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I had long ago relegated Third Street to a time in my life when it was cutting edge to be a regular at the sort of place they'd eventually shoot a scene out of Entourage. But six months ago, a reason to revisit the neighborhood came via Nick Mathers, Lincoln Pitcher, and Nick Hatsatouris, the Australians also responsible for The Eveleigh to the north.
A beautiful, green bench-lined patio abutting a lush vertical garden sets Goldie's back from the street, so I walk past it every time I visit before having to retrace my steps. Ceiling-height mirrors expand the space, reflecting natural light that descends through the skylight during the day, and serving as an impressive backdrop for the beautiful backlit bar at night.
Goldie's may be a restaurant with a bar, but my solo visits have gravitated towards their elegant marble bartop, especially during daylight hours. (Early work day hookey? Never! Ok, sometimes.) Finding Brittini Rae Peterson behind the bar is an added bonus.
If your bar-neighbors' talk of script rewrites hasn't already tipped you off as to your locale, perhaps the ingredients in your dish and in your cocktail might. Many of the plates by Thomas Lim boast the freshest local produce (often prepared in the wood-burning oven), but they tend toward small, shared, and sometimes still spendy, which has convinced me that Goldie's is really a better place for snacking at the bar. The drinks are California-inspired, but without sacrificing any ingenuity, booze, or vigor.
As with many things, the beauty is in the details: their best-selling Golden Girl ($14) is made with a jalapeño-spiced Chinaco tequila; made tart with pureed, then strained, fresh passion fruit; sweetened with earthy agave syrup and topped off with a touch of lime meringue. Not the least of details is that the spice is well-balanced, whereas it's been an overpowering element in other heat-pushing drinks I've had around town.
The Third Street Mai Tai ($14) might have you rethinking the genre, thanks to Atlantico rum (infused with toasted coconut) at the center, with curacao and homemade orgeat filling it out. Miracle Mile's earthy-spicy Chocolate Chili bitters and a basil garnish finish it off, helping this drink shed any sugary shame of Mai Tais from another time and place.
As a lover of tart shrubs and smoky mezcal, I couldn't be happier to find the two ingredients married in the Six Degrees ($14). El Pelaton de la Muerte mezcal is combined with a red beet basil shrub, sherry vinegar, ginger and lemon for an equal parts smoky, sour, and spicy masterpiece. Suddenly, I'm not so sick of beets, anymore, but I resist ordering one more. This is one of those drink menus that is fun to soldier through as if a sampler: bring some friends, order a few different cocktails, and share little tastes here and there.
While it's easy to dismiss the IPA-based East of Eden ($14) as the requisite beer cocktail, it's one you shouldn't skip. Rock Sake is shaken with fresh apricot, Laird's apple brandy, and Velvet Falernum for a pitch-perfect clove note, and then hopped off with Cismontane's Coulter IPA. A sugar and espelette rim gives it a hit of extra spice.
When a light, bubbly drink is what I crave, I'll order the Aperol Spritz ($12) on tap. Brittini Rae says she has plans to to add a tap G&T with homemade tonic, flavored to shift for each season. In the afternoon or at sunset, I tend to prefer the Battery Park ($14). Rittenhouse rye is stirred with bittersweet Punt e Mes, maple syrup, and Miracle Mile Peach bitters (which was almost discontinued until Rae asked founder Louis Anderman to continue making them) before it's poured on a ball of ice made red with Peychaud's bitters. The ball mellows out the drink as it melts into the overproof rye, making for a Manhattan variation that's right up my alley.
I choose to visit Goldie's during her off-peak hours when I'm unwinding, though the space is pretty versatile, and the patio is always a hit. One warning though: the weekday pre-dinner cocktail is difficult here, as there is no happy hour and service starts as late as 6 p.m., and service ends by 11, so this isn't a late night spot on weekdays. However, weekend imbibers appreciate their all-day bar hours. Weekend brunchers may find refuge in their $16 bottomless mimosas, but I highly recommend the homemade Pimm's Cup, made with Brittini Rae's Grandma Mary's Amaretto, a secret recipe saved from her grandparents' Prohibition-era bar.
Though many bars pay lip service to seasonal ingredients and housemade concoctions, there's a unique finesse to the way all the ingredients are used at Goldie's—the very best of Southern California seems to make it into each cocktail glass.
About the Author: Esther Tseng is a Los Angeles based food and cocktail writer. Her best finds are chronicled on e*starLA while her day-to-day ponderings and poisons can be found on Twitter and Instagram @estarLA. She'll try anything once.
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To me this is actually good news (if true). It suggests the people behind fixing are getting sufficiently desperate.
Umpires can only effect a match by so much, and thats becoming even less with the appeal system now.
Edit: On readthrough, this is all based on a TV sting, so forget my previous comments. In that case it just illustrates some non-international umpires being desperate for some cash. And from the sounds of things the sting itself is very fishy, pretty much entrapment.
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I agree with that myself, and that is how I experienced my kinky attractions from the beginning.
But right now, honestly, for myself I've stopped caring about that almost entirely. What bugs me now is not so much that people don't get that this is not the sort of thing I can change at will, but that the way my activities should be understood seems, on that analysis, to change wildly depending on what I happen to do.
If I go to a BDSM club and play and find it dull, and then go home and have very, very hot sex that doesn't involve pain and only involves power insofar as I happen to be in a D/s relationship, do I get a pass for examining that day? If the week after that we're more interested in knives and face-slapping than genital canoodling, do I have to take my timeout to think first?
That's the big thing that I really don't get about all this. It all centers around acts but pretends not to. "I want to know why you submit" but that gets parsed, most of the time, as "I want to know why you (would ever want to) let him do that."
Which creates this really odd thing where, well, everything we do sexually gets reduced to BDSM, and gets reduced to the kinds of BDSM or the reasons for BDSM that its opponents are most worried about. Our sexualities and our sexual practices don't get discussed as wholes often at all. Kink is simply something that consumes us.
Yeah, kink is important in my life... but lately I'm really wondering what makes it so Important with a big I. It's something I happen to do. Something a little more controversial than most things I do, but why does that matter so much, exactly?
Basically, I'm at the equivalent of "Yeah, I'm gay... why'd you care again exactly?"
36 comments:
- Dw3t-Hthr said...
And the whole innate thing does leave open the denigration of choice - that maybe if it's intrinsic it might be okay (though that's not a given), but that still means that people who can choose otherwise should.
