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Here are some of our favourite walks in and around Southend-on-Sea. Most take around 40 minutes – more than enough for Ernie’s little legs – but some are extended strolls that are worth making the effort for. Enjoy!

1. SOUTHEND SEAFRONT: No local list would be complete without mentioning “the Golden Mile” – although the seafront’s nickname doesn’t really do it justice. It runs for several miles, in fact, mainly starting from Chalkwell and running all the way to Shoeburyness. When the tide is in and the sun is out, a stroll along the seafront really can’t be beat. We love it when the weather is cold and crisp and aside from a few other dog walkers and joggers, you have the seafront to yourself. It would take several hours to walk the entire seafront but smaller sections are much more manageable and there are plenty of bars, cafes and restaurants where you stop for a breather along the way. We can often be found enjoying a “Chalk Walk”, as we call it. We start by taking the train to Chalkwell then walking back along the seafront to our home in Southchurch.  This takes around 90 minutes but you can obviously stop wherever you want!

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2. TWO TREE ISLAND, LEIGH-ON-SEA: A circular loop around Leigh National Nature Reserve makes for a lovely walk, whatever the weather. There are a few small slopes to navigate but the gravel path makes it accessible all year round. To get to Two Tree Island, follow the road behind Leigh-on-Sea station, go past the golf course and over the bridge then park in the car park on the left. We generally start our stroll just across the road – you’ll see the gate. Take the first path on the left and the walk will lead you through several secluded grassy areas before you arrive at the waterfront (my favourite part). Follow the main route and you’ll see the path loops back on itself, roughly following the train track in the distance towards Southend. There are lots of opportunities to get off the beaten track too, if you’re keen to explore.

3. GUNNERS PARK, SHOEBURYNESS: This nature reserve is run by the Essex Wildlife Trust and has something for everyone, whether you’re into your history, seafront strolls or getting back to nature. From the car park at the Shoebury end of Southend seafront, you can follow the tarmac path to do a circular loop around the lake. Gunners is next to Shoebury Garrison and has plenty of wartime buildings to explore, with noticeboards explaining what everything is. A lot of the land is owned by the Ministry of Defence and is therefore out of bounds but you can get down on the beach, where dogs can go for a sneaky swim all year round.

4. BENFLEET TO LEIGH-ON-SEA: If you’re feeling energetic and the weather is good, this four-mile walk is wonderful. From Benfleet station, exit by the creek separating the mainland from Canvey Island. Follow the Thames Estuary Path through the marina and head in to Hadleigh Castle Country Park, which has fantastic views of the surrounding countryside. High up on the hill, you will see the remains of Hadleigh Castle itself and before long, you will be walking alongside Two Tree Island on a grassy ridge. Keep following this until you arrive in Old Leigh, with its fishing boats and cockle sheds. If it’s cold, warm up with a hearty pub meal and if it’s hot, cool down with a nice, chilled pint. Perfect.

5. CHERRY ORCHARD JUBILEE COUNTRY PARK, ROCHFORD: Set in the rolling countryside of the Roach Valley, this wonderfully peaceful park has 200 acres of land to explore. From the car park on the B1013, we like to walk up to the lake. To get there, follow the stream on the right-hand side of the main meadow. This will take you through a mix of grassy areas and woodland until you reach the lake itself. Dogs love to swim here but the lake is often prone to being affected by blue-green algae. This can be toxic so be careful. If you’re keen to explore further, there are a number of footpaths that will extend your walk – you can even stroll to Gusted Hall or Hockley Woods. Find more inspiration here.

6. SOUTHCHURCH PARK, SOUTHEND-ON-SEA: There are two very different sides to Southchurch Park – the quiet nature area on one side of Lifstan Way and the park with a large playground and open space on the other. We tend to start on the quiet side so Ernie can burn off some energy, walking past the lake and doing a lap of the playing field before crossing the road to the other side. There’s a boating lake to explore, some lovely landscaped areas and even a café, where you can stop to refuel. There’s plenty of parking and, being only one road back from Southend seafront, it’s easy to extend your walk with a stroll along the prom.

7. BELFAIRS WOODS NATURE RESERVE, LEIGH-ON-SEA: Great for visiting on hot days, as the woods offer plenty of shade. There are many footpaths to follow from the main car park, some of which intersect a public golf course. Belfairs also has its own stable and offers regular horse riding lessons so watch out for those. Ernie loves sniffing out horse manure so whenever we’re here, we don’t tend to stray too far from the bridle path (look out for the trees marked with a white line). Keep your eyes peeled for the wooden sculptures dotted around the reserve and make sure you stop at the Woodland Centre for a cuppa along the way. Dogs aren’t allowed in but there are plenty of seats and water bowls outside.

20171005_1124438. EAST BEACH, SHOEBURYNESS: It may be a little bit out of the way but East Beach – sandwiched between Ministry of Defence land and the former Shoeburyness Artillery Barracks – is worth the trip. As the name suggests, there’s a lovely sandy beach as well as large grassy park that’s great for picnics. It’s very popular with daytrippers during the summer months but if you go out of season, you’ll feel like you have the place to yourself.

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The Vampire Lestat
Written By Anne Rice
Published by Ballantine Books starting in November, 1997
Price: $4.99USD (Mass Market paperback) 560 pages
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ISBNs: 0-345-47688-3. 0-345-47770-7. 0-345-41964-2
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Series: The Vampire Chronicles, Book 2

The Vampire Lestat is a sequel to the highly acclaimed Interview with a Vampire. The narrator and main character of this book, Lestat, is a vampire and a hero. He is a creature of Anne Rice’s dark and rich imagination. The novel is enthralling and claims to be the autobiography of Lestat de Lioncourt. It is the tale of this vampire who was once an aristocrat, back in the heady days of pre-revolutionary France. This book takes place in the 1980s, with a rush of memories that are a rush through the centuries that he spent in search of others like him. He has always been seeking the answers to the mystery of his eternal and terrifying existence. This story of his is mesmerizing, passionate, complex, and thrilling.

Lestat was encouraged by the telling of the story in the first book in The Vampire Chronicles. He decided to narrate his own story with a focus on his boyhood transformation and the subsequent wanderings. Lestat has constantly tried to rationalize his newly acquired immortality. He spends a lot of his life trying to convince humans of his existence.

This isn’t one of the usual stake-in-the-heart vampire stories. Anne Rice has started a new vampire mythos with this series. She has mixed ancient Egyptian legends into her narrative while weaving a rich and unforgettable tale of dazzling scenes and vivid personalities.

Lestat left his estate to become an actor in Paris. A vampire named Magnus is attracted by Lestat’s beauty and kidnaps him. They exchange blood which is how Lestat became a vampire. Lestat then transformed his mother who was dying and his closest friend into vampires. The three new vampires feed on the blood of criminals in Paris and ravage the area until they are challenged by a coven of vampires that is led by Armand.

Later Lestat searches Europe for Marius after Armand, not knowing if Marius was alive or not, mentioned Those Who Must Be Kept to Lestat. On his travels around Europe, Lestat certainly heard tales of Marius. He eventually gives up but Marius finds him and takes him to his home. Marius then tells how back in the days centuries before Christ, he was transformed into a vampire by Druid priests and how he now guards the immortals Enkil and Akasha, from whom all vampires descend. Lestat falls in love with Akasha which angers Enkil. Lestat then flees to New Orleans.

Lestat becomes a rock-and-roll star after society’s tumult awakens him. He capitalizes upon pseudo-Satanism to assert the true Dark Powers. His record albums and videos pave the way for a concert which explodes into a vampire riot.

This book elaborates on the story told in Rice’s previous book, while lacking the narrative pace and dark eroticism found in it. The plot of The Vampire Lestat becomes repetitive with the successive tales by Lestat, Armand, and Marius. There is much dialogue and little action in this horror novel.

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This game, distributed by Microprose, had two names. I think it was first released as UFO: Enemy Unknown, then X-Com: UFO Defence. In X-Com, you command the secret internationally funded X-Com organisation. The X-Com organisation is a mix of scientists and soldiers. Soldiers fight with the aliens to protect helpless citizens of earth (and their cattle) and capture alien life forms and alien technology from these encounters. After returning from a successful mission, the loot is researched by the science team. As the database on the aliens grows, their master plan (and X-Com's counter) can be determined.

