text: Thetford Forest Camping and Caravanning Club Site (150 reviews) from £7.70 to £12.95 Per person/night Contact Us Book It 20%off pitch fees in September. Member only. More info Images Map Select Section Overview Top site for fishing Top site for photography Great site for families Top sites for dogs Top site for cycling Thetford Club campsite is surrounded by natural history & ideal for walkers & cyclists. Sitting on the edge of Britain's largest lowland pine forest, our Thetford Forest Club campsite is ideal for those looking to explore Norfolk's towns and cities like Norwich and Bury St Edmunds, the Broads, or heading to coast for some traditional seaside fun at Great Yarmouth or the more peaceful Southwold. While at your base at Thetford campsite you can be sure of a relaxed and comfortable stay. The tree-lined campsite is spacious, level and well laid out. Its 150 pitches are split over separate camping areas and the excellent facilities include a parent and child room, a children's play area set within a fenced recreation field, a dog walk and you can fish for carp, tench and roach on the campsite's fishing pond. The local area is ideal for walking and cycling. The Peddars Way National Trail passes close to the campsite while the forest offers boundless opportunities for outdoor activity. The High Lodge Forest Centre has play equipment, sculpture trails and for teenagers there's Go Ape! Other nearby attractions include Banham Zoo, home to some of the world's most exotic, rare and endangered animals, BeWILDerwood, a quirky adventure park in Wroxham and Dinosaur Adventure with dinosaur trails, play areas and an animal encounter.Read more about Camping Pods at Thetford Forest. Access and SatNav Advice Satnav users please do not use the site postcode, refer to map when close to site. Follow the brown campsite signs into the park. Worth Noting This site has hard ground therefore the booking of hardstandings is not necessary. TV hook up available, £1 a day, £5 weekly, £30 cash deposit required. Minimum booking for English Bank Holidays is three nights. Minimum booking for High Season is two nights WiFi WiFi is available at this site. However please note the service is supplied by a different provider therefore your Site WiFi card (powered by WiComs) cannot be used. Please contact the site direct for more information. Eat Local There is a farmers' market on site every Saturday morning during High Season, with a barbecue and fresh meat for sale. Facilities Thetford Forest has the following facilities on or around the site. Members' and non-members' caravans welcome Members' and non-members' trailer tents welcome Hardstanding with electric hook-up Seasonal Pitches Grass only pitch (no electric) Flushing toilet Washbasins Dedicated accessible facilities Family shower room Drinking water taps Washing Machines Ice pack freezing Childrens play area Fishing (licence may be required) Payphone Designated dog walk Camping Pods or Dens Grass pitch with electric hook-up for larger tents Members' and non-members' motorhomes welcome Members' and non-members' tents welcome Grass pitch with electric hook-up Storage facilities A well-sheltered site Showers Electric shaver sockets Parent and baby room Chemical toilet disposal point Motorhome stop-off Dishwashing facilities Shop Ball games Gas cylinders Pets welcome Grass only pitch for larger tents Wi-fi (Other provider) Reviews Review 1 |2 |38 |Next » Expand review Recommended: no 2.7 Perhaps it is our inexperience with UK sites, but the fact that we cannot select a pitch and... E (Club Member) stayed Aug 2014 This review is for Thetford Forest Perhaps it is our inexperience with UK sites, but the fact that we cannot select a pitch and cannot choose how to 'park' our van takes away my sense of freedom (if I want to be told what to do, I might as well go to the office). Also, the staff seemed pretty uninterested in their visitors. Compared to Setthorns in New Forest (or most continental sites), this was a major disappointment for us. Few other things that were mildly disappointing: * Facilities were a bit grubby (families not cleaning up after themselves in the showers etc), * Family room was out of order * kids making lots of noise late at night (waking up our toddlers) * Fishing pond is miniscule Good things about the site: Access to the forest, Norwich and the seaside is easy, had good fun with the kids. Also the children's play area on site was great fun for 'm. Towing: Easy Location: Country Suitable For: Older couples Friendliness: 2 Cleanliness: 3 Facilities: 3 Expand review Recommended: yes 4 Have stayed at this site twice. Once in a tent, the other in a camping pod. Kamal (Club Member) stayed Apr 2014 This review is for Thetford Forest Have stayed at this site twice. Once in a tent, the other in a camping pod. This is a nice quiet site. Towing: Easy Location: Country,Secluded Suitable For: Families,Groups,Active break,Peaceful break,Younger couples Friendliness: 4 Cleanliness: 4 Facilities: 4 Expand review Recommended: yes 4.7 Ideal for a quiet relaxing break or for those wanting a bit more excitement. Noreen Ayling (Club Member) stayed Aug 2014 This review is for Thetford Forest Ideal for a quiet relaxing break or for those wanting a bit more excitement. Snetterton race circuit is close by and there are far too many walks/bike rides to mention. A visit to Norwich is a must....recommend using the park and ride system operated...very simple. We didn't have any children with us but there are plenty of places to take them locally but if they bring bikes they will spend most of the day happily cycling around the site making new friends. The facilities are kept very clean and tidy as is the whole site....well done to all of you. I am sure we will be back! Towing: Easy Location: Country Suitable For: Families,Older couples,Groups,Active break,Peaceful break,Younger couples Friendliness: 5 Cleanliness: 5 Facilities: 4 Expand review Recommended: no 4 We stayed here for three nights in July. T. Evans (Club Member) stayed Jul 2014 This review is for Thetford Forest We stayed here for three nights in July. We picked the site after reading the website reviews and for the suitability for dogs. When we arrived the reception staff were pleasant enough but the wardens were definately not as friendly as we are used to on other sites. Examples of this were when walking past them we would say good morning/afternoon and be ignored and when one of the staff was guiding a left hand drive motorhome onto their pitch in the next field he was heard to say "that's it, now put the handbrake on, select neutral and turn off the engine" in a very loud, sarcastic manner. As for the dog walks, there is access to woodland directly from the site but when you come across the official signage it says to have dogs on leads. We did ask at reception and were told ;oh it's ok to have them off lead, don't worry. The pubs mentioned are quite a walk away via busy roads so we didn't venture out to them. On a positive note the toilets and showers were always clean and we didn't have to wait even though the site was busy. There were lots of families there and the children's play area is large enough for several ball games. Good site but we won't be returning. Location: Country Suitable For: Families,Groups,Active break,Younger couples Friendliness: 3 Cleanliness: 5 Facilities: 4 1 |2 |38 |Next » Travel Local Travel Nearest bus stop: Near site entrance Nearest train station: Thetford 8.5 miles Get Directions to Thetford Forest Staying here? Public transport from the site Bike ride? Find cycle routes nearby Sat Nav Download our POI file Safe Directions Print Friendly PDF Widget by Frixo Standard Fees For more information take a look at Pricing explained. Minimum booking periods do apply. Standard Fee Nightly storage 01 Jan 2014 - 31 Dec 2014£5.75 Towing (In and out of storage) 01 Jan 2014 - 31 Dec 2014£6.55 Motorhome stop-off (per unit) 01 Jan 2014 - 31 Dec 2014£7.10 Year Round Storage 01 Jan 2014 - 31 Dec 2014£525 Year Round Seasonal Pitch 01 Jan 2014 - 31 Dec 2014£2,165 Camping Pod or Dens 01 Jan 2014 - 31 Dec 2014£42 Jumbo Camping Pod 01 Jan 2014 - 31 Dec 2014£51


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The Inner Scoop: A WTOP Traffic Blog
Find out the story behind the back-up on the WTOP Traffic Blog. The WTOP traffic team will have the lastest on road closures, construction projects and other useful information relating to your commute.
