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KING: Doesn't come out right? |
RAY: It's too strong, it's too weak. I can never find the scoop. Then I use tablespoons. I don't know how many tablespoons to the water. Sometimes I forget to put the water in. Sometimes I put the water in and forget to put the coffee in. My husband won't let me near the machine. My mom won't let me near it. I make ter... |
KING: And you're a great cook, except you don't bake. |
RAY: I can't bake. I'm baking challenged. I tried to make my mom a cake once, it was a lemon cottage cake out it was called out of the old - I think it was a "Good Housekeeping" cookbook or something. |
And it was my mother's favorite and what's what I did for my mom for presents. Kids don't have a lot of money. You want to please them. I wanted to please my mommy and I sifted four times and the thing never rose and I just cried and cried and cried and I just -- it's been bad, bad luck for me ever since. |
KING: Do you think that is a specialty? Do you think a lot of cooks -- |
RAY: My sister is a wonderful, wonderful baker. She loves to measure. She's very patient, she's very calm. She can decorate elaborate cakes, too. I think it's just a talent like anything else. I think it's the other side of the brain. You know, from whatever it is that helps me cook. |
KING: What are you best at? |
RAY: Cooking. And I'm not a chef but I am a good cook. I know that. I know that it makes people happy and I know that knowing how to make a good meal for yourself, your family, the people you love will improve the quality of life for the whole of your life. |
KING: You want children? |
RAY: I have lots of them with Yum-O! and I have lots of them in my family. I don't think it would be a responsible thing to work as much as I do and have any of my own at least at this time. |
KING: Some day? |
RAY: You know, I'm getting pretty old. I'm 39. I don't know, the clock is ticking pretty loud. I don't know. I don't know, you know? You never say never. I have no immediate plans or even future plans and, you know, I don't feel that I'm unfulfilled in that area. I really love working with kids and being near them. I f... |
KING: You still get a kick out of going in and doing that thing every day? |
RAY: Love it. |
KING: Three shows, don't matter? |
RAY: Love it -- luckier than winning the lottery. |
KING: Audience energy still beefs you up? |
RAY: Oh my god. The audience energy gives me so much energy. I think I scared people in the first season. Now I'm calming down some. I'm really losing the voice. |
KING: Do you consider yourself lucky? |
RAY: Hugely. One of the most fortunate people on the planet. Pretty scared if you go around again what's going to happen to me next time. I must be in for it. I don't know. |
KING: Well, you're a special delight, always great having you. |
RAY: Thank you so much. Thank you. |
KING: Rachael Ray, she is in her second season. |
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On Django Unchained |
I saw Django Unchained over the past weekend. I liked it a lot. I’m going to try to work out why I liked it so much in as few words as possible. Historically when I write about movies, I tend to go for a comprehensive read–I play the Zizek by trying to sum the whole experience up into a tight, neat ball. That isn’t pos... |
Discomfort; the dismissal, the removal, of comfort itself. The opposite of comfort. If I have my etymology right, comfort itself is confortare–“to strengthen.” So to create discomfort is to, in some way, weaken; it is to remove strength, to break the scaffolding that holds the viewer up. |
With that bit of academic wankery plopped down, I guess I can get around to my point. Django Unchained has a couple moments that made me profoundly uncomfortable. The first was the “Mandingo fighting scene” where two black men are forced to fight to the death. The second is when a slave is torn apart by dogs. The third... |
The first and the second are violent, but violent in the way that the ear cutting scene in Reservoir Dogs is violent. It is off-screen. The viewer witnesses the effects mostly through sound and reaction–we experience violence not as something rendered into the visual, but through its signifiers. We are denied a sense o... |
However, that isn’t the “soul” of the scene. The aesthetics–the brutal violence–masks what is really occurring: the mechanisms of slavery. |
The scene of two men fighting to the death is not terrible merely because two men are fighting to the death. There is the additional factor of the institution of slavery and that these men, as property, cannot break the systemic conditions that force this violence on them. There is also an indictment of the viewer of t... |
This, I think, is also the root of Spike Lee’s film Bamboozled. At one point, a character in that film says (and I am paraphrasing) that “audiences love to see black buffoons on television.” Spike Lee goes on to prey on that reality by then showing, at length, a minstrel show with all of its comedic stylings. The most ... |
We are taught what is funny on the back of minstrelsy. |
The “Mandingo fight” is, for me, the counterpart for the minstrel show in Bamboozled. It is a violent event that is ultimately entertaining in a hyperviolent way–it has all of the beats of both contemporary fight scenes, but also has its origins in a past where those fights were real. It both presents itself on-face as... |
I am discomforted by this. I am unsettled. I am broken from my moorings, my anchoring in the seat; I am made to feel explicitly complicit in the scene itself. The scene itself, unlike so many other violent scenes, was hard for me to watch; I felt sick. I felt like a betrayer for witnessing, for taking pleasure in the f... |
The fight scene has to exist, however, for us to fully appreciate Samuel L. Jackson’s characterization of Stephen in the last third of the film. Stephen, who Chauncy Devega writes is “the Uncle of all Uncle Toms and the Grand Emperor of Steppin Fetchits,” is the grand culmination of audience indictment in the film. |
Stephen is amazingly funny–Jackson calling people motherfuckers always is, after all. More than that, we’re used to it, and we come to expect it from him. I, watching the film, know that Jackson is going to come at the role in a certain way, and that way is going to be funny. At the same time, Leonard DiCaprio’s slave-... |
