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the media. Three months later, she launched her campaign for governor. Since then, she’s become a phenomenon: shooting into the lead in the crowded gubernatorial primary, confounding her opponents and surging to the front of the field with a populist conserThe former news anchor has Donald Trump’s endorsement and is packing it in to events vative message and 27 years’ worth of name a year before the 2022 election ID from her career in television. Lake faces businessman Steve Gaynor, regent and developer Karrin Taylor Robson, former Congressman Matt Salmon and By Jeremy Duda barnstorming the state, packing people in state Treasurer Kimberly Yee. Reliable pollArizona Mirror for her campaign events. In Cave Creek ing is hard to come by so early in the race. on Oct. 2, it was several hundred. A couple weeks earlier, more than 50 people crowded But what little polling has been made public shows her in the lead. ON A WARM SATURDAY EVENING, into SoZo Coffeehouse in Chandler on a No one questions her frontrunner status. several hundred people milled around the Tuesday morning. The crowd would be conPolitical observers don’t need polls to tell Old West-style trappings of Frontier Town sidered large for just about any candidate, them that Lake is the favorite. The only in Cave Creek, waiting for Kari Lake to take but one volunteer said it was the smaller question is whether she will maintain her the stage. Lake event he’d seen recently. The rally was held to “Back the Blue,” “I’ve never seen hundreds of people go to momentum through the primary election on Aug. 2, 2022. and the crowd shared the pro-law enforcean event over a year out,” said Tyler MonA lot can happen between now and then, ment sentiment. But more than anything, tague, a longtime Republican operative from and other candidates could still pull ahead they were there to back Lake in her bid to the East Valley. become Arizona’s next governor. Few, if any, political operatives in Arizona of Lake, said George Khalaf, a GOP political strategist. But he doubts that will happen. It was a stunning show of support for a have ever seen anything like Lake. When “Right now, the momentum seems decandidate for governor — for anything, really she left Fox 10 after 27 years as a news an— at a time when few voters are even paying chor in March, she recorded a video declar- cently unstoppable,” said Khalaf, who isn’t involved in the gubernatorial race but whose attention to an election that is 13 months ing that she walked away because she had away. to read news she didn’t believe was truthful father’s company is the treasurer for Lake’s Lake has spent the past several months and no longer felt proud to be a member of campaign.
THE ‘UNSTOPPABLE’ KARI LAKE?
FOLLOWING IN TRUMP’S FOOTSTEPS THE PARALLELS BETWEEN LAKE IN 2021 and Donald Trump in 2015 are hard to ignore. Both were celebrities with high name ID who had never run for office, who jumped into their campaigns with populist, conservative messages, buoyed by vigorous social media presences and flurries of rallies that draw in supporters. Both campaigned as outsiders dedicated to shaking up the establishment while decrying the political class they were running against. Both rile up their supporters with pugilistic attitudes toward their opponents, Democrats, the media and anyone else they perceive as enemies. And both quickly vaulted themselves to frontrunner status on a groundswell of grassroots enthusiasm, feeding off the cheers of supporters at large rallies. It came as little surprise when Trump endorsed Lake in late September. She’s done all she can to tie herself to the former president, touting herself as a “Trump Republican,” effusively praising his presidency, policies and his style. “That’s the style that the Republican Party is going in — outsider and someone who is taking folks to task. People want to see a fighter,” Khalaf said.
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Lake rails against vaccine mandates, face mask requirements and other COVID-19 mitigation measures, and speaks at “medical freedom” rallies. She lauds law enforcement, castigating calls to defund police departments, and is a booster of strict border security and enforcement of laws against illegal immigration. And she’s made demands for “election integrity” a central theme of her campaign, promoting baseless claims that the 2020 election was marred by fraud and rigged against Trump. Like Trump, Lake is fond of controversial and outlandish comments paired with combative rhetoric. She calls for the 2020 election to be “decertified” based on bogus fraud allegations, and she’s repeatedly claimed that the likely Democratic nominee may be imprisoned for those same discredited allegations. In addition to her endorsement from Trump, she touts the backing of controversial figures like former National Security Advisor Mike Flynn and Congressman Paul Gosar. She has urged Arizona State University students to defy a face mask mandate and said it’s “child abuse” to make children wear masks. When health care officials and pharmaceutical companies began advocating for a third booster shot for COVID vaccines, she tweeted, “The COVID vaccine is a nightmare that will NEVER stop.” Lake’s story seems almost tailor-made to appeal to Trump’s most fervent supporters — a lifelong journalist who quit the business because she refused to go along with the liberal bias and “fake news” her industry promoted. Voters are tired of career politicians pushing agendas for special interests and big donors, Lake told the Arizona Mirror. And that’s driving the grassroots energy behind her campaign. Everywhere Lake goes, she said, she draws record crowds. “They’ve had it. The pendulum’s coming back, and it’s coming back as a wrecking ball. And there’s no returning from this. We’re not going back to the way things used to be, with
these politicians who run us into the ground, don’t give a damn about our issues and what matters to us,” Lake said. Lake emulates Trump’s style better than anyone, said Republican political consultant Nathan Sproul. “For someone who’s never run for office before, her instincts about what to say and when to say it are about as good as anybody I’ve ever seen,” Sproul said. “She has a very instinctive understanding of what her voter wants to hear and when.” She has charisma and has an undeniable stage presence. Her background on television is serving her well on the campaign trail, with a level of comfort in front of cameras and crowds that few first-time candidates can achieve, Sproul said. Steve Martinson, a 69-year-old retiree from Glendale who attended Lake’s Cave Creek rally, said few things compare to the energy at her campaign events. “I’ve been to Super Bowls, I’ve been to other things, and just the energy there was just amazing compared to even those. You leave pretty jacked up. You kind of get that similar feeling on a smaller scale here,” said Martinson, who said he rarely attends campaign events, outside of Trump’s February 2020 rally at Veterans Memorial Coliseum. Lake’s style, along with her message, is a big draw for many of her supporters. “I thought she was awesome. I love everything that she stands for. I love how she’s so forward, that she’s not scared to talk about the policies,” said Jennifer Nelson, a Chandler housewife, as she left Lake’s campaign event at SoZo Coffeehouse. “I’m a big Trump supporter, so I love everything that she has to stand for.”
CONSERVATIVE CREDENTIALS SALMON HAS REPEATEDLY
castigated Lake as a fake Republican, an actress who’s just saying what people want
to hear, whose true colors will eventually shine through for the GOP faithful to see. She switched her voter registration from Republican to independent in 2006 and to Democrat in 2008, switching back to the GOP in 2012. An independent expenditure supporting Salmon, Arizona Best, is already running television ads criticizing her for contributions she made to Democratic presidential candidates John Kerry in 2004 and Barack Obama in 2008. Lake has said the $500 she gave to Kerry was due to her disillusionment with the war in Iraq. She said the $350 that federal campaign finance records say she gave to Obama — the money is listed as coming from a K Halperin, her legal, married last name, at the time — was actually given by her husband, not her. As to her time as a registered Democrat, Lake reminded a crowd at a Lincoln Republican Women meeting in Scottsdale last month that Trump, Ronald Reagan and Arizona GOP Chairwoman Kelli Ward used to be Democrats as well. Other Lake critics take a similar view. Former Arizona Republican Party Chairman Robert Graham, an ardent Trump supporter since the early days of his first campaign, said Lake has fooled people for now. But as
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people learn about Lake, Graham predicted, they’ll be “stunned” by what comes out. “People haven’t had time to vet her,” Graham said. “She’s going to have to answer a lot of questions, that’s for darn sure.” But those attacks didn’t work against Trump in 2016, and Sproul doubted they’ll work against Lake now. “There’s a new breed of Republican voter out there that is willing to overlook what, 10 or 15 years ago would’ve been unpardonable sins for a candidate to have made,” he said. “Fifteen years ago, if a Republican candidate contributed a significant amount of money to a Democrat candidate in years prior, that would’ve been game, set, match.” The line of attack over Lake’s contributions to Democrats and her previous voter registration won’t get her opponents very far, Montague predicted. Trump has largely inoculated her from that. Numerous attendees of her rally in Cave Creek said the same. “It’s OK to make mistakes. It’s just what you personally believe in now. That’s the whole point of what’s going on,” Art Haduch, a 70-year-old retiree from Surprise, told the Mirror as he waited for Lake’s rally to begin in Cave Creek. CONTINUED ON PAGE 6
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Mike and Teresa Rowe, of Anthem, weren’t bothered by Lake’s old contributions, either. “It matters now, not what happened 15 years ago,” Mike said. “People’s eyes were opened over the past four years,” Teresa added. Trump’s endorsement will likely make it harder to cast Lake as a fake conservative. “The party is owned by Donald Trump right now, so it’s in fact an endorsement right now by the Republican Party,” said Republican strategist Chuck Coughlin. Sean Duffy, a 49-year-old electrician who moved from Massachusetts to Scottsdale in June, said he wasn’t supporting anyone in the race for governor. Then he heard about the Trump endorsement. Four days later, he was at his first Lake rally in Cave Creek. For some supporters at the Cave Creek rally, Trump’s endorsement sent an unmistakable message. “Kari Lake got endorsed by President Trump, so I know she’s going to be for the people,” said Stacey Goodman, a retired police detective from Long Island, New York, who now lives in Cave Creek. Not everyone in Cave Creek was quite as sold on Lake. Brad Nielsen, of Gilbert, is tentatively supporting Salmon for now. But he came to the rally to learn more about Lake. “He has a proven track record. So, we’ll see. I don’t know what Kari stands for,” he said. Heidi Grande, who attended the rally with Nielsen, also wanted to know more about Lake. “Not just what she stands for, but what does she bring to the table? I know her experience, but what does that do for us when it comes to a governor position? I’d like to know,” said Grande, a Republican precinct committeeman in legislative District 12. Ken Varichak, a retired Scottsdale police officer who now works in casino surveillance, said he likes a lot of what Lake has to say and appreciates her support for law enforcement. But despite wearing a Lake shirt to the rally, he expressed reservations about her. Varichak said he was a big supporter of Trump’s policies. But he isn’t a fan of Trump’s rhetoric and his “turning on people,” like he did with Gov. Doug Ducey when the governor certified the 2020 general election results, and he has some
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Kari Lake holds up Donald Trump’s endorsement at an Oct. 2 event in Cave Creek.
concerns that Lake’s rhetoric is similar. Varichak said he also likes Salmon. He has a good, conservative résumé, Varichak said, and thinks he, like Ducey, wouldn’t be afraid to certify the election and flat out tell Trump that he lost. “Honestly, if it’s too close to a Trumpian thing, I probably will lean away and go towards more of like a Matt Salmon,” Varichak, who lives in the community of Desert Hills, near New River, said of Lake.
