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{PUYB} The Care and Feeding of Sex Demons by Angela Fiddler #interview #bookspotlight
Today I'm excited to share an interview with Angela Fiddler. I'll just fluff the pillows and get the house ready.
*ding dong* She's here.
Hello Angela and thank you for visiting today. Come in and make yourself at home. Tell us a little about yourself.
I write about snarky power-imbalances where the good guys almost always win in the end.
Thanks! It sounds like you have an interesting life. *wonders how I can get a super power* Now on to some personal questions. If you could go back in time to when you were seven years old, what wisdom or advice would you pass on to yourself?
Oh, god. At seven? That was a dark time for me. I started writing at eleven just to do something with all the chaos that was my home life. I would tell her it's going to take a long time to get from where you are to where you want to be, but every single obstacle that seems to be knocking you off your feet is really just a course correction to put you back on the right path. Learn from everything.
For what are you grateful?
I'm grateful to have had writing as a pressure valve in my life. The more crazy real life got, the more I could withdraw into my imagination. I'm grateful for my wife, who met me at the end of the craziness and provided a safe harbor for me to get my legs back under me. I'm grateful for my friends who support me and my cat who sits with me when I write.
If a zombie virus took over the world, how many days do you think you could last before you were infected? And what would you do to postpone the inevitable?
I have a two story house, and ax and a ladder. The zombie handbook suggests chopping the staircase to your second floor and keep your backyard highly defensable. I think I could survive a small outbreak, but any large world ending zombie event wouldn't be something I'd want to survive. I have no desire to watch humanity's downfall from a front row seat.
What television sitcom is most like your family? Why?
Early seasons of the Big Bang Theory. The first thing I asked my wife this morning was "Do you know how the Trojan War started? It's a trick question."
What's your favorite thing to do to relax?
I write. Writing to me is my job, passion and hobby, all rolled into one. I would just write though, no rewriting, no promotion, no paperwork, just straight creation.
Let's find out a little bit about you as an author.
Did you always want to be an author?
Ever since I learned where books came from I wanted to write. I wrote my first fantasy trilogy in the seventh grade. The story I wrote in grade six made me realize that you had to write books about people because horse stories where the horse is the POV is limiting.
What authors had an impact on you growing up and as an adult?
As a child, Mercedes Lackey's The Last Herald Mage changed my life. I didn't know point of view characters could be gay until I picked up Magic Price. It is horribly purple and schlocky, but I loved every word. S. M. Stirling wrote the first female POV that felt real to me. As an adult, I love Neil Gaiman, James Lee Burke and Sharyn McCrumb.
Do you have any "must haves" with you while you're writing?
I write in a big comfy chair with my laptop balanced on my legs and my cat curled up in my arms. I like sucking on hard candies while I write. Other than that, I could write anywhere.
How did you decide to write a paranormal story? (Do you feel passionate about that age?)
Real life is certainly interesting enough with all the forces that can work against two people trying to make a life for themselves, but I love escapism. Giving the world a special secret that only select few know about gives so many more challenges two people who just want to love each other have to overcome in order to be together.
What have you learned the most from being in the writing business?
Work pays off and no one can do it for you. I used to write a book, clean it up as best I could without making any structural changes in order to preserve the first draft. Then I realized that by the time I get to the end of the book, the beginning of the book is out of focus and not as driven as the second half. Going back and rewriting the book from the beginning so that the end of the story is the end goal from the first page is the difference between a book that has promise and a book that works.
It's not something you can ever learn from getting critiqued and workshopped, since no one knows your world better than you. You know what's needed and what's filler. If you don't put that work in to make each story the very best it can be, no one will. The only person you are competing with in your career is yourself.
Tell us about your latest release: (blurb, excerpt, cover)
Keeping a sex demon happy and well fucked is always the safest option, even if you have your own relationship issues. When saving the world on a regular basis, a happy home is very important.
Cy's job as an apocalypse stopper isn't an easy one at the best of times, but with the help of his weird family, he survives. Sure, he sneaks out every once and a while to watch August his sex demon feed, but he loves and is committed to Patrick, his fae prince lover, even if it means giving up the anal penetrative sex he loves and Patrick has issues with.
All adult relationships are based on compromise. It's just that most don't require fucking a sex demon to keep him alive and non-murder-y at the same time as you're trying to quit your job to save the world on your own time.
August slipped into the pressed plastic bench and immediately spruced up the joint. People around him sat up straighter, and the food off the grill started looking like the pictures of the items on the menu board.
"Pancakes? What is this, some desperate cry for help?"
"I see your confusion. That call this morning was a desperate cry for help. These are just simple carb abominations," I said. I stabbed my plastic fork into the pancake again.
