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Best Bursell podcasts we could find (updated January 2020)
Best Bursell podcasts we could find
Updated January 2020
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Social critic-at-large Charles Bursell presents podcasts, radio art, and commentary in a variety of formats and genres ranging from one-on-one conversation to full company experimental audio improv. Current podcasts include "Conversations with Charles Bursell" and "Stream of Consciousness Talk Radio Theatre"
Liz Manashil and Alrik Bursell discuss independent filmmaking, everything from writing, producing and directing to working as crew. But this is not just a podcast about "making it," it's also about struggling with rejection, self-doubt and everything else that comes with pursuing a career in film. Follow along as we forge our own way through the industry and talk to guests who are also making it happen.
Every Thursday, Noam shares valuable insight into the world of micro-budget filmmaking, geared towards true DIY filmmakers looking to get out there and create their own films.
A monthly show where host, Creator K, and guests share stories, music, and art that you might not know about, but should - because sharing is caring. Send us questions/stuff that you've been digging lately at letsshowandtell1@gmail.com
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New Year mulligans, Iran plan, cookie etiquette, and dodging death. www.charlesbursell.comBy Charles Bursell
We are back with another Speed of Life centric episode of MMIH, this time Liz Manashil sits down with two of her producers Pardis Sullins and Josh JD Compton to talk about the producing of their film Speed of Life!By Alrik and Liz
This week Liz and Alrik talk to Liz's production designer on her second feature film, Speed of Life, Marcie Maute! Marcie tells us about how she brought the two timelines into existence, working on a tiny budget and much more!By Alrik and Liz
This week on the show, filmmaker Shaun Colón takes us on a deep dive into the world of documentary filmmaking. We chat at length about his debut documentary feature: A Fat Wreck - a 3 year long DIY project that found incredible success with film festivals and fans alike, even generating interest from the Sundance Institute. Building off of this suc…
Next Generation Football podcast host Shauyan Noorfeshan joins Creator K on the show for episode 21 to talk about how he fell in love with the game of soccer and took that love to a new level by creating the Next Generation Football Podcast, as well as the qualities necessary for budding projects to have that will set them apart from others. In par…
This week we are back with the second in a series of updates from the set of The Alternate! This time co-host Andrew Schrader is joined by Alrik to talk through the audio logs for days four and five of the shoot!By Alrik and Andrew
You’re probably not a radical, but you should be. Plus, an addendum to last week’s year/decade review. www.charlesbursell.comBy Charles Bursell
This week we are going to share with you the first in a series of audio logs I recorded during Principal Photography for The Alternate! For this first update co-host Andrew Schrader goes through the first three days of production logs from The Alternate!By Alrik and Andrew
This week Alrik and Liz are excited to have Polish filmmaker Bartlomiej 'Bart' Skupien on the show to talk about his journey making short films in Poland and why he prefers to write all of his films in English and how he's managed to pull that off!By Alrik and Liz
2019 year in review, looking back at the 10's and looking ahead to the 20’s www.charlesbursell.comBy Charles Bursell
Jack of all trades Camden Stacey (musically known as "Shhh") joins Creator K on the show for episode 20 to talk about music - both making it and teaching it - and the Chicago-based project, Reset Presents, he is a part of and what they’re all about. We also continue some of the chatter from last episode about freelance life - the importance of bala…
This week Alrik and Liz welcome production designer Rob Riutta to the show to talk about designing the eleven feature films he has under his belt, what goes into the art department and is process for the production design for Alrik's film, The Alternate.By Alrik and Liz
Host Charles Bursell talks with singer/songwriter Peter Donalds and plays songs from his album “Small Town Christmas” www.charlesbursell.comBy Charles Bursell
The wannabe crime boss will face an impeachment trial. Democrats have chosen a narrow path, but the country, and history, would have been better served by throwing the book at him. www.charlesbursell.comBy Charles Bursell
Returning to the show this week is Alex Ferrari of the Indie Film Hustle podcast. Alex has been educating filmmakers for years through a multitude of platforms, and has just written a new book that truly takes things to the next level: Rise of the Filmtrepreneur. The film industry has gone through a massive change over the past few years and most f…
This week Liz and Alrik welcome back multi-hyphenate writer, director, author, podcaster and indie film podcast mogul Alex Ferrari to the show! Alex talks to us about his newest book, the Rise of the Filmtrepreneur!By Alrik and Liz
The Media Bias chart, the “I don’t care” philosophy, prayers for Jimmy Carter, and The Ten Commitments. www.charlesbursell.comBy Charles Bursell
Creator K joins Creator K for episode 19 to talk freelance life - benefits, struggles, and the overall hustle. In part 2, K shares his experience running a Ragnar relay and what he learned about himself while doing it, as well as a few others items y'all might dig. Show notes containing all links to the guest and items discussed will be in the Soun…
This week Liz Manashil and Alrik welcome Writer/Director Jennifer Reeder to the show to talk about her career as a director and her newest film, Knives and Skin which hits theaters and VOD on Friday December 6th!By Alrik and Liz
This track was produced for Riverwest Radio, Milwaukee to be aired during their on-air fundraiser. It is the first of two half-hours.By Charles Bursell
This track was produced for Riverwest Radio, Milwaukee to be aired during their on-air fundraiser. It is the second of two half-hours.By Charles Bursell
Hunters, Hamilton, Fascists, (ok) Boomers, and dime store Oprah. www.charlesbursell.comBy Charles Bursell
On this Turkey Two-Fer we start off with L. Jeffrey Moore and Alrik talking with LA Based Actor/Writer/Producer Bruce Nachsin about his path as a filmmaker, making action shorts and his Super Hero shorts Dark Specter and Dark Specter 2!By Alrik and Jeffrey
On our second part of our Turkey Day Special co-host Winnie Wong and Alrik chat with filmmaker, musician, writer and director Dominic Mercurio! Dominic talks to us about his work in music videos and returning to filmmaking after an eight year break!By Alrik and Winnie
A motley collection of guests perform a First Thanksgiving pageant then hit the table for turkey and talk on politics, gender, food, death, memes and more. Also, there’s too much hollering in the world. www.charlesbursell.comBy Charles Bursell
Multidisciplinary artist Ben Bursell (musically known as "Ache") joins Creator K on the show for episode 18 to talk about how skateboarding was the driver of his desire to create art, how he balances multiple forms of expression, and how important it is for creatives to make things simply for the fun of it. In part 2, Ben brings in a product that h…
This week special co-host Samiat Salami and Alrik talk to writer/director/producer Dave Bundtzen about making horror short films and his strategy to make his filmmaking profitable! This and much more on this weeks Making Movies is HARD!By Alrik and Samiat
Climate crisis, white supremacy, and economic injustice. Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez connect the dots and lay out their vision. Writer/activist Naomi Klein opens. www.charlesbursell.comBy Charles Bursell
Economic injustice, a dire climate warning, and the end of Tr*mp. Resetting The Log’s mission topics. www.charlesbursell.comBy Charles Bursell
This week Liz and Alrik talk to actor turned writer/director Alex Wolff about growing up in front of the camera and discovering himself as a writer/director as a teenager which lead him down a five year journey to get The Cat and The Moon made!By Alrik and Liz
Musical artist Rilla Force joins Creator K on the show for episode 17 to chat about his new album "Fiesta", how he found his sound, trusting the universe, more. In part 2, Rilla shares his Sega memory card that, sparked a larger conversation about his roots and inspirations, as well as the importance of setting and raising bars in the arts. Show no…
Radio theatre, a Halloween jam, new poetry, an old ghost story, and conversation on the meaning of the Scary Season. (Spoiler alert: your greatest fear is also your deepest desire.) The full company joins host Charles Bursell for this special Holiday podcast. www.charlesbursell.comBy Charles Bursell
This week, my guest is Brad Raider - a fellow LA based filmmaker who made his debut feature Kensho at the Bedfellow on a budget of $250,000. Over the course of our chat, Brad speaks at length about his fundraising process which uniquely leveraged his meditation community to bring his vision to life. We also talk about his challenging production pro…
Andrew Schrader and Gavin Murray join Alrik this week to talk about the Just Shoot It Live show they all went to the night before and to grill Alrik on how he feels about the crowdfunding campaign for The Alternate which now only has 3 days left!By Alrik and Andrew
Turns out we were wrong: Dylan really can sing, autumn leaves shouldn’t be raked, and Trump’s really going down this time. www.charlesbursell.comBy Charles Bursell
This week, I’m joined by Alrik Bursell - co-host of the very popular Making Movies Is Hard Podcast. Alrik is currently in the midst of fundraising for his upcoming feature film - The Alternate - an ambitious sci-fi film he’s been developing for 5 years. Over the course of our interview, Alrik and I talk about the fundraising process at length. Topi…
Matt, Oren, Alrik and new co-host Liz Manashil sit down and talk about a variety of topics including why we podcast, Liz's film Speed of Life, Alrik's film The Alternate and we even have a little talk about the first cross over episode from 3 years ago!By Alrik and Liz
Ranking the Dems, predicting the ticket, and pondering Anarchy. Chucky Bucky critiques the pub crowd. Uncle Chuck recites poetry. www.charlesbursell.comBy Charles Bursell
Musical artist Visionnaire joins Creator K on the show for episode 16 to talk about what visionnaire means and how we look at artist's identities in general, how we as a society listen to and digest music, and V's "bloom." project along with the messages within it. In part 2, Visonnaire shares the music video for his track "Lift" and how it all cam…
This week co-host Andrew Schrader and Alrik talk to writer Michael Molina who is a staff writer on Nickelodeon's The Casagrandes! Michael talks to us about starting in sketch comedy in New York, making his first feature film and moving to LA to write!By Alrik and Andrew
Most indie filmmakers are guilty of overlooking the importance of sound, but my guest this week - Woody Woodhall - is here to change that. Woody is an acclaimed post-audio engineer, owner of LAPPG and Allied Post, and has played an instrumental role in hundreds of television and film projects. Over the course of our discussion, Woody outlines the m…
Family farms are a gazillion times better than Big Ag. Also: a better world through better jokes. www.charlesbursell.comBy Charles Bursell
This week Liz and Alrik talk to local independent filmmaker Eduardo Castrillo about his life of making features, from making his first feature in college to getting paid by a distributor to make a feature, we cover it all!By Alrik and Liz
The OJ Trial, Monty Python, Che Guevara, war, FOX, Poe and more. This week in history with commentators Chuck and Chucky. www.charlesbursell.comBy Charles Bursell
Bossman at music label Sundae Sauuce, Travis George, joins Creator K on the show for episode 15 to talk about what it was like when he realized music was at the center of his future, and what Sundae Sauuce is all about/how good it feels to connect with people through the platform. There's also naturally some ice cream chatter, so buckle up. In part…
This week special guest host Andrew Schrader joins Alrik to talk all things The Alternate on this very special episode of MMIH! Also Alrik gives his pitch for why you should join The Alternate Team and support the Seed and Spark Campaign!By Alrik and Andrew
This week my guest is Zach Lipovsky, the co-director of the theatrically released feature film Freaks, which stars Emile Hirsch and Bruce Dern. Zach and his partner Adam were able to successfully raise financing for their script, attach A-list actors, land a premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, and sell their movie for $2,000,000. O…
Defeating climate crisis requires the overthrow of Capitalism, the restoration of democracy, and radical individual lifestyle reform, all of which have huge upsides. www.charlesbursell.comBy Charles Bursell
This week special guest host Alex Kellerman joins Alrik to talk to Davey Williams, an American actor who moved to China and spent 10 years acting in Chinese films, commercials and TV, then came back to Hollywood tackle his career in the states!By Alrik and Kellerman
What would Howard Zinn think about Ken Burns’ “Country Music”? Also: How Milwaukee can save the world in 2020. www.charlesbursell.comBy Charles Bursell
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#166. Cait Harris - Pruned Extremities

