NOW - THIS IS WHAT I CALL FUNNY...

It seems ironic that, in abandoning its DANDY EXTREME incarnation, the new DANDY has become even MORE extreme in some respects. It's trying too hard to be "down wiv the kids, innit?" by going for a more radical look with some of the new strips it now features.

However, it's all been done before - and to much better effect. Look at this classic DENNIS THE MENACE strip from the 1978 DTM book (reprinted from a 1950s BEANO by the look of it), drawn by DAVEY LAW. The art is outrageous enough, even by today's standards - and Law is a master of sequential art, which is an absolute necessity in telling a story. 

What's more, the story is true to life in a way which both children and adults can relate to - and displays a wit and charm sadly lacking in many of today's comics. None of that zooming around in a ridiculous flying "Dennis-mobile" here. Hey, it's even funny - what more could one want from a comic strip?

EVERTHING'S FINE AND DANDY - OR IS IT?

It seems that everyone's talking about the new DANDY - but is it any good? My opinion isn't coloured by any association with the comic other than as a reader, so let me tell you what I think.

NIGEL PARKINSON'S HARRY HILL strip is humorous enough and the artwork is of the usual high standard. If anything brings new readers in, it will probably be this strip which does it. LEW STRINGER displays competent artwork in his two strips - KID COPS and POSTMAN PRAT, but in a slightly looser style than usual. His artwork isn't helped by the placement of some of the lettering balloons 'though - something that quite a few strips in the comic suffer from.

As for the rest, it's a mixed bag of some good, some okay, and some downright awful strips, so perhaps there's something for everyone. Not quite my cup of tea overall, but maybe it'll improve with a bit of polishing. Go on -give it a try - you might like some of it.

And here's a picture of the very first issue of the DANDY from 1937 - don't ever say I don't give you something for nothing.

Level 3. Unit 5. Vacation!!

Unit 5

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"THREE WEE WITCHES ON THE GREEN..."



 Just for the fun of it, here are some more frightfully fiendish images suitable for Hallowe'en. First up, an AURORA ad from any number of DC COMICS from the '60s - followed by the box art (painted by James Bama) of ol' FRANKIE'S and DRAC'S plastic model kits by the selfsame company. (AURORA, that is - not DC.)

Don't you just wish you had these two little beauties in your collection? (I have.)



Okay, so I lied about the witches - sue me.

Why did the turkey cross the road?

Clearly, he or she wanted to check out the new striping on Central Street, which has just about everybody confounded.

He also might have questioned why the striping was done before any repaving, but that question is better left to higher minds than his. Such as mine.

However, I enjoyed seeing him early of a morn, the sun just peeking up over the evergreens and the shimmer of water in the distance. It's my kind of weather, cool, dry and of course, sunny, so I've been packing a lot of vim and vigor into my day, as I told my pal Lucy's parents.

What's vim? you ask. Well, Lucy's folks conveniently have a large dictionary on a pedestal, so you can just look up words whenever you like. Vim: energy; enthusiasm, of which I have more than enough.

So to contain some of same, Mom tried the Easy Walk harness on me. Or, I should say, retried; perhaps she forgot that the problem with the harness was not that it had problems containing me but rather that it should more properly be called the Easy Balk harness.

For that is what I did, dear reader.

Stood there, simply stood there, until she was out of her mind. I knew she was out of treats, so guess who won this round of patience? When I want, I can be very, very patient. Very, very patient.

Fortunately for Mom, the mail carrier didn't know that we were engaged in this secret war, and he pulled off the road to greet me. Bored as I was, it was a relief. Plus, I nabbed a few more calories, just in case I did walk off —or, should I say, balk off— a few during my outing.

BRING ON THE BAD GUYS...TRICK OR TREAT?

 

"BOO!"

 Hallowe'en - and this cover by JOHN ROMITA for the FIRESIDE book, BRING ON THE BAD GUYS, is the perfect image to illustrate a blog about comicbooks on this particular day of October 31st - it's even got a pumpkin on it.

One word of warning 'though. If you get a knock on your front door and open it to find this assortment of colourful characters on your step, you'd better have more than a few monkey nuts and an apple each for them. If not, slam it shut and get out the back door as fast as you can . These guys don't mess around.

