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My calendar has a big red ring around Monday 1st December. In black writing it says Moving Day!!!
|The house when we first bought it almost 5 years ago. Tenants certainly took their toll on the lawn.
This date was selected 11 months ago, in our driveway, on our way to work. Why this date? Neither of us know, it was just a date, far into the future, that would cement the coveted prize of living on our beloved property, rather than a long line of tenants. The planets were coming into alignment. Tenants had given notice, all thoughts of selling WG had been dashed by a stagnant real estate market, especially acreage such as this, other factors had come into line.
This day was 4 years, 9 months in an exercise in waiting.
This day was the day that kept me going, kept me getting out of bed each day, kept me working in a basement with no light, gave me hope that one day it would all work out.
Except this day, today, happened two weeks ago.
We time traveled into the future.
So today, Moving Day, has been and gone.
Today is for settling in, unpacking boxes, building wardrobes and hanging clothes, finding homes for all the stuff that makes up our lives. All the million and one little jobs that come after the moving day.
It is not a complete house move. We are leaving the old place mostly furnished so it will look better for selling. I think they call this Staged! I am hoping it sells fast as I want my furniture in my farmhouse. My dresser and dining table that my Dad made, our well lived in leather couch, the sofa for our bedroom, bookcases.
But for now, we are comfortable .. and happy.
Contentment is not far away.


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Yesterday you climbed
To the top of the Empire State Building
(By elevator, mostly, but
There were a few steps here and there.)
You circled the observation deck,
Feet shuffling over old stone,
Hands gripping iron safety bars,
Like those of a prison cell
With a million dollar view.
You could see so much from there,
Except for you yourself—
So improbably aloft,
Tracing the edge of the precipitous building,
Scraping the cerulean sky.
Today you lie in bed
Writing poetry,
Once again seeking the spectacular,
Once again not knowing it's you.

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Fair Dates & Hours for 2011 will be:
Friday, September 9: 1-7PM
Saturday, September 10: 10AM-7PM
Sunday, September 11: 10AM-5PM
Mellon Park is located in Pittsburgh's Shadyside/Squirrel Hill area along Shady Avenue, Fifth Avenue and Beechwood Blvd. The Pittsburgh Center for the Arts and The Phipps Garden Center are adjacent to Mellon Park.
...The Pittsburgh Art Blog
The Pittsburgh Art Blog features selected pittsburgh artists and upcoming exhibits with photos from the artists and galleries. since the major press outlets do not go beyond a directory listing of exhibits, blogs are needed to promote pittsburgh artists and their work. the blog also calls attention to the inferiority complex of pittsburgh art and how it's perpetuated by the major players in town. Started on August 20,2007. pittsburgh area galleries and art venues are listed at the sister site www.PghGalleries.com.
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QUEEN.How cheerfully on the false trail they cry!O, this is counter, you false Danish dogs!
[A noise within.]
KING.The doors are broke.
[Enter Laertes, armed; Danes following.]
LAERTES.Where is this king? — Sirs, stand you all without.
DANES.No, let's come in.
LAERTES.I pray you, give me leave.
DANES.We will, we will.
[They retire without the door.]
LAERTES.I thank you: — keep the door. — O thou vile king,Give me my father!
QUEEN.Calmly, good Laertes.
LAERTES.That drop of blood that's calm proclaims me bastard;Cries cuckold to my father; brands the harlotEven here, between the chaste unsmirched browOf my true mother.
KING.What is the cause, Laertes,That thy rebellion looks so giant-like? — Let him go, Gertrude; do not fear our person:There's such divinity doth hedge a king,That treason can but peep to what it would,Acts little of his will. — Tell me, Laertes,Why thou art thus incens'd. — Let him go, Gertrude: — Speak, man.
LAERTES.Where is my father?
QUEEN.But not by him.
KING.Let him demand his fill.
LAERTES.How came he dead? I'll not be juggled with:To hell, allegiance! vows, to the blackest devil!Conscience and grace, to the profoundest pit!I dare damnation: — to this point I stand, — That both the worlds, I give to negligence,Let come what comes; only I'll be reveng'dMost throughly for my father.
KING.Who shall stay you?
LAERTES.My will, not all the world:And for my means, I'll husband them so well,They shall go far with little.
KING.Good Laertes,If you desire to know the certaintyOf your dear father's death, is't writ in your revengeThat, sweepstake, you will draw both friend and foe,Winner and loser?
LAERTES.None but his enemies.
KING.Will you know them then?
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By Spike Eskin
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – In this shortened NBA season, every game is more important. Tonight's game against the Knicks, and Friday's game against the Celtics are crucial for the Sixers if their goal of winning the Atlantic Division is going to become a reality. The once fading Knicks are now four games behind the Sixers, and the Celtics are just a game and a half behind.
The Knicks (22-24) team the Sixers will face tonight has the same players as the last time they played, but a new coach, and are winners of four in a row. Mike Woodson has taken over the reigns of the Knicks since Mike D'Antoni's resignation, and the team has responded, moving back into the Eastern Conference playoff picture. Though two of the four wins have come against Toronto and Portland, the other two came in back-to-back wins over the Indiana Pacers.
Woodson's offensive system was supposed to be more Carmelo Anthony-friendly, with more isolation plays, it hasn't been an Anthony scoring spree that's sparked the wins. Anthony has averaged just over 15 points per game since Woodson took over, shooting just 40% from the field. Instead, the Knicks have been winning with … gasp … defense. They've allowed more than 90 points just once in the four games Woodson has coached.
The once consistent Sixers (26-20) have been searching for an identity in recent weeks, with a five game losing streak heading into the All-Star break, a three game winning streak after Evan Turner's move to the starting lineup, followed by a three game losing streak as Turner's minutes decreased. They took care of business Monday night in Charlotte, but the Bobcats are hardly a true test, with the worst record, worst offense, and one of the worst defenses in the league. Turner's minutes and scoring have decreased for five consecutive games.
