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Tools Replace Tech in this Year’s Holiday Ad Race, According to Ace Metrix

Ace Metrix®, the new standard in television and video analytics, today announced the top holiday ads of the year, a list led and dominated by Craftsman and Sears, which together aired four of the top 15 holiday ads of 2012. The winning ad was for the Craftsman Max Access Locking Wrench, achieving an Ace Score of 658, 29 percent above the retail category norm of 509. Notably absent from the list were the technology ads that led the 2011 holiday race won by Apple, and also featured Nintendo and Best Buy. This year, leading the technology pack (though absent from the top ranking) was Samsung’s “Santa Landing” ad with an Ace Score of 594.

“Tis the season for Sears,” said Peter Daboll, CEO of Ace Metrix. “Craftsman ‘manned up’ with a very detailed and effective portrayal of its products, while Sears underscored the breadth of its offerings.”

Most Effective Holiday TV Ads of 2012*

Rank     Brand     Ad Title     Ace Score
1     Craftsman     Maximum Versatility     658
2     USPS     Extra Pair of Hands     645
3     Duracell     Toys for Tots     628
4     JCPenney     Spirit of Giving     627
5     Hallmark     Christmas Memories     621
5     Hallmark     Just Tell Me     621
7     Old Navy     Colorful Christmas     619
8     Philadelphia Cream Cheese     Holiday Favorite     616
9     Target     Dream Big Magic     615
10     Pizza Hut     Big vs. Huge     612
11     Craftsman     Happy Men Love Tools     611
11     Craftsman     Bolt On Power Tool System     611
11     Dodge     Brighter Season     611
11     Lowe's     Remember the Decorations     611
11     Sears     Wise Baby     611
*Definition: Ace Score is the measure of ad creative effectiveness based on viewer reaction to national TV ads. Respondents are randomly selected and representative of the U.S. TV viewing audience. The results are presented on a scale of 1-950, which represents scoring on creative attributes such as Relevance, Persuasion, Watchability, Information, Attention, etc. This list is comprised of the highest scoring new television advertisements to have first aired nationally during the 2012 holiday season and through 12.18.2012.

Santa Takes a Holiday; Brands Choose to Recycle

“Not one of the top scoring ads this year feature Santa Claus, while last year the big guy starred prominently in the top 3 and was featured in 7 of the top 15,” said Peter Daboll, Ace Metrix CEO. “Interestingly, the brands that hired Santa last year didn’t make the list this year, including Apple, Coca-Cola, Macy’s, and Best Buy.”

Another trend this year is to recycle classic creative. “While new holiday ad volume appears to be steady, many brands are recycling some of their seasonal favorites. We have seen brands like Allstate, Audi, Campbell’s, Cheerios, and Folgers airing holiday season classics several years old,” continued Daboll.

“Reddi-whip for example, recut several of their ads for this season. Their ‘Oil or Cream’ ad has increased 7 percent in overall effectiveness from its original debut, both top quintile ads. The ability to achieve similar if not increasing effectiveness scores calls into question conventional wisdom about wear-out particularly when spaced over time.”

Non-retail Winners

Retail ads weren’t the season’s only winners. Beleaguered USPS aired a single holiday ad (Ace Score: 645) that ranked just behind the #1 Craftsman ad. No other delivery service ad came close.

Duracell’s ad promoting its partnership with Hasbro to benefit Toys for Tots, was the third most effective holiday ad of the season, with an Ace Score of 628. Missing from this year’s list was Coca-Cola, but its “Help Protect the Polar Bear” cause ad did lead the list of non-alcoholic beverage ads this season with a 590 Ace Score.

Philadelphia Cream Cheese was the single packaged food to appear in the Top 15, achieving an Ace Score of 616, while Pizza Hut’s “Big Vs. Huge” dinner box ad was the only restaurant ad to rank among the top 15 with a score of 612.

Finally, Dodge’s “Big Finish” ad promoting its Charger, Challenger, and Dart was represented in the Top 15 and as the #1 automotive holiday ad scoring a 611.

Other Retail Winners

Ellen DeGeneres helped JCPenney achieve the 2nd highest scoring retail ad of the holiday season (Ace Score 627), and Hallmark aired two separate ads in the Top 15, each with Ace Scores of 621.

Old Navy’s ad for colorful pop pants achieved Top 15 status with an Ace Score of 619, and Target’s magical “Dream Big” ad scored a 615, representing the 6th most effective retail ad this holiday season.

Finally, of the two new holiday ads aired by Lowe’s this year, one ranked within the Top 15, scoring a 611 matching scores with three of the Craftsman and Sears ads, which showcased the Craftsman “Bolt On Power Tool System,” happy men receiving Craftsman tools, and a baby luring his dad away from the tool department to an earring display in Sears.

About Ace Metrix

Ace Metrix® is the new standard in television and video analytics, dedicated to delivering better, faster, and more cost-effective solutions for evaluating video advertising within competitive context. Through the Ace Metrix LIVE™ platform, companies can now access timely, actionable data wherever, whenever they need to, enabling real-time advertising campaign optimization. Combining leading edge technology and patent pending methodology, Ace Metrix is revolutionizing the way marketers measure themselves and their competitive landscape. The Company is privately held and is backed by leading venture capital firms and industry leaders including Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Palomar Ventures, Leapfrog Ventures, and WPP.

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La Madre Bakery Lamingtons

“La Madre Bakery have a chocolate twist on the lamington, and it's a winner!”

I love a ‘lamo’ just as much as anyone. I’m yet to try the famous Flour & Stone ones, but until I can get up to Sydney I need a substitute. Luckily Amy from Run Forrest must have had a crystal ball and could feel my pain and delivered me some extra special lamingtons from La Madre Bakery.

