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Great books to give on Valentine's Day – for lovers and loveless alike
As you'll no doubt be aware, this Friday is Valentine's Day. If you're the kind of person who frequents the MacLehose Press Blog, you'll surely agree that the best possible present for your beloved is a book, and serendipitously you've wound up on a page with some bespoke romantic suggestions. Hurrah!
(Of course, some of us are loveless, bitter and alone, so it wouldn't be fair not to include some anti-Valentines choices too…)
For the lovers
The Library of Unrequited Love by Sophie Divry (translated by Sian Reynolds) – If your special someone is a book lover, what better gift than this beautiful little masterpiece, narrated by a librarian who has rather a lot to get off her chest. Equally eloquent on love, literature and the Dewey Decimal System, this is one to cherish.
Love Virtually by Daniel Glattauer (translated by Jamie Bulloch and Katharina Bielenberg) – One of the bestselling romances in the world since the turn of the Millennium, this digital will-they-won't-this tells the witty and charming story of Emmi and Leo, and their e-mail romance. Especially perfect for the internet-dating Valentine – you could practically use it as a conversation starter on Tinder.
Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything by Daniela Krien (translated by Jamie Bulloch) – If you ever doubted, momentarily of course, that East Germany in the early 1990s was a romantic setting, this will prove you wrong. A coming-of-age tale of forbidden love, Daniela Krien captures the powerlessness of falling deeply in love with wonderful skill.
For the haters
Alex by Pierre Lemaitre (translated by Frank Wynne) – Pierre Lemaitre is a writer of many and varied gifts, a bestseller and an award winner, so it's fitting that this astonishing English language debut is the perfect anti-Valentines treat for two very different reasons. Firstly, the plot twists are so wickedly clever you'll completely forget to mope. Secondly, there's nothing so cathartic for a lonely soul as sadistically decadent revenge . . .
Where I Left My Soul by Jérôme Ferrari (translated by Geoffrey Strachan) – Yet another Prix Goncourt-winning author, this searing novel about torture and damnation in Algeria is widely regarded as brilliant, and is possibly the perfect tonic for "your friend" who's always going on about how tortured he feels by unrequited love . . .
A Naked Singularity by Sergio De La Pava – Just in case you aren't feeling all that bitter, and just want to read a Folio Prize-shortlisted, PEN Pinter award-winning, critically celebrated masterpiece.


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Hi there, I've just recently came across these forums while i've been researching to get a new bike. To set the stage, i've been out of biking for awhile and I've just been recently getting back into it, and with the summer coming up i've decided to go out and get a good bike and ride as much as I can this summer. I'd consider myself a XC rider, a little mix of everything really.
I've done alot of looking around online, and pretty much have it down to these two bikes:
2003 Cannondale Jekyll 500:
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2003 Giant NRS 3
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I can get the Giant for $1039, and the Cannonale for $1295 from my local dealers.
I also looked at the NRS 2 ($1399) and the Jekyll 600 ($1535) but I decided that they're a little bit too much over my max price.
I haven't been able to test ride either bike yet b/c i'm still in college right now, but I'd like to once I finish up here soon. But for now, it seems as though the Giant would have a better back suspension in terms of preventing pedal induced bobbing. They both have similar components, although i'd probably switch out the giant's titec HellBent XC handlebars for some titec Enduro XC, mainly because I don't think I would like bent handlebars. I would also probably throw on some bar ends and a cyclo computer.
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When you take a cold shower, or rub ice cubes on your balls, causing them to shrivel up and become hard. The testicles then become weapons used to break a nose (Of your girlfriend). When coupled with a Zombie Mask they form a One-two punch.
Eric: My favorite part of winter is snowball fights!
Shawn: My favorite part of winter is snowballing Eric's girlfriend!
Shawn: My favorite part of winter is snowballing Eric's girlfriend!
od uživatele Sex em' up! 02. leden 2007
When a girl gets a cum load in her mouth and shares the jizz with her gf in treesome. guys who eat cum even if thier own are concidered homosexual.
After my girlfriend and her best friend took turns bobbing on my cock, i blew into one of thier mouths and they snowballed my goo.
od uživatele MtrendZ 11. březen 2009
when a girl gives a guy head and then plays a came of french kiss switching the cum back and forth betwwen them
yo we snow balled it last night
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When a guy cums in a girls/guys mouth and then puts his balls in their mouth (teabags them) swishs the cum onto the balls (white balls->snowballs)then sucks them clean and swallows.
My girlfriend snowballed me last night. It was mind-blowing!
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A variation of Cocaine, unsurprisingly spherical in shape before either being burnt and inhales or cut up and snorted.
Mr A: You got the Grand's worth of Snow?
Mr B: I've got the goods if you've got the Fabric.
Mr B: I've got the goods if you've got the Fabric.
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Kissing after oral sex
"Hell no dont snow ball that back to me" said Joe Blow to Betty when she came up to kiss him
od uživatele Jude-e 04. prosinec 2001
to lie your way through a situation to reach a favorable outcome.
"I really had to snow ball my way through that interview, now I'm making 6 figures a year."
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Mobile Creativity with Drawing Apps
By Andrea Hill [member name Andrea_Hill]
Illustrators are no longer restricted by the constraints of their desktop computer and stylus. With recent advances in technology, they can now take full advantage of the freedom provided by new vector drawing applications for tablets and other mobile devices. Illustrators and artists alike find they are able to create vector masterpieces on the go, whether they are on the bus, finding inspiration at a local café or enjoying a beautiful day in the park.
Artists are replacing their sketchbooks with tablets, providing them the ability to sketch on-site, make notes, and record inspiration and ideas quickly. Added benefits of using this technology include the flexibility of multiple undos and redos, the accuracy of creating standard shapes or using the bezier tool for smooth paths, a variety of color swatches and multicolor gradients, custom brushes, export options and much more.
Vector drawing applications vary greatly in terms of price and features. We've outlined a few of the more popular apps for iPad below to aid in determining which ones might be most suited to your needs.
iDraw is one of the most popular vector drawing apps currently available. It is highly rated, and recently recommended by Apple as the #1 graphics and design app. It can be used to create anything from detailed technical drawings to beautiful artistic illustrations. Using iDraw is akin to having a slightly simplified version of Adobe Illustrator right at your fingertips.
iDraw has a wide array of features that are too numerous to list here. Illustrators can start with their choice of several canvas-style templates, including graph paper, notebook paper, blueprint and more. All templates are fully customizable, allowing for even greater flexibility. The rulers for each template can be set in a variety of standard units such as pixels, inches, centimeters and millimeters.
Versatility is provided to the artist with multiple undo and redo options, as well as the ability to add multiple layers. Layers can be merged, deleted and reorganized. In addition, shapes within the layers themselves can be grouped and ordered from front to back, as well as aligned to positions relative to one another. A reference photo can be placed on a layer to help the artist create their illustration.
Standard shapes are preprogrammed, while custom shapes can be created using union, subtract, intersect, exclude, join and divide operations. These custom shapes can be saved into shape libraries and reused in future illustrations. Unique shapes can also be created with bezier curves by using the pen tool. Custom strokes and fills can be applied to these shapes using different opacities, and drop shadows can also be added to create a more three-dimensional effect.