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Inspired by her mother's knack for body surfing, Cait tries to become a seal, but the ocean teaches her a valuable lesson.

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Interview With Stephen Hare – Bingo Manager @ Love Bingo

Love Bingo are one of the newer sites coming to the online bingo marketplace, on the St Minver network. I caught up with Stephen Hare, the Bingo Manager at Love Bingo, to ask him some questions about his site, the network they are on and their plans for the future.

Playing Bingo: Tell us a bit about Love Bingo and what’s your role with the site?

Stephen Hare: Love Bingo is a fresh and dynamic new online bingo games site that was launched in May 2008. is designed for people who truly love to play bingo and all our staff share the same passion for the games as the players. Love Bingo is part of the St Minver White Label Gaming Network, and uses Parlay Software for the Online Bingo and Games. Love Bingo aims to be the Heart of Online Bingo in more ways than one, we aim to deliver the best possible online bingo experience with unique and meaningful player focused promotions combined with a wide variety of new and classic bingo and games.

My role, as Bingo Manager, is to ensure that all Love Bingo players have the best possible online bingo experience when they play at this also involves creating and monitoring the new promotions and to ensure that all aspects of the site run smoothly and securely.

Playing Bingo: How much work does it involve bringing a new online bingo site to life and how long were you working on Love Bingo before it launched?

Stephen Hare: From day one – Love Bingo was all about doing something fun and different. Love Bingo is not about generic content, boring promotions or outdated graphics, instead we decided to make Love Bingo a modern, user friendly and most of all honest online games site with aspects of social networking, the latest online technology to accommodate the most up to date player needs. It obviously took quite some time to create a unique one of a kind website that can quickly respond and adapt to ever changing player needs and wants.

A lot of hard work was required and still is needed to produce a site of Love Bingo’s quality, however if success was easy, then everyone would be successful.

Playing Bingo: Why did you choose to launch on a network rather than going it alone?