REMEMBER NOVEMBER SOME REPUBLICANS WORRY THAT Lake’s outlandish statements and enthusiastic support for conspiracy theories could be a problem if she’s the GOP nominee next year. Lake has unabashedly embraced the false narrative that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump, including in Arizona, where Joe Biden won by just 10,457 votes. She has touted the dubious findings of the so-called “audit” commissioned by Senate President Karen Fann, and has joined the vocal chorus of people on the Republican fringe who are calling for the 2020 election in Arizona to be decertified, something that constitutional and legal scholars largely agree is impossible. She has even demanded that Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, the Democratic frontrunner in the gubernatorial race, be imprisoned for an undefined role in the unproven fraud that Lake claims took place last November. “Frankly, I think she should be locked up,” Lake told the crowd in Cave Creek, which responded by starting a Trumpian chant of, “Lock her up!” Lake’s campaign spokesman, Ross Trumble, wouldn’t say what specific crimes she believed Hobbs had committed or
whatever there was of any malfeasance on the secretary’s part. No such evidence has ever become public, though supporters of the “Big Lie,” as many have dubbed the discredited election fraud claims, have at times become so threatening to Hobbs that Ducey provided her with a Department of Public Safety security detail. Kathy Petsas, a lifelong GOP activist and the Republican chairwoman in legislative District 28, found Lake’s rhetoric about Hobbs to be concerning. “That is outrageous, it is dangerous and it is not the way a serious leader communicates with the public,” Petsas said. Sproul doesn’t see the electability argument getting much traction among primary voters. And it may not even be as true as some might wish, he said. After all, critics said Reagan and Trump were unelectable, too. “I don’t for one second think she’s unelectable in Arizona,” Sproul said.
OTHER PATHS TO VICTORY LAKE MAY BE IN THE LEAD, BUT it’s still early in the campaign cycle, and most primary voters are still undecided. If the Republican nomination can be wrested from Lake, most GOP observers believe it’s up to either Robson or Salmon to do it. Robson is almost completely unknown to voters. She’s never run for office, and though she’s long been a mainstay in the political world, her work has been out of the spotlight. She’s served on the Arizona Board of Regents, a relatively low-profile entity that few voters follow closely enough to know who serves on it, and been active behind the scenes in things like overseeing a political action committee that helped Republicans maintain their slim majorities in the legislature.
The biggest advantage that Robson may bring to the table is money. She and her husband are wealthy, and observers predict that she may spend tens of millions on the campaign. Robson has also assembled a large campaign finance committee — its members include many establishment GOP establishment donors — indicating that she won’t rely on personal wealth alone. “Karrin Taylor Robson’s going to have the resources to reach every Arizona Republican in this state. She will not be outspent in this campaign, and in a race like this that is going to stretch well over a year, it’s going to take a lot of money to get over the finish line,” said Matthew Benson, a spokesman for Robson. There are still a lot of undecided voters in the race, Montague said, and Robson can win them over. But she may need to spend $20 million to do it, he said. Salmon has the advantage of name recognition from voters from his two stints in Congress, the second of which ran from 2013-2016, as well as his narrow loss to Janet Napolitano in the 2002 governor’s race. He had a reputation as a conservative renegade in Congress in the 1990s, and after his return to Congress years later he helped found the conservative House Freedom Caucus. Since jumping into the race in June, he has released a ceaseless torrent of endorsements, ranging from local law enforcement officials to U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz. “Governor’s races often come down to trust and results, and Republican Primary voters in Arizona are looking for a trusted and proven conservative with a record of getting things done,” Salmon campaign spokesman Colin Shipley said in a statement to the Mirror. Montague said Salmon is still in the mix, but he’ll need Lake to stumble first. And he’ll need to pivot away from the platform he’s been running with so far. Salmon has tried to emulate Lake’s message, Montague said, but that won’t work when Lake is doing it better. “Can he reinvent himself or can he hang back if she stumbles?” Montague asked. “He’s going to have to help voters find a reason to vote for him.” Lake has little to say about most of her opponents, but regularly trashes Salmon. As a career politician and a former lobbyist, most recently for Arizona State University, she describes Salmon as the embodiment of the “swamp” that Trump campaigned against, and questions why he thinks he CONTINUED ON PAGE 11
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DANEHY IT IS TIME FOR KYRSTEN SINEMA TO GO By Tom Danehy, tucsoneditor@tucsonlocalmedia.com HERE ARE 10 REASONS WHY Kyrsten Sinema must go away. In fact, the very concept of Kyrsten Sinema must go away. And she must go away now. Not next year or, God help us, in 2024, when we Arizonans who actually give a damn about our state and country find a primary candidate to knock the multi-colored crap out of her. We can’t recall her. The Republicans in the Senate certainly won’t do anything to her. She’s their staunchest (and strangest) ally. We’re going to have to trick her. We should get President Biden to appoint her as Ambassador to Cotton Candy Land, where everything is pink and sweet and there are no mean people trying to figure out what is bouncing around in that hollow head of hers. 1. She’s freakin’ nuts! Now, I know that it’s crazy for a layperson such as myself to try to psychoanalyze somebody, but this one’s easy. Maybe she’s one of those high-functioning sociopaths that we see in the movies. Those things never end well. 2. Her absurd fascination with the filibuster is allowing Senate Republicans to run out the clock on this vital legislative session (nothing will get done next year because it’s a midterm election year) while their counterparts in various state governments do all they can to make future elections for whites
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only, thus ensuring that America’s clear majority will be disenfranchised, ignored, and maybe even subjugated by tyrants who will do anything to cling to minority power for the next few years. She’s like the basketball player standing in the lane on defense who watches somebody drive straight to the basket for a layup. When asked later why she didn’t help, she will say, “I had my man; she didn’t score.” When America turns into something that’s not America, how hollow will her words sound when she says, “I stood up for the filibuster, an outdated and horribly misused anachronism.” 3. She and her partner in gross incompetence, West Virgina Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin, are content to fiddle while democracy burns. And it’s burning. 4. She’s the most embarrassing member of Congress from Arizona and that’s really saying something. You might figure that it’s Andy Biggs, who got up in front of God and everybody and put in the official Congressional record that he doesn’t know who won the presidential vote in Arizona in 2020. He does. They all do. It’s just that, between them, they don’t have the combined capacity of one testicle and therefore can’t bring themselves to utter the truth. Biggs’ justification for repeating the Big
Lie: He claims that someone who worked at a polling station “had some concerns.” Paul Gosar, who is openly racist and anti-Semitic, is worse than Andy Biggs. But at least we know where both of those talking rectums stand. They don’t pretend to care about democracy or fairness or skin that’s darker than Dolly Parton’s. They’re just really bad people doing really bad things for really bad reasons. But at least they don’t pretend to be something else. Sinema pretends to be serious, but she’s a buffoon. 5. Her backstory keeps changing. That’s a major red flag. 6. Forget about being the most-embarrassing Arizona politician right now. She’s the most-embarrassing EVER. Evan Mecham can now rest in peace, having passed on the mantle. 7. She’s like the idiot who has a bumper sticker that reads “I’m a maverick.” True mavericks would never feel the need to publicly self-identify. And neither do they ostentatiously attempt to prove it on a daily basis. 8. I know that it’s a matter of personal style (or complete lack thereof) and Lord knows no one will ever accuse me of being a slave to fashion, but I’m not a United States Senator, for goodness sake! How does she expect anybody to take her seriously when she shows up to work dressed like she spent the night on a park bench after being thrown out of the monster truck rally for being too obnoxious?
