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rigmarolling · 4 years
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Historical Holiday Traditions We Really Need To Bring Back
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Here comes Santa Claus, and also a bunch of annual holiday Things we do to ensure he commits a truly boggling act of breaking and entering and leaves goods underneath the large plant in the living room.
Because I’ve always got a hankerin’ for the days of yore, here are some historical holiday traditions we really need to bring back:
1. Everything that happened on Saturnalia
Saturnalia was the ancient Roman winter festival held on December 25th--which is why we celebrate Christmas on that day and not on the day historians speculate Jesus was actually born, which was probably in the spring. 
Saturnalia was bonkers. As the name suggests, it celebrated the god Saturn, who represented wealth and liberty and generally having a great time.
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Above: Their party is way cooler than yours could ever hope to be.
During Saturnalia, masters would serve their slaves, because it was the one day during the year when everybody agreed that freedom for all is great, actually, let’s just do that. Everyone wore a coned hat called the pilleus to denote that they were all bros and equal, and also to disguise the fact that they hadn’t brushed their hair after partying hard all week, probably.
Gambling was allowed on Saturnalia, so all of Rome basically turned into ancient Vegas, complete with Caesar’s Palace, except with the actual Caesar and his palace because he was, you know. Alive. 
The most famous part (besides getting drunk off your rocker) was gift-giving--usually gag gifts. Historians have records of people giving each other some truly impressive white elephant gifts for Saturnalia, including: a parrot, balls, toothpicks, a pig, one single sausage, spoons, and deliberately awful books of poetry. 
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Above: Me, except all the time.
Partygoers also crowned a King of Saturnalia, which was a predecessor to the King of Fools popular in medieval festivals. The king was basically the head idiot who delivered absurd commands to everyone there, like, “Sing naked!” or “run around screaming for an hour,” or “slap your butt cheeks real hard in front of your crush; DO IT, Brutus.”
Oh, wait. Everyone was already doing all that. Hell yes.
(Quick clarification: early celebrations of Saturnalia did feature human sacrifice, so let’s just leave that bit out and instead wear the pointy hats and sing naked, okay? Io Saturnalia, everybody.)
2. Leaving out treats for Sleipnir in the hopes of avoiding Odin’s complete disregard for your property
The whole “leave out cookies and milk for Santa” thing comes from a much older tradition of trying to appease old guys with white beards. In Norse mythology, Odin, who was sort of the head god but preferred to be on a perpetual road trip instead, took an annual nighttime ride through the winter sky called the Wild Hunt. 
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Above: The holidays, now with 300% more heavy metal.
Variations of the Wild Hunt story exist in a bunch of European folklore--in Odin’s case, he usually brought along a bunch of supernatural buddies, like spirits and other gods and Valkyries and ghost dogs, who, the Vikings said, you could hear howling and barking as the group approached (GOOD DOGGOS).
That was the thing, though; you never actually saw Odin’s hunt--you only heard it. And hearing it did not spark the same sense of childish glee you felt when you thought you heard Santa’s sleigh bells approaching as a kid--instead, the Vikings said, you should be afraid. Be VERY afraid.
Because Odin could be kind of a dick.
Odin was also known as the Allfather, and like any father, he hated asking for directions. GPS who? I’m the Allfather, I’m riding the same way I always ride.
And that was pretty much it: “I took this road last year and I’m taking it again this year.”
“But,” someone would pipe up from the back, “there are houses on the road now--we’re gonna run right into them. We could just take a different path; there’s actually a detour off the--”
“Nope,” Odin would say. “They know the rules. My road, my hunt, my rules. We’re going this way.”
So if you were unlucky enough to have built your house along one of Odin’s favorite road trip sky-ways, he wouldn’t just plow right past you.
He would burn your entire house down--and your family along with it.
Kids playing in the yard? Torch ‘em; they should have known better. Grandma knitting while she waits for her gingerbread Einherjar to finish baking? Sucks to be her; my road, my rules, my beard, I’m the Allfather, bitch.
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Above: Santa, but so much worse.
To be fair to Odin, he could be a cool guy sometimes. He just turned into any dad when he was on a road trip and wanted to MAKE GOOD TIME, DAMN IT, I AM NOT STOPPING; YOU SHOULD HAVE PEED BEFORE WE LEFT.
To ensure they didn’t incur Odin’s road trip wrath, the Vikings had a few ways of smoothing things over with Dad.
They would leave Odin offerings on the road, like pieces of steel (??? okay ???) or bread for his dogs, or food for his giant, eight-legged horse, Sleipnir, because the only true way to a man’s heart is through his pet. 
People would generally leave veggies and oats and other horse-y things out for Sleipnir, whose eight legs made him the fastest flying horse in the world and also made him the only horse to ever win Asgard’s coveted tap dancing championship. 
(Side note: EIGHT legs...EIGHT tiny reindeer...eh? Eh? See how we got here? Thanks, nightmare horse!)
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Above: An excellent prancer AND dancer. 
And if Odin was feeling particularly charitable and not in the mood for horrific acts of arson, children would also leave their shoes out for him--it was said that he’d put gifts in your boots to ring in a happy new year.
If all that didn’t work and the Vikings heard the hunt approaching, they would resort to throwing themselves on the ground and covering their heads while the massive party sped above them like a giant Halloween rager. 
So this holiday season, leave your boots out for Odin and some carrots out for his giant spider horse or you and your entire family will die in a fiery inferno, the end.
3. Yule Logs
Speaking of Scandinavia, another Northern European winter solstice tradition was the yule log. Today, if you google “yule log,” something like this will pop up:
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...which isn’t an actual log, but is instead log-shaped food that you shove into your mouth along with 500 other cakes at the same time because it’s CHRISTMAS, and I’m having ME TIME; so WHAT if I ate the whole jar of Nutella by myself, alone, in the dark at 3 am?
But that log cake is actually inspired by actual logs of yore that Celtic, Germanic, and Scandinavian peoples decorated with fragrant plants like holly, ivy, pinecones, and other Stuff That Smells Nice before tossing the log into the fire.
This served a few purposes: 
It smelled nice, and Bath and Body Works scented candles hadn’t been invented yet.
It had religious and/or spiritual significance as a way to mark the winter solstice.
It was a symbolic way of ringing in the new year and kicking out the old.
Common belief held that the ashes of a yule log could ward off lightning strikes and bad energy.
Winter cold. Fire warm.
Everybody loves to watch things burn. (See: Odin.)
The yule log cakes we eat today got their start in 19th century Paris, when bakers thought it was a cute idea to resurrect an ancient pagan tradition in the form of a delicious dessert, and boy, howdy, were they right.
In any case, I’m 100% down with eating a chocolate yule log while burning an actual yule log in my backyard because everybody loves to watch things burn; winter cold, fire warm; and hnnnngggg pine tree smell hnnnnggg.
(Quick note:  The word “yule” is  the name of a traditional pagan winter festival, still celebrated culturally or religiously in modern pagan practice. It’s also another name for Odin. He had a bunch of other names, one of the most well-known being jólfaðr, which is Old Norse for “Yule father.” If you would like to royally piss him off, or if you are Loki, feel free to call him “Yule Daddy.”)
4. Upside down Christmas trees
I just found out that apparently, upside down Christmas trees are a hot new trend with HGTV types this year, so I guess this is one historical trend we did bring back, meaning it doesn’t really belong on this list, but I’m gonna talk about it, anyway.
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Side note: Oh, my god, that BANNISTER. I NEED.
Historians aren’t actually sure where the inverted Christmas tree thing came from, but we know people were bringing home trees and then hanging them upside down in the living room as early as the 7th century. We have a couple theories as to why people turned trees on their heads:
Logistically, it’s way easier to hang a giant pine tree from your rafters upside down by its trunk and roots. You just hoist that baby up there, wind some rope around the rafter and the trunk, and boom. Start decorating.
A Christian tradition says that one day in the 7th century, a Benedictine monk named Saint Boniface stumbled across a group of pagans worshipping an oak tree. So, instead of minding his own damn business, he cut the tree down and replaced it with a fir tree. While the pagans were like, “Dude, what the hell?” Boniface used the triangular shape of the fir tree to explain the concept of the holy trinity to the pagans. Some versions have him planting it right-side up, others having him displaying a fir tree upside down. Either way, it’s still a triangle that’s a solid but ultimately very rude way of explaining God. Word’s still out on whether anyone was converted or just rightly pissed off that this random guy strolled into their place of worship, chopped down their sacred tree, and plopped HIS tree down instead. Please do not do that this holiday season.
Eastern Europeans lay claim to the upside-down tree phenomenon with a tradition called podłazniczek in Poland--people hung the tree from the ceiling and decorated it with fruits and nuts and seeds and ribbons and other festive doodads. 
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(God, who lives in these houses? Look at that. That’s like a swanky version of Gaston’s hunting lodge. Where do I get one? Which enchanted castle do I have to stumble into to chill out in a Christmas living room like that?)
Today, at least in the West, upside-down trees are making a comeback because...I don’t know. Chip and Joanna Gaines said so. 
Some folks say it’s a surefire way to keep your cats from clawing their way through the tree and then puking up fir needles for weeks afterward, which checks out for me.
5. Incredibly weird Victorian Christmas cards
So back in the 19th century, the Christmas card industry was really getting fired up. Victorians loved their mail, let me tell you. They loved sending it. They loved getting it. They loved writing it. They loved opening it. They loved those sexy wax seals you use to keep all that sweet, sweet mail inside that sizzling envelope. (Those things are incredibly sexy. Have you ever made a wax seal? Oh, man, it’s hot.)
The problem, though, was that while the Victorians arguably helped standardize many of the holiday traditions we know and love today (Christmas trees, caroling, Dickens everything, spending too much money, etc.) back in 1800-whenever, a lot of that Christmas symbolism was, um...still under construction. No one had really agreed on which visual holiday cues worked and which...didn’t.
Meaning everyone just kind of made up their own holiday symbols. Which resulted in monstrous aberrations like this card:
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What the hell is that? A beet? Is that a beet? Or a turnip? Why is it...oh, God, why does it have a man’s head? Why does the man beet have insect claws? 
What is it that he’s holding? A cookie? Cardboard? A terra cotta planter?
And then there’s this one:
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“A Merry Christmas to you,” it says, while depicting a brutal frog murder/mugging. 
What are you trying to tell me? Are you threatening me with this card? Is that it? Is this a threat? How the hell am I supposed to interpret this? “Merry Christmas, hide your money or you’re dead, you stupid bitch.”
Also, why is the dead frog naked? Did the other frog steal his clothes after the murder? WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO WITH THIS?
Victorian holiday cards also doubled as early absurdist Internet memes, apparently, because how else do I explain this?
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Is this some sort of tiny animal Santa? A mouse riding a lobster? Like, the mouse, I get. Mice are fine. Disney built an empire on a mouse. And look, he’s got a little list of things he’s presumably going to bring you: Peace, joy, health, happiness. (In French. Oh, wait, is that that Patton Oswalt rat?)
But a LOBSTER? What’s with the lobster? It’s basically a sea scorpion. Why in the name of all that is good and holy would you saddle up a LOBSTER? I hate it. I hate it so, so much. Just scurrying around the floor with more legs than are strictly necessary, smelling like the seafood section of Smith’s, snapping its giant claws.
This whole card is a health inspector’s worst nightmare. It really is.
I gotta say, though, I am a fan of this one:
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Presumably, that polar bear is going in for a hug because nothing stamps out a polar bear’s innate desire to rip your face from your skull than candy canes and Coke and Christmas spirit.
This next one is actually fantastic, but for all the wrong reasons:
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I know everyone overuses “same” these days but geez, LOOK at that kid. I can HEAR it. SAME.
If you’ve ever been in a shopping mall stuffed with kids, nothing sums it up better than this card. This is like the perverse version of those Anne Geddes portraits that were everywhere in the late 90s. “Make wee Jacob sit in the tea pot; everyone will--Jacob, STOP, look at Mommy; I said LOOK. AT. MOMMY--everyone will love it.”
Actually, you know what? Every other Christmas card is cancelled. This is the only card we will be using from now on. This is it. 
Wait, no. We can also use this one:
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Merry Christmas. Here’s a fuckin’...just a dead fuckin’ bird.
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dorseygordon68-blog · 5 years
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6,000 Years of Murder – Part Six: Things Fall Apart
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Tim: The Wicked + The Divine #36 finally gave us a definitive list of every damn Recurrence that has occurred since Ananke first started exploding heads, so we thought we’d take a walk through the annals of history and provide some context for what was happening at the time. Welcome to 6,000 Years of Murder.
Our sixth octet of Recurrences bridges the gap between BC and AD, and sees two great powers rise, in the form of the Han Dynasty and the Roman Republic, only for them to crumble into bloodshed and chaos. Feels like an appropriate arc for WicDiv, no?
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188BC – Eastern China When we last left China, the Zhou dynasty was starting to crumble back into a series of smaller territories, but since then, the Qin imperial dynasty has reunited the country. Now, we’ve begun the Han dynasty, considered a golden age in Chinese history, with China’s majority ethnic group still calling themselves the ‘Han Chinese’ and modern Chinese script often referred to as ‘Han characters’. 188BC sees Emperor Hui of Han die aged just 22 (maybe he was in the Pantheon?) and his domineering mother Empress Dowager Lü take the throne, having already been the power behind it.
Also occurring since we last checked in on China? The birth, life and death of Confucius, one of China’s most influential philosophers. His teaching, which emphasised personal and state morality, justice, sincerity and social harmony, will form one of the central schools of thought for the rest of China’s history. It emerged during a period called the Hundred Schools of Thought, a time of great cultural and intellectual expansion that occurred during the Warring States era. Alongside Confucianism, important Chinese philosophies like Taoism and Legalism were also developed, and their interplay will shape China for centuries to come.
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96BC – Etruria The Roman Republic has been chugging along for around 300 years at this point, so we should probably pay some attention to it. As the name suggests, Rome is still a republic at this point, controlled by a Senate and giving at least the tip of a hat towards the notion of democracy popularised by the Greeks. However, little Julius Caesar, currently four years old, will soon put an end to that and transform the already successful republic into an Empire that will conquer much of Europe, the Middle East and beyond.
It’s worth noting that this Recurrence doesn’t take us to Rome itself but Etruria, the cradle of an earlier culture in Northern Italy that was assimilated into the Roman Republic around 300 years earlier. I couldn’t nail down a concrete reason for this choice, but my current working theory is that, as one of the first cultures absorbed into Rome, Etruria represents the way that the Empire will go on to suck in and process so many of the surrounding civilisations.
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4BC – Judea When a series is focused on humans ascending to godhood throughout history, cultivating great followings and bringing about change before dying young, it makes sense that we ended up in Judea in time for Jesus’ birth (yes, contrary to what you’d think, Jesus was born between 6-4BC, to allow Herod to be King upon his birth). As you can imagine during this period, despite travelling almost 1,500 miles from our last Recurrence, we haven’t outpaced the Romans, who annexed Judea in 63BC, shortly before transforming from a republic into an empire.
Herod was designated “King of the Jews” shortly after the Roman conquest, gaining military control in 37BC. He dies just as we visit, in 4BC, and will split Judea up amongst his sons, who are largely inept and rejected by the people in favour of more direct Roman rule. Even then, Jews living in the province still maintained some form of independence, able to judge offenders by their own laws. This independence was also the root of several rebellions that brewed in the area over the next 150 years, eventually resulting in the Romans renaming large areas to try to erase the historical ties Jewish people had to the region. That didn’t really go over very well.
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88AD – Teotihuacan We’ve crossed over into Anno Domini - the numbers start going up from here! To celebrate, let’s take a trip to the largest city in the pre-Columbian Americas and the sixth largest city in the world: Teotihuacan. Located in a sub-valley of the Valley of Mexico, and just 25 miles from modern-day Mexico City, this metropolis boasted advanced building techniques including multi-storey residential blocks. Like other Mesoamerican sites, the urban planning was incredibly precise, oriented to the progression of the sun and stars, making the entire city a living calendar.
Quite who constructed Teotihuacan is unknown. Archaeological evidence suggests it was a multi-ethnic city, with distinct quarters occupied by the Otomi, Zapotec, Mixtec, Maya and Nahua peoples. Originally, it was presumed that the Toltecs were behind initial construction, based on colonial-era texts that quote Nahuatl-speaking Aztecs. However, the Nahuatl word “toltec” means “craftsman of the highest level”, and so might not refer specifically to the Toltec civilisation. It’s now generally assumed that settlement began around 300BC by the Totanac people, with the city reaching its zenith around 450AD.
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181AD – South East Asia So far, our dalliances in Asia have mostly been centred on modern-day India and China, but that leaves large areas unaccounted for. Merchants throughout the region are busy establishing the Silk Road to China, but trade is also occurring via sea, taking you close to the Mekong Delta in present-day Vietnam. Right now, that area is part of the Funan network of states. Like Teotihuacan, modern understanding of Funan and the people that founded it is heavily debated. A lot of evidence, including the name we give it, comes from a single report by two Chinese diplomats, and given that China was often trying to conquer this part of the world, should be taken with a pinch of salt.
There’s a boss-ass folktale surrounding the region’s founding which involves a genie, a magic bow and a snake princess, but we can probably (unfortunately) also file that under “dubious”. What we do know is that Roman, Chinese and Indian goods have all been excavated in the area, suggesting a truly powerful trading centre. The Mekong Delta was perfect for both rice cultivation and fishing, further helping the area’s economy, and tactical conquests and colonies meant that at points, the kingdom controlled the entire trade route from Malaysia to central Vietnam.
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271AD – Eastern China The Han period in China may have had a massive impact that continues to today, but it had to end at some point, that point being around 220, not long after the awesome Battle of Red Cliffs (see the great John Woo film starring Tony Leung for more details). Prior to this, there was already considerable infighting between various kingdoms and warlords as the Han dynasty weakened, and with it dissolved, we reach the Three Kingdoms period - a slight misnomer given that each of the states (Wei, Shu and Wu) had an emperor claiming the right to rule over all of China. By 271, the Shu have already conquered by the Wei, who shortly afterwards are usurped by the Jin dynasty, and in 280, the Jin will conquer the Wu, reuniting China.
While the Three Kingdoms period may only less than 100 years, from the Han Dynasty weakening to the Jin emerging triumphant, this period is the most bloodthirsty in the country’s history. As much as 60 per cent of the population may have been killed due to high conscription levels, brutal massacres and widespread famine. Despite this, the period also saw considerable advances in technology, include improvements on the repeating crossbow, mechanical puppet theatres and non-magnetic compasses that used differential gears. Still, Ananke’s visit seems remarkably tranquil for such a period of upheaval.
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364AD – Eastern Europe The Roman Empire is still doing its thing, but change is on the horizon. Constantine has ended the persecution of Christians after converting, and has shifted the Roman capital to New Rome AKA Constantinople to be closer to his rivals the Sassanid Empire. Meanwhile, out in Central Asia, the Caucasus and Eastern Europe, a number of nomadic warrior tribes have formed a loose confederation called the Huns. While their best known leader Attila won’t be born for another 40 years, they are doing their best to disrupt things for both the Sassanids and the Romans, attacking settlements across Eastern Europe.
The Huns attacks didn’t come out of nowhere - it’s likely that the El Niño Southern Oscillation caused a megadrought in Inner Asia, causing them to migrate to the edges of their own lands. Whatever caused their sudden attacks, they terrified the Romans, who associated them with the Antichrist and Gog and Magog (whom Alexander the Great had captured behind mountains, according to legend). Those superstitions probably weren’t helped by a massive earthquake that hit the Eastern Mediterranean the year after our visit, destroying parts of Crete, Greece, Egypt, Libya, Sicily and Cyprus.
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454AD – Germania Our first Recurrence that we’ve seen before, in the 455 Special. Persephone’s death takes place the year before the Roman Lucifer went all “meat-harpy”, and her placement in Germania suggests she may have been part of the Vandals, who we see invading Rome in the Special, rather than a Roman citizen like Lucifer and Bacchus. By this point, the Roman Empire has split in two following the death of Theodosius I, with the Eastern part to remain going as the Byzantine Empire, and the Western part (where we are) soon to fall.
Rome, as we find it, is beset on all sides. In the East, our old friends the Huns are attacking, Attila having just died and divided the Empire among his sons. The Visigoths are sometimes allies and sometimes enemies, depending on what they can get away with. Anglo-Saxons are settling Britain, and in Germania, tribes including the Suebi, the Alans and the Vandals have been ransacking towns and establishing their own kingdoms. The Vandals, led by Genseric (who also appears in the Special) establish a kingdom that includes Corsica, Malta and parts of Africa, and while originally thought to be part of the destruction of Rome, are now thought to have acted as inheritors of many Roman traditions. They’ve certainly inherited Ananke’s efficiency at disposing of heads.
