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By Steve Gutterman, Associated Press Writer
TBILISI, Georgia Georgia's president said Monday he hopes a visit from NATO's chief will accelerate his nation's drive to join the Western alliance, pressing for sustained international support following its defeat by Russia in a brief and bitter war.
Mikhail Saakashvili said Georgia and NATO should work hard to show that Georgia is on track to join what he called the "Euro-Atlantic family."
That is Georgia's proper and rightful place, he said.
NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, also speaking in Georgia's capital, criticized Russia but spoke cautiously in remarks before a NATO-Georgia meeting.
De Hoop Scheffer and ambassadors from every NATO member converged on Tbilisi, Georgia's capital, in a show of support for the former Soviet republic. The U.S. strongly supports NATO membership for Georgia, but Germany and others dependent on Russian energy supplies have balked at taking an action sure to infuriate the Kremlin.
The NATO chief said the alliance will assess "how to further enhance" the partnership between NATO and Georgia.
The trip to Georgia, scheduled before the war, comes as Russia is strengthening its grip on South Ossetia and Abkhazia, another separatist region of Georgia, in a challenge to Georgia's NATO hopes.
Russia, which borders Georgia to the north, objects strenuously to having Georgia join the Western military alliance -- an opposition underscored last month when Russia crushed Georgia in a war over Georgia's separatist, Russian-oriented province of South Ossetia.
As the ambassadors arrived in Tbilisi, Georgia's capital, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev warned the West that any sanctions imposed on Russia over the war would backfire.
"It's senseless to pressure Russia with sanctions," Medvedev said at a meeting with Russian business leaders. "They can shut a couple of sources of (revenue) to a banana republic and make its situation dramatic. It won't work like that here."
Without mentioning any specific nation, Medvedev warned that attempts to punish Russia would also hurt the West. "Sanctions is a weapon that will backfire," he said.
And he dismissed calls by some Western diplomats to bar Russia from joining the World Trade Organization. Russia would like to join but will not be pressured into concessions, Medvedev said.
"WTO isn't a carrot; it entails a lot of difficult obligations," he said. "And if we do it, let us do it in a normal way without them trying to scare us."
The two-day NATO visit is expected to include the first meeting of a new NATO-Georgia Commission set up to oversee future ties.
De Hoop Scheffer said last week that NATO wants to show support for Georgia after Russia's use of "disproportionate force" against its much smaller neighbor. He has stressed NATO's condemnation of Russia's recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent states.
Following the war, NATO said it was making closer ties with Russia dependent on the withdrawal of Russian forces to the positions they held before the conflict, as required by a cease-fire agreement.
Russia has promised to withdraw from positions in Georgia proper next month. But it has said it will keep nearly 8,000 troops in South Ossetia and Abkhazia, although the U.S. and European Union that would violate the cease-fire.
Saakashvili, a U.S. ally, has angered Russia by seeking NATO membership. In April, NATO declined to grant Georgia a road map -- a detailed plan for achieving membership -- but said Georgia would eventually join.
A review of Georgia's request for a road map is scheduled for December.
The war has deepened NATO's dilemma over Georgia -- how to handle the membership aspirations of a country with large chunks of territory controlled by Russia and its separatist allies.
NATO members have been united in their criticism of Russia, but less so on Georgia's future.
The United States has pushed for NATO to take a key step toward granting Georgia membership in April.
Russia seems confident that Georgia is not close to joining NATO.
"Georgia is much farther away from membership in NATO than it used to be," Sergei Karaganov, a political analyst with close Kremlin connections, said in Moscow.
Anatol Lieven, a senior research fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington, said European countries and the United States would be unlikely to fight Russia on Georgia's behalf, even if joined NATO.
"Georgia would be crushingly defeated and NATO would be humiliated," he said.
The war began Aug. 7, when Georgian forces launched an attack to regain control of South Ossetia. Russian forces repelled the offensive and pushed deep into Georgia.
After a partial withdrawal last month, Russia pulled out of the Black Sea port of Poti and other positions in western Georgia over the weekend as part of an additional agreement reached by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who brokered the original EU peace plan.
Moscow has pledged to withdraw all other forces now on Georgian territory outside South Ossetia and Abkhazia within 10 days of the deployment of EU monitors who are supposed to be in place by Oct. 1. But it is pushing to keep Western observers away from South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
At a tent camp housing more than 2,000 displaced people in Gori, a central Georgian city near South Ossetia, families wondered Sunday whether they would ever return home for good.
Nanuli Okroperidze, 45, who lives in Tent 85 with her mother, four children, two grandchildren and two other relatives, said her home is one of many in her mostly ethnic Georgian village in South Ossetia that were torched.
"It's gone, burned to ashes," she said.
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Think Tiki music, and you'll think young. You'll think hip. You'll think 20-something guy who buys his vintage flower-print shirts at Ahab Bowen and classic brushed-steel cocktail shaker at Metro Retro. You don't think 60-something, balding, trumpet-playing, Shriner-pledging grandfather. But we first heard of Tiki from our Poppy, who played his Don Ho records so many times that our grandmother wished they'd melt on the turntable under the same needle that played "Tiny Bubbles" over and over again.
Turns out we're not alone. Mark Ridlen (a.k.a. DJ Mr. Rid) was schooled on Tiki and other "exotic" music by his dad, a professional as well as at-home disc jockey. And the result of those childhood memories may inspire the same in future generations. On Friday, Ridlen will officially release Texotica Volume 1 on his Gravid Records label. This first disc--the second will be released in April--features musicians, DJs and scenesters from Ridlen's past performing as local bands and karaoke stars covering island-themed classics as well as originals. Of course, "Tiny Bubbles" has its rightful place on the Polynesian compilation.
Appropriately, the CD launches with a party. And some of the disc's contributors will perform, including Jerry Haynes as Mr. Peppermint, Peter Schmidt, DJ Cheeky Puppy, The Necro Tonz, Tangella (a drag queen/performance artist whose track is a reading of "Happy Talk" from the soundtrack to South Pacific), Fran Baskerville (the "Singing Psychic" featured on The Howard Stern Show) and DJ Mr. Rid himself. The album also features The Deathray Davies covering The Kinks' "Holiday in Waikiki," The Gospel Swingers on "Bava Lamp," The Lucky Pierres' "Do You Really Want to Be My Friend?" and "Northern Line" by The Old 97's. So buy one for yourself, and get a second for Gramps for Christmas. Just don't let Grandma near it.
