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Thursday, June 21, 2012
The Grooviest Covers of All Time: Summer of 1977, Marvel Style
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A epic summer indeed! 1977 was when Marvel was still functioning on all pistons. Like a well oiled machine! It was nearly impossible for me to buy every comic. Luckly I lived in a area with many book, magazine, corner mom & pop & rex-saw drug stores. Marvel's Tresury's blew me away too, especially the Star Wars movie adaptation. As well as the first 6 or so & the Howard the Duck meets the Defenders!ReplyDelete
Marvel had such a huge powerhouse of talented both writers & artists still back then too. Kirby was back! Cockrum & Byrne were in their prime! Gil Kane's powerful covers & interior art! John Buscema, Sal Buscema! The only art I wasn't totally gaga over was Ross Andru's Spidey. Growing up with Ditko, Romita SR & Big John Buscema on Spidey & the rest! If only the Sub-Mariner's book had still been going strong. With art by either Buscema. It would had been the perfect summer to me. I spent that summer in Canogo Park, CA! If only my aunt would had gave me a ride to Sherman Oaks! If I had known that area, I would had rode my bike, took the bus or hitchiked to meet King Kirby in person! Sigh!
I had that first issue of the Human Fly! I had no idea it was from 1977. I wonder what happened to my copy...ReplyDelete
I never knew Marvel ever had Hanna-Barbera licences. I know Flintstones was licensed by Charlton for years.
- Rich GignacJune 21, 2012 at 9:56 AM
I want to travel in my "Way Back" machine and return to that wonderful summer.I was 16,first real girlfriend,got my driver's license...reading these comics! Avengers Annual#7 + Marvel 2 in 1 annual#2...two-part Starlin/Thanos epic!Kirby on Capt.America & Bl.Panther!John Carter-Warlord of Mars,Human Fly,Conan & KISS...good times!ReplyDelete
I love these covers...many of them have been posted on " My favorite covers " blogReplyDelete
Many, many thanks for this. God -- 1977. It seems impossibly long ago. You have NO IDEA how much I relish this site. I'm a very happy man now, but who wasn't happier as a teenager? I poured over many of those books without a real care in the world. It's this carefree quality that I think is an essential component in feeling a sense of wonder...ReplyDelete
I was past my collect-every comic in the 70's having graduated from college in 74', but yes those were great comics. Funny how you can almost picture what you were doing when you read them, like listening to a song from back thenReplyDelete
Boy... I still own about a third of these comics. I remember specifically buying the Super Villain Team Up and Tarzan issues. 35 years. YIKES.ReplyDelete
- Rich GignacJune 21, 2012 at 12:49 PM
Love the array of team books Marvel produced in'77: the Invaders,FF,Defenders,The Eternals,Avengers & Champions...I miss their line of Marvel magazines,too1 Ah, memories!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 21, 2012 at 1:16 PM
That issue of Amazing Spider-Man was the very first comic book I ever owned. God, the memories seeing its cover posted here today has fired up in me.ReplyDelete
I was 11 years old! I bought about half of these from 7/11 and the local drug store during that summer. No comic shops around back then. How can you beat Kirby, Colan, the Buscemas, Robbins, Gil Kane (all over the place), Star Wars, KISS, Godzilla. and Tarzan? You can't!ReplyDelete
And that Byrne guy had my attention and became an obsession as soon as I got ahold of Team-Up #62. Ah. Imagine all those comics, bent and stuffed into two shoeboxes… bliss.
- Bryan HarrisJune 21, 2012 at 5:36 PM
Old Groove has done it again. The summer of 1977 was right before my senior year of high school. I had and still have almost all of those issues. This post brings back so many memories. And I think the John Carter comic was better than the movie.ReplyDelete
ah, yes! there was so much great stuff going on, back then, so much stuff I was a big fan of. Omega, Nova, Two-in-One, Tomb of Dracula, the Invaders, that awesome Star-Lord, Weirdworld, John Carter, the Defenders, and, of course, Howard the Duck ( & you know I loves me some Howard the Duck, Groove! ). I was the only person I knew who liked 2001 and the Eternals, I remember. everyone else hated the Kirby books. fools!ReplyDelete
that's a great selection there, mate.
I can almost smell the newsprint. I think I had about two-thirds of these. I miss the days of done-in-one issues, not to mention some of the giants like Kane, Perez, Kirby and Colon. Not to knock today's artists, but you have to admit that they each had an easily identifiable style. Or do I sound like a grumpy old-fart?ReplyDelete
- Marvel 70's fan4everJune 21, 2012 at 9:00 PM
They don't make comics like that anymore. I remember the Invaders with Roy Thomas, Machine Man,Black Panther,Eternals,Captain America:All by Kirby, cover to cover. The Thor annual, Human Fly, Black and White one dollar Hulk Magazines! It was comics heaven back then! What do we have now? $3.99 comics and a constantly revolving door of creators.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 22, 2012 at 8:33 AM
First - another amazing post, Groove! But I have mixed emotions about this time period. I was 15, heavy into collecting. But, this was about the time my interest began to wane. I think it was mainly due to the natural change in a teenager's interests. But another part of it was that trying to be a completist became damn near impossible because Marvel had expanded into SO MANY titles. And let's face it - some of them were not really that good.ReplyDelete
Still in all, some great memories. Thanks for 'em.
Hey, Groove --ReplyDelete
I actually read your DC post of Friday before tripping back in the Groove Archives to check this one out. While I had many of the DC books you posted, looking through the inventory above is it any wonder that most '70's children were Marvel Zombies?? Just by the covers alone, the art was across the board better (OK, the three Neal Adams offerings you showed in the DC post were pretty slick), and the cover compositions were infinitely more interesting.
Man, I wish I was as excited about comics as a 46-year old as I was when I was 11...
- AnonymousJune 25, 2012 at 10:21 AM
Wow. I have several of these issues, purchased from the spinner racks at the local grocery store. I have several others that I purchased later from dealers in the '80's.ReplyDelete
Slightly shocked to see the second cover in this post, Spidey vs the Molten man, one of the first five comics I owned (which included a Superman reprint and a Batman reprint from Pizza Hut (!), Star Wars, and an appearance of Moon Knight in ASM).
- AnonymousJune 25, 2012 at 10:58 AM
A couple of things:ReplyDelete
1. In terms of longing for done-in-one issues: There were so many stories and villains in the first 150 issues of comics like Spider-Man and Fantastic Four. Could you imagine if each of those stories were drawn out to 4-6 issues each? I'm betting many of the new and various villains would never have been created because there wouldn't have been enough time to do so. If a writer is on a book for two years, he basically only has enough time these days to tell a couple of stories;
2. I miss covers that had action on them. If you look at most Marvel covers today, they are mostly made up of generic poses that don't really make one issue's cover different from the next one. It's often difficult to look at a modern Marvel cover and remember what happened in the issue because many of the covers are pretty generic...
I received several of these comics in a "three-fer" pack from the local grocery store. Marvel used to bag up random back issues in a package and sell them for a reduced price (best guess was $1). You could usually only see the first issue, and maybe the last (if someone had turned it around). The middle one was always a mystery!ReplyDelete
I got the Powerman issue, The Avengers issue, and I think the next Conan issue all in one three-pack. Best $1 in comics!
- AnonymousJune 25, 2012 at 2:26 PM
This was the summer I started collecting comics as a 9-year-old. I had almost all of these... I didn't get into the Sword-and-Sorcery comics until much later... But the Superhero mags were purchased after getting chore-money from my mom.ReplyDelete
Great memories of a first summer that led to many years collecting...
I just hope the rest of these make it into the Essential volumes...We need Omega, Tarzan, 2001, and others!ReplyDelete
Anyway, Ross Andru's Spider-Man is the definitive Spider-Man! Bar NONE!ReplyDelete
I wish I could love comics now as much as I did in the summer of '77. Many of those books pictured formed the basis for my collection. They were a starting point for me. Can you imagine any books today that could serve as a starting point for new readers the way these did?ReplyDelete
Note to "The Man": All images are presumed copyright by the respective copyright holders and are presented here as fair use under applicable laws, man! If you hold the copyright to a work I've posted and would like me to remove it, just drop me an e-mail and it's gone, baby, gone.
