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I forgot to bring my pencil, so I had to sketch with my Copic multiliner in 0.03. It's thin and really easy to sketch with, but I feel that I put too much pressure on it. I'm afraid it'll run out of ink soon, ahh!
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Scientists have found a feather of a bird previously thought extinct in South Australia, with no sightings for more than 100 years.
The feather of the night parrot was found in the Kalamurina wildlife sanctuary in the state's northeast after a prolonged investigation by ecologists from the Australian Wildlife Conservancy, who used cameras, a helicopter and old records in their search.
Ecologists John Young who made the find said there was no doubt about the feathers origins after it was found in a wedge-tailed eagle's nest.
"An unmistakable small green feather appeared within the fresh base lining of one of the nests," Mr Young said in a statement.
The feather of the parrot, which is nocturnal, relatively small and short-tailed, has been independently verified and the conservancy said the next step would be to assess the night parrots' population size.
The parrot is known as one of Australia's most elusive birds, with only a few confirmed sightings.

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Final Reflections on New Orleans
My reflections on New Orleans begins with a calender. Why is this calender so special? That begins with where and how it was found. In the post called, "She Died in the Doorway", I told Patsy's story. Her house had been untouched since Katrina. Everything on the inside of the house preserved in their post storm condition, including this calender. If you notice, it's stuck on the month of August, 2005, the month of Katrina, which hit on August 29th. It's also the day that Patsy died in the doorway of her house as she drowned in the flood waters from the breached levees.
My crew of atheists and Christians cleaned up the inside of the house. Refrigerator, stove, broken shelves, couches, beds, clothes, books, and a petrified cat. They tore down the mold encrusted walls, ceilings, and carpet. The house has been completely gutted and ready for the reconstruction crews. This house will be made livable again for a family that doesn't have house, something we did for another house during the week. Trinity buys these houses, fixes them, and sells them. Then, with the profits, they do the same thing for another house. No one makes a profit from the sale except the family who gets a refurbished house.
Hopefully, those in Patsy's house will remember her. We will with this calender. It represents all the hard work our crew did. They really worked hard on those houses doing some amazing work in the space of four days. They contributed a ton of man and woman hours to rebuilding of New Orleans.
If you notice, we all signed the calender and framed it.
The importance of these signatures are obvious. They are atheists. They are Christians. People who have vast philosophical and theological differences working together. I talked about the talks at Lafite's, but that was only a small part of the talks I heard. Talks in the cars. Talks on the work sites. Talks walking through French Quarter. Christian and atheist discussing, arguing, and laughing. It was truly Shalom. I have been on a lot of service project trips. Navajo Nation. Tohono O'Odham Nation. Ireland. With respect to those groups, I have never been a part of a group that gelled so well together. I'll be honest, I had no idea how the group dynamics would work. It's one thing to sit around at Ohio State for a few hours and quite another to work hard together for eight hours straight. Even in the best of groups, this can often be a formula for conflict.
Not so with this group. I can honestly say there was no tension in this group at all. Everyone in the group has plans to hang out at Ohio State. There is no doubt that the relastionship between the two groups went to another level with this trip.
So, this framed calender is going to hang at the Cloister at Ohio State. Ashley and I will probably take it places we speak together. Hopefully, people will be inspired to do the hard work of Christian/Atheist dialogue. Hopefully, they will see what is possible when everyone is willing to be humble and put themselves in uncomfortable positions.
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In a lot of ways you probably already associate your eating habits with sleep - even if it's only the fact that you always need a nap after gorging during your Thanksgiving feast - but diet is one of the key factors that can affect the quality of our sleep that we rarely give much thought to.
Back in the dark times of my modeling days and consulting, it was easy to associate my stunted sleep patterns with jet lag and crazy long "make-it-happen" hustle hours, but when sleepless nights kept plaguing me long after I gave up my career of fashion, and building businesses I knew there was something else going on.
Unfortunately, while I had an inkling that something wasn't right in my world, it took me several years before I was able to see the connection between what I was putting into my body and what I was really getting out of it. I thought I was doing everything right, but what I couldn't see was that none of it was right for me.
On the surface we all understand certain reactions between our body and what we ingest. Coffee will wake us up and bring us to high alert, while sweet treats will ramp us up for a short passing moment. Fast food will be satisfying while we're eating it (thanks to release of those confusing feel-good hormones like dopamine that light up the reward center of our brain, but also get released when we do awful things like smoke and take drugs), but will then make us feel awful after the final bite; while on the other hand eating some fresh fruit might not give you that same buzz in the pleasure centre of your brain that helps us to form lasting habits.
