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C.Mingus III July 31 , 04 To say Allen was an interesting guy is a stupendous understatement.
His death leaves me with a disquieting sense of relief. The point at which I met Allen Eager, he was all bluster, vindictive, very bitter and very ,very funny just as many that have strayed down the chem trail o-de Arts were or are. Beady eyes of envy and the Scotch- Irish gift of gab were to be counted among his charms by which he sustained himself at the expense of others in ego jousts or withering critical quips. Eager excelled at his perfected pimp's game of deflating with clever verse as to almost tip toward praise ,leaving one wondering if you were complimented or grossly ranked by the personification of slick I believe that was how he kept his minions at bay as well as attracted to him. "He likes me and thinks I’m cool and if I do this or that for a compliment..... no matter what, that guy is a genius and he said I was cool too." Then BLAM! Alienation, banishment, all of this mind fuck is on acid and speed & B12 and
they were high tech zombies in chemical straight jackets thinking they were cool! Cool- Super-Cool plus there was cash galore and credit cards and restaurant tabs and all manner of famous peeps showed up to glom onto a sugar cube of sunshine. I suppose
he knew full well it was the dope and not his past fame of having played and recorded with THE GREAT CHARLIE PARKER."How cool can you be. Bird Lives?...
Fucking Bird is dead! Fuck Bird. Dizzy too. Fuck all of them niggers. I am ten times
better than those fucking clumsy mother-fuckers." Not a little bitter, life had passed
him by. John Coletrane was a special hate. Eager even created a surrogate of him to destroy with his LSD dosing of a Bowery bum who hallucinated alcoholic & giving him dose after dose and promising booze and broads and as the dude would inevitably come to a point where he would ask what is this all-about and where’s the booze and broads? After a couple of days of this they told him he was John Coletrane and they rented a concert grand Steinway and when it was delivered with a piano tuner on site someone asked the dupe "hey, don't you know John Coletrane plays a tenor Sax just like Allen? You're not him. You're a nobody. We were just pretending to like you, asshole." Fucking shit like that can break even a broken man. One of their mind fuck victims jumped out
of a window and escaped into the night in a custom- tailored suit they had made to foster the illusion that they would take their victims out on shopping sprees like it’s a form of therapy to see that money is meaningless. I am assuming the money was not a magic
pot of leprechaun gold but as close as I have figured out there was a discretionary
budget for conditioning subjects and establishing "credibility" etc. This was CIA/ MK- ultra- shit Look up Denigrator of Past Genius and his picture will surely be the front piece to any volume titled that or Failed Genius.You will find it under not- too -original and stuck in an artistic rut and likely to die that way! If all of this sounds over- blown, think again I knew the same people he was constantly blasting and practically modeled my interior world with their achievements . Allen Eager did me and the world a favor by being the human expression of what it means to achieve a particular pinnacle and conquer the world and finally to find it has passed you by and fallen to the status of pop culture and/or faded fad. Yes, there is the danger of gaining what one pursues only to find it a hollow reward; to have reached like Icarus the supreme and forbidden height. Reminds me of Oscar Wildes’quip and Thelonious Monk's warning and advice ...
"Be careful what you wish for " and "Be yourself." "Ding Dong ,the Witch is dead " comes to mind quite independent of the news of Allen Eager's death. I feel that he and only he could spike the feet of clay of most ofthe idols of my youth. I had only seen them or met them & only briefly. He ,on the other hand, knew them inside and out from working with them and associating with them socially and "artistically". He was adept at abusing one of any illusions that art was his creation. A tough message in these times! I owe him a kind word of gratitude that at least he impelled me away from music with " So you want to be a jazz-bo huh, kid? " Or "Who is this Puerto Rican kid that thinks he's Mingus' kid ? . When I met Allen it was in an LSD safe -house run by one of his wealthy patrons that he had assigned as Queen Bee. He and a bunch of B12 -shooting pranksters were dosing Bowery bum's with acid and fucking with their heads. There by hangs a tale.............. But that is a horse of a different color.
A hyper- trained- dressage- dancing- pony of a different color. Look up MK Ultrs Its real CIA USA LSD shit.
"Allen was an interesting guy. A real chameleon.
He could learn things faster than anyone I ever met.