All other commentary and insanity copyright GroovyAge, Ltd.
As for the rest of ya, the purpose of this blog is to (re)introduce you to the great comics of the 1970s. If you like what you see, do what I do--go to a comics shop, bookstore, e-Bay or whatever and BUY YOUR OWN!


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The Week That Was
Paul Chick
Wow what a week in sports! Major League Baseball in full stride and the start of the playoffs in both the NHL and NBA. Great time to be a sports fan especially in Boston now that the Sox are on a 4 game tear!
A very sad start indeed with the passing of broadcaster and Hall of Famer Harry Kalas and just a few hours later Mark "The Bird" Fidrych. Kalas was best known in most of the country as the voice of NFL Films filling the very large shoes of the legendary John Facenda. To Philadelphians he was the voice of the Phillies since 1971. Phillies team president David Montgomery said it best. "We lost our voice today. He is the Phillies." Reminded me a bit of when Johnny Most died. He had been retired and battling health issues but any true Celtic fan could blurt out a gravel-voiced Most impersonation with ease. Shortly after the Kalas news we learned of the death of Mark "The Bird" Fidrych. I was only a teenager in 1976 but the memory of Fidrych on "Monday Night Baseball" against the Yankees is etched in my memory. Smoothing the mound, talking to the ball…another Spaceman Bill Lee! After that great Rookie of the Year campaign in '76, The Bird only managed another 10 wins in a career curtailed by injuries.
If you weren't already cursing the WBC I'm sure you were Tuesday night. Dice K was placed on the 15 day DL with arm fatigue after allowing 5 runs to the A's in the first inning. Arm fatigue on April 14!! Can't blame Dice K. The WBC is a huge event for Japan and Dice K went all out to help them repeat as champs. Are you listening Bud Selig?
Just when all looked bleak in The Nation, Tim Wakefield took a no-hit bid into eighth inning the following day. Wake saved a severely overtaxed bullpen, which worked nearly 11 innings the previous night. The complete game was the MVP performance of the early season for the Sox. Kevin Youkilis is crushing the ball at a .468 clip but without that performance from Wakefield it'd be PawSox North on the Fenway mound. Youk gets hit on the noggin Friday night and comes back with a 4 hit, 4 RBI effort Saturday.
And speaking of no-hitters, 45 year old! Randy Johnson took a no-hitter into 7th vs. his old team, the D'Backs, on Sunday. The Giant lefty picked up career win #296 in his first start against his former team. AJ Burnett did the same for the Yankees Tuesday night. He no hit the Rays before allowing a 7th inning Carl Crawford single in a 7-2 Yanks win.
Oh boy how about those Yankees!! Or as the New York Post dubbed them, the Stinkees. Nothing better than my 10-year-old daughter giggling and chanting Stinkees, Stinkees, Stinkees! as only a 10-year-old girl can. Yes, priceless. Monday night a 15-5 loss to the Rays in Tampa highlighted by Nick Swisher pitching a scoreless eighth allowing a hit and a walk. Starter Chien-Ming Wang's line was not quite as impressive as Swisher's…
1.0 6 8 8 3 1 0 61-34 28.93
Just when the Yanks figured it couldn't get any worse for Wang it did. A historic 22-4 pasting at the hands of the Cleveland Indians Saturday afternoon/evening (hey 22 runs don't come quickly). The Tribe posted 14 runs in the second inning, the most ever in the second inning of a major league game.
Wang's line…
1.1 8 8 8 0 1 1 52-34 34.50
Wang entered the game with an ERA over 28…and it went up!! By 4 ½ runs!! Add those 2 gems to the 10-2 beat down with the opening of the new Yankee Stadium and it's ugly math for the Bombers. Cleveland scored 9 times in the 7th inning of that one. What do you call the victim of a Bomber? The Bombees? The Bombinos? The Bombinos return to Fenway Friday night.
Should we keep the red carpet outside the visitors clubhouse normally reserved for the O's? The Sox have won 24 of the past 30 against Baltimore at Fenway to help the Sox gain the .500 mark at 6-6 entering today's Patriots Day finale.
And what's with two guys hitting for the cycle? In the rarest of baseball feats both Ian Kinsler of the Rangers and Jason Kubel of the Twins turned the trick this past week. Only 2 other players have matched Kinsler's feat of 6 hits in a game and hitting for the cycle in that game…Rondell White with the Expos in '95 and Bobby Veach of the 1920 Detroit Tigers (sorry don't remember that one). Kubel helped the Twins overcome a 9-4 eighth inning deficit against the Angels. He hit a grand slam to complete the cycle as Minnesota scored 7 times for an 11-9 win Friday night. Don't look now but the Angels are 4-8 and last place in the West. The return of healthy starting pitchers should help turn things around for the Halos.
You owe it to yourself if you've never witnessed the spectacle of Patriots Day in Boston. Nothing like joining 300 fellow Sox fans for a cold one at 9 AM in Copperfields. And then as the sun sets…is this guy staggering cuz he just ran 26.2 miles or has he been drinking since 9 AM? Either way it makes for a rough Tuesday. Happy Patriots Day!
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Muhammad Naeem Noor Khan interrogated. [Source: BBC's "The New Al-Qaeda."]Muhammad Naeem Noor Khan, a young Pakistani, is arrested in Lahore after six weeks of surveillance by Pakistani authorities in conjunction with US intelligence agencies. The US and Pakistanis learned of Noor Khan after arresting another al-Qaeda suspect, Musaad Aruchi, a month before (see June 12, 2004), and they had been tracking him since then. Noor Khan is taken to a high-security prison by Pakistani authorities, who resisted pressure from the CIA to let them completely handle the operation. [Guardian, 8/8/2004] American intelligence agents find what they later call a "treasure trove" of information in Noor Khan's computers and documents. [CNN, 8/2/2004] Khan is a communications hub of sorts for al-Qaeda. He is in frequent contact with dozens of other al-Qaeda terrorists around the world and passing messages back and forth from more senior al-Qaeda operatives. Former National Security Council official Gideon Rose will later say, "It is obviously a very serious victory. It is obvious that there is a real find here." [Guardian, 8/8/2004] Khan, who speaks fluent English, is not just a center for expediting clandestine communications between al-Qaeda leaders and their underlings, but also handles and collates documents, reports, maps, and other information, and sometimes performs his own intelligence-gathering, usually on trips to Britain. [MSNBC, 8/8/2004] Khan's computer contains detailed surveillance information about five US buildings—the Stock Exchange and Citigroup's headquarters in New York City, the Prudential building in Newark, and the International Monetary Fund and World Bank headquarters in Washington—all possible targets for future al-Qaeda attacks, though the information is all from 2000 and 2001. Other sites in New York City and San Francisco are mentioned, and meticulous information about London's Heathrow Airport is also found. Pakistani intelligence officials believe that the information indicates a "present" threat, and so inform their US counterparts. Later in the month, the Pakistanis convince Khan to "turn," or become a double agent. Khan will subsequently send e-mails to dozens of operatives all requesting that they contact him immediately (see July 24-25, 2004). [Guardian, 8/8/2004]
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What a truly exceptional camp! Tafika is one of the remaining owner run camps in Africa with John and Carol Coppinger ever present. The result is a camp that genuinely cares for each and every one of its guests. The quality of guiding here is some of the best in Africa with Bryan Jackson, Isaac Zulu and Alex Phiri offering a level that is hard to beat anywhere; they have been guiding in the Luangwa for years. Couple these facts with the setting and the excellent game viewing on offer and you have one of the best camps in Africa. We absolutely love it.
Tafika - The Details
Located on a grassy peninsula above the meandering Luangwa River, Tafika Camp acts as the main base camp for the Chikoko walking trails, as well being a fabulous camp in its own right. In the game-rich South Luangwa National Park, its six spacious chalets, accommodating twelve guests, are in a wonderful location beneath a grove of giant Leadwoods, Sausage trees and Musikisi (Natal Mahogany) trees. Accommodation is in large, reed and thatch chalets with natural linen, reed shelving and 24 hour electricity. En-suite bathrooms are open to the skies and boast fabulous showers and flush toilets.
