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Feast, famine, and the Cubs (Game Recaps: Cubs 12, Angels 13)
I owe you two recaps: one for a blowout loss, and one for a blowout win. Let's go with the revisionist's take on the weekend, and only highlight the Cubs that impressed.
- Carlos Zambrano. Seven innings, eight hits, just one walk, and seven strikeouts. Brilliant. This is what we want from our bull-like horse-pitcher.
(I guess that makes him a minotaur? Kurt, photoshop please?)
- Andrew Cashner, Carlos Marmol, and - yes - John Grabow each pitched a scoreless inning of relief. Marmol struck out two of the four batters he faced.
- Derrek Lee went 2-for-7 over the two days, driving in four runs.
- Actually, Tyler Colvin was the only other Cub to drive in more than one run, with two RBIs on Sunday via pinch-hit single. (He went 0-for-4 with a strikeout on Saturday, but who's counting?)
- Ryan Theriot went 3-for-4 on Sunday, and 0-for-1 on Saturday.
- Others: Byrd, 3-for-10 on the weekend; Soriano, 2-for-5; Baker, 2-for-6; and Carlos Zambrano went 2-for-4.
The real lesson here: Jered Weaver would light up the NL, and Joe Saunders is not that good. And the Cubs are, somehow someway, still kinda sorta almost a team in contention except not really.
Also: think anyone wants to trade for Lilly or DLee as of right now?
Reader Blog: Week 11 awards: Hard to defend Cubs' defense
The Cubs have had plenty of problems on offense this season, and they've struggled at times on the mound. But last week, their most prominent deficiency was in the field. After committing a rather unreasonable 12 errors in six games, they have now committed the third-most in the majors. Errors last week:
Lee: 3 (committed six all of last season)
Baker: 3
Colvin: 2
Soto: 2
Castro: 1
Lilly: 1
The Cubs allowed four unearned runs in a 9-5 loss Tuesday, four more in a 7-6 loss Friday, and had they not given the Angels four more on Saturday, they would have ... well, lost 8-0. But still.
I was "lucky" enough to see Saturday's demolition in person, and I guess we can't be surprised that this feast or famine team followed up that drubbing with a 12-1 pounding of their own. Here's hoping the offense can remain locked in as the Cubs will face two Seattle starters with sub-three ERAs, including Cliff Lee, and then Felix Hernandez.
Ryno of the Week: Colvin continued to rake, going 6-for-15 with two home runs, six RBI and three runs scored. He's now hitting .339 at home. But how nice was it to see Carlos Zambrano put together a couple good starts, especially yesterday's? His line--7 IP, 8 H, 7 R, 1 BB, 7 K--was his best of the season, and he added two hits and an RBI just for the heck of it.
Honorable mentions: Derrek Lee, Xavier Nady
Goat of the Week: Alfonso Soriano continues to look lost at the plate despite two hits yesterday, but being there live to see Ted Lilly get banged around leads me to give him this inglorious distinction. He needed 104 pitches to get through 5.1, giving up six earned runs on nine hits and three walks. He's been great this year, but Saturday just wasn't his day.
Gamecast (June 20, 2010) Angels @ Cubs
Happy Father's Day!!
Yesterday's game was the kind of loss that a team as bad as the one described by many on this blog would expect would happen all the time. It simply hasn't. The Cubs got trounced yesterday so no one was ever frustrated I guess. Cubs are now 8 games under and 8 games back in the Central. It's becoming hard but it's not totally impossible to imagine the Cubs coming back this year. As usual, they need to win today.
Today's Matchup: Joe Saunders (84.1IP, 4.70ERA, 5.44xFIP) vs Carlos Zambrano (47.2IP, 5.66ERA, 4.49xFIP)
Who's Hot: Well, that'd be the Angels. The Angels have scored 20 runs in the first two games of the series and the Cubs either can't get anyone out or they throw the ball into the camera well.
I wanted to also point out the awesome season that Geovany Soto is having and ask a question. Why Lou? I know Koyie Hill is marginally better defensively but Soto is clearly better offensively. Here is Soto's slash line this season: .272/.406/.450. That makes him one of the best offensive catchers in the NL. And the Cubs need offense. For some reason, Soto has had only 28 plate appearances in the month of June. Come on Lou, play this guy!
Who's Not: I'm a big fan of Starlin Castro and any player who can come up and do decently at the major league level at the age of 20 deserves our respect but he's now on a 3 game strikeout streak and quite frankly, I was hoping his contact rate would be much better than the 85% level it is this year. That's about Theriot's contact rate. I'm sure he'll get better and at this point, it is about the future with him, but I guess I was hoping for more than this.
Conclusion: Today is Father's Day and I love baseball. I get to watch as much as I want today and to be honest, I'm only going to be mildly tuning into this game. I do think that the key to Zambrano today is going to be his walks. He's striking people out this year and I think if he can keep his walks below 2 in this game, he will win. Saunders, OTOH, is probably a month or so away from pitching himself out of the Angels' rotation. The Cubs need to help him along today. He simply isn't fooling anyone. Hopefully the Cubs don't get embarrassed by this guy.
Gamecast (June 19, 2010) Angels @ Cubs
Well everyone. We're not 10 games out yet. I'm just saying. As I write this, the Cubs are already down 4-0. Yesterday's loss against the Angels was another one of the 1 run variety. The Cubs are now 10-16 in 1 run games.Hopefully the Cubs can come back today and try to win this blasted game!
Today's Matchup: Jered Weaver (87.2IP, 3.29ERA, 3.49xFIP) vs Ted Lilly (68.1IP, 2.90ERA, 4.79xFIP)
Who's Hot? Derrek Lee and Tyler Colvin had a pretty good game yesterday. Lee is about to start moving back towards his normal .360 wOBA type numbers. Colvin continues to dumfound me. If Lee is due to move up, I think Colvin is due to regress. I wanted to point this out:
Colvin 2010 (major leagues): .315/.372/.639
Colvin 2009 (Double A): .300/.334/.524
He should be a decent player. Instead he's Albert Pujols lite. I expect that to end fairly soon, especially since Lou has decided he's now a regular.
Who's Not? I was just beginning to think that Jeff Baker was enough better than Aramis Ramirez that he could be at least a part time thirdbaseman even when Rammy got back. And then he goes out and basically gives the Angels a big inning that kept the Cubs comeback from resulting in a win yesterday. Jeez.
Conclusion: Once again, I point out, the Cubs are not quite out of it. They are drawing to the proverbial two outer (to use a poker term that probably is missed by many here) but they aren't quite out of it. Recently I saw the draft order for next year and saw that the Cubs were in the top 10 at number 9 currently! For the most part, they have been better than that in the last decade or so. I don't think they will pick that high but if they continue to get as sick unlucky as they have been. The bright side is we'll see a high draft pick. So watch the game today. Root for a win. Be philisophical if they lose.
