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It's 1984. A school-skipping, Nike-sponsored-breakdancing, minor-law-bending fourteen year old is sitting in a classroom when the bearded teacher announces that they are going to be doing 'a criticism' of 'The Lake Isle Innesfree'. He (for it was a 'he') hands round some first-generation photocopies; they are the sticky purple ones that turned my stomach because they smelt just like the dentists'. There it is; a short poem. Now I must do my 'criticism' of it. I wonder what that might be?
Silence falls; they are all so busy 'criticizing'. Nobody talks, flicks wet snot from their ruler onto the teacher's back, kicks over their neighbour's desk, or dances around the classroom like a chimp in the throes of a caffeine-fuelled frenzy. What am I doing here? What has any of this got to do with me? If only some angel could have whispered in my ear 'Er, the poem's about the desperate need to escape. I would have thought you might be quite interested in that, Vybarr. Your middle name is 'Innes' after all.' The silence, though, endures and it is painful. What I write is painful, wrung hard from what little resources I have. A slow forty minutes passes. The books, collected. The lesson over. The classroom empties. I have been asked to stay behind. The bearded teacher hands me a book with a bright orange spine. It has a golden cover with some sheep on it. It looks shit.
Holding out the book he tells me, 'This is what we're doing.'
I think he wants me to read it. But it's massive. 'Far From the Madding Crowd'? What does that mean?
I had washed up at a private school, where I was to discover that all of the teachers had beards, including our aged and chronically-asthmatic history teacher. In assemblies she pounded her piano in the style of Les Dawson, always sternly immune to the forest-fire of suppressed hilarity this caused. Still today, it brings me a flicker of laughter to think of the majestic crescendo of 'And… Was…Jerrrroosulemmm…' only to topple down in ruins, destroyed by the hammered accompaniment of those bum-chords.
My mother, in a bold attempt to try and help me through my exams, had whipped me out of the comprehensive and threw what little money she struggled to earn at the last eighteen months of my education. To my shame, I detested it. My fellow pupils had been together since they joined the school's nursery; they had known one another for about three-quarters of their lives. But it was not that they were unwelcoming or unkind, just that I was a stranger and I did not belong. They knew it; I knew it – my mother didn't. I went on to skip at least one day a week – and out of boredom I would go shoplifting.
I sat my exams and in my O' levels (I think it was the last year that they had them) I scored a 'U' in everything except Maths (E). A 'U' for those interested is 'unclassified'. This meant that I scored between 0-14%. As far as the Joint Matriculation Board were concerned I need not have bothered turning up for the exam, my grade would still have been the same.
This is what my mother had struggled for. Her disappointment on results day compounded by my insistence that we give one of my schoolmates a lift – he got ten As.
Our set text of Far From the Madding Crowd was never read in preparation for my classes, or indeed my final exam.
I am now forty-two and it is still unread – for a lecturer in nineteenth-century literature this is like never having seen Star Wars.
I have been on the run from Hardy for nearly thirty years.
The comprehensive was not great. I had a lot of friends and was comfortable there, but I knew that I was not going to do well. I put up no resistance to moving school. As my mother likes to remind me, I was rather keen on the idea.
The one great thing about the private school was the sports. Everything was done on such a small scale (I think there were only twelve in the class) that it was much more personable than the casual debilitating brutality of the larger school.
Earlier that year, one of the last things I did at the comprehensive school was compete in sports' day. I was to run 'the mile' in the House match. There were six competitors; one for each of the school's houses: Hadrian, Marlborough, Tudor, Warwick, (X?), and mine, Elizabethan. I was not a particularly talented little runner. In fact, I was hopelessly naïve about my abilities. There was a photograph on the dining room wall at home, there so long that it was part of the furniture. It was a black and white eight by ten of a man stepping over a finish line, pain written deep on his face and body, looking like he had been shot in the back. No shoes, and blisters the size of walnuts ballooned from beneath his feet. This was my uncle (my mother's big brother) getting a gold in the 1966 World Championships. He had run the marathon. Running, then, I believed was my genetic inheritance. I was wrong.
One of my competitors that day belonged to Hadrian and he was a terrible runner – he was that common blend of extreme arrogance and incompetence. I was no sports whiz, but I could have beaten him at anything. The gun fired and after about 100 yards I was already in trouble. Hadrian boy was well in front of me and the rest of the pack were already away. My chest burned from the inside like flames were licking up at my throat. It is a very particular pain, like the air has become almost too hot for you to breathe. The diaphragm pulls downwards to make space for the rush of gas, but nothing comes in. Numerous times throughout my childhood I had witnessed the effects of asthma. Two people in my school had died of it. My sister, Erika, had also struggled with it and I envied the attention she got, and even more so the wonderful whistling Intal Spinhalers that she was provided with. Little capsules, half clear, half orange, filled with white powder had to be loaded, then popped and spun to deliver their charge with a comic whirring whistle that sounded a little like they were ridiculing the wheeze of the sufferer. We played with her nebuliser that she had brought back from the hospital on one of her trips there. It could be an instrument of torture for the spies that you had captured. It was a great prop to play hospitals with. You could be a fighter pilot, an astronaut, or an alien just landed.
