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Picture of Light Bulb Lamp: Another Option
I too saw the post of the light bulb lamp ad got started working on my own. I was hoping to put out an instructable before anyone else did, but BUMPUS beat me to it (cheers mate!)

This instructable covers the entire process, from a new light bulb to a new lamp. It includes the hollowing out of the bulb. However, you'll need to come up with your own base for the lamp.

Special thanks to nm918273 for the original instructions on how to hollow a light bulb.

Bigger thanks to my little bro Tanner for shooting the pics.

I did my best to include a lot of photos and detailed steps.

Hope you enjoy it.

Step 1: Materials Needed!

Picture of Materials Needed!
-Light Bulb
-Pop Can
-Old Sock
-Lamp Oil

-Needle Nose Pliers
-Flathead Screw Driver
-Exacto Knife
-Big Ol' Nail

Step 2: Hollow out the Bulb!

Picture of Hollow out the Bulb!

(I really thought something would pop or explode during this process, but it didn't. Not as exciting, but less dangerous)

1- Using your exacto knife pry up an edge of the brass disk on the bottom of the bulb.

2- Use your pliers to pull it off.

Time to move outside as there's going to be some broken glass. Be safe, clean up your mess when you're done.

3- With patience and care remove the black glass cone that the brass disk was attached to. I used the following methods--
-Resting the threads (not the bulb) on a sturdy surface tap the glass with the pliers to chip/break it.
-Holding the bulb use the screwdriver as a chisel and the piers as a hammer.
-Use the nail as a chisel and the pliers as a hammer.
-Use the pliers to grip and pull out the last few chunks.

4- Use the screwdriver as a chisel once again and break the glass that hold the filament in place inside the bulb.

5- Use your pliers to break up pieces too big to fall out of the hole but simply squeezing them.

You should have a nice white hollow bulb now.

Step 3: Clean the Bulb!

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As you examine the bulb now you'll see some of the white removed where the broken bits were moving about inside the bulb. We're basically going to do the same thing to get all the white out, but we'll use salt instead of broken glass.

1- Put about a spoon full of salt in the bulb.

2- Cover the hole with your hand/finger and swirl. You'll need to use different positions and angles to get all the white out.

Now you've got a clean hollow bulb. Oh the possibilities!

Step 4: Cap and Wick!

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We're about to make a small aluminum disk that will cap the hole in the bottom of the bulb, through which we will put the wick that we will make out of a sock.

1- Use your exacto knife to cut a one inch square from the side of the pop can.

2- Use your scissors to a circle with a thin tab protruding from one side.

3- Fold the tab in against the painted side, then up perpendicular about half it's length.

4- Use your exacto knife as small screwdriver to cut/punch a hole for the wick.

5- Cut a thin strip from the top (not the elastic bit) of the sock.

6- Use the tip of your exacto knife to push the wick up through the cap.

For the most part the cap will be held on by the weight of the wick. We put the tab on the cap so that the lamp can be displayed at an angle. As long as the tab is at the lowered edge of the cap it will keep the cap more or less centered.

You might experiment with two tabs instead of one.

Step 5: Fill! Assemble! Light! Enjoy!

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Almost there!

1- Find a base for your lamp. I found an old brass fitting in the garage that I polished up. Other suggestions: a shot glass, large washer, or piece of wood with a large hole drilled into it.

2- Fill the bulb 1/3 to 1/2 with lamp oil.

3- Slip the wick in and rest the cap on top. Use the tab to stabilize and position it.

4- Once the wick is saturated with the oil light it up!

That's it! Enjoy your new lamp with caution as it is fragile, easy to tip over and has an open flame.

Thanks for stickin' with it till the end.

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Just finished this project. Not exactly the same but pretty close. I love it.
abstracted3 years ago
awesome...here are a couple of my versions
jvet3 years ago
Very cool, the only thing i first noticed is that a european lighbulb is different.
the glass blub is completely closed, the electronics are cast inside the glass, its an way to make te lamp more effecient and safe. im only looking for a good solution to refil it !
bensspace4 years ago
i used to have a friend that was in a gang he died a few years ago but he used somthing like this to set fires
honigkuchen4 years ago
all the glass that had to break during this process really refused to do anything. maybe for the german lightbulb I used that looked a little diffrent from the one you are using.
oh, and i forgot to say - you might find the white coating doesn't come off with just salt, too - i guess it's a different material. I got it off with salt and water, but sand and water might be better!
Hey Honigkuchen,

if German light bulbs are like English ones, then they're much more stubborn than the American ones seem to be, but it's still possible to do this. Use something soft to protect the bulb, grip it firmly by the metal part, and tap th black glass repeatedly, very hard, using controlled force and a small scredriver or other instrument. Eventually the glass will start to crack, and by combining the various tricks mentioned above you should be able to clear out all the black glass. It took me about 20 minutes per bulb, with a 50% success rate (the bits you're trying to break are much stronger than the part you want to keep whole...)

I recommend wearing glasses or goggles and working somewhere easy to sweep!

Have fun,
nafango227 years ago
couldnt you use water to clean the bulb?
Water alone will not remove the residue, you need an abrasive media or thin-necked toothbrush/pipe cleaner. (fiddly, just use the abrasive)
CYNICALifornia (author)  nafango227 years ago
I guess, but I'm not really sure. The salt is super quick and efficient. Plus, you dry time and no water spots. Know what I mean?
everage5 years ago

I just finished mine, its an awesome idea. It actually made me join here. I used two magnets, a small one inside the bulb and one hidden under a tealight shell. Now it stands stable and i can lean it over to a side without worries.

