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An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England: A Novelby Brock Clarke
A lot of remarkable things have happened to Sam Pulsifer, beginning with the ten years he spent in prison for accidentally burning down Emily Dickinson's house and unwittingly killing two people. Emerging at the age of twenty-eight, he creates a new life as a husband and father. But when the homes of other famous writers go up in smoke, he must prove his
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A lot of remarkable things have happened to Sam Pulsifer, beginning with the ten years he spent in prison for accidentally burning down Emily Dickinson's house and unwittingly killing two people. Emerging at the age of twenty-eight, he creates a new life as a husband and father. But when the homes of other famous writers go up in smoke, he must prove his innocence by uncovering the identity of this literary-minded arsonist.
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Clarke's fourth book (after the story collection Carrying the Torch) is the delightfully dark story of Sam Pulsifer, the "accidental arsonist and murderer" narrator who leads readers through a multilayered, flame-filled adventure about literature, lies, love and life. Growing up in Amherst, Mass., with an editor for a father and an English teacher for a mother, Sam was fed endless stories that fueled (literally and figuratively) the rest of his life. Thus, the blurred boundaries between fact and fiction, story and reality become the landscape for amusing and provocative adventures that begin when, at age 18, Sam accidentally torches the Emily Dickinson Homestead, killing two people. After serving 10 years, Sam tries to distance himself from his past through college, employment, marriage and fatherhood, but he eventually winds up back in his parents' home, separated from his wife and jobless. When more literary landmarks go up in flames, Sam is the likely suspect, and his determination to find the actual arsonist uncovers family secrets and more than a bit about human nature. Sam is equal parts fall guy and tour guide in this bighearted and wily jolt to the American literary legacy. (Sept.)Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information
When Sam Pulsifer's parents separated for three years during his childhood, his mother lied about his father's whereabouts and also told Sam ghost stories about the Emily Dickinson House in his hometown of Amherst, MA. At age 18, he broke into the house one night to verify these stories, got spooked by a noise, dropped a lit cigarette, burned down the house, and unwittingly killed its two occupants. After ten years in a minimum security prison, Sam moved to the nearby suburbs to live an anonymous life, attend college, marry, and raise children. All is well until the son of the couple who died in the fire shows up on his doorstep, and fires begin breaking out at the homes of other New England writers. While trying to unravel the mystery of the fires, Sam uncovers the deceptions that have molded his life. Clarke (Ordinary White Boy) has created a character feebly struggling against fate in a situation both sad and funny, believable and preposterous. It's a setting so bizarre that the clear moral lesson smacks of sarcasm. In the end, however, this quirky story is entertaining and readable. Recommended.
Joanna M. Burkhardt
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An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New EnglandA NOVEL
By BROCK CLARKE
Algonquin Books of Chapel HillCopyright © 2007 Brock Clarke
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Chapter OneI, Sam Pulsifer, am the man who accidentally burned down the Emily Dickinson House in Amherst, Massachusetts, and who in the process killed two people, for which I spent ten years in prison and, as letters from scholars of American literature tell me, for which I will continue to pay a high price long into the not-so-sweet hereafter. This story is locally well known, and so I won't go into it here. It's probably enough to say that in the Massachusetts Mt. Rushmore of big, gruesome tragedy, there are the Kennedys, and Lizzie Borden and her ax, and the burning witches at Salem, and then there's me.
So anyway, I served my time, and since the sentencing judge took mercy on me, I served my time at the minimum-security prison up at Holyoke. At Holyoke there were bond analysts and lawyers and day traders and city managers and school administrators, all of them caught with their hands in the till and nothing at all like me, an eighteen-year-old accidental arsonist and murderer with blood and soot on his hands and a heavy heart and plenty to learn and no high school diploma. I flung in and tried. I took a biweekly self-improvement seminar called the College of Me, in which I learned the life-changing virtues of patience, hard work, and positive attitude, and in which I earned my GED. I also hung around this group of high-stepping bond analysts from Boston who were in the clink for insider trading. While they were inside, the bond analysts had set out to write their fond, freewheeling memoirs about their high crimes and misdemeanors and all the cashish-that's the way they talked-they had made while screwing old people out of their retirement funds and kids out of their college savings. These guys seemed to know everything, the whole vocabulary of worldly gain and progress, so I paid extra attention during their memoir-brainstorming sessions, listened closely to their debates over how much the reading public did or did not need to know about their tortured childhoods in order to understand why they needed to make so much money in the manner in which they made it. I took notes as they divided the world between those who had stuff taken from them and those who took, those who did bad things in a good way-gracefully, effortlessly-and those bumblers who bumbled their way through life.
"Bumblers," I said.
"Yes," they said, or one of them did. "Those who bumble."
"Give me an example," I said, and they stared at me with those blue-steel stares they were born with and didn't need to learn at Choate or Andover, and they stared those stares until I realized that I was an example, and so this is what I learned from them: that I was a bumbler, I resigned myself to the fact and had no illusions about striving to be something else-a bond analyst or a memoirist, for instance-and just got on with it. Life, that is.
I learned something from everyone, is the point, even while I was fending off the requisite cell-block buggerer, a gentle but crooked corporate accountant at Arthur Andersen who was just finding his true sexual self and who told me in a cracked, aching voice that he wanted me-wanted me, that is, until I told him I was a virgin, which I was, and which, for some reason, made him not want me anymore, which meant that people did not want to sleep with twenty-eight-year-old male virgins, which I thought was useful to know.
Finally, I learned to play basketball from this black guy named Terrell, which was one of the big joys of my life in prison and which ended badly. Terrell, who had written checks to himself when he was the Worcester city treasurer, was in prison for the last three of my ten years, and whenever he would beat me in one-on-one (this wasn't often, even when I was first learning to play, because although he was very strong, Terrell was also shorter than I was and about as sleek as a fire hydrant; plus, he was twice my age and his knees were completely shot and would crack like dry wood when he ran)-whenever he would beat me, Terrell would yell out, "I'm a grown-ass man." That sounded good, and so after our last game, which I won easily, I also yelled out, "I'm a grown-ass man." Terrell thought I was mocking him, so he started hitting me around the head, and since I get passive in the face of true anger, I just stood there and took Terrell's abuse and didn't try to defend myself. As the guards dragged him to solitary, he promised that he would beat on me a little more once he got out, which he shouldn't have, because, of course, the guards then gave him more solitary than they might have otherwise. By the time Terrell got out, I'd already been released from prison and was home, living with my parents.
That didn't work out too well, living with my parents. For one, my burning down the Emily Dickinson House caused them some real heartbreak, because my mother was a high school English teacher, my father an editor for the university press in town, and beautiful words really mattered to them; they didn't care anything for movies or TV, but you could always count on a good poem to make them cry or sigh meaningfully. For another, their neighbors in Amherst weren't exactly happy that I'd burned down the town's most famous house and killed two of its citizens in the bargain, so they took it out on my parents. People never had trouble finding our old, creaking house on Chicopee Street: it was always the one with the driveway that had been spray-painted murderer! (which I understand) or fascist! (which I don't), or with some quote from Dickinson herself that seemed to promise vengeance, but you could never tell exactly what the vengeance might be, because there were a lot of words and the spray-painter always got sloppy and illegible from fatigue or maybe overemotion. It only got worse when I went home after prison. There was some picketing by the local arts council and some unwelcome, unflattering news coverage, and neighborhood kids who cared nothing about Emily Dickinson or her house started egging the place and draping our noble birches with toilet paper, and for a while there it was like Halloween every day. Then things really got serious and someone slashed every tire on my parents' Volvo, and once, in a fit of anger or grief, someone hurled a Birkenstock through one of our bay windows. It was a man's right shoe, size twelve.
