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"girls" (supposed to mean me & my littermate sister when we're together, but we both think that's our name too!), "goofy girl" (or just "goof"), "weirdo", pretty much any adjective with "girl" added to it

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November 30th 2005

visiting my grandparents & sister; my grandma likes to hold me since I'm so much smaller than my 14-lb sister, but I'm a squirmy little girl when I'm happy! I also like short humans -- they like to play, and the really short ones drop food a lot.

when I want to play, but my mommy's doing something else important. . . but I'm pretty sure there's something up there on the countertop to pull down and play with if I just jump!

Favorite Toy:
anything that makes noise, can be chewed on, or is small, furry, and lives outside. . . mouse cursors on the screen and laser pointer dots are kind of fun, too :)

Favorite Food:
Did someone just say "pupperoni"? I know what that word means, mommy!!!

Favorite Walk:
The walk to the car's especially nice, 'cuz I know that means I'm going to see my sister. . . or at least somewhere with different stuff to sniff.

Best Tricks:
Mommy just taught me that I can get a treat if I paw at her hand when she wants me to! However, don't ask me what "give me five" means -- five what? I only have four toes, mommy. :)

Arrival Story:
My "grandma" has sort of wanted a min pin off and on for years because we were cute, small, and definitely not your typical *boring* toy dog. . . and she eventually found my original human daddy who'd have some more be born (us!) in a few months. My "mommy" thought we were really, really cute also. . . so I adopted her by parking myself in her lap and snoozing almost the whole time when they all came to visit us at about 5 weeks old. It worked like a charm for telling her I liked the way she smelled and held me, especially when I pulled out the soft little sleepy-puppy whines if she moved too much when I was trying to sleep in her lap! One of my two sisters (the big, bossy one) was climbing all over my grandma, who seemed to like the attention and didn't mind getting chewed on a little bit before also becoming sort of a puppy bed. Going away from home by ourselves for the first time about a month later was kinda scary, but at least my sis and I still had each other for the first couple of nights until we realized the leaders of the new pack really were at least as nice to hang around with as we'd thought a few weeks earlier. I was a little bit scared when mommy and I left for somewhere new again once I was just starting to get the hang of the last new house after a couple of days. . . but a quick nose search told me that she must spend a lot of time here since her smell was everywhere, so I calmed down and went to sleep again pretty quickly. And, yay, I *still* get to see my sis at least every few weeks to play!

I'm generally way too smart for my own good. . . it keeps mommy on her toes just to stay one step ahead of my little schemes, but I think she likes that. My personal favorite trick is getting kitchen chairs to roll over to somewhere I want to get to, but am too short to reach on my own. If it doesn't go far enough or in quite the right direction the first time that I jump in. . . well, I have plenty of energy to just keep trying! I very much like to play with my sister when we go visit or her parents bring her to visit me! She's a few pounds heavier and an inch or two taller than I am, but that doesn't stop me from trying to win every game. . . .

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The Energizer bunny...did you say bunny?

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Favorite Place to Snuggle:
either so that my mommy can put her arm around me and let me use it as a pillow (she's so easy to train!) or by my mommy's tummy. . . can I be under a blanket, too?

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June 6th 2007 More than 9 years!

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January 23rd 2008 3:27 pm
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I don't have anything exciting to bark about right now, but I see it's been a while since I said anything. So here I am! Maybe I should tell you how my holidays were, since that's at least some noteworthy news.

Mommy, me, grandma and grandpa, and Nikki had a nice Christmas. . . all quiet and with lots of yummy presents from Santa Paws. Mommy says they were from Santa Paws of the Pacific NW, whatever that means. I just know it's all been good. :)

A bit after Christmas, though, Nikki and I got "abandoned" for a couple of days 'cuz the humans all wanted to go somewhere without us. Without us!!! It wasn't so bad to start with. . . we knew the people at the vet, and they were nice. . . but I missed my mommy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Grandma and grandpa finally came to get us after what seemed like forever -- really, do you know what 3 days is in dog years? We really were starting not to feel so good, but at least we were HOME. :)

Apparently, our getting all upset is not good for our tummies, though. Mommy took me back home after a couple of days, but we had a bad night. . . all I remember much beyond getting up to go to my box every couple of hours was when I had to throw up and then was too tired to get back up and go to bed. (I don't know why, but I always have to go to my crate to throw up in it. Mommy says that's okay if I feel better there, since it cleans up better than carpet.) But mommy came over when she noticed I wasn't getting back up and picked me up, kept me warm, and snuggled with me until I went back to sleep. We met grandma halfway to Nikki's house and all 3 of us went to the vet. At least we were fine other than just having been really stressed out, so we didn't have to deal with more than just one set of shots. This funny stuff they call Pepto Bismol is nasty, though -- it's not fair that the humans can hold my mouth open and shoot pretty much whatever yucky stuff they want to in there. (I guess it's supposed to be a good thing if our people are putting it in us, but I sure didn't feel like it was.) Grandma took really good care of us all week, and mommy said hi to me from inside the phone every night. (How's she do that? Why doesn't she just come out?)

But we're all better now. :) We got lots of yummy stuff like beef and rice. . . and then also some canned food once we started getting better. And then I started wanting to get sick again in the morning once I was back on my boring old dry pellets, so I got canned food again for a while since at least that agreed with me! Every now and then, mommy will still let me have a little bit of canned stuff 'cuz I like it and she's nice. Thanks, mommy!!!

Oh, mommy says I get some canned food sometimes because the variety seems to keep my system working better so I don't get sick again and so she knows that I really am eating something at least every couple of days. Whatever, mommy.

Anyways, mommy and my grandparents said there's probably no more leaving us at the vet, and even the vet said it probably wasn't good for us. The humans said they'll figure out exactly what to do when they all want to go somewhere again, although they have some leads. Oh, and Mommy says WE GET TO HAVE NIKKI STAY WITH US in a week or so when grandma and grandpa go somewhere for a meeting for a few days. I'm sooooo happy!

November 23rd 2007 7:07 pm
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So. . . mommy left me with grandma, grandpa, and my sister Nikki the first part of the week. Apparently she and that funny lady who's been living with us for a little while were going somewhere fun without me. I dunno. . . getting to play with my sister 24/7 sounds pretty darn fun to me. I missed mommy for a whole about 5 minutes when she left, then it was play time!!