There will be plenty of individual match-ups to watch as well. Andre Iguodala will spend most of his evening guarding Carmelo Anthony, who although is having a down season, is one of the toughest guys to guard in the league. Even though Anthony is likely to get his points, Iguodala usually does a good job of making him take plenty of shots to get them. The power forward match-up will be hard fought as well. Elton Brand has done a good job historically on Stoudmire, outscoring and out-rebounding him in games against each other. The point guard position will be one to watch as well, with Jrue Holiday pretty much shutting down Jeremy Lin completely when they faced off earlier this month.
The teams have split their two games this season.
The game will start at 7pm, and there are still limited tickets remaining at sixers.com, and can be heard live on 94WIP.
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For Part Two of my world building worksheets, I thought I'd include some of the best worksheets that are also my favorites. In real journalistic style, I'm going to put the best ones first. One of my favorites is a classic world building worksheet that is astounding in the details it covers. It is the World Building form from Patricia Wrede—each link within this link opens up a whole world of information you create yourself—but as Patricia will tell you—if a section doesn't work for you, don't use it! Not only that but this link is the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America site which you should probably investigate anyway.
http://www.sfwa.org/2009/08/fantasy-worldbuilding-questions/ ****Highly recommended
Another big favorite of mine that really helped me out in learning how to actually flesh out my characters' worksheet information is the link below. For ages I shied away from using character charts thinking they were too much trouble and that I knew my characters inside and out already; but there was another reason: I couldn't figure out how to turn those Q&A forms I filled out into an actual story format. The entire process confused me until I found this amazing worksheet by Lynn Viehl that also includes the translation from worksheet to paragraph format on character and plot! At the end of the worksheet, she gives the basic information on her character Jory Rask from Blade Dancer in actual prose format! So make sure you read all the way to the end. It worked wonders for me in terms of understanding how to effectively use worksheets to develop plot and character. The link is long but should take you directly to The Novel Notebook, the title of Viehl's worksheet.
https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0BzylBQC3SyqoM2JjMDkwZDEtNDI2NS00ZDMxLTg5MzctMThjODBkYmZkNTRh&hl=en&pli=1 ****Highly recommended
In my humble opinion, the two above are the platinum standard of world building worksheets but there are a few more that I also love for their sheer simplicity and useable detail.
And of course NO fantasy/sci-fi world building worksheet post would be complete without the map making worksheets/examples! Once I started doing it I fell in love with my world (earthlike & late Medieval era) and its physical landscape. Check it out here:
http://www.fantasymaps.com/101/ ***Recommended
And below this is a link FULL OF LINKS on fantasy mapping, creating, guidelines for the genre'! It's almost got it all!
As I've said in earlier posts, numerous sites have popped up and there are an exhaustive number of them. What I've tried to do is post the ones I've found most useful in the hope that you will as well. If you have found any that you think might assist other authors please feel free to post them here in comments!
One last note: the link below is a gentle introduction to genre' writing and has many facet links that may be of help if you're starting out:
So that concludes world building worksheets and character sheets Parts One & Two. It's not an extensive list by any means but I hope it will assist you in your creative writing endeavors! One word of caution: ~~DO NOT get bogged down with obsession of details in your world. It's easy to get lost and never finish your novel because you're always filling in details—these links are assists—not bibles~~ As always your comments, suggestions and opinions are welcomed!


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After 6 years, well in July it'll be that long, we have decided to make the move to a new location.
We've outgrown the space we currently have - a lovely old character building in the middle of Buckingham town centre. It's quite a decision to make as we really like where we are but our filing cabinets are bowing the old floorboards, all the computers (and of course our hard work) generate a lot of heat so that summer months do get a bit uncomfortable and being spread out over two floors we can't all be in the same room.
The new office will be located in the grounds of historic Stowe Castle. With a lovely rural location, airy working space, plenty of parking and all mod cons, it'll make work even more pleasurable!
We'll be closed on Thursday and Friday 18th and 19th June and ready to start on Monday 22nd.
Our phone number remains 01280 821020.
The new address is:
Suites 1-3
Stowe Castle Business Park
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Random House, a division of Bertelsmann, is one of the world's largest book publishing companies. Random House's current publishing groups include Bantam Dell, Crown, Doubleday Broadway, Knopf, Random House, Random House Audio, Random House Children's Books, Random House Direct, Random House Information Group, Random House International, Random House Large Print, Random House Ventures, and Waterbook Press.
Bantam Spectra and Del Rey, the main publishers of Star Wars books in the United States, are imprints of Random House, along with Arrow Publishing, Century, and Transworld Publishers, UK imprints.
In 1979, Random House published The Star Wars Question and Answer Book About Space, written by Dinah L. Moché.
On July 18, 2008, Suvudu, a subsidiary site of Random House, was launched. It features content and publications from Random House and Del Rey. Currently there are nine short stories that were originally published in Hyperspace that are hosted on Suvudu.
- "Star Wars Publications Timeline"—Star Wars Insider 23
- "The Making of A New Dawn"—Star Wars Insider 152
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- Random House on Wikipedia
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- Suvudu on Wikipedia
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For most traders, the very first thing that they will learn when studying the financial markets is reading Forex quotes. Price quotes are the language of the markets, so it's of no surprise that it's a language that every trader is - or aspires - to be fluent in. Once you become a trader, whenever you hear the word quote, you will automatically think of the financial markets, rather than the official definition of someone repeating the words of another.
Although it can look daunting, the good news is that reading Forex quotes is pretty intuitive and doesn't require much mental effort.
Here is an example: EUR/USD 1.1234/1.1235
Let's figure out how to read Forex quotes, shall we?
Quote name
First of all we have two currency symbols (or ISO codes) separated by a slash. EUR, which is the currency code for the European Union euro - and USD, which is code for the United States dollar. Usually, codes are comprised of the two first letters defining the name of the country and the last letter for the name of the currency. Thus, the United States dollar is the USD, the Great British pound is GBP and the Japanese yen is JPY.
Two codes make a currency pair. All currencies are quoted in pairs. The reason for this is simply because in order to express a value of anything, you need something else to compare it to - or in our case, quote against. Continuing with this example, EUR/USD is a currency pair where the relative value of the euro is expressed in US dollars. The first currency in all Forex trading quotes - in this case the euro - is called the base currency, while the second one is called either the counter currency, terms currency, or quote currency.