All of this happened within the first month of my return home. At the end of the month, my parents suggested I move out. I remember it was August, because the three of us were sitting on our front porch and the neighbors' flags were out, caught between the Fourth of July and Labor Day and in full flutter, and the light was spectral through the maple and birch leaves and it was all very pretty. You can imagine how much my parents' request that I leave home wounded me, even though the College of Me said that life after prison wouldn't be easy and that I shouldn't fool myself into thinking otherwise.
"But where should I go?" I asked them.
"You could go anywhere," my mother said. Back then I thought she was the harder parent of the two and had had high hopes for me, so the disappointment weighed on her more heavily. I remember that my mother was a dry well at my trial when the jury brought back the verdict, although my father had wept loudly and wetly, and he was starting to cry now, too. I hated to see them like this: one cold, the other weepy. There was a time when I was six and they taught me to skate on a pond at the Amherst public golf course. The ice was so thick and clean and glimmery that the fish and errant golf balls were happy to be frozen in it. The sun was streaking the falling snow, making it less cold. When I finally made it around the perimeter of the pond without falling, my mother and father gave me a long ovation; they were a united front of tickled, proud parenthood. Those times were gone: gone, gone, forever gone.
"Maybe you could go to college, Sam," my father said after he'd gotten ahold of himself.
"That's a good idea," my mother said. "We'd be happy to pay for it."
"OK," I said, because I was looking at them closely, really scrutinizing them for the first time since I'd been home from prison, and I could see what I'd done to them. Before I burned down the Emily Dickinson House, they seemed to be normal, healthy, somewhat happy Americans who took vacations and gardened and who'd weathered a rough patch or two (when I was a boy, my father left us for three years, and after he left us, my mother started telling me tall tales about the Emily Dickinson House, and all of this is part of the larger story I will get to and couldn't avoid even if I wanted). Now they looked like skeletons dressed in corduroy and loafers. Their eyes were sunken and wanting to permanently retreat all the way back into their skulls. A few minutes earlier, I'd been telling them about my virginity and the lecherous Arthur Andersen accountant. My parents, as far as I knew back then, were both modest Yankees who didn't like to hear about anyone's private business, but the College of Me insisted that it was healthy and necessary to tell the people we love everything. Now I was regretting it. Why do we hurt our parents the way we do? There's no way to make sense of it except as practice for then hurting our children the way we do.
"OK," I said again. "I'll go to college." And then: "I love you both."
"Oh, us too," my father said, and then started weeping again.
"We certainly do," my mother said. And then to my father: "Bradley, quit crying."
Later that night, after my mother had gone to sleep, my father came into my room without knocking, stood over my bed, then leaned down-either to say something to me or to see if I was asleep. I wasn't asleep: I was thinking hopeful thoughts about my future, of how I would go to college and make a clean, honest, painless life for myself, and how proud my parents would be once I'd made it. My father, bent over at the waist the way he was, looked like a crane there to either lift me up with its hook or wreck me with its heavy ball.
"Come downstairs," my father whispered, his face close to mine in the darkness. "I want to show you something."
I got out of bed, followed him downstairs. My father walked into his study, which was-like most of the rooms in the house-lined floor to ceiling with overflowing bookshelves. He sat in a chair, opened the end table drawer next to him, pulled out a Converse shoe box, the sort of box in which you kept your old photos or Christmas cards, and handed it to me. I took the lid off the box and saw that there were envelopes inside, envelopes slit open with a letter opener. The envelopes were addressed to me, all of them. The letters were still inside the envelopes, so I took them out and read them.
There were at least a hundred letters. Some of them, as I mentioned, were from scholars of American literature, damning me to hell, et cetera. There is something underwhelming about scholarly hate mail-the sad literary allusions, the refusal to use contractions-and so I didn't pay much attention to those letters at all. I'd also received several letters from your ordinary arson enthusiasts, which were minor variations on the "Burn, baby, burn" theme. These particular letters didn't affect me much, either. The fact that the world was full of kooks wasn't any bigger news than the fact that the world was full of bores.
But there were other letters. They were from all over New England and beyond: from Portland, Bristol, Boston, Burlington, Derry, Chicopee, Hartford, Providence, Pittsfield-from towns and cities in New York and Pennsylvania, too. They were all from people who lived near the homes of writers and who wanted me to burn those houses down. A man in New London, Connecticut, wanted me to burn Eugene O'Neill's home because of what an awful drunk O'Neill was and what a bad example he set for the schoolchildren visiting his home, who needed, after all, more positive role models in the here and now. A woman in Lenox, Massachusetts, wanted me to torch Edith Wharton's house because visitors to Wharton's house parked in front of the woman's mailbox and because Wharton was always, in her opinion, something of a whiner and a phony. A dairy farmer in Cooperstown, New York, wanted me to pour gasoline down the chimney of the James Fenimore Cooper House because the dairy farmer couldn't stand the thought of someone being from such a rich family when his family was so awfully poor. "I've had it harder than Cooper ever did," the man wrote. "That family's got money up to here and they charge ten dollars' admission to their home and people pay it. Won't you please burn that son-of-a-bitching house right to the ground for us? We'll pay, too; I'll sell some of our herd if I have to. I look forward to your response."
There were more letters, and they all wanted the same thing. All of them wanted me to burn down the houses of a variety of dead writers-Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott, Robert Lowell, Nathaniel Hawthorne. Some of the correspondents wanted me to burn down the homes of writers I'd never even heard of. All of the letter writers were willing to wait for me to get out of prison. And all of them were willing to pay me.
"Wow," I said to my father when I was done reading. He hadn't said anything in a while. It was interesting: when my mother was around, my father always appeared weak minded and softhearted-a slight, unnecessary, and mostly foolish human being. But now, in that room, with those letters, he seemed to me wise-silent and massive like a Buddha in wire-rimmed glasses. I felt the enormity of the situation, in my throat and face and elsewhere. "Why didn't you tell me about these letters while I was in prison?"
He looked at me but didn't say anything. This was a test of sorts, because this, of course, is what the wise do: they test the unwise to make them less so.
"You wanted to protect me," I said, and he nodded. It heartened me to know I could give him the right answer, and so I persisted. "You wanted to protect me from these people who thought I was an arsonist."
My father couldn't leave this one alone. He went into a violent struggle with his better judgment, wrestling with his mouth as he started and stopped himself from speaking a dozen times. It was like watching Atlas gear up to hoist that big boulder we now live on. Finally my father got it out and said sadly, so sadly, "Sam, you are an arsonist."
Oh, how that hurt! But it was true, and I needed to hear it, needed my father to tell it to me, just as we all need our fathers to tell us the truth, as someday I'll tell it to my children, too. And someday my children will do to me what I did to my father: they will deny it, the truth.
"You're wrong," I said. "I'm a college student." I put the top back on the box of letters, handed it back to him, and left before he could say anything else. When I got back in bed, I made myself promise never to think of the letters again. Forget about them, I commanded myself. I thought I could do it, too. After all, wasn't this what college was all about? Emptying your mind of the things you didn't want to remember and filling your mind up with new things before the old, unwanted things could find their way back in?
I left for college two weeks later; it was ten years before I saw my parents again, ten years before I reread those letters, ten years before I met some of the people who'd written the letters, ten years before I found out things about my parents that I'd never suspected and never wanted to know, ten years before I went back to prison, ten years before any of what happened, happened.
