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“Popes & Papacy” On Facebook — For All Things Papal.

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My ‘Popes-and-Papacy’ Website, which I started around 2008, was EXTREMELY successful until I quiesced it in May 2013 — once the current pope was elected. Though it covered most aspects of the papacy, my overriding interest, commensurate with my work on ‘The Next Pope’ books, was the ‘Next Pope’ and the ‘next conclave’. Well, that happened in March 2013. I then kind of moved onto some of my other interests — e.g., the brain & meditation. Late last year I, very reluctantly, closed down ‘Popes-and-Papacy’ because it was too time consuming to maintain.

Well, it appears that the lead up to the NEXT POPE POST POPE FRANCIS is upon us, and I despite, despite other distractions just cannot resist getting into the fray. So, as some of you may have noticed I am again doing papal posts on a regular basis.

There is no way I have the time, energy or patience to start a new Website.

Hence, ALL my pope posts will be on this BLOG. That is a given.

But, I started the ‘Popes & Papacy’ Facebook page as a tracking site for the pope posts on this blog — given that there are many people who are only capable of reading stuff on FB.

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I’ve Had My Last Cup of Starbucks Coffee

Starbucks coffee cupAt the Starbucks annual meeting on March 20, CEO Howard Schultz told a shareholder named Tom Strobhar to sell his stock if he disagreed with the company’s embrace of gay marriage.

Shareholders do have this prerogative. That is the beauty of securities markets. But the issue is not so simple. Institutional investors now own the majority of shares of publicly-held companies traded on U.S. exchanges. Many people own stock through mutual and pension funds, overseen by professional managers. As a practical matter, lots of Starbucks shareholders do not have the opportunity to easily sell their stock.

But there is a larger issue. Why is one of the world’s biggest and most widely admired companies taking sides on such a controversial issue? If Schultz can tell shareholders who disagree with him to take a hike, doesn’t this necessarily extend to customers, partners and employees? After all, these relationships are voluntary, too.

I will take Schultz up on his invitation. OK, Howard, I’ve had my last cup of Starbucks coffee.

Homosexual marriage is not just another public policy issue. It reaches deeply into the realms of personal morality and religion. As an individual, Schultz is entitled to his views. It is a free country.  But as a corporate executive, does he really have the right to obligate everyone else at the company to his beliefs?

If Starbucks as a company now formally supports gay marriage and is committing corporate resources to the fight, does this not create a dilemma for many employees? Presumably, the mission of every employee is to sell more coffee and build the company. So every employee is forced to support gay marriage every day they go to work.

Does this mean that Catholics, for instance, should not in good conscience work at Starbucks? Should each Starbucks now put a sign in the window that reads, “Baristas Needed, No Catholics Need Apply.”? At the very least, Schultz is creating a hostile work environment for employees who do not share his views.

At the annual meeting, Schultz pointed out that Starbucks has 200,000 employees and said that Starbucks supports gay marriage in order to “embrace diversity.” Gay marriage has nothing to do with “diversity,” workplace conditions or employment discrimination. Because Starbucks are ubiquitous, diversity is a byproduct of the vastness. Everyone loves Starbucks and that is why it is spreading across the world.

It is also why Schultz is playing with fire. Good quarterly earnings figures can be fleeting. Consumer hostility can last a lot longer. In my case, it will be forever.

Last year when a Chick-Fil-A executive made comments supportive of traditional marriage, big city political figures to threatened to block franchises from opening in their cities. (Unlike Starbucks, Chick-Fil-A is privately held.)

In response, a Chick-Fil-A Appreciation Day was organized through talk shows, the internet and word of mouth. Underplayed or ignored in advance by the media, the response was still overwhelming. There are five Chick-Fil-A outlets within ten miles of my house. All were jammed, a phenomenon duplicated in every corner of the country where Chick-Fil-A operates. Is Schultz trying to wake a sleeping giant?

It’s no secret that Schultz politics are liberal. And little hints of political correctness can be found in each Starbucks. I never really cared because I liked the coffee and I knew that at heart Schultz was a capitalist, and one of the most successful in history at that. There’s a lot to admire.

But now he’s urged me to take a hike. I try to avoid places I’m not wanted. So long, Howard.


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The WR Hierarchy: Week 6

Each week we will release “The Hierarchy” for each position. The Hierarchy will release players rank according to where we at NoHuddle believe they will fall for that particular week using a tiered system. The higher the tier, the better off, the lower the tier, the more you want to stay away from those players. All rankings are based on upcoming opponent, past performances, and projections for the current week. Here we go:

The Kings: (Represent the Elite at their position for the week- Top End WRs)

  1. Antonio Brown @ MIA
  2. Allen Robinson @ CHI

The Princes: (Represent the WRs that should perform at WR1 levels)

  1. AJ Green @ NE
  2. Odell Beckham Jr. vs. BAL
  3. Jordy Nelson vs. DAL
  4. Kelvin Benjamin vs. NO
  5. DeAndre Hopkins vs. IND
  6. Brandin Cooks vs. CAR
  7. Doug Baldwin vs. ATL
  8. Marvin Jones vs. LAR
  9. Demaryius Thomas @ SD
  10. Julio Jones @ SEA

The Dukes: (Represent the WRs that should perform at WR2 levels with a chance to sneak into Prince and King territory)

  1. TY Hilton @ HOU
  2. Brandon Marshall @ ARI
  3. Amari Cooper vs. KC
  4. Larry Fitzgerald vs. NYJ
  5. Emmanuel Sanders @ SD
  6. Alshon Jeffery vs. JAX

The Marquess: (Represent WRs that should perform at a solid WR2 level)

  1. Jeremy Maclin vs. OAK
  2. Randall Cobb vs. DAL
  3. Jordan Matthews @ WAS
  4. Michael Crabtree vs. KC
  5. Julian Edelman vs. CIN
  7. Terrelle Pryor @ TEN

The Earls: (Represent WRs that have a chance to perform at The Marquess level but most likely a Flex/WR3 Play)

  1. DeSean Jackson vs. PHI
  2. Jarvis Landry vs. PIT
  3. Steve Smith Sr. @ NYG (*MONITOR STATUS, LIKELY OUT)
  4. Willie Snead vs. CAR
  5. Will Fuller V vs. IND (*MONITOR STATUS,  LIKLEY OUT)

The Viscounts: (Represents those best used as Flex/WR3 plays)

  1. Travis Benjamin vs. DEN
  2. Devante Parker vs. PIT
  3. Mike Wallace vs. NYG
  4. Golden Tate vs. LAR
  5. Allen Hurns vs. CHI
  6. Sterling Shepard vs. BAL
  7. John Brown vs. NYJ
  8. Michael Floyd vs. NYJ
  9. Micael Thomas vs. CAR
  10. Cameron Meredith vs. JAX

The Barons: (Represents the WRs that are the most desperate of all starts and flex/WR3 plays)

  1. Terrence Williams @ GB (*MONITOR DEZ’S STATUS, BUMP UP IF OUT)
  2. Robert Woods vs. SF
  4. Tyrell Williams vs. DEN
  5. Jeremy Kerley @ BUF
  6. Tavon Austin @ DET
  7. Quincy Enunwa @ ARI
  8. Kenny Britt @ DET
  9. Eddie Royal vs. JAX
  10. Chris Hogan vs. CIN
  11. Victor Cruz vs. BAL

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All tiers in order of rank and based on .5 PPR

As always for further inquiries as to who to start or sit, contact us on twitter @No_HuddleFFB

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Sunday, October 09, 2016

I was slammed in comments for my last post, in which I argued that the Access Hollywood tape would probably lead to only a slightly larger victory for Hillary Clinton. Since I wrote that, top Republicans have abandoned Trump, and the press has suggested that he's going to lose in a landslide. And yet:

That's from a Politico/Morning Consult poll conducted after the release of the video.
Overall, fewer than four-in-10 voters -- 39 percent -- think Trump should end his presidential campaign, while only slightly more voters, 45 percent, think he should not drop out.

