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2003-10-31
2003-10-25
The magic of "Carnivale"
By: Gabrielle Sierra
The Asp - Contributing Writer
A boy and a priest are sitting at a counter in a dusty diner while tinny music plays in the background. Directly behind them, but in a time all their own, a war general and a man in a top hat sit at a candle lit table. The waitress pours coffee and whispers "To each Profit in his own house" as the glass in the store window explodes and shatters, jolting us out of our seats.
This is an average scene in HBO's new original show "Carnivale." This dramatic 12 episode series takes its viewers to a place we have never dared to venture before. The year is 1934, a time of great depression, starvation, death, religious fanaticism, drought, pestilence, and above everything magic, all taking place deep in the heart of the Dust Bowl.
Viewers are introduced to Ben Hawkins (Nick Stahl), an orphan with unimaginable powers to heal the sick and dead, but at costs he has not yet come to grips with. It is through him that we are thrust into the lives of a group of traveling Carnies; people who are regarded as freaks with no homes and no place to belong. They cater to the towns that "management" tells them to set up in by cheating them out of money and yet showing and telling them things they have never been exposed to before. As the tarot card reader, Sofie (Clea Duvall) says; "The people in these towns, they're asleep. We wake them up."
Through a constant haze of dust and a layer of grime we watch the sideshow acts along with Ben, bearing witness to the attached twins singing for nickels, the naked dancing of the sisters in the "Cootch Show", the strong man, the Gecko, and even the Bearded Lady, all genuine articles of people cast out from ordinary society.
Parallel to this plot is the plight of Brother Justin Crowe (Clancy Brown), who receives visions from some godly presence and carries out its wishes. Yet his path of good deeds is paved with the bodies of those who sacrifice themselves through his motivation. This leads us to question Crowe's immense influence and if the source of his power is in fact good.
The filming, the colors, the history, the story lines and twists of "Carnivale" are breathtaking, both visually and conceptually. Viewers looking for a program that deviates from "the norm" will love "Carnivale."
"Carnivale" airs on Sunday nights at 9 p.m.
theASP.org
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been spending all my reading/writing time and watching "carnivale" on hbo, reading and writing about it with other people at a carnivale newsgroup. it's highly addictive, it's been taking up almost all my time, plus keeping up with all my chessworld matches, which currently number over a hundred. so that's why i'm not writing here very often lately.
check out the carnivale" on hbo. you won't be dissapointed. not since the novel "geek love" has anyone done such a good job on this wonderful freaky subject.
carnivale is the best thing on tv since twin peaks, over a decade ago. so i'm pretty immersed in that right now. it's called the beauty of not having a life. but the topic of carnival is my life, so the two go hand in hand.
samhain 2003
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jezebel 05:02 - [Link] - Comments ()
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2003-10-23
it seems to me, simply looking at carnivale in a strictly good vs. evil context is not giving the characters enough room to enact their roles.
they all have their good and evil aspects at one time or another. the lines between good and evil are shady and unstable at the best of times. thank goodness. we see the characters testing and discovering their own limits and abilities in their actions, failures or successes, good or bad.
omg, it's almost like reality and art come full circle. for instance, i recently discovered the glaringly obvious connection between this carnivale obsession stuff and one of the skin stains i have, imprinted about a decade ago -- from about the same era as when i first read geek love -- it's a gekko!
is art reality? are gekkos art? is television literature? is this reality tv? is time circular, cyclical? it's all so gloriously confusing.
jezebel
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skippery_boo@... wrote:
... Someone on the carnivale Forums made a good observation a long time ago that perhaps the battle we are witnessing here is not simply all about good
versus evil. ...
jezebel 18:02 - [Link] - Comments ()
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i'm inundated with crap to do today, as usual. went to blaisedell center to get a new, unexpired bus pass yesterday. they asked me for a doctor's statement. i just kinda looked at them, purplexed. they took me to a volunteer problem-solver woman with dreds, thinking maybe she could speak my language? i requested common sense. she called the supervisor, i got my pass.
