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You can catch a bus, which run 24 hours a day, 7 days a week in Detroit – perfect for travelling around the city centre or even heading further out to the suburbs. If you are staying within the city centre, you can also catch the PeopleMover, a tram line that loops the city regularly. Taxis are also an option, you can hail these down as they pass or find the nearest taxi rank – try to avoid taking taxis during rush hour though, otherwise you may be stuck in the heavy Detroit traffic for quite some time!
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Kentucky Bus Driver, Organizer Receives 2010 ESP-of-the-Year Award
As a bus driver, organizer and advocate, Helen Cottongim has spent a career getting people where they need to go.
July 4, 2010
By Alain Jehlen
Winning the ESP-of-the-Year award was not the most important development this year in the life of Helen Cottongim, a bus driver from Kentucky.
That would be her son Jason receiving the gift of a kidney from her daughter Regina, just three days after the award last March.
With her children recovering well, Cottongim could enjoy the award: "It's finally starting to sink in," she told delegates.
Cottongim began her career as a school bus driver in 1972, when things were different: Her pay was $100. Her GPS was another driver standing in the well of her bus. And of course, she had no union.
Cottongim didn't invent the GPS device but she had a great deal to do with changing her pay and her union status. She was a key organizer of the Kentucky Education Support Personnel Association, served as its president, and helped organize many of its locals. She designed her organization's logo, with its motto, "Education Support Personnel are the backbone of education."
She lived that slogan. "Oftentimes, [the children she drove] had to walk down to get to the main road in the wintertime and they did not have hats or gloves," she said. "Some did not have lunch money or school supplies. But they knew they could come to me when they were in need."
She urged delegates to stand strong in the face of new assaults on children and schools. "Today, we are faced with the old enemies that keep coming back to hurt us: not enough money to fund our school systems, poor health care, vanishing retirement benefits. Every time you turn on the TV, the news is bad," she said. "We can not afford to rest. If you're not already an Association addict, who cares about kids and public schools, you must become one."
Helen Cottongim, 2010 ESP of the Year, addresses delegates at the 2010 NEA Representative Assembly.
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Connecticut budget director confirms $365M deficit
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's budget director confirmed on Tuesday that the budget deficit has swelled to $365 million. That's six times the size of the deficit state Comptroller Kevin Lembo certified on Nov. 1 .
In his monthly report to Lembo, Barnes said the increase in the deficit is due to a "combination of weaker revenue collections and an increase in estimated expenditure requirements, most notably for the Medicaid program."
Revenues are down about $144.9 million from last month. Most of that is from tax refunds, which have been revised downward by $100 million.


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He's baaack.
Chris Brown returned to Twitter Sunday, following his vulgar online spat with comedian Jenny Johnson.
Rihanna exacts revenge on Chris Brown...in Conan O'Brien's twisted Twitpic
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But, while his page appears to be back up and running, the "Don't Wake Me Up" singer has yet to tweet anything (all of his previous tweets have been deleted).
Brown has been active on his NSFW Instagram handle, however, posting a photo of himself and a scantily clad Rihanna Sunday morning with the caption, "What would music today sound like if these kids didn't exist?"
Rihanna has also been posting photos of Brown on her Instagram page, including a shot of him lying shirtless on a bed and an, um, intimate pic of herself giving him a bear hug.
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I just got a call this morning from Fernando Valenzuela, who earned his first win of the season over the weekend, pitching 5.1 innings and allowing four hits and two earned runs. And Fernando Jr. homered in the game, so Sr. was pretty excited.
Also, for you NASCAR fans, Derek Lowe has moved into second place in the NASCAR Chase Tracker, where he picked the winners of the final 10 races back in September. Grady Little's not doing so hot with his picks, but Derek is ahead of guys like Jake Peavy (Padres), Larry Fitzgerald (NFL Cards), Jerry Stackhouse (Mavs), Tom Brady (Pats) and Johnny Damon (Yanks). Follow the "tourney" at the website.
Otherwise, it's been relatively quiet around here. I even got to swing the golf clubs a little bit on Friday at the inaugural Urban Youth Academy Golf Tournament. They had some serious star power at the event, which was nice to see.
To answer the question about renovations, there has been no formal announcement of anything yet, but any improvements being made will be focused on concessions and parking. Stay tuned for more info as we get further into the fall and winter.
Finally, if you take the time to vote on dodgers.com polls, please make sure you take the time to vote in the real election tomorrow. No matter what your beliefs are, it's our job to get out there and keep America running.
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Totally off the subject, but does anyone else feel like we're getting hosed on these mailbag articles? I read a bunch of the ones from a bunch of different teams just to try and keep up with all the rumors and ours is considerably shorter than the rest of them almost every week. We get these little 2-line answers to our sincere questions and, at best, we get 5 to 6 questions. It took me 5 minutes to read the Blue Jays one and 30 seconds to read ours. Is everybody excited for the GM's meetings next week?
i coulnt agree with you more tre, ken gurnick needs to spend more time on the mailbag… right now i'm in mesa arizona, the last 3 years i have come to the arizona fall league to check out our players, its great to see the future of baseball play everyday..
I agree the mailbag is bleak at best !!
I was really hoping that the blog would be more active with a player or two contributing !! Too high a hopes I guess !!
Ray, I'm jealous !! Be sure to give us a full run down !! I'll do the same from Vero during spring training !!
Go Ned !!
Go Dodgers !!
Go easy on Gurnick there people. He's probably enjoying the peaceful serenity of the off-season and is concentrating on other things. He's a busy guy and I'm sure he does a pretty good juggling act.
I'll comment to your blog lover boy here…… I certainly agree with your assertion that saving money for a start-of-the-rotation pitcher is in our best interest. However, relying on Betimit and LaRoche to cure our home run famine and feilding woes, would not be wise. Aramis solves both of those problems. He had career highs in RBIs and HRs last year, which could be a red flag but I can't and won't put my faith in a AAA ball player until he has more than 100 ABs in the bigs. I wouldn't go after Zito, the contract is gonna be too long and too expensive. 4 years @ 60 million. I see Aramis going 2 or 3 years @ 40 million.
Has anyone heard if we're gonna get in the bidding for this Akinori Iwamura guy? He's got a few Gold Gloves at 3rd(no small feat in Japan, where they value fielding more than we do.), he can hit the long ball(32 HR last year), good AVG, and a good OBP. Might be an interesting idea…
On that subject, do any of you know if the Japanese play 162 games/season like we do?
"On that subject, do any of you know if the Japanese play 162 games/season like we do?"