I completely understand that no man should EVER tell a woman how to dress, but she is in Washington doing a job for her constituents. She’s got to know that many of the knuckleheads with whom she must deal (at least partially) judge her by her appearance. If she wants to be taken seriously, maybe she can start by taking herself seriously. 9. We have no idea where she stands on anything. She doesn’t make statements, she doesn’t give interviews, she doesn’t do her damn job. It’s painfully obvious that what Kyrsten Sinema wants is for people to be obsessed with trying to figure out what Kyrsten Sinema wants. I’m firmly convinced that there’s no there, there. 10. She was elected under false pretenses. She caught the luckiest of breaks, running in a midterm year against a horribly flawed Republican candidate (Martha McSally) who had doomed her chances by tying herself to the worst president in United States history. (McSally would stupidly repeat that mistake in 2020, all the while being humiliated by Trump.) I HATE that I voted for Sinema. She’s a fraud and a danger. Her political career is over. She can’t win in 2024. Republicans won’t vote for her because she’s not a Republican and Democrats won’t vote for her because she’s not a Democrat. She should leave now before she can do any more harm. ■
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A PHOENIX RISES FROM THE ASHES A look back at one of Tucson’s most astonishing space missions in an excerpt from the upcoming book Discovering Mars others thus came up with the idea of creating a low-cost and high-innovation set of missions following the Discovery model, but specifically for NASA’s long-term A SUCCESSFUL AND HISTORIC MARS Mars Exploration Program. The resulting landing occurred during the eventful first “Mars Scout” program announced its first mission proposal opportunity in 2002. decade of the 21st century. NASA’s DisAround 25 proposals were submitted, covery program of small, competitively selected missions led by individual scien- reinforcing the notion that the community tists was proving to be a success not only had lots of great Mars-specific mission ideas to pitch to NASA. in terms of cost-effective science return, The winner of that first Mars Scout but also in terms of innovative ideas captured for new missions. (The program typ- competition, announced in 2003, was a mission called Phoenix, designed to ically attracted around 25– 30 proposals from the planetary science community for study polar processes on the Red Planet each of the four open competitive oppor- using the mothballed copy of the failed MPL design that had been designated tunities that had been announced since for the canceled Mars Surveyor ’01 lander. 1994.) However, the program presented an additional hurdle for Mars exploration: The mission was led by the University of Arizona (the first Mars mission ever led while Mars missions could be proposed by a public university), in collaboration to Discovery, they had to compete with with JPL, Lockheed, NASA/Langley, and outstanding mission proposals to the rest of the solar system and thus had low other partners. This time Peter Smith, odds of success and couldn’t be built into the impish lead of the Mars Pathfinder camera team who had helped make that a more strategic component of NASA’s mission so successful and influential, Mars program. G. Scott Hubbard and By William Sheehan and Jim Bell tucsoneditor@tucsonlocalmedia.com
would lead an entire mission of his own. Part of the mission’s goal was to recover some of the science of MPL, but more importantly the mission was also designed to be a “ground truth” test of new results that had come from orbital imaging and spectroscopy since then. This time the mission would be targeted for a high northern latitude (68°N), partly because of celestial mechanics considerations, but also partly because Mars Odyssey Gamma Ray Spectrometer (GRS) and Neutron Spectrometer (NS) mapping data had supported the hypothesis that significant amounts of ground ice were buried just below the surface at those high latitudes. Could Phoenix verify the Odyssey results from the ground? If so, the Odyssey maps could be used with confidence to identify ice deposits elsewhere on the planet. The Phoenix scientific instruments included a high-resolution color stereo camera system known as the Surface Stereo Imager (SSI) built by the University of Arizona, situated atop an extended mast at a height two meters above the
ground in order to simulate the 3D view that a tall person would have standing on the surface; another color camera on the lander’s robotic arm for close-up imaging of the surface; a mass spectrometer called the Thermal and Evolved Gas Analyzer (TEGA) with eight small ovens that the arm could drop samples into for chemical analysis; a small “wet chemistry” lab called the Microscopy, Electrochemistry and Conductive Analyzer (MECA), where chemistry and microscopy experiments could be performed on arm-delivered soil samples; special probes and sensors to measure the temperature, humidity and other properties of the soil and atmosphere; and a special rotating digging/ scraping tool called a rasp that was designed to enable some of the hoped-for ice to be scooped up and delivered to the lander’s chemistry instruments. Phoenix was launched on Aug. 4, 2007, and after a leisurely (compared to Spirit and Opportunity) and mostly uneventful CONTINUED ON PAGE 10
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nine-plus-month cruise it performed a picture-perfect landing in the high Martian arctic on May 25, 2008. The landing was monitored closely in real time by the MGS and Odyssey orbiters, as had become NASA’s nervous tradition since the Mars mission failures in 1999. The successful landing of Phoenix was a testament to the significant additional time, money, and brain power that had gone into figuring out, between 2005 and 2007, why the original MPL system design had failed nine years earlier, as well as the skill of the JPL, Lockheed and Langley team that was able to modify the system and then retest and validate the changes during that narrow window of time. Within five sols (Mars days) of landing, Smith’s team had deployed the arm and taken stunning photos with the arm camera of the “blast zone” made by the retro-rockets underneath the lander. The platy white patches of ground looked just like the predicted buried water ice! Verification required more careful measurements, however, and so the arm was commanded to dig trenches around the lander to try to uncover and scoop up some ice directly. Several white patches were exposed in these trenches, and the observation that the patches faded into the background within a few days was consistent with exposed ice that sublimated (transitioned directly from solid to vapor) once it was exposed to the thin atmosphere. Eventually, after some snags were resolved with the sample delivery system, fragments of dirty ice scraped up by the rasp were successfully dumped into TEGA to confirm—quantitatively—that the white material just beneath the dusty, pebbly surface was indeed water ice. The Phoenix team had given the community the ground truth it was seeking.
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Other important discoveries from the Phoenix chemical measurements included the detection of minor amounts of carbonates and perchlorate salts in the soils measured in the TEGA instrument ovens. Remote-sensing searches for evidence of carbonate minerals like calcite, dolomite or ankerite on Mars have been conducted for decades, since the formation of such minerals in a CO2-rich atmosphere could provide additional evidence for a putative warmer and wetter epoch earlier in the planet’s history. While some evidence for relatively small amounts of carbonate distributed widely in the bright global soils or locally in specific outcrops has been found from previous and ongoing infrared remote sensing measurements (as described earlier), the first direct detection of small amounts (3–6 weight percent) of carbonates came from measurements on the Phoenix landing site soils. The origin of these minerals is uncertain, but it could be related to the formation of altered ejecta by the large impacts that created the northern lowlands, by the settling and mixing of carbonate-bearing global dust in the soils at the site, or by the in-place weathering and alteration of precursor soil minerals with the aid of water or ice at the site. Calcium and magnesium perchlorate minerals (chemical salts containing the ClO4−ion) were also discovered in small but significant abundances (up to 0.5 weight percent) in the soil. Perchlorate is a strong oxidant, and is thought to form in the atmosphere and/or on the surface of Mars from the action of harsh ultraviolet (UV) radiation on chloride-rich dust or soils. Perchlorate has two important characteristics that make the discovery particularly relevant for Mars research. First, it can accelerate the breakdown of complex organic molecules,
especially in environments with high UV radiation. This is why some researchers speculate that perhaps the presence of perchlorates could explain the lack of detection of organic molecules by the Viking Lander biology experiments. Second, perchlorate salts act as a kind of antifreeze when dissolved in water, significantly lowering the solution’s freezing point and thus, potentially, allowing the water to remain liquid in certain places even in the normally well-below-freezing environment of the Martian surface. Some scientists thus speculate that perhaps the water-related activity possibly implicated in high-resolution images of gullies and other similar landforms was enabled by the mixture of perchlorates and groundwater. Phoenix was a solar-powered mission designed for just a three-month primary mission in the harsh low-sun, low- temperature environment of the Martian polar regions. Ultimately, the mission lasted two months longer than planned before succumbing to the inevitable shortage of sunlight and solar heating as winter approached. The lander was likely crushed under the weight of a thick load of seasonal solid CO2 (dry ice) that snowed out of the atmosphere as the polar night set in. Regardless, as the first demonstration of the new Mars Scout program of low-cost, focused-science Mars missions, Phoenix was judged to be a great success. ■ William Sheehan has been an amateur astronomer most of his life, and is a leading historian of astronomy, with 20 books to his name, including Planets and Perception, Worlds in the Sky, The Planet Mars, and (with Dale P. Cruikshank) Discovering Pluto, all published by University of Arizona Press. A current member of the International Astronomical Union’s Working Group of Planetary System nomenclature, he has received a Guggenheim Fellowship for astronomy writing and is a recipient of the Gold Medal of the Oriental Astronomical Association. The Main Belt Asteroid 16037 Sheehan was named in his honor. Jim Bell is a professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University, and was president of The Planetary Society from 2008 to 2020. He has performed research using Hubble, Mars landers and rovers, Voyager, and orbiters at Mars, the Moon, and several asteroids. He is an author of many popular science books, including Postcards from Mars, The Space Book, The Interstellar Age, The Ultimate Interplanetary Travel Guide, The Earth Book, and Hubble Legacy, and he has received the AAS Carl Sagan Medal for public communication in science. The Main Belt Asteroid 8146 Jimbell was named in his honor. Excerpted with permission from Discovering Mars: A History of Observation and Exploration of the Red Planet, by William Sheehan and Jim Bell. Published by UA Press. © 2021 by the UA Board of Regents.
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can win despite losing the governor’s race in 2002. “On Day One, he owes 30 years of political favors,” Lake said during the event at SoZo Coffeehouse. “Not to mention he’s been a lobbyist and has a soft spot in his heart for the communist Chinese regime.” Lake’s comments about China refer to the Chinese-government funded Confucius Institute at ASU that provided Chinese language and cultural education. The ASU branch of the institute opened in 2007, long before Salmon joined the university in 2017. ASU shut it down in 2019 after the National Defense Authorization Act for that year barred universities that receive U.S. Department of Defense funding for Chinese language study from hosting the Confucius Institute. As for Robson, Lake said, “I don’t want to attack the people who are running. It takes a lot to run. I’m working very hard. … Anybody who wants to run can run. Anybody who wants to pour their own money into a race to try to drum up support can run.” Most observers believe Gaynor and Yee have tougher roads ahead of them. Gaynor has the potential to bankroll his own campaign, Sproul noted, but it’s unknown how much he’s willing to spend. In 2018, he spent about $2.6 million of his own money, defeating an embattled incumbent in the Republican primary for secretary of state while narrowly losing the general election to Hobbs. Yee spent nine years in the legislature before getting elected as treasurer in 2018. But the Treasurer’s Office is a relatively anonymous post and she’s not well known to the public. Ducey was state treasurer before getting elected governor in 2014, but accomplished that feat through self-funding and prolific fundraising.