2003-10-17
:)
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jezebel 09:55 - [Link] - Comments ()
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[Site "[Event "www.ChessWorld.net"]
[Date "2003.2.5"]
[Round "NA"]
[White "rsargent29"]
[Black "jezebel"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Termination "Black king mated"]
[Mode "ICS"]
[DateLastMove "2003.10.18"]
[ECO "D50"]
[Board "[Event "191743"]
1. d4 Ng8f6 2. c4 d5 3. Nb1c3 e6 4. Bc1g5 dxc4 5. e4 h6 6. Bg5xf6 Qd8xf6 7. Bf1xc4 Nb8c6 8. e5 Qf6g5 9. g3 b6 10. Ng1f3 Qg5e7 11. a3 a5 12. O-O Bc8a6 13. b3 Ba6xc4 14. bxc4 O-O-O 15. Nc3b5 f6 16. Qd1e2 fxe5 17. Nf3xe5 Nc6xd4 18. Nb5xd4 Qe7f6 19. Qe2e4 Bf8c5 20. Qe4a8 1-0
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jezebel 17:45 - [Link] - Comments ()
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[Site "[Event "www.ChessWorld.net"]
[Date "2003.2.5"]
[Round "NA"]
[White "rsargent29"]
[Black "jezebel"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Termination "Black king mated"]
[Mode "ICS"]
[DateLastMove "2003.10.18"]
[ECO "D50"]
[Board "[Event "191743"]
1. d4 Ng8f6 2. c4 d5 3. Nb1c3 e6 4. Bc1g5 dxc4 5. e4 h6 6. Bg5xf6 Qd8xf6 7. Bf1xc4 Nb8c6 8. e5 Qf6g5 9. g3 b6 10. Ng1f3 Qg5e7 11. a3 a5 12. O-O Bc8a6 13. b3 Ba6xc4 14. bxc4 O-O-O 15. Nc3b5 f6 16. Qd1e2 fxe5 17. Nf3xe5 Nc6xd4 18. Nb5xd4 Qe7f6 19. Qe2e4 Bf8c5 20. Qe4a8 1-0
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jezebel 17:40 - [Link] - Comments ()
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2003-10-16
[Site "www.ChessWorld.net"]
[Date "2002.10.25"]
[Round "NA"]
[White "Meeuw"]
[Black "jezebel"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Termination "Black resigned"]
[WhiteElo "1711"]
[BlackElo "1645"]
[Mode "ICS"]
[DateLastMove "2003.10.10"]
[ECO "C53"]
[Board "133998"]
1. e4 Nb8c6 2. Ng1f3 e5 3. Bf1c4 Bf8c5 4. c3 d6 5. d4 Bc8g4 6. dxc5 Ng8f6 7. Bc1g5 Nc6e7 8. cxd6 Qd8xd6 9. Qd1xd6 cxd6 10. Bg5xf6 gxf6 11. Nb1d2 h6 12. O-O-O f5 13. h3 Bg4h5 14. Rh1g1 O-O-O 15. g4 fxg4 16. hxg4 Bh5g6 17. Nf3h4 d5 18. Bc4xd5 Rh8g8 19. Nh4xg6 Ne7xg6 20. Bd5xf7 Rg8g7 21. Bf7xg6 Rg7xg6 22. Nd2c4 Rg6e6 23. Rd1xd8 Kc8xd8 24. g5 Kd8e7 25. g6 Ke7f8 26. Kc1d2 Kf8g7 27. Kd2e3 b5 28. Nc4d2 a6 29. f4 exf4 30. Ke3xf4 Re6f6 31. Kf4e3 h5 32. Nd2f3 Rf6b6 33. e5 Rb6xg6 34. Rg1xg6 Kg7xg6 35. Ke3f4 Kg6f7 36. Kf4g5 Kf7e6 37. Kg5xh5 a5 38. Kh5g5 Ke6f7 39. Nf3d4 Kf7e7 40. Nd4xb5 Ke7e6 41. Kg5f4 a4 42. c4 1-0
jezebel 05:45 - [Link] - Comments ()
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[Site "www.ChessWorld.net"]
[Date "2003.5.25"]
[Round "NA"]
[White "jezebel"]
[Black "Marjanovics"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Termination "Black resigned"]
[WhiteElo "1635"]
[BlackElo "1531"]
[Mode "ICS"]
[DateLastMove "2003.10.10"]
[Board "249838"]
1. Nb1c3 c5 2. b3 Nb8c6 3. Bc1b2 d5 4. e3 e5 5. d4 cxd4 6. exd4 Nc6xd4 7. Ng1f3 Bc8g4 8. Nc3e2 Nd4xe2 9. Bf1xe2 f6 10. a4 a6 11. h3 Bg4e6 12. c4 Bf8b4 13. Nf3d2 d4 14. Be2g4 Be6xg4 15. Qd1xg4 g6 16. Qg4e6 Qd8e7 17. Qe6b6 1-0
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jezebel 07:07 - [Link] - Comments ()
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2003-10-15
the constipation defense -
[Site "www.ChessWorld.net"]
[Date "2003.5.25"]
[Round "NA"]
[White "Marjanovics"]
[Black "jezebel"]
[Result "0-1"]
[Termination "White resigned"]
[WhiteElo "1533"]
[BlackElo "1631"]
[Mode "ICS"]
[DateLastMove "2003.10.10"]
[Board "250371"]