But the asthma began to spread. I started to show symptoms of it just before my teens, and my brother was later hospitalized with it. Unlike my sister, I was not having to regularly medicate against it, not yet, but it did still take me by surprise.
My body was not going to let me compete that day, but determined, with most of the school watching, I struggled against it. This makes it worse. I knew from the many cross-countries I had run that the best thing to do was to relax and try to forget about it. Not run harder because people are watching. I fell farther and farther behind. On one of the corners I heard somebody shout 'Drop out. Why don't you drop out?' On the next lap, the same – this time I realised that the calling from the crowd was my brother ashamed to share blood with this pathetic show. I was determined to finish, proving what, and to whom, I was and still am unaware.
By the time I crossed the line the race was long over. There was no attention on me. Passing the post, I fell to my knees and grasped at the air for breath.
I was in contravention of the single and only fact that I had been taught about running at school – when you get to the end, don't sit or lie down, stay standing.
There is quite a lot to learn about running, but I did not learn any of it at school. Like most, I had to do it for myself.
At some point between '84 and '85 I did actually give Hardy a go. On one day, in our lounge, in a comfy chair, I sat down in silence to read. This was something I never did. The act of reading had become associated with me with schoolwork, with something that you ought to do. Not counting the books that we read in class at school, up to the age of twenty I can think of two novels that I read. Both were film tie-ins for movies that I was too young to see. Nobody I knew read. My sister, Erika, was highly intelligent, studious, but not bookish. There were books around us, but nobody seemed to sit still with one.
On that morning, when I could have been spinning on my head, in my Nike gear, on some lino outside Tesco with my friends, I decided instead to read Far from the Madding Crowd. There I was, alone in the house, in my tracksuit, poised in the traps of 'playing out', and I was going to read about some milkmaid in Victorian Dorset fretting endlessly over which sheepshagger she should or should not marry.
Hours passed. I was very impressed with my performance. I did eighty pages. I had read about a fifth of the novel. The thing is, I had no experience of reading novels. And it soon transpired that I didn't know how to do it at all. Not the least idea.
Like running, reading was something that you did in school, but technical competence was all that mattered. As long as you could run, it didn't matter how you did it. As long as you could read, it didn't matter how you did it.
I remember this feeling well. I got up from my hours in the chair and I couldn't recall anything that I had just read. The words, sentences, pages, chapters, all had passed before my eyes. They had been visually 'read'. But there was nothing. My mind had wandered, not in the Dorset countryside, but everywhere, anywhere else.
I never went back to the beginning. So disgusted with how that novel had sapped my titanic effort to read it, I never went back to it again. And so I got a 'U'.
School, or rather my experience of it, all but destroyed two of the finest and most important things there are in life: running and literature.
Who could have made sense of Hardy for me at that age?
Who could have made sense of cross-country for me at that age?
No amount of explaining, arguing, demonstrating or showing could have made either of these things appeal to me. They had nothing to do with my life. And I desperately needed something that was to save me from hanging around in shopping centres, robbing records and fucking up my life by flirting with petty crime and dropping out of school.
Cross-country is now practically a thing of the past. It belongs to days when schools owned acres of land that its pupils could trample over before the local education authorities sold off the lot to housing developers in the late 80s and 90s. The one good thing about posh-school was that it had no money, so had very little land, so no cross-country. At the comp., the school would annually organize a cross-country that all ages could run together. The last thing that anyone wants is for 1,600 Manchester kids doing something 'all together', unattended. Gangs of older children would charge first years, stripping them, throwing them in thigh-deep pools of glutinous mud, shoving them into barbed-wire fences, flinging mud in their faces. If you were lucky you might skip all this, but you're running kit would still be three-times the weight it was when you brought it in that morning. All that filth has to be worth it. If you played football the mud was worth it. For those that liked rugby, the filth was worth it. Nobody enjoyed cross-country running except for mean-spirited Neanderthals that didn't enjoy it either for the 'running' or the 'cross-country'. Brutal, stupid and pointless.