The game consisted of various styles of gameplay, the major style being an isometrical turn based squad-combat scenario. Extremely addictive & creepy. It was followed up by three more games.

Two more games set in the X-Com universe are being developed right now. One is a first person shooter based on the Unreal Tournament engine called X-Com: Alliance. X-com: Alliance seeks to incorporate the acquisition and research of alien artifacts/bodies that all the X-Com titles have had. The plot involes an X-Com squad stranded on an alien world (I think).

The second looks like it has the ability to raise X-Com back to its original status. X-Com: Genesis is aiming to be more like X-Com: UFO Defence/UFO: Enemy Unknown than any of the other titles. None of the other games had the feel of the original title. It looks like the developers have realised this, along with the mistakes of unabandoned genre jumping.

X-COM: Apocalypse is the best strategy game I ever played, M.A.X. being one possible contender. Everything in the game is cool. And it's a game for brainy people who know how to think. The graphical quality is amazing, too. And the combat engine just rules. This game contains elements of

  • economic strategy games,
  • real-time strategy games,
  • turn-based tactical games,
  • role-playing games,
  • adventures,
  • ...

Had this game been made by Maxis, its name would be "Sim War". Or "Sim Surrealistic Future Urban Warfare" maybe, although that's pushing it a bit too far.

In 1999 Hasbro Interactive Games released an online version of the game: Email X-COM.  Two opponents compete as either humans or aliens on a variety of maps and the last surviving side is declared victor.

UFO Defense
Weapons: Damage Types: Ammunition Types:
  • Pistol Clip
  • Rifle Clip
  • Cannon AP-ammo
  • Cannon HE-ammo
  • Cannon I-ammo
  • Auto-Cannon AP-ammo
  • Auto-Cannon HE-ammo
  • Auto-Cannon I-ammo
  • Small Rocket
  • Large Rocket
  • Incendiary Rocket
  • Heavy Plasma Clip
  • Plasma Rifle Clip
  • Plasma Pistol Clip
  • Stun Bomb
  • Blaster Bomb
Shot Types: Terror From the Deep
Weapons: Damage Types: Ammunition Types:
  • Dart Pod
  • Harpoon Pod
  • Solid Bolt
  • Explosive Bolt
  • Phosphorous Bolt
  • AP-Shell
  • HE-Shell
  • Phosphorous Shell
  • Small Torpedo
  • Large Torpedo
  • Phosphorous Torpedo
  • S. Cannon Clip
  • Sonic Clip
  • Disruptor Bomb
  • Thermal Shok Bomb
  • Gauss Pistol Clip
  • Gauss Rifle Clip
  • Gauss Cannon Clip
Shot Types:
Same as above.

These are just two of the games.
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The story of X-Com goes thus:

The First Alien War
In the late 1990s, sightings of UFOs increased tenfold. Tales of alien abduction and experimentation struck terror into the hearts of the world's population. The sightings were far too frequent to be the mere coincidences they were once dismissed as. To defend the Earth, countries began forming their own alien defense forces. The most notable, the Japanese fighter squadron Kiryu-Kai, highlighted just how technologically deficient the Earth was in the face of the aliens, and after 5 months not even one UFO had been successfully intercepted.

On December 11th 1998, the world's most powerful nations held a secret summit in Geneva. The solution they reached was a jointly-funded independent force designed specifically to fight the alien forces. Equipped with the finest technology, soldiers, pilots and scientists on the planet, the organisation would have the entire world as its jurisdiction. The new force was dubbed the Extraterrestrial Combat Unit, or X-Com.

With only inferior equipment, over the next five years X-Com successfully shot down countless UFOs, captured aliens and recovered alien technology. Reverse-engineering the captured technology, X-Com developed weapons far in advance of anything the armies of Earth possessed. In spite of their best efforts shooting down UFOs, protecting cities from terror attacks and destroying bases the aliens attempted to build; it soon became clear that if the war remained on Earth it could only serve to delay the inevitable.

Interrogation of captured alien ship captains and base commanders eventually revealed the aliens had a main base on the surface of Mars called Cydonia, near the famous face-shaped rock formation. Sending one of their best ships filled with their best soldiers, X-Com stormed the Cydonia base and confronted the alien brain. The brain revealed the Earth was in fact seeded by the aliens millenia ago, and that humanity is just one of the scores of races throughout the galaxy. The squad destroyed the brain, thus ending the First Alien War.

In the aftermath of the First Alien War, the governments of the world soon forgot their shaky alliance and began their squabbling. X-Com was dissolved, relegated to skeleton staff. The peace was not to last. Reports began to come in of strange creatures terrorizing coastal areas and shipyards.

Terror from the Deep
X-Com was hastily reassembled as a maritime defense force. Responding to the strange sightings, a strange similarity between the sea creatures and the aliens from the First Alien War was noted. However, these aliens travelled in remarkably fast flying submarines.

Most of X-Com's technology from the First Alien War was useless underwater, thus they were forced again to gradually capture and research alien technology in order to stand a fighting chance.

Information gleaned from the aliens revealed the truth: 65 million years ago, a massive alien colonization ship called T'leth had crashed while attempting to land on primitive Earth. The resulting dust cloud is thought to have triggered the deaths of the dinosaurs. A primitive race of amphibious humanoids, a distant offshoot of humankind, was forced into joining the aliens or die in the aftermath of the impact. And so, for millenia, T'leth has rested at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.

When the Ethereals commanding the First Alien War's invasion forced arrived, they detected the T'leth's distress beacon. The last transmission from Cydonia before it was destroyed by X-Com was back to the alien homeworld announcing this discovery. Realizing the significance of the find, the alien leaders beamed a reactivation code to the T'leth.

Using this information and newly-developed submarines capable of reaching the ocean deep where T'leth lay, X-Com successfully defeated the aquatic menace.

The Space Colonies
As all of X-Com's technology was alien-based, it required Elerium 115 as fuel. Elerium is not found on Earth, and supplies captured from the aliens during the First Alien War were running low in the 2050s. Pooling their supplies, Earth sent mining ships out of the solar system to search for fresh supplies. Asteroids laden with Elerium were found, and a new gold rush in space began.

However, the alien forces weren't defeated yet, and X-Com was again called into action to defend the mining stations and other human installations from alien incursions, to ensure the supply of Elerium was not interrupted.

Back on Earth, things weren't as rosy. More than two centuries of industrial pollution had finally taken their toll on the Earth's ecosystem. The population of Earth was moved off-world, apart from one city - Mega Primus. Specially constructed on the ruins of Toronto (hometown proud!), Mega Primus was completely enclosed from the toxic landscape that surrounded it. It had its own government, its own social structure, and was mostly self sufficient. The world was a very unique place now. Hybrids, the descendants of humans impregnated by the Sectoids during the First Alien War, were now a part of society, as were artificially intelligent robots.

In 2080, strange dimensional portals began appearing in the sky over Mega Primus. X-Com was now one of many competitors in the security and defense marketplace, but was still specially commissioned by the city council to be the official defensive force for the city.

Over the following months and years, X-Com successfully defended the city, not only from the aliens but also from a cult of alien sympathizers, the Cult of Sirius. Utilizing the skills of the Hybrids and Robots as well as humans, X-Com developed their own technology to pass back through the portals themselves into the alien dimension, and destroy the alien's buildings which were fuelling the war.