1. e4 Nb8c6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 f6 4. exf6 Ng8xf6 5. Ng1f3 h6 6. Bf1d3 Nf6e4 7. O-O b6 8. Bd3b5 Bc8d7 9. Bb5xc6 Bd7xc6 10. Nf3e5 Qd8d6 11. Qd1h5 g6 12. Ne5xg6 Ne4f6 13. Qh5f3 Rh8g8 14. Ng6e5 Qd6e6 15. Nb1c3 O-O-O 16. Bc1e3 Nf6e4 17. Nc3xe4 dxe4 0-1
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jezebel 06:57 - [Link] - Comments ()
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not only have we harpooned whales to near extinction, humans also bombard them with deadly soundwaves.
2003-10-14
it's no wonder whales are beaching themselves. the oceans are full of noisy emissions from our marvels of warfare, sounds unheard by humans, raining down upon the whales at rock-concert volume.
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Whale Deaths Linked to Sonar
October 15, 2003
A scientific report has shown that sonar can lead to death in whales; its use should be considered and regulated by a Congressional committee.
jezebel 07:29 - [Link] - Comments ()
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as always, patti smith is my ultimate heroin.
-- jezebel
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Sender: owner-babel-list@postmodern.com
Subject: patti article
Posted on Tue, Oct. 07, 2003
Patti Smith, sharing the lines of her artistry
By Dan DeLuca
Inquirer Music Critic
NEW YORK - When Patti Smith was growing up in Germantown, the rock poet-to-be went on a grade-school trip to the Franklin Institute.
"I had a quarter in my pocket to spend," says Smith, recalling the decision that would affect her in more ways than she could imagine. "It was either cotton candy or a copy of the Declaration of Independence. They were parchment copies that looked real, especially to a little kid, so cotton candy lost."
Patti Smith
Where:
Free Library of Philadelphia, Montgomery Auditorium, 1901 Vine St. When:
Thursday at 7p.m.
Tickets:
$12; call for advance ticket info: 215-569-9700.
Patti Smith with Lenny Kaye
Where:
Annenberg Center at the University of Pensylvania. When:
Thursday Oct. 16, at 8p.m.
Tickets:
$15, call for advance ticket info: 215-898-3900 or order online: Annenberg Box Office.
; Inquirer Art Review
The singer, songwriter, activist and visual artist, now 56, still has her souvenir copy of the document she calls "our organic law," and four black-and-white photos she took of it this year are included in "Strange Messenger: The Work of Patti Smith" at the Institute of Contemporary Art.
The exhibition collects more than 30 years of Smith's illustrations and photographs, including a series of large-scale drawings inspired by the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11. It runs through Dec. 7 and has provided the impetus for Smith, an electrifying performer nearly three decades after making her name in New York's punk-rock proving ground, to make two local appearances.
On Thursday, she will read poetry and perform acoustically at the Free Library, and her daughter Jesse will play John Lennon's "Imagine" on piano in honor
of the late Beatle's 63d birthday. And on Oct. 16, the feminist icon will play at the Annenberg Center, accompanied by Lenny Kaye and other members of her band.
New creative burst
Last week, in a restaurant near the Lower East Side studio where she is recording her ninth album, Smith discussed her renewed focus on visual art. Her
creative burst is in response to the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center towers, which she and her companion and bandmate, 30-year-old Oliver Ray, were once able to see from their Greenwich Village stoop.