Japans season is shorter just like the Hrun fences i'd expect Iwamura to hit 18 to 25 dingers here, kind of what Betemit did last year the only good thing i see in Iwamura is his slick glove.
sorry to disapoint you on the go vote thing Josh but nobody motivates me at the moment
5 points on third base:
1) Aramis Ramirez is not as good defensively as people are saying. He was better with the glove this year
(Rate2: 97, ZR: .772, FP: .965)
but it wasn't like Adrian Beltre in 2004
(Rate2: 113, ZR: .838, FP: .978).
Fact is, Ramirez is really below average defensively, and Betemit is comparable, if not better. Note the career stats:
Rate2 (higher is better, 100 means neutral)
Aramis Ramirez: 92
Wilson Betemit: 90
ZoneRating (median for 2006 on ESPN for 3B was .778)
Aramis Ramirez: .740
Wilson Betemit: .800
Fielding Pct
Aramis Ramirez: .946
Wilson Betemit: .956
Ramirez has more speed and range, but Betemit is less error-prone, and he is better at handling balls hit close to him. The zone rating number really sticks out in my mind because Aramis Ramirez's BEST season in Zone Rating was .772.
2) Before everyone goes crazy over Iwamura's gold gloves, remember that they don't play on grass over in Japan. This makes a huge difference, particularly in those slow roller plays at the hot corner. If you don't think that going from Japan to the US can take you from a defensive asset to a defensive liability, just ask Kaz Matsui.
3) Defense at third base is not valued all that highly because it's a power position, as we discussed when Izturis played there. While it is a fairly important fielding position, the fact is the best fielding percentage in the NL this year was .965, which would be considered terrible at any other position, except possibly pitcher.
4) Wilson Betemit can easily hit 20+ homers if given the chance at third base this coming year. I think he did pretty well when he first arrived, but it would be far too hasty to dismiss him at this point. If he's that much of a liability against left-handers, we could platoon him with Olmedo Saenz (Loney should not platoon with Saenz because not only is he a good enough hitter, but having Saenz and Kent on the same side of the infield is a defensive nightmare). The Dodgers should make him earn the job at spring training against Laroche, though, just in case Laroche is better.
5) The place for a big power acquisition will be in the outfield. The Dodgers' best bet is to have Grady keep resting Drew like he does, so that if Kemp is ready for 2008, the Dodgers can trade Drew when his value is the highest (after he's played 2 full seasons!), and that would allow them to fill whatever holes need filling, like possibly second base.
I see you're point on Betemit i'll be o.k. IF he's givin a full season in the hot corner


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Learning on the Education Express
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Schuyler Hospital had a challenge. The small Schuyler County, New York, hospital wanted to leap into the Information Age. Its administrative and clerical departments had long been computerized, but taking the next step meant putting computers in the hands of its nursing staff. Patient reports, medication charts, care plans—there was a dizzying amount of information that would be easier to gather, interpret, and share if the nurses were using a keyboard and mouse rather than a pen. But for nurses at a busy place like Schuyler Hospital, finding the time for computer training was nearly impossible.
That is, until the Education Express rolled into town. A 40-foot-long RV packed with 12 state-of-the-art laptop computers and an instructor station, the Express brings computer training out into the rural countryside of the Southern Tier of New York. Funded in part by a grant from the Appalachian Regional Commission and operated by the Schuyler-Chemung-Tioga Board of Cooperative Educational Services (SCT BOCES), the Express has helped boost business employees, senior citizens, high school students, and continuing education students into the Digital Age.
"We're a rural community with seven component school districts," says Tim Driscoll, administrator of adult services for the SCT BOCES Adult Education and Training Services division, "and a lot of people can't access computers and technology training unless we bring it to them." In its first year and a half, the Education Express trained over 1,500 people in some 360 hours of classes, in everything from spreadsheet applications to GED preparation.
The Education Express was the brainchild of Francis Mitchell, SCT BOCES' former adult services administrator, who saw an old school bus filled with computers during a vacation out West. "He got hold of the idea and wouldn't let go," says Driscoll, "but he wanted to do it right." Right in this case meant a custom-designed and -built RV, its bright walls lined with computer stations facing a large projected computer screen and topped with laptops that can be easily removed from the bus for safekeeping and repair. When the RV arrived in August 2001, SCT BOCES advertised it by distributing flyers around the counties it serves, then displaying it at job fairs, farmers markets, and businesses—anything to get the word out. Training on the Education Express costs $100 an hour for up to 12 students.
Bringing Training to the Students
The price and convenience of the training were important to Kennedy Valve, a manufacturer of valves and fire hydrants in Elmira. Four years ago Kennedy upgraded its computer system and sent some 80 personnel to training at SCT BOCES' main campus in Elmira. But when a handful of employees, mostly shop foremen, later needed training in spreadsheets, Claire Stuart, Kennedy's IT manager, brought in the bus. "It was much cheaper for the bus to come to us than to train people individually, and it was much more convenient. It's very difficult for shop foremen to leave the plant, and sometimes they say they can't make training. This way, on breaks they could run in and check on the plant, and then jump right back into the class. It was perfect."
Another Education Express client is the New York State Office for the Aging, which contracted with SCT BOCES for computer training for seniors. "This is a really rural part of the state," says Linda Pierce, project director of AARP's senior employment program in Chemung and Schuyler Counties, "and there is no public transportation in Schuyler County. A lot of seniors simply can't get to services, so to have a training facility that can go to them is really, really important." And, she adds, "Every one of the people we asked said they wanted to take part." Including 84-year-old John Govus, who not only completed the training and bought a computer but also secured a data processing job soon after.
Traditionally, decentralizing job training and adult education means teaching classes at remote sites. But outfitting a lot of remote sites with state-of-the-art computers is expensive. Kathy Lippincott, who teaches GED preparation classes at an SCT BOCES site in the small Tioga County town of Waverly, works in a classroom that has no phone and no computers. Problem solved, now that the Education Express rolls into Waverly. "Half of my students are very low income," Lippincott says. "Many don't have a car. There's no public transportation in Tioga County, and they can't get to the BOCES [main] campus." You don't need a computer to study for the GED exam, of course, but Lippincott finds her students are learning more and are more motivated since they began using the Education Express.
Boosting Self-Confidence
"We think there's a computer in every home, but many of my students don't have them," says Lippincott. "They've been intimidated by computers, and it's amazing to watch them on the bus; they don't even realize they're learning. I've got them writing essays in Word, and when they're filling out job applications and responding to want ads, it really boosts their self-confidence."