I have to admit I have not yet finished X-Com: Apocalypse, so I can't tell you exactly what happens at the end. I also haven't played the two newer games, X-Com: Enforcer or X-Com: Alliance. The worst part is the way the complete story of X-Com is spread across countless instruction books, UFOpedia entries and other snippets, so building the complete picture is a nightmare

UPDATE 04/08/2006: The lovely and talented Kizor has volunteered the following conclusion to the X-Com: Apocalypse story, which I feel deserves a home given the effort put into producing it:
"The alien dimension was a dying world dominated by a single, massive biomechanical city. The initial alien infiltration was inexplicable, as they were incapable of surviving in Earth conditions. Eventually it was revealed that the aliens were in the command of micronoids, microscopic hive mind organisms that are the active ingredient in Brainsuckers and can well survive in human hosts. The aliens eventually abandoned infiltration for decimation, constructing massive attack craft and deploying Godzilla-esque creatures. X-COM battered the alien city to the ground, escaping through the collapsing dimension gates and bringing peace to ravaged Mega-Primus. Wheee."
So there we go. Alas, my attempts at actually finishing X-Com: Apocalypse have been repeatedly curtailed by bugs and corrupting savegames (most frustratingly, my recent VDMSound attempt in Expert mode was extremely satisfying, right until the game started crashing on the end-of-day report screen. Bah.

Unfortunately, both X-Com: Alliance and X-Com: Genesis can be referred to as vaporware. Development on both games have ceased will not be released. No plans on picking up the games have been released by Atari, MicroProse's parent company.

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The concept of completely reproducing something artificially. Today, we have flight simulators, death simulators (see also deathmatch), and girlfriend simulators (see also computer).

Sim"u*late (?), a. [L. simulatus, p. p. of simulare to simulate; akin to simul at the same time, together, similis like. See Similar, and cf. Dissemble, Semblance.]

Feigned; pretended.

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Sim"u*late (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Simulated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Simulating.]

To assume the mere appearance of, without the reality; to assume the signs or indications of, falsely; to counterfeit; to feign.

The Puritans, even in the depths of the dungeons to which she had sent them, prayed, and with no simulated fervor, that she might be kept from the dagger of the assassin. Macaulay.

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text: Ultimately censorship comes from those who have power. The purpose of censorship is to maintain that power by either preventing the spread of 'radical' ideas or to appease another power group which could otherwise threaten the in power group. (i.e. Banning an art exhibit because right wing Christians/Jews/Muslims/Oil Corporations/any other group you can name, stands to be hurt by, or otherwise is opposed to, the content of that art exhibit.)


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Probably the fastest SUV ever made, the GMC Typhoon is a rare, limited edition vehicle released in 1992. It's a pretty impressive machine with 280bhp propelling the vehicle from rest to 60mph in just 5.6s, which for an SUV is damn impressive and actually a damn sight better than some sports cars. All this power is derived from a 4.3L turbocharged V6 with intercooler.

1992 GMC Typhoon

Cost: €55,712 (US$29,470)
Engine: 4.3L front-mounted V6
Power: 208.8kW (280bhp) @ 4400rpm
Torque: 488.1nm (360ft-lbs) @ 3600rpm
Drive: 4WD
Transmission: 4-speed auto
Body: 2-door SUV
Size (LWH): 4326/1732/1524mm (170.3/68.2/60in)
Curb Weight: 1724kg (3800lbs)

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What, it's august already? That means the summer is slowly coming to an end.
*Ahem* Never mind me. I've just had my share of the lethally hot temperatures for the year 2000, and looking forward to seeing snow again.

A friend is asking me to produce some "piripolkka" (a Finnish slang term translating to "amphetamine polka"), since there supposedly is a huge demand for domestic material. You know what I'm talking about: the kind of simple and hard house/trance from labels like Tidy Trax, Nukleuz etc. The genre with roughly 75% of the tracks using the classic Alpha Juno preset "what the..." first made popular by Human Resource's Dominator hit, and vocal samples already used a million times since the late 80s.
Although stuff like this sometimes plays on my minidisc walkman, I'm not particularily interested in it. And with no passion or personal motivation it's hard to start producing it. Especially since originality seems to be a dirty word in the 'polkka circles.. Still, I'd hate to let my friend down, so I'm at least going to try.

Heh, it took this long for the tabloids to report Henry the Great being busted for drugs in a club here in Hämeenlinna. Since it's common knowledge (at least among people I know) that Henkka is a real vacuum cleaner when it comes to cocaine, the headlines weren't that shocking. But I guess an ex - porn star with cash flow problems could use all the publicity they could get?

On a side note: waking up at 8 sucks ass. That is all.

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The grading and rewarding of thoughts and ideas with perfect little numbers, percentages or alphabetically arranged icons symbolises the constraint of catagorising, classification and stigmatising. Education systems thrive on the importance of delivering people to a goal that can be easily identified on paper or through the verbal without having to delve deeper.

Everyone does it. Remember the first weeks at university?

"So... what did you get?"

This question goes before asking them if they want a drink but it signifies it you are going to buy them a drink or indeed if they should be dumb enough to buy you one! The student who studied in England or Wales with three grade A's compared to the student who got an E N and a U is deemed to be the most collective and smartest. This wonderful structure continues beyond A Levels and into the degree world. One does not get the snobbery of grading as much with the HND/HNC programmes of study as many institutes and persons still consider them to be for students not academically sound. Such bigotry and 'snobbishism' in education is in every single damn institute in the 'academy'. Teachers promote the strenghts and values of Advanced Levels and the BTEC courses are left to the kids in the 'expected grade at GCSE: D' classes.

Hierachry of subjects sees the art based degrees playing second and fourth fiddle to the red brick academic subjects. Cultural studies, art history, environmental research, dance therapy and other subjects that are found amongst the clearance bin of the UCAS systems are courses that promote personal growth and are all too often seen as cop out courses. It is such a pity that Damien Hirst got a grade E in his art A Level. If he had got an A he would have been a famous, creative and imaginative artist and popular culturist...oh if only....


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Mt Tamborine.

One of my favorite ride destinations is Mt Tamborine south of Brisbane. There are so many routes I can take that I never get bored with going there.

There’s the run from Oxenford up to Eagle Heights, which is an easy ride with lots of nice scenery (See map). Or via Henri Robert Drive (see map);  this road can be steep at times and has some sharp corners too, but is worth the ride if you like a challenge.

Often though, I find myself riding Tamborine Mountain Road. It is by far my favorite stretch of black top, and runs from Tamborine at the base of the mountain, through some beautiful rain forest areas up to North Tamborine.

The condition of the road is generally good, but you need to stay focused, particularly on weekends when the tourists have been let out for good behavior. It’s not uncommon to see them meandering along at 30 km/h (19 mp/h), stopping unpredictably on blind corners to check out the view, or generally just being tourists.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m a tourist at times as well; but some really need an education in the finer points of safely driving on country and mountain roads.

The other thing you need to watch out for when you’re out and about is wildlife.

There’s always something, furry, feathered or slithering near the road edge, and you never know when they are going to dart out in front of you.

One afternoon I ran over an Eastern Brown Snake on my way home from work; on Mt Tamborine Road as a matter of fact.

The little bugger scared the tripe out of me, and for good reason too: The Brown is one of the deadliest snakes in the world, second only to the Inland Taipan

I had visions of it getting all caught up in the wheels or something, getting angry and swinging up to bite me on the… errrr… leg. That day brought new meaning to flexibility for me; I don’t think I could have lifted my feet any higher off the pegs.

Try doing that while cranked over in a hair-pin corner at 60 km/h (30 mp/h) sheer vertical cliff on the outside and a 6m (21 foot) drop full of trees on the inside.

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Calling Tamborine Mountain “a mountain”, is a little misleading though. Australia doesn’t really have any mountains in the true sense of the term; not like Mt Everest or Mt Kilimanjaro.

What we do have is the Great Dividing Range, which stretches from the North Eastern Tip of Queensland south for 3500 km (2175 miles), through New South Wales and down to The Grampians in Western Victoria.

The Great Dividing Range is made up of a series of ranges, plateaus and  escarpments with heights in places up to about 1600m (5250 feet). What it lacks in height, it makes up for in scenery and places of interest

Tamborine Mountain falls into that category. There are heaps of places you can stop to take in the view, check out the local flora and fauna, or grab a bite to eat at one of the wineries or cafe’s.

The fun part is getting there, with all the different routes you can take, and there are more than what I have mentioned above, you just never get bored.

You don’t have to do it at break neck speed either. A speed limit cruise allows you to appreciate the road and also your surroundings.

Maybe the clip below will explain what I mean a bit better.