"I told you, my--"
"You've always taken my calls before, regardless of where you were tied up. I changed my ringtone for you."
"I would have come if I could."
"Is that another sexual reference?" I asked.
"No. I really would have gone."
"You picked a shitty day not to come when your hands were tied," I said bitterly.
"You always make do." August picked up the white coffee cup and sniffed the lid, but then made a long face and put it back. "You didn't tell me you got dosed."
"I hadn't been when we talked," I said.
"Who dosed you, Boss?" August asked in a tone that suggested he knew but didn't want to say.
"That isn't important."
"If someone dosed me with a charm without my permission, it would be important." August's eyes were burning red from the inside. He hadn't glowed in a while.
I took the white cup and gave him the McCrappy one that had come with my meal. "Step down. I just have to spend a day being honest with myself. There's no actual torture involved."
"Patrick dosed you," August said and then looked down. His lips pulled back in a snarl, but he covered it with his hand.
"If you had picked me up when I asked, none of this would have happened."
"I would have just bought you another day. You haven't been alone with him for more than twenty minutes, and he's worried about the two of you."
August had a way of saying he and him that left no doubt as to whom he was speaking about, though he didn't often use Patrick's name. I stood up, brought my tray to the garbage, and tossed everything but the dosed coffee away.
"What did he get you with?"
"Truth serum. I knew he did something. Couldn't just accuse him straight up."
"It would have shown a lack of trust."
"But he did something to it!"
"I wasn't supposed to know about it!"
"You're a crazy fucker if you'd rather drink something dosed to prove a point you didn't believe to begin with."
"He didn't know I didn't believe in it."
"Go home, try to get some sleep. Be in before noon to debrief."
"I meant about him."
"Patrick? Why would I do anything about Patrick? He has permission to feed me noxious substances. That's what being in a relationship is all about. Letting someone do something to you that you wouldn't let anyone else do."
August stopped. "I'm no expert in human mating rituals that go beyond the actual mating rituals themselves, but I think you need a better working definition of a relationship, Boss."
"I don't want a better working definition."
"No, you don't want a better relationship. You want your picket-fence future with a guy you picked up in a game of chicken with your boss."
"I tell you too many things about my life," I said, going outside. My boyfriend drove a red two-seater, and my sex demon a dark blue one. Both of the cars were in the six digits, but Patrick's started in the mid-300s while August had more of an entry-level ridiculously expensive automobile. I was the only one with a job I had to pay taxes on. My car was twenty years old and could seat five. Well, could have if it hadn't been melted.
"You can't help it," August said, unlocking the door a moment before my hand came down on the handle. "You're a masochist."
"And you're a control freak," I snapped back.
August smiled. It was his sex-demon smile that made his eyes burn red and fire spark from the shadows of his face. The sun had risen an hour ago. There should be no way he could turn half his face dark, but he could. "You control my sublease. If you want me to be a control freak, what does that say about you?"
How did you decide on your story plot?
I plot organically. I put a character with a need or want that is not being met in an interesting world with an interesting problem on page one, and then I decide each day that I write what the scene I'm working on is supposed to do to fit into the plot as a whole. I have a vague idea of how the story is going to end, but leave myself open for the wisdom of the shower or a long walk to adjust the plan as needed.
How did you choose your characters names and location for your story?
I'm character driven, so before I begin the story, I usually have a very good idea of what this character wants. When you start a book, you're making a promise to your reader that the main character is going to be worth sticking around to the end. I work exclusively with wounded protagonists that are damaged in some way, but they're damaged to the point where they want to start getting better. Their internal journey usually echoes the external problem in some way.
And I try to set my stories in cities I know well. Right now, everything I write is based out of either Calgary or Victoria.
Do you have a favorite scene? Why?
As much as the book is about overthrowing an unfair system and the main character's cunning plan to free his best friend, I love the quiet moments between the characters where they get to be themselves. Cy may stop apocolypses as his job, he has a real life that is just as important beyond his duties. It's the quiet moments he has with the people he loves that I enjoy. Cy doesn't have a lot of power in a world full of fae princes, but no one can lie to him. When his lover turns the tables and makes it so Cy can't lie when they sit down and have The Talk About Where This Relationship Is Going, Cy's mental gymnastics to keep what he wants private private while still following the letter of the law of the potion he swallowed is adorable. He honestly loves his lover and wants the relationship to grow, but he has a lot of baggage about his job and what he thinks he deserves.
Do you have a character that you identify with? Who and why?
I identify with both Cy. He had a crappy life before he met his partner but didn't know to how to want more out of living.
