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I know, I know. I know what you guys are thinking - when is this blog getting back on its feet? Soon, I promise! In the meantime, get out your inner spoiler lover and read a discussion (rated X for language!) between Maria from Filmiholic and Amrita from IndieQuill.
Amrita: So. Since you just saw 7 Khoon Maaf - what is your first impression? Tell me about the cinematic aftertaste.
Maria: Hmmm, I quite liked it. I don't understand why there's been such negative reaction to it.
On the down side, I don't know if I totally understand Susanna's motivation (father issues? bad taste in men?), and I don't fault Priyanka for that. I would blame the writer/director.
On the upside, I loved how well composed these separate vignettes are, how much they reveal in such a short time, and with just little brush strokes of details.
How about you? What was your initial reaction?
Amrita: For some reason, the violence took me aback. Which I found to be a strange reaction in myself because I expect a Vishal Bhardwaj movie to be set in a violent world. But as the movie opened with that extremely realistic looking blood spatter -
Maria: - and the dripping sounds -
Amrita: - it threw me off and I never quite regained my balance. I realize now that because I find his movies to be such an immersive experience, the violence always recedes and becomes a part of the atmosphere, leaving the story itself in my memory. But here, it was somehow all up in my face.
Maria: Did you see Rakht Charitra? Did this violence affect you worse than in that?
Amrita: I did see Rakht Charitra. Part 1. I thought this was more violent. And I wonder if that's because this was more about domestic violence than murder. Sexual assault pushes a lot more of my buttons than blood and gore. Anyway, the murders themselves are very restrained, aren't they? Even the worst of them, that climax with the burning house and Naseeruddin Shah's brains splattered all over the wall, wasn't much compared to the psychological and emotional pain running through the movie. I suspect this is where I confess to being a girly girl.
Maria: Awww.... well I must say I thought the bed scenes with Irrfan Khan were quite strong, in that it looked like he really was hurting her. But the blood and gore doesn't seem to bother me. I guess over a lifetime I've seen so much in other films, it doesn't hardly register.
Beyond the violence, which was hard for you, tell me what you liked about the film?
Amrita: I don't think of the violence as a minus necessarily, but it registered strongly enough that I would warn several of my friends about it before I recommended it to them...
Maria: What about the use of the word "fuck"?
Amrita: VB chose to do that thing where you translate English quips and jokes into Hindi - stuff like "Marry in haste, repent at leisure", and he also got people to say things like, "She must have been one hell of a lay" in English and I have to say, much as I love him and his work, he doesn't do this any better than any of the others that have tried.
The man who made that "lay" comment sounded really apologetic and awkward, for instance. It was really obvious he didn't find it a natural quip to make. And the "marry in haste" thing just sounded weird.
Maria: Yes, that use of the word "lay" would sound very out of place, and out of date, if you used it in the States or the UK nowadays.
Amrita: Right - except I can believe the Indian guy using out-of-date terminology. We are famous as a nation for our Edwardian turn of speech, after all. I'll get my Dad to write you a letter if you need proof. My problem here is more specific - I just don't believe that particular line coming out of that particular man's mouth.
But! The swearing was well done. Every time someone said "fuck" I felt it was appropriate. And that was a nice touch of realism, getting the characters to use it more and more starting with the 90s, which is when I remember it becoming a part of casual conversation in India. Or perhaps I feel that way because that's when I entered middle school and heard a senior say it for the first time. Swearing wasn't very common around my house and we were all a lot more innocent back then, I think.
How about you?
Maria: Yes, I agree. I thought "fuck" was used well, though I was quite surprised to hear it in a "mainstream" (if we can say that) Hindi film, without being beeped over. Well done, Vishal!
It felt real and appropriate, and I loved Maggie Aunty for using it.
Amrita: It was surprising, wasn't it? The first time I heard it, I thought I'd misheard and then I was like, 'Nope, that's "fuck" all right.' And it sounded natural in that world, not posturing
Maria: Indeed.
Amrita: Moving on, I loved the fact that we began with Arun introducing Susanna and her world in Urdu. The relationship between language and description is intense. There's a real sense of nostalgia, tragic loss, poetry and love running through his monologues, and as Arun changes he begins to describe his world in more practical Hindi. It's a great little detail and one of the reasons why I love VB so much. He might fail from time to time as with the "lay" comment, but for the most part he has a grasp on how to describe a world, in words and in visuals.
For a world that's so lightly described and chock full of inaccuracies, where so many things exist simply because they do - he manages to make it breathe simply by his choices of detail and language.
Did you pick up on the language at all? I feel that's something the subtitles wouldn't convey.
Maria: Hmmm, interesting. It's good for me to hear you saying this because I'm still digesting it all. Right now, it's more the visual and the story itself that's at the most easily accessed part of my brain. I think I'd need a second viewing to pick up on what you're talking about.
