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Popular property highlights
Extended Stay America Columbia - Gateway Drive places you within a 10-minute drive of Historic Savage Mill and Timbers at Troy Golf Course. This 95-room hotel has conveniences like free breakfast, free in-room WiFi, and free self parking. Oriole Park at Camden Yards and M&T Bank Stadium are also within a 20-minute drive of this Columbia hotel.
Free continental breakfast is offered each morning.
The 95 air-conditioned rooms feature kitchens with refrigerators, microwaves, and stovetops. 32-inch flat-screen TVs come with cable channels, and guests can stay connected with free WiFi. Coffee makers, free local calls, and ironing boards are other standard amenities. Weekly housekeeping is available.
Renovated in 2012, Extended Stay America Columbia - Gateway Drive offers a fitness center, free WiFi in public areas, and coffee in a common area. Free parking is available if you drive. Front-desk staff are standing by 24/7 to assist with any requests. This hotel also has laundry facilities.
Property features
- Free continental breakfast
- Free WiFi in rooms and public areas
- Free parking
- Fitness center
Extended Stay America Columbia - Gateway Drive
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
A complimentary breakfast is offered each morning. Public areas are equipped with complimentary wireless Internet access. This Columbia hotel also offers a fitness center, coffee/tea in a common area, and laundry facilities. Complimentary self parking is available on site. A total renovation of this property was completed in June 2012.
Extended Stay America Columbia - Gateway Drive is a smoke-free property.
- Laundry facilities
- Free breakfast
- Free WiFi
- 24-hour front desk
- Number of floors - 3
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Fitness facilities
- Elevator/lift
- Total number of rooms - 95
- Free self parking
- Smoke-free property
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Free Wi-Fi
- Kitchen
- Laundry facilities
- Full-sized refrigerator/freezer
- Refrigerator
- Microwave
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Free self parking
Room Amenities
Extended Stay America Columbia - Gateway Drive offers 95 air-conditioned accommodations with coffee/tea makers and irons/ironing boards. 32-inch flat-screen televisions come with premium cable channels. Kitchens offer full-sized refrigerators/freezers, stovetops, microwaves, and cookware/dishes/utensils. Bathrooms include shower/tub combinations and complimentary toiletries.
This Columbia hotel provides complimentary wireless Internet access. Business-friendly amenities include desks and phones; free local calls are provided (restrictions may apply). Housekeeping is offered weekly and hair dryers can be requested.
- Full-sized refrigerator/freezer
- Stovetop
- Flat-panel TV
- Private bathroom
- Premium TV channels
- Air conditioning
- Phone
- Refrigerator
- Cookware, dishware, and utensils
- Weekly housekeeping provided
- Cable TV service
- Coffee/tea maker
- Free toiletries
- Desk
- Free local calls
- Hair dryer (on request)
- Iron/ironing board
- Kitchen
- Free WiFi
- Microwave
- Shower/tub combination
Where to Eat
Guests are offered a complimentary continental breakfast each morning.
Nearby Things to Do
Recreational amenities at the hotel include a fitness center.
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
Hotel Policies
Check-in time ends at midnight
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Check-out time is 11 AM
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Kids stay free! Children 17 years old and younger stay free when using existing bedding.
- Pets allowed for an extra charge of USD 25 per pet, per day (maximum USD 150 per stay)
- Dogs and cats only
- 2 per room
- Restrictions apply
- For more information contact the property at the number on the booking confirmation
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
No rollaway/extra beds available
No cribs (infant beds) available
A valid credit card is required at check-in for incidentals and damages, otherwise a USD 100 cash deposit per room, per stay will be collected. The deposit is refunded at check-out after satisfactory inspection. If refund is over USD 100, a check will be mailed within 14 days of departure. For more details, please contact the office using the information on the reservation confirmation received after booking.
- Cash deposit: USD 100 per stay
Optional extras
- Pet fee: USD 25 per pet, per day (maximum USD 150 per stay)
- Weekly housekeeping provided; fees apply for additional cleaning
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- Extended Stay America Columbia Gateway Drive
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Children 17 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding. Guests can arrange to bring pets by contacting the property directly, using the contact information on the booking confirmation (surcharges apply and can be found in the Fees section).


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I chase my almost-three-year-old around the bedroom with the batman t-shirt. He busts out of the doorway and sprints for the living room, squealing. "I'm not going to chase you around," I say, even though–let's tell the truth–I'm pretty desperate here. We've got to get in the car to make it to school on time [Read More…]
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If King Wrote Us a Letter Today (a guest post from Grace Biskie)
Throughout the month of February, Patheos has invited its bloggers to contribute to a conversation called 50 Years After Birmingham: Reflections on and from the Black Church. I loved Patheos' idea to host this conversation in honor of Black History Month and wanted our blog to be part of it. As a white woman with [Read More…]
Embodied: Communion and Pregnancy
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Mihee Kim-Kort is whip-smart, kind, and somehow able to get at the nitty gritty of theology in a vulnerable and approachable way. Every time I read her work, I'm challenged by it. And I consider it an honor to host her today. Most of my life, I have struggled with wanting to belong. To [Read More…]
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I've been writing in some other places this week and I'd love to scoot you on over their way. Do you mind clicking? On Tuesday I had the opportunity to share one of my poems at John Blase's lovely blog The Beautiful Due. He's been featuring the poems of several writers and bloggers he knows [Read More…]


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Missoula man pleads not guilty to three robberies
MISSOULA, Mont. - A Missoula man accused of three robberies in one day pleaded not guilty in court Thursday.
