replicas had been raised from 12 to 50, to support the full-replication/latency-reduction use case.
2. Three years ago I posted about agile (predictive) analytics. One of the points was:
… if you change your offers, prices, ad placement, ad text, ad appearance, call center scripts, or anything else, you immediately gain new information that isn't well-reflected in your previous models.
Subsequently I've been hearing more about predictive experimentation such as bandit testing. WibiData, whose views are influenced by a couple of Very Famous Department Store clients (one of which is Macy's), thinks experimentation is quite important. And it could be argued that experimentation is one of the simplest and most direct ways to increase the value of your data.
3. I'd further say that a number of developments, trends or possibilities I'm seeing are or could be connected. These include agile and experimental predictive analytics in general, as noted in the previous point, along with: Read more
Some stuff on my mind, September 28, 2014
1. I wish I had some good, practical ideas about how to make a political difference around privacy and surveillance. Nothing else we discuss here is remotely as important. I presumably can contribute an opinion piece to, more or less, the technology publication(s) of my choice; that can have a small bit of impact. But I'd love to do better than that. Ideas, anybody?
2. A few thoughts on cloud, colocation, etc.:
- The economies of scale of colocation-or-cloud over operating your own data center are compelling. Most of the reasons you outsource hardware manufacture to Asia also apply to outsourcing data center operation within the United States. (The one exception I can think of is supply chain.)
- The arguments for cloud specifically over colocation are less persuasive. Colo providers can even match cloud deployments in rapid provisioning and elastic pricing, if they so choose.
- Surely not coincidentally, I am told that Rackspace is deemphasizing cloud, reemphasizing colocation, and making a big deal out of Open Compute. In connection with that, Rackspace has pulled back from its leadership role in OpenStack.
- I'm hearing much more mention of Amazon Redshift than I used to. It seems to have a lot of traction as a simple and low-cost option.
- I'm hearing less about Elastic MapReduce than I used to, although I imagine usage is still large and growing.
- In general, I get the impression that progress is being made in overcoming the inherent difficulties in cloud (and even colo) parallel analytic processing. But it all still seems pretty vague, except for the specific claims being made for traction of Redshift, EMR, and so on.
- Teradata recently told me that in colocation pricing, it is common for floor space to be everything, with power not separately metered. But I don't think that trend is a big deal, as it is not necessarily permanent.
- Cloud hype is of course still with us.
- Other than the above, I stand by my previous thoughts on appliances, clusters and clouds.
3. As for the analytic DBMS industry: Read more
21st Century DBMS success and failure
As part of my series on the keys to and likelihood of success, I outlined some examples from the DBMS industry. The list turned out too long for a single post, so I split it up by millennia. The part on 20th Century DBMS success and failure went up Friday; in this one I'll cover more recent events, organized in line with the original overview post. Categories addressed will include analytic RDBMS (including data warehouse appliances), NoSQL/non-SQL short-request DBMS, MySQL, PostgreSQL, NewSQL and Hadoop.
DBMS rarely have trouble with the criterion "Is there an identifiable buying process?" If an enterprise is doing application development projects, a DBMS is generally chosen for each one. And so the organization will generally have a process in place for buying DBMS, or accepting them for free. Central IT, departments, and — at least in the case of free open source stuff — developers all commonly have the capacity for DBMS acquisition.
In particular, at many enterprises either departments have the ability to buy their own analytic technology, or else IT will willingly buy and administer things for a single department. This dynamic fueled much of the early rise of analytic RDBMS.
Buyer inertia is a greater concern.
- A significant minority of enterprises are highly committed to their enterprise DBMS standards.
- Another significant minority aren't quite as committed, but set pretty high bars for new DBMS products to cross nonetheless.
- FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt) about new DBMS is often justifiable, about stability and consistent performance alike.
A particularly complex version of this dynamic has played out in the market for analytic RDBMS/appliances.
- First the newer products (from Netezza onwards) were sold to organizations who knew they wanted great performance or price/performance.
- Then it became more about selling "business value" to organizations who needed more convincing about the benefits of great price/performance.
- Then the behemoth vendors became more competitive, as Teradata introduced lower-price models, Oracle introduced Exadata, Sybase got more aggressive with Sybase IQ, IBM bought Netezza, EMC bought Greenplum, HP bought Vertica and so on. It is now hard for a non-behemoth analytic RDBMS vendor to make headway at large enterprise accounts.
