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Machine Girl (2008)
Published June 21, 2008	Film , Uncategorized 1 Comment
Tags: asami, fetish, Film, ichi the killer, japan, minase yashiro, monty python, noboru iguchi, pink eiga, post human, reiko ike, sam peckinpah, sex and fury, takashi miike, tetsuo: ironman, yakuza
There's a Monty Python sketch called "Sam Peckinpah's Salad Days," which starts when someone from a group of upperclass Brits innocently lobs a tennis ball at Michael Palin. The ball strikes him in the head, sending a geyser of blood into the air. He casts his tennis racket aside, which impales the woman next to him. Soon the entire group is missing limbs and writhing in puddles of blood.
I was reminded of this while watching Noboru Iguchi's The Machine Girl. The plot, as such, is simple. Ami (Minase Yashiro) is the picture perfect Japanese school girl – cute, perky, kind, and serious. But when her kid brother Yu gets thrown off a building by a group of school bullies, she wants revenge. When she confronts the family of one of the kids, she is attacked by the parents. The father hurls chairs at her while the seemingly meek mom turns into a knife wielding banshee who fries Ami's hand in tempura batter. Ami, however, proves to be a unexpectedly fierce fighter, and soon their kid is lacking a head and the banshee mom – in one of the grossest scenes I've seen in a long time – has a knife blade sticking out of her mouth. But that's just for starters.
Ami learns that the leader of the bully group is the scion of the positively psychotic Hattori yakuza/ninja clan. The father is sort of guy who, as punishment for a minor error, forces a servant to eat sushi made from his own fingers. Ami's first attempt at taking out the gangsters ends with her own amputation — Hattori lops off her arm. But thanks to the help of Miki (Asami), an ex-biker whose son was also murdered by the bullies, Ami's stump gets outfitted with a Gatling gun. Soon she's tracking down and blowing bloody holes into every single one of the bullies. Along the way, there are some ninja attacks, a drill bra, a flying guillotine and the letting of buckets and buckets of blood.
Clearly, Iguchi was aiming for the sort of unhinged lunacy of Takashi Miike's notorious Ichi the Killer, but the movie never captures that's movie's wit or fever-dream visual poetry. Instead, it's labored and strangely dated, as if it should have been made in 2003. But Machine Girl is interesting because of what it lacks — sex. If you strip away all the weird Tetsuo: Ironman-like flesh and machine fetishization , the plot is not unlike many of the old pink eiga revenge thrillers like Sex and Fury — beautiful yet formidable woman wronged and gets revenge. Many of the conventions are almost identical. The heroine is forced to prove her mettle by facing down a band of rapist thugs. The heroine is captured by the baddies and tortured. But where as Reiko Ike in Sex merely has her flesh exposed, Ami has hers violated — but never exposed. Even in scenes where it would have made sense for Ami to be partially or fully stripped, she remains chastely clothed. Yet this isn't prudity; the rampant spurting blood, limb slicing and general bodily mutilation border on the pornographic. Instead, this film is shaped by a different aesthetic than traditional pink eiga. Machine Girl is a post-human exploitation flick where blood, not semen, is the bodily fluid of currency.
Another thing interesting about this flick is the strong female characters. The women in movies like Cloistered Nun: Runa's Confession and especially Tattooed Flower Vase are portrayed as being at the mercy of their own sexual desire, ready for whatever advances from men. Ichi the Killer treats women as sex objects and punchlines. But women here — between Ami, Miki, and Hattori's drill bra wielding wife — are so powerful and dominant that the men almost disappear into the background. I wonder if this is tied to the filmmaker's fetishization of damaged flesh and machines?
Anyway, here's the Machine Girl's trailer.
Presidential Fetish
Published June 12, 2008	History , Uncategorized Leave a Comment
Tags: assassination, chester a. arthur, craigslist, fetish, james a. garfield, james blaine, president, richard m. nixon, rubber mask, taylor, theodore roosevelt
My associate Ted Mills sent this ad from Craigslist the other day which in my mind raises more questions than it answers.
