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Bruce Springsteen

• Sep 27, 2010 from JohnnyX87(Johnny A)
  Life and career
  19491972: Early years
  Springsteen was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and spent his childhood and high school years in Freehold Borough. He lived off South Street in Freehold Borough and attended Freehold Borough High School. His father, Douglas Frederick Springsteen, was of Dutch and Irish ancestry and worked, among other vocations, as a bus driver; his surname is Dutch for stepping stone. His mother, Adele Ann (ne Zerilli), was a legal secretary and was of Italian ancestry. His grandfather was born in Vico Equense, a city near Naples. He has two younger sisters, Virginia and Pamela. Pamela had a brief film career, but left acting to pursue still photography full time; she took photos for the Human Touch and Lucky Town albums.
  Raised a Roman Catholic, Springsteen attended the St. Rose of Lima Catholic school in Freehold Borough, where he was at odds with both the nuns and other students, even though much of his later music reflects a deep Catholic ethos and included many rock-influenced, traditional Irish-Catholic hymns.
  In ninth grade, he transferred to the public Freehold Regional High School, but did not fit in there, either. Old teachers have said he was a loner, who wanted nothing more than to play his guitar. He completed high school, but felt so uncomfortable that he skipped his own graduation ceremony. He briefly attended Ocean County College, but dropped out.
  Springsteen had been inspired to take up music at the age of seven after seeing Elvis Presley on The Ed Sullivan Show. At 13, he bought his first guitar for $18; later, his mother took out a loan to buy the 16-year-old Springsteen a $60 Kent guitar, as he later memorialized in his song The Wish.
  In 1965, he went to the house of Tex and Marion Vinyard, who sponsored young bands in town. They helped him become lead guitarist and subsequently the lead singer of The Castiles. The Castiles recorded two original songs at a public recording studio in Brick Township and played a variety of venues, including Cafe Wha? in Greenwich Village. Marion Vinyard said that she believed the young Springsteen when he promised he would make it big.
  Called for induction when he was 19, Springsteen failed his physical examination and didnt serve in Vietnam. In an interview in Rolling Stone magazine in 1984, he said, When I got on the bus to go take my physical, I thought one thing: I aint goin. He suffered a concussion in a motorcycle accident when he was 17, and this together with his crazy behaviour at induction and not taking the tests, was enough to get him a 4F.
  New Jersey beach towns such as Asbury Park, New Jersey inspired the themes of ordinary life in Bruce Springsteens music.
  In the late 1960s, Springsteen performed briefly in a power trio known as Earth, playing in clubs in New Jersey. Springsteen acquired the nickname The Boss during this period as when he played club gigs with a band he took on the task of collecting the bands nightly pay and distributing it amongst his bandmates. Springsteen, however, has never liked this nickname, due to his dislike of bosses. Lately, however, he seems to have accepted the nickname. Many recent concerts have audiences making up various signs on banners, license plates and so on saying, Boss Time. Previously he had the nickname Doctor. From 1969 through early 1971, Springsteen performed with Steel Mill, which also featured Danny Federici, Vini Lopez, Vinnie Roslin and later Steve Van Zandt and Robbin Thompson. They went on to play the mid-Atlantic college circuit, and also briefly in California. In January 1970 well-known San Francisco Examiner music critic Philip Elwood gave Springsteen credibility in his glowing assessment of Steel Mill: I have never been so overwhelmed by totally unknown talent. Elwood went on to praise their cohesive musicality and, in particular, singled out Springsteen as a most impressive composer. During this time Springsteen also performed regularly at small clubs in Asbury Park and along the Jersey Shore, quickly gathering a cult following. Other acts followed over the next two years, as Springsteen sought to shape a unique and genuine musical and lyrical style: Dr Zoom & the Sonic Boom (earlyid 1971), Sundance Blues Band (mid 1971), and The Bruce Springsteen Band (mid 1971id 1972). With the addition of pianist David Sancious, the core of what would later become the E Street Band was formed, with occasional temporary additions such as horn sections, The Zoomettes (a group of female backing vocalists for Dr Zoom) and Southside Johnny Lyon on harmonica. Musical genres explored included blues, R&B, jazz, church music, early rockn'roll, and soul. His prolific songwriting ability, with more words in some individual songs than other artists had in whole albums, brought his skill to the attention of several people who were about to change his life: new managers Mike Appel and Jim Cretecos, and legendary Columbia Records talent scout John Hammond, who, under Appels pressure,...

