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Tuesday, January 25, 2011
More Absurdity from Canada
Chris Burton of On the Forecheck, has a good piece that can be seen right here. Willes' piece is just another example of wishful thinking by members of the Canadian media. They have no clue what it's like down in Nashville. They have no clue about anything that goes on down here at all.
Willes claims that Weber might want to leave Nashville because he'd "like to win." Well, before I go any further, let's take a look at the history of the Vancouver Canucks. The Canucks entered the NHL in 1970 as an expansion team. They have never won a Stanley Cup in the 40 years that they've been in the league. They have been to two Stanley Cup Finals in 1982 and 1994, losing both times. They are the only franchise currently in Canada that hasn't won a Stanley Cup. The reason I'm saying this is because Willes implied that the Canucks would be interested in Weber. If what he says is true, and Weber would "like to win", I don't think going to a place where zero championships have been won in 40 years would be very appealing. Willes really just tried to make this seem credible by quoting Paul Fenton, who is the assistant general manager of the Preds. He took quotes from Fenton that really had little significance, and tried to blow them out of proportion.
Shea Weber is the captain of our team and really seems to love it here. Weber hasn't said anything about wanting to go somewhere because he'd "like to win." Weber wasn't quoted in the story at all. In fact, as Chris Burton points out, Weber has commented on the contract situation. He simply said "I'm not going anywhere."
It's things like this that make me strongly dislike Vancouver. The unusual thing is that, with the exception of Dan Hamhuis, I really don't have a problem with the players of the team. It's the fans and the media. If you'll think back to 2007 when our franchise's security was in doubt, people from Vancouver were ripping on the city of Nashville. Ironically, the next year the Preds made the playoffs as the 8th seed. Vancouver missed the playoffs as the 9th seed.
As citizens of the greater Nashville area, and Predators fans, there's really just one thing we can do. Just ignore it. It's gotten to the point where it's not worth the time to even comment on it. The only reason I'm even writing a post about this is just to make people aware of where this news is coming from, and how unreliable it really is.
The Preds will play Wednesday night(Not Thursday night like Willes thinks. Go look at the photo of Shea Weber in the story and read the caption. Thumbs up for getting the day of the game wrong). Hopefully the Preds rip into the Canucks.
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- AnonymousJanuary 26, 2011 at 1:28 PM
After reading your article I felt a need to respond. Every team would love to have Shea Weber . He is a great talent. He also happens to be from B.C. and has a large fan following We have watched him grow up and become a real Quality person as well as a very good nhler. Why does it make you so angry that other teams would want him? It should be taken as a compliment .Nashville is a very good ,well coached team and a worthy opponent for anyone.Tonights game should be great if both teams play with intensity like they can . I am a Canuck fan from Vancouver. I have never been to your city but would love to someday.Please Do Not judge all of the fans in Vancouver by the sillyness of some of our local so called sports writers . Thanks for listening.ReplyDelete
Let me first say that I love the city of Vancouver and Canada as a whole. And I have absolutely no problem with fans, teams, or writers wanting players like Weber. I understand all of that. The problem I have is implication that Weber won't be able to win here. Nobody can possibly know if he will or won't. I really appreciate you taking the time to read and comment my friend.ReplyDelete
Actually, the Ottawa Senators have never won the Cup either. They've only made it to the finals once, and lost.ReplyDelete
Yes, it's true that a team named the Ottawa Senators won the Cup in the early 20th century, but that is not the same franchise.
It's also true that a team from Vancouver won the Cup in the early 20th century (the Vancouver Millionaires). While the current Vancouver Canucks organization recently purchsed all the rights to the old Millionaires team, no one would claim the Canucks now have a Cup to their credit.
Ottawa hasn't beem in the league as long as Vancouver so their futility streak is not as long. Toronto last won a Cup 3 years before Vancouver even joined the league, so they are (barely) more futile.
Dude, don't paint all vancouver fans with the brush given you by ed willes of all people. I don't know a single actual hockey fan who would pee on willes if he was on fire. You could make that same prediction with just about all the writers from either the Province or the Sun, with a very few exceptions. And as far as people ripping on nashville, myself and anyone I know who've actually been there have nothing but good things to say about your city. The internet is full of troll-ish punks who hurl out insults whenever there's some questions about the viability of any particular franchise (see: Coyotes, Phoenix), but anyone who is actually a functional member of society is unlikely to participate in that.ReplyDelete
@fromthefields, thank you very much. You're right about Ottawa never winning(To be honest they just slipped my mind).ReplyDelete
@twitchy67, I appreciate that. Thanks for reading and commenting.
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Re: There will be poetry!
This design is based on a poem by Gustavo Adolfo Becquer, a famous 19th century Spanish poet who wrote "Rhymes and Legends" on which is the poem. Below I show the translated poem and a link to the original.
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Re: I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
I don't think I realized before seeing the entries in this derby how difficult it must be to represent a poem visually.
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Re: The Highwayman
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The gentleman spider wins it.
Re: Fog by Carl Sandburg
One of my favorite poems:
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Carl Sandburg
However, it does bring back memories of handwriting assignments in Elementary School.
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paxdomino wrote:Thank you :-) Have you heard the version sung by Loreena McKennitt? Gives me goose bumps!
I love Lorenna's version! It's beautiful. The only real shame is that she left out 3 stanzas, one important to the plotline of the poem. alas.
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Re: That is not dead which can eternal lie...
"The Nameless City" is a horror story written by H. P. Lovecraft in January 1921 and first published in the November 1921 issue of the amateur press journal The Wolverine. It is often considered the first Cthulhu Mythos story.
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So far there's nothing yet for my favorite poem, Ozymandias. If only I could draw...
tarmawolf wrote:"The Nameless City" is a horror story written by H. P. Lovecraft in January 1921 and first published in the November 1921 issue of the amateur press journal The Wolverine. It is often considered the first Cthulhu Mythos story.
This is a freaking AWESOME shirt, but it's not a poem.
I'm glad you like my shirt and are a fellow Lovecraft fan.
