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Author Bailey Jones
Monday, October 6, 2014
Gay Marriage is Legal in Utah, Again!
So the big news for today is that gay marriage is legal in Utah, again, thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court. Of course, the politicians in this god-awful state are vowing to "fight on," whatever the hell that means. Instead of just admitting that it's a losing battle and directing that money to improving the absolutely shitty school system in this state, lawmakers and the governor are going to forge ahead with their relentless efforts to "protect" us all from the scourge of gay marriage.
Why just today, I heard from five different friends that they are getting divorced. That's right, five friends in one day. Each one said that the fact that gay marriage has come roaring back into the state was the factor that made their marriage die. Yesterday they were completely happy in their union with their significant other, then the fact that Bob and Steve down the street got hitched just absolutely destroyed their marriage.
In case you don't get it, that was a joke.
So I'm sure that Tommy Monson, the "President" of the Mormon church, is probably livid about the fact that gay marriage is here to stay, for now at least. I would be shocked if there isn't some secret plan that probably was already formulated long ago to somehow try to undermine the law. The Mormons have a history of doing that, including practicing polygamy long after it was outlawed and even trying to skirt civil rights laws.
Now, a change of pace. Some people have been asking what happened to me. I was off the face of the planet, at least when it came to social media, etc. for the entire month of August. My books weren't available, this blog was shuttered, and my social media accounts were closed. I was the target of a campaign to shut me down, which started with the forceful closure of my Twitter account. I had been warned in the past that too many people had complained about my tweets, but I had been able to get my account reinstated before. This past time, though, the Mormons were successful in shutting me down. I considered just throwing in the towel, so I took a break and thought about things. In the end, I decided that I shouldn't let those people tell me to shut the fuck up just because what I say makes them uncomfortable. So I'm back, and already I've been called all sorts of things, including being told that I'm delusional and self-important because I said that my old Twitter account was shut down.
Yeah, Mormons can be such nice people who always turn the other cheek.
So that's what happened to me.
Now, go attend some gay weddings!
Thursday, October 2, 2014
Mormon Modesty Put on Trial!
Every once in a while I have people send me emails with tips on topics I can write about. Some of them are pretty boring, others are bizarre or twisted, and then there is the occasional gem. I just got such an email and just had to share with the rest of you what I learned.
My source sent me a link for a Young Women Standards Night. For those of you who don't know, the Young Women organization is what Mormon denominations use to teach and organize girls who are ages 12 through 18. They are held once in a while (each year? I can't remember since it's been so long and I've tried to scrub them from my memory) at night and are designed to "reinforce" the Mormon church's standards for young women.
So what are those standards? You are to marry a nice young man who has returned from a mission, in the Mormon temple in a weird-ass ceremony, then wear the weird-ass (literally) magical underwear called "garments." On top of that, no drinking alcohol, smoking, shooting up heroin, or abusing pain medications like the bishop does. You also can't touch yourself, look at dildos online, or certainly engage in "heavy petting" or having a guy touch you under your clothes (I just took mine off). And you also absolutely could not have sex in any way. Period.
One of the biggest focuses of Young Women was to dress "modestly." When Mormons talk about "modesty" they're not talking about being humble or reasonable (although I wish they would talk about that as much). No, the modesty talks were all about how women need to cover up so men don't have bad thoughts. Because, as we all know, it's my fault that my teenaged neighbor is jerking off into his pillow case because I wore workout clothing to the grocery store. Mormon girls are taught not to wear shorts that come above the knee, wear any "low cut" shirts (and that usually meant wearing shirts that didn't even come close to showing any cleavage), wearing tank tops, wearing anything sleeveless, and wearing bikinis. I literally had friends who refused to play basketball because the team uniform consisted of a tank top and shorts, and the coach wouldn't let anyone wear a while t-shirt under it.
In any case, this link that someone sent to me was for a Standards Night that features what I'm calling a "modesty trial." You can see it by clicking here. It's a mock legal trial that basically puts the Mormon modesty standards on trial, but the whole thing is rigged since the judge is the bishop. If such a trial were put together for real, some pretty tough questions would be thrown out there by people like me.
Of course, at the end of the activity, the people there had to partake in an ice cream bar, because that's just one of the many ways Mormons deal with such messed up shit. I should know, because I went to these god-awful things and drowned my sorrow in a number of different ways.
Perhaps if Mormons got outside of the prescribed thought processes when it comes to tough subjects like how women should act and be treated, they might come to some tough realizations. Instead, as you can see from the link, they pour that effort and energy into creating meaningless activities and cute little decorations, leaving the thinking to others.
My source sent me a link for a Young Women Standards Night. For those of you who don't know, the Young Women organization is what Mormon denominations use to teach and organize girls who are ages 12 through 18. They are held once in a while (each year? I can't remember since it's been so long and I've tried to scrub them from my memory) at night and are designed to "reinforce" the Mormon church's standards for young women.
So what are those standards? You are to marry a nice young man who has returned from a mission, in the Mormon temple in a weird-ass ceremony, then wear the weird-ass (literally) magical underwear called "garments." On top of that, no drinking alcohol, smoking, shooting up heroin, or abusing pain medications like the bishop does. You also can't touch yourself, look at dildos online, or certainly engage in "heavy petting" or having a guy touch you under your clothes (I just took mine off). And you also absolutely could not have sex in any way. Period.
One of the biggest focuses of Young Women was to dress "modestly." When Mormons talk about "modesty" they're not talking about being humble or reasonable (although I wish they would talk about that as much). No, the modesty talks were all about how women need to cover up so men don't have bad thoughts. Because, as we all know, it's my fault that my teenaged neighbor is jerking off into his pillow case because I wore workout clothing to the grocery store. Mormon girls are taught not to wear shorts that come above the knee, wear any "low cut" shirts (and that usually meant wearing shirts that didn't even come close to showing any cleavage), wearing tank tops, wearing anything sleeveless, and wearing bikinis. I literally had friends who refused to play basketball because the team uniform consisted of a tank top and shorts, and the coach wouldn't let anyone wear a while t-shirt under it.
