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In J. D. Salinger's collection of short stories, For Esme with Love and Squalour, there is one that I especially like called 'De Daumier Smith's Blue Period'.
Comic and deadly, it is a portrait of youthful self-absorption, obsession and innocent ignorance, and I think it appeals to me because it reminds me unerringly of what I might call my 'Russian Period'.
In September 1952, I was working on a plan, at that stage unrevealed, to convince my parents to buy a radiogram. Radiograms and the emerging Long Playing microgroove records were just beginning what would be their relatively brief dominance of the music-listening world before Compact Discs and the replacement of valves by transistors supplanted them.
For a nearly sixteen-year-old, hormone-besieged young bloke plotting to ambush loving parents who, in his opinion, needed some re-education, the radiogram was heaven-sent. It was a music player which looked like a piece of furniture. Substantial, polished, pretending to be fashioned by hand from this or that kind of wood, radiograms cleverly concealed their essential artiness, their capacity to resound with symphonies and choirs or riff and rage with traditional jazz behind or beneath a façade entirely acceptable to any respectable, middle-class suburban lounge room.
I reasoned, however, that to make the case for a radiogram convincingly, I would have to show how and why it was necessary for the proper completion of my life and well-being, and how a lack of it would be desolating and possibly cause me to fall into dangerous decline. In short, I needed to know something about the music which only the radiogram could dispense. This task suited me very well because I was embarking with genuine enthusiasm and a degree of dogged determination on a self-tutoring course in classical music, aided by a program on ABC Radio, the name of which I forget, but which I turned to each Saturday once the counter attraction of football had either waned or ended.
I don't know how it was that I became so engrossed with and especially appreciative of Russian composers. Whatever the explanation, Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky, Borodin, Khachaturian, Ippolitov — all one way or another goose-bumpingly romantic — became my special favourites, though Ippolitov perhaps partly because I loved sounding the drum roll of his full name: Mikhail Mikhailovich Ippolitov-Ivanov.
It was difficult for me in those intense days to choose a favourite from among these melodic Slavs whose tortured lives and gloomy sensibilities appealed strongly to a teenager imagining himself to be similarly tortured, lovelorn and dramatically gloomy.
My radiogram campaign, impeccably conducted, and orchestrated with such subtlety and calculated restraint that my parents could not ignore it but would not feel badgered by it, bore fruit early the following year. A radiogram took its place in our lounge room and my education in classical music, while still rather random and driven by tumultuous adolescent emotions, continued.
When Josef Stalin died on 5 March 1953, a couple of months into my Matriculation year, my Russophile leanings seemed about to be intensified. Research in those days was a matter of consulting encyclopaedias, or, if possible, going to the Public Library, but in Stalin's case the newspapers were full of reports, history, anecdote, judgement and various degrees of relief, so there was suddenly plenty of information.
I was quite shocked to find that one of my heroes, Khachaturian, whose Gayne and Masquerade suites had suffused my soul with 'tragic inevitability' — a phrase I thought I'd invented but later abandoned in embarrassment — had been accused by Andrei Zhdanov's Agitprop ( the 'Department for Agitation and Propaganda') of 'formalism' in 1947. Essentially, formalism described art that was beyond the comprehension of the masses though the aesthetic theory was more sophisticated than that. Among Khachaturian's co-accused were Prokofiev and Shostakovich. All three tendered apologies but Khachaturian's, I learnt, was immediate, fulsome and successful in safeguarding his career and position.
I don't know what I expected of him. I didn't know enough about any of them to have much of an opinion, yet I was obscurely disappointed. Somewhere in my ferment of romanticism, intellectual curiosity and generalised excitement about literature and music and creativity lurked the understanding that ideologues and art don't mix and that artists do not apologise to ideologues. Easily said, of course, in the safety of an antipodean lounge room with its new radiogram. Zhdanov had the direct backing of Stalin and there were formalists who were imprisoned or were simply 'disappeared'.
The heat went out of my Russian prepossession, a cooling off partly engendered by Khachaturian's apostasy as I saw it, but mostly, it must be said, by the passing of time and, above all, the discovery of Bach, Schubert, Beethoven, Dvorak, Brahms, Sibelius — 'funeral music', my father remarked in a Zhdanovian moment — among many others.
The wondrous radiogram lost its polish and new marvels replaced it. The room faded from memory, the house changed hands, the family aged or went their ways. Time ran over it all, but the music at least lives on.
Brian Matthews is honorary professor of English at Flinders University and an award winning columnist and biographer.
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Was there ever a teenager who didn't believe his or her parents needed re-education? Crikey, I have vivid memories of the trouble I had rearing mine but looking back now from a distance of almost sixty years, and with a nod towards Mark Twain, I think I did a fairly good job. In the end, they turned out to be pretty decent people.