Let our readers know how they can get a hold of you…
I blog about stuff at www.angelafiddler.com and can be reached on twitter @Angela_Fiddler
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The Care and Feeding of Sex Demons is a standalone book that is the first book in a series, but if you want to know how Cy gets the sex demon in the first place, you can pick up Cy Gets a Sex Demon. I was quite surprised that no one changed the working title of these books into something more presentable. That's usually the first thing the publishers do. Both books are available on Amazon.
Thanks for stopping by! Please come back again! *walks Angela to the door*
All of you should check out her book below!!
Title: The Care and Feeding of Sex Demons
Author: Angela Fiddler
Publisher: Loose Id
Genre: Paranormal Erotica
Purchase at AMAZON
Keeping a sex demon happy and sexually satisfied is always the safest option, even if Cy has his own relationship issues. When saving the world on a regular basis, a happy home is important, especially when mixing human, fae princes and a starving sex demon.
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When rotten fish and bile smell of the ambergris met… well, you know what sulfur smells like, the whole sky lit as fragrantly as it did brightly. Just like the old days. Evil came in different flavors but it all smelled badly. I was ready for whatever came out of that cloud. But the only threat was a different kind of bad smell. My agents replaced three quarters of the whale vomit with earwax at the source to cut costs. We didn't know it would also save the world.
My boyfriend, Patrick, had insisted the bad guys would now the difference and that I was risking my life to make the switch, but the person picking up the ambergris from my agent hadn't known what it was supposed to look or smell like either. I wasn't even supposed to be here. My brilliant planning was supposed to have helped out my team, not me, personally.
After the sky fizzled out, the warlock had exploded in a billion, billion...billion? I had no idea. I wasn't a physicist, I was an apocalypse stopper. Calculating how many photons contained within whatever warlock the Internet coughed up this week wasn't in my job description. No scientist would ever read my paperwork.
I was retired from active duty. I was only supposed to administrate the real apocalypse stoppers. I'd been out scouting for possible altar locations when the world-ending had started early. The exploded warlock had been as surprised as I was until he had been unmade.
And he took my company car with him.
When the apocalypse had started, my first thought had been oh, good.
Patrick was going to kill me.
The cow walking along side me looked as though nature has squared off her body. If cartoon physics were correct her cross-sections would look like T-bone steaks. The highway I walked beside stretched on ribbons, rolling over the endless hills in the high country. The cow had been following me for a while just on the other side of the barbed wire fence. Three hours of constant adrenaline had left my fine-reasoning skills somewhat stripped, but I was fairly sure it wasn't a threat. It reached the end of the fenced in field and regurgitated some cud.
I wanted breakfast, too. My back hurt, my shins ached, and the dried mud on the legs of my suit added twenty pounds to each step. My boss had even forced me to wear dress shoes to the stupid meet-and-greet that had turned into a scream-and-run.
Another red car appeared in the distance, but I didn't get my hopes up. Because the high powers above loved to mock my life choices, the last three cars that appeared in the past hour had all been small, two-seaters, and red.
It bobbed up and down on the ribbons. I had a blister on the back of my foot. I wanted to stop walking, but that would almost guarantee the car wasn't Patrick's.
On the last rise, the turn signals came on, and the car started slowing down. Patrick had a meeting with one of the major charm-makers in town. He'd been worried about it for weeks, but once the rogue warlock who was sourcing his hanged-man pancreas through craigslist had run out of his ambergris, the hell-fire had stopped. The warlock had brought a full truck's worth of sulfur, but without enough of the catalyst ambergris, it fizzed out before summoning even a hell-puppy, forget a hell-beast. Exploding into subatomic particles was an easier death than having a summoned-but-not-contained denizen of hell munching on parts of you from a watching-your-own-death happen perspective.
We had a lot of specific terms in our business. We used a lot of dashes.
Patrick and I had been together for five years, and yet when I asked him if I had woken him up just before dawn before his biggest meeting of the year, he lied and told me he'd been awake the whole time. I wouldn't have lied to him.
Patrick slowed down, but didn't stop, so neither did I. He didn't unroll the window until I couldn't pretend my shoes weren't hurting my feet which every step.
"Get in the car, Cy," Patrick said.
He drove on another couple feet and stopped, so I still had to limp to get in. He didn't even wait for me to do up my seatbelt before he pulled the sports car into a U-turn. I'd been on a single lane highway, but the tiny car had no problem completing the circle on the road with its tiny wheel base.
The silence was worse than the million questions he had every right to ask me. He didn't ask. I wanted to crack a window to let some of the tension out, but it wouldn't actually affect the air pressure.
Neighborhoods surged beyond the city limits like massive muffin tops. Some groups subdivisions were love handles by now. Calgary needed a bigger edge to contain everything inside of it. "Have you eaten?" Patrick asked.
"I'll grab something at the house."
