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Walter Matthau
|Walter Matthau
Matthau in 1952
Walter John Matthow
October 1, 1920
New York City, New York, U.S.
July 1, 2000
(aged 79)
Santa Monica, California, U.S.
Cause of death
|Heart Attack
Resting place
|Westwood Village Memorial Park
|Santa Monica, California
|Seward Park High School
|Alma mater
|The New School
|Years active
|Notable work(s)
The Odd Couple,
The Bad News Bears,
The Fortune Cookie,
Grumpy Old Men
|Home town
|Manhattan, New York City, NY
|6' 2" (1.89 m)
Grace Geraldine Johnson (1948–58; divorced; 2 children)
Carol Marcus (1959–2000; his death; 1 child)
Charles Matthau,
Jenny Matthau,
David Matthau
Milton Matthau,
Rose (née Berolsky) Matthau
|Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Tony Award, Golden Globe Award
|Walter Matthau
Walter Matthau (;[1] October 1, 1920 – July 1, 2000) was an American actor best known for his role as Oscar Madison in The Odd Couple and his frequent collaborations with Odd Couple star Jack Lemmon, as well as his role as Coach Buttermaker in the 1976 comedy The Bad News Bears. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the 1966 Billy Wilder film The Fortune Cookie. Besides the Oscar he was the winner of BAFTA, Golden Globe and Tony awards.
Early life
Matthau was born Walter John Matthow[2][3] in New York City's Lower East Side on October 1, 1920, the son of Rose (née Berolsky; from Lithuania), who worked in a sweatshop, and Milton Matthow, an electrician and peddler (from Russia), both Jewish immigrants.[4][5][6] As part of a lifelong love of practical jokes, Matthau himself created the rumors that his middle name was Foghorn and his last name was originally Matuschanskayasky (under which he is credited for a cameo role in the film Earthquake).[7] As a young boy, Walter attended a Jewish non-profit sleepaway camp, Tranquillity Camp, where he first began acting in the shows the camp would stage on Saturday nights. He also attended Surprise Lake Camp. His high school was Seward Park High School.[8] Matthau had a brief career as a Yiddish Theater District concessions stand cashier.[9]
During World War II, Matthau served in the U.S. Army Air Forces with the Eighth Air Force in England as a B-24 Liberator radioman-gunner, in the same 453rd Bombardment Group as James Stewart. He was based at RAF Old Buckenham during this time. He reached the rank of staff sergeant and became interested in acting. He took classes in acting at the Dramatic Workshop of The New School in New York with the influential German director Erwin Piscator. He often joked that his best early review came in a play where he posed as a derelict. One reviewer said, "The others just looked like actors in make-up, Walter Matthau really looks like a skid row bum!" Matthau was a respected stage actor for years in such fare as Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? and A Shot in the Dark. He won the 1962 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a play.
In 1952, Matthau appeared in the pilot of Mr. Peepers with Wally Cox. For reasons unknown he used the name Leonard Elliot. His role was of the gym teacher Mr. Wall. In 1955, he made his motion picture debut as a whip-wielding bad guy in The Kentuckian opposite Burt Lancaster.
Matthau appeared as a villain in subsequent movies, such as 1958's King Creole (in which he is beaten up by Elvis Presley). That same year, he made a western called Ride a Crooked Trail with Audie Murphy and Onionhead starring Andy Griffith and Erin O'Brien, which was a flop. Matthau had a featured role opposite Griffith in the well received drama A Face in the Crowd, directed by Elia Kazan. Matthau also directed a low-budget 1960 movie called The Gangster Story. In 1962, he was a sympathetic sheriff in Lonely are the Brave, which starred Kirk Douglas. He appeared opposite Audrey Hepburn in Charade.
Appearances on television were common too, including two on ABC's police drama, Naked City, as well as the 1963 episode "A Tumble from a Tall White House" of The Eleventh Hour. He appeared eight times between 1962 and 1964 on The DuPont Show of the Week and as Franklin Gaer in 1964 in the episode "Man Is a Rock" on Dr. Kildare. Lastly, he starred in the syndicated crime drama Tallahassee 7000, as a Florida-based state police investigator, in the 1961–1962 season.
Comedies were rare in Matthau's work at that time. He was cast in a number of stark dramas, such as 1964's Fail-Safe, in which he portrayed Pentagon adviser Dr. Groeteschele, who urges an all-out nuclear attack on the Soviet Union in response to an accidental transmission of an attack signal to U.S. Air Force bombers, in the tense and timely cold-war thriller.
In 1965, however, a plum comedy role came Matthau's way when Neil Simon cast him in the hit play The Odd Couple playing the slovenly sportswriter Oscar Madison opposite Art Carney as Felix Ungar. Matthau would later reprise the role in the film version opposite Jack Lemmon as Felix Ungar. Also in 1965, he played detective Ted Casselle in the Hitchcockian thriller Mirage, with Gregory Peck and Diane Baker, a film directed by Edward Dmytryk, based on a novel by Howard Fast.
He achieved great film success in a 1966 comedy as a shyster lawyer called William H. "Whiplash Willie" Gingrich starring opposite Lemmon in The Fortune Cookie, the first of numerous collaborations with Billy Wilder, and a role that would earn him an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. Filming had to be placed on a five-month hiatus after Matthau suffered a serious heart attack. He gave up his three pack a day smoking habit as a result.[10]
Matthau was visibly banged up during the Oscar telecast, having been involved in a bicycle accident; nonetheless, he scolded actors who had not bothered to come to the ceremony, especially the other major award winners that night: Elizabeth Taylor, Sandy Dennis and Paul Scofield.
Oscar nominations would come Matthau's way again for 1971's Kotch, directed by Lemmon, and 1975's The Sunshine Boys, another Simon vehicle transferred from the stage, this one about a pair of former vaudeville stars. For the latter role he won a Golden Globe award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy.
Broadway hits turned into films continued to cast Matthau in the leads with 1969's Hello, Dolly! and that same year's Cactus Flower, for which co-star Goldie Hawn received an Oscar. He played three different roles in the 1971 film version of Simon's Plaza Suite and was in the cast of its followup California Suite in 1978.
Matthau starred in three crime dramas in the mid-1970s, as a detective investigating a mass murder on a bus in The Laughing Policeman, as a bank robber on the run from the Mafia and the law in Charley Varrick and as a New York transit cop in the action-adventure The Taking of Pelham One Two Three. A change of pace about misfits on a Little League baseball team turned-out to be a solid hit in 1976 when Matthau starred as coach Morris Buttermaker in the comedy The Bad News Bears
In 1982, Matthau portrayed Herbert Tucker in I Ought to Be in Pictures, with Ann-Margret and Dinah Manoff, the daughter of Matthau's Plaza Suite co-star, Lee Grant.
Matthau played Albert Einstein in the film "IQ", also starring Tim Robbins and Meg Ryan. His partnership with Lemmon became one of the most successful pairings in Hollywood. They became lifelong friends after making The Fortune Cookie and would make a total of 10 movies together—11 counting Kotch, in which Lemmon has a cameo as a sleeping bus passenger. Apart from their many comedies, the two appeared (though not onscreen together) in the 1991 Oliver Stone drama about the presidential assassination, JFK. In 1992, he played the narrator in Doctor Seuss Video Classics: How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Matthau played the role of Mr. Wilson in the 1993 movie Dennis the Menace.
Matthau and Lemmon reunited in 1993 for the surprise box-office hit comedy Grumpy Old Men, co-starring Ann-Margret and the 1995 sequel, Grumpier Old Men, that also co-starred Sophia Loren. This led to more pairings late in their careers, notably Out to Sea and a Simon-scripted sequel to one of their great successes, The Odd Couple II. Hanging Up, a 2000 film directed by Diane Keaton, was Matthau's final appearance onscreen.
Personal life
Matthau was married twice; first to Grace Geraldine Johnson from 1948 to 1958, and then from 1959 until his death in 2000 to Carol Marcus. He had two children, Jenny and David, by his first wife, and a son, Charlie Matthau, with his second wife. David is a radio news reporter, currently at WKXW "New Jersey 101.5" in Trenton, New Jersey. Jenny is president of the Natural Gourmet Institute in New York City. Matthau also helped raise his stepchildren, Aram Saroyan and Lucy Saroyan. His grandchildren include William Matthau, an engineer, and Emily Rose Roman, a student at SUNY Binghamton. Charlie Matthau directed his father in The Grass Harp (1995).
