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Off-Label Use of Atypical Antipsychotics: An Update
Adverse Effects of Interest in the Comparative Effectiveness Review
The adverse effect profiles of the atypical antipsychotics are not expected to vary according to indication. An exception is dementia, which is associated with older age. Patient age is expected to influence the adverse effect profiles. Reported adverse events were evaluated according to age groups: (1) adults 18–64 years of age and (2) elderly adults aged 64 and older. The key adverse events of interest were mortality, weight gain, endocrine disorders and diabetes, cardiovascular events, extrapyramidal symptoms, and sedative effects.
Keywords: adverse events | atypical antipsychotics | cardiovascular events | diabetes | elderly | endocrine | extrapyramidal symptoms | mortality | off-label | second generation | sedation | weight | antipsychotics
- Maglione M, Ruelaz Maher A, Hu J, et al. Off-Label Use of Atypical Antipsychotics: An Update. Comparative Effectiveness Review No. 43 (Prepared by the Southern California RAND Evidence-based Practice Center under Contract No. HHSA 290-2007-10062-I). Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; September 2011. AHRQ Publication No. 11(12)-EHC087-EF. Available at www.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/offlabelantipsych.cfm.
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Woman bites ear of attempted kidnapper, escapes
Officers: Attack on 500 Block of Saxony Road
SAN DIEGO - An 18-year-old woman escaped from an attempted kidnapping and possible attempted rape in Encinitas on Monday, according to the San Diego County Sheriff's Department.
The woman was walking in the 500 Block of Saxony Road toward Puebla Street at about 1:30 p.m. when a young man – possibly a teenager – pulled her inside a pickup truck with two other men.
Sheriff's Lt. Dan Brislin told 10News, "While inside the truck, the victim struggled and fought off her assailant, reportedly bit one of the suspects and was able to free herself from the truck and ultimately ran to a nearby residence for help. The suspects fled the scene."
Deputies walked Saxony Road, looking for clues while others checked local emergency rooms for anyone seeking treatment for a bite to an ear as well as trying to track down the pickup truck involved.
The truck was described as an older model small black pickup with horizontal orange stripes on the fenders and gardening equipment in the back.
The Sheriff's Department released sketches of the three suspects late Monday evening.
The truck's driver was described as a heavyset Hispanic man who was about 30 to 40 years old (Suspect #2 in sketch). The other passenger was a thin Hispanic man who was about 25 to 35 years old (Suspect #1 in sketch). The one who grabbed the woman was also thin – perhaps still a teenager – and either white or Hispanic (Suspect #3 in sketch).
The victim told deputies she also punched the driver before escaping. She indicated that she suffered no physical injuries.

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I get a daily email from Bookbub.com that informs me of free or cheap e-books I can get from Amazon or Apple (I think--I always get mine from Amazon). ANYWAY, I recieved a free book today from them called The Diet Dropout's Guide to Natural Weight Loss. If you are interested in getting it, for a limited time, it is free to download from Amazon. You can read it on a Smart Phone, iPod, iPad, or Kindle device--even from a desktop computer! I really enjoy getting so many free or cheap books this way.
I subscribed to the daily email from BookBub. As part of this service, I used a survey to let them know the kinds of books I like. Now they send me a daily email with several books described that cost 0-4 dollars to buy. The deals don't last long, so I have to decide fairly quickly whether I want to have the books. I usually say no to books that cost money and consider the free ones. Just like in real life though, one can clutter one's devices with too many books. I try to be diserning!
Nevertheless, if it's a good book with a fresh take on a topic I'm passionate about, I usually get the book. If you get this book, maybe we should have a little book club and read it together!
Since I have a new job, I indulged in a bit of shopping today. I decided to get some capri-length jeans and a top. I tried on the size I believed I needed, but they were too baggy. I had to take a smaller size! I haven't worn that size in oh-so-long! I haven't been doing well with any aspect of my Spark Plan, but it was truly a nice feeling to require a smaller size pants! These pants are pull-on with a stretchy waist and no fly. Who needs it when my tops are always covering my waist anyway. So comfy!
I've finished my first week of work. It was hard to get in the groove. I was pretty tired each day when I came home. It was hard to get rallied to cook a home-cooked meal, but I did it a few times. I cannot brag about great control when it has come to eating lately. I have dined at Taco Bell a few times and such, but I did make a pot of black beans from scratch that I've enjoyed eating with homemade salsa. I need to get back in the groove of drinking water.
Hope everyone is doing well with their eating programs and fitness routines. My SparkTeam has a challenge that just began in which we all attempt to lose a pound a week until July 4. Hope everyone will give it their all. If you are interested in joining this challenge, we'd love to have you over at the 50+ team page. Even if you are not quite 50 yet, you can still do the challenge with us--we are not that exclusive!
Spark the best you can, y'all!
I had gotten used to being a woman of leisure. Now I have a time-consuming job. I go from 8-ish to 4-ish to a family's home and provide tutoring and behavior therapy to a couple of children with a diagnosis of being on the Autism spectrum. It's my first time being solely responsible for the care and tending of an autistic child, and so far so good. I have a co-worker in the home with me. She is responsible for the younger child who exhibits a classic case of autistism (he's 8, but really small for his age). I have responsibility for the older, very skillful boy (he's 9, and also kind of small). So far, as I said, so good. Mom is in and out of the house. I could write an entire blog about my impressions of her as she is a piece of work herself, but I will just do my best to get along with her so I can keep this job. The kids are enrolled in an online school and it's interesting to gain experience with that. I am thinking that my daughter needs to enroll there this summer if she doesn't pass the end-of-course test in algebra/geometry. It's good to learn about it. It's also good to gain some experience working with special education children. This could be the beginning of a new career pathway!
I will be taking my lunch to work and I hope to get back on the good foot with my weightloss goals. I have backslid big time with eating. I need to regain control. It's spring and I wanted to be much thinner by now. Need to do everything to turn things around and start making progress again.
Hope everything has a happy Easter!
I have been babystepping back to the sweet sparking spot. Still not there yet though. Drinking water, eating freggies, need to move more and curb junk food.
My new job still hasn't begun. I hoped to be working this week. I will be getting some training late in the week NEXT week. Argh! I guess I just have to roll with it. I continue to draw unemployment and I really wish I could quit. Part of being on unemployment is having to report job search activities so I have to continue to DO job search activities even though I feel I already HAVE a job. But until I am actually working, I am going to keep doing all of this. I really don't enjoy making all these applications, but it is what it is. I have taken the attitude that I don't have to be a perfect fit for the jobs I'm applying for; if I believe I could do it, I apply. I only have a low expectation of hearing back from them but occasionally they do contact me! I have an interview with a school in China on Sunday night at 9:00 (they are in Beijing). Again, I don't really think this will materialize, but I am keeping my options open. My husband really wants to get work abroad so we keep making applications. It will be such a relief to be working again. Not just for my pocketbook but for my mind as well.
We are still planning to vacation this summer to Seattle. Not sure how extensive this vacation will be, but it's still planned. I hope to be able to bank a lot of money when my job starts and take the kids to Europe next year. My daughter will be 16 then, and the time of family vacations will be drawing to a close. My daughter really likes to go to foreign lands and meet people from other places. I think vacations ought to be good motivation for weightloss. What is wrong with me?
