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Area architects sketch out plans for lakefront
When UWM first announced its plans to build a spectacular building on the lakefront, their School of Freshwater Sciences and a symbol for Milwaukee as a hub of 21st-century research and industry, it was clear it'd be tricky. The site UWM had identified, the former Pieces of Eight site, has a tiny footprint and anything built there would serve as visual scrim for both the exuberant, postmodern architecture of the Milwaukee Art Museum and the more restrained but still iconic Discovery World. That all of this was to happen along Lake Michigan, land that is precious and defining to Milwaukeeans, only added to the complexity, both physical and political.
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As an architect, I have had an opportunity to see many of the designs proposed for the School of Fresh Water Sciences. I find it interesting that most of the proposals and much of the discussion centers on the urban and natural context, rather than on an imaginative interpretation of what a "Fresh Water Sciences" building could be. Perhaps there could be very little structure ABOVE the water at all? A solution like this might have saved the idea of placing the project in this very sensitive location, AND offered a rare and appropriate opportunity to experience the lake. Michael Brush, AIA - Plunkett Raysich Architects
Wow. Actually all of these are pretty darn nice, though you have to be careful using the brown color given all the white buildings nearby
I am an architecture student from Milwaukee, but studying at Kansas State University. I agree with Bill Kissinger. There is no sense of planning at a larger scale. We should be thinking on a larger scale than just this site; we should be talking about the whole lakefront, and its connection to the rest of the city. And how these spaces can really service the public of Milwaukee. Putting a building at this place would just crowd the lakefront.
Two of my friends who are also architecture students came to Milwaukee this summer, and they loved the lakefront. They loved how many people were out on a summer evening just enjoying themselves. I think more could be done through planning and design to facilitate even more puclic activity and interaction.
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Starting weight: 346 pounds
iVillage: What was your big turning point-either during the show or before that made you realize you needed to lose the weight?
I always checked in on the show online whether I was watching the show or not. I checked in online and realized there was a casting call close to me. And I realized that I was extremely overweight. So I called my mom and asked her if she wanted to go to the casting call.
iVillage: What is one thing you wish you had known before going on The Biggest Loser?
I wish I had known how strong I was before I started all this.
iVillage: Did you think it's harder or easier to be on the show with a family member as a teammate as opposed to competing by yourself?
I think having my mom on the show with me made it easier because if I slacked off at all, I wouldn't be letting just a partner down, I would be letting my family down. That makes you work a little harder.
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I feel like I was a little shy at first in front of all the cameras, but it was part of the process.
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The hardest part of being at the ranch was not having contact with any of my friends or family.
iVillage: What is one thing that keeps you motivated when you don't feel like working out or you want to eat junk food?
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iVillage: What is your favorite workout?
I like being outside, so going for a walk or run outside is one of my favorite workouts to do. On my runs, it never gets boring, whether I am enjoying nature or dodging cars.
iVillage: What's the best advice Bob or Jillian has given you?
Bob made me realize that even though I had a goal and I needed to work for it, I also needed to find time for myself to relax and take a break. Keeping myself stress-free really helped me stay on track.
iVillage: What is your favorite meal or snack?
A healthy meal that I really like is a pan seared piece of fish, grilled asparagus, a sweet potato and a big salad. I get filled up and it is relatively low in calories.
iVillage: What's something viewers at home wouldn't know from watching the show?
I really like working on things and knowing how they work. I plan on going back to school and finishing up my degree when I get done with the show.
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- BBC, CINAR Corporation, HALO Productions
- Cartoon Characters: Mum, Delilah, Treasure, Brian, Mrs. P, Rosie, Jane.
- Originally Released in 2002.
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- Running Time: 10 minutes.
- Canada / United Kingdom
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After a school trip to a dairy farm where all the cows look very miserable, Treasure decides to become a vegetarian. All she will eat is pasta and cheese; she becomes rather pale and thin. Mum buys her some special vegetarian food, and she decides that they'll all be vegetarian for a bit. Meanwhile, Treasure has been out and has met a boy who's a vegan, so she decides to become one, too. She arrives home to find that Mum's made cheese soufflé for dinner...