Eag;p6 years ago
lol exactly what i was thinking.
mee too
El Mano5 years ago
That's really cool. You could also make some sort of wall mount.
Umm. This looks like something that would be on the anarchist cookbook. haha. Good instructable nonetheless
"..looks like something that would be on the anarchist cookbook" Come again ?

basically tippmannphreak is saying it looks like an improvised incendiary device, like a molotov cocktail  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov_cocktail
MrLouque5 years ago
 Sweet instructable, got to try it
What fuel is better: Paraffin Oil (aka. Kero), Metho/Alcohol or Oil. What do they smell like, how flammable are they, if it spills out of a light bulb and brakes what one would do more damage? All those kinds of things I want to know Thanks
Paraffin/Kero smells weird (slightly sweet and petrol-y), has a very bright but slightly sooty flame. As a pure liquid it's not actually very flammable but if it soaks into carpet or something it will be.

Meths (that purple stuff) smells like neat alcohol, has a much dimmer flame (not great for lighting unless you make a mantle or something) but is much cleaner burning. It is *very* flammable, meths spills are dangerous so i wouldn't recommend it for an unstable lamp design like this one.

Lamp oil (if that's what you mean by oil) smells better, burns a little cleaner than paraffin and has a nice bright flame but is more expensive. I don't know how flammable it is if spilled.

I wouldn't try burning other types of oil, veggie oil has some water content so spits/crackles a lot, smokes and doesn't smell very good, and I haven't tried engine oil or other types but I'd steer away from it. Paraffin or lamp oil are probably your best bet.
sharlston PKM5 years ago
veggie oil is fine all my lamps run off the stuff
does anyone know if you can make colored lamp oil by simply adding food coloring?
yes but the flame wont be coloured
if you made the wick go throught the colouring aswell as the oil then yes
CYNICALifornia (author)  carcharhinus6 years ago
Food coloring is water based, so probably no dice. I've seen colored oils before though.
AustenQn6 years ago
cant it blow up?
wow this looks like the potential arson cause to me. lol cool stuff though i think i would much rather have a larger base than that though.
kreeperjoe6 years ago
Great Instructable! question would you happen to know of any ways to make oil's at home that give off a pleasant fragrance? im going to make more just so i can put them in some geocache's
Geocache! Brilliant! I love these, and can never find enough excuses to make them.
ewilhelm6 years ago
This project was mentioned in Popular Mechanics's 10 DIY Gifts for Friends and Family.
MJTH6 years ago
Wood there be any possibly of the bulb cracking because of the heat?
CYNICALifornia (author)  MJTH6 years ago
I've burned my light bulb lamp for many hours and have had not problems yet. Thus far I'd answer your question with a 'I doubt it', but am always open the possibility of a freak accident. (Like the invention of silly putty)
Thank you for the clear instructions! This was my first attempt, and it was perfect. I ended up using a decorative halogen bulb, and an old wash cloth for the wick, as the sick turned out not to be 100% cotton! Ha. I had trouble finding a good base, but ended up setting it in a bowl of sand and river rocks I'd been using for candles, and it's beautiful! Thanks again ;)
Fungible7 years ago
Many stores also sell totally clear bulbs, if you want to save time and skip the clearning. Salt is a clever way to do it, though!
Yep, easier to start with a clear bulb. Also... the spherical "globe" type bulbs would make a very nice lamp.
Good point - the globe bulbs would look very nice, and also likely be a lot more stable, as they'd be less top-heavy, since they're uniformly curved.
Hm. I was just thinking. Maybe a floodlight might have been easier? After all, you wouldn't need a stand for it. =)
Newblit rotf1016 years ago
Tried that already problem is that you can't get the white off of it I ended out breaking the glass because I was using pieces of broken glass because the salt wasn't abrasive enough and the glass barely even working. After I broke the glass I tried scraping it off with my finger nail, that didn't even work so you can't do it unless your flood lamp is totally clear already
Pyrocantha6 years ago
I saw glass "bulb" containers at Hobby Lobby today. The brass part unscrews and you fill it and decorate it, whatever....It was rather heavy and had a flat base. All you would have to do is drill a hole for the wick, fill and go. Takes all the "Brainwork" out of it, but is is safer for clutzes like me!
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Picture of Tachometer made from a bicycle speedometer (cyclocomputer)
Sometimes you just have to know how fast a wheel or shaft or motor is turning.
The measuring device for rotational speed is a tachometer. But they are expensive and not easy to find.
Its cheap and easy to make one using a bicycle speedometer (cyclocomputer). In fact, the only thing you need is a functional cyclocomputer that reads speed in miles per hour. You won't damage it, so you can even 'borrow' one from your bike, or add it to your bike once your done!

You will only need 1 thing:
A cyclocomputer that reads in MPH and that lets you enter a wheel size in millimeters. Almost all of them do.

You will have to mount a magnet to your spinning wheel, engine shaft or what not.
And you will have to mount the speed sensor near the path of the spinning magnet.

Thats it!

Step 1: Theory and numbers - skip if you don't care!

A cyclocomputer calculates the speed your bicycle is traveling by sensing how fast the wheels of the bike are spinning. It senses wheel speed through a magnetic switch that is mounted on the bicycle frame or fork, near the path of a spinning wheel. There is a magnet attached to a spoke of the wheel and when it goes by the magnetic switch, the switch closes for a moment, which is recorded by the cyclocomputer. By timing how much time goes by between switch closings, it can compute how fast the wheel is spinning.

