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The Story Behind The Kesariya Stupa (Built~250BCE) And Its Head-less Statues
tatvamasee July 8, 2019 Desecration of Hindu Temples, Islamic invasions, Medieval History, Rewriting Indian History, TwitterPosts	0
Source: - @JoeAgneya / Twitter. https://twitter.com/JoeAgneya/status/1147164043863568389
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Some Incidents Of Temple Desecration And Idol Breaking That India's English Media Never Covers
tatvamasee July 3, 2019 July 3, 2019 Desecration of Hindu Temples, TwitterPosts	0
Source:- @Divyasoti / Twitter. https://twitter.com/DivyaSoti/status/1146269525329022976 https://twitter.com/DivyaSoti/status/1146269923007717377 https://twitter.com/DivyaSoti/status/1146270546633601026 https://twitter.com/DivyaSoti/status/1146270951933468672 https://twitter.com/DivyaSoti/status/1146271648171118594 https://twitter.com/DivyaSoti/status/1146272108303003648 https://twitter.com/DivyaSoti/status/1146273488518467584 https://twitter.com/prabhatranjansr/status/1146296396305326081
Ganesha Statue Hidden From Public View By Grills At Qutub Minar Complex, Mehrauli
tatvamasee June 24, 2019 Desecration of Hindu Temples, Islamic invasions, Medieval History, TwitterPosts	0
Source: - @IndianPride8 / @Ashu3211 https://twitter.com/IndianPride8/status/1141933220939718657 https://twitter.com/trueindian1978/status/1142295275173629958 https://twitter.com/trueindian1978/status/1142295872278953984 https://twitter.com/ashu3211/status/1142361693894275074
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Major Hindu Temples Destroyed By Islamic Invaders And Converted To Mosques
tatvamasee May 6, 2019 Ayodhya Ram Temple, Desecration of Hindu Temples, Islamic invasions, Medieval History, Rewriting Indian History, TwitterPosts	0
Source: - @SecretDurga2 / Twitter. https://twitter.com/SecretDurga2/status/1125035753858158594 https://twitter.com/SecretDurga2/status/1125035772707401728 https://twitter.com/SecretDurga2/status/1125035791867043840 https://twitter.com/SecretDurga2/status/1125035815267004418 https://twitter.com/SecretDurga2/status/1125039218013528065 https://twitter.com/SecretDurga2/status/1125039589662416901 https://twitter.com/SecretDurga2/status/1125040748154408962 https://twitter.com/SecretDurga2/status/1125040762586972161 https://twitter.com/SecretDurga2/status/1125041296215687168 https://twitter.com/SecretDurga2/status/1125041906050748416 https://twitter.com/SecretDurga2/status/1125043245422006272 https://twitter.com/SecretDurga2/status/1125043264225021953 https://twitter.com/SecretDurga2/status/1125043277344923648 https://twitter.com/SecretDurga2/status/1125044718809653248 https://twitter.com/SecretDurga2/status/1125044734047612928 https://twitter.com/SecretDurga2/status/1125044745745551366 https://twitter.com/SecretDurga2/status/1125046082113642497 https://twitter.com/SecretDurga2/status/1125046099087986688 https://twitter.com/SecretDurga2/status/1125046831723888641 https://twitter.com/SecretDurga2/status/1125046846617837569 https://twitter.com/SecretDurga2/status/1125047475897683968
Dargah of Sufi Saint Lal Shahbaz Qalandar Was Originally A Temple and Math Of Pasupata Shaivism
tatvamasee April 26, 2019 Books & References, Desecration of Hindu Temples, Islamic invasions, Medieval History, Rewriting Indian History, TrueIndology, TwitterPosts	0
Source: - True Indology / Twitter. https://twitter.com/TrueIndology/status/1121295433895071744 https://twitter.com/TrueIndology/status/1121297536956780545
Gandhi's Advocacy Of Horrific Moplah Riots Condemned By Dr. B.R. Ambedkar — A Talk By Anand Ranganathan
tatvamasee April 26, 2019 Desecration of Hindu Temples, Islamic invasions, Kerala, Minorityism & Politics, Rewriting Indian History, Talk Snippets	0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-NLup44uh8&t=206s When the Great War ended with the disbanding of the Ottoman Empire, Gandhi persuaded the Congress to support the Khilafat Movement – a violent agitation for restoration of the Islamic Caliphate deposed by the victorious British. Before long, he pinched his nose and plunged into the murky waters of religious
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Archaeological Evidence Of Shiva Linga Placed At Footsteps Of The First Mosque In Indian Subcontinent At Bhanbore In 720 A.D.
mahashuunya April 18, 2019 April 18, 2019 Desecration of Hindu Temples, Did You Know, Islamic invasions, TrueIndology, TwitterPosts	0
Source: @TrueIndology / Twitter https://twitter.com/TrueIndology/status/935210014502830081 https://twitter.com/TrueIndology/status/935212150351474692 https://twitter.com/TrueIndology/status/935214643340918784 https://twitter.com/TrueIndology/status/935215683138228224 Featured Image Credit: https://twitter.com/TrueIndology/status/935212150351474692
Sabarimala Hindu Resistance: A Psychological Perspective
tatvamasee April 15, 2019 Communist Betrayals, Desecration of Hindu Temples, Kerala, Major Challenges, Talk Snippets	0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl4eYhrvH1M I'll come to Sabarimala Hindu resistance. It's interesting for me as a psychologist to see this that never before in recorded history have Hindus come out unified in such large numbers to protect their temples. There is a simmering Hindu rage becoming a movement and I also believe that it
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Why Doesn't Northern India Have Big Temples Like The South?
tatvamasee April 9, 2019 April 9, 2019 Desecration of Hindu Temples, Did You Know, Islamic invasions, Medieval History, Talk Snippets	1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_NjRAxeBwc&t=92s Shaun Launders, one of the top theorists, said memory surrounds us and defines us. It's an essential dimension of religion and Milan Kundera said that the struggle of man against power is a struggle of memory against forgetting. Very powerful words. It is a memory that stops us from forgetting.
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Proof of Ram Mandir at Ayodhya? Prof. B. B. Lal on Ramayana Site Archaeological Survey and Babri Masjid – Archival Footage
mahashuunya December 31, 2018 January 30, 2019 Ayodhya Ram Temple, Desecration of Hindu Temples, Ramayana	2
In continuation of the series of articles, videos and talks on the Ayodhya Ram Janmabhoomi issue, here is valuable archival footage of an interview by Wilderness Films with renowned archaeologist and Padma Bhushan awardee, Professor B.B. Lal and fellow archaeologist Dr. S. P. Gupta. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzCRJ8BJ4bk Professor B. B. Lal trained under veteran
Iron Pillar of Raja Bhoj – Lesser known metallurgical wonder of India
tatvamasee September 19, 2018 September 19, 2018 Desecration of Hindu Temples, Indian Architecture, Indian Wisdom, Medieval History, TwitterPosts	0
Source: - @vajrayudha11 / Twitter. https://twitter.com/i/moments/847765501413662720
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The Demolition of Keshav Rai Temple Mathura, by Aurangzeb
tatvamasee September 4, 2018 September 4, 2018 Books & References, Desecration of Hindu Temples, Islamic invasions, TwitterPosts	0
Source: - @Chandrapida1 / Twitter. https://twitter.com/Chandrapida1/status/1036671580594569216 https://twitter.com/Chandrapida1/status/1036673241090121729 https://twitter.com/Chandrapida1/status/1036674772904501254 Featured Image Credit: - https://twitter.com/TrueIndology/status/1036572053317533696
Palayur Church (Kerala) Was Built On The site Of a Destroyed Temple
tatvamasee September 4, 2018 Desecration of Hindu Temples, Did You Know, Kerala, Medieval History, Rewriting Indian History, TrueIndology, TwitterPosts	0
Source: - True Indology / Twitter. https://twitter.com/TrueIndology/status/943543934810185728 https://twitter.com/TrueIndology/status/943545943600668672 https://twitter.com/TrueIndology/status/943546583940972544 https://twitter.com/TrueIndology/status/943547469257875456 https://twitter.com/TrueIndology/status/943550402548547584 Disclaimer: - All content contained within the tweet Embedded above, is based on the personal opinion of the writer. These articles are provided for general informational and educational purposes only. The articles/videos does not reflect the official position of Indictales.com or of Srijan Foundation Trust, who
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Hindu Temple destruction by Portuguese invaders in Goa
tatvamasee April 11, 2018 November 22, 2018 Desecration of Hindu Temples, Evangelism and Defence of Hindus, Talk Snippets	0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN1QQC6Oa-Q&t=44s And this is also the time Miguel Vaz actually went to Portugal, because he realized, even the proselytization was happening in Goa, it was not happening fast enough for his comfort. So he actually went to Portugal. He convinced the King and he got a diktat, saying that, "the regime should
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Dwarasamudra, the capital city of the Hoysala empire was besieged and destroyed by eunuch Islamic barbarian malik kafur
tatvamasee February 28, 2018 March 11, 2018 Desecration of Hindu Temples, Islamic invasions, Medieval History, TwitterPosts	0
Source: - @_ugra_ / twitter. https://twitter.com/_ugra_/status/968398191954616320?s=12 https://twitter.com/_ugra_/status/968400149989896193 https://twitter.com/_ugra_/status/968401411946954752 https://twitter.com/_ugra_/status/968402417212510209 https://twitter.com/_ugra_/status/968403632495370240
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Exposing Aurangzeb in 4 Tweets
tatvamasee February 9, 2018 Desecration of Hindu Temples, Islamic invasions, Medieval History, TwitterPosts	0
Source: - Sandeep Gupta / Twitter.com https://twitter.com/DelhiTweeter/status/591861829514579969 https://twitter.com/DelhiTweeter/status/590059708523814912 https://twitter.com/DelhiTweeter/status/586881258396848129 https://twitter.com/DelhiTweeter/status/591170471850192896 https://twitter.com/DelhiTweeter/status/581774786306682880
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The pamphlets posted on Hindu temples and homes of Kashmiri Brahmins exhorting Muslims to kill infidels
tatvamasee January 27, 2018 Desecration of Hindu Temples, Did You Know, Islamic invasions, TrueIndology, TwitterPosts	0
Source: – TrueIndology / twitter. https://twitter.com/trueindology/status/954250157649833985?ref_src=twcamp%5Eshare%7Ctwsrc%5Eios%7Ctwgr%5Ecom.tinyspeck.chatlyio.share https://twitter.com/TrueIndology/status/954254231262740482 https://twitter.com/TrueIndology/status/954255862150791169 https://twitter.com/TrueIndology/status/954257909755478016
