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Final Fantasy Anthology

Publisher: Square Developer: Square
Reviewer: Musashi Released: October 5, 1999
Gameplay: 100% Control: N/A
Graphics: 75% Sound/Music: 95%
Story: 97% Overall: 92%

After receiving numerous requests from gamers to localize Final Fantasy 5 and re-release their SNES RPGs, Square delivered Final Fantasy Anthology to North America. Final Fantasy Anthology is a bundle including the PlayStation versions Final Fantasy 5 and Final Fantasy 6.

Final Fantasy 5 begins with the King of Tycoon boarding his dragon and heading for the Wind Shrine. He is going there to investigate a problem with the Wind Crystal. Before he leaves, he tells his daughter Reina not to follow him. Reina, who is more adventurous than her father thinks she is, leaves the castle against her father's wishes. While she is on her way out, a giant meteor falls in the forest near Tycoon, so she heads over to it to investigate. The noise and shaking caused by the meteor attracts the attention of Bartz, who is the hero of Final Fantasy 5. Before the meteor fell, Bartz was spending what appeared to be a typical day of traveling with his Chocobo, Boko. In addition to meeting each other, Bartz and Reina also notice that an old man named Galuf was nearly crushed by the meteor. Although he received no permanent injuries, Galuf now has amnesia. The three of them agree to head to the Wind Shrine to check the reported problem with the Wind Crystal and find the King.

In Final Fantasy 5, your party consists of a team of up to four heroes. At first, the characters are almost all alike, and have very few distinguishing characteristics. The heroes become unique through the player's use of Final Fantasy 5's job system. Selectable jobs are acquired by finding the crystals of the elements. As the heroes find more crystals, they gain access to more jobs. Associated with each job are job characteristics and learnable skills. Job characteristics are present as soon as and whenever the character is practicing the job. Characteristics can include battle/menu commands, ability to equip certain weapons and armors, changes in max HP, max MP, strength, magic power, and, speed. Learnable skills are gained whenever the characters earn enough Ability Points to gain a job level. When a character gains a job level, they gain access to one new ability. At any time, a character can equip one ability learned in this fashion. For example, let's say Reina is a White Mage. She will be able to equip staves and lighter armors. She will have the battle/menu command 'White', allowing her to use any White magic spell that the party possesses. When she gains her first job level, she will gain the equipable ability 'White 1', which allows her to use level 1 white magic while practicing jobs other than White Mage. Her strength and HP will be lowered, but she will have higher MP and magic strength. If she was a previously a Thief, and earned 4 job levels with the Thief class, she can also equip the 'Steal' ability. As a result Reina is a White Mage who can steal from enemies.

Final Fantasy 5 features well balanced difficulty. FF5 is one of the hardest games from the series. If you're not careful in some of the boss fights, or even in a series of regular battles, you could end up dead. Some bosses are particularly hard to injure, and some can put your party in a tight spot very quickly. The encounter rate is reasonable, although there are slightly more battles in FF5 than there are in FF4 or FF6.

Final Fantasy 5 definitely does not look like a PlayStation game in terms of graphics. The graphics used in the PlayStation FF5 are the same as those from the Super NES game. The one use of the PlayStation's power present in the game is the swirling animation that indicates a battle is about to start, which is exactly like the screen swirl used in Final Fantasy 7 before battles. In terms of Super NES game graphics, FF5 is much like games from a year after the launch of the system, back in 1991. Much like its predecessor, Final Fantasy 5 uses 2-D, tile based maps for the towns, the dungeons, and the world. Sprites are typically one block in size. Graphics in battle are much like those of Final Fantasy 4, with heroes that are bigger and more detailed than their block-sprite counterparts. Enemies look decent, and the bosses feature especially lifelike artwork, but all animation in battle is usually only the heroes; only a select few special monsters ever move. Final Fantasy 5's graphics feature bright vibrant colors, giving it the look of a fantasy realm. Special effects for magic are better than those in FF4, but are again limited by the power of the Super NES, so they don't look as impressive as those in other PlayStation games.

The music score of Final Fantasy 5 was very memorable. In addition to mood setting tunes for towns, battles, and dungeons, Final Fantasy 5 also includes all of the traditional Final Fantasy 5 songs, including yet another remix of the chocobo anthem. The sound effects aren't the most realistic I've seen in a game, but they usually fit their purpose well.

The translation of Final Fantasy 5 sports decent dialogue for events and townspeople. The story is easy to understand, too. There is also occasional profanity. The monster names are somewhat awkward, but that may have been the way they were in the Japanese text as well. One thing about this game's translation is the controversial pirate accent given to Faris. On one hand, it gives the impression that Faris is trying to sound like a pirate, which makes sense because she is the leader of a band of pirates, but on the other hand, having her talk normally might make it clear that she isn't really a born buccaneer at heart.

The story of Final Fantasy 6 begins with the history of the planet. 1,000 years ago, the War of the Magi occurred. The War of the Magi was a battle between magical beings called Espers and humans who desired their powers. The war ultimately lead to the apparent disappearance of Espers and magic.

Fast forward to the present, the people of the mountain town of Narshe recently dug up a frozen Esper in their mines. The emperor of the city of Vector, driven by his quest for power and his goal of world domination, has sent three soldiers to Narshe to retrieve this Esper so he can use its magic power to increase his military strength. These soldiers are armed with Magitek armor, machines enhanced by magic drained from Espers. One of these three soldiers is Terra, a woman born with the ability to use magic. When they reach the Esper, Terra appears to have a strange connection to it. After some sparks fly, Terra awakens in a house in Narshe. A man names Arvis rescued her from the mines and brought her in. Arvis showed Terra that the soldiers were using a slave crown to control her actions. Unfortunately, the people of Narshe don't know the details, and see Terra as a fallen invader from the empire, so they send their guards to apprehend her. Arvis shows Terra to a secret passage to the mines, and tells her to escape town through the tunnels. The guards begin to follow her, and things turn worse when the ground underneath Terra's feet gives out, and she is left unconscious and vulnerable. Terra is saved when Locke, a treasure hunter that Arvis had previously asked to look after Terra, appears on the scene, and when a band of moogles from the mines appear and agree to defend Terra. They fight off the guards and escape Narshe. Ultimately, Locke and Terra, along with a dozen other heroes, learn that the root of the world's problem, the search of magic and power, is the empire and the people in control of it.

The heroes in Final Fantasy 6 include 12 normal characters and 2 hidden characters. Each hero has his or her own special move, and varying levels of Vigor, Speed, Stamina, and Magic Power. You normally control 4 at a time, but there are some events where you will have multiple teams of 4, and can select between them.