Paul | 18 September 2015
Nice essay, Brian. I too miss the old radiograms, they were lovely things. We had a smaller cheaper version, a radio gramophone that sat on a table - HMV was the brand. I envied my best friend's big freestanding radiogram. It wa mahogany veneer. His mother kept it beautifully polished. I can remember the name of that ABC Saturday classical music program too, I listened to it often. It was 'For the Music Lover' and it was beautifully presented by Ralph Collins.
Tony Kevin | 18 September 2015
I, too, had my "Russian" phase which coincided with my matriculation year in 1953. The same romantics roused my feelings. We, too, invested in a radiogram. I progressed to Beethoven etc., and eventually to teaching English. There must have been something dominant in the culture surrounding us in Brisbane at that time!
Jim Slingsby | 18 September 2015
At 16 in minor seminary I was de rigueur into Gregorian chant and Palestrina polyphonies. My adolescent broken voice was the antithesis of plainchant simplicity! [My vocal variants not even accepted in Palestrina polyphonic multi-tonal melodies.]
I had never been duped by Stalinism as I read of heroes like Cardinals Mindszenty and Stepinac. I reveled decades later in the irony that in 1935, Stalin taunted the papacy with "and how many tanks has the Vatican?"
the Vatican waited decades to answer!
Pope John Paul II in February 1981 wrote to the Kremlin that if the Soviet Union invaded Poland (as Communist 'law and order' was being shaken by Solidarity) he would personally stand between the tanks and the Polish people. The Soviet Union sensibly drew back from the possibility of invasion and 'the domino effect' rolled on: Stalin's question had finally been answered.
Must say I have enjoyed the Russian anthem and Kalinka a Russian song written in 1860 by the composer and folklorist Ivan Larionov and first performed in Saratov as part of a theatrical entertainment that he had composed. Soon it was added to the repertory of a folk choral group [YouTube has provided such delights]
Father John George | 18 September 2015
But their voices of protest came out in their music, Brian. Listen to Shostakovich's symphonies with the idea that they are his way of attacking Stalin and you get a different view. The parody of Stalin's favourite tune in the 7th Symphony is just one example of that, especially powerful because, although the Symphony was supposed to be about Leningrad's resistance to Hitler, it was in fact written well before Germany invaded Russia. It was a criticism of Stalin's totalitarianism. Listen to the music rather than the words.
ErikH | 18 September 2015
1953 was my Matriculation year. By that time I had learned that Uncle Joe Stalin was no longer our brave Russian ally fighting against German Fascism.
My mother was the biggest influence in my early musical education. She told us how in the 1930s she was a member of St Joseph's Choral Society, which flourished in the docks area of Belfast, Northern Ireland. The driving force behind the Society was the parish organist, Rosamund Werner, the daughter of a German immigrant, The group performed scenes from German and Italian operas/operettas (Marietta, The Tales of Hoffman, La Boheme) My parents most treasured musical possessions was a cabinet phonogram and a collection of records of Irish, Italian and German singers. Sad to say when they migrated to Australia in 1949 they couldn't take their musical lifeline with them.
One of the first things I did when I could afford it was to buy them a radiogram on Hire Purchase and one LP record of Count John McCormack singing favourite classical tenor roles.
Music has a power to transcend national and political differences. As Brian Matthews has written despite changed circumstances 'the music at least lives on.'
Uncle Pat | 18 September 2015
You are fortunate your relatively brief love affair was with Russian music and not Marxism, Brian. So many of your era at Melbourne University remained either unreconstructed Marxists or eventually became bitterly disillusioned anti-Marxists. Some were on the Arts Faculty staff in the late 1960s. Both types seemed sad, one dimensional figures. Fortunately there were other, happier, more rounded types we could take as mentors.
Edward Fido | 18 September 2015
Thank you Brian Matthews for rekindling old memories. You were obviously an idealistic and romantic young man, however youth seems to distort reality and provide the answers that we most desire. It was with amazement that I recalled how, as a 15 year old, I revelled in gloom and loneliness listening to English waltzes like Charmaine on my little record player, smoking cigarettes that made me feel sick and sipping whisky so rough that my throat ached. I survived this period. Later on, when I was hospitalised for a long period during a difficult pregnancy, it was Sibelius who provided me with courage and calm, leading me to accept what I had to live through. My beautiful daughter is testament to his powers, as well as the endless generosity of my dear husband and friends. Music touches the soul, and somehow we do not forget.
Eveline Goy | 22 September 2015
Because the French socialists, eg Sartre, were so friendly towards Russia, it was a long time before we realised just how deadly Stalin had been, Even more, we did not want to believe this very ugly face of communism. Where were we supposed to turn to, if they were all miscreants?