Most currencies you will deal with as a spot Forex market trader will be quoted against the US dollar, with a few rare exceptions (mostly from a list of exotic currency pairs). Among the major currency pairs, the only two with the US dollar being the base currency are USD/JPY and USD/CHF. The first pair is easy to read, as it's simply the US dollar against the Japanese yen. However, the second pair, which is the US dollar to the Swiss franc, is more difficult to interpret. This is because the CHF code references the old Roman name of Switzerland, which is Confederatio Helvetia.
The reasons behind currency placements on Forex market quotes takes us back to the days when the Great British Empire was the dominating world power. Back then, everything was quoted against the pound sterling, including the so-called Queen's currencies. Those were the currencies of nations that had historical ties to Britain through their colonial origin, such as Australia, New Zealand and a few others. Only in recent history has the US dollar become the significant player in Forex market.
Combinations of the five most popular world currencies: the US dollar, the euro, the pound sterling, the Japanese yen and the Swiss franc, make a group of Forex major currency pairs. They read as follows: EUR/USD, GBP/USD, USD/JPY and USD/CHF.
Currency pairs comprised of major currencies that do not pair with the US dollar are called cross pairs: EUR/GBP, GBP/JPY, CHF/GBP and so on.
Three more currencies are common in Forex. They are the New Zealand dollar, the Canadian dollar and the Australian dollar. Pair them to the US dollar and you have a group of Forex minors: NZD/USD, CAD/USD and AUD/USD.
All other currency pairs in Forex trading are generally referred to as exotic pairs. They account for less than 15% of all foreign exchange transactions.
Sometimes beginner traders may have trouble understanding Forex quotes when listening to experienced traders, because some popular currencies have nicknames, and by extension so do currency pairs that include them. Other than being used by traders as slang, these nicknames are irrelevant for trading. However, to prevent confusion we have listed these terms for you.
The GBP/USD pair is often referred to as 'cable' or 'the cable', reminiscent of the times when a communications cable under the Atlantic Ocean connected London and New York. USD/JPY is occasionally called 'ninja', while EUR/GBP is known as 'chunnel'. You may also hear 'greenback' used for the US dollar, 'swissy' for the Swiss franc, 'loonie' for the Canadian dollar, 'aussie' for the Australian dollar and 'kiwi' for the New Zealand dollar.
As a professional Forex trader, you're not likely to bother much with the nicknames of currencies and their respective pairs. Everybody simply agrees on the unilaterality of live Forex quotes names to save unnecessary complications and confusion.
Quote value
What you will be bothered with as a trader are the dynamics of Forex quotes. This conveniently brings us to reading the price of a currency pair. The price is the very thing that indicates the current dynamic of a currency pair, and it will often provide the basis as to whether a trade should be made.
To follow on with our example, we're looking at a currency price of 1.1234/1.1235 for EUR/USD. Both of these numbers express the value of the base currency - which is the euro - through the value of the counter currency - which is the US dollar.
The first number is called the bid price. This is simply how much the market bids for the currency. Or in other words, how much you will get in dollars if you sell one euro. The second number is the ask price. This indicates how much in US dollars the market is asking for a single euro, should you chose to buy it.
So the whole quote says: one euro is worth 1.1234 US dollars if you are selling, or 1.1235 if you are buying. Note, the bid price is always smaller than the ask price. This applies to all currency pairs and all financial markets.
Here are a few more free Forex quotes for you to try and interpret:
Congratulations! Now you know how it's done.
The spread
There's more information we can draw from Forex live quotes. For instance, the spread can be a useful piece of data for Forex traders. The spread is simply the difference between the bid price and the ask price. It is measured in pips, points, or ticks - which is typically the fourth digit of a quote after a dot. Let's consider our running example of EUR/USD priced at 1.1234/1.1235. The difference between the bid and ask price here is 0.0001. This is the equivalent of saying the spread is one pip.
For a number of years, pips were the minimum price change unit of the market and were often referred to as ticks. Today, brokers can provide currency pair prices to the fifth decimal place - which means that spreads can fluctuate by even just a tenth of a pip. Smaller spreads are generally good for Forex traders, as smaller fluctuations in exchange rates makes it easier for trades to become profitable.
Most traders know that every transition on the Forex market involves buying or selling at the opening of an order - and, reversely, selling or buying at closing.
Thus, if you are going long on EUR/USD, you are first buying euros for dollars at the ask price.
Doing this will make the order open with a slight minus at the equivalent value of the spread. Why does this happen? Because to close the order, you will facilitate a counter transaction and sell appreciated euros for the US dollars at the bid price.
It is important to remember that all buy orders open at the ask price and close at the bid price of a traded instrument. Conversely, all sell orders open at the bid price and close at ask price of the instrument.
It's worth keeping in mind that although a price chart may be reflecting both bid and ask lines for a currency pair, the chart itself is drawn by the bid price.
Some more information
Thanks to the interconnectivity of all traders, Forex quotes represent the best price available on the market at any given time. That's why Forex is a popular choice for investors - it's the most liquid market in the world.
Except in times of major market turbulence, any significant differences in quotes are momentarily negated through an automatic arbitrage.
By extension, this also means that any one quote is only valid for a brief second. At times of great market turmoil, price on the market may change faster than real time Forex quotes.
In order to have a better understanding of price quotes, they are placed in context of each other in the form of a price chart. This chart is nothing but a helicopter view over the price quote history during a selected time interval.
Years ago, Forex traders would have to pay to receive quotes. Thankfully, this is not the case today. Your Forex quotes are free of charge, as are your price charts, your trading platform and your access to the market. Your broker makes sure of that, as long as you use their services.
Now that you know how to read Forex quotes, you are one step closer to becoming a real life professional trader.


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London Collections: Men – Oliver Spencer AW13
Last week, London saw host to the one of the biggest dates in the men's fashion calendar, London Collections: MEN. The week showcased a wide variety of talent, showing the real breadth of emerging and established UK designers. The capital became a congregation for the industry's most reputable buyers, editors, designers and press, who were all attempting to gain a glimpse of the latest trends and collections for the forthcoming year.
