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Muhammad AliMuhammad Ali is a former heavyweight champion boxer. A three-time heavyweight champion, Ali is widely considered one of the greatest boxers of all time. Before turning professional, Ali won a gold medal as a light heavyweight at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.
The day Merchant met Mandela
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Sports figures from Muhammad Ali to Tiger Woods to the president of soccer's governing body were among the many mourning the death of Nelson Mandela on Thursday.
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Darren RovellThe company that manages the licensing rights of Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley announced Tuesday that they have purchased the rights to Muhammad Ali.
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Myron MedcalfIn 1975, former boxing champion George Foreman fought five men in Toronto on the same night. It was a futile attempt to regain his confidence following his knockout loss to Muhammad Ali in Zaire the previous year. Unexpected losses can sap the mac...
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Mina Rzouki"If you even dream of beating me, you'd better wake up and apologize," said the great Muhammad Ali said. Dreams are for everyone but victory is for the elite. Juve's Sunday night demolition of Napoli, their great challengers for the title, not only d...
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D'Arcy MaineOn this day in 1960, Muhammad Ali -- then known as Cassius Clay -- made his professional boxing debut at age 18. After winning the gold medal in the light heavyweight division at the 1960 Olympics in Rome, Ali won a six-round decision over Tunney Hun...
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Andrew Davis, ESPN Stats & InfoAndrew D. Bernstein/NBAE/Getty Images Larry Bird and Magic Johnson met in the NBA Finals three times in the 1980s. This Saturday night, UFC Heavyweight Champion Cain Velasquez will fight Junior dos Santos in Houston for the third time. It could g...
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Flashback: Laila Ali enters ring
espnWOn this day in 1999, Laila Ali made her professional boxing debut with a 31-second knockout of April Fowler. The daughter of legendary boxer Muhammad Ali, Laila instantly became the face of women's professional boxing. Some of her signature bouts inc...
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Muhammad Ali was back home Thursday night to honor an ex-president, Grammy winners and young adults for their roles in fighting for humanitarian causes.
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Dan RafaelWladimir Klitschko is the most underappreciated heavyweight champion in history. In his time, Larry Holmes, coming into his own in the shadow of Muhammad Ali's exit, was in a similar boat and also vastly underappreciated. Despite receiving heavy c...
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Fact Sheet Read MoreHow Non-Group Health Coverage Varies With Income
With some federal and state policy makers considering ways to encourage more people to purchase non-group, or individual, health care coverage, this new analysis by Kaiser Family Foundation researchers examines how often people at different income levels buy such coverage when they do not have access to employer coverage or…
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Attend Clean Elections debate for hotly contested LD 10 House race
by Carolyn Classen on Oct. 02, 2012, under Life, PoliticsOct. 10 — LD10 House, 6 p.m
Where: PCC District Office, Community Board Room (C-105), 4905 E. Broadway
House candidates: Todd Clodfelter (R), Stefanie Mach (D), Ted Vogt (R) and Bruce Wheeler (D)
The Arizona clean Elections Commission has been holding debates for the various Legislative District races throughout Arizona. If you missed any in person, go to their website to view them online (click here).
The Southern AZ debate schedule is here from my previous blog post.
Coming up next week on October 10 is one of the more hotly contested races with 2 Democrats (one incumbent, one newcomer) and 2 Republicans (one incumbent, one newcomer) facing off for 2 seats in LD 10 House. LD 28 Rep. Bruce Wheeler (D) and LD 30 Rep. Ted Vogt (R) are the incumbents. Only Clodfelter is a Clean Elections participant.
Campaign websites:
–Todd Clodfelter (R), President of 3D Inc. which owns and operates Ace Graphics and 3D Teez, a graphics design, consulting and printing business, www.TC4AZ.com
–Stefanie Mach (D), former Americorps volunteer, business consultant, www.stefaniemach.com
–Ted Vogt (R), House incumbent in LD 30, attorney at Smith & Smith, PLLC,, www.vogt4arizona.com
–Bruce Wheeler (D), House incumbent in LD 28, former Ward 1 Tucson City Councilman, photographer, www.brucewheeler2012.com
In the LD 10 State Senate race there is no Clean Elections debate scheduled as both candidates are running traditionally. Former 4 term LD 28 House Rep. David Bradley (who ran & lost in Nov. 2010 for statewide Corporation Commission) is facing LD 30 Senator Frank Antenori, who has served in that seat for over 2 and a half years. Senator Antenori recently ran for CD 8 House and came in 3rd in a 4 way special Republican primary in April, 2012. He had also previously run for that same seat & lost back in the 5 way Republican primary of September 2006.
Campaign websites:
Frank Antenori (R), www.vote4frank.com
David Bradley (D), www.bradleyforarizona.com
To hear Antenori vs. Bradley debate on the Buckmaster radio Show, click here.
At yesterday's Pima Council on Aging's two-hour legislative forum for LD 10, Senator Antenori, former House Rep. David Bradley, House Rep. Ted Vogt, and Todd Clodfelter attended & fielded prepared questions on aging in place, grandparents raising grandchildren, keeping older Arizonans healthy. They also addressed audience questions about affordable & available health insurance, higher paying jobs & retraining Seniors, help from nonprofits/churches, charitable contributions, health care exchanges, the mental health population, poverty levels, & their own personal health insurance plans. Mach & Wheeler did not attend.
Voter registration totals in LD 10 (D/R/L/G/AEL/Others/Total) from Pima County Recorder's Office website:
Voter wisely on or before Nov. 6.
UPDATE: Wednesday, October 24, 7:00 p.m.: Drinking Liberally hosts an LD 10 Senate debate between Sen. Frank Antenori and former Rep. David Bradley, at The Shanty, 401 E. 9th Street (at 4th Avenue).


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Message By Juan Somavia Director-General Of The ILO On The Occasion Of International Day Of The World's Indigenous Peoples
9 August 2012 - "Indigenous Media, Empowering Indigenous Voices" – the theme of this year's observance is a reminder that the voice and participation of indigenous and tribal peoples are indispensable in shaping a future that respects their dignity.
"Indigenous Media, Empowering Indigenous Voices" – the theme of this year's observance is a reminder that the voice and participation of indigenous and tribal peoples are indispensable in shaping a future that respects their dignity. The plight of many of the world's indigenous and tribal women and men testifies to the urgency of the need.
It is estimated that there are 370 million indigenous and tribal peoples in the world with half this population living in cities. Many indigenous women and men are still severely affected by poverty and discrimination and struggling to have their voices heard. Today new technologies and tools such as social media, mobile platforms and websites are proving to be effective means of sharing information and promoting awareness of their rights within their own communities in their own languages. They also open up avenues for communicating with others to overcome bias and inaccuracies that stem from a lack of understanding of indigenous cultures and beliefs. New technologies also offer powerful tools for effective organization which is fundamental to empowerment.