Eveline Goy | 22 September 2015
Our local council has announced the end of hard rubbish. As an adult, my enthusiasm for what the council calls 'scavenging' has become the source of many beautiful and useful items. But my objections are philosophical as well as practical. Ugliness has its place, and at clean out time, we literally bring to our doorsteps what we would rather put of sight and mind. Hard rubbish symbolises the costs of our throw-away consumer society while going a small way towards recouping some of them.
400 years ago, when Mauritius was still uninhabited, a cyclone thrust three tall ships of the Dutch East India Company against the coral reef. As the ships were ripped apart and thousands of Ming porcelain pieces on board smashed, the crew fought for their lives, but 75 men including the fleet commander Admiral Pieter Both, drowned. I picture that Sunday afternoon in the 1980s when my mother and I were wading in the water close to a familiar beach and found washed up shards of the porcelain.
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A Simple Comparison of Typical "Show" and
"Speed Racing Seppala" Style Siberian Huskies
I dashed outside to get a couple of shots in the fading light and realized, that my photos would not be the best for showing some of the extremes present in the speed racing Seppala line, because I don't really have those extremes at my house!
Well this is a one in a million shot!
The two boys, both big busy-bodies, walked up to see what I was doing.
Torch (red pinto) and Sly, a Seppala, are almost the exact same age.
Ok, so maybe two in a million....
Original Seppala Siberian Husky
Leonard Seppala and Harry Wheeler showing off their dogs.
The very attractive Kree Vanka is on the far right.
Moderate in just about every way, but still with cold weather coats, smaller ears, moderate chests (not narrow).
This is Seppala with some of his dogs.
Note the heavier coats and moderate+ bone, small ears.
Balto and another leader.
These dogs are not narrow and carry a fair bit of coat and have good bone.
Balto's head.
I think his head is "showy"
Modern Contemporary Seppala Siberian Husky
Sly is racing weight in this photo and it is taken from slightly above the dogs level.
Note the well angled and long croup,
Shorter coat and large ears.
Sly is NOT the most extreme looking Seppala I have ever seen but he does show the shorter coat, large tall ear, moderate angles
(although he looks a little straighter in the rear here than he really is)
Ember showing off her ears.
Flower, long legs, short coat
The female (whom I adore) on the left is the mother of the male on the right.
These two are considered to have too heavy a coat for speed racing.
Note the large ears and short coat.
Contemporary Elite Speed Racing Seppalas
Well I cant just begin pulling photos off other peoples
So I cant really show you the top elite Seppala racers and what they look like.
But Eden is sort of "extreme"
Eden, Sly's sister, shows the "extreme" better. And how to
properly explode dog fur all over the kennel.
Long legs, large ear, cant look at coat though right now, but it is short.
This girl is FAST!
All this being said there are a lot of Seppalas in the
"moderate but still racy looking" category.
And there are Seppalas that would do well in the ring.
I just had to throw in this photo, I love it!
This shows some of the older colours, but I think that each of these dogs
could walk in the ring right now and, other than their colours, they would fit right in.

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we had such a great time in vermont last weekend and my expectations of our hotel were blown out of the water so i thought i'd do a little recap here and share a few more pics!
we stayed in manchester, vt at a new kimpton hotel that was seriously so good. everyone raves about the equinox there and i'm sure it's incredible but we were totally happy at the taconic!
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manchester is a really cute and charming town (i think i've use the word charming 87 times but it's honestly the best word to describe it). the hildene estate is located there and these pictures don't do it justice at all. google it though, it's so pretty!
we skied at bromley which is a very low key, and i'd say, lower-level mountain - perfect for us. super family friendly with a great kids program. my guys were a little clingy when i dropped them off and when we came to pick them up they both wanted to do it again. win! we even got them up the chairlift a few times and did some real skiing with them. so cute! stratton is also very close by and is a much larger mountain than bromley but i've heard it's great as well. we had no waits at any lifts.
so that's my recap. hopefully we can go back and get one more trip in before the season ends!
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Its always an interesting proposition when your sometimes alliance partners in Motorola and Verizon indicate that your latest and greatest isn't so great. Microsoft found themselves in that very position today when Motorola and Verizon both seemed to insinuate that the Windows Phone 7 OS has failed or at least wasn't living up to expectations in interviews with CNET at Mobile World Congress today.
"I do want a strong third OS out there. It gives the carriers more flexibility and balances the interests of all the parties. But I still have doubts whether Microsoft will get the traction they are hoping for with Windows Phone 7."