Lately I have fallen by the health and fitness wayside. How does it happen? Gradually I started eating more and more inappropriate foods. Gradually I stopped paying attention to my water. I haven't done serious fitness in quite a few days. I need to get my mojo working for sure! I made a healthy salad for dinner with a load of leafy greens as well as tomatoes and strawberries. Have you ever had strawberries sliced in your salad? It's surprisingly good with any kind of salad dressing. I also had a turkey burger on whole wheat. Babysteps back to the track, I guess!


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NEW exercise equipment next to Fawthrop Lagoon was officially opened in a ceremony on Wednesday by Glenelg Shire Council councillor Geoff White.
Dubbed the PortlandFitnessPark, the new metal equipment replaces the wooden equipment previously occupying the site near the barbecue area on Hood St.
A new fitness circuit has also been established in Merino at LionsPark.
The multipurpose equipment, funded by the Australian Government's Healthy Communities Initiative and organised by the Get Active Glenelg2Grampians Project, includes chin-up bars, step-ups, sit-up benches and body-dip bars, which can all be used to improve muscle condition and supplement any cardiovascular exercise, including simply going for a walk.
Cr White said the equipment would help raise awareness of the importance of physical activity, increase availability and participation in physical activity programs and improve the local capacity to provide those programs.
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15 Halloween Movies That Aren't Scary
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Halloween may be all about getting spooked, but what about those of us who like more treats than tricks? Rest assured, there are still some movies out there that will get you into the holiday spirit without giving you nightmares. Whether you want something to watch with the kids or just want to cuddle up with a blanket and a bowl of candy, here are some safer movies to watch this holiday.
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Murieal14964237 1 year
i was disappointed to not see the wizard of OZ
Nick-Maslow 1 year
I'm still holding out hope for a Hocus Pocus sequel.
Nancy-Einhart 1 year
Rocky Horror FTW! Also, speaking of Tim Curry, everyone should see The Worst Witch.
Hayley3358962 2 years
Here's the thing. How is Edward Scissorhands a Halloween movie? Because Tim Burton made it? That's a horrible reason. If anything it's a Christmas movie, because it takes place at...oh my gosh...CHRISTMAS!!! Why do humans keep thinking it's a Halloween movie? Because you want to believe Edward is scary? No. It's a Christmas movie, humanity.
The-Ninja-Baker 2 years
Loved 15 Halloween Movies for Wimps so I linked the article to my current post at NinjaBaking.com entitled 21 Ways to Savor a Grownup Halloween. Thank you so much, Becky, for remembering that not all of us want to be scared completely out of our wits on Halloween.
thewhitenightangel 2 years
also forgot "The Scream Team", "Halloweentown", "Tower of Terror", and "Corpse Bride".
Letodan 3 years
Nice list but, Sleepy Hollow is missing. And the new Halloween classic for me is Trick 'R Treat... It's the perfect Halloween movie because, there are references to many myths surrounding Halloween!!
356UIK 3 years
Coraline :-)
356UIK 3 years
Coraline :-)
popculture-whore 3 years
great list! and i totally agree with you all, i would add beetlejuice and casper on there. i'm a sucker for casper... can i keep you? hahah
inlove23 4 years
Yea, what happened to Casper?! It's a classic! lol. I love Hocus Pocus and It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown! I haven't seen them this year though =/
postmodernsleaze 4 years
I just remembered that Gremlins should have made the list too :)
Renees3 4 years
i thought shaun of the dead was pretty scary too. Beetlejuice I actually just rewatched a couple weeks ago and the claymation and effects are pretty cheasy now so it's not as scary :-) We're going as Jack and Sally from TNBC this halloween, can't wait!
postmodernsleaze 4 years
I love horror movies, but I still adore this list-- nothing like a classic, feel-good Halloween movie :) (especially the old Sleepy Hollow, I still LOVE that movie!) Beetlejuice should replace Shaun of the Dead on the list. I could still see Shaun of the Dead freaking a few people out, even if it does include some comedy.
5 years
I'm not what you'd call a 'wimp' when it comes to gore, but Shaun of the Dead was flooded with enough blood & dread that it really shouldn't be on this list... It's horror first, comedy second.
5 years
I dunno about you guys, but Shaun of the Dead scared the heck out of me! I had to leave the room! (Yes, I'm a super-wimp.)
bleached 5 years
I love Practical Magic! I can't even count how many times I've seen it. I would have added The Corpse Bride as well since it's in the same vein as other Tim Burton classics
Allyace 5 years
I am definitely watching Hocus Pocus on Saturday :).
lilkimbo 5 years
Great list! It's not necessarily for kids, but I think Zombieland would be a great addition, as well!
redchick152 5 years
i loved hocus pocus when i was little!!!!!
Pampire 5 years
I love all "scary" movies but these are ones I can enjoy with my children. But where is elvira mistress of the dark? She is the queen of Halloween after all! :witch:
mharvent 5 years
I don't know about you guys but when I was a kid, The Addams Family scared me
akmarspice 5 years
I agree, Beetlejuice should be here too! To me, it's entertaining and semi-scary.
Ellenora 5 years
funkygeorge--I'm going to have to disagree with you about Beetlejuice. That movie scared me (yes, I'm a wimp)!
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After one NBA season, is Nick Calathes headed back to Euro League?
After one abbreviated season with the Memphis Grizzlies, has former Lake Howell and Gators guard Nick Calathes gotten all he wants of the NBA? EuroHoops.net reports that Calathes, who took a pay cut to come back home from Russia, has asked to be released by the Grizzlies to consider lucrative offers from European teams again.
But, Calathes' suspension for a failed drug test complicates potential talks with other teams. Calathes was suspended for 20 games on the eve of this year's NBA playoffs for the use of Tamoxifen, a drug that is one of 140 substances banned in the NBA performance-enhancing drug policy. It is not a PED but is classified as a masking agent for other banned substances.
Calathes' attorney, David Cornwell, stated this to ESPN at the time of the suspension:
"[It was] an over-the-counter supplement to treat a private but common medical condition; the NBA rejected it because it doesn't require a prescription," attorney David Cornwell, who is representing Calathes, told ESPN.
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We start with central Bosnia, where thousands of women have been left mentally and physically scarred by their treatment during the Bosnian war. Documents suggest anywhere from 20,000 to 50,000 women were raped during the conflict, mostly by Serb men although others were involved too. Many victims were kept in organised rape camps, and assaulted many times. Most were Muslim women who are still trying to come to terms with their horrific experiences.
One woman who devotes her time to helping them is Marijana Senjak, a trained psychologist and director of the non-governmental organisation Medica. Everywoman met her in the town of Zenica. Women de-mining - Lebanon
In Lebanon, families are still dealing with the legacy of the war between Israel and Hezbollah in the summer of 2006. Around a million cluster bombs were dropped by Israel towards the end of the war. They continue to kill or injure civilians every day.
The job of mine clearance used to be exclusively male. But now organisations are training women to find and defuse the bombs.
Everywoman was given exclusive access to a UN demining unit. We followed Hanan Khalil and Naamet Kasseb in their mission to make Lebanon safer.
