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Mariah Carey's New Year's Eve Performance Wasn't What We Expected
Times Square in New York City is the place to be during New Year's Eve. Each and every year, during this time they have celebrities perform their latest hits in front of a live audience. This year Mariah Carey was chosen to headline the festivities in Times Square, and her performance wasn't anything close to what we expected. People in the audience noticed she was lip syncing, Mariah as the DIVA she is blamed it on technical difficulties. Mariah was assigned to perform two of her hit songs, "Emotions" and "We Belong Together", it was a big disaster.
Mariah handled it the best way a DIVA could, with poise and grace. During her hit song "Emotions" she was nice enough to let the audience sing for her, if that isn't classic I don't know what is.
Mariah took it to Twitter to express exactly how she felt after her performance. She wrote:
"Shit happens, Have a happy and healthy new year everybody! Here's to making more headlines in 2017."
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Before you go any further – I hope you guys appreciate what I went through to do this style steal. I actually googled Pretty Little Liars. My cousin would go mental! I've been avoiding spoilers like the plague as I'm only on series one but I love the girls' fashion so much that I had to do a post! My favourite character so far is Aria so I am so excited to present this style steal to you. I found all of the products at boohoo.com on sale. (#notspons.)
Let's get down to it!
You can get this dress in either red or black but black is a staple colour for Aria. Think that scene phase that everyone goes through when they're 14/15 where everything is black and splashes of bright colour. Pair that with some knee-high boots and you have Aria's style. I saw from my Google searches that she does get a little more adventurous in her style so this is one of the more tame options that I picked.
2. Plus Lola Printed T-Shirt Dress, £12.
This is for my curvy girls out there as I realised looking back through my posts the other day that a lot of the sites that I get my style steals from aren't plus-size friendly. I apologise to everyone for this and I'm going to make much more of a conscious effort to cater to everyone with these! Okay, now that's been said – how much is everyone loving these choker dresses? I am obsessed! With her rocker-chick look, Aria would definitely sport one of these bad boys.
3. Megan Star Print Drawstring Kimono, £10.
I think this is so cute! You could go wild like she does a lot and pair it with some more patterned tops beneath to make your outfit really stand out but seeing as this kimono is quite long – ensure you wear heels of some description unless you're not vertically challenged like me. This would absolutely drown me and Aria, too! But either way, it should be able to balance it out.
4. Harriet Rose Pattern Jumper, £4.
This is honestly the best part about sales for me – the winter clothes that are ridiculously cheap. If you guys are like me and from the UK, you'll understand that our summers are so short so I make the most out of being able to buy cheap clothes out of season while I can. I much prefer winter clothes to summer clothes because I like being cosy and so does Aria. She layers up a lot and this jumper is perfect for that due to the sheer nature of it – you have to layer up if you don't want everyone to see everything. The splash of pink reminds me of her hair in the flashbacks, too.
5. Tori California Printed Spliced T-Shirt Dress, £8.
I saw in my brief spoiler-free search that Aria gets very… experimental? with her looks. I love them still. I love when people are brave in fashion as it's something that they've thought of themselves instead of following a trend in some sort of way. Aria doesn't like to follow the crowd, she's very much her own person and this half-and-half-not-quite-sure-what-it's-doing shirt matches her personality perfectly. It also reminds me of Star Wars. Not sure why.
So there you have it! That's how you can get Aria's style.
Are there any other characters you guys want me to do? I haven't done one of these in a while but I absolutely love them!
Morgie out.
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Reminiscent of original Black Forest cuckoo clocks with intricately carved flora and fauna, wooden pinecone weights, a removable pendulum and a delightful little yellow chap that emerges from shuttered doors to sing every hour on the hour. A switch controls high/low/off sound. Embossed goldtone Roman numerals on clock face; uses 2 D batteries (not included) so you don't have to worry about winding. Composite wood with a cherry stained finish and plastic accents. Assembly required. 15" w x 22" h (26" to end of pendulum) x 6 1/2" d. Young and old alike will delight in the yellow cuckoo that emerges from shuttered doors.
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June 26th has become one of my very favorite days. It has become a day of gratitude and reflection.
Today is a day I remember the best and funniest side of my mom; it would have been her 67th birthday -- she LOVED birthdays! And, in recent history, it has also become a day to reflect on equality and what it means to be a part of this incredible time in history when laws, hearts and minds are shifting.
Google's homepage currently has a quote that says, "Be who you are. Love who you love. #prideforeveryone."
Time magazine has written that "June 26 is a date that represents what happens when America works the way it's supposed to work... June 26 isn't just a symbol of marriage equality or gay rights– it's a day that commemorates a collective change of mind, the American ability to choose freedom and equality."
I absolutely agree.
June 26th has more than a decade history of being a day of equality:
Time magazine has written that "June 26 is a date that represents what happens when America works the way it's supposed to work... June 26 isn't just a symbol of marriage equality or gay rights– it's a day that commemorates a collective change of mind, the American ability to choose freedom and equality."
I absolutely agree.
June 26th has more than a decade history of being a day of equality:
- 2003 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Lawrence v. Texas that gender-based sodomy laws are unconstitutional.
- 2013 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled, 5–4, that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional and in violation of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
- 2015 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled, 5–4, that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marriage under the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Last year's Supreme Court's decision to allow same-sex marriage in the United States was two days shy of Julia and my one-year anniversary. We were planning to elope to Colorado since Texas was adamantly opposed to equality -- it didn't seem like that would change, and we didn't want to put our life on hold or give archaic politicians the power to validate our relationship.
When it was announced that marriage equality was the law of the land I was overcome with emotion -- not just for us, but gratitude for the people who had fought and even lost their lives to make it happen. And, sorrow for those who have had to live in hiding, and who were not given the rights that Julia and I will have in our marriage simply because they were born to a previous generation, or live under an oppressive regime. Not a day goes by that I don't feel incredibly blessed to be able to love Julia openly, wholeheartedly, freely and legally.
We are lucky.
We are lucky.
I would like to think that there is some connection between June 26th being a day of love and equality, and my late mother's entry into this world. I know that if she were here, she would love Julia and support marriage equality and happily celebrate her birthday at a Pride parade.
My mom had a zest for life. She loved parades and festivals. June 26th is the perfect day for pride parades and festivals to be held around the country -- if she were here she'd probably end up on a float with the drag queens, wearing a tight pink dress, big hair and sparkles, out-dancing everyone :)
On her 52nd birthday, the year she passed away, she hosted a big rock 'n' roll themed costume party simply for the excuse to dress up, be flamboyant, and dance.
Beyond pride festivities and equality, there are other ways that June 26th is the perfect day to celebrate my mother's life.
June 26th is the kickoff of Shark Week, and she loved sharks. We spent our summers at the California beaches, and while I was terrified we might encounter a shark, she was hoping we would see one. She also had a giant crush on Chris Isaak, Wicked Game was one of her favorite songs. So it makes me happy that she shares her birthday with him.
Lastly, June 26th marks, "Forgiveness Day," which is explained as "a time to forgive and to be forgiven. The world will be a better place for this day."
I do believe that the world is better for this day.
It's a day when people are reminded that they can love who they want to love, and I can celebrate the woman who taught me that it was okay to go against the crowd and not be afraid to be unapologetically myself. The woman who gave me the courage to take a chance on love.
Today is a good day.