The nurses at Schuyler Hospital don't need their self-confidence boosted; they just need time. It's 11:00 on a Thursday morning, and the hospital, a 30-minute drive from the SCT BOCES campus, is hopping with patients. The Education Express is parked out back, its generator humming. Inside, eight nurses are following as instructor Jo Kish leads them through a workshop on spreadsheets, one of the keys, the hospital hopes, to improved productivity and patient care. One of the nurses is Vikki Watson, the hospital's director of education. "We're trying to move this little hospital into the technology age," she says, looking up from her laptop as she learns how to sort data and import it from a word-processing document, "but only a few of our nurses had real computer training." One of the things Watson wants to do is gather data on patient care and see how effective that care is. And since every nursing assistant must receive 12 hours of training a year to stay certified, she wants to track that training. "This is by far the best training we've had," she says. "It comes to us, and it's cost effective because we don't have to send half of our staff away for half the day or more."
Suddenly a nursing assistant pokes her head into the Education Express and taps Melissa Allmaier, the director of nursing for the hospital's nursing home, on the shoulder, and the two run out. A few minutes later, Allmaier returns. "This is wonderful," she says. "I don't have to take a whole day off, and if I'm needed, like I just was, I can run into the hospital and take care of things and then come back."
Carl Hoffman is a freelance writer based in Washington D.C.


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Former Manchester City defender Danny Mills believes Roberto Mancini lost his job as a result of the "standing and expectations" of the club.
Mancini was sacked as manager, with the club declaring the reason had been taken after City "failed to achieve any of its stated targets this year". City failed to build on last season's Barclays Premier League title success and ended the season trophyless after Saturday's FA Cup final defeat against Wigan at Wembley.
Mills, who played for City between 2004 and 2009, told BBC Radio Five: "He will go down in Manchester City folklore for winning their first trophy in 35 years (the 2011 FA Cup). But only meeting one of the five targets, he's obviously failed on what he was asked to do."
Former City striker David White believes the club's fans will be disappointed with the Italian's departure, and feels early success for the new man is a must.
"I think overall they (the fans) were definitely behind the manager," he told Sky Sports News. "They have had success with him not seen over the past couple of years. "The new manager comes in and if he starts well then you know things are quickly forgotten - it depends how the new manager starts next season."
And White feels Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho, whose future at the Bernabeu is uncertain, would be a popular choice.
"Given the choice between Mourinho and (Malaga coach Manuel) Pellegrini, they (the fans) would love to see Mourinho at the club," White said. "But whether he fits in with what they want, he does tend to come and go at a football club. He would certainly be my choice and most City fans.
"It seems that they (the new manager) need to be successful in Europe and that is the aim of the club. They are looking at silverware every season.
"A lot of the players were incredible last year. They fell a little bit short this year. This makes a massive difference.
"We've got the top three teams that are going to finish all without a manager and if you want someone, you want to get get them early. It is difficult to keep that away from the press and then the manager."
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|You know, you should really announce your weapons, after you fire them. For example....lipstick taser!
|~ Lucy attacking Gru with her lipstick taser.
Lucy Wilde-Gru is one of the main characters of Despicable Me 2 and Despicable Me 3. She is from an organization called the Anti-Villain League, Gru's love interest and later become his wife at the end of Despicable Me 2.
She is voiced by Kristen Wiig, who also voiced Miss Hattie in the first movie, Lola Bunny in The Looney Tunes Show, Ruffnut in the How to Train Your Dragon movies, Brenda in Sausage Party and played Erin Gilbert in Ghostbusters (2016).
Lucy has red hair that is pulled back in a bun with bangs. She has large green eyes, fair skin and freckles. Her curved nose is fairly large in comparison to her face and she has a very thin body.
She usually wears a short turquoise dress that reaches down to her knees as well as a white scarf with pink polka-dots. Sometimes Lucy wears a matching turquoise overcoat over her dress and a pair of matching sunglasses.
She wears silver super high heeled strapped sandal shoes with heels that are an impossible six inches high. It's also seen in the movie that she has red nail polish on her fingernails and toenails.
Lucy, although introduced as a serious and stoic woman, is generally very happy, enthusiastic, cheerful and perky, shown when she exclaims, "Yay!" after telling Gru that she's his new partner.
She seems to be quite alert at times when Gru tried freezing her with his freeze ray, when she quickly (albeit casually, as though done a number of times before) countered this attack with her flamethrower.
Lucy is also very athletic and skilled in combat, demonstrated when she accidentally knocked a tray of cupcakes and managed to strike every single one, with "a combination of jiu-jitsu, Krav Maga, Aztec warfare, and krumpin'!" although she accidentally flung the remainder of the cupcakes at Gru.
She's also shown being a great athlete when she fights Eduardo's guard chicken, El Polito. She might also have some traits of jealousy when she notes Gru is on a date with Shannon and she spies on them.
Lucy is also very good at keeping cool in dangerous situations when she hijacked Gru whom is using his Freeze Ray.
She also remained somewhat cheerful and calm when she is strapped to Eduardo's rocket, although in reality she is freaking out.
Lucy is impatient in traffic as seen when she is driving on the bridge and doesn't stop for anyone. She probably doesn't like music being on while driving as shown when she slaps Stuart's hand when he turns the radio on.
In some points, Lucy is portrayed as attractive and a beautiful woman, catching the eyes of Minions including Dave, Stuart and Tom. When Agnes first meets Lucy, it is clear that she notices her beauty and then asks her "Are you single?".
Despicable Me 2
Lucy is sent out to recruit Felonius Gru, the former number one villain and bring him back to the AVL headquarters. Initially requesting the ex-villain to come with her, Lucy is forced to subdue Gru by zapping him with a lipstick taser and shoving him in her trunk.
Later, when Gru meets the league director, Lucy's boss Silas Ramsbottom, he apologizes for the abrupt transport to the headquarters. Lucy however, has no regrets at all, saying the thrill gave her a bit of a buzz. Silas explains about the theft that had occurred with a top-secret lab, which had created PX-41, a mutating chemical compound that could transform anything into an indestructible killing machine. They request Gru, being a former villain, to aid in finding it, but Gru refuses, saying his concerns now are being a father and a legitimate businessman. Before Gru leaves, Lucy tells him that she's impressed by his work as a villain by stating stealing the moon is "amazing" and asks him, "Aren't you excited to go back and do something awesome?" and hands him an AVL business card with her number on it, so Gru can call her if he changes his mind.
It is shown that she might have a crush on Gru later on in the movie. Later on, Nefario leaves for a new job opportunity. This prompts Gru to change his mind about the job and accept it. Without telling Gru, Ramsbottom had assigned Lucy to be Gru's new partner. Lucy explains that she is chosen because none of the other agents are willing to work with Gru, due to his, as she describes it, checkered past and that " I'm new, so I have to do what they tell me". After meeting Eduardo, the owner of the Mexican restaurant nearby, Gru recognizes him as El Macho, a famous villain who supposedly died twenty years ago.