The ILO has had a long standing commitment to working closely with indigenous peoples in their efforts to strengthen their voice and expand their choices. We do so in the framework of a social justice mandate to promote decent work for all - also indispensable in establishing patterns of growth that are fairer and more sustainable.
Over the past decade, this approach has gained resonance. Ratifications of the ILO Convention on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples (No. 169), adopted in 1989, have doubled over the last ten years, including the first African ratification by the Central African Republic in 2010. This Convention complements the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People and they have a common objective of addressing persistent social injustices affecting indigenous peoples.
The ILO's report "Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work: From commitment to action" discussed at the International Labour Conference in June 2012 depicts the challenges indigenous peoples face in gaining access to state institutions and the consequent weak enforcement of labour legislation; lack of awareness of their fundamental rights; the absence of a strong collective voice to defend their rights and interests effectively; and the prevailing high levels of poverty. The global youth employment crisis is even more acute for young indigenous women and men who are four times more likely to be unemployed than non-indigenous nationals in certain countries. They are also more prone to long-term unemployment and part-time employment, and a greater proportion is detached from the labour market.
At a time of global economic crisis which heightens vulnerability, the ILO has continued to develop innovative approaches to strengthen indigenous peoples' voices, including through partnerships within the UN family. The ILO has been pleased to engage in the pioneering United Nations Indigenous Peoples' Partnership (UNIPP) along with the OHCHR, UNDP, UNICEF and UNFPA. It aims to support the efforts of indigenous peoples and governments to translate their rights and aspirations into positive change by strengthening their institutions and their capacity to fully participate in governance and policy processes at the local and national levels.
Inclusive processes must be founded on dialogue, knowledge and organization. Indigenous media has a key role to play in this process.


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Assessing the Orioles' possibilities at first base
Dan Connolly: I had a few minutes to kill while I was in the Nashville airport Thursday before I boarded my plane to come back to Baltimore, leaving another MLB winter meetings behind.
So I signed onto my Twitter account and announced that I'd be taking Orioles questions for a little bit. Within five minutes, I had about 60 questions sent to me. I answered a few of them before I had to get in line for the flight.
As I headed to the line, I passed by Orioles executive vice president Dan Duquette and told him I'd give him my phone so he could answer a bunch of the questions. He laughed and said it was great to see how much interest there was in the team.
I'd say at least half of the Twitter questions I received Thursday had something to do with the Orioles' first base situation, whether it was inquiries about Chris Davis or Mark Reynolds or the club's potential trade or free agent targets.
Now, with news Sunday night that Reynolds agreed to a one-year, $6 million deal (plus incentives based on plate appearances) with the Cleveland Indians, I figured this would be a good time to look at the Orioles' first base options, analyze several candidates and add any updates or thoughts I might have.
The possibilities:
Chris Davis
At this point, he is the Opening Day starting first baseman (with Nolan Reimold, Wilson Betemit and Danny Valencia potentially filling Davis' primary DH role). Davis was supposed to be the main guy last year, but frankly, he did not play as well at first as he or the club would have liked. Eventually, Reynolds seized the job and Davis was moved all around the diamond (and to DH). Before Davis came to Baltimore, he had a reputation of being an above-average first baseman. Haven't seen that yet, but Davis -- and manager Buck Showalter -- believe he still has the potential defensively.
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Add / View comments | Discussion FAQeasywriter--Go easy with mark Reynolds. I would pay 3X for Youkils. He is going to play 3B. reynolds cannot play 3B. It also tells you how poorly people think of Reynolds. You say Reynolds had 37 Hrs in 2011 but only had 86 RBIs. That seems impossible unless you are a bad hitter. BTW He also led the league in strikeouts that year. We cannot have another .220 hitter in our lineup who strikes out when men are on base and pitchers pitch them tough. We need hitters. And right now we only have 2 very good hitters. Hopefully Manny becomes the 3rd.
Reynolds signed with Cleveland for one year at $6 million. His buddy, J.J., says he talked to Reynolds frequently and knows he would have signed for less to come back here. So, what does that tell you? The Orioles didn't want him back at ANY price. Go figure. What a bargain he would have been at $5 million, which is dirt cheap for someone who hit 37 homers in 2011. And especially for a team that now has not one single legit power threat, or #4 hitter. And people wonder why the Orioles had 14 straight losing seasons. Senile Kevin Youklis got $12 million from the Skankees. Are you telling me he's more than twice as valuable as Reynolds? Duh, no.
Yes, give Chris a bigger glove. Give him a chance to improve by letting him play 1st base.
Get Terry Crowley and Brady Anderson to work with all the players on their hitting practice. It will give them a different perspective than the one they now have.


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The stir-fry is all things: refined, improvisational, adaptable, and inventive. It is the rare culinary practice that makes less seem like more, and by which small amounts of food feed many.
For centuries, the Chinese have carried their woks to all corners of the earth and re-created stir-fry dishes, using local and sometimes nontraditional ingredients. The old expression "One wok runs to the sky's edge" means "one who uses the wok becomes master of the cooking world." And as the wok user becomes master of the cooking world, so does he become master of the stir-fry, one of the greatest techniques of Chinese cookery.
The technique and tradition of stir-frying, which is at once simple yet subtly complex, is as vital today as it has been for hundreds of years. In Stir-Frying to the Sky's Edge, award-winning author Grace Young shares more than 100 classic stir-fry recipes that sizzle with heat and pop with flavor, from the great Cantonese stir-fry masterpieces to the culinary customs of Sichuan, Hunan, Shanghai, Beijing, Fujian, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Singapore, and Malaysia, as well as other countries around the world.
With more than 80 stunning full-color photographs, Young's definitive work illustrates the innumerable, easy-to-learn possibilities the technique offers — dry stir-fries, moist stir-fries, clear stir-fries, velvet stir-fries — and weaves the insights of Chinese cooking philosophy into the preparation of such beloved dishes as Kung Pao Chicken, Stir-Fried Beef and Broccoli, Chicken Lo Mein with Ginger Mushrooms, and Dry-Fried Sichuan Beans.
In honoring the traditions of her cultural ancestors who traveled the globe, Young also offers delectable crossover recipes for Chinese Jamaican Jerk Chicken Fried Rice, Chinese Trinidadian Stir-Fried Shrimp with Rum, Chinese Burmese Chili Chicken, and Chinese American Shrimp with Lobster Sauce.
Expert home cooks and professional chefs teach you the foundations of stir-fry mastery in the modern kitchen, from how to choose, season, and care for a wok and the best skillet alternative; the importance of marinades and the proper technique for slicing meat and poultry for optimum tenderness; how to select and handle Asian vegetables; ways to shorten labor-intensive preparations; and tips on how to control heat and choose the best cooking oil.
Fascinating personal portraits illustrate how stir-frying is not just a cooking technique but a vital element of China's rich culture. With this book, Grace Young has created the authoritative guide to stir-frying, a work that is at once rewarding and beautiful, much like the technique of stir-frying itself.