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In Returning and Rest Shall Be Your Strength
When I applied for the Transforming Community program last summer and attended my first retreat in October, I did so with the knowledge that my soul was dry as dust, and I attributed its deprivation to the cumulative effect of all the many losses I'd sustained in the previous three to four years.
And that was true. That series of losses did, over time, deprive my soul of so much hope and life.
But it wasn't until the midpoint of that first retreat in October that I realized another factor also at work in this picture. I sat outside during an afternoon given to several hours of solitude and realized, for the first time, that at the same time the series of losses began to fall like dominoes upon my life, I had also made a significant change in my daily life.
It was the spring of 2013.
I was working as a freelance editor on a mix of book and magazine projects, and my work life was primarily project-based and deadline-driven. Clients would contract me for projects, send me the content, and give me a deadline. It was up to me how I got the work done by the time the work was due.
This worked well for me, given my natural rhythm (which is slow) and my sense of vocation as a contemplative.
For the previous few years, I had increasingly made room in my life for silence, solitude, and prayer. I would spend about four hours each morning, between the hours of 9 a.m. and 1 p.m., tending this contemplative space, and I would use my remaining time to get work done for my clients and take care of our life at home. It was out of these practices of solitude and silence that my soul flourished and my ministry flowed.
Then, in the spring of 2013, a client asked if I'd be willing to take on more daily work as a copy editor for their multiple online platforms. This work would require being at my desk, inbox and content-management platform open, by 9 a.m., with articles rolling in on the half-hour until 5 p.m. My task would be to copyedit each article as they went up on the sites.
As a freelancer, stability is key. Recurring income is a gift.
I said yes.
I gave myself to that side job for a year and a half, and I am experiencing the consequences of that decision still today.
Immediately upon agreeing to the work, I lost those four hours of morning stillness and prayer. I would sometimes wake early enough to enjoy a mug of coffee at my desk with the Scriptures, but it was nothing compared to the deep and slow rhythms of prayer and quiet to which my soul had become accustomed and out of which my sense of vocation and my ministry had flowed in the preceding years.
The pace of the work affected me. Making a simple trip to the grocery store or to the post office now evoked anxiety. I hurried through each errand with an eye on the clock, worried I would not be home, in front of my computer, by the time new articles went live.
The content affected me, too. The majority of the work was news-based, so headlines mattered. We worked for clicks. The content needed to command attention. I felt like I was operating at a high-intensity vibration of sensationalism and spectacularity all day long. Such a fever pitch alarmed my soul.
In the end, letting go of the work was not my decision.
Internal decisions at the company led to their bringing more of the responsibilities in house, so most freelancers were let go. And while I was initially alarmed by this decision, given how much stability that work provided each month to the financial bottom line of our home, I was also quite relieved. I knew the work was not aligned with who I am.
Here's the thing, though.
You would have thought, when that work came to an end, I would have returned to the slower pace and prayerful routines I had cultivated with great purpose and commitment before taking on that role. That is not what happened. Instead, I found other habits and activities to fill those hours. Along the way, I became addicted to my phone. I loved the dopamine rush of finding new messages in my inboxes and notifications on my social accounts. I wanted more and more of that. The thirst overwhelmed me.
When I say I am still experiencing the effects of the decision to work that intense online gig four years ago, this is what I mean. Its daily pace and activities rewired my brain and my habits of being for this kind of technology- and information-addicted life. It is not my natural state of being, but I allowed it to become so. And the more I gave myself toward those seemingly small activities, even after the online gig had left my life, the more it did become who I was.
Actions — even seemingly small ones — have consequences.
I began to connect these dots during my first retreat with Transforming Community this past October. During that afternoon of solitude, I saw the greater reality of what had happened.
Yes, that long series of losses had depleted my soul over time. But so did the slow draining of my soul's well that happened as I gave myself to a constantly connected life these past four years. The drying-up of my soul happened through the symbiosis of these things. The losses happened, one after another, and I was not giving myself to the contemplative practices that most sustain my inner life.
Now, once I connected these dots, I wanted to bang myself over the head with a frying pan. The truth is, I should have known better. My vocational call for nearly ten years has been that of bringing contemplative wisdom to online spaces. I directed the thesis research for my graduate degree toward a study of the internet's effect on the soul. As a result, I proposed ways to help the soul flourish in the face of such realities, and I brought some of those solutions to life.
Rather than bang myself over the head that day, though, I chose to look with compassion on my soul for its sad state and on myself for having fallen down the same rabbit hole most of us do these days, one slow, small action at a time, never realizing just what it is doing to our insides.
And I decided to make changes in favor of recovery.
When I got home from the retreat, I started to reincorporate contemplative practices into my life. I made a decision to take a sabbatical from my work with Still Forming. I started exploring the concept of deep work and created a deep-work schedule for myself.
All of this is still in development. But slowly, slowly, I am on my way back to myself and to God.
This past week, I attended my second retreat with the Transforming Community.
On the second night, as part of our evening prayer service, we were given ten minutes of silence to practice centering prayer. Before we began, we were reminded of the reality of the Trinity residing within us, and we were invited to use this time of silence to be present to this reality. We each chose a word — mine was Jesus — to which we would return when we noticed our thoughts had strayed from the simple practice of being present to God.
In front of the altar was a table that held an assortment of candles. One of the collections of candles was a trinity of tea lights. I stared at the trinity of those flames in the silence and connected to the reality of the Trinity residing with me, at the center of my being.
I was reminded of Rublev's icon of the Trinity that depicts Father, Son, and Holy Spirit seated around a table, their postures indicating a continual flow of love that both gives and receives. Some have come to believe the open space at the front of the table was intended to be an invitation to the viewer to join the Trinity at the table and to participate in their flow of love.
As I practiced centering prayer in that silence, I began to notice that it felt as though each member of the Trinity inside me — each one a flame — turned toward me with a gaze of welcome.
"Return," each one beckoned me from their place in the circle, a smile on their face. "Return to us."
Over and again, in those ten minutes of silence, they offered this invitation of welcome to me.
Return to us.
Today is Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent. If any season in the church year marks an invitation to return, it is this one. And while last week's retreat with Transforming Community was not meant to be an entry point for Lent, it has become that for me.
The retreat opened with a declaration from Isaiah 30: "In returning and rest shall be your strength." Then the Trinity invited me to return to them and to join them at the table in their flow of love. And now Lent is here, inviting return again.
And so I am responding. I am returning to my God.


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"That's all you need to do," he said, staring into the camera lens midst a close up of his white-haired and bearded face. "You simply have to train your mind to create whatever you desire."
"You can manifest whatever you wish; it is a matter of commitment—it is a matter of focus."
"Change your belief system to see the possibility, then the likelihood, of abundance and wealth whenever you desire it."
Okay. Most of this I do agree with—what you focus on, IS.
He continued, "Schreem brzee will give you wealth-consciousness—to change your negativity to positivity—from poverty to abundance and prosperity—the sounds have the ability to change your mindset."
In essence, the sounds only set the stage for wealth consciousness to materialize rather than actually pull the magic slot-machine lever for you.
Again, he continued, "Skillsets will come because once the wealth-consciousness is there, you will begin to look around you for opportunity to create abundance and wealth in your life."
Ah …okay. So in other words, it doesn't fall from the sky—you have to change yourself—your mind, to always think about creating wealth, and then find ways to bring that thought to manifestation. You actually have to do some work to make it happen.