NBC Montana told you when police arrested 22-year-old Corey Schreckendgust last month after he allegedly held up a gas station and two casinos.
In court Thursday morning Schreckendgust's attorney asked for more than two months to prepare for trial because of an extensive witness list.
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Monday, 25 February 2013
Symmetric mystery B4 and B5
(color key is in previous posts)
There are some corrections to the strip piecing instructions you will need 4 each of
and eight of
Join together to form the block. B4
This is Block B5
Put one each of these blocks in the bags marked north south east and west.
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Designed by renowned architect Robert E. Cupp, Spanish Hills Country Club's private 18-hole championship golf course features dramatic views of the surrounding mountains, ocean and countryside. At 6,702 yards from the championship tees, the par 71 layout is as challenging as it is beautiful. With five sets of tees for players of all skill levels, this spectacular course can also be very forgiving. Other notable course features include constant elevation changes, many strategically placed bunkers and large undulating bentgrass greens.
To help you perfect your game, Spanish Hills offers an extensive practice facility including a two-tiered grass driving range, chipping green and bunker area. The full service golf shop also provides members with the finest in golf apparel and merchandise along with a professional staff to attend your every need. A full schedule of lessons, clinics and tournaments provide ample opportunities to improve your game and experience the camaraderie of private club membership.
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It's getting tough for migrants everywhere
Violence against migrants has surfaced across the map. Reasons vary from competition over jobs and homes to nationalistic sentiments.
United States
On August 5, Micahel Wade Page killed six people inside a Sikh Gurdwara in Wisconsin, along with a police officer. Page was a supremacist, involved in underground music known as white power music or hate rock.
FBI statistics show that since 2008, hate crimes towards African Americans have increased.
Between 1996 and 2007, hate crimes had never crossed the 70 per cent mark, but in 2008 it touched 72.9 per cent.
South Africa
Violence against migrants from other African nations increased after the end of apartheid in South Africa in 1994.
A 2004 report by South African Migration Watch found that 21 per cent of South Africans favoured a complete ban on entry of foreigners, 64 per cent wanted strict limits on the number of foreigners allowed.
In May 2008 migrants from Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe were attacked in riots that killed 62 people. A Human Sciences Research Council report found competition for jobs, commodities and housing, and nationalistic sentiments as reasons.
Attacks this July displaced 500 foreigners.
Greece is the entry point for thousands of migrants and asylum seekers into Europe. A CNN report says about 300 undocumented migrants arrive in Greece from Turkey.
Under European Union rules Greece must process all claims of asylum, but a dysfunctional system makes this difficult.
A Human Rights Watch report says gangs of Greeks regularly attack migrants and asylum seekers in Athens and other parts of the country. The system discourages victims from lodging complaints. HRW interviewed 59 people who had faced or escaped xenophobic incidents, including 51 serious attacks, between August 2009 and May 2012.
In 2010, violent clashes between migrant labourers and local residents in Rosarno, Southern Italy, led to at least 1,000 migrants fleeing or being removed from homes. The government blamed it on a legacy of uncontrolled migration.
Earlier incidences include the brutal beating of a Chinese man in 2008 in Rome, the beating and setting on fire of an Indian man near Rome in 2009 and the knifing of a Senegalese man in Milan the same year.
A Human Rights Watch report says the focus on immigration issues for political ends has created an environment for open expression of racist and
xenophobic sentiment.
Migrants from Bangladesh are believed to be the reason behind their violent clashes with Assam's Bodo tribe in July which left 77 people dead and thousands homeless. Consequently, more than 30,000 people from North Eastern states fled Bangalore in fear of retaliatory violence.
In 2008, migrant workers from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar were attacked in Maharshtra as a fallout of a clash between Maharashtra Navnirman Sena and Samajwadi Party. Following the attacks, thousands of North Indian workers left Pune, Nashik and Mumbai.
Human Rights Watch
Amnesty International
Human Sciences Research Council
Southern African Migration Project
UNDP Human Development Report 2009 on Xenophobia, International Migration and Human Development by Jonathan Crush and Sujata Ramachandran
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Redmond Starlight Holiday parade entries sought
The Redmond Chamber of Commerce & CVB presents the St. Charles Redmond Annual Starlight Holiday Parade, Saturday, November 30, in downtown Redmond on 6th Street.
The theme for this year's parade is "Run, Run Rudolph" (Christmas song by Chuck Berry). Participation is FREE! All entries must be decorated with lights and ribbons will be awarded to participants, in four categories based on adherence to the theme and originality. Check-in will begin at 3:30 p.m. on the corner of 6th and Dogwood, judging will take place at 4:00 p.m. and the parade begins promptly at 5:00 p.m.
(Dogwood Ave. through Forest Ave.)
Participating in the parade is a perfect way to promote your business or organization to thousands of Central Oregonian's. Entry applications are available at the Redmond Chamber at 446 SW 7th St. or on-line at www.visitredmondoregon.com. Call Karen at 541-923-5191 for more information.


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How Can I Stop Eating At Night- Do You Ask Yourself "How Can I Stop Eating At Night"?
How Can I Stop Eating At Night
If you are one of the many women over 40 asking yourself, "How I can stop eating at night", you are not alone. Many women trying to lose weight struggle with eating late at night. Over time we develop habits, and one of the most frequent habits that people who struggle with weight gain have developed, is late night eating.