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) What factors go into a "quality" link? Garrett: Backlink profile of prospective linker -- which sites link to the page and the site as a whole An engaged, relevant audience Distribution and reach of target site -- are they social media participants? Do they have an email newsletter? How far will your link there take you? Ben: Relevance and value Keywords used on page, etc. Quantity and quality of backlinks Relevance of entire site Relevance of entire site's backlinks Whi... > Read more
The Week in Search: Even More Ways to Brainstorm Blog Posts
I'm sort of surprised that I've never linked to Chris Brogan's blog in a Friday roundup before, since I'm a regular reader. Maybe because his posts tend to be short, to the point and difficult to disagree with, and finding something to disagree with is one of my top ways of brainstorming new blog posts.
It's also one of Chris Brogan's! His "How to Think of Blog Posts" post features the good-old-fashioned rant at #8 (see roundups of Fridays past in which I disagree with Seth Godin, David Powazek and Robert Scoble). I guess I'm feeling agreeable this week because I have no beef with Chris's post; I simply want to add a few more ideas to the list: 1. Expand on a tweet: The next time you start to respond to something or someone on Twitter, hold that thought and see if you can't expand beyond 1... > Read more
New White Paper: Four Steps to Better Keyword Grouping
We're offering a new free white paper for download: 4 Steps to Better Keyword Grouping. This is a focused, tactical white paper offering clear and actionable advice to help you achieve more effective and profitable keyword segmentation for search marketing. If your keyword grouping strategy could use some polishing—or you're not even sure where to start—this white paper is a must-read.
Here's an excerpt from the new paper: If you only have time for one change to improve the overall performance and value of both your pay-per-click marketing and search engine optimization efforts, turn your attention to keyword grouping. Far from a single, isolated process, keyword grouping represents a paradigm shift for search marketing. Better keyword grouping and organization can transfo... > Read more
3 Things You Need to Know About Long-Tail Marketing with Advanced Broad Match
This is a guest post is by Bob Stanley, WordStream's Senior Client Services Representative. Bob has extensive experience in paid search, which he now leverages to help our clients solve difficult problems surrounding pay-per click marketing with the WordStream software. One of my roles as a client services rep for WordStream is to help clients use our software to successfully manage their paid search accounts.
I'm finding more and more with our clients that the long tail is getting extremely competitive. I personally blame advanced broad matching options, dynamic keyword insertion (DKI), and just the industry becoming more sophisticated. We all know the advantages of getting more specific with grouping and creating better conversion paths – however, it's not always so cut and... > Read more
Link Building Experts Interview Series: Debra Mastaler
All this month we'll be interviewing link building experts on the WordStream blog. First up is Debra Mastaler. ( Does great content market itself? Yes and no. This really depends on the reputation of the person/company producing the content. Those with a good rep can publish and have content pushed forward, even if it's not so great.
Strong reputations carry tremendous power. Those without a reputation will need to work at pushing content and building their power base. Do you believe in linkbait? If so, what are some strategies for creating it? Interesting question, I've never been asked if I "believe" in something link-related before. Let's see ... I use it, I think it's effective and I think it adds diversity to your content mix which is important when trying to tap into new traff... > Read more
Brush Up on Your Social Skills: The Week in Social Search
I hope you're not feeling antisocial out there, because today's roundup is all about social search. There were several big announcements this week in the world of social and real-time search. Microsoft and Google both announced agreements with Twitter. Bing's Twitter search is live, but it doesn't seem to work all that well – when I searched for my username, instead of getting a string of my tweets and @replies, I got this: Um, OK, but why? Why doesn't it just search for my username and return all the results? I can see why the "top links shared in tweets about" thing would be interesting/useful, but why is that the default search behavior? What if that's not what you're looking for? For its part, Google soft-launched social search in labs.
Danny Sullivan goes into some detail about wha... > Read more
Monthly Blog Roundup: WordStream's October Highlights
October is winding to a close, and if history has taught us anything, November comes next. And with it, a candy hangover, my birthday, and pervasive Xmas music, in roughly that order—none of which I'm particularly looking forward to. So let's take this opportunity to look back—at our most popular blog posts from the past month, that is: Advanced Link Building: Clone Your Most Successful Link Profiles – Resident link building expert Ken Lyons explains how to analyze your link profiles step by step and then replicate your best link prospects.
