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Tap into Colour Psychology for Ecommerce Success
Have you ever wondered what gives a WOW factor to your ecommerce store? Is it the overall design? Yes, but in design which factor plays to make your ecommerce store stand out?
It is Colour. According to a study, 85% of the people make the decision based on colours. Colours used on your site, play an appealing role for your store. Human beings have strong visual sense and depending on the colours used, people judge your store. In addition to that, you can pass on the visual message of your business to the users whether you are conservative or contemporary, sophisticated or casual, cutting edge or traditional etc.…
Many times, you may have wondered how come my competitors are getting more visitors than my store inspite of selling the same products with same price & features. Among many reasons, one strong one can be the attractiveness of the website due to colours.
Thus, ecommerce owners cannot bypass the importance of colour science when it affects as important as sales. Each colour brings different reactions and invokes different sentiments in people and it is very important to understand that. Depending upon
- How you want to project your brand?
- Target audience
- Age of the audience
- Nature of your products
- Target Countries
- Message you wish to convey
- You need to spray the colours on online store.
- It involves art backed with science and psychology.
What is colour psychology?
It is study of psychology as to how the colour influences the decisions of people. If you understand it thoroughly and apply it, you can leverage that
- Can create a stronger brand impact
- Take the sales higher
- Forecast how the users will respond to your store.
- You can bring the effect of persuasion
- Thus, web designers can explain better how colour influences the consumers. It involves the art of persuasion.
Certain colours schemes –
- Will appeal to user and click on a call-to-action button
- Will be able to keep the user to browse the online store for longer time
- Will be able to convince and finally persuade for sales.
Each colour invokes different reactions and emotions among people. And depending on that observations and study, each colour can be used strategically to get the best outcome. Let us see some of the widely used colours, what emotions they invoke and how to apply that observation for the ecommerce store.
RED: It is a high energy colour immediately catching the eye. It signifies urgency, attention, love, danger. Hence this colour can positively and strategically used to catch some attention like projecting sales, promoting sales & discounts.
ORANGE: It is again an energetic colour which symbolises joy, enthusiasm, happiness and vitality. It can be used to leverage the effect on call-to-action button.
YELLOW: It signifies youthfulness and optimism. Also cheerfulness, optimism and vibrant. It makes your online store look fresh and grabs the users' attention. But there is negative inference also like it is a colour signifying deceit.
GREEN: It is a colour with many connotations in web design. It symbolises nature and even wealth. It is easy on eyes. Put green colour on your website and user will stay longer on your store.
BLUE: It invokes emotions of safety, trust and brand loyalty. It symbolises calmness and cool. Many business use blue as they intend to gain trust of the users and make a purchase. It is used by many financial institutions.
PINK: It signifies a whole bunch of emotions. It signifies femininity, romance, and youthfulness, fun and exciting. It is used extensively where majority of the audience are women and products are for women and girls.
PURPLE: It signifies royalty and affluence. To look more elite, ecommerce website use this colour. But it is also soothing and calm. Hence it used to ecommerce store selling high-end creative products or services, in retail and beauty. It also often towards middle aged and older users like for anti-aging products.
BLACK: It symbolises many emotions like red. It is a powerful and strong colour. Hence used on the online store for luxury items. On the negative side it symbolises fraud, grief and dark emotions. It should not be used much on the ecommerce store. If you use, use it with other colours like Gold & Silver.
GREY: It shows neutrality. It reflects conservative and formal outlook. Elite ecommerce use this to show authority and high quality. It is generally used as background colour so that other effect of other colours are enhanced.
BROWN: It invokes the sense of dependability and stability. It also signifies friendliness and comfort. It is used by ecommerce who wants to project them as a reliable store.
WHITE: It reflects simplicity, purity and cleanliness. It is fresh, inviting, cool and open. It is one of the popular choice of ecommerce store.
After knowing the effect and interpretation of different colour and putting down all the parameters of your target, use the colours strategically to get the best results out of your ecommerce design. Ultimately sales matter, so one should not leave out any factors which enhances sales.


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Uljana Wolf @ Poetry International Web
The new issue of Poetry International Web (PIW) features, poems and audio recordings by poet and translator Uljana Wolf as well as an essay on her writing.
Literaturwerkstatt Berlin took over the German editorship of PIW again in 2010, and has prepared four poets for this portal since:
From early May 2012, there will be a newly built website, which will combine the PIW archive with the current website of the Poetry International Foundation (including all the information about the annual festival in Rotterdam).
Mediterranean ZEBRA Poetry Films
From 4th to 12th June the 11th poesiefestival berlin will focus on the Mediterranean.
On the website & blog of lyrikline.org we will accompany the festival e.g. by presenting some poetry films around the sea from the archives of the ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival.
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Nausikaa: Rapport, director: Barbara Wolfensberger (Switzerland) is based on the poem of the same title by Barbara Köhler (germany) who is also reading the text.
This film was in the competition of the ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival 2008.
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Le poème de la mer, director: Erwan Le Gal (France) / poem: Le bateau Ivre – Arthur Rimbaud (who died in Marseille)
This film was shown at the ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival 2006.
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Polyfemi, director / poet: Elena Chiesa ( Italy)
This film is an entry for the ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival 2010
In retrospect: 10 Years Anniversary in Thessaloniki, GREECE
During the year 2009 there have been several international events organised by the international partners of lyrikline.org within the 10 Years Anniversary. Greece celebrated 10 years lyrikline.org on May, 30 2009. See here fotos of the event. lyrikline.org was presented at the German stand on the bookfair in Thessaloniki, in co-operation with the local Goethe-Institut.
Susan Bindermann (e-poema, Greek Partner of lyrikline.org) and Vassilis Roubalis presented the poet Stavros Zafeiriou. Afterwards the publishers Periklis Douvitsas and Stavros Zafeiriou (Nefeli) presented a Greek edition of Barbara Köhler's poetry.
Stavros Zafeiriou on lyrikline.org
Barbara Köhler on lyrikline.org

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I'm pleased to announce the cover for my new #Fantasy novella to be released next month!
I originally called it 'The Legend of Aoife and Fionnuala' and it was accepted by a publisher, but I decided to pull out to have full control. That's me! (:
~In the emerald Tuatha kingdom of Lir, in ancient Ireland, Fionnuala and her brothers lead a magical, carefree life. But when their mother dies their world is turned upside down. Left heartbroken, their father the King locks himself in his bedchamber, leaving Princess Fionnuala to care for her younger brothers. But when little Conn falls gravely ill she must seek help.
When a healer named Aoife arrives all of them fall for her beauty, but none as much as Fionnuala. The feelings are mutual, or so it seems…
However, King Lir, taken by her radiance and red hair– similar to that of his late wife– takes her for himself and marries her.
Betrayed and hurt by this, will Fionnuala find a way to be with Aoife, or will a jealous King come between them?
Suspenseful, romantic and seeped in myth and magic, novella 'The Cursed' captures a dramatic twist on the Irish Myth 'Lir's Children' encompassing the power of love, hope and patience.
Stay tuned for the release date in December!