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Fifteen years ago, Hollywood’s glittering superstars—among them Meryl Streep— were on their feet cheering for Roman Polanski, the convicted child rapist and fugitive from justice, when he won the 2003 Academy Award for Best Director. But famous sex criminals of the motion picture and television arts have lately fallen out of fashion, as the industry attempts not just to police itself but—where would we be without them?—to instruct all of us on how to lead our lives.
The Golden Globes ceremony had the angry, unofficial theme of  “Time’s Up,” which quickly and predictably became unmoored from its original meaning, as excited winners tried to align their entertaining movies and TV shows with the message. By the time Laura Dern—a quiver in her voice—connected the nighttime soap opera Big Little Lies to America’s need to institute “restorative justice,” it seemed we’d set a course for the moon but ended up on Jupiter: close, but still 300 million miles away. And then Oprah Winfrey climbed the stairs to the stage, and I knew she wouldn’t just bat clean-up; she’d bring home the pennant.
Winfrey began speaking to crowds at the age of 3. “Little Miss Winfrey is here to do the recitation,” the preacher would say, and the whole congregation would lean in to listen to the remarkable child. As far as sexual abuse is involved, no one speaks with greater personal authority; the first time she was raped, she was 9.  “I knew it was bad,” she said later, “because it hurt so badly.” From the second she started speaking at the Golden Globes, filling the ballroom at the Beverly Hilton with her rich, confident, and sui generis voice, she gave the night what it had so desperately wanted: emotional coherence.  
She smoothly accomplished what other speakers had struggled to do: She connected the grotesque but statistically insignificant problem of sexual harassment in Hollywood to the larger fate of women and girls. “It’s not just a story affecting the entertainment industry,” she said; “it’s one that transcends any culture, geography, race, religion, politics, or workplace.” She said that a new day was on the horizon—this was near the end of the speech, by which point she could have marched the crowd right over to The Weinstein Company and torched the place—and that the catalyst for this important change was the number of women willing to “speak their truth.” In that moment, all us watching from home witnessed the revolution become a movement.
Less than a week later, the movement became a racket. A previously obscure website called Babe, which is operated by a group of very young women in Brooklyn, got a hot tip. Through the grapevine, the staff had heard that another young Brooklyn woman had been talking about being sexually violated by the comic Aziz Ansari. They reached out to a woman they called “Grace,” persuaded her to “speak her truth,” albeit anonymously, and rushed the piece into publication: Ansari was given less than six hours to respond to these reputation-destroying allegations. There was no need for the furious pace—this wasn’t a breaking story about a political election or a natural disaster—which seemed to have been motivated by the urgency of the “Time’s Up” motto. Almost immediately the piece became the object of intense cultural interest, with many commentators (including myself) deciding that Ansari had been unfairly treated by the website. Just as many others, particularly young women, said that the account resonated deeply with them, and concluded that Ansari had violated Grace.
Predictably, the piece drove huge traffic to Babe, and visitors who explored the site were exposed to its credo: Babe is created by and for “girls who don’t give a fuck.” Collectively, the articles address what the site suggests are universal conditions of the young female heart, or at least conditions universal to its fans. Unfortunately, many of these shared concerns boil down to an almost exact list of traits which blatantly misogynist websites like Return of Kings have enumerated for years. 
The Babe girl is 
MANIPULATIVE (“Period-Trapping Is the Only Way to Find Out if You’re in a Relationship or Not”)
INSECURE (“You Should Be Secretly Looking Through Your Partner’s Phone”)
ADDICTED TO DRAMA (“We Pranked Our Exes and Asked Them to Be Our New Year’s Kiss and It Was a Complete Disaster”)
JEALOUS (“You’re Not Paranoid: This Is How to Tell If Someone Else Is Closing In on Your Man”)
OBSESSED WITH TEARING DOWN THE SAME FEMALE SHE’S IDOLIZES & ENVIES (“Amber Rose’s Plastic Surgery Is Absolutely a Feminist Statement” and  “Sorry, but Kendall Jenner Can’t Model for Shit”). 
The Ansari piece was written by a recent college graduate named Katie Way, who shot into the popular awareness like a rocket blasting away from Cape Canaveral on Sunday night, only to plummet—flaming and disintegrating—by Wednesday. On Monday, she was excited to appear on CBS This Morning to discuss her piece, tweeting, “Catch me on @CBSThisMorning brrright and early tomorrow morning, can’t wait for America to hear my weird low voice.” But her anger toward those who would question her motives and moral rightness was soon piqued by the HLN news analysis show Crime & Justice. The host, Ashleigh Banfield, read an open letter to “Grace” in which she said, “You have chiseled away at a movement that I, along with all of my sisters in the workplace, have been dreaming of for decades.”
The producers reached out to Way, via a direct message on social media, inviting her to come on the show to discuss the essay. At this point, Way abandoned the low voice for the high-pitched screech of the angry teenager. She wrote back that she wouldn’t go on the program, principally because Banfield was too old and unattractive, called her a “burgundy lipstick, bad highlights, second-wave feminist has-been,” and said that “no woman my age would ever watch your network. I will remember this for the rest of my career—I’m 22 and so far, not too shabby!”
I happened to be sitting in a Los Angeles green room waiting to appear on Crime & Justice the night when Banfield read part of this fantastical letter on the air, at which point the entire Katie Way arc of the story seemed to have turned into an unfilmed episode of Girls: the time Hannah wrote a hit-piece on a famous celebrity but only did half the amount of work required, and when confronted about it by a respected journalist she fired off a nasty letter that might have seemed like a great idea in the moment but ended up getting read on national television. Suffice it to say, it seemed that Katie Way—beloved only child, recent graduate of Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism, nongiver of fucks—had bitten off more than she could chew.  
Like many news and information websites created by young women, Babepublishes many stories on sexual assault. But unlike most other such outfits, it also runs stories about the pleasure of rape fantasies. Feminists have fought for years to keep the notion of rape fantasy as far as it could possibly get from actual reports of sexual assault. But those were feminists who gave a fuck. Babegleefully, witlessly runs angry pieces about sexual assault as part of the same cotton-candy pink, swirling galaxy as the ones that describe the pleasures of fantasizing about rape. The site has devoted many pixels to explaining to readers how enjoyable and common these fantasies are.
Babe explains to readers that rape fantasies serve lots of worthy sexual desires: “You want to know you’re wanted”
 (“A Clinical Psychologist Revealed Why Women Have Rape Fantasies and It’s Totally Fascinating”)
 “What I like about rape fantasies is the loss of control” (“These Women Revealed Why They’re Into Rape Fantasies”)
 “It’s all about ‘sexual desirability’” (“There’s a Major Rape Fantasy Sub-Culture Out There That’s Pretty Intense”)
 “I hear how rape fantasies can be exciting and fun, even for those who have been raped. It’s not an unhealthy expression of sexuality” (“A Sexologist Explains Why Women Have Rape Fantasies”)
 “I beg him to stop while he carries on fucking me harder and harder. I dig my nails into his back with tears in my eyes and whisper that I want to go home” (“Sex IRL: The Grad Student With Graphic Rape Fantasies”).  
Many of the pieces on actual sexual assault are filled with the precise, clinical detail that is the hallmark of reporting on the subject, such as the texts between two high school students after a drunken hook-up which the girl said constituted an assault, but which the boy thinks was not: “Wanna clarify that we didn’t fuck last night … I ate you out and fingered you, but that’s it.”
Obviously these two types of story are in conversation with one another. For girls who enjoy rape fantasies, the vividly reported sexual assault reports provide a world of concrete details to feed into them.
Katie Way’s college interests were journalism and creative writing. At Northwestern she wrote skillfully composed short stories in a vein of fiction she admired: magical realism. One of the reasons her Babe story has such an impact on readers—other than its naming of a very famous man—was its literary skill: It’s filled with precise details, and provides an immersive, world-building reading experience. On a “beautiful, warm September night” Ansari and Grace walked together to a romantic dinner spot, “Grand Banks, an Oyster bar onboard a historic wooden schooner on the Hudson River.” Over lobster rolls and a bottle of wine, they chatted about things that mattered to Grace: NYU, photography, and “a new, secret project” that Ansari was working on. They headed back to his apartment located in “an exclusive address on TriBeCa’s Franklin Street, where Taylor Swift has a place too.”
It was a night when a rich, successful, older man was taking a huge amount of interest in a young woman and treating her well: taking her to a fancy dinner, paying the check, listening to her stories. It’s a dream date. And then—as soon as they walk through the door of his apartment—the story turns dark and terrible. The language that Way uses to describe it is not the straight-ahead dispassionate language of crime reporting; it’s the language of pornography:  “‘Where do you want me to fuck you? Do you want me to fuck you right here?’ He rammed his penis against her ass while he said it, pantomiming intercourse.”
The piece, with its dreamy opening, its pornographic passages, and its tone of aggrieved score-keeping over petty slights—HE DID OFFER HER THE KIND OF WINE SHE LIKES—has stirred something in young women.  
But the piece is the almost inevitable consequence of a lifestyle promoted on the website, which enjoins young women to fulfill men’s sexual desires and to— literally—behave whorishly. Or, as a wrap-up of Babe’s 2017 service journalismput it: “You now know how to give life-changing blow-jobs, what it’s like to have rape fantasies, what percent hoe you are based on a scientifically accurate quiz, and how to keep your lipstick on even if your mouth is … otherwise occupied.”
Pulsing underneath all of this is the exact emotion which Katie Way lost control of Wednesday night: rage, so overpowering and so poorly understood that it can easily erupt and excoriate the wrong person.
In such swirls of high emotion and with diffuse goals, social entrepreneurship becomes lucrative. This Ansari episode, for example, has been a huge boon to the girls who don’t give a fuck, as they gleefully tell every reporter who asks them about it. As the writer Kerry Flynn wrote in an essay about the website published in Mashable, “For Babe, Grace's story was a big break—good for traffic and for the brand.”
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14 Ways Important Historical Figures Used Marijuana
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Marijuana use has an extended historical past that predates the trendy day “stoners” we’ve grown accustomed to. Everyone knows concerning the ganja from India, and the weed from Jamaica, and we’ve memorized a listing of nations and states which have legalized leisure and medicinal marijuana use. However there are some vital historic figures and cultures who made necessary contributions to the event of frequent hashish utilization.
Whether or not they promoted rising weed, or just took just a few puffs and soared to new heights, these illustrious figures and cultures have all had an necessary inexperienced connection. From historic civilizations, to queens, to presidents, to emperors, this record of historic figures that used marijuana will shock and intrigue you.
These aren’t your common skateboarding stoner bros. A few of these historic icons made main contributions to world tradition, and historical past itself. Whether or not they blazed it, toked it, or smoked it, Mary Jane was a key ingredient in these leaders’ lives. Weed has positively been recognized to get the artistic juices flowing, and these distinguished historic figures are not any exception.
Are you stunned that a few of these folks smoked that wacky tobacc-y? Tell us what you consider these profitable pot people who smoke within the remark part under!
William Shakespeare
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Place in Historical past William Shakespeare was a 16th century English playwright who’s broadly thought of to be one of many biggest, if not the best, dramatists of all time. His performs, which embody such classics such Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, and Hamlet, are nonetheless carried out, tailored, and swooned over right now.
Place in Marijuana HistoryResearchers discovered traces of cannabis on clay pipes which got here from Shakespeare’s house in Stratford-Upon-Avon. We will’t make sure that these pipes belonged to Shakespeare himself, however we all know they had been made within the 17th century (Shakespeare died in 1616), and so they had been discovered on his property. Shakespeare additionally wrote about a “noted weed” in one of his sonnets. I feel we are able to all guess what he was speaking about…
Why It’s Superior Keep in mind these performs listed above? These aren’t the one ones: Shakespeare additionally penned A Midsummer Night time’s Dream, Othello, and Macbeth. If smoking a little bit of grass helped Shakespeare create masterpieces, then stoners in every single place have another excuse to guarantee their mother and father that they don’t seem to be, in actual fact, losing their lives. We might all like to see a sonnet composed by a recent pothead. Shall I examine thee to a Doritos Locos? Thou artwork extra flavorful and scrumptious.
Queen Victoria
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Place in Historical past Queen Victoria dominated the British Empire from 1837 till 1901. She continues to be Britain’s longest-ruling monarch, and helped information the nation by the adjustments that got here with industrialization and modernization.
Place in Marijuana Historical past Queen Victoria was an especially highly effective lady, and, like all girls, was visited every month by her pesky Aunt Flo. Not like most ladies, nevertheless, Queen Victoria had a bevy of physicians at her beck and name, all of whom needed to make their queen snug, which is why her non-public doctor, Sir J. Russell Reynolds, prescribed marijuana for her menstrual cramps. In an 1890 difficulty of The Lancet, one of many world’s oldest medical journals, Reynolds wrote that marijuana is “one of the useful medicines we possess.”
Why It’s Superior Ever hear of the Victorian period? That is the lady who embodied that repressed time interval, throughout which it was thought of scandalous to evensay the word “leg” in mixed company. So it’s superior to assume that the lady who led a nation in carrying corsets and eschewing all point out of bodily capabilities was secretly doping to be able to cope together with her PMS.
James Monroe
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James Monroe was the fifth president of the US. He was a consultant on the Continental Congress, and earlier than turning into president, he served as minister to each France and Britain.
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In his e-book, The Great Book of Hemp, Rowan Robinson wrote that Monroe “was launched to cannabis whereas he was serving as ambassador to France, and he continued to benefit from the smoke till he was seventy-three years outdated.”
Why It’s Superior
Rumors abound that lots of our Founding Fathers used marijuana, however most lack definitive proof. Robinson’s account of Monroe smoking cannabis when he went to France is probably the most stable supply for any of those claims. If it’s true, this may imply that Monroe would have continued smoking marijuana whereas he was within the White Home.
Egyptian Pharaohs
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Place in Historical past Earlier than there was a United States of America, a British Empire, or perhaps a Roman one, there have been the pharaohs of Egypt. The pharaohs presided over an excellent civilization on the banks of the Nile River. Dynasties in Historical Egyptian first gained energy in 3150 BC and lasted, in varying lines and kingdoms, until 30 BC.
Place in Marijuana Historical past Throughout their lengthy reign, dynasties of Historical Egypt began to make use of hashish. Cannabis pollen was found on the mummy of one pharaoh, Ramesses II. Details on medical papyrii describe a mess of medical makes use of for marijuana, together with therapy for hemorrhoids and sore eyes.
Why It’s Superior These guys constructed the pyramids! At the moment most individuals nonetheless doesn’t absolutely perceive how Historical Egypt was even capable of construct the pyramids, however they did it. So if Egyptian pharaohs felt that utilizing marijuana was a good suggestion, way back in 2000 BC, possibly we should always take heed to them.
Hua Tuo
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Place in Historical past Hua Tuo was a revered Chinese language scholar and physician who lived through the Han dynasty. Hua is credited with creating the world’s first anesthetic for performing surgical procedure, round 200 A.D.
Place in Marijuana Historical past The anesthesia that Hua concocted was known as mafeisan. Mafeisan was made by mixing cannabis powder with wine. Sadly, the precise recipe for Hua’s mafeisan is now unknown, a lot to the chagrin of school children in every single place.
Why It’s Superior Though the precise dates for Hua’s start and dying are unknown, he lived from about 140 to 208. Which implies that almost 2,000 years in the past, Hua’s sufferers had been comfortably sedated for surgical procedure, letting Hua carry out operations that might be unattainable in different elements of the world for hundreds of years. In distinction, Western drugs began utilizing anesthesia for surgical procedures within the 19th century.
William Brooke O’Shaughnessy
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Place in Historical past William O’Shaughnessy (1808 – 1889) was an Irish doctor. In 1833 he moved to Calcutta to work for the British East India firm. O’Shaughnessy stayed in India for 9 years, working as a health care provider and as a scientist.
Place in Marijuana Historical past Whereas working in India, O’Shaughnessy discovered about hashish. O’Shaughnessy was intrigued sufficient to begin researching marijuana. When he was again in England, O’Shaugnessy used hashish to deal with muscle spasms, vomiting, and diarrhea. He was so profitable that different Western docs quickly started utilizing the identical therapies.
Why It’s Superior William O’Shaughnessy introduced marijuana to the eye of contemporary Western drugs. In America, beginning within the 1840s, you would get marijuana virtually anyplace, due to its inclusion in a mess of patent medicines. With out O’Shaughnessy, who is aware of how lengthy it might’ve taken for Western drugs to clue into the advantages of hashish?
Historical Greeks
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Place in Historical past Historical Greece offered the inspiration for Western civilization. Historical Greek civilization lasted from about 750 BC to A.D. 600, throughout which era the Greeks invented democracy, developed philosophy, and wrote performs and poems which are nonetheless studied and carried out right now.
Place in Marijuana Historical past Along with the above improvements, historic Greeks additionally got here up with some new makes use of for marijuana. Varied Greek writers talked about utilizing hashish to do away with tapeworms, cease nosebleeds and cut back ear irritation. Sadly, their subsequent thought was to present teenage boys hemp seeds to be able to “dry up semen,” in order that the boys might make it by the evening with out undesirable ejaculations. Hopefully these sufferers a minimum of had just a few nice unintended effects.
Why It’s Superior These days teenage boys certainly get extra pleasure out of their marijuana use than boys in historic Greece did. However a minimum of the traditional Greeks had been open to utilizing hashish, not like many of the world right now. They usually removed tapeworm with marijuana, too. Let’s face it, no one likes tapeworms.
Ottomon Sultan Abdülaziz I
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Place in Historical past Abdülaziz I used to be the 32nd Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, ruling from 1861 to 1876. Eighteen seventy six was additionally the yr of America’s first World’s Honest, which Abdülaziz I attended. The Sultan arrange an exhibit that gave People an opportunity to be taught concerning the lengthy historical past and engaging tradition of the Ottoman Turks.
Place in Marijuana Historical past One of the best a part of the Sultan’s exhibit on the World’s Honest was the plethora of cannabis gifts that he introduced for the People. Hashish was an ideal accompaniment to the Turkish pavilion, the place the finer factors of smoking a hookah had been demonstrated to a captivated American public.
Why It’s Superior That is what a World’s Honest must be all about! People in 1876 proved themselves to be extraordinarily open-minded and able to strive new issues. The cannabis on the honest was so widespread that folks started opening Turkish smoking parlors all alongside the Northeast coast. It was rumored that there have been 500 of those parlors simply in Manhattan.
John F. Kennedy
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John F. Kennedy was president of the US within the early 1960’s, and he had the highest approval rating of any American president after World Warfare II. He was assassinated in Dallas, TX in November of 1963.
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A number of written accounts of JFK’s life declare that the president used marijuana to deal with his extreme again ache. He additionally could have used it recreationally. John F. Kennedy: A Biography incorporates a story about JFK smoking three joints with a lady named Mary Meyer. He allegedly mentioned, after the third joint, “Suppose the Russians did one thing now.”
Why It’s Superior
Loads of presidents and presidential candidates have admitted they smoked pot, however all of them declare to have solely achieved it once they had been younger. JFK lighting up within the White Home is a complete totally different story. Hopefully he wasn’t excessive when he made any actually necessary choices.
Scythians
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Place in Historical past The Scythians had been a individuals who shaped nomadic tribes, touring throughout Jap Europe and Central Asia from about 600 BC to AD 600. Scythians had been additionally fierce warriors. On the battlefield, Scythians had been recognized to behead their enemies and drink their blood. Greek historian Herodotus described Scythian tradition and rituals in his Histories.
Place in Marijuana Historical past Archeologists just lately found cannabis and opium residue at a preserved Scythian ritual web site. This helps Herodotus’ declare that the Scythians would throw hemp seeds on scorching stones to be able to produce steam “that no Grecian vapour-bath can surpass.” In response to Herodotus, the Scythians would carry out this ritual after a burial.
Why It’s Superior Okay, Scythians could have sown some destruction—ingesting an enemy’s blood is taking issues a bit too far. However they shared their stash with the folks they had been raiding, which was respectable of them. And if you need to wash off a whole lot of blood and gore, a ” marijuana sauna” feels like the way in which to do it.
Louisa Could Alcott
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Louisa Could Alcott was a 19th century American writer finest recognized for her novel, Little Girls. Alcott was additionally an outspoken abolitionist and suffragette. She was truly the primary lady in Harmony, Massachusetts to register to vote.
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There isn’t a document of Alcott admitting that she used marijuana, however her brief tales point out that she almost certainly did. She wrote one story known as “Perilous Play,” which entails two lovers getting excessive after which getting engaged on a ship. One character explains the consequences like this: “A heavenly dreaminess comes over one, through which they transfer as if on air.”
Why It’s Superior
Though Alcott didn’t admit to smoking herself, she did the subsequent smartest thing by writing a narrative that ended with the road, “Heaven bless cannabis, if its desires finish like this!” If that isn’t a ringing endorsement of weed, what’s?
