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Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Robin Givens Left for Good Reason

Lights flicker blue to green to black. Disco mirrors bounce colors around the room. The music vibrates through my chest. Ncha. Ncha. Ncha. Flashes of arms and sweaty hair flinging back and forth. Ncha. Ncha. Ncha.

Wordlessly, he slipped his hand around my waist and turned me toward him. Hot. I lifted an eyebrow, his mouth curled in a sultry grin. I could feel his breath on my cheek. Our hips swayed in harmony. He pulled me closer with each beat. Ncha. Ncha. Ncha. Mmm.

After one song turned to another and another, he pulled back, alternating his gaze between my eyes and at my mouth. Sweet. Slowly he pulled me in and softly kissed my lips. He went in again, this time leaving with...my bottom lip? What the fuck?

He pressed on, ending the third kiss with my top lip between his teeth! Oh, shit. This is some kind of sick fuck.* Thinking as quickly as possible through a fog of vodka, I searched the room for someone to save me. Eyes darting left and right behind his back, he had free rein of my ear. And took full advantage. He gnawed on that for a good few seconds until I pulled away and excused myself.

As hot as you think you are, don't treat a girl like Evander Holyfield.

*Translation: This is disgusting, but I do feel pretty irresistible.
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Thursday, May 15, 2008

Last Ditch Efforts...

Are worth a shot. Even if all they get is a laugh.

Setting: Dingy, smoky local bar, Saturday night, 1:50am

Them: Hey, how you ladies doing tonight?

Us: Fine thanks, how 'bout you?

Them: Great. Have a good time tonight?

Us: Yeah.

Bouncer: Alright everybody, time to go.

Them: What are your names?

Us: Dauntless and Dauntless' friend.

Them: We're Darryl and Joe.

Bouncer: Make your way to the door folks.

Us (getting off our bar stools): Well...

Them: Would you two like to continue this conversation at our place?

Them: Come on, it's still early.

Us: Mmm, no thanks.

Them: We have beer.

Us (looking at each other, grinning): No really. But thanks.

Them: We've got drugs!

Us (beer spraying from our nostrils): Now that's a good one.

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Absolute Bull: How Picasso can teach us to be better designers

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How Picassos’ series of simple and brilliant bull sketches can teach us about creating better user experience.

Picasso’s most monumental works were behind him when in December 1945 he created a unique series of small lithographs that caused me to have an epiphany.

Picasso’s most renowned artistic periods of Cubism, Surrealism and the War period culminating in Guernica, each described the world very differently. For an artist to have so many ways of seeing is remarkable.

With the overwhelming number of reproductions of his paintings, it’s easy to ignore how accomplished he was as a draftsman and sketch artist. He challenged the brilliance of Rembrandt in his rendering of emotion and truth in the tiniest of sketches. He said so much with so little. There is very little crap in his art. It’s gutsy, expressing what he was feeling at this point in his career.

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

The ‘Bull’ series of lithographs show how exceptional his mind was in being able to analyse and deconstruct what he saw around him, laying bare the essential forms of the world. He comes across more as a scientist, paring away, going deeper, getting underneath the surface.

The eleven ink on stone lithographs, show the artistic decomposition of the bull, from a fully realised sketch to schematic geometric lines.

Picasso Bull Series

We can only speculate what the bull meant to Picasso. Meanings vary from fascism, virility to power; yet what’s important about this work, is not the symbolism, but the elegant process of stripping back the world, while still keeping it recognisable and functional.

There are two opposing/complementary forces as I see it in my work as a designer and creative; ‘minimalism’, with a desire to create a message that is clear and unambiguous and then, ‘ornamentation’, which creates an emotional impact that may be more ambiguous, yet is possibly far more interesting.

These lithographs make me constantly view how honest I am as a designer when trying to balance these two styles. Honesty is not meant in a journalistic sense of searching for the objective truth but reviewing how honest I am in making creative decisions.

When it comes to product design, it makes me ask questions:

  • How detailed do I think a product needs to be to succeed?
  • Does shedding a product of its aesthetic qualities create a better experience or offer a less rounded experience?
  • Can a product be too simple, or can this be a selling point when competitors offer much more.

In practice, this means stripping out needless complexity, and in doing research to make sure that proposed functionality will be used. The focus is on reducing the demands placed on users. On being brave, and ripping out features, that were carefully considered at the time, if they are adding complexity.

It might be just a sketch of an old bull, far removed from the realities of the present, but it’s the ultimate design manifesto on how to be a good and honest designer. It should be pinned to every creative’s wall.

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How about recycling plastic bottle caps? Yes!

Greenwich, NY

Link to Aveda, who is handling the recycling of the caps:

A lot of garden club people nationwide, and church people are participating in this effort, and I thought it might be good to let others know about it. I know I get sick of seeing those plastic bottle caps along the roads, and I thought you might start saving them in a container next to the kitchen sink or something. Some plastic bottle caps cannot be recycled, but this link to the company doing the recycling explains all that.

Thank you all for considering.

So.App.Mtns., United States(Zone 5b)

Thanks. Glad to know some company is doing something good...

The plastic bottles that go in the recycle bins in my county are supposed to have the caps (and rings) removed. Almost no one does, though. When I lived in Asheville, we had curbside recycle pick-up and if the bottles still had lids and/or rings, they wouldn't take them because they couldn't sell them to recyclers with them still on.

Greenwich, NY

Darius, Thank you for responding. It would be nice if those well paid legislators of ours (of both hues/yeah right) would require all packaging to be returned to the company that used it for recycling. Now that would cut down on packaging! No more big boxes with a teaspoon of cereal inside. And no more number 5 plastic! Arrrggghhhhh!!!!!!!!

Sacramento, CA(Zone 9a)

I watched an episode of Dirty Jobs on TV the other day and the host visited a recycling facility where it was their job to stand by a conveyor belt and separate the different materials. They didn't really address the topic of dealing with stuff that can't be recycled, such as bottle caps, but I was amazed and encouraged to hear that S.F. recycles something crazy like 63% of its garbage.

Of course, the downside was that the recycling center was extremely expensive which means that other cities probably won't ramp up their recycling efforts any time soon. It did make me realize that I could personally do a better job of sorting my own trash and recyclables though. And I guess that's where change is supposed to start, right?

Greenwich, NY

I live in Washington County in upstate NY, and it is pretty here, but also somewhat poverty stricken, and rather backward, but all NYS counties have recycling programs, and I think the participation is very high now that all garbage costs but the county recycles at no charge to consumers. Many people finally stopped burning their garbage although a few still do so, albeit illegally. I think the entire country could adopt a recycling effort such as this, and jobs would be created locally for folks that are minimally educated. It's all good, as they say.

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Sunnyvale does the same with the conveyor belt and the refuse separators. Anything that can be recycled goes in the recycling bins, any thing that can be composted goes to composting. The landfills are almost full, so sorting the garbage is actually cheaper than trying to locate or create new landfill.

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Saturday, May 26, 2007

wieden kennedy won best integrated campaign for the run london stuff at the d&ad awards last night.
also, big active won best graphic design for the beck sleeves and stickers, nice.

Sunday, May 20, 2007

new prints for sale

3 brand new screenprints, limited edition, signed and numbered, now available at productofgod.

bern pics

some pics from bern, im not even gonna bother posting mine because fats has some excellent photos of the whole thing over at photos of the party are at thanks to dave, nicola and remy and everyone else at the milieu gallery and the wasserwerk club for making us feel so welcome and for working their asses off to make it all happen.

Wednesday, May 09, 2007

ok here are the details for the bern show and the party after that. the date for the launch is may 16th at 6pm, the gallery is milieu, more details here. the party is at the wasserwerk club. new screenprints from parra, jody barton, kate gibb, mat maitland, genevieve gauckler and myself will be available to buy in very limited numbers at the show, and subsequently in equally limited numbers from productofgod. more about this as soon as the site is updated with all the new stuff.
also, for anyone looking for one-offs, there will also be 6 originals from me at the show alongside the screenprints, info on the availability of these soon.