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There are many different forms of 'exercise' or 'keep fit' classes and the secret is to find a style that you enjoy. In general, an exercise class will be carried out in a group setting with an instructor at the front demonstrating the required moves, counting the repetitions and maintaining the momentum. Most exercise classes are performed to music (with varying degrees of dance/co-ordination) and concentrating on different body parts.
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I eye her acerbically, but my mouth quirks up remembering the moment it had happened. I'd yelled to everybody that I was going to escape and I was fed up of being trapped for so long, and Dr. Vanbrughn had been standing right next to the statue. I don't think she knows to this day that when I disfigured poor Asclepius, I'd actually missed.


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Whatever that was, Amory hated it. She pulled away from Kael sharply, swaying dangerously. "What the hell was that?" she cried, trying to keep her balance. "What the hell are you and what exactly is going on here?" then she grimaced, and clutched her stomach. "I might be sick."
"No you won't. At least not till we're in the house."
"What?" She looked up and around her. "This is my house," she mumbled.
"Yeah," Kael said, steering her towards the front door. "Let's get inside before the neighbors start looking, ok?"
She stumbled up the driveway, head still a bit foggy and not quite caring what was going on around her. "I don't have a key," she remembered. "Never needed one."
"Ok then," Kael said, trying to keep a cool head. "Is there a back door, or something?"
Amory nodded, and let the way. As they passed the Horowitz's back door, she felt Kael stiffen, before he more or less dragged her towards her own back door. Not missing a beat, he smashed through the small glass window, reached in, and unlocked the door. Once inside, he pulled the curtain back a bit, and peeked out at the house. "Do you know who lives there?" he asked in a hushed voice.
"Just the Horowitzs," Amory answered, fiddling with the duck-shaped potholder her mother adored. "They're pretty much ok, really. Why?"
"One of them's a Hunter?" Kael said, walking backward until he reached her. Gripping her hand in his, he pushed her towards the stairs. "We've got to make this quick. Those wolves are still after us; I only bought us some time. You've got to change. Be quick, okay?"
Amory was confused. "What's a hunter? And why are you so freaked out?" In the ten minutes she'd known him, Kael had not seemed the one to be easily rattled. He had stood up to a group of werewolves like he was buying grocery. To see him so worked up over her slightly whorish neighbor was giving her all kinds of bad feelings.
'I'll tell you as soon as you get out of that dress," he said, spinning around to pin her with his eyes. "Though I really would like to take it off myself."
Amory's eyebrows rose to her hairline. "Excuse me?" she exclaimed, yanking her hand away from his.
"What? It's a great dress, really, but you've got the most amazing melons -"
Amory slapped him. Hard. Before he had the chance to respond she was halfway up the stairs, stomping all the way.
Kael grinned, and walked into the living room. That was easy. The house was nice; he assumed they were well off, whoever they were. All he knew about the people that lived here was that werewolves had tried to kill them, and the resulting danger had called, no screamed at him to do something about it. From two thousand miles away.
There was thumping upstairs as he considered the situation. The only possible way someone in danger could call to a Vampire like himself, if there hadn't been any blood letting, was a Blood Debt. As he was a turned vampire rather than a birth vampire, the only one who could have had a Debt and have it affect him was his Sire. Who was dead. But who had he owed the Debt to?
It was something to ask Amory when she came downstairs. Speaking of which…
He slipped out of the living room and bounded up the stairs. Figuring that the only closed door would belong to the teenage girl who was most likely sulking, Kael knocked once, then walked in.
"Hey!" A flower-shaped pillow came flying towards his head. "You can't come in here! This is a no-boy zone!"
"Would you stop fooling around?" Kael asked, flinging the pillow to land on the end of her bed. "I only bought us some time. We're not camping out here."
Amory folded her arms from where she sat perched on her bed. "I heard you the first time," she snapped.
"Then will you get off your butt so we can get moving?"he cried, in exasperation.
"I'm not going anywhere with you, pervert!"
"And that suits me just fine, Amory."
She had one split second to spin and look behind her before Kael had grabbed her arm and was headed for the window. Behind them, Darren's dad had morphed back into his hairy form, and had leapt across the bed.
Kael swore, and spun to put himself between Amory and the wolf. Now closer to the window, Amory saw at least thirty werewolves down in her back yard, circling the door, standing to peek in windows….. She swallowed hard, and clutched at the back of Kael's jacket.
"Now do you see why I wanted you to hurry?" he asked, pulling the long, heavy blade from its hidden sheath.
The werewolf growled, and Amory took an involuntary step back. "Stay close to me," Kael hissed, grabbing at her blindly. He knew they were in a very, very bad situation. That one wolf had managed to get inside meant that more were in already or were likely to be very soon. Normally he'd think a bunch of criminals would all do the smart thing, and work with their advantage, but the werewolf gene made the mind less prone to sensible thought. Even though they could all turn back into their human forms, for whatever reason they chose to stay wolf, and wait till they both ran from the house screaming. Not about to happen.
"C-can't you just zap us out of here like you did earlier?" Amory asked, far too frightened to remember to be angry.
"Not for another two days, babe." He slid into a crouch, nearly eye to eye with the wolf that was slowly advancing on them. "Doggie want a bone?" he asked in a sickly sweet voice. " Doggie want a treat? Do you? Do you boy?"
She couldn't believe it. "Do you seriously expect that to work?" Amory asked, incredulous. The werewolf was literally drooling on her rug, his eyes filled with hatred. Her mind idly wondered how long it would take for those teeth to rip through her arm, right before the beast lunged.
In one smooth move, Kael had her held tight against him as he rolled away from the window, one arm raised to slice the wolf in half right before it went soaring through the glass, taking her flimsy curtains with it.
Kael looked down at her from where he was propped up on an elbow on her bed. "It turned out even better than I planned!" he chirped.