The shirt refers to these specific few lines of poetry found in "The Nameless City", and not to the entire story itself. From Wikipedia: The protagonist of "The Nameless City" states that "it was of this place that Abdul Alhazred the mad poet dreamed of" the night before he sang his unexplained couplet: "That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die."
Some of my favorite poems are found tucked away within larger literary works rather standing alone, from stories like The Hobbit and The Jungle Book.
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This has to be one of the most beautiful shirts on this site. I would even buy this on an Anvil shirt! (But AA would be better - hint, hint!)
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This shirt is poetry.
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bluesplot wrote:Love you design, it's just beautiful.
By the way, Cummings NEVER gave titles to his work; so they're all cataloged by the first line of each poem.
Yup That would explain it lol, I have seen some poems with names of his, guess I never realized it was just the first line used a title =P also explains why it was so hard to find the full poem and not just the individual quote
Thank you! I felt that a simple design will go well with the simple joy expressed in the poem.
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Re: The Writer
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Aw thank you omarfeliciano! No longer in the fog, but I appreciate you saying so!
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Thanks lonelypond! The weather is a bit cold right now where I am, but hoping for more spring weather soon =)
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Rothfuss, Joan. "Mark Rothko." In Bits & Pieces Put Together to Present a Semblance of a Whole: Walker Art Center Collections, edited by Joan Rothfuss and Elizabeth Carpenter. Minneapolis, MN: Walker Art Center, 2005.
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Mark Rothko's journey toward a signature style has been characterized as one of struggle and ambiguity that, after two decades of effort, resolved itself in the simplest possible way: luminous, pure abstractions that are now benchmarks in the history of postwar American art.1 His earliest works, made during the 1930s, were muted, often melancholy urban scenes and landscapes. These were colored by his involvement in left-wing political committees and activist groups such as the Artists' Union in New York; equally important were his studies with Max Weber at the Art Students' League and his long friendship with Milton Avery. Both his mentors painted in a figurative style heavily informed by the ideas of Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, but during the 1930s Rothko also encountered Surrealism, which was to prove the more salient influence for the next decade. He was especially captivated by the automatist abstractions of Joan Miró, and (along with fellow New York School artists Barnett Newman and Adolph Gottlieb) cultivated an interest in myth, Greek drama, tribal arts, and the art of children.
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Rothko's fervent desire to make his art the vehicle for transcendent experience led him to systematically eliminate representation and even allusion from his images. He forced his Surrealist-inspired forms of the 1940s to gradually dematerialize until, by 1950, he had distilled them into soft blocks and bands of luminous color arranged in simple, flattened compositions. He abandoned evocative narrative titles and began simply numbering his works, letting the content reside completely within the visual information. After 1950 he also ceased publishing statements about his aims and ideas, confiding to Newman that he had "nothing to say in words" about what he was doing on canvas.5 But he made it known that he was not a formalist: his paintings were experiences and ideas in their own right, not illustrations of experiences and ideas, and certainly not mere experiments with color and space. What Rothko was after were visceral, emotional, intimate encounters with objects that offered no less than complete physical and emotional immersion.
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See David Anfam, Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas (New Haven: Yale University Press; Washington, D.C.: National Gallery, 1998), 71. ↩
From Rothko's notes for a letter (cowritten with Adolph Gottlieb) to Edward Alden Jewell, quoted in Dore Ashton, About Rothko (New York: Oxford University Press, 1983), 75. ↩
From the letter referenced in note 2, reprinted in Diane Waldman, ed., Mark Rothko: 1903–1970 (London: Tate Gallery, 1987), 77–78. ↩
Ritual was one of fifteen oils Rothko included in a 1945 solo exhibition at Peggy Guggenheim's Art of This Century Gallery, which had opened in New York three years earlier with a mission to show work in difficult modern styles such as Surrealism. ↩
Quoted in Michael Compton, "Mark Rothko: The Subjects of the Artist," in Mark Rothko: 1903–1970, 50. ↩
Nine of the Seagram paintings were given by Rothko to the Tate Gallery, London, where they were installed in a room of their own. The five Harvard canvases are installed in the university's Holyoke Center. ↩
The Rothko Chapel was commissioned by Dominique de Menil for a new chapel for the University of St. Thomas, Houston. Rothko worked closely with the project's original architect, Philip Johnson, on plans for the building, which was intended to be a Catholic chapel but is now described by its administrators as a "modern meditative environment" open to "people of every belief." ↩
Rothfuss, Joan. "Mark Rothko." In Bits & Pieces Put Together to Present a Semblance of a Whole: Walker Art Center Collections, edited by Joan Rothfuss and Elizabeth Carpenter. Minneapolis, MN: Walker Art Center, 2005.
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On Saturday I went for one of my hikes into the hills above Bursa. This time I took the metro to the west. It emerges to the surface out a way from the center and I could pick a station point to head upwards. As before, one need only follow the streets up (no, there is not a grid pattern around here) until they run out, and then likely as not there is a continuing path.
Well, it wasn't a great hiking day through very interesting scenery as it turned out--but for two incidents.
At one point I was approaching a dip in the trail in a quasi-open area. Ahead of me, down the trail came running a creature. It got to within perhaps 40 feet of me when it pulled up short, sensing me, regarded me for about a quarter of a second, then turned to its right and disappeared in an instant.
Its body was about the size and a half of an adult cat. It had long, very agile legs, and pointed ears that were again about half again long as a cat's. Its tawny color was pretty much the same as the dry dirt of the path on which it was running. I made a guess to myself that it was sort of like a fox.
Later, when I text messaged G. (yes, we're still "together") she supplied the Turkish name tilkli. I looked it up on the Turkish Google site (google.com.tr), and sure enough there were pictures of enough varieties of the species to confirm my notion. Almost as noteworthy to me was the fact that in as much hiking as I do, on trails and off, in America and elsewhere, I rarely see wild animals. So this was quite enjoyable for me--as sudden and hard to encapture in memory as it was.
Much of the hike was wandering about private property trying to get to an objective I saw, but couldn't find a way to it. However, at one point I was walking down a tractor trail when I saw ahead of me about 30 yards, in this case, a young girl in a garden hutch. At about the same moment she saw me. I stopped, thinking that I would have frightened her, and sort of held my hands down at my sides, palms forward--to me, anyway, a gesture of "I mean no harm." Regardless, she jumped up and came bounding up to me and with a bright smile, saying something in Turkish. She was probably about 12 years old.
