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SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- (Marketwired) -- 06/04/14 -- The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced the schedule and program for LinuxCon and CloudOpen North America, taking place August 20-22, 2014 in Chicago, IL.
LinuxCon and Cloud Open are the largest technical conferences focused on Linux and neutral open cloud technologies in North America and provide developers and operations and devops professionals with leading edge technical education and networking opportunities. Keynote and session speakers include leaders from the Linux kernel community and Cisco, Docker, edX, HP, Local Motors, MySQL, OpenStack, Puppet Labs, Spotify and many more.
Featuring more than 140 sessions and keynotes, LinuxCon and CloudOpen are co-located with a Community Development Workshop presented by community expert Jono Bacon, the Linux Kernel Summit, Linux Security Summit, #MesosCon, OpenDaylight Project Mini-Summit, a UEFI Mini-Summit, and Xen Project User Summit. CloudOpen is the only technical conference that focuses on the open cloud and those projects that comprise it all in one place, including CloudStack, Ceph, Gluster, KVM, OpenStack, Puppet, SaltStack, Xen Project and more.
The following sessions provide some examples of the exclusive content available at this year's LinuxCon and CloudOpen events:
LinuxCon North America:
- Making Open Source a Priority at Spotify, Noa Resare, Free Software Ombudsman at Spotify
- From MySQL Single Instance to Big Data, Dave Stokes, Community Manager at MySQL
- Ceph: A Decade in the Making and Still Going Strong, Sage Weil, Co-Founder and CTO at InkTank
CloudOpen North America:
- Getting Data out of Your Cloud(s) with Open Source, Cody Herriges, Tech Lead of Systems at Puppet Labs
- Image Management or Configuration Management? Yes., Thomas Hatch, CTO and Co-Founder at SaltStack
- Is It Safe to Run Applications in Linux Containers?, Jerome Petazzoni, Senior Engineer at Docker
Recently announced keynote confirmations for LinuxCon and CloudOpen include a kernel developer panel featuring Linux creator Linus Torvalds, as well as keynote presentations from edX CEO Anant Agarwal, HP Vice President and Deputy General Counsel of Cloud Computing and Open Source Eileen Evans, Docker Founder Solomon Hykes, Open Prosthetics Project President Jonathan Kuniholm, Vice President of Product at MakerBot Anthony Moschella, Local Motors CEO Jay Rogers and The Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin.
To review the complete programs for LinuxCon and CloudOpen North America, please visit: http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon-north-america/program/schedule
More than Education
New Networking Passes Increase Access, Collaboration
LinuxCon and CloudOpen are widely recognized for both top-notch technical content and networking opportunities. These conferences are designed to encourage collaboration and connection that can lead to advances in technology, new ideas for open source projects, job opportunities and more.
The Linux Foundation for the first time this year will offer Networking Passes, which will include access to these unique opportunities to anyone. The Networking Pass will get attendees into all events except the conference sessions. The pass is $250 through June 6, 2014 and $300 thereafter.
Women in OSS Luncheon
The Linux Foundation will host for the second year in a row a Women in Open Source Luncheon at LinuxCon and CloudOpen. The luncheon will be free and will take place Thursday, August 21, 2014. This is a networking opportunity for women in open source to connect and learn from each other. Registration for the Women in OSS Luncheon will open July 1, 2014.
The Linux Foundation is also offering scholarships for women who want to attend LinuxCon and CloudOpen but are not sponsored by a company or do not have personal funds to attend. To apply, please visit: https://docs.google.com/a/linuxfoundation.org/forms/d/1eTxpMWCIQnK2aX_s-XQhsU2UPTWS0ggQFFB5w9nI354/viewform.
Newcomers Reception
The Linux Foundation this year will host a Newcomers Reception on Tuesday, August 19, 2014. It's important for the Linux Foundation to reach out to new speakers and attendees and encourage their participation in these events. The reception will help maximize the experience for first-time attendees and speakers who might otherwise not be inclined to introduce themselves to other attendees throughout the conference. By hosting this the night before LinuxCon + CloudOpen begin, the organization hopes it will increase interactions throughout the week and give new attendees the opportunity to meet some of the key Linux kernel contributors who will be attendance. Registration is open to first-time attendees only at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/17GYWJveYeQ2Vz3-n6BVZD7QCiAJEjv5OzSNmriOKmOo/viewform.
LinuxCon and CloudOpen are made possible with generous support from sponsors including LinuxCon Diamond sponsor Cisco; LinuxCon Platinum sponsors HP, and IBM; CloudOpen Platinum sponsors Citrix and HP; and LinuxCon Gold sponsors Google, Intel and Samsung.
For a full list of sponsors, please visit: http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon-north-america/sponsor and http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/cloudopen-north-america.
Early registration closes for both events June 6, 2014, after which the price will increase $150 to $750 through July 18, and to $850 after that. One pass gets attendees into both events. To register for LinuxCon and CloudOpen North America, please visit:
About The Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation is a nonprofit consortium dedicated to fostering the growth of Linux and collaborative software development. Founded in 2000, the organization sponsors the work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and promotes, protects and advances the Linux operating system and collaborative software development by marshaling the resources of its members and the open source community. The Linux Foundation provides a neutral forum for collaboration and education by hosting Collaborative Projects, Linux conferences, including LinuxCon, and generating original research and content that advances the understanding of Linux and collaborative software development. More information can be found at www.linuxfoundation.org.
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Explosive growth in connected devices. Enormous amounts of data for collection and analysis. Critical use of data for split-second decision making and actionable information. All three are factors in making the Internet of Things a reality. Yet, any one factor would have an IT organization pondering its infrastructure strategy. How should your organization enhance its IT framework to enable an Internet of Things implementation? In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, James Kirkland, Chief Architect for the Internet of Things and Intelligent Systems at Red Hat, will describe how to revoluti...
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The Internet of Things will greatly expand the opportunities for data collection and new business models driven off of that data. In her session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Esmeralda Swartz, CMO of MetraTech, will discuss how for this to be effective you not only need to have infrastructure and operational models capable of utilizing this new phenomenon, but increasingly service providers will need to convince a skeptical public to participate. Get ready to show them the money! Speaker Bio: Esmeralda Swartz, CMO of MetraTech, has spent 16 years as a marketing, product management, and busin...
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Samsung VP Jacopo Lenzi, who headed the company's recent SmartThings acquisition under the auspices of Samsung's Open Innovaction Center (OIC), answered a few questions we had about the deal. This interview was in conjunction with our interview with SmartThings CEO Alex Hawkinson. IoT Journal: SmartThings was developed in an open, standards-agnostic platform, and will now be part of Samsung's Open Innovation Center. Can you elaborate on your commitment to keep the platform open? Jacopo Lenzi: Samsung recognizes that true, accelerated innovation cannot be driven from one source, but requires a...
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SYS-CON Events announced today that Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions, will exhibit at Internet of @ThingsExpo, which will take place on November 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Red Hat is the world's leading provider of open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to reliable and high-performing cloud, Linux, middleware, storage and virtualization technologies. Red Hat also offers award-winning support, training, and consulting services. As the connective hub in a global network of enterprises, partners, a...
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P2P RTC will impact the landscape of communications, shifting from traditional telephony style communications models to OTT (Over-The-Top) cloud assisted & PaaS (Platform as a Service) communication services. The P2P shift will impact many areas of our lives, from mobile communication, human interactive web services, RTC and telephony infrastructure, user federation, security and privacy implications, business costs, and scalability. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Robin Raymond, Chief Architect at Hookflash Inc., will walk through the shifting landscape of traditional telephone a...
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BSQUARE is a global leader of embedded software solutions. We enable smart connected systems at the device level and beyond that millions use every day and provide actionable data solutions for the growing Internet of Things (IoT) market. We empower our world-class customers with our products, services and solutions to achieve innovation and success. For more information, visit www.bsquare.com.