- Meanwhile, Hadoop has emerged as serious competitor for at least some analytic data management, especially but not only at internet companies.
Otherwise I'd say: Read more
Notes and comments, May 6, 2014
After visiting California recently, I made a flurry of posts, several of which generated considerable discussion.
- My claim that Spark will replace Hadoop MapReduce got much Twitter attention — including some high-profile endorsements — and also some responses here.
- My MemSQL post led to a vigorous comparison of MemSQL vs. VoltDB.
- My post on hardware and storage spawned a lively discussion of Hadoop hardware pricing; even Cloudera wound up disagreeing with what I reported Cloudera as having said. Sadly, there was less response to the part about the partial (!) end of Moore's Law.
- My Cloudera/SQL/Impala/Hive apparently was well-balanced, in that it got attacked from multiple sides via Twitter & email. Apparently, I was too hard on Impala, I was too hard on Hive, and I was too hard on boxes full of cardboard file cards as well.
- My post on the Intel/Cloudera deal garnered a comment reminding us Dell had pushed the Intel distro.
- My CitusDB post picked up a few clarifying comments.
Here is a catch-all post to complete the set. Read more
MongoDB is growing up
I caught up with my clients at MongoDB to discuss the recent MongoDB 2.6, along with some new statements of direction. The biggest takeaway is that the MongoDB product, along with the associated MMS (MongoDB Management Service), is growing up. Aspects include:
- An actual automation and management user interface, as opposed to the current management style, which is almost entirely via scripts (except for the monitoring UI).
- That's scheduled for public beta in May, and general availability later this year.
- It will include some kind of integrated provisioning with VMware, OpenStack, et al.
- One goal is to let you apply database changes, software upgrades, etc. without taking the cluster down.
- A reasonable backup strategy.
- A snapshot copy is made of the database.
- A copy of the log is streamed somewhere.
- Periodically — the default seems to be 6 hours — the log is applied to create a new current snapshot.
- For point-in-time recovery, you take the last snapshot prior to the point, and roll forward to the desired point.
- A reasonable locking strategy!
- Document-level locking is all-but-promised for MongoDB 2.8.
- That means what it sounds like. (I mention this because sometimes an XML database winds up being one big document, which leads to confusing conversations about what's going on.)
- Security. My eyes glaze over at the details, but several major buzzwords have been checked off.
- A general code rewrite to allow for (more) rapid addition of future features.
NoSQL vs. NewSQL vs. traditional RDBMS
I frequently am asked questions that boil down to:
- When should one use NoSQL?
- When should one use a new SQL product (NewSQL or otherwise)?
- When should one use a traditional RDBMS (most likely Oracle, DB2, or SQL Server)?
The details vary with context — e.g. sometimes MySQL is a traditional RDBMS and sometimes it is a new kid — but the general class of questions keeps coming. And that's just for short-request use cases; similar questions for analytic systems arise even more often.
My general answers start:
- Sometimes something isn't broken, and doesn't need fixing.
- Sometimes something is broken, and still doesn't need fixing. Legacy decisions that you now regret may not be worth the trouble to change.
- Sometimes — especially but not only at smaller enterprises — choices are made for you. If you operate on SaaS, plus perhaps some generic web hosting technology, the whole DBMS discussion may be moot.
In particular, migration away from legacy DBMS raises many issues: Read more
Categories: Columnar database management, Couchbase, HBase, In-memory DBMS, Microsoft and SQL*Server, NewSQL, NoSQL, OLTP, Oracle, Parallelization, SAP AG | 17 Comments |
DBMS2 revisited
The name of this blog comes from an August, 2005 column. 8 1/2 years later, that analysis holds up pretty well. Indeed, I'd keep the first two precepts exactly as I proposed back then:
- Task-appropriate data managers. Much of this blog is about task-appropriate data stores, so I won't say more about them in this post.
- Drastic limitations on relational schema complexity. I think I've been vindicated on that one by, for example:
- NoSQL and dynamic schemas.
- Schema-on-read, and its smarter younger brother schema-on-need.
- Limitations on the performance and/or allowed functionality of joins in scale-out short-request RDBMS, and the relative lack of complaints about same.
- Funky database design from major Software as a Service (SaaS) vendors such as Workday and Salesforce.com.
- A whole lot of logs.