I said I spoke very little Turkish. She sort of mumbled, I think, she didn't speak English. I tried to ask if there was "a way" (Yol var mi?) She either didn't know what I was saying, or had no answer. She tried something else that didn't take with me, then said something about her mother (anne, I got), then went racing off into the vegetable patch.
Mom emerged and basically told me to keep going on down the tractor trail. I turned to go, but not before the comely girl gave me the universal "wait a sec" sign, then ran to a house a few feet away and returned handing me three cucumbers.
On Monday the guy came for the rent at noon. So I figured I still had time to get to the otogar and catch a bus for an exploratory trip west to the city of Balıkesir.
Curiously, there was no mention of Balıkesir, a large city, in the Lonely Planet Turkey guide. Now I know why.
I got off the shuttle bus from the otogar to the city, and just picked a direction to walk into the scene. Passed the first hotel, walked along seeing about three others, then returned to the first. An old guy led me to what I call the "typical Jim room:" first floor, fronting on the street, probably with a street light outside. Why do they do this?
This time, however, I objected, and asked for a room in the back. He went and got a key to the top (4th floor) back room. Perfect, almost. It had a roof deck out back. That was fine.
But, the bathroom floor was about seven or eight inches above the room floor. And if that wasn't enough, the top of the door jam was a couple of inches lower than normal. I grazed the top of my head going in. And, being the slow learner I am, really scraped it coming out. I mean really scraped it. In fact, I peeled back some skin.
There was no paper in the bathroom. (As I've written before, bring your own). Well, I didn't want to invest my stash. I'm not even sure I thought about it. I'm sorry to say that I had to liberally spot the towel I found in a cabinet.
I went out for a walk in the gathering darkness, hoping to dry things out, and have a look around. The only thing I found of interest to me was at a plumbing fixture store, the apparent child's bathroom commode in the form of a kangaroo. I don't know if there is in Turkish an alliterative encouragement as to me the seemingly obvious English, "Poop in the pouch."
(Maybe that's why LP snubbed the place).
The next day (after spotting the pillow) I elected to try a mini-bus west to the town of Dursunbey, a couple of hours due west of Balıkesir. From there I just made the assumption there would be a mini-bus to Bursa. Whatever.
The road was beautiful, in a certain way. However, I was in the window seat on the right side, one row back from the front. In front of me were two young women, one the mother of a very young child. I don't know when a person transitions from baby to childhood. But this kid was pre-babble. All he could do was shriek. He may have been glorying in the thrill of a bus ride 'cause he wasn't crying--just repeatedly shrieking. It was a very, very painful, piercing sound. And the mother and friend were doing little to quell it. She was even bouncing the kid such that in some moments he was looking, and shrieking, right into my face! I pulled the window curtain across the back of her seat, but to no real muffling effect. (Nor was the kid very attractive, either).
When I got off the bus in Dursunbey my eardrums were palpably dulled and numb. But my omni-present tinnitus was in high excitement.
I have written before that the main reason I am not going to emigrate to Turkey was coming to grips with the idea that I would not be able to learn Turkish well enough to have the personal freedom I do speaking English in my home country. This notion hit me first when I confronted immediately some minor hardware and supply issues relating to my new living situation. But, how long would it take me to gain proficiency in Turkish; to acquire the vocabulary, verb tenses, and cultural nuances to spontaneously say: "Lady, shove a tit in your kid's mouth and shut him the f___k up!!"
As luck would have it, this day the time was well past the two-a-day mini-buses to Bursa. The one hotel in town (This is a very rural area. Where families bring their traveling member and themselves to the bus station in tractor-towed harvest flatbeds) was beyond what I wanted to pay for a room in a town--the kid notwithstanding--I didn't want to spend any more time in. So I elected to turn around and head right back to Balıkesir--to the amusement of the guys at the ticket counter.
Back in Balıkeshir, a couple of more hours later, I again overcame my ambivalent undecidedness and elected to--what the h--go on to the coastal town of Ayvalik after all, even though I didn't think I'd get to a place to have a swim.
In Ayvalik the otogar is only 1.5 km from town, and that I don't mind walking even in the heat, and especially after sitting a lot in a bus. Plus, the pension I elected to try was "in a gorgeous house that once belonged to a French ambassador to the sultan." Plus, plus, it was also the nearest.
It was booked.
The proprietress, unbidden, telephoned another, and they had a room. It was just a couple of blocks away, and, as it turned out, was the LP "Author's Choice." At 30YTL (+/-US$25), high season, I got a nice little room on the top floor, with a bed and a couch and a small table. There was an all but noiseless fan, of absolutely no disturbance, that I kept running all night. It wasn't so hot an humid as to be necessary, actually, but it did help.
I went out for a fish dinner. There are a lot of restaurants rimming the quay. And, there were boats coming in with party harties making a lot of noise. I went down a back street and into an isolated fish restaurant, just hoping it would be ok. I was the only patron. To start with. The guy had to start up the grill. And, I don't even think it was the main cook that got things going. The fish had a little bit of sushi in the middle. But, the salad was very good and nutritious; and with a beer it was a nice, ok, quiet dinner at sunset.
Back at the pension, after dark, I went out on the veranda next to my room, looked out past the minaret and steeple of the now mosque, formerly old Greek church, out over the Mediterranean Sea, and saw a long while line, sliding down toward the sea; one of the clearest and most prolonged shooting stars I have ever seen.


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The school announced details of the agreement on Wednesday.
The 52-year-old was named Friday as LSU's new offensive coordinator, replacing Greg Studrawa. Studrawa will return to strictly being the Tigers' offensive line coach.
Formerly offensive coordinator with the Baltimore Ravens, Cameron's pay next season would be equivalent to that of LSU defensive coordinator John Chavis.
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The Encino Judo Club was founded 45 years ago dedicated to promoting judo and jujutsu. We have taught thousands of students at dozens of locations throughout Southern California. Self-defense and Judo programs have been carefully designed for all interests. Expert instructors combine martial arts techniques with modern teaching methods to ensure a fun and safe learning environment.