So what makes a good lamington? I’d say the sponge has to be light and fluffy, the option of jam or jam and cream wodged inside, the chocolate coating not being too thick, and the coconut should generally go everywhere when you eat it. But La Madre have taken all things lamington to a whole new level: using a traditional vanilla sponge with jam, they DOUBLE UP the chocolate “because they think they taste better that way”. They don’t use any old chocolate, they use Callebut (Belgian couverture) …. so you know that shiz is gonna be gooooood! Now I don’t know about you, but if more chocolate is involved, sign me up, stat!

So apart from using Callebut chocolate, they also use locally sourced unbleached flour, Green Eggs, sugar, Jonesy’s Milk and cocoa powder. After being smothered gently in chocolate they are coated in shredded coconut. Perfect for Australia Day or all year around!

Want some lamo trivia? Allow me to feed your mind.

  • Lamingtons a dessert of Australian origin
  • There are some theories as to how the name Lamington came about, but my person favourite involves Lord Lamington… purely based on the name! (see wiki)
  • They are usually cut into 4cm cubes
  • They are called coconut bars in Cleveland, Ohio
  • Friday 21 July 2006 was designated National Lamington Day in Australia
  • The World’s Biggest Lamington was made in Toowomba on 11 June 2011. It weighed 2,361kg (wonder how many weight watchers points that is 😉 )
  • Lamington is also a suburb of the Western Australian outback town of Kalgoorlie-Boulder

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Iron Chef Shellie sampled La Madre Bakery lamingtons thanks to Run Forrest and La Madre Bakery.

5 comments on “La Madre Bakery Lamingtons
  1. Heidi - Apples Under My Bed - January 20, 2013 at 10:08 am

    YUM. I’m not a HUGE laming ton fan but these chocolatey ones look delicious.
    Heidi xo

  2. - January 20, 2013 at 9:40 pm

    Oh these could kill a brown dog. They look evilly awesome

  3. Tina @ bitemeshowme - January 21, 2013 at 9:20 am

    I’ve not seen a lamington like this before! I am very intrigued. And oh yes, a trip to Flour & Stone is a must. Let me know so I can meet you there =P

  4. Nic@diningwithastud - January 21, 2013 at 10:29 am

    OMG YUM! That thing looks intense! But in all the right ways :)

  5. msihua - March 2, 2013 at 6:06 pm

    I did not know about the National Lamington Day..

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Finland: Considering legalizing male circumcision

Finland is considering legalising the practice of male circumcision. The Ministry of Social Affairs and Health is currently preparing draft legislation, which would make circumcision acceptable when performed by a doctor, according to the parents' wishes, and with the child's consent.

According to the bill, parents can choose to perform the procedure on behalf of a small child. However difficulties may arise in cases where one parent opposes the circumcision. Officials hope to bring the bill before Parliament as early as this year.

In Finland circumcisions are carried out for religious purposes by members of the Jewish, Muslim and Tartar communities. Estimates are that currently about 100 operations are performed annually.

Police Investigate Two Circumcision Cases

Currently the law on male circumcision is somewhat hazy. Information about circumcisions is passed on to police for further investigation. Police enquiries have put an end to some attempts to carry out circumcisions, since the procedure is treated as serious abuse.

In 2006, the Turku district court convicted a Muslim mother for circumcising her son, however she was not sentenced. The Court of Appeal subsequently ruled that the mother was not guilty of abuse. The case is now being considered in the Finnish Supreme Court.

Helsinki police are currently investigating two cases in which male circumcisions were performed by Muslim and Jewish families. Both operations were performed by persons brought into Finland by the families, and who were not medical professionals.

Police say that complications arose following the procedures and the babies had to be hospitalised. The cases will be reviewed by the prosecutor during the autumn.

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FreeSpeech said...

Why should male circumcision be ok while female isn't?

Hugh7 said...

"parents can choose to perform the procedure on behalf of a small child"

"On behalf of" - as if that is what the child would choose for himself, then or ever.

The main reason the custom carries on is that it is done by force to someone who has no choice. Later on, in something like the Stockholm Syndrome, rather than face the fact that his sexual equipment has been reduced, he embraces circumcision for any of hundreds of bad reasons and imposes it on the next generation down. Here is a n examination of the process.

Tuan Jim said...

ok, maybe it's just me, but in the US I thought it was pretty much standard procedure to circumcise the kids when they're born - or at least I'm pretty sure it was when in the early 80s. I know there's a bit more of a to-do these days about harm to the kids and all that, but it's a fairly recent development.

I know when I was growing up, there were a lot more cut than uncut boys in my school.

Maybe I'm missing something from that somewhat vague article.

jdamn13 said...

Tuan jim, you must be American too. It's about time the free world put its foot down and stopped allowing inhumane practices in the name of religion like circumcision and halal and kosher slaughter. The underlying belief here is that because Judaism (and maybe Islam, but I think that in Finland at least they might not be so inclined to make that exception unless Muslims were protesting that Jews do it too) requires circumcusion that it should be legal, but I disagree with that. Yes, Abraham did it, but he also had a concubine. It doesn't make it right. It doesn't mean that it doesn't deviate from the Golden Rule, the underlying basis of morality with which Judaism has always abided in theory. AND ABRAHAM DID IT TO HIMSELF. He didn't do it to some child who had no say in the matter. The child has no say in the matter and the "child's consent" is an oxymoron. If they can consent to mutilating themselves, can they then consent to sex or marriage? Of course not. They're children. And once male circumcision is legalized on religious grounds, then Shafi Muslims will get to legally mutilate litte girls on "religious grounds," even though the two practices have nothing to do with one another and are as analogous as trimming one's nails and cutting off one's hand. But male circumcision is horrible. I can say with some experience that it's really quite tragic what it does to the sex lives of those men and their women. They always have issues with premature ejaculation, some have horrible pain from adhesions, and some have their sex drives destroyed by the procedure. Plus uncircumcised penises are wider and have that cool gliding motion. Yet another reason why I love Mexicans. They're not circumcised.