I'd also keep the general sense of the third precept, namely appropriately-capable data integration, but for that one the specifics do need some serious rework.
For starters, let me say: Read more
Categories: About this blog, Business intelligence, Database diversity, EAI, EII, ETL, ELT, ETLT, Investment research and trading, NoSQL, Schema on need | 2 Comments |
Wants vs. needs
In 1981, Gerry Chichester and Vaughan Merlyn did a user-survey-based report about transaction-oriented fourth-generation languages, the leading application development technology of their day. The report included top-ten lists of important features during the buying cycle and after implementation. The items on each list were very similar — but the order of the items was completely different. And so the report highlighted what I regard as an eternal truth of the enterprise software industry:
What users value in the product-buying process is quite different from what they value once a product is (being) put into use.
Here are some thoughts about how that comes into play today.
Wants outrunning needs
1. For decades, BI tools have been sold in large part via demos of snazzy features the CEO would like to have on his desk. First it was pretty colors; then it was maps; now sometimes it's "real-time" changing displays. Other BI features, however, are likely to be more important in practice.
2. In general, the need for "real-time" BI data freshness is often exaggerated. If you're a human being doing a job that's also often automated at high speed — for example network monitoring or stock trading — there's a good chance you need fully human real-time BI. Otherwise, how much does a 5-15 minute delay hurt? Even if you're monitoring website sell-through — are your business volumes really high enough that 5 minutes matters much? eBay answered "yes" to that question many years ago, but few of us work for businesses anywhere near eBay's scale.
Even so, the want for speed keeps growing stronger.
3. Similarly, some desires for elastic scale-out are excessive. Your website selling koi pond accessories should always run well on a single server. If you diversify your business to the point that that's not true, you'll probably rewrite your app by then as well.
4. Some developers want to play with cool new tools. That doesn't mean those tools are the best choice for the job. In particular, boring old SQL has merits — such as joins! — that shiny NoSQL hasn't yet replicated.
5. Some developers, on the other hand, want to keep using their old tools, on which they are their employers' greatest experts. That doesn't mean those tools are the best choice for the job either.
6. More generally, some enterprises insist on brand labels that add little value but lots of expense. Yes, there are many benefits to vendor consolidation, and you may avoid many headaches if you stick with not-so-cutting-edge technology. But "enterprise-grade" hardware failure rates may not differ enough from "consumer-grade" ones to be worth paying for.
Categories: Benchmarks and POCs, Business intelligence, Cloud computing, Clustering, Data models and architecture, Data warehousing, NoSQL, Software as a Service (SaaS), Vertica Systems | 3 Comments |
Notes and comments, March 17, 2014
I have ever more business-advice posts up on Strategic Messaging. Recent subjects include pricing and stealth-mode marketing. Other stuff I've been up to includes:
The Spark buzz keeps increasing; almost everybody I talk with expects Spark to win big, probably across several use cases.
Disclosure: I'll soon be in a substantial client relationship with Databricks, hoping to improve their stealth-mode marketing.
The "real-time analytics" gold rush I called out last year continues. A large fraction of the vendors I talk with have some variant of "real-time analytics" as a central message.
Basho had a major change in leadership. A Twitter exchange ensued. Joab Jackson offered a more sober — figuratively and literally — take.
Hadapt laid off its sales and marketing folks, and perhaps some engineers as well. In a nutshell, Hadapt's approach to SQL-on-Hadoop wasn't selling vs. the many alternatives, and Hadapt is doubling down on poly-structured data*/schema-on-need.
*While Hadapt doesn't to my knowledge use the term "poly-structured data", some other vendors do. And so I may start using it more myself, at least when the poly-structured/multi-structured distinction actually seems significant.
WibiData is partnering with DataStax, WibiData is of course pleased to get access to Cassandra's user base, which gave me the opportunity to ask why they thought Cassandra had beaten HBase in those accounts. The answer was performance and availability, while Cassandra's traditional lead in geo-distribution wasn't mentioned at all.
Disclosure: My fingerprints are all over that deal.
In other news, WibiData has had some executive departures as well, but seems to be staying the course on its strategy. I continue to think that WibiData has a really interesting vision about how to do large-data-volume interactive computing, and anybody in that space would do well to talk with them or at least look into the open source projects WibiData sponsors.