But then grandma and grandpa took us to that weird place we go about once a year to get poked and prodded on Wednesday morning and left us there! HEY!!!!! It wasn't too bad, but there were a lot of doggies there always wanting to be noisy. . . and Nikki and I missed our humans and our house. :(

BUT THEN. . . some people came down with our leashes!!!!!! And we got to go upstairs again!!!!!! MOMMY, MOMMY, MOMMY!!!!!!!! We were so excited to be in her car again and had to climb all over her and tell her how happy we were to go home. Then she told us we had to go in our crates. . . well, okay, if that means we get to go home. We just want to go home! It was a looooonnnnngggg two days. We still had each other, but nothing beats getting to curl up in bed with the humans.

We got home, and even mommy wanted to sleep for a while. Soooo nice. :) Every time she moved or made noise, though, we just HAD to tell her how happy we were to be home. (I think she started getting tired of being licked all over and trampled, though.)

Still no sign of grandma and grandpa, although they seemed to be stuck in the phone at one point this afternoon. How do they fit in there? Mommy says they'll probably be back tomorrow. I'm just happy to see mommy, although Nikki says she wants her parents back, too.

Mommy says she's making a turkey tomorrow for when grandma and grandpa come back so we sort of have a Thanksgiving together sometime this week. Yay, we like turkey!

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October 30th 2007 1:43 pm
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So. . . mommy left me withgrandma, grandpa, and Nikki for a WHOLE WEEK not too long ago. I missed her lots, but it wasn't so bad since I got to play with my sister all the time instead. Grandma has a lot to learn about how to cuddle up with me on the couch, 'cuz she wasn't doing it quite right. I told her so.

Then mommy came back, but she brought some other human I'd never seen before. Mommy says she's from Russia and she's living at our house for a couple of months while she's working sort of where mommy goes all day most days while I sleep.

(What's a "Russia"?!?!?!)

I'm finally starting to get used to this extra human hanging around so I don't initially always freak out when I notice she's there. She feeds me pupperoni sometimes for no real reason (mommy says it's something about making friends), so she's okay in my book. She apparently has a kitty back where she comes from, so I think she likes us small furry kids.

Now I just need to teach her to give me lots of yummy food all the time. Mommy's kinda slow to figure out when I want some of what she's eating, but there's always another human? I have this bad feeling that she's not any easier to train than mommy is, though. :(

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We Had To Destroy The Constitution In Order To Save It

Facebook is a fascinating place.  Full of advocates for insurrection and nullification.  They'll let anybody on the Interwebs, right?  But enlightened lawmakers are into it, too.  Maybe not so much the revolutionary stuff, but certainly have been continuing the revival of nullification in a desperate attempt to stop Federal gun safety regulation and, of course, Obamacare:

In a statement announcing the newest effort to protect citizens of Oklahoma from the devastating effects of the president’s healthcare law, Dr. Ritze quoted Thomas Jefferson in support of his right to reject unconstitutional federal acts. Said Ritze:

Thomas Jefferson made it perfectly clear in the Kentucky Resolution of 1799 when he wrote; "That if those who administer the general government be permitted to transgress the limits fixed by that compact, by a total disregard to the special delegations of power therein contained, annihilation of the state governments, and the erection upon their ruins, of a general consolidated government, will be the inevitable consequence.”

Jefferson’s Kentucky Resolution plainly sets forth his understanding of the source of all federal power. Later in that document, Jefferson wrote:

That the several states who formed that instrument, being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of its infraction; and that a nullification, by those sovereignties, of all unauthorized acts done under colour [sic] of that instrument, is the rightful remedy.

Nullification is a concept of constitutional law that recognizes the right of each state to nullify, or invalidate, any federal measure that exceeds the few and defined powers allowed the federal government as enumerated in the Constitution.

Yes, nullification is a concept of conlaw insofar as somebody conceived it, yet it has been resoundingly and decisively rejected by Kentucky's (and Virginia's) sister States, by the Supreme Court, and by a bunch of strapping young fellows dressed in blue woolen uniforms and armed with muskets among other sundry firearms in the mid-19th century.  A few other points:

  1. While it is based on the 1798 resolution secretly written by Jefferson (he did not admit to authorship for years), he is not responsible for the 1799 resolution (see footnote 54, page 705).
  2. Jefferson did mention nullification in his original draft, but the Kentucky legislature deleted it from their passed version.
  3. Both resolutions acknowledged that while the several States might judge a Federal act as unconstitutional and void they had, in fact, no power to nullify:
  • 1798: the Governor of this commonwealth be, and is hereby authorized and requested to communicate the preceding resolutions to the legislatures of the several states...and that the co-states, recurring to their natural right in cases not made federal, will concur in declaring these acts void and of no force and will each unite with this commonwealth, in requesting their repeal at the next session of Congress.
  • 1799: this commonwealth as a party to the federal compact; will bow to the laws of the Union, yet it does at the same time declare, that it will not now, nor ever hereafter, cease to oppose in a constitutional manner, every attempt from what quarter soever offered, to violate that compact...

Now let's take a step back.  What the hell are people lovingly quoting here?

The Kentucky Resolutions and singular Virginia Resolution were responses by Jefferson and Madison to some very real tyranny, the Alien and Sedition Acts (a series of four laws passed by the Federalist Fifth Congress and signed by John Adams).  The first bill--a less-controversial Naturalization Act--was introduced in April of 1798, with the Alien Act following several days later and the other two in progression through the summer.

Madison wrote to Jefferson in May:

The Alien bill proposed in the Senate is a monster that must forever disgrace its parents. I should not have supposed it possible that such an one could have been engendered in either House, & still persuade myself, that it cannot possibly be fathered by both...These addresses to the feelings of the people from their enemies may have more effect in opening their eyes, than all the arguments addressed to their understandings by their friends.

The President, also, seems to be co-operating for the same purpose. Every answer he gives to his addressers unmasks more and more his principles & views. His language to the young men at Pha. is the most abominable & degrading that could fall from the lips of the first magistrate of an independent people, & particularly from a Revolutionary patriot.
The turn of the elections in N. Y. is a proof that the late occurrences have increased the noise only & not the number of the Tory party. Besides the intrinsic value of the acquisition, it will encourage the hopes & exertions in other States.

Anti-Federalists, or Democratic-Republicans (precursors to the Democratic Party), were obviously horrified from the beginning by what their fellow Founders were planning to do.  But notice that Madison saw the worm already turning: even though none of the proposed legislation could have had a direct impact, the New York elections were held from April 24-26 and Democrats gained two House seats to flip the balance of their congressional delegation.   Overreach by the General Government was already causing the party some problems and results in the Federalist stronghold of NY showed just how weak they were becoming, even as they became noisier and more aggressive (sound familiar?).

The governing party did gain a few seats overall in the 1798 election, but the stage was set for a dramatic reversal of fortune in 1800 and really a Federalist death spiral while assuring Democratic dominance for decades to come.  The big campaign issue was those abominable acts so repugnant to the Constitution.