When you first install a cyclocomputer on a bicycle, you have to enter the circumference of the wheel in millimeters. With that information, it can compute how far and how fast you've gone with every turn of the wheel.
In this instructable, we are going to enter a special number into the cyclocomputer for the wheel circumference that will trick it to report speed in rpm.

If the cyclocomputer is reporting speed in mph, enter 268 mm for the wheel circumference.
If the cyclocomputer is reporting speed in kph, enter 167 mm for the wheel circumference.

Here is the calculation...
1 mph = 1.61 kph.
1.61 kph / 60 minutes in an hour = .026833 kilometers per minute
.026833 kpm* 1,000,000 millimeters per kilometer = 26,833 millimeters per minute
26,833 mmpm / 100 (scale factor) = 268 mm
268 / 1.61 mph-kph conversion = 167 mm
Note: some cyclocomputers might not be able to accept a number below 200, so use the 268 mm number, reporting in mph might be better.

If you ride, you may know that some cyclocomputers also record cadence, which is how fast you are pedaling - and that number is in RPM! So the cyclocomputer already is a tachometer! But they can only read to a maximum of 199 RPM, which is way faster than a person can pedal anyway. I guess if you needed to measure a really slow speed it could work, but this instructable lets you measure a much wider range of speeds.
fjr_scoot9 days ago

I would assume that requiring 4 digits implies metric input, and that 268 would mean 268.0, input as 2680....

Also, your provided information is confusing. I suspect you might have to mentally multiply or divide the displayed number by 10 (or 100) for RPM.

Remember, cyclometers actually measure nothing but how many times a minute a magnet passes near a sensor (RPM). Then, the internal electronics convert that number (based on wheel diameter) into a speed. By "fooling" the electronics with the calibration numbers provided by Josie, the output is converted back to a number which indicates RPM... but we may need to mentally multiply the number by 10 or 100 or 1000 for the proper number. The computer does not know it's being fooled. It still thinks it's doing its job of reporting MPH. Just ignore or tape over the letters that say MPH, if that's the case.

sformel2 months ago

I also entered 2680 and 1670. Same results- speed but not RPMs.

sformel2 months ago

I purchased a bicycle speedometer, and following your instructions, hooked it up to my water turbine that I run my water powered sawmill with. It works fine as a speedometer. However, the instructions that came with the cyclocomputer require that you enter a 4 digit number as the value for the mm of one revolution of the bicycle tire. Your instructions require entering '268' or '167' , both 3 digit numbers. I tried entering 0268 and 0167. I do get a variable readout, apparently of MPH, and this readout increases as I increase the speed of my turbine, but MPH is not what I'm looking for. the whole idea is to have a tachometer. The diameter of the wheel that I have hooked up the magnet to is 10". Any ideas?

cardioflow2 years ago
Thank you Josie,

I considered a wireless bicycle tach but I believe they dont have the range I need.
cardioflow2 years ago
I am going to use a Bicycle Tach for a rotor tach on my Gyrocopter. This means I have to extend the wire from the sensor to the display unit. It also has to display a range from 0 to 400 RPM. Upon cutting the wire to extend, I notice it has two very fine wires within it. I think this is true but I cannot even see a wire. How can I extend this and will your calculations work for my applications? Thank you
josie (author)  cardioflow2 years ago
Unfortunately that fine wire is a real pain to work with. To connect to it use a cigarette lighter to burn off the lacquer that covers the strands and then scrape the wire clean with a knife. Then solder to it. I bet you could extend the wire some distance without problems. You could always pick up a wireless cyclocomputer if that would be easier, but more $$$. Good luck.
AAronvb5 years ago
I have a question , I have this attached to my VAWT and have a balance issue, does it matter where or how close to center of the disk  you place the magnet or does it not matter since it counts revolutions.  Will mounting the magnet to the shaft still have the same result as mounted on the outer edge of the disk?
Hope your still around. Great Idea!!
josie (author)  AAronvb5 years ago
It makes no difference where the magnet is placed.
If you are having a balance issue, you could  attach a non-magnetic weight to the disk opposite the magnet.  This should even things out.
Glad you are using the tachometer.
BTW what is a VAWT?
kroner josie3 years ago
Very nice 'ible. Excellent way to re-purpose a porduct for something else.

BTW - VAWT = Vertical Axis Wind Turbine. (has the advantage of being able to turn regarless of the wind direction, compared to a standard wind turbine which has to face into the wind before it will start to turn)
danny3xd5 years ago
Awesome, thanks Josie! I was just finishing a cup of coffee on my way out to buy a $60 tach. I put engines on bicycles and need one to do gear ratios. Notice in pic on "dashboard" $40 tach, snork. Again, very cool and thanks for sharing!
AAronvb5 years ago
Hello Josie.
Here are 2 pic's of the two I am using to test my turbines.
 The first one is the transmitter type good up to 2 feet. sorry for the fuzz.
I recommend the wired type for permanent attachments, second pic. I have that attached to the turbine I have in the roof, spliced with CAD to run it to my work shop 30' away. Unfortunatly it only works when the wind is blowing.

The first Pic is atached to my little turbine the 2nd is attached to my large turbine on the roof of my truck at ocean shores. The weather station for wind speed.
I think I have the number set 2680mm.

Thanks Josie, this is a lot of help building my turbines.
xained5 years ago
This is great, simple, cheap, easy, and serves my purpose.

