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What Is Intersectionality?
We all have a variety of identities based on our race, class, gender, sexuality, religious beliefs, ability, size, citizenship status, and geographic location. No one identity is necessarily more important than the other, and everyone values certain parts of their identities differently. While the way we identify ourselves is personal and varied, the way society treats us based on our identities often follows troubling and violent patterns of discrimination and disadvantage.
Sometimes, people can face multiple forms of oppression toward different aspects of their identity. In 1989, Black feminist Kimberlé Crenshaw created the term intersectionality to describe and center the lives of Black women, who experience oppression at the intersections of gender and of race. Kimberlé Crenshaw explains in "What Is Intersectionality?",
"Intersectionality is a metaphor for understanding the ways that multiple forms of inequality or disadvantage sometimes compound themselves, and they create obstacles that are not understood within conventional ways of thinking about anti-racism or feminism or other social justice advocacy structures we have. Intersectionality isn't so much a grand theory; it's a prism for understanding certain kinds of problems."
When it comes to working with victim-survivors of abuse, The Initiative uses an intersectional framework. This means that we recognize that race, class, gender, sexuality, ability, location, religion, and more, can impact someone's experience of abuse, and even be used as tactics of power and control by abusers and systems.
Below, you will find descriptions of a few different identities and how they might impact a person's experience as a survivor. We hope that you find information and empowerment as you read them, and we encourage you to care for yourself and take breaks if you need to. The following statistics and descriptions might be upsetting for some people.
Jump To: Disability | Immigration Status | Gender Identity | Sexual Orientation | Location | Indigenous Communities | Religion | Body Size | Class | Ethnicity and Race
The Americans with Disabilities Act defines a person with disabilities as someone who has "a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities." While some disabilities are more obvious or perceivable, others are hidden. Disabilities include physical, sensory, cognitive, developmental, mental-health, and health-related conditions. In short, disability is vast, but the common factor is the impact on one or more major life activities. Some disability communities push back against the words "impairment" and "limits" in the Americans with Disabilities Act. Rather, it is society and ableism that impairs and limits people with disabilities, not the disability itself. Ableism is a system of power, practices, and dominant attitudes that privilege able-bodied people and marginalize people with disabilities. People with disabilities can face a variety of barriers in everyday life due to ableism, including inaccessible buildings, outdated and discriminatory laws, lack of representation in media and politics, and unequal access to education, employment, and stable housing.
Colorado, in particular, has an incredible history of disability activism, from the Gang of 19 laying their bodies in front of RTD buses to demand accessible transportation, to the creation of one of the country's first centers for independent living, Atlantis Community, Inc., to current disability activists fighting for a disability movement that connects disability to class struggle, racial justice, and queer and transgender rights.
People with disabilities experience abuse at higher rates than people without disabilities because of the perceived vulnerability of disability, not from the disability itself. People with disabilities might experience abuse because we live in a society where they are devalued, not seen as credible, and sometimes isolated. Abuse of people with disabilities is underreported, often unprosecuted, and even more often unpunished. Abusers may restrict access to medicine, transportation, or assistive technologies, deny the right to consent, justify abuse as a result of caregiver stress, or use a person's disability to discredit their experiences in front of law enforcement, service providers, family, and friends.
Some undocumented individuals consider their undocumented status to be an important part of their identity. Undocumented individuals have created beautiful and fierce communities around their undocumented status, and have centered their undocumented status in their politics, art, and activism.
Undocumented individuals in the United States face unique and often dangerous barriers when it comes to reporting abuse. Abusers can use their immigration status as a way of gaining and maintaining power and control. An abuser may threaten to reveal a victim-survivor's immigration status or withhold their immigration paperwork or documentation. Victim-survivors of abuse may be hesitant to report the abuse out of fear of deportation or losing access to transportation, housing, health coverage, and more. Further, going into court and being around judges and police officers can be scary and unsafe for these victim-survivors.
While these concerns have always existed for undocumented individuals in the United States, in the last few years there has been more (outward) xenophobia which has led to a more intense focus on undocumented individuals. Xenophobia is a dislike, fear, or hatred of people who are perceived to be 'outsiders' and/or from other countries. In the United States, xenophobia is rooted in White Supremacy and Settler Colonialism.
Gender identity is one's internal sense of being male, female, neither of these, both, or other gender(s). Everyone has a gender identity! Some examples of gender identity could be man, woman, or non-binary. For people who identify with the same gender that was assigned to them at birth, we add "cis" to the front. This could be "cis man" or "cis woman." The term "cis" is a prefix for same. People whose gender identity and whose sex assigned at birth are not the same could use the word "trans" in front, such as trans woman or trans man, or simply as their identity, trans. The only way to know someone's gender identity is to ask them, or to listen for how they self-identify. There are infinite gender identities. Gender is not a binary of "male" and "female," but a lot of people in society often treat gender that way. Gender can also change over time.
Because our society's perception of abuse is so deeply rooted in gender norms and expectations—for example, the idea that only men or masculine people can be abusers and only women or femmes can be victims—it can be difficult for people who don't fit into these stereotypes to be believed, to access services, and to receive support when they are experiencing abuse.
Sexism is the experience of prejudice, stereotyping, or discrimination based on someone's sex or gender. Sexism is usually targeted against people who identify as women or femmes and trans people, but sexism hurts people of all genders. This is especially true in cases of abuse.
Survivors of abuse may face sexism in the form of victim-blaming. Victim blaming is when people blame the victim for the abuse instead of the abuser - for example, "she wouldn't have been raped if she hadn't been drinking." In Domestic Violence situations, victim-blaming often comes in the form of a question: "Why doesn't she just leave?" Asking this question puts all of the focus and blame on the survivor, and ignores the reality that leaving an abusive relationship can be extremely complicated and dangerous. Victim blaming and sexism can become internalized, leading victims to believe that the abuse really is their fault.
Sexism harms people of all genders. Sexist ideologies tell us that women are weak, emotional, and irrational, whereas men are strong, logical, and driven by a constant desire to have sex. These stereotypes of men can lead people to believe that men can't be victims of abuse or sexual assault - for example, "he can't have been raped because men always want to have sex," or "he can't have been abused because he's physically stronger than his partner."
Transgender, genderqueer, gender non-conforming, agender, and non-binary people experience abuse at higher rates than cisgender women, but the experiences and needs of these communities are often erased or ignored. One reason for this is cissexism, which is society and institutions that reinforce that cisgender is the norm and that transgender, genderqueer, gender non-conforming, agender, and non-binary communities are inherently inferior. Cissexism shows up in many different ways, from the high trans unemployment rate to a service provider using the wrong pronouns for a non-binary person, to the average life expectancy for Black trans women and trans women of color being only 35 years old, primarily due to violence.
Abusers may threaten to "out" a victim-survivor as trans, restrict access to hormones or gender-affirming clothing and products, use harmful slurs and names, question a victim-survivor's gender identity, or use the wrong pronouns, all of which are extremely harmful. Transgender, genderqueer, gender non-conforming, agender, and non-binary communities can be less likely to report abuse out of fear of discrimination or violence from law enforcement or service providers. they may not feel accepted or affirmed by law enforcement or service providers. These communities may have significant concerns of being misgendered, not being believed, or encountering racist and transphobic stereotypes about trans people, particularly Black trans women and femmes, as hypersexual, hyperaggressive, or "tricking" their partners. These stereotypes are hateful, violent, and untrue, but hold power in our society's attitudes.
The acronym LGBTQIA+ stands for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans Queer, Intersex, Asexual, and the + indicates an infinite number of other gender and sexual identities. The acronym LGBTSTGNC stands for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two-Spirit, Trans, and Gender Non-Conforming. Both of these acronyms contain both sexual identities and gender identities, which are different. If you want to learn more about specific gender identities, visit Trans Student Educational Resources.
Sexual Orientation or sexuality is a person's physical, romantic, emotional, and/or other forms of attraction to others. Just as there are many gender identities, there are many sexual identities. Sexuality can also change over time. In Western cultures, gender identity and sexual orientation are not the same. Transgender people can be straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, asexual, pansexual, queer, etc., just like cisgender people. For example, a trans woman who is attracted to other women would often identify as a lesbian.
Even though "same-sex marriage" laws were passed in 2015 and there is more representation of LGBTQ+ people in politics, media, and culture, there still are many negative attitudes towards people who are not heterosexual (straight). Heterosexism is when heterosexuality is seen as the norm, and it is assumed that everyone is, and should be, heterosexual (straight). Heterosexism can make people more vulnerable to abuse. For example, an abuser can threaten to "out" the victim without their consent. Coming out is an extremely personal choice, and can involve telling family, friends, and others about your sexual orientation. Some people choose to never come out or to come out to only a few people in their life. All of these choices are okay.
A person may not want to come out because of the fear that people will treat them differently based on their sexual orientation. So, when an abuser threatens to "out" their victim-survivor, it can be a powerful control tactic. Another barrier to safety involving sexual orientation is that our society has deeply held gender stereotypes regarding abuse: that abusers can only be men or masculine, and victim-survivors can only be women or feminine. For people who don't fall into this experience—for example, a man experiencing abuse from another man—these hurtful ideas can make it more difficult to access support and services. Law enforcement or other organizations might have "difficulty" determining who is the abuser and who is the victim-survivor, leading to the victim-survivor actually being punished instead of the abuser.
For some people in rural areas, where they live is a strong part of their identity. People in rural areas may feel proud of where they live and believe that rurality informs their values, their sense of community, and the ways they relate to the world. Unfortunately, in the United States, there are some harmful stereotypes about rural areas and the people who live there.
Ruralism is a form of discrimination on the basis of living in a rural area. Ruralism worsens rural poverty, makes normal the lack of services, healthcare, education, and employment opportunities in rural areas, and depicts people living in rural areas as backward, intolerant, and even unsophisticated. Stereotyping dehumanizes people, of all marginalized communities.
That being said, people in rural areas experiencing abuse may face particular challenges accessing services or leaving an abuser. For one, there may be physical isolation. A victim-survivor living in a city may be able to go to a shelter on foot, using a wheelchair, by public transportation, or by taxis and rideshare companies; for someone in a rural area, this is not likely an option. If a victim-survivor doesn't have a car or the abuser controls access to the car keys, leaving can be far more difficult. For someone who uses a wheelchair or has other disabilities, these barriers in a rural area are amplified. Rural communities may also lack resources such as homeless shelters, emergency clinics, domestic violence services, or disability organizations. Finally, some rural communities are close-knit. For someone in an abusive relationship, this can mean it is impossible to keep their situation private. This can be further complicated if an abuser is well-respected or well-liked in the community, or holds a position of power, such as being in local law enforcement or CPS/APS.
The lands making up the state of Colorado belong to the Sioux, Ute, Arapahoe, and Cheyenne nations. Society often speaks about Indigenous people in the past tense, as if they no longer exist, because this makes it easier to deny Indigenous people their rights, their land, and their struggles. Indigenous communities continue to exist and thrive all over the world, with incredible activism, cultures, and creative presence. It has been made normal to take land, break treaties, and exclude Indigenous people from employment, education, and politics. It has also been made normal to use extraordinary violence towards Indigenous people, particularly Indigenous women and femmes.
A Department of Justice study shows that 84% of Native American and Alaska Native women have experienced violence, 56% of those had experienced sexual violence, and over 90% have experienced violence at the hands of a non-tribal member. These high rates of violence exist for many reasons, including systemic racism, a lack of support from local law enforcement, lack of funding for domestic violence and sexual assault programs, and conflicts between tribal legal systems and state or federal legal systems. Tribal courts do not currently have the jurisdiction to prosecute non-tribal members who are perpetrators of sexual assault, rape, and other crimes. And while as of 2015 tribal courts are able to prosecute non-tribal members for domestic violence, in practice this prosecution is still a distant reality for many tribal courts due to lack of funding as well as large changes in regulations that take time to put into place. Also, protection orders that are mandated by tribal governments are often not respected by local law enforcement outside of the tribe - meaning that an abuser can stalk or harm their victim outside of tribal lands and not face punishment. All of these factors contribute to situations where non-tribal members are able to abuse Indigenous people and avoid punishment.
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls is a growing activist movement to raise awareness and create systemic change around violence against Indigenous communities. For more information, see https://www.csvanw.org/mmiw/
Cultural and Spiritual Abuse are not often mentioned when discussing tactics of abuse. To learn more, visit Strong Hearts Helpline
Religion is an important part of many, but not all, people's identities. Whether someone experiences privilege because of their religious beliefs, or discrimination because of their religious beliefs, often depends on the place where they live. For example, in the United States, Muslim communities may experience violence due to islamophobia, a type of racism that targets expressions of Muslimness or perceived Muslimness. In a Muslim-majority country, however, the same challenges may not exist. Antisemitism - the discrimination against, violence towards, or stereotypes of, Jews for being Jewish - also exists in many places in the world. Antisemitism, especially towards Jewish people of color, is also rooted in racism.
Religion can intersect with abuse in a variety of ways. For one, people of minority faiths in the United States may face discrimination for their beliefs. This discrimination may make someone less likely to reach out for support when they need it, for fear that they may face similar discrimination from service providers. There are also many service providers and shelters that require clients to participate in religious acts. For example, some homeless shelters require people to pray, or even attend religious services, before they can receive support. For someone whose religious beliefs conflict with the shelter, these requirements may prevent them from accessing needed supports.
Another important way religion intersects with abuse is that someone's personal religious beliefs might make it harder to leave an abuser. For example, someone who is Catholic might not be able to divorce their abuser because of their belief that divorce goes against their religion. Along with conflicts with an individual's personal beliefs, they might also face pressure from their religious community to stay in the relationship.
*While some people may embrace the term "fat" to describe themselves, others may not. We will use this term in this section because it is what fat activists (like Your Fat Friend, an anonymous essayist) are currently using to describe themselves.*
People of all body types and sizes are always deserving of respect and love. Regardless of the reasons that somebody might be fat, or their health condition (which is often unrelated to weight), every person deserves to be treated with dignity and respect. Fat people face significant discrimination in accessing clothing, spaces, employment opportunities, and healthcare.
The way that society views and treats fat people is called "anti-fat bias," "sizeism," or "anti-fatness." One study found significant anti-fat stigma in health care and proposes that it "poses serious risks to their psychological and physical health, generates health disparities, and interferes with the implementation of effective obesity prevention efforts." For example, Rebecca Hiles, a writer, had chest pain and coughing that lasted for 11 years that was repeatedly dismissed by doctors who told her to "just lose some weight." That cough turned out to be lung cancer and she had to have one of her lungs removed to save her life within weeks of the proper diagnosis. Another study found that almost 70% of fat women had experienced weight stigma from a doctor, and yet another found that heavier weight women avoided seeking healthcare due to the way they were treated. If we apply this to the way that someone might feel in other service areas, like victim-survivor services, we can see how a fat person might not feel safe or comfortable reaching out and accessing safety-related services like the police or victim advocates. Fat people can also be disbelieved, or told that they deserved the abuse or should be grateful for the attention. These false stigmas can prevent someone from accessing supportive services and can create additional harm when they do reach out for help.
In the United States, as in much of the world, capitalism increases the gap between the wealthiest individuals and the poorest individuals, most often following patterns of marginalization, such as ability, race, gender, sexuality, religion, and immigration status.
In the United States, capitalism as an economic system was made possible by enslaving Africans during the hundreds of years of chattel slavery, and the genocide of Indigenous peoples and taking of their land. To this day, capitalist systems work on many levels to prevent certain communities, particularly disabled people, undocumented people, Black and Indigenous people, people of color, and LGBTQ+ people from accessing basic human needs and gaining wealth.
One way capitalism works is to individualize class, meaning it is an individual's "fault" if they are poor, if they are low-income, if they are homeless, rather than it being the result of many systems of oppression working as they were meant to work. Classism is the institutional, cultural, and individual set of practices and beliefs that place different values to people based on their income, wealth, education, work status and/or power.
For people who are experiencing homelessness and poverty, it can be hard to leave an abusive situation. For one, they may not be able to leave because they do not have a safe place to go to. For example, for people with disabilities, this could be needing to go to a safehouse, but not having the money or resources to find accessible transportation. People may also face difficulties paying for expenses related to leaving, such as storage costs, moving costs, first month's rent or a deposit at a new home or apartment, medications without an abuser's insurance, and more. Many victim-survivors who are experiencing poverty might choose between leaving and being homeless, or staying and continuing to live in a dangerous, even life-threatening, situation. In fact, abuse (and domestic violence, in particular), is one of the leading causes of homelessness. Additionally, homeless individuals also face discrimination and stigma, which may present barriers to accessing services.
Ethnicity and Race
Ethnicity denotes groups, such as Irish, Fijian, Latino/x, that share a common identity-based ancestry, language, or culture. It is often based on religion, beliefs, customs, as well as memories of migration or colonization. Race is a powerful social category used to group different types of human bodies. We say "social category," because there isn't a biological basis for race (for example, genetic differences within a racial group are often greater than differences between racial groups). We know, however, that there is a long, and often violent, history of attempts to organize groups of people based on similar skin color or physical appearance. Racial groups were created, and re-created many times, to serve social and economic purposes. They are kept up through controls like slavery, Jim Crow, uses of 'law and order,' restrictive immigration policies, and more. They are reinforced through belief systems, such as the belief of white superiority and/or the association of the United States with whiteness. White supremacy is the idea that white people and the thoughts, beliefs, and actions of white people are superior to Black and Indigenous people and people of color and their thoughts, beliefs, and actions. The United States is, and has been from its beginnings of slavery and genocide of Indigenous people, a white supremacist country.
Race and ethnicity are both important parts of many people's identities. It should be said that everyone has a race, including white people.
Systemic racism is the broad experience of policies, practices, laws, and attitudes that oppress and harm people of color, particularly Black and Indigenous people. Examples of systemic racism include discrimination in hiring practices, stereotypes of people of color as angry, dangerous, or unreasonable, exclusion from politics, stable housing, education, and other cultural institutions, the fact that the predominantly Black city of Flint, Michigan has not had clean water since 2014, and the criminal legal system targeting communities of color. For example, Black people are incarcerated at five times the rate of white people. Although Black people and Latino/x people make up approximately 32% of the population in the United States, they comprise 56% of all incarcerated people. If Black people and Latino/x people were incarcerated at the same rate as white people, prison and jail populations would decline by almost 40%.
Black and Indigenous communities and communities of color may be less likely to report abuse for a number of reasons. For one, they may feel unsafe calling the police for help out of fear that the person responding to the crime may discriminate against them. Many people of color have experienced further violence from the police and other state bodies. People of color might not want to contribute to mass incarceration or criminal legal systems that have been harmful. People of color might hesitate to reach out to victim service providers or domestic violence shelters if they have faced racist ideologies in those spaces in the past.