School made it impossible to fall in love with running or literature. I was too young and naïve to make sense of them, and there was nobody that could explain them to me. So I shoplifted a bit more till I got caught. I stopped breakdancing because it was ridiculous. I failed my exams for a second time. I suddenly found, at the age of eighteen, that I had nothing.


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I had forgotten how horrible this month is. Extra letter or no extra letter. January is expected to be rubbish, but really it is the most potential-filled month of the year. You're allowed to be fat, broke and depressed in January. It is socially acceptable to have what is affectionately known as "the blues".
By February, though, you've had a whole month to put into action all those resolutions that January gurgled up. It is no longer a new year, it's now just another year. If you had planned to do something brilliant in 2008, you really should be a twelfth of the way through it by now.
What if, though, you've just started your third office job of the year? What if you still have no money, you still feel depressed and your room is no tidier? What if you haven't actually managed to write any new music and what if you are secretly not sure whether you can quite remember how?
Last year I hated February. Life was worse then, without a shadow of a doubt. A relationship was about to hiss out its last forlorn breaths, having been ill-advisedly resurrected a few months previously. It was agonizingly and cruelly consigned to the funeral pyre once again, leaving me even more bowed and broken than it had the first time. I was living at home. I had stopped going to Eastbourne to record when I realized that, in fact, there was something extremely unhealthy and stagnant about the whole set-up. I was trying to deal with the fact that those months had been wasted, that I was, in more ways than one, going to have to face up to the consequences of my own terrible choices. My parents had a bed for me, so of course I was lucky. I must admit, though, that I didn't really feel it. I felt broken.
This year, though, is better. I live in Brixton. Money still fuels a large part of my anxiety but I am working. Those relationships that had just withered last year are now long behind me and there are other pieces of those things that are happier and more promising. I am not broken. Life seems full of potential.
I feel depressed, though. A train is hitting me in the mornings. I can't think in straight lines, and I feel constantly guilty and anxious. Suddenly lots of seeds I sowed months ago are becoming green shoots and are wiggling their way upwards, but, just as suddenly, I have been rendered completely incapable of doing anything to nurture them. I have been thrust back into that cycle of depression and guilt that wakes me in the night and makes me stare at blank pieces of paper. Maybe I should write a list of stuff I have to do, of ways to make it better. I stare at the paper, though, and all words vanish from my mind, leaving only misty, formless uncertainty.
I want to sleep, to run away and to drown in my own self-involved, self-perpetuating paranoia. I want to be cold because I feel like I deserve it, and I am a narcissist for writing those words.
I want to scream and shout, but I also never want to say another word.

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David Quinn: We need Michael O'Learys, not consensus monkeys, to rule us
If Michael O'Leary had been in charge of the country during the boom, would the economy be in its present mess?
The question occurred to me the other day when watching him on the news condemning The Gathering as 'The Grabbing' at a big aviation conference.
Ireland is full of trained consensus monkeys whose only ambition in life is to be part of the crowd, to have authorised opinions and to ask only safe, authorised questions.
In a land of consensus monkeys, O'Leary stands out like the proverbial sore thumb. He sets out to annoy. If he doesn't slay at least two sacred cows per speech he isn't happy and, even when he's wrong, he's still providing a service by forcing people to think.
Ireland during the Celtic Tiger was all about consensus and social partnership. Everyone said yes to everything because it was the easy thing to do. It made you popular and it got you re-elected.
This is the No 1 reason why we had our sixth austerity budget in a row on Wednesday. No hard choices were made, no fights were picked.
During the boom, the opposition parties didn't do much opposing. They criticised successive budgets for not spending even more public money.
The much maligned Charlie McCreevy was further maligned after the 2002 general election for trying to bring public spending under control having released the brakes in the run-up to that election.
If O'Leary had been in charge of the country during those years there is absolutely no chance whatsoever that he would have pandered to the social partnership. There is absolutely no chance he would have let spending get out of control.
The budget deficit wouldn't have ballooned the way it did because public spending would never have risen to the dizzy heights of the Ahern/Cowen era. O'Leary would have said 'no' when it needed to be said, and sometimes even when it didn't need to be said. He would have asked for every cent of public expenditure to be justified before a single extra cent was released.
He'd have said 'no' to his ministers and, much worse, to the public sector unions. The result of the latter would have been huge industrial unrest and that would have been very, very painful indeed. But would it have been worse than the pain we have to endure now with 15pc unemployment, six harsh budgets in a row, rising debt, and the return of mass emigration? Very doubtful.
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J.R. Simplot's Legacy
Simplot played cards, surprised cohorts at the Arid Club
Simplot was playing cards at the Arid Club when Velma Morrison called to ask for a donation to help build the Morrison Center for the Performing Arts.
