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REVIEW: The Prince by Tiffany Reisz
Warning: contains spoilers for first two novels in series
Having finished The Angel, I moved quickly on to The Prince, desperate to find out where the numerous loose plotlines would go. However, while I expected this to concentrate on the blossoming romance between Nora and Wes, I was pleasantly surprised that in fact the majority of the book was about the complex and extremely dark relationship between Soren and Kingsley, the King of Kink. And when I say dark, I mean DARK!
As reader, I could only watch helplessly as the origins of these two very different people becoming 'friends' unfolded. Truth be told, this was such a major draw for me that I found myself skimming the parts with Nora and Wes, in order to read more about Soren and Kingsley.
As I mentioned in my previous review, M/M relationships have never really held much interest for me, but again Reisz has pulled something so unique that I was sucked right in to their story (Yeah, bad choice of words there).
The plot is really split into three distinct threads; a in-depth look at Soren and Kingsley's past and the circumstances that surrounded the death of Kingsley's sister (also Soren's wife), mentioned briefly in The Angel, the stalker who appears to be targeting Soren and all of those close to him, in the present and Wes and Nora finally trying to make a go of things as a couple down in Kentucky. Out of the three plot-lines, for me, the Wes/Nora plot was the weakest. It just lacked that certain sparkle that made me want to invest in their relationship and in turn, root for them to overcome the obstacles of Nora's past and Wes's privileged background.
Wes came off as somewhat needy in this book. His desperation at trying to break Nora's need for kink and the hold Soren has over her, begins to get very tiring. He knew what Nora was like. This isn't anything new. Granted, Nora is trying to change and become more 'Vanilla' to suit Wes's lifestyle, but it is part of who she is. The fact that she has to hide a part of herself began to annoy me. She lost a bit of her bite and it is only near the end do we see that the old Nora is still hiding underneath the disguise she wears around Wes and his family.
On writing this review and discussing the book with Vickie (who was reading it while I was reviewing this book), I've come to the conclusion that Nora seems to morph and adapt to suit whoever she is in a relationship with. With Soren, she throws herself into becoming a submissive; on her own she becomes a Dominatrix with Wes she tries to be what is described as 'normal'. You get the feeling that she only really wants to be accepted, but never really get a feeling of the real Nora.
In a scene that still makes me chuckle even now, was when Nora and Wes finally have sex. A theme that seems to run between the two is the fact that Wes is constantly trying to compete with Soren, asking questions that I cringed at reading. Does he REALLY want to know what Soren is like as Lover? Is he a glutton for punishment? (Soren might like that! 😉 ) Does he have a secret crush on the Priest that he refuses to admit to? (Ok, that may be me and I do not have that secret of a crush…) To push for answers at a time where Nora is probably at her weakest is a low blow, but ask and ye shall receive. For the reader, it comes across as very uncomfortable, especially in the way that Nora compares Wes and Soren. This is one of the few times that I really felt my love for Nora slip. (Though this is partly Wes's fault for asking).
Wes and Nora somehow end up embroiled in the mystery surrounding the death of one of Nora's former clients racehorses. Again, I seemed to zone out on this plot-line and was only slightly interested that this is the client that gave Nora her red Aston Martin.
By the end of the book, it looks as though Nora and Wes look to be on the road to a proper relationship. How this pans out in the next book, is yet to be seen due to a dramatic cliffhanger, which I will discuss later in the review.
For me, what really pushed this book into un-put-downable territory was Kingsley and Soren. This book really delves into the past of Kingsley and how he went from a lothario who had been forced from his previous school due to other pupils threatening his life over sleeping with their girlfriends and/or sisters, to Soren's first real submissive.
The relationship is really dark and a comparison to the relationship between Griff and Michael in the previous book. It is not for the faint-hearted and though Reisz doesn't go into too much detail, there is just enough to let your imagination run away with you, or at least it's a reflection on mine. 😀
This is mixed in with the mystery surrounding who broke into Kingsley's home and stole the file on Nora. By going back into the past, Reisz attempts to lead the reader to who is targeting those closest to Soren. Up to the last chapter, I was completely in the dark, but then as the pieces all fall into place, I was shocked to say the least. It was the last person I expected it to be.
The most infuriating part of the whole book was the cliffhanger at the end and it knocked half a star off the rating. Nora's fate is left in the balance, especially as there was the ominous message "I WILL KILL THE BITCH" scrawled in blood on the wall in Nora's bedroom. I know this might be in an effort to make you want to read the next book, but Reisz doesn't need this gimmick.
The darkest book yet in the series, but still one of the best authors in this genre. There were a couple of things I didn't really like about this, one being Nora herself and the other being the cliff-hanger, but the Soren and Kingsley back-story and relationship more than makes up for it. This is still a must read series for me and I can't wait for The Mistress to see how this all concludes. Before this book, I had wanted Nora to not end up with Wes and go back to Soren, yet now I am left confused.
For really dark and thought provoking series, read these books. Reisz manages to write really spicy books while balancing very complex plots that suck you in. She really is the Queen of this genre.
Rating: 4.5 Stars
The Prince by Tiffany Reisz
(The Original Sinners #3)
Contemporary Erotic Romance
Mills & Boon (Sept 2012)
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Turning north onto Hwy 93 the shoulder narrows and finally disappears over the top of a small climb before you head down the two miles into Marshall. Although the panorama of Boulder is wonderful it is a very heavy traffic section and best to exercise caution as you fly down the backside to the completion of the loop.
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We believe that eating disorder behaviors are based in emotion dysregulation. People with eating disorders often have temperaments that are predisposed to anxiety and depression, or have been exposed to stressful and traumatic life events that cause intense negative emotions. Eating disorder behaviors (1) represent attempts to cope with or control negative emotions, and (2) cause more negative emotions to develop because relationships become strained, eating becomes more difficult, energy level drops, etc. For these reasons, our program primarily uses the model of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). We intensively teach skills for dealing with emotions and help people to translate these skills to their lives outside of treatment. DBT skills have also been shown to be useful in the treatment of several disorders that often co-occur with eating disorders, including substance use, borderline personality disorder, and depression. Thus, our treatment approach can help patients who are dealing with complicated comorbidities.
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I am running windows 7 home basic (64bit) on a Acer 5742G laptop with Atheos wifi adapter in it. Yesterday, I hiberneted my computer as I always do and up untill then the wifi was working fine. When I booted my computer up again today I started having a strange problem: It detects my wifi but after connecting to it, it keeps on oscillating between states of no network access and no internet access. I can't connect to anything (the internet or my router). I tried to reset my internet protocol stack using this fixit file. I also tried to uninstall and reinstall my network driver. Neither helped.
I am using the same laptop's fedora installation right now and the wifi is working perfectly fine. Please help.
Edit To add additional details, I have Microsoft Security essentials as my antivirus software and I haven't messed with the firewall or the router configurations.


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Marianne Williamson
The Past Is Over; You Are Free
by Mary Grace McCord
Back in 2000 best-selling metaphysical author Marianne Williamson visited Birmingham to teach peaceful activism from her brand new book, Healing the Soul of America: Reclaiming Our Voices as Spiritual Citizens. That weekend, exactly one year prior to 9/11, native New Yorker (and now AIHT faculty member) George Donnelly, D.C. helped organize an equally peaceful Unity breakfast in her honor.