But I'm getting ahead of myself. College: Since it was late in the application season, I went to the only school that accepted me-Our Lady of the Lake in Springfield, about twenty miles south of Amherst. It was a Catholic college that had just started accepting men because apparently there weren't enough Catholic women left in the Western world who wanted to pay a lot of money to get an education with no men around except for Jesus and his priests, and even the priests who supposedly ran it didn't want to teach there. A few nuns with nothing else to do other than deliver communion at the early, unpopular masses taught a couple of classes-World Religions 101 and 102-and the rest were taught by normal, irreligious teachers who couldn't get jobs anywhere else.
Excerpted from An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England by BROCK CLARKE Copyright © 2007 by Brock Clarke. Excerpted by permission.
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"This is a sad, funny, absurd, and incredibly moving novel. Its comic mournnfulness, its rigorous, breakneck narrative, delight. . . . Clarke [has] given us a wonderful book about life, literature, and the anxieties of their influence."—Sam Lipsyte, author of Home Land
"While I was reading this dark, funny, tragic novel, I would look at the people around me and feel sorry for them because they weren't occupying the same world I was; they weren't living as I was, inside the compelling, off-kilter atmosphere of Brock Clarke's pages. This is the best book I've read in a long time." — Carolyn Parkhurst, author of The Dogs of Babel
Meet the Author
Brock Clarke is the author of An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England, which was a national bestseller and has appeared in a dozen foreign editions, and three other books. He lives in Portland, Maine, and teaches creative writing at Bowdoin College. Find him online at www.brockclarke.com.
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The book was not totally horrible but I just wanted it over. The main character is an idiot that just plays the victim and resigns himself to that. There's no climax, no epiphany. You keep waiting the whole time for him to actually DO something. I won't be rushing to read anything else from this writer. Definitely disappointing.
I was really looking forward to reading this book, but after the first few chapters I found it rather boring and very predictable. The characters were all a bit sad and passive, and I couldn't really relate or sympathize with them.
I have actually stopped reading 1/3 of way through because it was so slow!
It's interesting--one of the customer reviews on Barnes & Noble's site complained that while they were drawn into the novel and enjoyed the story, they disliked the characters, and particularly protagonist Sam Pulsifer. That was one of the great draws for me. Like David Lapham's "Young Liars" series of graphic novels, toying with the notion that the narrator is bad, unlikable, unreliable, and possibly lying through his teeth is one of my favorite elements of the story. To be honest, there is a point early in AN ARSONIST'S GUIDE where Pulsifer is explaining for the reader--without rationalization or justification, simply trying to put the reader in his headspace--why it is that he'd lied to the people he loved for years, and then continued to lie and pile lies on top of lies until they simply couldn't trust him anymore. His reasoning--while flawed beyond belief--is the same I've found myself applying in the past when acting in just such a way. This book holds up a mirror to my least favorite aspect of myself, my past, my personal humiliations and my insecurities. Pulsifer is a character I don't particularly like--but I relate to him on a very personal level. And honestly, that's what a lot of the novel is about. Pulsifer, as well as a number of the characters he interacts with, have literary characters just like that. He, his mother, the folks who write him to ask for help--they all have characters they see themselves in, or that they want to avoid becoming, or that they can't escape from. It's this reality, whether you like the characters or not, that really makes the novel pop. Not to mention, of course, the cleverly flippant language, the engaging plot, the constant hope that things will turn around and the way that, like most great mysteries, something that's clearly not right at the start pays off down the road--not in the way you'd expect.
The book itself does not deliver on the promise of the title. The writer presents an interesting premise, but the main character has so little regard for himself, cares so little for what happens to him, that I wondered why should I, the reader, care what happens? I read it for a book club; would not have finished it otherwise. I would not recommend it to anybody I like.
Great read!
I enjoyed reading the book but di not like the characters. I especially did not6 like the protagonist. I enjoyed the satire/spoof of the subject matter and I did want to read to the end to find out how it all turned out. A worthy read but nothing special.
insightful and funny
This is not a book for anyone who reads to escape life's difficulties--a need I can sometimes relate to. This is a book that explores pain and tragedy, and the almost pinball effect one accident can have on numerous lives. The writing is truthful, beautiful, and often laugh-aloud funny. I dare you to resist turning to your neighbor with an impromptu recital of a passage or two. If you've ever asked yourself 'What does a traumatic event like THAT to do a person?' then you will not only understand the point of this novel, you'll want to give it a compassionate hug once you reach the end. Sam Pulsifer may be lost, but I'm not so sure he's a bumbler after all.
This book was full of twists and turns and i enjoyed it from beginning to end. i recommend this to everyone.


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I'm making a little progress in my bottom paint strip process.
What I'm up against:
How it looks after chemical stripping, manual scraping, and random orbital sanding:
I think the real cause of the problem was that the bottom was barrier coated at one point, and then the bottom paint did not adhere to the barrier coat. This has caused large chunks of paint to flake off
If you look at the second pic, you can see the difference between the white gelcoat and the gray barrier coat. If I am correct, does that mean I need to remove the barrier coat and start over?
I have lots of work ahead of me. Today I bought a new scraper with a carbide bit. That seams to work the best so far.
Barry I bought a 1.25 inch gasket scraper from sears for 10 bucks. Wonderful tool for bottom scrapping. Looks like a lot of paint that was never removed to me.
Barry, the condition on your boat appears to be caused by the application of many, many coats of bottom paint through the years. The cracks in the bottom paint look much like the cracks in the bottom of a dried-up lakebed. When it gets that way, the only real remedy is to strip it off and start over. The more layers of paint you put on, the more it cracks and peels. I've stripped two boats now.
Ideally, all the old antifouling should come off. It would be nice if you could take off only the old antifouling, but leave the barrier coat. But, when I chemically stripped my first boat, the chemical stripper removed the barrier coat along with the antifouling. If you want to prep the boat for serious racing, you should strip everything, however much work it requires. If you want to prep it for cruising and club racing, I would suggest you keep sanding the antifouling until you can't stand the thought of doing it another day. By that time, you should have it smooth enough for cruising and club racing. Then I'd put a couple coats of good ablative antifouling on it and go sailing. Each year I'd put another coat or two on it, depending on whether it's hauled during the off season.
IMHO, wet sanding, by hand, with a medium grit sanding disk removes antifouling faster than using an electric sander.
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Paint chips like that when it gets thick, a barrier coat need have nothing to do with it. With that much paint, I'd be surprised if there is a barrier coat under it - I don't think they were in use many years ago...That's the magice with ablative paint, it wont build up - just repaint as needed.
If you decide doing it by hand is too painful (as it is...) you might get a quote for blasting - maybe a local guy wil be doing some other boats and giver you a deal..
I'd highly recommend getting a quote from someone who uses the Farrow System http://www.farrowsystem.com/. Just had my bottom done for $26/foot and was pleased with the results (of their work). I gotta do a good bit of tiny blister filling, it looks like by bottom has a case of the measles.
Seems that this system allows the user to control the cut very well. Something to do with the low pressure (40 psi) and the fact that the media is very fine. All my bottom paint was removed leaving the barrier coat intact.
I'd recommend SODABLASTING the bottom of your boat. I did this earlier this year to my boat... was worth every penny. :)
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In case anyone still cares about this, I have completed my bottom stripping.
I tried chemicals, no good (I think it was too cold). I tried scrapers. The scrapers worked, but it was VERY slow going.
So I gave up and hired a soda blasting guy. For $1700 he did a great job.
Some pics are here:
I need to do a little sanding, clean up the keep, then barrier coat and paint
IMHO, the price was well worth it.
That sodablasting sounds a bit pricey... I had my boat done, yes all three hulls, last summer, and it was almost half of what you got nailed for.
In case you were serious... you can get the equipment here.
If the surface appears rough; with highs and lows and generally porous, you should sand it smooth before putting down paint. The porous surface caused by "blasting" can cause further problems with blistering. Sand blasting is a definite no-no; don't know how soda blasting compares...