Today's lesson for you kids - be nicer to us older Cub fans
I understand many of us who come here frequently have been fans for less than ten years, because you're young. That's how it is. You are fans of a team with a Playoff past, and three division titles in the past seven years. A team that, in your perspective, has been as competitive as the Cardinals and Astros, and way better than the Pirates and Reds. The Cubs have ALWAYS been a good team, as far as you're concerned.
This year, things aren't working out so well so far. Yes, our bullpen gacked up some games early on, then Lee and Ramirez stopped hitting, and before your knew it, pretty much everyone except Marlon Byrd and Tyler Colvin stopped hitting. Now we look up, it is mid-June, and we are seven games below .500. But you preach patience, because after all, for the entire history of your following the Cubs, they have been a good team, outside of those couple of years after Dusty Baker died but for some reason nobody saw fit to replace him with somebody else.
Your Chicago Cubs could make up an 8-game deficit in a couple of weeks, so you aren't worried.
The Derrek Lee you know will start hitting, now that it is hot. The Alfonso Soriano you know will snap into one of his patented streaks any minute now and carry us for 10 days or so. The Aramis Ramirez you know is just...too...good of a player to continue as he has. The Carlos Zambrano you know has been tinkered and dicked with this year, and once he gets back into the groove, is going to dominate the second half of the year.
You know this because all these guys have done it before, and since we live in a common law nation, we believe in these precedents, that history is an indicator of future performance. You have faith that all this will happen.
Yes, but I too have precedents. I have told you what i have seen already: i see several guys who are making 8-figure salaries who are not earning their keep. i understand that we all have finite lifetimes, as well as finite careers, and based on some consistently poor analysis, we have several guys in key positions who are simultaneously hitting the wall.
Between Soriano (yes, still streaky, but not as strong and flexible at 34 as he was at 27), Zambrano (a power pitcher with diminished power from 8 years of high pitch counts), Lee (older and never truly 'clutch'), Ramirez (either injured, ill or off of the juice), Silva (apparently his deal with Satan was short-term), Fukudome (merely good enough to thrive while the rest of the league rounds into shape in the early spring, but not good enough to keep up the rest of the year), Dempster and Lilly (who were never more than second and third starters)?
None of these guys are tradeable. You really can't release them. You can't send them to the minors, except for rehabs. You say that's a good thing because these are my heroes. What do I see? There's the prohibitively expensive core of your team who is on steep decline. This is what I see. Now, you wonder, how can I think that? Why so negative? These things never happen like this?
Oh, no? How about after 1989, when we counted on the core of Dawson, Sutcliffe, Bielecki, Walton, Vance Law, Dunston, and yeah, Sandberg? Or after 1984, when we counted on continued brilliance from Cey, Matthews, Durham, Bowa, Jody Davis? Not to mention the ENTIRE five man rotation who spent some time on the DL the next year (all five at ONCE for one 8-day stretch), and none of them ever approached their former level of efficiency as starters again. (Of course, one of them gave up the booze and became the greatest closer ever, for Tony LaRussa).
How about the entire 1969 Cubs team, all of which were (effectively) out of baseball by 1974? They all grew old, at once! Then, the period between 1969 and 1984, when we brought in one former all-star after another (Joe Pepitone, Rick Monday, Bobby Murcer, Dave Kingman, Bobby Bonds) only to sit and watch them fizzle out, one after the other. From 1973 to 1984, they NEVER finished above .500. In 1977, they were 30 games OVER .500 at one point, and they gave it ALL back at the end. Every single year, there was legitimate hope in the spring, and every single fall, more losses than wins.
So, if the question was: "When have you ever seen several guys just lose it, ALL at once? It isn't possible?", your answer is, oh, yes, it can, and it has, here, in Chicago, several times. This is the precedent I know. And when I look at the so-called Core of the 2007-2008 teams, this is what I see.
The people who are the fans of this team prior to this decade have seen the 2010 version of this movie before, and it has never ended well. Not once. Could it have a happy ending, this time? I.....suppose anything's possible. Please, though, forgive me if I seem skeptical.
Tylver Colvin is cool (Game Recap: Cubs 6, Angels 7)
World Cup is on, so I recommend you watch that. Also, the Cubs played last night, but they lost, so I wouldn't think about it too much.
In a nutshell: Carlos Silva gave up three runs over six innings, and came out after throwing just 70 pitches, forcing Bob Howry to come on in relief, who was bad enough already (allowed a two-run homer to Howie Kendrick), but had his appearance made worse by two Jeff Baker errors (third time a Cub has committed two errors in one inning), and while the Cubs tried to fight back (three-run bomb from Tyler Colvin in the ninth), it wasn't enough.
So that sucks. But anyways, go Cubs.
Gamecast (June 18, 2010) Angels @ Cubs
Believe it or not, the Cubs aren't quite out of it and could use a victory today and hopefully another series win this weekend. I realize how hard that is to comprehend as bad as this team has played this year. I may be alone on this here but I see this team is more mediocre than bad and even though I doubt they are going anywhere this year, I think they have a run or two in them, call me the eternal optimist I guess.
Today's Matchup: Carlos Silva (74.2IP, 2.89ERA, 3.86xFIP) vs Scott Kazmir (66.2IP, 5.27ERA, 5.30xFIP)
Who's Hot: Silva has allowed 3 ER over his last 21 IP. In those 3 games, he has a K/BB rate of 22/3. Who knew this was what we were getting when we dealt Milton Bradley?!? I'd still trade him but OMG, he's been spectacular.
Who's Not: Derek Lee has a triple slash line of .205/.327/.364 in June. Ouch. It's still probably too soon to put a fork in him but the time to implement A.J.'s Colvin starting fulltime at first base is coming soon.
Conclusion: The Cubs have a 2 game winning streak. The 8 out of 10 or 12 out of 15 or so streak has to come soon or they will be giving up the season. I still think they have something like that in them. They need to win today. That much is obvious.
Series Preview: Angels vs. Cubs
The incredibly exciting interleague baseball season continues today, as the California Angels of Los Anaheimgeles head to Wrigley to take on the Cubs. The Angels are 5 games over .500; the Cubs are 6 games under. The Angels are a team built on years of superior general managerialship, the Cubs aren't.
But what they do have in common is this: the Angels have scored 12 fewer runs than they've allowed, while the Cubs have scored 13 fewer runs than theyv'e allowed. This doesn't make Chicago good, it just means that Anahengelesim (Calosiforniangeleheim?) probably shouldn't be a winning team right now.
Still, the Cubs are 6-8 since the start of June, and this is the part where I really, really man up.
Every year, with every slow start -- and lord knows we see a lot of them, even in the playoff seasons -- I say the same thing: have patience, let's see where they are in two months, don't panic.
Well, folks, it's been two months. The Cubs are 6 games under .500, Derrek Lee left his talent back in 2009*, Aramis Ramirez has left us yearning for the Vance Law years, and through only some fault of his own Carlos Zambrano is a 2-5 pitcher. In other words, two months after a slow start with problematic players and troubled fundamentals, the curtain has been pulled back and the Cubs are now revealed to be ... a really, really shitty ballteam. We're talking 78 wins at best.