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SYS-CON Events announced today that Matrix.org has been named "Silver Sponsor" of Internet of @ThingsExpo, which will take place on November 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Matrix is an ambitious new open standard for open, distributed, real-time communication over IP. It defines a new approach for interoperable Instant Messaging and VoIP based on pragmatic HTTP APIs and WebRTC, and provides open source reference implementations to showcase and bootstrap the new standard. Our focus is on simplicity, security, and supporting the fullest feature set.
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How do APIs and IoT relate? The answer is not as simple as merely adding an API on top of a dumb device, but rather about understanding the architectural patterns for implementing an IoT fabric. There are typically two or three trends: Exposing the device to a management framework Exposing that management framework to a business centric logic • Exposing that business layer and data to end users. This last trend is the IoT stack, which involves a new shift in the separation of what stuff happens, where data lives and where the interface lies. For instance, it's a mix of architectural style...
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SYS-CON Events announced today that SOA Software, an API management leader, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 15th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on November 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. SOA Software is a leading provider of API Management and SOA Governance products that equip business to deliver APIs and SOA together to drive their company to meet its business strategy quickly and effectively. SOA Software's technology helps businesses to accelerate their digital channels with APIs, drive partner adoption, monetize their assets, and achieve a...
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From a software development perspective IoT is about programming "things," about connecting them with each other or integrating them with existing applications. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Yakov Fain, co-founder of Farata Systems and SuranceBay, will show you how small IoT-enabled devices from multiple manufacturers can be integrated into the workflow of an enterprise application. This is a practical demo of building a framework and components in HTML/Java/Mobile technologies to serve as a platform that can integrate new devices as they become available on the market.
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Connected devices are changing the way we go about our everyday life, from wearables to driverless cars, to smart grids and entire industries revolutionizing business opportunities through smart objects, capable of two-way communication. But what happens when objects are given an IP-address, and we rely on that connection, sometimes with our lives? How do we secure those vast data infrastructures and safe-keep the privacy of sensitive information? This session will outline how each and every connected device can uphold a core root of trust via a unique cryptographic signature – a "bir...
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Internet of @ThingsExpo Silicon Valley announced on Thursday its first 12 all-star speakers and sessions for its upcoming event, which will take place November 4-6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in California. @ThingsExpo, the first and largest IoT event in the world, debuted at the Javits Center in New York City in June 10-12, 2014 with over 6,000 delegates attending the conference. Among the first 12 announced world class speakers, IBM will present two highly popular IoT sessions, which will take place November 4-6, 2014 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, Calif...
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Almost everyone sees the potential of Internet of Things but how can businesses truly unlock that potential. The key will be in the ability to discover business insight in the midst of an ocean of Big Data generated from billions of embedded devices via Systems of Discover. Businesses will also need to ensure that they can sustain that insight by leveraging the cloud for global reach, scale and elasticity.
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WebRTC defines no default signaling protocol, causing fragmentation between WebRTC silos. SIP and XMPP provide possibilities, but come with considerable complexity and are not designed for use in a web environment. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Matthew Hodgson, technical co-founder of the Matrix.org, will discuss how Matrix is a new non-profit Open Source Project that defines both a new HTTP-based standard for VoIP & IM signaling and provides reference implementations.
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SUNNYVALE, Calif., Oct. 20, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Spansion Inc. (NYSE: CODE), a global leader in embedded systems, today added 96 new products to the Spansion® FM4 Family of flexible microcontrollers (MCUs). Based on the ARM® Cortex®-M4F core, the new MCUs boast a 200 MHz operating frequency and support a diverse set of on-chip peripherals for enhanced human machine interfaces (HMIs) and machine-to-machine (M2M) communications. The rich set of periphera...
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The Internet of Things (IoT) is going to require a new way of thinking and of developing software for speed, security and innovation. This requires IT leaders to balance business as usual while anticipating for the next market and technology trends. Cloud provides the right IT asset portfolio to help today's IT leaders manage the old and prepare for the new. Today the cloud conversation is evolving from private and public to hybrid. This session will provide use cases and insights to reinforce the value of the network in helping organizations to maximize their company's cloud experience.
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The Internet of Things (IoT) is making everything it touches smarter – smart devices, smart cars and smart cities. And lucky us, we're just beginning to reap the benefits as we work toward a networked society. However, this technology-driven innovation is impacting more than just individuals. The IoT has an environmental impact as well, which brings us to the theme of this month's #IoTuesday Twitter chat. The ability to remove inefficiencies through connected objects is driving change throughout every sector, including waste management. BigBelly Solar, located just outside of Boston, is trans...
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My nitty gritty Hero postJohn Walton - Cell phone editor
Processor: Qualcomm® MSM7200A™, 528 MHz
Memory: 512 MB ROM, 288 MB RAM
Dimensions (LxWxT) 112 x 56.2 x 14.35 mm (4.41 x 2.21 x 0.57 inches)
Weight: 135 grams (4.76 ounces) with battery
Display: 3.2-inch TFT-LCD touch-sensitive screen with 320x480 HVGA resolution
Bluetooth® 2.0 with Enhanced Data Rate and A2DP
Wi-Fi®: IEEE 802.11 b/g
3.5 mm audio jack
5.0 megapixel color camera with auto focus
microSD™ memory card (SD 2.0 compatible)
Digital Compass
Rechargeable Lithium-ion battery capacity: 1350 mAh
Talk time:
- Up to 420 minutes for WCDMA
- Up to 470 minutes for GSM
Standby time:
- Up to 750 hours for WCDMA
- Up to 440 hours for GSM
- 900/2100 MHz
- Up to 2 Mbps up-link and 7.2 Mbps down-link speeds
Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE:
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And just in case anybody think's I pulled off a post without doing anything but copying and pasting a press kit, allow me to wildly speculate that the feature which makes the US version of Hero different from that of Europe and Asia, could go beyond color. The US Hero may be the first phone to ship with Donut. I pulled that out of thin air, just so you know.


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Roy Estrada's live music career is celebrated in the concert memorabilia available at Wolfgang's Vault. The Collection is divided into Roy Estrada Posters, Roy Estrada Photographs, Roy Estrada Apparel as well as other Roy Estrada memorabilia such as vintage tickets backstage passes and media like Rolling Stone magazines.


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I'm giving away Kitchen Confidential for World Book Night 2014!
One book. Two readers. A world of mystery, menace, and desire.
A young woman picks up a book left behind by a stranger. Inside it are his margin notes, which reveal a reader entranced by the story and by its mysterious author. She responds with notes of her own, leaving the book for the stranger, and so begins an unlikely conversation that plunges them both into the unknown.
The book: Ship of Theseus, the final novel by a prolific but enigmatic writer named V.M. Straka, in which a man with no past is shanghaied onto a strange ship with a monstrous crew and launched onto a disorienting and perilous journey.
The writer: Straka, the incendiary and secretive subject of one of the world's greatest mysteries, a revolutionary about whom the world knows nothing apart from the words he wrote and the rumors that swirl around him.
The readers: Jennifer and Eric, a college senior and a disgraced grad student, both facing crucial decisions about who they are, who they might become, and how much they're willing to trust another person with their passions, hurts, and fears.
S., conceived by filmmaker J. J. Abrams and written by award-winning novelist Doug Dorst, is the chronicle of two readers finding each other in the margins of a book and enmeshing themselves in a deadly struggle between forces they don't understand, and it is also Abrams and Dorst's love letter to the written word.
Description of "S" by J. J. Abrams & Doug Dorst | Amazon
Sounds very Danielewski-esque. I'm guessing the book is a lead-in to the inevitable film?
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Park admission fees are waived for anyone who presents a valid library card, a book checked out from the library or donates a new or used, family-friendly book at any state park.