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Substantial geographic variation in coloration, body size, and crest length. Tendency for black-headed, gray- or black-backed, long-crested birds in northern part of range south to Jalisco, Mexico; blue-headed, blue-backed, short-crested birds from Jalisco south to Nicaragua; one black-crested form (C. s. azteca) occurs in center of ring of blue-crested forms in central Mexico. See Systematics: Subspecies for detailed descriptions of subspecies.


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Thursday, September 11, 2008
FIRST OF ALL, I'd like to thank each and everyone of you from the bottom of my heart for the great outpour of love, warm thoughts, great support and prayers that you sent our way during these tough times. My hugs and kisses to everyone....oh, how I wished you all lived near me! Life is the same as usual @ Casa Maria... more doctor visits and tests for Joey and for me...work as usual. I did take a full day off from work yesterday just to be with him.
Well, on to some happy notes... Brrrr...it was COLD this morning! FALL is really coming on strong around here. I am always excited for the coming of each season although I must admit that DECEMBER is my all time favorite. The fall wreath is hung and the house has been dotted with artificial pumpkins. Yesterday, Joe insisted that I could get 3 pots of mums as he has a roll of quarters that he'd like to give to me and so I did...wasn't that so sweet of him? I shall take his coins and that'll make me $10.00 richer, hah!
I have noticed around the blogland that a lot of you including myself have started working on a project or two that are normally set aside for cooler weather. I picked up my knitting needles again and am currently working on a simple scarf. One night, I was bored at work and AHA... why don't I teach myself how to knit? After countless of tutorials from the internet, I was so proud to say that I was never too old to learn a new trick...
I recently picked up an old bible from Saver's and I found this beautiful quote handwritten on one of the endpapers and I thought I shall share it with you...
"All the water in the world cannot sink a ship unless it gets inside it. All the sorrow in the world cannot sink a person unless it gets inside the mind. If your mind is so full of good thoughts, and so full of good thoughts for others there won't be any room for sorrow and self-pity to get in".
- Mary Pickford
22 comments:
- Zee said...
You are very right! We can always learn something new if we really want to!
- September 11, 2008 at 7:49 PM
- FancyHorse said...
I'm sorry I missed your post Monday. I hope your dear Joe is feeling better; I know that will make you happier, too!
- September 11, 2008 at 11:47 PM
- ALI said...
as always connie let me know if you need anything at all. I'm glad to hear joe is going for test, medicine can suck sometimes, but maybe they can fix this for him.
or at least make him feel a little better.
your friendly neighborhood nurse!
- September 12, 2008 at 6:24 AM
- CIELO said...
You should link this wonderful post to our chain of prayer and possitive thoughts at the House in the Roses.... it's "Hopeful Friday".... we'll continue praying for Joe.... there is power in prayer.
May the morning light feed your heart and guide your life...
- September 12, 2008 at 10:44 AM
- Brenda said...
What a beautiful, insightful quote. It's so much fun to teach us old dogs new tricks. I love to master some craft I've long admired seeing others make. Quilting was one of those passions. Now I can look around me and say, I made those, and feel proud. Thinking of Joe...
- September 12, 2008 at 5:06 PM
- Nance said...
What a wonderful quote!... a good one to live by.
I, too taught myself how to knit, Connie. I can only do scarves because they are pretty simple. I have a friend who makes socks, sweaters, and what have you, but I'm proud of what I know for now.
- September 12, 2008 at 5:31 PM
- Mari said...
Yes, we are never too old to learn something. I dropped my art class some years ago, and have now gone back to it, at another school and a new teacher. I am learning new stuff with the new teacher.
Hope Joe is feeling much better.
Have a wonderful weekend.
- September 12, 2008 at 7:18 PM
- Judy said...
I Connie I just read your last two posts and so sorry that things are rough for you right now. That was so sweet of him to want you to have the mums. I am ready for fall and cooler weather too. I'm getting out my crocheting that I haven't touched all summer this weekend. I wish I were closer too so we could visit. If you need anything I'm as close as email.
And we can learn something new if we just put our minds to it.
Have a great weekend.
- September 12, 2008 at 9:15 PM
- Alex said...
I will continue to keep you and Joe in my thoughts and prayers. Please let me know if there is anything I can do. I really like the quote you posted. May I post that on my page??? I want to see it and read it every day. It is so good.
- September 12, 2008 at 9:24 PM
- FancyHorse said...
Thanks for your visit and comments to my latest post. I added two more picures if you'd like to come back and see them.
- September 12, 2008 at 11:34 PM
- Chris said...
I am hoping that the Dr's are able to help Joe. I am sorry that he is suffering.
Good to hear that you had some "couple time" and a break from work. The quote is so true. I'm glad it is a comfort for you.