Breaking the late night eating habit is important as you attempt to lose weight. If you find yourself in the group of women over 40 who struggle with the midnight munchies, some of the tips below may help you in your journey to lose weight and provide you with the answers you are looking for when you ask, "How can I stop eating at night."
How Can I Stop Eating At Night- 21 Day Break the Habit Program
Many women over 40 have had success in stopping their late night eating cravings by making it through the first 21 days without eating at night. Many studies have shown that a psychological habit can be overcome in 21 days. If you constantly ask, "How can I stop eating at night" it is likely that your habit is of a psychological nature. Your body likely is not craving food, but your brain tells you that it is.
If you have been a late night eater for a number of years, this can be a hard habit to break. The key is mapping it out on a calendar. Set a start date and let the countdown begin. Once you make it through the first 21 days, your brain will stop telling you that you need to eat when you sit down in front of the television at night. Now, instead of eating because of habit, your body will only crave food when it is actually hungry.
Another good idea when going through those first 21 days is to replace your bad habit with a good one. When you settle down for the night and reach for those snacks, do a few crunches or stretches instead. Over time, this will become your habit of choice, and instead of doing something to hinder your goal to lose weight; you will be doing something to help achieve it.
How Can I Stop Eating at Night – Start Eating Dinner at the Table?
Another reason many women over 40 find themselves asking, "How can I stop eating at night", is because they have grown accustom to eating in front of the television. Start eating all of your meals at the table. By having a designated location to eat your meals, you will be less likely to eat in other areas.
You may have heard the saying that you should never bring your work to bed with you. The literal reason for that is because your bed is a place for relaxation and rest. By bringing your work to bed with you, you turn the bedroom into a place for work. Subconsciously, your brain begins to associate the bedroom with the stresses of work and you think about work when you try to sleep instead of getting rest.
The same holds true for eating. If you eat your meals in front of the television, when you sit in front of it later, your brain is going to think you should be eating. Eat enough meals in the living room, and you end up being one of the many women over 40 who ask, "How can I stop eating at night" when you find your self watching your favorite shows in the evening. If your goal is to lose weight, one of the best things you can do, is to start eating all of your meals at the table.
How Can I Stop Eating at Night – Exercise Earlier in the Day
One of the major problems that many women over 40 encounter, is having to exercise late in the evening. If there is any way possible, you should try to exercise earlier in the day. After you finish a strenuous workout, your body is going to crave food. You have just finished burning many calories and it is only natural that your body wants to replace them.
By exercising late at night you are setting your body up to crave food late in the evening. Squeezing your workout in a bit earlier can go a long way to making sure that the work you put in to lose weight, is not sabotaged by your body's need to replenish the calories burned. If you have ever asked, "How can I stop eating at night" and you do most of your exercise in the late evening, moving your routine to earlier in the day can help keep those late night cravings at bay.
Constantly asking yourself, "How can I stop eating at night" can be very frustrating. The tips above have helped many women over 40 succeed with their weight loss goals. If you struggle with late night eating, consider the above tips. The problem can be overcome by taking the right steps. Be creative, and be determined, and you can shed the pounds and the get rid of the late night eating.
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Spurs deal Timberwolves 13th loss in a row; team record of 16 l...
There are 16 comments on the TwinCities.com story from Dec 24, 2008, titled Spurs deal Timberwolves 13th loss in a row; team record of 16 l.... In it, TwinCities.com reports that:The Timberwolves couldn't give Kevin McHale a win for Christmas, and New Year's is starting to look awfully iffy.
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#1 Dec 24, 2008
Wow Ollie at starting at PG, what a joke! What happened to our true centers, for instance Collins, are we paying them to sit on the bench, all year? Very sad to say it looks like it is going to be a very very very long season, and all kinds of records to be broken. Try starting Collins at Center and Telfair at PG for a few games and let them play during the game and see what reaults you have then!!!!
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#2 Dec 24, 2008
How did they lose when Love got his requisite 1 point? Great trade McHale, trades the rookie scoring leader for a 1 point a game star.
"Wher's dem turkey necks?"
Since: Dec 08
#3 Dec 24, 2008
As this team and it's owner and mangement head down the path of ignominy this season with each game adding to the mounting loss column, I am reminded of an old Sonny & Cher song.
With a little poetic license please, this is the opening lines:
"And the beat goes on
Just like my Timberwolves everlasting
And the beat goes on
Still moving strong on and on
Do you ever wonder
That to win, somebody's got to lose
I'm resigned to have The Timberwolves blues"
Da musical Crusher has spoke.
#4 Dec 24, 2008
This team could leave town and nobody would hardly notice.
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#5 Dec 24, 2008
It's ironic they show a picture of McHale smiling as his team stinks it up night after night. If Glen has any smarts at all he will fire McHale and give him an all expenses paid trip anywhere he wants to go as long as it is one way! Then, as the best Christmas Gift he could give all T-Wolves fans he could ask Flip Saunders to forgive him for letting him go in the first place and BEG him to come back as Coach and GM and let him run the show and choose his own team to run the organization. Even at that it would take some time to turn things around because of the pathetic shape McHale has it in, but it can be done. Look at what Tubby Smith has done! HELLO GLEN! You awake? Knock knock - anybody home?
