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2 Spreading Your Wings G’Wiz: Galveston Wizard
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Greetings From The Galveston Wizard,

A friend recently mentioned again to us the vast amount of hidden
talent on the island. “There is a big difference between “hidden”
and “hiding.” Much time is spent seeking the wizardly wise or
gifted to bring them to you. We also seek businesses and philan-
thopic organizations and people, looking to share information and
resources with their fellow island and visitors.
The realm (area, location) of Galveston Island is vast, changing,
growing and exciting. Take the time to enjoy the latest volume of
the Galveston Wizard Periodical.
“When will the next volume arrive?” many ask. The next volume
is presented to eager readers when the Galveston Wizard’s jour-
ney is complete, making an entire trip through the realm, having
the money, ideas, resources, photography and talent to return to
the tower. and compile for you our travels, adventures, and les-
sons, and upcoming events of interest!
Remember, progress takes time! Keep polishing the stone!
The “ayes” have it. So speak up and let your voice be heard! We
give thanks for every day, and continue to hope that you are giv-
ing of yourself to the world around you.
Now is the season for family, friends, and taking stock of yourself.
With a new year comes an opportunity for a new you. What do
you want for yourself? Think big, aim high. Endless possibilties
surround us on this enchanted island. Some we know are held in
dungeons, away from our realm of assistance, others have passed
from this realm onto others and will be greatly missed.
The new year holds much for us all, but we must desire success
for ourselves AND each other if we are to succeed at finding hap-
piness, success, and peace.

-Galveston Wizard
A Wizard Is Nothing Without His Staff
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Letters to the Wizard
I just wanted to compliment you on
what you are doing with your publica-
tion.
I no longer work in Galveston, but I
came across issue #3 laying around
my apartment. I decided to check your
website to see if you were still progress-
ing, and I was happy to see that your ef-
fort continues.
I really appreciate that tone you convey
that tries to steer our culture from some
negative aspects to those of connecting,
thinking, and getting involved.
Best of luck to you and your team.
-Tom
What a hit!! I’ve spread the word like
crazy,and everyone is loving it.Haha,I
think issue number 8 is the most in-
teresting one yet.(lol)I hope you’ve
heard good reviews about “Should
Have Remained Friends.” because,if
you wouldn’t mind having me in other
issues,I will constantly give you good
material for readers to treasure always.
-Vic
As an islander I appreciate the upbeat
freshness of your mag, you guys rock!
Keep up the great work!
-Sandie
Hey guys,
I work here in HR where you deliver
your paper. I figured you might be able
to get something on this. I am not BOI,
but have been raised around it since I
was little. Well, I drive the same way
leaving work as I do coming to work. I
have always passed by this little coffee
shop two streets back from Ball. It is
called Ya’Bon Village Coffee House.
A gentleman named Kurt will greet you.
He is a BOI by the way. He has the old
style hospitality and will carry on a con-
versation with you. He wants to keep
his place open. But, I think he needs a
little bit of publicity. I was just think-
ing maybe you can spread the word and
help him out.
-Kari Burton
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Word and Tidings
Hi all,
I ran into one of your guys handing out
copies of G’Wiz at the peak oil confer-
ence in Houston. He noticed we were
filming interviews and said to write in
about what we’re doing. We’re making
a comedic documentary called “How
to Boil a Frog” about the bigger picture
around global warming and what actual
real people can do about it that makes
a difference. We went to Houston to
interview people about peak oil, and I
don’t know what’s more shocking – how
imminent it is, or how few people have
even heard of it. We hope to have a
whole separate page up on our website
(www.howtoboilafrog.com) with peak
oil-related interviews in a couple of
weeks.
Also shocking was that we had invest-
ment bankers, geologist, oil men, jour-
nalists and economists all saying that the
demand for oil is about to outrun supply
– creating worldwide shortages – and
we’re looking at having maybe half as
much oil 25 years from now as we do
today. The mayor of Houston spoke
at lunch, saying yes, it’s real and it’s a
huge problem. T. Boone Pickens came
to say yes, it’s really happening, global
Who reads the g’wiz?
oil production has already peaked. Oil
hit $90/barrel. Houston is absolutely de-
pendent on oil and gas production. And
there wasn’t a word in the Chronicle
about it. Bizarre.
YOU!
Anyway, great paper, keep up the good
work! What’s on your mind?
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Vacation Homes
by David Stanowski
It sounds like a good idea!
You take a small town, in
an idyllic setting, with a struggling
economy, and sell off “pieces of
this paradise”, at very high prices,
for vacation homes! This will raise
the property tax base, and give the
local economy a boost; so every-
one wins.
However, there are always
some unintended consequences. In
the medical field, they call these
side effects! Bringing in a large
influx of people, who often don’t
respect the original character of the
town, can change the entire nature
of the city. There will be a larger
property tax base, but also a need
for new infrastructure, and more
demand on city services.
The economic footprint
of vacation-home owners is not
nearly as large as that of full-time
residents. Their jobs or businesses
do not become part of the local
economy, and they usually spend
less money, when at their vaca-
tion home, than people who live in
town. They pay their share of prop-
erty taxes, but their purchases of
vacation homes usually pushes up
local real estate prices.
This looks good on paper,
to full-time residents, until they get
their new property tax bill. Now it
costs them more to live in their own
house. Local incomes may rise,
but usually not as much as housing
prices, and property taxes.
Some will feel the squeeze,
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tunity to sell, and move to a lower-
cost location. Others may do the
same, because they don’t like how
the town is changing.
Realtors and developers
see this as a golden opportunity,
and often make a lot of money,
but the vacation-home business
has brought rampant speculation
to town. When the boom turns to
a bust, it will rock the fragile local
economy!
The vacation-home market
is much more speculative than the
market for primary residences sim-
ply because these are homes peo-
ple do not need, so they are the first
thing that has to go when the buyer
gets in a financial squeeze. In re-
cent years, with the lax credit stan-
dards, and abilty to buy with little
or no down payment, the specula-
tion has gotten even worse!
The article, Second-Home
Housing Glut; Real Estate Bubble
Losing Air, written back in June
2006, made the following com-
ments about the state of the vaca-
tion-home market, at that time:
“For starters, many second
homes have been sold not to seri-
ous vacationers but to speculative
investors hoping to cash on the na-
tional real-estate craze. How else
to explain why six out of 10 sec-
ond-home owners surveyed by the
Realtors group own two or more
homes in addition to their main
residences?
The danger is that if enough
of those investors decide the mar-
“Happy
Holidays
to
you
and
yours.”
ket has peaked, they could trigger
a selling frenzy throughout the sec-
ond-homes market. That, in turn,
could add to the pressures in the
main housing market.”
“After a long string of dou-
ble-digit annual price increases, a
number of second-home meccas
across the country are suddenly
suffering from plunging sales vol-
ume and burgeoning inventories of
unsold homes.”
“The price runups of the past
several years are reason enough for
concern. A report from Cleveland-
based National City, a top banking
and mortgage concern, points to
serious overvaluation in a number
of second-home hot spots in Flori-
da, California and elsewhere.”
“He rejects a notion ad-
vanced by housing bulls that shore
communities in Florida and Cali-
fornia will be protected because
of the limited supply of coastline.
Japanese real estate and land prices
went down for 15 years and Japan
is an island.”
“Investors hoping to sell
luxury condos that they bought
over the past couple of years could
be in for some special trouble.”
The article, Hot Market for
Second Homes Hits Slump, writ-
ten back in August 2006, made
the following comments about the
state of the vacation-home market,
at that time:
“The once-bustling deal
making in a wide variety of popu-
lar locations for second homes —
areas like Florida, the Jersey Shore
and Lake Tahoe, as well as the
high-price playground on the East
End of Long Island — has slowed
markedly in recent months.
As the overall housing mar-
ket weakens, the interest in buying
modest condominiums on up, ap-
pears to be falling faster. Unlike
most metropolitan areas — where
underlying demand and the normal
turnover in primary homes as a re-
sult of job moves, new households
and family changes provide a more
solid floor under prices — the sec-
ond-home market relies on a dif-
ferent set of motivations that tends
to exaggerate booms and busts.
“Second-home buying is
very discretionary,” said Edward
Leamer, an economist at the Uni-
versity of California, Los Angeles.
“There is no force of demographics
that is pushing people into buying
homes as there is in primary home
markets.”
In second-home markets
around the country, the number of
sales is shrinking even as the prop-
erties on the market increase. Pric-
Spreading Your Wings 5
es at all levels are softening, and in
a few places recently have begun
dropping.”
“In addition to the over-
building factor, rapidly rising insur-
ance premiums tied to the greater
risk of hurricane damage have hurt
home sales in many coastal areas
of Florida.”
“During the boom, prices
in regions with a heavy concen-
tration of second-home sales rose
higher and faster than elsewhere,
an analysis by Moody’s Econo-
my.com of national mortgage and
housing data showed. “These have
been the most juiced-up markets,”
said Mark Zandi, chief economist
at Economy.com.”
“Vacation homes, like other
luxury items, are frequently caught
up in booms that appear to defy
gravity. But they depend on a rela-
tively narrow slice of the popula-
tion, mostly affluent baby boomers,
leaving them vulnerable to sudden
downturns.”
“...overall interest in sec-
ond homes tends to closely follow
the ups and downs of the economic
cycle.”
“Plenty of people are will-
ing to pay more for waterfront
property, privacy and pristine vis-
tas, but no region has a monopoly
on those features.”
“When you don’t like the
pricing someplace, you can go
someplace else.”
With home prices increas-
ing much faster than in any other
city in the state of Texas, there is
no question that the recent hous-
ing boom, in Galveston, is driven
by the vacation-home market. The
Median Selling Price in 2006 had
already reached 5.32 times the
Median Household Income, which
is 77% higher than the long-term
national average, and many recent
projects far exceed that number.
Condos in the Palisade
Palms complex, that are selling for
$400,000 to $1,650,000, yield a
Price to Median Household Income
ratio of 13.11 to 43.28. It should be
clear that this project, and many
others, are not priced to be afford-
able by residents of Galveston, so
if the speculative money pulls out,
there is going to be a lot of high-
end vacant inventory on the mar-
ket!
It has only been a little over
20 years since the last vacation-
home bubble came to Galveston,
but the after effects have long been
forgotten! This is all that remains,
on East Beach, of J.R. McCon-
nell’s vacation-home bubble in the
1980’s! What will the current bub-
ble leave behind?
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p g Your Wings
g G’Wiz: Galveston Wizard