But voters are largely viewing Trump's comments through their own partisan lens: 70 percent of Democrats say Trump should end his campaign, but just 12 percent of Republicans -- and 13 percent of female Republicans -- agree.

... Nearly three-quarters of Republican voters, 74 percent, surveyed on Saturday said party officials should continue to support Trump. Only 13 percent think the party shouldn’t back him.
A few glosses on this from the pros:

Remember the disconnect in 1998 between the political elite's reaction and the general public's reaction to the Monica Lewinsky scandal? The insiders said Clinton would have to step down, but the public continued to give him high job approval numbers, if not high personal approval numbers. We may be in a similar place with Trump -- this story may not change many minds.

Or maybe you're all right and I'm wrong -- maybe the disgust at all this is going to take a few days to show up in the polls. We'll see. For now we know it isn't showing up.

AllieG said...

Story may not change many minds, but it's not going to change minds for Trump, and that's what he needs. At some point, the reaction of professional pols has to be taken into account. If it wasn't seen as a disaster, why did so many Republicans run away yesterday?

John Taylor said...

Trump's core supporters won't desert him. He's saying what they are only thinking and they love him for that.

Unknown said...

I left this comment on another blog yesterday: "If the Republican party nominated Hannibal Lecter, and he finished every campaign appearance by eating a live baby, he would still get at least 40% of the vote in the general election. That’s if the Democrats nominate Jesus Christ to run against him. And you know who evangelical fundamentalist Christians would vote for."

Anonymous said...

Lewinsky was eager. Trump is talking about sexual assault. There's a difference there.

Charon04 said...

Trump's polling was already deteriorating over Alicia Machado, so she was the low-hanging fruit on abuse issues. This may not cost Trump much additional from his supporters, but Trump is going to have it tougher now with anyone who is still in play

Rand Careaga said...

I well remember Mark Shields, who for a couple of decades has played Shana Alexander* ("liberal") to various James Kilpatricks* ("conservative," latterly David "Bobo" Brooks) on the PBS Newshour, asserting in 1998 that Clinton was finished. When it was pointed out that the polls suggested a majority did not want him to resign or be removed, Shields said, in effect, too bad, people will just have to understand that he's finished. It was a spectacular display of insular Villager smugness, and I have despised the man ever since.

*The reference may be lost on some of our younger readers. Their staged exchanges on Sixty Minutesare remembered, if at all, at once remove for inspiring the meme "Jane, you ignorant slut."

Feud Turgidson said...

So, this is interesting: multiple reports of a NBCNews and MSNBC female staff ROYALLY PISSED OFF over how they and their coworkers have been working OT to comb thru thousands of hours of never released mostly never even reviewed lead in lead out hot mic videotape and e-vid with Trump on tape, and how NBC - which they "KNOW" from industry reports and from watching Morning Goebbels and the meat puppet playing footsie & BJs with Trump for months means NBC's Big Bosses are playing a double triple or quadruple game here. And so one of them or a small coterie of them scoots the Billy Bush tape over to Fahrenhold (who's been basically a DAILY REGULAR on The Last Word, very arguably the most pro feminist show on a cable network that also has Racheal Maddow FCOL, so do the MATH people.

And now the Comcasters have a choice: release their own newshounds, or watch as their own newshounds feed all the choice cuts to Marty Baron's crew.

Plus I see from CNN's hired of the Buzzfeed crew that the Trump Tape Wars appear to be entering a new phase: compendium competitions.

I'm with AllieG and others: this won't hurt Trump with "his" supporters embedded in the GOP core. But not all the GOPers are pro-GrOPers, so there will be a certain amount of exodus and just as importantly the metastasi is unable to survive outside the GOP culture.

So now: combine these two 'trends', of the GrOPers hardening against el Ryan et al inside the GOP, and taking their frustrations and resentments out ... WHERE? On the streets and in selected ballot boxes, mein freundchen. Some prominant GOP leaders are about to experience hints & allegations on what happened to Eric Cantor. And meanwhile, the NBC dam of Trump enriched heavy water is going to burst without some relief.

My biweekly grocery shopping is on Tuesdays cuz my local emporium specially accommodates us old farts on Tuesdays. The e-flyer from by favorite market contains a special on bulk popcorn. Mmmmmmmm

There will be blood, and the House will be in play.

Maxwell's Demon said...

I agree with you on this. tRump is down to close to his immutable base of support (somewhere near 40% +/-) and that's as low as he goes. But what has happened I think is that he has foreclosed even the slimmest chance he had to win this and we should know petty much for sure after tonight's town hall.

The more interesting question now is, will enough semi-same gopers just not come out to vote and give the Dems a bigger down ballot victory than expected or will Dem complacency one again snatch defeat (Senate and House) from the jaws of victory?

Jimbo said...

We've known for over a year now that Trump's supporters are a majority of GOP likely voters and that they will come out to vote no matter what he says or does so the only thing, the ONLY thing that matters is getting Democrats out to vote, especially in the battleground states. Everything else is just noise. Most likely, neither house will flip so the best we can hope for is a continuing stalemate at least for the next 2 years.

DerFarm said...

I see something quite a bit different from most of the commentators. I absolutely agree that roughly 40% of the vote is Trump's. However, these people are mean, lowminded, vengeful, and self-righteous. I see a lot of split tickets by hard line Trumpistas. Nothing feels better to the self-righteous than to screw over someone while re-inforcing your purity.

KenRight said...

Do we want a candidate who’s groped women but wants to get along with Christian conservative Russia and protect American jobs and our borders, or do we want a candidate who wants to provoke Russia into war, outsource American jobs and have open borders,continue to overthrow secular Arab governments, eg Iraq, Libya, Syria, invite the jihad refugees in--- and harass the women who’ve been much more than groped by her husband?

The choice is yours.

trnc said...

Ken, I'm not voting for either candidate you mentioned. I'm voting for Hillary Clinton.

Jim Snyder said...

I'm with AllieG & Feud.

Well, kinda sorta. Indeed, the Trump vid was dropped to Farenthold by NBC staffers. Story at Chicago Tribune this morning.

Yes, the Morning Consult poll says most Goopers OK with the tape... but why are so many GOP dominoes falling? Why did Kelly Ayotte cut and run?

Every GOP incumbent in a purplish (or worse, blue) state depends on Dem voters crossing over. And Ayotte and Hassan are running neck and neck... so if Ayotte loses even a fraction of those cross-overs, she's toast.