#6 Dec 24, 2008
How wonderfully poetic that McFail now has to sit and watch this group of sluggs find new and creative ways to blow games. This is the group his genius drafted and traded for, now he gets to mold them into his likeness. Not a pretty sight. Fortunately fewer and fewer fans are showing up to witness his, and their, ineptitude.
#7 Dec 24, 2008
That conditional second round pick is looking waaaaay better than Mario Chalmers anyways....
#8 Dec 24, 2008
The picture of McHale and Parker laughing together is accurate. McHale is saying to Parker, "we really stink don't we?" Parker says, "sorry, McHale, as a GM you are the joke of the NBA!" McHale then says, "can't argue with you about that! Ha Ha! Glen doesn't know the difference, though!" To which they both go, "HA HA HA HA HA!"
#9 Dec 24, 2008
I can't say much for the game plan....get behind, stay behind, and never really threaten......can we all say "zero for December!"
The fan base is so disinterested, that only 8 posts show up in the article, and none of us are positive.
#10 Dec 24, 2008
Thanks McHale! Thanks for once again destroying the team. If it isn't Joe Smith type moves its trading OJ Mayo for Kevin Love. Bone headed move after bone headed move sums up the Timberwolves under McHale and why Talyor hasn't kicked this fool out is beyond all rational thought.
#11 Dec 24, 2008
Why is Kevin Ollie in Starting PG???? One smart move he made was to make Randy Foye at SG----26pts, 16rebs! I say start Telfair at PG, Foye at SG, Al Jeff at PF, Craig Smith SF, Collins at C....see how that plays out. Oh well we still lose anyway!
Saint Paul, MN
#12 Dec 24, 2008
Why ? because he is playing him like a violin
#13 Dec 24, 2008
exactly. wolve are owed a first from the heat, they don't have a point guard so wolves trade them what is turning out to be the second best pg out of the last draft.
heat were the last team wolves should be helping out. this move made no sense from the get go.
Since: Sep 08
#14 Dec 24, 2008
the Gophers play approximately 30 games the Timberwolves play 82..the Gophers will win more..
Saint Paul, MN
#15 Dec 26, 2008
Look for the T-Wolves to get their first win with McHale as coach in the next month or so.
#16 Dec 26, 2008
Any way we can request a transfer to the D League?
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Ishmael (Scott) Reed 1938–
See also, Ishmael Reed Criticism and CLC, Vols. 3, 5, 6, 13 and 174.
(Has also written under pseudonym of Emmett Coleman) Black American novelist, poet, essayist, editor, and critic.
One of the leading satirists in contemporary black literature, Reed is best known for those novels in which he examines politics, religion, and technology as repressive forces. Although the central target of his work is Western civilization, Reed's primary concern in his writings is the establishment of an alternative black aesthetic. His new aesthetic, termed Neo-HooDoo, focuses on such ancient rites as conjuring, magic, and voodoo. Reed contends that by reclaiming these primordial rituals, black Americans and third world peoples will purge themselves of Western conditioning and will ultimately regain their freedom and mystic vision. Reed identifies this process as necromancy. In an interview, he stated that "people go into the past and get some metaphor from the past to explain the present or the future. Necromancers used to lie in the guts of the dead or in tombs to receive visions of the future. The black writer lies in the guts of old America, making readings about the future."
Reed's parodies of literary genres produce a combination of the ridiculous and the didactic. His first novel, The Free-Lance Pallbearers (1967), is structured as a nineteenth-century Gothic Bildungsroman. The young hero in the novel undergoes a chaotic search for self-awareness and purpose in a society obsessed with power. In Yellow Back Radio Broke Down (1969), Reed introduces his Neo-HooDoo concept. The novel is a spoof of the Western "dime" novel fused with allegory, contemporary urban culture, and history. Reed extends his Neo-HooDoo concept in Mumbo Jumbo (1972) and The Last Days of Louisiana Red (1974). Both novels are mysteries in which a voodoo detective, Papa LaBas, attempts to combat the spells and charms cast by the white establishment to anesthetize the artistic and political black communities. Houston A. Baker contended that Mumbo Jumbo offers "a conspiracy view of history, a critical handbook for the student of the black arts, and a guide for the contemporary black consciousness intent on the discovery of its origins and meaning." Other critics, however, proposed that Reed's attempt to promote Neo-HooDoo obstructed his creative process and feared that his work was becoming repetitious and rhetorical. In his novels Flight To Canada (1976) and The Terrible Twos (1982), Reed abandons Neo-HooDoo for zany farce, complete with the irony and hilarious dialogues that are trademarks of his earlier work.
Reed has also published several volumes of poetry and two collections of essays devoted to black culture. In addition, he founded a publishing company devoted to producing and distributing works of unknown ethnic artists.
(See also CLC, Vols. 2, 3, 5, 6, 13; Contemporary Authors, Vols. 21-24, rev. ed.; and Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vols. 2, 5, 33.)
Edmund White
Flight to Canada is, of all things, a comic exploration of slavery by the best black writer around. The novel is genuinely funny, for Reed has not rendered faithfully the horrors of servitude but rather created a grotesque Civil War America out of scraps and snippets of the past, the present and the mythic. In the process he has put together a brilliant montage of scenes, potent with feeling and thought, designed to flash on the mind's eye with the brilliance of stained-glass windows in a dark interior. The book is memorable, original and wonderfully entertaining.