"I'm not dropping you off at the house. I have to be in at the university in twenty minutes. There's a C-train station there."
My feet were killing me. I just wanted to go home, and I'd bought the fucking car. I put my head against the back of the seat. "I'll get a cab."
Patrick exhaled, sharply. I hadn't meant anything at all by wanting to hire a car to take me home.
"What wrong?"
"You promised me you were going to be in a supervisory position. In what role is the supervisor supposed to be involved in a standard apocalypse prevention attempt? You have minions. They should have singed eyebrows right now, not you."
I reached up to touch my face. Mud flaked off. I would get the car detailed, but I didn't really have the time, which meant Patrick would have to get it done for me, which meant he was cleaning up after my mess again. We'd just had that talk. So that meant he'd do it for me. I wondered if it had occurred to him not to answer the phone when I called. "It was just supposed to be a dry run. He just recited his incantations better than most. As far as we knew—"
"Do not sit there and tell me that you have a clue as to what your boss knows. It's far more like Ms. Gwen to know it was supposed to be tonight all along than it is that this was all just a misunderstanding."
Patrick swung into a fast-food restaurant parking lot. "You normally call your demon when you get into shit and you don't want me to know about it. Was he not picking up?"
I flushed. August was my sex demon. He'd been given to me at the end of a successful job back when Patrick and I had two separate addresses. It had been after the house fire so technically I had an address, but no place to live.
Patrick had bright red hair. When I met him, his arms and legs had been too long for his body in a way that I found adorable. He moved with coils of energy. In the past five years he'd left his early twenties behind and he finished filling out all the way. Now everything looked in perfect proportion.
"I got you coffee," Patrick said, motioning to the white coffee container in the two-cup holder. It hadn't been sipped from either." Alarm bells went off. "What, do you think I poisoned it?"
"No," I said truthfully. But he would have had to do something to it, or he would have sipped on it on the way out of the city. Patrick hated mornings. He grabbed it and took a big swallow. "Happy?"
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Angela Fiddler wrote her first erotic novel as a birthday present to a friend who had requested kneeling and vampires. While the vampires come and go in the story, the kneeling remains. Angela likes smut, dark humor and stories that mix erotica with raw emotion. She talks about writing and her characters at www.angelafiddler.com.
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The Vishim, of Solinia are a majestic and beautiful people often characterized by their graceful figure pale toned skin and flowing fine hair. They stand quite tall when compared to most other races and generally lack in muscle mass heavily. Both male and female Vishim are thin, elegant and beautiful.
Vishim are a race of truly compassionate men and women. Often they take in weary travelers on journeys and feed and house them. Despite their kindness, many races perceive them as aloof and distant. With their mastery of the arcane arts High Elves often stay in a neutral position in wars sending medics and healers to ensure the death toll stays lower than it would otherwise. WIth their monumental life spans Vishim act as role models to the lesser aged races of the world. Vishim often elect a king or queen out of the noble classes of their society. More often than not this man or woman is a very powerful mage who has proven their ability amongst the best of others. As for the society of Vishim it is one of the simpler societies of the civilised races. At the top is a king and below him a council. After them there really is very little order other than that set up by the people themselves. Their main pursuit is the accumulation of knowledge, with wise individuals being even more revered among Vishim than among other races.
Origins The Vishim are one of the oldest races to walk Solinia and are descendents of the Eusebians. The most ancient records of the Vishim related to the City of Caer Bedion of Asgarad where they forged a new empire from Ravenholme. The Vishim were one of the first races to sail the oceans of Solinia and discover the Meroei which they forged a relationship which lasts until this day Once a holy Vishim order in the city of Alaris, the subrace known as High Elves have become a noble and virtuous order seeking only to honour their gods. Their fanatical devotion has led them to discover all manners of new magic (which they are reluctant to share with non-believers, even their elven cousins) and their knights have been known to rival even the many paladin orders of Tsiyon. Contemporary History Being such a peaceful race the Vishim have not involved themselves in any outside wars. However, there is one notable blemish to their history. A civl war of proportions the world had not seen then and has not seen the likes of since. Thousands perished by the enchanted blades of Vishim warriors. Women and children were taken to be experimented on and lead to some of the Vishim most destructive types of magic. However, out of the blood came life. Through this came the Vishim promise not to kill without true reason.


"Soon the horse will take us to Durango..."
Well, the image map worked great in 1999 when I created this page. It's now more than 17 years later, and it does not work so well. Click on the musicians and objects to explore the eight links in the picture - if you can. Or, explore the links without the picture in plain text.


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The MG4 is a light machine gun for infantry manufactured by Heckler & Koch. Like the original, which is chambered in 5.56 x 45 mm NATO, this electric airsoft version conveys a feeling of tremendous firepower.