Top SEO Web Design Company Websites – Another installment in the Top SEO Websites Series, Ken looks at which web design firms are practicing what they should be preaching: SEO-friendly design. 20 Conversion Rate Optimization (CR... > Read more
Interview with the Experts: Ruud Hein
Ruud Hein is a Dutch family man living in Canada. Newsweek-recommended web publisher and blogger in his own right, he works at the SEO company Search Engine People where he's an internal SEO consultant and blog editor. See also: @ruudhein. Can you describe a typical day in the life of Ruud Hein? 06:50 – Put on coffee, start TweetDeck so it populates, take shower; make breakfast for my youngest daughter and my wife.
07:45 – Open TweetDeck, scan TwitScoop column; check if the world has made it through another night. Decide on which topic I want to track today. Check Cre8asite Forums. Check if blog posts on SEP and SEO Scoop have gone out. 09:00 – One hour of Most Important Task work. 10:00 – Check email. Do short stuff right away. Archive. Put stuff in my Evernote GTD setup. Do Tim... > Read more
The Future of Content Creation: Keyword Research on Steroids
Wired this week published a fascinating profile piece on a company called Demand Media: "The Answer Factory: Fast, Disposable, and Profitable as Hell." The company's approach to content generation almost sounds like science fiction or satire, but it's real, and it works. It's a purely algorithmic, data-driven method of prioritizing content designed to rank on the first page of the Google SERPs: basically keyword research in hyperdrive.
And like it or not, this may be where we're all headed. Keyword-research-driven content production is nothing new; we practice this ourselves (to an extent). Workflow is based on the keyword groups that are currently driving traffic and conversions. If tons of people are finding our site after searching on "keyword organization tools" and we don't have dedi... > Read more
Another Week, Another Battle in the War on SEO
If you've been working in the search marketing industry for long, you know that every so often some scheming troll (or major news corporation) comes along and delivers a rant against SEO, usually including most if not all of the following sentiments: Search engine optimizers are snake oil salesmen (Would that those fighting the war on SEO were also familiar with the war against cliché) SEO is just common sense; it's obvious Most of what SEOs do is smoke and mirrors SEOs are scam artists Information on optimizing a site is freely available on the web, so why pay for it? This week, that troll was a Derek "Powa-jerk" Powezek (hat tip to Ken for the wrestling name), who I guess is a designer (his actual job titles include Creative Director and "Chief of Awesome").
Powazek's rant about how S... > Read more
Pimp Your PPC Ad: 5 Lessons from Lackluster Text Ads
Remember MTV's Pimp Your Ride? Well today I'm going to pimp your PPC ad. Roll in with your Chevy Cavalier and I'll send you home with a Cadillac. Of pay-per-click ads. OK, these advertisers didn't ask me to revamp their ads, but I'm doing it anyway (for free!) and I think we'll all learn some valuable PPC ad writing lessons in the process.
Lesson #1: You have limited space. Don't waste it. Below are the first-page sponsored links for a search on "web design firms." This ad is redundant. The URL tells us the name of your company, so use the headline to say something more—tell us a little about what you offer and what sets you apart. (And one or the other could include the keyword to increase relevancy.) Notice how the competing ads have included useful information about price and locatio... > Read more


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JUAN vs. EPSTEIN || SOUNDCLASH
Man, this is the shit right here. Anything can happen sitting up at HOT 97. Me and peter were getting ready for our show "CIPHA SOUNDS & ROSENBERG" (sat & sun 8am – 10am) and all of a sudden we starting going song for song. Now I am an expert in dancehall reggae music and have seen many a soundclash, so I know I could not be beat. This was actually longer but it had to get cut down to fit. Since Rosenberg thinks I have lost touch with my underground roots, I had to put him in his place. THIS IS WHAT I DO !!!!!
(get ready for the live version coming soon)
- Cipha Sounds
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Cipha Sounds Killed it when you dropped that beatnuts classic……and the first 10 minutes of the part 2 of the More fire mix that you posted is serious!
