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Oh my, but it was odd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwNHfyZZIuo\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For one thing, it was an anime series on U.S. television when such things were still relatively rare; \u003cem>Speed Racer\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Marine Boy\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Star Blazers\u003c/em> had prepared the way, but \u003cem>Voltron\u003c/em>‘s runaway success established a beachhead subsequently overrun by\u003cem> Dragonball Z\u003c/em> and, especially, inescapably, \u003cem>Pokemon\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003cem>Voltron\u003c/em> (technically \u003cem>Voltron: Defender of the Universe\u003c/em>) seen in the U.S. originated as two different wondrously-named Japanese cartoons, \u003cem>Beast King Go-Lion\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Armored Fleet Dairugger XV\u003c/em>. Executive producer Peter Keefe bought the rights to both series, cut the violence back, and constructed new plots, dialogue, character backstories, everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For 72 episodes — some of which Keefe created out of whole cloth, having run out of old \u003cem>Go-Lion\u003c/em> episodes — Voltron was a show about a giant robot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That wasn’t why we loved it, though. Giant robots were nothing special. Giant robots were a dime a dozen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But \u003cem>this\u003c/em> robot … was made of \u003cem>lions\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lion-shaped robot spaceships, that is. Five of them. With tails and fangs and ears and paws, the whole mecha-feline schmear, for no readily discernible reason except the only one that mattered: they looked cool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And when danger threatened, the guy in the lead lion-shaped robot spaceship intoned a battle cry so gleefully cheesy it raised your risk of heart disease, thus:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Form! Feet! And! Legs!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Form! Arms! And! Torso!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>And I’ll form … The HEAD!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And that’s exactly what would proceed to happen: those lion-shaped robot spaceships retracted their legs and tails to form themselves into limbs that attached themselves to the lead lion-shaped spaceship, and Voltron the giant robot was born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A giant robot, mind you, \u003cem>whose feet and hands were the heads of robo-lions\u003c/em>. Imagine a knight in armor with a Muppet on each hand, shod in boots that Gene Simmons would reject as “too much.” That was the look. And we nerds saw it, and loved it, and love it still. (I haven’t even \u003cem>mentioned\u003c/em> his Blazing Sword. It was a sword. It blazed. It was awesome.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After those first 72 robot-lion episodes, the series ran for 52 more, which were stitched together from episodes of \u003cem>Armored Fleet Dairugger XV. \u003c/em>The lion-shaped robot spaceships were replaced with … air, land and sea vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Yeah, kids, we know you like chocolate cake. But have you ever \u003c/em>tried\u003cem> a dry fistful of carob?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We do not speak of Vehicle Voltron.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11722826\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/vlt_still_4-1-07a2217bce00bbaf6b288dc16013654d273a79c5-1180x885.jpg\" alt=\"Voltron in 'Voltron: Legendary Defender'\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11722826\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/vlt_still_4-1-07a2217bce00bbaf6b288dc16013654d273a79c5-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/vlt_still_4-1-07a2217bce00bbaf6b288dc16013654d273a79c5-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/vlt_still_4-1-07a2217bce00bbaf6b288dc16013654d273a79c5-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/vlt_still_4-1-07a2217bce00bbaf6b288dc16013654d273a79c5-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/vlt_still_4-1-07a2217bce00bbaf6b288dc16013654d273a79c5-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/vlt_still_4-1-07a2217bce00bbaf6b288dc16013654d273a79c5-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Voltron in ‘Voltron: Legendary Defender’ \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Netflix)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Robot, Rebooted\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last weekend Netflix released 13 episodes of an all-new (ALL-LION!!) Voltron series, \u003cem>Voltron: Legendary Defender\u003c/em>. It’s not the first attempt to reboot the ’80s series (noble attempts were made in 1998 and 2011), and there have been there have been several comics and toys over the years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this new series is different. Here’s why.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>1. The Writers Get It\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new series’ showrunners, and its head writer, have worked on several animated series, most importantly two little shows called \u003cem>Avatar: The Last Airbender\u003c/em> and \u003cem>The Legend of Korra. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both of those shows combined strong characterization with clever, often funny dialogue. But they also built deeply thought, and deeply felt, worlds teeming with history and mythology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That attention to both macro- and micro- detail is evident from the first frame of Voltron: Legendary Defender. This time around, character personalities are larger, more distinct, and — interestingly — tied directly to the action: the robot-shaped spaceships, we are informed, serve as reflections of their pilots. As small tweak, perhaps, but one that opens up all sorts of possibilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you think the all-male makeup of the five Voltron pilots seems like a hoary holdover from the 1980s, just know that showrunners think so too. I’ll leave it at that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>2. \u003c/em>\u003cem>The Voice Actors Get It\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the cast featured only New Zealand actor Rhys Darby — Murray on \u003cem>Flight of the Conchords\u003c/em> — it’d be reason enough to watch. But he’s joined by Tyler Labine of \u003cem>Tucker and Dale vs. Evil\u003c/em>. And Jeremy Shada (Finn on \u003cem>Adventure Time\u003c/em>). And Steven Yeun, who plays Glenn on \u003cem>The Walking Dead\u003c/em>. They’re expressive, energetic, and dependably land the series’ many jokes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>3. There Are Characters Named “Pidge” And “Hunk”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Granted, these character names, and personalities, are simply imported from the original series, so are not really new. Even so, this is a show in which the words “PIDGE!” and/or “HUNK!” could — O.K., \u003cem>will\u003c/em> — get shouted a lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>4. It’s Not All Good News\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is with a heavy heart that I report the following: in each episode of the new series, when it at last comes time to form Voltron, the writers have made a bold decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bold, \u003cem>hugely\u003c/em> disappointing decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As before, the pilot of the lead lion-shaped spaceship intones a catchphrase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But instead of reeling off the halting litany of mecha-body-parts that has imprinted itself upon the cerebral cortex of legions of Voltron fans, (\u003cem>FORM! ARMS! AND! TORSO!\u003c/em>) he instead shouts something far less cheesy, less rich, less flavorful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says, “Form Voltron.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s it. 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Oh my, but it was odd.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/YwNHfyZZIuo'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/YwNHfyZZIuo'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>For one thing, it was an anime series on U.S. television when such things were still relatively rare; \u003cem>Speed Racer\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Marine Boy\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Star Blazers\u003c/em> had prepared the way, but \u003cem>Voltron\u003c/em>‘s runaway success established a beachhead subsequently overrun by\u003cem> Dragonball Z\u003c/em> and, especially, inescapably, \u003cem>Pokemon\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003cem>Voltron\u003c/em> (technically \u003cem>Voltron: Defender of the Universe\u003c/em>) seen in the U.S. originated as two different wondrously-named Japanese cartoons, \u003cem>Beast King Go-Lion\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Armored Fleet Dairugger XV\u003c/em>. Executive producer Peter Keefe bought the rights to both series, cut the violence back, and constructed new plots, dialogue, character backstories, everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For 72 episodes — some of which Keefe created out of whole cloth, having run out of old \u003cem>Go-Lion\u003c/em> episodes — Voltron was a show about a giant robot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That wasn’t why we loved it, though. Giant robots were nothing special. Giant robots were a dime a dozen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But \u003cem>this\u003c/em> robot … was made of \u003cem>lions\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lion-shaped robot spaceships, that is. Five of them. With tails and fangs and ears and paws, the whole mecha-feline schmear, for no readily discernible reason except the only one that mattered: they looked cool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And when danger threatened, the guy in the lead lion-shaped robot spaceship intoned a battle cry so gleefully cheesy it raised your risk of heart disease, thus:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Form! Feet! And! Legs!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Form! Arms! And! Torso!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>And I’ll form … The HEAD!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And that’s exactly what would proceed to happen: those lion-shaped robot spaceships retracted their legs and tails to form themselves into limbs that attached themselves to the lead lion-shaped spaceship, and Voltron the giant robot was born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A giant robot, mind you, \u003cem>whose feet and hands were the heads of robo-lions\u003c/em>. Imagine a knight in armor with a Muppet on each hand, shod in boots that Gene Simmons would reject as “too much.” That was the look. And we nerds saw it, and loved it, and love it still. (I haven’t even \u003cem>mentioned\u003c/em> his Blazing Sword. It was a sword. It blazed. It was awesome.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After those first 72 robot-lion episodes, the series ran for 52 more, which were stitched together from episodes of \u003cem>Armored Fleet Dairugger XV. \u003c/em>The lion-shaped robot spaceships were replaced with … air, land and sea vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Yeah, kids, we know you like chocolate cake. But have you ever \u003c/em>tried\u003cem> a dry fistful of carob?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We do not speak of Vehicle Voltron.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11722826\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/vlt_still_4-1-07a2217bce00bbaf6b288dc16013654d273a79c5-1180x885.jpg\" alt=\"Voltron in 'Voltron: Legendary Defender'\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11722826\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/vlt_still_4-1-07a2217bce00bbaf6b288dc16013654d273a79c5-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/vlt_still_4-1-07a2217bce00bbaf6b288dc16013654d273a79c5-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/vlt_still_4-1-07a2217bce00bbaf6b288dc16013654d273a79c5-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/vlt_still_4-1-07a2217bce00bbaf6b288dc16013654d273a79c5-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/vlt_still_4-1-07a2217bce00bbaf6b288dc16013654d273a79c5-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/vlt_still_4-1-07a2217bce00bbaf6b288dc16013654d273a79c5-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Voltron in ‘Voltron: Legendary Defender’ \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Netflix)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Robot, Rebooted\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last weekend Netflix released 13 episodes of an all-new (ALL-LION!!) Voltron series, \u003cem>Voltron: Legendary Defender\u003c/em>. It’s not the first attempt to reboot the ’80s series (noble attempts were made in 1998 and 2011), and there have been there have been several comics and toys over the years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this new series is different. Here’s why.