With its robust, high-quality aluminum housing, the MG4 weighs in at about 4.2 kg but is not too heavy for long periods of use. More weight can come from the separate ammunition box (included) that extends the internal 900-round magazine by an additional 4,000. This is well worth it considering the original full auto only mode and the firing rate of about 1,000 rounds per minute. Power is supplied by LiPo batteries housed in the folding tock.
The MG4 comes with an adjustable shoot-up for enhanced accuracy when the included flip-up sight or an optical system is mounted on the Picatinny rail. Other features include a metal bipod, a foldable carry handle, cocking lever and ambidextrous safety lever.
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The History of The Girl Show
Traveling Carnivals In Rural Towns of The Alleghenies
Sound Truck Calliope Announces The Carnival
Traveling Carnival and Circus Sideshows
Circus History
Circus Tall Man Jack Earle
Allan Herschell American Beauty Carousel
Father Mac The Carny Priest
The Sideshow Exhibit
Ward Hall and The World of Wonders Sideshow
The Strangest Couple In The World
The Viking Giant
Memories Of Kansas State Fair
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Carnival Sign Painters
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Jack The Giant Longed to Be Like Everyone Else
Jacob "Jack Earle Texas Giant" Ehrlich
Jacob Rheuben Ehrlich was born in Denver in 1906 weighing only four pounds to German Jewish immigrants and raised in El Paso, Texas. When he was 10 years old, he was over six feet tall. As he grew taller he would avoid people by walking down the alleys on the way to school. At 13 he was over 7' 1 and around the age of 17 had grown to eight feet six inches tall.
Jacob went with his dad to Los Angeles and was discovered by Hollywood as a teenager and offered a job acting in comedies.
While in L.A he met Century Comedies Jerry Ash and Zion Meyers and was offered a job in the movies because of the stir he made in Los Angeles. Jacob took the screen name Jack Earle, and appeared in many movies including Hansel and Gretel in 1923 and Jack & the Beanstalk in 1924. He appeared in 48 movies with stars of the day including Baby Peggy.
Jack's movie career ended disastrously during his forty-ninth picture when he fell from a scaffolding attached to one of the studio's so-called comedy cars. He crashed fourteen feet to the ground and was simultaneously beaned by a timber that had broken loose. He woke up in the hospital with a cracked nose and blurred eyesight, and within three days he was totally blind. As his doctor examined him he found a pituitary tumor. The tumor had pushed up against his optic nerve during the fall. For the next four months Jack underwent X-ray therapy. His eyesight returned and it was thought the treatment may have stopped his growth.
Determined to live a normal life despite his size, however, Jacob graduated from the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), the tallest person ever to graduate from any University of Texas school.
After he graduated from college, Jacob, using the name Jack (or Jake) Earle, made his first stage appearance in 1924, when he wrote and starred in a version of Jack and the Beanstalk. He also portrayed the father in a stage adaptation of Hansel and Gretl.
Ringling Years
When Ringling Bros Barnum and Bailey Circus came to El Paso and had a man working for them who was billed as the worlds tallest man. Jack Earle's friends challenged him to go see just how tall that giant was. At seven feet five inches tall Jim Tarver was still thirteen inches shorter then Jack the Giant. Jack Earle was hired on the spot. The circus offered him a one year contact which turned into fourteen years.
In the circus, one of his jobs was training the show's pygmy African elephants Buli and Nuba. You can see him pictured above with one of the pygmy elephants. Jack also worked with and is pictured with with Major Mite (Clarence Chesterfield) who was 2'2" tall during his tenure with Ringling Brothers. On the road he was wedged into Ringling's famous Car 96. He was described as most talented of a long line of Ringling Brothers Circus giants.
John Ringling arranged for him for to go to art school to study sculpture after seeing his work in clay of an Australian bushman exhibited by the circus. At art school, he became interested in the field of painting and studied with the Mexican painter Emilio Cahero of El Paso.
Jack The Giant stayed with the circus until the early forties. He left the Ringling Brothers circus at some point and started his own sideshow which he took to Australia and New Zealand. Earle went on a tour of Australia in 1940 with Ringling Bros. When he returned, he found that he had grown disenchanted with the life of a circus freak, and was quite fed up with being asked, "How's the weather up there?" The immobile hours on the bare stage, the thoughtless youngsters' who banged his shins to prove that he was not on stilts, the constant embarrassing or foolish questions, the ubiquitous drunks looking for a fight. He soon lost count of the number of times he had one of the midgets sit on his palm to demonstrate the thirteen- inch span of his fingers. He suffered from claustrophobia and other terrifying complexes, and he hated people staring at his great frame. He said: "Learning to overcome the hardships of traveling – such as having to buy my socks a gross at a time and sleeping doubled up in train berths wasn't the chief difficulty. It was psychological – getting people to realize that, despite my size, I was just a normal person trying to earn a normal living in a normal manner." He represented the Treasure Island World Fair after his 14 year run with the circus.