After Gru tells Lucy about the historical death of El Macho, Lucy replies "yeah, sounds like El Macho is pretty dead". Gru, regardless, states that if there's anyone in the mall having the PX-41 serum, it's El Macho. The same night, Lucy and Gru break into his restaurant. Checking for laser beam triggers, Lucy states they can never know what kind of traps Eduardo could have set. Gru triggers a booby trap which causes a chicken to come out of the kitchen. Lucy asks if it's lost and Gru thinks it's not much for a guard dog. The chicken attacks Gru and after struggling with it Lucy defeats it with epoxy and asks herself "what is wrong with that chicken". Lucy tries to joke around with Gru, though he is not very interested, before handing over a pair of X-ray goggles to Gru. Gru finds something that looks like the lost serum. It turns out to be Eduardo's secret salsa recipe. Eduardo – who just returned back to his shop – finds Pollito, asking who could harm such a sweet chicken. Hearing there's someone in the kitchen, Eduardo tries to catch Lucy and Gru who intrudes his restaurant. Dave and Stuart accidentally crashes Eduardo with Lucy's car before he can catch Lucy and Gru. In the end, they have no evidence to link Eduardo to the lost serum.
The next day, Lucy and Gru are back at work, investigating their next suspect, wig merchant Floyd Eagle-san. As Gru tries to get closer to Floyd while disguised as a trash can, a shopper comes by to throw a cup of hot coffee into Gru's disguise. Gru then runs away and trips over the escalator, landing in front of Margo, Edith, and Agnes, whom he introduces to Lucy. Agnes thinks Lucy is a perfect mother and asks if she's single, much for Gru and Lucy's surprise.
Lucy sees Gru interact with them and bets that he's a fun dad. Continuing their mission on the next day, Lucy talks to Gru through the ears communication, telling him the buckle on his belt will give a signal if Gru comes near the PX-41 serum. On the same day, Lucy and Gru meets up with Silas Ramsbottom, giving him new information about the mission. Sensing Gru is obsessed with having Antonio locked up, Lucy tells Ramsbottom that Gru has found traces of the serum at The Eagle Hair Club.
Later that night, Lucy arrives at an Italian restaurant to pick up some take-out and happens to spot a reluctant Gru (who is wearing a wig), on a date with a rude and superficial woman named Shannon, which is set up by Gru's determined matchmaking neighbor, Jillian. During the date, Shannon discovers Gru's wig and threatens to humiliate him, but Lucy, having overheard the conversation, saves Gru from embarrassment by shooting Shannon with a mild moose tranquilizing dart. After some explanations for the waiter, they take Shannon home and engage in a small of conversation. Lucy states she thinks Gru looks better bald and gives him a quick kiss on the cheek before leaving.
When Gru arrives at the mall the next day, the Anti-Villain League are arresting Floyd Eagle-san, who protests vehemently that he was framed, after the AVL team uncovers the empty mutagen jar in his shop. Silas tells Gru the case is now closed and Lucy will be reassigned to work in Australia. Trying to cheer Gru up, she gives him her lipstick taser for memory's sake. " It's just a memento, you know, from the first time we met". On the plane to Australia, Lucy is obviously sad about leaving Gru behind. She starts to read a magazine and sees Gru in one of the ads.
Lucy starts to see Gru's face wherever she turns, making her realize that she's in love with him and decides to choose Gru over the job opportunity in Australia, leaping out of the plane she is on to go back to Gru. Trying to find Gru at Eduardo's party, she encountered El Polito who remembers her from the break in the other night. Eduardo discovers that Lucy is an AVL agent and kidnaps her after sense El Polito retrieves her AVL ID badge from her purse. Thanks to Dr. Nefario, Gru finds out that Lucy did not go to Australia and is kidnapped by Eduardo. Gru disguises two of his minions which are Dave and Stuart in purple paint to escort his "captured" self into Eduardo's compound in a rescue attempt.
Eduardo has strapped Lucy onto a TNT-loaded shark rocket to send her flying towards the lava-spewing volcano where Eduardo faked his death. When Lucy first sees Gru she greets him cheerfully and tells him he is right about the "whole El Macho-thing". When Gru tries to save her, she tells him not to worry and she's a survivor, but she's freaking out. Before Gru can untie Lucy, Pollito triggers the launch remote, sending Lucy and Gru flying toward the volcano. Gru asks Lucy if he had asked her out on a date, what would she have said. She responds with a big yes. Right before the rocket hits the volcano, they jump into the ocean. After resurfacing, Lucy throws herself over Gru, but then realizes he might need his arms to tread water.
147 dates later, the two get married and become the mother of the girls, just as Agnes had wished for.
Despicable Me 3
When Lucy and the girls enter the plane, she turns into Balthazar Bratt in disguise and he has captured the girls! While Gru is getting the rest of the suitcases, he hears banging on the door! He opens it and finds the real Lucy in the closet. She then tells Gru that Bratt took the girls! Then Gru, Dru, and Lucy board a gold jet and Gru apologizes to Dru. (more coming soon)
- Kristen Wiig, Lucy Wilde's voice actress, also voiced Miss Hattie in the first movie.
- When Lucy married Gru, she kept her maiden name, "Wilde".
- Eduardo Perez refers to Lucy as Lucilla during his Cinco de Mayo party.
- Dave has a crush on Lucy, as he is day-dreaming about them about to kiss.
- When wearing high heels, she looks taller than Gru. She might be taller than Gru without them.
- Lucy's wedding dress is like the everyday dress that she wears, though it is white and has some patterns at the end of the skirt.
- Lucy has been on one or two dates before Gru (though they aren't really successful, as she had to tranquilize both her dates)
- When Lucy kidnaps Gru, she finds out he is very heavy. She even says "get in there, you fat man" when she is putting him in the trunk.
- In the scene when Lucy is jumping on Gru, her car door is closed but when she gets in the car the door is opened.
- Lucy's glasses disappear in the scene when she is in the car after she had put Gru in the trunk.
- When Eduardo hears that there is someone in the kitchen, Lucy has stuffed her mouth full with chips and salsa.
- The moment where Lucy gave Gru her number if his mind changed followed the one where Gru told Ramsbottom he should phone people instead of attacking them and placing them in the boot of a car.
- When Gru is about to call Lucy Wilde and he flips over a business card and it has Lucy's cell phone number on it: 1-(626) 584-5723. The number is a working telephone number for Pasadena, California. If you call the number it will go to Lucy's message box and you will hear her answering machine message.
- The machine message can also be heard on the Behind The Goggles website, by clicking on the black telephone at the lower right corner.