I encountered another apparently-popular machine-learning term — bandit model. It seems to be glorified A/B testing, and it seems to be popular. I think the point is that it tries to optimize for just how much you invest in testing unproven (for good or bad) alternatives.
I had an awkward set of interactions with Gooddata, including my longest conversations with them since 2009. Gooddata is in the early days of trying to offer an all-things-to-all-people analytic stack via SaaS (Software as a Service). I gather that Hadoop, Vertica, PostgreSQL (a cheaper Vertica alternative), Spark, Shark (as a faster version of Hive) and Cassandra (under the covers) are all in the mix — but please don't hold me to those details.
I continue to think that computing is moving to a combination of appliances, clusters, and clouds. That said, I recently bought a new gaming-class computer, and spent many hours gaming on it just yesterday.* I.e., there's room for general-purpose workstations as well. But otherwise, I'm not hearing anything that contradicts my core point.
*The last beta weekend for The Elder Scrolls Online; I loved Morrowind.
Splunk and inverted-list indexing
Some technical background about Splunk
In an October, 2009 technical introduction to Splunk, I wrote (emphasis added):
Splunk software both reads logs and indexes them. The same code runs both on the nodes that do the indexing and on machines that simply emit logs.
It turns out that the bolded part was changed several years ago. However, I don't have further details, so let's move on to Splunk's DBMS-like aspects.
I also wrote:
The fundamental thing that Splunk looks at is an increment to a log – i.e., whatever has been added to the log since Splunk last looked at it.
That remains true. Confusingly, Splunk refers to these log increments as "rows", even though they're really structured and queried more like documents.
I further wrote:
Splunk has a simple ILM (Information Lifecycle management) story based on time. I didn't probe for details.
Splunk's ILM story turns out to be simple indeed.
- As data streams in, Splunk adds it to the most recent — "hot" — bucket. Once a bucket is full, it becomes immutable — "warm" — and a new hot bucket is opened to receive data.
- Splunk executes queries against whichever of these time-slice buckets make sense, then unions results together as needed.
Finally, I wrote:
I get the impression that most Splunk entity extraction is done at search time, not at indexing time. Splunk says that, if a <name, value> pair is clearly marked, its software does a good job of recognizing same. Beyond that, fields seem to be specified by users when they define searches.
I have trouble understanding how Splunk could provide flexible and robust reporting unless it tokenized and indexed specific fields more aggressively than I think it now does.
The point of what I in October, 2013 called
a high(er)-performance data store into which you can selectively copy columns of data
and which Splunk enthusiastically calls its "High Performance Analytic Store" is to meet that latter need.
Inverted-list indexing
Inverted list technology is confusing for several reasons, which start: Read more
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This monumental work provides a comprehensive analytical history of the Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Umayyad, and Early Abbasid mosaics in the Holy Land, spanning the second century b.c.e. to the eighth century c.e. Previous general studies of the Holy Land mosaics have focused on specific collections; in Mosaics of Faith, Rina Talgam sets out to demonstrate how mosaic art constructed cultural, religious, and ethnic identities in eras that shaped the visual expressions of three monotheistic religions. Her examination of the mosaics in a pivotal area of the eastern Mediterranean sharpens and refines our understanding of the region's societies and their ideologies, institutions, and liturgies. Covering almost one thousand years of mosaic production, Mosaics of Faith offers an unprecedented view of the evolution of floor decorations from the Hellenistic to the Roman periods, in the transition from Roman to Early Byzantine art, and in the persistence of Byzantine traditions under Umayyad rule. More than other corpora of ancient mosaics, those from the Holy Land have generated greater awareness of the intricate visual exchanges between paganism, Judaism, Samaritanism, Christianity, and Islam. Talgam examines the mosaics' formal qualities in conjunction with the religious and cultural contexts within which they were produced and with which they had a profound, multidimensional dialogue.
"In this magisterial study, Rina Talgam gives full justice to all aspects of the floor mosaics of the Holy Land in their multicultural contexts. Comprehensive, detailed, and well balanced in its conclusions, it will become the preeminent work of reference and interpretation in its field." --Henry Maguire, Johns Hopkins University
Number Of Pages: 600
Published: 3rd July 2014
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Country of Publication: US
Dimensions (cm): 28.7 x 23.6
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1 The king of Arad, the Canaanite living in the Negeb, learned that Israel was coming by way of Atharim. He attacked Israel and took some prisoners.