Can we do it?
Of Course we “Con”!
...”Con”vention, that is! What better way to describe a convention than
as a meeting of people with similar interests and tastes all meet-
ing together to share in their passion for whatever it is people get
excited about.
Mardi Gras patrons wear masks, beads (sometimes just beads),
beards and smiles. Lone Star Rally riders wear leather, black,
chains and of course, sunglasses. Before that- our favorite-Hal-
loween, where your only limitation is your own imagination on
what you “go as.”

In fact, your abilitiy to “Do as the romans do,” or active partici-

pation in the gatherings of the season nearly always reflect how
much you get out of it, and how much fun you have.

We were recently given the opportunity to promote an “Oni Con” Anime

convention to you readers in our previous issue. (www.oni-con.com) An-
ime is a Japanese animation style, most recogniseable to the first timer
with examples such as Pokemon, Dragonball Z, Ninja Scroll, Ghost in
the Shell, and more. Ask for Anime at the Rosenberg Library. )

Several of us worked all weekend as volunteers at the convention, with

hopes of learning more how the convention organism worked. What we
found out was that a convention is highly-complicated, ultra-organized,
multi-million-variabled work!

Obviously these things make money, because there are hundreds, no,
thousands of people here. We want to be involved with conventions...as
you should. What can you offer at a convention? There is a wide variety
of opportunities to organize and seek out your fellow man toward a com-
mon cause. If you build it, they will come. Before you “Con” though,
you must “Commit.” You must form a committee of people, decide what
you want to do, and then set about to making it a reality!

Besides integrating ourselves and yourselves into existing events, orga-

nizations, functions and happenings, what more can we create for locals
and visitors that interests you?

Expect Galveston Film Festival Jan ‘09. Disc

Golf Course Organization ‘08. Homegrown/
Mainland East End Music Concert Beach Event
‘09. Public Access Channel. Island Radio. A
Wireless Internet Island.How may we be of ser-
vice in spreading the word, seeking committed
people to help make these real?
Also check out the Halloween Funk fest walk
thru on page 12, along with Epicurean Evening
and Dicken’s on the Strand on page 24.