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My brother has recently developed some mental problems. He exhibits signs of paranoia. His wife has kicked him out of the house and turned his young children; 2 boys and 1 girl against him. They do not want to know him anymore. I took him in to my house. Although he exhibits signs of eccentricity and paranoia he is not violent. In fact he suspects that someone may have done sihr (blackmagic) to him and his family. Although he has these suspicions, in his state of depression, he refuses to receive any help for his condition. He even argues that it is a test and that he must wait for Allah to lift this suffering. My question is if he does not want to see anybody about his condition, how can I tell if he has been affected by sihr?.

Praise be to Allaah.

Yes, what your brother is going through, whether it is a physical disease or sihr (witchcraft), or it is a case of mental illness, or anything else, is indeed a test from Allah, may He be exalted, to His slave. Every test that a person goes through in this life happens by the decree of Allah, and it is good that your brother realises and understands this.

But what is not good and is not correct is for him to think that he has to wait until Allah, may He be glorified and exalted, lifts this suffering from him. Belief in the divine will and decree does not mean that one should not take appropriate measures. Rather when Allah, may He be exalted, decrees some thing He also decrees the measures that could lead to it; feeling full happens by the decree of Allah but the hungry person should eat (to reach the state of feeling full); and having children comes by the decree of Allah, but the one who wants to have children should get married, and so on.

It was narrated from Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) said: “Allah has not sent down any disease but He has sent down a cure for it.”

Narrated by al-Bukhaari, 5678.

Thus it becomes clear that as Allah decrees illnesses, He has decreed remedies for them that are appropriate; those who know them know them and those who do not know them do not know them.

So what you have to do is to treat your brother kindly according to his situation, and convince him to seek a remedy for his sickness. It is good to use both ways together, the usual medical remedy for the one who is in such a situation and looking into the matter of sihr (witchcraft), which is by his going to a raaqi (one who recites incantations) who can treat him with ruqya by reciting Qur’aan and proper, well known shar‘i (Islamically accepted) ruqyahs (incantations).

We ask Allah to heal your brother for you and to help you in dealing with him, and to give you the best of rewards.

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Virtual machine creation in Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V

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We continue our first look at Hyper-V technology in Windows Server 2008 . While Windows Server 2008 has been released, Hyper-V is still in pre-release form. Hyper-V is scheduled to be officially released later this year. For now, we’re really looking at a beta version of Microsoft’s new virtualization technology.

All interface-driven tasks are done through the Hyper-V Manager MMC snap-in. This snap-in is added when the Hyper-V role is added to the Windows Server 2008 system. My evaluation of Hyper-V takes place in a full install of Windows Server 2008 Standard, x64. After populating a few virtual machines into Hyper-V, a nice feature caught my eye, one showing the virtual machine uptime. The Hyper-V Manager snap-in is shown below:

Creating a virtual machine
Creating a virtual machine is wizard-driven within the Hyper-V Manager. The wizard asks the following questions while creating a new virtual machine:

  • Virtual machine name – This name is used within the virtual management piece, not the DNS name or computer name of the virtual machine.
  • Storage location – Hyper-V has a default location for the virtual machines, whether that be local or remote storage. A different location can be specified during the wizard.
  • Memory amount – Hyper-V will give a default amount of RAM at 512, which can be changed in the wizard.
  • Networking – The network assigned to the virtual machine.
  • Virtual hard disk selection and size – Where the virtual hard drive is assigned on the file system. Hyper-V gives a generous 127 GB virtual hard disk size for the virtual machine, but does not allocate that footprint entirely on the file system.
  • Installation options – A boot media can be assigned from a physical optical-drive or .ISO image file.

Once the virtual machine is created, you can turn it on and the virtual BIOS splash screen will appear and the virtual machine will start. The virtual machine starting up is shown below:

The virtual machine created is available to run and have an operating system installed at this point.

I hope to answer all of your questions about this virtualization platform. Please post them in the comments section below. And don’t forget to come back to the SearchServerVirtualization blogs for my next entry where I look at the Hyper-V manager and how it will fit in the enterprise.

Edit: The command line interface in the core edition of Windows Server 2008 is not PowerShell but a core prompt: Different than the normal CMD, but nowhere near as functional as PowerShell.

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Even though lots of IT shops have moved to Windows 7 only during the past year, Windows 8 launched in October. But the much-anticipated system has already traveled a rocky road to release. While Microsoft initially hoped to release the OS in early October to compete with iPhone 5, delays pushed the release of Windows 8 to late October. In addition, previews of the OS are mixed, so understandably most IT departments are biding their time before migrating to Windows 8; “Windows 7 is just fine,” they say.

On the upside, Windows 8 sports some new features, including a shared code base with Windows Server 2012 and, supposedly, better integration. In fact, that is Microsoft’s new slogan for its various product rollouts: “Better Together.” From the server to the desktop to the Surface tablet to the cloud, Microsoft says assuredly that its new portfolio of products works better together.

But lest we forget, the early returns say that Windows 8 has downsides as well, including a new “modern style” UI—formerly known as Metro—that many users criticize (indeed, some IT pros have even talked about putting Windows 8 in Desktop mode, which reverts to Windows 7) and requires IT departments to support two systems for at least a couple of years.

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Google Nexus 3The image seen above is apparently a test device given to “a buddy that works in the Android Dev Labs”, and is supposed to be the next Nexus (Nexus 3 or whatever they decide to call it). Google may be in talks with HTC and LG over who the next manufacturer will be of the Google branded smartphone (which we all admire for getting prompt Android updates before anyone else). Notice the missing buttons on the bottom of the touchscreen. Despite the sketchiness of the source, it stands to reason that this could be a new Android device for testing, whether it’s actually the ‘Nexus 3′ we, or anyone for that matter currently, can not determine. It was said that Android Ice Cream Sandwich would not need to rely on stationary buttons for navigation through the Android OS, but again, this is all speculation.