Our members have included national and world champions, world-class coaches, and international referees. We regularly host Judo tournaments, self defense seminars, special clinics, demonstrations and certification courses offering a full range of opportunities for both beginners and advanced. The Encino Judo Club is a member club of USJA, USJF, and Nanka Yudanshakai. We also have been very involved in a program for the visually impaired in cooperation with the Braille Institute of America and the US Association of Blind Athletes.
See photos of our classes, or learn more about Judo at the Judo Information Site created by Neil Ohlenkamp. To order Judo t-shirts and gifts please see the Encino Judo Club products.
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Here are a few of the special judo clinics conducted by the Encino Judo Club. In 2011 we flew in two outstanding guest instructors from France for a clinic -- The Weekend of French Judo. In 2008 the Encino Judo Club hosted a clinic with Jin Iizumi and Gary Goltz. In 2007 the Encino Judo club hosted a newaza clinic with Harold Sharp and Toshikazo Okada. In 2006 the Encino Judo Club hosted a clinic with former World Champion AnnMaria DeMars (and her daughter) where she showed some judo games and techniques like her favorite armlock. This was followed by a club tournament. Here is a report of a USJA Grassroots Clinic conducted by Neil Ohlenkamp in 2006.
We now offer official Encino Judo Club t-shirts, sweatshirts and other merchandise. Here is a photo from the Ventura County Star showing the Judo demonstration at the Oxnard Buddhist Temple Obon Festival. The photo below shows a big ura nage throw during the demonstration.
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I've been musing on the similarities of the work of two innovators, Mike Palmer and Mel Disselkoen. As I read it Mike's method of splitting his least productive colonies in the flow and, requeening with chosen stock parallels Mel's splitting of colonies in July for brood break and resultant mite control.
What I have read here on Beesource and at MDA Splitter has me convinced that the way forward is overwintering nucs.
Has anyone else established what is the most effective length of a broodless period to knock back the mites? Mel has an example of 22 days with a queen emerging from a cell on day four after the nuc was made.
Do the experienced proponents of overwintered nucs use also use the "nuking" process as primary mite control? Thoughts anyone?


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One hundred works from nearly eighty area high school art students will be exhibited as part of The Hyde Collection's Fifteenth Annual Regional Juried High School Art Exhibition from Sunday, April 30 through Sunday, May 28, 2006. The exhibition, sponsored by Tribune Media Services, is an exciting showcase of talent and creativity by art students in grades 9-12 from southern Essex, Warren, Washington, and northern Saratoga Counties. This unique show allows participating students to experience the preparation, submission, and jurying process crucial to their artistic development.
Approximately twenty school districts submitted over 900 works on jury day. The selected works, including drawings, paintings, jewelry, ceramics, metal work, photography, and electronic media will be featured in the Museum's Charles R. Wood Gallery. The jurors were: Professor Regis Brodie, Art Department, Skidmore College, and Director of the Summer Six Program, Skidmore College; Trudi Smith, Saratoga artist and retired New York City teacher, and Associate Professor Tom Santelli, Art Department The College of Saint Rose.
An Open House and Awards Ceremony will be held at The Hyde Collection, 161 Warren Street, Glens Falls on Saturday, May 6, 2006 at 1PM. All students will be recognized and a few will be honored with the following special awards: Best in Show – one work selected by Randall Suffolk, Hyde director; Curator's Award – two works selected by the Museum's curator, Erin Coe, and five Honorable Mentions chosen by the Jurors. The exhibition committee co-chairs are: Tom Myott and Michele Kirchner.


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Two Bedroom apart in Recoleta
Size65 m²
Floor No.5(with elevator)
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- Lockable room
- Towels
- Elevator in building
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House rulesCheck in and check out times are flexible as long as we do not have other guests arriving or leaving on the same day. If that happens, check in will be at 2 PM and check out at 10 AM or earlier if you need to. The building has a room where we can keep your luggage if you need to do so.
Check in and outs during weekends/national holidays or between 8 pm and 9 am add USD 15 . You need to pay USD 250 or EUR 200 as a security deposit during the check in. You will get this deposit back in full at the check out if no items are missing or broken
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Wonderful apartment, located very close to great restaurants, subway, shopping, loved the hopitalidad host both frameworks, and employees of the apartment (security, cleaning, etc ..). Apartment very bright with a wonderful view from the terrace and roof, which enjoyed the pool, gym, sauna. Highly recommended this apartment.
Maravilloso apartamento, situado muy cerca de estupendos restaurantes, subte , tiendas , me encanto la hopitalidad tanto del anfitrion marcos , como de los trabajadores del apartamento ( seguridad , limpieza .. etc). Apartamento muy luminoso , con una maravillosa vista desde la terraza y de la azotea , la cual disfrutamos mucho de la piscina , gym , sauna . Muy recomendable este apartamento.
Unfortunately I can not write a positive review.
The house, the apartment, the organization would be super.
But the apartment is dirty. Abgewetztes ekeliges sofa.
Everything full of long hair, dust, dirt, mold in the "Bad"
Partially rotten food residues prior visits.
Smoking apartment.
With partly new furniture and basic renovation / cleaning
could be the better.
So, never again!
Leider kann ich keine positive Bewertung schreiben.
Das Haus, die Wohnung, die Organisation wären super.
Aber die Wohnung ist schmutzig. Abgewetztes ekeliges Sofa.
Alles voller langer Haare, Staub, Dreck, Schimmel im "Bad"
Zum Teil vergammelte Lebensmittelreste vorheriger Besucher.
Raucher Wohnung.
Mit zum Teil neuen Möbeln und Grundrenovierung/Reinigung
ließe sich das bessern.
So, nie wieder !
It was very nice to speak French so far from home nous.Marcos responded quickly to our host questions.Bon. Thank you
Ce fut très agréable de parler français si loin de chez nous.Marcos a répondu rapidement à nos questions.Bon hôte .merci
This was a beautiful apartment in a great location. The building felt safe, with a secure gate and a security guard. It was an easy walk to Santa Fe and major train/bus lines. The kitchen was great for cooking. We enjoyed the lovely balcony almost daily with it's view of the city. Marcos made arriving and departing easy. The only negative was a noisy nearby train line but we got used to it.