"Get off me!" Amory snapped, shoving at his chest. He obligingly rolled over and helped her out of bed. "How do we get out of here?"
"Out the front, I guess," Kael murmured, stashing the blade away again. "I don't suppose there's another car just lying around here, somewhere?"
"No, but my dad's old motorbike is in the garage."
Kael gave her a wide grin. "Show me."
The garage was the emptiest garage Kael had ever seen. There were four giant boxes sitting in a corner, and the rest of the spare room was bare. There wasn't even an oil stain on the cement floor. But there, leaning against a wall, sat an old, slightly rusted motorbike. Or what had passed for one maybe a century ago.
"You don't have to look so disappointed," Amory scolded him. "I told you it was old."
"Babe, you said old, not ancient."He ran his hands through his hair, considering his options. Their options. But it was hard when he kept getting that uneasy feeling in the pit of his stomach. "Has that Mrs. Horowitz ever been over here?"
Amory shrugged. "I dunno, maybe. Why? Shouldn't we be leaving?"
From the house, they heard the sounds of breaking glass. Kael was at the door immediately, locking it and pulling a few boxes over to hold it closed. Amory knew from experience that those boxes were heavy, but Kael moved them like they were filled with air.
More glass broke, and Amory whimpered. "You're going to be okay, Amory," Kael said, coming up behind her and taking her by the shoulders. "You and me have got plans for the future, and they can't come through if you're dead."
He sat on the bike, and pulled her down in front of him. "If I'm dead?" she asked, mostly to pretend to ignore the awkwardness of the situation. Her back was pressed flat against his chest, something she had never experienced before. "What about you? Won't you die too?"
He pulled her unnecessarily closer and started the bike up. "I'm already dead," he said, right before they went crashing through the garage door.
It took a minute for the werewolves to realize what had just happened, and in that minute Kael pushed the old motorbike to its limits. Even so, they couldn't out run the shower of wooden bullets that hit them before they even reached the next street.
"LET HER GO, YOU MONSTER!" a woman screamed. Amory's eyes widened in shock.
"Mrs. Horowitz?" she whispered, peering around Kael's arm to stare in amazement. The woman was riding in an open top Jeep, one hand on the wheel and the other holding what looked like a gun out of an army movie. "She's finally gone crazy."
"She's not crazy," Kael snapped as they banked a corner. "I told you, the woman is a Hunter."
"You still haven't told me what that means," Amory cried, holding on for dear life as they took another corner, and turned into on-coming traffic.
"She's what you'd call a bounty Hunter. She hunts everything fairies, werewolves, vampires; anything that's abnormal from a human standpoint is something she wants, something she gets paid to bring in."
Amory shook her head, trying to wrap her brain around everything that happened so far that night. Around them the sun was beginning to set, the sky a curious mixture of pink, orange and blue. She could almost forget that there was a crazy woman trying to shoot them off the road, werewolves out for her blood, and that Kael was weaving in and out of cars on the street going in the opposite direction. She could almost forget that today was the day she was supposed to have graduated from school, the day her mother died. Almost.
There was a defeaning boom, followed a second later by the road behind them erupting into a shower of asphalt. The impact sent the bike feet into the air, shaking Kael's grip on the handles. Amory screamed as they fell, landing hard on the uneven surface. Before she could get her breath back, Kael had them rolling away, and for one painful moment she were dragged along the road. Kael shifted, and Amory was up off the rushing ground, yet still in a prone position.
They were under a truck. A large one, judging by the number of wheels in her line of sight. She craned her neck and gazed up at Kael, momentarily lost for words. Where she was sure she was a bit bruised and had a few cuts on her arms and maybe her legs, Kael looked as if he had been used as a playtoy for a raging bull. Amory realized that he had taken the brunt of the fall, and the blast, shielding her from injury. She wanted to punch him. Punch him, and then maybe smother him a bit. She couldn't understand it. Why couldn't he just let them both fall? He'd already been protecting her from the werewolves, he didn't have to put himself through so much, really.
But even as she watched, his skin began knitting itself, the dirty blood drying quickly and falling off his face. The arm around her shifted, and Amory supposed a bone had just been reset.
"Why are you protecting me?" she whispered. Dark eyes pierced into hers.
"Because I must."


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Pop Evil has hit the road with the Rock 'N' Roll Now Tour. The US trek will have the Michigan rockers perform at a number of venues. These include the Summit Music Hall in Denver and the House of Blues in Chicago.
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Spam Is Hawaii's Favorite Food - Recipes and Fun - Appearing and Disappearing Foods
Disappearing Hams Pave a Pathway for Spam
My older relatives used to tell stories about products that can no longer be found in grocery stores and how they missed this items. A couple of these were from the 1910s, 1920s, and early 1930s and were called minced ham and spiced ham. Minced ham was a luncheon meat for slicing in the early 20th Century and today what is called minced ham is chopped or cubed ham, just as in the UK hamburger is called minced beef or beef mince. A full century apart by 2012, the two minced hams have little singularity other than both coming from a pig.
In the dessert category were tutti fruitti ice cream and more recently, Sky Bars. I keep these name sin the back of my mind and notice if I see then whenever I go into a supermarket or a local grocery store - especially when I go out of town. You never know what you might find!
The old Ozzie and Harriet television series featured an episode in which the family tried to duplicate tutti fruitti ice cream. One method was to add canned fruit cocktail to vanilla ice cream, but it was not the same treat as the family remembered. From looking over a recipe for tutti fruitti pie, I noticed the cake called for candied fruits and wondered if it is candied fruits that was once combined with vanilla ice cream to produce the dessert that no one can any longer find. If not, it could become a new winter holidays item.
Disappearing and Reappearing Products and Prices
Sky Bars were easier to find and are carried by some smaller food markets here and there, although they disappeared largely from our city by 1980. We do have one upscale market that sells them and in 2012 the price is a dollar - too much for a candy bar, I think. The Sky Bar is fun, though - it is like having 4 pieces of filled chocolates connected in a row, like four chocolates from a Valentine's Candy Heart Box or a Whitman's Sampler. However, in the 1950s, I have it from dependable witnesses that the Sky Bar contained 5 pieces of connected chocolates.