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A fun question Powell's asked author Gail Carriger. Have you? The first one that comes to mind for me is when I went up to New York to see St. John the Divine. I'm a massive Madeline L'Engle fan, and many of her books are set on the close.
Here is a revolver.
It has an amazing language all its own.
It delivers unmistakable ultimatums.
It is the last word.
A simple, little human forefinger can tell a terrible story with it.
Hunger, fear, revenge, robbery hide behind it.
It is the claw of the jungle made quick and powerful.
It is the club of the savage turned to magnificent precision.
It is more rapid than any judge or court of law.
It is less subtle and treacherous than any one lawyer or ten.
When it has spoken, the case can not be appealed to the supreme court, nor any mandamus nor any injunction nor any stay of execution in and interfere with the original purpose.
And nothing in human philosophy persists more strangely than the old belief that God is always on the side of those who have the most revolvers.
Yesterday Lev Grossman sent out an email updating everyone on the possibility of a Magicians television show (he's still working on it), what he's done in the last 9 months that haven't involved writing fiction (he became a dad again, worked at his day job, and met John Green, among others), and the status of Magician's Land. According to him the contract for the book is in the works and a decent chunk is already written. He closed with the following:
p.s. Just because I can, here are the first few paragraphs of Chapter 4, which is from Eliot's point of view, and which features a character who is in all but name, Strong Belwas from A Song of Ice and Fire:
The Lorian champion was a squat fellow, practically as wide as he was tall, and apparently of some slightly different ethnic background than most of his compatriots. The Lorians were Vikings, basically, Thor types: tall, long blond hair, big chins, big chests, big beards. But this character came in at about 5 foot 6, Eliot would have said, with a shaved head and a fat Buddha face and a significant admixture of some Asiatic DNA. He was stripped to the waist even though it was about 45 degrees out, and his latte-colored skin was oiled all over. Or maybe he was just really sweaty.
He had a gut hanging over his waistband, but he was still a pretty scary-looking mofo. He had a huge saddle of muscle across his upper back, and his biceps were like thighs, practically, and there must have been some muscle in there, just by volume, even if they did look kind of chubby. It wasn't a flabby gut, either; even his fat looked hard. And his weapon was weird-looking enough — it was a pole with a big curvy cross of sharp metal on the end—that you just knew he could do something really outlandishly dangerous with it.
The Lorian army went nuts for him when he stepped forward. They bashed their swords into their shields and looked at each other as if to say: yes, he may look a little funny, but our fellow is definitely going to kill the other fellows' fellow, so three cheers for him, by Crom or whoever it is we worship. It almost made you like them.
Almost. But there was no chance that he was actually going to kill the Fillorian champion, Eliot's champion. Because Eliot's champion was Eliot.
That is the title of this book. I cannot stop laughing.
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O is for OYSTERS
Anton Chekhov was a fan of oysters. Coincidentally, when Chekov died, his coffin was transported in a freight car with 'OYSTERS' in large letters on its side. Walt Whitman, also an oyster lover, often ate them for breakfast. When friend John Burroughs told the poet he ate "too much blood and fat," he went on to recommend that oysters be dropped from Whitman's morning menu.
Alternately, Isak Dinesen lost weight with the following diet: oysters and grapes, washed down with champagne.
Jane Hu, Writer Food From A To Z | The Awl
PROTIPS, y'all.
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Fun fact: My entire extended family goes to St. Augustine for a week every summer, and a few years back we rented the house that Majorie Kinnan Rawlings bought with her Pulitzer Prize money.
It's a gorgeous funky old beach house with all of the Cross Creek pots and pans on the walls and a wonderful book collection. Outside of the house, on the North end especially, is an absurd amount of oyster shells. Apparently she liked to have friends over to eat oysters and drink, and they would throw the shells and empty liquor bottles over the edge of the porch.
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How have I never seen a Periods video before? This is hilariously awesome.
It's like Drunk History for literature.
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We did it, you guys! 'Burg Books is officially a recipient of the first Awesome St. Pete grant! We'll be teaming up with Community Writing Spaces to bring you more awesome than you'll know how to handle.
Holy shit tonight was amazing. Thanks again to everyone, especially the trustees of Awesome St. Pete. I cannot wait to get this project off the ground.
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Pašnjak Ltd. is located in the 1700 years old city of Split, economic and cultural centar of Dalmatia, SE of Croatia. Split has a long tradition of shipping, ship – building and maritime culture. The company was established on 15th of December 1999. as a combination of local tradition and the founder's life long experience in shipping & maritime transport.
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me: whatever. *makes a grilled cheese*
This words are majic (bom shaka laka bom ) say it next to your vagina and the jenie will come out to make your wishes come true
- an actual message on OKCupid
Even now, I can't recall whether it was the soft accent on the word "majic", the rhythmic onomatopoeia of the bom shaka laka bom or the tender advice to whisper to my vagina so that a mystical "jenie" would come out that made me fall for you, Rider911.
But I fell hard.
I studied your provocative beach picz with a hookah in hand for hours.
What I wouldn't give to be a grain of sand on that beach!
Your glorious room, where the real majic would happen…
But then I tried your request, Rider, and nothing happened.
No majic!
No jenies!
Just me alone in sweatpants whispering to my vagina.*
Waiting for an answer that would never come…
I see now that the jenie was a metephor.
You're the jenie; the jenie who broke my heart.
So why don't you and your chic oversize black coat and XXL vespa helmet go toy with another woman's emotions and leave me here.
I hope I never see your hauntingly sexy blurry face again.
Also, cute dog.
*It was, after all, a Tuesday
Today I woke up from my Xanax-induced slumber with a chihuhau-mix puppy on each breast.
I'd like to tell you that the night before I had left my crack den apartment, white-girl twerked the night away & made an emotional connection with a human woman/man, but no. Instead I spent my night frantically Wikipedia-ing Gouda cheese, lisping along to Drake through Crest Whitestrips, and forcing my two 8-lb dog-children Taco & Nacho into a position so that I would be middle spon.
I recently moved to Bushwick aka "Tha Dirty B" aka "Rape St. USA" and am living with my friend Roman and a Canadian male model named Tina*
They sleep in a bunkbed in the next room, and our apartment is something like a bizarro world Threes Company, only with more hair products.*
I also now have a corporate j-o-b where I have started wearing Hillary Clinton pantsuits and I like it.
Now instead of waking up hungover next to a pizza box that looks like a raccoon has attacked it, my mornings consist of me:
(I assume he's referring to the flats, but he could be a shoulder-pad guy.)
Check back soon for my next post "OKcupid? More like OKSTUPID!!! #LOL #SINGLE"
*Names have been changed for privacy
*Thanks to Tim Garbinsky for this lucid and haunting comparison
This recent presidential election highlighted an intense divide in our nation.
It is now more clear than ever that some people are Democrats, some people are Republicans, some people are vampires and some people are humans who love them.
But the one thing we can agree on across the political and mythical spectrum is that everyone enjoys a good bowl of soup.*
This is why 3-7 nights out of the week you can find me at the Hale & Hearty Soup on 23rd and Madison, taking up an obscene amount of window-seats with a hoarder's cocktail of bags, coats and empty soup containers, dunking my chicken salad sandwich into a jumbo container of Tomato Cheddar soup with a fervor that can only be described as "NSFW."
My neighborhood Hale & Hearty Soup is like Cheers! where everybody knows your name, only here absolutely no one knows who you are or gives a sh*t about you, and there is a surly Hispanic teen named Marco whose sole purpose, it seems, is to remind you of this.
The scenes of sexual tension between me and the aforementioned Marco usually go something like this:
Me: Hey there! How's it going?
Marco: (surly and wearing a hairnet in silence, staring ahead)
Me: So what's good today?