So we, the audience, are played up to in the same way that the plantation owners are. The act is performed for us. Stephen isn’t just the slave to DiCaprio; he is enslaved to us. He whips the audience around and makes us face history itself. Just like the “Mandingo fight,” he forces me to stop, realize why I am enjoyin... |
My discomfort at watching Stephen perform for the people inside of the film sticks with me. My implicit enjoyment is undercut. History comes and takes it from me, and all the better. I shouldn’t have it. |
Interesting Django Unchained reading going on now: |
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4 Responses to On Django Unchained |
1. Ethan Gach says: |
Without pressuming any responsibility on the part of an aesthetic object, do you see discomfort as a worthy end in and of itself, or does the film use it as a means toward something else? |
• kunzelman says: |
I guess yes to both? As in, that discomfort can just linger and be sufficiently rad, but it can also generate leverage to thinking through racism in Django Unchained. For example, Simon Ferrari and I were just chatting on twitter about how the phrenology scene was the most uncomfortable for him and how it made hi... |
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Sanders is in the lead by 20 points in Wisconsin |
Wisconsin is one of the states that is part of the so-called wildfire. It borders the states that were more than benevolent towards Bernie Sanders. |
It has no big cities and it favors the Senator views its difficulty in some areas of the US to defeat Hillary Clinton in the metropolis. Among the major city there are Milwaukee and Madison that should be respectively tending toward Clinton and Sanders. In layman’s terms, Clinton would collect the legacy of Barack Obam... |
Clinton didn’t just win or tie in Milwaukee because the rest of Wisconsin is characterized by small and medium-sized cities that promote the features demonstrated by Bernie Sanders around America. |
What’s more, Milwaukee is not Chicago, its population is 1/10 of the whole state and it haven’t a decisive influence on the final result. The African American community, then, is very low and the advantage in the Black vote that the former Secretary of State has thus far demonstrated through their vote, it will not be ... |
Wisconsin is a White State (83.3% non-Hispanic white, 5.9% Hispanic White), the African American Community is 6.3%, while 1.0% is Native American and Alaska Native, 2.3% is Asian American, 1.8% Multiracial American and 2.4% some other race. |
Given that this year the African American community is not mobilized, for obvious reasons, as in 2008, it’s possible a clear victory of Sanders thanks to the sum of the minorities which this year have always supported him. |
So, hang enormously on the side of Sanders: 1. A wealth of research on Google that interests him is twice as much as Clinton; 2. The presence of Wisconsin in an area bordering states where Sanders was expressed in an extremely effective manner; 3. The lack of large cities favoring Clinton; 4. The lack of an African Ame... |
That said, according to the data in our possession, Sanders will win in Wisconsin with about 60%. |
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1. Do NOT be Complacent, Go Vote Vote Vote !!!! Dear Berners !!!!!! Important Message Here !!! |
This happened in Arizona, this is about to happen again in CA, Maryland, NY, NJ, & PA !!!!! There are some reports about voters’ party affiliation changed behind their backs !!!!! If you are in any of states with closed primaries, who didn’t vote yet – Check your party affiliation now !!!!! You can expect everythin... |
(1) We must all check that our registrations have not been tampered with, as there had been plenty of reports of people who were properly registered as Democrats being changed from D to something else so they can’t vote in the primaries |
(2) Very important: If you find that you were a victim of this, please, please, please report to the aclu, the campaign, FEC and … even the DNC (so that later it can be proved that they knew about it). There will be strength in numbers in this. All of us who had suffered anything shady in this election must report ... |
I looked up my Vote by Mail Status and I copied and pasted it to my email box and it worked! Now I can print it in my apartments computer lab just in case they don’t send me my voter registration card. Everyone else should do this too! I feel the need to also tell people: please bring various forms of proof of your... |
1. I agree. One should never take the one Poll as gospel. What is the CNN Poll saying? That is high traffic area. I am not familiar with this site and as a researcher I have seen a multitude of pollings since last year … not this one. For all I know the owner is a Hillary trickster. |
Keep working the phones, the streets and the papers. Better to be safe and crush the win, than compacent and lose by a point or two. 🙂 |
2. We’ve gotten so lost in the pie fights, I think we’ve forgotten what we’re doing here..electing a President of the United States..leader of the free world..and executor of the progressive policies we all share and support. So in my own words, here’s why I support Hillary Clinton for President. |
Hillary is her own person. She’s advocated for equal opportunity for all children all her life. She wrote “It Takes a Village” over twenty years ago. She’s advocated for women’s rights around the world all her life. |
She is a skilled negotiator and a team player. Obama picked her as his Secretary of State for good reasons and she performed admirably. |
She’s a bit wonky..which means to me that she understands the nuances of public policy and how to pragmatically implement actual change, while holding on to the significant gains made during the Obama administration. So here’s to wonk. |
On a person-to-person level, she relates well to a broad diversity of people. In those elements, she excels at listening. She follows up her listening with commitment and hard work. |
She shares the goals of universal access to health care with those who advocate for single payer, while understanding that in this country to get from here to there, steps must be taken. Obamacare was the first big step that laid the groundwork and she will carry forth from there. |
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