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"The Apocalypse Has Been Postponed Until Gym": My Last Year of High School & the End of the World, Part 2
Posted in America, Antichrist, Art & Entertainment, Aspiring Author, Author, Betania, Biography, Catholicism, Charismatics, Christianity, Cults, Death, Demons, End of the World, End Times, Evangelicals, Evil, Faith, Friendship, Fundamentalism, Healing, Jesus, Manipulation, Mark of the Beast, Me, Mind Control, My Novels, Novel, Novel Writing, Personal, Photography, Purity Culture, Reading, Relationships, Religion, Romance, Sex, Spiritual Abuse, Stories, Storytelling, Writers, Writing, YA Novel	by Boze Herrington
Alvin High School, May 2004
On the night I returned home from a long trip at the end of January, I called Booth and he filled me in on what had happened in Alvin during the week I was gone.
Winter had taken over our high school. Friends were behaving differently, not like themselves at all. They were grumpy and depressed. They walked through the halls with scowls on their faces, barely lifting their heads to greet one another. Even the timid and pure were drinking, throwing wild parties, having sex. Booth had been invited to an orgy, but politely declined: he could see what the lure of sexual temptation was doing to the rest of his friends, and it scared him.
But the biggest changes of all had taken place in Brandon. He had injured himself playing soccer and was no longer sure he would be able to attend the school of his dreams. His teammates had held him down and shaved his head. Now he was bald and wore a hood all the time like a Sith lord.
And he hated me. "I hate Boze," he told Booth. "And you're turning into him!"
For much of the first half of the school year Booth had been skeptical of our prophetic encounters and the battle that Adriana and I both felt was coming to our campus. But now he was beginning to reconsider. He told me how Brandon had yelled at a girl and threatened her with a baseball bat because she took a kitten that he wanted. He related how Mr. McGowan had snapped in the middle of class and started running through the room with a pair of scissors, screaming and laughing.
"I walk through the halls in the mornings," said Booth, "and all I can see are faces of despair. I look into their eyes, and there is no hope. One by one, it's overtaking everyone."
It was after midnight. Booth told me to hang on for a second and put down the phone. When he returned a moment later, there was a note of worry in his voice.
"I don't know what that was," he said. "There was this thing, this noise… I think it was coming from under my bed…"
And then, without any warning, he began yelling hysterically.
He took the phone and ran from the room. From the safety of the kitchen, clutching a knife, he explained to me what had happened. There was a heavy breathing sound, and at first he thought it was the cat. But the cat was in the other room, and the noise was getting louder, and closer…
When Booth's parents found him sleeping in the hall the next morning, they grounded him. But it didn't matter. He knew what he had heard that night, and for the first time all year we were unequivocally on the same side. Too long had the darkness lingered. It was time to take back our campus.
Over the Christmas holidays Blazes O'Reilly had returned home and summoned a council. Though I had not mentioned to him the specifics of Adriana's prophecy, I told him I felt they needed to become better acquainted, so the three of us gathered one wintry night in a back room of his parents' house.
The reception was not cordial. From the beginning of the meeting Adriana sensed a dark aura around Blazes, "the darkest I've ever seen." At one point when he left the room to make tea, she confided, "My voices just told me not to trust him, because he's been tempted"—an assertion that was seemingly affirmed a moment later when he returned and told her as much of his story as he had already told me. How could she possibly have known that? I wondered.
For his part, Blazes swore he could see spirits of deception circling around Adriana. "There were three of them," he explained with a casual air. "They were each taking turns whispering lies in her ear."
Oddly, though, Blazes couldn't deny that he felt a strong sense of destiny about her. "I just have this feeling about her, like our fates are intertwined. Like we're destined to fight to the death. Kind of like Lucifer and Gabriel, only I'm not sure which of us is which."
Adriana was sure, though. "My voices have shown me," she said, "that Blazes is the Antichrist!"
For my own part, God had revealed to me during the break that Lauren and I would be sexually tempted in the first week of March. Each of us who were called to be players in the end-time drama would be tempted by the end of the trimester. Whether we passed on to the next stage of our mission would depend on whether or not we passed the test.
As if to confirm my suspicions, my first week back on campus I was propositioned by a sweet blonde girl with a twangy East Texas accent and her best friend in gym class. They wanted to know if I would have a threesome with them. I reached into my tote bag and pulled out a copy of the most recent edition of the school newspaper, in which I had written a long article about the importance of saving yourself for marriage. They read the article with expressions of deep fascination and thanked me. I implored Booth not to tell anyone else, but the whole school knew before lunch.
As a result of some back-room finagling, I began giving a short message on the intercom every morning right after the Pledge of Allegiance. I urged the campus to pursue joy and beauty and resist the darkness that was seeking to devour. Together Booth and I wrote six pages in the next issue of the newspaper exclusively devoted to that subject. Booth even penned an article about the "Economics of Joy" in which he graphed the school's GDP: "Good Deeds Potential":
I negotiated with Mr. McGowan to let me teach European History for an entire week. On Friday I announced that I had brought in a motivational speaker, Mr. "Ebenezer Scrooge" of Scrooge & Marley's. The entire class groaned as Booth strode up to the front of the room. Then, as if out of nowhere, music began playing. Scrooge and I spontaneously broke into a dance and were joined by a guy in the third row who knew all the lyrics to the original song (from the 1970 Scrooge musical). For four and a half minutes we twirled around the room and sang about the pleasures of enjoying life:
Where there's music and laughter
Happiness is rife!
Because I like life!
The entire class watched with mounting incredulity, and by the end of the song Lauren was in tears. "That was the most bizarre thing I've ever seen," she said sadly. Booth and I sat quietly back down as though nothing had happened.
We waited for the first week of March, for the end of the second trimester.
I began having utterly terrifying dreams in which I seemed to be traveling out of my body at night and wandering through the rooms and halls of the trailer in which I lived. There were things in my bedroom I had never seen before. I heard footsteps in the hallway and saw strange lights outside my window.
I received my letter of acceptance from Southwestern University. I wondered if it was wise to go. I thought about staying in Alvin and fighting alongside my friends in the battle that was soon to come.
And then the trimester ended. We all settled into our new classes. And nothing happened.
There was no battle, no moment of tempting. Lauren started dating a guy she had met two weeks before. And I could feel the ground giving way beneath my feet.
On a quiet and warm afternoon near the end of that week, Booth, Adriana, and I sat facing Mr. McGowan from across the desk in his classroom. We were all disconsolate and hoped he could give us answers.
Adriana told the story of how she had nearly died the summer before, and how she began hearing the voices shortly after. Booth and I tried to explain all that had happened since Christmas, but it was clear from the moment we began talking that Mr. McGowan didn't believe us. And by the time we related how Adriana learned that Blazes was the Antichrist, and how Blazes himself seemed to think that he was, and how we had briefly debated using physical force to try and subdue him, small beads of sweat were breaking out on the sides of his round face.
I watched him imploringly. I just wanted someone to explain what was going on. My prophetic gift had never been wrong before. Why had it failed me now, at the most critical time?
"First of all," he said, in a very low and quiet voice, "what you're going through is not unusual."
I'm not sure what I had been expecting, but it wasn't this. "Are you serious?" I asked.
He nodded. "For one, the three of you are reading from a shared text. Whenever three or four people read from a shared text, it's not hard to induce shared delusions.
"Second, I think you're scared. You're scared because you're about to graduate, Boze, and you two will be graduating in about a year. And you're leaving the only home you've ever known, and that's an incredibly traumatic experience. And it's not uncommon for students who are juniors and seniors in high school to start having apocalyptic visions, because it's their way of expressing kind of the terror they feel at the future.
"Because, let's face it, the world may not be ending, but the only world you've ever known is ending. You know how they say, 'You can't go home again.' You may come back in a few years, but the school that you knew will be gone. Reality won't live up to your memories. When you go away to college, you'll forget about me. And when you think about me at all, you'll think of me as some sophomoric teacher who liked to pretend he knew everything. But I don't. And some day you'll realize that."
My entire experience of the last eight months, all I had felt and foreseen and suffered, was slipping away. The apocalypse wasn't going to happen, it might never happen, or else it had been postponed. But I was determined to hold on.
"What about all the others?" I asked. "We're not the only ones. What about Blazes?"
Mr. McGowan shook his head. "There's something very dark and unnatural about that man," he said. "He went wrong somewhere… became something different than what God intended."
He stood up summarily from his desk, as though to suggest that the meeting was over. Together the four of us walked to the door.
Booth turned in the doorway and faced him.