Ambedkar on Islam: The story that must not be told [Excerpts]
tatvamasee January 1, 2018 March 12, 2018 Desecration of Hindu Temples, Did You Know, Islamic invasions, Minorityism & Politics	0
Source: - https://www.newslaundry.com/2017/04/14/ambedkar-on-islam-the-story-that-must-not-be-toldSource: - Newslaundry.com From the Aryans to Aurangzeb, from St Xavier to Shivaji, our historians have chosen what to hide, what to invent, and what to disclose. The singular reason for this is the craving for patronage – of an ideology, a government, an ecosystem, or a clique. And once
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Odantapuri monastery/university established on 760 CE by Gopala I of Pala dynasty, was destroyed by Bhaktiyar Khilji after the demolition of Nalanda
tatvamasee January 1, 2018 March 12, 2018 Desecration of Hindu Temples, Did You Know, Islamic invasions, Medieval History, TwitterPosts	1
Source: - @othisaivu / Twitter. https://twitter.com/othisaivu/status/942627173923295232 https://twitter.com/othisaivu/status/942630570848264193 https://twitter.com/othisaivu/status/942632519937146880
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Palayoor Mahadeva Temple – How it became a Church?
tatvamasee December 29, 2017 November 22, 2018 Desecration of Hindu Temples, Did You Know, Evangelism and Defence of Hindus, Medieval History	0
CREDITS: - This is a republished article. Original article is published in VAIKHARI.ORG Palayoor or Palayur is located near Chavakkad in Thrissur district and is 2km away from Guruvayoor. Palayoor Mahadeva Temple does not exist today. This temple was demolished by Christians and a Church was built in that place. Christians
Palayoor Church (Kerala) was built after demolishing an existing Hindu temple at that site.
tatvamasee December 29, 2017 March 13, 2018 Desecration of Hindu Temples, Did You Know, Evangelism and Defence of Hindus, Medieval History, TwitterPosts	0
Source: - TrueIndology / Twitter. https://twitter.com/sidmtweets/status/943443021684670464 https://twitter.com/TrueIndology/status/943545943600668672 https://twitter.com/TrueIndology/status/943546583940972544 https://twitter.com/TrueIndology/status/943547469257875456 https://twitter.com/TrueIndology/status/943550402548547584
Below Akbar's Fatehpur Sikri, lies an ancient Jain city
tatvamasee December 16, 2017 Desecration of Hindu Temples, Did You Know, Islamic invasions, Medieval History, Rewriting Indian History	0
Source: - Quora.com
According to the inscription on the Qutub minar mosque, 27 magnificent temples were taken down to build Qutub Minar and associated mosque
tatvamasee December 3, 2017 March 13, 2018 Desecration of Hindu Temples, Islamic invasions, Medieval History, TwitterPosts	0
Source: - @vajrayudha11 / Twitter. https://twitter.com/vajrayudha11/status/839804564329086976 https://twitter.com/vajrayudha11/status/839804866604195840 https://twitter.com/vajrayudha11/status/839806942579142656 https://twitter.com/vajrayudha11/status/839807052914507776 https://twitter.com/vajrayudha11/status/970123565445079041
'Chachnama' (The history of Arab conquest of Sindh) describes the destruction of temple and slaughter of civilian population for 3 days
tatvamasee November 29, 2017 March 2, 2018 Desecration of Hindu Temples, Islamic invasions, Medieval History, TrueIndology, TwitterPosts	1
Courtesy:- True Indology / Twitter. https://twitter.com/TrueIndology/status/935214643340918784
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tatvamasee November 29, 2017 March 13, 2018 Desecration of Hindu Temples, Did You Know, Islamic invasions, Medieval History, TrueIndology, TwitterPosts	0
Credits:- True Indology / Twitter. https://twitter.com/TrueIndology/status/935210014502830081
A Shiva Linga was discovered on the footsteps of the entrance of a mosque
tatvamasee November 28, 2017 March 2, 2018 Desecration of Hindu Temples, Islamic invasions, Medieval History, Rewriting Indian History, TrueIndology, TwitterPosts	0
Source:- True Indology / Twitter. https://twitter.com/TrueIndology/status/935212150351474692 https://twitter.com/TrueIndology/status/935215683138228224
Tipu, a Jihadi – The massacre he carried out in Northern Kerala
tatvamasee November 15, 2017 March 3, 2018 Desecration of Hindu Temples, Did You Know, Islamic invasions, Kerala, Medieval History	0
Source:- Dr. Urchin Spock / @UrchinSpock / Twitter. https://twitter.com/UrchinSpock/status/465372589037084672 https://twitter.com/UrchinSpock/status/465374068321968128 https://twitter.com/UrchinSpock/status/465375202562412545 https://twitter.com/UrchinSpock/status/465376420777046016 https://twitter.com/UrchinSpock/status/576764304956915712 https://twitter.com/UrchinSpock/status/582428754556776448 https://twitter.com/UrchinSpock/status/575520287149678594 https://twitter.com/UrchinSpock/status/663990546810081280 https://twitter.com/UrchinSpock/status/663993767632891904 https://twitter.com/UrchinSpock/status/663996986564190208 https://twitter.com/UrchinSpock/status/663998773685714944 https://twitter.com/UrchinSpock/status/664126822330691585 https://twitter.com/UrchinSpock/status/664127642623283200 https://twitter.com/UrchinSpock/status/664130773797109761 https://twitter.com/UrchinSpock/status/664126822330691585
Ambedkar On Islamist invaders – Exceprts from the book 'Pakistan or Partition of India' (Part – 2)
tatvamasee November 6, 2017 November 19, 2017 Books & References, Desecration of Hindu Temples, Did You Know, Islamic invasions, Medieval History	1
Source: Vihaga Veekshanam Blog. To read first part of this post CLICK HERE. The methods adopted by the invaders have left behind them their aftermath. One aftermath is the bitterness between the Hindus and the Muslims which they have caused. This bitterness, between the two, is so deep-seated that a century of
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Hindu Massacre Done by Khilji and Ameer Khusro Thanks to Allah for that Brutality
tatvamasee November 4, 2017 March 3, 2018 Books & References, Desecration of Hindu Temples, Did You Know, Islamic invasions, Medieval History, TwitterPosts	1
Source:- @Chandrapida1 / Twitter. https://twitter.com/Chandrapida1/status/926746143396044800 https://twitter.com/Chandrapida1/status/926766232732176384
Ambedkar On Islamist Invaders – Exceprts from his Book 'Pakistan or Partition of India' (Part-1)
Translated from - Vihaga Veekshanam Blog "These invasions of India by Muslims were as much invasions of India as they were wars among the Muslim themselves. Mahomed of Gazni was a Tartar, Mahomed of Ghori was an Afghan, Timur was Mongol, Baber was Tartar, while Nadirshah and Ahmedshah Abdali were Afghans.
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How Hindu Kashmir Turned to Muslim Majority? ('The Valley of Kashmir' by Walter Lawrence)
tatvamasee October 24, 2017 November 19, 2017 Desecration of Hindu Temples, Did You Know, Islamic invasions, Kashmir	5
Source:- 'The Valley of Kashmir' written by Walter Lawrence. "Sultan Sikandar came to the throne, and soon earned the nickname of Butshikan or Iconoclast, from the intense zeal he showed in destroying the grand old temples which the Hindu Rajas had bequeathed to Kashmir. Sikandar was brave and cultured, but all
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Western Scholar's Efforts to Acquit Aurangzeb from his Religious Bigotry
tatvamasee October 17, 2017 November 19, 2017 Desecration of Hindu Temples, Did You Know, Islamic invasions, Major Challenges, Minorityism & Politics	0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbhtpUrr0so Nowadays there is a lot of news about the work of Audrey Truschke, who is a professor in America and who claims that Aurangzeb was a good guy, that much of the crimes attributed to him have never happened. She's part of a slightly larger movement, in Zurich three years
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Why the Supreme Court Must Give a Definitive Verdict in Ayodhya Case
tatvamasee October 12, 2017 January 30, 2019 Ayodhya Ram Temple, Desecration of Hindu Temples, Islamic invasions, Talk Snippets	0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Brqk9itGVpc The verdict came after 60 years on 30 September 2010. It was a bit of a mixed verdict, in the sense that, of the two Hindu plaintiffs and one Eskimo plaintiff, the Eskimos did get a little bit of the hill concerned. But the site itself, definitely went to the
The Iconoclasm Doctrine of Muslim Invaders
tatvamasee October 11, 2017 January 30, 2019 Ayodhya Ram Temple, Desecration of Hindu Temples, Islamic invasions, Medieval History, Talk Snippets	0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1TLN8sKzqo&t=10s However that version, that they demolished it (temple) has been confirmed by many Eskimos in recent centuries. It's only now, the last few decades that the secular, there are the secular first of all and then in their trail the Eskimos, have maintained that there not only was never a
Secularist Scholar's Arguments and Tactics to Whitewash Iconoclasm in India
tatvamasee October 10, 2017 November 19, 2017 Desecration of Hindu Temples, Islamic invasions, Medieval History	0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZQwrPxRLVI&t=3s Now this is Richard Eaton who says this. He is an American self-described communist academic and he claims that, Hindus on a massive scale destroyed temples that this was their want. In reality, he cannot manage to find more than a few cases of Hindus not demolishing temples, but abducting
Literary Evidence on the Destruction of Ram Temple
tatvamasee September 28, 2017 January 30, 2019 Ayodhya Ram Temple, Desecration of Hindu Temples, Islamic invasions, Medieval History, Talk Snippets	0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP3UJLN3_JA&t=9s Now, what is the evidence that we have, literary evidence of the temple being destroyed at Ayodhya. There are a large number of histories that were written in the 18th and 19th centuries. In Arabic, Persian and lastly in Urdu, not one of these history says that Babri Masjid was
Idol of three headed Brahma found on the footsteps of Ghaznavid mosque at Ghazni (Afghanistan)
Rahul Dewan January 26, 2017 November 20, 2017 Desecration of Hindu Temples, Islamic invasions, Miscellaneous	0
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package org.apache.lucene.analysis.stempel;