On a totally different subject, I know this is very secondary, but I kept thinking "How busy is the decor that house!" The floral patterns and the ruffles and the candles.... my God, it was like Liberace meets Laura Ashley! And even when she skipped off to J & K, same thing except it was all Mughlai flowers and Kashmiri embroidery. But I loved all that. It adds a wonderful layer to the story.
And did you notice the title on the book Arun brings her? Did it not say "Seven Wives..... or something like that? At first I thought it was the Ruskin Bond book, but I don't think so.
Okay. How about the first 3 husbands?
Amrita: Let's discuss the husbands!
Maria: Of the first three, shall we do a quick thumbs up or thumbs down for each?
Amrita: I mean, who would you thumbs up for?
Maria: Who was interesting & attractive in spite of being a bloody bastard?
I'd say Neil and Irrfan.
Amrita: I thought Neil Nitin Mukesh blew it out of the park. I mean, it took me a moment even to recognize him. Neil was also the one person you never saw actually hit Susanna or abuse her in some way, but he was the scariest of the lot because every single moment was pregnant with the potential for extreme violence. And you could feel her fear and desperation the way you didn't really feel it with the other husbands, except maybe Irrfan.
Maria: I think this is the best I've seen him in anything so far. Now I can finally agree with another girlfriend who says he's hot.
Amrita: And it was nice to see him do something different from his debut movie. I feel he's basically been doing poor-Bombay-boy-on-the-make type roles forever.
Maria: I loved him glowering from the bar when Susanna danced. And can we talk about the stump?
Amrita: EWWWWWWWWWWWW! (Sorry to all our amputee readers but come on!)
Maria: But, my GOD - hats off to Vishal Bhardwaj for that detail!
Amrita: Seriously!
Maria: It was so unforeseen, and slimy and just a perfect touch!
Amrita: It was such a little detail but it totally summed up that relationship in one creepy-ass shot.
Maria: Truly amazing. For little details like that, I think he is a master.
Amrita: It's why I love him!
Maria: John Abraham was a total throwaway role. Though I did like him in the rain on the grave.....
Amrita: Hahahah, you liked it when he was dead? Yeah, he plays an excellent corpse.
Maria: Ha ha.....no, I mean when they were both alive, embracing and laying back on the grave in the rain. Which I'm sure was Edwin's (Neil's)...
But oh my God, why was John dressed like Axl Rose? Ugh! Did you fall over laughing when you saw John Abraham as a choir boy?
Amrita: I was basically laughing at John all through his segment but yes, he looked ludicrous. John was completely out of place. He's worked out his body to such an extent now that he can't fit into ensembles like these any more. He looks completely unnatural. His back is so muscled, he's now a Mutant Ninja Turtle except his shell is his overworked muscle.
Meanwhile, there's Irrfan and his poetry.
Maria: Ohhhhhh, Mama!
I don't usually like him with long hair, but he was fantastic in this story! And then the surprise in bed under the covers.
Amrita: That was not what I expected to be going on under the covers!
Maria: At first, did you too think "Damn, Wasiullah's got some great moves to be getting Susanna to yell like that!"
Amrita: Yes! Hahahaha! I was all, wow! dreamy poet by day and hot little mink by night, huh?
And then, the covers came off and it was like, um, NO.
Maria: Ha ha - what's Urdu for "hot little mink"?
Amrita: Not Wasiullah, clearly! But that's also the point where the movie began to careen all over the place in tone, I think.
Maria: I've never been to Kashmir, but that one little vignette really cements my curiosity. Just before we leave him behind, didn't you think Irrfan was terrific? One of the best of the seven?
Especially the bed scene... that felt SO real.
Amrita: Yes, second only to Neil.
Maria: Tell me about the careening.
Amrita: Right, so the careening. I think it starts with the scene where Arun finds out she killed Wasiullah and he says something like, "She could have just left, why did she have to kill him?" in a very blasé / borderline petulant fashion. And while that demonstrates the shift in all their thinking where murder is no longer shocking to these people since they've participated in two others already, and cements their close ties to Susanna, the way he says it struck me as VB trying to inject a little humor into the situation. And yes, this is a black comedy, but he'd done such a good job of turning two of Susanna's first three husbands into real monsters that I think it became a little hard for that kind of levity to flourish. I think the Russian bit, for instance, was magnificently silly and as a standalone it was hilarious. Especially when he comes back from Moscow and they greet him by giggling and telling him Susanna's out shopping for a new wedding dress.
Maria: Yes, that line was great.
Amrita: I felt that was the tone VB had maybe wanted to hit from the first scene but by the time he arrived at it, it felt out of place. In some other movie, that entire scene would have been great: macabre but silly and hilarious - him getting a massage from a malevolent dwarf who slobbers gibberish in his ear while the sinister trio of family retainers describe how they killed all the other husbands. But coming after that intense first half, it felt schizophrenic.
Maria: Yes… and by the way, how great was that trio?
Amrita: VB has a thing for trios clearly!
Maria: Didn't they feel like some characters out of Shakespeare... almost like a silent Greek chorus. Chiming in with their actions if not words.
Confirm one thing for me: Susanna's house... it's supposed to be in Goa, no?