Most magic in Final Fantasy 6 is learned through Espers. Each character can equip one Esper at a time. Each Esper has up to 5 spells that it can teach. Each spell has a learn rate, a specific percentage towards completion of the spell that is gained per Magic Point (not to be confused with MP) earned in fights. When the percentage earned builds up to 100%, the spell is learned. Battles can be worth anywhere from 0 to 10 Magic Points. Spells can also be learned from pieces of equipment, as a few have spells and learn rates associated with them. Also, Terra and Celes begin with a few spells, and can learn some other spells simply by gaining levels. Finally, there are summon spells. A character can summon the esper they have equipped once per battle, and the esper will use its attack.

Final Fantasy 6 is not a hard game, but it does have some challenging parts. Back in 1994, when I was playing FF6 for the first time, I died fighting a few bosses on my first few attempts. The encounter rate is fairly low, and each battle is worth a lot of credit, so battles tend not to be tedious.

Like FF5, Final Fantasy 6 is clearly not a PlayStation game in terms of graphics. Other than a new, screen splitting battle entry animation, all graphics in Final Fantasy 6 for PlayStation are the same as they were on the Super NES. Whereas FF4 and FF5 were typical early SNES games, Final Fantasy 6 has some of the best graphics possible on the Super NES. Walking is still tile based, but the maps feature bigger, more 3-D looking buildings, larger sprites, and more realistic images. In any town, you can find everyday objects such as tables, lamps, record players, bookshelves, and other things. In battle, the monsters look much more realistic and lifelike than they did in FF4 or FF5, but as before, very few monsters have any animation. Special effects for magic, while not as stunning as those in FF7 or FF8, are great. The animations for spells in FF6 have larger, more realistic images of fire, water, bubbles, wind, and rocks than those of its predecessors.

Final Fantasy 6 has one my all time favorite soundtracks from a video game. The songs I particularly like are the battle music, the final boss's song "Dancing Mad", and the music from the Floating Continent. There are many other great songs present in Final Fantasy 6, all of which are very fitting to the scenes and a real pleasure to listen to. The music effectively creates feelings of empathy, excitement, and mystery as appropriate. Sound effects in Final Fantasy 6 are good, and are more realistic than those in FF4 or FF5. Claw swipes and flames sound more believable than they did in previous FF games. Square even did fairly well trying to use the Super NES's sound capabilities to simulate an opera singer without having an actual voice over. It's still fairly obvious that it's not a real singer, but even bogged down by emulation, it sounds like kind of like singing.

Final Fantasy 6 retains its original translation from 1994, but a couple of things were tweaked. The soldier known as Vicks on the Super NES game was renames Biggs, which unifies and Biggs and Wedge tradition present in FF6, 7, and 8 (which Square of course got from Star Wars). The word "Sasquatch" was changed to "Yeti". On the whole, FF6's translation was pretty good, and was an improvement over Square's earlier 16-Bit localization efforts. Due to some of the rules Square was subject to in 1994, the translation had to be slightly censored in terms of using profanity and references to death.

The PlayStation version of Final Fantasy 6 features a new Bonus area. It is partially accessible at first, but to see it in its entirety, you must finish the game first. The bonus area includes a Lore list, an Esper list, a Bestiary, User statistics, a Theater, and an Art gallery. The Art gallery contains various conceptual pictures and CG stills. The Theater contains all three FMVs from the game, and is the only place from which the third FMV can be seen.

Both FF5 and FF6 use the traditional active time battle system used in most other games of the series. All characters and enemies have time bars, which rise at a speed based on the characters' speed stat, and when they are full, the character gets a turn. If you wait around when your turn is up, the enemy will continue to attack. In FF6, you can pass a character's turn by pressing the Triangle or Square button. When you pass like this, the character's time bar remains full, but you get to have a different character with a full time bar take their turn first. This feature is not present in FF5, where you must have your characters take their turns in the order that they come up. Also, both FF5 and FF6 can support 2 players. From the Config screen, you can set some of the characters to be controlled by player 2 in battle. Playing FF5 or FF6 with a partner can be very fun.

The PlayStation versions of Final Fantasies 5 and 6 have a few new FMV scenes. FF5 has 2 FMVs, one at the intro of the game, and one at the end, after the "The End" screen. FF6 has 3 new FMVs: an intro, and ending movie, and a special pilot FF6 trailer. The characters in the FMVs look different from the way they appear in the games because they are based not on the game graphics, but on Yoshitaka Amano's conceptual art for FF5 and FF6. The FMVs in these games are the traditional high quality CG cutscenes present in Square's PlayStation games. In fact, I'd even say that the CG in Final Fantasy 6 gives the CG from Final Fantasy 8 a good run for its money!

FF5 and FF6 are being run on emulators, so there are a few small glitches in both games. Loading times for menus and maps are long and frequent. There is occasional slowdown during sprite heavy spell effects, and sometimes there is a brief lag just before your turn comes up. Some of the songs have a couple of sounds missing. A few sound effects are a little scratchy. The graphics were kept intact perfectly, and the Mode 7 emulation was flawless.

In conclusion, with Final Fantasy Anthology, you get 2 great RPGs: one making its belated first appearance in the US, the other a re-release of an excellent 16-Bit classic, as well as a music CD featuring a small sample of both game's soundtracks, all for the low price of $40. Final Fantasy Anthology is great deal and a worthy purchase.

Beautiful cinemas are part and parcel of the great Final Fantasy package.

Finally, gamers will get to play the long awaited and highly praised Final Fantasy V.

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    Travel Tips from Europe

    Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

    As I look out the window of my hotel here in St. Petersburg, Russia, I see kids playing, trying to make snowballs out of the one centimeter deep powder that has fallen this morning. This could be anywhere, were it not for the clearly Russian letters on the signs.
    Sometimes as I travel I marvel at how alike humans so often are, as if our behavior is because we are the same species, not because of race, country or creed. Take graffiti, for example…looks the same wherever I go.
    I share with you now a couple of things one should keep in mind when traveling to Eastern Europe, as I have recently learned.

    Don’t assume the Russian babushka will be as excited about you taking photos of her building as you are.

    I discovered this helpful tip this morning as I wandered the neighborhood around my hotel taking photos. As I neared her building, she began yelling at me in Russian, or so I would assume, and wanted me to get the hell away from her building with my camera.
    Since I don’t speak Russian, there wasn’t a lot I could say to her to smooth the situation over, except “nyet problem.”
    To which she replied, very sternly “nyet problem DA!!”

    Just to show I wasn’t about to be pushed around, I snapped this photo defiantly, then went on my way.

    While in Ukraine, don’t stick your arm between closing elevator doors just because you want to help the guy running to catch it.

    As an American I have this inherent faith in elevators, airplanes and amusement park rides…it’s just part of our social make-up.

    Yesterday, while entering an elevator in Kiev, I saw a guy running towards me carrying his briefcase, obviously anxious to catch it, knowing that if he missed it he could possibly wait a bit before the next opportunity. Because of my natural reflex, I stuck my arm between the doors just before they closed.

    I could feel them slam against my wrist, deciding whether to take my arm up the the ninth floor, or not. There was enough pressure on my arm that I must admit, I was a bit worried…and relieved when I heard the clang of the doors changing motion and open, leaving me with the ability to type this article with both hands.

