Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition by Daniel Okrent: 2010

Saturday, November 6, 2010

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Saturday, October 23, 2010

Last Call

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For best friends Tia, Shamika, and Rachel; going out every night and meeting new men is an essential part of their life. The party doesn t start until they get there, and when they arrive they shut it down! Last Call, chronicles a year in the life of the three young Sista s, whom have had their fair share of high lights and some very low lights throughout the year. When Tia enters a room; her presence is immediately known. Tia has the body of a model and the attitude to match. From Tia s standpoint, the world wouldn t revolve if she wasn t in it, and if it did, it would be worthless. Tia never liked the nice guys, because they were to plain and predictable; instead she hooks up with the men who have that ever present bad boy streak to keep her interest. Shamika is the first one ready to get the party started, and the last one to leave when the party ends. That is until she meets a man that changes everything she believed in, and promptly starts chasing her happily ever after. She moves so swiftly that she forgets the old saying Everything that glitters ain t gold . Rachel believes that all men are dogs, especially her on again off again ex flame. So before a man can dog her, she uses them for all that they have. Rachel has a natural ability to make men produce money and gifts to satisfy her. A man willing to do anything to get next to her; is all she looks for in a man, which gets her caught up in some very sticky situations.

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Sunday, October 10, 2010

Last Call: A Journey Into And Out Of Alcohol Addiction

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Sunday, September 26, 2010

God's Last Call

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The purpose of God's Last Call is to increase the value of the bible. This book is to bring a revival back to the pure truths of the scriptures and to provide a strong warning to everyone so that we can prepare for the second coming of Christ. This book is inspired by God to reveal Satan's many deceptions. If Satan's goal is to take away our gift of eternal life, we must know what his deceptions are so that we don't fall for any of his traps. At first, you aren't going to believe what you read. That is, until you verify the information in this book with the scriptures. It is up to each one of us to decide, based on scripture, what is the word of God, and what Satan wants us to believe is the word of God. There's a big difference! And as you read through the chapters, you will recognize that we are truly in a war between good and evil, and we have all been blinded by Satan. Keep an open mind to what you are about to hear because most modern teachings came from the period called the dark ages. Join the great movement of God to bring the truth back to the people. Anyone and everyone that you care about must read this book! It is a loving message inspired by God. God loves us so much that he is giving the entire population of earth one last chance to repent and know the truth before his son returns. It's God's Last Call, and everything you need to know to prepare for Christ's 2nd coming is in this book!

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Monday, September 13, 2010

The Long Last Call

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IT'S THE DEGRADEST SHOW ON EARTH!

It's closing time at a backwoods strip club, somewhere in America. Business as usual, until an elegant stranger comes onto the scene: chumming the waters with a briefcase full of cash, and a dark agenda all his own.

Because he is no mere human being. He is a walking repository for all of the anger and hate that men and women feel toward each other. And every scum-soaked dollar he hands out only serves to up the voltage on the war between the sexes. The have and have-nots. The lovers and the haters.

The result is a blood-soaked, horny and horrifying monster-bash - THE DEGRADEST SHOW ON EARTH - that builds to a shocking and soul-stopping grand finale.

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I read The Scream in eighth grade, and The Bridge in high school. I adored both of those books, and they helped build my love of horror. These novels were penned by John Skipp (with an assist from Craig Spektor), the guy who pretty much invented the splatterpunk genre.

However, in the time after The Bridge was released in `91, it was years before I heard from him again. As far as I could tell, the only appearance Mr. Skip was as the editor of the two "Books of the Dead", which are the seminal compilations in the world of zombies. And oh, did I miss him.

Well, he's back. (Actually, he has been for a time, but I'm a bit, er, clueless when it comes to actually seeking things out.) This past week, I was handed a copy of The Long Last Call, in paperback from Leisure Fiction, and I dove in head first.

This particular tome actually contains two novellas - the title piece, "The Long Last Call", and "Conscience", which was released in 2004 (unbeknownst to me). I will review them both here, in that order.