Francis Crick
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Francis Crick was of two scientists (the opposite was James Watson) who earned the Nobel Prize for locating DNA in 1962. This discovery lay the bottom work trendy genetics.
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Although he by no means brazenly admitted to marijuana use, Crick’s biographer wrote that the scientist experimented each with marijuana and LSD.
Why It’s Superior
This completely shatters the stereotype that individuals who use medication like weed are unintelligent. Crick was one of the necessary scientists in trendy historical past. Saying he owes his genius to his drug use may be going too far, however lighting up every now and then definitely didn’t do him any harm.
Carl Sagan
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Carl Sagan was an American astronomer, cosmologist and astrophysicist who wrote a ton of scientific papers and books. He’s most well-known for his theories about extraterrestrial life, and for writing and narrating the TV collection, Cosmos: A Private Voyage. All through his life he earned a number of awards, together with a Pulitzer and two Emmys.
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When he was 35 years outdated, in 1969, Sagan wrote an essay beneath a pen title speaking concerning the insights he bought when he smoked marijuana, and advocating for marijuana legalization. Later in life, Sagan brazenly advocated for the legalization of medical marijuana. It wasn’t till three years after Sagan’s dying that the general public discovered he was the writer of that 1969 essay.
Why It’s Superior
Carl Sagan was an excellent scientist who wrote that being excessive truly helped him consider a few of his nice concepts. Sagan’s essay makes a robust case that marijuana is a useful software for intellectuals.
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next one oh yeah sure make off supply me ample to drink oh right oh howdy you big idiot what are you doing Duggan’s ah i don’t feel you should be getting up to this variety of nonsense come on up you guys will have to depart his chair idle for a at the same time simply look at that it’s thoroughly bald delicate as a little one’s at the back of you do all about that head so when you’re baptizing them the toddlers oh come on all the way down to the ball thanks Father oh no it can be the least we would do you are continually very good for father Jack the least you would do excuse me father obviously there may be a girl here to look you a lady mrs.Doyle I suppose you imply a quantity it can be a woman all right a young lady with a skirt i would be off then communicate hi there father Queenie sure i’m from Corliss Corliss and Sweeney oh we’re high-quality for bloodless Thanks oh howdy nothing to do with bloodless my identify is Laura Sweeney and this must be father McGuire anyway I feel you each higher sit down down I’ve acquired a bit of a shock for you earlier than you say whatever i want to assure you that that was only a movements relocation of fungus no no the money was once resting in my account earlier than I truely for illustration no you don’t fully grasp this is about father Hackett now please take a seat down and i’ll give an explanation for everything to you now it will come as a shock so that you can learn that father has left a will giddy what does it say well if I may i father Jack Hackett being of sound mind and body sorry leave my entire fortune to father Ted cruelly and father Dougal Maguire be allotted equally amongst them and sure has your Canadian father a mixed visible myself in yeah yeah hi there fathers yeah bye kiddo father Jack left his money very quality of them how a lot ha 1/2 half of one million pounds i do know between it is handiest a quarter of 1,000,000 every style that is that looks like you’re going to be very wealthy man grand is that invoice requirement which in surprise father Hackett failed to talk over with you and self oh when is the funeral once more again but we have not had the primary one but no sorry probably I failed to make myself clear it can be the next day to come morning correct good you realize about father Hackett’s terrible worry of being buried alive there’s no hazard of that now either I imply you know it’s useless terribly terrified of that that is why you would not do a confession he failed to like enclosed areas of direction he also just did not want to do it whats up the strangers telling you their sins sure who’d be troubled with that father hackus worry was once so exceptional that he stipulated the do to have to spend the night time before the burial with him okay all right sir so that is the least we are able to do anyway we are able to talk about it with the solicitor i am the solicitor no you are no longer i’m sorry but i am a senior partner in Corliss Corliss and Sweeney now come on now simply due to the fact that had been from the islands you consider which you could have a little of fun with us I guarantee you all correct all proper the big tickles from the island oh but we’re now not as in poor health as we look right here no manner Jose why do you consider i’ve been talking to you for the final hour and a 1/2 seem you are a beautiful girl however I quite think we should talk to the solicitor if you’re a solicitor i am Boy George the cameras are automatically or methods to head head not too bad it is actual to assert about these career weather very aggressive yeah she was once very aggressive wasn’t she dead or on the language of her you wouldn’t hear it from a daughter i might say may be very bad language condition effing das used to be worse than that pet you feel good Google anyway who’d applause father Jack is 1/2 1,000,000 pounds he not ever mentioned a phrase about it sayers used to be lying the bank account all these years he get it all within the first position well so far as I fully grasp she was once just an astute saver you attempt to restrict giving money to charity chalices during the summer that undoubtedly saved a couple of Bob and the place all forms of little less financial savings right here and there far and wide the location all of it provides up you understand I consider we handiest really knew him in his twilight years I consider we noticed the nice in a really lovely man authentic knight of the church smooth lovely sense of humor sufferer good-natured sorry Ted who is this man who do you believe i’d be speaking about at this unique moment Dougal so i am now not certain I failed to trap the start Jack of path all proper Jess yeah a great priest first priest to denounce the Beatles that’s proper you might see what they had been up to and he loves children of course oh he did sure they have been petrified of him though well he had that stick you know and he’d be far from that stick and definite possibly the cardboard he’d hit he was once sitting in some columns and he used to be a satisfactory believer in discipline a just right instructor friend of mine haddem father Jimmy Randazzo studied underneath him for a couple of years he instructed me as soon as he said no one nobody had this kind of significant effect on him as father Jack father Jimmy Randall oh yeah anything occurred to him do you bear in mind the drums Shambo bloodbath yeah that was him a different factor about Jack he cherished to be the competitors in a best sense of fair play and a first-rate traditionalist he did not accept as true with a variety of the modern-day thinking within the church humorous one moment you’re here the subsequent moment and in the completely satisfied no time of his sleeping demise took him via the hand you realize someone as soon as stated that lifestyles is but a thin sliver of Lights between two immensities of darkness makes you suppose those robotic about dying Google about dying that’s very ethical however isn’t its head what started off enthusiastic about dying nonetheless it is excellent we’ve got this time of them perhaps mostly we weren’t perpetually as thoughtful as we could were however at the least now we’re in a position to have this time with them treat him with the admire he deserves you’re correct there Ted do you fancy now get mature ad yes I think so nice so you go for it proper i’m going to begin i’ll provide you with an effortless one with a fishing egg long gone fishing nothing to do is boxing every 100 boxing you’re not supposed to tell me Ted k Philip one sir one phrases come on and you’re making a little bit too convenient for me a further wants to grasp correct a further set of can’t be too lots of them Salem’s Lot their tongue yep–no enamel and is just a little Tong Tong Tong and tongue fish went improper and a fish assault of the dye killing fish and tooling come fish and the deep brahmin joel to ancient coast then and papa – Superman – Oh Batman return how does John recognize i don’t rotate it can be a different little bit of it’s an awfully exclusive for the exclusive share still wakeful it simply wish to ask you a query are usually not once more Google appear when a person and a girl are very much in love there so I failed to need to ask I mentioned I simply wish to ask you do you feel in an afterlife to whitewash do you think in an afterlife as Google most commonly speaking clergymen are inclined to have a very powerful notion in the afterlife or I desire I had your face head Dogen how did you get into the church was it like accumulate 12 crisp acts to grow to be a priest good day dude please let me go to sleep I used to be just questioning what are you going to do along with your share of the money well I luckily there are lots of charity companies which can be grateful for money there may be drawback Saint Vincent DePaul meals for Africa healthful aging and maybe a number of kilos for comedian comfort so some just right will come from father Jack sticks carrot woman’s gone though isn’t it ah you are right there attending to snow once more sleek silver and are falling obliquely towards the lamplight it is most likely snowing all over the island from the imperative plane from the treeless Hills falling softly upon the graveyards on the crosses and the headstones on the entire residing and the dead what’s improper useless father Jack did you see what occurred Ted what occurred father Jack oh so there he is risen from the lifeless like that fella et there may be one factor that confuses need oh sure it is simply useless dinner used to be it appears now not the floor polish it induced all of the symptoms of demise similar to no heartbeat rigor mortis decomposition what it’s watching defects just battle outstanding you might want to have him again although is not it hmm who needs half one million pounds anyway sure sir our lifestyles is the spiritual life but to be sincere i do not like speakme about this nevertheless it’s most effective a matter of time I imply he’s not a younger man and you realize and that i believe when he’s gonna won’t be so bad the money will probably be some variety of alleviation to us something now you better come right down to the stores with me I need to purchase some extra flooring polish maybe we will have to get a number of extraordinary manufacturers you realize just to check out them out like sure there used to be in this room all around the apartment for the Vulgate misplaced or we might i will be able to preserve an eye fixed on them Frank you you
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"Grant Unto Him Eternal Rest" | Father Ted | Series 1 Episode 6 | Dead Parrot
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I do work do not they do just right oh you are correct there Ted you so then you’re a nun correct sister Monica I’ve let your luggage within the hall I talked before we dropped you at the boat you would like to enter the holy stone know what the holy stone of Clan Richard Oh Chris it’s some of the holiest lumps of rock in Europe and that you could get these exceptional souvenir combs there there fantastic dwelling I bought this one last 12 months and you will see that there the Britain I noticed the holy stone of clown file the stone is first-rate we have noticeable it I consider about 300 occasions good why to not journey off the weekend in case you taught the new donations wonderful it is going to drag it proper over the threshold i’ll be main as much as the holy stone what’s the holy invited anywhere father it is only a normal variety of entire harmless father doing could be sited there once for about ten minutes and he bought a great feel of serenity yes I got pleasant balls place of business why is it known as the holy stone uh on record I suggestion plum record was once in from Anna it is the holy stone used to be up there but I wasn’t doing excellent industry oh he is in retailer fear wonder son I just go and freshen up she’ll be hanging on make-up I consider huh press the lads huh and oh she’s quite often just going to the bathroom nuns high-quality old head it can be excellent seeing that you do not suppose as fearful for harm to do it actual ladies do are you proper there despite the fact that I simplest bought the courage to talk to her a few minutes in the past it is first-rate to have a identified around offers the situation a little of glamour well a girl’s contact anyway hear I’ve ever gone around telling her off Ted says you were touching them for the jack you’re all correct they may be capable for another day i’m off with sister Monica now if the MIT man calls the money’s on the Statue of our gigantic being embarrassed with the aid of the Romans all right then like a cup of tea earlier than i am going morning father i do know you is not going to intellect us leaving you on my own on account that the entire can we obtained that new video for you Reservoir dogs it is anything out is five insist the ones you most of the time like what’s your plan supply it a go what are you doing this looks very dangerous Ted what he’s very under the influence of alcohol nonetheless to not be not at all first-rate prettily hiders I have no idea i have until this unhealthy in view that prime wedding in Kona Ted do you consider then he disappeared off with sister Imelda god yes the blue nun oh no Ted seem at this Oh God maintain it father this is very unhealthy do not don’t forget what the window Dean did you what distinct father Jack are you there Ted imagine the harm flooring polish would do you my pricey God Ted what is this I imply giant affliction Ted put it down then Oh God Google mall we gotta get get him under the arm come on low father monster contest this morning a factor like this come on gigantic steps the next day to come there you’re sister Monica I simply father Jack set motor takes little time to get going in the morning not taking part in oh he is grand we’re just taking him on the little trip to the toilet once we go on slightly travel to the bathroom father i’m going there ample definite and we’ve got a appear at him he doesn’t like to be fucked over hi there particularly consider you should let me seem at him Holy mother of God he’s dead what’s the problem there sister dancer he’s stone-bloodless come on now father you are not dead are you come on father the comic story came father he’s gone I feel you will have to go and get help and father did not hear can get the sacrament rice after I call dr.Sinister frankly I believe you are making a gigantic fuss about nothing the final rites father all proper yeah direction I mustn’t we wait for Ted however there is no want really is there any a night noise no I consider it’s up drank it last week you sure you wouldn’t love to do the honors your self no of course no longer I think I consider i’m carrying the trousers as far as this job goes hello good we’re gathered right here in these days to become a member of two humans that is not intercourse yeah well father rested up of path yeah there may be extra and sorry failed to get a chance to peer y’all do not know if I will have to be speakme to you down right here or up there look up there so anyway you’re there and that i with our Lord and Stalin and Bob Marley and the rest of them and of course my possess mom and dad and i take this opportunity to say load them hey mommy daddy i am hoping they seem and i see up there father all right Jack I told us to a cinema canister quarter Baggio during the doctor father rate when it looks bad all correct I uh I referred to as doctor soon as I gave him the signs over the telephone and he mentioned he is generally lifeless all correct the post nothing there is unhealthy adequate but the heart stopping is a real chance signal up my uncle and he was pleasant afterwards coronary heart stopped for how lengthy per week week quite and he was once high-quality afterwards absolutely no now I consider of it he died I feel it can be certainly satisfactory to see I mean the extent of commitment among the African church you carry within the face to the folks is simply amazing amazing isn’t it definite i wouldn’t be aware of i have not finished ego when you’ve got a sandwich father Cleary no thanks mrs.Doing i am quality have a are trying they may be diagonal i will show a sequestered no thanks anyway i’m going on certain they are simplest small no no are you sure you will not have one no thanks mrs. Doyle I ate earlier than I got here out would you like one for nature I could put it in a bag oh no no no slightly bag that you may convey one Oh No and here’s a higher bag which you could poke a bit of tagging and that you could effortlessly very greeted now if you want something suits you i can have one now not certain I would as good become a member of father Mac they may be messy we should not have my I stand before you late said on the car the vehicle broke down that’s not my father cost how are you oh he’s this used to be very rapid oh yes I feel so oh sure a brand new Zealand and a sister in South Africa whilst constantly the good ones are you bastard father he couldn’t beat poke experiment 2nd judgment to have it either side off suppose Ted a Polish quote it shouldn’t be Jackie but it’s now not what you realize is it it is who sad when seven books i am dari it was close for you already know he is lifeless useless constantly ever see if i will be able to uh I imply seeing in the next one oh yeah sure make off supply me ample to drink oh right oh howdy you big idiot what are you doing Duggan’s ah i don’t feel you should be getting up to this variety of nonsense come on up you guys will have to depart his chair idle for a at the same time simply look at that it’s thoroughly bald delicate as a little one’s at the back of you do all about that head so when you’re baptizing them the toddlers oh come on all the way down to the ball thanks Father oh no it can be the least we would do you are continually very good for father Jack the least you would do excuse me father obviously there may be a girl here to look you a lady mrs.Doyle I suppose you imply a quantity it can be a woman all right a young lady with a skirt i would be off then communicate hi there father Queenie sure i’m from Corliss Corliss and Sweeney oh we’re high-quality for bloodless Thanks oh howdy nothing to do with bloodless my identify is Laura Sweeney and this must be father McGuire anyway I feel you each higher sit down down I’ve acquired a bit of a shock for you earlier than you say whatever i want to assure you that that was only a movements relocation of fungus no no the money was once resting in my account earlier than I truely for illustration no you don’t fully grasp this is about father Hackett now please take a seat down and i’ll give an explanation for everything to you now it will come as a shock so that you can learn that father has left a will giddy what does it say well if I may i father Jack Hackett being of sound mind and body sorry leave my entire fortune to father Ted cruelly and father Dougal Maguire be allotted equally amongst them and sure has your Canadian father a mixed visible myself in yeah yeah hi there fathers yeah bye kiddo father Jack left his money very quality of them how a lot ha 1/2 half of one million pounds i do know between it is handiest a quarter of 1,000,000 every style that is that looks like you’re going to be very wealthy man grand is that invoice requirement which in surprise father Hackett failed to talk over with you and self oh when is the funeral once more again but we have not had the primary one but no sorry probably I failed to make myself clear it can be the next day to come morning correct good you realize about father Hackett’s terrible worry of being buried alive there’s no hazard of that now either I imply you know it’s useless terribly terrified of that that is why you would not do a confession he failed to like enclosed areas of direction he also just did not want to do it whats up the strangers telling you their sins sure who’d be troubled with that father hackus worry was once so exceptional that he stipulated the do to have to spend the night time before the burial with him okay all right sir so that is the least we are able to do anyway we are able to talk about it with the solicitor i am the solicitor no you are no longer i’m sorry but i am a senior partner in Corliss Corliss and Sweeney now come on now simply due to the fact that had been from the islands you consider which you could have a little of fun with us I guarantee you all correct all proper the big tickles from the island oh but we’re now not as in poor health as we look right here no manner Jose why do you consider i’ve been talking to you for the final hour and a 1/2 seem you are a beautiful girl however I quite think we should talk to the solicitor if you’re a solicitor i am Boy George the cameras are automatically or methods to head head not too bad it is actual to assert about these career weather very aggressive yeah she was once very aggressive wasn’t she dead or on the language of her you wouldn’t hear it from a daughter i might say may be very bad language condition effing das used to be worse than that pet you feel good Google anyway who’d applause father Jack is 1/2 1,000,000 pounds he not ever mentioned a phrase about it sayers used to be lying the bank account all these years he get it all within the first position well so far as I fully grasp she was once just an astute saver you attempt to restrict giving money to charity chalices during the summer that undoubtedly saved a couple of Bob and the place all forms of little less financial savings right here and there far and wide the location all of it provides up you understand I consider we handiest really knew him in his twilight years I consider we noticed the nice in a really lovely man authentic knight of the church smooth lovely sense of humor sufferer good-natured sorry Ted who is this man who do you believe i’d be speaking about at this unique moment Dougal so i am now not certain I failed to trap the start Jack of path all proper Jess yeah a great priest first priest to denounce the Beatles that’s proper you might see what they had been up to and he loves children of course oh he did sure they have been petrified of him though well he had that stick you know and he’d be far from that stick and definite possibly the cardboard he’d hit he was once sitting in some columns and he used to be a satisfactory believer in discipline a just right instructor friend of mine haddem father Jimmy Randazzo studied underneath him for a couple of years he instructed me as soon as he said no one nobody had this kind of significant effect on him as father Jack father Jimmy Randall oh yeah anything occurred to him do you bear in mind the drums Shambo bloodbath yeah that was him a different factor about Jack he cherished to be the competitors in a best sense of fair play and a first-rate traditionalist he did not accept as true with a variety of the modern-day thinking within the church humorous one moment you’re here the subsequent moment and in the completely satisfied no time of his sleeping demise took him via the hand you realize someone as soon as stated that lifestyles is but a thin sliver of Lights between two immensities of darkness makes you suppose those robotic about dying Google about dying that’s very ethical however isn’t its head what started off enthusiastic about dying nonetheless it is excellent we’ve got this time of them perhaps mostly we weren’t perpetually as thoughtful as we could were however at the least now we’re in a position to have this time with them treat him with the admire he deserves you’re correct there Ted do you fancy now get mature ad yes I think so nice so you go for it proper i’m going to begin i’ll provide you with an effortless one with a fishing egg long gone fishing nothing to do is boxing every 100 boxing you’re not supposed to tell me Ted k Philip one sir one phrases come on and you’re making a little bit too convenient for me a further wants to grasp correct a further set of can’t be too lots of them Salem’s Lot their tongue yep–no enamel and is just a little Tong Tong Tong and tongue fish went improper and a fish assault of the dye killing fish and tooling come fish and the deep brahmin joel to ancient coast then and papa – Superman – Oh Batman return how does John recognize i don’t rotate it can be a different little bit of it’s an awfully exclusive for the exclusive share still wakeful it simply wish to ask you a query are usually not once more Google appear when a person and a girl are very much in love there so I failed to need to ask I mentioned I simply wish to ask you do you feel in an afterlife to whitewash do you think in an afterlife as Google most commonly speaking clergymen are inclined to have a very powerful notion in the afterlife or I desire I had your face head Dogen how did you get into the church was it like accumulate 12 crisp acts to grow to be a priest good day dude please let me go to sleep I used to be just questioning what are you going to do along with your share of the money well I luckily there are lots of charity companies which can be grateful for money there may be drawback Saint Vincent DePaul meals for Africa healthful aging and maybe a number of kilos for comedian comfort so some just right will come from father Jack sticks carrot woman’s gone though isn’t it ah you are right there attending to snow once more sleek silver and are falling obliquely towards the lamplight it is most likely snowing all over the island from the imperative plane from the treeless Hills falling softly upon the graveyards on the crosses and the headstones on the entire residing and the dead what’s improper useless father Jack did you see what occurred Ted what occurred father Jack oh so there he is risen from the lifeless like that fella et there may be one factor that confuses need oh sure it is simply useless dinner used to be it appears now not the floor polish it induced all of the symptoms of demise similar to no heartbeat rigor mortis decomposition what it’s watching defects just battle outstanding you might want to have him again although is not it hmm who needs half one million pounds anyway sure sir our lifestyles is the spiritual life but to be sincere i do not like speakme about this nevertheless it’s most effective a matter of time I imply he’s not a younger man and you realize and that i believe when he’s gonna won’t be so bad the money will probably be some variety of alleviation to us something now you better come right down to the stores with me I need to purchase some extra flooring polish maybe we will have to get a number of extraordinary manufacturers you realize just to check out them out like sure there used to be in this room all around the apartment for the Vulgate misplaced or we might i will be able to preserve an eye fixed on them Frank you you
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Addendum, Part Twenty-Two (Chicago P.D.)