- 2 June 2009 at 17:10
- Trinity said...
Yeah, exactly.
- 2 June 2009 at 17:22
- EthylBenzene said...
Because ~they aren't arguing in good faith.~ We know this, they probably know it. They ~don't~ really care about what they say they care about, they only want you to come to the "right" conclusion. It's one big giant code phrase for "you're wrong and you better figure out why you're wrong or I won't let you in the Sooper Seekrit Club." Which, you know, I'm ok with. Fuck them, fuck their disingenuous bullshit, and fuck the new boss, same as the old boss.
Seriously, to me, lately, the only way any of what "they" (sorry to be so othering but for shorthand you know what I mean) say is to understand what they're ~really~ saying. Maybe I'm just bitter and cynical, or maybe this has been a particularly bad month, but I just do not have the patience to try to engage them on their pretend concern troll terms. Fuckit.
- 2 June 2009 at 17:52
- EthylBenzene said...
"And the whole innate thing does leave open the denigration of choice - that maybe if it's intrinsic it might be okay (though that's not a given), but that still means that people who can choose otherwise should."
Right, just like the whole homosexual is innate/a choice argument. It's an argument that only works in their terms, on their turf, you know? If something is not a choice you can take them down on that point, but the larger point of "hey we really shouldn't be discriminating against anyone, really" gets lost.
Ye gods but I am rambly tonight. Thanks, benadryl!
- 2 June 2009 at 17:55
- Trinity said...
Yeah, pretty much.
Maybe if we ignore them, they'll go away.
Eh. Probably not.
- 2 June 2009 at 17:55
- Hope said...
Interesting points all around.
I do think there is entirely too much focus on specific acts, a sort of "if you do x, y, and z well that's reasonable I suppose - but a, b, and c that's disgusting!"
The idea that "people who can choose otherwise should" is definitely problematic. The thing is I don't know that most of the more adamant anti-BDSM types would see it as anything other than an issue of degree. Even if they were willing to recognize that my kink is innate but my partner's is chosen, I think they would still insist that we are both just as bad. I mean, maybe he'd be considered a little worse because he could choose not to do it, but I'm just as harmful to society (or whatever) and I'm fundamentally broken. It really seems to me that they aren't any more likely to accept innate=okay than the Christian fundamentalists are with regards to homosexuality.
I don't really know if I'm being clear or at all on topic. I'm really just sort of thinking "out loud" here, but that's what I've got for now.
- 2 June 2009 at 18:04
- Trinity said...
Because of course only oppression matters.
- 2 June 2009 at 18:04
I'm pretty much where you are - "what does it have to do with you, or anyone else, what I and my loving partner(s) get up to in private?"
To some extent, I agree that that the "innate" or "orientational" path is a bit of a red herring - it's interesting from the point of view of "what makes some people different from other people?" angle, but in terms of "is it okay?" it's not really an answer (for instance, what if paedophilia turned out to be an innate orientation - it wouldn't make the behaviour any more okay in that case).
It makes far more sense to me to talk about how the actual relationships work rather than where they come from: the whole SSC/RACK, informed consent, negotiated roles, power exchange, limits, safewords, etc.
- 2 June 2009 at 19:36
Agree on all points, especially Dw3t-Hthr's notion about the denigation of choice. And to me, that's where the big-I important arrives. The details of what I do in my life are probably trivial from any social persepective; what I do in my bedroom is definitely trivial. But freedom doesn't exist as an ambient abstraction, it exists as the sum of my ability to do each of these various trivial things I do. If the man tries to take away my freedom to snort paprika, I am being oppressed, even though snorting paprika is trivial and perhaps, in some objective sense, foolish.
That is the level at which I think defending BDSM is important. The only thing I think makes my sex life socially relevant is that it falls into the supercategory of consensual human activity, and I don't want to see anything in that category be prohibited without some stellar rationale such as we are certainly not seeing here.
- 2 June 2009 at 20:05
- belledame222 said...
Basically, I'm at the equivalent of "Yeah, I'm gay... why'd you care again exactly?"
Yup. Aka "please stop pawing my panty drawer now kthxbai."
- 3 June 2009 at 02:47
- EthylBenzene said...
Because of course only oppression matters."
Of course :) How silly of me!
Hope said:
"It really seems to me that they aren't any more likely to accept innate=okay than the Christian fundamentalists are with regards to homosexuality."
Well and that's the thing, right? So you can come back to them and say hey, here's some evidence and it looks like it's not a choice, but then all they do is shift goalposts and say well then you can FEEL that way but not ACT on it, etc etc ad infinitum. Because again, they are not arguing with us in good faith. They want one answer -- any answer we come up with that is not in line, they will find another reason for it to be "wrong."
So then we get into this whole problem where we keep having the same exact arguments over and over, just like, well, like every other thing I tend to argue on the internets about -- abortion, creationism, oppressions of various kinds... There's like this neverending supply of freshly-minted culture warriors who think they've come up with something new, trotting in and spewing the same old bullshit over and over, not listening when we say "hey, yanno, I totes heard this last week."
I haven't got any answers, that's for sure...
- 3 June 2009 at 04:05
- Alexandra Erin said...
Yeah, all very good points.
I usually end up arguing on the terms that are presented because I have an ingrained feeling that if I can get somebody to see where one of their assumptions doesn't hold up, they'll start examining their entire position... of course that must be an innate characteristic because life certainly hasn't taught me the world works that way. :P So I try to answer arguments that begin with the idea that I've chosen to be kinky or that society has shaped me into being kinky in some straightforward and explicable way by pointing out the ways in which these things can be shown to be untrue, but ultimately the "okayness" of my kink does not come down to "but I can't help it!"
- 3 June 2009 at 10:18
- Renegade Evolution said...
Meh, face it, with some people, who generally hate it when a person (esp a women) is reduced to her BODY and what can go on with it....
You are your sexuality. That's it.
People are morons.
- 3 June 2009 at 13:37
- sera said...
Right, well, the question of whether something is innate is a direct descendant of liberal theories on race and gender--the problem with racism and sexism on this analysis is that you are discriminating against somebody for things they can't change, rather than behavior, which they can. (As SnowdropExplodes says, this is collapsing analysis because what if pedophilia is shown to be innate, etc. In that case, we'd say, well, it's the type of harm that we care about, or perhaps the type of _improper_ power differential (whites > blacks, men > women, adults > children) that is the issue.)
I agree with you that your comments pretty much exactly track the debate about homosexuality.