In "The Long Last Call", a strip club off the beaten path in Podunk America is visited by a strange (and oily) visitor. There are the requisite characters for such a setting - the sleazeball owner, the grumpy bouncer, the old hick regulars, the guy who stops in who doesn't belong, and strippers who snort a ton of coke or are paying their way through college or are simply dumb and blessed with stunning beauty. Yes, these characters are simple, but they work, because this story isn't about making some grand social commentary (at least not at first). No, this is a slam-bang tale of horror, and we're all better for it.

The patrons of Sweet Thangs are taken for a ride when a dark (and oily) stranger strolls in with a bucketload of cash. He feeds into the characters' inherent greed and desperation, intent on proving that all people are corruptible and at their core dreadful, until a twist at the end throws everything on its head. It was quite interesting to see the interplay between all of these characters, both despicable and not. This book would work beautifully if were nothing but a social experiment, but it is much more than that, and we are all the better for it.

The writing style is one I haven't seen in a long time. It is brisk and fast-paced, leading you from one sentence to another without giving the reader a chance to breathe. The use of ellipses is brilliant. You flip through the pages one after the other, excited to see what sort of depravity Skipp will show you next. It's a small book, and simple, but it does its job well, which is all you can ask for.

Whereas "The Long Last Call" aims to shock you, "Conscience", the second of the novellas, wants to do so much more than that. It wants to make you think, to make you consider the frailty of your own soul and those of the people around you.

To say I was shocked by what I read in this second novella would be an understatement. It is the story of Charlie, a killer-for-hire working for a clandestine organization that specializes in ruining the lives of the affluent. (Think "Access Hollywood" run by Don Corlione) He is a miserable sod. He hates life, he hates people, he hates his past and his future. He kills folks without thinking twice and waxes poetic about how the whole world has gone to hell. He also reflects with passion about his first love, his dog Rex, and this is the first clue we are given that there is more going on underneath Charlie's layers of hatred than we realize.

I won't go too far into the plot of the book, because to do that would be to ruin the surprise it has in store. And oh, what a surprise it is. I was utterly floored by the revelations here. It read like a tale of Poe for a new generation. It was sweet, it was harsh, and it made me THINK, DAMMIT. Actually, if I had to think of two words to describe it, they would be "hideously beautiful", because the novella itself is a contradiction, which makes it really close to what we, as people, have always been.

Contradictions.

In fact, I'll go even further and say that this might be one of the most perfect stories I've ever read. My one and only complaint is that more info about the organization Charlie works for wasn't presented, but that could be another novel for another day (I hope it is). The writing is spot on, there are sufficiently violent and gruesome scenes, the voice is sublime and cynical, the main character changes in a way that makes sense once the hidden meaning of everything is revealed, and it has something beautiful to say. Let's just say that, by the end, my eyes were welling up. For a work of art as cruel as this is, to have that purity underneath, that sense of lost innocence that might someday be regained, is something to be greatly admired.

So yes, folks, John Skipp is indeed still one of the best horror writers out there. And with these two stories, he proves that, with age, comes wisdom and understanding. His unveiling of the human condition in these tales says that much...and more.

They're well worth the read. You'll love every minute. I know I did.

The Long Last Call
Plot - 22/25
Characters - 19/25
Writing Style - 25/25
Personal Enjoyment - 23/25

Conscience
Plot - 24/25
Characters - 25/25
Writing Style - 25/25
Personal Enjoyment - 25/25

Overall - 94/100
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Monday, August 30, 2010

Long Point: Last port of call

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It is hard to imagine when cruising the waters off Long Point, Ontario, on a beautiful summer's day, that one is travelling in an area known as the "graveyard" of the Great Lakes. This body of water has for over two centuries taken a vast toll of lives, ships and cargoes. Long Point: Last Port of Call tells the story of a number of these shipwreck disasters that occurred off this treacherous sandspit.

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Monday, August 16, 2010

Last Call of the Gods

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What if one night you are sitting at a bar and suddenly realize the person sitting next to you is Jesus Christ? After the initial shock and awe, what questions would you ask Him? What would be his views on the current affairs of the world? And what personal advice might He have for you?