We really appreciated both this flat and the surroundings. A very useful balcony with sun in the afternoon. Fully equipped with all you need. Two bathrooms are always useful. A nice view from large windows both upstairs and downstairs makes the flat look bigger. A very well kept pool on the top floor, with a gym just beside, makes your living space feel great. A very sunny spot with nice view. The surroundings are calm with good, not too expensive, family driven restaurants. Our host, Marcos was the best you can get. We love this place and already want to be back.
Excessive top apartment with a very good roof area for bathing and relaxing! Very easy access to the "Subte" just around the corner! Likeable helpful host! Highly recommended!
Spitzenmäßiges Appartment mit einem sehr guten Dachbereich zum Baden und relaxen!
Sehr gute Anbindung an die "Subte" gleich um die Ecke!
Symphatischer hilfsbereiter Gastgeber!!!
Sehr zu empfehlen!!!
Nice apartment with all basic equipment you might need and clean. The location is great, just around the corner of the metro and trains in a beautiful district!
In summer it must be really nice to use the pool. Unfortunately we visited Buenos Aires in winter. ;)
2 weeks in beautiful Buenos Aires.What can else can we say ?
Magnifique ! :-)
Loft is functional and clean. Small wink at the balcony. Nice place to have breakfast and enjoy the morning sun while BS AS is waking up!
Location of this loft is just perfect, too. Train und subway station just at minutes walk.
Parlermo has so much to offer in terms of restaurants,cafés, little shops and green areas. I can only recomand!
Marcos is absolutely great. He was very helpful with our accomodations. He responded whenever we called with any difficulty. He help orient us to Buenos Aires. The aprtment was cozy, clean and suited our needs to a tee.
Located in a new neighborhood, with michos bars and restaurants near the metro and train. Safe Zone. Loft cozy and practical. Incredible views from the pool
Situado en un barrio nuevo, con michos bares y restaurantes, cerca del metro y tren. Zona segura. Loft muy acogedor y practico. Increíbles vistas desde la piscina
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Time travelling eh? It's a tricky business. And it's a subject that movies have long been pretty well obsessed with, despite the logistical minefield.
Even the characters in Rian Johnson's brilliant new film Looper (which opens here next week), find it causes chaos.
"This time-travel crap fries your brain like an egg," says Jeff Daniels' crime boss character Abe - and he's from the future.
The thing is, Looper pulls it off beautifully, in no small part because of the engrossing plot line and some great turns by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Emily Blunt, and Bruce Willis. Despite the blurry lines and confusion, Johnson also manages to make it deeply affecting - and that ultimate question of whether you can change events or whether history has already been set, is nicely toyed with for the audience.
But there are plenty of past examples where the time travel doesn't quite work, which begs the questions: what makes it entertain and engage; and what makes it distracting and confusing?
Most audiences love the notion of being able to go back in time and "re-do" particular events in their own lives with the benefit of future knowledge, and of being able to change their fate. That is why seminal favourite Back To The Future really struck a chord - to be able to go back 30 years, bumble around, yet still somehow save your friend and make your family much happier was an exciting prospect.
Time travel can be a great comic device too - people unexpectedly finding themselves out of place in a different decade provides easy comedy set-ups. But if it's going to be funny, it has to stay light (like Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure) and not get tangled up in the potentially serious ramifications of temporal anomalies. When it gets serious, time travel has to be a convincingly real prospect in order for audiences to invest in the characters and not spend the entire film mentally drawing diagrams on the back of popcorn cartons, trying to follow along.
So when it comes to sending a "hero" back in time to save the world from some catastophic event (like in Bruce Willis' previous time travel outing, 12 Monkeys) or prevent a future terrorist attack (as in the clever-clogs Source Code) sometimes the thrill of a film can end up disappearing as more and more time gets spent trying to make all the aspects of the continuum link up and reconcile.
Which is why Looper is such a cool addition to the genre - it takes time travel as a key device but doesn't get mired in explanations or rules. It comes away as a stylishly dystopian view of the future - where human nature is still the biggest conundrum.


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Dammmmmmmmm that is some build!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ok, how about a few pics of the internals?????
I have studied your pics, Could you please post more on the photobucket or here?
The belts hold th rounds well enough? What are some of the problems/areas of concern?
Dammmmmmmmm that is some build!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ok, how about a few pics of the internals?????
That's nicely done - how is accuracy after you've run a belt through it?
Have you considered using a heavier barrel, like a Bren?
I saw that on the MG42 forum - and I must say that is absolutely AWESOME! My hat's off to you - that is something I'd like to do myself.
Good job!
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Project Pink - the Pink and Blue AK-74:
Not gonna lie, that is all kinds of awesome.
I want to install a longer barrel in order to keep the pressure in the barrel/gas piston up longer to more reliablly cycle the bolt carrier all the way back. Right now, it moves back just enough to cycle but not always. I have opened up the gas port but the pressure drop off too quickly because of the shortness of a standard AK barrel. The barrel appears longer but thats because there is an extension on the front that is larger than the bore and a point of pressure loss.
You must have read my mind - I was going to suggest a longer barrel, but thought it might be taken as nitpicking
Now that you mention it!!!....
You could do well, I think, with a 24" barrel which is a standard RPK size. Give it a longer piston, like a PSL/Dragunov piston length, and give it a longer gas tube. That would increase velocity a considerable amount, something like around 200-400 FPS, and that would no doubt help.
You could use any 7.62x54r sized barrel, which means any Mosin barrel rebuild option that is out there. Chamber it up and lathe it to the right diameters, "done".
The problem - obviously - is that you have is that the 7.62x39 just doesn't have that much power, and you've reverse-engineered a recoil-operated system into a gas-operated system. That in itself shouldn't be too great a concern, considering the FN Minimi, and the Stoner 63, and the fact that there is a 5.56 version of the MG-42 which was a Spanish design IIRC.
Do you know the muzzle velocity?