While away hours relaxing on the river bank hammocks, photographing thirsty game from the waterhole hide. Or venture further afield on exceptional game drives, walks or cycling safaris in this less visited section of South Luangwa with some of the best safari guides in the park.
Following significant long-term investment and assistance with the development of the local community and village facilities, guests can also visit neighbouring Mkasanga Village, home to most of Tafika's staff. This well-organised trip offers an excellent insight into the culture and lifestyle of the local people.
We recommend you make the time to jump in John's microlight at sunrise to experience an exhilarating perspective of the Luangwa Valley. This will give you the chance to to fly over the ever-changing Luangwa River and take in the breath-taking vistas of the spectacular surroundings - well worth it!
Tafika Camp operates in the dry season: from 1 May to mid November.


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A colorful carnival swirled yesterday in Jessie Square where the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art hosted a free, civic soiree to celebrate the placement of the tallest steel beam atop the museum's 235K-square-foot, privately-funded, Snøhetta-designed expansion.
Within the festive crowd, were key museum VIPs: SFMOMA Board chairman Charles Schwab and his wife, Helen Schwab; SFMOMA Trustee Doris Fisher; SFMOMA Board President Bob Fisher and his wife, Randi; Diana Nelson, co-chair of SFMOMA's expansion capital campaign; trustees Susan Swig and Norah Stone; Mimi Haas; curator Gary Garrels; Webcor CEO Jes Pedersen; as well as other cultural poobahs including Contemporary Jewish Museum Executive Director Lori Starr; Fine Arts Museums Deputy Director Richard Benefield; SFAC Commission Board President JD Beltran; MoAD Executive Director Linda Harrison; SFJazz founder-artistic director Randall Kline; along with Mayor Ed Lee and his Protocol Chief, Charlotte Shultz, who is also a dedicated SFMOMA trustee.
Termed a "Topping-out," this ancient tradition (replete with a conifer tree placed on the beam to appease any forest-dwelling spirits disrupted by construction) was accompanied by such modern-era enhancements as food trucks (including Bacon Bacon and Curry Up Now), music (Balboa High School Band, Batalá San Francisco, SFJazz High School All-Stars) and free, mini-binoculars from which the crowd could view the crane as it crowned the new structure with this historic beam.
"When the museum moved to South of Market in 1995, we felt very much like pioneers," explained SFMOMA Director Neal Benezra. "Today this neighborhood is alive with other cultural organizations, hotels and restaurants and has become the innovation hub of San Francisco."
While art-lovers eagerly await the arrival of the renowned Fisher Collection of Contemporary Art when the museum reopens in Spring 2016, this expansion will also enhance the museum's mission.
Gallery space will triple in size. An expanded ground floor will provide more art-filled, free-to-access public areas. Free education programs for students and teachers will dramatically expand. And admission-free entrance will be afforded to all visitors 18-and-under.
Pre-ceremony, stalwart SFMOMA supporters gathered atop the museum's roof during a private ceremony where they each inscribed their names and penned congratulatory messages on the beam itself.
Architect Craig Dykers, a co-founder of Snøhetta, explained that, among those in the building industry, the significance of this ceremony is to acknowledge the sacrifice and hard work of the men and women who toil on construction teams.
"When I see a single piece of steel hoisted in the air, I do not see a piece of structure in the sky," he said. "Instead my thoughts are guided by images of all those who push these great pieces of metal for us, who climb the tops of the high crane towers and spend their day in the clouds, for us."
Jason Goldman and his brother, Matthew Goldman, watched those great pieces of metal rise on a daily basis from their G2 Insurance firm which is located on the 21st floor of the landmark Pac Bell building, recently the subject of its own structural up-do.
"We've watched the construction from inside an historic, retro building which faces SFMOMA and now there's a radical new building in the middle," enthused Jason Goldman. "It's amazing!"
His brother, Matthew Goldman, noted that creation of this radical new building reflects the current buzz amid our fair city.
"The SFMOMA expansion is emblematic of how San Francisco is changing," he said. "And it's important that we embrace that change as a community."


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Sell A Mountain Bike
So you want to sell that Mountain bike collecting dust in the corner of your garage? This felt like a glimpse of another story to the ones we're used to hearing from either the enthusiasts or the critics of religion: a story of uneasy coexistence, the persistence of supposedly extinct beliefs and practices, and how different stories about the world and our place within it may share a sense that there are certain places where the veil between time and the timeless grows thin.
Big chunky tyres designed for muddy tracks are not the best for city streets, a gear range designed for steep mountain slopes may not ideal for urban areas, and although city cycling can be tough on a bike, it's not nearly as tough as riding on a mountain – and hence frames can be overly strong (and hence heavy).
We're looking for proposals for long pieces (probably non-fiction of one kind or another – essays, memoirs, reflections, interviews, dialogues – but we're open to other suggestions) of 4000-6000 words that tell stories that touch on the experience of the sacred in a time of unravelling.
Turn right (east) and continue on Cave Creek Road (a.k.a. FR 24, Seven Springs Road) to FR 562 (Humboldt Mountain road) located between MCDOT mile markers 9 and 10. The turnoff is easy to miss—it's on the right, paved and there's a 562" sign about 100 feet up the road.
Most significantly, the Humanities are not taught primarily in preparation for employment, which seems to be the astigmatic purpose of most education in our time – for a career that ends when you retire – but in an ancient understanding of preparation for life, in laying the groundwork for cultivating a broad mind with interests that sustain imagination and curiosity in new aspects at every age.


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Plot 3, Brownhill Croft Methlick, Ellon, AB41 7BU
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Plot app 0. 32 acre with planning permission. Services available on site. Price over £100,000 Entry by arr. Viewing Mr & Mrs Finnie 01651 806614 / 07751 363 375.
Building Plot with Planning Permission
Plot extends to approx. 0.32 acres / 0.13 ha. Services available on site. Attractive rural setting. Easy commuting distance of Aberdeen. Early entry available . Planning gain payment fully paid.
Type of Property The building plot lies approx. 2 miles from Methlick and 25 miles from Aberdeen. The plot lies adjacent to a public road.
Planning Permission Planning Permission exists for this residential development under application references F/APP/2004/1379, F/APP/2007/2653 & F/APP/2013/3108 dated respectively 14th October 2005, 6th March 2008 & 29th November, 2013. It is confirmed that the seller will be responsible for upgrading the public roadway in terms of the planning permission and will form the access road within the development.
Planning Gain Payment The building plot offers a good saving as planning gain payment is fully paid.
Services Electricity and telephone connections are on site and there will be a shared private water supply with drainage to septic tank and soak away system. There is also a connection on site for rain water. It will be the responsibility of the purchaser to connect in to the appropriate supplies. There will be, in due course, a Deed of Conditions relative to the building plot.
Location The building plot is located approx. 2 miles from the Village of Methlick with the nearest Primary School being within Methlick itself and Secondary Schooling at Meldrum Academy, Oldmeldrum.
Directions From the village of Methlick cross the bridge and take the B9170 towards New Deer and carry on uphill for 2 miles and take road on right marked Skelmonae and the site is on the left.
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At the cemetery there is a silent kind of battle going on. This seems strange, I know. But for over a decade a group of elderly men have made it their task to keep the historic Napier Hill cemetery free of weeds and generally tidy.
This is no small task, as the cemetery cascades down a steep hill side and is peopled by giant gum trees which continually shed bark. In high storms, entire branches wham down and crack across sepulchres.
The odd bit of chemical poison doesn't go amiss in keeping the cemetery generally 'neat and tidy' as a Hamilton motel garden in the 1970s.
A new group, of which I am a part, is now replanting the cemetery in flowers and plants highly valued by the early colonials - scented roses, bulbs.
The old chaps do not like this. They regard roses as nuisances. When I won the CLL Award - in a high state of excitment - I planted a Madame Alfred Barbiere climbing rose in a plot immediately behind Colenso's grave.
I did not realise I was throwing down a challenge.
A few months later I arrived to find the rose hacked back.