"I do have a question," he said. "Was it you? Were you the one who orchestrated… you know, all of that?"
Mr. McGowan stared at him quizzically. "No," he said with finality.
We waited. I looked at him, more confused than ever.
"Do you mean, was I pandering and manipulating you?" He laughed lightly. "Oh, of course."
He clapped us both hard on the shoulders. "It was quite fun, actually. I'm honestly kind of sad it took y'all that long to figure it out. Your senses were picking up on stuff, but I was putting a spin on it. It's good that you wanted an order to life, but you have to want it in order to see it. That's why the super-sensible is so hard for empiricists to get."
He closed the door behind us. Adriana and Booth and I walked forward into the harsh sunlight.
It's been ten years since that conversation in Mr. McGowan's room, but the course my life has taken since graduation has been in a lot of ways a vindication of his warnings. Sociologists tell us that conspiracy theories and apocalyptic thinking are deeply intertwined, and that wherever you find one, you're likely to find the other. It's a pathology in the American psyche, a sickness, this fascination with the end times. There's something deeply un-Christian about it. It's as though Jesus and the Bible have become nothing more than cultural totems with the power to drive us mad.
I've held on to my faith, but just barely. The realization that I was not a prophet was devastating, but what has been much worse is seeing the damage caused by End-Times fanaticism, the toll that it takes. I've seen it drive otherwise sane people to the brink of madness. I've watched it transform them until they were no longer recognizable, until they were willing to do the most horrible things to even their closest friends. I've seen it claim the life of one of my dearest friends in the world.
So I find myself thinking about the events of that year, and the great disappointment of third trimester, and Mr. McGowan's explanation for what had happened to us. I think about it whenever a good Christian whom I respect is incredulous that I'm not prepping for the end times, as though it makes me some lesser species of Christian that I don't have an opinion about when Jesus is coming back. I think about it when I'm sitting on the shuttle next to a man who wrote a 200-page book about the role of the nephilim in the last days that he's trying to sell me, when I'm in a meeting with Christian counselors who are demanding that I pray out loud to accept my calling to battle the forces of the Antichrist. I think about it whenever someone on Facebook tells me they can't wait to be martyred, that they hope they continue to laugh long after their head has been severed from their body.
"Boze, where do you find these people?" Bethany once asked me, the first time I recounted my story—back when the dangerous group was just forming.
And sometimes I listen to that song, "Lake Geneva," by The Handsome Family, about a woman whose husband is hospitalized because he sees visions of the heavens in the stumps of falling trees:
"You remember how he cried
When they strapped him to the stretcher
Convinced his arms were burning
With electricity from heaven
"You remember how he told you
Black holes were like Jesus
And the crucifix was a battery
That filled the air with fire"
And I hear that and I think, isn't that my story, and the story of our country? That we'd rather read about the mysterious code that foretells the day of judgment than lift a finger to help the teeming masses on whose treatment the nations will be judged? And aren't we a sick society, when conspiracy theories and end-times mania, the province of the young and confused and deranged and scared, are mistaken for true worship?
After my last conversation with Mr. McGowan, I accepted the nature of the fantasy I had been living in. I was no prophet. I wasn't destined for greatness. The only certain thing in my life at that moment was graduation.
And instead of running away from it, as I had been doing all year, I learned to accept it. I embraced my own normalcy, and in doing so I found freedom and a certain measure of happiness.
And at the end of May I graduated and left high school behind me. I worry that some of us are there still.
Antichrist, delusion, Demon possession, Demons, Disappointment, end times, Graduation, IHOP, IHOPKC, Lord of the Rings, Prophecy, Purity culture, Scrooge, Sex, The Handsome Family	4 Comments
"The Apocalypse Has Been Postponed Until Gym": My Last Year of High School & the End of the World, Part I
Posted in America, Antichrist, Art & Entertainment, Aspiring Author, Author, Biography, Characters, Charismatics, Christianity, Church Issues, Creative Writing, Cults, End of the World, End Times, Evangelicals, Evil, Faith, Fundamentalism, Jesus, Literature, Lord of the Rings, Love, Manipulation, Mark of the Beast, Me, Mind Control, My Novels, Novel, Novel Writing, Personal, Relationships, Religion, Spiritual Abuse, Stories, Storytelling, The Bible, Writing, Writing a Novel, YA, YA Novel	by Boze Herrington
"But which is more important:
To comfort an old woman
Or see visions of the heavens
In the stumps of fallen trees?"
— The Handsome Family, "Lake Geneva"
My last year in high school was a strange time in my life.
It's a year that I haven't talked much about since I left the dangerous group a few years ago because it's hard to describe what happened without sounding a little insane. But I'll try.
Eric Booth had been my best friend for about three or four years. To the rest of our friends, we were an inseparable duo, one of the classic teams, like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Boze and Booth. We were always getting into trouble and wreaking havoc.
And we were a great match. Booth was tall, outgoing, and good with women. I was quiet, bookish, a little awkward, and spent most of my time writing down entire conversations in a notebook I carried around everywhere. And while I was whimsical, romantic, and full of weird ideas, Booth was rational, pragmatic, and rigorously logical. (Once when a friend boasted that she was "one in a million," Booth did the math and pointed out that there were at least 6,000 of her.)
Me, my senior year of high school
Booth and I had a teacher I'll call Mr. McGowan. Mr. McGowan was our European History teacher, but he seemed to view himself as an entertainer first and teacher second. On the first day of my last year in Alvin in 2003, the day our story begins, he delivered a ten-minute monologue on the day's news. "My Middle Eastern friend hasn't been happy ever since we had that talk about Allah," he said. "You know, Allah this, Allah that…"
("Welcome to Mr. McGowan's stand-up comedy class," whispered Booth.)
I'd been feeling sort of anxious about going back to school. So, to alleviate my concerns, Booth tried to think of the worst things that could possibly happen. "Watch, you'll get put in the Criminal Law class!" he teased me. To our friend *Brandon he said, "Your counselors will mess up your schedule so bad, you won't be able to fix it. And, you'll get put in Child Development with all the pregnant chicks!"
So our whole first day back at school was interesting, because yes, I did get put in Criminal Law, even though I hadn't signed up for it. When Brandon went to the counselor that afternoon to complain about his schedule, she tried to put him in Child Development. By the end of the day Booth had also correctly predicted that *Lauren, a girl I was interested in, would call me, even though she hadn't done so in almost two years.
But we thought it was all just an incredibly weird string of coincidences—until the next day.
New England was experiencing a tremendous electrical shortage. The night before, over 45 million Americans had lost power in eight northeastern states. Mr. McGowan decided to begin his daily monologue by plugging the virtues of the Texas electrical system when compared to the infrastructures of New York and California (which was currently going through a recall election in which actor Arnold Schwarzenegger was the clear frontrunner).
"See, here we have a superior electrical system," said Mr. McGowan, slowly warming up to his audience. "On the East coast, their facilities are sixty and seventy years old, and no one even knows how to fix 'em anymore. Whenever a generator blows, they have to call out these really old men to take care of it. That's why the New York electrical system sucks!"
Booth leaned over and whispered, "Watch, the lights suddenly go out!"
"Oh, and Ah-nold!" said Mr. McGowan, shaking his head and grinning slightly. "Can you imagine? 'Governor Schwarzenegger, we have a problem with immigration!'" He held up an imaginary gun. "'I VILL TAKE CARE OF IT!'"
But at that moment the laughter of the class was interrupted by the lights going out. There'd been a power spike across the entire east side of Alvin and over a thousand homes had lost power.
Booth denied it as best he could, but I could no longer doubt it: he was a prophet. Something strange and uncanny was happening in Alvin, and him and me and Brandon were about to be swept up in it.
Brandon and I became convinced that tragedy was going to strike our campus. In the swirl and haze of late summer, omens were all around us. Thirteen ravens sitting on a power line, the mysterious imprint of a child's hand on the window of a car, the continual recurrence of the number 42. One Sunday the Houston Chronicle's daily Bible verse was Isaiah 13:13, in which God warns that judgment is about to fall on the land.
On the thirteenth day of school the three of us took a walk around campus during our last class, and we saw some strange things. Total strangers who looked just like people we knew ("Doppelgangers," I explained to Brandon. "Omens of death"). Two ambulances flashing their sirens in the exact same place. (We fled when we heard a third one coming).
The whole day had a weird, uncanny quality about it. Booth and I spent most of the evening on the phone, speculating about what it all could mean. But then at about a quarter to nine, Brandon called and explained everything. The parents of a good friend of ours had just been caught up in a high-speed police chase. A man had rammed their car, and the three of them had been life-flighted to a hospital.
"Do you need me to spell it out for you, Boze?" said Brandon darkly. "We know two of the three people in that accident. Just like we saw three ambulances, but only heard the third one."
"We saw it," I said quietly, my eyes brimming with sudden awareness. "We saw the whole thing."