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>1. The Writers Get It\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new series’ showrunners, and its head writer, have worked on several animated series, most importantly two little shows called \u003cem>Avatar: The Last Airbender\u003c/em> and \u003cem>The Legend of Korra. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both of those shows combined strong characterization with clever, often funny dialogue. But they also built deeply thought, and deeply felt, worlds teeming with history and mythology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That attention to both macro- and micro- detail is evident from the first frame of Voltron: Legendary Defender. This time around, character personalities are larger, more distinct, and — interestingly — tied directly to the action: the robot-shaped spaceships, we are informed, serve as reflections of their pilots. As small tweak, perhaps, but one that opens up all sorts of possibilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you think the all-male makeup of the five Voltron pilots seems like a hoary holdover from the 1980s, just know that showrunners think so too. I’ll leave it at that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>2. \u003c/em>\u003cem>The Voice Actors Get It\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the cast featured only New Zealand actor Rhys Darby — Murray on \u003cem>Flight of the Conchords\u003c/em> — it’d be reason enough to watch. But he’s joined by Tyler Labine of \u003cem>Tucker and Dale vs. Evil\u003c/em>. And Jeremy Shada (Finn on \u003cem>Adventure Time\u003c/em>). And Steven Yeun, who plays Glenn on \u003cem>The Walking Dead\u003c/em>. 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"content": "\u003cp>On the morning of December 14, 2012, I was getting ready to head off to my job as a kindergarten art aide when I first heard the news of the Sandy Hook tragedy. I cried all the way to school, as I listened to the reports roll in about the teachers sacrificing themselves, the scared young students, and the commentary on living in a world where even innocent children are targets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the principal asked us not to discuss the news, I kept wondering how I would manage to keep it together in the midst of this horrible day. Just outside the classroom, I took a deep breath, wiped my mascara off my cheeks, and remembered the \"Just keep swimming\" scene from \u003cem>Finding Nemo:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WVoC_CJbow\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, you know what? It worked. My students made lovely glitter snowflakes that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sadly, Sandy Hook isn’t the last time it's been necessary to overcome a tragedy. 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The episode won so many awards, partly because of this emphasis: “One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people...well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/GlGJ2BkWzkc'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/GlGJ2BkWzkc'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cem>M*A*S*H’s\u003c/em> “Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen” was the final episode and represented the end of the Korean War. While it was a sad farewell, there was also so much love and friendship shared between the characters in what were some of the worst of times. The feelings were best summed up by Colonel Potter: “Well, I can't call what we went through fun. But I'm sure glad we went through it together.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/zo-XM46zu_0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/zo-XM46zu_0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">In \u003cem>Ed\u003c/em>'s “Youth Bandits”, where the main characters reunite to celebrate the life of an old high school friend, the song they sing sums up the theme of this show -- sometimes, returning home reminds us to keep exploring for what we truly want out of our one life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>MUSICALS\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">To find an inspiring song, all you need to do is attend the nearest graduation. Apart from the empowering songs du jour you'll find there, the one song I keep in my playlists to make me feel better is Ben Harper’s (with the Blind Boys of Alabama) “There Will Be A Light.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/J7ag9AAyYfw'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/J7ag9AAyYfw'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Musicals are also great resources for songs that can lift even the heaviest of hearts. Here are three favorites:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">If you can’t fulfill the tall order of “Forgiveness” from \u003cem>Jane Eyre\u003c/em>,\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/oegDwLIRue0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/oegDwLIRue0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">...there’s always the more realistic vision of the world from \u003cem>Spamalot’s\u003c/em> “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life”...\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/JrdEMERq8MA'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/JrdEMERq8MA'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>...or the inspirational crowd-stopper, “Climb Ev’ry Mountain” from \u003cem>The Sound of Music\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/EoCPuhhE6dw'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/EoCPuhhE6dw'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"V4y1iuPI7776i7XTu9csg642WRwXFDf6\"]Last summer, a second season of \u003cem>RuPaul's Drag Race: All Stars\u003c/em> was announced. I immediately put together \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2015/07/22/rupauls-drag-race-all-stars-2-announced-here-are-the-queens-that-need-to-be-cast/\">a list of the queens that needed to be involved\u003c/a> and then waited. And waited. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/05/23/bob-the-drag-queen-on-winning-drag-race-rising-above-haters-and-putting-purse-first/\">Interviewed Season 8 winner, Bob the Drag Queen\u003c/a>. And waited some more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>11 long months later, we're finally getting our first glimpse of the cast! Six of the 10 queens I requested last July are accounted for, so there's a 31% chance RuPaul read my piece and thought \u003cem>Cogent points!\u003c/em> (He must have been skimming though cause he missed the whole this-will-be-nothing-without-Willam bit.) Half of the \u003cem>All Stars 2\u003c/em> girls are from Season 5, which is odd, but (almost) all of them are great so (almost) no complaints here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Word on the street (i.e. gay Reddit) is that there will be no teams this time around, which was a major criticism of the first \u003cem>All Stars\u003c/em>. Also unlike the last time around, there aren't any obvious filler queens (*cough*Mimi Imfurst*cough*). The competition, which starts airing on August 25, 2016, is sure to bring all the death drops, filthy reads, fireworks and everything else we've come to expect. But who is poised to snatch the crown and who doesn't have a shot in hell? Using a very unscientific, very subjective point system, I'm going to try and figure it out!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/68220_original.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26999\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/68220_original.jpg\" alt=\"68220_original\" width=\"600\" height=\"798\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/68220_original.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/68220_original-400x532.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Tatianna \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cem>(Season 2, 4th place)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Strength:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0yek3BbZE1qc8ie7o2_250.gif\">Always says 'Thank you.' \u003c/a>\u003cem>(+1 point)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She's the only queen from the first three seasons so she's clearly learned something from \u003ca href=\"https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2015-05/5/17/enhanced/webdr11/anigif_original-15533-1430860576-6.gif\">her idol Britney Spears \u003c/a>about staying power.\u003cem> (+2 points)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Isn't afraid to tell loud, obnoxious queens singing Beyonce's \"Halo\" to \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0R7MIjqAPL4\">shut up\u003c/a>. Reality TV producers are known to rig shows to keep girls who aren't afraid of a little confrontation. \u003cem>(+2 points)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Drag Race\u003c/em> judges love when a queen takes their critiques, applies them without attitude and grows from them. Judging by the look above, Tati has evolved a lot over the past six years. \u003cem>(+3 points)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Weakness:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her personality is a bit understated (early seasons weren't so amped) so she might struggle to stand out amongst these big personalities. \u003cem>(-5 points)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/67912_original.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27000\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/67912_original.jpg\" alt=\"67912_original\" width=\"600\" height=\"798\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/67912_original.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/67912_original-400x532.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong> Phi Phi O'Hara\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cem>(Season 4, third place)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Strength:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The internet loves her \u003ca href=\"http://www.nylon.com/articles/phi-phi-ohara-365-days-drag\">recent cosplay reinvention\u003c/a>. (+3 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has stepped up her image by moving away from pageantry to artsy glamour. (+3 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has a problem with everyone and brings the drama, which is the life blood of all reality TV shows. (+5 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Weakness:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her stank, evil, bitter personality. (I wanna say -2098, but - 3 points, I guess).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/67645_original.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27001\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/67645_original.jpg\" alt=\"67645_original\" width=\"600\" height=\"798\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/67645_original.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/67645_original-400x532.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Katya\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cem>(Season 7, fifth place)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cstrong>Strength: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Her kooky sense of humor. (+4 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Her ability to jump into the splits. (+2 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Her Miss Congeniality title. (+4 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">The fact that so many people thought she was robbed that RuPaul pretended to crown her at the finale for laughs. (+5 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cstrong>Weakness: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cem>All Stars 2\u003c/em> was taped right after Katya's season so, while some of the other queens have had years to augment their personas, Katya hasn't had the time to reflect, find new inspiration and grow. (-3 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Her sometimes tragic sense of style. (-1 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Her anxiety and nerves really got the best of her during her first lap. That could hurt her again, if she hasn't developed a coping mechanism yet. (-2 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/67469_original.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27002\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/67469_original.jpg\" alt=\"67469_original\" width=\"600\" height=\"798\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/67469_original.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/67469_original-400x532.