Nurses on the frontline - Thailand
Parents' circle - Palestine and Israel
Finally on this programme, what do you do when your loved one is killed by your bitterest enemy - fight back, seek revenge?
That is what most people would want to do, but now a group of Israelis and Palestinians have taken a different path.
The Parents Circle is the first organisation of its kind where bereaved families from both sides of the conflict have come together to stop the violence.
Everywoman's Mariam Shahin went to meet some of these extraordinary people.Watch part one of this episode of EverywomanWatch part two of this episode of EverywomanThis episode of Everywoman aired from June 27, 2008
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Novel writing and dream crushing
You may have possibly noticed, or at least guessed, that I enjoy writing. I think you sort of have to enjoy writing to have a blog, unless it's entirely made up of videos or photos of lolcats. I don't claim that my blog posts are novel quality or anything - to be perfectly honest, I only give them a cursory proofreading before posting, which is why you see the occasional typo or nonsensical statement (heaven forbid). Here I write very stream of conscious-like, more like how I would talk to you then how I'd write formally.
I've always loved writing fiction stories. When I was in second grade I wrote a story about a kid who made a time machine out of a cardboard box and befriended a talking brontosaurus (based on a giant paper mache dinosaur we made...I should really find the picture of me standing with it!). In third grade I was writing my own variety of Goosebump books. In 5th and 6th, the story of me and my friends' Pokemon journey (a fanfic writer at an early age, I guess). Then in 7th grade I concocted The Story.
Why does this particular story get the infamous title of The Story? Because it started a trend that still annoys me to this day - starting to write a great story and then never finishing it. These stories aren't just a couple paragraphs scribbled on scrap paper as an idea - with my stories, I'll get 10,000 words in and emotionally invested in my characters. And then I stop, with my chapters just sitting on my computer, waiting for me to add something to them. Occasionally I'll feel a spark of creativity, or maybe just pity for neglecting my literary children, or maybe guilt for not being able to complete a project, and I'll go work on them for a while. Even The Story, which started as stereotypical ideas from a 13 year old girl, is still around today (granted, with many many face lifts). Why have I created so many abandoned stories?
I blame NaNoWriMo.
Okay, blame isn't entirely the best word. I know there are probably maybe reasons why I don't finish them. I don't have the time, I don't think they're good enough, I don't think anyone would want to read them, etc etc. But NaNoWriMo definitely has encouraged part of it. NaNoWriMo is an event where you attempt to write a 50,000 word novel during the month of November. The catch is you have to start from scratch - no adding to preexisting work. If you thought I was insane for doing Blogathon, then you have to be absolutely out of your mind to do this. Which is why I've participated in NaNoWriMo five times.
The reason why I have so many stories is that I've failed five times.
I had my classic fantasy adventure (The Story)(2004), a second failed attempt at the same fantasy (2005), the dystopian future of cloning and organ harvesting (2006), the Greek Gods humorously causing havoc on a modern day pagan and atheist (my favorite story so far)(2007), the corrupt religious scientists infecting a population with the "God gene" (2008).* All of them patiently sit at 5,000 to 10,000 words, waiting to be finished.**
And even with all my failures, I know I'm probably going to do it again this year.
It's absolutely insane for me to even consider attempting it. I'll be a senior with hard classes, a class to teach, research to do, grad schools to apply to, a club to run, a blog to update (don't worry, I won't abandon you guys) - and I still want to write a novel? NaNoWriMo is like an abusive husband that I can't will myself to leave. I don't know why I keep going back and getting slapped around. Maybe it's the hope that one year I'll actually have the motivation to finish. One year I'll plan ahead so when November rolls around, I'll have a helpful outline and solidified ideas. But really I think it's because I don't know when I'll ever have this sort of time again. College is hard, but the "real world" is harder. This is my chance to instill good novel writing habits, or I'll never do it. It's always been a dream to get a book published, but I kind of need to actually finish a book before I do that.
And now that I've typed all that, I'm really not sure why I did. Maybe for someone to tell me how crazy I am and dissuade me. Maybe for someone to wave the pom poms and tell me to do it. Or maybe I have a reader who has also been repeated raped by NaNoWriMo and can sympathize. All I know is if I do decide to do this crazy shit again, I need to start planning now, or I'm just going to be whining again come December.
*Dear lord these all sound horrendous typed out in uber-summarized form. I promise you they're better than they look. Really.
**And it's not that I'm unhappy with them - I like all of them, and I'm super proud of how the Greek God one started. I think I'm just too afraid to ruin it at this point.
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Definitely keep doing it because once you crack it you'll be writing a lot more and better! I dreamed of writing for ages but it took a NanoWrimo in my last year of uni (2005) to get me to actually crank out 50,000 words -- and by then I had so much more experience than before that I kept on writing.ReplyDelete
It did help that the Australian uni session ended on Nov 15th giving me 2 weeks of being able to spend 2ish hrs on it...
Man, I had a shimmering bit of hope reading your comment until you told me your schedule =P Our finals are the second week of December, so November is a generally an awful time to be writing a novel. Not to mention my birthday is Nov 2, so I always have a ton of new toys to play with, and then Thanksgiving when I actually need to interact with humans instead of type at a computer... Dooooomed!ReplyDelete
I've been fortunate enough to steer clear of NaNoWriMo, but I have a friend who's been beaten by it 3 times now. I fully expect she'll go back for more.ReplyDelete
There ought to be a support group for something like this! :P
- mcbenderJuly 28, 2009 at 10:46 PM
I've always wanted to write a novel, and I've made several attempts over the years (and like you, I still have them somewhere, although I'm not sure I actually want to go back and read them).ReplyDelete
I think my personal problem is that I never plan any sort of plot beforehand, so I run out of steam fairly quickly once I've established the characters and the rudiments of a setting.
Thanks for the heads-up about NaNoWriMo, though. I don't think November's a very good time, but I might try to do something similar in a different month.
Good luck to you; I'm sure you'll do better than I will.
Sorry to get you down! But my thing was that I had an idea and a plan and if you get to that stage it might be hard to pry you away from the keyboard. So if you want to do it, it's best to get an idea you think is kickass on about Nov 7th. At 3pmReplyDelete
Really, it's not so much NaNoWriMo that's the issue, I've found.ReplyDelete
I've been wanting to write a novel for a good long time. I finally finished one that weighed in around 80,000 words. Problem? It was science fiction, and meant to be rather hard-SF, and I had started it before I had a good idea of 1) What made good hard-SF and 2) The technology involved.
So I rewrote it. And there were still problems. So I'm rewriting it again.
The trick is to know the thing behind NaNoWriMo. Which is pretty much to do the Asimov thing; KEEP WRITING. And when you think about stopping? KEEP WRITING.
The tricky bastard thing with NaNoWriMo is that there's actually nothing keeping you from going back and adding to a story. You just can't count the initial words that were there before you started in the end calculation. At least, that's what some folks do.
It's probably a good way to add more. Don't let it be restricted to one month, just keep trying to write whenever you get a chance. Carry index cards around and jot down interesting ideas relating to it. Draw out maps in your spare time, character maps, area maps, ship designs, scene ideas... eventually you go even crazier and ideas stop leaking out.