Have a nice weekend, Chris
- September 13, 2008 at 10:10 AM
- hautemommy said...
Hi Connie, I emailed you a while back but haven't heard from you! We are swap partners for the Very Vintage Halloween Swap! :) Email me when you get a chance at email@example.com !! And knitting is currently what I have taken up as well.. you are right, it is such a cool weather thing! I knit in the evening when I catch up on shows hehe! xo!
- September 13, 2008 at 6:03 PM
- Alex said...
Happy Sunday, Connie. :)
- September 14, 2008 at 9:11 AM
- Alex said...
Hi Connie.
I wish you a beautiful week!!!
- September 15, 2008 at 7:56 AM
- Debbie said...
Hey Connie, I pray all goes well with the Dr appointments and that Joe gets some relief soon.
I love autumn too and these cooler days have a way of putting a spring in my step. And Christmas is my all time favorite season of all!
Thank you for sharing the beautiful words of that quote.
Blessings - Debbie
- September 15, 2008 at 3:03 PM
- Debbie in CA : ) said...
Hello, sweet friend. You continue in my prayers -- both of you.
Fall is not showing up here yet; and I am REALLY looking forward to it!
I saw one red leaf on the virginia creeper and an acorn hit me, but that's about it. Oh, Rachel came in with a bowlful of pears. Other than that ... nothing.
I long to be simmering soups and baking bread. Ah well ... we shall simply dine out of doors tonight and enjoy our endless summer.
I can't wait to see your house all decorated for Christmas. Blogs will make house tours a world-wide event. : )
Have a sweet and winsome day. XO!
- September 15, 2008 at 5:27 PM
- g said...
Hi, Connie. Good to see an update from you. There is certainly some pleasure in working on a project, isn't there? And how cool you were able to pick up knitting so quickly.
And its nice that fall is coming to parts of the coutnry (not here yet, in So.Cal, I fear!) Hoping Joe is maintaining - I'm glad he's going for tests.
best to you.
- September 16, 2008 at 11:13 AM
- Alex said...
Hi Connie. Thinking of you and wishing you a beautiful day today.
- September 18, 2008 at 11:49 AM
- FancyHorse said...
Hi, Connie
You asked me about kudzu, which I mentioned recently in my blog. Here is a picture Kudzu on Flickr
It is a very invasive vine that was brought to the US from Japan in the 1920s, maybe 1930s, for erosion control. It has almost taken over some rural areas of the south. Farmers battle it continously to keep it out of their fields and off their houses!
- September 18, 2008 at 6:26 PM
- Alex said...
Thinking of you. *hugs*
- September 19, 2008 at 8:56 AM
- CIELO said...
Hope everything is doing good with you and your husband.... the House in the Roses is praying for you...
- September 19, 2008 at 3:13 PM
- Alex said...
Hi Connie...how are you today? I hope Joe had a better day today. Hugs to you!
- September 20, 2008 at 6:07 PM


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Work continues at the site, and on the far eastern end of the beach, covered by forest sits the machinery that is being used for the work. The entire eastern half of the beach is still covered in their tire tracks.
In talking to a few villagers that i have regular contact with in Grande Riviere they pointed out that tourism from leatherback turtles is how many villagers make a living seasonally. As the third largest nesting site in the world, and as a village that takes conservation seriously, they had manage to build up a good reputation internationally. The state's action in this matter wasnt a good thing. They fear that fewer turtles will nest here next year as a result of the disturbed nests and destroyed eggs. They fear too that there will also be fewer visitors for the rest of the season and an obvious drop in the incomes earned. A visit to the beach shows you immediatelt that it's not a few hundred eggs that have been destroyed. It's closer to tens of thousands. The mounds of sand on either side of the new river mouth are littered with eggshells. There are white specs everywhere and many corbeaux and dogs feasting away. One wonders why after 50 years we still cant plan for a rainy season. Is not like it catches us unawares.
In the midst of all their fears and the reality of what was done to the beach a few things stand out for me: * This government has no environmental policy. * This government does not know the meaning of the words planning or consultation. * This government does not uphold the laws of the land. * This government believes that PR and spin are actual policies for running a country and will deploy every well-placed stooge in every organisation and agency they have to support their missteps and mishaps. * This government is under developing Trinidad and Tobago while pretending otherwise. * This government is sinister and evil.
1. If the point of the excavation was to protect turtle eggs from fresh water inundation the state apparati were 6 weeks too late. 2. If the point of the excavation was to protect properties from coastal erosion the state apparati were 6 weeks too late. What happened this weekend was not and cannot be considered conservation. They were saving their asses...not eggs.
