Grace Slick says she can't remember a lot of things, which is perhaps no surprise given how much she drank and drugged herself into oblivion during her reign as a rock-and-roll queen. But she knows who she is today:
"I'm a 67-year-old fat, white-haired, liver-spotted woman." Of her body, she says, "It's all lumpy stuff with lines."
"I'm a 67-year-old fat, white-haired, liver-spotted woman." Of her body, she says, "It's all lumpy stuff with lines."
Ahem. Anything else? "I think old people are scary," says the former hippie vixen. "They remind you of your own death. People don't like to tell you that."
This is where Grace Slick likes to be: in your face, her blue eyes holding you hostage, unleashing verbal assaults. As lead singer for the Jefferson Airplane in the 1960s and the group it begat in the '70s, Jefferson Starship, she was a voice of countercultural transgression. Now she's an artist holding court at a gallery in a suburban shopping mall, where some 150 people have come to see her paintings and drawings. But mostly it is a chance for them to set their eyes on a legend, the woman who did all those bad things that horrified parents -- and survived.
Slick's work revolves around "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," nudes and rock musicians (live ones like Eric Clapton, but more often dead ones like Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Jerry Garcia and Janis Joplin).
Polka-dotted teacups are set on a table at the Wentworth Gallery in Fashion Centre at Pentagon City, in a tribute to Slick, whose work revolves around "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," nudes and rock musicians (live ones like Eric Clapton, but more often dead ones like Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Jerry Garcia and Janis Joplin). The people who did all those bad things that horrified parents -- and didn't survive. Whoopdy doo.
Near the gallery's entrance, a poster of a young woman stares hard into you, eyes peeking out from under thick brown bangs: It's an iconic 1968 photo of Slick, then about 28, wearing a green Girl Scouts USA shirt.
Before taking the first of several cigarette breaks, she pops out a false incisor, then shoves it back in.
Today Slick's thick white hair is pulled back in a ponytail that cascades to her waist; she wears silver hoop earrings the diameter of a small yogurt container. She's seated at a black-clothed table; her black-fringed sweater poncho is paired with pencil-cut black jeans; a deep red chenille scarf drapes her shoulders. When she smiles, which isn't often, she is radiant. A radiant old lady, but still radiant.
Before taking the first of several cigarette breaks, she pops out a false incisor, then shoves it back in. Still got her old class, I see...
What happened to her tooth? "It fell out," she barks. "I'm old." You said that before.
Security guards flanking her, she is escorted outdoors to smoke. She's obviously someone important, but passing shoppers don't seem to know who. She's somebody who used to have a minor importance. Now she's an old lady.
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Who?
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Yo're only pretty as you feel..
Just as pretty as you feel inside...
taking the first of several cigarette breaks, she pops out a false incisor, then shoves it back in.
is a good image for next-generations to really understand that whole 1960's "rage" thing. We didn't see it that way at the time because everyone was young and beautiful then, but that about sums it up.
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Why did parents hate what she did? Is this her most important legacy? How about being among the pied pipers that lead a few generations down paths of self destruction. Hmm, it's ironic that someone who mouthed all the revolutionary B.S. of the 60's is now in the Pentagon mall working at a gallery called Wentworths. How revolutionary.
Don't you mean "glows in the dark"? If you ingest enough chemicals . . .
Al
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As someone who absolutely loved the sound of Grace Slick's voice long before seeing her HOT pics, it is definitely a bummer to see her selling herself at the the Fashion Center at the Pentagon Mall. But, as with most things, anything to keep your name and face in front of the public AND make a buck.
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The crazy old bitch ran me off the road back in 99' as I was driving to my in-laws place in Walnut Creek! There I was, puttering innocently along on my Moto Guzzi, when Grace "Still Not That Sober" Slick comes halfway into my lane on Highway 4, doing 110 mph in (believe it or not) a clapped out Bentley. I went into a ditch, and she kept right on going (or truckin, or WTF ever). The really scary thing is that White Rabbit was blaring out of her cars speakers the entire time.
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Aw, crap. I feel a little guilty. We all straighened out and got good jobs in computers and such while she and a few others continued to burn out their grey matter. They did it for us, I should feel guilty.
Okay, I don't feel anything. I did like Mama Cass, though. I feel sad. She could sing really good. Made Grace sound like she was shouting.
Come to think about it, she was shouting.