Amrita: Pondicherry, I thought. She has that photograph in which it's written "Daddy and Me in Our House in Pondicherry". And when Arun's wife comes looking for him at the end, it sure looks like they're walking through the streets of Pondicherry.
Maria: Yes, but I thought she had 2 houses... one in what I assumed was supposed to Goa and the childhood home in Pondicherry.
Amrita: I thought it was the one house - the only one we see. The one she burns down at the end
Maria: My take was that she lived there as a kid, with Papa dearest, but that she had been living elsewhere later in life. And with all the Portuguese names, I just assumed Goa. Though true enough, the Portuguese were in Kerala too, so who's to say you can't find Portuguese names in Pondi as well. But in the credits they mentioned Coorg.
Amrita: Yeah, the names are confusing but I didn't get the impression there was a second house. Maybe I wasn't paying attention enough? I feel this is a movie where you can easily get confused or miss things. As for Coorg, that explains the look of her plantation house but I think we're supposed to imagine it's the same place. I think VB was opting for a look and feel thing rather than nailing it down to a specific location.
Maybe that's also because they call her Saheb and there's all this reference to the house being a kind of living museum chock full of antiques collected by various rich Johanneses through the centuries and usually, the trope for characters like that, the eccentric lady of local manor, is that they and their house are one and the same. They're linked together, which is why the house burns, thematically speaking
What made you think there was a second house?
Maria: When I saw the photo on the wall, I thought it must be that they were living somewhere else in the "present", because otherwise it would seem odd to have the name of the location on it, if you were still living in the same town or city...
Amrita: Can't argue that.
Maria: But anyway, I didn't mean to get us hung up on that detail. Given how so many French are Catholic, it could as well be that she lived in P'cherry the whole time.
Amrita: What did you think of the Russian?
Maria: Ugh. That was the weakest story for me. You could see she did like all smart women do by a certain point and say "Why do I need to be married?" But I guess, if nothing else, he was an excuse to get the horny old man into the story, the next bakra. And that Darrling song seemed to be given very short shrift, after all the exposure it got in the ads. What did you think of the Russian episode?
Amrita: Nothing about it made much sense to me. It was like a comedy break. Why does he pursue her? Why does a Russian spy choose a woman who has NO useful ties whatsoever as a cover? And then press her to marry him when she doesn't want to? He said something about how he couldn't stay in the country, but if he was a diplomat and helping the Indians with the nuclear tests, then why wouldn't the two governments find a way for him to stay as long as needed?
I didn't understand any of it. Maybe I spaced out for a minute there?
But again, Vishal slipped in little details that was so true - Indian students in the 90s going to Russia for medical degrees. So many kids went.
Maria: Yes, agreed.
Amrita: It's like that scene from the John Abraham segment where the record executive asks, "What-series?" because he'd never heard of T-series, which then releases O Mama as O Mata - it made me laugh and laugh, the whole thing because it was so spot on for that time period on so many levels.
Maria: Ha ha... Ok, and on to the horny cop.
If it's true that Mohanlal did turn down the role, it's a pity - I would have LOVED him in that part!
Amrita: I'm kind of glad he did. I'm sure Mohanlal would have done a great job but now I've seen Annu Kapoor in it, I can't imagine anyone else. He was so slimy and despo.
Maria: And again, I was surprised by the bed scene - PC on top, Annu Sir grunting and climaxing.... my goodness, all quite new to me in a Hindi film, but really well done by Bhardwaj.
Amrita: Yup, yup. And death by Viagra is lulz.
What did you think of Naseer?
Maria: Hmmmm, I had mixed feelings. I mean, he makes it all look effortless, and I guess that's a given with him.
Amrita: I thought he was the weakest of the bunch with that ridiculous accent!
Maria: But this role was, to me, like a darker, less funny version of the hippie-dippie role he did in that film starring Aasif Mandvi, Today's Special. Also, his role/story felt rushed.
Amrita: Yes, it all took place overnight. And how freakin' stupid is Susanna to swallow that story about inheriting his estate?
Maria: True.
Amrita: With which we come to Susanna. What did you think of Priyanka?
Maria: I was pleasantly surprised. I haven't seen all of Fashion or Kaminey. So, my main memory of her prior to this is from Bluffmaster, in which she was fine in her role. But I thought she was damn good here!
The deadpan expression as she watches the cop leave after his first sleepover with her was just one of many great little glimpses.
Amrita: I thought she was great until the second half when she's telling Arun about the Naseer track and all of a sudden she slips into her kitten voice and that just ruins it for me.
Probably why I hated Naseer's track as well.
Maria: What a terrific character Susanna is, no?
A murdering wife who takes care of the men who do her wrong AND drinks when she damn well pleases. Brava!
Amrita: I loved that scene in which Arun tells her she's scary now and she laughs and tells him that she's found someone to love her as she is... thing is Susanna's always had people who loved her as she is. Like Arun and Auntie and Khan and Gunga. And they know how scary she is on the inside.