"You cannot manifest that which you cannot conceive." He taught this to Wayne Dyer, he said.
The speaker is Dr. Pillai, and I'm beginning to wonder why I am still listening to him, but so far, I keep hanging in there waiting for those GREATER TRUTH nuggets.
"The sound will change the structure of your brain. (Schreem Brzee). It is a technique—a technology for changing the brain. Every thought changes the structure of the brain."
Well, I don't personally know if what he claims about the mantra sound is true, but the part about refocusing your attention and changing your mindset to allow those wealth-consciousness thoughts to change the structure/pattern of synopsis firing of the brain, I think is possible. To that I can agree.
Then I thought: What's wrong with me? Do I NOT want to be wealthy? I mean, isn't that what he is offering? Why am I so skeptical?
The problem is that my mind keeps replaying the same question I have about Dr. Pillai's focus: Why didn't Yogananda or Muktananda or Ramana Harshi, those other great swamis whose words I've studied go into depth on this "wealth-consciousness" stuff? If that is so important to TRUTH in general, why weren't they discussing it openly and making that their focus?
And he might be totally legitimate and well-intentioned, but something about this guru and his focus on making money just feels off to me. I mean I do understand that this approach is a good marketing gimmick, and he likely can pull a pretty good audience with promises of creating wealth using a mantra and your spending lots of time saying it.
I even understand how he talks about changing your mindset to focus on what you want to manifest in your life. I agree with that part.
What I dislike the most, I guess, is the energy I feel exuded by him when I watch and listen to him. He seems to give off a disgusted vibe—a vibe like 'I do this because I have to do this' not the vibe that it energizes him with joy and love for saying what he is saying.
You know, he might actually be helping folks to shift their thinking to more positive, creative thoughts—maybe using the wealth-creation subject as a-means-to-an-end sort of thing, but something about the manner that he is employing doesn't feel genuine to me. But then, maybe that's just me.
Anyway, just saying.
Schreem Brzee away, I guess.


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Location: Nevada, Red Rock
Rating: 4B-IV
Longest Rappel: 190'
Ice Cube Canyon is located in the Red Rock area of Nevada and is a excellent trip through an outstanding canyon. A shuttle is set up as shown on the map/gps track or as always you could simply hike in from the exit as needed. Once at the upper trail/parking location, you will find a well defined trail that will quickly have you gaining most of the days elevation and shortly after have you standing at the technical drop in point. Throughout the approach you will have great views overlooking the red rock scenery and the strip off in the distance. Once geared up at the technical section, be prepared for a day of up to nearly 2 dozen rappels depending on your groups approach. Plenty of webbing are rings are recommended to refresh any drops as needed. Shortly after the first few rappels, a great section of narrows are encountered that get you warmed for the many drops to come. A few drops throughout the canyon have been know to stick ropes in the past and from our view these were fairly obvious when encountered. A quick observation, a few well place items, a well laid out rope, was rewarded with a smooth pull and made light work of any concern. Soon after this first section of narrows, the canyon opens up to a great spot to relax and enjoy lunch before pressing on. Working down canyon towards the next section of narrows is quite wide and no raps are encountered for a bit. Eventually this level ground cliffs out as the canyon once again begins to tighten up. Moving forward, the canyon and its remaining drops will have your group throwing rope consistently for the rest of the day. In addition to the 200' rope required for the larger drops, our group also brought along several 100' ropes to keep pushing and speed things up in an effort to avoid the bottle neck of people waiting to get on rope at each station. Lots of great scenery are encountered throughout the canyon and after many rappels and short swims you will soon find yourself staring down the last drop of around 190' with a view of the vehicle in the distance. Make your way down to the open rocky section below and remove gear. From here it is a short rock hop down the remaining canyon to the wash, where soon a trail leading out can be found on the left. Once on trail, it is smooth sailing back to the vehicle where you can unpack, get your second vehicle, and make your way out of the park.


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It's rather pleasant finding out that a certain renovation project has increased the overall value of your house for much more than what you spent on the project. Many home improvements that you make to your house can help you increase your home's market value and attract more buyers. But which projects offer the highest ROI?
Selling Your Home? Consider These Home Improvement Projects for the Best ROI
The following list are some of the most valuable home improvement projects:
The kitchen
Making home improvements to your kitchen is like giving your house a much-needed face lift, and the amount of value that you can add to your house can be significant. An added advantage of making home improvements to your kitchen is that the majority of the improvements are fairly economical, and you can increase the overall value of your house for a fairly low out-of-pocket cost.
Lighting, flooring, counter tops and plumbing fixtures
You can actually get a fairly big return on your investment by including modern touches to your house, such as:
- Installing recessed lighting
- Replacing sinks, faucets, drains, toilets and other plumbing fixtures such as modern shower heads
- Replacing out-dated counter tops with new ones made of granite or quartz
- Installing new flooring or tiles, especially in the kitchen and bathrooms
The biggest ROI you can get from home improvements is from those made to your bathrooms. Simply upgrading a half bathroom to a full bathroom, with the installation of a tub or shower, can raise your house's value significantly. Make sure you replace outdated or old fixtures/mirrors, improve the lighting, install a new toilet, replace the sink and update the mirror(s). Some or all of those updates will greatly increase the market value of your home.
Exterior siding
Replacing the exterior siding of your house can also be a very good investment, and the ROI can rival that of improving your bathroom. You can actually install your exterior siding fairly easy, and you can receive as much as a 95.5% ROI if you do the installation yourself.
Interior painting
Painting the home's interior not only adds new life to your house, but it will also increase the value of your home. Avoid painting with white, but use neutral colors that add a clean and vibrant feel to the home while complementing the interior design.
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Designer Laurens Van Wierigen designing chairs for children. Seats are small and made ??of materials safe for children. Construction of this chair is so light because the kids can carry anywhere they want. In preparing for live storage does not meet your room. Color is used more in shades of bright light and is intended for fun and add color to the lives of children. Placed in the bedroom or playroom children can decorate the rooms with modern and functional style.


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Mayor Steve Bach has given two of his direct reports $25,000 bonuses.
City Attorney Chris Melcher, who's paid $187,529 a year, was rewarded for his "instrumental leadership" in leasing Memorial Health System to University of Colorado Health.
The deal indeed earned wide support from voters, who approved it 83 percent to 17 percent. However, to get it done the city paid an outside law firm, Fulbright and Jaworski, $1.55 million. In addition, the lease has given rise to two lawsuits: one from the Public Employees' Retirement Association, which seeks roughly $240 million to cover Memorial employees' retirements after they become employees of UCH, and the other from investors suing the city for Melcher's early defeasance of Memorial bonds.
The investor group, which alleged it was cheated out of $18.6 million in unpaid interest, recently agreed to settle the case for $995,000.
Chief of Staff Laura Neumann's bonus was tied to her "hiring and managing outstanding senior staff," such as in the city clerk's office, human resources, finance, information technology, planning and parks; for generating "breakthrough strategies" in the city's Strategic Plan; and for "providing WCF [Waldo Canyon Fire] general staff support." Her $25,000 supplements a current base salary of $165,000.
The bonuses, paid in 2012, come on the heels of Bach paying more than $1 million in severance pay, health benefits and sick time to get rid of 23 employees ("Take the money and run," April 3), many of them top managers. That figure doesn't include the city's recent $250,000 lawsuit settlement with fired finance director Terri Velasquez.