I reminded Marianne of this "church fellowship" during our autumn 2007 reunion at Mind Body Spirit Expo in Valley Forge, PA—in the same historic locale from which George Washington was said to have "seen an angel and heard the prophecy of 'strength in unity, from sea to shining sea'."
Maybe it was ancestral energy that powered Williamson's voice that night. Her provocative challenge for Americans to "return to our right minds" implored her audience to remember our souls' connection, as citizens of the world, and to deeply care for each other, without borders and without expecting repayment.
"Countries are allowing an economic ethos of ego-maniacal competition to encroach upon our social interaction and, literally, our humanity," she says, "but the past has passed. We can do better; in fact we are free to do better."
Come meet Marianne Williamson and AIHT in Chicago,
May 30-June 1. See www.mishkaproductions.com
It was Marianne Williamson and Neale Donald Walsch who co-founded the Global Renaissance Alliance in 1999, seeking to apply spiritual principles to social and political issues. Known nowadays as the Peace Alliance, in 2007 it led a grassroots lobby to formally establish a U.S. Department of Peace.
Its landmark legislation, H.R. 808, seeks to create a new presidential cabinet post, the Secretary of Peace. Domestically, its role is to allocate resources and develop policies that address family abuse, gang violence and other societal plagues. Internationally, its designated leader will advise the President and Congress on best practices for conciliatory actions among nations.
With such progressive ideas as one example of her creativity in reshaping cultural and political thought forms, in 2006 Newsweek named Marianne Williamson among "The 50 Most Influential Baby Boomers." That same year she started hosting a weekly web radio program on Oprah and Friends FX. She now leads a daily lesson from A Course in Miracles on Oprah and Friends FX.
AIHT is honored to have an opportunity to chat with one of our favorite curriculum authors about her two newest books.
Vibrations: Taking a page from your 2004 book, The Gift of Change, I love the section about "the strength that arises from our defenselessness," told through the Biblical story of the angel Gabriel telling Mary about God's plan for an immaculate conception. The universe's redemption, as I see it, was thus made possible because of a young woman's mild acquiescence.
MW: It sure would've been understandable for her to think, "Hhmm. This can't be good news." Right? (Laughs) But Mary was willing to be willing. Open to perceiving and open to receiving the unspeakable gift of being chosen in this way. She actually had the grace to simply say "yes."
Love is infinitely creative. This book is about cultivating a mind wide open. Not constricted by the ego's need to know everything, we can learn that the greater reality of any situation is not its form but its content. A marriage license is form, devotion is content. Age is form, spirit is content. Form draws boundaries, content breathes deeply.
Vibrations: Your books also suggest that we trade ambition for inspiration. Why do workers and neighbors perceive that sending love into a stalemate signals weakness, and why can't societies and countries understand that healing even the smallest gaffe can lead to wonderfully bigger things?
MW: Whatever it is that we feel guided to do, we need not be second-guessing our own readiness. Once we ask God to be our conduit, the only thing left to do is relax into the flow. It's not humble for anyone to think that he or she can't manage to achieve what God wants. It's arrogant to second-guess The One who makes all things possible.
Vibrations: Let's talk about The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife. You and I are both Baby Boomers, women born into the simple, easy 1950s but raised into racial upheaval, military escalation, rebellion, liberation, materialism and a deepening concern for environmental, social, political and spiritual balance. No wonder we're tired and we can't sleep!
MW: In the mid-70s I was drawn to A Course in Miracles and within a few years of self-study and applying its daily lessons to transcend fear by simply choosing love, I found that I was traveling with a tireless intensity.
I became a church minister and I created benevolent organizations. I raised my daughter, mostly as a single mom, and wrote books every few years. My classroom teachings have been described as fast-paced and frenetic. Learning to love stage lights and noisy rooms from having been a jazz singer, I've been pretty much unflappable.
But I feel concern when I see people everywhere I go complaining that they're old and fat; that they can't do the things they used to; and they're losing confidence because our electronic society is a deafening cacophony of sensory exhaustion.
Vibrations: So, how do we find internal clarity in the midst of outer chaos? One of the prayers in your book arises from the statement that "midlife doesn't feel right if we don't feel that we're dispensing the best we've got before we go." How do we make that leap to live deeply for God—not as an escape from the world, but as an ultimate effort at 'right living' within the midst of it?
MW: It's so important to celebrate the tiny little moments that we call life as they happen, since these are the exact moments that are God-given. Have rituals and have community. Celebrate birthdays with friends, and family, or go to the park alone and tell the squirrels it's your birthday.
Celebrate the sacrament of cool water or someone's chocolate-brown eyes. God specializes in new beginnings, which is always another cause for celebration. Drop the cross and embrace the sky. Metaphysically, nothing is ever outside of us anyway. Everything we experience is a reflection of what's going on inside our head.
Nothing is a more powerful state of being than a deep acceptance of what is. Instead of endless, fruitless rumination over how to change something that seems challenging, try asking instead, "How can I dwell within this circumstance in the highest possible way?"
I put in my new book that if God were leaving you a text message, I think it would say: "Enjoy yourself."
It's so important to celebrate the tiny little moments that we call life as they happen, since these are the exact moments that are God-given.
Vibrations: Some people grew up playing sports. If we aren't able to continue, in later years, we feel defeated. We feel that we lost something and we miss it, instead of realizing that the sport, or the loved one, or whatever else that's "gone" was a gift in the first place. Blessings may come and go…
MW: ...and maybe the more blessings that have come and have gone, the fuller our gift basket can feel, and the stronger our "release" muscle can become. The secret to "stretching out our time" is to go more deeply into the present. To go wider, you have to go deep.
Here's what I know about myself. Maybe my energy level doesn't allow me to run through airports anymore. But the bigger gift that makes it okay is this: when I am less frenetic, I can think things through. My planning improves. Sitting quietly is like heaven on earth. I don't feel as jumpy nowadays. Instead of doing something constantly, I'm perfectly content to just be. Hearing a bird is precious.
Vibrations: In fact, it's divine. Thank you for taking time to visit. Your friends at AIHT look forward to seeing you twice in 2008—in Albuquerque in March and then in Chicago in June.
"I understand Things in the Round"
As we get older, our spirits as well as our bodies need more quiet time, more reflection; more immersion in the magic of just being. Part of the value of aging is that it delivers us naturally to realms in which we're not quite so tethered to the realities of the material world.
It's not so much that we're "losing it" as that we're finding it.
I do find it utterly liberating to have forgotten certain things; thank God I forgot them. And that's not to minimize scary monsters such as a natural fear of dementia. It's just to keep some of our changes in perspective.
So… I don't think as quickly as I used to, I'm sure of it. Okay. Nor do I speak as quickly or move as quickly as I once did.
But it does seem to me that I can think more deeply now. It's like I understand things in the round.
Excerpted from The Age of Miracles by Marianne Williamson


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NEW ORLEANS - Husky track athletes James Cameron, Scott Roth, and Jeremy Taiwo were all named First Team All-Americans today by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association for their performances at the NCAA Indoor Championships this past weekend in College Station, Texas. Four more Huskies earned either Second Team or honorable mention awards.