THE LONG GAME LAKE IS FORMIDABLE AND HER early lead is daunting, but it’s still early. “We’re not even a year out right now. In politics, a month can be 10 years, practically. So much can change a week from now, a month from now and certainly a year from now,” Petsas said. For now, Sproul said Lake’s opponents are better off saving their money until the race heats up. But there may be only so much time left if they hope to stop Lake from locking up the nomination early. “Do you want to spend significant cash early doing rallies, or do you want to
hold onto your resources until later in the campaign, when most voters are paying attention? There’s obviously a danger of the candidates not doing enough because she can get too far ahead and they can’t catch up,” he said. And despite the similarities between Trump’s 2016 run and Lake today, there are significant differences, Sproul said. Trump tapped into the populist wing of the party early, taking a sizable minority of the vote while 15 other candidates vied for the rest of the votes. He didn’t really expand that lead until he locked up the nomination. Meanwhile, the rest of the field was so crowded that the other candidates couldn’t clear the way and expand their leads in the way they needed to have a better shot at dislodging Trump from his position at the front of the pack. Perhaps the most important difference, said Barrett Marson, a consultant with the pro-Salmon Arizona Best committee, is that Trump’s rise to the top of the field in 2015 was fueled by saturation media coverage that simply won’t exist in the Arizona governor’s race. Trump dominated every news cycle: If cable news outlets weren’t showing his speeches or allowing him to call into their shows, they were still talking about him around the clock. And though the big crowds are impressive, that alone doesn’t mean she’ll win, Marson said. After all, Trump packed thousands of people into Veterans Memorial Coliseum last year but still lost Arizona to Biden. “I’m not saying she doesn’t have her rabid fans. But you need more than rabid fans to win an election. You need some money. You need media exposure. You need TV ads. You need grassroots efforts. You need a lot,” Marson said. “They came together for Donald Trump. I’m not denying that. But Kari Lake is not Donald Trump.” Sproul, too, said Lake’s support and the turnout at her rallies represents a large amount of enthusiasm from a small segment of the electorate. He’s seen candidates start their primary campaigns with a dominating share of the vote, only to lose to people who started out in single digits. The race isn’t over, Khalaf said. But he had a hard time seeing how anyone else will defeat her in the primary. “Something dramatic would have to happen for anyone else to have a serious shot at taking her out in the primary at this point,” he said. ■ This story originally ran in AZ Mirror.
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Editor’s Note: While we are delighted to see Tucsonans once again gathering for fun events, we are also aware that the Delta variant is in widespread circulation. Please consider getting vaccinated against COVID if you haven’t yet and following CDC guidance, which includes wearing masks at crowded indoor events. Keep yourself and others safe—the pandemic isn’t over yet. Kimono Monogatari – “Kimono Tales.” Did you know that the literal translation of kimono is “thing to wear”? This means this traditional Japanese robe has served as a blank canvas for decorators to create wearable pieces of art for centuries. Yume Japanese Gardens is launching a new exhibit, displaying a valuable selection of vintage and modern kimono. Come learn about how stories have been woven, embroidered and dyed into these textiles to reflect artists’ aesthetic values over the last century. Showing Oct. 15 through Dec. 31. Yume Japanese Gardens, 2130 N. Alvernon Way. Exhibit included with garden admission, which is $13 adults, $10 seniors, $9 students & military, and $6 for kids 3 to 15. HUB Rooftop Dinner Fall Series: Sonoran Wines. Welcome to the fall edition of these fancy dinners on the rooftop of Playground Bar & Lounge. This week, they’ve paired up with the team at Sonoran Wines on a five-course dinner with some of the best wines in the state. They’ve got everything from sweet potato galette to rosemary-braised Duroc pork shank, from butternut squash bisque to ricotta pumpkin pancakes. And each course is carefully paired with a complementary wine. So, so good. Don’t miss it. The weather is perfect for outdoor dining right now, too! 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 21. Playground Bar & Lounge – Rooftop Patio, 278 E. Congress St. $95 per person, plus tax and tip. Make reservations at 207-8201.
Marana Fall Festival. The candles are lit, the sweaters are on, and the pumpkin-flavored desserts are prepared. It’s fall! Head up to Marana to celebrate for the evening. The Onesall Band will be playing live funk and rock music, carnival rides are just a dollar each, and you can visit the Budweiser Beer Garden to take off that summer edge. Kids aged 4 to 6 can also register to try out Mutton Bustin’, if they’re feeling brave! For something a little more low key, go frolicking and taking photos through the Sunflower Field. Plus, of course, tons and tons of food and shops. 5 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 16. Marana Heritage River Park Farm, 12375 N. Heritage Park Dr. Parking is limited!
by Emily Dieckman Zin, Blues & BBQ. Most people know the story of the Three Wise Men bringing baby Jesus frankincense, gold and myrrh. Do you know the lesser-known tale of when they returned for his 21st birthday, with zinfandel, blues music and smoked brisket? Okay, that’s probably not true, but those things do make an excellent combination, and at this event, Hacienda del Sol is serving up all three. Paul Green & Midnight Blue will be playing blues music, local wine distributors will be serving up over two dozen varieties of Zinfandel, Ranch House Brewery will be serving draft beer, and the menu is fantastic: Pit roasted suckling pig, smoked brisket, shrimp and grits, baby back ribs, grilled salmon, crawfish, and way more. 5 to 8 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 17. Hacienda del Sol, 5501 N. Hacienda del Sol Road. $85 per adult with alcohol, $65 per adult without. Call 5293500 to reserve tickets. 21+.
Dry Powder. The next play in Live Theatre Workshop’s fall season is about the 1%. Written by Sarah Burgess and the winner of multiple awards, it will have its first staging at Live Theatre Workshop. It tells the story of business partners Rick, Seth and Space Saturday at Flandrau. Lots of cool Jenny, who work at a private equity firm and are things going on at Flaundrau this week- navigating publicity nightmares, high-stakes dealings and the true price of success. Thursday, Oct. end! From 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., it’s James 14 through Saturday, Nov. 20, with 7:30 p.m. shows Webb Telescope Day. Learn about the Thursday through Saturday and 3 p.m. matinees coming launch of the largest and most powerful space telescope ever built, enjoy on Sundays. Live Theatre Workshop, 3322 E. Fort Lowell Road. $23 general, $20 military/senior/stuspecial displays and activities, watch a dent, $15 Thursdays and previews.
live presentation by a UA scientist and catch a planetarium show. Special pricing for shows and exhibits is $5 for the day. Then, from 7 to 9 p.m., celebrate International Observe the Moon Night by, well, observing the moon. At night! You can use powerful telescopes out on the UA Mall, and you can also catch the Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon laser light show at 8 p.m. for $5. Flandrau Science Center & Planetarium, 1601 E. University Blvd. Saturday, Oct. 16. Flying Apron Tucson Cook-Along Classes. With all the restaurant closures over the past year and a half, we all had to take a long, hard look at our culinary skills. Some of us liked what we saw. Some of us didn’t. Some adapted. Some learned to appreciate their microwaves on a whole new level. If you do want to learn more about cooking, it’s never too late. And this cooking class is a fun chance to learn! CJ Hamm of Saguaro Corners will be teaching us how to make fall comfort food, including cumin crusted pork loin with bourbon apple jus, chipotle honey mashed yams and pumpkin panna cotta. 6 to 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 18. Attend in-person for $75 (limited to 25 people) or watch via Zoom for $40 per screen (not per person). Saguaro Corners, 3750 S. Old Spanish Trail (or wherever you want, if you attend virtually). Asian Americans: A History of Identity, Contributions & Challenges. Have you been catching any of the events for the monthlong Tucson Humanities Festival? They’re killing it this year. Among this week’s events is this talk by filmmaker Renee Tajima-Peña, who is behind the award-winning PBS docuseries Asian Americans. If you haven’t seen the show, it uses personal stories to show how Asian Americans shaped American history and identity, from the first wave of Asian immigrants in the 1850s to today. In this talk, also available via livestream, Tajima-Peña will share the details of her own journey. 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 19. Health Sciences Innovation Building, 1670 E. Drachman St. Free.
