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The properties of the microheterogeneous systems formed by mixtures of cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) and an alternating copolymer of maleic acid and styrene, MAS, and their anionic monoesters, MAS-n with n=2, 4, 6, 8, were investigated. The fluorescence of pyrene was used to sense the polarity of the polymer/CTAB aggregates. Measurements of the… (More)
- Luis Espinoza, Lautaro Taborga, Katy Díaz, Andrés F Olea, Hugo Peña-Cortés
- Molecules
- 2014
Natural geranyl compounds are known to exhibit important biological activities. In this work a series of geranylphenols were synthesized to evaluate their effect on the mycelial growth of Botrytis cinerea. Geranyl derivatives were synthesized by direct geranylation reactions between the corresponding phenol derivatives and geraniol, using BF3.OEt2 as… (More)
- M V Encinas, E A Lissi, A F Olea
- Photochemistry and photobiology
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- M V Encinas, E A Lissi, M Vasquez, A F Olea, E Silva
- Photochemistry and photobiology
- 1989
The quenching of the benzophenone triplet by lysozyme and its constituent amino acids in aqueous solutions have been studied. Native lysozyme quenches the benzophenone triplet with a high rate constant, 4 x 10(9) M-1 s-1. The quenching process takes place with production of significant amounts of free ketyl radicals, phi ketyl = 0.56, but with a very low… (More)
- Lautaro Taborga, Katy Díaz, +4 authors Luis Espinoza
- Journal of agricultural and food chemistry
- 2015
Herein, we explore the potential use of two micelle-forming block copolymers, i.e., Pluronic F-127 and poly(ethylene oxide)-b-poly(caprolactone), for application of fungicide agents. The polymer effect on the in vitro fungicide activity of a series of geranyl orcinol derivatives against Botrytis cinerea has been assessed. The results show that, for all test… (More)
- María I. Chávez, Mauricio Soto, +6 authors Fabio Marinelli
- International journal of molecular sciences
- 2015
The inhibitory effects on the mycelial growth of plant pathogen Botritys cinerea have been evaluated for a series of geranylphenols substituted with one, two and three methoxy groups in the aromatic ring. The results show that the antifungal activity depends on the structure of the geranylphenols, increasing from 40% to 90% by increasing the number of… (More)
- Heidy Herrera, Rodrigo Carvajal, Andrés F Olea, Luis Espinoza
- Molecules
- 2016
An improved synthesis route for obtaining known brassinosteroid analogues, i.e., methyl 2α,3α-dihydroxy-6-oxo-5α-cholan-24-oate (11), methyl 3α-hydroxy-6-oxo-7-oxa-5α-cholan-24-oate (15) and methyl 3α-hydroxy-6-oxa-7-oxo-5α-cholan-24-oate (16), from hyodeoxycholic acid (4) maintaining the native side chain is described. In the alternative procedure, the… (More)
- Claudia Bosio, Giacomo Tomasoni, Rolando Martínez, Andrés F Olea, Héctor Carrasco, Joan Villena
- Chemico-biological interactions
- 2015
Sesquiterpene lactones have attracted much attention in drug research because they present a series of biological activities such as anticancer, antifungal, anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial and antioxidant. Leptocarpin (LTC) is a sesquiterpene lactone isolated from a native Chilean plant, Leptocarpha rivularis, which has been widely used in traditional… (More)
- Andres F Olea, David R Worrall, Frank Wilkinson
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- 2003
Data is presented on the quenching of 9,10-dicyanoanthracene by benzene derivatives in acetonitrile. The quenching occurs via a charge transfer mechanism with the quenching rate constants exhibiting a Rehm-Weller dependence on the free energy change of the electron transfer reaction. The quenching of the prompt fluorescence brings about an increase in the… (More)
- Rodrigo Montecinos, Hernán Ahumada, Ramiro Araya-Maturana, Andrés F Olea, Boris E Weiss-López
- Journal of colloid and interface science
- 2007
Counterion and composition effects on the size and interface dynamics of discotic nematic lyotropic liquid crystals made of tetradecyltrimethylammonium halide (TTAX)-decanol (DeOH)-water-NaX, with X = Cl(-) and Br(-), were investigated using NMR and fluorescence spectroscopies. The dynamics of the interface was examined by measuring deuterium quadrupole… (More)


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I doubt whether, with the advent of new technologies, social media, etc etc, people tend to collect images rather than art end in itself, in fact, we now living a life half digital … (someone just throw it all in the toilet for more spending in front of a monitor or a phone) … today I saw a couple of sweethearts enter a bar and sit at the table, well … they sat without speaking, they put their smartphone on the table, and continued to interact with machines, drank what they ordered, and have come out … Mha !!!
And you … tell me the truth … you look more the walls of your home or your smartphone / PC?
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Chart-Track prognosticating the title has "a good chance of holding on for a few more weeks yet." The workout dance game has reached the top spot in the UK a total of six times and -- here's the mind blowing part -- last week beat the sales of the games in spots two through five combined, despite Zumba experiencing a 5 percent drop in sales. We know this time is "quiet" in terms of sales, but this is just getting seriously awkward.
With the completion of Wimbledon 2011, two tennis titles racketed up some sales. Virtua Tennis 4 stormed the court, moving up 15 spots into the fifth seat, while Top Spin 4 jumped two spots into eigth.
Last week's debut titles to crack the top 40 were Capcom's Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D and THQ's UFC Personal Trainer, at spots 21 and 22, respectively. Check out the UK's top ten games after the break.


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Business and Information Security: Computer Security Incident Response Officer
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The BNP Paribas Group is a leader in banking and financial services, employing over 185,000 people across 75 countries and 5 continents. At BNP Paribas, we work continuously on behalf of our clients, helping them to realise their projects around the world. You can be an important part of this, helping us to serve our clients both in mature and emerging markets, providing them with financial solutions across a diverse range of expertise, products and services. Our origins lie in Europe but nearly a quarter of our employees now work in our multi-award-winning Asian offices and we are a committed player in all APAC markets.
In Asia Pacific, BNP Paribas has been present in the region for over 150 years and plans to grow its business from €2bl EUR to €3bl EUR by the end of 2016. With 9,000 employees in the region and a presence in 14 markets (with 3 main centres in Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo), BNP Paribas offers you the chance to grow with us in Asia Pacific.
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Friday, March 13, 2009
Spaghetti Western Review
There's a typical scene in LO VOGLIO MORTO (I WANT HIM DEAD) where Clayton (Craig Hill) who is stalking the men who raped and killed his sister stands on a hill and watches five horsemen riding in the distance. The shot is low to the ground, all we see are his legs and boots and the riders in the distance as they approach a villa. Cut to the five bandits riding one by one; I was reminded of the samurai running to the village in Kurosawa's SEVEN SAMURAI. Any spaghetti western which evokes this masterpiece is okay with me! Director Paolo Bianchini does a good job throughout; here and there may be a hole in the plot, but the style, music (by the great Nico Fidenco), and gritty performances by the actors (spaghetti regulars Frank Brana, Jose Manuel Martin, and Federico Boido appear) carry this fine Eurowestern to another level. Any fan of the genre will be in ecstasy watching this one!
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|Reviews for Hunry Drabbles
| BunnyGoBoom chapter 8 . 3/23/2011
Oh. My. Gosh. I'm not a Hunry fan (though I do find it amusing)but I TOTALLY loved this! So funny! I kind of liked how short the chapters were. They were all very clever. My favorite was "The squirrel! It's dying! You have to save it Maggie!" Yeah that was a paraphrase.
| jessica499499 chapter 5 . 1/7/2011
This chapter was especially cute! Very funny!
| HelloOfficer07 chapter 6 . 9/26/2010
:D :D :D yay for a new chapter! and henry's soooo cute here! i giggled so much at this! and not gonna lie, ever since i started reading this i just keep seeing this pairing in the show!
| Vitality Keys chapter 6 . 9/26/2010
"It's dying, you have to save it Maggie!" You are my idol. I bow down to you.
So, I was bored, and though I don't normally like slash of any sort, I though, what the heck? And I swear, some of these really got me laughing out loud. Love the humor.