This year the All-America awards system for track and field has undergone an overhaul. Distinctions were made for the first time between First Team, Second Team, and honorable mention All-Americans. First Team honors were given to those who placed in the championships' top eight or were a member of an eight-person final. Second Team honors were handed out to those who earned final classifications between ninth and 16th place. Others who participated earn honorable mention.
Roth earned the sixth All-America honor of his career, which ties him with Austin Abbott (2005-09) and Rick Noji (1986-90) for fifth-most in Washington history. It's the most ever for a Husky pole vaulter. Roth successfully defended his NCAA Indoor title this past Friday, becoming the sixth Husky ever to win multiple NCAA titles, and the first to win back-to-back titles since vaulter Brad Walker also won consecutive indoor titles in 2003 and 2004.
Taiwo earns his second All-America honor for his eighth-place finish in the heptathlon. He also was named All-America in the event his freshman year in 2009. He became the first Husky ever to score in the event at NCAA Indoors, and raised his own school record to 5,780 points.
Cameron was eighth in the mile run final on Saturday, matching Eric Garner's 2004 finish for the best by a Husky at the indoor national meet. It is the first All-American honor for the sophomore from Lake Forest, California.
Second Team All-America honors went to Ryan Vu in the men's pole vault, and freshmen Katie Flood and Megan Goethals in the women's 3,000-meters. It's the first All-America honor for Vu, who finished tied for 11th to conclude his UW career. It's the first All-America honor as well for Flood and Goethals, who placed 10th and 13th, respectively, as the only two freshmen in the field.
Senior Colton Tully-Doyle was 18th in the 3,000-meter run on Saturday and earns All-America honorable mention, the first of his career.


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(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- A new study shows children with type 1 diabetes have remarkably the same quality of life as children without diabetes. But the study did show interventions to help the family deal with diabetes are needed.
An increasing number of youth with diabetes require intensive treatment programs to reduce their development of complications. These programs can cause an extra burden on the routines and relationships of children and their families. Researchers say it's important to conduct research on how diabetes and its treatments impact the quality of life of the patient and family. Researchers from Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston conducted a study to compare the life of youth with type 1 diabetes to the general pediatric population.
The study included 100 children between 8 and 17 years old with type 1 diabetes. The children were diagnosed with diabetes six months to six years prior. Each child and parent completed a quality of life questionnaire and provided information on parent involvement in diabetes management. The child's blood sugar control was also evaluated.
Researchers report the responses from the youth with diabetes were stable over one year and similar to answers from healthy youth. The only area that showed a diminished impact on the quality of life of the child was diabetes-specific family conflict.
Authors say the study shows the overall quality of life for youth with type 1 diabetes is very similar to the nondiabetic youth population. However, they point out that modifiable diabetes-related family interactions are appropriate targets for clinical interventions to optimize the well being of youth with type 1 diabetes.
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SOURCE: Diabetes Care, 2003;26:3067-3073
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HOMOSASSA SPRINGS — Normally, when entering Pizza Hut, aromas of warm pizza dough cooking with diverse toppings strike the nose in abundance. Wednesday morning was a little different.
Judy Long, manager of Homosassa Springs Pizza Hut, stood with Diane Toto, president of the We Care Food Pantry, talking about the nonprofit organization, a food distribution center that serves struggling residents.
Long was intrigued by the impact of the organization on the community and donated $500 to the food pantry as a result of a company fundraiser.
Nationwide, Pizza Hut held a fall fundraiser to raise money for World Hunger Relief Inc. Pizza Hut in Homosassa Springs placed seventh in its franchise group by raising more than $3,000 in a six-week period. In return, the Homosassa Pizza Hut franchise donated $500 to its charity of choice as a way to give back to its community.
"What a wonderful cause to give money back to," Long said about the food pantry. "I always see their trucks and knew this would be the best place to give the money to. I know they feed the community here."
Toto was grateful for Long and Pizza Hut's contribution and support. She said the money will be used to help feed the roughly 1,000 Citrus County families registered as needing assistance at the pantry.
"This is a very generous county," Toto said. "This is probably the most generous county around. Once they understand the magnitude of the problem, they respond. There are a lot of poor people in the county but they are taken care of. There are 51 agencies in the county that take care of different needs.
"We want to help everybody." Toto continued. "That's why we are working with Catholic Charities and the dental clinic to get things going. If we all work together it will be very strong. But it's only through the generosity of the people in the county that we can get it done."
We Care Food Pantry has begun services at the new dental and medical clinic at the Catholic Charities Community Outreach Center, 9020 W. Atlas Drive, Homosassa. For more information, call 352-228-4921, email wecarefood @gmail.com, or send a letter to P.O. Box 331, Homosassa, FL 34487
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Cleveland advertising & marketing pros pick favorite Super Bowl ads; Taco Bell spot on top
CLEVELAND - The national ad critics were quick to the punch in getting their thoughts out about the Super Bowl ads out. On Monday, Cleveland-area pros weighed in, too.
The American Marketing Association's Cleveland chapter held a post-Super Bowl luncheon in downtown Cleveland with a review panel to talk about the ads.
Besides picking which of the high-priced spots came out on top, they also tried to learn from the advertising during the big game.
"There were a lot of disappointments. I think there were a couple of brands that did well, I think it was the year of the tear jerk over the funny ad, which is a switch from last year," said Chris Schmitt, who served on the panel.
But it was humor that won over the panel. They picked the Taco Bell ad as the winner, and also gave kudos to Oreo for their quick social media response to the power outage.
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Rule #1 When Attending An Indie Wrestling Event : Don't Ask Jim Fullington About 9/11
Unless of course, you've got all day. In which case the Sandman seems quite willing to oblige.
Unless of course, you've got all day. In which case the Sandman seems quite willing to oblige.
The New York Yankees issued a press release earlier today trumpeting the multitude of food and drink options available at their soon-to-open new palace, promising "a window found in the left-field concourse of the Field Level where fans can see butchers from Lobel's of New York preparing prime, dry-aged steaks". If, however, you're stuck upstairs with the rest of the peasants, the Bombers have wonderful news for you, too.
The Yankees continue to offer exceptional value on food and merchandise. They are offering a $3 hot dog, a $3 soft drink and a $6 beer. Traditional Stadium fare, such as hot dogs, peanuts, popcorn, sausages and Cracker Jack, remain the same price as last season. New sizes of soda, many including a souvenir cup, are offered at a variety of prices. In addition, a Family Value Line of merchandise has been created with low-priced items, including pennants, Yankees T-shirts, key chains, and more.
Granted, this is New York City and there's already a paucity of establishments were you can get drunk for under $20 (though a corner bodega comes to mind). But there is something intensely creepy about bragging of the filet mignon on offer while throwing some consolation hot dogs and key chains towards the great unwashed.
What Politico is to cheesily Drudge-baiting, manufactured political scandals, I am to Washington Post sportswriter Chico Harlan. I own this beat. Power and speed. Win the news cycle. Cover the fuck out of a guy I didn't really actually know existed until like a month ago. Sorry.
