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From Call of Duty: Black Ops to Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood to Comic Jumper, this was a big week for news from the video game music world. We've got all that plus an interview with DJ Drunken Master about music he did for a Kinect launch title and a hook up for you on a killer deal for a killer game soundtrack. Just press play, or rather, Read More. It's right there. Press it!
Activision announced this week that it is releasing an OST for the highly anticipated Call of Duty: Black Ops. The 30 track album will be a digital-only release, available from finer digital download retailers on Tuesday. The score was composed by Sean Murray, who makes his second tour of music duty for the COD franchise, following COD: World at War. This is welcome news from Activision, especially considering their game music we are previewing for you tomorrow. More on that later.
Jesper Kyd's soundtrack for Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood is available now for pre-order from Amazon. If you are familiar with the music Kyd created for the previous AC games, then you know this will be an album you will want to hear. The Feed will have a review of the Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood album soon.
If you like free music, of the completely legal kind, the twisted people at Twisted Pixel are giving away the soundtrack to Comic Jumper for free. No strings. Go get it.
Video Games Live has announced 42 (we see what you did there) brand new concert dates. If you haven't seen a VGL performance it really is a fantastic show, with orchestras recreating your favorite game music as part of a multi-sensory live experience. The tour rolls across the Midwest this month and performs tonight in Chicago, so if you are in the Windy City, check it out!
The extremely talented DJ Drunken Master was kind enough to give us a rundown on the music he did for the just-released Kinect Joy Ride. We'll let him tell you about it:
DJDM: In 2009 I landed the opportunity to work on an unnamed cart racer by then independent studio BigPark. I had just wrapped up work on Forza 3 and a producer thought of me for Joyride. I worked on an original piece of interactive music for one level and they licensed one piece of music. I thought that I was done. Then some months later I got a call letting me know that that they liked my work but that the game had changed shape and they needed more music. I was hired to do three new pieces with sort of a 70s Cop / Game Show flavor. It was a fun challenge as I don't get to dust off the funky chops all that often.
DJDM: To get that sound I focused on using classic gear like Wurlitzer and Rhodes electric pianos, Hammond organs, old school synthesizers and lots of tape saturation emulation to recreate analog warmth. The orchestral elements sound like they were on a soundstage and I tended to use smaller sections and soloists to mimic a small production orchestra. There was also standard waka waka guitar, lots of hand percussion, electric bass and drum kits that were recorded using vintage mics to enhance the dirty 70s flavor. I had a chance to play through it recently and I have to say the music is key to enhancing the excitement of the game. Good composition and quality sound design are hallmarks of a great gaming experience and I think that is especially true in a remarkably interactive environment like you have with Kinect games.
If you aren't Kinect'd yet, you can listen to a bit of DJDM's music from Joy Ride, right here.
And here is a killer deal going on all weekend. Anamanaguchi's ridiculously awesome soundtrack to Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game is on sale at Amazon for only $3.99. That's 24 pieces of criminally underappreciated chiptune punk from the downloadable game. Seriously gamers, if you only ever buy two game soundtracks, make this one of them.
That's the news from the VGM world for this week. Check back with The Feed tomorrow, because we will have a preview of Richard Jacques' score for the just released 007 Blood Stone. Now, since we wrote this with The Black Mages set to 11, let us know in the comments what game music you are currently spinning.


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Pitchers and Catchers Report Today!! Time for Angels' New Baseball Year Resolutions
Pitchers and Catchers report today!! Okay, granted with a few exceptions. But, still, pitchers and catchers report today. *happy dance* I know, I know. To the baseball fan, it's 'Play ball!' that's the truly wonderful phrase, the phrase we all rank highly on any list of the most beautiful phrases in the English language. 'Pitchers and catchers report!' just doesn't have the same impact…most of the time. Today, however, 'pitchers and catchers report' means that the long, looooooong winter without baseball is over. It means that players will begin throwing baseballs, conducting drills and preparing for the main event, Opening Day, any moment now. It means that spring training 'play ball's will soon ring out loud and clear across Florida and Arizona and that official, regular season 'play ball's are not far behind. So why don't you just take a moment, let that phrase roll off your tongue again and really savor it this time. Pitchers and catchers report! Today is sounds absolutely gorgeous, doesn't it?
In honor of this beautiful day — my personal first day of Spring regardless of what the calendar says — I have decided to finally share my "resolutions" for the 2013 Angels, resolutions that I think the team should keep in order to help make their high potential for a fantastic 2013 season a reality. Hey, I know these sorts of things are traditionally done in January but what the heck. I missed that with my little blogging break and I might argue that today is the start of the baseball year anyway:
- Health is a common resolution, right? So let's start there. Obviously no one ever wants to get injured or sick and Angels players are a tough bunch, often playing while injured. But when you look at the issues the team has had the last several seasons — with the offense, the bullpen, the starting rotation — the need to work around injuries and illnesses has played a significant role in each of those issues. So, as much as injuries are absolutely just a part of the game, play hard and with joy and passion but, while you're doing that don't forget to do all of your stretches/take up yoga or Pilates/ lift from the correct position/don't hit the wall unless you have a shot at making the play/avoid walking into toe breaking brick patios/take your vitamins/whatever it takes to stay healthy. (And, hey, as I write this I am recovering sloooowly from the ick that's going around my office and wishing desperately that I'd taken my own advice, so there you go. Healthy >>>>>>>>>>>>>not healthy.)
- Along the same theme as health, I would really love to see all aspects of the Angels' game working at the same time. Last season, it seemed like the offense found their stride only to have the starting rotation hit a rough patch. Then the starting rotation would right themselves for a few games only to have the bullpen fall apart. Mind you, despite these issues, the team still won 89 games. So it stands to reason that if the Angels can really get on a role in 2013 with all of their strengths working at the same time, this could be really special season!
- Free Peter Bourjos! Picture it, an outfield with Bourjos in center flanked by Mike Trout and Josh Hamilton. Mike Trout truly is one amazing centerfielder, but Bourjos is even faster, runs even better routes and has a similarly golden glove (and, seriously, if both of these kids don't get actual, for real Gold Glove awards in the plural sooner rather than later in their careers, that will be a crime). So, putting the two of them in the outfield together?!! Plus Hamilton?! I get goose bumps just thinking about it. And let's just quit it with all of that Bourjos can't hit talk, shall we. Yes, last year, coming into the game sporadically, often in the middle or at the end of the game, sometimes with weeks in between at bats, his batting average was terrible. But when given a full season to play the year before that, he may have started out slow but he finished with a more than respectable .271. Is a .271 average really higher than we should expect from Bourjos in a normal season like some say? Perhaps. But instead of continuing to speculate, why don't we find out, really find out…you know, by leaving him in for more than a handful of games at a stretch. Look, even if Bourjos' normal batting average turns out to be like .250, that's a lot better than 2012's alternative of Vernon Wells.
- Accomplish the above ^^ without losing Mark Trumbo's bat. Barring any scary slumps — which means, Mark, stay out of the Home Run Derby unless you can do it without f-ing up your swing, 'kay? — Trumbo should be a lineup constant, primarily in the role of DH but also as an occasional substitute outfielder, as needed.
- Hey, Sosh, fewer lineups, please. Now I understand that having multiple starting lineups for specific occasions can serve a useful purpose, as can shaking things up from time to time. And I do realize that giving up having 100+ lineups for 162 games is probably harder for you than quitting cigarettes is for most people. So I'm not asking you to go cold turkey and pick just one lineup to stick with for the rest of the season. But how about choosing one basic lineup with a small handful of situation specific variations — for example the ideal infield and outfield for Angels fly ball pitchers, the ideal infield and outfield for Angels groundball pitchers, and whatever? And, hey, maybe you could stick with each situation's lineup for a while to really see if it works instead of switching them up at the drop of a hat? Hmmmm…What's that you say? Probably not? Yeah, I thought as much. But hey, you can't blame a girl for trying.
- Stay healthy.