"Yes," said Brandon. "And this is only the beginning. Whoever is behind this is trying to warn us of something. Something big that's about to happen. Someone is going to die, unless we can stop it."
The whole world had become a secret code begging to be deciphered by us. At first it was an exhilarating feeling, being privy to secrets that were hidden from the rest of our classmates and teachers. Mr. McGowan, the only person who seemed willing to listen, encouraged us to stay alert and pay attention to the numbers and patterns all around us.
He urged me to keep journaling our encounters, but he also advised caution. "Your senses are keen and you're making connections; you just may not be correct about them. That's the strength of a novel: it's fun."
And it was, at first. But the longer it went on, the lonelier I felt. I was getting trapped in the maze of my own connections, and I wanted out, but there was no way back. Sometimes when I went into the cafeteria at lunch I would see four people I knew in succession, and the order in which I saw them would show me, with uncanny precision, how my relationships would unfold going into the next semester: which of my friends would suddenly betray me, which one would make an unexpected return to my life. And I was never wrong, and it was scary, in a way, because I felt sure I could see the future but I didn't have anyone else except Brandon and Booth who believed me, and increasingly I felt isolated even from them.
And sometimes I wondered if I really was crazy, like that woman in the old song "who wrote poems to Jimmy Carter but forgot to feed her kids." Though, as the first trimester of school wore on, a lot of strange things were happening and people were beginning to notice. Booth and our friend *Adriana had the same dream on the same night. I heard the exact words Brandon was thinking, as though he had said them aloud, as I lay on the floor half-asleep. Mr. McGowan's wife saw an angel in their house.
In November I reconnected with *Blazes O'Reilly, a friend who had recently left Alvin to attend an advanced school for mathematics in north Texas. Blazes had been in love with Booth for a long time. (Those were his two major temptations, he had once told me: homosexuality and witchcraft). Before we'd been on the phone for more than a minute I asked if anything strange had happened to him lately.
"Funny you should ask," he said. He told me that since the middle of August demons had tried to possess him on ten different occasions. He would start cursing and throw his promise ring across the room. "It's like Satan and the angels are fighting a war over my body," he explained matter-of-factly.
"And what do you think it all means?" I asked.
"Well, I was going to say, you're going to think I'm crazy, but after the story you just told me, I'd be very surprised. I think we're heading into a major spiritual battle, possibly the final battle, and both sides are gathering their key forces for a major offensive."
Blazes O'Reilly seemed to think I had a major role to play in the final end-times battle. That was insane, crazy. I told no one what he had said to me on the phone that night, because my reputation had already suffered enough.
A few weeks later, on a cool, sunny Saturday, Adriana came and sat down next to me at a UIL competition in San Antonio. She was a thin, quiet girl with short black hair and blue, sprightly eyes, and every time she watched the trailer for The Return of the King she wept, because it reminded her "of the great battle that is coming for us all."
"What would you say if I told you that Jesus is going to return in our lifetime," she asked me, "and that I will be one of his closest followers?"
I was too polite to tell Adriana what I really thought, which is that it sounded like Satan was preparing her heart to receive the Antichrist.
But apparently Adriana had similar feelings. Feeling encouraged by our conversation, she wrote me a letter that weekend. In it she revealed the horrible truth about her life. In dreams and visions God had shown her that she was soon going to meet the Antichrist. She would fall hopelessly in love with him, and the fall of men would begin.
"In a battle," she wrote, "my love will be wounded and killed, though not by my hand, and he rises again. In the last battle, I am able to get past his defenses and, in the most horrifying moment of my life, kill the darkest love in the universe. And though I realize that I have saved my life and my fellow men, I know that my life will never be normal. I will never again feel the all-powerful passion of that love or the security of that touch. Though I know it was worth it, I can't help but hate the loneliness that will accompany me for the rest of my life.
"Can I deny this fate and give it to someone else? And if I do, will there be someone to answer my call? Am I the only one who can achieve this end? I need to talk to someone, but no one but you believes me."
To be concluded tomorrow in Part 2.
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Why I am Not the Antichrist
Posted in Abuse, Antichrist, Charismatics, Christianity, Church Issues, Cults, End of the World, End Times, Evil, Faith, Fundamentalism, Mark of the Beast, Mind Control, Religion, Spiritual Abuse, The Bible	by Boze Herrington
In the two years since I left abusive fundamentalism I've been called some really interesting things – "son of the devil," "deceitful teacher," "enemy of all righteousness" etc.
And I took it in stride because I figure that's the price you have to pay for speaking the truth.
But! Never until today has someone openly warned me that if I continue down my current path, I'll be encouraging folks to get the mark of the Beast during the last days.
And I found this person's reasoning fascinating and instructive. The reason he pegged me as a future worshiper of the Antichrist is because I believe in love, compassion, and helping the poor.
That's not a cheeky re-contextualization. "This new world leader walks in love and cares for the poor and has made a peace treaty with Israel," he imagines me saying. "Take the mark!"
The Antichrist, he adds, "will probably be a humanitarian type and people will love him."
So I wanted to get this out on the table because this is exactly the kind of thing I've spent the last two years trying to warn people about.
If your eschatology teaches you that love, peace, and caring for the poor and needy are preparing the world for Satan, your eschatology is wrong.
If your eschatology leads you to cheer when there are wars and natural disasters, your eschatology is wrong.
If your eschatology inspires you to pray for violence and destruction rather than an end to armed conflicts, your eschatology is wrong.
And one more thing – to the extent that the Bible talks about a figure called "the Antichrist" appearing in the last days, it always, always refers to a deception that emerges within the Christian community. Not in Europe or liberal America or in some out-of-the-way place.
What is his deception? Simply this: that we can create a new and better world by taking up arms and cleansing the earth of unbelievers – meaning anyone who doesn't embrace his twisted faith.
"The time will come when anyone who kills you," said Jesus, "will think that he is doing God service" (John 16:2). The greatest threat, the greatest danger, the greatest deception in our world today, is not humanitarians wickedly pursuing an agenda of peace, love, and social justice, but zealous believers willing to commit bloodshed in the name of righteousness.
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Driver Shot Man During Road Rage Incident in Tracy, Witnesses Say
Posted 9:15 PM, September 25, 2019, by Kristi Gross and FOX40 Web Desk
TRACY -- Witnesses told investigators Wednesday they watched as a road rage incident in Tracy turned into a shooting that left a man wounded.
"They were both acting crazy," Kevin Nolen told FOX40.
Nolen says he was driving with his kids when they noticed a black and a silver car driving recklessly near Tracy Boulevard and Howard Road.
Just after 4 p.m., the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office says callers reported a road rage incident between two drivers in the area of South Tracy Boulevard and Howard Road.
A driver in a silver car reportedly shot at a man driving a black car.
"The black car was wrecked and had bullet holes all across the passenger side," Nolen said.
They also didn't notice the driver inside.
"We didn't know if they were dead on the ground or took off and ran," Nolen said.
The victim was able to run away from the shooter, according to the sheriff's office. Officers later discovered his car had hit a fence.
San Joaquin County deputies told FOX40 the driver was shot in the knee and continued driving.
"He crashed his vehicle down the road into a fence, and he began running down the street," Andrea Lopez, a San Joaquin County Sheriff's office spokeswoman, told FOX40.
Investigators believe the gunman's car headed north on Tracy Boulevard before rolling into a ditch. The California Highway Patrol was unable to find the suspect in the area.
Lopez says deputies are investigating the incident as a possible road rage incident.
This serves as a reminder for all drivers say deputies.
"We recommend that anyone who's driving, and they see someone upset with their driving that they not engage with them. You never know what they have in their vehicle if they have a weapon inside their car," Lopez said
The sheriff's office says the victim, who is in his 20s or 30s, was hospitalized with injuries that were not life-threatening.
Nolen says he knows it could have been worse.
"Luckily he's not dead because he could very easily be dead," Nolen said.
If you have any information about the shooting, call 209-468-4400.
Road Rage Incident in Tracy
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Man intentionally rams Prius, killing 3 teens and injuring 3 others in Southern California
Police: Wanted driver barricaded in car in Rancho Cordova
Police release 911 calls from shootout with men who stole UPS truck
Northern California police kill man who rammed patrol car
Surveillance video released after Stockton man says correctional officers beat him
Deputies: Man dies after being shot in South Sacramento drive-thru
Stockton police: Bicyclist killed after 2 vehicles hit him near San Joaquin River Bridge
Deputies say Lodi McDonald's employees helped save woman from abuse
Suspect gets stuck in the mud trying to steal construction workers' truck