The battle is about aesthetics, but also about control.
The thing which interests me is how these intersect.
Lately I have been reading an essay Colenso wrote about the ferns on Scinde Island. Scinde Island is the Victorian name for the Hill in Napier. Everyone local calls it The Hill. I have never heard anyone call it Scinde Island. Its Maori name is Mataruahoe.
One of the fascinating things about reading Colenso is that he is a master of the shaggy dog tale. He always diverts from the main subject - a botanical naming of the ferns on the Hill in this case. Instead he introduces his historical memories of the Hill. How he found it as one of the very early colonials to experience its wairua or spirit.
So we find that in its early state it was exceedingly barren - a 'high,dry and isolated islet-like limestone mound, destitute of fresh water' - but in the Southern part of the island there were some beautiful stands of karaka trees. 'I think that grove was orginally a tabooed spot (probably a burial-place) of the old aborigines, who formerly dwelt there.' Cormorants nested there. 'It was both a pleasing and a curious sight to see them tending assiduously to their young in the breeding season, the white breasts and bellies of the parent-birds contrasting so strongly with the dense dark green foliage of the trees.'
This grove of trees was quickly cut down by the imperial army when it arrived in Napier in February 1858. They did this for 'small poles, for rude fencing and for tents.' Other trees on the Hill were similarly felled, including the Ngaio trees 'picturesquely fringing and overhanging the sea...at high water I have known Natives to frequently make fast their canoes, and, in the summer season, to bivouac under their shade. No Maori of the olden time would have cut down one of those ancient and useful trees! and, when the whites did so, they complained bitterly against it.'
In 1858, local Maori rangitira were fighting among themselves for supremacy. At the heart of these uneasy, violent disputes was a concern about land - the quick selling of land, who should sell the land, and what you should sell the land for.
The small European population huddled round the bottom of the hill was worried about the implications of these disputes. Even though the battles were entirely Maori.
Enter: the imperial army. Exit: the beautiful glossy green karaka trees.
It is only too easy to parallel pakeha presence with deforestation. Unfortunately substantial tracts of Hawke's Bay/Heretaunga had already been deforested by the Maori custom of burning back. This occured right around coastal New Zealand. So it is a more complex picture than you might think. You also get the interesting colonial individual, like William Colenso who carefully noted the types of ferns and native plantings which existed on the Hill.
This was a pakeha virtue, you could say. Some would say that it was all part of a pakeha desire to attach New Zealand horticulturally to Britain - to make it some kind of outpost. A botanical colony, if you will.
On the other hand, this careful notation means this memory lingers and is of inestimable value for the future.
Nothing is quite as straight forward as polemicists - either pakeha racists or Maori racists - would like to make out. The interplay between the two cultures was subtle, of varying degrees of intensity and pockets of individualism always stood out.
But back to the dispute in the cemetery. The argument is about aesthetics, but in a larger sense, about an idea of space or place. We, perhaps nostalgically, would like to reintroduce plants which evoke memory for the colonials buried there.
The old chaps like to keep things shipshape and tidy. At the moment it is unresolved.
Every so often something we plant just goes missing.
But at the moment the flag irises I planted are flowering, a magnificent mauve-purple.
I would like to see if we can reintroduce into the cemetery some of the ferns Colenso talks about. But I would also like to continue with the roses.
(I realise many pakeha purists would insist only on native plantings, that is, native re-plantings. They can't see this is as false as a carpet-bedding. That is, both are equal fabrications of place.)
This kind of complexity is what I like - a mixture of things.
A jumble of names.
A picture with depth.


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In the Harry Potter world, there's not really a charm for creating silence. There's a silencing charm, but it only makes the recipient temporarily mute. And that's not the true kind of silence I want to talk about.
Pure, proper silence is different. It's not an absence of noise. It's not taking the sound away. It's not the muffled enforced silence found in libraries and classrooms, where talking is banned, but there are sniffles, moving chairs, coughs, and whispers.
It's a calmness. A state of being. It's pure. It's a way of connecting with the world and your soul – and disconnecting from technology, the internet, and all those other distractions that keep us busy all the time. Finding that time for yourself, for your own reflection and understanding, time to get to know yourself and listen to your body and thoughts, is important. But not enough of us find the time to do it.
Not everyone is comfortable with silence and it can be hard to find or understand, but it's something that I've been thinking about a lot recently. So I thought I'd put together a list on different ways of finding and embracing silence.
The most obvious way is to go on a retreat. These don't have to be religious or spiritual, but they often are, as silence is often used as a good opportunity to reflect, pray, and embrace spirituality. Choosing to go on a retreat involves a time and financial, which may be off putting to some, but ultimately, rewarding in the long run, and a great way to switch off and disconnect.
Meditation can be practiced at home and by yourself, although there are specialist mediation based retreats, classes, and apps/websites available to help you on your journey. Try QuietKit to start you off. Or, if you want to start slowly, try just sitting and embracing the noise – and lack of noise around you. Listen.
Yoga, Pilates, and Tai Chi are incredibly popular now, and are great ways of exercising and relaxing your body, and finding a sense of being and calm. It's easy to find classes near you, and there are plenty of travel options available.
Reconnect with Nature
Reconnecting with nature can be a good way of finding and understanding silence, and also gives you an opportunity to appreciate the beauty of the world around you. Going for a rural walk without any headphones or digital distractions is the perfect way to reconnect, clear your mind, and appreciate the great outdoors.
Get to the Ocean
Get out on the water – go for a boat trip, try out a water sport – such as paddle-boarding. Once you're out there, with just the water, nature, and yourself, there's nothing more relaxing. Or go swimming – I love those moments of being underwater, when it's just you.
Immerse Yourself in a Hobby
When I'm really immersed in my writing, I don't need music or anything – I forget about the world around me and I'm just immersed in what I'm creating and what's in my mind. A great way to realign yourself and do something that you find fulfilling.
Are you comfortable with silence? How do you find it?
Share your thoughts and favourite ways to find silence in the comments- I'd love to hear from you!


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Since I keep forgetting how to do this, I will just post it here. To create a .pem file you need to cat the following files after echother:
- Your own key
- Your own certificate
- Intermediate certificate
- [… more intermediates… depends on your certificate vendor…]
- Root certificate. Not really needed actually
So for me this would be something like:
cat www_roedie_nl.key www_roedie_nl.crt COMODORSADomainValidationSecureServerCA.crt COMODORSAAddTrustCA.crt AddTrustExternalCARoot.crt > www_roedie_nl.pem
You can leave out the key if you want to load it separately. But I like to have it in one big file.


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At the foot of S.Agostino mountain, stretching in a basin characterized by the phenomenon of erosion, Coli was an important 'cella' (location) for monks where also S.Columba - tradition says - used to rest and pray.
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54 km from Piacenza, A1 motorway (Piacenza sud exit), eastern ringroad towards the stadium following indications to SS 45 for Genova. Train station in Piacenza, bus line with a change in Bobbio.
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I hate prospecting. I hate picking up the phone and making calls. I hate walking into a room full of people I don't know and talking about myself.
But I have to. I have to prospect for new clients all the time. It is a fact of life for an entrepreneur like me. It is also a fact of life for job seekers.
Face it. Finding a job is a numbers game. You have to find more people to build relationships with people who can help you find that elusive job that is right for you. You are prospecting exactly like I am! Our goals are a little different but the process is exactly the same.
Let's take a deeper look at prospecting for opportunities to see if there is a way to make prospecting a little easier. Instead of cold calling and lots of big, faceless networking meetings, let's change our definition. I like this definition much better:
"Prospecting is a perpetual search for new customers by initiating contact with likely buyers through a series of relationship building activities, including:" phone calls, visits, mail, voice mail, and social events."
Notice the key words:
- Perpetual – Prospecting is forever. You can't just network for this job. Job search networking will be a part of your life forever. We are all just one meeting away from finding our next job. You will need your network forever so start accepting that idea.
- Likely buyers – Just like a small business person, when you network you are looking for likely buyers, people who will be helpful, people who know someone or something you need to know. These are your targets.
