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Pony POV Series
A Day At the Circus
Optional Canon
By Kendell2
Edited by Alexwarlorn
"Come on Rarity, it'll be fun!" my sweet little sister asks me, a poster for a circus presently visiting Ponyville in her teeth. Ringwing Sisters, I believe, or that might have been the name of an acrobatic troupe that's a main act, I'm not sure how that works.
A circus…with all sorts of dirty…filthy animals…with dirt where the floor should be, possibly straw…And who can be sure the ponies wash their hooves before making all that carnival food?
I doubt there are many things further from being lady-like than a carnival. I prefer the theatre, things like this were always mother and father's thing…and they're still on vacation…
But that's why I'm standing here, looking at the poster in my baby sister's mouth, isn't it? They are not here for her right now…I shall not think poorly of them, it is like Applejack said, they are hurt, like we all were…But regardless, Sweetie needs somepony to be there for her when they're not. And if there's one thing I have learned through this whole mess…through fighting…Cheerilee and…and Nightmare Whisper…to the Sisterhooves Social…to Sweetie coming down with some mysterious illness I still am unsure what it actually was…I have realized one thing; I love my little sister. And it is like Applejack said: being siblings is a give and take. An apple pie is not an apple pie without the crust and the filling.
And I think after that awful illness…we both need a little something to take our minds off of it…and she needs something to make her feel better.
"…Alright, Sweetie Belle, if you are feeling up to it, then we shall go to the circus!"
"Really?! Thank you Rarity! You're the best!"
And that look on her face, the hug she gives me…makes any dirt I get on my coat today worth it.
"Please, sis? It'll just be a couple of hours! Yah can take a break that long, can't yah? And it's tonight only, they'll be gone tomorrow!"
Ah hate it when stuff like this happens. Runnin' a farm ain't easy, never has been, never will be…we love workin' it, but the problem is, some days it's hard tah take time to smell the roses. Especially when the farm is in yer family. When yah risked losin' it not too long ago. Ah'm pretty sure the townponies were a bit more supportive of us here than in the…what do Pinkie and the Princesses call it? The Heart World? Ah'm still tryin' to sort out all the things Ah've got memories of happenin' two different ways now. But Ah'm doin' it. Point is, there's upsides and downsides tah farmin', and there not bein' enough hours in the day is a downside.
"Ah don't know, Applebloom, we've got a good bit of work today…"
Oh crud! There's the puppy dog eyes! Dang it, why in Celestia's name does she know how tah do that?! Does she practice it?!
"But…sis…Ah…" Ah can tell this time she ain't just tryin' tah make me guilty…"Ah love workin' on the farm with yah…Ah really do…but…sometimes…Never mind…it ain't important."
She starts tah walk off, looking sadder than Winona when she got skunked…
"…Apple Bloom, come here."
She sits down next tah me. "Now tell meh, what is it?"
"…Sometimes, Ah just want us tah…tah do somethin' together that ain't just work…Ah love workin' with you and Big Mac, and Ah love it when we go campin', Ah love it when we're in the Sisterhooves Social…Ah just…sometimes it feels good tah just do stuff that with yah that don't got nothin' tah do with work…"
Ah'll admit, Ah hadn't really thought about it. Ah love spendin' time with mah friends, just hangin' out with them…but when Ah do, work is the farthest thing from mah mind. Ah love puttin' in a good day's work, the feelin' of accomplishin' it all…but…sometimes havin' that moment when it ain't about the farm, ain't about the bits…When it's just mah friends and meh…mah sister and meh…those moments can feel just as good for a different reason. Ah think that's part of the reason even when Ah was bein' a silly pony workin' mahself half tah death that one Apple Buck Season, Ah still took the time tah do what mah friends wanted tah do with meh. Yeah, part of it was just bein' a stubborn pony tryin' tah keep a check her legs couldn't cash and not wantin' tah let anypony down…but Ah guess Ah just didn't want tah be away from mah friends for that long.
Still, that didn't change the fact there was still a lot we needed tah do today…
"…Applebloom, Ah'll tell yah what," Ah said, givin' her a smile. "Yah help meh work until a little bit before the circus starts, and we'll go. Alright?"
Her face lights up. "Really?!"
"Yep, but we gotta work hard tah see if we can get everythin' done by then. Otherwise we'll have tah do it after the circus, alright?…Applebloom! Wait for meh!"
Hehe, that's mah little sister…
Getting hurt stinks. Even if it DID get me into Daring Do, being laid up in the hospital for a few days with a hurt wing (then about a week letting my wing heal up completely) was NOT something I ever want to experience again. Just…the feeling you're grounded, and you can't fly. Any Pegasus will tell you, that feeling, rather it's a broken wing or having your wings tied, isn't fun.
So when Scoots pulled a muscle in her wing during her lessons, I knew how it felt. Poor kid has it even worse considering she's just starting to learn to fly at all (even if she still does some bucking dangerous stuff and has a long way to go) and already needs to rest her wing for a few days. Yeah, I've been a totally awesome flyer for a long time, but I still remember how it felt to get the wind under my wings for the first time, so I can imagine how much it stinks to be the squirt right now.
Well, after about a few days of keeping off her wing, Scoots had read every single comic I had in the house that interested her, we had already read the entirety of Daring Do already, and I was out of stories (yes, Rainbow Dash ran out of stories to tell about herself, I didn't think it'd happen either), and she just basically stared out the window. Normally, she'd go hang with her friends, but she couldn't exactly do any of their crusading with a bum wing and couldn't pull their wagon around either.
And it bucking hurt to watch.
I'll admit it, I care for the kid. I'm her guardian, and like I said I've been laid up before, I know how boring it can get. If Twilight hadn't left me that book to read, I think I literally would've died of boredom. So I decided to find something for us to do together…
"Hey, Scoots," I called, walking into our living room. "I've got good news."
She jumped up and ran over. "My wing's all better?!"
"No, not that…"
Scoots deflated and lowered her head. "Oh…"
I gave her a smirk. "But that doesn't mean we can't do something fun together tonight."
That cheered her up. "Really?! What is it?!"
"The circus is in town and I saw Sweetie and Rarity on their way over to get their tickets, so…" I pulled out two tickets and showed them to Scoots. "What do you say we catch the show tonight? You and me?"
I swear she smiled so wide I thought her head would fall off. "What do I say?! That's awesome! Let's go! When is it?!"
I know part of it was just the opportunity to get out and do something, when you're that bored anything exciting seems fun. But I'll say one thing; it feels bucking great to know the other part was just because I wanted to do something with her…I've had to accept the bad part of my Element, that sometimes you have to choose to be loyal to one thing and not another, but this is the part I knew all along, and never get tired of.
"The circus? Isn't that…uncouth?"
I will admit it. My mother wanted me to be a lady…but after having a day of rolling down a hill in barrels with Twist and the others, after all the fun I've had with them all…I just wanted more than anything to be a foal sometimes. Whenever a circus came to town before, I quietly let mom say that it was unlady-like and left it at that…But I was tired…tired of always trying to be the lady she wanted me to be and not the foal I WAS.