"Which creates this really odd thing where, well, everything we do sexually gets reduced to BDSM. . . . Our sexualities and our sexual practices don't get discussed as wholes often at all. Kink is simply something that consumes us."
This is what the gay community encountered, obviously--the obsessive focus on sex as the defining aspect of homosexuality, rather than same-sex love and attraction. When the gay community changed the terms of the debate from sex to love, they salvaged their rights. As Justice Kennedy said in 2003 in Lawrence v. Texas, the case that declared anti-sodomy statutes unconstitutional: "When sexuality finds overt expression in intimate conduct with another person, the conduct can be but one element in a personal bond that is more enduring." This is powerful. On the other hand, treating sex like an annex to or a appendage to relationships seems to me problematic. I don't exactly like the answer "yeah, I'm gay/kinky/masochistic, why do you care?" because that makes the behavior invisible and limited in a way--that kind of impulse that says, "Oh yeah, if you want to wear cuffs in the bedroom, that's YOUR business--but there's no reason you need to have a legal public play space." So, I dunno.
Not trying to argue with you, just trying to figure out how I feel about people's obsession with my bedroom activities.
- 3 June 2009 at 14:44
- ggg_girl said...
I agree with Dw3t, choice vs. orientation shouldn't be an issue... it's just another way of criticizing bdsm by saying that those who can change should.
It is strange how those who are into bdsm often see discussions of their sexuality reduced completely to bdsm. I enjoy bdsm but in the large scheme of things it is a relatively small but important part of my life and sexuality.
This is one of the reasons I don't like the phrase "bdsm lifestyle" to refer me. bdsm is not my lifestyle; it's something I enjoy and like to do sometimes or often. But it is not really an integral part of my identity and I don't think about it everyday. Don't get me wrong, I love it, but it's not nearly the same as sexual orientation (I think about men I'm attracted to or my boyfriend all the time) or other core identities. Hope that makes sense.
- 3 June 2009 at 16:23
- antiprincess said...
"what does it have to do with you, or anyone else, what I and my loving partner(s) get up to in private?"
because it's catching. there is this idea that kinky sex, even in its mildest, dare I say even cheesiest forms, is a contagion that spreads to the unwary and induces them to commit heinous acts of nonconsensual violence on their virtuous partners, and also infects other, non-sexual human interactions, to wit, from the facebook anti-bdsm thingy:
12. BDSM roles can leak into "real life" interactions (i.e. act dominantly or submissively towards one's partner outside the bedroom, and towards others in general). There is a private sphere / public sphere connection.
- 3 June 2009 at 19:07
The tricky thing is that for some people it is an orientation, while for others it's not. I am orientationally Sadist/Dom/Top, but I also am a masochist, and enjoy playing the sub/bottom role. So I see the distinction very clearly between "lifestyle" versus "something fun I like to do".
But on equal opportunities forms, there is never a slot to say "I don't care that much about the genitalia of my partner as long as I get to tie them up, whip them and spank them!"
- 4 June 2009 at 03:42
- Clarisse Thorn said...
Wow. I just wrote a post about this yesterday. That's weird.
For me, the most interesting question is: Given all the issues calling BDSM an orientation, it seems silly to keep using that language. It's high time to think about it in other ways. But if our best path to legal protection means calling it an orientation, then do we do that even though we've got issues with the model? Or is the orientation model too problematic for us to support that approach?
- 4 June 2009 at 13:59
- ggg_girl said...
This is what I meant:
I realize that some people identify bdsm as their orientation/one of their orientations. I didn't mean to deny or detract from that. I just wanted to point out that not everyone identifies that way. It shouldn't matter if someone considers bdsm their orientation or not; it shouldn't change somehow whether bdsm is "right" or "wrong" or how other people treat us. No one should have to say bdsm is their orientation to be taken seriously or legitimize their sex life.
- 4 June 2009 at 17:25
- Trinity said...
GGG: Yeah, I totally agree with you. I don't think we should discard the idea that BDSM is orientational for some people (just like I don't think we should discard the idea that gayness is.) I think that matches the facts.
What I am more dubious about lately is the idea that "I can't help it!" is the appropriate response to our detractors. Because that might mean "If I could help it I should, but I can't, so give me a pass." Which is pretty much what some of our enemies say. You know, the whole "well, I believe that you can't change, but wow, I feel so sorry for you."
- 4 June 2009 at 17:32
- Clarisse Thorn said...
@Trinity -- Right, exactly! But if that's not what we say to our detractors, then what is?
Usually we fall back on the consent argument, and understandably so, because it's the best argument.
But that, too, isn't quite working. I've been trying to refine my understanding of their argument. I think it has something to do with the fact that these themes, these tropes, are not okay no matter what -- consensual or not, orientation or not. And once we get to that place, I don't know how to argue with them. Because I'm not sure how to argue about whether a theme or a trope is okay ... except maybe to invoke free speech.
- 4 June 2009 at 17:39
- Trinity said...
Yeah that's the thing. They think consent is an illusion, or at least, a problem, because we don't realize that what we want has been shaped for us before we ever say "Oh yes!"
And there just isn't arguing with that. I can't really prove that my choices are mine.
- 4 June 2009 at 19:08
- ggg_girl said...
@Trinity & @Thorn
I guess some other points I would bring up to talk about besides consent:
what makes bdsm so different from other sexual practices? is there some magic point where "rough sex" becomes bdsm? when you scratch into your partner's back? when they hold the hair tightly at the nape of your neck? there are power differentials in all types of sex - bdsm openly acknowledges them instead of pretending they don't exist as this thread points out so well.
why do people debate over if there is real consent in bdsm over and over again without asking how consent is determined in vanilla relationships? because as far as I can tell, most people don't agonize over consent with regard to every kiss, lick and touch when having sex with their partners. it seems like many vanilla people have sex all the time without talking about it at all. obviously I don't think it is or should be the same way for bdsm, but questioning the consent of someone who has repeatedly told you that they're into it strikes me as the pot calling the kettle black.
- 4 June 2009 at 19:25
- ggg_girl said...
I'm trying to think of a good way to explain what BDSM means, since it isn't an orientation for me.
Heterosexual: Orientation for me. I think about attractive men all the time. It one of the cores of my sexual identity. If I could never be sexual with men again, I would feel like most of my sexuality was gone and disappeared. My sexuality would be extremely limited.