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I'm a country boy. I hate New York. But that's where things happen, so I use it as a base for stories, I know enough about it. But I have to keep going back there.
More Quotes By Mickey Spillane
Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book.Mickey Spillane
See, heroes never die. John Wayne isn't dead, Elvis isn't dead. Otherwise you don't have a hero. You can't kill a hero. That's why I never let him get older.Mickey Spillane
I dont like any of them, because they don't read the books. In Kiss Me Deadly my story is better than his story. Anthony Quinn played in The Lond Wait and he didn't read the book either.Mickey Spillane
Hemingway hated me. I sold 200 million books, and he didn't. Of course most of mine sold for 25 cents, but still… you look at all this stuff with a grain of salt.Mickey Spillane
If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.Mickey Spillane
My father was Catholic, my mother was Protestant, and because of that I got Christened in both churches, so I've got all these names… but my Dad always called me Mick.Mickey Spillane
Mickey Spillane
I'm 82 years old, wherever I go everybody knows me, but here's why… I'm a merchandiser, I'm not just a writer, I stay in every avenue you can think of.Mickey Spillane
Where I am they can smell out a hurricane. My house survived Hurricane Hazel, but it didn't get past Hugo.Mickey Spillane
Mickey Spillane
I started off at the high level, in the slick magazines, but they didn't use my name, they used house names. Anyway, then I went downhill to the pulps, then downhill further to the comics.Mickey Spillane
Mickey Spillane
Oh yeah, I was one of the first guys writing comic books, I wrote Captain America, with guys like Stan Lee, who became famous later on with Marvel Comics.Mickey Spillane
Imagine this guy hits Mike Hammer over the head with a wooden coathanger and knocks him out. You hit Mike Hammer over the head with a wooden coathanger, he'll beat the crap out of you.Mickey Spillane


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Colors are happiness and bear hugs are joy. When you want to cuddle and get cozy, nothing is as happy as expressing love to bears. Add energy to the love prevailing in the drawing by giving it colors of your choice.
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White House appears to share Jim Acosta mic grab video doctored by far-right Infowars
White House appears to share Jim Acosta mic grab video doctored by far-right Infowars
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Acosta should sue the president, and Americans should shun Sanders
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Video: Sarah Huckabee Sanders Used Doctored InfoWars Footage to Justify Acosta Ban
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Jim Acosta violated one of the oldest rules of journalism
Jim Acosta violated one of the oldest rules of journalism
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How an InfoWars Video Became a White House Tweet
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Jacob Sullum / Hit & Run: California's 'Reasonable Regulation' of Guns Did Not Stop the Thousand Oaks Shooting
Joe Jervis / Joe.My.God.: NRA Blames Gun Laws For Thousand Oaks Massacre
Jennifer Mascia / The Trace: At Least 12 Killed in Mass Shooting at Southern California Bar
Doug P. / twitchy.com: NY Times columnist says Calif. shooting a result of weak gun laws, Dana Loesch & others offer reality checks
Conservative News Today: Veteran cop dies a hero when gunman opens fires at California bar, at least 12 reported dead, many more injured
Leah Barkoukis / Townhall: 13 Dead in California Bar Shooting
Will Racke / The Daily Caller: Sheriff: Ventura County Deputy 'Died A Hero' Trying To Stop Thousand Oaks Shooter
New York Times:
Gunman Who Killed 12 in Thousand Oaks Shooting Is Identified — THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. — The gunman who fatally shot at least 12 people at a crowded country and western dance hall in Thousand Oaks, Calif., was identified on Thursday as a 28-year-old who had served in the Marine Corps.
CBS Los Angeles: Marine Guns Down 12 People, Including Deputy, At Thousand Oaks Bar, Authorities Say
Eric Boehlert / Shareblue Media: New GOP senator's answer to mass shooting: 'Protect the 2nd Amendment'
Justin Caruso / Breitbart: Hollywood Calls for Gun Control After California Shooting: 'We Live in a War Zone'
Grace Carr / The Daily Caller: 'Multiple Men' Used Their Bodies To Block Club Patrons From Mass Shooter In California
Kaleigh Rogers / Motherboard: No Evidence the White House Video of Jim Acosta Was Doctored, Forensic Expert Says
Jason Brow / Hollywood Life: Thousand Oaks Shooting: Anna Paquin, Josh Gad & More Stars Demand Gun Control After Killing
Sarah Taylor / TheBlaze: BREAKING: At least 12 dead after horrific California mass murder during bar's 'Country Night'
NBC News:
Mass shooting at Borderline Bar and Grill in Thousand Oaks, California — Several hundred people were inside the venue at the time, police said. The gunman later was confirmed dead. — Twelve people including a police officer were killed by a gunman at a crowded bar in Thousand Oaks, California, late Wednesday, officials said.
Discussion: ABC News, Los Angeles Times, abc7.com, USA Today, CNN, AOL, Raw Story, CBS Los Angeles, The Gateway Pundit, Conservative Review, Law & Crime, VICE News and ThinkProgress
Karma Allen / ABC News: Live updates: Shooting at Thousand Oaks, California, bar leaves 12 dead including officer, suspect identified
Brett Molina / USA Today: 'He died a hero': Ventura County Sheriff Sgt. Ron Helus among those killed in bar shooting
James Masters / CNN: Sheriff's Sgt. Ron Helus was set to retire soon. He was killed in the Thousand Oaks attack
David Badash / Raw Story: Ian David Long identified as suspect in deadly Thousand Oaks mass shooting
CBS Los Angeles: Thousand Oaks Shooting: Sheriff's Sgt. Ron Helus 'Died A Hero', Wanted To Retire This Year
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit: Breaking: Borderline Bar and Grill Shooter Identified: Ex-Marine Ian Long …
Chris Pandolfo / Conservative Review: Video: People pack freeway overpasses to honor fallen hero Sgt. Ron Helus
Washington Post:
Breaking: 13 dead including deputy, gunman, in bar filled with college students in Thousand Oaks, Calif. Dozens injured.
Breaking: 13 dead including deputy, gunman, in bar filled with college students in Thousand Oaks, Calif. Dozens injured.
Discussion: abc7.com, twitchy.com, Associated Press, CNN, The Daily Signal, POLITICUSUSA, Joe.My.God., abc7ny.com, RedState, Shakesville and Splinter
Greg P. / twitchy.com: Mass shooting at Borderline Bar & Grill in Thousand Oaks, CA; Suspected shooter dead; UPDATE
Sarah Aarthun / CNN: What we know about the shooting at Borderline Bar & Grill
Jason Easley / POLITICUSUSA: Sen. Dianne Feinstein Calls Out Republican Cowards After California Nightclub Mass Shooting
Jennifer Van Laar / RedState: BREAKING: 12 Killed in "College Night" Shooting at Bar in Thousand Oaks, CA
Melissa McEwan / Shakesville: Mass Shooting in Thousand Oaks, California
Associated Press:
The Latest: 29-year-old used smoke, .45-caliber handgun
The Latest: 29-year-old used smoke, .45-caliber handgun
Discussion: Los Angeles Times, Business Insider, The Daily Beast, Associated Press, Ventura County Star, NPR, CNN, Media Matters for America, The Week and Jezebel
Business Insider: There have been 307 mass shootings in the US so far in 2018 — here's the full list
The Daily Beast: 12 Killed in Mass Shooting at Thousand Oaks Bar by Marine Veteran Dressed in All Black
Ventura County Star: 12, including officer killed in mass shooting at Borderline Bar & Grill in Thousand Oaks
Bill Chappell / NPR: Gunman Kills 12 People At Country Music Bar In Thousand Oaks, Calif.
