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So here's Suzy!
Welcome to the blog, Suzanne! So happy you are here!
Name: Suzanne Morgan Williams
Debut Group: Class of 2K9
Debut novel: BULL RIDER, Margaret K. McElderry, 2009
PJHoover: Okay, so it's been 3 years since you graduated from your debut class. Personally, I miss the heck out of knowing what my classmates are up to. So give us the low-down. What have you been up to in the last few years? New books? New degrees? New pets? What has been going on, and what do we have to look forward to from you in the future?
SMW: The last three years have flown by. When Bull Rider came out I started doing a lot of speaking at schools, teacher and librarian conventions, and writers' conferences. In the last three years I've spoken to tens of thousands of students in twenty-one states. Bull Rider ended up on seven state award nomination lists (the latest is the Wyoming Indian Paintbrush nomination for 2012) and winning a Western Heritage Award from the National Cowboy Museum in Oklahoma City. There were months that I felt more at home in the Reno airport than at my house. I've also been working on new projects – one is out on submission now – and I had a nonfiction book published, China's Daughters; Women Who Shaped Chinese History (Pacific View Press, 2011). No new degrees, but I was incredibly honored to be given the SCBWI Member of the Year Award for 2012. That award recognized my helping to gather information for the organization in support of more diversity in kidlit. In a group of so many giving and talented people, I was thrilled and humbled to be chosen. What you have to look forward to from me? – I'm not going anywhere. I'll keep writing and keep connected. Hopefully, I'll have a new title to announce soon.
PJHoover: If you could summarize to a debut novelist the best part of being a member of an author group like the "Class of" groups, what would you say?
SMW: At first, being in the Class of 2K9 was a bit overwhelming. It was a lot of work to get everyone talking and agreeing and aimed at the same goals and there were days that I wondered how big the pay off would have to be to support all that input. But once we had a cohesive group, I discovered I'd just met some of my new best friends. We continue to visit with each other, support each other with recommendations for speaking engagements, and with opportunities like this one – a chance to blog with P.J. Hoover whom I met because of being in the Class of 2K9. (She's 2K8 and classes often share across years too.)
BULL RIDER (Margaret McElderry Books, February 24, 2009)
PJHoover: Though I absolutely loved being a debut author, I'm really thrilled with all the experience I've gained since. What advice would you give to those who are debuting now? What do you wish you had known when you started out?
SMW: This is an odd question for me because I'd had ten nonfiction books published before joining my debut class as a novelist. I already had some knowledge of the industry, although not of the world Bull Rider offered me. I guess my advice would be don't feel compelled to do everything at once, to do everything that's suggested. Find what you do best – whether that's blogging, school visits, teaching workshops, online networking – and concentrate on that. You can drive yourself crazy trying to master all the promotional techniques at once. Do a couple well, then move on. Oh, and help your fellow authors. Kindness doesn't go unnoticed and good Karma is always – well good Karma.
PJHoover: In addition to writing the next mega-million bestselling novel, what do you want to accomplish in the next five years? Do you want to write five more books? Get your black belt in Kung Fu? Walk the Great Wall of China? Let's hear it.
SMW: I'd love to see two manuscripts that are very close to my heart published. I want to continue to speak to middle schoolers in particular. I'd like to raise a service dog. I love traveling and hope that's in my near future, but more than that, I like talking to people, hearing their stories, connecting with their hopes and concerns. Being an author has allowed me amazing opportunities to open conversations. I'm hoping for many, many more.
PJHoover: Anything else you want to add? Five reasons to read your book? A picture of your writing space? How you celebrated when you signed your contract? Your choice!
SMW: So, five things I'd like you to know about Bull Rider – in no particular order:
1) I think after many revisions it turned out to be just the book it was meant to be – thank you, wonderful Emma Dryden and S & S.
2) I hear from parents, teachers, and librarians that Bull Rider is often the first novel their reluctant boy readers have finished. That makes me happy
3) The story is fiction but the situation is real. We have hundreds of thousands of veterans of the Middle East wars and they and their families need our support. I'd love you to find out what your community is doing to help. Visit www.IAVA.org for information or go to my website www.suzannemorganwilliams.com and open the "For Veterans" page. There are listings of many organizations that are helping as well as ways for readers to support overseas active duty military.
4) Nevada is not a big empty desert full of sand and palm trees. It's an amazing, mountainous, often snowy place with unique and fabulous people. Don't write it off. Come visit
5) Bull Rider's success depends on day to day word of mouth from people like you. It's a book that could have slipped under the radar but it has a big reach. I want you to read it. And if you like the story, pass it on. That's why I wrote Bull Rider – for you to read.
PJHoover: Thank you so much for being here! And good luck with everything in the future!
SMW: Thanks to you P.J.
Suzanne Morgan Williams is the author of the middle grade novel, Bull Rider (Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2009) and 11 nonfiction children's books with more books on the way. From the time she wrote her first book, Made in China, Ideas and Inventions from Ancient China, (Pacific View Press, 1997) to the present, her work has taken her into classrooms to connect with students, to universities and museums to work with experts, and to communities to share experiences.
Suzanne has traveled four times to the Canadian Arctic to work with Inuit people, writing The Inuit Franklin Watts, 2003, and has worked with Indian people from various tribes on books and projects. She is known for careful on site research, which for Bull Rider included interviewing professional bull riders, ranchers, and care givers who work with severely wounded veterans.
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... must come to an end.
When I started this Quest three years ago, my goal was to visit about 20 new BBQ places in the counties of Limestone, Morgan, Lawrence and Madison each year. Given that there are about 70 BBQ restaurants in those counties at any given time (some will close, others will open ...), it would take about three and a half years at that rate to visit them all.
Well, I did not quite make it to the bottom of the list - time ran out when I was sent back to Germany in June 2014, and the count was 67. So there are a few that got away - around half a dozen, I'd say, that I still have on the list. Whereas, for most of those I do not even know if they still exist - I got their addresses off a Google-search, and they may have faltered since. That happened to me occasionally, when I showed up and only found closed doors instead of BBQ.
I also visited over 40 BBQ places out of the Quest area - Florida, Georgia, Texas, Tennessee, and even New Mexico. There will be one additional in this category - I found a BBQ place in Germany, the only one in the whole of Europe as far as I can tell. They do Memphis style BBQ, and they take it quite seriously. That will then be the final entry in this blog.
The Quest was a lot of fun, I ate a lot of very good, much to much of adequate, and some few bad BBQ. I met interesting people and actually was only approached twice in more than a hundred times by staff members about the photography part of it - and that not in a threatening kind of way, but out of sheer curiosity.
So, the last question at a point like this is always "Would you do it again?". The answer is a very certain "Yes, in a heartbeat". Actually, I will miss this in Germany - I will need to find another food item to follow there. :)
The Great North Alabama BBQ Quest
There ain't no bad BBQ in all of Bama. It's all good ... some more good, some less good. A darn shame, though, that one's lifetime is too short for visiting all the BBQ places there are between Huntsville and Mobile. So I decided to scale it down to a more manageable quest - all the 60+ BBQ places in the counties of Madison, Limestone, Morgan, and Lawrence in Northern Alabama (that is the Hunstville-Decatur Combined Statistical Area). And that is my Great North Alabama BBQ Quest.