Stephen Hare: The advantages of being part of an existing and successful network with St Minver is that players can take part in bingo games with much larger jackpots and enjoy a much wider variety of games and online entertainment than would be possible with a stand-alone site. In addition, being part of a network allows Love Bingo to provide 24 hour support via phone or email 7 days a week, which again would be very difficult on a newly launched stand alone website. Overall, we decided to join a network, because we felt that it would ultimately benefit the players more than our own individual aspirations for

Playing Bingo: What is the best thing about working on a network?

Stephen Hare: One of the best things about being on a bingo network means that we can provide some great sign up and welcome promotions to new players. At Love Bingo we offer 100% Cash Match on all first deposits up to £125 and 50% Cash Match up to £65 on your second deposit. On top of this, we also give you £1 free when you sign up to try out the site before making a deposit. Being part of a network allows Love Bingo to be very generous in giving out welcome bonuses to new players, and allows us to frequently keep you updated with the newsletter.

Playing Bingo: What are you doing at Love Bingo to differentiate your site from the other online bingo sites out there?

Stephen Hare: This is where Love Bingo excels. Differentiation is the gospel which we at Love Bingo follow, and we aim to infuse new and exciting online bingo games, competitions, promotions, winner’s news and more into as many aspects of the site as we can. After listening to player’s feedback, we understood that they did not want another generic site, with the same generic offers just under a different colour scheme. They wanted new and different competitions that they could win for free (like the Love Bingo Luxury Jewellery Prize Draw). Players also commented that they want to be rewarded with more valuable prizes than just extra bingo bonuses for loyalty and deposits, so we have (with the sets of shopping vouchers for our top depositing players).

As is the theme at – we like to make a song and dance about our promotions, and we believe that they really are some of the best and fairest promotions out of all the bingo sites on the internet. We could have easily just give away one prize, or three prizes this summer, but we really want to give back to players and give players a better chance of winning a great prizes, that’s why we currently have NINE fantastic prizes to win during July and August at Love Bingo.

Playing Bingo: What plans do you have for the future of Love Bingo?

Stephen Hare: Love Bingo will continue its commitment to honest, genuine, great promotions and prizes and we hope to customise further aspects of the site to make them even more user friendly and even more fun for our players to enjoy.

I do not want to reveal too much more at this stage, but trust me, we have some exciting plans in place for Love Bingo – so just watch this space bingo players!

Playing Bingo: If you could offer one special prize on Love Bingo, what would it be?

Stephen Hare: I think one day in the near future I would love to be able to offer a Romantic Around the World Cruise for a couple who play or maybe even met together on Love Bingo. I believe the ultimate prize in this world is love, so if Love Bingo can help our players achieve or realise that further in any way then I feel we are doing our part in life.

Playing Bingo: Have you ever played bingo at your local club?

Stephen Hare: I have enjoyed many a game in my local bingo club and still have friends who go every week and I do feel that despite the huge attraction of online bingo, bingo halls still have a place in society for those who desire the personal interaction side of bingo. For players who would prefer the convenience of playing from home, online bingo sites such as Love Bingo will always welcome those making the transition, if they would like a change or something different instead of their local bingo hall.

Playing Bingo: Why do you think online bingo is such a hit?

Stephen Hare: I think there are several reasons why online bingo is such as hit – firstly, it is much more convenient for players to play on their favourite bingo site (such as Love Bingo) from home, rather than to have to travel sometimes considerable distances to local bingo halls, especially with the British weather.

In addition, there has been an increased confidence in forms of online purchasing, and many sites including Love Bingo now have highly safe and secure forms of online payment processing and data protection – so that we will always look after your sensitive information.

Finally, online bingo has revolutionised the communication and social aspect of bingo, players can now happily chat and enjoy the online bingo games at the same time, instead of the sometimes sombre silence required during bingo halls games. At Love Bingo we have some of the best in-game chat features and many ways to customise what you say and how you can say it!

Playing Bingo: With a number of sites looking at TV and Europe as the next big areas for expansion, does Love Bingo have any plans in those areas?

Stephen Hare: Although Love Bingo does not have any TV advertising at the moment, we are in development of various advertisements that we hope to air later this year. On top of this Love Bingo already has the facility to welcome players from almost all European, African, Asian and Western countries to play at So no matter where in the world you are, you are always welcome at Love Bingo – The Heart of Online Bingo Games.

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Joan Larkin

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Joan Larkin’s poetry includes My Body: New and Selected Poems (Hanging Loose Press, 2007) and Legs Tipped with Small Claws (Argos Books chapbook, 2012).  Previous books include Housework (Out & Out Books, 1975), A Long Sound (Granite Press, 1986), and Cold River (Painted Leaf Press, 1997). A new collection, Blue Hanuman, is forthcoming in 2014 from Hanging Loose Press. Larkin is the Grace Hazard Conkling Poet in Residence at Smith College for 2012-2014 and serves on the faculty of Drew University’s MFA Program in Poetry and Poetry in Translation.

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John Tipton reviews Carsten René Nielsen’s “Forty-one Objects”

John Tipton reviews Carsten René Nielsen’s “Forty-one Objects”
October 1, 2019 Tipton John

On Saturday, April 26, 1952, Ulrich Balslev contacted the Museum of Prehistory in Aarhus, Denmark with news of some interest to that institution. Peat cutters working in nearby Nebelgård Fen had unearthed human remains. The following day, Peter Glob, an archeologist from the museum drove out to the peat bog just south of the village of Grauballe where he found a group of people collected around a dark human head frowning from the newly cut peat. Glob oversaw the careful excavation of the find, Grauballe Man, and its removal for close examination. The body, though tanned by the peat water and contorted by the weight of the overlying strata was remarkably preserved—its nails, hair, and fingerprints intact. The cause of his death (and the apparent reason for his final grimace): his throat had been slit from ear to ear. Sometime early in the fourth century of our era, his naked body was thrown into the fen from which Glob retrieved it and now lies—whole, displaced, and queer—in a glass case at the Moesgaard Museum in Aarhus.

Carsten René Nielsen is himself a resident of Aarhus and Grauballe Man appears about midway through his Forty-One Objects. The poem “Ruler” opens, “Every morning we were given lessons on how to tie knots. The Grauballe Man’s Knot was surely the most difficult.” Many bog people, like Tollund Man, were ritually strangled. But Grauballe Man had no cord around his neck, no evidence of any clothing or objects near him. The “knot” in the poem is a subtle misdirection, a calculated enigma beside many others in this careful and surprising book.

Forty-One Objects is Nielsen’s third book to appear in English. It follows House Inspections and the earlier World Cut Out with Crooked Scissors, itself a selection from three books: Enogfyrre dyr (Forty-One Animals), Clairobscur, and Cirkler (Circles). He has for some two decades devoted himself to the prose poem. That long apprenticeship pays dividends in this latest collection. The poems in Forty-One Objects have a focus and coherence that make them simply more available than much in the earlier books. Here is “Mirror” complete:

Naked, slightly cold and somewhat confused, he stands in the surprisingly dim-lit hereafter together with other recently deceased and looks at an angel, who is giving itself a shave. Even though it has no reflection, it holds up a shaving mirror and lifts up the chin, as it has seen humans do.