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Alaska\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cem>(Season 5, second place)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cstrong>Strength:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">She's a catchphrase machine. (+3 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">She's a weirdo (in the best way). (+1 point)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">She's water-out-your-nose hilarious. (+3 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">She lost in what felt like a photo finish. (+2 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">She's one of the most beloved queens to come out of the show. (+5 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">She always thinks outside the box and surprises the judges. (+4 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cstrong>Weakness:\u003c/strong> N/A\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/67224_original.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27003\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/67224_original.jpg\" alt=\"67224_original\" width=\"600\" height=\"798\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/67224_original.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/67224_original-400x532.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Coco Montrese\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cem>(Season 5, fifth place)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cstrong>Strength: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Her rivalry with Alyssa. That's the only reason she's here. She knows it. I know it. You know it. Let's all know it together. (+1 point)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cstrong>Weakness: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">RuPaul and the judges love a queen who stuns visually, as well as on a comedic level. The only funny thing about Coco is when \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?q=coco+orange+montrese&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjsl4jkgrDNAhUDz2MKHUbxDUYQ_AUICCgB&biw=1847&bih=1244\">she cakes on orange make-up\u003c/a>. (-4 points).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/67029_original.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27004\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/67029_original.jpg\" alt=\"67029_original\" width=\"600\" height=\"798\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/67029_original.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/67029_original-400x532.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Adore Delano\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cem>(Season 6, second place)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cstrong>Strength: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Her singing voice. (+2 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Her irreverent sense of humor. (+2 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Her popularity outside of the show. (+2 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Her runner-up status. (+1 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Her \u003ca href=\"https://66.media.tumblr.com/001794a50d71139cf56c11fa428f7149/tumblr_inline_o5wrztMDYd1qisv1q_500.gif\">shameless Libra-ness\u003c/a>. (+1 point)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cstrong>Weakness: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Her \"hog body\" struggles. (-2 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Her often lazy drag looks. (-4 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/66815_original.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27005\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/66815_original.jpg\" alt=\"66815_original\" width=\"600\" height=\"798\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/66815_original.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/66815_original-400x532.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Alyssa Edwards\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cem>(Season 6, sixth place)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cstrong>Strength: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Zps8WvVQdE\">Her tongue pops\u003c/a>. (+1 point)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Her ability to turn gibberish into catchphrase gold (i.e. \"Squirpin' like a chirpin' like a bird\"). (+4 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Her dancing prowess (splits, kicks, and twists, oh my!). (+3 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Her overblown personality (so overblown that \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvAcoBGxkN0\">Violet Chatchki impersonated her for the Snatch Game\u003c/a>, which is usually reserved for high-profile celebrities). (+3 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Her overwhelming success post-\u003cem>Drag Race\u003c/em>. (+4 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Her ability to make delicious television without being polarizing. (+2 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cstrong>Weakness:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Her blindness to her own flaws (\u003ca href=\"http://24.media.tumblr.com/a36fd29bbe1ba97719a9ede465d165d5/tumblr_mrj0isKoKz1rlnmz4o1_400.gif\">back rolls?!\u003c/a>). (-5 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/66532_original.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27006\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/66532_original.jpg\" alt=\"66532_original\" width=\"600\" height=\"798\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/66532_original.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/66532_original-400x532.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Detox\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cem>(Season 5, fourth place)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cstrong>Strength:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Usually creates looks that the judges haven't seen before. (+3 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Inspired the black-and-white challenge from Season 8. (+2 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Founding member of drag group DWV of \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NFx8aGGCfY\">Boy Is A Bottom\u003c/a>\" fame. (+1 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cstrong>Weakness:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Tendency to clique up, instead of keeping the focus on herself. (-3 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/66097_original.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27007\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/66097_original.jpg\" alt=\"66097_original\" width=\"600\" height=\"798\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/66097_original.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/66097_original-400x532.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Roxxxy Andrews\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cem>(Season 5, third place)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cstrong>Strength: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Her makeup skills. (+4 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Her \u003ca href=\"https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/4RDfojeWWV_UrYAkXzkPGA--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjtzbT0xO3c9ODAw/http://media.zenfs.com/en-US/homerun/entertainment_weekly_785/168dc0640777ad875228a896cc82fa8c\">reveal-in-case-of-emergency hideaway wigs\u003c/a>. (+2 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cstrong>Weakness: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Whatever she's wearing above. (-1 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Her bullying tendencies. (-5 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/65936_original.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27008\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/65936_original.jpg\" alt=\"65936_original\" width=\"600\" height=\"798\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/65936_original.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/65936_original-400x532.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Ginger Minj\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cem>(Season 7, second place)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cstrong>Strength: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Great at improv, which usually plays a part in every challenge. (+5 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Polished looks. (+3 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Makes RuPaul laugh. (+4 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cstrong>Weakness: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Forgets that there's a difference between reading someone and being a jerk. (-2 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Is committed to an older style of drag, while the judges like to reward queens who push the envelope. (-3 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Like Katya, hasn't had time after her season to grow. (-3 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what do all these arbitrary numbers predict will happen?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>10th place: Coco Montrese\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>9th place: Roxxxy Andrews\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>8th place: Adore Delano\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>7th place: Tatianna\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>6th place: Detox\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>5th place: Ginger Minj\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>4th place: Phi Phi\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3rd place: Katya\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2nd place: Alyssa Edwards\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ALL STAR WINNER: Alaska!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But math isn't really my thing so ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯. We'll find out on August 25! See y'all then!\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cem>(Season 2, 4th place)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Strength:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0yek3BbZE1qc8ie7o2_250.gif\">Always says 'Thank you.' \u003c/a>\u003cem>(+1 point)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She's the only queen from the first three seasons so she's clearly learned something from \u003ca href=\"https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2015-05/5/17/enhanced/webdr11/anigif_original-15533-1430860576-6.gif\">her idol Britney Spears \u003c/a>about staying power.\u003cem> (+2 points)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Isn't afraid to tell loud, obnoxious queens singing Beyonce's \"Halo\" to \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0R7MIjqAPL4\">shut up\u003c/a>. Reality TV producers are known to rig shows to keep girls who aren't afraid of a little confrontation. \u003cem>(+2 points)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Drag Race\u003c/em> judges love when a queen takes their critiques, applies them without attitude and grows from them. Judging by the look above, Tati has evolved a lot over the past six years. \u003cem>(+3 points)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Weakness:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her personality is a bit understated (early seasons weren't so amped) so she might struggle to stand out amongst these big personalities. \u003cem>(-5 points)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/67912_original.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27000\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/67912_original.jpg\" alt=\"67912_original\" width=\"600\" height=\"798\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/67912_original.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/67912_original-400x532.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong> Phi Phi O'Hara\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cem>(Season 4, third place)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Strength:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The internet loves her \u003ca href=\"http://www.nylon.com/articles/phi-phi-ohara-365-days-drag\">recent cosplay reinvention\u003c/a>. (+3 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has stepped up her image by moving away from pageantry to artsy glamour. (+3 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has a problem with everyone and brings the drama, which is the life blood of all reality TV shows. (+5 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Weakness:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her stank, evil, bitter personality. (I wanna say -2098, but - 3 points, I guess).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/67645_original.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27001\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/67645_original.jpg\" alt=\"67645_original\" width=\"600\" height=\"798\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/67645_original.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/67645_original-400x532.