So ... she's in a bind. She cuts Trump loose and mebbe loses TeaBaggers, or she's with Trump, and she loses Dem cross-overs. I suspect that she jumped in the belief that she'd keep most of her Republican base if she cut Trump loose. Remember that she voted before the Morning Consult poll came out.

My guess is that she'd be hosed either way ... the Trump vid puts her in an impossible situation.

Jim Snyder said...

@trnc: "... not voting for either, voting for Hillary ..."

Jim Snyder said...

Meant to add that, like Feud, I am hoping to see a bunch of Gooper Establishment figures to go down at the ballot lever of vengeful Trumpkins who feel betrayed.

OTOH, scuttlebutt has it that at least two more vids will drop Real Soon Now, so it's possible that even Trumpkins have their limits.

However the drop today of the Howard Stern interview in which Trump and Stern drool over Ivanka as "a piece of ass" ... well, I'll spare you Southren incest jokes from my childhood. Let's just say that that revelation could be a feature for Trumpkins, not a bug.

In other news, it's amusing that so many self-identified Christians will extend Christian forgiveness for sexual assaults to a serial predator, but not will not extend the same forgiveness to the woman whose husband cheated on her.

What was that verse about "false prophets", again?

Askin' for a friend.

Green Eagle said...

For years, the absolute, unrepentant level of Republican support, the people who are resistant to all reason and decency, has been put at around 27%, which I think is a fair estimate. So, you are now dealing with the remaining Trump supporters, a large part of whom must be still shell-shocked by what is happening. He is bound to lose a few more of them over the coming days, but I would expect the decline to stall out around 35 or 36%, which is the dead minimum that any Republican Presidential candidate can possibly get, given their forty years of unrelieved propaganda. Still, that would represent a quarter to a third of the Trump supporters who can make any claim to having a will of their own. The rest are lost permanently- they would vote for Charlie Manson if he had a (R) after his name and promised them tax cuts; we are, sad to say, just going to have to wait for them to die off.

Ed Crotty said...

Trump has made clear that his platform is to protect and reinforce white male privilege. Nothing about this changes that.

Gerald Lillpop said...

Again you are wrong. I know republican women who were on the fence but now will not vote tRump. And I know independent women who are now saying it Hillary all the way.

KenRight said...

Funny that the Elite of the "white male privileged" of the GOP are and were opposed to Trump who has made it clear his intent is to bring more power to impoverished Euro-American working folks, with a natural run-off to the most deserving loyal non-Euro workers.
I understand your kind is bent on redistribution to non-Euros, domestic and invading, regardless of the price paid by white workers.

Rand Careaga said...

Love yer blog, Ken. It's so clean and uncluttered, with that one entry from four-and-a-half years ago: "This is a test." But hey, white power, amirite?

Dark Avenger said...

Ken Fruit Hoops would rather have a con man in office because he would "protect" conservative Christianity, whatever that entails.

CF2K said...

KenRightDumbfuck, be so good as to remind us who overthrew a secular government in Iraq, and in so doing, set the Middle East burning until today.

Marc McKenzie said...

Oh Ken,'s always about preserving the White race with you, isn't it?

I swear, you are really itching to drag the white hood and robe out of your closet. I guess that's what you see in Trump--the chance to do so without any consequences.

KenRight said...

Bush with Clinton's approval destroyed Iraq. I was with Trump and Ron Paul against the war then.

Feud Turgidson said...

It. Is. On.:

"Anybody got a match?":

Earlier today I watched CNN Brian Stetler hosting Barbara Simpson, Jeff Greenfield & Doug Brinkley. DB said Don John has to fish or cut bait on Clenis as Sex Machine, JG said he JG can't imagine any answer to that, but ... Simpson just smiled: Got the impression BS like all women of a certain age already know how to deal with this horsecrap.

So in sum: Don John is on the verge TODAY of
1. taking what everyone in the world who's in the least objective can see is the single most awful hand in post-WWII presidential politics,
2. going with 2 awful pointless 'strategic' options,
3. risking not just his own rep (such as it iss) but his entire business & asset empire, his greasoid sleazy kidz' inheritance & future, but the control of the GOP over the WH for gawd knows how long, the SC for certtainly the rest of my lifetime, and BOTH chambers of Congress.

October 8, 2016 could go down in history as the day Trump went Full Belushi in leading the GOP Straight Into A massive dumpster conflagration.

Jeff Ryan said...

Oh, KenWrong, you have really proven your nimrod bonafides today.

You actually believe Trump has "intentions" beyond the glorification and enrichment of Trump. That's soooo cute! Look everyone, KenWrong is acting like a "political thinker"! Isn't that just the most darling thing you've ever seen?

Jeff Ryan said...

@KenWrong: Vladimir Vladimirovich called. He'd like a blow job. NOW.

Jeff Ryan said...

I would feel confident in saying that anyone paying attention to any poll taken since Friday should just chill the fuck out.

Were the election to be held this Tuesday, yeah, there might be something to learn from this. But it ain't gonna be.

No one has digested this story yet, and certainly not all voters. The feedback loop will increase in frequency, and things are on kind of an accelerating track right now.

One, there are more shoes to drop: Maybe a whole DSW of them. Two, I don't care how hardcore some Trumpalos are, they remain social animals, and when they are treated as pariahs by an ever-growing cohort, they will respond and join the herd of "I didn't sign up for this"-ers. Sure, the bulk of the Trumpalos are sworn idiots and will follow Der Fuhrer into the bunker. They will elbow their way in and light Trump's figurative cigarettes while the B-24s pummel Berlin to ash over their heads. But we are still, to some extent, a society. I suspect a number of husbands are even now being schooled by their "no fucking way" wives. And good on those women.

These things take on lives of their own. They can be predicted. That is why the timing of this was masterful.

sdhays said...

The repercussions are more complex than 1998. The country is more polarized now than it was then, and Clinton knew his conduct was bad and wasn't prepared to sacrifice the party on an altar to his greatness - he worked with the party to both give Democrats a space to disapprove of his conduct while continuing to support him as President. He was still a team player and he was able to rally his team effectively.

When this tape hit, I was a bit surprised at why this was finally the last straw, but now I think I understand. After Trump's terrible debate performance and week-long tirade against a former Miss Universe, the Republican elite were already finally starting to give up on the delusion that Trump could win. (It's true that a disciplined Donald Trump could win, but the real Donald Trump is too spoiled, lazy, and emotional - he chokes and is too stupid to even know he's choking). This tape was a clear opportunity to get on with it and a signal that they had probably already waited too long.

So now we have a situation where Republican-leaning voters have to choose - not just between Hillary and Donald, but between Donald and the Republican elite. This is like two stars orbiting close to each other, spinning faster and faster and closer and closer to the inevitable impact. There will be a lot of fallout over the next few weeks, and most of the fire will be happening inside the Republican tent.

Tl;DR: 1998 was a simpler time and just can't be compared to what's happening now.

Aunt Snow said...

KenRight - your comment assumes facts not in evidence. But then, all your comments do that.

Jim Snyder said...

