tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46980559994177280052024-03-12T21:41:29.044-05:00Potato WeatherCharles Dee Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03682431873523454951noreply@blogger.comBlogger452125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4698055999417728005.post-14430303637937007912014-11-17T07:06:00.001-06:002014-11-17T07:06:59.187-06:00MONDAY MORNING<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/orES0PaBg9g" width="459"></iframe>Charles Dee Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03682431873523454951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4698055999417728005.post-52463441044122208652014-09-01T07:24:00.001-05:002014-09-01T07:24:46.859-05:00MONDAY MORNING<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/E9nr27rOrL0" width="459"></iframe>Charles Dee Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03682431873523454951noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4698055999417728005.post-11850715825381712472014-08-25T07:41:00.003-05:002014-08-25T07:41:46.724-05:00MONDAY MORNING<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/cBnhFb3F2Ok" width="459"></iframe>Charles Dee Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03682431873523454951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4698055999417728005.post-46714042235093969902014-08-20T16:09:00.000-05:002014-08-20T16:09:09.586-05:00THE TWILIGHT ZONE PORTFOLIOS (10): THE LAMPS OF THE TWILIGHT ZONE<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-U0HNu4XMzGo/U_UONjnce3I/AAAAAAAAAsU/Pzg29FLS_us/s1600/TZ%2BLAMP.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-U0HNu4XMzGo/U_UONjnce3I/AAAAAAAAAsU/Pzg29FLS_us/s1600/TZ%2BLAMP.JPG" height="200" width="200" /></a>To view the portfolio, follow the link below.<br />
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Charles Dee Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03682431873523454951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4698055999417728005.post-36558609158593486972014-07-21T07:00:00.000-05:002014-07-21T07:17:57.908-05:00MONDAY MORNING<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/yjS8gnHxklk" width="480"></iframe>Charles Dee Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03682431873523454951noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4698055999417728005.post-10920894415732631472014-07-16T16:30:00.000-05:002014-07-16T16:33:41.262-05:00THE TWILIGHT ZONE PORTFOLIOS (6): SOME STARS<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/117993321@N02/sets/72157645187391637/">https://www.flickr.com/photos/117993321@N02/sets/72157645187391637/</a><br />
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Charles Dee Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03682431873523454951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4698055999417728005.post-49693903453992357442014-07-14T07:15:00.000-05:002014-07-14T07:16:57.925-05:00MONDAY MORNING<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/QdV1Z7OEV4c" width="459"></iframe>Charles Dee Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03682431873523454951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4698055999417728005.post-70526074105546299952014-07-10T16:30:00.000-05:002014-07-16T16:27:07.653-05:00SELECTED EPISODES (1)1) Nickel Ride -- 10/07/1958<br />
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2) Even Crows Sing Good -- 01/13/1959<br />
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3) Burst of Passion -- 01/20/1959<br />
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4) Saw My Baby There -- 06/06/1959<br />
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5) A Wood of Thorns -- 06/23/1959<br />
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6) Down the Long Night -- 11/02/1960<br />
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7) Killer with a Kiss -- 11/16/1969<br />
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8) The Man Who Bit a Diamond in Half -- 12/14/1960<br />
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9) Landscape with Dead Figures -- 01/18/1961<br />
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10) The Well-Dressed Termite -- 02/08/1961<br />
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11) The Deadly Guinea Pig -- 03/08/1961<br />
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12) Tombstone for a Derelict -- 04/05/1961<br />
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13) Sweet Prince of Delancy Street -- 06/07/1961<br />
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14) The Corpse Ran Down Mulberry Street -- 10/11/1961<br />
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15) The Night the Saints Lost Their Halos -- 01/17/1962<br />
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16) A Case Study of Two Savages -- 02/07/1962<br />
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17) Today the Man Who Kills the Ants is Coming -- 03/07/1962<br />
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18) The One Marked Hot Gives Cold -- 03/21/1962<br />
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19) Hold for Gloria Christmas -- 09/19/1962<br />
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20) Kill Me While I'm Young So I Can Die Happy -- 10/17/1962<br />
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21) Make It Fifty Dollars and Add Love to Nona -- 11/14/1962<br />
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22) Dust Devil on a Quiet Street -- 11/28/1962<br />
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23) Beyond This Place There Be Dragons -- 01/30/1963<br />
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24) Man Without a Skin -- 02/06/1963<br />
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25) Alive and Still a Second Lieutenant -- 03/06/1963<br />
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26) Stop the Parade! A Baby is Crying! -- 03/20/1963<br />
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27) Howard Running Bear is a Turtle -- 04/03/1963<br />
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28) Color Schemes Like Never Before -- 05/01/1963<br />
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29) One, Two, Three, Rita Rakahowski -- 05/15/1963<br />
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Charles Dee Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03682431873523454951noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4698055999417728005.post-34871211380877365852014-06-29T11:21:00.000-05:002014-06-29T16:59:53.909-05:00SOME THOUGHTS ON ANN COULTERAnn Coulter's silly comments on soccer have once again sent her blazing across Facebook, Twitter, and <br />
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the blogosphere. Predictable responses have ranged from outrage to reasoned argument with the occasional dose of scabrous invective tossed in. I have one problem with all this. No matter in what tone or to what depth one responds to Coulter's comments, the very act of doing so to some degree lowers one to her level. And that level is low.<br />
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In an ideal world, Coulter says what she pleases and the world reacts with nonchalant silence. Her many fans cheer her on, but the outraged anger both she and her fans thrive on would not be forthcoming, and with this result. Coulter becomes isolated, looking about bewildered with her head cocked listening for the noise she feeds on. She finds herself the sole inmate in her private asylum. There she can screech her vile absurdities while becoming increasingly frantic for attention, eventually clawing herself to shreds.<br />
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But this probably won't happen.<br />