"He played cards like he did everything else," his friend Dean Summers recalled. "He'd wear out three sets of us and still be fighting for every point.
"This kid brought over a phone and told Jack he had a call from Velma Morrison. He and I had just had a hellacious fight over two points worth five dollars. He took the phone and said, "Mmm-hmm, yeah, OK," and hung up. When I asked him what it was all about, he said Velma wanted half a million to help build her arts center. We'd been arguing like crazy over five bucks, and with a few grunts he gives her half a million."
Esther Simplot was the singer of the family, but her husband had power, a good ear and liked virtually any kind of music except rock 'n' roll, or, as he put it, "that bang-bang stuff." At a birthday party at the Arid Club, he surprised his cohorts by standing and singing a robust version of "And Here We Have Idaho," without missing a word or a note.


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Peterborough Paddling Club: Lovesick Lake
Last week's cancelled Peterborough Paddling Club paddle is moved to tonight. The club will be exploring Lovesick Lake tonight at 6 p.m. Meet at the parking lot on the left (past the Lovesick Lake Restaurant and across the road from the Burleigh Island Lodge). There will be a $2.00 parking fee that you will be required to pay at the machine on exit.
Looking to join the club? Cost of the membership for 2011 is $30.00 per individual and can either be obtained at Wild Rock Outfitters, at all club sanctioned events or requested by e-mailing the club.
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I don't watch a great deal of television. Well, no ... that's not quite true. I do watch a fair bit of television but I am very selective. I can't bear having the TV on as 'background'. I approach watching TV in the same way as I approach reading a book - If I don't like the look of it, I simply won't bother. But I will give pretty much anything the benefit of the doubt. So when people told me to watch The Wire I did and I'm glad I took their advice. It's fantastic television. Others asked me to watch Lost. I did, but after two seasons I gave up. The Wire has managed to sustain my interest with gripping story lines and superb acting. Lost has become repetitive and dull with enough 'filler' episodes to stuff the Grand Canyon. It's lost the plot and I've lost all interest. No puns intended.
For much the same reasons, I can no longer watch soap operas or so-called reality TV shows. I've never enjoyed television that is, in my view, inane, pointless, ridiculous or that celebrates mediocrity and fatuous celebrity. When Lord Reith founded the BBC back in the 1920s, he stated that its role was to 'educate, inform and entertain'. Call me old-fashioned but I honestly believe that the purpose of television hasn't changed. Sadly, many TV programme-makers seem to disagree. I did once watch soap operas and enjoy them. I was an avid Coronation Street watcher. I even enjoyed Eastenders for a year or so. They were both excellent drama series; well-written, beautifully scripted and competently acted. But now they've degenerated into something quite different. I don't need to watch them any more. I can hear them from my office across the hallway. Gone are the fine actors and witty scripts. Instead we have faded comedians, straight out of drama school virgins and shouting. Lots of shouting. And story lines so utterly ridiculous that they are painful to watch. It says a lot when an advertisement for a UK washing powder spoofs the whole modern genre and ends with the tagline: Daz - the soap you can believe in.
It's the same with reality shows. The very first Big Brother was fascinating TV. It was like being a scientist watching lab rats perform. The voyeurism was genuinely thrilling as we saw how a group of utterly normal people reacted when cut off from civilisation. They formed relationships, made friends and enemies and did things that were completely out of character. They soon forgot they were on camera and, as time went on, they lost all sense of connection with the outside world. It was terrific TV. But even with Big Brother 2, things started to change. The people going into the house this time knew what to expect and acted accordingly. They were no longer 'normal' people. By Big Brother 3, the 'stars' of BB1 and BB2 had become celebrities (how I hate that most debased of words) so now the contestants were applying because the show was a shortcut to fame and fortune. And every successive season has produced contestants that are further and further divorced from normality. Big Brother is now just a freakshow by any other name. And, to further despoil the original concept of the series, these weirdos are egged on by ever-sillier and more extreme tasks and situations created by the programme makers. Why even bother spending the money on a house any more? They'll do anything to be famous. So why not just abuse them in a warehouse. As long as it's on camera and broadcast 24 hours a day, they'll still fight to get in there.
Writer and comedian Ben Elton saw this coming. His 2001 book Dead Famous lampoons the Big Brother phenomenon and takes it to the extreme, ultimately culminating in an on-screen death. He made some extraordinary predictions about how these types of show would evolve and, scarily, about 50% of what he made up has come true. Who'd have thought, 10 years ago, that we'd have live broadcasts of people sleeping? It defies all reason. And how long until The Truman Show becomes a horrid reality?