BDSM: I really freakin' love it. Although it is not one of the cores of my sexual identity, I would sorely miss it and be sad to see it go and my orgasms wouldn't be nearly as fantastic. The closest thing I can think of is my favorite sport. Yeah, I could give it up and be miserable. I could always pick up some different sport that I don't enjoy nearly as much or excel at or have an intense passion for like the sport I play now. Would not having that sport in my life fundamentally alter my life and who I am as a person? I would say no, I would just be depressed for a good long while that I could never do it again.
Hope that explains some of my thoughts on the BDSM as an identity vs. not
- 4 June 2009 at 19:43
Yeah that's the thing. They think consent is an illusion, or at least, a problem, because we don't realize that what we want has been shaped for us before we ever say "Oh yes!"
I think the thing is, the detractors say that it is shaped for us by society, so sometimes the natural reaction is to say, "Hah! I can prove you wrong on THAT score, because look - my BDSM orientation is shaped by (pre-natal?) pre-socialisation factors instead!" Which is where the "BDSM as an orientation" defence comes in.
The anti-BDSM feminists' claim appears to be that BDSM is at once symptomatic and causative of patriarchal modes of thinking. The "causation" element of this claim is where the "why do you care what I do in the bedroom?" defence comes in - because if its private between two or more individuals, how can it affect society as a whole? It's also the level on which we discuss the ways in which BDSM theory can help dismantle patriarchal preconceptions - this study actually helps counter both the "causative" and the "symptomatic" elements of the criticism.
The whole "examine!" demand is about "revealing" to us that it really is symptomatic; it annoys the critics so much when we examine and conclude that it isn't, that it comes from somewhere else.
- 4 June 2009 at 21:37
- Trinity said...
"why do people debate over if there is real consent in bdsm over and over again without asking how consent is determined in vanilla relationships?"
I think some of them do, though by "vanilla relationships" they mean straight ones. I've actually seen a minority of them write some very either nasty or self-pitying screeds about how straight vanilla sex is harmful, so they either 1) agonize over it or 2) no longer have it rah rah sisterhood.
1) No, that isn't most of them
2) Even those who do that seem to do it episodically when prompted
3) Many of those who do it seem to me to be asexual (or close to it) or lesbian, so it seems less like examining their actual desires as it is examining the weird gals who like dick, or examining why they feel stuck doing things to dicks even though they hate them ew ew cooties ew funk filled bratwurst (actual quote, that) ew.
As much as I know they hate being called "anti-sex," I really do think some of them, like Twisty who I quoted there, are not really big fans of it. I think that subgroup of them is not so much anti-sex as "what is all this fuss you're making, just for sex? Sex is kind of gross. Why are you making a big fuss about a little bit of physical pleasure and calling that FEMINISM?!?!?!?"
- 5 June 2009 at 03:54
- EthylBenzene said...
"What I am more dubious about lately is the idea that "I can't help it!" is the appropriate response to our detractors. Because that might mean "If I could help it I should, but I can't, so give me a pass." Which is pretty much what some of our enemies say. You know, the whole "well, I believe that you can't change, but wow, I feel so sorry for you.""
Exactly! It seems to tacitly agree with the underlying premise, which is BDSM = bad, you should change if you can.
And.... Why ~don't~ people in vanilla relationships have to examine? It's a rhetorical question, of course, but really, it seems like people who don't give much thought at all to sex and how it's done and what it means would benefit from whatever idealized "examination" the anti-BDSMers are promoting. I know lots of people in unsatisfying, unfulfilling vanilla relationships that are rife with questionable and unexamined gender roles, power dynamics, and generally a serious lack of communication about sex at all. Just saying. Anecdote isn't data etc., but come on.
"And there just isn't arguing with that. I can't really prove that my choices are mine."
Yeah, this. It's like, once you get through all the seemingly rational arguments you're left with their core of True Belief and, well. Yeah.
- 5 June 2009 at 03:55
- Dw3t-Hthr said...
On kink-as-orientation for me ....
I do not have to have a kinked relationship.
I do have to have a relationship in which some kink interaction is okay, and in which I do not feel shamed, sidelined, or that I need to repress my kinkiness, because as I've commented, this is a part of who I am.
So it's not an orientation for me, but it's nonetheless a fundamental part of a healthy relationship.
- 5 June 2009 at 16:42
- ggg_girl said...
I second Dw3t, well said.
- 5 June 2009 at 21:55
- belledame222 said...
btw, have people seen this piece by Claudia Card? one of the few that specifically addresses non-M/f BDSM. still radfem, still...well, you can see for yourself:
- 6 June 2009 at 03:12
- Trinity said...
There's actually a later essay by Card on this, in which she reconsiders some of the positions she holds there, in response to an essay by Jacob Hale in which he proposes some fascinating possible explanations for the "but why do you DO THAT, dammit?" question.
As I dimly recall, Card's response wasn't stellar either, but I was impressed by her ability to go "Oh, hmm. I still don't think so, but HMM."
- 6 June 2009 at 04:02
- stevethehydra said...
I am very much in the camp of "ALL sexual relationships should be examined". But, from observation of all the people i have known in BDSM relationships, *all* of those relationships *have* been examined - thoroughly - and explicitly negotiated, right from the beginning - as have most of the queer relationships i have known that have not necessarily involved BDSM.
Whereas the thing that squicks me the fuck out about pretty much *all* the straight vanilla relationships i have ever observed is how unexamined they are - to the point that i would say that, at least by my standards of consent (which i do accept are a lot stricter than most people's, but for me they have to be, for impairment/disability reasons), over half of the sexual acts that happen in them are nonconsensual.
I'd actually prefer to break down the dichotomy between "BDSM" and "vanilla" altogether - there are quite a few things that, for me at least, don't fit into either category, and, really, i'd like to see a dialogue about sex where liking PIV sex in the missionary position is seen as just as much a "fetish" (using that term without normative judgement) as bondage or whipping or cutting or whatever. But if anything i would like to see the level of examination and negotiation that typically seems to go on in relationships currently defined as "BDSM" be extended to all sexual relationships, rather than vice versa - so when those type of radfems say "BDSMers need to [implication: don't] examine", i just really Don't Get It...
- 6 June 2009 at 09:18
- Cereus Sphinx said...
For me, my masochism seems to be just as much an orientation as anything else.
I agree that there needs to be a model that says that orientation doesn't matter, though.
I recently read a book that puts forward the most elegant argument I've heard so far. It's also the only one that makes me feel like we're not settling for the "I can't help it" defense.