The main character, Raven Quickskill, is a slave who runs away from his master, Arthur Swille, hides out in Emancipation City and finally, after the war has ended, makes it over the border into Canada. Until his former owner is dead and buried, Quickskill must remain a fugitive, since Swille has resolved to capture him come what may. Throughout the tale the narration alternates between scenes back at the plantation in Virginia and scenes of Quickskill's precarious freedom. (p. 247)
The acrid merriment that boils under the Southern scenes thrills and disturbs us. How can we like these monsters? What moral sense can we make of a novel in which a fugitive slave ends up a whore and an Uncle Tom inherits a fortune (even if he has to forge his master's will to do so)? Reed's fantasia on the classic themes of black suffering is a virtuoso performance. His...
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Jerome Charyn
["Flight to Canada"] is a demonized "Uncle Tom's Cabin," a book that reinvents the particulars of slavery in America with a comic rage. Reed has little use for statistical realities. He is a necromancer, a believer in the voodoos of art. Time becomes a modest, crazy fluid in Reed's head, allowing him to mingle events of the last 150 years, in order to work his magic. We have Abe Lincoln and the Late Show, slave catchers and "white-frosted Betty Crocker glossy cake," Jefferson Davis and Howard K. Smith. Every gentleman's carriage is equipped with "factory climate-control air conditioning, vinyl top, AM/FM stereo radio, full leather interior, power-lock doors, six-way power seat, power windows, white-wall wheels, door-edge guards, bumper impact strips, rear defroster and soft-ray glass."
It isn't simple fun, backdrops for a minstrel show. The author seems to be telling us that the cluttered paraphernalia of our past, present and future are interchangeable, abused extensions of ourselves, flat and unreal. They enslave us, turn us into pieces of property that smother our feelings, inhibit our rage. (p. 5)
The closest thing to a hero is an Uncle Tom, called "Uncle Robin" in the book. Explaining himself to "Massa Swille," Robin says, "I loves it here…. We gets whipped with a velvet whip, and there's free dental care." When his master dies, Uncle Robin inherits the entire estate, after "dabbling" with Arthur's will. "Yeah,...
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Roger Rosenblatt
Ishmael Reed's new novel, Flight to Canada, is high and wild comedy, sometimes funny, too often forced, acknowledging a painful life, but not deriving from it…. The time is the Civil War, but the jokes are contemporary—jokes about history, religion, education and politics, which are merely okay; and literary jokes which are better by inches….
Reed's central literary joke is also his most sober point: the impossibility of escape (flight) from bondage except by way of oneself; and the attendant conception of North (Canada) as heaven. Writers of black fiction have been dealing with both ideas since the turn of the century, with Walter White's Flight in the '20s and Wright's crucial chapter ("Flight") of Native Son, and countless versions of "Exodus." In a state of slavery, ancient or modern, the problem is not whether to flee, but where. The so-called "great" migration North changed nothing in and after the long run. By the time Reed takes up the theme, it has become a running gag….
The trouble with Flight to Canada, however, is that its laughter also rides only on words, and the words are not sufficient. If the book were funnier than it is, its seriousness would be more memorable. But too many of Reed's jokes are weak or old standup routines, and when you come to the end of his joy ride you haven't laughed enough to be moved by the change of direction. Comedy has to laugh at something other than itself to bring down the house. Or to build it up again.
Roger Rosenblatt, "North Toward Home," in Book World—The Washington Post, November 14, 1976, p. L4.
Norman Harris
Central to understanding Ishmael Reed's fiction is an analysis of the ways in which he creates and uses literary folklore. It has for him dual purposes: it is practical and theoretical. Practically it serves to advance the plot, provide structure, defend and raise questions about the nature of society. Theoretically it has at its disposal a vast and largely untapped reservoir of African and Afro-American history, folklore and myth. The components of the practical and theoretical categories are intricately interwoven into a fiction which raises external questions of verisimilitude … that are largely absent in the literary folklore of Killens, Chesnutt, Hurston and Alice Walker. Reed labels this confluence of history's external realities and myths' internal or subjective realities "La Bas," a term deeply associated with HooDoo.
In Reed, then, literary folklore can be seen as a structured innovation. The structure relates largely to historical parallels. The history, however, is rewritten through a process that Reed calls necromancy: using the events in the race's past to comment on the present and prophesy about the future. Through necromancy Reed offers us alternative views of slavery, the Harlem Renaissance and the sixties. The innovative aspect is also a function of necromancy: it asserts alternative views of history. This aspect also has a political reality which emerges as a set of reactions to changes in the external world. At such times it attempts to restore order by invoking the old gods, heroes, and heroines and a novel world view which is based on the old ways of HooDoo. His political literary folklore also seeks, however obliquely, to offer alternatives to existing reality. (p. 41)
As literary folklore, Neo-HooDoo and HooDoo differ radically. Neo-HooDoo is largely urban while HooDoo is rural. Consider, for example, the rural conjurers in Chesnutt's Conjure Woman and several of Alice Walker's short stories in In Love And Trouble and then contrast them to Papa Labas in Mumbo Jumbo and The Last Days of Louisiana Red. He is cultured and urbane. His customers arrive in chauffered limousines to "have their heads fitted." In the Chesnutt and Walker stories the conjurers' customers are slaves, or other destitute blacks, who go to the conjurer as more or less a last means of resort. In such cases the problems are specific and limited: a better master or the need to have one's lover returned. Thus HooDoo as literary folklore rarely transcends the resolution of a particular problem. The concern is primarily existential and the larger society, which in most cases is either slave or southern rural, is left unaffected. (pp. 41-2)
Neo-HooDoo takes on whole cultures and thus assumes an epic structure. Linear time is dismissed and replaced by a spatial time which can make ancient history current. Due to its engulfing approach the conjurers in the Neo-HooDoo religion are not, in contrast with the HooDoo conjurers in some Afro-American fiction, specific about their conjurations. Ed Yellings' "Solid Gumbo works" in The Last Days of Louisiana Red is loosely defined and amorphous. We only know that it functions to end the plague of "Louisiana Red." (p. 42)
Among the important themes in Reed's fiction are the conflict of blacks and whites, the function of the white critic, the impact of the white man and black woman on the black man, the "field nigger" as political opportunist and the importance of self-reliance. In each instance the literary folklore involved varies in focus and intensity. In delineating the black/white conflict the ancient African past serves as the basis for explanation while the Afro-American slave experience plays a similar role in explicating the theme of the "field nigger" as political opportunist. Similarly, the role of "LaBas" varies: it may be fundamental and precise in making the role of necromancy clear as in Mumbo Jumbo; or it may be less crucial and more nebulous as in The Last Days of Louisiana Red. The literary folklore, especially necromancy and LaBas, are therefore variable. An explication of the above themes will allow generalizations about the unique politics that influenced them.