Maria: Hmmm, yes, but all the men she loved, wanted her for something else.
Amrita: Arun is the sole survivor because he sees her as she is, loves her in spite of it, but refuses to let her fuck with him beyond a certain point while simultaneously forgiving her for trying to do it. And perhaps he's the only man who could love Susanna because she raised him to love her.
Maria: Did that not strike a false note? The fact that he wouldn't sleep with her when he had the chance?
Amrita: Well, that scene where she propositions him threw me off. I don't understand it from either one of them. What was that about?
Was it her trying to re-exert her control on him because she really did OWN him before he left for Russia, and he was able to step back because he'd spent years away from her and had built sufficient distance to now recognize that things were off key?
Except, Susanna's always had a sort of creepily maternal instinct where he's concerned - aware of his feelings for her, manipulative and dismissive of them, but not seriously reciprocating. And she's not slutty either. She's not sleeping with men all over the place. She is very deliberate in her choice of men, for whatever unfathomable reason.
So, what the hell was that?
Maria: Well, I took it as her feeling vulnerable.... believing her looks were going. The way she kept asking him "I haven't changed, right?" And he was there, at hand, and she thought he'd never pass up the chance since he'd always been crush on her.
To me, she was not really thinking of any consequences - she was just desperate for the affirmation & love.
Now, what's the deal with the spider!? You think if he hadn't come along, Susana would have had her way with Arun?
Amrita: I thought it was a clumsy metaphor
Maria: Yes, a bit too obvious, but I think at one level he wanted her, yet the spider was a wake-up call, maybe not even that it could be considered quasi-incestuous to bed her, but on a more practical level, could he end up as a future victim of hers?
Amrita: Possibly. He was a victim of hers in one sense - they all were. She was responsible for all their deaths directly or indirectly. Except for Gunga, who presumably died offscreen or something after Arun carried him off. But even he had to pay a price.
Maria: And yet, Junior seemed to have gone on to a normal and perfectly fine life.
Amrita: Coz he left and bottled it all away. Which suggests he wasn't entirely healthy in the head department.
Maria: What did you think of Konkona Sen? I read someone refer to her as "shrill" - which I don't see.
Amrita: She was fine. I mean her role was to basically express shock and play The Wife. If my husband went walkabout over some old lady who was a serial killer, I'd be freakin' shrill too.
Maria: And what about the music? Did you love it? Just feel "meh"?
Amrita: I LOVED it.
I was a little meh about how they used the tracks with each love story having its own soundtrack but he managed to mix it up pretty well. I laughed and laughed during O Mama; Bekaran was haunting; and Darrling was fun and interesting. How about you?
Maria: I really liked the start of Oh Mama.
Oh and we must discuss the 7th husband! What price Susanna and Him doing their whirling dervish bit together?
Amrita: Can I tell you? I laughed. Flat-out roared. I don't think mine was the reaction they were hoping for.
Maria: I must say, I was thinking to myself if that were another religion being depicted, I would have anticipated cinema halls being threatened or set on fire...
But you know those loose-living, boozehounds who love Jesus. They won't mind! (Or so the thinking goes)
Amrita: It was also an unexpectedly religious ending to a very gory movie.
Maria: I thought it was a bizarre and yet somehow fitting end to the story.
Amrita: I mean, would this play in American evangelical circles do you think? Susanna, a girl from India, tries everyone including Hindus and a Muslim and finally falls for Jesus?
Maria: Well, but she loved Jesus all along, no? And hewed quite tightly to the Catholic bit, even though she had her nagin temple and a stint in J&K. Always had the cross and the beads. Always came back to the family chapel....
Amrita: She briefly converted in Kashmir for Irrfan. And we never saw her do anything in the chapel other than get married and attend funeral services, no? Although she does fiddle around with a rosary from time to time, like in that scene before she pounces on poor Arun.
Maria: But she does mention Him several times, no? It could also be a function of her aging, like so many others who get more religious as they get closer to their own graves...
Amrita: But yeah, Whirling Jesus was a bizarre but fitting end to this story as you say
Maria: And you know, even with the cross and the beads and returning to the family chapel... it reminds me of what people say so often about Hinduism: that it's not as much a religion as a way of life. Maybe her Catholicism was just a comforting, familiar series of rituals and accoutrements that she returned to again and again.
But I did enjoy the twist of Susanna becoming a bride of Christ, and twirling with Jesus, like Meg Ryan's character with her mother in You've Got Mail.
Amrita: Ahahahah! Again, not the reference they were looking for probably!
Maria: Tee hee! The priest was played by Ruskin Bond, did you see that?
Amrita: Oh, was that him? I couldn't pick him out of a line up so no, I didn't notice.
Maria: Yeah, he did an interview in TOI or somewhere about the role.
So, would you recommend the film?
Amrita: I would, but only to select people. I can absolutely see a lot of people not being on board for completely different reasons. I think a lot of my guy friends wouldn't care for it because it's too tapped in to the female psyche. A lot of my girl friends wouldn't like it because it's too violent. And a lot of my movie loving friends wouldn't like it because it's pretty uneven.