For more traditional artistic illustrations, there are the brush and pencil tools for painting and sketching. Calligraphic brushes can be applied to an object's stroke, and can be customized for roundness, angle and diameter. Arrows and dashed lines can be added to strokes as well.
Inkpad is a vector illustration app specifically designed for high performance on an iPad. While it may not have quite as many tools as other vector drawing apps, it is rich with features and can quickly select, scale and rotate hundreds or thousands of shapes without slowing down.
Artists gain flexibility by being able to use multiple layers in their illustrations. The layers in this app are unlimited and are easily renamed, reordered, deleted, turned off or locked. Layer transparency can be adjusted and active layers isolated to make complex illustrations more easily editable.
Paths and compound paths are created easily, and shapes can be customized using unite, intersect, exclude, and subtract front operations. In addition, the pen tool can be used to create bezier paths and custom shapes.
Photos can be placed on a layer for easy reference and the eyedropper tool can choose colors from the placed photo to save in a swatch library. Gradients can be applied to objects with interactive editing done directly to the shape itself.
iDesign is an additional vector illustration app that is designed for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. The unique feature of this app is the offset controls that allow you to draw professional-quality illustrations without your finger getting in the way or blocking your view. In addition, iDesign offers incremental autosave.
Illustrators can choose standard-size canvases with this application, including A1 through A5, letter, tabloid, and also create custom sizes. Rulers are provided on the canvas in standard units, including inches, points, feet, millimeters, centimeters and meters. Precise drawing is easily attained with the snap-to-grid feature.
As with most of the popular vector apps, photos can be set as a background image for easy reference and color selection. Colors can be saved to a swatch library and have opacity controls. With this app, standard shapes can be used, including stars and polygons, and custom shapes can be created using Boolean operations.
Adobe Ideas
Adobe Ideas has fewer features than some of the more complex vector draw apps already discussed, however it is a powerful sketching and drawing app that excels as a digital sketchbook. Illustrators and artists can create a beautiful landscape scene while on location, or sketch out ideas anywhere they go.
Adobe Ideas includes ten drawing layers, plus a photo layer for easy reference. The eyedropper tool can be used to pick up color from your reference photo or other parts of the drawing. Layers can be duplicated or merged, as well as moved, rotated, scaled independently, and the opacity is also adjustable. There are several drawing tools available that create different effects, including the pencil tool, pen, paintbrush, marker tools and eraser tool. The paint bucket tool can be used to quickly apply color within shapes.
Regardless of the application chosen by the illustrator, much freedom and flexibility will be experienced when using tablets to create vectors. After creating their masterpiece, users can export their file in a variety of formats, including PDF and SVG. Files can be brought into Illustrator for final polishing and touch-ups.
While we have focused on several popular and functional apps for use on an iPad, the range of devices and possibilities are vast. With apps like these, mobile design has never been more accessible and versatile. It is clear that with technology and the creative freedom it provides, digital illustrations and vectors will continue to push boundaries.


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A proposed Colorado amendment that would extend legal rights to human embryos got a step closer to the 2012 ballot this week, but abortion-rights advocates have at least one more challenge in store for the initiative.
The secretary of state's Title Board approved the language of the so-called personhood amendment, concluding it met guidelines that require ballot initiatives to pertain to a single subject. That nearly clears the way for supporters to gather signatures.
Supporters, who have seen the personhood movement grow this year to encompass seven other states, celebrated the small step forward in Colorado.
But a coalition that includes Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains plans to ask the Title Board to reconsider its 3-0 vote, said Monica McCafferty, marketing director for the reproductive-rights group.
"It touches on numerous, unrelated subjects that would be in conflict with the state constitution," McCafferty said Thursday. "The new language doesn't clear up any of the vagueness of previous years."
The proposal affects an array of legal subjects, such as criminal law and health issues.
McCafferty declined to say whether the coalition would go a step further and appeal to the state Supreme Court should the Title Board stand by its original vote.
Similar ballot measures in 2008 and 2010 to outlaw abortion and establish rights at conception made it past the Title Board and — in one instance — past a state Supreme Court challenge. But neither made it past Colorado voters, who rejected the measures by a 3-to-1 ratio each time.
Amendment supporters at Arvada-based Personhood USA applauded the Title Board's decision and said opponents' challenges based on the single-subject rule are disingenuous.
"Out of three Title Board hearings, they've been unanimous each time. The (state) Supreme Court was unanimous too," said Gualberto Garcia Jones, a director of Personhood USA. "The language will help us do a little better. I don't know if we'll be able to make up 20 percent in one election, but we're going to try."
He said the title the initiative received Wednesday lays out its strong points alongside the more controversial points, such as prohibiting abortions in cases of rape or incest.
The first two iterations of Colorado's personhood amendment would have re-defined more than 20,000 instances of the word "person" in state law to include embryos and fetuses.
They drew criticism from abortion-rights activists, doctors, lawyers and others over unintended consequences. And the language raised questions about its effects on birth control, fertility treatments, miscarriages and life-saving medical procedures for expecting mothers.
So drafters this cycle have taken a different tack, writing their intentions more clearly into the proposal's text.
For example, the measure would outlaw only the birth-control pills and fertility treatments proved to cause the destruction of embryos. It would allow doctors to give pregnant women chemotherapy or end an ectopic pregnancy, as well as to perform other life-saving treatments that endanger a fetus.
And the language says spontaneous miscarriages wouldn't be criminalized.
Opponents have 10 days to ask for another hearing on the amendment, said Rich Coolidge, spokesman for the secretary of state's office.
If the amendment survives that obstacle, the secretary of state's office next approves language so supporters can collect about 79,000 signatures to secure the initiative a spot on the 2012 ballot.
If voters pass the measure, it is likely to face court challenge because it conflicts with the U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision that establishes a woman's legal right to an abortion.
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Wednesday Aug 04 2010
I-80's 'pay to drive' HOT lane takes a back seat
By: Jon Brines Gold Country News Service Correspondent
I-80 Hot lane projections Fiscal year 2026 to 2035 • $10.3 million to $30.9 million in revenue • $27.1 million to 27.3 million in expenses Total: $16.8 million (negative) or $3.6 million profit The new trend in freeway design won't be coming to Placer County anytime soon. The Placer County Transportation Planning Agency studied and ultimately shot down a proposal that would allow anyone to drive in the car pool lane on I-80 from the Highway 65 interchange to I-5 in Sacramento by paying a toll. The so-called "hot lane" would not have tollbooths but rather electronic monitoring such as Fastpass to verify if the single occupant vehicle is supposed to be driving in the High Occupancy Vehicle lane or diamond lane as it is also referred. Right now, State Route 91 in Orange County, I-15 in San Diego County and several Bay Area freeways including I-680, State Route 85, I-580 and US 101 either have it or plans are in the works. The purpose is congestion relief and a way to make money. Rocklin resident Kerryn Duncan frequently uses the freeway and said the High Occupancy Vehicle lane would help. "There is a lot of congestion but only in certain spots," Duncan said. "When I am driving into Sacramento no matter what time of day, it's still a problem. I think it would help a lot of commuters." Longtime Rocklin resident Russell Holland said he would pay $2 to $3 if he needed to use the lane. "They need to open it up more," Holland said. "We need something out there in both directions." Last week, the transportation agency stamped the plan dead on arrival after a study concluded it wouldn't make money for about 25 years after it was built. "What a waste of taxpayer money," transportation agency member and Colfax council member Steve Harvey said. "I'm glad this decision came down that we're not doing this." The study projected by 2035, the program would either show a profit of $3.6 million or be in the red by $16.8 million. Transportation planning agency member and Roseville Mayor Gina Garbolino said the uncertainty in the economy makes it virtually impossible to project future revenue to know if the program would ever be solvent. "In the end, we decided this is something we didn't want to focus on right now," Garbolino said. "But we're not closing the book. We could decide to look at it again." Auburn resident Paul Beckley who uses I-80 for business applauded the board's decision. "It's a good thing to put it off," Beckley said. "It sounds like more government." With the bad economy, Auburn resident Vince Dileo said he "couldn't stomach" any more expenses. "It's ridiculous. We're being taxed to death one way or another," Dileo said. Transportation planning agency officials recommend inaction until I-80 conditions significantly change.