- Players who tend to swing between off years and on years, I really hope to be cheering for the best version of you, so to speak, in 2013. For example, I really want to see the 2012 Kevin Jepsen again, or even a continuing, positive evolution of him. Because 2012 Jepsen was a revelation, pulling all of the occasional glimpses of skilled reliever we'd seen in previous seasons into a solid, reliable reliever who saved the Angels bacon a lot. Among my other biggest wishes in the category? I want to see the .300 + hitting Albert Pujols, the bone-spur free, kick ass version of C.J. Wilson, and I want to see "amazing feats of baseball awesomeness" Josh Hamilton, not the "caffeine ailments and special eye issues uniquely related to blue eyed folks" Josh Hamilton…because I've got a pair of baby blues of my own, Josh, and I call shenanigans on you there.😉
- Another common resolution is to try new places/styles/foods/fill in the blank with a sense of adventure instead of fear. For the Angels, I think this specifically refers to new opposing pitchers. Facing a new pitcher should a be a light hearted adventure filled with all kinds of fun games, like home run derby and "how many bases can I steal?" not the sort of fear and over thinking that makes rookie pitchers look like Cy Young candidates.
- Fans and players alike: prepare for a full year of Mike Trout magic!!! But at the same time, let's keep the same attitude of wonder and amazement we had in 2012 instead of heaping all of the expectations of last year's stellar season on his young, albeit strong and capable, shoulders. I have not a doubt in my mind but what every year with Trout is going to be something special, but keeping some sort of running game by game comparison of last season's home run totals and on base percentages with this season's creates a stupid kind of pressure and is just going to drive everyone crazy…especially if you tend to do this out loud and while sitting next to me at the Big A. I'm just sayin'.😉
- Oh, and last but certainly not least, the best resolution of all, again for fans and players alike: let's have fun with the 2013 season! That, and did I mention stay healthy?
And, with that, I'm going to cease my giddy Pitchers and Catchers Report Day bouncing around the house and go back to getting some serious work done. *boingy, boingy, boingy* *sigh* Okay, apparently I'm going to continue my giddy Pitchers and Catchers Report Day bouncing around the house while getting some serious work done. 2013 is going to be amazing, I can just feel it!
I-5 Bias: the Hot Stove Edition
Welcome to I-5 Bias: the Hot Stove Edition! This is the first in what we hope will be an occasional, throughout the season collaboration between this Angels blogger and Matt Lowry of Dodger Familia Thoughts, a great Dodgers blogger and friend of this blog. Between two Giants World Series wins in three years (sorry Matt ;) ), the AL West making quite the exciting splash in September 2012 and the ensuing Postseason, and recent shrewd personnel moves throughout the AL and NL West, MLB's attention sure seems to be packing up and heading west these days. Matt and I are both incredibly excited by this development and especially by all of the attention recent Hot Stove moves have brought to my Angels and his Dodgers. So we thought that we would share our perspective on these two Freeway Series rivals, to entertain, inform and, hey, to spark conversation and debate. Why not! East Coast bias? Nah, forget that. From now on it's I-5 bias instead!
For this edition, we have posed six questions prompted our teams' offseason activities and the ensuing fan and media commentary, to be answered on both of our blogs. We hope you enjoy this freeway collaboration and, hey, if anyone has any burning questions for future editions (yes, even snarky ones), please ask away:
Which of your team's offseason moves do you think was the strongest?
Kristen says: I imagine everyone is expecting me to say Josh Hamilton here. Hamilton was a huge signing and should be a boon to the team, combining with Albert Pujols, Mike Trout and Mark Trumbo to make the Angels offense a formidable one indeed (at least on paper — I am very careful about how excited I allow myself to get before the teams actually take the field when, as any longtime baseball fan can tell you, anything can happen). However, I actually think the Angels strongest move was the most recent — the trade for Jason Vargas. As a player, Hamilton is definitely on another level than Vargas and will probably contribute more to the team directly. But trading for Vargas set the rest of the Angels roster in ways that will benefit the entire team and make Hamilton's talents that much more effective. In addition to providing another reliable, workhorse arm to a starting rotation that needed exactly that, the Kendrys Morales for Vargas trade ensured that the Angels do not have to make less advantageous trades to get said arm. They no longer have to worry about trading the more versatile slugger Mark Trumbo, whose bat has the potential to be more explosive in the lineup with Hamilton. They no longer have to worry about trading Peter Bourjos, who can instead be the gold glove caliber centerfield anchor between Hamilton and Trout in what should be a truly scary Angels outfield — oh, and having Bourjos and Trout tear up the base paths together won't hurt either.
Matt says: As important Pitching was this off-season I'm not going to say it was Zach Greinke or Ryu. I think the strongest was Mark McGwire as the Dodgers hitting coach. The Dodgers had issues with getting hits and runs in games and that hurt the Dodgers playoff chances. Look at what Mark did as hitting coach with the Cardinals. They were pretty much in the top ten in Runs, Batting Avg, and OPB. For a Dodger Team with Matt Kemp, Hanley Ramirez, Adrian Gonzalez, Andre Ethier, and Carl Crawford that's going to be huge help for them.
What, if anything, do you think your team still needs to do?
Matt says: I still think the Dodgers need to address the Bullpen and bench. Dodgers lack a LHP out the pen. Scott Elbert is still out, Paco Rodriguez isn't really ready for a full stent like that, and missed the chance at resigning Randy Choate. The only thing the Dodgers did for the bullpen was resign Brandon League. They have Chris Capuano and Aaron Harang out there on the trade block so maybe they trade them for Bullpen help. Bench wise I believe the Dodgers have to address getting a 4th Outfielder because lets be honest Yasnel Puig isn't really ready quite yet. They traded for Skip Shoemaker which help but a 1st/3rd Baseman off the bench along with a 4th Outfield will really help.
Kristen says: Well, if we were asking these questions earlier in the week, I would have said that the Angels need another starting pitcher in bold, italicized, all caps, 24 point font. But, thank you Santas Jerry Dipoto and Arte Moreno, that seems to be taken care of – see previous response. Instead I'm going to enter complete fairy tale land here (Well, it is Christmas after all — might as well wish big!) and say that I think the Angels need to move Vernon Wells, even if it means eating almost all of that huge contract. Nothing against Wells himself — he has been a smiling example of good attitude, trying hard to improve at the plate and gracefully moving wherever the team asked him to, including the bench. But this acquisition just hasn't work out, and that's putting it mildly. I would love it if any of the, quite frankly, trade porn rumors surrounding one team or another showing interest in Wells worked out…even if the deal is for practically nothing! The Angels would seriously benefit from having the room on the 25-man roster and I think Wells himself would benefit from the chances offered by that supposed panacea, the change of scenery.
Now that we know what you want your team to do, what do you think they will do? Any trade/move/signing predictions?
Kristen says: I think that, with the Vargas trade, the Angels are pretty much done. I suppose that you might hear about a smaller move here or there — one lesser known bullpen pitcher or non-top minor league prospect for another, but other than that they're done making deals for the offseason. Although, if Jerry Dipoto chooses to see this as a challenge — because of course the Angels read my blog😉 — and moves Vernon Wells just to spite my prediction, I certainly wouldn't mind being wrong.
Matt says: I think the Dodgers will end up Trading Aaron Harang or Chris Capuano along with Dee Gordon for a Left Hand Arm out the bullpen. Theres been rumors about Andre Ethier being traded but I don't see that happening at all. As far as signings go I believe the Dodgers will look into the Market for a Outfielder or Corner position player off the bench but at the same time I think they're done.
There is A LOT of money being spent in LA/OC these days. A LOT OF IT! Does your team's payroll size or amount being spent worry you at all?
Matt says: To be honest yes it does. With the amount of money being put into the Dodgers I would hope winning comes with it. You can't buy wins or world series and playing Yankee ball can only work when done right. I fear of the Dodgers being like the Red Soxs. All the money being spent and no playoff apperance or anything. Not only that but the fear of Contracts back loading up to where the Dodgers can't do anything in the future but the Dodgers said they have deep pockets and a new 2 Billion dollar TV deal is coming in soon so we shall see what happens but I can't say it doesn't worry me or isn't in the back of my mind. Everyone tries to play Yankee Ball but the only way that works is if you get the players that fit and generate wins.