True to form, English designer Oliver Spencer showcased his AW13 collection – and yet again, it didn't fail to impress. Inspired by twentieth century German art theorist Joseph Beuys and his association with the 1960s fluxus movement, much of the tailoring and outerwear fabrics utilised in the showcase were motivated by Beuys iconic 'felt suit'.
Outerwear was a strong presence within the collection, with leather/shearling jackets particularly prevalent. Heavy woolen trousers, complete with turned-up hems, allowed the footwear on show to shine – and included a range of Spencer's trademark cap-toe Oxford boots and suede brogues.
A personal favourite from the AW13 collection has to be the bold, woven striped suit. Giving the appearance of a patchwork effect, the palette of autumnal grey, blue, brown and green combined well and emphasised the muted and refined approach to colour the designer is renowned for. Orange and mustard yellow accent accessories offered variety to the more subdued colours, and provided much needed warmth and an injection of flair.
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About Dana McCoy
Dana McCoy is a Grammy Nominated Singer, Songwriter, Playwright, Director, Actor, and Teacher. She has internationally topped Billboard charts, toured, directed, taught, and performed her original rock musicals.
The Beginning.
It was over when she saw her first Broadway production at the age of ten.After studying ballet at North CarolinaSchool of the Arts, doing summer stock at the Merry Go Round Playhouse in Auburn, NY, then studying music, film, and theater performance with scholarships to Boston Conservatory, Berklee and NYU, Dana McCoy gigged everywhere from CBGB's to The Ritz to Lincoln Center, toured US, UK and Europe topping the charts with hits performed by Inner City, Degrees of Motion, Left Field, and herself, at which point she composed, produced and performed a solo CD, "Taking Shape," selected by Billboard as one of the year's best albums.
McCoy's work on stage continued with her original rock musical "Prom Queens" workshopped at the Westbeth with Arnold Englemen, and Don Hill's famed rock club, after which she went on to perform regularly at Joe McGinty's infamous Loser's Lounge sharing the stage with celebrities from Fred Armisen to Justin Vivian Bond, was a staple in New York's Ukulele Cabaret and as founder and host of Life Cafe's NAKED Music Series which provided over 300 gigs for musicians in NYC from first timers to Grammy winners.
McCoy worked with Gretchen Cryer, Evelyn Page, and Lesley Gore as founder, producer, and performer in "Pillow Fight Theatre Festival: Hot Chicks of Substance" at 45 Bleecker in 2007; wrote, performed, and produced her rock musical "Cube Rat" at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2011; and originated the starring role of Ingrid in Richard Caliban's "MoM: A Rock Concert Musical," winner of Outstanding Musical at New York International Fringe Festival, also selected as part of the Fringe Benefits Anniversary Series in 2011.
Dana enjoyed helping run 45 Bleecker Theatre during it's brief 3 year run after and before it was the Culture Project. While there she witnessed and often took part of the development of new comedy work by luminaries such as Russell Brand, Jerry Seinfeld, Colin Quinn, Eddie Izzard, Mike Birbiglia, Marc Maron, and many many more.
McCoy co-produced the "OurLand Festival" with Joe Hurley for Lincoln Center Out Of Doors during summer 2012, which took place on three stages, over eight hours, with 20,000+ audience members, and for which she performed the finale of the Irish Rock Review on the main stage with members of Alice Cooper, Blue Oyster Cult, NY Dolls, and more. McCoy joined Hurley again co-producing and performing in "A Dickens Christmas for The Rockaways" in December of 2012, a celebrity-studded benefit at Theatre 80 St. Mark's, for the Hurricane Sandy-damaged Rockaways. This featured Mary Norris from the New Yorker, Alphie McCourt of the McCourt brothers, Lucinda Dickens (direct descendent of Charles), a host of critically acclaimed musicians, actors, and writers.
2013 found Dana gleefully singing and dancing as a lead in Zoe Lewis's Original Musical, Across The Pond, directed by A Chorus Line's Donna Drake.
Since returning from directing and acting in 2 plays produced by CTek Arts at the Dublin Gay Theatre Festival, McCoy produced and performed a developmental run of her Original Rock Musical, Prom Queens to thrilled audiences at the Crown & Anchor's Paramount Club in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
Currently, two of McCoy's songs are out in Eric Schaeffer's award winning film "Boy Meets Girl" ,
McCoy sings lead with Albert Bouchard on his 2017 Grammy Nominated song, Sky from his most recent solo album, Surrealist. She has accepted to become a member of the Albert Bouchard Project, with many gigs to come, near and far.