rhode island craigslist
SEX WITH RICHARD NIXON… – m4w
Date: 2005-10-11, 12:31PM EDT
I am a 29 yr old man who for years has been collecting masks of famous past presidents. I have over 40 masks now of our governing forefathers and it is also somewhat of a kink of mine. I am looking for women into roleplay who may have always fantasized about getting banged by a young Richard Nixon.. or perhaps done doggy style by a brash and sexy Abraham Lincoln? How about being tied to my podium and made to "submit" by leather bound and erect Jimmy Carter? The scenarios are endless…and so is my presedential lust….if this sounds like a fantasy you would be excited by…drop me a line…your commander and chief awaits you…
I get the rather creepy image of a fat hirsute guy in a trailer full of rubber masks and bondage gear who really really liked high school history class. He claims to have 40 rubber masks out of 43. What presidents didn't make the cut? Chester A. Arthur? Zachery Taylor? How many times does he make sexual innuendos out of Theodore Roosevelt's famous "tread softly and carry a big stick" line? Is there a James A. Garfield rubber mask out there? Are they bought exclusively for obscure fetishists? Do they reenact Garfield's faithful walk to through the Washington train station, reaching climax as James Blaine shouts "What is the Meaning of this?" It all just boggles the mind.

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Stocks took a breather this week, dropping a couple of percentage points, as investors grappled with the dichotomy of improving economic data and worsening U.S. COVID-19 trends. Biotech was a bright spot, and international markets (particularly emerging) held up relatively better than the broader market.
The current calculus for market watchers is challenging. On the one hand, we see sizeable month-on-month improvement in economic data, such as durable goods new orders. On the other hand, COVID-19 trends in the U.S. are poor, and as a result, the reopening story is cloudy at best. And let's not forget the uncertainty surrounding the anticipated forthcoming stimulus from the Fed and lawmakers.
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Msg 19 of 61 to Red7272Red7272
The mortars would certainly be preferred when available, though time of flight might favor the rockets, especially for moving targets. I suspect the use case for the rockets is for patrols out beyond heavy mortar range, but anything that can carry the rocket pod should be able to carry a light mortar and its ammo. A 60mm with guided munitions might do just as well, and would provide similar mobility advantages. Since the rounds are designated, you're not going to get a true MLRS effect, so the rate of fire isn't going to be an issue. I'm sure there are still some conditions where the rocket might be preferred, but I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader.
In terms of vehicle based mortars, the Marine's briefly fielded, then ditched, the 120mm M327 EFSS:
https://www.gd-ots.com/munitions/mortars-and-mortar-components/120mm-efss/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortier_120mm_Ray%C3%A9_Tract%C3%A9_Mod%C3%A8le_F1
It was designed to fire the Raytheon PERM, GPS guided mortar:
https://www.raytheon.com/capabilities/products/perm
-8km Range
-GPS Guided so can be fired non-line of sight targets
-$18,000 cost vs $30,000 for APKWS
-Substantial increase in power - 35lb shell vs 16lb for APKWS
-Requires known GPS cordinates to fire
-Requires working GPS (not useful in the presence of GPS jamming / Anti Sat)
-20M accuracy range for PERM vs 1m for APKWS
-Increased power increases collateral damage for Urban use
-Cannot hit moving targets
-Cannot target individual rooms of a building
-Requires substantially more manpower and vehicles then APKWS
This last issue is the most substantial. The M327 requires 2x vehicles to employ. 1 vehicle tows the 1,283lb Mortar. Another vehicle is needed to tow the 30 round ammo carriage, which is another ~1300lbs. And these vehicles + mortar cannot be transported by helicopter, only by a V22 Osprey.
To fire, the mortar requires a crew of 4 gunners.
By comparison, the APKWS MLRS weighs ~750lbs loaded with 23rds, and can be transported by 1x small vehicle that fits on a helicopter. And to fire, it requires only a gunner and a laser pointer man.
Edited 06 September 2019 7:05 by gatnerd
APKWS II still costs 30k$ a pop, even when it was defined for cost below 10k.
It is expensive, even for USA, if it is pretended to be used commonly. It is not very useful if the rocket is not guided (minikatiusha?)
An 81mm or 120mm mortar can be fielded by one or two UGV and it can shoot either guided or unguided ammo. I find it more flexible than APKWS for dismounted units. Indeed, in the 2030, airborne units with UGV armed with 30mm cannon and mortar could carry a very serious punch from the first minute
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How is a small UGV going to operate a Mortar?
As far as cost, APKWS is really not that expensive in the scheme of military spending.
For the cost of one V22 Osprey, you can buy 2,400 APKWS.
For the cost of one Eurofighter Typhoon, 3900 APWS.
Keep in mind that doesn't even include the outrageous maintenance and fuel costs of flying these aircraft.
https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1384595
1-2x APKWS per flight hour is typical.
Whereas a few ground based APKWS obviates the need for a plane during close support in many instances.
