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Literary Fan Magazine
King Wenclas of New Pop Lit has revived his old print zine Literary Fan Magazine! I quite enjoyed the original, so I applaud its return.
On a sidenote, I wonder if there will be a return to print now that many Internet companies are censoring content (Wenclas's revival has nothing to do with this by the way as far as I know). Regardless of the creepiness of the content they are yanking down, freedom of speech as a principle generally is only for speech we don't like since no one has a problem with speech they do like. The answer to bad speech is good speech as always, not trying to erase the bad speech. People tend to think bad thoughts whether they feel free to express them or not. The expression can actually be healthy as the cognition will emerge at some point, probably in a less pleasant manner if it's been repressed for some time. Conversely, it is wise to pay attention to nasty speech as it is often the precursor to nasty action. Anyway, I never liked the social networks much. There was too much garbage on them, and they were creepy in general (I thought this long before I saw the interesting Social Dilemma movie). I deleted most of my accounts a few years back. A blog may be so 2003, but it's also a lot more fun. Since I own my own domain name, even if my webhost took this site down, I would just pop up elsewhere. Maybe I would even have fun experimenting with running my own server. As the old line goes, freedom of the press belongs only to one who owns one.
Anyway, back to the King! He asked me to contribute something, so I wrote a new "What Wred's Reading" for him. I will let you know when the zine is published (keep in mind that zines publish irregularly, so it might be a while). It's nice to see the King still publishing. Many of the other old zinesters have faded away, not publishing in print or online (in some cases, this is a good thing, however). That makes sense because many zinesters had a particular need to publish and once that need passed, so did the publishing. Some of us are lifers though. Fortunately, most are the interesting ones (alas, some are not). I'm about halfway through my rereading of my Zine World collection and about to the point where I left the staff to concentrate on writing The Pornographic Flabbergasted Emus, and at that time, there was a big debate about online publishing (one bonehead even strangely hijacked a staff meeting, which was basically a zine itself, to complain about the dissertation I wrote that explored how electronic publishing was affecting zines, and it was clear that she nor any of the others she roped in didn't actually read the dissertation). It is interesting to note that the most strident voices against publishing online then have almost all disappeared from publishing in print or online with only one exception I can think of (but he's been boring readers since 1969 or something). The people who saw online publishing as yet another interesting tool in the toolbox, even if they took a while to come around to it, such as Wenclas, seem to be more likely still publishing.
In any case, I look forward to the King's new venture!
If you can't wait to read my contribution to the King's zine, then please read my latest novel, Edna's Employment Agency!
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"Burning In 5/9" Video!
I had fun making this video! I even managed to get one of the cowriters, Dave, to make a cameo appearance in it. I also managed not to set myself or the camera on fire during the filming, which was nice. I followed the lyrics a bit, but since the lyrics tend to be a bit surreal, the video is as well. Thanks to Dave and Tyler for appearing in it!
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New Recording!: "Burning In 5/9"
wredfright · Burning In 5/9
This song stems from an old Angry Housewives session. We might have been the Lenin Spoonful by then, as Dave and I had added our pal Damon to the mix. Mainly, the gag was to just jam until we came up with some fun music, then pass around a notebook Exquisite Corpse style to create the lyrics with sometimes the reverse happening. Though we had a lot of fun doing this, rarely did any substantial songs result. This one is a rarity and survived into Yeast? when the three of us turned that from a solo project of mine into a band. It was on the Crisco Disco cassette, which was me solo mainly, and was one of our early songs as a band. It's fun to play, which may explain why it periodically surfaces in my sets to this day (it just dropped out again, but I will not be surprised if it resurfaces). In any case, it hung around long enough this time that I recorded a new version of it. The older versions didn't have the Slayeresque lead guitar intro, which I added to flesh out the song, which was otherwise just verse chorus verse chorus verse chorus. It is not in 5/9 time, which sounds like something only a prog rock band would attempt anyway. The lyrics are generally silly. The "atomic delivery, sign a release form" refers to Sharon, Pennsylvania USA's iconic Quaker Lube restaurant (apparently, they had some gimmick then, and maybe still do, where if you ordered the hottest wings, you had to sign a liability release). The "George, Barbara called" line is a reference to the then president, the awful first George Bush (and the sequel was even worse). I think my favorite line is "Please, please, the doctor's name is Rudolph!" which makes no sense but just amuses me. The chorus means nothing really, just a reference to what living in the USA with morons in charge does to the mind of anyone sensible over time (sadly, that has not changed, perhaps explaining the song's continued relevance underneath all the surrealism). As usual on these recordings, I played everything. The weirdo element this time is a Christmas decoration that makes sound. Not that this song needed anything extra to be weird . . .
To hear more music by the trio of me, Dave, and Damon, check out the first Yeast? 7", not reissued, just never sold!
I Hope That You Have A Cool Yule 2020!
Hey, will you look at that?! Another year has come and gone! From the longest night of the year, I wish you a cool Yule! See you in 2021!
If you need something fun to remember 2020 by, then get the best book released this year, ahem!
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New Song!: "This Coffee Is Going Right Through Me"
wredfright · This Coffee Is Going Right Through Me
This song was inspired by remembering a bit of New Castle, Pennsylvania USA slang from the 1980s wherein a group of friends laughing and having a good time were said to be busting balls, presumably because one could laugh so hard that one could figuratively blow out one's testicles (this likely never happened literally so from what I remember the girls used this term as well). Since the rest of the world would only think of busting someone's balls (i.e., making fun of someone), that phrase didn't make it into the song, but it did remind me of long nights of youth drinking coffee and laughing with friends at one of the area greasy spoons. This led to a song wherein the speaker (singer?) reminisces about how the years have flowed through him like coffee through an old man's bladder. The lyrics aren't terribly profound or poetic, but they do the job (hey, it's a song inspired by the phrase "busting balls"--aside from the alliteration in the phrase; don't expect Shakespearean wordplay). The lyrics are below. It's the same deal as always. If you like a song, then feel free to cover it if you're in a band or whatnot. I love to hear covers of my songs, so please let me know about your version. If you start making money, then send me a check/we can work out a deal. Similarly, if you want to use a song for your Youtube video or whatnot, then just let me know. It's usually fine by me unless it's a commercial product or whatnot (and then it's likely fine as well--I just want my cut). Find out first though. Write me at wredfright ATATAT yahoo DOTT com.
I used to hang out with you when no one else would.
Now you pretend you don't know me. Darling, you're no damn good.
We used to stay up all night drinking coffee,
laughing so hard, I thought it would make me pee
This coffee is going right through me.
I don't hold grudges. I just pack them away,
put them on the shelf and take them out on some rainy day.
That's how I came to think of you this morning.
I was drinking coffee, and it was pretty boring.
I decided to look online to see if you were alive or dead,
even though you've been dead to me for years, except for in my head.
Still, I was sad to see that you were truly gone,
all the time we could have been drinking coffee and having fun.
Written December 2020
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The Angry Housewives Return!
If ever a band fit the mood of 2020, it is The Angry Housewives. Trapped at home and getting angrier every day. Strangely enough, they existed in 1990. Anyway, I had to clear up some space on my main Soundcloud account, so The Housewives have graduated to their own page. You can glory in the domestic madness here. Sadly, as a result, all the links and embedded plays for previous Housewives posts on this blog will no longer work (and, no, I won't be going back and updating posts from years ago); just use the link above.
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drinkdrankdrunk: "The Ventriloquist's Doll" by Mark Justice
"Well, Stanley, are we ready to go?" Fenton Harcourt asked, checking his appearance in the brightly lit mirror. He squinted his eyes through thin, wire-rimmed glasses, and looked his egg-shaped face over. "I feel like I'm getting old, Stanley."
"You look like death," a small voice muttered.
"What?" Fenton turned quickly, eyes fixed on Stanley, his wooden eyes open and staring blankly.
"Are you ready yet, Mr. Harcourt?" came the voice again. Oh, from the door, Fenton sighed as the stage manager's face peered through the opened door. "Everything's ready for you, Mr. Harcourt," the stagehand smiled, nodded and shut the door.
"Okay, Stanley, time to get on with the show. After tonight, we'll take a nice, long break. We need a break, don't we?"
"You need to be dead," a little voice whispered. Fenton removed his glasses, grabbed at his temples with his thumb and middle finger and rubbed. Too much work and too little rest, he thought. Hearing that other voice all of the time was one of the eventual drawbacks of being a ventriloquist. That other voice. That other personality. That other presence. Always thinking of yourself as two people had its complications, Fenton laughed to himself. He put his glasses back on, ran a palm over his thinning hair, wiping the perspiration from his balding, pointy head.