The first grocery item to succumb to tricks of passing on rising costs seems to have been these and other candy bars. First, they were made shorter and wrapped in the same wrappers - but you could press both ends and get empty space. Then the prices increased. Next came sugar - 5 pounds became a 4-pound bag for the same price and then prices increased, then the move was made from cane sugar to beet sugar. The canned vegetables were reduced from a 16 oz can to 15.75 oz, 15.5 oz. 15 oz, 14.5 oz and even 13.5 oz at the same price, followed by price increases. Dozens of products have experienced this cycle, but the two missing hams did not.
Minced ham and spiced ham seemed to just go away altogether, until about 1937.
Eggs, Spam, Spam, Sausage and Spam. I'll have YOUR Spam.
Ham, Ham, Laws and Spam
Minced ham was outlawed in the US, at least in Ohio, because its producers injected a fair amount of water into it and did not print this fact on the labels. Producers thereby sold it as a 100% meat product.
I have never seen minced ham from the early 1930s and have no idea of its appearance. Guessing, I'd say it was comminuted - chopped or ground up and pieced back together, but it's only a guess. An example of present day comminuted meats includes the McRib® and some frozen breaded chicken patties available in the supermarkets.
Popular culture has it that the other missing ham product from the past, spiced ham, became Spam®.
I've heard stories from individuals and watched cooking shows on TV that tell us about Spam and it's career int he South Pacific. They say that Spam was passed on to Hawaiians from GI Rations during World War II and it became a favorite food in the islands. I was compelled to find out more about this.
Various online magazines call Spam in Hawaii a fixation or the object of a culinary love affair. At the bottom of the praise ladder, they call it at least popular .
Cookbook authors claim that the two favorite and most frequently prepared Spam dishes are Spam musubi and saimin with Spam (see photos attached). That may be true or not, but many additional recipes exist.
In the Marketplace
A quick search of Amazon.com today yielded 3,715 listings for Spam in twenty-six divergent Amazon departments, including foods.
Spam-the-food itself is listed in the varieties of Spam Classic, Spam Classic 7 oz., Spam Spread 3 oz., Spam Lite, Spam with Bacon, Spam Hickory Smoked, Spam Hot and Spicy, Spam 25% Less Sodium, Spam Oven Roasted Turkey, Spam Garlic, Spam BBQ, Spam with Cheese (sounds like the Bubba Gump shrimp monologue from Forrest Gump )...
This also reminds me of the Monty Python song Spam - Spam, Spam, Spam Spam and the musical Spamalot , not to mention all the parodies like Weird Al's at the end of this presentation.
Then there are Spam Singles - and Spam Bandages (those aren't food, though).
Spam Bandages - A Review
Spam Bandages
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What Is It and Why?
Sold beginning in 1937 and developed and tested before that date, Spam shows little chance of disappearing like its predecessors minced ham luncheon meat and spiced ham. While I think it's pretty salty, if the power goes out, Spam makes a good thing to have on hand in a can in your pantry. It can be a survival food, even though it is a delicacy in Hawaii - and many people just like it for everyday use.
The SPAM® (short for spiced ham) company states on its website Spam.com that its mainline product contains only the ingredients in the following list. Looking at the pig diagrams and others we have: pork shoulder, pork butt (cartoon characters Cow and Chicken's favorite) and ham (the whole rear end and leg - no tails, ears, or noses because that's for souse meat); salt (too much for me - drinks lots of water), water (oh, there it is), potato starch, sugar (hmm), and sodium nitrite (preservative). It says the last ingredient keeps Spam pink and prevents food poisoning,. I don't know whether I feel safe now... Seems kind of like pork with glue, sugar, and an antidote. I do eat the product occasionally, though; it tastes much better than the cow or pig brain sandwich I had at a wake when I was 5. .
At any rate, Spam fed millions of meals to American GIs in WWII rations and even helped the Russian allied forces avoid starvation. Hormel, the home company of Spam, was a little like today's Halliburton in providing foods as a contractor to the US Federal Government. The GIs introduced the product to the Hawaiians in the Pacific Theater of the war and they loved it! Today, cookbooks full of Spam recipes exist.
In the contest of meats and meat by products, Spam is a salty combination of tasty pork meats in a can and millions of people love it. It is much more palatable and safer than a pink slime meat by product added to many processed meats in America and particularly to some school lunches served in K-12.
The Biography
SPAM: A Biography: The Amazing True Story of America's "Miracle Meat!" by Carolyn Wyman. 1999.
Author Carolyn Wyman studied Spam in-depth back in 1999 to find out its origins and where it has been. She gave these statistics, as of 1999:
- Since 1937, Spam was distributed for sale to at least 45 countries globally.
- Over 100 million cans of Spam were enjoyed by 60 million Americans annually. That's 1.67 cans each.
- The Spam can was found displayed in the Smithsonian Institution.
- Hawaiians were the largest in number among Spam consumers at 4 cans/year per person in 1999, and an estimated 7,000,000 cans total in 2011. Next in line were Alaska, Arkansas, Texas, and Alabama in1999 (Note: In 2006, as revealed in the Spam Jam video below, Guam became Number Two.)
- The Hormel Best of Spam Recipe competitions are held at fairs throughout the USA.
- In 1999, over 20,000 attended the Spam Jam in Spamtown USA, located at Austin, Minnesota (Hormel's home offices).
Spamtown - South of Minneapolis-St. Paul, Just North of Iowa
The Annual Spam Jam Festival in Hawaii - Waikiki
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usic is "Honolulu Shuffle" from The Ukulele Experiment by Kaimoku.
- Spam Jam Waikiki 2012
Fun Spam Recipes
All my friends have Spam experiences and some even have recipes, to whit:
Serves 4 to 6 people
- 1, 12-oz can of your favorite flavor of SPAM - Garlic might be great!
