Daily Archives: February 6, 2014

https://www.boundless.com/u-s-history/slavery-and-reform-1820-1840/anti-slavery-resistance-movements/the-underground-railroad/

The Fugitive Slave Law or Fugitive Slave Act was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers. This was one of the most controversial acts of the 1850 compromise and heightened Northern fears of a “slave power conspiracy”. It declared that all runaway slaves be brought back to their masters. Abolitionists nicknamed it the “Bloodhound Law” for the dogs that were used to track down runaway slaves.

https://bakerbloch.wordpress.com/2013/04/26/whitehead-x-ing-notes/

Oh, Baby, it’s cryin’ time, Oh, Baby, I got to fly.
Got to try to find a way, Got to try to get away,
‘Cause you know I gotta get away from you, Babe.

Oh, Baby, the river’s red, Oh, Baby, in my head.
There’s a funny feelin’ goin’ on, I don’t think I can hold out long.

[Chorus]
And when the owls cry in the night, Oh, Baby, Baby, when the pines begin to cry,
Baby, Baby, Baby, how do you feel? If the river runs dry, Baby,
How do you feel?

Craze, Baby, the rainbow’s end, Baby, it’s just a den
For those who hide, Who hide their love to depths of life
And ruin dreams that we all knew so, Babe.

4 Sticks within Carrcass-3 is about crossing a line to escape, symbolically the Mason-Dixon line as slaves flee the south after 1850’s Fugitive Slave Law or Act. Dogs were often used to track down slaves. The safe labyrinth equals the North, where slaveowners cannot follow their “property.” Dogs will be lost in the canyon of the line. Although free, slaves are often injured in the escape. Legs need mending.

This line (Mason-Dixon) is also dividing point between US tiles 1 (Pennsylvania) and 3 (Maryland). In-between we visit Washington, Oregon, California where we return to Twin Peaks and Blue Jay at the end.

Black Dog is the lead chase dog, also a Zeppelin song and coming immediately before this in Carrcass-3.

http://socialsciencelite.blogspot.com/2009/06/thoughts-on-pixars-up-race-makes.html

When watching the movie, though, something stood out to me that I couldn’t put my finger. It wasn’t until I searched IMDB that I realized what it was. Did anyone else notice that Beta, the Rottweiler, was Black? He is “played” by Black actor Delroy Lindo who some of you may remember from Romeo Must Die (he was Aaliyah’s Dad). I had to laugh because of all the main dogs in the movie the Rottweiler was black. What is more, in looking at the credits, it appears that out of the dogs, Lindo is the only real actor. The rest already work for Pixar as sculptors, writers, or directors like Jerome Brandt, Bob Peterson, and Josh Cooley. In other words, they actually sought out Lindo to play Beta but stayed in house (and white) for the rest of the dog[s] of note in the movie.

Kevin used like *stilts* in Up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runaway_Bay,_Texas

The city is built around a 18-hole golf course and the city’s main water tower resembles a golf ball on a tee.

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