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"There is already a term in Estonian for permaculture. It is the onomatopoeia, 'Permakultuur.' But our translators came up with a new word that more expressed the essence of permaculture, instead of its English-sound. It was Jåtkuloomine – literally, evolving nature; continuing creation. The example sentence the translators offered was "The key for the survival of Estonia is creation of the continuous creation." "
In lower Manhattan, they have been out there in the street for more than a month and winter is starting to approach. Last night it was 48°F (8°C) and drizzling. Surely it must warm some of those huddled under grimy blankets to hear they have been adopted by the President, the Tea Party, Baby Boomers and Birchers, but whether tepid and self-serving endorsements, or grueling vigils, can sustain their movement a year from now is still anyone's guess.
Drawing strength from the rage of the masses is not a formula for longevity, especially in a consumer culture, where rage shifts seasonally.
Just ask the veterans of the great uprisings of 1968. We still wonder, what became of our revolution? Rather than being adopted by everyone, it unified the opposition, and while it made some milestones, especially in the popular culture, it missed its political mark by a wide mile. Some of the heroes of the Strawberry Rebellion went on to become politicians and pundits, and while they could lay claim to some modest, incremental gains, the dragon they tilted against grew exponentially more horrific, and now looms over us like a scene from Revelations.
While reading I've Got the Light of Freedom (Charles M. Payne, I've Got the Light of Freedom: the organizing tradition and the Mississippi freedom struggle, University of California Press, 1995), I realized that much of what we had practiced in SDS was derived from SNCC and this developmental organizing tradition, up to and including the vision of "participatory democracy," which was incorporated in the 1962 SDS founding document, "The Port Huron Statement." Columbia SDS's work was patient, strategic, base-building, using both confrontation and education. I myself had been nurtured and developed into a leadership position through years of close friendship with older organizers.
We came across Rudd's retrospective in the midst of teaching a Permaculture Design Course in Estonia last week and it occurred to us that Rudd's lessons were well grasped in important — though perhaps least expected — places. An October 13th AP interview with Poland's former President and Nobel laureate, shipyard striker Lech Walesa, touched on some of those lessons learned. If political communism could be toppled by strategic protest, is capitalism immune? "We need to change, reform the capitalist system," he said, because we need "more justice, more people's interests, and less money for money's sake." Walesa said he supported the Occupy Wall Street movement and intended to join the protesters.
Walesa, looking today like a cross between Captain Kangaroo and the Monopoly oligarch, founded the Solidarnosc labor party in 1980, inflicting fatal wounds upon both the Soviet Empire and on communism as a political system. He found himself thrust onto the world stage but was smart and humble enough to recognize that it was the moment, not him personally, that was the pivot point for the brewing revolution.
As we described in our post of May, 2010, White Nights and Chicken Skin, the Estonians seized on Solidarnosc's momentum in 1991, with The Singing Revolution. As Soviet tanks attempted to roll back Estonian progress towards independence, the Estonian Supreme Soviet together with the Congress of Estonia proclaimed the restoration of the independent state of Estonia and repudiated Soviet anti-freedom legislation. Surrounding the Parliament building in Tallinn, Estonians of all walks, using the social networking tools of the day, spontaneously dropped their activities and converged, linked arms, sang and forced the hardliners out. By serving as human shields to protect radio and TV stations from the Russian tanks, these singing revolutionaries brought Estonia its independence without bloodshed. A counter-coup attempt failed amid mass pro-democracy demonstrations in Moscow.
[T]he General Assembly [is] a daily mass meeting, open to all, which is the closest thing OWES has to a governing body. Because any kind of amplified sound in forbidden, bullhorns included, the meetings are conducted in an ingenious way. A speaker says a few words, then pauses; the audience repeats them, loudly and in unison; the speaker says a few more; the chorus repeats; and so on. If the group is unusually large, the repetitions radiate out, like a mountain echo. The listeners register their reactions silently, with their hands. Four fingers up, palms outward: Yay! Four fingers down, palms inward: Boo! Both hands rolling: Wrap it up! Clench fists crossed at the wrists: No way, José! There is something oddly moving about a crowd of smart-phone-addicted, computer-savvy people coöperating to create such an utterly low-tech, strikingly human, curiously tribal means of amplification—a literal loudspeaker.
Toidusalu — food forest; literally, a more beautiful forest. Example: My table is abundant and it is provided for by my food forest, that does not feel hurt by my pruning.
Metsaviljelus – agroforestry; literally: a cultivated forest – holistic forest farming.
Lohmu — swale, but not just a contour ditch. Literally: hollow-bump; empty and fill; scoop and mound. Example: Its cool to pick the strawberries on the hollow-bump and listen to the frogs singing.
Åkk — humanure, literally: "the good stuff;" pure organic. Example: The most convenient way to dig out the åkk is with a pillkopp, but alas! it is missing from the toolkit of continuous creation! Perhaps this is an Estonian contribution to Jåtkuloomine (a pillkopp is a bucket used to clean outhouses, having a 2 meter handle, sometimes with a rope)!
Have a vision of a positive, compelling, realistic future.
Work towards cultural sustainability, resilience, and regeneration. The politics will follow.
Educate others, especially your oppressors, in the need for fundamental change in the face of peak energy, climate chaos, environmental degradation, overpopulation and the economic upheaval and restructuring that is merely a symptom of all those converging crises. It ain't about the rising cost of tuition, or your rent or groceries. It's much deeper that that.
Tell the stories of your vision, and your willing sacrifices, to anyone who will listen, and do it colorfully, with poetry, art and music.
Motivate, inspire, organize, and network among all the youth, using open space technology, social media, and any other tools you can muster or invent.
Above all, choose peace and non-violence and let the world be your witness. The key for the survival of not only Estonia, but Jeffersonian democracy, is creation of the continuous creation.