It's called "Identity and the Case For Gay rights" by David A. J. Richards.
These kinds of discrimination abridge people's rights to choice in their intimate life and freedom of conscience. The same as restrictions on religious freedom do. Not being a Christian or a Jew or a Pagan won't KILL you but it's NOT RIGHT to deny you that right either.
It pretty much sums up my thoughts much better than I ever could.
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During test runs of two different V-6 Sonata models, we grew partial to the 3.3-liter Sonata SE (identified by a rear spoiler and five-spoke wheels), which feels less floaty than the Sonata Limited because of a recalibrated sport suspension. For longer trips, we'd probably take the Limited model with its intuitive navigation, iPod and USB connectivity, and more attractive interior (although some staffers prefer the SE's silver-accented dash).
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I hope you go. I would like to know if my visit was an anomaly.Craig
2Amy's leaves a lot to be desired as far as consistency is concerned. I'm with Pizzablogger in that I'm no longer wowed by their pizza, but it really seems like a lot of people here on the forum who have tried it somehow end up going on an off night. I was actually there this past Friday and had a very nice crust, not excessively puffy with no gum line at all.
If they can't handle the volume while producing a quality product, the solution is simple - take out some tables. That they don't suggests to me that they really don't care much about quality.
I have always thought 2Amy's was a little overrated. Good quality for DC but not a top-tier joint. Mia's in Bethesda is a good but doesn't have the "wow" factor either;.
Mia's is a different style of pizza to be sure, but I agree with you.Pizzeria Da Marco in Bethesda, set to open this month (around the 28th) looks potentally promising. Dino Santonicolla as the pizzaiolo and the sous chef there worked at Settebello in Las Vegas. Ferrara oven too.Pupatella is my favorite among the pizzerias I've tried in the DC area....I would argue maybe my favorite I've tried south of New York City. --K
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But if the primary factor was territories or bonuses, it's different (and I think better). The player who is strategic enough to barricade themselves off from multiple attackers, while racing around and ensuring no one else has a higher territory count, or bonus count, probably deserves to win. The downside is that it offers a real disadvantage to the guy that goes first.
I suspect the optimum way would be to choose the winner based upon several factors.
Total number of bonuses
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The remaining number of men
It might be more complex to figure out, but that is GOOD because it gives a player several ways to win, the point weighing reflects the actual strategy considerations, the special suicide end game strategy is minimized, and it would provide several strategies for winning as the turn clock ticked down, instead of only one.
Is the current "end value" computation of this new variant written in stone?
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Present-day Chicago is not Harlem in 1979. Present-day Harlem isn't even Harlem in 1979. But at the Art Institute of Chicago's new exhibition Dawoud Bey: Harlem USA, some things have stayed the same. The show comprises the 25 original prints from Bey's noteworthy 1979 exhibition of the series at the Studio Museum in Harlem, plus five previously unpublished prints from the same era.
The impetus for Harlem USA, which was made throughout the 1970s, was Bey's visit to the Harlem on my Mind show at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1969; it took him ten years to start and finish the work. And although the images in the show don't superficially resemble Bey's later work—they are small, made with a handheld 35mm camera, impromptu and monochromatic, unlike the later work seen at right—the photographer says that the series contains the seeds of his later work. "They gave me my initial sense of how to engage people in front of the camera," Bey told TIME in an email. "I first learned how to translate the physical experience of the human subject into compelling photographic form during the years I spent making pictures in Harlem."
He is not the only one who sees the thread running through his work. Matthew Witkovsky, a curator at the Art Institute of Chicago, says that some artists show from their first work a strong sense of who they are and what they want to do. Bey, according to him, is one of those lucky people.
And Witkovsky says that the photographs, though they remain unchanged, are still fresh. "[Bey] managed to take that ability that cameras have to give you total specificity and imbue it with some kind of other-time-other-place quality," he says, pointing out an example: in Bey's picture of a boy outside a movie theater, seen at left, the clothes are quintessential 1970s but the pose is a classic contrapposto. "It'll always be timely," says Witkovsky, "because it's a little bit out of time."
Bey, who now lives in Chicago, says the photographs themselves are not the only constant. "My feelings about the work haven't really changed," he says. "I am still concerned with trying to make resonant photographs of ordinary people."
Dawoud Bey is a Chicago-based photographer and professor. See more of his work here.
Dawoud Bey: Harlem USA will be on view at the Art Institute of Chicago from May 2 – Sept. 9. The Renaissance Society in Chicago will also present a retrospective of his work, entitled Picturing People, which includes the later work featured in this post, from May 13 – June 24.


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If I say I have a hierarchal entity framework, rather than a component model. Something like:
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Or, more of a classical example:
How far would you split up the source/header files for readability and organization? Is it best to go something like Entity.cpp, MovableEntity.cpp, Enemy.cpp, etc. or would an approach like Entity.cpp [containing Entity and MovableEntity] and Enemy.cpp [containing Enemy and WalkingEnemy] be better? (Or in a more language agnostic way, an Enemy file and an Entity file vs a file for each class?)
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Thought id leave a comment on your blog and say hello. Richard from an Amish settlement in Pennsylvania.ReplyDelete
Wonderful close ups of a real beauty!! Boom & Gary of the Vermilon River, Canada.ReplyDelete
Beautiful images of your lovely Kite Mick.... thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
Cool sighting of the Kite. I would love to see any kite, even one with rumpled feathers. Great photos.ReplyDelete
it really looks fluffy. :) I hope it was OK though.ReplyDelete
Love the eyes...looks like he or she was enjoying a beautiful day..as were you..ReplyDelete
What a beauty.ReplyDelete
I love birds of prey; such magnificent creatures.
Great shots Mick!ReplyDelete
Oh gosh, first shot is tremendous!ReplyDelete
Grear shots!!!ReplyDelete
Fantastic photos.ReplyDelete
Fabulous shots, Mick! What a great looking kite!ReplyDelete
Love that first image with that alert eye and you can see the claw gripping the wood. Well done, Mick.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 16, 2011 at 4:04 AM
Wonderful captures! What a beauty!ReplyDelete
Still looks great, even with the ruffled feathers! Maybe even especially with ruffled feathers! Kites we see have very long tail feathers -- I couldn't tell if this one did. I'd like to see it flying.ReplyDelete
He certainly is making a great job of it!ReplyDelete
Nice image, Mick!ReplyDelete


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Dir/scr: Ryan Coogler. US. 2013. 84mins
Fruitvale Station (called Fruitvale when it won the Grand Prize at Sundance earlier this year) is a foreboding doc-like day's walk unto death, based on a senseless police shooting of a young black man in the Bay Area subway on New Year's morning 2009.