    The man thanked me for risking my limb for him and then told me how lucky I was. I explained that it’s just habit for me at which point he gave me some very good advice: “Always remember where you are.”

    While demonstrating software to a group of women in England, don’t assume their meaning of “period” is the same as yours.

    While presenting in Winchester, showing how to use InDesign, I was explaining how to use a nifty little shortcut to enlarge text while holding down the shift key and “your period.”

    There was a look of confusion all around. They call the period a “full stop”, I was told and quickly informed that “the only period in England is what a women gets once a month.”

    I stand corrected…end of story…full stop.

    Bad Waitress Story II

    Friday, November 14th, 2008

    Last night in Moscow I on my way to a customer visit with large Russian daily newspaper with my Adobe friend Roman Menyakin…and we were hungry.
    Because of traffic, we wanted to get to the customer’s office so we knew we could make it on time.
    We arrived an hour early, enough time to grab something at the only restaurant around, Jack Rabbit Slim’s.
    Decent place…Elvis playing in the background. They made us check our coats at the door as it’s a rule: “No Overcoats Allowed.” I don’t profess to understand the reason a person wouldn’t be allowed to take their coat in, it certainly wasn’t because it would cheapen the atmosphere here at Slim’s.
    So we check our coats and grab a table upstairs.
    I could have ordered Mexican food, but I’ve always had a little unwritten rule in my life not to eat Mexican food prepared by Russians. There’s no logic to this and it’s certainly nothing against Russians, or their ability to make enchiladas…it’s just a little rule I have followed and it hasn’t failed me, yet.
    I’m not a big steak guy, but we ordered steaks. I told Roman I would like mine medium-rare. So he starts to explain this to the waitress.
    They don’t have that, he tells me. They only have three levels: rare, medium, well-done. Roman tries to explain, and even demonstrate, that we would like our steaks between medium and well-done.
    Nope. Can’t do that. Pick one of the three.
    “Whatever,” I said.
    We had also ordered a nice cream of mushroom soup. When it arrived, we were each given a small bowl with a few croutons in it. Roman wanted more and asked about it.
    “No,” she said. “I can’t give you more.” (all in Russian, of course)
    “I will pay for them,” Roman told her.
    “I would not know how to do that for you…you can’t have any more,” she replied.
    So I threw my croutons in his bowl and I used the bread on the table, instead.
    I certainly don’t want to get into a pissing match with a Russian waitress at Jack Rabbit Slim’s in Moscow…another little unwritten rule I live by…and it’s served me well so far.

    On The Road with my Hot Tamales

    Friday, November 14th, 2008

    About a month ago my good buddy Brent Niemuth visited me in Bregenz, Austria with a big box of Hot Tamales. Good stuff.
    So I took them with me on our Beatles tour trip to Liverpool and London. They also joined me on trips to Warsaw, Istanbul, Winchester, Brussels, Zurich and Amsterdam.
    As my wife was packing for my trip to Prague, she asked me if my Hot Tamales needed to join me on this trip, too.
    “Of course,” I answered.
    So now I’m packing my things getting ready to leave Moscow and I notice I still have a few left over. I guess they get to join me in Kiev and St. Petersburg next week.
    If I’m careful, I can even have them join me in Nice, France and then Warsaw again the following week.

    Dynamic Spelling is Watching You

    Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

    Yesterday I was doing an InDesign demonstration for some newspapers and magazines in the Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod. A block away from the hotel I was speaking at is an old Kremlin, with its huge walls surrounding the government offices, churches and commons areas.

    As I was going along, a woman in the audience asked if it was possible to have InDesign highlight any words that were spelled incorrectly.

    “Of course,” I told her, and proceeded to demonstrate InDesign’s Dynamic Spelling. I showed her how to turn it on by choosing Edit> Spelling> Dynamic Spelling and how it underlines in red any misspelled words.

    I also showed how if you see a misspelled word underlined, you can right click, or ctrl + click (Mac) on the word and it will pop up a list of alternate spellings or you can add it to your dictionary and it won’t be a typo anymore.

    I was demonstrating on a document I have used for years that highlights the words RGB, CMYK and two words without a space. So I proceeded to right click on one of the words to show the list of possibilities InDesign offers.

    Well as I right clicked on RGB, up popped a nice long list of choices and right there, between rub and rib was the KGB.

    Linking Text Between Multiple Documents

    Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

    If you have ever wanted to link a text frame from one InDesign document to another, you can’t. But I have written a little step-by-step trick that allows you to do it now, thanks to CS4′s Conditional Text feature.
    I just posted the tip on my buddy David Blatner’s InDesign Secrets Blog. Check it out at:

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  • Toilet Talk

    September 8th, 2008 by Russell Viers

    I was walking into a public restroom somewhere, maybe one of those mega department stores, I don’t remember. Anyway, as I turned the corner to enter, I saw a large industrial roll of toilet paper drop from behind the stall and begin rolling across the floor toward me, leaving a trail of paper along the way.
    Maybe I was in a restaurant…
    After rolling about five meters and stopping on my shoe, I heard the voice of a young boy behind the stall say “Oooooh…that’s not good.”
    I rolled the paper back under the stall to him, thus saving his life.
    He thanked me through the wall.

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Academics Play the Global Warming Card By Norman Rogers

Philip Kitcher of Columbia and Evelyn Fox Keller of MIT are professors specializing in the philosophy and history of science. The philosophy and history of science is pretty boring, so people in that academic field try to write about controversial subjects so as to make their work less boring. The professors have written a book: The Seasons Alter, How to Save Our Planet in Six Acts.

The book is filled with scientific errors regarding climate science. Clearly the authors have a poor understanding of the main topic. They are apparently attracted to apocalyptic predictions of disaster that call for farsighted persons, such as themselves, to warn the world. Apparently that role is so enticing that the authors’ critical facilities have been put into hibernation.

Global warming has an establishment side and a dissenter side. The establishment receives vast amounts of government money because they claim that we face an imminent global warming disaster. Nobody would care about their field of science except for the predictions of disaster. Nor would they get much government money if they didn’t predict a looming disaster. Environmental groups are part of the establishment side. Looming disasters are stock in trade for environmental groups.

The global warming dissenters consist of people who say that the emperor has no clothes. The dissenters include climate scientists who are secure enough in their jobs that they can dissent, even though it makes their colleagues furious. Other dissenters are scientists from related fields, or even non-scientists who have taken an interest in the controversy. The existence of the Internet has made it possible for amateur scientists, in the sense of not receiving a paycheck from a university, to enter into the discussion. The Internet provides a path around the establishment gatekeepers that run the scientific journals. The amateur scientists have the advantage of being disinterested. They aren’t worried about where their next grant is coming from or about what their academic friends and enemies will think. Of course, some of the amateurs are crackpots, but others are excellent scientists. (Some tenured professors are crackpots too.)