You won, but next time don't stick Paul with a speaker phone, let him use the speakers too. It looked like he got totally home-jobbed on the setup. More battles, you should have Juanito and Internsky battle.
rosenberg got merked.


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28 Day Blitz Cuts Down Crime
WEST CHESTER, Ohio (Larry Davis) -- An all-out effort to fight the number one property crime in a local neighborhood shows promising results.
Car break-ins are the number one property crime in West Chester. So officers there conducted a 28 day blitz to try to prevent what many times is a crime of opportunity. Local 12's Larry Davis is following this story. He's in West Chester, where the lessons people have learned can apply to all of us no matter where we live.
Police say they made personal contact with 1,500 people knocking on doors and passing out information to better educate them.
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There are many "defense" instructors, here, as well. But even people who do not instruct others can have constructive alternatives to situations. In a sense, even that is a form of instruction, if we open our minds to it.if I went to another instructor and asked him/her what they would have done, I am sure they would give me something similar to what actually happened.
Some of the alternatives proposed are quite similar to what you report as having actually occurred. It seems to me that most vary by a matter of degrees from what you report having done.
The posts indicating merely surprise or disgust at the feelings you felt and how apparently near to drawing you came, they are simply critical of what was done without offering alternatives. Obviously none of us were there; you were. What we know, here, is only the small set of impressions and descriptions you have presented, which almost certainly is only a portion of all that you perceived at the time. As such, all that people can really do is critique and offer possible alternatives for consideration, since none was there.
Yes. It's important to recognize that many of the comments that will come in any discussion are influenced by prior discussions and knowledge of just how far some are prepared to go. The reality is this simple, that NOT every unexpected encounter with others is a mortal threat. In actuality, it takes a hell of a lot to make a situation a mortal threat. That's the point of the emphatic statements in this discussion.There are MANY people on this board who see every unexpected interpersonal encounter as a mortal threat. Its ridiculous.
We need to all remember that life is precious, that everyone we meet is also a citizen with all rights that we have.
In the case of suggestions for alternatives that I made, I believe they are only modestly different than what you yourself did. Even slight changes in timing, position, response or engagement can have strong impact on the flow of a situation. If you have any significant amount of time in conflict situations, you'll realize the practical truth of this. Many of the best instructors in this field also recognize and leverage this simple fact, too, as it is quite powerful to realize that simple changes can have powerful effects.
There are thousands of posts made each day, here. Not everything gets the same level of "play" or visibility by the same people, hence it's hard to compare other discussions to this in any real concrete manner. There could be any number of reasons a given discussion went a certain way. Almost certainly, this discussion involves some other people with other experiences that come close to the situation you describe. It's hard to tell why a given discussion goes flat and another takes off. Often, the most idiotic things receive little reply because that's the simplest way to ignore it.More idiotic things have been posted on this forum and not received so much crap about it!
Good people have plenty of important things to do in their lives. While I can only speak for myself, I know that I don't often post for no reason at all. When I do post, it's because I think the comments have some relevance or can help offer suggestions or alternatives to a situation that people might not have already considered. They have been offered in good faith in an honest effort at helping to provide some alternatives to consider for future situations.
As such, I would suggest that you take practical suggestions for what they are: an honest offering designed to help people in the future. Remember, your original post might have been for you, but responses are for everyone, since many people will read and learn from it. With a bit of humility and an open mind, and with an honest effort at avoiding getting the knickers in a bind, people can learn from any discussion.
Offered in good faith and with an eye toward improvement of how we engage with others.
Be safe.


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|Archer wrote a book about his time inside, so don't see why Max couldn't.
Come listen to us discuss the Playstation Experience in Episode 11 of Open Source. zoolophage writes in!
Archie didn't attempt to rape a 13 year old.
The only reason anyone would want to read a nonce's story is if he got viciously murdered in prison at the end.
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Dirtbox wrote:"Needless to say, I got the last laugh"
PES_Fanboy wrote:Got away with it as in no one seems to mind too much with his appearances in the Hangovers films and his pigeon fancying. It wasn't a career ender. In fact a lot of people half blamed the woman.
Deckard1 wrote:You've being using it in delight?