"Fenton the Magnificent," he billed himself. He liked the way it sounded and thought it reminiscent of vaudeville. Sometimes, though, when he was in a dour mood, he thought it sounded more like a name you'd see spread across a gawky carnival sideshow tent. He had thought of using Fenton the Fabulous, but the double F sounded too contrived. He tried Fenton & Stanley once, but after a promoter paid him with 2 checks, one written out to him, the other to Stanley, he began billing his act as it was now.
He picked Stanley up, cradled him, and walked through the dark hallway toward the soft cold light of the stage. The room was thick with the smell of smoke, stale and cloying. He sat on the stool that was centered under the spotlights on the stage, a small table next to him, a glass of water on it.
He began the routine as always, a few tired jokes, some impressions. He played straight man to Stanley's wisecracking; that seemed to work well. Audiences loved Stanley--he was sharp, witty, sometimes abrasive. He seemed to be more so lately.
While he repeated yet again the rehearsed lines of give-and-take dialogue with his wooden counterpart, his mind wandered off to that show last week in Topeka. Right in the middle of the act, Stanley started making comments to a woman who sat in a table near the stage. At least it seemed like that. The heavyset woman wore a gaudy dress, complete with an equally garish hat.
Fenton thought he'd break routine by interacting with the members of the audience that night. "Nice hat," he started to say, "looks like a kite on your head" but he could have sworn he heard "you're fat; I want to take a knife and stick it in your head."
He glanced over at Stanley, felt the worn wooden rod that turned his head pull slightly under his fingers as Stanley's head moved a little toward him, eyes looking into his. Ahh, fingers are sweaty, must have slipped. Fenton saw the woman's response, said, "Stanley, that's not a nice thing to say to the fine lady …"
"I'm sorry," he muttered, finishing with an overly big smile and an exaggerated wink and felt relief with laughs began to leak up. Good, they get that I'm joking … "I'm sorry," he muttered again. Now, was it just tiredness, or did he hear "for your husband," come mumbling from Stanley? Fenton moved his fingers to pull the string that operated Stanley's mouth, but it wouldn't budge. Was it caught on something? Did a knot somehow get in the twine? He fiddled with it for a few seconds, then it released. Stanley's mouth opened and closed easily, just like normal.
Fenton fanned the cloud of memory from his mind; just one more night, he thought to himself. Let's just finish tonight. Mindful that his much-needed vacation was only an hour away, Fenton's mood lightened. He felt himself move into a space that seemed automatic not in the machine-like sense but in that he didn't have to work to be funny. He didn't worry about remembering lines or finger movements or timing. He simply was in the moment, and that felt good. Laughter echoed back to him as Stanley made crack after crack at his expense. He didn't mind.
He allowed himself another few moments of simply feeling then slowly became aware of something … different. Confused, he looked at his audience, then at Stanley. Stanley was shuddering, giggling on his knee. All by himself. A small shock of pain pricked Fenton's chest. A little pop of light flashed in the front of his brain. He then realized that he, himself, was laughing, too, his leg nervously dancing up and down.
I am ready for a rest, he thought to himself.
He finished his routine with a simple "thank you" and bowed to the audience. Applause was still heavy in the air as he walked off the stage. "Well, Stanley, we're all done now. Time to go home and rest ..."
"In peace ..." Fenton thought he hear a small voice squeak as he strolled through the dark corridor to his room.
"Good show, Fenton," a husky voice called to him from the doorway. Fenton turned and smiled at the manager's round face, sweaty skin glistening.
"Hey, you seen any makeup lying around? We're missing some, thought you might have ..." the manager paused, "accidentally packed it."
"Certainly not!" Fenton responded, brows furrowed.
"Okay, okay, just have to check. Here's your money. Hope to see you again." The salty sweat smell lingered a few seconds after he left the room.
The drive home was comforting. The first thing Fenton did when he arrived was open all of the windows to let the cool early Fall air breathe a little fresh life into the staleness that had built up while he was gone. He put his suitcases on his bed and carried the trunk that held Stanley to Stanley's room.
The room itself was Spartan in décor--medium grey-blue walls, dark wood trim, a picture of Fenton holding Stanley centered on one wall. The beauty of the room came from the picture window that illuminated the entire space. Under the window sat a small rocking chair. Fenton placed Stanley in the chair and stepped back to look out the window. He sighed. "Well, Stanley, now we can rest for a while." Stanley gazed at him with his eyes wide open, mouth in its fixed, rictus grin.
Fenton fell asleep to the crashing and aching of a storm that had swept in. He started from sleep several times as peels of thunder shook the house. He awoke to a strange sound--a rhythmic chattering. Was he dreaming? Was some branch beating against the window? He felt a draft of cold air drift past him like a ghost. He got out of bed and followed the apparitional breeze. It was coming from Stanley's room.
He turned the light in Stanley's room on. Immediately, his hands went to his eyes to block the light's glare--all red and flashing, little pops of light under his eyelids. He squinted a few times, made sure he was seeing what his eyes told him he was. The rocking chair was no longer facing him--it was facing the window. It rocked back and forth a few times then stopped. The chattering sound stopped as well.
What is this? Fenton thought to himself. The window was thrown open, curtains billowing with each gust of wind that came through. Naked and spindly tree branches whipped the window, tapped against the glass. "Oh, that's it," Fenton said aloud, the crackle of adrenaline passing from his body; his breathing slowed.
"Come on, Stanley. I'll put you back. Did the wind push you around?" Fenton mumbled as he turned the rocking chair back towards himself. He patted Stanley on gently on the head. "Good night, Stanley," he yawned as he stretched, began walking back to his bedroom, rubbing his sleep-filled eyes.
When sleep did come again, it was fitful. Fenton felt unsure, anxious, and a little fevered. He dreamed of the tree slapping its thin wet branches against the window. Tap tap tap. Click click click. The noise became louder, more constant, like an annoying mosquito buzzing around your ears while sleeping, one that couldn't be found and swatted into silence.
"Stanley!" A shout startled him out of his sleep. He sat up, head throbbing, disoriented--what time is it? Where am I? It was hard to think clearly. That tapping sound. It was here again. Where was it coming from? The storm had passed, he'd shut the window, so what was it?
His eyes began to adjust to the darkness, but he couldn't see what was making the chattering sound--click click click. It sounded like it was coming from near the foot of his bed. The filtered light of the full moon lit the room with a pale, milky haze. Fenton sat up in his bed, got on to his hands and knees and eased over the edge of the bed. What he saw made him stop for a second and doubt that he was awake at all. He looked at his hand, moved his fingers, and rubbed them against one another. They felt real--didn't feel like a dream.
Sitting on the floor, near the foot of the bed, was Stanley, in his rocking chair, his eyes wide and staring. His mouth was opening and closing, wooden lips clicking together rapidly, click click click. Fenton felt an icy wave of nausea roll from his stomach to his head, blurring his vision. He felt dizzy and wished he could close his eyes and that this would all be a nightmare he could vomit up and get back to sleep.
He watched Stanley's clicking mouth open and close, its eyes staring blankly back at his own. He wasn't sure how long the wooden teeth clapped flatly against one another. All of a sudden, the movement stopped. The chattering mouth was silent. Fenton lay on the cold carpet for a moment then leaned closer. He got so close that he could smell the faint odor of paint on Stanley's face. A moment passed. Two. Fenton wanted to breathe a quick sigh of relief and shake his head as if trying to shake off belief, even chuckle to himself, but he couldn't.
He glanced at Stanley again. Stanley glanced back. Fenton felt the crackles of adrenaline spread over his body, like the pinpricks of a limb waking from sleep. Suddenly, Stanley's body began to convulse in the rocking chair, pulsing and spasming rhythmically as if possessed. A low raspy sound gurgled its way out of Stanley's head. The gurgle built slowly to a moan that grew louder and more frantic; the groan became a shriek, started to break into a giggle. The giggle grew louder and turned into laughter. Stanley convulsed and laughed. Fenton's mind began to swim, consciousness wavered, and he thought he might pass out.
Suddenly, the laughter and convulsing stopped. There was silence in the bedroom, stifling silence. Fenton stared in horror and realized he had wet himself. He stared at the doll. Its eyes moved to stare into his.
"Boo!" came the voice from the doll's mouth.
In an instant, Stanley was upon him. Its mouth, opened wide, clamped down on Fenton's left cheek. A jab of pain shot across Fenton's face. He felt the skin break and a warm gush of wetness run down his face. He wrapped his hands around Stanley's chest and pushed him away from him. He looked at Stanley's bloody mouth, touched his wet cheek, and felt a little light-headed. The doll reached out and grabbed Fenton's nose and squeezed down hard. Fenton yelled as he felt the little wooden hands twist and pull away.