The authors used the graph below, a version of what is known as the famous Hockey Stick graph. The graph purports to show that the Earth’s temperature was roughly constant until large quantities of CO2 were emitted into the atmosphere and as a consequence the temperature soared. The graph has been completely discredited as a work of science. (See here, here and here.)  But as a work of propaganda it is a brilliant achievement. What’s wrong with the graph? It erases the medieval warm period that existed at the year 1000. The graph does not show the little ice age when it got very cold around the year 1600. These temperature fluctuations are well established and supported by historical records.

The point of the graph is to convince the reader that carbon dioxide is the major determinant of the Earth’s temperature and that the modern era has a radically different temperature due to man’s emission of CO2.

The graph hides inconsistencies. If we magnify the 20th century we can see the inconsistencies better.

Look at region A between 1910 and 1940. CO2 is slowly increasing, about 1% per decade, but the temperature is rapidly increasing, much faster than can be explained, according to establishment theory, by an increase in CO2. This rapid increase of temperature in the early 20th century was caused by some unknown force, but not by CO2. In region B the increase in CO2 is faster, but the temperature is flat. Finally in regions C both temperature and CO2 increase rapidly.  The cause of the early century warming is an unsolved scientific problem. But the advocates of dangerous global warming claim the force behind the increase in temperature in region C is CO2. How do they know that the cause of the increase in temperature is not the same unknown force that caused the early century warming at region A?

The point of this discussion of temperature and CO2 is to create some doubt in the reader’s mind concerning of the objectivity of people who promote graphs like the Hockey Stick.

The Seasons Alter book invokes the idea that the global warming establishment is eager to hear dissenting voices and new ideas that contradict official theories.

That is absolutely hilarious to anyone who has actually talked with climate scientists that have ideas that go against the received wisdom. The idea that a young researcher could make a name for himself by proving his elders wrong is far removed from reality. The empirical fact is that there are no young researchers going against the community wisdom. Or, if there were, it is safe to assume that they are no longer members of the community.

You can read stories of global warming skeptics who have been fired from their jobs here, here, here, and here. Read my poster about the treatment of scientists skeptical of global warming.

I have heard publishers and editors state that they would love to print papers that dissent from the conventional wisdom. Sometimes they say they would like to publish the next Newton or the next Einstein. They don’t really mean it.

Roy Spencer is a climate scientist who has done highly original work relating to the workings of climate models. Computer climate models are the basis for all the predictions of climate doom. Spencer’s work shows that there are serious problems with climate models and thus with the whole global warming doom theme. Spencer has a lot of trouble getting his papers published. However, he did get one of his papers published in a European journal, Remote Sensing. The paper went through regular peer review and was published in due course. At that point there was an explosion of criticism. The editor, who apparently did not know that Spencer is on a blacklist of radioactive scientists, was forced to resign.

The looming global warming disaster is attractive to left wing academics. It confirms their belief that capitalism needs to be reined in. That there is a hidden disaster, only visible to intellectuals, promotes the idea that smart people, like academics, should be running things. You can read about academics who have jumped on the global warming bandwagon here, herehere, here, here, here, and here.

Unfortunately scientists cannot be trusted to be objective and disinterested. Scientific societies act very much like labor unions. You will search long and hard in the publications of the National Academies of Sciences to find any suggestion that financial support for science, or any part of science, should be reduced. The government money that supports big science has made scientists into politicians, just like all the others eating at the government table.

Norman Rogers writes often about climate issues. He has a website.

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Oh, I don’t even know where to go with this one. There was so much stereotyping of cultures and foods packed into this two hour block that my head was spinning. I’m going to go mostly for pictures. We head off, once again, outside the capitol, to Pilar, a not so small town of 300,000 people about 70 km northwest of here. But instead of homes and a huge factory, it seems Pilar is a lagoon, well, more of a pond, because that’s all we see of it, from the obligatory twenty angles. The judges arrive on the back of motorcycles trying to appear nonchalant behind a trio of bikers. And that’s the setup for the challenge – cook burgers for thirty bikers who belong to the local Pilar motorcycle “gang”. We are treated to a dozen sidebars about how dangerous all the contestants think bikers are and how afraid they are to even do this challenge, I mean, what if the bikers don’t like their burgers? Are they going to be pillaged and raped in the streets? Except Patricia, or “Pato” (which means “duck”), as we’re now calling her, who’s all “woohoo, yea, let me at some of them biker boys”. We also get sidebars where we learn that “anyone can cook a great burger”, it’s the easiest thing in the world. May I just point out that until recently, and mostly influenced from afar, burgers in Argentina sucked. Like, really sucked.

They’re cooking outside. Even grinding their own meat – one team beef, the other lamb.

The blue team assigns Francisco to start the grill fires because he’s good at it. He gets them going in about 10 minutes and then pitches in elsewhere. The red team assigns Loud Matias (I’m calling him that, kind of like Loud Howard, completely oblivious) because that way he won’t participate in the cooking and ruin things. 45 minutes into the hour challenge, he still hasn’t gotten the grills going. Christophe steps in. Patricia rethinks things and gets Sebastian and Jacinto on the grills – they take about 5 minutes to get it all working.

Both teams actually put up some pretty good looking burgers. Our bikers arrive – there are a few who sort of fit that muscular, grimy, long haired rebel image. Most of them look like dentists and cubicle dwellers out for the weekend.

Red team wins, despite Matias’ lack of effort – which actually appeared pretty intentional, he was pissed at being picked last, and being told to build the fires rather than cook. The voting is via bandana as the bikers pass by the teams. Sebastian makes sure we all know he’s da man.

Back in the MC kitchen, the day is going to be about gnocchi for the blue team’s elimination challenge. The 29th of each month here in Argentina (also Uruguay and Paraguay, and parts of Italy, but don’t tell the Argentines, they think it’s unique to them) gnocchi is the dish du jour. Everyone’s supposed to eat it, all the Argentine restaurants serve up one or another versions of it. The most common reasons given here have to do with the economy, no surprise. One is that it’s a sort of end of the month, only thing people could afford to make or buy, and there’s a tradition in some places of slipping a coin under one or another plate for a lucky winner of the day. Another relates to civil servants, who are sometimes referred to as gnocchi (“ñoquis” in Spanish) because they sit around like lumps of potato and do nothing to earn their salary, and something to do with their payday – but it’s more likely that the cause and effect on that are reversed. And then there’s some 8th century Italian legend honoring Saint Pantaleon (who at the time was just a traveling doctor looking for a bite to eat – it’s all quite involved). But (and I’m surprised it came from Donato, who’s Italian, he’s got to know better), it’s an “Argentine thing”! Under one of the seven bowls turns out to be a 100-peso note, which when the bowls are selected, goes to Alejo….