Dirtbox wrote:Agreed. Hopefully a prisoner will great him with "anythings a dildo in this establishment Mr Clifford if your brave enough"
"During Clifford's trial, the court also heard from a number of women as supporting witnesses, whose allegations did not meet the criminal standard, or in one case happened abroad.
Two of them said Clifford was fixated on having a small penis, telling one woman who went to a film audition at Clifford's office when she was 19: "Look at my penis. Isn't it tiny? What can I do with this?"
The most serious claim came from a woman who said he forced her to touch his penis when she was just 12 years old during a holiday in Spain.
Judge Leonard said if this had not occurred in Spain, at a time when offences abroad could not be charged in the UK, Clifford would have been charged for indecently assaulting that girl too."
As young as twelve? Motherfucker.
|@Dirtbox fair point.
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I'm still waiting for The Daily Mail to realise that Clifford did the early publicity for GTA.
They could have a right news-gasm of a headline with that info.
|Grab Teen Arses?
Rolf's up today!
Can you tell what it is yet? About 9 years judging by the number of allegations. Better pack your pens...
slightly disappointed to hear that Freddie Starr won't have his day in court, as teh CPS have decided that the case was strong, but it was unlikely he'd be sent down.
But... but.. he looks like this! How could any judge not send him dahn?
More on the story (if you can be bothered)here.
Think I'll just switch everything off.
PES_Fanboy wrote:"Needles to say, I took drugs."
Any Netflix library in the world for a couple of quid a month? Gimme!
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Prosecution - 'Your honour, the accused made a song called 'Two little boys' and another called 'Jake the peg'.
Judge - 'Well we'll jump straight to a verdict then.
Jury - 'Guilty'.
Would save a lot of time and money
|The opening statement from the prosecution does not make for pleasant reading
When you can't see the angles on the wall you're in trouble.
Blakester wrote:Did Dan Brown write it?
|Speaking at work to someone who's father-in-law knew him in the 60s in Aus. Not quite as nice as his public image apparently. Shame.
I'm sad about Harris, mainly because the only thing I hate more than pedos is the pedo-hysteria that makes life generally unpleasant for men. Ibfir example would never have considered going into teaching as all you have to do is be accused and your life is fucked.
Every "lol that guys a pedo" who later turns out to really be one is another wound in the fabric of society.
I think he was a pretty great entertainer but I remember watching an interview with him some years back where he tears up at some point, and it came across to me a contrived. I've known some actors who can cry at will who've used it for ill purposes; its a fucking super-power.
|Its a bit of a saville thing, to be honest. There were rumours going around for ages about him being a sex pest. Hes notoriously big on the student union circuit and preys on pissed up students. I know a couple he tried it on with and heard about a few others.
My man gives real loving that's why I call him Killer
He's not a wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am, he's a thriller
|Another one with a tiny cock. Very tiny...
|"Can you tell what it is yet? ...Try leaning in a bit."
|"Um, I dunno Rolf- is it a clit?"
|Inspiration for Two Little Boys becomes apparent.
I think it's time for more small winkied sex pest rhymes.
Is your cock smaller than Boo-boo bear's?
You're probabably touching kids downstairs.
The small cock thing may be a coping mechanism for the victims? Like, projecting unflattering physical attributes makes them less of a threat, less of a psychological threat to their ongoing lives?
I'm no fancy psychologist though
Either that, or it's evolution's way that all small-cocked men are paedophiles for "compatibility" reasons. Is that why it's rife in Japan?
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A Daily Gazette sports blog
Ken Schott blogs about college hockey & more
Emrick, McGuire to call Union-Princeton game on NBC Sports Network
By Ken Schott
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
NBC Sports Network will have its top announcing team calling next Friday's Union-Princeton ECAC Hockey game at Hobey Baker Rink.
Mike "Doc" Emrick will call the action. Pierre McGuire will be the analyst. The broadcast starts at 7:30 p.m.


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Last month I lost my best furry friend, Thumper. He was pretty much everything to me, so his passing was heartbreakingly difficult. When the vet took him from my arms one last time, she begged me to consider getting another cat someday. In the moment, I couldn't imagine loving another cat, but I acknowledged that, maybe after an extensive amount of time to grieve and heal, I wouldn't be able to stop myself.
And then I spent a few days at home.