One more little tidbit to add some controversy here is that the original source who leaked this image online no longer has the article. When you hit the techhog source link below, you’ll only find this statement;

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Sorry everyone, I’ve been politely asked to remove the information from this page regarding the 3rd Nexus. I apologize for the inconvenience.

That adds a layer of ‘fishiness’ does it not? Who asked for it to be taken down? HTC, LG, Google?

Update : As the things stand right now the above seems to be a fake, see the source site for further explanation..

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dad, his sons and a HUGE SNOW BIRM?????

This is a 14x20 foot snow castle complete with a slide (see samantha on the left laying on the sled) The stairs on the Right, by the shovel, go up to the top level that wraps around the back. Then there is a doorway between Josh and I that goes into a room that is probably 5x9 Ian and Isaac are sitting the the wall that goes into it. Can you see Grandma Elaine in the back? :)

The kids want to play on this ALL DAY...they LOVE IT!!! Josh wants to make this into a family tradition every year.....he is already planning on 3 levels for next year....what fun!

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Wow, that is quite the CASTLE! I am impressed. I want to play in it! Is that out at your in-laws in Willow? Hey are you going to go to the Colony's 10 year reunion? Call me sometime. Love, Sara

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That's awesome! Josh sure is a good digger, I remember digging into a snow pile behind the Strawberry Chapel with him once. Next time we'd love to come help. -Benjamin


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going around on Moebius

Chris Funkhouser, Sarah Dowling and Tan Lin joined me yesterday at the Writers House to talk about a Bruce Andrews poem - "Center" from Moebius. This PoemTalk session will be released a few months from now.

are people getting better? Laurie Anderson tells us

When Laurie Anderson spent two days with us at the Writers House in 2003, I interviewed her and moderated her discussion with others. This morning we release the segmented edition of the audio recording of that session, dividing the whole into topical parts. Here is the list of topical segments, and here is the link to our Anderson Writers House Fellows page, where you can also find links to video recordings of Laurie's performance and also of the discussion session (in RealVideo format).

1. introduction by Al Filreis (3:19)
2. on the Nerve Bible and the body (4:06)
3. on the autobiographical nature of the Nerve Bible (1:57)
4. on time and responsibility (4:34)
5. on ending but not concluding performances (2:28)
6. on performing Statue of Liberty at the 2001 Town Hall performance (8:20)
7. on starting out as an artist and being in a commune (7:49)
8. on technology and media (8:57)
9. on Puppet Motel (2:52)
10. Anderson's favorite contemporary poets (6:37)
11. on the impossibility of technology being sensually subtle (6:27)
12. on Melville's bible and Songs and Stories from Moby Dick (8:33)
13. on whether or not people are getting better (3:51)

Susan Howe last night & this morning

This morning I interviewed and moderated a discussion with Susan Howe, and last night Susan read her work, including the opening pages of Melville's Marginalia, sections of The Midnight, and the poems in a series called "118 Westerly Terrace" (the address of Wallace Stevens's home). Click here for links to audio and video recordings of both events.

on becoming a character

In 2002, during his visit to the Writers House, I interviewed novelist Michael Cunningham. Just today Jenny Lesser segmented the audio recording of that discussion into topics. You can listen to any of these segments, or all of them, by going here, and here is the list:

* introduction by Al Filreis (6:32)

Susan Sontag, in the same zone

KWH'ers in Banff

Here at Banff last night: immediately after Charles Bernstein's stunning performance of his poetry there was a bit of a group hug among the Penn/Kelly Writers House-affiliated people at the conference. From left to right they are: Julia Bloch, Al Filreis, Rebekah Caton, Charles Bernstein, Kimberly Eisler, Sarah Dowling, Nick Montfort, and Kenny Goldsmith. (Thanks to Erin Moure for taking the shot.)

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QUARTER END: Trading is expected to be heavier and more volatile Monday as investors close out their first-quarter positions. At the end of each quarter, fund managers will often sell their worst-performing stocks and buy more of their best-performing stocks in an effort to make their portfolios look better when investors get their quarterly statements. The phenomenon has the Wall Street nickname of "window dressing." If the stock market closes higher Monday, it would be the fifth-straight quarterly rise for the S&P 500.

"There's a lot of re-allocation going on today," said J.J. Kinahan, chief strategist with TD Ameritrade.

YELLEN: In a speech, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said Monday that she thinks the struggling U.S. job market will continue to need the help of low interest rates "for some time." Her remarks come after investors have grown anxious that the Fed might raise short-term rates starting in mid-2015. Yellen has previously suggested that the Fed could start raising short-term rates six months after it halts its bond purchases, which most economists expect by year's end.

SIGNS OF LIFE: After getting hammered for days, biotechnology stocks were rising again. Gilead was up 3 percent, Vertex Pharmaceuticals rose 4 percent and Biogen Idec rose 3.5 percent. Investors had been pulling money out of biotech stocks for the last month and refocused on less volatile areas of the market such as utilities and health care. The S&P 500 Biotechnology Index is down 10 percent his month, even with Monday's gains.

OTHER MARKETS: Bond prices fell. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note edged up to 2.74 percent from 2.72 percent late Friday. The price of crude oil slipped 42 cents to $101.25. Gold dropped $4.80 to $1,289.50 an ounce.