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Thursday, January 28, 2010

Surviving the Elements

Like Hannibal crossing the Alps, I recently battled my way through three separate snow storms across the mountains while traveling from Albuquerque, NM to San Francisco, CA. This treacherous journey across mountain roads was inspired (or rather, required) by my semester long appointment at San Francisco State University as a distinguished visiting professor of Radio Studies. Perhaps this is just another prime example of the hard work professors willingly endure in order to inspire the minds of their collegiate pupils. I am looking forward to another Spring semester here at San Francisco State teaching Radio Documentary workshops.


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Friday, December 23, 2011

Now, Power Your Home With 'Solar Paint'

New research led by an Indian origin professor in the U.S heralds the day when one can apply a coat of paint on the outside walls of a house to generate electricity from sunlight that can be used to power the appliances and equipment on the inside.

The team of researchers at the University of Notre Dame in the U.S has developed an inexpensive "solar paint" that uses semiconducting nanoparticles to produce energy.

The research led by chemistry professor Prashant Kamat in Notre Dame's Center for Nano Science and Technology is described in ACS Nano, a journal published by the American Chemical Society. The scientists have appropriately christened their product as "Sun-Believable Solar Paint".

"By making use of recent advances in semiconductor nanocrystal research, we have now developed a one-coat solar paint for designing quantum dot solar cells," Kamat and co-workers said.

The researchers said they wanted to do something transformative, to move beyond current silicon-based solar technology.

"By incorporating power-producing nanoparticles, called quantum dots, into a spreadable compound, we've made a one-coat solar paint that can be applied to any conductive surface without special equipment."

According to the researchers, their paint is based on nano-sized particles of titanium dioxide coated with either cadmium sulfide or cadmium selenide. Describing the work they said the particles were suspended in a water-alcohol mixture to create the binder-free paste which was then applied to conducting glass surface and annealed at 200 degrees C.

"When the paste was brushed onto a transparent conducting material and exposed to light, it created electricity."

This paste of nanoparticles when applied on surfaces using simple conventional paint brush "could turn large surfaces into solar cells", says a statement by the Notre Dame University.

The best light-to-energy conversion efficiency reached so far is 1 percent, which is much less than the usual 10 to 15 percent efficiency of commercial silicon solar cells. "But this paint can be made cheaply and in large quantities," the researchers claim.

"If we can improve the efficiency somewhat, we may be able to make a real difference in meeting energy needs in the future."

"Whereas further improvements are necessary to develop strategies for large area, this initial effort to prepare solar paint offers the advantages of simple design and economically viable next generation solar cells," the researchers said.

Kamat and his team also plan to study ways to improve the stability of the new material.


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Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Wednesday Links (3/18)

I'd like to open with some witty banter, but it's the day after St. Patty's Day, and I just don't have the energy. Straight to the links...

-- Joe Cox was a popular man yesterday. There were close to 40 media members covering practice, and they all wanted time with Joe... which is odd because they didn't really have a lot of questions once he finally sat down to answer them. Anyway, Tim Tucker does a great job of sizing up Cox's first real day as Georgia's starting quarterback.

-- The Banner-Herald writes that Caleb King has a sharper focus without Knowshon Moreno ahead of him on the depth chart.

-- Following the release of Dexter Moody from his scholarship, Mark Richt is staying mum on the issue. Funny note about this: Richt says he can no longer discuss Moody since he is again "a recruitable athlete." That would be true of Jon Richt, too, whom Mark discussed at length. Ah, technicalities.

-- Chip Towers blogs today that the details of Moody's recruitment and release remain a mystery.

-- In addition to all the other changes this spring, Chattanooga's David Paschall looks at the new jobs for assistant coaches Bryan McClendon and Tony Ball.

-- T Kyle King shares an opinion I heard a good bit yesterday: They just want the Bulldogs to start hitting people.

-- CBS Sports' Dennis Dodd tackles 25 interesting tidbits for this spring around the nation.

-- Good news for Macon sports fans, as Bill Shanks show will be back on the air beginning next week.

-- And finally, since it's Wednesday, I'll leave you with a handful of "Lost" links: Here's an interview with the actor who plays the young Ben Linus... the show's season finale for this year is set for May 13... "Lost's" producers want fans to come up with a nickname for the show's final scene... and apparently Hurley is digging his new hair on the show (but fails to mention his UGA hoodie).

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Weekly Highlights is a new feature here at A Daydreamer’s Thoughts and will be a post highlighting things that happened on and off the blog. It is inspired by The Story Sirens In My Mailbox, Books, Biscuit and Tea’s Showcase Sunday, Kimba Caffeinated’s Sunday Post, and the British Letterbox Love.

In the feature I won’t mention everything I received, nor every post I wrote during the week but will simply feature a selection of things I wish to spotlight a second time around.

Post Highlights

So this week didn’t quite go according to plan blogging wise, I had a few more interesting posts planned for you but I just found myself far too tired to actually get them sorted – sorry! – but I think it was still a good week for the blog! I have another week of good things planned for next week and I hope to get them sorted in advance so they actually happen, fingers crossed and all that, eh?

This week I posted ONE review;
The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau (FOUR HEARTS)

I also did a wrap up of the blogger brunch I went to a few Saturday’s ago! To find out what happened and to see what books I am most looking forward to, click here.

There always amazing books out there just waiting to be read! This week I listed the top ten books on my Spring TBR pile! Find out what I should be reading soon, here.

On Youtube I started a tag! Since it’s been going so well, I’ve decided to bring it to blogs! To check it out and even join in on the fun, check this post out!

Noughts and Crosses Read-a-Long

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This week was the third week of the Noughts and Crosses Read-a-long! Which means that I have now finally re-read the first, second and third book in this series for the first time in years! (And it was awesome you guys, awesome.)

It also means that I’ve posted the first, second and third set of discussion questions.
You can find the first here.
The second ones here.
And the third ones here.

Don’t worry if you haven’t read the books yet, the questions can be answered at any time in the month!

Next week I’ll be reading;
Double Cross!

And don’t forget to tweet about your progress! (#readosandxs)

Sports Relief

Slightly off topic but today is the day I have been trying to train for, for the last few months! It is the day of the Sports Relief Mile – which in my case, is SIX miles.

It is very likely (if you’re reading this between 11 and 1) that while you read this, I am currently running/walking for six miles in aid of charity!

I don’t want anything from you, just wanted to share this with you because despite my weak ankle, I’m excited and just really looking forward to it!

However, if you would like to sponsor me, let me know in the comments or on twitter and I’ll send you my giving page!
But even if you just want to wish me luck, I’d really appreciate it! I’ve never run so far before!

Around The Blogosphere

The Shortlist for the Carneige Award was announced! Check out what M at We Sat Down has to say on the books who made it through, here.

Essentially social media is a great tool to help market blogs, but which ones are best and how do we use them to gain interaction? This is what Sarah is asking this week, head over to this post to have your say!

We all love books, (Or I presume you do if you read this blog!) but have you thought about having a bookish job? This week Sophie talks about the jobs there are, and I think you should definitely check out this post as it’s just really fun and cute!

Series. Series. Series. There are so many. They all do different things. They’re good. They’re bad. They just are. And this week Andye discusses why she never seems able to finish a series. It is definitely a post to read, check it out!

When to post reviews can be important. It can also feel disheartening if you feel like your review is just another on the pile. This week Andrea at Bookish discusses her thoughts on this and wants to hear from YOU. Read more about her thoughts here.

As readers, we’re all likely to have bad bookish habits. This week Jen has admitted to five of her habits. Find out what they are in this post!