In Reed the black/white conflict avoids the stance of a protest novel by being skillfully placed in a historical context which undermines traditional positions on the subject. This occurs most graphically in Mumbo Jumbo where in an extended, though truncated, world history, Black Herman relates the conflict between Set and Osiris and how it evolved into two opposing world views. Set, the killjoy "Atonist" (sun worshipper), is the prototype of a certain type western man: as a progenitor of the military-industrial complex, reason must forever remain separate from feeling. Osiris is the working sensualist who combines reason and feeling. As a jazz musician he travels around the world with his original "Roots" band, blaring out the infectious "Black Mud Sound" of the river Nile. While Osiris is away on a gig—this according to Black Herman—Set takes over and ushers in a kind of Puritanism which outlaws dancing and other sensual delights. When Osiris returns Set challenges him to perform his famous seed trick in which he, Osiris, is buried and then springs up like a new bud. If successful, Set says that he will gladly relinquish his Puritanical reign. Osiris accepts the challenge,...
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Charles W. Scruggs
It is a mistake to see any one black writer as representative of the "black experience" (whatever that is), and it is even a greater mistake to pin a label on a writer like Ishmael Reed. His name is appropriate—he is a genuine maverick. As a critic of American culture, he has taken on smug feminists, omniscient white scholars (who know Negro literature), and con men of all colors, creeds, and sexes…. As a writer (poet and novelist), Reed belongs to no "school" of Afro-American art, and he has managed to be maligned, with equal intensity, by white and black critics alike…. Although the satire in his novels is frequently outrageous (he delights in using the comic strip as a literary device), it can also be...
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Stanley Crouch
The trouble with The Terrible Twos is that [Reed has] said it all before and said it much better. This time out, he's picked another genre to tear apart with his imposition of varied forms and combinations of perspective. Just as he used Antigone in The Last Days of Louisiana Red to create a brilliant satire that collapsed under the strain of its near-misogyny, and just as he used the western for Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down, the detective story for Mumbo Jumbo, the slave narrative and Uncle Tom's Cabin for Flight to Canada, Reed weaves Rastafarianism and a reverse of the Todd Clifton dummy sequence from Invisible Man together with Dickens's A Christmas...
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Ivan Gold
The notion that contemporary America—with its movie-star President, passion for military hardware, increasing polarization of haves and have-nots—is as politically mature as a 2-year-old child is socially adept, would seem a thin enough idea on which to peg a novel. But while Ishmael Reed's sixth book of fiction, "The Terrible Twos," takes its title from this notion, and some paragraphs are devoted to developing it, this one theme does not begin to exhaust what the novel is about. Like "Mumbo Jumbo" (1972) this latest book is an idiosyncratic mix of political comment, legend, historical analysis, irony, left-handed storytelling, third-world consciousness, pure rage and—amazingly—hope and good will....
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Robert Towers
The Terrible Twos is the latest in the series of pop-art novels … which, with their bizarre inventions and liveliness of language, have won for Reed a small but vociferous following. The book takes its title from the well-known proclivities of toddlers, aged two, who, according to the novel's fake Santa Claus, set the standard of maturity for our great republic:
"Two years old, that's what we are, emotionally—America, always wanting someone to hand us some ice cream, always complaining, Santa didn't bring me this and why didn't Santa bring me that…. Nobody can reason with us. Nobody can tell us anything. Millions of people are staggering about and passing out in the...
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Michael Krasny
I find myself with a troublesome voice sounding off warnings about what I should and should not say about Ishmael Reed's new novel, The Terrible Twos. And I wonder to what extent that voice is a phantom of white liberal guilt I thought I had exorcised.
Exorcism is a good place to begin with Reed. He is the darling of a number of new fiction critics who see him as the all-purpose literary necromancer, the black shaman who conjures vital new myths against the backdrop of the dead carcass of white western aesthetics. This version of Reed as the juju man incanting powerfully pyrotechnic amulets called "words" to rouse us from our cultural decadence is itself a bit moribund. Reed's powers—and I...