Marco: (dead eyes, more silence, more staring, thrusts hand at board)
Me: Alright! I think I'll try a sample of the loaded baked potato! Sounds cheesy!
Marco: (removes lid from vat of soup and slams it down, throws ladle into liquid, slops soup into a tiny plastic cup and skids it across the counter at me)
Me: (catching cup) Woo! Looks good today. (sips) I'll take a large one of this please! This'll get the juices flowing for my writing today!
Marco: (rolls eyes and speaks flatly) 7-grain or sourdough
Me: Sorry, what?
Marco: (annoyed) I said, 7-grain or sourdough
Me: Oh, both please!
Marco: (looks me up and down and tosses both breads on counter with disgust)
Me: Thanks bro! (goes for fist bump)
Marco: (systematically denies fist bump and shifts entire body away from me)
Despite this particular love-hate relationship, there is a striking sense of camaraderie among soup-lovers. It seems that hot, savory, liquid truly transcends race, gender, age and sexual preference.
As if to prove this, at the present moment this Hale & Hearty crew* consists of: a serial-killer-esque man in a a trench coat silently watching his Asian girlfriend eat soup in the studious and determined way of someone plotting how to murder their next victim, a 20-something blonde woman in post-workout gear pawing at her lentil soup, and a small Indian child in a stroller screaming for his mother.
As I sit, staring at them from my window perch, with traces of Tomato Cheddar around my mouth, looking out the window at trash bags piled outside on the sidewalk, the dog with three legs, and the woman who looks like she bathed with a can of tuna, I am overwhelmed with a sense of hope and unity for our country.
It reminds me of Obama's famous speech at the Democratic National Convention in 2004 where he said, "There's not a liberal America and a conservative America; there are people who like soup and then there are people who are idiots."
So I sit back, comforted by the fact that I am that small Indian child, I am that creepy white dude, I am that … Ok I am not that girl in workout gear.
*For vampires, that's blood soup.
*As I call them. I got us jackets but no one wears them.
Done and done :)
This past week I was laid off from my job and broke up with my boyfriend.
Needless to say, I am now on a 13 hour-a-day sleeping schedule and wear my pajamas to social engagements.
I'm in the beginning stages of Grey Gardens and my apartment is slowly turning from a "cozy studio" into a "den of broken dreams"*
My mom now ends our (multiple, daily) phone calls with "Please go outside!"
During times like this, some people to turn to a higher power.
I, being a heathen, turn to bacon.
Last night I went to a diner with my friend and ordered challah french toast with maple syrup and bacon, followed by a cheesecake, followed by an egg sandwich, with a chocolate milkshake on the side.
If my calculations are correct, in approximately 5 weeks I will have zero self esteem and a hell of a lot of Delivery.com points.
"Is this a cry for help?" you ask.
No, more like a burp.
Be kind to me, Bacon God.
And in the meantime…
* If you don't know what I'm talking about, now you do: Grey Gardens
I've spent the past three hours rolling around in bed in a mixture of sweat and Indian food. I can't tell if it's hot in my apartment or if the heat is coming from the kinetic energy of me eating three plates of paratha.
I started tonight thinking, "You know what? I'm treating myself. I deserve it!" (and all that Eat, Pray, Love bullsh*t) Cut to three hours later, I'm spread-eagle on my bed, angrily sipping a mango lassi out of a straw.
I've decided to stop eating meat for a while. This turn of events came when I touched the ribbed, hard vein on the underside of a raw chicken the other night and nearly threw up.
My new "vegetarian" diet has increased my bread and cheese intake tenfold. I now order Tomato Cheddar soup from Hale and Hearty two times a day. I am slowly going broke, gaining weight and losing self respect. (In other words, my usual prep for bikini season.)
You know what F**K THAT S**T! F**k killing yourself to look good for three months out of the year. Just give up like me. It's easy. Turn the lights off during sex. Problem solved.
I'm beginning to get a belly and I kind of like it. Now I just unbutton my top button at work and let it hang. That made for an awkward moment with my co-worker the other day but it sure felt good.
My pouch is comforting like a little friend, or a pet. I want to name it something cool like "Zanzabar" or "Melissa" or something.
Eh well, Master Chef is on.
I've never been one of those "eat lunch in the park" kind of girls. You know the type with the work-appropriate sundresses, eating colorful salads and reading about DIY tampon doilies or whatever.
I'm more of a "sweaty, dirty pants-wearing, huffing food into my mouth over the keyboard and crying" kind of girl. (For more on this check out my post: How to Eat a Bag of Tostitos "Hint of Lime" Chips in One Sitting )
But today I decided to "go out and get some sun!"*
On my way to the park, I picked up some pan-seared salmon from Cafetasia off of Broadway. It had a B rating but I like to live on the edge.
"Pan-seared" turned out to be a generous term, as what was handed to me was a plastic container of gray fish soup.
"F**k it, not turning back now," I thought, walking past a teen couple dry-humping on a mound of grass in Washington Square Park.*
I quickly scanned my surroundings for a vacant bench with enough space on either side so that I wouldn't have to make human contact. Next I uncovered my salmon soup. It smelled like my five year-old sister's wet swimsuit, but as it was my only available sustenance, I dove in.
Apart from the sloshing mixture beneath it, it really wasn't that bad. I started snacking on the accompanying container of white rice, alternating bites and was having a pretty good time with it.
Soon a homeless gentleman man pulled up next to me and spread some cardboard down for a nap. Things were looking up.
Then it happened: I turned, grabbing my purse and the plastic container holding my salmon soup crashed to the ground, splashing oily fish water all over my pants.
"Raaaaah!" I yelled, to the surrounding people's blank stares.
F**k the park.
Have you ever spilled s**t on your pants? Done something embarassing in a public setting? Email me at: firstname.lastname@example.com. Let's talk about it.
* As my mother often suggests to me with anxious eyes in a tone usually reserved for mental patients on the verge of breakdown.
* May or may not have lingered a little too long looking at them. I'm a creep. It's my cross to bear.
So, I ordered massage oil candles online last week.*
(I may or may not have been laying face down on my bed eating macaroni and cheese out of a cup at the time of this purchase.)
What is unusual about this situation, is that I made the mistake of joining the store's mailing list.*
Now those of you that know me know that I am a working professional*
You know what doesn't look professional??
Having emails with subjects like "STRAP-ON SALE! LIMITED TIME ONLY!" at the top of your inbox when your supervisor walks by your desk…
What am I? Some thrifty, sexual creep who can't resist a bargain?*
But honestly, if there's anything more humbling than buying sensual massage items alone at 1am with macaroni and cheese on your face, it's hoarding coupons with names like "Treat URself 2 Pleasure" and "Bondage Kit 25% OFF" in order to buy said items.
So there's a slice of life for you…
Till next time. Eat up folks!
*It's whatever
*I never click that button!!!
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Hello old friends!
You may have noticed that I haven't posted for a while.
Perhaps you assumed that I had finally contracted Type II Diabetes and had died face down in a child's birthday cake somewhere.
But guess what?
I'm back, baby
And I just put some delicious nachos in the microwave…
They're ready.
Let's do this
So, the reason for my departure isn't that I've been busy, or overwhelmed with success, or lost my sh*t like that KONY 2012 guy who ran around screaming and masturbating on the streets of San Diego.*
I've just been lazy
Eating for me has recently become less of a source of humor, than a crippling and systematic assault on my metabolism and well-being.
For example:
Right now I'm hunched over my computer in a dirty bathrobe simultaneously ordering delivery from two different Chinese food restaurants.*
I haven't gone grocery shopping for four months, and have recently taken to ordering double lunches and double dinners so that my refrigerator now resembles the bomb shelter of a neurotic, indecisive, salt addict.