@KenWhite: Srsly, d00d, I'm curious.

Guessing that many, perhaps most commenters here see you as I do: a white nationalist / supremacist. Perhaps you are affiliated with the KKK / neo-Nazis / alt-right-ers.

Perhaps not.

I speak only for myself, but I'll be surprised should anyone here step up to agree with you. Personally, I find your views revolting-verging-on-evil.

Not to beat around the bush, you're espousing views that are racist, unscientific, a-historical, and unhinged.

Compared to trolls I've seen at other fora, you seem mostly harmless. Tell me, why did you choose this forum to make your racist pitch? What are you trying to achieve?

You can't be trying to persuade this community, because I dare say most of us think you're an idiot and a bigot... guessing that most of us are laughing at you, and thinking something along the lines of "had I been raised in the Duggar family, would I say stoopid sh*t like KenWhite?"

Not to put too fine a point on it, you're persuading no-one.

Why are you wasting your time and ours posting racist sh*t here?

Here, have a soapbox. [provides soapbox]

Tell us everything. Purge the bile from your system.

Jim Snyder said...

@KenWhite: I'll add un-Christian, more like "pagan", to the extent that I understand the Christian Bible.

So what gives?

Grung_e_Gene said...

Trump's been in bed with Putin and his daughter. What a Country!

Jeff Ryan said...

@Jim Snyder: I can't hope to add much, if anything, to your analysis. Mr. KenWrong is probably little better than a chronic bed wetter, someone who has reached what passes for maturity around age 20, and hence has become a semi-professional troll.

Sure, on some planet somewhere he thinks he is actually spouting coherent sentences, though the content reveals he is an all too hip racist. But that's between him and, well, him. I would hope there is no analyst extant that would listen to his ignorant ravings without breaking out in hysterical laughter but, who knows? There are 9/11 truthers, and anti-vaxxers, and blithering idiots and KenWrong.

Just one of those realities we all have to tolerate. Like getting up in the morning every day, walking outside, and saying, "How many times have I told this guy to stop letting his dog spew rancid shit on my lawn?"

Just a part of life. Though, should anyone make a positive ID, piss in his face.

Though I suspect KenWrong would like it. Then again, he's a pathetic troll, and I am just feeding the beast.

Jim Snyder said...

@JeffRyan: yeah, dunno. I was curious because he seems to be taking a different approach than most of the trolls I see elsewhere, who actively disrupt on-going conversations.

Which isn't what our troll does. Is he trying to be part of the community? Trying to proselytize? Thinking he's in the wrong place and using the wrong approach if so.

Or yet something else? Really can't figure what he's after ...

Jeff Ryan said...

@Jim Snyder: Maybe he just wants to prove how ignorant he is.

Article II, section 1, clause 2 states electors cannot be senators or representatives.

But how much you wanna bet he believes in "original intent"?

I find that the louder "strict Constitutionalists" howl, the less chance they've ever read it.

Jim Snyder said...

@JeffRyan: Sorry, I am not getting the reference ("electors" / "original intent"). What does this refer to? Earlier / later post, mebbe?

Jeff Ryan said...

@Jim Snyder: Sorry. Wrong thread. My bad.

Jim Snyder said...

@JeffRyan: our fave Kremlin operative seems to be tongue-tied.


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The song is “Tell Me” from Numbers And Letters’ album “Guns Under Water.”

The video is directed by director/animator/designer Peter Szewczyk, whose VFX work was featured in “Harry Potter,” “Star Wars” and “Avatar.” He directed award-winning short films “Our Lady Of Lourdes” and Sitges Jury Prize honored “ColourBleed.”

Our wandering man is actor Josh Mann, who recently appeared in SXSW pick “Before I Disappear”; the sleeping man/myth is our wonderful, random friend Eric LaCombe, a designer and motion graphics artist for Cartoon Network.

I’m reforming the group (looking for love!) since moving to Los Angeles, and I’m releasing a new track “Sad Ocean Song” next month.

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Numbers And Letters’ song “Broken Road” from the album “Guns Under Water.”

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  8. In between each section draw a red arrow pointing to the next stage in a clockwise direction.

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Bond 50: Part III – You Only Live Twice (1967) & On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969)

Here’s Part three of my 12-part series on the Bond franchise and Blu-Ray collection. This was the first time in the set that the Bond actor switched. It was interesting to see someone other than Connery take the role. Read my thoughts on the two Bond movies and actors below…

You Only Live Twice (1967)

Release Date: June 13th, 1967

Director: Lewis Gilbert

Writers: Roald Dahl

Stars: Sean ConneryMie Hama & Donald Pleasence

Someone is abducting astronauts from low-Earth orbit. As tensions mount between the US and Russia, James Bond travels to Japan to uncover who is behind it and put a stop to it before the start of World War Three!

I went into You Only Live Twice expecting to hate it. I’m not exactly sure why that is. I honestly didn’t know much about it going in. I think that knowing it was Sean Connery’s first “last Bond movie” I expected it to be somehow sloppy or uninteresting. But a movie that includes kidnapped astronauts, a helicopter battle, ninjas and Donald Pleasance as a cartoonish Blofeld is a movie that’s out to win my heart.

The movie opens with a pre-credit sequence that puts an emphasis on exposition rather than being a mostly standalone action sequence like past movies. Bond isn’t featured that prominently in it, either. It just introduces the plot and then gives a quick Bond moment to set up the plot. It does feature an astronaut floating freely in space, which is a deep seeded fear of mine.

The main locale in You Only Live Twice is Japan. It’s a nice change of pace from the tropical settings of Dr. No and Thunderball but it’s not as good as Istanbul from From Russia With Love.

There’s a very memorable car chase in the film. The conclusion involves a helicopter picking the car pursuing Bond with a giant magnet. It was the idea of the producer’s wife to include it and it’s nothing short of genius! I was laughing and applauding it.

Q Branch outfits Bond with a small helicopter that leads to a very memorable and thrilling aerial battle. Speaking of Q, seeing Desmond Llewelyn on screen puts a smile on my face. Q and Bond’s interactions are quickly becoming my favorite part of the franchise.

One thing that struck me about You Only Live Twice deals with the Japanese setting. There’s a scene where Bond is talking shop with a Japanese intelligence ally while beautiful Japanese women are bathing the two. It was a little bizarre. Later in the movie the Japanese ally tells Bond he must “become a Japanese.” What follows is Bond getting his chased shaved, eyes adjusted and hair wigged. The 1960s were such a different time.

You Only Live Twice includes an extravagant “evil lair” set in the crater of a volcano. It makes a great setting for the finale of the movie that includes masses of ninjas repelling into the crater. It was a great ending to a surprisingly fun Bond movie.

My parting thought on You Only Live Twice involves the filmmaking. Through the four previous Bond movies I didn’t comment on the 60s style of awkward green screen work. It didn’t bother me but there’s one example in You Only Live Twice where it’s cringe worthy in its awkwardness.

Blu-Ray Features

*Strangely there’s no “Mission Control” feature on this disc. It’s a shame.*

MI6 CommentaryFeature commentary with director Lewis Gilbert and members of the cast and crew.