Before that happened, though, Kentuckians reaffirmed their resolve against the Acts, and Virginians defended their resolution as well.  But even Madison in the latter case did not assert State power to nullify Federal acts:

The declarations, in such cases, are expressions of opinion, unaccompanied with any other effect than what they may produce on opinion, by exciting reflection. The expositions of the judiciary, on the other hand, are carried into immediate effect by force. The former may lead to a change in the legislative expression of the general will; possibly to a change in the opinion of the judiciary; the latter enforces the general will, whilst that will and that opinion continue unchanged.

In the example given by the state, of declaring the alien and sedition-acts to be unconstitutional, and of communicating the declaration to the other states, no trace of improper means has appeared. And if the other states had concurred in making a like declaration, supported, too, by the numerous applications flowing immediately from the people, it can scarcely be doubted, that these simple means would have been as sufficient, as they are unexceptionable.

It is no less certain that other means might have been employed, which are strictly within the limits of the Constitution. The legislatures of the states might have made a direct representation to Congress, with a view to obtain a rescinding of the two offensive acts; or, they might have represented to their respective senators in Congress their wish, that two-thirds thereof would propose an explanatory amendment to the Constitution; or two-thirds of themselves, if such had been their option, might, by an application to Congress, have obtained a convention for the same object.

These several means, though not equally eligible in themselves, nor probably, to the states, were all constitutionally open for consideration

Bottom-line: the States can say they don't like the law, but they must needs use constitutional mechanisms to make their desired changes.  The resolutions to which modern nullificationistas desperately cleave are mere expressions of opinion, nothing more, and the States in question still acknowledged their duty to follow the supreme law of the land.

If you want rebellion, either do it like they did in the Revolution of 1800 or like this fine lady did in the middle of the last century.  Enough with the talk of unconstitutional or extra-constitutional measures.  I won't go so far as to suggest that's treasonous or seditious or even un-American, but it's certainly ignorant and counterproductive.

If you want to uphold the Constitution then...uphold the Constitution.  Pretty simple.

PS--Regarding Obamacare specifically, I'll just remind the insurrectionists and nullificationistas that it was passed by a duly-elected Legislature, signed by a duly-elected Executive, and upheld by the ostensibly-independent Judiciary.  What's more, there have been 2 intervening elections since passage: in 2010 the nation did not give anti-Obamacare opposition enough power to repeal it; in 2012 we retained the same overall congressional balance whilst eroding the opposition's standing and duly re-electing our president.  It's really time to get over that one and follow the supreme law of the land, per our Constitution you claim to revere and defend.

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Jackie Winter, from Winterborne Zelston, has spent much of the last 35 years riding tandem with husband Allan.

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The pair spent a long time riding with the Wessex Road Club in the 1980s and it also features tales from those days.

Jackie, who worked with the Dorset County Libraries service for more than 20 years, has been a keen writer for many years – penning a number of short stories – and decided to write the book after retiring.

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Jackie said she and Allan are lucky to live in such a beautiful county as Dorset, where they can enjoy the countryside at every opportunity.

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Supernatural: Fan Fiction

Marie: "The whole author inserting themselves into the narrative thing? It's just not my favorite. I kind of hate the meta stories."
Dean and Sam: "Me, too."

I know that not everyone loves the meta episodes. But is there any other show that can get away with re-imagining their macho all-guy monster-killing tour de force as an all-girl musical?

There was a lot to love about this 200th episode. It was an outright love letter to the fans, and all of the little references to the past were quite touching: Harvelle's, the scarecrow, "Hell House", Ghostfacers, Castiel with his cell phone waiting on the road for Dean to need him. I especially liked the trunk POV shot with "We got work to do", a direct callback to the closing shot of the pilot episode.

And there were some bits I just adored. Like Dean giving Marie a concise summary of what happened in the past four seasons after "Swan Song", Sam all perturbed because he hadn't been slash fictioned with Castiel, and Sam and Dean fighting the scarecrow onstage behind the emotional musical number, all wonderful. And I especially loved it when Dean embraced the whole thing and started giving the cast a pep talk on subtext.

But honestly, some of it was a bit too cringe-inducing meta, even for a huge fan of the show like me. I found the first two musical numbers (especially the single man tear) a little embarrassing, and I'm glad they didn't get to the robots and space tentacles. But the girls doing "Carry On Wayward Son" actually made me cry a single womanly tear, the ending with the scarecrow exploding purple goo all over the audience was hilarious, and I especially liked that no one died for a change, because somebody always dies.

With all the references to the books and "Carver Edlund", I should have expected Chuck to show up at the end. But I didn't, and it was a lovely surprise. Although I've resisted the idea, the producers and writers of this show keep referring to Chuck as God, so I guess he is. And you know, the Samulet was originally supposed to lead the boys to God, and it sort of just did. Dean hanging it from the rear view mirror as the boys continued on the road was pretty much perfect.

Is there a deeper meaning to this episode? Maybe it's just that Supernatural is a class act. It still resonates because it has an emotional center in Dean and Sam. The show writers never forget what it's about. That's why I'm still reviewing it, ten years later.

Bits and pieces:

-- "Then" was a single typed page with "Supernatural: Pilot, created by Eric Kripke". The title card was the word "Supernatural" in lights. And then they gave us nearly all of the opening title cards, including the special ones. (Thanks to the Supernatural wiki title card page for this one).

-- The saddest moment in the episode was that mention of Adam Winchester still trapped in the box with Lucifer, and a shot of the boys' faces. They haven't forgotten. They just can't do anything about it.

-- Marie and Maeve are kids, yes, but how could anyone look at J and J and think they're too old? (I also liked that Marie wanted Dean to be Sam, and Maeve wanted Sam to be Dean. Very cute.)

-- And btw, gold acting stars for Katie Sarife as Marie. I also loved Joy Regullano as Maeve. They were terrific.

-- The villain, the muse Calliope, was only briefly in the episode, although she certainly looked cool and I liked the flowers. The scarecrow was effective, too. Loved Marie's totally non-scary version of the scarecrow.

-- No Misha Collins or Mark Sheppard in this one. But there really wasn't room.

-- Jared is finally out of his sling. I hope he's feeling better.

-- This week: Flint, Michigan. The boys were both "Special Agent Smith", no relation. Die Hard reference.

-- "Supernatural200thEpisode" was still trending on Twitter this morning. That's awesome.

Quotes, and this is a long one:

Mrs. Chandler: "Why couldn't they just do Godspell like good little skanks? Instead, it's this awful, unbelievable horror story. Like that stuff really happens. Theater is about life, truth. Where is the truth in Supernatural?"