import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.lucene.analysis.TokenFilter;
import org.apache.lucene.analysis.TokenStream;
import org.apache.lucene.analysis.tokenattributes.CharTermAttribute;
import org.apache.lucene.analysis.tokenattributes.KeywordAttribute;

/**
 * Transforms the token stream as per the stemming algorithm.
 * <p>
 * Note: the input to the stemming filter must already be in lower case, so you
 * will need to use LowerCaseFilter or LowerCaseTokenizer farther down the
 * Tokenizer chain in order for this to work properly!
 */
public final class StempelFilter extends TokenFilter {
  private final CharTermAttribute termAtt = addAttribute(CharTermAttribute.class);
  private final KeywordAttribute keywordAtt = addAttribute(KeywordAttribute.class);
  private final StempelStemmer stemmer;
  private final int minLength;

  /**
   * Minimum length of input words to be processed. Shorter words are returned
   * unchanged.
   */
  public static final int DEFAULT_MIN_LENGTH = 3;

  /**
   * Create filter using the supplied stemming table.
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   * @param in input token stream
   * @param stemmer stemmer
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  public StempelFilter(TokenStream in, StempelStemmer stemmer) {
    this(in, stemmer, DEFAULT_MIN_LENGTH);
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  /**
   * Create filter using the supplied stemming table.
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   * @param in input token stream
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   * @param minLength For performance reasons words shorter than minLength
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   */
  public StempelFilter(TokenStream in, StempelStemmer stemmer, int minLength) {
    super(in);
    this.stemmer = stemmer;
    this.minLength = minLength;
  }

  /** Returns the next input Token, after being stemmed */
  @Override
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"Guess I'm doing fine": Dylan says, "Look at me I'm hurting"
To put this song in context we have to look at what Dylan had written at the end of 1963 – this is an unedited list (by which I mean I haven't taken out the lesser known pieces – as far as I can see this is the complete chronological list).
With God on our Side
Talking World War III Blues
Only a pawn in their game
Eternal Circle
North Country Blues
Gypsy Lou
Troubled and I Don't Know Why
When the ship comes in
The Times they are a-Changing
Percy's Song
The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
One too many mornings
Restless Farewell
And that is not a selection – that is all the songs we know about, in the best order we can put them in, in terms of writing.
Then came "Guess I'm doing fine"
After which came
Chimes of Freedom
Mr Tambourine Man
I don't believe you (She acts like we never have met)
Spanish Harlem Incident
Motorpsycho Nightmare
It ain't me babe
Mama you've been on my mind
Again that is not a selected list. It is the lot.
If you take a moment to listen to "Guess I'm doing fine" (available on Spotify – it is a and on the Whitmark album) I suspect the question might be "What?"
As in, "What made Bob write this song in between all those works?" Just to take the end of the first list and the start of the second list it looks very odd.
Guess I'm doing fine
The songs around it (not just these two before and after but going back through the more complete earlier lists) are major works. One after the other after the other. Not a masterpiece and a few duds, but brilliant compositions showing Dylan at the height of his powers. And in between, this song.
In a sense I could understand what was going on if "Guess I'm doing fine" was written and then forgotten – every composer like every author, artist, playwright etc has ideas that are quickly set aside. But that it was kept and recorded… that bemuses me. One can only presume that Bob really seriously did want to have a record of everything he did – although I can't quite see why.
Particularly since a little while before he let all those Town Hall pieces just be played once in public and then vanish.
But record it he did. And the only explanation I can muster is that since he broke up with his girlfriend at this time, he was trying the old folksy idea in which the song recounts all the many things that are wrong, but then says by way of stark contrast, but I suppose it is all ok somehow.
Or maybe he just wanted people to know he was hurting.
Well, I ain't got my childhood
Or friends I once did know
No, I ain't got my childhood
But I still got my voice left
I can take it anywhere I go
Hey, hey, so I guess I'm doin' fine
So in a sense he was perhaps just getting a feeling dealt with, and part of that "dealing with" involved writing and recording this song, before he could move on.
Certainly by verse three this is where he seems to be… my relationship has screwed up, but that is nothing compared to what is happening in the world at large.
Trouble, oh trouble
I've trouble on my mind
Trouble on my mind
But the trouble in the world, Lord
Is much more bigger than mine
And a little later he really is emphasising the way the music industry and his fans were treating him
I been kicked and whipped and trampled on
I been shot at just like you
I been shot at just like you.
But as long as the world keeps a-turnin'
I just keep a-turnin' too
and really I find it rather hard to emphasise with this. I am not saying break ups of love affairs are not tough – they most certainly can bring the whole world crumbling down, but this doesn't seem to ring true to me. Not one bit.
There isn't even too much to rescue the song as a piece of music – the basis of the piece is three chords over and over (C, Dm7, F), but maybe that is just how Bob wanted to express himself, going over and over, round and around. Thankfully he didn't play it at any gigs.
I want to stress this is not a criticism of Bob for writing this – as I say all artists do sketches and have ideas that don't go anywhere, it is, most certainly, much more a failing of mine. I can't understand why he recorded this, and why he wanted to keep it, when all around him were the masterpieces.
Unless it was just to say, "Look at me. I'm hurting."
What else is on the site
1: Over 470 reviews of Dylan songs. There is an index to these in alphabetical order on the home page, and an index to the songs in the order they were written in the Chronology Pages.
2: The Chronology. We've taken the songs we can find recordings of and put them in the order they were written (as far as possible) not in the order they appeared on albums. The chronology is more or less complete and is now linked to all the reviews on the site. We have also produced overviews of Dylan's work year by year. The index to the chronologies is here.
3: Bob Dylan's themes. We publish a wide range of articles about Bob Dylan and his compositions. There is an index here.
4: The Discussion Group We now have a discussion group "Untold Dylan" on Facebook. Just type the phrase "Untold Dylan" in, on your Facebook page or follow this link
5: Bob Dylan's creativity. We're fascinated in taking the study of Dylan's creative approach further. The index is in Dylan's Creativity.
6: You might also like: A classification of Bob Dylan's songs and partial Index to Dylan's Best Opening Lines and our articles on various writers' lists of Dylan's ten greatest songs.
And please do note The Bob Dylan Project, which lists every Dylan song in alphabetical order, and has links to licensed recordings and performances by Dylan and by other artists, is starting to link back to our reviews
8 Responses to "Guess I'm doing fine": Dylan says, "Look at me I'm hurting"
Babette says:
I think it is a very powerfull song about his ego and it tells why he is still on the road.
Nothing in the surroundings can break him down:
"Many times I've bended
But I ain't never yet bowed
and the last trick to convince yourself that everything is not so terrible:
I use the last trick myself, and I teach young people the same trick:
Do not focus on your losses, but on your abilities/skills
David J Devine says:
I always liked that song a lot and wondered why he didn't release it.
"I'm still around some how" I still use that line when people ask me how I'm doing.
I think it is a gem of a piece. Who can't relate to it?
I disagree with you but enjoy your articles.
gypsygal says:
I've always loved this song. Sure, the language might be simple compared with other songs of the period, but the vocal delivery is wonderful. I particularly like how he delivers the last line of each verse, especially the last word. And like every song he has ever written and sung, it has its own unique 'sound' when compared with all the others. I'm not aware of any other major artist who can do that.
Laurette says:
I read your blog with interest, song after song.
Thank you for your work but sometimes I disagree with your analyse.
For this song I will say :
who can tell what is a Masterpiece and what is not.
All along his career Bob Dylan had made choices that have been critisized ; that song was kept, that other song was not…
His statement is that though he had been hurt he will go on singing.
so the never ending tour.
He kept and recorded it because it is one of his masterpieces. Le duh
Music of Bob Dylan says:
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Tom Hazelnut says:
This is a beautiful song, worthwhile in his catalog in every way. Too it wasn't put on an album originally.
Wouter van Oorschot says:
1. It is the only song composed halfway three whole months of improductivity:
'Restless farewell' written around 31 october 1963, when it was recorded, this one attributed to january 1964 around the release of The times…. album, and 'Chimes of freedom', said to be written halfway 3-22 february in the stationwagon with which our hero crosscountried the States with some friends from New York to California.
2. Please do remark that on the recording itself (click above), the two middle stanzas of the six are left out and because its seems to be the only recording ever made, I would propose that we leave out of our consideration these two left out stanzas as well. What we get is this:
But I stil gott my voice left
I can take it anywhere I go.
And I've never had much money
But I'm still around somehow
But I ain't never yet bowed.
I just keep a-turnin' too.
Well my road might be rocky
The stones might cut my face
But as some folks ain't got no road at all
They gotta stand in the same old place.
Hey, hey, so I guess I'm doin' fine.
3. It is obvious to me that the four-stanza song is much stronger than the surviving 'six-version' text. What happened is the following. The song takes of from the preceding last three verses of 'Restless farewell':
So I'll make my stand
And remain as I am
And bid farewell and not give a damn.
Then came the Kennedy-murder and after that on December 13 the disastrous Tom Paine Award diner where our hero failed to take the bend, after which he was convinced by others to give an explanation for his badly received tablespeech (both texts to be found on the internet). Just like everybody else our hero was in shock and confused about what happened in the country but he had gotten confused about himself, his position as well, even before The times… album was to be released.
4. 'Guess I'm doin' fine' is no less than our hero's first creative example of digesting what had happened to him personally. Musically it is also his last classic, one-dimensional 'folksong' for a very, very long time at least: 'Chimes of freedom' in february being his swan-song for the folk-community because after that one we witness the breakthrough of the artform that eventually earned him the Nobelprize for literature when he consecutively writes 'Mr Tabourine man' and 'It ain't me babe'.
5. So yes: compared to many other songs 'Guess I'm doin'fine' is a quite mediocre one, but psychologically it fits perfectly in the chronology of our hero's art.
All the best from Amsterdam
5 april / 20 august 2021