Hey Dudes at The Roanoke Times

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Once again a totally missed story that would have been half of the front page with big photos if Pres. Bush had been the brunt of the Daily Show’s grossly disrespectful slam dunk of Obama and The Presidency!
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/10/28/obama-says-summers-did-heckuva-job/
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Summers did “a heckuva job,” Obama said.
Stewart quickly admonished:
“You don’t want to use that phrase, dude.”
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Is this not the President of the United States?
Is this not the Commander-in-Chief during war-time?
Or, is this just a Chicago community organizer and political hack?
Or, is this, as The Editors of the Roanoke Times described in their paper on Oct 24, 20010: “the ‘angry Negro’ in the White House”?
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Exactly which President is this and where in recorded history has the person and the office been reduced to this level by the minions of the media?
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I do not agree with Obama on most of his positions and actions, however, I am very disturbed that he is constantly placing himself and the office in positions to be ridiculed by others and or subservient to others of dubious position.
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This is yet another example that clearly demonstrates that Obama was not and is not prepared to be President of The United States and two years of on-the-job training has not improved his performance or stature.
What a sad chapter in American History.
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The Audacity of Groveling
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/audacity-of-groveling.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/10/obama-americans-cant-think-straight.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/03/danger-of-arrogant-disregard-for.html
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Video games and map reading

Research on using video games to improve map reading:You can read more about it on Brian Verdine's web page.Back to okansas.blogspot.com.

Something to learn from cyclocross?

My friend Leslie linked this cyclocross video:Cross Crusade Race #4 PIR from Burk Webb on Vimeo.As I was watching it, I thought, "we ought to do videos like this for orienteering." An orienteering could easily include some interesting images and rough conditions.Cyclocross and orienteering have some of the same appeal. Both are tough sports that attract fairly small crowds. There is definitely

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT...

Inked with a Windsor & Newton #3 sable brush

This page was pencilled by DOM REGAN and inked, dialogued and lettered by myself. Dom doesn't use a ruler, so his perspectives aren't always as precise as they could be, requiring a bit of sorting out at the inking stage. His rendering is also a bit vague at times ('though not so much on this page), which means the inker isn't quite sure exactly what he's looking at on occasion - but his artwork certainly packs a punch.

As the page features a CAPTAIN AMERICA stand-in (MAJOR AMERICAN - a name I coined), I tried to give it a CHIC STONE finish. I've probably over-inked the machinery in the first couple of panels, which are far too laboured, but it didn't come out too bad overall.

Halloween howling: be heard!

Tonight is Worldwide Howl at the Moon Night, and I say, why should tonight be any different? At least I'll have some others joining me in song, so my howls (or bays, to use the proper term) won't be so obvious.

Fat chance.

Anyway, I'm glad that others will try to express themselves. Today I read The Dog Who Cried Wolf by Keiko Kasza, about a pup named Moka who reads a book about wolves and runs out to the woods to get back to his roots.

Unfortunately, when he does realize his dream of howling at the moon, some wolves howl back, and scare the fur off of his little self!

Because I can howl, or rather, bay, anytime I want, I have no such desire to take off and live au naturel. Besides, in all my hikes through the Hunnewell Woods, I've never seen a king-sized bed.

Democrats have done splendidly this year

Democrats have done splendidly this year believing in themselves and maintaining their own self-esteem.
They have been accenting the positive and eliminating the negative.
Read the details in this comprehensive editorial in the New York Times: And then smile - Nov 2nd is coming!
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/26/opinion/26brooks.html?_r=1&th&emc=th
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Sarcasm: the little guy's weapon of choice
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/01/sarcasm-into-trash.html

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DID YOU EVER WONDER ABOUT SUPERMAN'S "U"?



Superman #233 - featuring Ira Schnapp's logo
(Art by Neal Adams)



SUPERMAN'S logo is as iconic as that of COCA COLA and is recognized the world over, but it took a while before it was standardized by NATIONAL PUBLICATION'S ace designer and calligrapher IRA SCHNAPP (on the cover of issue #6), based on JOE SHUSTER'S original design. Did you ever wonder, however, why it had that peculiar shaped angular "U" which didn't match any of the other letters?



Superman Ashcan Edition. (Art by Joe Shuster) 



 I thought I had solved the mystery when I first saw the cover of the Ashcan Edition of Superman (SUPERMAN COMICS), and noticed that the "C" of "Comics" cuts into the "U" of "Superman". Closer examination shows that the "U" had almost the same squarish curve (if that's not a contradiction in terms) as the "P" and the "R". Was it simply a case of this rough logo being relettered for issue #1 with the word "Comics" omitted, and someone taking the easy way out by angling-off the letter to complete the bottom line of the "U"?