Letterbox Love

This week I only bought one book! I feel very proud of this! I did, however, get a few books as gifts and borrowed a few too. But that’s okay!

Trouble by Non Pratt

Paradise by Joanna Nadin

She Is Not Invisible by Marcus Sedgewick

A Kiss in the Dark by Cat Clarke

Boy Nobody by Allen Zadoff

Killing God by Kevin Brooks

And there you have it, my Weekly Highlights!

I hope to visit all posts of this manner, so feel free to link to your own IMMs, Sunday Showcase, Sunday Posts, Letterbox Loves or whatever it is you do below!

what did you get this week? what cool blog posts did you stumble upon? what are you waiting to happen this week?

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Thursday, June 19, 2014

Finding Me - Book Review

BookFinding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed: A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings
AuthorMichelle Knight, Michelle Burford
Genre: Memoir
Publisher/Publish DateWeinstein Books / May 6, 2014
Source: Public Library
Pages: 252
Rating: 3/5
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Wow, this is a hard book to read.

Michelle Knight was one of the three woman who were kidnapped by Ariel Castro in Cleveland, and escaped in May, 2013. Their story made headlines, and though we were all fascinated by it, I'm sure it was shocking for them to escape and then be center of national news.

She bravely retells her horrific story of daily abuse, imprisonment.  Kidnapped in 2002, at the age of 21, she was the first of the three to be abducted and imprisoned. Coming from a tough childhood, she had her first child in high school, who was later put in to foster care. As she was walking miles to downtown Cleveland for a custody hearing, she stopped to ask for directions and was offered a ride by Castro. He tricked her into coming into his house, where he then chained her in the basement.

She shares what happened to her during the early years, including infrequent showers, filthy conditions, starvation, beatings, and multiple forced miscarriages. He went on to kidnap and imprison two more girls, Amanda Berry at age 16, and Gina DeJesus at age 14. Amanda was blond and Castro's preferred girl, and he treated her better and eventually had a daughter with her. Michelle and Gina were chained together, forced to stay together on the same filthy mattress, but found strength in each other to make it through this awful ordeal.

Shockingly he had people over to his house, even introduced people to his and Amanda's daughter, and though his other children found his secrecy and locks on the doors strange, no one ever was concerned enough to contact police. This man was insane, and luckily eventually convicted and imprisoned. One day Amanda's daughter went downstairs, as she often did since she was free to move around the house, and found that Castro hadn't locked the inner front door as he normally did. Along with her mom Amanda, they were able to call for help through a slit in the door and were rescued by neighbors. The house where this all took place was demolished in August 2013.

A challenging and sad book to read, especially knowing that there are more people that are out there in situations like this that we don't know about. Hopefully by sharing her story, Michelle can help bring awareness to the situation, and we can all do a better job of looking out for our neighbors and those less fortunate.

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Bring back Jack!

^ The Brady thing if it happens will probably just be a stopgap so they can build angst for the real Dannifer reunion later on (what with them being true love and all :rolleyes: ). I'm still against it because of Jennifer's history with Brady's mother along with her and Isabella being pregnant at the same time (sleeping with the son of one of your closest friend no longer how long she's been dead crosses a line for me). It's a lose lose situation IMO. Better than Dannifer is not really saying much. I find both potential pairings innapropriate and icky. Not that I'd enjoy any new Jennifer coupling but I don't want to see Dannifer or Brannifer.

Edit: And when I find myself watching some old Jennifer/Isabella clips of these two pregnant women I don't want to be thinking how in 20 years Jennifer will be sleeping with the baby Isabella is carrying. :OhMy:
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Hmmm....Will & Sonny....looks like you have a good shot at winning. I guess I'll win the second prize since we're the only ones here!
Yeah, sorry that I missed it -- I saw your initial post, but didn't really know what it was about, and I stepped away for a bit to watch Friday's episode of the show. Obviously, that was a mistake! :lol:

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My favorite moment would be when Tony locked him in the secret room in 1985 (their final scene together for years; Sindacco posted it above). Such great acting.

I think the most iconic scene, however, has to be Stefano shooting Roman and Roman's subsequent fall off of the cliff in 1984. It's probably his most famous scene (in fact the most famous scene of any daytime villain), and it changed the course of Days' storytelling history in ways that are still felt today nearly 30 years later.
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and adding the clip with the Roman/Stefano scene (begins at 2:07)

That's what seperates Stefano from Tony and EJ. He wasn't willing to rape the woman he claimed to love.

Tony wasn't in love with Liz when he raped her. He was in love with Renee.
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Little Bits of Pixie Dust

Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, martini in the other, body thourougly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WOO HOO, what a ride!!"

Tuesday, November 29, 2005

Thanksgiving Post

Funniest thing that happened at Thanksgiving this year....

A* and I went to his sister's house for dinner. When we first got there, I took off my coat and gave it to A* to hang up in the closet. As I was standing there with my coat, waiting for him to take it, I noticed A*'s five year old nephew staring at me. As soon as A* went to the closet, Nephew slides up to him and says in a whisper, "Does she always tell you what to do?" A* laughed and said, I'm sure, something about yes, I do always tell him what to do. Nephew says, "Yeah, D seems pretty bossy. I would do something about that if I were you."

Five years old!!!

Monday, November 21, 2005

Halloween for Perverts

I was reading another blog the other day and it made me think of a situation from my childhood and hey, where is the best place to air all your dirty laundry? Why, the internet, of course, where no one or a million people could read it. There is a painful, fuzzy memory in my past that I have only shared with a few people. Mostly this is because I can't remember every single detail, and sometimes I have questioned if it really happened. Following a conversation with my mother, I am sure that it really did happen, and with the clarity of validation I am ready to share the incident with The Internet.

I was always really into Halloween. I won the costume contest every single year at the neighborhood Halloween party at the high school. I put a lot of thought and imagination into my costumes... I never wanted anyone to be the same thing as me. A very important part of my Halloween tradition was going to "FS" every year (* name has been changed to protect the innocent *). FS was a store dedicated to costumes and was, to my child's eyes, the greatest place on Earth. No matter what crazy idea I came up with for a costume, FS was able to make it happen.

I don't really remember the exact age I was at the time of this story. I would guess around six or seven. My mom and I were making the annual pilgrimage to FS to pick out my costume, and I was jumping out of my skin with excitement. I had a vauge idea in my head that I wanted to be a mime, but didn't really know how I was going to go about achieving it. I knew that the friendly people at FS would know just what to do.

Our helper for the afternoon was a younger man, probably in his early twenties, with glasses and light red hair. He was eager to help us, and started spouting off mime ideas left and right. He started going up and down aisles, grabbing props and masks. I followed him gleefully, thinking of the shiny silver dollar I would win as first prize in the costume contest. My mom was more sedate, stopping to examine things more closely. Soon we left her in one aisle and went down another. We were standing in front of a wall of masks, and the man was earnestly explaining something to me. I remember that I took a step closer to the wall, looking at what he was talking about. So now I was in front of him, and he was behind me. Without even a break in his endless stream of conversation, the man put both hands in his pockets, and then, with his fist still in his pocket, he took that fateful step towards me. Now he was really close, but I was still looking at masks and didn't think anything of it. Still talking, he began to rub my backside through his pocket. I mean, his hands were still in his pockets, but he lifted them up enough to start stroking my behind. With his hands in plain view, no where near anything inappropriate to anyone that walked by, this man was fondling me. He rubbed and rubbed, while all the blood drained out of me and I stood there dumbfounded.

Thankfully, my mom chose that moment to loudly proclaim that she had found the "perfect" hat, and I ran to her. The man followed behind me, and like nothing had happened took my stuff up to the counter and rang us up. My mom paid for our purchases and we exited the store, the man calling out a cheerful good-bye as we left.