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Bikeshare rolls into Montgomery County, could bring changes for motorists
Posted on: Thursday 9/26/2013 4:25am
SILVER SPRING, Md. - Capital Bikeshare's sturdy red bikes roll into Montgomery County on Friday.
Their arrival signals not only a new transportation option for local neighborhoods, but also a glimpse of changes still to come for drivers and pedestrians in the area.
The popular bike sharing program, already well established in the District and Arlington County, launches in Maryland with three locations: Silver Spring, Bethesda and downtown Rockville.
"We get it now," says Councilmember Valerie Ervin, who started working toward the bike sharing program in 2007. "We have trails that were never completed, and so we have lots of very frustrated residents."
Now, the influx of new bikes adds some urgency to shore up the county's infrastructure to match the new demands for safe places to cycle.
"Our streets are not striped everywhere like they are in D.C., our motorists and our pedestrians are not used to sharing the roadways and the sidewalks yet and we have some very interesting laws that allow bicyclists to be on sidewalks with pedestrians," Ervin says.
Also, she said she hopes for some uniform policies across the county that address issues like riding a bike on the sidewalk.
"Montgomery County is not as biker-friendly as Washington, D.C., and Arlington are, but we're getting there quickly," she says.
One significant change could affect those who prefer to get around on four wheels.
"For safety purposes we want to look at preventing right turns on red [lights] just in the most densely populated areas of the county," Ervin says.
"We know that there are going to be a lot of unhappy people, but Montgomery County is growing up," she says.
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Overturned truck, fuel spill close NB I-95 in Howard County
Posted on: Tuesday 9/24/2013 8:40am
WASHINGTON - An overturned truck caused delays for commuters on northbound Interstate 95 Tuesday morning.
A box truck overturned on northbound I-95 before 7 a.m., causing all lanes to close to traffic after Route 100 in Howard County. All lanes reopened to traffic about two hours later.
The crash caused fuel to spill onto the roadway. Crews cleaned up the spill and reopened all of the lanes.
It is not yet clear if anyone sustained injuries in the crash.
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Delays expected on blue and orange lines
Posted on: Tuesday 9/24/2013 6:10am
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Metro riders traveling on the orange and blue lines this weekend can expect longer wait times because of improvement work being done on the system.
Metro says beginning at 10 p.m. Friday night and continuing through closing on Sunday, orange line and blue line trains will operate every 16 minutes. That's as opposed to every 12 minutes when no work is being done on the weekend. Metro says that it's doing work on both lines to upgrade track infrastructure, make structural repairs, plug leaks and install new ceiling tiles.
Riders can expect regular service on the red, yellow and green lines.
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Tractor trailer crash causes NB I-95 delays
Posted on: Monday 9/23/2013 11:14am
WASHINGTON - A crash involving two tractor trailers caused delays on northbound Interstate 95 before Route 619 Monday morning.
The crash, which happened at about 6:45 a.m., blocked the right lane of I-95 before Route 619/Triangle exit out of Quantico.
Emergency crews responded to the scene, although it is not yet clear if there are injuries.
At 7 a.m., the crash caused a 10-mile delay from Stafford to Triangle. The crash was later cleared and the lanes reopened.
UPDATE VA - 95 NB at Triangle (x150): Tractor trailer crash blocks the RIGHT lane & the exit ramp to Rt 619/Triangle #vatraffic #dctraffic— WTOP Traffic (@WTOPtraffic) September 23, 2013
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Tractor trailer fire causes delays on Beltway's Inner Loop in Maryland
Posted on: Friday 9/20/2013 6:56am
WASHINGTON - A tractor trailer fire caused delays on the Beltway in Maryland Friday morning.
A tractor trailer crashed into an abandoned vehicle on the Inner Loop of the Beltway in College Park, Md., at about 5 a.m. The collision caused the tractor trailer to catch fire.
No one sustained injuries in the crash, according to Maryland State Police. Fire crews responded to the scene and worked through the morning to extinguish the blaze.
The accident caused lane and ramp closures in the area. By 7 a.m., the through lanes had reopened, but the ramp to Route 1 remained closed.
It is not yet clear what caused the tractor trailer to hit the abandoned vehicle.
PHOTO TERRIBLE scene #mdtraffic 495 inner loop right lane and Rt 1 exit CLOSED accident and tractor trailer fire pic.twitter.com/4068wQL2GH— Brad Freitas (@NewsChopperBrad) September 20, 2013
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Chips and dings: Filing complaints for damage due to road work
Posted on: Friday 9/20/2013 5:23am
WASHINGTON - Driving through the multiple repaving projects across the region is not for those who kiss their cars goodnight. Chances are, the windshield and the hood have a few dings, cracks or chips.
Some drivers who commute through road construction daily have damage to their car and have been unsure of where to go to file a complaint.
Adrian Kessler, of Lorton, Va., has been trying to figure out what construction company to contact as his Subaru is riddled with dings and dents.
"You can't fault the driver in front of you for kicking up the stuff that's on the ground. I'm just annoyed by the lack of clean-up every night," Kessler says.
He takes issue with the repaving project on Interstate 495 by FedEx Field between Landover, Md., and Joint Base Andrews.
While the Maryland Highway Administration says the shoulder and ramps of that project should be completed by late October, Kessler is not alone. Drivers' vehicles take little hits traveling through construction all around the area.
On WTOP's Facebook page, Richard Freeman says he has two recent nicks to his windshield from work between Route 50 and Route 4.
"It appears they are not been doing as good of a job 'sweeping' after tearing up the pavement and cleaning the debris left over. Is there a way to get the state to repair the nicks," Freeman says.
While the state doesn't promise any compensation, the Maryland State Highway Administration allows drivers to file complaints, where they can list the damage done to their car and the specific area where it occurred.
On each contracted job, an MTA engineer is on the site, responsible for managing the timeline of work and things like clean-up.
"The inspector will generally ride through the area afterwards. We do have a little precaution there built-in to do the right thing, for best practices," says state highway spokesman Charlie Gischlar.
Clean-up is part of the job, Gischlar says, but there is the chance of some debris left on the roadway.
"Whenever you have a job, there is a possibility of having a minor pebbles stuff like that. We advise our contractor, they have to run a street sweeper through there. And then after that, it's the brand new pavement," Gischlar says.
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Survey: Mass transit more popular, but most still drive by themselves
Posted on: Thursday 9/19/2013 5:04am
WASHINGTON - Most people continue driving to work, but more and more are looking to telework and mass transit options, a new survey finds.
From the Transportation Planning Board's Commuter Connections program, the new survey finds mass transit and teleworking are becoming more popular, but most still drive a car into work and are the only occupant in that car.
However, the survey finds that the numbers vary greatly depending on where you live.
In D.C., Arlington and Alexandria, 45 percent commute alone in a car, with 34 percent using mass transit options and 8 percent biking or walking to work.
"It makes sense to see these numbers because there are so many options in the inner core to get around," says Nicholas Ramfos, director of commuter connections.
All three jurisdictions have Metro, VRE and Capital Bikeshare. With rail, bus and bicycle options, commuters have several options at their disposal that are close to their homes and convenient to use to get to their office.
But in Montgomery, Prince George's and Fairfax counties, the numbers drastically change. According to the survey, 70 percent drive alone into work, whereas only 15 percent take mass transit. The numbers could be considered a little surprising only because there are mass transit options in the three suburbs from Metro, MARC and VRE, as well as local commuter bus systems like Montgomery County Ride-On and the Fairfax Connector.
"There are a lot of Metro stations, but you also have to look at the population base, too. The population base is much larger than you would maybe see in some of the inner core," says Ramfos.