One other point before we roll tape. I think the most important thing that comes across here is Obama's willingness to listen and be respectful of folk. People aren't robots programmed by a few policy points. A little respect goes a long, long way. It opens people up to points that they may not have been willing to be open to before. It clears the way for true dialouge.


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The Rožanc Award () is a literary award in Slovenia awarded each year for the best collection of essays in Slovene. It has been bestowed since 1993. It is named after the author, playwright and journalist Marjan Rožanc.

Rožanc Award laureates

References

Slovenian literary awards
Awards established in 1993

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// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
// found in the LICENSE file.

#include "content/renderer/service_worker/service_worker_fetch_context_impl.h"

#include "testing/gtest/include/gtest/gtest.h"
#include "third_party/blink/public/common/renderer_preferences/renderer_preferences.h"
#include "third_party/blink/public/platform/url_loader_throttle_provider.h"
#include "third_party/blink/public/platform/web_url_request_extra_data.h"
#include "third_party/blink/public/platform/websocket_handshake_throttle_provider.h"

namespace content {

class ServiceWorkerFetchContextImplTest : public testing::Test {
 public:
  ServiceWorkerFetchContextImplTest() = default;

  class FakeURLLoaderThrottle : public blink::URLLoaderThrottle {
   public:
    FakeURLLoaderThrottle() = default;
  };

  class FakeURLLoaderThrottleProvider
      : public blink::URLLoaderThrottleProvider {
    std::unique_ptr<blink::URLLoaderThrottleProvider> Clone() override {
      NOTREACHED();
      return nullptr;
    }

    blink::WebVector<std::unique_ptr<blink::URLLoaderThrottle>> CreateThrottles(
        int render_frame_id,
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    void SetOnline(bool is_online) override { NOTREACHED(); }
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};

TEST_F(ServiceWorkerFetchContextImplTest, SkipThrottling) {
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  auto context = base::MakeRefCounted<ServiceWorkerFetchContextImpl>(
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      /*websocket_handshake_throttle_provider=*/nullptr, mojo::NullReceiver(),
      mojo::NullReceiver(),
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  {
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    request.SetUrl(kScriptUrl);
    request.SetRequestContext(blink::mojom::RequestContextType::SERVICE_WORKER);
    context->WillSendRequest(request);

    // Throttles should be created by the provider.
    auto* url_request_extra_data = static_cast<blink::WebURLRequestExtraData*>(
        request.GetURLRequestExtraData().get());
    ASSERT_TRUE(url_request_extra_data);
    blink::WebVector<std::unique_ptr<blink::URLLoaderThrottle>> throttles =
        url_request_extra_data->TakeURLLoaderThrottles();
    EXPECT_EQ(1u, throttles.size());
  }
  {
    // Call WillSendRequest() for kScriptURLToSkipThrottling.
    blink::WebURLRequest request;
    request.SetUrl(kScriptUrlToSkipThrottling);
    request.SetRequestContext(blink::mojom::RequestContextType::SERVICE_WORKER);
    context->WillSendRequest(request);

    // Throttles should not be created by the provider.
    auto* url_request_extra_data = static_cast<blink::WebURLRequestExtraData*>(
        request.GetURLRequestExtraData().get());
    ASSERT_TRUE(url_request_extra_data);
    blink::WebVector<std::unique_ptr<blink::URLLoaderThrottle>> throttles =
        url_request_extra_data->TakeURLLoaderThrottles();
    EXPECT_TRUE(throttles.empty());
  }
}

}  // namespace content


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Karolina Wisniewska (born July 26, 1976) is a para-alpine standing skier.  Born in Warsaw, she moved to Canada when she was 5 years old where she then took up skiing as a form of physical therapy for her cerebral palsy.  Over the course of her skiing career, she won eight total Paralympic medals for skiing, and 18 medals at International Paralympic Committee (IPC) World Cups.  At the 2002 Winter Paralympics, she earned four medals, the most ever earned by a Canadian para-alpine skier at a single Games.  Wisniewska retired from the sport for a second time in May 2012 following an injury in 2011 that resulted in her missing most of the 2011/2012 skiing season.

Early life
Wisniewska was born on July 26, 1976, in Warsaw, Poland and moved to Alberta, Canada when she was five years old. She was living in the Vancouver area in 2010, but was back in Calgary by 2012.

Born with cerebral palsy which affects her legs and balance, Wisniewska took a break from skiing at one point in order to attend Oxford University. In 2007, she was inducted into the Canadian Ski Hall of Fame. In 2012, she was working as a senior program officer in the higher performance division of Sport Canada. In 2017, Wisniewska was inducted into the Canadian Paralympic Committee's Hall of Fame.

Skiing
Wisniewska is a para-alpine standing skier, who took up the sport when she was five years old as part of physical therapy for her cerebral palsy. In 1994, she joined the Alberta Disabled Alpine Team, the first time she participated in skiing on the para-sport side.  Prior to this, she belonged to the Banff, Alberta based Sunshine Ski Club. Over the course of her skiing career, she won eight total Paralympic medals for skiing, and 18 medals at International Paralympic Committee (IPC) World Cups.

In 1995, Wisniewska won every event in her class at the national championships and made her national team debut. The following year, she earned a gold medal at the World Championships in Super-G in Lech, Austria. She first represented Canada at the Winter Paralympics in 1998, she won a pair of silver medals in the Women's Giant Slalom LW3,4,5/7,6/8 event and the Women's Super-G LW3,4,5/7,6/8 event. At the 2002 Winter Paralympics, she won four medals: two silvers and two bronzes. The silvers were in the Women's Giant Slalom LW3, LW4, LW9 event and Women's Slalom LW3,4,9 event. Her bronze medals were in the Women's Downhill LW3,4,6/8,9 event and the Women's Super-G LW3,4,6/8,9 event.  Her four medals were the most ever one by a Canadian para-alpine skier at a single Paralympic Games. In 2003, she won the IPC World Cup Crystal Globe, which meant she was the overall IPC World Cup Champion for that year.