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Digitalisation will not save the environment. People will!
Can digitalisation help solve environmental issues? A startup founder, a university professor, an entrepreneur, an activist and a wilderness guide have come together to answer this question.
A rainy Wednesday evening in Berlin turned out to be an inspiring and informative event on 'Digitalisation and Environmental Impact', which was hosted by Leetchi.
We come into contact with digitalisation every single day. It changes the way we work, communicate, gain information, collect data and process it. It helps grow our economies by increasing the production efficiency. Naturally, there are a few questions that come into mind: 'Are there ways in which digitalisation can help make a positive impact on the environment?' and 'Can it help fix some of the damages done to our ecosystem and prevent the environment from further destruction?'.
Provided we change our behavior, the technology on its own cannot save us. Bastian Barucker, the founder of a wilderness school, decided to spend 1.5 years in the forest learning how to become self-sufficient. His experience has made him realise how disconnected people are from the nature, as well as how materialistic and consumption-focused they have become. The world revolves around making profit at all cost, even if it means compromising on personal values and polluting the environment. Bastian Barucker's message is clear, people need to to reconnect with the nature and change the way they live their lives, by becoming smarter consumers.
Dr. Tilman Santarius, a professor at TU Berlin, sees data protection as another important element influencing consumer's choices. People leave personal information and online behaviour traces while browsing the net. This data is carefully collected, analysed and then used by companies to target consumers more accurately with online advertising, influencing their purchase decisions. People often end up buying products and services that in fact are not really needed.
To put a stop to this behaviour manipulation, consumers must demand that enterprises build devices, platforms and services that protect their personal data. This will not only help with security and privacy concerns, but also help consumers regain power over their real needs and buying decisions. The primary responsibility of protesting people lies in the hands of the state and law makers, who are in charge of creating a legal framework for companies to act on.
Is digitalisation a threat or an opportunity for the environment?
We know that today, the way we use digitalisation often causes harm, as we use rare and non-renewable resources to produce hardware, we create technotrash and need an ever increasing amount of energy to run our digital world. However, the discussion panelists disagreed on taking sides in commenting on this statement, instead they emphasised that people have the power to guide the digitalisation in the right direction, and they should exert it!
If we can make unsustainable practices more sustainable, digitalisation will be a zero sum game, according to Dr. Tillman. This can be done, for example, by using sharing economy services such as car sharing, and well as phones and car e-readers that have been produced under strict ethical and environmental standards. But if we use digitalisation for social innovation or to change people's behavior, i.e. bring them from cars to public transportation, this can an even better impact on the environment.
With the examples of the crowdfunding platforms, such as: Leetchi, Mealsavor, Ecosia, openPetition and others, aiming at enabling people to make a positive change, we see how powerful technology can be.
Mai Goth Olsesen, the founder of Mealsavor, would like to see more GreenTech solutions in the water and energy sector. For instance, tackling the personal usage of these resources could incentivise people to reduce their consumption.
On the other hand, Dr. Tilman Santarius would like to see a mobile application in the transport industry that would combine all the sharing economy and public transport services in a city into one place, so that users can book intermodal trips in one click. A platform, that would also take data security seriously.
Although we don't have all the solutions available at had now, we are certainly the ones in the driver's seat to shape the future of digitalisation and its imprint on the environment.
If you want to make a change and raise money for a "green" project, start your crowdfunding campaign on Leetchi!