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The extant provisions under COTPA are substantially compliant with the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), except only in terms of the display area required to be occupied by the pictorial health warnings.
All tobacco products manufactured on or after 1st April, 2013 are required to have the new pictorial health warnings notified vide G.S.R. 724(E) dated 27th September, 2012.
The Act (COTPA 2003) and the rules issued there-under for enforcement of the provisions relating to depiction of specified pictorial health warnings on tobacco product packs have notified/authorised officials with the powers of entry, search and seizure and made them competent to act in case of violation of these provisions. The penal provisions for violation of these provisions are laid down in sections 20 and 26 of COTPA, 2003.
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TV Preview: Bravo's 'Top Chef D.C.' fails to stir
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
"Top Chef," like other shows, has discovered Washington as an ideal place to practice the voodoo of reality television. But even as it reaches out for the waning glint of Obamaglow that gave the city a starry allure, "Top Chef D.C." feels a day late and a dollop short.
Washington's foodie cred -- a culinary reinvention that was two decades in the making -- is a story that stands on its own, but for those viewers who don't know, the opening episode of "Top Chef D.C." (airing Wednesday night on Bravo) repeatedly reminds them that the city is a dynamic place to . . . eat, of course. But it is also an endless supplier of stirring springtime footage of busy, dressy people headed to busy, dressy dinners, all charged to a K Street expense account.
One of this season's 17 "cheftestants" is Timothy Dean, a 40-year-old native son and Howard alum who runs a steakhouse in Baltimore and, according to his bio, hopes to replicate a location here. (Another local is Tamesha Warren, a sous-chef at the Oval Room.) In the first challenge, the competitors are asked to create a dish inspired by their hometown. Dean pan-sears a "Chesapeake" rockfish with pickled leek, dill and grilled crostini.
The panel of judges -- host Padma Lakshmi, chef-restaurateur Tom Colicchio and Food & Wine magazine's Gail Simmons, joined this season by star chef Eric Ripert of Le Bernardin in New York, who also runs Westend Bistro in D.C. -- finds that Dean's Chesapeake pride is lacking. He has made an unfortunate decision to sear the fish skin-on.
All this undoubtedly will fascinate foodies, especially local ones, but to me, it feels as though "Top Chef" has burned off a lot of its original allure. Not only does the food always look the same, but to a person, every cheftestant is already gainfully employed. One has a Michelin star. The words "James" and "Beard" are thrown around so much, I've ceased to know what they even mean. There's no element of youthful striving (or, in fact, youth); it's become a show in which older chefs seek validation and buzzy PR.
Our city sops up the marketing opportunities, too. Although the "Top Chef D.C." opening episode makes no reference to a half-smoke, a charred and split wiener certainly must be in store -- as are appearances by a variety of predictable Beltway-ers. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, CIA director Leon Panetta and White House assistant chef Sam Kass will make appearances in coming weeks, as will MSNBC host Joe Scarborough, the Washington Nationals and the always-available-for-TV Buzz Aldrin.
Populist bile and disdain for the federal government have never been thicker, yet Washington curiously remains a top tourist destination. Thus the cheftestants are immediately hustled to the top of the Newseum on Pennsylvania Avenue for the majestic Capitol view, to drink it all in.
And chop it all up. The "quickfire" challenge involves a race to peel 10 potatoes, brunoise 10 cups of onions and quarter four chickens. "Top Chef," to both its credit and its detriment, hasn't changed a bit. I myself cooled to deadline-cooking shows a while back. Part of it has to do with the fact that what we see in couture or home-makeover results we cannot taste in TV food, and "Top Chef" rarely encourages a viewer to savor, or cook. And there's something elusively unappetizing about the egocentric kitchen milieu; from cheftestants to judges to hosts to guest-star chefs, I just don't root for any of them, nor can I seem to work up the froth required to root against them. It's never been about how well they cook; it's about how well they cook with cameras around.
Which is harder than it looks. Having prepped their hometown dishes, the chefs are hustled to some cherry-blossom-related event at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium, where, Lakshmi enthuses, their food will be tasted by "300 young, successful Washingtonians."
Oh, no, not them. It's one of those events that would be covered in one of our eleventyseven Washington society magazines.
Ripert politely but unhappily tastes one cheftestant's disastrous chicken liver and port wine mousse. The cheftestant (a caterer from Brooklyn) moans, "I just served grainy, textured pâté to one of the best French chefs in the world, and there's just no way it's going to be okay." There's also no way "Top Chef" looks or tastes as interesting as it once did.
"Top Chef D.C." (one hour) airs at 9 p.m. Wednesdays on Bravo. Follow Joe Yonan's live tweets during the show at twitter.com/WaPoFoodLive.


