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Friday, July 30, 2010
i'm in miami, bitch...
Jersey Shore, bitch!
Snookie's thoughts on domestic policy as it pertains to tanning. Snook's succumbed to fake tanning because President Obama added a 10% tax to tanning, something John McCain would never have done. McCain is, after all, pale. Barack Obama, Snookie pointed out, doesn't have that problem.
Snookie's black cowboy hat as she walked into the bar in Savannah. Really, that whole moment made me love her. I think she's in on the joke, a little. And I love her for it. God Bless America that we have found the one person who is interesting to watch discover fried pickles and put her on TV.
Ronnie cried. Yeah, I'm calling that a cry. A friend of mine maintains that for a man to cry, you need to see three falling tears, which Ronnie did not produce on camera. But I still maintain that dance floor tantrum was a legitimate cry.
Chris would like to congratulate J-Woww on her corrected boob job. I never noticed a problem last season, but apparently some people found it distracting and unattractive.
The Situation is in on the joke too. He's smirking at us, he knows this is crazy. But he likes this shit. And thus, I like him.
Vinnie is my boy. Not only is he the most old school Mama's Boy since Joe Pesci in Goodfellas, but he seems to have his head screwed on straight. His analysis of Ronnie's breakdown was surprisingly astute.
DJ Paulie D is Forrest Gump, and I'm using Forrest Gump as a medical term as coined by my mother. "He's not mentally retarded, he's like...Forest Gump."
Sammie is not in on the joke. Sammi is not in on much. She kind of states a general malaise and then refuses to discuss it. Um, hello? You're spending two months living with your ex-boyfriend whose one planned activity is to bang as many chicks as possible. It's going to bum you and your cheap demin capris out.
Vocabulary for Season 2: Grenades are fat ugly girls. Landmines are ugly skinny girls. These terms are thrown around arbitrarily. "Then I splashed some water on my face and a grenade went off!" Also, creep, creeping and creepy are all verbs for what the homosexuals refer to as cruising. It took me a second to figure that one out.
Angelina needs to leave. She's ridiculous. She says "yous" not because people actually speak that way but because she thinks she's supposed to. As Sammi was staring out of the cab, all wide-eyed and morose and Angelina dives in with some nonsense about how all the girls are mean, I was like, "Okay. I re-hate you." Also, you can't bail on Season 1, then realize, "Oh shit, this is a national phenomenon" and then re-appear and expect everyone to be thrilled. She wasn't there when Snookie got punched. She doesn't know!
Also, here's how Angelina makes friends with the guys: "If I hook up with one of yous, whatevah."
The only thing Pauly D. brought to the table was pointing out Angelina no longer used garbage bags as luggage.
Big Chris and I are both very concerned that too much of this season will focus on the Ronnie/Sammi "I told you so much!" relationship. It's tired. We've all personally lived through one of those roller coasters with some poor soul that's out there talking shit/fondly reminiscing about us right now. We don't need to watch it all over again with stupid people.
And finally, the "This season, on the Jersey Shore" looked epic. And contained way more information than the stupid Mad Men preview. Snookie AND Angelina bang Vinnie (I'd hit that) and J-Woww and Sammi brawl? This is some great American television.
I couldn't be more excited...
Quote of the show:
"I feel like a Pilgrim in the freakin' 20's." ~ Nicole "Snookie" Polizzi, cleaning Sammi's favorite white shorts
I know, I know, I know she was referring to the 1620s. I'm positive.
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
i'm a survivor, keep on surviving...
And speaking of harrowing tales of survival, there were
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
mel gibson has become a verb...
I don't know why I was afraid to entertain without a bottle of wine at my side. Brock and I opened up the dining room table, lit votives all over the house, piled roses in vases and basted all afternoon. Voila! This is just as fun sipping Diet Coke out of stemware.
Some friends headed over and we all sat down to a moderately-themed meal before the big event. I even made a jello mold, the most complex cooking process I've ever experienced. It's a three person job.
It's weird what people end up discussing around the dinner table, and we engaged in several heated debates. The main argument of the night:
Who's crazier: Mel Gibson or Tom Cruise?
Sub-question: Which of the two has better movies?
You'd have thought we were debating the meaning of life, or which parent we loved more. People were screaming, angry and oddly convincing. I was going back and forth. But I stick by my argument that Mel Gibson is a horrible person and Tom Cruise is mentally ill.
Jackson maintains that Cruise's entire life in the spotlight, plus the Scientology thing, is why he's so weird. Alex swears up and down that Mel Gibson's work in Braveheart trumps any phone conversation. And Tara's big argument in favor of Tom Cruise was Magnolia.
It's also hard to pay attention to Mad Men watching with nine people, by the way. But when that hooker slapped Don Draper, the place went nuts. And I got drunk on happiness that my house was full and I have less problems than Mel Gibson...
Thursday, July 22, 2010
don't knock me up...
"When my son, Moses, came into the world in 2006, I expected to have another period of euphoria following his birth, much the way I had when my daughter was born two years earlier. Instead I was confronted with one of the darkest and most painfully debilitating chapters of my life."