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If you remember the 60's you weren't there. I remember being in Berkeley in the 60's and going to college there. I got this degree thingy in 1970. I remember Grace's singing, hot. But Imr canna recall nufing much else.....*sigh*
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While at the time it did seem strange that the University of Tennessee marching band never played Jefferson Airplane's "Volunteers of America", I went through part of my life thinking it was Tennessee's fight song.
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yeah, but then she did "we built this city" in the 80s - quite possibly the worst song of all time. The type of jingle that sticks in your grape like a f*ckin' cyclic cranium freeze you cannot get rid of. Damn you grace, damn you to hell.
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I happen to have a radio station's promo version to the J.A.'s First album; been played completely though, maybe once (won it, didn't buy it). Couldn't stand her voice or lyrics then, glad I wasn't shopping at Woolworths, or where ever she was. Something about eating and keeping it down.
A powerful undersea earthquake Saturday afternoon sparked a tsunami warning for Hokkaido's Pacific and Sea of Okhotsk coasts, sending thousands fleeing to higher ground.
The Meteorological Agency issued the warning shortly after the magnitude-8.2 quake occurred at 1:24 p.m. about 30 km below the seabed near the Kuril Trench, about 500 km east of Etorofu, one of the four islands held by Russia but claimed by Japan. There were no reports of casualties or major damage, and the warning was lifted at around 6 p.m. A tsunami advisory was also issued for a long stretch of Honshu's Pacific coast.
A total of about 110,000 residents in 24 municipalities, including Nemuro, Hokkaido, and Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, were advised to evacuate to higher ground. Some residents on Russian-held Kunashiri Island were also evacuated, an official said by phone in the afternoon, adding that no damage had been confirmed at that time.
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MARIANAS VARIETY/PDN > citizens of the CNMI were evacuated to high ground after the CNMI authorities were warned of tsunamis from the 8.3-magnitude quake. For me here in Guam, felt a 1.0-1 1/8-second light tremor + electro sparkings in the atmosphere.
The cash-strapped Zimbabwe government will fork out hundreds of thousands of US dollars to pay Pakistani military experts who have arrived in Harare to help train and equip the army, which has been weakened by mass resignations of experienced officers. Safdara Hayat, the first secretary at the Pakistani embassy in Harare, confirmed the arrival of the first four senior military experts from the Asian country in an interview with ZimOnline yesterday. He said they were all seconded to the Airforce of Zimbabwe (AFZ).
The Pakistani experts have arrived in the country at a time when the nation faces growing threats of strike actions by long-suffering workers. The government fears these strikes might escalate into a bigger social unrest problem. The government has been heavily recruiting to replace army and police officers, deserting in droves to find better paying jobs in neighbouring countries and beyond. Reports from Pakistan suggest that more military experts are on their way to Zimbabwe.
Pak military experts certainly know a thing or two about keeping the populace down ...
While Hayat professed ignorance at the exact amounts the Pakistani officers would be paid, he nonetheless confirmed that the Zimbabwe government would be responsible for paying their salaries.
Pakistanis Daily Times newspaper earlier reported that the experts had been deployed only after Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz approved a revised agreement which offered improved conditions of service for experts seconded to the Zimbabwean army and air force. The newspaper said that Pakistani officers from the rank of captain to brigadier and those of equivalent ranks in the Pakistani armed forces would, on their deputation to Zimbabwe, get monthly salaries in the range of US$1,500 to US$3,300 and other allowances and privileges such as free accommodation and medical cover. The report said that the monthly salary of troops in lower ranks would be from US$615 to $712 excluding other allowances and privileges.
Most of the cash will end up in pockets somewhere high in the Pak defense ministry; the soldiers will get their usual crummy pay and allowances.
The amounts are a far cry from the poor salaries paid to Zimbabwean military and police personnel especially those in the lower tiers of the security forces.
The experts will stay in Zimbabwe for at least two years though their tenures can be extended under the military pact. Safdara said Pakistan had a long history of co-operating with Zimbabwe and there was nothing unusual with the military deal.
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Mugabe is too big a racist to hire any of the white mercs available - he could get full crews from the Ukraine, Belarus, or Slovakia for less than the reported wages of the Pakis. But, the Pakis have families back home that can be reached by the ISI if they mess up, so that is why he will use them.
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Mugabe has bought the best (at what they do, which is not warfighting).