(*.228 AVG, D-Lee? Really?)
The worst part about it, though, is that some guys have been insanely good. And there's nothing more disgusting than having unexpected players put up amazing, career years, only for them to be wasted. Marlon Byrd is batting .328 with 9 homers and a .902 OPS. Even Lil' Mike Fontenot is batting .293 right now. Carlos Silva is 8-1 with a .289 ERA. Carlos Marmol could turn his back to the plate and fire his pitches from between his legs like an NFL center, and he'd still be striking out an assload of players.
So why, then, why must these great performances be wasted on a team that won't win 80 games? As much as it hurts me to say this, the clear choice here is that some, if not many of these talents need to be dealt this and next month. It's time to start looking ahead toward the Next Great Purge. So, Cub fans, say farewell to Ted Lilly, Derrek Lee, Mike Fontenot, Kosuke Fukudome, the rest while you still can. Some of these guys will make it to October, but most will be watching the leaves turn colors in a new city.
But I digress. Onward with the preview!
Friday, June 18 - Carlos Silva (8-1, 2.89 ERA) vs. Scott Kazmir (6-5, 5.27 ERA)
Carlos Silva is on pace to win more games in 2010 than he won from 2007-2009 combined. Can you imagine what these Cubs would be like if he wasn't pitching for them? Holy hell! At the moment, he looks like he's going to toss around 190 innings, walking 34 -- 34!! that's Maddux territory! -- and striking out 130. Keep in mind that he has never, ever struck out more than 89 in a season.
Not to mention he's from the same hometown as me -- Bolivar. Granted, mine was a Bolivar located in the US. Still, he and I clearly have a lot in common -- from our wide girths to our obsession with impeccable control, not to mention our shared inability to strike out major league hitters ... yep, Carlos reminds me of me.
Scott Kazmir is a former Ray with recurring arm problems and ungodly talent. Sounds like he should've been a Cub. Kaz has only ever thrown 200 innings once in his career, and he has struggled in '10 with pretty much everything -- control, movement, his addiction to viagara, you name it. Although the Cubs tend to melt like a 12-year-old girl at a Jonas Bros. concert whenever they face a new lefty, they should have a shot.
Saturday, June 19th - Ted Lilly (2-5, 2.90 ERA) vs. Jered Weaver (6-3, 3.29 ERA)
Have you seen a picture of Jered Weaver? No? Check it out -- the guy's a douchebag. I don't know if it's his mullet, or the hint of a soulpatch that he wears on his chin, or that "who farted, y'all" expression on his face, but Weaver puts the "douche" in "douchebag." And yet ... he's 27 years old, has a career 3.67 ERA, won 16 games last year, and is on pace to strike out more than 200 players this season. The concensus, then, is this: the Cubs need more douchebags like Jered Weaver on their team.
His opponent is the Iceman, Ted Lilly, known also as "the best free agent singing the Cubs have ever had." When Lilly's not at Celebrity Impersonation Conventions in his Ghost Busters costume, he stays busy by kicking some serious baseball ass. Yes, I write this despite the fact that he's 2-5 and will be lucky to pitch 5 more games in a Cubs uniform. But fresh off his failed no-hit bid, if any unlucky Cub can defeat the steaming pile of douchocity that is Jered Weaver, it's Theodore Roosevelt Lilly.
Sunday, June 20th - Carlos Zambrano (2-5, 5.66 ERA) vs. Joe Saunders, 5-7, 4.70 ERA
I wonder if there's an unwritten rule somewhere about how the most talented Cub pitchers must fly too close to the sun at some point in their career. Zambrano is just the last example of that -- after Kerry Wood 20K'd his arm into oblivion, and Mark Prior made the National League his bitch for a season (right up until his arm said, "oh no no, it is you who are the bitch!"), should we have been surprised by the Big Moose's catastrophic downturn following his no-hitter?
I love the guy. You know it, I know it, even he knows it. But at this point, I'm on the cusp of hitting a terminal level on the Frustration Saturation Scale. Unless Carlos shocks us all and has the best three months of his career -- or even three above average months -- I think I'll be a little too sad and frustrated to want to see him in a Cubs uniform anymore. It'll just remind me of yet another disappointment.
But, hey -- if Carlos is going to pummel anybody, it's Joe Saunders. He's the Jan Brady of the Angels staff, a guy of midling talent who can't get it together. Dude's got 37 walks and 38 strikeouts, for Chrissakes!
At this point, I think I would rather get caught in a riot at the G20 than watch a Cubs game in person this year. They are painful. But if ever they were going to beat a team with a winning record at home, it would be this team, the Angels. Los Canaheiliforniam have a puff-pastry record, they're tapping two of their worst starters, and the Cubs -- *snicker * -- are more than due.
So, c'mon, win already!
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All About Kosuke (Game Recap: Cubs 3, Athletics 2)
The Cubs won their series against the Athletics last night behind the bat of Kosuke Fukudome who, after having to wait until the eighth inning for an at-bat, eventually both scored the tying run and later drove in the winning run.
Randy Wells pitched seven pretty decent innings, allowing just two runs on seven hits and one walk, while also collecting six strikeouts. And fortunately, it only took him 128 pitches to do so.
(Grumblegrumble... EVERY DAY this team feels more and more like it's being managed by Dusty Baker instead of Lou Piniella... grumblegrumble)
Andrew Cashner was the first guy out of the 'pen to relieve Wells, and he did well in his first inning of work. But a leadoff single advanced to second on a wild pitch, and then to third on a groundout, forcing Lou to bring in the Strikeout Machine That Is Carlos Marmol to prevent the Athletics from scoring the go-ahead run.
The plan worked, albeit without anyone striking out against Marmol, and the Cubs had a chance to win it in the bottom of the ninth, which they did, as Geo Soto walked, Castro bunted him over, Koyie Hill and Ryan Theriot walked to load the bases, and then Kosuke singled to drive in Soto.
Heads up to the Athletics: you deserve to lose any game in which you walk both Koyie Hill AND Ryan Theriot while the game is tied.
And for today's Young Cub Update: Starlin Castro has a four-game hitting streak going on.
Good times, go Cubs!
Fact: The Cubs can score runs. (Game Recap: Cubs 6, Athletics 2)
Six runs, holy crap. Who knew they could do that?
Derrek Lee got the night going with an early solo shot. His OPS for the season is just over .700 at this point, and his batting average is still pretty low at .230, so hopefully this is the first of many subsequent multi-hit outings from him that include some power.
Several other Cubs reached base multiple times last night, including: Xavier Nady (2-for-3, R), Alfonso Soriano (1-for-2, BB, R, 2 RBI), and Geovany Soto (doubled and walked). Starlin Castro reached three times, with a single and two walks.
Castro drove in two runs last night, giving him 16 RBI for the season. That ties him with Soto and The Great Ryan Theriot, the only position player in last night's game who failed to reach base.
Tyler Colvin doubled in his lone at-bat, raising his OPS to .987. And on the pitching side, Ryan Dempster was solid, yielding two runs over 6.2 innings and getting the win. He collected seven strikeouts, but also gave up eight hits.