But it's the ghastly competition shows like X Factor and American Idol that disturb me the most. Shows like Last Choir Standing, Strictly Come Dancing (Dancing with the Stars in the US) and I'll Do Anything are harmless enough I guess - they're just oven-pizza for the eyes. They don't challenge us or inform us but they do entertain a certain kind of audience in a non-threatening soporific way. But X Factor and American Idol are in a different league. In these shows, we are actively encouraged to laugh at the deluded and the obviously mentally-challenged. Watch Simon utterly destroy someone's dreams in a rude and unnecessarily brutish way! Ha ha! Look! Look at that freak who sings like a pig being burned with a blowtorch but who thinks they're good! Ha ha! See that lady with the weird haircut and dodgy eyes - she obviously has learning difficulties. Let's point at her and laugh as she sings! Ha ha ha! Is this truly entertainment? If it is then I worry for the future, I really do. This is what we did 100 years ago at freak shows and carnivals. It's cheap, shameful television and it's turning us into jeering, sneering nasty people. I don't know that it actually encourages rudeness and cruelty but if people see enough of something ...
Of course, the ultimate cruelty is that, with very few exceptions, the only people to benefit from these shows are the people who make them.
Right. Rant over. Nearly. I'm worried, remember? I've just bared my soul about what I see as awful TV ... but the viewing figures don't agree with me. So maybe I'm the problem? Perhaps these shows are all fine and it's me who simply has no taste? My worry has been further fuelled by two comedies I watched this week. I really liked one and thought the other was rubbish. But my opinion of them appears to be entirely at odds with the rest of the viewing public. Firstly there's Unhitched, currently showing on FX.
The Farrelly Brothers scored pretty high with their early films like Dumb and Dumber and There's something about Mary but then hatched a string of turkeys best left untalked about. Remember Kingpin? Or Stuck on you? Ouch. But they seem to have got their mojo together at long last and have produced a sitcom. A sophisticated sitcom. And it's really funny! Unhitched has a kind of Friends set up with four close friends - Gator, Freddy, Tommy and Kate - three guys and one gal who share one thing in common: they're all 30-somethings who have recently come out of long-term relationships and are now coping with being back in the dating game again. There are moments of genuine sadness but always there's that cutting-edge trademark Farrelly black humour.
In the pilot episode, Gator meets a girl who gets turned on by the sounds of the rain forest and has transformed her apartment into a jungle ... as Gator finds out when her pet orang-utan unexpectedly decides to join in with the naughty fun. And in another episode Gator finds the perfect woman ... except for the scampi-sized skin tag hanging off her back. Crude, witty, well-directed and perfectly cast - I really like this show. It reminds me a lot of Coupling and would appeal to the same audience. I would have said that it was destined for great things but, amazingly, I've learned that it's been cancelled by Fox after just six episodes.
Then there's The Wrong Door (BBC3). I can't understand how this got green-lighted. I've only watched one episode and maybe that's not enough to make a valid judgement. But it was the pilot episode; the episode that is supposed to entice me in to watch the other five. And it didn't. It was awful. The idea is good, great even: A series of fast-paced sketches in which CGI is used to make the sketches look unusual and different from anything else you've ever seen. The sketches are played out deadpan and don't have traditional punchlines. It's rather like Big Train in that the humour came from the incongruity of the situations. So we'd get a wildlife documentary that looked and sounded just like an episode of Wildlife on One except that instead of antelope being stalked by lions we had jockeys being stalked by The Artist Formerly Known As Prince. Or we'd see a 'day in the life' type docusoap ... but instead of following a street cleaner, we'd follow Ming the Merciless. It was a terrific series with strong ideas and a great ensemble cast including Simon Pegg and Mark Heap. The Wrong Door tries to do the same but uses CGI to up the ante of the incongruity. So we get a typical 'taking boyfriend home to meet the parents' sketch ... but the boyfriend is a T Rex.
Or we see a giant robot rampaging through London because he can't find his keys. It sounds like a great idea and it should be ... but the underlying gags just don't work. They're not funny enough and the CGI can't fill the void. Mark Heap was brilliant as Ming the Merciless. His performance was full of subtle little comic nuances. Computer-generated dinosaurs and robots can't act and, what's more, they can't do comedy. Hell, most humans can't do comedy. That's why we have comedians. Here's a typical sketch from The Wrong Door: A young man staggers drunkenly into a bedroom and collapses on the bed. He drops an empty bottle out of which appears a gang of Tinkerbell-style fairies. They get a beer from the minibar and pour it down the chap's throat, they send a text on his behalf dumping his girlfriend, they turn the TV to a porn channel, pull down his trousers and then use a lighter to set off the fire sprinkler system. They then dive back inside the bottle as the landlady walks in, takes in the scene and says something like 'Oh you dirty little sod'. And the sketch is over. That's it. The CGI was passable and cleverly done ... but what was the sketch about? I just don't get it. And I'm not alone. Barring a couple of exceptions, the reviews were pretty damned awful. And yet the series got the highest viewing figures of any new comedy on BBC3.