…who gets a nice little prize. After the contestants get their two minutes in the pantry to select their ingredients for making gnocchi, he gets to go around and examine everyone’s baskets (we don’t get to see anything of what’s inside), and then make two people swap. He picks Pato and Alan. So, the Duck (pato, remember?) isn’t happy, as all that’s in Alan’s basket is a pile of beets, a “million shallots”, and some cream. Alan on the other hand has a basket full of herbs, greens, and other produce, it looks like the Duck just grabbed one or two of everything and decided to sort it out later. He’s happy.

Loud Matias gets a long sidebar while he explains to us from the gallery that this would be a piece of cake for him, he knows “at least three or four” gnocchi recipes and so having to swap baskets wouldn’t phase him in the slightest. Oh, and all three or four recipes would win the whole competition, right there, on the spot.

Francisco takes a daring approach, making a fried gnocchi dessert. German and Christophe don’t think it’s a good idea and don’t think it’s in the spirit of gnocchi making. Donato disagrees, telling them that while it may not be Argentine, it is Italian. German returns a couple of times to Francisco’s bench to tell him it’s a bad idea and criticize the texture and taste, and the fact that Francisco finishes in about 40 minutes out of the hour and then stands around doing nothing. Christophe and German think he isn’t taking the challenge seriously.

These are the most common faces the three judges make while tasting contestants’ dishes. It’s like they’ve practiced these in the mirror. Together. Side by side.

Winner turns out to be Alan, who took great advantage of having a sudden cornucopia of ingredients and produced a pretty spectacular bacon and herb gnocchi dish that all three judges are scarfing down. Christophe lets us know that if either of them was “that sort of man, but we aren’t”, he’d give him a kiss on the lips. They make the Duck come up and taste the dish and ask if it’s anything like what she had in mind (before announcing that it’s the best dish of the day) – she says, no, not only isn’t it what she had in mind, but she doesn’t think it’s all that. The judges smirk at her and then announce it as the best and point out that her dish, while acceptable, was just a bunch of beet flavored gnocchi with shallot cream and why wasn’t there any acidity or herbs or other flavors in it? Ummm, because she didn’t pick the ingredients? She tries to point that out, and that she had all that stuff in her basket that Alan got to use. They tell her to stop making excuses and that she’s lucky she’s not being eliminated.

Alejo is pissed and gets a sidebar to let us know. First, he didn’t win, and he knows his dish was better than Alan’s and everyone else’s (hey, he got second best). Second, he made Alan and Pato swap baskets because he knew it would get one of them eliminated and the judges didn’t follow through with his plan. And third, when he presented his dish, he stuck the 100-peso note back under the bowl for them to accept as a bribe and vote him as the winner and they took the bill but didn’t give him the win, which was cheating on their part.

German has been itching to get rid of Sol ever since she embarrassed him on national television back in episode one, and he’s got Christophe on his side. It comes down to her or Francisco, who both of them also feel just didn’t make an effort. Now, I’ll admit, Sol’s dish looks like one of the least appetizing ones, but she’s made some effort – lime zest gnocchi, a fresh herb pesto, and a sun-dried tomato sauce – but, and admittedly it’s probably true in comparison to some of the others, it wasn’t overly creative or different from a plate of gnocchi you could get at most any restaurant (then again, neither were two or three others). Donato tries to stand up for both of them, but clearly gets voted down. After they announce that Sol is being eliminated she has to stand there while German delivers a several minute speech about how she cooked pretty well in making dishes that “weren’t from your culture” – a phrase he uses about a dozen times, like being Chinese is something to overcome, and clearly having forgotten that she may have Chinese ancestors, but she’s Argentine, grew up right here in Buenos Aires – her “culture” is the same as his. Christophe murmurs something about developing her own style based on “her culture”. She looks apoplectic. Donato hangs his head while they speak, looks all embarrassed again, and thanks her for being a great all around contestant and good person.

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  • Professor, Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
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Two Choices

Two Choices

Jerry was the kind of guy you love to hate. He was always in a good mood and always had something positive to say. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he wouold reply, "If I were any better, I would be twins!" He was a unique manager because he had several waiters who had followed him around from restaurant to restaurant. The reason the waiters followed Jerry was because of his attitude. He was a natural motivator. If an employee was having a bad day, Jerry was there telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation.
Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up to Jerry and asked him, "I don't get it! You can't be a positive person all the time. How do you it?" Jerry replied, "Each morning I wake up and say to myself, Jerry, you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or you can choose to be in a bad mood. I choose to be in a good mood." Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or I can choose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it. Everytime someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their complaining or I can point out the positive side of life. I choose the positive side of life.
"Yeah, right, it's not that easy," I protested. "Yes, it is," Jerry said. "Life is all about choices. When you cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people will affect your mood. You choose to be in a good mood or a bad mood. The bottom line is it's your choice how you live life." I reflected on what Jerry said. Soon thereafter, I left the restaurant industry to start my own business. We lost touch, but often thought about him when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it. Several years later, I heard that Jerry did something you are never supposed to do in a restaurant business; he left the back door open one morning and was held up at gun point. While trying to open the safe, his hand, shaking from nervousness, slipped off the combination. The robbers panicked and shot him. Luckily, Jerry was found relatively quickly and rushed to the local trauma center. After 18 hours of surgery and weeks on intensive care, Jerry was released from the hospital with fragments of the bullet still in his body. I saw Jerry about six months after the accident. When I asked him how he was, he replied, "If I were any better, I'd be twins. Wanna see my scars?" I declined to see his wounds, but did ask him what had gone through his mind as the robbery took place. "The first thing that went through my mind was that I should have locked the back door," Jerry replied. "Then , as I laid on the floor, I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live or I could choose to die. I chose to live. "weren't you scared? Did you lose consciousness?" I asked. Jerry continued, "The paramedics were great. They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the emergency room and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, I read. 'He's a dead man'. I knew I needed to take action. "What did you do?" I asked. "Well, there was a big, burly nurse shouting questions at me," said Jerry. She asked if I was allergic to anything. "Yes", I replied. The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply. I took a deep breath and yelled, "Bullets!" Over their laughter, I told them I am choosing to live. "Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead." Jerry lived thanks to the skill of his doctors but also because of his amazing attitude. I learned from him that every day we have the choice to live fully. Attitude, after all, is everything and is a choice.

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Lieserl – age 18, dark, serious girl. Dressed for today’s weather, but her clothes are dark and reminiscent of late 19th century style.

Setting: Today, somewhere nearby. A simple over-head projector nearby.

NOTES: The public first became aware of Einstein’s first illegitimate daughter, Lieserl, in 1987 when the first volume of his collected papers was published. Lieserl was born to Albert Einstein and Mileva Maric in 1902, two years before they officially married. She was born in Mileva’s home-town in Serbia and was given to members of Mileva’s family to raise. Albert was not there at the birth, nor did he ever, as far as we know, see his first daughter as he was scraping a living tutoring and working at a Swiss patent office. Know one knows what happened to their baby girl.