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Westward Migration (Great Events from History: North American Series)
Article abstract: Early migration west of the Appalachian Mountains advances American industrialization, increases a growing sectionalism, and ultimately devastates Native American indigenous populations.
Summary of Event
One of the great developments in the decade that followed the end of the War of 1812 was the mass migration of tens of thousands of Euro-Americans into the country west of the Appalachian Mountains. The West was not created overnight. Even before the American Revolution, American colonists had moved into the middle and upper Ohio River Valley. In 1775, Daniel Boone and thirty axmen blazed the Wilderness Road through the Cumberland Gap and founded the Kentucky settlement of Boonesborough. Settlers could follow the Great Valley Road down the Shenandoah Valley to a connection with Boone's route and from there, continue into Kentucky. To the north, routes such as Braddock's Road and Forbes' Road led to the forks of the Ohio River. By 1790, the population west of the mountains already totaled more than two hundred thousand, but the movement had only begun.
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Monday, January 25, 2010
New poetry contest begins today, and ends on Abraham Lincoln's birthday, February 12th. Topic: sainthood. (Original idea was Valentine's Day contest, but it turned out St. Valentine was a martyr, perhaps, and thus a saint. Secondly, it was close to Lincoln's birthday [is he not a saint?], and I thought this would create tension between northern and southern participants on the blog.) Poems should be less than 30 lines. Anyone can enter as many poems as they like, but you can only vote for one poem (it must be one other than your own, and all votes tallied by midnight of the 12th of February and contest winner will be announced on February 13th). Winner is a Lutheran surrealist saint for four score and seven years. Here is my own first entry to kick off the contest:
Pray the hours loosen
in somersaults the fascination
of combat,
pray gladiators versus
zebras & giraffes
versus gladiators,
Christians fighting
werewolves . . .
pray the doves
over stadiums.
59 comments:
- jh said...
mother theresa of calcutta was a character of recent mythology
she did not exist
except for in the mind of pathetic dreamers
nor did dorothy day exist
she was a myth unto herself
she was the product of
religious imagination
a distraction from the real
therese of lisieux - a figure created for a comic book series
some obscure french imagist (or was that a symbolist) brought her to life momentarily...she is little more than
a picture of rose petals
dropping from heaven...
she and her pathetic little way...very very stupid childish imagination stuff
hildegard - a fiction
catherine of genoa - mythic character -- a shrew a wench a wild warrior of demented fiction
mother ann seton
mother cabrini
stock characters in a hollywood narrative about ghosts in the modern day
lurking in the streets of an unlit nation
all of them anthropomorphic distortions
figments all of them
of deluded imaginations
all of them united in the roles of loving a god who does not exist - Tuesday, January 26, 2010 at 11:00:00 AM EST
- sally said...
i think we should make
an exception to the 20 line rule
for jh's poem
and for any other poem
that i happen to like
i actually like kirby's a lot too
a plea for the end
of senseless bloodshed - Tuesday, January 26, 2010 at 11:43:00 PM EST
- Kirby Olson said...
Sally, I already DQ'd Jh's entry due to its length. My poem remains the only legally sanctioned entry.
- Wednesday, January 27, 2010 at 9:15:00 AM EST
- jh said...
hey that's no fair
in fact the poem is only seven lines
even a saint could't negotiate the line breaks and constraints placed upon us by modern technology...i demand re-entry into the contest...i will get a lawyer...we'lll fight this in the haloed sanctions of american justice in rooms that reek of justice...this is a violation of my right to free speech---this is an atrocity...i cannot stand for it...count them you fools....7 lines each stanza is a line in my way of thinking
there's a saint standing at a DEAD-END sign
i'm calling my lawyer
she'll talk me back into this thing
she will
jh the martyr - Wednesday, January 27, 2010 at 11:02:00 AM EST
- Wendy Hoke said...
I may enter this time, but it will depend on whether you find a way to keep the poems separate for easier reading.
Srsly! It's not hard to copy and paste them into the post. So I'm not buying your excuse about it being too technically difficult.
WW - Wednesday, January 27, 2010 at 11:07:00 AM EST
- Kirby Olson said...
I don't understand WW's beef, or JH's beef, or the beef with the 20 lines cut-off. Anarchists everywhere, but I draw the line, I must draw the line, as well as walk it.
- Wednesday, January 27, 2010 at 11:18:00 AM EST
- Craig said...
What can I say
About Saint Genet?
I grew up thinking
That Abraham Lincoln
Was a model worthy
Of emulation, but he
Wasn't as smart
As John Paul Sartre. - Wednesday, January 27, 2010 at 11:25:00 AM EST
- G. M. Palmer said...
ain't. - Wednesday, January 27, 2010 at 11:49:00 AM EST
- jh said...
maybe i need to explain
what a line is
what's my line
a line is a curve in space
lines extend beyond human orchestrations of reality
the line just keeps going on into infinity
there are lines and then there are lines
line 'em up knock 'em down
all the ducks
lineage is a quandary
lines converge in a quagmire
lines defy constriction they always echo
life is a punch line
line is the bed upon which algebra seeks to lightly lie
wittgenstein who?
the shortest distance between two points is a vacation
jh - Wednesday, January 27, 2010 at 12:14:00 PM EST
- W.B. Picklesworth said...
Pronounced juh
There once was a martyr named jh
Who lived east of South Dakota.
His lines were too long,
And he got the gong.
Kirby's imposed Sharia!!!
:) - Wednesday, January 27, 2010 at 4:34:00 PM EST
- jh said...
my little treatment of catholic holy women doesn't hold a votive candle to craig's tight existentialist composition
i guess existentialists had their saints too
jh - Wednesday, January 27, 2010 at 9:14:00 PM EST
- Kirby Olson said...
Ithought Palmer's piece was excellent!
- Wednesday, January 27, 2010 at 11:50:00 PM EST
- jh said...
are we now having
2nd N tree
absurdities abound
at my expense
my whole being sighs
like a saint in a swoon
jh - Thursday, January 28, 2010 at 10:57:00 AM EST
- stu said...
The Armor of Jesus
The arrows of Satan are many,
he'd put your soul in the grave.
But the armor of Jesus is certain,
it will not fail to save.
So armor yourself with Jesus
and open your heart to his grace.
Should Satan attempt then pierce it,
the Lord's heart will take your heart's place. - Friday, January 29, 2010 at 2:23:00 PM EST
- stu said...
Should Satan attempt then to pierce it....
My proof-reader needs to spend time in the unemployment line with Kirby's fact-checker. - Friday, January 29, 2010 at 4:03:00 PM EST
- jh said...
stu i used to own and operate a poetry repair shop what we would do is take little blunders like that and make them into something better...take it one step further...
i hate to ammend your verse on a semi public space ...but here goes..o...and you don't have to pay one damn bit of attention to what i say here...nobody else does
"Should Satan tempt then pierce it"
"His heart" on the last line
it will dance a bit better then
(you lutherans can be so dang tentative)
i think that lends itself to a more visceral reality of the possibility of faaaaaaaaaaaallllllIiIIIINNNNNNGGGGGG!!!!!
if you catch my drift....
jh - Friday, January 29, 2010 at 10:37:00 PM EST
- Craig said...