January 25 – February 5, 2008

More at Mardi Gras info at www.mardigrasgalveston.com
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Ron asked us as we kicked back with an iced coffee...
“Which is more important in a society, Acceptance
or Forebearance? (To be tolerant or patient...we
looked it up.) Acceptance ends in law, no longer il-
legal. Forebearance allows for moral suasion. (Verbal
criticism, back and forth flow of discussion without
force.)”
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8 Spreading Your Wings
Seizing The Transition…..
by Thomas Graves
Now I know that I said in my
last article that I would talk about my
homelessness in London, but I feel that in
order for it to make sense and flow freely I
must explain a whole mess of other things.
So let me begin……at the
beginning.
In 1998 I was a
junior at Friendswood High
School. I made friends with
an exchange student from
Brussels, Belgium. Over the
course of that year I got to
be friends with her and when
she went back, I decided
that I would go to Belgium
for a visit. Before this, I
had no intention of traveling
anywhere. So I saved over
the course of a year and after
I graduated in the year 2000 I
had already bought my plane
ticket, my passport, and had
saved approximately $1000. I landed in
Belgium in the morning, and to this day
I can’t describe the excitement I felt to
know that I was on the other side of our
planet. It was a great feeling! Everything
that I looked at felt like I was seeing for the
first time (mind the fact that I was an 18
year old, ignorant, suburban kid). Almost
instantly I was falling in love with Europe.
Over the course of my month in Belgum, I
traveled all over the country, as well as to
Luxembourg, and Holland. I discovered the
joy of fries (frites) and mayonnaise, and the
broad range of beers that the Belgians are
known for. Anyway, back to the storyline.
So a few weeks go by and I’m introduced to
numerous friends of hers, but one stood out.
David was a 20
something Belgian guy
of Moroccan decent.
Immediately we hit it off.
He was interested in where
I was from, and what I was
about, and likewise for
me. Before I left Belgium
David promised me that he
would come to Texas for a
visit, and that he did. He
came to Texas in the winter
of 2001. After his week
and a half visit, I didn’t see
David again for 5 years.
We kept in touch mainly
through email and the
occasional phone call.
I graduated from Texas A&M
University-Commerce in May of 2006. The
whole time that I was in college I didn’t do
much traveling. Sure, I traveled around the
states and dipped into Mexico once. But I
was left feeling unfulfilled. I missed my
friends that I had made in Belgium terribly,
and I wanted to feel that feeling of being
in a new place again. So I had made up
my mind that since I was graduating and
was about to move, there was a perfect
opportunity to do whatever I wanted in
G’Wiz: Galveston Wizard
between this transition period. First, I
decided that I had to get out of this country
for a while. Six months sounded good to
me. Just long enough to get my fill, and
just short enough to return if things weren’t
working out. First I bought the plane ticket
to avoid backing out of my decision. Then
I tried to find a job. I must have emailed
eighty three businesses. Eighty three of
those including schools, bars, libraries,
and couriers. No one responded. One
day I got an email from some mysterious
agency called Protocol Teachers (look it up).
They told me that I could teach in London
(employed by them) as a substitute teacher.
I filled out many forms and submitted a
lot of information (including references,
transcripts, blah, blah, blah). Then I learned
that each one of us is entitled to a six month
work visa abroad. Did you know that? You
just have to either be a student, or a recent
graduate. Well I got it, booked my hostel,
and set the day for my interview with the
teaching agency.
I had worked at a restaurant between
leaving for London and graduation. After
buying a new iPod and Apple laptop, I had
around $2000……to last me until I started
work with the agency. That was my first
mistake.
I hate to do it, but that’s it until next
month. Next month the story continues and
I’ll walk you through the ups and downs..
and yes, my ultimate down, homelessness
in London.
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Calendar of Events 2008

SPECIAL EVENTS
1/13/08 A Lesson Before Dying. Scene from the play and dialogue. Presented
by Ensemble Theatre of Houston. Strand Theatre, 2317 Ships Mechanics Row,
Galveston. 2 pm

1/22/08 A Lesson Before Dying. Film. Rosenberg Library, Randall Rm.,

2310 Sealy, Galveston. 6 pm

1/29/08 A Lesson Before Dying. Three Professors Panel Discussion: Not

Your Typical English Class! Presented by Michael Berberich, Stephen
Curley, and John Gorman. Rosenberg Library, Wortham Auditorium, 2310
Sealy, Galveston. 7 pm

2/7/08 Family Dynamics of Black Male Incarceration. Panel discussion

with Yoni Benson, Linda Ferguson, Leah Fanuiel, Robert Caraway, Charlie
Baldwin, and James Dennis. Facilitated by Jason Glenn. Central Cultural Cen-
ter Library, 2627 Ave. M, Galveston. Sponsorship and refreshments provided by
the UTMB Office of Diversity and International Affairs. 6 – 8 pm

3/11/08 A Lesson Before Dying: An interactive videoconference with

Ernest Gaines. Facilitated by John Gorman. Galveston College, Auditorium
FA-207, 4015 Ave. Q, Galveston. Sponsorship and refreshments provided by
Galveston College. 7 pm
BOOK DISCUSSIONS
1/02/08 Mosquito Cafe, 628 14th, Galveston. 7 pm
1/08/08 St. Patrick Catholic Church, 1010 35th St., Galveston. 7 pm
1/10/08 Starbucks, 2808 61st St., Galveston, 5:30 pm
1/12/08 Moody Memorial First United Methodist Church, 2803 53rd St. Galveston. 10 am
1/19/08 LaMarque Public Library, 1011 Bayou Rd., LaMarque. 9 am
1/23/08 Moore Memorial Public Library. 1701 Ninth Ave. North, Texas City. 7 pm
1/24/08 Mod Coffee House, 2126 Postoffice St., Galveston. 7 pm
1/30/08 Helen Hall Library, 100 West Walker, League City. 2pm
2/05/08 St. Patrick Catholic Church, 1010 35th St., Galveston. 7 pm
2/11/08 Westminster Presbyterian, 5127 Ave. U, Galveston. 7 pm
2/12/08 Moody Memorial First United Methodist Church, 2803 53rd St. Galveston. Noon
2/13/08 Rosenberg Library– McCullough Rm., 2310 Sealy, Galveston. Noon.
2/13/08 Midsummer Books, 2309 Ships Mechanics Row, Galveston. 5:30 pm
2/19/08 Friendswood Public Library, 416 South Friendswood Dr., Friendswood. 7 pm
2/27/08 Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 502 Church St., Galveston. 7 pm
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Undoing Exclusionism
The problem is, we’re all dealing in different currencies. No plans for
peace leaves room for blueprints for Secret Wars. Although scabs
heal over time. There is no room on an island for burning bridges. We
should all look for ways to encourage and support one another.
Set yourself/business on the right path and get things out of your
inbox. make an honest effort to return calls and answer your Emails.
Yes’ and No’s will speed up and clarify business opportunities for all
parties involved. Don’t Let your word be like a house of Cards. Keep
your promises and reap the benefits that trust brings. (that’s all pro’s
and no cons - what a deal!)
Everyone on this island is a piece to the greater puzzle that makes a
beautiful place to live. there’s nothing more joyful than when new
pieces to the puzzle fit together. (Expecially when no one else can
make the right fit happen.) It takes every piece to finish our puzzle and
working together as a community, nieghbors, family and friends is the
only way we can ever put all the pieces right.
Introduce yourself to a stranger (common sense rules withstanding)
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The Whole World Needs Some Change