It was a Pak officer, Zia Ul Haq, later dictator president of Pakistan, who commanded the troops in Jordan that crushed the PLO in "Black September".
Paks also have vast experience in crushing civilian unrest. In the 1970s they killed tens of thousands of Balochis. In 1980s they killed thousands of Shia muslims in Kashmir (a pogrom allegedly organized by Pervez Musharraf and executed by a tribal arab lashkar commanded by Osama Bin Laden.
Of course, the 1971 genocide of two to three million Bengalis in East Pakistan trumps all.
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Of course, the Paki Army is really expert at surrendering to tribal militias.
Al
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Only because the militias serve the interest of the Pak army - increasing Pak influence in Afghanistan - "strategic depth".
If they were actually viewed as a threat, the Pak army would not hesitate to exterminate them all.
For now it sends in cannon fodder - locals recruited into the paramilitary units - to be killed then declares a truce.
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Don't forget - the Official name of Pakistan is "The Islamic Republic of Pakistan".
The official motto of the Pak army is
"Iman-Taqwa-Jihad fi sabilillah "
(Faith, Fear of Allah, Jihad in the way of Allah)
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Well, john, they don't have "Don't tread on me" in their motto, so we have found their fatal flaw to exploit, heh.
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The voice on the phone demanded that a large sum of money be wired to a Mexican bank account number. There was no name attached to the voice, but its owner had clearly done his research.
Basically, he said he was a professional hitman and he knew who our family was and where we lived, said a relative of the prominent McAllen businessman who had picked up the phone. The family has asked to remain anonymous out of concern for their safety. Unless he was paid within three hours, one of the family members would be picked up, was the term he used.
The family refused to pay and contacted the FBI, who told them they were probably the latest victims of what is believed to be a professional extortion scam operating out of Mexico.
Over the last 12 months the FBI has heard repeated reports of prominent individuals in the Upper Rio Grande Valley, including doctors, lawyers and businessmen, receiving phone calls demanding between $20,000 and $70,000 in exchange for their families safety, said John Johnson, assistant special agent in charge in the FBIs McAllen office.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Saturday before meeting with Iranian president Mahmous Ahmadinejad, that he had personally told a US official he hoped relations would improve with Washington. Chavez said he ran into Thomas Shannon, head of the US State Department's Western Hemisphere affairs bureau, at the inauguration of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega this week. "Mr. Shannon approached and I greeted him," Chavez said in a speech to government officials and legislators. "We shook hands and I told him, 'I hope that everything improves.' I'm not anyone's enemy."
US officials have accused Chavez of authoritarian tendencies, while US National Intelligence Director John Negroponte said during an annual review of global threats this week that Venezuela's democracy was at risk under Chavez.
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He actually quipped in his innarugation last week that he seriously considered wearing 2 presidential sashes.... for the Pancho Via look, but Jeebus, wait there's more, then he considered 3! The 3rd going betwixt his laigs and up his back. This fella is a weird one.
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I would personally like to have a very friendly relationship with Eva Longoria. I actually stand a better chance of that than Hugo does with the US.
A military tribunal on Saturday convicted 10 former members of the Nazi SS and acquitted seven others for the 1944 slaughter of more than 700 people near Bologna - the worst World War II-era civilian massacre in Italy, a news report said.
The 10 received life sentences, said the Italian news agency ANSA. The defendants, all tried in absentia, are believed to live in Germany. They are one former officer and 16 enlisted personnel of the 16th SS Division. The murder trial was held in a military court in the northern port town of La Spezia. Court officials in La Spezia could not immediately be reached Saturday afternoon.
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I agree with Ship, so many worthy of the noose managed to slip away at the end of the war. Syria's most noted citizen, Alios Brunner is the one I want to see swing.
I hope the perpetrators of today's barbarisms are pursued as relentlessly.
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There must have been a heck of a lot of them involved for there to still be 10 survivors, all at least in their 80s. My guess is that the entire unit was charged with the war crime.
The 16th was formed from ethnic Germans, but I've no idea what country the volksdeutsche came from, possibly Hungary. It surrendered to British forces in Austria.
The Russians, especially, put out wants and warrants on anyone who belonged to entire SS units, and not just einsatzgruppe, but Waffen SS as well.