In order to feed the monster, I've perfected a way to cheat the delivery.com system so that I get 25% off each time.
Surprisingly, people aren't as impressed with this as I thought they would be…
THE SCENE: House party, two twenty-something girls standing at the table next to the chips and dip
Me: Mmm… Love these Naked chips, right?
Cute Girl in Jumper: Oh my god! Obsessed! They're the best.
Me: (quietly) So I like to eat alone in my bed off of my stomach sometimes…
Cute Girl in Jumper: Sorry, what?
Me: (hyperventilating) Like just after work! Ha! It's not weird! Ha! Like I'm not spending all day alone in my apartment!!! I love daylight!! Anyway, Delivery.com. You know them right?? So, they have all these points, I've redeemed a lot of them and gotten mugs and stuff! But the other day I found this great way to save money on…. Wait, where are you going?
And so the story goes…
*Alright, that was me.
*In other words: it's your typical Monday night.
So maybe I'm not eating it right, but in all of my yogurt-consuming experiences I have never:
Commercials make yogurt seem like a party drug for women:
The scene: two women are sitting on a couch in their apartment
Cheryl: Becky have you tried this new Xtra Fantasy Cream yogurt from Yoplait?
Becky: No girl! Tell me about it!
Cheryl: Well, this kind is xtra luxurious and xtra decadent. It's like you're eating a cheesecake at a fancy restaurant, but then you wake up and you're really just sitting in your cubicle eating low-cal yogurt out of a plastic container!
Becky: Ooh that's just what I need girl!
They both laugh and stare at each other. The camera pans out while they spoon yogurt into each others mouths and the voice over goes, "Xtra Fantasy Cream yogurt from Yoplait, for bi-curious women everywhere."
When I eat yogurt, the process goes something like this:
Step 1: I'm at the grocery store and decide to round out my purchases with some "health food" so I pick up a container of YoCrunch, the kind with the chocolate candies in packet on the top. (Baby steps)
Step 2: The next day at work I proudly brandish it on my desk saying, "Yep. Eating healthy today, guys. Watchin' my figure, you know," to no one in particular.
Step 3: At lunchtime I lunge at the container with my nails attempting to pierce the foil cover but it does not move.
Step 4: I claw at it for five minutes to no avail, rage slowly building inside of me.
Step 5: Panic mode sets in and I lose it, stabbing the foil with a fork.
Step 6: A final stab sends a mix of chocolate candies and yogurt flying all over my desk.
Step 7: I drink down the yogurt greedily and am done in two seconds feeling unsatisfied.
Step 8: My co-worker walks by and stares at the pools of yogurt on my desk, "Oh it's… I just.. It's not what you think…" I say before they turn away.
Step 9: I am alone, feeling like a pervert and I'm still hungry.
Step 10: Time to order Delivery.com
*That's what bacon is for
Real yogurt talk: http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/e2b7f74ab8/yogurt-is-so-good-from-andrea-savage-and-rachael-harris
Here's the thing:
I'm biologically female.*
But there are a few things I don't understand about commercials geared towards women.
You know the ones, I'm talking about:
The scene: A white mom wearing a matching sweater set and sensible slacks sits at the kitchen table drinking tea when a stampede of teenagers roll in carrying hockey sticks, soccer balls and a crow-bar screaming and lunging on the carpet.
"Kids! Can you just…" she calls after them.
"Oh well," she chuckles, shaking her head cheerfully while reaching down to procure a swiffer.
In an instant she cleans up the mess they've made, wipes her brow and high-fives a cartoon character while the kids run behind her in the background and f**k up the carpet again.
In reality, that situation would go like this:
The scene: A tired, frazzled, bloated middle-aged woman with no bra and sweatpants is lying on the couch watching QVC and eating Little Debbies, when a team of filthy teenagers run in front of her on the carpet,
"Oh HELL no!" she yells, launching up off the sofa, Little Debbie wrappers flying everywhere, "Tommy! Get your ass back here! I WILL F**KING END YOU!"
The camera pans out with her chasing after them with the swiffer screaming, "Not on my watch motherf**ker!"
That's real life for you.
*I did a quick-check in the shower the other day, and I'm pretty sure.
Editor's Note: Since I posted this, multiple people have informed me that it is "platanos" not "plantanos." I'm leaving this in as a prime example of my whiteness. Maybe this was why the waitress smiled at me when I asked for more…
My boyfriend, James, lives in Harlem and every night he eats at a little chicken and rice restaurant down the street from his apartment.
It's $5 for a whole plate of food, and he speaks about it with the reverence that devout Catholics have for Jesus or the excitement that Kristen Bell feels when a "sloth is near"*
I went there with him the other day, and it went something like this:
(We walk in, greeted by a smiling Dominican woman behind the counter)
Woman: (to James) Hola papi! Lookin' good! How are you?
James: I'm great, darlin! Got that ill mondongo today?
(they both break out in a chorus of laughter)
Woman: (laughing) Oh you!
Me: (hovering in the background in my puffy coat, laughing loudly, clearly confused) HA! HA! Right??
Both: (stop laughing and look at me as if I had just farted)
James: (pause) So anyway… Can I get the lunch special?
At this point, I feel like I should mention something to you.
I'm white.
Alright, pasty.
Alright, borderline translucent…
And I don't just mean skin color. I'm talking country-club going, khaki-wearing, socks with sandals white.
If I was a genre of music I would be smooth jazz.
I used to try to pretend I wasn't as white. I went tanning, dyed my hair dark brown, and wore hoop earrings. But it just felt weird, like that time Christina Aguilera was brunette and did a music video with Lil' Kim*
I wish my life was like one of those Old Navy commercials with the black dad and Asian mom and Native American children all dancing in the sunlight, throwing snowballs and wearing knit hats.
But alas, I am sorely, painfully, Caucasian.
James is white too. But I don't think anyone has ever told him this, and sometimes I literally have no idea what he is saying.
The other day we were walking down the street and he pulled me aside whispering, "Yo, everyone be sleepin' on Harlem son."
"Yeah, son…" I whispered back, "They mad tired!"
Judging by the sad look on his face, I feel like this wasn't the correct response.
Back to restaurant: at that point I wanted to yell, "Hey! I can dig it! Chicken is the ill na na!" but I restrained myself and instead climbed onto one of high stools on the counter with my hands in my lap, like a five year-old waiting for din din.
James quickly ordered two lunch specials. As the waitresses were dancing to the radio, flirting with the regular customers and dipping ladles into different spicy sauces, I sat there tapping my foot to the beat in my J. Crew turtleneck.
Then it came: a heaping plate of morro rice, kidney beans, plantanos and roasted chicken breast with crispy skin glistening.
It was over. I dove in, forsaking all cutlery, face in the plate, eating bite after bite of delicious chicken with rice, kidney beans, and plantanos.
I alternated between James's plate and my own, stealing his chicken skin, to which he promptly responded, "What the f**k son??"
"Sorry daughter!", I joked. He didn't laugh, but I know he liked it.
Then with crazy eyes and chicken grease on my face, I grunted to the woman with maroon hair behind the counter, "More plantanos please!" She gave me a nod and spooned six extra fried plantains on my plate and smiled. We finally understood each other.
"Food is colorblind", I thought, downing a 22 of Budweiser.
Then a second thought came to mind, "This beer tastes like sh*t."
*This is actually really cute: http://youtu.be/t5jw3T3Jy70
* Still not sure what the f**k that was about: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dg8QgUIKXHw
You just made my day :)
Here's the scenario:
You're out at dinner with a friend.
You're excited to eat a real meal because let's face it, you can only order delivery from Zen Palate so many times before the delivery man just laughs in your face when you open the door.
"HAHA! Oh miss! You again!", he smiles.
"Yes, 'me again,'" you growl, hastily pulling the bag of Chinese food back into your lair.