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Coulter is a public figure and other public figures respond to her as part of the job. Those responses are then shared across the internet where those who already agree with both whoever made the initial response and those who have shared it take the opportunity to add their support. This goes on for a couple of days and then it is over.<br />
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This blog posting is the only thing I am ever going to write about Ann Coulter. (I hope.) I realize that greeting her pronouncements with a pervasive silence is a fantasy, but what commentators could do, and many do this already, is periodically champion people who say intelligent things, who express informed concern, historical perspective, and even a sense of joy about human beings. People who are civilized. These people can be harder to find since they tend not to tweet, post to Facebook, or appear in two minute news segments. In some cases that is because they have been dead for a several hundred or maybe 2000 years. Often they simply keep lower profiles. You read what they have to say in books.<br />
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Charles Dee Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03682431873523454951noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4698055999417728005.post-41771782768899095442014-06-23T07:46:00.000-05:002014-06-23T07:46:03.204-05:00MONDAY MORNING<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/UrOx-Bj0RVo" width="459"></iframe>Charles Dee Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03682431873523454951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4698055999417728005.post-22242399933198053422014-06-16T08:45:00.000-05:002014-06-16T08:45:28.386-05:00THE TWILIGHT ZONE PORTFOLIOS (3): REFLECTIONS AND APPARITIONS<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/117993321@N02/sets/72157645157826135/">https://www.flickr.com/photos/117993321@N02/sets/72157645157826135/</a><br />
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Charles Dee Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03682431873523454951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4698055999417728005.post-18245829810840431662014-06-09T07:16:00.001-05:002014-06-09T07:16:10.192-05:00MONDAY MORNING<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/UtV_LeN7B1g" width="459"></iframe>Charles Dee Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03682431873523454951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4698055999417728005.post-55446844929538503402014-06-08T16:40:00.000-05:002014-06-08T16:40:21.428-05:00THE TWILIGHT ZONE PORTFOLIOS (2): ALIENS/MONSTERS/ROBOTS<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/117993321@N02/sets/72157645104978273/">https://www.flickr.com/photos/117993321@N02/sets/72157645104978273/</a><br />
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Charles Dee Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03682431873523454951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4698055999417728005.post-59972710305568915022014-05-27T15:30:00.000-05:002014-05-29T15:32:58.537-05:00SELECTED ENDNOTES (7)5. <i>Vargr</i> (wolf or monster) was used in Icelandic law codes to refer to outlaws (see no. 4) who could be<br />
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hunted down like wolves. The phrase "wolf in hallowed places" suggests an outlaw guilty of murder or of a particularly serious offense, especially committing a crime within a hallowed place or sanctuary.<br />
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8. These lines are somewhat convoluted. The sense of the passage is that Rerir is caught between a rock and a hard place: he must either kill his maternal uncles or let his father go unavenged.<br />
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11. The ability to put on a shape made of feathers, i.e., a bird shape, is commonly attributed to supernatural women in Old Icelandic literature.<br />
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18. Odin is often portrayed in the legendary sagas as visiting men in such a disguise. His headgear, referred to as a deep hood, was probably a form of hat. The story of how Odin lost his eye to obtain wisdom is told by Snorri in the <i>Prose Edda</i>.<br />
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26. <i>Laukr</i> (leek) may also refer to garlic. Both leek and garlic are considered in many cultures to have magical or medicinal properties.<br />
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30. The conversation that follows is a <i>senna</i>, or a contest of insults. Such contests are frequent in Old Icelandic literature. Most of the insults in this <i>senna</i> make use of one of the worst possible affronts in the culture, i.e., accusations of effeminacy or passive homosexuality. In Iceland, to accuse someone of passive homosexuality was punishable by outlawry.<br />
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37. Odin again. One of Odin's function was that of psychopomp, guide to the underworld.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 19px;">“Odin the Wanderer” by Georg von Rosen (1886)</span></td></tr>
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45. Odin's eight-leggged horse.<br />
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46. This passage may also be read, "I know of the kin of this serpent."<br />
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47. Loki is the trickster of Old Norse myth. He is an ambiguous figure, sometimes on the side of the giants, sometimes on the side of the gods. The two aspects of his character are evident in this tale: he places the gods in danger, only to rescue them.<br />
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56. Hugin may refer to one of Odin's two ravens. More probably the word refers not to any specific raven but to a <i>huginn</i>, a poetic synonym for raven. "To gladden the raven" meant "to kill men in battle."<br />
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59. According to the "Lay of Fafnir," Sigurd withheld his name because of an ancient belief that a <br />
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dying man could curse his enemy if he knew his enemy's name.<br />
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62. A reference to Ragnarok, the end of the world. Surt is a fire-giant who, after defeating the god Frey in a final battle, will cover the world with flame.<br />
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72. Bragi, a god of poetry. Bragi may have been a ninth-century Norwegian poet who was elevated to the status of a god by later writers.<br />
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91. Probably a reference to Brynhild's being a valkyrie.<br />
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93. Presumably the reference is to Grimhild's "ale of forgetfulness," which Sigurd consumed in chapter 28.<br />
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98. According to widespread medieval belief, the arteries were considered the ducts of air, whereas the veins were understood to be passages for blood.<br />
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108. A difficult passage. Literally it reads: "You said you would visit me and wait for me in Hel."<br />
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Selected from the endnotes to <i>The Saga of the Volsungs</i></div>
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Translated by Jesse L. Byock</div>
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Penguin, 1990</div>
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