I wanted to make a simple tachometer myself for a windmill project (slow revolutions), and surfed around a bit .. found systems based on lasers, mechanical counters, converting old cd players, building a circuits , etc .. all of this is rather complicated  when you're not specialised  ..

But then I saw your pages .. found an old cyclometer, I got with a box of Kellog's Cornflakes .. stuff for kids .. changed the value of the wheel .. and VOILA !

Many many thanks, for this easy and very logical convertion, because I was not bright enough to do the thinking process (da numbers) .. and you did it, for us all to see!  :-)

3366carlos6 years ago
excellent idea. how are you using it? have pics of actual usage? thanks.
dtsails7 years ago
This worked perfectly for revealing the rpm of an electric motor. My computer only uses cm, so I had to round up to 27cm, but it worked just the same. Great, great tip! I'm telling *everyone*!!!
sailplaner7 years ago
Just finished this conversion...thanks for figuring out the hard part! Having just switched from a DF bicycle to a recumbent, I was interested in cadence but not for $45. I knew there must be a way to convert a speedometer but didn't want to re-invent the wheel. Found this site and boy am I glad. Now, when someone asks why I have 2 speedometers, I'll just tell them that my bike is so fast that only 1 speedometer wont measure all of it! Thanks again!
Sounds hard. I don't even know what tachometer means, but it looks like a hard thing to do, and hard things to do are most of the time really cool. :D
josie hope I am not stepping on any toes by answering. Gorillazmiko, tachometer is a instrument that displays RPM Revolutions Per Minute, most car's and motorcycles have one. This is very easy thing to do if you live here in the states you can buy a cheap one at wal-mart for under $15. Follow the directions when it comes to wheel size use the numbers given here for what ever application you are using it for. Motor's and such will use 268mm and for like me, a bicycle is 2680mm. Both the sensor and computer, display or in this case a tach are installed using zip ties which are should be provided. All Credit to josie.
Derin slmh12967 years ago
haha tacometer
1zork7 years ago
Really a great way to accurately measure rotational speed. Not sure how accurate, nor the settings to use it as a tachometer. (select radius of the wheel to equal radius of the rotational object?). An interesting way to measure , say , the actual speed of a turntable platter accurately (as long as accurate to .1 +/_ .05 units...)...
slmh12967 years ago
I am so doing this. I am a avid cyclist and I have been wanting to check my RPM which is cadence. I thought of doing this and I new all I had to do was figure out the number to use in the wheel size part of the computer, but I just could not think of how to go about figuring out the math.. THANK YOU so much I love it and love this site you have made me very happy. I am so doing this tonight when I get home from work. Hope you do not mind I will be passing this around to my riding friends. I have a question I was going to mount the magnet to one of my chain rings does it matter where or how close to center do you need to be or does it not matter since it counts revolutions.
josie (author)  slmh12967 years ago
You definitely can use it to measure cadence. Most cyclocomputers that have the cadence function put the magnet on the left crankarm and the sensor on the left chainstay. One suggestion: I would enter a wheel size of 2680mm instead of 268mm. That way 60 rpm will show up as 06o and not 00little6. This thing was meant for showing speeds on motors and the like, not for cadence, but now that you gave me the idea, I might hook up an old cyclcocomputer to my bike and try it!
slmh1296 josie7 years ago
Thanks Josie for the the wheel size increase. I know there is so cadence computers for cycling and some of them actually calculate your power output some of those get into the thousands of dollars. I let my friend borrow my spare comp. but I should have it sometime this week I was going to mess with mine at home but it has a lot of info logged on it so I am going to impatiently wait. I will post up when I get it done and let you know. Thanks again MotoGP starts up this weekend go Valentino Rossi 46!!!
trebuchet037 years ago
I featured this because of it's novel qualities - but, I really think better pictures would be nice (such as an actual picture of the sensor mounted on the motor).
josie (author)  trebuchet037 years ago
I wanted to show a pic of the sensor mounting. But I have it hooked up to a small gasoline engine, and the sensor is under the cover where you can't see it. The magnet is the one on the engine flywheel, so it doesn't even look like a magnet! Maybe I'll set something else up to get a decent pic though.

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  1. Lorraine says:

    Great tips, Gary. I check all of these on the computers that I support for friends. Here are two more thoughts to go along with your recommendations. First, the Recycle Bin is usually set to use 10% of the hard drive by default. Imagine how many files would accumulate on a terabyte drive? I slide it down to 1%. An easy free cleanup tool for home users is CCleaner. It’s good at clearing out temporary files (and is customizable) without having to search for them yourself. It also has a couple of other nice features, too, such as checking the registry and managing startup programs.


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Erotic Animals II: Adam in Paradise

by Karl Steel

Please enjoy and comment on the continuing journey of Jeffrey's Mandeville paper below, but, if you like, also enjoy what follows as a kind of hors d'oeuvre.

One of our very first posts, and (unsurprisingly?) an all-time (and I trust disappointing) hit among the pages that draw people (?) into ITM, was Jeffrey's "Erotic Animals" entry for the Encycopedia of Sex and Gender. Consider this post its descendant (and not, exactly, a descendant of my several posts on necrobestiality).