- Since she does not appear in the Despicable Me 2 mini movie Puppy, it is unknown whenever if that short was before or after she married Gru.
- Like her husband Gru, Lucy also appears to have a vaguely birdlike appearance, particularly the shape of her nose.
- In Minions, during the scene in which the Minion trio spend the night in Fancy's, there are two mannequins that strongly resemble her appearance, it is unknown if this is an easter egg by the animators.
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The Best Cartoons of the '90s
List Rules Whether it was your childhood favorite or your favorite adult pastime, vote up which cartoons from the 90s were you like the most.
The best cartoons of the '90s are those the top animated series that ran between the years of 1990 and 1999 and features Nicktoons, Saturday morning cartoons, Disney animated TV shows, and network cartoon series for both kid and adult audiences. With so many great series airing in the early and late '90s, it's no surprise that these are also some of the best cartoons of all time.
For the most part, these best '90s cartoons are geared towards children. Those growing up in the 1990s undoubtedly spent numerous hours as kids watching the likes of Rugrats, Doug, Rocko's Modern Life, and Animaniacs. Few can deny that classic series like Dexter's Laboratory, DuckTales, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and TaleSpin are some of the best ever for Saturday morning viewing.
Then there's another breed of top '90s cartoons that were note kids cartoons, they are better suited for more adult audiences. South Park broke the mold with it's raunchiness, as did the likes of Beavis and Butt-head and Family Guy. Two of those three are still popular even today with new episodes airing weekly. All feature more mature jokes, topics children wouldn't really understand and a whole lot of inappropriateness all bundled tightly in animated form.
Which cartoons from the '90s had you glued to the television and make you miss your '90s childhood? Vote for your favorites, add any we missed or re-rank the list to put it in your order. To reminisce more about the glorious decade of the 1990s, check out the most nostalgia-inducing toys of the '90s too!


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There is a disturbingly large and teetering pile of books on a chair in my kitchen. They are books that I have read in the last couple of months, that I hope to one day get around to writing up for this blog. Many of them deserve lots of thought, ideally before I forget the reading experience. Also, maybe 50% of the pile is comics -- because I read them faster than straight prose, or because my reading is getting decadently image-dependent, or because it's summer and comics are my beach reading, I don't know. Anyway, despite the fact that several of these are serious books that could totally justify their own post, I'm throwing them together in a roundup, in the interest of getting them off the stack and saving the legs of my kitchen chair.
Superman: For Tomorrow
Volume 1 and Volume 2
By Brian Azzarello (writer), Jim Lee, and Scott Williams (artists)
The ALP, a much more serious comics reader than I, is of the opinion that this one-shot Superman story is about how scary Superman could get if Lois Lane wasn't around for him to care about -- which would explain why some villain hasn't actually offed her, since no one could deal with the destructive power of a Superman unhinged by grief. I'll take his word for it. While this one had some good moments (especially one mind-bending moment of moral complication when Superman admits he could cure someone's cancer, but won't) I found it whizzed by pleasantly and at the end I wasn't sure how the problem (lots of people have disappeared with no physical trace) actually got solved -- it just always does get solved when it's Superman, dunnit? It's fun to read a superhero comic with a beginning and an end, but this one was a bit forgettable for my snobby literary tastes.
A God Somewhere
by John Arcudi (writer), Peter Snejbjerg, and Bjarne Hansen (artists)
While this book is about the closest thing to a true masterpiece I have read in comics in ages, I will hesitate carefully before recommending it to readers. That's because it's also the most disturbing comic I have read in a long time -- the violence is bloody and has consequences, and the sheer existential chaos is unsettling, like reading about Columbine or Rwandan child soldiers. I actually thought about Columbine a couple of times while reading it, because the "why" of the horrors that happen is so unanswerable, in such a terribly familiar way. The premise: a happy-go-lucky, kind of slackerish dude finds that a catastrophic accident has left him with Superman-like (or God-like) powers; at first he performs some dramatic rescues, but the religious language he uses to describe his mission of good starts to sound a little crazy and he's acting kinda weird... and then he really snaps, and there's nothing anyone can do about it. The narrator is the super-person's lifelong friend, an African-American journalist who covers the whole weird story; his character arc is rich and interesting too, a welcome human-scale drama running parallel to the sickening cosmic tragedy of the main story. Not for the squeamish, but I'd guess this book is going to become part of the conversation about "realistic" superheros, about the iconography of power and desire, and about the potential for what comics can do.
Octopus Pie: There Are No Stars in Brooklyn
by Meredith Gran
Hooray, comics about Brooklyn! I admit I was a leetle nervous that Octopus Pie would be too scene-y for my tastes (I think I remember picking up an earlier edition in an unbearably hip Williamsburg shop and putting it down again)... but this time around, it was funny and authentic and I was hooked. It's got that classic odd-couple charm: uptight, slightly surly Eve finds herself the housemate of superchill stoner entrepreneur Hanna (they were friends in kindergarten and their moms set them up), and wacky hijinks ensue. But, as ("Mr. Scott Pilgrim") Bryan Lee O'Malley observes about author Meredith Gran, "her jokes are actually funny," both verbally and visually. Cranky organic food buyers, the trauma of a stolen bike, a Renaissance fair (really), and a long, unpredictable storyline about ice skating are just some of the gems packed into this baby, which collects the first two years of the ongoing indie comic. It's a little "Dykes to Watch Out For," a little "Real World: Brooklyn" (okay, maybe not, I never watched it)... anyway, I kept laughing out loud and quoting parts to the ALP, which I feel is a strong indication that there's some good stuff going on here. Also, we went to the release party at Bergen Street Comics and bought the character pint glasses. So there. Even if you are not a Brooklyn booster (Meredith, sadly, has now moved to Portland), it's good cartooning and good storytelling with a compelling cast of side characters, a little foul-mouthed, a little tender, and very funny. (Look for the mantra about ducks and bread - priceless.)
Batwoman: Elegy
by Greg Rucka (writer) J. H. Williams, and Dave Stewart (artists)
So... in case you're not a hardcore DC Comics reader: the new Batwoman is a lesbian. A very lipstick lesbian, as you'll notice if you can make out this cover, and there are all kinds of debates, especially among female comics fans, about whether this is liberating or exploitative or what. I saw what I felt were examples of both in this particular comic, though what's almost more ridiculous is that crazy flowing red hair -- is that practical, when you're fighting crime with a secret identity, seriously? (To be fair, this comes up in an exchange with Batman, and it kinda makes sense.) All that aside though, I found this an actually pretty impressive comic. The villainess is apparently under the impression that she is Alice in Wonderland, which makes for some delightfully insane dialogue amidst the kicking and punching, and the relationship between Batwoman and her dad and stepmom is interesting and touching. What's really impressive though, is how much work the art is doing in telling this story -- the visuals of the chapter headings, especially, offer huge foreshadowing clues about the story's Big Reveal, which isn't hinted at in the dialogue. It was fun to go back and see the significant details after I knew the ending; if I were a more observant... observer of comics art I might have noticed them sooner, but I thought it was an awesome way to tell the story. Slight fare, perhaps, but a very satisfactory and well-executed cape-and-cowl comic.