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BOND VOYAGE
Daniel Craig ends his run as 007 with No Time To Die
By Bob Grimm tucsoneditor@tucsonlocalmedia.com
(2015), and doesn’t want to be a secret agent guy one day longer. After a long pre-credits scene with his latest love interJUST LIKE HARRISON FORD, est, Madeleine (Lea Seydoux), the action Daniel Craig has been bitching about cuts to years later with Bond in semi-replaying the character that made his career tirement, catching fish and not giving two for quite some time now. He’s logged 15 shits about running around with guns. Felix (Jeffrey Wright), a CIA pal from years (five films) playing James Bond, his past, shows up with some disturbing Agent 007, and the last couple of times info: There’s a crazy guy out there with getting him in front of the camera have a new technology that can destroy the produced a lot of whining and some big world. James likes fishing, but, after some checks to get him to play along. Fortunately, his discontent doesn’t show careful consideration, probably realizes he won’t be able to keep fishing if the world on screen. Craig is officially the all-time is destroyed, so he reluctantly gets back best Bond, and No Time to Die is a nice into the groove with the likes of M (Ralph capper for his time with the franchise. Fiennes), Moneypenny (Naomie Harris) The story is suitable enough considering the Craig mindset on the series: Bond and Q (Ben Whishaw). There are a combination of villains this has gotten rather pissy since Spectre
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time out, including the return of Blofeld (Christoph Waltz), and a new baddie played rather quietly by Rami Malek. They aren’t as scary as the nasty technology in play. That technology echoes our current real-world predicament in some ways, so that compounds the tension. Director Cary Joji Fukunaga (True Detective) presides over a couple of the
best action sequences the series has ever seen, including an early motorcycle ride and some spectacularly staged car chases. The set designs, including a vast island fortress where the finale is staged, are also well done. Fukunaga makes a good-looking movie. CONTINUED ON PAGE 16
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A SORDID STORY
New book explores the dark, forgotten history of Tucson By Jeff Gardner jeff@tucsonlocalmedia.com A DOCTOR MURDERED OUTSIDE OF his office. Tucson’s very own “Pied Piper.” The man who killed Santa Claus. These are some of the dark and strange stories in the annals of the Sonoran Desert’s history that can be found in the new book, Murder & Mayhem in Tucson. The History Press publishing company has multiple installations in their Murder & Mayhem series, but now the grim and fascinating collection comes to the Old Pueblo. The new book was compiled and written by Tucson resident Patrick Whitehurst, who has published multiple fiction and nonfiction books about crime and fascinating, if little-known, community tales. Murder & Mayhem in Tucson includes dozens of dark stories, beginning with the battles between Apaches and Spaniards, through the Wild West, the gangster era, and into the 2000s. While
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The past, brazenly aggressive misogynistic undertones of Bond are, thankfully, not really welcomed at the movies anymore. (Some of those older Bonds have not aged well.) This installment features a more grounded, semi sensitive Bond seriously in love and contemplating stuff like parenthood, and also outmatched by more talented fellow female agents. Ana de Armas makes a quick but memorable appearance as Paloma, an agent on one of her first missions but already throwing kicks better than Bond ever could. And Lashana Lynch shows up as an agent that causes a certain dilemma I won’t give away. Flaws? A few. Malek is a little dull as Lyutsifer Safin, the main nemesis who
the book covers more famous stories such as John Dillinger in Hotel Congress and the 2011 Gabby Giffords shooting, it also shines light on forgotten cold cases and stories that are simply too strange to be lost to time. “I’ve always been drawn to dark stories. I’ve been a fan of horror movies my whole life, and I also used to be a newspaper reporter in Sedona, Flagstaff and Prescott,” said Whitehurst, who has also written compendiums about paranormal stories in Monterey and about the history of Tusayan near the Grand Canyon. Whitehurst says he spent six months researching Tucson’s seedy history for the book, gathering information and archival photos from libraries, historical societies, police departments and more. However, he also gathered information simply by speaking with locals to gather lesser-known stories. In total, the book took a year to make: six months of research and six months of writing. “I gathered a ton of stories and looked
spends a lot of time off screen. The power he wields is memorable, but the way he does it is just a little bit slow and ineffectively melodramatic. The plot sometimes twists around in ways that is a bit headache inducing, but everything gets tied together in the end. Craig has always brought of level of class to the role that outshines his predecessors, pretty big words considering one of those was Sean Connery. The Roger Moore phase was hokey, the Dalton phase was boring and Pierce Brosnan was passable. Some of Craig’s installments stand tall as some of the best entertainment the series produced: solid works of depth, expertly crafted with an always compelling central performance. And a less cartoonish Bond. It’s fine that Craig is wrapping up this part of his career. His saying he’d rather die than play the role again does sort of
at which would make a good fit for the book. Basically, I looked at mostly historical stories, but I felt like I had to add a few more recent stories as well,” Whitehurst said. “I don’t intend for the stories to paint a bad picture of the community, just an interesting picture, because of how unique so many of the stories are.” Whitehurst’s history writing fiction noir helps bring life to the historical stories, such as when he describes serial killer Charles Schmid, also known as the “The Pied Piper of Tucson.” In the mid’60s, Schmid killed three or four people and buried them in the desert outside of Tucson. As Whitehurst writes: “In 1964, Schmid stood at five feet, three inches in height. He’d hang out on Speedway Boulevard dressed in jeans with the cuffs rolled up and wearing face makeup he believed added to his tough charisma. That charisma and threatening demeanor worked, too, as the silence that surrounds the murders would prove.” However, the book covers more than murders. It also documents the impact of the 1918 pandemic on Tucson, the 1983 flooding from Tropical Storm Octave, and an Air Force jet that crashed into a grocery store in 1967. Perhaps the most humorous story in the book follows a newspaper editor who, in 1930, became known as the “Man who killed Santa Claus.” So the story goes,
John McPhee was planned to jump out of an airplane dressed as Santa and parachute down into a holiday parade. However, McPhee was too drunk to maneuver the stunt, so he substituted himself with a department store mannequin dressed as Santa. He threw the mannequin out from the plane, but the parachute failed to open. And to onlookers’ horror, Santa Claus plummeted to the ground below. While many of the stories in the book are self-contained and over with, others involve cold cases from the Tucson area that are yet to be solved. “A lot of the cold cases are kind of forgotten. I’m sure there are people who remember them and are hoping they get solved, but to me, they always need more attention because these people lost their lives and there’s no resolution to their story,” Whitehurst said. “I came across quite a few of these cold cases and tried to pick out the most interesting. Especially the ones that were never solved. A lot of the stories really are stranger than fiction. You can’t make some of these things up.” ■
taint the enterprise but, hey, he’s sick of wearing tuxes and drinking martinis. Time for some new blood. Part of the fun of this franchise is its tendency to reboot and start anew with a fresh face. It’ll be very interesting to see where things go in the future. Craig took the
role to new heights, and any successor is going to have a tough mission on their hands to match Craig’s dynamic take. Alright, Hollywood: Let’s see what you got the next time. ■
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MUSIC Psychedelic Furs w/ Royston Langdon 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 16 Rialto Theatre, 318 E. Congress Street, Tucson Tickets start at $33 740-1000 or rialtotheatre.com
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Royston Langdon is bringing his energetic rock music to Tucson when he opens for new wave band The Psychedelic Furs.
DESERT CLEANSING
Royston Langdon loves Tucson ‘for personal reasons’
By Christina Fuoco-Karasinski tucsoneditor@tucsonlocalmedia.com ROYSTON LANGDON IS BEST KNOWN
as Spacehog’s vocalist, but he said he is a songwriter first. The English rocker shows that talent on his second solo project, the six-track EP Chains, which is set for release Oct. 29. Besides his songs, Chains includes covers of David Bowie and Iggy Pop songs. Fans can hear those songs when he opens for the Psychedelic Furs at the Rialto Theatre. Tucson, he said, is a meaningful place for him, personally. “It’s for personal reasons,” Langdon said. “I’m not going to go into it too much because they’re personal. But I
feel like the desert, generally, is a great source of energy. It’s cleansing. It feels very clean to me. I was just talking to someone about it. The sun is this whole disinfectant, especially for an Englishman who has never seen a shadow in his life.” Being in Tucson allowed Langdon to find what was important in his life and grow as a man. The city, he added, was “the start of a really great part of my life of the last 10 years. “That was a great place to begin again and find a new way of living. I know it quite well. I was there for a considerable time.” Other than Tucson, Langdon is inspired by everyday life. He takes those bits and spins it into songs that are “recorded in one way or another.”
“I just write about however I feel that particular day,” added Langdon, who was formerly married to Steven Tyler’s daughter, Liv. “Chains is a little more upbeat than my last record,” he said. “I’m really pleased with how it came out. Songwriting is part of my makeup that goes back a long time, before I existed. I don’t know. I do have a curiosity and a way of seeing the world that I don’t think is necessarily unique.” The lead single of Chains is “Halfway Home,” which, he said, was written with a sense of urgency. He is in a crossroads but still full of life. “Perhaps, with the benefit of a small amount of wisdom, I feel more aware now (than ever before) that one is emotionally always halfway between life and death. “I’m lucky I survive. Many of my peers have not. To that end, the song is about accepting where we’re at in this very moment and, let’s face it, we’ve all been locked up for a while. I, for one, have given rise to the feeling that there’s not a hell of a lot of time left, so let’s get on with it.” On this tour, the Los Angeles-based musician will play an acoustic set while next year will offer an electric, full-band jaunt. “There is something really freeing about standing on the stage alone and seeing where it goes, and having the audience being in a swimming pool—a conscious swimming pool. Sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesn’t. The COVID thing made us aware of how important the human experience is. In our culture, to be a small part of that, is an immense feeling of joy.” ■
By Xavier Omar Otero tucsoneditor@tucsonlocalmedia.com Where God and the Devil shake hands. The week ahead sees Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers, The Psychedelic Furs, Maxim Lando, Skillet, Isaiah Rashad, Candlebox and others performing at a venue near you. Read on.
MARK YOUR CALENDARS… THURSDAY, OCT. 14 Tabbed a “country and Americana cult hero” by Rolling Stone, this raspy-voiced, Texas songwriter’s truth-filled songs have been recorded by country heavy-weights: George Strait, Lyle Lovett, The [Dixie] Chicks, The Highwaymen, and others. For all that, he’s never quite fit in. “The guys who’ve ‘made it’ from Nashville can’t hold Robert’s guitar pick,” producer Lloyd Maines told Rolling Stone. “He never conformed to the business norm. He really wanted to stay true to what he was doing, and to his fans.” For Robert Earl Keen “The Road Goes on Forever.” At Rialto Theater... True story: After a ghost caused a Hotel Congress room recording session to come crashing to a halt, Limbeck returns. At Club Congress...