Superman #6 - 1st appearance of Ira's logo
(Art by Joe Shuster)



  It would be easy to assume so, going by the cover (and centre pages) of the actual first issue (which, legend has it, was originally intended as a one-off - hence the un-numbered cover). It therefore didn't seem unreasonable to suppose that, when IRA SCHNAPP came to letter the definitive version, he was provided with a printed copy of the then-relatively recent SUPERMAN #1 for reference. It certainly couldn't have been issues 2-5, as each cover logo featured a curved "U". (For the cover of issue #1, see previous post.) So - mystery solved?

Well, no. Despite my fine speculations, after a bit more digging I found that Joe Shuster had occasionally rendered the "U" in that fashion from as early as ACTION COMICS #2 - which predates the Ashcan and the first issue by quite a margin. (As that story was actually reprinted in SUPERMAN #1, I could have saved myself needless hypothesizing by simply reading the comic.) It seems entirely possible, therefore, that Ira Schnapp was provided with a copy of the angular lettered logo for reference instead of the curved one merely on a whim of fate. (Although I have to concede that, with it's distinctive "U", maybe the editor - or Ira himself - just preferred that version.) Just think 'though - comics history could so easily have been different.

   

 Ira's logo lasted for over 40 years, until 1983, when it was relettered by MARSHALL ARISMAN to more closely resemble the earliest regular incarnations of the title. I actually think it's excellent, although I have reservations about the top curve of the "S" overlapping the top of the "U". Maybe one day I'LL have a go at doing it.

(Note: An "Ashcan Edition" is an in-house, non-distributed publication used for the purpose of securing copyright on a title.)

Now, be honest - did YOU ever wonder.....?

Superman #386 - 1st appearance of new logo
by Marshall Arisman. (Art by Gil Kane)

October Celebration!

Fall is a wonderful time for celebrations.   Golds, oranges,
that wonderful cranberry red leaf color. Fires in and out of doors.
Leaves crackling under foot.



The way the sun shines upon us at this time of year, a warm hug.



A Birthday Celebration for our second child, Douglas, now a young man.
Merci Beaucoup Dear Father. How blessed I am.

*** UPDATE ~ Birthday Boy chose real German brats from the Wurst Kitchen!
*** they also have great hot dogs and Italian sausage.

Hugs,

Mary

October Celebration!

Fall is a wonderful time for celebrations.   Golds, oranges,
that wonderful cranberry red leaf color. Fires in and out of doors.
Leaves crackling under foot.



The way the sun shines upon us at this time of year, a warm hug.



A Birthday Celebration for our second child, Douglas, now a young man.
Merci Beaucoup Dear Father. How blessed I am.

*** UPDATE ~ Birthday Boy chose real German brats from the Wurst Kitchen!
*** they also have great hot dogs and Italian sausage.

Hugs,

Mary

Old PTU kit now free - "Snow Princess"

Hi!!

In time for the next winter season, here an old ptu kit you can download for free, if you like it.

It's called "Snow Princess" and it's taggers size only.

Download here:

http://www.4shared.com/file/_52CRG-e/CS_snowprincess.html



Preview:

Thanks everyone leaving comments :)

See you soon!!

Today's fieldchecking with a lidar image

Below is a laser scan (lidar) image of a section of forest that I was fieldchecking today. I created the image with OL-laser.I highlighted a few features:1. These blobs in the forest are individual cedar trees. They are quite useful to have on the base map. 2. The east-west running linear feature is an old rock wall. Most of the wall is no more than 0.5 meter high. It will be drawn as a

No Strings Attached

No Strings Attached


Discovered by Scott Huffines during his Atomic Books tape-trading days, this is easily the strangest stop-motion animation clip we've ever seen - or aired. Yes, it was originally included as an extra on Atomic TV's "1997 East Coast Video Show" episode.

Does anybody know who created this? I think I saw it years ago at one of the MicroCineFest animated shorts programs and recently saw it at a comic book convention on a compilation DVD called F**ked Up Cartoon Party.