And it was quiet. Too quiet.
There was no sound of paws padding across the hardwood floor. There was no cat waiting at or near the front door for me to walk in at the end of my day. There was no critter to tell me that there was insufficient food in his dish, or too much poo in his litter box. There were no cuddles, no nuzzles under my chin, no paws to hold, no motorboat purrs.
I started losing my mind almost immediately. I am a person who needs a critter to love and care for; it's an integral part of who I am.
So, a few days later I walked into San Francisco Animal Care and Control and met some cats. I wasn't expecting immediate results, but I figured it couldn't hurt to visit with some animals and give them some play time and love.
I met several kittens that day. They were all adorable. I wasn't feeling terribly well, and I was a little overwhelmed by all of the animals. Being who I am, I felt immediately guilty for not being able to give all of them homes. And I did not connect well with any of the kittens I had met. So I was ready to go home, when the volunteer who was helping me pointed out a slightly older black kitten. "What about this one?"
I shrugged. Well, if nothing else, he matched my wardrobe. So I allowed her to usher us both into the get-to-know-you room and sat down on the floor as she came in with the carrier box. She opened the top. And I knew somewhere between 45 and 60 seconds that this was my cat.
Unlike the rest of the kittens she had brought in for me, he needed no help getting out of the box. He hopped right out and strutted about the room, tail straight up, full of fucking swag. He cased the room, and then checked me out. When I reached for a toy, my foot shifted and he pounced on it. When I grabbed him, he didn't object, and when I flipped him onto his back and rubbed his belly he merely grabbed my hand with both of his paws and purred.
When I was finally able to pick him up from the shelter (thank you, Tristan!), it was pretty clear that he knew I was his human, too. The cuddles were immediate, and he followed me from room to room. That first night, as I lay in bed, he curled up beside me, wrapped his paws around my arm, and purred, occasionally stretching to lick my nose.
It was as if he knew how badly I needed those cuddles.
So now I have this kitten. He is made of love and purrs and headbutts and a willingness to burrow under my chin and a love of hugging my hand when I pet his belly and of gently tapping me on the face to get my attention at 5am.
To paraphrase my friend Valerie, nothing will fill the Thumper-shaped hole in my heart, but having this little guy curl up in it is a huge comfort.
Also, he does this:
I love my Monster.
(For hot and cold running pics of an adorable kitten, you can follow me on Instagram.)
On Facing the Mortality of Our Wee Beasties
This is Thumper:
He has been my best buddy for fifteen years. In the last few days of those fifteen years, I have watched Thumper go from older, but still moderately spry, to weak and wobbly. Or rather, it feels that way; it's entirely possible that this has been creeping up and I've been willfully ignoring that motion in the corner of my eye. I don't know.
Our last trip to the vet left me feeling optimistic. She couldn't believe how old he was. His teeth, ears, coat, weight—everything suggested that he was several years younger than he is.
But, now.
Now he sits in front of me, swaying back and forth as he tries to maintain balance and not have his paws slip out from under him.
Now he's lost significant weight, and the joke that he's really all just fur and fluff is becoming less of a joke and more of a truth.
Now he doesn't jump down from things so much as fall as strategically as he can, and it really makes a difference to him when I help him up to or down from my bed, which is less than two feet off the ground.
Now he feels almost impossibly fragile when I pick him up.
And I am fucking wrecked over it.
I know that one of the things we sign up for when we bring home our four-legged friends is a life span that is far shorter than
ours. I get that, intellectually. I understand that we don't get to have them forever, no matter how well bonded we are. But that doesn't make the thought of losing the best friend I have had for almost 15 years any easier, as it turns out. That doesn't make me feel any less like my world is going to fall apart a little bit when it is time for him to go.
Note: if any of you feel the need to tell me how lucky I am to have gotten so much time with him already, please shove it somewhere dark and mildly uncomfortable, okay?
Thumper is the closest thing to one of Philip Pullman's dæmons I will ever find in this world. While he may not be the metaphorical embodiment of any soul I may or may not have, he still knows me better than any creature on this earth and has been there for me through more heartbreak, tragedy, loss, depression, loves, victories, and achievements than anybody else in my life.
