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Still Moments in Vampire Town

“There’s this moment of still right before it happens.”

The first time, she was in a car. A man came to the window, reached in and held a machete under her friend’s chin.

“But I knew,” Melissa told me. “Like, right before it happened. We were sitting in the car and I just kept thinking, ‘She should roll up her window. She really shouldn’t have her window down.’”

Melissa sat on the floor, dangling a string over the cat’s head. The other cats were hiding—behind the bookshelf, in the closet, under the stairs to the loft. I couldn’t see them but I could hear them, feel them.

“The second time, I noticed it again. We were coming from the BART station, and these two guys were walking behind us. I was aware of them, but all the sudden I felt it—this shift. Everything just kinda froze.”

This time they had knives. They grabbed her friend by the hair. Melissa swung her skateboard at the guys’ heads. She missed and they ran off into the dark.

Outside the cars hissed along International Boulevard. A truck passed and the windows lurched in their panes.

“By the third time, I knew exactly what it was. My brain was like, ‘Oh shit, I know this’”—a sidewalk at night, this time a gun—“but I wasn’t fast enough.

“But the last time, I was able to stop it. I felt it—just some old crackhead walking behind me but I knew, could feel that shift in the air. So I turned around real fast and yelled at him, spooked him enough that he ran away and I booked it to the Ruby Room. I sat down at the bar and said, ‘Dude, I totally almost just got robbed.’ And the bartender said, ‘How did you know?’ And I said, ‘I just did.’”

Melissa shook her head and laughed.

The windows trembled. The cat on the floor batted at the string, then its own tail. The cats in hiding rustled.

Pablo knew it would happen. He knew as soon as he got out of his car, parked in front of his friend’s house in West Oakland. It was eleven pm, the sidewalk ringed with streetlights. He could see two figures a half-block down.

“I could tell they were gonna fuck with me; I just didn’t know how. I thought maybe they’d just say some shit. I thought I could be quick enough, could get inside the gate quick enough.”

He couldn’t. His hand was on the knob when one of the figures grabbed him by the throat and put a gun under his chin. I imagine their eyes meeting for one hot moment.

The other figure stood back, coaching the one that held Pablo in a deep voice: “His pockets; his keys.” A slow, steady, faceless voice.

My mom knew but she tried not to know.

He walked into the shop where she was working—I imagine a little bell dinging. I imagine my mom smiling.

Immediately she could tell something was off about him: a mangy-looking teenager in a stained sweatshirt, not the kind of person normally buying flowers. I imagine her smile fading.

He reminded her of an old student she’d taught, she told me later, and she felt sorry for him, almost maternal. He had lint in his hair.

The lint is what she remembered.

The lint is what she focused her eyes on instead of the barrel.

I consider myself lucky; I’ve never had that moment of knowing.

What I’ve had are the other moments, the thousands of everyday moments that seep into you, an automatic static you don’t even know is there after awhile: locking the car doors the moment you’ve sat down; checking the side mirrors before you get out of the car; driving when you’d rather take the train, because you’ll be getting back too late to walk through the parking lot. Never walking at night; checking over your shoulder in the daytime; not walking too close to blind alleys or dumpsters; wearing your headphones low enough that you can still hear everything around you. Watching; being aware; being alert. Listening for that moment of still.

This is what some people call “street sense,” what other people call “common sense.” What I call “being lucky.”

I don’t know if Tom knew. I don’t know why he decided to walk the mile back to his mom’s house from the Fruitvale BART station.

There was a group of them. They came from behind. One swung a bottle or a baseball bat, or else just hit him in the head so hard he crumbled to the pavement.

He said he didn’t remember much, just that he curled into a little ball while the guys laid into him. He only had a few dollars in his pocket, $15 at most, but it didn’t seemed to be about that, he said. “I think they just wanted to jump someone.”

He woke up in the hospital. Days had passed and his brain had swelled. Wires were attached to him, beeping machines with little red lights, and he didn’t know what they were scanning for.

“The doctors said I was lucky I didn’t have brain damage,” he told me on our third date as we walked to the BART station, the mile of sidewalks and alleyways stretching out around us.

He’d been partying a lot back then, he told me, but it changed after that night. Two years later, Tom’s life was still reverberating from that one moment. He still lived with his mom, still did the part-time lifeguard hustle, still rode the buses because he didn’t have a license. Still called himself lucky.

It happened to Johnny and Aaron on the same night. They were together, walking to their cars after a shift at the restaurant we worked at on Grand Avenue—12 am and cutting through the back parking lot.

We’d thought it was safe to walk in pairs. It was one of the things we’d tell the new hires, right along with the tasting notes and where the broom was kept: “Don’t walk to your car alone.” We’d even check on each other: “Who are you walking out with?”

The guys had run up behind Aaron and Johnny. They’d pulled guns. They’d gotten their cash and their phones, but they hadn’t pistol whipped them or beat them or anything. “It wasn’t that bad,” they told us the next day at line-up.

“Not that bad,” we all agreed.

After that we started walking out in groups. Then Ian got jacked a few weeks later, drunkenly walking the half-mile to his apartment at 10pm. “His own fault,” we said. “He should have known better.”

Less than a month later, the pastry chef of a nearby restaurant got abducted walking home from the West Oakland BART station. They took her to her apartment; her roommate was home; they kept the girls there for hours.

“They did awful, awful things,” our manager told us, pinching her eyes and shaking her head.

We looked down, studied the tabletops. Our manager didn’t say what the awful things were and none of us asked. Whatever had happened was locked there—in that moment, in those hours, in that room and between those people.

“The police have put a reward out,” our manager said, and we all knew what that meant: there were no leads.

The pastry chef and her roommate packed their bags and split Oakland a few days later.

The men were never found.

The rash of robberies and assaults continued, almost always after dark. It was 2010, right when gentrification was hitting full stride. Rents raised, but crime got worse instead of better. Oakland got to feeling like two different cities: one during the day, with its hip coffee shops and farmers markers, and another once the sun went down—the Oakland that had always been there, that remained untouched. The shadows would stretch and a tension would rise. Every sidewalk would have a dark space, a place you couldn’t see behind: a blind alley, a parked car, a driveway or a trashcan or a dumpster.