After a frantic 10 minutes where Blizzard refused to accept my credit card and I transfered money elsewhere so we could use a different card.. I finally got tickets for Blizzcon. So yeah! I know where I'll be at the end of October. 🙂 Sorry for the radio silence.. lots of non-WoW things happening.. and not much WoW.


"I generate life, I hold life and I renew life. See me as a mighty force for I am overseer of the arising and rebirth of the 'wholed' feminine. There is beauty in all forms of life expression whether it be man, woman, animal or plant. But at this time women are being called to step forth to usher in the 'new'; to be the way-showers and midwives.
The masculine principle walks with a heavy heart. They carry their own trauma, of having played the role of perpetrator of pain towards the feminine principle. The call at this turning point is for all women to awaken and return to their rightful place … as nurturers and protectors of LIFE ITSELF: to recognise their true value and worth.
Sisters, the reins are to be in your hands, and you will need to open your hearts in deep forgiveness to your brothers, your fathers, your husbands and your sons. This act of forgiveness can enable 'them' to heal and reclaim their own authentic masculine expression. This in turn leads to the balancing of polarities between the sexes.
I, as Isis, encourage you to soften your hearts, reconnect and renew your innate strength and fierceness.
Give 'it' form, give it life. Explore the many dimensions of your feminine expression and ally with the most resonant archetype. Allow 'her' to channel through you, finding your individual niche of authentic potency.
'Polish your jewel' and be the 'she-wolves' in service to the divine mother; within and without.
 Transmission received by Amazonian Astrologer Jeanette Jones. To find out more on Amazonian Astrology or to book your reading, click here.


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Virginia Tech football: Justin Fuente out as head coach
Virginia Tech and Justin Fuente agree to mutually part ways.
By Bryan D. Manning@BryanDManning Nov 16, 2021, 8:08am EST
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The Virginia Tech Hokies and head football coach Justin Fuente have mutually agreed to part ways, per Virginia Tech's official website.
Former Virginia Tech player and current co-defensive line coach, J.C. Price, will act as the interim coach for the final two games of the regular season.
Athletic director Whit Babcock released the following statement:
We sincerely appreciate the contributions that Coach Fuente made to our football program and the positive impact he made on our student-athletes during his time at Virginia Tech. While it is never easy to make a change, I believe in order for our football program to attain the type of sustained success that is expected at Virginia Tech, the time was right for new leadership of our football program. Virginia Tech is one of the most attractive football jobs in America, competing in one of the nation's premier conferences, the ACC. I'm extremely confident that we'll be able to identify and hire a new head coach who can build on our rich history and winning tradition.
Fuente posted a 43-31 record during his six seasons in Blacksburg, including a 28-20 record in the ACC. Another issue for Fuente was Tech's troubles at Lane Stadium in recent years.
Virginia Tech's bowl streak and winning streak over in-state rival Virginia ended under Fuente's watch.
Babcock will address the media at 10:45 on Wednesday.
Fuente released the following statement:
On behalf of Jenny and our family, I would like to thank President Sands, Whit and the entire Virginia Tech community for extending me the opportunity to lead this football program for six seasons.
To the many incredible young men that I had the privilege to coach, so many of you have made a lasting impact on our family. I can't thank you enough for your dedication and your commitment to doing your very best, whether that was on the field, in the classroom or in your personal lives.
To the fabulous assistant coaches and support staff at Virginia Tech, I can't express how much I appreciated all of your work and all your sacrifices. It takes so many dedicated, hard-working and loyal people behind the scenes to make a football program run smoothly. Thank you.
To all the donors who have recently stepped up to make substantial contributions to Virginia Tech Football, please know the importance of your commitment. So many improvements have been made to point our facilities and overall student-athlete experience in the right direction. Thank you to the fans of Hokie Nation. I would encourage all of you to continue cheering on this football team – your support means so much to all of them.
Finally, to Jenny, Cecilia, Caroline, Charlotte and the rest of our family, thank you for your unwavering love and support. We have all been in this together and we will continue to be in this together on the next step of our journey.
We leave Blacksburg with many great memories, but above all else, our family cherishes the many relationships that have been established and that will always endure. To all of those players, coaches and staff who are still fighting on, know that the Fuente family is always cheering for you.
We will have complete coverage of Babcock's press conference and all news surrounding the coaching search.