Title: Addendum
Chapter: Not All Cops (Part Twenty-Two)
Fandom: Chicago P.D.
Rating: T/PG-13
Author’s Note: This scene is set immediately after ADA Stone confronts Burgess with the video of her and Roman touching during “Justice” (3x21).
He reaches for the hand towel tossed over his shoulder at the sound of the knock on his front door; wipes the small slivers of red onion from his fingers onto the red and white checkered cloth at the the sound of the front door being pushed open and her voice softly calling out his name. His kitchen is small enough that she has nearly traversed its linoleum floor -- boots still on rather than lined up neatly by the front door -- in the amount of time it takes him to announce where he is.
Her hand slides across the small of his back when she reaches him -- the sound of the refrigerator door being yanked open cutting off the final syllable of her name as it rolls off his tongue -- and he slides his gaze from the chopped yellow onion and the unchopped green bell pepper and zucchini on the cutting board in front of him to watch her head disappear into the depths of his fridge out his peripheral vision.
“Wine is over by the microwave for you,” he announces watching the bounce of her hair as she turns her head to look out over her shoulder, eyeing the flash of skin over the waistband of her jeans before she straightens.
“I’m getting you wine glasses for your birthday,” she informs him after slamming the fridge shut, and he doesn’t bother to glance over at the microwave where nearly half a bottle of Merlot -- leftover from Olinsky’s visit after Jay’s foray into private security -- has been poured out into two round bottom, whisky glasses. Merely grumbles something about his glasses working just fine as he picks the knife up in his right hand once more while her boots tread less than lightly on the linoleum as she moves across the small kitchen to retrieve the glasses.
One of the glasses is deposited on the counter in front him; left amid the assortment of spices and oils assembled in order to make their dinner. The other glass is clutched in her left hand and ends up pushed against his shoulder blade through the fabric of his dark blue Henley as she presses her body into his in an attempt to peer over his shoulder and ascertain what exactly is for dinner.
“Tuscan sausage linguine,” he announces before she can ask, before she can stop him from making quick work of chopping up the zucchini with the suggestion that they go out and grab a burger or something else.
He’s a better cook than she is. Better at following a simple recipe than she is at following the instructions on the frozen, so-called healthy meals she keeps in her freezer; better at sneaking fresh vegetables and whole grains into her diet than she’d like. Occasionally, Erin will try to weasel out of having these healthy dinners in favor of a combo or takeout Chinese or wings and beers at Molly’s, saying she needs more sustenance and calories for later with her house husband than his limited repertoire of home cooked meals can provide.
But after these last few weeks -- after their fellow cop was shot point blank in his squad car, after Stone and the rest of the city they swore to protect and serve suggested that cop’s partner should be charged -- he needs to be home tonight. Needs to eat something that he won’t have to burn off with an early morning session at Antonio’s gym; needs to spend the night in a place where he won’t be confronted with signs proclaiming Ellis’ innocence and Burgess’ guilt.
And Erin seems to get that tonight -- or, at least, knows that this pasta dish is one of her favorites from what he’s cooked for her -- because her right hand gives his right bicep a squeeze and a kiss is pressed to the skin just below his earlobe after she whispers words about it smelling good directly into his ear. Her body extracts from his, and her back falls against the closed refrigerator door with a sigh, with the lift of the makeshift wine glass to her lips.
“Burgess doing okay?” Jay questions as he scrapes his knife along the cutting board and pushes the zucchini into a smaller pile in order to create space for him to chop up the green pepper.
He had hoped to avoid the topics of Burgess and Roman and Black Lives Matter for one night --  the kitchen already a tight squeeze with him and her without adding in the baggage of Burgess-Roman-Ruzek and the mixed emotions about a chant setting the city on fire -- but he’s started to pick up on the visual and audio clues of when she wants to talk and when she doesn’t. So he asks; listens to her noncommittal hum and then her committal, verbal response in the negative as he works at slicing the bell pepper into small slivers.
“Stone called her down to the DA’s office today.”
“She take her FOP rep with her?” Jay inquires because he knows how this goes, knows how quickly the District Attorney and the Ivory Tower will move to jam up a good cop who has been cast under a suspicious cloud in order to keep public opinion on their side.
And Burgess, so far, has gotten a good deal -- a fair deal, a deal that wasn’t offered to him when he was suspected of murdering Lonnie Rodiger -- from the union. Stripped of her badge and her gun, but set up to ride a desk in a semi-civilian, semi-police administrative position with full pay and full pension accrual until the DA gets his verdict on two counts of attempted murder on a police officer.
But that deal could change with her speaking to Stone or anyone on his team without her FOP rep at hand, with her putting herself in yet another position where it is her word against someone else’s. A fact that Jay has tried to stress to Burgess through Erin; advice he knows the now former patrolman isn’t taking by the way Erin skips over his question in her reply.
“Stone’s got video of her and Roman and the shooting,” Erin informs him and, for a split second, he thinks this may be good news. Thinks that maybe Ellis’ face is visible on the footage, which would place him at the scene with the gun and seal his conviction.
But the twinge of frustration in Erin’s gravelly voice, the way she slipped into his apartment and is slouched over against his fridge sipping down wine tells him this isn’t a moment of jubilation. A moment where he and the rest of the CPD don’t sound like naive fools for working under the banner chant of ‘Not All Cops’.
And so he doesn’t bother to ask if Ellis is shown clear as day on the footage; continues to finish up his slicing work with the knife as Erin explains that Burgess said the video showed her and Roman expressing affection for one another. He only stops, only sets the knife aside and turns to stare at her when her voice becomes low and full of disgust when she explains that Stone asked if Burgess was thinking like a cop or thinking with her crotch.
“Was she?” The question causes all the fire in her voice to move to her gaze, to move to the eyes that shift from a spot on the living room wall just beyond the kitchen in order to stare at him. To make it clear that this is not the time for him to get stupid on her or become one of those old timers who think women are too weak and too focused on finding a man to wear the badge.
Which isn’t at all what he means to suggest with his question and, frankly, isn’t anywhere near as bad as what any half-decent defense attorney will suggest when the case makes it to trial. But there is some truth to Stone’s statement.
Truth he tried to point out to her weeks ago at Molly’s when Erin said Burgess was interested in her partner yet insisted a Burgess-Roman-Ruzek triangle would be PG-13 at worse rather than the horror movie. Truth she had to accept when the rumor mill infiltrated the bullpen upstairs and they all learned that Ruzek went off on Roman about wanting to date Burgess when asked about a laptop. Truth Erin, clearly, doesn’t want to give credence to tonight.
“She and Roman were ambushed,” Erin snaps back in reply. “You said it yourself, in those conditions -- forty yards, low light -- she made a nice shot.”
“She did,” he agrees without hesitation because what he told Burgess at the scene of the crime was true. Because he was impressed by her ability to take down the suspect in those conditions with only her service weapon. Because he thought maybe in that moment she needed a reminder that she did good, that she protected her partner and herself.
But he knows that toeing the line of professionalism day in and day out is hard, that focusing on an empty stretch of road late at night is difficult when your partner -- the one you go home with at the end of the day -- is sitting right next to you. And he also knows -- thanks to Erin’s tidbits of information over drinks at Molly’s, thanks to his own eyes and ears and razor sharp mind -- that carrying on that level of professionalism is hard for Burgess and Ruzek and Roman. That no one in the district can honestly say that they forget who Burgess is dating the same way they forget about Lindsay and Halstead.  
“But it’s not gonna look good for her if she and Roman were making out in the--”
“They weren’t making out,” Erin interrupts pushing herself away from the fridge -- away from him -- and stopping over towards the small stand where the microwave sits near the entryway to his kitchen. For a brief second, he thinks that maybe she’s planning on leaving, planning on forging his cooking and his company for a combo and some silence.
Yet, Erin stops just short of the exit to the kitchen and swipes the bottle of wine from the rack on the second shelf below the microwave. Pops the cork off and refills her half-full glass while grumbling about how Burgess only reached out to touch Roman’s cheek, how that’s far more chaste than what she does to Jay in the 300 when they think no one is looking.
That comment, though, causes his right eyebrow to pitch upward, and he rolls his hip against the counter until his back is pressed up against it. Until the cut up vegetables and the diced tomatoes simmering in a pot on the stove are forgotten as he crosses his arms, as he challenges her on the falseness of her statement.
“I keep it professional,” he rebukes. “I may make a comment or two in the car or in the break room, but I don’t kiss you or touch you or--”
“Don’t I know it,” she sasses, and it takes him a moment to realize that she’s trying to defuse the situation. That she is trying to make a joke, to make him forget about the accusation that she lobbed at the two of them with a smirk half-hidden behind her makeshift wine glass.
There’s a moment where he considers giving into the shift in the conversation, considers letting the teasing comment replace the accusation that neither of them can afford to have anyone charge at them. Because, right now, they’ve got Voight turning a blind eye and, according to Burgess, the rest of the district forgetting they’re together, which keeps the Ivory Tower out of their personal business, but if this video, if this horror movie sinks the case against a suspected cop killer? He’ll be lucky if the union can snag him an administrative position following his ejection from Intelligence.
There is a heavy sigh as Erin takes in the look on his face and the tightening biceps of his folded arms, as he watches the realization that she’s struck a nerve that cannot be soothed by suggestive comments register on her face. And another heavy sigh comes as the nearly empty wine  bottle is placed on top of the microwave, as Erin darts her gaze from him to the floor to the glass in her hand with a small shrug of her shoulders.
“Burgess is a good cop,” Erin states, and Jay offers verbal agreement in reply because he’s seen the beat cop in action, seen her comeback from taking a shotgun blast to the head and neck, and he has no reason to doubt the validity of Erin’s statement. Doesn’t feel any need to go looking for one; doesn’t want to be just another guy looking for a way to jam her up like Jefferies and Stone.  “She apprehended her suspect just as she was trained to do. She probably saved Roman’s life. Again.”
There’s a long pause where the ‘but’ to her statement lingers in the air, where Jay finds himself reaching out blindly beside him to turn off the stove because this isn’t going to be some quick and easy conversation that’ll end before he needs to stir the tomatoes. And eventually it comes with a flash of anger in Erin’s eyes and a rough edge to her voice.
“But she’s also a female cop, and there are people out there -- her fellow cops, DAs, the public -- who will say she shouldn’t be out there. That she’s too busy being a Badge Bunny to protect and serve this city. That she killed an innocent, unarmed black kid because her emotions got the best of her.”
There a parts of her statements that he could correct because they have video showing that unarmed black kid tossing a gun and they have years of experience as detectives telling them that innocent black kid tried to murder two cops sitting in their cop car. But there are other parts of statements that he cannot correct because they are true.
Because he’s served along side guys in the Gang Unit who saw female police officers as nothing more than tail to chase; because he’s already heard whisperings about Burgess and Roman and Ruzek in the locker room. Whisperings that grew louder after Ruzek’s blow up in front of Platt’s desk when asked about a misplaced laptop.
“Yeah,” he agrees after a short pause, “people are going to say that about her and that sucks. But, Erin, you aren’t Burgess.”
“Doesn’t matter,” Erin corrects with a shake of head. “One lady cop represents all lady cops.”
Deep down, he knows there is some validity to her assertion. That as much as he and every other cop tries to assert that not all cops are racist or hold little value for black lives, a perception of all rather than a few still permeates the force when it comes female police officers. That Erin may be the toughest cop he knows and Burgess may have all sorts of commendations, but some of the guys from his old unit still offered condolences when they heard the gender of his partner when he first moved over to Intelligence.
But he also doesn’t know how to change that perception beyond making sure that he keeps it professional, that he doesn’t act around Erin the way Ruzek or Roman act around Burgess, that he tries not to give anyone any reason to see Erin as less than equal to him. And all his statements to that effect manage only to bring a small, sad smile to her lips and a soft acknowledgment of how she knows that because him and his approach to their relationship is why she couldn’t tell Burgess not to date her partner.
There is a lull in the conversation -- silence rapidly filling small kitchen -- as he struggles to find the right words to respond to that statement. As his brain refuses to settle on whether or not he should be trying to absolve her from any guilt she may be feeling by saying he would have given Burgess the same answer for the same reason. But his opportunity to decide is taken by rather sudden inquiry on her part into how long until dinner is ready.
“Uh,” Jay replies glancing over his shoulder at the pot of tomatoes cooling to room temperature on the unlit stove and the assemblage of half-prepped ingredients on the counter behind him. “Thirty, thirty-five minutes.”
“Ok,” Erin murmurs as she takes a sip of her wine. The glass joins the bottle on top of the microwave after a second swig, and her free hand slips into her pocket to retrieve her phone from the back pocket of her jeans. And she holds it up, offers him a nod of her head towards the clock on the stove as she announces that she’s going to give Platt a call. “I think it would be good if she and I drove Burgess to the courthouse when she’s called to testify. Show her some solidarity.”
“Yeah,” he agrees with the nod of his own head, and Erin offers him yet another small smile in reply when he informs her that he and the rest of the unit will be there, too. That he and Mouse, Voight and Dawson, Atwater and Ruzek all plan to be seated in the first two rows behind the prosecutor when that day comes.
He waits a moment after she’s walked out of the kitchen and into the living room before turning around, before reigniting the stove and reaching for the spoon in the top drawer beside the stove in order to stir the tomatoes. But the sound of Erin’s boots hitting the linoleum again causes him to turn around, to watch hesitation spread across Erin’s features as she says his name in a cautious tone.
“Maybe don’t tell Ruzek about the video? Burgess doesn’t need another unprofessional blow up right now.”
Her request is a crazy, stupid idea because they both know the video will be entered into evidence. That Ellis’ attorney will try to use it against Burgess and the State’s case the same way Stone tried to use it against Burgess today. But he agrees because this -- him and her standing in his kitchen while he makes them dinner -- is their unprofessional life, and here he can offer support to his partner in the illogical way she needs it.
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Engineering Primary Us to Inhumanity?
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Lots of of you may perhaps get astonished hunting at the headline of this posting. You might feel that this author has absent mad or something. Know-how which has designed our everyday living much better than we at any time assumed of and now this author is stating that technological know-how is producing us inhuman. I will say, sure it is.
A couple of days ago I noticed a report on Television. The reporter was reporting about the sufferings of some inadequate people who could not even consume two meals a day. But the reporter did not enable them on spot. Just make a report to telecast. That suggests sufferings of individuals are becoming utilised as merchandise to get famous or to make livelihood. A further incident was, a couple of times back in a convocation ceremony of a College one of the friends received fainted on the place. There were about 300 pupils but none of them rushed to assistance the guest. Instead they took image of him and mail the news to their friends and kinfolk, twitted on twitter and shared on Fb and other social networking sites. They did not even assume of aiding the particular person somewhat they just took the possibility to make it breaking news.
Now we have the technological know-how to broadcast just about anything reside from the location. Any individual can be a reporter using his/her mobile cameras though they are moving in the streets and some accidents happen. We are unable to manage...what really should be broadcasted and what need to not be. But we must feel before we do anything.
I recall a basic film named "Roman Holiday getaway" in which a princess came to Italy to vacation. But as she was a princess she could not move about freely. So his dad and mom utilised to command her and gave her sleeping supplements at night time. A single night time she arrived out without having her parents' permission to vacation but felt asleep on the streets as an result of the sleeping drugs. A journalist uncovered her and took her to his house. Upcoming working day a report arrived on a missing girl. But it was not mentioned that she was a princess. Observing the report the journalist comprehended that she is the a person whom he took household previous night. He could have spread the news in community that he experienced located the princess and attain funds and reputation. But he did not do so to help you save the honor of the princess and her family.
In colleges and schools pupils are owning sexual intimacy and building video of them and spreading them in the world-wide-web. Some folks are blackmailing their girlfriends and their loved ones. Our culture and social values are being destroyed.
We are unable to continue to be without technology but we really should make ourselves mature sufficient to undertake with the development of know-how. We need to film ten movies with cultural and educative values if we movie a single pornograph.
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Modern medicine still needs leeches
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Modern medicine still needs leeches
Some hospitals keep their pharmacies fully-stocked with <em>Hirudo medicinalis</em>, or medical leeches. (Deposit Photos/)
It’s not exactly the kind of therapy you’d expect to get at the hospital: a black, slippery, thirsty leech picked up by forceps from a bucket of its brethren and placed directly onto your skin.
But sometimes—­to some patients’ probable dismay—leeches are, indeed, what the doctor orders.
“We always have leeches on hand,” says Vishal Thanik, a plastic surgeon at New York City’s Bellevue Hospital and New York University’s Langone Medical Center. “If you’ve ever seen a leech, it’s crazy looking. And if you’ve never had to use it, it’s daunting. It’s a bit like time traveling.”
The vampiric worms have a storied place in medicine. Their first recorded therapeutic use dates back to ancient Egyptian treatments for ailments like nosebleeds and gout (Chinese, Arabic, Ancient Greek, and Roman medical records also contain references to leech therapy). In the centuries that followed, physicians used the bloodsucking powers of leeches in an attempt to remedy everything from hemorrhoids to headaches, depression, and even deafness. In 19th century Europe, Hirudo medicinalis, the medicinal leech, was so popular that it was harvested to near-extinction. But once medicine abandoned the concept that most diseases were caused by an excess of blood—a theory that often prescribed bloodletting by physicians or their bloodsucking assistants—leech therapy fell out of favor.
Despite leeches’ historic ties to medical quackery, they do have a legitimate place in modern medicine as a sort of reverse transfusion in cases of imbalanced blood circulation. While ye olde physicians thought leeches could cure epilepsy and even large bruises, the contemporary use of leeches is mostly limited to microsurgeons who reattach body parts like fingers, toes, thumbs, ears, lips, noses, or even bits of scalp.
One of the first times leeches were used this way was in 1985 on a five-year-old whose ear was bitten off by a dog. A few days after surgeons sewed the organ back on, “it turned blackish blue from blood congestion,” according to an account in The New York Times. After failed efforts to drain the blood-filled ear with anti clotting agents and small cuts, Harvard physician Joseph Upton attached two leeches and “the ear perked up right away.” Twenty years later, in 2005, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved leeches as medical devices for use in plastic surgery (making them, along with maggots, the first living creature the agency green lit for clinical use).
While statistics on their medicinal use across the country are scarce, plastic surgeons say the procedure has unquestionable benefits—when hospital staff and patients can overcome the queasiness of applying the bizarre blood-sucking creatures directly to patients.
“Patients are usually quite shocked by it at first,” says Patrick Reavey, an assistant professor of plastic surgery at the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York. “I wouldn’t say I’m squeamish, but a leech is a little intimidating. It was freaky—you know, it’s a leech.”
Most doctors today, even those who routinely perform reconstructive operations, will never encounter one, but plastic surgeons are at least trained to use them in certain circumstances, says Adnan Prsic, an assistant professor of plastic and reconstructive surgery at Yale School of Medicine.
“We’re probably the only subspecialty that uses it, across the surgical spectrum,” Prsic says. “We’ve been using them for a long time.”
Unlike skin grafts—in which a surgeon transfers a thin sheet of skin from one area of the body to another—these reconstructive procedures involve reattaching multiple layers of tissue and reconnecting blood vessels one to three millimeters wide under a microscope with sutures thinner than a strand of hair.
“It’s really delicate work,” says Rachel Lefebvre, an orthopedic hand surgeon and assistant professor at the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine.
To reattach a severed finger, for example, a surgeon will pin bones back together, connect severed tendons and nerves, re-plumb the vascular circulation, and sew skin back in place. In some instances, newly attached arteries flood more blood into the finger than can be pumped out by newly re-connected veins leading to swollen, purplish fingers. That imbalance in blood flow can threaten the finger’s healing, and, in some instances, prevent its survival.
“You need to get blood out of that finger, one way or another,” Rochester’s Reavey says. “Leeches work great.”
So, in those instances, surgeons and nurses will put a leech on the tip of a congested digit to help drain it, says Thanik, who added he usually does this procedure behind a sheet, for the patient’s sake. Once the leech sinks its 300 teeth into the skin and starts feeding, it can digest up to 15 milliliters (about a tablespoon) of blood over about 40 minutes. When the animals are sufficiently full, they gently fall off, Lefebvre says.
“The connotation of leeches is that they’re slightly terrifying. To me, they’re amazing,” she says.
But leech therapy is not just about blood-sucking. Leech saliva contains various bioactive compounds including anticoagulants, anesthetics, antihistamines, and vessel dilators. “They secrete these substances that are like medications,” Prsic says.