We decided not even walking to our cars in groups was safe. We devised a system where one person would park directly in front of the restaurant at the beginning of the shift and pay the $2/hour for parking. At the end of the night, all the closers would wait around until everyone was done. We’d all pile in the one car directly out front and the driver would deliver everyone else to their cars, parked on side streets around the neighborhood.

“It’s like living with vampires,” I laughed in the backseat one night.

“Except they can’t come in unless you invite them,” Aaron laughed back.

A trick my Dad, an Oakland firefighter for 23 years, taught me:

“If you’re ever really in a jam, tell the 911 operator you’re having trouble breathing. Then it’s a medical emergency, and the fire department has to come. They’ll be there in 3-10 minutes, versus the hours it could take the police.”

I’ve never had to use this trick. But I know what it means to live in a place where such a trick exists. I know the way the waves stretch out from a singular moment of violence, and become bigger than the people that compose the moment—victims or perpetrators. I know the way the waves spread, seep in, become a culture.

I don’t know what it’s like inside that moment.

This is what I mean when I call myself lucky.

Pablo was angry.

The guys who’d jacked him had actually gotten caught—which was the only instance, among all the people I’ve known who have been victims of violent crime, when the perpetrators have been caught. The guys crashed Pablo’s car right in front of the Whole Foods, a few hours after they’d taken it.

It took months for the hearing to be scheduled, long months of laying on Pablo’s mattress and talking about everything: the insomnia, the nightmares, the paranoia, the waves that radiated out of that one moment.

Eventually, Pablo had to go to the courthouse to testify. He told me he wanted to go alone.

Of the two men, it turned out the one who’d held Pablo was a minor, while the one who’d coached the minor was older, with a long litany of arrests. Since it was the first offense for the younger one, the lawyers were arguing for leniency. “Fuck that,” Pablo spewed later that night, the anger vibrating off him. “He was giving me the stare-down, right there in the courtroom.” He let out a bitter, cutting laugh. “Well, I gave him the stare-down right back.”

I asked him how he could recognize the guys, if it’d happened months earlier; if it’d been nighttime; if he’d been scared and if it had all happened so suddenly.

Pablo squinted at me. “Just cause. I can.”

The younger one’s family was in the audience. After testifying, Pablo had to ride the elevator down with them. I imagine them all in that little box, warbling on the cables, stating straight ahead and no one meeting eyes.

“It’s a funny thing,” my mom said, a week or two after it happened to her.

The nightmares had started. The initial shock had worn off and the waves were beginning to gather force. She’d talked to our neighbor, another long-term resident who’d been robbed. “Get out of town,” Lottie had recommended. “The best thing you can do is get out of Oakland for awhile.”

She folded a t-shirt, placed it in her suitcase.

“It’s like there’s this person out there who knows something really personal about you,” she told me.

“What’s that?” I asked.

“How you react.” She paused. “What you do in that moment when your life is on the line.”

My mom begged. She told him she had children. She screamed, though she doesn’t remember screaming, just hearing a scream that must have been hers.

She said she blacked out but she doesn’t remember that either, just that she was suddenly on the floor and he was a standing over her—a young boy with lint in his hair, saying, “Don’t scream like that.”

“But it goes both ways,” Melissa told me, still swinging the string over her cat’s head.

“What do you mean?”

“I mean, they see your most scared, vulnerable moment, but you see theirs too.”

The window shuddered as another truck rumbled by. “Look, they know, right—no matter how fucked-up or desperate they are, they know on some level what they’re doing is wrong. That’s why they pick strangers. You don’t do this shit to people you know.”

She flicked her eyes up at me. “It’s like you have this kinda exchange: you see them do this violent, terrible thing, and they see you cave to it.”

She looked back down and fell quiet. The room hummed. In another apartment, a TV was blaring. We could hear it, through the walls and windows—not the exact words but the reverberation of the voices. The muffled sound filled the room, seeped into the quiet spaces, the pause between words.

From behind the bookshelf, something rustled.

On the floor, the cat kept batting at its tail.

“So what do you do with that?” I asked.

“I dunno, dude.” She shook her head and let out a laugh that turned into a snort. “Live with it, I guess.”

  • Tom says:

    Um…this is sort of awkward as I was wasn’t named directly, but I am “Tom.” For the record I wasn’t drunk when I got jumped merely really tired. I was on my way home from working a overtime work shift and after having gone to a reading by Adam Mansbach at Black Oak Books. A thoughtful piece but I do not appreciate the fictionalized account of what I went through.

  • Tom says:

    Also I was working full time during the time mentioned between managing an art gallery, writing jobs and working for a local gym. I moderated a keynote panel at the UC Berkeley art symposium as well in that year.

  • Tom says:

    Thanks. Though the edits were not completely accurate. I guess I must have told you a wrong version of my past way back when. I rarely “partied” back then. I was terribly bookish and the evidence shows – I left a literary reading and not a bar or party prior to those events.

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Geologic Background. Reports from this remote volcano in northernmost Halmahera are rare, but Dukono has been one of Indonesia's most active volcanoes. More-or-less continuous explosive eruptions, sometimes accompanied by lava flows, occurred from 1933 until at least the mid-1990s, when routine observations were curtailed. During a major eruption in 1550, a lava flow filled in the strait between Halmahera and the north-flank cone of Gunung Mamuya. This complex volcano presents a broad, low profile with multiple summit peaks and overlapping craters. Malupang Wariang, 1 km SW of the summit crater complex, contains a 700 x 570 m crater that has also been active during historical time.

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Leading up to tonight my boat (1992 direct drive ski brendella--turquoise with pink accents) had been getting bogged down a little. It was usually one of three problems: weeds in the intake, moisture in the tank/fuel line, or too much weight/ unknown but that always fixed it. None of these remedies were working on it. So i added a little more fuel stabilizer to it and hoped it would "work its way out." (Again, i know this is not technical or probably correct, but it happened). Still not getting any better.