- Series – Prospecting / networking is an ongoing project so consider your activities to be a series, not just one touch. It takes several touches to make this work. You should set goals and measure your progress in outreach and networking activities.
- Relationship building activities – Your goal is to build relationships not just reach out and touch someone. Just collecting LinkedIn contacts is not sufficient. You must do something with your contacts – you must build relationships so people know who you are. You must be prepared to give people what they need in order to get what you need. Those relationship building activities take many forms. Don't confine yourself to LinkedIn contacts or networking meetings. You should be having lots of coffee to get to know people!
What are you doing to turn your contacts into relationships?
How are you helping your contacts so you can build relationships to find new opportunities?


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We will help you keep your car in good running condition. No hassle, expert car repair service and maintenance and free loaner cars, very easy to get to in downtown Nashua. Contact us to speak with a real person and arrange your appointment, or stop in and see us on Mason St, or send us an e-mail to: firstname.lastname@example.com
Our technicians are ASE Certified and factory trained in car repair and service for all makes and models, foreign and domestic including, Ford, Dodge, Chevy, Toyota, Nissan, Honda, VW, Mercedes and more. Our fully equipped auto repair facility is equipped to handle your auto maintenance requirements when you need us. Give us a call today at 577-8970 to learn how 1st Priority Automotive & Towing can help keep your car in top running condition.
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Our financing program can be used for ANYTHING in the store - bikes, frames, components, tires, helmets, apparel...whatever gear you need. Good for ALL clearance stuff too.
Our current financing offer is 6 months no interest financing on any total purchase over $199*
The Path Bike Shop offers financing through Synchrony Financial for all purchases. The application process is fast and easy, most applicants are approved within minutes (on approved credit).
Synchrony Financial offers an online application, for your convenience. You can also fill out the application in person at either of The Path Bike Shop locations.
Special financing offers are available for large purchases, ask us for details.
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text: DIAGNOSIS, ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTION IN NEUROPSYCHOLOGY OF AGING CourseCode: 3636Degree: Master's in Gerontology and HealthFaculty of Health and Social SciencesYear: Year 1 of Master's in Gerontology and HealthSemester: SpringType: ElectiveLanguage: SpanishECTS credits: 6Lecture: 4Laboratory: 2Hours: 150Directed: 60Shared: 30Autonomous: 60Subject matter: Diagnosis, Assessment and InterventionModule: Gerontological InterventionDepartment: Course instructors are responsible for the course content descriptions in English.DescriptionNeuropsychology of aging. Neurodegenerative diseases: dementias. Neuropsychological disorders: diagnosis, diagnostic tests. Neuropsychological assessment. Neuropsychological intervention.FacultyNameCoordinatorLectureLaboratoryPELLICER PORCAR, OLGA■■■OLTRA CUCARELLA, JAVIER■■Professional interestWhile aging leads to a decrease of the cognitive potential of the person and an increase in the slope of specific biological processes; some psychological, biological and social factors may operate preventively and palliative on such impairment facilitating the deployment of still active potentials (Waichman, 2002). Thus, the aging process is a developmental stage in which a multiplicity of coexisting factors determining its phenomenology, structure and evolution. According to this statement, we have demonstrated a wide variety of interpersonal manifestations of this developmental stage. Until recently the changes in cognitive function in old age were associated with an irreversible decline, which today has discarded thanks to advances in the knowledge of them and the existence of different techniques and intervention programs that make possible, at least in some cases, braking and modify these processes (Yanguas, J. Sancho, M. & Leturia, F. 2004). Consequently, neuropsychology, and clinical specialty has had a great development in recent decades, holding fast growing as a recognized discipline in the field of health care, helping to achieve many purposes, among which is considered to define a diagnosis, treatment planning cognitive rehabilitation, assessing the effects of treatment and provide information and advice for the care and monitoring of patients. Thus, knowing the basics of neuroenvejecimiento, ongoing training in the use of measuring instruments and diagnostic protocols, the possible preventive and therapeutic strategies to be used; will enable the professional to respond to the growing social needs in the current population, consistent with the promotion of health and well-being of our seniors.Competencies and learning outcomesGeneral competenciesApply a comprehensive concept of health in gerontological practice that considers its biopsychosocial components in accordance with guidelines established by the World Health Organization (WHO).Be able to work on multidisciplinary and multicultural teams and lead multidisciplinary teams.Establish good interpersonal communication in order to address the community where one works and the individuals with whom one relates to efficiently and with empathy.Be able to analyze and synthesize information objectively and without prejudice in order to make appropriate decisions in gerontological intervention.Be able to design and assess gerontological intervention programs based on comprehensive gerontological evaluation.Apply the profession's code of ethics, considering user rights.Be able to update, consolidate, integrate, and evaluate new knowledge in order to improve academic, research, and professional performance using techniques of continuous self-learning and critical analysis.Specific competenciesHave the ability to explain the structural and functional changes that take place during aging on a biopsychosocial level and discriminate between the biopsychosocial implications of normal and pathological aging.Describe the most relevant gerontological clinical disorders and establish diagnostic guidelines that permit identifying clinical problems within the elderly population.Understand the various models of gerontological assessment and know how to design and adapt evaluation methods and tools according to the needs of each person and context.Collect, compile, and verify information obtained in gerontological assessment in order to design personalized intervention.Design, plan, and apply gerontological intervention programs and compare their effectiveness and efficiency to ensure the quality of intervention programs.Objectives (Learning outcomes)General Objective: To determine the normal and pathological functioning of cognitive processes in old age, know how to perform a neuropsychological diagnosis and proper planning to develop general and specific for stimulation and rehabilitation for functions targets. Specific Objectives: Students will learn about the biological, psychological and social characteristics that affect aging. You can differentiate normal aging and pathological aging, understanding the importance of active aging. Understand the characteristics of cognitive processes and neuropsychological normal and pathological behavior of older adults Recognize, analyze and interpret the various neuropsychological assessment techniques to address a differential diagnosis. Develop criteria for intervention aftertreatment functions to rehabilitate, as different strategies to develop business disciplines from an integrated look.ContentsLecture topicsTeaching unitsNEUROCIENCIA COGNITIVA DEL ENVEJECIMIENTOEVALUACIÓN NEUROPSICOLÓGICA EN EL ENVEJECIMIENTOINTERVENCIÓN NEUROPSICOLÓGICA EN EL ENVEJECIMIENTOCourse contentsBasic bibliographyAlberca Serrano, R. / López Pousa, Secundino. "Enfermedad de Alzheimer y otras demencias". Madrid [etc.] Médica Panamericana cop. 2011.Kolb, Bryan. Whishaw, Ian Q. "Neuropsicología humana". Madrid [etc.] Panamericana [2006].Bruna, Olga. "Rehabilitación neuropsicológica intervención y práctica clínica". Barcelona Elsevier Masson D.L. 2011. Complementary bibliographyArnedo Montoro, Marisa coord. / Bembibre Serrano, Judit coord. / Triviño Mosquera, Mónica coord. / Alberich Bayarri, Ángel col. "Neuropsicología a través de casos clínicos". Madrid Médica Panamericana D.L. 2012. Junqué, Carme coord. / Barroso, José coord. "Manual de neuropsicología". Madrid Síntesis D.L. 2009. Peña Casanova, Jordi. "Neurología de la conducta y neuropsicología". Madrid [etc] Editorial Médica Panamericana 2007. Portellano Pérez, José Antonio. "Introducción a la neuropsicología". Madrid [etc.] McGraw Hill D.L. 2005. Tirapu Ustárroz, Javier. Ríos Lago, Marcos / Maestú Unturbe, Fernando. "Manual de Neuropsicologia". Barcelona Viguera Editores 2008. Linkshttp://American Psychological Association - Clinical Neuropsychologyhttp:// Consejo General de Colegios de Psicólogos de Españahttp:// Revista de Neuropsicología, Neuropsiquiatría y Neurocienciashttp:// Federación de Asociaciones de Neuropsicología Españolashttp:// Cuadernos de Neuropsicologíahttp:// Federation for European Societies of Neuropsychologyhttp:// Revista española de Neuropsicologíahttp:// The International Neuropsychological Societyhttp:// Neuropsychologyhttp:// Journal of Clinical and experimental Neuropsychologyhttp:// Consorcio de Neuropsicología (CNS)http://www.dailymotion.com/raulesperthttp://www.alzfae.org/http://www.bancoderecuerdos.es/http://www.alzheimerparacuidadores.com/SoftwareMethodology and gradingGradingMaking an objective type test response test (40%): Students will take an exam on the theoretical and / or practical content of the course. Student works (30%) . The reports will be conducted with the predefined script by the teacher, but leaving enough initiative to the student. Forum/ online activities (30%): Participation and performance of online activities proposed by the teacher will be evaluated. app_Android | app_iOS | Facebook | Twitter | YouTube | | LinkedIn | Instagram | Pinterest +34 96 665 8500 | Contact us:info(arroba)umh.es Miguel Hernández University 2020


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Hi guys. Happy Sunday. Today I made a conscious decision to take care of myself, and canceled the 2 events I had for the evening. I wanted to see Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie with my brother, so that's what … Continue reading
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20th Century Women.