But: but Harlan's long story in the Post today on Marquis Grissom — longtime Big Leaguer and current Nationals coach — is really good. (Makes you wonder what Harlan could write if he wasn't so embarrassed to be covering stories like this instead of, you know, food) Grissom was a guy I always kind of dug as a player — cool name; always on non-threatening-to-the-Mets teams; the fact that he essentially had the same season in three-fourths of his big league campaigns. His brief resurfacing a year or so back as an apostle of black baseball was also intriguing. But simply by asking good questions without looking for some cheap-heat Wally Matthews angle and letting his subject talk, Harlan has revealed a guy who has to qualify as one of the more admirable and interesting baseball personalities I can think of. Here:
His parents, Marion and Julia, had once earned 50 cents per hour picking cotton. Marion had built the Grissom house from scratch, front doors always open wide, food from the garden available for whatever nieces and nephews stopped by. The Grissoms had 15 kids of their own. Marquis was the second-youngest.
"I went from drawing water out of a well and burning a stove for heat in the house to making $1.5 million," he said. That's when he started buying the houses.
First he gave a house to his baby sister, just because she was the baby. That cost Grissom $78,000. He paid in cash, and because his salary kept rising — $3.575 million in 1994, $4.95 million in 1995 — he kept buying more houses, paying them off in an instant. He bought a house for his parents. He bought the nicest house for his sister Barbara, who always took care of him. For one brother, he threw in a car, too. Sometimes, he let the siblings pick out the property, or at least the neighborhood. He asked them to stay within a price range — about $215,000. He bought a house for every brother and sister.
Not every sibling flourished — one of his brothers was on drugs — and Grissom worried about how the handouts might set a bad precedent. So he talked to them about how to use the money saved on house payments for education, for their kids' college. The houses weren't just places to live; they were parts of a foundation.
…He kept thinking about something bigger, spreading the foundation beyond family. That's when he started building fields.
The Marquis Grissom Baseball Association was granted nonprofit status in 2006. Grissom wanted to mass-produce the good fortune that gave him a chance, which meant a lot of work. Kids in the Atlanta area needed gloves, fields, funding, coaching, attention. Grissom tried to create all of that. The MGBA had (and has) two employees, counting its namesake.
But its burden — and its potential — expanded quickly. In the first year, Grissom rebuilt an old baseball complex, laying the chalk, painting the dugouts, buying the foul poles. ("Two of 'em will set you back $1,500," he said.) He talked to Coca-Cola about scoreboards and a local gravel company about warning tracks. Soon, Grissom's association was responsible for dozens of teams and at least 200 kids, 7 and older. Grissom paid for many of their registration fees, burning more than $500,000 of his own money. He picked some of the kids up from school. Sometimes, he paid for their meals, too.
It's worth reading the whole thing.
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Chico Harlan was 26 years old when a college buddy at the Washington Post helped bring him aboard as the paper's chief Nationals correspondent, which is either an amazing job or something much shittier, depending on how you feel about interviewing Austin Kearns 190 times a year or trying to capture the magnificence of an Adam Dunn practical joke while on deadline. It's not necessarily a job I'd want, probably, but one of my big shortcomings in general is that I kind of can't come up with any jobs I'd necessarily want.
But for most people who want to write about sports a full-time gig at the Post at that age would be pretty sweet. The downside of it, besides the aforementioned Kearns-interviewing and the possibility of being dissed in a Lastings Milledge song: you're still 26 when you have the job, which means you're kind of still figuring out how to be a person. When I was 26, I was punching in hung-over at Topps every day and doing laundry like five times a year. (If I'd done something cooler when I was that age, believe me, I'd mention it) When Chico Harlan was 26 — which is right about now, for those just joining us — he was all brash and youngish and self-conscious and therefore prone to saying impertinent and stupid things to reporters for weird D.C. area magazines. Things like this, which he said to the Washingtonian's Harry Jaffe in an article that went up today:
œI don™t like sports"I am embarrassed that I cover them. I can™t wait to stop. It is a means to an end and a paycheck.
So…whoops, right? Harlan apologizes for misjudging the thin line between "candor" and "baffling, potentially career-killing snobbery" in a post at his WaPo Nats blog:
The quote is accurate. The sentiment is not. I have nothing but gratitude and appreciation for my job. I know I'm lucky as heck to do what I do…Maybe it's worth explaining the conversation that led me to the I-hate-sports declaration. When I first started talking to Harry Jaffe, the journalist who talked to me for the piece, we were discussing my background, my childhood love for baseball, the fact that I played it as a teenager, etc. I didn't want to be portrayed, though, as some central casting sportswriter: the sort who always dreamed of athletic glory, lacked the skills, and chose the next best thing. That's not me. I wanted the make the point that I have other interests, many more. I suppose I made that point with an inartful tap of the sledgehammer.
I remember when I wanted to appear to be…some way or other. I do my laundry more often now, at least. Thanks to Garey Ris — who does the WSJ's Daily Fix when I'm not doing it (I did it today, he does it Tuesday) — for the links.
"Imagine a world without Yankees," sneers Newsday's resident Met-baiter Wallace Matthews. "no 26 world championship banners flying in the Bronx, no Monument Park to remind us of all the exalted ghosts who helped hoist the…no Bob Sheppard, no Robert Merrill, no Challenger the Bald Eagle, no Ronan Tynan. No John Sterling and Suzyn Waldman. No – heaven forbid! – Derek Jeter….In a world without Yankees, the Mets would have a whole lot more to answer for."
In a town that prides itself on giving no free rides, the Mets have enjoyed a lifetime Metro card into blissful anonymity for most of their 47-year history.
They build an $800-million ballpark (Troubled Assets Relief Program Field) financed in large part by government subsidies and taxpayer bailout money, and nobody gives a damn because the Yankees did the same thing, only on a bigger scale, in the Bronx.
The Mets raise their highest ticket prices to nearly $300 a seat, which in most locales would be a scandal and an obscenity, and compared to the Yankees, they look like a discount store.
The Mets spend more on ballplayers than all but one other team in Major League Baseball. But because that one team is the Yankees, who outspend their nearest competitor by the value of the entire Colorado Rockies roster, nobody cares.
I would submit that never in the history of organized professional sports has a team benefited so greatly from constantly running second in a two-horse race.
"Nobody cares?" That's a hell of a way to talk about Joe Benigno-Gazingo and his loyal listeners.
My friend Howard Beck at the New York Times sent a link to the Twitter feed somebody has set up in Jerry Sloan's honor. It's at http://twitter.com/jerrysloan and is very well done. I told Sloan somebody was now imitating him on Twitter and he asked if it had something to do with farming.
Just for the record, the purported Kyle Korver feed is not Korver's. He has steered clear from MySpace, Facebook and everything else. – Ross Siler, Salt Lake Tribune, March 23, 2009
"To say I™ve been blessed would be like calling Refrigerator Perry 'a bit overweight'," gushes P Curt Schilling, using his WEEI.com hosted 38 Pitches to announce his formal retirement after 23 years in the game. While thanking wife Shonda, his four children and (natch) Jesus Christ, Schilling failed to acknowledge Randy Johnson, Manny Ramirez, Mitch Williams, John McCain or Barry Bonds on this fateful day.