The exchange is quick and filled with guilt, like a crackhead getting his next fix.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah. You got those good dumplings tonight?", you whisper, scratching your neck furiously. "Give 'em to me! Here's $5! Now scram!"
This is troubling.
But back to the scenario:
You sit down to a lovely white tablecloth setting with your friend Tammy/Holly/Krystal and look at the menu. "Pork belly! Duck confit! Perfect!" you think. You like this place. You commend yourself for having chosen such an excellent restaurant and feel proud of yourself for 3.2 seconds before the waiter comes over and asks,
"Would you ladies like bottled water or tap?'"
Now this bothers you for a few reasons:
A.) You know he can just look at your stained shirt, crumpled jeans and H&M shoes and deduce the answer to that question himself.
B.) When you do finally mutter, "Tap works," the waiter looks at you as if you'd just said: "Oh boy! You be fancy folk! I kin just go an' suck on the faucet behin the barn, like I do at Pa's house!"*
He quickly brings you your "poor people" water, and begins to take your order.
It is at this moment that Tammy/Holly/Krystal f**king does the unthinkable,
"And what would you like, Miss?"
"Oh! Me?", she says, as if surprised he would even ask. "I'll just have a side salad! I'm not that hungry." and then turns to look at you.
"WHAT??!!! Who the f**k are you?", you're screaming in your head, a frozen smile cast over your face.
Now when you order a "real person" meal*, you look like an obese monster. Like, "Hide your kids! I might eat them too!"
You know she's just going to stare at you while you eat three full courses. And you're a gross eater. No one wants to see that.
The waiter turns to you and asks you the same question, to which you mumble sheepishly, "Stkerrrtwo."
"Sorry what was that ma'am?", he repeats.
"Stakrtoooo," you mutter, a little louder this time.
"Ma'am I can't understand…"
"STEAK FOR TWO! I'M HAVING THE MOTHERF**KING STEAK FOR TWO!", you shout at the top of your lungs, a wild look in your eyes, your hair sticking out in every direction.
The waiter runs off and you turn back to your friend who is now looking at you like you're some kind of zoo animal.
"What?" you say, "I'm hungry."
* Honestly who actually orders bottled water at dinner? I just imagine some old British lady in a fur pantsuit like, "Daaahling! I only drink Evian made from ice-cubes hand-melted by orphans in Latvia. But do make sure they're real orphans! I want to taste their tears!"
*Like two whole chickens, extra fixin's, drizzled with butter
Editor's Note: If you're related to me or hold me in high esteem please do not continue on, as there are things I will share here with you that will make you clutch your turtlenecks and cardigans in horror.
Now that two of you are out of the way, let's go!
It was a warm summer afternoon and I was passed out in a bra and underwear on top of my comforter with makeup smudged on my face from the past night, and empty applesauce containers scattered on the floor.
It was like any other Tuesday.
But this time was a little different. This time I sensed that I was not alone…
Now, we've all been there: the dreaded "Morning After."
Who can really say?
It was at that very moment that I began to sense a presence in the bed next to me, like someone was watching my every move.
"F**k!" I whispered, grabbing my phone quickly to see who I was last talking to. The last text I sent was, "Hayyy, wat r u doin. I'm drunzzzzks."
It was to my grandma.
I don't even think she gets text messages.
"Whew, dodged that bullet", I thought with shmide*
Still sensing someone next to me, I immediately went over possible escape plans in my head:
"I can pretend to be dead"
"I can say that I have an appointment to run to!"
No, I don't look like the type of person who has appointments.
"I can just leave!"
No, it's my apartment.
After twenty minutes of debating to how to exit, I decided to face my fears.
I attempted a seductive yawn like I imagine a sleepy Playboy Bunny would do and rolled over, instead I sounded like I was having a small stroke.
My eyes closed, fearing the worst, I reached out next to me and touched something firm and cardboard-like. Then I opened my eyes and saw it: an extra-large Papa John's pizza box ripped down the middle like an animal had gotten into it. Pieces of crust were scattered all over the bed and remnants of marina sauce were on my face and body.
"Wow", I thought and then said the only thing I could think to ask,
"Well was it good for you?"
* Check out my "How To Eat A Bag of Tostitos Hint Of Lime Doritos In One Sitting" post for more on this word.
Setting: Sixth-grade cafeteria
"What are you doing?"
My best friend Jessica was staring at me with a look of disgust usually reserved for roadkill and vomit as I panted excitedly, balling up a grilled cheese sandwich in my hands and shoving it in my face, "Romggg. You gotta try this!"
"You're such a gross eater," she snorted, as I stared at her blankly, half of a grilled cheese sandwich hanging out of my mouth.
"Warrever…" I slurred, continuing to eat my sandwich.
It was grilled cheese day and no one was going to ruin it for me. No one.
I am a gross eater. It is my cross to bear.
I eat with my hands, nose and sometimes forehead, tossing morsel upon morsel of delicious food down my gullet. This is an especially great tactic on dates if you want someone to like "you for you.":
GUY: "Um. You have food in your hair."
ME: "Ohhhh, haha. Weirddd…", I would say with feigned embarrassment, frantically eying the table for scraps.
I eat sourdough bread by scooping out the doughy middle, rolling it into a ball and slowly chewing on the yeasty goodness* leaving the carcass of hollowed out crust on whatever surface is closest to me, before raiding the fridge for cheese.
It's an addiction.
While some little girls want dresses or Barbies, I wanted Burger King.
There's a home video of me when I was three years-old, wearing tiger print velour overalls standing on top of a wooden fence near our house with my dad shouting,
"Come on Peachie! Who wants Burger King??", goading me in the same tone of voice one would use when asking a dog if they want a treat.
At the mention of "Burger King" my eyes widened to twice their normal size and I started yelling wild jibberish and scooting my butt at record speed along the wooden railing to meet him until my mom came out yelling,
"Paul! What are you making her do?! Peach! Get down from there!"
But I just keep motoring on towards glory and that glorious BK paper crown.*
So gross eaters of the world, embrace it. Who cares if you always seem to get milkshake in your beard? Or your hands always smell like garlic? Or the sight of you eating lunch makes people physically sick?
You're enjoying one of the best parts of life! Delicious, terribly unhealthy food.
*Realizing that "yeasty" and "goodness" should never be used next to each other in a sentence. Keeping it in.
*Just spoke to my dad on the phone this morning and confirmed this story saying, "That explains a lot" and breaking in a fit of laughter. Five minutes later, he stopped laughing and ended the conversation with, "Alright kiddo! Well hope you're going to the gym!" Thanks, Dad.
The reviews are in, my good friends!
I smell success!
Or I might just be smelling my own body as I haven't showered since I started this blog and I'm running on pure adrenaline!*
But seriously, thank you for the support and the nice comments. I really do appreciate it. Otherwise all this snarkiness would just bottle up inside me and I'd end up a bitter, weathered alcoholic in a robe eating two-day old lo-mein out of the carton. (too late!)
But for real, I love you. I am IN love with you.
*This may or may not be true. I actually can't remember the last time I showered. Get over it.
I live in New York City and see weird sh*t everyday.
It takes a lot to shock me. But on my way to work, this ad did just that:
It's Tropicana's new NYC ad campaign. In case you couldn't see, the arrow is pointing to a bottle of orange juice.
So here's the thing, Tropicana. I have never seen two ex-boyfriends on the subway train at the same time. EVER. I ride the subway at least four times a day. And I've dated at least 7 million people in this city.
(I know. The numbers don't add up. It's weird.)
But seriously, what are they trying to say with this ad? "Hey ladies! Thirsty? Drink this OJ and forget about those mistakes you made your sophomore year of college!"