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Will the 1st and 4th overall picks revitalize the Cleveland Cavaliers? Holding the 1st and 4th overall picks in tonight's draft, the Cavs are expected to select Kyrie Irving with their 1st overall pick, but the 4th selection is not attractive with Jared Sullinger and Harrison Barnes choosing to remain school in lockout-related decisions. With the 4th pick there are no guarantees, in what is considered a weak draft class, and that poses a serious problem to Cleveland's rebuilding efforts. The Cavs desperately need to land a talented player with the 4th pick to help Cleveland's LeBron James Recovery Act.
Will the San Antonio Spurs move Tony Parker? With George Hill set to grab the reins at point guard, this is a position of strength for the San Antonio Spurs. Having anticipated the retirement of Tim Duncan in the near future, the Spurs have to look for ways to rejuvenate a franchise that has the potential to stay at the top or be an also-ran. Moving Parker looks like the smart move.
Do the Lakers trade Lamar Odom, Pau Gasol or Andrew Bynum to move into the top of the draft? Mitch Kupchak and his Lakers' front office staff seem to have set their sights on Arizona's Derrick Williams. It has been reported that the Lakers offered Lamar Odom for the Minnesota Timberwolves' #2 overall pick in the draft. Minnesota is looking for Gasol or Bynum for the #2 slot. The Lakers realize the next CBA is going to make it impossible to have Kobe, Pau, Odom and Bynum on the roster.
The Lakers will try to do something.
Kemba or Jimmer? As Chasing 23's Marcas Grant informed our moderately intelligent readers, Kemba Walker's stock has depreciated. Marcas makes a persuasive case that the UConn sensation is more than ready for the NBA grind, possesses creativity and some Gary Payton nifty junk to his game, but has seen himself move down the board. Marcas likes Kemba over Jimmer – and I agree with him.
I believe that both players are going to develop into legitimate NBA talents, but it may be more important for Jimmer to find a system that suits his game than Walker.
And I get sick of hearing that Jimmer doesn't play defense, and that Walker wasn't an elite defender at UConn – who cares. In today's NBA, no one can effectively stop a point guard that can attack the paint, which was demonstrated by J.J. Barea, destroying the Miami Heat in the NBA Finals. When people claim that Walker and Jimmer won't be able to play adequate one-on-one defense versus the league's elite point guards, please name a perimeter defender who can do that. I didn't see anyone shutting down Derrick Rose on a nightly basis.
It's far more important to have a point guard that can get to the rim, finish, and distribute the ball to a shooter behind the arc, than it is to have a lockdown defender at point guard. Barea proved that.
The Ricky Rubio Effect: In Spain, Ricky Rubio averaged 6.5 ppg and 3.5 apg for the 2010-11 season. Rubio is the
21-year-old sensation that Minnesota general manager David Kahn views as a key cog to future success in Minnesota.
Those numbers don't suggest Rubio is going to be the next Steve Nash, but he is young. Minnesota is expected to deal Johnny Flynn, who they have soured on, and turn the ball over to Ricky. Kahn's drafting of Flynn and Rubio never made sense, and Minnesota will not receive much in return for Flynn. The carnival continues in Minnesota. Cue the merry-go-round music.
Looking for the Next Nowitzki? For the 2010-11 season, there were 59 international players on teams' rosters. With those kind of sparse numbers, the chance of finding the next Dirk is miniscule, which makes Dirk's emergence to NBA superstardom even more astounding.
What are the best college programs to draft from? Based on the number of players on 2010-11 Opening
Day rosters, here are the sure bets:
- Duke – 13
- Kentucky – 13
- Kansas – 12
- North Carolina – 12
- UConn – 11
- Arizona – 10
- Texas – 10
- Florida – 9
- Wake Forest – 8
Will Portland's Andre Miller be dealt? With Derr Kommissar David Stern poised to tighten the salary cap, a Miller sighting on the Miami Heat will not be possible, but he would be a perfect fit in Miami.
The Suns will move Steve Nash closer to the Canadian border? Phoenix and Minnesota had talks about moving Nash for the #2 overall pick in the draft. That would have been an excellent move for the Suns. Nash has one year remaining on his
contract – he has been coveted by Orlando, New York and Portland – and chances are that Steve Nash will not be playing basketball for the Suns after this season. Not sure what would be Minnesota's angle – perhaps that Nash could mentor Rubio – and then Minnesota would move Nash before next season's trading deadline.
Is the draft overrated to a team's future success? The draft can bring a small market team a franchise player – probably the only way a small market team is going to land a Kevin Durant – but is the draft all that relevant to large market teams? The Celtics used the draft to accrue young talent, and then traded it for Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen, and a 2008 title. Would that same model work for the Sacramento Kings or Minnesota Timberwolves?


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My mother passed away in 2007, it was so very hard on my father. His grief was so terrible, that I think I tried to grieve for him and for myself in some ways. He and my Mom have been sweethearts since they were 16 years of age.
They met at a Halloween Party at their local Grange and the rest as they say is history. They married at age 21, while Dad was still in the service. She lived at home with her father for the first year of her marriage while Dad was deployed in Japan to support the B-29's during the Korean conflict. One time he told me that he wanted to live in Japan, it was such a beautiful place and the people were so kind there. Mom would not hear of it though. Mom was a person that loved being "home". Home to her would always be where she grew up.
My parents each grew up on dairy farms. When they were very young, they were still using horses to put the fields in. They used hand crank cream separators (probably manufactured in one of the DeLaval plants in New York) for the milk. The butter was churned in a big churn and dash. Ice was cut in the winter and stored. The water inside the house was brought into the kitchen sink using a hand pump or, in Dad's case, the hand pump was out in the yard. Electricity still hadn't reached these rural areas yet. They milked the cows, planted, picked and preserved vegetables, made haystacks in the fields (yeah, no bales yet). All done by hand or with horses, no power equipment in sight for them yet. Harvest time, once done was always a time of celebration. Mom remembers her relatives of Gorali descent dressing in their embroidered vests, skirts and leggings and the party going for several days. The different family members that played instruments would set up in the barn and they would have a grand old time. I don't really remember party stories from Dads home, but I do remember that his father played the best pranks on him and his siblings around harvest time. Especially when there was a spooky full moon. As the years went by, the farms modernized with Tractors and Harvest Equipment. More on Tractors and Implements in a bit.