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It is a truly fantastic and well done movie. Unfortunately, it is over the head of 90% of the dimwits here. If it doesn't have Superheroes, Kung Fu, and monsters, they get easily confused and say the movie sucks.
|Posted by armeek 4 months ago
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|Posted by zapater 8 months ago ( Edited 8 months ago )
Engrossing story true to events with a reliable account on the generation of writers which have since forged a great chunk of American literature ...some very inspiring acting,specially by Jude Law in the main role if he can be forgiven for the forced accent and Colin Firth always delivering high quality performances,likewise Kidman and Pearce...all in all a true Brits participating effort done with love...8/10.
|Posted by decembeardream 8 months ago
This was beautiful. frustrating yet heartwarming. i mean, we often ignored or simply forgot that behind each success there are people working behind the curtain, the footsoldiers if i may, that gives so much efforts and dedications to make it a success. so if you're looking for something deep, thoughtful or just a slice of life story, this is it.
|Posted by CYBA_CyberGhosT 9 months ago
Very good, well worth the Uploaders efforts 5/5..A well told story that's well acted and well written. Enjoy
|Posted by 2Sweet2BTrue 9 months ago
Colin Firth is still looking good, Linney as the wife did a great job, Law seemed very flamboyant and over the top but then a lot of authors and artists have been throughout history. Kidman was great as always and this film has a talented cast that does a wonderful job but the film's pace seemed off for some reason. I loved the soundtrack, love the cast but only liked the film.
|Posted by oggybleacher 9 months ago
Too many Hallmark moments in this. Wolfe is one my favorite authors but it's simply too hard a task to put these literary figures in a film. It never works. The Kerouac movie was another rough one, like a filmmaker thought a movie could sell by association with an interesting writer but Kerouac and Wolfe didn't write one plot between them and 20 books. And it turns out their lives didn't have a plot either. Putting cliche lines in the mouth of Fitzgerald and Hemingway was painful to watch. All three of them would think this is Pollyanna trash.
|Posted by IM_ 9 months ago
Truly brilliant film! Very emotional and captivating. Demonstrates the melancholics of a writer's desire to write while maintaining a beautifully poetic outlook on life. Great acting on all fronts!
|Posted by jesb51 4 months ago
Gently beautiful portrayal of literary genius, friendship and love. Great casting (Guy Pearce's Fitzgerald was heart breaking) wonderful acting and writing, just a lovely story.
|Posted by wordtothewise 4 months ago
A very beautiful and sentimental film, about genius, Ego, and a unique loving mentorship, between Wolfe the flamboyant writer and Perkins the conservative editor. A one of kind friendship that helped bring his genius and creative prose to the masses. The acting was first rate. From set design to the simple and believable script, everything about this movie felt nostalgic and sublime. A big thanks to all!
|Posted by slicknick66 4 months ago
brilliant movie,suberb acting all the way around especially by jude law.That ending tho..so sad:(.Im glad I didn't pay attention to what rotten tomatoes had to say about this because they obviously are clueless!
|Posted by moderncool 7 months ago
I thought it was surprisingly a well done movie. Great cast and strong performance from the lead actors Law and firth.
|Posted by ckhafre 9 months ago
Great drama! Not perfect (especially the script), but the acting is excellent and the costumes and sets are good too. It was really jarring listening to Jude Law, though- I felt like he did a poor version of a Southern accent- his accent sounded like a British accent trying to be American. Other than that, good movie! 4 stars
|Posted by botnayb8 9 months ago
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|Posted by finigan1 9 months ago
I really liked this movie,it is a bit slow in pace,and overly dramatic,but no more then the authors it portray's in it write in they're books,and the fact that if one man hadn't said yes,we would have never heard of the best writers of they're time. I give it a 4/5,I love to write, and am a fan of all the authors in the movie. And seeing what might not have been,makes me really wonder how much genius isn't because someone wasn't willing to give it a chance.
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Uuggh. Jude Law completely overacts his way through this one. Nicole Kidman's plastic surgery should have a credit of its own. The rest is rubbish simplified. I am not joking.
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does it seem too quiet to anyone else?? I have audio at loudest settings.
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This was a better movie than it was given press for. However, most people want a fastfood, tentpole type of entertainment and actually forget that a constant diet of fast food kills you. I would have gone to see this movie in the theatre if I would have known about it. However, I'm glad that I got to see it today. Great cast, good story and definitely one for the head. Keep it up!!
|Posted by crazy808 3 months ago
I don't get the negative comments. While I wouldn't call this a beautiful movie, it is a good one, with a great story and acting. It should really have a four-star rating rather than three. Well worth the watch.
|Posted by literati 9 months ago ( Edited 9 months ago )
How ironic - terrible script about, well, it never held its focus long enough to say. Is it about Max Perkins and his writer colleagues, about Thomas Wolfe, whose portrayal by Jude Law was destroyed by the amateurish accent or is it about insanity, forgiveness and commitment? So much potential. Can't recommend. Instead, try Midnight in Paris, Henry and June, Becoming Colette, Out of Africa, Dangerous Beauty or even The Hours. LOL, anything about writers except this. 0/5
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Psych Chapter 14: Social Psychology
Someone who acts as though they are a participant in an experiment, but are actually researchers
Situationist perspective
The view that social influence can goad people into doing things that are inconsistent with their usual behavior
Social psychology
The field of psychology that studies the nature and causes of people's thoughts and behavior in social situations
A-B problem
The issue of how well we can predict behavior on the basis of attitudes
Elaboration likelihood model
The view that persuasive messages evaluated (elaborated) on the basis of central and peripheral cues
Fear appeal
A type of persuasive communication that influences behavior on the basis of arousing fear instead of rational analysis of the issues
Peripheral route of persuasion
Associate with positive or negative cues
Central route of persuasion
Inspires thoughtful consideration of evidence and arguments
Selective avoidance
Diverting one's attention from information that inconsistent with one's attitudes
Selective exposure
Deliberately seeking and attending to information that is consistent with one's attitudes
Cognitive-dissonance theory
The view that we are motivated to make our conditions or beliefs consistent
Attitude-discrepant behavior
Behavior inconsistent with an attitude that may have the effect of modifying an attitude
Effort justification
The tendency to seek justification for strenuous efforts
Matching hypothesis
The theory that people tend to choose persons similar to themselves in attractiveness and attitudes in the formation of interpersonal relationships
Triangular model of love
Sternberg's view that love involves combinations of three components: intimacy, passion, and commitment
Consummate love
The ideal form of love within Sternberg's model
A pituitary hormone that stimulates labor in pregnant women and is connected with maternal behaviors such as cuddling
Primacy effect
The tendency to evaluate others in terms of first impressions
Recency effect
The tendency to evaluate others in terms of most recent impressions
A belief concerning why people behave in a certain way
Attribution process
The process by which people draw inferences about the motives and traits of others
Dispositional attribution
An assumption that a person's behavior is determined by internal causes such as personal attitudes or goals
Situational attribution
An assumption that a person's behavior is determined by external circumstances
Fundamental attribution error
The assumption that others act predominantly on the basis of their dispositions
Actor-observer effect
The tendency to attribute our own behavior to situational factors but to attribute the behavior of others to dispositional factors
Self-serving bias
The tendency to view one's successes as stemming from internal factors and one's failures as stemming from external factors
Acting the same in different situations
The extent to which a person responds differently in different situations
Foot-in-the-door technique
A method for inducing compliance in which a small request is followed by a larger request
Social facilitation
The process by which a person's performance is increased when other members of a group engage in similar behavior
Evaluation apprehension
Concern that others are evaluating our behavior
Diffusion of responsibility
The spreading or sharing of responsibility for a decision or behavior within a group
Social decision schemes
Rules for predicting the final outcome of group decision-making on the basis of members' initial positions
Taking an extreme position on an issue
Risky shift
The tendency to make riskier decisions as a member of a group than as an individual
A process by which members of a group are influenced by cohesiveness and a dynamic leader to ignore external realities as they make decisions (think Hitler or Mao)
The process by which group members may discontinue self-evaluation and adopt group norms and attitudes
Unselfish concern for well-being of others
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The feeling that in a large group you won't be noticed and therefore can get away with things that you couldn't in a small setting
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Melissa: Nothing Will Hurt YouMature
Days went past since then, I couldn't drown my sorrows in alcohol like Lazarus. I turned to the only thing I knew... lust and blood. These latest vampires of sparkling equivalency are bull. I am nothing like them, no, I accept my urges and my needs. I had one guy that was utterly enthralled by me, he walked up to me at the bar and he hasn't gone home since. I admit now, I didn't sleep with him, but he thought I did. Heck, if I did he certainly wouldn't have forgotten it, but I still felt tied to Lazarus and I didn't want to break that.