In any case, this link that someone sent to me was for a Standards Night that features what I'm calling a "modesty trial." You can see it by clicking here. It's a mock legal trial that basically puts the Mormon modesty standards on trial, but the whole thing is rigged since the judge is the bishop. If such a trial were put together for real, some pretty tough questions would be thrown out there by people like me.
Of course, at the end of the activity, the people there had to partake in an ice cream bar, because that's just one of the many ways Mormons deal with such messed up shit. I should know, because I went to these god-awful things and drowned my sorrow in a number of different ways.
Perhaps if Mormons got outside of the prescribed thought processes when it comes to tough subjects like how women should act and be treated, they might come to some tough realizations. Instead, as you can see from the link, they pour that effort and energy into creating meaningless activities and cute little decorations, leaving the thinking to others.
Thursday, December 26, 2013
Gay Marriage is Legal in Utah!!
It's been a crazy holiday season, but I've finally gotten to my computer instead of just my phone so I can finally write this. As you've probably heard, gay marriage is now legal in the most notoriously conservative state in the country, Utah. For those who don't usually follow my blog, I live in Utah, although I didn't grow up here. And no, I'm not Mormon and I'm not conservative, although I was raised strictly to be both.
Many people are surprised to learn that there is a pretty healthy homosexual community in Salt Lake City. I've known quite a few members of the community, and I can say most are decent human beings. In fact, some of my neighbors are homosexuals, and they are some of the best neighbors I have. There was huge excitement around here when the federal district court judge threw out Utah's traditional marriage law, for many reasons.
I was excited for the people who love each other so much and want to enjoy a union recognized by the government. Now nobody can deny them their basic rights as a couple. I was also excited since this is a major blow to the strangle hold the Mormon church has exercised on politics in Utah. With the exception of here and Park City, most Utah citizens vote blindly for Republicans who are also Mormon, and those politicians do what the church wants. I am for anything that breaks that religious grip on local politics, because I think it's dangerous in so many ways.
I also was excited since this ruling will undoubtedly spur more states to adopt laws that legalize gay marriage. The whole case is showing that the legal arguments against gay marriage are tenuous, at best. There's no legal argument for outlawing it. Despite what some fucking morons think, this is NOT a Christian nation but instead one built on a secular document called the Constitution, so arguments that the Bible outlaws homosexuality are irrelevant. Besides, the Bible also says women should learn in silence and that it's okay to own slaves and beat them as long as you don't kill them.
So far a bunch of stays from the state have been denied. It pisses me off that my taxpayer dollars are being used to fight something that should just be left alone. So many people here will vote to keep gay marriages illegal because the Mormon church tells them to, when in reality I'll bet most of them don't think it really hurts anyone. And now the Mormon church's spin doctor PR people are calling the judge's ruling "judicial tyranny."
All of this is happening after Mitt "Loser" Romney's run for the White House and the Mormon church putting together a website that was supposed to build bridges with the homosexual community. It's pretty fucking obvious that was all just cheap talk, lip service to help grease the wheels so the Mormon church could get what it wants. Everything will change when the church's not-for-profit tax status is threatened by its bigotry, just like in 1978 when it finally allowed blacks to have the priesthood. Like I've said before, to understand the Mormon church and Mormonism in general, follow the money because it is the thing that truly makes everything flow.
Friday, October 18, 2013
Why I Stay in Utah
I live in Utah. I've lived in Utah for a while now. When I first moved here I was an active member of the Mormon church, but now I'm not. I have friends who continually ask me why I still live here since I'm no longer Mormon. I read reviews of my book where strangers ask the same question. People email me and ask me directly why I stick around Mormon Mecca. Some fucking morons have the balls to call me "stupid" because I live in Utah.
Gee, I'm so glad Mormons aren't the only narrow-minded assholes in the world. Sadly, some of the most closed-minded, bigoted and nastiest people I've met recently are ex-Mormons. That doesn't mean that I think the church is good because these people turn into pigs once they leave the organization. Instead, I think the Mormon church slaps a suit and tie on a pig, but it's still a pig.
In any case, back to what I was saying. People want to know why I still live in Utah, the center of the Mormon universe. My answer isn't simple and it is full of my opinions. If you have a problem with strong opinions, first of all get your panties out of your rectum, then go get a spine so you can realize my opinions don't weaken your convictions. You've been warned.
First off, my family heritage is here in Utah. Sure, I grew up in a different state, but my relatives, ancestors, etc. were from here, so I have a connection to here. I've also set roots down here, I have kids and I don't think it's cool to just tear that up so I can try to insulate myself from the Mormon church. I know some people move from here to keep their kids from the church's influence, and I can see why. I hear from stupid-ass Mormons on a regular basis as they whine "why do you live here if you don't like Mormons? How about you just leave?" To those asswipes, I ask, "Why the fuck don't you leave?" It's just as legitimate of a question, because last I checked this was not Nazi Germany (despite the efforts of the Tea Party).
Second of all, there are worse places to live. I know because I've live in worse places. There's actually a lot of culture here, but most of that is not tied to the Mormon church. I'm not talking about just bars and stuff like that, but there is also an excellent symphony, ballet company, museums, art galleries, etc. here. There's also a lot of outdoor things to do like skiing, hiking, and the like. In some parts of the country everything is as flat as a pancake and you have to "hike" in farmland among cow shit. No fun.
Another reason I stay in Utah is to stick it to the Mormons who really want to just take over the state. The percentage of Utah that is Mormon keeps dropping as more and more people who aren't Mormon realize there are some great reasons to live here. Rather than tuck tail and run to somewhere else, I'm standing and fighting. I'm sticking it to the Mormon church up close and personal. I can do more here on the ground than from far away. So I'm fighting the power and sticking it to the man in the state, which is actually kind of fun. I'm like a mix of Batman, a masked crusader that is fighting against the injustices done in the state of Utah and Eminem who says things that piss people off but really get them thinking about things they otherwise would've just taken for granted.