Three counties have about three million residents combined, compared to about one million in Arlington, Alexandria and D.C. Also, while several parts of Montgomery, Prince George's and Fairfax counties do have easy access to Metro, MARC or VRE, there are other locations where that's not the case.
"There a lot of factors that go into what mode of transportation you use to commute into work. It depends on where you live, where you work, what your work hours are, and the availability and convenience of different travel modes near you," says Ramfos.
For example, the survey finds that in the inner core (Arlington, Alexandria, D.C.) 84 percent of people live less than a half-mile from a bus stop, whereas the number in the inner suburbs is 53 percent. When you expand it to the outer suburbs like Loudoun and Prince William counties and Viriginia and Charles, Calvert and Frederick counties in Maryland, the number is 15 percent.
Perhaps not surprisingly, the survey finds a vast majority of commuters from those outer suburbs drive into their office. The survey finds 75 percent drive, whereas only 8 percent use mass transit. While there are commuter bus options in these counties, along with VRE in Prince William County and MARC in Frederick County, these options are not nearly as popular as taking the car.
"The bigger message here is giving people options, so that you're really not just boxed into just getting into my car and being stuck in traffic for an hour-and-a-half each way," says Ramfos.
It's a popular idea in the transportation community to fund projects to make mass transit options more attractive, hoping it'll convince drivers to shed the car for a bus or train. For Loudoun and Prince William counties, such an achievement could make a big difference on the congestion problem along Interstate 66, Virginia Route 7 and U.S. Route 1. In Frederick County, it could result in drastic improvements in the congestion problem along Interstate 270 each day.
"While there has been a lot of work on offering better options for commuters from these outer suburbs, the trend that more people will drive the farther out you go will likely continue in the future," says Ramfos.
The "State of the Commute" survey is done every three years and helps the Transportation Planning Board and the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments predict future travel patterns and suggest ways to better tailor transportation to the growing population.
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Overturned vehicle causes delays on I-495
Posted on: Tuesday 9/17/2013 10:29am
WASHINGTON - In Maryland, an accident involving an overturned vehicle caused major delays for commuters on Interstate 495/Beltway Inner Loop.
The accident caused back ups on I-495/ Beltway Inner Loop between Rt. 650 New Hampshire Avenue and Interstate 95. For some time, only a single right lane got getting by the large emergency response.
UPDATE MD - Beltway Inner Loop after New Hampshire Ave: ONLY the RIGHT lane gets by crash #mdtraffic #dctraffic pic.twitter.com/7Z2WTmAmJO— WTOP Traffic (@WTOPtraffic) September 17, 2013
By 10:50 a.m., all lanes had been cleared.
Officials have not yet said if anyone was injured in the crash.
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DDOT: Streets near Navy Yard reopen after shooting
Posted on: Tuesday 9/17/2013 9:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Transportation officials say streets and bridges around the Washington Navy Yard have reopened after a deadly shooting rampage there.
Authorities closed roads and bridges in the Navy Yard area on Monday after a gunman opened fire, killing 12 people and wounding several more before being killed in a shootout with police.
The District Department of Transportation announced Tuesday morning that all streets and bridges near the Navy Yard have reopened for the morning commute.
The Navy announced that access to the Navy Yard would be restricted to mission essential personnel on Tuesday.
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Weekend Wakeup: Express Lane closures and downtown D.C. events might cause congestion
Posted on: Friday 9/13/2013 3:08pm
WASHINGTON -- As the summer travel season begins to wind down, construction of the new I-95/395 Express Lanes is heating up. Full closures of the Express Lanes are set to begin this weekend. But unlike in weekends past, the lanes will remain closed all day Saturday and through most of Sunday.
Weekend drivers on I-95 should brace for delays during the daytime hours.
On Friday night, the Virginia Department of Transportation will close the reversible HOV lanes on I-95/395 from south of Route 236 to Dumfries. They will remain closed on Saturday. The lanes are expected to reopen to northbound traffic by 2 p.m. on Sunday.
Similar closures will take place every weekend this month. In October, as highway volume further wanes, the Express Lanes will be closed all weekend through to the Monday morning rush hour. Crews will use the extra work space to complete tasks like milling and paving the new road surface as well as overhead sign, drainage, and barrier installation.
In an effort to alleviate some congestion on the mainline, VDOT and the Department of Rail and Public Transportation will begin offering a Saturday bus service between the Potomac Mills Mall and the Franconia-Springfield Metro Station. The Saturday bus service will be free for a three-month period. Buses will also make stops at the Potomac and Rappahannock Transportation Commission Transit Center in Dale City, offering additional transfer opportunities. Here's the schedule.
Navy-Air Force Half Marathon
Expect street closures in Northwest Washington around 5 a.m. Saturday for the Navy-Air Force Half Marathon. The runners will hit the pavement shortly after 7 a.m. The Navy-Air force Half Marathon and Navy 5 Miler is hosted by Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling Morale, Welfare and Recreation.
The entire length of the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway will be closed to traffic. Beach Drive will remain open but traffic south of the National Zoo will be diverted into Woodley Park.
Arlington Memorial Bridge, Memorial Circle, and Lincoln Circle will be closed to traffic for much of the morning. Arlington National Cemetery will be accessible from Route 110 and the southbound George Washington Parkway.
The race course includes Ohio Drive, Independence Avenue, Maine Avenue, and 15th Street NW near the Tidal Basin and Potomac Park.
Most streets will be open by 11 a.m. except in the area around the awards ceremony on the National Mall.
Metro will open its doors early at 6 a.m. for participants and spectators. The closest Metro stop to the start of the race is Smithsonian Station.
9-11 Heroes 5K Race Street Closures
There will be several street closures on Saturday morning in Crystal City for the 9-11 Heroes 5K Race. The run starts at 8:30 a.m.
A portion of South Glebe Road northbound will be closed between 8:15 a.m. until 9:00 a.m. Other streets affected include 23rd Street, South Eads Street, South Fern Street, and Arlington Ridge Road. Parking near the race course will be restricted.
Weekend Fairs and Festivals
Doug Hill in the WTOP Weather Center predicts picture-perfect weather for fairgoers this weekend. The Maryland Renaissance Festival and the Anne Arundel County Fair in Crownsville, the Charles County Fair in La Plata, and the Great Frederick Fair in Frederick will draw crowds. Expect some congestion on the routes near the county fairgrounds.
Frederick's 31st annual In The Street Celebration is this Saturday. Market Street, All Saints Street, Church Street and more will be closed. Patrick Street and 7th Street should remain open to traffic.
Follow police direction and expect some delay if you plan to travel through downtown Frederick. Pets or animals of any kind are not allowed at the event. Due to expected large crowds, bicycles will be prohibited inside the event area.
In Arlington Heights, the street fair known as Prio Bangla Potho Mela will block South 9th Street from Walter Reed Drive to South Highland Street on Saturday. Street parking in the area will be restricted. Expect localized congestion and plenty of foot traffic.
D.C. Roadwork
Repairs to the old Arizona Avenue Railroad Bridge over Canal Road will be conducted this weekend. Crews will block a lane of Canal Road between Arizona Avenue and Chain Bridge between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.
Work on the New York Avenue Bridge over the rail yard north of Union Station continues this weekend. A single lane will be blocked on the inbound side of New York Avenue between Penn Street and Florida Avenue Friday night until 12 p.m. on Saturday. For more on the new sculptures above New York Avenue, read this story.
Metrorail Track Work
Track Work will result in service delays on the Red, Orange, and Green lines this weekend but all stations will remain open. A portion of the Blue and Yellow lines will be closed. Those with plans to take Metro to National Airport should plan ahead for delays. The Reagan National Airport and Crystal City stations will both be closed from 10 p.m. Friday through Sunday, reopening Monday morning.