by Linda Sivy

As I wiped my eyes this morning, end up in a heap. Changing

I told myself, “Today, I’ll change”. your outsides must coexist with
Change is not a problem for me. I tweaking the insides, too.
am one of those ones that believe
people change every second. That Little Lucy needs an explanation
everything happens for ridiculous without getting sucked into
reasons and stuff like that. Right ? the vortex of vanity by her own
mother. Why do I want to change?
I have made a decision to change Because. Change is good. Change
my face. For years, I have battled is healthy. Change makes a
with acne and Rosacea . Sun difference. Change comes from
damage, marriage/divorce scaring, within. Change makes the world go
genetic cigarette smoking, alcohol round. Change is defined. And this
consumption and raising kids have time honey, change is affordable.
not helped my over all, either. I
developed elevens in between my I am going to share with our
eyes for goodness sakes. Bottom wonderful readers my before and
line is I have not liked my face for after shots of my transformation. I
sometime. Candy Lockhart with welcome you to ask me anything
West Isle Wellness (6019 Avenue about the process. You can contact
S ½ & 911 22nd Street - (409) 996- Why do you want to change mama healthy face is becoming a reality. me at www.galvestonwizard.com.
3166) is the angel of my mercy. ? And I keep going to “why do you I invite you to ask me to show you
Candy is going to assist me with I like the way you look. want to change mama ?” some change. I’ll be happy to
liking my face. And I am so ready, Do you think it’s going to hurt ? reach in my pocket and show you
after years and years of Pro this How much does it cost ? Change ? a handful of the type of change
and cycline that. Will she do me, too ? I carry. It’s normally the shiny
Anyone with child knows what I kind. My kids love it like there is
Change. I have had two chemical peels, must do. Those without, you may no tomorrow.
thus far, and I can really see a like this too.
After informing my loved ones
of my face transformation, I
difference. I have been without
face cake (make-up) for several Like looking in your bathroom change
Function: verb
received what I thought to be mind days without anyone asking what mirror and seeing ripples of Inflected Form(s): changed; chang·ing
boggling feedback. I’ve heard: happened. Liberation is kicking cirrus clouds and knowing that if to give a different position, course, or
in. My dream of having a glowing you don’t move soon, you could direction to 2. to replace with another <let’s
change the subject>

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12 Spreading Your Wings G’Wiz: Galveston Wizard

We Got Some Funk ~Linda Sivy

Saturday, Oct. 27th, East Beach.

M st
ajic 102.1 and Strategic
Enterprises brought us
the 1 Annual Halloween Funk
Fest at East Beach. Gates
opened at 1:00. Comedian and
host J. Anthony Brown took
the stage promptly at 3:00,
and stayed there for over an
hour; which, in itself, doesn’t
constitute funk. Evidently, SOS Funks it up - Seriously
there was some funkin problem
with the equipment. While a
passel of roadies swung from
the rigging, Mr. Brown did
what he does; he entertained. Strategic Enterprises’ Stage on East Beach
In fact, he did his job so
start, it felt to many they is in no position to complain
were getting something free. about punctuality. Had it
Coop Deville opened with not been for the marvelous
their national debut, and it work of Krystal Williams
seems those kids truly have with Strategic Enterprises, He’s a nurse...no kidding
something; a new generation’s thing, often walking among
perspective on old school the crowd with his wireless
funk. Recognizing the mic. He had us hurting with
talent stacked behind them, laughter. Given another
however, they didn’t hold ten or fifteen minutes, he
the stage for long. The SOS would’ve stolen the show.
Band, Ohio Players, Morris So, it didn’t go off without a
Day and The Time, then the hitch. But thanks to a group of
headliner – Cameo. It was a consummate professionals, a
J. Anthony Brown, in repose full ticket, to say the least, and Krystal Williams, Strategic Ent.
lineup of seasoned performers,
well that among hundreds of a musical dream come true for and a most affable crowd, The
funk hungry freaks in costume, Wizard is gonna call the 1st
funky families and all manner Annual Halloween Funk Fest
of friendly funkers, nobody a huge success. Let us all hope
was grumbling about the $30- we see it again next year.
$45 ticket price. Simply put,
J. Anthony Brown was worth
the money.
When the music did

Allen Flores, E. Beach Organizer

Ohio Players lay it down
this mother funker.
Okay, the segues
weren’t as smooth as they
could’ve been, but it can’t
be easy to achieve your best
sound in all that funkin sand,
waves rolling in behind
The SOS Band on stage you. Besides, The Wizard
arranging our VIP passes at the
last minute while overseeing
this monumental undertaking
(with aplomb – nice job,
Krystal) The Wiz wouldn’t
have even been backstage.
With the free BBQ.
At each lull in the funk,
amid “check, check, check”
from the stage, J. Anthony
Brown stepped in and did his Photos courtesy of M. Phillips
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Kites! Can you get it up?
Kite Flights by Kathy Nixie
This new column will give you some
information, especially if you have someone
in your life telling you to GO FLY A KITE.
I plan to educate you, as well as
entertain you, so be prepared to
listen to some interesting facts
as well as a tall tale from time to
time.
A few words about my-
self, I really am a grownup. I
have been building and flying
kites as an adult for over 20
years. I have taught people of all
ages to build and fly kites. I live
in Galveston, where the wind and
weather give me year round kite
flying time.
There is an unseen wondrous ele-
ment, the wind, involved in kite flying that
appeals to me. I find relaxation at the end of
a kite string and I think you can too. I hope
that you can find or build a successful kite
and enjoy the mystery of the wind. Come let
me show you how.
Kites have been around for a while. We
really do not know how long because they were
around before there was paper to write down
the story on. We really do not know where they
started for the same reason. The historians are
reasonably certain that kites were developed in
what today is China. Kites were made of the
same materials then as they are today, bamboo
and silk. This tradition has been carried on for
at least 2000 years. The oldest written record
G’Wiz: Galveston Wizard
of a kite was written on a bamboo stick. These
sticks, flattened quarter pieces of a large bam-
boo were strung together like a fan and could
tell many stories on their 2-3 foot
lengths. The crafting of kites used
the lightweight but strong and flex-
ible bamboo and light fabric, silk.
Beautiful and artistic kites are still
made like this in China. The sea-
going traders spread the kite flying
tradition all over the world.
I have listened to stories from
people I meet about their success-
ful and unsuccessful kite flying
experiences. I usually ask new
people I meet how long it has
been since they have flown a kite.
Usually it has been way too long. I want you
to think about your experiences. They color
your outlook about trying this again. I try to let
people who are out with a kite that won’t fly
know that it is not a personal reflection on you.
Usually a kite that won’t fly is not suited to the
wind that day, or is not put together correctly. I
know I would have been a much better kite fly-
er as a kid if I had had some instruction. This
is where the sharing comes in. I have the best kites online.
time when I can share the fun, which is one If you are a teacher or parent go to
of the reasons why I am writing this. I hope my web site www.teacherkitekit.com and get
you learn to fly a kite and then show someone a kit for your classroom. Till I see you on
else how to do it too. the kite field, keep your chin up, fly a kite.
A few more hints: Visit your local I can teach classes in building and flying
library and ask them about kites. Go to for all ages birthday parties, etc. for those
www.aka.kite.org and explore the world of interested.
Legacy of Kane
One evening, our man-beast
chihuahau friend Kane decided he
wanted to go for a walk.
Unfortunately he left no note or
made no mention of his departure
to his roommates or anyone else.
Where was he? !
A heavy rainstorm that night had
us all worried as to his where-
abouts.
We set out looking for him, comb-
ing the neighborhood. Nobody had
seen him, but we got to meet many
of our neighbor friends, who also
pledged their eyes to the cause.
Finally we set out on a small-scale
advertising campaign and 2 days
later we were reunitied with our
once-lost friend, who was found 5
blocks from home. Good to have
you back, friend!
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16 Spreading Your Wings G’Wiz: Galveston Wizard

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Galveston.com & Company wishes you a Happy Holidays. Below are a few of the special events happening on the island this holiday season.