So what do I know?
I'll end this rather downbeat post by mentioning three shows that have been must-sees for me these past few weeks:
Concrete Canvas - (Sky Arts) - A great little series following British pavement artist Julian Beever around the globe as he creates stunning anamorphic 3D chalk drawings on the streets and pavements of cities like LA, New York, Amsterdam and Paris. The series also documents the long and often controversial tradition of street art as he meets many of the artists working in the cities he visits. Great stuff. Check out some of his amazing work here.
The Sculpture Diaries - (Channel 4) - Waldemar Januszczak's excellent series about the impact of sculpture as an artform on society. There are three main areas of discussion - the landscape, heroes (including leaders and gods), and the female form. His exploration of how women have been represented in 3D art from the Willendorf Venus to Alison Lapper Pregnant was both celebratory and illuminating. And it was also a stark warning about body dysmorphia and similar conditions - many of which have been caused by a small but powerful group of fashionistas - mostly men - who have fostered a ridiculous 'perfect' image of women as stick insects. If the history of art tells us anything at all, it's that ordinary men love curves and women look better, and feel better, having them.
Rory and Paddy's Great British Adventure - (Channel 5) - I'm not a particular fan of either Rory McGrath or Paddy McGuinness if I'm honest but, for some reason, putting them together for this series really works. The idea is simple; our heroes travel the length and breadth of the UK taking part in strange, regional sports. Some are ancient like woolsack races and caber tossing. Others are newer like river football and nettle eating. And some are just plain bonkers like bog snorkeling or toe wrestling. It's been a fascinating glimpse of wonderful British eccentricity with an extra layer of enjoyment as we watch these two comedians suffer the indignities and injuries that come with playing the game. There are plenty of these sports still to be experienced so I hope that there will be another series.
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This afternoon has turned out to be beautiful and warm and I had one very fidgety little boy who just wanted to be out in the fresh air...literally crawling for the door every time my back was turned! I was looking in Grandma's garage to see if I could find a little bike for Noah and I came across this three- wheeled bike with reverse seats for toddlers on the back. This certainly looked like it had been used by many little ones before! Needless to say, Noah got very excited when he realised he was going to get a ride on it! We had a lot of fun riding around the garden together and chasing after the dog!
Happy weekend everyone!
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Softbank Hawks: May 26, 2010
by Gen on May.26, 2010 @ 4:22 pm, under NPB
5/27/2010 1:03am JST
...The Hawks like to score runs when Toshiya Sugiuchi pitches. In the 10 games he has started this season, the Hawks have scored 5 or more runs 9 times.
5/26/2010 10:08pm JST
...Hiroki Kokubo was given the night off due to neck pains. Kokubo has been feeling some discomfort in his neck and back areas off and on over the last week or so.
4:22pm JST
...Toshiya Sugiuchi gets today's start against the Yomiuri Giants.
...Sho Iwasaki lasted only 2 innings last night (while giving up 3 runs). After the game, the club apparently informed Iwasaki that he would be sent back to Ni-gun today. Seems like it was the three walks he gave up that did him in (one with the bases loaded).
...In addition to Iwasaki, Yuki Kume will also likely be sent down to Ni-gun today. Takehito Kanazawa and Masahiko Morifuku will likely be called up.
...The Hawks had won 8 consecutive games against the Yokohama Bay Stars (since 6/20/2007) prior to last night's loss. They were also shutout for the third time this year.
...Hiroyuki Kawahara made his pro debut on the 21st during a Ni-gun game against Chunichi. The Hawks posted a short interview with him on their site yesterday.
...The Hawks have posted video messages from Toshiya Sugiuchi and Munenori Kawasaki regarding Ganbaro Miyazaki Day (がんばろう宮崎デー) at Yahoo Dome -- 5/29 and 30 against the Chunichi Dragons.


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Hi Everyone!
Hope y'all are having a killer Friday! Some exciting news i've been wanting to share for a bit. Today I'll be guest blogging over on the lovely Cait's blog, Pattern Me Pretty, so definitely head to her site and check out the rest of our looks! Being a lover of all things high-waisted, we chose to wear high-waisted floral pants, a trend that reminds me of a cross between Aladdin and a trendy 20 something. Even thought Cait and I have never met in-person, we've known each other for quite some time and damn...she knows how to wear a pattern. Definitely check out her impeccable style and love of all things fashion and lifestyle.