We take our sets. Great sets; I hit a TS BS 3, and my two roommates/ridings dudes are riding away from heel threes without the handle. We take everything down and head home. i wasn't wide open throttle, but I was moving. Probably around 25-30 MPH. We hear a sort of bad snap/pop from the engine and I stop going. We figure it was alternator belt or the other belt right up front. Nope, those are good. I try idling home cautiously--we don't move. Engine still on, chilling in neutral, prop won't engage. i shut it off and check if the prop is there and it is. My neighbor tows me in.

How much money did I just cost myself? What caused it? The only thing I could think of is that I haven't been tending to the oil as I should have. It was full at beginning of season, but not topped off I don't think. Engine never over-heated, do boats have some sort of regulator that wouldn't let it overheat? This can't be good.
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The first thing I would check is the forward/reverse cable. Open the engine cover and see if it goes into gear when you move the throttle lever.
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motor was running but wont go is trans or damper plate
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The engine will rev when I move the throttle, so I dont think its that cable. How serious are these problems? The transmission sounds like a new boat, and Im not sure what a damper plate is. thanks for the help
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There is a cable that controls the gas and a separate cable that controls the forward/reverse gearing. They are both connected to the throttle shifter handle. Open the engine cover and look at the transmission. there should be a cable that is connected to it. Have someone move the throttle from neutral to forward and then reverse while you watch the linkage on the transmission. It should move one direction for forward and the opposite for reverse. This is just the first simple thing you should look at. It is probably something more serious, but look at this and eliminate it as the problem before you start getting quotes on transmission work.

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Yeah Jman, absolutely it helps. I'll see whats going on tonight or tomorrow night, also call my mechanic today.

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This will be my first time to the top — I traditionally choose a birthday adventure to somewhere I’ve never been before, even though it’s close to home — but I understand the hike is easy to moderate in difficulty, though off-trail. You can see from the photograph that the lower slopes are gentle, and I plan to spiral up the last stretch that is steeper to make it easier. The hike will begin from the forest road just northeast of the peak (here) and it apparently takes two to three hours round trip. I will  likely explore some of the remainder of the Cerros del Rio plateau and geology afterwards (by car), if all goes smoothly on the peak hike. The area is Santa Fe National Forest, so (reasonable) rock collecting is permitted.

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Wangaratta and the surrounding rural communities offer a year full of festivals, celebrations and events that attract people from across the country and in some cases from around the world. Events such as the annual Wangaratta Festival of Jazz and Swap Meet are all centrally located, and across the region there are wine and food events which are hugely popular. Wangaratta also offers an excellent selection of accommodations from which to explore and enjoy some of the many events that are held in nearby communities such as Beechworth, Myrtleford, Bright, Rutherglen and Yarrawonga. Wangaratta is also host to regular markets, youth events, senior citizen events and sporting competitions including Australian Rules Football, netball, squash and swimming.

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The work of Moral education mainly involves two tiers: first, "P.A.T.H.S. to Adulthood" and "Basic Life Skill Training" programmes, and second, extracurricular activities such as voluntary work and growth camps. In addition, morning assemblies and talks on different topics are arranged according to students’ needs. We hope that through Moral Education, good moral values can be instilled and our students can have a wholesome personality and be equipped for different challenges.

Sex Education

The Counselling Department also emphasizes the development of sex education through organizing sex education classes and peer counselors, holding workshops and promoting Sex Education Day. By holding talks, morning assembly sharing sessions, games and display boards and peer interaction, we aim to help students to discuss, understand and share ideas about sex topics; which can promote correct sexual ethics. Topics may include gender differences, boundaries for getting along with others, and knowledge of sex.

Sex-education Day learning through playing

S1 Pastoral Care Programme

The Counselling Department and other school departments have organised a series of activities for S1 students to help them better adapt to secondary school life. They include Orientation Day, S1 Parents Day in August and Special Counselling Day in early September. The Counselling Department also guides Counselling Prefects in organizing the “Big Brother/ Big Sister Scheme”. The programme not only helps every S1 student lead a happy and memorable school life with the care of Counselling Prefects, but also helps the Counselling Prefects mature through learning how to care for others.

S.1 Orientation Day

Volunteer Service

The activities of the Volunteer Service Team of the Counselling Department include community services, adventure-based camp, military training camp and Community Experiential Day. Through these activities, students can learn more about society and how to care for others, as well as how to get along and collaborate with their peers. Students can grow through the above experiences.

Social Experience Day visiting the racial minorities in HK.

Community Care

Every year, the Counselling Department organises two whole-school Blood Donation Days, and usually more than 100 teachers and students participate in this activity. Apart from that, in response to the needs of the community, the team organises different fundraising activities, such as “Red Packets Fundraising for the Needy”, and emergency relief activities. Through these activities, students can learn the following: “Not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others” and “It is more blessed to give than to receive”.

Blood Donation Day

Parent Work

To cater to different needs of parents, the Counselling Department organises a series of parents’ talks to help parents have a deeper understanding of teenagers. They can learn more ways to bring up their children and help them grow. The Department also organises Parent-Child Day Camps to enhance the communication between parents and their children for a more intimate parent-child relationship.

Parents talks

Individual Counselling

To help students overcome the difficulties or obstacles encountered in their growth or the environment, the clinical psychologists of the Education Bureau, school social workers of the Hong Kong Children and Youth Services and the teachers of the Counselling Department provide counselling services to students with special needs through group or individual counselling.

Integrated Education

The school strives to build an integrated culture through “whole-school participation”, which offers assistance to students with special educational needs. The reallocation of resources provides students with appropriate and diversified support services that enhance their learning efficiency and help them integrate in school life. The school has received additional resources from the Education Bureau, which include Learning Support Grant and Top-up Fund to help students with special needs. The following support measures are provided in our school:

  • Establishment of a Student Support Team.
  • Provision of after-school remedial lesson for students with special educational needs.
  • Provision of speech therapy services and social skill training services.
  • Provision of learning and assessment accommodation to students in need.
  • Co-operation with parents to effectively support their children.
  • Implementation of the "Big Brother & Big Sister Program" to help S1 students.
  • Provision of emotional and behavioral counselling for individual students with special learning needs.
  • Establishment of a social services team to help students to accept individual differences.