Stanley held up his thumb, sticking between his first two fingers. "Got your nose!" it shrieked then punched Fenton in the eye. Fenton recoiled and put his palm against his eye, winced, and slowly began to crawl backwards. Stanley began walking slowly towards him.
Fenton continued crawling backwards, crablike, into the hallway. Stanley continued slowly towards him, waving his arms and shaking his head. "Booga, booga, booga, I'm gonna getchya!" it yelled.
Fenton felt a blow of dull pain at the back of his head and felt his vision narrow and blacken. He'd hit the back of his head on the open bathroom door. His hands felt something cold. He had crawled into the bathroom. He quickly stood up, grabbed the open door's knob, and pulled it shut behind him. He felt the cold, smooth linoleum on his feet and stood in the darkness.
"This can't be happening," Fenton kept repeating to himself. "Maybe I'm just dreaming." He fumbled for the faucet, turned the knob for the cold water, cupped his hands under the flow, filled them, then brought them up to his face. The cold water was a welcome shock to his skin and made him feel as if he were truly awake now.
"Alright, this is just a dream," he muttered and felt for the light switch. He flicked the switch up and winced as the cold light burned his eyes. He opened them slightly and looked up at the mirror. He saw his face all scrunched up and clammy looking, his right cheek purpled and glistening red, the blood flowing slowing down the side of his face. He then noticed the writing. Smeared on the mirror, in white greasepaint, were the words, "I DON'T LIKE STANLEY!"
"That's right, Fenton old pal, I hate the stupid name you gave me!" Fenton heard Stanley's voice. Something popped in his brain that made him feel a little dizzy. He looked over his right shoulder. The door was open, and there was Stanley, eyes wide, wooden teeth clacking up and down quickly.
"Hiya, pal," Stanley said, and in that instant, leapt onto the back of Fenton's neck, wrapping its fabric arms and cotton-stuffed legs around his face. It rested his wooden head on Fenton's and dug his chin into the top of it. "I don't like Stanley!" he screamed.
Stanley shifted his weight and thrust forward, driving Fenton's face into the mirror. "I don't like Stanley!" it shrieked, smashing Fenton's face into the mirror with each word he spoke: "I" smash "don't" smash "like" smash "Stanley!" smash. On the last hit, Fenton's head broke the mirror. He screamed as large pieces of it cracked and fell, small shards of it sticking in his face.
"Aww, did the poor baby get a boo boo?" it mocked. "Here, let me give you a kiss," it said as it scrambled around his head to his cut face. "Humpty ..." it began as it thrust its groin on him, then spun around and grinded its rear against Fenton's bloody nose ... "dumpty!" it cackled, then leapt off him and was gone.
Fenton felt suffocated, like he was slowly drowning in syrup--a sickening sweet smell of delirium was light in the air. He was still hoping to wake from a horrible nightmare and find Stanley sitting quietly in his rocking chair in his room, cold, silent, and wooden.
"Stanley, why?" Fenton asked as he stumbled out of the bathroom, trying to avoid stepping on the broken glass that had fallen on the hallway carpet.
A small voice spoke delicately and evenly. "Oh, I already told you, butterball. I don't like 'Stanley." The voice came from the kitchen. "I hate that stupid name, you moron, you dope, you jackanapes!" it cackled. There was a loud crash, clanging and clinking, sounds of metal, plastic, and wood being tossed.
"Stanley, why are you doing this?" Fenton heard himself mumble through growing waves of nausea and disbelief.
"Oh, because I love you, Fenton. I love you."
Fenton came into the kitchen, blood oozing still from his face. Silverware and wooden stirring spoons were thrown all over the white linoleum floor. Standing in the middle of the mess was Stanley. It picked up a wooden spoon and thrust it between his legs from behind. "I'm sportin' wood for ya!" it cackled maniacally.
Fenton took a few slow steps backwards and began to turn around. "Oh, no, no! Come back, lover!" it screamed. Fenton felt a hard impact on his back. "You're not getting away that easy! Oh, Fenton, I love feeling your fat sweaty fingers digging into my back every night. I just wanted to show you what it feels like to have a little of me inside you!" it said as it jabbed repeatedly the handle of the wooden spoon into Fenton's back. Each thrust brought spasms of pain wracked Fenton's body and dropped him to his knees.
"How do you like it?" it wailed. "Don't you love it? I love it!"
Stanley leapt onto Fenton's crumbling, shaking, body, standing on his shoulders. "I'm a little teapot, short and stout …" it began, reaching around and jabbing Fenton's head from behind, each punch grinding the pieces of broken mirror further into Fenton's bloody cheeks. "Here is my handle …" it whispered as it scrambled around onto Fenton's face and thrust its crotch into his mouth, "… and here is my spout!" It laughed and head-butted Fenton then ran off. Fenton heard footsteps then the bathroom door slam.
Fenton sat for a moment and began to sob. He slowly got to his feet, went to the bathroom, and tried the door. It was locked.
"Who is it?" came a tiny, lilting voice from behind the door.
"Stanley, stop this! This can't be happening; you can't really be alive …" Fenton thought how both stupid and insane these words sounded as he spoke them.
"Oh, indeed I am--now you wait your turn; I'm getting ready for you, Fenton, so hold your horses!" Fenton slumped down and began to weep softly, despair and fragility taking his body over. Fenton felt as if his sanity was beginning to fracture, small cracks and pops like light bulbs breaking in his brain.
A few minutes passed. Fenton heard the doorknob turn slowly. "Fenton," it called to him in a singsong way, "I'm ready for you."
Fenton stood up and watched the door open. Stanley stood there, his face all white with fat blue smears over his eyes, a sloppy red smile smeared over his mouth. He was a grotesque clown, standing there, holding a shard of broken mirror in his right hand.
"Yes, Fenton, I stole the makeup; but it's okay, 'cause I was just clownin'!" Fenton's eyes grew huge. Shocked, he quickly stood up and began slowly backing away.
"Why don't you want to clown around?" it muttered menacingly. "Don't you wanna clown around?" it asked loudly. "Don't you want to clown around, Fenton?" it screamed as it took slow and deliberate steps toward him.
Fenton continued backing, shaking his head. He felt like he was falling through a tunnel with only a little light at the end. He felt the blackness surround and smother him. The little light at the end of the tunnel grew larger, but all that could be seen was Stanley's hideous clown face, teeth chattering at him, arms swiping at him with a piece of broken mirror.
"I'm tired of playing, Fenton. Daddy's home, and he's had a hard day." It continued walking, slowly. "Do you want some, Fenton?"
Fenton was woozy. He stumbled back into the kitchen. The floor was cold and slick under his bare feet. Pain shot through the sole of his foot. He pulled his leg up quickly and saw the end of a serving fork sticking out of his foot. He felt little wooden hands push him from behind, and he began to fall. On the way down, he felt a wrecking blow to his temple as his head smacked the side of the countertop. He landed on the cold tile and lay on his back, his vision blurred, his thoughts fuzzy and random.
"Aww, Fenton, you're all forked up now!" Fenton felt its small feet walk up his body. It sat down on his chest. "Oh, Fenton, you'll like this, being the cut-up that you are," it cackled. Fenton felt an icy slash of pain across his forehead as the mirror shard sliced into his flesh. All Fenton heard was giddy laughter.
"Don't cry over spilt blood" it laughed as it brought the shard down again and again, cutting and slicing, crisscrossing the skin, splattering bright and sticky blood all over the white linoleum. Fenton barely felt the pain any more. He felt himself drifting away, falling into a fog that billowed around his consciousness.
"Oh, Fenton, you're as pretty as a picture--you're such a doll," it cooed and sank the shard into his throat. The last thing Fenton heard was his own breath, gurgling and hissing …
The dummy's head was bigger than normal, but the ventriloquist didn't mind. He tried its mouth, made it open and close, and rolled its eyes. "Oh, you're so messy …" it said, holding the head lovingly in his lap, his right hand working inside its still warm and wet interior. Now, for a name, it thought.
"I know … I'll call you Stanley!" it cackled.
Mark Justice is the author of several books. His latest is Toxic, a nonfiction work. I am pleased to run on his work on drinkdrankdrunk!
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JJ le ventilateur d'avion à réaction is a joke character for Devil Beater.
Has two Lightning McQueen's on above his shoulders. He wears eye popping glasses, bunny ears and a chef hat. He also wears the best shirt ever and red pants.