Yes please. A chick flick/comedy is all needed today. It's been a ruff month, I swear. My soulmate emailed me about 20th Century Women and I literally was like leggo lmao. Anyone who asks me to see a movie, I will make it a priority haha. If I have time of course. Today was actually supposed to be my bday celebration, but the weather was like nope. Literally, pouring. That shit would have straight flooded.
So crazy because I actually hit this make up event beforehand, which did flood. Thank god I pulled up literally right when it reopened. All the girls said they were waiting in the parking lot for 2 fucking hours. No chill. It was this event called Generation Beauty put on by Ipsy. Man, that shit was so lit lmao.
I went for my girl cause she went out of town. A 2-day pass was fucking $118. Like WHAT. But I guess you're paying for the products. Literally, so many samples. It was honestly a blast and I went dolo haha. I hustled as much free shit as I could. It was at the L.A. Live event deck, behind Regal Theatres. V interesting, never been up there. I enjoyed getting soaked from head to toe (said no one ever). Of course, my umbrella sits in my closet all year long and the one day I need it, I don't have it. Of course.
This movie is an Indie film, which means it's only playing at select theaters. We mobbed to Arclight Hollywood at 5pm. I had just come from Core Power Yoga and was a hot mess, but thankfully the rain made everyone a hot mess. I took the C2 class and it was literally so fucking hard lmao. Like that instructor was advanced af. Anywho. Shout out to my Costa Rica crew, I hadn't seen them since our trip, and fucking missed them.
It helped that this movie got 90% ratings. Rotten Tomatoes plot: During the summer of 1979, a Santa Barbara single mom and boardinghouse landlord (Annette Bening) decides the best way she can parent her teenage son (Lucas Jade Zumann) is to enlist her young tenants – a quirky punk photographer (Greta Gerwig), a mellow handyman (Billy Crudup) and her son's shrewd best friend (Elle Fanning) – to serve as role models in a changing world.
This plot doesn't do justice. You might need to see the trailer, or just go see it haha and trust my judgment. It's really quirky. I really loved that our entire theater was giggling throughout. It's 2 hours, and I didn't check my phone once. Didn't even think about it. It takes place during a time when people were smoking cigarettes inside their homes. That tripped me out. That mom was smoking at the dinner table, with the food right in front of her.
This film highlighted a lot of the real life issues we deal with in this day in age. So accurate, and so real. It also shows how much a mom struggles how to keep a relationship with her son. Made me feel some typa way. It also takes place in Santa Barbara, my old hood. I enjoyed it a lot. You will too. I promise.
After swallowing the pain of a $17.75 movie ticket, I proceed to lose my parking ticket, which cost another $12. Literally had a meltdown. I decided last minute to hit church at Mosaic for their 7pm service. First time all year, and I was dolo. I liked it cause no one could see me cry lmao. Yelped a lit foot massage after. Shout out to Asia Foot Spa on Sunset.
Crazy week ahead. Sigh.
TRACK OF THE DAY: This song is fire.
Wow. I was too upset last night to write this haha. Idk if you guys notice, I usually write my reviews the night of. But man, shit had me weak yday haha.
ANYWAYS. Living off no sleep. Well maybe an hour or two. I decided to last minute hitch a ride home for the weekend. Got an Uber around 4am to go to Porter Ranch to meet my homeboy who was driving. The plan was to dip at 7am. Shout out to him for accommodating me last minute. Me and my big ass suitcase :/. I fucked up. I had no other bags. That shit was empty too I just had no smaller luggage. SMH.
My Uber driver was dope we talked about Hip Hop the entire time haha. I've never gotten an Uber that late… it's crazy they're around the clock. But anywho. Porter Ranch is fucking nice. Like wow the houses were beautiful I was like DANG MY BAD. Literally him and his 2 homies were up chillin bc they got turnt haha. They just DJed in Little Tokyo so we were just blazing. All of a sudden his friend goes, "wait, let's leave." I was like YAS. I fucks with you lmao. I was so d to dip. Weed makes me awake af and there was no way I could crash at 5am.
So we hit the road. I really felt so bad my luggage barely fit in the whip. It was a tight squeeze fasho. They were so fucking nice though. Bay kids are legit the shit haha. And we listened to lit music the entire ride. At first the kid did NOT let me sleep. I was so sad haha. I brought my airplane neck pillow and everything like I was so ready to PTFO haha so sad.
Anyways it's weird being home, but I fucking love it. Just posted working rn but I got a busy day ahead. I love Sunnyvale though man. Makes me smile. Trying really hard to be civil with my mama but it's not that easy.
Okay back to last night. The day started off with a beautiful root canal. Cried like a little bitch, but at least the pain went away. I've been out of commission man. Some shit went down Wednesday night that had me super fucked up in my head mentally. I need yoga. Sigh but can't sneak in here haha.
I missed our music meeting. But met up with my crew at The Melt on Sunset for a Khleo Thomas event. If you don't know, it's a grilled cheese spot. And Khleo is Zero from Holes who is now rapping haha. No lie though, the event turned SO ratchet. They rented out the pool in the back and bitches were twerking. I was down for the cause man haha. If you saw my Snaps, you knew. Hella people hopped in the pool too. I was like WHAT haha. Shit sounds mad uncomfortable after haha and during. It was getting nippy out.
Afterwards I convinced my girl to go see Russ at El Rey. He started out with his hit single What They Want. She was an instant fan. He's cute too. My homeboy works for Columbia Records who Russ just signed to, and guaranteed and interview with him after. He's been independent for years so that was interesting. Low key the only reason I was down was to get the exclusive. I fuck with Russ but I was so tired. And hungry. Vicious combo.
I brought my other hg for my plus one. She's super dope and down with dope music. His set was kinda long. He played from like 10:15 to 11:45. His fan base is unreal though. I'm talking… one race lmao. Middle Eastern and Hispanic. Super sold out show though. So I'm sitting here super lit for this dude, only to be completely chewed out after.
Note, he sold out like every show on his tour. And wears the appropriate jersey for each city. Ew to the Lakers but super dope how he does that. He's been rapping for like 11 years and has a DIY mentality. Also learned he was heartbroken tn and puts his feelings in his music. Drake status.
Earlier that day, my homie hit me and asked DX to unblock Russ on Twitter, which I thought was fucking weird. When my boss checked, he wasn't. So I thought that was that. But nope. Afterward, he legit went OFF when we met up with him backstage. Saying FUCK HIPHOPDX, blase blase. I was in shock. I've never met an artist who hated the site, let alone, hated haha. He completely aligned me with them, which I didn't appreciate. As if I had something to do with the past.
No homie, I had nothing to do with whatever encounter you had with DX. That's over now can we move forward with the interview? Nope. He pulled up emails on his phone from us from last year and 2014. It was a little extra but he was fucking pissed. I took it a little personal but I'm over it now. Legit if an artist is gonna act petty like that, I feel bad for him. We are only here to help him out. He's prob just so into himself he feels like he's made it.