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Cat & Mite

Dozing cat, dozing mite

Jan 23, 2018

Finally putting the expandable bottle cage to use

… and taking advantage of the expandable bottle cage I bought for this machine last year. You can’t fit a 750ml wine bottle into a traditional bottle cage without bending the dickens out of it but this one (an Arundel Looney Bin) cheerfully expands to fit.

Jan 21, 2018

Henry Higgins rainbow

A brief bit of clear sky lined up just right to put a rainbow across the street from Henry Higgins this afternoon.

Jan 19, 2018

Friday Dust Mite Blogging™

Triple Triangle mite

Dust Mite helps box up a bicycle frame (and discovers a couple of paint nicks in the process).

Jan 15, 2018

Shimmy-inducing load

I ran out of room in the saddlebags, so I propped a bag of soymilk on the top of the longtail; only 20 pounds, but high & loose enough so that it managed to provoke xtracycle shimmy despite the stupidly low trail fork I’ve got on this machine.

Jan 14, 2018

Breaking the law

Scofflaw randonneuse

(the emergency randonneuse in the parking lot at the end of Reeder Road)

Jan 12, 2018

Friday Dust Mite Blogging™

Final paint check

The final paint check before reassembling the headset & boxing everything up.

Jan 10, 2018

Railroad picture of the day

Stopping for a train

When I was coming home from King Harvest I reached the foot of Spokane Ave just before the working Eng! came by with a short train of refrigerator cards.

Jan 08, 2018

Touch-up paint

I finally got around to painting the rack&fork

Approximately a year after building it, I finally painted the mountainhack’s fork + rack. Sadly, I couldn’t find the exact fluorescent pink I used before, and the one I used to replace it ended up being a darker pink in all but sunlight.

(there are still things that need to be done to this frame; I need to reposition the pusher boss, paint the NDS rear dropout (I stripped the paint off it so I could braze on a pump peg one morning when I was doing a programming contract, so I didn’t have time to clean & paint it then and subsequently kept putting it off), and fish power through the frame & fork.)

Jan 06, 2018

(not so) still life with domestic vermin

Buckeley and his very best friend

Buckeley & his very best friend Mavis.

Jan 05, 2018

Friday Dust Mite Blogging™

Protractor Mite

Dust Mite measures some angles

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Ready for decals & clearcoat?

The topcoat (hopefully; I may need to put a small mask on and slide the seatstay fade down a little bit) is curing, and then decals + topcoat + mailing.

Jan 04, 2018

Keeping the cats warm

Cold afternoon

Why, yes, we do have a space heater running downstairs so that the cats can sit by it and warm themselves. Why do you ask?

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Date: December 26th 2019

Modifications: We added some leftover mushrooms.

Time to table: About an hour

Servings: 3 meals? The kids had it for lunch several days after this dinner.

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Kerry here!

Cheryl was happy for me to take over her blog this month and I hope you will take the time to read and pass onto any interested job seekers.  With my previous background as a human resource manager, recruitment consultant and having  set up the  WiseClick Job Placement Register I felt I could give you a few tips on making your resume stand out from the rest.

Your resume is the “door opener” and you need to make sure it gives the reader enough information to understand your background and how it matches up to the position you have applied for.  It should be a “sales pitch of your abilities”, not just a list of your career history.

When I was applying for roles I had four different types of resumes ready to tailor to the position I was applying for.  By targeting the resume to the role and then having a covering letter that clearly states the position you are applying for is a must.  It will give you an immediate advantage and the reviewer can just tick, tick, tick and stamp “proceed to interview” on your application.  Some agencies and businesses are using screening apps that look for key words that match their job ads, so read the job application carefully, highlight key words and include those in your resume.

Resume Structure – there are some terrific resume templates on the internet to save you time. Recruitment company sites usually have those in their resources section.  Use them, anything that looks professional and clear will attract attention!

I liked this layout when screening resumes –

Name, Address, Telephone Number and E-mail Address.

Career Objective

This is the first paragraph under your details that can give a hint to your work ethic and personality – make sure it also links to the role you are going for and make it simple yet directly related to your quals and accomplishments.  Have a few versions of your CV on hand with different objectives that support the type of position you are seeking.

Most recent first, list all units in your course where possible and any short courses.  Note any special awards and commendations. If you need to top up your skills we have some terrific day classes to assist.

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Most recent first. Always include the title of your position, name of organisation, location (town, state) and dates of employment. Describe your work experience and responsibilities using strong action words. Volunteer work, internships and student teaching should be listed here. Promote any achievements in any of your previous roles – use “Achievements” as a sub heading where you can and keep it factual (eg. “Helped the company achieve 10 day payment due date by instigating an electronic debtor reminder system”).  Keep thinking to yourself as you write this section “is this going to help my chances” and “is this adding any value”.

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Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Small Town Politics

by Annette Dashofy

Unless you live under a rock, you know that the nation is in its usual election-year frenzy. Everyone thinks THEIR candidate is going to change the world and make their life better. Well, guess what. Probably not. Regardless of whether the next President’s name is Obama, Clinton, McCain or Huckabee (President Huckabee???) odds are, not much will change that directly affects any of us. If you want to see government truly at work, you have to look closer to home.

I attended our local township supervisors’ meeting the other night. I’m ashamed to admit that the last time I went to one was back in the seventies when I was supporting the movement to start a real ambulance service in our area. At the time, our EMS consisted of a red hearse manned by firemen with basic first aid training. We succeeded.

I also attended local meetings a few years ago when we were trying to block the building of a State Correctional Institute a mile from the high school and then-proposed (now real) elementary center. We succeeded again.

On a local level, politicians and government can actually DO something.