Declassified: MI6 Vault

Welcome to Japan Mr. Bond (52mins, 23secs) – This is a weird franchise retrospective. It features Moneypenny and Q as Moneypenny tries to uncover the identity of Bond’s wife. Between scenes there are clips from all the Bond films. There’s also a subplot of a disgruntled actress upset she wasn’t cast as Bond’s wife. Like I said, this is kind of a weird feature. It’s vaguely reminiscent of the “Child’s Guide to Blowing up a Motor Car” feature from the Thunderball disc only not as cute.

Whicker’s World – Highlights from 1967 BBC Documentary (5mins, 22secs) – Behind the scenes footage of the making of the movie featuring some footage of Cubby Broccoli speaking about the prospect of a new actor for Bond.

On Location with Ken Adam (13mins, 59secs) – I’m enjoying production designer Ken Adam’s commentary on the locations of the Bond movies. Here he infuses a bit of humor into it.

Mission Dossier

Inside You Only Live Twice (30mins, 24secs) – A look at the adaptation of the book to the screen with a lot of behind the scenes anecdotes.

Silhouettes: The James Bond Titles (23mins, 24secs) – An interesting documentary on the making of the iconic James Bond title sequences.

Plane Crash: Animated Storyboard Sequence (1min, 38secs) – Storyboards for the plane crash sequence, includes alternate versions.

Exotic Locations (4mins, 8secs) – A look at the filming locations in Japan. Narrated by Maude Adams.

Ministry of PropagandaTheatrical Archive, TV Broadcasts & Radio CommunicationA thorough collection of all the promotional material.

Image DatabaseA sizable gallery of pictures from the making of the movie.

Buy the individual “You Only Live Twice” blu-ray here.

On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969)

Release Date: December 18th, 1969

Director: Peter R. Hunt

Writers: Richard Maibaum

Stars: George LazenbyDiana RiggTelly Savalas

James Bond takes a leave of absence to hunt the elusive Blofeld in the Swiss Alps while falling for a mob boss’s daughter.

On Her Majesty’s Secret Service was one of the Bond movies I was most looking forward to watching when I bought the set. Christopher Nolan is one of my favorite filmmakers working today and knowing he used OHMSS as the basis for the snow fortress sequences in Inception had me very eager to watch this movie.

I had two thoughts when I started the movie. First, this is the best looking blu-ray in the set so far. The amount of care that went into the restoration of earlier movies like Dr. No and Goldfinger is evident here as well. Being the sixth entry in an exponentially bigger and more expensive franchise just solidifies the gorgeous blu-ray copy.

My second thought was that Bond regenerated! I knew this was Lazenby’s movie, I just couldn’t resist a Doctor Who reference. I was skeptical of letting go of Connery’s Bond and letting someone else attempt the role. Despite having seen all of Daniel Craig’s movies, I grew kind of attached to Connery.

OHMSS is Lazenby’s only Bond movie. I think knowing that he is the William Henry Harrison of the franchise made me go in expecting a subpar performance. That’s surprisingly not the case at all. After the pre-credit fight sequence on the beach, Lazenby stops and says to the camera, “This never happened to the other fella.” From there, I was totally on board with Lazenby as Bond. By the end of the movie, I was disappointed this was his only one.

As for the middle sections of the movie, I was torn. Bond makes an arrangement to get Blofeld’s location. In exchange, he has to marry a mob boss’s daughter. From there, he resigns from her Majesty’s secret service in a nice scene where he looks through old gadgets from past movies. Then he goes after Blofeld.

But an hour into the movie I was having a surprisingly hard time following the plot. I was disappointed in the movie and myself. There’s a lot of exposition-heavy dialogue that’s simply lacking something in the movie. It wasn’t a fault of Lazenby, it was just a script that was failing to hold my attention.

It wasn’t until Bond got to the Swiss Alps (the most stunning location in the franchise yet) and began uncovering Blofeld’s plot that I finally got into OHMSS. After he meets the beautiful women Blofeld is conducting allergy research on, the movie gets on track and doesn’t stop.

Telly Savalas is a much less cartoonish and more diabolical Blofeld than Donald Pleasence in You Only Live Twice. It fits the tone of the movie, being it’s the only Bond movie thus far with a more personal plot for Bond. Savalas is still slightly strange, though. The way he holds his cigarette in certain scenes is bizarre. It gives his Blofeld a unique spin.

OHMSS wouldn’t be a Bond movie without being replete with action sequences. It’s a very thrilling movie with many memorable action sequences. The stand out sequence is a scene in which countless henchmen chase Bond on skis down the mountain. At one point Bond sis with one leg because, well, he’s James Bond. It was the highlight of the movie for me. There’s also a car chase through a stock car race that I enjoyed immensely.

On Her Majesty’s Secret Service is the most personal Bond movie yet. Even though it took a while for me to get into, it’s one of the best out of the ones I’ve seen. It makes me wish George Lazenby had done more Bond movies. Nevertheless, this is a perfectly acceptable single entry for an actor to have in the franchise.

Blu-Ray Features

*Strangely there’s no “Mission Control” feature on this disc either. It’s a shame.*

MI6 CommentaryCommentary featuring Director Peter Hunt and members of the cast and crew.

Declassified: MI6 Vault

Casting On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1min, 35secs) – Quick look at some behind the scenes footage with some information on the casting of George Lazenby and Diane Rigg.

Press Day in Portugal (1min, 32secs) – Some behind the scenes footage of the “press day” event that took place in Portugal during an elaborate rehearsal for the benefit of the press.

George Lazenby: In His Own Words (9mins, 27secs) – A collection of interviews with George Lazenby over the years from the time of the film’s release to the early 2000s. He speaks candidly about his experience on the movie and the aftermath of taking up one of film’s most iconic roles.

Shot on Ice – Original 1969 Ford Promo Film (9mins, 45secs) – Behind the scenes look at the filming of the movie, particularly the stock car race/chase sequence. I’m glad this is a straight up featurette and not like the Child’s Guide to Blowing up a Motor Car promo film from Thunderball.

Swiss Movement – Original 1969 Featurette (7mins, 29secs) – A behind the scenes featurette on filming in the Swiss Alps.

Mission Dossier

Inside On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (41mins, 41secs) – Overview of the production of On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. There are a lot of interesting facts behind the making of the movie. It’s a very engaging documentary.

Inside Q’s Lab (10mins, 26secs) – A really good look at Desmond Llewelyn’s portrayal of Q through the movies. There are funny anecdotes about Roger Moore playing practical jokes on Llewelyn during filming.

Above It All – Original 1969 Featurette (5mins, 41secs) – Featurette on the filming of the movie in the Swiss Alps, particularly about cameraman Johnny Jordan’s work filming while suspended from a helicopter by a parachute.

Exotic Locations (4mins, 24secs) – Maude Adams guides us through an overview of the film’s locations with some anecdotes along the way.

Ministry of PropagandaTheatrical Archive, TV Broadcasts & Radio CommunicationA thorough collection of all the promotional material.

Image DatabaseA sizable gallery of pictures from the making of the movie.

Buy the individual “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service” blu-ray here.

This is kind of a tough call for me, surprisingly enough. I was surprised by how much I enjoyed You Only Live Twice. So much so that it almost has an edge over On Her Majesty’s Secret Service solely because OHMSS was a little hard for me to get into.