2 Israel then made this vow to Yahweh, 'If you deliver this people into my power, I shall curse their towns with destruction.'
3 Yahweh heard Israel's words and delivered the Canaanites into their power, and they destroyed them in accordance with their curse. Hence the place was given the name Hormah.
4 They left Mount Hor by the road to the Sea of Suph, to skirt round Edom. On the way the people lost patience.
5 They spoke against God and against Moses, 'Why did you bring us out of Egypt to die in the desert? For there is neither food nor water here; we are sick of this meagre diet.'
6 At this, God sent fiery serpents among the people; their bite brought death to many in Israel.
7 The people came and said to Moses, 'We have sinned by speaking against Yahweh and against you. Intercede for us with Yahweh to save us from these serpents.' Moses interceded for the people,
8 and Yahweh replied, 'Make a fiery serpent and raise it as a standard. Anyone who is bitten and looks at it will survive.'
9 Moses then made a serpent out of bronze and raised it as a standard, and anyone who was bitten by a serpent and looked at the bronze serpent survived.
10 The Israelites set out and camped at Oboth.
11 Then they left Oboth and camped at Iye-Abarim, in the desert on the eastern border of Moab.
12 They set out from there and camped in the gorge of the Zered.
13 They set out from there and camped on the other side of the Arnon. This gorge in the desert begins in the territory of the Amorites. For the Arnon is the frontier of Moab, between the Moabites and the Amorites.
14 That is why it says in the Book of the Wars of Yahweh: '. . .Waheb near Suphah and the gorges of the Arnon
15 and the slope of the ravine running down to the site of Ar and over against the frontier of Moab.'
16 And from there they went to Beer, that being the well in connection with which Yahweh had said to Moses, 'Call the people together and I will give them water.'
17 Then it was that Israel sang this song: Spring up, well! Sing out for the well,
18 sunk by the princes, dug by the people's leaders with the sceptre, with their staves! -and from the desert to Mattanah,
19 and from Mattanah to Nahaliel, and from Nahaliel to Bamoth,
20 and from Bamoth to the valley that opens into the country of Moab, towards the heights of Pisgah overlooking the desert.
21 Israel sent messengers to say to Sihon king of the Amorites,
22 'I wish to pass through your country. We shall not stray into the fields or vineyards; we shall not drink the water from the wells; we shall keep to the king's highway until we have passed through your territory.'
23 But Sihon would not give Israel leave to pass through his country. He assembled all his people, marched into the desert to meet Israel, and reached Jahaz, where he gave battle to Israel.
24 Israel defeated him by force of arms and conquered his country from the Arnon to the Jabbok, as far as the Ammonites, for Jazer marked the Ammonite frontier.
25 Israel took all these towns. Israel occupied all the Amorite towns, Heshbon and all its dependencies,
26 Heshbon being the capital of Sihon king of the Amorites, who had made war on the first king of Moab and captured all his territory as far as the Arnon.
27 Hence the poets say: Come to Heshbon! Let the city of Sihon be rebuilt on firm foundations!
28 For fire has burst from Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon, devouring Ar of Moab, engulfing the heights of the Arnon.
29 Oh, unhappy Moab! People of Chemosh, you are lost! He has resigned his sons as fugitives, and his daughters as prisoners to Sihon king of the Amorites.
30 Their posterity has been destroyed from Heshbon all the way to Dibon, and we have lit a fire all the way from Nophah to Medeba.
31 Thus Israel occupied the Amorites' territory.
32 Moses then sent men to reconnoitre Jazer, and Israel took it and its dependencies, evicting the Amorites who lived there.
33 They then turned and marched on Bashan. Og king of Bashan and all his people marched to meet them and give battle at Edrei.
34 Yahweh said to Moses, 'Do not be afraid of him, for I have put him, all his people and his country at your mercy. Treat him as you treated Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon.'
35 So they pressed their attack against him, his sons and all his people until there was no one left alive. And they took possession of his country.
Reading 1, Acts 6:8-15: 8 Stephen was filled with grace and power and began to work ... Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 119:23-24, 26-27, 29-30: 23 Though princes sit plotting against ... Gospel, John 6:22-29: 22 Next day, the crowd that had stayed on the other side saw that ... continue reading
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Like its predecessor, the Jerusalem Bible, the New Jerusalem Bible (NJB) version is translated "directly from the Hebrew, Greek or Aramaic." The 1973 French translation, the Bible de Jerusalem, is followed only "where the text admits to more than one interpretation." Introductions and notes, with some modifications, are taken from the Bible de Jerusalem.