I just imagine some guy named Jeb at Tropicana Corporate like, "Now if there's one thing I know about promiscuous women, it's that they LOVE juice. Right? Right?" And everyone around the conference table nodding in agreement, "Sluts sure do love citrus, Sir!"
If you ever DID see two of your ex-boyfriends on the same train, in what scenario would a carton of orange juice make it better?
I can picture it now:
Jenny enters the train.
Things are going well until she notices Bill, and Dan! Oh no! Not one, but two of her ex-boyfriends!
Jenny reaches in her purse, struggling to find her savior: that smushed up carton of orange juice she bought at the bodega yesterday. She attacks the little papery envelope with her nails but can't tear it apart. People on the train start to stare. "Got it!" she yells triumphantly holding the carton above her head like a golden chalice.
At that moment Bill notices her and comes over, "Hey Jenny! How have you been?" he says.
Terror washes over here face. "Nuh uh!" she blurts, guzzling from the carton, eyes closed tight, shaking her head from side to side. Little beads of perspiration forming on her brow.
"Ummm… Ok?", Bill mutters and backs away, instantly reminded of why they broke up in the first place.*
Just then ex-boyfriend #2 Dan saunters over. "Yo Jen!" he says. "Crazy to bump into you! What's going on?" But Jenny just closes her eyes even tighter and starts humming to herself "Narrrrr, narrrr", sucking down that tiny carton of orange juice like her life depends on it.
"Jen WTF is wrong with you? Is there even any juice left? The carton is empty!" he blurts.
"Narrrr narr" she mumbles frantically, tipping back what is now an empty carton.
"23rd street!" the conductor calls out and Jenny walks off of the train.
"Thanks Tropicana!" she beams giving the thumbs up to a non-existent camera behind the garbage can.
If I saw two of my ex-boyfriends on the train I would introduce them to each other and then sit in awkward silence, waiting to see who cracks first.
I have no problem with uncomfortable situations. In fact, I thrive on them as vampires thrive on blood.*
So come at me, ex-boyfriends of the world. I'll bring my OJ. It's gonna go down.
* She's f**king crazy (great clip on this here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N007irODH9s )
*I know this is true because I read it in Twilight, a great little series by Stephanie Meyer. You should check it out if you haven't heard of it. I think it's gonna be big.
Step 1:
Wake up sweaty and disoriented, ten minutes before you have to leave for work wearing a Soroptimist Women's Organization shirt your grandma gave you and those stained dELiA*s sweatpants you bought in the 7th grade (when JLo's velour sweat-suit was a "thing")
Step 2:
Grab a pair of jeans crumpled up in the corner of your apartment.
Step 3:
Do the sniff test. If they pass, throw them on. If not, Febreze® them and then throw them on. Same goes for socks. It's quick, easy and saves tons of money on laundry! Also prevents you from having meaningful romantic relationships.
Step 4:
Grab a bag of Tostitos® "Hint of Lime" chips located in the "nacho supplies" section of your kitchen. If you do not have a "nacho supplies" section in your kitchen, stop reading this immediately and kill yourself*
Step 5:
Throw on that magenta puffy coat your mom got you on sale from L.L. Bean. Yes, you look like an overgrown toddler with a disability but it's f**king cold and your self-respect is a gone anyway.
Step 6:
Jog down your hallway cradling the bag of chips in your arms as if it were a small child. Drop the bag: lose 12 points. Nobody likes crumbled up chips*
Step 7:
Jump on the subway. Push past the finance bros in Grand Central with their ill-fitting Dockers and "Super Cuts" haircuts. Start to laugh at them. Realize you are wearing a puffy L.L. Bean coat your mom bought you. Stop laughing.
Step 8:
Breeze into the office, mingle, check email, stare at that puppy desk-calendar you bought at Staples last week. Note that your desk resembles less of a "professional work-space" than the bomb-shelter of a confused tween girl.
Step 9:
Engage in an awkward run-in at the coffee machine with that guy whose name you can't remember (Elijah? Enrique? Jamiroquai?).
Step 10:
Your conversation will go something like this:
You: "So what do you do?"
Jamiroquai: "I'm a headhunter."
You: "Ooh headhunting!! Scary!"
Jamiroquai: "Umm… It means we recruit talent for companies."
You: (blank expression) "Ah hah! Well… This coffee is really coffee today! Bye!
(Run into glass door, realize it's a "pull." Laugh uncomfortably, then swing it open and bolt down the hallway. Do not look back).
Step 11:
Lunchtime! Your co-worker is eating Tomato Cheddar soup from Hale & Hearty again (your favorite). It smells delicious, but unfortunately you spent all of your money at (insert name)'s birthday/holiday party/bar mitzvah last week, so instead you are going to eat this bag of lime-flavored tortilla chips.
Step 12:
Rip open the plastic bag with your teeth and put your dignity aside, (probably next to the puppy desk-calendar.)
Step 13:
Eat the entire bag of chips.
Step 14:
At some point you won't feel hungry anymore. Power through this. It is an illusion. You are always hungry. This is who you are.
Step 15:
Soon your co-worker will ask if you've "done that spreadsheet yet." Just act like you can't hear them and point to the bag of chips mouthing the word "lunch."
Step 16:
The bag is done. You're filled with a mixture of shame and pride. You decide to call this "shmide."
Step 17:
Write down "do yoga! :)" on a sticky-note.
Step 18:
Never do yoga.
Step 19:
Repeat weekly.
That's all folks!
*OK, don't actually kill yourself. It's not good press for the blog. But do take a moment to look at your life and your choices and then do the opposite of everything you've been doing. Now proceed to Step 5.
* Unless you mix them with sour cream (but I digress.)
Have you ever loved someone so much you would do anything just to spend one moment together? You would give them everything you have, because you know that you will never find another person who satisfies your needs in the way he does? And every morning you wake up and thank God you found him?
Well, that's how I feel about sour cream.
"What?" I hear you saying, "That's not a person. That's a topping."
You raise an interesting point.
Sour cream and I, while not a conventional couple, have a very intense relationship. Sometimes if I can't find something to dip in it, I'll just eat it right out of the container. A week ago my roommate walked in to find me crouching behind the refrigerator door, wide-eyed, frantically spooning sour cream into my mouth. I've never seen that kind of disappointment in someone's eyes before.
That was a wake up call.
That afternoon I decided that I needed an excuse to rationalize my disgusting behavior, and what better way than to start a blog!
That very day I began a year-long journey of indulgence, where I will eat whatever the f**k I want and document my progress, as well as my inevitable weight gain and crippling depression.
It's kind of like Eat, Pray, Love. Only minus the pray and the love part.
It's kind of like Super Size Me, only there's no political message behind it. Just me, straight up, eating my brains out, until I become the size of a giant bean bag.
It's like Mardi Gras! If your idea of Mardi Gras is eating alone in your apartment while watching Top Chef and crying.
So here we go!
I woke up around at 3:30 PM today.
I say "woke up", but I didn't actually leave bed until 4:30 when I rolled my fat ass out of bed, ripped open a packet of ramen noodles with my teeth and followed it with lemonade out of the carton.
It is now 5 PM and I am comfortably back in bed. At this point I'm considering getting a catheter so I don't have to get up ever again.
"What are you doing?" you ask,
This is my Valhalla, my heaven, my paradise.
So throw on your robe and grab a family-size bucket of Ben and Jerry's.
Sh*t's about to get real.


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HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- For more than ten years, former Marshall teammates Mike Bartrum and Troy Brown have been paying it forward on the football field and in the community.
The Bartrum & Brown Camp started as a small affair in Pomeroy, Ohio, but it has blossomed into a long weekend of charity events and fellowship for former pro teammates and Marshall players and coaches.
The May camp is still about the football at its core. More than 400 campers participated in this year's main attraction.