This whole time I was just thinking, "I know that was wrong, I know that was wrong," but I didn't know what to do. I thought that for some reason my mom would be mad at me for what had happened. I thought that maybe I had done something to provoke it. I thought maybe it was normal for grown men in the Halloween shop to touch their young customers behinds. Hey, I was only seven, and nothing in my sheltered little world had prepared me for this!

On the drive home, my mom sensed that something was wrong. She asked me, and at first I was reluctant to say anything, but she persisted, and eventually the whole thing poured out of me. I remember that she got very quiet, and told me that she needed to talk to my dad. She assured me that it was the right thing for me to have told her, and that I didn't do anything wrong. Just the fact that she wasn't mad at me was enough, and I was calmed. We got home and my mom pulled my dad into the kitchen with her. Before I knew it, we were all back in the car and heading up to FS again. I begged my mom to not make me go in the store, and she told me that I NEVER had to go in that store again if I didn't want to. She asked me if it was the man that was helping us, and then her and my dad were out of the car and into the store. I couldn't really see what was going on in there. I could see the tops of their heads over the shelves, but I couldn't see what they were doing. Within ten minutes, they were back in the car.

"He'll never bother anyone again," my mom reassured me, and now I know that this is because he was immediately fired after my parent's told the manager what he had done.

We never talked about the incident again.

I hope that wherever that man is, someone is rubbing his bottom while he tells them not to, and I hope that he remembers the little girl that he violated so long ago. I want him to know that a large part of my innocence was lost that night, and I never really looked at Halloween in the same way again.

Thursday, November 17, 2005

Putting Things in Perspective

We always think that we have the worst problems in the world, and that no one could possibly be putting up with all the shit that we are. At least, I sometimes am guilty of doing this. Today something happened that made me take a step back and think.

As you all know, A* and I recently moved into a new apartment. We had gotten all of our stuff out except my books (about 6-8 boxes) and our Christmas decorations. These we were planning on picking up this weekend and taking to my parent's house to store, since we have no room in our place. We had left these things in the basement of our old apartment until we could get over to my parent's house. Well, we are lazy asses, and instead of doing this as soon as possible, we kept putting it off. We figured that the landlord didn't even have our keys back yet, so there was no way that someone else would be moving in at least until we did that. We were wrong. Sometime over the weekend some new tenants started to move in, and they threw everything that was in the basement away. I had been saving those books since my childhood, anxious to share them with my own children someday. And some of the Christmas ornaments were very very special to me, given to me by my mom and other family members, not to mention A* and I's "First Christmas Together" ornament, which was really important to me. I sobbed and sobbed about the loss of these things. I knew I couldn't blame it on anyone but us, but it still didn't make it any easier. I was pretty devastated.

Then I got to work this morning and there was an email in my inbox from an old high school friend. She was writing to tell me something shocking. One of our mutual friends had married a military man and moved to California to live on a base there. Her and her five year old son were living there, waiting for her husband to come back from Iraq. Yesterday her husband, along with four other men, was killed in Iraq. The couple has a little child and they had just celebrated their five year wedding anniversary together.

Now my friend is twenty five and a widow. I can't even imagine the pain she is going through. I have been numb all day, sending prayers and thoughts her way. I just keep thinking of that poor little boy, who will never know his father, and her. She is in a strange state, all alone. All of her family and friends are here, in Ohio. I don't know how I would even get through something like that. I don't even know what else to say about the whole situation, it is just so tragic I don't think there are any words.

I have A*, and my family, and my health, and a warm place to sleep at night. So I don't have some old books and Christmas ornaments. What is really important in life?

It really put things into perspective for me. The things that we get all worked up about everyday don't really matter, when it all comes down to it. We should be thankful for every moment, every kiss, every exchange of laughter that we get from our significant others, and I definitely am.

Please keep my friend and her fallen soldier in your prayers.

Wednesday, November 16, 2005

Sorry Mom!

Let me start off by saying that I love my mother more than anything in the whole world. She is an awesome wife, mother, and friend to both me and my brother and my father, and has managed to keep our family together despite many obstacles. She is someone that I admire above all others, because she was a single mom for many years and I would never have known if she hadn't told me later that sometimes she had to do people's laundry for extra money, or that one year she didn't have any money for Christmas presents and wrapped up a bunch of her old stuffed animals from my grandma's attic and given them to me from "Santa". She is one of the strongest, funniest, warm-hearted people I have ever met, and I thank my lucky stars every day that she is a part of my life.

With that said, I am going to tell you one of the moments that I regret SO much. When I was in high school, my mom and I were tight. We were more like best friends than mother and daughter... though as she always told me when I was angry at her, "I am NOT your friend, I am your MOTHER, and you will treat me with respect!" Anyways, most of the time we got along great. Well, my junior year of high school, the people that sold class rings came to our school and handed out a bunch of information about them. I wanted a class ring badly, and took all the stuff home for my mom to look at.

My mom poured over the brochures. She told me that it was a lot of money for us to spend on one thing, but she could see how much it meant to me so she was going to spring for it. But she didn't feel comfortable just writing out a check for hundreds of dollars and then handing it to her sixteen year old daughter without ever actually speaking to the people that were receiving the money. During lunchtime, the class ring people had set up a booth in the cafeteria, where students could drop off their checks or look at rings. My mom dropped the bomb...

She wanted to come up to school, at LUNCHTIME, and talk to the ring people.

I was mortified. I told her, in no uncertain terms, that it would be the end of my social life, that I would never hear the end of it... "D's mom came into to school! She was the only parent there!" At this age, I didn't even want my mom to drop me off at school, much less come in and be there at the busiest time of the day, the virtual center of high school life. I cried, begging her not to embarrass me by showing up. I told her that I would be damaged for life if she subjected me to this humiliation.

But in the middle of my heartless rant, I never stopped to think about how this would make my mom feel. The poor woman was already shelling out money for a ring that she knew very well I wouldn't wear in a year. And besides, I think she was genuinely blindsided, being that we had such a close relationship and all. She didn't understand why I would have such a problem with this. And all I could do was bawl and beg her not to be seen in public.

She didn't come to school, by the way. She gave me a check and I did the whole process by myself. I ended up with a huge ring that I wore for a little over a year, and now it sits in my jewelry box under the sink. But I never forgot the look on her face when I had that outburst. I knew that I had broken her heart, just a little.

I know that someday I will have kids, and that someday they will tell me that I have to drop them off two blocks away from school, or that I'm not allowed to come to their game because I am "so uncool". And this will be fair payback.

I think that forever I will feel just a little guilty about hurting my mom's feelings like that. I grew up a little that day, and so did she. I learned that I had the power to make my mom feel like crap, and that wasn't such a good feeling.

I'm sorry Mom!

Tuesday, November 08, 2005

My First Love

Besides Davey Jones from the Monkees, as I watched his show faithfully in reruns on Nickelodeon every day after school. No, this was my first real crush.

His name was Doug. His mom and my mom happened to work together and be great friends, so we got to spend a lot of quality time together. Doug wasn't the most handsome boy in the sixth grade, but he had a large and inviting smile and a sense of humor that was unchallenged by any of our classmates. He wasn't afraid to look stupid, and I think that is what I loved most of all. He was the type of boy to get into our dog's cage and bark at us, just to get a laugh. We used to play all sorts of made up games, games that I was too embarrassed to play with any other friends because I felt like I was too old. Doug didn't care about stuff like that. We played a version of house where we were a young couple in college, breaking up frequently and "driving our cars" which were really Doug and his brother's bikes up and down the street. We played Doug's favorite, doctor. But don't get any dirty ideas... he had these toys called Wrestling Buddies, which are really just dolls for boys, and he would poke holes in them and pull out the stuffing with tweezers, performing surgery and wrapping up their arms in old T-shirts as casts. I was his co-doctor. We also went swimming together, watched movies, and once he even spent the whole week at our house when his parent's were out of town. ** an aside... this reminds me of my most embarrassing moment, which has to do with Doug but I will save it for another entry. **

I was hopelessly in love with Doug until the fateful day when I went to an amusement park with him, my best friend, and his best friend. All was going fine, and we were riding ride after ride, when suddenly Doug pulled me aside. He asked me if I thought that my friend would "go out" with him. I was crushed, absolutely crushed. But I held my head high, watched as Doug and my friend rode the ferris wheel together and held back my tears. They did end up going out together, for quite a while. I was loyal to my friend, though, and put my crush away. I was pretty successful, after a while.