- 3/4 Cup Mayonnaise or salad dressing
- 2 tsp Lime juice
- 2 Cups Seedless red or black Grapes
- 1 Cup fresh Snow pea pods, cut in halves or thirds
- 1/2 Cup thin-sliced green onions, all of the white portion, some of the green tails
- Cut Spam into cubes, place into skillet over high heat, and stir-saute with a small amount of olive oil until warm and browned (2-3 minutes)
- In a bowl, pour the mayonnaise and lime juice and mix well for dressing. Add some pepper or other seasoning if you like (remember the salt in the Spam).
- In large salad bowl, place the grapes, warmed Spam, snow peas, and onions.
- Add dressing and toss quickly. Serve now or chill and serve cold.
Spam and Egg Sandwich From WWII
An uncle used to talk about this one.
For each sandwich you will need
- 1 TBSP margarine or butter
- 2 TBSP chopped onion
- 1 or 2 slices of Spam from a 12 oz can.
- 1 Whole egg, beaten well
- 2 Slices any kind of bread
- 1 Slice American Cheese
- 1 Slice tomato or sweet onion
- Melt the butter in a skillet and saute the chopped onion.
- Break up the Spam with a fork, add it to the skillet, cook and stir 2 or 3 minutes until brown.
- Pour the beaten egg in the pan to cover meat and onion.
- Continue cooking until egg sets, turn and brown other side.
- Toast the bread. Place sandwich filling on one slice, add cheese (it will melt) and add tomato (or ketchup) or an onion slice. Top with second slice of toast. (Add lettuce, if you wish.)
Musical Spam
How many parody songs has Weird Al written about Spam and other foods? -
Spam (Stand In The Place Where You Live ) - video below!
My Bologna (My Sharona) - Video from 1979
The Rye Or The Kaiser (Eye of the Tiger)
Lasagna (La Bamba)
The White Stuff (It's about Oreo cookies!)
Weird Al -- "Spam"
- Video Credit: 000NoClue000's Channel - YouTube
A Gallery of Spam Products and Music By Weird Al.
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What a great and well researched hub. Bookmarking so I can go over again. Interesting and voted up!
Love the hub Patty! I have the "100 recipes for Spam" directly from Kauai. haha Use it all the time. In fact I just made Spam Musubi the other day for me and my honey!
I'm definately sharing this puppy! Voted up and (is there a yummy button?) Lisa :)
A hub from you is a hub of knowledge, on 'how to write in HubPages'. That being said, I went overboard with the approach of this hub. Food history with reclaimed recipe hints...awesome! I will definitely try to rediscover tutti fruity and the salad is a winner! Voted up, and up.
I appreciate your answer by making a hub! I'm from New Zealand and my mum always buys Spam. I didn't know what to do with all the Spam in the cupboard but thanks to your hub and the answers I received from my question.
I've always wondered why Spam is so popular in the US. Voted it useful.
Interesting. I used to eat fried Spam sandwhiches when I was a kid. Of course, I just ate what my mom fed me. I did not know any better. I liked them though. My grandma always had Spam around. She was a child of the dpression era and my mom a WWII baby. So, I guess that all makes sense. But, my mom still eats Spam. Hmmm.
Love this hub, it did bring back fond memories of Hawaii, I found spam on almost all the menus in Maui, even in sushi. Nothing beats a little fried Spam and Poi, they actually balanced each other out. I have often wondered if the meat company (spam) has ever been offended of the web reference to spam?
Am I the only one who hates spam! I really dislike processed foods. I used to hate having to eat spam sandwiches as a child. I enjoyed the hub though and that soup looks great but I would omit the spam...lol
SPAM? I didn't even know it was still made? Let alone ingested!? Hasn't SPAM become synonomous with the stuff we don't want in our computers?? Why would we put it in our bodies? Really? They still make it?? GREAT Hub Patty! Always learning new things with you! Blessings, Earth Angel!
I remember eating Spam as a kid. It seemed to be a staple on our pantry shelves, and Mom served it fried with eggs or for sandwiches. I never developed a taste for it, but your article was interesting, and brought back memories!
Great hub! You beat me to it...I've been working on a spam hub (nutrition comparisons to other meats + a recipe)...may still finish it since it answers a question for the know-it-all contest. I'll link to here!
I'm not a fan of Spam, but the history was very interesting. Like most foods, even Spam might be delicious if prepared well.
Wow, Patty, you are so knowledgeable. So impressive. What a great hub! I love the Weird Al song--haha. The Spam salad looks good! I've actually had a Spam and egg sandwich--very good! Thanks, too, for including my "How do you save money?" hub. Very nice! Great hub. I saw the Spam question asked; you answered it well. Bookmarking to read again later. Lots of votes and sharing!
This takes me back. I haven't had spam in so many years- not since I was a kid, but I remember not minding it at all back then. Thanks for an interesting hub Patty!
I love Spam. Call me crazy.
I've never been a fan of Spam, Patty, too salty for my taste. But Sky Bars? Now that's another story. I was addicted to them years ago and they did have 5 separate chocolate sections with different fillings in each. So yummy. Like you, I search for them whenever I enter a new market. No luck so far. Will keep you posted if I find them.
Wow Patty, what an outstanding job on covering Spam! I remember when I visited Hawaii they sold Spam Musubi at the corner of every convenience store. I wish they would sell them at 7-Elevens here too! :-) Voted up and awesome!
Very interesting hub. My husband mentioned that Spam has a shelf life of about 15 years as opposed to bread which can last about 3 days! I have to admit, I have never tasted it and have no immediate plans to change that! Up interesting and awesome.
Spam has been eaten by my family it seems like orever I like fried spam and eggs for breakfast. It is an inexpensive meat.Nice hub interesting.
Wow, hadn't heard of Spam in a really long time! Some people do still eat it, but our family does not:)


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My heart was racing and I stopped breathing. I closed my eyes, wondering when it would all be over. I could feel a sudden rush of power enter my body as something wet and cold engulfed my body. I blacked out.
I woke up about a minute or two later (according to Seph) in the middle of the river! The thing that freaked me out the most was that the area around me was dry! The river had split and gone around the area where I was laying at the moment. I stood up and looked up at the place I had been a short while ago. No one was looking over the edge to look at the 'dead Emma'. I couldn't hear any voices, only the roar of the river.