Media Matters for America: NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch: The Thousand Oaks mass shooting was "horrific," but "so are CA gun laws"
Brendan Morrow / The Week: Authorities identify California shooting suspect as 28-year-old Marine Corps veteran
What we know about Thousand Oaks shooting suspect, Ian David Long
What we know about Thousand Oaks shooting suspect, Ian David Long
Discussion: Law & Crime, USA Today, The Guardian, Lawyers, Guns & Money, abc7.com, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Jihad Watch, KTLA and The Daily Caller
Alberto Luperon / Law & Crime: Victims of the Borderline Bar Mass Shooting Have Been Identified
Ashley May / USA Today: What we know about the fatal mass shooting at a Thousand Oaks, California, dance bar
Adam Gabbatt / The Guardian: What we know about the California shooting and gunman
Paul Campos / Lawyers, Guns & Money: Mass shootings in the US since 1950 resulting in eight or more murders
Mary Chastain / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion: Authorities Identify Gunman Who Killed 12 at California Bar, Including a Sergeant
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute: Shooting In California / No Use Of California's 'Gun Violence Restraining Order' Law
Los Angeles Times:
Sheriff's sergeant called wife, then rushed into Thousand Oaks mass shooting scene. 'He died a hero'
Sheriff's sergeant called wife, then rushed into Thousand Oaks mass shooting scene. 'He died a hero'
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Breitbart
Will Racke / The Daily Caller: Witness: '50 Or 60′ People At Thousand Oaks Bar Shooting Also Survived Las Vegas Massacre
Charlie Spiering / Breitbart: Donald Trump Praises Law Enforcement Bravery After California Bar Shooting
Allyson Chiu / Washington Post:
'They were threatening me and my family': Tucker Carlson's home targeted by protesters — Fox News host Tucker Carlson was at his desk Wednesday evening, less than two hours before his 8 p.m. live show, when he suddenly started receiving multiple text messages.
Discussion: Politico, CNN, The Daily Caller, Hit & Run, RedState, New Republic, Townhall, Talking Points Memo, Mediaite, Hot Air, Daily Wire, The Gateway Pundit, Conservative News Today, IJR, Chicks On The Right, National Review, TVNewser, Patterico's Pontifications, twitchy.com and LifeNews.com, more at Mediagazer »
Jesus Rodriguez / Politico: Fox News decries 'reprehensible' demonstrations outside Tucker Carlson's home
Brian Stelter / CNN: Police called after left-wing activists descend on Fox host Tucker Carlson's home
Andrew Kerr / The Daily Caller: DC Police Investigating Mob's Protest At Tucker Carlson's House As 'Suspected Hate Crime'
Joe Setyon / Hit & Run: Threatening Cable News Hosts Doesn't Help Anyone
Brandon Morse / RedState: Civility for Me, but Not for Thee: People on the Left Are Celebrating Antifa's Attack Against Tucker Carlson
Jeet Heer / New Republic: Protests at Tucker Carlson's house raises the spectre of left-wing harassment.
Guy Benson / Townhall: Chilling Details: Tucker Carlson's Terrified Wife Hid in the Pantry As Antifa Thugs Damaged Her Home
Nicole Lafond / Talking Points Memo: Protesters Surround Carlson's Home, Chant 'We Know Where You Sleep At Night!'
Caleb Howe / Mediaite: Tucker Carlson On 'Protesters' Who Barricaded His Neighborhood: 'It Wasn't a Protest. It Was a Threat'
Hot Air: Tucker Carlson's Terrified Wife Locked Herself In A Room After Antifa Mob Broke The Front Door
Emily Zanotti / Daily Wire: Vox Media's Matt Yglesias Says He 'Can't Empathize' With Tucker Carlson After Attack, Blames Carlson For 'Hate'
Cassandra Fairbanks / The Gateway Pundit: DC Antifa Publishes Home Addresses of Tucker Carlson and His Brother …
Vivek Saxena / Conservative News Today: Tucker relays wife's account of terrifying mob action and calls it what it is — Not a protest, it's a threat
Madison Dibble / IJR: Fox News Calls on Americans to Find 'Common Ground' After Antifa Mob Targets Tucker Carlson's Home
Ashley / Chicks On The Right: Stephen Colbert Stands Up For Tucker Carlson... His 'Fans' Lose Their MINDS
Jack Crowe / National Review: Protesters Send Message to Tucker Carlson outside His Home: 'We Know Where You Sleep at Night'
A.J. Katz / TVNewser: Wide Array of Media Figures Condemn the Violent Threats Made Against Tucker Carlson and His Family
Brett T. / twitchy.com: 'We know where you sleep at night! You are not safe': Antifa mob holds 'protest' outside Tucker Carlson's home
Peter Hasson / LifeNews.com: Left-Wing Mob Threatens Pro-Life Fox News Host Tucker Carlson Outside His Home: "We Know Where You Sleep"
Ashley May / USA Today:
Mob chants outside Fox's Tucker Carlson's home, breaks door
Mob chants outside Fox's Tucker Carlson's home, breaks door
Discussion: Fox News, Breitbart, The New Neo, Mediaite, AOL and Washington Free Beacon
Edmund DeMarche / Fox News: Mob chants threats outside Tucker Carlson's DC home
John Nolte / Breitbart: 'No Empathy': Vox's Matt Yglesias Defends 'Terrorizing' Tucker Carlson's Family
Joseph A. Wulfsohn / Mediaite: Mob Gathers Outside Tucker Carlson's Home: 'We Know Where You Sleep at Night!'