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Effect of lithium treatment on the GH-clonidine test in affective disorders
F. Brambilla, M. Catalano, A. Lucca, E. Smeraldi
The effects of short-term lithium (Li) administration on α2-adrenoceptor sensitivity was studied in 10 healthy volunteers and in 15 patients with normothymic, phasic depressive disorders. The GH-clonidine test was used to examine α2-adrenoceptor sensitivity, administered before and after Li treatment (600 mg/day for 7 days in controls and for 15 days in patients). Before treatment, the GH response to clonidine in the patients was blunted, and afterwards it tended to increase in the patients and it was significantly decreased in the controls. The difference between the response in the two groups was significant and was correlated both with the diagnosis and the pretreatment GH response to the stimulus. The opposing pattern of the response in patients and controls to Li administration suggests that the drug exerts a modulatory effect on α2-adrenoceptor sensitivity, with up or down regulation inversely correlated with pretreatment status.
European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology
α-adrenoceptor regulation
GH response
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Brambilla, F., Catalano, M., Lucca, A., & Smeraldi, E. (1988). Effect of lithium treatment on the GH-clonidine test in affective disorders. European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 35(6), 601-605. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00637595
Effect of lithium treatment on the GH-clonidine test in affective disorders. / Brambilla, F.; Catalano, M.; Lucca, A.; Smeraldi, E.
In: European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, Vol. 35, No. 6, 11.1988, p. 601-605.
Brambilla, F, Catalano, M, Lucca, A & Smeraldi, E 1988, 'Effect of lithium treatment on the GH-clonidine test in affective disorders', European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, vol. 35, no. 6, pp. 601-605. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00637595
Brambilla F, Catalano M, Lucca A, Smeraldi E. Effect of lithium treatment on the GH-clonidine test in affective disorders. European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. 1988 Nov;35(6):601-605. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00637595
Brambilla, F. ; Catalano, M. ; Lucca, A. ; Smeraldi, E. / Effect of lithium treatment on the GH-clonidine test in affective disorders. In: European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. 1988 ; Vol. 35, No. 6. pp. 601-605.
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import java.util.List;