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  1. Davina De La Ossa

    That looks like a great ride. Thanks for sharing the video. Your snake story made me giggle. I’m not sure I would have made it through the turn, had it been me. On the other hand, hitting the ground and then being face to face with the snake may have been motivation enough to stay afloat. Thanks for the adventure.

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    March 4, 2015 at 3:19 AM

  2. My helmet would have been emitting such a high pitched squeal if I’d have seen that snake. Yikes.

    Great video, looks like an awesome road.

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    March 4, 2015 at 8:38 AM

    • No Squealing here, but I did practice some words in French as I recall 😉

      March 4, 2015 at 8:42 AM

  3. Looks like a fun ride. Still keep leaning to the right, feels like riding into oncoming traffic for me.

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    March 4, 2015 at 11:01 AM

    • Well we are down under LOL Thanks for stopping by

      March 4, 2015 at 8:03 PM

    • Hey Rick, it only gets tricky when you get off the ferry to France, then you have to remember that everyone is on the wrong side!!! Dookes

      March 5, 2015 at 7:17 AM

  4. Great post and very interesting. You have so many deadly poisonous creatures in Oz that sometimes I am amazed that anyone lives past thirty!!! I’d love to visit and ride down under, but now you may have put me off! 🙂

    March 5, 2015 at 7:16 AM

    • Thank you.

      You learn to live with all the critters. Besides they only get upset when you poke at ’em.

      Come on down and visit. You won’t be disappointed 🙂

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      March 5, 2015 at 7:40 AM

  5. LB

    I’m hoping I don’t have dreams about that brown snake! I am however dreaming about riding that road!! Fun!

    March 9, 2015 at 10:35 AM

    • Brown Snakes tend to keep to them selves. If you don’t stir them up you’ll be fine besides they’ll run rather than bite. I reckon you’ll like a lot of the roads around here.

      March 9, 2015 at 11:10 AM

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The Eyes of The Lich Queen

Session #2

Through the Forest

Chapter 2
From Dinner Parties to Dragon Funerals

Usually when a death occurs it is the living wearing black… in this
case it was the dead.

Black dragons and black scaled lizard folk littered the ground at our feet. Remnants of faerie fire and arrows give evidence to an awesome battle. Mounds of precious metals lined the chamber that we, a Human Rogue, a halfling Monk, a dragon born Paladin, and myself find ourselves in.

We were fortunate to add a new member to our party, a bronze skinned dragon born paladin. I didn’t care to notice which deity to which he prayed. I always preferred the paladins who spoke to gods through battle more so than speech. There is nothing worse than a paladin who believes that everyone needs to hear about their gods. Every god damn week there was some paladin of some god knocking on my door asking if I had found “whoever they were babbling about”. Then there were those “do goodie” paladins sitting atop mounts or hanging out in market places providing “protection” for a fee. Either way, this guy seems ok. Perhaps I should learn his name. Seems like this meat-head may last a while.

I’m not used to these kind of jobs. If I didn’t believe we were somehow referred by that sweet-ass-ed hobgoblin from the basement of the last job we did, I probably wouldn’t have taken this kind of work. I enjoyed researching with the rogue prior to traveling, but I am not comfortable with the lack of information about specific items that we were looking for, and other detailed information about the heist. On the other hand it was nice to stop planning and simply take actions. After-all, some of the situations we will find ourselves in this day, will not provide the time to plan and discuss our options.

Like the ancient dragon skeleton laying in the corner, we took a long rest, bedding ourselves in the coins. Feeling much more empowered to face anything this job may have to offer, we located a secret rotating door that entered into a long hallway.

At the end of this long hallway, our expert Rogue managed to locate a gearbox that activated a moving wall. Essentially, we had about 30 seconds to live. it was like I had lived this experience in another life at another time, like I remembered the future. Together with the help of my premonition the rogue and I were able to stop the moving wall.

Now we had to deal with the bars. We couldn’t squeeze through them, and the dragon could not break them. He may have rattled his bones to dust before he was every able to break a single bar. After seeing how the bar mechanism was behaving after being stuck by the force of Tyr, we were able to work through how the mechanism worked and got the bars to be begin to lower. However, as the bars were lowering the wall at the back of the room started to move towards us again. I climbed up the front of the dragon man and heaved myself, clumsily, over the top of the bars. I think the tindragon may have touched my butt for a little too long though. It made me feel dirty, but I was relieved to be on the other side of the dragon-garlic mincer.

We entered into the next room. Every inch of the room seemed to be filled with a moving blades. Like a man inspired by an otherworldly force, the Tindragon heaved his warhammer into the the spinning blades. Locking up the mechanisms for the blades, the entire room began to shake trying to break through the warhammer. The warhammer held fast, for the moment. As we proceeded, two constructs began to dance rhythmically through the room as if they were dodging blades. While the robots were slowly dancing across the room, and the stressed metals cogs and widgets strained, rattled, and threatened to turn the room into a dimension called “the dimension of a million flying shrapnel pieces”, we stopped to consider our options. We also found that the constructs would also stop to attack an illusion. Frankly, the robots looked less frightening than the quivering spinning blades that were position quite nicely to cleave my head off. We began to launch an assault ranged weapons at the constructs. We managed to make it through the room, and three locked gates, just as the room turned into a room of a trillion metal splinters.

We entered into the next room. A horrible room of platforms and lava. As we approached the center platform, two creepy metal dogs with grabby tongues appeared on the center platform. Like a fat cat failing to gain momentum while jumping onto a couch, one of the dogs fell to his death trying to reach our platform. The next began chewing on the midsection of the monk. It was impressive. The monk turned pale and dusky and was now shaped like an hour glass. Audibly we knew his insides were rearranged. The paladin took care of the feebled monk.

I had other plans. Feeling 100% ineffective against this metal dog, and frankly not wanting to get licked by it’s gross slimy tongue, I hoped that by removing the khyber/sybaris crystal from the ceiling, that the seemingly extra-planer beings would disappear. We were not so fortunate. My thoughts were somewhat confirmed or at least supported when I felt something “enter” the crystal when the beast was destroyed. Not wanting to see those things again, ever, I flicked the stone into the lava. I head screaming and felt and inner relief. No worth of that crystal justified keeping the the stone and thus the possibility of my insides becoming strangled like the monks. Nope. Nope. Nope. I heard the metal-head yelling something, I made it known that I didn’t care.

We walked into a chamber. In the chamber was a scepter and and amulet of that seemed very much like some loot Sur’kil may be looking for. I attempted to use the arcane to detect magic around us. Suddenly, it felt like the world around me was melting and my corneas were being removed from my eyes with a sun-rod. Momentarily I gave up on the life that i had previously known. My new life belonged to a world of whites and reds, and pain. I had no body, I could not move, I was part of something greater than myself. Everything?

I snapped back to reality… my reality. A mummy half dragon beast was ensnared in a tangle of hippy paladin might. I uttered some words and faerie fire outline the visage of the beast. We pummeled it dead. It lay dead on the ground dripping acid from its exposed neck. We looted the goods and took images of designs found on the alter. Seemingly, the only way to go was from where we came. We climbed back out the well and contacted Sur’kil.

With loot in hand we continued to move.

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When the Universe Turns Badass

On a whim, Witzke & I decided to take an hour & a half drive to Montclair, NJ. First let me say that everyone should have a favorite astrophysicist. Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson just happens to be mine. This evening, we saw him interviewed by Stephen Colbert for free & it was quite rad.

Just before leaving for this thing tonight, I did this little sketch (scanned it rather quick before too). After the interview & a quick Q & A session with the audience, Dr. Tyson held a book signing. While he signed my copy of Death By Black Hole, I told him had I heard him speak at a much younger age, I’d probably be a scientist now; but I ended up doing comics instead. He loudly insisted “No! We need comics too! They’re important!” Then I offered him this sketch as a token of appreciation for what he does & he freaked out. So now, Neil deGrasse Tyson has a sketch I did of him as a Galactus of sorts (thus the mini Silver Surfer), with a bite taken out of Pluto. He asked if he could post it on his facebook. And I told him it’d be an honor. The dude’s badass. And my favorite astrophysicist. He should be yours too.

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  1. 2010/01/30 2:41 am

    Man, that’s just so awesome.