Buses will be replacing Blue and Yellow line trains between Braddock Road and Pentagon City. Riders detouring around the work zone on buses may experience delays of up to 20 minutes. Trains will run at normal intervals outside the work zone.
Red Line trains are expected to run on-time between Shady Grove and Medical Center. Brief delays are possible for riders between Grosvenor and Shady Grove.
Track work on the eastern side of the Orange Line will cause Orange Line trains to operate every 20 minutes throughout the weekend.
Green Line trains will operate every 16 minutes throughout the weekend.
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These are some words I just felt compelled to write after watching the highlights to last night's loss at work. It's kinda personal, but I just needed to get it out. If you read this I hope you enjoy.
I'll admit, I used to like losing. A lot. It was fun. I've gone on record to major newspapers saying this.
The Knicks were never good when I was a kid growing up in Suburban North Jersey, and I took that as a source of pride. The Rangers were awful, the Mets were, and still are, the Mets, and the Knicks just had no idea what they were doing. I was constantly chided by my peers for not submitting as a front runner to their deities Jason Kidd, Derek Jeter, Martin Brodeur, or whoever they saw on SportsCenter that morning eating their sugary cereals. When I asked them how they felt about Vince Carter forcing his way out of Toronto to the Nets, I was greeted with a "KNICKS SUCK!" rather than healthy sports discourse. In hindsight I should have seen that coming because I was 11 and 11 year olds, like I was, are inherently not eloquent about sports and are generally immature.
No one ever came to my defense. Nope. It sucked being a Knicks fan in 2004. We made the playoffs that year. Y'all remember? Probably not. We were a 7 seed at 39-43. Don Cheney was forced out as coach and Lenny Wilkins came. Looking back on it, this is the first season I started rationalizing MSG's bullshit and drank the Kool-Aid.
That's what I did because no one was there to stop me: rationalize. I've been doing it ever since 1999 when I started watching this team. I rationalized everything. I rationalized the Eddy Curry trade. Here is a direct quote I told my dad when it happened "We now have an center to run the offense through! And a pick-and-roll guy!" God I was fucking dumb. I rationalized Stephon Marbury. I rationalized forcing out Don Cheney. "Lenny Wilkins has won a championship."
Then I started to realize you can't rationalize everything that happens in sports. That was a big development. I realized sports are inherently random at times, and sometimes decisions just don't work. I also realized that sports are a business and decisions need to be made. I realized that when losing was done in a productive matter, because the NBA operates in such a strict manner. Thus 2008 to 2010 were great years because it seemed like the Knicks were going somewhere. And hoo boy did the Knicks do some losin'. They lost 103 games over those two seasons, and I enjoyed every single one of those losses. I guess in a way I realized all I could do was rationalize losing to make it fun.
This season has made me rethink everything I knew as a fan. I realized that this team, has no options for next year (unless Melo opts out, in which case how are we going to replace that), and the only saving grace is a 2015 draft pick that cannot be cashed in until a year from June. It's not just the bleak future (which I've argued is not super, super bleak) that has been frustrating. What has sucked is the manner in which this team plays. There's no spark, no energy, no rally when the going get tough. When Milwaukee loses, they have guys on the bench fighting for their future playing with reckless abandon. While that doesn't always translate into winning basketball, it gives fans something to rationalize.
The 2013-14 Knicks have nothing to rationalize. We know they suck. We know they aren't going to magically "figure it out" because they've had more than a significant sample size to "figure it out." They've played 71 games of basketball, and managed to win 29 of them. To top it off we're doing it in the year where the East is historically bad.
If any of you have watched soccer there are three types of games that happen when a very, very good team plays a mediocre to bad team. 1. The mediocre to bad team experiments with new lineups to catch the other team off guard, plays as perfect as they can for as long as they can and hope to steal a late goal to tie or win a game in a low scoring affair. 2. The bad team tries as hard as they can, but are overrun and lose 5-0 or more as they just cannot keep up.
The third option is this: the worse team punches above its weight, but the better team finds a way to suffocate the midfield denying the poorer team any chances, and scores around 2-3 goals because they dominate play so much and its inevitable (see my Manchester City dominate United yesterday in the Manchester Derby).
This is what watching the Knicks are like this season. They don't score in transition, they stagnate on offense (I was hoping to write more about this), they don't play defense and let other teams score willingly behind the arc and in transition. We're just watching better teams outclass and out maneuver us on a daily basis. That's not fun.
This season has been like being held down by a man lightly putting a pillow over our faces. He's holding us down enough that we can't get away, but he's not pressing hard enough to deny us oxygen within the first few minutes. We're just sitting there slowly dying as this team throws game after game after game away.
We can debate all we want about the future of this franchise (it has a future, we will survive this), but this is a lost season, one that I hope these guys erase from our memories ASAP. 11 Games.
Go Knicks.


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Since we're working on defining all the new names and traditions for our new stadium, I thought I would chime in with my 2 cents. While perusing the live video feed of the McLane Stadium construction cam (something I spend far too much time drooling over), it hit me - that south pavilion (the one bordering the Brazos) is begging for a victory celebration tradition! I propose that after each
conference win, the Baylor Line marches directly to the river's edge and jumps in for a Victory Baptism ( I mean it IS a Baptist school, right?). Having once witnessed a student surfing down the SUB fountain on a lunch tray I know that celebrations involving water are the only ones for me. What say you, ODB community?


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News: Charlamagne Lashes Back At Kanye West: "He's Acting Like A Single, Bitter B*tch Right Now" [Audio]
Sunday, Feb 16, 2014 12:33PM
Popular New York radio host Charlamagne Tha God has stepped forward to speak out on Kanye West name-checking him during a rant earlier this week.
Charlamagne took to the radio airwaves to question Kanye's latest public tantrum.
"I just wanna know where was all that when he was here on 'The Breakfast Club.' How can y'all respect that? How do you get mad after the fact? If you felt that way, you sat here in this studio for over an hour and didn't say none of that, but now, three to four months later, you ranting about me again. ... If Kanye wants to do radio interviews and he doesn't want the host to talk, he might as well just do video blogs. I just want him to calm down and not get high blood pressure. And Kim, please go buy Kanye some chocolates or some flowers, some balloons for Valentines. He's acting like a single, bitter b*tch right now." ("The Breakfast Club")
According to reports, the buzzing rant went down Thursday (February 13) in Pennsylvania.
A few days removed from the 10th anniversary of his debut album The College Dropout, Kanye West kicked off the second leg of his Yeezus Tour at the Bryce Jordan Center in University Park, Pennsylvania last night. During the show, Kanye delivered another memorable rant, which has become commonplace on the road for the Chicago rapper. He began by performing the intro to "Touch the Sky," before stopping the music to give the audience a piece of his mind. "If I go to a radio interview, shut the f*ck up!" he yelled to the applause of the crowd. "If you're on your talk show at nighttime, showing a picture of me walking with my girlfriend and shit, shut the f*ck up!" (Complex)
The self-proclaimed genius also used the opportunity to single out handfuls of celebrities.
Kanye then got a bit more specific, calling out Jimmy Kimmel, but not naming him, for making fun of his interview with Zane Lowe. "2013, spoofing and all that sh*t, trying to make a joke out of what we do. Shut the f*ck up! What the f*ck you do?" Last year, Kanye West appeared on Jimmy Kimmel's late night show to iron out their issues. Later, he called out radio hosts Sway Calloway and Charlamagne Tha God, who both irked Kanye when he visited their respective radio shows last year. "Everybody who f*ckin' writing all that sh*t, just to diss me and talk sh*t, what the f*ck did you do?" he said. "Charlamagne, Sway... F*ck you did?" (Complex)
Mr. West appeared on "The Breakfast Club" last November and engaged himself in a war of words with Charlamagne.