Monday, June 30, 2014
Thursday, June 19, 2014
Southern Style Bar-B-Q
Quest Log No 67 – Southern Style Bar-B-Q
Decatur, Morgan County
Decatur, Morgan County
This was on my list for forever, but somehow I never got to go there – had I known how good their BBQ is, I hadn't waited so long. Maybe it was my dislike of drive-through BBQ places that kept me away – I just hate to juggle a BBQ tray on my knees and spill sweet tea all over the seats. Well, Southern Style Bar-B-Q has some rough wooden benches to sit in front of a window for walk-up orders. But seriously, me sitting on a cool Alabama summer day in 100-degree weather outside, battling flies, heat, and the sun, I don't think so. So I bit the bullet and ate my pork plate in the car – since it was a rental, I really did not care that much about spills and such.The meat was very tender, lean and borderline mushy. The flavor was almost perfect, with a very pronounced but not overwhelming smoke aroma. There are huge piles of wood behind the building, so that is clearly where the flavor comes from. It is supported by a no frills basic vinegar-pepper sauce. As sides I had potato salad, which was a bit on the bland side, and baked beans, which were very reminiscent of the stuff you get out of supermarket cans. Nothing special here, but the meat was righteous BBQ pork if ever there was such a thing. All in all a typical southern BBQ place – like the name says.
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Moe's Original Bar B Que
Quest Log No 66 – Moe's Original Bar B Que
Decatur, Morgan County
Decatur, Morgan County
We already have two Moe's in Huntsville, and now they also have one in Decatur. And in a very posh location, too – directly adjacent to the wonderful Princess Theatre in the revived downtown area. The restaurant is a place with a very hip atmosphere, with high tables with bar stools, a big cut-out window in the front, a porch with tables, flat screen TVs all over the place and so on. Since the new-ness has not worn off yet, the good people of Decatur are coming out in droves – I arrived there a little after 11 AM, and half an hour later people were desperately looking for a place to sit. By then, I still waited for my hushpuppies, which I was told "were being taken care of". The pork stuffed potato I had ordered was long gone by then, and son enough so was I - without ever having seen one hushpuppy.
The pork on the potato was very tender and lean, but clearly not wood-smoked, but kind of slow-cooked. The BBQ sauce they use is kind of funky tasting, a bit sour and not really sweet - it is really hard to describe, but certainly not how I like it. Also, it is kind of pricey there – well, I guess they somehow have to collect enough money to pay for all this posh-ness.
Saturday, June 14, 2014
Pig-N-Out BBQ
Quest Log No 65 – Pig-N-Out BBQ
Huntsville, Madison County
Well, well, a BBQ in a gas station. I have seen stranger things, but it is certainly not the usual setting for such place. I also noticed that they have "Korean BBQ" on the menu, which is kind of no surprise given the fact that the owner is a Lady from this nice country.
The restaurant is surprisingly nice inside – not exactly what you may expect to find in a gas station. The place is impeccably clean, and the little corner where the tables and booths are situated is lovingly decorated, bright and friendly.
The BBQ though, is more like you would expect it from a place like this. The meat of the pork plate I ordered was lean but somewhat chewy, with no particular smoke aroma. It came neither chopped nor pulled, but it looked like it had been put through a blender. There are three sauces, a white one that I did not touch, a basic vinegar-pepper sauce without much pepper in it, and a thick red vinegar-tomato-pepper sauce – and that had some real nice kick to it, and was very flavorful. I scooped the sauce up with the roll that came with the pork plate at the end. Very delicious.
The sides are really almost not worth mentioning – the potato salad was bland and the baked beans were your standard supermarket variety.
The portions were not that big, and actually I was still kind of hungry when I was finished. But for not even nine bucks, including a big 32 oz drink, that is an acceptable deal. But just to fill your tank with some food that is better than a burger from one of them chains. For a real culinary experience, this place would not be my choice.
Tuesday, June 3, 2014
Stroud's Barbeque
Non-Quest BBQ No 46 – Stroud's BarbequeFranklin, Tennessee
During my occasional travels, I try to sample BBQ at those near and far away places outside the Quest area. I just really, really like that stuff ...
On my way back from Nashville, where I watched some Triple-A Baseball, hunger overcame me and I asked my trusty GPS for a BBQ place nearby. That led me to Franklin, to Stroud's Barbeque. Turns out that this is actually a small local chain with three restaurants in Middle Tennessee. They not only have the usual BBQ stuff on their menu, but also barbeque nachos and barbeque burritos. I resisted the urge to try one of those fairly exotic meals, and ordered a simple pork plate with potato salad and baked beans instead.
To say it right upfront, it was nothing special. The pork was not very tender, but actually a bit chewy. It was lean and the flavor was okay, and together with the vinegar and pepper sauce it was not bad. They also have a standard thick red sweet'n'sour sauce, which also was nothing to write home about. The potato salad reminded me very clearly of the standard supermarket stuff, as did the baked beans. The cornbread muffin that came with the plate was also very standard, although a bit too dry for my taste. But for not even seven bucks, excluding a drink (that was on the house, thank you very much), there is really nothing much to complain about.
The atmosphere of the place is also very middle of the road. There are no booths, only some tables along the wall and the row of windows on the other side. The decoration consists of some pictures with landscapes on them. But, and this is clearly the most interesting feature there, the counter is something else – it is the front end of a 1950s Chevy truck. Very nice touch, although I think it is utterly lonely there and in dire need of some vintage memorabilia around it.
Well, it was no feast for any of my senses, but at least I did not leave hungry and also got a nice picture of the Chevy-counter.
Friday, May 23, 2014
Melvin's Place of BBQ
Quest Log No 65 – Melvin's Place of BBQ
Huntsville, Madison County
No sign. No name. No indication that this place in a fairly run down inner-city subdivision of Huntsville next to a cemetery, is a BBQ restaurant, than the smoke that is coming from a mobile barrel smoker at the corner of the premises. You park either in one of the two parking spots on a gravel patch beside the house, or on the street. In the courtyard of the L-shaped building are some camping-canopies with well worn out leather chairs. A few orange traffic cones adorn the pavement. The entrance to the dining room is a simple red door. The dining room is surprisingly big, and not surprisingly dark. There is one camping table with six camping chairs, half a dozen of those well worn leather chairs along a three foot high wall, and a counter with an old office chair behind it that has an old shirt lumped over it that says "Melvin's Place of BBQ". Next to the counter stand an old TV, and some buffet gear. On the other side of the room, beyond the three foot high wall that separates this area from the dining area, and where it is really dark, there is a small stage with some musicians gear on it, several other camping tables, more buffet gear and other things. On the walls, there is one picture of a 1960s era soul band, and a framed article of the Huntsville Times about this place.
Some would call it a dive. Some would even call it a dump. Others would call it authentic. I would call it all of the above.
To be very clear – it is not a dirty place, not at all. It is just well worn, odd, eccentric, cobbled together. The owner, Melvin, is a very nice old man, with a serious passion for BBQ. When I asked him about his secret how to cook such a marvelous BBQ, I got a fifteen minute lecture. No, actually it was more like a sermon, with fire and brimstone, and preaching and praying.
Melvin does not believe in wood. He uses whatever is on hand – hickory, pecan, cherry, it doesn't matter. The secret to get the flavor in the meat, he told me, is the rub, not the wood. He does his own rub and his own BBQ sauce – actually, he has nine different sauces, and each of them makes the chicken taste differently in combination with the rub. Melvin also does not believe in smoking the meat for hours. He has better things to do than fire up the smoker in the middle of the night, he said. Forty-five minutes is sufficient for a chicken - that is his believe. He also does not turn the meat halfway through the process, nor does he poke it with a thermometer, lest the juices would drip out. With all that, he is the most unorthodox pitmaster I ever met. But his chicken proves him right – it is divine. DIVINE!