Four World Series, three World Championships. That there are men with plaques in Cooperstown who never experienced one " and I was able to be on three teams over seven years that won it all " is another œbeyond my wildest dreams set of memories I™ll take with me.
The game always gave me far more than I ever gave it. All of those things, every single one of those memories is enveloped with fan sights and sounds for me. Without the fans, they would still be great memories, but none would be enduring and unforgettable because they infused the energy, rage, passion and œfeel of all of those times. The game was here long before I was, and will be here long after I™m gone. The only thing I hope I did was never put in question my love for the game, or my passion to be counted on when it mattered most. I did everything I could to win every time I was handed the ball.
I am and always will be more grateful than any of you could ever possibly know.
Murray Chass' continued insistence that retired C Mike Piazza was a PED user is fast becoming The Backne Heard 'Round The World. Quoting passages from Jeff Pearlman's forthcoming 'The Rocket Who Fell To Earth' that alluded to Metal Mike's backne, Chass (above) launched yet another offensive on Piazza via the auspices of Le Herald De Paris.
I must have received half a dozen reasons for why Piazza shed his acne, but the critics, besides stepping all over each other trying to excuse and explain their hero, ignored the critical factor. The acne disappeared as soon as Piazza was faced with random testing and that as soon as Major League Baseball began conducting suspension-inducing tests for steroids use in 2004, Piazza™s back became clear and smooth. No more acne, just like that.
I don™t know if Piazza used steroids or any other performance-enhancing drugs. I never said in the column that he did. I raised the possibility, citing his acne as circumstantial evidence. Bloggers, I am told, had a field day with the column, but I have spared myself the pleasure of reading what they wrote.
I have had more important things to read, Pearlman™s book, for example. Writing about Piazza, Pearlman outlines his development as a player, noting that as a walk-on as a freshman at the University of Miami he had one hit in nine times at bat. This was the player who a reader, who said he had been Piazza™s roommate and teammate at Miami, described as œa hard worker and a great hitter with tremendous power.
Considering how serious a baseball school Miami is, it seems likely that such a great hitter with tremendous power would make a greater impression and get more playing time than 1-for-9.
Always Amazin's Matthew Artus has observed what he considers Chass' vendetta, and opines that Murray is "resorting to waving like a lunatic, screaming, 'Hey, look at me! Pearlman saw the backne, too! I'm right!'"
For the record, Mike Piazza did not attend the University of Miami. He attended Miami Dade College, a community college in Florida. A hotshot catcher for the U would get noticed a lot quicker, but a walk-on catcher in JuCo has a few more hills to climb. That's how someone goes 1-for-9 as a freshman. But why let the facts get in the way of a good story, right?
I have no idea what Chass's motives are for his witch hunt against Piazza. He's not cleaning up the game, as the PED-enhanced cloud created by the likes of Bonds, Palmeiro, McGwire, and A-Rod more than build up the cynicism in today's baseball fan. There isn't a player since 1990 that would surprise me regarding steroids, from Nolan Ryan up to and beyond Piazza.
And what does Chass stand to gain? Recognition from the NY Post? Does he miss writing for a mainstream newspaper so much that he'd stoop to name-calling and potentially libelous statements? Wallace Matthews of Newsday is bush league compared to Chass.
"Roy Oswalt kept throwing baseballs to those Japanese hitters," laments the New York Post's
Brenda Mike Vaccaro after Team USA's 9-4 semi-final exit at the hands of Japan last night. "Davey Johnson, the manager of the team, kept seeing what everyone else was seeing, saw the Japanese cuffing Oswalt around. And he did nothing." If you're to believe the game analysis of ESPN's Joe Morgan, Johnson is answerable to concerns of Astros fans, who presumably want nothing more than to see Oswalt throw batting practice on national television.
"Maybe I could have gotten Grabow up a little sooner," Johnson later would lament. "But I really thought Oswalt was throwing the ball pretty good. I felt good about what he was doing out there."
If anything, there may be odd comfort in Johnson copping to a bad strategic decision, rather than one mandated by outside influences. Earlier in the tournament, it was clear that Johnson allowed Jake Peavey to absorb a vicious pounding from Puerto Rico in order to serve his second master: allowing his players to "get their work" in what remains prime spring-training time.
It was just one of a thousand reminders that no matter how cool this tournament may be and it is and how good for baseball it might be – and it is, with tonight's Korea-Japan game sure to be a wonderful scene that will be viewed, maybe, by 62 U.S. citizens it needs the U.S. to be a powerful source, a constant presence.
This was at least better than 2006, when the U.S. failed to even qualify for the final four. But throughout the U.S. stay in this WBC, even when it flashed the potential of what the event can be with their dramatic ninth-inning win against Puerto Rico last week, there has remained a backdrop of alternate concern: keep everyone healthy, keep them on track for Opening Day. Keep their routines.
Which is why it looked so dreadful for Johnson to stick with Oswalt, when it looked like a chance at the finals was being sacrificed in the name of reaching a pitch count. For what may be the first time in baseball history, it turns out that it was a good thing that a manager simply was managing poorly. Rather than irresponsibly.
"A tuft for the windowsill? A pallet for the backyard?" wonders the New York Times' John Branch, unveiling the latest product to bear the Bombers' trademark.
œIt™s just capitalizing on what we have and what we™ve done, said Rick DeLea, vice president of DeLea Sod Farms, which his grandfather founded in 1928 and has supplied turf for Yankee Stadium since the 1960s.
On a recent morning, Mr. DeLea swept his hand across a portion of the 80 acres of Yankees Sod on a vast hillside in South Jersey. Last fall, some of the secret blend of bluegrass was peeled in broad strips, hauled north on trucks and laid inside the new Yankee Stadium. But most of it was still here, greening under a late-winter sun.
œIt™s going to be one of those ˜Why didn™t I think of that?™ stories, said David Andres, the energetic and entrepreneurial man who came up with the idea of selling sod and grass to fans.
Mr. Andres, a self-described œsell ice to Eskimos kind of guy, took the idea of licensing the product to the Yankees and Major League Baseball. He received the requisite stamps of approval and started a company called Stadium Associates to market Yankees Sod and Yankees Grass Seed.
It makes one wonder if other licensed permutations will follow " Cubs Ivy or Daytona Asphalt or Cameron Indoor Hardwood Floors, using the same vine, road mix or batch of trees as the sports arenas.
The New York Daily News' Gary Myers reports this morning that Jets GM Mike Tannenbaum, presumably unwilling to start next season with a QB tandem of Kellen Clemens and Times music critic Brett Ratliff, has contacted the Broncos regarding their estranged starlet Jay Cutler.
The Jets are definitely in the Cutler Derby. They will closely monitor the situation and are prepared to put together a package when the Broncos tell them the time has arrived. "Of course the Jets want Cutler," one source said. "Why wouldn't they?"
The Broncos want to meet one more time with Cutler to see if they can end his feud with rookie coach Josh McDaniels before they start soliciting offers.