I can't believe that nothing has been said about tenor saxophonist Allen Eager on this site. He died a couple of weeks ago in Miami. One of the great "Brothers" ala Stan Getz, Zoot Sims, Al Cohn, etc, who adopted Lester Young as their stylistic idol in the 1940s. The following was posted by Bill Crow on jazzwestcoast Always Know, Steve Schwartz First Draft ON ALLEN EAGER By http://www2.musicpictures.com/live/main.php?search_string=artid:14477::<ext=Allen%20EAGER I can't believe that nothing has been said about tenor saxophonist Allen Eager on this site. He died a couple of weeks ago in Miami. One of the great "Brothers" ala Stan Getz, Zoot Sims, Al Cohn, etc, who adopted Lester Young as their stylistic idol in the 1940s.
The following was posted by Bill Crow on jazzwestcoast
Always Know,Steve Schwartz Jazz From Studio 4 Sunday 8p-1a WGBH, 89.7FM, Boston Allen was an interesting guy. A real chameleon. He could learn things faster than anyone I ever met. He went to Aspen once for his first adventure on skis, and stayed on for a while as an instructor. He entered a brand new Ferrari he had bought in New York and driven to Florida at Sebring. He won his heat, having never driven in a race before. ("I read a book about it once," he said.) When he was young, Allen fell in love with Ben Webster's playing and memorized all his solos from Duke's records. He went uptown and found the hotel where Ben was living, knocked on his door and asked if Ben would take him as a pupil. He got out his tenor and played Ben's solo on "Cottontail," sounding just like him. Ben ran down the hall and knocked on a friends door: "Come in here and hear what this little white boy is playing!" He wouldn't teach Allen, but he let him hang around, and Allen sort of became his protegé. Then Allen went to California, where he heard and fell in love with Lester Young. He changed his mouthpiece and reed and began sounding just like Lester. When he returned to NYC, he got a gig on the Street, and Ben heard about it and went down to see his boy. He couldn't believe his ears. Unfortunately, Allen's ability to learn fast was coupled with the ability to lose interest in things quickly, and he also spent a lot of his time getting high in various ways. He turned up in Provincetown while I was playing up there one summer with Zoot, and sat in with us on alto. He sounded like he was out of practice, and I think he was trying to avoid imitating Bird. Anyway, I didn't enjoy his playing as much as I had when he was playing tenor. But whenever I ran into him, it was always an enjoyable encounter, because Allen was a charming, interesting man of many talents. I hadn't heard of him for years, other that that he was living in Florida, and then last year a friend sent me a picture of him that he had taken at a jazz festival in California. RIP, Allen. Bill Crow http://www.jazzprofessional.com/profiles/Allen Eager.htm
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Allen Eager was born in New York on 10th January, 1927 and died in Florida on April 13th, 2003.
He began studying clarinet in his early teens,and in 1943 received lessons on tenor saxophone from Ben Webster. After changing to saxophone he worked with Bobby Sherwood, Sonny Dunham, Shorty Sherock, and Hal Mclntyre. Eager later joined Woody Herman and in 1945 worked with Tommy Dorsey and Johnny Bothwell.
He performed in clubs on 52nd Street, New York, with Barney Kessel, Zoot Sims, Sid Catlett and Shelly Manne in Los Angeles and made a number of recordings with his own groups from 1946 to 1948. Among those he worked with around this period were Coleman Hawkins, Pete Brown, Red Rodney, Stan Levy, Max Roach, Al Haig, Serge Chaloff and Charlie Parker, as well as recording with Fats Navarro, Wardell Gray and Ernie Henry as a member of Tad Dameron's band, at the time resident at the Royal Roost on Broadway.
Allen Eager had a sound on the tenor saxophone similar to his contemporaries, Stan Getz, Zoot Sims, Al Cohn and Brew Moore, all of whom had been greatly influenced by Lester Young. In the 1950s he made occasional recordings with Gerry Mulligan and Terry Gibbs and worked with Buddy Rich.
Eager's personality was an enigma to many of his friends and colleagues. He occasionally abandoned his musical career for his hobbies of skiing, horse riding, and motor racing, eventually settling in Paris in 1956, where he began to play alto saxophone. In 1957 he ceased full-time performing once more, but resumed his career in 1982, when he toured Europe and recorded with his own group.