I had heard so many good things about Melvin's chicken that I broke with my rule to have pulled pork at each new BBQ place. The plate, rather the Styrofoam box, came loaded with two slices of regular toast (untoasted), baked beans, potato salad, and a two drumsticks and a chicken breast. The chicken was sitting in a puddle of his BBQ sauce (which of the nine different varieties, I have no idea), that apparently oozed out from the skin. The skin was a bit leathery and not crisp at all, but the meat under it was the most tender, juicy, flavorful and, yes, divine chicken I ever had. It had a very nice smoke aroma, too – something you do not necessarily expect with a smoking time of only forty-five minutes. The potato salad was top notch as well, being a mayonnaise based, fairly sour, concoction. The baked beans were okay, but nothing to write home about. They swam in a thin liquid and had some vegetables and meat in it, but the taste was really nothing special.
With a can of soda, I paid eleven bucks (the lecture was priceless, yet at no cost), which is more than can be usually expected in such a location. But it is well worth it, and I can only suggest that you let the, well, ramshackle environment and the very interesting interior design of the restaurant not deter you from what would become a defining moment in your live – when you take the first bite out of Melvin's chicken. It is just divine!
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
Jim'n Nick's Community Bar-B-Q
Non-Quest BBQ No 45 – Jim'n Nick's Community Bar-B-QMontgomery, Alabama
During my occasional travels, I try to sample BBQ at those near and far away places outside the Quest area. I just really, really like that stuff ...
Finally, I had to see what the fuzz is all about. Jim'n Nick's Community Bar-B-Q is a growing chain of BBQ restaurants that wins awards left and right. Most recently, it was listed as the Number one BBQ chain in America by USA Today, which had to say "If you're going to open a chain of barbecue restaurants in the Carolinas, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Florida and Colorado, you better make sure that your product is on-point."
What started in 1985 in Birmingham, Alabama, has spread now to 33 locations in the states mentioned above, with two more restaurants coming soon to Colorado.
Alabama, as the nucleus of the whole operation, has 14 places where you can dine at a Jim'n Nick's – I was at their Montgomery restaurant, on my way home from a Biscuits Baseball game at beautiful Riverwalk Stadium.
Well, first of all, their address is somehow screwed up – had I trusted my GPS, it would have led to a place two blocks from there. Fortunately, I saw it in the corner of my eye when I passed it and was able to turn around immediately. The restaurant is one of those typical "family oriented" buildings that could be used by various different chains after one another. The inside, too, is rather unassuming – the typical red faux leather booths, wooden tables, pipes under the wooden ceiling, wooden pillars and beams, and brick walls with a few posters as decoration. All very clean, very nice, and very bland.
And nice was also the food. The meat of my pork plate had a nice smoke aroma, it was tender and juicy, and fairly lean with just a bit of fat that could be easily put aside. It was not pulled, but rather chopped, and it also came already smothered in sauce – as everybody knows, that is a total no-no in the BBQ world. Granted, their original sauce - a concoction based on vinegar and pepper, yet with some more ingredients in it to make it thick and red - is quite tasty, with a hint of spiciness. But please don't drown your meat in it – that is my, the customer's job, if I chose to! Their other sauce is called "Habanero" and is obviously supposed to be the hot cousin. While is has a bit more kick to it, I would not dare calling it a "hot sauce", because for that it lacks some serious punch.
As sides I had baked beans that were not too sweet and also had a little spiciness, and a very well made tangy potato salad.
While nothing of the meal was really outstanding, nothing was an abysmal failure, as well. It was nice BBQ in a nice atmosphere … with a hefty check at the end. Almost eighteen bucks for the plate with a sweat tea, holy moly, that is what I would call steep. I had much better BBQ in a more authentic environment for not even half of that. So, my resume is: Nice but overpriced. At least here in the BBQ belt - they might have more success with this concept in Colorado.
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Thursday, April 24, 2014
O Taste & See BBQ
Quest Log No 64 – O Taste and See BBQ
Madison, Madison County
To name a mobile BBQ stand after a Bible verse (Psalm 34:8, "O taste and see that the LORD is good") is probably one of those things you have to expect here in the Bible belt. But that kind of commits you to serve a most righteous BBQ, too. Well, their motto "Experience Real Smoke Taste" is certainly a step in the right direction. Actually, if they would add the word "Strong" after "Real", that statement would be the absolute truth. I never had any BBQ were there was such an intense and prominent smoke flavor in the meat. Not that this is a bad thing, not at all. But it makes you think – either the guys have found the holy grail of BBQ and developed a smoking process that is much superior over everything else, or … well, they found other means to infuse their meat with that kind of overwhelming smoke aroma. The pulled pork I had also tasted as if mixed with some BBQ sauce. All in all very flavorful, and very, very smoky. The meat was succulent, although with some big blotches of fat in it. But those were easy to spot and I could remove them right away. The pork plate I had came with two sauces, a mild one and a spicy one that was more like a more sour version of the former, instead of real hot. The thick red mild sauce was a very nicely balanced sweet'n'sour affair with a nice round aroma, and it was so good that I scooped the rest up with the slice of toast that came with the meal.
Also, the potato salad and the cole slaw I choose as the two sides were top notch. The potato salad had a very nice mustardy tang to it, and the slaw came with sour crème dressing and with just the right amount of vinegar and salt and pepper so that the cabbage aroma was still noticeable. The whole meal, with a can of soda, was not really cheap – I paid about eleven bucks for it. And although the portion size was not that big, the quality of the food kind of justified the price. My wife had the brisket plate with BBQ beans and green beans, and she had quite the same experience – the brisket had a lot of fat on it on the outside, which was easily removed, the taste of the meat was very smoky and very flavorful, it was succulent, and the sides were top notch.
The stand is really mobile, setting up at the East Madison Shopping Center on Hughes Road from Tuesday through Thursday, at Jordan Lane in front of Trees n Trends on Friday, and at the Corner of Winchester Road & Naugher in the Sunoco Parking Lot on Saturdays. That is certainly a lot of work for the really nice folks who own this business, and I hope they can establish a good customer base and make a good living with that nomadic life style. But they seem to love what they are doing, and it shows in their quality food. It is righteous BBQ, after all.
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Labels: Alabama, BBQ, Beans, Beef, Brisket, Madison, Madison City, Pork, Potato Salad, Pulled Pork, Slaw
Tuesday, April 8, 2014
Gin House Barbecue
Quest Log No 63 – Gin House Barbecue
Elkmont, Limestone County
Just call me Ahab from now on. Captain Ahab. I finally hunted down the white whale, which I thought would elude me forever. Well, actually the good Captain in the book died while fighting with the whale, a fate that I fortunately could avoid. But for over two years I thought that the Ole Gin House BBQ in Elkmont would be the one that got away.
I've been there three times before in 2011. The first time was on a Monday in April, but the restaurant was closed - no service on Mondays. At the next try, in July, they were on summer break. And then, in October, they were closed for good.
But a couple of days ago, I stumbled across a facebook-site with their name on it that had very current entries of specials and so on. Needless to say, I went there at the first opportunity.