I wonder if you can benefit from a muzzle booster, like an AKSU (aka Krinkov) style booster? Would be worth a try, that expansion chamber was designed to boost velocity on the AK-74 based design, so in theory it would help your design as well.
I also wonder if you have the "hammer hump" problem? That seriously robs my .308 bullpup of power to the point that it doesn't always reliably feed. Grind the hump and try it- you never know.
Also, what kind of piston do you have? Home made? Original factory? Reason I ask is that if the piston bleeds enough gas by being narrow enough to make a poor seal, it will let enough gas bleed-off to affect functionality. I had an AK-74 malfunction due to a piston I made being too narrow diameter. Possibly a longer piston head would help, I don't know.
Yes I've put a great deal of thought into this before!!! I really do want to build something similar to yours.
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All good points. An RPD works with the low power 7.62x39 so this should work also if I get all the variables right. The gas tube is made from a 12 ga. barrel and the gas piston has only .005 to .010" diameter clearance and is about .875 " long. The stroke is as long as the beltfeed cam allows and the gas releaf hole in the gas tube is right at the end of the stroke. I wish I knew what the internial pressure curve v.s. barrel length is. I am not sure that the standard gas block placment from the breach is optimal or needs to move either forward or aft. I do need to make a tighter seal of the gas tube to the gas block though. I am defentlly loseing some pressure there. The hammer cocking hump is just large enough to assure reliable re-cocking. I have some thought of installing a roller on the hump to reduce friction. I have only tried it with the 124 gr bullets but I am going to try the 154 gr soft point bullets. The heaver bullets should have higher pressure if the powder charge is the same.
I was hoping someone would break down and do such a build.
It looks positively great!!


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Next to Palace Schönbrunn, Apt. 3 (4-6 persons)
Size55 m²
Floor No.2(with elevator)
- Family/child friendly
- Kitchen
- Washer/dryer
- Parking available
- Internet/WiFi
- Elevator in building
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|Pillergasse, 1150 Vienna, Austria
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My goal is to support your stay in Vienna with every possible comfort and service you would require to have a perfect stay!
The apartment is divided into a kitchen, living room, two bedrooms with four beds (in total), bathroom with bathtub and separate WC. Two mattresses are available, free of charge, to accommodate an additional two children if needed.
Amenities include washing machine with dryer function, dishwasher, microwave, iron, iron board, hair-dryer, high speed wireless internet, 42inch flat screen TV, iPod docking station, CD player, DVD player, netbook available in case you do not want to bring your own laptop, DVD library with both children and adult movies, two Austrian mobile phones will be at your disposal so that you can avoid expensive roaming charges, free calls within Austria!
Parking is available free of charge 24/7 outside the building. I'd be glad to book you a taxi in case you arrive by plane. I have a special rate for my guests. If you arrive by train I will send you separate details of how to come to the apartment.
As the owner I will greet you personally at the apartment to show you around. I will be available during your stay to answer any questions you may have. It is my aim that you feel comfortable and well taken care of during your stay.
You'll be within walking distance to Austria's most visited tourist attraction, Schönbrunn Palace (600m). Here you can enjoy the Imperial Gardens, the famous Zoo and, in the summer, the relaxing outdoor swimming pool area.
Underground line U4 Meidling Hauptstrasse (100m). It will take you 10 min to get to the city centre on this direct line in 5 stops to the State Opera. Bus 57A can be found 200m away from the property; if you prefer to travel by bus there is a direct line from the apartment to the city center/Hofburg Winter Palace.
The shopping street Meidlinger Hauptstrasse is just a couple of walking minutes away and offers a wide range of different shops. Organic food shop (BioMark) and other food shops (Hofer, Penny Markt, Zielpunkt) are reachable within a few minutes.
I am looking forward to having you as my guest!
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I have 8 apartments in the same building, which makes it easy to book for groups as well!
The apartments are:
Next to Palace Schönbrunn, Apt. 1 (2 bedrooms, 4-6 pers)
Next to Palace Schönbrunn, Apt. 2 (studio, double bed, 2 pers)
Next to Palace Schönbrunn, Apt. 3 (2 bedrooms, 4-6 pers)
Next to Palace Schönbrunn, Apt. 4 (studio, loft bed, 2-3 pers)
Next to Palace Schönbrunn, Apt. 5 (3 bedrooms, 8-10 pers)
Next to Palace Schönbrunn, Apt. 6 (studio, loft bed, 2 pers)
Next to Palace Schönbrunn, Apt. 7 (2 bedrooms, 6 pers)
Next to Palace Schönbrunn, Apt. 8 (studio, double bed and loft bed, 4 pers)
In addition I have Apt. 9 right in the city centre:
Next to Palace Hofburg, Apt. 9 (2 bedrooms, 6 pers) - this apartment also has a small GARDEN!
House rulesThis is a non-smoking apartment. Thank you for your understanding and for smoking outside if you are a smoker!
Pets are not allowed.
House shoes (slippers) are available for indoor use.
Thank you being respectful of the neighbors by avoiding loud music after 22h/10pm during weekdays and after 23h/11pm on weekends.
Airport pickup: €28
|Monthly rate for up to 4 guests
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Reviews of this property
We had a good stay. Appertment was clean end well furnished/equiped. The four available beds were good as well. The extra bed for the fifth person was not that good.
The owner gave nice extra advise and is really involved.
Location of appartment near Underground is perfect.
Accommodation was very clean and well located. Ingela has welcomed us so warm and welcoming. Great landlady. Equipped with 2 MOBILE PHONES Topp, Wireless Topp.
Unterkunft war sehr sauber und gut gelegen. Ingela hat uns so warm und herzlich begrüßt. Tolle Vermieterin. Ausstattung mit 2 handy´s topp, W-Lan topp.
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A nice appartment for a very good price!
Metrostation was 3 minutes walking. 10 minutes later you enter the beautiful city center of Wien. The host is very friendly and helpfull.
In the appartment a lot of information and citymaps.
No complaints, only a positive experience!