Could you tell me what teen or euroteen have a 30k$ cost per hour of flight?
I agree with you about costs of using 4th gen multirrole for CAS in AA low risk environments such as Astan. Even American pockets aren't unlimited, and burning hours of the inherited Cold War fleet in that is absurd. IF we NATO need to intervene in some place, it would be needed to address the CAS resources properly and select more suited systems that those that we are using now. However, a reduced cost CAS resource offer an unvaluable asset: high ground
There would be several options for self-loading a 81mm mortar. From an evolution of the old Vasiliek system, to a robotized feed. Inside the box of a THeMIS there is plenty of space for installing such a device, providing that the mortar base is on the ground
poliorcetes said...
Well a significant chunk of the US CAS in Afghanistan was done by B1Bs, so the idea of saving money doesn't really feature.
Rather than dreaming up even more obscure ways of letting troops patrolling on foot in the middle of nowhere get support. Stick with drones and Super Tucanos which will cover far more patrols more cheaply than a bunch of trucks which need crews and the fairly limited potential of these rockets.
From: Jeff (Jefffar)
I believe I posited before that an IFV with an interchangeable mount allowing the use of guided 70mm rockets and ATGMs in whatever mission configuration was deemed appropriate would be a great support platform for the troops.
Imagine Bradleys in Iraq being able to let of 23 rockets without reloading instead of just two missiles.
Heck, for real fun, make the mount interchangable with a MANPADS missile pack too, potentially every infantry platoon would have a missile for every occasion.
But burning the Cold war fleet is unsustainable, even for USA. It's going to be worse if CAS is finally conducted by F-35. Go figure...
And you are excluding options needlessly. Drones are cheap (although their guided munitions AREN'T cheap), and COIN birds could offer dozens of time over the terrain that teens are offering, both because costs per hour and persistence. It would be a very serious deterrence for direct engagement with our troops.
But there are a good number of possibilities in which UGVs can offer significant advantages. For the very beginning of airmobile patrols, to urban combat, perimeter defense, etc. Since troops are going to go on foot in the next war, upgrading their fire capability without the logistic footprint and limitations of helicopter-portable manned ground vehicles.
UAV are going to be critical in all future operations. But UGVs are going to gain importance because in an NH 90 you can carry 3-4 armed themis, land them among paratroopers and offer them flexible and powerful fire capabilities
Some times I think about UGV comparing them with a tripod-mounted weapon that can move on itself and fire behind corners, or even fire without human operators in some circumstances. An APKWS module could offer huge advantages in certain scenarios, and an UGV is the smallest vehicle that can make them mobile. Indeed, themis can be carried by a wheeled vehicle up to 60 kph if I recall it correctly. In certain patrol scenarios such UGVs could add decissive firepower
If only the US was advanced as Spain.
The Ukraine
Whoever these guys are. Indonesia I think.
An actual fire support system that can deliver smoke, mines, plaster area threats and provide precision support with guided munitions would see a far logical path than a rocket based system that is unusable without a designator.
"Rather than dreaming up even more obscure ways of letting troops patrolling on foot in the middle of nowhere get support. Stick with drones and Super Tucanos which will cover far more patrols more cheaply than a bunch of trucks which need crews and the fairly limited potential of these rockets."
I'm fully on board Drones and Super Tucanos as close air support, and I think its criminal that we're using fancy jets for this application.
At the same time, drones and planes can't be everywhere; both fuel limitations, numbers of pilots, and in the case of an advanced enemy, jamming / AA fire.
So its important to have infantry, and especially small infantry units, have some sort of Organic, 'baked in' fire support on the ground.
Ideally, that fire support should be Artillery, Large mortars, small mortars, IFV's, etc. But thats not always the case either, especially for small untis far afield, or where terrain is especially dispersed and remote like Afghanistan. Or during the opening phases of an expeditionary war.
That's why I really like the Fletcher and Mini MLRS APKWS. Its small, its light, its easy to use, it can be mounted onto any vehicle, and its capable of providing effective close support out to 5km.
In the case of Fletcher, every other vehicle can have one mounted. Ie Vehicle 1 has a Fletcher + 50bmg, Vehicle 2 has a 40mm AGL + .338lwmg.
In the case of emergency close support, all thats needed is getting a single soldier to get to one of the Fletcher trucks, point it in the right direction, and fire. Wheruppon it will pick up the infatryies IR laser and hit the target.
There's no need to wait for planes to arrive, or ask for authorization from higher ups to bring in the artillery.