The Mystery Of The Touch-Free Orgasm [Funbag]

• Jul 07, 2010 from deadspin(Deadspin) in Sports
  Time for your Tuesday edition of the Deadspin Funbag. Find more of Drew's stuff at KSK or on Twitter. Today, we're covering dead skin, child care, buttcracks, briefcases, fajitas, and more.Big funbag today. Right to your letters.
  Chris:
  
  How awesome would it be if there was some sort of competition where people jerked it and the winner (as in golf) was the one with the fewest number of "strokes" before climax? I can easily see this being in either the Summer Olympics (outdoor) or Winter (indoor). What do you think?
  
  What you're discussing is the fabled "orgasm without actually touching your penis" trick that many men have tried but failed at due to extreme impatience. I know I've tried it. It's something you do when you're 15 and you've just started watching a porn and you're so fucking horny your dick could blast through concrete and it's rock hard and you don't want to touch it because you're already horny as shit and if you touch it now well then, you've just wasted a good chance to milk that porn for all it's worth. (A common mentality when jerking to porn is that holding out will somehow improve the orgasm, which I find is only sporadically true.) So you hold out and hold out and you're like, "Whoa, maybe I can skeet all over myself without even touching my dick! COOL!" So then you wait and see if it happens and it doesn't and you're like FUCK THIS I'M SWITCHING TO MANUAL OVERRIDE and then two pumps and you're done.
  Or something like that.
  I'm sure plenty of people have succeeded at this, usually with the help of a woman (any number of bogus Penthouse forum stories revolve around the touch-free skeet). But to do it in some kind of competitive format would have to require some ground rules. There'd need to be a clock. I think. Otherwise, you could just wait until some random point in the day when you have a spontaneous huge boner and then do three pumps to seal it. That's not the same as working for your erection, which you seasoned masturbators know is not always an easy task. Also, you'd have to do it without the aid of porn or a live woman. Those two restrictions would make the task considerably more difficult.
  But you folks out there seem game for a challenge. See if you can take Chris up on his task and report back to me with your best stroke score. I'll count a stroke as one pump. So if you go up and down on the shaft, that's one stroke. See how few you can do in the span, oh, five minutes. WHOSE SKEET WILL REIGN SUPREME?!
  Steve Bonus:
  
  Do you ever get dressed shirt first? Something weird and liberating about walking around your apartment with nothing on but an old "Kunstler's Gun Shop" t-shirt and your wang just straight danglin'. My friends refer to this phenomena as "Porky Piggin It."
  
  I also refer to that wardrobe choice as the Dr. Jennings. You can't forget Donald Sutherland's ass in Animal House, no matter how hard you try. It's a terrifically disturbing sight.
  I lived with my best friend for a while and one day I got dressed shirt first for some arbitrary reason. He remarked that it totally creeped him out. After that, I got dressed every day the exact same way, just to aggravate him. I would even sit down on the couch in just my t-shirt, with my balls splayed out on the cushions. He nearly threw up. I was not a good roommate.
  Scott:
  
  Me and my girlfriend have a baby who's 16 months old. In our apartment, we have all the proper baby safety measures. The usual: nothing on tables to grab and break, plug-in covers, etc.
  I live hours away from my family but we're in my girlfriend's hometown, and as such we get invited to all sorts of family gatherings. So we go over to other people's houses for these things. The family knows a baby is coming, so they take that opportunity to display the faberge egg on the coffee table. Glassware is left unattended, cords exposed, doors left open to rooms, you know the deal. They don't have kids, what do they care? So while the girlfriend is off having her time with the family, I'm left to deal with the little fucker running around and 'exploring' his new surroundings and making sure he doesn't kill himself, all the while I'm running around and sweating like a stuck pig. I mean I can't last 5 minutes on a treadmill. And the little guy never stops, because he's a baby with unlimited energy. Of course, all the while there's always a smorgasbord of food that I have to first watch everyone else enjoy, then inhale without enjoyment so I can have the energy to run after the little guy some more. And yet if I want a second helping of the buffet, I get the stink-eye from the woman.
  Next time, I'm just letting the little guy break something valuable. But of course then I'd be the asshole. How do I go about enjoying myself at these things?
  