Sam: "Oklahoma? Hugh Jackman got cast off Oklahoma."
Dean: "You ran tech, Wolverine."
Sam: "Shut up."

Dean: "There is no singing in Supernatural!"
Maeve: "This is Marie's interpretation."
Dean: "Well, I mean, if there was singing, you know, and that's a big if, if there was singing, it would be classic rock. Not this Andrew Floyd Webber crap."
Sam: "Andrew Lloyd Webber."

Dean: "I don't blame her. I'm gonna need fifty Jell-O shots and a hose down to get this stink off me."

Dean: "What are they doing?"
Marie: "Oh, they're rehearsing the BM scene."
Dean: "The bowel movement scene?"
Marie: "No, the boy melodrama scene. You know, the scene where the boys get together and they're driving or leaning against Baby, drinking a beer, sharing their feelings. The two of them, alone but together. Bonded. united, the power of their…."
Dean: "Why are they standing so close together?"
Marie: "Uh, reasons."
Dean: "You know they're brothers, right?"
Marie: "Well, duh. But subtext."
Dean: (to the actors) "Why don't you take a substep back there, ladies?"

Dean: "There's no space in Supernatural."
Marie: "Well, not canonically, no. But this is transformative fiction."

Dean: "You wrote your own ending? With spaceships?"
Marie: "And robots. And some ninjas. And then Dean becomes a woman."

Marie: "We do explore the nature of Destiel in act two."
Dean: "Sorry, what?"
Marie: "It's just subtext. But then again, you can't spell 'subtext' without S E X."
(Jensen breaks the fourth wall and looks directly at the camera.)

Marie: (putting on a Sam wig that looks exactly like her own hair) "I used this for my one-woman Orphan Black show last year. Writer, director, actor, I'm gonna Barbra Streisand this bitch."

Dean: "I want you to put as much sub into that text as you possibly can. There is no other road, no other way, no day but today."
Maeve: "Did he just quote Rent?"
Marie: "Not enough to get us in trouble."

Calliope: "Supernatural has everything. Life, death, resurrection, redemption, but above all, family. All set to music you can really tap your toe to. It isn't some meandering piece of genre dreck. It's epic."

Supernatural is indeed epic. Ten years later, and I still love this show because it does episodes like this one. Four out of four Samulets,

Billie Doux is the founder of Doux Reviews and has been reviewing her favorite shows for quite some time. More Billie Doux.

Juliette said...

Leaving space so the first three words aren't spoilers...

And somehow setting it in a girls' school worked!

And Greek myth! (Sort of).

I was happy.

I wondered if the reference to Adam at the end was an indication that they might do something about that this season. Dean mentioned being a Knight of Hell and Crowley is a regular, and Cas once managed get, well, part of Sam out so... I may be wrong, but there was so much emphasis on that moment, I'm hoping it's an indication of future storylines.

Juliette said...

I agree about the songs too, though The Road So Far grew on me. I'm hoping the lyrics were intentionally terrible. The Carry On Wayward son cover was good though.

And I got the same feeling when they said Dean and Sam were too old that I get when I tell my students powerpoint didn't exist when I was at uni...

Billie Doux said...

Yes, I hope that mention was a hint that they might resolve the Adam situation this season.

And btw, Variety has a terrific (and, warning, *VERY* long) interview of practically everyone about the entire ten seasons of the show. Excellent read.

Paul Kelly said...

The perfect episode. Virtually everytime they do a meta-episode they knock it out of the park. There's so much fan nonsense to take the piss out of, the opportunity for jokes is never ending. I think all the songs were written to sound corny. How can a musical with a robot finale be serious? My favourite episode of the season so far, and I wouldn't be surprised if I'm still saying that when the season ends.

Juliette said...

Thanks for the link Billie!

By the way, do you think it's significant that the same actress plays Castiel and Adam, or did they just run out of actresses who could sing?!

(sorry for monopolising the comments. I did blog it, mainly so my thought spewing could be restrained elsewhere!)

Billie Doux said...

And here's Juliette's spewing. :)

Juliette said...

You're so sweet to post the link Billie thank you :) I don't feel right posting links to my posts all over other people's comments. But for some reason Supernatural always seems to produce massive, epic streams of consciousness that in this case took up the entire afternoon...!

Josie Kafka said...

I haven't watched SPN for about a year, but I tuned in for this episode and was delighted, especially by the last 30 seconds. Hooray!

Anonymous said...

When Marie mentioned "Carry On My Wayward Son" I was hoping we'd hear it. And when they sang it, someone started chopping onions in my apartment. I was expecting to hate the episode, but I was laughing out loud throughout, and it might be one of my favorite episodes ever.

Katherine said...

Thank you for the tip on the Varity article, it was long but excellent. I need Wayward Son playing on a continuous loop in the background.

Henrik Bennetter said...

I always, always, LOVE the meta-episodes - this was no exception.
From start to finish Supernatural Gold, no platinum!
Really hoping we'll see Adam and Chuck again, 'cause I HAD forgotten about Adam.

Jess Lynde said...

I also stopped watching SPN near the end of last year --- I had the final 2-3 episodes on my DVR forever and never felt compelled to watch them, so I decided it was time to let go --- but I decided to check this one out. A 200th episode is pretty momentous, after all. :)

I'm glad I watched. This was a really enjoyable outing and reminded me of the show I used to love. I particularly loved Sam's and Dean's initial reactions to discovering the production, and the 'Carry on my Wayward Son' moment. It was a really nice touch to have 'Mary,' 'John,' and 'Bobby' as the featured singers for that one, and the looks on Sam's and Dean's faces did make me choke up a bit. I still hope there is peace when they are done, even though I'm done traveling the road with them.

The actress playing Marie reminded me of Elizabeth Moss. I think it was mostly the short hair and the beret, but sometimes her inflections and facial expressions really made me think of Peggy Olson.

raya-macgiver said...

Everytime they do a meta-episode, I go through the same stages. Everytime.

"Oh no, please not another meta-episode. I hate meta-episodes."
"See! This is why I hate meta-episodes, they always make those unfunny/embarrassing/lame/awkward/cringeworthy/lame/stupid jokes! Did I say lame?"
"Okay, that's pretty funny, but I doesn't change the fact that I hate meta-episodes."
"Maybe this episode will not be so bad after all... Which doesn't mean I like it!"
"Okay, I'll admit it (just once, and while I'm alone): That was really cool! I still hate meta-episodes, but not this one. This one was great."

So yeah, I hate Supernatural meta-episodes. Except the ones I've watched (i.e. all of them).