-The Play-

Time is the unfolding of statistics. A catalog of outcomes delighted in their out-coming. Chance chanced. There is a chance that most things could happen. A ball might penetrate a steel wall if I threw it enough times. My perfume might gather itself back in its bottle if I waited long enough. I might… fly.

I was born. That I know.

My mother screamed. So, I did too. She cried. I gathered this was the way. She looked at me so sadly. And I stared back at her, confident I was learning. She held me. Tightly. I bit her breast, sharing this pressure. We were communicating. A harsh thing when one person knows something the other doesn’t. She wouldn’t tell me something. Something she was certain of but couldn’t articulate to a child. A baby girl. A thing as I was, that asked so much but never quite advised.

She sat with me. In the quiet of a basement secret, the stillness of a new idea.

Soon, seeping into my room I heard Mozart coming from her past. A violin playing Mozart; and quite well. A confidant player. Apt but somewhat… aimless. He played for passion, not just to impress. Though he did. Impress. He must have squinted when he played.

He. I heard a man playing, not a woman. Who. He. This music was not my mother’s, though she memorized it. Who was this music. This Mozart. Who played her. For her. Who did she memorize?

My father. Girls have fathers and mine was… absent. Fascinated. This man who played music and shared this woman. This woman I hurt. This large woman that I woke at night and pinched and bit. Who shares this woman. Why is he not pained like she. Where is this man who tricks and plays and promises answers, larger questions. Who.

She left me. I believed her when she said we would meet again. So I let her go. Believing in memory as a tangible promise, a solid thing that she could see and taste. I left her my memory and took from her a promise. She had given me, given, given away to family or friends or… nothing. But I was too smart to be given anything without a return offer. She left me in a cold part of the world and went to find this music, this man. So I took, stole a piece of her for me. She wasn’t looking. She wouldn’t notice. Promise me.

I waited til I could stand. Which I did holding on to a chair. I waited again til I could walk. A tour around the kitchen. I learned to run. Then to fly. Then I found my mother’s promise in the bed I used to sleep in when I was a baby. It glowed. And played Mozart.

I ran. I flew. Chasing this music. I hurried through the air, slept with the wind, and gained speed and time as I approached the sound of this… this promise. I reached for this noise, rising as I got close. And finally sailing side by side I caught it
and it stopped.
The fury soaring sound I chased for all that time silenced when I finally touched it.

My mother’s sad face came back but only made me go faster. My father must live beyond this music, past this speed. Starting in my toes, I ran on a force and left that sound behind. I saw it ache to be the fastest thing but I out-flew it by miles. Then years. The acceleration was a heart-soar, a hunt I’d accidentally committed to, a love I’d accidentally committed to.

And love is massive. So when it ceases to be it is not a whisper that passes but a rush of energy that forces me at such speeds that I see things bend that should not bend. Time and light and hope.

Light bends when you’re looking so hard for something so large as a promise. I saw it bend as I came upon it, faster and faster approaching some speed I only recognized as instinct. I was disappearing from being born. From being born in a town to a mother that cries to a father that distance made weak.

And then I rode with it. Side by side. I met. Light.

Let me explain.

(she turns on the projector draws)

the music came first, then me. After I passed the sound, here, I was past any convincing so I sped up to light, here. I sat next to it, here. Then here became here as I realized that it was always out there in front of me. I saw it and when I did –

(she turns off the projector)

I stared at it like my mother taught, saw the pause that overtakes when one shares speed with such a thing. The pause that never arrests such a thing. There is only forever in such a thing even when you sit with it, together, calm, asking it questions. I knew I would never be so bold as such a thing; going forever checked not by company or memory or promise.

So. I turned around. My father was not out here in this pantheon. He had already left out here. And it was colder here than Serbia. I went home.

But. I was late. A hundred years. I chased my father’s music, passed it for his light, and missed him all in all. I heard he was a genius. My mother was brilliant, too. My brothers were kind. And I was… lost. A mystery. A baby. A story with no ending. Because I flew. No ending.

Time is a flexible thing. A progressive statistic proving that things, in fact, happen. Today. I came home and things had happened. His music, I found, had happened. Anyone could play it with some practice. Anyone could explain him to me, with some tutoring. Anyone could tell me what he looked like, what he wore, where he lived.

I would like to tell him what I saw. What really happened. There is a chance I could… a chance I could catch up with his history. Fly away again in time to meet him. To meet him and my mother. To not be created or destroyed but simply happen… to each other.

There is a chance that most things could happen. And I suppose I must live in what could happen. For I was too much for did happen, and not enough for what should have happened.

For a man who apparently re-arranged the world, let it breathe like it wanted to, attracted both mystery and definition… I am left confused. Lost. In love with an idea of what was not mine. I can’t help it.

(She turns on the projector, a new sheet for drawing)

I slide down the wall of my space made steep by the mass of his. See? I fall into his company made obvious but still invisible. A ghostly thing. I wish Newton had been right, and things attracted each other, perhaps not equally but at least consistently. There should be a pull between things, there should be a corporate influence, something instead of one thing denting this fabric, and everyone left to skim and skate within someone else’s dimensions.

But Newton was not wholly right. And there are smaller things inside of smaller things that move in their own directions. That play games you can’t see with rules you can’t judge. And in times like these you must do what you can with what you can’t see. A special kind of faith. Not the god kind. The earth kind.

I’ve seen. With my father’s eyes. I have speed. Relative to everything he had, yes, but it is mine. Not his. It’s sort of sad. Because I know he would have loved it. My speed. That makes me fly. That makes me sleep with light, and disappear, and be born, and call this mine, and call this home, and be all daughter, and passion, and memory and secret.

(She places each sheet back on the projector. It forms a caricature of Einstein.)

Kaku, Michio. Einstein’s Cosmos: How Albert Einstein’s Vision Transformed Our Understanding of Space and Time, April, 2004. W. W. Norton & Company; NY, NY

Overbye, Dennis. Einstein in Love. October 1, 2000; International Thompson Publishing

Zackheim, Michele. Einstein’s Daughter: The Search for Lieserl, Nov. 1, 2000. Riverhead Trade


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Breakfast in the Bathtub

Breakfast in the Bathtub

The way things have been going lately, we could all use a book of smiles. Well, here it is. Poet Fred Samuels and columnist Joann Snow Duncanson have teamed up to produce "Breakfast in the Bathrub". If you’ve had enough of nasty weather, political strife and bird flu, or if you happen to be President of the United States – this book’s for you. Click for special excerpts from the book.

MEET THE AUTHORS: Upcoming book signings will be held at RiverRun Bookstore in Portsmouth on Thursday, November 10 at 7pm, and at the Toadstool Bookshop in Peterborough on Saturday, November 19 at 2pm.

This book reminds us of the volumes we’re been reading by mid-19th century Boston humorist BP Shillaber. There’s a pinch of this and a pound of that, and then on to something else. That upbeat mix of poems, narratives and short essays used to be a popular genre. People bought Shillaber’s books, he always said, simply to smile. Making someone smile in Victorian times was apparently a worthy effort. Shillaber never advocated raucous humor, slapstick comedy or the kind of laughter that makes milk run out your nose. He liked to make people smile.