In the eighth grade, Doug's father got transferred and they were moving to Texas. The day before they moved, Doug and his mom came over to say good-bye. Doug and I hung out in the back yard for a while, and then his mom called that it was time to leave. Doug hesitated, then said to me, "I used to have a crush on this one girl, but her mom and my mom were friends, so I never asked her out. But I really, really liked her." Being socially retarded, I asked him who the mystery girl was. He grabbed me unexpectedly, hugged me tight enough to make me gasp for breath, and whispered, "You." He ran into the house and I never saw him again.

Doug, wherever you are, I had a crush on this one boy, too.

Monday, November 07, 2005

Birthday Weekend

Thursday, which was my real and honest to goodness birthday, was spent at home. A* and I decided to wait till the weekend to celebrate. The girls at work, though, decorated my desk and bought me an ice cream cake, some cute socks, and a plant. I didn't have the heart to tell them that any living thing that I touch will most likely die. A* called and said that he was going to stop and help a guy from his work pick up a cabinet before he came home. I exploded, yelling at him that it was my birthday and all I wanted to do was spend the evening with him and how dare he not come right home, blah blah blah. Turns out, as I found out later, he had planned on stopping to get me some flowers in order to surprise me. I felt so stupid. Can we say, open mouth and insert foot??
Friday I awoke long enough to puke, call off work and then was back in bed for the remainder of the day. A suspicious flu shot may have been the culprate, though the nurse who gave it to me swore that I would not get sick. It could have been the shot, or it could have been another virus, but whatever it was, I was out of comission for the day. I tried to blame my bitchy behavior from the day before on the illness, but no one bought it.
Saturday was "my" day. A* and I went to breakfast, went to the library to get me some new books (always one of my favorite activities), and then went... shopping!! I can't tell you the last time that I went shopping for myself. It was glorious. I haven't been able to find a winter coat for ages, and I finally got one. I got two new bras, which is a miracle in itself. I have rather ample breasts, and I have the hardest time finding bras that don't pinch me or have my boobs overflowing out of them or that don't leave huge dents in my shoulders. This was also the reason for not being able to find a coat... none of them would zip up over my boobs!! Sigh, but I finally found one. I also got four extremely cute pairs of underwear, fuzzy pink slippers, and Tinkerbelle pajama's. It was wonderful. Then A*, my best friend and I went out to dinner together. I have to tell you, I got the hugest cream puff I have ever seen in my life for desert. It was the size of a large dinner plate. Obviously, A* and I gave it the old college try, but even the pigs that we are couldn't finish that thing.
Sunday, a day that I should have spent doing the laundry that is right now waiting like the devil in the back of my car to go to the laundy place, my family came over to see my new apartment and then we all went out to lunch for my birthday. I heart my family. Laughter and good food ensued, and it was a great time for all. I always have a good time with my family, no matter what we do.
Now it is Monday, and that was my birthday weekend. I guess I go back to being just me now, as opposed to the Birthday Princess I was claiming to be last week.

But damn it, I am really, really good at being the Birthday Princess.

Wednesday, November 02, 2005

Happy Birthday~ I Hate You

I have never gotten along with my stepmother. She was all right when I first met her, but in retrospect I think that she was just being nice so that she could reel my father in. Once she had him in her clutches, the gloves came off.

I was seven years old when my dad and her got married. I was very excited, because I got to get a new dress and lacy underwear and socks. And oh, I loved that dress. I felt like a fairy princess in it, and twirled and twirled until I was almost sick. But guess what? When the wedding was over, I wasn't allowed to keep the dress. She confiscated everything, right down to the lacy socks and underwear. Now, the woman has no children, so why in the heck did she need to have that dress? To hang in a closet? This was just the beginning.

I never did anything to her satisfaction. I didn't dress right, I didn't hold my silverware in the correct way, I didn't speak properly, I was too loud, I complained too much, I always wanted something, etc etc. Keep in mind that I was still only a kid. My most miserable memories are of sitting at my dad's kitchen table as she lectured me about eating what was put in front of me. I was always a picky eater, and she made weird stuff that I had never even heard of. I would sit there and stare at my plate with a huge lump in my throat, knowing that I couldn't swallow. Her dog would sit under the table and scratch at me with his claws, and if I said anything or kicked the dog off of me, I would get berated. Finally the last straw came when I called my mom in the middle of the night, sobbing hysterically because I was scared and she wouldn't let me in their room. I didn't want to stay there, just wanted the comfort of knowing that someone else was right in the next room. But she told me to get back in my own bed, and I did for a couple minutes, but I was so scared. I called my mom and she came to pick me up right away, and that was the last time I spent the night at my dad's.

As the years went on, my dad and I worked out a system where we could see each other but I wouldn't have to see her. We started going out to dinner once a week together, and that was fine with me. I got to see my dad and I didn't have to be uncomfortable. I only had to see her on holidays, and I would just try to avoid her. Once I was eighteen, I didn't have to go over to my dad's family's house anymore, so I never saw her.

The final blow to our relationship (or the shreds of it that were left) came when I was about to be a freshman in college. When I graduated high school, my dad had told me that he would split the cost of school with my stepdad and my mom. Then he said he never said that, so I understandably got angry and didn't talk to him for a couple weeks. It was the middle of week two when the phone rang, and it was her.
"Why aren't you talking to your dad?"
I told her that I didn't think this was any of her business.
"You ungrateful little brat. You get everything handed to you and you don't even appreciate it. I have no respect for you, and you are really hurting your dad's feelings."
I retorted that I didn't care in the least what she thought of me, and things went on in this vein until I hung up on her, as she was calling me a bitch. At first I was really proud of myself for standing up to her, but then my true nature (the sensitive, never say a bad word to me one) came out and I burst into tears. To make a long story short, my mom called her back and told her in no uncertain terms to never call her house and talk to her daughter that way, and finished up the conversation by saying, "You better hope I never run in to you in a back alley," to which the stepmom said "Oh, I'm scared" and my mom said, "You should be." and hung up the phone.

So ever since then I have avoided all possible contact with the stepmom. For my own mental state. But my father insists on pretending that the stepmom and I are just "different" and that we could really get along if we wanted to. Yeah right. So every year on my birthday he forces us to go out to dinner and pretend that we like each other. Last year, she didn't say anything to me the entire time, including Happy Birthday. She glanced at me once and said, "So, at home, do you, like, cook?" and A*, bless his heart, piped up and told her that I was pretty much the next Emril, even though in real life I hardly ever enter the kitchen. That was the only time she addressed me.

Tomorrow is my birthday, so tonight? The dinner. I am dreading it more than you could ever know, but out of respect for my father, I will bite my tounge and get through it. At least A* will be there, and he always keeps me entertained after these things by making fun of her and telling me how much of a bitch she is. That is why I love him so.

It's only one night, right?

Tuesday, November 01, 2005

We are done, done done moving!! It took all weekend, it took long hours, sweat and tears, but we are there. We didn't even start packing until Friday night, stayed up into the wee hours of the morning cramming everything we own in boxes, and were up again the next morning as the sun rose to take the first load over to the new place. By the time we got back again, reinforcements had arrived in the form of two of A*'s friends from work... or, as I like to call them, angels. Anyways, seven billion trips later we had everything at least IN the new house, but it was all stacked together in a big jumble of our lives in the middle of the floor. The next day we tackled the huge pile and were finally able to sit down. After that we hung up pictures and decorations, and then I felt like we were home. Can I tell you that I absolutely LOVE this new place. It is so cozy and homey, and smells yummily like vanilla, thanks to a new Glade Plug In. I am very happy. Things went so well, eerily well. I keep expecting the bottom to drop out, because nothing ever goes this well in our lives. I know that is a negative outlook, but with the way things have gone in the past I just have to expect it.