My reason for attending the township supervisors’ meeting this time was much less activist in nature. In fact, I just sat in the back of the room and made comments about the weather with another township resident. My reason for venturing out into the cold was simply RESEARCH. My next novel involves local politics. Dirty politics in its grassroots form. So I figured I’d better spend some time in that world.

And what a world. Most of it was fairly boring stuff. The three supervisors voted to buy a new/used police car. A report was made on the new dump trunk they had recently purchased. A lawyer made a brief presentation regarding his bid to get nearly 80 acres of farmland rezoned so his client could build yet another housing development. Hunters in the audience moaned. There goes their hunting grounds. Others pointed out that our tiny corner of the universe desperately needs expansion and growth. Nothing was decided, but I’m willing to bet the hunters are out of luck.

Then the fun started. The public got their chance to voice complaints and get action. Most of the issues had to do with trash in the neighbor’s yard or a dilapidated house creating a hazard. These things seem small potatoes, but think about it. A concerned citizen can walk into a meeting and talk directly to the guy doling out citations, give him an address, and have the situation dealt with. One lady complained that local cops were griping about not wanting to respond to her neighborhood anymore (probably because this gal seemed to complain about everything from her neighbor’s trash blowing into her yard to the kids urinating next to her house). But she spoke up and the supervisor who deals directly with the Chief of Police promised to talk to the guys.

The evening was not without one major revelation for me. I’ve been told, though, that EVERYONE knows this, but I did not. When you see a pair of sneakers tossed over an electric line, that’s a sign that kids can buy drugs there. There’s been a pair of sneakers hanging on the line outside our yoga center for years! And (duh) kids hang out on the steps in front of the building all the time. Is there anyone out there besides me who DIDN’T know this!

Anyhow, research or not, I think I’ll be going back. It was interesting to find out what’s going on in the township. And I found some great new characters for my next novel. Besides, now I know what to do if the neighbor’s trash blows into my yard. Forget writing your congressmen. Go to a meeting of your LOCAL government if you want to experience REAL change.

Anonymous said...

Actually, many levels of government are accessible if you really try. Calling your national or state senator or legislator's office can often get action. Here in Pittsburgh, calling the mayor's hotline sometimes works, too.

When I worked for the electric company, I found it heartening that any person, even a non-customer, can file a formal complaint against a public utility with the Public Utility Commission and get a hearing in front of an administrative law judge. OK, most cases are decided in the utility's favor, but that's not because the system is crooked -- it's because most utilities are smart enough to resolve the complaints that have merit before they get to hearings.

Annette said...

Gina, I've called my national senators' offices. Never talked directly to the guy, though. But my state rep? Yeah. Again, the closer to local, the easier it is to come face-to-face with a government official. Sure, you can let your voice be heard on a higher level, but you're less likely to be able to wave your finger in his face when your miffed about something.

I remember when we were fighting the prison, I took note of which congressmen and senators and commissionners etc bothered to come to the meetings. If they couldn't take the time to show up, I didn't vote for them again.

Martha Reed said...

I have wondered for years why there were sneakers hanging from the phone lines - the best explanation I could come up with was a lot of neighborhood bullies. Thanks for solving this mystery for me!

Annette said...

Martha, I'm just relieved that I wasn't the only one who didn't know what that meant!

Joyce Tremel said...

If you go to enough of these meetings, you'll see it's the same people complaining most of the time. Some don't have anything better to do.

And that sneaker thing? It's just an urban myth. Some group in Harrisburg even did an experiment using digital mapping to disprove the theory.

Annette said...

Joyce, I did recognize one gal there as a local complainer no matter WHERE she goes...the supervisors meeting or the grocery store.

And rats. I thought I was on to something with this sneaker thing.

But digital mapping? Someone had too much time on their hands.

Anonymous said...

For YEARS I've gotten calls from the Central Blood Bank to donate, and no matter how many times I asked to be taken off their list, it never worked. The callers were always poorly trained and nasty.

When I got a call a month ago, I finally decided to make a complaint with the Better Business Bureau. Two weeks later I got an email from them that included an apology from the manager and an assurance I'd been taken off their phone list.

I wondered, "Why didn't I do this years ago?"

Score one for effective complaining!

Annette said...

"Effective complaining." I like that! Goodness knows, most complaining certainly isn't very effective other than making the complainer feel better.

Anonymous said...

School board meetings---now that's a hornet's nest of characters!

Tory, I'm going to try that Better Business thing on the kitchen & bath company that won't leave me alone.

Anonymous said...

I covered more than my share of borough council and school board meetings--trust me, more boring than anything, but occasionally they provided much entertainment, and a lot of chances for head-shaking at the degree to which our local government's decisions are based on petty jealousies and idiosyncratic characters. I've seen too many mean-spirited, boorish small-time officials move on from boro council to State Rep or Senator to have much faith in their ability to govern sensibly. But, you're right, Annette, the local level of government provides a wealth of good info and ideas. As for the sneakers on the wires, I was told they memorialized fallen (that is, dead) gang members. Maybe it's my turn to complain to someone--city, electric or phone company--to cut them down.

Becky said...

About the sneakers is it an urban myth I think not. Ask a teen. I always wonder about them. So I just asked my 22 year old what it meant and he said it means this is where you can buy drugs. I never knew! I also thought it was bullies at work.

Becky said...

Just another observation. The last pair of sneakers I saw hanging on a line where brand new an looked expensive I felt sorry for whoever lost them thinking once again bullies at work. Looks like the drug dealers are making alot of money.

Anonymous said...

Sneakers: Not urban myth in an area near me. There's a pair over the line in a really poor section of the county--inhabited shacks with some of the walls missing poor. Big drug sales area according to the sheriff.

Annette said...

Maybe nobody bothered to tell the teenagers that the sneaker thing was urban myth. From what I've been able to determine, at least two locations marked by sneakers really ARE frequented by kids buying and selling drugs. Both are spots where kids can see the cops coming a mile away and they scatter at the first sign of a police cruiser.