"I know it's a little dirty…but I really want to go…I just want to see it, please?"
Mother still didn't seem to know how to respond. I could tell she didn't like the idea, but to be honest, I didn't care. If they wouldn't take me…I'd just use my allowance and go myself…but I didn't want to do that.
I finally just turn and start to walk to my room and get my allowance…
"…You really want to do this, Silver Spoon?" daddy asked, he didn't sound mad. He seemed like he actually wanted my answer…
I turn and look at him, blinking a few times behind my glasses. "Yes, daddy…I do…"
…Yes, I'd accepted my father back, I wasn't afraid of him anymore…but we hadn't done anything like a father and daughter in forever…I wanted to…Sweet Cadence I wanted to…
"Silver Tongue, you seriously can't be considering going to such a…lowbrow event as a circus…"
Dad looked to mom, he looked so serious. "Silver Platter, haven't we wanted Silver Spoon to do something with us since the Day of Chaos? She spent most of the Gaia Festival avoiding us…Now she wants to do something with us, what kind of parents would we be to turn her down?"
Mom looked a little ashamed of herself at that. Daddy looked to me and smiled. "…Sure, we can go, Silver Spoon."
Yes, I hugged my father. And yes, we were BOTH happy about it.
"Please, Fluttercruel?"
"No mom, I'm not some little foal!"
"But Angel really wanted to go…Please, I'll go to something you like next time."
Fluttercruel and I…deciding what we're going to do next isn't always easy. We don't like the same things a lot of the time. Just doing what we want without the other isn't possible, we share a body. A lot of the time…it's just we sit back while the other does something…But most of the time, we at least talk it over first…
A circus came to Ponyville…I'll admit it, I'm not a big fan of the circus…I'm not afraid of clowns…anymore…Pinkie kind of…desensitized me to them…It's just…so crowded…with lots of crowds…
But Angel wanted to go. I think part of it is trying to get me out a little more…and I will admit…the idea of all those animals I normally would never get the chance to see in Equestria is something that appeals to me.
And I will admit…I wanted Fluttercruel to go to the circus because…I guess I just once wanted to do something a mother did with their daughter…
"Come on Twilight!" I called, holding up the poster.
Twilight raised an eyebrow. "The circus? Aren't you a little old for that?"
"Are you a little too old for book forts?"
Yeah, I'll admit it, I'm proud to mature for a baby dragon, but the fact of the matter is; I'm still a baby dragon. Sometimes, I like to do things a baby dragon does. Which includes eat a lot of cotton candy at the circus, laugh at clowns, and generally enjoy myself.
…Silver Spoon spent a day rolling down a hill in barrels, she's actually starting to ACT like a foal and having the time of her life…why can't I?
Oh, and the rest of the Cutie Mark Crusaders seemed to be going if the line up at the ticket booth was any indication (I never thought I'd see the day Silver Spoon's parents would line up for the circus), so somedragon needed to be there to make sure they didn't try to be 'Cutie Mark Crusader Circus Performers' mid-show. Sure, Silver could be the voice of reason, but having an extra pair of eyes wouldn't hurt.
"Come on Twi, you gotta get out of the library more," I told her. "I know your studies are important to you, but so is just taking time to relax and enjoy yourself!"
She looked a bit conflicted. "…I don't know…I was going to reshelve the library today…"
"And there's only two shows, both today. Come on, I saw Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy, and Rainbow Dash all lined up to get a ticket! Knowing Pinkie, she'll be there. You loved going to see Ponyacci with her, didn't you? Isn't spending time with them more important than doing the same thing we do every single month?"
Yes, I know how much Twilight's books mean to her. She's a bookworm, and I wouldn't want her to be any different, but she needs to get out more. And…I'll admit it, even with the CMC as my friends…I missed hanging out with Twilight and the others. They were still my friends. How does that expression go? 'Make new friends, keep the old, one is silver the others gold?' Point is, Twilight was still my friend, and even if I did have blast with the Crusaders, I wanted a chance to spend time with her and the others if I could get it.
That got her a bit, time for the big guns. Hope hanging out with Apple Bloom so much pays off. "Please?" I ask, giving the best puppy dog eyes I can. Ow…this is making my eyes hurt, how does Applebloom do this?!
Twilight gave a small smile. "…I suppose I can reschedule it to one of the 'Incase of Equestria Threatening Emergency' makeup days…"
"Yes! Thanks Twi! I'm sure you won't regret it!"
And before you ask, yes, Twilight DOES include 'Incase of Equestria Threatening Emergency' makeup days in in her schedules, after the fourth time it's happened, you think someone like Twilight wouldn't include that?
…Hehe, that's Twilight for yah…
I may be a saner Pinkamina Diane Pie, but that doesn't mean I don't like to still have fun! And "Baby Cakes" still happened, Pumpkin and Pound are every bit as cute as they are in the Heart World!
Huh? Argue? Why would I have to argue with anyone? The Cakes were busy, so I offered to take the twins to the circus! Simple as that!
But what was a surprise was walking up to the line to get into the big top and finding all my friends already in line!
"Huh? You girls all came?"
"Yeah, a bit of a surprise for meh too," said Applejack. "But apparently we all got the same idea."
"No entirely impossible," Twilight replied. "There's only two shows while they're here, so there's a 50/50 chance of us seeing one show or the other."
"Yeah, the earlier show was the only one we could make," Applejack added, giving Apple Bloom a bit smile. "The other show was a tad late for our tastes."
"The same here," Rarity replied. "I didn't want to risk Sweetie in the night air just yet." Well, at least Rarity and Sweetie Belle didn't suffer Aesop amnesia!
"I was afraid Scoots would go stir-crazy if she had to stay inside one more minute," Dashie said, ruffling Scootaloo's mane.
"Um…well…Fluttercruel insisted we see the early show," Fluttershy said.
"So we could get it over with…" I heard Fluttercruel mutter. You think she'd learn to keep that in her thoughts where only the Shadows can see it!
I looked over and saw Silver Spoon and her parents were in line too. I guess her mom didn't want anyone to see her, since she was hiding behind that parasol of hers.
"Well, we're all here! That's what matters!" I said, getting in line. Once we were inside, we did a group hug and took our seats.
Oh! There's Ponyacci! Maybe I should go say hi!...Oh, wait, he's with a class! He looks so happy teaching them about...whatever a clown needs to know about the tent! It'd be rude to interrupt, I'll catch up with him later!
Hey, isn't this the part where you guys leave and we just sit down to enjoy the show? This isn't going to be one of those transformation stories were we all get turned into circus animals or merry-go-round ponies, is it?
(Interviewer's Notes (Unicorn): No, Pinkie, we're just here for the show).
Oh! Good. And just in time, here comes the ring master!