  Wait a second. You're expected to care for the child for 100% of the duration of your visit to the family? That's fucking INSANE. I'm a huge fan of womankind, but this lady of yours isn't even close to pulling her weight. Who gives a...

By Way of Deception, We Shall do War

• Sep 18, 2010 from sakerfa(Dprogram Dot Net) in *
  (ThePeoplesVoice) Lenin (Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov) said, The establishment of a central bank is 90% of communizing a nation. 1 Worldwide control obviously requires extraordinary organization, superior weaponry and high technology (like HAARP), political power and monopoly control of all the resources. On February 17, 1950, James P. Warburg declared to the U.S. Senate, We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent. 2 In Russia and China and other countries, the elite used thugs for their violent conquest of existing leaders.
  
  Populations wouldnt knowingly consent to their own demise. But distracted, nave, ignorant citizens, by their consent, relinquish their liberties by placing their trust in others, (1) two-faced lying politicians who have abandoned the constitution and sold their souls and, (2) the persuasive profit-driven elite media. Smiling talking heads and brilliant, fast-talking female lawyers in low-cut garments legitimize immodesty while peddling infotainment disguised as news. They equivocate among themselves over the Neocons next war target which they claim is necessary to keep America safe. While selling their illusions and building our perceptions, what to wear, eat, drink, think and who to fear, they conceal, suppress or gloss over stories that are actually pertinent to our lives.
  Jacob H. Schiff, Paul Warburg and other bankers influenced Congress to pass the Federal Reserve Act (December 23, 1913). The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) was created in October 1913 to minimize predictable criticism. The bankers have manufactured panics, withdrawn credit and in the process have confiscated the citizens resources and personal property through phony bailouts, sanctioned by compromised politicians. These actions are calculated and designed to ultimately decimate the economy. The same bankers who promoted the Federal Reserve funded Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Zinoviev, Kamenev, Molotov and Kirov (assumed names) in their godless, violent take-over of Russia. The bankers began making major profits when Bernard Baruch, Louis Brandeis and others manipulated their puppet Woodrow Wilson into entering World War I on borrowed money after the provoked attack on the Lusitania.
  Winston Churchill, a Rothschild minion, referred to the Americans traveling on the ill-fated Lusitania as live bait, a tactic for involving the U.S. in World War I, which started the flow of money from the pockets of U.S. citizens into the vaults of Rothschild and his fellow bankers. The live bait tactic had been successfully used with the deaths of American sailors aboard the USS Maine. Banker-backed corporate moguls exploited the situation. Their political puppets then ordered the military to invade the resource-rich Philippines. Meanwhile, the media vilified and dehumanized the innocent Filipinos so that the invaders could rationalize killing them. Mogul minions followed up by gathering cheap labor to extract resources and the government seized land to build military bases to manage the population and protect the resources.
  To legitimize propaganda for World War I, Walter Lippmann persuaded President Wilson to create the official Committee on Public Information (CPI) on April 13, 1917. Wilson appointed newspaper publisher, George Creel, as chairman. Creel commissioned the nations artists to produce paintings, posters and cartoons to promote the war. With the expert help of Edward Bernays, the father of public relations and a nephew of Sigmund Freud, the CPI manufactured the most atrocious hate propaganda against the Germans. Bernays manipulated public opinion through crowd psychology, his uncle Sigmunds specialty. Creel had a staff of persuasive wordsmiths journalists, writers, intellectuals and many advertisers who later admitted they were willing to lie, use emotional appeal and enemy demonization to generate hate and fear to elicit support for the war. 3
  In anticipation of entering another war, on July 11, 1941, President Roosevelt created the Office of Coordinator of Information (COI), and appointed William J. Donovan, a millionaire Wall Street lawyer, as its head. 4 Communist apologist Eleanor Roosevelt, Wendell Willkie, George Field, Dorothy Thompson, Herbert Bayard Swope, and prominent journalists, academics, trade unionists, theologians, and public officials founded Freedom House, a CFR front, in October 1941. FDR encouraged the groups covert propaganda activities as he hoped it would persuade U.S. citizens to accept entry into World War II. Freedom House was also instrumental in facilitating and supporting post-war policies like the Marshall Plan, NATO, and the UN. 5 The Marshall Plan transferred U.S. tax dollars into the hands of the elite, camouflaged as a humanitarian effort. U.S. taxpayers rebuilt bombed-out foreign countries with the stipulation that the money...