Awsome, as always Duck Like! :D
| Sarah chapter 6 . 9/26/2010
I loved this chapter! keep 'em comin'!
| Rosa the Kitsune chapter 5 . 9/22/2010
LOL! These were so funny! I loved the mono drabble most of all! Great job! I hope that you continue these! You may want to rewatch eppi 10, i believe, and pause it at the point where Henry is lying on the ground naked. And look where Hunter is starring.
| SenkiroWolf chapter 5 . 9/21/2010
It's amazing how 4 short little paragraphs can make you laugh your butt off XD love these. I'm surprised you didn't make one on the 'Do real streaking' comment (or the fact Hunter was totally checking out naked Henry. XD
| Pip-Pip Cheerio chapter 5 . 9/15/2010
This is so cute. I love them, all of them are hilarious :P
| hillabilla chapter 5 . 9/11/2010
that's perfect, haha, i can see henry saying that... well done on the whole thing!
| hundredtimes chapter 5 . 9/11/2010
BAHAHAHA! Love it
| HelloOfficer07 chapter 3 . 9/9/2010
these are so adorable! and, like, the best pairing ever! awesome job!
| The Awkward In-Between chapter 3 . 9/6/2010
Please give us something more than a snippet! I'm curious to actually see this pairing in action (myself supporting a pairing that contradicts this entirely, it's odd that I want to read more, but I do)! :D
Feed me, Seymour! XD
| hundredtimes chapter 3 . 9/6/2010
Love love love it! I love how much is conveyed with so little. Soon as Ihave something, I'll be joining you in the Hunry goodness.
ps- I just realized a minute ago that the title was Hunry DrAbbles, not Hunry DrUbbles... I felt silly, but also felt I had to share.
| kikimalfoy chapter 1 . 9/5/2010
Waiting for more...pairing sounds interesting
| prettybutterfly99 chapter 2 . 9/5/2010
This pairing is so wierd that I just have to keep reading


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Art: Ho Ryon Lee
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Korean artist Ho Ryon Lee mimics the double exposure effect normally used in photography in his oil paintings of anonymous women. Beautifully sensual and delicate at the same time.
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Through the agreement, Kleenex(R) and Scott(R) antimicrobial hand soap and washes, instant hand sanitizers, dispensers, and hand lotion will be sold and supported through the program. This provides savings of up to 20 percent to the more than 100,000 hospitals and affiliates that Novation serves, including members of VHA, UHC, Children's Hospital Association and Provista. The effort is designed to help health care organizations — as well as educational institutions — lower costs and increase the quality of care and experience in the critical areas of hygiene compliance and infection prevention.
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by Chris Roberts / Ikon
October 1995
David Bowie is enjoying another renaissance – hyperactive, philosophical, and buoyant. The century may be expiring, he figures, but his cup runneth over. Chris Roberts meets the louche legend in Los Angeles and finds him surfing on chaos.
I met him once before, four years ago, in LA, crazed sun blazing. So I've come, personally, to associate the David Bowie I interview, impersonally – as opposed to what David Bowie signifies to me – with rude health, cars, sumptuous hotel lobbies, pools, Sunset Boulevard. It feels great but it doesn't feel apposite. I tell him this, after a fashion.
David Bowie lights a cigarette, which is something he does well and often, making love with his ego, always crashing in the same car. The face that launched two-decades-and-counting of imitators cracks, in its own time, into a famous English grin. "I have moved since then," he says. "I haven't just sat here since you left."
White Duke, he speak the truth. Music, films, paintings and ideas in general are flying out of 49-year old David Bowie at an alarming, charming, disarming rate. I try really hard not to use the phrase 'renaissance man', and then I use it.
"God I'm scared of that word! Let's just say I'm taking the bull by the horns and expressing myself – by any means necessary. I can do it, so I'm gonna flaunt it. I'm really not very self-judgmental anymore. I feel, psychologically, in a safe place. It's publish and be damned, it really is."
The king, the very king, of artifice and appropriation, David Bowie was Ziggy, then Aladdin, then a better soul singer than any real one, then kind of German and frosty and depressed and coked-out, then a cheery skippy Live Aid person, and then fell, finally, out of vogue. Then he did the Tin Machine thing at precisely the wrong time in precisely the wrong suits. While all this was going on he was in films ranging from sublime (The Man Who Fell To Earth) to The Linguini Incident. Now he's releasing an album, Outside, which is, naturally, nothing like his last (the ambient The Buddha Of Suburbia), or even the one before that (the sensible poppy, Black Tie White Noise). While Suede have come and – some might say – gone, Bowie's undertaken yet another wild mutation. Outside is provocative, creepy, nasty, irritating, and, eventually, addictive. The first in a planned series of collaborations with Brian Eno, it documents, albeit abstractly, the fictional diaries of 'art detective' Nathan Adler. Bowie's also working with Nine Inch Nails soon, and if he will design wallpaper for Laura Ashley we sure as hell can't stop him.
Early 1996 will see Build A Fort, Set It On Fire, a film by painter-turned-director Julian Schnabel about the late African-American painter Jean-Michel Basquiat, in which Bowie plays Pop Art guru Andy Warhol. I'm crediting you with intelligence to keep up here. Also this year Bowie exhibited his own work (watercolours, sculptures, computer-generated prints) at the Kate Chertavian Gallery in Cork Street. I went to look at it one lunchtime with the girl who played the alien in the Loving The Alien video. A mad woman with teary eyes started shrieking at us for no reason whatsoever that we'd be sorry, very sorry, when David came along to sweep her away and make everything alright. We ran off, confused, but the mad woman chased us down the street. The best thing in the show was a picture of a star, called Star.
"I'm not content," Bowie said in 1972, "to be a rock 'n' roll star all my life." In 1995 he is almost absurdly energetic. You have to interrupt him to get a word in edgeways. We talk about art, cinema, literature, music, computers, South Africa, ageing, religion, and Boys From The Blackstuff. He's very keen to discuss his friendships with Damien Hirst and Julian Schnabel, less keen to mull over the past. Without breaking sweat, and even while wearing a peculiar snakeskin shirt, he'll say things like: "When you've developed an art form that questions its own existence you're left only with philosophy. Heh heh heh! Or so my son tells me!"
You have healthy debates with him (Joe, formerly Zowie, now 23 and a philosophy graduate) on such topics?
"Oh boy, you try and stop us. We can shoot the breeze; we can talk so much crap all night long. But that's one of the joys of parenthood, I've found."
Joe (The Lion) has influenced his groovy dad "in an obtuse fashion, I think. "Watching him" getting into Cream and Dylan and Hendrix", Bowie Senior realised there was no eighties music of interest. "Apart from maybe the beginnings of rap, it was all rubbish. Paula Abdul had no bearing on his life. He'd had to go back to find something with musical depth to it. It kind of gives validity to what Lennon used to say – what were his exact words?" Bowie shifts into faultless Scouse accent. "Say what you wanna say, make it rhyme, and put a backbeat to it".
As regards your new album then, one out of three ain't bad.
Bowie laughs uproariously. "Accessibility is not its keynote!" I am somewhat relieved.
"Pose the same question NOW to the younger generation and they I'll say YES, there's a lot of music we'll take with us. Pearl Jam, Nirvana, NIN, Smashing Pumpkins.
"And in Britain, Tricky is wonderful, PJ Harvey is extraordinary. The context and atmosphere of it all is tremendous. I think rock music's got strong legs at the moment. It's really bloody exciting."
Here is what I think David Bowie's new album is about: WHAT IS ART? To someone like Bowie, or rather to someone who is Bowie, you can actually say that, say those three words with a question mark at the end, without being laughed at. He loves a lot of things but most of all he loves being taken seriously. Nobody expends this much effort on creativity, not when they've already scored as many been-there-done-that points as he has, without some unquenchable desire for acclaim, to defeat mortality.
How is your ego these days?
"Well, you know, I have enough vanity to be convinced that what comes out of one of my cut-up lyrics is only as good as the stuff that was put in in the beginning."