Kristen says: Absolutely. Spending this much money should scare anyone. Every player, no matter how talented, is a risk. No one wants to see it happen but any player has the potential to age, slump, lose their swing/pitching location/etc., fail to mesh with a given team and (God forbid) get injured. And when you've spent outrageous sums of money acquiring that player, the end result of any such occurrence is devastating because suddenly you're priced out of just eating that paycheck one way or another to move the player off your roster. And if this happens on several such deals? Yeah, say hello to a nice block of ever-so-much-fun-for-the-whole-team-family "rebuilding" seasons. No. Thank. You!
Here's the thing though – I think that more and more teams are going to need to come to terms with this level of spending as we go on. Teams are wisely locking up their talent before they hit free agency with greater frequency, leaving smaller free agency pools for teams in a buying mode to fight over. Nothing against Zack Greinke — he's one hell of a pitcher and I wish the Angels had been able to keep him — but do you really think he would have garnered this impressive a contact if the Giants, Phillies and Angels had allowed Matt Cain, Cole Hamels and Jered Weaver to hit the free agency market in 2013 as scheduled? And Greinke is just the latest example of this phenomenon. And, of course, when quality players are making those kinds of dollars you know that marquee players will command even more from their current team or on the FA market (Holy Staggering Albert Pujols Contract, Batman!!). The end result is that, while the Dodgers and Angels may seem to be leading the charge at the moment, more and more teams will be joining in that charge out of necessity over the next several seasons — as a trend this is both kind of exciting and very scary.
The MLBN analysts seem to think that the Dodgers and Angels offseason moves are all about one upping each other. Do you think there is any truth to this? How do you feel about that?
Kristen says: To quote Annie Savoy, "Baseball may be a religion full of magic, cosmic truth, and the fundamental ontological riddles of our time, but it's also a job." Or, from the owners' perspectives it's also a business. I'm sure Arte Moreno and Magic Johnson and partners do consider things like Los Angeles/Orange County market share when they're making decisions about advertising, overall ballpark experience and the price of parking, beer, etc. But I highly doubt that this thinking extends to personnel decisions. Competitive teams that win games and reach the Postseason make fans happy and draw them to the ballpark. In order to do that, it's far more important to be competitive within one's own division than with an interleague rival as I'm sure all owners and GMs involved are well aware. I can see why the timing of some of the Angels and Dodgers free agency signings lead to the comments in question on MLBN, but I think that both the signings and their timing had little to do with Freeway Series rivalry. Yes, the Angels wanted Zack Greinke and so did the Dodgers. But at least half a dozen other teams also seriously wanted Greinke. He was the best free agent starting pitcher on the market this season. Once the Dodgers signed Greinke, I'm not surprised that the Hamilton signing followed so quickly on its heels. Suddenly the Angels had a lot less pokers in the big money free agents fire and could just concentrate their efforts on Hamilton.
Matt says: You know that's an interesting question. I honestly don't think it's one upping at all and theres two reasons for that. 1- The Dodgers and Angels are filling needs that prevented them from making the playoffs. Thing was it just so happen the Angels signed Hamilton in the heat of the Dodgers making serious moves. 2- The Angels turned out to be the mystery team that was after Hamilton and got him just like last year with Albert Pujols and CJ Wilson So they've done this before. People predicted the Dodgers having money to throw at Free Agents before Off-Season. I don't believe it's one upping at all but It has caught the attention of the National Media so I like the westcoast attention the Baseball Media is giving.
Now on to something really important – the annual LA/OC billboard war. Which team do you think will have the most/best billboards plastered all over town?
Matt says: Hahaha It was a year ago when the Angels had billboards all over LA/OC until the Dodgers got new owners. I believe it'll be fairly even. In the OC you have Albert Pujols, Jarred Weaver, Josh Hamilton, and Mike Trout where in LA you have Matt Kemp, Zack Greinke, Clayton Kershaw, and Adrian Gonzalez. I believe the Dodgers will have them posted all over L.A. knowing Magic and his promoting of the Dodger brand and the Angels will do a lot of marking themselves as well. It'll be interesting to see.
Kristen says: *snerk* The "billboard wars" always make me smile and laugh. I take the 605 freeway to work. Most seasons that freeway is littered with Dodgers billboards heading south and Angels billboards heading north as if both teams were making a concerted effort to convert their rival fan base. Honestly, the arrival of the billboards is one of my favorite So Cal signs of spring. Last season at the height of all of the Frank McCourt ick in L.A., the Angels rather dominated the local billboard space and, as much as I like seeing red everywhere I look, it just wasn't nearly as much fun as when it's a "battle." (Yes, mine is a long and boring commute and I take my simple pleasures where I can. Why do you ask?) However, between Arte Moreno (who made his fortune in advertising and billboards, don'cha know) and Magic Johnson (who also seems to have an admirable grasp of the importance of good marketing) I am sure both that teams will being trying to convert us all once again this season — looking forward to it, in fact!
Acquiring Jason Vargas, Keeping (and Playing?!) Peter Bourjos and Other Things that Make this Blogger Giddy Happy
Stop me if you've heard this one before. So, these two Dirt Bags walk out to the mound and…and…well, suddenly I'm a much happier Angels fan, that's what. No, no punch line. Just that. See, early yesterday I started writing a post that was quite ranty (about the need for another starting pitcher, a good one this time) and involved a great deal of begging and pleading (please, please don't trade either Mark Trumbo or Peter Bourjos to accomplish this). I don't like writing begging, pleading rants at all and I liked both the state of the starting rotation and the, seemingly likely, prospect of trading Bourjos and/or Trumbo with or without additional prospects in order to correct the situation even less.
But instead, thanks to Santas Jerry Dipoto and Arte Moreno, I get to write about the Angels trading Kendrys Morales to the Mariners for Jason Vargas instead (another Long Beach State baseball team alum, joining fellow Dirt Bag Jered Weaver in the rotation). What's not to like about that? Yes, the Angels and, indeed, this Angels fan will absolutely miss Kendrys in the lineup and I even think that he will improve a bit more this season as he moves further and further away from his last surgery. However, I think that with the addition of Josh Hamilton, we will miss Kendrys a lot less than we would miss the more versatile Trumbo. In addition to slugging, Trumbo can cover both corner outfield positions, first base and – yes I'm going to say it, quiet you – if he actually gets practice time during Spring Training this season there is even the possibility of him covering third. Hey, it could happen.
And — and this is a huge and in my book, more of an AND, really – Trumbo can now spend most of his time in the now vacated designated hitter's position allowing for a regular outfield featuring Mike Trout and Hamilton in the corners and Bourjos playing an even better centerfield than Trout. Yes, you read that correctly, an even better centerfield than Trout – Bourjos is alternately just as fast and faster depending on the task in question, tends to run better routes and has a stronger arm. And watching Trout and Bourjos dominate the outfield together on the rare occasions I've gotten to see it is one of my current favorite delights in baseball…adding Hamilton to that mix? Every day or very nearly so? Um, yeah, I'll be in my bunk.
But Bourjos can't hit, whine the naysayers. Correct, he can't hit…when he's only getting one or two innings of playing time a week as he was in 2012 or during his first half season in the majors. When Bourjos has a full season of regular playing time however, well we only have a one season sample size for this but, while he started out slow to be sure in 2011, Bourjos hit .271 with a .765 OPS (a decidedly speed enhanced figure, and yay for that) and 12 homeruns for the season. I for one would really like to see what the kid can do with another full season of regular playing time and it sure sounds like Dipoto and Mike Scioscia would like to see that as well. Yo ho, yo ho, it's a lightning fast Angels lineup for me!