Liked midgets best, and counted many as close friends. Most of all he liked the Dancing Dolls, the family of four little people whom we met in an earlier chapter. A familiar sight in the circus was the giant walking between the tents, his big voice booming in reply to a high-pitched remark from little Harry Doll or some other midget who was perched on his shoulder. In Jack's first season with the circus, Harry, in particular, was very helpful to him. On Jack's first day in the sideshow he felt ill at ease when the midget Harry Doll pointed out to him that there were more "freaks" in the audience than there were on the sideshow platform."
Harry, Daisy, Tiny and Grace Doll,- a famous family of midgets, subsequently became Jack's most intimate friends, and visited them every winter in their home at Sarasota, Florida.
After Jack leaves the circus and sideshow, he moves back to California. A friend of his, an employee of the California-based Roma Wine Company, persuaded Earle to take a three-month promotional tour with the company. Earle enjoyed the job so much that he decided to stay. The "world's largest traveling salesman", outfitted in a customized Pontiac, made a lasting impression on every customer by handing out nine-inch-long business cards. Earle traveled the country lecturing on the importance of the American wine industry during times of hardship in Europe.
Roma Wine Company had headquarters in San Francisco, once a year, he puts on white whiskers and a red coat to act as a giant Santa Claus in orphanages or hospitals for children. Dogs and children have a curious warm affinity for him, and hundreds of youngsters in the San Francisco area have learned to play the "Jack Earle story game," a pantomime in which his windmill arms and hands magically turn into enchanting birds, fish, trees, river and hills. It is in San Francisco, too, that he has the only chair in the United States large enough to hold him comfortably. It was made for him by his company, and in it he has spent many a spare hour creating advertising ideas or painting water colors and oils, which he always gives away. On weekends he visits Harry Serlis, the company vice-president, or plays chess with Ken Pearson, his oldest friend and advertising manager for the firm."
While in San Francisco he occupied a huge room in the Palace Hotel and slept in a nine-by-six-foot bed which has the largest sheets in the world. Jack's few personal possessions were stored there such as a shotgun with a stock as big as a canoe paddle, special coat hangers big enough for his suits, fishing rods only slightly smaller than a flagpole, extra custom-made belts and suspenders and other odds and ends.
Part of his route included Humboldt in far northern California. He stayed at the Humboldt Inn where they made him a special bed too. He spent time there speaking to service clubs in the Humboldt area. During the course of a year he spent up to 11 months per year on the road as traveling salesman through forty six states, crisscrossing the land three or four times a year.
He sold thousands of his "lucky" giant's rings for a quarter apiece for years after he left the circus. When he met someone who still carried one of the rings, he would offer to buy it back if it hadn't brought the person good luck.
Jack The Giant and GOLF
Jack did vaudeville in the Chicago area. Fond of golf, he enrolled as a golf student in a Chicago golf school. Jack had special extra-long set of clubs made for him by the Chicago Golf Company in 1924. The golf club heads were normal size.
The clubs were contributed to the USGA museum through Lee Trevino by Jack's brother, Myer Ehrlich, in 1972. Myer was an avid golfer and knew Lee Trevino through their connection to El Paso.
Jack's clubs were the longest set ever made to that time and second largest set behind Robert Danziger's.
Jack Earle's club lengths
Brassie 50" shaft, metal
Mid-Iron 42.5" shaft, hickory
Mashie 40" shaft, hickory
Niblick 39" shaft, hickory
Putter 37.5" shaft, hickory
(Roy Drachman, who was Tucson City Golf Champion, went to school with Jack's brother Ben. Roy says Jack enjoyed surprising people with his great height. Roy Drachman was involved in bringing the Pro Leo Diegel to Tucson, and in helping develop the first made-for-television golf match Leo Diegel created the Tucson Open.)
Jack The Giant had a giant sized life too:
He was used as an exhibit/witness in a libel suit.
He was Deputy Sheriff in El Paso, Texas.
Weighed 385 -pounds
During World War II he was classified 1-A by his Draft Board. When he and Charles Amasalian who was 4 feet 11 inches and classified 1-A reported for duty in October 1943, they were rejected by the army .
Painted of still-lifes and delicate landscapes. Delphic Studios in New York City staged an exhibition of his work.
Worked in watercolors and oils, watercolors only after becoming traveling salesman.
Sculpted in clay and other mediums.