With the box score-driven narration out of the way, I'll issue my verdict on a couple of last night's more notable plays before asking for your opinions in the comments section:
1) Geo Soto sent home on Castro's 2nd inning single.
I liked the call here. It ended up being a close play, and if their left fielder hadn't made a perfect throw, it'd have been another run. If Soto holds at third, you have the pitcher coming up with one out -- as in, probably won't bring him home -- followed by Ryan Theriot, who we all know sucks. So yeah, give me the close play over counting on Riot to drive a run in with two outs.
2) Alfonso Soriano bunts Nady and Lee to 2nd and 3rd with no outs.
I'm having trouble deciding whether I like this play or not, but I do know at least one thing, which is that I don't like it as much as the fans at Wrigley appeared to last night. Soriano got a standing ovation for this play, and he should get some credit for being creative, but the guy is one of our best hitters. I don't necessarily hate the decision, but I think I'd rather see him swing away there.
3) Alfonso Soriano makes the third out at third base, attempting to stretch out a double.
This is silly. Soriano would likely have scored from second on a single, since there were two outs in the inning and he would have been running on contact. But the guy did knock in the 5th and 6th runs with this play, so it's hard to complain.
Alright, everyone else: Thoughts on the game?


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University of Nebraska-Lincoln
June 22 - 27
Looking for the Festival Opportunities Guide or the Online Registration Guide? Look no further. This site is exactly that: everything you need to know about Thespian Festival 2015.
Main stage
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Applications for the Send a Troupe to Festival grant are now available!
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Get Involved!
Thank you for your question regarding student eligibility for the Thespian Festival. Yes, graduated seniors (2015) may attend the 2015 Festival. It is an especially good time for them to attend as they are eligible to audition for scholarships...
Yes! Your high school seniors definetely CAN go to Thespian Festival with their troupes! Now, your students who have yet to be inducted should be inducted Thespians by the time you decide to register them!
Hope this helps and hope to see you at...
The slides and video that I used in presenting this workshop at Festival in 2014.
this is a deck that helped lead a discussion of social media tools for use by theatre programs.

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
After I hit 80 with my warrior, I started trying out other classes. Unfortunately, I have to inform you that the mage class is by far not the worst atrocity ever envisioned by man. In fact, it was good enough to be brought to 80 as well. Along with a Priest, and a Shaman. Those four I enjoy playing. As for the others...
Rogue: got her to level 34. She's now my bank alt. Rogues are basically just like warriors, except that you have to invest so much more effort into doing the same thing (smashing someone's face in).
Warlock: abandoned at 15 or so... it's been ages, I don't recall why, but I was very much repulsed.
Paladin: also been ages, back when TBC first launched. Abandoned in the mid-twenties mostly because all you did was autoattack a mob to death while healing yourself. Yawn.
Druid: abandoned in the mid-twenties THREE SEPERATE TIMES. I really tried, but I really couldn't like it. No matter the spec.
Hunter: reached level 20, then got extremely bored because it was too easy.
Deathknight: abandoned at 62 (yes, I barely even lasted 7 levels with this one) due to faceroll-age. It doesn't matter which button you press - they all do 400 damage. The single target hit that applies diseases? 400 damage. The single-target hit that deals damage based on the diseases on the target? 400 damage. The attack that healed yourself? 400 damage. The AoE attack? 400 damage. And I swear, even the DoTs inflicted a grand total of 400 damage if I counted up all their ticks. You basically just had to smash your face on the keyboard. Just as long as you hit a key, any key at all, you'd still inflict 400 damage, and that was enough to win fights. God what a terrible, terrible class.
"Class does a lot of damage with all of their abilities so they must be a bad class."
Non sequitur much? Death Knights may have a fairly loose rotation while leveling, but that's the point. Leveling shouldn't be a difficult task. Further, when you reach level 80, Death Knights (and in fact, every class) open up and expand their rotations substantially. Frost DW requires a pretty high degree of awareness to pull off - responding to Killing Machine procs, Rime procs, Death Runes, Diseases, and all the boss mechanics? By no means a faceroll.
Before you condemn a class as "terrible" perhaps you should actually understand the class. You're entitled to your opinion, but your opinion means nothing unless you have some logical backing to it.
I'm sorry if my opinion hurt your feelings. Here's my logical backing.
If a class puts the player to sleep while leveling, then it is a bad class. I absolutely refuse to waste time on leveling a class that only gets interesting at 80 which I could be spending to have fun with a more engaging class that actually has a semblance of gameplay from the get-go (like, you know, warriors). Give me a level 80 DK and I'll try that out, and may even agree with you. But unfortunately Blizzard makes DKs start at 55, and that is just about 25 boring levels too low.
Deathknights gain so many abilities in such a short time, from the one or two buttons they have at 55 to a loadout comparable to other classes at 60. But guess what? They're all irrelevant. The only reason you even need more than one button on your bar is because the rune system keeps you from spamming that one button. So instead you have three buttons, each consuming one type of rune. Just mash whichever lights up.
Of course there is synergy between diseases and abilities, a certain order in which to use them presents itself just from reading the tooltips. But whether you keep that order or not is irrelevant. I actually tried it out; the end result is always the same. You don't even need to use any runic power, because those abilities again do exactly the same thing as your rune abilities. No thinking required, no decisions necessary. It doesn't feel like you killed your enemy because you were playing the game and did something cool, but rather because... well, no reason at all really.
And that's why I dislike leveling DKs.
Hollow Leviathan said...
The mob approaching you isn't failure, Rossi! It's just a progress bar that's fighting with their health bar! It's *fun* to work to make the HP bar win the race to 0.


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Uh-huh, sure Alfred, sure~!
-pokes stomach- But now you're talking to me huh. You are desperate… Not surprised again though, you always seek for attention, even from the people you don't like -shrugs-
//swats his hand away// I'm not desperate. If I can recall, you were the one who approached me first. But now since your annoying face is here— No. I'm going to stop right there.
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Fitness & Exercise
Back on Track
Oct. 16, 2000 -- Danny Dreyer was standing on a Northern California high school track, running in place. He pumped his legs straight up and down like pistons, pushing off from the track with his toes each time his foot landed. Scuff, scuff, scuff.
"Now watch this," he said, and he began to move very differently, leaning forward, lifting his legs from his hips, putting each foot down lightly. No pushing off with the toes. No scuffing.
He had me try both moves. "If you had to run in place for a couple of hours, which would you rather do?" he asked. No contest. The lighter, gentler way felt about 10 times better. But it also felt like cheating. It sure didn't involve the effort I usually put into jogging.
I'd come to Dreyer, a running coach with a new idea, because I sorely needed some help. I'd run most of my adult life, but lately my attempts just weren't working. On a recent evening jog, I couldn't believe how out of step I felt. With each footfall, I felt more plodding.