Market Day
by James Sturm
This book has, deservedly, already been highly praised in high-falutin' literary publications. James Sturm is one of the most serious literary writers of comics out there, and his previous stories about baseball, the frontier, and Jewish and African-American experiences constitute a body of rich, intelligent historical fictionI don't think any contemporary cartoonist has even attempted to match. And I like his visual style a lot: a thick, clean line almost reminiscent of the Tintin comics I grew up on, an old-fashioned, muted color palette, an interest in all kinds of faces and bodies. That said, I respected this book more than I actually liked it. The story is that of one day in the life of Mendleman, a rug maker -- young, married with a baby on the way -- taking his wares to sell at market, where he discovers his usual buyer is out of business and has to scramble to find some other way to unload his painstaking, artistic creations; on his way home an odd encounter with some vagabonds leaves him hungover and questioning his entire life. Now that I think about it, it works as a pretty good metaphor for an artist hewing to an old-fashioned standard in a changing world (Sturm wrote a column for Slate about giving up the internet.) But I'm not sure I understood quite what happened in our young rug maker's head at the end, and the 19th century Eastern European color palette is exhaustingly dreary, even when Mendleman is imagining his innovative designs. Maybe I'm just not a rug fancier, or I need to read more Russian novels. This may be a book I come back to later with greater appreciation, but I prefer Sturm's odd and tragic American stories to this one.
by Doug TenNapel
Doug TenNapel is not nearly as well known as his Bill Watterson-influenced art and insanely creative fantasy epic stories deserve. This may be partly because he is a Christian and somewhat right-wing, and very explicit Christian metaphors find their way into nearly all of his work; on the other hand, his humor is often scatalogical and his characters foul-mouthed, which means the Christians don't necessarily embrace him either. So I am one of a small contingent who will read anything Doug TenNapel writes, though some are more successful than others. Ghostopolis is one of the more successful, I think: the story of a sort of ghost truant officer who accidentally sends a live boy to the underworld and then tries to rescue him, while the boy meets up with his long-dead grandfather and a host of other denizens of Ghostopolis. The Christ figure in this one is a mysterious Tuskegee airman, who built Ghostopolis eons ago but is now in hiding from its tyrannical ruler. It's a world of good and evil, though not always simply divided; characters learn and grow and make mistakes, while dodging giant insects and zombies and bone animals and animate buildings. It's a romp with moments of seriousness, and even a love story, and it's the kind of thing I love Doug TenNapel for.
Werewolves of Montpelier
by Jason
Jason is like the Buster Keaton of comics. His animal/people characters have that deadpan expression most of the time, with only an occasional eyebrow wrinkle to express emotion, and yet their stories are often hilariously funny and/or heartbreaking. This one has a built-in gag that's never discussed: when dog-people turn into werewolves it's very hard to tell the difference. But everyone in the story knows one when they see one, and when our protagonist impersonates one he falls afoul of the real werewolves and adventures ensue. The power of the story, though, is in his relationship with Audrey, the girl in the apartment next door, who is doing her best Holly Golightly impression at all times; their thwarted desires and real friendship are affecting in that same deadpan way. It's not my favorite Jason comic ever (though the ALP thinks its his best in ages), but it's a great one to add to the library.
And a drumroll please...
Scott Pilgrim Volume 6: Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour
by Bryan Lee O'Malley
You do remember how I feel about Scott Pilgrim, right? The last few weeks have been a pleasant agony of anticipation of both the release of the final volume and the movie (which I was prepared to dislike because I wasn't sure neurotic loveable loser Michael Cera could play happy-go-lucky loveable loser Scott Pilgrim; but all signs indicate that the director of Sean of the Dead isn't going to let us down. The ALP and I have plans on the evening of August 13, thank you.) So I picked up my copy at Bergen Street Comics*, and the book is... entirely, eminently satisfying. I mean, how you gonna pull all this stuff together, unless you are an O'Malley level pop art genius? The unresolved feelings for Kim, the fact that Ramona literally disappeared at the end of issue 5, and the band broke up, and Scott has no motivation, much less the skills, to face down Gideon, the Final Boss Man (in video game parlance, which is what the structure of this fight-the-seven-evil-exes story is obviously modeled upon). I, for one, am not going to spoil it for you. I'll just say that everything gets resolved by fighting -- because the whole book almost is one big fight scene, and every issue that's ever come up gets dealt with decisively. Probably I will now go back and read all six volumes just to get the whole picture, because they are that fun and it takes about a day to get through them. So just get all of them already, and enjoy!
* Note: because of the peculiar nature of comics publishing, comic shops had their Scott Pilgrims on July 20; regular ol' bookstores will get theirs on August 3.
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I never saw it coming. Then again, I didn't grow up with pets. I bought Ethan, now 7 years old, and Estee, now 5, a guinea pig when their dad deployed last summer, and last week we acquired a second guinea pig, a surprise birthday gift from a family friend. One of the neighbors, a slightly older boy named Sam, was playing at our house when the new rodent made her debut. I wasn't in the room at the time, but found out later that he proclaimed that guinea pig babies would be in our future; to help matters along, he instructed the kids to place the female in the same cage as the male.
Ethan was puzzled by this announcement. Because of my husband's frequent and lengthy absences, many milestone father-son moments—like the sex talk—seem to pass us by or occur late. This is common for many military families, and not just regarding the birds and the bees. One friend hired a baseball coach for her son, because her husband was away for so long she worried that the little boy would fall behind his pals who practice with their dads for weekly games. One Army officer returned from back-to-back deployments to discover that his young son delicately wipes his penis after going to the bathroom due to diligent potty training by mom and older sisters.
I hadn't given any thought to the sex talk. I assumed it would happen at some convenient, appropriate time in the future, long after my husband returned. Ethan had been perfectly happy with my explanation that a Mommy and Daddy's "magic hug" results in a newborn. I lifted the "magic hug" from a child-rearing book, and it seemed fine until the instant Sam moved us closer to the facts of life.
"Mom, Sam told me a horrible lie," Ethan said, angrily, after his buddy walked out the door.
"What was it?" I asked.