Sucks though. The show was lit. It was sad af. I said hi to Snow Tha Product who was chilling in the back, hellllla low key. She barely remembered me lmao so sad. I be like that with people though…
Wow life is crazy. Just wanna hide under a rock like Patrick from Spongebob. Straight up.
Hiding bye.
TRACK OF THE DAY: He's so dope.
Vic Mensa.
The perks of being social results in security letting you in VIP lmao. Real talk though haha. Shout out to them, me and my hg were able to post up away from the madness. Vic Mensa sold out show at The Roxy. Homeboy tore that shit down. He's one of those artists that are worth it to see live. He definitely puts on for his fans.
I was sad bc he literally only played his new ish haha. But that's not bad. His last EP There's A Lot Going On was very heartfelt. And the song New Bae is bae haha. If you guys aren't familiar, this is a rapper who really uses his voice and addresses all the terrible things going on in the world. He's able to create really really good music while letting his feeling out. Idk, homeboy's super talented. We were admiring how he can sing tn too.
We really wanted to hear Orange Soda though tear. He played 16 Shots twice tn. The crowd at that shit up. I mean, it does go hard. But he had The Roxy beyond lit. Crazy lights too, like an EDM show haha. I was blinded for a little bit. Man. Vic is a real one. He brought out Towkio and Raury, which was interesting haha. And Joey Purp opened for him, but I def missed his set. I know he's dope though.
Vic's set was so short! I was sad. He came on a little after 10 and played a little over an hour. Prob had to save his energy for the afterparty at OHM in Hollywood after. *eye roll* I was having this convo with my hg the other day, you will not find me at a club no more haha. Like I'm too old. Or a festival lmao. I feel bad. Tyler The Creator announced the lineup for his Camp Flog Gnaw Festival, which I've been the last 2 years. It's honestly a great time. But I was so unmoved by it haha. Honestly just lazy man. Smh. My friends are stoked though.
What were we talking about lmao damn I get so damn distracted. Like legit will have 10 tabs up on my Google Chrome and forget what I started 5 tabs ago. Smh. Also my computer blows. Today it froze at the office and I almost had a panic attack haha. But really, it legit can't keep up with how fast I work, or wanna work. Halp.
Okay so back to the show. Vic Mensa is signed to Roc Nation. And has a huge tattoo of the symbol on his neck. I legit think it's so hot lmao. He also has a HUGE "save money" tattoo on his forearm, in the shape of a stamp. It's amazing. Tn he wore this silk shirt… and had it unbuttoned. And then took it off. The shirt was sus though. I was like uhhhh.
So this one time…. apologies if I've told this story before. I saw him outside on Melrose when I was working at Joyrich. And I told him to come in. I wanted him to fuck with our shit, but he was NOT into it ha. So embarrassing. He looked around and then straight up left the other door lmao. I've interviewed him before too at a Roc Nation party, and he wasn't into it. Sigh. At least he makes dope music. And cares about the world.
Not to talk shit, but he doesn't look like someone fun to kick it with. What do I know though. He just seems mad serious at all times. Okay I'm done talking about him haha. Work was fun today. We had Mod Sun come through our music meeting. He just collabed with Dej Loah on a track and it's seriously fire. It's called We Do This Shit. A feel good turn up track for sure.
We then had TF come through, an LA rapper who was featured on ScHoolboy Q's album. My hg's boyfriend manages him. He's def the definition of a street rapper. Just a raw flow. And yeah. That was dope but I was getting distracted. Felt like I had to get shit done and then my comp was dying. Fail.
I went to yoga for the first time in a minute and it was so great. Hot Power Fusion at Core Power is no joke guys. Yes, I'm probably sweating from the hot ass room and not my workout, but it works haha. And I always feel like I'm getting rid of all the bullshit from the day and… life. Anyone who struggles with anxiety or depression absolutely needs to go to yoga. It's so mf healing.
Went home, showered, Uber pooled. No breaks. Ever. I didn't want to park on Sunset tn haha. And #tandemparking. Pool is seriously so much cheaper tho. What a great invention fr. Salute to Uber on that one. Just don't take it to the airport when you're trynta catch a flight lmao. Learned my lesson the hard way… a good 3x.
The hype for Suicide Squad is too real. I heard it wasn't as good as it shoulda been. We'll see. FriYay tomorrow. Meep.
Should I renew my med card? Serious question…
Cousin Stizz.
Yoooooo. So my hg put me on Cousin Stizz a minute ago. I fucked with him. He recently dropped his MONDA mixtape, which I ran to on Monday. It's dope. The kid can spit. He's from Boston. So funny bc … Continue reading
Chuck Inglish.
Yo, the best part of the show was the Asian girl DJ in the back. Do you guys see her?! Lmao. Why was I so obsessed. She was seriously dope. I wanna DJ so bad. Le sigh haha. I seriously … Continue reading
Minus my best homeboy from home, 99.9% of my friends didn't know who Cozz was. S m h. But I'm about to put y'll on. He's an LA cat signed to J Cole's Dreamville label. I first fell in love … Continue reading
Tory Lanez from Ontario, Canada. Singer, rapper, producer, fashion designer, you name it. Me and my hg have been on him since day 1. His music sold me the first time I heard it. He's a different kind of r&b, more trap I would say. His voice is fire. Sounds autotune, but not… I don't think. Sold out show at The Roxy on Sunset, one of my fav venues. It's small which makes the show super intimidate.
We ubered bc parking on Sunset is never fun. First of all, I never get anyone in my Uber pool. Second of all, our driver was a trip. An Asian trip haha. His seats were literally covered in some satin floral embroidery ish. AND THEN, his Maps navigation started talking in Chinese. That was crazy haha. It even had directions in Chinese. I tried to start convo but failed real hard haha. We get there and I ask the security where everyone was at. He said inside cause the show started at 8:30. Touche. We pull up around 9:30 and Tory came out around 9:45. Clutch.
Man, we were stoked. His DJ is actually his brother. Cute right? Anyways, Tory's entire set was so lit. My homeboy saw him perform in the bay and warned me. I love when upcoming artists can get the crowd hyped. He really put on a performance, running from one side of the stage to the other, crowd-surfing, jumping in the crowd. At one point, he crowd-surfed all the way to the bar on the other end of the room. All while on the mic.
He played all my fav tracks: In For It (produced my RL Grime), The Mission, Initiation, Say It. He played Lord Knows, his track with Meek Mill. It's Meek's first track on Dreams Worth More Than Nightmares. It doesn't say Tory's name so most people dunno. Omg. He played "Karrueche" and dedicated it to Karrueche Tran who ended up being right behind me. Everyone was staring. She's bae. My girl crush for sure. I wanted to say hi so bad. Just hi haha. She's super sweet. No joke though, everyone was staring. It really makes me wonder how people deal with fame. She couldn't just roll to this show solo, or hit the movies in peace. Interesting.
Tory threw it back on us with some old school jams. It seems like he really fucks with that era. I'm talking "Pony" type tracks. I'm sure that's where he gets a lot of his influence from. No one can deny the music then compared to now.
We maneuvered our way to the front, and I got to touch his sweaty body as he crowd surfed over my head haha. I got to chop it up with him later, and I asked if he ever gets scared of falling. He said hell na, you can't have no fear. Word.
I ran into a lotta heads tn. All different lanes. That was real dope. I found out he's signed to Interscope. Didn't know that one.
TRACK OF THE DAY: My fav track.


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First off, don't let yourself feel overwhelmed, building an herb garden should be an enjoyable experience. Depending on the type of herb garden you decide on, it can also be a fairly inexpensive project.
First off, don't let yourself feel overwhelmed, building an herb garden should be an enjoyable experience. Depending on the type of herb garden you decide on, it can also be a fairly inexpensive project.
Begin by getting yourself motivated. Stop at your local bookstore or browse the Web for inspiration. See how others are designing their in-home gardens. Decide on how big of a project you want this to be. Remember, it doesn't have to be hard.
Your windowsill garden can be as simple as repurposing loose tea canisters or mason jars or you can build a contraption in the window to hang your plants or display them in another creative way.
Figure out your budget. In doing so, don't forget to consider how many variations of herbs you'd like your garden to have. Once you've got the logistics sorted out, let the fun begin.