From the locals, I had heard stories about this place, which was formerly run by an elderly lady with pink hair, who had stuffed the restaurant with all kinds of quirky memorabilia and interesting decorating pieces. But together with dropping the "Ole" from the name, the new owners also cleaned up the joint and it is now a fairly bland and unremarkable country eatery. There are two rooms - one fairly darkly lit big one and another to the side, which receives some natural light through windows. Other than an American flag on a pole in one of the corners, there is no decoration worth talking about. There is a small buffet-like counter in the entrance hall where for $5.99 a meal is assembled to your specifications. The choices are the usual southern staples, like fried okra, mashed potatoes, fried chicken, and steamed corn. But you also can order from the menu, which has the typical BBQ-stuff on it. Not surprisingly, I opted for a large pork plate with potato salad and cole slaw.
The pork came in large chunks that were lean and hat some bark on it. Unfortunately, the meat was not very tender and it had a very funky sour vinegary taste, and no smoke flavor at all. My guess is that it was either prepared in a slow cooker or by using some very strange wood-less smoking process. The BBQ sauce it came with did also nothing to save the taste – it was a thick red puree, which also had the flavor of pureed tomatoes with a little salt and pepper. Strange. Don't get me wrong, it was not too bad, and certainly perfectly edible, but also most definitely not your typical country BBQ.
The potato salad on the other hand was very tasty – a concoction with eggs and mayonnaise, not too sour, not too tart, not too sweet. The cole slaw however was nothing special, just some shredded cabbage in a sour crème based sauce that could have used much more salt and pepper than was there.
Altogether, I paid close to ten bucks for the plate and a soft drink. Needless to say, that I had better BBQ for half the price.
But at least there was one valuable lesson that I learned today: Next time I encounter a white whale, I will just let the beast go its merry way, and will let bygones be bygones.
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Labels: Alabama, BBQ, Limestone, Pork, Potato Salad, Pulled Pork, Slaw
Friday, January 31, 2014
Whitts Barbecue (Moulton)
Quest Log No 62 – Whitts Barbecue
Moulton, Lawrence County
As everybody knows, there are two BBQ dynasties in North Alabama, the Gibsons and the Whitts. The latter has spread over three States, Alabama, Tennessee, and Kentucky, where there are about 30 Restaurants, owned by different branches of the clan and some franchise takers. The usual layout is as a drive-through/walk-in, no-sit-down place – basically the BBQ equivalent of a fast food joint. It took me a while, but now I have been to all five locations in the Quest area, 2 in Athens, 2 in Decatur, and the last one just today near Moulton. And while the first four fit the description above, the latter one actually has seating space within the restaurant.
The building is a custom built, no frills affair that oozes the charm of a bygone era. The name is put on the front of the building in big bright red letters, and the dining room is enclosed by a large window front. It has about half a dozen tables with four chairs each, and through the windows you have a great view on the adjacent gas station and on the Alabama Highway 20 that runs next to the parking lot.
I had my usual pork plate, which comes with three sides – baked beans, cole slaw, and potato salad in my case, plus a soft bread roll. With a medium sweet tea, it was only roughly eight and a half Dollars, which is a very good deal, indeed. Even more so, because the food was real good. Not remarkably good, not spectacularly good, just plain good. Middle of the road good. Basic good BBQ with no frills and no outstanding features.
The meat was tender, lean and succulent, with a nice, not too distinctive smoke flavor to it. The two sauces were also good, but not remarkable – the so called "Red Sauce" is the simple standard pepper/vinegar concoction, while the so called "Rib Sauce", which is supposed to best when eaten on a Sunday, is a thick red, sweet'n'sour affair. The potato salad and the baked beans could have been straight out of a can from the next supermarket, and the cole slaw was shredded into tiny pieces with a vinegar dressing over it. All together that made a very decent BBQ meal, without any outstanding characteristics. There certainly is better pulled pork out there, better potato salad, and so on, but while in most places it is usually only one of those parts of the meal that stands out, here the quality and taste was on the same level – good, but not remarkable. This consistency, I would take that any day.
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Labels: Alabama, BBQ, Beans, Lawrence, Moulton, Pork, Potato Salad, Pulled Pork, Slaw
Friday, January 17, 2014
Smokey C's BBQ & Wings
Quest Log No 61 – Smokey C's BBQ & Wings
Decatur, Morgan County
Do you judge a book by its cover? I must admit, I've been doing this once or twice. So what do you expect how a real BBQ place with Killer-Q has to look like? A raggedy old shack with no windows on a lonely country road, a sleek brick house with neon signs in Downtown, a nondescript store with a hand-written menu on a black board in a strip mall, a wooden palace with hunting trophies on the walls on a busy highway, or a burger-chain look-alike in an industrial area? The correct answer is, of course, all of the above. Been there, ate in that. There just is no telling what kind of BBQ you might encounter when you stand before a restaurant – the only way to find out is to go in and try it. I've been surprised more than a couple of times, negatively as well as positively, during this quest.
So, what's so special about Smokey C's BBQ & Wings in Decatur? The building looks like any given fast-food-chain restaurant in the country. The patrons are mostly recruited from the workers of all those industrial plants on the west side of the town. It is situated next to a gas station at the Alabama Highway 20, which is quite a busy road in this area. Inside the building, there is not much decoration on the walls, and the reddish-pinkish plastic furniture does not exactly qualify it for a title story in Southern Living.
You order at the counter right next to the entrance, where you have the choice between the usual selection of meats - pork, turkey, ribs, chicken, you know the drill. You can have the meat either on a sandwich, which comes in two sizes, or on a plate with two sides.
Guess what – I chose the large plate with 6 ounces of pulled pork (4 ounces would be the regular size), potato salad and spicy mustard slaw. The plate also came with a piece of cornbread, and together with a fountain drink I forked over just slightly over eight and a half dollars. Very nice price, but what kind of food can you expect for the price of a fast-food-chain burger meal?
As said before, never judge a book by its cover, always sit down and smell the roses. What can I say? I am a fan now.
The meat looked like Killer-Q, with a wonderful pink ring and some serious bark. And the looks did not lie - its flavor was perfectly smoky, with just the right amount of burnt wood flavor to make it special. I rarely had pork that was as juicy and tender and lean all together like this one. Real exquisite stuff.
I was really reluctant to pour any sauce over it, but eventually I did – starting with the hot and spicy one. Big mistake. One bite and my mouth was numb for a minute or so. Definitely too hot for my taste, so I switched to the one labeled BBQ sauce. Oh, well, that was your garden variety sweet'n'sour concoction, thick and red and, ahem, a little sweet and mostly sour. Not bad, but I would have wished for a simple vinegar-pepper sauce to just support the smoky meat flavor without giving it a totally different direction.
The potato salad on the other hand could have used a slight re-direction into a more distinctive aroma. It was not exactly bland, but also not very flavorful. Which cannot be said of the spicy mustard slaw – that thing gave me a kick in the pants, yessir! The mustard aroma was very prominent, and by gosh, spicy it was. But unlike the spicy BBQ sauce, it did not numb my taste buds, but left a very pleasant tingling sensation in my mouth. At the end, I used the excess sauce from the slaw for the pork, instead of the BBQ sauce. And the tiny rest, I scooped up with the cornbread, which had a very bread-like flavor with just a slight hint of sweetness. I've had cornbread before that was more like a sweet pound cake than real bread, but not this specimen, and actually that is how I like my cornbread.
All in all, although from the outside and also on the inside, Smokey C's BBQ & Wings is nothing special, their food is top notch. And next time I'll bring my wife – she is the wings expert in our family.