Health problems
A heavy smoker and drinker, Matthau suffered a heart attack in 1966, the first of at least three in his lifetime. In 1976, ten years after his first heart attack, he underwent heart bypass surgery. After working in freezing Minnesota weather for Grumpy Old Men in 1993, he was hospitalized for double pneumonia. In December 1995 he had a colon tumor removed; it tested benign. He was also hospitalized in May 1999 for more than two months after another bout of pneumonia.[11] In November 1999, he was diagnosed with colon cancer shortly after completing his final acting role Hanging Up.
Matthau was a compulsive gambler, who once estimated his lifetime losses as five million dollars.[12]
Matthau suffered from atherosclerotic heart disease and colon cancer, which spread to his liver, lungs and brain.[13] He died of a heart attack in Santa Monica on July 1, 2000. He was 79 years old.[14] His remains are interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles.
Less than a year later, the remains of Jack Lemmon (who died of colon and bladder cancer) were buried at the same cemetery. After Matthau's death, Lemmon as well as other friends and relatives had appeared on Larry King Live in an hour of tribute and remembrance; many of those same people appeared on the show one year later, reminiscing about Lemmon.
Carol Marcus, also a native of New York, died of a brain aneurysm in 2003. Her remains are buried on top of Matthau's.
The remains of actor Farrah Fawcett's remains are buried to the right.
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|The Liar
|Twilight Walk
|Sam Dundee
|Fancy Meeting You Again
|Sinclair Heybore
|One Bright Day
|George Lawrence
|In Any Language
|Charlie Hill
|The Grey-Eyed People
|John Hart
|The Ladies of the Corridor
|Paul Osgood
|The Burning Glass
|Tony Lack
|Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
|Michael Freeman
|Guys and Dolls
|Nathan Detroit
|Once More, with Feeling!
|Maxwell Archer
|Nominated – Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play
|Once There Was a Russian
|A Shot in the Dark
|Benjamin Beaurevers
|Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play
|My Mother, My Father and Me
|Herman Halpern
|The Odd Couple
|Oscar Madison
|Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play
|The Motorola Television Hour
|Episode: "Atomic Attack"
|Alfred Hitchcock Presents
|Episode: "The Crooked Road"
|Alfred Hitchcock Presents
|Episode: "Dry Run"
|Juno and the Paycock
|Alfred Hitchcock Presents
|Episode: "Cop for a Day"
|Route 66
|Episode: "Eleven, the Hard Way"
|Tallahassee 7000
|Cast member
|Target: The Corruptors!
|Two episodes
|Awake and Sing!
|Moe Axelrod
|Saturday Night Live
|Season 4, Episode 7 (2 December 1978)
|The Stingiest Man in Town
|Ebenezer Scrooge
|Voice role
|The Incident
|Harmon J. Cobb
|Mrs. Lambert Remembers Love
|Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore
|Harmon J. Cobb
|Incident in a Small Town
|Harmon J. Cobb
|The Marriage Fool
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- ^ Edelman, Rob; Audrey E. Kupferberg (2002). Matthau: a life. Lanham, Maryland: Taylor Trade Publishing. p. 4.
- ^ Wright, Stuart J. (2004). An emotional gauntlet: from life in peacetime America to the war in European skies. Terrace Books. p. 179.
- ^ Stone, Judy (September 8, 1968). "Matthau – A Sex Symbol Or a Jewish Mother?". subscription required
- ^ "Walter Matthau Biography (1920–2000)". Filmreference.com. Retrieved 2014-02-03.
- ^ Gussow, Mel (July 2, 2000). "Walter Matthau, 79, Rumpled Star and Comic Icon, Dies". The New York Times (NYTimes.com). Retrieved 2014-02-03.
- ^ "Walter Matthau". Snopes.com. October 19, 2005. Retrieved 2014-02-03.
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- ^ "Actor Walter Matthau dies".
Further reading
- Mel Gussow (July 2, 2000). "Walter Matthau, 79, Rumpled Star and Comic Icon, Dies". The New York Times. Retrieved May 11, 2008.
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Kiosks have always been a fixture at fast-casual chain Honeygrow, which features several self-ordering kiosks (along with human cashiers) at all 15 of its locations. The Philadelphia-based concept, which specializes in build-your-own salads and stir-fries, uses the kiosks to streamline its ordering process. "Because of the customizable nature of our menu, we needed a simple and quick way for guests to make their selections, while also efficiently communicating orders to the kitchen," says CEO Justin Rosenberg.
The kiosks are also designed to customize the experience at each store. Honeygrow developed its own kiosk ordering system that features photos of the surrounding area. "We wanted to capture not so much the obvious locations (like the Empire State Building for NYC), but the hidden alleyways that we know are also beautiful and essential to each market," Rosenberg says. "These small, creative details resonate with our customers."
Often touted as the modern day automat, Eatsa is lauded as a fully automated restaurant that uses solely kiosks in place of cashiers. While humans do prepare the food and are on hand to assist with kiosk ordering, customers never need to interact with a person if they don't want to—they place orders via tablets and retrieve their food from cubbies with digital screens. Since debuting in San Francisco in 2015, Eatsa has expanded to seven locations in California, New York and, most recently, Washington, D.C. "I think we were pleasantly surprised by the degree to which this didn't seem weird to people," co-founder Scott Drummond told The Washington Post. "People just felt it was normal. It seemed appropriate."

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This recent issue of the commercial fisheries newsletter contains information on the governance of the sector. It explains the vision for and future of Listuguj Fisheries, the process for restructuring the sector as well as the purpose of the Fisheries Management Board.
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January/February 2011. In this issue: "Honouring Listuguj Fishers," Assistant Director's Message, "Fisheries Continues its Governance Planning,"Traps and Smolt Wheels: Making Sure the Salmon - and our Rivers - are Healthy" by Pamela Isaac, "Snow Crab Fishing Rights and Compensation Resolution," and a spotlight on the John Duncan 'Vessel of the Month'.
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November/December 2010. In this issue: "Youth Fishers: Pride in Being Mi'gmaq" by Meredith Bernard, Assistant Director's Message, a spotlight on the Ugjit Sma'gnisg vessel written by Christopher Metallic, and "The Crown's Duty to Consult and Accommodate" by Dr. Fred Metallic.
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In September 2010, the second commercial fisheries newsletter was published and distributed. Articles in this issue: "Listuguj Responds to Reduction of Snow Crab Quota," "Assistant Director's Message," "Restructing Commercial Fisheries," "Managing the Lobster Fishery," "Harvesting Under Mi'gmaq Law," and "Listuguj Fishers Trained as Captains."
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Back in the winter of 2009, Listuguj Fisheries introduced the first of a series of informative newsletters to the community. This first issue contains information on the public consultation sessions, professional development training of harvesting personnel as well as on certain key legal cases that have affected the First Nations fisheries sector.
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Single sentence descriptions of the newest graphic novels in the YA section.
Archie Marries… Archie gets married, twice, but only in daydreams.
Doctor Who: Final Sacrifice. A civil war on an alien world equals trouble!
Archie: Best of the Seventies book 2. Archie as Ziggy Stardust amongst other things.
Superman: War of the Supermen. Superman squares off against other supermen.
The Amazing Spiderman: The Gauntlet, Juggernaut. Title says it all really.
The Flash: The dastardly death of the Rogues. Like Minority Report, but if Tom Cruise was super fast.
Thor: The mighty avenger. This comes with two bonus classic Thor stories- value!
Thor: The first thunder. Loki is like Thor's Joker and he is causing all sorts of mayhem in this one.
Ultimate Thor. More of the Thor, he looks like the bassist in a metal band on the cover.
X-Men forever: Devil in a white dress! Chris Claremont wrote this, which is a big deal.
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Namor, the first mutant: Curse of the mutants. Nammor decides to join the X-Men – mutant friends!
Excalibur: The legend of King Arthur. You know, sword, stone, Merlin, etc.
Some reclaiming of the vampire genre, some thrillers and a couple of popular urban fantasy series this week.
Department Nineteen, Will Hill (540 pages) – It's a vampire story but without the romance and that stuff (see cover). Department 19 is a secret government department dedicated to finding and destroying vampires, with whom humans have been at war since 1892, and the stakes are going to be raised, says the cover. In at least two ways, obvs.