Fruitvale Station takes its audience through the constant challenges to black family life – poverty, debt, crime, and the prospect that an encounter with the police can have deadly consequences.
The fatalistic martyrology of a black everyman (also Sundance's audience awardee) lacks marquee stars, but its planned US release in late July - often a time of racial tension in steamy American cities - could add seasonal heft to this festival crowd-pleaser. Most American audiences will not see the drama as fiction, while the film's striking tactile realism will rally critics internationally.
The upcoming trial of the killer of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager in Florida, should help market the film in the US, as should Forest Whitaker's role as executive producer.
Fruitvale Station is the metro stop in Oakland (California) where 22 year-old Oscar Grant was killed after police suspected him of fighting amongst New Year's revelers. Grant's death became a cause celebre, not least because the shooting seemed unprovoked. The policeman who shot Grant in the back was tried and jailed briefly for involuntary manslaughter, while other cops involved were fired.
The no-budget drama, which opens with actual cell phone footage filmed in the station before Grant's death, is the feature debut of writer/director Ryan Coogler. His script follows Grant (Michael B. Jordan) through everyday emotional fireworks with his young daughter's mother (Melonie Diaz). The young man, newly out of prison, is dutiful to his own mother (Octavia Spencer) and grandmother, but still can't hold a job.
Using close-ups sparingly, Coogler favoUrs the approach of shooting a scene by setting up the camera and filming the action in the frame as if a kitchen or a bedroom were a stage, giving us the theatrical rhythms – ordinary and explosive — in the day of a life before that life ends. Like doc scenes, some of these are too long, but the realism takes the story beyond the rapid television editing that this subject usually gets. The tenderness of the family scenes brings improbable warmth to Coogler's twist on Dead Man Walking.
This director is also remarkably adept at shooting the volatile dynamics of a crowd. Within seconds, a swirl of impromptu dancing in a subway car suddenly bursts into a fight, and police intervention in an emotional tornado leaves a dead body on the ground – all filmed by dozens of cell phones.
With a sympathetic and not too heavy hand, Fruitvale Station takes its audience through the constant challenges to black family life – poverty, debt, crime, and the prospect that an encounter with the police can have deadly consequences. The ensemble acting drives that point home, without preaching or shrillness.
Michael B. Jordan (Parenthood) recreates Grant with a charm that shines on and off, and a temper that flares. We end up with Grant as a martyr, but until then, while he's not Tupac, he's not a saint. Like Coogler, Jordan is in the crosshairs of agents now. So (in a marketplace infatuated with Beasts Of The Southern Wild) is little Ariana Neal, who plays his adorable four-year old daughter.
In a film inspired by a mission to make Oscar Grant human, the police in Fruitvale Station are anything but complex, a brutal blue enemy who, when encountered at the film's crescendo, scream "fuck" louder than a crew of black kids on New Year's eve.
When cops line Grant and his friends on the ground against a concrete subway wall, the image could have been taken from Iraq or Afghanistan.
Production values in Fruitvale Station are suited to its story and its ordinary locations in Oakland. The film's production design by Hannah Beachler seems drawn from whatever was there at the time, also fitting for this grim subject.
Production company: Significant Productions
International sales: The Weinstein Co.,http://weinsteinco.com
Producers: Nina Yang Bongiovi, Forest Whitaker
Executive producer: Michael Y. Chow
Cinematography: Rachel Morrison
Editors: Michael P. Shawver, Claudia S. Castello
Production designer: Hannah Beachler
Music: Ludwig Goransson
Main cast: Michael B. Jordan, Melonie Diaz, Octavia Spencer, Kevin Durand, Chad Michael Murray, Ahana O'Reilly, Ariana Neal, Keenan Coogler


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"Listen, I have [Alexei] Ramirez, Carlos Quentin, Gordon Beckham, and I got [Chris] Getz. I have [Tyler] Flowers. I have seven or eight kids, and the problem we have in baseball is that the people who run this thing, they let players do whatever they want to do, and that's why they do whatever they want to do. My job is to teach those kids that it is not the way to do it. I never tell my players what to do or how to prepare yourself, but when you lose a game and all of a sudden you look around and they are watching another thing, that means you are teaching the kids, 'Don't worry about it, this is the big leagues. If we lose a game, who cares? We are out of the pennant race. I have to teach these kids it's not the way we should handle this stuff. If I let that thing go away, then I don't have the power and the right to tell the kids in the future what to do because it was like, 'Well, two years ago, you let them do it. … Watching a football game? I never said anything about watching a football game. When you're stupid, pick who's going to win this week, who's not. I don't get involved with that because I respect that. But when you lose a game and you were embarrassed by the other ballclub, to me, I don't care who's there. That's the way it's going to be. If nobody wants to play for me, so be it. Whoever plays for me, he's going to respect this game. He's going to go about the business the right way, and I don't think last night was the right way to show me about the way we go about our business. As soon as the game's over they're worried about who's winning in college, who's the best quarterback. Who [cares]? Respect the game, respect your teammates, respect people paying. It's not only this clubhouse, every clubhouse in baseball. That's my problem. I don't have a problem with the players, I've got a problem with baseball and baseball doesn't handle it the right way. My plan is to see those kids grow up and manage the White Sox for a little while. Believe me, anyone who is going to play for this organization, they are going to learn how to be a professional and how to handle things the right way. I see it around the game, players do whatever they want to do. Maybe I made mistakes I didn't even know about as a player. But all the problems we have in the game are because we don't have people to step up and say it and do it, and that's not the way. Believe me. I grew up a different way. I grew up. When you lose, it hurts. You are embarrassed. That taught me the respect for the game."
September 27, 2009
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Where do you start? Management summary - three days of Drifting bliss with the top drivers from across Europe, all pulled together for a great competition and social event on one of the best UK drift circuits with 24x7 BBQ, music and commentary. That'll do nicely! D1RC 2009 Euro Cup Drift Championship, Snetterton Report by John Turner As the sun rose Friday morning the early birds began to arrive from around Europe, teams from France, Germany, Holland and of course team 'D1RC Rule Britannia', some driving 1400kms to the windswept Snetterton circuit, still being hammered by an ex-US hurricane! All were of the highest calibre so we knew we were in for a battle royal!