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Tuesday, August 30, 2005

Hitchhiker’s guide to the slaughterhouse

My family’s always been in meat
- Creepy hitchhiker, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

I’ve blogged before about the many benefits of DVDs, but in some cases the special features can make nonsense of the very particular associations one has with a movie. I’m thinking now of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, a film that, notwithstanding my generally high opinion of it, I wouldn’t actually recommend to anyone unless they were doing a thesis on the Modern Horror Movie. Last week I re-watched it and then turned to the 72-minute-long "Making Of" featurette on the DVD, packed with interviews of cast and crew members. It felt distinctly wrong: here is a stark, gory, very low-budget movie made almost as an experiment by a bunch of student filmmakers in the early 1970s. A one-of-a-kind film that seemed to exist outside of all movie conventions, a film that might well have been made anonymously and then deposited into the mailbox of one of the studios, with a note asking them to distribute it. And now, 30 years later, here are all the protagonists - respectably middle-aged, laughing and joking with each other, relating anecdotes about the filming process.

Tobe Hooper, the film’s director, tells us he decided on "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" as the title when his girlfriend at the time exclaimed, "Yuck, I’d never watch anything called that!" (Decided?! And here I was thinking that everything about that film just came together - fell into place entirely independently of such mundanities as human decisions and choices.) One of the scriptwriters (this film needed to be scripted?) relates the story behind the dead armadillo we see as road-kill in the first shot of the movie. And here’s Marilyn Burns, who I’d have preferred to freeze into my memory-bank for all time as the screaming, blood-covered Sally trapped in a house of horrors; now she’s gazing into the camera with grandmotherly indulgence, the light of wistful recollection in her eyes. Even Gunnar Hansen, who played the monstrous Leatherface, participates in audio commentary on the film. Yup, DVDs can be weird alright. Far too much information.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a grisly piece of work (though not as grisly as its reputation suggests, and certainly less shocking to a modern audience than it would have been to its first viewers back in 1974) based very roughly on the real-life case of the Wisconsin mass murderer/grave robber Ed Gein, a case that had shocked the American heartland in the late 1950s. (Incidentally Gein’s story was also the source material for Robert Bloch’s book Psycho and, in turn, Alfred Hitchcock’s great film.) Briefly, TCM is the story of five teenagers who stumble upon a madhouse run by a family of cannibals, and are then picked off one by one, mainly by the chainsaw-wielding "Leatherface" (the conventional monster in the film and the most visible face of the horror confronting the teens and us, the viewer; but, as we eventually learn, also the most submissive member of the murderous family). Leatherface treats the kids like cattle in a slaughterhouse (which is, of course, what they are to him) – knocking them over the heads with a handy club, carving them up, hanging them on meat-hooks, and then, in a memorable scene, fretting pathetically at the sheer number of people coming to the house ("what to do with so much meat" you can hear this retarded monster think to himself as he holds his head in his hands).

In case you’re still reading this, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was one of a series of landmark low-budget horror films of its time (others include George Romero’s first zombie feature Night of the Living Dead and Wes Craven’s Last House on the Left) that derived their effectiveness largely from being shot on a shoestring budget. Crucially, however, the people behind these movies (including Tobe Hooper, who directed this one) weren’t hacks; they were serious students and lovers of cinema, with a strong sense of what worked and what didn’t, and always keen to learn from their mistakes (which they couldn’t afford too many of, given the cost of film stock).

Watching this film, that raw talent is obvious. Take the scene where one of the girls stumbles into a room, trips and falls, then looks around (the camera mimicking her initially glazed vision, with things slowly coming into focus) to register a sea of bones covering the floor, some hanging by strings from the ceiling; a pan shot that reveals an elaborate relic constructed of human skeletons; a caged hen clucking ominously. Treading though it does the margins of Exploitation (some would say it crossed over), there is an unmistakable cinematic adeptness in this sequence and in others like it, which compare favourably with most of the finest moments in the genre. Despite the numerous parodies and rip-offs that it’s engendered (including a pointless remake just a year or so ago), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre has a visceral appeal that few other horror films (at least among those that are, relatively speaking, in the Mainstream) have ever matched.

P.S. On my re-watching TCM, I was struck by the completely clinical, matter-of-fact way in which Leatherface goes about gathering and disposing of his victims; there’s nothing wilfully sadistic about his actions, he’s just doing what needs to be done - which, of course, adds to the horror. Couldn’t help relating it to some of the slaughterhouse descriptions in Eric Schlosser’s Cogs in the Machine, which I recently read in Penguin’s pocketbook series. Some of the finest horror films are those that hold a mirror up to our own natures.

P.P.S. Horror movies were among my earliest obsessions as a film-lover, and preparing anything like an exhaustive list of favourites from the genre would take up more time than I have right now. But here are a few favourites from the 1970s:

- The Wicker Man (cult British classic about a policeman visiting an isolated island community to investigate a schoolgirl’s disappearance, and being drawn into pagan rituals)

- Halloween (John Carpenter’s classic about a madman returning to the small town where he committed a murder as a child retains its power despite a clutch of bad sequels and contemporary comic associations with the name "Mike Myers". My favourite scene is the one of the young Jamie Lee Curtis walking through a desolate park near a row of houses; cars parked everywhere but no human beings in sight)

- Divorce His, Divorce Hers (Elizabeth Taylor-Richard Burton starrer, not intended as horror film but very scary)

- Carrie (Brian DePalma’s adaptation of the Stephen King novel superbly captures the cruelty Carrie faces from her classmates and her own mother; the monsters here all wear a human face)

- Shivers (David Cronenberg’s obsession with the internal workings of the human body found full expression in this cringe-inducing little gorefest about parasites attacking the residents of an apartment complex)

(And hopefully, more blogging on this topic soon.)

The film which you are about to see is an account of the tragedy which befell a group of five youths, in particular Sally Hardesty and her invalid brother, Franklin. It is all the more tragic in that they were young. But, had they lived very, very long lives, they could not have expected nor would they have wished to see as much of the mad and macabre as they were to see that day.
- Solemn narrator, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

  1. I hope there's an upcoming post(s) about Evil Dead..
    "Hail to the king baby!"
    "Good, bad, I'm the one with the gun".
    "Who's laughing NOW???"