Kanye West is on a promotional run for the Yeezus Tour in New York City. After stopping by Hot 97's Angie Martinez's show, he made his way to Power 105's The Breakfast Club with DJ Envy, Angela Yee and Charlamagne Tha God. In the interview, Charlamagne calls out 'Ye for being a "walking contradiction." He also calls Yeezus "wack" and said he wasn't a "Kanye West fan." (XXL Mag)
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PUNXSUTAWNEY ŌĆö Sunday, Ken and Toie Neal began the rest of their lives without the Hotel Punxsutawney, which has been a part of their lives since 1973.
ŌĆ£Today was the first day (Ken) didn't get up, get a shower and say, 'I'm going to the Hotel;' that was his life,ŌĆØ Toie said Sunday night. ŌĆ£We wonder where the guys will go for lunch. His brother (Gubby) said, 'I told my wife (Candy), she'll have to start packing my lunch.'
PUNXSUTAWNEY ŌĆō Ever since Emily Keth, 16, of Punxsy, was a little girl, she has been obsessed with dolphins. She would decorate her with room with pictures of the creatures and dreamed of one day being able to swim with them.
Thanks to the Make-A-Wish Foundation, that dream came true.
In April 2011, doctors found three blood clots in Emily's brain, which caused her to lose 83 percent of her vision. Soon after, she was diagnosed with Factor V Leiden, a blood-clotting disorder that will affect her for the rest of her life.
(The Spirit is pleased to share with our readers vignettes of life in the 19th century as originally reported in past issues of the newspapers. These reproduced stories include their original headlines and spelling.)
Local Intelligence
(April 22, 1896)
A strange bicycle rider ran into Morris Weber, little son of J. A. Weber, yesterday, and hurt him considereably, though not dangerously. His head and face were badly cut and bruised, and the boy looked as though he had attended a Donnebrook fair.
PUNXSUTAWNEY ŌĆō Firefighters from several local companies battled an intense blaze that destroyed the Punxsy Hotel Restaurant & Lounge, North Findley Street, early Saturday morning.
The fire was called in as smoke emanating from the Smuggler's Inn ŌĆō housed at the rear of the same structure ŌĆō around 3 a.m. Saturday.
Within minutes, police reported that flames were visible, and within an hour, the flames were emerging from the windows and front doors.
Shortly after 4 a.m., the north and south walls of the upper floors collapsed, damaging three vehicles parked near the building.
PUNXSUTAWNEY ŌĆö At some point in 2011, a child saved his or her birthday money.
A group of teachers pitched in a couple of bucks to wear jeans to school on a Friday.
Spare change from the grocery store wound up in a special savings place, where it would eventually find its way to a greater good.
A high school senior dedicated his or her senior project to the cause.
And this coming week is when those who saved money, pitched in a few bucks, stashed some change and performed fund-raisers realize that it was all worth it to light up a childŌĆÖs life.
PUNXSUTAWNEY ŌĆö Members of the Punxsutawney Fire Department will have their boots in hand from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. this weekend at major intersections throughout town, collecting donations for area food banks.
Boot drive locations are in front of the Lindsey Fire Hall, West Mahoning; Central Fire Hall, East Mahoning, Hampton Avenue and Front Street intersection; and Elk Run Fire Company; at the intersection of Elk Run and Graffius avenues.
PUNXSUTAWNEY ŌĆö This Groundhog Day, the Inner Circle members wonŌĆÖt be the only ones dressed to the nines.
Years after a non-Groundhog Day related charity ball had run its course, the Inner Circle will host the first-ever Groundhog Ball, scheduled from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 28 ŌĆö just days before Groundhog Day ŌĆö at the Punxsutawney Country Club (See the accompanying box for more).
The evening will include hors dŌĆÖoeuvres, a cash bar, music by Rudy & The Professionals and, of course, an appearance by Punxsutawney Phil.
PUNXSUTAWNEY ŌĆö Just as the weather is beginning to turn frightful comes the news that PennDOT District 10 Jefferson County Maintenance is ready for Mother NatureŌĆÖs worst, with salt and anti-skid and snow plows.
The annual PennDOT plow inspection in last month went very well, said Paul Koza Jr., P.E., county maintenance manager.
Everything is ready to go, except for a few trucks that are receiving routine maintenance, Koza said.
All trucks are stationed at the county stockpile locations in Punxsutawney, Brookville, Emerickville, Brockway and Ringgold.
PUNXSUTAWNEY ŌĆö
ItŌĆÖs the battle of titans the world has awaited for more than 100 years, beginning this winter and ending this coming spring.
In this corner, Punxsutawney Phil; in the opposite corner, science.
But Punxsutawney Area Middle School students taking part in a program to track the growth of tulips in various parts of the world ŌĆö and taking into consideration the onset of spring ŌĆö believe their hometown hero will emerge victorious.
ŌĆ£They think they will be right along with PhilŌĆØ and his Feb. 2 prognostication, whatever it may be, said PAMS fifth-grade teacher Jeff Kuntz.
PUNXSUTAWNEY ŌĆö ItŌĆÖs a chance to take a breather from shopping, to find some new ideas for holiday decorating, or a way to see how other local residents embrace and perpetuate their own Christmas traditions.
ThatŌĆÖs what the annual Holly Tour is all about, and it runs from 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday at six different locations in the Punxsy area (see the accompanying box on Page 3).
The tour, which is at least 20 years old, was first established by the former Young WomenŌĆÖs Club, of which Katie Laska, who owns LaskaŌĆÖs Pizza and CaterinaŌĆÖs Dolce Cucina, was a member.


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Physicians for Human RightsUsing science and medicine to stop human rights violations
For Immediate Release
PHR Decries Obama Administration's Double Standard on Illegal Human Experimentation
1946 Guatemala Case and Alleged CIA Experimentation on Black Site Detainees Both Deserve Equal Justice
Cambridge, Mass - 10/04/2010
Cambridge, MA—In the wake of revelations about America's experimentation on unwilling human subjects in Guatemala in 1946, Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) calls on President Obama to equally investigate credible evidence of illegal human subject research on detainees in CIA custody during the Bush administration.
"What was done to 700 Guatemalans 64 years ago without their consent is appalling," said Physicians for Human Rights CEO Frank Donaghue. "But President Obama's apologies for the Guatemala case ring hollow when the White House refuses to investigate similar crimes that allegedly occurred in the past decade. The credible evidence of illegal human experiments by the CIA on black site detainees deserves equal attention and justice."
PHR's June 2010 report, Experiments in Torture: Human Subject Research and Evidence of Experimentation in the 'Enhanced' Interrogation Program, was the first peer-reviewed analysis of evidence indicating that the Bush administration allegedly conducted illegal human research and experimentation on prisoners in US custody. The research was apparently used to insulate interrogators from potential prosecution and to standardize the use of torture.
"The conduct of health professionals in both cases—Guatemala and the CIA black sites—makes a mockery of bedrock principles of medical ethics and the law," stated Scott Allen, MD, lead medical author of the PHR report. "Human subject research protections mean nothing if they don't apply to all people all of the time—regardless of politics."
CIA physicians and psychologists collected and analyzed data on the physical and psychological impact of the "enhanced" interrogation tactics, analysis which became the basis of Department of Justice memos justifying the torture program. This alleged program of illegal human subject experimentation violates medical ethics, federal law, and international research standards, including the Nuremberg Code and the Common Rule. These practices could, in some cases, constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity.