Meanwhile, and as usual, Ms. McCoy is quietly plotting and scheming adventures. More will be revealed…
Artist Representation:
Seveda Williams Management
NYC Office – 646.641.3127
Music Composition Rep:
Jonathan Asher
Featherweight Productions
To Say Hello:
- Grammy Nominated song, "Sky" by Albert Bouchard, Lead Vocals
- "Halelujiah" (#1 International Billboard Charts) and "Fire", Kevin Saunderson's Inner City (Writer)
- "How Would You Like It?" Dana McCoy as Mariposa/Andrew Komis on Network Records (Wrote and Sang)
- "Degrees of Motion" produced by Ric Wake, Wrote and Sang Lead on "So In Like With You" and "One Strike You're Out" as Mariposa
- "Taking Shape" (Solo Record; writer, singer, producer, performer)
- Billboard Editor's Choice for Top 10 Album of the year
- "Kiss Goodbye" for film City of Industry OST (Writer, singer)
- "Crime Pays" for The Search for One-Eyed Jimmy OST (Writer, singer, producer)
- Wrote and sang "Paradise" and "Shooting Sparks" Produced by Mark Saunders
- Taylor Barton's Spiritual Gangster, Produced by GE Smith and Jon Carin, sang Backing Vocals
- Wrote songs with Michael Mangini of "Who Let The Dogs Out"
- Composed tracks for Commercial Clients from MTV to Sachs and Bryant Park Fashion Shows
- Lead Role of Sal, songwriter and dance captain for "Wrinkles The Musical" at CCTC [Spring 2018]
- Host and Director of "Stories From The Universe" at Cabaret Fleck, UUMH [Fall 2017]
- Emcee for "Dancing Around The World" Cape Cod Theatre Company [Summer 2017]
- Miss Stacey in Anne Of Green Gables Cape Cod Theatre Company [Spring 2017]
- "Prom Queens," Writer/Director/Performer/Producer – Original rock musical in development
- "A Shining Attribute" by Candace Rusk – Director, International Women's Theatre Festival [Fall 2013]
- "A Shining Attribute" by Candace Rusk – Director, Dublin Gay/Lesbian Festival [May 2014]
- "What To Throw Out" by Kathleen Warnock, Lead Actor, Provincetown Playwright's Festival [Fall 2013]
- "What To Throw Out" by Kathleen Warnock, Lead Actor, Dublin Gay/Lesbian Festival [May 2014]
- "Ibis The Wayward Whale, An Original Musical Tale", Writer/Director/Performer [Summer 2013]
- "Cube Rat" – Writer/Performer/Producer, Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Off-broadway [2011]
- "MoM: A Rock Concert Musical," (Lead Cast Member/CoProducer) written by Richard Caliban, winner of Outstanding Musical at New York Fringe 2009 and selected as part of the Fringe Benefits Anniversary Series [2011], The Almost Annual Festival, [April 2013]
- "Loser's Lounge" Performed with Fred Amisen, Justin Bond, and Seveda Williams
- Ukulele Cabaret at Jimmy's 43, Member/Performer
- NAKED Acoustic Music Series, Founder, at Mudspot and Life Cafe, every Monday night for three years
- "Pillow Fight Theatre Festival: Hot Chicks of Substance," Founder/Producer/Performer at 45 Bleecker, with Gretchen Cryer, Evelyn Page, and Lesley Gore [2009]
FILM – songs/scoring:
- Boy Meets Girl – Eric Schaeffer film out now on Netflix/Amazon
- City Of Industry – Harvey Keitel, Stephen Dorff, Timothy Hutton
- Please Don't Feed The Animals – Steve Leeper
- Gone – Matt Herron, Miles Per Hour
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- Ibis The Wayward Whale – Director, Composer, Children's play for Whale Week, Produced by the Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies [Summer 2013]
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"A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it and found none. "Then he said to the keeper of his vineyard, 'Look, for three years I have come seeking fruit on this fig tree and find none. Cut it down; why does it use up the ground?' "But he answered and said to him, 'Sir, let it alone this year also, until I dig around it and fertilize it. 'And if it bears fruit, well.
But if not, after that you can cut it down.' " ~ Jesus (Luke 13:6-9)
I'm beginning a series today that will go thru the next few weeks on what Jesus was saying to us personally in these last days. Exploring, very closely the stories that He told & discovering the mysterious meanings and how they apply to our lives. This is the season that planet earth chooses to celebrate Jesus birthday, when He came down the first time. So what better occasion to behold what it was that Jesus was saying to us. He's coming back soon so in preparation, He speaks to us today from His word:
Oh, the audience around Jesus got the meaning fine! You see, God's chosen people still had a message of 'repent' ringing in their ear which came just before the story from our savior about the fig tree was told. Focus was off God & on Pilate & the emotional turmoil news of their day. Living crisis to crisis rather then pray and connect. God gave Israel so many traditions, council & ceremonies so that the 'vine brought out of Egypt's chains' would be bearing good fruit so "..That they may be called trees of righteousness, The planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified." (Isa. 61:3). When Jesus came down to earth from Heaven, none were found. All that God effort over many years, no response from the ground.
That was then. This is now. If Jesus were to crack the sky & stare us in the face right now what would He find? What are we about this day? Resisting evil or going with the flow? Doing what feels good, giving into lusts & temptations that happen our way, witnessing only to the mirror? ..?
Jesus, in His endless love and infinite mercy can steer us back on course. He is the one crying out on your behalf, "Sir, let it alone this year also, until I dig around it and fertilize it. 'And if it bears fruit, well." You see the dirt, where you've been planted (life) God "dug it up and cleared out its stones, And planted it with the choicest vine. He built a tower in its midst, And also made a winepress in it; So He expected it to bring forth good grapes." (Isa. 5:2) This is for us saved in relationship with Jesus.. Jesus died to supply us a new life. It cost His life which is the choice vine & the winepress His blood, the tower His mighty protection of our behinds provided by His Spirit. We all "brought forth wild grapes." (Isa. 5:2) … If our focus is back on Christ life who gave us a perfect example of "a vineyard On a very fruitful hill" (Isa. 5:1) Fill up your vine with God's word & apply it to your life so the Lord will shout, "I, the LORD, keep it, I water it every moment; Lest any hurt it, I keep it night and day." (Isa. 27:3) God input that's applied to life makes a two way relationship that will produce the fig that God is looking for. Warning: It's Godly growth or sin gonna grow & bring.. (see James 1:15).
God says to us today, "I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely, For My anger has turned away from him. For the ways of the LORD are right; The righteous walk in them." Hosea 14:4,9 Do it today fam, don't wait with bones dried by idleness only to to be cut down. ~Pastor Pete Walker
— on deck, "Avenger God!" 'Jesus Speaks 2 U' Part 2 —


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Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Brain wave
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that rug looks fab in your kitchen...and as soon as I get the ballz, I'm going to try my hand at painting too. :/ReplyDelete
oooh oooh oooh that painting! I can't wait to see what you come up with :) :) xoxoReplyDelete
Champagne Lifestyle on a Beer Budget
- Telise EnseyOctober 18, 2011 at 12:58 PM
The rugs...you always have the most amazing!!! rugs ever!ReplyDelete
I love seeing all the awesomeness you come up with!