Um, hey, blogger lady? Sorry to interrupt and all but so far you've talked about every single aspect of this Vargas trade except Vargas himself. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Patience. There was a reason for that. In my opinion this deal is every bit as important to the Angels for it allowed the team to do in terms of bolstering defense while maintaining offense as for what it did for the starting rotation. However, when it comes to the starting rotation, the Angels just moved from having an Ace, a positive and three question marks to having an Ace, two positives and Scioscia's choice of the two most promising question marks out of the three. Is it perfect? No. But it is a lot better. And, with this outfield and this offense, on paper at least it all looks pretty darned good. The same can also be said of Vargas himself. Yes, that 4.35 career ERA looks a little scary. But I think this is a case where the numbers don't really reflect the reality of Vargas's pitching. Vargas has pitched better than that 4.35 ERA for three of his four seasons – the most recent three – with Seattle. And last season he was good for 14 wins…with Seattle's outfield and Seattle's offense. Wait'll he gets a load of ours!
Josh Hamilton, eh? Merry Christmas Angels Fans, Indeed!
Hello all. Rumors of my blogging demise have been greatly exaggerated! …Well, just exaggerated at any rate. But it was seriously touch and go there for a while. We're talking nearly Brazil, Tuttle eaten by great cascades of paperwork, here. And I'm the one that created all of the paperwork! But I digress…
So the Angels went out and signed Josh Hamilton! And just how busy was I with my months' long hell project for work in the middle of all of this delicious Hot Stove madness? Busy enough that I didn't find out until Seth called me that morning on a break — Seth does not generally have to break Angels news to me. Busy enough that the ensuing conversation went something like this:Seth: So did you hear the news about Josh Hamilton? Me: *typing* No. Did he sign today or something? That's early. Seth: Yeah, he'll be wearing red in 2013. Me: *still typing* Red? *pause in thought while still typing* So is he staying with the Rangers after all, then? Or did the Red Sox nab him? Seth: *laughing* Noooo. He'll be wearing our red. The Angels signed him. Me: *abruptly stops typing* *begins making largely unintelligible noises that it's safe to assume denote shock and excitement* Seth: *affectionately laughs at me*
So, the Angels went out and signed Josh Hamilton!!! *happy dance*
…and I had no clue until about an hour after it happened. Yeah, so what does that make me? Exactly. A big damn dork, sir. Well, since Thursday I have completed my hell project, caught back up on holiday obligations and vacillated emotions on the Hamilton signing between variations on elated, excited and giddy, and cautious, concerned and nervous. But you know what, I've settled on giddy. I think excitement is the way to go. So, why the conundrum in the first place? After all, he is a five-five time All Star, former MVP, regular play of the week making, routine topper of one or more AL batting stat charts.
*pauses happy dance for discussion and logic* Well, I'm not particularly bothered by the contract. It's less than the ridiculous from any team's perspective 7 to 10 years he was supposedly originally seeking and the Angels were planning on spending serious money one way (Zack Greinke) or another (any of the other high priced names bandied about in Halos news circles) this offseason. Spending it on a 31-year-old whose name is regularly listed among the best players in the game and who hits .285 with 43 homers in a year where his team is mad at him for sloughing it? Well, let's just say that if colossal sums of money are going to be spent anyway, I think there are far worse ways they can be spent.
And, no, I'm not concerned about the "obvious" thing. Yes, Hamilton's past issues with drugs and alcohol are well documented along with his two public relapses as a Texas Ranger. To my eye, Hamilton has his life well under control in this area. Look, there's a reason the proper term for people who deal with addiction issues is recovering not recovered. There is always the potential for relapse, even for those who are far further removed from their addictive behaviors than Hamilton and have attained decades of sobriety. But the fact that Hamilton has kept his relapses to one evening in each instance of behavior that would only qualify as a kind-of-wild Saturday night for a lot of single baseball players who don't have issues with addiction, before climbing right back up on the wagon with renewed dedication to his sobriety tells me that no team should worry about ramifications from drug or alcohol use. Yes, there are temptations aplenty in Los Angeles but those temptations are present in every city fielding a Major League Baseball team, including Arlington, along with most towns that do not. I don't think this is a legitimate concern.
I do, however, have a small concern about Hamilton's playing time, namely that he has only played in more than 133 games two seasons in his Major League career. Now the fact that the primary reason for Hamilton's numerous DL stints is because he plays hard does balance this drawback heavily in my opinion, but it's still there. I also have concerns about Hamilton's attitude, but only on occasion. Look, by all accounts, Hamilton is a great clubhouse guy. In interviews he comes across as affable, warmly chatty, humorous and caring. He's an unselfish fielder, no matter where he's moved in the outfield during a game. And his charitable activities are impressive. I believe him to be a genuinely nice guy. But there are times…strange Monster induced eye ailments keeping him out of games…throwing a coach under the bus after breaking an arm attempting to slide home…seeming to give up those last few weeks in Texas…when this big, talented, joyful kid of a baseball player seems more like a pouty brat. This isn't a deal breaking concern from my perspective. I don't expect it to come up very often in Hamilton's relationship with the Angels as it didn't in his relationship with the Rangers and, as mentioned before, his overall stats are still a plus during such times. However, it is clear to me that when Hamilton is unhappy there are repercussions on the job. Just something for Angels fans to keep in mind, along with the whiffing slumps that can and do come with such a free swinging style, while we're doing our happy dances.
So, there you have it. There are a few drawbacks to this deal to keep in mind and the Angels still need to do something more with the starting rotation – Please Santa Jerry, please!! But the prospect of Hamilton's bat in the lineup protecting Albert Pujols, or protected by Pujols (and, all things being Scioscia, probably both before season's end) coming soon on the heels of Mike Trout turning a hard hit single into a triple, a bunt into a double or some other feat of amazement, makes me positively gleeful. Unexpectedly having too many outfielders is a potentially useful problem for the Angels to have depending on how it's handled. And this was the first weekend in forever that I didn't bring any work home with me. On the whole, I'd say it's all rather giddy making. *resumes happy dance with exuberance*
Angels vs. Rangers Series II – No Aspirin Necessary This Time, Only Celebrations!!
Hey, better late than never, right?
So, when last the Angels played the Rangers I wrote that their one victory answered the question of "Can the Angels compete with the Rangers?' in the affirmative but that the massive beating the team took for the rest of the series left us with a new question, 'will the Angels compete with the Rangers?' Well, I am happy to be able to write that this series left not a doubt in my mind on either count. The Angels can and will compete with the Rangers in 2012!
Okay, so the Angels didn't look so hot on Sunday. I blame that on some serious celebrating the night before. Oh, I don't have any factual evidence to support my theory but let's just say that some of them sure seemed to be reacting to that sun in the time honored fashion of the moderately hung over. As for the Mariners series, well it's been hit and miss but the Angels are still showing a lot of fight, an essential characteristic for future wins and, indeed, a hallmark of the Texas series. The Angels aren't letting many opposing runs go unanswered these days and it is fun to watch.
Saturday night was an odd game. Neither starting pitcher was dealing, neither team went wild with the bats and neither team avoided a few serious fielding flubs. In the end, it came down to Angels base running and Angels fielding in the sense of the team being a well oiled turning two machine. Also, the Angels' errors seemed to come at less crucial times…and no one decided to begin pouting to an umpire with no thought of completing a play, just sayin'. And can I just say that it was downright giddy making to see the first three guys in the lineup – Mike Trout (who is Superman by the way, check it out), Alberto Callaspo and Albert Pujols – hitting the ball, getting on base, causing chaos on the basepaths and generally doing exactly what the first three guys in any lineup are supposed to do. Was it a pretty win? No, not by any means. But it was a win and honestly it was darned fun game to watch.
As for my photos, I'm getting a little tired of the same old, same old guys taking a monster swing, guys diving back to the bag and guys making a catch photos. So to switch it up a bit, for this game I am only using photos that made me smile or even laugh. Enjoy!
Wine-ing Over Baseball…Or Is That the Other Way Around? Either Way, Yum!
For the last few years Seth and I have spent the second to last weekend of every October in Cambria and Paso Robles for the Wine Alliance's Harvest Festival. Sadly, the Angels have either been out of it by this point or never in it to begin with so taking a trip away hasn't been a tough decision. What will we do next year or in 2013 if the Angels are still in the thick of things? Well, suffice to say that is a conundrum I would love to have! It' not like we'd have hotel reservations to cancel. We stay at his folks' place. Yes, I know how lucky I am!