One big reason to live in Utah: on Sundays I can go to the movies and not have to deal with a bunch of people with crazy, rude kids. I can go to restaurants and I don't have to deal with rude asses that act like they own the joint. I can walk around Target with my Starbucks on Sundays and not receive any dirty looks or have anyone shove past me as they mutter about my coffee and me going to hell. I go to stores here on Sundays and people are really pleasant. I have to admit, where I have lived before it wasn't like this on Sundays. Of course sometimes I'll be sitting in a restaurant or be in a store on a Sunday when a bunch of people who obviously just got out of their Mormon church services come pouring in. They're rude, obnoxious and often they look nervous like someone is going to recognize them.
Perhaps the biggest reason I still live in Utah is that my husband has a job here. He's tried to get a better job elsewhere, but it always seems to not work out. The one time it did his job in another state was hellish, to say the least. We live in the northeast portion of Salt Lake County, which is the best area on the Wasatch Front to not be Mormon or to be an ex-Mormon. Living here makes being in Utah not that bad since this area is not flooded with Mormons and mindless conservatives.
So that, in a nutshell, is why I still live in Utah. If you don't like it, that's fine. If you want to call me an idiot for staying here, fuck you. Don't enjoy what I'm doing here as I wage my Mormon Rebellion right in the Mormon Heartland and on the other hand criticize me for staying where you don't want to live. I'm a big girl and I can make my own decisions and live with them. Now if you want to help with the rebellion, I say welcome and let's get to work!
Monday, October 7, 2013
Mormon Women are Shut Out in the Cold
In case you missed it, this past weekend was General Conference for the Mormon church, a time when the faithful flock to Mormon Mecca or watch the addresses on television. It's a time when many Mormons get excited because they get to hear directly from top-brass leadership, including the president of the church, or the prophet. Directives are handed down in no less than five different meetings spread out over two days.
One of these meetings takes place on Saturday nights, and it has been exclusively for priesthood holders. And in the Mormon church only men and boys 12 and older than have the priesthood. Women are not invited to the priesthood party.
Until recently this fact has just been accepted by most Mormon women. In fact, many women have a girls' night out as the men and boys go to their meeting, and often they go shopping. The men lead the church and the women get retail therapy, and thus everyone is happy, right?
Wrong. The big "surprise" is there are Mormon women who have a problem with this setup. I remember growing up in the church, being called a "feminist" was about the worst thing you could say to a girl or woman. If girls in my church classes said anything the least bit progressive, they would at the same time declare they were not "one of those feminists." Why the fear of being labeled a feminist? Mormons, both men and women, have been excommunicated for sharing feminist ideas. The last big housecleaning of that sort took place in the early 1990s. Feminism is caustic for the Mormon church hierarchy since it is a good ol' boys' club. You must have a penis to join, so women get to stay on the outside as the men direct how everything in the church is run.
You can read about how a group of women decided to speak up and tried to attend the priesthood meeting this past Saturday night, but were stopped by church officials (including a PR spokeswoman, for obvious PR reasons). Click here for the story in the Salt Lake Tribune. And click here to read the rest of the story, especially the part where church officials used a garbage truck to keep the women from entering the meeting (I shit you not!).
I've tweeted about this whole event and have received a mix of responses. Of course there are the mad-as-hell Mormons who rabidly attack anyone who doesn't shower their church with praise. Then there are people who are shocked or enraged by the news. Other people say it's a pretend issue since the priesthood is not real and therefore does not come with any power. A fair amount of people have asked me why I even care about the situation, which is a fair question consider I've left the church and so personally don't want to attend priesthood meetings, serve in a bishopric, etc.
Just because I left the Mormon church doesn't mean I don't care about what happens to the people in it. I have friends who are still faithful Mormons, women who are deeply hurt that the men in the church behave in controlling and downright abusive ways. They struggle to marry their educated minds with the archaic religious system to which they subscribe and sincerely feel is divinely inspired of God. It's simple to ask why these women don't just leave the church, but the reality is it isn't always so easy. My own falling out from the church was a long process, and along the way I often felt like these women as I grappled with the high levels of cognitive dissonance raging in my mind. It's not a fun position to be in, it's one that brings with it a high level of guilt and self-pity.
Some people on Twitter have responded to the news with witty, funny follow-ups that insinuate that the women are better off without having the burden of being leaders in the Mormon church:
@sltrib get a life ladies. It's a night without our husbands. Go do something fun, meet people. Why do you want to go to another meeting?Others made the argument that ordaining women to the priesthood would lead to men being forced to do "women's work" in the church, which of course would be disastrous:
— Mor swing (@Mormonswingers) September 25, 2013
I'm less concerned about #ordainwomen and more concerned about #menrunningyoungwomen #menrunningprimary #menrunningreliefs #womenmovingcrewsAnd then there have been some interesting, deep interactions on Twitter about the situation:
— Steve Miller (@stevengmiller) October 6, 2013
@JimRossStrategy @LadySnarksalot They believe it, but think women should have a greater role in the priesthood--which they had at beginning.Enough of the Twitter shit; now it's time for me to rant in my own special way. Ready? In the Mormon church you're wanted against "seeking after" positions of power, because that of course is vanity and is wrong. It sounds great and all, but let me tell you it's utter bullshit. I noticed on my mission and my husband has confirmed that virtually all guys who were called to leadership spots were actively seeking what they got. But the societal pressure was to get up when you were first called to a leadership position and say how humbled you were about the position, that you never wanted it, and that you would try your damnedest to live up to the expectations of the position.
— Marita Dachsel (@maritadachsel) October 8, 2013
Growing up as a girl in Mormonism you have hammered in your head just how God-awful feminism is. Seriously, feminists are regarded on about the same level as Nazis. They destroy the church, try to turn things on its head, and are no-good troublemakers. We would have big-time church leaders show up to our ward to talk about how women were not to work outside of the home, about how doing that would mean all the children would become drug pushers or porn starts or some bullshit like that. And just this past weekend there was a Mormon "apostle" saying this same bullshit again. This is real people, women are growing up in this group that makes them feel bad for wanting to be masters of their destiny. They must "respect" the men by following what they say without question.