First sentence: Jamie Carpenter was watching TV in the living room when he heard the tires of his dad's car crunch across the gravel driveway much, much earlier than usual.
Alex Van Helsing: Vampire Rising, Jason Henderson (248 pages) – Van Helsing was the vampire hunter who was Dracula's downfall (says the person who hasn't read Dracula). Alex Van Helsing doesn't know he's related to the great man (ahem, Alex, the name), so when he starts at an exclusive academy on the shores of Lake Geneva and, hello, meets two vampires in his first couple of days, he's in for an abrupt adjustment. There's a deadly vampire known as Icemaker in the area, and Alex's vampire hunting instincts must kick into action.
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Blank Confession, Pete Hautman (170 pages) – Shayne Blank confesses to murder, but how could a sweet teenage boy do such a thing? His long statement to the police reveals all.
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The Golden Day, Ursula Dubosarsky (149 pages) – Set in Sydney in 1967, "about a group of schoolgirls whose teacher [Miss Renshaw] bizarrely goes missing on a school excursion, apparently murdered", the author tells us. What really happened?
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City of Fallen Angels, Cassandra Clare (424 pages) – it's here finally, 60-something people in Wellington will be pleased to hear. Everything in New York is happiness and light it seems, until someone starts murdering Valentine's Shadowhunters, endangering the uneasy relationship between the Downworlders and Shadowhunters. Then Simon's mother finds out the truth about him, he's kicked out of home, and everyone (except his mother) wants him on their side. Oh, and Jace has gone all distant and Clary doesn't know why.
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Red Glove, Holly Black (325 pages) – the second book in the Curse Workers series (the first was White Cat). Cassel's life is complicated and dangerous, he's an in-demand curse worker, wanted by both the feds and the mob, who can see how valuable he could be. Plus he's learned that Lila his girlfriend (who is no longer a white cat) only loves him because his mother cursed her. That'd take the gloss off.
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Efrain's Secret, Sofia Quintero (263 pages) – Efrain longs to get out of the South Bronx and attend an Ivy League school, but his family circumstances mean this is not likely to happen. So, Efrain becomes a drug dealer (while maintaining his grades and reputation as an excellent student) to raise the money (after all, this is what society expects boys from the South Bronx to do).
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XVI, Julia Karr (325 pages) – In this 22nd century dystopia, when girls turn sixteen they're branded with an XVI on their wrist, proclaiming to the world that they are legal (if you know what we mean). Nina is fifteen, about to have her birthday, when her mother is brutally killed, and just before she dies reveals a shocking secret to Nina about her past that sends Nina on a dangerous quest to discover the truth about herself.
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Some new fashion illustration and photography books from the library for you to snuggle up with on boring rainy days.
Paris Vogue : covers 1920 – 2009 by Sonia Rachline.
The New Age of Feminine Drawing.
Masters of Fashion Illustration by David Downton.
Nick Knight.
Coachella – a giant concert / festival in Palm Springs, California – just happened. It's become popular not just for the hipster bands that play there (and Kanye this year), but for its 'festival fashion' too. All I can say is – there were JORTS everywhere! They just won't die will they?! Sure these people looked good, and it is summer over there, but ENOUGH ALREADY.
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Entertainment Weekly #1148 #1149 Robert Pattinson has moved beyond Twilight (so he says) and Arnold Schwarzenegger is back in an animated series called The Governator (seriously?!?)
Bart Simpson #42 Bart rides a camel on the cover. Does so inside too we assume.
Simpsons Comics #150 The name of the story inside is How Sweet It Ain't
Seventeen May 2011 200+ swimsuits, Look hot in a bikini, 859 ways to get pretty for summer. Summer is a long way off, but get ready now, maybe?
Creme May 2011 I have just calculated that 90% of celebrities claim to have been "the biggest geek" in high school, source – this magazine.
XBOX 360 May 2011 There is a cover story about Skyrim. Man, I want Skyrim sooooo bad. Wake me up in November pls.
Soul Surfer is the true story of a teenage surf star who lost one of her arms in a shark attack. She made a huge comeback, re-teaching herself to surf one-armed. We have the book by the same name in the library, and you'll be able to see it on the big screen shortly after Queen's Birthday-ish sort of time. The trailer is here:
Incidentally, the movie's catapulted the book to the top of a New York Times best seller list. Can't beat the movies for raising the profile of books.
The Tempest is one of Shakespeare's weirder efforts, which is not a bad thing; it makes it great material for a movie, and here's a trailer:
There's Russell Brand, Djimon Hounsou, and Helen Mirren as Prospera (Prospero, but female – it's been done before and it works very well, particularly with someone awesome like Helen Mirren). It's out at the beginning of June. The official site is here.
Speaking of Shakespeare, Tempestuous by Lesley Livingston concludes the urban faerie trilogy started with Wondrous Strange (and featuring a few things Shakespearean). We will be getting the book soon, in the mean time here's the trailer:
HarperTeen, the publishers, have a sneak peak here.
This cool photoshoot by Bruce Weber for US Vogue (hmm, I know kinda fuddy-duddy). How cool is Dakota Fanning though?
The amount of chocolate I am going to eat this weekend – hello pimples.
Have a great Easter Weekend!
PS. Is there no end to Lauren Conrad's talents?!
We are inundated! Make sure you come into the library these holidays and take some off our hands. This batch is brought to you by the last sentence this time! (Except for when it would be totally giving it away.)
The Lying Game, Sara Shepard (307 pages) – from the author of the Pretty Little Liars series, currently gracing TV2 on Sunday night(ish)es. Emma's long lost twin sister, the narrator, has died (murdered!), and Emma wants to know what happened, so she takes on the dead narrator's life, including boyfriend and parents and whatnot. This could be dangerous, with the murderer on the loose.
Last sentence: I'll see you in the morning… even though you won't see me.
Strings Attached, Judy Blundell (310 pages) – who wrote What I Saw and How I Lied. This also is set in a historical context, this time the 1950s in New York, where Kit Corrigan is a struggling chorus girl in a Broadway show, who becomes involved with Billy and his father Nate, who is a mob lawyer. Love, deceit, intrigue, and murder, says the cover. Intriguing!
Last sentence(s): Or on an ordinary day, nothing sinister. Nothing noble. Just balloons.
Winter Longing, Tricia Mills (266 pages) – Sob! Winter finally declares her love for Spencer, *and then he dies in a plane crash*. A story of grief, and what it's like to come through devastation.
First sentence: The drone of a plane engine stopped me in my tracks, and adrenaline surged through my veins.
Alabama Moon, Watt Key (294 pages) – Moon is raised by his father in the Alabama wilderness. When his father dies, Moon finds himself having to adjust to living in an institution. This is also a movie, available on DVD.
Last sentence: "You don't need to worry about me."
Desires of the Dead, Kimberly Derting (355 pages) – Violet can sense the dead, and can also tell who killed them. Naturally she'd rather people didn't know, but she becomes the subject of interest. At the same time, she becomes interested in her boyfriend's best friend's tragic past, and stumbles across a deadly secret.
Last sentence: "I think we're gonna be late," she whispered, surrendering at last.
Mad Love, Suzanne Selfors (323 pages) – Alice's mother is a romance novelist. When her mother is secretly admitted to the psychiatric ward of a hospital Alice must maintain the illusion that things are still trucking along as normal, which involves lying to her (Alice's) boyfriend, answering fan mail… and then writing the next best seller! Luckily (maybe?) she meets a guy who says he's Cupid and would like her to write about his tragic love with Psyche…
Last sentence: Or the one beating inside our hearts, waiting to be set free.
Wither, Lauren DeStefano (358 pages) – a dystopian world where a virus causes males live to the age of 25 and females to just 20. To ensure the survival of the human race therefore girls are kidnapped and forced into polygamous relationships in order to have lots of babies. Rhine is married to Linden, who seems okay, but she's determined to escape (as you would be).
Last sentence: This time, I don't know where the light will guide us.
Fishtailing, Wendy Phillips (196 pages) – a novel in verse. "Through a series of poems written for English class, interspersed with teacher comments and letters to and from parents, high school students Natalie, Tricia, Kyle, and Miguel describe their lives." (catalogue)
Last sentence: I smell spring.