Born to meme. Born to dream. Born to be the best chef ever.
LMB None Jump just a little higher than space bar. 0 1 second.
E None Throw a knife, does nothing. 0 7 seconds.
R None There is a 0.66613376969% chance of having the Lightning McQueens form into a huge Lightning McQueen and ram into the enemy (no knockback). If it fails, all allies will take 1 damage. Infinite 1 second.
F None Trip all allies. :^) 0 30 seconds.
"Lol jk does nothing. xdd"
At 50/50/50, his LMB makes him shoot a huge Lightning McQueen for 1000 dmg. E and F are changed to extremely high jumps.
JJ le ventilateur d'avion à réaction translates to "JJ the Jet Plane Fan" from French.


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Schematic representation of the development of a wave cyclone along a frontal zone. It depicts all the four stages of the development of a travelling wave cyclone (extratropical cyclone).
However, the diagram represents graphically the life cycle of an extratropical cyclone in the northern hemisphere. The four stages in the life cycle of an extratropical cyclone are: (1) the initial state, (2) the incipient stage, (3) the mature stage, and (4) the occlusion stage.
In the initial stage the polar and the tropical air currents on the opposite sides of the polar front blow parallel to the isobars and the front.
In the cold air mass to the north of the polar front the flow of air is from east to west. In the warm air mass to the south of the front the flow of air is from west to east. Therefore the wave disturbance is produced; the front is quasi-stationary and is in perfect equilibrium.
The wedge of cold air mass lies under the warm air. There is complete absence of wind shift. The weather is fine. However, along the slanting surface of discontinuity where the opposing air currents meet, there is a sudden change in the direction of wind. This is called wind-shear.
In the second stage a wave has formed on the front. Cold air is turned in a southerly direction and warm air in a northerly direction.
There is an encroachment of each air mass into the domain of the other. This results in the readjustment in the pressure field as a result of which the isobars become almost circular in shape.
A cyclonic circulation is initiated around a low centre at the apex of the wave. The whole cyclonic vortex is carried along with the winds prevailing in the warm-air region at approximately the speed of the geostrophic component of the wind.
It may be pointed out that the new depression developing at the crest of the wave is called the nascent cyclone. The process of the birth of a new cyclone is commonly called cyclogenesis.
In the third stage the intensity of cyclone increases. The curvature and amplitude of the wave also undergo a marked increase. The air in the warm sector starts flowing from the southwest towards the colder air flowing from the southeast.
Now, the cyclone is fully developed. There are well marked warm and cold sectors. The idealized circulation of a mature cyclone is shown in Figure 35.4c. The warm air in this stage moves faster than the cold air.
The direction of movement is perpendicular to the warm front. In fact, the warm air is moving into a region previously occupied by the cold air. In the rear of the cyclone cold polar air is under- running the air of the warm sector, thus a cold front is generated there. Each of these fronts is convex in the direction of its movement.
Throughout the cyclone, there is an ascending air along the entire surface of discontinuity. If the rising air mass is moist, there will be cloudiness and precipitation along the warm as well as cold fronts as shown by the shaded areas.
The precipitation released at the warm front is more widespread and steady, whereas the cold front precipitation is confined to a narrow zone.
Since the position of the cold front advances faster than the warm front, the warm sector becomes progressively narrower. This is the beginning of occlusion. This particular phenomenon marks the maturity of the cyclone. This is obviously the period of maximum intensity.
In the final stage the advancing cold front ultimately overtakes the warm front which results in the formation of an occluded front. Occlusion starts first near the apex of the wave where warm front is closest to the cold front.
Gradually the process of occlusion comes down to the more open part of the two fronts. Thus, the warm sector is slowly pinched off and finally the two cold air masses mix across the front. This eliminates the occluded front. Now, the cyclone dies out. The life span of a single frontal cyclone is normally about five to seven days.


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Why is There Panic Over Microsoft Killing of Rooms on Windows Phone?
Earlier this week Microsoft announced that effective at the end of March they are ending support for Rooms on Windows Phone. Then I watched as Twitter lit up with everything from "this is the end of Windows Phone" to "They don't care about their customers".
Really? Really peeps? Did anyone actually use Rooms? I have spoken to at least half-a-dozen serious Windows Phone users this week and not one of them used Rooms on Windows Phone. In fact two of them (the innocent shall be protected) didn't even know what Rooms was on Windows Phone. I appreciate that 6 people doesn't represent everyone in the Windows Phone user base but equally I cannot see how the dismissal of a feature that few knew of really constitutes a crisis.
For those of you who don't know (I won't ask for names) what Rooms on Windows Phone is, let me explain. Rooms allows you to have a group of friends and/or family share calendars, photos and notes with each other in a single place. It also allowed you to group text within that Room. Rooms are visible in the People Hub and you can create a room for say family or co-workers, etc. It actually is a pretty spiffy little feature of Windows Phone.
But therein lies the problem. It was Windows Phone centric. It was not mobile centric. To get the maximum out of Rooms everyone in your Room had to be on Windows Phone. Fundamentally in this new era of Mobile First, Cloud First Microsoft, that is juxtaposed to what they are trying to do: Bring services and solutions to everyone no matter what platform they happen to consume them on. In my mind the dismissal of Rooms on Windows Phone is a good thing in the bigger picture. What has me scratching my head therefore is why a lot of people had a Panic at the Disco moment and went as far as to say Microsoft was abandoning customers.
Look, I get it. I'm sure that there is a family out there or a group of co-workers out there that use Rooms on Windows Phone daily. The concept is brilliant and it was hyped pretty well when Windows Phone 8 was released. But it died on the vine and really goes against the grain of where Microsoft wants to take Windows Phone under Windows 10.
In the email sent to Windows Phone users, Microsoft states that something bigger and better is coming in Windows 10 for Phone.
What does that mean exactly? Great question, no clue. What I can say is that in my initial finds about Windows 10 for Phone, I've seen nothing in the People hub or other places that give a Room-like experience. My guess is we will see something later.
So am I wrong here? Am I missing something? If you use Rooms and this is going to impact you by all means leave a comment and let me hear from you. I'm happy to admit if I'm wrong but on this one I don't think I will be.


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Roxbury Arts Presents: American Politics & Community Today: Reading and Discussion Series
Written By Editor on 2/1/17 | 2/1/17
What does it mean to be an American in the 21 st century? What does a model American do, and what
responsibilities do Americans have to their communities and each other? How have the answers to
these questions changed over the history of the United States? Participants a new program being
offered by the Roxbury Arts Group will engage with these questions and others regarding politics and
the current state of civic thought, feeling, and participation.
The Reading & Discussion Program will focus on the books The Book of Daniel, a novel by E.L.
Doctorow, and Talking to Strangers, Anxiety of Citizenship Since Brown vs. Board of Education, by
Danielle S. Allen. Discussions about the books will be led by Jennifer Kabat at the Roxbury Arts Center,
5025 Vega Mountain Road, Roxbury NY on February 15, March 1, March 15, and March 29 from 6:00-
7:30p on each date. Community members who would like to participate can borrow the books directly
from the Roxbury Arts Group by contacting Miguel Martinez Riddle at 607.326.7908 or
programs@roxburyartsgroup.org. This event is free and open to the public.
Leading the discussion series is Margaretville resident Jennifer Kabat. Kabat, a writer and essayist, is
also a co-founder of the collaborative essay site, The Weeklings. She has been a guest critic at Yale,
the Rhode Island School of Design, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Virginia Common Wealth
University in Qatar, and other institutions. Her writing has been published in the Los Angeles Review of
Books, BOMB, Harper's, The Believer, The White Review, Salon, The Guardian, and Granta, among
others. She's received multiple grants to support her writing including an Arts Writers Grant for her
criticism and was recently artist-in- residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts in California. She
serves on the advisory board for the poetry collective Ugly Duckling Presse, and teaches contemporary
art and theory at New York University and design writing at the School of Visual Arts. Currently she is
finishing a collection of essays GROWING UP MODERN exploring civic values from where she grew
up outside Washington, DC to where she lives now in the Catskill Mountains.
"Literature can create empathy by putting yourself in someone else's shoes," says Kabat. "That can be
a profound experience. With this program we're using books that specifically relate to citizenship now
by thinking about civic values and actions in other eras. We live in a small community and the idea that
we can be on the forefront of considering trust and considering what community and citizenship could
be now is really exciting to me. As a writer, looking at the ways civic values manifest (in both good and
bad ways) in everything from the NYC watershed to the forests around us has been really important to
my work, and I am excited to read books with a group and talk about them and our ideas about
participation and community and building that community to make it stronger."