The serious fun got under way with the Euros drift circuit open for structured practice from noon and the drivers were on the track immediately, getting to grips with the long start straight leading into the long 90 degree sweeper that passes in front of the model shop. This stretches the regular UK drivers who know the circuit but it presented an even bigger challenge to the visitors who are more used to tighter, often temporary tracks laid in car parks or halls. By the end of the day, however, everyone had found a technique that worked for them and had gone on to master the remainder of the drift circuit, the sweeper running into a tricky power off hairpin, then a short straight into a 90 right, 90 left and another short power chase to the finish line. After a good nights sleep we resumed practice until mid morning Saturday when the first of the qualifying sessions began. This followed the normal process of one practice run followed by three judged runs, scored out of 100pts each. This year our resident full scale drifting 'EDC' judge and commentator Maz Yumeda led the judging team which provided a very professional and fair service throughout the event while a small scrutineering team checked the cars before all competition runs were made. As qualifying 1 completed, qualifying 2 commenced. This was a new procedure introduced for the Euros where two sessions took place but only the scores from the drivers' best qualifying session counted towards their position in the finals. After travelling such great distances, a technical fault in one of the sessions would not ruin the driver's weekend and, thanks to a very smart spreadsheet, the overall positions were able to be announced in real time as each driver completed his run.
At the close of qualifying the UK D1RC team had plenty to celebrate, taking 6 of the 7 positions in the A Final - the eighth being filled by the winner of the B Final (see qualifying tables) but the rest of the field was very evenly spread. As the scores were being digested, so were the BBQ burgers, bangers and spuds that were expertly prepared by the D1RC backup team, aka Wendy and Emma, so we were all well fed and watered as we took to the practice track for the 'off duty' Night Drifting session, the competition circuit being closed until the finals on Sunday. For those that haven't seen this live, you have to marvel at the driver's talent to drift on a very congested circuit with no ambient light at all, just the shafts of light projected by the various systems installed in their cars. It makes for some very artistic photographs! We also took the opportunity to display all the competing cars for the Best Shell and Best Chassis trophies. The array was very impressive and judging a winner was no easy task but, in a moment of de-ja-vue, Owen Slagtand's very modified Nissan R34 GTR pickup truck (and camera car) took best shell and Paul Edwards just as modified Yokomo "W.C." chassis (water cooled with much plumbing) took best chassis, both guys having taken the same trophies in 2008!
Aware of the need to get some sleep before the early 8am start of the finals, some of the more responsible drivers turned off their lights, parked their cars and took to their tents before midnight…..but not all. It was, I think, about 2am when several, fuelled no doubt by energy drinks, had the ingenious idea of taking to the track again but this time in their sleeping bags for the 2009 Snetterton Sack Race, a couple of laps of the circuit perimeter. Needless to say, not all were particularly prompt or chirpy for the 8am driver's briefing. Nothing a good breakfast couldn't fix though and, again, the girls came to the rescue! After a short morning warm up, the drivers readied themselves for the knockout style finals, D to A with the winner of each being promoted into the next final so that, in theory, the very last placed qualifier could still win the event, albeit the hard way! Here, with drivers going head to head, the differing driving styles of the various countries teams became more evident. The UK drivers who compete on bigger, purpose built circuits are used to being scored on speed, as well as angle and line whereas the drivers of the other teams tended to start off the line and into the sweeper a little more cautiously. This was to lead to the demise of several of the UK team drivers who found themselves passing their opponents before the first corner, a zero score infringement, or falling out of the drift in an attempt to slow down to avoid making a pass. In the UK if the lead driver is suspected of 'sand bagging' he would receive a penalty but it was clearly not intentional in this event so driving styles had to be adapted on the fly. This swung both ways, of course, with some of the non-UK drivers struggling to keep up with the UK drivers to the first corner when chasing. It all made for some interesting and difficult judging decisions but the scores were always announced promptly and decisively, and most importantly, very fairly.
The full story can be read from the judge's finals sheets but I'll run through the all important A final, made up of the top seven qualifiers Tom Walton (D1RC) 95pts, Azman Abas 92pts, Stu Sissons (D1RC) 90pts, Stu Cave (D1RC) 89pts, Maz Yumeda (D1RC) 89pts, Paul Edwards (D1RC) 89pts, Remi Daude (Drift France) 88pts and Owen Slagtand (Drift NL) who won the B final - yours truly qualified eighth, doh! In the first battle Owen took out Tom 8/2, 4/6 and this was followed by Stu Cave's merciless removal of Maz 6/4,10/0. Demon UK newcomer Azman pushed Remi to a full two 'one more time's but then fell to Remi's 7/3, 4/6, still close! Finally Paul Edwards disposed of Stu Sissons 6/4,5/5 in another very close battle. This put Owen against Stu and Remi against Paul in the semis and the fist confrontation saw Owen go out after a fatal error on his part, a 0/10 collision. In the second of the semis Paul knocked out Remi with a close but decisive 6/4,6/4 so it was to be an all UK final. First, however, we needed to settle the disagreement over 3rd & 4th place and this saw Remi, surely the most French of Frenchmen in their team (you really needed to have been there to understand, beret, scarf etc.) up against Owen, nearly as loony as Remi in his mad hatter's headwear! All this silliness disappeared on the track however and the pressure was on. Too much maybe, as Remi spun on the first run giving Owen a 10/0 lead into the second. All Remi could hope for was a mistake on Owen's part and he pressured Owen from the start line but in doing so lost his line slightly and fell a little behind, going down 4/6 giving Owen the 3rd place. This just left the final and both Stu Cave, driving his HPI Pro D and Paul Edwards with his Yokomo shaft drive were putting on a brave face as they made their way to the rostrum, their smiles cloaking their apprehension. They had battled one another many times before and the results had been inconsistent - it was anyone's guess. Stu led off on the first run with Paul chasing hard, just a tad too hard as they met in the second bend. This left Paul to try and force a similar 0/10 mistake from Stu on the second run but the wise old owl was having none of it, holding well back throughout (and who in that position wouldn't!) giving Paul a 7/3 run but taking the title of 2009 D1RC Euro Cup champion! Well done Stu! In fact a well done to everyone involved as it turned out to be a fantastic long weekend of doing what we all love to do - drifting. The fact that the tail end of an ex-US hurricane took out several gazebos and tents, some brand new, and the fact that someone accidentally locked the showers (3 days!) did nothing to dampen our spirits and the web forums subsequently declared the event to be 'the best ever' - so I guess we'll just have to do it all again next year! It was a good weekend for HPI too, a Pro D taking the win and several Cyclone TCs featuring high in the results, not to mention the fact that 95% of the drivers, including those in the A finals, chose HPI T-Drift tyres (slicks and treaded versions). As Team Drivers John Turner and Pete Gray summed it up, "that seemed to have gone rather well!" Special thanks? Everyone that attended mucked in to help with the setting up, knocking down, cleaning up and the endless judging and scoring admin that is a Drift event and, as ever, one or two went the extra mile (you know who you are). We would also like to thank our event sponsors, HPI Europe for their very generous prizes, Snetterton Park model shop for their contribution too, H&L graphics for their donation of our very prized and exclusive Euros decal sets and Radio Race Car for the opportunity to tell you all about the great weekend we had. Isn't it about time you gave it a try? You'll be made most welcome.