It's too early to call, but I do like 2nd N tree. The title alone is worth the price of admission, a tree hugging football metaphor, and quite apropos after a gain of seven big yards on first down was improperly whistled for ill eagle procedure. Where's the eye in the sky? The play is under review.
- Saturday, January 30, 2010 at 8:44:00 AM EST
- jh said...
or maybe
"Christ's heart"
on that last line
to avoid misunderstanding
jh - Saturday, January 30, 2010 at 2:59:00 PM EST
- stu said...
Thank you for your suggestions. I'd be honored if you consented to be considered a co-author. Kirby thinks that poetry competitions are about poets. I think this is silly—poetry competitions are about poetry.
The Armor of Jesus
The arrows of Satan are many,
he'd put your soul in the grave.
But the armor of Jesus is certain,
it will not fail to save.
So armor yourself with Jesus
and open your heart to his grace.
Should Satan tempt then pierce it,
Christ's heart will take its place. - Saturday, January 30, 2010 at 6:20:00 PM EST
- jh said...
stu i'd be careful about how you use the word silly when being critical over here on LS i know at least one person who takes things like that pretty seriously i don't know his name but his initials are k o...silly is the last thing you're going to get over here i mean these guys have postules of seriousness coming out of their skin these guys extend prose beyond reasonable likits whatever likits are i don't know i'm just trying to make this thing sound like one long line one lone long fishing line
one long floating line on a blue gurggling trout stream
i can't read all the extended prose over here i tell you what the lines seem to get longer and longer
saints dally about in infinity
that last line was my third entry
why do i feel like ww is just sitting back and enjoying all this pious piffle - Monday, February 1, 2010 at 9:10:00 PM EST
- W.B. Picklesworth said...
A saint.
A+ saint.
At sainthood?
Couldn'ta, woulda, should.
Not me yet.
Not yet.
Too hard
To be.
Number 2
In the Trinity
Does saint 4 me. - Wednesday, February 3, 2010 at 5:43:00 PM EST
- jh said...
at least picklesworth is willing to accept the fact that the 20th century did happen and creative experimentation with form is an acceptable poetic choice
why i can't seem to get away with it over here boggles the mind
like them bobble head baseball statues
i like this poem very much wb
jh - Thursday, February 4, 2010 at 12:00:00 AM EST
- Kirby Olson said...
Pangolins who want to be squirrels
No expense shall be spared on their surgery
Grief counselling for cougars
with Lyme Disease
All-Expenses paid trip to
Connecticut hospitals
Doctors dress as skeletons
Wagging fingers no-no on Fox
Elephant hearts in Africa
Flown in to talk to Dr. Phil
Poachers got my baby
The leaping mechanism of fleas repaired by shoe repairmen
Full employment by .gov
Worms shall do grief counselling
For the baby birds
Shocked at what they've eaten
Democrats shall raise a hullaballoo
As the Saints go marching in
As the Saints go marching in
Democrats shall redistribute
the sexes of hermaphroditic snails,
And squirrels shall be whales,
As the Saints go marching in. - Thursday, February 4, 2010 at 9:53:00 AM EST
- jh said...
kirby may have won his own contest at last
he'll be able to pin the star which actually has a sharp pin end on his forehead
the voice of LS blaring out into the world
with the profound and noisy clarity of truth
a trumpet out of tune
a saint perplexed by duty
jh - Thursday, February 4, 2010 at 10:54:00 AM EST
- Craig said...
The first concert I went to on the UW campus was in 1976 in Kane Hall. Some friends of mine told me I had to go with them to see Taj Mahal. I had never heard of him before, but the ticket was only five bucks, so I went.
Ten years ago my wife and I were in Seattle on home leave staying in Rainier Valley with a lesbian couple we know. It was good of them to put us up for a few days because the day after we got home my mother had a massive stroke and was evacuated by helicopter from Whidbey General in Coupeville to Harborview. I got to see her once before she had her stroke and we told her that we were moving from Fiji to Manila in a few months. The next day she was in a coma and she passed on five days later on a Sunday morning. I went up to the hospital early that morning to see her. Her body was still in the room, but she was gone. My dad and my brothers and sisters had all gotten together in the hospital room a few days earlier to decide about life support and whether her organs should be donated to medical science. We decided against it in defiance of her wishes. Our big concern was that she might stay in a coma for months or even years. I was the only one in the family to see her actual corpse. She was cremated and a few months later her ashes were sprinkled in the lily pads near her parents' cottage on Lake Wawasee in Indiana. That's where her brother's ashes were scattered thirty years ago. Her two younger sisters, who own the cottage now and are still with us, will likely follow suit. Their grandfather was a minister and their parents were quite religious, but all of them abandoned formal worship.
I went up to the Seattle Center and met up with my wife and her friends. It was the first week of September and the last day of Bumbershoot. Around seven in the evening the last concert of the day got started and somehow we got tickets. Taj Mahal was up on the stage with his National guitar and a troupe of Senegalese musicians. They played stringed instruments their ancestors were picking before Columbus ever thought about sailing the ocean blue. - Thursday, February 4, 2010 at 12:04:00 PM EST
- jh said...
wendy hoke
i'm keeping a compilation
of the poems here
over on my blog
you will be required
to post the poems here
if you're willing to risk the horrible fate of beautiful loss
i will then cut n' paste your or any other pome over on my blog
and then publish in the major international cyber journal
the poems in their completelness and i will be given 100s of 1000s of dollars for literary contributions to the world of verse
if anyone has a problem with that he/she can take it up with me personally
intellectual property is tricky business
tricky and sticky
like only one or two other things in life
jh - Thursday, February 4, 2010 at 1:27:00 PM EST
- jh said...
have i admitted here or anywhere
i in fact have owned and played
the KORA
and i am looking for another one
if anyone has a line on one
i wonder if KORAs are for sale on eBay
thnks crg
jh - Thursday, February 4, 2010 at 1:35:00 PM EST
- Craig said...
I wouldn't know where to find a kora, but my sister has a nice collection of tablas and some hammer dulcimers. She wrote her dissertation on tabla and how the drumming evolves from each generation to the next by maintaining a delicate balance between innovation and tradition.
- Thursday, February 4, 2010 at 2:59:00 PM EST
- stu said...
jh has this category of "found poetry." To that end, I'd like to suggest the following, by Melanchton, et. al., as a historical rebuttal to WB's poem of existential angst:
The Church is the congregation of saints
in which the Gospel is rightly taught
and the Sacraments are rightly administered. - Thursday, February 4, 2010 at 8:43:00 PM EST
- W.B. Picklesworth said...