FRIDAY, OCT. 15 Dubbed “The Springsteen of the Southwest,” by the Asbury Park Press, Roger Clyne and The Peacemakers joined legends Alice Cooper, Linda Ronstadt, Buck Owens, Glen Campbell, Stevie Nicks and Waylon Jennings when they were inducted into the Arizona Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame in 2019. Heady stuff, to be sure. But, just what was Clyne’s early motivation to pursue a career in music? “It was to meet girls,” Clyne told The Arizona Republic. “I was painfully shy and there was a band that needed a singer.” He used his experience performing in the school choir to land the gig. Moreover, he found something else. “I stood in front of a microphone and went, CONTINUED ON PAGE 18
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‘Wow, this is a new kind of power.’” At that moment a metamorphosis took place. Straddling the fence, with one dusty Converse sneaker smeared with the grime of rock ’n’ roll, while the other remains stuck on the sharp leaf-tip spines of an agave plant, Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers’ trademark mariachi horn-laden sound was tailor-made for a fiesta. At Rialto Theater. With The Jons... Fuck Your Expectations. True to the title of their full-length release, AG Club came together in the Bay Area (2017), inspired by their predecessors (alt. rap collectives like Odd Future and A$AP Mob). Their mission: To make genre-less hip-hop that differed from everything that was coming out. “We make shit that we like to listen to,” they said, in an interview with i-D. “…and we listen to a lot of shit, so we make everything.” But, are they ready for world domination? Their attitude is affirmative. “We want to take over every form of media from music to TV, film and fashion. We want to be the group that came in and changed everything forever.” Tall order. They also want an AG Club Meal at McDonald’s. Not your average hip-hop group, AG Club know no bounds. At 191 Toole. With Payday, Sam Truth and ICECOLDBISHOP... Recorded in Louisiana with Grammy nominated musician Tab Benoit, the vast majority of this record is live in the studio. This collection of thoughtfully penned songs began to coalesce in the pre-pandemic world, in early 2019. “I had no idea they would take on a whole new and more poignant meaning as time went on,” Alastair Greene reflects. The New World Blues (2020) is a reflection of current times “and has equal parts light and dark.” A mainstay of the Southern California music scene for close to three decades, bluesman Alastair Greene masterfully bends strings. At Monterey Court...
SATURDAY, OCT. 16 Bred in the London underground, during a time of mass unemployment, where Dickensian working-class politics slammed into visions of Orwellian dystopia, Richard and Tim Butler witnessed the complicated birth of punk and the experience seeped into the leaching pool of their influences. “I had never seen anybody with that much confrontational in-your-face charisma. It was mind-blowing,” says Richard Butler of Johnny Rotten. Embracing the three chord revolution, soon after the Butler’s formed a band. “Music was the only way out,” Tim Butler emphasizes. Awash with dissonant guitars, brash outbursts of saxophone and Richard Butler’s snide growl, The Psychedelic Furs emerged onto the London scene in 1977, far too melodic to be punk. It wasn’t until the release of a more poetic second album Talk Talk Talk (1981)—coinciding with the advent of MTV and lush videos directed by Tim Pope— that The Furs hit their stride. The album spawned “Pretty in Pink.” With the power of a seismic shift, the song resonated far and wide, inspiring John Hughes’ 1986 film of the same name, becoming a pop anthem for outsiders everywhere. Fast forward to 2020. After a storied career, with nothing left to prove, post-punk/new wave survivors The Psychedelic Furs are touring in support of Made Of Rain, their
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New-wave icons The Psychedelic Furs perform at The Rialto Theatre on Saturday, Oct. 16.
first studio album in almost 30 years. At Rialto Theater... Emanating from the Montreal loft scene where all-night parties were de rigueur, David Carriere recalls, “I was listening to a lot of Indian music and Riley [Fleck] was learning how to play afrobeat drums, but we all liked ’70s and ’80s radio pop, like Fleetwood Mac, The Pretenders, Blondie.” At once danceable and dreamlike, Pitchfork calls this weirdo pop band’s latest sun-drenched album, I Feel Alive, “a fitting soundtrack for the sort of glamorous melancholy that reliably passes for depth.” Tops performs “Ballads & Sad Movies.” At 191 Toole. With Tiberius B... Equal parts speaker-abusing distortion and glitchy 808 drum machines, this L.A. indie rock duo’s stadium-size anthems are “unapologetically big, booming, and primed for festival singalongs across the globe.” The Score shoot for the stars. At Club
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SUNDAY, OCT. 17 At 16, pianist Maxim Lando came to prominence when he appeared alongside Lang Lang, performing the part intended for Lang’s injured left hand, at Carnegie Hall’s Gala Opening Night (2017). In his New York debut, the New York Times noted the pianist displayed “wild-eyed danger.” Now, just 19 years old, Lando has been awarded the prestigious Gilmore Young Artist Award (2020) and performs with orchestras of renown around the world. In a program that features compositions by Bach, Liszt, Ravel, and Vine, pianist Maxim Lando performs the first in-person concert of Arizona Friends of Chamber Music’s 2021-2022 season. At Holsclaw Hall... From Memphis—a “place of good abode”—this band’s style has been described by press as nu metal and symphonic metal. John Cooper’s idea is “to unite individuals spiritually and socially.” Rock ’n’ roll, from its inception, has been associated with youthful revolt and transgression. The burning question. How do sex and drugs fit in with Christian rock? Cooper told HM, ”We don’t engage
in those sorts of things. Whether it’s language or alcohol or all the other things that happen at rock shows.” After having sold over 12 million albums worldwide and two Grammy nominations, mastering their formula, on their latest studio album, Victorious (2019), Skillet deliver another set of high-minded rock anthems. At Rialto Theater. With Adelitas Way...
MONDAY, OCT. 18 Briefly entertaining ambitions of becoming a preacher until his stepbrother lent him a copy of OutKast’s ATLiens, shifting his mindset, this Chattanooga hip-hop star began rapping in 10th grade. Delivered in an often nostalgic tone, Isaiah Rashad’s lyrics touch on topics of depression, drug addiction and family. In an interview with Vice, Rashad revealed that at 19, he had attempted suicide a few times before “chickening out.” Earlier this year, after a tumultuous period in near-poverty that included a stint in an Orange County rehab facility, Rashad released The House Is Burning (2021). Pitchfork opined, “That is Isaiah Rashad in microcosm: Someone whose unassuming affect obscures ghastly scars, who’s walked through hell and returned with a shrug.”
From a different pulpit, Rashad spreads the good word. Rashad told GQ that he wants listeners to walk away thinking, “‘Damn, he’s giving me stuff that’s going to help me during my day when I’m going through my own shit.” Isaiah Rashad: Lil Sunny’s Awesome Vacation Tour wheels into town. At Rialto Theater...
TUESDAY, OCT. 19 Re-emerging after 18 months of pandemia, Candlebox frontman Kevin Martin spoke with Aftershocks TV about what it has been like to tour once again. “The venues aren’t at full capacity, so that’s a little odd. But the audiences are great; people are showing up. That’s all you can really hope for.” With the spectre of COVID-19 looming in the back of his mind, Martin adds: “The weirdest thing, really, is just that you can’t really escape into the music. The thought is always there.” The impact of safety protocols has impacted every aspect of life on the road. “So, we wear masks everywhere,” he explained. “We don’t go out. We play the show, we hang out in the dressing room, shower, clean up, whatever, [then] we go straight to the bus and head to the next town. So we’re being as overly cautious
as we can.” Yet, the band has encountered some criticism. “We’ve had people yelling at our crew onstage, ‘Take your fucking mask off,’” Martin says. “I haven’t worked in fucking 18 months. Can I have a moment to make some money, please?” Multi-platinum artists Candlebox tour in support of Wolves (2021), their seventh studio album. At Rialto Theater. Flanked by The Dead Deads and Whole Damn Mess... In addition to being a multidimensional artist and painter, classically trained Yaqui guitarist Gabriel Ayala’s résumé includes performances for a U.S. President and the Pope. At Hotel Congress (plaza)...
THURSDAY, OCT. 21 For the past decade, these idiosyncratic indie rockers have sharpened their teeth on the gritty Phoenix music scene. Their latest album, Soars Era (2021), melds the other-wordly sounds of Baroque and chamber pop with psychedelic and punk. Perennial outsiders Emby Alexander remain true to the DIY ethos. At Club Congress. With Soda Sun... Until next week, XOXO...