But the people to whom I would recommend it to, would probably really like it. I don't think anybody would love it though.
Maria: You got ek dum big bunch of fussy friends, girl!
Amrita: TRUTH, sister!
What about you?
Maria: Yes, I would recommend it, but with caveats.
Like you, I can imagine some people might like parts of it, but also find it uneven. Which I do too, but for me, the majority of the parts (the secondary characters, the music, the dark humor, the frankness in the language and the physical, and Priyanka and Neil and Irrfan) make it worthwhile, even with the negatives (the Russian, the hurried Naseer story).
And cheers to young Master Shah for a strong debut, and many, many cheers to Vishal Saab for always having such kick-ass women characters!
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* Talks' success at risk if largest opposition group quits (Adds U.N. comment, paragraphs 11-12)
By Isabel Coles
DUBAI, July 18 (Reuters) - Bahrain's government expressed regret on Monday that the country's largest Shi'ite opposition group, Wefaq, planned to pull out of a national dialogue, but said political talks would continue with or without it.
The Gulf kingdom's Sunni rulers launched a national dialogue on July 2 to discuss reforms and address grievances after a four-month crackdown that began in March and crushed weeks of pro-democracy protests led by the Shi'ite majority.
A walkout by the influential opposition group could damage the dialogue's chances of reaching national consensus as sectarian tensions continue to simmer in the kingdom.
Protests have erupted almost daily in Shi'ite villages ringing the capital Manama since Bahrain lifted emergency law in June. Tension had been rising as demonstrators increasingly demanded that the opposition quit the talks.
The National Dialogue's spokesman, Isa Abdul Rahman, said Wefaq could rejoin the talks if it changed its mind.
"Should any participant choose to exclude themselves from the process, the door will remain open for them to return to the talks. Regardless of any participant's decision to leave the Dialogue will continue," he said.
Wefaq said on Sunday it would withdraw because its views were not being taken seriously in talks it accused of being dominated by pro-government representatives. That decision still has to be ratified by the movement's higher council.
Wefaq and six other political opposition groups, which were invited to take part in talks, have complained that their proposed political reforms would never be put into effect because the opposition received only 35 out of 300 seats at the talks.
Wefaq, which held more than 40 percent of seats in the country's elected lower council before it resigned in protest in February, was given five seats at the talks.
The government has defended its apportioning of representatives, saying it wants the dialogue to include all Bahrainis, whether they are involved in politics or not.
The United Nations said on Monday that Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon believes authorities in Bahrain need to create the right conditions so that as many people as possible, including Wefaq, can participate fully in the dialogue.
That would enable the dialogue to lead to "the kind of reforms that the Bahraini people are looking for," U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky told reporters in New York.
Bahrain is seen as a fault line for tensions between Iran and Sunni Gulf Arab countries wary of protests spreading to their own Shi'ite minorities. The government has accused the opposition of pursuing a sectarian agenda with backing from nearby Shi'ite power Iran, charges the groups deny.
Mainstream opposition groups such as Wefaq have called for a more representative parliamentary system and greater powers for the elected lower council, whose powers are neutered by the upper Shura council, appointed by the king.
But hard liners calling for the abolition of the monarchy have gained popularity since the crackdown.
Dialogue spokesman Abdul Rahman said he was disappointed Wefaq had not stuck with the talks.
"It is sometimes harder to stay and help shape the solution than to walk away. Now is the moment to heal divides and unite behind a shared vision of Bahrain's future," Abdul Rahman said. "We consider al-Wefaq's contribution to the dialogue as central to its success thus far."
(Editing by Paul Taylor and Will Dunham)

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In last night's debate he listed measures he opposed but voted for, like No Child Left Behind.
"It was against the principles I believed in, but you know, when you're part of the team sometimes you take one for the team for the leader and I made a mistake," Santorum admitted.
"I wonder, which team he was taking it for?" Romney fired back.
Santorum, meanwhile, charged Romney changed his stand on abortion in a new ad to run in Michigan.
With the focus on Michigan, President Obama put up an ad there saying he saved U.S. automakers.
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Feb 24, 2012, 5:25 PM EDT
Blake Griffin won last year's dunk contest in an exciting and memorable way that most think will be difficult to top by any of the contestants participating in the event this year. Jumping over a car isn't something we see every day, and last year, JaVale McGee said he had no shot to top it unless he jumped over an airplane next.
This year's group of relative unknowns — Paul George, Jeremy Evans, Derrick Williams, and Chase Budinger — are going to have a tough time keeping the event interesting if they don't bring some serious creativity to the Amway Center on Saturday night.
We caught up with Griffin Friday morning at the Rising Stars Challenge practice, where he had some advice for the contestants, commented on Jeremy Lin (that's going to be a theme this weekend, unfortunately), and let us know what his favorite hoops movie is (again, All-Star weekend is a media free-for-all, so lots of "wacky" questions).