Outside a hospital setting, these secretions ensure whatever animal the leech attaches to doesn’t feel the bite, so the leech can feed uninterrupted. But in a clinic, they provide an added benefit.
“It’s usually painless for the patient—even if they’re a little freaked out,” says Lefebvre, adding that some of her patients actually name their leeches to feel more comfortable with their new symbiotic neighbors.
“People think (the leech) is going to drink a ton of blood or it’s horribly painful,” Reavey says, “They make you think of medieval medicine. But it’s hard to beat evolution; they’ve evolved to do this very specific job, and they’re very good at it.”
There are, of course, some risks to using leeches.
For one, the prolonged application of leeches increases the risk for needing a blood transfusion (“You’re losing a lot of blood,” Thanik says). Since leeches rely on a colony of bacteria in their gut to digest blood, it is possible for people treated with leeches to get a bacterial infection as well. Some recent papers have reported increasing antibiotic resistance in Aeromonas hydrophila, one of the bacteria found in leeches and the most common cause of infection. In one five-year retrospective study, researchers found infections occurred in about 4 percent of people who received leech therapy. A vast majority of the about 20 adverse events related to leeches reported to the FDA since 2004 have involved infections after leech therapy or the identification of antibiotic-resistant Aeromonas by hospital staff in their leech stockpiles.
Risk of infection is one of the reasons why it’s common practice for caregivers to give leech therapy patients antibiotics as a preventative measure (since you can’t sterilize leeches like you can a scalpel or an IV).
In May of 2019, Thanik and his colleagues at New York University’s Langone Medical Center published a study detailing some of the other best practices for leeches in reconstructive surgery by analyzing 201 finger re-plantations over eight years. After quantifying the outcomes of hundreds of cases, they found 4.5 days to be the sweet spot for leech therapy, and suggested other practitioners stick to a general guideline of five days.
It’s one of several papers that, in recent years, has looked retrospectively at case studies in an attempt to standardize leech therapy. Currently, no consensus exists among the medical community for how long leeches should be applied for, or how many to use at once.
“That’s the one thing we don’t have going for us: There’s no diligent studies of this,” Prsic says. “These traumatic surgeries can’t be randomized, so we rely on the evidence we have.”
But Thanik says he hopes his paper will help guide doctors presented with situations in which leech therapy could be useful but is not standard.
Currently, their use is more common at teaching hospitals and trauma centers, like Bellevue, where replantation and reconstructive surgeries are more regular. A 2018 University of Michigan analysis of about 15,000 people who lost their fingers between 2001 and 2014 found that an increasing number of cases are transferred to urban teaching hospitals; there, they are more than twice as likely to be reattached (at an average success rate of about 80 percent). The paper also noted people with private insurance or higher income levels were more likely to undergo finger replantation.
Along the same lines, in 2018, Reavey, Thanik, and other colleagues analyzed tens of thousands of finger amputation cases from 2000 to 2011 using information pulled from national databases. Across all years, they found the majority of hospitals that reattach fingers only do so once a year—and that the number of such hospitals dropped from 120 to just 80 a decade later. A small minority of hospitals perform more than 10 finger reattachments each year, they concluded.
“At many hospitals, they’re probably using leeches once a year or zero times,” Thanik says.
And even at hospitals where plastic surgeons regularly employ leech therapy, surgeons see it as a last-ditch effort to keep someone from losing their finger or ear entirely. Ideally, it would never come to that—but when it does, Lefebvre says, they’re a handy option.
“There’s a surgical problem I can’t fix—and there’s a creature that can,” she says. “When I fail, they’re an incredibly elegant solution.”
And, as Reavy keenly points out, it’s also a last hope for the bloodsucking worms, too. “The disadvantage to the leech is it’s their last meal,” he says.
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PLOT
A Roman Catholic priest, Father Damon, murders a man outside a castle-like estate on an island in upstate New York. The man he kills claims to be Lucifer himself, and promises to return. Decades later, in 1963, Andrew Williams is born. After his mother is paralyzed under mysterious circumstances, Andrew’s father realizes something is peculiar about his son, eventually coming to the realization that Andrew is the son of Lucifer. As a senior in high school, Andrew is withdrawn and socially awkward, and as a result is often bullied by his peers. Andrew feels drawn to the estate where Father Damon committed the murder, which is due for demolition for an impending golf course.
At school one day, one of Andrew’s tormentors, Tony, attempts to harass him in the gym shower. Overcome by strange powers, Tony kisses him in front of their peers. The event leaves Tony hysterical, and he leaves, terrified of Andrew. Later, Andrew is notified that he has received scholarships to several Ivy League colleges, including Yale and Harvard, but is insouciant to the news. Meanwhile, a local elderly woman, Margaret, visits Father Daly at his parish, and discusses Damon, whom she knew personally; Father Daly insists Damon wrongly murdered the man, though Margaret believes he was in fact Lucifer, and Father Damon, a manifestation of the archangel Raphael.
During a gym class, one of Andrew’s classmates, Mark, inexplicably suffers ruptured organs during a dodgeball game and dies. Mark’s girlfriend, Julie, is distraught, and shortly after begins having bizarre visions of Andrew raping her. She later hears voices calling her Gabrielle (a feminization of archangel Gabriel), and is directed to Margaret’s home by the disembodied voice of Father Damon. Margaret appoints Julie her protégé to battle Andrew.
On the night of a school dance, Andrew arrives at the castle estate and invokes Leviathan and Beelzebub, and summons the undead from grave sites on the property. At a local bar, Andrew’s father drunkenly raves about his son being the devil before returning home and shooting his wife in the head. Simultaneously, a group from the school is showing an outdoor play retelling the life of Jesus. During the scene of the crucifixion, the actor onstage begins exhibiting real stigmata, causing the audience to flee in horror.
On the island, a group of teenagers arrive to party after the dance, including Tony, his girlfriend Marie, Brenda, and others. After arriving at the castle, they are accosted by the undead. Marie is killed, and Tony and Brenda flee to an upstairs room, where Tony finds he has inexplicably developed breasts. Andrew enters the room and kisses him, after which Tony stabs himself to death. Andrew carries Brenda outside and lays her on an altar, where he stabs her to death.
Margaret and Julie arrive on the scene, brandishing Father Damon’s processional cross, which causes Andrew to recoil. Margaret forces Andrew to recite the Lord’s Prayer, and he transforms into Mark, tricking Julie. Margaret intervenes, and he kills her by breaking her neck. Julie watches as Andrew transforms into Lucifer, but is able to defeat him with the power of Father Damon’s crucifix. The spirits of Julie, Father Damon, and Margaret—the three archangels—coalesce, as Andrew is engulfed and destroyed in a beam of a light.
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BACKSTORY
Drawn loosely from the Book of Revelations, Fear No Evil deals with the incarnation on Earth of Lucifer, and his battle for supremacy over God’s faithful, a battle which ends with a confrontation with God Himself in a spectacular scene of Devine Intervention. La Loggia, who directed the film from his original screenplay and plans to score it as well, is fully aware of the similarities between his film and Hollywood’s big-budget Anti Christ extravaganzas, THE OMEN and OMEN II but he bristles at the suggestion that BEAST is a rip-off of previously-explored conventions.
Said La Loggia, ” Fear No Evil” is unique. We’ve gone ahead and actually personified the devil as a character and as a human being who is at odds with himself about who he is. Lucifer is a young man who is reborn in a little fishing village in upstate New York. He’s 18 years old and a brilliant student. He’s very much at odds with who he is, so he’s doing battle within himself at first, denying the evil that lurks within him, but then gradually giving way to it. He’s an extremely sympathetic character, one that I think the audience will want to hug and push away at the same time.
“While THE OMEN and THE EXORCIST were extremely slick and technically commanding,” he said, “they still missed the real point of the dilemma of what it must be like to actually be the devil.”
“The local newspapers were very intrigued by the whole idea,” he said, “and we gathered a lot of publicity. We had an open casting call at the local PBS station in Rochester and more than 2,000 people showed up in two days. I cast six lesser roles and the rest of them had an opportunity to work as extras. There’s a mass panic that takes place during the staging of a passion play in this little village. We had close to 2,000 people there for seven nights.”
It’s still a little early to tell if La Loggia’s claims for the film are based on hope or hype. There are lengthy editing chores ahead and the crucial search for a distributor. But La Loggia is confident the film will be in theaters this summer. “Two of the majors have already contacted us,” he said, “and unless I’m grossly mistaken, I’m sure the picture will win major distribution.”
To stretch the budget as far as possible, La Loggia tried to The accommodate many of the necessary special effects on camera. One of the most difficult effects scenes, in which the young Lucifer (Stefan Arngrin) uses his powers for the first time, took four days to get on film. The scene takes place during a high school game of battleball, in which opposing players try to hit each other with soft rubber balls. The coach, under Lucifer’s demonic influence, releases a ball at such terrifying speed that it kills one of the players. La Loggia and cinematographer Fred Goodich used a special rigging of wires (invisible because of the lighting and fast film speed) to make the sequence work.
John Eggett, our man in charge of live action special effects (as opposed to the optical, done in post production) rigged a harness in preparation for the death scene of Mark (actor Paul Habor), which takes place in the gym. The script called for Mark to be hit by a rubber ball that is under demonic control-hit so hard that he flies ten feet before dashing his brains out on a wall. It took ten grips to yank the harness rope with sufficient force for the effect; Haber was protected from real injury by a special rubber pad insulating the harness and a piece of sponge rubber attached to a wiglet that was crocheted into his real hair.
Special effects were also important. for the film’s finale. “We have a spectacular ending,” La Loggia said. “It involves Divine Intervention. A Godly light makes its way from the heavens and decides Lucifer’s fate. We secured as many of the elements as we could on camera through lighting. Those elements will be reinforced later in an optical house.”
Originally, Rob Blalack (who handled optical work on STAR WARS) was hired to handle post production effects. But Avco has shifted the responsibility to Peter Kuran’s new company, Visual Concept’s Productions. Kuran was in charge of rotoscope and cel animation on THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK.
The film’s ending is suggestive of Ray Bradbury’s published version of how ROSEMARY’S BABY should have ended-with Rosemary scooping up her demon child, running to St. Patrick’s Cathedral, where she begs God to at last reclaim his cast out child. “Our picture ends with a plea from Lucifer for forgiveness.” La Loggia said. “But his plea doesn’t work. It’s a very compelling moment in the picture.”
The film’s opening and closing sequences were shot at Boldt Castle, a tourist attraction located on an island in the Thousand Island area of the St. Lawrence River. Built by a fella named Boldt” between 1900 and 1904 in homage to his ailing wife, it was abandoned after her death and allowed to fall into ruins. “We’re used to seeing a castle in a horror picture that’s opulently dressed,” said La Loggia. “But this place is abandoned, you could walk around in the daytime and get shivers.”
Richard Jay Silverthorn as Bonnomo, the earlier 1961 incarnation of Lucifer
BEHIND THE SCENES with Richard Jay Silverthorn Make Up Artist
“Here’s what I need,” La Loggia told me, his eyes sparkling with enthusiasm for his first feature production. “Can you do an army of walking dead? Design me a frightening face and body for Lucifer’s final revelation, something unique, something we’ve never seen before. Can you make a stomach wound that will pop open and squirt blood as if cut by an invisible knife? Or grow female breasts on a man?”
He showed me some paintings by Frank Frazetta that he felt conveyed the same “feel” he wanted for his presentation of Lucifer. His first draft at the time carried the title The Antichrist and concerned the Prince of Hell, incarnated as a high school student in a small town in New York state. The emphasis was to be on Lucifer as a fallen angel, who once had a place in heaven among the other archangels. To punch home his concept of the Antichrist, the lead character, Andrew, was originally conceived as a soulful young man with long hair and a beard-a Christ like countenance. This concept was changed later, when clean-shaven, boyish Stefan Arngrim made an electric impression at his audition and snared the lead role.
In turn, I showed La Loggia two of my USC graduate films which involved aging make ups, a mummy and rubber prosthetics. We shook hands, and I was told I had the job. While I waited for the end of the summer and the start of principal photograph, La Loggia firmed up the use of locations in Rochester, N.Y. interviewed others for various crew positions, and began auditions. Smaller parts were cast through “open call” auditions in Rochester, while the leads were chosen in Hollywood.
When Frank gave me a draft of the script to begin makeup budgeting, I was excited over the idea of playing the role of Bonnomo, the earlier 1961 incarnation of Lucifer, who has a spectacular death scene early in the film. I had always wanted to be a monster in a horror movie since I was a little kid, so I did a test makeup of myself as I saw the character When La Loggia saw the stills I had taken while he was in Rochester, he agreed that I should play the role. I was beside myself!
La Loggia showed me stills of the locations he had secured, including Lucifer’s unholy temple, the Boldt Castle: a real, crumbling, ruined and unoccupied castle on a little island near the town of Alexandria Bay, New York, the Thousand Islands. Alexandria Bay and Rochester were combined to make up our mythical fishing village of St. Lawrence, New York. For the next few weeks I fantasized being the Devil, and running through the shadowy clammy corridors of the Boldt Castle.
Boldt Castle
On July 19th I officially signed my contract with La Loggia Productions as actor and makeup artist, and began pre-production. Frank’s second draft changed Bonnomo’s scene, dropped other scenes and revised and tightened the whole. I had only $1,000 for makeup for the entire cast, so the effects and supplies had to be geared to necessity. Through early August my time was occupied with taking plaster casts of actors hands, chests and faces, assisted by Claire Ohlmiller, a professional hospital technician who does molds for artificial limbs. La Loggia Productions flew Stefan and me to San Francisco for fitting of the special yellow “cat’s eye” contact lenses made at a clinic there. At last, with all plaster molds wrapped in blankets and loaded on a truck bound for New York, moved out of the apartment I’d lived in for ? five years, and ended my lingering ties with the USC neighborhood.
We arrived in Rochester, New York on August 22, to be joined by our Rochester cast and crew, covered by TV cameras as celebrities. A real Hollywood horror film on location. Already the excitement was in the air. The crew was young, many between 19 and 25 years old, naive and eager to dig in. Since we all lived together in one motel (except for crew members who were Rochester natives) the atmosphere of camaraderie and mutual support happened easily. The La Loggia cousins, Frank and Charlie, held meetings with the heads of the departments regularly, to air questions, problems and insure that schedules were coordinated., Carl Zollo was head of the art department, Fred Goodich, Cinematography, (they were among our older crew members) and Dennis Carr, Sound Recording. There were various assistants in each department, as well as several assistant directors whose responsibilities were scheduling, transportation, crowd control, equipment handling and any other troubleshooting that might come up along the way. The assistant directors often stood between success and disaster in seeing that people and equipment were at the right place at the right time.
That first night in Rochester we had a crew banquet at which I met my assistants: Richie Bennett, who had done the impossible task of finding me a 5′ x 12′ walk-in oven to bake the huge plaster molds, Chip Leiberman, who followed me like a shadow on the set and had all my supplies ready for touch-ups like a nurse assisting in surgery, and Cheri Montesanto, daughter of Frank Montesanto, our hair stylist of Monty’s Unisex, a Rochester area salon. Hair styling and makeup were closely coordinated for the finished effect. Since there was an 18 year time span, this was skillfully indicated by Monty’s changing hairstyles and gray tones, (or dark rinses) as well as by my painted wrinkles.
Since a motion picture must be filmed according to the weather or availability of locations, or actor’s availability, rather than script order, we had to shoot all the high school scenes first, before the school year began. Spry High School in Webster, NY became St. Lawrence High. Because the semester hadn’t begun and the school’s boilers weren’t turned on, our actors had to take freezing cold showers for one of the first sequences put on film, where the class bully makes the mistake of picking on Lucifer in the gym shower. Professional troopers in spirit, the scene was shot without a complaint and stands out as a showcase of acting ability for Stefan Arngrim and Daniel Eden.
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A Rochester family with a lovely little house on the shore of Lake Ontario consented to the use of their house as a location. According to the script, the house degenerates as the marriage of Lucifer’s terrified parents, Mr. & Mrs. Williams, degenerates. The effect was accomplished by the art crew progressively messing up the house-shingles were torn, screens twisted, weeds and vines arranged all over the sidewalk and front porch for the most extreme result of 18 years of neglect. Then the entire house was cleaned and repainted, the front lawn edged and trimmed to neat perfection for the house’s original look before the birth of the little “bundle from Heaven.” Thus we left our hosts with their house in better condition than when our crew arrived. The shots were spliced into script order later, in the editing room. Since sequences here had to be shot according to ease of lugging cameras up and down stairs, as well as in reference to daylight, it was necessary to age Mrs. Williams (Alice Sachs), make her young again, and age her again for the final shot of the day. Once characters were made up, I was free to continue sculpting prosthetics which I started bringing to the set, in order to cut down night hours and still be available for touch-ups when actors got sweaty under the lights.
The opening title shot of the film runs over a very long camera dolly shot from Lake Ontario, around the House and to the front porch. Plywood was laid down in a track over which the dolly was pushed. Actors were cued into action as the camera approached and then passed them as they enacted guests at the baby Lucifer’s baptism party. Director La Loggia walked behind the moving camera, coaching the actors verbally since the scene was shot MOS (a term meaning “Mit Out Sound” which comes from the German immigrant directors who worked in Hollywood during the earliest days of sound filming.) Sound effects were added later.
Rain or shine, the filming schedule was adhered to whenever humanly possible. Certain night scenes were actually filmed during a light rain, which did not show up on film, but gave the actors an extra challenge-not to shiver. After filming at the house was completed, the crew moved equipment to Charlotte Beach, where the “Passion Play” scene was photographed. A panicking crowd scene was a plot element here, so ads were placed in the newspapers and radio for anyone wishing to appear in a horror film to show up at the public beach. A thousand eager people stayed on the beach for three nights starting from about 7 PM to 3 or 4 AM. Megaphone in hand, Frank La Loggia instructed the crowd in actions as they portrayed an audience coming to view an annual church play on the final days of Christ, only to be involved in an unbelievable horror-the actor on the stage actually bleeds and dies on the cross, and the audience experiences stigmatism.
Screaming and bleeding, the freaked-out audience runs in every direction for their lives. Some fall into the lake as lightning bolts (added in post production) strike all around. “All Hell breaks loose” with stage lights exploding from charges (called “squibs”) pre-set by John Eggett and his crew. These were later matched with hand-drawn lightning bolts. One of my best rubber prosthetics in the picture was the tissue-thin rubber stomach appliance so that “Christ’s” stomach could seem to be pierced by an invisible lance and run blood. A rubber piece of surgical tubing was run under the actor’s loincloth and glued to his stomach. A preslit rubber “skin” was applied over the surgical tubing with a “ripcord” of transparent fishing line attached. The other end of the surgical tubing was fastened by Eggert to a massive insecticide sprayer to pump blood through the stomach, to tubing run under the wig and behind the wrists. The effect was gruesome and realistic.
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With all but one scene in the Rochester area shot, the cast and crew packed up for a day of driving to our next location, the Boldt Castle. All of the crew, that is, except for me and my high school assistants, who stayed behind to bake the foam rubber prosthetics in the large kilns at the Rochester Institute of Technology Ceramics Department. Richie Bennett was by then trained enough to take over makeup for Mrs. Buchanan’s head wound, and Chip and Cheri handled other characters’ basic make ups.
Working with plaster molds which in some cases weighed over 100 pounds and carried over a gallon of foamed rubber was a new experience for me. Fortunately one of my assistants was a little guy who could climb into the kiln, holding one end of the mold, and then position it and climb over it to get out. A special problem was temperature.
The foam rubber had to be cured for at least 3 hours at a temperature not more than 250 degrees or less than 200 degrees. However, the kilns were made to fire ceramics at temperatures over 1500 degrees, so that we couldn’t leave the kilns on, for very long. The gas had to be turned on and off and the kiln door opened and closed as the only means of keeping temperature constant. The first trial prosthetics came out either under-done or overdone until the method was perfected. Varying thickness of plaster in the mold was part of the problem, but we ended up with at least two acceptable prosthetics from each mold as a backup in case the rubber tore or a scene had to be re-shot. Every trace of plaster had to be cleaned before we left, since plaster is incompatible with ceramic and could have ruined any pottery or sculptures being created by the students.
Before leaving Rochester, I brought dental casting stone casts of teeth to a dental technician who instructed me in the making of our prosthetic “fangs.” A soft pink wax was sculpted over the mouth casts with metal instruments heated in a gas flame. Then a plaster matrix was laid over the wax until it hardened. The pink wax was boiled away, and dental acrylic resin used for making false teeth was applied into the space formerly occupied by the wax. This quickly set and was then drilled and finely-polished by a high speed drill with various precision attachments. Finally the teeth were painted with acrylic to match our gum color and define cracks and spaces between the fangs. They snapped over our own teeth and required no pastes or powders to hold them.