Anyway, I really loved the girls singing "Carry on my wayward son". I was a bit afraid that it would sound weird, but the second it started I was speechless. It was perfect.

And when Marie, talking about the mysterious elbow on the side of my screen, said "Does that mean that Calliope came for me or for...?" I completely fell into fangirl-mode, bouncing on my seat and muttering "ChuckChuckChuckChuckChuckCHUCK!!!!".
I love the guy.

And I love this show.

ChrisB said...

Fantastic! I loved every moment of this, even the corny songs. I thought the "Carry On" cover was gorgeous and, for the first time in a while, I listened to the lyrics. I had forgotten how perfect they are for this show.

But, that final shot of Chuck actually made me well up. What a great way to end this great episode.

Finally -- congratulations, Billie on 200 reviews. No mean feat, my friend!

drnanamom said...

Yes - congratulations on 200 reviews Billie - that is also epic! This episode was fantastic. Almost every show I love/have loved ends up doing a musical episode and how clever was it for Supernatural to do it this way? I laughed out loud at the corny songs and like many had a tear in my eye over 'Wayward Son'. Just a whole lot of fun and memories.

Billie Doux said...

Thanks so much! But technically, it's 199 because Sunbunny subbed for me while I was moving from the west coast to the east coast last March. :)

Mallena said...

I love musical episodes done right and this one was almost perfect. Buffy`s musical was fantastic, Xena' s musical was sublime (except for Gabrielle's dubbed singing) and Grey's Anatomy was.....horrible. This SPN musical makes me cry and laugh and feel so many things, it's wonderful. Like Swan Song, it tugs on every heart string.

Marianna said...

Mallena, you may also want to check out the Scrubs musical. =)

Michelle said...
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Mallena said...

The Scrubs musical had some good moments (guy love, not gay song)but the series as a whole was too silly for me so I didn't watch it that much. I did watch the musical episode when it first aired because I saw it promoted and gave it a try. I wish we could all just burst into song in public like they did in My Best Friend's Wedding. That would be so great.


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The Dire Consequences of Fixed-Price IT Projects

"Fixed-price" projects are a common practice in IT, either as the result of a fixed-cost competitive bid or as the result of budgeting pressures on internal software development projects. I put quotes around the term "fixed price" because the projects often go over budget, but for the sake of argument let's choose to ignore this nasty little bit of reality. Organizations often prefer fixed-price projects in an attempt to decrease their financial risk. Unfortunately, the exact opposite seems to happen in practice. Everyone seems to know this, but we somehow can't find a way to get out of this rut. This month I discuss the problems surrounding fixed-priced IT projects to hopefully motivate you to move away from this questionable practice.

The fundamental problem with fixed-price projects is that they motivate you to perform very questionable things which invariably result in wastage. To develop an accurate estimate you need to understand the requirements which you are supposed to implement and the architecture which you are going to build to. The greater the need for accuracy in your estimate, the greater the need for more detailed information. As a result of the pressure to develop an accurate initial estimate you are typically motivated to adopt:

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Let's examine the inherent problems with each of these practices. First, the challenge with BRUF is that you can't accurately determine up front what people want because they fundamentally don't know themselves. People are good at indicating their intent and then once they're shown something such as a UI prototype or actual working code they can indicate what they don't like and what might work for them instead. By iterating, we can home in on what they actually need, but that means that we'll evolve away from the initial requirement upon which the estimate was based. These "requirements changes", what is really changing is our understanding of the requirements, in turn puts the project team at risk of going over budget. The implication is that you can have an accurate estimate of something people likely don't want, or an inaccurate estimate of something people do want.

Second, many "change management" processes are designed to make it difficult for stakeholders to change their minds, reducing the chance of requirements changes forcing you to go over budget. Change really isn't being managed, it's being prevented. These change prevention processes increase the chance that the system will be built according to the specification but decrease the chance that the system actually reflects the true needs of its stakeholders. As a result a lot of money appears to be wasted building functionality that stakeholders don't really want and not on what they actually do want.

Third, BDUF also proves questionable in practice. By designing in detail early in a project you are effectively making serious decisions when you know the least amount of information -- during the first month of a project you know far less than on the 10th month of a project, for example. Once these decisions have been made you're motivated to stick to them because of all the hard work you've invested. Worse yet, if you didn't get the requirements right to begin with, which is often the case, then no matter how good of a design job that you do it's still wrong because the requirements on which it is based is wrong.

Fourth, BRUF and BDUF are two aspects of a serial lifecycle; serial lifecycles seem to offer few control points for stakeholders, thereby increasing overall project risk. Although stakeholders are usually actively involved up front with the BRUF effort their role is often greatly diminished until user-acceptance testing at the end of the project (assuming time permits). There may be the occasional milestone review where they go over status reports and technical documents which are presented as representing so form of earned value, but for the most part the majority of the software development process appears to be a black box to stakeholders: They won't know until close to the end of the project if they're going to receive anything of value in return for their IT investment.

Sadly, many of the so-called accurate estimates aren't all that accurate in practice anyway. No matter how detailed the requirements and design specifications there is always some uncertainty. For development teams to reduce their risk they'll pad their estimate to the point where it is still acceptable to the stakeholders yet still gives them some buffer room for any mis-estimation. In effect, the development team is putting as much of the project's financial risk onto the business stakeholder's anyway, effectively defeating the primary purpose of having a fixed-price project.

In reality projects often go over budget, and more often than not the business stakeholders pay for part or all of the overage to get the desired system from the IT provider. Sadly, mistakes like this motivate people to insist even harder the next time for an accurate up-front estimate, and thus we never seem to get off the fixed-price treadmill.

The alternative to fixed-price projects is of course variable-priced projects. In practice it is much easier to reduce financial risk on variable-priced projects with gated investment based on interim deliverables (ideally working software). This approach requires a good relationship between business stakeholders and IT as well as active stakeholder participation in the project. If you want to ensure value from your IT investment then you're going to have to manage your IT investment closely.

Fixed-price IT projects aren't good for the developers working on the project because it motivates questionable behaviors which put your job at risk in the long term. Nor are fixed-priced projects good for business stakeholders because they seem to increase risk instead of decrease it as promised. It's time to rethink our approach to funding IT projects.

Book Review: Ethics for the Information Age, Second Edition

One of the most important things about being a professional -- any kind of professional -- is to act in an ethical manner. This is as true for IT professionals as it is for doctors, accountants, and lawyers. An understanding of ethics is important whether you're a traditional IT professional or an agile one, yet ethics is rarely discussed in practice. Considering some of the questionable activity which we've seen when it comes to agile certification, I suspect it's high time that the agile community starts thinking about ethics a bit more than we do.