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Adrianna Bottom's father is famous for his Bottom's Bathrooms and Accessories. It's why they've moved to Los Angeles where they're getting their own reality show. Adrianna isn't happy with her parents' decisions and doesn't want to be on television. Especially not because the director seems to want her to be someone she isn't and he's always there to film her most embarrassing moments. Starting at a new school is already scary, but constantly being in the spotlight while trying to make friends, meeting someone cute and having to aim to be popular is a difficult job for her. Adrianna doesn't know what to do and how to behave, which is why she has to keep more and more secrets from the people around her, which isn't very handy when there's a camera present almost the whole time.
Adrianna wants to make friends, but hanging out with the most popular girls at school has a price, they have rules she has to stick to. One of them is ignoring Kevin, the guy she really likes. The crowd she's spending her time with doesn't accept him and she's being advised to find someone else to hang out with. To be able to see Kevin Adrianna joins his larp group while being in disguise. Because she wears a wig and a mask Kevin and his friends have no idea who she is. Will this way to get to know him work in Adrianna's favor or will it eventually backfire and ruin her chances with Kevin and the new friends she's just made?
Secrets of a Reluctant Princess is a story about self confidence and allowing yourself to be the person you want to be. Adrianna wants to please everyone, but by doing so she makes things very difficult for herself. She's a sweet geeky girl who has to try to be someone she's not. She does a lot of introspection and eventually discovers what is important to her. It's a long journey filled with embarrassing moments, beautiful meaningful connections, friendship, peer pressure, secrets and fun. I loved the versatility of it and couldn't wait to find out if she'd find happiness or not. Kevin is a kindhearted and talented guy and they are a great match. I couldn't turn the pages fast enough to see if they would have a chance together.
Casey Griffin has put many interesting elements into her story. There's a real life television show with a director who only thinks about his ratings, Adrianna wants to fit in at a new school while trying to escape the cameras as much as she can and her father has a terrific original business. I especially liked the larping aspect of the story. The vivid descriptions of the costumes, rules and battles are making it come to life incredibly well. I loved Casey Griffin's obvious love for her topic, which results into a unique and unexpected plot with a strong finale. The ending is entertaining, surprising and sweet. Secrets of a Reluctant Princess is a fabulous original story written with a great sense of humor.
Secrets of a Reluctant Princess is a great choice for readers who love YA stories about finding yourself and having the chance to be who you are combined with amazing costumes and roleplaying.
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I used a credit card as a bookmark for the double-issue (nos. 92 and 93) of the latest Boulevard; normally, I favor Dum-Dum (orange) wrappers. I wrote my notes in pencil; no page spared. I also, upon discovering this issue from the envelope, immediately and intentionally overused eye drops to blur my vision as I Sharpied every name out of the pages except for the table of contents and bio pages, which were ripped out of the binding and tucked away until the issue proved read. I should mention, too, with no disrespect to Tony Philippou, the artist, I duct taped the teaser names on the vibrant front cover, as well as the back.
To look at what's left is to assume ruined, but what's left in permanent ink vapor are anonymous words, a majority confined within No.2 lead circles and single and double and triple underlines, with all the exclamation points and sloppy misspelled reminders and the unmentionable amount of poorly drawn single and double and triple stars (I've never had a knack for it); words, all still readable, even with the mess and the marks; words that cannot be further tarnished and therefore, in addition to their weight, are imperviously clean.
This is a new experiment in acknowledging the work before the writer; as more and more journals are beginning to ask for blind submissions beyond requesting anonymity for regular contest procedures, we admit our own lack of trust in ourselves not be manipulated by a recognizable (or longed for) name. Upon seeing that I've received Boulevard to review, I knew I was about to read familiar writers, and I did not trust myself to be subjective because I am jaded and I am cynical and I am petty and there's no way I can trust myself to take the chance reading another poem by [redacted] aware I'm reading another [redacted] poem (thankfully, [redacted] is not in this issue).
This is Boulevard, though, so I'm already conceding to a bias, so are you (maybe). The question here isn't, "Is this issue any good?" but, "Just how good is this issue?" That's not for me to say (though "reviewer" kind of holds some obligation, doesn't it?), but I predict some future potential Best American Series nods, if not some shoo-in Pushcart winners (in this issue alone), and I'm not solely speaking about Joyce Carol Oates (we'll come back to this). This is a journal that compares to the top names and holds its own ground as a fierce and professional venue, the same as high-paying markets like Paris Review, The New Yorker, and The Georgia Review, but not so impossible that you can let yourself believe your work is honestly considered and probably on the same scale as friendly, personable, and honorable journals like Crazyhorse, Black Warrior Review, and Gulf Coast.
What speaks volumes to me (forgive the unforced pun) is that so many of these pieces are lengthy (the first two take up over sixty pages); I like to be embedded into that kind of commitment; 1) the narration never seems rushed. What's here is supposed to feel meandering, here for the readers to swim and gravitate into the environment of the story. They're not necessarily as complex as they could be, but instead they are certainly detailed (as Maude says, And thorough.), where one can easily navigate the scenes on one's own; 2) if I can stick with a story or essay that is that long, I know it was worth my time. As said above, I've read every page—most more than once.
I praise the poetry first, especially Adrian Matejka, whose "Famous Negro Athletes" who are having a "Touch one toe / then the other if you can kind of days." Annah Browning's haunting "Ghost Encounter" and Bonnie Buhrow's "August" stay with me longer than most poems do, and I highlight a special mention to Boulevard's emerging poet award winner Richard Lloyd-Jones whose lines are musical and give me the same strange impression as Blake (which could be very astute of me, or prove how little I know about poetry; nevertheless, enjoyable and comparable to the Romantics). Lasting images include Alysse Kathleen McCanna's "Risk" whose meaningful and auditory final line leaves you with plastic game piece soldiers in a drawer who "…rattle around in there / like discarded change." Also, for powerful final lines (but not just for final lines), consider Amit Majmudar's "History of Southeast Asia, 1960-1975, that guides you through NATO phonetics where ZULU states: "Your daze can end one of two ways. / Both involve a razor."
The fiction selection here is somewhat similar, a grouping of narrators who are educated, and being educated, suffering problems outside of themselves directly related to events partially caused by themselves, but nothing that will terribly affect their outside world, and what a surprise to read Joseph D. Haske's "Amusement" and find that his narrator speaks of a small town I live in now. George Williams' "The Cruelest Cure" reads like a detailed bar joke about lawyers, and Phong Nguyen's wonderful "Senior Paper: On Carlos Williams's 'The Red Wheelbarrow' by Rosa Guttierez" harbors the fragile and sweet mind of a high school student dealing with something much more taxing than a paper: "As far as the white chickens go, to be honest I don't even know what they symbolize, because I think of chickens as food, not as poetry. If they were penguins or something, I'd think maybe Carlos was being iconic. I mean, obviously they don't fly, so maybe the chickens also symbolize tiredness. On the other hand, chickens are food, so maybe they really symbolize that Carlos is both hungry and thirsty."
The highlight, and of course you guessed it, is Joyce Carol Oates' "The Drowned Girl," a mystical story of the living and the deceased, both parallel and universal. I won't go too far into it all, but Oates is one of our best writers who no longer has to prove anything but still hasn't let up: "We (girls, women) know how we would kill ourselves, if/when we undertake to do so. And we know—it would not be in a rooftop water tank. And it would not be naked."