And so when you say WHAT IS ART? to Bowie, plain as that, he'll say, "It's either art or murder, ha ha! The strength in MY work is when there's as much room for multi-interpretation as possible. I've always had an orientation toward combining contradictory information. And just seeing what happens. Messing about with structures, taking them apart. Dismantling toys and putting the wrong bits back together. I would've been great in Japan making those Godzilla-type things that become tanks, I'm sure. I treat music in the same way; what happens if you put that note with that word, what effect do you get? Because of that, it has its own informational output, that's sometimes more, sometimes less than the two components. That's one of the fascinations of writing for me."
I ask if he seeks to confuse as much as to enlighten, and am given possibly the longest and most articulate answer in 'rock interview' history.
"I don't think so. I think that we as a culture embrace confusion. We're happy to recombine information, we take event horizons incredibly fast. The generations – and I CAN use that plurally now – underneath me have an ability to scan information much quicker than my lot, and don't necessarily look for the depth that maybe we would. They take what they need for their survival, and their means to adapt to this new society.
"It IS the inheritance of the Sixties, not only of what happened with the breakdown of the American Dream and the conflicts of that period, and the emerging pluralistic attitude towards society, but also of a spiritual loss. A realisation that absolutes weren't the law, weren't the thing that one could abide by. There's no absolute religion, no absolute political system, no absolute art form, no absolute this no absolute that. Things weren't black and white like we'd always been told (especially during the great stiff Fifties).
"There are so many contradictions and conflicts that when you accept them for what they are, when you accept that this IS a manifestation of the chaos theory that's been put forward, that it really is a deconstructed society, then contradiction almost ceases to exist. Every piece of information is equally as unimportant as the next."
Bowie glances at the TV for a second and I have to stop myself thinking I'm Nicolas Roeg.
"An OJ Simpson trial, one week's buzzword is 'the gloves didn't fit', those few words were the news on it – and, say, something from a Middle East crisis, it could be the 'mother of all wars' – those two pieces have EQUAL WEIGHT. There seems to be no disparity between them, it's all relevant and all irrelevant. When you get the lack of stress upon what's important and what isn't, the moral high ground seems to disappear as well. You're left with this incredibly complex network of fragments that is our existence.
"Rather than running away from it, I think the younger generation is learning to adapt to it. I'm very wary of calling them out for being – and this is so often thrown at them – indifferent or ignorant or lazy or all that. That's bullshit, I think that actually they're in their own nurturing stage. It's not going to get any more clarified; it can only get more impetuously complex. There's no point in pretending: well, if we wait long enough everything will return to what it used to be and it'll all be saner again and we'll understand everything and it'll be obvious what's wrong and what's right. It's NOT gonna be like that."
Sorry what was the question?
"So. The album deals with all that to an extent. That kind of… surfing on chaos."
Bowie gets a coffee and another Marlboro Light going, sprawls across his armchair like a confident woman or a happy cat. Some of his prints are on the wall. We're at the Chateau Marmont, where every ten minutes someone tells you "this is where John Belushi died." Keanu Reeves was in the lobby earlier. Later, Bowie will tell me something funny about actors, but right now the sometime editor of Modern Painters, who last year interviewed Balthus, is on paintings…
"…on the other hand, I can revel in a Romantic or Renaissance piece. I can just fall away into a sort of euphoria over a beautiful-painted landscape or a wonderfully-executed sculpture. I have needs for all those things. I don't think one thing REPLACES the other. Consider the more positive aspects of post-modernism. I hope we get bored with the ironic stance it continually takes, because one of the better things about it is that it seems so willing to embrace ALL styles and attitudes…"
Do you feel like an elder statesman of sorts? Your hilarious press release says portentously: 'It is only now, when he has reached his own mid-life, that Bowie can make music encompassing the point of young, middle-aged, and old.'
He creases up, for the only time today, shaking his head, speechless.
Do you feel you've acquired significant wisdom?
"The old sage, har har har! Ah but you see I was playing 130 at 38, or something, in The Hunger. It comes easily to me now!
"I am now old enough – hurray! – to have a body of work, which is great. It means that I can dip in and pull out symbols and atmospheres and even processes and techniques that I've utilise before, and re-apply them in new situations. It's the basic maxim that if you take something out of one context and put it in another, it takes on a whole different set of meanings.
"So with Outside, placing the eerie environment of Diamond Dogs city now in the Nineties gives it an entirely different spin. It was important for this town, this locale, to have a populous, a number of characters. I tried to diversify these really eccentric types as much as possible. Overall, a long-term ambition is to make it a series of albums extending to 1999 – to try to capture, using this device, what the last five years of this millennium feel like. It's a diary within a diary. The narrative and the stories are not the content – the content is the spaces in between the linear bits. The queasy, strange, textures."
Bowie wants to stage all this as a piece of "epic theatre", hopefully with Einstein on the Beach director Robert Wilson, and with "a definite sensibility shift from when you went into the theatre. It'd probably be about five hours long, so you'd have to bring sandwiches".
The work sounds paranoid and ominous, whereas you personally, or as personally as I'm ever going to get to know you, seem exuberant…
"Oh, I've got the fondest hopes for the fin de siècle. I see it as a symbolic sacrificial rite. I see it as a deviance, a pagan wish to appease gods, so we can move on. There's a real spiritual starvation out there being filled by these mutations of what are barely-remembered rites and rituals. To take the place of the void left by a non-authoritative church. We have this panic button telling us it's gonna be a colossal madness at the end of this century. And it WON'T be. The biggest problem we'll have will be what to call it. Twenty-O-O? Twenty-O-Zero? Two Thousand? Well we lived through it; now what shall we call it?"
David Bowie openly admits that after the success of Let's Dance gave him a mainstream audience in the early Eighties, he hit a quandary. "I succumbed, tried to make things more accessible, took away the very strength of what I do." The Tin Machine period he puts down to "Reeves Gabrels shaking me out of my doldrums, pointing me at some kind of light, saying: be ADVENTUROUS again." When it's interpreted like this, it nearly makes sense. But not quite. "It did break down all the contexts for me. By the time it was over, nobody could put the finger on what I was any more. It was: what the fuck is he DOING?! I've been finding my voice, and a certain authority, ever since."
"The acting," chuckles Bowie, who has so much pop and so much art in his blood that it must be a riot in there, "is purely decorative. It's just fun, it really is. It's not something I seriously entertain as an ambition.
"The few things I've made that were successful were because I homed in on the directors, as they had something I wanted to know about. And just… curiosity. I wonder what Scorsese's like – well you'll find out, he's offered you a role. Right! With somebody like that you don't even question the role. You say – Scorsese? Yeah, I'm doing it.
"That's the impetus for me. Whenever I CHOOSE ROLES, it's usually a joke. I've now learned that my gut instinct is right – just go because you think the guy making it is interesting. And generally then I'll have a better time and be able to live with the end result.
"I find it really boring, actually."
A lot of hanging around and waiting?
"Yeah, I hate all that, y'know? I run out of film talk after a bit. People sitting around talking about what films they've just finished or are gonna be doing – the whole thing revolves around the INDUSTRY. People don't seem to have another life outside of it – you think: Christ, can't we talk about anything else except movies? Zzzzz…"
Playing Warhol, who you once claimed not to be able to tell apart from a silver screen, must've been fun though.
"Yeah, that was great 'cos it was just ten days. I only had 7000 words, and once I got them in the right order, it was a doddle. I mean, a most challenging role".
Once he revs up however, he's full of praise for superstar painter Schnabel's directorial debut – "the first film about an American painter, and it's a BLACK painter. Not Pollock, or Johns or de Kooning – although John Malkovich as Pollock would've been stunning."
This leads to anecdotes about a recent visit to Johannesburg ("accompanying my wife on a modelling gig") and the "fucking sensational" exhibition Africa 95, which comes to Britain soon. "I got very evangelical about it. It has no pretensions of grappling with philosophical problems. It's: can I eat? Can I stay in this house?