Andrew Chang / AOL: 'You are not safe': Protestors sieged Fox News host Tucker Carlson's DC home in the middle of the night
Steve Contorno / Tampa Bay Times:
How Bill Nelson could ultimately win the recount in Florida's Senate race — As the margin narrows, Democrats believe Nelson will overcome the gap between him and Republican Rick Scott. Here's why, according to the Senator's election lawyer. — Just 21,888 votes (UPDATE: As of 2:10 p.m. …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo, RedState, twitchy.com and The Capitolist
Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo: Nelson Campaign 'Confident' It Has The Votes To Win Florida Senate Recount
Streiff / RedState: Marco Rubio Warns Democrats Are About to Steal the Florida Senate and Governor's Race
Greg P. / twitchy.com: BUSH VS. GORE PART II: Marco Rubio sounds the alarm over vote counting issues in Broward County, FL
Brian Burgess / The Capitolist: Broward recount shenanigans: 46,000 Democrat votes "found" after election day, with more to come
Steven Lemongello / Orlando Sentinel:
Florida governor's race faces recount as Senate race gets even tighter
Florida governor's race faces recount as Senate race gets even tighter
Discussion: Sun-Sentinel, Tallahassee Democrat, HuffPost, The Root, Conservative Review and Tampa Bay Times
Skyler Swisher / Sun-Sentinel: Nelson, Scott race appears heading toward hand recount, and Broward could be the decider
Nate Chute / Tallahassee Democrat: Here's how recounts work in Florida
Julia Craven / HuffPost: Florida's Race For Governor Is In Recount Territory
Stephen A. Crockett Jr / The Root: You Thought the Elections Were Over? Well, Florida Says Hold My Beer as Races May Head for a Recount
Chris Pandolfo / Conservative Review: DeSantis and Gillum head to a recount; Rubio blasts Broward election officials
Steve Bousquet / Tampa Bay Times:
Recounts loom larger, legal action begins as margins tighten in key Florida races
Recounts loom larger, legal action begins as margins tighten in key Florida races
Discussion: Conservative News Today and Florida Politics
Frieda Powers / Conservative News Today: Manual recount sparks fears of Dem shenanigans in closest vital Florida race since Bush v Gore
Gideon Resnick / The Daily Beast:
Bernie Sanders on Andrew Gillium and Stacey Abrams: Many Whites Made 'Uncomfortable' Voting for Black Candidates — The progressive leader says Democratic senators who lost in GOP states should've been more like Beto O'Rourke, and that race may be responsible for near-misses in the South.
Discussion: Townhall, NPR, Daily Wire, Observer, Hot Air, Washington Free Beacon and twitchy.com
Matt Vespa / Townhall: WRONG: Bernie Sanders's Outrageous Reason For Why Florida Democrats Failed This Year
Emily Zanotti / Daily Wire: Bernie Sanders Claims Voters' RACISM Led To Gillum, Abrams Losses, Quickly Gets Schooled
Davis Richardson / Observer: Bernie Sanders Accuses Brian Kemp and Ron DeSantis of Running 'Racist Campaigns'
Hot Air: Bernie Sanders: Andrew Gillum And Stacey Abrams Lost Because A Lot Of White People Aren't …
David Rutz / Washington Free Beacon: Sanders: 'Lot of White Folks' Who Aren't 'Necessarily Racist' Weren't Comfortable Voting for Gillum, Abrams
Tim Mak / NPR:
Kavanaugh Accuser Christine Blasey Ford Continues Receiving Threats, Lawyers Say — Christine Blasey Ford is still being harassed after leveling sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, her lawyers say. — "Justice Kavanaugh ascended to the Supreme Court …
Discussion: ThinkProgress, Axios, NY State of Politics, Shakesville and Talking Points Memo
Rebekah Entralg / ThinkProgress: As Kavanaugh sits on the Supreme Court, Christine Blasey Ford continues to receive death threats
Liz Benjamin / NY State of Politics: Extras — Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 85, fractured three ribs …
Melissa McEwan / Shakesville: We Resist: Day 658 — One of the difficulties in resisting …
Zinke exploring role with Fox News — Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke reached out to Fox News inquiring about working at the conservative news channel as a contributor, according to sources familiar with the move. — Zinke's outreach came as the scandal-plagued former Navy SEAL …
Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Trump to ditch Washington restraints as 2018 closes
Trump to ditch Washington restraints as 2018 closes
Tom Scocca / Hmm Daily: The Worst Thing We Read Yesterday
Here's the Road Map to the Next Decade of American Politics — The country's Trump-era political realignment is finally starting to take shape. — We are two former White House political directors—one of us, Doug Sosnik, worked for Bill Clinton; one of us, Sara Fagen, worked for George W. Bush.
Wall Street Journal:
Appeals Court Rules Against Trump on Cancelling DACA Protections — A U.S. appeals court has ruled that the Trump Administration can't cancel of rules—known as DACA— which protect undocumented immigrants who came to U.S. as children.
Ted Hesson / Politico:
Appeals court upholds block on Trump's attempt to end DACA
Appeals court upholds block on Trump's attempt to end DACA
Discussion: Vox and Washington Post
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
The Midterm Results Are a Warning to the Democrats — Derision gets you nowhere. — For months we've heard from sundry media apocalypticians that this year's midterms were the last exit off the road to autocracy. On Tuesday, the American people delivered a less dramatic verdict about the significance of the occasion.
Discussion: No More Mister Nice Blog, The American Conservative and Raw Story
Steve M. / No More Mister Nice Blog: TRUMP DIDN'T VANISH IN A PUFF OF SMOKE ON TUESDAY AND IT'S ALL THE FAULT OF THE RESISTANCE, SAYS BRET STEPHENS
Karen Handel concedes 6th District race to Lucy McBath — ATLANTA - Karen Handel has conceded the Georgia's 6th Congressional District race to Lucy McBath Thursday morning. — In a letter to Channel 2 Action News, Handel said, "After carefully reviewing all of the election results data …
Discussion: Washington Post, Vox, Shareblue Media, Karen Handel, Axios and Joe.My.God.
Elise Viebeck / Washington Post: Georgia GOP gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp claims victory as Democrat Stacey Abrams declines to concede
Dan Desai Martin / Shareblue Media: Mother of murdered teen flips Georgia seat blue, ousts NRA lackey
Khorri Atkinson / Axios: Gun control advocate Lucy McBath wins Georgia House race
Joe Jervis / Joe.My.God.: GEORGIA: Democrat Lucy McBath Flips US House Seat


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[ Music in Schools ]
Morse Summer Music Academy
The Morse Summer Music Academy is an intensive program offered by the Yale Music in Schools Initiative for both New Haven students and Yale graduate Teaching Artists. For four weeks each summer, more than 100 New Haven Public School students convene daily at Yale for 5 hours of intensive classes, rehearsals, and lessons. One of the hallmarks of the Academy is its numerous performance opportunities: over four weeks, Morse students participate in over thirty concerts across Yale's campus and the New Haven community.
All instruction is given by Yale School of Music graduate Teaching Artists, alumni, and faculty, as well as NHPS music teachers and Yale music affiliates. The model of mentoring is most in exhibit at Morse as graduate students serve as mentors to all the students, while high school junior and seniors are placed in positions that allow them to mentor younger students. Instruction is also provided by NHPS music teachers, YSM faculty members, and special guests.
Because of this close daily interaction, Morse Academy provides students with opportunities for growth in musicianship, technique, and personal achievement. New Haven students from the Morse Academy return to their home schools as musical leaders who can have a positive influence on the music programs there.
During the Academy, students may participate in:
- large ensembles
- sectional rehearsals
- private lessons
- chamber music
- formal and informal recitals
- semi-weekly "pop-up" chamber music concerts
- field trips to local galleries and museums
- a field trip to the Norfolk Summer Music Festival
Program Details
The 2019 Morse Academy takes place Monday, July 8 – Friday, August 2, 2019.
Family and friends are invited to attend concerts throughout the week. The Academy takes place at various locations on Yale's campus, including the Adams Center for Musical Arts and Sprague Hall.