What will stay with me the longest, however, is Sarah Grigg's "Medicine Wings," this issue's opener, whose epigraph is from Hunter Thompson's Hell's Angels, and sets the tone for this eccentric essay set in South Dakota biker rally. Not only is this piece equal parts curiosity-driven immersion and below-boiling point chaos, Griggs shares in the same panicked observation skills and mad scientist journalistic tone as Thompson, and I will say in confidence (as a fan looking to fill the void he left) a true successor has been found (albeit ((I'm assuming)) a sober version). For example: "Arnica's hopped out of her rig, standing in the grass highway divider in her black corset calling to me, a blond mirage between the flash of passing cars, bikes, and police siren lights, like goddamn Bridget Bardot on a battlefield. Get back in the truck, run away, Arnica, right away before they arrest both of us for a crime we did not commit."
Though, at first, I didn't know whom I was reading, I knew I was reading top-tier talent. I was more open with myself to be more critical about certain lines, character choices, whether actions were predictable or not, and perhaps this is not the best way to go about it. I'm not taking the writers' or editors' (sorry again for the unintentional pun) word for it and I become the self-centered narcissist who takes too much time thinking about how I would do or say it differently. But what was clear was that writers will have to do something extra to make it into these pages. Though they welcome the so-called emerging writer, they seem to prefer to work with the highly published and writers who are active in the literary community, whether this refers to big house published writers, serious editors, academics, grant winners and so on. This can be you, too. Work harder. Have something to say. Surprise yourself. Nothing's impossible.


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chap 1 page 11
South Park Relay
May 22nd, 2010
GRRR, I was lazy. Drew this in maybe 15 minutes. xD
Sorry! It's been over a week! If I had known I would have updated sooner! Sorry, sorry, sorry! Next time that I don't update for so long, bug me! Message me! I've been working on other fun things, so I'm sorry. Dx
Yeah. They saw Ike and Ruby Tucker making out. D:
And then Craig is like, "lol, I'm staying for dinner, frick yew"
I kind of find it funny that every page I draw is like... a cockblock moment. LOL OTL
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Chp 1 pg 10
South Park Relay
May 13th, 2010
Oh goodness. There are so many things I could lead this page up with. xDDDD <3
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Ironic Cruelty
Words Of Wisdom
May 11th, 2010
Same with saying lisp with a lisp. :[
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SOS friend
May 9th, 2010
Cute comic. :3
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|White Noise|
May 9th, 2010
Tomato head is wonderful. xD
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Chap 1 Page 8
South Park Relay
May 3rd, 2010
Pfft, no, it's totally cool.
I didn't know how to deal with the situation, and I recently got into Cryle. >u> I know, shameless.
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Chap 1 Page 8
South Park Relay
May 3rd, 2010
I felt bad for not updating yesterday. End of the school year is getting close, and it's crunch time for me. Sorry if it's a terrible page, but I have a half done painting due tomorrow at 3. I don't finish, I fail. LOLZ. Later dudes. :D
Edit: Can't make sense of the lower section of the entire page?
<They're carrying boxes for a Southpark event downstair. Kyle chose to carry the two heaviest boxes. Ohnoes, he trips, and Craig saves him in the last second.>
Craig: IDIOT!!
Kyle: I-I'm sorry.
Craig: What did I say?!
Kyle: ...
Craig: Whatever... At least you're okay, right cutie?
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glass hearts
April 28th, 2010
"Nope. I feel like I got pussy slaped. It's kind of like a bitch slap but LAMER."
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Unrelenting Interest
Questioning a Deadman's Tale
April 28th, 2010
She's a gold digger! Don't fall for her! D8 (jkjkjk)
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You're mine.
April 27th, 2010
It was a sex gift, obviously. <shot>
Sucha cute comic. :]
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Page 30
April 27th, 2010
This makes me soooo happy. XD
Cat molester.
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Chapter One, p. 009
never win
April 27th, 2010
Definately 5 years old.
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Chapt 1 pg 6
South Park Relay
April 27th, 2010
Not giving you much to work with? I thought I was starting an actual plot. j-j
It's cool stuff, I'm glad you're part of the crew now. :] First SP drawing~ <3
K2, staig, style, creek, cryle... SP fandoms are love period. ;D
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AFF2: TW ch1 LA cvr
Away From Fantasies
April 27th, 2010
OMG, I'm so excited for the new chapter! <3
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"What was his name?"
Questioning a Deadman's Tale
April 26th, 2010
Stalker girl?
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Chap 1 Page 5
South Park Relay
April 25th, 2010
I changed the direction of the comic to traditional manga style because it seemed like it would have been a headache for readers to go back and forth.
At first while drawing this I was going left to right even though I told myself, "traditional japanese manga style." I ended up having to flip the page. XD
Happy: I love coloring hands. juj <3 Stan's hand makes me so happy, and I love drawing Kenny; he's such a cutie.
Angry: RAWR RAWR RAWR. Kyle needs to stop being so... orange. xDDD His hand holding his huge phone was a total PAAAAIN. Kyle was not kind to me this page. Oh, also, I tried to stuff a load of panels into this page because as I started getting closer to the end of the page I was all, "Oh shoot, no more space. Ummm. I can fit 3 more panels. >_>"
Edit: If you're wondering why the text says, "honed," it was a t9 typo where <3> was clicked too many times. I've actually received a text that said that from my mom before, and I thought it was cute. Quiet you. >_>
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GrimmUlqui Comic
April 25th, 2010
I love the robotic-ness of him. xDD
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Chap 1 Page 3
South Park Relay
April 25th, 2010
It's simple math:
plans + missing clothes + girl = the nasty
(That's what my friends and I call it when we're making jokes.)
PEOPLE (if you have time, even just <vaguely> know Southpark, can draw) JOIN.
Seriously. And you don't have to do all out color like it's going right now. We just are because we feel like it. >_>
Radom comments: Stan is going anime on you with blue hair and eyes. stfu...
Last panel with Kyle is my favorite. What a sinister face. <3
@Michu: I switched back to text. Writing cramps my hands. XD
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GrimmUlqui Comic
April 24th, 2010
His shirt is angrryyyyy. D:
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Chap 1 Page 1
South Park Relay
April 24th, 2010
...or some other STD.
That's right, sickness will fuck Stan and give him AIDS. That's what you get for dressing so lightly, Stan.
Btw, is it cool with writing by hand? I hope you can read it. >_>
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Rob Coppolillo
IFMGA/AMGA Mountain Guide
Rob and his family moved to Colorado in 1976, when Denver was sleepy and the term "skier traffic" didn't exist. He and his twin brother, Pete, learned to ski by following the fast guys on the hill and luckily their high school offered an outdoor-ed class which taught them the basics of rock climbing, too. Despite the protestations of their parents, the pair climbed throughout Colorado in high school and college (CU-Boulder, where Rob earned a BA in environmental conservation).
Rob blew his 20s racing bicycles, but then began apprenticing as a guide with Markus Beck's guide service, Alpine World Ascents, in 2004. Markus shepherded Rob through his beginning courses at the American Mountain Guides Association (AMGA) and all three courses of the American Institute of Avalanche Research and Education (AIARE) curriculum. In September 2014, after a decade of courses, an intense apprenticeship, and a bunch of fun, Rob passed his final AMGA exam, having bunched all three (ski, rock, and alpine) into a chaotic seven-month period -- phew! Rob is the 97th American to have earned his international certification with the International Federation of Mountain Guides Associations (IFMGA).