I'd say running D&D and other tabletop roleplaying games also trains it up, but that's a schedule eater on its own.
- Grant GordonJuly 29, 2009 at 12:47 AM
I have absolutely zero experience with writing, apart from the little I had to do in High School. I'm a developer, so I deal in hard facts, logic and strict syntax rather than the fuzziness that is the written word.ReplyDelete
But if it is really something you want to do, then go for it, even if you don't finish, at least you've done something you love. I've got tons of half finished side projects that I work on, and even though I feel a little regret at not having finished them, I loved coding them while I was working on them :) My 2c worth.
People always want me to do NaNo with them. I can understand why. I do write, but I think I suffer from the same issues Jen does - I always end up stopping, then pondering the next big thing.ReplyDelete
I would say...maybe you shouldn't do NaNo, Jen. Maybe you should work on finishing The Story. Finishing your opus instead. You can use NaNo as a crutch for that (with so many people writing...it is easier to find people to write with).
At least...that's my plan for this year.
Why not just use the NaNoWriMo framework to keep working on one of the novels you've already started?ReplyDelete
(I know it's against the arbitrary "rules," but maybe you'd be happier with the outcome that way.)
I suppose there's no reason not to move the writing month to October, if you stop October 30th.ReplyDelete
And I have to admit, I might have a blog, but I hate writing. I only write because I want to share my whackjob ideas with the world.
Keep doing what you love, Jen. I hope you get published.
I use NaNoWriMo as an excuse for Brainstorming. It's all about quantity over quality. Sometimes when you're 10 hours, a bottle of wine, a six-pack, a large pizza, and 10000 words deep into a session, the stuff that comes out is astonishing.ReplyDelete
I like NaNoWriMo for experimentation. 'Can I make a complete novel out of a handful of short stories?' was last year's experiment.ReplyDelete
My first novel was short (and still in revision) but the act of getting it done was very cathartic, and motivated me to churn out a second. That and the advice of Charles Stross: Bum in Chair or Die.
So just keep at it and good luck. Though to be honest your writing here is often insightful and humorous so I am sure you will do fine.
(Also: Normally just a lurker here, but decided to come out and say hello.)
*grabs pom-poms and pep squad outfit*ReplyDelete
Jen, Jen, she's the best!
she writes better than the rest!
09's gonna be her year,
and that is why we all cheer!
*flips, somersaults, spontaneously forms human pyramid*
Um, not sure where that came from :3
I know how it goes. I've got 180,000+ words of my dreams from the last nine years just chillin' on my hard drive...ReplyDelete
I was a nano ML (municipal liason) a couple of years ago. I've nanoed 3 times, and passed the finish line twice. I missed last year as I was in the throes of emigration, but will be back this year.ReplyDelete
The thing about nano is that although you do have to spend a lot of time alone with your keyboard, you should hook up with what's going on in your local area. We met up in pubs and cafes, nattered online and turned it into a social event as well as a writing one.
That said, if you can't at least once turn out 50,000 words in a month, then fiction writing as a way of earning an income is probably not for you. If you think putting the story together is bad, wait until you get an email from an editor asking for 25,000 words of rewrites...by Friday. And you have a day job, too.
Writing is hard, hard yards, and nano is a good way to get a taste of it. But unless you actually look forward to it and enjoy the challenge, then there's no reason to feel bad about not taking part.
Oh, and a lot of us use it to add 50,000 words to our current work, not to start something new, though one nano I finished one book and started another. It's fairly common for those of us with crazy writing skillz to hit 70, 80 or even 90,000 words.
Yes, we are totally nuts.
Entirely out of the theme with the rest of the posters here, I haven't participated in NaNoWriMo.ReplyDelete
But I wanted to say that the '08 story topic sounded fairly interesting - and probably a lot more entertaining to read than the travesty that was Invasive Procedures. Will we be seeing the beginnings on your blog anytime soon?
NaNo trains for one goal only - sheer number of words. That's a very important skill, but not the only one. It doesn't touch rewriting, completion, polish, or even what might be the most vital skill - looking critically at your own work and making the hard decision of what is worth keeping and what should be culled. Hardly anyone turns out 50,000 words that are worthwhile as they stand, and demanding that oneself accomplish it is unfair and cruel.ReplyDelete
The authors whose advice I've heard and read say that having ideas is easy; anyone with a creative streak in their makeup can do that. The hard part is choosing which ideas have legs - which of the crowd of contenders have the stuff to make it in the big leagues with proper training and hard work. Pros have hundreds of abandoned projects, too. They just learned how to choose a few that deserve completion, and then complete them.
Apparently in December is "NaNoEdMo" the unofficial editing month. The communities formed during NaNo, local support groups and such, ought to morph into continued support and critique circles through the process.
- AnonymousAugust 4, 2009 at 10:16 AM
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My advice is simple. NEVER GIVE UP. I have been planning to write my sci-fi opus for years. Planning rather than actually writing. I have plans on top of plans for the glorious day I astound the world with my sci-fi-ness . . . and, of course, make obscene amounts of money in the process (said he as he continued to entertain his fantasies of more money than George Lucas . . . nah, its not really about money. Honest).
If I can be serious for a moment (though it causes me actual pain) if you have a dream, go for it. Never let anyone tell you that you don't have what it takes. Don't give in to the belief that no one will read what you write. Afterall, if you never give them the chance to read it you will never know. Millions of people watched and enjoyed episodes one and two of starwars so remember - tastes vary.
Science fiction desperately needs more female authors if it is ever to escape 'lesser genre' status. For all you know you could be the next Ian M. Banks. Though, obviously, genetically speaking with less Y, more X.
I don't consider myself a "writer", but my first NaNo was a blast, back in 2005. As a reward for winning I bought myself a shiny PowerBook G4. Figured I deserved it after crippling myself by writing my 50,000 words in pencil. That's right, pencil. No keyboards in sight. A few Moleskines and a whole lot of pencil shavings later and I was a winner. Interestingly, when I tried it again in 2006 I attempted it on the computer. Failed miserably. Guess I'm just an analog guy at heart.ReplyDelete
Hello from another lurker here! Just want to ask, maybe you should consider writing with somebody else? I did that for some time and althought final results were always in need of hours of polishing it was always fun. Even when i had writers block my partner or partners were always able to add something new. Yes, it makes you give away some of the controll, but for the amount of fun and suprises it gives i'd say it,s worth it.ReplyDelete


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And in the days of these kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed; and the kingdom shall not be left to other people; it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever. Inasmuch as you saw that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold-the great God has made known to the king what will come to pass after this. The dream is certain, and its interpretation is sure. (Dan. 2:44-45+)
Then to Him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and His kingdom the one Which shall not be destroyed. (Dan. 7:14+)
Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. (Php 2:9-11)The seven horns may also allude to the conquest of Jericho by Joshua (his Hebrew name is Yehoshua meaning "YHWH saves," corresponding to Jesus in Greek):
When the children of Israel first entered the land of Canaan to claim it for their own as God had promised, they encountered a wicked city barring their way. When in accord with God's command, the priests took "seven trumpets of ram's horns," the walls of Jericho tumbled down and the city and its alien inhabitants were destroyed. Thus, these "seven horns" on the Lamb may well have recalled to John the seven ram's horns of Joshua, and their effectiveness in enabling the people of God to enter on their inheritance in God's land of promise.14Another similarity with the Book of Joshua is found in the pouring forth of the seventh bowl—subsumed within the sounding of the seventh trumpet—when the mighty city of Babylon is destroyed (Rev. 16:17-19+).seven eyes
The manifold intelligence or omniscience of this "Living Stone"—the seven reminding us of the sevenfold plenitude of the One Spirit of Jehovah, "the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Jehovah," which should rest upon Him, and which was so wonderfully fulfilled in Him whom the New Testament seer beheld as the Lamb which had been slain [Rev. 5:6+].15
Three grand qualities of the Goel [kinsman-redeemer] are thus brought to view;—first, sacrificial virtue, to take away sin; second, aggressive strength to conquer and to overcome all foes; and third, perfect and universal intelligence, direct from the indwelling Spirit of God in all its fulness.16See commentary on Revelation 1:4.sent out
1 E. W. Bullinger, Commentary On Revelation (Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Publications, 1984, 1935), 237.