American Politics & Community Today: Reading & Discussion series begins on February 15, but
participants are encouraged to read the book in advance so they can fully participate in the
conversations. For more information about the upcoming Reading & Discussion, please contact the
Roxbury Arts Group at 607.326.7908 or programs@roxburyartsgroup.org.
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Find out how urban city development initiatives are fulfiling India's need to comply with the smart city trend.
Ever since the Narendra Modi-led NDA government assumed office in Delhi, the public discourse on urban development in India has been dominated by "smart cities". However, debates on this topic have often been misinformed since there is a lack of clarity on what exactly a smart city is. Interestingly, the guidelines of the government's Smart City Mission itself state that "there is no universally accepted definition of a Smart City" since "it means different things to different people".
While globally the term has become synonymous with the use of technology and data for improving various aspects of a city, in India the usage has been less precise. Much of the initial discussion implied that smart cities would be entirely new cities. In fact, the 2014 election manifesto of the Bharatiya Janata Party promised to build "100 new cities; enabled with the latest in technology and infrastructure".
Hence, when the Modi government announced its plan to create "100 smart cities", the presumption was that India would get 100 new cities. It was only in June 2015 when it officially launched the Smart City Mission that the contours of India's smart city policy got some clarity.
One year after its launch, it's now clear that the Smart City Mission is not about building 100 new cities– it instead aims to make existing cities, in fact only certain designated areas within them, smart. While the Mission also requires each city to have a pan-city initiative, the thrust is to develop a compact area within a city through retrofitting or redevelopment of an existing built-up area or greenfield development of a vacant area.
While smart cities in India are now closely identified with the Smart City Mission, the vacuousness of the term has led to it being invoked for various forms of urban development. If we examine just Mumbai and its surrounding areas, we can get a sense of how different kinds of smart cities are sought to be created in different locations.
Under the Smart City Mission, there are four different smart cities in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region- Greater Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Thane and Kalyan-Dombivili.
The smart city proposals of these cities focus on developing certain pockets of the city– Lower Parel in the case of Mumbai and Koperkhairane in the case of Navi Mumbai– and also promote the deployment of smart technologies. Interestingly, the municipal corporations of some of these cities had expressed reservations about the governance structure of the proposed smart cities and eventually, none of the cities in the region were selected in the first round of funding under the Mission.
Independent of the Smart City Mission, the City and Industrial Development Corporation, a state government agency, is developing the seven southern nodes– Kharghar, Kamothe, Kalamboli, Pushpak, Panvel, Ulwe and Dronagiri– in its Navi Mumbai (South) Smart City project. The Corporation also has a greenfield urban development project near the new Navi Mumbai airport called the Pushpak Nagar Smart City, spread across 230 hectares. Much of the developments in the Navi Mumbai Airport Influence Notified Area, which covers 561 sq.km are also marketed as a "smart city".
The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority is the other state agency which has caught the smart city bug. It is developing Mumbai's Bandra Kurla Complex as a smart city by providing Wi-Fi connectivity, surveillance systems and smart parking facility. It is also developing 5 hubs along the proposed 126-km Virar-Alibaug Multi-Modal Corridor– Vasai-Virar, Bhiwandi, Greater Kalyan, Greater Panvel and Pen-Alibaug– as smart cities.
Along with state agencies, there are also private players which are creating their own versions of smart cities in the Mumbai region. Palava built by the Lodha Group is the most prominent example of a private smart city. It has partnered with IBM to introduce smart governance through measures like intelligent security systems. Another interesting initiative near Mumbai is the Khalapur Smart City where a set of farmers in 11 villages have pooled 3,550 hectares of land to create an integrated township in partnership with the City and Industrial Development Corporation.
As the case of Mumbai illustrates, multiple avatars of smart cities are being built in various locations. The narrative on smart cities in India is hence not restricted to cities under the government's Smart City Mission. Rather, the term is being invoked for a variety of modernist urban projects whether it's building new cities, applying technological fixes to existing cities, development of hubs along industrial corridors, retrofitting certain areas within a city or building private townships. By invoking the term "smart city", these varied urban developments are able to legitimise and market themselves better.
Indian cities are dominated by unplanned developments, an informal economy and messy local politics. This urban realty is increasingly coming under challenge in the post-liberalised era with private capital seeking to reshape the nature of the city. In this context, smart cities are being promoted by the state and the market to create more ordered forms of urban development. The term "smart city" has thus become a trope for promoting a variety of capital-driven planned urban initiatives that is at odds with the predominant forms of urban realty in India.
This article first appeared on Scroll.
Read more of this interesting article on Palava's website!


In the second decade of the twenty-first century, issues of solidarity have once again dominated political debates on both sides of the Atlantic. In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, questions of inequality and solidarity have become intertwined – especially in countries that have implemented severe austerity measures. Over the past year, however, questions of both national and international solidarity have also been central when it comes to the treatment of refugees and migrants. These "crises" have led to polarization, but also to an increase in grass-roots mobilization expressing discontent with national governments or EU policies, and seeking to create alternative forms of community within European societies and beyond.
Solidarity requires a notion of the commons which was at the heart of the debates staged at the conference Mobilizing for the Commons in Gdańsk from 4 to 6 November 2016. The conference was jointly organized by Eurozine, the Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna, Res Publica and the European Solidarity Centre as the 27th Meeting of European Cultural Journals and the 10th Solidarity Conference. Finally, more than 100 editors and intellectuals from Europe's leading cultural journals participated in the event. Below you can see all discussions during the conference.
After the conference we published special edition of Res Publica, where presents essays and interviews authored by conference speakers and panelists, as well as reports from the debates.
Preparations for the event were made in partnership with Erste Foundation and the Mayor of Gdańsk. The organizers wish to extend special thanks to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland, the Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation, and Connected Action for the Commons network, co-founded by the European Cultural Foundation (ECF). Special thanks also go to the media partners, including Gazeta Wyborcza Trójmiasto, Tygodnik Powszechny, radio TOK.fm and Trojmiasto.pl.


Everything you want to experience and explore on the north island is available in Alert Bay! Whale watching and grizzly bear tours, kayaking, hiking trails, fishing, water sports, cultural history, totem poles, a gallery displaying the work of local artists, The U'mista Cultural Centre is a world-class museum, authentic interactions with the friendly 'Namgis people, beach-combing, bird watching and numerous opportunities for avid photographers.
Arrive by ferry from Port McNeill.
Walk down to the hotel and get established.
Enjoy a favorite beverage in the sun room or on the spacious deck.
Choose a place to have supper or purchase items to have your own barbeque on the deck.
Stroll around town. Check out the museum housed inside the library, the Art Loft (free art gallery) and the local scenery.
There is often a happy hour and live music at the Orca Inn across the street.
Enjoy your pre-arranged tour to view the whales or grizzlies.
Upon your return, have a meal, rest and relax. Or hike on one of the local trails.
After supper, take in a spectacular sunset from your private balcony or on the deck.
After a long and peaceful rest, walk down to the world class museum https://www.umista.ca/ and take pictures along the way.
If available (Thurs-Sat) participate in the cultural dance demonstration in the big house. Tickets available at the tourist center or the local coffee shop Culture Shock.
Collect sea glass as you walk along the beach.
Catch a later ferry back to Vancouver Island and continue your journey.
And of course, if you are an angler, there are private fishing expeditions available or right off the public pier in town.


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Faculty Senate Surprised That 50% of Students Actually Think Professors Care About Them
Proletariat of Hell Rise Up, Seize the Means of Punishment
Published on 07 November 2017
care for their wellbeing lmao,
faculty senate,
fools,
we don't care about them
After convening for their fist meeting of the year on October 27th, the Faculty Senate revealed a shocking statistic that as much as 50% of the student population are under the naive and misguided impression that the faculty care for their wellbeing. In between vague promises to implement more diversity programs and a brief, tense game of telephone, the alarming statistic was brought to the group's attention by the Associated Students of Stanford University, and many wondered how the number could have possibly gotten that high.
"I'm surprised we were able to keep up the pretense of concern as long as we were," says a mathematics professor who asked to remain anonymous. "I mean, for the top 1% of students in the world or whatever, you'd think they would have caught on to our utter apathy for their wellbeing a lot sooner."
"I definitely would have thought the complete disregard we have for their mental health and the dead look I have in my eyes when they start talking would have been some obvious clues," he continued.