"Wow sis! How did he make that tiger tah do that?!" Ah may have gotten a Lion Tamer Cutie Mark When Ah had the Cutie Pox, but they didn't listen tah me at all! That stallion's making them dance and do tricks! Ah ain't ever seen anything like it!
"Same way we get Winona to do tricks Ah guess, but it's pretty cool, ain't it?" Sis asks meh, givin' me a big smile, and Ah gave one right back!
"What do yah think, Twist, you havin' fun?!" Ah ask, Twist not that far away with her pa. Ah asked her if she'd like to come to. She's mah friends the same as the others are.
"Yeah! I'm having a blasth!"
"Wow! That looks kind of dangerous!" Ok, we five may do some really crazy stuff, but some of the stunts the acrobats were doing were extreme, even for us!
"Yes, it certainly is. But their outfits are positively divine, aren't they?" Rarity asks. I just chuckle. She's having fun, with me…That's all I wanted tonight, to have fun with my sister, and I've got it!
Rainbow Dash nodded. "Yeah, stunts like that can't be easy, squirt. Believe me, I know from experience how much work it takes to nail a stunt. I agree with yah, whoa!"
I'll admit it…it stinks not to be able to fly. I'm learning, but…well, then I pulled this stupid muscle in my wing.
But you know…watching those pegasi do trapeze tricks, never once opening their wings? All I could think of how awesome they looked! I mean of course Rainbow Dash is a hundred times more awesome, but still! And next they're doing a trick called the 'Thunderdome'! I don't know what that is but it sounds so cool!
And the best part was…Rainbow was right there next to me, and we're both having a blast!
So. Awesome.
"Whoa! That was some fireball!"
Ok, I'll admit it…I was sitting at the circus with mom and Angel (don't ask how we convinced them to give him a ticket, even I don't know). And I'm actually having…fun.
Don't get me wrong, I don't much care for the clowns (even if I do get a kick out of slapstick). But how could a stallion spitting a 20 foot fireball into the air not be cool?! And yeah…the tigers were awesome. Mom liked that too, if only because she realized the whips weren't actually hitting the tigers and were just a signal for the tricks. But hey, tigers were kickflank! No two ways about it!
Hehe…I'll admit it, it was kind of funny to see mom's reaction to the 'amazing Dragonpony'. I didn't even know dragons and ponies could breed! Mom didn't know what to think of him! I'm not sure if he's a real hybrid or just a pony in makeup, but he still looked awesome!
"Um…yes, Fluttercruel…it was cool…oh! Here comes the Elephants!"
Aww, no more fire?…Oh well, elephants are still wicked; big and powerful. What's not to like?
(Interviewer's Notes (Pegasus): And?)
…And I guess it won't hurt to admit it…me and mom actually enjoying the same thing once in awhile was pretty rad too.
(Interviewer's Notes (Unicorn): Twilight?)
What?! Oh, sorry…I've just never seen anything like that! How did that stunt not break her neck?! It doesn't seem physically possible!
(Interviewer's Notes (Pegasus): Aren't you over that?)
Yeah, of course…this wasn't me not wanting to believe it, it wasn't that kind of disbelief, it was…
(Interviewer's Notes (Pegasus): Like when Rainbow did the Sonic Rainboom?)
Yeah, exactly! It was…the kind of disbelief were your mind can't believe what your eyes are showing you…but that's why you enjoy it…Like when Rainbow did the Sonic Rainbow, just like that!
I look over to Spike, him watching the same stunts I am with that same disbelief, eyes full of wonder…It reminds me of me when Celestia told me to take care of Spike…That sense of amazement and 'can this be real?'.
I got some of the same feeling from seeing Ponyacci's tricks with Pinkie, but I can't help being blown away by some of these tricks, it's so unreal...
I look around and see everypony else laughing and having fun. All my friends.
Spike was right, spending time with them was worth rescheduling reshelving day.
I just sit next to Spike and enjoy the show.
Silver Spoon is actually laughing. It's been so long since I've seen her actually laugh…Silver Platter tries not to laugh, but I can tell she wants to.
Oh what the hay? Tonight isn't about social standing or appearances…it's about doing something with my daughter…and enjoying it.
"Having a good time, sweetie?"
She looks up at me and smiles. "Yes, daddy…are you?"
I give a smile. "I most certainly am."
I finally let myself laugh with her as one of the clowns trips the other with the cable of a buzz saw they're trying to construct a building with.
(Interviewer's Notes (Pegasus): Some of you Shadows are probably wondering 'why did we bother getting pony's thoughts on this? There's no crisis, no disaster, why did you bother?' The answer is pretty simple.)
(Interviewer's Notes (Unicorn): Sometimes the moments that are the most special aren't the ones containing big, climatic fights or foiling evil plans, or even some great personal crisis…Sometimes they're just ponies being ponies, sitting back and enjoying a show together as friends and as family. Those are moments we must never forget.)
(Interviewer's Notes (Earth Pony): Hahaha! Silly pony! That's not how you use a hammer!)
(Interviewer's Notes (Unicorn): Now if you'll excuse us, we're going to enjoy the show along with all the others. Applebloom and Applejack, Sweetie Belle and Rarity, Scootaloo and Rainbow, Fluttercruel and Fluttershy, Spike and Twilight, Pinkie and the Cake Twins, and Silver Spoon and her parents. And there's Sunny Daze, Shady Daze, and Peachy Pie too. Even Featherweight and his aunt. Tonight isn't about saving the world…it's about enjoying ourselves with the ones around us. And that's exactly what we're going to do.)


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I would and indeed HAVE recommended this audiobook to my wife who does not like westerns because the story is very well written and the performance is top notch. She loved it as well and is now hooked on Mr Rhodes western audiobooks
I liked how the author endears the characters to the reader with just the right amount of description. Many authors fall short with this while others go overboard and derail the story with too much character insight at the wrong time. I don't think Mr Rhodes is given enough credit for this.
Mr Engene brings life to the story. His range of vocalizations is not only exceptional, it is consistent. A character is that character everytime you hear him/her. He is an amazing performer and in my opinion, the best western audiobook narrator by a considerable margin
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- 2 cup(s) long-grain rice, such as basmati or jasmine
- 1/4 cup(s) pine nuts
- 1 teaspoon(s) salt
- Place rice in a bowl and rake through with your fingers while rinsing under cold running water. Drain in a colander.
- In a heavy 2-quart saucepan, heat rice with 3 3/4 cups water, uncovered, until boiling. Reduce heat to low, cover, and simmer 18 to 20 minutes, or until water evaporates and craters appear on surface.
- Meanwhile, toast pine nuts in a nonstick frying pan over medium-low heat until golden brown, stirring occasionally.
- When rice is done, remove from heat and fluff with a fork. Sprinkle with pine nuts and salt; gently stir to blend. Cover and let stand until pine nuts are tender, about 10 minutes. Fluff with a fork once more before serving.
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Another cold front's uncurling across Florida and blowing hard; it's licking up waves on the bay the size of manila envelopes and ripping open their papery tops. Same old shit. I cursed the ugly sight out-loud and returned back inside my condo, pulling the sliding glass door to the balcony lanai shut behind me.