An aging baby boomer, I wasn't alone in my slowdown. Plenty of us are having an uphill struggle and experiencing more aches and pains than we used to. That fact has spurred a trend toward kinder, gentler running techniques, says Richard Cotton, a Salt Lake City exercise physiologist and spokesman for the American Council on Exercise. For instance, more people are now mixing walking with running, which is easier on middle-aged knees and backs.
East Meets West
Dreyer's approach, which he calls "chi running," is the latest twist in the easy-does-it trend. It's a form of running that incorporates the principles of tai chi, an ancient Chinese discipline believed to enhance energy and improve health. It's helped propel Dreyer, who's 51, to a successful career as a nationally ranked ultramarathon runner. This year alone, he's won three 50-mile races. Not only does the "chi" approach spare him injuries, he says, it boosts his energy. "I feel so good after a race that I come home and clean the house," says Dreyer. I figured he must be doing something right.
Chi running, which Dreyer teaches to individuals, running clubs, and corporate clients such as NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., combines the inner concentration and smooth flowing movement of tai chi with the power and energy of running. Instead of pushing through pain or muscling your way along, Dreyer emphasizes ease, using as little effort as possible.
"Running form is a big contributor to injuries," says David Hannaford, DPM, a sports-oriented podiatrist in San Rafael and San Francisco, Calif., who sends patients to Dreyer. "But there are ways to smooth things out and avoid injuries if one is taught properly."
At root, Dreyer's teachings come from the animal world. Many of the slow moves in tai chi are based on the movements of the cheetah and the greyhound, two of the fastest animals on earth, but ones that don't rely on large muscles for their speed, says Dreyer. In human terms, that translates into moving in a way that's as relaxed and efficient as possible, avoiding the overuse of muscles.
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I always keep a rendition of this around, and from year to year, I like to make a new one and pass it to whom I cherish a good friend.
Use this to wish someone special a Happy Birthday...
....especially if they like metal deceptive cadences!
Ibanez S570MQM, modified pearly gates set, 333k total output impedance
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Two of my most favorite things,metal and a birthday.Friggin badass man keep stuff like this coming!
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LOL played this for ma friends b-day
he loved it
thnks for filling the portal with jams for us
Yessssss awesome!!!!!!!
Rated 5 / 5 stars October 26, 2012
One of the best versions I've ever heard!! and I heard alot of rock and metal ones haha :)
Wow thanks alot dude!!
I haven't heard many but i don't doubt there are a bunch of versions out there
I'm so glad you like this one!!!
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RESPECT. awesome!
Thanks man!!
Rated 5 / 5 stars September 13, 2012
I'll give you five stars only because I cant give you more!! Keep doing great stuff!
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I am taking a quick break from the norm to do an easy, all encompassing personal update here. Many, many thanks for everyone who has been asking about my current first world travail. A little back-story:
Just two weeks ago, a very close friend, watching me attack a job that needed taken care of, called me a tornado. A few years back that would have irritated the hell out me. In fact, a few years back, someone else I love called me intense and I went through the roof. It really incensed me. For a variety of reasons, the word had a very negative connotation for me. Very upset, I of course made an ass out of myself… a common occurrence… and proved the accuracy of the statement by exploding and calling another friend. "He called me intense! AM I INTENSE?"
Um, well…
idiot would be more appropros.
A bunch of us at the time decided a word I could handle was passionate. Not as negative a connotation. I guess I have matured … or inured myself to it.. as I now embrace the intense moniker, what the hell. Consequently, tornado didn't bother me.
What's the point? Well, as the tornado raced through the living room last week doing twelve things at once and saw the rug was bunched up under the very heavy sofa bed-couch, I reached down at a weird angle with my right arm and yanked hard on the sofa, rather than lifting it, while trying to straighten the rug with my left arm. Did I mention it's a very heavy sofa, I was at a very odd angle and I yanked hard with one arm?
The sofa did not move. My arm, however, moved. I guess I don't know my own strength as my elbow popped out and in and my right bicep almost entirely tore off my elbow joint.
If only I'd had a sound recorder. There was this "pop" that sounded like a very loud firecracker. Loud. It was followed by an equally loud 'rippppppp'. I remember about a 3 second reprieve where I looked at my right arm and thought clinically, 'Those sounds could not have been my arm…." Then my synapses started firing and a very different sound filled the room.
Pardon my french but there is only one way to say it: It hurt like Fuck.
Anyway, after a trip to 1) the ER 2) a very good orthopedist and 3) an MRI (did not like that!), I am having my bicep reattached fully to the joint on Friday. It's about a 75-80 % tear. The surgery is outpatient, though I will go completely under anesthesia. This will be followed by one or two pretty gruesome weeks and then a few months recovery. But if I get the surgery, chances are I am back in full tornado form 3 months from now. If I don't have the surgery, odds are I lose at least 30 % mobility. According to the doctor, a number of people in similar circumstances choose not to have the operation but for me, there isn't much of a choice. Gotta have that mobility.
Life could be a lot worse, I'm thankful. And as my sister Jeanye remarked, slings are very slimming. Woo hoo!
Yet another good buddy, my friend Chad in Ohio, hearing the story remarked 'Typical lineman." Very, very true. I was indeed a lineman, which for me equals bull in a china shop. I'm so clumsy I don't even pay attention anymore when I ram into things. Once a month at least I find a huge bruise on my thigh or hip or arm and think, 'How did that happen?" Clearly something did happen but I don't even register them! Combine bull in a china shop clumsy with tornado and, well, I am probably lucky it is just a bicep tear. I guess the Good Lord sometimes says to us, 'Slow down." I also guess I am not one for gentle prodding.
Again many thanks for the care and concern, you all remind me how truly blessed I am, even when banging into things.
Oh, and I introduced some of you to 'pin' on Facebook. Here he is again, he was cool to see when they did the xrays for this current problem.
'Pin' came into my life and my right shoulder in 1986 when I crashed learning to hang glide in the Smokey Mountains. When I crashed, I dislocated my right shoulder for the 23rd time. It was a chronic problem supposedly solved by a muscle tightening surgery 4 years prior. When I crashed and dislocated my shoulder, no one with me could pop the damn thing back in, even after about 12 yanks. I had to drive myself to the emergency clinic. The clinic was 45 miles away. I was in a stick shift car. With a dislocated right shoulder. I'll relate that lineman story some other time, it is pretty funny. Suffice to say, however, that also hurt like F@%#.
I learned one major lesson with that experience, though: if anyone ever says to you, 'Hey, want to try an IV of Valium?" Take me advice and say "yesssssssss"……. Oh My.


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An Afghan National Army (ANA) soldier is on the run after he shot and wounded three Australian soldiers and two of his colleagues.
The Diggers are said to be in a serious but stable condition, after the rogue soldier opened fire with an automatic weapon and a grenade launcher.
Two Afghan soldiers were also hit in the attack at Charmistan in the Uruzgan province, and are reported to be in satisfactory condition.
The Australian soldiers are recovering in a Kandahar hospital and their families have been notified.
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The latest shooting happened less than a fortnight after a rogue Afghan soldier opened fire during a parade in Kandahar province, killing three Australian soldiers and wounding seven others.