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Katya\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cem>(Season 7, fifth place)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cstrong>Strength: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Her kooky sense of humor. (+4 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Her ability to jump into the splits. (+2 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Her Miss Congeniality title. (+4 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">The fact that so many people thought she was robbed that RuPaul pretended to crown her at the finale for laughs. (+5 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cstrong>Weakness: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cem>All Stars 2\u003c/em> was taped right after Katya's season so, while some of the other queens have had years to augment their personas, Katya hasn't had the time to reflect, find new inspiration and grow. (-3 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Her sometimes tragic sense of style. (-1 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Her anxiety and nerves really got the best of her during her first lap. That could hurt her again, if she hasn't developed a coping mechanism yet. (-2 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/67469_original.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27002\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/67469_original.jpg\" alt=\"67469_original\" width=\"600\" height=\"798\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/67469_original.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/67469_original-400x532.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Alaska\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cem>(Season 5, second place)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cstrong>Strength:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">She's a catchphrase machine. (+3 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">She's a weirdo (in the best way). (+1 point)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">She's water-out-your-nose hilarious. (+3 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">She lost in what felt like a photo finish. (+2 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">She's one of the most beloved queens to come out of the show. (+5 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">She always thinks outside the box and surprises the judges. (+4 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cstrong>Weakness:\u003c/strong> N/A\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/67224_original.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27003\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/67224_original.jpg\" alt=\"67224_original\" width=\"600\" height=\"798\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/67224_original.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/67224_original-400x532.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Coco Montrese\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cem>(Season 5, fifth place)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cstrong>Strength: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Her rivalry with Alyssa. That's the only reason she's here. She knows it. I know it. You know it. Let's all know it together. (+1 point)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cstrong>Weakness: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">RuPaul and the judges love a queen who stuns visually, as well as on a comedic level. The only funny thing about Coco is when \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?q=coco+orange+montrese&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjsl4jkgrDNAhUDz2MKHUbxDUYQ_AUICCgB&biw=1847&bih=1244\">she cakes on orange make-up\u003c/a>. (-4 points).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/67029_original.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27004\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/67029_original.jpg\" alt=\"67029_original\" width=\"600\" height=\"798\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/67029_original.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/67029_original-400x532.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Adore Delano\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cem>(Season 6, second place)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cstrong>Strength: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Her singing voice. (+2 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Her irreverent sense of humor. (+2 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Her popularity outside of the show. (+2 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Her runner-up status. (+1 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Her \u003ca href=\"https://66.media.tumblr.com/001794a50d71139cf56c11fa428f7149/tumblr_inline_o5wrztMDYd1qisv1q_500.gif\">shameless Libra-ness\u003c/a>. (+1 point)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cstrong>Weakness: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Her \"hog body\" struggles. (-2 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Her often lazy drag looks. (-4 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/66815_original.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27005\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/66815_original.jpg\" alt=\"66815_original\" width=\"600\" height=\"798\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/66815_original.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/66815_original-400x532.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Alyssa Edwards\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cem>(Season 6, sixth place)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cstrong>Strength: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Zps8WvVQdE\">Her tongue pops\u003c/a>. (+1 point)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Her ability to turn gibberish into catchphrase gold (i.e. \"Squirpin' like a chirpin' like a bird\"). (+4 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Her dancing prowess (splits, kicks, and twists, oh my!). (+3 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Her overblown personality (so overblown that \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvAcoBGxkN0\">Violet Chatchki impersonated her for the Snatch Game\u003c/a>, which is usually reserved for high-profile celebrities). (+3 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Her overwhelming success post-\u003cem>Drag Race\u003c/em>. (+4 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Her ability to make delicious television without being polarizing. (+2 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cstrong>Weakness:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Her blindness to her own flaws (\u003ca href=\"http://24.media.tumblr.com/a36fd29bbe1ba97719a9ede465d165d5/tumblr_mrj0isKoKz1rlnmz4o1_400.gif\">back rolls?!\u003c/a>). (-5 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/66532_original.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27006\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/66532_original.jpg\" alt=\"66532_original\" width=\"600\" height=\"798\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/66532_original.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/66532_original-400x532.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Detox\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cem>(Season 5, fourth place)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cstrong>Strength:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Usually creates looks that the judges haven't seen before. (+3 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Inspired the black-and-white challenge from Season 8. (+2 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Founding member of drag group DWV of \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NFx8aGGCfY\">Boy Is A Bottom\u003c/a>\" fame. (+1 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cstrong>Weakness:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Tendency to clique up, instead of keeping the focus on herself. (-3 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/66097_original.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27007\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/66097_original.jpg\" alt=\"66097_original\" width=\"600\" height=\"798\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/66097_original.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/66097_original-400x532.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Roxxxy Andrews\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cem>(Season 5, third place)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cstrong>Strength: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Her makeup skills. (+4 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Her \u003ca href=\"https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/4RDfojeWWV_UrYAkXzkPGA--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjtzbT0xO3c9ODAw/http://media.zenfs.com/en-US/homerun/entertainment_weekly_785/168dc0640777ad875228a896cc82fa8c\">reveal-in-case-of-emergency hideaway wigs\u003c/a>. (+2 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cstrong>Weakness: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Whatever she's wearing above. (-1 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Her bullying tendencies. (-5 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/65936_original.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27008\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/65936_original.jpg\" alt=\"65936_original\" width=\"600\" height=\"798\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/65936_original.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/65936_original-400x532.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Ginger Minj\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cem>(Season 7, second place)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cstrong>Strength: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Great at improv, which usually plays a part in every challenge. (+5 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Polished looks. (+3 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Makes RuPaul laugh. (+4 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cstrong>Weakness: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Forgets that there's a difference between reading someone and being a jerk. (-2 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Is committed to an older style of drag, while the judges like to reward queens who push the envelope. (-3 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Like Katya, hasn't had time after her season to grow. (-3 points)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what do all these arbitrary numbers predict will happen?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>10th place: Coco Montrese\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>9th place: Roxxxy Andrews\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>8th place: Adore Delano\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>7th place: Tatianna\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>6th place: Detox\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>5th place: Ginger Minj\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>4th place: Phi Phi\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3rd place: Katya\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2nd place: Alyssa Edwards\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ALL STAR WINNER: Alaska!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>It’s odd to view the O.J. Simpson trial in a renewed cultural spotlight today, 22 years after the murders and 21 years after the verdicts, almost in defiance of our tendency to observe round-number anniversaries. But between FX’s \u003cem>The People vs. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story \u003c/em>earlier this year and now Ezra Edelman’s 7 1/2-hour documentary \u003cem>O.J.: Made In America\u003c/em>, we are not observing a milestone, but attempting an almost convulsive reckoning with every open or tenuously bound wound the case touched and still touches: racism and sexism, certainly. Class distinctions, especially where they intersect with race. Domestic violence and police brutality as two of our most stubborn examples of a sometimes fatally broken criminal justice system. Extreme wealth and extraordinary celebrity as weapons of distortion and defense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through sheer repetition, so many words are shibboleths if you were old enough to watch the news in the ’90s: Nicole, Ron, O.J., A.C., Clark, Darden, Cochran, Fuhrman, Ito, Kato, Rockingham, Bundy. Other elements, perhaps half-forgotten, tumble out when the documentary jogs your memory: Paula Barbieri, Bruno Magli, that \u003cem>Saturday Night Live \u003c/em>sketch where all the defense attorneys are dressed as increasingly outlandish “African” caricatures. But Edelman’s eye for detail is so sharp that the film contains, along with its revelations, a contextualizing wisdom that gives it the feel of sociological exploratory surgery: painful and awful, but fascinating and ultimately in service of a much clearer picture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In five parts — each is about 90 minutes without commercials and will run two hours during airings beginning on June 11 on ABC and continuing on ESPN beginning June 14 — the film shows Edelman’s seriousness simply in the scope of its attention. It spends a full chapter on Simpson’s college football career, his Heisman trophy, his rise to the pros, his transition into sportscasting and acting, and, crucially, his entrée into a heavily white circle of friends and business associates. (Says one of Simpson bringing Sidney Poitier to play golf at the Arcola Country Club, where Simpson was the first black member, “Even the bigots thought that was terrific.