The angel apes humans in the very act of observing a reflection, yet the mirrored pairs–human/angel, observer/reflection, life/death–are asymmetric and slightly unsettling. The poem is indicative of the forty other “objects” where a central figure, usually given by the title, is carefully elaborated. Too often poets of surrealist inclination, like Nielsen, produce poems that read like a tedious litany of banal non sequiturs. What’s intended to jog the unconscious is frequently too oblique to be anything but absurd. Nielsen has indulged that penchant in earlier books (“Blow a soap bubble with a mousetrap inside, give him a bump on the head, a haystack served as breakfast in bed.”) but there’s little of that sort of profligacy here. In Forty-One Objects Nielsen pares down. He plays an endgame with fewer pieces on the board and he makes those moves count.

Many of the poems are concerned with the awkward vocation of a poet. In “Self Portrait” a guide is leading a tour through a museum where the poem’s narrator is on display. “‘Here hangs a poet,’ she tells them, ‘he writes poetry,’ and the ladies in her group smile and nod kindly before they move on.” The poem closes with the displayed poet ruminating ambivalently about the guard in the gallery, “I’m sure he hates me. I would too. It’s me, after all, who got him this job.”

That embarrassment is picked up in “Nametag” which begins, “All of my neighbors have gotten new names.” They put on nametags with Zeus, Shakespeare, or Tex Avery while the narrator demurs. He says those around him “see me as a part of the anonymous masses, pretend as if I’m invisible.” But he holds out hope that “one day the fashion will change, and the thing that was once regarded as the most mundane, for a time will be the thing everyone is striving for.” When that happy day arrives, he’ll be asked about his unusual name. “‘This has always been my name, I don’t even have a nametag,’ I’ll answer, knowing full well that no one will believe me.”

All three of Nielsen’s English titles have come into the language via David Keplinger’s dutiful yet fluid translations. I have a smattering of Norwegian and can grope my way through the Danish (thoughtfully offered on the facing pages in this edition). As is typical among prose poems, these are delivered in a deadpan of short declaratives, not the sort of prose that affords a translator much latitude. But Keplinger’s choices are sound and he avoids awkward diction or crabbed phrasing. And from the way Keplinger has described their working relationship (in his prefatory note to World Cut Out with Crooked Scissors) it appears Nielsen himself has a great deal of input in the process, with Keplinger acting as his English amanuensis. Consequently, we do feel we’re reading Nielsen, not Keplinger.

But why prose? The prose poem is a curious hybrid of song and speech. Though a younger sibling to lineated forms of verse, it has by now a well-established tradition running from Arthur Rimbaud through Francis Ponge, Gertrude Stein, and Max Jacob to more contemporary poets like Russel Edson, Charles Simic, and James Tate. Moreover these little fabulae have roots that run back through the parables of Jesus to Aesop and beyond. Yet for all that history, the form remains the exception to the rule—the poetry that is always qualified as prose.

Let’s set aside the more radical practitioners in prose poetry—Ron Silliman and his New Sentence, Jackson MacLow, Lyn Hejinian, and other of that cast—and focus on those writers who, like Nielsen, use conventional syntax and abide by more or less straightforward rules of discourse.

What then is it about prose? We approach a block of prose with a different set of expectations than a poem broken into lines. After all, prosaic is the opposite of poetic. Those justified margins tell us this will be more about the what, less about the how. More descriptive, less figurative. The linguist Roman Jakobson has argued that there are different mechanics at work in poetry and prose. Poetry prefers metaphor and similarity—one thing replaced by another—while prose skews toward metonymy and similarity—one thing associated with another. We are inclined to take the images in prose at face value, knowing they are in the service of the narrative. These are easy generalizations, and exceptions abound, but the distinction points out an advantage prose has over poetry. The unbroken stream of prose, unconstrained by prosody, creates a current that draws us along. Our guard is down. Reading a prose poem comes closer to our lived—or dreamed—experience, and certainly closer to the way we naturally communicate our experiences with others. Nielsen exploits this to good effect.

Consider “Sardine Can”:

Even though I have almost forgotten your face, there are still days I miss you. What a wonderful surprise it was, therefore, to roll back the thin lid on the sardine can and see the sardines, all with your face and dressed in their finest evening gowns, as they lay there row upon row, staring up at me with their big sad eyes.

It’s not simply that he is reminded of the face of a lost love in the eyes of the fish. Nielsen embroiders the figure, and we conjure the striking, rather literal visual image of “row upon row” of tiny women “in their finest evening gowns,” lying in the newly opened can, strange and comic. Nielsen plays up the vaudevillian—shooting elephants in his pajamas and then explaining in detail how those tiny elephants got into his PJs.

Nielsen figures these striking moments against a ground of deceptively unremarkable prose. In “Socks,” the narrator enacts bible stories with sock puppets but the little show flops. Later, realizing what was wrong he envisions a new script. “The arabesques of sentences slowly spin like floodlit mobiles in my skull.” That ornate sentence jostles us out of the narrative–a reminder that this is indeed an artifice, a poem. In “Diary” the narrator describes a diary his father kept in 1963, recording quotidian events—wake-up and bed times, when he showered, what he watched on television. The list goes on until “only one brief mention of the assassination of John F. Kennedy in November ruins the impression of an almost perfect narrative: uninterested, fragmented, incomplete.” Nielsen’s accurate, low-volume descriptions of mundane details draw us in, lull us, and prepare us to be unsettled.

And it is their disarming simplicity that makes these poems so effective. Perhaps the most arresting poem in the book, “8MM Film” begins, “The dead are always filmed in a lighting on the boundary between two seasons.” It’s a pregnant, beautiful figure, and we soon learn that Nielsen intends it in a rather literal sense. He describes in direct language the experience of looking at old home movies. Films in which “on rare occasions, someone moves toward the camera, smiles and talks to it. We see the lips move but hear nothing.” Those of us, like Nielsen, born in the mid-60’s, grew up with these Super 8 movies that captured jerky, silent snatches of family vacations or backyard barbecues. When we see them now, they are populated with the ghosts of loved ones passed, the dead still trying to speak to us. The Danish title is “Smalfilm,” a beautiful word that evokes the incidental and fragmentary qualities of these films that make them—and this poem—so strangely like memory itself.

In his essay “The Uncanny,” Freud noted that when we encounter a fairy tale or other fantastic fiction, we set aside expectations that the story will conform to reality. Bears will talk; witches will fly. None of it surprises. But when a writer brings a story close to life yet deviates from reality in subtle and deliberate ways, the effect is uncanniness. Freud says that writer “tricks us by promising us everyday reality and then going beyond it.” Nielsen’s prose poems shift suddenly from the literal to the figurative—the prosaic to the poetic—jarring us into a state of uncanniness. His Forty-One Objects ignite a sense of wonder. And of awe.