Basically, having a baby is worse than breaking up with Brad Pitt AND Ben Affleck. Even better, star of The Village, Bryce Dallas Howard gets in on the action, in an effort to share Gwyneth's pain:
I recently saw an interview I did on TV while promoting a film. In it, I was asked about my experience with post-partum depression and as I watched, I cringed. I said things like "It was a nightmare," or "I felt like I was in a black hole." But I couldn't even begin to express my true feelings. On screen, I had seemed so together, so okay, as if I had everything under control. As I watched, it dawned on me. If I had been able to truthfully convey my ordeal with post-partum depression under the glare of those lights, I most likely would have said no words at all. I simply would have stared at the interviewer with an expression of deep, deep loss.
That would have been an awesome interview. But wait. It gets
better worse.
And finally, Bryce finds an answer, in the most unexpected of places:
A friend invited me to a "pow-wow" of mothers (in a tepee nonetheless); there we talked about the trials and tribulations of motherhood.
The rest of the newsletter features doctors talking all about homeopathic, emotionally sensitive treatments for post-partum depression, but quite frankly, I think they should have provided information about homeopathic, emotionally sensitive methods of birth control...
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
hello? they didn't even have phones then...
Today my usual Wednesday Culture Blog is UP on SFGate. Join me as we venture to a small coastal California town for a fabulous Civil War Reenactment, wherein Lincoln gives me his digits.
And I've also posted an error I found in Willie Brown's most recent column in the Chronicle. My love for Da Mayor has only grown, but he's managed to mix up his princesses. Find out what the hell I'm talking about at the SF Appeal's See Spot Write...
Monday, July 19, 2010
oh, and frank chu hangs out at scala's...
The first is this week's Tourist Trapped on SFGate. Melissa and I ventured inside the Fisherman's Wharf Wax Museum and lived to tell about it.
The second is my recap of Chris Daly's Saturday Morning Symposium, up on CBS5's Eye on Blogs. Here's my recap recap: Zzzzzzzz.
Thursday, July 15, 2010
what hapened to your tongue? long story...
Apparently 40 people aged 39 and younger and doing far more important things with their lives than you or I. While I consider Hastings among them, he wasn't being honored. YET. Nor was his girlfriend Andrea, but since she was co-hosting the event, I went to support her too.
I'm such a giver, that way.
(Also, I got to go for free and the Brians were going. It wasn't like I had to hitchhike to Bakersfield or anything.)
The event was held at SPUR's offices and the Brians and I swung by the mall first where Devine complained about the men's room for 20 minutes before we headed over.
SPUR's offices are weird. Let's just start with that. Modern and sparse, the Brians and I stood in their packed foyer while most folks gathered for speeches in a main room. Glass doors separated the foyer from the main room, by the way. It was like a big glass wall, only the foyer was nice and cool and the main room was hot and stuffy.
Also, one had to be quiet in the main room as we'd arrived too late for the mingling. And of course, arrived just in time for insanely boring speeches.
Steve Westly was the first speaker. And he went on and on about something called a BHAG, which stands for Big Hairy Audacious Goal.
On and on, he went. Big. Hairy. Auditions. Goals.
If he said it once, he said it 20 times.
Brian L. was rapt, seeing nothing wrong with anything. He loves this shit! But Brian D. and I stood in the back.
"Big hairy what? This is disgusting!"
"And boring."
"I'm hot."
"I feel gross. Let's go in the foyer."
Lots of folks chose to abandon the big room, what with it's hairy speeches and humidity. Brian and I stood in the foyer (again, only separated by glass) and chatted with each other, and with friends. On a folding table, we found Classic Coke, white wine, and some abandoned bowls of humus.
I even met Nate Payne, Candidate for District 6, who had a child strapped to his chest.
Periodically, folks desperately listening to hairy speeches would turn to those of us in the foyer and dramatically motion for us to be quiet. Using their entire bodies, they'd signal us like air traffic controllers on the tarmac.
It was ridiculous, and I decided they were causing far more of a distraction than we were.
None the less, I shut the hell up and just stood appreciating the occasional breeze from the window.
Finally, unable to take adults communicating with each other any more, this guy wearing a name tag that proudly said IAN THOMPSON opened a glass door, looked straight at Brian and me and said, "It's getting really rude in here!"
Oh hell no, Ian Thompson.
Hastings came and found us. "This is kinda deadly," he admitted.
"I know!" I sighed. "Also, I realize pretty tacky that all I do is show up and complain when I'm here to support you. I'm horrible."
Self-aware in 2010!
Anyway, Hastings and his friend Ken took Brian and me up to the 4th floor SPUR library in search of Diet Coke. We did not find Diet Coke. You know what else we did not find in the SPUR library?
A book.
Not one. It's a concrete room with bathrooms, modern chairs and wall-to-wall institutional carpeting. But no books.
Figuring that after 30 minutes, the speeches must be over, we headed downstairs. We were wrong. the speeches kept going, now with 8 of the 40 awardees offering their thoughts on Big Hairy Audacious Goals, among other things.
It's the word "hairy" that was grossing me out. As Brian observed, it's almost sexual.
I know what they're trying to say with it. These goals should be in your face. Audacious goals aren't always pretty.
But hairy? Must we say hairy? Let's find a better word.
Finally as the event wound down, someone decidedly OVER 40 asked for money and then we were told ice cream was available in the foyer. The foyer where folks were now allowed to speak freely.
As we stood around waiting for Brian L. to wrap-up his schmoozing, Devine and I took stock of the crowd, all of whom were eating ice cream.
"Um, Brian?"
"They're eating their ice cream with knives."
In suits and silk, the attendees were maneuvering their mint chip into their mouths with plastic knives. All of them. Without any acknowledgement that this was bizarre, awkward, weird. Nope. Everyone was fine with it.