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    2010/01/30 7:30 pm

    That story is amazing… and I just noticed that he’s the Nova Science guy.

  3. 2010/01/30 11:12 pm

    Yeah, squid, that’s the dude alright!

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Party’s Over!

I hosted a party for 65 people last night. I host this party every year at this season for my husband’s work, but as I am not a natural hostess, even with the main food catered I find it a stressful experience. Combined with pressing issues at the farm and with the family, four times a day carpooling, plus a dental emergency that required driving to Vermont, I have been scheduled minute by minute for the past fortnight.

But this morning I wake up a free (almost) woman. Just the usual full-page list of chores. Hooray!

I will start catching up in these pages tomorrow.

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Parker Eating Worms

13 Feb

Parker knows that during our adventure we will need to find food out in the wilderness. Food for us during our adventure will include edible plants, bugs, and animals. Edible plants provide the least calories and are the easiest to find, Bugs are higher in calories, and still fairly easy to find. Animals are the smartest and therefore, the hardest to find, but will provide a lot of food if we can catch them.
Here Parker is practicing finding food. This time he found a bunch of worms and started eating them.

Follow us on our adventures this summer 2011.
Adventure #1 is 2 days, 1 night
Adventure #2 is 4 days, 3 nights.
2 Families, 2 Men and 6 boys.
Nothing but knives, canteens, and flints.

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  1. Relina February 13, 2011 at 9:15 pm #

    That was priceless! He threw those in so fast I thought for sure that he was going to get them down. A for effort!! Can’t wait to see how the adventures go!

  2. Cindy P February 13, 2011 at 9:36 pm #

    Parker, that was disgusting… and yet rather amusing at the same time! Hope you don’t need to survive on worms! If so, you might not make it!

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How Can Fashion Create A Better Relationship with Africa?

August 29, 2011 § 3 Comments

(L-R) Thakoon F/W 11, Louis Vuiton S/S 12, Thakoon F/W 11

Fashion’s conflicted love affair with Africa is on again. Louis Vuitton featured cobalt and berry Masai prints for its S/S 12 menswear show last June, while Thakoon fused Victorian tailoring with traditional East African patterns for F/W 11. Critics unanimously exalted both collections. Nicole Phelps of hailed Thakoon’s showing as “his freshest, most alive collection in a while,” and The New York Times Magazine proclaimed Louis Vuitton as the “winner” of Paris Fashion Week for menswear S/S 12.

Sure, the clothes were beautiful, as they tend to be from practiced and esteemed labels like Louis Vuitton and Thakoon. But the use of African aesthetics for the financial and cultural benefit of the West conjures a host of unanswered questions: Is this practice exploitative? What image of Africa does it create in the West? Should designers give back to the communities from which they benefit?

Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907;

Africa has served as inspiration in Western fashion and more expansively, Western visual culture, for decades. In 1907, Pablo Picasso painted two women with African masks for his magnum opus Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. More recently, in 1997, John Galliano featured a series of reinterpreted Masai warrior costumes for his debut couture collection at Dior. Over a decade later, for Dior’s S/S 09 show, he styled his models with vase-like hair resembling ancient Congolese head dresses. And in a similar vein, Jean Paul Gaultier used African hunter shields, African carvings, the patterns of Masai beading as the inspiration for his Spring 2005 couture collection.

Fashion critics have largely praised Galliano and Gaultier’s use of African aesthetics in the context of “diversifying fashion.” In a review of The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk, a retrospective of Gaultier’s work at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Robin Givhan of The Daily Beast writes: “Gaultier looks outward at the swirl of life that engulfs him. And he is fully and optimistically engaged with it. Gaultier’s multicultural inspiration, which spans the entire breadth of his career, beginning in 1976, reminds us of the beauty of cultural diversity.”

Looks from Dior Couture '97

As a foil to fashion’s praise for using African aesthetics in Western design, art critics have debated the merits of this practice with more skepticism. Arguably the most famous debate arose in response to a show in 1984 at the New York Museum of Modern Art titled, “‘Primitivism in 20th Century Art,” which sought to elucidate the connection between the work of European artists like Gauguin and Picasso with African “tribal” art. The show’s most aggressive critique came a couple of years later from writer Thomas McEvilley whose piece “Doctor Lawyer Indian Chief” in Art Forum, sharply criticized the exhibit’s lack of information and context about the tribal objects:

“No attempt is made to recover an emic, or inside, sense of what primitive esthetics really were or are… The point of view of Picasso and others… is the only focus of MOMA’s interest… By their absolute repression of primitive context, meaning, content, and intention… [the curators] have treated the primitives as less than human, less than cultural – as shadows of a culture, their selfhood, the Otherness, wrung out of them.”

The New Yorker summarized this argument: “In other words… people of color don’t exist unless whites say they do – and, even then, they exist only as they are seen by whites.”

A portrait of Senegalese women from the 50s by Senegalese photographer Seydou Keita (via

Like the aforementioned MoMA exhibit, fashion shows that reference Africa can seem exploitative due to a lack of real connection to African culture or African people. The image of Africa on runways is almost entirely created by Western design teams that convey a shallow knowledge or appreciation for the communities they are referencing. To counter this, if designers want to utilize African culture in a responsible way, it must rethink the way it interacts with Africa itself.

One way Western designers could convey a deeper appreciation for Africa is by offering adequate historical or cultural context of their designs when they reference aspects of African culture. If Louis Vuitton offered more background information on Masai prints for his S/S 12 show, for example, viewers would have a better idea of what Masai prints signify and how they became so prominent among Masai tribes. The information could be placed in a pamphlet that accompanies the show’s gift bags or sits on each seat in the audience. This, to me, would ameliorate the feeling that the label was exploiting African culture and give the sense that the label was celebrating it.

Another way fashion could start projecting a more respectful perception of Africa is by incorporating African textiles into their designs. Today, most African-print textiles are manufactured in Europe or Asia – they’re African-inspired, not African. As writer Maya Lau suggests in a Huffington Post piece entitled Senegal’s Accidental Hipstersthe African textile industry is largely foundering in countries like Senegal. Investment in textiles from these countries would 1) feed into the local economy 2) maintain traditional, or at least local, ways of producing textiles, and 3) cultivate a more human relationship between Western fashion and Africa. If Western designers continue to use African prints, sourcing fabric from Africa would give both Westerners and Africans monetary benefits (it would be cheap for Western brands to manufacture in Africa and it would power the African economy) as well as social benefits (it would begin a symbiotic relationship between the West and Africa).

Yet another way for Western designers to convey a deeper appreciation for Africa is by giving back to the communities from which they borrow. After using Masai prints for his F/W 11 collection, Thakoon has done just this. According to, the label will donate all proceeds from a particular Limited Edition Masai Plaid Scarf to an international children’s relief organization working to reduce rates of malnutrition in the Horn of Africa – the area where Masai Tribes are located. The donor-benefactor relationship isn’t ideal; however, it is one way for Thakoon to give back to the community that offered him so much for his latest collection.

The relationship between the West and Africa is long and complicated, and because of this, there are no real answers as to how to create a healthy relationship between Western fashion and Africa. Here, I’ve tried to offer some solutions and have highlighted others that are currently in the works. More than finding the best solution, however, I hope that designers start thinking more critically about their relationship with Africa and the best way for them to face the conflicts inherent in utilizing African designs. This way, at least fashion can begin to celebrate cultural diversity in a way that feels new, thoughtful, and genuine.

Is the Black Dandy the “Civilized” Black Man?

August 22, 2011 § 2 Comments

Nivea's "Re-civilize Yourself" ad campaign

Late last week Nivea set the Internets atwitter with an ad showing a black man, with a shaved head holding a mask with an afro and facial hair à la Cornel West. The image was emblazoned with the tagline: Re-civilize yourself. A study in contrast, the white version of the ad had the message: Sin City Isn’t an Excuse to Look Like Hell. Other Nivea ads also show other white men – some with facial hair with clean edges, some without – with the simple slogan: Look Like You Give a Damn. Why does Nivea think that the slow crawl towards civilization for a black man requires shedding an afro and facial hair?