I stress a pedigree with the staid genre of the Encyclopedia to underscore a claim not to be (self-consciously) outré in my critical interests. I deny this for a lot of obvious reasons. It's usual to "push the boundaries" by studying "outsiders" (e.g.), but of course this critical practice:
1) cements the various outsiders--Jews, Lepers, Sodomites, Freemasons, Nazis, Furries, Sciopods, &c.--into a structural position as outsider and thus marks the critical interest as a subset of tourism of the bizarre (the analog might be the white American salaryman who cuts loose on a Caribbean vacation, before returning home into a sublated version of his salaried existence);

2) upholds the "cultural center" as a site without systemic antagonism, as a place that cannot be dissolved without an infestation from the outside.
It's been said many times before, but, well, to quote from a comment I wrote on a student's paper:
My own tendency in doing queer theory has been to argue for the queerness at the heart of what has otherwise been thought normal, to refuse to exclude the purportedly 'straight' from the queer, to disengage queer theory from its exclusive focus on samesex desires/acts, and ALSO to argue, as my friend Eileen Joy does, that all sex is hetero, in the sense that there is never an erotics of the same, of the homo (maybe), because we are never same to ourselves or to the social roles into which we've been thrust by our gender &c. This is not to say, however, that there's nothing politically efficacious in a focus on gays but I think there's also much work that can done in overturning straight confidence in its own straightness.

With that hypertrophied introduction, or apologia, I want to share with you a nugget from a great article I discovered yesterday, Eric Lawee's "The Reception of Rashi's Commentary on the Torah In Spain: The Case of Adam's Mating with the Animals," Jewish Quarterly Review 97.1 (2007): 33-66.

Genesis 2:19-23 runs:
19 And the Lord God having formed out of the ground all the beasts of the earth, and all the fowls of the air, brought them to Adam to see what he would call them: for whatsoever Adam called any living creature the same is its name. 20 And Adam called all the beasts by their names, and all the fowls of the air, and all the cattle of the field: but for Adam there was not found a helper like himself.

21 Then the Lord God cast a deep sleep upon Adam: and when he was fast asleep, he took one of his ribs, and filled up flesh for it. 22 And the Lord God built the rib which he took from Adam into a woman: and brought her to Adam. 23 And Adam said: This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man.
We've several problems here, perhaps chiefly the opening clause of 2:23, zot ha-pa'am, "this now": does this mean that God had provided a previous unsatisfactory Eve? That Adam was disatisfied in some way with what had happened before and thus that there was dissension in Eden from the very beginning?

Following earlier commentators, and to solve these problems, Rashi wrote "this time'—it teaches that Adam mated with (she-ba' adam) every [species of] domesticated animal (behemah) and wild animal (ḥayah) but his appetite was not assuaged (lo' nitkarerah da'ato) by them" (qtd Lawee 50). Unsurprisingly (?), this was a controversial interpretation. Lawee tracks several Iberian commentaries on Rashi's Commentary on the Torah that mysticize, deny, or strenuously ignore Rashi's reading; 13th- and 14th-century Jewish converts like Nicholas Donin used this interpretation against their former coreligionists. So it is recorded that in the Talmud disputation of 1240 in Paris, one of the Jews "concessit quod adam coiit cum omnibus bestiis et hoc in paradiso" (confessed that Adam had sex with all the beasts in paradise), and no doubt this confession helped justify St. Louis's Talmud-burning.

The question at this stage is: what can I do with this? Note that the interpretation disgusted both Christian and Jewish exegetes. One semi-sympathetic response suggested that bestiality was an important step in Adam's emotional and mental paideia. While this is at once sympathetic AND patronizing to Adam, it's hardly sympathetic to the animals. From Lawee, n.84:
Commenting on Gn 8.19, an anonymous Rabbanite Byzantine writer who may predate Rashi prolonged the period of human-animal sexual interaction until after the flood: "they [the animals] left the ark 'in their families'—indicating that until then humans mated with beasts." See Nicholas de Lange, Greek Jewish Texts from the Cairo Genizah (Tübingen, 1996), 86. This same writer also posited an element of coercion in the primordial human-animal relationship ("humans mated with beasts and made the beasts mate with them"), thereby raising moral issues (like lack of consent on the part of the animals) that figure in modern discussions of bestiality's moral status.
We have disgust, a dissatisfied Adam, and yet another abjection of animals on the path to adulthood. This doesn't give us much to work with. But it still might be possible to play with this strange sex, to discover in it, prior to the interruption by the arrival of Eve, an almost effaced site of lost possibilities (cf. what I do with Gowther). This obviously connects with Jeffrey's "Inventing with Animals in the Middle Ages," where he suggests that the yena might be understood as "an invitation to explore a spacious corporeality beyond the specious boundaries of the human, to invent through alliances with possible bodies a monstrous kind of becoming that carries history within but which is not reducible to historical allegory" (55). We might even see in Adam's bestiality a possibility for an anti-narcissistic relation to the other, a desire that does not seek satisfaction in "bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh."

Likely having exhausted your patience, I can only ask what might you do with Genesis 2:19-23? What (else) can we do with it that desubliminates the 'normal' or puts it in motion? What else can we do that is not drawn to Adam's bestiality only because of its sauciness?

UPDATE Thanks very much for the link from Michael Pitkowsky's blog for directing me to Gil Student's excellent summary of the various exegetical responses to Rashi's bestiality comment.

Jeffrey J. Cohen said...

This is great! Thank you for a welcome break from writing about Mandeville and evaluating a journal proposal and ... well anyway, thank you for letting my mind drift to Adam's first desires.

And one of those, in some medieval Jewish traditions, is Lilith, the possible first wife of Adam ... and a woman associated with animals and the monstrous. So I wonder if Rashi isn't substituting an animal (or a whole series of animals) for a woman in this case. I don't know commentaries on the passage or its interpretation history well enough to speculate. But I do know -- as does everyone else, I am sure -- that Lilith was rescued via feminist intervention and rendered a kind of saint after the fact. Lilith magazine anyone? And remember Lilith fair?