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By David Abbott tucsoneditor@tucsonlocalmedia.com AS THE CLOCK TURNS TO 2022, and we hold our breath about whether elections will even matter by next November, the grassroots advocacy of Arizona NORML will advocate for good cannabis laws—and fight bad ones—in the next legislative session. Despite the passage of the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act in 2010, and the legalization of adult-use, recreational pot
last year, there is still a lot of work to be done as Prop 207 evolves and prohibitionists pursue bad legislation to nullify the will of the people by creating stricter cannabis laws. The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, established in 1970, acts as a policy watchdog nationwide, tracking proposed cannabis-related legalization and providing a voice in the halls of government for the cannabis community. NORML has traditionally organized an
annual “Lobby Day,” when activists show up at legislative offices in the early part of the legislative session to advocate for or oppose bills related to cannabis issues. Due to last year’s pandemic shutdown though, new tactics needed to be found. Hence the birth of “Lobby Week,” which used Zoom meetings for a successful round of lobbying that reached more legislators and provided opportunities for more citizen involvement. The next legislative session begins the second week of January 2022 and the Arizona chapters of NORML will be ramping up in the next two months to take the fight to the halls of state government. The Weedly sat down with Arizona/ Southern Arizona NORML Director Mike Robinette to find out what’s on the agenda moving forward in the world of weed. The interview has been edited for length and clarity. Can you give me two or three high points of what NORML is going to try to achieve next year? Our legislative agenda is threefold and was created through polling our membership in both Phoenix and Tucson to see what was important to them. After that,
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we had a retreat with the Arizona NORML board to look at all the input. There were about 30 to 40 suggestions, so we ranked them, and through that selective process created an agenda that was supported by membership. Our agenda includes: making expungements both universal and automatic; reining in Department of Child Services, relative to their antics with parents and mothers who are pregnant; and reducing card costs to try to help medical patients. Those are our top three legislative priorities. We do have a fourth one, but that one was, oddly enough, not mentioned by membership. That is adding Autism Spectrum Disorder to the list of qualifying conditions with the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act. It’s something that we’ve been working on for about two years now and we decided to do that since we’ve been involved with it. We’re not going to play point on autism, but we will work with other organizations to see it to fruition as well. What about potency caps? While we can come in proactively and be prepared with our agenda, there’s CONTINUED ON PAGE 22
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also going to be an aspect of us playing defense. If we see any legislation, or if we hear any inklings of legislation regarding the concept of THC caps, we will be fully prepared to fight. That’s just something we’re not going to abide in the state of Arizona. I’ve been harping about it forever, so we will be vigilant, and we will be prepared to fight those ideas. What about the virtual experience you had last year? Are you going to carry that forward? You indicated you had a really good experience with this. I’ve been involved with NORML over three Lobby Days, and also one with national NORML with a Congressional Lobby Day. I organized all four of those. What I learned is, when we did our virtual Lobby Week because of COVID last year, it was a serendipitous discovery
that doing it virtually is so much more powerful than actually doing an in-person one. We found that we could control the process, we could orchestrate the meetings so that we control the entire process of the meeting, and we can control the message as well. We had 51 legislative meetings last year during Lobby Week. If we can do it over four days, Monday through Thursday when the legislature is in session, we can meet with many more people than trying to just do Lobby Day on a given day. We found we can bring in a lot more support and people don’t have to travel to Phoenix to participate in the lobbying experience. That allowed a lot more people from outside of Phoenix to actually participate from the comfort of their own homes. What was even more powerful is, anecdotally, we hear in the Legislature that the cannabis community isn’t vocal, and they don’t hear a lot from the cannabis community. Next year, we hope to demonstrate that we are a united front, and that we are collaboratively working against bad bills and working to support and help good bills to pass. Also, when we do in-person Lobby Day,
there’s some offices that are so small in the legislature that you might only be able to fit two or three people into one office, losing the impact of more than two or three people representing NORML, speaking at the grassroots level to their representatives. We found that doing it virtually, we’re able to have as many people joining as possible. So we could have a Zoom call where a legislator pops into the Zoom Room and there could be 20 to 25 activists in Zoom boxes. It’s incredibly intimidating, because when they look at all the people in the boxes, and you can see their eyes get big in reaction to, “Wow, there’s a lot of people on this call.” That’s really powerful. On the call, we have specific constituents from that district speak directly to their representative. After we have them talk about how, for example, cannabis has had a positive influence in their life or in the lives of their relatives, friends, significant others, loved ones, we then as NORML the organization, lobby in that lobby meeting. So we’re able to accomplish two things: to let them see there is a presence relative to the cannabis community, and
the cannabis community is concerned enough to jump in on these meetings to talk about good and bad bills and to talk with their representatives. It becomes a very, very powerful way of demonstrating that we’re a force now and we are watching and we are ready to counter bad legislation. We’re certainly more than willing to support good legislation. We had 51 legislative meetings scheduled last year, which is more than half the legislature. My goal is to try to get at least 60 this year. All our meetings have been incredibly positive. We conduct ourselves in a professional manner. We are not antagonistic in any way. We’re just there to demonstrate to the Legislature that yes, the cannabis community is united, is watching and we are fully aware of what’s happening. You probably get a lot of variation in understanding how the process works. What I’ve found over the years is one of the big, big things that prevents people from getting involved at this level of activism, is they’re nervous and they have
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trepidation because they’re not familiar with the legislative process. They’re not familiar with the legislature. When you have that lack of familiarity, it breeds a bit of a fear, nervousness and trepidation relative to wanting to actually jump into that arena and engage in lobbying. What we want to do is break down those barriers of insecurity and lack of knowledge. In December, we’ll hold training to prepare people going into the legislative session, primarily focused on two things. One, we want to get people up to speed on requests to speak, which is a very easy, efficient way to allow people to thumbs up or thumbs down bills that are being processed in the legislature and are making their way through the process. We want to make sure that people are trained and familiar with that system, because that’s a very easy way that you can take 30 seconds and lobby from the comfort of your own home. All the legislators see that. Secondly, we want to train people on the basics of the Legislature. How do you find bills? How do you read a bill? How do you interpret it if you go to azleg.gov? How do you interpret working through the different links in that page? What we want to do is demystify the entire legislative experience so our volunteers can hit the ground running and ready to advocate. They’ll be not just prepared, but excited to jump into our Lobby Week, because we will have taken down those barriers of entry that are generally from lack of knowledge and trepidation and be able to move our volunteers and advocates forward in a united way. Is there a timeline on when you might want to roll out this training? Our plan is to roll it out, and depending on input and feedback relative to interest, either do a combination of in-person and
virtual Zoom training. If we did it now, some of that information might drop out of people’s minds. If we do it in December, it’s fresh enough heading into January. Then we can use those meetings to really pump people up and inspire them to want to be involved. We host training prior to the lobby week as well and open up the Zoom at 7:30 every morning, so that people can come in, have a coffee, and get ready to lobby. Also to remind people of what we’re there for and what the agenda is, so that we’re always on the same page in the meetings. How did you get involved with NORML? I’m from a town north of Baltimore, and moved to Arizona in 1992 after a stint in the Peace Corps teaching math in Cameroon. I was in education for 27 years, the last 17 were spent at Ironwood Ridge High School. There was a specific incident that brought me into NORML. It was when Jeff Sessions rescinded the Cole-Ogden memos in January of 2018 (making it easier for the federal government to prosecute cannabis offenses in states where marijuana is legal). I was so incensed by that because I knew it was going to happen. When that happened, I said, “That’s it, I’m gonna engage my congressman.” So I called National NORML and they recommended going to an Arizona NORML chapter meeting, which I did in February 2018. That’s where I met Michael Weisser. He and I became friends and started working heavily together on advocacy. That started my journey into NORML and got me to where I am today. ■
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): According to my understanding of the upcoming weeks, life will present you with unusual opportunities. I suspect you will find it reasonable and righteous to shed, dismantle, and rebel against the past. Redefining your history will be a fun and worthy project. Here are other related activities I recommend for you: 1. Forget and renounce a long-running fear that has never come true. 2. Throw away a reminder of an old experience that makes you feel bad. 3. Freshen your mood and attitude by moving around the furniture and decor in your home. 4. Write a note of atonement to a person you hurt once upon a time. 5. Give yourself a new nickname that inspires you to emancipate yourself from a pattern or habit you want to leave behind. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Taurus poet Donte Collins’ preferred pronouns are “they” and “them.” They describe themself as Black, queer and adopted. “A lover doesn’t discourage your growth,” they write. “A lover says, ‘I see who you are today, and I cannot wait to see who you become tomorrow.’” I hope you have people like that in your life, Taurus—lovers, friends, allies and relatives. If there is a scarcity of such beloved companions in your life, the next eight weeks will be an excellent time to round up new ones. And if you are connected with people who delight in your progress and evolution, deepen your connection with them. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Gemini author Lisa Cron advises her fellow writers, “Avoid exclamation points! Really!! Because they’re distracting!! Almost as much as CAPITALIZING THINGS!!!” I’ll expand her counsel to apply not just to writers, but to all of you Geminis. In my astrological opinion, you’re likely to find success in the coming weeks if you’re understated, modest, and unmelodramatic. Make it your goal to create smooth, suave, savvy solutions. Be cagey and cool and crafty.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Ancient Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu told us that water is in one sense soft and passive, but is in another sense superb at eroding jams and obstacles that are hard and firm. There’s a magic in the way its apparent weakness overcomes what seems strong and unassailable. You are one of the zodiac’s top wielders of water’s superpower, Cancerian. And in the coming weeks, it will work for you with even more amazing grace than usual. Take full advantage of your sensitivity, your emotional intelligence, and your empathy. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Leo author James Baldwin told us, “You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discover that it happened 100 years ago to [Russian novelist] Fyodor Dostoyevsky. This is a great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that he is alone.” In that spirit, Leo, and in accordance with astrological omens, I urge you to track down people who have had pivotal experiences similar to yours, either in the distant or recent past. These days, you need the consoling companionship they can provide. Their influence could be key to liberating you from at least some of your pain. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Poet Octavio Paz described two kinds of distraction. One is “the distraction of the person who is always outside himself, lost in the trivial, senseless, turmoil of everyday life.” The other is “the distraction of the person who withdraws from the world in order to shut himself up in the secret and ever-changing land of his fantasy.” In my astrological opinion, you Virgos should specialize in the latter during the coming weeks. It’s time to reinvigorate your relationship with your deep inner sources. Go in search of the reverent joy that comes from communing with your tantalizing mysteries. Explore the riddles at the core of your destiny.