Roanoke Times Editors Emerge From Their Racist Closet

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Roanoke Times, 10-24-10, Pg Horiz 1: Editorial Commentary: Southern Strategy rises again in 2010
“We is white America and we --- want to take America back from the ‘angry Negro’ in the White House”.
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The Editors of the Roanoke Times have aligned themselves in the past with Jessie Jackson, Al Twana Sharpton, The Rev. God Damn America Wright and other race baiting radicals, but this is a personal best for them.
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This election isn’t about a federal government that is out of touch, out of control, and racked with the elitist mantra of “we don’t need to listen to ‘the people’ because we know what’s best”. No, it’s about racism pure and simple, and particularly, southern racism.
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So what happened last year in races in New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Virginia? Was that all racism? What about the close race for Harry Reid’s senate seat? Is that all about racism? And what about the very close elections all across the country?
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This blog has documented over 1,000 examples of the slant and bias of the Editors of the Roanoke Times over the past 5 years, however, this nasty piece of racism exceeds any and all of the past examples. Apparently the Editors cannot cope with the current poll projections for next Tuesdays elections and have totally lost it!
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Shame on the entire Editorial Staff! What a sad reflection on them, their product, their profession and sadly all the good people who work for the Roanoke Times and have to bear the public disdain for content they do not control.
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New news item: Apparently Obama has joined in the Roanoke Times racist dialogue:
WOONSOCKET, R.I. -- President Barack Obama attacked Republicans with gusto Monday Oct 25th.
"We don't mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back."
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This from the President of the United States; what a sad chapter in American History!
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/10/25/obama-tells-republicans-sit/
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More map comparison

Aspleaf posted maps from 1966 and 2010.The course is from the 2010 district night champs.Back to okansas.blogspot.com.

A COMICS CONTROVERSY - CARE TO COMMENT?



Superman's first issue of his own comicbook

 Consider, if you will, the following scenario. A person buys an ornament for £2 from a charity shop. Later, upon reflection, they decide that they don't really like it so they put it out in their garden shed. A couple of years later, someone collecting for a jumble sale chaps their door and the ornament is recovered from the shed and freely handed over in order to raise funds to repair some church's leaky roof.

Ten years later, the first person is watching ANTIQUES ROADSHOW and sees "their" ornament declared as being worth £20,000. Do they have a moral or legal claim on any of that money if the current owner decides to sell?

Now consider this. Someone asks an artist to paint a picture of their house and gardens. He charges them £300 and is extremely pleased at the amount he has secured for himself. Five years later, a visitor to the purchaser's house is so enamoured of the painting that he offers them £5,000 for it. Over the years, it changes hands for increased amounts until it is worth £50,000. Does the artist have any moral or legal claim on any of the money it has changed hands for over the years?

The answer is surely "no" - isn't it?

So - what's the difference between those two examples and what happened to SIEGEL and SCHUSTER over SUPERMAN, or JACK KIRBY and the many characters he created or co-created for MARVEL or DC COMICS? Or the work LEO BAXENDALE (or any artist you care to name) did for D.C. THOMSON or FLEETWAY/IPC? I would suggest none at all. If you consent to sell something outright for an agreed fee, then it's really nothing to do with you what the purchaser does with his purchase or how much he profits from it in the years to come. If you buy a house for £80,000 and then sell it for £100,000, the previous owner (even if he built the house) is neither legally nor morally entitled to a share of your profit. And, back in the day, that's the way it was done in the world of comics.



Batman's first issue of his own comicbook

Which is not to say that I have anything against present-day creators' rights, profit sharing, copyright ownership, return of artwork, or anything like that - because that's the way things are done nowadays. However, back in the 1930s (until relatively recently - late '70s, early '80s), comics were - in the main - just a job to the writers and artists working on them, and it was the publishers who were taking the financial risk in launching a new comicbook - so why shouldn't their share of the profits proportionately reflect that risk? When a publisher bought a character, they bought it outright - if it was a success, they made money, if it was a failure, they didn't. It's a safe bet that there were a lot more failures than successes in those days. That was just the way the cookie crumbled.

Anyone got any thoughts on the matter? Let's hear them.

ODDS 'N' ENDS...

May I present a few logos I lettered relatively recently? Everything is done freehand - apart from a ruler for the horizontal pencil guidelines before inking.

Incessant, unceasing barking, definition of

This post was inspired by the unceasing, or is it incessant, barking of several dogs in my neighborhood, most small and yippy, one large and menacing, but all annoying.

Being a rather quiet guy, I'm a bit puzzled by the commotion. Because (notice I did not use the word "since") I'm becoming known for my clear definition of terms, especially the difference between obstinate and obdurate, it occurred to me that I didn't quite know the difference between unceasing and incessant, or even if there was a difference.

So here's the deal: unceasing and incessant both basically mean "not coming to an end," which certainly is true of the noise around here (excepting of course, the immediate environs of moi, Tucker). However, incessant has a negative connotation, and is used when the unceasing barking has become unpleasant (in other words, immediately). The definition given for incessant is "continuing without pause or interruption."

The odd thing is, that after musing over these definitions this morning, this afternoon I went out for my walk, properly leashed, of course. One of the yippy dogs, improperly off leash, bounded out of her yard and attempted to attack me, several times, dashing forward, dashing back, baring her teeth and rolling her eyes in a most unseemly manner. Finally, provoked, I let loose with my sound of alarum usually reserved for the Siberian Husky (although it was the moderate version), but the thing kept approaching, gnashing its teeth and barking. Unceasingly. Incessantly. Annoyingly.