The problem, as many bloggers have pointed out, is that the ad relies on the trope of the savage black man, an idea as old as the nation that has only changed rather than disappeared over time. Today, there are “good” and “bad” black men – the former are what then Senator Joe Biden thinks are “articulate and bright and clean” and the latter are probably what he sees on the Music Television. It must have been quite a shock for Biden to see that then Senator Obama did not end his campaign speeches with Yo yo!

The recent Times piece on black dandyism, “Pushing the Boundaries of Black Style,” which ran just a day before the Nivea controversy, has received a favorable reception. And yet for me, raises feelings of unease not unlike the Nivea ad. While the article is a celebration of the style and savvy of the bloggers of Street Etiquette, Travis Gumbs and Joshua Kissi, the article takes on a slight tone of wonderment I imagine Biden experienced when he saw this young, black man whip him during the Iowa caucuses.

I should be clear: Street Etiquette is one of the best personal style blogs out there. It has everything that any reader interested in fashion would want: history, know-how, cool, and lots of shiny photos of beautiful people. And yet, I found the language they used to champion black dandyism to be uncomfortably reminiscent of the Nivea ad. Speaking about his blog, Kissi says, “It shows people of African descent in a good light…Where they’re from and where I’m from, self-refinement isn’t welcome in a sense.”

An image from "The Black Ivy" (via Street Etiquette)

Throughout the piece, “dandyism” is posited as classy, refined, and aspirational, while “hip hop style” is imprecated as unrefined, coarse, and well, uncivilized. The black dandies are constantly trying to get away from the paradigm of hip-hop, but in doing so, embrace another, arguably more dominant, paradigm. As if there were any further indication needed, their largest photo shoot, “The Black Ivy” is a not-so-subtle embrace of “our kind of people.”

Furthermore, this “self-refinement” is expressed not simply as an evolution of style, but also one of growth. “I used to wear size 42 jeans. Coming from that to a tie and shirt, people perceive you in a whole different way,” says Kissi. He isn’t wrong. Those baggy pants have been quite a site of contention; in 2007, cities across the South passed anti-sagging pants ordinances. Legislators weren’t just trying to police fashion, but specifically, what they saw as an expression of a dangerous black masculinity. Atlanta Councilman C.T. Martin said such laws are a “remedy” for “a prison mentality.” Other lawmakers believed the style invoked fear in others. Ooga booga, indeed.

Is it possible for multiple expressions and styles to coexist? Mos Def, also quoted in the article, probably has it closest: “White people have all kinds of archetypes, from Brad Pitt to Al Bundy, everything in between. The cultural paradigms that are aggressively promoted to young black people and young poor people are extremely narrow.” Multiple style paradigms – and relatedly multiple masculinities – are vital, especially in communities of color. But does the ascension of one necessitate the denigration of another? Can’t I have my high-tops and wear them too?

Yves Saint Laurent: A Pioneer for Models of Color

August 11, 2011 § 2 Comments

Saint Laurent with Mounia, his muse (via

“L’Amour Fou” is the latest film to feed the trend of fashion designer documentaries, joining Valentino’s acclaimed “The Last Emperor (2008),” the elusive “Lagerfeld Confidential (2007),” and the soon-to-be-released “The Guts of Duckie Brown (2011). It traces the life of the late Algerian-born designer, Yves Saint Laurent, as framed by his widower Pierre Bergé’s narration and the epic Christie’s sale of his expansive art collection at the Grand Palais in Paris in 2009. Overall, you get the sense that Bergé, who had a heavy hand in shaping the story, used the project as a cathartic release. Instead of celebrating the life of his partner, he and the director, Pierre Thoretton, focus instead on Saint Laurent’s intense bouts of depression, excessive drug use, and occasional philandering. It was sad, really. But despite the film’s unexpectedly dour angle on narrating Saint Laurent’s life and work, it joyously celebrates, perhaps unknowingly, Saint Laurent’s pivotal role in placing models of color in the world of high fashion.

The movie never explicitly discusses Saint Laurent’s penchant for models of color; however, its streams of archival footage from Saint Laurent shows in the 60s, 70s, and 80s show a range of black models that often stepped on his runway and posed for his ad campaigns. The YouTube clip below gives offers a taste of this, featuring a montage of black models he often used in the 80s specifically: Naomi Campbell, Iman, Sonia Cole, Dalma Callado, Maureen Gallagher, his muse Katoucha Niane, and others.

Although Saint Laurent’s avid support for black models eluded the general public, fashion insiders readily acknowledge it. In an article from NowPublic published shortly after Saint Laurent’s death to a prolonged disease, writer Adrienne Anderson thoroughly discusses the designer’s role in breaking down barriers for women of color, offering a quote from an interview with Naomi Campbell that illustrates how Saint Laurent generously launched her career: “My first Vogue cover ever was because of this man, because when I said to him ‘Yves, they won’t give me a French Vogue cover, they won’t put a black girl on the cover’ and he was like ‘I’ll take care of that,’ and he did.” In August 1988, Naomi Campbell became the first black model to land the cover of French Vogue, which consequently opened the doors for jobs at Ralph Lauren, Versace, and Francois Nars soon thereafter.

Saint Laurent aggressively featured his designs in black magazines, a practice considered a precarious marketing risk at the time. In particular, he showcased his designs in the pages of Ebony Magazine as well as in the related Ebony Traveling Fashion Show. He was also known to cavort with Eunice Johnson, the producer of the Traveling Fashion Show and the reputed “black matriarch” of publishing.

Yves Saint Laurent once described his appreciation for black models in an interview with the French press, saying, “It’s extraordinary to work with black models.” His explanation takes an exotifying turn, however, as he continues, “because the body, the way they hold their head, the legs… is really very, very provocative.” His sexualization of black female bodies puts his motives into question. But perhaps he was merely using language that the fashion world often used at that time to describe models, a time when women like Cindy Crawford, Tyra Banks, Linda Evangelista, and Christy Turlington ruled the runways with their curvaceous forms. In other words, Saint Laurent’s view of black models as “provocative” might merely reflect a mantra or standard way of thinking about models of various races at the time. (I know this is a pretty generous analysis, and I encourage you to comment).

Despite the pleasure in learning about Saint Laurent’s use of models of color, it’s disheartening to realize that YSL’s current designer, Stefano Pilati, has broken away from that tradition. The most recent YSL womenswear show, Resort 2012, cast only one model of color. The collection before that, Fall/Winter 2011, featured only 2 out of a cast of 37. Unlike Saint Laurent, who set the standard for model casting in his day, Pilati merely follows it.

As fashion writer Guy Trebay wrote in The New York Times in response to a particularly racially-homogenous fashion season in 2007, the current runways are “fading to white.” The substantial number of black models seen on Saint Laurent’s runway shows are nowhere to be seen, and Asians and Latinas struggle to get booked. Although the days of Yves Saint Laurent-staged runways shows took place lightyears from now (speaking in the hyperspeed world of fashion), perhaps they were actually a glimpse into the future.

An All-Asian Fashion Ad to Commend

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Fei Fei Sun, Shu Pei, Lui Wen, Ming Xi, and Xiao Wen Ju for Lane Crawford F/W 11

Asians are definitely having a fashion moment. V Magazine released their “Asian Issue” this past May, Givenchy staged a couture presentation for S/S 11 using only Asian models, and American Vogue published an all-Asian model editorial this past December, declaring that they’re “redefining traditional concepts of beauty.” These happenings often fall under the label of “diversifying fashion,” but they carry an insincerity as Asians consistently fail to book non-Asian themed photoshoots and runway events. Where were the Asian models in Givenchy’s latest couture show, for example? Or on the cover of Vogue?

Yesterday Hong-Kong retailer Lane Crawford released their F/W 11 ad campaign featuring a cast of exclusively Chinese models, but unlike other all-Asian campaigns or editorials, this is a breath of fresh air. It applies the for-us, by-us concept to Chinese fashion, and shows a Chinese company supporting some of the best Chinese modeling talent working today: Fei Fei Sun, Shu Pei, Lui Wen, Ming Xi, and Xiao Wen Ju.