Ok so funny I have that same artwork pic saved to try to recreate. If I can ever find the time to actually do it! Love that kitchen!ReplyDelete
- rkf1046October 18, 2011 at 8:44 PM
Who makes the squiggly aqua fabric pillows and the coral ikat fabric...love!ReplyDelete
That warm pink ikat in the first picture is mine! So excited that you're showing it!!ReplyDelete
And I LOVE the rug in the kitchen. Can't wait to see your painting goodness!
Could you give us the scoop on where that fab rug is from!?!?!ReplyDelete
You must be reading my mind because I've got a thousand things going through my head that I might just dump them all into one post. Love every one of these photos. I would add for myself - drink more coffee.ReplyDelete
LOVING LOVING those pillows!! (and the little girl is way 2 cute!! LoL)ReplyDelete
Love the rug! I want one for my kitchen! Mind sharing where its from? Thanks!ReplyDelete
About the rug:ReplyDelete
I have a bevy of these beauties that I import from Turkey and Istanbul. I am always happy to sell these rugs to clients with specifics sizes and colors in mind. Thanks!!
i can't even handle the amount of gorgeous color, pattern, & texture that you pull in all of your textiles for your clients. if you want to just send the shizz to my address because you're that awesome, i would NOT be upset about that decision.ReplyDelete
love the photos...where are the bowls from in the mag?ReplyDelete


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Posted by: gringrimaceandsqueak
on Dec 03, 2011
We've been having a bit of a sort out here at Grin Hq, working through stock and deciding where to list which pieces. We try and avoid having all the same things on all our selling platforms and tailor what we are selling to the customers it brings in. This does however means we take a lot of different photos.
For our own UK website, it's the big stuff mostly and we can be a bit more creative with pictures, especially those on the front page. Some time ago, we did some shots of our carnivale masks to show them as luxury items using coloured backgrounds and some basic props -feathers etc, to add a touch of glamour. It's amazing what can be done just with a few bits and pieces you have lying around.If you're stuck for extras, putting in packaging can make an image more interesting and shows the customer how much care you take with their purchase. We use gorgeous magnetic closure boxes from Midpac, in black of course, with some tissue to protect the mask.
For those initial thumbnails on sites like Etsy, we use a light background and are relaunching our tiaras using our mannequin head with a wig and, for extra height, one of Ms Grins' hair falls. Much easier and quicker than getting all dolled up for a model shoot- just plonk the wig on, clip on the extension and there you have it :)
Not only does is give a sense of scale, important for selling online, but it show the item as it could be worn and looks a whole lot more exciting than one lonely piece by itself. If you're a seller like us, have some fun with your photos - it really does make all the difference :)
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Posted by: gringrimaceandsqueak
on Apr 04, 2011
For a while now we've know we needed to get more modelled shots of our products but what with one thing and another, doing a live shoot has been put off. We decided to find an alternative that didn't mean doing hair and makeup every time we created something new, would look good and enable us to list straight away.The solution came via a friend on Etsy who showed us their mannequin head which they had bought cheaply and decorated. A bit of research turned up a selection for about five pounds apiece, male and female, so we ordered one of each.As you can see, it was obviously polystyrene, had seams showing and generally not very glam. So, we used a homemade paste of flour, water and sugar to glue strips of white tissue, gradually building up the layers until we had a light texture we liked and had covered any unsightly bits. To protect it further we then painted it with acrylic in a creamy colour which toughened it further and made it wipe clean (essential when taking photos in the kitchen!)Our original product shots looked like this- very nice and everything but a bit hard to tell how it would look on.Now, they look like this- not only do they now show how the mask fits but by happy accident, the creamy colour of the heads has solved the white balance issues we were having, where the background sheet, which is white, would come up yellow or blue depending on the light source.
So, for all those jewellers/hat knitters out there who don't have anyone they can bribe to model for them, happy pasting and painting :)
Karen and Rich
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On Easter Sunday, my friend Shelly and I made our way to the Old South Church to attend the Blessing for the Athletes. A yearly tradition, the blessing is often a highlight of Boston Marathon weekend, but many of us were seeking more than physical strength and the church was packed.
Fitting that Easter, a holiday that celebrates rebirth and renewal, was the day before the 2014 Boston Marathon. I was seeking a fresh start. I was seeking renewal. As runners received their blessing, we were also gifted with scarves hand-knitted by thousands of individuals around the country. We were not allowed to wrap the scarf around our own neck. Someone else had to do it for us. I walked out of the church uplifted by these simple, sweet acts of kindness feeling a little more Boston Strong.
This past year has been a marathon in its own way. Like the early miles of the race, the days immediately following the bombings went by in a blur. If I thought too much about the miles ahead of me Monday, I got overwhelmed. So I focused on the mile I was in. After the bombings, I immersed myself in the daily hustle and bustle of life, only allowing myself small moments to grieve. Too much reflection and I feared I would never escape the sadness.
Somewhere around mile 10, I started to feel the work in my muscles. The early adrenaline was long gone and it was all work. With many more miles ahead I started to settle into a consistent pace. Mile 10 took us through Natick on our way to Boston. It's also where I started looking to the crowds for encouragement. A few months after the attacks I started opening up to my friends and family a little more. I started sharing the burden of emotions I had been carrying with me, but not too much. Knowing that I was going back to Boston for 2014, I didn't want to exhaust myself and others with those emotions.
At mile 13, I was halfway there. Finishing seemed possible. After the cheers at Wellsley, I started to feel a little stronger. Any doubt I had before about finishing strong started to fade. After registering for this year's marathon, I also felt that healing might be possible. I would get to return to the only place I would find healing.
Miles 16 to 21 of the Boston Marathon are famous for their hills. Difficult not just for their terrain but also their timing, this is where some runners falter. But it's also when the crowd support starts to play an intrigal part in our success. It's a symbiotic relationship. So many signs thanking the runners for giving Bostonians back their day, I really felt we should have been carrying those signs for them. As I ran past one woman, she yelled, "Remember who you are running for." Any discomfort I felt fell into perspective. As I reached the top of Heartbreak Hill, I saw the familiar "The Heartbreak Is Over" sign. While the real heartbreak is far from over, I felt incredible hope.