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Lucid dream
February 1st, 2013
MILD technique-questioned reality
I've been diligently practicing reality checks and had four lucid dreams in four weeks thus far. I'd really like to get feedback on what everyone or anyone feels this dream may have symbolized, if anything. The dream didn't end where my journal did, but it did immediately focus on my ex girlfriend and a very long conversation with her. I was fully lucid but let the dream guide me as opposed to my previous few lucids. I haven't posted those because they quickly degraded into sexual fantasy upon my lucid awakening within the dream state. =) My main curiosity lies with the almost-cliche event towards the end...
The dream went as follows....
Feedback, please. =)
The dream begins and I am searching for an iten called "Immortalion" that I know will give me great strength and powers. How I know this is not clear to me. From where I remember, I am diving down a large, deep, stone well. The water is very clear and there is soft, ambient light coming from everywhere. Its diameter is roughly twenty to thirty feet, and I am diving with two others who are searching for the item along with me.
We find the item and it is abstract, its power-granting abilities mysteries rather than obvious and clear. I can only say that it resembles a spear and I begin to bring it to the surface of the well. There is some kind of interaction with a giant fish, but it seemed insignificant and I do not remember it now.
As we leave the waters, our path takes us up a stone staircase that hugs the walls of the well. We travel upwards, looking down frequently at the beautiful water below us, not knowing where the stairs will lead. Suddenly, there is a door in front of us and we decide to enter it. Once inside, our attention turns to the crowd of people within a fairly large room. The floors are dusty and old, made of some kind of wood. The walls appear to be white, or at least were at some point. The paint is faded and flaky. Large windows are letting in soft light from what appears to be outside. The detail and ambiance excite my imagination and I suddenly have inner dialogue.
"Think. What was it that you wanted to do? Dream? Are you dreaming? You wanted to have a lucid dream...didn't you?"
I pause and look around, somewhat in a mental haze of mild confusion and excitement. I realize the two companions are gone as a woman walks directly up to me and begins to speak. Her words were unclear but very firm and loud. I ignore her and attempt to concentrate as my inner dialogue resumes.
"Is this a dream? It IS a dream. What do you do from here? Concentrate. Clarity. Solidify the state. Concentrate."
The woman's voice gets louder, as do the voices of the group in the room, and pure conversation is taking place as everyone stops moving. The inner dialogue continues...faster, more intense, almost matching the group's and the woman in front of me.
"Stabilize this. You know how. Clarity. Rub your hands together."
I rub my hands together and can feel the friction. My lucidity begins to solidify.
"Feel that? The warmth from your hands, do you feel it? FEEL...it. Feel it. You have it. You've done it. Perfect."
I become completely lucid as everyone in the room suddenly stops talking and looks directly at me. I am instantly jarred by this and unsure what to make of it.
The following phrase booms through the room in the same voice of my inner dialogue.
"The foreign nature of the dreamer. They know who you are."
I feel my eyes wide open and my face turn red, unsure of what this means. Their stares are intimidating and the atmosphere is dead-silent. However, everyone in the room suddenly resumes walking about and conversing as though nothing had happened. I accept this and dismiss it as quickly as it happened.
"Music." I say as I begin to walk, remembering reading about performing this request.
An ominous song begins to play from somewhere and the hairs on my arms stand up in excitement at my success.
The music becomes slightly louder but doesn't interest me. I decide that I won't waste my limited time with small curiosities and wish to explore.
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Demetrius Murphy, 15, a young black male, was recently shot dead by a homeowner in St. Louis, MO when the homeowner had reason to believe that Murphy and his 17-year-old accomplice were attempting to break into his home. Because of this, "The [homeowner] then got his gun and went outside to investigate the disturbance -- as Murphy reportedly started approaching him."
According to Colin Flaherty, Murphy has been identified as an individual who enjoyed playing the "knockout game" against whites and others. "Over the last two years, hundreds of people around the country have become victims. Some say over 100 in St. Louis alone. Some died." Interesting game.
The game is not simply played by individuals we might be tempted to call "thugs." Flaherty notes that "Last week, four members of the national Championship Alabama football team were arrested after three played the game two times, and the fourth tried to use a debit card taken during the attacks."
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Murphy and his buds had been previously arrested for their alleged involvement in the knockout game against Matt Quain. That attack was witnessed by a 13-year-old girl. The charges were eventually dropped because the girl never showed up to testify, most likely due to witness intimidation. After their release, they jubilantly posted their victory on their social network pages. For an indepth look at the creation of the knockout game, check out this website.
Quain, who "suffered broken bones in his face and jaw," was located by the degenerates just days later and they only left him alone when he threatened them with pepper spray.