A good resource is the second edition of Michael J. Quinn's Ethics for the Information Age. This is a very approachable book which covers a formidably complex topic. It begins with a general overview of ethics and major ethical theories throughout the ages. The book includes chapters on the ethical issues surrounding networking, intellectual property, privacy, computer and network security, reliability, and wealth. The most valuable chapter, in my opinion, is the last one on professional ethics. Most of the chapter is a review of the ACM/IEEE-CS Software Engineering Code of Ethics, something all IT professionals should be aware of, and a discussion of why it appears to be a very good code. In the end, ethics boils down to a judgment about the choices that you make. My recommendation is that you choose to read this book.

Ethics for the Information Age, Second Edition
Michael J. Quinn
Addison Wesley, 2005
400 pps., $63.80
ISBN-10: 0321375262

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Musician Jesse Dayton may be best known to genre fans as “Captain Clegg,” the front man to the psychobilly band seen in Rob Zombie’s Halloween II, as he not only performed under the moniker in the film but also was the opening act on Zombie’s music tour that kicked off later that year as well.

Now Dayton is gearing up to show his fans out there another side of himself as the writer/director just wrapped production on his first feature film entitled Zombex, a zombie flick that explores the concept that maybe pharmaceutical companies could actually be dastardly enough to be responsible for creating a zombie apocalypse through the distribution of their medicinal products.

Starring Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange), Corey Feldman (The Lost Boys), Lew Temple (The Devil’s Rejects), Sid Haig (House of 1000 Corpses), David Christopher (The Sinner), Slayer lead singer Tom Araya, Emily Kaye (The Sinner), and Desiree McKinney (“Friday Night Lights”), Zombex is centered around Charlie Thibideaux (Christopher), a New Orleans Zydeco player who slowly begins uncover the sinister reason why seemingly normal people are starting to turn into the undead, with all signs pointing to a new experimental drug given to post-Katrina survivors.

Recently Dread Central had the opportunity to chat with the multi-faceted Dayton to discuss what inspired the musician to make the career leap into filmmaking, how listening to the radio one night served as the inspiration behind the Zombex script, and what he’s looking to do differently in his zombie movie.

Music has always been a passion of Dayton’s, but he said he’s always known deep down that he’d somehow get behind the camera at some point in his career. After Dayton enjoyed some success with penning and creating a theatrical play alongside best friend genre favorite Lew Temple, he knew it was time to take it to the next level and was ready to start making movies.

“I’ve always been a closet film geek,” said Dayton. “I actually watch about eight to twelve movies a week, which I know is a lot, but I just love the art of movies. I was born into music so it will always be a huge part of my life- It’s definitely just as important to me as filmmaking. What I can say about making movies is that I believe it is one of the last true vestiges where you can truly show your artistic vision uncut, and I think that’s the biggest appeal for me as a storyteller.”

Dayton went on to discuss how listening to a Libertarian radio show one night about the back-door dealings between health care companies and pharmaceutical companies served as a catalyst in creating the backbone of the Zombex story. “The inspiration behind Zombex came from me listening to a radio program about pharmaceutical companies being in bed with healthcare providers, and they likened the way these companies are putting people on Xanax to turning them into mindless zombies. I actually pulled over my car right then and there and wrote an outline for the movie in five minutes. Listening to that show made me realize we live in dangerous times and how exploring that idea would make for a great horror movie.”

Exclusive: Jesse Dayton Talks Zombex; Production Stills Debut!

“Zombex feels like a very timely film to be making right now on several different levels. There’s a fascist corporatism trend that’s going on in the world right now that I think is a lot scarier than what’s going on in politics these days. I wanted to address those kinds of issues, but I’m also going to be giving you some mind-blowing kills, too. Zombex is definitely a hardcore, bloody zombie film, but there’s also going to be a message in there, too, for the fans who want more than just zombies because I think horror audiences are a lot smarter than people think they are. There’s a lot of nerd factor to the horror community, but I think that’s kind of badass to have intelligent audiences to create films for,” added Dayton.

Dayton discussed how Temple was an integral part of getting production on Zombex up and running and, from there, how all the casting pieces fell into place. “Lew and I grew up together in Texas, and we’ve always said that we wanted to collaborate together one day on a movie so I knew he had to be in the movie. He was definitely the reason I was introduced to Rob Zombie, who has in turn introduced me to a lot of horror fans from all over the world so I am very thankful for all of that because I know that’s part of why I’m getting to make this movie. So after Lew came on board, we went after Malcolm for the evil doctor role. I actually didn’t get to meet him during Halloween II at all so I had to reach out to him personally, and he was on board within a few days. Then both Sid and Corey came on last minute, but being a huge horror fan, I was definitely excited to have them both be a part of Zombex.”

“Getting Tom Araya from Slayer was like a dream come true for me because I am such a life-long metal fan. He actually found out about our film from a friend of a friend so he called me one day and said he lived down the road and wanted to be a part of Zombex. I don’t think he’s ever done a movie before, and I can promise the Slayer fans out there that we definitely put him to good use in the movie,” added Dayton.

Even though it seems with an impressive line-up of male actors in Zombex that the men may rule supreme in this post-apocalyptic world that’s being overrun by zombies, Dayton said that in his film the ladies definitely hold their own against their male counterparts.

“We also have two female leads played by Emily Kaye and Desiree McKinney in Zombex, and I made sure that neither one of them were going to be the ‘damsel in distress’-type of woman in this movie,” explained Dayton. “I wanted them both to kick some ass- like a Sigourney Weaver-type of character because Ripley in Aliens is by far one of my favorite female characters ever. I think there’s a lot of staleness in the horror genre right now, and I think a lot of it comes from people still playing to these archetypes that women need saving all the time. So I wanted to shake things up a bit and show that women don’t have to be victims in horror- they can be heroes, too.”

Now that Zombex has officially wrapped production, we asked Dayton if he had any inklings of when fans can expect to be able to check out his feature film debut. “We haven’t locked distribution yet, but we did take a teaser of Zombex to Cannes, where we actually had a lot of interest in our project so that’s promising. But I just want to make sure we get the best deal possible because I feel like there’s a real future to the world of Zombex, and I’d like to be able to make more of these films if the fans dig the first one. I think, regardless of what fans may think before they see it, they’re going to want to check out the movie just to see how it turns out. What I can say is that I promise to keep fans on the edge of their seats for the entire movie because no one is safe and we have some pretty amazing kills in this flick. As a fan, I know I’d want to see something fun like this so hopefully other fans out there will too.”