The Academy is open to NHPS students entering 4th-12th grades in the following disciplines:
- Band (woodwind, brass, and percussion)
- Choir
- Orchestra (violin, viola, cello, and double bass)
To attend Morse Academy, a student must:
- attend a New Haven Public School
- be entering 4th-12th grades in the coming fall semester
- participate in their school's music program (where available)
- exhibit musical accomplishment, enthusiasm, and work habits conducive to an intensive music instruction program
- have at least a "B" average on their NHPS report card
- receive music teacher approval
Please note: Our program is currently available only to New Haven Public School students; students from charter schools or outside of NHPS are not eligible.
After applying, new students interested in attending the Morse Academy must audition, and must be accompanied by a parent or guardian for a parent/guardian meeting.
Application and Audition
How to Apply
The 2019 Morse Academy application is now closed.
Students interested in attending Morse Academy must audition, except those who have been part of the CMEA Southern Region Festival (middle and high school).
Audition Requirements
- 6 scales (one octave): B-flat major, C major, F major, D major, G major, and a chromatic scale
- A short solo piece chosen by the student
- A sight-reading excerpt proposed by the adjudicator the day of the audition
- 2 scales (one octave): C major and G major
- A short solo piece chosen by the student
- A sight-reading excerpt proposed by the adjudicator the day of the audition
- A short solo song of their choice
- Students will repeat different vocal exercises proposed by the adjudicators
Parental Involvement
Because family commitment and enthusiasm are such crucial components in children's development as musicians, parent/guardian involvement in the Morse Academy is required.
Year-Long Opportunities
Students who successfully complete the Academy have musical opportunities throughout the academic year. These opportunities include participation in All-City Honors Ensembles as well as special invitations to Yale School of Music and professional performances. Please note that the choir students accepted to Morse Chorale should commit for a year long participation in the ensemble beginning on July 9th 2018 and ending on June 1st, 2019.
The Morse Summer Music Academy is made possible through a generous endowment established by Enid and Lester Morse, Yale College '51, and is offered free of charge to New Haven Public School students. The first Academy took place in summer 2010 with 42 participants from 10 schools; in 2015, 134 students participated representing 27 schools.
Questions: please contact the Morse Summer Music Academy.


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For a Phone
Somewhere on the Web, I have no doubt, some guy is writing or has written or will be writing in his blog about the dick in line at the Apple store on Stockton in San Francisco who was Mr. Goody-Goody Tattletale and refused to keep his mouth shut when all he wanted to do was sneak into the iPhone line inside the store instead of wait outside on the street for three-and-a-half hours like everyone else wanting to get a stupid iPhone that doesn't even have a keyboard and fuck them!
Friends, I am that dick.
I love my old iPhone, but it was slow as molasses in January, as me old mother used to say. I use it primarily as a hand-held Internet appliance that happens to have a phone in it. The phone piece is probably the part I use least, but the phone part also has the SMS part, and the voicemail part, so from a business perspective it was an important part of the package. And I occasionally called people on it when I wasn't looking at maps, searching Google, listening to music or watching movies I ripped from my extensive DVD collection.
I didn't really want to wait in line. I didn't really need a new one, yet. But I happened to be downtown, I happened (just happened) to pass the Apple flagship store and I happened to note that the line wasn't around the block, it was only a couple hundred people long. So short! And I have some time. Why not?
Waiting in line wasn't the party they portray. Downtown San Francisco is many things, but a holiday in paradise while standing on its streets is not one of them. I did converse with those around me — against character, to be sure, but what else was there to do once the battery on my existing iPhone died and I could no longer play Scrabble against it? The woman ahead of me had a Sprint smartphone, but after playing with an iPhone at another Apple store she was hooked and she had to have one. She was probably my age, but wore dark glasses the entire time so talking to her was a bit like talking to a nice, polite, slightly amusing robot. No eyes = no person.
The woman behind me was a young Asian who, like me, was there to upgrade her iPhone to the latest and greatest. We both stood there for the most part with our phones drawn passing the time with messaging or gaming or musicking until the batteries died and we were forced into the world of personal contact. She was animated and talkative and excited. She had been looking forward to getting the new iPhone ever since Sir Steve announced it and was happy to answer every "is this the line for the iPhone?" question (tinged either with regret or attempted condescension) with a smile and a nod and a "Yeah, we've been here three hours!"
Apple did its best at crowd control, keeping two lines outside the store. One for iPhones, and a much shorter one for "everything else." People in the everything else line were allowed in much more often, obviously, and I'm presuming that every one of the people in the iPhone line with me was thinking the same thing I was thinking: "How are they keeping them separate from us?"
The line moved incredibly slowly. I started imagining all sorts of line-cutters inside the hollowed grounds. There were plenty of Appleites in orange and blue shirts, and even two burly, bulky Apple Security guards trying to enforce the rules, but it's only a store and we're only customers and it's not like we're in line for food in the middle of a plague. We're well-off nerds wanting the newest expensive toy. All in all, it's not such an important thing.
But three hours in, your brain gets skewed and you start bargaining with yourself regarding just how much you're willing to go through to get something that will surely be readily available sans line in a couple of weeks, if not sooner. Maybe the original iPhone was worth this. It was groundbreaking, it had definite panache and the nerd factor of product jealousy was eclipsing anything else you could pull from your messenger bag.
You start getting paranoid and scared. Scared that you're an idiot for not figuring out a way around the line. My comrades and I commiserated about that often. "What about that other line?" "Yeah! How are they policing that?" "Yeah! And what if they go in and like, say, 'I just want an iPod,' and then, like, get to the counter and go, 'Can I throw in an iPhone?' Like, what are they gonna say at that point? 'No, you can't?'" "I've been watching, and I can't tell if the people coming out with iPhones are from this line or that one. I wish they'd give us poker chips or something so they can keep track."
The other pressure cooker adding to the paranoia and defensiveness is an unending litany of jokes at our expense pointing out how stupid we were to be standing in line, "for a phone! It's just a phone! Don't you have better ways to spend your time?"
Well, yes Mr. Overweight biker dude with your earpods stuck in your ears and a Super Gulp hanging from your slack lips. Yes, I do. But I've elected to do this instead, so that I may provide for people like yourself some manner of elevating your little lackluster life, to imagine yourself as someone better than me, because I am wasting my time standing in line for the iPhone (and I even already have an iPhone) and you're not. Better now?
So, the interminable line outside comes at last to an end, the Apple Security guard walks over and counts "One, two, three, four, five," and I am lucky Number Five, allowed access at last to the inside of the store. I have been imagining that I will now walk up to a special glittery counter with spotlights and angelic music and be allowed to touch the object of my desire at last.
Instead, I am now at the end of another line. Much shorter, certainly, but also much crueler, for now I can see others getting their phones (including that fucking couple of Yuppie slackers who joined their friend at the front of the line at the last minute after, no doubt, hanging out at Citizen Cupcake gobbling chocolate frosted baked goods while laughing and pointing at us) and my feet hurt and my shoulders are aching and even now, so near the end, I'm asking myself, why did I do this? Is it all worth it? Am I the idiot, now?