The Citgo sign is a welcome sight to tired marathoners, for as we pass it, we know we have just one more mile to go. No matter how intense the pain, we know there is a light at the end of the tunnel, or at least around the corner of Hereford coming onto Boylston. The crowds were intense. It felt as though they were as invested in my success as I was. I felt lifted as I picked up my pace and let them carry me home. Shelly was there at mile 25.5, adding her voice to the throngs of cheers. As I made the final turn onto Boylston, tears of joy and relief streamed down my face. Not a good look for pictures, but cathartic.
For 12 months I looked forward to this moment when I could reclaim my race, reclaim my moment, reclaim my joy that was stolen. But at that moment, running past those sacred spots where so many who had cheered me in to the finish in 2013 were injured and killed, it became clear that the healing I sought wasn't mine. It was ours. The reason peace had alluded me for so long was because I had selfishly sought it alone. I realize now that this race wasn't about me. It was about us. The runners, the spectators, the volunteers, the victims, the survivors, the families, the Bostonians.
The marathon is not a solo journey. It is a community coming together to undertake the seemingly impossible and make it possible.
Thank you Boston for helping us find peace. Thank you for lifting us up and pushing us forward. Thank you for getting us up and over the hills and onto the finish line. Thank you for putting your arms around us and making us all feel as one.
Thank you for making us all Boston Strong.
Kim Cowart is a wife, mother, 24-Hour Fitness instructor and Boston Strong marathoner.


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23 July 2007
The Story of Squirrel (2): Chrysalis
Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him. It is the moment when his emotions achieve their most powerful sway over him, and afterward when you say to this person "the world today" or "life" or "reality" he will assume that you mean this moment, even if it is fifty years past. The world, through his unleashed emotions, imprinted itself upon him, and he carries the stamp of that passing moment forever.
— John Knowles
The clika that the Squirrel and I were at the centre of was a social phenomenon that was intensely personal, interlinked with friendship and subjective relationships. It was also, unbeknownst to me at the time, extremely fragile. Two moments marked the end, which like all disasters, came rather suddenly: the first was the Squirrel's desire to transform our socio-personal nexus into a sexual one, which I was not terribly interested in. In retrospect, the first and primary Oops! The second, more professionally typical moment, was the decision for the clika to engage in a professional project together. A bigger and far more common Oops!
My sexual rejection of the Squirrel unleashed not only a frantic search on his part to find a "boyfriend" (the third boy brought home was the charm) but also led directly to the collapse of the professional project. As our personal relationship soured, the Squirrel almost immediately initiated a code red effort to marginalise me within our shared social and professional circles, of which our project was one. Even though I was the co-lead on the project and obtained funding for it through my leadership and work, questions were soon raised in the collective about my "political reliability," and whether a potential pocho vendido such as myself should be on board in a leadership position. Joined together with another falling out within the circle, which I may write about later, the effort soon feel apart, mired in recrimination, blame, distrust, and ridiculous identity politics.
The project, needless to say, never happened. But what was surprising and devastating to me was how quickly the clika, my clika purportedly, turned against me, took the Squirrel's side in our personal disagreements, and moved ruthlessly to banish me, flowing from the personal to the professional in a sleight of hand that was both hopelessly common and for me, at the time, profoundly affecting. Excluded from my former social life, I woke up from my domestic fantasy to realise how isolated I was, how I had basically given my energy and time to a joint socio-professional operation, le projet OsoSquirrel, that was now alles kaput. Mistake #3, as Boy George once intoned. My friends were now, stunningly, the Squirrel's. My work was now the Squirrel's. I did manage to keep my advisor, but other Chicana/o faculty and graduate students chose sides, mostly through the guise of the failed project.
"Who made Oso boss?" was something that was heard more than once in the hallways of the department, emanating from the mouths of armchair generals, the resentful and jealous, and the sullenly louche whose connection to the project was remote but who smelled blood and moved in for the kill. What happened between the Squirrel and me was not connected to Chicana/o Studies ideology, although it quickly became indicative of those differences in a ridiculous manner. I had become political unreliable not due to a change in professional and political perspective, focus of work, or because I was shilling for the Heritage Foundation (if only!), but rather because I had a personal falling out with someone who was unscrupulous and insecure enough to broadcast and promote this view of me for his own selfish and self-serving ends.
The house, my little dream cottage, became a battleground of silence and distrust, until finally after a spectacular argument, the Squirrel moved out to be with his child bride, the undergraduate he was now enamoured with (who, in retrospect, looked, sounded, and acted a lot like myself when I was an undergraduate. Funny that.). I spent the last two months in the house alone, preparing for a summer research trip to France and licking my wounds, depressed and worried about my future. Being truly alone for the first time in almost two years also demonstrated to me how dependent I had become on an illusion, now that the Oso/Squirrel nexus was ruptured. When I returned from France at the end of the summer, I moved away from doctoral town for four years, in exile in some ways, but also moving into a different phase of my life, Now Voyager-like, a necessary chrysalis, living in San Francisco and Montréal and discovering other things about myself, even if at the time this did not feel like a choice so much as a fait accompli banishment.
Payback, as they say, is always a bitch. And in this sense, there is a strange karmic sense to the tale of the Squirrel. After I moved away, he became the head Chicano fag in the department, but more like a symbolic figurehead. He was, frankly, not original enough to truly assume my role, or as I would describe him later, he became a gay mascot for those who couldn't really stand a sassy, sharp gay man: safe, neutered, inoffensif. While my social life (and to a certain extent professional life, for some faculty decided it was best not to be associated with me) in doctoral town lay in tatters (after I moved away, he crowed triumphantly to old friends from PU that "That bitch [i.e., Oso] is out of favour now!"), he assumed in many ways what had been my life there. But he was obviously not an astute judge of human character. If people are so ready to throw off relationships for the flimsiest of reasons, for their own personal and ideological edification, it is only be a matter of time before the pattern repeats itself. Even now, years later, the reasons remain shrouded in mystery, but at the end of one academic year and ABD with some substantial work completed for the thesis, the Squirrel left campus quietly, resumed his old life in the real world, and never returned to the program or completed his degree.