Random thoughts from the weekend:
1) Taking a trip up here in the middle of the post season doesn't have to mean sacrifice for the baseball fan. There is usually someplace great to watch the game, a winery throwing a baseball party, like the one we attended last year, a local you hit it off with tipping you off to an open party somewhere, or something. Sights like this are not uncommon. Best. License. Plate. Ever…okay…maybe not ever, but still:
2) Things are not always what they seem. I figured I'd get my tips on where to watch the game this weekend from the baseball winery. No dice. Because of the too mild weather, harvest is still going on instead of just finished and all of their biggest baseball fans are out working. No, I got my best tips – and excellent wine! – from the gentleman at the Pithy Little Wine Company, nestled in a gorgeous boutique looking tasting room in downtown. And thank you, good Sir, excellent tips they were.
3) There have been less bad calls this post season than I remember from other post seasons, but they're still there.
4) I said it before and I'll say it again, I miss having a Molina brother behind the plate.
5) Every time I sit down to watch Albert Pujols play I think, nah, he can't quite live up to the hype no matter how good he is…only to be reminded a few plays later that, no, really, he is that good.
6) Even injured, Josh Hamilton is almost that good. St Louis fan walking into the bar for the first time in the 6th inning: What happened? How did Texas score that last run? Me: Josh Hamilton happened. St. Louis fan: Say no more.
7) Sitting down at the bar to watch the game, wherein you are rooting for St. Louis as your borrowed team, behind this sight is not as daunting as you might think. Hey, at least you know they're all baseball fans and not going to start whining about wanting to change the station to football!:
8) Catching a ball I can understand. I would never lean out over the rail to catch a ball, even if I don't agree with it, on some level I understand why someone might do this in the heat of the moment. But throwing a ball onto the field? Seriously? I can't understand it at all. Kudos to the Rangers ushers for kicking him out…not that I expected anything less.
9) Cheese and wine pairing is wonderful. Small bites and wine even better. BBQ and wine pairing rocks. But a bacon and wine pairing is the best of all. Yes, bacon and wine. And I assure you, it was even better than it sounds, especially the wild boar bacon paired with rich cabernet. Yum! And it's even better when you meet another baseball fan couple up from Los Angeles for the festival weekend. A Cubbie and a Red Sox fan – proof that two long standing curses (one broken and then some) can cancel one another out into a happy marriage.
10) I wished Mike Napoli all the best with the Rangers when he got traded and I meant it. But I have to confess, hearing the entire stadium chant Nap-o-li, Nap-o-li when he comes up to bat with runners in scoring position and seeing all of the signs that talk about how clutch he is makes me feel a little ill. Why couldn't you have done some of that for us, Mike? I know you didn't have as many opportunities, but you did have opportunities.
11) Regarding the previous bullet, I don't know where this sort of October pettiness is coming from. I haven't always been this childish about losing. They say adversity breeds character. Well, apparently, baseball "adversity" breeds the wrong kind of character in me. *sigh*
12) For a game where the final score was so darned uneven, it sure didn't seem uneven in the middle. I swear Texas was on the verge of catching up every time they came up to the plate.
13) Cambria is small and internet access at the house is always sketchy and, in fact, non existent this weekend, but there are worse things. Spending the afternoon like this up the street at Moonstone Cellars, one of the wineries with free Wi-Fi while we plot our dinner and game viewing strategy (no TV at the house either), doesn't suck. Tempranillo. Yuuuuuum!:
How Do You Enjoy the Post Season When Your Team Doesn't Have a Post Season? + Really Josh Hamilton?
I answered one facet of this question in one of my very first blog posts, wherein I talked about choosing a team to adopt for the postseason. But that is only one aspect of the answer. For some folks the entire answer is a simple, you don't. But that just doesn't work for me. The stakes are too high, the players too good and the action too exciting to ignore…besides, this is the last small slice of baseball we get to enjoy before the cold lonely baseball-less months of late fall and winter begin.
So, how do you enjoy the post season when your team doesn't have a post season? For me the answer is eagerly, excitedly and with a sense of fun, but also distractedly and with a sense of detachment. Witness, I am watching the games, as many as we can when so many of them start while we are at work, but our kitchen is clean. Our bills are filed. When the game is one the east coast and starts early for us, dinners are more elaborate than slapped together sandwiches. (Okay, we ate sandwiches for dinner this evening, but they involved left over pork loan, brie, sautéed apples and onions and a chipotle peach jelly. They were absolutely not slapped together.😉 ) The laundry is not only folded but — gasp! — put away. Both my husband and I are more willing to pick up a few mid-week groceries on our way home from the office instead of trying to cram the trip into a lunch break while crossing our fingers that no one swipes them from the office fridge. For better or worse, these things are simply a lot less true during the regular season…even more so during an Angels post season.
So the answer is, you enjoy the post season much the same as you would otherwise, but with a passion that is purely generic in nature. Oh, many of the teams in the current post season excite me and there have been several truly great games so far to be sure. But I can tear my eyes away from the screen for a little while for even mundane chores…and I do. That would never happen with the Angels, but I can't think of a single other team that would inspire adopted passion on the same magnitude. The only teams that come close for me are family teams.
If the Angels were out but the Dodgers, my childhood team and the team half my family roots for, were in? I know could summon a fair bit of passion. Not the same as for the Angels by any means but passion even so. When the Giants, the team whose orange and black colors the other half of my family bleeds, made the series, it wasn't even the same as the Dodgers would have been, but it was in fact more special than the current post season's offerings. That's it…and those two teams still aren't even close. So, I will continue to hoot and holler and enjoy, enjoy, enjoy, but I think the kitchen won't have any problems staying clean.
Oh, and for the record, my answer to the "who am I rooting for part of the question" is not as cut and dried as it was last season. My favorite non-Angels teams heading into the post season were the D-Backs, the Brewers and the Rays… *sigh* I wanted badly for the Rays to be able to go further, but what they accomplished was nothing short of miraculous and a joy to behold. So, I have been rooting for the D-Backs (though I won't mind if the Brewers win instead…I do like them too), the Rays, the Cards and the Tigers. I will narrow it down further, of course, after the ALDS and then again for the World Series.
I'd love the D-Backs to take it all, because I adore Joe Saunders — and I miss him even though I wholeheartedly approved of the Dan Haren trade — and because Kirk Gibson was a childhood hero whom I still admire. Ryan Roberts grand slam against the Dodgers, where he paid homage to Gibby's famous homerun as a Dodger with arm pumps down the first base line? Chills. Absolute chills. But I could find myself happily rooting for one of the other teams I mentioned should the D-Backs not make it past Friday. Because when you're strictly a for the month of October, adopted fan, switching allegiances based on who won and any number of other frivolous reasons is not only acceptable, it's darned necessary.🙂
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As several media sources reported, just before Tuesday's game Josh Hamilton was asked about the success in a Rangers uniform of Vlad Guerrero last season and Mike Napoli this season. A leading question to be sure, but still…
Hamilton's response? "I think we're going to look at who we can get from the Angels next year." Ouch. But whatever obnoxious truth there may be in that statement, nice Josh. Way to stay classy. Especially considering that the Rangers dropped Vlad like a hot potato the second they could no longer say 'Who cares how much money we spend?! We're filing for bankruptcy!'
Hey Josh, chances are Fernando Rodney is going to be available next season. Likely for a bargain price. Since the Rangers are so excellent at finding diamonds in the Angels rough, I suggest they dive on that grenade. With gusto!
A Killer Play by Any Other Team & Ugly Angels Weekend
I love my Angels, as you have all probably guessed by now. But I don't think you can be a diehard fan of one particular team without being an equally passionate fan of the game itself. As such there is no disloyalty in admiring feats of greatness performed by teams and players other than your own, quite the contrary. Baseball is one of our favorite museums and every diving catch, robbed homerun, clutch line drive, wicked change-up to strike out the side, and perfectly executed six-four-three double play is a work of art we would be philistines not to appreciate.