- lebronsinsecurity - Feb 24, 2012 at 6:10 PM
Advice from Blake: Use a prop(car) that the company sponsoring the event manufactures = Automatic win, even if you were out dunked
- md23rewlz - Feb 24, 2012 at 6:11 PM
I guess I will be the one to post the obligatory "Blake Griffin's "winning" dunk last year sort of sucked" comment. But seriously, it did.
- chiadam - Feb 24, 2012 at 6:28 PM
It totally did. If you're going to dunk over a car, dunk over the roof. He dressed up an average dunk with a car, a fatty fat teammate and a choir. Yep, he roped God into his nonsense. And then the puppets danced. The ESPN seals barked. And a champion was crowned.
- Justin - Feb 24, 2012 at 6:27 PM
I agree with the above posters. It did suck. Do you think if you keep telling us that it didn't suck maybe we will forget it did or something? So if they want to beat it just do a dunk. If you want to see really cool dunks you have to go on youtube and watch ones from like 10 years ago. No props or any of that crap.
- jimsjam33 - Feb 25, 2012 at 10:37 AM
I don't agree with the purist above . The slam dunk contest was put on for entertainment and last years contest was brilliant . Javale McGee was the unfortunate loser , but his dunks were appreciated and remembered for their greatness . Blake Griffin put on a show , a spectacular show . Yes , he jumped over a car and threw down a thunder dunk . That's entertainment it draws interest and high TV ratings . It's worth mega bucks to the producers , sponsers , and the media . The LA Clippers have been sold out for 28 games in a row. Before Blake Griffin you never saw the Staples arena even half full .
Did it suck ? Only to those who hate the Clippers and Blake Griffin . If it had been a Laker you would be hearing a different tune .
For all the purist you have this years contest to see generic dunks . I bet you won't even turn the TV on it will be so dull .
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I recently started "voxing" with 9 other educators around the country. If you're unfamiliar, voxing is when you use the free mobile app "Voxer" to participate in a "walkie-talkie-like" conversation with your friends and colleagues, only it's more like a group text on your phone. The conversation is chronological, archived inside the app, allows you not only to use your voice, but to send pics and text where you choose
. The video below is taken from the Voxer Youtube page, and gives you an idea of how the app operates.
I've spent a lot of time on Twitter over the last 3+ years developing a personal learning network, and as I look across my timeline today, many of those profile pictures are much more than an image that spits out great resources and ideas each day – these people are friends, colleagues and folks I have built real relationships with. Truthfully, I consider my PLN an extension of my staff and my family. I find myself doing a lot less DMing (direct messaging) on Twitter and more voxing as of late. Being able to use my own words (beyond 140) and hear the tone, empathy, and extended articulation in the voices of others around the world helps me connect on a deeper level on a wide range of topics. The best part about it is that I can participate whenever is convenient for me, but can always go back and see what I missed.
Just in the last month, our Voxer group of edus have discussed 1:1, blended learning, school assemblies, homework, science fairs, cursive, discipline issues, graduation requirements, common core, teacher/leader burnout, social media to engage families and the community and probably 50 other areas of our daily work with students, staff & families. The truth is, voxing with those in your PLN is like creating, in real-time, your own personal podcast that you can decide who is involved, when you listen/respond and what topics you cover. For me, I do most of my voxing safely in the car on my morning and afternoon commute. I can see a lot of potential for school leadership teams, grade level teams, HSA-PTA-PTO teams and other educators trying to collaborate and communicate on a given topic while trying to respect everyone's busy schedules. Emergency situations where you wish you had your walkie-talkie – another great spot to use Voxer to connect with colleagues who need to be aware. What if your principal provided you a verbal "vox" when walking out of your classrooms in lieu of waiting until the feedback form was provided to you. That verbal tone might mean a great deal to a teacher looking for immediate feedback from his or her lesson. One more quick idea: there are so many great education chats that occur weekly. Our #PTchat team of mods now "vox" during the week to discuss the upcoming chat and ideas for future chats. How does your moderating team communicate from week to week? How might we deepen these rich conversations beyond 140 characters?
Below, listen to a 10 minute vox from some of my colleagues around the country on how they are using Voxer in their own learning organizations as teachers, school principals and superintendents. The vox was used to kick off last week's EdCamp Philly session that Billy Krakower and I led on "DM to Voxer."
As easy as the tool has been to learn from others in education, I now use Voxer with my wife during the day, and other family members as it's just nice to cut down on texting and hear the actual voice of those I care about. In the comments below, I invite you to share other ways you can see parents, teachers, students, school leaders using Voxer to communicate, collaborate, learn and share. Already voxing? Be sure to add your name to the growing #eduvoxers gDoc.
Special thanks to the original Voxer group of PLN pals who got me started on Voxer: Tom Whitford, Aaron Becker, Ben Gilpin, Jeff Zoul, Jimmy Casas, Joe Sanfelippo, Tom Murray, Curt Rees & Tony Sinanis.
*Also see Educators Use Voxer to Share Challenges & Victories Daily and Can Voxer Be A Viable Tool in the Classroom?