Ethan hesitated, looked momentarily sheepish, but barreled ahead.
"It's a big one. He said that the boy guinea pig puts his penis in the girl guinea pig's vagina to make babies. Can you believe he would say that?"
I looked at both kids. I suddenly realized that I had read about the "magic hug" when the kids were only 4 and 2. Scott and I hadn't had any discussion since then about how to explain reproduction, and when he deployed last summer for 12 months in Iraq, it was the last thing on my mind.
Ethan and Estee just stared at me, waiting. The room was quiet. I knew it was an important moment; I just had no idea what to say. I took a deep breath.
"Yep, he's right," I nodded. "That's how babies get made, all babies, animals and humans." I muddled through an abbreviated explanation about sperm and eggs, matter-of-fact and forthright. I don't have a problem with the truth; I just didn't know I'd be sharing it, by myself, on that particular Sunday.
Estee resumed playing with her toys. She seemed completely uninterested. But Ethan was stunned, speechless. He asked me to repeat it, so I did.
"You and Dad had to do that TWO TIMES?" he yelled.
"That's how babies get made," I repeated, trying to shift the conversation from the specific to the general.
"Aren't you embarrassed?" he asked.
"When a man and a woman love each other, it's what they do, and there's nothing to be embarrassed about," I said. He calmed down. The conversation smoothed out. I was starting to feel like SuperSingleMom, able to leap unexpected questions in a single explanation. After all, I had tackled the topic of gay relationships the previous week, prompted by front-page photos in the Washington Post of men kissing men. (D.C. recently legalized same-sex marriage.) That went well, too.
"Mom, can I do it to you?" Ethan suddenly asked.
"No," I said, horrified.
"Can I do it to Estee?"
"But I love you."
The ground beneath my feet seemed to shift again. I decided to take a hard-line approach. "Only a Mommy and a Daddy can do it when they're married, because they love each other."
Now Estee looked up, interested. "Can you do it if you hate the person?" she wanted to know.
It was my turn to be speechless. The Earthquake of Sexual Misunderstanding, sure to crater my children's emotional terra firma forever, seemed just seconds away. And I was on my own.
But there's one thing I have experience doing myself: talking about deployment with the children. And as it happens, talking to your kids about sex is a lot like talking to them about deployment. What you say matters less, almost, than how you say it. As long as the children sense that you're not overly emotional, or stressed out, or angry, they'll probably do all right. I spent many years trying to figure this out. Finally, I began to see that Ethan and Estee take their cues from me during Scott's absences. If I cry, they cry; the moment they tap into my weakness, they fall apart.
So, with this in mind, I straightened up and resumed the conversation. Reducing the discussion to clinical terms and details soon caused the kids to lose interest. We soon moved on to another topic.
It struck me as funny, and appropriate, that preparing for deployment readied me for one of the most unexpected things I had to do alone because of that deployment. It was very military spouse-ish, very you're-stronger-than-you-think-you-are. I don't have many moments like that. Usually, I'm counting my failures and cursing my inadequacies, begging for mercy.
This time, I found myself pleading for only one thing: birthday or not, no more pets.
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Pronk homers in first at-bat back in Cleveland
CLEVELAND -- Travis Hafner said that he did not have any trouble navigating the roads to Progressive Field on Monday morning, and most importantly, he remembered to head for the visitors' clubhouse and not the familiar entrance for the home team.
"It's a little strange -- you're used to being over there for the last 10 years," Hafner said, nodding toward the third-base dugout. "It's great to be back here for Opening Day. It's going to be a great atmosphere, and I'm excited to be here."
Before receiving a rousing ovation during introductions, Hafner, 35, said that he expected a positive reception from the Indians' fan base when stepping to the plate against his former team, but he acknowledged that his new employer might make it difficult for Clevelanders to send cheers his way for very long.
"I think it'll be good," Hafner said. "The fans have always treated me great. At the same time, I play for the Yankees now, so we'll see. I'm looking forward to it. It'll be good to be back here playing."
It didn't take Hafner long to draw some boos from the Progressive Field crowd, slugging a three-run homer in the top of the first inning off Ubaldo Jimenez to break a scoreless tie.
Hafner signed a one-year, $2 million deal with the Yankees in January and said that his transition to New York has been an easy one. The Indians expressed some late interest in bringing Hafner back, but the slugger said he had already made up his mind about heading to the Yankees.
"I'd never gone through [free agency] before," Hafner said. "You really go into it not knowing what to expect. I didn't really hear much until January, and then it started to pick up a little bit. Once I found out that the Yankees had interest, it was a really good fit for me. It worked out well."
Even though he no longer plays for the Indians, Hafner said that he is pleased to see many fans in Cleveland excited about the team.
"They obviously had a great offseason, a lot of roster turnover," Hafner said. "They've been playing well. I think there's a buzz in town about the team. It's good to see them back doing well."
Hafner hit 200 home runs over 10 seasons with the Indians, setting club records with 187 homers and 650 RBIs as a designated hitter. He said his fondest memories are from Cleveland's playoff run in 2007, when the club defeated the Yankees in the American League Division Series before falling to the Red Sox in a seven-game AL Championship Series.
"I think being in the playoffs was obviously the big one that stands out," Hafner said. "The second half of that 2007 season -- going down the stretch, winning the division, playing in front of sellouts -- the fans were into it. Being in the playoffs, that was just a great experience."


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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,v.MELISSA MORRIS, Defendant.
J. Novak United States Magistrate Judge
matter is before the Court pursuant to Title 28 U.S.C. §
636(b)(1)(B) and (b)(3) upon the Defendant's request to
enter a plea of guilty pursuant to Fed. R. Crim. P. 11 and a
written plea agreement that has been entered into by the
United States and the Defendant. The matter was presented to
the Court upon the written consent of the Defendant and
counsel for the Defendant to proceed before a United States
Magistrate Judge, said consent including the Defendant's
understanding that he consented to not only having the
Magistrate Judge conduct the hearing and enter any order of
forfeiture, if applicable, but also to having the Magistrate
Judge make necessary findings and accept any guilty plea as
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Court accepted the Defendant's waiver of his right to
proceed by indictment after specific inquiry was made of the
Defendant as to his understanding of the right to require
prosecution by indictment. The Defendant pled guilty to Count
One of the Criminal Information in open court and pursuant to
a Rule 11 inquiry. Upon consideration of the responses and
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1. That the Defendant is competent to enter a plea of guilty;
2. That the Defendant understands the nature of the charge
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3. That the Defendant understands what the maximum possible
penalties are upon conviction of the offense charged,
including any mandatory minimum periods of confinement, the
effect of any required term of supervised release, the loss
of various civil rights (if applicable, including the right
to vote, the right to hold public office, the right to own
and possess a firearm), the possibility of adverse
immigration consequences (if applicable), the required
imposition of a special assessment, forfeiture of real and/or
personal property (if applicable), and restitution (if
4. That the sentencing court has jurisdiction and authority
to impose any sentence within the statutory maximums
provided; can reject the parties' stipulations as to drug
quantity and/or any sentencing factors; will determine the
defendant's actual sentence in accordance with 18 U.S.C.