Moving injuries? Only two, both experienced by me, of course. The first took place in the Big Pack. I was on my hands and knees, pulling things out from under the bed, when my arm gave out and I toppled forward, smacking my head on the hardwood floor. A huge bump appeared and a mammoth headache. The second injury was when A* and I were trying to manuever our bed frame out of the door. Now, keep in mind that A* insisted there was no need to take the frame apart, that it would definitely fit through the door. Well, it didn't, and he had to take the front part off. When we were squeezing through the doorway, I got caught between the frame and the door and scraped a couple layers of skin off of my back. But I was fine! I rebounded! Because we were Moving!

Next time, I promise, not another rant about moving. I just wanted to let you all know that we did it, we're in and settled, and now we can get back to the regularly scheduled programming.


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Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Integer City

Here's an illustration I did a couple of weeks ago for Bobby Pins & Mary Janes, the novel my collaborator and pal Jamie S. Rich is publishing online.
The graphic novel Jamie and I are working on for Oni Press is coming along really well (I just finished page 100/148 about an hour ago), and I hope to post some new teaser art soon.


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Since its debut in 2008, The Kennedy Center’s Ballet Across America series continues to showcase the best of ballet from regional companies across the nation. This fourth time around, there are the added elements of athleticism, those thrilling moves that American dancers do so well, plus diversity, social consciousness and definitely edginess, curated by two […]

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Saturday, August 13, 2005

Eight bidders? Fluid requirements? Bud Selig "calling the shots"? Yeah, this'll go smoothly.

In today's Washington Post, Thomas Heath provides a fascinating, long look at the Nats Derby which, ostensibly, should culminate with an owner being selected before summer's out. Or so we've been told . . .

The principal suitors for the franchise haven't changed in the past four months, but several groups have fleshed out their lineups or brought aboard financial ringers, such as Albert Lord and (gasp!) George Soros. To recap, here are the bidders (with main movers-and-shaker listed) at the moment:

---> Team Gravitas (Fred Malek; Jeffrey Zients; Colin Powell).
---> Team Commie (Jonathan Ledecky; Soros).
---> Team Family (Ted Lerner; Mark Lerner).
---> Team Jesse (Yusef Jackson, son of Jesse; Ronard Burkle, a grocer).
---> Team Rocky Top (Tennesseans Franklin Haney, Sr., and Jr.).
---> Team Baseball Man (Stan Kasten; Mystery Investor).
---> Team Gravel Pit (Bill Collins; Lord).
---> Team Blah (Jeff Smulyan, media mogul and former Mariners' owner).

Heath's article is too long and involved to summarize effectively, so I commend you to read it. But here are three points of interest:

1. With the obvious exception of Team Commie, relatively obscure groups have jumped out with bigger bids:

Initial bids have ranged from about $350 million to around $400 million, and some groups have orally committed to going much higher, according to people familiar with the bidding process. Those believed to be at the high end of the bidding include Haney, Jackson and Burkle, and Ledecky and Soros, according to various sources.

Kasten, Smulyan and Lord and Collins are in play as well. The league informally indicated to some groups, among them Malek and Zients, and Lerner, that their bids were at the lower end of the scale, according to sources. Those two groups, at least, would be willing to spend more, but it's not clear how much more, according to those sources.

To an extent, that makes sense, as I get the feeling that Team Rocky Top and Team Jesse have to establish some street cred in this process, while it would appear Team Commie wants to make waves; on the other hand, Team Gravitas and Team Baseball Man, to name two, have name recognition within the industry and can pace themselves. We've been told that Team Gravitas is more than sufficiently capitalized, so I wouldn't expect lack of funds to hold those dudes back.

2. The guy has been brought on as a consultant.

Heath's article mentions that MLB is breaking down the potential owners in several vectors of compatibility with what MLB seeks the winner to possess and represent. These include:

---> "Baseball Insiders": Those with knowledge of the industry.
---> "Family": Those ownership teams most representing a close corporation, rather than unduly diverse concerns and motivations.
---> "Local Connections": Those who would gratify the members of the DC community, especially the City Council and Mayor, that lured the team here in the first place.

3. What a Bud wants . . .

The "best" suitor might not end up with the team, of course. It pretty much comes down to what the Seligulans want to orchestrate. See, e.g., In re Sale of Red Sox:

[Henry/Werner/Lucchino] won the team despite a purportedly higher bid offered at the last minute by cable television
billionaire Charles F. Dolan. But the sale, which was conducted by the team's longtime owner, a trust established by the late Tom Yawkey, was investigated by the Massachusetts attorney general's office, which suggested Selig had "called the shots" to steer the team toward Henry.

Well, this should be fun, right? Play ball!

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SQL Anywhere 11.0.0 » SQL Anywhere Server - Database Administration » Starting and Connecting to Your Database » Connecting to a database » Simple connection examples » Connecting to the sample database from Sybase Central or Interactive SQL

Connecting to the sample database on Mac OS X

On Mac OS X, shortcuts are included

To connect to the sample database from Interactive SQL (Mac OS X)

  1. In the Finder, locate the SQL Anywhere sample database. By default, it is located in /Applications/SQLAnywhere11/System/demo.db.

  2. Copy this file to a location where you have read and write access, such as the Desktop.

  3. In the Finder, double-click DBLauncher.

    DBLauncher is located under /Applications/SQLAnywhere11 by default.

  4. Select the Local Server option.

    The Local Server option does not allow client/server communications over a network.

  5. Click Start to start a personal database server named demo.

    The database server messages window displays licensing information and performance warnings.

  6. Start Interactive SQL. In the Finder, double-click Interactive SQL in /Applications/SQLAnywhere11.

    Interactive SQL opens, and the Connect window appears.

  7. Type DBA as the user ID, and sql as the password, and then click OK.


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February 15, 2010

Not fade away

The wrecking ball takes out East Rutherford, New Jersey's Giant's Stadium this March. In its 38 years the Giants, the Jets, the Boss, the Pope, and the Grateful Dead all played the field. September 2nd, 1978 started it off for the band, and by their 12th show in August 1994 more than a million fans had seen them in the stadium. (Well, maybe some were repeat attendees.)

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Kimberly said...

I was almost every Giants Stadium show. Always a joyous occasions to see my boys play at the home of my other boys, The NY Giants!


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So that’s that..

To say the least, it was a weird final.

First, the start was delayed and then the match reduced to 38 Overs, and then that explosive Gilcrist innings followed by a spirited run chase by Sanath and Sanga, during which the LTTE decides to send one of the air-crafts to visit Colombo which sets off spontaneous retaliatory fire by government forces and condemn half of Colombo into darkness.

For those caught in the proximity of the firing, it’s a frightening experience. For the rest of us, the score is 100something for 1, and it’s a great partnership, as Sangakara thwarts one on the offside for 4. But that was about all the excitement we are going to get, as few balls Sanga mis-times the pull-stroke and is caught. Its now up to Sanath and Mahela to pull something off, they keep scoring at a decent pace but the required rate is climbing up, as the drizzle falling in Barbados intensifies, Duckworth/Lewis comes into the picture. Its now a wet pitch, and the game is slipping away as Sanath comes down the pitch to Michael Clark, the ball keeps low and bowled!. End of Sanath, and the end of the match for Sri Lanka…. to fast forward a bit..