With a peace sign pinned to her lapel and a crucifix around her neck, Smith spoke of influences including Albert Schweitzer, Johnny Carson, Bob Dylan, her late photographer friend Robert Mapplethorpe, and that two-bit facsimile she picked up on her school trip.
After she took the Declaration home, she became enamored of the founding fathers' penmanship. "I started to... get into calligraphy," she recalls. "To this
day, that's a really important part of the way I draw, so that document became really important to me both as a citizen and an artist."
In Strange Messenger, a wall of the ICA is devoted to moving renderings of the remnants of the World Trade Center's South Tower. A close look reveals that
the penciled lines are actually streams of words - names of victims and prayers for peace.
"It was right down our street," Smith says. "So we went to look at the remains, and the South Tower was so heartbreakingly beautiful. It looked like [16th-century Flemish painter Pieter] Bruegel's The Tower of Babel, but at the top
it had a huge 'V' that looked like a peace sign... . To me, they should have bronzed [the wreckage], inscribed all the names of the people who died in it, and left it there."
She was haunted by the image of destruction caused by lack of understanding between cultures. So Smith "decided to reproduce it using language from all the Great Books having to do with peace and communication."
Her first museum show Strange Messenger, which takes its name from a song on her album Gung Ho, was first mounted last year at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh and is the first museum show of Smith's visual work. Though drawings date to the late 1960s
and Smith studied with Mapplethorpe at New York's Pratt Institute in the 1970s, she only recently has felt comfortable thinking of herself as a visual artist.
"I knew I wanted to be an artist when my dad took me to the Philadelphia Museum of Art when I was 12," says Smith, who lived in Chicago until she was 3 and
moved to Deptford when she was 8.
"But it's only in recent times that I'm comfortable saying, 'I'm an artist.' Even then, I feel funny about it. I do so many different things, and I do them with the same commitment... . But I can't say I'm a painter... . I haven't really proven myself. To me, De Kooning or Lee Krasner, they're your painters."
Her first dream was to become a missionary. "I had a big thing for Albert Schweitzer," Smith recalls, laughing. "But I intuited that I didn't have the stuff."
Instead, she followed her artistic impulses and began writing poetry during her teenage years. She would take the bus from Gloucester County to Philadelphia and make cultural pilgrimages.
"It was my city. I would go in and buy records because there was no place where I could buy [Dylan's] Blonde on Blonde in South Jersey. Or I'd hear jazz at clubs on Broad Street. Or I'd go see foreign films, weird Bergman or Fellini movies for a quarter, that were so cool."
Her Beat poetry-influenced albums of the 1970s, such as Horses, Radio Ethiopia and Wave, and her fearlessness on stage made her a heroine to future generations of female musicians. But she had no women rock musicians to serve as role
models.
"To tell you the truth, I thought it was for guys," says Smith, who attended Glassboro State to be a teacher because she didn't have the money for art school.
"The greatest female rock-and-roll performer was Tina Turner, and there was no way I was going to be wearing sequined dresses and high heels... . I was always tomboyish, and I related more to Jimi Hendrix or Bob Dylan."
Smith, who's a great joke-teller on stage, was also a big fan of the Tonight Show. "One of the my great sorrows is that I was never on the Johnny Carson show. I said that I'd wear a dress if they let me on. I really loved him. I've had to deal with a lot of smart asses in the audience in my day, and I learned to shoot it right back from watching Johnny Carson."
After 1979's Wave, Smith retired from music and moved to Detroit with her husband, Fred "Sonic" Smith, the MC5 guitarist with whom she had two children, Jackson, 21 (named for painter Jackson Pollock and the golfer Jack Nicklaus), and Jesse, 16. She released one album, Dream of Life, in 1988, but was mostly unheard from until after the deaths of both her husband and brother Todd in
1994.
She wasn't planning to make as productive a return to public life as she has.
"It happened organically," says Smith, who was raised a Jehovah's Witness. "Plus, I needed to support my children."
She released Gone Again in 1996, Peace and Noise in 1997, and Gung Ho in
2000. Last year an excellent two-CD career survey, Land, 1975-2002, collected Smith's best work - from her one hit, "Because the Night," cowritten with Bruce
Springsteen, to a stirring new political poem, "Notes to the Future."
After her old friend Clive Davis was pushed out at Smith's longtime label, Arista, the performer went label-shopping and wound up at Columbia, which will release her next album early next year.