Some of Eager’s best performances can be heard on Brothers and Other Mothers—recorded in July 1947 with Stan Getz, Zoot Sims and Al Cohn and Serge Chaloff, all of whom had been members of the Woody Herman Four Brothers sax section, together with the Other Mothers Brew Moore and Allen Eager.
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Man's Most Dangerous Myth : Fallacy of Race Ashley Montagu Man's Most Dangerous Myth was first published in 1942, when Nazism flourished, when African Americans sat at the back of the bus, and when race was considered the determinant of people's character and intelligcnce. Ashley Montagu presented a revolutionary theory for his time: Breaking the link between genetics and culture, he argued that race is largely a social construction, and not constitutive of significant biological differences between people. This new edition contains Montagu's most complete explication of his theory and a thorough updating of previous editions. The sixth edition takes on the issues of the Bell Curve, IQ testing, ethnic cleansing, and other contemporary race relations topics, as well as contemporary restatements of topics in previous editions. A bibliography of over 3,000 published items on race, compiled over a lifetime of work, is of enormous research value. Also available is an abridged student edition containing the essence of Montagu's argument, its policy implications, and his thoughts on contemporary race issues for use in classrooms. Ahead of its time in 1942, Montagu's arguments still contribute essential and salient perspectives as we face issues of race in the 1990s. This Email has been scanned by Norton anti-Communist.
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Found this during my research for pulp magazines last week.
"Disgustingly frank and revoltingly candid" and "Bizarre! Weird! Outlandish! Sick! And all true." Goodness. How did I miss this one?
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Of Corset Matters A review of Valerie Steele's The Corset: A Cultural HistoryBuy the book
By Christina Larson
Of Corset Matters
Third-wave feminists waving copies of Naomi Wolf's The Beauty Myth once proclaimed that men had hatched an ominous conspiracy to trick women into pursuing an impossible beauty ideal rather than real social progress. In The Corset: A Cultural History, Valerie Steele lays waste to that doctrine by documenting the extent to which women, not men, have historically policed the ideals of femininity, often in spite of the objections of bewildered men.
No Victoria's Secret bimbo, Steele is serious about her subject. In her hands, the history of fashion is treated as a study of the intersection of beauty ideals with new technologies that enable them. Chief curator at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, Steele teamed up with cardiologist Dr. Lynn Kutsche to investigate the havoc wreaked by tight-laced corsets on women, from the late Renaissance Madonna Catherine de Medici to the more modern Material Girl. Steele thumbed through early medical journals for accounts of corset-induced casualties and trekked to the Smithsonian Institute to examine its collection of female skeletons with rib deformities.
Though commonly associated with Victorian upper-class matrons, corsets originated much earlier, in the 16th century, and by the 19th had become a hallmark of fashion for women of nearly all classes. Practically compulsory for women of aristocratic birth, corsets were also adopted by working women who aspired toward similar ideals of fashion. One popular line of mass-produced corsets in the 1880s was the "Pretty Housemaid" model.
Fetishists aside, gentlemen of the 19th century did not strap their women into corsets in order to titillate their erotic fancies, as some conspiracy theorists would have us believe.
One male beauty writer, Ernest Feydeau, even wondered in print why "the generality of women envy [these] elegant monstrosities."
Many men, especially doctors, warned women of the dangers of lacing corsets too tight and some advised not wearing a corset at all. Steele found that The Lancet, a preeminent British medical journal, published "more than an article a year from the late 1860s to the early 1890s on the medical dangers of tight-lacing."
One famous rant against the corset in 1874, "Madre Natura versus the Moloch of Fashion," enumerates 97 different "diseases produced by Stays and Corsets according to the testimony of eminent medical men." The alleged symptoms ranged from the rational (impaired breathing and circulation) to the pseudo-scientific (heightened hysteria and melancholy) to those characteristic of the premodern obsession with reproductive well-being (the inability to breast-feed properly and the danger of miscarriage or deformed offspring).