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Love this engagement session shot in Asbury Park, NJ! Jessica and Andy found some great spots to capture their engagement photos and the sunset pictures are simply amazing!
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Inspiration 242: Colorful Chevron Stripes
I love the invitations from Max and Molly's wedding created by Wiley Valentine. So I went with the colors used in them and their wedding to come up with this board!
Monday, May 30, 2011
Monday Funday 24: Sailor Love
Happy Memorial Day! I have something a bit patriotic and nautical for you today. I love the touches of rope and the red and white stripes in this board, especially the photo booth backdrop.
Sunday, May 29, 2011
Real Wedding: Elizabeth and Isaac's Elegant Farm Wedding
A white horse. A pretty color palette. A lovely couple. This wedding is definitely worth checking out! I definitely love the bouquets, such a lovely combination of colors.
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[venue: The Lange Farm]
[stationery: Momental Designs]
[stationery: Momental Designs]
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Inspiration Shoot: The Oxford Hotel
This inspiration shoot was done by Byron Roe Photography to show off the possibilities of the eco-friendly Oxford Hotel in Oregon as a wedding venue. I love the big open windows of the ceremony location, so pretty!
Friday, May 27, 2011
Inspiration 241: Casual Kelly
Kelly green is a fun color that I think can stand on its own in a pretty neutral color palette. I went casual with this board for a backyard wedding feel.
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Engagement Inspiration: Lauren & Dan's City Park Session
Lauren and Dan just radiate love! I love their classic casual style, and how by looking at the pictures you probably couldn't guess they were in the middle of New York City. By the way, hand holding pictures are one of my favorite shots... such a simple gesture that means so much.
{photographer: Vanessa Joy via Two Bright Lights}
Theme Thursday 42: Something Blue
This Theme Thursday is a little different. I loved the blue tulle underskirt and wanted to show other ways to incorporate your "something blue" into your big day. Of course, this ice blue and white color palette is lovely if you want to make it your palette!
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Inspiration 240: Rustic Peacock and Orange
This board is for a bride who wanted to combine a city and country feel into her wedding using peacock blue and orange as the color palette and incorporating feathers and pearls. I think the bouquet in this board is spot on with the orchids and peacock feathers! The clutch would be a great city chic touch for the bridesmaids to carry.
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Real Wedding: Blair & Nate's Classic Wedding
Blair and Nate are such a gorgeous couple and they definitely know how to look fierce in front of a camera! They went with a classic color palette of red and black for their big day and they certainly rocked it.
{photographer: M. Clay Photography via Two Bright Lights}
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I get a lot of inquiries for food recommendations. I love food. Now, I love food. I didn't used to care. At all. After moving to L.A., my friend was visiting and she wanted Thai. I cringed inside. I didn't know Thai food. I was positive I wouldn't like Thai food. After some persuasive arguments, I gave it shot. From there, I've slowly but surely fallen in love food. While I still classify myself as a "picky eater", I'm more open to try to new things and new restaurants.
When I moved to Denver, I immediately sought out replacements for my favorite L.A. spots. And I found many. I want to mention that this is not a healthy list, a vegan list, or in anyway a list directed towards a certain diet. These are places I like to go, and food I like to eat.
Today, I bring you– Best Brunch/Breakfast in Denver.
Lucile's – I love this place for its atmosphere, food, coffee, and breakfast cocktails. Let's start with the atmosphere– the style and food has a southern, New Orleans feel and as soon as I step into this place, I am transported. For breakfast, my favorites are– 1. Biscuits and Gravy. I dare say, the best in Denver. 2. Pain Perdu. While this is just a fancy word for french toast, the dish is delicious but I warn you, it is quite sweet. I recommend it as a side to share. 3. Benedict. They have a variety, and while I've only tried a couple, they all sound mouth-watering. My favorite location is the one on Logan and Alameda but their new location on Evans has a much shorter wait time. My favorite breakfast cocktail is the apple cider mimosa. Just order it, trust me ;)
Denver Biscuit Company – I feel in love with their biscuits before I even had a bite. They look like picture and taste exactly as expected– fluffy but dense and buttery. My favorite item to order is The Franklin. As described on their website– Buttermilk fried chicken, Tender Belly ham, cheddar cheese & local Colorado honey butter. Just typing that makes my mouth water. Their cinnamon roll is the best appetizer to share with a group of four. I also recommend The Elmer (10- hour-smoked pulled pork, BBQ sauce, fried onions, coleslaw & housemade pickles).