My Father enlisted in the Air Force and served four years during the Korean Conflict. He was an engine mechanic for the B-29's that supported our troops. He also taught other engine mechanics to work on these engines. Dad was very proud of his service record and all that he accomplished while enlisted. He entered the service as a shy young man and developed a sense of worth and confidence while there.
When Dad returned to the US and was discharged, he and Mom set themselves up and started their life together. Dad worked as a mechanic for an International Harvester dealer that sold tractors, harvesters, implements, trucks and scouts. He then became a Diesel Technician for Ford Motor Company, Tractor and Implement division. They had a diesel lab in Latham, New York where he worked until he became a Service Representative. Dad would be called in when the dealers mechanics could not fix a problem. He put on many training schools, set up many fair displays, helped many people fix their problems with Farm and Industrial Equipment. For a time he worked on the "Hot Line" in Detroit. He was not one that liked being tied to a desk or interacting with computers. Ford and New Holland merged, so, Dad had the opportunity to be back in the field doing what he loved best. He was proud of the fact that he had gone through his career for Ford/ Ford-New Holland with no accidents.
He and Mom enjoyed retirement, an Alaskan Cruise was a highlight for them. They enjoyed family barbecues and many great times with family and friends through the years.
Wherever Mom and Dad lived, they made long lasting friends. People always felt comfortable and welcomed. I have had the honor to meet some of their friends and am very grateful to have the opportunity.
Dad's love for the Air Force set up a legacy of family members following his footsteps.
We have many warm memories and many cherished times to help us remember our Dad.
I have been blessed to get to know my father more closely over these last 6 years. I learned so much more about the man my father was and the kindness, warmth and care that he had in his heart. He was a good man, and wonderful friend and a great Daddy. I will miss him so very much.
Thank you to everyone that has reached out to us, you helped my Dad get through these last few years with some very happy days. His phone was his connection to the outside world and your calls meant the world to him.
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As I've been moving rapidly toward the half-century point in my life, I've noticed a certain shift in my thinking.
And it's not that freeing shift that I've noticed among many women in their fifties, that ability to say "I don't care what you think" and take action thereupon with utter ease and confidence.
Although, I have to say, I am looking forward to that.
No, this swaying of thoughts has more to do with one word:
What do you want on your tombstone?
What will I leave behind?
I'm not worried about material things. Who cares about stuff?
I wonder what people will say about me when I'm gone. Or if they even will.
Like the old pizza commercials, I ask myself, "What do you want on your tombstone?"
When I'm working with clients who are stressed out and depressed because they're not "good enough" or "getting enough done," I'll ask them with gentle humor, "So, what do you think they're going to put on your tombstone? Something like:
Here lies Mary Smith.
She finished her reports before the deadline.
And kept her house clean at the same time.
In the same way, I've been fretting about my tombstone. What do I want on it? And how do I leave a legacy? What is the mechanism? Is there an instruction book somewhere?
And then, in the bittersweet way that life often brings us things, I received a glimpse toward answering some of my questions.
Wendy Wayne was a child advocate, social activist, community leader, and friend. She was the kind of woman who spent her vacations building latrines for poor villages in Nicaragua. When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, Wendy flew there to help people make their way through the devastation, both physically and emotionally.
She was an influential and important community leader, yet Wendy had the ability to make you feel as though you were the most interesting and special person in the world.
I said that this story is bittersweet so here's the bitter part:
Wendy was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins' lymphoma in 2008.
Two weeks ago she died.
Living your legacy
I don't know why we have to lose someone like Wendy at the young age of 64.
But I do know this – and here's the sweet part:
On the front page of the website the family used to keep us up to date with Wendy's progress was this message –
In lieu of flowers, meals, care packages, etc., please hug the people you love and do an act of kindness. I think we can all agree that hugging and acts of kindness are the best ways to honor and support Wendy during this fight. She'd love to hear about these random acts of kindness, so go do something good in Wendy's name and then email her or post what you did in the guestbook – that will help buoy her spirits more than anything!
Of course that's what Wendy would want during this time. Not the focus on her, but on how to be loving and kind to others.
It was Wendy's legacy.
And she hadn't done it by reading a book, or a blog post, or following five steps, or using some mechanism.
She didn't preach it, force it on others, or insist upon it.
She lived it. Every day of her life.
And because she lived it, I – and the thousands of others touched by Wendy – have this thought engraved in the front of our minds:
Be kind.
What a legacy.
I want something like that on my tombstone.
So now, instead of my existential angst, I have a new question.
What am I living each day?
I don't really know the answer to that question. Yet.
But the thing I'm more aware of now is this:
My legacy is not something "out there," it's how I bring myself to the world each day.
Next week, a Celebration of Life is being held for Wendy. It's going to be at a large venue in her hometown because her family knows that thousands of people will want to come to remember and honor her.
If Wendy were here, she would wave off the idea that so many people had come to pay tribute to her.
She would just want them to be kind to each other.
It's her legacy.
What do you want on your tombstone? Do you know what you are living each day?
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First of all, did y'all see that article in the Guardian about SEO being pronounced dead? Martin MacDonald is here to call boo-shit on it, saying that SEO can be considered "dead" ONLY if you ignore all of that growth. To proclaim otherwise would be just silly.
Yes – it is true that Social Media is expanding at a terrific rate.
Yes – it is true that executing a Social Media strategy is of increasing importance to businesses large and small.
Yes – it is true that a lot of what people called SEO was little more than manipulative tricks to fool search engines into ranking you higher.
…But search is not dying
It's not an Either/Or game, as MacDonald points out and as most of us know; the Internet is constantly growing (and growing faster). As he puts it:
"Social therefore is great at getting your message out there, but when you actually want to transact, not having a presence on search engines is online marketing's #1 deadly sin."
Now, I know one of the rules of the Internet is usually not to read comments, but the discussion on his post is pretty great. Join in if you have something to say!
Link Building With the Stars
(It's like Dancing with the Stars but with waaaaay more flannel shirts.)
In an interview with Matt Cutts, Eric Enge discusses how Link Building Is Not Illegal (or Inherently Bad). Right from the beginning, Matt Cutts declares that link building is not illegal, BUT that a lot of people go about it in a backwards way:
Their goal should really be to make a fantastic website that people love and tell their friends about and link to and want to experience. As a result, your website starts to become stronger and stronger in the rankings.
In essence, as Eric says, it's "doing marketing the way it used to be done." This interview is great because it is so conversational and therefore easy to read. It lays out a lot of common-sense-type arguments and it brings up Kevin Smith's SModcast podcast, so it's an all-around good read.