In Last Call of The Gods, a man in search of meaning to life's great mysteries quits his job, sells his house and embarks on a cross-country journey of discovery. One night, sitting alone in a small bar in the remote Wyoming wilderness, Jesus suddenly appears - and no one else in the bar seems to notice! Soon they are joined by Muhammad and Moses, who are also lamenting similar woes about the current state of the world over drinks and games of pool.

The story takes a humorous turn when the father of psychology, Sigmund Freud, arrives on the scene and launches a skeptical psychoanalysis of the religious icons. As the evening progresses, an eclectic array of inspirational legends appear, including Buddha, Kahlil Gibran, Louis Armstrong, Albert Einstein, professional wrestling legend Classy Freddie Blassie and the illustrious baseball icon Babe Ruth. And it is then that the narrator realizes the true purpose for the presence of the Holy Ones, who impart great eternal wisdom and reveal a Divine Revelation, one that preaches hope, love and optimism. It is in this universal message, one that resonates with each and every human being regardless of race, creed and religious persuasion, that he finds a meaningful purpose for living.

Provocative, playful, witty and ultimately inspiring, the beautiful messages contained in this story are both timely and timeless.

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Monday, August 2, 2010

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Monday, July 19, 2010

Works: Making Light of Christ and Salvation, A Call to the Unconverted, The Last Work of a Believer, Of the Shedding Abroad of God's Love with an Essay on his Life, Ministry and Theology by Thomas W Jenkyn

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Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Ran to the store for milk, came home with workforce management.(Last Call): An article from: Customer Interaction Solutions

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This digital document is an article from Customer Interaction Solutions, published by Thomson Gale on December 1, 2005. The length of the article is 1121 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Tuesday, June 22, 2010

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You'll never watch baseball the same way again.
A timeless baseball classic and a must read for any fan worthy of the name, Nine Innings dissects a single baseball game played in June 1982 -- inning by inning, play by play. Daniel Okrent, a seasoned writer and lifelong fan, chose as his subject a Milwaukee BrewersBaltimore Orioles matchup, though it could have been any game, because, as Okrent reveals, the essence of baseball, no matter where or when it's played, has been and will always be the same.
In this particular moment of baseball history you will discover myriad aspects of the sport that are crucial to its nature but so often invisible to the fans -- the hidden language of catchers' signals, the physiology of pitching, the balance sheet of a club owner, the gait of a player stepping up to the plate. With the purity of heart and unwavering attention to detail that characterize our national pastime, Okrent goes straight to the core of the world's greatest game. You'll never watch baseball the same way again.

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I really enjoyed the writing style of the author. He did not dramatize the baseball game, but told it very matter of factly as most radio announcers and followers of the game see it. With almost 3,000 games a season, it is hard to be too dramatic about any of them. The book does a great job of reflecting the different baseball personalities, and not only their careers but also a bit of their personal lives. Almost always included was the business aspect of their careers.

My only complaint about the book is that at times I was lost in the onslaught of names. Several times throughout the book, there were so many names being used, I couldn't keep track of them all. This was frustrating, but did not cancel out the value of the book. I wish they would make another one (make it a Braves game please).
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Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition

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A brilliant, authoritative, and fascinating history of America’s most puzzling era, the years 1920 to 1933, when the U.S. Constitution was amended to restrict one of America’s favorite pastimes: drinking alcoholic beverages.

From its start, America has been awash in drink. The sailing vessel that brought John Winthrop to the shores of the New World in 1630 carried more beer than water. By the 1820s, liquor flowed so plentifully it was cheaper than tea. That Americans would ever agree to relinquish their booze was as improbable as it was astonishing.

Yet we did, and Last Call is Daniel Okrent’s dazzling explanation of why we did it, what life under Prohibition was like, and how such an unprecedented degree of government interference in the private lives of Americans changed the country forever.

Writing with both wit and historical acuity, Okrent reveals how Prohibition marked a confluence of diverse forces: the growing political power of the women’s suffrage movement, which allied itself with the antiliquor campaign; the fear of small-town, native-stock Protestants that they were losing control of their country to the immigrants of the large cities; the anti-German sentiment stoked by World War I; and a variety of other unlikely factors, ranging from the rise of the automobile to the advent of the income tax.