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Cape Wind Receives CZM Consistency Determinations
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Cape Wind has received approval from the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management (CZM) in the form of two consistency determinations. Following on the heels of the favorable final environmental impact statement from the Minerals Management Service, these determinations will now allow for federal agencies to finalize Cape Wind's permitting.
CZM's finding stated that, "Based on our review, all aspects of the project, including those project elements located in federal waters, and the project's effects on resources and uses in the Massachusetts coastal zone, we concur with your certification that the activity as proposed is consistent with the CZM enforceable program policies."
Those policies include consideration of alternative sites, encouragement of renewable energy use, protection of coastal resources, ensuring safe and continuing public access and reduced impacts on public recreation.
The CZM Act allows the wind farm, located in federal waters, to be reviewed by a designated state agency. This ensures that the project located near a coastal state is consistent with state coastal zone policies.
"This brings us one important step closer to making Massachusetts a leader in offshore renewable technology and bringing needed jobs and energy security to the region," says Jim Gordon, president of Cape Wind.
The Cape Wind Project has been under review by CZM and other agencies for over seven years. Cape Wind officials expect to complete the permitting process by this spring.
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Started Uncharted 3 until I get to Chapter 2 and it freezes on me every time. I'm going to have to try it on another PS3 but I think my PS3 is on the way out otherwise I am having a bad run of luck, seeing as one movie stops at the same stop, I had issues with another movie and now this.
Halo Anniversary. Actually is quite enjoyable "re-visiting" the original with improved graphics. Obviously not as riveting as the first time, but the campaign is fun for sentimental reasons.
Well PS3 is on the blink, so I will be without it for a little while I get it fixed. NBA 2k11 on 360 will be for me for the moment.
It took me months to get tired of playing a career as Jordan. Only basketball game besides nba jam that I have liked.
Same. I've gone through 2 seasons and still lose games which is great. Generally the problem with sports games is I get bored because I always win. Shouldn't have done an 82 game season though.
Playing through Metal Gear Solid. It's amazing how much controller layouts have changed in the 14 years since MGS was made. I keep dying because I try to move with the analog stick, too bad it doesn't register and I just stand there punching air.
I think the best moment ever for me was playing in the rookie vs sophomore game.. or w/e that is the nba does. Was behind the entire game, doing everything I could just to keep it close. I get the ball with 2 seconds left, losing by 2. Got the ball, set up a 3 and shot. Timer hit 0, and I nailed the 3. Jordan ftw. And yeah.. I did 3 seasons of all 82 games and never sim'd any. Really made getting to the finals feel nice, though.


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Family Bondage: Mother Daughter Freaky Flick "Actors" Plan On Getting Rich By Performing Together Without "Performing Together"
- By Bossip Staff Categories: Crazy Videos, Freaks, Get Your Life TogetherHoly slorey skeezer moms Batman!
Via Huffington Post
A mother and daughter in Tampa, Fla., have a unique way of expressing family togetherness — by creating a freaky flick site and shooting sex scenes together.
The duo — known collectively as "The Sexxtons" — like many performers, don't give out their last names. Jessica, the mom, and Monica, the daughter, have been creating freaky content for their self-titled website for the past year and have just released a DVD.
In order to confirm the Sexxtons are really related and not just claiming that as a marketing gimmick, The Huffington Post reviewed both women's driver's licenses, and their private Facebook pages, as well as private family photos going back 20 years.
Although mother and daughter have sex in the same room at the same time — often with the same male or female partner — they insist that their encounters are not illegal. For legal and personal reasons, they don't actually touch each other during sex scenes.
Oh, well that makes it all good…smh
"We don't have a problem doing two-on-one," Jessica, 56, explained to The Huffington Post. "We will have sex with one man, but not interact with each other."
Monica, 22, said the freaky choreography is a lot more difficult than her mom makes it sound.
"It's not easy to do," she told HuffPost. "Our lips never touch and that can be a problem when filming."
Those precautions, the Sexxtons said, are what keeps their scenes from legally being "interactive", even if experts like Beverly Hills-based psychiatrist Dr. Carole Lieberman, who has never treated the Sexxtons, considers their activities to be "emotional 'interaction'."