Next up, James Norquay gathered responses from 11 SEO experts with actionable link building tips this week. We hear from several familiar fellows who give their best tips and tricks on link building. One that is often over-looked (in my opinion) came from Brian Dean:
Don't be afraid to drop some cash to get a pro designer to make your pillar content look nice and professional. For example, I recently spent $300 on design for a curated link building guide. The page got A LOT of buzz and was actually featured on the Moz Top 10 –which brought in over 3k unique visitors. I don't think I could have gotten something about link building featured on the Moz Top 10 unless the design was stellar. And outreach is a breeze with that guide because when people see it they INSTANTLY think: "this is cool"
The last article under this category comes from Jason Acidre called 22 Link Building Tips from @xightph. He's sharing his own personal experience after working with many clients around the world and across different industries.
He talks about the interconnectedness of several aspects of link building and audience engagement, including these four:
He gives a range of both abstract and concrete/actionable tips for folks to build upon in their own work. Combined with the Norquay article above, I found all of these to be pretty helpful.
Don't Be a Tool, Use One (or Three.)
I wanted to round out the Weekly Trumpets with a ton o' tools brought to you by two Dicks. I mean, two Richards: Richard Marriott and Richard Baxter. (I swear, someday AJ is going to kick me off of blogging duty.) In all seriousness, these are some fantastic articles by two very lovely experts.
First off, Marriott brings us the motherlode — 55 SEO Experts Reveal 3 Favourite Link Building Tools. As the title suggests, Marriott asked many many experts the following question:
"If you could only use 3 SEO tools for your link building campaigns which 3 would you choose?"
He compiled the top list (which I won't reveal here because, duh, spoilers) and then gave everyone's full answers so you can pick and choose which other new tools to try.
I enjoyed scrolling through all of the suggestions and reading the explanations/justifications that often accompanied their top 3. Kind of gives you an insight into how differently we all work, and which tools fit our personalities best.
Baxter then weighs in on his own, giving us his perfect toolkit of the top 30 best new tools. As he says, this industry evolves extremely rapidly, making it especially important to stay on top of what's out there.
Between Richard and Richard, you really should be set on tools for at least a week.


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The Two Perspectives on XML
I have been working with XML since it was a glimmer in the eye of Jon Bosak. In fact, before XML was conceived, there was SGML; going from SGML to XML represented a streamlining for the web, but at its core there was not much functional difference; in fact XML is a subset of SGML. The key concept of semantic markup is central to the core value of SGML/XML.
The two main perspectives I have seen are Document-centric XML and Data-centric XML. SGML initially appeared in support of document-centric work: managing all the technical documents or contracts of IBM or Boeing, for example. Charles Goldfarb has maintained that "SGML literally makes the infrastructure of modern society possible" and I think he's right – hmm, should we blame him for the lengths to which humans have gone to destroy the earth?


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The Westside Gathering Church is looking for someone to give leadership to our Sunday children's gatherings (Kids Quest), to lead and develop our volunteer staff, and to develop areas of connection with children and families in our community. We're looking for someone with a passion for the spiritual growth of children and families, team oriented attitude and skills, and a missional heart for families in our community. This is a full time role in a young and growing church that started 9 years ago in Montreal, Quebec.( Additional opportunity to build student ministries and community development )
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ROLE: partner with Westside's mission of connecting people into a growing relationship with Christ and each other by giving leadership to KidsQuest and developing families in our community to grow inwards (transformation) and outwards (mission).
Give leadership to KidsQuest (Sunday environments from infant to grade school) by continuing to shape it in a way that reflects the mission and vision of WestsideLead and develop KidsQuest team so they will serve in their best capacity in order that kids will be lovingly cared for and challenged to know and serve God with passion.
Come alongside families – resourcing them – as they spiritually shape their childrenPartner with existing projects and environments (and/or develop new ones) that involve kids and/or families in the area of transformation, community, and mission.
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Passion to disciple children and familiesCommitment to see children from all backgrounds discover God.Ability to work in a flexible environmentDesire and skill to work with volunteers in a way that volunteers are inspired, challenged, and developed to serve with full devotion.Desire to serve children and families in the larger community, not strictly families within the church communityExperience in Children's ministry an assetAdministrative skills an assetCommunicate clearly with teams, families, and larger community
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TIME: Full Time (possibility of part-time options, inquire if interested)
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Contribute to Westside's mission and vision in the following:o connecting to community (gatherings and groups)o contributing to community (serving and stewardship
Volunteering: model volunteering within Westside in/outside your role, as we expect each person in our community to volunteer some personal time per weekGoals and objectives work alongside Westside's mission, vision, and valuesDemonstrate a godly and transformed life in relationships, integrity, work, sexuality, and decisions as God empowers us toReconciliation: confront when necessary, forgive when hurt (Matt. 18)Relationships: intentionally build relationships within Westside to model our value for community, outside Westside to model our value for missionSpiritual growth: intentionally paying attention to your own spiritual growth and lifestyleGroups: involved in or leading a community groupHave fun
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WASHINGTON – One week after someone slashed the tires of more than 60 vehicles in Herndon, Virginia, more cars were vandalized in Laurel, Maryland.
The cases are unrelated but sound familiar. Laurel City police say the tires on more than a dozen vehicles were found slashed in the Maryland suburb.
A spokesman for the city says a total of 17 vehicles were vandalized Friday night. Five were discovered at the Sportsman's Pub, one at AMF Laurel lanes, and 11 at the Laurel Station Bar & Grill. Police discovered the cars at about 11:30 p.m.
All three sites lie along the U.S. Route 1 corridor in Laurel and investigators believe the slashings are connected.
Pete Piringer, City of Laurel police spokesman, says they have arrested and detained a person of interest.
"The adult male was found in the area," Piringer says. "He was arrested and charged with an unrelated charge – an outstanding warrant. But the case is still active and open and we're looking for any information that anyone has to share."
Detectives from the Laurel Police Department are looking at surveillance videos from nearby businesses. If anyone has information to share with police, they can call the City of Laurel's tip line at 301-498-7645.
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Today is Ada Lovelace Day – a day dedicated to discussing influential women of science! I decided to talk about Maria Goeppert-Mayer, one of two women to win the Nobel Prize in physics (the other was Marie Curie). You can read more about Ada Lovelace in this past blog post.
Maria Mayer was born in 1906, in what was then Germany. In 1910, the family moved to Göttingen, where her father had a job as a Professor of Pediatrics. Her father was in the 7th generation of university scholars in his family, and so it was expected that Maria would get an education. Maria went to public and private schools, taking the entrance exam for the University at Göttingen in 1924. She originally intended to be a math major, but switched to physics after taking a physics seminar with Max Born. Other students of Born's included Fermi, Oppenheimer, and Dirac. Maria got her PhD in physics in 1930. For her dissertation, she she calculated the "probability that an electron orbiting an atom's nucleus would emit two photons of light as it jumped to an orbit closer to the nucleus." (http://www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/mayer.html) Her calculation was experimentally confirmed in the 1960s.
She married Joseph Mayer, a physical chemist, in 1930, and moved with him to Baltimore, where he had a position at Johns Hopkins University. Because of anti-nepotism laws, Maria couldn't have a paid position at the university and instead became a "volunteer associate". Nevertheless, until the Mayers left Johns Hopkins in 1938, Maria produced 10 papers, a textbook, and had her daughter.