2 Robert H. Mounce, The Book of Revelation (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1977), 144.
3 Although the diminutive sense may have no longer been the sense by NT times. [Frederick William Danker and Walter Bauer, A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2000), 108]
4 Alan F. Johnson, Revelation: The Expositor's Bible Commentary (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1966), 72.
5 John MacArthur, Revelation 1-11 : The MacArthur New Testament Commentary (Chicago, IL: Moody Press, 1999), 167.
6 Arnion occurs in the Septuagint at Ps. 114:4, 6; Jer. 11:19; 50:45.
7 Jesus as the "Lamb" in Revelation: Rev. 5:6+, 8+, 12-13+; 6:1+, 16+; 7:9-10+, 14+, 17+; 12:11+; 13:8+, 11+; 14:1+, 4+, 10+; 15:3+; 17:14+; 19:7+, 9+; 21:9+, 14+, 22-23+, 27+; 22:1+, 3+.
8 Harold D. Foos, "Christology in the Book of Revelation," in Mal Couch, ed., A Bible Handbook to Revelation (Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Publications, 2001), 106.
9 "Another object of the form Greek, arnion, the Lamb, is to put Him in the more marked contrast to Greek, therion, the Beast."—A. R. Fausset, "The Revelation of St. John the Divine," in Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, and David Brown, A Commentary, Critical and Explanatory, on the Old and New Testaments (Oak Harbor, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 1997, 1877), Rev. 5:6. The beast in Revelation: Rev. 11:7+; 13:1-4+, 11-12+, 14-15+, 17-18+; 14:9+, 11+; 15:2+; 16:2+, 10+, 13+; 17:3+, 7-8+, 11-13+, 16-17+; 19:19-20+; 20:4+, 10+.
10 Timothy Friberg, Barbara Friberg, and Neva F. Miller, Analytical Lexicon of the Greek New Testament (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2000), 371.
11 Passages related to the foundation of the world: Gen. 1:1; Pr. 8:29; Mat. 13:35; 25:34; Luke 11:50; John 1:1; 17:24; Eph. 1:4; Heb. 4:3; 9:26; 1Pe. 1:20; Rev. 13:8+; 17:8+.
12 J. A. Seiss, The Apocalypse: Lectures on the Book of Revelation (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1966), 116.
13 Jerome Smith, The New Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1992), Rev. 5:6.
14 Henry Morris, The Revelation Record (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 1983), 101.
15 David Baron, Zechariah: A Commentary On His Visions And Prophecies (Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Publications, 1918), 116.
16 Seiss, The Apocalypse: Lectures on the Book of Revelation, 117.


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Anti-doping expert says Alex Rodriguez used 'potent cocktail of sophisticated PEDs'
If Anthony Bosch were still in business today, bet on this much: His phone would be buzzing nonstop with athletes trying to order the A-rod treatment.
The Associated Press
If Anthony Bosch were still in business today, bet on this much: His phone would be buzzing nonstop with athletes trying to order the A-rod treatment.
The self-taught doping guru whose testimony and records helped to bring down Alex Rodriguez sounded at times like a snake-oil salesman while detailing the down-to-the-minute regimen of performance-enhancing substances he delivered to the disgraced New York Yankees third baseman.
Included were concoctions called "gummies" and "liquid soap," "pink cream," "blue cream" and even "PM cream" — each with varying doses of testosterone delivered in different ways throughout the day.
Silly as those sound, don't laugh.
Elite athletes would gargle with antifreeze if they believed that would improve performance without tripping a positive test.
And unlike the deer-antler spray and the other crackpot cures (holographic stickers, negatively charged water, underwear exposed to radio waves) that Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis tried to explain away before last year's Super Bowl, nearly all of what Bosch was providing A-Rod for $12,000 a month actually worked.
Rodriguez, 38, was a Mariner from 1994 to 2000. He is suspended for the 2014 season.
Peel away the pseudoscience and Bosch's bragging and what remained was "probably the most potent and sophisticated drug program developed for an athlete that we've ever seen," said Travis Tygart, U.S. Anti-Doping Agency chief executive officer.
"No one who cares about clean sports likes to hear it," Tygart said. "And don't just take my word for it. Look at the findings of an independent arbitrator who saw all the evidence, sat through the testimony and laid the whole conspiracy out."
Tygart said Bosch's regimen included dozens of blood tests to see how the drugs were metabolizing and which doses to use at which time. It included peptides and female fertility drugs to supplement testosterone, human growth hormone and an insulin-like growth factor.
"At the end of the day," Tygart added, "this was a potent cocktail of sophisticated PEDs stacked together to deliver power, aid recovery, avoid detection and create a home-run champion."
Added Dr. Gary Wadler, past chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency's banned substance committee, "It was illegal from start to finish and not all of it was scientific, but let's be honest — this guy Bosch knew an awful lot of what he was talking about."
Tygart takes some consolation in knowing improvements to MLB's drug-testing program make it unlikely a player could avoid detection employing the same regimen today. What troubles him, though, is that much of the discussion in the wake of Bosch's interview on the CBS program "60 Minutes" has focused on the those substances that had catchy nicknames such as "gummies" and "pink food," but actually did little to improve performance.
Instead, Tygart said the real threat was the sophisticated and comprehensive knowledge about a PED regimen Bosch — who was not a licensed physician — was able to acquire and deploy.
Bosch faces potential charges stemming from the Biogenesis investigation.
Tygart referred specifically to an exchange in which Rodriguez told Bosch he had an important game coming up and asked whether he should take "gummies" — a lozenge dosed with testosterone — at 10:45 a.m. in case he wound up being required to take a drug test postgame. Bosch replied "10:30."
"Look, no one can say with that much certainty how long the window (to avoid detection) would be open," Tygart said. "And most people know that tiny dose, even fast-acting testosterone, won't provide much of a boost. But look at it as part of an overall (PED) program, while in-season testing is taking place. It's more like maintenance; it's going to be hard to find, plus it makes the other drugs you're using more effective. ...
"Another point that may have gotten missed is that insiders like Bosch want to give the perception they know. It's part of the pitch, how you market to pro athletes. So saying (10:30 instead of 10:45) makes the athlete think, 'Hey, this guy really knows his stuff.' "
In Bosch's case, that was largely true.