He speaks French and Italian and is a freelance writer and the author of Holy Spokes: a Biking Bible for Everyone and The Mountain Guide Manual (Falcon, 2017), one of the official textbooks of the AMGA. Rob lives in Chamonix, France, with his ever-understanding wife, Rebecca, and their identical twin boys, Luca and Dominic.
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Podcast #840: Real Life OLED Burn In Test
Walking through a large electronics store the other day something caught our eye on one of their OLED display televisions. While you'd like to hope it was the vivid, realistic images on screen, it wasn't. It was the obvious burn-in. And it was bad. You could clearly see a shadow of the bottom logo bar / ticker from content they must use regularly peeking through what would have otherwise been a stellar video presentation. The burn-in scare was one of the factors that ultimately led to the demise of plasma televisions. Will burn-in be the demise of OLED?


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Don't Kill The Mellinger
Twitter Tuesday: Value of stupidity, James Shields vs. Jake Odorizzi, Chiefs holes, and Andy Reid
There is no telling how many people Stephen A. Smith spoke for. This is something nobody seems to be talking much about.
You know the basics here. On a television program that people seem to take seriously for some reason, Smith essentially said that women need to take responsibility for provoking domestic violence against them. It was brain-dead, sexist, ugly, out-of-touch, a million other adjectives that basically equate to Smith saying something indefensibly stupid.
Smith has apologized, but only after a few media cycles torched him.
Now, I think I was probably like most people throughout this whole ugly drama, which of course started after the NFL suspended Ray Rice two games for domestic violence. Rice knocked his now-wife unconscious, and two games seems awfully light. And then when Smith said what he said, I took it as such a ridiculous thing to say on a show that I feel like we've all agreed has no credibility that it wasn't worth much outrage.
But that's a simplistic and probably naïve view, the more I think about it. Smith said something that too many people — men and women — have probably felt or thought at some point.
And maybe this is backwards, but I do believe there can be value in exposing ignorance. Get it out in the open, and let it be shot down and ridiculed. Expose the flawed and dangerous thinking that can lead to a grown man saying a woman needs to be careful not to provoke a man into beating her.
You can change minds like this. I don't know, maybe this is a stretch. But I think the NFL going light on Rice, then Smith saying something so stupid, and the reaction we've seen over the last week or so can do some good.
I hope so, anyway.
This week's eating recommendation is the lamb meatball at Grunauer, and the reading recommendation is Greg Bedard on the life of offensive line coaches.
As always, thanks for your help and thanks for reading.
@mellinger can I have ur job— john (@jhonjhonman) July 28, 2014
Sir. Please keep your dirty hands off my job and, besides — do you think this is easy? Do you think that I have the kind of job where I just show up at a game and write whatever I want? Do you think it's easy to sit at home, look stuff up on the internet, call smart people who know what they're talking about, and THEN write something about sports knowing that if I screw something up the worst that can happen is a correction in the next day's paper?
Well, DO YOU?!?!??
Please do not answer any of those questions. Like I say, thanks for reading.
@mellinger If money's the same, would Royals be better off trading Butler & Guthrie & signing Shields, or keeping them & letting Shields go?— John M. Fox (@JMFoxroyals) July 28, 2014
This is far too easy, of course, because James Shields is way more valuable than Butler and Guthrie combined. If you could present this option as a real thing to Dayton Moore, he would giggle uncontrollably, trade Butler and Guthrie for whatever he could get, sign Shields, and then spend the rest of the day not wearing pants and high-fiving everyone who walked down the hallway.
But I include this because the reality is Butler and Shields are both almost certainly in their last seasons with the Royals. Depending on whether Butler regains the form that made him one of the American League's best right-handed hitters for a while, maybe that's a good thing with him, especially when weighed against the $12.5 million team option for 2015.
With Shields, this is an undeniably bad thing. He is the most established pitcher on the team, and I know we in the media can overstate this, but he really is a valuable leader. There are a million factors that have gone into Danny Duffy starting to emerge, but I'm convinced that an important one is Shields' presence.
Part of that is that Duffy has mentioned this, over and over and over again, and it just makes so much damn sense. Shields, more than the vast majority of starting pitchers, can look like a hothead on the mound. He cusses himself, allows himself visible displays of frustration after bad pitches, all of which violates the "code" that coaches always preach.
That's because Shields has found a way to use that emotion for good, not evil, and what better example for Duffy? His whole professional career, Duffy has tried to tame his emotions. Then he sees a top-of-the-rotation ace, a guy who still might be signing a $100 million contract this offseason, able to channel his energy in such a productive way. Duffy has access to Shields, can ask questions, watch up close not just on the nights Shields pitches but the four days in between.
Again, I don't want to overstate this. Like the rest of us, Duffy should get credit for his own successes. But beyond being a good starting pitcher, Shields can (and has) provided other value for the Royals.
That'll be missed.
@mellinger Does Butler's recent surge make it more or less likely they trade him? Should it?— Kendall (@kkaut) July 28, 2014
I haven't asked anyone in the Royals front office directly, so this is just speculation, but I don't believe the Royals have or will be close to trading Butler. He's more valuable than the small return he'd bring, because the Royals were built on the assumption that he'd hit.
If he's not hitting, you're not going to get anything in return. And if he is hitting, then you need him in your lineup. Either way, the way the Royals are constructed they're better off with him on the team. Especially if the faint Marlon Byrd rumors are dead, the Royals are highly unlikely to be able to make a trade for someone who can hit like even a fuzzy version of the good Butler.
Also, let's keep in mind that this recent surge is three games and nine at bats. He changed two games the Royals needed with home runs, so I'm not trying to diminish anything here, but this isn't DiMaggio in 1941.
@mellinger How much heat would Ned be getting if his bullpen blew 3 games in a row like CLE/Francona did? Aren't mgr perceptions grand? #tt— Brandon H. (@BHIndepMO) July 28, 2014
People are crazy about Yost, enough that I tried to use the #Yosted thing ironically the other day, and I think people just assumed I was ripping the manager. I mean, let me be clear: Yost's weaknesses are gaining ground on his strengths every day, and that debacle about Scott Downs facing Jonny Gomes with the game on the line in Boston pushed his credibility as a big league manager past the comfort level.
But the problem a lot of Royals fans have is that when you rip him for things that don't deserve to be ripped, you lose credibility on the things he can be ripped for.
Like, I heard from someone angry Yost pulled Danny Duffy after seven innings against the Indians on Thursday. Duffy is less than a year removed from returning from Tommy John surgery, on pace to throw more innings than ever, and through seven innings had thrown more pitches than he had all year. The Royals have the best combination of 8th- and 9th-inning relievers in baseball. This was as simple as decisions get in baseball.
I realize I'm pulling an extreme example here to make a point, but, yeah, Yost would've been crushed for his relievers throwing bad pitches (in the scenario you lay out in the question) and it would've been one more layer of b.s. criticism that diminishes the legitimate criticism.
@mellinger So, uh, about Jake Odorizzi... #tt— MJK (@devil_fingers) July 28, 2014
Nobody's talked much about this, but the front office is catching a major break this year with Everyone's Favorite Prospect Wil Myers hitting .227/.313/.354 and now on the disabled list. Whatever criticism the Royals have taken, if Myers was backing up his Rookie of the Year performance, well, it would be a bad look for a team now in need of a right-handed hitting right fielder.