"They look on Basquiat as THEIR Picasso, who made it in a white world. I'm not sure even Julian realises the reverberations of his movie. It's an informal, poignant story of a tragic life. How by tacit agreement an artist and society endeavour to demolish the artist himself. His own addictions are so much a part of his downfall. But then that's one of the great occurrences of the day.
"If the film cocks up in the editing, I'll be so angry at him 'cos it's going so well. The performances are wonderful."
There follows a rather darling list of how well David knew the rest of the cast. "I've known Hopper, Dennis, for close on 20 years. Through good times and bad! And Gary Oldman I've known for maybe the last eight years. Chris Walken I've known FOREVER. And Willem Dafoe I worked with in the Scorsese movie, when… when he was Christ! Ha! He was hung up at the time."
You washed your hands of him.
"I did! Ha ha! Got tired of him hanging about."
In The Diary of Nathan Adler or the Art-Ritual Murder of Baby Grace Blue, a text which accompanies the new album, Bowie writes: "He didn't do much after that. I guess he read a lot. Maybe wrote a whole bunch, I suppose. You never can tell what an artist will do once he's peaked."
"I tend to steal from high art and demean it to street level," he smiles, apropos of nothing. "Brian [Eno] is the professor, and hasn't changed a bit in 20 years – he's STILL bald. Me, I'm the old limey queen."
We've done everything bar scuba-diving, so we may as well discuss books.
"I've always been drawn to stream-of-consciousness. Ever since I was a kid. I felt more familiar, had more empathy, with people like Jack Kerouac and Ginsberg and Farlinghetti, and then Burroughs of course in the late Sixties. There's a resonance in people like Thomas Hardy, that I appreciate, but I still find it hard work."
"Yeah, y'know, I understand that it's of its times, and that there are nuances in there I should ponder over. I'm just not sure I have the time!"
Yeah, there's a lot of trees.
"I can read a LOT, mind you. On a good week I'll get through three or four books. We are by tradition a literary nation. As can be seen by the way we revile all visual arts! And I've inherited that great love of literature, I love being told a story, being shown new ideas.
"But what I like about the stream-of-consciousness writers is – it's the same reason why I would HOPE my audience likes MY work – that they belong to me more. There's more room for interpretation. In a Hardy book the parameters of the narrative and its sensibility are dictated by the author. You have to follow his plan and get into his world the way he wants you to. I prefer to be allowed more latitude; something I can USE.
"I don't know why I'm picking on Hardy. Jane Austen then. Alright, even later… who've we got at the moment? Oh, Amis, I can – well, he's just funny. Peter Ackroyd is great. There's a great mysticism in his work. Now who's somebody who's really stiff and hard work?"
You mean, like a Booker Prize winner?
"Oh! Yeah! Of course! Oh dear. Anita Brook… Brook."
Um, Brookner? Hotel du Lac?
"Yeah, I mean something like that I have a real problem with. It really takes the aesthetic high ground and its all up there in the rarefied stratosphere. I'm sure it's great art, but I can't USE it, it doesn't apply. It just shows me that woman has a very well-honed sensibilities, and I'm very pleased for her. But I need art that actually enriches my life in a very personal way. Something that I can USE. Something that's FUNCTIONAL. And in its own way, interpretation is a function, it's a function of the psyche. And I kind of hope that's what my audience finds as one of the main things they can do with my… stuff. Ha ha ha!"
Fleetingly, when you're talking to him, or more likely listening, the shafts of sunlight shimmy a little and the eyes do something or his profile does something and you're thrown, your breath goes: wow, it's David Bowie, who redirected the finest minds of my generation. He's still recommending books about Mapplethorpe and revelling as a raconteur as hints are being dropped that it's time for him to go make videos, and records, and films, and paintings, and CD ROMs, and things happen, and whoopee.
"Or", he adds enigmatically, "they could bury it under dust."
We'll interpret that David Bowie line as we wish. We always do.


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-wonton wrappers
- uncooked ground turkey/ meat
-soy sauce
1. Start by cutting about 1/4 of an onion.
3. Rinse the celery and cut the ends and tops off
4. Rinse the carrots
5. Cut you celery into moderate sizes
6. Do the same for the carrots
7. Add diced celery, onions, garlic, and carrots into a bowl (make sure your bowl is deep as we will be adding a lot of components) Also add a teaspoon of vinegar and 2 tablespoons of soy sauce and teriyaki sauce
8. Add your ground turkey or whatever ground meat you have selected. Roll up your sleeves and hand mix all the ingredients.
Grab your wonton/ dumpling wrappers. They come in either a round or square shape. Make sure you grab the round ones as they hold better for dumplings and are thicker. Can be found at your grocery store or international market. You will also need a small cup or bowl filled with lukewarm water for wrapping.
9. Place about 4 wrappers down spacing them out. Taking one of the wrappers, dip your finger into your cup or bowl of water and trace a circle towards the outer edges on the wrapper. The water will make the edges stay closed once we're done wrapping so they don't unravel.
10. Take about a tablespoon of your filling and place it in the center of your wrapper that you traced with water.
11. Fold over (in half)
12. Starting at one end and working your way to the other, fold the top wrapper over slightly creating little pleats.
13. Continue steps 9- 12. and place finished wraps on a plate with flour or pancake mix dusted on the bottom so the wrappers don't stick to the plate.
14. Using a pan or skillet add a little oil and spread evenly. Turn your stove on to med heat and allow to warm up.
15. Once your pan is hot place about 5-8 of the wrapped dumplings in the pan and allow them to cook for about 2-3 mins.
SN: Make sure the wraps are on their side and not standing straight up to allow thorough cooking
16. If the bottom of the wraps are brown, go ahead and flip and allow them to cook for another 2-3 mins
17. Once both sides are brown, take a 1/4 of water and add to the pan in a circular motion allowing the water to be evenly distributed.
18. Immediately cover and allow them to cook for about 2 mins or until the water is mostly absorbed. Then remove the lid
19. Cook the dumplings for an additional 2 mins on each side
Wha La! To learn how to make the dipping sauce, refer to my post last week here
Hope these instructions were easy enough to follow. If you are a vegetarian, easily replace the meat with tofu or more vegetable and bean sprouts. Any questions or concerns feel free to comment or message me.
~Bon Appetit!
The average cooking time for this meal is about 45 mins to an hour, depending on how many wraps you are making. To reduce the cooking time, make your filling the night before. You could also wrap the dumplings and either freeze or refrigerate depending on how soon you would be cooking it.


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Day 8: 4:00 A.M. - 5:00 A.M.
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, Apr 22, 2013
It had great sound editing.
Dribble, Dribble, Dribble
, Jan 25, 2013
Even three years later this episode still emits a rancid stink that just won't dissipate. I agree with all of screenagedkicks reviews thus far for the season and I must say I rather enjoy reading his reviews, they are a freaking hoot and much better than the episodes themselves. HA!
I am so glad this was the last season of the show and it definitely is in the writing. I mean come on what were the writers thinking?! The narrative is so effed up by this point that it seem pointless to even continue but the writers try to invoke feeling with the dribble, dribble, dribble that is Chloe pulling a gun on the NSA sap, who no one cares about, the cliche moment of the rookie breaking formation in the firefight and oh last but not least the'shocking' twist in the DanaJenny show she's a mole GASP!!!
I seriously feel deep sympathy for Katee Sackhoff having to play this abysmal role after coming from such a magnificent role with Starbuck. Seriously if I was her I would have stormed off the set after this reveal hell even when the Dana/Kevin Show started all hell would have broken loose wasting a talented actress on this crap!!
But oh no '4am-5am' is just the little pebble that starts this landslide of shit and propels us into the cespool that is the rest of Day 8.
boring so far
, Jul 02, 2012
This season has been a letdown so far. i sure hope it gets better. anyone notice Jack called where he is working CTU? Its not CTU anymore right?
Even the twist, in its way, was predictable
, Mar 13, 2011
It wouldn't be the eighth season of "24" if there weren't several ridiculous plot points held together by a few classic moments. That has been the story for the season since the underwhelming premiere. With the reappearance of yet another classic "24" trope, it may be that the series has reached the end of its rope.