New Year’s Eve at The Historic Balinese Room

Monday, December 31, 2007
The historic Balinese Room nightclub, located 600 hundred feet
into the Gulf on the legendary former gambling pier, is hosting
the best New Year’s celebration you can have!
The evening starts with a long walk down the pier over the crash-
ing waves, until you reach the romantic, tropical Balinese Show-
room, home to all the movie stars of the 1940’s and 50’s and the
south’s best casino in that era. You will be greeted with an appetizer buffet. Dinner service begins at 8:00 p.m. and
ends at 10:00 p.m.,
The live band is the fabulous Fondue Monks, playing their unique style of danceable funky rock.
Price is $125 per couple or $65 per person and includes New Eve’s party favors, noise makers, a free bottle of
champagne per couple, the appetizer table, a fabulous dinner of ham with a orange apricot cognac glaze and all the
trimmings, dessert and the famous ambiance of the incredible Balinese Room. Cash bar.
Reservations can be made at Galveston.com or by calling the Galveston.com reservation service at (888) 939-8680.

New Year’s Eve at Moody Gardens featuring Eddie Money

Monday, December 31, 2007. 7:30pm - 1am

Moody Gardens’ renowned New Year’s Eve black tie celebration

returns Dec. 31st. We’ve got your ticket to paradise and invite you to
ring in the New Year in grand style at the hottest party of the season!

“Midnight in the Gardens - Party in Paradise” will feature non-stop

live entertainment headlined by legendary rock icon Eddie Money,
known for such hits as “Shakin”, “Two Tickets to Paradise”, “Take
Me Home Tonight”, and more. The fabulous show band Eclipse, a
crowd favorite in years past, also will take the stage with their electric
sound and high energy show.

New Year’s Eve at Cafe Madrid

Monday, December 31, 2007. Dinner at 7pm & 9pm
Cafe Madrid presents a special New Year’s Eve Celebration, Monday, December 31st. The evening will
feature two scrumptious dinner sittings, one at 7pm; the second at 9pm .

Guests are invited to ring in the New Year with live jazz by Sparky’s Jazz Express, party favors, a midnight
balloon drop, and champagne. Reservations are required, and can be made by phone at (409)765-TAPA.

Moody Gardens Festival of Lights Jerry Jeff Walker at The Grand 1894 Opera House
November 17, 2007 - January 5, 2008 Saturday January 5, 2008. 8pm
Festive sights and sounds will fill Moody The traditions
Gardens at the sixth annual Festival of continue as Jerry
Lights November 17 through January 5. Jeff Walker returns
Drawing more than 60,000 people each to kick off the New
year, Moody Gardens Festival of Lights Year. Share an eve-
has become a holiday favorite for fami- ning of toe-tappin’
lies.
songs with “Mister
Bojangles!” This
Transforming its lush garden setting into a winter menagerie of lights,
year’s show is all
Moody Gardens will be adorned with more than a million twinkling
lights and dozens of light displays.
Jerry Jeff - all eve-
ning long!

For a complete list, visit our Calendar of Events at www.galveston.com/calendarofevents.

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The Art of Happines (Part 1)

by Rigo
you are into. Thus your day of different shapes and sizes. they might. You have a choice,
Every morning seems begins. Like a mosaic, you place these you may take a totally different
totally normal. You wake up, Scenario 2: You wake colored tiles onto life’s canvas, piece and incorporate it in a
drag yourself to the shower, up, stand up, open up your one by one, a red one here, a totally new way than originally
get dressed, get in your car, blinds or drapes and let some blue one there, maybe even intended, or you can take the
and go to work. sun in. You then walk out to throw an indigo piece in there original piece and reshape it to
Does the whole thing the back or front yard and bask every now and again. You fit just right. The point is to fit
seem a little, dreary? You in the warmth and serenity have your big pieces which all your pieces into the grand
might go as far as to say that of it all for a minute. Take a symbolize your big things in scheme of things. You may
you might be a little depressed. shower, get out and walk to life such as going to Jamaica think you do that all ready, but
If you find yourself your room to find all your work for a week, buying a new car, if you think about it, an act as
ever feeling like this, chances stuff already laid out, shirts paying and raising rent, taking simple as waking up late is a
are you’re not. Chances are and pants pressed, you walk care of your family, doing missing piece in your creation,
you aren’t appreciating your by the mirror and you catch well in school, getting that you are constantly throughout
day, as you should. Ok, ill use a glimpse of you admiring promotion, selling that house, your day trying to make up for
comparison to get my point yourself. Then you walk to the etc. the missing pieces by taking an
across. kitchen have eggs, waffles with You also have your energy drink or having a cup of
Scenario 1: You wake pure maple syrup, bagels with smaller pieces which coffee, but the tiles are set, or
up; lay there for a minute, or without cream cheese, or symbolize the smaller things missing, so there will always
already annoyed. You roll out your favorite cereal with sliced in life like, eating right, be that little gap.
of bed, take a shower, skip fruit, get into your piney fresh enjoying the sunset while Tomorrow morning,
breakfast, and proceed to smelling car, adjust your rear you make your way down the when you first wake up, think
trample anyone and anything view. And take in your scene. seawall, going to your favorite to yourself what you want
that gets in the way of you You may not think restaurant and ordering your your day to be. You’ve got a
making it out the door. You that the little things you do all time favorite meal, and so blank canvas. Look at all of the
open your car door; move stuff everyday are as important on. Now as you set your pieces pieces to choose from to start
off of the seats, floors, and as the big things, but picture into place, you might come this new day’s mosaic of life.
dash so you and your carpool this, life is like art. Imagine across some problems along Snooze button piece? Up and
can sit. Then drive mercilessly your everyday thoughts, the way. at them piece? Choose your
while tying your tie, putting on decisions, and actions as Your pieces might not fit pieces wisely. Find mosaic
makeup, or whatever it is that millions of little colored tiles the way you originally thought peace.