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Well, it is all well and good to put out a contract on individuals who committed war crimes, but spending 60 years tracking down somebody who was there but may or may not have actually done anything is a bit obsessive. The officer, maybe, but nine privates?
Unless they had developed some new evidence, waiting 60 years for a trial, in absentia, no less, just comes across as weird.
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Interesting that so many of Indonesia's provinces have the flu at 'epidemic' levels (from the article), yet it hasn't shown a lot of international transmission. God forbid that it gets a foothold in a locale that people really want to see and then begin taking it home.
Iran's constitutional watchdog, the Guardian Council, has passed into law a parliament bill that raises the voting age in national elections from 15 to 18, state-run television reported Saturday.
The law came into effect immediately, state TV said. Iranians as young as 15-year-old had previously been allowed to vote in some local elections. The new law bars from voting many of the youths who cast their ballot in local elections last month, when hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad suffered humiliating defeat. The next legislative elections are due in February 2008, and presidential ones in 2009.
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Which demographic group are they cutting off? Liberal elements?
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In fact I am bevoming increasingly opposite to the 18 year old voting age. At this age many/most people are not autonomous (meaning that they will have an influenxce on taxes depite not paying them).
They are also under the influenxce of nutty professors a la Chmosky or Ward Churchillwithout being confronted to the clubat of real life.
So I would follow the doctine exposed in the excellent mahmood.tv ("you are an adult when you pay your first bill"). In fact I joke that you would have to produce a bill for being able to vote and a pay bulletin proving that you earn your own money.
More seriously I oppose allowing high schoolers/students to vote before being 21 years old.
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The voting age should be raised to 30, entail a minimum property/income requirement and the vote should register only upon passing a quiz in constitutional law.
Despicable. The way I see it, if you're old enough to be herded across a minefield, you're old enough to vote.
Just because there are people who go into minefileds isn't a reason to give right to vote to never do wells who study soft science. Also if I follow you then if you evaded the draft, you don't vote and you never get eligible as even a dog catcher FOR LIFE (Bill Clinton that is for you). But I agree: people who serve in the armed forces should have right to vote. Notice that unlike students they aren't being mantained by their parents so the "You don't vote until you pay your first bill" applies to them.
Oh and in France the military was denied the right to vote for decades. That was law made by the LEFT (and a couple years ago I stumbled upon someone who defended this). It was also the LEFT who denied vote to French women alleging they would vote "wrong". It was rightist, fascist,racist General de Gaulle who gave them this right. Just as in America it was the rightist, fascist, racist Republican party who allowed women to vote (and to Blacks)
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Just because there are people who go into minefileds isn't a reason to give right to vote to never do wells who study soft science. Also if I follow you then if you evaded the draft, you don't vote and you never get eligible as even a dog catcher FOR LIFE (Bill Clinton that is for you).
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The new law bars from voting many of the youths who cast their ballot in local elections last month, when hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad suffered humiliating defeat.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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Grace Slick says she can't remember a lot of things, which is perhaps no surprise given how much she drank and drugged herself into oblivion during her reign as a rock-and-roll queen. But she knows who she is today: 
A powerful undersea earthquake Saturday afternoon sparked a tsunami warning for Hokkaido's Pacific and Sea of Okhotsk coasts, sending thousands fleeing to higher ground.
The cash-strapped Zimbabwe government will fork out hundreds of thousands of US dollars to pay Pakistani military experts who have arrived in Harare to help train and equip the army, which has been weakened by mass resignations of experienced officers. Safdara Hayat, the first secretary at the Pakistani embassy in Harare, confirmed the arrival of the first four senior military experts from the Asian country in an interview with ZimOnline yesterday. He said they were all seconded to the Airforce of Zimbabwe (AFZ). 
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Saturday before meeting with Iranian president Mahmous Ahmadinejad, that he had personally told a US official he hoped relations would improve with Washington. Chavez said he ran into Thomas Shannon, head of the US State Department's Western Hemisphere affairs bureau, at the inauguration of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega this week. "Mr. Shannon approached and I greeted him," Chavez said in a speech to government officials and legislators. "We shook hands and I told him, 'I hope that everything improves.' I'm not anyone's enemy." 
A military tribunal on Saturday convicted 10 former members of the Nazi SS and acquitted seven others for the 1944 slaughter of more than 700 people near Bologna - the worst World War II-era civilian massacre in Italy, a news report said. 