I made a step to my left and the dry area around me followed. My clothes were cold, but not wet. The klutz in me showed up when I tripped over a stray rock sticking out of the sand and fell flat on my face .
"Looks like you could use a hand." A familiar voice said.
I looked up and saw my team : Ellori, Seph, Aidan, Austin and Skye. The girls looked stunned, frozen in terror as they realized that I was alive and dry. Austin was looking at the dry circle that surrounded only me while the rest of the river rushed around me. Seph was looking from me, to the rock edge from which I had just fallen from. The one who offered to help me up was Aidan.
"Uh, yeah. It looks like I could." I said to him, a little embarrased to be found in such an awkward state. He offered me his hand and I took it gladly. He looked a little nervous to be out in the river. Once my hand was firmly in his, we stumbled over to everyone else. Everyone seemed to be in shock.
"Did you just...I mean...that was...wow." Austin was gesturing at me and then at the river that now had no dry circle in it, seeing how I wasn't in it anymore.
"Your suppose to be dead. I saw you fall..." Ellori looked very confused.
"I think I moved the water," I whispered to them, still stunned myself.
"Mr.Binks said something earlier.." I could see Ellori searching her brain, trying to remember exactly what Mr. Binks had said.
"D'you think this is what he meant?!" Austin asked. I was still extremely freaked out by that whole water parting thing but I still heard Ellori mumble,
"Guys, I think that we aren't normal people anymore. At least Emma isn't. But..." She stopped as a blanket of snow started falling down on us. What's so weird about snow you may ask? Well, there wasn't a cloud in the sky at the moment, yet these snowflakes were coming from somewhere. Skye tilted her head sideways and closed her eyes. They shot back open as she realized something.
"I think that I can control the weather."She seemed freaked out at her own words and I heard Austin let out a quiet snort. What she said sounded insane to me, and I was the one who had just fallen a good couple of feet into a river but was still alive, yet I believed her. Not only did she seem like a completely honest person, but I think that I had the same thing. Only, I could do something with rivers...or water...or something.
"I think your a bit shocked from Emma's fall Skye." Seph told her.
"Yeah. Controlling the weather? I mean, no one can do that Skye." Aidan agreed.
"Yeah." Ellori and Austin said in union. Skye looked hurt and betrayed. She caught my eye and so did everyone else. At that point, I didn't care if the others thought that I was crazy. I knew that something was up and I was gonna tell them, no matter how out of this world it sounded.
"I agree with Skye. Only, I think that I can do stuff with water." They all looked at me, frowns on their faces. Skye was the only one who looked happy to hear my revelation.
"See." She said, sticking her hands in the air. She closed her eyes again, only this time, the snow stopped but was replaced by fat drops of rain. The wind picked up again and thunder rolled across the dark sky. I used my supposed 'power' to keep the water drops away from me, leaving me the only dry one out of us all. Skye opened her eyes and dropped her hands to her side. The rain instantly stopped and I called off my ability. We looked at the others. They were drenched and had a look of astonishment plastered across their faces.
"Ok. I believe you." Austin said to us quickly. I smirked and Skye nodded her head in an approving sort of way. "So can you, like, make it sunny so that I can dry off faster?"
"Sure." Skye closed her eyes and the sun peeked out from behind the dark clouds. She opened her eyes for the last time.
"So, do we keep going?" Seph turned to face us.
"Yes." Aidan said. He sounded so sure, so willing, so determined.
"Ok then." Seph looked over at me, his hair wet and stringy. "Um, Emma...could you, uh..." He turned towards the river and gestured to it.
"Yes?" I was mocking him.
"Can you... I mean...oh come on. Will it give you that much pleasure to hear me admit that you have a really cool power?"
"Why it sure would. Ok everyone. Follow me!" I marched to the edge of the river, the others close behind. My hands curled into fists and that rush came to me again. There was a loud roar and the river split before our eyes. We walked across on dry land and I felt a bit like a Moses at the moment. Once we were on the other side and were walking away, the river closed back up and Seph said so that only I could hear,
"Yup. You really can manipulate water."


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Sode #25: Horror Tropes (Setting 05)
In celebration of our second "quarter" we are changing the format very slightly of the shows. Can you spot the difference?
Each time we record, we watch a video or find a picture to get us in the mood for the episode. It doesn't always have anything to do with the episode, but frames our minds, so we're going to share so you can be appropriately framed as well.
- Walking on Air
- This is Halloween
- In Japanese (stumbled on this one)
- In Russian (we think this is the creepiest. Some of the voices are really scary, especially the creature under the stairs)
Our Fears
- Whale captured on video –Meg admits to her paranoia of whales. This video she had to watch through her fingers.
- Oarfish– They just shouldn't be. Freaky.
- Parasites- Josh. He's infected.
- Zombies- Zeke. He's prepared, are you?
1. Cthulhonic
- Cthulhu Mythos
- Chaosium's Call of Cthulu
- Meg's fear of sea creatures comes in here.
2. The Undead
- Halloween (a poster on our forum)'s excellent post about "contrasting for horror".
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- Cell by Stephen King
- Serenity
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3. The Siren
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- Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?
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- The Firm
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- The Borg
- The cenobites
- The Predator
- The Gripping Hand
- Ghosts
5. Nature
- Jaws
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- The Perfect Storm
- Killer Bees
- Cujo
- The Happening totally sucked
- Those freaky whales!
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- Security Systems gone awry
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Midnight Meat Train
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- The Creepy Events Thread @ WOTC
- The Creepy Events Thread @ BG
- Possessions
- Sixth Sense
- Dogs in the Vineyard
- Werewolves
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- Sound of Thunder
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Dear finns and bp
Well done for finding a work around, sounds like you guys with your VPN should be CEO of Naughty Dog, Sony, or both as you found a way when they can't.
However, I have no idea how to do all that stuff and quite frankly I shouldn't have to. If you can do it using whatever means, it shows that IT CAN BE DONE. Therefore why are those that should be sorting it out not doing the same?
