{"article":{"id":95606,"heading":"Old photo of one of the KOBE.","author":"Anti-Lenat","created":"2003-11-27 05:07:40","modified":"2005-08-15 01:48:30","last_modified":"Mon, 15 Aug 2005 08:48:30","article":"","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","summary":"Here's an old photo of one of the KOBE at Cycorp.  This photo is about seven years old, so he's a bit older now.","numcomment":8,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2003\/11\/hagen.jpg","filesize":"7.4 kibibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2003\/11\/95606.php","image":{"original":"\/uploads\/2003\/11\/hagen.jpg","small":"\/uploads\/2003\/11\/hagen.jpgthumb.jpg"}},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":95607,"heading":"Possible KOBE, but not sure yet.","article":"This guy is a possible KOBE.  He works with the KOBE pictured above.\r\n\r\n(Yes, it's a he, but he prefers to be called "she.")","author":"Anti-Lenat","parent_id":95606,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2003-11-27 05:13:51","modified":"2005-08-15 01:48:30","fileurl":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2003\/11\/cutepaceswimsuit.jpg","image":{"original":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2003\/11\/cutepaceswimsuit.jpg"}},{"id":95608,"heading":"We'll be looking for more of their pictures online.","article":"So, if you're a KOBE, you better scurry and get those pictures of the net.","author":"Anti-Lenat","parent_id":95606,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-11-27 05:17:02","modified":"2003-11-27 05:17:02","fileurl":""},{"id":95609,"heading":"A definite KOBE at Cycorp.","article":"This guy is their leader.","author":"Anti-Lenat","parent_id":95606,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2003-11-27 05:19:32","modified":"2005-08-15 01:48:31","fileurl":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2003\/11\/user2367.jpg","image":{"original":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2003\/11\/user2367.jpg"}},{"id":95610,"heading":"Does anyone have a picture of Cyndy?","article":"Still looking.  Only found an old ugly one of her with someone else's baby.","author":"Hmmm?","parent_id":95606,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-11-27 05:22:34","modified":"2003-11-27 05:22:34","fileurl":""},{"id":95617,"heading":"Ascent of Vesuvius","article":"I said I knew nothing against the upper classes by personal observation. I must recall it! I had forgotten. What I saw their bravest and their fairest do last night, the lowest multitude that could be scraped up out of the purlieus of Christendom would blush to do, I think. They assembled by hundreds, and even thousands, in the great Theatre of San Carlo, to do -- what? Why, simply, to make fun of an old woman -- to deride, to hiss, to jeer at an actress they once worshipped, but whose beauty is faded now and whose voice has lost its former richness. \r\n\r\nEvery body spoke of the rare sport there was to be. They said the theatre would be crammed, because Frezzolini was going to sing. It was said she could not sing well, now, but then the people liked to see her, anyhow. And so we went. And every time the woman sang they hissed and laughed -- the whole magnificent house -- and as soon as she left the stage they called her on again with applause. Once or twice she was encored five and six times in succession, and received with hisses when she appeared, and discharged with hisses and laughter when she had finished -- then instantly encored and insulted again! And how the high-born knaves enjoyed it! White-kidded gentlemen and ladies laughed till the tears came, and clapped their hands in very ecstacy when that unhappy old woman would come meekly out for the sixth time, with uncomplaining patience, to meet a storm of hisses! It was the cruelest exhibition --the most wanton, the most unfeeling. \r\n\r\nThe singer would have conquered an audience of American rowdies by her brave, unflinching tranquillity (for she answered encore after encore, and smiled and bowed pleasantly, and sang the best she possibly could, and went bowing off, through all the jeers and hisses, without ever losing countenance or temper:) and surely in any other land than Italy her sex and her helplessness must have been an ample protection to her -- she could have needed no other. \r\n\r\nThink what a multitude of small souls were crowded into that theatre last night. If the manager could have filled his theatre with Neapolitan souls alone, without the bodies, he could not have cleared less than ninety millions of dollars. What traits of character must a man have to enable him to help three thousand miscreants to hiss, and jeer, and laugh at one friendless old woman, and shamefully humiliate her? He must have all the vile, mean traits there are. My observation persuades me (I do not like to venture beyond my own personal observation,) that the upper classes of Naples possess those traits of character. Otherwise they may be very good people; I can not say. ","author":"Mark Twain","parent_id":95606,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-11-27 08:40:23","modified":"2003-11-27 08:40:23","fileurl":""},{"id":95621,"heading":""The upper classes of Naples"  ????","article":"What the frag are you on about, you gobshite?","author":"Barney","parent_id":95606,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-11-27 09:07:19","modified":"2003-11-27 09:07:19","fileurl":""},{"id":95623,"heading":"Show of hands...","article":"...who cares who is KOBE or not?\r\n\r\nLet's see...carry the one...\r\n\r\nOkay, by my count, nobody.\r\n\r\nWait...there's a guy way in the back with his hand up...\r\n\r\nOh, that's just DeVoy.\r\n\r\nThe count is officially zero.","author":"nonanarchist0614","parent_id":95606,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-11-27 11:21:10","modified":"2003-11-27 11:21:10","fileurl":""},{"id":95667,"heading":"People will soon care a great deal about KOBE.","article":"Just wait and see.","author":"Inside","parent_id":95606,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-11-27 22:54:55","modified":"2003-11-27 22:54:55","fileurl":""}]}