After her husband lost his job at Johns Hopkins, the Mayers went to Columbia University. She still could not hold a paid position at Columbia, but she still worked in physics, becoming a member of Enrico Fermi's lab. When WWII started, she received a part time, paid teaching position at Sarah Lawrence College. She also started working on a secret project regarding fuel for nuclear fission weapons at Columbia. She visited the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico several times.
When the war ended, Maria went with her husband to the University of Chicago, where she was a professor (although the work was voluntary, and she was not paid). Several months later, she got a paid position as a senior research associate at Argonne National Laboratory. There, she developed the theory that won her the Nobel Prize – that if electrons orbited the nucleus in shells, the number of electrons in the stable atoms represented "full" electron shells. These full shells were more stable than non-filled shells.
In 1956, she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. In 1959, UC San Diego offered paid positions to both Maria and her husband. They accepted the positions and moved to California. In 1963, she won the Nobel Prize for her shell model of the nucleus. She shared the prize with another scientist who developed the shell model around the same time as she did. She became the second woman to win the Nobel Prize in physics, and the first to do so for theoretical work. No Physics Nobel Prizes have been awarded to women since Maria Goeppert-Mayer. Maria Goeppert-Mayer died in 1972.


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Production on director Fede Alvarez's Evil Dead remake officially wrapped last month, and fans of director Sam Raimi's 1981 original and subsequent sequels are anxiously awaiting the results. Despite being a producer on the remake, Raimi admitted to MTV during the San Diego Comic-Con that he too was excited to see the results.
"I just think Fede Alvarez has really made a great horror movie," said Raimi. "It's scary. The actors are great in it. It's really gut-wrenching, real low budget and intense."
Adding to Raimi's "gut-wrenching" assessment is actor Jessica Lucas (CW's Melrose Place, Cloverfield), who will play the best friend to lead Jane Levy (Suburgatory) and told Digital Spy (via Evil Dead News) that the remake is "very dark and violent."
It's going to be crazy, I can tell you that. It's very, very dark. I know the first one was a little bit more tongue-in-cheek, there was some humor in there. Unintentional, but still kind of funny. Ours is very dark and violent.
Lucas admitted that she is "a little bit" nervous about how the fanbase will react to the movie, but then added: "We're trying to do something different. It's not so much a remake or a reboot as it is a continuation of the saga. We're not trying to recreate it."
Raimi and Lucas' comments weren't dissimilar to previous comments from screenwriter Diablo Cody (Juno), who rewrote Alvarez and Rodo Sayagues' script, and described the remake as "unbelieveably violent" and "really scary" last year.
Like the original, Evil Dead will follow a group of friends who travel to a remote cabin and find the mysterious Book of the Dead, which unleashes evil spirits. Lucas and Levy co-star with Shiloh Fernandez (Red Riding Hood), who will play Levy's brother; Elizabeth Blackmore (Burning Man), who will play Fernandez's fiancée and Lou Taylor Pucci (Carriers) as the group's "academic" who likely reads the Book of the Dead and dooms the group.


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Theory and reality have an interesting and amusing relationship, existing eternally at odds much like Jacob and his rival on Lost (about which more is forthcoming at about 3 or 4 in the morning the night after the series finale, in the new feature "TV by Bowes," so named because I have a name that commands respect! In theory.) Theories are often optimistic, idealistic, envisioning a world where things happen as we'd like them to, and reality is a testicle-seeking missile with a nuclear warhead affixed to the tip. Reality, in short, fucking sucks, and this is why the lone constant in this universe is Murphy's Law (oh, irony . . .)
This cheerful philosophical proposition originated from a bit of cogitation yours truly was undergoing about the collective desire shared by seemingly all serious artists to have complete creative control over their work. Ironically, independent artists such as myself don't have this problem at all. My first movie, Byron Invented Boredom—a short coming-of-middle-age drama—came out exactly the way I wanted it to. I was auteur, God, Kubrick. Mortals trembled before me. But, ya know, I made the fucking thing for the price of two DV tapes and a couple drinks. But artists working within the commercial infrastructure of the movie, music, and other entertainment industries have to worry about bean counters and evil white guys in suits telling them what they can and can't do, unless they make those selfsame evil white guys so much fucking money everyone's too busy doing Scrooge McDuck backstrokes through mountains of cash to tell the artist what s/he can and can't do.
One such artist was Eddie Murphy. At his peak in the 80s, he was as big as movie stars are capable of being. While single-handedly rescuing Saturday Night Live from Jean Doumanian's evisceration of the show (even if Eddie was the only funny thing on the show, ya gotta start somewhere), he began making movies. The first three pictures he was in—spanning the ages of 21 to 23—are all legitimate all-time classics (48 Hrs, Trading Places, Beverly Hills Cop) that each created or redefined their respective genre. 48 Hrs invented the buddy cop movie, the form of the modern film comedy was created by John Landis, who directed Trading Places (although it can be argued, probably by me in a contradictory future post, that Landis' Animal House actually was more influential, but fuck off, I'm trying to make a point), and Beverly Hills Cop melded action and comedy in a far more symbiotic manner than any previous attempt. The driving force and most memorable element of all three was Eddie. From the moment Nick Nolte shambles down that hallway in the jail in 48 Hrs while some tonedeaf troll (Eddie) is murdering "Roxanne", Eddie owned the screen. The number of movie actors who have even come within a mile of Eddie's level of raw charisma can be counted on one hand, and you'll have spare fingers. Eddie was so awesome, even the gay-bashing in Delirious is kind of funny. I mean, come on, his impression of Mr. T and Ralph Kramden getting fucked in the ass is awesome.
Following the release of the massively successful Beverly Hills Cop, Eddie had gotten to the point where he could literally do anything he wanted. If he wanted to do a feature-length adaptation of the Saturday Night Live skit where he played little orphan Annie as James Brown, he would have a green light faster than you could say HAAAIIIIGGHH (a transcription of Eddie's James Brown impersonation). But he found himself in a quandary. While his astronomical success was based almost entirely on one aspect of his comedic persona—the preternaturally verbally nimble gritty streetwise tough guy—at heart, Eddie was kind of a fuckin' dork, as he freely confesses in Delirious (he does about five minutes about Star Trek, for God's sake). Not only that, but one never wants to repeat oneself. Eddie used his newfound clout, naturally, to do exactly what he wanted to do.
Apparently, what he wanted to do was make an album with Rick James, the aptly named How Could It Be. Now, anyone who watched Saturday Night Live or Delirious knew Eddie could sing. His imitations of Michael Jackson, James Brown, Stevie Wonder, and even Elvis were kind of fucking perfect. One's reaction to the aforementioned is, in equal measure, laughter and awe. He was that good. At being other people. As "himself," Eddie's voice was thin, plaintive, high, and frankly a little weak. His songs, in particular the (infamous) lead single (caution: watch at your own risk)
were humorless, bizarre for a comedian, even one less ludicrously talented than Eddie. The album did okay, because he was such a huge star, but the cause of movie stars putting out albums was set back years.
His next (and first cinematic) misstep was 1986's The Golden Child. When it came out, I thought it was the bee's knees, but then again, I was 7; Eddie Murphy, Voltron, and Bernard King's knee where the only things in the universe I gave a flying fuck about. Upon further reflection, The Golden Child sucks. It made a lot of money, but Eddie had a fair amount of say in the script process, and a very large number of the most retarded cinematic moments of the 80s (a decade known for its bounteous retardation) still found their way in.