  2. I absolutely loved the original TCM... but another horror movie which is worth a mention everytime is Stanley Kubrick's The Shining.

  3. Anangbhai: coming up, as we speak. you want fries with that? :)

    Abhishek: I like The Shining too, but in a different sort of way - certainly not as a viscerally effective horror film. It was much more languid and stately in the best Kubrick style (and possibly over-intelligent for the genre).

    Also, have to write sometime about how horror films often suffer when they feature well-known actors. Jack Nicholson's presence in The Shining made the whole thing comfortably familiar (even though he was playing a psychopath) - and that prevented the film from being effective as a bare-bones horror movie.

  4. I read recently that a slew of low-budget Japanese horror films were making quite a splash and their dubbed english versions were raking in the moolah in the US. Jai, any idea where one can find them?

  5. I'm unsure about dubbed versions of Japanese films, but I've seen the originals of the three remakes -- Ringu (Ring), Ju-on (Grudge) and the campy "The Eye" (no English remake available). Had subtitles. if you're into horror films, good movies to add to your viewed collection.

  6. I have only seen Rob Zombie's House of 1000 Corpses, a movie that liberally references TCM. It is also the only unrelentingly brutal
    horror movie I have ever watched. I am looking for more recommendations, and will definitely pick up TCM from the DVD library this week.

  7. I loved Evil Death Part 1 and the original Amittyville House of Horror.

    What u think about them, Jabberwock??

  8. BTW have you seen 'SHAWN OF THE DEAD'..its a british funny version of 'DAWN OF THE DEAD'.

    A must watch.

  9. With horror flicks, i either end up laughing or bored. But TCM was one of the exceptions.....I kept covering my eyes (alright, I admit it, i did it).

    Another 70's horror movie that remains embedded in memory is "The Omen". Even though the plot was inane, that movie did give me the creeps.

  10. I saw TCM 2 - very long-winded, but it did make me wanna watch TCM 1, which I haven't been able to do yet.

    Clinical evil for me has recently become Michael Palin in Brazil, especially because I've seen most of his other movies.

    I've also seen Tobe Hooper's Lifeforce, and another one I don't remember anything about. The talent was there, but it was obvious he had squandered it away.

    I like DVDs. I am a born nitpicker and I like watching everything come together - for me, it adds to the magic. And some of my idols, such as Terry Gilliam, Stephen Poliakoff and Monty Python, make wonderful DVDs.

  11. Schmooze some of your publishing friends and get a commision to write a book on something to with cinema - you do your best writing on this subject.

  12. I kind of watched that movie about a fortnight ago(I was reading). Very stange, but it did seem the characters were trapped in a living hell, especially Sally(having your finger sucked by an old man...). None of you mentioned Alien, that scared me a lot, especially the chestburster.


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Hydrogen Hoedown in Long Beach

"Scream for me Long Beach! Scream for me Long Beach! The Graf Zeppelin!" Okay, maybe those weren't Bruce Dickinson's exact words, and maybe there won't be any dirigibles in attendance (although the Goodyear Blimp flew over an hour or two ago, and Long Beach is the next town south of us here in Pedro), but the National Hydrogen Association opened its annual conference to the public today. Held at the Long Beach Convention Center, it features fuel-cell cars, manufacturers and energy producers, all coming up with ways to better use nature's lightest molecule. Explosive!

Hydrogen power has a gathering in Long Beach [Fuel Cell Works]

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If our vintage classic car was getting incinerated in a trailer, we'd be pretty upset, but we wouldn't scream "is this your first fire?!" at the responding firefighters, unlike this vocal Illinois woman.

The Arlington Cardinal reports that the driver saw his trailer smoking when he was bringing back his '69 Camaro from a high school charity car show, but he initially dismissed it as road dust. Eventually he smelled smoke, but it was already too late. By the time firefighters responded and connected a hose to a hydrant, the Camaro was engulfed in flames.

We trust that the firefighters did their best, but that didn't stop the wife of the driver from screaming at them.

Oh, my God! Water!

Is this your first fire?

Oh, my God! They're going to let the fucking thing blow!

We hope she apologized afterwards. At least no one was harmed in the fire.

(Hat tip to Evan!)


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Some say he's The Stig. But he's not. He's The Stig's digital cousin. And he's coming to Forza Motorsport 5 on XBOX One in November.

Forza just announced a pretty substantial partnership with Top Gear, and it includes what might be the first ever video game appearance of The Stig, and you'll even be able to race against him.

And since Top Gear is still so damn popular these days, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May will all be in the game, giving voiceovers for cars during the career mode. That means you can expect a lot of outlandish analogies, lovely British accents, and probably at least one shout of POWWWWERRRRRR.

Also, yes, you will be able to race the full Top Gear Test Track at Dunsfold, just like in Gran Turismo 5.


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Lawyer: Ruling in gay rights activist case supports press freedom

Published:Friday | November 15, 2013

Jovan Johnson, Gleaner Writer

One of the attorneys in the case brought by a gay rights activist against three television stations is hailing today’s court ruling as a landmark decision in support of press freedom.

Maurice Tomlinson had argued that the decision by Television Jamaica (TVJ), CVM TV and the Public Broadcasting Corporation of Jamaica (PBCJ), not to air an advertisement promoting tolerance for homosexuals breached his rights under the Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms.

However, the Constitutional Court ruled today that, the stations, through their editorial control must have the right to determine what they broadcast, the time at which any broadcast is made and the manner in which it is done.

Georgia Gibson-Henlin who represented TVJ says her client is satisfied with the outcome, adding that the court ruling recognises the rights of the media house to its property.

Tomlinson had contended that the advertisement does not violate broadcasting laws or regulations and as such the television stations are unjustified in refusing to air it.