Thanks jh.
Stu, I was focusing on the wonderful exchange.
Oy, I've got to catch up. - Friday, February 5, 2010 at 10:28:00 AM EST
- stu said...
Stu, I was focusing on the wonderful exchange.
I was actually trying to make a point, not just trying to razz you.
Let me just work at the point now, and more explicitly, lest it be lost.
There is clearly a distinction in the way that Lutherans and Catholics use the word "saint." Catholics use it to refer to "capital S" Saints, i.e., individuals whose faith has been manifest through the miraculous, and who have been properly vetted by the "capital-RC" Roman Church. Whereas Lutherans mean "lower-case s" saints, i.e., believers.
The Augsburg Confession used "saints" in the definition of "church" to exclude folks who showed up, but didn't believe (i.e., "hypocrites and evil" in the language of Article VIII, or "wicked" in the language of the Apology -- note here that my copies of the Book of Concord are at home, so I'm working off of the online version, which is to say McCain rather than Tappert or Kolb-Wengard-Schaffer).
Anyway, Kirby's original poem focussed on martyrs, and jh's follow-up on several female "capital S" Saints. These two initial entries essentially bound the word saints to its "capital S" meaning, and in that sense, your poem is very Lutheran in its despair at being measured against such a standard. Indeed, from a Lutheran perspective, one cannot chose to be "capital S" Saint, one must be called to it, and few are. This is a round about way of saying that the Lutheran resolution is to recognize that we are called to be "lower-case s" saints and this requires only that we, through the faith granted by God's grace, believe in his promises.
Throwing yourself on Jesus is always acceptable, but reclaiming the language as you do it might be even better. - Friday, February 5, 2010 at 1:22:00 PM EST
- jh said...
stu wb
there is an understated tradition of sainthood in RC domains as well
for instance
theresa of Avila stated
the true saints
are the parents of children
and francis of assisi initiated a critique of christian heroism and sought to make it justified by a willingness for selfsacrifice in the name of Christ's Kingdom
in the monastery we say
for every saint there are 40 martyrs
the young monks look holy but they are not
the middle age monks don't look holy at all and
they are not
the old monks look pretty beaten and tired
and they are close to holiness
collectively the knowledge exists that most saints remain anonymous
but we rejoice in the PEOPLE the actual historical PEOPLE who have followed christ we have names and we celebrate with them whenever we celebrate...we achnowledge the COMMUNION OF SAINTS...we color our history constantly with the lives of PEOPLE who live to serve christ
history not simply of events but of PEOPLE -- and what they taught and what they did and who they were and how they followed - hagiography is a full time job for the jesuits/and others known as bollandists
i really love this whole thing of stories and legends of saints
catholics have no problem with tall tales about people
we celebrate it
if ever you kneel to pray with others you are a saint if ever you raie your voice in praise with others you are a saint
if you can do something that is both marvelous and beautiful in witness to christ then perhaps you are a SAINT
stuz delineation is valuable none the less
jh - Friday, February 5, 2010 at 5:03:00 PM EST
- W.B. Picklesworth said...
That the team
Called by the name
Of Saints with a capital S
Hails form a city
Know for sin
It's like
Rome fielding
A team with a name
Like "The Mighty Lutherans"
Slight disconnect
Nope - Friday, February 5, 2010 at 10:28:00 PM EST
- jh said...
minimal sainthood
St. Nihil
this world phenomena - Thursday, February 11, 2010 at 2:09:00 PM EST
- jh said...
having perused again the poems
i've decided to cast my vote for kirby's first entry and while it may seem a little tasteless for the promoter of contest to win his own contest i don't see that it would be in violation of anything that transpires on this blog
the blood of martyrs - 1 vote
(on the condition that my first entry is back in the running after major literary litigation)
"should be less than 30 lines"
seems ambiguous enough to allow my interpretation of the line - Friday, February 12, 2010 at 5:27:00 PM EST
- Kirby Olson said...
Ok, I'll take the vote, and put your first piece back into the running. I did expand the line count from 20 to 30 lines already, so you are not banned or DQ'd, especially as you have voted for my poem.
Now, I will just have to suppress vote totals, and perhaps I'll eke across the finish line tortoise-like, without a single other contender!
Ha ha!
I'm a criminal, no saint, but in these postmodern times, how on earth can anyone tell the difference?
Saint Genet and all that! - Friday, February 12, 2010 at 6:00:00 PM EST
- Kirby Olson said...
JH, I'm voting for your first poem, including the last two lines, which would ordinarily DQ you.
I must avoid winning my own contest for fear of ridicule.
Someone else vote for JH! - Friday, February 12, 2010 at 8:45:00 PM EST
- W.B. Picklesworth said...
It seems clear to me that you've got to call attention to the contest again. Rustle up some voters. I'm not going to vote tonight as I've got to take another look at what's on offer and I've just been told that it's bedtime. I won't argue with that.
- Friday, February 12, 2010 at 10:46:00 PM EST
- stu said...
Someone else vote for JH!
Sounds like a good idea. But since this blog seems to thrive on chaos, I'll cast my vote for WB's poem, "Curious," and make it a three-way tie. - Friday, February 12, 2010 at 11:11:00 PM EST
- Kirby Olson said...
Voting is over, now, and so a three-way tie it is. But since I am the blog-meister, I will call it a two-way tie: between JH and WB.
Nice going, guys! Lutheran Surrealist Saints for the next 150 years (barring the commission of major felonies -- as sainthood is generally not granted to the living). - Saturday, February 13, 2010 at 10:59:00 AM EST
- W.B. Picklesworth said...
What a fruitful word.
Casting aspersions.
Casting your troubles on Jesus.
Plaster casting.
Casting your bread on the waters.
Casting nets.
Casting call (I hope I got the part!)
Casting votes. Or rather casting a vote. (I would hate to be disqualified.)
jh was disqualified for awhile because he doesn't like rules enough. But the rules have changed. And there is such charming indignation in his Entry #1. I cast my one vote for that poem. - Saturday, February 13, 2010 at 11:05:00 AM EST
- W.B. Picklesworth said...
Wait a second! As I wrote my last comment, Kirby seems to have swooped in and closed the voting booth. But I was still in there with my marker! Throw it to the court. Don't disenfranchise me. Help!
- Saturday, February 13, 2010 at 11:07:00 AM EST
- jh said...
holy shit
i'm an LS saint
i honestly don't think i'm up to it
why is this plunger stuck
on the side of my head
i still think craigs
tight existentialist poem rocks
the laurel leaves - Saturday, February 13, 2010 at 11:48:00 AM EST
- Kirby Olson said...
WB disqualifies himself by voting for JH, which I've decided to allow, which means that JH is a Lutheran Surrealist saint for 150 years or LIFE, whichever ends first. In the case of death, LS does not retain saint status, because we think the dead are no longer part of our domain (two kingdoms and all that).