§ 3553(a); and, after considering the factors set forth
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below the advisory sentencing range, subject only to review
by higher courts for reasonableness;
5. That the Defendant understands his right to persist in a
plea of not guilty and require that the matter proceed to
trial with all the rights and privileges attending a trial,
including, but not limited to: the right to effective
assistance of counsel; the right to use the power and
processes of the Court to compel evidence on the
Defendant's behalf; the right to confront and
cross-examine adverse witnesses; the right to present
relevant evidence; the right to remain silent; and, the right
to trial by jury;
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right to appeal whatever sentence is imposed by pleading
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any promises other than the representations set forth in the
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knowingly and voluntarily made with full knowledge of the
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lend (one's) ear to (someone or something)
To listen carefully or pay close attention (to someone or something). Be sure to lend your ear to the artist's newest album. I know we're supposed to lend our ear's to the safety presentation before each flight, but I've seen it so many times that I just tune it out now.
lend one's ear
Also, lend an ear. Pay attention, listen, as in "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears" (Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, 3:2). This idiom may be obsolescent. [Late 1300s]
lend one's ear, to
To listen, to pay attention. This locution appears in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (3.2) in Mark Antony's famous speech, "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears." It is heard less often today.
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Thursday, October 2, 2008
Wtf Thursday
Here's this Thursday's case in point: black stemless wine glasses.
I don't have a problem with stemless wineglasses in general. From a design point they're actually more functional than traditional stemmed wine glasses, even if they're not nearly as aesthetically pleasing (in my humble opinion). You see, I like the thin stem, the way it raises the blown-glass bowl up high, so that it catches the light. The stem also provides a place to rest your lower fingers against, and helps to minimize your hands increasing the temperature of chilled wines. I appreciate how delicate the stems are; drinking out of stemmed wine glasses makes me feel almost grown up.
But stemless wineglasses are fine too, and very functional. They break much less easily, which is a good thing (although who doesn't love buying a whole new set of wine glasses when you break too many of the last set?). And they're perfect for outside BBQs, around the pool, or other casual occasions.
But black stemless wineglasses? Okay, really, black wine glasses in general? Wtf? Isn't one of the great things about wine appreciating the amazing color? Especially with reds? Why on earth would you want to hide the beauty of the wine in a black wine glass? It just doesn't make sense!
My boyfriend received a set of black stemless wine glasses as a birthday gift last year. They're all wrong.
Who wants to drink wine out of these? A Keoke coffee, maybe, but wine? No. No thank you.
I decided to google "black wine glasses" and found very few. One set that I did find stated that they were, "designed to eliminate the pre-conceptions of a wine prior to tasting."
Hmm. Sounds like complete caca to me.
Black wine glasses. Wtf?
9 comments:
- Unknown said...
I thought you were supposed to drink wine straight from the bottle. You know, kinda like rum.
- October 2, 2008 at 10:24 AM
LOL, Heinous. There's nothing that makes you think you're getting away with something than drinking -- wine, rum, vodka -- right out of the bottle.
And Beth? Total caca. WTF, indeed.
- October 2, 2008 at 10:35 AM
- Nancy said...
Perhaps they are for drinking Boone's Farm incognito?
- October 2, 2008 at 10:40 AM
- Kat said...
That is total caca. I mean what kind of preconceived notion can you have other than it came from a grape and is oh so gooooood.
- October 2, 2008 at 10:41 AM
Such a funny post, and such funny comments!
It really is the dumbest thing I've ever heard of - so who gave the gift?
- October 2, 2008 at 10:43 AM
Obviously someone who did not like him very much, or who shopped the last-chance sale bin. (And no that would not be me!)
I think you're on to something, Nancy. Maybe they're made for those folks who drink cheap white zin -- that "rose" color can really give you away.
- October 2, 2008 at 10:55 AM
- steenky bee said...
Oh, sister. Every day is a WTF Thursday for me. I'm going to build upon what Heinous wrote here and say I thought you were supposed to hold your face under the nozzle on the wine box. The sad part is, I totally saw this happen two weeks ago. True story.
- October 2, 2008 at 6:48 PM
- nicole antoinette said...
Black wine glasses are actually called blind tasting glasses. They're for use during wine tastings so you have no preconceptions about what you're drinking based on color or appearance.
Yeah, I work at Williams Sonoma, haha :)
- October 2, 2008 at 8:42 PM
- NucMEd is Hot said...
I with you on this, I like a stem on my wine glass.
- October 3, 2008 at 10:00 AM


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No idea about the 'jackoff bit'. 'Threw up' - vomited. 'The john' - the toilet; 'just made it' - only just got there in time.
Interested in Language
(source: Iceberg Slim- Pimp, The story of my life)
Now I met a whole section that has parts I am completely at sea with. Below I quote the section and underline the fragment that I cannot interpret:
"I held the end of a necktie in my teeth. I coiled it and tightened it around my arm. On first stab I hit a perfect bullseye. I did Top's jackoff bit. I threw up. I just made it to the john. The kick was greater that the one at Top's"
Slim describes how he bangs cocaine after learning it from his friend Glass Top.
'Top's jackoff bit' may refer to some special technique of using the syringe to get the drug into the vein most effectively. But the other underlined parts...well, I have no idea. Anyone has?
many thanks in advance
No idea about the 'jackoff bit'. 'Threw up' - vomited. 'The john' - the toilet; 'just made it' - only just got there in time.
(not a teacher)
I'm not certain either, but maybe he masturbated while or just before shooting up. It makes some sense since your heart rate skyrockets when masturbating or having sex, which would speed the distribution of the drug throughout your system, combining both a natural and artificial high.
Last edited by SlickVic9000; 15-Nov-2012 at 01:31.
Having known previous parts of the novel an other interpretation seems to be plausible: Slim describes earlier how Glass Top injected the drug into his vein. Indeed he did not use a syringe but an eyedropper with a needle on its tip and a gum bulb on its other end. He hit his vein with the needle, waited until some of his blood appeared in the tube and kept the gum bulb pumping for a relatively long time (I guess in order to get every little dissolved grain of drug into his system) The pumping move could be visually similar to a 'Jackoff'/masturbation -and that's what Slim refers to