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www.galvestonwizard.com
Should you donate your body?
Every one of us grows
older. Eventually, for one
reason or another, we be-
come are no longer for this
world.
What happens with our con-
science, spirit, or mind is
debatable, with individual’s
answer to that question
usually as unique as the
individual themselves.
As we go through life,
through it’s many stages,
our amazing bodies go with
us. When our time here is
up, we leave behind our
posessions, our loved one’s,
our legacy, and our bodies.
Several Medical Body Do-
nation Programs help make
Spreading Your Wings 21
provisions for future doctors
and pave the way for more
understanding of the body
with the donation of one’s
body to science after death.
Medical body donations
help to protect, preserve,
and prevent and understand
how the body works, and
the effects of such donations
leave a lasting impact on
the medical community for
many generations to come.
When considering medical
body donation as an alterna-
tive option to funeral and cre-
mation costs, call the Medi-
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at Carnes Funeral Home in
Texas City. 409-986-9900
Questions or Concerns?
Resources for further information on
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www.sciencecare.com
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4fc2-90e7-fab5c0984e42.aspx
Ray Schaper, the last dairy
farmer in Galveston, en-
joys a cold beverage and
good conversation at the
Wizzard bar on 24th and
Church.
Here he is with his first
Galveston Wizard intro-
duction!
Wizardly wise Galvesto-
nians are all around you.
Take the time to learn
from them!
Do you know a Galveston
Wizard? Tell us who they
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22 Spreading Your Wings G’Wiz: Galveston Wizard

Keep after your Goals!

Working off of your favorite bars’ jukebox,
DJ Precious.
he will get your people in the groove. Call
409.526.9667 for booking information.
Watch him put the crowd in stitches.

Don’t Get Distracted.

Dont fade away from that goal.
Do what you need to be doing.
You can’t stop doing it.
Keep going, keep going, keep going.
Put up a poster of your ideas.
What are you working for?
www.galvestonwizard.com
Restaurant Spotlights
Breakfast
Galveston has a new coffee shop.
Saxbys located 500 Seawall in
the new Piazza Blanca Shopping
Center, a new and upcoming area
on the Seawall. Saxbys features a
great cup of coffee also with all the
Lunch
Step into the Lunchbox on 21st and
Strand and you will be greeted by two of
the nicest ladies in the restraunt business,
Laura and Dayatra.
If the food was just so-so (and
it’s not) I would still go there for the good
coversation and to listen to the swing music
playing on the stereo.
Their deli type menu consists of
reasonably priced healthy breakfast foods
and sandwiches along with
items available for a quick snack. With
Dinner With so many new eateries popping
up around the Island, we can’t afford to
forget the one of Galveston’s mainstays in
traditional Italian food, DiBella’s.
On the corner of 31st and Avenue
P, DiBella’s has been serving up old-fash-
ioned meat lasagna, eggplant parmigiana,
spaghetti with meatballs and other fine
homemade Italian dishes since 1989. Being
hidden away in a quiet residential neighbor-
hood, DiBella’s manages to make you feel
like you are the guest of honor in an Italian
grandmother’s kitchen, surrounded by walls
To book an event or for more information(409) 621-JACK (5225)
c k ’s
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Pub and Gameroom Open Every Day
Under New Ownership
Completely Remodeled
2310 Market Street
Galveston, Texas
Tuesday-Sunday
4pm - 2am
by Robert & Nick
mochas, teas, ciders, lattes, espresso
and much more. Baked goods are
plentiful and good. The cookies are
my favorite! The shop itself is very
conducive to relaxing, studying and
just hanging out and talking with
friends. Great outside seating with
music playing in a shaded area.
The bike group I ride with,
such a nice array of items, The Lunch-
box is sure to be big hit with the locals
and tourists as well.
On our recent visit we sampled
the chicken salad sandwich (a house spe-
cialty) and and a rather tasty ruben.
The chicken salad comes from a
old family recipe which is really good and
and its served on a moist, tender and dark
honey wheat bread. If you get a chance try
some of Dad’s Pimento Cheese, its some
of the best I ever had.
The Ruben was equally as tastey.
Its offers a new twist on an old favorite.
Served on honey wheat bread, a gener-
covered with old photos from Kirwin High
School, now O’Connell.
The recipes for their Sicilian red
sauce and homemade Italian sausage are
closely guarded secrets, which many
Galvestonians would love to know. On
our most recent visit, though, we opted to
try something new and partake in the very
reasonably priced veal piccata. Our slices
of veal were lightly breaded and covered
in a light sauce of white wine, lemon juice,
olive oil, mushrooms, capers and artichoke
hearts.
The tanginess of the lemon juice
and capers helped to accent and bring out
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E-Street Riders, always makes
Saxbys one of our stopping points
because of the great coffee, nice
staff, and outside seating.
Saxbys has a lot of
Pluses such as Free WiFi, Clean
Restrooms, Great beach view, and
much more. Try Saxbys, you’ll
like it.
ous portion of corned beef is topped
with homemade shredded cabbage and
nice leafy garden greens. Its a wonderful
sandwhich that leaves you satisfied but not
weighed down and wanting an afternoon
nap.
Last but not least, lets not forget
the sweets, fresh lemonades, sodas, and
iced coffees. With a variety of flavors, you
can have your drink made any way you
like it.
With a variety of foods on the
menu, and such pleasant conversation, I
know we’re going to go back and try to
sample everything.
the delicate flavor of the veal perfectly.
Not one to let a good thing go to waste, we
ordered a side of flavorful toasted garlic
bread to help mop up any sauce that was
left on our plates.
With so many new families mov-
ing to the Island, its important not just to
try our all of the new eateries, but also help
them discover the small family-run restau-
rants that we have been enjoying for years.
DiBella’s is open for lunch and
dinner Tuesday through Friday, and for
dinner only on Saturday and Sunday. As
a family run establishment, they take only
cash and cheques.
in the back...
24 Spreading Your Wings G’Wiz: Galveston Wizard

Epicurean Evening
If you missed it...we don’t know to pay attention to the full page
how else to put it...you missed ad on our last issue’s back cover
out. promoting it) in all likelihood
Whether you knew more people enjoyed themselves as much as
on one side of the table or the we did.
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All of Galveston’s top food ven- stration of the wide assortment of
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liquor vendors, products-for-ven- vendors, and people that make the
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this ever-growing “who’s who” in such a quality one.
all things Epicurean. We look forward to seeing you all
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camcorders, issues, stickers and aware of the events, opportunities,
pens (page 2), we made our way and organizations making such
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offerings: bands, choirs, performers, reenactors, and
more available to patrons.
Though vendor snack munching (so THAT’s a
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sipping, along with cool vendor offerings had us
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Isle Style by Scott Field