Other Special Issues of Extreme Height:
He wanted to drive a car like other men but no ordinary car would hold him. He finally had to remove the front seat of a large five -passenger coupe, add nineteen inches to the steering column, and drive it from the rear seat. Even then he discovered that the steering wheel blocked his view, so he sawed off the upper half.
Visiting the homes of newly found friends, Jack disconcerted housewives by noticing dust on high shelves and moldings that others could not see. "I used to dust the moldings at home for my mother," he says with a grin, "and I just couldn't resist poking my fingers into dusty places."
He found his huge fingers would not fit the holes on a dial phone, so he has to use a pencil instead.
He wanted to ride the subway but gave it up on the first try when his skull connected with the blades of a ceiling fan. He had to avoid night clubs because they are badly lighted and he always crashes into things.
The first time he was given a wrist watch by his employers, he found that the strap was three inches short. He couldn't wear it until his brother, an El Paso jeweler, designed a special gold clasp to bridge the gap.
His giant's view of guest towels in the average home is that they were never large enough to dry fingers that have the same diameter as a fifty cent piece.
Jack couldn't ride a Pullman car without instructing train porters on how to combine two drawing-room berths into one.
In most hotel rooms he has to have two beds, placed end to end, and made up with an intricate overlapping of sheets."
Jack's suits, which cost $185 each in 1950 each required elaborate blueprints so that pockets, cuffs, lapels and other parts are in proper proportion, use up eight yards of cloth and cannot be pressed on ordinary machines.
Everything from his shell-rimmed glasses to shirts, hats and gloves are all made to order.
He has to buy socks a gross at a time because the mill won't tool up the special machinery for less, and his handmade shoes – "I really get a bargain on those," he laughs-are twenty-five dollars' a pair, a price on which the manufacturer takes a sizable loss.
He wore a four-and-a-half-carat diamond ring.
Jack had "no permanent home, because the average house would have to have been completely remodeled to fit.
Jack lived in hotels where the management was familiar with and willing to assist him with his special problems.
Jack enjoyed driving until he had an accident one winter in Colorado. The car overturned and he was trapped inside. The road crew that found his Herculean body stuffed under the dashboard telephoned for a tow car and understandably reported that two men had been hurt. Jack never really recovered from this violent impact, and has already visited the Mayo Clinic four times for treatments on his wrenched back. "I suppose it was quite an event when I showed up in Rochester," he admits modestly. "They had to put two diathermy tables together and use two examination booths. They had a staff meeting for me, and a seminar with all the endocrinologists. If nothing else, the world will remember me as the greatest guinea pig the Mayo ever had."
Constantly visited crippled children's wards and hospitals in the San Francisco area where he told original stories he created about boys and girls who had giants for friends.
Broadcast original fairy tales over a west coast radio system.
Wrote a whimsical children's book.
Very artistically talented and worked in a variety of mediums including painting, sculpture, photography, poetry, storytelling, and played the saxophone, piano and sang.
Jack was published in a book called The Long Shadows.
He has taken prize-winning photographs, usually of strong but sad human faces."
Only met one person taller than him in his whole life – Robert Wadlow of Alton, Illionis who stood 8 feet 9 and one-half inches. "Wadlow was then almost nine feet tall, and Jack was so flabbergasted to find himself looking up instead of down that his mind went blank and the hateful question popped out automatically. "Hey, Bob," he blurted, "how's the weather up there?" Wadlow took it gracefully, and Jack says it taught him a lesson. "People still ask me about the weather up here," he says, "but I don't really mind it any more. I can even shoot back an answer: hot air at the summit, somewhat cooler in the foothills.""
Jack was also reported to be an excellent skeet shooter, skilled chess player, a gamefish angler in Florida, and an avid reader.
22-size shoes and 18-size gloves
On November 4, 1950 the Saturday Evening Post ran an article titled Private Life of a Giant
"No one ever makes him wait for a seat in a restaurant, for example, and elsewhere crowds open up like the Red Sea when he is coming through. Businessmen who meet Jack never forget him or his name, and when he conducts a sales meeting there are no chair squirmers or wandering minds. "No secretary ever tells me the boss is in conference," he chuckles."
"The average man," he says with wry humor, "wants to be different. I, on the other hand, have spent the past ten years trying to be an average man."
He is drawn restlessly to the seashore, and most of his paintings have surf and sand.
He did not marry and had no children.
He says himself, "There are thoughts I had as a boy that I still haven't escaped. I remember the grown people laughing at me. But I don't expect the world to be made over just for me. If I had a chance now to become a man of average size, I don't think I'd take it. And when I feel low I can go to my room and lock the door, and I can read or paint or write.""
Jacob Erlich was very quietly spoken, mild mannered, warm, supportive kind and gentle. Sensitive and artistic, a gentle giant, his large eyes peered shyly at you through a huge pair of spectacles. An exceptional athlete, remarkably intelligent, a loving family person, an extraordinary human being.