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He says it's a highly-complex issue and there are many factors at play that will require more examination and analysis.
Australian troops disarmed about 30 other ANA soldiers who were at the forward base following the shooting.
The gunman fled the scene of the shooting in one of the Afghan National Army vehicle and remains at large.
Generak Hurley said the soldiers were members of Mentoring Taskforce Three operating at a patrol base.
The ANA soldier "located in an over watch position" opened fire on both Australian and ANA soldiers.
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As an employee of the Arthritis Foundation, Great Lakes Region, Northeastern Ohio market, I'm constantly in awe of the generous donors that come forward with unique ways to support of our organization and its constituents. And this week, we have a very special way for those with arthritis to really benefit first hand. Once again, the Arthritis Foundation is partnering with Massage Envy for Healing Hands for Arthritis Day.
On Wednesday, September 18, The Arthritis Foundation is pleased to be able to offer its constituents who suffer from arthritis a massage at Massage Envy for FREE! Massage Envy also will donate $10 of every massage or facial and 10% of all products sold at Massage Envy Clinics to the Arthritis Foundation, with a goal of raising $1,000,000 across the country.
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|Britta and Annie, although friends, are initially not as close to each other as they are with other members of the study group. The relationship between the two women fluctuated over the years resulting in some differing extremes. Most of the time they had an almost sisterly friendship where they support and are protective of each other. However, there were a few occasions that feelings of jealousy between the pair arose which have lent a more adversarial nature to their interactions. These conflicts occurred mostly due to their seemingly similar taste in men, particularly Vaughn and Jeff. Recently they have since moved past all these issues and formed a more solid friendship. Annie has even been instrumental in helping Britta in her budding relationship with Troy. Britta is portrayed by Gillian Jacobs and Annie is portrayed by Alison Brie. They both first appeared in the Season One episode "Pilot".
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Season OneEdit
|Well Annie, I would have to be a villan to tell you who to date which I am not!
Britta and Annie had very few interactions in their first year together at Greendale with the study group. It's hinted by Shirley that they would often spend time together on the weekends excluding her from their trips to the mall.
"Spanish 101": Annie and Shirley are inspired by Britta to stage a protest against Guatamala.
"Football, Feminism and You": While in the women's restroom, Britta comforts Annie over her recent difficulties dealing with Troy and Jeff.
"Investigative Journalism": Buddy recounts to the study group a fantasy he had about Annie and Britta wearing cheerleader outfits and wrestling in a pool filled with whip cream.
"Romantic Expressionism": Annie asks permission from Britta to date her ex-boyfriend Vaughn. After giving her consent, Britta later conspires with Jeff to break them up ostensibly for Annie's own good.
"Interpretive Dance": Annie wishes Britta good luck at her recital but gets upset when she sees Britta and Troy performing a provocative dance together on stage.
"The Science of Illusion": Britta tries to play a prank which ends up becoming a crime scene that Annie, along with Shirley, are asked to investigate as volunteer campus security guards.
"Modern Warfare": At the beginning of the annual paintball assassination game, Britta leads Annie and Shirley in an all female squad to win the prize
"English as a Second Language": Britta along with the rest of the study group is angered when it's discovered Annie ratted out Chang and possibly cost them a passing grade in Spanish 101."Pascal's Triangle Revisited": At the Tranny Dance, Britta competes with Slater for Jeff's affections with Annie later joining in on the competition.
Season TwoEdit
|Everything they do is some sick competition!
|Oh like you hate competition! How long did it take you to kiss Jeff after I told him I loved him? Oh, that's right, first Vaughn now Jeff! I better not smile at that wall outlet, or you'll fry your tongue off!
Britta and Annie are forced to deal with thier actions at the Tranny Dance. They later work on a fund raising campaign together, take a women's studies course along with Shirley, and learn about tolerance when Britta attends the Valentine's Day Dance with her new friend Page.
"Anthropology 101": Annie learns about Britta and Jeff having sex during paintball and Britta learns that Annie made out with Jeff after the Tranny Dance.
"The Psychology of Letting Go": Annie and Britta work through a few of their issues against each other by mud wrestling on the campus quad.
"Aerodynamics of Gender": Britta, Annie and Shirley are saved from Meghan and her "Mean Girls" by Abed.
"Cooperative Calligraphy": Annie's missing pen causes accusations to fly as to who is responsible with Britta suggesting that Annie had the pen the whole time they were all searching for it.
"Mixology Certification": Britta gets Annie a fake ID card so she can go to a bar with the rest of the study group to celebrate Troy's 21st birthday.
"Celebrity Pharmacology 212": Britta "fires" Annie from the play she wrote and was directing when it's revealed that she took a bribe from Pierce to expand his role in it.
"Early 21st Century Romanticism": Britta brags to Annie how tolerant and progressive she is due to her new friendship with Page whom she belives is gay."Paradigms of Human Memory": Britta's year long tryst with Jeff is revealed much to Annie's displeasure.
Season ThreeEdit
|I need to stay with you this weekend. Not just stay with you, I need to be on lockdown. You were a pillhead, so think of Blade as Adderall. And handcuff me to the radiator like a mother-flipping carny-banging werewolf!
Britta helps Annie move into Troy and Abed's apartment, she later turns to Annie to help her with ex-boyfriend Blade. Annie sees the attraction between Troy and Britta and tries to play matchmaker with her friends.
"Horror Fiction in Seven Spooky Steps": Annie, through the use of a horror story she tells, offers her perspective on Britta's relationship with Jeff as well as her view on her own relationship with him.
"Virtual Systems Analysis": Annie decides to play matchmaker and sets up a lunch date for Troy and Britta together at Señor Kevin's.
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|Give me back my bra Annie!
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Cranberry Baked Chicken Breasts
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- 2 medium onions, chopped
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 tablespoon butter or margarine, melted
- 1 (16-ounce) can jellied cranberry sauce
- 1 (8-ounce) bottle commercial French salad dressing
- 6 whole chicken breasts, split
- Sauté onion and garlic in butter in a heavy saucepan until onion is tender. Combine cranberry sauce, dressing, and sautéed vegetables in a large mixing bowl; stir well.
- Place chicken breast halves in a well-greased 13- x 9- x 2-inch baking dish. Pour sauce over chicken. Bake, uncovered, at 400° for 1 hour and 20 minutes or until sauce is bubbly.
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Happy Thanksgiving! Today, let me tell you about something that will taste very good this weekend after feasting on turkey, potatoes, stuffing and pie.
It is ramen — not ramen from a crinkly package but from a steaming bowl in a Japanese restaurant.
Earlier in this series, I visited two restaurants that serve Vietnamese pho, which is made with rice-flour noodles in a clear beef soup.
Ramen is served with wheat-four noodles in a soup made of chicken, pork or combination of the two. The broth can range from pale, to soy-dark to milky white depending on what style it is.
If I can make one flaky comparison of these two Asian soups, it is this:
Pho, with its sweet spices and fresh greenery is cooling. It's the kind of hot soup that tastes best to me on a sunny afternoon or a summer evening. Ramen is warming. It flicks the comfort-food switch in your head like no other food can on an overcast fall day.