So much so that anti-doping experts such as Tygart and Wadler have broadened the scope of their investigations to include many of the same tactics law-enforcement agencies use to pursue suppliers of a wide range of illegal drugs.
"How many guys will take (Bosch's) protocols and adopt them?" Wadler asked. "Plenty. Enhancing performance is tied up with a lot of things, legal and illegal, but the bottom line is always money. ... When we look at this case, it's troubling in a very real sense because most of the science passes muster. What I'd stress is not the part about it being good science, but that it's illicit science. And quite possibly, dangerous at some level, too."
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I keep forgetting to take some photos of our quilt designs that the children made over half term! They are looking wonderful in the gallery, so i'll try and remember to get some photos next time i'm there and will blog about it as soon as I can!
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Amish Woodworking TechniquesThe Amish of New Wilmington use a combination of old-world techniques and modern equipment for their woodworking. Their tools are not powered by electricitythe Amish remove the motors from the equipment and replace it with either a belt drive system or a hydraulic pump powered by a diesel engine. Some Amish craftsmen also fabricate their own unique tools and jigs to construct their furnishings.
Mortise & TenonA joint is strongest when the two pieces of stock are at right angles to one another. Woodworkers have been utilizing mortise & tenon joints for centuries because of their combination of superior strength and simplicity. They are typically used when one piece of stock is joining to the other at a 90-degree angle.
With a mortise and tenon joint, one piece of stock is inserted into the other and held in place with a fastener, typically glue. This joint has tremendous strength by allowing more surface area for glue to hold, securing the tenon (male) inside the mortise (female) and providing optimum strength and durability. The mortise and tenons are precisely made utilizing router bits.
Dado & GrooveA dado and groove joint (also called tongue & groove) is formed by milling a slot (or dado) in one board, and inserting another board into that slot. The dados width is equivalent to the width of the board inserted into it. The dado joint is excellent for joining shelves in the upper or lower sides of a storage or wine locker. The dado is cut into the side and the shelf inserted into the dado. Such a shelf supports a lot of weight while providing vertical stability and overall cabinet strength.
Dado and groove joints can also be held together with nails or screws, though Amish Lockers woodworkers precisely cut the dado and grooves and do not require additional fasteners.
MiterThe frame for an Amish raised panel is made by cutting wood at a 45 degree angle with a miter saw that allows for perfect cuts, then milling the insides of the wood with tongue and groove. Small rubber pellets are inserted into the groove to allow for expansion and contraction of the panels caused by temperature or humidity changes.
Rabbet JointsA rabbet joint is very similar to a dado joint, except that the groove is cut at the edge of the board. The Amish use rabbet joints for joining the backs of a cabinet, bookcase or locker. The backs are then either glued, held on with mechanical fasteners, or both. A rabbet joint is made with a table saw or a router.
WoodA fine piece of Amish furniture involves not only the superior craftsmanship of the Amish but also properly selecting the wood that ends up in the Amish craftsmens shops.
A properly selected piece of wood will provide natural beauty that will hold your attention. If youre looking for a furnishing with old-world charm, youre not going to find it in todays paper thin, mass produced particleboard furniture.
Quartered lumber vs. plain-sawn lumberQuarter sawing is a specialized technique requiring more time and greater skill to produce. Quarter sawn lumber prices are slightly higher than plain sawn. It is, however, superior wood.
The art of quarter sawing has been lost over the years--except for Amish craftsmen. As it is with many superior practices of the past, quarter sawing been replaced by plain sawing techniques-- easier, quicker and cheaper. However, plain sawing results in additional waste, less grain characteristic and lumber that is less stable. The Amish utilize quarter sawed lumber for their fine woodwork. This process provides Amish furniture craftsmen the highest quality lumber for their Amish furniture.
After the lumber has been seasoned and allowed to naturally dry, its carefully stacked inside a wood kiln that heats the air and the lumber. A skilled kiln manager utilizes a schedule for specific wood types--allowing for thickness as well--which allows the wood to dry correctly without damage.
This air drying process is vital to the success of each load of wood exiting the kiln. Amish furniture craftsmen traditionally have close relationships with the lumberyard to insure the proper drying process for their lumber.
Amish Lockers are constructed of high grade hardwoods. There are standards used in the logging industry to grade wood, determined by the percentage of clear face cuttings. Amish furniture is built from the finest quality hardwood lumber. Your Amish Locker quotation will clearly identify what grade woods comprise specific components of your lockers.
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Friday, June 24, 2011
Barney Pollard car collection, many were stacked on end..
I was going to school at GMI in Flint in 1955 and had met Mr. Pollard on the 1953 Glidden Tour. I called him and made an appointment to see his cars one Saturday, my room mate and I went down, I believe Pontiac, and he showed us through his collection. It was unbelievable. There were several buildings, one had only brass lamps in it. The cars that were stacked on end we couldn't see much, they were so tight you couldn't walk between them, but in a couple of buildings the cars were parked fender to fender and bumper to bumper. I was looking for a Peerless and he told us where it was and we had to slide down fenders and walk running boards to get back to it. He had several hundred cars and he knew where they were. He even showed us a garage that had a stack of brand new high wheel bikes, in the original crates, stacked to the ceiling. While we were walking back to his office I asked what was under the canvas covers, two American Underslunges, sitting out side. And inside his shop area were several Stutz, Mercer, etc.
Barney Pollard was my grandfather and the collection of around 1200 cars was my playground as a kid. Know most of the cars,as I personally titled 700 of them. As to the fire we lost around 110 cars in that fire which was started by a spark from a locomotive which started a grass fire and then the building went. Lost some pretty rare cars in the fire, such as the only two Olivers ever built
My grandfather did work hard at keeping the government from destroying all of the cars. My grandfather started collecting in 1938 and kept them parked about his property where he parked his trucks. In flying recon missions around Detroit the government saw what my grandfather had as a treasure trove for materials.
The government insisted he give up the cars for the war effort. My grandfather went to Washington in an attempt to make a deal with them. He bought tons of scrap (both steel and aluminum) that they had not discovered and the deal he made was to strip all of the tires and give them all of the scrap he had found and to give up one car a week that he had to deliver to the Ford Rouge plant.
My grandfather and Henry Ford were not the best of friends (due to a couple of incidents but one story as he related to the Ford writer David Lewis) as my grandfather laid miles of roadbed for the railroad tracks at the rouge and Ford sent his associate Bennett to intimidate my grandfather into taking less.
The problem is that my grandfather was the toughest man I have ever met and in some pretty colorful language I can only assume, he told Bennett to take a hike. Long story short my grandfather had many Fords in his collection and so he took over only Fords, one a week for a few weeks and then he stopped. Ford never turned him in as he figured my grandfather would only continue to bring Fords.
Then my grandfather decided he had better hide the cars from any more prying eyes so he sunk telephone poles into the ground and put 90 lb railroad rail from post to post and hung the cars from the rail with wire rope. Then he built walls around the buildings and so when you went in the buildings there were hundreds of cars hanging from their front bumpers. Crude but it saved a bunch of cars.