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second chapter is about the two violent histories that would collide so explosively at his trial: his history of domestic violence against Nicole and the history of violence by the police (and sometimes by others) against black people in Los Angeles — particularly, but not exclusively, black men. The third and fourth chapters concern the murders, the investigation, the Bronco chase, and most of the trial. The fifth largely concerns itself with what happened after Simpson was acquitted, only to eventually go to prison over a plot to gather some guys (who brought at least one gun) and go take back sports memorabilia he thought had been stolen from him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11665310\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/oj_pic7441m-edit_slide-f25f7c91e5cd3a49ae5e179f9f38e64c72951d75-1180x786.jpg\" alt=\"O.J. Simpson at the Buffalo Bills' Rich Stadium press conference circa 1975\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11665310\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/oj_pic7441m-edit_slide-f25f7c91e5cd3a49ae5e179f9f38e64c72951d75-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/oj_pic7441m-edit_slide-f25f7c91e5cd3a49ae5e179f9f38e64c72951d75-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/oj_pic7441m-edit_slide-f25f7c91e5cd3a49ae5e179f9f38e64c72951d75-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/oj_pic7441m-edit_slide-f25f7c91e5cd3a49ae5e179f9f38e64c72951d75-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/oj_pic7441m-edit_slide-f25f7c91e5cd3a49ae5e179f9f38e64c72951d75-1920x1279.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/oj_pic7441m-edit_slide-f25f7c91e5cd3a49ae5e179f9f38e64c72951d75-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">O.J. Simpson at the Buffalo Bills’ Rich Stadium press conference circa 1975. \u003ccite>(Photo: Mickey Osterreicher via ESPN)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Edelman draws, as only a man who has nearly eight hours to speak to you can, the connections between the story of O.J. Simpson and the history that was all around him — that’s what \u003cem>Made In America \u003c/em>means. There are strands connecting his case to Rodney King, obviously, but also to other cases of violence against black people in Los Angeles, not to mention the migration of black people into LA in the ’40s and ’50s to begin with. Edelman places Simpson’s collegiate celebrity in the context of rising activism among black athletes in the late 1960s — activism Simpson wanted no part of, according to Dr. Harry Edwards, the sociologist who quotes him as offering the now-famous words, “I’m not black, I’m O.J.” Those weren’t just playful words: Edwards says Simpson offered them specifically as his reason for not getting involved in civil rights activism. Everywhere Edelman turns in his examination of Simpson’s life, he finds something that resonated in the story that came to define that life even more than football. And it’s safe to say O.J. Simpson never expected to be defined by anything more than by football.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edelman’s direction is confident throughout the project (which also got a theatrical release to qualify it for Oscars), and his expansive focus is complemented by a structural rigor that prevents pure sprawl. Other characters emerge with stories of their own. There’s Ron Shipp, a friend of Simpson’s who chose to testify against him and was subjected to a cross-examination he says was so brutal it convinced others not to do the same. There are civil rights activists who came to different conclusions about whether this was really properly viewed as a civil rights case. There’s Barry Scheck, the defense’s DNA expert, who strains to make understood his belief that what he believes as to guilt or innocence (or evidence-planting) is simply not the right question to ask a defense lawyer. There’s a juror who says the group barely deliberated because they’d simply been locked up too long, and another who suggests the prosecution could have won her vote if they had “come correct.” Every huge story is a patchwork of smaller stories, and what an excellent documentarian can do is both tell those stories and explain how they assembled themselves into this seemingly opaque sequence in which everyone involved seems to have done things that are hard to understand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps most perplexing, though, are some of Edelman’s interviews with friends and former friends of Simpson’s, like Mike Gilbert, the ex-agent who now claims Simpson acknowledged guilt to him. Gilbert also seems to have been one of the people Simpson suspected of stealing from him, which led to that bizarre sports-memorabilia incident that put Simpson back in jail in 2008, convicted of kidnapping and armed robbery. One telling moment: the point at which Gilbert says he concluded Simpson was guilty was well before Ron Goldman’s family obtained a wrongful death judgment, but says he still helped haul valuables out of the house to hide them from becoming seized assets. Why? Why would Gilbert help a man he tearfully says he’d come to believe had slit the throats of two innocent people? Why help that man hide his football stuff so that the family of the man you think he killed couldn’t have even the satisfaction of collecting on their judgment?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps to understand, you have to see the remarkable sequence in which radio host Wendy Williams starts off not even being willing to say it’s good to have a post-acquittal Simpson on her show and then ends up applauding him, accepting a hug and kiss from him, and admitting she likes him by the time he’s through with her. Charisma is powerful and dangerous and almost literally intoxicating. It’s cheap to gripe about celebrity as if it’s a created, inorganic pollutant when celebrity, in many cases, while it’s goosed by money, is rooted in the weird gravity of personality. And everyone who’s dealt with him seemingly agrees that O.J. Simpson had, and perhaps has, that personality. (Even Marcia Clark recounts running into him years later with a strange, almost warm chuckle.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is only in that last chapter, when he decamps to Florida and starts making goofy, low-rent videos, that he begins to unravel in earnest. And, maybe not coincidentally, it’s after his image collapses that he’s locked up. Not for murder, but for being dumb enough to try his hand at armed robbery with a bunch of loosely affiliated accomplices while surveillance cameras are running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Documentary film is analogous to painting on a canvas, perhaps, but also to sculpting from marble. It is a thousand meaningful sacrifices of perfectly good material. While Edelman doesn’t have Simpson on camera, or Chris Darden, or some of the other folks you’d want to hear from, he has members of the defense team, Ron Goldman’s dad, Nicole Brown’s sister, Mark Fuhrman, Marcia Clark, Gil Garcetti, and all kinds of journalists and commentators and scholars. From all these people, and from the barrels of archival footage he seems to have examined, he’s pulled the details that, when assembled, avoid the feeling of manipulation that comes from so many polemical documentaries while maintaining the feeling great journalism gives you that you are, against perhaps your own expectations, learning new things about events you thought you’d memorized to the point of exhaustion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a work of filmmaking, \u003cem>O.J.: Made In America \u003c/em>is distinguished by its good judgment. In particular, rather than cover every jot and tittle of the highly theatrical televised trial, it places that trial’s important moments in the context of the pressures that created them and the pressures they, in turn, created. Darden’s complicated role comes into sharper focus as a black juror explains how insulting she found it when he suddenly showed up, as if she wouldn’t notice they’d added a black lawyer for her benefit. Clark’s revulsion at being stuck with Fuhrman as a witness builds to her admission that, essentially, she was glad to feel confident he \u003cem>couldn’t \u003c/em>have planted the evidence, because she had no such confidence that he \u003cem>wouldn’t \u003c/em>have planted the evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11665312\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/gettyimages-51974027_custom-09ba8b0cf2d712e454a349c79b630b2dfd850d85-1180x786.jpg\" alt=\"California Department Of Justice criminalist Renee Montgomery points to blood spots found on the leather glove at O. J. Simpson's Rockingham estate during redirect examination in the O.J. Simpson double-murder criminal trial on May 24, 1995, in Los Angeles.\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11665312\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/gettyimages-51974027_custom-09ba8b0cf2d712e454a349c79b630b2dfd850d85-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/gettyimages-51974027_custom-09ba8b0cf2d712e454a349c79b630b2dfd850d85-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/gettyimages-51974027_custom-09ba8b0cf2d712e454a349c79b630b2dfd850d85-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/gettyimages-51974027_custom-09ba8b0cf2d712e454a349c79b630b2dfd850d85-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/gettyimages-51974027_custom-09ba8b0cf2d712e454a349c79b630b2dfd850d85-1920x1279.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/gettyimages-51974027_custom-09ba8b0cf2d712e454a349c79b630b2dfd850d85-960x639.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Department Of Justice criminalist Renee Montgomery points to blood spots found on the leather glove at O. J. Simpson’s Rockingham estate during redirect examination in the O.J. Simpson double-murder criminal trial on May 24, 1995, in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Photo: Vince Bucci/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There are those who receive any attention to this story as necessarily sensational. The word “sensational,” in its “scandalous” meaning, is sometimes used against entire sets of facts, as if a real thing that happens in the real world can be too “sensational” to be spoken of, simply because it’s shocking or, frankly, fascinating in the wrong way. The story of O.J. Simpson certainly is shocking. But Edelman does not intend the momentary, hushed pleasures of a lurid crime tale. He is making an argument that inside the story of how O.J. Simpson was acquitted — or maybe enveloping it — is the story of how police departments lose the trust of their communities. He is making an argument that inside and outside the murders is a story of what can happen when powerful men aren’t punished for violence against their wives. He is making an argument about the effects of one person’s charisma on other people’s consciences. He is making an argument about the way money can be used to fight prejudice or create it — how with injustice, money can be the disease or the cure. And he is making an argument, ultimately, that although an attraction to spectacle may have given this story its initial flash, its lasting power comes from real things that people care about, with good reason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over Memorial Day weekend, \u003cem>The New York Times \u003c/em>studied violence just in Chicago, and found six gun deaths in three days. Murder is, if not routine, certainly not in and of itself an act that would resonate across decades. A murder trial that is carried gavel-to-gavel doesn’t get that treatment simply because it is the loss of two lives at someone else’s hands. This one had a famous defendant people had spent 25 years rooting for in football, watching in movies, watching on television. His decision to defy the authority of a widely loathed police department by driving down the freeway when he was supposed to turn himself in seems to have endeared him particularly to those who felt that the police acted outside that authority every day anyway, and at least somebody was in a position to tell them he’d pull over when he was good and ready — and they seemed powerless or even afraid to say no to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this telling, there were prosecution missteps, there was a key police witness in whose credibility even the prosecutor lost all confidence, there were flaws in the evidence collection that were exploited by a defense team with bottomless resources and considerable talent. But it was always going to be both a terrible case from which to generalize about the justice system and a great case to use as a cultural inflection point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 20 years later, the Simpson trial — the Simpson story — is a vexing, interlocking tower of what-ifs that get bigger and broader as you go: What if they’d brought Darden on earlier, or not at all? What if Darden didn’t let F. Lee Bailey goad him into having Simpson try on the gloves? What if the glove at Rockingham had been collected by a police officer without a history of using racial slurs? What if LAPD officers hadn’t beaten Rodney King? What if they had been convicted? What if there were no riots? What if there were no racism? What if we lived in a completely different society with a completely different history than the one we have?