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Tuesday, December 31, 2013
60 and counting
When I started this quest, I originally had a little over 60 BBQ places on my list. My goal back then, two years ago, was to visit half of it.
Now, I have visited 60 restaurants here in the quest area, and 44 outside of this area, and I spent almost $1500 on it. That makes for a lot of red meat in the past two years - and for a lot of fun and great stories.
There are only a handful of places left here on my list - and I truly believe that I have assembled an utmost comprehensive list of BBQs in the Counties of Madison, Limestone, Morgan, and Lawrence. There are two reasons, why those few are still on the list - I have only limited time to do this, basically only every other Friday, and some of the places are more than an hour's drive from where I live; and secondly, I have shied away from some of those, because judging from the outside, they seemed not desirable to visit for me.
But let's see what the future brings - my goal for the new year is to cross out every entry on my list ...
Oh, and I have found a new quest, too. The newspaper blog AL.com ran an article about 22 Greasy Spoon Burger Joints you have to visit before you die (http://www.al.com/living/index.ssf/2013/11/22_greasy-spoon_burger_joints.html) ... I read that article and discovered that half a dozen or so are in my neighborhood. So, while I do not intend to work through the whole list, those that are in reach are absolutely something I need to visit. And write about my experience, of course: http://greasyspoonsinbama.blogspot.com/
Now, I have visited 60 restaurants here in the quest area, and 44 outside of this area, and I spent almost $1500 on it. That makes for a lot of red meat in the past two years - and for a lot of fun and great stories.
There are only a handful of places left here on my list - and I truly believe that I have assembled an utmost comprehensive list of BBQs in the Counties of Madison, Limestone, Morgan, and Lawrence. There are two reasons, why those few are still on the list - I have only limited time to do this, basically only every other Friday, and some of the places are more than an hour's drive from where I live; and secondly, I have shied away from some of those, because judging from the outside, they seemed not desirable to visit for me.
But let's see what the future brings - my goal for the new year is to cross out every entry on my list ...
Oh, and I have found a new quest, too. The newspaper blog AL.com ran an article about 22 Greasy Spoon Burger Joints you have to visit before you die (http://www.al.com/living/index.ssf/2013/11/22_greasy-spoon_burger_joints.html) ... I read that article and discovered that half a dozen or so are in my neighborhood. So, while I do not intend to work through the whole list, those that are in reach are absolutely something I need to visit. And write about my experience, of course: http://greasyspoonsinbama.blogspot.com/
Thursday, December 12, 2013
Larry & Harry's Bar-B-Que
Non-Quest BBQ No 44 – Harry & Larry's Bar-B-QueWinter Garden, Florida
During my occasional travels, I try to sample BBQ at those near and far away places outside the Quest area. I just really, really like that stuff ...
My experience after now three years of working on the Quest is that BBQ places in North Alabama are on average better than anywhere else I go. Once in a while you find a jewel also in other areas, but they are few and far between. Because my job involves frequent trips to Orlando, I had the opportunity to try many BBQ restaurants there over the years. I found many that are easy to forget, and only two that are up to par with the best ones at home - Yellow Dog Eats in Windermere, and Bubbalou's Bodacious Bar-B-Que in Orlando. Today, this short list received a new entrance - Larry & Harry's Bar-B-Que in Winter Garden.
A hole in a wall – seldomly has this expression described the actual situation better than with Harry & Larry's. Winter Garden is a town of about 35000 people some fifteen miles northwest of Orlando. The historic downtown has been beautifully restored and today contains an assortment of restaurants, shops, and cafés, a couple of museums and a performing arts venue. And, of course, a BBQ place, which you might miss driving by, because it is hidden behind a big old tree that covers almost the entire front. Immediately after you enter the place, you stand in front of a counter where you exchange your money for a card out of a poker deck that is sitting in a metal base. This you carry to your table and place it there, so that the server can identify who gets what. The dining room itself is a long narrow tube with five simple red wooden booths on each side. The decoration consists of several old signs for food and drink products from an era long gone, a large print of the place's name, and some odd wooden birds. It is one the most cozy atmospheres I ever found in a BBQ place. Also, the staff is extremely friendly and nice, and if you want to, you can even sit outside on the boardwalk on a couple of iron garden tables and eat your Q.
Although it was 86 degrees in the middle of December, I chose to dine inside. As usual, I had the pork plate, which came with two sides – baked beans and fries in my case – and a slice of Texas toast. Unfortunately, they did not have potato salad, but I do not hold that against them, because nobody is perfect.
Nevertheless, the baked beans were almost perfect. There were two kinds of beans in it, Pinto and Red Kidney, with a good helping of smoked meat. Top notch. Very savory - maybe a bit more sweetness could have improved the taste - and with a smoke aroma you would not believe. That of course came directly from the meat – the pulled pork had a very distinctive smoke aroma, a perfect pink ring and an intensive BBQ taste straight out of the BBQ bible. Marvelous. The pork was pulled, but came in big chunky pieces, and I had a lot of very tasty bark on it. It was very tender and juicy, without being mushy. Unfortunately I also found a few pieces of fat, but due to the coarse cut of the meat, it was easy to spot and remove them. A little bit more diligence when pulling the meat would have prevented that.
They have five sauces there, of which four are of the thick red variety, in different stages of hotness. Nothing special there. But the fifth sauce is something else. It is mustard based and has just the right spiciness to make your mouth tingle when eaten on the Texas toast. Together with the smoked pork it is just BBQ heaven.
All this wonderful food has its price, though – over thirteen bucks for the plate with a fountain drink is not cheap. But it was surely worth every cent.
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According to an NBC News report of a Kasich speech at the National Press Club:
[he] proposed leading a coalition that includes soldiers fighting on the ground in both Syria and Iraq. He would not indicate a number and said the coalition should not be involved in Syria's civil war.How soldiers can be on the ground in Syria without being involved in its civil war defies the imagination. This person is a serious presidential candidate? Not to mention Trump, Cruz, et al.? This is a disgrace.
Oh yes, I almost forgot: Kasich also wants a new government agency devoted to spreading "Judeo-Christian values" around the world. (The phrase is in quotes to indicate that these are, from what I gather, Kasich's words.)


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Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Lesson: KTBL or Twisting Stitches
Have you ever seen the instruction ktbl or k2tog-tbl and wonder what, exactly "tbl" means? Ktbl stands for "knit through back loop." Just as "pick up" and "pick up and knit" are somewhat confusing terminology, "knit through the back loop" can also be confusing, because each knit stitch has only one loop on the needle. So what exactly does this abbreviation mean?
Ktbl actually means to knit a stitch through the back of the loop, that is, to knit through the leg of the stitch that is sitting behind the needle.
Here's an extreme closeup of a standard knit stitch. Pick up some of your own knitting and insert the needle into the stitch to knit. See how you are putting the needle into the part of the stitch that is sitting in front of the left needle? Look at the photo below and notice how this opens up the stitch. When you look at the finished piece of knitting (there's a swatch below), notice how the little knit stitches look like rows of Vs.
Now, here's an extreme close up of knitting "through the back loop" aka "ktbl". See how the right needle is inserted into the part of the stitch that is behind the left needle? Look closely at the stitch and notice how it is different than the stitch above. Instead of being opened up, the legs of the stith are being crossed, creating an X at the bottom of the stitch. If you look at the swatch below, you can see how each of the stitches makes a small X instead of a V. Recently when I was teaching a knitting class in Alaska, one of the students gave me a great way to remember this stitch. She said, "You can tell when a stitch has been knitted through the back loop, because the stitch looks like it has to go potty." I bet you'll never forget that now!