Furthermore, we haven't had a reply from Sony at all and the last time we heard from Zod at ND it was "like hey just chill out man, watch this youtube video from an unknown source who says it's your ISP that's at fault not us" and then NOTHING for a couple of days now. NO update, NO news, NO appology, NO refund so I can't (won't) even go buy the **bleep** disc like I should have done in the first place. Seriously, to think I felt bad about bagging him. Whatever happened to "I thought you'd rather have some news than nothing at all" yeah you're right, so how long did that last?
So, SONY and ND - what's the score? Have you washed your hands of us? Is this just a dead thread for guys in Thailand and Singapore to have a whinge? Well, enjoy my money have a cocktail or two on me eh. Hope the umbrella gets stuck in your throat.
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I cant agree more. I feel cheated. I mean the issue is so friggen easy to describe and also replicate.... many thousands of people in Asia have this issue. But PSN and Sony are still fken asleep as per normal and they will look at it when they are ready and after they have finishing caching in on everybodys credit card payments. I find it appalling. There are really only 2 major issues so far. One is the auto save issue. This has been fixed. And secondly the rest of us who cant even install the fken game and it gets stuck at 0% and 3 hours and 14 minutes.
Sony what time zone do you work in?? Do we have to wait another week for you guys to even figure out whats going on? Its kinda obvious now right?
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yeah, please try to fix this problem ASAP, paying for a game and not able to get it is just horrible.
And calling PSN asia for a refund, the answer i got was "I could send in a request, but whether you can get it is not confirmed"
And there is nothing we can do, they took our money and they can just leave it like that.
Seriously, this is not the way to do business, at least they should have some explanation on what is going on and if it is going to be fixed.
Paying for a game and not getting it, getting ignored. Best deal ever
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should I just start a new thread to remind them..even though I don't feel like doing so, since this one is already STICKY
I've left my ps3 on since I started fuzzing out earlier this morning, so I spent half a day downloading less than 1GB. It won't even hit 1%
I spent today calling and asking everyone that was "supposedly" capable of solving this issues, but meh.
I'm not getting racial here, but seriously how come a lot of people in SEAsia don't have proper access to the game as they should. We had no problem punching in our credit card numbers and you had no problem deducting our online wallets, connection was fine all the way through; but then the game? What's the point of "Day1 Digital" if everyone couldn't download it, on Day1
I'd be curious to see more blames on the internet now: because if you developers think that you're going to be releasing this as digital media as well as the physical disc, then you must be already aware of the fact that there is a decent portion of anticipated online customers from all over the world who would rather buy the game that way. And if your distribution is not globally consistent, you can't really throw all the responsibility at us. EDIT: or at least, you could have mentioned it in your hyping up advertisement "The Last Of Us! Awesome! The Best Ever! oh by the way if you're buying from Asia you might have a problem ", otherwise, it feels like we weren't told of the problem we may have, which could affect our decision to purchase. I have called, and talked, and tried everything with my internet provider, but downloading your game is still problematic. Everything else is fineee.
Funny how my friend, also in Thailand, pre-ordered this game and he finished downloading it with not a single problem, no connection bogging or anything. That was two days ago. And he's enjoying it right now as I type.
And please, I'm not asking for self-righteous justice, or a refund, or just to lash out my anger. I just want an answer, not perpetual silence. At least show up, and tell us if there's something wrong at the moment. I am willing to wait patiently only if I know that the developers are also aware of this problem.
Also, I'm not asking for only Zod to come up with an answer, as I have noticed that he'd been the one answering most of the questions on this thread, just anyone, sony, playstation, ND, whoever, just come up with something to assure us that our money wasn't taken for nothing.
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Nice comments guys, a little bit of solidarity goes a long way
Just thinking, The Last Of Us is getting great reviews, "best game on the system" etc and it's using everything the PS3 has got to run it, to the point where older systems are overheating, it's "almost" next gen. It's probably the last game many of us plan to buy (depending on the next COD release) before we go out to buy our shiny new PS4.
It's also the first game I know of that you can start playing half way through the download (I know don't laugh), just like the PS4 will be able to, using awesome new internet technology for direct download..... you thinking what I'm thinking? PS4 unable to be used in Asia due to "an issue with your ISP." Has anybody considered that Bill Gates is behind this whole fiasco and we are just pawns in his evil plan?
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a little update:
my friend was being thoughtful he decided to delete his game and re-install it over again and guess what
His installer is now downloading just fine. 10 hours and counting down, took 4 minutes to get 1% downloaded.
He's on the same internet provider as I am
His internet package is also the same as mine
He lives 15km away from my house
His router/modem is on default setting like mine
He was doing it wireless and I was wired, I've tried both though.
His bought his PS3 back in the US but I got mine here.
So I'm lost now. I don't know what the problem is anymore. Clearly it's not totally our internet. This is just ridiculous lol
If there's any technical specialist I'd really like to know the possible cause that might be of my router setting that hinders the download progress.
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Folks in singapore - no I never had requested for safe surf on star hub. It comes by default. I tried to disable it online uing my hub id. But that didnt work. Which is why I mentioned that you have to call them up and request specifically to do it from their end.
Also, after you call them up, wait for one hour. DO NOT SWITCH OFF YOUR ROUTER DURING THIS TIME as they will be disabling it from their end during this time.
I am pretty sure this is the problem atleast in Singapore and IT WORKED FOR ME.
For those of you in Thailand and rest of Asia - do check with your ISPs.
The bad news is that this is an ISP related problem and I dont think Sony or ND will try to help us out. We are on our own (Wish I was wrong)
All the best!
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btw, I did try DMZ, port forwarding etc before talking to my ISP. None of them worked. CALL AND TALK TO YOUR ISPs. Thats the only feasible option at this stage and worked for me.
Yes, Sony and ND should have checked from their end before distributing this game in Asia. Digital downloads are made regionally available and DLCs are region locked for most games. They should have checked the restrictions in our region before making it available. While its a problem with our ISPs - Sony and ND are also at fault here IMO.
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Still nothing on my end. Been talking to my ISP, posting on their Facebook etc... but no results so far. Still can't download the game.
Have already emailed PSN Asia as well, they asked me for a picture of my problems... I sent them the infamous screenshot, but seriously, I have no idea how that will help them.


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Four individual titles was the difference for the Wisconsin men's track and field team, which secured its second straight title at the Big Ten indoor championships Saturday in Geneva, Ohio.