What do the women get out of this? Quite a few Mormon women I know have said they don't want the priesthood because it would mean more responsibilities, like that's a bad thing. What, are we 15 years old? Other women say that with the cooking, cleaning, and taking care of children they wouldn't have time for more responsibilities. Maybe, just maybe, Mormon men should help cook, do laundry, clean the fucking house and raise kids! Of course their time is much too valuable to be spent doing women's work. They need to go to church leadership meetings with a bunch of other overweight men where they all fart up a storm in a room with painted cinder block walls, secretly shit-streaking their underwear because they had three helpings of the pot roast their wife slaved over the day before, while also chasing their six kids around the house and keeping everything looking spotless like a good little fucking wife. Oh, and never mind having to be there to satisfy their husband's appetites, because he gets so horny hearing the teenage girls in the ward confess their sexual "sins" as they're supposed to.
These women think that it's "respect" to be put on a pedestal where they are kept from power and authority. Mormon men say they revere women for their ability to bear children and turn the other cheek as the men act like manipulative, abusive little assholes. Women who speak up against the situation are belittled, told to get back in line, and eventually are thrown out of the group if they don't shut their fucking mouth. It's a disgusting scenario that puts so many of the women on antidepressants as they try to tell themselves it's what God wants for them, that the men really do respect them, that they must set the example of forgiveness by not complaining about the abuses they suffer on a daily basis.
Educated women of the Mormon church have become even more enraged as they have uncovered through research that in the days of Joseph Smith women had the priesthood and quite a bit of power. Sure, there was polygamy, but it was practiced very much underground. When it was practiced out in the open once Brigham Young was made head of the church, that's when women could no longer have the priesthood. Young thought women were meddlesome unless they had a collar around their neck and could be controlled. That attitude has continued on in the modern Mormon church, although the tools of suppression have changed over time.
What these women don't seem to realize is that unless they have a penis they cannot have the priesthood. For many Mormon men the priesthood is their phallus, their sword and symbol of outward power and control. And as we know, women aren't supposed to have one of those things, because they're women and they need to wait for the priesthood phallus act upon them, entering them to make them feel warm and loved by God himself, whether they want it or not. And these women must take all of this with a smile on their face, because that means they have faith in the church and God, which is much more important than their psychological health, as we all know.
Thursday, September 19, 2013
Fuck the Mormon Church!
|The Mormon temple in Salt Lake City
Some funny news I read yesterday: The Utah Underwear Run might be held on the Mormon church's Conference Weekend! The run would take place right across from Temple Square and Mormons are livid! The run has not been approved by the city yet, so we'll see if the Mormon church still has Mayor Becker in its pocket. If you want to read more about the run, click here.
Update - the Underwear Run is on but it will be taking place later in the day, after conference is over. See the announcement here.
A war is raging here in Utah and a growing number of people want to rise up and tell the Mormon church to fuck itself. I can't buy a goddamn bottle of wine on a Sunday, for crying the fuck out loud! As more and more people move in from out of state, there will be an increase in the clamoring for change. Add to that the fact that the Mormon church is losing members in a huge orgasm of apostasy, and the pressure is on for the church to back off its total control of downtown, etc.
Change is coming, you can be on that.
Be scared, Mormon church, be very scared.
People are waking up.
Friday, August 23, 2013
Salt Lake City: Suburbs Versus the Urban Lifestyle
|This is how Jesus would have to fit in the SLC suburbs.
Salt Lake City is a weird-ass city in many ways, but not just in the ways some of you might expect. Despite what some people think there are bars, pubs, coffee shops and even stores that sell lingerie and sex toys. One of the strangest quirks to me is the fact that the suburbs of Salt Lake City are largely pretty ghetto, awful places to live. Allow me to explain.
I grew up not in Utah but in a big city in the western United States. Where I grew up it was the suburbs and it was pretty nice. By pretty nice, I mean really nice. Okay, it was fucking rich. Yes, boys and girls, I grew up in a pretty damn exclusive part of town where pools, tennis courts and three car garages were the norm. Where I live in Salt Lake City is quite different. You see, I live near downtown in a little house with a small yard, no pool, no tennis court and with a dinky little garage.
At first I hated the living arrangements in this part of town, but tolerated it. When we were newlyweds my husband wanted to stick around the part of town he grew up in, and since he had a nice place of his own I complied. I figured later when we had kids we would move out to the 'burbs where we would have more space, but my husband absolutely refused. After a while we moved out of state for my husband's work and ended up in a large city in the suburbs. The area was nice, fairly affluent and reminded me very much of where I grew up in many ways. After a few years we moved back to Utah, again following a job. We had acquired so much stuff living in the suburbs that we decided to move into the suburbs here. That was a huge fucking mistake.
One of the most obvious things about the suburbs here is that the percentage of the population that is active Mormon is dramatically higher. I kid you not, just about everyone on our block got up on Sunday morning, got all glitzed up and headed off to church, the same church, at the same time. Every. Fucking. Sunday. It was like living in Stepford, except the fashions are much better in Stepford and the houses are much nicer. There were Mormon meetinghouses EVERYWHERE. They would start a new subdivision and the first thing that would be built would be a Mormon church. So if you are moving to Salt Lake City from out of state and you aren't Mormon, I would tell you to beware moving to the suburbs where you will stick out like a sore thumb. Of course some areas are worse than others, but overall it is just a bad idea.
The whole Mormon majority thing was annoying but not very shocking, honestly. What was shocking was the fact that overall the suburbs around Salt Lake City are fucking ghetto! There are a few areas that have large homes with pools, tennis courts and such. Many of those areas are revolving doors where people move in, living for a short while and then move out swiftly (usually with a bank owned real estate sign in front of their house, if you know what I mean). The rest of the suburbs here are full of shitty houses (many that are split entry) with chain link fences, garbage cars parked everywhere and shit falling off the houses all over the place (like peeling paint or falling rain gutters). Where I live now houses are old, but they are all kept really nice. There were quite a few people in the area where we moved that I strongly suspected did not give their kids much food and those same children wore the same few outfits constantly. I don't have anything wrong with people who aren't rich, but I was shocked that the suburbs here are largely pretty damn poor. Of course there are a million kids in the suburbs, so ironically the people who can't afford to have large families, have large families.