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Thirty-year-old trans woman here, Dan, and I have a question about what is surely one of your favorite subjects: the “age gap discourse.” About four years ago, I had a sexual experience that I go back and forth on whether to label as sexual assault. When I was 26 years old, I met a 19-year-old on a dating site and drove to a neighboring state to hook up with them. I’ll spare you the details, but when started doing things we had mutually agreed upon, one of them didn’t feel right in the moment, so I withdrew my consent. They respected my boundary for about 15 minutes, then tried it again. I said no again, they
refrained for another 15 minutes, then tried it again. The cycle continued until I just got worn down. The night ended with me trying to fall asleep so I at least wouldn’t be conscious for what they were going to do. It didn’t work. I’m friends with a lot of social-justice-focused millennials, and as such, discourse about age gaps in romantic and sexual relationships occasionally appear on my social media. The consensus, as I understand it, seems to be that there is a vast maturity gap between someone who is 19 and someone who is 26; therefore, someone in their mid-twenties has an affirmative duty to make sure nothing
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond,” declared novelist Marcel Proust. I wouldn’t normally offer that counsel to you Libras. One of your strengths is your skill at maintaining healthy boundaries. You know how to set dynamic limits that are just right: neither too extreme nor too timid. But according to my analysis of the astrological potentials, the coming weeks will be one of those rare times when you’ll be wise to consider an alternative approach: that the most vigorous truths and liveliest energies may lie beyond where you usually go. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Author William S. Burroughs claimed his greatest strength was a “capacity to confront myself no matter how unpleasant.” But he added a caveat to his brag: Although he recognized his mistakes, he rarely made any corrections. Yikes! Dear Scorpio, I invite you to do what Burroughs couldn’t. Question yourself about how you might have gone off course, but then actually make adjustments and atonements. As you do, keep in mind these principles: 1. An apparent mistake could lead you to a key insight or revelation. 2. An obstruction to the flow may prod you to open your mind and heart to a liberating possibility. 3. A snafu might motivate you to get back to where you belong. 4. A mess could show you something important you’ve been missing. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In her novel We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Sagittarian author Shirley Jackson wrote, “Today my winged horse is coming, and I am carrying you off to the moon, and on the moon we will eat rose petals.” I wonder what you would do if you received a message like that—an invitation to wander out on fanciful or mysterious adventures. I hope you’d be receptive. I hope you wouldn’t say, “There are so such things as flying horses. It’s impossible to fly to the moon and eat rose petals.” Even if you don’t typically entertain such whimsical notions, the time is favorable to do so now. I bet you will be pleased with the unexpected grace they bring your way.
sexual happens with someone who is 19. It is also suggested that someone like me is a creep and a predator for even thinking about hooking up with a 19-year-old. It’s hard to not apply my own experience to the discourse, and boy, is it a mind fuck. Hearing people go on about how vulnerable teenagers are or how I occupied a position of power not only dredges up painful memories, but also makes me feel like a creep. Did I do something wrong? I’m leaning towards no. I didn’t have any institutional power over the other person, it wasn’t an ongoing relationship, nor is it a pattern of behavior. (Like hell am I going to trust a 19-year-old again.) I also tried to follow your campsite rule. Instead of ghosting them, I sent them a message explaining why I wasn’t going to play with them again—the boundary violations—in
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Capricorn author Susan Sontag wrote about people who weren’t receptive to her intensity and intelligence. She said she always had “a feeling of being ‘too much’ for them—a creature from another planet—and I would try to scale myself down to size, so I could be apprehendable and lovable by them.” I understand the inclination to engage in such self-diminishment. We all want to be appreciated and understood. But I urge you to refrain from taming and toning yourself down too much in the coming weeks. Don’t do what Sontag did. In my astrological opinion, it’s time for you to be an extra vivid version of yourself. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “I am diagnosed with not having enough insanely addictive drugs coursing through my body,” joked comedian Sarah Silverman. Judging from current cosmic rhythms, I’m inclined to draw a similar conclusion about you. It may be wise for you to dose yourself with intoxicants. JUST KIDDING! I lied. Here’s the truth: I would love for you to experience extra rapture, mystic illumination, transcendent sex, and yes, even intoxication in the coming weeks. My analysis of the astrological omens suggests these delights are more likely and desirable than usual. However, the best way to arouse them is by communing with your favorite non-drug and non-alcohol inebriants. The benefits will last longer and incur no psychological cost. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “The truth is,” writes cartoonist Bill Watterson, “most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.” I sense this will describe your life during the next six weeks. Your long, strange journey won’t come to an end, of course. But a key chapter in that long, strange journey will climax. You will be mostly finished with lessons you have been studying for many moons. The winding road you have been following will end up someplace in particular. And sometime soon, I suspect you’ll spy a foreshadowing flash of this denouement.■ Homework: What subject are you trying to avoid thinking about? https://Newsletter. FreeWillAstrology.com
the hope that they would do better in the future. I’m about 80% sure I have nothing to feel guilty about, but that other 20% just won’t shut up. Was I the bad guy here? —Am Getting Exasperated “I feel for this woman and, it should go without saying, she shouldn’t feel guilty about having been sexually assaulted,” said James Greig, a London-based writer whose work has appeared in The Guardian, Vice, and other publications. “And to my mind, this incident shows that things are often more complex than the online ‘age gap discourse’ acknowledges.” Greig has written about the online age gap discourse for The Guardian, AGE, and while he feels the conversation is motivated by legitimate concerns about unequal power dynamics and their
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potential for abuse and exploitation, he worries the black-and-white nature of the age gap discourse can lull people into a false sense of security. “People imagine that abuse is less likely to occur in relationships where both parties are the same age,” said Greig, “and in my experience, that’s not always the case.” Additionally, condemnations of relationships and/or hook ups with significant age gaps—the kind of puritanical “discourse” that has left you feeling so isolated—often fails to acknowledge, much less grapple with factors besides age that can make a person vulnerable to abuse and exploitation. “Being a trans woman in itself can make you more vulnerable,” said Greig. “But it could be just about anything: wealth, status, even just disposition or temperament—some people are more domineering or cruel than others.” And some people don’t understand that only yes means yes, that no absolutely means no, and that withdrawal consent doesn’t mean, “Ask me again in five minutes.” Sometimes a person guilty of the kind of consent/boundary/physical violation you endured isn’t acting maliciously and is capable of learning from their mistakes—here’s hoping that message you sent that 19-year-old had an impact—but some people know what they’re doing when they pressure a person to engage in (or submit to) unwanted sexual acts and don’t care. Those people can be 19 and those people can be 99, AGE, and their victims can be younger or older. And if their last name is Trump, those people can be POTUS. “Life is too complicated for one-size-fitsall prescriptions like ‘age gap relationships are bad’ to be of much use,” said Greig, “and that means we have to take these things on a case-by-case basis.” And in your case, AGE, neither of us think you were the bad guy. All that said, AGE, driving to a neighboring state to hook up with a teenager—yeah, the optics aren’t good, and a lot of people aren’t gonna be able to see past them. But just because some very online people (and some very offline people) will look at your respective ages
at the time, do the math, and label you a predator, AGE, you aren’t obligated to slap that label on yourself. You were consenting adults until you withdrew your consent, at which point you were the victim of a sexual assault. You may have to be selective with who you confide in about this, AGE, but you don’t have to shame yourself. You lived, you learned, you’ve tried to do better. Here’s hoping the other person—now in their twenties themselves— learned something too and has also tried to do better. Follow James Greig on Twitter @JamesDGreig. No big stakes here, but I want your opinion. Forty-something straight man here, and I like shaving. My wife, to whom I’ve been married 16 years, doesn’t. So, I shave myself, and she’s natural. She let me shave her once, she didn’t like the result, and we’ve never done it again. But last week while she was amusing herself down below, we were chatting (she’s talented, I tell you) and she noted that she’s not crazy about my shaved parts. She said it reminded her of prepubescent boys. She doesn’t like being shaved herself; similarly, she worries guys who like it are thinking of little girls. Also, the potential for nicks and cuts makes her queasy. For my part, I like the way the skin feels, and it makes me look bigger. And so much porn is shaved these days that this is probably in the back of my mind. Writing you this letter has been good therapy, Dan. Rereading it just now I can see a workable solution: two months on (shaved), two months off (natural). Am I the first letter writer who solved his own problem? —Shaving Nuts Is Promising P.S. If you have anything to add, come right out and say it—no need to beat around the bush. You’re not the first person who solved their own problem by the time they finished writing their letter—hell, half the questions I get are from people who already know what they need to do. They need to DTMFA or get into therapy or learn to tie knots—and they write in hoping I’ll give them a little push, SNIP, which I’m always happy to do.
P.S. I have one thing to add: Sexually active, fully grown adult men and women have been shaving off their pubes for decades now—we’re well into the third decade of the modern pubic-hair-shaving discourse—and I’m losing my patience with people who claim they dislike hairless crotches because they associate them with prepubescent children. Unless you’re currently parenting a prepubescent child or you’re a pediatrician, you are far likelier to see fully grown adult humans with hairless crotches than prepubescent children. Really, people. Think about the last hundred hairless crotches you saw—were those children’s crotches or were they the hairless crotches of adult sex partners and/ or porn stars? When I see an adult man with a hairless crotch in gay porn, I don’t think, “THAT MAN WITH THE ROCK HARD EIGHT-INCH DICK LOOKS LIKE A WEE BOY!” I think, “That man looks like other adult men I’ve seen in porn and sometimes in real life.” Look, it’s fine to prefer partners with pubes—neatly trimmed or full bush—but a person should be able to express a preference for pubes without insinuating that people who prefer shaved crotches are pedophiles. An adult man who shaves his face is not trying to look
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like child and does not look like a child. A woman who shaves her pits is not trying to look like a child and does not look like a child. Same goes for adult men and women who shave their pubes. Sheesh. The letter in last week’s column from PERV—in which the writer sought an alternative label to “perv”—left me slightly confused. I would have thought that the obvious answer was “kinkster.” When that wasn’t your response, I wondered what the difference is between the two. In today’s world, one can’t afford to get these things wrong. —Thought I Knew It All Kinkster was the right answer. I mean, obviously. So why didn’t I suggest it? Well, I’ve always partial to perv—that’s pillow talk at my house—but to be perfectly honest, I was high when I wrote that response and kinkster slipped my THC-addled mind. questions@savagelove.net Follow Dan on Twitter @FakeDanSavage. www.savage.love
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