"My dream was always to be on Columbia. Bob Dylan, Miles Davis were on Columbia. The Columbia Record Club was where lower-middle-class people got their records. So I'm very happy to be there."
The work, which she's currently recording, "heralds the family and the American landscape. It's about the essential beauty of our organic law... and it questions how our government is behaving," says Smith, who calls Bush administration critic Sen. Robert C. Byrd (D., W. Va.) a "lone voice of reason and a keeper of the founding fathers' flame."
The album will include the antiwar song "Radio Baghdad," as well as songs written for the singer's mother, Beverly, who died last year.
"I have songs for my mother and my daughter. And I also wrote a song about Rachel Corrie, this little American girl who was killed protesting the bulldozing of Palestinian homes by the Israeli military, who is only a few years older than my daughter... . It's an angry record when it has to be, but also very empathetic. It turned out to be a very American record."
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jezebel 07:15 - [Link] - Comments ()
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2003-10-12
[Site "www.ChessWorld.net"]
[Date "2002.10.25"]
[Round "NA"]
[White "Daveygravey36"]
[Black "jezebel"]
[Result "0-1"]
[Termination "White resigned"]
[WhiteElo "1647"]
[BlackElo "1610"]
[Mode "ICS"]
[DateLastMove "2003.10.10"]
[Board "134153"]
1. d4 d5 2. Nb1c3 Ng8f6 3. Bc1g5 h6 4. Bg5xf6 exf6 5. Ng1f3 Bc8f5 6. e3 Nb8c6 7. Bf1d3 Bf5e6 8. O-O a6 9. a3 b5 10. e4 dxe4 11. Bd3xe4 Be6d7 12. d5 Nc6e5 13. Rf1e1 Bf8c5 14. d6 Ra8b8 15. dxc7 Qd8xc7 16. Nf3xe5 fxe5
17. Nc3d5 Qc7d8 18. Qd1e2 Bd7e6 19. Ra1d1 h5 20. Be4f3 Bc5d4 21. c3 Bd4c5 22. b4 Bc5d6 23. Nd5e3 g6 24. Bf3c6 Ke8e7 25. Ne3d5 Be6xd5 26. Bc6xd5 f5 27. c4 Qd8c7 28. Rd1c1 bxc4 29. Rc1xc4 Qc7b6 30. Re1c1 Rh8h7
31. Rc4c6 Qb6b5 32. Qe2d2 Rb8d8 33. Qd2g5 Ke7d7 34. Rc6xd6 Kd7xd6 35. Qg5xd8 Rh7d7 36. Rc1c6 Qb5xc6 37. Qd8f8 Kd6xd5 38. Qf8g8 Kd5d4 0-1
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jezebel 01:00 - [Link] - Comments ()
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once when i was about 13 or 14 years old, at a college football game, the weather was very cold -- freezing. the icy sleet and oklahoma wind was cutting through the air, and our bodies. it felt like razor blades. as i sat in the wheelchair section, stupidly watching the stupid game, teeth chattering, eyelids freezing solid, a group of about three or four people in their late 20's, early 30's approached me. they were all ripped on booze, as were many people that day, and other days, because of the cold weather (yes i know drinking in freezing weather causes death). i was not drinking, by the way.
anyhoo, this small group of happy, freezing, reeking drunks approached me. of course they started praising my bravery for sitting there like a block of ice, no matter how crippled, blah, blah. then they started giving me very cold cash. i think by the time they stopped trying to outgive each other i had about fifty dollars.
i have no problems mixing stupid sports fans with booze. maybe it will kill them all off quicker, and maybe make some surprised poor crippled kids rich as well.
i hate sports.
xoxo-
jezebel 18:49 - [Link] - Comments ()
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2003-10-10
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i don't drink anymore, but i did drink from the 1960's until the late 1990s. at present, the pickled condition of my liver will not allow me to consume one more drop. but that's ok.
it's well preserved now. no more embalming needed. i got drunk and made a fool of myself plenty of times, no shortage there. but i never felt like a fool when i was doing it. i was drunk. that's the point. it's called escape from reality via liquid and it's a stupid thing to do, but it's completely legal. of course i always realized (if i remembered) the morning after, that i had acted like a fool the night before. i always swore to never do it again. did that stop me from drinking? yes, for about two or three hours maybe. then it was time for a mid-day pick-me-up.