Second Empire on Broadway The (Second) Empire Strikes Back On 23rd Street!
Welcome to the new Here’s another second-
‘take another look’ looker. This style usu-
column, featuring un- ally had towers and was
sung, and maybe taken- all about the roof. The
for-granted, buildings two examples given
that we pass by every here appear to have lost
day here on the Island. their towers over time,
Everyone knows The plus the cast iron crest-
Bishop’s Palace, the ing (short fence-like
Sealy Mansion, and decoration) that danced
Ashton Villa, but, it’s around the top edge of
time to look at the aver- the mansard roof.
age buildings that make No doubt that KFC
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The Second Empire Style in America is epitomized by the man- our time…same roof type, sans dormer windows! The Adamms
sard roof…..the concave roof on the top floor punctuated with Family and the Munsters lived in Second Empire houses. By the
dormer windows. It was considered very modern during the 1960’s, many of these throughout America had been torn down
1870’s. We have only a sprinking of these left standing, and because this style was out of favor, suffered from lack of mainte-
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The best f*cking rock band you’ve never f*cking heard of

by Anthony
In a town virtually bereft
of any musical talent, steel
drum playing pseudo reggae They’re your neighbors.
bands aside, we are blessed They want you.
to have a true gem. Not
a diamond in the rough, ...to want them.
mind you, but a raw, tight,
melodic, in-your-face five
piece powerhouse. Three
local boys and two Kentucky
transplants who have done
this burg proud.
MELOVINE
I defy someone to show me
anyone, collectively, who has
their sh*t balled up as tight And if you like the eclectic...
as this band
that’s right
,they’re the poop, but they
...You’ll love them.
don’t stink. with the boys from the band pleasantly surprised at their Justin sharing guitar detail,
MELOVINE hit the scene recently and they’re not lack of ego. That being said, Matt lead warbling, Mike
nearly four years ago. your typical up and comers. once greetings and intros had providing the bottom and
Former skaters who turned Nor are they the pretentious been achieved, we cracked Dexas {from Texas, get it?}
their energy from the pukes most “next big thing” some Shiners and got doling out drum duties…
pavement to their passion bands tend all too often to down to what they’re up to The full interview with
for creating a sound far be. They are, though, laid presently, where they’ve been melovine verbatum to
removed from the bubblegum back, cool and driven, in and what’s next for the guy’s drop in our next issue
Rap/Rock ever droning from direct contrast to their youth. from the MELOVINE. with new pics and ad-
every teenyboppers Ipod. Look, I’ve got undies older The specs, for the record, ditional new material and
I got a chance to sit down than these guys. So I was are as follows Jonathan and tour dates.

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Hear from Anthony on
The Way of the Island
I’m not from around here.
I’m not B.O.I., I’m actually more
B.Y.O.B. And frankly, having
been here a relatively short time
and in all fairness, I prefer it that
way.
I’m a Washington State
Transplant. I’ve been here for a
few months, and upon arriving on
the island I returned to a former
vocation, one in which I have
myriad experience. I’m a waiter,
or as it is called here, a “server”.
I enjoy serving. I like
waiting on you. I enjoy the
contact with my fellow man,
hearing your stories, sharing
laughs, recommending entrees,
treating you like your presence
is vital and important to me.
Frankly, it is, and I take much
pride in my ability to help you
enjoy your evening out, assuring
future visits from you and yours.
These are key qualities to any
sales position. Let’s face it, we
as servers are sales people. We’re
selling you food, we’re selling
you an atmosphere, and we’re
selling you a good time.
The quandary in which I
find myself is this, not all of my
sales associates feel likewise. I
can live with that. Waiters are in
a lot of cases a jaded and bitter
lot. That fact is compounded
by tenfold here in the island by
several factors. The first of which
amazed me upon my return to
the fray…$2.13 an hour. That’s
what we make to serve you.
Frustrating? You bet it is. I don’t
know how it happened. I’m told
that it’s been that way for quite
some time. I do challenge anyone
to pay their bills on that wage at
80 hours a week, let alone 40.
Next …how can I put this
delicately? Islanders, Texans or
whatever…listen! Upon going
to dine, please realize that, I or
we as servers, have other tables.
Only here it seems diners are not
cognizant of that fact. Only here
are the patrons utterly entitled
and unrealistic as far as quality
care and attention to their party.
I will, at a later date,
elaborate further on these two
tacks, but for now my chief
shock has been, hands down, the
management, or more pointedly
the lack thereof. It’s the way of
the island. Let me just get this
out in the open now. Most of the
managers I’ve worked with here
on the island couldn’t manage
a good turd, let alone a strong
staff. Allow me to qualify that
statement with this statement,
I’ve managed. Restaurants,
Retail Stores, Grocery Stores,
Etc. The prevailing mindset, the
management philosophy here is,
sadly, the less you know about
management well all the better!
So where does that leave
us, we that serve? Well, screwed,
usually. We are over-staffed,
under-stationed and grossly
under-appreciated. Jaded and
bitter are, in that state of mind,
not far from the station.
So where does that leave
you, as ‘managers?’ Well, from
all that I’ve seen constantly while
training, explaining to islanders
that dine at your restaurant on a
regular basis (called “regulars”)
where “Tommy” or “Heather”
or whomever their favorite
server is, and why he or she no
longer works at their favorite
establishment.
God only knows what
lame excuses spew from their
mouths upon being questioned
about former employee
whereabouts. I know I’ve heard
some doozies, all of them cop-
outs. (i.e.… “We can’t find good
help,” or “People don’t want to
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work.” Etc, etc, etc.)
Look, dear managers/
restaurateurs, you first of all get
what you pay for. If you have
a good server (and I’ve seen
plenty come and go), take care of
them. Pay them better than other
servers; treat them like people,
not cattle. Also, and this may be
hard to wrap your feeble minds
around, manage. Do projection,…
quarterly, monthly, yearly,
whatever. If you don’t know what
that is, please step down now.
You’re not a manager or you are
a foolish, shortsighted business
owner, period. Get into another
line of business soon.
I’ve worked as a server
in several states and in all
honesty there is nowhere near
the amount of no-calls, no-shows
that are found here, not even
remotely close. Servers stay,
typically for years, at the same
restaurants…everywhere but
here. Coincidence? Not hardly.
Provide an environment
that is positive, friendly, and
lucrative for all and you too, dear
manager, could experience the
same success seen nationwide by
others, rather than “the way of
the island.”
28 Spreading Your Wings G’Wiz: Galveston Wizard