—John Tipton

Forty-One Objects
Carsten René Nielsen
The Bitter Oleander Press
$18 paperback, 104 pp.
February 2019

John Tipton has recently completed a translation of the fragments of Archilochus. With Peter O’Leary he publishes Verge Books. He lives in Chicago, the Aarhus of America.


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Counted Cross Stitch projects. How I love starting from a completely blank canvas of linen and creating a picture stitch by stitch. It would be fair to say that I could give equal space in my should-have-a-shop to the amount of fine fabric, silk and pima threads, silk ribbons, beads and Swarovski crystals that I love for this work;.

This is in no way complete. I started embroidery work of all sorts very young, just as the knitting and crochet. I would embroider my ballet slipper bags, made many gifts, embellished my children’s clothes. Most was done in pre-blog days so photos are a challenge to find. I’ll add when I can though, so feel free to check back.

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23423423Canadians are bombing Iraqis and no one outside the deeply unpopular government of Stephen Harper really knows why. The propaganda system that controls the Canadian media succeeds in sowing confusion upon mystery and all we are allowed to understand is that Canada has once again revealed itself as a country without any existential existence. It is a regional backwater of the United States of America, the remaining vestiges of sovereignty and independence submerged in the swamp of American imperialism and culture.

Long gone are the glory days when a Canadian actually felt distinct in North America, when Canada tried to maintain an independent foreign policy and a national culture born out of the richness of the three founding peoples, the First Nations, the French and the English. Too many have forgotten that the Canadian provinces of the British Empire in North America refused to join the rebellion of the rising bourgeoisie in the 13 colonies along the Atlantic coast. Many Americans who were persecuted by the rebels for staying loyal to the British Crown fled to Canada in the aftermath and never returned. They had a name, the United Empire Loyalists, and the Americans never forgave them or the Canadians for refusing to join in their grand project of the conquest of North America and, consequently, the first of the American wars of conquest was the invasion of Canada in the War of 1812, the primary objective of which was the takeover of all the remaining British territories on the continent.

The American propaganda then was the same as it is now. The invading American forces posted notices in towns and villages announcing that they were bringing the people of Canada “democracy and liberty.” But no one wanted what they were offering and after many battles fought by British regulars, native forces and local militias the Americans were kicked out and put that objective on the back burner while they plundered the lands of the peoples of the interior and then turned on Mexico. They didn’t attempt it again until President Grant contemplated using the Union Armies to invade just after the American Civil War but the idea was abandoned aside from support for Irish Fenian guerrilla raids into Canada in the late 1860s. After that a physical invasion was not necessary since the invasion of finance capital got them all they wanted without a shot fired.

Canada remained a formal colony of British capital until 1867 when it was finally organised as a self governing state within the British empire after a series of internal struggles for more self rule by the growing mercantile and industrial elites but it only achieved any real independence as a country in the 1930’s as Britain’s power rapidly declined after its huge losses of the First World War. But the establishment of a country more independent of Britain did not result in an independent nation. Canada relied on foreign capital to build its infrastructure, its continental railway systems, its hydro-electric projects, its factories, its cities and where British capital could not supply the need it was quickly replaced by American capital.

The domination of the country by the Americans accelerated after the Second World War but it was countered by a rising nationalist feeling generated in part by Canada’s disproportionately large contribution to fighting the fascists in Europe. A nation of eleven million people fielded military forces of almost a million and in 1945 Canada had the third largest navy in the world. After the war the working classes, many of whom viewed the Soviet Union as the most progressive nation in the world, despite the elites’ anti-Russian and anti-socialist propaganda, supported socialist ideals that resulted in the establishment of free national health care and low cost education, affordable housing and were enthusiastic about Canadian artists and writers. They saw how a nation like Russia had rapidly developed its industrial and societal resources in a landmass that was very similar to Canada and realised that they could do the same. But it was not to be. Soon the American dominance began to be felt, with the forced dumping of Hollywood films in Canadian theatres, the take over of oil and gas exploration and pipeline construction, the stifling of any really independent steps to national development and of course the fateful decision under US pressure to join the Nato alliance.

The years of the late 50’s and 60’s saw Canadian leaders trying to act independently of the American power. In one famous episode, Prime Minister Lester Pearson declined U.S. requests to send Canadian combat troops into the Vietnam War. Pearson spoke at Temple University in Philadelphia on 2 April 1965 and called for a pause in the American bombing of North Vietnam, so that a diplomatic solution to the war could be found. President Johnson, who rose to power through the coup d’état against President Kennedy in 1963, saw this criticism of American foreign policy on American soil as an intolerable sin. Before Pearson had finished his speech, he was summoned to Camp David, Maryland, to meet with Johnson the next day. Johnson, a very large man, who was a notorious thug, reportedly picked up Pearson, a very small man, by the lapels and shouted, “Don’t you come into my living room and piss on my rug.”

The last gasp of Canadian attempts at real independence took place under Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau who, though not withdrawing from NATO, tried to create a foreign policy in Canadian interests and was one of the first western leaders to open the door to China, long before Nixon, and remained friends with Fidel Castro all his life. It was Trudeau that finally negotiated with the British for the repatriation of the Canadian Constitution in 1982, finally severing the last legal ties to British rule. He called for the creation of a “Just Society” with real participatory democracy and concern for the collective good and for Canada to become more engaged with the rest of the world instead of just being fixated on the United States. But the fall of Trudeau and the rise of the right wing in Canada in the late 80’s led to the rise of the continentalists, that is those Canadians financiers and industrialists who saw their interests lying in New York instead of Toronto. The counter-revolution in the USSR accelerated this process as neo-liberalism and free trade became the dominant doctrine and, in a series of free trade and security agreements, starting in 1993, Canada quickly surrendered its hard won sovereignty almost overnight to the interests of American capital.

As a result, in rapid succession, Canadian military forces were assigned the role of auxiliaries to American forces and helped the Americans overthrow the government of Rwanda in 1993, participated in the criminal aggression against Yugoslavia in 1999, the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan in 2001, participated in the overthrow of President Aristide of Haiti in 2004, assisted US forces in Iraq during the American invasion and occupation of Iraq, supplied forces in the Gulf of Aden to threaten Iran, played a major role in the bombing and destruction of Libya in 2011, supplied military supplies to the Kiev regime during the attacks on the peoples of the Donbas this summer and now is bombing Falllujah, the very heart of the Iraqi resistance to the American occupation.

Canadian forces operating in Iraq are insignificant, amounting to just a few planes and 600 personnel. This token contribution to the continued American operations has no real military purpose. So when we want to understand the reason for Canada’s actions, its clear pandering to the diktats and on behalf of the interests of the United States we just have to know the history of the development of the country to understand that the real purpose for these military theatrics is propaganda. Canada’s role is simply to provide an international cover to what is clearly an American operation. One can see this by reading the Canadian Ministry of Defence website on the action which refers to US requests and orders and which then provides a link to US Command Headquarters.