I am contemplating this, sinking into a sudden round of pre-buyer's regret or something like that, when I turn around and find a stranger standing behind me. Certain, he is nothing at all like the young Asian girl I was joking with for precious hours of my life. And the game commences.
"Are you standing in line?"
"Were you standing in line behind me outside for three and a half hours."
"Yeah, I was." Grin.
He stares at me. I instantly hate him. A lot. I hate everything about his self-congratulatory smart-assed grin and his cheating little heart and his idea of how life should work for him, where he can outsmart us all and get what he wants and get away with it. "No, you weren't."
"Yeah, I was."
I point out to the front of the store. "She was behind me in line. You weren't."
"Are you gonna tell on me?" He asks this while still grinning that grin. I want nothing more than to kill him with something sharp.
"I am." I start looking for someone to tell.
"How does it hurt you?"
I look at him like he's insane. "I waited for hours. You didn't. If you want one, that's what you have to do. You don't wander into the front of the line."
"How does it hurt you?"
He's trying to show that I shouldn't care about anyone else. Like he does. "It hurts her. It hurts everyone behind her. Look at her. Turn around and look at her. She's the one standing outside with her arms folded across her chest."
He doesn't turn around. He's still grinning. I'm feeling adrenaline pumping through me. I feel shaky and hot and angrier than I have in, like, ever. She's standing out in the line frowning as I argue with him. I start waving my arms to get someone's attention. Where are all the blue shirts now? Why does no one see what's happened? My God, this is important! Someone pay attention!
"So, you're really going to tell on me." He says it like I'm the dick. He says it like we're in this together, him and me, like we're suddenly pals and this is like school and he's the cool crowd and I'm the little fat nerd all over again. God, it's infuriating!
"You bet your ass I am."
He shakes his head, grinning still, and turns around and leaves the line. I watch him like a hawk as he saunters across the blonde wood floors and exits the store.
I should feel victorious and redeemed, but I still feel angry. How did he do that? Make me feel like the bad guy. I think about the people outside. Did it make any difference, really? Is the line suddenly moving faster, like he was the only bowel blockage? There's no one, now, to point all this rage at anymore. He's gone.
I message Robert to tell him what happened. He tells me he loves me even more for doing it. I realize it was against type, for me to stand up to someone, but it was also exactly within my demeanor, because I am nothing if not a stickler for rules.
Another 30 minutes and I managed to get my new iPhone 3G. It's black. It's warm in my touch. The Apple employee who helped me was charming and funny and nice and I was surly and tired and just wanted to get the hell out of there. It wasn't fun, it wasn't rewarding, and after all was said and done, the 3G doesn't even work in my own apartment.
But at least I spoiled someone else's fun! Vindication!
July 15, 2008
82 responses to For a Phone
My hero! Thank you from me, and everyone else stupid enough to stand in line for hours to get their iPhone only to continually see ass-hats cut the line at the last minute.
standing up to a dick, doesn't make you a dick.
And I support you 100%.
Bravo! No way you are a dick. Aiding and abetting dick-like behavior is being a dick. You are the anti-dick.
We also had to deal with iPhone line-cutters in Los Angeles:
The Apple guys were awesome, though, and kicked them out of the store …
Best story I've read today…
Some people don't care who they have to squash to get what they want. The person you outed is the same kind of person who drives on the shoulder to avoid traffic and then merges in and out of traffic, the same person who has 50 items in the 12 items lane at the super market; the same person who parks in the middle of two parking spaces in a crowded lot because his car is more important than everybody else's car.
Good for you.
Good for you, seriously. Too many people (seems like just about ALL people lately) think that the rules don't apply to them. That they're somehow above all the petty restrictions and guidelines that make civilized life possible for all of us. Screw those douchebags. You did the right thing.
Yeah. Why do people think it's okay to put somebody in that kind of situation? Good for you.
Oh I have totally experienced that "I'm doing the right thing so why do I feel like a bad person" feeling. It's the worst! You definitely did the right thing and I'm sure this will work out in the karma kind of way. Someday someone will stand up for you, and it'll matter to you.
I'm just posting to validate you. Not being flip.
did you get the young asian womans number, after having come to her rescue? Doing the right thing is nice, doing the right thing, and getting a "reward" is even nicer.
Excellent! You're *not* the dick in this situation. You're the better person for caring about the people around you. You should feel rewarded for that. I didn't stand in line for a phone. That being said, thank you for being a human being and standing up.
The same thing happened to me at the Milwaukee store. We waited in line for 3 hours, and just as we were entering the store, some guy with slicked back hair and a suit shows up and hovers at the front of the line.
"Hey, suit. Are you in line?"
". . . uhm. . . what's it to you? Are you that concerned?"
"Yes, I am. I've invested 3 hours of my life in getting this phone and you just showed up."
"Are you really that concerned"
And with that, he walked away. I, too, felt like a dick. But only for about 5 seconds. And now I am the proud owner of the best damned phone-type device ever.
Fuck him. You rock.
Heartwarming story! Here was my experience in San Francisco…
Outstanding job, Sir. And you should feel vindicated; never let an asshole turn you into the second-degree asshole.
If I believed in hell, I'd be certain there's a particularly warm corner special for those that knowingly violate the sanctity of The Queue. You, sir, are a god among men for putting this douche in his rightful place.
100% the correct thing to do. I *loathe* line cutters. People meeting up with their friends I can stand (I know I would hate being separated from my friends for hours just because I had to find a parking space) but other than that, *loathing*.
That guy was a scumbag, plain and simple. As someone that has waited in lines for technology products (mostly games), I HATE persons that try to cut in line. The only thing you could have done to make me respect you more would be to kick him in the nuts.
You could have let the line-cutter stay and mentioned it to the guy in line who now became the guy after the last guy to receive a phone.
While I would argue that it isn't the end of the world when someone does this, I can instantly sympathize with you for what you did. I once waited a great many hours outside of a concert hall to get in and see a show, and near the very end of it, a few losers who had just showed up were trying to skip to the front of the line. I blew the whistle really quick and had no remorse when they were forced to go to the very back, which was wrapped somewhere out behind the building.
You are a mensch!
Well done. "How he did it" was, he made you wonder "Who am I to put my interests ahead of his? Who am I to appoint myself defender of the line?"
But you did the right thing–because it would have hurt *you* to help that weasel prop up his corroded little soul. If you'd let him cut the line, then every time you looked at your phone, you'd be reminded that you helped a cheater get something he hadn't deserved because you couldn't withstand the "allure" of being "cool." Forget everyone else you helped, you stuck up for yourself and your sense of justice.
The anxiety and potential regret you felt as the line gets closer to the front is very real. At the soho store in ny they sent people in 1 at a time into a waiting blue shirted employee whose sole responsibility was to deliver 1 person at a time to a waiting iPhone activator. It felt very personal as one got greeted by name and a handshake. And definetel better than the feared "there is going to be more line once i get inside isn't there " dread.