Cops I know say when it comes to weather, the full moon theory's a myth; crazy is crazy…. any day of the month. What they do notice, they say, is the wind. The way a hard charging wind can squeeze the wits of even the most average, buttoned-down sort when it goes on too long. The way it can suddenly peel back the tab on their safely screwed lids, and then, the vacuum packed contents can spew and rage in very unnatural ways. The wind. That's what they notice, they say.
So for weeks now, I've been waiting for the warm Cuban balm to arrive and settle my mind, but barely a whiff of that sweet stuff has wandered up much past the Keys. I'm raw and I'm jumpy. Another dry, heartless morning in America, another uneasy bar of the maddening tune dancing us toward the Apocalypse.
But today I was looking for a way to sneak out of the freak parade.
I needed a few days off and I had some ideas.
I knew it wasn't just the foul weather that's making me crazy; it's the daily infections of bad news that keep blowing in with it. Because as anyone diseased enough to be paying close attention knows, the country's on life support, her vital signs are actually vital, and the odds for recovery are being measured in single digits by people who know.
Dangling like beef on the hook; it's a horrible sight with America's guts spilling onto the killing floor day after day. Few have the stomach for it. This… includes me. Everywhere, people's faces are twisted with fear and confusion, and the cold blue flame of inevitable madness and unmanageable stress burns in the eyes of ordinary people that only two years ago screamed along on the crest of the never ending Big Wave. They rode it out with their free hand high and they never looked down; but now, they can't look down, they don't even dare.
I sat down at my computer to see if I'd gotten any response yet from Kirsten Wilkes, Media Relations, Octagon Sports Management. Last night, as part of My Plan, I'd filled out a rather sketchy, hole-ridden application for a set of media credentials to the upcoming ACE Group Classic. A PGA Champions Tour golf tournament starting this week down in Naples.
I'd explained to her that the PGA event in Naples was of vital interest to the readers of OpenSalon.com. That I had just "covered" the recent Obama town hall meeting in Fort Myers, and serendipity had left me "available" to provide to that furiously devoted - and nationwide readership - a full account of the ACE Group Classic. I assured her an eager, untapped, market was clamoring for a full report on the activities of Messers. Trevino, Player, Kite, and Langer.
The closer truth being; Roy Hobbs was a big golf fan and needed a cheap getaway from the crash and carnage of American everyday life, 2009 edition. It all dovetailed as they say. I reasoned a few days "inside the ropes" was the perfect solution. Walk on some even ground a while.
My instincts told me the Rich were having all the fun.
So I needed to mingle. And was there a better place to catch the insidiously carefree and remarkably privilaged pursuing hardcore frivolity, and full-color nonsense than a pro-golf tournament?
It was perfect.
Super Rich pro-golfers, being watched and applauded by the idly Rich; playing stick and ball games outside in the fresh Florida spring surrounded by constant adulation, corporate hospitality tents, luxurious landscaping, gourmet catering, open bars with top-shelf liquor; a veritable pantheon of unnecessary activities provided by the fabulously wealthy…. with all the seriously furtive attention and budgetary consideration given a NATO summit meeting.
Elegant diversion. But I knew buying a ticket at the gate was no way to see a show like that. Rule One in America: They don't ever sell tickets to the real action. Free is the only acceptable price of admission among the rich.
You either get in free, and float blithely across the grounds like one of Gatsby's luna moth guests....or you sit like a dolt silently watching from the bleachers and sidelines. I needed to access this monstrosity on its own terms. I didn't want to see the beast, I wanted to ride it. Nothing satisfying or soulful would come my way unless I have full, unfettered access to Everything.
My Gmail. account beeped open and there, just below a "special insider offer from iTunes", was the dark bold subject line from Kirsten Wikes. "Media Credentials Confirmation". "So what do think, Bud? Did she by it?" My orange tabby "Bud" couldn't actually hear my question, he'd just climbed up and crawled through the torn place in the screen onto my balcony. Right now he was looking irritated and just slightly pathetic outside the glass door with his vanilla-orange nap swirling with the breeze.
"Mr. Roy Hobbs." it read, "Thank you for registering with The ACE Group Classic. Your Media Credential Request form has been received and approved. Please read the following information for a clear understanding of our 2009 procedures."
It went on…. "parking will be valet in the south parking… present your affiliates working credentials for admission….pick up you ID badge in the Media Tent….breakfast will be served at….lunch is at….full access will be given….." and on and on.
I stared at the confirmation and reread it twice. They actually bought it. I was in a little in shock. It was clear OpenSalon pulled some heavy weight. But I couldn't see a real journalistic opportunity here, although maybe I'd take a few pictures. I saw a week of free admission, valet parking, three meals a day and the full run of the venue. I stood up and looked out to my rumpled cat waiting for breakfast. "Well Bud, looks like we're off to Naples to see how the other half is coping." The cat's eyes only soured at the dusty wind.
Cats…. are hard to impress.
Packed and ready to go just after nine a.m., I rambled down the condo's concrete steps.
My neighbor Davidson Faulkner was up and already out in his tiny front yard reading a newspaper in the sun. Last night, just as I'd given up on Letterman and hit the remote, I heard him bumping around downstairs with his wife. Two tired voices searching for light switches. It was He Faulkner and She Faulkner just arrived from Detroit.
Each year they return, for the past two anyway, to: delight in the eviction of his seasonal tenants, terrorize the roadways with his gigantic, vanilla colored Chrysler wintered like angry bear in the garage, and reoccupy the condo below mine for another three months. I'd come to despise him, but I can't exactly say why. Although, I'm perfectly satisfied with the notion that there's no reason to like him either.
I stopped briefly at the bottom of my stairs pretending to fiddle with something in my shoulder pack, trying to avoid contact with the supercilious prick. Rationally I understand it's all - mostly anyway - in my head, but all I see, is a walking, breathing American icon of compulsive consumption, contented ignorance, and a condescending manner of delusional affluence. His type is the gasoline feeding America's bonfire.
(Last year while Obama winning the southern state primaries, he expressed a brief interest in establishing some sort of literacy test before people were qualified to vote. That would just make sense wouldn't it?)
Other than his settled opinion that I'm must be crazy for living down here the year around – citing the murderously hot summers for his reasoning, but failing to confront the salient fact that I actually work and live in Florida; and, his whistful description, every time we speak, of the autumnal splendors of fall in Michigan…don't I miss the seasons?….he has very little to offer mankind but a stifling, unexplainable arrogance. At least it's unexplainable to me.
Because from what I can gather, his life's defining achievement is thirty-one consecutive years at the same tool and die factory perfecting his use of a twelve ton stamp-press; a circumstance which finally enabled him - for three months every winter at the age of sixty-two - to evacuate that hellish frozen country with the passion and fear of a ground hog fleeing a range fire. An idyllic arrangement only made more so by the recent and graciously accommodating demise of his mother-in-law, the previous owner of his current southern digs.