"Oh, you're out of spoons? No problem! I can use my hands or... oh, a knife? Sure!"
I saw Hastings' girlfriend, Andrea. She was sitting eating her ice cream with a spoon.
"Oh, a spoon!" We were shocked.
Sheepishly, she looked up at us and confessed. "I stole it from the humus."
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
i have no problem with the word snarky. ever...
photo: Timothy Faust
Monday, July 12, 2010
tourist trapped: bubba gump's
the transit part was actually quite rapid...
You're rolling your eyes, you're saying, "Wow, Beth. That's...not a big deal at all."
I know, I know. But public transportation and I have a complicated yet sparse history. I'd never been on BART by myself before, and this morning I needed it to function in it's official capacity: getting me to work on time.
Here are my observations as a first time flier, as it were:
1. It's not the train ride that ruins your hair and your make-up and your clean, crisp suit. It's the walking to the 24th and Mission BART station and the walking from Embarcadero to work, a lovely stroll up Battery Street wherein one's hair becomes dislodged and stuck to one's face.
2. There were no crazy people on my train. I was shocked.
3. That being said, I had no reason to bring my book. I still had a ton to look at. Just looking out the window at blackness wooshing by was interesting to me this morning.
4. Everyone gets off at the Powell and Montgomery stops, so my final leg of the trip to Embarcadero was breezy and involved an actual seat. But my coat bunched up around my shoulders and neck, and my over-stuffed purse collapsed on my lap, making me look less like the glamorous FiDi vixen I'd hoped and more like an exasperated admin, with her dress shoes in her KQED totebag and her Reebok high-tops strapped against her pantyhose.
But I made it, and I'm early. A quick swing by the ladies to pat down my flyaways and powder my nose should fix the major aesthetic problems I'm suffering.
I'd like to thank Melissa for explaining to me how to take BART, without using any kind of sarcasm or disdain. And I'd like to thank Tara for trying to talk me out of it with, "Are you nuts? It'll ruin your hair. I never take the train and I don't care what people think."
Saturday, July 10, 2010
elbows in...
Friday, July 09, 2010
it's all festivals and free movies...
Thursday, July 08, 2010
visa: not really where i needed it to be...
I asked the woman in front of me, as if she might know Arizmendi's payment policy.
"I don't remember." She said, refusing to make eye contact. Somehow, this sent me into a panic. I had pulled the bread from the display case, touching it and in effect, making it technically either mine or garbage. I had no cash and no way of quickly getting rid of the flatbread. I couldn't put it back in the case. I couldn't slam it on the counter and run. I had to hand it over.
"You don't take credit cards, do you?"
"No." The baker smiled. "I can hold that for you while you go get cash."
"Oh, thanks!" I gushed. "I'll be right back."
I looked at the line behind me, handed over my flatbread and went to Jamba Juice. I feel really bad about it, tho. I swear...
Wednesday, July 07, 2010
and yes, i know the title is embarrassing...
currently liquidating my worldly possessions...
Who am I kidding? Kate asked me to go to a lecture with her last week and I thought she was kidding. A lecture? On purpose? For money?
But the lecture Kate wanted to attend just wasn't my kind of lecture. Maybe if I find my kind of lecture, I could happily sit and learn and nod at all the right parts.
Like this!
Commonwealth Club: Monday, July 19, 2010
David Sullivan, Professional Cult Investigator
Learn about cults from a man who's seen them from the inside. Professional investigator Sullivan describes the process of identifying and investigating cults, providing an overview of how cults recruit, convert and maintain control of their members through a variety of psychologically coercive techniques. A licensed private investigator for more than 19 years, Sullivan has worked in collaboration with leading authorities in the area of undue influence.
MLF: Psychology
Location: SF Club Office
Time: 4:45 networking reception, 5:15 p.m. program
Cost: MEMBERS FREE, $20 non-members
I have a couple of concerns about this lecture:
1. Why is there a networking reception at 4:45? It sounds, quite frankly, like cult recruitment.
2. How long is this lecture? Exactly. What if it's boring? I need to know there's light at the end of the tunnel.
3. Aside from the whole recruitment technique thing, will David Sullivan be discussing living within the cults? Sex lives of the cult members? Specific cults he's infiltrated and what he saw?
That being said, I'll probably go to this if for no other reason than it sounds like one big cult recruitment under a very clever guise…
Friday, July 02, 2010
wewu, fourth of july edition...
the beamer vaccine...
Work is actually going pretty well, and I'm kind of learning my way around this huge building packed with people. We had a fire drill yesterday and I spotted Greg from Fernando and Greg waiting out on the sidewalk with everyone else. Excitedly, I pointed this out to my co-worker Bill who then regaled me with the folks he's run into in the elevator.
It was all sports people, I'm appalled to say.
I park around the block at this place where you drop your call off, they give you a ticket and then they pull it around for you when you come back at the end of the day. Around 6pm, when I head off usually, there's a little line of people waiting for cars much fancier than mine. Yesterday, this supermodel wearing a wedding ring that looked like the Hope diamond was in front of me, and handed off her ticket.
The parking guy asked, "What kind of car?"
And Hope goes, "It's a beamer."
"A beamer!"
What kind of BMW driver refers to their own car as a beamer? Especially in this situation, where it's all business. We don't need your little display, Hope. We just want to go home. He says it again, and exasperated, but resigned to help she says, "A beamer! It a silver 2008 BMW 3 series coupe 328i!"