"This crosses so many lines, it's like a labyrinth," Lieberman told HuffPost. "Even if they're not having sex with each other, it has to be titillating to one or both or them, so it crosses the line since sexual arousal comes into the mix."
Monica acknowledges the mother-daughter porn is enjoyable. "I enjoy the sex and I enjoy being with my mom," she said. "During the scenes, I think about how we're going to be filthy rich."
Ho, you crazy.
"I've always been an "curious" and sex just oozed out of me," she said, adding that she lost her virginity at the age of 12. "It was my idea. I dropped out of school in ninth grade and figured this was a good way to earn money."
Again, ho, you crazy.
For the most part, the Sexxtons only have sex in the same room when on camera, but Jessica said they did do a threesome with one of her boyfriends one night. "We were talking about sex and it happened. We all had a good time," she said.
So your boyfriend ran a train on you and your mom?! That's some classy isht right there.
All we'll say is, ain't no black folks doin' isht like this…
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Ambrotypes are singular, wet-plate collodion images on glass—true camera originals. Join us for a week of wonder, creating one-of-a-kind ambrotype portraits, both in a studio setting and in the field. This unique workshop encourages both novices and seasoned collodion artists to enhance their skills by learning how to create these wondrous, glowing, positive images on glass. In a hands-on setting, we learn about the equipment of the wet-plate collodion era—big cameras and big lenses—as well as contemporary resources for wet-plate gear. Our staff guides you every step of the way, from preparation to presentation. We learn how to mix our own chemicals, and prepare our own glass plates. We learn how to handle the chemistry in a safe and proper manner, all while maximizing its working life. Working with experienced models, we explore how to express this new and exciting photographic language through our dynamic subjects. We take full advantage of the naturally extraordinary Santa Fe light, as well as learning different methods for studio illumination, with both continuous lighting and strobes. Working with both clear glass and a variety of colored, stained glass, we create lasting, unique images that defy duplication. Take a step back from the digital revolution and dive into the world of a century's old process. INSTRUCTOR(S)
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After years of rummaging through the family attic and scouring the coastal thrift stores, Cheyann Benedict and Claire Stansfield of C&C California set out to make their own collection. The collection would be easy and wearable, yet certain to exude a laid back appeal. The line would offer the perfect pieces to be worn at almost any occasion, from shopping to bikinis to cocktails at sunset.
LOVE this top! Ordered it in Firework, and the material and cut was so flattering, I came back and ordered it in white and faded black! The cut out shoulders give it just a little something extra, without being too much. You can wear this casually, or layer with cute jewelery for a dressier look. C&C California shirts are always the softest, and this shirt is no exception! :)


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hmm this reads just a tad harsher than i had intended i guess what i'm trying to say is i dig this but i'm just not feeling much of that old bloc party magic no more 'montreal': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taEfSuDCkDA
wow best review ever pos
Digging: Peste Noire - Ballade cuntre lo Anemi francor
thought you were gonna 3 sell out
Digging: My Alias - Light
it's a 3.3 i rounded up sorry bro i hope we can move past this
Nice review Mr. Gun :D
thx man luv u guys
feature plz
Digging: Built to Spill - Untethered Moon
I hate the title of this
Only heard Ratchet and it was indeed atrocious. So you'd say the rest deserves a listen even though I hated Four so much?
yeah it's worth a spin for any fan of the band, only five songs so why not! of all their stuff it's prob stylistically closest to 'another weekend'
sweet rev bro pos
Cool, let's see if it's on spotify
when i was tripping some acid at sasquatch this year, bloc party decided to gift the crowd with a performance of Rachet and as soon as Kele's rapping kicked me and my buddy were on the ground and in tears
Album Rating: 3.5Great review man, though i've always liked Bloc Party at their most obscene (Ratchet, Mercury, Ares etc...)
pos'd :3
Digging: Mo*Te - Life in a Peaceful New World
It's time for these hoes to get ratchet
Digging: Hop Along - Painted Shut
These guys are still around?
Review reads a bit lower than a 3.5, but it is well written. Pos'd
Sweet review, Tommy. I don't listen to this band a lot, but they're good from the few songs I've heard. Good to see you writing, man. POS'd.
"These guys are still around?" They were on hiatus for a few years, then they came back and made one album and this EP, and now right back to hiatus
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