Mortal Kiss, Alice Moss (343 pages) – Faye and her friend Liz have to work out what's going on in their town: there's a dead body, a motorcycle gang, and the fact that it doesn't stop snowing. Could these things be related to the fact that there are two new arrivals, "smouldering Finn and sexy Lucas"?
Last sentence: It shook the frost from its fur once, and then trotted out of the open door, disappearing into the dense forest outside.
The Big Crunch, Pete Hautman (280 pages) – "This is a love story for people not particularly biased toward romance" says the cover. The crowd cheers! June* and Wes have an everyday sort of relationship, where you're not really sure if it's love, you're not sure what's going to happen, you do some stuff you wish you hadn't, and you might not exactly smoulder.
First sentence: The first time Wes saw June, he thought she was kind of funny-looking.
* Trivia: the cover blurb says she's *Jen* but she's not, we checked.
The Best Of – Nelly Furtado
Has she now – like a
bird – flown away? Or is this
a stop-gap album?
Queen – Queen
How many dudes do
you know that rocked a mic stand
like this? Not many.
Awesome As F**k – Green Day
Apparently their
live shows are more awesome than
most everything.
London Sessions – LCD Soundsystem
I will miss you James
Murphy. Like, a whole lot. Is
this really goodbye?
Angles – The Strokes
Former coolest band
in world returns from lengthy
hiatus to rock
Femme Fatale – Britney Spears
Nico reference
excepting, it's not really
that avant at all.
The King Of Limbs – Radiohead
All summaries pale
compared to animated
.gifs, see example.
Wonders Of The Younger – Plain White Ts
Essential wardrobe
items release another
album. Their sixth.
Seasons Of The Soul – Rumer
"I'd have these moods in
my soul that would come around
like seasons" – Rumer
No More Idols – Chase & Status
Polished dubstep from
United Kingdom duo, plus
many, many guests.
Build A Rocket Boys! – Elbow
Well received alt-rock
featuring nostalgia as
the major motif.
F.A.M.E. – Chris Brown
Forgiveness rhythm
and blues record? Fans are my
(his) everything.
Last week we brought you four seconds of Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Here's a couple of minutes more (so cool):
This should be out in August this year. Can't hardly wait.
On an entirely different note, the William and Kate movie will be released on DVD shortly before the wedding of the year (April 29th, don't forget to watch on the telly). Here's its trailer.
There will no doubt also be books commemorating the occasion. Here's a couple you can already reserve: Katie the Royal Wedding Fairy by Daisy Meadows and Knit Your Own Royal Wedding by Fiona Gobie. No, we're not making either of those up. For those who especially love a good royal wedding, here's the commemorative book about Charles and Diana's (written by Gordon Honeycombe, nice name).
And finally, another digression: not a trailer but a real flash game: make the pig fly! You will, no doubt, be better than me. Thanks, Stu, for passing on the procrastination tool.
August, Bernard Beckett (204 pages, New Zealand author) – Tristan and Grace are in a car wreck, waiting for rescue (if it happens!). As they wait, as one does, they review their very different lives and philosophies. "A compelling novel about will, freedom and what it means to live" (cover).
First sentence: For a moment the balance was uncertain.
Scorpia Rising, Anthony Horowitz (402 pages) – the final mission, the cover declares! No! Alex must put Scorpia out of business, once and for all, but is this the mission to end all missions, and to end Alex? We hope not!
First sentence: The man in the black cashmere coat climbed down the steps of his private, six-seater Learjet 40 and stood for a moment, his breath frosting in the chill morning air.
Where She Went, Gayle Forman (260 pages) – the follow up to the über popular If I Stay. Three years after Mia ended it with Adam they're back together for one night in New York City, a chance to put things to rest (or to respark something?).
First sentence: Every morning I wake up and I tell myself this: it's just one day, one twenty-four-hour period to get yourself through.
Plague, Michael Grant (526 pages) – the fourth in the Gone series. Quelle horreur, this one sounds ghastly. There is a plague threatening Perdido Beach (one that is described in graphic detail on the back cover! Guts! Being eaten away from the inside out!), and there's still the grim reality of what happens to you at fifteen.
First sentence: He stood poised on the edge of a sheet of glass.
Invincible, Sherrilyn Kenyon (420 pages) – The second on the Chronicles of Nick series. Poor Nick is once again challenged by the presence of all manner of horrific supernatural creatures, affecting his life in so many ways, from the inconvenient (his principal thinks he's gone to the bad, making school a problematic place) to the downright deadly; he must figure out how to raise the dead or he might find himself counted as one of them.
First sentence: They say when you're about to die, you see your entire life flash before your eyes.
The Running Dream, Wendelin Van Draanen (332 pages) – Puts one's own annoying, minor running injuries into perspective. Jessica is a runner, until she's involved in a terrible accident and loses a leg. A story of coming to terms with a significant loss, reestablishing your identity and your place, and overcoming odds.
First sentence: My life is over.
All You Get is Me, Yvonne Prinz (279 pages) – Roar's father goes all green on her, installing them on an organic farm, where she must spend the summer adjusting from her city sensibilities, coping with falling in love, the fact that her mother is gone, and with the fallout from her father's crusade against the bad working conditions of Mexican farm workers.
First sentence: My mom always promised me she would keep me safe, and then she disappeared.
As Easy as Falling off the Face of the Earth, Lynne Rae Perkins (352 pages) – Ry's train strands him in the middle of seriously nowhere and he's got to get to somewhere, a journey that is peppered by a series of scrapes, mishaps and "comedic calamities" (catalogue).
First sentences: Wait a minute. Was the – had the train just moved?
The Floating Islands, Rachel Neumeier (388 pages) – "The adventures of two teenaged cousins who live in a place called The Floating Islands, one of whom is studying to become a mage and the other one of the legendary island flyers" (library catalogue).
First sentence: Trei was fourteen the first time he saw the Floating Islands.
The Education of Hailey Kendrick, Eileen Cook (256 pages) – Hailey is the perfect girl who never does anything wrong, until one night, together with a secret accomplice, she does something quite wrong and gets into a rather lot of trouble, which her secret accomplice escapes. Now her friends don't want to know her, her teachers don't trust her, everything's a mess, and she's keeping quiet about the identity of said secret accomplice. Is it worth it?
First sentence: There was a matter of life and death to deal with, and instead we were wasting our time discussing Mandy Gallaway's crotch.


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Left side: Red and yellow pepper rings.
Middle section: Green grapes and a piece of tortilla with carrot roman numerals. The roman numerals are attached to the tortilla with peanut butter.
Right side: Peanut butter and tortilla sandwich decorated with a drawn on goal post. There is also pretzels tucked under the sandwich.
This bento lunch is packed in my new ECOlunchbox oval. This box worked out perfectly for this theme. There will be an ECOlunchbox review coming up on the blog soon!!
ECOlunchbox. ECOlunchboxes.com
FooDoodler marker. Sur La Table
Alphabet cutters. Michaels
Football pick and helmet cupcake ring. A cake shop
Lettuce baran. Bento USA
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Going West
or "A sentimental Journey back to Bristol"
(February 2017)
a (Sentimental) prologue
I spent some wonderful years in Bristol as a student, back in the early 90s. Nice rainy weather, parties, outdoor activities (always with a mackintosh on, of course) lots of travelling around the west country and of course lots of food... wait a moment, Food? English food?
Yes love, my favorite food: meat pies, apple pies, fish and chips, scones with double clotted cream, full English breakfast (perfect for lunch), Sunday roast (of course with Yorkshire pudding), bangers and mash, curry and of course English sandwiches (or "how to turn something simple into an art")…. Stereotypes? Yes, sure but so tasty and exotic stereotypes!
The UK is not just another European Country, it is a continent by itself. A bunch of exotic, mysterious, beautiful and full of surprises islands.
And above all the West Country: the beauty of my youth!
Since then, I haven't been really back (just for a couple of short visits, mainly to see friends and have a pint over juicy gossiping), so this year I decided to return as a middle-aged man and see how my beloved city has changed over the last 20 years. You see I have just turned 50!
The first thing that really stroked me is that the city seemed to me very familiar but very different at the same time! Everything changed by remaining exactly the same. That reminded me of the lyrics of a popular greek song: όλα τριγύρω αλλάζουνε και όλα τα ίδια μένουν (*)... The most worrying of all though, was that I had forgotten basic things like streets and names, basic landmarks and attractions…. aging is ruthless!