Umaido in Suwanee is the only local restaurant I know of that makes the noodles in house. (This location is a branch of a restaurant in Korea, where the Japanese noodles are popular.) Indeed, you can see through a viewing window into the kitchen by the entrance and see a fancy piece of noodle machinery holding a spool with the dough furled up like a giant roll of paper towels.
You can watch the whole process as the noodles are cut, parboiled and baptised in soup scooped from giant cauldrons.
I visited Umaido soon after it opened a few months ago and generally liked the different varieties of ramen on the menu. For whatever reason, I liked it in my head more than my heart. Were the noodles a little too springy? Was the broth a little thin?
I wasn't sure. But I am sure that the food was 100% better on this visit. The kitchen has wisely stopped trying to prepare different kinds of broth and focused on making only tonkotsu ramen , a style from the Japanese island of Kyushu.
Tonkotsu broth is the milky white one, made with pork bones. It has loads of collagen, which clouds the broth and gives it an incomparable richness.
You can get the basic tonkotsu ramen ($6.99), as well as miso ($7.99) and spicy varieties ($8.99). Each bowl comes with slivers of gorgeously fatty pork belly called chashu, green onions, tree ear mushrooms, bean sprouts, beni shoga (pickled red ginger) and one soy-cooked egg that looks like chocolate on the surface and gushes just slightly in the center. It is an egg to love unconditionally.
There are tons of condiments with which you can dress your ramen here. (I think this profusion is more of a Korean than Japanese thing.) Choose from hot oil, soy sauce, ginger, fresh garlic to press and toasted sesame seeds in a mill. Please let my friend demonstrate:
Also, if you like, you can order more of anything, from the meat to the noodles to the egg.
If that's not enough to recommend Umaido, there's also a bidet in the lavatory:
How about that?
Umaido is open daily for lunch (11 a.m.-3 p.m.) and dinner (5 p.m.-10:30 p.m.)
Since I was up at Umaido, I decided to visit another Japanese restaurant that had been highly recommended by the blogger and Northside food queen, Chloe, at ChowDownAtlanta.com.
I was intrigued by her post on Blue Fin Sushi, in which she said that local Japanese chefs consider the ramen here very good.
We arrived to find the restaurant a little busy and understaffed, but with a mostly Japanese clientele.
All meals here start with a serviceable California roll. Whatever…
The miso ramen ($9) was an enormous portion, and held lots of hacked up vegges and meat bits in a thin, salty broth.
The shoyu ramen ($9) — with its salty, soy-darkened broth — was better and served in the traditional style with pickled bamboo shoots. The chashu here is rolled, so the layers of meat and fat melt and commingle nicely on the tongue. You want to savor each of the pieces. The restaurant also makes a tonkotsu ramen, which is available only at night.
I might try it one of these days. However, I'd have a hard time being in the area and not visiting Umaido.
November 26th, 2009
12:24 pm
I don't want the 30 days to end. BTW, eat at Pappi's! One is near your house!
November 26th, 2009
5:59 pm
happy thanksgiving
please keep the series going
I have only tried a few of these restaurants but have to disagree with your Jerusalem Bakery review. I went there Tuesday on your recommendation and was very disappointed in the falafel as well
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November 26th, 2009
8:17 pm
I've LOVED the 30 days series. While it would be tough to keep up the pace, it would be great if you can post semi-regularly on restaurants, especially the smaller hidden gems or "best of" restaurants. Even if you are no longer anonymous, IMHO you are still the best food critic in these parts. When we go out, it's pretty much mainly for the food, and most of the time the scene is not that relevant (unless, of course, it's unpleasant). By actually focusing on the food, your reviews help those of us who don't get to Atlanta all that often know where we can best make use of our limited dining opportunities — including smaller ethnic places that we otherwise probably wouldn't find.
Loved your Sunday column about Atlanta dining then and now. Spot on, as always. Tell the powers that be that your Sunday column is the only reason we make a special trip, driving 15 minutes to the next county to buy the Sunday paper. (Like liquor, the AJC is verbotten in our county….)
Hope you had a great Thanksgiving!
November 26th, 2009
10:30 pm
thomas senor do you own Papis? Someone keeps bringing it up and the last time I ate there (October 2009) it was horrible and I swore it off for good. How in the heck do you get a hair in the batter with a french fry – not sure, but it happened at Papi's. Also their cubans taste like something I ate in the lunchroom at public school 30 years ago. Wish it were better, but it isn't.
November 27th, 2009
7:41 am
No I do no own this place, but I love it. It's near my house and I simply love it. Yummy Yummy Yummy to Thomas's tummy! Eat at Pappis! You can thank me later.
December 2nd, 2009
12:45 pm
Yes! Thank you for covering Umaido, a place we have been trekking up to for months (from Decatur). When you began the 30 Days series, I had a sneaking suspicion Umaido would be included. I've been singing its praises on Atlanta Cuisine and elsewhere since the get go. As a dedicated ramen-ya, it is the only creature of its kind in (near?) Atlanta, and deserves the support of the city's foodie community. It is so worth the drive!
Incidentally, the above comments have helped ensure that I will never ever set foot in Pappi's.
May 19th, 2010
8:24 am
[...] have always liked the broth at Umaido in Suwanee just the way it is. But I do sometimes hear from ramenaniacs who find the tonkotsu pork [...]
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10:53 am
[...] Umaido Reviews ( BlissfulGlutton | John Kessler | EatDrinkManWoman | ChowDown Atlanta ) // Share| June 1, 2010 at 10:43 am by shortstack [...]
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7:46 pm
You missed a very important Falafel outlet in marietta, Basil Wraps Mediterranean cuisine at 2800 Canton Rd. You have to try the Falafel and Babaghanouj or hummus. yam yum. I eat at that restaurant every day..so Mr John Kessler go and try lunch and let me know…


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Tackling the Fridge and Freezer: Here I Go!
Liveblogging The Kitchn Cure Fall 2013
Day 1 Task: Declutter and purge fridge and freezer, clean.
So, this task made me cry. Was it the scary, scary cucumber I found at the bottom of the veggie drawer? The massive number of jars, some with dubious origins? Was it the nearly full bottle of expensive umeboshi plum vinegar silently mocking my failure to go macro or whatever that was? No. I cried because the last time I cleaned the fridge was the day my mom died.
Two years ago, my father called at midnight and I raced to the hospital with my sister to be with my family. I sped through the busiest part of town, suddenly sober even though I had been drinking wine with my sister an hour earlier. The streets were empty in the middle of the night, but I wondered why I wasn't getting pulled over. Where were the police? Wasn't this dangerous? Didn't they know my mom was sick?
We were by Mom's side when she died a few hours later. After what seemed like a lot of waiting and a poignantly awkward prayer with the young hospital chaplain, I went home and begged for sleep. Impossible, of course. The sun started to rise and the work began. I knew that by lunchtime, people would bring things — food, drinks, paper products, love and company — and my fridge was a mess.