After it was all over, I went through the paces of my walk, but my heart wasn't in it, and when I got home, I went to sleep. Immediately.

Comparing mapping styles

Comparing two maps of the same terrain, posted by Jagge at Attackpoing:You can argue and discuss whether this sort of development is good or bad. I'm not really sure. It seems consistent with the development of orienteering maps over the years - a move toward more and more contour and runnability detail.I don't really know how much further it can go. With laser scan (lidar) data for basemaps,

DO YOU REMEMBER THE ILLUSTRATED COMIC JOURNAL?

Can you name them all?

The accompanying illustration is a scan of a very poor quality colour photocopy taken about fourteen or more years ago when I was preparing a cover for THE ILLUSTRATED COMIC JOURNAL. The copier (in a local garage, of all places) didn't have the right paper and was so badly in need of toner that the resulting copy was unusable. However, it's the only one I have to hand, so it will have to suffice for the moment.

The Illustrated Comic Journal was a fanzine created by ALAN CADWALLANDER back in the early '80s (I believe) and then taken over by BRYON WHITWORTH some time later. At first it was a black and white A5 publication, but when I became involved as assistant editor in the early '90s or thereabouts, it became A4 with colour covers. Bryon picked the articles and I proof-read and corrected them - although he always managed to overlook some of my corrections and add a few new mistakes once the edited version was returned to him. Such were the drawbacks of the pre-computer "cut and paste" method he employed.

The late DENIS GIFFORD, celebrated comics historian and collector (and compiler of the A.C.E. section of the mag), was much taken with the new logo I designed, drew, coloured and lettered, as it featured his STEADFAST McSTAUNCH character from WHIZZER & CHIPS, saying at the time "What a find in Gordon Robson" (to be sung to the tune of "WHAT A FRIEND WE HAVE IN JESUS" - only kidding) - despite me having been a professional comics contributor for quite a few years by that time. Denis didn't seem to remember that he had suggested I become a letterer back in the '70s, after I had submitted a one page comic strip to his short-lived (four issues) ALLY SLOPER magazine. Denis wrote to me to say that he couldn't print it because the inking technique I had used wouldn't reproduce too well, but adding that I could easily make a living as a letterer in his opinion. He even supplied me with some names at IPC (Jack Le Grand - and another, which I forget) and D.C. THOMSON (W. Stirton) to contact.

Black and white photocopy of the original artwork

Anyway, I'm quite proud of the logo - everything on it was produced by my own fair hand, with the exception of the words "Illustrated" and "Incorporating", which were done with Letraset. Bryon eventually passed the mag on to other hands and one further issue was produced - then it unfortunately faded into comics limbo. Shame really.

NPR Cans Juan Williams and Free and Open Speech

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Roanoke Times, 10-22-10, Pg 2: Television * Movies * Music
NPR analyst is fired after his remarks about Muslims
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No that’s not it Editors of the Roanoke Times!
This is not a story about entertainment!
This is a story about an abuse of power that would be a full front page on the Roanoke Times if it were perpetrated by a Republican entity against a liberal or Democrat.
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1. News analyst Juan Williams’ was fired from National Public Radio for comments he made about being nervous when flying alongside devout Muslims.
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2. This week, the radio network received $1.8 million from billionaire investor George Soros to hire journalists to cover legislatures in all 50 states.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/10/21/npr-seeks-defuse-uproar-williams-firing-critics-congress-defund-network/
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Does anyone doubt the connection between these two events? Can there be any doubt that Soros (THE major Daddy Warbucks for the liberal-progressive movement) made it clear that the $1.8 million was exclusive of anyone not totally liberal-pure in every way and every day?
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There is no better example of the hypocrisy of the liberal left than this event!
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Perhaps we should flash back two years ago when Obama reflected on his Grandmother’s expressed fears of being alone and meeting young black men on a city street. Was that not viewed by most as a reasonable and prudent and very understandable feeling felt by many people required to walk intercity streets yet today?
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Apparently the Politically Correct Police will not rest until we all kowtow and bow to their ever pervasive control over our every conversation and discourse and personal feeling.
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Where is the hue and cry of condemnation of this trespass upon individual’s first amendment rights by the Editors of the Roanoke Times and their left wing associates?
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This is of course consistent with the left wing’s prior “Bomb Juan” program
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/08/bomb-juan.html
and their attacks on Bill (not politically correct) Cosby
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/05/bill-cosby-not-pc.html
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Take a real look at your liberal progressive guardians of first amendment and individual rights to open and free expression – what a pathetic bunch of hypocrites and losers!
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Perhaps the answer behind these issues are:
Islam: The New US Government Religion
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/08/islam-new-us-government-religion.html
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The Juan Williams Affair: Just a footnote in the NPR strategy:
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NPR CEO Vivian Schiller Key Architect of FCC Govt Takeover of the News
Article By: Tara Servatius who is a writer and radio host from North Carolina.
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http://townhall.com/columnists/TaraServatius/2010/10/25/npr_ceo_vivian_schiller_key_architect_of_fcc_govt_takeover_of_the_news/page/full/
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The Swellesley Inn: hotel for dogs?