(*) Υδροχόος - Μανώλης Ρασούλης
Μπαίνουμε στόν Υδροχόο
και θ' ανάψουνε φωτιές
οι καιροί νερό θα φέρουν
έτσι λεν αυτοί που ξέρουν
κι όμως θα καούν καρδιές
Όλα τριγύρω αλλάζουνε
κι όλα τα ίδια μένουν
και μένα τα χεράκια της
με λύνουν και με δένουν
Μπαίνουμε στον Υδροχόο
και θα φύγουν οι Ιχθύς
Έτσι ήτανε γραμμένα
Μέσα στ' άστρα τα σβησμένα
Που `χα δει στα μάτια της
Όλα τριγύρω αλλάζουνε
Μέσα στ' άστρα τα σβησμένα
Που `χα δει στα μάτια της
Όλα τριγύρω αλλάζουνε
κι όλα τα ίδια μένουν
και μένα τα χεράκια της
με λύνουν και με δένουν
I decided to stay downtown (at SACO Apartments) just opposite the Watershed (my basic point of reference in the early 90s), which brought me nice memories of extremely milky cappuccinos with cocoa power (who on earth drinks cappuccino with cocoa powder on the top?) and European film screenings (I have seen so many boring films that period at the Watershed!).
The weather was unexpectedly chilly and I was not really prepared for that: strong winds and icy rain. I put on lots of layers of clothes and rushed into the streets ready to absorb as much as possible of the Bristol atmosphere.
My trip was a ten-day trip, but it was not a tourist trip, it was a memories trip. A trip dedicated to my "first half century of my life" ... so getting some extra pounds on (I mean weight pounds of course) was part of the agenda.
First stop: the Watershed
The cappuccino is still the same … hot milk with a bit of a coffee taste, weak foam (the kind of coffee you give back to the waiter and never go back to that place again when you are at home) and that lovely touch of cocoa powder on the top.
Then next door is the Tourist Information Centre. I bought some bus tickets and post cards to send to friends (are there still people out there expecting a post card?!) and off we go.
Banksy - a Bristol legend
On my way to Clifton, in Park street I took a picture of Banksy's "naked man" ... a bit faded and targeted with blue paint.... but still impressive.
Banksy is an anonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist and film director of unverified identity. His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine dark humor with graffiti executed in a distinctive stenciling technique. Banksy's works of political and social commentary have been featured on streets, walls, and bridges of cities throughout the world. Banksy's work grew out of the Bristol underground scene, which involved collaborations between artists and musicians. Banksy says that he was inspired by 3D, a graffiti artist who later became a founding member of the English musical group Massive Attack.
the Primrose Cafe
It started to rain again, so we got the bus for Clifton village to visit "Primrose cafe" for some yummy English breakfast (1 Boyce's Ave).
My intentions were to ask for the small plate....so I could finish up with some bagels! I love this place because it is soooo English. I used to go there to have a coffee and watch the locals or to read a book.... no wi-fi those days, no smartphones...no people lost in their texting and social networking.
I had the FULL MONTY (you thought I would stick to the small portion?): 2 poached eggs, 2 rashers bacon, 2 sausages, 2 portobello mushrooms, baked beans, grilled tomato, hash brown & sourdough toast and finished with a pot of Earl grey...
The place was as beautiful as I remembered it.... cozy and warm and ...so full of memories and old fashioned "English ladies" (at least the stereotype picture we have in continental Europe, about English ladies).
Needless to say, I visited it again during my stay in Bristol the following days.
The Clifton Suspension Bridge
Here I am at Brunel's masterpiece. The Clifton Suspension Bridge opened in 1864.
The Bridge is infamous for people jumping from it (quite some distance) down to the Avon river.... not that easy to do today with all the wire they put on both sides of the bridge. The barriers put on in 1998 and since then the number of deaths (by jumping from the bridge) halved!
Mark Olson did not write "Clifton Bridge" for this Bridge, but always thought the lyrics are a perfect match for this bridge... my bridge!
Daylight, comes a sound
We walked across Clifton Bridge
Which way would it be, up or down?
We laid our cards on the table
I woke up before the sun
Which way is the way
Between the heart and the soul
You spoke with my words tangled up inside
Some people come here to die
We came here to live
There's a hope in our hearts
There's a future in our souls
We both have tragedy
In our youth I met your brother and sister
They stood by me in the ring
Your green eyes in the sun
Some people come here to die
We came here to live
There's a hope in our hearts
There's a future in our souls
Some people came here to die
We came here to live
There's a hope in our hearts
There's a future in our souls
There's a future in our souls
There's a future in our souls
Daylight, comes a sound
We walked across Clifton Bridge
Which way would be, up or down?
Some emotional info about my University years
115, Queens' Road was my dormitory during the first year at the University.
My room was on the 4th floor overlooking the Students' Union Building. Four floors all together...one Greek student on every floor. This was a "third world dormitory" for students from Asia, Africa and Greece. The western Europeans were staying in posh places... for the same price of course!
There was only one telephone set on the ground floor of the building. So, when you had a telephone call someone was shouting your name and you had to fly four floors down ... no elevator!
Making a phone call though, was more fun and certainly very cheap by using the payphone at the Triangle.
I do not know who started this trick first, but that particular payphone was an adorable payphone: instead of 20-pence coins we used 5-drachma coins to make phone calls. You see the silly phone could not tell the difference! (†)
I used to carry tons and tons of 5-drachma coins in my suitcase every time I was coming back from Greece. There was not a single 5-drachma coin left in a radius of 5 km from my house in my hometown!
The second year of my studies I moved one block further down at 9 Dover Place. That was nice two bedroom apartment with a view of Cabot Tower. I shared that apartment with my very good friend Maria (now a high school computer science teacher in Aspropyrgos near Athens).
(†)1 pound ≡ 580 drachmas in the 90s
What I remember more of that apartment is our furniture which did not match: an armchair with yellow and brown stripes, which was given by a cypriot friend who decided to move on with his life, a dark brown bookcase we bought (the only piece of furniture we ever bought) from Habitat at Queens's Ave just oposite Barclays, a crystal dinning table we got from a friend's mom, who moved to Spain to retire under the mediteranean sun, some chairs, all different to each other, which we got from places all over the city, a grey sofa bed we were given by my friend Marty, etc. The big window blinds were given to us by Mr Chad, the indian landlord, the hot-cold water mixer in the bathroom was given to us by our friend Sifis, who lived in London those days (now a physics university professor in Heraklion, Crete).
The Pieminister
And here comes the highlight of my culinary experience in Bristol!
After scrolling all over the wet and cold Bristol we decided not to have dinner that evening, as we already had several meals during the day. We just wanted to head directly to our superhot (temperature wise) apartment at SACO.
On our way to the Apartment we noticed a rather dark restaurant just next door. A place with dim lights and dark painted walls: "Pieminister". What on Earth is this Pieminister, I wondered? I approached the window and without any hesitation I said "dinner time"!
Pieminister did not exist in my old days. It opened just in 2003. It is a Bristol based company, which has already 3 restaurants in Bristol and half a dozen more in other cities. They also sell their pies to many pubs around the country.
They serve British pies .... not a huge variety but very tasty at a very tasty price too! Meat pies, chicken pies, kidney pies, mushroom pies... yummy yummy!
That evening I tried the "Moo & Blue" (beef and Stilton cheese), the "Free Ranger" (chicken, leek & thyme) and the tastier of all the "Moo" (British beef steak and craft ale).
I could die that evening and go to paradise all happy and content. Besides, I already had a very fulfilling life. I was happy and I had lots to narrate to Saint Peter about my adventures in faraway countries!
The following days we visited the restaurant several times for a quickie (quickie means at least two pies each).
British Pie Week - The week the hamble pie becomes a King
British Pie Week is held the first full week of March, which this year was 6th-12th March 2017.
Originally, set up by a pastry maker as a way to sell more of their pastry, it is now Britain's main celebration of pie! Pubs, restaurants, pie shops and more have used British Pie Week to run com-pie-titions, pie specials and more, while supermarkets sometimes use the week to discount their pie ranges. The British Pie Awards have even moved their awards to this week, to coincide with British Pie Week.