In 2004, Wisniewska retired from skiing for the first time following a concussion. She came out of retirement in 2007 in order to attempt to make the Canadian team for a home hosted Winter Paralympic Games in 2010. At the Korean hosted 2008 IPC World Cup, she finished sixth at the slalom event with a combined time of 2:31.26. The 2010 Winter Paralympics were her third Paralympics.  She competed in the slalom, finishing in fourth following her first run and third in her second run in a round that saw one of the skiers ahead of her disqualified for skiing off the course. Wisniewska ended up with a bronze in the event, on a combined time of 1:58.84. Her finish coupled with teammate Lauren Woolstencroft's gold medal finish resulted in Canada's first double podium at the 2010 Games.  Her second bronze medal of the Games was in the Super Combined.

At the 2011 IPC World Championships, Wisniewska won a pair of bronze medals in the slalom and super combined events. In February 2011, she injured herself during a downhill race. In May 2012, she announced her retirement from the sport following an injury that kept her out of the sport for most of the 2011/2012 ski season.

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1976 births
Living people
Alpine skiers at the 2010 Winter Paralympics
Alpine skiers at the 2002 Winter Paralympics
Polish emigrants to Canada
Sportspeople from Warsaw
Medalists at the 1998 Winter Paralympics
Medalists at the 2006 Winter Paralympics
Medalists at the 2010 Winter Paralympics
Alpine skiers at the 1998 Winter Paralympics
Paralympic silver medalists for Canada
Paralympic bronze medalists for Canada
Canadian female alpine skiers
Medalists at the 2002 Winter Paralympics
Paralympic medalists in alpine skiing
Paralympic alpine skiers of Canada