Time for me to make a reservation for my own room, or so it seems. No sooner did Grandma finish up her visit than our cousins booked the place for the weekend.

What is this, a revolving door? A B&B? All Mom does now is bake muffins and wash bedding. It's ridiculous. What I want is a dedicated sleeping spot, and so I proved my point this week. First, I pouted in my beanbag. And I mean in.

Next, I took advantage of the guest-ready parlor (parlance for small living room just right for some good sleeping) and snuggled on the loveseat (white). However, I was not there long enough to pose for a photo.

Then, just as Mom was about to do more bedding, I scored the down comforter as I came back from my marathon walk. Notice I do look a bit embarrassed, but not embarrassed enough to move. In fact, thanks to the laptop, I still haven't gotten up.

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Distinguished Scientist Hal Lewis Rejects Global Warming Alarmists

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Not found in the Roanoke Times; apparently the editors are more interested in global warming politics than the “scientific method”. Why confuse the public by presenting both sides of a major issue. They’re consistent with King Obama’s pronouncement that "the American people can’t think straight" therefore why burden them with the facts.
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Hal Lewis Letter: My Resignation From The American Physical Society
http://www.thegwpf.org/ipcc-news/1670-hal-lewis-my-resignation-from-the-american-physical-society.html
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The Christian Science Monitor; By Anthony Watts / October 19, 2010
http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2010/1019/Climate-change-fraud-letter-a-Martin-Luther-moment-in-science-history
”Five centuries ago, a German priest challenged the reigning theological “consensus” about the clerical sale of indulgences, unraveling one of the great religious scams in history and inspiring the Protestant Reformation.
Climate change 'fraud' letter: a Martin Luther moment in science history
Esteemed physicist Harold Lewis is calling global warming the 'most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen.' His resignation letter could mark the unraveling of one of the great scientific mistakes in history and the beginning of a needed reformation of the scientific community.
This month, a senior American physicist challenged the reigning scientific “consensus” about global warming. His action may prove to be the unraveling one of the great scientific mistakes in history and the beginning of a greatly needed reformation of the scientific community.”
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The wheels are coming off the global warming alarmist wagons and now their only option is to circle their wagons in a desperate attempt to hide their malfeasance and pseudoscientific fraud from the public who have paid dearly for false and misleading services rendered.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/12/wheels-coming-off-global-warming-wagon.html
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Here in Virginia the Va AG’s request for information from UVa has met with a firestorm of negativity and rejection. The liberals don’t want the public to see the basis for Prof Mann (the hokey hockey stick guy) to get millions of dollars of taxpayer money to pursue the Gore-Hypothesis and its predetermined-science-outcomes. Forget all that open-government and transparency stuff the liberals constantly throw at folks with issues they oppose – this is different!
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/03/obamas-epas-conflict-with-virginia-ag.html
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Hopefully Prof. Lewis will continue to be a strong advocate for scientists pursuing the “scientific method” instead of the “consensus” method of scientific fact discovery.
UK News: Professor Hal Lewis Joins The GWPF (Global Warming Policy Foundation)
http://thegwpf.org/news/1687-professor-hal-lewis-joins-the-gwpf.html
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Some Prior items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/12/global-warming-climategate.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/10/global-warming-alarmists-employ.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/09/more-arctic-ice-data-bias-and-slant.html
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PRESENTING: A PULSATING PINNACLE OF PRACTICAL PERFECTION PERTAINING TO A PROFOUNDLY PERTINENT POWER-PACK PUBLICATION FROM THE PAST, PROUDLY PARADED FOR YOUR PARTICULARLY PASSIONATE AND PERSONAL PERUSAL...