But how do you react when the not-your-team's oh wow, any true baseball fan can appreciate how awesome this is play/catch/hit happens in a game against your team? It's a real conundrum. Of course, you always root for your team. But for me, the pure baseball fan side of my brain is thinking Wow! Wow! That was amazing! I can't believe I just saw that! What a play/catch/hit/whatever! and wants my body to stand up and cheer. While the Angels fan side of my brain is swearing a blue streak and wants my fist to shake angrily in the air or pound on the table.
Usually the reaction that actually bubbles from my mouth is very loud, starts out with a tone of grudging genuine admiration, finishes with a tone of passionate anger and anguish and sounds a little something like this (Note: Sections in quotations have been edited to make my more sailor-like proclivities safe for a general audience.):
Great catch, "when two people really love each other"er
Oh, nice play, "notoriously stubborn beast of burden" hole
Great hit, you "I question whether your mommy and daddy really made everything official before you were born."
I think it's an understandable reaction, and a one I find myself having several times a week. When we lose because of situations like this, that censored part above gets louder, longer and more creative. Every once in a great long while, a lost game might have so many of this sort of play that there is nothing you can do but calmly accept defeat with an understandable explanation along the lines of: Okay, my guys really need to be better about RISP but what can you do? Josh Hamilton was a human highlight reel, that "when two people really love each other"er.
This. Was not. One of the those games. Nor was yesterday's game. In fact, seriously, nor was this whole Red Sox series. Oh, I had a few Nice play, "notoriously stubborn beast of burden" hole moments, especially where Dustin Pedrioa was concerned. But even though the Red Sox swept the Angels this series, keeping us to a measly five runs in four games with back to back shutouts to finish things off, I don't think they played unbeatable baseball by any means. This is not a sour grapes, poor loser post. I am not knocking the Red Sox at all. Everyone knows they started out the season on the wrong foot…or, like, five of them. But there is no denying they are heating up, as I always assumed they would. They played pretty good baseball during this four game series. Very good at some points, but never lights out. Prior to this series, after the debacle that was opening weekend in Kansas City, the Angels were playing pretty good baseball. Very good at some points and occasionally lights out. There was no reason we couldn't have at least split this series if we'd kept that up.
It's not even a question that the Angels can play better ball than we did the last four games. How many Angels highlights from the Texas series were in the MLB Tonight Plays of the Week this evening? A lot. And Peter Bourjos' amazing dead sprint to jump up and rob Dave Murphy of a homerun at the centerfield wall was the #2 play of the week, and deservedly so. I think the Boston series play was the fluke, not the Blue Jays, Indians, White Sox and Texas series. So, come on Angels. Pick yourselves up. Dust yourselves off. Get it together. Wake up the bats. Make your pitches. Score some runs. And, pretty please with sugar on top, call the darned ball. There's a lot more baseball left to play and you can do this.


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(1) The effect of a judgment of adoption heretofore or hereafter granted by a court of this state shall be that the relationship, rights and obligations between an adopted person and the descendants of the adopted person and
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(b) The natural parents of the adopted person, their descendants and kindred
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(2) When a person has been or shall be adopted in this state by a stepparent, this section shall leave unchanged the relationship, rights and obligations between such adopted person and descendants of the adopted person and natural parent of the adopted person, who is the spouse of the person who adopted the person, and the descendants and kindred of such natural parent. [1953 c.650 §1; 2003 c.576 §134]


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House of Blues – Chicago, IL
January 24, 2010
There were three "quotes of the night" as I like to call them at Sunday night's (well, Monday morning's) Timbaland concert at Chicago's House of Blues. These three quotes/phrases were repeated by Timbaland's DJ more times that I care to remember. Not a good sign that I left the show recalling the DJ's ridiculously annoying shout-outs than Timbaland's actual performance. Anyway, here we go…
1) "Get your merchandise!"
2) "Where's all my single ladies at?"
3) Where's all my Timbaland fans at?"
More photos of Timbaland presenting his Shock Value II album live in Chicago after the jump…
Set List / Chicago
Timothy Where You Been (feat. Jet)
Say Something (feat. Drake)
Give It Up To Me (Shakira feat. Lil Wayne)
The Way I Are (feat. Keri Hilson & D.O.E.)
Morning After Dark (feat. Nelly Furtado & SoShy)
Oh Timbaland
Can You Feel It (feat. Esthero & Sebastian)
If We Ever Meet Again (feat. Katy Perry)
Tomorrow In The Bottle (feat. Chad Kroeger & Sebastian)
Carry Out (feat. Justin Timberlake)
Promiscuous (Nelly Furtado)
Say It Right (Nelly Furtado)
My Love (Justin Timberlake feat. T.I.)
SexyBack (Justin Timberlake)
What Goes Around… (Justin Timberlake)
Attending a Timbaland performance is quite simply the same as dancing and singing along to the multiple songs the man has written and produced for both himself and other artists for more than a decade. Seriously though, I love the genius that is Timbaland and the music he creates, but he should stick to the studio and not the stage. A performer with stage presence he is not. In all honesty, Timbaland needs to drop the touring and performing components from his career aspirations. Once Tim arrives at the realization that his talents are best suited to remaining seated in the producer's chair at his production company and recording studio, then the world will be better served. Needless to say, more amazing songs will be delivered to the public directly from Mr. Mosley. I love you Timbaland, but please give up the dream of being a rock star…
Wearing white Beats By Dr. Dre Studio High Definition Powered Isolation Headphones (with Powered Noise Cancellation), Timbaland broke up his set into two parts with an intermission. Yes, that's correct…an intermission. Why was that necessary? I have no clue. Apparently act one of the Virginia native's performance was dedicated to his new material from most recent release Shock Value II. The second half of the show was a nonstop medley of every major hit Tim has written and produced (and been featured on) for major recording artists such as Nelly Furtado and Justin Timberlake.
During the first half of the show, Timbaland provided the audience with some much needed (and appreciated) visual entertainment in the form of a large rectangular video screen. Placed portrait-style at the front of stage left, the LED display panel projected pre-recorded images of the artists featured on all of Timbaland's Shock Value II tracks. With Mr. Mosley lacking any captivating MC skills, I found myself unable to tear my eyes away from the LED screen. By the end of Tim's set, I had seen stars like Jet, Drake, Esthero, Katy Perry, Keri Hilson, SoShy, Nelly Furtado, Chad Kroeger, and Justin Timberlake singing and dancing along to the songs specific to them.
Unfortunately, Timbaland did not perform my favorite song from his first album Shock Value, "One & Only" featuring Fall Out Boy. Nor did he choose to include "Give It To Me" featuring Nelly Furtado and Justin Timberlake in his set this past Sunday/Monday. This came as quite a surprise to me, seeing as how the song was a huge hit off of Shock Value and received tons of radio airplay. Plus, it's another one of my favorites from Tim's first solo record. Around 3:30AM, the House of Blues staff gradually cut off the power in the venue in the hopes that Timbaland would get the hint to end his set. With the stage lights completely shut down, Timbaland had no choice but to perform a capella if he wanted to continue with his playlist of hit songs. Finally admitting defeat, Tim's final words of the night were as follows: "Thank you Chicago! Home of Kanye West!" Yes, well right now Chicago isn't all that proud of the fact that we gave the world Mr. West.
Final note to Timbaland: more time in studio, less time on stage. Thank you for the timeless tracks!
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Remember how Apple added a seemingly "reflective" volume nob in iOS 6? Well, as I mentioned yesterday, the company has also added that very same knob to the lock screen music controls. That's not all, though, because it has now been discovered that Apple has gone one step further, adding their "fit and finish" to another part of the new lock screen interface.
On the lock screen music interface there is a small dividing line between the volume nob control and the typical play, forward and back buttons. I, like many, have questioned exactly what purpose this thin line serves. It was never present in previous versions of iOS, so why add a divider now?
That said, Apple didn't just make it any old dividing line. They took it one step further and applied the same reflection-like effect that was added to the volume knob in iOS 6. As seen in the animation above, the line's glow will shift from left to right depending on how you hold your device — give it a try!
Update: As our own Jesse402 has kindly pointed out, the lines in Music.app are "reflective" as well.