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Jerome Klinkowitz
In The Terrible Twos Reed is supposedly outside of history; he sets his story in 1990, when the President is a former male model, the economy is worse than ever, and all that's left to trickle down is Christmas, which a bunch of power-hungry goons who run the country successfully buy and sell. God Made Alaska for the Indians, on the other hand, assembles eight essays and an afterword on environmentalists, Native Americans, literary politicians, prize fight promotions, male sexuality, race relations, the troubles in Ulster as seen by Irish-Americans, and the problems of multicultural artists—all of which deal directly with the demoralizing state of events since 1976. But with Reed in control there's no...
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Jerry H. Bryant
I like Ishmael Reed. There is so much of him. He is going on forty-six at the time I write, is still healthy and pugnacious, and has already incarnated himself in more forms than two normal men do in a lifetime…. Not everyone likes him as much as I do. Some call him too conservative. Some call him unreadable. Some call him silly and superficial. But he is so active and productive in so many fields of contemporary American art that he cannot be ignored. In the late sixties, when he was one of a couple dozen young black writers seeking an audience in that atmosphere of black revolutionary chic, he came on as a kind of enfant terrible. Yet, even at the time, before we knew better, his revolution didn't seem that much...
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Abby 12/5
Posted in the Chicago Forum
#1 Dec 5, 2012
DEAR ABBY: When I was an adolescent, my father molested me. It took me 20 years to finally confide this secret to my mother. Afterward it felt as if a huge weight had been lifted from my shoulders.
That feeling lasted about two minutes. That's how long it took for her to get on the phone and spread the news to everyone she could think of. This was two years ago and, after repeatedly asking her to stop, she continues to tell.
Two days ago, I caught her spilling the beans to an acquaintance she hadn't spoken to in more than a decade. We got into a heated argument, and she told me she will say what she wants, whenever she wants, to whomever she wants. My feelings are NOT considered, even though I was the victim in all of this. I feel she tells my story to gain sympathy for herself.
Abby, I'm ready to end my relationship with my mother. How can I make her stop flapping her lips?
- The Gossip's Daughter
DEAR DAUGHTER: I suspect you are correct about your mother's motives, and you have my sympathy. Because you can't "make her stop flapping her lips," you will have to accept that she can't be trusted with any confidential information. As I see it, you have two choices. The first would be to cut her out of your life (for which I wouldn't blame you), and the other is to avoid sharing ANY personal information with her in the future.
DEAR ABBY: One of my neighbors insisted on giving me some handcrafted Christmas decorations that are hideous. I have never been big on decorating the outside of my home, but when I do, I have my own that I like much better.
I know she expects me to display her items and will be all bent out of shape when she sees I haven't. Is there a diplomatic way to avoid hurt feelings?
- Florida Reader
DEAR READER: Not really. So hang one or two of them in an inconspicuous place when you decorate for the holidays, so they will be "lost" among the items you prefer to display, or refrain from decorating this year.
"Where is Tonka?"
Since: Feb 09
Neda, stay with me! Charlie
#2 Dec 5, 2012
1 Punch you mom in the mouth so her lips swell up and shbe cambt tawk ribte.
2 Oops! Look I dropped them and they shattered. Oh, drat! The car ran over them too!
#3 Dec 5, 2012
1. That bitch would be cut out until she came to me groveling. And then she wouldn't get any more than cursory discussion about the weather and what a bitch she is.
2. Just hang 'em on the backside of the tree and if she asks tell her that you didn't want to put them on the front and make everyone else feel bad by comparison about the decorations they have given you.
"I looked, and behold,"
Since: Aug 08
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#4 Dec 5, 2012
LW1: Abby nailed it.
LW2: I would just do what you want to do and not worry about hurting a neighbors feelings so much.
Since: Mar 09
#5 Dec 5, 2012
I completely agree. It's YOUR house.
"Where is Everyone?"
Since: Jul 12
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#6 Dec 5, 2012
L1: This LW probably feels like she has lost both her parents. She probably has. I think she needs a good therapist and also start building solid friendships with good people. Also, SHE did nothing wrong. The telling is dissing the father, not her. She needs to start feeling that way. Yes, her mother is very stupid to be spreading the news but the fact it bothers her so much personally instead of looking at it that at least it's not being brushed under the rug and people can see what her father is, well to me that's telling on where her state of mind is.
L2: Just don't display them. The neighbor insisted. You didn't. Let it go.
#8 Dec 5, 2012
LW 1: End it now!
LW 2: You live in Florida, just display them, nobody will even take notice.
Since: Feb 10
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#9 Dec 5, 2012
The fact that she did nothing wrong doesn't mean she should want everyone to know about it. When people know that a woman was molested as a child, especially by her father, many look at her differently. Not all do, but many, and you would not believe the range of disgusting questions I have been asked. The majority of us would be extremely upset to know that it's being broadcast far and wide, and the fact that it is her mother doing it makes it so much more of a betrayal. I (and the LW, I suspect) would feel very differently if her mom were telling those with children with whom her father may be in contact, but that doesn't seem to be the case. She's running around telling everyone, and I suspect it has far more to do with shock value and garnering pity for herself than it does with warning potential victims. Other than protecting other children, there is NO reason for that vile woman to betray her daughter's confidence, especially when she has repeatedly been asked to stop.
As far as I'm concerned, there would be no more second chances for her mother. I would tell her there would be no future communications, and to feel free to run around and suck up pity for having such an unreasonable, ungrateful daughter...while I go fill my life with people who understand boundaries, privacy and trust.
"Where is Everyone?"