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A review of The Wurzels' gig on the Stena Line Cruise from Fishguard to Ireland, on Saturday 18 September 1999 by Ted & Kath Bowring

On the approach to Fishguard we were somewhat concerned about the weather forecast as it said there were gale force winds in the Irish Sea. Having said that flat calms can be quite boring. On arriving at the Stena Line terminal our concerns were echoed by the staff there who said that the problem wasn't with the crossing but with docking. Due to the Seacat not running the conventional ferry was full to the gunnels and was therefore running late.

At about 2.30pm we were informed that the ferry had to stand off from the harbour until conditions calmed enough for her to attempt docking. A little under an hour later this did in fact happen. Unloading and re-loading was carried out quickly and efficiently and at about 5.00pm we sailed.

Passengers were issued with an amended timetable of events, unfortunately I must have got one intended for the return trip and subsequently missed the start of the show. However, once seated I soon got into the atmosphere and joviality. It should be said at this point that Mother Nature must have had a bag on because sitting was difficult enough but to stand on stage and deliver an excellent show was pure professionalism. I think I might have seen Captain Ahab passing the window (sorry porthole).

I briefly reminded Pete Budd of a show I saw in the 60's when Adge and the boys appeared at the White Buck in Burley Hampshire, I think it made a happy man very old!

Any way on with the show, we heard lots of favorites like I've Got A Brand New Combine Harvester, I Wish I Were Back On The Farm, One For The Morning Glory, I Am A Cider Drinker, and many more. The audience was very animated to say the least - whooping, hollering, clapping and some were dancing. Naturally the boys weren't allowed to leave the stage without an encore, I think they heard the calls for more back in Fishguard. So after a musical rendition of Dixie, we were treated to The Blues Talking [Malt & Barley Blues - Zider Ed] and Drink Up Thy Zider. They had certainly earned a break.

During the break I took the opportunity to speak to some of the audience. Leslie Llewellyn and her partner Alun Vaughn had come to see them live for the first time although they had listened to the Wurzels for many years. Alun had found a poster of the Wurzels taken with a combine harvester in the early days. The poster has been in his possession for ten years and Leslie achieved her ambition of getting it signed.

Then there was Amanda Billington and at the tender age of 13 years she thought they were "brilliant" and "it was good", being also her first live show. Nice to see the appeal across the board.

I then spoke to Michaela Singleton whose father John and his friend Richard Cromarty from Bristol have known the boys for many years. Apparently when John and Rich used to work in the Royal Oak at Nailsea, Adge Cutler and the Wurzels recorded their first LP there. Michaela is sending me a photocopy of an old 33 record sleeve with some more info on it, watch this space. She also informed me of a group in the 60's called Pete Budd and the Rebels, wonder who that could have been. Only kidding Pete.

Gwen and Michael Bown were telling me how Mike used to run the lads home, probably one or two drink up thee ciders too many. Mike is in a wheelchair now but I think he had the best of it that night, he was the only one with any stability on a ship that thought it was a rollercoaster.

Still one thing came across very clearly, all the people who were involved in some way with the lads love them dearly, and they must have had great times one and all.

On the return journey we were all a little less animated due to the intake of falling down water in large quantities, however the Wurzels soon got us going again with likes of, Blackbird I'll Ave Ee, Champion Dung Spreader, What Do We Want With A Light [Let There Not Be Light - Zider Ed]. The next song courtesy of Cook and Greenaway of Bristol was of course Farmer Bill's Cowman. Then as a tribute to Adge we heard Twice Daily. Pete had a well-deserved slurp while Paddy McGintys Goat ran round rampant. We were treated to Pill Pill, and I've Got A Brand New Combine Harvester, Morning Glory this time even had me vocally raising the roof. The last song of the evening was I Am A Cider Drinker, followed by the Dixie playout, at which point the audience once again woke up Fishguard with their calls for more. Hands clapping and feet stomping we weren't blue and we weren't talking. We were very happy and singing. Blues Talking, moved into Drink Up Thy Zider. Corn half cut - so were we in the audience.

In the 60's they were good, 70's, 80's and 90's still excellent. David Bowie and Mick Jagger think they're clever still going strong, but they are just mere sproggs compared to these guys. A 76-year-old drummer has to be some kind of record. I was sweating just watching him. Lets have another few years yet to enjoy The Wurzels.

As a foot note my wife and I thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. The rough sea added to our enjoyment, but I bet there were a few calls going through to God on the big white telephone that night.

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Olly, Olly Oxen Free

One of the great surprises of starting this blog was discovering the world of support and fellowship that existed "out there"—though fellowship is an unfortunate word, since my blog world is primarily populated by women. Articulate, funny, self-deprecating, generous, open-hearted women. From the charming and poetic Miss Whistle, who inspired me to start this blog, to the witty and fashion-savvy (not fashion-slavish) That's Not My Age, whose acquaintance I made just yesterday, these women have included me in a community that expands infinitely outward yet remains as warm as a campfire circle. (I'd also like to thank my muse, Katharine Hepburn, whose name always manages to catch people's eye.)

Yesterday, the Finnish goddess Helena Halme, who tells the romantic story of how she came to marry her Englishman and live in that country for now more than 20 years, "tagged" me in a sort of blog round-robin. When tagged, you're supposed to reveal 10 things about yourself then pass the baton to seven others whose blogs you admire. As Helena suggests, this is a good news/bad news thing: an honor to be listed, a challenge to reveal. Then I decided this blog is nothing if not a great wallowing in self-revelation, so what the hell? Fortunately, Helena and others before her have already played fast and loose with the "10" part of the deal, so I won't be struck dead if I come up short. Here goes.

1. My original life's dream was to be an actress. It was a high school dream, I admit, but passionate and real—until my un-Hepburn insecurities took over and I switched to my default setting: a college English major and a career spent behind a typewriter and a computer screen. Not that there's anything wrong with that! Unless you're doing it out of fear and retreat, rather than by choice. So my midlife efforts at Hepburnization are, in part, an attempt to reconnect with the teenager who never felt happier or bolder than when on stage playing Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker or Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream or Adriana in A Comedy of Errors.