"While the proposed federal commission on the abuses in Guatemala is welcome, the American people must also learn the truth about what was done in our name over the past decade to detainees in CIA custody," said Nathaniel Raymond, Director of PHR's Campaign Against Torture and lead author of the PHR report. "The Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services must investigate these credible allegations of human experimentation on detainees by the CIA with the same mandate as the Guatemala case."
PHR calls on President Obama, working with Congress, to appoint a federal commission to investigate what American physicians and psychologists did to people subjected to torture in US custody. John Durham, the Department of Justice prosecutor tasked with investigating the destruction of CIA interrogation videotapes as well as interrogations that went beyond what was authorized by the Department of Justice memos, should also be given a clear mandate to probe allegations of illegal research at the black sites, Guantanamo and elsewhere.
In response to the systematic infliction of psychological and physical torture by US forces, PHR's Campaign Against Torture seeks to restore the US commitment against torture, to ensure humane treatment of detainees, and to protect US health personnel from complicity in mistreatment and harm.
Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) is an independent organization that uses medicine and science to stop mass atrocities and severe human rights violations. We are supported by the expertise and passion of health professionals and concerned citizens alike.
Since 1986, PHR has conducted investigations in more than 40 countries around the world, including Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Sudan, the United States, the former Yugoslavia, and Zimbabwe.


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The Exfoliator follows the massive, inside, overhanging arete on White Cliff. Begin at the steep base of the arete (get the first high bolt by stemming off the slab) and let the pump begin. First crux is between bolts 1 and 2. Follow the overhanging face passing the blunt arete (2nd crux) to the roof. Stem wide, pull the roof, and run it up on easy slab incuts to the chain anchor. Two rests are possible by pulling over the arete on stances. Sustained and super enjoyable, don't let it Exfoliate you!
Follow the White Cliff trail to the apron, head up left, and it will be the huge, obvious, left-leaning corner/arete.
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Jean-Paul Balland Sancerre 2012
Jean-paul Balland - Loire Valley - France - Sancerre
2012 has, so far been a positive year for wineries around the world. While it may be a little too early to speak of the wines being made in the northern hemisphere, European and North American wineries have already begun reporting that their harvesting season has been generally very good, and are predicting to continue with the kind of successes they saw in 2011. However, 2012 has been something of a late year for France, due to unpredictable weather throughout the summer, and the grapes were ripening considerably later than they did in 2011 (which was, admittedly, an exceptionally early year). French wineries are claiming, though, that this could well turn out to be advantageous, as the slow ripening will allow the resulting wines to express more flavour and features of the terroir they are grown in. The southern hemisphere has seen ideal climatic conditions in most of the key wine producing countries, and Australia and New Zealand particularly had a superb year, in particular with the Bordeaux varietal grapes that grow there and which love the humidity these countries received plenty of. Also enjoying a fantastic year for weather were wineries across Argentina and Chile, with the Mendoza region claiming that 2012 will be one of their best vintages of the past decade. Similar claims are being made across the Chilean wine regions, where Sauvignon Blanc and Cabernet Sauvignon had an especially good year. These two grape varietals also produced characterful wines on the coastal regions of South Africa this year.
The green skinned grapes of the Sauvignon Blanc varietal had their origins in Southern France, where they are still widely grown and used for many of the excellent young and aged white wines the region is famous for. Today, however, they are grown in almost every wine producing country in the world, and are widely revered for their fresh and grassy flavors, full of tropical notes and refreshing, zesty character. Sauvignon Blanc grapes thrive best in moderate climates, and ripen relatively early in the year. This has made them a favorite for many wineries in the New World, where they can still produce healthy and high yields in the earlier part of the summer before the temperatures become too hot. Too much heat has a massively adverse effect on Sauvignon Blanc, as the grapes become dull in their flavor, and the wine produced from them loses all its unique character and high points. As such, Sauvignon Blanc farmers have had a lot of trouble from global warming and climate change, as they are being forced to harvest their crops increasingly earlier in the year when it is cool enough to do so.
The Loire Valley in France is home to many of the world's finest examples of white, rosé and sparkling wines, with a wide range of both dry and sweet examples being produced each year to international claim. Whilst Chenin Blanc and Sauvignon Blanc make up for much of the vineyards in the region, certain areas of the Loire Valley also produce superb red wines, such as the Cabernet Franc wines from the Chenin sub-region. This variety and level of excellence has long been admired, with the Loire Valley being highly favored in the middle ages by the crowned heads of Europe, and with a wine-making tradition which stretches back to the first century and perhaps beyond. The region has a wonderful continental climate, where hot summers meet oceanic winds, and excellent rich terroir carried by the river that flows through it.
France is renowned across the globe for its quality wines and the careful expertise which goes into making them, but what is truly remarkable about this relatively small country is the vast range of wines it produces in such huge amounts each year. Not only are the finest red wines in the world said to come from the beautiful regions of Bordeaux and Burgundy, but elsewhere in the country we find the Champagne region, and areas such as the Rhone Valley and the Loire, whose white wines consistently receive awards and accolades by the plenty. This range is a result of the great variety of climatic conditions and terrain found in France, coupled with generations of wine makers working within single appellations. Their knowledge of specific terroirs and grape varieties has, over time, perfected the production of wines within their region, and the end results continue to impress the world to this day.


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Outdoor nuptials on Country Home Weddings's 200-acre farm unfold in front of a tiny white gazebo, shaded by arching tree boughs. The venue recently opened an equally romantic indoor hall, strung with small white lights that cast an ethereal glow over ceremonies. The company's culinary team can complete weddings with catered spreads that range from mini quiches and shrimp on ice to hearty main dishes such as tortellini and brisket.
Speaking Roses of Amarillo believes flowers are worth a thousand rambling lovelorn languages, especially when they're etched into the petals. Send the gift that verbal words cannot express with a six-rose bouquet ($49.99), or double the amount of unspoken sentiment with a bouquet of a dozen roses ($69.95). A single rose in a decorative box ($19.95) grants romance warriors the ability to drop individual love bombs, while a collection of loose rose petals ($15.99) lets buyers sprinkle a sweetly worded trail into a candlelit dining room or torch-lit doubloon vault.
The shelves of LifeWay Christian Stores brim with books, Bibles, and all manner of faith-based items to challenge minds and encourage souls. Customers can delve into books from a wide range of scribes, including a series of fictional fables by the New York Times bestseller Karen Kingsbury and the passionate, everyday theology of Crazy Love, penned by Francis Chan ($11.99). Beth Moore's James: Mercy Triumphs study bands women together to partake in deep discussion and to plan synchronized swim routines, and a plethora of Bibles in 10 translations includes study, children's, and gift Bibles, such as a faux leather pink-and-brown Zondervan ($16.99). In addition to finding Christmas gifts, customers can find stocking fillers for hard-to-please tots with a VeggieTales nativity, which allows kids to embrace the meaning of Christmas and use vegetables for something other than reenacting Star Wars battles on their plates ($22.99), and Willow Tree holy family figurines add serenity to December décor ($39.99). LifeWay Christian Stores are closed on Sundays.
Since opening in 2000, Interior Innovations has grown from a tiny wallpaper store into a full-service interior design headquarters. In its 3,000-square-foot showroom, blinds and shutters by Kirsch, Texton, Graber, and TimberBlind hang on displays, daring the sun to poke through their well-placed slats. Elsewhere in the store, customers browse more than 1,000 sample books of fabric swatches from fabric and trim lines such as Fabricut, Trend, and Kasmir as they visualize future custom window treatments and bedding or upholstery. Paints by Benjamin Moore and Modern Masters and Interior Innovations combine with wallpapers from brands such as Thibaut, Seabrook, and Ronald Redding to make walls as vibrantly colored as Andy Warhol's sock drawer. Customers add the finishing touches to rooms with custom-ordered bar stools and home accessories such as lamps and framed art.