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French: Rollier a ventre bleu; German: Opalracke; Spanish: Carraca Blanquiazul.
15 in (37 cm); 0.24-0.38 lb (110-190 g). Dark blue with black back and creamy head and breast.
Favors Isoberlinia woodland, also forest clearings and plantations.
Partial migrant. In small groups, roosting together and occupying favored haunts. Conspicuous when sitting on exposed hunting perch or in overhead flight, but noisy only in breeding season.
From high-vantage perch flies down to take large invertebrates and small reptiles on ground below; some flying insects captured in flight. Prey repeatedly struck against ground or perch before swallowing; regurgitates undigested remains in pellets.
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"Greed surely brings disaster and destruction in the end".
Chandra was a king, whose sons kept a group of monkeys as pets.
These monkeys were treated as royal pets, and were provided with the choicest of foods and the best of care. As they did not have much to do, they had become fat.
The chief of these monkeys was very wise. The followed great philosophers and was learned in many sciences. He always tried to teach the other monkeys, but they had become too absorbed in their lavish lives to follow much of his teachings.
On the other hand, the princes also had two strong rams (billy goats), which used to draw the carriage used by the young princes.
One of the rams was a glutton, and would creep into the kitchen whenever he could and eat whatever he could get there. This made the cooks very angry, and they would keep a watch. The cooks would throw anything they could lay their hand on, to hit the ram, when he would be near the kitchen.
Noticing the cooks trying to hit him with sticks, earthen pots, copper pans and anything they found handy, the chief of the monkeys thought, "This behaviour could lead to accidents, and this entire city may perish. What if they threw something with fire?"
The chief of monkeys summoned the other monkey and said, "The behaviour of the cooks towards the ram can lead to some mishap any day, and we may well be on the losing side, if that is to happen. Let us get away from here, before some accident is to happen."
But, the other monkeys were enjoying their lavish treatment, and did not go back to the jungle. They refused to heed the chief's warnings, and decided to stay. They assumed that the chief was getting old, and having all types of weird thoughts.
Thus, the chief of monkeys decided to leave alone. He said, "You are more fools than crazy not to foresee the danger. I shall leave here, as I value life more than the abundant foods served here!"
After the chief of monkey had departed to the jungle alone, one day, the ram entered the kitchen and ate some food that was being organized to be served to the king.
One of the cooks got very angry, and unable to get anything else handy, threw a half-burnt log from the oven. The log hit the ram. As the ram's body was covered with wool, it instantly caught fire. In the pain of fire on him, the ram ran to the stable. The dry grass for the horses caught fire, and in a moment the whole stable was engulfed in fire.
There was a pandemonium, and by the time, the fire was extinguished by the palace workers, the horses suffered grave burnings. When the news reached the king, he was very depressed that such a thing had happened to his favourite horses, and summoned veterinary surgeons to prescribe him remedy.
After referring many scriptures, the veterinary surgeons advised, "O King, the wounds caused by fire will recover fast, if they are applied with monkey's fat."
Thus, the king ordered all the pet monkeys be caught, and killed immediately. The fat from their bodies were then used to treat the horse's wounds.
When this news reached the chief of the monkeys, he was very sad. He thought, "The monkeys were foolish not to heed the warnings, but the king is wicked for doing this to his pets. I will make him pay for his actions!"
He had not eaten food, or drunk water for several days as he was heart-broken. Absent-mindedly, he came to a lake full of beautiful lotus. He was thirsty, and decided to drink some water. As he came near the lake, he noticed that there were many footprints of both men and animals, that led to the lake, but not a single footprint led away from the lake.
He became aware, and concluded there must be something wrong in this beautifully decorated lake. He fetched some hollow stems of lotus plant nearby, and using them as a pipe, drank water from a distance.
As he was doing so, a monster emerged from the lake. He had a necklace of jewels around his neck. He said, "I am a monster who lives in this lake. Whoever enters this lake to bath or drink water, ends up in my tummy. For so many years, I have not seen anybody as wise as you! You drink water from the lake, but maintain a distance where I cannot touch you. I am so pleased with you, that I shall grant any wish you may want!"
The chief of monkey immediately remembered that he had a revenge to take, and said, "Tell me, how many can you eat? I have a certain king as my enemy. If you give me your necklace, I shall use it to persuade the king and his men to enter the lake."
The monster replied, "If they enter the lake, I can eat thousands of them. Go ahead and bring as many as you can!"
The chief of monkey wore the necklace in his neck and jumped from tree to tree to reach the palace as early as possible. He went straight into the king's court.
When the king and everybody else saw the chief of monkeys wearing a beautiful necklace of jewels, they became curious. They asked the chief of monkeys all sort of questions.
The chief of monkey said to the king, "O king, while wandering in the jungle, I have come across a large treasure that Kuber (God of treasures) has hidden. It is secretly hidden inside a lake. Anyone, who takes a bath in the lake on a Sunday, can have as much treasure as he can carry. This necklace is nothing compared to the other treasures there! The diamonds in the lake would even put the sun to shame!"
When the king heard this, he said, "Hey Monkey Chief, if this lake really exists, please take lead us to it. I will come to see it myself, and even bring everybody in the palace along with me."
It was decided, and in the early morning of the very next Sunday, the king and the chief of the monkeys set to travel inside the jungle. They were followed by the princes, queens, ministers, household workers and everybody else in the palace.
When they reached the place, everybody was awe-struck to see the lake full of lotus. The chief of monkeys said, "Everybody should enter the lake at the same time, or only the first few will received the blessings. As for you, my king, you should wait. I will show you a special place to enter the lake after they have gone into the lake."
The greedy king, and everybody else followed his instructions and got into the lake. One by one, they started to disappear. The king kept anxiously waiting for them to return with treasures.
When his people and relatives did not come out of the lake after a long time, the king asked, "O Monkey Chief, why do they not come out? Why is it that they take so long time?"
The chief of the monkeys jumped to the top of a tree and replied, "O wicked king, a monster lives in this very lake that has eaten all your court members, and relatives. I have now killed all your family, as you have killed mine. The scriptures say, it is not a sin to return evil for evil deeds."
He continued, "I have saved you, for you were once my master! You may return to your palace, empty-handed and alone."
Thus, the king returned to his palace after losing all his relatives and household members, while the chief of monkeys had his revenge.
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Next Target Home Designer (Fab!), Another Gossip Girl Cover
Happy Thursday everyone, we hope today is going swimmingly for you!
We are still aglow about the Lilly Pulitzer Stationery & Gift line we announced we will be carrying in just about two weeks, but other news abounds on the Preppy Planet that we simply must share with you! (Just take a glance at our first and/or second Lilly post if you missed the news yesterday.)
We start with word on Target's next designer for their home collection: the Orla Kierly Collection for Target will land at your local Tarszay beginning February 1.
Courtesy Racked
TP predicts this collection will be as popular as last year's Cynthia Rowley group at the Boutique, possibly more so. It may not resonate as much with those favoring a strictly preppy aesthetic; the colors are more muted than the brights we adore, and the designs do not carry motifs associated with a 'prep style.' On the other hand, the lines are very clean; one won't see a lot of 'frou frou' or fussiness with this designer.
The fabulous folks at the Decor8 blog have loads of great images of the Kiely Collection for Target in this post. For those not as familiar with the company, we share a few looks from their apparel offerings. Below, the Sparkle Cashmere Sweater:
Orly Kiely
Some may recognize the more well-known 'stem' prints on their bags, totes and other items. Below, the Small Stem Large Tote:
Believe it or not, another Gossip Girl star has landed the cover of fashion magazine. In this case it is a big deal for one Blake Lively, as she is the February cover for Vogue.
Mario Testino for Vogue
In the accompanying feature story Ms. Lively covers all sorts of ground, including topics show-related and fashion-related.
Also in G2 news, some readers may remember our post about a Gossip Girl spinoff; word now that the new show is moving forward. The details are in this story on Us Magazine's website:
"The new CW pilot will center on a teenage version of Lily van der Woodsen (played by Kelly Rutherford) in Los Angeles in the 1980s."
"Used to being a 'have,' attending a wealthy Montecito boarding school and living the high life, Lily is now forced into being a 'have not,' living deep in the Valley she once made fun of, and going to public school," a Warner Bros. statement read."
Speaking of "cover girls," we were delighted to open our T&C Special Issue on Wonder Women and see Diane von Furstenberg!
The special issue comes packaged with the Town & Country Weddings spring issue. And since we are speaking of Ms. von Furstenberg, we feel compelled to advise you there is an astounding sale on some of the goodies in her online store! (See our next item, for it also involves this designer!)
Designers who participated in the last year's Runway to Change fundraising efforts for President-elect Obama are now offering Inaugural items. Below, the Obama Love Inaugural Tote Bag by Diane von Furstenberg:
Obama Love by Diane von Furstenberg
Along with this design from Tory Burch:
Tory Burch - Runway to Change
Not for TP, but certainly appealing for others, to be sure.
Are the fashion and retail arenas still rife with what call SOTTs? (Signs of the Times.) Yes. Indubitably. However we elected to stay more upbeat today and avoid dwelling on the Neiman Marcus layoffs, Goody's bankruptcy filing, or the Gottschalks bankruptcy.
Instead, we'll share a tidbit about Curtis Sittenfeld, considered one of the more 'preppy writers' on the American literary landscape. The author of "Prep" and "American Wife" started an online novella yesterday. As explained on the Slate site, where the novella is running:
"In anticipation of the inauguration, Slate asked Curtis Sittenfeld, whose 2008 novel American Wife chronicled the personal side of politics, to write an original inauguration novella. It will run in five parts, starting today and concluding Tuesday."
Entitled "All Along, This Was What Was Supposed to Happen: an Inauguration Novella," the first installment is subtitled "Yes, We Did" and the second, "Got Hope?" How very interesting.
And lest anyone think we forgot, we have nothing new to report on an Inaugural Gown or a daytime look for Michelle Obama. We did see sketches of designs for Malia and Sasha Obama from the upscale children's line Bonpoint in a story that ran in WWD this past Monday (the 12th), but were highly suspicious when reading it.
Among other things the story said "the White House stylist" approached the French firm. For openers, we expect the family will be in apparel from American companies. And "the White House stylist" ??? That would be an addition to the staff list we do not expect to see filled. FYI, the story has been pulled from the Women's Wear Daily website.
Anywho, we're out the door. After all, it is a tropical -1 outside, but the sun is brightly shining. And you know what we always say: "It's not the heat, it's the humidity."
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New Preppy Meets Punk Designer at Fashion Week
Hello-Hello everyone and Happy Almost-end-of-the-week! The Princess is particularly excited at the prospect of week's end, for she is off to The Big Lake with TSU (The Spousal Unit, aka The Princess Consort) for a brief vacation.
One of the more exciting attractions of Fashion Week for TP is that every so often a new designer comes along. They may not be "new" to the fashion industry, merely new in our little solar system. One such designer is Christian Francis Roth, returning to the industry after an absence going back to 1995 when he shut down his eponymous clothing line.
Last week Mr. Roth debuted a collection many referred to as demonstrating a 'Preppy vs. Punk' or 'Preppy Meets Punk' aesthetic.
The line was named the "Gangs of New York" by Mr. Roth; TP is quite intrigued with the launch whatever the name! With bright colors, swingy skirts and other attributes of the prep-school look, this one is fun and funky. Evidently we're not alone in this assessment. From the Wall Street Journal's Heard on the Runway blog:
"It's happy clothing – it's fun," said Roopal Patel, senior fashion director for women's wear at Bergdorf Goodman, who felt shoppers would likely be attracted to the preppy, striped shirt dresses that looked as if they were made of ripped up button-down shirts haphazardly stitched together."