It was all I could do not to scream "EYEROLL!" in her face. But God bless him, the parking guy goes, "Oh. A silver BMW. Got it."
And off he ran.
This morning, I headed off super early for my annual check-up at Kaiser, mainly because CJ Cregg told me to live well...and thrive. Finally in with the doctor, I run down my array of questions, "Am I dying? I've self-diagnosed the following..." and my incredibly sweet, patient Russian lady-doctor checked me out for everything.
All of my diagnoses were wrong, by the way. So we're wrapping up and Dr. Zhivago goes, "Alright Elizabette. We update your file and it is time for your 10-year tetanus shot. You want to do it now or make appointment and come back?"
Obviously, I chose to get the stabbing over with.
"That is what I like to hear!" She exclaimed! And then she says, "Actually, it is tetanus shot and something else."
She didn't technically say "something else." She said some long medical word starting with a P. Anyway, Maria the nurse came in and asked me, "Are you right or left handed?"
"I'm right handed. Why?"
"Then we do your left."
Apparently the tetanus and something else shot was going to totally incapacitate an entire side of my body, which is just terrific. In an attempt to distract myself from what was about to happen, I asked, "So this is a tetanus vaccine and what else?"
"Whooping cough."
Oh. Of course. Whooping cough. I guess they'll let me know when I need to come back for my Legionaire's Disease vaccine...


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Julie goes to school: the Seven Star Academy has no idea what it's in for.
Magic Tests
What could be scarier than the first day of school? A crash course in the paranormal from Charlaine Harris and Toni L. P. Kelner, editors of Home Improvement: Undead Edition. Your worst school nightmares will pale in comparison to these thirteen original stories that take academic anxiety to new realms.
In #1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris's story, Playing Possum, Sookie Stackhouse brings cupcakes to her nephew's class, only to be one short when the secretary's angry ex-boyfriend shows up.
Teenage Julie is sent to a school for exceptional children by her guardian, Kate Daniels, in New York Times bestselling author Ilona Andrews's Magic Tests.
FBI agent Claire is tested in a school for Vampire Scene Investigation in New York Times bestselling author Nancy Holder's VSI.
And in New York Times bestselling author Thomas Sniegoski's The Bad Hour, Remy Chandler and his dog Marlowe find devil unleashed in an obedience school.
Complete List of Contributors: Charlaine Harris, Toni L.P. Kelner, Marjorie Liu, Thomas Sniegoski, Mike Carey, Ilona Andrews, Jonathan Maberry, Donald Harstad, Rhys Bowen, Nancy Holder, Faith Hunter, Amber Benson, Steve Hockensmith.
The events of Magic Tests take place after Magic Slays. The story is told from Julie's point of view.
Publisher: Ace
Release date: September 4, 2012
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Sometimes being a kid is very difficult. The adults are supposed to feed you and keep you safe, but they want you to deal with the world according to their views and not your own. They encourage you to have opinions, and if you express them, they will listen but they won't hear. And when they give you a choice, it's a selection of handpicked possibilities they have prescreened. No matter what you decide, the core choice has already been made, and you weren't involved in it.
That's how Kate and I ended up in the office of the director of Seven Star Academy. I said I didn't want to go to school. She gave me a list of ten schools and said to pick one. I wrote the names of the schools on little bits of paper, pinned them to the corkboard, and threw my knife at them for a while. After half an hour, Seven Stars was the only name I could still read. Choice made.
Now we were sitting in soft chairs in a nice office, waiting for the school director, and Kate was exercising her willpower. Before I met Kate, I had heard people say it, but I didn't know what it meant. Now I knew. Kate was the Beast Lord's mate, which meant that Curran and she were in charge of Atlanta's giant shapeshifter pack. It was so huge, people actually called it the Pack. Shapeshifters were kind of like bombs: things frequently set them off and they exploded with violent force. To keep from exploding, they made up elaborate rules and Kate had to exercise her willpower a lot.
She was doing it now; from outside she looked very calm and composed, but I could tell she was doing it by the way she sat. When Kate was relaxed, she fidgeted. She'd shift in her chair, throw one leg over the other, lean to the side, then lean back. She was very still now, legs in jeans together, holding Slayer, her magic saber, on her lap, one hand on the hilt, the other on the scabbard. Her face was relaxed, almost serene. I could totally picture her leaping straight onto the table from the chair and slicing the director's head off with her saber.
Kate usually dealt with things by talking, and when that didn't work, chopping obstacles into tiny pieces and frying them with magic so they didn't get back up. The sword was her talisman, because she believed in it. She held it like some people held crosses or the star-and-crescent. Her philosophy was, if it had a pulse, it could be killed. I didn't really have a philosophy, but I could see how talking with the school director would be difficult for her. If he said something she didn't like, chopping him to tiny pieces wouldn't exactly help me get into the school.
"What if when the director comes in, I take my underwear off, put them on my head, and dance around? Do you think it would help?"
Kate looked at me. It was her hard-ass stare. Kate could be really scary.
"That doesn't work on me," I told her. "I know you won't hurt me."
"If you want to prance around with panties on your head, I won't stop you," she said. "It's your basic human right to make a fool of yourself."
"I don't want to go to school." Spending all my time in a place where I was the poor rat adopted by a merc and a shapeshifter, while spoiled little rich girls jeered when I walked by and stuck-up teachers put me in remedial courses? No thanks.