Pencils: Werner Roth. Inks: Dick Ayers. Layout: Jack Kirby

Here's the comic that would've been on sale from October 21st (dated a week ahead, naturally) forty-three years ago. The cover has been extended to accommodate the different page size to the original American dimensions and, to be honest, hasn't been done too well. That was one of the problems with the "bodgers" of yesteryear (and no doubt some of today) - they just weren't competent artists when it came to executing such tasks. Look at CYCLOP'S arm and neck - they're far too thin and out of proportion to the rest of the figure. And ICEMAN doesn't seem much of a threat - on account of him being 'armless. That's what comes from merely extending the curve of a line (or the line of a curve, even) without giving thought to what the "missing" part of the picture should look like.

A Power-House Pin-Up by Barry Windsor Smith (?)

That said, FANTASTIC (published by ODHAMS PRESS) really was a fantastic comic, and I have some very happy memories from when it was being published back in the '60s. It only lasted for 89 issues, a Summer Special and three Annuals - and I've got a full set. (Nope - they're not for sale. Getcher own!)

89 issues - almost only a year and nine months. Funny how periods from the past, once they've been dated and placed in their own little compartments, don't seem to measure up in duration to our perceptions of them.

Obama: American’s Can’t Think Straight

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Americans are so "scared" they're not thinking straight about the upcoming elections, President Obama said over the weekend,
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/10/18/obama-voters-scared-thinking-clearly-election/
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What a pathetic sight! Obama the prophet of hope and change announcing that the American people are fearful and therefore irrational and therefore unable to make good decisions. Apparently they are back to clinging to their guns and bibles again, poor things!
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Has any American president ever berated and disrespected the American people like this?
There has never been such an arrogant, elitist, and condescending president in our history!
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Hopefully this election will politically-emasculate his holiness and the next election will sweep him and his court jesters out of office.
What a sad chapter in American political history.
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Some prior items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/02/obama-buying-votes-with-tax-dollars.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/10/obama-biden-desperately-searching-for.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/09/obama-hawking-class-and-race-warfare.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/01/obama-audacity-of-arrogance.html
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Found: An Obama Shovel-Ready Job

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Click on Image to Enlarge the Job

Prior Items:
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Obama Doubles-Down With Your Money Again
Does this wizard from Harvard have any idea what’s involved in doing a major infrastructure job? Some long-lead (multi-year) mandatory items: Architectural proposals and development of specifications, years of environmental impact processes, selection of and then acquisition of private property through the courts, building permits, bid proposals, bid selection, concentrations of men, material and equipment.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/09/obama-doubles-down-with-your-money.html
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Kaine and VDOT not Shovel-ready
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/10/kaine-and-vdot-not-shovel-ready.html
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Level 3. Unit 4

level 3 unit 4

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In the neighborhood
Voabulary: Places
What things can you do at this places? Bank, laundromat, post office, movie theater

You can save money in a bank.
You can do your laundry at the laundromat.
You can buy stamps at the post office.
You can see a movie and eat pop corn at the movies.


Do you know where I can __________? 
get a cup of coffee
get some hiking boots
get some cat food
buy some milk
work out
buy some pants
grab a hamburger
get some aspirin
see a movie
buy a book
mail a letter
buy some CDs
get a bite to eat



Asking and Giving Directions


Ask about an specific place:
A: Excuse me, Where's the Bridge theater?
B: It's on Albany Avenue
It's on the corner of Bloor Street

Vocabulary and exercises:
1. Giving Directions
2. Directions to the post office
3. Directions to the cinema
4. A game on giving directions: Hangman
5. How to give directions (complete exercise by BBC)
6. Giving Directions
7. practice phrases
8. Listening exercise

Prepositions of Location
1. Vocabulary
2. Excellent guide to prepositions
2. Exercise

How much . How many
1. Practice

There is - There are
1. exercise

Homework
1. make a collage  of places in your city. Write sentences telling what you can do there.
2. Get a map of your city and select an area to describe. Tell what places are there and write 4 conversations asking for and giving directions.

Level 2. Unit 10. Home Sweet Home!

Lesson 10. Home Sweet

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Parts of the House


Housing: Where do you live?

A: Do you live in a house or in an apartment?
B: I live in a house / I live in an apartment

Describing my house.
Consider the following questions:

Where do you live? House or apartment
Where is it?
What's your house like?
What's the neihborhood where you live is like?
How many rooms are there in your home?

Things to say to describe your house:Small/big
dark/ bright
old/new
Comfortable
Roomy
spacious
Conveniently located
Near public transportation
Carlos says:
I live in an apartment. I live on the second floor. Apartment 2A. In my apartment, there are seven rooms- a living room, a dining room, a kitchen, two bathrooms and two bedrooms.