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Tabling the times

Lily and I have been working on numbers a lot recently. This is mostly down to running out of other things to do while she has chicken pox and both having a fascination with number patterns. She knows about even and odd numbers and is starting to get an idea for names of really large numbers and numbers that go up in threes. I asked her what was special about some wooden numbers of hers: 3, 6 and 9. She thought for a minute and suggested that they were the clock numbers. I love how children see connections. She also has a really bossy and incredibly naive streak. ‘Mummy, did you know an odd number and an odd number is an even number?’ She’s four and a half now. A quarter of the way to adulthood. Or, if you prefer, almost 65% of the way to 7.

‘Give me a child for seven years’ said Ignatius Loyola (allegedly, or perhaps another Jesuit, or perhaps someone else, and certainly not in English), ‘and I will show you the man’ (or woman, or perhaps young adult, and certainly not baby).

I always had a problem with the seven times table myself. This is why. I see numbers in colours like this:

although strictly the 0 on the 10 ought to be white, but that’s place holders for you. In my head it made perfect sense that the evens were fire colours and the odds were, well, the odd colours. I cannot undo that colour system. Everyone knows you don’t need help remembering the 1x table, and the 2x table was simple: the pattern was simply a units column using all the fire colours. 4, 6 and 8x tables also conveniently copied this pattern, in their own orders. 5x table was not difficult, and 9x could be worked out by the lovely patterns it makes in the totals of the digits. 3x table was simple enough to calculate quickly if you weren’t certain, but 7x table stumped me. Instead of yellow, red, darker yellow, orange and white, all the colours took turns having a go, and not in a convenient order. So I have a deep respect for the 7x table, as with everything I had to work hard on to learn.

The 7x table has been coming back into my life in recent weeks. I am now a parent helper at the school Lily will attend (St Lemon’s, for those who were interested). Instead of reading I help with maths, due to my training as a maths teacher. I am also fascinated at Lily’s fascination with all things numerical. I showed her a Johnny Ball book yesterday and she was stunned and excited by the pages and pages of patterns, facts and number games. I blame her dad for her mathematical ability personally, who could always see at least two obvious ways of solving A level maths questions I was supposed to be able to teach. I hope it will be a while before Lily learns the 7x table however, as I’d love to know how she goes about doing it, and want to know if she is as visual as I am on these things.

There is another reason for bringing up the 7x table, and that is the much-awaited 56 Up programmes, which began this Monday on ITV1. I love this kind of documentary, begun 49 years ago with 14 children deliberately chosen from a range of soci0-economic backgrounds. More about the story of the series here, including information on the international take-up of the idea. After a busy few days I got to watch Monday’s programme last night, which featured four very different people. One man, Neil, made a point that the series really doesn’t give people the evidence that they think they need to form an accurate picture about the participants. No one really knows how he feels or what he has gone through, though many have written to try and tell him that they can. And this is in part because although we see the long-view of these lives and recognise elements that have determined someone’s character or personality beautifully repeating through many years, we only ever see a tiny part of that person.

For example, if you were to take a person about whom we apparently know a lot (and we’ll call him Will) and chart what you would know about him at 7, 14, 21 and 28 you would have something like this:

At seven in 1989, Will attends a local pre-prep and enjoys the privileges of belonging to a wealthy and respected family. He and his younger brother live with their parents in the Kensington area of London, as well as regular staying with grandparents in other parts of the country and at times in their country home in Gloucestershire.

At fourteen in 1996, Will has been at Eton for one year and has demonstrated that he is left-handed and keen on sports. He is not the only boy in his school to have a private detective, but he is the only one to take tea with the Queen every Sunday at 4pm. Will has learnt that his parents can sometimes dominate, and has asked them to stay away from the Fourth of June Parents’ Day celebrations that the school holds. Instead, he is taking a nanny. His mother has invited Cindy Crawford to tea as Will has admitted having a crush on her. He is one of only a handful of 14 year olds to make the cover of People magazine. Will’s parents are currently divorcing.

By 2003, at 21, Will has had six years since the loss of his mother in a tragic road traffic accident, and is in his second year at the University of St Andrews in Scotland pursuing a degree in Geography. This marks a change of direction from other members of his family, who attended Cambridge (where applicable). He still enjoys sports and tries to keep a low profile by being known as Steve. He is apparently seeing a girl called Kate.

At 28, Will has recognised the need to marry as part of a long-standing family tradition, and has proposed to long-term partner Kate. He is also working full-time in Wales as a helicopter rescue pilot, having trained with the Army and RAF. He is keen on charitable work and is also saving up for quite a big wedding.

It certainly gives you a snapshot, and very interesting too. But it doesn’t tell you the half, and it would be easy to assume you knew a person from 7-yearly updates.

I also stayed awake late thinking what people would know of me if they had had recorded information from when I was 7, 14, 21, 28 and 35 (which is as far as I go at the moment). They would see the local village primary school and Billy Graham Mission England Crusade at Ipswich Town FC in 1984. They would see the local comprehensive and the spotty, academic misfit in 1991. They would see the student in 1998 who was enjoying Theology after some Engineering adventures, and the married lady in 2005 who had recently completed teacher training. They would see the mum of two in 2012. But I am so much more than that.

And that, too, is why the 7x table sometimes just really doesn’t do.


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Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Fibonacci Sequins!

Another section of my math sampler:

I can't take credit for the idea, though; that belongs to the delightful Frazz comic strip.

And how cool is it that Wikipedia has a "Mathematics and Fiber Arts" page?

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  1. Mathematics and fibre arts is rocking my world.


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Thursday, May 5, 2011

I'm having a nacho party tonight.
My friends who are hosting another party at the same time aren't very happy with me right now.

My invitation:

Their invitation:
I know.
Their invitation is cooler huh.
But I bet my nachos are better!
Dueling parties!!!!!!!

Holly C M said...