The designer cites the Gossip Girl television show as a source of inspiration for the line. Perhaps Mr. Roth's time designing for Tommy Bahama contributed to a number of pieces on the runway in what TP calls the Roth nautical look. We dedicate the top photo to our own Miss Nautical by Nature. (Psst, Kate – remember, this isn't out until Spring 2009.)
The Journal blog reports price points for the line will run from $350 – $525 for dresses, with jackets retailing for about $425 – $675. The runway show featured those 'gangs' of girls showcasing different looks from the collection.
One can see the 'bad girl' references in the collection, the untied black bow at the neck, the racier hem length and a neckline lower than what any 'nice young lady' would be wearing. (This is what the Queen Mother would call a "plunging neckline" were TP to attempt leaving the ancestral home in anything remotely resembling the dress shown lower right.)
Of course, black simply isn't done during one's younger years, it's just not acceptable until a young lady reaches a certain age. In our day, that time was not until after one's coming out, at the *very* earliest.
And despite our love of black, our favorite pieces in the line remain the delightful variations on what any Upper East Side teen might be wearing.
But this doesn't rule out our appreciation of the designer's whimsical variations on the preppy nautical style.
In describing the show, WWD wrote:
"Inspired by New York City cliques, Christian Francis Roth played with the idea of neighborhood gangs with his contemporary label Francis by Christian Francis Roth, resulting in cute prep-school patchwork plaids in dresses and blazers, broken-up rugbies made into dresses and "Acoste" polos featuring an alligator eating the Ralph Lauren polo player."
Of course our illness (the worst case of LogoPhobia in recorded history) prompts our love for that dress, seen above, but we also like it because we think it is done without rancor or ill will, merely a wink and a grin.
Another reason we are drawn to the designer? Because his models aren't all emaciated, scrawny young women. None of these beautiful young ladies are anywhere near plump, but they are not the painfully thin and drawn lovelies generally seen on the runway.
Below, a shot of the designer in 1990…
Photo: Kyle Ericksen
and last week at the conclusion of his show.
There is good news this week for Mr. Roth, as reported in an update to the WSJ blog:
"On Monday, Stephanie Solomon, women's fashion director for Bloomingdale's, said she planned to carry Mr. Roth's collection in the spring."
Oh, one more Roth-related headline, this one also from WWD (Women's Wear Daily):
New York Day Two: Preppy and Peppy
The headline is from April, 1994; the copy in that story reads in part: " On Thursday, the runways came alive with hip preppies at Christian Francis Roth…". This is where one makes the comment about the leopard and its spots. How very fun.
In fact, we are so fond of this collection we are awarding it (gasp!) the Princess's Official Seal of Prepalaciousness!
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Well, if it isn't really and truly a change of seasons – it simply can't be ignored any longer. Fall fashion magazines have started clogging the mailbox; the poor postal carriers must be simply smothered under the weight of them all!
Before anything else, The Princess has a pout. It's about this, the annual Fashion Rocks supplement accompanying many of your Conde Nast September magazines, like Vogue, Lucky, Wired, and many more.
Well, actually, now it's two things we're feeling a bit peevish about because we discovered the second problem while looking for the page number to point out the first problem, which is an *enormous* typo. And we would tell you what page said typo is on, except there are no page numbers in the magazine. No page numbers. Not in the Table of Contents. Not on the pages. None. Nary a number. So now we are up to three irritants and trending down if we were to be asked. We apologize for being disturbed by the lack of page numbers, it really is just too linear of us, isn't it? (Don't even think about answering that one.)
So now we're back to the 2nd issue which was originally the first (and only) one: the typo. Lacking a page number, we can only say that it is in the first paragraph of the first story of the first person they profile, who also happens to be the superstar on the cover of the publication, Justin Timberlake. Could we not have gotten this much correct? (The sentence in the story reads "I don't how it works…" when TP thinks it is meant to read "I don't know how it works…")
We now get to the third problem, which is fairly simple: the Fashion Rocks website says "Stay Tuned." It is essentially inactive other than cycling through a lot of previous photos of earlier concerts. This is a huge event with a concert at Radio City Music Hall with performances confirmed from the following: Beyonce, Justin Timberlake, Mariah Carey, Fergie, Rihanna, Chris Brown, Duffy, Keith Urban, Kid Rock, and Lil Wayne, Chris Cornell, OneRepublic, Pussycat Dolls, Solange Knowles and Timbaland, and Lynyrd Skynyrd, to name but a few.
It is the Fifth Annual concert, but the first time with all the hoopla of three network news anchors formally announcing plans for it back in July. Now, there is an AOL site that has loads of pictures and information, should that pique your interest. The Princess merely thought a website for a fundraiser of this magnitude would be a bit more well, active or something, wouldn't it? If you would like your social secretary to pencil this in, the concert is on CBS on Tuesday, September 9th. (It is actually taped on the 5th.) Proceeds from this year's concert will benefit Stand Up To Cancer.
Now that TP has that little tirade episode behind her, let's talk fashion magazines, shall we? All is not hunky-dory for at least for more than a few of them when it comes to the all-important September Fashion issues. For openers, Vogue's September issue with Keira Knightley on its cover is down by about 50 advertising pages from last year, a rather stunning development.
Vanity Fair, Cosmopolitan and W are among those magazines losing traction on the advertising side of the business. On the other hand, it turns out that Elle actually boosted its advertising $$$ by a good percentage; it features Jessica Simpson on the cover.
What's Elle doing the others aren't? TP thinks it may have something to do with the cover girl selections. Last month's cover showcased Mariah Carey, before that Mary-Kate Olsen, and the month prior to that it was singing star Rihanna.
Unless we're misreading things, they seem to be trending toward a *much* younger demo. Vanity Fair and their slight shrinkage? Well, we don't know about everyone else, but here at the Prepatorium, the increasingly strident attacks on so many different things and people have become tiresome. Perhaps we're poor citizens, but we're just tired of all the yelling.
One way publishers try to goose sales a little can be with different covers, like the two Bazaar used for their September blowout, both with Tyra Banks.
We received the blue issue in our mailbox. Some designers actually spent more on magazine advertising this year than they did last year. One of those doing so is Oscar de la Renta, one of TP's favorites. Below we show two looks from his 2009 Bridal line.
That provides the perfect opportunity to showcase what has to be one of the most scenic locales for a fundraiser TP has ever seen. Ever. Seen.
We're talking about Oscar de la Renta's 8th Annual benefit for the League to Save Lake Tahoe. One arrives by boat for the party, in what appears to be a classic Chris Craft or perhaps a Century. Regardless of make, it is TDF. Totally. (TP was used to the family Century, but realizes the majority were Chris Craft.)
Is there a better locale for a fashion show that you have attended? If so you simply must tell us about it so we can share that info with the rest of the class.
We leave with something from a line TP currently doesn't have in her walk-in, and it will probably stay that way, but we definitely applaud any new designers willing to take on the fashionistas with something new. So, how about this for the ultimate in 'lighting things up"?
'Rhyme and Reason" is a design firm using light as a material to enliven white knitwear and "…create transformative fashion." Besides, one can alway multi-purpose their clothing in ways previously unexplored.
"When not being worn, the pieces double in function as lamps, avoiding the fate of hanging neglected in a closet."
As always, our thanks to Luxuo.com for their eye.
And then there's Miss Little Bow Prep, oh she of the chic taste and fast fingers, typing up a storm of preppy goodness and culturally broadening blogdom. MLBP has been exceptionally generous in bestowing upon us a Diamond Award…whoo-hoo! The rules of the Award state that one must acknowledge on their blog they are a recipient of it and then tag seven others with the Award and link to their blogs. So here we go:
Tres Poshe Preppy
Jewish Girl in Wasp's Clothing
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Misadventures of a Newlywed
Thank you Miss Little Bow Prep!
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St. Paul was born into a noble family near Moscow. When his parents arranged a marriage for him, he secretly left his family home and entered a distant monastery. Some time later he moved to the Monastery of the Holy Trinity to become a disciple of St. Sergius of Radonezh. Under the direction of St. Sergius, he made great progress in unceasing prayer of the heart. The elder blessed him to retire to a hermitage near the monastery, and he lived there 15 years.
In time St. Sergius gave him permission to go deeper into the wilderness as a desert-dweller, and he disappeared into the forests across the Volga River, where he found an ancient hollow linden tree for a hermitage. Eating whatever plants he could find, he was soon surrounded by wild animals of all sorts who lived peacefully in his presence. It was as though the original peace of Eden surrounded the man of God.
Near the end of his life he was persuaded to found a cenobitic monastery near his hermitage. He appointed one of his disciples to be abbot of this monastery and he himself lived in solitude. He died at the age of 112 and was buried near the monastery church.
In the following century Kazan Tatars destroyed his monastery and killed many of the monks. It was rebuilt and became a popular pilgrimage site until the communists destroyed it in the last century.
His feast day is January 10.
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Saint Paul of Obnora, a famed disciple of St. Sergius of Radonezh, was born at Moscow in the year 1317. From his youth he distinguished himself by his piety and kindliness towards the poor and suffering. His rich parents prepared him for a secular life, but at twenty-two years of age he secretly left his parental home and received tonsure at the Nativity monastery on the Volga (in the Yaroslav diocese).
From there Paul transferred to the Holy Trinity monastery to St. Sergius of Radonezh, spending several years with him as his disciple, obeying the holy Elder in all things. With the blessing of St. Sergius, he settled a short distance from the monastery in a separate cell, where he spent fifteen years as a hermit. Having asked the blessing of St. Sergius to go off into the wilderness for a quiet and solitary life, St. Paul wandered about for a long while, seeking a place of solitude. He wandered a great deal in the wilderness. He spent time with St. Abraham of Chukhloma and finally, he remained in the Komel forest.
At the Gryazovitsa River, in the hollow of an old linden tree, the monk built a small cell and dwelt there for three years in complete silence, "not giving his body rest, that he might receive future rest." Then he moved on to the River Nurma, where he built a hut and dug a well, spending his days in vigil and prayer.
Five days out of the week he went without food, and only on Saturday and Sunday did he partake of some bread and water. The news about the hermit spread abroad, and those wishing spiritual guidance began coming to him. Despite his love for the solitary life, St. Paul never refused anyone spiritual consolation and guidance. He was also visited by St. Sergius of Nurma, who sought solitude with the blessing of St. Sergius of Radonezh, and who also spent his ascetic life in these places.
With the blessing of St. Sergius and the agreement of Metropolitan Photius, St. Paul built the Holy Trinity church in 1414, around which a monastery sprang up (later called the Monastery of St. Paul of Obnora). Having written a strict monastic Rule for the brethren, St. Paul entrusted the guidance of the new monastery to his disciple Alexis, while he himself continued as before to live in a solitary cell on a hill. He remained a responsive and good counsellor for anyone needing his help. St. Paul died at 112 years of age. His final words were, "Brethren, have love one for another and keep to the rule of the monastic community."
The Life of the saint was written in about the year 1546, and his glorification occurred in 1547.
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RLWC2021 VISIT JAMAICA
JAMAICA BENEFITS FROM RLWC2021'S INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME
The RLWC2021 team recently visited Jamaica for the latest leg of the International Development Programme (IDP) initiative. The visit to Jamaica, who have qualified for the men's tournament in 2021 for the first time, was the third trip as part of the IDP, following previously successful trips to the Netherlands in October, and Papua New Guinea in November.
The series of events, organised by the tournament's InspirationALL team, aims to develop good practice and to share knowledge and experience with burgeoning rugby league nations.
The team travelled to Kingston with the central focus on delivering a workshop with the Jamaican Rugby League Association to share knowledge around governance, marketing, sport development and talent identification. The team took the prestigious Paul Barrière Trophy with them, as the local community got their first glimpse of the prize which sixteen nations will be battling it out for in 2021.