So, why would you ever want to knit a stitch through the back loop and twist it? I use this techniqe in ribbing to create a more structured and tidy looking ribbing. I usually knit ribbing too loose and my stitches look sloppy. But when I twist the stitches in the ribbing, the pattern is much neater.
This swatch shows two different stitch patterns:
Top: Standard Stockinette stitch
Bottom: Twisted Stockinette stitch
This swatch shows two different versions of ribbing:
Top: Standard k1, p1 ribbing
Bottom: Twisted k1, p1 ribbing (*ktbl, p1; rep from *)
The differences between these swatches looks subtle, but the texture and flexibility of the fabric can change drastically when a lot of stitches are twisted.
Some knitters cross their stitches without realizing that they are knitting in an unusual fashion. There are times when you want to knit twisted stitches intentionally, but it can create undesirable results when you are twisting stitches by accident. Twisted stitches are tighter than standard stitches, and they create a fabric that is stiffer than plain knitting. This can ruin the drape of a sweater and it can also prevent a piece of knitting from felting. Felting requires loose stitches that move around during agitation, and if you've knitted a piece with twisted stitches, you may find that it does not felt to the desired size, and that the felted fabric shows up the shape of the stitches, even after prologned agitation in a washing machine.
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The EPA recently developed a new page on their Oil Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) Rule site -- SPCC for Agriculture -- at www.epa.gov/emergencies/content/spcc/spcc_ag.htm. The page is dedicated to helping farms and gins prevent oil spills as well as control a spill should one occur.
Many features of the new page make the site very helpful and informative.
The EPA on Oct. 7, 2010, extended by 12 months (to Nov. 10, 2011) the date for owners of a SPCC-regulated facility or farm to prepare or amend and implement a SPCC Plan. The likelihood of another extension is not great. Currently, farms or gins in operation on or before Aug. 16, 2002, must maintain or amend their existing plan by the amended date of Nov. 11, 2011. Farms or gins in operation after Aug. 16, 2002, but before Nov. 11, 2011, must prepare and use a plan on or before the amended date of Nov. 11, 2011.
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One divider with a pocket to store stickers, receipts and other items you need to take with you when you're out and about.Punched to fit your chosen planner size
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Hi Everyone! I have a quick post for you this morning... I had some more time to play yesterday..so I played with some new sets from the new catalog. :) I was inspired by a card that I found on Case Study to use the new set called Take Care. I really love the branch image, and the sweet nest from this set, so those are the images I used for this card -
I stamped my images with Chocolate Chip, and Lucky Limeade inks, then used my Blender pen to pull a little of the chocolate chip into the white space of the nest. Then cut it out, and added the heart shaped bitty buttons for "eggs". I used my XL bird punch for my love birds, and added the Blessings sentiment to make this a sweet baby card. I guess it could be a house warming card for a newly wed couple too. You decide. :) I love the outcome! Thanks for stopping by and taking a peek! :) Details Below -
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How to Sign-Up for 50th Anniversary Volunteer Service Opportunities
- Go to United Way's online Volunteer Center, volunteerocoee.org
- Complete a Volunteer Application. (Not necessary if you already have an account.)
- Click "Become A Volunteer" mid-page. Required fields are noted with an * asterisk.
- RE: Question #1 in the "Volunteer Registration Questions," box: Click "Yes- I attend Cleveland State Community College" – even if you are not a student. United Way uses this designator to report CSCC activity.
- Click "Become A Volunteer" mid-page. Required fields are noted with an * asterisk.
- Click "Browse Organizations."
- Select "Cleveland State Community College."
- Click "See All Volunteer Opportunities with This Organization" (right side of Cleveland State's page).
- Click "Sign-Up" (or "Express Interest") for the Opportunity you choose. A "Success!" page will display a note that Cleveland State has been notified (Sherry Holloway). If it is a "Sign-Up" opportunity you will receive only one email from the website. That is all. Be sure to add the event to your calendar. If it is an "Express Interest" opportunity you will receive one email from the website and one email from Sherry Holloway to assist in scheduling the date/time of your volunteer assignment.
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Amazon cracks down
Just learned that @Amazon deactivated my affiliates account, saying: "This decision is final and not subject to appeal."
The larger concern, of course, is if Amazon will start denying its retail channel to authors and booksellers. On the other hand, it's good to see that Amazon, unlike Wikipedia, doesn't appear to be prone to playing favorites with its rule enforcement.
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Ever since Microsoft canceled the Courier project in early 2010, the two-screen tablet concept has become a unicorn of the gadget world. Sony attempted it with its Tablet P, but was only met with limited success. But as tablets quickly become a common household item for an ever-growing number of families, more and more tablet makers are becoming more daring and creative with their developments.
In November of last year, I suggested the perfect manufacturer to push the dual-screen tablet concept is ASUS. With their very first Android-powered tablet, they were willing to break a few boundaries and innovate something new and different – at least in the modern tablet sector. A detachable keyboard for the relatively affordable Eee Pad Transformer tablet was enough to pique the interests of enough individuals to keep the tablet out of stock for months after its initial release. Then followed the Padfone concept, in which a smartphone can be docked in a tablet-like terminal that only consists of a battery pack and a touchscreen display.
I explained that merging these two peripherals – the external display and detachable keyboard – to create a single attachment would be groundbreaking. A typical tablet with an add-on keyboard or display? Brilliant.
Alas, ASUS has yet to come up with anything to that effect. My fingers are still crossed, though, as ASUS will have to think of something new now that Microsoft is trampling their originality with Surface and the add-on Touch Covers and Type Covers.
As far as dreams of dual-screen tablets go, however, something could be in the pipeline – and we're hoping it is. Just under one year ago, Apple filed for yet another patent with the US Patent & Trademark Office. Today, that patent application was made public by the USPTO, revealing a clever trick Apple has up its sleeve. The idea is a Smart Cover that doubles as an additional, flexible display. Powered by dedicated contacts on the side of the iPad itself, the cover could display a surplus of information without interfering with the users' content and significantly enhancing the experience.
The possibilities with a smart peripheral of this caliber stretch far and wide. The secondary screen could display any overflow information, such as notifications, recent applications or, as one of the attached drawings suggests, media controls. The patent also suggests the additional display could make for an on-screen keyboard attachment, not unlike the Microsoft Surface Touch Cover, freeing up ample display space and greatly adding to the productivity value of the iPad.
I've been infatuated by multi-screen mobile gadgets since first hearing about the Courier. Each subsequent rumor and multi-display gadget concept has only grown my anticipation for a tablet or smartphone with multiple displays. (For clarity, I ignore the existence of the Sony Tablet P and Kyocera Echo.) Apple's patent application is, for the most part, exactly what I have had in mind.
As most of you know by now, I'm a tablet fiend. I use my iPad for quite literally anything and everything I can, and the Nexus 7 has become quite the entertainment machine. The ability to freely add and remove a display to a mobile device isn't exactly novel – you can easily plug your mobile devices into an external monitor with literally no qualms. But the value of something to this degree is the level of customization and optimization that would come along with an add-on display that has been made specifically for the iPad. It's not just another touchscreen display, it can be one of many things. Most importantly, it could be a very useful tool. For me, an add-on display for on-screen typing would be a very welcomed addition.