2. I'm only now beginning to overcome Imposter Syndrome when walking the streets of New York. For the first nine years I visited New York, I was convinced that every person I passed on the sidewalk was looking at me and saying, "She's obviously not from here." Or worse: "She's obviously from California." I dodged and wove in the face of crowds. I was way too polite. I gave everyone else the right of way. And my clothes! Every season there seemed to be some mutually agreed-upon uniform—ballet flats or tight jeans tucked into boots or mini skirts with black tights—and I was never wearing it. Now for the first time I've either gotten with the program (thank you, Michele Hush, for the advice on buying a down coat), or I've decided I don't give a flying...whatever. Which would make me a true New Yorker.

3. I love water towers on the tops of buildings, trash cans on every corner, and ancient diners with $1 cups of coffee. I must look like a lunatic these days, because I'm smiling all the time as I tread the dirty, dog-poop-smeared, ice-encrusted streets of this city. I'm in my honeymoon phase, where I love everything about it. Subfreezing temperatures? Invigorating! Taxis honking? Musical! That razor-sharp wind off the Hudson? Um, that sucks.

4. I can be a spoiled princess baby. After I made my 47th elevator trip from the sixth floor to the basement while trying to do two loads of laundry with competition from five floors' worth of dirty underwear and dryers that left everything delightfully moist after an hour's worth of creaking and tumbling, I sniped to Stan, "We really have to install a washer-dryer in this apartment." He blinked at me. "I've never had a problem with it," he said. Then he added the magic words, "So I'll do all the laundry."

5. I'm more attached to my car than I admit out loud. My car's name is Dusty. For obvious reasons. She's a blue, only slighted dented 1999 Honda Civic. I resented her just the tiniest bit when I got her, because she has an automatic transmission and I really prefer a stick. But she carried us across the entire country without incident, then took me and The Child safely through a winter weather advisory, including icy interstates and swirling snow flurries, as I drove The Child to her New England college last weekend.

I'm selling my trusty steed on Saturday. And while I'll be happy to be liberated from insurance payments and gas expenses and repair costs, I'll be a little sad, too. Goodbye, Dusty.

6. I get testy with New Yorkers who engage in clichés about Los Angeles. We once had dinner with good friends of my Beloved, on whom I was really hoping to make a good first impression. The wife was chic and elegant. "Do you like living in Los Angeles?" she asked with velvety incredulity. I nearly bit my tongue off. "It's my home," I ended up saying. Lame. Say what you will about L.A.—traffic yes; plastic surgery, yes; sprawl, yes; 'Have a good one,' yes; the weather, yes—it's as rich and astonishing, as spectacular and as vile as anywhere on earth. I like that about a city.

7. I'm still making it up as I go along. Whether it's parenting or relationships or my so-called career, I basically have no idea what the heck I'm doing. I'm hoping that good intentions and sincerity make up the difference.

Okay, kids, that's all I got. At least there's a certain symmetry: 7 revelations, 7 blog recommendations. (Limiting the following list to 7 is much harder than coming up with 7 revelations; I've included blogs that I believe have not already been tagged elsewhere.) And I'd like to state for the record that, according to my made-up rules of the game, you 7 have no obligation whatsoever to play along. I just love what you're doing and wanted to say so in public. Herewith, in alphabetical order:

A Bag of Chips: Yes, she's my niece and no, I don't consider that cheating. She's creative, thoughtful and funny as hell. She's a photographer, scrapbooker, baker, and mom to three gorgeous live-wire children. And she made me a spectacular quilt for Christmas (thank you, Tina!), which you can see when you check out her blog. I especially recommend "Tina and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day."

Divinipotent Daily: So smart. So well-spoken. So literate. Every post broadens my intellectual horizons—in a readable, down-to-earth way. Side benefits: good quotes you've never heard before and great poetry. I especially recommend "Goodbye and Good Riddance, 2009."

Miss Whistle: She radiates positive energy, writes with heart and brains, and may be the most naturally generous person I've ever met. She recently lost her beloved father-in-law, and wrote exquisite pieces throughout the experience that conveyed simultaneously the incomparable loss and the enormous pleasure of his well-lived life. I especially recommend "Epiphany."

My Red Boa: I hope that I won't mortify my dear friend Marsha by mentioning her blog, which features beautifully rendered pieces about her childhood and young adulthood—nostalgic with a sly wit. I hope that she has recovered enough from her recent spill to think about sharing more of her stories. I especially recommend "Esmeralda and Me and the DMV."

Simmer Till Done: Luscious food, lustworthy photography, and best of all, writing that combines phenomenal intelligence with sharply honed humor—I ask you: What's not to love? Every post makes me want to cook, and as Jack Nicholson said in As Good As It Gets, "to be a better [hu]man." I especially recommend "You Scrape the Bowl Like a Housewife."

So Lovely: Heartfelt, unpretentious, and truly democratic in her interests, the pseudonymous Charlie Circus offers a cornucopia of topics and musings on her eclectic blog. She gave me a post's worth of Stuff to Think About in the piece I especially recommend, "A Longish One But Bear With Me..."

I Must See the Dhobey: Here's a blogger who almost certainly will not participate in this little tagging game: She's busy blogging from Burma in 1907. In fact, the fascinating posts are actually excerpts from letters written by the blogger's grandmother, whose surgeon husband was superintendent of the jail in Rangoon, Burma.

Friday, January 1, 2010

Laura Lansing Sleeps Here: End of the Road Trip

We're here. Safe in the New York loft looking at the view through the window while the New Year's Day Twilight Zone marathon plays on TV. All of the boxes and backpacks and bags of snacks have been unloaded from the car, which is parked two blocks away (a Manhattan success story).

We keep saying, "We're home!" and "We're back!" and "We did it!" and "My back hurts!" Yet it's strange, too, to realize that we're finished traveling.

We went from west to east in 7 days, and I feel like I gathered up the entire countryside as we went along and brought it with me, like rolling up a ball of yarn. I have this silent slideshow playing in my head all the time: red New Mexico plateaus, rolling Texas plains, bare-branched Tennessee woods, split-rail fences undulating over snowy Virginia pastures. We may be in the middle of New York now, but I'm still seeing Arkansas farmland and some jet-black grazing cows out of the corner of my eye.