Tannenbaum, coach Rex Ryan and offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer were in Manhattan, Kan., last week to work out Kansas State QB Josh Freeman, who may be working his way into the top half of the first round. The Jets are picking 17th on April 25. Ryan said Sunday he liked what he saw of Freeman. Ryan also said the Jets will work out Southern Cal QB Matt Sanchez this week while he and Tannenbaum are on the West Coast for the league meetings. Sanchez has been training in Southern California. They are not spending much time on Georgia's Matt Stafford, expected to go No. 1 to the Lions.
If nothing changes, Ryan said Kellen Clemens and Brett Ratliff will go into training camp as "1 and 1-A. Clemens may get the first snap, but then 1-A is Ratliff. This is clearly an open competition. Erik Ainge, if he comes around and lights it up, he will be in there."
I intend no disrespect to former Net Todd McCulloch, but if he's not competing against Tara Key, how professional is the pro pinball League supposed to be? That's kind of like a World Baseball Classic with Mark DeRosa playing first base.
A: In an emergency, you can take a shit on this entry.
Until the Harris From Letch Patrol Birthplace & Museum Opens, this will have to do; from The Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Annex.com (link courtesy Brooklyn Mutt). I've not been to see Mercer Street's loving recreation of the famed CBGB awning, mostly because I spend most of my time in New York pouring through the racks of the
Ned Hayden John Varatos Record Canteen. But my head is spinning at the wonders that oughta be displayed at this exhibit ; Rude Buddha flyers, Bill Popp & The Tapes setlists, a Texas Instruments calculator (still in the box, never opened), Copernicus' smoking jacket, etc.
Putting aside for a moment Steven Gerrard's thorough humiliation of Aston Villa earlier today, Alex Ferguson recently refuted a claim by rival Rafael Benitez that Manchester United had outspent Liverpool by more than £100 million. While, least one paper sides with Rafa in this pissing match, WSC Daily considers who might benefit from Liverpool's largesse.
Sir Alex duly announced that Benitez had out-spent him by £24m and that the gap would widen this summer: "There's talk about a recession but I don't think there will be one at Liverpool this year." Newspaper research in the wake of this spat suggests that the two clubs are roughly equal in net spending. But Liverpool may indeed forge ahead in the close season if the club follow through with a widely quoted promise to give Rafa Benitez at least £30m on top of what can be raised by player sales. His first target is the same one as last year, Gareth Barry (above), from today's opponents Aston Villa.
It was reported this week that Barry has instructed his agent not to discuss extending his contract with Villa, which is due to expire at the end of 2010-11. Even Martin O'Neill, who was vehemently opposed to losing the player last summer, seems resigned to him going if Villa don't finish fourth: "If we didn't make it, the chance to go and play at a club involved in the Champions League is not something that I would begrudge him."
Liverpool's failure to wrap up the Barry deal in August was one of the causes of the irreparable breakdown in relations between Benitez and his soon-to-depart chief executive Rick Parry. Many observers were nonetheless surprised at the Liverpool manager's dogged pursuit of the then Villa captain given that he was prepared to offload Xabi Alonso to do so. Presuming that he now aims to keep Alonso, who has had an outstanding season, it's difficult to see where Barry would fit in other than as a squad player. Then again, when you're given as much as Benitez gets you can afford to take a few gambles that don't come off. Given that Liverpool were prepared to take a loss on Robbie Keane, Villa might even have a reasonable chance of getting Barry back a few months on at half the price.
The New York Daily News' George Rush reports Yankees 3B Alex Rodriguez was amongst the paramours of the Manhattan pimpstress accused of providing former NY Gov. Elliot Spitzer with prostitutes.
A-Rod wooed ex-madam Kristin Davis (above) with flowers, jewelry, persistence and heated e-mails, according to the sources.
"Throughout the years, there were a number of clients that I befriended and it was not uncommon for them to want the women they can't have whether it be the phone bookers or the madam," Davis said.
"In regard to Alex, all I can say is our paths have definitely crossed personally and professionally."
Davis met Rodriguez in June of 2006 in a gym in Philadelphia, shortly after she opened a branch of her call-girl service in the City of Brotherly Love, sources said.
Davis told a friend the then-married Rodriguez asked her, "What are you doing tonight?"
The shapely madam didn't know who A-Rod was but found him "hot as hell," she told the friend. "I said, 'I'm having dinner with my boyfriend. But if you're looking for someone to hang out with, here's a number.' I gave him my agency's card."
A source said A-Rod confided the pressures he felt as a player.
"He told her that he'd used steroids," the source claimed. "He said a lot of players did. He just wanted to be a good ballplayer."
For those keeping score, this is the 3rd or 4th time Rodriguez has been accused in a major publication of either dating or being obsessed with a sex worker. In addition to the Madonna affair, I think it's pretty clear that not much more P.R. work is required to fully convince NYC sports fans we're dealing with the most hetero guy of all time. But if someone wants to dig up paparazzi shots of A-Rod with Mae West or Judy Garland, all the better.
Sure, I scoffed at the notion of someone camping out overnight for tickets to see the Atlantic League's Long Island Ducks. But that was before I learned they'd just signed Preston Wilson!
"You think the Mets and Phillies hate each other now?" asks Fox Sports' Bob Klapisch. "Just wait." It seems the former ESPN baseball columnist believes it's just a matter of time before newly acquired Mets closer Francisco Rodriguez earns a save against Philly "and lets out a howl that's a rung below primal and otherwise acts as if he'd brought down the Berlin Wall." (link taken from Repoz and Baseball Think Factory)
Given the deep reservoir of professional respect, why does K-Rod squander it with his in-your-face theatrics? The self-congratulation isn't just immature, it's utterly tone-deaf in the New York-Philadelphia Tong Wars.
He just might ignite a brawl " that's how tense relations are between the two clubs. It's a matter of public record what Cole Hamels thinks of the Mets " "chokers" is what he's called them all spring. Jose Reyes recently responded by saying, "(the Phillies) should keep their mouths shut and enjoy (being world champions). That's what we would do."
When Rodriguez casually said the Mets, "are the team to beat" in the East, he probably meant it as a throw-away line. It might've been " in Anaheim. But not now, not in a rivalry that's got everyone tightly wrapped in its long tentacles.
Just wait until K-Rod's first save against the Phillies. Wait until he goes skyward with his index fingers. Just wait " the apocalypse is surely coming.
In the interests of maintaining the peace, why couldn't Omar Minaya have simply retained Scott Schoneweis? He's make a terrible closer, but at the very least Mr. Klapisch wouldn't stay away at night worrying about the impending riot.
Do Not Feed The Rat (Bastard). The chap on the left's amazing Laundry Room Squelchers are playing tonight at the Hideout at 1:30am. Alternatively, if you're still looking for afternoon entertainment, FXFY v2.0 is ongoing throughout the day. Free beer, free form, but sadly, no free love (as I've already left).
[Cub Chairman Crane Kenney, explaining the Captain Fantastic concept to a new Elton John fan.]