Rejoining the cast and crew who were now split between two motels in Alexandria Bay, I “youthened” Mr. and Mrs. Williams and Father Daly for the 1963 scene of baby Lucifer’s baptism. Here John Eggett had rigged up a baptismal font which would boil as a mysterious wind blew through the church, a Divine protest against the baptism of infant Lucifer.
Richard Jay Silverthorn’s novelization of the 1981 horror film Fear No Evil. The director sold him the rights for $1. Silverthorn’s novelization was published in 1981 as Satan’s Child
Starting Saturday, October 6, the most hectic on-the-set makeup work began: the Army of the Dead rising from their graves. Derek and Collin, my high school assistants took off the week from school to join us on makeup crew, as well as appearing in some background scenes as extras. For thirty ghouls, we needed every makeup hand we could muster. Corn flakes, Quaker oats and liquid rubber were applied to texture the skin for the “rotten” effect. Certain “key ghouls” wore prosthetics sculpted by Collin Pingleton one with an eyeball hanging out, another with the cheek ripped away and teeth exposed. These were combined with rubber bald caps and patchy applications of crepe hair and painted over with custom-blended rubber mask paint for the finished effect. Eggett rigged up a false wall for one ghoul to crash out of, buried another alive so that he could crawl up from a grave, and make two others break out of stone work. This army of the dead was supposed to be the construction workers who had built the castle and then been buried alive, only to be possessed by “stay-behind” spirits subservient with hot coco and coffee. It was strange to see rotten ghouls huddled up in blankets and parkas, looking out for the first snowflakes of the year and shivering together. They had to shed the protective clothing for tattered rags while before the cameras. Most of our ghouls were recruited by a production assistant from neighborhood bars, though some had auditioned in Rochester and were chosen for large, bulky bodies. One of our larger grips also doubled as a ghoul, and had to wade through near freezing water to drown two nude swimmers. Needless to say, this scene was strictly one-take. A special room in the castle was kept warm with a roaring fire as a refuge for the near-frozen.
Jack Holland, a fine old actor who portrays Father Damon, incarnation of the angel Rafael, arrived from Los Angeles for his two weeks of shooting. We hustled him off the plane and into a rowboat for the opening shot of the film, then put him into a burlap robe with a scruffy beard growth glued on and filmed his death scene in the insane asylum. The unfinished rooms in the basement of the castle doubled for the asylum. Some viewers may be quite disturbed by the many dead animals appearing in the first scene as the aftermath of a “black mass” my character of Bonnomo is supposed to have committed. May I assure the reader that the animals were purchased quite dead and frozen from a lab. It was difficult to eat our 3 AM dinner break after shooting that scene, but the convincing effect of the “suffering to all God’s creatures” that Lucifer vowed was powerfully conveyed by the arrangement of hanging bodies before the huge inverted cross. At last my scenes in the film were scheduled for shooting. On our house boat dressing room, Monty shaved my hair back into a severe widow’s peak; mortician’s wax was applied to make my ears pointed, and subtle shadings changed the lines of my face to Satanic, angular planes. With the yellow contact lenses in place, I had to be led to the set and rehearsed in my movements slowly, since I was nearly blind. Once the cameras were rolling, I thought only of the audience experiencing the presence of the Devil on the screen. I wanted to scare the hell out of them! Stretching my mouth wide open to show my fangs, I ran toward various markers which were light-colored so I could see them through the lenses. In one shot three grips had to catch me as I passed camera range and nearly knocked an expensive light over. The bright light was all that was discernible.
Since the final chase scene of the film is supposed to harken back to the beginning with the feeling of a predestined repetition, Stefan Arngrim was also in makeup and costume as the second incarnation of Lucifer. His chase scene with Julie and Mrs. Buchanan is shot for shot identical with Bonnomo’s chase by Father Damon before the opening titles. He ran through the corridor, chased by the ladies, and then I ran through chased by the priest, from the same camera angles.
Because of problems moving the generator and camera equipment around on the island, my second makeup had to be shot in sequence, although the hairline had previously been shaved back. Therefore I had to glue crepe hair in to match my own, as my character is revealed as Rossario Bonnamo, whom nobody in town suspected of being Lucifer except Father Damon and his sister Margaret (the incarnation of St. Michael). I command the golden staff of St. Michael to fly out of Damon’s hand, saying, “I will be re-born. Aiwasz!” (Aiwasz is a Satanic word calling on the powers of the Unholy Trinity). In this way, Lucifer defeats Rafael by outliving him through his next incarnation. Damon (Rafael) is accused of murdering Bonnamo and dies in the insane asylum, leaving Margaret (Michael) to hunt out Lucifer’s next incarnation (Andrew Williams) and join with the yet unborn angel Gabriel (Julie) to defeat him in the film’s final confrontation. John Egget rigged up a two-part duplicate cross which appeared to enter my heart and come out my back into the tree. We used Hershey’s syrup for my black blood. Fortunately for the cast and crew, the weather suddenly warmed up and shooting continued in a comfortable climate.
The shot of the three angels ascending into Heaven was shot during this warm snap. Here lights were hoisted high into the treetops, and in order to make the beam of light distinct to the camera lens, the smoke machine was used liberally. Cheri dusted a gold glitter into all the make ups as the actors are transformed by “The Rapture” promised in the Bible. Spectacular optical effects were added later to complete the images, shot on separate strips of film for each angel, to be composited as the three bodies become one in a whirling vortex of twinkles.
Then we were ready for the final revelation of “star student” Andrew, a pale and beautiful high school lad, into the inhuman and repulsive Lucifer, the Beast who was chased from Heaven by the Archangel Michael. The pre-made foam rubber face and ear prosthetics were only part of the full-body work that took 5 hours to apply, in Stefan’s motel room. Open sores, purple and yellow patches, and hair travelling from the inverted cross in the palm of the hand to the armpit, and from the ankles up the legs to join with the pubic hair revealed by the Black Mass robes were glued in place. All of the crepe hair had to be sprayed with Krylon acrylic to keep the wind from blowing it loose. False black fingernails were glued on, and then we were ferried over in a motor boat to the castle. It wasn’t hard for Kathleen Rowe McAllen as Julie to act repulsed by this being with three points on each ear, glowing eyes and fangs. Yet through all this makeup, the human part of Andrew still loves pretty Julie, and, hesitating to destroy her as he had destroyed Mrs. Buchanan, (portrayed by Elizabeth Hoffman) he gives her a few seconds in which to find the strength to take the golden staff and defy his power, shouting, “He is the Light!”
After a few pick-up shots left over from previous scenes, the crew packed up the equipment and left the castle in a pouring rain. We returned to Rochester for one last scene at the home of one of our investors, which was used as Julie’s house for the “seduction” scene and the scene where Julie’s boyfriend Mark (Paul Haber) proposes. Exhausted but fulfilled this crew of people from all parts of the country hugged their goodbyes and returned home to await the release of the picture. Frank La Loggia and the editors placed the newly developed film together in New York City.
After several months of negotiations, Frank and Charles La Loggia signed the distribution agreement with Avco Embassy Pictures. At this point only a “rough cut” of the picture existed, with gaps in sound effects and no music, titles or special effects. Working with executives from Avco, Frank finalized the order of the scenes and got the picture into its final number of seconds for music timing. Gifted with music as well as producing, writing and directing skills, La Loggia “scored his own film with a 33 piece orchestra under Avco’s post-production budget. The melodies are lovely and yet haunting, perfectly conveying the moods of the characters.
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   Fear No Evil’s soundtrack featured many punk and new wave bands from the late 1970s and early 1980s.
“Hey Joe” performed by Patti Smith
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“Somebody’s Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In Tonight” performed by The Rezillos
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“Blitzkrieg Bop” performed by the Ramones
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“Psycho Killer” performed by Talking Heads
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“Love Goes to a Building on Fire” performed by Talking Heads
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“Delicious Gone Wrong” performed by Bim
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“I Don’t Like Mondays” performed by The Boomtown Rats
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“Lava” performed by The B-52’s
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“Blank Generation” performed by Richard Hell
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“Anarchy in the UK” performed by the Sex Pistols
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Fear No Evil (1981) Retrospective PLOT A Roman Catholic priest, Father Damon, murders a man outside a castle-like estate on an island in upstate New York.
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1/10/2018 – No Contact:  Hitting the Polls
So, I ended up asking a question to my fellow nations and I got minimal communication out of it.  Lol, I’m really bad at being responsible. I ended up watching several movies yesterday.  And by yesterday I mean it’s almost 1am and I watched three movies as well as ordered a large pizza and ate it at one sitting.  I’m a terrible person.
Three movies, all animated and almost all French.  The Angry Birds Movie (which was better than I thought it’d be), Avril and the Extraordinary World, and The Long Way North.  The last two were the french ones.  I watched these after binge watching CellSpex who I started watching due to her Zero Punctuation styled portrayal of herself.  Not to say she’s ripping it off or anything, she just uses a very simplistic way to illustrate herself being her outline. Expression is done with a simple outline of eyes rather than using a facecam like other channels.
The Angry Birds Movie… as mentioned, better than I thought it was going to be.  I relate with the angry main character because I too have large eyebrows.  Oh, and I might have anger problems.  CellSpex mentioned how it was an allegory for Trump being right, but the way I saw it was… anti-American.  The pigs represented the United States as evident with their boats and greedy pigs with Southern Accents. The eagle was the outdated throes of liberty, coming back to aid a less advanced people to overcome their enemy who is a western power. In the end, they sing praises of “Red” which is communism!
I guess my point is, if you look for something you’ll find it.  I don’t think it’s trying to push a Communist message but everything can be open to interpretation.  That’s what makes everything so challenging.  When you take a religion and you determine your interpretation is the only correct one, then you end up with Protestantism and Catholicism with all these little heresies in between.
That said, Avril and the Extraordinary World.  I was a little let down.  I thought the art was something.  The animation was well done, I like how each individual person sort of moved on their own accord.  Gives a lot of life to the world in a very subtle way, I felt.  The opening scene with the police was just stellar.  However, I did feel the second half of the movie was somewhat weaker.  The ideas I came up for were WAY cooler than what actually happened.
I really wanted to see it in French, however.  I would have preferred subtitles.  Especially when the talking cat (who is actually quite charming, btw) requests Avril explain something simply by saying, “In English, please.”  That actually pissed me off.  They’re French. They’re in France.  They should speak French.  Even if the movie is in English, they should have said, “In French, please.”
I also thought the villain creatures were kind of… cute.  I mean, I didn’t like the idea behind them and sort of felt that they didn’t fit that well in a supposedly steampunk setting.  I was hoping for more politics and thought that they’d be a rival nation like Prussia or something.
Which reminds me, they (the French) were at were with the American League, for some reason… and they built a bridge to connect themselves with Britain.  Um… why?  They’re the BIGGEST rivals.  In fact, France had plans to invade Britain prior to WWI (if it came to that, of course).  And considering a Napoleon sat on the throne…  Not that it mattered.  The entire political system was sort of just background noise.  The Emperor wasn’t really important except that the original Napoleon III died.  Even then, he could have totally been replaced with a government stooge and it would have been fine.  I don’t know why they wanted France to be a monarchy when it was pretty unneeded.  If there were more politics in the movie, then yeah.  That’d be important.  But… it’s not, really.  It’s just kind of there.
There is a lot that I didn’t like now that I think about it.  I was expecting… A LOT more.  And I dislike how the Alternative History got the real history… wrong.  Like certain things wouldn’t have been able to happen due to what they proposed.  That’s always been a pet peeve of mine.  And I also dislike how they just selected a group of famous or relatively well-known scientists from the early 20th century just to be sort of… cameos.  I mean… Tesla.  That’s the only one people really would care about.
Regardless, I liked the animation, even though the noses and ears were really big.  The cat was great, as mentioned, and the grandfather wears spats.  That’s nice.  Fashion hadn’t changed much, it seems, as they still had late victorian wear.  It’s steampunk, which is sort of underplayed in media.  It’s charming.  It’s just… eh.  I was hoping for more.  I felt disappointed.  Like, if it were a pizza I’d have eaten it all and still feel like I hadn’t eaten enough.  And it’d have mushrooms which I dislike but I’ll eat anyways because it’s still good pizza.
Finally, The Long Way North.  This was my favorite of the night.  It was GORGEOUS.  Just beautiful.  The artwork wasn’t as detailed as Avril and blah blah blah but it was still very inviting.  What I liked most about it is that it didn’t use a lot of black outlines.  Really, it had very few outlines.  Samurai Jack did this, sort of.  The eyes are simple but they were beautiful.  The motion was just… refreshing.
The story was fine, though I did have some quips about how they’re supposed to be in Russia.  Only ONCE did I see Cyrillic.  The rest of the writing was mostly in French, which admittedly would have been a thing for Russian Aristocracy to know… but not Norwegian sailors. At least, I assume they’re Norwegian.  They have Scandinavian names and the ship is called the “Norge.”  I don’t really know what they do, either.  Like, they’re not whalers and they’re not transporting goods.  What do you do?!
They make plot happen, I guess.
I found how they did feet to be weird but also kind of… cute.  It had a childlike spirit but was still captivating.  There were some dumb cliches here and there and some more questions that I’d like answers for, but for the most part?  It’s a movie I want to suggest to Ariel.  I think she’d like it too.  :D
Time for bed.  Going to be a busy day tomorrow.  I intend to finish my tax plan tomorrow.  Or… today.
Well, that was a waste.  Current time is 10.  I didn’t have a lot of time today.  I was called in for work.  Drat.  I posted a poll asking about “What we should do!” and what should be taxed.  Irrelevant, really.  Just buying me time.  I didn’t have the chance to pick up honey mustard or anything else, not that it matters.  I was too tired from work.
I ended up watching videos and streams when I got back.  I can’t recall what I really did today, which is weird.
I’m watching an old movie.  Troy.  It came out 14 years ago.  An old story but I don’t like how the narration begins with, “Will they remember us in 2004?!”  Golly, I don’t know.  Will they remember us in 6018?  It’s dumb.  And they keep doing it.  “They’ll tell our tales thousands of years from now!”  Shut up!  Stahp it!  No! Stop bragging about how we remember an ancient story!  Stop it.  You don’t see modern stories about snipers talking about “In 300 years, they’ll remember me.”
Dumb.  So dumb.
Still, I quite enjoy troy.  Not a lot of ancient movies that aren’t overtly religious or mythic.  Like… it’s somewhat similar to what France considered art while Rembrandt was doing his thing.  He had stark contrasts with sublime imagery as did other Dutch artists while to the French, this was not art!  Art must be old, depicting historic events or mythological events!  That’s why there is SO much art depicting ancient kings and whatever and not much of the actual normal every day from that period.
Like, cool, but for real though.  Branch out.
In the 60’s and 70’s all Ancient movies were just… meh.  Ben-Hur. Romans.  Jesus, also.  Dumb.  I hated Ben-Hur.  Jason and the Argonauts.  Also dumb but impressive for its time.  Then The 300 Spartans or whatever movie.  Also dumb.  Haven’t seen it, but it’s dumb.  Of course, that one isn’t religious but I’m sure it’s got some religious undertone.  Most American movies did, probably in an effort to combat Communism.
Anyways, I’m trying to think of a good movie about Rome or Ancient Greece… idk.  There is a lot you can do, I’d personally like to see something involving the siege of Syracuse during the second punic war.  Which reminds me.  Why is Hannibal not in any movies?
Of course, Hannibal would perhaps be cast by an African American gentleman if they made a movie about it.  Really, they should get an Israeli to do it as the Carthaginians were a Semitic people.  Of course, that might not be enough because the modern Israeli can be sort of white at times. Perhaps an Arabic character would be fine.  Just a Middle-Eastern sort of appearance physically.
Regardless, going to watch my movie.  I like the outfits because they’re not the greek armor you know and love.  Breastplate, corinthian helmet, bracers… honestly, you had to supply your own kit back then.  So, there wouldn’t really be a uniform.  What I described?  That’s expensive and I’m fairly certain they didn’t have bracers.  Just didn’t.  Not sure why, may have been a waste of armor to them.
That said, the armor takes some inspiration from this old boar tusk helmet from the Mycenean period.  They were basically early Greeks which is appropriate for the… well, Greeks in the movie.  A lot of detail and design.  Sometimes too much design, but still.  It was clear that “These aren’t the Greeks we see from pottery.  These Greeks are even MORE Ancient!”  Except for Achilles who has a Corinthian helmet… with a very open face.  And somewhat modern armor for the time.
Regardless, I always felt good costumes help sink you into the feel of the movie. When I was younger, this all looked perfect to me.  Now?  Not so much, but it gets a pass.
Oh, Christ.  The costumes are worse than I remember.  Non-Greek items on supposedly Greek men.  They mentioned a lot of places in Greece, too. Not sure how powerful they would have been at this time but they didn’t sound very… well, powerful.  In fact, I think it’s kind of redundant.  Thessaly also looks like a desert.  It’s in greece so I THINK it should be green but I’m not sure.
The capital A without the line in the middle.  That’s a popular thing on shields.  Called a Lambda.  It’s basically the letter “L” for the Greeks.  Spartans never really used the lambda until AFTER the battle of Thermopylae which is YEARS after.  I say that because I noticed a random lambda at Achilles’s yurt.  Very ancient if they’re using yurts instead of housing.  Almost nomadic.
They say Thessalonian again.  I think he’d be identified more by his city rather than region.  Thessaly isn’t a city but a region.  I guess it’s not wrong, just unusual.
Army shots.  A lot of extras.  Thing is, uniforms are very important in movies because you can recognize them versus us!  We’re the good guys, we wear white while… eh.  Yeah, there was a lot of individuality in the militaries back then.  Armors would look different, shields would DEFINITELY be different, colors would be different, or whatever.  As mentioned, you brought what you had.  If you had a yellow shirt then you wore it.  Your friend would wear a blue shirt.  The idea of uniforms being an important thing to have wasn’t really a thing until quite recently.  Even in Ancient Rome when they had a professional army, you’d still see a few different effects here and there.  Mostly with officers, mind you, who could afford it.  But still.
I LOVE how they have to convince Achilles to stay because their army is scared.  Like, dude.  They’re scared because Achilles fights all the battles for them.  If he leaves, then they have to fight.  And they’ve probably never fought a battle because Agamemnon says, “Best fighters fight only!” all the time.  It’s a miracle the Greeks ever conquered Troy.
Oh, shit.  They have that weird helmet thing with a super circular crest. Didn’t notice it.  The guards at the table during a feast. Guarding… a portion of important wall?  Hrm.  Regardless, I’ve seen that helmet before.  Also seems to be a Saracen helmet adorned by someone at the table… for reasons?
Sparta is the most fucking overrated city state ever.  Just a thought.
Poseidon? I’m fairly certain the Trojans had different gods than the Greeks because they weren’t actually Greek.  I’m not entirely certain, however.  Just fairly.
The Greeks wear red and the Trojans wear blue.  Hrm…  Weird thing to notice.
Paris loves Helen… thing is, love wasn’t really an acceptable reason for marriage back then.  Funny thing, that.  You see someone talking about how in Greek mythology, humans had 4 arms and 4 legs and Zeus separated them so they’d have to forever find their soulmate, you look them in the eye and call them a liar.
Country wouldn’t really be the term.  City-State.  So City.
Whenever someone says, “Poetic” my ears perk like my name is being called. Hector said “Nothing Poetic” and I’m like, “Eh?!”  First half of my screen name.  ;)
Proved.  That’s a word, yeah.  Sounds weird.  I think I would have said, “Proven.”
Every day wear costumes are… weird.  Costumes in general are getting weirder.  Sean Bean, what?
And Odysseus references his wife.  Lel.  Odyssey easter egg.  And then he talks about how remembered it’d be… oof.  Stahp it.
Larissa? Wait, what?  That’s IN fucking Thessaly!  Achilles fought other Thessalians?  Seriously?  And the king of Thessaly didn’t know who Achilles was?  Achilles just happen to be a POWERFUL mercenary, born locally.  In fact, he’s from what is probably your main city.  I mean, he’s bumped elbows with OTHER kings like Odysseus.  And now they’re talking about being remembered again!  Christ, this is like the prequel to Coco.  -,-
Priam has a voice like deep velvet.  Oof.  Powerful.  Wasn’t expecting that from such a narrow figure.
Thinking back, I think in the Iliad the Gods were on both sides because they felt split about the issue.  I can’t remember, I read it in high school and it was sort of difficult to read through.  So, maybe they did worship the same gods?  Or maybe Homer assumed they did.  It’s possible.
What accent does Hellen have?  Everyone is English but she sort of sounds… well, drunk.
I hate when extras have their gear slightly to the side like it doesn’t fit correctly or something.  Dude, straighten your helmet.  Do what you need to do.  Everyone should be passed around a handheld mirror or something.  -,-
Oh, those archers have the most worthless helmets.  You could have a band of metal wrapped around your head that will get hot and eventually start cooking your flesh in the nice, Mediterranean sun… or you could wear a straw hat.  Both will protect you about the same.  The stray hat may actually be better, considering it won’t melt your forehead.  If the sun exists and can get hot, you don’t want to be touching metal.