Death’s Dance
by Krystal Miles

In “The Masque of the Prince Prospero makes himself stands

Red Death,” Poe uses symbols
to link death to the living world.
Through the use of setting, man-
made objects, and the metaphors
associated with the objects, he
creates a parallel reality to explain
that death is an inevitable “outside
antagonist, to be feared and walled
out as Prince Prospero attempts to
do, but instead it is a part of each
[and everyone of] us” (Womack).
The story takes place
during a horrific plague. The name
of the plague is derived from the
characteristics it possesses; the
victims are marked by the scarlet
stains from blood bursting from
the pores in their face, followed
by convulsions, and within half an
hour of contact, the victim dies.
The Red Death consumes half the
population of Prince Prospero’s
people. In direct response to this,
“he summoned to his presence a
thousand… friends from among
the knights and dames of his
court, and with these [friends,
he] retired to the deep seclusion
of one of his castellated abbeys”
(Poe). The prince ordered for the
hinges and bolts of the gates to be
welded together, allowing “neither
means of ingress nor egress to
the sudden impulses of despair or
frenzy from within” (Poe). “’The
abbey was amply provisioned…
the prince had provided all
the appliances of pleasure, …
buffoons, ...improvisatori, …ballet
dancers, …musicians, …Beauty,
…wine. All of these and security
were within. Without was the
‘Red Death’’” (Womack). By
doing this, he thinks he has made
it impossible for the “Red Death”
to destroy the happiness that his
wealth brings to him. However,
the case is quite the opposite. By
securing the gates to the abbey,
and his followers the prisoners of
prosperity.
“It was toward the end
of the fifth or sixth month of his
seclusion, …while the pestilence
raged most furiously abroad, that
the Prince Prospero entertained his
thousand friends at a masked ball
of the most unusual magnificence”
(Poe). He insists that the attire
be beautifully bizarre and is
not to provoke the thoughts of
disgust. “The masque was held
in an imperial suite consisting of
seven rooms” (Womack). Each
room is connected but separated
in a way that only one room is
visible at a time. Every room
is decorated with strange and
beautiful objects, while each
room has one color dominating
it. The colors progress from vivid
blue to purple, green, orange,
white, violet and finally black.
The rooms are consistent with the
stages of life. At first life is vivid
like the blue of the first room
and then gradually fades away
until there is nothing left but
darkness. Also like the rooms,
life’s stages can only be seen in
their entirety one at a time. In
the center on each wall is a tall,
narrow Gothic window displaying
panes of glass corresponding with
the color of the room. Every
room except for the last one
has matching windows. In the
black room the windowpanes are
scarlet. Poe frequently uses red
and black to symbolize blood and
death. “Blood, the very substance
of life, becomes the mark of
death as it bursts through the
pores” (Womack). Moving like
the sun through the sky, the path
through the rooms follows east to
west. On the western wall, of the
western room, a huge ebony clock
counting
down the
hours
Prince
Prospero
and his
friends
have left to
live. The
musical
chimes of
the clock
cause
everything
to stop
uneasily.
Fear and
confusion
fill the
minds
of the Illustration for “The Masque of the Red Death” by Harry Clarke, 1919.
dancers but, source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Masque_of_the_Red_Death
as soon as the Originally Published in Graham’s Magazine May 1842
chiming ends,
the laughter prince cries out and falls to his
resumes. At the sounding of death. “Summoning the wild
midnight, “’there was an uneasy courage of despair, a throng of
cessation of all things as before revelers at once threw themselves
…[as] the last echoes of the last into the black apartment …
chime …sunk into silence, there finding the grave-cerements and
were many individuals in the corpse-like mask …untenanted
crowd who had became aware of by any tangible form” (Poe).
a masked figure [that no one had Unfortunately, they realize too
detected before]’” (Womack). To late that the masked stranger is
everyone’s disgust, the previously no stranger and they all die one
unknown figure stands like the by one with no chance of escape.
corpse of a “Red Death” victim, “Prince Prospero’s masked ball
his mask bearing the scarlet mark. …[is a reminder] of the ‘dance of
Prince Prospero orders the arrest death’ portrayed in old paintings
of the masked stranger for “his as a skeleton leading a throng of
blasphemous mockery” (Poe). people to the grave, just as the
However, no one has the courage prince leads his guests to the ‘Red
to seize him and the unsightly Death’” (Womack).
being is off to room of darkness. Ultimately, the fatal
Momentarily, the prince is stunned lesson learned is that death is
with fear but, quickly it turns to unavoidable. Poe’s visions of
rage. He decides to follow the time, color, and quality of life
monster and after approaching dramatically instill this theme in
within a yard of the beast, the the minds of this story’s readers.

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Thursday, November 16th is a
day I will never forget.
Ever since they became popular in the late
90’s, I have been a huge fan of Stomp!, a per-
cussion based stage show that uses pots, pans,
trashcan lids, lighters, anything that can be
induced to make noise to well... make noise.
It’s like iif you were 5, messing around in
your mom’s kitchen, but with incredible skill.
Maybe mom wouldn’t have been so annoyed,
huh?
Anyways, on that that thursday, some of the
cast members wanted a place to hang out and
just happened to wander into my favorite cof-
feeshop, Java’s 213. They asked if they could
host an impromptu open mic night... as Shola,
one of the cast put it, to create a space for free
expression. We made some calls, grabbed
some people, and by the time the evening
rolled around, a decent crown of about 25
people had gathered and the music began. I
opened up the evening with a few songs about
things like toasters, Pi, and hallucinogenic
frogs. Matty and Justino each brought their
personal touch to the evening, and Shola, Ste-
phen, Justin, and the rest of the Stomp! cast
amazed us with their own music.
And then, after everyone had had their turn,
after the noise complaint had been filed and
the cops had been called, when we only had
15 minutes left to play, the magic happened.
Shola, justin and tambourine guy (sorry TG,
can’t remember the name) got up for one last
song.... nothing planned, just sweet jazzy
improv. I decided that i was never going to
get a chance like this in my life again, so I
went up and grabbed a drum. Sarah began to
sing along from her chair and was quickly
brought up on stage. Stephen came up and
played the most amazing handclapping
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My dream... by Marc Prusmack

I had a dream today. It was a
real peculiar dream. I was in
California, and I was started
on a journey. I don’t know
how it started, but it was like
it was real. I was floating in
the room, and I went through
the wall as if nothing were
there. It was the sickest thing
in my entire life. As I was
floating, I had no idea where
I was. I thought I was going
east, but it turned out later
on that I was in Alaska. I
met my brother there, and
I also got to see my friend
Captain’s dad. Then all of
a sudden I started to float
and fly again to another
destination.
This time it was in
Indiana, and there was a
high school football game
going on. There was this girl
there. It seemed like I was
at a food parlor on bar seats.
There was one girl on the
right side of me, and there
was another girl (a blond-
headed girl) next to her.
When she said, “Hi,” I then
said “Hi” back. Then she
reached out here hand and
when I shook her hand, it
felt like we there for a good
long ten seconds. She had
such gentleness about her. It
felt like we were connected
to each other. It was purely
amazing. So on with the
story. We were on this pillar
with a lot of youthful people.
The pillar was about fiftly
or sixtyh feet high, and we
were all on it watching the
football game from above.
Then it was time for me to
go, so the Sipirit told me to
jump off of the pillar. So I
jumped off, and before I hit
the bottom, I began to float
once again. So I flew off to
the next destination.
Next, I found myself
in Galveston, where I grew
up at. I went to Luke’s
Supermarket, but it was
no longer Luke’s. It was a
pizza joint, and there was
this old man there. I was a
little hungry, so I went up to
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and came across my old
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around it to the Seawall. So
off I went in the air, by the
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I looked to the left and there
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Dear Arrr,
I’ve been sort of seeing a man that
is in a relationship. They’ve been
in thier relationship for over 2
years and currently live together.
He and I have so much fun to-
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I don’t want to be that stepping
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Ok, either you are seeing
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Be happy with yourself and it will
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Good Luck! I know you’ll do the
right thing for you.
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All of my friends are in relationj-
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I unfortunately am the only one
“single with no ties” in our group.
I feel like I need to be looking for
someone but the more I look, the
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doing wrong?
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This is the classic case of pushing
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You know the saying...”When you’re
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apply that in the sense of taking it as
a sign that you should be focusing on
you and getting into a happy level on
your won. It’s not always bad luck
but good luck b/c something is stop-
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