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Angry vets demand end to backlog of disability claims
Posted on May 22, 2012 by Team VCS
More than 200 veterans attend a forum organized by lawmakers seeking to expedite stalled or bungled disability claims. One attendee filed his claim in 1947.
Veteran Douglas Briggs throws up his arms in frustration as he makes his feelings known about the failure of the VA to process claims for disabilities. At right is Willie Clark, the VA's western regional director. (Don Bartletti, Los Angeles Times / May 21, 2012)
By Maria L. La Ganga, Los Angeles Times
SAN FRANCISCO — Horatius A. Carney spent seven weeks in a military hospital after injuring his knee while in the segregated Army Air Forces. He first filed a disability claim in 1947. He is still waiting for a response.
Lisa Scott, an Army communications specialist who served inSaudi Arabia during Desert Storm and Desert Shield, waited seven years for the Veterans Benefits Administration to approve her disability claim for post-traumatic stress disorder and depression.
Ari Sonnenberg served three tours in Iraq and came home with a traumatic brain injury, PTSD and internal injuries. "Haunting memories of the horrors of war" drove him to attempt suicide, he said, and he called the office of Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Hillsborough) for help navigating the veterans benefits system.
On Monday, Sonnenberg left the Palo Alto Veterans Affairs hospital so that he could testify during a heart-wrenching forum attended by more than 200 veterans seeking to expedite stalled and bungled disability claims. For more than three hours they vented about a system that they said actually makes their lives worse.
The main target of the frustrated, often tearful, men and women was the Oakland office of the Department of Veterans Affairs — which serves an area from Kern County north to the Oregon border; it has the second-largest case backlog of any regional office in the country, behind Seattle.
"I'd like to use this opportunity to express to the VA benefits section how the unnecessary delay and loss of documents and mishandling of information caused added stress and anxiety to my already difficult life," Sonnenberg, pale and shaking, told the packed hearing room. If not for Speier, "I would still be floating around the system."
On average, veterans whose disability claims are processed in Oakland wait 320 days to find out whether they will receive assistance, compared with 241 days at the nation's 56 other VA offices, according to Speier's office. As of Monday, there were 829,866 cases pending across the country — 66.5% had been active for more than 125 days.
Nearly 40% of all disability claims reviewed during an audit of the Oakland office released this month were incorrectly processed; nearly 60% of the traumatic brain injury cases reviewed were bungled. Around 34,000 cases in the office's files remain unresolved.
The backlog is so severe that new claims from Northern and Central California veterans are being sent to VA offices in Nebraska and Oklahoma, according to Speier, who convened Monday's forum along with Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Oakland).
"There is an untenable backlog at the VA Oakland office, and we are here today to address it," Speier told the crowd, which spilled out of the hearing room in San Francisco's ornate Veterans War Memorial Building.
"Everyone agrees that we must improve the delivery of services out of the Oakland VA," she said. "We know the history, the audit results, the data, all of which are damning."
The assembled veterans from World War II, Vietnam, the Gulf War, Afghanistan and Iraq — some clutching canes and wearing hearing aids (the oldest was 93) — cheered Speier's declaration that the Oakland office would be fixed. In the meantime, a cadre of VA claims workers had set up shop in the next room to assist more than 180 veterans who pre-registered for fix-it sessions.
But the crowd was far less welcoming to VA Western Regional Director Willie Clark, who alternately apologized for and defended his beleaguered agency during hours of painful testimony about injuries and depression, lost paperwork, denied claims and medical exams ordered by the VA, only to be rendered useless by agency foot-dragging.
When the VA audited the Oakland office in January, the agency's goal was 92% accuracy in processing claims. But Oakland was only 80% accurate when it came to making "compensation rating-related decisions," according to the report. Thousands of dollars in disability payments hinge on the ratings, or the VA's assessment of just how disabled a veteran is.
The error rates, Clark said, were "not indicative of the total work the office is doing….Oakland's accuracy rate is 86%."
When Clark stated his agency's goal for 2015 — "no claim pending over 125 days with a 98% accuracy rate" — the restive crowd shouted him down.
"Three years from now?" came an incredulous cry from the audience.
Carney is now 84. As a World War II-era corporal, he served as a surveyor and heavy-equipment operator, injuring his knee on the Aleutian island of Attu. He filed a disability claim on Sept. 17, 1947, around the time he was discharged.
"I've since been told that they could find no record of my injury or hospitalization," said the retired Oakland bus and truck driver, who did not pursue the claim at the time. "We figured segregation was still going on, and they weren't going to do anything about it. So, I figured, the heck with it."
The injury, he said, ended a promising athletic career. After leaving the military, Carney went back to college, hoping to become a minister or a teacher. But because of his injury, he couldn't stand for any length of time.
Nearly a year ago, he decided to file his claim again. Since then, he's received three letters from the VA, but no decision — and no help. On Monday, he was cordial but impatient.
This entry was posted in Gulf War Updates, VA Claims Updates, Veterans for Common Sense News and tagged Afghanistan, backlog, Gulf War, PTSD, TBI, VA Claims Crisis, Veterans Articles & News. Bookmark the permalink.


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AWolff x Zerocalcare
AWolff Studio had the pleasure of animating sequences from the life of legendary Italian cartoonist, Zerocalcare in the adapted graphic novel La Profezia Dell' Armadillo
La Profezia dell' Armadillo is a Film about the life of Zerocalcare, an acclaimed political comic strip artist in Italy. Awolff Studios was asked to create 2 sequences, entirely designed and animated in 2D. Produced by Fandango Films and Directed by Emanuel Scaringi the film is entirely shot on film with an animated intro and outro.
Let's give massive round of applause for the film featuring at Venice Film Festival 2018!
Inspired by the art of Zerocalcare AWolff had to re design and interpret all the characters and scenarios creating a new spin off form the original artwork taken form the printed comics.
Scroll down to see how AWolff brought the art of Zerocalcare to life!


In this video, Dr. William Grant, Ph.D., internationally recognized research scientist and vitamin D expert, reveals the important role vitamin D plays in your health.
Dr. Grant, whose background is in atmospheric sciences, has applied the ecologic approach to the study of dietary and environmental links to chronic disease. He has worked at the level of senior research scientist at such notable institutions as SRI International, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the NASA Langley Research Center.
More recently, Dr. Grant has uncovered exciting potential for the use of vitamin D in the prevention and treatment of a number of high-incidence cancers found in Western populations. He is the director of the Sunlight, Nutrition and Health Research Center (SUNARC), an entity devoted to research, education, and advocacy relating to the prevention of chronic disease through changes in diet and lifestyle.
Dr. Grant has also authored or coauthored over 60 articles in peer-reviewed journals, edited two books of reprints, and contributed half a dozen chapters to other books.
To hear the entire exclusive interview with Dr. Grant, join the Mercola Inner Circle.
If I told you there was something you could do to cut your risk of 15 types of cancer by 50 percent -- and it wouldn't cost you a dime -- would you do it?
Well there is, and it's called sun exposure.
This simple thing is so widely overlooked in the United States, despite the fact that only smoking is a bigger risk factor for cancer. After that, Dr. Grant, who is one of the top experts in the world on this topic, believes that your ability to get proper sun exposure is the next largest variable in whether or not you'll get cancer.
In fact , your organs can actually convert vitamin D in your bloodstream into calcitriol, which is the hormonal version of vitamin D. Your organs then use it to repair damage, including that from cancer cells.
Some physicians are even experimenting with extremely high doses of vitamin D -- upwards of 50,000 international units (IU) a day -- to help advanced cancer patients heal (which is not something I'd recommend doing without very close supervision from an experienced health care provider).
And according to Dr. Grant, about 30 percent of cancer deaths -- which amounts to 2 million worldwide and 200,000 in the United States -- could be prevented each year with higher levels of vitamin D.
Getting about 2,000 IU to 4,000 IU a day of vitamin D can help you to reduce your cancer risk by up to 50 percent. However, most people only get 250-300 IU a day from their diet.
This means you simply need some sun exposure if you want to get enough vitamin D. Your body is capable of producing about 10,000 IU of vitamin D each day when you're out in the sun, but depending on how much skin you have exposed, cloud cover, location, skin color and other factors, you may make much less than that.
As Dr. Grant pointed out, if you only have 10 percent of your body exposed to the sun you can make about 1,000 IU per day, and if half your body is exposed you can make 5,000 IU.
Keep in mind also that as you age your body's ability to produce vitamin D decreases significantly. Typical unhealthy adults over 60 actually have just one-quarter the production rate of vitamin D than do younger people, so if you're over 60 you'll need to stay out in the sun longer to get enough vitamin D.
The best thing about getting your vitamin D from the sun is that it's impossible to overdose, and it just feels so good!
In the winter months if you've had your vitamin D levels tested and found them to be low, a vitamin D3 supplement (cholecalciferol), which is the type of vitamin D found naturally in foods like eggs, organ meats, animal fat, cod liver oil, and fish, can be used. Continue to have your vitamin D levels monitored during this time, though, so you don't overdose.
So How Much Sun Should You Get?
A common myth is that occasional exposure of your face and hands to sunlight is "sufficient" for vitamin D nutrition. For most of us, this is an absolutely inadequate exposure to move vitamin levels to the healthy range of 45-55 ng/ml.
You need to expose large portions of your skin to the sun, and you need to do it for more than a few minutes.
In Caucasian skin, an equilibrium occurs within 20 minutes of ultraviolet exposure. It can take three to six times longer for darkly pigmented skin to reach the equilibrium concentration of skin vitamin D. So, bearing in mind that you need to gradually increase your time, starting in the spring, you should be aiming toward exposing large areas of your skin to the sun, anywhere from 20 minutes at a time to two hours at a time, depending on your skin type and environmental factors.
A light-skinned person fairly far from the equator (such as in the UK or the northern U.S.) needs at least three of these 20-minute sessions per week, in bright midday sunlight and with few clothes. Longer will be needed if sunbathing occurs at off-peak times for ultraviolet light (before 12 p.m. or after 3 p.m.) or at the beginning or end of the summer (April or September) when the sun is lower in the sky for most of the day. A dark-skinned person, of course, should be outside significantly longer.
The sun's rays contain two primary wavelengths: ultraviolet A (UVA) and ultraviolet B (UVB).
UVB is the more beneficial of the two, as this is what converts into vitamin D. UVA, meanwhile, is now believed to be a primary risk factor for cancer.
UVB has a wavelength that is more easily filtered through the atmosphere, so on a cloudy day you won't get as much of that beneficial radiation on your skin to make vitamin D. However, UVA does not get filtered as well and will penetrate the atmosphere more easily, so it will STILL increase your risk of cancer on cloudy days, in the early morning and late afternoon.
Now, if you think you can protect yourself from UVA by using sunscreen, think again.
Many of the sun lotions on the market do not screen for UVA. Unless it specifically says so on the label, assume it doesn't. What most sunscreens end up doing, then, is screening out the beneficial UVB, and therefore limiting your vitamin D, while allowing the dangerous UVA to filter through!
If you're using sunscreen, please make sure you use a product that protects you from both UVA and UVB rays, and contains non-toxic ingredients.
Even then, I only recommend using it when you know you'll be outdoors for a long period and won't be able to cover up. Ideally, get out in the sunshine with no sunscreen just long enough to get your vitamin D (this can vary from 15 minutes to two hours depending on the factors I mentioned earlier), then cover up with some loose clothing and a hat.