Furthermore, the trip included a series of community engagement opportunities, including; a RLWC2021 presentation as part of the annual Caribbean Sports Science Conference at the University of Technology; a rugby league coaching session with students at Cedar Grove Academy and meeting students at G C Foster College and Campion College; as well as attending the schools 9's Championship.
By working alongside the Rugby League International Federation, and with the backing of UK Sport, the RLWC2021 IDP aims to build partnerships to target barriers to the sport's growth in individual developing nations.
Tracy Power, RLWC2021 Legacy Programme Manager, said:
"The trip to Jamaica was one to remember. The IDP plays an integral part in ensuring that RLWC2021's aims are met, and the welcome and subsequent reaction we received shows that everyone's efforts are being rewarded.
The sport in Jamaica is on the rise following their sensational qualification to RLWC2021, and it was great to be able to boost the excitement for the local communities, as well as seeing some of the talented grassroots rugby league in Kingston."
Romeo Monteith, JRLA Director of Rugby, said:
"The IDP trip helped to build new partnerships with important stakeholders on the island and the transfer of knowledge in the workshop will greatly benefit our administrators, many of whom have already begun to change the way they manage their clubs.
There was a genuine excitement and buzz created in the local rugby league family, to see the trophy up close in schools and colleges has brought home just how massive of an achievement Jamaica's qualification to RLWC2021 is. The visit means that another generation of players and administrators will be inspired. It took ten years of passion and dedication to get here and now others will be inspired to repeat this adventure in the future."
Asif Ahmed, British High Commissioner to Jamaica, added:
"Over the next two years, the United Kingdom will be the focal point for sports and Jamaica is very much a part of the story of ambition, determination and success. A few days ago, we were dazzled by the Rugby League World Cup trophy when it was brought to Kingston by the organisers of the competition. The Reggae Warriors have qualified and will offer a real challenge to England, Australia and others. The Jamaican players I spoke to have the passion and spirit to come together as a team. Over the last 9 years, rugby league has become more popular at schools and I am sure seeing the Warriors in action will inspire Jamaicans, who have a record of success in many sports, to build on the example set by this pioneering team.
There is the ICC World Cup, the Netball World Cup and Birmingham Commonwealth Games 2022 on the horizon and each of them will have Jamaicans competing to continue the proud record of achievement in sport."
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Genuinely Fake: When Fans Make Parodies That Mean Something
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(I'm going to go on a tangent about Star Trek. Bear with me.)
There's been a complaint, recently, about the new Star Trek series, Star Trek: Discovery. Actually, there have been a lot of complaints, but one of the real head-scratchers has been that The Orville, the parody TV show created by Seth McFarlane, feels more "Star Trek" than Discovery. While Discovery is certainly a departure from the usual Trek formula, it seems…a bit much, to decide that the parody is the more "real" creation.
Isaac (Mark Jackson), Lt. Alara Kitan (Halston Sage), and the back of Seth McFarlane's head.
The thing is: they're not wrong. Not exactly right–it can't be missed that it's the white male portion of the internet that prefers The Orville the most, and why that might be–but The Orville does, in fact, feel like "real" Star Trek. Even though its characters sometimes drink on duty, use pot freely, and crack wise about sex, the show has a beating heart to it. Seth McFarlane, mostly known for toeing the line between humor and just gross stuff on Family Guy, is actually a really dedicated Trek fan, and in making the show, he didn't want to make a cynical take on the franchise. His characters, flawed as they are, also struggle to do good in the universe, and are confronted with complex moral questions. The show hasn't completely won me over (I don't find the jokes to really be funny), but I was really surprised and endeared by the fact that it wants to go toe to toe with the Star Trek franchise, to match it, not to simply make fun of it until the joke runs itself out.
Parody has a power, to reveal, to dissect–and dissection is also one of the primary powers of fans. When a TV show ends, when a book series concludes, oftentimes, the fan is not yet done with that world. For a series as huge and meaningful as Harry Potter, this is even more true; for some people, Harry Potter is responsible for how they grew up, their perception of themselves. House identities mean something, to a lot of people, because Harry Potter means something, and so Harry Potter has also been thoroughly dissected. Questions, like whether Snape was ultimately a good person, whether Dumbledore was really a good person, the ramifications of things like the clear lack of wizarding social services, have been pulled apart and answered in various ways. The current fan culture invites discussion, argument, and reinvention through fanworks, and so perhaps it's not surprising that fans who are also professional creators turn to the world of parody to be able to express their own feelings about their favorite franchises.
Ensemble cast of Puffs.
Puffs, or: Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic, stars Wayne (currently played by Zac Moon), a British-cum-American student who managed to swing a letter to Hogwarts. Flush with the realization that he is magic, ready to start the best years of his life, Wayne gets sorted…into Hufflepuff. Famously the most mocked house, the Hufflepuff house Wayne discovers is full of misfits, ne'er-do-wells, and nerds. Even worse, he's in the same year as Harry Potter, and having The Boy Who Lived at the same school throws his next seven years into chaos.
Puffs is, in many ways, the definition of a parody. When I saw it in a workshop performance at the University of Florida, there was a repeated joke where the Hufflepuff students, facing danger, would huddle together and chant "WE ARE NOT A THREAT." Hufflepuff is the house of castoffs, Wayne a typical American teenager. One of his friends, Megan (Julie Ann Earls), is a goth, edgy girl with a Death Eater for a parent. The play, unlike the books, also acknowledges that it takes place in the early 90s, and all the awkwardness that era has in hindsight. When Harry Potter does show up, he's played by random actors, holding props that represent Ron and Hermione.
Ron, the Narrator (AJ Ditty), Harry Potter (Madeleine Bundy…I think), and Hermione.
But to label it simply a parody doesn't really express what it is. As the play goes on, as the books become darker (especially after the events of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire), the play also takes a turn. The Hufflepuffs, the house of forgotten kids, suffer their own, fear, losses, and hopelessness in the face of the return of Lord Voldemort. They face their own triumphs as well, with magic, romance, and puberty coming into play. I don't want to give away too much detail about the play, because you really should watch it yourself (more on this at the end), but the play has many facets. In some ways, it's very cynical, confronting the fact that people other than Harry Potter might not have had a very good time at Hogwarts when he was there. It's also a bit of a parody. But it also has a real heart, a real belief in what the books mean and the people they turned us all into. It's a play written for the children who grew up with Harry Potter, walking through their feelings of humor, cynicism, and most importantly, of love, tempered by the distance of childhood memory.
Severus Snape (Joe Moses) in A Very Potter Musical.
There's another really excellent play (set of plays!) about Harry Potter, currently available on YouTube. A Very Potter Musical, A Very Potter Sequel, and A Very Potter Senior Year gained viral fame in the late aughts, and catapulted Darren Criss, their Harry Potter, into mainstream fame. They're also all at least five years old, so I don't mind discussing a scene in A Very Potter Senior Year with you to help illustrate my larger point.
In Act Two, Scene Five, Harry Potter goes to Godric Hollow, where there's a statue of him waiting. Harry's delighted with the statue, only to be devastated when it's bulldozed and replaced…with a statue of Andrew Garfield's Spider-Man. He's offended that he's replaced, and he's just as offended that Tobey Maguire, the Spider-Man he cares about, isn't the Spider-Man being honored. The jovial foreman (Dylan Saunders) working on the new statue can barely even remember Tobey Maguire! When Harry complains, the foreman explains that…these things happen. "Things come and go. Nothing lasts forever, kid; nothing's built to."
Harry Potter (Darren Criss) and Ron (Joey Richter) in A Very Potter Senior Year.
On the surface, this is a hilarious and cynical scene, where Harry Potter obsesses over Spider-Man even as the foreman tears down his childhood home, stating that the "Harry Potter craze" has ended. But this scene is a real reflection of fan fears and feelings. Performed two years after the released of the last film, at a Harry Potter convention called LeakyCon, many of the fans in attendance were…in a state of uncertainty. At that point in time, Harry Potter was supposed to be over, forever, and on top of that, many of us were staring down the barrel of adulthood. (For example, that was the year I graduated college.) It seemed hard to grow up, and much, much harder to leave Harry behind. This scene is incredibly affecting, because it reflects those fears, and also gently points out that there's nothing we can do to stop Harry Potter from being…a little bit over, even if we keep him alive in other ways.
This is the power of The Orville, Puffs, and of the Very Potter Musical series; when something is created by fans, it can speak to other fans in a way that's uniquely affecting. It feels real because the creators behind these works have put their heart into these works, to bring their passion to the forefront because they care in a way that's much more immediate and understandable than the care of an executive producer on a reboot. These things recognize us, the fans, how we feel, what brings us comfort and joy.
The showrunners, writers, producers, key grips, etc. on professionally-produced content have a set of obligations. Even if they are passionate fans of the thing they are making, they have certain obligations, to the studio, to form, to their creative community. They are expected to do something new, and stick to the rules, and appeal to a wide audience, and appease powerful executives who can destroy what they've created at a whim. These influences don't necesarily mean mainstream media is bad, only that it is not solely beholden to its fans. It cannot, by its nature, be exactly what you want it to be.
Parody, meanwhile, has miles more freedom. Parody is free to rip off, to make fun of, and to appeal to a niche. Parody has the freedom to go to extreme lengths as well as to blatantly whip nostalgia to death with overuse (in a good way!). It can move in the spaces of fan speculation, to acknowledge fan theories and ideas, whereas mainstream media is supposed to sit at a remove from fandom. These barriers have broken down more and more recently, of course, but it's not like JK Rowling is ever going to write a Harry Potter sequel where Harry goes to a therapist and comes to terms with his experience–and a surprising number of fans would like exactly that book.
The Narrator (AJ Ditty).
Puffs is a very good, and incredibly moving, play. It is about the Hufflepuffs, the house full of kids who were picked last for sports teams, and it could simply make that joke for a whole play–parodies made by more cynical creators, looking to cash in on the craze for a massive franchise, might make that decision. Instead, it is more. It chooses to explore what it really means, to be an outcast in a world where magic is supposed to fix everything, to be on the sidelines of someone else's epic story. Puffs chooses to be genuine, to be vulnerable, emotional, and real, and it is a beautiful experience as a result. The press material for Puffs even explicitly asks that it not be called a parody, even though it clearly has its roots in the parody genre. Puffs has played sold-out runs in various off-Broadway theaters for several years now; the best measure of quality is, ultimately, success, and Puffs has been very successful. And perhaps the best recommendation I can make for the play is the fact that, when I saw it, it made me cry, and feel at home for an hour and 45 minutes.
Puffs is currently running a Kickstarter so that they can film a performance of the play and distribute it. The Kickstarter ends tomorrow, so if you don't think you'll make it to New York anytime soon, you should definitely chip in some money to get the digital download.
Genuineness and generosity of spirit are funny things to look for in parodies, but now that I've experienced the potential of a show like Puffs, they seem essential. Being a fan creator, being able to treat franchises as potential for commentary, as opposed to monoliths, has brought beautiful life to Puffs (and made The Orville much better than it really ought to be). I hope to see more things as genuine and heartfelt as Puffs in the future, and if such things don't arise…well, I backed the Kickstarter, so I'll just rewatch Puffs.
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Tags: a very potter musical, a very potter senior year, criticism, fan creators, fan criticism, fandom, harry potter, media, parody, puffs, review, star trek, the orville
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