Though cloaked in a velvety chocolate shell, the shape is unmistakable—a tail curved into a half-moon, claws frozen mid-snap. It's definitely a scorpion. And, if the opinions of the chocolate summer camp's 8-year-old gourmands can be trusted, it's also delicious.
Though Schakolad Chocolate Factory owners DeRima and Gary Johnson have been trained in meticulous European chocolate-making techniques that date back three generations, they encourage playfulness and experimentation at their shop. For example, chocolate-making events empower chocolate aficionados to experiment with flavor combinations, and Ms. Johnson recently unveiled chocolate quesadillas for a Cinco de Mayo celebration. The chocolatiers are also happy to customize orders, from scribing messages atop glossy chocolate bars to creating chocolate molds that match the circumferences of customers' mouths.
Keeping flames in their place since 1945, Boyd's Equipment facilitates family barbecues and fireside chats with an extensive selection of name-brand grill and fireplace tackle. In addition to its glowing gas-log sets and Weber grills—available in electric and charcoal varieties—the one-stop equipment shop stocks lawn sprayers and trailer carts from Fimco, TeeJet, and Hypro. Shimmering lochs of propane come bottled in tanks of all shapes and sizes, and vessels emptied by gluttonous dragons can roll in for full refills. Everyday accessories, from charcoal and thermometers to spicy rubs and sauces, are also available, as are residential and commercial delivery services for those lacking pickup trucks or pet giants.


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2011 resolutions
December 31, 2010 § Leave a comment
I think resolutions are bullshit when they are made for a new year (why just the new year and not say, for LIFE?), but I needed a title without having to think too hard. Titles are not my thing.
So here are my so-called resolutions or some such bullshit.
There are two key mistakes I make where people are concerned: 1) I always presume that a superior level of intelligence is inclusive of kindness and an overall superiority of character. Quite wrong. The ouch factor upon realisation of the wrongness of this presumption is always, always high. 2) I always presume a mutual regard where there is none. Sometimes, people are in your life – talk to you – because they have to. Obligation, guilt, fear of being rude… something. Essentially, whenever I presume mutual regard, I tend to learn that there is only one-sided regard – on my end. The ouch factor upon this realisation is always, always high. Therefore, much better to presume nothing.
I hope to be rid of these mistakes as time progresses. It will be ideal if this could miraculously happen within the first month of 2011. Life would become easier, no?
a long time ago we used to be friends, but i haven't thought of you lately at all
December 2, 2010 § 1 Comment
The marketplace of attention that is Twitter. Favourites and cliques. Competition.
File this under: Used to be Fun, Now Increasingly Alienating
I may have lost my shit today…
November 16, 2010 § 4 Comments
… at the Big Bad Book Sale, and bought twenty-one books. But one of it is for someone else, so that's okay. Right?
I dream in email… worn-out phrases
November 14, 2010 § Leave a comment
What makes someone feel anti-internet while being on the internet? I don't know. The weird, fractured ways in which relationships/friendships are played out in random comments between people too far away to see each other, perhaps. You're supposed to be on Twitter and Facebook to connect to people you can't see on a regular basis but are often made to confront, instead, the ways in which these connections can exclude, limit, leave out, and just plain confuse. The internet seems to have taken all those ghastly real-life opportunities of feeling left out or being on the outside of things and magnified the effects by a hundredfold. Sometimes, connections over the internet are just one fail whale after another. There is no body language to read, there are no facial expressions to decipher. It's interesting how even for writers for whom WORDS! ARE! EVERYTHING! the capacity for excitement and adventure and mystery in personal relationships, even between very good friends, can be brought to a deadening halt by the proliferation of words on a screen. These words are the only clue to what the other person is thinking or feeling. Sarcasm might misfire, a joke falls flat, casual irony comes off a bit cruel. You talk to two people and forget to talk to someone else about the same thing that all of you are aware of. The space from which you can go from feeling friendly towards someone to feeling animosity, or worse yet, uncertainty, can occur within the space of a single tweet.
Zadie Smith said some things about The Social Network, Facebook, and the general weirdness of online "friendships" here. Alexis Madrigal of The Atlantic responded with some comments that I thought missed some of her key points over here. What I found most intriguing were the comments in response to Madrigal's piece, clearly showing that half of the commenters agree very much Smith, while the other half disagree strongly and agree very much with Madrigal.
I, like probably everyone else who live most of their lives online, am consistently drawn to these endless debates about the "humanity and its nature on the internet!" particularly if they attempt to intelligently parse or make sense of the inherently contradictory and endlessly error-prone nature of our online interactions. Lately I find myself being more drawn to arguments that focus on the emotional value of relationships conducted online. I mean, I still wonder if the internet makes us dumb, knowledge-guzzling, unreflexive androids at some level every once in awhile. But more interestingly I just wonder how it shapes and thus alters our interactions with people – more precisely, with the people we already know.
This particular comment to the Madrigal piece by someone named VrDrew in particular caught my attention:
That is the fundamental problem with all computer processing: it wants, inexorably and inevitably, to break everything down to a binary state. But real life tells us that there are literally an infinite range of shades between black and white, between true and false.
Think about the most basic level of Facebook relationships: The "Friend." One has two choices – either one is a Friend, or one is not. But does that, in any way, mirror our real life experience? Who among us does not have acquaintances with whom our relationships are not, perhaps, more complicated? Real world "friends" – and yet who periodically drive us crazy? People with whom we'd gladly spend an evening carousing or watching football on TV – but yet whom we'd be loathe to tell our medical or financial woes to.
There is that, of course. There is also the friend-who-is-not-quite-the-friend-but-someone-we-know-and-want-to-stay-in-touch-with friend. But as another commenter named Lois Beckett points out:
Whenever anyone posts on a friend's wall, he or she knows that mutual friends will see the post. If I just wanted to ask a friend a question, I would email or direct message them. Anything I post on a wall has a bit more of a flourish; it's raising your virtual voice so other people can overhear and jump in.
This is also complicated, when the "people who overhear" comprise friends, good friends, people from your past whose friend request you could not refuse and whom you may or may not like in their current incarnation, relatives, former lovers, current friends, professional acquaintances, and the aforementioned friend-who-is-not-a-"friend"friend-but-more-than-an-acquaintance friend. So there is this sense of this talking to everybody thing that is really underlined by a fundamental sense of uncertainty. Person A tweets or posts a wall comment on really liking band X. Person B wants to say, "Hey, I like Band X too… just discovered them!" Person B goes ahead and says this. Person A says nothing in reply. Sometimes, this is okay. Sometimes, it is not.
Imagine if this conversation was conducted in person. Person A may not have to say anything in response to Person B at all. She can just nod her head, smile, sparkle her eyes at Person B (yes… sparkle), etc., and it is understood that the remark was heard and acknowledged. But the silence on Facebook or Twitter can be the equivalent of Person B talking to Person A, and Person A getting up from the table and leaving. It makes both the intention of posting a random comment on Twitter or Facebook and the intention to reply extremely vague and yet rigidly narrow. Do you want someone to reply to you or not? Are you meant to reply or not? When you write something, you leave tantalising trails for others to pick up on and respond. But the person might respond too late, or at a time when you don't care anymore. So you don't reply. Then the other person is uncertain. Then you're uncertain. Fuck this shit, both of you say, we're friends but we're not talking to each other on Twitter or Facebook at all, so la la la la la.