In honor of Zombex’s recent wrap on production, Dayton and his team were kind enough to give us a few exclusive production stills to share with our Dread Central readers, which we’ve got right here for you to feast your eyes upon. For more on the film, you can check out the official Zombex Facebook page, dig on the official Zombex website or get the latest news by following Zombex on Twitter.

Special thanks to Dayton for taking the time during a hectic day on set to chat with Dread Central!

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30+ Best WordPress Widget Plugins for (Almost) Everything

30+ Best WordPress Widget Plugins for (Almost) Everything

We love widgets. They’re a quick and easy way to pack more content and useful information into every nook and cranny of your website. Adding social links, forms, recent posts and more couldn’t be easier.

Depending on the WordPress theme you’re using you may already have a ton of useful widgets built in (our theme Total for example includes 16+ custom widgets). But if your theme is lacking the widget of your dreams, try using a plugin to add it.

We’ve collected 30+ of our favorite FREE WordPress widget ready plugins. So without waiting any longer, let’s have a look!

Custom Sidebar Plugins

First things first. To use widgets you need a place to put them. Many themes include widget ready sidebars and/or footers. But what if you want different widgets on different pages?

To accomplish this you’ll need to create custom sidebars and assign them to your various posts, pages or custom post types. Don’t worry if this is a feature your WordPress theme doesn’t have – these free sidebar plugins make it easy.

Custom Sidebars

Custom Sidebars Plugin

Custom Sidebars offers exactly what you’d think – custom sidebar areas that you can assign to any and every page, post, category, archive and post type on your website. Just create a new sidebar and globally define where it should be displayed (or assign it to a specific page).

WooSidebars Plugin

WooSidebars is one of the most popular custom sidebar plugins on the web. Just create new sidebar areas and set conditions for when a custom widget area should be displayed. This way you can show specific sidebars on any post, page, search results, archives, 404 and even your shop pages (products, cart, checkout and all).

Simple Page Sidebars

Simple Page Sidebars Plugin

If you want a quick and simple plugin try Simple Page Sidebars. The plugin uses built-in WordPress caching to keep your admin dashboard fast, while still providing you with the ability to create and assign custom sidebars to individual pages.

Social WordPress Plugins

Social media is an important aspect of marketing and every business or blog absolutely needs to add links to their social profiles. The most accessible locations for your readers to find your social links is your sidebar and footer. Here are our favorite free social widget plugins from WordPress.org.

Social Icons Widget by WPZoom

WPZoom Social Widget Plugin

This handy plugin ads a widget for your social links. With support for 80+ social networks as well as 400+ icons to choose from this is a great option for adding simple square, rounded, circle, plain or labeled social icons to your sidebars.

Meks Smart Social Widget

Meks Social Widget Plugin

The Meks Smart Social widget includes simple options for 40 social icons each with 3 different stules to choose from (sqyare, circle and rounded corners). Simply insert the widget then add a bit of intro text, select an icon shape and pixel size then add your links. Easy!

AccessPress Social Icons Plugin

AccessPress Social Widget Plugin

If you’re looking for a widget plugin with a bit more flair then AccessPress might be right for you. This plugin includes 12 unique built-in icon themes (including hexagons, outlined icons and even paper planes), the option for horizontal or vertical display layout, tooltips, hover animations and much more.

Instagram Feed Plugins

Social links are great, but if you want to boost reader interaction you might want to consider displaying your feed. Instagram in particular is a great option and there happen to be a ton of great free plugins for add it to your widgets.

Instagram Feed

Instagram Feed Widget Plugin

With the free Instagram Feed plugin it’s easy to display a responsive layout of any number of Instagram photos from a single (or multiple) Instagram account. There are tons of options for customizing your grid such as image width, height, count, columns, background, spacing an more. Just format your feed and paste the shortcode in a sidebar text widget.

WP Instagram Widget

WP Instagram Widget Plugin

Want a lightweight Instagram plugin? The WP Instagram Widget is quick, simple and sensible. Just install the plugin, add the Instagram widget to a sidebar or footer and enter your selected options (username, number of photos, link text, etc).

Instagram Slider Widget

Instagram Slider Widget Plugin

Want to a a basic feed grid, or perhaps even a slider? Try the Instagram Slider Widget plugin. It displays the most recent photos from a user account or hashtag with added options for ordering (date, random, etc), slider navigation, slide animation and more.

Newsletter Optins

Don’t miss the chance to turn one time visitors into return readers! Adding a newsletter widget is an easy (and non-invasive) way to get your website visitors to stay informed about your website. Here are a few of the widget ready newsletter plugins we like.

WP Subscribe

WP Subscribe WordPress Plugin

WP Subscribe integrates with aWeber, MailChimp and Feedburner so you can add a newsletter subscription box to any widget ready area. There are easy options for adding your signup box labels, success message, error message and customizations can be added with CSS.

MailChimp for WordPress

MailChimp for WordPress Plugin

If you’re using MailChimp, then the MailChimp for WordPress plugin is a superb option. The plugin adds options for creating a simple subscription optin for your sidebar or footer, in addition to a newsletter subscription options for comments, BuddyPress registration, bbPress, EDD or WooCommerce checkout.

MailPoset Newsletters

MailPoet Newsletters Plugin

If you want to send newsletters on your own without a third party service then have a look at MailPoet Newsletters. This plugin uses your email provider, web host or even Amazon to send newsletters that you build right in your WordPress dashboard. And it comes with a simple signup widget that you can insert into any sidebar.

Recent & Popular Posts Widgets

Share your best posts with your readers to get more views and shares by simply adding your posts to your sidebar or footer. These helpful free plugin make it easy to add recent or popular posts with a widget.

Recent Posts Widget Extended

Recent Posts Widget Extended

The Recent Posts Widget Extended makes it easy to display your recent posts with thumbnails, excerpt, taxonomy and more in any widget ready area. There are tons of options so you can limit the results by category, tag or even post status.

WordPress Popular Posts

WordPress Popular Posts Widget

To display your most popular posts try the WordPress Popular Posts widget plugin. Select whether to show your top posts, pages or even custom post types based on page views. Plus there are options to choose the time period so your can show your popular posts of the day, week, month or even all time.

Popular Posts Tabbed Widget for Jetpack

Popular Posts Tabbed Widget for Jetpack

For a more unique look you could add a tabbed posts widget instead. The Popular Posts Tabbed Widget uses Jetpack to find your recent posts, most popular posts and most commented on posts. Plus there are simple options for number of posts, thumbnail size and first tab.