Breakfast in the BathtubPublished by Peter E. Randall of Portsmouth, Breakfast in the Bathrub mixes tales about Samuels’ growing up in Brooklyn, NY with Duncanson’s zany poem about taking Emily Dickinson to the mall. All 36 poems and 23 stories aim to make you smile.

Fred Samuels is a retired UNH Sociology professor, living in Alton, NH. Among his earlier published books are To Spade the Earth, and Intense Experience: Social Psychology Through Poetry. Joann Snow Duncanson, from Greenland, NH, is the author of Who Gets the Yellow Bananas? and is a newspaper columnist for The Peterborough Transcript. She is also known for her performances on the lives and works of Emily Dickinson and Celia Thaxter. Both writers are active in the Poetry Society of New Hampshire and are members of The Seacoast Writers Association and the New Hampshire Writers’ Project.

Breakfast in the Bathrub: A Book of Smiles
By Fred Samuels and Joann Snow Duncanson
Peter E. Randall, Publisher, 2005
126 pages, 6 x 9 paperback
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JoAnn Duncanson

If my kids are reading this, listen up!! I DO NOT NOW, NOR HAVE I EVER, WANTED TO BE FROZEN AFTER I DIE! For that matter, I’m not too keen on being frozen before I die either. I’m not a winter person, but I know that at least when spring comes, I can thaw out. I’m not so sure there’d be a spring in my future if I were to be relegated to the frozen section of some cryonic after-life supermarket. I don’t imagine they bring birds and flowers into those repositories once a year just to boost our spirits.

The only positive aspect I could see about being frozen, is that I possibly could get to know Ted Williams, whose family has chosen this route for him. I never understood much about the world of baseball, but I always knew a good-looking man when I saw one, and he was definitely good-looking. If the Splendid Splinter and I got iced together, perhaps he could help while away the hours by transmitting some of his vast baseball knowledge to me -- reading me some bedtime stats, reciting the names of Hall of Fame guys, or at least explaining that mystery of all mysteries -- why baseball players have to spit all the time. Sure, baseball might not be the most interesting of topics for me, but a refrigerated hereafter could last a long time, and I don’t suppose the library’s bookmobile makes stops there.

Then there’s that other matter -- they say you are frozen in these cylinders upside down. That right there is reason enough for a person to beg off from being a cryonics customer. Granted, after you’ve died, I suppose that old problem of the blood rushing to your inverted head wouldn’t be too big a factor. And speaking of heads, some folks are opting to have just that part of their body preserved. No thanks, I’d rather be in one piece, thank you. It’s the whole enchilada or nothing. Of course, if I thought they could attach my head to Britney Spears’ body someday, I might reconsider.

This whole business of cryonics is curious to most of us. I have many questions. For instance, are we fully dressed all that time? With a temperature of minus 320 degrees Fahrenheit, would a little polar fleece help, or since we’d be in liquid nitrogen, should we pack a wetsuit?

There seem to be two basic reasons for people to choose the cryonics route: (1) their ego is such that they feel their DNA alone will be worth something someday, or (2) they want to know what it would be like to "come back" to experience life in the far future. Personally, I can’t imagine anyone clamoring for the DNA of a woman who helps make a living by writing stuff like this! And as far as coming back is concerned -- I’ve already had plenty of blessings and challenges in this life, thank you.

The way I see it is this. Once you make up your mind that you don’t want to go the traditional route -- being lowered below the sod in one piece -- you have two choices: fire or ice. Since I’ve just ruled out the ice route, fire seems the only choice left. For women, that may be a natural solution. Now that they’ve taken away our Hormone Replacement Therapy, what better way could we go out of this world than with one final, gigantic hot flash!

Too bad, in a way. Ted Williams and I just might have hit it off.

Fred Samuels

The plump, young secretary
at the doctor’s office
calls me "Honey" when I come
for my monthly shot
of "Johnny Walker red"
(B-12 to the unhip).

I smile as an old graybeard
is expected to do, but

a part of that smile eludes her
-- for she does not know that
I still view all women
through the X-ray eyes of imagination.

Excerpted with permission of the authors from Breakfast in the Bathtub: A Book of Smiles. Copyright Fred Samuels and JoAnn Snow Duncanson. All rights reserved.

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YouTuber Debrajoy is entertaining as fuck...
(12-14-2017, 09:58 PM)Trix Wrote: I feel like that person was...

No, he nailed it. You have no idea. LOL
Well I prettymuch hate Charles Manson, so.
God made me funky...
And I'm glad He blessed me that way.
I'm pretty sure my friend didn't literally mean I'm a psycho killer. Maybe that I had the potential to be one, if not for mitigating factors. Manson was in a dark place, got fixated, and followed his morbid ideation to its logical conclusion. It's good to have restore points, and to revert to them occasionally.
Be ye prompt and active as the Sylphs, but avoid frivolity and caprice.

Be energetic and strong as the Salamanders but avoid irritability and ferocity.

Be flexible and attentive to images, like the Undines, but avoid idleness and changeability.

Be laborious and patient like the Gnomes, but avoid grossness and avarice.

So shalt thou gradually develop the powers of thy soul and fit thyself to command the spirits of the elements.
Nothing to do with him being a psycho or a killer or anything else. I just don't feel like Manson was that intriguing or remarkable. I actually found him quite annoying and very easy to see through. Just a fragile person who cracked early.
God made me funky...
And I'm glad He blessed me that way.
Stoop not down unto the Darkly-Splendid World; wherein continually lieth a faithless Depth, and Hades wrapped in clouds, delighting in unintellible images, precipitous, winding, a black ever-rolling Abyss; ever espousing a Body unluminous, formless and void.

God made me funky...
And I'm glad He blessed me that way.
I think you're right. But that's not the way the uninitiated see him. Serial killers gain extraordinary reputations among the masses, whether deserved or not.
Ooooooh, I love that song! One of my favorite videos is Frankie in the studio recording "Who Loves You." I love to watch his face while he's tearing that shit up.

Oooooo I love that one, I've never seen the video.

Me so horny. OMG. SOOOOO. SO VERY.
God made me funky...
And I'm glad He blessed me that way.
(12-14-2017, 10:22 PM)Trix Wrote: I've never seen the video.

I've posted it before. Pay attention, child.
So I decided to go back and look through Debra Joy's recent uploads, because I feel like I really just didn't find what I was looking for earlier, I mean there had to be some reason I was guided to look at her channel... and what do ya know?!

It occurs to me...

Will Debra Joy get married again?? I know she's getting on up there, but it can totally happen, right??

Did she just say she married her first husband at 17??? Was she just randomly using 17 as an example? WTF?

A great housekeeper... hm, that's nice!!!

She took care of the yard?? What the fuck does that mean??