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I stumbled on this tonight looking for something somewhat different, but I realized that I had heard about Barney Pollard nearly 40 years ago and didn't realize what it meant back then. Can't even describe how sad I am thinking about the hundreds of thousands of amazing cars, tractors and everything else lost to history in the scrap drives during World War II. Necessary? Yeah. A terrible loss? Yeah.ReplyDelete
So cool I in a much smaller way have saved so many So called Junkers from the crusher. Nothing like the rare vehicles your Grandfather saved but all the more several from the 1930-80s. I run a large rural Auto Salvage yard in Texas www.kkmotors.com where our policy is if I can replace it I'll crush it and find another. The cars that we get which we don't get often they go to the back for either a project or to be a donor car for another. My daughter and I founded and launched a new company called www.PartingOut.com to expand the market place for these cars and the ones that are prematurely going to the scrap iron yard. Our hope is many of these cars will at least stop and be listed on PartingOut.com long enough for others to get the parts such as chrome glass engines axles or whatever else a person needs. We both know there are no unimportant parts when a restoration is taking place. Well thanks for the space and lets save a few together.ReplyDeleteReplies
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Category — Rachel Maddow
Donovan In Zuckerman Out
TJ Donovan is running again for State's Attorney and David Zuckerman is bowing out of the race for the Vermont House. Go TJ. Thank you for your service David.
The New Moon Cafe event tonight for Philip Baruth's Vermont senate campaign was nice. Nice to see Philip and Charity and Steve Benen. Steve won't give me Rachel Maddow's phone number.
Philip seemed a little disappointed that we aren't seated next to each other on the School Board so I promised to text him the comments I would have made to him under my breath if we had been. I was probably kidding.
April 22, 2010 Comments Off
Politics Vermont is Back
Lately our friend Rachel Maddow has been talking a lot about "AstroTurfing." We had a blog made out of AstroTurf here in Vermont three year ago Called "Politics Vermont."
Looks like that blog is up and running again, but open to invited guests only. Anybody know anything about this?
September 11, 2009 2 Comments
Tyranny on The Caspian
It's very repressive to investigate people because of preferences in pop music. It's repressive and in this case it's also discriminatory. Thank you Dr. Maddow for reporting this last night.
MADDOW: In this country, we have "American Idol," and its many spinoffs like "So You Think You Can Dance" and "America's Got Talent" and "Nashville Star," et cetera. In Europe, they have "Eurovision" which, believe it or not, is a way bigger deal.
"Eurovision's" been broadcast every May since 1956. It's one of the longest running TV programs of all time. Each of 43 countries picks a musical act to represent that country and then millions of people vote for the winner. We have "Eurovision" to thank or blame, depending on your perspective, for Abba, for Celine Dion, for Julio Iglesias, for Cliff Richard and even for the poor river dance who can't move their arms.
Although only Europe participates, "Eurovision" has gained fans and grown its audience worldwide because it frankly is an Olympic-grade display of truly over-the-top, "I can't believe this is really happening" kitsch.
But there's no news about this year's Eurovision contest that is way darker than your usual, you know, Belgium versus Holland, sequins versus satin shriek-off. Azerbaijan and Armenia fought a war 15 years ago over a region called Nagorno-Karabakh – don't worry, there's no spelling test here.
The important point is that both countries are still really sore about it. And they're right on top of each other and there's an Azerbaijan enclave right in the middle of Armenia, everything that is a sore issue between these two.
In the "Eurovision" contest this year, both of these countries did pretty well. Azerbaijan came in third. Armenia came in 10th. Here's Armenia from this year.
Now, you see why I'm into this. All right. This was the Azerbaijan entry.
MADDOW: So good. Sorry. Which of those would you vote for? Hard to choose. But the BBC reports today that now, three months after "Eurovision" – because remember, it happens in May, police in Azerbaijan have called in for questioning people who live in Azerbaijan but who voted for Armenia, the country's archrival.
Apparently, they know for sure somehow that 43 people in Azerbaijan voted for the dreaded Armenians. You vote by text message. And the Azerbaijani national security ministry has been calling people who voted for Armenia in for questioning.
The national security ministry has confirmed that they've done this to Reuters. They have confirmed that they are questioning Azerbaijanis for the crime of voting for the wrong song, which is, of course, another reason why "Azerbaijani Idol" is going to stink.
August 21, 2009 Comments Off
Facebook 2 Week Challenge Day 7
If you follow this blog closely enough, you'll know one of the things I'm most proud of about it is that it engendered a comment one time from the great and powerful Dr. Rachel Maddow, host of MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show. I am a huge fan of Rachel Maddow, and I was also "friends" with her on facebook. I gotta tell you, I felt pretty special when she accepted my friend request and added me to her thousands of other friends. From that point on I had access to pictures of her as a young baby faced local Massachusetts radio host in horn-rimmed glasses, pictures of her and someone I guessed maybe was her partner or at least a friend, and so on- Although her profile picture was just an old Jerry Falwell album cover. Then I started getting notifications every time somebody tagged her in an old photograph. Why does a stalker like me need fourth grade pictures of Rachel Maddow? Should seeing those pictures make me any closer to the real Rachel? Only as much as a Madonna pap smear gets me closer to the real Madonna. Which is to say not at all. But it makes me feel a little closer to her. Artificially. I'm not so sure how good that is.
▸ adjective: making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction
▸ adjective: intended to attract notice and impress others
▸ adjective: of a display that is tawdry or vulgar
Facebook creates the ultimate pretense for "staying in touch" with people you have long since parted with in the real world, or for "making new friends" whom you never really knew. It blurs the lines of relationships- between professional and casual, between acquaintance and friend, between friend and love interest. Updates on facebook create the false pretense that you are speaking to your friends, but they're really a way of faking it with everyone without bothering to speak to anyone in particular. And you might chat with someone only in facebook that you would otherwise never bother with outside that world. Being "friends" with someone on facebook does not mean you are friends with that person.
May 12, 2009 2 Comments
Interview Weekend
Tomorrow (Saturday January 31) morning. Democratic City Council candidate David Cain will be on my radio show at around 11:30. Sunday morning I'm going to interview Mayor Kiss at 8:30 and Andy Montroll at 11:00. I gotta get a little more solid on my tape recorder (yes I know it's digital. leave me alone.) and come up with some good questions tonight and tomorrow. Anything readers want me to ask anyone? If you throw out 100 suggestions I might use one or two. Oh… and there's a slim chance Rachel Maddow might call the radio show Saturday morning. I invited her to call in on her facebook Wall. Like she has time. Still, you never know. She did leave a comment here once. (yeah, you got me. I'm stalking Rachel Maddow.)
January 30, 2009 Comments Off
Mood Swings and Budget Cuts
Here's a link to the Fiscal Year 2008 Mayor's Budget Task Force Report. Read it over twice. There's going to be a test on it at the end of the day. Here's a link to a post about beavers and beaver traps where I get into it with Cathy Resmer about Seven Days's narcissistic 'letters to the editor' policy. Cathy often mentions how much she loves her job, which sends me into a vortex of ennui and self loathing every time. This has nothing to do with beavers or letters to the editor however.