That's not to say, though, that these early doctors were sounding the alarm in hopes to liberate women from their lowly social status. Most of this early anti-corset literature was clearly misogynistic, maligning the waist-cinching undergarment alternately as evidence and as cause of "innate" female irrationality. Instead, the male doctors' concerns about women's health stemmed largely from their concerns over women's ability to procreate. Steele shows that criticism of the corset increased during periods of low fertility.
Though absolved of the most drastic claims lobbed against it (Steele could not determine that any of the Smithsonian skeletons were deformed by tight-lacing), corsets did contribute to a variety of milder ailments, including shallow breathing, shortness of breath, atrophied back muscles, and potential difficulty in labor. Victorian heroines' heaving bosoms and fainting tendencies were more likely induced by insufficient oxygen and upper-diaphramic breathing than by arousal in the embraces of mustachioed lovers.
Despite the obvious physical inconveniences, as well as admonitions of both doctors and philosophers against such an "unnatural" fashion---Thorstein Veblen condemned the corset as "a mutilation, undergone for the purpose of lowering the subjects' vitality" in his 1899 Theory of the Leisure Class---the market for mass-produced stays was on the rise in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Industrialization put fashionable garments within the reach of more and more consumers. Working women didn't need to pay for tailoring once new steam-molding techniques allowed manufacturers to shape corsets on metal torso frames rather than taking individual measurements. Catalogues made corsets available to women who didn't live near urban boutiques. Trade journals such as The Corset and Underwear Review proliferated. Women also produced and peddled corsets. "By the early nineteenth century, the majority of small and medium-sized corset manufacturers were women," Steele reports, though she doesn't delve into who reaped the profits from this lucrative industry, which on the eve of the Second World War raked in $65,000,000 annually (equivalent to nearly $2 billion today).
Women persisted in wearing corsets despite the obvious health problems for complex, and often counterintuitive, reasons. We assume today that corsets were designed to attract men, but for Victorian women, waist-cinchers helped establish a class-based pecking order within their own sex. While some early corset advertisements catered to the fantasy of snaring a husband with a corset-enhanced figure, more common were ads showing women watching women. One 1882 trading card for the Adjustable Duplex Corset depicted two women peeking through a keyhole to discover "Why Mrs. Brown has such a perfect figure."
The corset facilitated a pernicious association between physical beauty and virtue, as upright posture and a slender waist came to be regarded as evidence of discipline, modesty, rigor, and refinement. Ladies who abandoned their stays were scorned as both lazy and immoral. "Older women, not men, were primarily responsible for enforcing sartorial norms," Steele writes. "The cultural weight placed on propriety and respectability made it difficult for women to abandon the corset, even if they wanted to."
What eventually happened to the corset? First, a technological change: In 1960 DuPont introduced Lycra into the manufacturing process, which made whalebone or metal frames obsolete. In effect, the corset became the girdle. Then, the 1970s, with their bra-burning feminists, brought cries for less restrictive, more natural feminine fashions. But Steele says the corset, with its moral and postural uplift, didn't vanish altogether. Instead, she doesn't stray too far from Naomi Wolf, positing that the tools for achieving the feminine ideal have simply changed: "The corset did not so much disappear as become internalized through diet, exercise, and plastic surgery." Men, though, no longer seem to object to these body-shaping tools. Instead, they're adopting them. Perhaps that's progress.
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://silverback.gnn.tv/blogs/15901/Ann_Coulter_and_the_doctrine_of_liberal_infallibility B15901 / Tue, 6 Jun 2006 15:55:09 / Media taking a quick break from writing –– am almost there! –– thought i’’d share my latest procrastinatory vehicle with you.
Ann Coulter on liberal infallibility
what’’s so interesting about this video clip is the way that psychological projection works. Coulter says that because the 9/11 widows are mourning their loss and coming out against Bush, there is no way to reasonably argue with them. it’’s the doctrine of liberal infallibility. but isn’’t that exactly the case made by the US in attacking Iraq and Afghanistan? that we were hit and we needed to hit back? and whoever argued with us was either insensitive, anti-American or a terrorist?
also, i can’’t help but think that her description of the widows as ‘‘self-obsessed’’ ‘‘millionaires’’ ‘‘reveling in their status as celebrities’’* kind of describes her as well http://silverback.gnn.tv/blogs/15901/Ann_Coulter_and_the_doctrine_of_liberal_infallibility
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Where Have You Gone Joan Rivers? by Terry Smith Listening to conservative commentator Ann Coulter’’s performance at this month’’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC ) reminded me of a poor man’’s Joan Rivers––a wannabe comedienne who makes a sensible audience shake their heads rather than laugh. But the audience at CPAC, intoxicated with racial and political bile, was anything but sensible. The mainstream media has reported ad nauseam on Coulter’’s reference to Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards as a faggot. Far less accessible and controversial have been her anti-black and anti-Latino remarks at the conference. For the full video of her remarks, go to http://www.c-span.org/. The lack of outrage over these comments says much about the media and the American public whose attitudes the media often reflect.