However, one night, I threw open the curtains in the room upstairs I used for entertaining... company and noticed Lazarus. I was naked, I did entertain him... but I didn't sleep with him. I grabbed a towel and wrapped it around myself, quickly running out to him. He was acting strange, murmuring something about 'Anna' I did not know who she was and I didn't care. I grabbed his hand and pulled him inside my house, my man-whore still upstairs sleeping. "Lazarus, what happened to you?"
"What're you doing? There're things in houses that'll hurt me." I shook my head; he was or already had gone insane. I wondered if, once again, this was my doing.
"Not mine, I assure you," but apparently, his nervous glances meant my word was not enough to convince him "I promise you," I took his hand and rubbed it soothingly. "What has happened... do you want a drink?"
"I stopped drinking." I was shocked, but thankful. Thankful to whatever deity waits up there.
"Is that why you're like this?" I did wonder, he was quite encapsulated within his alcohol, perhaps this lack of caused him to become so dazed, to wander the night through a fear of houses.
"Might be. Never tried to stop before." I didn't move to get him one, there was the chance this wasn't down to alcohol and I didn't want him slipping back into his addiction.
Ja... Ju... the man I was keeping around for blood came downstairs and I ordered him to leave. One look into my eyes and he did not object. I turned my attention back to Lazarus, "Well, I'm glad you have."
He looked over at my whore as he left: "Who's that?"
"You can drink, as can I. Unfortunately mine comes in a more... mobile bottle." I was thinking intelligent, but then that would not be true. In fact I do believe I might've found the stupidest human around. He did not seem convinced that the man meant nothing to him. "I did not sleep with him, I assure you. I gave myself to you and that word I will not break." He was quiet and I kissed his clammy hands. What has made you like this? "I did not mean for you to fall like this."
"Fall? M'not... M'not falling," he was terrified, I could see it in his eyes. My pup was afraid.
I smiled, "I still love you."
"Am I hallucinating again?"
"No, I would pinch you if you'd like," I laughed slightly, but, this was not the time or place I think.
"I keep seeing stuff," he whispered quietly... oh my dear wolf... my poor wolf, is this what I have left you to?
"Wanna talk?"
He shrugged, "My sister, someone I loved once, people I've killed, creatures coming to get me."
"I'll fight off any creature that comes to take you," I growled faking the bravery. I would gladly through myself before any creature that tries to kidnap him; however, I would probably not be able to fight them off.
"Things I try to forget come back to me in my sleep. You think you're a monster but you're nothing, not compared to me."
"Hush, do not think like that, Lazarus, don't." I know, I'm a hypocrite but I would protect Lazarus with everything, seeing him now I knew that. I knew that I had found a purpose for which if I lost would mean I would not need t0 live anymore.
"Bane's been whining about a headache," I wrapped my arms around him as best I could, smiling as he rested his head on my shoulder, "Make him shut up."
"I can't, I don't think he quite listens to me," I kissed his head and winced at his whimper making me squeeze him a little tighter, "I'm here..." I soothed.
"I need a drink. I can't do this anymore," no, no, you can't give up now!
"Lazarus, you have to be strong."
"I feel like I'm dying."
"Not while I'm here." He whimpered again and I sighed, "Just do me one thing."
"Don't ever think I'd abandon you."
I adjust my towel and pulled it tighter, "Thank you."
"I need a drink," he showed me puppy dog eyes and I sighed, just looking back at him, "please, I can't do this cold turkey shit." I pulled away slowly, going to get a bottle of whiskey and glass from the kitchen. I poured him one and watched him down it, though he was a little shaky. I kept my hand on the bottle. He put the glass down and buried his face in his hands.
I took my hand away from the bottle, looking at him with a sullen stare. "I wish I could help you."
"You can. Gimme the bottle," his voice was edged in something I didn't quite like. I shook my head firmly.
"No," I believed that would not help him and I didn't want him to fall onto his dependency on the substance. I wanted him to depend on me. He whined but that didn't bother me anymore I needed to be firm with him, he had the one drink he wanted, he would have no more. "I would give you anything right now, do anything right now. But I don't believe that by giving you the bottle you'll get better." Now I sort of guessed why he was drinking... was it Bane? Was Bane bothering so much he had to drown the wolf out?
"I'm dying."
"You're not," I was concerned he kept saying that but I didn't believe it anymore, I heard his heart beating fine.
I heard Bane, then, in my head and I thought it was only when he was in wolf form he'd be bugging me, "please, this human is destroying himself and I have to suffer with him, just give him the bottle, it'll ease the headache." You are the headache.
"I don't think you're making it any better for him! I don't want him to be dependent on alcohol to make everything go away; I want him to trust me."
"Well painkillers haven't exactly worked miracles. He took about three packets and it didn't do a thing."
"You're the headache! You're always bothered about yourself, for once just shut up and let him think!"
Lazarus growled, "Stop arguing"
"Sorry." He curled up on the sofa and I smiled, "Wanna sleep in my bed? I've just slept so I'll watch over you..."
"Come with me," he gave those cute little puppy dog eyes and I nodded, grabbing his hand as I led him to the bed, he clambered on after stripping to his boxers and I pulled up a chair beside the bed, watching him. "You'll make sure nothing gets me?"
"Absolutely nothing." He cuddled up to a pillow and I sighed, climbing up into bed with him. Hugging a pillow is no constitute. He cuddled up to me and smiled. No, nothing will get you here.


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Wed., July 17, 2013, midnight
U.S. wins group, Cuba advances in Gold Cup
EAST HARTFORD, Conn. – Brek Shea didn't expect to get off the bench Tuesday night. When he did, he grabbed the role of hero for the United States.
Shea, who struggled in an earlier Gold Cup appearance, scored his first international goal off a feed from Landon Donovan in the 82nd minute, giving the United States a 1-0 victory over Costa Rica and the top spot in its group.
Seconds after Sean Johnson made a brilliant save off a corner kick, Joe Corona cleared the ball, setting up the winning sequence. The veteran Donovan, trying to work his way back into a starring role on the national team after a self-imposed hiatus, took the ball on the right side. He quickly spotted Shea, who came on just five minutes earlier, streaking down the middle.
Donovan's pass hit Shea in stride, and the Stoke City player sent a left-footed shot from 15 yards off goalkeeper Patrick Pemberton for the winner, the Americans' eighth straight victory, a team record.
"It's good," Shea said, downplaying his massive contribution after struggling earlier in the tournament. "First U.S. goal, only goal of the game, it wins the group. Really good.