Do we still have a Congress? You think they'd mind passing a law or two, so the president can take break from doing all the legislating?
We've seen some life in the judiciary, much to the new president's consternation.
When will we see some life out of the legislative branch — you know, doing stuff rather than just saying stuff?
I know they're out of practice. And I know that a lot of the stuff they would do would be stupid — like repealing Obamacare without replacing it with something that actually leads to at least as many people having good coverage. But hey, "stupid" is relatively, and they can't possibly look as bad on that score as the executive branch — can they?
This entry was posted in Constitution, Donald Trump, Immigration, Political science, Social media, The Nation on February 6, 2017 by Brad Warthen.
Well they've been pretty much a do nothing Congress for the past two decades, why change now?
Usually there are complaints about Congress passing bills they haven't read and don't understand. Now we're to believe that Trump didn't read and fully understand his executive orders, especially the one about Bannon on the NSC.
The worst part is that in Trump's case, this explanation seems to have been offered by his allies to suggest that this is an adequate excuse for his signing something that is very unfortunate. Similarly, we are told that his rudeness and ill humor in his conversation with the Australian Prime Minister was because he was tired at 5:30, at the end of a long day. Sorry, these are not legitimate excuses for a president who is doing very damaging things, nationally and internationally. Presidents are supposed to be stronger and more competent than that.
I still maintain that the last time Congress DID anything was when they passed Obamacare. Not saying that was great, or bad, or anything. But it DID something.
Probably the last thing before that was authorizing the president to invade Iraq. The last thing before that was the Patriot Act.
Balanced budgets??? National debt reducing budgets????
Not sure passing stuff is necessarily a gods thing. Especially with THIS congress. I think 3 on Bryans list is a partial repeal of Dodd-Frank.
I sure would be happy if Congress repealed all the stupid TRID stuff in Dodd-Frank. It's the most worthless nonsense ever. Whoever came up with all of it has probably never examined a title, never given a title opinion, never acted as an escrow agent, or otherwise done a real estate closing in their life.
Real estate agents hate it.
Buyers and sellers hate it.
The closing attorneys hate it.
No one likes the new TRID laws, and it doesn't actually make anything better for anyone. It literally took a process that wasn't broken and created extra hoops to jump through.
I had a client come in last week to do a refinance. He was so frustrated before he even got to the closing table because his bank had sent him about four or five different "closing disclosures", none of which had the same numbers, and none of which matched the actual numbers I had for the closing. My numbers were right, but the whole process of it being disclosed to him early (as intended by the law) was a charade.
Ever since TRID went into effect back in 2015, I've asked buyers, sellers, agents, and lenders about it. "Is there anything about TRID that you like?" No one has ever come up with anything.
That was only half a Congress who passed it. And very few (if any) who voted for it actually knew what was in the bill.
I'd rather see incremental bills than any grand scheme like the Obamacare debacle.
Debacle?? Just watched a show where people in a county in eastern KY had health insurance for the first time. The county voted for Trump with 82% of the vote. These folks are concerned with the costs but greatly appreciate having insurance. Is the ACA perfect? No. Is it an improvement over what we had? Absolutely!
The Stream Protection Rule is designed to require mining companies (read "coal") to maintain streams and rivers in the vicinity of a mine in their natural state. Perfectly reasonable regulation.
The stream protection rule prevents dumping coal ash into our public waterways. Killing it is a gift to the coal industry, and a serious loss for the environment. It won't save the jobs of coal miners, but it will let utility companies off the hook.
How long has the rule been in place? Does it cover things that the Clean Water Act doesn't?
Just asking honest questions here. I really have no clue about this sort of stuff.
Me too. Duke Energy was doing some questionable stuff with coal ash.
The rule was new and was intended to address problems not already covered. The Duke Energy coal ash problems in NC are a prime example. The regulation was badly needed, and now we won't have it.
It's not that they aren't doing anything, the problem is they're busy un-doing rational legislation.


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Q: Fill calendar from controller Trying to fill FullCalender Timeline view with events from a controller
Using EJS I can display the calendar and add events manually. Eventually, I will be fetching events from MongoDB via a controller.
// the controller
exports.getCalendar = async (req, res, next) => {
  //const meetings = await Meeting.find();
  const current_events = [
    {
      id: '1',
      resourceId: 'MR2',
      title: 'Meeting CEO',
      start: '2019-08-05T11:00:00',
      end: '2019-08-05T12:15:00'
    },
    {
      id: '1',
      resourceId: 'MR2',
      title: 'Meeting CEO',
      start: '2019-08-05T13:00:00',
      end: '2019-08-05T13:15:00'
    }
  ]
  res.render('calendar', {
    events: current_events,
  });
}

// the router
const express = require('express');
const calendar = require('../controllers/calendar');

const router = express.Router();

router.get('/', calendar.getCalendar);

module.exports = router;

// app.js
const calendar = require('./routes/calendar');
app.use('/api/calendar', calendar);

// calendar script
document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function () {
var calendarEl = document.getElementById('calendar');

var calendar = new FullCalendar.Calendar(calendarEl, {
 .....
  events: events, //?????? page just hangs
 .........
// console.log of events
    [ { id: '1',
    resourceId: 'MR2',
    title: 'Meeting CEO',
    start: '2019-08-06T11:00:00',
    end: '2019-08-06T12:15:00' },
  { id: '1',
    resourceId: 'MR2',
    title: 'Meeting CEO',
    start: '2019-08-06T13:00:00',
    end: '2019-08-06T13:15:00' } ]

in the HTML page I added an EJS line to see what events had.

<%= events %>

this gives [object Object],[object Object]
Adding the events as an array manually in the calendar script works fine but I would like to display what is exported from the controller, "events". It just hangs. Any pointers would be very greatful.

A: Yes jessi, following the information in the document calendar, events as JSON feed I got the data from a mongo database
// events from the database
exports.eventsJSON = async (req, res, next) => {
  const eventsFromDB = await Meeting.find();
  res.json(eventsFromDB);
}

I then routed it to a URL say /eventsJSONdata and then added
events: '/eventsJSONdata/',

in the  calendar script.
Hope this helps.