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11665313\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/ap_95100302198_custom-30a0a15fe05e97c90e6451878bf3d6d33f4786c6-1180x812.jpg\" alt=\"O.J. Simpson reacts as he is found not guilty of murdering his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ron Goldman at the Criminal Courts Building in Los Angeles on Oct. 3, 1995. At left is defense lawyer F. Lee Bailey and at right, defense attorney Johnnie Cochran Jr.\" width=\"640\" height=\"440\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11665313\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/ap_95100302198_custom-30a0a15fe05e97c90e6451878bf3d6d33f4786c6-1180x812.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/ap_95100302198_custom-30a0a15fe05e97c90e6451878bf3d6d33f4786c6-400x275.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/ap_95100302198_custom-30a0a15fe05e97c90e6451878bf3d6d33f4786c6-800x551.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/ap_95100302198_custom-30a0a15fe05e97c90e6451878bf3d6d33f4786c6-768x529.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/ap_95100302198_custom-30a0a15fe05e97c90e6451878bf3d6d33f4786c6-1920x1322.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/ap_95100302198_custom-30a0a15fe05e97c90e6451878bf3d6d33f4786c6-960x661.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/ap_95100302198_custom-30a0a15fe05e97c90e6451878bf3d6d33f4786c6.jpg 1964w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">O.J. Simpson reacts as he is found not guilty of murdering his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ron Goldman at the Criminal Courts Building in Los Angeles on Oct. 3, 1995. At left is defense lawyer F. Lee Bailey and at right, defense attorney Johnnie Cochran Jr. \u003ccite>(Photo: Myung J. Chun)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And, not for nothing, assuming you believe the police reports and his no-contest plea and the Polaroids of Nicole’s bruises she hid in a safe-deposit box with her will: What if Simpson had gone to jail earlier for beating his wife? What if that could have actually saved her life and Ron Goldman’s?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s not to even mention some of the what-ifs that stand on that boundary line between “if only” and “thank goodness”: What if we’d had the Internet? What if we’d had Twitter? In light of Roy Firestone’s obsequious archival ESPN interview with Simpson blowing off the domestic violence issue, what if we’d had Deadspin? (Nothing — \u003cem>nothing —\u003c/em> will make you understand Deadspin’s upside better than that clip, by the way, in which Firestone tells Simpson, post-domestic-violence-conviction, that they’re there to discuss “how things can get distorted to such a point that you are portrayed as the bad guy.”) And, given that TMZ \u003ca href=\"http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/gossip-site-paid-165000-oj-tape\">reportedly bought and publicized audiotapes of the memorabilia robbery in 2008\u003c/a>, what if we’d had TMZ back in 1989? Would everything be different now? Better? Worse?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ezra Edelman’s \u003cem>O.J.: Made In America \u003c/em>is a film of great patience and discipline. It is bracing in its wisdom and unforgettable in its details. It’s the story of where we were in the summer of 1994, in so many of the ways that still matter the most now. And its curiosity isn’t in examining how O.J. Simpson is explained by the fact that he was made in America, it’s in examining how America is explained by having made O.J. Simpson. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=%27O.J.%3A+Made+In+America%27+Is+About+America%2C+Not+O.J.&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It’s odd to view the O.J. Simpson trial in a renewed cultural spotlight today, 22 years after the murders and 21 years after the verdicts, almost in defiance of our tendency to observe round-number anniversaries. But between FX’s \u003cem>The People vs. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story \u003c/em>earlier this year and now Ezra Edelman’s 7 1/2-hour documentary \u003cem>O.J.: Made In America\u003c/em>, we are not observing a milestone, but attempting an almost convulsive reckoning with every open or tenuously bound wound the case touched and still touches: racism and sexism, certainly. Class distinctions, especially where they intersect with race. Domestic violence and police brutality as two of our most stubborn examples of a sometimes fatally broken criminal justice system. Extreme wealth and extraordinary celebrity as weapons of distortion and defense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through sheer repetition, so many words are shibboleths if you were old enough to watch the news in the ’90s: Nicole, Ron, O.J., A.C., Clark, Darden, Cochran, Fuhrman, Ito, Kato, Rockingham, Bundy. Other elements, perhaps half-forgotten, tumble out when the documentary jogs your memory: Paula Barbieri, Bruno Magli, that \u003cem>Saturday Night Live \u003c/em>sketch where all the defense attorneys are dressed as increasingly outlandish “African” caricatures. But Edelman’s eye for detail is so sharp that the film contains, along with its revelations, a contextualizing wisdom that gives it the feel of sociological exploratory surgery: painful and awful, but fascinating and ultimately in service of a much clearer picture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In five parts — each is about 90 minutes without commercials and will run two hours during airings beginning on June 11 on ABC and continuing on ESPN beginning June 14 — the film shows Edelman’s seriousness simply in the scope of its attention. It spends a full chapter on Simpson’s college football career, his Heisman trophy, his rise to the pros, his transition into sportscasting and acting, and, crucially, his entrée into a heavily white circle of friends and business associates. (Says one of Simpson bringing Sidney Poitier to play golf at the Arcola Country Club, where Simpson was the first black member, “Even the bigots thought that was terrific.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second chapter is about the two violent histories that would collide so explosively at his trial: his history of domestic violence against Nicole and the history of violence by the police (and sometimes by others) against black people in Los Angeles — particularly, but not exclusively, black men. The third and fourth chapters concern the murders, the investigation, the Bronco chase, and most of the trial. The fifth largely concerns itself with what happened after Simpson was acquitted, only to eventually go to prison over a plot to gather some guys (who brought at least one gun) and go take back sports memorabilia he thought had been stolen from him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11665310\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/oj_pic7441m-edit_slide-f25f7c91e5cd3a49ae5e179f9f38e64c72951d75-1180x786.jpg\" alt=\"O.J. Simpson at the Buffalo Bills' Rich Stadium press conference circa 1975\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11665310\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/oj_pic7441m-edit_slide-f25f7c91e5cd3a49ae5e179f9f38e64c72951d75-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/oj_pic7441m-edit_slide-f25f7c91e5cd3a49ae5e179f9f38e64c72951d75-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/oj_pic7441m-edit_slide-f25f7c91e5cd3a49ae5e179f9f38e64c72951d75-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/oj_pic7441m-edit_slide-f25f7c91e5cd3a49ae5e179f9f38e64c72951d75-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/oj_pic7441m-edit_slide-f25f7c91e5cd3a49ae5e179f9f38e64c72951d75-1920x1279.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/oj_pic7441m-edit_slide-f25f7c91e5cd3a49ae5e179f9f38e64c72951d75-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">O.J. Simpson at the Buffalo Bills’ Rich Stadium press conference circa 1975. \u003ccite>(Photo: Mickey Osterreicher via ESPN)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Edelman draws, as only a man who has nearly eight hours to speak to you can, the connections between the story of O.J. Simpson and the history that was all around him — that’s what \u003cem>Made In America \u003c/em>means. There are strands connecting his case to Rodney King, obviously, but also to other cases of violence against black people in Los Angeles, not to mention the migration of black people into LA in the ’40s and ’50s to begin with. Edelman places Simpson’s collegiate celebrity in the context of rising activism among black athletes in the late 1960s — activism Simpson wanted no part of, according to Dr. Harry Edwards, the sociologist who quotes him as offering the now-famous words, “I’m not black, I’m O.J.” Those weren’t just playful words: Edwards says Simpson offered them specifically as his reason for not getting involved in civil rights activism. Everywhere Edelman turns in his examination of Simpson’s life, he finds something that resonated in the story that came to define that life even more than football. And it’s safe to say O.J. Simpson never expected to be defined by anything more than by football.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edelman’s direction is confident throughout the project (which also got a theatrical release to qualify it for Oscars), and his expansive focus is complemented by a structural rigor that prevents pure sprawl. Other characters emerge with stories of their own. There’s Ron Shipp, a friend of Simpson’s who chose to testify against him and was subjected to a cross-examination he says was so brutal it convinced others not to do the same. There are civil rights activists who came to different conclusions about whether this was really properly viewed as a civil rights case. There’s Barry Scheck, the defense’s DNA expert, who strains to make understood his belief that what he believes as to guilt or innocence (or evidence-planting) is simply not the right question to ask a defense lawyer. There’s a juror who says the group barely deliberated because they’d simply been locked up too long, and another who suggests the prosecution could have won her vote if they had “come correct.” Every huge story is a patchwork of smaller stories, and what an excellent documentarian can do is both tell those stories and explain how they assembled themselves into this seemingly opaque sequence in which everyone involved seems to have done things that are hard to understand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps most perplexing, though, are some of Edelman’s interviews with friends and former friends of Simpson’s, like Mike Gilbert, the ex-agent who now claims Simpson acknowledged guilt to him. Gilbert also seems to have been one of the people Simpson suspected of stealing from him, which led to that bizarre sports-memorabilia incident that put Simpson back in jail in 2008, convicted of kidnapping and armed robbery. One telling moment: the point at which Gilbert says he concluded Simpson was guilty was well before Ron Goldman’s family obtained a wrongful death judgment, but says he still helped haul valuables out of the house to hide them from becoming seized assets. Why? Why would Gilbert help a man he tearfully says he’d come to believe had slit the throats of two innocent people? Why help that man hide his football stuff so that the family of the man you think he killed couldn’t have even the satisfaction of collecting on their judgment?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps to understand, you have to see the remarkable sequence in which radio host Wendy Williams starts off not even being willing to say it’s good to have a post-acquittal Simpson on her show and then ends up applauding him, accepting a hug and kiss from him, and admitting she likes him by the time he’s through with her. Charisma is powerful and dangerous and almost literally intoxicating. It’s cheap to gripe about celebrity as if it’s a created, inorganic pollutant when celebrity, in many cases, while it’s goosed by money, is rooted in the weird gravity of personality. And everyone who’s dealt with him seemingly agrees that O.J. Simpson had, and perhaps has, that personality. (Even Marcia Clark recounts running into him years later with a strange, almost warm chuckle.