"I still prepare the same way, but honestly, no," he added when asked if he thought coach Jurgen Klinsmann would use him.
Klinsmann did call on Shea, showing faith in a player who has had his ups and downs in the national program.
"We have a lot of young players coming through the ranks," Klinsmann said. "All these players, we need to carefully build them and support them when things go wrong. Eventually, it will pay off."
The Americans will play El Salvador in the quarterfinals Sunday in Baltimore, while Costa Rica meets Honduras in the knockout round.
Shea's goal broke a 785-minute string without being scored upon for Costa Rica.
Cuba 4, Belize 0: Ariel Martinez ended Cuba's long Gold Cup drought with three goals Tuesday, and Jeniel Molina's last-second score lifted the Cubans into the quarterfinals with a rout of overmatched Belize.
The Cubans finished the tournament 1-2 after losses to the United States and Costa Rica, but the four-goal win allowed them to advance over Martinique as one of the top third-place teams.
Belize (0-3) was eliminated.


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Overseas Seafood Restaurant is a Chinese restaurant located along Springvale Road in Forest Hill serving your typical Chinese main dishes but also serving Yum Cha for lunch. For Yum Cha, they offer a wide selection of Yum Cha dishes like Siu Mai (Pork Dumplings) and Congee.
We found the service to be a bit average, which I guess is the norm in Chinese restaurants and especially so when it gets busy for Yum Cha. Food-wise, the Siu Mai had decent flavour but the congee lacked that slight saltiness.
Their Prawn filling wrapped in Beancurd skins was quite tasty. Having a bit of bite with the filling and the slightly sweet fried beancurd skin making a nice combination.
The Yam Cake and Lo Bak Go (Steamed Radish Cake) were tasty. The Lo Bak Go just needed to be a bit more crispy, but flavour-wise it was good. It had good radish flavour.
The Salted Egg Custard steamed buns were sadly overdone. Inside was not runny as it was supposed to be. A disappointment.
The Har Gow (Prawn dumpling) lacked flavour, and required the chilli sauce to add the saltiness to it. Bland.
The dumplings here had a decently tasting filling.
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Overseas Seafood Restaurant does decent Yum Cha, and honestly around the eastern suburbs it's difficult to find great Yum Cha so luckily Overseas Seafood Restaurant is above average at the very least.
Overseas Seafood Restaurant
482 Springvale Road
Forest Hill VIC 3131
Our Recipes
- Raspberry Swirl Cheesecake
- Matcha White Chocolate Hot Cross Buns
- Marmalade Custard Cake
- Lychee Chiffon Cake
- Green Tea Crème Brûlée
- Mint Choc Chip Cookies
- Almond Butter Cupcakes with Almond Buttercream
- Lychee & White Chocolate Macarons
- Ginger & Orange Melting Moments
- Black Tea Cupcakes with Honey Buttercream Frosting


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GuestHouse Inn & Suites Sutherlin
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Property Location
Located in Sutherlin, GuestHouse Inn & Suites Sutherlin is in the business district and convenient to Umpqua Golf Resort and Central Park. This hotel is within the vicinity of Oakland City Park and Misty Oaks Vineyard.
Make yourself at home in one of the 79 air-conditioned guestrooms. Complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and cable programming is available for your entertainment. Bathrooms have shower/tub combinations and complimentary toiletries. Conveniences include desks and complimentary newspapers, and housekeeping is provided daily.
Make use of convenient amenities such as complimentary wireless Internet access, a television in a common area, and complimentary use of a nearby fitness facility.
A complimentary hot/cold buffet breakfast is served daily.
Business, Other Amenities
Featured amenities include a 24-hour business center, express check-out, and complimentary newspapers in the lobby. Free self parking is available onsite.
Hotel Facilities
- Free use of nearby fitness center
- Television in common areas
- In-room accessibility
- Free WiFi
- Express check-out
- Free breakfast
- Computer station
- Laundry facilities
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Number of floors - 3
- 24-hour front desk
- Free RV, bus, truck parking
- Smoke-free property
- 24-hour business center
- Free parking nearby
- Total number of rooms - 79
- Free self parking
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Roll-in shower
- Accessible bathroom
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Elevator/lift
Room Facilities
- Refrigerator (on request)
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Premium TV channels
- Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
- Shower/tub combination
- Free local calls
- Coffee/tea maker
- Free WiFi
- Microwave (on request)
- Private bathroom
- Air conditioning
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Free long-distance calls
- Desk
- Free newspaper
- Television
- Iron/ironing board
- Free toiletries
- Cable TV service
- Daily housekeeping
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- Children 17 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding.
- The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.
The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.
- Pet fee: USD 10 per accommodation, per night
- Rollaway beds are available for an additional fee
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hi there, everyone. welcome to "your business" where we give you tips and advice to help your business grow. with the year half over, 2010 is shaping up as a mixed bag for small business owners. and recently released statistics leave a lot of question marks about the future. last week the commerce department reported that consumers have cut spending. retail sales dropped 5% in june and the national federation of independent businesses monthly survey of small business owners shows optimism was down last month. this comes as the senate wrangles over president obama's proposed legislation for small business tax breaks and a $30 billion in expanded government lending. our guest says the banks have the money to lend but aren't
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because lack of sales is making small business unworthy of cred credit. also with us todd mccracken president of the national small business association. great to see both of you. >> great to be here. >> bill, i want to start with you because there has been this debate going on in washington whether to pass this $30 billion lending program. i'm assuming you think there is no need for it. you say the banks already have the money. >> i think they do. i'm the chairman of the board of a small bank that services small businesses in new jersey and we just want some good applicants to come in the door. we'd like to make loans. and it's getting a little bit better month to month. we're getting some. but if you look at the whole banking system loaded with money to lend but if you look at the small business owners, you know, they don't have a reason to lend. i'll just give you one simple example. small businesses really dominate the construction market. housing starts are a million below, a million units below where they usually are, and that would mean a million applications for construction loans don't happen and because these firms are sitting on the sideline waiting for a customer who will buy the house.
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that's basically what we're seeing is loaned demand is really low right now. >> todd, we've been talking about credit, credit, hard to get for the past year. >> right. >> bill is saying, you know, now it's not that the money is not there but that good borrowers aren't there. you seeing the same thing? >> well, sort of. as i look at it from a little bit different perspective, though, clearly demand is not what it would be if we were having a really robust economic upturn. but we also see pockets where there is a real problem out there. the independent bankers tell us that more than a thousand of their members have reached their loan limits, capital requirements, and can't make new loans. a lot of other banks are being told by the examiners that they're over leveraged in certain markets. when a small business goes out they don't have this data. all they know is they got turned down for the loan. >> do you think we're on a slippery slope back down? your survey showed optimism down. do you think that might change in the next couple months or do you think we'll just head down?