Bacon Social House – This place is a little off the beaten path and slightly hard to find. This restaurant is located in The Highlands, and down an alley. Once you find, you'll be so excited you did. Their Boozy French Toast and a flight of bacon is my favorite breakfast here. The Fried Chicken and Waffles is also great! And of course, my forever favorite breakfast food, biscuits and gravy, is not bad either.
DJ's Cafe – I have only ever ordered one thing from here and I can't get myself to try anything else. It's the New Mexico Benedict. They sub out the peppers for avocados, free of charge. Everyone I've ever brought there loves it as well, so their other food must be good, too. The Bellini is the perfect breakfast cocktail. They have two locations, my favorite is the one on Lincoln and 9th.


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Croft, who was one of the standout performers for the Lions during the 2-1 series defeat by South Africa four years ago, was on Monday night again omitted from the 31-man England training squad that will meet up at Pennyhill Park on Tuesday for a three-day camp.
Croft has now played four games for Leicester since returning from almost eight months on the sidelines after sustaining a triple fracture to his neck when making a tackle on Harlequins No 8 Nick Easter last April.
He was handed what he described as a "shock" recall to the England elite squad last month after playing just 50 minutes for Leicester, but having been omitted from the training squad for the Italy match on March 10, it now looks almost impossible to put himself in contention for the final championship game against Wales. Lions coach Warren Gatland is due to name his squad on April 30.
Meanwhile, England fly-half Owen Farrell will be free to face Italy after the citing commissioner for the match against France on Saturday deemed that no players would face any disciplinary hearings.
Television replays had appeared to show Farrell nudge Morgan Parra with his elbow and the France scrum-half fell dramatically to the ground clutching his face.
France No 8 Louis Picamoles will also not be asked to explain an incident that appeared to show him trip Farrell as the England fly-half attempt to charge down a clearance kick.
The England squad will on Tuesday have a review of the France match after training. A number of players will be released back to their clubs on Tuesday night for selection for Aviva Premiership games this weekend.
The remainder of the squad will be released on Thursday afternoon and reconvene at Pennyhill Park next Monday ahead of their game with Italy at Twickenham.
With Ireland coach Declan Kidney facing calls to resign after his side's demoralising 12-8 defeat by Scotland, Harlequins director of rugby Conor O'Shea has been tipped to replace the former Munster coach.
"Conor would be my choice to take Ireland forward," said former Ireland fly-half Tony Ward. "He has the track record, he trusts the people around him and he is Irish at a time when all our provinces are coached by New Zealanders."
Ireland are hoping Cian Healy will be available to face France after the Six Nations confirmed his appeal will be heard in Glasgow on Wednesday.
Healy was suspended for three weeks for stamping on Dan Cole in England's 12-6 win in Dublin, but is appealing on the grounds that his ban was effectively extended to four weeks as he was barred from playing for Leinster on Feb 16.
Fly-half Jonathan Sexton and lock Mike McCarthy are making encouraging progress in their battles with respective hamstring and knee injuries. Wing Craig Gilroy underwent a scan on the groin injury sustained against Scotland and no significant damage was discovered.


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Several issues Thursday morning weighing on stocks:
1. CPI hotter than expected, making a third round of quantitative easing much more difficult.
2. Wall Street Journal article on federal regulators scrutinizing the operations of the U.S. arms of European banks.
3, Interbank lending in the euro zone appears to be slowing to a dribble.
4. The Austrians are asking for more collateral from the Greeks in exchange for supporting new emergency loans.
5. The Federal Reserve's Plosser and Fisher have been saying that Wall Street should not mistake that Fed language is aimed at stock support.
6. Morgan Stanley's Global Economics Team cut its global domestic growth forecast to 3.9 percent for 2011 (down from 4.2 percent), and 3.8 percent for 2012 (down from 4.5 percent).
Why the downgrade? Not just disappointing incoming data: Morgan blames it on "recent policy errors in the U.S. and Europe, plus the prospect of further fiscal tightening there in 2012."
The most widely quoted line undoubtedly will be that the U.S. and euro zone are "dangerously close to a recession," but few will likely read on: "recession is not our base case because: i) the corporate sector looks healthy; ii) household real incomes will be supported by lower headline inflation; and iii) we expect more action from central banks..."
Perhaps more importantly, the team notes that emerging markets, which generate 80 percent of global growth, is expected to decelerate this year to 6.4 percent (from a previous 7.8 percent forecast).
1. The World Gold Council has just released its Gold Demand Trends for the second quarter of 2011. Demand is still strong, but the way gold is being bought—and who is buying it—is changing. See my prior TraderTalk blog for more.
2. A couple of secondaries did price, from AvalonBay and Invesco.?