A poem by Jack Earle:
Shadowy mists
Swirl and steal
Dawn the cornices
Of my mind,
Quietly at first
Then faster and faster,
Into the deep hiding places
Of my terror
They penetrate,
My steps quicken . . .
And I flee in fear
From the pursuing shadows.
Below ares some correspondences announcing the rule change that allows disabled golfers to use special long clubs if warranted by their disability:
I am pleased and proud to forward to you this email from the USGA. As you may remember the USGA had made all clubs longer than 48″, other than putters, illegal for all golfers. A few of us who have used longer clubs for medical reasons asked them to reconsider. And even though there are very, very few of us who benefit from this rule change, the USGA (and presumably the R&A) went out of their way to accommodate us. This the best of what golf represents.
Bob Danziger
From: Bob Danziger
Date: July 11, 2007 1:12:26 PM PDT
To: "Carter Rich" <JCRich@USGA.org>
Subject: Re: Question re long clubs
Dear Mr. Rich:
I can't tell you how pleased and excited I am by your email and the USGA's action. By coincidence I was on the phone with a gentleman who runs a golf tournament for disabled golfers when I received the email, and he was also very excited. Our most fundamental excitement comes from the USGA continuing to shepherd the rules of golf so that people of all sorts can go out and play this wonderful game as long as they're not trying to gain an undue advantage. My heartiest congratulations and deepest thanks to you and all involved.
Yours truly;
On Jul 11, 2007, at 9:01 AM, Carter Rich wrote:
Dear Mr. Danziger,
When we last communicated, I think that I mentioned that we were fairly close to a decision regarding requests of your nature. I am happy to tell you that we have made a medical accommodation for club length in specific circumstances.
Based on the information provided regarding your medical condition, it is possible that you may be permitted to use clubs exceeding the 48" length limitation. However, you must request permission from the local committee (i.e., the Competition Committee in charge of an event, the Rules of Golf Committee of your course, etc.), which should involve providing them with medical documentation of your condition, if necessary, such as a letter from your treating physician.
If the Committee believes that you have demonstrated a medical need for the exception and that you do not gain an undue advantage over other golfers as a result of using the exception, the Committee may authorize you to use clubs longer than 48". However, please note that, in applying this exception, it is required that the shortest club carried by the player is no more than 10" shorter than his longest club.
Should you have any questions or concerns regarding the above, please feel free to contact me.
J. Carter Rich
Manager, Equipment Standards
A quiet and intellectual man, Jack Earle enjoyed sculpting and painting landscapes and still-lifes and even earned himself a gallery exhibition in New York City in 1936. Circus manager John Ringling North, Earle said, had been so impressed with Earle's clay bust of "Clicko the Bushman" (Franz Taaibosch, a mentally handicapped South African man) that he paid to send his giant to art school. Earle was also a talented photographer, poet and playwright, and an enthusiastic fisherman and golfer.
Earle retired to an El Paso ranch in 1951, where he spent his spare time visiting children's homes and entertaining the children with stories of magical giants. Jack died of kidney failure on July 18, 1952 at the Hotel Dieu Hospital in El Paso and is buried in Texas. He was 46 years old.
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Global solution to the 3-D inhomogeneous incompressible MHD system with discontinuous density
February 2019, 12(1): 1-36. doi: 10.3934/krm.2019001
Stable manifolds for a class of singular evolution equations and exponential decay of kinetic shocks
Alin Pogan 1, and Kevin Zumbrun 2,,
Miami University, Department of Mathematics, 301 S. Patterson Ave., Oxford, OH 45056, USA
Indiana University, Department of Mathematics, 831 E. Third St., Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
* Corresponding author: Kevin Zumbrun
Received May 2017 Published July 2018
Fund Project: Research of A. P. was partially supported under the Summer Research Grant program, Miami University and by the Simons Foundation. Research of K.Z. was partially supported under NSF grant no. DMS-0300487.
We construct stable manifolds for a class of singular evolution equations including the steady Boltzmann equation, establishing in the process exponential decay of associated kinetic shock and boundary layers to their limiting equilibrium states. Our analysis is from a classical dynamical systems point of view, but with a number of interesting modifications to accomodate ill-posedness with respect to the Cauchy problem of the underlying evolution equation.
Keywords: Boltzmann equation, evolution equation, invariant manifold.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 47J06; Secondary: 47J35, 76P05.
Citation: Alin Pogan, Kevin Zumbrun. Stable manifolds for a class of singular evolution equations and exponential decay of kinetic shocks. Kinetic & Related Models, 2019, 12 (1) : 1-36. doi: 10.3934/krm.2019001
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