The Bikram Yoga studio on Pine Street had a free open house on Saturday. I attended a 90 minute yoga steam class and it made me feel pretty good. I think yoga matches my personal philosophy and style pretty well. I hate material clutter. Yoga is just you and a simple mat. When I used to live alone my apartments were usually very neat and empty. My favorite way to decorate a room might be described as ultra-spartan. An empty room with a futon on the floor is pretty much my decorative preference. It's harder to live that way with a wife and kids.
And I don't like Christmas. To me it's essentially a big bill I have to pay. Maybe I can get some vicarious joy by trying to see it through the eyes of my son and daughter. I hate having to lie to them about Santa. I can tell Koko at four already senses the impossibility of the myth. When Poopsie told him that Santa stops at everyone's house on Christmas eve, he immediately asked how. This is probably his last year to buy into that bullshit. I stopped believing in Santa around five years old myself. There were about four billion people back then. I did the math.
Here's a link from Owen Mulligan about a horror movie he made. Or something. Always gotta add the 'or something.' Here's taboo question: Has Rachel Maddow already jumped the shark? She's rich and famous and works for an arms dealer. When the tether breaks and an astronaut starts floating away from his ship, does it matter that he's still in sight of it? He's still never coming back. I enjoy Rachel Maddow. She talks like an episode of Friends. All quirky and whatever-y. But seriously folks. Seriously…
This will be my first Christmas without my mother who died in January. I think I've been in a low level mourning pattern all year, but the holidays are going to make it worse. My father and younger brother will both be travelling on Christmas Day. Father in Missouri. Brother in New Hampshire. Mother in Space. I'll wash up on the shores of my in-laws as a holiday refugee, despising the expense and the lies of Christmas. Flotsam of the universe with no career to love. No skills to market. Only half-heartedly engaged in the material world.
December 9, 2008 Comments Off
BurlingtonPol Beats Blurt!
OK- Now you know what that last post was about.
My blog got more visits Saturday than the Seven Days staff blog Blurt!! Final score: BurlingtonPol- 73, Blurt- 70.
I have no chance of ever beating them on weekdays. Monday through Friday Blurt does about 33% better than me, but I noticed last Satuday that I came awefully close. This Saturday I won!
In your FACE Seven Days!!!
Go ahead, call me a dork. I'll probably never win a "Daysie" award because I just can't bring myself to go begging for votes like our two friends who win every year, so- this is it for me. This victory and when Rachel Maddow left a comment might be the two best moments of this blog's little life!
Woo Hoo!!!
June 22, 2008 Comments Off
David Sirota
Daivd Sirota sent an email to local bloggers including me.
"Wanted to get in touch and let you know I'm going to be in Vermont to launch my book, The Uprising. I have attached an embargoed press release and background info on the book. As a blogger myself, I figured I would see if you wanted to perhaps do an interview about the book before the event, or some such other kind of thing…" [Links added.]
I took him up and called him around 6:20 eastern time tonight for a short phone interview. Not verbatim without quotation marks. Ring ring.
DS: Hello?
HB: Hello. Is this David Sirota?
DS: Yes.
HB: Hi. This is Haik Bedrosian from BurlingtonPol.com. You sent an email about your book. Can we do a quick interview right now?
DS: Sure.
HB: What do you think about Ron Paul?
DS: I worked with him and his staff fairly often when I was Bernie's spokesperson on Capitol Hill.
HB: You worked for Bernie?
DS: I was his spokesperson from 1999-2001.
HB: Huh.
DS: Ron Paul is what we call "an honest conservative" in D.C. We worked with him on issues like ending corporate welfare, the IMF and prescription reimportation.
HB: So do you support Obama?
DS: I haven't endorsed anybody. I guess you could say I'm leaning toward Obama, but I was more toward Edwards when he was in the race. My job precludes me from making an endorsement.
HB: What's your job?
DS: I'm a political columnist and I write books.
HB: Oh. What paper do you write for?
DS: My column runs in 40 papers including the Denver Post, The Seattle Times and the San Francisco Chronicle.
HB: Yeah. I didn't really do my homework for this interview. I mean, I used to hear you on the Al Franken show. Ma-ma-ma-ma-my-my-my Sirota. We can't get Air America on the radio in Burlington anymore. Hey! Do you know Rachel Maddow?
DS: I'm on her show all the time.
HB: Man, I love her. But do you think she's selling her soul working for GE? I mean just now on TV I heard her cheering Hillary's threat to obliterate Iran as earning her "hawkish stripes."
DS: Micheal Moore ran into this dilemma with Rupert Murdoch and he said if he could use Murdoch's resoures to get his own message out, it's a coup.
HB: Do you consider yourself to be a member of a party?
DS: I guess you could say I'm a Democrat, but a Progresisve Democrat.
HB: So if you lived in Burlington you'd be a Progressive? You would support Bob Kiss and David Zuckerman?
DS: Yes. I actually serve on a committee with David Zuckerman. The Progressive States Network.
HB: Where do you live?
DS: Denver.
HB: Are you married? Kids? How old are you?
DS: I'm 32. Married since 2005. No kids. We have a dog named Monty, for Montana where we used to live. We helped Brian Schweitzer get elected.
HB: He's smart. He's a geologist. What do you think about the gold standard?
DS: I can't really speak on that. It's not where my focus has been…
HB: Peter Welch reacted the same way when I aked him about it. It was just way off his radar.
DS: Yeah.
HB: Some of my readers will think that it's neat that I spoke with you. Thanks for taking the time. I'll post your materials and announce your book launch.
DS: And I hope to meet you in Burlington at the event.
Bye. Click.
Poopsie: Did you ask him about his name? You should ask him about his name. Sirota means orphan in Russian.
HB: That's interesting Honey, but I'm not going to call back and ask him about it.
David Sirota Tuesday May 27, 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Borders Books Church Street
Speech, Q&A and book signing sponsored by Democracy for Vermont and Chittenden South DFA.
May 3, 2008 Comments Off
An Open Invitation for Rachel Maddow
Hi Rachel. Thanks for your comment on this blog a couple of weeks ago If you are ever in Burlington and would like to be a guest on my radio show, just give me a shout.
The studio is located at 215 College Street in Downtown Burlington and is licensed by the FCC to broadcast at an effective radiative wattage of 100… so… it's kind of a big deal. I do a talk and call-in show.
By the way, did you know we can't get Air America on the radio up here any more? I listen online sometimes, but it's just not the same. And I like you on MSNBC, but that's not the same either. So you should totally come be on my show. I think I've probably got between 10 and 20 listeners on any given Saturday, and I'm sure they'd enjoy hearing us banter.
March 6, 2008 Comments Off
CNN Links to BurlingtonPol
Usually when I check my blog's site-meter stats, I can expect to see around 20-30 visitors by 3pm. I just looked now and saw that over 130 visitors have hit my site today. Weird. So I followed the referrals link and saw where they all came from…
They have a feature there called "from the blogs" that links to blogs talking about the topic of the day. I think some robot must have found my last post and stuck its link on the CNN politics page, probably because I used the names Obama and McCain twice each in the title.
Just a little tickle from the blogosphere. Stuff like that happens sometimes. It feeds my fantasies that maybe Rachel Maddow will stumble on my blog someday. I love Rachel Maddow.
February 13, 2008 Comments Off