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>> i'd like to see it changed. unfortunately a lot of things happening in washington don't give us a lot of confidence. looking at the percent of our owners who say it's not a good time to expand because of the political environment, you know, it's four times where it was in 2000 for example so that's a major concern for small businesses and uncertainty means you don't commit your money until you know what kind of an environment you're going to be in. so that's holding back. capital spending is at 35-year lows on our survey. we have more firms planning to cut inventories than add. would be nice if that changed. again, it all comes around to the top problem for them which is no customers so consumer spending is weak and until we get the consumer excited i think we'll have very slow growth here. >> i have to say, you know, this is not statistically significant. this is just me talking to some people. and i have gotten a sense that people, their attitude is changing. nobody is jumping up and down right now but there are people out there who are suddenly saying, i see that there may be a light at the end of the tunnel. they're not biting their nails
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every night. todd, do you see that or am i surrounded by a bunch of optimistic people? >> i'd say it's 50/50. i sort of agree with you but not entirely. we're about to release our own mid year economic report and what it shows is that there are more people out there who are expressing optimism. but there are also more people out there expressing pessimism. so if you average them out, optimism really seems to be going up at the end of last year, early in 2010, and at least on average it seems to be leveling off and people maybe on average are getting more pessimistic is what our survey is showing but there is this pocket of people whose optimism has really made a jump. interesting. >> what's interesting is a lot of people i talk to, their complete attitude has changed. they say, now, flat, totally fine. i'm not worried about flat. i just don't want to see it go down anymore whereas in past years they might have thought flat was a terrible thing. thank you so much. we'll continue checking in with you to see what the state of the
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world is out there. >> thanks, j.j. >> thanks a bunch. starting a business with a friend can get complicated. who's going to be the boss? who's going to handle the difficult tasks like firing employees or dealing with unhappy customers? well, we recently spent some time with the three founders of an indoor rock climbing gym in brooklyn. we found out how these three college buddies turned business parters have made the best of what could have been some tricky times. in the old days sports in new york city used to be of the classic variety, but times have changed. this is brooklyn boulders. 20,000 square feet of rock climbing in the heart of the burough. >> it was great that this opened because this is the only place in brooklyn and one of the few places in the entire city. >> the facility, which opened last september, is the work of fraternity brothers turned business partners, jeremy, lance, and steven.
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going into business with your close friends may sound risky but these guys have figured out how to make it work. >> this is the promotion we ran. >> they found that a clear division of responsibilities has helped them tackle the challenges of managing the startup and avoid any personal drama. >> whenever the discussion gets a little fiery, we're always just like, friends first, friends first. >> jeremy and steven, both avid climbers, wrote a business plan for a climbing gym while studying entrepreneurship at college. they went their separate ways after graduation but continued to pursue their idea. >> new york city didn't really have any true climbing gyms. >> we realized that we have all the capabilities, so we figured, why not? let's go for it. >> from the start their roles have been defined. jeremy, who works in finance in boston, came up with the projections and model. and he and steven pitched the idea to their families. >> there's 36 million americans that claim that they climb.
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you know, we can find at least a few thousand in a city of 11 million willing to do it at a price that makes sense. >> they also brought on a third friend from college to round out the team. >> they're like, do you want to be part of this? you have natural skills to run the business. we trust you. and i said, yes, i do, but i want equity. and so that's how i got into the mix. >> lance is the operations guy. he can sell anyone anything. great at sales and marketing and pr. i'm the creative type. i can, you know, design and build. jeremy's the financier so with my vision, jeremy's capabilities, and lance's execution, the roles were just so clearly defined from the very beginning. >> with funding and a management team in place, steven took over the creative responsibilities. he searched around new york city for more than a year before securing a lease on a 100-year-old warehouse in brooklyn that used to house newspaper delivery trucks.
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>> we had to think very creatively. essentially leveraged every resource we had. >> for the average person, the construction project would be close to impossible. but steven had resources at his disposal. for years he had worked in his family's experiential marketing production companies. he sketched the entire layout and contracted with them to build it in stages. he and lance oversaw the project and made sure to maintain an urban look that fit in with the surroundings. >> we were constantly working on every inch of this building. finally when we got to the point where we were adding the texture like the rock surface on the walls we split the team into two. so we had one shift coming in at 4:00 p.m. or 5:00 p.m. and working until 1:00 or 2:00 in the morning. >> now that brooklyn boulders is open for business, lance manages the day-to-day operations while jeremy and steven continue in their roles behind the scenes. >> i'm ready for any job.
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no job is too small for me. seeing all the jobs from all the angles makes me the perfect person to assign those jobs and, you know, make this place run like a well oiled machine. >> i've got a very intimate knowledge of the numbers and that certainly helps you figure out pretty quickly if there is something going wrong or not. >> we want to be known as specialists in what we do. so driving that home, making sure that the real hard core climbers are happy and continue to stay happy and then the trickle down effect, everyone else will hopefully benefit. >> and while they're each focused on their specific responsibilities within the business they all have an eye on the big picture. >> when it comes to what's going to happen over the next five years, you know, the three of us really have -- there is no major decision that will get done without the three of us being on exactly the same page. so what are the potential
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pros and cons of running a business with friends? let's turn to this week's board of directors to ask them. we have a former venture capitalist and a serial entrepreneur who has founded five, six -- different every time i say it. five companies. >> looking older than i am. >> great to be with both of you. i asked if you had started a company with a friend. you both said yes. did it work out? >> not so well. first off these guys show tremendous passion so i love the business, they're having fun, having a good time with it, but things don't always go as smoothly as you think they're going to go. there's usually going to be, in my experience there was a stress point where i wanted to go one direction and my partner wanted a different direction very early on in the business and it really hurt the business. we survived but there were -- i had a lot of lessons learned in going through that experience. >> like? >> well, first you need to have one, clear leader in the business. so these guys, i respect the fact that they want to have all three of them vote together and
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no major decisions made unless all three want to go in that direction. maybe not the best formula. maybe they should have one person that they agree is, if there is a stalemate, that one person is going to make the overriding decision. >> and also, we always say get ready for the divorce at the beginning of the marriage basically. so have a contract? >> yeah. i mean, i think whether you're friends with a person in advance or, you know, it's somebody that you've recruited through another source you still have to be very careful about creating a partnership agreement and figuring out what happens to that person's equity should they need to leave the business early. i think in this case it looks like they have kind of followed, you know, what you're talking about, which is to define roles early on. one seemed to be kind of the cfo. the other one seemed to be a coo and then, you know, the other partner had maybe more of the idea and a ceo visionary role. so they seemed to be executing that advice. >> but a buy/sell agreement. i think they need to sit down and put together a buy/sell
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agreement right now and that means let's value what we think the business is going to be valued at, create a formula based on how the business grows so if somebody wants out or two of the guys want somebody out they've got a way to do that. >> the thing too is you need to think so beyond, so think about if somebody gets married. i mean you can always revisit but if somebody gets married and something happens to that person how does their partner get involved in the business or not? and there are just so many what ifs. >> a lot of unknowns right now. >> that you need to think about and try to account for as many as possible. i did like, though, when it works, it's brilliant. right? >> when it works, it's terrific. there is nothing like going to a place every day that's your job with your buddies. there is nothing like that. >> all right. thanks so much, you guys. twitter. we hear about it all the time. often by people saying it's a great way to help your business. well, we wanted to learn how it can help your business. so we went to twitter con where hundreds of small business owners and some big business owners like martha stewart had a
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tweet up to talk about harnessing the power of twitter. ♪ tweet, tweet, tweet >> from social media gurus to leaders of major companies to small business owners twitter is transforming the way people do business. >> takes the core value proposition of the business and makes it even better because it can notify people right in the moment to a specific place and specific time when to get the best experience. >> we asked for customer testimonials. we can survey folks, ask them what they like or don't like about our service. >> business owners from all over the country gathered at twitter con in new york city. there they learned from experts and from each other how to better leverage social media. >> as a piece of research, it's accurate. it's informative. it's certainly to the point. >> martha stewart shared her advice for connecting customers via twitter. >> look, i think it's really worth trying for any business. you want to be where your customer is so if there is a
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very vibrant environment like twitter why not use it? >> laura fitton, author of "twitter for dummies" shared her best tips for using twitter for your business. >> my four word guide to twitter and any social media platform is listen, learn, care, and serve. right? so dive in and look for key words related to your business, look for things related to your locality, and just provide lots of ideas, lots of questions, lots of content, lots of data around that core problem. and the right people will find you because you'll be helping them. >> and twitter isn't the only way for businesses to connect with customers online. new location based applications like four square can also provide opportunities for entrepreneurs to spread the word about their companies. >> we're allowing people, allowing business owners to engage with the merchants or engage with their customers while actually at their particular business. >> so if a message appears to folks when they check in to say, hey, we have this special going on this week or here's the, you
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know, the recommendations we have from the menu. you can also see what people are saying about your location, as well, and follow up with them, both the good and the bad. >> and small business owners are taking to their computers, smart phones, and i-pads to share and discover what's going on with business right now. >> what people need to realize is twitter enables you to have access to anyone. it's reel b ae's really about t conversation. if you have something interesting to say or want to engage somebody you can talk to people you never could reach before. ♪ tweet, tweet, tweet >> you can also follow us on twitter. find out about the latest small business news and learn more about upcoming segments on the show. it's at msnbc yourbiz. coming up, the topic we get the most mail about -- funding. we'll answer your business questions including one about the best way to obtain a $50,000 loan. and we have a brand new segment. where's the money?