In a wide-ranging if not at all newsworthy interview, Cub Chairman and Tribune employee Crane Kenny helped fill some Tribune space with the kind of modern deficit executive thinking one usually only gets from bail-out bankers these days. Consider it this way: in an era when bailed out AIG execs demand incentive bonuses, the busted-out bankrupt Tribune Co, responsible for nearly thirty of the Cubs 100 years outside of the World Series, refuses to split a new spring training site the Cubs are demanding of the citizens of Mesa, AZ. The White Sox and Dodgers split a park in Glendale, but Kenney says, "We think the Cubs deserve to stand on their own." Indeed, the team that doesn't need to win to make money, also wants you to know that shitty music paid for Rich Harden's rickety shoulder, so be grateful those two days a month he's throwing. As Kenney told the Tribune's Dick van Dyck:
"It's strange, because you see these people who are opposed to the concerts and they're Cub fans," Cubs Chairman Crane Kenney said Wednesday in a wide-ranging interview.
"This is going to sound odd, but Elton John's going to help us win some ballgames," Kenney said. "The CBOE [seat] auction last year paid for Rich Harden. The 'Road to Wrigley' game sponsored our Asian scouting operation.
"That's the way, from the business end, we look at these things. All these elements really help our business move forward. My view is if you're a Cub fan, you should enjoy the concerts whether you're an Elton John fan or not."
I still maintain this guy bears a striking resemblance to Brooklyn's no. 1 taco-tossing doo-wop proponent.
A trusted correspondent emailed me yesterday after my post about Dan Shanoff's WSJ comments mugging — not about the fact that my post was only dubiously newsworthy, but to ask, "you don't really read comments, do you?" The answer I gave him, because there seemed no reason not to be honest, other than the fact that it's kind of embarrassing, is "if it's on something I wrote, hell yes I read the comments." (I also read the comments here, because they're generally very good)
It's probably/definitely writer/vanity stuff on my own writing's comments, but during lull periods with work, I will pretty much read anything I can. So more broadly, yes, I'll read a comment, sure. It doesn't mean I'm any less perplexed about internet comment cultures — at bulk-volume comment sites from the Gawkers to YouTube to Fanhouse — or more inclined to read those goofs' comments. I just…I don't know. I know life's too short to do it, but life can also feel very long and boring to me unless I'm reading something.
But I've been clear, too, I think about how corny I think argumentum ad comments section is — any conversation that starts with someone typing under a punny pseudonym writing "First!!1!" doesn't deserve to be taken seriously, and so probably can't bear much in the way of analytic weight. And yet, despite the fact that most of its argumentation is based on samples from the most prankish, dumbass trolls out there — YouTube commenters, Wikipedia page gag-editors, people on message boards and at NC State games — I could buy a lot of what Seyward Darby (above) was selling in her piece for The New Republic online about the weird and weirdly enduring nexus between homophobia (how homophobic it actually is, I'll get at later) and hating the Duke Blue Devils. Here's Darby on "the jarring and disproportionate level of homophobia that routinely gets directed at (Duke) players":
[W]hile it's obviously hard to quantify the assertion that Duke is the object of more homophobia than other teams, it's also hard to think of any other squad in college hoops that has seen so many of its players singled out so prominently for gay bashing in recent years.
Why has this happened? The answer, I think, has something to do with race and class. Disparagers of Duke typically frame their opposition to the school, and its basketball team, in terms of anti-elitism: Duke, according to this view, is a private school plopped in the Carolina Piedmont, where it caters to wealthy, mostly white elites who have zero regard for the local community–in Will Blythe's words, "those obnoxious students and that out-of-state arrogance." That's a defensible sentiment, as far as it goes, even a liberal one in many respects. But, in the world of sports, being white as well as wealthy often translates into a perceived softness.
Which, you know…yes, it does. But I think there are two things Darby's missing in this article. One of them is corrected by her (UNC fan) TNR colleague Jason Zengerle in this blog post — his gist being that this isn't so much homophobic sentiment, even if it does arrive in homophobic language, as it is just trash-talking situated in the current bro-lexicon. That the lexicon in question is homophobic — and just as often, if less publicly, racist, sexist, whatever — isn't really hard to argue. I'd argue, too, that this stuff is easier to ignore because of how dumb it is and where it is — it's on message boards, in comments sections, places that you don't go to unless you want to see (or participate in, if that's your thing) the very worst of the internet's atomized, ignorant, radically selfish and dis-intellectualized discourse. If Greg Paulus is clicking through the comments on videos of himself getting dunked on, he's probably going to get his feelings hurt. But why the hell would he do that? Why the hell would anyone?
The reason why would be my second issue — Christian Laettner shows up late in Darby's piece, but he's kind of the rosetta stone of this whole deal, I think. This was a guy who delighted in — practically invented, to my mind — the whole idea of Duke as the heel. Yeah, there are other things to dislike about the school, but Laettner — as this old Sports Illustrated piece about him (which Brendan Flynn found) illustrates — just delighted in fucking with people. A large part of that, for him, was not just running around like a fool after hitting game-winning shots but actively pretending to be gay with teammate and good friend Brian Davis…to fuck with just the sort of buttheads who didn't have comments sections at the time, but to whom that would be the most irritating thing in the world.
Laettner's basketball-player-as-Andy-Kauffman bit isn't any cooler to me than Andy Kauffman's, but it seems grounded in that taboo-flouting intentional irritation tactic. Duke hate objects since — the perpetually exultant Shane Battier, floor-slapping Greg Paulus, smirking J.J. Redick — are less avant-garde in their approach to being annoying, but seem to use the jeers and taunts as the same sort of motivational fuel that Laettner did, and seem often to go out of their way to invite them. So who knows, maybe Greg Paulus actually is reading those comments sections to get himself psyched. It's not quite the same as walking across the Duke campus holding hands with Nolan Smith — something Laettner used to do at Duke with another guy, just to mess with people — but it's a different world we live in now, I guess.
I could write at length about a bunch of bands and parties you don't really care about (and trust me, I'll be doing so soon enough), but given the sensibility of the CSTB reader(ship), I'll instead forward a special piece of text message madness that's making the rounds. Here's your backstory : guy (NOT ME) purchases a cell phone. Salesman who sold him the cell phone thinks it might be fun to, y'know, bond after work hours. Let the awesomeness begin :
Man sorry I missed your show right now bro I'm fucked up on mushrooms@ the fader fort w my homie dave. We got mad dank too. So I'm getting fucked up today. Dude fuckin kick every single person who shows up to your show righ in the asswhole, with rock. Dude, we need to party later later dude. I'll hit you up or vise versa naw mean I WILL see you tomorrow definatly at the red eyed fly.
Props to the organizers of this ambitious event, and while King and I are dearly looking forward to it, I'm not sure which of the following I find more distressing ; a) once again I have to tell an (admittedly) small audience how happy we are to be playing with Black Cock and b) 3 shows with Woodgrain in 15 days is sort of pushing the limits of shotgun marriages.
The ECHL's Las Vegas Wranglers have attracted national attention with their faux-Veeck-ian promotions before, stunts ranging from œFormer Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich Prison Uniform Night to having Mini Kiss play before a midnight game. However, none of these events scrapped the bottom of the barrell so thoroughly as the one described below by the Las Vegas Sun's John Katsilometes.