So, JH is the world's only Lutheran Surrealist saint.
We may make more of these later, but for now he's the only one.
Congratulations, JH!
Please do not abuse this status. Felonies and other indiscretions might still disqualify you as an LS saint, and other restrictions might apply.
But as of right now, you are the world's only Lutheran surrealist saint! Remember, enjoyment of status has responsibilities. - Saturday, February 13, 2010 at 1:22:00 PM EST
- sally said...
well i was going to vote for kirby's first entry (did he have more than one?), but it seems that the polling booth has closed--kirby you never make it clear when the deadline for voting is!
now it seems that kirby
has withdrawn his entry
which he has every right to do
as blog meister
so i will cast my vote for jh's
first entry
which upon rereading
probably should have earned
my vote initially
a great poem!
congratulations sir - Saturday, February 13, 2010 at 1:32:00 PM EST
- Kirby Olson said...
Sorry if my contest guidelines weren't clear. The problem is that I think the lead-in for this contest was too long.
Glad you voted for JH. He's now the world's first official Lutheran Surrealist saint. He's also the only living Lutheran surrealist saint. (Dead LS saints automatically revert to ordinary citizenship level because we believe that once you're dead there are not as many ways to commit sin, and thus, in God's kingdom, either everyone is a saint or no one is. But over here there are very few if any saints.
And felonies and other crimes, and other restrictions do apply to our living saint.
JH -- we shall be watching you VERY closely! - Saturday, February 13, 2010 at 2:50:00 PM EST
- Kirby Olson said...
GM's 2-word poem really rocked, too.
- Saturday, February 13, 2010 at 3:32:00 PM EST
- jh said...
so does this allow me to be as surreal as i want to be as long as i don't commit felonies??
being as it is that i feel so unworthy of such a title i must make it known that i will be requiring a whole commitee a whole entourage to assist me in my new status
and i'd sort of like one of those nice northern italian villas too if i could
so anyway
sally is my consultant
in lutheran surrealist sainthood
she's pretty sirius these days
check out her blog why don't cha
i feel like i'm lost in an escher print
jh - Saturday, February 13, 2010 at 5:57:00 PM EST
- Kirby Olson said...
It allows you to be as LUTHERAN as you want, which means not committing any felonies, and also restraining others who might do so.
The saint part means you have to be scrupulous day and night in defending all kinds of human dignity.
I'm not sure what the surrealism part contributes to your role. You are the first Lutheran Surrealist saint so we look to you as a role model.
Your behavior will set standards for decades, possibly millenia, to come.
So you have to decide! - Saturday, February 13, 2010 at 6:31:00 PM EST
- jh said...
the problem with
being lutheran is that i'd have to posit some idea about protest
and i don't have anything to protest
i think i'd rather explore the possibilities of surrealism
it's pretty dangerous out there
the world is hell i could just use the word TERRORIST in a joke and that could be a felony
i can't do the sainthood thing
i will go through the rest of my life in abject bewilderment (that part's not all that new)a reluctant saint a saint blistered with angst a saint in utter darkness about who the hell he is supposed to be
the cost of discipleship seems way too high
can't i just get a job in editing
i'm a derelict on the way to heaven
and my feet smell like hell
jh - Saturday, February 13, 2010 at 7:43:00 PM EST
- Kirby Olson said...
JH, you are the first to negotiate the virgin woods of Lutheran Surrealist sainthood.
You are a kind of Lewis & Clark without a guide!
Blaze the path, and write back to us. I have complete faith in you and your cognitive mapping skills. - Sunday, February 14, 2010 at 4:02:00 PM EST
- jh said...
hey i think sally voted over on my blog
for you kirby
that would give you 2 votes
i don't think i couold be the LS pioneer saint by dfault
this has gotten to be so very difficult
we might bave to appeal to a higher authority
lord take this burden from me
jh - Sunday, February 14, 2010 at 7:11:00 PM EST
- sally said...
i'll need a $1000 retainer
to take on this consultantship role
aren't saints supposed to
be able to perform miracles?
let's see
we'll have to schedule
a media appearance
where you can walk on water
or turn water into wine
or walk on wine
or something like that
or maybe heal a victim
of the haiti earthquake
no, let's see if you can
predict earthquakes
or prevent them
then we'll need a sample of your blood
and various other body parts
some hair
a fingernail
maybe the little toe from your left foot
some things that we can auction off
as relics
that should get us started
(am i fired yet?) - Sunday, February 14, 2010 at 8:18:00 PM EST
- Kirby Olson said...
JH, sleep on this for a week, and if you can't hack your status, I'll join you in sainthood, JH, as a gesture of renunciation.
- Sunday, February 14, 2010 at 8:44:00 PM EST
- sally said...
if turning water into wine
is too hard for you
we might settle for whine :) - Sunday, February 14, 2010 at 10:56:00 PM EST
- sally said...
on the other hand
if jh is really a saint
then perhaps we need to begin
to question his very existence
perhaps he is merely a character
of recent mythology
a fictional character
devised by a clever blogmeister
to attract folks to his blog
perhaps jh is really kirby's alter ego
maybe kirby even created jh's own
supposed blog to support this fiction
so this poetry contest
is really a tie between
kirby and himself
i mean have any of you
actually ever met this jh guy?
ok well i have
but... can i trust my senses?
did i just imagine him?
a product of wishful thinking? - Sunday, February 14, 2010 at 11:03:00 PM EST
- jh said...
the fact that i've stayed on here
at LS for so long
is something of a miracle
no sally you're not fired
i think you have the right approach
surreal is the word
i'll give this whole thing a prelenten
prayerful consideration
i'll get drunk out of my mind on mardi gras
and then go to confession on ash wednesday
i hear the sounds of
manha de carnival
jh - Monday, February 15, 2010 at 12:30:00 AM EST
- Craig said...
I cast my vote for Colin Wilson, even though he didn't enter a poem in the contest. He makes a much better saint than Jean Genet and he's British so his work doesn't get skewed by translators. I really liked Philosopher's Stone and some of the occult relations of mind and matter. Things like earthquakes and tsunamis actually generated by mental contact between the living and the spirits of the Old Ones. It seemed plausible to me at the time. I'm voting absentee from overseas, so my vote is allowed to be late, but it only counts in races too tight to call.
- Monday, February 15, 2010 at 12:39:00 AM EST
- G. M. Palmer said...
Thanks for the honorable mention, Kirby--I think it's one of my favorite poems now--and might qualify for world's shortest poem.
:D - Tuesday, February 16, 2010 at 8:31:00 PM EST


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Alabama Passes Ban on Abortion After 20th Week
Mere minutes before a midnight deadline, the Alabama State Senate approved the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, becoming the sixth state to pass a ban on abortion after the 20th week of pregnancy. Following an earlier 66 to 19 vote approval by the state House of Representatives, the Senate passed the bill by an overwhelming 26 to 5 vote margin.
