Happy Sunday! Here's a beautiful bluegrass gospel song, River of Jordan, written by Hazel Houser. Don't forget to come hear us Jan. 2 at the Freight & Salvage in Berkeley, CA!
Posted by The Tuttles with A.J. Lee on Sunday, December 27, 2015
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For a Resilient Future, Put Community First by Pamela Boyce Simms
Her view of Transition Towns and Intentional Communities:
Is there a thick account of moral wellbeing present here? Or is this just warmed-over liberalism in updated parlance? I would guess the later based on the subsequent paragraph. Virtuous friendship is not based solely on the need to cooperate for survival.
Her view of Transition Towns and Intentional Communities:
In addition to their shared commitment to equality, both movements seek to cultivate wholeness. Wholeness—systems working purposefully in sync—is the definition of physical, mental, and community health and wellbeing. Wholeness is true resilience. An integrated personality manifests in strong self-esteem. Citizens working together improve communities. Cohesive workplace teams boost the bottom line. Conversely, separation and fragmentation are biological harbingers of disease, and sociological indicators of institutional disintegration. Horrendous income inequity, frayed nerve endings, office infighting, and the lonely, emotional isolation of lives lived in ubiquitous ticky tacky houses and strip malls, reflect illness.
Whereas the pursuit of wholeness through cooperation is embedded yet latent in the DNA of the Transition movement, hundreds of intentional communities already demonstrate just that. Irrespective of how diverse a group of people in an intentional community may be, they necessarily share an allegiance to the baseline value of sustained cooperation. Transition initiatives do not have that luxury.
Is there a thick account of moral wellbeing present here? Or is this just warmed-over liberalism in updated parlance? I would guess the later based on the subsequent paragraph. Virtuous friendship is not based solely on the need to cooperate for survival.
Sunday, December 27, 2015
And I thought the season finale was bad...
The Christmas special this year is even worse: The Doctor, the cuckolded buffoon. Or the beta who settled unknowingly for sloppy seconds, with River Song who was willing to sleep with men for material gain.
Steven Moffat, I blame you.
*spoilers*
Steven Moffat, I blame you.
*spoilers*
Webb Considering Running as an Independent?
Does he have any appeal to what is now the base of the Democratic party? He could promote his own version of economic populism, but would he be "cool" enough to appeal to the SJWs who run and fill the party? Is he more likely to take votes away from Trump than Hilary Rodham? And if he knows this, is this just a possible play to secure the White House for Hilary?
Would Trump consider picking Webb for VP?
Would Trump consider picking Webb for VP?
Our next commander in chief must define a strategic vision for the country and accept accountability for past actions....
Posted by Jim Webb on Saturday, December 26, 2015
Hillary Clinton’s failed vision in Libya & the Arab Spring are foreign policy leadership at its worst. http://on.fb.me/22tmERI
Posted by Jim Webb on Sunday, December 27, 2015
A Comparison of Wing Chun Versions
Would it help one to piece together the evolution through the different lineages and the original/basic form? Would it support claims made about a distinction between traditional Wing Chun and modified Wing Chun in the Yip Man line?
Complete Wing Chun: The Definitive Guide to Wing Chun's History and Traditions (Complete Martial Arts)
website
Wing Chun Illustrated
Wingchunpedia
Everything Wing Chun
Complete Wing Chun: The Definitive Guide to Wing Chun's History and Traditions (Complete Martial Arts)
website
Wing Chun Illustrated
Wingchunpedia
Everything Wing Chun
Saturday, December 26, 2015
The Grandmaster, US Version
Finally saw The Grandmaster, or one of the versions (the US) - seemed like half of the movie was about Zhang Zi Yi's character, one-half of a (fictional) doomed romance; Yip Man's wife hardly had a role in it at all. (She did speak; was it dubbed by a Chinese speaker? I don't think Song Hye Gyo can speak Cantonese so well.) I suppose Wong Kar-Wai decided to focus on one of his favorite themes, impossible romantic love, and didn't use anything else that would have made the movie more of a historically accurate biopic.