Kate exercised her will some more. "You need an education, Julie."
"You can teach me."
"I do and I'll continue to do so. But you need to know other things, besides the ones I can teach. You need a well-rounded education."
"I don't like education. I like working at the office. I want to do what you and Andrea do."
Kate and Andrea ran Cutting Edge, a small firm that helped people with their magic hazmat issues. It was a dangerous job, but I liked it. Besides, I was pretty messed up. Normal things like going to school and getting a regular job didn't hold any interest for me. I couldn't even picture myself doing that.
"Andrea went to Order's Academy for six years and I've trained since I could walk."
"I'm willing to train."
My body tensed, as if an invisible hand had squeezed my insides into a clump. I held my breath. . . .
Magic flooded the world in an invisible wave. The phantom hand let go, and the world shimmered with hues of every color as my sensate vision kicked in. Magic came and went as it pleased. Some older people still remembered the time when technology was always in control and magic didn't exist. But that was long ago. Now magic and technology keep trading places, like two toddlers playing musical chairs. Sometimes magic ruled, and cars and guns didn't work. Sometimes technology was in charge, and magic spells fizzled out. I preferred the magic myself, because unlike ninety-nine point nine-nine-nine-whatever percent of people I could see it.
I looked at Kate, using a tiny drop of my power. It was kind of like flexing a muscle, a conscious effort to look the right way at something. One moment Kate sat there, all normal, or as normal as Kate could be, the next she was wrapped in a translucent glow. Most people's magic glowed in one color. Humans radiated blue, shapeshifters green, vampires gave off a purple-red. . . . Kate's magic shifted colors. It was blue and deep purple, and pale pearl-like gold streaked through with tendrils of red. It was the weirdest thing I had ever seen. The first time I saw it, it freaked me out.
"You have to keep going to school," freaky Kate said.
I leaned back and hung my head over the chair's back. "Why?"
"Because I can't teach you everything, and shapeshifters shouldn't be your only source of education. You may not always want to be affiliated with shapeshifters. Down the road, you may want to make your own choices."
I pushed against the floor with my feet, rocking a little in my chair.
"I'm trying to make my own choice, but you won't let me."
"That's right," Kate said. "I'm older, wiser, and I know better. Deal with it."
Parenting, kick-ass Kate Daniels's style. Do what I say. There wasn't even an or attached to it. Or didn't exist.
I rocked back and forth some more. "Do you think I'm your punishment from God?"
"No. I'd like to think that God, if he exists, is kind, not vengeful."
The door of the office opened and a man walked in. He was older than Kate, bald, with Asian features, dark eyes, and a big smile. "It's a view I share."
I sat up straight. Kate got up and offered her hand. "Mr. Dargye?"
The man shook her hand. "Please call me Gendun. I much prefer it."
They shook and sat down. Adult rituals. My history teacher from the old school once told us that shaking hands was a gesture of peace—it demonstrated that you had no weapon. Since now we had magic, shaking hands was more a leap of faith. Do I shake this weirdo's hand and run the risk that he will infect me with a magic plague or shoot lightning into my skin or do I step back and be rude? Hmm. Maybe handshakes would go away in the future.
Gendun was looking at me. He had sucker eyes. Back when I lived on the street, we used to mob people like him, because they were kind and soft-hearted and you could always count on some sort of handout. They weren't naive bleeding hearts—they knew that while you cried in front of them and clutched your tummy, your friends were stealing their wallets, but they would feed you anyway. That's just the way they moved through the world.
I squinted, bringing the color of his magic into focus. Pale blue, almost silver. Divine magic, born of faith. Mister Gendun was a priest of some sort.
"What god do you believe in?" I asked. When you're a kid, they let you get away with being direct.
"I'm a Buddhist." Gendun smiled. "I believe in human potential for understanding and compassion. The existence of an omnipotent God is possible, but so far I have seen no evidence that he exists. What god do you believe in?"
"None." I've met a goddess once. It didn't turn out well for everyone involved. Gods used faith the way a car used gas; it was the supply from which they drew their power. I refused to fuel any of their motors.
Gendun smiled. "Thank you for responding to my request so promptly."
Request? What request?
"Two of the Pack's children attend your school," Kate said. "The Pack will do everything in our power to offer you assistance."
Huh? Wait a minute. I thought this was about me. Nobody said anything about the school requesting our assistance.
"This is Ms. Olsen," Kate said.
I smiled at Gendun. "Please call me Julie. I much prefer it." Technically my name was now Julie Lennart-Daniels-Olsen, which was silly. If Kate and Curran got married, I'd be down to Lennart-Olsen. Until then, I decided Olsen was good enough.
"It is nice to meet you, Julie." Gendun smiled and nodded at me. He had this really strange calming thing about him. He was very . . . balanced somehow. Reminded me of the Pack's medmage, Dr. Doolittle.
"There are many schools in the city for the children of exceptional parents," Gendun said. "Seven Stars is a school for exceptional children. Our methods are unorthodox and our students are unique."
Woo, a school of special snowflakes. Or monster children. Depending on how you chose to look at it.
Magic didn't just affect our environment. All sorts of people who once had been normal and ordinary were discovering new and sometimes unwelcome things about themselves. Some could freeze things. Some grew claws and fur. And some saw magic.
"Discretion is of utmost importance to us," Gendun said.
"Despite her age, Ms. Olsen is an experienced operative," Kate said.
I am?
"She understands the need for discretion."