Hooray!!! Well done sir. But sad you left out the distraction of the man with but 8 teeth SCREAMING Jesus threats at the crowd. He was amazing.
Having sat through 2 lines, for a grand total of 5 hours, (Thanks Apple for telling us No Business Accounts after we waited 2 hours!) to purchase our iPhones and having to deal with Cingular's asshattery regarding early upgrades – I most definitely cheer your actions.
I linked your story to my husband remarking, 'I can't even imagine what you'd do if someone did that to you'. He immediately replied, 'Go to jail'.
Nicely done.
You did well, man. You'll always feel like a dick in these situations, but anyone with a social conscience will love you for doing the right thing. The dude that cut in line is the dude that talks on his phone in the cinema, or the woman doing her best to humiliate a sales assistant for some trivial or imagined infraction, or the asshole abusing his girlfriend on the train. No-one wants to be the person to intervene, but anyone that isn't a sociopath will respect the person that does.
Nice work Lance! I feel the same way about people who shove to the front of a crowded show, squeezing there way in front of people that got there early enough to secure a good spot. Totally irrational, and yet completely rational anger. It's the worst.
While I agree with everyone else here – you did the right thing, the humanitarian thing, let me share another perspective. I've been living in Italy for the last year, where there are absolutely no 'rules' when it comes to queuing. The whole deal is that everyone is out for themselves and will happily jump the entire queue if they can. The rationale being that if you're too much of a chump to say anything to the queue-jumper, then you deserve to be jumped and the queue-jumper is actually just being very smart and daring. If you say something to them, regardless of whether they actually skipped YOU, then you're the smart and daring one. So as they say in Italy: Fuck that cockhole. Well done.
Mr. Lance, you are my hero. I too hate line cutters. I hate line cutters and cheaters. Ok I hate line cutters, cheaters, liars and people who wear Crocs. I swear…that's it.
Anyway, congrats on your new iPhone. I can't wait to hear how much you love it and how absolutely awesome it is!
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Line-cutter or no, Jesus-Fucking-Christ, it's a telephone!
You did the Right Thing.
You never did answer his question..in fact, you probably absorbed his energy and thus felt angry. Same goes for the biker dude.
You were sent this people by Universe for a reason, and I don't think the reason was to feel like an angry hall monitor.
I am going to have a parade in your honor.
Did you know you site breaks the page down button?
Since you have that static header at the top, it covers up whatever words are there…..
This is running Firefox 3 on winxp. I don't know why I read thru this whole entry, I guess I found it interesting… but it was annoying having to hit page down, then scroll back up a few lines to get the text from underneath the header.
You, sir, are a hero to the people, and that grinning jackhole will be hit by a whale while you will be feted with margaritas and strawberry donuts.
Even if you were waiting in line all day for a shit sandwich, he had no business cutting. Good for you.
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
Martin Luther King Jr.
Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963
(good work!)
I was sitting at a red light in my car, coming home from work when I was rear-ended.
Not hard, but enough.
I got out of the car to look for damage to my car. There wasn't any.
I looked at the other car. No damage.
Whew, I think.
"Hey there," comes the slurred voice of the other driver. "How ya doing?"
"Not great," I tell him.
He looks at the cars.
"Ah, no harm, no foul," he says, swaying.
I'm worried about damage I can't see right away.
"Hey," he says, "We kinda been drinking…"
'No shit,' I want to say but don't.
"Then why are you driving?" I ask.
There are two other people with him, one I assume is his son and the other his wife. The son looks to be in his early to mid 20s, sitting behind the wheel.
"You car isn't hurt," he said, starting to get loud.
The light has now changed and cars are driving around us.
"I can't really tell."
"Look, there's no damage."
Now the wife is behind the wheel and calls "Let's go!" to him.
"There's no damage!" he says, going back to his car.
I get back in mine and pull it over to the side. Too fast, happening too fast. They pull in front of me, and I realize I need to get the license plate. I've got nothing to write it down with, so I call my own voicemail.
The wife realizes I'm following her and starts speeding off, eventually going the wrong way down a one-way street.
'No,' I thought, 'you didn't damage my car, but who's next?'
I went to the police who put out an alert for the make/model, but said that unless they were in another accident, it was unlikely they would find them.
I had a professor once who taught me "[Doing] Right is its own reward." You may not get accolades, you may not get the result you wanted, but you get the knowledge at the end of the day that you did the right thing.
You can't buy a better pillow.
As the Aussie's say: Goodonya!
I am marching (nay building a float… wait, building a float holding a marching band) in the above mentioned parade for you! Well done!
you really come off like a petty person, esp. the part where some people joined their friends in the line and you fantasize about them laughing at you.
You worry too much — the world is too full of rude selfish people, and the only thing that stops it all crashing into anarchy is decent people just like you. You did the right thing, and the way you explain it, with the anger and the adrenaline and all, sounds pretty much how I would have done it.
Nice one. I only hope I could have kept my cool like you did. Shame you didn't wipe the self-satisfied smirk off his face: if he was a cat he would lick himself to death.
"I am going to have a parade in your honor."
Oh no, not another line!
Out here in the Midwest, we just nail their feet to the floor and use 'em as a signpost. That way, we don't feel like assholes, and they get to do something useful.
Responsibility for the win!
Now we need more people willing to stand up to loudmouths in theaters, people who litter, and irresponsible parents of all varieties.
Good on you!
You're not a dick. You're a HERO! 🙂 There should be more people like you – whistleblowers FTW!
Matt said "Did you know you site breaks the page down button?":
Yes, I know that. The design is kind of old, now, and was more a 'proof of concept' than a good usability study. The site needs a new 'do, but I haven't been able to devote any time or energy to that goal.
or said "you really come off like a petty person":
Yes, I'm an incredibly petty person. For example, I imagine that when you felt compelled to add that comment, you were sitting in front of your computer judging me, misunderstanding my sense of humor, and intent on pointing out my shortcomings and failings as a human being. Oh, and also: laughing and pointing.
Holy crap! That has to be the best story ever. The details in your post made me feel like I was there. I'm getting worked up just thinking about it. At least he wasn't one of those people who play dumb. We had someone cut in front of us at a Costa Rica airport in this huge line (not 3 hours, but still…). They decided it would be a good time to pretend not to speak English, and it took us 5 minutes to get them to the back of the line.
Good for you, you did the right thing
Smokey, this isn't 'Nam, there are rules.
Yes, that guy was a dick, but the real dicks in all of this are Apple. There was no need for any shortages, other than hype. The only reason people had to stand in line at all is because that's the way the hype works. People like you give them millions of dollars of free publicity, and you still have to pay through the nose for your phone. And the guy you chased out of the store will have the last laugh when he buys his in about five minutes a couple of months from now, after Apple has knocked $200 off the price.
> How does it hurt you?
Possible answers:
"Cheaters annoy me." (true)
"It hurts me to see you degrading yourself so." (faux sympathy)
"It doesn't, I'm just hoping that someone behind you will punch you." (faux sadism)"
::punch him in the face:: "How does this hurt you?" (actual sadism)
One thing I enjoyed about this story is the way you capture tiny layers of humiliation that pile up during the course of contemporary life. Others are focusing on the cutting in line part, but what's good here is the way you take us from from "ok maybe I'll wait in line" which seems like a tiny humiliation to the 3g to not working in your apartment, which after everything is not so tiny.