Something I do remember is whenever someone who had awesome armor fell in battle in the Iliad, people fucking lost their shit and rushed to loot the body.  Strip them of their armor.  Random fact.  May remember it wrong.  So, a lot of those people who are fighting would have a shield, a helmet, and a spear with nothing else.  The myrmidons would be decked out because they’re badasses and they’d have collected armor from previous encounters… but the run of the mill warrior wouldn’t.
I want to see a movie where the armor isn’t a suggestion.  I want to see it actually save someone’s life.  Preferably, someone who isn’t a main character.  Something else I’d like to see is more people who are just… wounded.  Not killed but just wounded.  This may surprise you but most casualties in a battle weren’t really fatalities.  Well, not immediately… wounds could be fatal but they didn’t die instantly.  I dislike seeing the aftermath of a battle and it’s a field littered with corpses.  It wouldn’t be that static.  There would be crying, people huddled in a ball, people writhing in pain.  It’s actually kind of hard to kill a person. But no.  Everyone must die instantly.
Oh, look.  D-Day.  Lelelelelelel.
Random thing to note.  The Romans believed their people were originally Trojans.  This is probably untrue.  However, I do think it’s a possibility that their neighbors to the north may have been Trojan. They were the Etruscans and not a lot is known about them.  The Romans had a tendency to adopt customs and cultural ideas from other cultures, look at their gods.  Basically reskinned Greek gods.  The Etruscans being Trojan?  Perhaps the Romans adopted their neighbors’ history and some of their identity.  Just a thought, of course.
“I spoke with two farmers today.  They saw an eagle with a serpent clutched in it’s talons today.  This is a sign from Mexico.  They will pay for our wall.”  I make myself laugh.
I’m not sure they’d be kissing.  I believe kissing was a Roman tradition.  Was very unusual in other cultures.
Looking at the extras for the armies, I’d say this may have been filmed in Turkey.  If so, they used the Turkish army as extras.  That’s a common thing to do.  You pay the government rather than the extras so it’s cheaper.  Then again, they may have filmed somewhere else.  I assumed Turkey because that’s where Troy is supposed to be.  But the Trojans aren’t Turks.  Remember that.
Lol, they look like my cousins actually.  I think I see one of Adela’s brothers.
Hrm, maybe they aren’t entirely from an army. If they are, then they allowed the soldiers to grow beards just for the movie.  I’m curious where it’s filmed now.  :o
...is this Mexico?
HOLY FUCK, IT MIGHT BE!!!  I just Googled it.  They filmed in Malta and Mexico.  Mexico was where they filmed the gates and wall of Troy. Whoa.  The extras probably are Mexican.  Certainly a lot of CGI.  And it makes the idea that the eagle with the serpent thing represents a sign from Mexico even better.  I wouldn’t have guessed Mexico but the guy with Agamemnon looked like one of my uncles.  Interesting. :D
Hector has a very handsome actor playing him.  More handsome than Brad Pitt I feel.
There is a nose guard on the helmet of Paris.  When we see through his perspective, however, it’s sawed off.
He spits out a lot of blood for what looks like SUCH a weak punch.
Apollonians… they look like every other soldier.  It probably would have been cheaper if their costumes were more realistic.  Minimal armor for the average soldier while the Apollonians would have actual armor.  That way, they’re unique and can be identified quickly.  Also, archers are op please nerf.
The Hittites are mentioned.  That’s pretty neat except the Hittites are on the other side of Turkey, almost Armenia.  I can’t remember if it were them or the Assyrians but one of their cultures relied on conquest.  Either their civilization conquered or the world would end.  They had to win EVERY battle… well, they lost a battle. World didn’t end.  Then their civilization collapsed.  The lesson there is push for victory but allow defeats.  You can lose every battle in a war but that doesn’t mean the war is lost.
I feel the scene where Achilles rescues the priestess is cliché.  So cliché.  :/
They’re listing off gods now.  Eh…  There were literally hundreds of gods in Greek culture.  Like, I touched on this back with Hercules.
Sean Bean actually has a rather soothing voice.  I never noticed that until now.  I remember in the Sharpe series, he pissed me off.  Even then, I think it was less to do with his character and more to do with Anglophilia.  As well as blatant classism.  And horrible cliches, again.  And inaccurate historical portrayals.  Then again, I guess the books may have been better.  Not sure.  It was suggested to me back when I played vidya gams.
Patroclus is a terrible actor.
“Attack at daybreak!”  *attacks in the middle of the night WITH FUCKING NAPALM!!!*
Really, if you could get so close to their camp without setting off the alarm, why not just go in and stab everyone quietly.  I mean, you’re already attacking at night.  Just… come on.  Wouldn’t Apollo have better watch over you when the sun is out?
I love how they march in the sand.  Like, they look like they’re running SO slowly.  Fun times.
The armies stop fighting to watch the best fighters fight.  I’m not sure how true that is but I’ve heard it’s happened on medieval battlefields before.
One of the extras in the back, shaking his head.  I love it.
“There are no turns, so you can’t get lost.  I know you too well.  Got lost in the fucking hallway… dumb bitch.”  I shouldn’t poke fun.  I get lost easily as well.
Archery. Ah, yes.  Warfare for the cowardly.
Good fight between Hector and Achilles… except Achilles forgot his helmet, shield, and spear head.  D’oh!
King Priam snuck into the Greek encampment.  Really?  If some old dude could do it then the Trojans could have snuck at least Hector in there.  Killed a few people, slit a few throats of sleeping Greeks and then flee.  Cause chaos or something.  Didn’t have to turn the beach into the Vietnam War.
Wait, Priam knew Achilles father?  And the king of Thessaly never even heard of Achilles?  The guy who is literally two yurts down from his palace?
CGI soldiers… huh.  I wonder why CGI movies aren’t more common.  I think they did something like that with Beowulf but it was just… weird.  Not a good movie.  There was a movie called Beowulf and Grendel which was interesting.  Not the best, either, but they had historically accurate armor.  Always nice.  Was true to the original lore, as well.
CGI might be cheaper than live action in terms of large battles and historical accuracy.  And if you’re doing a series, maybe you can reuse assets.  Then again, it might be more expensive due to… well, CGI taking time to do.  Time is literally money.
Oh, Aeneas has a part in this?  I was under the impression that he was a cousin of Hector and Paris.  Paris doesn’t know him?  Huh.
“We’ll be together!  In this world or the next!”  Erm…  The River Styx isn’t a very romantic setting.
Lol, this dude just bounced his shield.
There is a lot of impalings in this movie.
Oh, Agamemnon died.  Weird, I thought he survived the war.  I guess he was basically the antagonist in this movie… though I don’t think there really was an antagonist in the Iliad.  Every story nowadays needs someone to personify evil, I guess.  Where Achilles is honorable, Agamemnon seeks power.  They clash, thus they’re opposites.
Eh…  I prefer the idea of not having antagonists.  We expect the bad guy to lose.  To die.  To be punished.  In reality, this couldn’t be further from the truth. It’s not that life is tragedy, it’s just what you make of it. Those who do what they must ensure a better world for themselves and those they care about.  Behind every pair of eyes is a story.  And in every story, they will be their own hero.  And each story… each hero.  They’re all flawed.
That’s what makes a good character.
Geez, Achilles.  I bet you wish you didn’t forget your armor in front of the gates of Troy.  Dumb ass.
If I recall correctly, Achilles doesn’t die in the Iliad.  I’m not sure I remember the ending at all.  However, it’s suggested that Paris’s shot was guided by Apollo himself… because Paris is a coward and isn’t allowed to be credited with defeating Achilles. Poor, poor Paris.
Of course, I’ve heard a lot of things.  My dad told me about how Achilles was on his chariot, dragging Hector’s body and Paris prayed to Apollo to guide his arrow and it hit Achilles’s heel.  He falls off his chariot and his head hit a rock.  That’s what my dad told me.  I don’t actually know how he died but the way I heard it sounds dumb.  Also conflicts with the Iliad, which probably isn’t the most ACCURATE of sources, but I like the idea of Achilles finding a bit of peace by returning the body of Hector.
Alright. Movie is over.  Not as good as I remembered but it was decent.  :D
Current time is 2:30.  I did the thing I thought was probably annoying.  The movie thing.  Not really a review, more a walkthrough.  If you just read it while not watching the movie then I just describe dumb moments.  I said I wouldn’t do it again because it’s annoying. But I started and I couldn’t stop.  My weakness is historical facts in movies.  D’oh!  And I told Adela I’d do the dishes before I went to bed!  Also D’oh!
I’ll do them… it’s just really late.  I’m irresponsible.  A good reason to not document my movie viewing experience is because of this crap right here.  I started watching a two hour movie at 11.  Maybe before.  And I just finished it.  I did a lot of writing with the occasional stop by google to check where the movie was made and who died when. Btw, I was right.  Agamemnon survived the war.  -,-
Anyways, time for bed.  But first, dishes.  Night.
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What to watch for at Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings
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WASHINGTON — Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee this week offers senators their only real opportunity to challenge the Supreme Court nominee’s legal thinking before he would take a lifetime appointment on America’s highest court.
This time around, the stakes are higher because President Donald Trump’s nominee is poised to succeed swing vote Justice Anthony Kennedy, the conservative-centrist who joined with liberals to uphold Roe v. Wade and abortion rights. Kennedy was also the decisive vote for same-sex marriage and university affirmative action.
But if past confirmation hearings are any lesson, Kavanaugh, previously a top aide to President George W. Bush, will try to reveal as little as possible while being as pleasant as possible.
Here’s what to watch for this week:
Robert Mueller and executive power
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election remains at the forefront of the political arena, and this will be no exception.
The Supreme Court could ultimately resolve disputes arising from that investigation, and senators have said they will ask Kavanaugh about his views of executive power and when the president can be subject to investigation and indictment.
U.S. Circuit Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh looks on as U.S. President Donald Trump introduces him as his nominee to the United States Supreme Court on July 9, 2018 in Washington, DC. Pending confirmation by the U.S. Senate, Judge Kavanaugh would succeed Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy, 81, who is retiring after 30 years of service on the high court. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Kavanaugh knows a thing or two about investigating a president. He worked as a deputy to independent counsel Ken Starr, going after President Bill Clinton in the 1990s. Back then, in a memo, he explained why he felt it was necessary to get Clinton to answer questions under oath about White House intern Monica Lewinsky. In the memo, he suggested that the American people and Congress needed to know the full extent of the President’s wrongdoing.
But after serving in the Bush White House, his thinking about pursuing a president seems to have evolved. In 2009, he wrote that having seen how “complex” and “difficult” the job was, he thought it was “vital that the President be able to focus on his never-ending tasks with as few distractions as possible.” He proposed that any criminal or civil claims against a president be deferred until he left office.
“(T)he indictment and trial of a sitting president,” Kavanaugh wrote in a 2009 law review, “would cripple the federal government, rendering it unable to function with credibility in either the international or domestic arenas.”
Obamacare
For Democrats, health care is a possible way to win political points for the upcoming midterm elections at the hearings.
Democrats have said they worry that Kavanaugh would move to strike down popular provisions, such as the requirement that insurers cover everyone regardless of medical history and do not charge more for people with certain health conditions.
“I think this becomes the narrative of his nomination, which could bring it down,” said Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, according to the Los Angeles Times. “If people realize that their insurance is at risk because of this court nominee, I think there is going to be a lot of pressure put on a lot of people to vote no.”
Trump has long criticized the 2010 Affordable Care Act and targeted Chief Justice John Roberts for his crucial fifth vote to uphold the law in 2012. “If I win the presidency, my judicial appointments will do the right thing unlike Bush’s appointee John Roberts on Obamacare,” Trump tweeted in 2015.
When a DC Circuit panel upheld the ACA in 2011, Kavanaugh dissented on procedural grounds, rather than assessing the merits. He said it was premature to resolve a dispute that involved an insurance mandate to be imposed in 2014, with a tax penalty the following year. Yet as he dissented, Kavanaugh laid out limits on Congress’ power to regulate commerce. The crux of the litigation at that point was whether Congress could order people to buy a product, that is, health insurance.
Government’s authority over business
The Trump administration has vigorously worked to eliminate regulations on business, for example, in the workplace and over the environment. White House Counsel Don McGahn has said the administration has screened judicial candidates for an anti-regulatory focus.
Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh walks to a meeting with Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) in her office on Capitol Hill on August 21, 2018 in Washington, DC. The confirmation hearing for Judge Kavanaugh is set to begin September 4. (Photo by Zach Gibson/Getty Images)
Kavanaugh’s thinking has been in sync with the administration. He has argued that regulatory agencies should exercise authority only when it is clearly spelled out in federal statutes, departing from the judicial practice of deferring to agency interpretations of an open-ended law. In one 2014 dispute, Kavanaugh criticized a Labor Department move to sanction SeaWorld following the drowning of a trainer by the orca Tilikum, declaring that the agency had “stormed headlong into a new regulatory arena.”
More broadly, Kavanaugh has questioned an entrenched 1984 Supreme Court case, Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council, that says judges should defer to agency interpretations of ambiguous laws. That, Kavanaugh said in a 2017 speech, “encourages agency aggressiveness on a large scale.”
Roe v. Wade
Senators will ask Kavanaugh the same question that has come up in almost every modern-day confirmation hearing: Does he think Roe v. Wade, the 1973 opinion that legalized abortion, was wrongly decided and should be overturned?
The opinion is more than 40 years old, but it is still a flashpoint and opponents of abortion believe that Kavanaugh will deliver a fifth vote to either overturn Roe or cripple it.
Sen. Susan Collins, a Maine Republican who supports abortion rights, met with Kavanaugh last month and seemed satisfied that he will respect Roe. She said he’d called it “settled law” during their meeting.
But while lower court judges must abide by Supreme Court precedent, a Supreme Court justice has the latitude to try to reverse it. Supporters of abortion rights fear the worst, and Democratic senators will push him on the issue.
“It’s not enough for Brett Kavanaugh to say that Roe is ‘settled law,’ ” Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat, said in a tweet after Collins’ comments. “Chief Justice Roberts said the same thing in 2005. Then he voted in favor of a law that would have forced 75% of Texas clinics to close. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.”
Where are the documents?
Friday evening, Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley was informed that the White House would withhold some 100,000 documents concerning Kavanaugh’s record because administration lawyers believe the documents are covered by constitutional privilege. The disclosure infuriated Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat, who called it the “Friday Night Document Massacre.”
“President Trump’s decision to step in at the last moment and hide 100,000 pages of Judge Kavanaugh’s records from the American public is not only unprecedented in the history of Supreme Court nominations, it has all the makings of a cover-up,” he said.
Grassley, an Iowa Republican, is refusing to supply records from Kavanaugh’s years as Bush’s staff secretary. On top of that, there are some documents that lawyers for Trump and the White House have labeled “committee confidential.” Democrats say Grassley has deviated from the normal protocols concerning document delivery.
Grassley’s office responds that he’s made hundreds of thousands of documents available, and that Kavanaugh has issued more than 300 opinions that offer the best view of his jurisprudence.
Judge Kozinski, who resigned after sexual harassment allegations
Kavanaugh was a law clerk to Judge Alex Kozinski from 1991 to 1992 and has remained close to his former boss through the years. When Kavanaugh was nominated to the DC Circuit, Kozinski testified on his behalf at 2006 hearings, and Kavanaugh returned the praise and thanked him for helping his career.
Kozinski, who had sat on the California-based 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals since 1985, stepped down in December after numerous women accused him of sexual harassment. The federal judiciary dropped its investigation of Kozinski once he resigned. As part of that episode, the Senate panel already has scrutinized the judiciary’s misconduct policies, and Democrats are likely to ask what Kavanaugh knew of Kozinski’s behavior as they raise broader sexual-harassment concerns.
The White House issued a statement in July saying that Kavanaugh was never aware of allegations of sexual misconduct against his longtime mentor: “Judge Kavanaugh clerked for Alex Kozinski more than 25 years ago. Prior to the public reports late last year, Judge Kavanaugh had never heard any allegations of sexual misconduct or sexual harassment by Judge Kozinski.”
Brown v. Board
During several hearings for lower court judges, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Connecticut Democrat, has asked nominees whether they believe that the landmark civil rights opinion Brown v. Board of Education, which struck down the “separate but equal” doctrine in public schools, was correctly decided.
Wendy Vitter, a general counsel for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans who was nominated to a district court, said she didn’t mean to be “coy” but that she thought it inappropriate to comment on Supreme Court decisions, “which are correctly decided and which I may disagree with.” Her comments triggered outrage.
Kavanaugh knows this question is likely coming, and there’s nothing in his record to suggest he would question the validity of Brown.
When Roberts was asked this in 2005, he said: “The genius of the decision was the recognition that the act of separating students was where the violation was. And it rejected the defense — certainly just a theoretical one given the actual record — that you could have equal facilities and equal treatment.”
Justice Antonin Scalia, for his part, way back in 1986, wouldn’t even answer whether Marbury v. Madison, the 1803 opinion that asserted the power of judicial review, had been correctly decided.
“I don’t think I should answer questions regarding any specific Supreme Court opinion, even one as fundamental as Marbury v. Madison,” Scalia said. But he told senators he “ought to be in trouble” if they were to uncover anything he’d written disregarding the opinion, “without you asking me specifically about my views.”
Misleading testimony?
Sen. Dick Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, is ready to pounce on Kavanaugh, because the senator believes that 12 years ago, when Kavanaugh appeared before the Judiciary Committee as a nominee for a powerful appeals court, his testimony was misleading when it came to issues stemming from the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
At the time Kavanaugh said, “I was not involved and am not involved in the questions about the rules governing detention of combatants.”
Once he was confirmed, however, a Washington Post story recounted how Kavanaugh had participated in a meeting at the White House concerning whether enemy combatants should have access to lawyers. Durbin shot off an angry letter to the judge and said he’d been misled. But supporters of Kavanaugh say that while he may have participated in discussions regarding whether detainees should have the ability to consult with lawyers, he never participated in broader issues related to detainee treatment.
Kavanaugh’s White House boss at the time, Alberto Gonzales, said in a recent statement that only a “limited number of personnel” were read into the sensitive legal issues surrounding the authorization of the use of enhanced interrogation techniques on high value detainees.
Richard Nixon and John Dean
Back in 1999, Kavanaugh said the landmark opinion that ordered President Richard Nixon to turn over White House recordings toward the end of the Watergate investigation might have been “wrongly decided.”
The comments, made as part of an interview in Washington Lawyer magazine, were included in the thousands of pages of documents released by the Senate Judiciary Committee. The White House was quick to point to a more recent speech in which Kavanaugh praised the 1974 ruling, which rejected Nixon’s claim of executive privilege to withhold the tapes. It was unclear if Kavanaugh had had a change of heart.
But in the age of Trump, whose 2016 campaign is under investigation, Democrats are sure to seek clarification from Kavanaugh.
John Dean, Nixon’s former White House counsel, is scheduled to testify Friday.
Starr Report
Another topic from Kavanaugh’s time with Starr would be his role as a co-author of the 1998 report that laid out grounds for Clinton’s impeachment along with explicit details of sexual encounters between Clinton and Lewinsky. Kavanaugh also proposed hard-hitting, sexually charged questions as the Starr team was preparing to interview Clinton before a grand jury.
“The President has disgraced his Office, the legal system, and the American people by having sex with a 22-year-old intern and turning her life into a shambles — callous and disgusting behavior that has somehow gotten lost in the shuffle,” Kavanaugh wrote in an Aug. 15, 1998, memo to Starr and other lawyers.
Kavanaugh has expressed regret that the whole steamy report was publicly released but defended the vigor with which the Starr team pursued Clinton, who was impeached by the House of Representatives and acquitted by the Senate.
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Selling generic Viagra, Rogaine to Instagram crowd – over the phone
Every man in Dylan Nelson’s family is bald. His dad, uncle and both grandfathers: all hairless. The 28-year-old headhunter from Newport Beach, Calif., started suffering the same fate when he was 23. He tried Rogaine but found it pricey and ineffective. Then he saw a cheeky ad for Hims, a startup that sells mail-order kits of prescription drugs. Nelson asked his neighbour, a dermatologist, what she thought. The drugs Hims was offering were the same ones she prescribed to her patients but cheaper.
Two months in, they seem to be working. “I’ve been cutting my hair every 10 days,” Nelson said.
Hims is one of a crop of new direct-to-consumer, hipster-branded U.S. startups selling prescription drugs to men through the internet. But where others like Keeps or Roman focus on one health issue (hair loss and ED, respectively), Hims wants to build a brand that serves men with many different ailments, from erectile dysfunction to acne. Launched in November 2017, Hims makes it possible for men to get a prescription after a quick consultation with an online doctor. The meds are provided by a network of pharmacies and mailed out in discreet boxes.