yes, alcohol is a very bad thing in the wrong person's hands, but many people do drink it responsibly, behind closed doors and in public. even i survived to tell the tale.
i don't do that alchy stuff any more now. it is for sure and undoubtably the worst drug of all drugs. but it is a "rite of passage" in many cultures on this stinking, shrinking planet. we all live amongst each other and must deal with each others' life styles, or simply hide.
i see people doing stupid stuff, more and more it seems, every day out in public. i'm sure they do it privately as well but i don't see that much these days.
most people i see nowdays are not drunk or on drugs. they are sober. still they do ridiculous things. there seems to be more of them. has anyone noticed? maybe it's overpopulation? maybe big brother should bring back soylent green and make life liveable again.
until then, should these strange people be looked down upon by others for simply acting stupid? or by acting differently than what we normally see? should all other people behave the way we wish all people to act?
one thing about me that hasn't changed since i stopped drinking. i hate going to the movies and seeing a family come in with a bunch of noisy brats and screaming babies. i would much rather sit in a theatre with a bunch of drunks than with families with squawking kids. i don't accept the excuse of, "my kids don't do that." they do it when mom and dad aren't looking.
drinkers have as much of a right to be there as anyone else if it's a legally operating business. screaming brats should be duct-taped.
evil is legal. get used to it. :)
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jezebel 16:11 - [Link] - Comments ()
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2003-10-09
[Site "www.ChessWorld.net"]
[Date "2002.12.21"]
[Round "NA"]
[White "jezebel"]
[Black "MRMOE"]
[Result "0-1"]
[Termination "White resigned"]
[WhiteElo "1617"]
[BlackElo "1591"]
[Mode "ICS"]
[DateLastMove "2003.10.2"]
[Board "[Site "171031"]
1. Ng1f3 c5 2. d4 cxd4 3. Nf3xd4 e5 4. Nd4b3 d6 5. e4 Ng8f6 6. Nb1c3 Bf8e7 7. Bf1c4 O-O 8. Nc3d5 Nf6xe4 9. Qd1f3 Ne4f6 10. Bc1g5 Nf6xd5 11. Bc4xd5 Be7xg5 12. g3 Qd8b6 13. h4 Bg5f6 14. g4 e4 15. Bd5xe4 Bf6xb2 16. Ra1d1 Qb6b4 17. Nb3d2 Bb2c3 18. Qf3d3 Rf8e8 19. O-O Bc8xg4 20. f3 Bg4h3 21. Rf1f2 g6 22. Rd1b1 Qb4d4 23. Be4xb7 Qd4xh4 24. Bb7xa8 Bc3d4 25. Nd2e4 Bd4xf2 26. Ne4xf2 Qh4g3 0-1
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jezebel 09:35 - [Link] - Comments ()
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i went to high school in a small town in oklahoma and took spanish from a young, barely-out-of-school-herself teacher. i did very well in that class but i didn't learn much spanish.
2003-10-07
the teacher had no street smarts, no common sense, was always acting nervous, and like a rabbit on the ready to run at the least abrupt noise or event. she was a very nervous-nelly, and got on everyone's nerves. she shouted a lot but it never had much effect. she had no ability whatsoever to keep us under any sort of control. the students ruled that class. we were evil high school kids after all. we could smell her fear. we had to react somehow.
i learned she lived in a small apartment building owned by my father. one day in jest, as a joke, i remarked to the teacher if i did bad in the class i would get her evicted. my grades improved after that and i was not trying any harder. of course it was all a big coincidence.
that incident, among many others in life, can help to show how easily most people allow themselves to be consumed and ruled by fear. many times they don't even realize it. a handfull of other people take advantage of this and rule the world with the power of fear. the only way to avoid it is to not be afraid. take control of your own life.
it's such a simple thing, to take control of one's own life, lose the fear. yet most never do it because they fear making the wrong choices on their own, they don't trust themselves enough. so they surrender their own humanity, their own soul and remain in fear, allow others to control them with that fear for the rest of their lives.
alas, such is the human condition. :)
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jezebel 19:40 - [Link] - Comments ()
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speaking of freak shows ... there is a new one. carnivale is now playing on hbo. it's not bad. it's based on the same old basic but usually successful plot -- good vs. evil. i liked the scene in the phantom baggage trailer when the human fetus-in-a-jar opens its eyes and blinks at the camera. quite surprising, but not unexpected.