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News Archive June 2009
MICHAEL JACKSON, 1958-2009
It's become increasingly difficult yet still important to remember that, before he became the butt of numerous jokes, center of scandalous trials and just plain freak-show fodder for the tabloids, Michael Jackson was one of popular music's most revolutionary and influential figures. Fame came early to Jackson as the truly amazing prepubescent lead singer of the Jackson Five, cutting some of Motown's most exciting and enduring tracks. Later, as an adult solo artist, Jackson made music on his classic albums Off the Wall and Thriller that significantly challenged the racial barriers of early-'80s radio and (thanks to his groundbreaking music videos) MTV.
Jackson's breakthroughs also paved the way for a series of mid-'80s blockbuster albums by U.S. artists, each of which contained multiple hit singles and accompanying music videos, and each of which sold millions of copies. The list includes Cyndi Lauper's She's So Unusual, Madonna's Like a Virgin, Prince's Purple Rain and, of course, Bruce Springsteen's Born in the U.S.A., its sales among this group second only to Jackson's record-setting Thriller. In his second Springsteen biography, Glory Days, critic Dave Marsh later noted, "The result was both the greatest degree of hegemony in popular music history and also the most exciting Top Forty radio in more than a decade."
During the Born in the U.S.A. tour, Springsteen got the chance to see The Jacksons in concert in Philadelphia and meet Michael after the show. In a 1984 Rolling Stone interview with Kurt Loder, Bruce raved about the experience: "I thought it was a really great show. Real different from what I do, but the night I saw 'em, I thought they were really, really good. Michael was unbelievable—I mean unbelievable. He's a real gentleman, and he's real communicative... and he's tall, which I don't know if most people realize."
Springsteen also discussed Jackson's fame: "The type of fame that Elvis had, and that I think Michael Jackson has, the pressure of it, and the isolation that it seems to require, has gotta be really painful. I wasn't gonna let that happen to me. I wasn't gonna get to a place where I said, 'I can't go in here. I can't go to this bar. I can't go outside.'... I believe that the life of a rock 'n' roll band will last as long as you look down into the audience and can see yourself, and your audience looks up at you and can see themselves—and as long as those reflections are human, realistic ones. The biggest gift that your fans can give you is just treatin' you like a human being, because anything else dehumanizes you. And that's one of the things that has shortened the life spans, both physically and creatively, of some of the best rock 'n' roll musicians—that cruel isolation. If the price of fame is that you have to be isolated from the people you write for, then that's too fuckin' high a price to pay."
Rest in peace, Michael.
- June 26, 2009 - Shawn Poole reporting
GEARING UP FOR GLASTONBURY
Saturday night, Bruce and the E Street Band play their first-ever U.K. festival, on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury. Part of what gets us psyched is the broadcast potential—many Glastonbury sets go out on the airwaves, so keep your eye on BBC (both TV and BBC Radio 6Music) for some E Street action.
6Music will have a new interview with Springsteen from Bergen airing on Saturday—listen to Steve Lamacq's show and watch for video on www.bbc.co.uk to hear how Bruce skipped Woodstock to play the Student Prince, what he did in a tent with an 18-year-old-girl and a grizzly bear, how he feels about turning 60, and more.
Q Magazine celebrates Springsteen's headliner set on the cover of their July issue, and you'll find interview outakes online that didn't fit into the magazine.
And finally, don't miss our favorite Glastonbury news story, courtesy of Mark Hagen an the Guardian: how Joe Strummer helped get Bruce booked.
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN FOR GLORY DAYS SYMPOSIUM
Registration for "Glory Days: A Bruce Springsteen Symposium," organized by Virginia Tech and Penn State Altoona, is now open! The symposium, set to run from September 25-27, 2009 in New Jersey, will feature presentations by Grammy Museum President (and longtime Backstreets Associate Editor) Robert Santelli; Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Vice President for Education and Outreach Lauren Onkey; original E Street Band drummer Vini Lopez; Jim Musselman, founder of Appleseed Recordings; Eric Alterman, author of It Ain't No Sin To Be Glad You're Alive; and many more sessions including over 130 presentations by people representing 30 states and eight countries. Singer-songwriter sessions will also be featured at the symposium with performances by Joe Grushecky, Joe D'Urso, Jen Chapin and Joe Rapolla confirmed. See here for a draft agenda.
The symposium will take place on the beautiful campus of Monmouth University, the Sheraton Eatontown Center, and at The Stone Pony. The Stone Pony will feature musical performances on September 24, 25 and 26 with artists including Joe Grushecky and the Houserockers, Willie Nile, Stewart Francke, Boccigalupe and the Badboys, Jon Caspi and Hans Ludvigsson. Additional performers will be announced shortly.
For more information, please see www.cpe.vt.edu/glorydays or email symposium organizer Mark Bernhard at mcb7@vt.edu.
LANDAU ADDRESSES TICKETING ACCUSATIONS
After critical articles in the Newark Star Ledger and the New York Post regarding ticketing issues for Springsteen concerts, Jon Landau has responded at length on Brucespringsteen.net. Within a couple hours, a Billboard headline read "Springsteen Escalates Ticketmaster War," though Landau notes, "We have no interest in having an ongoing conflict with Ticketmaster/TicketsNow or anyone else. That has not been part of our history. And it is generally not our purpose to spend time on this site on matters of this kind. But we do get upset when we see fans being taken advantage of, as they were on February 6th."
Folllowing is Landau/Thrill Hill's take on ticket holds, the TicketsNow "bait and switch," and more.
An Update on Ticketing Issues from Jon Landau
Somehow, a new flurry of interest has been created around Thrill Hill's ticket holds for the recent Izod Center shows. These are the same shows that became such a subject of controversy when they went on sale on February 6th. The new theory is that Bruce's holds were the problem on February 6th, and not Ticketmaster's already acknowledged failures on that day. But the truth is that Bruce's holds had nothing to do at all with the breakdown of Ticketmaster's system.
These are the undisputed facts about February 6th. On that morning, when our fans went to buy their Bruce and Band tickets for the face value of $95, they were in many cases immediately linked to Ticketmaster's wholly owned ticket reselling company TicketsNow, where prices were many times higher than $95. We call this "bait and switch." As a result, an undetermined but large amount of money flowed into TicketsNow (and eventually Ticketmaster) even though there were still tickets at normal prices yet to be made available on Ticketmaster. We perceived this to have been a major abuse of
our fans, complained about it mightily, and added that because of behavior like this, the pending merger of the number one ticketing company and number one management company (both owned by Ticketmaster) with the number one venue owner and operator (Live Nation) might not be such a hot idea.
How do we know that all this is true?
1. On February 6th, when the ticket fiasco occurred, Ticketmaster's CEO wrote to Bruce, myself, and our fans to generously apologize, which apology we promptly and graciously posted on our site. The letter stated that the problem was the product of an inexplicable "glitch."
2. The volume of complaints received by New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram exceeded anything ever experienced before and she ultimately secured a consent degree from Ticketmaster, in which they promised that some of their practices ("glitches") with regard to its sister company TicketsNow will never be repeated.
3. The CEO of Ticketmaster openly testified as to their responsibility for these "glitches" in front of Committees of Congress.
Based on all of the above, we can safely conclude that on February 6th, Ticketmaster transferred legitimate requests for tickets at face value over to their TicketsNow site, where they could charge people hundreds and hundreds more dollars for the same ticket. The amount of additional profit generated by scalper type prices through this now famous "glitch" remains unknown. Whether this was merely an extremely profitable "glitch" for Ticketmaster/TicketsNow or something else, we have no way of knowing.
Last Sunday, June 14, the Newark Star Ledger ran an article entitled "Springsteen withheld best tickets from the public at NJ concert, records show." This is the same article that the Star Ledger runs whenever we do a few indoor shows in New Jersey. It suggested that we were in someway responsible for the Ticketmaster/TicketsNow problem. On Thursday, June 18, Hits Magazine ran a summary of this article, On Friday, June 19, Ticketmaster's Chairman attacked Bruce personally in the New York Post, in an article called "Ticket Blitzkrieg." In this article, Ticketmaster's Chairman deploys by implication Ticketmaster's new line: despite their apology, despite the consent decree with Attorney General Milgram, and despite their testimony in Congress, the ticket catastrophe was actually Bruce's fault.
Of course, the only thing wrong with the Chairman's spin is that it's flatly untrue. He is merely using the time honored tradition of blowing smoke to distract attention away from Ticketmaster's already acknowledged responsibility for their "glitches" on February 6th, the on-sale date of the two Izod Center shows.
Now lets talk a little about Thrill Hill's ticket practices. Perhaps the first thing to be said is that when we play New Jersey, our fans know that we are usually going to do more than two indoor shows in order to ensure, among other things, that during the course of a tour, Springsteen tickets will be plentiful so as many fans as possible will have a chance to get great seats (hence the five upcoming shows at Giants Stadium.) As our fans also know, we have kept all of our tickets under $100 and do all that we can to ensure that as many as possible are sold at face value.
Yes, we do hold significant numbers of tickets when we play New Jersey, New York and Los Angeles, as does every arena headliner. These holds are used by Bruce, his band members, and longtime members of his extended organization, their families and close relations; by the record label for its staff, for reviewers, and for radio stations; by charities who are provided with tickets for fund raising purposes, such as special auctions; for service people who help us on a year-round basis; and for other similar purposes. Unlike some Ticketmaster managed artists, no tickets are held for high dollar resale on TicketsNow, or through any other means.
Where are the Bruce holds? The 2,000 to 3,500 tickets closest to the stage are on the floor and more than 95% of them go to the public, making the basic premise of the Star Ledger headline inaccurate. Secondly, with regard to seats held in the best sections on either side, we always blend guest seats with fan seats so that there are never any sections consisting entirely of guest seats.