However, it's also an excuse for pie lovers to do various pie stunts (like eating only pies for the whole week) and for the average pie fan to excuse their pie eating for a week! ("Well it's Pie Week, so I have to have a pie!!!")
So what we do during that week? Well, the pies are the limit! The more traditional ways include eating a pie from a pie shop or pub, or making your own pie at home. The more adventurous might host friends for a "pie night" or do some crazy pie stunt or create an unusual filling for a pie or go for pub hoping to eat pies and have a warm ale.
Catch 22
1. a frustrating situation in which one is trapped by contradictory regulations or conditions.
2. any illogical or paradoxical problem or situation; dilemma.
3. a condition, regulation, etc., preventing the resolution of a problem or situation; catch
[from a military regulation in a novel of the same name (1961) by U.S. novelist Joseph Heller]
the 5-star fish & chip quality awarded by 'The National Federation of Fish Friers' restaurant in Bristol! (*)
When I was a kid I had heard that in those far away wet islands they eat "fish and chips" which are served into funnels made of paper! In my English school it seems that everyone knew what fish and chips is. I was too proud to ask because I did not want everyone to understand that I do not know what fish and chips looks like!
There was no Google, no Wikipedia those days, so I could not figure out what kind of fish one eats with his fingers? So, I believed it is small fritted fish like "γαύρος" (anchovy) or "μαρίδα" (smelt).
That was the picture I had in my mind for years.
I saw the real thing in a pub in London, many years later. It did not appeal to me at all. You see, back home, we have a very different idea of what a fish is and how it is cooked or grilled or fried.... besides I was not that fond of fish, anyway!
It took me some time to taste that divine dish...and the moment I did, I dreamed of open seas and beautiful fishing villages, of multicolored boats bringing delicious fish (still alive) into the ports, of fishermen in tarpaulins unload them into big wooden crates…
Fish and Chips: tasty and cheap, easy to find everywhere.... but for the real taste you have to visit Catch22, the new tasty addition in Bristol's culinary scene.
(*) 'The National Federation of Fish Friers"? What on Earth, they must be crazy in this country!
Revolution Bar
I have to admit that, eventhough I lived in England for years, I had no idea what a "hen party" is! I had to visit "Revolution Bar" in Bristol and see at least 3 different Hen parties taken place: all silly dressed young ladies, with multicolored ribbons worn across their chests, drinking and laughing unceasingly! Why? Because one of them (or more) is getting married. Holly crap!
It is a bachelorette party you moron... an American friend (who has an English lover...how else he would know that!?) told me.
The Revolution Bar at Old Fish Market: the Makers of the Party Spirit since 1996. A huge place with top ceilings (revealing its past as a warehouse), multicolored decor (a bit of 60s all-pastel colors) and full of cheering youngsters, rainbows, smiles, and butterfly kisses.
I have to admit me and my friends were the only persons not in their 20s or early 30s in there ... a bit frustrating ... but who cares: life starts at 50 (bullocks!)
Besides drinking our vodka cocktails (you have to try the Unicorn Frappé) I stack to (what else?) traditional fish and chips (perfectly battered fish, fat chips, mushy peas and tartare sauce right by the seaside), while the others devoured alluring pizzas.
Two of my favorite music venues of my old days still running at the same place.
Thekla is a cargo ship which houses a music venue of the same name, moored in the Mud Dock area of Bristol's Floating Harbour, England. Originally brought to Bristol as the Old Profanity Showboat, it was a late 1982 brainchild of novelist Ki Longfellow-Stanshall, the wife of Vivian Stanshall. The showboat was based on the idea of creating and running a theatre on a sea-going ship and using it to showcase music of every sort, including cabaret, comedy, plays, musicals, and poetry events. The ship also contained an art gallery.
During the 1990s, under new management, it was run as an underground nightclub under its original working name of Thekla. Thekla became a cornerstone of Bristol's drum & bass music scene. I used to visit Thekla often during my days in Bristol almost as often I used to visit "The Bear" in Hotwells.
Over these years some of Bristol's best known artists (including Massive Attack, Portishead and Roni Size) began by playing in Thekla's hull.
Work by the artist Banksy can be seen stencilled over the bulkheads inside the club as well as his much larger work on the outside of the hull at the waterline. This piece was painted over by the harbour master, much to the annoyance of the club's owners, who threatened the council and harbour master with legal action. Banksy returned to paint it again. The painting of the "Grim Reaper" is now on display at the M Shed.
THEKLA Revisited (nov.2017)
Music fans have united in an outpouring of public support after the shock news that a new housing development across the water from the Thekla might put the future of the much-loved venue in serious jeopardy. Venue bosses are concerned that residents in the future Redcliffe Wharf development could force the boat to shut due to noise concerns. Losing the Thekla would have a disastrous impact on the Bristol music scene as the venue is recognised as a standout by touring bands and a launchpad for local names such as Idles and Lice in recent years.
THE BE-BOB CLUB (at The Bear in Hotwells).
The Be-Bop Club, Bristol's longest running modern jazz club, was founded in about 1989 and presents live jazz on Friday nights from September to June with a summer break through July & August.
The club is based in the function room of The Bear on Hotwell Rd, and gigs are presented in mini-concert style with minimal talking during performances.
Certainly, Friday nights were Jazz nights those early 90s years. Smoke, beer and getting wet by the musicians "fluids" when sat in the front row was in every Friday's agenda.
Some must visit attractions in Bristol
Thank you Marty and Martin for the nice time.
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What's The Deal With Jared Kushner?
Among the figures roaming around in the background while Donald Trump continues his crazy presidency, Ivanka Trump's husband Jared Kushner is something of an oddity. Trump's son-in-law and the heir to a dubious real estate legacy of his own, Kushner rode into Washington with the Trump team and was almost immediately imbued with unprecedented power as one of the president's senior advisors, a top-ranking job inside the White House.
But who is Jared Kushner? Certainly, the Jared Kushner biography seems innocuous enough. The quiet man with a Harvard education and a supposedly sterling business record was slowly working his way up the New York ladder when he got the call to help with his father-in-law's campaign. But other than those cursory Jared Kushner facts, the public still knows very little about the man who gets a lot of credit for winning Trump the presidency.
Who's the real person behind the khakis? What's the deal with Jared Kushner?
Since President Trump took office, information has come to light suggesting that various members of his campaign may have colluded with Russian officials to tip the 2016 election in his favor. Kushner isn't immune from those accusations.
Kushner is suspected of extensive contact with Russian higher-ups, including an ambassador and bankers, in April and December of 2016. Sources also indicate that, in June of 2016, Kushner, Paul Manafort, and Donald Trump, Jr. had a meeting with Natalia Veselnitskaya, an attorney with ties to the Kremlin. Normally, that wouldn't be such a big deal, but Veselnitskaya reportedly had information that could be used against Trump's opponent, Hillary Clinton.
Kushner's unorthodox approach to campaigning is often credited for giving the Trump campaign its momentum, and for transitioning Trump's presidential bid from late night punchline into reality.
Kushner kicked things off by using social media to expand the sales of Trump campaign merchandise from $8,000 a day to $80,000 a day. When that succeeded, he used the same social-media-oriented approach to get Trump's message to a larger and larger audience. He said his entire approach to the process was stat-based targeting:
"We played Moneyball, asking ourselves which states will get the best ROI for the electoral vote. I asked, How can we get Trump's message to that consumer for the least amount of cost?"
Kushner has plenty of responsibilities at the White House - including the task of negotiating peace in the Middle East. Most of his duties heavily rely on foreign policy expertise, of which he has none.
In addition, Kushner has also been cast as the "primary point of contact for presidents, ministers and ambassadors from more than two dozen countries." His role is extensive enough that the Washington Post has called Kushner a "shadow diplomat."
For his book The Price of Admission, author Daniel Golden spoke to former employees in the administrative office of the prestigious Frisch School in New Jersey. According to those employees, Kushner's entrance into Harvard was shocking:
"There was no way anybody in the administrative office of the school thought he would on the merits get into Harvard. His GPA did not warrant it, his SAT scores did not warrant it. We thought, for sure, there was no way this was going to happen."
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The celebrated art historian and critic, Barbara Rose came to visit me in Rome. I mentioned in in one of my posts when I was there but I wanted to say a bit more about how important that visit was to me. Among the many exhibitions, documentary films and books she has authored, Barbara is known for her retrospective exhibition on Lee Krasner in 1984 which traveled from Houston, where Barbara was the Senior Curator, to many other museums across the country including the Museum of Modern Art in New York—thus fulfilling Krasner's greatest wish.