The lesson to be drawn from all this is that any nation that surrenders its sovereignty to a dominant power becomes the tool of that power. The interests of its own people count for nothing. International law and peace count for nothing. Human life counts for nothing. Yet, to the south, in Latin America, the nations that were once, like Canada, under the thumb of the American empire, have become vibrant, confident nations whose governments act in the interests of the collective population instead of the narrow interests of finance capital. In the east we see the energy of the changes accelerate in China, India and Russia. The example is there. Nations like Canada can choose their own path, their own destiny in peaceful cooperation with the nations and peoples of the world. The problem is how the people of Canada, and, indeed, all nations, can escape this domination and survive it. Unfortunately, with the continentalists still in control in Washington and Ottawa, New York and Toronto, and with American control of the economic resources at an intolerable level, the situation looks bleak for the immediate future. Canadians are nothing more than servants in their own house, when, to use the phrase of the Quebec nationalists in their struggle for self determination, we should be “maître chez nous,” masters of our own house. The Canadian people are watching what is going on in the rest of the world and they are learning from what they see. In that lies, perhaps, some hope.

Christopher Black is an international criminal lawyer based in Toronto, he is a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada and he is known for a number of high-profile cases involving human rights and war crimes, especially for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”.

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Microphones-2-.jpg This article is part of the Propaganda Portal project of Spinwatch.

Pages on psyops, psywar and associated propaganda techniques.

Psyops or psychological operations are an important yet hidden element of the information apparatus. On the rare occasions where their work does surface in the mainstream media, the propaganda line that they engage only in 'white' operations involving radio broadcasts and leaflet drops which are targeted only at enemy opinion (ie Iraqi forces) in order to save lives is scrupulously maintained. As Major Harry Taylor, the head of 42 Commando Royal Marines Psyops Unit puts it: 'The main thing is that we are trying to save these peoples lives' .

In the UK psyops has been renamed 'Information support' a decidely Orwellian name change. Thousands of British soliders have passed through the psyops course run by the military and based at Chicksands, the Defence Intelligence and Security Centre in Bedfordshire. The US psyops teams in Iraq were the largest of any conflict including 11 companies and almost 1,000 personnel in Iraq or in support roles in the US, according to Lt Col Glenn Ayers commander of the 9th Psychological Operations Battalion.

After the war, commanders at the US psyops HQ at Fort Bragg, were so proud of their achievements that they invited the media into their new $8.1 million centre and showed them round the facilities said to be capable of producing one million leaflets an hour. More than 150 million leaflets have been produced at Fort Bragg and distributed throughout Afghanistan and Iraq since September 2001. According to the commander of the 4th Psychological Operations Group, Col. James Treadwell the staff at the complex support the work of nearly 900 psyops troops in 13 countries. Of course no attention was drawn to the hidden part of their work which has remained largely unreported.

It almost goes without saying that the content of the psyops material is mendacious. According to Major Taylor one of the messages is that the UK and US will not 'plunder the country'. Both the US and UK have run 'white' radio operations inside Iraq including 'Information Radio' broadcast by the US and Radio Nahran [Two Rivers Radio] run by the British in Basra during the war. According to some reports 'grey' operations are continuing in Iraq with one Baghdad weekly printing articles supplied by Fort Bragg, 'most of which don't appear to come from a US or military source'. In exchange the US buys and distributes 70,000 copies. The day after the fall of Baghdad UK and US psyops operatives launched their first television channel. Broadcast on the frequency formerly occupied by Iraqi TV, Towards Freedom featured messages from Bush and Blair. The channel was the idea of a UK government information working group and ins commissioned by the FCO, paid for by the British Ministry of Defence and transmitted via the US 4th Psychological Operations Group (airborne) at Fort Bragg for eventual broadcast to Iraq from Kuwait, from the US psyops plane known as Commando Solo and from SOMS-B (Special Operations Media System-B) inside Iraq. The programmes are outsourced to World Television News, the private company which already runs the UK grey propaganda operation known as British Satellite News.

Still, it is clear that their activities do continue to encompass 'black' propaganda operations including radio stations which disguise their sponsors and media disinformation. But their covert work does leave some traces. For example, one 'elaborate disinformation operation' operation was conducted even before the bombs began to fall. The UK Foreign Office confirmed that it was 'investigating rumours' that the Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq, had defected. This prompted Aziz into making a live media appearance to deny the story. According to reports Aziz was then 'tracked… to a bunker at a presidential palace where they expected him to report to Saddam', leading to the 'decapitation strike' on the 20 March. As with much of the 'intelligence' surrounding Iraq this turned out to be a botched job and neither Aziz or Hussein were killed. Another example was Radio Tikrit which launched in early February. 'It appeared to be just another regime-run station. It mocked the US and… praised "Saddam Hussein's Iraq"'. By late February the tone had changed and according to BBC monitoring it started to call on the republic guard to desert their post 'before it is too late'.

This is the kind of approach which psyops and government present as an attempt to save the lives of combatants and it is similar to the messages aimed at the civilian population to keep away from military installations. This version of their work is in itself spin since what they are aiming to do is terrorise the population by threatening their lives. As Christopher Simpson, author of an authoritative study of psyops in the US argues that psyops: 'are premised on violence and they're premised on terror. That's why they work, to the extent that they work at all'. As if to underline this account Major Taylor of the Royal Marines gives this account of the work of British Army psyops:

We use tactical and strategic methods. Tactically, on the first stage, we target the military by dropping leaflets stating the inevitability of their defeat, telling them they will not be destroyed if they play our game and exactly how they can surrender. On the second wave we show them pictures of Iraqi officers who complied. On the third wave we show them pictures of those people who did not.

In other words - co-operate or we will try to kill you. This effort is a co-ordinated part of the overall propaganda push. All psyops material is 'signed off right at the very top, by General Tommy Franks' according to Taylor. And the co-ordination is also evident in the wider role which psyops has, but tries to keep under wraps. This is the fact that it also contributes to the battle for hearts and minds internationally and at home as well as targeting 'enemy' opinion. As Lt Col. Jerry Broeckert a US Marine Corps public affairs officer acknowledged, the use of the media 'blurs the line between public relations and psychological operations'. As the attack on Iraq became bogged down at the end of the first week, the Russian website with links to Russian intelligence reported an intercepted report from the US Psychological Operations Tactical Group for the Special Ground Forces Command. The report was concerned about the development of a resistance ideology' in Iraq. Its solution: 'A more active use of the Iraqi opposition was suggested for propaganda work... The same opposition members will be used to create video footage of the "repented" Iraqi POWs and footage of the local [Iraqi] population "opposing Saddam."' As the US tanks rolled into Baghdad 11 days later, footage of Iraqi's celebrating as the statue of the dictator was toppled outside the Palestine hotel, where the international media were based was indeed transmitted around the world. Other sources have suggested that among the celebrants were members of the Iraqi opposition Iraqi National Congress. The toppling of the statue was a propaganda triumph for the US and UK governments. The involvement of psyops in the photo opportunity indicates both the co-ordinated nature of 'coalition' propaganda sand that psyops operatives spend at least some of their time managing media operations which impact on domestic opinion.