Person B is pissed off, and posts a passive-aggressive tweet or better yet, blogs about this in one-long drawn out article referencing Zadie Smith. Person A reads this and goes, "…" There are so many different ways to be rejected and/or bewildered with your friends and acquaintances through Twitter and Facebook. With the really good friends, you just text or email them and say, "What the fuck?" With the in-between friend who is not a friend, there is only silence potentially leading to massive confusion or a sense of hurt, and then inevitably the "Fuck it, I can't be bothered anymore" wall that goes up in response to the nature of these online interactions, thereby reducing what could have been a sensitive, interesting interaction to a flat, stale back-and-forth of properly proper responses: "I read this." "Yeah, I read it, too." "Cool."
I'm not sure I'm going anywhere with this so much as thinking out loud, especially since these thoughts have been churning around in my mind ever since I read Eva Illouz' Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism. I've been thinking lately about how registering emotions online often seems to be either a very ironic or ridiculous thing to do. There is no place for hurt feelings or anger online; it just seems excessive – Why are you angry? For fuck's sake, take a chill pill – or endlessly hilarious, like when you read insanely enraged troll-comments to an article. How do you register proper joy or happiness or delight besides smiling, by yourself and to yourself, or to the computer screen? You can insert a smiley face or say *smile*. None of this can convey the exchange of warmth between two people actually smiling at each other. That the internet does this to personal interactions is nothing new or earth-shattering, of course, and countless people have blogged and talked about this, but for me personally I seem to want to talk about it because it's becoming increasingly harder to deal with. These random uncertainties and fears all coalesce in certain theses in Illouz' book, which has its "Er?" moments (notably in that out-of-nowhere rant against cultural theorists and their "reductive" readings of the internet's effects on human relations and subjectivity), but it also has its very acute and perceptive moments, especially when Illouz talks about internet dating and the psychology of the self. While she specifically talks about internet dating and its relation to traditional romance, much of what she says applies to how friendships in general are conducted online.
She talks about the internet's "disembodied textual interaction", and it is this "textualization of subjectivity", I think, that proves to be what is hardest to get around:
The work of self-presentation becomes many steps removed from actual social performance and is performed both visually and linguistically not for a concrete, specific other, but for a generalized and abstract audience.
Illouz says this in relation to self-presentation online on internet dating sites, but this statement is true of online interactions between friends who live apart – and who may have not seen each other in years. In this context, however, the twist is that for those of us who are friends in real life and friends on Facebook and Twitter, we're performing our psychological self for both the concrete, specific other and the generalized, abstract audience.
The Internet provides a kind of knowledge which, because it is disembedded and disconnected from a contextual and practical knowledge of the other person, cannot be used to make sense of the person as a whole.
Again, Illouz is referring to the initial online getting-to-know-you stage between strangers intend on embarking on a romantic quest, but this also applies to people who are your friends but whom you've not seen in years. What you're doing, most of the time, is connecting this sarcastic tweet from a deliciously witty friend to the memory you have of them being sarcastic in person. It was probably a weird experience even in the past when all we had were letters and telephone calls, but particularly indecipherable at times now via applications like Twitter and Facebook. The email is still decipherable, largely, because it is one-on-one conversation; even if it's to a group, the receiver understands that the message is indeed intended for him or her, as opposed to the vague, generalized audience of Twitter or Facebook.
Illouz also ties together some intriguing points about the body itself as being a repository of social experience – there is the information you freely give, and the information you "give off" via body language and physical presence/proximity. When you see a group of your good friends talking in a cafe, for example, you don't have to think twice before going up to their table and pulling up a chair to join them. When an online conversation takes place, however, if your name isn't tagged in the conversation, you spend a good many minutes wondering if you're supposed to join in… or simply be present while it happens without participating. It is utterly, utterly bizarre at times. It is also potentially heartbreaking and time-wasting and needlessly exhausting. How to respond? The internet also robs the cold shoulder of its value. The cold shoulder, of course, is the preferred weapon of choice for passive-aggressive types everywhere. Online, a cold shoulder is simply… a non-response. The intense drama of it, sadly, is removed. No one is satisfied, no one says a thing, no one knows that something needed to be said in the first place. And on and on we go, tweeting and commenting…
Every week I tell myself to go on a week-long Twitter and Facebook "detox". Inevitably, this will last a day or two before I find myself spilling over with something to tweet or retweet – the latter being the most cherished way of saying something while saying nothing at all. I told myself to do a Twitter detox over the weekend. I was back on Twitter about 6 hours ago. I can never shut up, it seems, and also, I never stop wanting to know what everyone else is up to. Sometimes, it's the only way to keep in touch – with the slightest of touches. It seems that we would all really take each other's tweets and wall posts about this and that, aimed at a generalized, vague audience, or maybe aimed at each other (no one has a clue), than have nothing at all.
*Blog title nicked from Keane lyrics. Not that I listen to Keane. Maybe. Sometimes.
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I'm not sure if I should say that Lacan was right, or Zizek was right, but I know much of Lacan through Zizek so I'll say Zizek was right but perhaps it only means that Lacan was right – sooner or later the Real breaks through and it's not pretty. I mean, there is no real way to deal with the Real, so one has no choice but to revert to fantasy.
The internet, instead of helping, can only make things worse. Those ridiculous fragments of connections are, as T.S. Eliot said, fragments that I have shored against my ruins. After which I stab myself with those coffee spoons with which I have measured my life.
Well, no matter. Onward and forward, or some such bullshit.
(And yes, while I'm at it, I have just read Jason's Werewolves of Montpellier. It is excellent, please read it. Laconic, everyday nihilism has never appeared more adorable. I have also watched Agnes Varda's Le bonheur, and you should watch it, but only when you're emotionally-sound and radiating contentment and joy from every pore. I will most likely post my depressing thoughts about it here soon.)
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"The blues" is such a nice way to say I'm feeling fucking sad for no reason and I've no fucking idea why. You can roll your tongue over the word "blue" and feel that you've just made something beautiful; sadness put to some useful aesthetic use. Partly this stems from having just finished Maggie Nelson's Bluets, which is very blue indeed. It is ripe with loss on every page; it was too much for me to read all at once. I read bits before bed and had blue dreams and woke up feeling blue. To those of you reading it for the first time I'd suggest not reading it in winter, or before bed, or during, you know, the dark night of the soul. Read it when the soul is sunny.
I also just finished Roberto Bolano's The Savage Detectives and think that it's a book that absolutely refuses to be talked about or analysed. I can't seem to think about it. It seems, more than any other book I've read in awhile, to be 577 pages of sentences to be read, experienced, and then put aside. A part of me feels that the act of rumination or analysis will be pointless. But we'll see what I can make of it. The point of this blog was to train my mind to make sense of absolutely anything. It's proving harder than I thought; my lazy mind is prone to languishing in feeling and very resistant to thought.
Blueness is further exacerbated by having also just finished Skim, one of the saddest and loveliest graphic novels I've had the pleasure of reading in a long time. The illustrations by Jillian Tamaki are heartrending all on their own; if there were ever a person meant to draw loneliness, isolation, and confusion with tender attention to detail, it's probably Jillian Tamaki. Just the curve of Kim's jaw, or the small line of her smile, allows the reader full access into the gamut of emotions that riddles her character from one panel to the next. This is not to say that Mariko Tamaki didn't do a thoughtful and sensitive job with the words; but I can't imagine this book being as good as it is if it was illustrated by someone else without Jillian Tamaki's artistic sensibilities.
But it's also an essentially sad book. And all this sad reading, combined with the thick blanket of clouds that have been a daily staple of the KL skies over the last week – reminding me of Winnipeg fall days, makes me feel adrift and restless, and just a touch blue.
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