He never discussed the matter with his advisor, never talked to the department administrator, nothing. One day, he just disappeared back into the non-academic world, literally with grading left behind. Both advisor and the department admin have made occasional inquiries to me if I know what happened. I do not, and the silence of mutual friends from PU, so anxious not to get in the middle of something, means I still don't have the whole story, although I do know he is basically doing the same thing he was before graduate school and apparently has an abusive boyfriend (not the child bride, who is ancient history now). Perhaps the Squirrel realised that assuming a life is not the same as having one, and returned to a truer incarnation. At this point, over ten years later, the details are less important than the allegory, not necessarily for me or for the Squirrel immediately, but for how the vaunted pipeline for faculty of color remains treacherous, and how sometimes we cooperate with the forces arrayed against us, how we become and remain tools of the very hegemonies we putatively seek to undermine. The Squirrel is history, but several of his co-conspirators are rather well-placed, elegantly spouting appropriate rhetoric and making some money. I find myself in the odd position of wondering whatever happened to the Squirrel, when those who once found in him a convenient tool have moved on: luscious, glossy, ruby red rhetoric hiding their vicious fangs.
There is no transparent moral to this tale, necessarily, and I certainly was not the only one in the program to suffer such ideological fates, which is one reason why certain graduates from my program have terrible reputations as polemic automatons and unpleasant, rigid colleagues. I remain marked by this experience in ways that are idiosyncratic and iconoclastic. People can be mean, people can be capricious, but the collapse of the clika and the simultaneous destruction of the professional connections based on it, was a deeply affecting shock, a lesson ultimately in human cruelty but also social frailty, the tenuous emotional and social bonds of collegiality, of which the Squirrel is only but one possible example. Intellectually, the limits of identity politics as a true basis for socio-professional affiliation were reasserted, and a deep skepticism of those who rely on such easy equations grounded in my own bruising experience flowed directly into my intellectual project, which refused explicitly these politics in favour of deconstructing their bases in rhetoric and discourse. And such decisions have a direct influence on where we are, who we become, and how we function within the profession, as much as for our individual personalities as for how we become, through trauma and enlightenment, paragons for esoteric ideas and themes.
The house on the street bordering campus remains a reminder of this strange time in my life. It is cuter now, painted fashionable colours and the home of an equally cute lesbian couple, from what I can tell from randomly passing by and seeing the new residents trim their grass, or bring in groceries. The house represents the apex and nadir of particular fantasies about my life, my friends, and my career that were once powerfully determinant in my life. As The Fierceness once intoned, with her usual perspicacity, "These people are your colleagues, not your friends." The desire to keep these things kosher, or at least consider them critically, is rooted in that small house, where I grew morning glories and baked quiches and hosted parties and lived, briefly, the life I thought I wanted to lead, at one time.
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I love the way you combine your personal stories with subtle (and sophisticated) references to pop culture. After reading your trepid prose I understand better why the personal is political. I still have a question, though: What ever happended to Baby Jane?
P.S. ( a la Center of Gravitas):
It seems to me that the Squirrel moved to TX and became Gayprof's Liar Ex (Who Told Many Lies).
- Mon Jul 23, 04:04:00 PM
A great and very truthful series, thank you. Reminds me of Gòmez-Peña's Navigating the Minefields of Utopia: "It's dangerous to mix sex, love, and art."
I also find it fascinating how time lays out the temporality of the skirmish and the war so differently, in a way that's hard to understand when you're in it. Or maybe this is just something about growing older?
- Mon Jul 23, 04:58:00 PM
- Tenured Radical said...
These two posts on Squirrel are just a brilliant essay about friendship and loss. I love your writing anyway, but this is some of the best.
- Tue Jul 24, 08:48:00 AM
gracias por tu historia... as smeone slowly making my way up the ladder, i am still occasionally surprised at how often the politics of departments is made intimately personal despite the attempts, or lack of them, to run a professional organisation/institution... I wonder if it's the accumulation of so many folks desperate for recognition with only their thoughts to keep them company - their battles becoming war fields on which fellow staff and students and lovers and even the occasional onlloker are imagined and then repeated in an attempt to control... and those who cling to the belonging of identity politics become quite adept at asserting whose identity is in need of politicking...
and just anted to say howmuch i appreciate your posts, and the bette davis references - last night i finished watching hush sweet charlotte... - and the way you weave theory, practice and self into your writing, knowing there is no other writing but.
- Wed Jul 25, 07:05:00 AM


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"You know by now that ObamaCare architect Jonathan Gruber recently admitted they intentionally misled the public about the law because they thought we were too stupid to support the bill. Democrats have played this game for a long time. Repeatedly hammer messages like "access to health care" while conveniently ignoring the market disruptions that come with it, and justify it all by asserting that Americans are too stupid to handle the truth.
But a shocking development is unfolding, and it's horrifying for the Democrats. The polls didn't really predict it before Election Day, but we seem to be emerging from our "stupidity" quite nicely. First, let's consider the long-term picture here. Of the 59 Democrats who voted for ObamaCare in 2010 (remember that Ted Kennedy had already died but Harry Reid used reconciliation to pass the final bill), 28 have already left the Senate or will be leaving in January. And that will rise to 29 if, as expected, Mary Landrieu loses her runoff in December.
So basically half the Democrats who backed ObamaCare in the Senate will be gone. In four years!
That's astonishing. Now they didn't all run for re-election and lose. Some of them retired. But they're still gone, and that's simply a stunning turnover in such a small period of time. The American people have understood since ObamaCare passed what a scam it was.
In Alaska, Iowa, North Carolina, Colorado and Arkansas, Democrats who voted for ObamaCare were unceremoniously shown the exits by the voters in their respective states. (And you're next, Louisiana!)
People are paying attention, and every time they have the opportunity to do something about it, they're making it clear: They hate ObamaCare, and they resent the dishonesty and subterfuge that were used to pass it. It's too late to make Obama pay a price at the ballot box, regrettably, but maybe the voters will remember this and not reward another Democrat who has a tendency to spew nonsense based on low regard for the intelligence of the public."