My only concern is that this would be Apple-made and wouldn't come cheap. Their current crop of Smart Covers, which are Tjust a thin, flexible piece of polyurethane, a metal spine and a few magnets, run $40. Smart Cases, which are the same idea with a plastic case enclosing the back are $50. I can't even begin to imagine what Apple would charge for something like this with a flexible display. $150? $200? I honestly wouldn't be surprised it it carried a price tag even larger than that.
Hey, one can dream, though. Here's to hoping Apple actually pursues this technology and doesn't just sit on this patent if and when it's granted. And here's to hoping we won't have to surrender our first born to get our hands on one.
What say you, ladies and gents? Would you be interested in a Smart Cover for your iPad that has an embedded display? What benefits do you imagine it would have? Or will it be too expensive and fragile to be feasible?
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1: There will be ten questions at the end of this post relating to The Experiment. All answers can be found in some form or fashion on this blog.
2: Find the answers to all the questions and email them to me at email@example.com by midnight ET October 14th. Each email will constitute one entry. (Limit one entry per email address. If you have multiple email addresses, you can enter from each one.)
3: Only entries that get all ten answers correct will be entered in a drawing for a free signed copy of The Experiment.
4: All entries, regardless of whether or not all the answers are correct, will be entered in a drawing for second and third prize, which consists of a free eBook version of The Experiment.
That about sums it all up. Happy hunting!
Contest Questions
1) Which five characters were named in the dreams that inspired The Experiment?
2) What special ability does Anne Rubin have?
3) What kind of animal was Audrey Raingold's dissection specimen?
4) What was Henry Rubin's name in the original draft?
5) What is Ian Raingold's full first name?
6) At the beginning of the book, who is hiding in the cellar?
7) What two families do the Raingolds stay with in the PQR dormitory?
8) Where were Anne and Edmund when they were kidnapped?
9) In The Experiment, who is the President of the United States?
10) What state is Courtstone in?


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- Campaign against Climate Change Trade Union Group
- Capitalism vs. the Climate
- Climate and Capitalism
- Strike for Climate Justice - calling for an general strike in solidarity with the international climate change demonstrations
- Climate Workers - building a worker-led, grassroots labor movement for climate justice
- Communities for a Better Environment
- Delivering Community Power
- Earth First!
- Earth Strike
- Extinction Rebellion
- Fracking Across the United States
- Earth Justice Atlas
- Free Marius Mason
- Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives
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- Green Bans - Over 40 Years of Art, Community and Union Action in the Public Realm
- 40 Years of Green Bans
- Hazards Magazine
- helppa.org (John Bolenbaugh's documentary site)
- Idle No More
- ironandearth.org (tar sands workers calling for just transition to renewable energy) and workersclimateplan.ca
- judibari.info (publicity site for Steve Ongerth's book about Judi Bari and Earth First! - IWW Local #1, Redwood Uprising)
- judibari.org (authorized biographical site maintained by Nicholas Wilson of Albion, California)
- just-transition.info
- Labor Network for Sustainability
- Leap Manifesto
- Lucas Plan
- Lynn Gehl - Gii-Zhigaate Mnidookwe Algonquin Anishinaabe - Mekina Ndoodem
- Mapping Fossil Fuel Resistance
- Movement Generation Justice & Ecology Project
- National Nurses United
- Railroad Workers United
- refineryreport.org - Refinery Report Shining a spotlight on refineries throughout the United States and Canada
- Rising Tide North America
- Karen Silkwood archives (Romero Institute collection)
- Strike Corps (an organizer development project of the IWW)
- Sunflower Alliance
- System Change not Climate Change
- Project Toxicdocs
- The True Cost of Chevron
- Unions Against Fracking
- Trade Unions for Energy Democracy
- La Via Campesina
- Who Bombed Judi Bari? (publicity site for Darryl Cherney's and Mary Liz Thomson's documentary film about Judi Bari).
- wildleaks.org
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Goodreads Summary: "In his New York Times bestselling novel, David Levithan introduces readers to what Entertainment Weekly calls a "wise, wildly unique" love story about A, a teen who wakes up every morning in a different body, living a different life.I finished this book a few minutes ago and immediately opened this post to type out my immediate reactions to the novel. I'm not sure I'm capable. David Levithan is one of those authors that leaves me breathless every time, he awes me with his talent, and stretches my brain in new and fascinating ways...he makes me think with every word that he writes and leaves me full of questions. Every Day was no exception to the rule.
Every day a different body. Every day a different life. Every day in love with the same girl.
There's never any warning about where it will be or who it will be. A has made peace with that, even established guidelines by which to live: Never get too attached. Avoid being noticed. Do not interfere.
It's all fine until the morning that A wakes up in the body of Justin and meets Justin's girlfriend, Rhiannon. From that moment, the rules by which A has been living no longer apply. Because finally A has found someone he wants to be with—day in, day out, day after day.
With his new novel, David Levithan, bestselling co-author of Will Grayson, Will Grayson, and Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, has pushed himself to new creative heights. He has written a captivating story that will fascinate readers as they begin to comprehend the complexities of life and love in A's world, as A and Rhiannon seek to discover if you can truly love someone who is destined to change every day."
I loved reading about the character of "A" who was almost the ideal person and yet not. "A" has the sort of tolerance that we can only dream of having, "A" is the sort of person that we all wish that we could be and that we wish the world could be filled with. And yet, even with all of these sterling qualities "A" is not perfect because "A" is still a person. "A" isn't content with "A"'s lot in life, "A" wants more just like the rest of us. I think "A" is an excellent example of Levithan's characterization; he creates these amazing characters, these quietly larger than life figures [that's not phrasing it right but I'm not sure how to communicate it to do them justice] that are just so heart-breakingly...real? He creates characters that you love to read about, characters that will stick with you long after you've turned the last page, and characters that will make you question what you thought you knew about yourself and what you'd like out of yourself.
I'm seriously at a loss of words to explain this book; I want to immediately turn around and start at the beginning again with a reread, I want to put it aside and savor it, I want to pass it around to everyone I know and let them bask in the glow of this wonderful read. I loved it, I loved it quietly, it crept in softly then clutched at my heart, tore at the heartstrings, and made me ache. The concept is clever, the synopsis intrigues, and the follow-through is dead-on. Every Day is a beautiful love story, it is a beautiful novel, and it is a captivating read.


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On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 11:17:24PM +0100, Bruno Rohee wrote: > Ok, I took the time to produce a small testcase (by reducing a big crashing > document, with the help of my father). It's so simple that it's strange that > nobody found it before... > > You only have to forget <li>'s in an <ul> to crash it. (Sample doc attached) > > The funniest part is that tidy with the patch included considers the document > to be valid HTML. I hope that someone knowing more the parser internals will > fix it so node->tag will always have a decent value, my patch should be > integrated anyway. That was for the November tidy, January tidy doesn't show this bug, but my patch can still be applied... -- Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. -- Wernher von BraunReceived on Friday, 24 March 2000 13:14:22 UTC
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In 2003, the Historic Preservation Trust received a bequest of the Bowmansville Roller Mill (1850) in Narvon. In order to protect the property in perpetuity, a preservation easement was put into place. This lowered the property value thereby making it affordable to potential buyers. In 2004, the mill was sold to private owners who agreed to abide by the tenets of the easement. This is a good example of how a preservation easement can have a positive economic impact on a property, and help maintain the character and quality of life of a neighborhood.