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Time in pocket key for Cavaliers
If you are going to have a successful passing game, the biggest thing is you have to give your quarterback enough time to throw.
That was one of the first things East Rutherford head football coach Clint Bland recognized following the Cavaliers' 47-28 season-opening loss to Erwin Friday night.
"We can't give him (quarterback Austin Hollifield) time to throw," Bland said.
Chalk it up to a young offensive line, new quarterback or, whatever, but Hollifield only connected on 10-of-22 passing against the Warriors.
That only included two passes for minus-6 yards in a dismal second half.
Hollifield's longest completion came on a 28-yard touchdown pass to senior wide receiver Travis Waldroup-Rodriguez in the second quarter.
Other than that, Hollifield had just three other passes that were more than seven yards for the entire game.
For Bland, it all comes back to providing enough pass protection.
"We have to put this behind us and move on," Bland said.
No one can blame Hollifield. He made up for the broken protection with his scrambling ability, including a 34-yard run and a 1-yard touchdown run in the second quarter.
When he did have time to throw, he found his receivers with solid accuracy.
"I saw some good things," Bland said. "Austin threw the ball well … when he had time to throw."
Defensively, the Cavaliers (0-1) were scorched by Erwin's little-known running attack.
Senior running back Kelman Simpson hit East Rutherford's young defense for 155 yards on 19 carries — most of which came in the first half.
Additionally, East Rutherford had 87 yards in penalties committed by the Warriors to help.
"We had to limit our mistakes and keep our penalties down," said Erwin head coach Mike Sexton. "We try to play really fast and we have to cut down on our mistakes."
The only problem with getting the penalties is the Cavaliers had difficulty converting those penalty yards to points — scoring just once on drives where the Warriors gave multiple penalties.
One positive from the loss for East Rutherford was the ability to see younger players in game situations.
Junior running back DJ Miller came in late in the game and had two carries for 37 yards — including a 25-yard touchdown up the middle in the fourth quarter.
"We saw some younger kids could work out and play a little bit," Bland said. "I did see some fight late in the game."
Now, the Cavaliers face a daunting, three-game road swing starting Friday night at North Gaston. The road trip includes the South Mountain Athletic Conference opener at Kings Mountain with a game at Tuscola sandwiched in-between.
"We just need to come back to work," Bland said. "It's tough to play on the road and we're playing good teams on the road."


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I think this is a great-almost refute to the original by Vincent Maher. I am just getting in to the blog scene and have been wondering how it all really works. As a student in education, I have been researching and learning about different means and ways of using technology in the classroom. I think that blogs, using your information, could be incorportated into classrooms as a tool for learning as well as outside of the class work. This too could be turned into some sort of project for older students. I loved reading your humerous responses to the original text, and your sarcastic advice could and should be taken and put into practice. Thank you!
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Geaux Saints!
Stay Classy New Orleans!
Thanks, times-picayune for completely jinxing the Saints with an injury bug now. I absolutely shudder to think where the team would be headed if god forbid #9...god I can't even say it...
simms, you have got to be kidding me! he has always, and i mean ALWAY sucked! and overhyped. his dad was overhyped by the NY media too for ages, the got ran a parcells "make no mistakes, hand the ball off, bore the other team to death, and kick a field goal for win" system. doesn't take a genius or a stud-athlete QB to run that kind of system. As for Chrissy, I'd take Major Applewhite any day over that blonde new jersey product, even now.
hey i've got a great idea, why don't we just get the Tulane track team to try out for CB positions?
....nonetheless, i'm still totally pumped about our prospects for a SB this season!!!!
Geaux Saints!
Bigdaddy1955, what are you smoking?!!
It takes more than speed and height to be a cornerback or the league would be chock full of shut-down corners. Besides quarterback, the position of cornerback is the most underated and most difficult on the field. It's perhaps the most cerebral and athletic combination of talents. They have to understand coverage packages, recognize opposing offensive formations, read the quarterbacks eyes, key on their assigments and keep up with receivers step for step while running backwards and try to break-up if not intercept passes. You expect some guy, who hasplayed the receiver position his entire collegiate and professional carreers (and perhas h.s. and pop-warner as well) with not a single snap practicing on the opposite side of the ball, to just pick up the CB position over the course of training camp?!!! especially one that hasn't been adept at catching the ball when he knew where it was going??? hahaha, you'e on crack!
Jacksaw...lmaof, good one.
assuming dallas or tennesse want a receiver that actually catches the ball i don't think they'd be interested in devery for much of anything. you can't just horde guys that aren't producing because you're afraid another team might use him. he's got a family, bills to pay, a future to invest and we don't need him anymore. so let him go to atlanta or whereever and try to earn a living on a crappy team willing to take chance on him. it's time for the saints to move on quit letting lousianans' nostalgic over his LSU days prevent him from leaving.
hopefully, with our added depth at LB our OLB's and DB's won't be fooled by the screens or traps. to McCray's side. ; )
does anyone else find it odd that practices are scheduled at 4:20pm? are they trying to prevent players from toking up at that time, haha!