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is only in that last chapter, when he decamps to Florida and starts making goofy, low-rent videos, that he begins to unravel in earnest. And, maybe not coincidentally, it’s after his image collapses that he’s locked up. Not for murder, but for being dumb enough to try his hand at armed robbery with a bunch of loosely affiliated accomplices while surveillance cameras are running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Documentary film is analogous to painting on a canvas, perhaps, but also to sculpting from marble. It is a thousand meaningful sacrifices of perfectly good material. While Edelman doesn’t have Simpson on camera, or Chris Darden, or some of the other folks you’d want to hear from, he has members of the defense team, Ron Goldman’s dad, Nicole Brown’s sister, Mark Fuhrman, Marcia Clark, Gil Garcetti, and all kinds of journalists and commentators and scholars. From all these people, and from the barrels of archival footage he seems to have examined, he’s pulled the details that, when assembled, avoid the feeling of manipulation that comes from so many polemical documentaries while maintaining the feeling great journalism gives you that you are, against perhaps your own expectations, learning new things about events you thought you’d memorized to the point of exhaustion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a work of filmmaking, \u003cem>O.J.: Made In America \u003c/em>is distinguished by its good judgment. In particular, rather than cover every jot and tittle of the highly theatrical televised trial, it places that trial’s important moments in the context of the pressures that created them and the pressures they, in turn, created. Darden’s complicated role comes into sharper focus as a black juror explains how insulting she found it when he suddenly showed up, as if she wouldn’t notice they’d added a black lawyer for her benefit. Clark’s revulsion at being stuck with Fuhrman as a witness builds to her admission that, essentially, she was glad to feel confident he \u003cem>couldn’t \u003c/em>have planted the evidence, because she had no such confidence that he \u003cem>wouldn’t \u003c/em>have planted the evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11665312\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/gettyimages-51974027_custom-09ba8b0cf2d712e454a349c79b630b2dfd850d85-1180x786.jpg\" alt=\"California Department Of Justice criminalist Renee Montgomery points to blood spots found on the leather glove at O. J. Simpson's Rockingham estate during redirect examination in the O.J. Simpson double-murder criminal trial on May 24, 1995, in Los Angeles.\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11665312\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/gettyimages-51974027_custom-09ba8b0cf2d712e454a349c79b630b2dfd850d85-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/gettyimages-51974027_custom-09ba8b0cf2d712e454a349c79b630b2dfd850d85-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/gettyimages-51974027_custom-09ba8b0cf2d712e454a349c79b630b2dfd850d85-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/gettyimages-51974027_custom-09ba8b0cf2d712e454a349c79b630b2dfd850d85-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/gettyimages-51974027_custom-09ba8b0cf2d712e454a349c79b630b2dfd850d85-1920x1279.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/gettyimages-51974027_custom-09ba8b0cf2d712e454a349c79b630b2dfd850d85-960x639.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Department Of Justice criminalist Renee Montgomery points to blood spots found on the leather glove at O. J. Simpson’s Rockingham estate during redirect examination in the O.J. Simpson double-murder criminal trial on May 24, 1995, in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Photo: Vince Bucci/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There are those who receive any attention to this story as necessarily sensational. The word “sensational,” in its “scandalous” meaning, is sometimes used against entire sets of facts, as if a real thing that happens in the real world can be too “sensational” to be spoken of, simply because it’s shocking or, frankly, fascinating in the wrong way. The story of O.J. Simpson certainly is shocking. But Edelman does not intend the momentary, hushed pleasures of a lurid crime tale. He is making an argument that inside the story of how O.J. Simpson was acquitted — or maybe enveloping it — is the story of how police departments lose the trust of their communities. He is making an argument that inside and outside the murders is a story of what can happen when powerful men aren’t punished for violence against their wives. He is making an argument about the effects of one person’s charisma on other people’s consciences. He is making an argument about the way money can be used to fight prejudice or create it — how with injustice, money can be the disease or the cure. And he is making an argument, ultimately, that although an attraction to spectacle may have given this story its initial flash, its lasting power comes from real things that people care about, with good reason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over Memorial Day weekend, \u003cem>The New York Times \u003c/em>studied violence just in Chicago, and found six gun deaths in three days. Murder is, if not routine, certainly not in and of itself an act that would resonate across decades. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/-tPX06wJh4g'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/-tPX06wJh4g'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cb>You grew up in Allentown, Penn. Was it a music town?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not really. There was a club in nearby Bethlehem called Scarlet’s, which was all-ages. There were two guys who ran this club who let 16-year-olds come and they didn’t have alcohol or anything, but they’d let everyone dance to Nirvana or the Cure or whatever was popular. 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Rodriguez/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Your first band was called Time And Other Things. Was it a joke band or was it sincere?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Totally sincere. We thought we were Morrissey meets Robert Smith meets Lennon and McCartney. It wasn’t emo, because that wasn’t around when I was in high school, but we were very emotive, emotional teenagers. [Laughs]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Did you wear makeup when on stage?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No, nothing like that. But we wrote Doors-y kinds of songs about darkness and Pink Floyd-style “I’m losing my mind” types of songs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Shaggy’s Belt Buckle was the next band?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeah, Shaggy’s Belt Buckle was another group made up of my good friend Phil and my cousin Joel. That was a little more of a comedy group. The songs were sillier, and we were a little influenced by Ween and Spinal Tap. Humor started percolating in the songwriting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Was this your first comedic project?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sure, though in terms of professional standards this was along the lines of hosting puppet shows in my basement — it wasn’t more advanced than that. We were in high school so we didn’t have the facilities or the outreach — we certainly didn’t have the Internet. We were just making Tascam 4-track tape demos, which I don’t think I even have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Do you remember any of the songs or their themes?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I do recall a lyric about Ed Meese. And that’s about it. [Laughs]\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11633855\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11633855\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/Tim-Eric-Red-800x450.jpg\" alt='Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim of Tim & Eric perform during \"The Big Live Comedy Show\" in 2013. ' width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/Tim-Eric-Red-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/Tim-Eric-Red-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/Tim-Eric-Red-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/Tim-Eric-Red.jpg 883w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim of Tim & Eric perform during “The Big Live Comedy Show” in 2013. \u003ccite>(Photo: Mark Davis/Getty Images for YouTube)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>For this solo record, what was your process like? Did you have a bigger concept in mind?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most things I end up putting out, I try to have be a little more than a random collection of songs. There’s usually an overall theme or concept behind it. So this one started when I was writing songs that were a little more informed by my real life. A few of them I had been building up on my computer, which is how I usually make rough demos of stuff. But those songs fueled the idea that I could write more in this style, where it’s more about what I’m observing or experiencing. It thought it would be cool to write something that wasn’t a goof or a parody of anything, just a straight reporting of things. Then I filled it out songs that were in the same vein that I had been working on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s an album that’s sort of about me and L.A. and California. Having lived here for a while and being a fan of certain records that are indicative of a place, I thought I’d have something to say about it. Then I was encouraged by some people in the music business — Jonathan Rado, who is in a band called Foxygen, and Chris Swanson of Jagjaguwar Records. They told me I should just put out the record under my own name and have it be somewhat straight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Do you wish you could play music all the time?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think the appeal of life in a touring band would fade quickly when doing 150 dates a year. There’s certain economic realities to it, too: I have a ten-piece band, so if you start doing the math on how that breaks down to what everyone is making a night, it gets a little tricky after a while. And I love my full-time job probably just as much or even more so. Part of putting a record out is getting out there and making sure people hear it by playing live, but I wouldn’t want to do it more than I am right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11633858\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11633858\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/Tim-GRegg-TurkingtonCROP-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington attend the 2016 Adult Swim Upfront Party\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/Tim-GRegg-TurkingtonCROP.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/Tim-GRegg-TurkingtonCROP-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/Tim-GRegg-TurkingtonCROP-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington attend the 2016 Adult Swim Upfront Party \u003ccite>(Photo: Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for Adult Swim)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>You usually play characters in your projects — even on your podcast \u003ci>On Cinema,\u003c/i> you use your own name but you’re playing a character. 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"content": "\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"iBaXq5UiPBm83yfAgvj2qTDMheFHRKtt\"]Hey, can I borrow $4.15 million? I left my trust fund in a past lifetime. You see, I need the cash because \u003ca href=\"http://vanguardproperties.com/RESI-446051.php\">the 1883 Victorian \u003c/a>that served as the exterior for the \u003cem>Full House \u003c/em>home is up for sale. 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This is definitely...a look. Potato sack chic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25370\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_6.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-25370\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_6.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Vanguard Properties\" width=\"750\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_6.jpg 750w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_6-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Vanguard Properties\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A little stuffy for Netflix and Chill, but it'll do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25368\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_8.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-25368\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_8.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Vanguard Properties\" width=\"750\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_8.jpg 750w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_8-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Vanguard Properties\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>No butt shall be left chairless! Also, what exactly is going on in that painting? Umbilical cord drama?