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Yesterday's post, Sensing the Qualities of Qi part 1, described a qigong healer's ability to sense the qualities of the qi of cells growing in laboratory cultures. He was able to detect that a culture contained abnormal cells even though he was told the cells were healthy. As a spiritual healer myself, I wondered what qigong training methods are used to develop this ability.
I was able to find out the name of this form of qigong at the Healing Ways web site. The form is called External Qi Healing (Wai Qi Zhi Liao)
External Qi Healing (Wai Qi Zhi Liao): Qigong includes a sophisticated system of health assessment and non-contact treatment called External Qi Healing (EQH). The healer learns to tap into a well of healing energy in nature and "funnel" it through his or her body. Unlike some purely intuitive systems, EQH includes exercises that increase sensitivity to energy fields and efficacy of treatment. The more you practice External Qi Healing exercises and meditations, the more effective your healing treatment.
The way to learn External Qi Healing is described in External Qi Healing A Primer... (pdf) by Rich Mooney at the National Qigong Association web site:
Extra exercise #1: From Posture Three, that is the palms facing each other at chest height, slowly and gently exhale, (not harshly like when you do a tension exercise), and bring the palms close to each other, but not allowing them to touch. On the inhale, let the hands expand away from each other for the duration of the inhale, or until they are spread about 2 feet away from each other.
It seems the way you develop sensitivity to the qi field is to do a type of meditation where you hold your hands with the palms facing each other, moving them together and apart slowly in synchrony with breathing. This makes perfect sense. As you move your palms together and apart you move them through your own energy field so you develop sensitivity by observing your own field.
This exercise is similar to exercises that are taught in other forms of energy healing. Most commonly this is used to help people recognize that energy healing is something that you can perceive very easily. Beginners are often told to bring their hands close together and notice if they can feel anything. Most people do. So it makes perfect sense that repeating this exercise will, over time, make one more sensitive to the energy field around living things.
If you have any doubts about the effectiveness of spiritual healing try reading "The Effect of the Laying On of Hands on Transplanted Breast Cancer in Mice", (pdf) by William F. Bengston, David Krinsley, Journal of Scientific Exploration, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 353-364, 2000.
The method of spiritual healing I use is described on my web site.
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Jason Augustus joins Matthew Heimbach for Friday's edition of The Daily Traditionalist and they start by discussing the points raised by Matt during his Hammerfest speech. Much has changed over the years in the American White Nationalist movement, there used to be a lot of infighting between groups over ridiculous things which caused people like Jason to become burned out by it all. Since then it has moved on from being a way to pass time at the weekend to being serious revolutionary activity with a political goal.
A theme of Matt's talk was that Nationalism is rising all around the world even among the non-White nations. Duterte has massive support after acting on Nationalist principles and clearing up the drugs and corruption in the Philippines. He has recently also stated that he does not care for American military support and that he does not need Obama's investment in order to put his people first. Jason thinks that no foreign country should think it has a right to interfere in another country's foreign policy and Matt reminds us that this is one of Trump's platforms, removing military bases from foreign countries.
Golden Dawn have recently endorsed Donald Trump, one of very few parties with political success in Europe to do so. They are the third largest party in Greece and just going to one meeting of theirs proves that they are not a fringe party as the Jewish press would like us to believe. Matt talks about his time in Greece recently before drawing attention to a young White man in America who was supporting Blue Lives Matter and had his skull cracked open by Black Lies Matter terrorists. TWP are trying to promote his cause and help with providing some funds for him. This attack is part of the backlash against the upsurge in White Nationalism and it shows the lengths that these savages will go to when they see the slightest support for something just a fraction right of politically correct.
Attacks like this serve to drive more people to our cause, but they also tell us that we need to be there on the ground to protect our people from this sort of thing and to advocate for the victims. Last year the TWP protested about a particular case where a young White man was savagely beaten and the Black thugs punished with writing assignments. The protest drew the attention of the mainstream media and highlighted this injustice against our people.
To finish the show Matt and Jason talk about race-mixing, with particular reference to Sheldon Adelson who has complained about Jews mixing their blood with goyim. Jews are the worst offenders for promoting this kind of genocidal degeneracy to our own people so it is great to hear about blowback affecting them like this.
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Get to Know Your Neighborhood
Milwaukee is a thriving city with historic architecture and nieghborhoods for everyone. From opportunities to enjoy the shoreline of Lake Michigan, to a thriving culture and arts scene, and award winning parks, Milwaukee is an affordable place in the Midwest to call home. Our neighborhoods are vibrant centers of culture and economic activity, as well as affordable places for families to live and work. Listed below are resources that will assist you and your family to explore Milwaukee's neighborhoods. Each unique neighborhood has a rich history and an engaging community that is sure to appeal to a variety of people.
These partners are a vital part of the communities they represent and active members of Take Root Milwaukee.
Agape Community Center is a nonprofit community center in northwest Milwaukee. In the spirit of compassion and social justice, Agape Community Center is committed to helping build community in area neighborhoods so everyone can thrive. The organization offers programming for residents, businesses and institutions in the Thurston Woods, Old North Milwaukee and Fairfield neighborhoods, between 43rd Street and Teutonia Avenue, and between Green Tree Road and Villard Avenue. These area neighborhoods have provided generations of Milwaukeeans with their first experience of homeownership in distinctive tree-lined blocks, showcasing a diverse array of charming architectural styles and surrounded by numerous beautiful parks. Agape is a member of the Milwaukee Healthy Neighborhood Initiative.
Contact their Neighborhood Coordinator at 414-464-4440 x239 or visit their website to learn more.
Clarke Square Neighborhood Initiative is part of the Zilber Neighborhood Initiative, Clarke Square Neighborhood Initiative is a commitment to improve the quality of life in the Historic Clarke Square Neighborhood. In 2010, they completed a Qualify of Life Plan that strives to honor residents by building on the strong physical and human assets in the community.
Contact Ramon Candelaria, Executive Director at 414-795-8334 for more information.
Harambee Great Neighborhood Initiative (HGNI) is a community based nonprofit coalition with the mission of assisting residents of the Harambee neighborhood in realizing their vision for the community. HGNI and its coalition of nonprofit agencies and resident groups are improving the quality of life in Harambee through creative resident and organizational collaborations, neighborhood specific home ownership resources, and a variety of other quality of life projects and programs designed to form lasting connections and sustainable community development.
Contact Leif Otteson, Community Organizer at 414-364-6486 or firstname.lastname@example.com to learn more about this thriving Milwaukee community and our services.
Havenwoods Community is a Neighborhood centered near Silver Spring Drive and 60th Street with an incredible amount to offer for prospective residents. Within the neighborhood's boundaries lie the 237-acre Havenwoods State Park. Additionally, In the heart of Havenwoods lies a vibrant industrial corridor that includes more than 150 businesses and stretches over 2 square miles. The size and scale of the companies within Havenwoods vary from locally owned, family businesses to large international corporations such as Brady Corporation.
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Whenever Richard Cory went down town,
We people on the pavement looked at him:
He was a gentleman from sole to crown,
Clean favored, and imperially slim. —Richard Cory Interactive Adventure (LLamas)
Quite frankly, this was a disappointment, but it was still sick, so it might still have some morbid entertainment value. (The climax of the game is visual, which overwhelms and in my opinion distorts the literary message of the poem.)
Via Giant Robots in Space Therapy (which wins this month's "Coolest Blog Title" award.)