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Despite restrictive laws, Maung* is sharing his faith and training new leaders to reach the villages of his country in Southeast Asia. “Mobilize others” is one of the prayer points of Pray2020.

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In August, the team gathered 53 disciples from different villages for the training. Two ladies, who were also baptized at the end of the training, expressed their desire to start a church in their place. As soon as they got back to their village, they started a house church. Maung’s passion to help build leaders who will reach the lost is being passed on, one village at a time.

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That Fox

April 25, 2017
by Rod Marshall

Luke 4:12-13 – And Jesus answered him, "It is said, 'You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.'" And when the devil had ended every temptation, he departed from him until an opportune time. (ESV)

Anakin Nibbles, our guinea pig, was out in the garden again today. It was one of the warmer days of early spring, so I thought that he could do with the exercise. So, I put his house down on some new grass, and with him inside, moved his protective run to this new part of the lawn, and pegged it down.

As I looked over my neighbour's picket fence, I noticed "The Fox" curled up watching me as he sunbathed and groomed himself in the corner of the garden. We exchanged glances. I returned indoors to do some chores, and the fox moved out from the corner of next door's lawn, and stretched and yawned himself in the middle of the grass, seemingly confident that I was no longer going to challenge him.

Later, I thought that I would sneak a bit closer to the fence to see him close up and thus shake his confidence a little. As long as there were no sudden movements, he was okay with me talking to him. As I had hoped, it was enough to make him feel uneasy, so he decided enough was enough, and moved off into the garden on the far side of my neighbour's lawn.

I know that the fox will be back sooner or later, looking for opportunities, but hopefully, as I am vigilant, he will be looking on from a distance.

I want to be just as vigilant for my own life. Those forces that seek to make a meal of me hide in view on the margins of my life, just waiting for me to slip up. They wait for me to take a wrong turn, and inadvertently, or maybe even deliberately, let them in under the wire by becoming detached from God's purposes for my life.

Praise God that Jesus' grace is sufficient to cover my failings, as I call out for forgiveness and wisdom, and lay them down before Him.

I believe that Jesus broods over me, and over all those who bow the knee before His throne, to keep us in His tender care.

Psalm 91:14-16 – Because he holds fast to me in love, I will deliver him; I will protect him, because he knows my name. When he calls to me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will rescue him and honor him. With long life I will satisfy him and show him my salvation. (ESV)

Prayer: Lord, we rejoice that You have come to set us free from our sins, as we bow the knee to You. We are truly sorry for all our failings, and today, we ask that You would brood over us to show us the way in which we should follow You. In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen.

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  • PresbyCan Feedback says:

    Great analogy and challenge Rod.

    Rod, Thanks sharing this devotional lesson with us. Blessings.

    Great word Rod!

    Excellent devotional today!
    Many thanks,

    Good Morning, Rod,
    Are you telling us that the fox next door is a pet? Yesterday as I drove from our house up to our gate a fox scampered across the road in front of me. Living as we do in the country, I cannot imagine a pet fox! Nonetheless, your analogy is perfect and once more thank you for sharing your devotional writing talent.

    Thank you.

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Afrojack Returns to Wynn Las Vegas for 2018 Residency

LAS VEGAS (Dec. 21, 2017) -- Grammy Award-winning recording artist, producer and DJ, Afrojack returns to Wynn Las Vegas for a 2018 residency. Previously a Wynn resident from 2011-2013, his first return date is Friday, Jan. 26 at XS Nightclub. He will perform at XS and Encore Beach Club throughout the year.

“We are excited to welcome Afrojack back home,” said Alex Cordova, Wynn Nightlife’s Executive Vice President and Managing Partner. “He is a dance music icon and we look forward to him bringing his music and energy back into the clubs.”

“It’s great to be coming back home to Wynn Las Vegas,” said Afrojack. “I have so many great memories performing there and can’t wait to make new ones. It’s true what they say, there’s no place like home!”

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Stick Scare Helps Turn Over a New ‘Leaf’

Nation’s Largest Pet Insurer Selects Most Unusual April Claim

Brea, Calif. (May 14, 2014) – Playing with a stick seems as normal a part of a dog’s life as tail-wagging. But for one unfortunate pooch, a twig turned into a nasty situation that earned a dog appropriately named ‘Leaf’ the title of April’s “Most Unusual Claim of the Month” by Veterinary Pet Insurance Co. (VPI).

Leaf’s full name is Leaf van der Meer, and the lively young Parson Russell Terrier is family to Ana of New York City and her partner, Petra. It was Petra who first heard Leaf make an unusual bark when playing, and the next day the dog seemed sluggish and had her tail between her legs. Noting Leaf’s unusual behavior, Petra took Leaf to her veterinarian who performed cervical and abdominal radiographs, but could not detect anything. After 14 days on antibiotics, and two additional veterinary visits, Leaf’s congestion had cleared but her breathing still sounded unusual, especially at night. After more advanced testing by a veterinary specialist, Ana and Petra eventually realized that a twig was lodged in Leaf’s left nasal cavity.

“She’s a talker, but it took about a week before she could bark again,” said Ana. “During this time, she ate only soft food with warm water. We knew that Leaf was still not her normal self. Our veterinarian suggested that a rhinoscopy be performed on Leaf, and she referred us to a veterinary specialist.”

During the complicated procedure, in which a tiny tube with a light and lens is inserted into the nasal cavity via Leaf’s throat, a twig was spotted in the back of Leaf’s left nasal cavity. It was so completely trapped there, that the specialist ended up having to take the twig out through Leaf’s nose. “The veterinarian mentioned she had never seen a case like Leaf’s,” said Ana.

“Leaf’s story is another example of how pets can be injured from seemingly safe, everyday objects,” said Dr. Carol McConnell, DVM, MBA, and Chief Veterinary Officer for VPI. “Usually when sticks get stuck, it’s in a place like the mouth, esophagus, stomach or intestines. It’s rare that a stick penetrates into the nasal cavity, leaving no evidence on the interior of the pet’s mouth. It just shows that anything can happen, and highlights the importance of monitoring your pet for abnormal behaviors. We’re happy to have been able to help turn over a new Leaf.”

Ana is happy to say that Leaf has since made a full recovery, but that she is no longer allowed to play with sticks. “We actually still have the twig, which is the size of a penny,” said Ana. “The procedure was expensive, and we were so pleased that VPI was able to help offset some of our veterinary costs. My recommendation to new pet parents is to insure your pet as soon as possible. Dogs will be dogs and you can’t react fast enough to make sure nothing ever happens to your beloved furry family member.”

Leaf’s incident was one of nearly 100,000 claims received in the month of April by VPI, the nation’s first and largest provider of pet health insurance, and was selected by VPI employees as the most unusual of the bunch. Honorable mentions in April included a Labrador retriever who ate an entire bag of cough drops, an Australian Cattle dog who was attacked by a bobcat, and a Golden Retriever who ate sand. All pets considered for the award made full recoveries and received insurance reimbursements for eligible expenses.