Ballerina Tan Yuan Yuan for Lane Crawford S/S 08 (via

Film producer Fu Jia for Lane Crawford S/S 08 (via

This isn’t Lane Crawford’s first ad to feature Asians or Asian Americans. For their S/S 08 campaign titled, “The Innovators,” they photographed a number of prominent Chinese and Chinese American faces in Chinese arts and culture: ballerina Tan Yuan Yuan, actress Maggie Cheung, film producer Fu Jia, artist Terrence Koh, and model Du Juan, amongst others.

Too often Asian fashion companies use Western models in their promotions, which, as we suggested in a previous post, results from the pressure placed on these companies to cater to privileged whiteness in the global fashion market. I initially discovered Lane Crawford’s latest ad in the news section of New York Magazine. I hope one day, an ad campaign for an Asian company featuring all-Asian models won’t be worthy as news, or even celebration. It will just seem right.

Does American Apparel’s Ching Chong Hat Offend You?

August 1, 2011 § 3 Comments

The good women from Disgrasian have pointed out that American Apparel is selling a rice paddy hat for $15. I’m a little surprised it has taken American Apparel so long to get on with this “trend.” I remember first seeing it on whipster (white hipster) fashion student Nora from the first season of Project Runway, and that was like 8 seasons ago. Anyway, AA is really scraping the bottom of the PBR barrel with this one.

The Disgrasian bloggers let the hat speak for itself and instead eviscerate the would-be wearers as fashion victims. Fair enough. Wearing it would make you look like an asshat. But is it racist?

The hat brings me back to the sweet times of my youth when Abercrombie & Fitch was the hip brand (hey, I’m from Florida). A&F stirred controversy for their excessively racist t-shirts, that depicted caricatures of Asian men wearing – yup, you guessed it – rice paddy hats with slogans like “Two Wongs Can Make It White.”

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Rice paddy hats have a long history in the American imagination stemming, most directly, from the Vietnam War. Movies like Oliver Stone’s Platoon, and other Vietnam War movies, often depict desperate, fleeing Vietnamese in rice paddy hats. The hats are also a common trope in editorial cartoons. The hat itself isn’t racist, but it has a deep, Orientalist history that subsumes multiple nations, histories, and billions of people, under one big coolie hat. What is truly offensive is the ability of the West to take something like a rice paddy hat, something that has actual meaning and substance and shape and turn it into a cheap symbol of the Orient. If I drew a head with that conical hat on it, a viewer would immediately know to reference: Asian person.

I’m trying to think of a time and place where I would welcome the coolie hat, that is not mid-summer on Bedford on a whipster or traveling in rural Asia. It would be Halloween. The wearer would be an Asian American female, dressed like a Vietcong guerrilla fighter with a sniper rifle slung around her in a reference to Full Metal Jacket. The hat would look pretty badass.

The Limits of Globalizing Fashion

July 25, 2011 § 1 Comment

Last week, in a post titled “Fashion is a Melting Pot,” Italian Vogue Editor Franca Sozzani praised the increasingly globalized nature of fashion, alluding to the growing number of non-Western designers participating and gaining respect in the Western sphere. To her, these designers have amassed international attention by incorporating elements of traditional dress from their home countries into a “contemporary” aesthetic. She writes:

“New fashion designers from emerging countries are proposing a new fashion inspired by their country’s tradition, considered not as ethnic element any longer, but as part of a historical know-how, re-adjusted to contemporary silhouettes and therefore wearable in all cities of the world… It’s not the folklore that is exported, yet the culture, the local craftsmanship, the colors and the mood.” [sic]

There’s no doubt that more non-Western designers and designers with non-Western backgrounds are entering fashion. In the U.S., for example, some of the most celebrated emerging designers are either first or second-generation Asian Americans, like Alexander Wang (China), Doo-Ri Chung, (Korea), Thakoon Panichgul (Thailand), and Prabal Gurung (Nepal). For the past decade, Asian Americans have dominated the CFDA (Council of Fashion Designers of America) awards, highlighting the pivotal role they have had in shaping American fashion. Furthermore, outside the U.S., increasing numbers of non-Western designers are showing their collections at internationally recognized and media-heavy fashion weeks in Milan and Paris. South Korean brands Songzio and Juun J, for example, show their collections in Paris every year and General Idea, designed by Seoul-based Bumsuk Choi, shows in New York.

(from left to right) Wang, Doo.Ri, Thakoon, and Gurung

But amidst increasing numbers of non-Western designers in fashion, the caveat that limits how “global” fashion can become is the expectation that these designers cater to Western design tastes. When describing how fashion will continue to globalize, Sozzani wrote, “The new generations will keep getting here (New York, Paris, or Milan) from different countries and many of them are already studying in Italy, Great Britain, or America.” When talking about non-Western designers, Sozzani equates studying in Italy, Great Britain, or America as progress – steps toward success. While this may be true given the weight and the high caliber of designs schools in these countries, Sozzani elucidates a common practice among fashion people to place more value on studying and working in the West opposed to elsewhere.

The result of placing more value on the West pushes the globalization of fashion in many ways. For one, people wanting to succeed in international fashion feel pressured to study fashion abroad. At Parsons, arguably the most respected design school in the country, 32% of the undergraduate population comes from outside the U.S., mostly from China, India, Korea, Canada, and Mexico. In many cases, only very wealthy international students have the opportunity to study abroad in light of poor exchange rates, expensive airfare, and many colleges’ lack of financial aid for international students. These are very real financial limits for middle-to-lower class designers in the non-West. Furthermore, increased pressure for non-Western design students to study abroad devalues design education outside the Western world, removes talent from the local design scene, and prevents or slows the growth of fashion capitals outside the West.

Another result of constructing a Western-centric fashion industry is increased pressure on non-Western designers to abandon their own artistic autonomy and to replicate designs that already flourish in Western fashion. Last year, I attended Korean-based General Idea’s menswear show at New York Fashion Week. The first half of the collection was a parade of pieced shirts and newsboy looks that struck a striking resemblence to the work of Japanese designer Junya Watanabe, who has been showing his collections in Paris since the 80s. By contrast, the second half of the General Idea show had splotches of paint and large handwritten words scrawled across head-to-toe looks (including bags) á la Stephen Sprouse. The artistic reference was crass in light of Louis Vuitton’s collaboration with Stephen Sprouse in 2008, which resulted in a line of classic Louis leather bags covered in bright, painted-effect “Louis Vuitton” text. But one has to wonder why a designer who often copies Western trends is one of the only Korean designers who shows at New York Fashion Week. One interpretation is that his aesthetic, though unoriginal, was in line with what the Western design world wants to see.

If fashion wants the globalization process to become more egalitarian, it needs to give more weight to non-Western designers and design schools in the international fashion market. One way to do this is by more actively and thoroughly covering fashion weeks that take place outside New York, Paris, London, and Milan. This would grant local talent more access to buyers, editors, and the general public, thereby increasing their potential growth and making the current, very costly trend of showing in Europe or the U.S. obsolete.

(from left to right) Kawakubo, Yamamoto, and Watanabe

Non-Western designers with international clout also have a responsibility to increase the profile of their home countries. Japanese designers like Rei Kawakubo of Commes des Garcons, Yohji Yamamoto, and Junya Watanabe, for example, have been showing their collections in Paris for almost 3 decades with much critical and commercial success. They’ve become staples for major buyers and editors in the European fashion circuit. Suppose if these designers staged a collective revolt and showed in Tokyo instead of Paris every season. Editors and buyers would be forced to pay more attention to Tokyo as a fashion capital, thus allowing otehr Japanese designers more international exposure.

According to Sozzani, mixing a designer’s culture with that of others “must be true to one’s own history, otherwise, it is just an exercise in style, and ends up being too ethnical [sic] or too generic.” I agree, but what Sozzani doesn’t acknowledge is that in this “globalized” fashion industry, where non-Western designers work around Western expectations, non-Western designers must incorporate a large part of Western history into the telling of their own design stories. It is only this way that their histories will be heard.