Weirdness continues.. its now pitch dark and with 3 overs to go, the umpires offer the light to the batsman who takes it, which sets off a victory huddle by the Aussies, they have won the world cup! but wait, Aleem Dar has other ideas. He kindly informs Ponting, the match might continue tomorrow. Everyone seems confused, Mahela is seen talking to Ponting, and after some more confusing moments later, the Sri Lakan batsman walks in to finish off the game needing 22 runs per over and with the ball no where to be seen, the Sri Lankan tail-enders seem to find it a bit difficult. And finally.. the Aussies have their moment.

Sigh. No wonder people like football.

Its about this time in a blog post, where people say how the better team won and how we are all proud of the boys, and they have done their best, and so on. All of which are true. I just wish we had a different final. Somehow, the occasion deserved something better, something closer to, well, cricket.

It was always going to be a tough game, but all of Sri Lanka hoped. Normally, It would be wrong to call us a cricket-crazy country, we are rather fond of the game, and it’s probably our national pastime (apart from doing nothing and taking holidays) but for the past week or so, you could feel that we were approaching fanatic levels.

So much so, that there were countless religious ceremonies in churches, kovils and temples wishing the cricketers well in the final. But in spite of all that, you’ve got to say that Mother Nature made it a point to be especially unkind to the Sri Lankans, from the reduced overs to bright sun and no-swing when Aussies were batting to the rain and swing when we were batting, to the perfect orchestration of the Jayasuriya dismissal (wet-pitch, duckworth/lewis, heavy-outfield.), the weather certainly played into the hands of the Australians.

But that’s how things go, as people say, what to do. It’s disappointing. Sri Lanka certainly deserves its second place, we played some great cricket, and as Kamran Abbasi from the Blog Pak Spin says, the moments of the world-cup belonged to Sri Lanka.

“...for each over-whelming favorite there is an over-whelming supported underdog. Hundreds of millions of cricket fans will be rooting for Mahela's Magicians simply because it would be great to see somebody other than Australia win. More than that the magic moments of this World Cup--Malinga's four in four and the final-ball defeat of England--have belonged to Sri Lanka. There is a variety in their bowling--slingers, swingers, and doosras--that gives them the best chance of humbling Australia. That's before we get into the poetic justice of Murali triumphing over the country that has brought him most humiliation.” [link]

It wasn’t to be, but perhaps another time.

N said...

I think what really hurt the most was Murali and Sanath not getting their last opportunity to win a WC...that said most of the rest of the boys are young...if we can keep going like this this is a magical team!

Deane AKA ~CC~ said...

Yeah.. Murali might, who knows..
it would be interesting to see who will replace Arnold, Attapattu would make the batting more stronger, but they might go for Kapugedara, who's probably the right sort of player to replace arnold. we lacked a power hitter down the order.

N said...

Kapugedara would be ideal, the games changed so much we need some power hitters...I still remember him slamming Bret Lee for six in the B&H finals...I think if he's groomed well he'd be a worthy successor to Sanath as opposed to Marven...

Deane AKA ~CC~ said...

i donno about Kapugedera replacing sanath.. i think he might play for a while anyway, but yea.. if ppl are looking for the future, Kapugedara to replace arnold in the current set up.. the only concern is Dilshan and Chamara almost seems the same, a 40ish max sorta players.. with the rare big score, we could do with somebody who can score big there. like for eg. marvan :P.. its a toughie.. but i guess there's enough competition for places.. both for that slot, and Maharoof/Dilhara and i guess Bandara is knockin on the door as well..

Anonymous said...

We should make Basil Rajapakse Sri Lanka's cricket captain...Team manager should be Mahinda. They are good at everything so i'm sure they are good at cricket too... Hooray for the Rajapakses. This country is in safe hands. So I dont care if the economy is -5000% so long as Mahinda is in power. We should defeat the english speaking Ranil!!


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Monday, April 18, 2011

Magenta Fold Inspiration

I found inspiration and the directions for making this fun fold card on the Magenta Blog. The flower images are from Magenta and the sentiments are by Hero Arts. It was a little challenging to photograph and keep the front to back of the card in focus. That should give you some idea of how limited my photography skills are. The strip along the top and the bottom are from the Hero envelope pattern stamp. That is one versatile stamp!
I did take a photo from the side to show the folds more clearly.

The tag on the rear fold is a Silhouette design. I would love to have a silhouette die cut for those flowers. The butterflies are from a Martha Stewart border punch.

The rest of my week is going to be very busy so I made myself relax today. I took a quilt out into the yard, under an oak tree and enjoyed the beautiful sunny, warm, breezy, day. Camera by my side, just in case a butterfly flew by or the deer came out into the field. It was quite relaxing.

Thanks for sharing  part of your day with me.

  1. Absolutely stunning, Debbie! I love the colours you used - so fresh and spring like

  2. Beautifully done, Debbie! I love the several shades of pink you used!

  3. Oh my, this is so lovely, Debbie. It has an elegance all of it's own.
    Glad you managed a relaxing day - sounds idyllic :o)

  4. Gorgeous card, love it! I so need those stamps! LOL!

  5. so lovely <3
    thanks for sharing!

  6. Couldn't u stamp the flowers out and scan them into your Silhouette software? Thats what I'd do!

    This card is gorgeous by the way, I found u on Flickr n stopped by to have a proper look!

  7. WOW! the colors on the flowers are amazing, Debbie! Beautiful step card!

So happy you stopped by and thanks for sharing your thoughts!


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Ooh, Listen To The Fifteen-Year-Old. This Is "I Can Die In Peace" Material.

This should cheer up a few of my friends and sphincter some of my adversaries.

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h/t Lisa Simeone and Tomm Undergod.

Update (2/25/11): A little slow on the uptake, me, and sure, I'm annoyed that the very inspiring video was taken down. But I'm downright pissed that Lisa's & Tomm's comments seem to have gone down the memory hole. Deeply pissed. Fuck whoever was involved in that censorship. Deeply.

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

WikiLeaks And Authoritarianism

Whether or not this is a serious "cyberwar" or, if it is, it rises to the sober gravitas of an actual armed conflict, the battle against corporate websites by 4Chan and other hackers, tentatively abetted (so far) by primarily social networking sites, clarifies the field quite a bit.

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Chris Hedges: Hope

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I cannot promise you fine weather or an easy time. I cannot assure you that thousands will converge on Lafayette Park in solidarity. I cannot pretend that being handcuffed is pleasant. I cannot say that anyone in Congress or the White House, anyone in the boardrooms of the corporations that cannibalize our nation, will be moved by pity to act for the common good. I cannot tell you these wars will end or the hungry will be fed. I cannot say that justice will roll down like a mighty wave and restore our nation to sanity. But I can say this: If we resist and carry out acts, no matter how small, of open defiance, hope will not be extinguished. If all we accomplish is to assure a grieving mother in Baghdad or Afghanistan, a young man or woman crippled physically and emotionally by the hammer blows of war, that he or she is not alone, our resistance will be successful. Hope cannot be sustained if it cannot be seen.

I have to to admit that, being of a certain age, that "protest" and "sit-in" and "chaining oneself to the [insert object here]" leave a bit of a cynical bad taste in my mouth.

On the other hand, the greedheads really hate that stuff. And, so...


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Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Deep Enders - Matt Jones & The Reconstruction

Matt Jones & The Reconstruction - Album Release for The Deep Enders
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There’s a debate…,“…a raging storm…,” as Matt Jones called it, that’s going on within his band, The Reconstruction, concerning what he should wear to his big album release show, Friday night at The Ark in Ann Arbor.

No turtlenecks or cardigans. Of course. And, come to think of it, he should probably shave, too.

But, what then? Button shirt? Short sleeves? Tie? Bowtie? Maybe a full suit and blazer? What clothing best fits Matt Jones? Should he suit himself up and step out of character? Is it time for a change?

Hasn’t he changed already?