For once, Jack's plot thread missed the mark, but it wasn't entirely his fault. The writers chose to make everyone other than Jack and Cole a complete and utter idiot. They also seemed to think that Jack and Cole would be unable to land even one shot until the end of the firefight. That left only the option of stripping down an armored vehicle and walking to an emergency callbox, which resulted in two characters making stupid, emotional decisions against Jack's advice. Because that always ends well.
The problem was that it was predictable. It was inevitable that Jack and Cole would be the only ones to make it to the end, just as it was predictable that Renee would arrive just in time to save Jack from certain death. Not that Renee's return to the field is a bad thing; it could be exactly what the doctor ordered. Renee's short arc with Jack and Vladimir was the best part of the season thus far.
Chloe has been snarky this season, but she hasn't had much of a chance to shine. This is clearly supposed to be her big moment, a long time in the coming, but it feels forced. It's hard to believe that NSA agents would allow Chloe to intimidate them, even taking the gun into account. And just as everything that happened with Jack was predictable, so was Chloe's success. Did anyone really doubt that she would manage to get the system running before the end of the episode?
More surprising was Director Hastings and his support for Chloe, though it was in character. The writers certainly got the inter-agency sparring down right, even in this post-911 age, and Hastings rankled at the obvious barbs tossed in his direction. Given his established political concerns, scoring a victory over the NSA and getting back online faster had to be worth it. Besides, if anything went wrong, he could just blame Chloe to cover himself.
So with all of the mediocrity throughout the rest of the episode, it seemed like Dana's plot thread would live up to its well-earned reputation throughout the first 12 episodes. Prady's ridiculous insistence on pursuing his agenda in the middle of a massive national security crisis was enough to earn him a painful death. Of course, killing a man in the middle of CTU doesn't seem like a sound strategy.
That said, the revelation at the end of the episode does make sense of Dana's actions throughout the season to date. Well, at least to a degree. If the terrorists were banking on the assassination of President Hassan to smuggle nuclear fuel rods into their country, why would they need to have a mole in CTU? Just in case something went wrong, and they needed to execute this "Plan B", which was initially framed as a last-minute gamble? Or was this always the plan, and the writers just didn't make it clear that the terrorists were using Farhad to execute their true design?
But it was predictable for CTU to be attacked, and it was equally predictable for someone to be a mole. It should help to give Katee Sackhoff a lot more to do, something more suited to her range, but it feels like something that the writers decided to do late in the game. This is the kind of shocking twist that they used to toss into the mix when they were making things up as they went along.
Overall, this episode suffers from being all too predictable, even when it comes to aspects of the admittedly unforeseen twist at the end. Fans of "24" have seen it all before, and after eight seasons, the tropes are becoming more than tiresome. This season just can't seem to pull itself off the floor.
Nothing new under the sun...
, Oct 25, 2010
Well...I really love 24 I fell it has always been one of the best shows on TV but...Is it me or we use to get a cliffhanger every episode in the previous seasons...I mean now i don't really care what happens next episode. We used to get this over the top crazy situations that made me wait to see how they get out of it next week but now...it's tired and almost boring to watch...I understand that there are limitations to the ideas but then way not just end the show with dignity...
i have a crazy guess...after they stop the terrorists they will find out that there is an American group behind the...probably again the same grumpy bunch of old republicans who opposes the health care bill
...or whatever
...I mean...come on, again a sleeper agent in CTO...they have less of a screening process then Domino's Pizza...
The firefight was boring...what's up with Jack...it looks like he needs some training or at least let him play Call of Duty 2 or something, 4 bad guys are a problem for him? I mean Rene is coming from a different angel and takes care of it? and how the hell did she get there is 10 minutes...I live in NY and it takes me half an hour to cross the street come on...
The fact that they took CTU again...I mean I have more security for my mail box...come on people It seems like the writers are not sure what to do with Jack in order for him not to look like superman they make him irrelevant at a lot of the scenes which is annoying i mean this whole show is Jack. I'm afraid to say it but we need to end this soon...it's an OK show and 24 used to be the best show on TV, now it's OK which is no good for 24.
Never trust noone..
, Oct 25, 2010
Oh.. that was.. How to say.. First half was collecting all the pieces what had been scattered from last episode. Total cleanup.. and Chloe gets trouble with that. But something on that was very Chloe'like... And she managed to get CTU back.. and managed to get Renee back on action too.
So.. on other storyfronts.. It felt quite status quo. There was shooting, something going on, but nothing major until the end when they get back to the action and some weird things start to happen.. and then.. another brilliant twist. We probably should had expected it as there is nothing new on that revelation and it was clear Dana Wash has more than just one skeleton on her closet.. but that made so much more clear.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that 24 is in desperate need of a good culling.
, Oct 25, 2010
It is a truth universally acknowledged that 24 is in desperate need of a good culling. Forget the thousands upon thousands of dollars generated by its relatively steady viewing figures (no matter how much you might want to tune out, like all good car wrecks, you just can't) and the millions garnered through merchandise and promo; ignore the desperate pleas of the handful of rabid fans who have convinced themselves that they 'need their fix', as if somehow enslaved to the show's narcotic tendencies; cast aside the fact that you'll be putting hundreds of writers, directors, cast and crew out of a job. This show needs to die. And now. Before it drives an entire nation to psychological breakdown. Before it turns heretofore innocent and perfectly content individuals into sociopathic killing machines, battering every harmless biped within a two feet radius to death because they just can't take it anymore. And you may think that a little extreme, and perhaps it is, but really, there's no other way to describe this season of 24 than as a catalyst for agonising, hair-pulling, face-munching frustration.
If you want to point the finger of blame, it should be aimed squarely at the writing staff, whose patent refusal to challenge themselves and do anything other than regurgitate formulaic narrative patterns is crippling the show's success. It's a worrisome and baffling trend, particularly given the fact that occasionally, the season does deliver either passable or actually engaging instalments. Last week's hour of power was a well-structured, pointedly tense piece that ratcheted up the suspense and avoided many of the pitfalls that have previously plagued the programme. Unfortunately, these appear to be mere blips; brief flashes of life from a series that has lapsed into a comatose state and is threatening cardiac arrest. And as you can probably guess, '4am - 5am', hour thirteen of this shockingly troubled year, returns to the trend, falling rather spectacularly from grace and proving once again that the production crew have well and truly lost every last juicy morsel of the plot.
The episode is a two-hander, oscillating between juxtapostionary narrative strands that counterpoint each other, both thematically and in terms of the quality of their content. The over-arching motif, inevitably, is the fallout from the detonation of the EMP, which promptly renders things a little difficult both at CTU HQ and for those in the field. This would be an encouraging element if it were handled realistically and without the most ludicrous of haste. Taking the base of operations as our first concern, Howard Gordon, Evan Katz and David Fury resort to fanciful pseudo-technological garbage in an effort to impress the viewer, but actually wind up making the programme appear amateurish. As soon as the representatives from the NSA arrive (within about ten minutes, note) and processes are put in place to begin repairing the systems, dialogue descends into technobabble and make believe, with the occasional dose of verisimilitude thrown in just to make it seem like the writers know what they're talking about. Which they don't. Quite clearly. The terminology is largely correct, but what NSA and especially Chloe propose doing with it is just plain rubbish, completely out of context and having no grounding in reality whatsoever. But who cares, right? Who really pays attention to that stuff anyway? Why should we get hung up on it? Well, there seems little point in attempting to inject realism, taking steps to seem convincing, when actually you're just doing the opposite. That's counterproductive, guys. Just don't bother!