Other senate members agree. "I literally could not give two fucks about any student I have ever taught," says one source. "If anything, I occasionally feel a stirring of mild contempt for the eager, pimpled faces staring back at me." Another faculty member added that if students wanted personal, meaningful relationships with their professors, they should have gone to UCLA.


The majority of people know something about the Cold War in one manner or another. The time period has been galvanized and given an anticipated tone. Film and Literature have transformed the world of MI5 and the CIA into something hot and dangerous filled with super secret agents running around the world. This is the world CounterSpy also makes use of for their game.
The primary goal in each assignment of the game will be to gather a specific variety of nuclear weapon strategies from either the Imperialists (USA) or the Socialists (Russia), before leaving the region. The notion of infiltrating both nations in this age isn't something you see quite frequently, but it's pleasant to see a take that is unbiased on the subject matter.
In the event that you end up dying in the game, or when enemies notice you, the defcon amount is increased slowly. Five is the lowest amount, and it can go all the way to zero. If this occurs, you have a single minute to get out of there before whoever you're currently infiltrating launches nukes. You have to be cautious because the defcon grade will carry on to the next mission as you play through. There are methods to lower the defcon level, of course, but for the most part the perfect way to safely get through the game is to simply not get found out.
Through the assignments you are going to gather different parts of a chemical formula, and pieces of weapon patterns. Usually the pieces for these all will be in the same area as one another, so if you do a little investigating you'll unlock them. If you miss any don't sweat it; they can show up later. Exceptional buffs are provided by the formulas for the player to undertake the next mission. Examples of these include taking damage from enemies, or lowering the defcon level, making you more quiet as you move around, and things of that nature.
CounterSpy has an interesting take on the way you play through it. When you make use of the cover in the game it will switch your perspective from a 2D side scroller to that of a 3D perspective. This can be handy for when you need to hide from patrolling guards or in intense firefights. Its not the first 2D scroller that lets you take cover, of course, but the change in your perspective while you take cover is definitely an interesting and creative way of doing it. Hopefully others in this genre take notice.
Another great thing about CounterSpy that adds to the replay value is that the levels that you play through are procedurally generated. The map layout for a level, the collectable locations, where you encounter enemies, these are all things that change if you quit a mission and come back to it in the future. This keeps the game fun and interesting for future playthroughs.
When it comes down to it, Sony has added a very enjoyable game to their lineup with CounterSpy. If you love classic cold war era spy activity, Counterspy is dripping with enjoyable style. Sure, the AI in the game can be inconsistent and causes some annoyance with the defcon stuff, and the game itself is rather short (3-4 hours), but this isn't anything that ruins what is still a very enjoyable game.


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Alan Cedric Page, former Minnesota Vikings football star, has served as an associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court since 1993. Page gained athletic fame as one of the four "Purple People Eaters" for the Vikings' defense who were essential to the team's ten division titles and four Super Bowl appearances during the 1960s and 1970s. While still employed full-time as a professional football player, Page attended the University of Minnesota Law School full-time and graduated in 1978. He is the first and only African-American supreme court justice in the state of Minnesota.
One of four children of Georgianna Umbles and Howard Felix Page, Alan Page was born on August 7, 1945, in Canton, Ohio, the home of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. His mother, a country club attendant, and his father, a bar manager, always emphasized the importance of learning. They instilled strong values in him, and Page looked up to his parents as role models.
Page was an outstanding athlete in high school, but even at a young age, his aspirations went beyond the gridiron and into the courtroom. Page admired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and was a fan of the Perry Mason television show. He told Parade Magazine in 1990 that he viewed sports not as a goal, but as a means to achieve an education. "Even when I was playing professionally," he said, "I never viewed myself as a football player. There's far more to life than being an athlete."
"At the very best, athletic achievement might open a door that discrimination once held shut. But the doors slam quickly on the unprepared and the under educated."
Page graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1967 with a B.A. in political science. At Notre Dame, he was an All-American defensive end and played on the school's 1966 national championship team. Chosen in 1967 by the Vikings as their first-round draft choice, Page went on to earn the Most Valuable Player award in the National Football League in 1971. In the NFL, he played the position of defensive tackle. He logged fifteen seasons with the Vikings and Chicago Bears, starting in each of the 236 games he played during his career before retiring in 1981. He was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1988 and to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1993.
After graduating from law school in 1978, he joined the law firm of Lindquist and Vennum in Minneapolis, where he specialized in labor and employment litigation from 1979 to 1984, over-lapping with his final years in the NFL. He served as assistant attorney general for the state of Minnesota from 1987 to 1993.
Page established the Page Education Foundation in 1988 to increase the participation of minority youth in post-secondary education and work-readiness activities. Scholarship recipients tutor kindergarten through eighth-grade students for eight to ten hours each month during the school year while attending post-secondary school, thus creating a pyramid influencing younger students of color as mentors and role models.
Page regularly speaks to minority students about the importance of education. He also encourages adults to influence children to look at the values and good examples of hard work that decent Americans provide every day for "creating and sustaining hope for the future." He noted, "These are not the heroes who offer hope with promises of winning the lottery, becoming a rap star, or pulling down backboards and endorsement contracts in the NBA. These are simply men and women who get up every morning and do the things that citizens do."
Page was appointed to the Minnesota Supreme Court in 1993. In his 1998 re-election campaign, an opponent charged that Page's foundation activities violated canons regarding the judicial appearance of impartiality. The ethics complaint showed that donations to the scholarship fund had soared in recent years and that some of the contributors included companies and law firms with cases pending before the Minnesota Supreme Court. Page said that he refused to help raise funds and that he intentionally avoided any knowledge of his contributors. The complaint also charged that awarding scholarships only to minorities violated the judicial canon prohibiting any expressions of bias or prejudice. In February 1999, the Minnesota Board of Judicial Standards cleared Page of any ethics violations in the matter.
Page was in the news in 2000 when he was ticketed for driving with expired automobile license tabs, which is a sticker affixed to the license plate each year as proof that the owner has paid the annual license fee. He demanded a trial on the $57 fine, although the fine would have been reduced to $28 if he had agreed to pay. In court, Page's attorney offered documentation that his client had mailed a check for the tabs weeks before he received the ticket. The Minneapolis City Attorney's office argued that Page had an obligation to stay off the road until he received his tabs. However, the court ruled in Page's favor, finding that Page should not have been penalized for the state's delay.
Page has received a number of honors, both for his playing days and for his activities after retirement from the NFL. He was a recipient of the Dick Enberg Award and became a member of the Academic All-American Hall of Fame. He was named by the Star Tribune of Minneapolis and St. Paul as one of the 100 most influential Minnesotans in the twentieth century. He also has received honorary doctor of laws degrees from Notre Dame, St. John's University, Westfield State College, and Luther College.
While playing for the Vikings, Page married Diane Sims. They have four children.
Page, Alan. 1993. "A Message You May Not Hear In Law School" (lecture). Ohio Northern University Law Review 20 (fall-winter).
Starr, Cynthia, et al. 1994. "Home Court Advantage." ABA Journal 80 (February).
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The Liberal Civil War Over Social Security Cuts
President Obama wants to adopt a new measure of inflation that would cut Social Security benefits—and debate over the proposal has split his base.
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The Social Security cuts in President Barack Obama's new budget are creating dissension in his base.
Many liberals oppose the president's proposal to balance the budget on the backs of the old. But a good chunk of the establishment left is sticking by the president's side, arguing that the cuts aren't so bad, and that any budget compromise with this Republican House will involve swallowing a bitter pill or two.
Obama's budget would squeeze old age benefits by changing the way inflation is calculated so that increases in future monthly Social Security payments grow more slowly. Right now, benefit increases are tied to the Consumer Price Index, which tracks the prices of a bunch of consumer products. First Republicans, and now Obama, have proposed changing that to something called chained CPI, a different calculation that ends up producing a lower rate of inflation by accounting for consumers switching to cheaper substitutes when a product's price jumps. The president's proposal includes exemptions for the oldest and poorest beneficiaries, but it would cost all other retirees hundreds of dollars in lost benefits every year. The White House estimates the measure will save $230 billion over 10 years.
The left-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has argued that chained CPI is acceptable—but only if implemented with the exceptions Obama's budget includes for the most vulnerable, and if it is accompanied by new tax revenues. The CBPP released a report last year titled "Chained CPI Can Be Part of a Balanced Deficit-Reduction Package, Under Certain Conditions," and reporters have been citing it as proof of liberal support for the plan. The Center for American Progress, one of Washington's most powerful liberal think tanks, has also backed a switch to chained CPI. (CAP did not respond to multiple requests for comment.)