There is an extra scene after the initial credits -- a montage of fight scenes and the like not scene in the movie. Extra footage that was not included in this cut? Makes me wonder how much of the extra footage shot for the movie is usable for an extended version; however, Wong Kar-Wai may never get around to making one, even if he is interested.
The way some of the scenes were shot in slow-motion or almost at a standstill had the effect of making the images seem artificial, almost as if they were done with CGI (maybe some were?). The fight scene at the train station reminded me of a commercial -- could they have been shot better? I think so.
The fight scenes are decent; like Donnie Yen's Ip Man movies, they are an artistic representation Wing Chun but probably not realistic depictions of how it would be used. Though I wish there were some footage of the fights that Bruce Lee or William Cheung or any of Yip Man's other students participated in back in the day to use as a basis of comparison. I think I would watch the movie again because it is something to look at, despite some of the filming techniques used. But I wish it were more historically accurate and focused more on Yip Man.
Variety article on WKW and the movie
a review of the movie by a Wing Chun practitioner
There is an extra scene after the initial credits -- a montage of fight scenes and the like not scene in the movie. Extra footage that was not included in this cut? Makes me wonder how much of the extra footage shot for the movie is usable for an extended version; however, Wong Kar-Wai may never get around to making one, even if he is interested.
The way some of the scenes were shot in slow-motion or almost at a standstill had the effect of making the images seem artificial, almost as if they were done with CGI (maybe some were?). The fight scene at the train station reminded me of a commercial -- could they have been shot better? I think so.
The fight scenes are decent; like Donnie Yen's Ip Man movies, they are an artistic representation Wing Chun but probably not realistic depictions of how it would be used. Though I wish there were some footage of the fights that Bruce Lee or William Cheung or any of Yip Man's other students participated in back in the day to use as a basis of comparison. I think I would watch the movie again because it is something to look at, despite some of the filming techniques used. But I wish it were more historically accurate and focused more on Yip Man.
Variety article on WKW and the movie
a review of the movie by a Wing Chun practitioner
California Business Casual
Steve Sailer: Neckties Down, Socks Up: How Silicon Valley Is Like an All Girls Catholic High School
Ties falling into disuse and folded collars disappearing from dress shirts? Why not?
Business casual v. [Business] informal v. semi-formal v. formal
Ties falling into disuse and folded collars disappearing from dress shirts? Why not?
Business casual v. [Business] informal v. semi-formal v. formal
Friday, December 25, 2015
Looking for a Cover of "Last Christmas"
The singing is done by a male and the sound is reminiscent of 90s Jpop and 80s alternative... here it is:
Jimmy Eat World
Some other versions...
Jimmy Eat World
Some other versions...
Christ is Born! Glorify Him!
Byzantine triumphalism? Or is it warranted because of the language of the Psalms and the Old Testament?
Thursday, December 24, 2015
Jang Young Sil Poster
Song Il Gook worked hard to live up to this respected scholar's name~
Posted by Soompi on Wednesday, December 23, 2015
Wednesday, December 23, 2015
SJWs Gonna SJW
He makes the mistake of using Harry Potter as a serious comparison.
Matt Brown discusses the "Mary Sue" controversy surrounding the Rey character in STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS, and...
Posted by TwitchFilm on Wednesday, December 23, 2015
Just Because It's Serious
doesn't mean it's better than Machete as a message movie.
In Jonas Cuaron's thriller DESIERTO, Gael Garcia Bernal has to run for his life when a crazed vigilante with a gun starts hunting a group of unarmed immigrants. We have a trailer:
Posted by TwitchFilm on Wednesday, December 23, 2015
The Personal is the Beginning of the Political
Not: the personal is political of feminism, which presupposes a modern, if not liberal, nation-state. Individuals and families interacting with one another and building (or avoiding) relationships is the start of political life. Our mistake is to believe that we have a political life (or community) when we do not at all.
INTJ = Sigma?
How changeable are personalities according to Jung or to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator theory? Are personalities innate or do they change over time? Is it possible for someone to change from being beta or delta to sigma, rather than alpha?
Tuesday, December 22, 2015
A Leftist Critiques the Star Wars Product
Skip to the bottom, where he raises objections similar to those given by others in dissecting the story's plausibility.
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