A little while ago I was reading an article all about how in some cities poverty is rising rapidly in the suburbs. Salt Lake City was one of the prime examples used in the article. The article talked about how the recession caused a shift in wealth, leading to increased poverty in the 'burbs. The article did not mention that this problem has been around in Salt Lake City for some time.
Where I live, near downtown, is pretty liberal. People display quite a few signs and banners supporting Obama or Hillary (again). There are quite a few homosexuals around here and most people don't give them any shit. And yes, Mormon churches are far less numerous. There's quite a bit of art as well, which doesn't seem to exist much in the 'burbs here, unless you count bland Jesus pictures and church piano music as art. There's more of a sense of community here than in the 'burbs, where if you aren't part of the local Mormon ward group you are pretty much left out of a lot of the social activities. Here people have block parties or holiday parties and really do invite everyone in the area. Nobody really gives a damn what group you belong to, because you belong to the neighborhood and so are a part of "the group." People walk around, say hello to each other and do things nearby instead of driving everywhere. My neighbors are doctors, attorneys, professors and business owners instead of the millions of contractors and "sales people" (people who sell scan investment coaching packages over the phone or something shady like that) I was surrounded by in the 'burbs.
Most Mormons really hate the area where I live because there are "those liberals" who live here. I guess they like living in areas where people aren't very social, things are shitty and everyone pumps out a bunch of kids because they're supposed to. As for me, I'll keep my old house in a well-kept area where I can walk a few minutes to get a coffee and a sandwich instead of climbing in my car.
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'N Sync was so popular around the turn of the millennium that even I — jaded, posturing music critic — bought the band's second album, No Strings Attached. It sold more than a million copies the day it was released in March 2000, and I was swallowing a lot of LSD at the time.
Though my friends thought I was, well, gay, the girls in the junior high after-school program where I taught could relate. They all insisted Lance Bass was the "cute one." So when Bass came out of the closet last year, perhaps they were disappointed. Surely they would enjoy his new memoir, Out of Sync, as much as I did.
Though ghostwritten, it's a tremendous read, because the dude has a great story. At age five, he had a crush on another boy in his kindergarten class, but coming out wasn't in the cards for a young Southern Baptist Mississippian, nor for a teenage boy-band heartthrob. Fifty million records later, he briefly abandoned showbiz to train in Russia to be a space tourist, but because of a lack of funding, the trip fell through.
The media has generally fixated, however, on the passage in the book where Bass disses Justin Timberlake. In 2002, JT told the group he was leaving to work on a solo album.
"I felt completely betrayed," Bass writes, adding later: "Why couldn't Justin keep the franchise intact while he also did his own thing?"
Over the phone from New York, where he is starring as Corny Collins in Hairspray, Bass says he's not thrilled that coverage is focused on this brief criticism. "I didn't write the book to talk about the breakup of 'N Sync, but the story had to be said," he says, adding he's not bitter anymore and never doubted JT's solo stuff would kill (though he thought JC Chasez's would too).
My only complaint with Out of Sync is that it neglects a hilarious chapter of Bass's life — when he dated Danielle Fishel, the giant-breasted actress who played Topanga on Boy Meets World.
"It's something that, in hindsight, I can't believe I skipped over," he says, adding that even though the two of them never slept together, he has slept with women before. "It would have been so good to put in the book, because so many people in the gay community go through having a girlfriend and then realize, I'm gay. Why am I with this girl?"
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Nonetheless the Children's Theatre production is so winning, it's worth sitting through the songs just to enjoy the performances and staging. In the role of the Queen, Raquel Marmor disports herself quite nicely. I, for one, would not want to run into her in a dark castle or a deserted spot in the woods. Particularly scary is her headdress, designed by Estela Vrancovich (who did all the terrific costumes), which appears as though it might be made out of spare 1960s Cadillac tail fins. Equally tarted up, as it were, is Sir Pompous, a vision of pretension and cowardice in plumes and tights, played by the appealing Ricky J. Martinez. Sir Pompous and the Mirror (the delightful Raymond Yanez) provide the story's much needed comic relief. I mean, who can sit still for an hour worrying about an Evil Queen, unless there's an opportunity to giggle once in a while?
Director Maulding stepped in as the Prince in the production I saw, and he was quite charming indeed. As for Snow White herself, she's played by Lissa Grossman, whose previous Children's Theatre credits include Mistress Mary and the title role in Cinderella. She's charming, too, and possessed of a warm voice and a great patience, all useful attributes onstage, particularly when members of the audience are being carried out at irregular intervals for potty breaks. Someone seated near me momentarily mistook Grossman for Sleeping Beauty, but that's no reflection on the actress. Rather I think it speaks to her ability to impersonate several princesses at once. A good thing. The world can always use more self-confident heroines.
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Signaling a possible breakthrough for a new generation of composers whose bona fides are not in theater but in rock, "Spring Awakening," a musical hailed for bringing a fresh and authentic rock edge to a 19th century German tale about teenagers' sexual angst, received 11 Tony nominations Tuesday. Right behind with 10 was another new musical with an unorthodox approach: "Grey Gardens," about two off-kilter relatives of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
"The Coast of Utopia," Tom Stoppard's heady, three-part epic drama about 19th century Russian revolutionaries, led the play nominees with 10 nods.
The best new musical category now shapes up as a showdown between the experimentalists who led the nominations and two traditional shows: "Curtains," a backstage whodunit that premiered last year at Los Angeles' Ahmanson Theatre had eight nominations, and Disney's "Mary Poppins" had seven. Winners will be announced in a CBS telecast June 10.
"Theater is this incredible medium that was not getting its message out to the widest possible audience," said Duncan Sheik, who composed the music for "Spring Awakening" after first establishing himself as a touring rock singer-songwriter, known especially for the hit "Barely Breathing."