He knows when I am hurting, or sad. He knows when to walk up to me and shove his head against my side until I drag him onto my lap, or when to rest a giant mitten paw on my leg to tell me he's right here. He knows when I need him to butt his head against my chin and purr for me, endlessly. He knows that when he walks up to me and yells at me that I know exactly what he is yelling about even if I pretend not to. He knows that if he catches my eyes, we will spend minutes just gazing at each other. He knows that if I walk through or out of a room, and I see him reach out for me with one of his massive paws, I will be unable to resist giving him the cuddles he is requesting. I know that when I put my face in his face, I will be rewarded with a kiss or nuzzle to my forehead. I know I can bury my face in his big white soft belly and all he will do is purr.
In human years, Thumper is about 80 years old. I don't know how much more time I have with him. Might be a while, yet. Hell, we've been expecting each Christmas to be my friend's cat Elliot's last Christmas for years, but he has clearly made a deal with Death or made friends with a voodoo priest because that fucking cat is apparently not going anywhere until he is damn good and ready. So it's possible that I have years left with my cranky old beast of a cat.
I have spent the last 15 years telling him he has to live forever, like I was casting a spell on him through sheer force of love and will. But I'm no magician.
I'm pretty sure Thumper got all the magic.
[Guest Post] #notalldrivers
Reading many of the #YesAllWomen posts from most of my female friends, one thing comes repeatedly to mind. It's from a radio interview Marisa did in regard to being a female motorcyclist in the Bay Area.
During the interview a man called in with so much hatred towards motorcyclists, it was terrifying. He even went so far as to promise that any time he sees a rider in his side view mirror he tries to "put them into the guard rail" and that he hoped all motorcyclists died horrible, painful deaths.
This is as close as I can come to understanding that feeling of what it's like to be female in this society. EVERY TIME I RIDE, I think about that guy on the radio and remind myself that he—and many others like him—are behind the wheel of some of those cars I ride past every day. I will never know who those people are until it's too late, so I always treat every driver like they're that one guy I heard on the radio that day, vowing to kill us all.
It doesn't matter to me at all that most drivers don't think that way. I only care about the 1 in 100,000 who does.
The kicker to my analogy is this:
I can stop riding my motorcycle any time I want.
Women never get to stop being female. (Not that easily, anyway.)
Thanks to all of you who have been brave enough to share your experiences thus far and those that will in the future. It has been enlightening, even for those of us who are trying to be the good guys.
Ben Davis is a SF/Bay Area web developer and 12-year veteran motorcyclist. Ben has appeared on ABC News 20/20, The Wayne Brady Show, and in the National Enquirer—for reasons you can't possibly imagine.
Fitting Rooms
For various reasons I am not going into right now, I lost a little over 30lbs over the course of the last several months. End result, simplified? My knees hurt less and my pants don't fit. I should note that, as a person who will never, ever be "skinny" and never plans to be, I find myself caught between two body weight dogmas. The first tells me I am just buying into systemic fatphobia and the diet industry. The second tells me I should lose weight because pretty=skinny.
Neither is true for me, but it makes me profoundly self-conscious about a personal decision I have made about my body and what I choose to do with and to it. But that's not why I have decided to write this post.
I have decided to write this post because people keep talking to me as if this weight loss is the Accomplishments of Accomplishments. They exclaim over it with greater enthusiasm than they offer over the fact that I have a law degree, that I know Latin, that I am brilliant, hilarious, and great in bed. Okay, I do get some outright skepticism over that last claim, but whatever. Ladies, you can approach that claim scientifically if you like. My number is [redacted].
I hate being told that I should be super proud of my weight loss. I hate people acting as if it's the best fucking thing I have ever done. I hate people asking how I feel, as if they have just handed me a fucking Oscar and I am supposed to make a fucking speech.
You know how I feel? Fat.
You know how I would feel if I lost another 30lbs?
It has nothing to do with my weight, you see.
The fact is, I'm pretty much okay with this. I'm okay with being fat. I'm less okay with how society has made me feel about being fat. I realize this is something of a contradiction. If I am okay with my body, then why the issues? It's complicated; I'm a multifaceted Whiskeypants. Let's leave it at that for now.