In addition, it is well known that we sometimes release a significant number of excellent tickets on the day of the show at the box office, which can only be bought with direct entrance to the venue. It's known as the "drop." Many think that is done on purpose to help combat the scalpers who prey on fans at the last minute. That is a good thought.
(Also, in connection with the Izod Center shows in particular, we released some of our holds to Attorney General Milgram to go into the lottery she created to help deal with people who were penalized by the Ticketmaster/TicketsNow "glitch" on February 6th.)
Those are our ticket practices, as they have evolved over more than 30 years of experience. Does anyone seriously imagine that any element of these practices caused Ticketmaster to redirect ticket requests to TicketsNow for the Izod Center shows? What would our incentive have been? It's not we who earned vastly larger sums when fans paid way over the face value of the tickets. It was Ticketmaster/TicketsNow.
Final thoughts: We have no interest in having an ongoing conflict with Ticketmaster/TicketsNow or anyone else. That has not been part of our history. And it is generally not our purpose to spend time on this site on matters of this kind. But we do get upset when we see fans being taken advantage of, as they were on February 6th. So, when that stuff stops happening (and the Ticketmaster/TicketsNow problems surrounding our recent show in Washington D.C. shows that these issues are far from resolved) we will stop complaining. And when the facts cease to be misrepresented, we will stop explaining.
6/24 update: The Newark Star Ledger, in a story posted on its website last night, corrected its earlier statement on Springsteen ticket holds.
- Updated June 24, 2009
COOL ROCKIN' DADDIES
Firstly, happy birthday to Nils Lofgren, who turns 58 today. Check out his latest blog post upon returning from Scandinavia. And happy Father's Day to all the dads out there, too! NPR celebrates the day with "Max and Jay Weinberg: Like Drummer, Like Son."
BONNAROO SPECIAL DEBUTS TOMORROW
Don't forget, "The Best of Bonnaroo 2009" airs Saturday night at 9:00 on Fuse—Springsteen and the E Street Band headline the hour-long special, and we're told two of their songs will be part of the mix.
Billboard.com has more on the Springsteen/Phish performance on the final night at Bonnaroo. Trey Anastasio: "I got to play with Bruce. That's my hero." Bassist Mike Gordon: "It's great to know that it's not all hype or anything, there's such a solid musician and songsmith standing there... When he walked in, his guitar playing and his singing and his presence, it became clear to me why he became a megastar."
BIG MAN: "THERE'S NO TIME FOR PAIN"
Clarence Clemons talks with Arthritis Today about having dual knee replacement surgery last fall: "There's no shame in having arthritis or undergoing surgeries... It takes courage to live life to the best of one's ability. And if that means having surgery, then so be it." An Editor's Note adds: "Clarence plans to have surgery on his lower spine to correct joint damage from his osteoarthritis once the current world tour ends in late summer and he can devote 12 months to his recovery."
WOOT A BARGAIN
Surely you have these already... but if you need to indoctrinate a friend, it's hard to beat $49.95 for Tracks, Live/1975-85, and the Video Anthology DVD. As with all daily deals on Woot, offer ends at 11:59 tonight.
ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO: ALWAYS A FRIEND
Last year, Alejandro Escovedo joined Bruce and the E Street Band onstage in Houston to perform one of his own songs, "Always a Friend." He has since talked about that night as a high point in his life, recently saying he was "blown away by the whole event."
Alejandro is a brilliant live performer in his own right, of course, and this weekend, you can catch him playing two benefit concerts. Saturday brings him to the Clearwater Festival, celebrating Pete Seeger's 90th birthday and raising funds for the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater non-profit.
On Sunday, June 21, Alejandro will play a charity concert in New Canaan, CT, where he'll be joined David Pulkingham on guitar and Susan Voelz on violin for a special 5:00 p.m. performance at St. Mark's Church. His manager, Jon Landau Management's Jan Stabile, tells us, "The concert is to benefit my son Michael's Scholarship Fund (he passed away six years ago) and also a local camp, Hand-in-Hand."
The Michael B. Stabile Memorial Scholarship Fund and Camp Hand-in-Hand will benefit not only from the concert proceeds (tickets are $100 for adults, $50 for students), but also by a silent auction that will follow the performance. "That will include two Bruce Springsteen tickets for Giants Stadium, a choice of one of the fall dates," says Stabile, "plus two E Street Lounge passes with a Stevie Van Zandt meet-and-greet, as well as a copy of the book Bruce Springsteen: On Tour signed by Dave Marsh."
To reserve tickets for the event, call (203) 966-6920. See this press release and www.alejandroescovedo.com for additional information.
E STREET RADIO: LONG MAY YOU RUN
Good news for SIRIUS XM subscribers: E Street Radio has just gotten another extension. According to a press release, "This is the third time the popular music channel's limited run has been extended by SIRIUS XM due to overwhelming subscriber demand."
Just back from a weekend at the Rock Hall, where I had my mind sufficiently blown by the "From Asbury Park to the Promised Land" exhibit. Some of the knockouts I was expecting, like getting to see the legendary Esquire up close and personal, and taking in the plethora of handwritten pages from Springsteen's notebooks. Others I didn't even know would be there, like Bruce's black leather jacket from the cover of Born to Run (a late addition to the exhibit), and Marion Vineyard's scrapbook from the Castiles days. Over the course of the FanFest weekend, I asked curator Jim Henke if there was anything he had hoped to get for the exhibit but couldn't... his answer in a nutshell: Nope. Which is completely believable. It's a comprehensive collection, thanks in no small part to Springsteen's own involvement, and well worth the trip. You've got until spring 2010...
Check out yesterday's Inquirer article on the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts, tasked with the preservation and restoration of these documents, for more about the ephemera on display at the Rock Hall.
Yesterday brought Thom Zimny's FanFest presentation, which promised "rare footage" and delivered. In addition to his "Wrestler" and "Night With the Jersey Devil" clips, and some historical footage from 1975 (a Born to Run television commercial, "Jungleland" in the studio), Thom pulled a bunch of live stuff out of his magic bag, including:
"Sandy" and "New York City Serenade," Nassau Colllege, 1973
"E Street Shuffle," Lenox, MA, 1975
"Thunder Road" and "Every Time You Walk in the Room," Bottom Line, NYC, 1975
"Tenth Avenue Freeze-out" with Miami Horns, Carlton Theatre, Red Bank, NJ, 1976
"Born to Run," Tower Theater, Philly, New Year's Eve 1975
"Prove It All Night" live, 1978
"Sherry Darling," River tour rehearsals, 1980
Thanks to Jim Henke, Lauren Onkey, Margaret Thresher, and everyone at the Rock Hall who made it such a memorable weekend—and to everyone who attended my talk, it was great to see so many friendly faces there.
For more photos from FanFest, visit the Rock Hall's Flickr page.
BRUCE GOES PHISHING TO HELP WRAP BONNAROO SUNDAY NIGHT
The Saturday night show not "jammy" enough for ya? Well, Springsteen stuck around Bonnaroo for another day, and really got into the spirit of things with Phish for the festival finale. Springsteen joined the band for three songs at the end of their first set late Sunday night, after guitarist Trey Anastasio gave a lengthy introduction about Bruce and the E Street Band being the first concert he'd ever seen. The Boss traded solos with Trey on a ten-minute "Mustang Sally," and led Phish through his own "Bobby Jean" and "Glory Days." Read more from Jon Pareles in the New York Times.
One thing we like about Phish: they offer high quality, unedited soundboard recordings for many shows online. Preview and download individual tracks—21 minutes of Bruce and Phish, all told—at livephish.com.
More on Bonnaroo from CNN.com's The Marquee Blog, the Associated Press, and SPIN.com.
For the full setlist from this and other recent shows,
visit our Setlists page
SPRINGSTEEN'S SUPER BOWL JOURNAL COMES TO LIFE
For this year's Super Bowl, much was made of the fact that Springsteen and the E Street Band had just 12 minutes to rock: "Fundamentally, it's a 12-minute party," Bruce told the New York Times, "It was very challenging to try and get that exact 12 minutes." So considering that a new TV special about the halftime show runs more than 45 minutes, you'll be guaranteed to see a lot you haven't seen before.
Working on a Dream: A Super Bowl Journal is a new behind-the-scenes documentary directed and edited by Thom Zimny. Remember the Super Bowl Journal Bruce published online? Springsteen himself narrates the film, sharing both his fears and his excitement as footage takes us from the first rehearsal in Jersey to a Tampa rehearsal in the pouring rain, from working with the gospel choir to working out the knee-slide with the cameraman, and onward. Zimny combines never-before-seen footage from the press conference, the rehearsals, the game, band meetings, in Bruce's trailer backstage, and on the field with the E Street Band for the main event.
Zimny co-produced the film along with Jon Landau and George Travis. No U.S. broadcast is scheduled at the moment, but Europeans can look for showings to coincide with upcoming tour stops as the summer goes along. Watch your local schedules:
Austria: ZIB 1; Winterzeit; Cafe Plus
Denmark: (to be confirmed)
Finland: MTV Max
France: Canal+
Germany: ZDF
Holland: NPS/VPRO/VARA
Ireland: City Channel
Italy: (to be confirmed)
Norway: NRK
Spain: Spanish National Television
Sweden: TV4
Switzerland: Swiss National TV
UK: Channel 4
AH, THE ENERGY OF AN 18-YEAR-OLD...
New contender for the Hardest Working Man in Show Business: Jay Weinberg. If you've seen Jay behind the kit with the E Street Band, you know he's got the power, hour after hour, and all the rest of that like-father-like-son stuff. On June 11, Jay tells Backstreets: "Just got home from Europe, and I'm gearing up to go back on the road tomorrow..." Yep, for the next two weeks, while the E Street Band takes a break from the European tour, Jay will be touring and playing nearly every night with his own band, The Reveling. Catch them live:
Date Time Venue City
June 12 7:00 p.m. Valentines Albany, NY
June 14 9:00 p.m. Now That's Class Cleveland, OH
June 15 7:00 p.m. Beat Kitchen Chicago, IL
June 16 8:00 p.m. Louie's Trophy House Grille Kalamazoo, MI
June 17 6:00 p.m. Ohio University Athens, OH
June 18 8:00 p.m. Legion of Doom Columbus, OH
June 19 8:00 p.m. Mill Hill Saloon Trenton, NJ
June 20 2:15 p.m. Wave Gathering Asbury Park, NJ
June 21 2:00 p.m. Retox Brooklyn, NY
ROCK HALL'S "SPRINGSTEEN FAN FEST" KICKS OFF TOMORROW