Through it all, Americans kept drinking, going to remarkably creative lengths to smuggle, sell, conceal, and convivially (and sometimes fatally) imbibe their favorite intoxicants. Last Call is peopled with vivid characters of an astonishing variety: Susan B. Anthony and Billy Sunday, William Jennings Bryan and bootlegger Sam Bronfman, Pierre S. du Pont and H. L. Mencken, Meyer Lansky and the incredible—if long-forgotten—federal official Mabel Walker Willebrandt, who throughout the twenties was the most powerful woman in the country. (Perhaps most surprising of all is Okrent’s account of Joseph P. Kennedy’s legendary, and long-misunderstood, role in the liquor business.)

It’s a book rich with stories from nearly all parts of the country. Okrent’s narrative runs through smoky Manhattan speakeasies, where relations between the sexes were changed forever; California vineyards busily producing “sacramental” wine; New England fishing communities that gave up fishing for the more lucrative rum-running business; and in Washington, the halls of Congress itself, where politicians who had voted for Prohibition drank openly and without apology.

Last Call is capacious, meticulous, and thrillingly told. It stands as the most complete history of Prohibition ever written and confirms Daniel Okrent’s rank as a major American writer.

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±1±: Best Buy The dawn of the 20th century gave witness to a modern American history that continues to resonate to the present day. The growing progressive political movement of the early century that supported radical national change and our country's involvement in WWI were but two of that period's commanding events. Leaders such as Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson are large figures in this era and play an important part in shaping the posture of the nation going into the 1920's. The economic boom of the "roaring twenties" and subsequent collapse of the stock market are nation altering milestones while the economic downturn that then ensues is a clarifying moment in understanding our development as the world power that we enjoy today. As these events befell the nation, an underlying movement of alcoholic Prohibition played an amazingly influential role in the demise and subsequent recovery of the country's political standing and economy. Daniel Okrent spells out, in a splendidly written account of an often forgotten period, how this somewhat transparent genesis of misguided legislation and religious fanaticism came to be and how its demise ultimately combined with FDR's New Deal to bring recovery to the nation in pre WWII America.

Attempting to uncover the roots of Prohibition is somewhat akin to the same undertaking in, say, baseball history (a topic Okrent is very fluent in)...there is no definitive starting point. Dan's narrative essentially starts in the 1840's, but is qualified by the statement "America had been awash in drink almost from the start..." as the book's first sentence. We're told that as long as there has been drink, there has been temperance. When six Baltimore drunks swear off drinking, "Washingtonian evangelists poured out a lot of sulfurous rhetoric to lure something between three hundred thousand and six hundred thousand men out of the dungeon of inebriety." Seeing an opportunity, Frances Willard (a Northwestern University educator and major proponent of temperance and women's voting rights) suggests women's suffrage as a coalescence with this renewed temperance movement and as this synthesis gains steam, history is forever changed. We learn that as the prohibition movement grows in numbers and agitation, the end game (unbelievably, a constitutional amendment) could not materialize until the government found an alternate avenue for revenue (there was at this time an excise tax on alcoholic beverages). The advent of the Federal Income Tax in 1913 (first brought to congress by William Jennings Bryan in 1893) solves this problem and temperance "pressure" groups such as the Anti-Saloon League under the forceful leadership of the all but forgotten Wayne B. Wheeler lobby congress to initiate prohibition legislation. Congressmen Richmond Hobson and (later) Andrew Volstead are seminal purveyors of the temperance act while anti-German fervor (Germans being the prime beer brewers) brought on by World War I is escalated by George Creel's "Committee of Truth", a harrowing propaganda group. The movement is ultimately born into legislation that passes both the House and Senate and goes before President Wilson for ratification, which he ultimately vetoes.