Sashaying through the arena concourse and posing for photos Tuesday will be members of the American Storm male review, who inhabit the V Theater at the Miracle Mile Shops at Planet Hollywood at Las Vegas Boulevard and Harmon Avenue Across from the Harley Davidson Café and CityCenter, and I™m Making the Title of the V Theater Obnoxiously Long Because I™ve Always Felt It Was Needlessly Wordy. Also lacing it up for this promotion are instructors from the life-altering Stripper-101 course (from V Theater, too, see above). This is where you poll/pole your friends for the best œpenalty shot reference.
Just wondering: What do you have to do to flunk Stripper-101? Choke on a tassel?
What this promotion really calls for is cheap booze (hic!), and the dudes abide. For $20, from 7:30 to 9:05 p.m. (those last five minutes are for last call, I guess), an open bar is available to of-age fans with proof of ID – and hopefully a designated driver. The hard stuff offered includes Russian Standard vodka, Crown Royal (œbecause the Crown is going down), Tommy Bahama rum, Bombay Sapphire gin (for Oscar nominees) and Patron Silver tequila.


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Every Reason to See "For No Good Reason"
At The Theatre with Audrey Linden
I attended a screening with a Q and A of "for No Good Reason" by the L A Times Indie Series at the Sundance Cinemas in West Hollywood. This Sony Pictures Classic was a surprise for me, and it turned out to be a marvelous creative endeavor with fabulous, inventive directing and cinematography by Charlie Paul. The music by Ed Harcourt and Sache Skarbek gave an aliveness to the film. There was a charming song "I Love" sung by Tason Mraz. This documentary of the British political cartoonist, social commentator, writer, artist Ralph Steadman was chock full of his work, some of which came dramatically to life via animation. He was a major contributor to the New York Times and Rolling Stone and is the last of the Gonzo visionaries.
The film, produced by Lucy Paul, was fifteen years in the making and was first shown in 2013 in the Toronto International Film Festival in the "Mavericks" programme. It will open in theatres in the United States May 1st.
The animation of some of the drawings was astounding to see as they literally leapt off the pages. The documentary's journey begins with Steadman's friend, actor Johnny Depp approaching the artist's home in England. Depp was there to lend celebrity status to the film, and even though he is a friend and admirer of the prolific Steadman, and utilized his works, his presence really was not necessary. Their camaraderie was not sparkling, and Depp seemed awkward at times as if not knowing exactly what to do. Depp's role served as the focus as an audience to the story that unraveled as he made comments. Steadman had illustrated Hal Wilner and Johnny Depp's "Anthology of Songs, "Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, and Sea Songs", and he also sang on that album. Though Depp's presence gave Steadman someone to bounce off of, Steadman's works are so alive, vivid and compelling that I think the documentary would have worked on the merit of Steadman's life and works alone.
The film shows Depp, and therefore the audience, how Steadman, in his studio, confronted with a blank page creates something out of nothing. He tosses splotches of India Ink on his paper and watches as shapes inspire him to create. He does not dictate the works; they dictate to him. This is the mark of a great artist. And, indeed, we see a series of self-portrait works of Rembrandt, who inspired Steadman and Da Vinici. I so enjoyed seeing the succession of self-portraits that Rembrandt did that showed his progression into old age. That was fascinating. And, Steadman got the idea to do a book on Da Vinci as if Da Vinci, himself had written it. It was entitled, "I, Da Vinci". We saw Ralph Steadman, complete in a Da Vinci wig, trying to fly and use a glider as he recreated some of the great Da Vinci's ideas. Much of the humor came through in these delightful and fun images. Steadman, indeed, paid homage to his mentors. Another artist-mentor we saw footage on was Pablo Picasso.
And, the Ralph Steadman who explored flying with the Da Vinci wig on was a different Steadman than the younger Steadman who came to New York to document the ghettos and poverty. It is interesting that Ralph Steadman wanted to change the world through his art work. He chronicled poverty in the streets of New York in the early 70's and his images were stark, graphic and at times disturbing. He wanted to show life as it is and not some pretty pictures. If his goal was to shock and startle his audience, he succeeded. He went on to do political satire through his images and showed us compelling images of President Richard Nixon's Watergate. Director Charlie Paul interspersed Steadman's work along with footage of Nixon. The juxtaposition of film images and Steadman's art work blended nicely to make profound statements. We also saw Steadman's series of work on war, blending again with graphic and unsettling film images and how he translated those into his artwork. The blending was seamless and worked so well, I was hardly aware of the transitions.
It was fortuitous that Steadman was called by American journalist, Hunter S. Thompson, to illustrate 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", "Fear and Loathing on The Campaign Trail 1972", the Kentuck Derby for Scanlan's magazine, and the "Honolulu Marathon" for "Running" magazine. That first phone call from Thompson changed Steadman's life and brought his work to the attention of the public in the United States. The documentary shows Steadman and Thompson frequently drinking, and besotted exchanging words. Thompson is captured showing his anger, and Steadman recounts how he felt mistreated and unappreciated. They would argue as to whether people read Thompson due to Steadman's illustrations and vice versa. Ultimately, the two parted ways before Thompson took his life.
There was great footage from this period of Steadman's life, where he was under the influence of Thompson. There were images and commentary from "Rolling Stone's" editor. Those images were distorted in the vein of Steadman's own artwork. Very inventive! I wondered how much of this clever distortion was director Charlie Paul's idea and how much was Ralph Steadman's. The documentary was shot and edited much in the style of Ralph Steadman's own work. Just as Steadman distorted images, so did Charlie Paul. I have not seen such creative cinematography and editing in a documentary. It worked beautifully to enhance the subject matter! It was a perfect marriage and blend of images.
Thanks to the Los Angeles Times Indie Film Series and Times writer Mark Olsen, who was the host for the Q and A with Lucy Paul and Charlie Paul for tonight's screening. I highly recommend this film, whether you are a follower of Ralph Steadman or not. Look for it in your local listings starting May 1st.


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The latest news on Seantrel Henderson
CORAL GABLES — The saga continues.
Miami right tackle Seantrel Henderson was not on the practice field again Monday morning as the Hurricanes opened Week 3 of preseason camp. The mystery shrouding his month also continues.
"He's part of our football program," coach Al Golden said before practice. "Seantrel, right now, has got to get his house in order before he can help us. He's got a lot of things going on. I'm going to keep it private with him right now. He has to get himself together. Then he can help the Miami Hurricanes."
Henderson, the 2009 USA Today high school player of the year, has been in full gear just once all camp. His practice last Tuesday was the last time he was sighted on the field. He reportedly returned home to Minnesota for the second funeral of the month.
Then there was the whole concussion issue stemming from his Aug. 1 car wreck.
What's really going on behind those closed doors is yet another mystery for now. But true freshman Ereck Flowers continues to earn high marks at right tackle as Henderson's absence continues.
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--"First let me give Lupe a big round of applause for fooling over half of his biggest fans! Congrats! At 5 something this morning me and my bf ran slipped and fell into the official video for "I'm Beaming" and iMust say that iWas shocked and appalled at what iSaw"
What do you mean by this? how can you make such a statement and then fall back, talk, some will trash talk you for it but there are others who will read what you have to say CRITICALLY and objectively. Awe