So I don't know, Karl: an animal rights magazine called, um, Rashi? A musical festival called Rashi fair?

Nicola Masciandaro said...

A student of mine wrote on this topic using Lawee's article for my English 2 course on animals last semester, remember? If you want to see his paper email me and I will procure.

Eileen Joy said...

Nicola: where have you been, darling? Salzburg? I thought so. Welcome back.

Karl: as to thinking about what else might be lurking within the phrase "this time" in Genesis, that is a bit of a brain teaser, and I thought of Lilith, too, which Jeffrey has mentioned, but I mainly wanted to also jump in and qualify a bit your qualification of my belief [which you pretty much get spot-on] that we are all "hetero," or as I put it more specifically, "heteroqueer." No one can ever be "homo" in my mind, not *just* because we are never even the same to ourselves [although that is a really important point], but also because even the very notion of "same"--either with ourselves or anyone/thing else--is terribly hard to pin down, as is "difference" [because difference, in the end, is dependent upon some kind of notion like "same" which itself depends on certain "stabilities" of identity that just aren't there]. But this does not mean that there is not difference--I think, actually, desire [sexual or other desires] depends upon it and I've always hated the terms "homosexual" and "same-sex" anything because those terms, historically, have always under-estimated & under-described the complex trajectories of both "gay" *and* "straight" sexuality/affections. "Hetero," further, cannot just mean opposite: that is idiotic and banal, and also calls into question, of course, how any gender/biological sex can be only one thing which could then be opposite to some other "only one thing." There are orientations, of course, but even an orientation is fraught, not with sameness, but with differences of a certain sort [with "sort" being my cowardly way, at present, because I am rushing out the door to an "engagement," of delineating the idea that there are indeed particular "attractors," in any given temporal moment, that exert some force on each one of us]. Whew. Ciao.

Karl Steel said...

To remind you Nicola, yes, please!

Eileen, thanks for the clarification/elaboration. It good to have the words.

And Jeffrey, from what I read, Lilith--or some kind of proto-Eve--was one of the suggestions for what Adam meant by "this one."

I'm still interested in the dynamic of sameness and difference: while we can understand the eros here as negotiating between exogamy and endogamy (marriage with the radically other or the radically same), there's a sense in which Adam's frustration stems from the workings of desire itself. I wonder, then, if the unsatisfying sex with animals is a mask for the fact that Eve, to the extent that she is her own person, is not quite flesh of his flesh, that Adam's eros always requires him to give himself to an unknown?

By the way, Prince, let him be blessed for his (early) funk forever, is a raging weird homophobe, but a homophobe in a way relevant to this discussion:

When asked about his perspective on social issues—gay marriage, abortion—Prince tapped his Bible and said, “God came to earth and saw people sticking it wherever and doing it with whatever, and he just cleared it all out. He was, like, ‘Enough.’ ”

"Cleared it all out": that would seem to be the only way to get Adam's eros under control.


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The report, obtained by AFP, said Afridi went to Peshawar in November 2008 to participate in a workshop organised by Save The Children, where he met the charity's country director, who later invited him to come to Islamabad.

Afridi met him at a book stall in Islamabad and was introduced to a Western woman, the report said. Afridi and the woman met regularly afterwards in various locations in the capital.

In May, Afridi was sentenced to 33 years in jail for treason after being convicted over alleged ties to militant group Lashkar-e-Islam, not for working for the CIA, for which the court said it did not have jurisdiction.

The United States was enraged by Afridi's sentencing and the Senate Appropriations Committee voted to cut aid to Pakistan by a symbolic $33-million. - Sapa-AFP

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Geneva - The United Nations launched an international investigation on Thursday into Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories, with the United States isolated in voting against the initiative brought by the Palestinian Authority.

The UN Human Rights Council condemned Israel's planned construction of new housing units for Jewish settlers in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, saying they undermined the peace process and posed a threat to the two-state solution and the creation of a contiguous and independent Palestinian state.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu swiftly dismissed the Geneva forum on Thursday evening as “hypocritical” and having an “automatic majority against Israel”.

The 47-member forum adopted the resolution to launch a probe by a vote of 36 states in favour, including China and Russia, with one against (the United States). Ten abstained, including European Union members Italy and Spain.

The text was introduced by Pakistan on behalf of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and co-sponsored by states including Cuba and Venezuela.

“In violation of international humanitarian and human rights law, Israel is continuing construction of illegal settlements in the occupied territories including East Jerusalem,” Pakistan's ambassador Zamir Akram told the talks.

The Council's resolution called on Israel to take serious measures to prevent settler violence “including confiscation of arms and enforcement of criminal sanctions”, and protection of Palestinian civilians and property in the territories.

The three investigators are to be named at a later date.

About 500 000 Israelis and 2.5 million Palestinians live in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, areas Israel captured in a 1967 war. Palestinians seeks the territory for an independent state along with the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.

Palestinians say settlements, considered illegal by the International Court of Justice, the highest UN legal body for disputes, would deny them a viable state. Israel cites historical and Biblical links to the West Bank and says the status of settlements should be decided in peace negotiations.

“This is a council that should be ashamed of itself. The UN Human Rights Council has no connection to human rights,” Netanyahu said.

“It was enough to hear the Syrian delegate today talking about human rights to understand how far the Council is detached from reality.”