Sidebar Polls & Surveys

If you run a blog or online business you might want to find out what your readers think at some point or another. The easiest way to get instant feedback is with a poll or survey, and these plugins make adding a feedback form to your widget areas simple.

WP Polls

WP-Polls WordPress Plugin

WP-Polls is a simple Ajaxed poll that you can insert into any post, page or sidebar. Customize your polls with templates and CSS once you’ve created them, and then insert them into any widget ready area by selecting your lasted poll or a specific one.

poll, Survey, Quiz & Form by OpinionStage

OpinionStage Polls WordPress Plugin

OpinionStage offers a more feature rich option with their Poll, Survey, Quiz & Form plugin. This is a great way to boost reader engagement by asking for reader input (or even using the poll for a giveaway). Plus it’s easy. Just create the poll and add it to your widgets.

Quiz & Survey Master

Quiz & Survey Master WordPress Plugin

The Quiz & Survey Master plugin includes options for creating simple quizzes and surveys using true false, multiple choice, open answer, checkboxes, fill in the blank and number questions. Plus it uses a simple shortcode, so all you have to do is paste the short code into the text box, post or page where ever you want it.

Contact Form Widgets

Sidebars and footers are great spots to place simple contact forms and information. Whether you want a form or just an easy way to list your contact information, here are our favorite plugin options.

Contact Form 7

Contact Form 7 WordPress Plugin

Contact Form 7 is one of the best free contact form plugins on the web (in fact, it’s the plugin we recommend to all of our Total customers). No does Contact form 7 make it easy to build custom contact forms but you can insert your forms anywhere using the shortcode for your form (just paste it into a text widget to add it to a sidebar or footer).

WPForms Lite

WPForms Lite WordPress Plugin

WPForms Lite is a drag and drop form builder for WordPress that you can use to build custom forms in minutes. Plus there are pre-built templates to help save time, as well as easy options to embed your forms in any widget, post or page.

Contact Widgets

Contact Widgets WordPress Plugin

If you just want to display your contact information (and not a form) then consider the free Contact Widgets Plugin. This simple plugin adds two new widgets to your WordPress site: one for your personal or business contact information (email, phone, fax and address with a Google map), and another for your social profiles.

Calendar Plugins

For businesses and websites with events or promotions a calendar is key. Calendar are perfect for sharing conferences, happy hours, limited time sales, webinars and more. And adding them to your sidebar or footer ensure more exposure for whatever it is you have coming up.

The Events Calendar

Events Calendar Free WordPress Plugin

The Events Calendar is an awesome calendar for WordPress that offers easy features fro creating and managing events. The plugin adds a new post type that you can use to add all of your upcoming events, as well as a widget you can use to display an events list in any sidebar or footer.

Archives Calendar Widget

Archives Calendar Widget WordPress Plugin

If you regularly add your events to your blog, or if you simply want to display your articles by date, the Archives Calendar Widget is an excellent option. The plugin adds a calendar widget with many more options than the default one built into WordPress. Use the options to create a daily or monthly calendar with post count that you can easily style with a bit of CSS to add custom colors and forms.

Tockify Events Calendar

Tockify Calendar Widget WordPress Plugin

Adding events with Tockify Calendar plugin is easy with the powerful editor, multiple calendar layouts (month, agenda, pin-board), customizable appearance, Google Calendar sync and more. Plus the included mini-calendar widget makes it easy to display your upcoming events within a calendar with the events listed under the selected day.

Ad Banner Widgets

Monetization is crucial for most blogs and websites. Without at least a small in-flow of cash it can be tough to keep a website up and running. Consider these ad banner widgets to make a bit of extra income from your sidebar or footer.

Ads Widget Easy

Ads Widgets Easy WordPress Plugin

The Ads Widgets Easy plugin makes inserting ad banners into any widget area easy. The plugin includes the simplest of options – ad title, link and image. This way you can quickly and easily insert your banners without having to type up the code yourself in text widget.

Meks Easy Ads Widget

Meks Easy Ads Widget PLugin

For more options then have a look at the Meks Easy Ads Widget. This plugin makes it possible to create an unlimited number of adverts from a single widget using predefined or custom ad sizes, random ordering, slide or rotate animations and more. It perfect for creating an alternating banner, or even a grid of smaller 125 x 125 ads.

Google AdSEnse by BestWebSoft

Google AdSense by BestWebSoft

If you want to include Google Adsense ads in your sidebars or footers then the Google AdSense by BestWebSoft plugin is a fast and easy solution. With the plugin you can use your Adsense code to automatically insert ads into widgets (as well as your homepage, pages, posts, search results and more).

More Useful Widgets

We’ve covered a lot of widgets, but if you want to add a bunch of widgets all at once you might want to choose a bundle. These options below all add multiple awesome widgets within one plugin.

SiteOrigin Widget Bundle

SiteOrigin Widgets Bundle

The SiteOrigin Widgets Bundle provides a lot of options for just one plugin. It includes widgets for Google maps, buttons, images, call to action, pricing table, post carousel, features, videos, headline and social links. Plus they are all compatible with the SiteOrigin page builder to boot.

Ultimate Widget Light

Ultimate Widgets Plugin

The Ultimate Widgets Light plugin similarly offers a lot of widget options. The plugin includes an about me, contact info, Flickr stream, Instagram, MailChimp newsletter signup, custom menu, text and video widgets.

Gabfire Widget Pack

Gabfire Widget Pack

The Gabfire Widget Pack is just as impressive with a few more unique options to consider. The plugin adds widgets for videos, ad banners, recent tweets, an advanced archive search, Flickr feed, social icons, ajaxed post tabs, an author badge & bio, Feedburner subscription, related posts, Text+ (with added options for icons and buttons) and a social sharing widget.

Widget Importer/Exporter

Widget Importer & Exporter

The last plugin we wanted to share is probably one of the most useful – it’s the Widget Importer and Exporter. With this you can copy the widgets your have on one website and use them, in the exact same order and locations on a new website.

This is especially useful if you’re cloning your website on your local host, moving to a new hosting plan or if you have a multisite setup and want to re-use your widgets. Simply install the plugin on your WordPress website and export the JSON file, then install the plugin on your new site to import your widgets.

Wrapping Up

We know there are thousands of widgets and widget plugins available but hopefully we’ve been able to help you find a few of the ones you might want or need. And all of the options shared are 100% free and can be found in the WordPress.org repository (so you can install theme right from your WordPress dashboard).

Did we miss anything? If there’s a widget you’re still looking for let us know and we’ll find it. Or if you have your own plugin to recommend leave us a comment below so we can check it out!

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This apartment is the ideal place to return to after exploring some of the most amazing scenery that can be found all around Lefkada island.

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