Actually we were in flat 10. We had a pretty nice stay and felt very comfortable. The flat is well equipped, super clean and quiet. There are even 2 mobile phones in the flat which can be used to call each other for free. It is perfectly located to the subway "Meidling Hauptstrasse". The correspondence with Ingela was very pleasant and always prompt. We do highly recommend Ingela and the flat. Br, Georg
We were met by Ingela on time and very friendly on the agreed date. She has the apartment and the environment explains in great detail. The apartment was newly renovated, it is clean, nicely decorated and everything you need is available. In the area there are many small shops. The metro is 3 min. away, the city center 5 stops. This apartment is highly recommended!
Wir wurden von Ingela pünktlich und sehr freundlich zum vereinbarten Termin erwartet. Sie hat uns das Apartment und die Umgebung sehr detailreich erklärt. Das Apartment wurde frisch renoviert, es ist sauber, schön eingerichtet und alles Notwendige ist vorhanden. In der Umgebung gibt es viele kleine Geschäfte. Die U-Bahn ist 3 min. entfernt, das Stadtzentrum 5 Stationen. Dieses Apartment ist zu empfehlen!
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we were in Apartemet 2, for two people, it was just great, nothing was missing, also gave eszwei provided phones and a netbook with free internet access. 50 meters entfernd the U.Bahn station with which the city is to be attained in a very short time (incidentally, the best means of transportation
the city) .Kaffee`s, supermarket and Speiselockale within 200 meters to about 250 meters erreichen.In the famous Schönbrunn Palace, was at the Christmas market there, even recommended! I think if I go back to Vienna
Come, I'm going to book this apartment again.
wir waren im Apartemet 2, für zwei Personen, es war einfach super, es fehlte an nichts, außerdem gab eszwei bereitgestellte Handys und ein Netbook mit kostenlosem Internetzugang. 50 Meter entfernd die U.Bahn Station, mit der die Innenstadt in kürzester Zeit zu ereichen ist (übrigens bestes Fortbewegungsmittel
der Stadt).Kaffee`s, Supermarkt und Speiselockale im Umkreis von 200 Meter zu erreichen.In Ca.250 Meter das berühmte Schloss Schönbrunn, war auf dem Weihnachtsmarkt da, auch zu empfehlen! Ich denke wenn ich wieder nach Wien
Komme, werde ich mir dieses Apartement noch einmal buchen.
We had a wonderful stay at this flat during our autumn vacation, all thanks to our fantastic host. The apartment is spacious, clean and has all the facilities that one could possibly need during a vacation. It has one large bedroom and two small ones, so there was ample space for the four of us, 2 adults and 2 teenage kids. It was convenient with 1 bathroom with a toilet and an additional smaller toilet. The flat has also a large well-equipped kitchen. There is an air-conditioner in the living room. That worked fine as well.
The apartment is very conveniently located, very close to the Meidling Hauptstrasse U4 underground station. The city centre could be reached from there by the U4 line in about 15 minutes. There are also a number of supermarkets, cafes and restaurants in the neighbourhood. So no problems with shopping for food and other necessities.
Lastly, but not the least, we were privileged to have a fantastic host, Ingela. She is efficient, considerate and, given her concern for details, ensures that her guests have a pleasant stay in her flat. Ingela very kindly provided us with 2 free local mobile phones and a computer in addition to maps and other necessary information in a ring binder so that we could get around without any inconvenience.
If we visit Vienna in future we would very much like to rent the apartment again. And we would certainly like to recommend the apartment to any potential visitors who would like to have great stay in beautiful Vienna !
Very good, abundant and practical features (. Eg two stand ready end mobile phones for communication between different members); all in very good condition. Location of the apartment at metro station conveniently. Very personal responsiveness and care provided by the landlord.
Sehr gute, reichliche und praktische Ausstattung ( z. B. zwei bereitsteheende Handies zur Kommunikation zwischen verschiedenen Mitgliedern); alles in sehr gutem Zustand. Lage der Wohnung an U-Bahnstation sehr günstig. Sehr persönliche Ansprechbarkeit und Betreuung durch die Vermieterin.
I have lived in the apartment for 6 days with my two girls (14 and 16). It is located in a residential area on the third floor (elevator to the fourth present a downstairs). It is 5 minutes walk from the subway station (awesome!) And therefore easily accessible. We were very pleased at the personal device and the welcome surprises (fruits, chocolate, Road, documentation). The beautiful, well-equipped kitchen (dishwasher!), The huge living room and both bedrooms have been a good experience. It was clean and really great furnishings: TV, i-pad, tea towels and terry free disposal, even shower gel and shampoo, water in the fridge, spices, tea, coffee, oil, etc. etc.! The two handsets (free calls within Austria) came to us very good, so the girls were always available on solo tours. Unfortunately we have not met in person Ingela (she was twice there when it was not us), but it has accompanied us by SMS and great support (taxi order, etc.). A small minus is the somewhat small bathroom - but with washing machine (which we did not need however). We were thoroughly satisfied and I can recommend the apartment highly. The guestbook entries confirm our good impression. Thank Ingela and all the best!
Ich habe die Wohnung für 6 Tage mit meinen beiden Mädels (14 und 16) bewohnt. Sie liegt in einem Wohnquartier im dritten Stock (Lift in den vierten vorhanden, eine Treppe runter). Sie ist 5 Gehminuten von der U-Bahnstation entfernt (genial!) und daher sehr gut erreichbar. Wir haben uns sehr gefreut an der persönlichen Einrichtung und den Begrüssungsüberraschungen (Früchte, Schokolade, Strassenkarte, Dokumentationen). Die schöne, gut eingerichtete Küche (Abwaschmaschine!), das riesige Wohnzimmer und die beiden Schlafzimmer haben uns gut gefallen. Es war sauber und wirklich toll eingerichtet: Fernsehen, i-pad, Geschirrtücher und Frotée zur freien Verfügung, sogar Duschgel und Schampoo, Wasser im Kühlschrank, Gewürze, Tee, Kaffee, Öl, etc. etc.! Die beiden Handys (gratis Telefonie innerhalb Österreich) kamen uns sehr zu Gute, so waren die Mädels auch auf Solotouren immer erreichbar. Leider haben wir Ingela nicht persönlich getroffen (sie war zwei Mal da, als es uns nicht ging), aber sie hat uns per sms begleitet und grossartig unterstützt (Taxis bestellen etc.). Ein kleiner Minuspunkt ist das etwas kleine Badezimmer - dafür mit Waschmaschine (die wir allerdings nicht brauchten). Wir waren rundherum zufrieden und ich kann die Wohnung wärmstens weiter empfehlen. Die Gästebucheinträge bestätigen unseren guten Eindruck. Danke Ingela und alles Gute!