Then Eddie cashed in on Beverly Hills Cop with a lazy, mean-spirited sequel that borrowed some bits wholesale from the original, ignored character continuity, and basically served no other constructive purpose than being Chris Rock's movie debut, as a valet parker at the Playboy Mansion who busts Eddie's balls for pulling up in a cement truck (which, admittedly, was a funny bit, but still). That also leads to another very important point that shouldn't be ignored: though Eddie's movies may have been showing an alarming tendency to suck, he gave scores of black actors and comedians their start. The fact that his movies did suck (in an often intellectually lazy fashion) led Eddie to be criticized by Spike Lee and others for negative portrayals of black people; there may have been more work for black actors, but that work unfortunately came largely in the form of motormouthed wiseasses (if they were lucky).
Later the same year as Beverly Hills Cop II, Eddie released Raw, a filmed stand-up concert at the fabled Felt Forum (now, after renovation, The Theater at Madison Square Garden). Although parts are piss-yourself-funny—Eddie's impression of Bill Cosby criticizing Eddie for cursing too much, followed by Richard Pryor's reaction (and oh my God is Eddie's Richard good): "Next time motherfucker calls, tell him I said suck my dick"; his bit about foreigners only understanding the cursing in his act, leading to his status to them as "Mr. Fuck You Man"; and last but certainly not least, his impression of Italian guys who see the Rocky movies and think they're real—an awful lot of Raw leaves a bad taste in the mouth. Eddie's ego is clearly, by this point, the size of a galaxy, and a solid hour of the movie is given over to stale, boilerplate, battle-of-the-sexes stand-up, albeit deftly executed and with creative profanity. Still, there's an urgency to Delirious that there isn't in Raw, which is why Delirious is better.
Coming to America is a huge turning point in Eddie's career. It's really fucking funny, and a well-made movie to boot (John Landis was back in the director's chair; though he was by this point in his career doing all kinds of over-the-top weird shit in his movies, the movies themselves were still good). Eddie and protege Arsenio Hall (back when he still had a last name, before his TV show) play about five characters each, including Eddie's jaw-dropping turn as an old Jewish guy (the old SNL sketch where Eddie went undercover as a white person to see what happened when no black people were around—the cocktail parties on city buses, the free newspapers, the automatic granting of large loans at banks with no collateral or ID or any of that shit, all the things we white people do on a daily basis—was a mere shadow of this mastery; I still don't fucking believe that's really Eddie he's so good). Bottom line, Coming to America is an all-time classic, one of the funniest movies ever, rewatchable, quotable as the day is long.
Unfortunately, it would be Eddie's last classic. With even more clout than he had when he became untouchable and immortal, Eddie decided to direct. And write. And produce. And star. Harlem Nights, much as I watch it whenever it comes on cable, is the product of a massive, massive ego whose dick had simply become too big for anyone to tell him no. It's got a terrific premise: a 1930s gangster movie where Richard Pryor and Eddie go up against a bunch of evil white guys. How the fuck, you ask, do you fuck that up? Let me count the ways: lazy production design, a script whose primary concerns are making Eddie look cool and giving everyone plenty of "fuck"s to say, literally every woman in the movie being a whore (and Eddie punches Della Reese in the face and shoots her in the foot, which, I'm sorry, just ain't fuckin funny, dude). Sure, a lot of stuff in it is pretty cool. I mean, come on, Eddie and Richard Pryor. Redd Foxx ("I ain't gonna be too many more motherfuckers, you hear?"). Michael Lerner makes a reeeeeeal good evil white guy (even though Eddie has him playing a goy for some bizarre reason) and the fact that Eddie and company totally get away with it in the end is satisfying. But man, with a real director, a script doctor, and someone who actually did some research to build the sets, this could have been so much better.
The 90s are where Eddie loses me completely. The 48 Hrs sequel makes Beverly Hills Cop II look like Citizen Kane. Boomerang sucks. The Distinguished Gentleman sucks. Beverly Hills Cop III was sacrilege. The Nutty Professor was okay, with Eddie doing his Peter Sellers thing again and playing every character in the movie, but there isn't anything to it, and you honestly don't have to remake Jerry Lewis movies. Once was enough.
Metro, Eddie's attempt to get back to action-comedy, is shit. Absolute shit. Metro is when I stopped going to Eddie movies, or even giving enough of a fuck to watch them on cable, because however long it had been since the critics left him behind, his pictures still made enough money that he didn't have to do movies this terrible. He was doing movies this terrible either because he wanted to, didn't know any better, or had lost his ability to distinguish between good and bad. It wasn't until Metro that it really hit me how long it had been since Eddie had done anything legitimately good. Almost ten years.
And then the family films started. The Dr. Doolittle remake was inoffensive, but really, praise that faint damns you to a pretty deep circle of hell. Life was almost good. But Mulan, the Shrek quadrilogy, the Nutty Professor and Dr. Doolittle sequels, Daddy Day Care, Meet Dave, Pluto Nash . . . fucking Norbit? What the fuck, man? Seriously, Eddie. What the fuck. It's not drugs. It's probably not closeted homosexuality (the "methinks the lady doth protest too much" chatter following the "faggots aren't allowed to look at my ass" business in Delirious got a hell of a supporting argument when Eddie got busted with that tranny hooker). To the best of our knowledge he isn't a Scientologist. We may never know.
The thing that makes that string of shit worse is that two legitimately terrific performances were interspersed: the not-great-but-still-really-entertaining Bowfinger, where Eddie is tremendous in the dual role of the batshit insane action star under cult leader Terence Stamp's sway (this is why I think Eddie's not a Scientologist, Steve Martin trolls them way the fuck too hard in this) and the action star's NERD brother. I mean fuck's sake the brother is a NERD. Eddie's great in Bowfinger, which just makes it all hurt so much worse.
The other is Dreamgirls. I personally—don't read this unless you're sitting down—really liked Dreamgirls; I liked the songs, liked the story, even thought Jamie Foxx and Beyonce were really good, even though Jennifer Hudson and Eddie got all the press. Eddie is so good in Dreamgirls, and his singing is so good, that it really makes me depressed sometimes. WHY THE FUCK CAN'T YOU ALWAYS BE THIS GOOD? WHY? WHHHHHHYYYYYYYYY????? KHHAAANNNNN!!!!!! For all the talk about Eddie getting robbed at the Oscars that year, I really think that the reason they gave it to Alan Arkin was because Eddie was doing Norbit next. I honestly really do think that's the actual reason—Oscar voters read the trades, said to themselves, "What the fuck is wrong with this guy?" and angrily checked off anyone other than Eddie on their ballot; sure, it's not fair and it has nothing to do with the performance, and in theory people would compartmentalize, but reality, as established in the beginning, frequently nukes you in the nuts.
I've long since given up on the possibility of a legit, consistent Eddie comeback. This really makes me sad. His appearance on Inside the Actors' Studio made me sigh, because he came off as such a likeable, shy guy, a lot more humble than he used to appear as a young man . . . but it made me wonder if that humility wasn't actually what was holding him back. Like, if he was more of an asshole, and believed that he walked on water and was an artistic genius like a real movie star, his ambition would lead him to reach for the stars more often.