"I'm not against moving to the chained CPI, but I absolutely wouldn't go there without the other parts of the deal," says Jared Bernstein, a senior fellow at CBPP and former economic adviser to Vice President Joe Biden. He says that deal also needs to include the elimination of the across-the-board budget cuts known as sequestration.
Bernstein emphasizes he's not a huge fan of the proposal, but says it's part of the political game—a game that Obama is not getting right, he argues. Obama's chained CPI proposal should have been embraced only as a true concession, not an out-of-the-starting gates offer, Bernstein says. "My game theory says keep your offers off the table until you've got their offers," Bernstein wrote on his blog last week.
The president, CBPP, CAP, and a few Democrats on the Hill may back chained CPI, but many other liberal groups and leaders oppose it. On Tuesday, a group of major progressive organizations, including the National Organization for Women, the Campaign for America's Future and MoveOn.org, joined Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Reps. Mark Takano (D-Calif.) and Mark Pocan (D-Wis.) for a protest on Capitol Hill opposing the proposed cuts. More than 2 million people signed a petition presented to the White House the same day opposing the plan. "We're not going to balance the budget on the backs of elderly, disabled vets, the sick or the children," Sanders later told Current TV .
"I've never seen such a wholehearted and rapid response," says Monique Morrissey, an economist with the Economic Policy Institute, which opposes the cuts. She calls the CBPP and CAP the "two notable dissenters" that are "much more deficit-hawkish than the mainstream of the progressive movement."
Liberals have been fighting the administration on chained CPI before it was ever included in the budget. Last year, 107 House Democrats signed a letter saying, "Social Security has not contributed to our current fiscal problems and it should not be on the bargaining table." Another 30 Democrats in the House signed a similar letter. In November, over 250 economists and social-insurance experts signed a statement opposing the proposal, saying there was "no empirical basis for reducing…Social Security" with the chained CPI inflation adjustment because the elderly experience a higher rate of inflation than the rest of the population.
Dean Baker of the Center for Economic and Policy Research says that switching to the chained CPI would cut about 2 percent of seniors' retirement income over 20 years. By contrast, the hit that the rich got from Obama's New Year's tax increases was only 0.6 percent.
Even CBPP isn't completely in love with Obama's big idea. Its president, Robert Greenstein, recently wrote a post highlighting the pros and cons of the chained CPI. "It's not like we're throwing our arms around this proposal and giving it a huge hug," Bernstein insists. Besides, he says, "these negotiations aren't going anywhere anyway" because of Republican intransigence, so CBPP's support for the plan won't matter in the end.
That's what EPI's Morrisey is hoping. But she says she's dismayed Americans have to rely on tea party "crazies" to save them from Democratic entitlement cuts. "It's really hard to imagine anything worse that the president could do than benefit cuts to vulnerable people," she adds. "It's ghastly."
Paul Ryan Ducks Yet Again on Social Security Reform
Social Security is Probably Pretty Safe For Now
Let's Spend Some Money and Find Out Once and for All Whether Chained CPI Cheats the Elderly
Conservatives Part Ways on Sequester Cuts


I gave birth to my third child just over 3 weeks ago, and near the end of my pregnancy I began to think a lot of my postpartum wardrobe. Having had two children already I knew I would be slightly uncomfortable with my body for a while even though I shouldn't be. I mean, I did just grow and birth a person with my body and then also feed that person with my body. Its pretty awesome and I think that warrants being able to dress in clothes I like while waiting to fit into my jeans again. I wanted some new pieces that would be comfy and cute with a forgiving fit all while working for the reality of my day to day. Clothes I could answer the door in. Clothes I can run to the grocery store and the doctor in. Clothes that can also still be worn when the baby weight is gone. This means - knits!
If you follow me on Instagram, you may be aware that while mainly a woven fabric girl, I'm also a die-hard fan of a few types of knit fabric, one being this cotton bamboo french terry. Its great for lighter weight sweaters that are comfy, cute and fit all the time. Its especially fabulous for the postpartum phase I'm in. So today I'm going to talk all about this heavenly fabric and all the things I've made with it. Its a work horse in my closet right now!
Note: I love this fabric and have bought so much of it that I reached out to Telio to see if they would be interested in collaborating. I received this fabric for free but they didn't ask me to rave about it. That's all me!
This fabric is medium weight with great drape but not too much. You know how sometimes when sewing with rayon knits they seem too heavy even they though they aren't? They have too much vertical stretch causing them to grow, getting longer and longer. They also tend to be more thin and clingy and show your whole body underneath. This does not do that! But its also not as stable as a cotton spandex french terry. It is the absolute perfect hybrid. Buttery soft, just drapey enough and not clingy. And it doesn't pill! As for the stats, its super wide - 62 inches. Its 67% rayon of bamboo, 28% cotton which adds that little bit of stability and makes it not clingy, and 5% spandex.
I've sewn this fabric up into four different popular but also totally postpartum friendly sweater/top patterns with different types of sleeves so you can see how it looks and drapes. I've sewn a raglan, a set-in sleeve, a dolman, and a raglan/dolman hybrid. Also I sewed these up while pregnant. So in preparation for wearing them postpartum I sized up some of these patterns and not others depending on the finished garment measurements provided in the patterns. My bust is currently larger than any of the sizes I actually made (pre-pregnant 38.5 in., currently 42 in. due to nursing) but since this fabric is so soft, stretchy and drapey they work well now and will just look slightly looser later. This fabric is also the perfect weight for late winter/early spring and layering but could even do well in warmer weather with shorter sleeves.
This pattern also comes with loads of options. Different sleeve types, a funnel or crew neck and cropped, tied, banded or curved hem. Because the finished measurement in the bust has 8 inches of ease, I decided to make my pre-pregnant size. What I did not take into consideration was the length of this top. It will be great with high waisted jeans but for now I can pretty much only wear it with really high leggings. I should have added at least an inch in length (I'm 5'8"). But eventually I hope to get tons of wear out of it. This fabric is great for the tie hem view. It can still tie up easily and drape well without creating a huge bulky knot. It's also excellent for a dropped/dolman sleeve. Using a fabric that's too thick or stable can create a lot of extra bulk under your arm but in this fabric its just soft, light and airy with the drape of the fabric under there.
Another work horse of a pattern, this has tons of options including a hood, thumbhole cuffs, regular cuffs, and a kangaroo pocket in addition to sleeve variations. It has a slimmer fit and more shaping though the body than the others so I sized up one size again. I also added my own ruffles at the raglan sleeve to once more elevate the casual feel of it and highlight how incredible this fabric is - gathering so well even with two layers. And again I added side vents because #always. A raglan sleeve is another shape that can cause unwanted fabric under the arm or bust area in the wrong fabric, but with this magical unicorn fabric, the underarm fabric isn't noticeable at all. And with the extra room I will have in the top later, I think it would be awesome for layering over a button up collared shirt.
So, which top is your favorite? Would you make any of these or sew this luxurious fabric into something else? What it would be - let me know!
I did manage to keep track of everything I sewed this year; how many yards I sewed, how many yards I bought, how many patterns I bought and how many of those I have sewn since buying. Because tracking keeps me aware and should hypothetically help keep myself in check. Especially as I wanted to sew my stash this year and buy less. I'll review the progress of all my goals below, but I can say my stash has shrunk a lot. Like a lot a lot. Partly because I just admitted to myself which fabric purchases were duds and aren't my style and I donated them. I donated loads of scraps and full yardage to a shelter down town that teaches refugee women to sew and I feel great about that.
So since this is a review of my sewing for the year, I'll review my goals, my make nine, what I've sewn, who I've sewn for, patterns I've bought, and how I'm feeling about the year.
So here we go - lets start with my Make Nine from last year.
The only thing I swapped out was the Sew Over it Alex shirt because I realized it didn't have a collar stand and I wanted a button up shirt with a real collar. So I made the Kalle Shirt instead and I LOVE it. I made 2 and have plans for me. Then, because I loved the shape of that shirt so much I also made the melilot, another dolman button up but with a much slimmer silhouette and am digging it too. I see more of those in my future as well.
I made the knee length shorts version of the Chi-Town Chinos and they also became a quick favorite. In fact, I made two pairs and wore them all Summer. I also made two Sarah Shirts and two of Mcalls 7380. I think two is a trend for me. I also have more pairs of Morgan jeans planned for this year.
1. Sew less. Meaning, slow down and don't sew so many items because I don't need a lot more. This did not happen. Granted, I made much nicer, quality pieces and my old ones have pretty much all been donated, rehomed, or turned into something else.