One thing I enjoyed about this story is the way you capture tiny layers of humiliation that pile up during the course of contemporary life. Others are focusing on the cutting in line part, but what's good here is the way you take us from from "ok maybe I'll wait in line" which seems like a tiny humiliation to the 3g to not working in your apartment, which after everything is not so tiny.
"How did he do that? Make me feel like the bad guy."
Because you gave your power away my friend. You allowed him to guilt you for doing the right thing. Of course, you may have never come up against such a blatant case of criminal thinking, so perhaps you were unprepared to deal with the lengths to which some people will go to justify their own bad (or law-breaking) behavior.
I would have done the same thing, I hate self-serving bullshit like that. "Yes, I will gleefully tell on you for being a blotch on the face of society you selfish fucktard". Just reading your exchange with him pissed me off… I hate that damn "ooh, I'm so cool, I'm getting one over on someone else" shit… what a dick.
I was #8 on the SoHo store grand opening, having been there ALL NIGHT, when some asshat tried to cut to the front. I threw him out on his ear to the cheers of all. I was known as "Rambo" the rest of the day, and got to meet His Steve-ness inside. Good for you sir. More strength to your karma.
Some guy rolled up in a Mercedes just as the store opened and bought a place near the front of our line for $200. This was possible since they actually gave out numbers to those waiting in line. Nobody seemed to mind until his three friends got out of the car and hopped in line with him. At that point people were livid. As their little group got closer to the door I thought we might have a fist fight break out. People were incensed when they entered the store together. Then the three extra guys were promptly booted from the store and the guy who bought the number came out a bit later with a single phone. The line mocking applauded him as he and his friends walked away in defeat.
Same thing happened to me last year at the iPhone 1.0 launch at the Short Pump store in Richmond, VA. Dude cuts in front of me during one of the line-switch-progressions. In the *rain*. I told him he ought not fuck around with people who had been waiting in line in the rain for 3 hours. He gave me that same "are you serious?" look, but ultimately decided to leave.
You did the right thing!
I also waited on Friday night for about 3 1/2 hours, and got to know the people ahead and behind me in line. As we got closer and closer to the fabled door, you could see people constantly trying to just walk in to the store. Some of them were genuinely confused, and thought the store was open for regular business, and they rather good naturedly moved on. Others were more confrontational with the Apple Geniuses guarding the door (who were the heroes of the night, for sure). And there were two guys who tried to sneak in several times, and got more and more hostile at the Geniuses at each rebuff. It was pretty weird stuff.
I hate line cutters! The staff at the Apple Store in the Houston Galleria were watching the "everything else" line like hawks. They even had employees escort those folks one-by-one inside the store until they purchased their non-iPhone 3G equipment and left the store. I hope all the other Apple stores are doing this to prevent line-cutters. I would have done the same thing you did.
This was just pulling up bad school memories for me. Standing up for what is right, no matter how "important" is the right thing to do. The people in line behind you didn't know what you did, but that is what a blog is for, and now they do, and they are thanking you without even knowing you.
why did I read this? I want my time back. please….
Bravo. Can't can't can't can't STAND people that try to cut in line at the last second when others have obviously been waiting patiently for something (exit lane, iPhones, WWDC sessions, etc.). Well done. Someone waiting properly in the line behind you would have been turned away that day were it not for you.
first off, I applaud you for doing the Right Thing. There are certainly times when breaking the rules is fun and rebellious and harms no one; this guy didn't get that. Which leads me to the answer to his question of "who am I hurting?"
The answer is: "if you have to ask that, you wouldn't understand the answer anyways."
This is what ruined SXSW for me — all the line-cutters, cheaters, sneaks who would walk backwards as if nobody was noticing then suddenly position themselves close up the front of a long line that had been forming for HOURS. Fucking cheaters. Almost as bad as bicyclists who run red lights and stop signs. Wanna bet it's the same people?
Forming an orderly line with a clear set of rules is what separates the civilized from the uncivilized.
Think of the countries where the people will not stand in line and it will become clear.
Thanks for fighting the good fight and prevailing.
That's gay.
Way to go. I'm glad someone has the guts to tell off those line-cutting scumbags.
your doing-the-right-thing is mitigated significantly by the fact that you wasted it in the service of consumerist impulses.
this must be weighed against how many children's birth defects you will cause when your phone's heavy metals leach into the groundwater of the chinese landfill it winds up in.
was it worth it?
Yup, similar thing happened to me at same SF store on Monday.. I was the last of a group of 5 to enter the line inside the store…about a minute after we came in some smarmy asian guy started ducking under the "ropes" to get in line behind me…I gave him the stink eye…and he quickly offered me $20…and then $40 if I'd just let him get in line behind me… I just rolled my eyes in disgust and told him there was no fucking way… He skulked off and probably waited to try again after the next group.. Ironically an Apple employee in an orange T-shirt was "guarding" the line 98% of the time… he just craftily saw the opportunity and tried to take it. World is full of losers. Sadly, I'm reminded of that every day….
Very well written! I feel like I was there with you, being the Asian girl. You defended my honour!
what do you want, a cookie?
You did what any of 2 billion guys on earth would do who *have* a pair of testicles. congratulations!
good grief. you closed-off anti-social San Francisco fashion-humping money grubbers have a lot of growing up to do.
it was a nice story, and you are great. many thanks because you have challenged the grinning dick. I truly understand you.
I wanted to be at the top of the comments, but someone told me to fuck off down here
I agreed
you did the right thing, Lance.
i wrote you kind of a rude comment yesterday. no need to point out which one (this is the interwebs, after all, probably not uncommon).
regardless, I feel guilty. so i wanted to say sorry. i was having a crap morning and needed to vent on someone who reminded me of myself. thats all.
so yeah: sorry about that, i apologize. have a good day.
Well done. Both at the Apple store and here in your post.
The issue isn't whether he's a jerk, the issue is what we do when we run into him. I like what you did but I'm not always sure when it's appropriate to put my foot down on this kind of stuff. Maybe all the time. Maybe not. Your time (and life) are worth something.
Anyway, well done.


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Giant striker Maierhofer wants to make Millwall return
STEFAN Maierhofer has asked to return to Millwall in January.
The giant Austrian striker, who helped guide the Lions to Championship safety last season, is currently playing for SC Wiener Neustadt.
Maierhofer was offered the chance to stay at The Den in the summer but made big wage demands. He was also confident of securing a move to a higher level.
But an agent claiming to look after the 6ft 7in targetman has been pestering Millwall in recent weeks about a return to south London in the New Year.
Boss Ian Holloway will take Maierhofer – dubbed the Hof by fans – into consideration but has not yet decided whether to pursue the issue any further.
The club say they are not currently discussing a contract with him.
Speaking in the Austrian press a couple of weeks ago, Maierhofer said of his future: "I want to go abroad again. We will see what develops in January,"