Homosexual Activists Gleeful Over Supposed Pro-Family Concession
Homosexual activists are gloating over the recent statement by Focus on the Family (FOTF) President Jim Daly (left) that pro-family leaders are "losing" the battle for traditional marriage among younger generations of Americans.
In an interview published in WORLD magazine, Daly was queried on the efforts of organizations like FOTF to protect families, marriages, children, and the pre-born. While Daly was optimistic on such initiatives as adoption and beefing up crisis pregnancy centers, when asked about efforts to convince younger Americans on the importance of protecting traditional marriage, he appeared much less optimistic.
Study Shows Born-Again Christians Have Smaller Brains
Born-again Christian who have been wondering all these years just why they are so different from the rest of the crowd may now have an answer via a new study out of Duke University Medical Center. Researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Templeton Foundation found that individuals who identify themselves as "born-again" Christians tend to have smaller brains than Protestants who claim no such experience.
Minnesota Voters to Decide State's Marriage Definition
On May 21 the Minnesota House of Representatives passed a proposed state constitutional amendment that would define marriage as only between a man and a woman. The House vote followed similar approval of the measure in the Senate on May 11, which means that the proposed amendment will be placed on the state ballot for Minnesota voters to decide in November 2012. If passed it will make Minnesota one of more than 30 states that have actively protected traditional marriage via their state constitutions.
Census Numbers Show Fewer Divorces, More Enduring Marriages
Marriages in America are lasting longer and divorce is declining slightly, according to a recent Census Bureau report. The research, taken from a sampling of 55,497 individuals surveyed in 2009, found that more than half of couples currently married have been married for at least 15 years, 35 percent have been married for more than 25 years, and six percent have been married for more than 50 years. The latest numbers are all one to two percentage points higher than Census statistics in 1996.
Study Finds Retailers Marketing Inappropriate Clothing for Pre-Teen Girls
A new study conducted by a college in Ohio has found that up to a third of pre-teen girls' clothing available online in the U.S. is designed to be sexualizing. "Researchers led by Sarah Murnen, a professor of psychology at Kenyon College in Ohio, looked at 15 websites of popular clothing stores, ranging from bargain to high-end sectors of the junior US market," reported AFP News. The researchers found that clothing marketed for girls as young as six is being designed to draw attention to their breasts, buttocks, and slimness, sending out signals that are sensuous and inappropriate. The researchers say it is a trend that is reinforcing destructive stereotypes for female attractiveness.
U.S. Olympic Official Resigns Over Traditional Marriage Views
Peter Vidmar (left), the two-time Olympic gold medal gymnast who had been chosen as the Chief of Mission for the 2012 United States Olympic team, has resigned his position after his pro-family views and support for traditional marriage raised the ire of homosexual activists and Olympians.
Marriage Amendment Moves Ahead in Minnesota Legislature
The Minnesota legislature appears to be closer than ever to passing a state constitutional amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman. On April 29, barely a week after a bill was introduced in the Republican-controlled State Senate, the bill passed out of committee, moving the proposed amendment a step closer to being placed on the 2012 ballot in the state, where a survey by the conservative Minnesota Family Council shows that 56 percent of voters think marriage should be defined as only between a man and a woman.
Oklahoma, Idaho Pass Key Pro-Life Bills
The legislatures of two more states, Oklahoma and Idaho, have voted overwhelmingly to protect the most vulnerable individuals in society: the unborn.
On April 13 the Oklahoma legislature gave its final approval to a pair of pro-life measures and sent them on to Republican Governor Mary Fallin for her expected signature.
Delaware will become the eighth state to legalize civil unions for homosexual partners when Governor Jack Markell signs the bill approved on April 14 by the state's House of Representatives, following passage in the Senate earlier in the week. The Governor said he looked forward to affixing his signature to the law. "I think it's time for this bill to be passed, and it's going to be good for so many Delawareans for years to come," he told the Associated Press. "I'm really pleased with it."


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Skating on 'Canada's Highest Skating Rink' at Big White!
There is so much to offer at Happy Valley, you'll have a hard time deciding what to do first! You've sped down the Mega Snow Coaster, the kids have raced their own snowmobiles, now why not rent some skates and test your hockey skills on one of our two fantastic outdoor rinks? Skate on Canada's highest skating rink, it's the same size as an Olympic Hockey rink! If you're not a hockey player there is plenty of room for you and your whole family to enjoy the rink with a leisurely skate.
Hours of Operation
Sunday - Thursday: 11:00am - 9:00pm
Friday - Saturday & Holidays: 11:00am - 10:00pm
- Skating Rink Ticket: $5.00/day
- Skate Rental: $8.50/hour
- Hockey Stick Rental: $4.00/hour *$30 deposit required.
- Hockey Helmet Rental: $4.00/hour *Credit Card required for rental
- Pucks are available for purchase for $4.00
*All rentals require a credit card and photo ID
*These prices do not include tax, and are subject to change without notice.
Tickets, skate & hockey stick rentals are available at the Happy Valley Day Lodge Ticket counter.


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Land of the Dead
Director : s George A. Romero
Screenplay : George A. Romero
MPAA Rating : R
Year of Release : 2005
Stars : Simon Baker (Riley), John Leguizamo (Cholo), Dennis Hopper (Kaufman), Asia Argento (Slack), Robert Joy (Charlie), Eugene Clark (Big Daddy), Joanne Boland (Pretty Boy), Tony Nappo (Foxy), Jennifer Baxter (Number 9), Boyd Banks (Butcher)
George A. Romero's Land of the Dead is the fourth installment in a series of zombie films that started with 1968's landmark Night of the Living Dead, which encapsulated so perfectly the country's Vietnam-era fear that we were eating ourselves alive. Each film in the series since has been similarly stamped with the tenor of the times in which it was made -- the setting of 1978's Dawn of the Dead inside a shopping mall provided a cunning parody of '70s consumerism, and 1985's dark, nihilistic Day of the Dead played as a nightmarish vision of the Reagan era's obsession with military build-up.
Land of the Dead continues some of these same ideological concerns, but is unmistakably a product of the post-9/11 years and our escalating fears of terrorism. It is not without note that the one character in power in declares in a Bush-like mantra "We don't deal with terrorists," while another character threatens to unleash his own version of a jihad. The swarming zombies slowly taking over the world might as well stand in for all those faceless foreign enemies we are constantly being told to fear because they're right outside our gates, and it shouldn't come as much surprise that the film's true villain is a businessman who exploits the situation to his own gain, regardless of how many lives it costs. The zombies in this film are becoming more threatening because they're becoming smarter. They have begun to develop rudimentary communication and begin to figure out how to use blunt weapons, then tools, and finally firearms. Frighteningly enough, they're becoming, in a sense, more like us.
Like both Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Dead, Land of the Dead centers strongly on the human desire to rebuild what was lost, which is central to Romero's ideological concerns. After all, the overarching message of the entire series is how the same crushing power dynamics are replicated every time one society takes over another.