Make a list of what you need and what you already have. Use your imagination in terms of what you already have, because chances are you already have interesting things around the house you could plant the herbs in. Also, remember that not all of your pots or whatever you'll be planting into need to match if you don't want them too. Depending on your personal taste, a little mismatch could make your garden more visually interesting.
Once you've created your list, go supply shopping for the things you still need. Your list may or may not include these things depending on what you've already got:
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- Fill planter with potting soil leaving a little bit of room from the top. Use your finger to make an indentation into the soil and drop in a few seeds. Cover with a quarter inch of soil.
- Do this for as many different pots you have or plants you'd like to grow.
- Fill the shallow tray with warm water and place your pots in it. Let it sit until the top layer of the soil looks damp.
- Take the pots from the water and cover them in plastic wrap, securing the wrap with a rubber band. Find a warm spot to let them sit. Leave them there until you begin to see little green sprouts, which could take up to four weeks.
- Once they sprout, remove the plastic wrap and move your plants to a sunny spot in your home. Water daily.
- Watch your plants grow.
Enjoy the delicious herbs you've created and consider your herb garden the gift that keeps on giving.
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The figurative painter Marlene Dumas has been characterized as an artist who leaves you either hot or cold, but that's not necessarily so. "Marlene Dumas: Measuring Your Own Grave," a midcareer survey at the Museum of Modern Art, cuts right down the middle. It left me warm.
Ms. Dumas's work tends to aim for the solar plexus, as the show's morbid title suggests. Fusing the political and the painterly, it grapples with the complexities of image making, the human soul, sexuality, the beauty of art, the masculinity of traditional painting, the ugliness of social oppression. How much it delivers on these scores is a question that this exhibition doesn't quite answer.
The show suggests that while this amply talented artist has created some riveting images, her work becomes monotonous and obvious when seen in bulk. She has not substantially varied her subjects or her habit of basing her images on photographs in about 25 years. And when you stand in front of her paintings, far too many other photo-dependent artists come to mind for the pictures to qualify as original. Her work tends too much toward well-done pastiches of ideas and tactics from the last 25 years, primarily Conceptualism, appropriation art and Neo-Expressionism
Ms. Dumas's stained and brush-worked canvases are lurid in subject or color, and usually both. The subjects include pregnant women; rather monstrous-looking newborns; murdered children and victims of suicide and execution (mostly women); hooded prisoners; forlorn adolescents; bodies in morgues. Each image is served up in a blank, abstract space with handsome trimmings of lush colors and surface action that have their history in Abstract Expressionism and even Color Field painting.
Striking abbreviations and fuzzy blurs make us look twice. Is that woman asleep or dead? Has that naked child been playing with red paint or is that blood on its hands? In many instances such doubts keep you moving between the harsh, suggestive imagery and the brushwork and process, but after a while you may begin to feel a bit manipulated.
Other paintings go for point-blank sensationalism. "Dead Girl" shows just the head and shoulders of a fallen adolescent with blood streaming from her face. Yet in some of Ms. Dumas's portraits suffering is subtle and implicit, a life sentence and therefore more convincing. In "Moshekwa" the resolute face of a black man fills most of a large canvas with an aura intensified by the shifting tones of his skin, which culminates in a gorgeous patch of dark purple glowing from his forehead like a mark of nobility.
Sometimes the paintings convey a raw, existential force, like the shadowed and piercing, slightly animalistic face of an enormously pregnant and mostly naked woman, defiant yet posing on her knees. Yet, lest we forget that meaning is ambiguous, and that the work is a painting, Ms. Dumas has titled it "Pregnant Image."
Born in South Africa in 1953, Ms. Dumas has lived in the Netherlands since 1976. Although a regular on the must-buy lists of collectors everywhere and the subject of an exhibition at the New Museum in 2002, she is more widely known in Europe than in the United States. This show is her largest in this country and only her fifth solo show in New York. It was organized by Connie Butler, the Modern's chief curator of drawings and an Ahmanson Fellow at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, where it opened last summer.
One thing is certain: Ms. Butler has done Ms. Dumas no favors by installing her work thematically instead of chronologically. The arrangement creates the impression of an overlarge gallery show of works done over a few years. It is as if the museum didn't want its stately sixth-floor galleries to feature anything but the mature, finished recognizable product.
The public could be confused by the messiness of early work. So instead the art seems to have sprung from the forehead of Zeus or Gerhard Richter or Luc Tuymans (or Ida Applebroog). Not until reaching the back of the drawing galleries on the third floor do you absorb any idea of development.
Here, in a single vitrine, you'll encounter a very young artist moving very fast out of the gate on her own steam, starting with a brusque crayon drawing of beauty contestants. Ms. Dumas made it at age 10 while growing up on a farm near Cape Town. The earliest pieces broadcast a gift for drawing and caricature; a fierce, inborn focus on women; and a precocious interest in the physical side of life and art.
Close-ups of breasts and the female pudenda from 1972 bring to mind both Eva Hesse's sexually charged abstractions and Joan Semmel's monumental views of entwined naked couples. They could also be simply a young artist's record of her changing body.
The standout is a small, oatmealish oval of canvas, cotton wool and paint on paper titled "Breakfast for Claes Oldenburg." Made in 1975 when Ms. Dumas was in art school in Cape Town, it is an apt hommage whose gouges and fluttering marks also suggest a Cubist relief, complete with Pointillist dots, and a natural pictorial intelligence.
A page from Vogue magazine with the fashion model erased in a series of black, smeary strokes dates from 1977, just as young female artists in the United States were beginning to combine feminism and photography; it rawly indicates a refusal to leave painting behind. Then a sudden growth spurt: nearby, a large collage combines scaled-up drawings based on newspaper clippings of Winnie Mandela; Patrice Lumumba's widow, Pauline Opango; and Betty Shabazz, the widow of Malcolm X. The piece dates from 1982. The first paintings on view date from 1984, and show Ms. Dumas working very much as she does today.
The consistency of this show suggests an artist who settled too early into a style that needs further development. Stasis is disguised by shifting among various charged subjects that communicate gravity in shorthand. Ms. Dumas's painting is only superficially painterly. The photographic infrastructure is usually too close to the surface, which makes it all look too easy. Worse, it makes subject matter paramount.
At times her career including her work and her voluble persona seems like an extended Conceptual Art project intended to turn painting and its maleness on its head. Yet it is framed in a familiar artistic ego and bluster.
"I paint because I'm a woman," she has said, in a tone that echoes the macho claims of male painters. And in quotations and poems in the catalog she seems just as self-involved and even pompous as many of her male counterparts. Sometimes she can be articulate about painting's physicality and its psychological effects, yet saying it doesn't make it so. Sometimes, when she talks about the viewer completing the art and the ambiguity of interpretation, she fetishizes ideas implicit in all art at least since Duchamp.
Remember Robert Longo's twisting figures and the endless conjecture of whether they were dancing or being shot? The text panel at the front of the show invites viewers to participate in the process of constructing meaning. I thought that's what we always do.
Still, one viewer's stasis could be another's relentless perseverance. Ms. Dumas's emphasis on the naked or otherwise vulnerable bodies of women can read as retribution for centuries of less attuned representations by men and also for the supposed neutrality of abstraction.
Some of her works protect women by making them disembodied, cloaking them in abstraction. The abject female of "Magdalena (Out of Eggs, Out of Business)" is little more than a few cursory features and two knee-length strands of hair enveloped in a Rothko-like field of dark red. Yet she doesn't convince that this approach is all that different from that of Munch.
Ms. Dumas's best work may lie ahead, and in the direction of greater variety. A model is Louise Bourgeois, whose recurring feminist themes have been presented in a succession of markedly different forms. There are hopeful signs in recent works like the "Moshekwa" portrait (2006); the frowsy, Nan Goldin-ish "Self-Portrait at Noon" from this year; and "Immaculate" (2003).
This last, a compact and foreshortened image of a woman's genitalia and torso, goes beyond stain painting and allows for a more textured, controlled buildup of paint. To our benefit, Ms. Dumas has made several major themes her own, but she has yet to do the same with her beloved métier, painting.