I do?
"She has a particular talent that will make her very effective in this case," Kate said.
Gendun opened a folder, took out a picture, and slid it across the table to me. A girl. She had a pretty heart-shaped face framed by spirals of red hair. Her eyes were green and her long eyelashes curled out until they almost touched her eyebrows. She looked so pretty, like a little doll.
"This is Ashlyn," Gendun said. "She is a freshman at this school. A very good student. Two days ago she disappeared. The location spell indicates she is alive and that she hasn't left the grounds. We've attempted to notify her parents, but they are traveling at the moment and are out of reach, as are her emergency contacts. You have twenty-four hours to find her."
"What happens after twenty-four hours?"
"We will have to notify the authorities," Gendun said. "Her parents had given us a lot of latitude in regard to Ashlyn. She is a sensitive child and her behavior is often driven by that sensitivity. But in this case our hands are tied. If a student is missing, we are legally bound to report it after seventy-two hours."
Report it to Paranormal Activity Division of Atlanta's police force, no doubt. PAD was about as subtle as a runaway bulldozer. They would take this school apart and grill all of their special snowflakes until they melted into goo in their interrogation rooms. How many would fold and confess to something they had not done?
I looked at Kate.
She arched an eyebrow at me. "Interested?"
"We would give you a visitor pass," Gendun said. "I will speak to the teachers, so you can conduct your investigation quietly. We have guest students who tour the school before attending, so you wouldn't draw any attention and the disruption to the other children will be minimal."
This was some sort of Kate trick of getting me into this school. I looked at the picture again. Trick or not, a girl was hiding somewhere. She could be hiding because she was playing some sort of a joke, but it was highly unlikely. Mostly people hid because they were scared. I could relate. I've been scared before. It wasn't fun.
Someone had to find her. Someone had to care about what happened.
I pulled the picture closer. "I'll do it."


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Knowing that I have written about famous artists well-known by most people in the world led me to the decision about the type of artists to write about in this article. These are not your typical artists, who don't struggle daily with a significant physical or mental problem.
All of the artists I will be talking about are disabled in some way. These artists, both male and female, young and old, use their art to communicate with the world. Some of the disabled artists are famous; others are a little less well known. Some of these creative people use their feet to paint, or their mouths. Others are blind or suffer mental disabilities, yet they produce some of the most beautiful art you can imagine.
We will begin with Stephen Wiltshire, whose disability is that he is an autistic savant. He is a world-famous architectural artist. He did not speak until age 9, but at 10, he began to draw detailed sketches of London landmarks. I realize that I have mentioned this man before, but he is simply too amazing to be mentioned only once. After spending only 20 minutes flying over New York City, he created in great detail an 18-foot panoramic landscape of the New York skyline.
Another of these amazing artists is Joseph Cartin. He is from Brooklyn and actively lives with bipolar disorder. He has been active in the "Mental Health Consumer Movement" since 1990 and considers himself a "psychiatric survivor." He has won many art competitions, and does corporate design work in addition to his personal art.
Peter Longstaff is missing both arms and is a foot painter. Everything he creates is with his feet. His mother had used the drug thalidomide, which was prescribed to her for morning sickness. Many women were prescribed this medicine until it was discovered to cause deformities in fetuses, with many babies being born minus limbs, etc. This artist considers his right foot as important as his right arm.


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Originally published: Oct 28, 2013 - 11:41 am
Originally published: Oct 28, 2013 - 11:41 am
PRESCOT, Ariz. -- Wives, fiancees and others close to some of the firefighters who perished in the Yarnell Hill Fire are trying to help the community their loved ones died trying to protect.
Local news reported that a fundraising event held Sunday in Prescott collected $18,000 for Yarnell. The community lost more than 100 homes.
Those participating in the benefit to raise money to rebuild homes and restore infrastructure included Leah Fine. She was engaged to Grant McKee, one of the 19 Granite Mountain Hotshots who died June 30.
Fine said Yarnell is no longer just a dot on the map or a place that people drive through on their way to California. She sids it's a reminder of the men who lost their lives.
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Community support grows for a study to build another Sioux City, I-29 interchange.
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The first time the city proposed the interchange plan, in 2005, the Iowa Department of Transportation said it wasn't needed, but times have changed.
"Seven or eight years ago there wasn't the demand like there is today. Some things have started to happen out there. It was based mostly on speculation back then. Now the county has also got a development that's proposed in that area," said Dakin Schutlz.
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Xin Zhao, Leo Wang-Kit Cheung, "Multiclass Kernel-Imbedded Gaussian Processes for Microarray Data Analysis," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 1041-1053, July/August, 2011.
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When the boss is away, the minions shall play.
It's Friday here at Microsoft, but not just any Friday. It's the Friday before a long weekend. Memorial Day is Monday and with it comes an extended break from the normal drudges of our everyday, mundane office lives. If you didn't know, we Americans loathe Mondays, since 7 out of 10 of our Federal Holidays happen to fall on a Monday this year. Coincidence? I think not.
Fridays on campus are generally quieter than the rest of the week anyway, but today is something straight out of a horror film. I walked in this morning to find our usual work pit emptier than a graveyard on Halloween. It's seriously creepy to sit at your desk and be able to hear yourself breathing. Normally there are a myriad of different noises assaulting my eardrums: keys pressed, mice clicked, and the constant minute-meeting-discussions taking place all around. Today, there was nothing but silence.