all the freaks in the show are three-dimensional real people with lives of their own, as far as characters go. among them are a bearded woman, gay reptile man, gentle giant, the beautiful siamese twins, and several others.
the story takes place during the dust bowl days, on -- and off -- the traveling carnival circuit, in texas, oklahoma, california, and places in between and around.
the person with oi -- michael j. anderson -- is excellent in his leading role. i'm glad he finally got a good part to play in a quality production. he'll truly be recognized now as the excellent veteran actor he is. he's looking good for a fifty year-old person with oi. i read he worked for NASA in space technology and didn't walk until he was thirty years old. the career change must have done him good. he walks very well, and quite often in carnivale. :)
the series carnivale runs something around 14 episodes, i believe, and it's now on #4. i give it four out of five stars up to this point. if the remainder of the show is as enjoyable as the beginning four episodes, it should be a success.
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jezebel 05:46 - [Link] - Comments ()
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2003-10-05
[Site "www.ChessWorld.net"]
[Date "003 .5/.10"]
[Round "NA"]
[White "QJP"]
[Black "jezebel"]
[Result "0-1"]
[Board "133954"]
1. d2-d4 d7-d5 2. Nb1-c3 Ng8-f6 3. f2-f4 Bc8-f5 4. g2-g3 Nb8-c6 5. Ng1-f3 Nc6-b4 6. Bf1-g2 Nb4xc2 7. Ke1-f2 Nc2xa1 8. Nf3-e5 Na1-c2 9. Nc3xd5 Nf6xd5 10. e2-e4 Nd5-e3 11. Bc1xe3 Nc2xe3 12. Kf2xe3 Bf5-c8 13. Qd1-b3 e7-e6 14. Rh1-c1 g7-g5 15. f4-f5 g5-g4 16. fxe6 Bc8xe6 17. Qb3-a4 Be6-d7 18. Ne5xd7 Qd8xd7 19. Qa4xd7 Ke8xd7 20. e4-e5 Bf8-h6 21. Ke3-d3 Bh6xc1 22. Bg2xb7 Ra8-b8 23. Bb7-d5 Kd7-e7 24. Kd3-e4 Rb8xb2 25. Ke4-f5 h7-h5 26. Kf5-e4 Rb2xh2 27. Bd5-b3 c7-c6 0-1
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jezebel 05:21 - [Link] - Comments ()
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[Site "www.ChessWorld.net"]
[Date "2002.9.25"]
[Round "NA"]
[White "General Blood"]
[Black "jezebel"]
[Result "0-1"]
[Termination "White resigned"]
[WhiteElo "1564"]
[BlackElo "1599"]
[Mode "ICS"]
[DateLastMove "2003.10.5"]
[ECO "B00"]
[Board "119870"]
1. e4 Nb8c6 2. c4 e5 3. a3 a5 4. Nb1c3 Bf8c5 5. d3 Qd8f6 6. Ng1f3 d6 7. h3 h5 8. Bc1e3 Bc5xe3 9. fxe3 Qf6h6 10. Nc3d5 Ke8d8 11. Qd1d2 Ng8e7 12. Nd5xe7 Kd8xe7 13. d4 exd4 14. Nf3xd4 Nc6e5 15. b3 c5 16. Nd4f5 Bc8xf5 17. exf5 a4 18. bxa4 Ra8xa4 19. Qd2c3 Qh6f6 20. Ra1c1 Qf6xf5 21. Qc3b3 Qf5d7 22. Bf1e2 Rh8a8 23. Rc1a1 d5 24. cxd5 c4 25. Qb3b2 Qd7xd5 26. Ra1d1 Qd5a5 27. Ke1f1 Qa5c7 28. Rd1a1 c3 29. Qb2c1 g6 30. Kf1f2 Qc7c5 31. g3 Ra4xa3 32. Ra1xa3 Ra8xa3 33. Qc1c2 b5 34. Rh1d1 b4 35. Rd1b1 Ne5c6 36. Qc2e4 Ke7d6 37. Qe4f4 Nc6e5 38. Rb1xb4 c2 39. Rb4d4 Kd6e6 40. Be2c4 Ne5xc4 41. Rd4e4 Nc4e5 0-1
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jezebel 05:45 - [Link] - Comments ()
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