The Badgers took the title with 122.5 points, topping Nebraska's 118 and Penn State's 72.
The women's team finished 11th out of 11 teams with 29 points, 85.5 points behind first-place Penn State.
The Badgers picked up first-place finishes from Mohammed Ahmed (5,000-meter run), Reed Connor (3,000), Japheth Cato (heptathlon) and Michael Lihrman (weight throw). Lihrman's mark in the weight throw of 23.78 meters is a Big Ten championships record.
Minnesota State Mankato 3, UW women 0: The Badgers (26-6-2, 21-6-2 WCHA) outshot the Mavericks (13-22-1, 7-20-1), 51-22, but the visitors did more with their shot attempts. The two teams will meet again Sunday to determine who advances to the WCHA Final Face-Off.
Wisconsin (6-7) went 1-1 Saturday at the Texas A&M Invitational, toppling Texas A&M Corpus Christi (4-14), 10-1, and falling to Texas A&M (15-4), 6-2.
Sophomore Taylor-Paige Stewart yielded one run in six innings with six strikeouts in the win over the Islanders.


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We survived Midnight Madness. We picked up our console and went home to play
The gamer card has some info on it finally – thank's to some hard playing by Antony
My review? It's coming. I have a week-end ahead of me
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I'm walking down the street. Everywhere I look I see crime. The man chattin' to that kid with a hungry look in his eye, the hookers swaggering about.
Upon reflection, it was clear from the start what I was getting myself in for. Yet I was in so deep I couldn't tell which way was up. I was well and truly trapped. Yet was I insane to chose this lifestyle? Somebody needed to see it, to let the world know what was happening, to fight the corruption and the injustice that was decaying the heart of this city. The wound was so deep now it was spewing out into the rest of the place, heros fighting to the last, villains given way too much playtime.
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I reach the old, dilapidated house. Every window is smashed and stained with dry blood like someone's punched it in a rage. The door is tightly locked which means I'll have to unlock it, obviously.
I get out my instruments from a pocket in my long brown coat and work quickly.
They say to be a good thief you have to be a good liar above all things, same can be said for spies. I was a spy once, and I was a great liar. I had a wife and I had a little baby girl. Both lie dead six feet under the ground. I never think about them if I can help it, except at night, I always think about 'em, dream about 'em when the moon comes up.
The door is unlocked, I open it slightly and squeeze through the small slither of space I've made for myself. Instantly I'm hit with waves of damp and sweat. All around me funiture lays broken and disused in mouldy heaps and the place is thick with dust. Dust is dead skin, I involuntarily shudder.
The stairs are directly ahead, my intuition tells me this is the place I wanna be, so I quietly take the steep steps upstairs. The landing is narrow, a flimsy banister rail seperates the deep drop and the creaky floor. I place my toes to the edges of the planks, hoping that there is still some strength in the old girls to stop 'em squealin' at the slightest touch. My time and dedication serves me well. I made zero noise. An amazing feat since I'm wearing black, pointed leather shoes.
At the end is a shut door. Now this is the tricky part. If I open it and there's someone in there, I lose my advantage. I open the door a crack and pull out a spoon from another pocket. I poke it into the room and stare at the reflection. I can see only a dark mass. Around the edges of it I can make out a headboard and ash-ridden fireplace.
I'm fascinated by the object, what is it? A coatstand. It shuffles slightly, as if there is a breeze.
Suddenly the mass gets bigger. There's an unearthly squeal and the door is almost pulled off it's hinges. The figure lunges at me, punching the fuck out of my face.
I try to push him off, I can feel blood gushing from my nose, my lip is split in the middle and I can taste and smell the sickly tang of iron. His face comes near mine as he licks it from my cheek.
He goes at me with inhuman strength and will, determined to kill me.
I knee him in the stomach and he keels over. I overpower him and turn him round, smashing him in the face to let him taste his own blood. I quickly take the revolver from my belt and shove it in his face. Whatever primitive urges push him to do this, even they understand that this means massive threat.
I take a good luck at the guy. He's got black hair and red-rimmed eyes, bloodshot to hell and full of cataracts making his lids and brows and oozy mess. His face is so pale it gives off a faint light. His whole body is stick thin and malnourished. The crazed look on his face makes him seem almost wild... rabid.
He's limp now and susceptible to anything as I dig the barrel into his temple.
"I'm looking for a missing girl bud, you gonna tell me where she is?" he doesn't speak and just glares at me. A massive anger fills me up with hatred like a car in a petrol station which is suddenly ignited. I smack him in the face. For a minute he tries to fight back before the gun is at his forehead and he stops again, "silence aint gonna get you anywhere bud, tell me where she is... or at least show me."
His eyes flicker to the wardrobe. I don't look, I know better than that. So pointing my gun at him and grabbing his arm, I pull him up and twist it behind his back. Making sure he always knows exactly where that gun is.
I reach the wardrobe.
"Open it!" I order and with his other arm, he pulls it.
There is a little girl lying naked on the bottom. She has bruises everywhere. I know exactly what he's been doing to her and it makes me sick inside. With the gun, I smack him on the side of the face and he falls to the ground. I aim the gun, real tempted to shoot.
Part of me believed he deserved to be shot, to be dead. Part of me thought he deserved at least some torture. Part of me thought I should just get this thug locked up and try and help this poor girl. Like I said, I didn't know what was right anymore.
I kicked him and punched him till there wasn't a part of his body that wasn't bleeding. His face was so fucked up it was yellow and covered in blood and ooze.
Eventually, I rein myself in and phone the police. Pretty soon they get there and ask me to give a statement. They see the girl, they realise what he's done, they chalk up the clear GBH to his own stupid accident. I carry the girl down the stairs and take her to the hospital.
She too was malnourished and in shock. Her body refused to wake up for a long while. Eventually her little blue eyes, hiding behind her dirty blonde hair, flutter open. She smiles at me and I return it. She was called Molly, we soon found out she had massive internal bleeding that wasn't spotted in time. She dies holding my hand.
I can still remember the way her eyes drifted upwards and her fingers slackened around mine.