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25366\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_10.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-25366\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_10.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Vanguard Properties\" width=\"750\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_10.jpg 750w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_10-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Vanguard Properties\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ohhh, okay, \u003cem>this\u003c/em> is where the Netflix and Chill goes down. Got it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25364\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_12.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-25364\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_12.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Vanguard Properties\" width=\"750\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_12.jpg 750w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_12-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Vanguard Properties\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hanging framed paintings in front of books is an interesting choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25361\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_15.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-25361\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_15.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Vanguard Properties\" width=\"750\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_15.jpg 750w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_15-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Vanguard Properties\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Huge sink means you can wait even longer to wash your dishes. Oh, who am I kidding, that's what the dishwasher or maid is for. And I spy with my little eye a fully-stocked wine cellar. Let the generous pours wash over us all!\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25360\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_16.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-25360\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_16.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Vanguard Properties\" width=\"750\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_16.jpg 750w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_16-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Vanguard Properties\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Put your shoes on while sitting on this love seat at the foot of the bed...\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25359\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_17.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-25359\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_17.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Vanguard Properties\" width=\"750\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_17.jpg 750w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_17-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Vanguard Properties\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>...or put your shoes on while sitting in front of the bedroom fireplace. Up to you. Being filthy rich is all about meaningless, endless options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25356\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_20.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-25356\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_20.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Vanguard Properties\" width=\"750\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_20.jpg 750w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_20-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Vanguard Properties\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Woah! Mallard-obsessed Bunny from \u003cem>Sex and the City\u003c/em> strikes again!\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25353\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_23.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-25353\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_23.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Vanguard Properties\" width=\"750\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_23.jpg 750w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_23-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Vanguard Properties\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If I'm handing over $4.15 million, the least the former owner could do is leave the tension rod behind for my dirty shower curtain. Geez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25351\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_25.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-25351\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_25.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Vanguard Properties\" width=\"750\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_25.jpg 750w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_25-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Vanguard Properties\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Every mansion needs a useless room no one wants to hang out in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25349\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_27.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-25349\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_27.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Vanguard Properties\" width=\"750\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_27.jpg 750w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_27-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Vanguard Properties\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ahh, a little slice of Versailles, minus all the riff raff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25348\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_28.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-25348\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_28.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Vanguard Properties\" width=\"750\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_28.jpg 750w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_28-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Vanguard Properties\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A perfect place to erect a statue of yourself or your accountant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And this ends our journey through this pop culture landmark. Again, lend me some money or buy this pad yourself and let me be your Kato Kaelin. Either way.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>Hey, can I borrow $4.15 million? I left my trust fund in a past lifetime. You see, I need the cash because \u003ca href=\"http://vanguardproperties.com/RESI-446051.php\">the 1883 Victorian \u003c/a>that served as the exterior for the \u003cem>Full House \u003c/em>home is up for sale. It's a piece of television history (and my childhood) and I kind of need to live in it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm going to take your silence as a hard pass on lending me millions so I'll settle for taking a photo tour:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25375\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 362px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-25375\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_1.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Vanguard Properties\" width=\"362\" height=\"500\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Vanguard Properties\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There she is! A fresh new coat of paint and a tree that's really grown since the first season of \u003cem>Full House\u003c/em>. Way to reach for the stars, tree!\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25374\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 397px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-25374\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_2.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Vanguard Properties\" width=\"397\" height=\"499\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Vanguard Properties\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>SFGate \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/realestate/article/Famous-Full-House-home-hits-the-market-for-7947743.php\">says\u003c/a>, \"The home's off-white exterior that appeared in 'Full House' has been painted a dark purple and the famous red door is gone, but anyone would probably agree the richer paint color looks far more elegant.\" Nope. Anyone would probably \u003cem>not\u003c/em> agree. #JusticefortheRedDoor!\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25373\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 372px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_3.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-25373\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_3.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Vanguard Properties\" width=\"372\" height=\"499\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Vanguard Properties\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Okay, fine, the doors are \"elegant.\" Nostalgia has a tendency to get me riled up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25372\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_4.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-25372\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_4.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Vanguard Properties\" width=\"750\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_4.jpg 750w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_4-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Vanguard Properties\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wow. This is definitely...a look. Potato sack chic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25370\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_6.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-25370\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_6.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Vanguard Properties\" width=\"750\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_6.jpg 750w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_6-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Vanguard Properties\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A little stuffy for Netflix and Chill, but it'll do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25368\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_8.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-25368\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_8.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Vanguard Properties\" width=\"750\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_8.jpg 750w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_8-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Vanguard Properties\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>No butt shall be left chairless! Also, what exactly is going on in that painting? Umbilical cord drama?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25366\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_10.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-25366\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_10.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Vanguard Properties\" width=\"750\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_10.jpg 750w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_10-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Vanguard Properties\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ohhh, okay, \u003cem>this\u003c/em> is where the Netflix and Chill goes down. Got it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25364\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_12.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-25364\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_12.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Vanguard Properties\" width=\"750\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_12.jpg 750w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_12-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Vanguard Properties\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hanging framed paintings in front of books is an interesting choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25361\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_15.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-25361\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_15.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Vanguard Properties\" width=\"750\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_15.jpg 750w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_15-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Vanguard Properties\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Huge sink means you can wait even longer to wash your dishes. 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