Iran Feature: An Interview with Scott Peterson and Except from "Let the Swords Encircle Me"

• Sep 29, 2010 from eijimiyake(Mike) in World News
  Scott Peterson is one of the most experienced US-based reporters covering Iran. The journalist, now with the Christian Science Monitor, has visited the country 30 times in the last 15 years. His last stay there was for the 2009 Presidential election.
  Peterson has now published his observations in the book Let the Swords Encircle Me. The introduction follows an account of the journalist's recent appearance at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
  "Few [Iranians] would accept any outsiders waging war on their behalf. They want to grasp freedom with their own hand."
  One of the unique things about visiting Iran versus a country like the former Soviet Union, according to Peterson, is that Iranians are willing, even eager, to share their opinion about political topics with an outsider. The interactions Peterson had with Iranians, from ordinary citizens to political elites, inform his opinions on the issues currently facing Iran and on relations between Iran and the United States. "Iran is a population that is pro-American in many respects."
  Peterson said that he, "do[es] not believe the Green Movement is defeated at all, just removed from street protests." In fact, he is considerably more upbeat about the movement's chances than many skeptical analysts because he believes the broad support for President Khatami's reformist movement in the late 1990s shows the Green Movement is the "majority" in the country. Threatened by the breadth of protests in 2009, the regime is now "consumed with trying to sort out its existence," and "every single move by the government is for internal political reasons." However, as Peterson noted, "almost every crucial event that was transformative [in Iran] was unexpected," and he believes that a change in the Iranian government is possible in the near term. The change would likely "be an evolution, not a revolution." However, that would not make the change any less dramatic, and the "current regime could go on for ten years, and could also change tomorrow."
  Relations between the United States and Iran were another prominent topic in Peterson's address. For both sides, "it is so much easier to say no," and in the past "as soon as something positive happens, an event sets it back." Furthermore, because the Green Movement caused such a vehement, conservative reaction from the Iranian regime, Peterson believes engagement is "probably not in the cards in the near future." Still, despite those barriers he is adamant that "nothing can be ruled out in negotiating with Iran or dealing with Iran," and diplomatic efforts between the two sides was crucial.
  Regarding the nuclear program, Peterson believes that the "regime has not made the decision to go for nuclear weapons at the current moment." At the very least, Iranian elites are interested in being "one screw away" from having a nuclear weapon, while not necessarily committing to building a working bomb, which many within the intelligence community believe would take years to complete. But, Peterson warned, threatening rhetoric from the United States and Israel only increases the likelihood that Iran will go nuclear. "The determining factor is what comes from Washington and Tel Aviv. If you continue to bang the war drum, [Iran] might decide they need a nuke."
  INTRODUCTION, "LET THE SWORDS ENCIRCLE ME"
  "Because for us, the war is not over . . ."
  FROM HIS FIRST BREATH, the bearded Believer invokes divine power, for among the most devout every communication begins: "In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate . . ."
  This Iranian holy warrior chooses his words deliberately, speaking to me in 1998 in a cramped office in the mosque at Tehran University, where the threadbare furnishings and plain walls mark a monastic preoccupation with issues of the spirit.
  His eyes are fearless. And with the certainty of an evangelist on a mission of conversion, Dr. Alireza Zakani is about to take me back with him to the marshy, trench-laced battlefields of the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s. He was wounded ten times and survived fifteen major offensives that remain among the bloodiest engagements in modern warfare.
  Zakani was just fifteen when he volunteered for the carnage, breaking the age rules to join what he believed to be a "sacred" war. The fight had sparked a spiritual reckoning for Iran, deepened zeal for Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution, and forged a militant ideology that today forms the bedrock of the Islamic Republic. In their eagerness to get to the warto prove their faith, their purity of heartyoung men would alter the birth date on their identity cards so they could "legally" sign up for combat.
  Zakani was as religious as he was eager. His forehead is marked with the indelible dark smudge of a life spent in daily prayer, by the clay disk that Shiite Muslims bend down and press with their heads five times a day, to physically connect with the earth from whence they came.
  "We didn't enter the battlefield to become martyrs, only to defend...