public class CompositeVirtualObject {
    //
    /**
     * Composite VirtualObject의 식별자.
     * format : cvo-(cvo제어식별자)-(제어서비스)
     * ex) cvo-airconditioner02001-control
     */
    private String id;

    /**
     * Composite VirtualObject의 이름
     * format : free
     * ex) airconditioner02001 device CVO
     */
    private String name;

    /**
     * Composite VirtualObject가 제어 가능한 VirtualObject의 ID List
     * format : vo의 ID list
     * ex) "vo-airconditioner02-001-power-control", "vo-airconditioner02-001-temp-control"
     */
    private List<String> voIdList;

    /**
     * Composite VirtualObject의 서비스 위치
     * format : free
     * ex) ITBT_606_001
     */
    private String location;

    /**
     * Composite VirtualObject의 생성 시간
     * format : yyyymmddhhmm
     * ex) 201608250930
     */
    private String createTime;

    /**
     * Composite VirtualObject의 수정 시간
     * format : yyyymmddhhmm
     * ex) 201608250930
     */
    private String modifiedTime;

    /**
     * Composite VirtualObject의 설명
     * format : free
     * ex) airconditioner device cvo
     */
    private String description;

    public CompositeVirtualObject() {
    }

    public CompositeVirtualObject(String id, String name, List<String> voIdList, String location, String createTime, String modifiedTime, String description) {
        this.id = id;
        this.name = name;
        this.voIdList = voIdList;
        this.location = location;
        this.createTime = createTime;
        this.modifiedTime = modifiedTime;
        this.description = description;
    }

    public String getId() {
        return id;
    }

    public void setId(String id) {
        this.id = id;
    }

    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }

    public void setName(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }

    public List<String> getVoIdList() {
        return voIdList;
    }

    public void setVoIdList(List<String> voIdList) {
        this.voIdList = voIdList;
    }

    public String getLocation() {
        return location;
    }

    public void setLocation(String location) {
        this.location = location;
    }

    public String getCreateTime() {
        return createTime;
    }

    public void setCreateTime(String createTime) {
        this.createTime = createTime;
    }

    public String getModifiedTime() {
        return modifiedTime;
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        this.modifiedTime = modifiedTime;
    }

    public String getDescription() {
        return description;
    }

    public void setDescription(String description) {
        this.description = description;
    }

    @Override
    public String toString() {
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                "id='" + id + '\'' +
                ", name='" + name + '\'' +
                ", voIdList=" + voIdList +
                ", location='" + location + '\'' +
                ", createTime='" + createTime + '\'' +
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Q: moving changes from a html table to a database I have written a table in html and made its rows contenteditable if user hits the edit button.
this table's data are coming from an mysql database. I want my user to be able to change the content editable fields and after hitting the save button changes send to mysql table again.
so firstly, i want to know how to save content editable changes in a string variable so i can be able to POST them to database. followings are my related codes:
<?php
 $servername = "localhost";
 $username   = "hevak_neshat";
 $password   = "shir moz peste";
 $dbname     = "hevak_android_api";
 // Create connection
 $conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password, $dbname);
 // Check connection
 if ($conn->connect_error) {
     die("Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error);
 }
 $sql    = "SELECT * FROM beacons";
 $result = $conn->query($sql);
 if ($result->num_rows > 0) {
     echo "

                Major number
                Minor number
                Client
                Location
                Link to ad
                Attachment
                Edit

";
     echo "
";

     while ($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
         echo "
" . $row["major"] . "	" . $row["minor"] . "	" . $row["client"] . "	" . $row["geolocation"] . "	" . $row["linktoadd"] . "	" . $row["attacment"] . "	";
         echo "<button class=\"editbtn\">Edit</button>";
         echo "<button class=\"savebtn\">Save</button>	";
         echo "	";
         echo "
";
     }
     echo "

";
 } else {
     echo "no results";
 }
 ?>

And my Javascript:
$(document).on("click", ".editbtn", function (event) {
    event.preventDefault();
    alert("click on items to edit");
    var currentTD = $(this).parents('tr').find('td');
    if ($(this).html() == 'Edit') {
        $.each(currentTD, function () {
            $(this).prop('contenteditable', true)
        });
    } else {
        $.each(currentTD, function () {
            $(this).prop('contenteditable', false)
        });
    }
});

Update:
in my code i used content editable. but if anyone has any idea of moving user changes in a table to a database please tell me, even if it is a whole other way. just a table with ability to edit content and moving the content to db.