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Mike Bartrum's former Philadelphia Eagles' teammate Chad Lewis also volunteered his time to help. But both Bartrum and Brown, both former NFL Pro-Bowlers, say no matter how big the camp gets they keep the focus on the kids.
"It's something we cherish and to be able to give back and that's what God wants us to do," Bartrum said. "I think what everyone is doing. And each year this thing keeps getting bigger and bigger."
Proceeds from the camp go to help youth programs in Huntington and Bartrum's hometown of Pomeroy, Ohio.
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Racism, Psycho Children, & Animals… Oh my!
Cats Don't Dance is one of my favorite musical movies ever. It's got the spunk, comedy, and that sense of the classics that make it such a fun hour and a half. I don't know if I was drawn to it as a kid because I loved theatre and movies and performing and had dreams similiar to Danny's… but I know that's why I identify with it now. And maybe Danny showed me that it was okay to have those dreams of performing for thousands and doing my art… I don't know, but either way this little movie had an effect on me.
There are some movies like Thumbelina or The Black Cauldron that I completely understand why they flopped. Because they're awful and there's no way to market as an awful as movie as those. And then there's movies like Cats Don't Dance, which were huge flops even though there is no real reason why they deserved to flop… the music is great, the animation is beautiful, the characters are funny and relatable… Yet it received mixed reviews from critics and grossed only $3.5 million at the box office…
Most of the reason for its flop has been placed on it becoming a victim of the Turner/Time Warner merger which caused the movie to fall to the wayside. There was no promotion, with only one theatrical trailer being prepared for the movie. Luckily, it became a bit of a cult classic for those of us growing up in the nineties watching animated movies on TV.
So even though, it wasn't a huge success by any means in any regards, it's still a fantastic movie that has a really great story and wonderful metaphor for how African American performers were being treated in Golden Age of Cinema. I know right? A movie about singing cats actually has some deep seeded roots in the racism of the entertainment industry. Pretty cool, huh? I mean… not that racism was cool… Like the idea is cool… not the idea of racism, though… I mean, uh… Let's start the review…
The star of our movie is Danny, a orange tabby cat with his heart set on stardom. Danny is that musical theatre kid. The one who probably got lucky and got cast as Curly in Oklahoma in high school and was actually pretty good. And then he went to his local community college, got cast because he was a straight dude, and after a semester and a half changed his major to theatre and decided he was going to be a star. And of course, he went to some podunk community college in Indiana so no one informed just how difficult actually breaking into show business can be, because he's been more or less been handed his entire resume on a silver platter because well… there was no one else in his podunk town who was actually talented or knew anything about the biz.
But Danny is good. He's actually pretty dang talented. That's the thing. He's not one of those misguided people. He legit has skills… he's just not very informed of what he's getting himself into. And it helps justify his do-eyed optimism and his need for instant gratification in a system that refuses that sort of fulfillment.
I know that was a lot of diving into the psyche of a cat in a cartoon, but it helps me justify why Danny acts the way he does, because otherwise he can come off like a douchebag at times. But he's not! He just lived in a town where racism didn't really happen (because they were ALL animals) and in a town that didn't have exactly the know how to give him the proper education for his career.
But don't worry, he's going to get his rose colored glass smashed in a big way… by the sweetest girl in the pictures…
Darla Dimple. America's Sweetheart and Lover of Children and Animals.
or as I like to call her THAT CRAZY ASS BITCH GIRL.
Darla Dimple is one of the most vicious, nastiest, crazy villains in animation history. She's cutthroat and vicious and a child …well, maybe… she looks like a child, but where are her parents? Why is she in charge of her own expenses and where is her agent? Is she emancipated from everyone? so many questions…
The one thing that's not a question is that this curly haired, Shirly Temple wannabe with her thunder thighs may be sugary sweet on the outside, but deep down she is a crazy bitch.
Take the above picture for example.
She's also incredibly racist against animals. Which doesn't bode well when Danny and Darla meet for the first time.
Danny gets a bit role in Darla's upcoming musical extravaganza, Lil' Ark Angel, which cats Darla as an angel from Heaven who is sent to build an ark and load up animals two by two on to it. Because who needs Noah anyway? Well, Danny, who as I mentioned earlier probably got every lead on his resume handed to him because he was straight and the only talented person in a 50 mile radius… isn't cool with ensemble. Which is obnoxious, and I would probably be with the other animals in rolling my eyes at him, but he's just naive and doesn't understand.
With a little creative ad libbing and upstaging of the star, Danny gets himself into deep water. Darla sicks her behemoth of a butler on him, Max, and in front of the entire cast and crew, Danny is publicly humiliated and rocked to the core. But Danny lives on the bright side of life, and refuses to give up his dream… he just wants to do the thing he loves… something that the other animals who have become too jaded by the industry all seem to have forgotten.
The most jaded? Sawyer. A beautiful cat who once had all the potential in the world, she was a beautiful dance and had the voice of an angel… and then bit by bit the industry wore her down… Lucky for her, though, Danny kind of has the hots for her (he probably wants to get into character since they're playing the only two cats on the ark… eh eh?) and he's not going to let her spark and passion for performing completely be extinguished!
Danny offers to get the animals a meeting with L.B. Mammoth, the head honcho and studio exec, so that they can audition for him and show him that animals are just as talented as people.
Unfortunately, his got to connection is none other that America's little psychopath who happened to over here his plan… and decided she should offer her "assistance". Which I mean, after someone publicly humiliates you and practically destroys any chance of you booking a gig, you normally would think twice about accepting their help… and especially when they're a crazy bitch.
But apparently in Kokomo, Indiana, people blindly trust each other no matter the signs or indications that its going to be a huge disaster. And that's Danny's tragic flaw, that he is the eternal optimist and just completely unaware of his surroundings.
So Darla sabotages the animals audition for L.B. Mammoth, and destroys Danny's faith in humanity. And any chance he has with Sawyer. And any chance of animals anywhere getting work, destroying any press for the movement for animals rights and ending this fantastic racism… aka… Danny feels pretty sucky right about now.
So does Sawyer… especially when for the first time in a long time she actually believed that something could happen for her and her friends…
She's also become translucent… weird…
She's so sad that when she sings her big 11th hour number, her singing voice sounds absolutely NOTHING like her speaking voice. It's really awkward and obvious that the two voices don't sound anything alike. Apparently, another actress who's speaking voice matched up a bit more closeley with Natalie Cole had originally recorded the role of Sawyer, but for unknown reasons, she was removed pretty late into the process, after Natalie's vocals had been recorded. So thus, the disconnect!
Danny, may be bruised but he's not broken. And realizing the part has only just begun… he somehow arranges a huge, showtopping performance with crazy lighting, special effects, and an original song that none of the animal performers have rehearsed together prior to this (hey, it's a musicals!)… and though resistant at first, the animals realize they HAVE to be doing what they love. No matter how many "no's" get thrown in their face, they were meant to perform. And nothing is going to stop them now.
I guess this movie's message is even more important to me now, 1) because racism sucks and everyone should have the opportunity to perform no matter what, even if they're cats, dogs, black, white, straight, gay, whatever… and 2) As I have gotten older, in my career as a performer, I have become jaded. I've lost that do-eyed expectations that I can do anything. Or at least that light has faded a bit, and yes, it's a movie about cats singing, but it's a movie about not giving up on your dreams, no matter how many rejections you get… all it takes is one little (or a big & loud) performance to change your life. And like Danny and the other animals, you just have to keep trying. Dreams can come true… especially in the movies. ;)


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I know this has been mentioned previously on the forum, but apparently the Washington Post (and Congress) just got wind of it. (This is "news" because new legislation is on the table about how to deal with the threat.)
Anybody in infrastructure or communications should take notice - we know the electrical grid is vulnerable. Because of heavy reliance on computers and "real time" images, commanders and civilian managers need to look at our C3I vulnerabilities.
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