In describing Bill Clinton as "the first black president," Coulter remarked that he was "half white, half trash." What does Coulter think of black Republicans? She patronizingly opines, "Our blacks are so much more impressive than their blacks. . . . Who do they [Democrats] have––Maxine Waters?" Surprisingly, she doesn’’t care much for the Republican National Committee because "the RNC . . .they criticize the catch an illegal alien game, so I don’’t have a lot of respect for them." Her advice to college Republicans who want to engage in political activism? Play the catch an illegal alien game and "another great idea, the affirmative action bake sale." The affirmative action bake sale is a conservative spoof on affirmative action in which cookies are sold to different customers at different prices depending on their race and gender. One could argue that the bake sale isn’’t racist if he adopts the position that opposition to affirmative action is not racially motivated. Any such conclusion, however, would require an amnesia of history and suspension of common sense views about human motive––affirmative action requires whites to internalize some of the cost of historical discrimination and to forego some ill-gotten generational advantage.
At another point in her presentation, Coulter exclaimed, "Democrats don’’t even like blacks." (I suppose Coulter and her CPAC cult are our best friends.) In another contortion of reason, Coulter claimed that white liberalism was to blame for conservative college students offering whites-only scholarships. (Don’’t even bother scratching your heads.)
I’’m not certain if it’’s truly news that Coulter is anti-black-and-Latino and anti-gay. This, after all, appears to be the way she makes her living. But why the media hasn’’t dissected the racism of her statements as much as the statements’’ homophobia is a story in itself.
Posted by Terry Smith on March 7, 2007 02:33 AM Permalink TrackBack URL for this entry: http://www.blackprof.com/mt/mt-tb.cgi/875 http://www.blackprof.com/archives/2007/03/where_have_you_gone_joan_river.htm Monday, Jul. 02, 2007
I'm more of a man than any liberal.
ANN COULTER talking with Bill O'Reilly on his Fox show about her aggressive stance toward politicians like John Edwards
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anne coulter is a man? http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&um=1&hl=en&q=anne+coulter+is+a+man%3F+&btnG=Search+Images
http://mparent7777-2.blogspot.com/2007/07/ann-coulter-to-oreilly-im-more-of-man.html
Anonymous said... The only woman Ann Colter ever takes a back seat to is Eva Braun.
Monday, July 02, 2007
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http://www.nature.com/ http://www.nature.com/nmat/journal/v4/n7/fig_tab/nmat1413_F1.html Figure 1 - Network models of the three known bicontinuous cubic phases in soft matter.
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From the following article A triple-network tricontinuous cubicliquid crystal
Xiangbing Zeng, Goran Ungar & Marianne Impééror-Clerc
Nature Materials 4, 562 - 567 (2005) Published online: 5 June 2005
doi:10.1038/nmat1413
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a, Iad (G). b, Pnm (D). c, Imm (P). The two interpenetrating networks are coloured blue and yellow. White lines delineate the unit cell.
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http://www.nature.com/nmat/journal/v4/n7/fig_tab/nmat1413_F3.html
Journal home > Archive > Article > Full text > Figure 4 Figure 4 - Network model of the Im ¯3;m (I) structure and the average radial distributions of volume for lamellar, columnar and different cubic structures.
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From the following article A triple-network tricontinuous cubicliquid crystal
Xiangbing Zeng, Goran Ungar & Marianne Impééror-Clerc
Nature Materials 4, 562 - 567 (2005) Published online: 5 June 2005
doi:10.1038/nmat1413 http://www.nature.com/nmat/journal/v4/n7/fig_tab/nmat1413_F4.html
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