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Huntsville, Gravenhurst, Bracebridge are more than places to put a low riding lawn chair into a freshwater lake.
Bracebridge, a charming cottage-country town is situated in the heart of Muskoka. It is known as Canada's Waterfall Capital, and boasts more than 20 waterfalls in the area. Built on the fur trading, forestry, farming and hydro-electric industries, prosperous Bracebridge became a Town in 1889.
Come to the annual Festival of the Falls, usually the first weekend in May and tour spectacular waterfalls, enjoy the Lumberjack Championships, or amuse the children with great activities. Visit the nearby fun-filled fairyland of Santa's Village. On Saturdays from June to October you can purchase farm fresh produce at the Farmer's Market. Cruise on Lake Muskoka, or boat, golf, fish, hike, skate, snowmobile, and ski, in this wonderful region. Tour the renovated Henry Bird woolen mill and marvel at the concrete octagonal-shaped Woodchester Villa, built in 1882. You can appreciate local artists and craftspeople at The Chapel Gallery on the same property.
Bracebridge accommodations offer historic inns, hotels, motels, lodges and bed and breakfasts.
This Bracebridge hotel is minutes from Santa's Village & Sportsland theme park. It features a gym and a sauna while rooms include free Wi-Fi. Each room is equipped with a flat-screen cable TV. They are also furnished with a refrigerator and coffee facilities. Guests can make free local telephone calls from all rooms. The hotel offers a daily continental breakfast and free coffee.
Located close to Highway 11, this Bracebridge motel offers a daily continental breakfast, a seasonal outdoor pool and free Wi-Fi. A flat-screen TV and a work desk are provided in each room. The simply styled rooms also include a microwave, fridge and coffee-making facilities. Bracebridge Travelodge is within 5 minutes' drive of Cottage Winery and Muskoka Bowling.
Our Muskoka cottages, camping and water features our beach front - 1500 ft of sandy beaches bathed in sun from the sky above High Falls Bay. We have chalet rentals - 1 to 5 bedrooms, camping & RV sites - Beachfront & wilderness and a beachfront waterpark. We have wedding & event hosting.
The Bracebridge Inn Hotel provides you with clean and affordable accommodation in the Heart of Downtown Bracebridge, with access not only to the events and activities occurring year round in the Town Centre but also to the natural splendor of the Muskoka region, whether it be winter, spring, summer or fall.
Our Bracebridge hotel is located right on the banks of the Muskoka River. Nearby activities abound including the famous Lady Muskoka that docks at the hotel. Amenities include premium bedding, free WiFi, indoor heated pool, business center, exercise room and sauna.
This Bracebridge motel offers rooms furnished with a TV, VCR, and cable. A microwave and fridge are also included. Free wireless internet and local calls are available to all guests. A picnic area with a gas barbecue, as well as a playground is available. An outdoor heated pool is also available.
Our Muskoka cottage rentals include air conditioning, flat screen TVs, Satellite and DVD Players, Jacuzzi tubs in all rejuvenated units, fireplaces or wood stoves in all winterized units, kitchenettes in all one bed units and full kitchens in all multi bed units.
Located off Highway 11, this Bracebridge hotel features rooms with free Wi-Fi and a flat-screen TV and offers a daily continental breakfast. A fridge, microwave and coffee maker are provided in all rooms. Each room features simple décor and includes an alarm clock and hairdryer. Guests are welcome to use the barbecue facilities in the on-site picnic area.
Our Bracebridge inn offer free WiFi throughout. Each room includes a fridge, a microwave and a coffee machine, a desk and flat-screen cable TV. Drive-up access. En suite bathrooms have a hairdryer and free toiletries. 24-hour front desk and non-smoking rooms. Parking is free.
Cozy three-storey chalet with fireplace, nestled on a wooded hill on beautiful Lake Muskoka in Bracebridge. Spectacular views and sunsets. Great swimming, relaxing, fishing, boating, boat cruises nearby. Perfect for a quiet getaway or artists' retreat. Warm gracious hospitality.
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Our Sun Valley Multisport Tour assembles in Boise, ID for an evening of dinner and orientation. On Day 2, after a car shuttle to the community of Fairfield, we will warm up our legs on the flattened plains before making the gentle climb, primarily on a bike path, up to the resort town of Ketchum at the base of Sun Valley ski area. We'll spend three nights at the Tyrolean Lodge, with its inviting outdoor pool and hot tub. Day 3 we can enjoy the beauty of the surrounding mountains with a loop hike to Pioneer Cabin. This is a local's favorite hike, and we'll easily loose the crowds of the town as we climb 2500 feet over 3.6 miles to a cabin maintained by the US Forest Service. The trail combines fields of wildflowers with incredible mountain views as it crests a ridge on its way back to the trail head. Upon our return there will be plenty of time to explore the culture of Sun Valley.
Day 4 will start with a van shuttle to the other worldly land of Craters of the Moon National Monument. You will feel like you have been transported in a sci-fi film as you explore craters, buttes, cinder cones, caves and lava flows. We will take a series of shorter hikes to explore the incredible variety in this area.
We return to our bicycles on Day 5 for a spectacular climb along the Wood River to the Galena Summit (8,701 feet), and then a descent through the headwaters of the Salmon River to beautiful Redfish Lake, nestled at the base of the rugged Sawtooths. We'll spend the night at the historic Redfish Lake Lodge, whose sandy beach and temperate, astonishingly clear water demands a plunge and swim after the day's ride.
A trip to the Salmon River Valley would not be complete without a raft trip on its exciting waters. For Day 6 you can choose between a gentle float and a heart pounding Class III High Adventure trip. Either choice is sure to instill a sense of awe for this wild river. Day 7 it's back on the bikes to ride to Banner Summit and on into the rugged wilderness setting of Payette Canyon along the wild Middle Fork of the Payette River. The miles will quickly fade behind you on this mostly downhill ride. We'll spend a final night in Garden Valley and then continue along the Payette on Day 8 to the Boise Greenbelt that follows the Boise River into the heart of Boise where our adventure concludes.


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We go into the mountains deeper and deeper seeking for iwana, then we have unexpected meetings with wild animals, that we could not see in human dwelling areas. Sometimes it is an animal that we can hardly see in our ordinary life. Obviously it is an impressive moment, but on the other hand encounter with some animals is sometimes very dangerous. It is necessary to take prudent action, but as long as we keep a sufficiently safe distance, I think those encounters are very valuable and wonderful experiences.
At night, when we are driving a car on the mountain road approaching to the place we go into mountains, we often see wild rabbits, Japanese raccoons by the road, and if lucky, we can see flying squirrel in the light of car headlights. I once saw a fling squirrel somersaulted in front of the car and flew away. It was only one experience that I saw a fling squirrel. It was very impressive.
We rarely see wild boars or foxes in the same locations. Wild boars are very dangerous if we are walking and meet them in a short distance. They sometimes rush to us. One day in the evening driving a car I found a couple of baby wild boars by the road, so I dropped speed to see them. Then may be mother wild boar suddenly rushed between us and her babies and was running by the car. She finally jumped on the bank of the cut and run into the forest. She was protecting her babies. Surprising thing was her jump. She jumped about 1.5m or more. I never imagined that heavy looking animal could jump that high.
Very few times I met foxes. It was in a daytime. She was running across the road and disappeared into the grass field. I love foxes. They are very beautiful animals. We can see foxes quite easily in Hokkaido but in Honshu(Main Island) it is very difficult to see foxes, and it was only one time that I see a wild fox in Honshu.
When we are climbing the mountain trail approaching to Genryu, we often find squirrels up on the trees. Often it is when we are having a rest and looking around scenery. May be we could find falcons or hawks such time. I like those raptores. They are very stylish and cool birds.
While we are doing fishing in Genryu or Keiryu, we see weasels or Japanese martens fairly infrequently by the river. One day, I was fishing alone in Keiryu, I met a marten. He appeared just 2 or 3m in front of me from the bush by the stream. He jumped to several rocks on the stream and dived in the stream and swam to the opposite shore of the stream. It was a very pleasing scene for me.
Japanese serow is the animal we often see in the mountains. They are protected animal by law and the population has been increasing. Adult serows are quite big and they look like bears when we see them from their back. Several times, I was frightened to see them in the mountains misunderstanding that they were bears. Basically they are gentle animal and if we stay still, they come very close to us. There are also Japanese deers, but I think we see more serows in Keiryu or Gneryu. Japanese deer's cry is very plaintive. We get sad feeling hearing their cries especially at early evening in the setting sun.
Japanese monkeys are always living in a group. We occasionally bump into monkeys driving a car on the mountain road or walking on the trails or even wading in the stream. Then look around them carefully, there must be more and more monkeys around them in the bush or on the trees. We have to be careful not to mess with them. They might attack us in a group. Someone told that if you throw stones, monkeys will throw stones back to you in under throw. I had one experience to meet one big group of monkeys when I was fishing in the stream alone. Firstly I saw 2 or 3 monkeys on the river-bank, but I had some bad feeling and looked around carefully I found may be 30 or 40 monkeys looking at me from the trees and banks of the stream. I immediately quitted fishing and waded upstream in the middle of the stream trying not see their eyes. They did not do anything to me but it was very scary experience.
Along the way, to talk about dangerous animals or insects, Japanese people first say about one snake called "Mamushi". Mamushi is a small snake but they have very strong poison that we could end up with death. If you are ever bitten by a Mamushi, you have to get injection of serum as soon as possible. But Mamushi is generally gentle snkae. They never attack you, if you do not scare them. Also they say if you wear 3mm thick neoprene spats, Mamushi's fangs do not penetrate it.
Next one is hornet. We sometimes see them or find their giant nest in the mountains. If you meet a hornet in the mountains or streams, just stay still lowering your body until he goes away. Dangerous thing is approaching their nest. You may get their attack and bitten. It can be fatal if you are bitten by many hornets, or if you have allergies, you may get anaphylaxis-shock. They say if you approach to their nest, firstly 2 or 3 patrol hornets come over and fly around you. If they make sound like "Kachi kachi kachi kachi.", it is the last notice. After that attack hornets come to attack you in a group. When you meet those patrol hornets, you should leave there slowly back to the way you came.
Now, the biggest animal you could meet in the mountains of Japan is a bear. There are 2 types of bears in Japan. In Hokkaido, there are brown bears. They are big bears and people say they are quite aggressive and dangerous. In our fishing field of Honshu(Main Island) there are black bears who is smaller than brown bears. Black bears are considered to gentle bears, but still they are the strongest animal in Honshu and we sometimes hear the incidents that some people were attacked by bears. Often incidents happen in the mountain village in the fall that mountain harvest is not good. We also have to take very much care if we see a mother bear with children. In spring, we rarely have incidents of bears when we are picking sansai(mountain plants), because it is the season that bears also look for foods in a same area. But again, as long as we keep right distance black bears are not so dangerous.
I have met bears for 3 or 4 times in the mountains, but I did not feel the danger. One time, I was walking down the forest road with 2 friends to find out the good point to go down to the stream, then we found one black bear walking toward to us. He was not looking us and did not notice us. Finally he came about 30 or 40m distance to us, so I talked to him with big voice "Hey we are here!". Then he seemed to be a bit surprised, but climbed the hills and disappeared into the forest. We talked "He was very easygoing.", but it was very touching scene for me.
Those are some wild animals that I met in the mountains. There are more wild animals in the mountains of Japan, from cute animals to dangerous animals. I think I could meet those animals because I have been doing Genryu fishing. Those were very valuable experience.
Genryu and mountains are the fields of wild life. When we go into the mountains, I would like to have the feeling that we bother them to their house, and I want to pay utmost respect to those wild animals.