In Geneva, Israel's Ambassador Aharon Leshno-Yaar denounced “the level of hypocrisy and double standards” in the Council which adopted other resolutions on Thursday on Syria's Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and the right of Palestinians to self-determination.

“The resolutions are unjustified and counterproductive. They will add tension and bitterness to an already explosive situation. This Council, by its own doing, is adding fuel to a fire which is our duty to try and extinguish,” Leshno-Yaar said.

Israel was strongly committed to a two-state solution and wanted to see the resumption of direct bilateral talks without preconditions with the Palestinians, he told the talks.

The United States said it continued to be “deeply troubled by this Council's biased and disproportionate focus on Israel, as exemplified by the creation of another one-sided United Nations mechanism related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict”.

It was inappropriate to prejudge final status issues that could only be resolved through bilateral negotiations between Israel and Palestine, US political counsellor Charles O. Blaha told the Council.

“The US position on settlements is clear and has not changed: we do not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlement activity. The status quo is not sustainable for either the Israelis or the Palestinians,” Blaha said.

But Washington could not back a “one-sided resolution that launches an international investigation of Israel”, he said. - Reuters

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iol spt feb15 Boxing gloves . South African IBO strawweight title holder Hekkie Budler will start out a firm favourite in his title fight against Filipino Renan Trongco at Saturday night's Danger Zone bill.

Johannesburg – South African IBO strawweight title holder Hekkie Budler will start out a firm favourite in his title fight against Filipino Renan Trongco at Saturday night's “Danger Zone” bill at Emperors Palace.

Budler, however, will not underestimate Trongco, who is the 27th-listed challenger in the division and also only the number five strawweight in the Philippines.

“I won't be taking Trongco lightly,” said Budler, who boasts only one defeat in 22 bouts.

“The Philippines have a great record for producing top-class boxers and we've seen some of them being under-rated in the past, but providing the goods to the cost of their opponents.”

In the circumstances, it would seem the contest had been earmarked as no more than a stepping stone for Budler, who is seeking more prestigious titles and recognition via the WBC or IBF organisations.

“I'm not thinking of the proposed fights to challenge for either the IBF or WBC titles,” Budler said.

“On Saturday night my focus will be on Trongco and Trongco alone.”

Trongco needed to shed more than four kilograms to make the 47,63kg weight limit following Tuesday's preliminary check at the customary pre-medical examination.

He nonchalantly stepped on the scales this time and made the strawweight limit at the first attempt.

Surprisingly, it was Budler who was marginally over the weight limit, needing to shed his underpants to avoid the humiliation of losing his title without a punch even being thrown.

Paraguayan Javier Corrales, due to fight the up-and-coming Kevin Lerena in an international catchweight bout at 93kg, stunned the onlookers when he weighed in at over 100kg on Tuesday.

However, he shed over 7kg in a matter of 72 hours and made the stipulated weight limit without any trouble.

Also on the “Danger Zone” bill, new sensation Ryno Liebenberg will face 45-year-old veteran Flash Issaka of Ghana in a bout for the IBO's all-Africa light-heavyweight title that is designed to pit two flashy fighters against each other.

Like Budler, the action-packed Liebenberg is being groomed for bigger things and cannot afford to slip up against the Ghanaian champion.

“Every time I go into the ring, it's the most important fight of my career and this one is no exception,” Liebenberg said.

“There is no way this old man is going to put a spoke in the wheel and upset the applecart.

“I'm ready to roar and Issaka will get bitten,” said the boxer who is nicknamed “The Lion”.

The Ghanaian's response was that he was in South Africa to teach Liebenberg the intricacies of boxing technique.

“It will be a case of the professor showing his pupil the ropes. I've come to win,” Issaka said.

Opening the programme on Saturday night is an international lightweight contest between South Africa's up-and-coming Thompson Mokwana and Matias Gomez of Argentina, who boasts an imposing record of 28 wins from 28 fights.

South Africa's Ilunga Makaba fights Georgia's unbeaten Gogito Gorgiladze for the IBF's cruiserweight youth title.

A late addition to the programme is the junior welterweight bout between top prospects Zan Jonker and Paul Kamanga, who are both unbeaten. – Sapa

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Beloved Irish American musician Seamus K admits battling crippling depression

Seamus K

In the morning, I told the bandleader I was in bad shape. He immediately got me to a local doctor who sedated me and told the bandleader to get me back to Galway right away.

Our local doctor in Galway couldn’t figure out what was wrong. My dad recognized the seriousness of my situation and said that there were a few options.

I could go to the Regional hospital in Galway or I could go to St. Patrick’s psychiatric hospital in Dublin. He insisted it be my choice.

He always called me Jim when things got serious. He said, “Jim, I think you should consider St. Pat’s. There is something wrong with your nerves and this has been going on for a good while. St. Pat’s is the best with that kind of thing.”

I think I surprised Dad saying, “Dad, if I don’t get help right away, I don’t thing I’ll be around for much longer.” A day later, we got in the car and headed to St. Patrick’s.

It must have been very hard for my dad to see his only son in such a state of despair, especially since he had just lost the love of his life a few months earlier. My dad was old school Irish with just a few years of high school education but he was an enlightened kind and quiet man, years ahead of his time.

My four sisters were also worried sick. We have always been and continue to be very close.

I was in St. Patrick’s for a total of five weeks. Much like my first two days at Horsham, the first few weeks in St. Patrick’s were a blur as I slept most of the time. I was psychically and emotionally exhausted.