But Odorizzi is coming on, too. He dominated the Brewers last night, going seven innings and giving up just one run (a solo homer) and three hits. He struck out five and walked none. Since June 10 — more or less the sample size that inspired this blog post and this trade — Odorizzi has pitched 56 innings in nine starts, striking out 58, walking 17, and giving up 41 hits and a .198/.258/.324 slash line. The batting average on balls in play (.238) indicates some luck, but the strikeouts indicate some swagger.
Not to depress you, but:
Jake Odorizzi: 3.80 ERA over 113 2/3 innings, 104 hits, 129 strikeouts and 42 walks.
James Shields: 3.58 ERA over 143 1/3 innings, 153 hits, 120 strikeouts and 29 walks.
@mellinger Would being the 2nd WC team with the one away game make Royals fans happy or would it take more? #TT— Andrew Hiles (@AM_Hiles) July 28, 2014
I'm not sure how to answer this. There would certainly be a subset that would say that the second wild card isn't a real playoff spot, that it's something like bussing tables at a party and telling everyone how awesome it was to be there.
And Royals fans, you know I love you.
But I'm just telling you right now, if you go that route, you are going to come off as incredibly whiny. Winning a wild card spot would end — I think I type this phrase four times a week now — the longest playoff drought in North American sports.
It would mean the Royals were in a real playoff race, with games throughout September — CHIEFS SEASON!!! — that mattered, and came out of it smiling. It would mean a dogpile on the field, and a champagne celebration in the clubhouse. It would mean the Royals would be playing in the postseason for the first time since George Brett hugged Bret Saberhagen in 1985.
I'm not saying that many Royals executives would not be insufferable in their confusion of the second wild card spot and the World Series. But I am saying that if a lot of fans complain about being in a wild card game instead of winning the division, it's going to come across like a starving man spitting on a cheeseburger because he demands steak.
Besides, you know, the winner of the second wild card can win that game and make the division series. The Rays won a one-game playoff just to get to the wild card game, and ended up in the division series last year.
@mellinger did you see this last week? pic.twitter.com/vLQaGNWcGM— Joe (@JDec89) July 28, 2014
I did, and I was a little surprised by the traction it got around Royals fans. I mean, guys. You can come up with a thousand ways to show how gawd-awful the Royals have been since 2000. Most of them are more damning than this graphic, the results of which I think most of us would've guessed.
@mellinger How bad did you miss me? 1 to 10. #tt— Andy Reid (@Chief_Walrus) July 28, 2014
Time's mine?
Of course I missed the big lug. The thing I always think with Andy — and I know you could say this about the vast majority of people in the public eye — he is so much more entertaining than what he lets fans see in press conferences.
He's legitimately funny. I'm not talking about that athlete-funny, the one where awful jokes inspire lots of media clowns to go to that awful fake laughter that always comes across so desperate and sad. I'm talking about legitimate funny. And it's a self-deprecating humor, too, which is just the quickest way to my heart.
I think I've told this story before here, but he has a beach house in California. His family spends parts of the offseason there, and occasionally they go out on paddleboards. Andy is obsessed with his work, enough that he always has a notebook nearby on vacation for when plays come to mind. The only exception is on the paddleboard.
"This is what I really understand when I'm on that paddleboard," he says. "I am a shark's and a killer whale's buffet. If I fall in, they'd be the happiest things on earth. I try to keep that in perspective. That trumps all my thoughts. So I'm not hurrying anywhere."
I'd also really enjoy it if he came into a press conference sometime like this:
@mellinger any chance training camp gets moved back to River Falls? Will you sign my petition if I start one? #TT— rachel mccaslin (@rach4ku) July 28, 2014
I know there's talk about it, because this is the last year it has to be in St. Joe. But I'd be shocked if they move it. The football staff loves it there, and they have a big say in this. St. Joe is far enough that you get away, but close enough that you can get back and forth if you really need to. The facilities are good, the people great. Really, I'd be shocked if they moved it.
That said, River Falls is much less likely to feel like the surface of the sun in July and August. And I started on the Chiefs the first year they trained at St. Joe, so I never saw it up there. So I'm all for it.
@mellinger What position will make or break the chiefs season this year?— Kel Johnson (@DA_REAL_DEAL28) July 28, 2014
I don't think there is one. The Chiefs are super-screwed if Jamaal Charles gets hurt, but you could play the what-if injury game with every team in the league.
Eric Fisher is a big ol' question mark at left tackle. He was much better later in the season than early, and maybe the move back to the left side will make him more comfortable. But that's an important spot to not be sure what you have.
The Chiefs also showed the ability to get torched in the secondary last year when the pass rush didn't speed things up, and that was with Brandon Flowers. Also, especially if Dwayne Bowe is the 2013 version and not the one that actually earned that contract, the receivers really stink.
But this is a long way of saying it's hard for me to picture the Chiefs going much better than 8-8 no matter what, so I'm not sure I have an answer for you.
But, fine. You ask a question, I give an answer: Fisher. The Chiefs need more than him, but if he stinks, then it's a harder climb.
@mellinger Sporting & Vermes will point to our resiliency on the road when we accept more hardware this year— dan temple (@OkFineDan) July 28, 2014
They're on a ridiculous roll, this win in Toronto over the weekend in the 80th minute while playing a man down because of an ejection of Matt Besler merely the latest. I really do think there's something to the idea that Sporting is able to play more of its style on the road, because the other team isn't packing it in praying for a draw.
This isn't what you're asking about, at least not directly, but the resiliency is even more impressive when you consider all the injuries and different lineups they've gone through.
The guys in charge of that team have high goals. They didn't just want to win one year, because that's fun for a bit and then eventually forgotten. So the way the club responded the year after winning the MLS Cup was always going to be important.
Long way to go, of course, but they're coming up aces so far.
@mellinger Why should women continue to support the NFL? They only seem to be interested in our money or how we look.— Neta Davis (@ND622) July 28, 2014
It's a great question. The NFL had its reasons for "only" suspending Ray Rice two games for a gruesome domestic violence incident on his now-wife. Those reasons, basically, are procedural, give a lot of credit to Rice's good track record, and reportedly considered an "impassioned plea" to go lenient on Rice from the victim.
The NFL has come out and defended its punishment, but going light on a man beating a woman unconscious is an enormous miscalculation for the image-obsessed NFL. In the wake of the news, there was a long stream of media screaming over each other about the punishment being too light, but I thought Mina Kimes had the best angle here.
I don't think it's right to insinuate that the NFL does not care about domestic violence. But I do think it's absolutely fair to crush the league for being shamefully behind the curve on this one. Every October, the league goes pink in support of the fight against breast cancer. That's nice, but until the league goes after domestic violence with even a fraction of the energy, there is a gap between what the NFL says it's about and what the league is showing itself to be about.
I can't speak to how women see the league, obviously, but I do think the league is woefully tone deaf here. Some of the programs to cultivate more female fans come across condescending, and when the only women featured prominently in the league are the cheerleaders — and when those cheerleaders are treated like this — there's a message sent that I think a lot of parents would rather their daughters not see.
@mellinger Am I going to be happy at the end of Sept I'm at Disney World on vacation or pissed I'm missing a Royals playoff game in KC? #TT— Brandon Davis (@bmd473) July 28, 2014
We went over the ways the Royals can win a wild card spot.