The legislation is nonetheless voted into law in 1919 following a congressional veto override vote and enacted a year later. Okrent's narrative takes off at this point as the truly sublime aspects of prohibition are the actions taken to avoid its enforcement. Story after story and character after character are introduced here as we learn of offshore denizens such as Nassau, Bahamas and St. Pierre, Canada (south of Newfoundland) that become "rum-running" stanchions, providing the needed "demon rum" to American drinkers while avoiding the vastly inadequate and undermanned federal enforcement officials. Characters such as rum runner Bill McCoy dominate Okrent's narrative while showing to what lengths the would-be drinkers and violators of the law will go to get their booze. Homemade distilling becomes sophisticated as depicted by the quote "The gin is aged about the length of time it takes to get from the bathroom where it is made to the front porch where the cocktail is in progress."

Okrent proceeds with the vast culture of Prohibition avoidance by adeptly describing the birth of the nation wide crime syndicates. Gangsters such as Al Capone necessarily occupy a large portion of the narrative while we learn that (surprisingly) Capone's flame burned out at an excessively early age (arriving on the scene at 27, gone by 29 and dead of syphilis by 40). As Prohibition proceeds into the mid to late 1920s, we learn of the continuing and assorted ways in which it's avoided. Unbelievably, the Volstead Act (an add-on to the constitutional amendment that covered enforcement) allowed for certain "exceptions", one being the use of liquor for "medicinal purposes." As can be expected, this opened a huge loop hole for bootleggers to sell their wares while maintaining some semblance of legality. Drug "stores" now sprung up in large numbers (these stores were, in most cases, glorified speakeasies) and had certified doctors at the drug counters for prescription writing. Most "patients" were being treated for an amazing outbreak of "debility" and had prescriptions such as: "take 3 oz. every hour for stimulant until stimulated." One my favorite avoidance acts is the seeming demagogue-like behavior of the elite class as they continue to enjoy their drink while extolling the virtues of temperance for the lower classes: "The fashionably rich demand their rum as an inalienable class privilege,"..."You don't want to forget prohibition is a mighty good thing for the working-classes." One of the many dichotomies of this legislation is the Federal government's lack of funding for its enforcement. Year after year we see funding budgets reduced while the government (Mabel Willebrandt, Assistant Attorney General being the most notable) is forced to obviate the growing circumvention of the law. Court cases rise and the obvious result is allowing many crimes to go unpunished...indeed, Okrent spells out many cases of "slap on the wrist" enforcement for local violators while the kingpins (a la Capone) continue their multi-billion dollar bootlegging spree.

It all had to end of course. By 1927, a powerful lobbying group called the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment (AAPA) was in full swing. Conceived in 1918, it was an association known for its class distinction and disenchantment with the 18th amendment and was led by Pierre du Pont a former chairman of General Motors. This group tore bit by bit at the hearts and minds of the drys while pushing repeal with nearly as much zeal as the ASL pushed temperance. Adding also to Prohibitions demise was the ridiculous Jones Act of 1929, an act which was born seemingly as a dying gasp of the drys while pushing enforcement of the Volstead Act beyond reasonable means. Now it suddenly became vogue to adhere to the repeal movement as socialite Pauline Sabin and her group of women elitists (the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform) led a huge lobbying effort across the country. Finally, of course, the market crash of 1929 was the death knell of this absurd experiment. With spiraling revenue from income and property taxes, many branches of the government clearly sought to stem the bleeding by ending Prohibition and all its costs while regulating alcohol and, most importantly, taxing its production and sale. And so it was on February 14th 1933 that the Senate voted to repeal the 18th amendment by adding the 21st...two days later, the House also voted for repeal and on December 5th, the required 36th state (Utah) voted to ratify the repeal amendment thus ending Prohibition. As FDR stated as he signed the bill into law, it's time for a drink!

A wonderful amalgam of important but usually untied (in literary terms anyway) historical moments, Last Call provides an amazing look at the power of single minded focus and the movement of special interest groups once momentum is attained. Dan Okrent exhumes many forgotten and vilified personalities from the late 19th and early 20th centuries and integrates them into the many seminal historical moments of this era in stark but very lucid prose. Mixing anecdote with darn good history, Okrent provides in virtually each sentence mountains of information that, I'd wager, most casual readers of history had not heretofore known and has added greatly to the written word on our roots as a nation. This is very much Pulitzer material. Cheers!

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