Mary says:
I live in a house. I live in a quiet neighborhood. In my house, there are seven rooms- a living room, a dining room, a kitchen, two bathrooms and two bedrooms. There's also a yard.


Pronunciation: Rising intonation to show surprise

Asking about where you live

A. Hey Stuart.
B. Hi, Justin. Come in!
A: Hey, this is a nice apartment.
B: Yeah, and it’s only $400 a moth.
A: Really? That’s not bad! How many rooms are there?
B: There are five. There’s a living room, a dining room, a kitchen, a bathroom, and my bedroom.
A: Is there a garage?
B: No, but there’s a small yard.
A: That’s great!

Describe your favorite room

My favorite room is my bedroom. It’s big, fresh, bright and comfortable. There’s a desk next to my window. The computer is on the desk…

•There is/there are; How many

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•Prepositions of place: in. on, under, between, behind, in front of, next to, in the middle of, on the right, on the left

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•Verb + preposition 

–Verb + preposition + noun

–Jason listens to music 

–Verb + preposition + noun phrase

–I listen to the radio

Homework

1. Draw a floor map of your house or apartment. Use the model in your book and describe it.
2. Tell about four rooms in your house or apartment. Describe what furniture is in them.
3. Describe your favorite room in your house. Use prepositions of place to describe where things are.

* You can record your voice and add images.
* Visit your classmates blogs, read their compositions and leave a comment.
* Don't forget to Make the internet exercises from the on line workbook.
* Check your homework with a tutor. Use the check-speller. Make sure there are not grammar or typing mistakes.

No trophy for me at Columbus Day gorge-fest

Ever notice how people must have food nearby at every opportunity, as if they were threatened with starvation if they didn't eat something for, say, an hour? It's as sure as fleas in summer, and I am onto it big time.

For example, last Columbus Day was a food bonanza. Natick hosted a big soccer tournament, and it's true, children did run around after a ball, but, to my nose, the food trumped play.  I was kind of like Templeton the rat in Charlotte's Web: I just couldn't stop gorging myself on rolls, hotdogs, hamburgers, whatever I found—discarded of course. I'm not even sure just what was on the menu, but if it smelled like food, I ate it. And it was everywhere.

My only disappointment was that I didn't receive a trophy. I showed up, didn't I? I ate my share of food, no? I ran around, yes? So what was the problem?

Besides food, many participants, whether winners or not, received trophies. That's something that Ashley Merryman of Nurture Shock says is a no-no. Not everyone wins, right? Well, I bayed and bayed, but somehow people were not amused. They just didn't get it. And I didn't get one.

But I did win. Because when I got home, Dad asked whether I had eaten yet. "Not officially," Mom answered. So I ate some surplus rations anyway, and that was just as good as a trophy to me. Actually, it was even better.

Obama The American Evita

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Obama, touring a senior citizens center, announced two weeks before this major election, that he plans to hand out $250 to each senior citizen in the country.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/10/15/obama-proposes-rebate-seniors-deprived-social-security-benefit-hike/
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This picture could only be enhanced if Evita were standing next to him handing out money and singing “Don’t cry for me, Argentina”. On second thought, Michelle could fill those shoes nicely, after all, she’s really proud now!
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What a disgusting, pandering and gross display of raw Chicago politics!
Buying elections the Chicago way! This is the new vision?
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One can only imagine the front page hue and cry of the Editors of the Roanoke Times and their liberal-progressive media friends if Bush had done this!
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Obama’s new book should be titled “The Audacity of Gross Presidential Pandering”.
At least Bill Clinton didn’t offer tax money for services rendered.
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Obama – the healer, the uniter, the force for wonderful positive change
NO that’s not it -- would you like to guess again?
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Prior Item:
Obama Buying Votes With Tax Dollars
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/02/obama-buying-votes-with-tax-dollars.html
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GADZOOKS! GORDIE'S GRUESOME AND GORY GALLERY OF GRIM AND GRISLY GHASTLINESS...

"Er...trick or treat?"

Okay, peeps - as it's almost Hallowe'en, I thought I'd try and put us all in the mood by unleashing something suitable for the occasion. This gruesome goodie is a little pencil drawing I did back in the '70s while I was still a teenager. Of course, when I look at it now, I can only see all the mistakes and imperfections - but back then I could STILL only see all the mistakes and imperfections. What can I say? I'm my own fiercest critic.

Perhaps one day I'll do it again properly - this time as an atmospheric painting. That'll be after I finish (or should I say start?) the drawing I promised DAVID PERT back in 1973/'74 when we were both only 15 year old schoolboys.