Torquay United player-manager Kevin Nicholson has left the National League club after almost two years in charge.
He is the first boss in England's top five divisions to depart from his position this season.
The 36-year-old left-back replaced Paul Cox in September 2015 and leaves the Devon club bottom of the fifth tier, with just one point from four games.
The Gulls avoided relegation by three points in both seasons with Nicholson in charge.
The future of Torquay assistant Robbie Herrera is not known, with the club yet to announce who will lead the side at Guiseley on Saturday.


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Found Footage Friday: Creep (2015)
(Beware of spoilers!)
In the past, more than one reader here on the blog has questioned my unswerving love for the found footage format.
When asked, my answer, is always the same: I believe that the found footage format is incredibly versatile, and that it affords the filmmaker -- especially the indie filmmaker -- ample opportunity to explore and innovate across many genres. Because of the experiential aspect of found footage, the filmmaker can also make films that feel simultaneously urgent and intimate.
We've already had a found-footage kaiju movie (Cloverfield [2008]), a superhero movie (Chronicle [2012] and time travel movie (Project Almanac [2015]).
In the horror genre alone, we've seen many sub-genres revived in and adapted to the found footage format as well.
We've had the evil kids found-footage film (Home Movie [2008]), the environmental horror film (The Bay [2012]), and even the space horror film (Apollo 11 [2011] and Europa Report [2012]).
All the old monsters -- from vampires (Affliction [2014]) to werewolves (Wer [2014]) to Frankenstein's Monster (Frankenstein Theory [2013]) -- have been re-interpreted through the lens and parameters of found footage too.
Now, Patrick Brice's and Mark Duplass's Creep (2015) arrives and provides the found footage horror film its latest shot in the arm. This is a wickedly funny, and deeply disturbing genre film about the (apparently) blurry line between friendship and, well, stalking.
Creep's first half hour, in particular, is hysterically funny, in large part due to Mark Duplass's incredible, unblinking performance as the over-sharing, boundary-jumping, infinitely needy Josef. Then, the film's last hour escalates from real humor to queasy discomfort to outright horror, to, finally, weird human tragedy.
In this process of narrative transformation, Creep offers audiences one of the most human, intimate and thoughtful found footage movies yet produced, and gives the format one of its greatest -- and most unexpected -- boogeymen.
"I have a weird sense of humor."
An amateur videographer, Aaron (Patrick Brice) answers a Craigslist ad for a day's worth of work.
He travels to Crestline, a nice lakeside community, to meet his client. At first, Aaron finds nobody home at the resort house, only an axe positioned menacingly in the front yard.
Soon, however, Aaron is startled by the appearance of Josef (Mark Duplass) an overly-enthusiastic, prematurely intimate man in tight exercise pants who outlines the details of the job for him.
Basically, Josef is dying of cancer. He has only weeks to live, but his wife, Angela, is pregnant with their unborn child…whom Josef has named "Buddy."
Inspired by the film My Life (1993) starring Michael Keaton, Josef wants Aaron to film a day in his life, so his son will know him. They are making a tape for Buddy.
Aaron agrees, and follows Josef to his bathroom, where he strips naked and proceeds to take a "tubby" (a bath), demonstrating for the camera how he would bathe his baby.
Later, Josef shows Aaron a creepy wolf mask in his closet, and says that it is "Peach Fuzz," a gift from his father. Josef then performs the Peach Fuzz dance, hoping to demonstrate that the monster is harmless.
At the end of a long day of filming, Aaron can't find his car keys, and quickly becomes convinced that Josef has taken them, so that he can't leave, that he can't go home.
With night falling, Aaron drugs Josef with Benedryl and searches for his keys.
When the unconscious Josef's phone rings, however, Aaron answers it and talks to Angela. It turns out she is not his wife, but his sister. And that everything Josef has told Aaron is a lie. "My brother has problems," Angela tells Aaron.
Now Aaron must escape the house, and escape Josef's influence on his life.
"Embrace your inner wolf."
Creep is absolutely riveting from the film's opening scenes because the filmmakers knowingly, sadistically, and quite humorously push audience buttons about anti-social or inappropriate behaviors.
Josef has no sense of personal privacy or modesty, and he keeps imposing his friendship on Aaron. At first, he pushes himself on Aaron with an inappropriate hug, immediately after meeting him. But before long, he is naked in front of his new friend, revealing his secret shame over a pancake lunch, and telling weird, weird stories about animal porn and his wife, Angela.
We've all met a cat like this one. Someone who assumes trust, friendship, and acceptance just a bit too fast; just a bit too fully. This kind of person never seems to recognize personal barriers, or comfort levels. Josef is that guy, blissfully blowing past invisible social barriers and decorum.
Mark Duplass is incredibly convincing here as a man who appears to have no sense of awareness that he may be coming off as strange, or even a little peculiar. But the point is that, in the first act, Josef is inappropriate and weird, but not grievously threatening. We are alarmed by and amused by his actions, but not fearful.
Yes, Josef overshares. Yes, his exercise pants are too tight. Yes, the whole tubby experience is odd and immodest to say the least. But at the same time that Josef is weird and off-putting, he is desperate and needy.
He is dying, we believe, and wants to connect with Buddy, his unborn son. He also wants to connect with Aaron, a new friend. Josef's philosophy in life seems to be that since he has so little time left on this Earth, he has no time for pleasantries, or the usual route of making friends. He jumps right past introductions and assumes the right to hug, reveal secrets, and, importantly, make demands.
Given his (apparent) situation -- his cancer -- we can't entirely blame him for cutting to the chase, even though we quibble with his behavior. There's a part of us that likes him, despite his weirdness. He seems to be living life to its fullest, because he knows he will soon be dead.
But then the movie pivots.
Josef starts to grow more dangerous to Aaron, and -- after the phone call with Angela -- we start to fear him.
But that fear has a companion. There's a fascination we feel for Josef, and it's clear that Aaron feels it too. We want to see more of him. We want to know what he is doing, and why he is doing it.
He has "forced" himself -- a metaphor for emotional rape, perhaps? -- into our consciousness and he can't be easily removed.
Twice in the film, Aaron reports dreams in which he and Josef are together. In his dream, they sit side-by-side in a heart-shaped natural spring, wearing wolf masks. Then, Josef gives Aaron a "tubby," treating him as a child. But the water turns to blood.
And yes, this dream is prophetic, or at least a warning. Consider, Aaron -- a "buddy" of Josef's -- is now metaphorically the son or child of Josef. That subordinate position is expressed in Aaron's dream because he is wearing the mask of a wolf child, and he is the one given a bath. Like a parent, Josef controls Aaron's life. But the dream speaks of friendship (a duo together in a heart) as well as menace (water turned bloody).
It's not difficult to understand that Josef, for all his weirdness, is incredibly charismatic and that, somehow, Aaron has come to care for him, and what happens to him.
Indeed, there's no way to interpret or read the film's climactic scene except to understand that Aaron is drawn to Josef despite all his reservations about him. Josef notes this himself, and says that Aaron is the best person who ever lived, and that he is his "favorite" of all his marks. Why? Because Aaron always believes that Josef is good.
Importantly, there are opportunities in the film for Aaron to break away completely from Josef, but he doesn't pursue them as aggressively as he should. In the end, he seems -- in some weird way -- to acquiesce to his fate; to the fate foretold by his dreams.
Creep is an intelligent and thoughtful film because it suggests, in its own subtle way, that Aaron may be the movie's titular creep. When he can't find his car keys, he drugs Josef. He doesn't try to negotiate; he doesn't ask that Josef help him in a search. He jumps right to the Benedryl. That's odd, isn't it?
Similarly, he makes a baffling decision, near the climax, to meet Josef at the lake, and without any real precautions in place. A video camera set to record, and a phone with 911 on speed dial are not ample defenses against a real person, and Josef must certainly be aware of this fact.
Are creeps drawn to creeps?
I suppose that's one possible interpretation of the film, and one possible reading of the complicated relationship between Josef and Aaron. Aaron certainly has ample reason to get away and distrust Josef early on, from a revelation at a restaurant that Aaron has photographed him without his knowledge, to his strange reveals about his wife, animal porn, and the Peach Fuzz mask as a sex toy.
One thing is for certain. Once Aaron and Josef get into each other's life, there's no going back to the way things were. Aaron may be a "professional" or experienced victim, and -- as we learn -- Josef is an expert liar, and a serial stalker.
So though Josef tells Aaron to embrace his inner wolf (perhaps in a way to save his life, even subconsciously…) the fact that is plain from the film is that Aaron possesses only an inner sheep. He is completely sucked in by Josef's over-the-top, privacy-invading persona. There's some part of him that wants to play his appointed role.
I've seen some reviews compare Creep to Fatal Attraction (1987), but the central relationship is different. In Fatal Attraction, Michael Douglas's character cheats on his wife (Ann Archer), and was in the relationship with Glenn Close's nut-case psycho only for sex. In Creep, by comparison, Aaron -- comfortable in the role of victim, apparently -- lets Josef encroach further and further, until it is too late. Yes, he's alarmed by Josef's stalking (and videos...) and contacts the police for help. But Josef's protests seem half-hearted and in the end, he fulfills his psychological purpose of "inner sheep" at the lake.
When Josef first meets Aaron in the film, he pays him a wad of cash for his services as a videographer. He tells his new friend that their relationship is no longer a business transaction, but rather "a journey." The amazing thing about Creep is that it posits complimentary journeys. An inner wolf finds an inner sheep, and for one death is coming.
In bad found footage films, characters run around lost in the woods screaming at each other, tripping over demons that yank them around on wires.
In good found footage films, like Creep, we get a close-up glimpse of madness, but also other human qualities. The film's final scene with Josef eulogizing Aaron is haunting, because, for the first time in 80 minutes or so, he is honest and upfront about who he is, and how he feels. He takes off the mask, and reveals himself as the most human of monsters.
Labels: 2015, cult-movie review, found footage, Found Footage Friday
Alexandre Bender 11:03 AM
Recently watched it and I really enjoyed it. Duplass gives a chilling performance in this psychological thriller and there's a few nice jump scares too!
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India tour of Australia 2020-21 – Aus vs Ind
December 5, 2020 M Mehedi Zaman 0 Comments
India allrounder Ravindra Jadeja, who had been substituted out of the first T20I against Australia against Canberra, has been ruled out of the next two T20Is in Sydney after sustaining a concussion.
"The diagnosis was confirmed based on a clinical assessment in the dressing room during the innings break by the BCCI Medical Team," the board said in a statement. "Jadeja remains under observation and will be taken for further scans if required based on the assessment on Saturday morning."
Seamer Shardul Thakur, who wasn't originally in the T20I squad, has been added to the group as Jadeja's replacement.
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Jadeja had batted with a hamstring strain, which was apparent, and then in the last over of India's innings, he top-edged a rapid Mitchell Starc delivery onto his helmet. The blow was hard enough to ricochet to backward point, where the catch was dropped.
Jadeja wasn't given a concussion test on the spot, but was subsequently replaced by Yuzvendra Chahal at the innings break amid controversy. Chahal took the key wickets of Aaron Finch and Steven Smith on his way to match-winning figures of 3 for 25.
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As for Thakur, he enters the T20I squad with encouraging form, having taken 3 for 51 in the third ODI, which India won in Canberra. He was also Chennai Super Kings' third-highest wicket-taker in IPL 2020 with 10 strikes at an economy of 8.50.
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The Witty Ways of a Wayward Woman: Farewell My Young Apprentice!
Sadly, yesterday, I had to say goodbye to my young apprentice. Early readers of this blog will recall my adventures with him and will, no doubt, also be traumatised by this sad, sad news. As you would expect, I waved goodbye, tears running down my face, as my young apprentice made his way down the driveway. As he disappeared, I was choked with emotion, knowing I would never see him again.
I know you readers will share with me my overwhelming sadness, so I've decided to share with you my last keepsake photo of dear Luke Warmwater.
The picture is fuzzy because my vision was so blurred from crying I couldn't focus properly.
Yes, so there you have it. Luke Warmwater has finally passed to the great force in the sky. He has been replaced by a more more advanced model which I am calling The Emperor. I am a tad nervous about sitting on The Emperor as he spins at 1600mph which could be a little...vigorous. However, The Emperor also holds 9kg of washing, as opposed to LukeWarmwater's paltry 7kg, which to my mind makes him a force to be reckoned with.
The Emperor. He's big. He's mean. He likes things dirty.
Blimey! Is this blog suitable family entertainment?
Probably not, Mrs B. If I actually let rip with all my ramblings it would be x-rated!