We left Knoxville, Tennessee yesterday morning in a foggy rain—amazingly, the first "weather" we had to deal with on the entire trip.

Somehow, even though we were making this trip in the middle of winter, and despite Midwest and East Coast blizzards in the days before we left Los Angeles (which caused no small amount of fretting on my mother's part), we managed to stay ahead of or behind the snow all the way across the country. Each day as we left our motel, I'd check the weather app on my iPhone, and see that the city we were leaving was due for snow...tomorrow. And we'd scoot out of town in the sunshine.

It rained all the way up and out of Tennessee and into Virginia, which still wore the hand-me-downs of the giant snowstorm that hit just before Christmas.

Yet the highway was perfectly clear.

We drove all day and, as we did every day of the trip, arrived at our destination after dark. Before we left L.A., I'd had idealistic visions of hitting the road every day by 8 a.m., getting in our 7 hours of driving and arriving by mid-afternoon with plenty of daylight left. Ixnay on all counts.

We routinely drove out of the motel parking lot between 9 and 10 in the morning. Those 7 hours of driving turned into 9 when you included stops for gas and food and bathroom breaks and just plain sanity. And we never landed anywhere with even a sliver of sunshine remaining. Fortunately, we had the sense to always book a hotel room the night before, so we were never stumbling around looking for lodgings in the dark (a potential divorce issue even when you're not married).

But yesterday was even better, since we were staying with my cousin and her family in Springfield, Virginia, and we arrived to a warmly lighted house and a kitchen filled with the aromas of my cousin's scallop bisque, fresh bread and coffee cake that had just come out of the oven. I announced that we were moving in permanently. She took it well.

New Year's Eve notwithstanding, we were asleep by 11 p.m.—with a brief wake-up call at midnight when the neighbors set off fireworks.

And at 1:00 this afternoon we were back in the car for the last leg of the journey, carrying fresh supplies: half a homemade vegetable lasagna, peppermint brownies (with two layers of frosting) and chocolate-oatmeal-peanut butter cookies. No, she's MY cousin, and you can't have her.

On this day, finally, we knew we were in the east. For one thing, after six days of spending eight hours driving across a single state, today we were in five states in four hours: Virginia-Maryland-Delaware-New Jersey-New York. For another, after six days of driving for free across more than 2,000 miles, today we got gouged by tolls every 27 minutes. $2, $5, $4, $5, $8.70 and $8. Extortion! Graft! Waste, fraud and abuse! Welcome to New Jersey!

But then the magic happened. We went to light speed as we entered the Holland Tunnel...

...and when we came out the other side, I was reliving the moment nine years ago when I first popped out of that tunnel, riding in the back seat of a taxi after a red-eye flight from L.A. to visit my new beau, who met me in the lobby of his Greenwich Village apartment building looking sleepy and rumpled.

Now here we were, my beau and I, in my little car with California license plates, making our way up that same Hudson Street to that same former factory building in Greenwich Village we'll call home together.

We made it.

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A playlist postscript:

For some reason, I had a hard time thinking of songs about Knoxville, Bristol, Staunton, Front Royal, Silver Spring, Wilmington, Trenton or Metuchen, but my favorite New York bard, Paul Simon, wrote the song that brought us home today:

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"Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike/They've all come to look for America."


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Claiming my spot in the Top 100 Make Money blogs in the world

I just checked my old post and noted that once upon a time, this blog was on the #25 spot in the world Top 100 Make Money blogs. Then, I got Googlesmacked and the position nose dive.

The blog never really regained its position. Still I am lucky that I manage to stay on the Top 100. At the time of posting, the blog is on the #87 position.

I notice that my Alexa ranking and Technorati ranking are getting from bad to worse. So, as a first step, I am adding Technorati tags to my blog post.

If you are a WordPress user, you can just add in the plugin for WP Tags to Technorati. I am not sure if it is going to help but let’s give it a try.

Looking at the list, I can still be proud that this Malaysian blog is one of the rare ones on the list. The other Malaysian blog is Sabahan.

And you may ask, “What’s the point of being on the list?”

Nothing, just ego. Plus a backlink from a PR5/10 blog.

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7 thoughts on “Claiming my spot in the Top 100 Make Money blogs in the world

    (August 4, 2008 - 2:15 am)

    Hi Lilian, can I ask if all the keywords from all your posts in the ‘make money’ category count as having keywords on one very long page?

    Does that help your Google search ranking? Or do you do that solely with meta tags and keywords per post?

    (August 4, 2008 - 5:17 am)

    I’ve wondered if technorati tags really work.

    Please tell us if you see a improvement.

    (August 4, 2008 - 10:58 pm)

    Hi Lillian – sorry for silly questions but I am new.
    Can you explain the PR5/10 blog. I see it is yr postings all the time but don’t really understand. I am sure it is very basic but since I don’t know, I had to ask.
    Also what does the Technorati tags do? How to use them.

    Tracy Benungski

    (October 1, 2008 - 1:46 pm)

    Can you please be elaborate in what you say? As a beginner, I dont understand what that PR5/10 blog is all about.

    Tracy Benungski

    Justin best

    (February 24, 2009 - 10:17 pm)

    It is my first time to hear this kind of terms…technorati..well.i heard and i read it in the im kind of familiarize with the words.But still dont know the meanings..hope someone would be kind kind enough to share the meanings of most words like PR5…wordpres user…but mostly when u read the word when used in a can see the meaning of it.

    Phil gold

    (February 25, 2009 - 1:47 pm)

    Of course being one of the top 100 make money blogs in the world gives credit to your sacrifices and hardwork. More so, it will give other bloggers and users the striving factor to be included in the list.

    (March 2, 2009 - 3:59 pm)

    Congratulations! you made it to the top 100. Is it really that hard to belong there? Hope you can share to us some of the do’s and dont’s.

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