As the most unusual claim submitted in April, Leaf will be in the running for the 2014 VPI Hambone Award. Other nominees include Pierre the French bulldog who took an unplanned dip in the swimming pool at a Fourth of July party, Roxy the German shepherd who crashed into and shattered a sliding glass door, and Jack the Jack Russell terrier who was picked up and attacked by a snowy owl.

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Review: Beck, Colors

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Colors is like diet Beck. It’s the Beck record no one listening to Odelay in ’96 would ever have believed existed. It’s the lemonade stand on the too hot day and the ice melts reducing the potency of the product. It’s the Kool-Aid made on the wrong ratios. It's weak, but not in the songwriting per se, but rather, it’s weak in its execution.

Average things come to those who wait. This record was supposed to come out as some sort of palette cleanser after the Morning Phase. Three years is a long time to wait for something that is this average, like standing thirsty in the desert and someone brings you a Fresca. But at least we have the first Beck record my mom would like? One can only wonder the record we could have gotten if Beck didn’t win that Grammy. Was he tricked or steered into this pop record by suits with dollar signs for irises? Who knows, but it comforts a bit to think that way, though.

The title track is desperate for air but its production compresses all good ideas into a package too small and sterile like a Lunchable. The solo sounds like its being played on a pitch-shifted, note capable midi didgeridoo. That sounds kind of cool though, but its not, its very cheesy, and by the third appearance, annoying. The melodies are fine, but they drown under Top 40 production. “Seventh Heaven” is about as tacky as the late 90’s WB drama it shares its name with. The chorus pops with Max Martin elevation, but the refrain repeats as desperate. And man are these songs long — like what is this? 1998 when everyone thought dance singles had to be 4 minutes long?

“I’m So Free” painfully can’t decide if it’s a pop rap song or some sort of J-Pop rock rave — it misses the target on both. Who is this Starbucks-checkout-core song for? It surely isn’t for Beck fans. It’s the kind of song you hear when clicking on an artist playing at Lollapalooza you have never heard and make sure to miss their set. How is Beck singing this song? How did this happen?

The two absolute non-adherents to my POV are the songs we heard first — “Dreams” and “Wow”. “Wow” debuted last year with a bonkers video was like the Avalanches on crack. It was divisive, to say the least, but Beck sounded more alive and free than ever. It’s the best beat-driven track he has released since the 90’s with the possible exception of “1000 BPM” which everyone slept on, probably including you. Not at all surprisingly, “Wow” was not produced by Greg Kurstin who produced almost all of Colors, lending his sleek synths and perfect drum sounds that would manage to get you an A+ in an electronic production class but can’t muster up a fraction of the energy on either “Wow” or the slacker drums in Beck’s classic single “Loser.”

“Dreams” we first heard way back in June of 2015. This version has been scrubbed of possible offenders — the abrasive lyrics on the bridge of “Dreams” replaced by something more family friendly, showing perhaps the target market? What Morning Phase did to the Sea Change sound, Colors does 100x to some midpoint between Midnite Vultures and the Danger Mouse neutered Modern Guilt.

Colors is all festival-ready, commercial-ready, rock. We all wondered how our 90’s heroes would look 20 years later. Thom Yorke looks better than ever. Billy Corgan is a hero to some, a villain to others. Eddie Vedder is like our generation’s Bruce or Mick Jagger or something. Beck is still our generation’s David Bowie, but unluckily, his last few years have mirrored Bowie’s own unfortunate mid-80’s. Here’s to hoping Beck has something as good as Earthling in him in a few years.

On “Square One” he references the title of the record amidst a stock falsetto. Beck has long been championed as a chameleon, but at what point do we admit that perhaps that’s no longer true? Morning Phase was a clear rehash of Sea Change and it won the Grammy that Sea Change should have won, instead it went to Norah Jones. I could write a bunch more disses on the rest of the songs, they are all equally bad, except perhaps “Dear Life” but that’s only compared with what’s left here, not with the rest of Beck’s outstanding discography.

Beck’s 2006 record The Information unfolded with repeated listens that few were willing to wait for. His utopia of post-pop became a mostly forgotten record that is perhaps mainly remembered for its DIY sticker cover on a grid on faded greens. You pulled out the sticker pages and decorated the cover to your liking giving each fan a unique rendition of a great record. The cover illustrated a pop record that could inspire many different kinds of devotion if you were patient and let it.

Colors is the opposite of The Information. The first time you listen to it, you know its average and you keep listening, begging it to give something that hasn’t had its edges shaved off by a production style that strips all weird aesthetics in favor of aerodynamics that no one wanted and no one will like. Often while listening, you will have to remind yourself that it is playing, because it truly is neither good nor bad — it simply is. C


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Production score: for current list 46 (normalized: 14), total 46.9560, rank by score 24
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Why Some Print Houses Don’t Go Green

In today’s age of recycling and “going green,” several industries and businesses are taking note and doing business differently than 20, 10 even five years ago.

The printing industry is no different and have been going green with not only the bio-friendly inks we use, but also using more bio-degradable products and recyclable paper. Going green is not just the latest fad, but something that is here to stay in these times.

However some printing professionals have yet to explore this alternative route. Whether it’s from a non-concern, ignorance, or financial reasons, going green as not been embraced by everyone in our industry. Some don’t see the need for it. Some don’t understand it. And some printers simply don’t have the finances to change their equipment.

There are grants available to help businesses focus on green upgrades and for some that’s the only way to get an upgrade. However, many companies may be forced to go green, not because it’s the modern way, but because more customers are demanding it. Should companies not move with the times, it’s quite possible they’ll lose customers, and worse, lose their business.

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The Government is already going green and as a result, making the rules on this.

If businesses do go green, it’s entirely possible they would receive more business. That window of opportunity is there. The companies who have jumped on the environmental bandwagon have the advantage; those who haven’t, don’t.

In my own business, customers are asking whether we can provide green ink and recycled paper products. They want to make a difference, and are asking about it, sometimes before they ask us about the price. Now, they’re not only checking the prices, but to see if this guy is greener than that guy. It’s not always who’s cheaper, it’s who’s also greener.

This scenario will be played out in the future, more often than not. That’s where green is going. Realistically, it won’t win you an automatic bid, but it will be a tiebreaker with a competitor. In today’s economy, it’s more competitive and certainly there will be more ties to break.

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Google is facing a backlash over an internal tool for the company’s Chrome browser that some employees worry is intended for spying on workers.

To get around using the tool, some employees have turned to third-party browsers, prompting at least one security engineer at Google to voice concern over the possible vulnerabilities that using outside software could bring.

The tool, a Google Chrome software extension installed on all employee computers, is designed to activate when workers create calendar events that include more than 100 people or use more than 10 rooms.

Some employees have accused Google management of trying to keep tabs on big gatherings, such as protests and discussing workplace issues.

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