Barbara Rose and her granddaughter Rebekah (who just passed her exams to become a medical doctor) came to the American Academy in Rome for dinner. Barbara was very impressed with the caliber of the Visual Arts Fellows here and met many of them over dinner that evening. Of course, I was hoping to find out more about Lee Krasner in the conversation and was touched that she told me that Lee was like a Mother to her. Of course, I invited Barbara to come to Springs this summer and visit some of her old stomping grounds including the amazing Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center where I am now writing.


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I hate to deluge you with baby news -- have I mentioned it's a BOY? -- but my Pregnancy Journal post is up at 5 Minutes for Parenting today. The idea for it came to me Monday morning when I was showering. I actually had to keep reminding myself that my ultrasound was the next day; my mind was so absorbed with Christmas details and the normal stuff I do to run our home, I would completely forget that I had something extra (and really, really special) in just a few hours.
And that made me laugh, inwardly, because I would NEVER have forgotten the ultrasound when I was pregnant with the other kids. The ultrasound was the focus on my week, my month, my life. I counted down the hours; such was the anticipation. But this time? I think I'm a little too familiar with pregnancy to be absorbed like I used to.
Anyway. You can go read more about that at 5 Minutes for Parenting.
In other news, there's a HUGE STORM bearing down on the Upper Midwest. I don't watch, listen or patronize the local media anymore -- which is ironic, for someone who used to edit a community newspaper and produce a local newscast for NBC -- but I hear they are hyping it for all its worth. One of my friends said they've given it the nickname "snow-nami." (Insert eye roll here.)
MckMama summed it up well: It's snow. It's Minnesota. It's December. What's new?
I totally agree.
But I am also weather geek, so I'm still tracking the storm. And since we were supposed to travel this weekend to spend Christmas with my family, the storm is having a huge impact on our immediate future. Right now, the weather service says we could get anything from 12-20 inches between tonight and Saturday morning. If we get anything like that, we'll be home-bound for Christmas, with nary a plan in sight.
Which means I might be the only blogger online the next few days. :-) Merry Christmas!
When the Hype Grows Old
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The design was made out of thin corrugated paper. One of their volunteers works for a packaging company, so he was able to get the corrugated paper and the laser cutting for them for dirt cheap.
They had different size panels laser cut, ranging from 2 ft up to 6ft stripes. Each stripe was 6 in wide. Before they ordered the materials, they designed it in Illustrator, making sure that everything was to scale. This way they knew how many panels to order. It was also a great way to ensure that they had symmetry.
Josh's assistant and him were able to hang this design in an hour thanks to the laser cutting that the factory was able to do for them. They had a black wall around the stage so they used staples to attach the strips from the top and bottom. The corrugated paper was thin, so they started to give them a slight bow, which added to the design. They lit the design from below with 4 Chauvet COLORband pix-m light fixtures.
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New investors and start-up companies in Minnesota will soon have access to a new funding resource to help get projects off the ground.
That includes emerging biomass and biofuel companies in the state, according to Melissa Kjolsing of the BioBusiness Alliance of Minnesota, a nonprofit state organization dedicated to fostering and cultivating the long-term viability of the state's bioscience sector.
In short, the Minnesota Angel Network provides a secure and focused web-based portal to facilitate connections between angel investors and companies, making it easier to obtain angel funding to grow their business. The system is also designed to save time for the investor by helping the company prepare for due diligence questions by providing seasoned mentors to aid them through the process.
The program also aims to help maximize utilization of the Minnesota Angel Investor Tax Credit, which was signed into state law in April 2010 and provides a 25 percent individual income tax credit for qualified investors who put money into start-up and emerging companies focused on high technology or new proprietary technology. There is $15.9 million in tax credits available for 2011, according to the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development.
The program is the result of two years of planning and is supported by the Biobusiness Alliance of Minnesota, several regional investor networks, Minnesota Initiative Foundations, universities and business leaders. The network is part of The BioBusiness Alliance of Minnesota's Full Spectrum Funding initiative that is focused on improving the funding environment for start-up companies statewide.
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SummaryMax Payne Is More Fun Than Television
The GoodWow, has it really been nearly 10 years since Max Payne was released? The game that blended the grittiness of pulp and graphic novels, with the John Woo inspired gunplay. And tied it all together within a shiny 3rd person action shooter?
I have only reviewed Max Payne 2, at this point and after viewing the horrendous film adaptation, and replaying the game to rid the bad taste of the film from my mouth. I decided to throw my two cents into an already over-reviewed game. So here goes.
"They were all dead… the final gunshot, was an exclamation…"
Max Payne is a New York City cop, whom upon arriving home one day, stumbles into a nightmare. There are armed men in his house, and they are crazed on some new designer drug. In the ensuing chaos, Max's wife and daughter are murdered. Flash forward some years later, and Max is working deep undercover, in the seediest hellholes. When his partner, Alex is killed, a crime for which Max is blamed, he goes on a rampage against New York's underworld.
Max Payne is supported by a lot of other interesting characters. Like the whiny Vinnie Gognitti, the psychotic Jack Lupino, and the femme fatale assassin, Mona Sax to name a few.
Also there is the Address Unknown, back-story which mirrors Max's plight. As well as the silly Captain Baseball Batboy. All of these elements come together, to make a more interesting narrative, and make the game world seem more realistic.
And how can I forget, the great graphic novel panels, that move along the story?
The gunplay is a blast. Literally. It's like being throw headfirst into a heroic bloodshed film.(Look it up.-MM-) Max runs and guns, and can go into bullet-time, in which everything slows down around him, allowing him to easily take out his foes.
There are lots of guns and explosives to collect. Pistols, machine guns, rifles, etc. And in one particularly cool effect, when fired, the sniper rifle zooms in of the bullet and tracks it as it connects with an enemies head.
Max Payne, is a very adult game. Not only with it's graphic violence, but also it's mature themes, that would be lost on younger players. Be warned, Max Payne is a very violent game. Especially when it slows down, as the bullets riddle the bodies of the gangsters, and blood pours from their wounds. (Take that PG-13, BS film!-MM-)
The graphics are still pretty good. Not as much as say Max Payne 2, but they still get the job done, and only look a little dated.
The music is great, as are the voice overs. Particularly, the voice of Max. And some of the dialog with the enemies when they are just hanging around is laugh out loud funny.
The BadThis game can be very challenging. I finished it on all the modes, and would not care to do that again. Max dies very easily, especially on the higher difficulties.
If you do not want or like a challenge, then you need not apply.
Some of the boss fights are insanely hard. Like the one with Jack Lupino.
There are also some "filler" levels. The only purpose these levels serve is to make the game longer, they could have easily been cut.


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I just got in from tillering the bow. It is completely tillered now. I took pictures as I went along and wrote down the draw weight and length as I went along so I wouldn't forget which description goes with which pictures. But there is something I forgot. At various stages, I would notice flat spots or some other little thing I wanted to adjust, and now I can't remember it all. I'm going to have to make some guesses, so bear with me.
Yesterday (yes, page 8 turned out to be tomorrow after all), we braced the bow kind of low. Maybe it was 3". Now what I wanted to do is draw the bow out some more and eventually brace it higher. Since I braced the bow after 10" of limb travel, I was curious to know what 10" of limb travel would give me now that the bow is braced. Since the string comes to 3", I pulled it to 13" and got 20#.
And then since I braced it when it was 30#, I wanted to see how far I had to draw it to get to 30#. I ended up drawing it to 17".
I don't remember when it was, but at some point, I noticed a couple of flat spots on the right limb. Now lemme explain how I found them. You see, these flat spots were imperceptible to the naked eye. Instead, I took a short little block of wood about 4" long and slid it along the belly of the bow.
Do you see that little gap between the black curve and the red block? Well, just slide the block down the limb. If the gap gets bigger then smaller again, that means you found a hinge. If it gets smaller then bigger again, that means you found a flat spot. It's a nifty little trick.
Another nifty idea (Dare I say 'niftier'?) is the tillering gizmo invented by Eric Krewson. It's basically just a block of wood with a pencil through it that marks flat spots when you slide it along the limb, so you'll know where to remove wood. Simple and effective. It only works on straight bows, though. It doesn't work on reflex deflex bows or bows with a lot of character.