As people started to trickle in, slowly but surely, I contemplated times at which I could leave, and continue my work day from the comforts of my own home. As I lost myself deep in thought about the whizzing sound my Xbox makes, the smell of the leftover pizza from the night before being reheated in the oven, and the feel of putting on my favorite pair of sweats to lounge on the couch, I heard a familiar voice: "Solicest is gone. What are we gonna do?"
B1oxx appeared from his normal hideout adorned with a smile on his face and a look akin to Dennis the Menace. If you did not know, B1oxx is the resident prankster, and any time he gets "that look" on his face, trouble will ensue.
Suddenly I had inspiration; a willingness to stay at work until the day was done.
As we discussed possible prank options, I continued to enter codes for our normal Free Code Friday festivities. Unbeknownst to most of you, we are sitting on a plethora of these code cards. Maybe you have seen some of them in the pictures we post. When I say we have a lot, I mean it. Scoffing at the fact that we still have so many codes packed away in boxes, B1oxx suggested that we "decorate" Solicest's desk with them, covering every visible square inch with a card.
As you can see from the above picture, Solicest's desk is a lonely and desolate place, lacking any real… fun. That would change very, very $00/\/.
Armed with double-sided tape, and the will to succeed, we set forth on our goal of creating a more lively work experience for Solicest. Luckily, armed with what may seem like a small battalion, covering her desk was actually an easy task. Between the nearly one thousand (that's right, one thousand) code cards used and the five of us working, the job only took about an hour. We contemplated decorating her walls, too, but we had to get some work done at some point.
So here is the end result – a desk fit for a queen. How long she will keep it this way, I know not. How long before she retaliates is also a mystery, but at least for now, I have my satisfaction!
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By Martha Neil
When Judge Mark Chow made a quick—and, he admits, lewd—remark one day in January as he was presiding in King County District Court, he immediately realized he'd made a mistake.
Although the 53-year-old jurist was responding to a man's suggestion that he perform a sexual act, Chow's response was inappropriate and he immediately reported himself to Washington state's judicial ethics authorities, according to his attorney, Anne Bremner. Now he is facing a potential judicial discipline case over the incident, writes the Seattle Times.
The Times did not specifically describe Chow's alleged remark, but the Seattle Post-Intelligencer did. Writes the newspaper: "According to charges filed Tuesday by the Commission on Judicial Conduct, Chow replied, 'I would if you pulled it out, but you can't find it.' "
But Chow, whose ethnic heritage is Chinese and whose wife's family background is Japanese, doesn't see what the problem was concerning another remark he made the same day for which he is also now being investigated, the Times writes. At that point in the day, he reportedly asked a party what "flavor" she was, inquiring about her ethnicity.
"It's not inappropriate when one person of color is talking to another person of color and no one who is addressed takes offense," Bremner says. "This is a commission on judicial conduct, not the commission on political correctness."
Chow, a 16-year veteran of the bench, is charged by the Commission on Judicial Conduct, as the Times puts it, with "failing to maintain courtroom decorum; making comments that were undignified, discourteous and disrespectful; and using language that appeared to manifest bias and diminish confidence in the dignity and impartiality of judicial office."
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Cape Cleaners owner Dan Pulieo believes he can increase voter turnout in Cape Coral by offering deals to people who vote on November 5th.
This comes after he learned voter turnout is so low.
"It got me motivated. People need to be involved and pay attention to what is going on in their community," said Pulieo.
He put up a sign in Cape Cleaners offering a 10 percent discount on Election Day. All you need to do is wear an "I Voted" sticker.
"Hopefully we get a few more people out to vote just because," said Puleio.
He got others involved by creating Votecapecoral.com. On the website you will find a list of merchants offering you incentives to vote.
The list includes Backstreets - where you can get a free slice of cheese pizza.
"Hopefully it will encourage people to get out and show their support, voice their opinion and make it really matter," said Puleio.
In 2011, only about nine percent of voters cast their ballot in the Cape Coral general election, and seven percent voted in the 2013 primary.
Gerald Brosseau is new to Cape Coral and will vote in his first election this November.
"It's very sad," said Gerald Brosseau, "There is a strong importance that you need to have your voice heard and one way is through the voting process and by merchants like this offering incentives, it's a great opportunity."
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News: G-Unit Associate Begins "Rick Ross" Search, "Where Are You?" [Video]
Friday, Apr 17, 2009 2:20PM
In his continued support of 50 Cent, G-Unit associate Mazaradi Fox has announced plans to begin looking for Rick Ross for a face-to-face confrontation.
Reportedly upset by Ross' claims of visiting his hometown Queens, New York earlier this year, Fox claims he is on the lookout for Ross.
"I don't even respect n*ggas from New York letting him come through this motherf*cker with his shirt off," Fox said in an interview. "He's easy, Fif's playing with him, 'Pimpin' Curly' and all of them. I don't play that sh*t. You keep talking that robotic sh*t, there's going to be a problem. I ain't never seen a fat n*gga get busy...N*gga looking for Rick Ross, what's up, where you at? Shhh. Shhhh. Shhh. I'm on you." (Fient Out TV)
Ross recently spoke on his appreciation of the Big Apple and winning over 50's hometown fans.
"I brought the war to they turf," Ross said in an interview. "Before it was, 'I run New York' now they online saying you won't come to Queens. Y'all n*ggas make up y'all mind. Move outta Queens...New York knows he's a monkey. That's why I love New York so much. They divorced the monkey, they kicked him out. These people not relevant around here. They don't go to Queens." (Shade 45)
Bang Em Smurf associate Domination also "granted" Ross a Queens pass earlier this month.