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Ten Columbia University student-athletes were named to the 2017 Winter Academic All-Ivy League Team, league officials announced on Wednesday morning.
Annapolis, Md. Members of the Columbia men's swimming team competed at the three-day ECAC Championships in Annapolis, Maryland from Friday, March 3 - Sunday March. 5 in a 20 team field, finishing fifth with 346 points.
NEW YORK - On Friday, March 3 Sunday, March 5 the Columbia women's swimming team will compete in the ECAC Open Swimming & Diving Championships hosted by Navy at Lejune Hall.
Providence, R.I. Sophomore Mary Ashby continued her impressive showing on the final day of the Ivy League Championships on Saturday, Feb. 18 with another podium finish in the 100 freestyle. Ashby clocked in with a fourth-place finish time of 49.72 (NCAA B'), just tenths of a second near the program record time of 49.63.
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Reading the obituaries for Steve Boros, who died Wednesday night (Dec. 29) at the age of 74, defines his major league career thoroughly. For those who grew up as a Detroit Tiger fan during that era, he was considered one of the most promising players to move into a starting role.
What people might not realize is that Boros was one of the few players to make the jump to pros from the collegiate ranks. The Flint, Mich., native made that jump from the University of Michigan.
As U-M player, Boros hit .324 in his first year on the team in 1956 and followed that with a .381 average the next season. He helped Michigan to a 36-16 record in those two seasons and was named an All-Big Ten conference third baseman in 1957. H ewas named to the Michigan Hall of Honor in 1996.
He left the Wolverines for the pros after the 1957 season and started a career in sport that would span decades.
"Those things just didn't happen in those days," said former Detroit News baseball writer and retired Detroit Tiger public relations man Dan Ewald. "He stood out from the players of that time. He was a cerebral individual, a deep thinker."
The players of those days were curious about having Boros on the team. They had no idea how a collegian was going to fit into the major leagues. It didn't take long for his future teammates to find out.
"He was a gentleman and one helluva guy," added Ewald.
And while he honed his baseball talents at Michigan under the tutelage of the legendary Ray Fisher, it was probably his time in the classroom that made him the big name in baseball well beyond his playing days.
Boros was an excellent communicator. Not only did he understand the game of baseball, he could easily explain it.
It was easy to see why he managed the Oakland Athletics in 1983 and '84, plus the San Diego Padres in 1986. He also coached for four other major league teams before rejoining the Tigers as the minor league field coordinator, director of player development and special assistant to the general manager.
Of course, the story everyone talks about was what he did for the Los Angeles Dodgers. As an advance scout, he noticed that A's reliever Dennis Eckersley threw a back-door slider on full counts to left-handed hitters. Boros noted it and when Kirk Gibson stepped to the plate as a pinch-hitter with two outs in the bottom of ninth in Game 1 of the 1988 World Series against Eckersley, the 3-2 count home run to win the game for the Dodgers is still a legendary round-tripper in baseball lore.
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In 1888, a 15-year-old French kid and a couple of his buddies wrote a script, modeling its gross and laughable anti-hero on a school teacher whom they had it in for. In 1896, when the play finally premiered as a marionette show in Paris, a riot erupted in the theater after the very first word of the show ("merdre") was spoken. Now, a hundred years and some change later, adventurous local thespians revive this sensation in Portland. The play is Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi (King Ubu), a smirking, outrageous, giddily scatological satire of bourgeois urges at their most base, and it is fantastically hammed up under the direction of Tess Van Horn. Its raucous cast of humans and puppets performs the proto-Absurdist comedy at SPACE Gallery on February 4.
The title character is the fat, stupid, greedy, lewd Ubu, played by a monstrously be-paunched Ian Carlsen. Aiding and abetting him is his similarly disposed wife, played by the Phoenix's own Deirdre Fulton, fitted with an equally monstrous rump (prosthetics by costume designer Kate Law are a hoot). The huge-bellied Père Ubu and the huge-assed Mère Ubu spout obscenities, alternately insult and dry-hump each other, and feed guests a taste of Ubu's ass-crack on a spoon. Naturally, they also feel themselves entitled to bigger things in the world, and being named Count of Sodomy just isn't a big enough of a deal for Ubu. So, goaded on by his wife, he schemes to seize the throne of the King of Poland. What follows looks a little like a substantially less likeable Homer Simpson playing the lead in a mash-up of Macbeth, Richard III, and Hamlet.
Ubu is a creature of utter self-interest, devoted to fulfilling his every immediate, thoughtless want. And what fun to watch the diabolically versatile Carlsen have at this entertaining abomination — his Ubu growls with money-hunger and grunts with lust as he struts his huge gut around. As his wanton, tasteless wife, Fulton is marvelously bombastic; together they make the Ubu marriage a rutting, rubbing, snickering tour de force of vulgarity.
Supporting them is a tight ensemble cast whose members play numerous characters and wield locally made puppets (by Ian Bannon, Seren Huus, and Claire Guyer). Everyone in this show is clearly reveling in it, and it's a delight to get caught up in the sheer sophomoric absurdity of their enterprise. Props are winks to the ridiculous, like the oversized cut-outs of meats Ubu gnaws on and the intentionally flaccid cardboard swords. Likewise is staging playfully over-the-top with slapstick, and includes some hilarious slow-mo race scenes (complete with voice effects), and Ubu going to war in a shopping-cart horse, announcing, "I am going to war! And I will kill everybody!"
Regress a little, guffaw along, and project onto Ubu anyone you might have it in for. Me, I particularly relished Carlsen's delicious Jack Nicholson-ish grin as King Ubu tells his court, "Gentlemen, I would now like to proceed to finance."
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