After about three weeks my depression began to lift, first for a few hours each day and eventually to the point where I felt “normal” again for long periods of the day.

My psychiatrist told me that I was suffering from reactive depression most likely triggered by the passing of my mother.

As a result of the treatment I got at St. Patrick’s, I remained free from depression for almost 40 years and have lived a fully productive life until this past April.

Because of my 40-year music career and the jobs I’ve held over the years in marketing and communications, I have spent much of my life in the public eye. Some might question the wisdom of sharing something this personal in such a public forum.

I’m not ashamed that I have had to get help twice in my life for depression and anxiety. I could have done without it, but it’s a card I have been dealt and on the larger scale of things, it’s not that big a burden. In many ways it has given me a deep insight into how the mind works that I otherwise may not have had.

It’s my hope that someone reading this who is suffering in silence will realize there is no shame in reaching out for help. Depression and anxiety should be looked at as just other forms of illness or sickness that can be taken care of with the right treatment. It’s just a matter of taking the first step.

You can also help those around you who may be suffering in silence by paying attention to the warning signs such as lack of motivation, sadness, continuous crying, excessive drinking or narcotics use, and lack of involvement in family activity.

As I noted earlier, mental illness impacts not just the person who is going through it. It can also have a devastating impact on their family and friends.

The more suppressed it is, the more dangerous it is to all involved. The support of family and friends is critical in the diagnosis of the illness and in the recovery process.

TODAY I am once again ready to take on the world. I have a beautiful wife and four wonderful children. I believe my recent experience has brought us all closer together.

I know it was hard for the children, especially for that first few days when I was in hospital. I could see the relief on their little faces when they came to visit me after a few days and they saw that I was getting back to my old self with my silly jokes and comments.

My wife was a rock through the experience, although I know it was difficult for her on many levels.  She had to take care of the kids and make sure they were okay, put in a full day at work and then come visit me at the hospital each evening and put on a brave face.

I’m spending a lot more time now with my wife and with the kids. I’m more involved with the children than I have been at any time in the past.  I want to be around to see them grow up and be there for them in good and challenging times.

I also have a lot of guitar licks that still need to be heard and plenty of silly jokes waiting to be told. I wake up every morning thankful that I can enjoy another day and as the song goes, I take it, “One Day at a Time.”

Below are a list of resources that can be of help for those dealing with depression and anxiety.  In this day and age, there is no need for them to suffer in silence.

The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is at 800-273-8255. AA is at 212-870-3400 or Narcotics Anonymous is at 818-773-9999 or


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One Direction's Liam Payne wants to stay friends with his ex-girlfriend Danielle Peazer

Liam Payne
The One Direction singer split from Danielle Peazer last month but he hopes she stays in his life because she is such a "great" person to be around.

He said: "Danielle is great. I really hope we can still be friends."

One of the reasons why Liam liked Danielle is because she wasn't interested in his fame and fortune.
He said: "I bought her a car for her birthday, but she really isn't that fussed by money or fame.

"She was talking about dyeing her hair blonde and I said she should. She said she couldn't afford it - which was mad. She wouldn't even ask me for the money for that."

The 19-year-old star also revealed he buys himself an expensive watch to mark every big success in his career and plans to pass the timepieces down to his sons in the future.

He explained in an interview with The Sun newspaper: "When we got our first number one hit I bought myself a Breitling watch. I bought a Hublot one the day before we did the Olympics, so they are all little special things to remember.

"I like watches, but I just want something to remember.

"One day if I ever have a son, he will get them. He's the winner really."


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Romanian communist party general secretary and president Nicolae Ceaucescu in Bucharest on November 20th, 1989, addressing party members. He and his wife Elena were executed by firing squad in December that year. Photograph: Gerard Fouet/AFP/Getty Images

Carmen Bugan’s memoir relates a tale of psychological cruelty after her father was imprisoned by Romania’s secret police

From left, Mikel Murfi, Enda Walsh , Cillian Murphy and Stephen Rea. Photograph: Cyril Byrne

Enda Walsh’s intense new play brings together an all-star cast of Cillian Murphy, Stephen Rea and Mikel Murfi. Are they looking fo(...)

The Shergar foal in a frisky mood during a photocall with handler, Yvonne Morrissey. The foal was later sold for 325,000 guineas. Photograph: Matt Kavanagh

Published: November 21st, 1983.Photograph by Matt Kavanagh

Salman Rushdie: ‘If you don’t have a pretty clear sense of who you are, you’re not going to write good books.’ Photograph: Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert/Getty Images

He likes to blur the lines between fact and fiction, and if pushed he might recite some Tolkien in Elvish – this is not the type o(...)

Published February 4th, 1947, the photograph shows James Larkin’s four sons  at his funeral procession in Dublin. They are (left to right) Denis, Fintan, Bernard and James. Photograph: The Irish Times

A solemn laying to rest of the giant of trade union history and general Dublin legend

Open-minded: “It’s not for the novel to give a conclusion. It’s for the reader to do that,” says Mark Mulholland. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill

Mark Mulholland’s debut novel, set in the North, has a remarkable real-life parallel

Erris. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill

This year’s winner was chosen for its balance of nature, activities, wilderness and beauty

Epic scale: 14-18. Photograph: Luk Monsaert

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Environmental activists carry a casket demanding more action to battle climate change during the 19th conference of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Warsaw. Photograph: Reuters/Kacper Pempel

Gloom to match Warsaw’s overcast skies has descended over the UN’s 19th climate change conference, with little progress made during the first week des(...)