I cleaned it because I had to, purging and scrubbing to quiet my thoughts, desperate for a purpose. By noon, the fridge was full and we were borrowing coolers. I cleaned bathrooms and made my bed, because there would be guests for days. Two days later, there were around 300 people in our home, coming and going for a few hours of visitation, at least ten of them working to keep things organized in the kitchen. Those are the friends you don't recognize until later, when you marvel at how smoothly things went, how many people ate and drank and how clean the kitchen was when they were all gone. When the house was quiet, I knew what friendship was and it kept me from feeling alone. When I was at my worst, they were at their absolute best.
Anyhow, it was high time to clean the fridge again. Two years is long enough to wallow. (And my mother would hate that I waited that long. She was not one to wallow.) Luckily, I took care of the freezer last week, before I agreed to liveblog The Kitchn Cure. After removing everything, including the shelves and drawers, I scrubbed the inside of the fridge until it looked like new. (Note to Self: Must remind kids and husband that they should tell me as soon as they spill something, so I can make sure they clean it. These unidentifiable, sticky, crusty things are way grosser two months later.)
I threw away some things, consolidated others and composted the inedible cucumber, along with a few other questionable fruits and veggies. I sliced radishes to make them easier to grab and go, and wiped off all the condiment jars to prevent new sticky messes. I realized I keep way too much wine in the fridge and promised to drink it all, at an appropriate pace, without replacing it.
I called Kenmore and ordered a new crisper drawer ($111.38, ours has been cracked for a while, because I kept wine in it), air filters for the fridge and freezer ($56.96) and two products the helpful sales rep recommended — an ice deodorizer ($13.64) and some sort of cleaning brush for the coils ($6.35), which I'll probably use at least once. I declined her offer of a free home siding consultation, though she seemed really nice and her kind voice made me feel better. (I suspect she is the sort of person who brings sandwiches or jugs of ice tea when her friends have a death in the family. She was from Alabama.)
It only took an hour, including the crying, composting and Kenmore calling. I will need ten more minutes to harangue my family about appreciating my hard work and keeping the now pristine fridge and freezer clean. This is a great start to The Kitchn Cure and I feel like a weight has been lifted off my shoulders, or at least removed from my fridge. I'm feeling pretty fearless about the pantry!
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Aw. That hurts. Sending you a hug!
That was not the story I was expecting when I read that this task made you cry. Thank you for sharing what was a difficult time in your life.
It always amazes me how we mark the passage of significant life events with the most mundane of details. For example, my dear uncle died 11 years ago after a mercifully brief fight with cancer. I remember that period of time because it was when "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" had just come out and was enormously popular and we watched the first episodes together. Now seeing the show makes me smile and remember him but it wasn't always that way. I hope your next fridge cleaning is joyful.
Wow. Amazing the emotional freight our lives carry. Thank you for sharing your story. I found it ultimately hopeful.
That's such a sad, personal and beautiful story. Glad you've got so many friends who are there for you when you need them.
Thanks for sharing!!!
Oh Anne, thank you so much for sharing this, and please accept my condolences. This is a lovely reminder of how grief weaves its way into our lived in unexpected ways, and how we can honour our feelings and our loved ones even when we do simple tasks.
Thank you for sharing your story. What would we do without the angels who sweep in and lift us up when we are laid low? (And I am so not an "angel" person. But I have experienced the generosity of spirit you describe and can think of no better way to refer to it.)
I wish you the best. And good luck with keeping the family in line vis-a-vis spills!
I never thought reading about cleaning a fridge could make me emotional. Guess I was wrong.
The last time I cleaned the fridge was the day of my grandma's funeral, almost three months ago. It was almost midnight, but I needed to do something. I cleaned the darn thing so vigourously that I somehow managed to scratch one of the drawers pretty badly. Now I think about it every time I open the fridge.
Thank you for this, Anne.
AT, never let Anne Postic go. She's the best writer you've got.
Anne, thank you for sharing this. I too lost my mum suddenly a little more than two years ago and the grief still comes in waves when I least expect it. While she *hated* cleaning her kitchen, she was an amazing cook, and I often think of her as I stand over my stove, stirring. I'll scrub my fridge in honour of her, and of your mum too.
Anne, I'm so sorry for your loss. I know I'm late in saying that, but I also know that the loss is continually felt, so it might still be ok to say it. I loved your story. I lost a brother-in-law quite suddenly a few years ago and was in charge of my sister-in-law's kitchen for a time. Those angels you describe are so wonderful. People brought folding chairs. I wouldn't have thought of that, but we did need chairs. They lived on a dirt road - and the county workers came out and watered the road in front of the house to lessen the dust. Amazingly thoughtful people. Anyway, I enjoyed your post but hadn't expected to cry!
My genuine sympathies for you and also, i found this post comforting in its humanity. You sound like a genuine and down to earth person. I think composting can get us in touch with the earthy element of food. Cleaning too.
On a side note, I had a similar driving experience. I don't mean to equate human with pet tragedies, they are obviously each unique circumstances. But anyway, years ago our cat was lifeless on the floor (suddenly) with a 107.5 degree fever. It,was 11 pm and I had had 1/2 a beer; but i was a lightweight.
Of course there is no ambulance for cats so I jumped in the car and drove (at 11 pm) FAST on the highway. My cat managed to pull through but it is amazing what kind of driving is brought on by such emergencies.
Ann, love this, I too lost my mother, though it wasn't suddenly, the circumstances that lead to her death was, a compound fracture of her spine due to untreated Osteoporosis and the resulting rehab after surgery during her recovery.
That will be a year ago late next month in fact.
For me, it was realizing I have got to cook more than I had been in recent years, and made sure to get some of her most oft used cooking utensils, and one of them is her brown Le Creuset 5Qt Dutch Oven that she used quite often, stains and all, and had probably used it sometime just prior to her move late last summer.
I make a point to use that pot whenever the opportunity arises, along with one of her wooden spoons (I cracked the other one), and her colander, and whatever else that was hers.
I remember one day while she was in the nursing home getting a call from one of my sisters as I was trying, unsuccessfully to put gas in the car, and heard, "I think Mom's dying", and I then rushed south to Tacoma where she was, an hours drive away, stopping at another gas station and was able to get gas. I think it was 2 days later she was back in the hospital and she was gone a day or so later. I remember sitting in the car, and began to cry while on the phone at the first gas station near work, gathered my wits about me and drove down to see her, in case it was the final time.
And as others have said, it's interesting how the mundane things about our lives become part of the fabric of the death of a loved one.
Hope the rest of the kitchen cure goes much smoother.
To everyone who commented: Your comments were so kind and really touched me. I really appreciate them! (And, yes, the rest of the Cure has been tear-free, so far. :-) )
My mom was house sitting for me while I was away on vacation a year ago. She cleaned out my fridge while I was gone, really cleaned it, because that's the kind of thing she does. I was still out of state when I got a call that she had a stroke (she survived, but has been in a nursing home since) and I could not open the fridge for days.