"Theres' a lot of rumors on the Internet that I'm not supporting my boys," Domination said in the video. "I support whatever move my n*gga do. Whatever movement my n*gga f*cking with is what I'm f*cking with, you hear me? If it's Maybach Music, then that's what it is, n*gga. We run Queens. If we want somebody to come through here, they gonna come through here. That's how we feel about n*ggas talking 'Oh n*ggas can't come through' type sh*t. N*ggas can come through here...I never turned my back on [Smurf], I'm here, Domination." (SOHH)
Despite Fox's claims of "searching" for Ross, the rapper is currently traveling throughout the nation promoting his album Deeper Than Rap.
Rick Ross' in-store appearances include: Tuesday, April 21 6:30 PM at Brandsmart 4320 NW 167 St., Miami, FL. Thursday, April 23 7 PM at Best Buy 529 5th Ave, New York, NY. Friday, April 24 4 PM at Downtown Locker Room, 1060 Brentwood Road, Washington, DC and Saturday, April 25 1 PM at Best Buy 2940 Turner Hill Rd, in Lithonia, Georgia. (Press Release)
Check out Mazaradi Fox addressing Rick Ross below:
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So League of Legends is a popular team based tower defense PC game that seems to be getting a lot of attention. This character Ahri is a nine tailed fox who wields a magical orb that she uses to damage her opponents. By the way you'll notice plenty of Naruto references with this character…the nine tails, blue orb that looks like a rasengan…just saying lol.
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Building a community takes many viewpoints. The City of Arvada wants to hear from you as we begin planning for the future through the creation of the new Comprehensive Plan. Community members have two initial opportunities to get involved as we kick off this project:
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
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Thursday, September 12, 2013
5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
King of Glory Lutheran Church
10001 West 58th Avenue
Attending participants will learn more about issues facing the City of Arvada as well as be encouraged to share their vision for Arvada's future. Each event will have the same format, so it is not necessary to attend both meetings.
The Comprehensive Plan establishes policies that have a direct bearing on the future of Arvada. The Comprehensive Plan will guide city-wide land use changes, investments in public facilities and services, and future regulations and City programs. The plan is being updated over the next year and there will be several opportunities for public participation during this process.
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SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) - An Iowa man with an extensive criminal history has been sentenced to more than 10 years in federal prison for robbing a Sioux City bank.
Prosecutors say Stephan Hall, 53, of Sioux City, was sentenced to 125 months in prison for robbing the First National Bank on Feb. 13.
Authorities say he entered the bank and changed $2 into coins. He then re-entered the bank and handed the same teller a note and fled with money.
Prosecutors say Hall was arrested after authorities quickly identified the robber and discovered his planned escape route, which included a flight out of Omaha, Neb.
Hall spent some of his childhood at a state facility for juvenile delinquents. Later he was convicted of robbery, assault, burglary, escape, domestic abuse and gun possession.
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I wanted to bring this up. I know it's probably too early to be thinking about this, but I feel like we've got a good shot at winning a title. I don't want to dismiss this year because I do think we have a shot this upcoming season, but it's June 2012 that I'm anticipating parading through the streets of Portland. I'm thinking, if this projected lockout goes down, and it's anything like the previous lockout then Portland has the best chance of winning for several reasons.
One, the Lakers, and by Lakers I mean Kobe Bryant, will be almost two years older. I don't think the Lakers are as invincible as some make them out to be, and an aging Kobe only strengthens our chances of knocking them off. Plus if Phil Jackson doesn't return then it's officially time to pass the torch.
Two, I can't stand Nate McMillan. However, I couldn't think of a better coach to have in a lockout season. Assuming play resumes, and assuming Nate isn't fired, there are some teams who will be mailing it in, but there's no doubt that Nate will have his squad focused and ready to play.
Third, Miami is the favorite this upcoming season. Obviously. Let's say they win, and the next season is put on hold. Maybe they do a little too much partying in So. Beach after the trio wins their first title together, and we can catch them with their pants down in what would be their title defense season. What if Miami doesn't win this year. Would LBJ want his first title to come in a lockout year? He probably wouldn't care. It doesn't matter any way. I'm not scared of Miami. They can't see our front line, nor can they really afford to improve their line to our level.
Lastly, and probably most important, the last lockout year ended in February and I think teams played around 50 games. If this potential lockout is anything like the last then I'd feel real good about GO's chances of playing a whole season and being available in the playoffs. Plus, hopefully, he'd have a whole, healthy 2010-11 season with a deep playoff run under his belt. All Greg would have to do is make it from February to June. We'd still have Camby. Luke, Armon, and E-Will will be a little more experienced. Wesley would have a year under his belt playing with the team. Nic and Bayless would be near vets by then and who knows, maybe Dre is still with the team too.
Maybe, it's just wishful thinking, and a little homerism, but I think we're the 2011-12 favorites to win it all. Question I wanna ask is what would mean? We've waited a long while for another championship here in PDX. Do you view a lockout title the same? For me, I scoffed at San Antonio's lockout title, but, IMO, they justified by winning multiple titles a lil later. Being a Portland fan, I know how devoted fans here are, so I'm assuming people would take a title any way they can get it, but would it mean as much to you? Do you even like our chances?


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