Karl Lagerfeld’s Heterosexual Fantasy

July 21, 2011 § Leave a comment

For Fendi’s latest ad campaign, Karl Lagerfeld shot Polish beauty Anja Rubik, American model Brad Kroenig, and his French pet, Baptiste Giabiconi, in what looks like a late 19th century artist’s studio. Kroenig positions himself behind an easel while the statuesque Rubik languidly poses on various scattered items of furniture: a mustard-colored chair, a burgundy love seat, a stack of frames leaning against the wall, a wooden side table. In the background sit glass jars filled with brushes and monumental paintings, which in their soft color palette and ethereality, vaguely resemble French Impressionist works.

The shoot draws a comparison between the Old World painter-model dynamic and the more contemporary designer-model relationship. In the ad, Kroenig utilizes Rubik’s body as the inspiration for transforming a blank canvas into a work of art. In a similar vein, Lagerfeld directs Rubik, Kroenig, and Giabiconi to carry out his artistic vision for the Fendi ads. Instead of paint, however, Lagerfeld uses luxe fabric, flattering lighting, and a camera to create his work.

The images have a strong heterosexual imperative, which starts with Rubik’s sultry poses toward Kroenig and culminates in Giabiconi and Rubik posing with their fictional children for a family portrait. The heterosexuality of the photos is bizarre in light of Lagerfeld’s conspicuous homosexuality. To my knowledge, Lagerfeld hasn’t had any public romantic relationships with men, but his continuing infatuation with Giabiconi alone is telling. For the past few years, Giabiconi has starred in virtually every ad campaign and walked in almost every runway show Lagerfeld has directed, most of which are for womenswear. He even starred in Lagerfeld’s video ads for Magnum ice cream, one of which casts him as a playboy photographer. If I didn’t know better, I would assume Giabiconi served as Lagerfeld’s pool boy on his off days, scooping up leaves in a g-string while Lagerfeld looked on.

The series of ads could collectively be read as Karl Lagerfeld’s heterosexual fantasy. He shoots Kroenig gazing at Rubik, then puts himself in Kroenig’s position, staring at Rubik as if he were Kroenig. In doing this, he grants himself a heterosexual gaze. In another image of the series, he creates a family portrait with Giabiconi and Rubik as the parents, creating an image of the nuclear family he can’t have. Rubik’s conspicuous wig, Giabiconi’s stiff pose, and the incongruity of expression among the family members create an artificial quality, suggesting Lagerfeld’s awareness of the scenario’s impossibility in his own life.

One wonders what led Lagerfeld to create this imagery that strays so far from his own experience as a presumably gay man. But perhaps the answer is obvious. Lagerfeld is just doing what he does best: creating a fantasy.

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10 Martyrs a Day!

We in the western world have great liberty, in serving this Gospel. Jesus warned us about the price, to be paid for serving Him. Presently there are fellow brothers and sisters in Christ, whom daily suffer persecution for the Gospel!
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The First Amendment, amendment (1791) to the Constitution of the United States is a part of the Bill of Rights.

The First Amendment reads:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

In the United States we are privileged to enjoy this freedom of speech and religion. Yet, despite this freedom, most Christians do not exercise this exceptional right.

However; Some are willing to Die!

Christian persecution is defined as: Any hostility experienced from the world as a result of one’s identification and belief in Jesus Christ.

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Which Will You Be – Engaged; Not Engaged, or Actively Disengaged – in 2016?

I assume that you are about to get back at it for the new year. The holidays are over, and now there is work to be done…

So, how engaged will you be in the work you have to do?

The statistics, as you know, are not good. The Gallup Organization has asked folks for years, and this is pretty much the finding:

About 30% are engaged
About 18-21% are actively disengaged (working against the very success of the team/organization)
And the ones in the middle are simply not engaged.

Start by reading this book
Start by reading this book

I am presenting my synopsis of The Power of Full Engagement this afternoon. It is a very good book; not new (published in 2003), but very good. After reading this book, and newer books like The Organized Mind, and Focus, and many others, here’s my wording for what “fully engaged” looks like in the actual work moment:

Fully engaged means utterly focused on the task at hand, and only on the task at hand.

And here is what the book describes as essential for full engagement:

Fully engaged requires these four realities:
Physically energized.
Emotionally connected.
Mentally focused.
Spiritually aligned with a purpose beyond our immediate self-interest.

Do you remember watching a first-year-kid’s soccer game? The players are somewhere between toddler and 1st grade (It’s been quite a few years for me; I don’t remember the age of our sons when they first played). You could tell pretty quickly – there were fully engaged players, and there were others who literally looked at something to the side, off the field, as the ball and player went right by them.

They were… distracted; looking at other things; not focused. Definitely not engaged.

And, guess what – too many players like this on a team, and the team had no chance of winning. Call it the The Puniness of Partial Engagement.

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this might be the right next choice to read

Here’s the thing. Anytime you are focused on anything other than the work at hand, you are not at that moment engaged. And the work suffers because of it.

In other words, the most effective, productive work is done by people who are able to focus utterly on the work at hand.

In the book The Big Short, Michel Burry (one of the ones who got it so very right) had the ability to completely focus, day after day, hour-after-hour, over the long haul   Most of us do not have such ability.

But, I think it is safe to say that the better you (I) get at being more fully engaged, focusing fully on the work at hand, time after time, the better you will be at your job, and the healthier your organization will be.

So, do some reading on how to be better focused and more fully engaged, do some de-cluttering of your mind and workplace, and learn to better focus, to better concentrate, to be more fully engaged in 2016.

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Exacter to Unveil New Predictive Maintenance Solutions for Transmission, Substation, and Underground Applications at DistribuTech

COLUMBUS, OH / ACCESSWIRE / February 2, 2015 / Exacter, Inc., a leading provider of predictive maintenance technology and analytics to the utility industry, will be sharing results of a 2-year proactive Predictive Maintenance (PdM) project to improve circuit reliability at a prominent northeast investor owned utility. The data and report shows a direct correlation between predictive maintenance activities and the reliability performance of the targeted circuits. A presentation will be made by the utility's Director of Electric Operations and Shared Services at 9:30 AM on Wednesday February 4th in Room 24A at DistirbuTech 2015 in San Diego. "If you are looking to see new technology and approaches making an impact on reliability, backed up by two years of data, this is the one presentation you want to see at DistribuTech," states Exacter President, Geoffrey Bibo. "The results of the project were significant enough to garner the support of the local public utilities commission, too."

Exacter will also be unveiling new predictive maintenance solutions for transmission, substation and underground reliability challenges. For underground applications, Exacter will be sharing both a vault testing system and underground cable testing technology that can evaluate the condition of underground network cables without shutting down power. For vaults, Exacter has a proven method for detecting dangerous electrical insulation conditions without a service man having to enter the vault. The cable testing system uses proprietary cable injection technology to provide an accurate, non-invasive, non-intrusive, non-destructive method to assess cable integrity. Exacter is seeking collaborative input from utilities interested in improving underground cable assessment. Click this link to find out more: http://www.exacterinc.com/underground.

For transmission line quality checks and troubleshooting Exacter technology is now being used during existing helicopter flyovers. While the route is being flown, Exacter detects problematic line conditions that could impact system performance and reliability. These points along the lines are mapped and eventually confirmed for further inspection and maintenance. Exacter serves as an early warning alert to a variety of conditions such as bad line splices, weakened or failed surge arrestors, or equipment that has been degraded or contaminated. Exacter survey data becomes a supplementary health and diagnostic check on already scheduled Lidar or line inspection flights. Learn more at http://www.exacterinc.com/transmission.

Because Substation-related problems often have the biggest impact on reliability indices, Exacter has developed a predictive maintenance solution that provides early warnings on problematic conditions being detected in and around the substation. Arcing, sparking, leaking, and tracking conditions often invisible to visual inspection and infrared technology are diagnosed early by Exacter. Field inspections precisely locate the specific source of the degraded conditions so remedial action can be taken prior to a failure or outage. Learn more at http://www.exacterinc.com/substation.

Exacter will be displaying their technology at DistribuTech 2015 in the San Diego Convention Center from February 3-5, Booth #3635.

Exacter, Inc. is a provider of predictive maintenance technology and services to the electric utility industry and is also being used for the quality assurance of Smart Grid systems, AMR systems, and applications at industrial plants, railway systems, and other electrical environments.

John Lauletta, CEO
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