But I can’t deny that On Her Majesty’s Secret Service was the stronger movie across the board. It being Lazenby’s only entry and being the only one with a personal storyline makes it something special.

You can buy the Bond 50th Anniversary blu-ray collection here.

The Obsessive Viewer will return in…

Bond 50: Part IV – Diamonds Are Forever (1971) & Live and Let Die (1973)

4 responses to “Bond 50: Part III – You Only Live Twice (1967) & On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969)

  1. Definitely buying OHMSS on blu ray now. Thanks! After you’re done you should rank all of the Bond movies. Im planning on doing that. All the talk for Bond 24 has me excited.

    • Nice. I’m excited to watch OHMSS again sometime. The more I think about it, the more I like it.

      And I’m planning some pretty cool things for when I’m done with the set. I need to buckle down and get through the rest.

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The Internet Scold Syndrome

If it weren't hurting so many people, it would be funny: this hypocritical indignation by the warmongers of the West that 40 Syrians were killed by chemicals! This from the people who have killed a million people in the Mideast since the first Persian Gulf War.

Of course TNT and gunpowder aren't 'chemicals'; and they and embargoes (of necessary things) are not 'weapons of mass destruction'.

But why even talk about it? Americans don't care how much suffering their government causes in foreign countries. To even talk about it just reduces a blogger to a crank, or even worse, an unpopular scold.

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I ran across a phrase, in "The Closing of the American Mind" by Allan Bloom, attributed to Saul Bellow. And it really made me flutter my eyelashes, as metaphors are prone to do.

Let's paraphrase it by saying that the internet allows someone a chance to turn a blog 'into a kind of ghost town, into which anyone can move and declare themselves sheriff'. Isn't that precious?

Rather than scold people, maybe we should praise the patriotism and courage of the Syrian people and their military in shooting down many of the cruise missiles launched by a foreign invader who has no business meddling in their country. Don't tell me I am aiding and abetting the "enemy." Congress has not declared war against Syria, so they aren't the enemy. The real enemies of the American people exist inside this country.

Ed said…
".. illegally bombing a sovereign nation in violation of all international law and pushed Russia, Iran and China into a closer alliance. His [Trump} opponents will hang him with this strike. Even if he was coerced into this against his will, it signals to the world he isn’t in control of anything and has no real power. So much for the Art of the Deal." - Trump Is Done, Mattis Won, Thank the Gods by Tom Luongo
Bon vivant said…
Agreed. I've been thinking for days that drones may be making more enemies for us than chemical weapons is for Assad. And of course, dead is dead.
Ann Smith said…

It seems that with the safety for soldiers that technology affords them comes out in the wash with an increased civilian death.
Ann Smith said…
Well if you look into the Syrian Pipeline that Assad contracted to Russia and Iran, that Israel/Qatar/Saudi Arabia/Egypt does not want that to happen they would rather fund the ISLAMIC militia to invade Syria and take the pipeline for themselves to warm Europe with all that oil, as the planet continues it's steady trend into a global cooling period, and you look at the developing international sovereign debt crisis that is building, the politicians in the East and the West agree that the unwashed masses must be distracted with a war and global warming.

Of course no one wants to occupy the other, way too expensive and who has the money? Taxes will rise, and their favorite is CO2.

So lets blow up some bombs in some far off place that will disturb only rats. Fireworks are always so exciting.

What I find so amazing is how all of the sudden, the Trump hating media are praising his actions. Gross. This only shows that the real power in DC is the military, and oh, did you know, next year the interest payments on the federal debt will be more than military expenses which is 14% of GDP, by the way.

Imagine paying 14% of your income on interest of debt.

Term Limits, 1-3 years.
Abolish direct taxation
Abolish Government Borrowing
Abolish Standing Armies, the second amendment only needs the young of a nation to be trained properly on how to shoot and care for a gun, and come when the borders are invaded.

Standing Armies are the real danger to peace.
Anonymous said…
"It took a succession of high-profile scandals before Americans truly woke up to the plague of sexual harassment and assault. How long will it take before the public concludes that they have had enough of wars that don’t work? Here’s hoping it’s before our president, in a moment of ill temper, unleashes “fire and fury” on the world." Andrew Bacevich

Ann Smith said…
Sure, you can manufacture a plague of sexual harassment and assault when you change the definition as the Marxist controlled schools have done, and you can make everyone believe the new definition through the Marxist controlled Media and Marxist controlled deep state.

It is kind of funny though, after the sexual revolution of Loose Sex for everyone 60's, the media now wants to label men sexual predators? Now a wolf whistle is considered sexual assault.

This is really about the war on the Family, attacking men.

WWIII will happen because the public refuses to recognize that we have a problem with the Debt of the Government. They can keep borrowing and never ever pay it back, so they, the corrupt marxist controlled governments of the world, with all of their promises to pay for your old age, your health care, your children's education and all those poor, they instead have squandered all of your money on lavish homes, cars, vacations, and all of their families and friends lavish homes, cars, vacations.

Oh and lets not forget the lavish Pension plans. A school teacher today can retire at $110,000 a year for the rest of her life, how sustainable do you think that is when the pensions are all invested in Bonds with interest rates at 5000 year lows. Do you even understand what that means?

It means you will be lucky to get $10,000 a year in your pension and newbies will be paying way more, and taxes are going to go up.

Its called a Sovereign Debt Crisis.

Hope keeps you out of solution, and believing that a president can blow up the world is just plain stupid. Poor Andrew, he was wrong on Obama too, at least he came to his senses when Obama invaded Afghanistan, never ending Iraq.

Fear is the tool the government uses to gain it's power over your mind so what is the solution.

If you can never get rid of corruption then what do you do? You limit its ability to thrive as much as possible through...

Term limits
Abolish Direct Taxation
Abolish Government Borrowing
Abolish Standing Arming utilizing the 2nd amendment.

Rome built itself for a thousand years with out direct taxation, they just created the money they needed and spent it on public works.


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“Oppressive” “Totalitarian” “Dystopia”:Technologists, National Security Experts, Public Officials, Media Organizations Condemn Obama-NSA Spying

June 10, 2013

As the Obama Administration and its Democratic and Republican allies begin to try and defend & explain away Obama’s recently-exposed NSA spying, here are some major voices-technologists, national security experts, public officials, media organizations- offering their views of the threat posed to democracy in the United States:

Unwarranted government surveillance is an intrusion on basic human rights that threatens the very foundations of a democratic society.” Tim Berners-Lee, inverntor of World Wide Web

Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous?” – Al Gore

The (Obama) administration has now lost all credibility on this issue.” – Editors of the New York Times

We believe the large-scale collection of this information by the government has a very significant impact on Americans’ privacy, whether senior government officials recognize that fact or not.” – Senators Ron Wyden & Mark Udall

“The Foundation of a Very Oppressive State”- Brian Jenkins, Top Intelligence and Security analyst at RAND

 “On a Slippery Slope to a Totalitarian State”William Binney, a former top official at the National Security Agency