Unlike the man who was born on third base and thinks he's hit a triple, my neighbor spent thirty-one seasons in the bleachers and apparently has come to believe he's a critical part of team management now. His team's last victory of note, the razor-edged triumph of W. Bush in 2004
Seeing him there, you'd guess he was in a deck chair on a Carnival cruise. A smug little man sipping so luxuriously from his Jeff Gordon racing mug you can almost hear the paper umbrella crinkle, and smell fruit garnishing its rim. But he isn't cruising. He's assumed the same position as last year; stretched out in his lawn chair above a crunchy mat of seashell and gravel, thumbing the morning newspaper; wearing nothing but Bermuda shorts and a give-away Corona-Lite tank-top – and, for my taste, neither article of clothing sufficiently concealing the wild mutiny of body hair advancing in all directions. The way his rubbery lips curved up at corners made him appear immensely pleased about something, but I tried not to think about it, because I knew the answer. It was cheap and bare and obvious. I wasn't playing along.
His crooked set of unmatched toes were growing up from a cinder block rest, curling east with the drift of the sun.
"Beautiful day!" he informed me with the authority of someone who knew. He looked out over his paper focusing on nothing in particular.. He'd caught me just as I appeared past the hedge - another passenger on a shipboard stroll.
I was tempted to blast the haughty bastard with the news that the Asian markets were tanking again, and in about thirty minutes Wall Street was opening to a viscous bloodletting that would make Antietam look like a PTA meeting. But he'd tear open his 401K statement soon enough. Then he'd quiver it in the air, shaking it at his wife, crying out indignantly that this sort of thing was just what he expected - anyone with half a brain knew this happen with that socialist agitator in the White House! I nodded, and when I saw how pleased he was with his own evaluation of the day, I just smiled and hurried toward my car; a cold north wind was throwing darts through my chest.
I didn't get it, I could never get it. Jumpin' Jesus! It's barely sixty degrees! Is he completely nuts? These guys could deny anything, including the weather. I looked back and watched him thoughtfully lick his finger tip, stroking back another page of his paper. A bubbly patch of goose flesh rose on my bare legs.
Every year, they try to explain it to me, that somehow their blood is "thicker". "Son, compared to where I'm from up North…." they say about anything over sixty degrees "sure feels nice, doesn't it?" No, it don't. It's COLD and it's cruel. Put on some clothes. I jerked the zipper up on my Gortex wind breaker then dug my hands deeper into my pockets and jogged in an awkward stutter-step for my car.
He was from Michigan – so the weather bar was set unusually low. But my mind clamped shut on that excuse. After eight years of Bush's bombastic fumbling, finally dropping America on its head like a drunk juggling babies in a maternity ward, it's getting tedious taking pity on people just because they don't know any better.
The nut of it is, for eight months a year, we have "summer". Okay, no freezing slush and breaking our pelvis's….I get it, we'll take the trade-off. But for eight months we're trapped like amoeba swimming a sub-tropical soup of 90% humidity; each day we drip salty sweat into our lunches, guzzle cheap beer and hide out afternoons in dark, air-conditioned movie theaters for survival; a relentless pattern only occasionally broken-up by strings of rampaging tropical depressions….that bring savage rain squalls to flood our driveways and violently strip away our porch awnings.
Naturally, we do get some comic relief from the odd, pulverizing hurricane swinging by. And, even more hilariously…..sometimes the whirly-girls travel in bunches.
So in a doctrine of holistic fairness, I hold Mother Earth accountable when it comes to the 6-8 weeks of "spring" weather we are rightly due. She owes us 81 and balmy. Not 62 and shitty. Because either way, by Easter, we'll be back to sticking like chocolates to our car seats.
So it's break time. I know somebody must be having a good time out there. I've decided to find them, jump in close, swim around a while and take advantage of their wake at the American Riviera - Naples, Florida. This week the rich and powerful are coagulating in a very small pond. Professional sports - the last, lavish, big screen production still getting financing. 70mm, carefree Technicolor adventure - old money and good times. I'm off to see first- hand how they're surviving the holocaust. I have my suspicions. But I needed get moving, right away.
I jumped the Pathfinder out into traffic diabolically swerving across three lanes and terrorizing a furiously gabbing soccer mom. As I flashed past her astonished face, I watched the cell phone pop out of her hand like a bar of soap in the shower. I jammed it down hard and kept it geared low, it was good to hear the motor whine and beg. It has been too, too long. The next lane, I slanted past a distracted tourist who'd just turned and back-handed her kid with a solid thwock to the side of the head. I watched a mouth-full of foaming soda splatter in a ragged sunburst against the inside of the passenger window.
I braked hard and slipped past a barrier of construction cones - I couldn't sense their exact purpose, but I was fully committed and mashed two of them like cupcakes into a patch of fresh, black asphalt and screamed onto Highway 41 exit heading south.
I was leaving the dustbowl futility and bare bones of doom rattling in the distance. This had dragged on long enough. I'd heading out to dig around in the soft, fleshy parts and see if I could find an artery to drain.
Already I felt better.
So far, the sun refused to break out from behind a smear of oily looking clouds that were drifting and spreading. But for open road travel, my timing was perfect. Plenty of room to work. It was just after nine am and traffic was light. The morning work rush was over, and the lunchtime logjam hadn't begun to form.
I'd follow the Tamiami Trail all the way down to Naples. I knew the Trail was a hopeless, twisted mess of vapid commercialism, but I needed to stay off the Interstate. Nothing good could come of that. Run close to the action, stay in touch, look out for signs of anyone or anything resembling affluent America, past or present or future, and investigate thoroughly. The golf tournament would be bringing in big migrations of the wealthy into the tight, dimly lit watering holes along the way down. I should hit several, for research. I hoped access wouldn't be a problem. I had a budget to consider.
In an hour or so, I had made it as far as Fort Myers and a heavy wind was twisting the wild sprawling arms of West Indian Pepper and rattling the cabbage palms running the fence lines. The big Red-shouldered hawks and harriers were sitting tight, bucking the breezes and hunting from the low perches of cattle fences and road signs. For a while, a pair of osprey kept pace above me, marking their territory in tight circles and dark outlines through my sunroof. Murders of crows were everywhere. Sharp, black silhouettes hunkering down and lined up in the bare branches of the winter buttonwoods, they huddled and swayed, they rocked off balance and cried soundlessly out into rushing air.
As I drove, I wondered about the big solid predators everywhere. A classic sign that the eco-system was still strong?
After seventy-five years, after every possible effort has been made to scrape and fill and drain and pave – with decades of developers raking through Florida like a child's sandbox and where every construction configuration and alteration and laceration imaginable has been submitted, approved and built - the top of the food chain is practically elbowing for room in the skies?