What is worse, undoubtedly, is the manner within which the story is structured. The plot is framed around two thoroughly abhorrent and irritatingly contrived character beats: the smarmy oneupmanship of the NSA representative and the ridiculous persistence and inappropriateness of one Chloe O'Brien. The pair are effectively ciphers here, spouting dialogue that simply performs a role (antagonist and supposedly protagonist), rather than embellishing character or creating something organic. The NSA guy, in particular, is little more than a one-dimensional cardboard cut out, his sole role seemingly being to provide O'Brien with an obstruction so that she can overcome the odds (again), prove how oh-so-wonderful she is and drag the plot out at the same time. Well, yay for that, eh? Honestly, is there any real need for this? Does anyone watching the show genuinely feel engaged with Chloe's 'struggle'? Or are well just irritated by the fact that the NSA dude shows no semblance of compromise whatsoever, simply will not listen to sense and has the most stuck-up attitude known to man, considering himself superior to all those working at CTU and actually having the audacity to get annoyed by the fact that the place was subjected to an attack that they couldn't possibly have predicted? We are surely supposed to hate this guy, ut actually, we just end up hating the writers for making us endure this crap yet again, for resorting to a storyline that they've slung at us time and time again for the last eight f****g years. Someone from the outside comes in, they clash with everyone else, we rally around CTU and hope to boot them out. Ye Gods, why???
Chloe's one-woman effort to magically fix all of CTU's obliterated systems only hampers things further. Of course, she knows better than every last one of NSA's tech experts! Of course she has a work around that even the guy who helped design the entire freaking building wouldn't have conceived of! And okay, so perhaps the reason he wouldn't is that the idea is dangerous, but then, why does Hastings allow her to go ahead with it anyway? Would it kill the writing staff to not allow everything to be resolved within the space of one episode and actually demonstrate some long-lasting consequences? That's too much these days, apparently; we need to turn O'Brien into the single greatest analyst in CTU history! Maverick, intuitive, practical... wow, she's sodding amazing, isn't she? And handy with a gun too! Yes, ladies and gentlemen, just when you think there are no further depths that this strand could plumb (after being made to endure pointless obstruction and worthlessly contrived conflict), Chloe actually aims a firearm at her superior, quivering like she's never seen one of these strange devices before, thereby risking her entire career for the gazillionth time. But it's okay because hse knows she's right so... we'll just let her off! There will be no lasting consequences for this gal, oh no. Suspension? Ex-communication? Prison? Oh no! A slap on the wrist from Hunchback Hastings in a patently laughable scene that essentially consists of a series of 'ner ner ner ner ner's. That's it! He lets her continue! Despite the insistence of qualified officials that what she's doing may well destroy the very fabric of the building or something. Seriously. What is this crap? Rajskub, Williamson and virtually everyone else involved are awful, delivering their lines with little or no conviction and seeming decidedly wooden, but you really can't blame them. This is truly horrible stuff, the kind of writing that has no place in a two-bit soap opera, never mind a supposedly quality drama like 24.
Of course, everything is fixed by hour's end. Well, sorta. They've got their systems up and running. Chloe's essentially fixed everything that they need in order to communicate with Jack (whom she's desperately worried about, you know... in case you didn't get that), prevented the drones from falling out of the sky (well, there's a major design flaw if ever I did see one) and stopped the vending machine from spewing out Oreos when you ask for a hot chocolate. So... what was the point? We're treated to a cumulative twenty minutes of technology-bereft action in the field (more on that later) and absolutely no consequences within the Counter Terrorist Unit itself. Seriously... where's the challenge here? The poor parole officer's files get conveniently erased and... um... that's it! Why not maintain this strand? Why not challenge your writing skills and force yourselves to come up with something new and entertaining, instead of resorting to the same lazy quick fixes with every passing week? The absurdly efficient technology is one of 24's core problems and removing it from the equation provides the road ahead with so much promise. To utterly and completely waste it within the space of an hour, especially in the sort of cheaply composed and catastrophically lazy manner as here, is just plain stupid. Don't give us the drones back; don't allow everyone to have access to every last security camera in the entire world. Give us something different. Please!
Frustratingly, it seems that the writers are categorically incapable of providing this. With every passing scene, the CTU strand simply gets worse and worse, sinking further into the quicksand of banality, until finally, it disappears beneath the surface, drowning in its own fetid detritus. Yes, as if the magical fixes and hopelessly wooden acting weren't enough (check out that scene between Hastings and Kayla... could you get any more forced? Seriously?!), 24 effectively lobotomises itself at hour's end with the oh-so-exciting twist that, yes, your eyes weren't deceiving you and your brain does hurt oh so very much, DanaJenny is a mole! She's working for the no-good, no-name terrorists! She's been secretly hampering CTU's efforts all this time by... struggling to silence her ex-con ex-lover and, um, not much else really! And why? Well, the answer's obvious,isn't it? She's Rod Stewart's No. 1 fan and she just can't wait to see him perform 'Maggie May' in front of thousands in Manhattan and subsequently obliterate the entire city! Sorry, in-joke there. Couldn't resist. Really, this has to be made light of otherwise I'll start bashing my brains in with the keyboard.
God, this truly is the very definition of abysmal, isn't it? Whose idea was this? Oh sure, it's going to give Katie Sackhoff something more interesting to do for the next half of the season and at least it connects her narrative to that pesky central story (we've essentially done away with any unrelated gumf... yay!), but did it really have to be this? Did we have to have yet another Goddamn motherfudging mole working inside CTU? In one sense, it's arguably a logical extension of the fact that we already knew she had a prior conviction but come on. Putting aside the fact that the security checks at this organisation are the most useless ever invented, we've seen this story a billion, trillion, gazillion bloody times. It isn't interesting any more. There's nothing left to surprise us. The audience response is not "oh my God! Can you believe what they just did?", it's "for f**k's sake, why must we put up with this predictably formulaic crap, season after season?" What have we done to deserve this? Why can't we have something new? Would it kill the writing staff to depart from the formula, to throw the rule book out of the window? Undoubtedly, many will be willing to swallow this rancid, festering pill because it immediately resolves the problem created by the extraneous narrative element but frankly, I just can't. This is as ludicrous a contrivance as The Kevin DanaJenny Show, if not more so. It feels like the writers were scrambling for something to do with the story, having backed themselves squarely into a corner, and they just picked the first thing that came to mind without stopping to think it through. There's nothing organic about this at all; it's a thoroughly transparent plot manoeuvre and a woefully atrocious one at that.
This takes so much wind out of the episode's sails that it almost negates the successful elements provided by the concurrent plot strand. To be fair to the show, the shoot outs between Bauer, Cole and the Redshirts and da evilz terrorists are quite niftily executed. Without the technological aid provided by CTU, without Chloe being able to predict the enemy's every move, there is some genuine peril created, a palpable level of tension and suspense, that is magnified greatly by Milan Cheylov's expert direction. He uses static and hand-held camera work to convey the uncertainty and chaos of the situation, and orchestrates the fire fight with the utmost of precision. Unfortunately, the writers prove themselves utterly incapable (again) of scribing something without lapsing into cliche. Agent Owen's death, as well as that of his compadre, is fraught with predictability: for the umpteenth time in televisual history, an inexperienced officer decides to ignore the sage advice of his superior and break out on his own, thereby compromising the entire mission. And then Owen does the same, running after the guy's bloodied carcass, desperate to save him. Sure, this might be passable, hell, it could even be poignant, if it weren't so ingrained in the viewer's conscience from years upon years of trite storytelling. There's no pathos at all because everything is so blase, so readable, so telegraphed. We know they're going to betray orders, we know they're going to die. There's nothing fulfilling about these beats at all. And to have Jack shot in the middle of the battle and survive again, getting up, effectively walking away and actually being coherent in the ambulance at episode's end is... well... there are barely the words. Why oh why oh why must the writers insist on putting Bauer in peril when it's obvious to everyone with a frontal lobe that he is in no danger whatsoever? Put Cole in the firing line, for God's sake! Anything else! Or hell, why not incapacitate Jack for the rest of the day? Give his gunning down some actual consequences? It's terribly easy to write this stuff, to rectify these problems, and so it's hard to believe that professional scriptwriters simply cannot do it. That they can't see that bringing Renee in just in the nick of time to fix everything is the furthest thing from satisfying. They just box the innovative away, much like DanaJennyMole hides Stephen Root's body behind, um, a rather conveniently shaped panel, not thinking beyond the immediate. And it's killing the show.