Be careful” –John Schindler, former NSA analyst & technical director

“I, personally, am by now disgusted with their conduct: the national security apparatus has convinced itself and the rest of the government that the only way it can do its job is to know everything about everyone. That’s not how you protect a country. We didn’t fight the Cold War just so we could rebuild the Stasi ourselves.” – Yonatan Zunger, East German Chief architect of Google+ on what he thinks of the Obama Administration’s activities (FYI, the “Stasi” were E. German security apparatchiks, famous for massive repression

“…we now live in a surveillance dystopia beyond Orwell’s Big Brother vision.”- Nick Weaver, UC Berkeley professor & one fo the country’s top experts on computer and network security

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Die Stadt, und die Stadt #WritersWednesday

nightmare wallpapers

Was passiert? What’s happening in this city? Smiling faces have disappeared, hoods are on, ugly trolls march in the streets…  Some disrespectful punks have pinched my venerable old bike!! The friendly round little diablotins have morphed into ugly scumbags, the air smells of sulphur…

A few days away, and this is a different place, what’s going on? Is someone trying to tell me something? Have I outstretched my welcome? Is time up? Or has there been a shift in space-time, are we in 2019, or in 9102? Have the magnetic poles inverted?

Have I dreamed? Or is the nightmare now, this, this unknown city, which only ressembles the one I once knew?

Image source: http://wallpapers-xs.blogspot.com/2012/04/nightmare-wallpapers.html

Proxy #thedailypost

She roams the streets, a pale, almost immaterial silhouette, the thin shadow of a woman. Yet the eyes are much alive, piercing blue, observing the passers-by, decrypting the smiles, or the tears. She reads the lives, the stories, the pain, the joy, she does not need to talk with people, they are an open book for her – and the only light in her life.

For without them, she is not really alive, a mere shimmer in the autumn air.

Image: Fantome by 0zhan on DeviantArt

#FiveSentenceFiction: Scarlet

We met by chance, one of those city encounters, that usually lead nowhere.

But it was your dress, the colour matching your smile, the shape of you, suddenly more visible than if you had been naked: I looked at you as a photographer, then as a poet, then – yes of course – as a male who wanted you, who wanted to know and own that beautiful picture of a woman.

But no-one is to own you, for you are free and want to stay that way, you are no object, your beauty is for itself, and if you play, it’s on your terms, dress and all: there is no Pygmalion on your horizon, just you, and, cohorts of people like me – if only I had known.

So we walked, chatting, a close time capsule, oblivious of the crowd, of the trees, of time slipping, your voice as smooth as honey, the colour of your dress still holding me, transfixed.

“So”, you said with a bright scarlet smile, “are you sure you want to know who you have met, Doctor Faust? Then I will show you the other side of me”…

#BlogMeMaybe: May 16 – May I ask something about you?

Your dream place

  What is your dream place in this world? Perhaps it is where you live already, perhaps a city you have visited, perhaps somewhere you read about? What inspires you there, what is special for you? Are you sharing that place with anyone? And, if you write, have you written about your dream place? Would you want to live there, in a different time in history?


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Review: Detective Anna (Anna-detektiv)

Aleksandra Nikiforova in Detective Anna (Anna-detektiv)

Detective Anna (Anna-detektiv) is a Russian series now on Amazon Video. It features a 19 year old detective with the ability to communicate with the dead.

The series is organized so that each crime takes two episodes. With 16 episodes, there are 8 crimes. Each episode is about 45 minutes, so the series is rather like seeing 8 movies with the same main characters.

Anna (Aleksandra Nikiforova) is a well-to-do young woman in the Russian town of Zatonsk. The time is 1888. Anna is a free spirited young woman who rides a bicycle – something daring and unheard of at that time.

Dmitriy Frid in Detective Anna (Anna-detektiv)

Into Anna’s small town comes a new detective from the big city, Iakov Shtolman (Dmitriy Frid). He joins the police department and begins training the inexperienced officers there.

Since childhood, Anna has had “visions.” She’s learned to keep them secret, but as she reaches maturity she realizes that the things she sees are actually visits from the spirits of the dead. Those spirits are telling her things about crimes committed against them.

Anna tries to help Detective Shtolman with clues, but without telling him how she knows what she knows. Eventually the two of them begin to work together as a crime solving duo.

I found Aleksandra Nikiforova as Anna quite charming and Dmitriy Frid as the policeman believable. But some of the secondary character actors struck me as stilted and not very good actors. It could be a cultural difference, however. Or a lack of experience watching Russian-made television.

All in all the series was an interesting look into a different time and place which I enjoyed. These stories about Anna take place as the same time as stories by Tolstoy and Chekhov, so readers familiar with the social customs of that time from those writers may be intrigued by this look into the past.

It’s in Russian with English subtitles. The setting is beautiful.

I’m delighted that Amazon (and Netflix) are bringing such foreign language content to American audiences.

25 thoughts on “Review: Detective Anna (Anna-detektiv)”

  1. It’s a great show but Amazon chopped it up and doesn’t bother to tell you….. So you watch 1-2, 7-10, 19-20, 29-30, 39-40….and you know something’s wrong, but then it becomes obvious when you start episode 49…..SO frustrated with Amazon right now. Amazon, if you are listening, please put the FORTY missing episodes up!!!!!

  2. I watched the whole series with 56 episodes on YouTube (I’m Russian). Let me tell you this, the show starts wonderfully, however around episode 25 it turned into something else. Became boring, crimes were silly, Anna and Shtolman kept on doing this weird dance, one moment sparks are flying everywhere and the next nothing. Their relationship was sooooo stretched that I lost interest. I think they should have hooked them up somewhere in mid season. Anyways, the end left the viewers with too many questions, very dissatisfying ending, and apparently there is no season 2. So I was upset but whatever I got over it. The show should have been no more than 20 episodes in my opinion. They stretched it and it lost its point.

      1. all 56 episodes on utube tho the translation is horrid. i don’t understand the ending and i dont think they are reprising it

      1. If you watched on Amazon, it might be due to missing episodes, but according to the comment by Natalia, even seeing all the episodes doesn’t clear up much for the viewer.

  3. All the episodes for season 1 are now on Amazon prime and I read somewhere that season 2 will be in November 2018 but I don’t know whether that will be free with prime or not.

    The whole point of the last episodes were the slow reveal of the many sub plots that have been running through the series along side the many crimes and the tension between Anna and Shtolman added to the intreague of will they won’t they get together which for me made it all the more romantic and compelling.

  4. Any idea if there will be a second season. I love this show but it did leave me wanting more and needing answers. I don’t watch too many foreign subtitled shows because I have a hard time following the plots but not so with Detective Anna, it made perfect sense. Plus even in Russian I could tell it is well acted and filmed. Detective Anna is a quality show all around that I look forward to seeing more of in the future.

  5. I just finished watching all 56 episodes on Amazon and literally screamed at the tv after episode 56. I do not usually binge watch shows or even get that caught up in a show, but this one was different. I’m extremely agitated that I can’t figure out if there is a season 2 or not. The ending of season 1 was completely ridiculous….like there is no way that could even be considered an ending. As the last ten minutes closed in, I was preparing myself for an awful ending and trying to guess how they could possibly wrap up all of the tangled plot in ten minutes. If there isn’t a season 2, I’m going to be incredibly shocked. I can’t believe I can’t find information about whether there is one or not. The last episode was 2016, so I wouldn’t think that it would take that long to develop another set unless they are translating it for Amazon. I thought I would at least be able to find some sort of English info on it somewhere. This show might actually make me learn Russian or just watch it to try to guess what is going on, because I need to know if he is okay! AAARRRGGHH!