With their exhibit "From Asbury Park to the Promised Land: The Life and Music of Bruce Springsteen" in full swing on two floors, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Mueseum is inviting Bruce fans to Cleveland for a special weekend, June 12-14. Each day, big-screen showings of Springsteen performances will be running in the 4th Floor Theater, with additional events throughout the weekend.
Friday: Just after lunch, catch the first showing of a collection of Bruce footage from Rock Hall induction ceremonies, including Bob Dylan, CCR, U2, and Springsteen's own. This program, which runs more than an hour and a half, will repeat several times over the weekend.
Saturday: Programs include a talk from exhibit curator Jim Henke; a performance by Colin Gawel of Watershed; VP of Education Lauren Onkey offering a multimedia class on the making of Born in the U.S.A.; and whattaya know, an interview with me! Better make sure I know my stuff. It's Springsteen, not Springstein, right?
Sunday: Thom Zimny, Bruce's go-to filmmaker, editor, and archivist, will be on hand to present rare, never-before-seen Springsteen footage. Don't miss this if you can help it. And he'll be fresh in from Bonnaroo, so somebody bring that man a Red Bull.
Click here for the full schedule—hope to see you there!
E STREET MEETS AVENUE Q
On June 27 in the U.K., Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will take the Pyramid Stage, playing the Glastonbury Festival for the first time. Q Magazine whets the appetite with Springsteen on the cover of their July 2009 issue, and a U.K. exclsuive interview inside. The ten-page feature finds Paul Rees talking with Bruce in his dressing room as well as up in the sky, mid-flight, with backstage and onstage photos by John Wright.
Elsewhere in the magazine, Q teases "a forthcoming Bruce Springsteen boxset containing alternate takes and unreleased tracks drawn from the recording sessions for 1975's Born to Run and '78's Darkness on the Edge of Town albums." We assume they're referring to a long-gestating Darkness box, in the vein of the Born to Run 30th Anniversary set, originally expected in 2008. There's yet to be any official word about the Darkness reissue package seeing the light of day, but just because the album's actual 30th anniversary came and went without the anticipated release doesn't mean we're out of luck. Gibing with the Q report, sources say work on a deluxe box has continued, with potential for release this year. More here as we know it.
I'M JUST A BOY WITH A NEW HAIRCUT
"I have this sort of dual-sided musical personality, and an ability to just go where the music takes me," said Max Weinberg shortly before kicking off his new role as The Tonight Show bandleader this week. "When I play with Bruce, I grow my hair long. And as soon as I am back on TV, I cut it off." The New York Times' Jaques Steinberg talked to Max and members of his Tonight Show Band in "For TV Band, Jet Lag is Part of the Job."
- June 9, 2009
SPRINGSTEEN RIDES WITH THE BLUE RIDGE RANGERS
John Fogerty is following up his 1973 Blue Ridge Rangers solo album this year, 36 years later, with another collection of covers, The Blue Ridge Rangers Rides Again. "I'd long thought I'd do another Blue Ridge Rangers album," says Fogerty, "and not make the mistake of playing all the instruments." Among the addditional players: Bruce Springsteen, dueting with his Vote for Change tourmate on "When Will I Be Loved." From a press release:
"That was Julie's idea," Fogerty says of his wife's concept to have the legends work out a duet on the Everly Brothers' 1960 classic. "I'd hoped we be able to work together some day; I'm a fan of his and he's a fan of mine and we're friends," said Fogerty. Springsteen and Julie discussed the idea and "The Boss" immediately agreed to the idea.
Later, during a very busy time for him—Super Bowl half-time performance, appearance at the Obama Inaugural celebration at the Lincoln Memorial, ongoing preparations for a national tour—the collaboration came to pass. The track was cut at Berkeley Street [Studios in Santa Monica, CA], and the Fogertys flew to New Jersey where the vocals were completed.
The album is due for release in late summer/early fall.
B'ROO B'CAST
This weekend, Bruce and the E Street Band come back to these shores to play Bonnaroo on Saturday night, June 13. Fuse is the festival's "exclusive television partner," gearing up for the main event with a three-hour "Best of the Boss" on Thursday night: Live in New York City from 8 to 10 p.m. Eastern, followed by Bruce Springsteen: Making of Working on a Dream and Loaded: Bruce Springsteen to take it to 11:00.
But if you wanna see something you ain't never seen before... a week after the E Street Band's B'roo performance, the network will air Fuse Fest: Bonnaroo 2009, which a press release describes as "a concert special highlighting the best performances from this year's festival including Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, Phish, Beastie Boys, Snoop Dogg and more." Tune in Saturday, June 20, at 9 p.m. Eastern.
MORE SHOWS FOR THE DOG DAYS OF SUMMER
August continues to fill in with outdoor U.S. dates. There are now two more on the E Street schedule: August 19 in Hartford, CT (tickets on sale this Friday at 9 a.m.), and August 25 in Saratoga, NY (tickets on sale this Thursday at 10 a.m.).
TICKET ALERT: GIANTS STADIUM 4 AND 5 ON SALE AT NOON
Don't forget, the final two Giants Stadium concerts (Thursday, October 8 and Friday, October 9) go on sale today, Monday, June 8, at noon Eastern via Ticketmaster. See our Tour/Ticket Info page for links and the complete itinerary as it stands.
WORKING ON A STREAM: STOCKHOLM VIDEO
Bruce on Stockholm: "This is one of our most dependable and excitable audiences in the world, so it's always a pleasure." Watch a ten-minute interview at expressen.tv. Look for Stockholm 1 performance clips there, too, including "Who'll Stop the Rain" with Nils' accordion intro.
MR. MARSH GOES TO CLEVELAND
Dave Marsh appeared last night at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum as part of its "From Songwriters to Soundmen: The People Behind the Hits" series. Interviewed by Dr. Lauren Onkey, the Vice President of Education at the Rock Hall, the music critic, historian, anti-censorship activist, and Sirius XM host raved about the current Springsteen exhibit, "From Asbury Park to the Promised Land."
He also spoke of Springsteen's public move towards humanitarian efforts following his popularity with the Born in the U.S.A. album and the title track's misinterpretation as a patriotic anthem. A statement at a Pittsburgh concert eventually led to the now familiar collections for local food banks. Afterwards, Marsh signed copies of his numerous books including his recent work on Springsteen, "On Tour."
Tomorrow morning, Marsh will host his Friday Sirius XM program "Live From E Street Nation" from the Rock Hall's Alan Freed radio studio. He plans on discussing the Springsteen exhibit with curator Jim Henke, as well as with visitors who have just walked through its life-spanning two floors of memorabilia, instruments, interviews and personal items.
Marsh's Cleveland visit launches the Rock Hall's Bruce Springsteen FanFest, which takes place June 12-14. Event schedule posted now!
- June 4, 2009 - report and photograph by John Patrick Gatta
ONLINE, A NEW HOME FOR THE SPECIAL COLLECTION
Ladies and gentlemen, change your bookmarks! There's a new online home for the Bruce Springsteen Special Collection and you'll find it at www.brucespringsteenspecialcollection.net. The site contains the most up-to-date listing of the more than 11,100 documents in the Collection, including the results of the microfilming project made possible by a grant from the New Jersey Historical Commission to The Friends of the Bruce Springsteen Special Collection. The new site is the first step in a long-anticipated reorganization of the Collection that will eventually allow The Friends to begin accepting historic Bruce items in formats other than books, magazines, fanzines and other printed documents.
25 YEARS BURNIN' DOWN THE ROAD
Hey Born in the U.S.A. "bandwagoners": happy silver anniversary! The album that elevated Springsteen to intergalactic superstar was released 25 years ago today, on June 4, 1984. It spent a total of seven weeks at number one. By 1985, the album spawned seven Top Ten hits and had gone 10 x platinum (that's ten million copies, now called "Diamond" status by the RIAA); to date, more than 15 million Born in the U.S.A. albums have been sold in the U.S. alone.
World Hunger Year and Hard Rock International are celebrating the anniversary with some exclusive new merch, sales of which will benefit WHY's Artists Against Hunger & Poverty program. Men's and women's T-shirts feature the album cover image with a "25th Anniversary" logo; a weathered red cap is perfect for your back pocket. Check 'em out at the Hard Rock shop online.
SHIPPING UP TO BOSTON
More U.S. dates for the second half of '09!
Earlier today, two more Giants Stadium dates were added to the schedule. Now we're looking at more post-Europe, but not necessarily in gargantuan venues. Bruce and the E Street Band will play the Comcast Center in Mansfield, MA—a 19,000-capacity amphitheater—on Saturday, August 22 and Sunday, August 23. Tickets will go on sale Tuesday, June 9, at 10 a.m. See our Tour/Ticket Info page for links and the complete itinerary as it stands.
THE BIG MAN AND THE BOOK EXPO
Last week, before resuming the E Street Band tour in Europe, Clarence Clemons appeared at BookExpo America to talk about his upcoming book, Big Man: Real Life & Tall Tales. Chatting with Publishers Weekly, Clarence suggested he'll be doing a book tour to promote the memoir, due in October from Grand Central Publishing: "he's looking forward to going to bookstores on a still-to-be-scheduled national tour to 'meet people,' talk about his life and play a little music."
As Publishers Weekly reports, Clemons was interviewed by Chuck Klosterman on stage at BEA: "Clemons opened up about his life and times with 'The Boss,' saying Springsteen offstage really is like the public persona he's created on stage. 'For his music to be real, he has to live that life. He's the boss of his own world,' Clemons said, disclosing that he and the rest of the band really do call Springsteen 'The Boss' offstage, while Springsteen in turn refers to Clemons as 'The Big Man.'
"'Because I am,' Clemons insisted, before taking out his sax and playing 'Jungleland' riffs for the appreciative crowd, while explaining the evolution of the song during a marathon jam session, when Springsteen sought to find words for the feeling evoked by Clemons's sax playing...."
More on the event in the L.A. Times.
GIANTS STADIUM STAND EXPANDS TO FIVE SHOWS
After yesterday's quick sellouts for three shows at Giants Stadium, two additional nights have just been added: Thursday, October 8 and Friday, October 9. The latter date will be the final concert at Giants Stadium. Tickets for these dates go on sale Monday, June 8 at noon Eastern via Ticketmaster. See our Tour/Ticket Info page for links and the complete itinerary as it stands.
Really Fantasy Baseball (But the E Streeters wouldn't lose a home game in Asbury, would they?)
Entire 11-hour "Conspiracy of Hope" Amnesty concert from '86 to screen in NYC on June 28, including Steven Van Zandt with Bob Geldof.
Jay Weinberg's tale of two bands: "I liked the duality of it all" [Chicago Tribune]
Meet Cubs fans in a land of hope and dreams
"This Just In: Old People Hate New Music" [Crawdaddy!]