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this week micro loans and how they helped two women from georgia start their cleaning service. [trumpet playing "reveille" throughout]
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reviving the economy means reinventing the way we do business. here's to the owners showing us the way. [trumpet playing "reveille" fades to silence] it is by far the issue we get the most viewer mail about. entrepreneurs are always asking where can i find funding for my small business? well, we heard you. and so this week we're starting a new feature called "where's the money?" we'll be looking at many different funding alternatives to help you grow your business. this week, micro loans. how they work, what you need to do to obtain one, and how it helped two women from georgia reach their entrepreneurial dream.
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♪ >> i wasn't able to go to a bank to get a conventional loan because my credit was so poor. >> i was making no money. i mean, i couldn't buy groceries. i don't even know how i paid for daycare back then. i don't know how. >> as single moms working minimum wage jobs with no business experience lisa and terry's only assets were smarts and determination. >> i thought that maybe i could, you know, do this on my own, be my own boss, and make my own dreams come true. >> when lisa first met us she said what she did was she looked around at all the expensive, beautiful homes being built on the lake in the county that she lives in and said, somebody's got to clean those people's homes. >> i wanted to work for myself, be self-employed, and i had
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heard about grace and ace through a friend of mine. >> we give people that shot they wouldn't have otherwise because they are people that are low income or moderate income but have maybe some problems with their credit or don't have enough collateral. >> when lisa first heard about a micro loan program in her community, she community, she approached her friend, terry, about starting up a business. >> she said, i found this entrepreneur loan that we could apply for and let's try it. i said okay. >> the loan lisa davies found is from ace, appalachian community enterprises, a community-based nonprofit micro loan organization set up to help people who traditional banks won't. >> we don't just look at the credit score, we look at what's gone on with the person. >> grace and her team do more than just make loans.
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>> you want to sign this? >> yes. >> they look at aspiring entrepreneurs and from the beginning, give them support along the way. >> i bet you would like this. >> oh, yeah. >> thank you very much. >> congratulations. >> she helps startups on the ground level, loans of $500 and up to $35,000 alone with providing classes on management and finance. >> to take out $4,000 was -- man, i cried. i mean, me and lisa sat on the phone and cried about it. it was scary. but if it's a good idea, it's going to work. >> i created this organization -- dba -- doing business as miracle maids. we make miracles out of messes. >> for some of the rural poor isolate in the beautiful mountains of appalachia, small amounts of capital and large doses of education are the keys
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of establishing economic independence. >> they get encouraged by each other, they learn from each other. not just the money. >> for lisa and terri, this formula worked spectacularly well. >> man, it took off so fams. it got -- it was crazy. another. >> it can and generally does take years before a startup turns a profit. but there are other ways to measure the progress of the growing company. here are five ideas courtesy of forbes.com. number one, the presence of a well-rounded team. you should establish a balanced staff with connections in your industries. two, a working prototype. in the early stages, a prototype can be a big step toward securing investment. three, register property. a provisional patent or a domain name, you should take steps to protect your intellectual property, four, clearly define objectives and milestones. give your staff a chance to
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reach obtainable objections. number five, expert status. build reputation and your business by establishing yourself as an expert in the industry. time now to answer some of your business questions. erica and paul are back with us again. the first question is where to find funding. >> if i was to get a loan for $50,000, would i want that loan to come from a family member, a bank, or a vc. >> i can answer this one? i have sort of bad news to break to this questioner which is that, number one, a vc is probably not going to be a viable option. they're not in the business of making loans, particularly of that small amount. that's out. number two, generally if you're trying to get a loan from the bank, unfortunately most circumstances they're only willing to make the loan to you if you don't need the money. >> right. >> even if you have the setup where you can be an appropriate
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candidate for a bank loan, it will take more time and effort. if it's possible to get a loan from your family, that would be the fastest and most efficient way to go. the downside with that, you'll have a family member who wants to know about your business for a long time. >> makes it tricky sitting around the thanksgiving dinner table if business isn't doing well. the family member needs to know this is a business deal they're going into. instead of a loan, sell a piece of equity for $50,000 to a family member. there's no payback. >> that makes sense to you. at the same time in the early stage of the business, you don't want to necessarily sign an evaluation to your company for $50,000. so maybe having it be an equity convertible-type note gives your family member the option to convert it to equity or get the cash back. >> sounds good. this is a question from ernie. he writes, i i had some
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technical issues recently which only affected a small portion of my customers. should i address it with my website or -- you have some so you want to address it. so should you let everyone not having problems know that you have problems. >> honesty is the best policy. i think we know about that, i think honesty is the best policy. get it out there, get it out front. people are going to leave you if you have the problem and you're not addressing the problem. he could turn this to a positive. let's show you have integrity, honest, doing the right things to fix it. >> i agree honesty is the best policy. i agree with his hesitation which is you don't want to bring up problems with people not experiencing them. being an internet entrepreneur, he should know how to send out a newsletter to customers who aren't experiencing the problem. >> he doesn't know who they are.
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>> i thought they were contacting him about the problem, yeah. in that case, it's best to address the whole group. >> if you're going to address the whole group, there are ways to say it. be careful of how you word it. we want to let you know that every person counts and this is what you're doing. >> make it positive. >> we have a question from a bread maker. >> we have a business that has strong local brand recognition and are interested in trademarkitrademark ing our logo and name and so forth. not sure how to start it. >> uspt.gov. you don't need to hire a lawyer necessarily to do this. the trek that you can do is take a look at the logos, the materials, and send it to the g mail account and it's archived, time, date stamped. if there's a issue of first use, he can go back to that. >> a lot of websites out there will do it for you for a
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relatively low fee. if you want to have a lawyer involved down the road to give you more specific advice, always get started asap using one of the simple routes. >> thank you so much for the advice. as you know, all of the questions came from our viewers. if anyone out there has a question, send us your questions and we'll get our experts to answer them. openforum.com/yourbusiness. there all you have to do is it ask the show link. again the website is openforum.com/yourbusiness. you can e-mail your questions or comments. your email@example.com. search engine optimization is a great way to enhance your business on-line. goingup.com provides a variety of free web analytics and sco services. registered users can check out
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Klippin Krazy Koupons
Gypsy Mama Logs
Keenly Kristin
Martinsville Macaroni Kid
Lemonade Mommy
Shore Savings with Patti
Krazy Clippers
About a Mom
Been There Done That, with Kat
Full Price? Never!
Freebie Princess: Stick with Me, Get it Free!
Sweeping the USA
Fabulous Deals & Steals
Imperfect Women
In order to be eligible to win this giveaway, you must:
- Follow each blog above (as stated)
- Put Frugal Finders as your answer to entry #1 (in the entry form).
- Fill in the entry form below, clicking I Did It!