I wish the Saints would just cut Devery Henderson and let him move on early enough to make another team, for his own sake. It's been five years and he still hasn't shown any consistency. What good is his "speed" if he's not producing on the field? Give it a break tiger fans, he was inconsistent as a receiver back then as well! Let Him Go or bring back the BEER MAN too!!!
Geaux Saints!
It's time for all you lsu fans to own up to your mistakes and quit giving Devry these 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th chances just because he was a perceived "great player" on some "majestic" tigers' team over 5 years ago. he had a couple of big catches that made the high-light reels in college and that's it. He's got speed and he's ALWAYS been inconsisitent. Time to MOVE-ON. If we're gonna keep receivers around for the sake of nostalgia then the Michael "Beer Man" Lewis should be the only one still playing in a Saints uinform.


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Updated 9/4/2014. Publishers are giving out their 2014 "best of" awards with BMW Motorrad USA picking up 16 of them (Update: Now 17, see below). This includes six awards from Motorcycle.com, four from Motorcyclist, three of the top ten spots from Cycle World, and a Rider magazine "2014 People's Choice Motorcycle of the Year." For… Continue Reading »
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Last night, Oreo hit it big with a real-time marketing effort that became the talk–and tweet–of the Super Bowl. The "you can still dunk in the dark" tweet was retweeted almost 15,000 times. Oreo's Twitter following, meanwhile, increased by about 8,000. The blackout post garnered nearly 20,000 likes on Facebook. And Oreo went from having 2,000 Instagram followers pre-game to 36,000, with more than 16,000 pictures submitted by consumers as votes for "Cookie" or "Creme," tying to their Super Bowl ad-spurred seven-week contest for the best part of the Oreo, a Mondelez International brand.
But while the power outage certainly wasn't anticipated, the real-time marketing effort wasn't just a shot in the dark.
VP of Cookies at Mondelez International Lisa Mann, who has led marketing efforts for Oreo overall for the past two years, including promotion around its 100th birthday last year and the Super Bowl ad, explained that it was the result of a carefully architected social-media strategy that made the brand ready to respond to whatever the Big Game threw its way.
"The way this all came about is because of the Super Bowl spot and because we were coming off the 100th birthday, we chose the Super Bowl to kick off this campaign of, which part of the cookie do you love more? Because we picked such a big stage, we decided to have a social media command center, so that we could respond real time to buzz," Mann said. "Of course we couldn't have anticipated the blackout, but in that command center we had brand people, agency people." The command center was within agency 360i's Tribeca offices and included representation from all of Oreo's agencies–Wieden + Kennedy, Mediavest, and Weber Shandwick as well as 360i. Mann was dialed in; several members of the brand team were in the room as well. Emails flew among Mondelez senior marketing leaders.
"Because everyone was together, they had everyone in place to jump on a real-time marketing opportunity, which was, how would Oreo see the blackout? And Oreo saw the blackout as an opportunity to dunk in the dark."
The instant Super Bowl ad followed Oreo's 100-day program called "Daily Twist" that began in June and ended on Oct. 2–100 days of real-time posting of Oreo's responses to what was happening in the news, such as the Mars Rover landing and the anniversary of the ATM.
"Oreo is a real-time brand, a real-time marketer, and we are a part of our culture and the fabric of our community," Mann said.
"It is our objective to be as relevant today as we were 100 years ago when we launched. We have a recipe for success and we make sure we protect that and keep that alive for our consumers. We know our role of the brand is about keeping childhood innocence alive–seeing the world through Oreo eyes."
So how will all of this social-media groundswell impact sales? "Stores weren't open late last night, so we'll have to see how things go…we'll just have to see how it plays out," she said, adding that the Cookie vs. Creme debate will continue with an in-store promotion that encourages consumers to vote. "When you text in-store, you have an opportunity to win prizes in grocery stores throughout America."
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England boss Roy Hodgson will rest Steven Gerrard and start Frank Lampard in tonight's World Cup qualifier against San Marino, according to reports.
Defensive injuries ensured there would be changes to the side that beat Moldova 5-0 last time out, but Hodgson's selection also reflects the impending trip to Group A leaders Montenegro.
Joleon Lescott is one of four players just a booking away from missing Tuesday's clash in Podgorica but the depleted ranks mean he partners Chris Smalling at centre-back, according to Sky Sports sources.
Jermain Defoe joins Wayne Rooney in attack, despite also being a caution from suspension, but the two other vulnerable players - James Milner and Ashley Cole - sit out.
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Ashley Young provide width in a 4-4-2 formation against a San Marino side who, with just one victory in their history, will aim to simply keep the score down.
Theo Walcott will miss the games against San Marino and Montenegro after being ruled out for up to 10 days by a groin strain.
England team: Hart; Walker, Smalling, Lescott, Baines; Oxlade-Chamberlain, Lampard, Cleverley, Young; Rooney, Defoe.
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