“This is the show and, also, this is the band that I think I’ve been working toward for 10 years,” said Jones. “And, this record (Deep Enders), that I made last spring, it’s really been being made over the course of those 10 years. For this one album, I definitely built off of all of the last three. And it’ll be at a venue that cares, with performers who care, on that stage, with an audience that cares, and playing songs that I really care about, every one of them; it’s gonna be a really heavy night.”

It’s like the end of a melodramatic tragicomic indie art flick about musical comings-of-ages for this unlikely, rather tall-ish everyman of the Ypsi area. Do the credits start rolling or something? “I hope not…Or, at least, I hope there’s a sequel.”

And he’d rather everyone else dress themselves up to the optimal of impressive elegance for the Ark show, to look their very best under the house lights, so that he can sorta “back out” and just be himself.

Matt Jones hails from the Ypsilanti area, having been born down in Adrian, MI. For years, he’s written devastating and delicate songs saturated with sublime strings (lots of cello and some violins) and expressive, cascading guitar lines enlivened by his characteristic finger-picking style. “Heavy” is a good word for his tunes, ruminative would be another…

Never securely rooted in rustic revivlism, and not quite radically reinventing the genre, the arrangements are never overly ostentatious nor are they strumming singalong stompers, it’s nearly exquisite enough for a baroque hall, but also rustic and worn-sounding as if it’s been kicked around the dusty, pastoral plains. These are songs of a man whose face still shows some of the faded-pink scars from all the badly-chosen-briar-patches he stuck to in the days of his more impulsive past.

Deep Enders relates to being in the wrong place at the wrong time, ya know, in the deep end, treading water. But, the more I think about it, it’s more about being in the wrong place at the right time. Because maybe it’s something you need to do. Maybe something, some place, like that, pushes you forward…? I don’t know…”

“But, there’s a song on here, ‘The Darkest Things,’ that’s actually the most autobiographical. This line, ‘Our boy’s coming back,’ it does seem like it could be a soldier coming back from war, supposedly improved, but…then you realize that there’s these flaws, that he’s actually…kinda fucked up. A few years ago, my parents were just starting to come around to the reality of me spending so much time playing music, being gone and being broke and not being real super healthy and were thinking it was cool, our relationship was getting better but, then shit hit the fan. I had to stop drinking for a long time and it kinda crushed them a bit to, ya know, realize that …I am growing up, but I’m still fucking up. But that’s actually kind of a happy song.”

At this, he lets loose his iridescent laugh and everything’s okay. Jones speaks with a charming bluntness, his voice at a mid-range, rustbelt-accented timbre…but when he sings, he hits this considerably higher register, a breathy, soaring sigh that sounds nothing short of angelic. Fitting, considering the demons that these songs are exorcising… But that laugh… is youthful, naïve, energetic hope incarnate! And it always sweetens the gnarly swear word he just spat to sharpen the latest sentence.

“Seriously, the live show is going to pummel you!” Jones is referring to the formidable talents augmenting his songs, with cello, violin, piano, trumpet, upright bass and some splendid vocal harmonies (Colette Alexander, Carol Gray, Misty Lyn Bergeron, Samantha Cooper, Serge Van der Voo, Patrick Herek). “It’s gonna hurt! And, that’s what we want…We want to pierce your vital organs!”

We both laugh. His laugh sounds sweeter.

Pluck the heartstrings until they just snap?

And sing about dark things?

“Totally… The darkest fucking things… Oh, you’re gonna feel it.”

Jones is has had to rebound from a few of his own personal life-lapses, before…But this one seems like the strongest yet; Deep Enders sounds like it’s sung from a man reborn. Nay, …reconstructed?

“I knew I wanted to write more songs outside of myself,” said Jones, who has recently returned to school, studying History at Eastern Michigan University. “I focused more on subjects and characters from the Civil War because I love it and I’m obsessed with it but also, studying all those things, Lee and Stonewall Jackson and about the Bountymen, it brought me to that one lyric, “…this War has civilized me…” That’s one reference actually to me, in reading about these historic figures and soldiers and their experiences and being so in love with that topic…it has pulled me out of my own civil war.”

“It’s weird.” Again, the warm, self-deprecating laugh of his.

And, it’s important to note, that the song referenced at the start of this article, “The Darkest Things,” was inspired by all the moments when he thought he was ready to “throw in the towel” and walk away from writing and performing. “But, by the time I got around to finishing those lyrics, I realized: I am fucking up…but I am still growing-up.”

“And even so, it’s your choice! You don’t lose, nobody ever loses. I hate it when people say that if you stop something then that means you’re giving up. That’s bullshit. You can do whatever the hell you want. You can come back to it. You can come back to playing, you can come back to school.

You can come back to whatever, it’s really not that dire out there.”

And that’s it, exactly. For however dire some of his lyrical content may seem, his songs are always about reconstructing one’s resolve!

“There is always a sequel!”

And he reserves his greatest praise, embossed by his most expressive vulgarities, for his band, which he undoubtedly loves and respects, not just as collaborators but also as friends, allies, advisors. “This band is fuck-king-gooood! They’re just so professional and they bring it every time! Everyone was so in tune with the vibe and plugged in and just committed to the songs. Hearing the band, now, so often…it’s way better than the album…”

“…We’re not gonna win any blues competitions and I’m not gonna be able to duel you on the guitar…but I’ll punch you in the face with the music! And, I’ll probably make you cry at some point. And that’s the best reward you can have.”

In closing, one last chuckle.

And onto the show. Straighten your tie, Matt.

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Lifelong crafters Mother and Daughter, Mary and Andrea were tired of having to buy full rolls of ribbon and lace when they only needed one metre.  Because they love ribbons and all things pretty, they decided to open their own online shop in 2010 and make small quantities of beautiful products easily available to all crafters. Mary owns the shop and runs it on a day to day basis as well as keeping the website updated while Andrea looks after the social side,  The Ribbon Girl Blog and the Design Team. They specialise in supplying small (or large) quantities of ribbon, twine, gorgeous vintage style lace and seam binding ribbon, tiny pom-pom and ric-rac trim, all sorts of buttons, fancy pins, a multitude of charms, pearl and crystal flourishes, wool felt squares, seasonal and unusual embellishments, mulberry flowers, sticky tape and accessories to card makers, crafters, scrapbookers and cake decorators. They stock only the best quality products and only offer for sale goods that they would personally buy and use themselves

with this great prize

So finally its time to see some inspiration from the DT

now its your turn please link up below

hugs sara x x x

Tuesday, 8 April 2014

Challenge # 75 - "Inspired by a movie"

 Hello everybody Deep Ocean Friends!
Thanks you everybody who played with us last two weeks, all your entries are amazing and we've been so happy to have you all with us!
Let's ask Random.org about the lucky winner of the lovely prize kindly offered by our loved sponsor The Ribbon Girl:

Congratulations   , it's you!
Omg...I hope your name is right hun!
Please write me, Franz, to claim your prize, my email adress is on the sidebar :)
and now let's see our Top 3, are you ready?!!

# 33 Tamika
 # 45 - Louise

# 79 Vicky
Wow gals! Your works are simply GORGEOUS!
So, onto our new challenge...:

  the winner will have a guest spot as DT here at Deep Ocean! We are waiting for YOU!

  ...and here are some inspirations from our DT Members:

(inspired by "Day of the Flowers")

(inspired  by "3 men and a baby)

inspired by 'Maya the Bee'

(Inspired by Around the World in 80 Days)

 Now its your turn, please link up below...we'll come back soon with our new DT announcement!

Franz and the Deep Ocean DT


text:
New record!

Wow, I turn my back for two days, and the “absolutely unique visitors” counter jumps over 300 by a good margin. Wednesday's record peek of 45 visits probably helped! The old visits record of 22 was actually no less than doubled!

We'll have to put in some ads to cash in on y'all! :-)

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