LOL it's so funny when she's numbering her husbands.

Man, I wonder what it's like to have been married that many times and had all those relationships? Not trying to insinuate Debra has slutted around or something... that sounded bad!!!

Debra Joy is terrified of big bodies of water. Interesting!

4:30 "My military husbands"... ROFL.

"I was a pretty good cook too. All of my husbands gained weight."

7:11... OMG.

That's like not even funny.

9:00 she addresses the remarrying question...

The next one would be number SEVEN!!!

Debra Joy is totally gonna get married again someday, I can feel it.

Probably to some sweet old codger.

Dude Debra sorta scares me a lil bit in this video.

Hmmm... impatient, walks fast, kinda violent. Wonder if Debra Joy is an Aries?
God made me funky...
And I'm glad He blessed me that way.
(12-14-2017, 11:21 PM)Trix Wrote: walks fast
is this a thing with the zodiac signs? am i supposed to have a long and quick natural gate as a sag? it's literally hard for me to walk with most people, they go so fucking slow. and i hate getting stuck behind slow foot traffic.
rhombus will set you free
Fire signs, Genba...

They walk fast.

I have to slow down pretty hard to walk with basically anyone else.
God made me funky...
And I'm glad He blessed me that way.
Wouldn't you be burned out on the idea of marriage after six husbands? My ex-girlfriend was married 5 times, and was always talking about getting married again. I'm like "Shit, woman, you've had your fair share. Give some of these bachelorette broads a chance."
Yeah I mean...

I think it would be fine to be married like a couple times.

But after a few failed marriages (like 2), people should probably just go for a long term relationship, like common law kinda stuff and throw in the towel on the marriage thingy.

Because it becomes kind of a mockery after a while.

JMHO. Not judging anybody who's been married elevendy million times.
God made me funky...
And I'm glad He blessed me that way.
Yeah, I'm not judging either. Her last husband was apparently awesome, but he died. So it's not like the marriage failed or anything. But still, I'd be sofa king done with anything after doing it that many times.

This video is kinda gay because there's this high pitch all the way through it...

I'ma try to watch it anyways.

2:22 ROFLMAO the way she says that to the other car... WTF!!!

I don't think I've ever said that whilst driving!!!

I wonder if that's part of getting older?! Just being more mellow about driving!?

I don't know who the hell she's talking about, but she totally should have married that guy.

3:08 LMAO wow, just wow just wow.

I cannot. Even. In any way.

AND HE turned HER down!!!!!!!

That's a fucking troll right there!!!

Dude this video is so fucking long.

I wouldn't even notice if it wasn't for the high pitch.

Debra had a military dad, and she married military husbands...

It sounds like Debra's husbands kinda sucked...

Leaving a mess in the sink, pissing on the floor, staying out drunk etc.

Sounds like Debra got put through a lot of pure and total smack in this relationship.

17:00 he was gone for THREE MONTHS!?!

That's like... a long fucking time by everyone's standards.

Gone for three months in a strange place and he cheated on her...

WELL NO SHIT!!! LOL. Poor guy though, sounds like he didn't really wanna do her dirty like that!!!

20:25 SIX months?!?!? Ahahaha okay fuck that, I want a divorce. SIX MONTHS.

LOL the end of this story though. LOL. Dude. OMG.

It occurs to me this guy must have been hot as fuck if he was a Marine.
God made me funky...
And I'm glad He blessed me that way.

Husband number four, her longest marriage!!!

Starts at 3:27.

Dude where the hell is she going with this Big Brothers and Big Sisters story???

I can never guess where the hell Debra's stories are going.

Awww. This story is kinda sad.

Not even gonna lie, I zoned out for like 10 minutes during this video.

19:52 LOL it's awesome to see Debra Joy thinking and remembering one of her many husbands proposing to her.

Kinda jelly.
God made me funky...
And I'm glad He blessed me that way.

Dude I'm just casually listening to this video, it's not really about any of her husbands, so automatically it's just meh...

And then 3:37 - 3:57 happens.

I lost it. I fucking lost it.

Just by that statement alone, I can tell Debra Joy has engaged in group sex.

Like so long ago that it's totally non-chalant to her now...

We're talking like back in the 70s.

Dude why is it after 1am right now? I need more time to watch more of Debra's videos.

She's cracking me up with this super fucked up story though, LOL.

Someone in the comments section of this video says that Debra Joy should write a book because she has so many good stories...

I totally disagree, I think that her telling these stories in video format is totally perfect.

Maybe she could transcribe them into a book after she's posted the videos.
God made me funky...
And I'm glad He blessed me that way.

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Sorry – so negligent

I’ve been so neglecting my blog. But the reason is always the same – since adding the title publisher to my usual job as author, there is soooo much more to do and my blog goes neglected at times. So I guess the best thing is to catch you up on what I’ve been working on and anything that I hope you might find interesting. lol

In the down time that I do have, my man and I have been watching some excellent martial arts films, which, if you know me, you know I love. In particular, the last couple of days we watched Ong Bak 2 and 3 with Tony Jaa, who, incidentally, wrote the screen plays, choreographed the fight scenes, directed them and produced the films. He has a lot of energy! lol. Anyway, they are well written, well acted and tell a real story of a person’s inner and outer journey of spirit, so there’s some depth to them as well.

As far as writing, I’ve been working away on Soy Sauce Face, my yaoi-style novella. It seems that my heart just leads me to write this type of story these days so I just have to give in to the muse and let myself be directed. It seems to work because when I write the kind of story that just pours from deep within, the story is much better and readers enjoy it more. I’ve grown to love these characters, Jun and Tomo, and I’m closing in on the end of the story. Hopefully within this month I’ll have it finished and ready to go through editing.

As far as publishing news goes, my novel, Delicious Love Triangle has gone on sale for a reduced price of 2.99 at Ai Press.

The other big news is the on September 26th, I’ll be hosting a HUGE release party for Ai Press at The Romance Studio. Hope lots of people will come. It should be fun with prizes and good stuff like that.

Well, there’s plenty more but I don’t want to bore you. lol. Thanks for visiting and reading.


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Thousands of Leaks Found in DC's Aging System of Natural Gas Pipes

"Researchers who conducted a street-by-street survey of the District [of Columbia] found nearly 6,000 natural gas leaks from the city’s aging pipe system, including 12 in manholes where methane had collected to potentially explosive levels, according to a study published Thursday."

"The team, after warning Washington Gas about those 12 locations, retested them four months later and discovered eight places where the gas buildup was still at concentrations that could cause explosions.

Some of the thousands of gas leaks found throughout the city were at levels many times those normally found in the environment. But they posed no direct health or safety risk at those concentrations and the gas plumes dispersed into the air, according to team leaders Robert B. Jackson of Duke and Stanford universities, and Nathan G. Phillips, who teaches at Boston University."

Lenny Bernstein reports for the Washington Post January 16, 2014.

Source: Wash Post, 01/16/2014