    1. You aren’t the only Amazon customer upset about the missing episodes. I wish I knew more about how the series has been brought to the US because the people who have watched it like it. The series doesn’t even have a Wikipedia entry to help us.

      1. Amazon must have taken the complaints to heart. I’ve just binge watched all 56 episodes on Amazon prime.

        Loved the series but the end has left me with more questions… No answers reg Alice, the Prince or Gordon Brown which makes me hope there will be a second series. Read somewhere it was to begin Nov 18 but maybe they were referring to filming??

        1. Thank you for sharing this news. I hope it doesn’t apply to only Amazon UK! I’m sure a lot of the fans will be delighted. Time to head back the Amazon and catch up on all the episodes of Detective Anna you couldn’t see before.

  6. I found this page trying to find season 2 after binge watching because I got laid low by a nasty flu. I saw someone mentioned a season 2 will be released in November 2018 but it’s almost Christmas 2018 and I don’t see it so maybe there is no season 2. That’s crazy. It’s actually very well made but the ending is very disappointing. We don’t know what the subplots are all about at all.

  7. I have binge watched Detective Anna twice on Amazon Prime. The second time around, I picked up on more nuances that I had missed. The Producer reminded us that this series was very Russian. It is a wonderful series. I do hope that it will have a second season. Episode 56 was a real cliff hanger. I only wish Hollywood could make shows like Detective Anna. I love the actors chosen for this show. Anna, Shtolman, Anton, the Uncle, all are great. Remember, do not critique this show based on American standards. This show reminds me more of BBC shows. The beauty, the intrigue, the characters. I am now trying to watch more Russian shows. I see an industry that is truly unique in Russia.

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Discovering my spirit animal

The web is full of opportunities to take quizzes. Everything from what’s your Hogwart’s house to what city should you live in. My daughter and I often joke about them as we sparkle with intrigue awaiting the results. She happens to be obsessed with animals. Animals of all kinds. Her spirit animal is a tiger, per, but she’s often flying down the hallway of our home with arms stretched wide and screeching sounds coming from her as she takes on her dragon character. On top of that, whatever book she’s immersed in serves her animal imagination well, right now we are in the cat zone – she’s reading Warriors books faster than I can keep them stocked up.

It got me wondering what my spirit animal was. Funnily enough, that’s a quiz I’ve yet to take on my own. I’ve gone through my own periods of obsession with giraffes and owls. But, not because they appeared to me in visions or dreams. So before accepting the random assignment of a Google search result, I truly pondered my spirit animal destiny. What am I? What do I feel like most days? The first thing that popped into mind? You’ll never guess. I’m still a little perplexed. Okay, here it goes. A platypus.

One might think, wow, sorry. That’s really too bad. How uninspiring and awkward. I know I did. I tilted my head to the side with a, hmph. At first glance my spirit animal lacked swag. Or so I thought. Then I turned to the wonderful world of Wikipedia.

A platypus is a hodgepodge. A mixed up looking creature with the bill of a duck, a tail like a beaver and webbed feet similar to an otter. It’s the only mammal that lays eggs. It’s fur is waterproof and similar to that of a mole. This thing is like a jackknife of the animal kingdom.

I often times feel like a hodgepodge myself. Especially when I think of all the things I’ve done and want to do. It often feels like I have phases of my life that don’t necessarily intersect, except for the fact that they all belong to me. My varied life and work experiences from California to New York to Alaska, from dance to theatre to advertising, have proven to myself that I’m adaptable. I can do anything that I put my mind to. It’s not to say there aren’t struggles or what seem like insurmountable challenges at times. But if history tells me anything, I know how to adapt. How to evolve. I feel like I’m in a period of change right now.

Okay, this platypus thing got me excited. So after all this platypus pondering, I decided to try my hand a couple of quizzes. Results: Butterfly, Whale, Horse. See…hodgepodge. Platypus it is!


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Internationally Recognised Office in New Plymouth

When she established ONE AGENCY TAYLOR REALTY in late 2016 business owner Cindy Taylor’s goal for her New Plymouth office was to provide innovative marketing and knowledgeable, trustworthy advice for her clients. Proof that this is where Cindy Taylor is leading her Team is in the recognition received last month at the ONE AGENCY Australasian Awards night in Sydney, where ONE AGENCY TAYLOR REALTY was judged winner of the Exceptional Marketing and Innovation Award for 2017.

 OA Taylor Award 2017

The Award was sponsored by The New Zealand Real Estate Trust, and the reality of a win such as this is, as she said at the time “Is just mind blowing, especially when you are being compared to over 200 Australian and New Zealand ONE Agency licenses operated by over 160 offices. “To receive an Australasian Award is acknowledgement that my team knows how to meet their clients ‘needs and how best to ensure positive and timely results when selling or buying in the fast-paced digital world we now live in’ she added. When You Do What Others Don’t. When You Put Your Clients First. When You Work as a Team BIG Results can be achieved.

Who are ONE Agency Taylor Realty…

Leaving a large local Real Estate Franchise office, Cindy has found her first year in business away from that structure to be ‘interesting to say the least”. She said breaking away from the crowd is refreshing and invigorating but terrifying as well. “There are so many emotions that business owners face daily behind the scenes that people don’t see and that require true grit, determination & leadership to overcome.”

Cindy feels that when salespeople are working within a large team and with similar approaches to other large offices in such a public environment as real estate, it’s easy to feel like you are just another number and blend into the grey of daily life. Her view is that this can also be true for the way properties are marketed, so her team’s approach is to make vendors’ homes stand out from the crowd”.

Aside of individual property highlights and advantages, her team accomplishes best results through “Doing the best we can for our vendors and doing everything for the right reasons based on the property itself, the vendors ‘requirements and the target market and not hamstrung by corporate policy”.

To be selected by well-known and fast -growing real estate disruptors ONE Agency to be their flagship in Taranaki was a total surprise. “It just goes to show hard work and dedication do pay off and people who can help your dreams come true are watching you” The invitation to join the ONE Agency group provided Cindy with a once in a lifetime opportunity that most people only dream about, and 12 months on it still seems hard to believe at times. One Agency’s unique business model support, smart branding & colours and massive library of marketing templates have helped take real estate to the next level and with offices across Australia, New Zealand and shortly Fiji, the brand is not surprisingly, the fastest growing network on both sides of the Tasman.

Being an independent allows for quick and measurable marketing solutions in a very changeable marketplace as opposed to brand centric corporate agencies. Flexibility and early adaptability bring new and innovative marketing opportunities to meet the needs of our discerning clients and customers. In a world of “high connectivity” ONE Agency Taylor Realty brings a whole new perspective of market engagement and transparency.

If you are thinking Real Estate make ONE call first 06 7511909 The Team will be happy to help you with your Real Estate needs.