In Land of the Dead, this reaches its apotheosis in Fiddler's Green, a towering skyscraper into which all desirable people (read: primarily white but, most importantly, wealthy) have fled. It is lorded over by a cutthroat entrepreneur named Kaufman (Dennis Hopper), who realizes there is money to be made in the chaos and doesn't pause in taking advantage of it. Kaufman and his other cronies in business suits wield military and police power to keep Fiddler's Green protected from the zombie hoards, which are kept at bay by rivers on two sides and electrical fences on the other. The world under Kaufman's thumb is strictly segregated, with the wealthy living the good life inside Fiddler's Green while everyone else is confined to the dilapidated slums outside.
As with the other films in the series, Romero sides with representatives of the downtrodden -- those who are commanded, rather than command. The main character is Riley (Simon Baker), a decent man who has no choice but to work for Kaufman along with several others looting deserted small towns for supplies. This is accomplished with the help of an enormous armored and heavily armed truck called "Dead Reckoning" (which was the film's original title).
Riley's second-in-command is Cholo (John Leguizamo), an ambitious upstart who wants to accumulate enough wealth for himself that he can buy his way into Fiddler's Green and make a life for himself that we sense he has always been denied. Riley's true second, though, is Charlie (Robert Joy), who may have a low IQ, but is an excellent shot and is eternally devoted to Riley because Riley once saved his life.
Riley eventually finds another partner in Slack (Asia Argento), a feisty hooker who he saves from a particularly sadistic form of sideshow entertainment used by Kaufman to placate the slum dwellers lest they turn their aggression toward him. Riley's desire is to simply get away from everyone and everything -- to head up north where there are not only no zombies, but no people, period. Yet, he is convinced by Kaufman to track down Cholo after he hijacks Dead Reckoning and threatens to use its missiles against Fiddler's Green unless he is paid money he thinks he is owed.
Much of the plot of Land of the Dead was originally intended to be in Day of the Dead, but had to be dropped for budgetary reasons. Land of the Dead is clearly the highest-budgeted and most polished film in the series, as it is the first to have the backing of a major Hollywood studio (Universal, who also produced the 2004 remake of Dawn of the Dead) and also therefore the first to carry an R rating. Longtime gore aficionados shouldn't be too perturbed about the R rating and any implication that might have for reduced blood and guts. While not as lingeringly visceral as its predecessors, Land of the Dead has more than its share of goriness courtesy of make-up effects wizard Greg Nicotero, who trained under Romero's previous FX master Tom Savini (who makes a cameo as a zombie). When the zombies, led by a gas-station ghoul (Eugene Clark) who shows genuine distress when his fellow zombies are slaughtered, finally burst into Fiddler's Green and turn the world of the bluebloods upside down, it gives all new meaning to "eat the rich."
Romero has been largely out of the filmmaking game for the past decade, and Land of the Dead marks a strong return for the horror auteur. It is tempting to read his return to the zombie genre as a pathetic attempt to jump on the bandwagon and reclaim his former glory amidst all the recent films that are indebted to his original work (including Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later). Yet, Land of the Dead is more than good enough to stand on its own, and its only real weakness is that Romero moves through the narrative too fast, leaving little time for character development or reflection. Nevertheless, he maintains the cunning sense of black comedy that made Dawn so memorable (the film even starts with a sick joke by opening on a shot of a large restaurant sign reading "EATS"), and he also keeps a healthy fire lit under his leftist rage, but without letting the sociopolitical context run roughshod over the film's central aim of primal terror. In that sense, Land of the Dead is effectively frightening and at times disarming, all while adding to the series' continually developing allegory of the state of the union. In more ways than one it drives home the frightening suggestion that there is little difference between the human and the ghouls.
Copyright ©2005 James Kendrick
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All images copyright ©2005 Universal Pictures


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Hollywood Shorts Screening - April 30th
Looking to find some animated company for your Saturday night? Hollywood Shorts is hosting a free animation and visual effects short film showcase tomorrow night. The event will be held at DIMMAK studios (formerly Cinespace) upstairs at 6356 Hollywood Blvd. Hollywood, CA from 5-8 PM. Entrance is on Cosmo Street and food and drinks are available for purchase.
Here is the low-down on the screening and special guests:
Hollywood Shorts continues its 13th season with this installment of its monthly short film series with a special focus on Animation & VFX. Meet Detroit's lauded underground artist/animator MATTHEW ELLISON aka ELECTRIC OTTO and VFX artist CARLOS FLOREZ in person. Hollywood Shorts will also present the US PREMIERE of THEORY OF (R)EVOLUTION from Mark Jobe and David Hails of Quay Animation Studiosm UK.
RSVP here: http://hsapr2011.eventbrite.com


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This time has come. mdgm is 57 posts away from passing Chirpa. Probably 56...55...54...53 as I type this message.
So, what does Chirpa do next?
dbott67 wrote:I heard chirpa is going to be upgrading the forum back-end today. Most content should remain, but things like post counts will be be reset.
mdgm wrote:I think you're using too strong a word. My posts as a user are nothing compared to what he does for the community.
chirpa wrote:Post count doesn't matter.
chirpa wrote:I don't need compensation
chirpa wrote:Post count doesn't matter.
For you, it is quality add-ons.super-poussin wrote:Agree only quality must be taken in account
claykin wrote:Chirpa seems to have addressed the issue for himself but he left Yoh-dah out in the bitter cold.
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GOTV (Get Out The Vote) rallies today!
Monday, November 1st, 2010Two GOTV events for this afternoon, a day before General Election Day 2010:
1) Join U.S. Senator John McCain, U.S.Senator Jon Kyl, Jesse Kelly (for CD 8 U.S. House) and Ruth McClung (for CD 7 U.S. House) for a Republican get out the vote rally on Monday, November 1st from 3:30PM till 4:30PM. "This will be a great opportunity to bring out those undecided voters so that they will have a chance to meet with the candidates prior to Election Day." This event is free and open to the public.
Location: 2945 E. Grant Rd., Tucson (McCain/McClung HQ). This is on the NW corner of Grant & Country Club.
2)Get Out The Vote rally with Democrats on Monday
Join Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard, candidates Penny Kotterman (for Superintendent of Public Instruction), Rep. Chris Deschene (for Secretary of State) and Manuel Cruz (for State Mine Inspector) along with other candidates to Get Out the Vote! Also free & open to the public.
When: Monday, November 1, from 4:30 – 5:30 pm
Where: El Guero Canelo, 5201 S. 12th Ave, Tucson (SE corner of Utah Street, south of Irvington) — home of the famous Sonoran hot dog
Last chance today to meet & greet these politicians & wannabees before the election tomorrow!
Both major parties need every vote for those close races. Vote wisely tomorrow. Polls open at 6 a.m., close at 7 p.m.