What gets me is how much people are not okay with it. How eager they are to praise me for my recently pronounced cheekbones and the fact that I can barely keep my pants up, even with a belt.
What gets me is how they say, "Sweet! You can go shopping now!" —as if all of my body image issues have disappeared and standing in a fitting room no longer sets off every single issue I still have, no longer fills me with anxiety, no longer makes me wonder why designers won't even acknowledge people above a certain size. As if pride in my body is directly correlated to my weight loss. (Hint: It isn't.) Don't get me wrong, I am proud of what I have accomplished, here. But not because I look 30lbs "better" according to society's fucked up standards.
What gets me is how they think that my reward for losing weight is getting to wear smaller clothes. Shopping for clothes. Trying on clothes that were designed for people 1/2 my size and never my shape. Buying the clothes that look the least stupid on me.
Yeah. Tell me more about how I should be excited about that.
In the last few weeks I have been asked a number of times in a number of ways, where the hell I have been and why I have not been blogging. My answer has been simple: I'm taking a break.
The thing is, I didn't take this break intentionally. I didn't wake up one morning and decide I was on blogging vacation (mmmm, vacation), and I didn't hang up my blogger hat (now you have to wonder if I actually have a hat for blogging) with the idea that I wouldn't be wearing it any time soon.
The fact is, after the dustup from the last two posts, I'm on the emotionally exhausted side. The rather extensive group of people who felt that my post was necessary have thanked me for "taking that bullet" (their words), but the thing about bullets—even figurative bullets—it takes some time to recover from them.
Please don't mistake this for whining—I knew what I was doing when I wrote and published the first of the last two posts. I accepted that fact when I hit "publish" and as I became more and more exhausted by some of the responses I had to actively and consciously own it.
I'm not done here. I still have a wealth of opinions (popular and not-so-popular) and probably some new flowcharts to make. I have guest posts I still haven't put together and published from my friends Allegra and Sasha. I'll be back, but probably not in a Schwarzenegger-y sort of way.
So…yeah. I don't know how to end this post gracefully, so I'm just gonna leave you with a picture of my cat.


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|Mon, 06-17-2013 - 8:34am
What separates private school from public school IYO?
What school memories stand out about your own schooling? Did you attend public schools or "private"?
What did you want to be when you grew up?
As a side, What's your weather like today? :)
|Tue, 06-18-2013 - 10:56pm

In biology you learn that the heart is superior to the lungs. To call the choice to send a child through catholic schools superior to public is not correct b/c the two school systems are mutually exclusive. But I'll accept superior as your opinion, Thanks?

Heart superior to lungs--physically higher, above.
Either catholic school or public school superior in any given parent's mind as a choice for their child--of higher rank, quality or importance.
|Tue, 06-18-2013 - 11:01pm

jamblessedthree wrote:

In biology you learn that the heart is superior to the lungs. To call the choice to send a child through catholic schools superior to public is not correct b/c the two school systems are mutually exclusive. But I'll accept superior as your opinion, Thanks?

They are only "mutually exclusive" in that you do not attend both school systems at the same time. However, one could send their child to catholic school for part of their education and public school the other part. No one is stuck in either track permenantly.

Or could send one kid to public and another kid to private. Or send their kids to private and teach themselves in public.
|Tue, 06-18-2013 - 11:26pm
|Wed, 06-19-2013 - 2:24am
|Wed, 06-19-2013 - 9:45am
ETA and based on your logic, If one sends their children to a catholic school b/c they believe it's superior to public does that also mean that what else they do for their children mean their choices are superior to those who aren't doing what they're doing? TIA.

Do you honestly think I would have spent 16 years in a friggin bowling alley if I hadn't thought bowling as a sport was a superior option for John? Really? Because if so, you're high. Or insane. Possibly both.
|Wed, 06-19-2013 - 9:51am
in the context of science, "superior" (much like "theory") has a differently nuanced meaning than it has in language outside of the context of science.
In any case, there is absolutely no evidence that PKA's decision to choose private school for her boys was based on anything besides what would be the best fit for the boys. That you continually insist otherwise, is not evidence; it's simply your unbridled bias against anything PKA says, does, thinks, feels or believes.