It really is a chore to sit through 24 these days. Episodes like this are so poorly written, so riddled with ill-thought-out developments, lazy cliches and objectionable plot beats that any semblance of enjoyment is utterly annihilated. The viewer is removed from his or her engagement and sits outside of the story, looking in on the continued downfall of this once mighty show. The car crash continues with every passing hour, occasionally offering shards of hope but mostly causing the programme to die a slow and painful death before our very eyes. Unless things pick up fast, and do so persistently, 24 really needs to be put out of its misery as soon as humanly possible... before we're all driven clinically insane by its absurdity.
Didn't see that coming, and not in a good way.
, May 02, 2010
So there apparently comes a time when all shows present a plot point so god awfully stupid that we must stop and reevaluate our decision to watch them. Unfortunately, this was 24's night. After 7 and a half seasons with some pretty bad lows and some pretty great highs, I must say farewell.
My vital organs just about ripped themselves out of my body when Chloe pulled the gun on the server guy. I still bought it with a massive pile of salt, however, and at least it was resolved in a decent way. It was the first warning light in this episode.
However, all season long I have hated Dana Walsh. Every aspect of her character and story line is annoying and pointless, but I was really rather hoping that Milton from Office Space would put that all to an end. But instead she decided to garrote his big fat ass and call up her hitherto unknown terrorist buddies, consummating what is one of the worst characters in TV history with one of the stupidest, least sensical 24 mole reveals in the show's running.
I am done with 24.
, May 02, 2010
Wow, what an hour of SUCK that was. Too much SUCK, so I'll just mention a few : An hour-long shootout, really?? Man, those were the worst snipers EVER! Tarin and those two other terrorist saw Jack clearly using binoculars, so why can't THEY snipe him? Tarin with the totally necessary statement that Jack is one of CTU's best agents. When did get he get brief on this? And Jack's wasn't even active until this day.
Cliche scene with Owen dying.
Jack walks out there like he's Robocop.
Chloe pulls on a gun on the NSA guy! What??! And Hastings sides with Chloe instead of the NSA guy and Dana. Whatever.
Dana is the mole...that's all you got, writers? What a crappy mole she is - she hasn't done anything for the terrorists for the last 13 hours.
Second half of the last day ever has just begun!
, Apr 09, 2010
After the shocking ending from last hour, CTU is desestabilized and all the workers need help from NSA.
While this event happens, Jack and Cole are looking for the terrorists whose have the dirty bomb.
This follow up from last episode is predictably worse, but the level doesn´t goes so down like other times and the beginning of the second half of the day is not bad at all.
Is a good episode, pretty entertaining and with another surprise ending.
This surprise is not as shocking as the previous, but engages you to see the next installment and also prepares you to recieve more tension that you have got yet.
The NSA comes in order to help CTU get back online. When Chloe and her suggestions are dismissed by the arrogant NSA officials, she takes drastic measures. Elsewhere, Jack and Cole fight the terrorists on their own without any help. Until...
, Mar 25, 2010
Another strong episode. "24" appears to be finding its stride in the latter half of the season. Freddie Prinze, Jr. gives yet another strong performance here. What is also a welcome site is Brian Hastings finally showing who's in charge and taking command. Mykelti Williamson gives, in my opinion, his best performance of the season in this episode. Chloe shines once again here. She is one of the best characters on the show period. I hope she sticks around from here on in. What's even better is there's no longer any debate about Dana Walsh. We all hate her now.
Another season, another mole.
, Mar 24, 2010
Thank god this show is fiction. I would hate to think our own security services are this incompetent.
About a third of this episode was a gunfight with Jack and 3 CTU officers versus the terrorists from, well, where ever they are suppose to be from this year. Despite having (literally) an armored SUV load of automatic weapons with high tech scopes and night vision equipment these guys managed to let loose about two thousand rounds without hitting anything resembling a terrorist. Glad the tax payers paid for all that "training". Well maybe not so much. The two CTU guys who got capped looked like they just traded in their boy scout uniforms last month.
Yeah, yeah, Dana. Whatever. It wouldn't be 24 if the bad guys weren't crawling out the walls - from the inside. Let's see what back story they come up with this year.
The episode that legitimized my hatred for Dana Walsh.
, Mar 24, 2010
Thank you 24, from the beginning of this season i knew i hated that blonde beeyotch Dana Walsh for some reason. I had no idea why, maybe it was her anal retentiveness or the fact she was engaged to Freddy Prince Jr. This episode, slightly downhill from last weeks (like OMG an emp? crazy!), showed Dana's true colors. Not only did she was she an accessory, but she helped her ex and his crazy friend commit larceny, then murdered him, all while jeopardizing the citizens of NYC (yeah I'm from long island so i take it kind of personally). But now she murdered that creepy p.o and hid him in a vent in the wall plus she's a terrorist too? She has got to go. I miss classic 24 but Jack Bauer's still awesome despite how crazy Dana Walsh is. Sorry to digress but she bugged me so much and it has been limiting my enjoyment of this season. I miss the days of Tony and CTU in Los Angeles and Jack Bauer wasn't a grandpa. This season is a little lackluster but I've put up with it. Last week's episode was good but I'm not reviewing that. 4am to 5am wasn't as great but I love the little bits at the end which have more information than the entire episode in just 20 seconds. This episode was alright but now I'm glad that I don't seem like I'm randomly hating Dana Walsh. She is literally insane and this episode proved that.
Another "Green" episode....
, Mar 24, 2010
Wow! What a surprise! CTU allowed to be bombed & infiltrated by terrorists!!!! That's a plot line they've never explored before! 24 has to be the "Greenest" television program on Fox, they've recycled more storylines from the past seasons better than anybody I can think of. And how about Renee...? Last night Jack has a running gunfight with the terrorists and everybody is standing around ankle deep in spent bullet casings and nary a bad guy dead. Renee shows up and 4 bullets later has 3 of the terrorists dead. I have been a 24 booster since the beginning and have never missed an episode, but I'm beginning to think I should start grazing elsewhere for my terrorist-ass-kicking fix. And Dana! Where shall I start. I admit it was a nice twist, but really, it is totally unbelievable that she was ever vetted for employment with CTU. Crazy, huh?
Depending on how much you've hated the Dana Walsh storyline involving Kevin Wade, this episode may somewhat redeem it.
, Mar 24, 2010
For the second episode in a row, 24 has cranked up the action and intrigue, weaving a portrait of cliffhangers, twists, moles, gunfights, Jack being badass, Chloe doing her best Jack impression and some pretty lame dialogue. The final result was fun, although it's difficult to decipher how exactly the writers of the show are going to explain their latest twist, involving Dana Walsh as a terrorist attempting to destroy her own country. I was glad to see 24 back to its typical adrenaline-laced ways, although sometimes, 24 is notorious for sacrificing plausibility for thrills and twists. Then again, 24 is rarely a realistic show, so maybe I'm being a little harsh.. Either way, the last two weeks have been a breath of fresh air compared to the rest of the season.
A large portion of the episode was focused on Chloe attempting to get CTU up and running again, and to be honest, it's about time we got some scenes with Chloe. I've mentioned it several times before, and I will mention it one more time right now: Chloe has been a key figure in 24 since Season 3, so it seems a shame to waste her talents on simply standing around and taking orders from a new and completely uninteresting character like Dana Walsh. As soon as I saw Chloe pull the gun on the NSA agent, I was cheering. Literally cheering, as in standing up on my chair and thanking God that they finally gave Chloe some scenes we all could sink our teeth into. As usual, CTU is quickly up and running, proving that the time constraints of an episode never holds CTU back from always winning.
I was glad to see Renee involved in the episode again. I was worried she was going to pull a President Taylor and simply disappear with no explanation of where she's been off to, but luckily, Chloe got Renee involved very quickly. She ends up saving Jack's butt after him, Cole and a couple of other CTU agents get cornered by Samir and Taran's men. Speaking of Samir and the terrorists, it feels as if there's no danger from these nuclear rods. Is there really any doubt that Jack and the others will not find them in time and save the day? Is there really any feeling of tension involved around this? I've grown less interested in the big picture and more interested in the little character moments, which is okay, I suppose, but a little disappointing considering that 24 used to be able to balance these two things effortlessly.