Hims is riding a confluence of trends: the loosening of telemedicine laws in most U.S. states, the expiration of Pfizer’s Viagra monopoly and men’s growing willingness to talk about and pay for health and beauty. Andrew Dudum, Hims’s 29-year-old founder and chief executive officer, vows to create a $10-billion-plus health-care company. “We’re the front door of the doctor’s office,” he said. “We are completely different from anything in the health-care system.”
It’s a bold plan, but Dudum and his team of disrupters will have to tread carefully. After all, they aren’t selling mattresses or razors. They’re selling prescription drugs with potential side effects. And some experts say telemedicine, a global industry worth an estimated US$19 billion that’s credited with bringing health care to underserved populations, could make it easier for people to get prescriptions that aren’t warranted.
Lindsey Slaby, a marketing consultant who’s done work for Target Corp., Equinox and Microsoft Corp., applauds Hims for trying to make it easier for men to talk about hair loss, ED and other ailments. But Slaby said the company’s sometimes glib marketing could gloss over the downsides of pill popping. “You just don’t feel like you’re seeing a lot of the fine print,” she said.
Dudum doesn’t have a medical background. He’s your archetypal San Francisco startup guy: direct, optimistic and oozing California good vibes. At Wharton School, he was in the venture capital club. He’s best-known in tech circles for founding Atomic, a small venture firm that starts its own companies and is backed by Silicon Valley titans Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen.
Dudum had been researching men’s health, looking for a way into the market, when one night over dinner his sister berated him about his nonexistent skin-care regime. She grabbed his credit card and bought $300 worth of “French stuff” on the spot. The cost and the confusion over what exactly he was getting pushed Dudum to start Hims as a transparent, one-stop shop for men who don’t want to deal with late-night Google searches or sheepish trips to the store or doctor.
Hims has raised US$97 million from such investors as Institutional Venture Partners, Forerunner Ventures and Josh Kushner’s Thrive Capital. The latest round valued the company at US$500 million, according to data firm PitchBook. Hims said it pulled in US$1 million in revenue in its first week, a rate that’s only grown since then. Do the math and that’s US$32 million in eight months, a pretty decent run rate for such a young startup. Dudum said signing up two million regular customers would generate almost $1 billion in recurring revenue.
Besides ED and hair-growth drugs, Hims sells skin-care products, a cold-sore remedy, scented candles, matches and a limited selection of apparel. (“It’s a sweater. It keeps you warm.”) The meds come in chic packaging, and the creams and shampoos lack the off-putting medicinal smell of your father’s foot ointment.
The key to Hims’s success so far is the availability of its two main drugs in generic form. A Hims prescription of finasteride, a version of Merck & Co. Inc.’s hair-loss drug Propecia, costs about US$30 a month, less than what most pharmacies sell it for. For US$44 a month, Hims bundles in medicated shampoo and minoxidil drops, which sell for US$30 over the counter at CVS.
The company is essentially building a brand around drugs that Pfizer (with Viagra) and Merck spent years and hundreds of millions of dollars marketing. Targeting men in their 20s and 30s, Hims advertising leans sophomoric. Cheeky shots of drooping cacti and eggplants fill New York subway stations, urinals, podcasts, sports arenas and are on TV during the NBA finals. They’re also all over Instagram.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration requires ads making a specific claim about a drug’s benefit to disclose possible side effects. Hims said it’s selling a brand, not a specific drug, and doesn’t include the boilerplate language in its ads (which would clunk up the presentation). An FDA spokeswoman declined to comment.
But some experts wonder if finasteride should be prescribed to healthy, young men. The drug was originally developed to help mostly older men shrink enlarged prostates. When it was also found to help regrow hair, finasteride was marketed to younger men (though older ones including Donald Trump still take it, too). Recent studies suggest that finasteride can make some men have trouble ejaculating or maintaining an erection. A 2017 study found 1.4 per cent of men got ED, some of whom had it for 3.5 years or more after they stopped taking finasteride. Among younger men, those who took the drug for extended periods of time had a much higher risk of ED than those who didn’t.
Nelson Novick, a dermatology professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai New York, said that because hair loss isn’t life-threatening, it’s not worth the risk prescribing finasteride — especially to young men. “It’s not some guy in his 60s, 70s and 80s where it may not make that much of a substantive difference,” he said. “Now you have young men who may end up with permanent dysfunction.” He has stopped prescribing it.
The ease of getting a prescription through Hims also worries some experts. Patients fill out a health questionnaire that goes to one of a network of 124 doctors. Those patients suffering from hair loss take a few snapshots of their head. The physician might send a few follow-up questions by email, but there’s no need for a video or phone call. (Doctors are paid depending on the amount of time they spend seeing patients on the platform, regardless of whether they prescribe medication or not.)
The process is perfect for busy, potentially shy Hims customers, but skipping a real doctor-patient conversation runs the risk of missing important details. A 2016 study found physicians were less likely to order followup tests when working over the internet than in person. Telemedicine also gives people yet another excuse to skip regular checkups.
“They’re trying to target these fairly universal problems and either help people who wouldn’t get care otherwise or make it easier for people to receive the care that they need,” said Arash Mostaghimi, a dermatology professor at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital who advises Hims. He argues that startups like Hims will encourage men in their 20s and 30s who typically avoid doctors to plug into the health-care system.
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Marijuana use has an extended historical past that predates the trendy day “stoners” we’ve grown accustomed to. Everyone knows concerning the ganja from India, and the weed from Jamaica, and we’ve memorized a listing of nations and states which have legalized leisure and medicinal marijuana use. However there are some vital historic figures and cultures who made necessary contributions to the event of frequent hashish utilization.
Whether or not they promoted rising weed, or just took just a few puffs and soared to new heights, these illustrious figures and cultures have all had an necessary inexperienced connection. From historic civilizations, to queens, to presidents, to emperors, this record of historic figures that used marijuana will shock and intrigue you.
These aren’t your common skateboarding stoner bros. A few of these historic icons made main contributions to world tradition, and historical past itself. Whether or not they blazed it, toked it, or smoked it, Mary Jane was a key ingredient in these leaders’ lives. Weed has positively been recognized to get the artistic juices flowing, and these distinguished historic figures are not any exception.
Are you stunned that a few of these folks smoked that wacky tobacc-y? Tell us what you consider these profitable pot people who smoke within the remark part under!
William Shakespeare
Place in Historical past William Shakespeare was a 16th century English playwright who’s broadly thought of to be one of many biggest, if not the best, dramatists of all time. His performs, which embody such classics such Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, and Hamlet, are nonetheless carried out, tailored, and swooned over right now.
Place in Marijuana HistoryResearchers discovered traces of cannabis on clay pipes which got here from Shakespeare’s house in Stratford-Upon-Avon. We will’t make sure that these pipes belonged to Shakespeare himself, however we all know they had been made within the 17th century (Shakespeare died in 1616), and so they had been discovered on his property. Shakespeare additionally wrote about a “noted weed” in one of his sonnets. I feel we are able to all guess what he was speaking about…
Why It’s Superior Keep in mind these performs listed above? These aren’t the one ones: Shakespeare additionally penned A Midsummer Night time’s Dream, Othello, and Macbeth. If smoking a little bit of grass helped Shakespeare create masterpieces, then stoners in every single place have another excuse to guarantee their mother and father that they don’t seem to be, in actual fact, losing their lives. We might all like to see a sonnet composed by a recent pothead. Shall I examine thee to a Doritos Locos? Thou artwork extra flavorful and scrumptious.
Queen Victoria
Place in Historical past Queen Victoria dominated the British Empire from 1837 till 1901. She continues to be Britain’s longest-ruling monarch, and helped information the nation by the adjustments that got here with industrialization and modernization.
Place in Marijuana Historical past Queen Victoria was an especially highly effective lady, and, like all girls, was visited every month by her pesky Aunt Flo. Not like most ladies, nevertheless, Queen Victoria had a bevy of physicians at her beck and name, all of whom needed to make their queen snug, which is why her non-public doctor, Sir J. Russell Reynolds, prescribed marijuana for her menstrual cramps. In an 1890 difficulty of The Lancet, one of many world’s oldest medical journals, Reynolds wrote that marijuana is “one of the useful medicines we possess.”
Why It’s Superior Ever hear of the Victorian period? That is the lady who embodied that repressed time interval, throughout which it was thought of scandalous to evensay the word “leg” in mixed company. So it’s superior to assume that the lady who led a nation in carrying corsets and eschewing all point out of bodily capabilities was secretly doping to be able to cope together with her PMS.
James Monroe
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James Monroe was the fifth president of the US. He was a consultant on the Continental Congress, and earlier than turning into president, he served as minister to each France and Britain.
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In his e-book, The Great Book of Hemp, Rowan Robinson wrote that Monroe “was launched to cannabis whereas he was serving as ambassador to France, and he continued to benefit from the smoke till he was seventy-three years outdated.”
Why It’s Superior
Rumors abound that lots of our Founding Fathers used marijuana, however most lack definitive proof. Robinson’s account of Monroe smoking cannabis when he went to France is probably the most stable supply for any of those claims. If it’s true, this may imply that Monroe would have continued smoking marijuana whereas he was within the White Home.
Egyptian Pharaohs
Place in Historical past Earlier than there was a United States of America, a British Empire, or perhaps a Roman one, there have been the pharaohs of Egypt. The pharaohs presided over an excellent civilization on the banks of the Nile River. Dynasties in Historical Egyptian first gained energy in 3150 BC and lasted, in varying lines and kingdoms, until 30 BC.
Place in Marijuana Historical past Throughout their lengthy reign, dynasties of Historical Egypt began to make use of hashish. Cannabis pollen was found on the mummy of one pharaoh, Ramesses II. Details on medical papyrii describe a mess of medical makes use of for marijuana, together with therapy for hemorrhoids and sore eyes.
Why It’s Superior These guys constructed the pyramids! At the moment most individuals nonetheless doesn’t absolutely perceive how Historical Egypt was even capable of construct the pyramids, however they did it. So if Egyptian pharaohs felt that utilizing marijuana was a good suggestion, way back in 2000 BC, possibly we should always take heed to them.
Hua Tuo
Place in Historical past Hua Tuo was a revered Chinese language scholar and physician who lived through the Han dynasty. Hua is credited with creating the world’s first anesthetic for performing surgical procedure, round 200 A.D.
Place in Marijuana Historical past The anesthesia that Hua concocted was known as mafeisan. Mafeisan was made by mixing cannabis powder with wine. Sadly, the precise recipe for Hua’s mafeisan is now unknown, a lot to the chagrin of school children in every single place.
Why It’s Superior Though the precise dates for Hua’s start and dying are unknown, he lived from about 140 to 208. Which implies that almost 2,000 years in the past, Hua’s sufferers had been comfortably sedated for surgical procedure, letting Hua carry out operations that might be unattainable in different elements of the world for hundreds of years. In distinction, Western drugs began utilizing anesthesia for surgical procedures within the 19th century.
William Brooke O’Shaughnessy
Place in Historical past William O’Shaughnessy (1808 – 1889) was an Irish doctor. In 1833 he moved to Calcutta to work for the British East India firm. O’Shaughnessy stayed in India for 9 years, working as a health care provider and as a scientist.
Place in Marijuana Historical past Whereas working in India, O’Shaughnessy discovered about hashish. O’Shaughnessy was intrigued sufficient to begin researching marijuana. When he was again in England, O’Shaugnessy used hashish to deal with muscle spasms, vomiting, and diarrhea. He was so profitable that different Western docs quickly started utilizing the identical therapies.
Why It’s Superior William O’Shaughnessy introduced marijuana to the eye of contemporary Western drugs. In America, beginning within the 1840s, you would get marijuana virtually anyplace, due to its inclusion in a mess of patent medicines. With out O’Shaughnessy, who is aware of how lengthy it might’ve taken for Western drugs to clue into the advantages of hashish?
Historical Greeks
Place in Historical past Historical Greece offered the inspiration for Western civilization. Historical Greek civilization lasted from about 750 BC to A.D. 600, throughout which era the Greeks invented democracy, developed philosophy, and wrote performs and poems which are nonetheless studied and carried out right now.
Place in Marijuana Historical past Along with the above improvements, historic Greeks additionally got here up with some new makes use of for marijuana. Varied Greek writers talked about utilizing hashish to do away with tapeworms, cease nosebleeds and cut back ear irritation. Sadly, their subsequent thought was to present teenage boys hemp seeds to be able to “dry up semen,” in order that the boys might make it by the evening with out undesirable ejaculations. Hopefully these sufferers a minimum of had just a few nice unintended effects.
Why It’s Superior These days teenage boys certainly get extra pleasure out of their marijuana use than boys in historic Greece did. However a minimum of the traditional Greeks had been open to utilizing hashish, not like many of the world right now. They usually removed tapeworm with marijuana, too. Let’s face it, no one likes tapeworms.
Ottomon Sultan Abdülaziz I
Place in Historical past Abdülaziz I used to be the 32nd Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, ruling from 1861 to 1876. Eighteen seventy six was additionally the yr of America’s first World’s Honest, which Abdülaziz I attended. The Sultan arrange an exhibit that gave People an opportunity to be taught concerning the lengthy historical past and engaging tradition of the Ottoman Turks.
Place in Marijuana Historical past One of the best a part of the Sultan’s exhibit on the World’s Honest was the plethora of cannabis gifts that he introduced for the People. Hashish was an ideal accompaniment to the Turkish pavilion, the place the finer factors of smoking a hookah had been demonstrated to a captivated American public.
Why It’s Superior That is what a World’s Honest must be all about! People in 1876 proved themselves to be extraordinarily open-minded and able to strive new issues. The cannabis on the honest was so widespread that folks started opening Turkish smoking parlors all alongside the Northeast coast. It was rumored that there have been 500 of those parlors simply in Manhattan.
John F. Kennedy
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John F. Kennedy was president of the US within the early 1960’s, and he had the highest approval rating of any American president after World Warfare II. He was assassinated in Dallas, TX in November of 1963.
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A number of written accounts of JFK’s life declare that the president used marijuana to deal with his extreme again ache. He additionally could have used it recreationally. John F. Kennedy: A Biography incorporates a story about JFK smoking three joints with a lady named Mary Meyer. He allegedly mentioned, after the third joint, “Suppose the Russians did one thing now.”
Why It’s Superior
Loads of presidents and presidential candidates have admitted they smoked pot, however all of them declare to have solely achieved it once they had been younger. JFK lighting up within the White Home is a complete totally different story. Hopefully he wasn’t excessive when he made any actually necessary choices.
Scythians
Place in Historical past The Scythians had been a individuals who shaped nomadic tribes, touring throughout Jap Europe and Central Asia from about 600 BC to AD 600. Scythians had been additionally fierce warriors. On the battlefield, Scythians had been recognized to behead their enemies and drink their blood. Greek historian Herodotus described Scythian tradition and rituals in his Histories.
Place in Marijuana Historical past Archeologists just lately found cannabis and opium residue at a preserved Scythian ritual web site. This helps Herodotus’ declare that the Scythians would throw hemp seeds on scorching stones to be able to produce steam “that no Grecian vapour-bath can surpass.” In response to Herodotus, the Scythians would carry out this ritual after a burial.
Why It’s Superior Okay, Scythians could have sown some destruction—ingesting an enemy’s blood is taking issues a bit too far. However they shared their stash with the folks they had been raiding, which was respectable of them. And if you need to wash off a whole lot of blood and gore, a ” marijuana sauna” feels like the way in which to do it.
Louisa Could Alcott
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Louisa Could Alcott was a 19th century American writer finest recognized for her novel, Little Girls. Alcott was additionally an outspoken abolitionist and suffragette. She was truly the primary lady in Harmony, Massachusetts to register to vote.
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There isn’t a document of Alcott admitting that she used marijuana, however her brief tales point out that she almost certainly did. She wrote one story known as “Perilous Play,” which entails two lovers getting excessive after which getting engaged on a ship. One character explains the consequences like this: “A heavenly dreaminess comes over one, through which they transfer as if on air.”
Why It’s Superior
Though Alcott didn’t admit to smoking herself, she did the subsequent smartest thing by writing a narrative that ended with the road, “Heaven bless cannabis, if its desires finish like this!” If that isn’t a ringing endorsement of weed, what’s?
Francis Crick
Place in Historical past
Francis Crick was of two scientists (the opposite was James Watson) who earned the Nobel Prize for locating DNA in 1962. This discovery lay the bottom work trendy genetics.
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Although he by no means brazenly admitted to marijuana use, Crick’s biographer wrote that the scientist experimented each with marijuana and LSD.
Why It’s Superior
This completely shatters the stereotype that individuals who use medication like weed are unintelligent. Crick was one of the necessary scientists in trendy historical past. Saying he owes his genius to his drug use may be going too far, however lighting up every now and then definitely didn’t do him any harm.
Carl Sagan
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Carl Sagan was an American astronomer, cosmologist and astrophysicist who wrote a ton of scientific papers and books. He’s most well-known for his theories about extraterrestrial life, and for writing and narrating the TV collection, Cosmos: A Private Voyage. All through his life he earned a number of awards, together with a Pulitzer and two Emmys.
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When he was 35 years outdated, in 1969, Sagan wrote an essay beneath a pen title speaking concerning the insights he bought when he smoked marijuana, and advocating for marijuana legalization. Later in life, Sagan brazenly advocated for the legalization of medical marijuana. It wasn’t till three years after Sagan’s dying that the general public discovered he was the writer of that 1969 essay.
Why It’s Superior
Carl Sagan was an excellent scientist who wrote that being excessive truly helped him consider a few of his nice concepts. Sagan’s essay makes a robust case that marijuana is a useful software for intellectuals.
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The Fantastic Realm of the Marriage Cake
dorty praha 5 In today's entire world there are just so several different possibilities and options offered to us. We can get a maintain of individuals by regular telephone, smart phone, typical cell cellphone, electronic mail, or regular mail. If we want to get somewhere we can push a car or truck, experience a bicycle, get a bus, or stroll alongside. Given all the numerous possibilities offered to us these days, it is only organic that this wide variety should work its way into one particular of our most cherished and honored traditions...that of the wedding day cake. Deciding on the taste of the cake and the shade of the icing is just receiving commenced with the process. You will also want to just take some time to select the very best wedding day cake topper for your unique cake. In this short article we will be discovering the realm of the marriage cake. 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When England's Princess Elizabeth and Prince Phillip had been married back again in 1947, their marriage cake weighed in at a whopping five hundred lbs, and was nine feet tall. The Edition of Right now In modern planet the elaborate wedding ceremony cake is no for a longer time reserved for the wealthy and popular. Every few can share in the tradition of obtaining a wedding ceremony cake additional to their big day. The marriage ceremony cake experts of present-day entire world have taken their artwork to towering heights (pardon the pun). Prolonged absent are all those bland days when you had been restricted to a white cake with white frosting. Even though a white cake will possibly always be the most common thanks to its classic meaning, today's couple is restricted only by the boundaries of their imagination (and finances) when it comes to their marriage cake. Why White? White is undoubtedly the shade of a marriage ceremony, but did you know that there is an additional explanation why the white is the customary colour of a wedding ceremony cake? Back again in Victorian times the finer components of a marriage ceremony cake have been scarce and hard to come by. If the cake experienced a white icing, this revealed the reality that only the very best and most high-priced white sugar was currently being applied. Brown sugar was considerably additional common, and for that reason a lot significantly less costly. So, the additional white the cake, the richer the people. Be Sure To Prepare Forward Don't leave your unique marriage ceremony cake right up until the previous moment. This is 1 of the most crucial factors that you can remember. Whether or not you choose the baker down the highway, a gifted relatives member, or a pastry chef who specializes in these tasty masterpieces, if you system properly in progress you will be able to handle regardless of what road blocks could arrive your way. Some bakers require only a minimal discover, while quite a few bakers are booked significantly in progress. It truly is a shame to have that excellent cake of your dreams be "cancelled" owing to the simple fact you can not allocate a baker's time. What is that you say? You have no concept who will be baking your wedding cake? If you never have a distinct baker in brain, you have a bit of homework ahead of you. Shop all over and get some very good suggestions from loved ones and good friends. Look through the yellow pages and the internet as they are the two useful informational resources. 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Have you assumed about staging your masterpiece? This comes upcoming. Be positive to get the wedding ceremony cake stand into thing to consider throughout your setting up stage. While some cakes can be only positioned on flat boards that will not be noticed by the standard public, other folks are elaborately displayed on lovely stands for all people to see. Retain in head the straightforward simple fact that genuine measurement of the cake table ought to be in proportion to the true dimension of your cake. A table that is way too smaller will make the cake search way way too large, when a table that is far too huge will make it look like a little cupcake. And before we forget, your cake desk will will need a gorgeous masking to compliment its strategic site at the wedding reception. Oh, never fail to remember the cake knife and cake server. There desires to be a area on the table for these two items as very well.
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