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#10 Dec 5, 2012
Yes. Yes I would.
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#11 Dec 5, 2012
Then why would you think there is something wrong with her state of mind for not wanting that to be broadcast?
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#12 Dec 5, 2012
I agree, itser and Toj. In fact, unless a very close friend confided in me, it's something I'd rather not know about a person--it's just such an intimate thing to know.
Of course, part of this secrecy is what helps child molesters keep on molesting. Maybe we need to treat childhood sexual abuse like the rape that it is -- and women have been going public as rape victims for 30 years now, and have advanced the rights of (female) rape victims.
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#13 Dec 5, 2012
Sorry to butt in, but my take on it is, Toj is saying "You can't control her, she OBVIOUSLY thinks this is all about her and will continue to tell everybody, so you may as well get your mind in a place where you can let go of expecting normal behavior from your crazy mother."
"Where is Tonka?"
Since: Feb 09
Neda, stay with me! Charlie
#14 Dec 5, 2012
Since the dad is not mentioned in the present, I am assuming that he is either dead or otherwise out of the picture.
My personal hunch is that the mom knew of the abuse but kept quite, but now that the daughter opened up to her, she is blabbing it all over creation to create the image that she never knew about it. And her ignoring her daughters request to shut up about it, only re-enforces that thought.
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Since: Jun 09
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#15 Dec 5, 2012
I think you got it right.
"Where is Everyone?"
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#16 Dec 5, 2012
This! De-stigmatize the victims.
"Where is Everyone?"
Since: Jul 12
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#17 Dec 5, 2012
I don't think anything is really "wrong" with her state of mind, it could be stronger, though.
My mother was quite vocal about telling people. When I got stronger I was able to say to the a-holes with inappropriate remarks -- "Why would you say that? I did nothing wrong. The abuser did." It made me feel more powerful (which you need then) and really made the person saying something (1) feel bad,(2) learn something and, most importantly,(3) shut them the hell up. Also, I firmly believe(d) that I did nothing wrong. You need to get to that place otherwise it affects your life way too much. It will always affect you, but you can be more cognizant of the effects.
"Where is Everyone?"
Since: Jul 12
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#18 Dec 5, 2012
Maybe. People always blame the parents so the mother could be feeling that.
Also, consider abuse usually does not happen in a vacuum. The mother most likely has a lot of issues herself.
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#19 Dec 5, 2012
Exactly. Zero shame for the victim. Zero. It all belongs on the abusers and The people who help them abuse.
"Where is Everyone?"
Since: Jul 12
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#20 Dec 5, 2012
Yes! Yes! It's not about the girl, the victim. Her mother is making it all about herself and not giving the daughter the support she needs as the victim. The mother is taking that away from her.
The daughter needs to get to a place where she isn't the victim anymore but rather a stronger person who has overcome a horrible period in her life. She has to accept her mother's faults b/c she's NOT going to change. She doesn't have to like them, though. Acceptance does not mean you like those traits.
"The two baby belly, please!"
Since: Sep 09
Evanston IL
#21 Dec 5, 2012
LW1: I think RACE is right that mom knew all about this while it was happening and is now acting this way to deflect from herself.
Poor daughter...
LW2: Put them in the back yard.
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Louise Searle '12 was recognized for her academic and leadership skills
Louise Searle
LYNCHBURG–A Randolph College student has once again earned recognition from the prestigious Udall Foundation. Louise Searle '12, who is majoring in environmental studies, was awarded an Honorable Mention in the 2011 Udall Scholarship competition.
The Udall Scholarship for Excellence in Environmental Policy (www.udall.gov), established in honor of Morris and Stewart Udall, recognizes students who are outstanding leaders for environmental issues on campus, as well as being top-notch in their academics.
"The Udall Foundation honor recognizes Louise not only as a top-tier student academically, but as an effective leader on environmental issues," said Karin Warren, the Herzog Family Chair of Environmental Studies and the Udall Scholarship faculty representative on campus. "Louise has made lasting and wonderful contributions to our community through her outstanding work in the organic garden and the Red Door Coffee House, and as a member of the Sustainability Council. I expect great things from her during her senior year at Randolph College, and beyond."
Searle follows in the footsteps of other students previously recognized in the scholarship competition: Naomi Hollifield Ondrasek '06 (Udall Scholar), Katelin Shugart-Schmidt '10 (Udall Honorable Mention), and Ludovic Lemaitre '11 (Udall Scholar). "It is exceptional for a small college such as we are to have this many scholars and honorable mentions," Warren said.
For 2011, 80 students from 61 colleges and universities were named as Udall Scholars. Fifty Honorable Mentions were also awarded. Searle is one of two students in Virginia to receive an Honorable Mention. Only one Virginia student was named a Udall Scholar.
"This impressive Scholars class represents the best and brightest; they are the future environmental and tribal leaders in this country. The Udall Foundation is thrilled to help them advance their education," said Terrence L. Bracy, chair of the Board of Trustees of the Udall Foundation.
Each scholarship provides up to $5,000 for the Scholar's junior or senior year. Honorable Mentions will receive a $350 award. Since the first awards in 1996, the Udall Foundation has awarded 1,234 scholarships.
The Udall Foundation is an independent federal agency established by Congress in 1992 to provide federally funded scholarships for college students intending to pursue careers related to the environment, as well as to Native American students pursuing tribal policy or health care careers.
CONTACT: Brenda Edson, Director of College Relations