Interestingly enough, Flaherty cites two opposing viewpoints by two separate black individuals regarding the case of Murphy being shot to death. The first one comes from Murphy's grandfather who said, "I believe this is another one of the Trayvon Martin stories where people are getting so gun happy they shoot just on impulse now. I could understand if he was a threat. But on the property, he was not a threat."
If Murphy had been one of the individuals who attacked Quain, obviously, he was a threat. What if Quain had been left paralyzed, vegetative, or dead? As long as there are people who are willing to come out in defense of people like Murphy, they will do whatever they want to do in society. The fact that they will get away with it tells them that they can do more of it.
Another individual - a black woman - noted the following. "as a black woman i will say this, i wish they would run into the right person who is armed to defend themselves with a firearm…i bet we will see a drastic decrease in violence in our city. it is embarrassing and shameful – the image these losers portray of blacks in st louis. i do not and never will reside anywhere besides the suburbs of this city, because no one is safe among these savages. do not get angry when people call them thugs, because that is exactly what they are and no excuses can be made for this barbaric behavior! it's disgusting!!!"
She gets it, but of course, racist blacks and liberal whites will ignore her because it doesn't agree with their agenda.
We really don't know how many times Murphy and his buddies played the knockout game. We're relatively sure that they played it against Matt Quain and left him with broken bones. They never paid for the crime either. They walked.
Another individual who lived near Murphy's grandfather offered his own history with Murphy. "I live 3 houses down from where the shooting took place. I believe they are the ones who threw a rock and a brick into my window, stole my tv, ps3, wii and games as well right before this happened. They ransacked my room, no regard for my property. I am still freaked out over this whole thing. I hope this is a lesson of the consequences for violating my community's privacy."
People have a right to live in peace. They have a right to know that they can protect themselves from individuals like Demetrius Murphy who flaunt the law and run roughshod over people. There is - unfortunately, due to political correctness - a growing line of thinking in our society that says blacks are the main victims in society and the main oppressors are white (Christian) males. This then, often grants permission to people like Murphy to create havoc because they have come to believe they are victims. When they are caught for committing crimes, but released, they feel even more empowered to do more of it. Couple this with the belief by many blacks that it is impossible for blacks to be racists and you begin to see why so few of these crimes are labeled "hate" crimes.
Murphy was arrested for beating Matt Quain. Charges were dropped. If he was guilty of the crime, but got off with no penalty, it obviously made him bolder, rather than serving to help him reel in his improper (and illegal) behavior.
It wasn't long before he went up against someone who had a way of shutting down Murphy for good. His friend has been arrested and "charged with murder because he was an accomplice to a felony where a person was killed." Murphy's grandfather wants to blame the victim, the homeowner. Had Murphy not been trying to break into a home, he might still be alive looking for whites and others to play the knockout game on today.
I have read so many incidents of the knockout game all over the country and when the perpetrators are caught (which is rare), not a whole lot happens (unless the perpetrators are adults), as many of them are young, some as young as 12 or 13.
It's too bad that "games" like this happen. It's too bad that these young men did not have better parenting and role models. It's too bad that they often look up to people like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. They should be looking up to Rev. Jesse Lee Petersen and other men who could help put them on the straight and narrow. Instead, they look to too many within the black community who make excuses for them and give them a free pass.
Murphy stands before God, judged now, because of his actions. It's a shame he chose how to live that brought him down. We always pay for our choices.Don't forget to Like Freedom Outpost on Facebook, Google Plus, & Twitter. You can also get Freedom Outpost delivered to your Amazon Kindle device here.


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Watch Star Trek: The Next Animation And Prepare For The Klingon Invasion Of Twitter
Now that JJ Abrams and CBS have decided to block any possibility of a new Star Trek series until after the release of the next movie, it's up to fans to deliver our Star Trek fix. So far it's the Germans who've taken the early lead in fan attempts to fill the Trek void. They're doing it with something called Star Trek: The Next Animation.
Embedded below is the short film which applies South Park-style animation to characters in concert with some pretty sharp looking starship animation to re-create the Next Generation world and turn it into a comedy.
Watch and make sure you hit the "CC" button to activate close-captioning. It's in German….
The comedic elements are so-so at best. The crew aboard the Enterprise seem to be just re-enacting scenes from Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country while whiny Riker seems to be trapped in the plot of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. It all ends with a re-enactment of the shuttle docking scene from Star Trek V which, ok, probably was the best part of that terrible movie.
Whether or not you laughed at everything, the outer space animation is pretty great and, come on, that Earl Grey gag was pretty sweet. Let us know what you thought of Star Trek: The Next Animation below. Should they make more of these? More importantly, isn't it about time Klingons learned to tweet?