But irony immediately attacked the problem and I realized these birds were feeding and scavenging on a fat population of rats, weasels, and snakes. As I saw it, a nearly inexhaustible resource in Florida. If anything in Florida remains constant, we'd hardly be running out of those types anytime soon
I made good progress but in a couple of hours, things started jamming up just south of Cape Coral. It became harder and harder to slalom the lanes and slide through the shortening stop lights. I knew it was time to find somewhere to hide out for a while, get off the road, because in a very short time the whole Florida lunchtime rush would be out running the streets and clogging the lanes.
I had just crossed the county line leaving the trashy backyard sprawl of Lee County behind. The long, hell beaten highway of cheap Mexican food joints, bleached out plastic signs of the rundown Gas-n-Go's, abandoned strip malls shedding with wrinkled, unpainted plywood covering their store fronts, and the used car lots flying cheap, ragged banners promising no credit, no problem…..it all falls away in one clean line at Collier County, where Naples is the county seat.
In the width of an intersection, the landscape suddenly explodes with carpets of impatiens and swirls of salvia decorating the medians; giant wrappings of stylish copper and zinc wrought gratings and gates, and huge brooding wildlife sculptures defending the entrances to the luxury compounds of the rich and the exceptionally rich.
The cheaply over-made, slutty fifty miles of Lee County persona evaporate and burn away in a stitch - like evil thoughts too close to the sun, leaving all the little girls on this side of the fence with bright carefree ribbons dangling in their hair, and all curtsies and with please's and thank-you's. Going from Lee to Collier is like returning from commercial and seeing The Wizard of Oz has suddenly switched from black and white into full blazing Techni-Color.
Beer joints have become wine bars and strip clubs become country clubs.
I spotted a geometric mountain of smoked glass and river rock façade rising from a perfectly landscaped parking area and took two or three switch-backing turns making my way into the Glass Hog. It was a restaurant, sprawling and elegant as a Renaissance manor tucked away along the Po. I buried the Pathfinder among neat rows of blistering clean European imports. A fine place to mingle with the natives.
After holding the massive front doors for a breathless pair of aging, but still solidly built Barbie-dolls just off the tennis court still wearing their gleaming whites - a post-active look I assumed was fashionable in spring among the gentry here - I nodded my way past the young, ravishing hostess who granted my leave with an indifferent bob of her dazzling blond mane and took an open stool at the bar. I attracted no attention other than a couple quick, over-the-menu glances, from a pair of cougarish looking types being ignored by their husbands.
I knew working in close like this, appearance is crucial. I'd been careful. I outfitted for the day in full resort wear camouflage and blended into the resplendent dining room scene as smoothly as a dappled quill in pheasant.
(For the uninitiated, South Florida grows the finest thrift stores and Salvation Army outlets in the world. Every season, wealthy, dispassionate country club wives clean out their closets and flood the two dollar racks with clothes - usually their husband's - they judge too bothersome to bring back up north. Today, I'm wearing new a pair of tropical-light Italian wool walking shorts, kid skin Cole-Hahn loafers, Dry-Fit Fairway & Greene Golf shirt with a Polo(couture) pull-over. Total investment less than the price of a lunch in joint like the Glass Hog.)
More than anything right now, I was thirsty. A substantial bar was positioned in the middle third of the restaurant where it looked like it did serious duty at night, with a pounded copper bar-top and generous faux-leather lean pad. The brass kick rail was scrolled with some sort of etched and polished monkey appendages attaching it to the bar. But not bartender in sight.
There was a relaxed looking woman in her forties waiting a couple stools down and drinking something very cold in a martini glass I judged to be the approximate size of the Tin Man's hat.
"Is there somebody around?" I asked.
"Oh yes, he was just here pouring drinks for those two." She indicated two country club types a few more stools down, somewhere between forty and sixty. They both were skulled in waves of perfectly plugged hair, Grecian tans and signs of so much facial work that it was impossible to guess their ages closer than that. The smaller one looked my way and smiled. One over-done eye refused to lift when he did, frozen as a fritter.
I swiveled around and considered the room. They were all here. It was officially the lunch hour and it appeared nobody wanted to be late. I was at the right place. Tom Brokaw's greatest generation and their impossibly beautiful offspring filled the room. Tall, dark leather blanquettes along the walls pocked with every imaginable shade of cashmere sweater and rinse tinted hair. In the middle of the room, they had left a few tables open for a scattering of attorney and business types on their lunch hours; the ones still bothering to go through the motions of work.
"Wow, that looks pretty tasty," I said to the woman to my right. "What are you drinking?"
With her emerald green silk jacket and long fall of pulled back, camel colored hair, she was striking in her own way, rather seeing a strange Ferrari in a parking lot , incredible to look at, but you weren't really sure if you would want to walk right up and touch it. For any number of reasons.
Ruby coated lips curled into an eye crinkling smile when she spoke. "Oh yes, they're just wan…derful. A Naples Old Fashion. Ricky makes them for me,' she replied in a stalling, languid tone which seemed to imply that "Ricky" may or may not make one for me. Her voice was slow and smoky, and then she reached for the fruit swizzle and chewed off a cherry with the same dispassionate pace.
"So now… what makes it a Naples Old Fashion?"
"Actually, I don't really know, I mean I used to know, but Ricky's been making them for me for just ages. They are delicious." I knew enough not to pursue the inquiry any further. A basic tenant among rich wives is that they're unquestionably knowledgeable - even about things they can't quite explain.
"Well, I have no reason to doubt that Naples Old Fashioned is anything but superior to the cheap imitations the common folk drink elsewhere. I think I'll have one."
The Ferrari now turned fully to consider me, managing the feat with a perfectly crisp rotation pivoting from her hips. "Well put." She said, and then a brief moment later. "How adorable of you to say so."
End Part One-
I expect faster tempo in part two.
I'm anxious to see what that's going to mean. I'm digging part 1, looking forward to the next installment.
is that Chi Chi? Did you meet him? Took my dad to a seniors' tournement in Vegas Many years ago, we got to meet Chi Chi (dad's fav), among others.
You're right about the critique and I certainly alway s welcome those...I got a little lost and you're right. And that's Lee Trevino, I spent awhile with him and we talked about a few things that I hope will make it into the next installment......if that's RELEVANT! :0)
Very nice pics and an extremely enjoyable story...please continue.
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Bettis (0-2) recorded just one out while giving up two hits and walking on in the loss. He surrendered three earned runs in his final outing of the first half, and he's now given up runs in six of his last eight appearances. Bettis owns an 8.87 ERA and 13:10 K:BB ratio in 22 1/3 innings.
Bettis was just recalled Monday, but he heads back to the minors to allow the team to promote Wednesday starter Tyler Matzek. Bettis made one appearance in this go-around with the Rockies, giving up three earned runs in one inning Tuesday.
Bettis was sent down in early May after posting an 8.78 ERA and 7:4 K:BB ratio in 13 1/3 innings with the Rockies. He owns a 1.66 ERA and 20:9 K:BB ratio in 21 2/3 Triple-A innings.