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You can see the resemblance, can't you?
A few months ago, I let B watch "Shrek 2." Aside from some potty humor that is over her head, and one reference to smoking catnip, it's a pretty tame flick about love and acceptance, eschewing the world's aesthetic theories and embracing your inner beauty. Peace. Love. Happily ever after.
That, and it has some hilarious pop culture references and hidden jokes that only the adults will understand (like at the end when the people of Far, Far Away are fleeing the gigantic gingerbread man, and they run from one Starbucks across the street into another Starbucks).
Anyhoo, it's not surprising that B aligned herself with Princess Fiona. Of course, she would want to act out the favorite protagonist. The princess. The ever-lovable Cameron Diaz in ogre form.
What did surprise me is that B cast me as Shrek and Kris as Prince Charming (or just "Charming" as she likes to call him). For MONTHS I have been Shrek. At home, I'm Shrek. In the grocery store, I'm Shrek. At the YMCA, I'm Shrek. Everywhere we go, she introduces me as Shrek.
I've stopped being embarrassed by it, actually. When B yells for me in public "Hey Shrek! Look at this, Shrek!" and people's heads turn, I no longer stop to explain.
Around the house, we have full conversations, Fiona and I. Just the other day, out of nowhere, she said, "You know, Shrek, bees are our friends. They make honey."
"Good to know, Fiona. Good to know."
Tonight, before bed, B said to me, "I love you Shrek. You're so beautiful." And I had to laugh. Calling me Shrek is probably the greatest honor B can bestow. Because it has nothing to do with how the characters look, or even their gender, but how they interact and what their relationships are in the movie. And if she's Fiona, then Shrek is the person who loves and cherishes her no matter what. I'm happy to fill that role.
I guess Prince Charming comes in a close second. Though I wonder if B is conveniently forgetting what a brat he was in the movie? Hmmmm.... Or maybe she's just identifying Kris' thick, wavy hair and chiseled body. (Remember THIS??)


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Justin Bieber Reportedly Smokes Weed At Amesterdam Coffee Shop; Celebs Defend The Pop Star
Justin Bieber won't stay out of the news - whether it's factual or rumor based. On Monday the pop star made a pit stop in Amsterdam during his world tour, and a source claims he was spotted smoking marijuana at a coffee shop.
First he visited club De Melkweg where he tried to reserve a table, but he was turned away because the venue was too crowded. He later went to a coffee shop called Easy Time, and a source told PerezHilton.com he smoked a joint and ate a pot-laced treat known as "space cake."
The singer also went to a gift shop and purchased some gifts for himself, friends, and family, including a joint holder.
It isn't the first time Bieber has been caught up in a marijuana scandal. In January, a photo leaked showing him smoking pot at a party inside a Newport Beach hotel in California.
Meanwhile, more celebrities are sticking up for the pop star after he had a horrible week in London, which included getting turned away from a club on his birthday, arriving two hours late to a gig, confronting a photographer, and being hospitalized after fainting backstage. He also canceled a concert in Portugal due to poor ticket sales.
Actress Jada Pinkett-Smith, whose 14-year-old son Jaden is friends with Bieber, wrote on Facebook: "Is it okay to continually attack and criticize a famous 19 year old who is simply trying to build a life, exercise his talents while figuring out what manhood and fame is all about as he carries the weight of supporting his family as well as providing the paychecks to others who depend on him to work so they can feed their families as well?"
Bieber responded on Twitter, writing: "you are the best!!"
Black Eyed Peas star Will.I.Am told U.K.'s Channel 5 News: "I already gave (advice) to him on the phone, he's good, he's a good kid. When you're 17, 18, 19, 20 the world can get you off course but he's gonna be alright. He has a good family, good people around him. Just every once in a while there's a bump in the road."


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Lasers win wild game, clinch share of league crown
For Kettle Moraine's baseball team, it was roughly three steps back and one giant leap forward.
A decision to move the infielders back to medium depth set up a game-ending double play with the bases loaded, the final maneuver in a zany Classic 8 Conference finale that gave the Lasers a 5-4 win over Mukwonago and a share of the conference championship. Waukesha West's win over Milwaukee Pius later in the evening, 7-3, ensured the two teams would share the crown with 16-5 league records.
It was Kettle Moraine's first baseball title since 1987, when it belonged to the Suburban Park -- the only other baseball conference title in school history.
Ott gets the grounder
Kettle Moraine (18-9 overall), which had rallied from a run down to take leads in both the sixth and seventh, needed a ground ball in the game's biggest moment. On a delivery from senior pitcher Cory Ott, whose day had been a microcosm of the roller coaster endured by the KM nine, Mukwonago's Jake Scheibe sent a bounder to Keith Koehn at second base. Koehn stepped on the bag and threw to first base to retire Scheibe.
Scheibe slid into the bag on the play and was ruled out on a call that drew the ire of MHS personnel. The play would have never come to pass had Lasers coach Brian Adamczyk gone with the initial instinct of bringing Koehn and shortstop Austin Finn to the infield grass, rather than moving them back to normal depth in advance of the at-bat.
"Anything on the corners we didn't feel we could turn a double play on, we were definitely coming home," said catcher Justin Yute, whose squeeze bunt in the seventh re-tied the game before Ott's sacrifice fly gave the Lasers their final lead. "Luckily, it got hit right to Keith, and he was able to take it by himself."
It was Ott's only inning of work. After striking out cousin Devan Ott to open the frame, he allowed back-to-back singles to Jason Strickler and Matt McCartan and walked Mitch West, prompting a conference on the mound.
"Coach had confidence in the middle infielders to turn the double play," Ott said. "He just said (to me), 'Do what you do and roll a ground ball.'"
Ott spent most of the day at shortstop, where a ball through the wickets with two outs in the sixth allowed Mukwonago to take a 2-1 lead. But that disadvantage didn't last long, when Finn sent a bouncer up the middle past Mukwonago's own drawn-in infield to plate two runs and give the Lasers a 3-2 edge in the top of the sixth.
Ott even obtained a morsel of redemption in the bottom half, when he barehanded a looping squibber with backspin and threw out McCartan leading off the frame. Mukwonago (8-13 in conference, 12-15 overall) rallied for two runs when four of the next five batters singled against Austin Wolf, taking a 4-3 lead into the final frame, but the damage could have been worse.
After KM re-tied the game, it was Ott's fly to center that gave his team the final lead.
"Baseball is a special game," Ott said. "One thing can go wrong for you one minute, and you can come back later in the game and do it all and win."
Holiday bunting
The winning rally was rife with adventure. Dom Nabak, who nearly made a diving catch in center that would have prevented the Indians from scoring the tying and subsequent go-ahead runs in the sixth, led off with a single. Matt Melbye was unable to get a bunt down on two attempts but atoned with a perfectly-executed hit and run that moved Nabak to third.
Yute, the team's leadoff hitter, then bunted it back toward the pitcher's mound, where J.J. Crawford nearly made the play to catch a speeding Nabak, who nonetheless slid safely past Strickler's tag.
"It's something I can do but haven't had to do very often this year," said Yute, one of the team's top hitters. "We had no outs, so if he threw me a strike, I was going to try and get it down. I was trying to push it past the pitcher on the right and made it a little closer that I wanted to."
In the aftermath, Melbye moved to third, and he scored on the fly ball from Ott, who then came in to pitch and preserve the one-run lead.
"He's a senior," Adamczyk said. "Nothing against any of the other guys that were out there before, but we're giving him a chance to win a conference championship in his senior season. We didn't talk about it much today. We knew we still had control with what happened."
Before he accounted for the final outs, Koehn worked five innings on the hill, allowing only one earned run on five hits with three strikeouts. With two outs in the sixth of a 1-1 tie, Crawford and Chris Schiferl posted consecutive singles for Mukwonago before Devan Ott hit a grounder to short that got away and brought in the go-ahead run.
Crawford comes through
Crawford finished with two hits, a walk, two runs scored, an RBI and all seven innings on the hill. He walked only one batter and struck out three.