But I hope nobody took that as a prediction. I've had the Royals at 85 wins or so all along. Just good enough to keep you interested, just flawed enough that they'll miss the playoffs.
So I'm guessing you'll be pissed at a missed opportunity for the team, not for yourself missing a playoff game. Oh, also: you'll be pissed at the lines and the parents who put their kids on leashes at Disney World.
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To reach Sam Mellinger, call 816-234-4365, send email to firstname.lastname@example.com or follow on Twitter @mellinger. For previous columns, go to KansasCity.com.


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Model: Tumbler 22 cl 2pcs Clear
Year: 1932
Type: Glassware
Manufacturer: Iittala
Origin: Finland
Design: Aino Aalto
Material: Glass
Capacity: 22 cl
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Echoing rings of water, this pressed glassware from 1932 is tactile proof that essential design survives the test of time. Simple, space-saving design that permits stacking and versatility were the starting point for these classics. In production since its launch, Aino Aalto glassware now celebrates 80 years of design history and today continues to drive the Iittala design thinking forward.


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Leaving for Myanmar, her tender love brushes my cheek,
her ineluctable softness of skin,
as rare as the musked gazelles on the Changtang plateau.
'You're not hopeless as a Daddy.'
Her last remark floats delicately in the air,
a dragon-fly in slow motion.
'I'm hopeless at touching my toes,' I retort,
grounding my overworked destiny.
So much pain, all the way back to the cot.
Yet my daughter has spoken, after eleven years,
my trauma-childhood, nailed in perpetual shock, is redeemed.
She is walking backwards now up the hill, waving to me,
as if directing a plane to land.
Then she is gone ….
Momentarily forsaken, more pervasively, alone.
Across the bereaved, green haze of Myocum fields,
I am spreadeagled on bedrock,
bedrock of grief
and purity


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Christopher Owens – It Comes Back to You
"Here's a song from a new album I've made with dear friends, it's thrilling for me to finally be able to share this—Xo"
"Here's a song from a new album I've made with dear friends, it's thrilling for me to finally be able to share this—Xo"
Christopher Owens unveils his first post-Girls solo effort, taken from his forthcoming album Lysandre, which Owens calls "A coming of age story, a road trip story, a love story." Lysandre is out January 14, 2013 on Fat Possum/Turnstile...
San Francisco's Girls played one of the most triumphant, life-affirming sets we've ever witnessed at last falls's Fun Fun Fun Fest down in Austin -- even Gosling was way into it -- so we're honored to welcome the band back to Dallas' own Granada Theater on their forthcoming spring tour, with special guests Unknown Mortal Orchestra supporting...
We preview this year's unreal Fun Fun Fun Fest lineup on today's SiriusXM Blog Radio show (full playlist + mp3s after the jump), starting at noon EST on Sirius XMU (and re-broadcast at midnight).
The 2011 FFF Fest goes down next weekend, November 4-6, at Auditorium Shores in Austin, and our friends at the Fest have hooked us up with some passes to give away, including one pair of highly coveted 3-day passes, as well as one pair of passes for each individual day. These also get you into all of the FFF Nites festivities, including our own. To win, all you have to do is like FFF Fest on Facebook, and leave the name of the band you're most excited to see in the comments below.


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A recipe for Velveeta cheese potato soup consists of onions sautéed in butter, and potatoes boiled in water and milk. The recipe also contains undiluted, condensed cream of chicken soup, salt, pepper and Velveeta or other processed cheese. Minced fresh parsley garnishes the soup.
Melt 2 tablespoons of butter in a Dutch oven or kettle over medium heat. Add 1 medium chopped onion, and sauté until it is soft. Peel and cube 6 medium potatoes, and add them to the onions along with 5 cups of water. Boil this mixture for 15 minutes or until the potatoes are tender. Stir in 2 cups of milk and 1 10.75-ounce can of undiluted condensed cream of chicken soup.
Season the soup with salt and pepper to taste. Cut a 12-ounce loaf of processed cheese, such as Velveeta, into cubes. Add the cheese, and stir it into the soup until it melts. Sprinkle the soup with parsley. This recipe yields 10 servings.
You can vary the recipe by substituting half-and-half instead of milk and omitting the condensed cream of chicken soup. Add hot sauce to the soup if you want to add some spice. Baked potato toppings such as shredded cheddar cheese, fried bacon and minced chives make excellent garnishes in addition to the parsley.


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According to the National Institutes of Health, an average human spends about one third of his life sleeping. Assuming an average human life span of 78 years, that equates to about 26 years each person spends sleeping in his lifetime.
LiveScience states that as of 2006, 25 percent of Americans use some form of sleeping aid at night. The number of adults aged 20 to 44 that reported using sleeping pills also doubled from 2000 to 2004. A six-year study conducted by the University of California, San Diego of more than 1 million adults showed that people who get only six to seven hours of sleep a night have a lower death rate than those who get a full eight hours of sleep.


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Seasons With Chorale: 26
Season Joined: 1991-92
Hometown: Los Angeles, California
Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance from CSU Long Beach
Do you also have a non-singing "day job"? If so, what do you do?
I do some Finale music publishing/writing work, and do the occasional voiceover.
Where else do you teach/gig/conduct/sing/perform?
Baritone soloist and section leader at Glendale United Methodist, and then gig wherever anyone will hire me. I sing lead with the Nickelodeon Barbershop Quartet, bass with various caroling groups.
Guest appearances:
This last year I sang ALL the small bass/baritone roles in the St. Matthew Passion with the Lark Conservatory Orchestra and Chorus, and sang the solos in Kirchner's Songs of Ascent with combined church choirs.
Done about 20 over the years, last one was Godzilla.
Highlights of your musical career:
So far, pretty much everything with the LAMC since I rejoined. One in particular was the Britten Spring Symphony on 1985 tour with LA Phil under André Previn in Carnegie Hall and Academy of Music; Verdi Requiem with Giulini in 1979, my first concerts with the Chorale - we stood through the entire piece, every performance.
Favorite choral work(s):
Adams Harmonium, Britten War Requiem, madrigals of Gesualdo, Monteverdi and Hindemith
A defining moment of favorite LA Master Chorale onstage experience:
Performing David O's Map of Los Angeles to me is emblematic of Grant's tenure. It is new, it is Los Angeles, it beautiful, It doesn't take itself too seriously. Plus I love that it has weird instruments like 'chain link fence'.
What are you listening to these days?
I'm playing all my old vinyl, converting it to digital, so I am listening to Steely Dan, Penderecki, Dowland, Beethoven, Beatles, Monk, Debussy and on. In addition to the usual Vaughan Williams, Hindemith, Incubus, Mercy Me, Miles Davis and Bill Evans, whatever's on KCSN.
Anything you'd like to add about yourself?
I joined in 1979 under Roger Wagner, and left the Chorale in 1991, to do a real daytime desk job, which didn't work out so well. I reauditioned for Grant and rejoined in 2005 and have been a happy singer ever since.
Where do you live in L.A.?
Woodland Hills, CA
What L.A. experience do you consider essential for visitors/newcomers?
Drive the 405 from the Valley to Long Beach at 4PM. "Baby, you don't know what it's like...." until you've done it. Then catch some galleries and food and a movie at the Art.


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