"I started thinking, 'What if you put music to it that a twentysomething might be listening to on their iPod?' "
"The Coast of Utopia" will fight it out with another British play, " Frost/Nixon," about the 1977 television interview between the British TV personality and the disgraced U.S. president, and an American drama freighted with a sentimental tug: August Wilson was dying of cancer in 2005 as he finished "Radio Golf," the last drama in his 10-play cycle about African American life in the 20th century. Also in the running is "The Little Dog Laughed," Douglas Carter Beane's satire about a budding film star who is a closted gay, which closed in February.
Wilson, who was making changes and leaving additional instructions while "Radio Golf" ended its run at L.A.'s Mark Taper Forum shortly before his death, won two Pulitzer Prizes and a Tony for his earthy portrayals of everyday people in Pittsburgh. In Stoppard, he faces one of the stage's leading depictors of soaring intellectuals.
"We all feel we're carrying the flag for this man who did so much," said Jack Viertel, one of the producers of "Radio Golf."
Also contending posthumously are two members of the "Curtains" team: lyricist Fred Ebb and book writer Peter Stone. They had teamed with composer John Kander, who turned to Rupert Holmes to complete the show.
Sheik has a chance to become the only rock musician besides Elton John ("Aida") to claim Broadway success with songs written expressly for the stage.
"Spring Awakening" follows the plot and period setting of Frank Wedekind's 1892 German tragedy. "Grey Gardens" sports a book that Tony- and Pulitzer-winning playwright Doug Wright ("I Am My Own Wife") based on a 1975 documentary by David and Albert Maysles.
Emphatically shut out in the musical nominations was "The Pirate Queen," a lavish new show from the creators of " Les Misérables" that reportedly cost $16 million to mount.
Jonathan Groff of "Spring Awakening" will vie for best actor in a musical with Michael Cerveris, who portrays composer Kurt Weill in "LoveMusik"; David Hyde Pierce as the stage-struck detective in "Curtains"; Raúl Esparza as the lonely bachelor, Bobby, in the revival of the Stephen Sondheim-George Furth show "Company"; and Gavin Lee from "Mary Poppins." Failing to make the cut was comic actor Martin Short ("Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me").
A quartet of veterans will compete for best actress in a musical: Donna Murphy, playing Weill's wife and muse Lotte Lenya in "LoveMusik"; Audra McDonald, a four-time Tony winner as best featured actress, as the spinster in "110 in the Shade"; Debra Monk from "Curtains"; and Christine Ebersole of "Grey Gardens." Also in the running is newcomer Laura Bell Bundy, who plays Elle, the out-of-place Harvard law student, in "Legally Blonde: The Musical."
Best actor in a play was an especially tough category: Of the 15 eligible performers, nine were past Tony winners. The nods went to five men with one to three Tonys already on their shelves: Liev Schreiber as the wild radio host in a revival of Eric Bogosian's "Talk Radio"; Brían F. O'Byrne as Alexander Herzen, one of the revolutionaries in "The Coast of Utopia"; Christopher Plummer, the Clarence Darrow avatar, Henry Drummond, in the revival of "Inherit the Wind"; Frank Langella as Richard Nixon in "Frost/Nixon"; and Boyd Gaines as an English officer in "Journey's End," a revival of a play about soldiers fighting in World War I.
Some household names were left out: Brian Dennehy, playing the William Jennings Bryan figure in "Inherit the Wind"; Kevin Spacey, as drunkard James Tyrone Jr. in "A Moon for the Misbegotten"; and Nathan Lane, as the emotionally disintegrating professor in "Butley." Also failing to get nominations were highly praised performances by film notables Bill Nighy ("Pirates of the Caribbean") in David Hare's "The Vertical Hour" and Michael Sheen ("The Queen") as David Frost opposite Langella's Nixon.
Vanessa Redgrave, who won the best actress Tony in 2003 for her turn as Mary Tyrone in "Long Day's Journey Into Night," will try to repeat with her solo performance as grieving author Joan Didion in the autobiographical "The Year of Magical Thinking." Her competition includes Angela Lansbury, playing a retired tennis star in "Deuce" and shooting for a straight-play Tony after four awards for best actress in a musical; two-time winner Swoosie Kurtz, Hesione Hushabye in a revival of Shaw's "Heartbreak House"; British stage star Eve Best, playing farmer's daughter Josie Hogan in "A Moon for the Misbegotten"; and Julie White, acclaimed for her satiric turn as a Hollywood agent in "The Little Dog Laughed." Julianne Moore didn't make the cut with her Broadway debut in "The Vertical Hour."
Jack O'Brien, artistic director of San Diego's Old Globe Theatre, vies for his third Tony Award with a nomination for best director of a play, for "The Coast of Utopia." He's a lone American up against English directors Michael Grandage ("Frost/Nixon"), Melly Still ("Coram Boy") and David Grindley ("Journey's End"). Harold Prince, the biggest name among this season's musical directors, didn't get a nomination for "LoveMusik," leaving the field to Michael Greif ("Grey Gardens"), Scott Ellis ("Curtains"), Michael Mayer ("Spring Awakening") and John Doyle ("Company").
Two off-Broadway successes that transferred to Broadway won Tonys for special theatrical event: "Kiki & Herb Alive on Broadway" and "Jay Johnson: The Two and Only!" The Alliance Theatre of Atlanta was awarded the annual Tony for regional theater excellence.Copyright © 2014, Sun Sentinel


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Have I ever mentioned that all five of my girls are athletes? They all love basketball more than any other sport. They play softball and volleyball and run track as they wait for basketball season to start. Laney's senior year, she got new shoes that had her name and number on them. They were pretty sweet.
The other day, Ally was looking for her own basketball shoes as she headed out to practice. She could only find one. I told her to go find Laney's shoes and use those. A few days later, as she headed to practice again, she had them in her hand.
Later, I asked Ally if it were hard and made her cry to put on her sister's shoes. She said that it didn't. But informed me that she was going to wear them from now on. Then yesterday, she told me that when I went to her game, I was going to cry. When I asked her why, she told me that when I saw her in Laney's shoes that it would make me cry.