Anyway, remember that whenever you find any kind of flaw, you don't want to draw the bow any farther until you've corrected the flaw. From this point on, I go one inch at a time. I wanted to creep up to 40# or around 20", whatever I felt like, and then brace the bow fully. Once I have all perceptible flaws fixed, I take the bow another inch and measure the draw weight. Remember to excercise the limbs every time you remove any wood. At 20", the bow came to 35#.
I don't remember when it was, but at some point, I wanted to start getting the limbs bending closer to the fades. Oh, that reminds me. After I braced the bow, I vowed to leave the tips alone for about 5 or 6 inches. Leaving the tips stiff will allow me to narrow them later if I feel like it. Also, having stiff tips is supposed to help performance. There's debate about that, though. Still, I feel more comfortable with the tips being a bit stiff. If anything, it would have to at least reduce stacking.
Anyway, I finally reached 40# at 22"
Now's a good time to bring it up to a full brace. First, check out the string alignment.
Now bad, eh? Here it is with a full brace.
"Full brace," usually means the distance between the handle and the string is the same as when you put your fist on the handle with your thumb sticking up. But in my case, the brace is just slightly lower than that. Some of us prefer a lower brace. It's supposed to improve cast, but it sometimes increases wrist slap and archer's paradox.
Anyway, I continued pulling on the bow and inching toward my draw weight and draw length and making adjustments as I went. You should go really slow at this point. Remember we're shooting for 45# at 28". Since 45# is my final target weight, though, I'm actually going to try to get there at 27". You see, I figure with all the sanding I'm going to do on the bow, and the fact that it will likely weaken some more as I shoot it, it will lose a little weight. If I get 45# at 27", I'm sure it will eventually be 45# at 28" once it's been shot in.
Here, I've reached 45# at 25".
It's tempting at this point to think, "Well, why not just have a 50# bow instead of a 45# bow? Then I could pull it to 28" and call it quits. To tell you the truth, I was really tempted to do that. I decided I needed to work on my committment issues, though, and since I committed to 45# at 28", I stuck with it.
Before getting it to 27", I wanted to check the tiller. Now's a good time to introduce a new term. You already know the idea. Now you just need to know the word that codifies the idea. The word is "positive tiller." Oh, I know. That's not really a word; it's a phrase. I'll give you that one. But that's neither here nor there. What's important is what it means. A positive tiller is when the top limb bends more than the bottom limb.
There are two popular ways of shooting bows in the Anglo-American world. There's split finger and there's three-under. Split finger is the usual way when you've got your index finger above the arrow, and your middle and ring fingers below the arrow. When you shoot an arrow, the arrow is actually going to rest above the center of the bow. When you draw the string with split fingers, you're pulling above the center of the string. That puts more stress on the bottom limb than on the top. To compensate for that, some people like to have a positive tiller.
When shooting three fingers under, all three fingers are under the arrow. In that case, the fingers are drawing the string closer to the middle. So when people tiller a bow for three fingers under, they try to get both limbs bending perfectly even. There is no positive tiller.
I, and most people, shoot with split fingers. So I try to shoot for the limbs being pretty close to even, but when I get to the end, I measure to see if one limb is bending slightly more than the other. If one limb bends more than the other, I make that the top limb. I measure from the end of the fade to the string on both sides.
If the top limb is has a gap 1/4" bigger than the bottom limb, then you have 1/4" of positive tiller. That is a typical positive tiller for split finger shooting. In this case, though, the limbs came out pretty close. One limb has a gap 1/8" bigger than the other limb, which is fine with me. The limb with the bigger gap will be the top limb.
At this point, we're just reducing weight. I seem to have gotten all the flat spots and hinges out. I don't want to get anymore in while I reduce the weight. So remember to take long steady strokes from the fade to within 5 or 6" of the tips. Count the strokes, repeat the same number on the other side, and don't take off too much wood at a time. Go slow. Do about five strokes, then check it again.
Here it is finally at 46# at 27".
46# is close enough for me. After all, I have serious doubts about the accuracy of my bow scale anyway. What's one pound gonna hurt?
I measured the string follow immediately after unstringing it. I layed the bow on its back and measured how high the tip came up.
1.5" is unusual for me. Usually, I get 2 or 3 inches. 1.5" is really pretty good. I think the reason it came out so well is because I was far more careful tillering this bow than I usually am. Since I'm doing a build-along in front of lots of other people, I didn't want to goof it up, so I was extra careful. It paid off, huh?
Now of course, even though I hit my target weight at 27", I still want to make sure I can pull it to 28" without it breaking. In fact, in a situation like this, I will usually go ahead and pull it to 29". That way, if anybody with a 28" draw ever brings it to 28" and then hick-ups, it won't cause a problem. It gives me a feeling of security knowing the bow is safe to pull an inch farther than I intend for it to be pulled.
That's it for tilling. On page 9, we'll work on the tips and the handle.
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When Sigmund Freud launched modern psychology by naming the hidden recesses of the human mind, the unconscious, superego, id, and the rest, he forgot a part—perhaps the most mysterious part of all—The Soundtrack.
If the exhaustive survey I conducted is true (I asked my wife) then most of us have a song running around in our heads most of the time. This ever-changing score, programmed for us by our brains, provides the musical accompaniment to our lives.
We don't chose the selection playing on our soundtrack, but it affects us profoundly.
Let the right tune be looping through your head and life is happy thing, your mood as buoyant as a child's. But let the wrong song get stuck in your mind and all is dark.
Your own brain will torture you. An obnoxious melody, harder to shake than a stalker, makes your life a joyless heap of ashes. You have Soundtrack Madness.
For as long as it lasts, and it will seem like forever, you'll struggle helplessly with an invader as hostile as any virus. You will curse the day you ever heard of Gary Puckett and the Union Gap. "Young girl, get out of my miiind…." indeed. And take this piece of crap song with you.
Soundtrack Madness can strike without warning. Maybe you were at the office Christmas party when some goon croaked out "New York, New York" on the karaoke machine for fifteen excruciating minutes, and now you've got it so bad it feels like your combover is on fire.
"Dom dom doobie dom. Start spreading the noooz, I'm leaving todaaay," the infection takes hold. It haunts you on the drive home. It's still there when you cut yourself shaving the next morning.
"I want to wake up, in the city, that never sleeeps…." Over and over. Your brain is melting. What can you do?
Well, we here at Caught off Base can help. But like a bad case of the hiccups, the cure won't work until the disease is ripe.
In the meantime, let's learn something about the enemy.
What are the characteristics of song with high Soundtrack Madness potential? The first hint is any song that is so catchy you remember it the first time you hear it. Let one of those pieces of pop Velcro enter your ears and soon enough it will be repeating on you like a microwave burrito. If you like it the first time you hear it, you'll hate it by the fifth.
Even a decent song can turn toxic if it is forced on you too often. Surely a vengeful God reserves the ninth circle of hell for the monsters who use our cultural patrimony to sell Toyotas. Twenty to life in the Empire State Building listening to the elevator version of Eleanor Rigby would be too good for those SOBs.
The first person to describe Soundtrack Madness was (as in so many things) Mark Twain. He wrote a piece 130 years ago where his hero gets a workman's jingle stuck in his brain, and the only cure was to infect someone else with it.
Fortunately, modern medicine has made great strides since then. We have more humane treatment options than dreamed of back in the 19th century.
The cure for Soundtrack Madness now is replacement therapy, or Musical Transplant. All one need do is put another, more palatable song into one's head, and the cure is effected. But there is a catch.
The new song has to be even stickier than the first. Only the most infectious of ditties will do the job. Cole Porter can't help you here. Think Freddie Boom-Boom Cannon.
That's the cure for the horrible sickness that's boring into your synapses like a dentist's drill. But for the treatment to take the pain has to be nearly intolerable.
Are you there yet? Are you hearing that awful song until your eyes cross?
"If I can—doom doom—make it there, I'll make it—doom doom—anywhere. It's up to you. Noo. Yawk. No-ooo Yawwwk!"
OK, you're ready. Get ready to tell it goodbye. All together now, let's sing….
"Na na na na,
Na na na na,
Hey hey-ey,
Gooo-ood Byyyye."
Once again, "Na na na na…."
Repeat until cured. You're quite welcome.