It's nice to see, based on the previews for next week, that President Taylor will be making a return. Perhaps people are growing tired of me whine and complain about her absence, but there's never been a President on the show, except for maybe Season 4, where the President was missing for this long. And Cherry Jones is too good of an actress to ignore for this long too. Thankfully, she'll be sharing the screen with Gregory Itzin for awhile, and he played one of the best television villains in a long time as Charles Logan. It's also nice to see that next week will most likely be as action packed and exciting as the last two weeks. 24 was in major need of an overhaul, and it appears that with the halfway point now distant in the horizon, we can look forward to some somewhat steady storytelling.
That being said, I decided to save the Dana Walsh twist for last. I'm still not sure what to think about these sudden change of events. Part of me is happy that this whole Kevin Wade mess is over, because the time being focused on it was ridiculous. However, the other part of me makes it feel like they wasted all this time establishing this character, however flawed and dull she is, and then decided since it wasn't working with the audience, to completely change her. I agree with another reviewer on this website when they wrote we've never seen Dana in contact at all with the terrorists since the season began, so it makes absolutely no sense that she'd be working with them now. It sounds like desperation on the writers part for me. They're trying to salvage a plot point that was failing miserably, and it'll be a few episodes before I decide whether or not it was the smart thing to do.
Fortunately, we've had two home runs in a row. Well, not home runs, but at least a double. It's been a little while since I've felt 24 has delivered a home run of an episode. But there's still about ten episodes left. I'm hoping there's still time for the writers to make our heads spin.
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, Mar 24, 2010
I say this everytime. The show is 8-9 years old. Its hard to be able to write everything in 24 consecutive episodes and write something original and exciting. I'm sure fans may agree with the original bit. But so what. I still love 24. Probably always will. We have all grown up with CTU getting destroyed, Moles appearing out of no-where and Jack being like "robo-cop".
So what?
Isn't that what makes 24, well 24?
Don't we all watch Jack because he kicks the crap out of terrorists?
Yes this episode had alot to live up to from last week, and I say it did okay. It did feel abit more of a filler episode but next week sets to be very interesting. (I'm sure I say that every week though D:)Yet this weeks episode was good. It kept to the tradition of 24, its twists, its characters, its invincible main character and its moles.
I thought Chloe did well for herself this episode, after a pretty boring time for chloe these other hours. Same with Hastings, he's beginning to grow on me. Jack & Cole made a good team, but I felt that story could have hurried along faster, but i'm glad Renee is back.
& as for Dana. I loved her killing the parole officer. My God was he annoying. & burying him in the vent. Nice touch. Atleast we get to see some more interesting side to Dana :)
And as the (controvercial) mole in CTU. I'm trying to work out in my head whether it all makes sence, but in the world of 24 not everything does. (Jack Bauer saving the world in one day for the 8th time is it? haha) But hopefully it will all be made clear in the next few hours. Atleast we can see her doing something other than get blackmailed. But why let herself get blackmailed in the first place? I'm gonna guess its because she couldnt afford anyone to realise shes not who she says she is and then her cover would be blown. By killing the parole officer im sure that hasnt helped. But overall I'm interested to see where this plays out. I know some people wont like it, some people will. Bit its 24 you should be used to it by now. I know some of you will just hate it becuse you cant stand Dana's character. But I love Katee Sackoff so hopefully now her talents can get to better use. I enjoyed this episode, if not a little less from last week. It still got the story going to wherever it is building up to.
So my jaw dropped, but not for the right reasons
, Mar 23, 2010
Last week's 24 ended on such a high note that I was buzzing for hours following. This week picked up in a great place. I liked that Hastings developed a bit. I still find him a little annoying, but he at least seems rooted in some kind of reality. I can't say how much I've always loved Chloe. Whoever writes for her does such a great job of being snarky and keeping her character consistent. I was glad to see her reclaim her role as head supernerd by getting CTU back up and running. I read a review where someone questioned her pulling a gun - was that you krameriffic - if so I totally buy it. I liked that she did it and I think it's in line with her character, especially because she took a deep breath before and it was completely awkward - that just seems like Chloe to me. I have to say, I wasn't entirely sure they'd let her plan go off without a hitch and I would have accepted if she failed too. Now...what I can't accept is Dana Walsh. I agree with krameriffic's assessment here. I mean, does this make sense? In what I felt like should have been a pivotal and really important reveal, I was really let down. I admit my jaw dropped, but for all the wrong reasons. Let me go back..I'm kind of sick of this idea that CTU has baddies on the inside. Exactly how are these people vetted? Plus, there will never ever be as bad of an inside baddie as Nina from the first season. Dana is messy, sloppy, not conniving at all. I was already bored and irritated by her character but I accepted her as just some odd plot device that was needed for drama; then they had to go and thrust her into the main event! Why!? If she was that good, how in the world did she leave a trail to begin with? CTU doesn't know you're a terrorist but your ex/con/boyfriend can find you under your new name? Really?Seriously? Why was she all torn up about murdering Kevin? Why did she send him to her apartment? Why didn't she just kill him from the beginning or have one of the terrorist lackeys do it for her? When exactly has she been in communication with the main bad guy? I feel like the writers wrote her as Dana Walsh for the first 7 hours and then in the 8th hour gave her a personality transplant. All of a sudden she's not weak and spineless?Really?Seriously? I'm not buying it and I find myself a little annoyed knowing they're going to have to work more Dana Walsh into the main plot. Overall the good things about this episode were equaled out by the stupid ending.
Compared to last week's episode, this weeks was alright...
, Mar 23, 2010
As most of us agreed, last week's episode was the best episode this season. That's hard to beat, but this week's episode wasn't bad either. Jack and Cole get into a thrilling shootout, Renee is back, Chloe adopts a new attitude, and Dana is becoming less boring and annoying with her new revelation.
This week's episode had lots of exciting action, interesting twists and suspense all the way through. I really felt involved in the story, and I think the writers have what it takes to finish off with a strong season. The story lines are really coming together and I'm interested in the story, finally. Lastly, after this weeks episode, we no longer have to complain about Dana's involvement because her story is actually going to be more interesting... I will say no more.
This week's episode was really exciting and I thoroughly enjoyed it, and I hope the writers can keep it going.
wow!!!! amazing!!!
, Mar 23, 2010
This was the best episode in what is becoming an amazing season!!! The twist is something none of us saw coming! The writers distracted us with dana and made us hate this stupid storyline only to throw it right back in our faces that shes the mole!!! I really feel like 24 has done what many thought it couldnt do and that is to completely catch us off guard. The writing has only gotten better and better with each episode this season. Jack, chloe, cole, rene, president hassan, and even hastings now have all become characters that we care about. man this is why i love this brilliant television drama
Good episode though I'm not sure about the twist.
, Mar 23, 2010
All in all a good followup episode to last week's installment. We saw Chloe take initiative and use a gun for the first time since I believe season 4. We saw Hastings become less incompetent and have some faith in Chloe's intuition, thus correcting his lack of judgment from earlier in the day. We saw an awesome shooting scene with Jack, Cole + two other CTU agents versus the enemies of the Islamic Republic of Kamistan. We saw Renee return and kick even more ass.
Then we saw Dana Walsh become a traitor? I'm not sure about this twist. On one hand, it brings more interest to a subplot I was otherwise bored by earlier in the day. On the other hand, does it make sense? Dana was sloppy at covering her tracks from a probation officer throughout the day but somehow she was able to become a CTU mole under the radar? I'm not sure about this. Every year CTU has a mole and it makes me wonder how thorough are these CTU background checks haha Her storyline could take a turn for the better though. Remember in the beginning of the season it was revealed that Dana was a murder accomplice. The question remains, who's murder was it? If 24 answers this question and the answer is significant, Dana's subplot may do a total 360.
All in all this was an action packed episode where Jack, Cole, Chloe and Renee each had moments that kept me glued to my television set. I hope Dana's subplot does a 360 because up until this episode, I felt it's been totally pointless.
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