But, it didn't.(I know, you were thinking that I am so emotional lately that it would make me bawl my eyes out.) It actually made me smile. How cool is it to be able to wear your sister's shoes as you literally follow in her footsteps?
As I thought about it, I smiled again as I remember a conversation I had with Laney not long before we lost her. We were reminiscing about her playing basketball. You know, the,"Remember when…" conversations. We were laughing at when Laney used to run down the court and watch her feet as she ran. She then confessed that she still did! That is when I cried. Because Ally does, too.


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Goombay Dance Band
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|Goombay Dance Band
|Hamburg Germany
|Pop, Euro disco, Europop
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Alicia Bendt
Dorothy Hellings
Wendy Doorsen
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The Goombay Dance Band is a German based band created in 1979 by Oliver Bendt. The band is named after a small bay on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia.
Their music has a distinctive sound (somewhat similar to Boney M.), a mixture of Caribbean soca or calypso and western pop.
The group built up a fan base across Europe and in total released some 15 singles between 1979 and 1985, within which time they enjoyed their greatest commercial success. They proved very popular in South Africa too, where "Sun of Jamaica" and "Aloha-Oe" topped the singles charts. "Seven Tears" also charted, becoming Number One in the U.K. Singles Charts on 23 March 1982, while "Rain" and "Eldorado" also proved popular.
Their most successful song was "Sun of Jamaica" which topped the German single charts for nine weeks in 1980 and sold 11 million copies, although it never reached the Top 40 in the UK. However, in 1982, their song "Seven Tears" topped the UK Singles Chart for three weeks and was also a million-seller.[1] It was the eighth best selling single in the UK during 1982. Another song which did not reach the chart was "Indio Boy" (1982). "Sun of Jamaica" also reached the top of the German music charts in 1980, when performed under the title "Nie mehr allein sein" by singer Tony Holiday.
Band members[edit]
- Oliver Bendt (original name: Jörg Knoch)
- Alicia Bendt
- Dorothy Hellings
- Wendy Doorsen
- Mario Slijngaard
|Zauber der Karibik (also issued under Sun Of Jamaica)
|Land Of Gold
|Holiday in Paradise
|Born To Win
|Tropical Dreams (compilation)
|Sun of Jamaica 1991 (compilation)
|Greatest Hits (compilation)
|Sommer, Sonne, Strand (also issued under Montego Bay)
|Island Of Dreams (compilation)
|Sun of Jamaica 1995 (compilation)
|Caribbean Beach Party (compilation)
|Christmas By The Sea
|Sun of Jamaica 1998 (compilation)
- 1979 "Sun of Jamaica" / "Island of Dreams"[2]
- 1979 "Ring Ting Ting" / "Sunny Caribbean"
- 1980 "Aloha-Oe, Until We Meet Again" / "Conga Man"
- 1980 "Eldorado" / "Love and Tequila"
- 1980 "Rain" / "King of Peru"
- 1981 "Seven Tears" / "Mama Coco"
- 1981 "Christmas At Sea" / "Ave Maria No Morro"
- 1982 "Santorini Goodbye" / "Carry The Load"
- 1982 "Robinson Crusoe" / "The Magician"
- 1982 "My Bonnie" / "Alice, My Love"
- 1983 "If You Ever Fall In Love" / "Jericho"
- 1983 "Born To Win" / "Caribbean Dreams"
- 1984 "Don't You Cry, Caroline" / "Storybook Lovers"
- 1985 "Marlena" / "Young Hearts"
- 1985 "A Typical Jamaican Mess" / "Canta mi lengua"
- ^ Seven Tears, Chart Stats, retrieved 22 December 2009
- ^ "Goombay Dance Band - Sun Of Jamaica". Portland, Oregon 97225-1403, United States: Discogs. Retrieved 2009-07-03.
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ConDor is an annual science fiction/fantasy convention. We have authors, agents, TV shows, costumes, dealers, artists, actors, games, dances, concerts, and Harry Potter programming.
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Mediabistro Job Fair
Gray Television and Excalibur Broadcasting to Acquire 15 Stations For $335M
Gray Television and Excalibur Broadcasting have agreed to acquire 15 stations from Hoak Media and Parker Broadcasting for $335 million.
The 20 stations that Gray and Excalibur will acquire from Hoak and Parker are KSFY, KABY and KPRY in Sioux Falls, S.D.; KVLY and KXJB in Fargo, N.D.; KNOE and KAQY in Monroe, La.; KFYR, KMOT, KUMV and KQCD in Minot, N.D.; WMBB in Panama City, Fla.; KALB in Alexandria, La.; KREX, KREY, KFQX and KREG in Grand Junction, Co.; KNOP and KIIT in North Platte, Neb.; and KHAS in Lincoln, Neb.
Due to FCC ownership requirements, Gray will sell Hoak's stations station in Panama City, Fla. and four stations in Grand Junction, Co., bringing the total number of stations acquired to 15.
Excalibur has also agreed to acquire two more stations from Prime Cities Broadcasting, KNDX and KXND in Minot, N.D., for $7.5 million.
Gray will provide back-office services and limited programming to the Excalibur stations in Lincoln, Fargo, Minot and Monroe through a shared services agreement.
"We are thrilled to have the opportunity to bring the Hoak, Parker and Prime Cities television stations into the Gray community," Gray President and CEO Hilton Howell said in a statement. "These transactions will yield impressive synergies, many of which are unique to Gray given how well the stations' locations, operations and culture complement our own."
Veteran Anchor Charley Johnson Leaving WDAZ
Charley Johnson, an anchor at WDAZ in Grand Forks, ND, is leaving the news business after more than 30 years.
Johnson was named president and chief executive at the Fargo Moorhead Convention and Visitors Bureau this morning, according to the Forum of Fargo-Moorhead. He will take over in June.
Johnson has anchored the evening newscasts at WDAZ since 2010. He spent the majority of his career at KVLY, the NBC-affiliate in Fargo, where he held a variety of roles including anchor, news director and general manager.
KVLY-KXJB Hires Two Multimedia Journalists
Two new multimedia journalists will join KVLY-KXJB in Fargo next week: Tony Ullrich (pictured) and Robert Hahn, news director Griff Potter announced in a staff memo today.