He suffered the injury in Tuesday's start, which he left due to tightness in the elbow. Reliever Chad Bettis has been recalled to replace him on the active roster, and will be available for Wednesday's game against the Diamondbacks.
Bettis worked most of September out of the bullpen, and in seven relief innings, he allowed seven earned runs.
"I think you have to make the determination whether a guy is maybe more of a sprinter versus a guy who can go through a lineup three times in a row," manager Walt Weiss told MLB.com. "Some of that comes down to mechanics, some of it comes down to mentality and some of it comes down to stuff. You put that all together and you make that determination. But with some guys it's not that easy and it's a tough call. You can make a case, certainly in Chad's case, you can make a case either way."
Bettis, who pitched a scoreless inning Wednesday, is 0-3 with a 4.89 ERA, 1.66 WHIP and 24:18 K:BB ratio in 38 2/3 innings.
Bettis opened the game with three scoreless innings, while allowing just two hits. He struck out four batters, while throwing 31 of 48 pitches for strikes.
Bettis' early exit appears to have come so the Rockies could get Roy Oswalt extra work, as Oswalt ended up pitching longer than Bettis. There does not appear to be any physical issues with Bettis. The Rockies would go on to lose, 5-2.
Bettis carries an 0-3 record and 5.02 ERA into his next start, scheduled for Saturday against the Diamondbacks.
Gettis was gave up a run in his first inning of work, and then fell apart in the third. He was chased from the game with two outs in the third, after allowing seven runs on six hits in the inning.
Gettis was charged with eight runs -- four earned -- on seven hits and four walks in 2 2/3 innings of work. He struck out two, while throwing 44 of 78 pitches for strikes. Gettis is now 0-2 with a 6.27 ERA in four starts.
Gettis is scheduled to make his next start Thursday against the Phillies.
There is no confirmation yet when Chatwood will return to the rotation, but he could start as early as Thursday's series finale against the Mets.
No immediate reason was given for the change, but The Denver Post reports Chatwood has been dealing with a leg injury, which could have forced him from being scratched.
"Slowing things down a little bit has been the key," he told the Denver Post. "My old pitching coach Joey Eischen said 80 percent is what you need to work at and just let everything unfold from there."
Bettis is 3-4 with a 3.71 ERA in 12 starts for Tulsa. He has 68 strikeouts and just 13 walks in 63 innings of work, though he has allowed nine home runs already.


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So...I just found this on the wiki idea Transformer
The Transformers is a reboot series of the Transformers, as it is like G1 meets the movie. It will release in 2014, two years after Prime, to make a come back of sorts to the franchise.
Long Ago, on the planet Cybertron, there were two warring factions: the Autobots, led by Optimus Prime, and the Decepticons, led by Megatron. The planet was war torn, until the Autobots, seeking peace and not war, the Autobots left the planet on the Ark. Little did they know that the Decepticons followed them. Then, the two ships dueled, but Megatron had put the self destruct button on the Nemesis, and the Autobots on the ship were lost. The Cons were all in the Ark. The two groups fought, until the Autobots left the ship and transformed into meteors, while the Decepticons were stranded, because all exits were locked. The Meteors crash landed on Earth, while the Ark and the Decepticons crashed into a volcano. Four years later, the Autobots reawakend, stranded on Earth. Meanwhile, on the Ark, the Decepticons also awakend, seeking to rule the species of Earth, humans. When the humans saw through the vehicle alt. modes of the robots and knew their existence, the Autobots seeked to defend humanity, while the Decepticons saw to destroy them.
And then I found the cast- Voice actors and characters
Clancy Brown- Optimus Prime, Unicron
John DiMaggio- Megatron, Jazz, Leadfoot, Trypticon, Grimlock, Primus Ravage, Devastator, Long Haul, Brains, William Lennox, Skywarp/Cycolnus, Soundwave, Warpath
Steve Blum- Bumblebee, Dutch, Sandstorm, Scamper, Sharpshot, Captain Wild, Sideways, Twin-twist, Hotzone, Defenser, Swindle, Caliburn, D-16
John Kassir- Starscream, Laserbeak, Swoop, Vortex
Keith Szarabajka- Ironhide
Kevin Michael Richardson- Ratchet, Rampage
Brad Garret- Bulkhead
Matthew Frewer- Flatline
Mark Hamill- Kickback, Sludge, Thundertron, Mirage, Omega Supreme, Thundercracker/Scourge, Rotorstorm, Sentinel Prime
Claudia Black- Slipstream
Grey Delisle- Arcee, Ariel
Gary Anthony Williams- Tankor, Ironfist, Demolisher
Alan Tudyk- Prowl
Tom Kenny- Scrapper, Wheelie, Kranix, Perceptor
Samuel Witwer- Megatronus Prime/The fallen
Kevin Conroy- Sky Shadow, Motormaster
Michael Dorn- Barricade, Menasor, Slugfest
James Remar- Sideswipe
Carlos Alazraqui- Ricochet, Topspin, Brawl, Blades
Jeff Bennet- Wheeljack, Brimstone, Teletran-1 computer, Roadbuster, Skydive, Superion, Rumble, Frenzy
Dwight Schultz- Axer, Igor, Galvatron, Skyquake, Alpha Trion
Corey Butron- Nemesis Prime, Sunstorm, first Aid, A3
Nolan North- Shockwave, Cannonball, Mixmaster, Air Raid, Slingshot, Bruticus, Orion Pax
Robin Atkin Downes - Blast Off, Hot Shot
Neil Dickson - Pyro, Hightower
George Newbern - Breakdown, Snarl
Fred Tatasciore - Metroplex, Wreckage, Slammer
Tony Todd - Impactor
Edward Asner - Kup
Alexis Desnof - Whirl
Brian Bloom - Springer, Fireflight
Greg Eagles - Dreadwind
Philip Proctor - Downshift
Keith David - Dreadwing
David Kaye - Hardshell, Toxitron
Charlie Adler - Silverbolt, Iguanus
Billy West - Seaspray, Streetwise, Onslaught
Phil LaMarr - Beachcomber, Groove, Smokejumper
Maurice LaMarche - Sky-Byte, Six-Gun
Daran Norris - Red Alert, Ultra Magnus, Dion
Nathan Fillion - Cliffjumper
April Stewart - Elita-One
Roger Rose - Blurr
Elizabeth Daily - Dragstrip
Adam Baldwin - Dead End
Brian Cummings - Wildrider
Neal McDonough - Rodimus Prime
Carlos Ferro - Rapido
Gregg Berger - Outback, Megazarak
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Releasing an album of 14 songs and 17 videos at midnight on Dec. 13, Beyonce proved that she can do anything she wants. And the mass hysteria, praise, and record-breaking sales that followed proves once and for all why we call her Queen Bey.
At this point we don't even know what to say to capture Beyonce's all-around dominance and superhuman swagger, so we'll let the reactions, and the numbers of her surprise new album, Beyonce, do the talking.