Si, si, senorita.

The Crandallions said...

your hair is gorgeous in these pictures. i love it!

Bethany'sBazodi said...

I'd go to both!


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Tuesday, 21 June 2011

Rina Ishihara in Hatsunugi Gravure

Name: 石原 莉奈 Rina Ishihara
Born: August 29th1987
Hometown: Kanagawa Prefecture
Body: B85cm W56cm H84cm
Height: 155cm

Rina Ishihara made her debut in the first quarter 2008 with H.M.P. and has been a rising star despite of the fact that she has been criticized of having a big face and not being pretty enough. Nevertheless, she is a typical girl next door with an erotic D-cup body, and some finds this cute rabbit toothed actress very sexy and has irresistible urge to put their dicks in her mouth. Enjoy her Hatsunugi gravure photoshoot

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Wednesday, June 20, 2007

My sheep!

Stuffing isn’t finished. When I was posing him for photography, I noticed that that left front leg was weak, so I pulled the stuffing out and re-did that. Now I think the head and neck need more, so I’ll do it again. The instructions wisely point out that this is the only chance I’ll get.

I don’t think I’ll have quite enough stuffing, but I’m not sure yet. I think I have enough to get to the point where I start the rear-end grafting, but the instructions also say that I will find as I work, that there’s room for more, and that I should put it in. And even if I finish, there are still horns to be knit and stuffed.

I don’t understand the instructions for the ears, but whenever that happened in the past all became clear as work progressed.

I’m terribly proud of him, and impressed with the instructions. The effect of seamlessness is wonderful – those cuffs under which are concealed the seams joining the legs to the body, are little short of brilliant. I have high hopes for him, especially if the judges don’t just think oh, sheep, cute, Aran, but actually examine him.

Not much else to report. “Butterfly” was good, but failed to involve the audience in a Total Experience. It’s pissing with rain this morning. I had hoped to go to Kirkmichael tomorrow – either by myself, for the day; or both of us, to stay one night. Just to get my vegetables weeded and maybe eat some spinach. But it would be no use in weather like this.

I read a lot more blogs than the ones listed in my sidebar, and have recently become rather fond of Kristin Nicholas, with whom I once did a course at Stitches East on designing for children. Her blog is sort of the Farmgirl with knitting.

  1. That is one cute Sam!

  2. Pamela7:59 PM

    He is wonderful!

  3. Yay! He's stuffed ; ) I checked out a few more StR images via Google and the smallness of the head seems to be common to them all. I guess the ears and horns sort of give the necessary balance. You could try the 5yo test - hug him for an hour and see if the head falls over at the end of this period!

  4. Maureen in Fargo3:25 AM

    Hey, Sam's looking really cool! I'm more and more glad I suggested him, I sure hope the judges agree. I still may knit him yet myself.

    I was going to enter some stuff (my Rosebud Shawl, Millpond and Ray's Aran) in our local Red River Valley Fair but it was pouring rain the day we had to get our entries in and I wimped out...our Fairgrounds in the rain are the usual muddy mess and I didn't want to deal with it. Next year...and maybe I'll have even better stuff!!

  5. Oh my goodness. When did you take that class w/ me? I can't even remember teaching it!

    Thanks so much for mentioning my blog. Yours is totally delightful.

    And, boy do I love that Aran sheep.

  6. I love that sheep! I have seen it before and wanted to order it. Great job on that, Jean.


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Photograph by Mathew B. Brady, c1860 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

  To William B. Howell

Washington D.C. 22 Oct. 1854

My Dear Sir,

I am in receipt of yours of the 16st Inst enclosing a check for three hundred dollars drawn by Pickett, McMurdo & Co. in my favor, on Saml. Harris & Sons.

The proceeds will be placed at the disposal of Mrs. Howell as instructed. Present circumstances render it difficult to say when and by wha[t] route she had best return home. The western rivers are too low to be relied on and Fever and Cholera combine to render that route objectionable. The sea voyage would bring them throug[h] a tropical climate to your city fro[m] which it appears the yellow fever h[as] not entirely disappeared and the se[ason] is such as suggests rough weather off the Atlantic coast. The Southern or Rail Road route has such frequent changes as to be scarcely suitable for a Lady with helpless children. It has seemed to me proper under this stat[e] of case to delay for a while the contemplated journey, but I will confer more fully with Mrs. H. and advise you before any action is take[n.]

I must ask your forgiveness for my failure to reply at an earlier date to your’s of the 16th Ult. and can only say in extenuation that I should have been more prompt if I had been able to make a definite or important reply. The Post Master at New orleans has not been removed and I have not learned that it had been decided to remove him. Mr. Nevitt wrote to me on the subject and I referred his letter to the P.M. Genl. with such an endorsement in relation to Mr. N’ character and position as information derived from you and others justified. The office as you are aware has no official relation to the War Dept. and I could not give any assurance as to the selection which would be made in the case of a new appointment. Several persons of much influence have been strongly recommended as a su[c]cessor to Mr. Kendall and if Mr Nevitt wishes to be considered as a Candidate it would be well for him to send on his recommendations and have them on file in the event of a vacancy.

Mrs. Howell is in better health than when she arrived, the children have improved more than their Mothe[r.]

Varina is not well, for some time past has suffered greatly fro[m] a nervous cough and is subject to painful depressions the consequence [of?] irreparable grief.

I hope William will have returned to New Orleans before this reaches and have received the promotion which I have learned is designed for him. The duty on which he went to Arkansas was important and difficult beyond the trusts usually confined to persons of his age, but I anticipate success and increased consideration for him as the result. I have much confidence in him and look forward to his future career as likely to be you asource of pride and pleasure.

It always gives me real gratification to receive a letter from you and though I should seem negligent in replying it cannot proceed from a want for either regard or respect or of that affectionate solicitude with which I am ever yours

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