3. Be patient. Take time to make the right adjustments so that garments turn out better and fit great so that I love them when they're done. This I did, too! I feel really happy with the garments in my closet. They fit so much better and I love wearing them. Im very grateful I took the time to learn the adjustments I need and then actually take the time to do them. And a note on that, you don't need fancy fitting books or to take a class to figure this out. I highly recommend this youtube channel, where I learned all the adjustments I make. Also a lot of patterns, like jeans patterns, come with fitting guides and blog posts to walk you through issues you may be having. You don't need to invest a bunch of time and money to figuring out fitting. Ok so you need to invest some time...but that's it.
I bought 88 yards of fabric (yikes) and sewed 177 yards of fabric. I have kept it at a 2:1 ratio of sewn yardage to bought yardage all year and I'm so proud of that. And I'm happy because the fabric in my stash is stuff I love. I have waisted a lot of money in the past buying fabric I later learned I didn't like. So now the fabric I do have is fabric worth owning, sewing, and wearing and that makes me feel good. Its also almost all solid colors which I'm totally down with and different from years past.
Alright well if all of that info didn't overwhelm you its a miracle! But I like to have this information to look back on and compare to other years. I am still solidifying my plans for this year but since I'm expecting baby #3 in 4 weeks, I want to be realistic about my time and energy, and also what I will wear. So I'm taking my time and being deliberate about it. Same with my goals, but I'll share them when they are all ready!
Alright sewing friends, like I mentioned in my Sewing Misses post, this year was so good in the sewing arena. I had so many hits and so few misses that these posts have been hard to write. They were hard to write last year too, but for the opposite reason. So many misses it was hard to narrow it down!
I spent quite a while narrowing my hits down to five, so these patterns that I'm sharing here are serious winners in my book. There are others I super love and only very narrowly missed this list.
I also must mention - I am the literal worst at getting photos of my makes. It takes so much time planning and with two kids and one on the way its been harder than ever this year. And of course now that I want to snap photos in them for you, I'm way too pregnant to fit into most. So you get some real life crappy photos taken throughout the year in places like Harry Pitter World, random parks, the cemetery on Memorial Day, etc. You're welcome:) At least its proof these patterns are tried and tested and worn on the daily.
This is a Melissa Watson pattern with Palmer and Pletsch fitting instructions so its easy to get a great fit the first time. Its a shirt dress with buttons down to the natural waist, a hidden button placket, collar and collar stand, 3/4 sleeves (or sleeveless option), a partial elastic back for a comfortable fit, and an a-line paneled skirt with a curved hem.
This dress is so flattering on me and a style I love. I've made these two, both out of rayon challis, but I want to make another one next year in a solid color. Maybe in a tencel twill or rayon linen.
I did make some alterations to get this look. I added 3 inches to the skirt to get it knee length and added more length to the sides which reduced the dramatic curve of the hem. In the navy one, I altered the pattern to use the short sleeve from the highlands wrap dress, and I did an exposed button placket instead of concealed (although you can't really see it in this busy print.) I have a blog post on it here if you want to see and read more.
This is such a versatile and useful pattern to have. I have the full expansion pack which gives you mid thigh shorts, skirt, full pants, and these knee length Bermudas. They are a chino style without a true waist band, but a waistband facing that comes together really nice and looks great. They have a center back extension which makes adjustments for all sizes really easy, no matter what your waist to hip ratio is. My only adjustments were to add 1.5 inches to the rise to get a higher mid rise instead of the true mid rise they come with. And I slimmed them quite a bit just because my upper thigh is so much larger than my lower thigh so they were enormous at the bottom. But that is super easy to do. I absolutely love this pattern and wore them loads this spring and summer. Like to my sister's home in California, to Harry Potter World, and everywhere else I went every day.
Its shocking how much I wore these tops this year and yet I have no photos. So let these photos suffice. And although that's a horrible quality photo from Harry Potter World (paired with my pink chi town chinos) it shows I really wore these eveywhere. I've made two of these, both in the cropped view with 3 inches of length added. After I have the baby I plan to make the tunic one (in a regular shirt length without such a dramatic curved hem in the back) and the dress. I want all the versions. The cropped ones (with added length) are easy to wear with my gingers, morgans, chi towns, and basically all other bottoms that I have.
There are plenty of options in this pattern but both of mine are full button ups with the collar and collar stand. Maybe I'll make the popover version with a mandarin collar next. And both of mine are made in rayon linen, which I love for this shape. Just enough structure for a button up and to show the body of the pattern, and also enough drape as to not add too much bulk from quite a boxy top. But I think for the true shirt length and dress I'll use something with more drape like a rayon poplin, challis, or tencel.
I made my first Farrow last year and liked it, but it was enormous. I mean, it fit as intended but huge tent dresses don't look great on me. So this year I figured out the perfect fit for me (a 12 graded down to a 6 - I have a whole post on that here) and this year made two more. The navy one I haven't really been able to wear yet. I wore it once but then I was too big for it (I made it while pregnant) so I'm just waiting to have this baby and then it should be the perfect loose fitting postpartum dress. If you go by your measurements and make your actual size, you could wear this your entire pregnancy which would be a plus. My adjustments to this pattern were the sizing changes, a broad back adjustment, shortening the sleeves and adding 3 inches in length.
Favorite jeans ever! Button fly, non stretch denim, cropped length. I absolutely cannot wait to make more pairs next year. I made these in a 10oz rigid denim from Threadbare Fabrics. Next I want to try them in a heavier fabric and with an exposed button fly. I love the rise on these. Its called a mid rise but its quite high on me still and although I always love a a true high rise, I find this rise the most flattering and comfortable on me. I want this same rise on all my jeans. I think I'll try the Dawn jeans next year and do a full comparison for those interested.
Ok, I know that's five but there are two other patterns I simply can't leave off the 'hits' list.
I made this back in January during the #coatmakingparty that I hosted on instagram with Rachel and Nicole. I am sooooo glad I made this. It is currently the only coat I own that will still button around my 33 week belly, and its warm, cozy and cute too. I used melton double faced wool from Mood and a Robert Kauffman mammoth plaid flannel from Raspberry Creek Fabrics with rayon in the sleeves. I wore this from January-March and now its back in heavy rotation.
This was my first real coat is a fabulous pattern to start with. Its a-line so you don't have a lot of fitting to do. It has raglan sleeves so you don't need to ease in thick wool sleeves. Just bust darts and a two piece sleeve for a good fit. I added some fish eye darts in the back of mine because I should have done a sway back, but because the loose nature of this coat, that wasn't even essential, just my preference. I also added two, or maybe three, inches to make it a but longer for me. I seriously love it and wear it all the time.
I tested this pattern back in January/February and then immediately made another. And both are definitely in the 30 wears club. I wear one pretty much daily over a zip up Halifax hoodie to the gym. This is a great casual jacket because its fully lined but loose and doesn't require fitting. It has a hood option, two different pocket options and drawstring options as well. Its a total staple in my wardrobe and if you haven't made one, you should. Also, I blogged about this here if you want to see and read more about sizing, etc.
Ok, now I'm done. Apparently I couldn't keep it to five this year. Just too many things on my 'super successful sews' list this year!
So what's on yours? Did you have any hits you just need to shout about, because I'm all ears! Or was it more of a misses year, like last year was for me? Let me know!


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SFI approved transmission flexplate shield for Ford Mercury FE series engines and automatic transmissions. This shield is made from 6061T6 Aluminum. A SFI approved flexplate shield is required for many classes of racing by NHRA, IHRA and other motorsport santioning bodies.


Welcome to your new dream home in the beautiful community of Saltwater Landing. ''The Danbury'' plan by Hardison Building Company is a spacious home that offers 4 bedrooms and 3.5 bathrooms. With the master suite downstairs and the additional 3 bedrooms upstairs there is plenty of space to spread out. The kitchen will feature granite or quartz counters with tile backsplash, stainless appliances and an eat-in breakfast area. Some of the many features the interiors will have is LVP flooring in the main living areas, stain resistance carpet in the bedrooms, brushed chrome hardware finishes and Moen plumbing faucets. The bathrooms will have raised vanities, tile flooring, designer plumbing features and more.


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Historic College Hill was ready to change their logo and website and reached out to Luminous for a new design. They also wanted us to articulate the message that College Hill is crucial part of the city and needs to be protected. We set out to revamp the outdated website and replace it with a slicker and more user-friendly template, capturing Providence's architectural beauty and aesthetic integrity that College Hill works to protect/restore. The historic district responded with great enthusiasm for both our logo design and website, pleased that their digital presentation and photographs now match the high standards of the work they do to preserve Providence's rich architectural legacy.