Beyonce Drops Surprise Album, World Rejoices
When Queen Bey (she will forever be known as this) eschewed traditional album release practices on Dec. 13 by dropping her album on midnight on a Thursday, with no announcement, no promotion, and an overflowing amount of "Bow Down" confidence, some were skeptical that the surprise album would blow up like Bey hoped. Those people are now living in Siberia because they doubted Beyonce.
First of all, the album — which oh yeah, included nearly twenty music videos — has been praised by almost every prominent music critic out there. Here are a just a few snippets:
Its songs are steamy and sleek, full of erotic exploits and sultry vocals; every so often, for variety, they turn vulnerable, compassionate or pro-feminist. And with both the songs and the videos, Beyoncé consolidates one of pop's most finely balanced personas; she is, at once, glamorous and down-home, carnal and sweet, "Queen Bey" and a diligent trouper, polished and human.
Some fans will no doubt feel lost in this murky, intermittently thrilling new territory. For them — and everyone else with a heart — there's "Blue," which features her baby-talking toddler Blue Ivy reverbed into infinity at the end, but more importantly, proves that not every piano-laden pop ballad need bring the doldrums on. Like much of Beyoncé, it balances formal inventiveness with emotional directness. Share it with your little niece, or someone else you love.
What's exciting about the record, beyond its means of delivery, is how the music similarly blends the intimate and the extravagant.
'Beyonce' Is #1 Worldwide
But for those of you weary of critics — the fans have also spoken. At the moment, Beyonce's new album is #1 on iTunes in 100 countries. Yes, one hundred. That triple-digit number breaks the record One Direction held when their album Midnight Memories hit #1 in 97 countries. Sorry boys, but Queen Bey has spoken.
Beyonce also sold 80,000 copies in its first three hours, according to Billboard, and the album is projected to be at #1 on the Billboard 200 when the chart's top 10 is revealed on Dec. 18.
Beyonce must have had the feeling that we were forgetting, because she reminded us — this is her world, and we're just lucky to be living in it.
– Andrew Gruttadaro
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Total star poetry and star power. Nice all the way thru. Beyonce' got her jigga on and the bac up girls too. Rihanna goes in a diff . way . Her pole is singles only. Love the Blue video. Jay should be proud. Got you and Rihanna on rock nation. I can watch them both strip. Don't get yelled at. He don't need an attorney. Kool ! oh yea
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i like her...
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A Característica de tal deusa real ( Ederson Maia se dirige a Beyoncè como uma das nove deusas que presidiam ás ciências e ás artes.) sobre muitos tropeços de grande estatura no mundo musical, ela vem rasgando estilos e gêneros, sem dar sopa pro azar, suas notas não enferrujam e seus aparatos são brilhantes até mesmo longe do sol, ou dia, ela brilhar sempre. eu a amando sempre
The real feature of this goddess (Ederson Maia addresses Beyoncè as one of the nine goddesses who presided Science and Art.) Over many missteps of great stature in the music world, she comes tearing styles and genres, without giving soup pro gambling, your notes will not rust and its apparatuses are bright even away from the sun, or day, she always shining. I always love


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How come...with the thousands of black cops in America...you ain't never picked up the paper, turned on the TV, or the news...and seen white folk crying...because this black cop...shot my loved one in the back of the head...cause he thought the cellphone was a gun. How come you don't see that?...You think black cops is...more spiritual? You think better qualified? Nah...They got enough sense to know that white folks ain't going to tolerate it...And the only reason they do to us what they do cause you tolerate it. Ok, I'm not telling you don't chastise these young men! But I ain't see you chastise the police!!
Hahaha Living like a villain
Never chilling heavy influence on your chillun
I woke up this morning to a cop with a gun
Who told me that he looking for a nigga on the run
I thought for a second and I screwed my face
And asked the dirty pig "Why the fuck you in my place?"
He said "Chill or we kill, this is a warning"
Then I told him "fuck you, Where is the warrant?"
Then they got to punchin' and kickin' and masin'
Then the Whole situation went Larry Davis
Thinking 'bout my lady and thinking 'bout my baby
Thinking "is these motherfucking pigs going crazy"
They wanna kill a nigga 'cause a nigga's on this rap shit
Wanna leave me dead on a mattress, Hampton
I'm a Public Enemy because I'm Cold Lampin'
And I don't give a fuck about a party in The Hamptons
And I don't give a fuck about a motherfuckin' Forbes List
Far as I'm concerned, that's a motherfucking whores list
Motherfucker, my dad was a cop
You don't think I know a dirty ass cop when I see one?
Shake down, take down, disrespecting-the-badge-ass-bitch!
Back to the scene going wild in the bedroom
Grab the cop's gun left from leaking with a head wound
Second cop shot, but the bullet hit his partner
Shot him in the leg and he hit a main arter
Now the dirty cop's looking at me
Talking 'bout he kill a nigga if I try to flee
Shit, I'm about to loose it, so he gon' have to prove it
All because the government hate rap music
I've been labeled outlaw, renegade, villain
So was Martin King, so the system had to kill him
A nigga with an attitude, the world gotta feel him
Educated villain, Intent on living
If I gotta kill a cop just to get out the building
That motherfucker gettin' left dead no feelings
Yelling "Fuck him" as I buck A 45 at his fillings
Trying to knock his brains through the motherfucking ceiling
When I surface on the streets I can hear the crowd yelling
And see the neighborhood snitches pointing and telling
I'm bailing like a felon or Assata Shakur
Before the law leave me stinking like a bag of manure
Like Jeriko One in the movie 'Strange Days'
They want a nigga dead 'cause the things that I say
Might make the youth go and pick up an AK
Tell the government "Fuck you, no way"
Like John Connor mama I be running everyday
'Cause if I get caught it's my life they terminate
Or stick me in a cell on Guantanamo Bay
All because a nigga won't submit and obey
I'll be an outlaw before I ever behave
And die a free man before I live like a slave
Nothing changes, if they catch me today
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Iv tried a few tanks and even tried to force myself to like em.
. The Kanger H Cartos just work soo much better then anything else I have tried.
Is it just me or does anyone else feel the same way.
What the hell is going on here???
I feel the same shiver, but a stainless kanger in tank would be pretty awesome.
I don't understand why the thread has been split up, the post count alone on the last one was a testament to how great canvape is.
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I just noticed, it is happening all over the site with big threads. Weird forum update i guess.
ECF is having to upgrade their servers due to the size of the canvape thread
All is good in Vape land.
But where were we... oh yea POOWAAAAHHHHH! I told you canvape had to much to stay in it's own thread.
Entire guy on a horse and the old spice whistle.
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Yeah, you would need to get a short tank, and punch or slot the cartos yourself. Unfortunately the smoktech tanks are too long for regular size cartos.
Assuming you could get the holes right so it wicks well, i don't see why it wouldn't be awesome.
I am using a boge XXL carto that I slotted in my Smok Tank on my lavatube, it is working great, much better than the shotty Smoktech DCCs of late


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