Ullrich joins KVLY-KXJB from KOMU in Columbia, MO, where he has been a multimedia journalist, weekend anchor and live truck operator since 2008. He began his television career at KMEG, the CBS-affiliate in Sioux City, IA.
Hahn joins the Fargo duopoly from Bay News 9 in St. Petersburg, where he is an anchor and multimedia journalist. He has previously worked at KWGN in Cheyenne and WFXL in Albany, GA.
KVLY-KXJB: Robin Huebner Was Not Forced Out
Fargo's KVLY-KXJB is striking back against allegations made by former anchor Robin Huebner, who claimed in The Forum yesterday that she was immediately shown the door after putting in her two-weeks notice.
"No one forced her out," president and general manager Jim Wareham said in an on-air editorial last night. "We were disappointed to see her go." Video inside… Read more
Veteran Anchor Abruptly Exits KVLY-KXJB Amid Discrimination Allegations
Longtime KVLY-KXJB anchor Robin Huebner resigned on Monday, following a very public demotion that left her mulling a discrimination lawsuit against the Fargo-Grand Forks partner stations.
In August, Huebner announced on-air that she was leaving her established spot on the 10 p.m. newscast and would instead be anchoring at 5:30, as well as 6:00.
Huebner told Fargo's The Forum that she put in her two-weeks notice on Monday and management responded by immediately showing her the door. An attorney for Huebner said that she was left with little choice following her high-profile demotion. Read more


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- Cooking Time: 25
- Servings: 6-7
- Preparation Time: 5
- Canola Oil Cooking Spray
- 1 tsp Minced Garlic
- 1 Carrot, cut into small cubes
- 500 gms Pork mince
- 1/2 Green capsicum, cut into small cubes
- 1/2 cup Frozzen Sliced Green Beans
- 1 Tbsp Lemon juice
- 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce
- 1/2 Tbsp HP Sauce
- 1 Tbsp Thai Sweet Chilli Sauce
- 1/4 tsp Mixed spice
- 1/2 tsp Mixed Herbs
- 1/2 Tbsp Freeze Dried Basil
- 2 Tbsp Fish Sauce
- 1 tsp Vegetable Flavour Stock Powder
- Salt, to taste
- 1 can Peeled diced tomatoes
- 5 cups Cooked rice
- To serve: Italian Style Mozzarella Shredded Cheese
- In a non-stick pan, spray some oil, add the garlic and stir.
- Add the carrot and a little water. Keep stirring until the carrot starts to soften.
- Add the pork mince and stir well.
- When the pork mince starts to brown add the capsicum, beans, lemon juice, worcestershire sauce, HP sauce, sweet chilli sauce, spice, herbs, basil, fish sauce and stock powder. Stir well.
- Cook over medium heat, until pork mince is cooked through; about 15 minutes.
- Add the tomatoes and salt. Stir well until tomato is heated through.
- Add the rice. Over low heat, stir until all is mixed well. Cover and leave for about 8 minutes.
- Uncover. Stir again and take off heat.
- To serve: Garnish with basil and mozzarella.
NotesI wanted an all-in one pan recipe that reheats well. So, I came up with this one. My husband thought I made it with a recipe base, and was really impressed when I told him I made it from scratch.
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I see a sloppy 9-7 season. And this is how it plays out...
Posted 19 August 2013 - 12:21 AM
Posted 19 August 2013 - 12:25 AM
Couldn't we have just ended the thread at this post
Posted 19 August 2013 - 12:30 AM
Posted 19 August 2013 - 12:34 AM
Posted 19 August 2013 - 12:54 AM
Posted 19 August 2013 - 12:54 AM
I think you need a break from your thread creating privileges for awhile. It's like TruCatzFan never left.
Posted 19 August 2013 - 01:31 AM
I tell ya what man. We sure do got some amazing analysts on the huddle. Won't be long before all u guys are up in the big show on espn.
lol implying espn analysts know a damn thing about the Panthers
Posted 19 August 2013 - 01:43 AM
Call me weird, but I won't be trying to figure out how we do until I see our third preseason game. I think the offense has been deliberately vanilla, but the defense does worry me.
Posted 19 August 2013 - 01:48 AM
Posted 19 August 2013 - 05:56 AM
Actually, the scenario painted by the OP seems plausible. However, I think we go into the bye at 2-1, rather than 1-2, beating the Bills and G-men.
Also, I doubt 9-7 will be enough for the playoffs. It will depend on our conference record. The way you have it, we would be 7-5 in the conference. That's probably not good enough, but it might be. BTW, you have us at 3-3 in the division, which seems about right.
I agree that 9 wins is probably the ceiling for this team. Anything more and we will have overachieved. Should we really expect a Ron RIvera coached football team to overachieve? Seems unlikely.
Nice try, but I see us more like 8-8 or even as bad as 6-10. We have a brutal schedule. As to whether Rivera gets to keep his job...right now I'm betting he doesn't.
Posted 19 August 2013 - 06:39 AM
Posted 19 August 2013 - 06:47 AM
Damn, that dude got F'd the F up.
Posted 19 August 2013 - 07:06 AM
I am ashamed to be a fan of this team sometimes. Not because of the players or coaches but because of most of you so called fans. 2 weeks into the preseason and its already over for most of you. This is my epiphany, and Zod you should probably take note cuz I bet I'm not the only one, I'm done with this board until the season starts. I can't take this poo any more.
See ya week one.
I predicted a winning record, considering how the Panthers rolls, I see us a 9-7 team. Its not like i predicted 3-13 or anything
Posted 19 August 2013 - 07:12 AM
Posted 19 August 2013 - 07:17 AM
Ok all you guys are bashing me, A. I predicted a winning season and B. to those bashing me, name one thing you have seen from this team the last two years and this pre season that makes you think im wrong and we win more games. Given our situation I think this is the most likely outcome. We split with division rivals, we beat the teams we are suppose to beat, lose to the ones we are suppose to lose and have one upset victory against the Giants all en route to a 9-7 season.
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