DC Comics starts a new film era with Green Lantern, Geoff Johns and Diane Nelson

• Jul 22, 2010 from latimes(Los Angeles Times)
  Los Angeles Times business writer Ben Fritz and I wrote a cover story that ran Wednesday inthe paper'sCalendar section and this is a muchlonger verison of that article.
  The premiere for Marvel Studios' "Iron Man 2" shut down Hollywood Boulevard in May with the year's most bombastic red-carpet event, featuring fireworks, a heavy-metal soundtrack, go-go dancers and a parade of celebrities that included Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson, Mickey Rourke and Hugh Hefner. Walking through it all were two outsiders of a sort: Diane Nelson and Geoff Johns.
  The industry odd couple she previously managed the Harry Potter brand for Warner Bros. but had no experience in comics, he's a fan-favorite comic-book writer who had never worked at a studio are the president and chief creative officer, respectively, of DC Entertainment, main comic-book rival to Marvel. Their task is to rummage through the massive DC library and finally get venerable characters such as Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, Flash and Aquaman on the silver screen for parent company Warner Bros. Their appointment, part of a restructuring of DC last September, is an implicit acknowledgment of the long dysfunctional relationship between the studio and its New York comic book unit.
  Warner Bros. is counting on the pair to fly to the rescue and to do it soon the Potter franchise, which has pulled in more than $5.3 billion at the box office, is winding down with its seventh installment this November and its finale next summer. The top Warner leadership is also frustrated that over the last decade it has been Marvel Comics characters led by Spider-Man, the X-Men and Iron Man who have won the hearts of moviegoers with franchises that have pulled in close to $8 billion.
  For Johns, 37, who grew up in Michigan as a passionate comics fan, walking Marvel's red carpet gave him even more motivation to weave a Hollywood story for DC's characters, many of whom have a far more illustrious publishing history than Iron Man.
  "You look at that success it makes you want to achieve the same sort of thing but do it in our own way," Johns said. "They've done great things and now we want to do great things."
  
  They will get their first test this week at Comic-Con International, the massive pop-culture expo in San Diego that has become a make-or-break showcase for the sci-fi, fantasy and superhero films that increasingly populate studio slates. They have one heroic success to build on director Christopher Nolan's two Batman films have grossed $1.4 billion but also the drag of this year's disastrous "Jonah Hex" and "The Losers," two appropriately named and painful remindersthat DC characters have often been cinematic kryptonite.
  Nelson and Johns will coordinate everything DC-related Johns, for instance, hinted that there may be a half-dozen or more potential television projects in pipeline, suggesting "Smallville" and "Human Target" may soon be joined on the air by other DC-based properties. There are also video games and toys, but the most scrutiny so far is on their role as catalysts for tentpole films at the studio, where film group president Jeff Robinov speaks as though the 75-year-old comic-book company is a fresh new commodity.
  "We're looking at DC as an untapped asset," he said, "since we need to find a way to fill some of the holes in our event movie schedule created by the end of Harry Potter."
  On Saturday, in front of an expected audience of 6,500 at Comic-Con, Warner will present the first footage from "Green Lantern," which stars Ryan Reynolds and is the biggest effort by the studio to create a superhero franchise that doesn't feature Superman or Batman. The character, whose roots go back to the 1940s, is a member of an intergalactic peacekeeping force armed with rings that give them nearly unlimited powers.
  "Lantern" is the first film made with the new DC team in place and Johns will be right up there on stage with director Martin Campbell, Reynolds and other cast members. Far from an interloper, Johns was an essential sounding board on matters of plot, tone, character design and visual effects, the film team said.
  " 'Integrity officer' is a great way to describe him," Reynolds said. "He's quality control in terms of the source material and making sure we use it in the right way. If something doesn't sit well with Geoff, then everyone knows that's worthy of sounding an alarm. But he also doesnt come in with this agenda that he tries to shove down your throat. And his passion for the material is obvious."
  The biggest challenge for Nelson and Johns may be merging the cultures of the Warner lot in Burbank and the offices of DC, which are in Manhattan but may soon move to L.A.
  The company that would become known as DC Comics invented the comic-book superhero in the summer of 1938 with Superman. Its florid archive is deeper and includes more iconic characters than the Marvel library, but moviegoers certainly wouldn't know that over the last decade. "Superman Returns,"...