Then again, an important point to consider at this point is: is Eddie himself happy? From what limited evidence I have at my disposal (very limited, considering how press-shy he's always been) he seems so. I think that if he cared at all about being critically acclaimed or being A Serious Actor (another impediment to his Oscar chances in 2006, not giving a shit about such things) he would have long since done something to establish himself as such. So, clearly, he's doing what he wants to do. And the fact that I miss the Eddie of 25 years ago is not his problem at all. Having creative control is a means to one's own happiness, not that of the audience. And so I find myself having to stick with the four good movies Eddie's made as a leading man (Bowfinger and Dreamgirls both being supporting roles) and surrender my desire for a new my-kind-of-Eddie movie. Perhaps surrendering that desire is what it'll take to get another one (shit, it worked for Bowfinger and Dreamgirls).
Perhaps I should just let one of my favorite movie stars be happy. In theory, that's what I'd do if I was a fully rational being. But we know all about theory by this point.
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Date published: August 1, 2012
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Barb Stuckey has a favorite summer dinner, while her fiancé digs into a grilled rib-eye on their patio in Healdsburg, California, she'll have a giant, meaty, vine-ripened tomato. That's her main course.
"They're nature's perfect food," says Stuckey, a professional food developer whose recent book, Taste What You're Missing (Free Press, 2012; $26), explains how to sharpen your sense of flavor. "No other fruit has all five tastes - bitter, salty, sour, sweet, and savory umami - let alone in such perfect balance."
Today's tomatoes - the vine-ripened, locally grown kind - strike totally different notes on the tongue than the uniform red balls once ubiquitous in grocery stores, Stuckey says. The latter, a product of large-scale agriculture, were bred not for flavor but to withstand mass handling and cross-country trips. They're no substitute for rib-eye. And they played no part in creating the tomato frenzy evident today, with people crowding into farmers' markets for the latest variety. An example: The Santa Monica Farmers Market doubled the sale of local tomatoes between 2000 and 2010, and last year the market sold about 400,000 pounds of what has become a summer obsession.
Northern California can take a lot of the credit for this taste revolution, starting with the Tasting of Summer Produce, an annual event that began in 1983 and lasted through the decade. Guided by Sibella Kraus, then a cook at Chez Panisse, it brought in good fruits and vegetables (tough to come by in those days) directly from the farm, and it introduced chefs and food buyers for grocery stores to all kinds of great-tasting produce, including vine-ripe tomatoes. "It was a knockout," says San Francisco author Joyce Goldstein, who is working on a book about California culinary history. "It's what turned the tide."
Chefs also started asking for Italian and French tomato varieties they'd tasted abroad. The problem, says Andy Griffin of Santa Cruz County's Mariquita Farm and a top supplier to chefs, was the availability of seeds back then. "Seeds like that weren't for sale."
Enter the seed sleuths: Renee Shepherd, of Renee's Garden Seeds in Felton, California; and Georgeanne Brennan and Charlotte Glenn of Le Marché Seeds in Dixon, California. In the mid-1980s, they began tracking down the seeds in Europe. "I used to call people up and write letters, and I used telex a lot in those days," Shepherd remembers. She would fly to Italy and France and walk through seed-company gardens that were, she says, "like living catalogs of all of their varieties." She'd taste, choose, and bring sample seeds home to try; if she liked the results, she would order more for customers. "The Europeans found it intriguing," Shepherd says. "No one from America was doing this." At the same time, she and others were also locating U.S. growers of heirloom tomatoes (varieties that have remained the same for at least 50 years).
What may sound obvious was very much a pioneering effort by these seed finders. "It was the beginning of us building a food culture in this country," says Shepherd. "There was this intense feedback loop between chefs, small growers, and us." As a star in that loop, the tomato started opening people's eyes - and their palates - to a world of better-tasting food. And they wanted more.
The farmers who were growing for chefs also brought their new tomatoes to farmers' markets. By the mid-1990s, markets throughout California, Oregon, and Washington were selling never-beforeseen varieties. And other tomato pioneers like Gary Ibsen· - whose heirloom tomato festival ran from 1991 to 2008, in Carmel, California - helped get the word out too.
Not that a good tomato necessarily has to be an heirloom.
"Look no further than [the hybrid] Sun Gold, the little orange cherries that everyone goes nuts for," Shepherd says. What matters most to the taste of a tomato - what really matters - is that it is a variety (whether heirloom or hybrid) that's been bred for flavor and allowed to ripen on the vine.
Vine-ripened tomatoes, though, have some drawbacks when it comes to distribution: a short shelf life and fragility. So they have to be grown locally and picked in season. To meet the ever-increasing demand, farmers all over the West are planting a huge diversity of seeds for local markets. The most successful have found the right growing spots and the varieties that thrive there, and have honed their techniques.
Annamarie and Kevin Klippenstein of Klippels Organics, for instance, have been farming for the past 10 years in British Columbia's Similkameen Valley, Canada's only desert. That dry heat keeps disease down. The long days don't hurt either. In summer, when it's light for roughly 15 hours a day, the plants grow like weeds.
When the Klippensteins started growing heirlooms eight years ago, customers thought the tomatoes were strange, says Annamarie. But when she and Kevin brought the Purple Prince to the market and handed those tomatoes out for free, everything changed. Annamarie remembers customers saying things like "What did you give me last week? I want more of that. I don't know what I've been eating the last 30 years of my life, but I'm pretty sure I've never actually had a tomato." The Klippensteins now grow more than 250 varieties of heirlooms.
Elaine Granata, of Denver's Granata Farms, ditched the corporate life for a farm in the city that supplies tomatoes, and other produce, to a handful of Denver's top restaurants such as Olivéa, Il Posto, and Tables. Urban farming, by definition, keeps the distance from farm to plate very short. "The fruits are still warm from the field when I deliver them," Granata says. And the chefs notice the difference. "Well take anything she grows/' says Amy Vitale, chef-owner at Tables. "Her tomatoes say, 'Welcome to summer.'"
Joe Schirmer, a former competitive surfer, earned celebrity status in the San Francisco Bay Area with his dry-farmed Early Girl, a hybrid tomato. His coastal farm near Santa Cruz, Dirty Girl Produce, is warm enough to ripen a tomato, but cool and foggy enough that no irrigation besides rainfall is required. Dry-farming, introduced to California's Central Coast by Molino Creek Farm, not only saves water but also concentrates flavor. When Early Girl is dry-farmed, says Schirmer, "the plants totally freak out." He explains why: "They make this last-ditch effort to go to seed, and every last bit of energy goes into that fruit. Suddenly, they take on this extra-earthy taste. People go nuts for these tomatoes." Bonus points; Early Girls are thick-skinned enough to ship, making them the rare exception to the local-is-better rule.
While farmers are always searching for better flavor, so too are eaters. We have changed the market. "Americans have tended to like mild and sweet but are finally starting to have a palate for spicy and sharp. We want punchier flavors," Shepherd says.
Now that we're all part of the feedback loop, imagine where our tastebuds will lead us.