"When he's on, he is our best pitcher," Mukwonago coach John Strohbusch said. "The problem for him has been consistency and control and getting ahead of hitters. Three or four games this year, he's been on and he's been dominant. He was fantastic tonight. That's why we've struggled lately; we haven't had consistent outings from our pitching."
At one point, Crawford faced the minimum over 10 batters, with a walk erased when Strickler nabbed the runner leaning too far off first. Mukwonago made its share of defensive plays, including a diving stab by shortstop Austin Bricco and a line drive spear by Crawford on the mound.
"We played about as bad defensively as we could possibly play Tuesday (in a loss to Pius), with six errors, and played about as good as we can tonight," Strohbusch said. "We had some backups playing (because of injury) ... to battle through all that stuff and still have a chance to win at the end, I'm real proud of the guys."
Mukwonago's bottom of the order came through in the sixth, with No. 6 hitter West and No. 8 hitter Dan Timmers singling ahead of No. 9 hitter Ty Behling, whose flair to center was nearly caught by Nabak. Crawford followed with the go-ahead RBI single. Devan Ott drove in the first run of the game with a single in the first, and Robbie Dombrowski's RBI single in the top of the second brought the Lasers back to even.
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Karen Francis: Better Days
Ms. Francis' original "Four Voices Left Unheard" is a freedom forum vocal jazz piece that soars. "That Old Devil Moon" swings effortlessly with Allyn Johnson's orchestral piano driving the arrangement and Ms. Francis fine phrasing guiding the song. One album highlight is Jobim's "Wave." A tricky song vocally, Karen Francis throws it off with grace and aplomb, her voice full and sure. Better Days is one of the best vocal jazz albums released this year. Let us hope there are many more to come.
For more information visit Karen Francis and Virgo Rising Records.
Track Listing: Softly, As In A Moring Sunrise; What Shall I Say To You; Better Days; The Nearness Of You; Four Voices Left Unheard; Cameron?s Song; Old Devil Moon; Welcome; From M0oment To Moment; Wave.
Personnel: Karen Francis?Vocals; Allyn Johnson?Piano; Christian McBride, James King, Michael Hawkins? Bass; Nasar Abadey?Drums; Antonio Parker?Alto Saxophone; Barnette Williams, Same Turner? Percussion.
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URBANA, Ohio — When employees at the Champaign County Public Library arrived at work on Wednesday, they found a library book 41 years overdue, an anonymous apology and a check for $299.30.
The Real Book About Snakes was found in the library's drop box bound with a single piece of tape. Tucked inside was an apology written on plain notebook paper and a check. The book was returned to the library exactly 41 years to the day it originally had been borrowed in 1972, said Ty Henderson, director of the library in Urbana, about 45 miles northwest of Columbus.
"Right then I knew he had to have returned it intentionally on that day," Henderson said.
Despite its age, the book is still in relatively good condition. The check included the amount of late fees due to the library for 41 years. At the time it was borrowed, late fees were 2 cents per day.
The note was simple.
"To Champaign County Library, Sorry I've kept this book for so long, but I'm a really slow reader! I've enclosed my fine of $299.30 (41 years, 2 cents a day.) Once again, my apologies."
"I'm hoping he'll come forward," Henderson said. "I'd love to give the book back to him."
The book came from the library's juvenile section, which leads Henderson to believe the individual was a child when the book was borrowed.
The library plans to use the money to purchase juvenile nonfiction books, specifically focusing on items about snakes and reptiles.
Because of its age, Henderson said the book also tells a story about the library's past.
Inside, a note in pencil shows the library initially purchased the book for $1.70 in 1955. The stamp sheet inside the book showed how many times the book had been borrowed before 1972, and there was an imprint of the library's name on page 27.
The book also shows how inflation has affected late fees. While late fees were 2 cents a day in 1972, the current rate is 10 cents per day. At that rate, Henderson estimated the late fees due at $1,496.50.


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Who Will Fill Maggie Gal's Shoes As NOM's New Chair?
Our old pal Margaret Gallagher Srivastav (aka Maggie Gallagher or Maggie Gal, if you're really close friends, which we are) has stepped down as the Chairman of the National Organization for Marriage. The next Chairman will have some awfully big shoes to fill, and we do mean awful. So who's it gonna be?
Her replacement is Chapman University constitutional law professor John Eastman (who will henceforth go by JoJo, John E. Quest, and J-slyce). He is a constitutional lawyer who Think Progress refers to as "the gold standard in law professor crazy… he was one of the lead voices behind the claim that Judge Walker had to recuse from the Proposition 8 case because he has a same-sex partner." He also ran a failed 1990 campaign to become a U.S. Congressman and another failed 2010 campaign to become California's Attorney General. So considering his political legacy, there's no better man we'd love to see heading NOM.
Mag the Drag will "remain on the NOM's board and continue to work on specific projects for NOM, as well as taking on some additional" blah blah blah.
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The reality is this – they're fighting so hard because this is their source of income. Like Elaine Donnelly, that nutbag from the, uh, "Center for Military Readiness" – whose raison d'etre is simply to keep gays from serving in the military.
when LGBT citizens have actual Equality across this great nation, maggie gallagher will be out of a job.
too bad, toots. that's the Capitalism you love so much. :D
Slaggie Gilamonster stepped down because her double-chin was making it difficult to see what her hands were doing to her mouth.
Will we be seeing Eastman barefoot in a federal court of law picking his toes, or in a New York theater rudely and noisily diving into her (oops! I mean his!) bag of Cheetos? Stay tuned!
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and guess it will be another stay puffed marshmallow like her.
Maggot Gagginwhore is working on an anti-equality book – which they obviously would want to try to get out before the 2012 elections.
Apparently, abundant rolls of neck fat (and bottomless reserves of homophobia) are the only qualification for the job.
anyone else find it strange that she is stepping down after witnessing an actor's prortrayal of her in Black's play?
Who will fill Maggie's shoes?
Why, any circus elephant. Apologies to circus elephants.
She is stepping down because there were too many questions about her.
The fact is, this organization is their source of income. Of COURSE they want to get a guy with ties to politics in there.
Villarreal, you attempt to be funny on just about every post you write, even if the topic is too sensitive to be taken in a comical sense. But I have to say, this is just hilarious.
Fuck Gargler and fuck J-Slyce.
Who will fill her shoes? Well, three wrestlers, a Republican senator, and two Dancing With The Stars fans to be named later…with room left over for socks.
I'm telling you. If I had a magic phone during the debate she had with Wolfson at Yale Pol Union in Oct/10,
which is touted on her wiki page, you'd have the best evidence of how classless and a fat slob she really is. Munching on her Pork Rinds during the recent show is nothing.
She quite literally flashed that nasty gunt at the audience, wearing a tarp trimmed a bit too short, for well into half the debate until a note was passed that she PLEASE sit like a lady.
She's just nasty through and through.
You can take the girl out the trash, but never the trash out the girl.
Why do all of these hardcore anti-gay people look inbred?
Did she really "step down" or was she pushed out? Ideas?
Watch her, maybe, switch gears only slightly and crusade against abortion. Just a thought.
Well, when he inevitably fails he can always work at the circus as the Chinless Wonder.
Can we step away from the fat jokes and focus on the more important issue? The bitch is just evil.
One has to wonder about the sociopathy that fuels these allegedly=hetero people to be so obsessed with The Gays. Mega-Maggie could be using her energy for something productive instead of imposing her misery on others.


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|An Evening of Energy, Celebration and .... Did I Mention Wine?
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|9 Awesome Resources For The Geeky Feminist
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|The Graduate: Rounding Off the 2013 WFTV Mentoring Scheme in Style
On 6 June 2013 our current crop of mentees celebrated 'graduating' from the scheme by producing a glitzy ceremony at The Hospital Club in London. Mentee Natalie Samson shares her experience of helping to organise and host the event, and what it feels like to have come to the end of an intense 6-month experience on the scheme.
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|From WFTV's Directing Change to Directing My First Feature
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|My Big Break... by WFTV Award-Winning Writer Jo Ho
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|The Miracle of Mentoring by Mentee Emma Lindley
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