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Optometry Cares®-The AOA Foundation, through a generous grant from Luxottica, has announced that 16 Healthy Eyes Healthy People® (HEHP) State Association Grants have been awarded for 2014. These grants provide funding for activities that address the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Healthy People® objectives while simultaneously encouraging a more comprehensive approach to the vision and eye health care needs of America's infants, children, adolescents, adults and seniors.
"The projects have such a positive impact on the people that they serve."
The overall goal of HEHP is for optometrists to change community health programs so that vision services are provided and optometrists are recognized as vital to the health care system.
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For the past several years, AOA has been promoting comprehensive exams rather than screenings for children because of the value of having a child have a complete eye exam at an early age. Dr. Boccuzzi adds, "Poor vision is linked to poor performance in school, which has lifelong consequences.
Between 2004 and 2013, 367 grants totaling $1,341,035 were awarded to state optometric associations and made possible by the ophthalmic industry supporters Vision Service Plan (VSP) from 2004 to 2009 and Luxottica Group from 2004 to 2014.
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About a month ago, my son emailed me the video Psy – Gangnam Style. He did this because he knows my history with high-energy hip-hop/electronica, an essential music genre for anyone who takes roller blading seriously. I used to purchase bootleg tapes in West Hollywood and then roller blade to the tapes all around Santa Monica.
Today, reports from MTV Europe are that "One of the night's most popular performers was dance sensation Psy with his record-breaking hit "Gangnam Style", which won Best Video.
With 710,294,710 YouTube hits at the moment, here is that video:
Last night, Fred (aka Mason/Masoninblue) came across this thing and started listening. We both just circled the drain; the thing started growing on us both and just would not stop. Now, just to confess here, I am 52 and he is 65, and we both ordinarily listen to areas of music that are pretty unrelated to this. Psy is a Korean artist, his genre is K-Pop (Korean Popular) and the words are in Korean with just a bit of English. However, Psy has managed to overcome cultural and language barriers, and his in-your-face infectious and sweet nature appeals to everyone, including us.
His flash mobs are epic, spanning from the largest flash mob ever in Paris, to an illegal flash mob in Jakarta, Indonesia with so many people it simply left the authorities helpless, to others in New York, Rome, Los Angeles, and other places.
Our night went like this: Step – Step – Step – Repeat step….Oppan Gangnam Style! I had to stop briefly when I nearly broke my leg, carrying a cup of soda and doing this dance down the steps. It's probably safer if you're old to begin with coming up the stairs. As Fred rubbed the sore muscles of his shoulder, he and I both fantasized about some solid plans to take over this staid town we live in, and instigate a memorable flash mob that would be well worth the jail time. While technically not illegal here, you don't have to do anything illegal here to get arrested nonetheless.
Psy's live summer stand concert in Korea is my favorite:
I guess it just feels really good to set aside worry or fear or concern about the sadness in the world today and see something that the entire globe can agree on: a cheesy, really fun dance with a catchy tune and words (yes, we've got some of the words memorized). The English translation and 'Romanized' lyrics are here.
In this interview, Psy explains that he is a father of twins who are six in Korea and four in the US. Psy took some of his musical training at Boston University. When he was discovered by his current US manager, who wanted to sign Psy, Psy wondered why, and suggested that he take the manager to Koreatown and drink instead.
In yet another video that is hilarious, Psy, in a Spider Man outfit, and his dancers, essentially accost people in the streets, winning over their hearts and getting them to dance. The elevator pelvic thrust is fabulous:
Whop, whop, whop, whop, Oppan Gangnam Style!!
Addendum: On Psy's sunglasses:
Psy's sunglasses are from French eyewear brand Thierry Lasry. I did find some discrepancy as to whether these were from Garrett Leight (probably because the two brands recently collaborated on a limited edition of sunglasses) but upon some closer inspection they're definitely from Thierry Lasry. Psy really only goes through two different styles of sunglasses and one pair of swimming goggles, but I still had to do some digging through their collections and Look Books to hunt them down.
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Reflections on China's 1949 "Liberation"
During a speaking trip to China three years ago, the young tour guide in Beijing kept referring to "the liberation." I soon realized that she meant the October Revolution of 1949, in which Mao Tse Tung and the communists seized power and began their rule 60 years ago today.
Far from liberating China, the reign of Mao represents one of the worst tyrannies in the history of mankind. Opposition parties, free speech and freedom of religion were quickly eliminated. The Great Leap Forward of 1958–61 forced the collectivization of agriculture, resulting in a famine that killed tens of millions. The Cultural Revolution of 1966–76, while not as deadly, unleashed chaos that crippled the economy and scarred a generation. As Gordon Chang writes in a Wall Street Journal op‐ed this morning, the celebration by the Chinese people will be understandably muted.
China's real liberation began not 60 years ago, but 30 years ago, with the reforms of Deng Xiaoping. While China remains an oppressive, one‐party state politically, its economy has taken a true great leap forward in the past three decades because of market reforms in agriculture, industry, and trade. China's liberation has far to go, but the Chinese people today are much more free of government interference in their personal, daily lives than they were in the time of Mao.
When I point to China's economic progress as an example of what trade liberalization can deliver, my debate opponents will sometimes counter that China is a communist country. But China's dramatic growth has not occurred because of its residual communism. For 30 years now, its government has been in the process of abandoning the communist economic policies of Mao and his fellow "liberators," much to the benefit of the Chinese people and the world.