What we don't think about is the lasting effect of our food. We get so caught up in the immediate feelings in our body - whether it's the release of rewarding chemicals in our brain or a rumbling in our stomach - we forget about our meals by the time we're actually digesting them.
Whether you're going to bed wired from drinking caffeine in the evening or have digestion issues that are making you toss and turn at night, it's time to start acknowledging that what we put into our body is greatly affecting our health as well as our sleeping habits.
While the idea of food as fuel is nothing new, it's only been in recent years that we've been hearing about the connection between food and our gut health - and more importantly, the connection between our gut and our overall health.
The human gut is a complex and diverse world in itself, filled with millions upon millions of microscopic organisms known as microbes. While it might sound a little gross when you first think about the trillions of microorganisms living on and inside you right now in the form of bacteria, fungi or viruses, the fact is that we rely on these organisms to help maintain proper function of our bodies.
A leaky gut is another name for the condition "Hyperpermeable Intestines", where the intestinal lining breaks down, allowing food, parasites and bacteria to make its way directly into the bloodstream. Your intestines basically function as a molecule screening zone and only allow the molecules to pass into your bloodstream after they've been "screened" for toxins, so when your gut is leaking you're missing out on this crucial screening process.
One of the main causes of Leaky Gut is inflammation brought on by poor diet. By consuming a diet with large amounts of refined sugars, processed foods and gluten, which your body was not designed to process in such high quantities, you start to build up unsafe levels of toxins which effectively erode the intestinal wall.
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Not only are your intestines your body's first line of defense against sickness and infection, but the gut microbiome is also connected to your metabolism, your brain and your sleep cycle. This means that the shifting gut microbiome can affect your circadian rhythms, your sleep cycle and the hormones your brain releases to regulate sleep and wakefulness. As a result, those who struggle with regulating their sleep can often look to a leaky gut to find the cause.
The intestinal microbiome produces and releases some of the same neurotransmitters that help to regulate mood and control your sleep, such as dopamine and serotonin. It also produces its own form of melatonin, which we commonly think of as the "sleepy hormone", but melatonin deficiencies can also contribute to leaky gut syndrome.
While it is natural to find your gut in a permanent state of flux, after all it is filled with living organisms that must die off and be replenished, when our gut health swings too far in one direction that's when we get the dangerous buildup of toxins that leads to inflammation. Your genes are only responsible for about 10% of diseases, the other 90% comes from environmental factors - including the state of your gut health.
In much the same way as our body has circadian rhythms to regulate our sleep, our gut microbiome experiences its own rhythms, which are affected by the foods we eat as well as our eating schedule. Typically, a traditional "Western" diet is high in saturated fats and carbohydrates, which studies have shown has an adverse effect on your gut microbiome and can also send signals that disrupt your circadian rhythm.
Eating your way to a better night's sleep
Since your gut microbiome is directly affected by the foods you eat, which in turn go on to affect your body's functions and brain health, it goes without saying that it is crucial that we take care with what we're putting into our body, as well as when we're eating - eating a big meal full of great nutrients is still going to have an adverse effect on us if we're eating it 5 minutes before falling into bed at 11pm.
On a basic level, we need the nutrients derived from the foods we eat to power our body and rebuild our cells, but we also need to eat a diverse range of foods because the vast colonies of microorganisms living within us all require different fuel for them to function properly. This is just one of the many reasons why we should not be subsisting on junk food - it serves no nutritional value to the body and actually breaks down the parts we need to function properly.
If you're wanting to start taking control of your gut health to help regulate your sleep patterns, lose weight and balance your moods then there are lots of diet tweaks you can make to your current eating plan to improve the state of your gut health.
An elimination diet will help you to get to the bottom of which food groups are wreaking havoc on your gut. The foods most likely to be causing you problems are sugars, starches and grains, so these are a great place to start, but instead of simply eliminating half the food groups you're eating you're going to need to start incorporating some of the foods that are known to help the state of your gut health as well.
Gut flora loves to feed on prebiotic foods which are mostly made up of fibre, so it is important to ensure you're getting enough high quality dietary fibre in your diet through vegetables like asparagus and mushrooms, or through whole grains and oats. You also need to ensure you're ingesting lots of probiotics, which are foods that have been fermented to naturally grow beneficial bacteria that your gut needs to thrive, examples of this include fermented vegetables like kimchi and sauerkraut, or fermented beverages like kombucha.
We've finally moved past the idea that all fats were created equal - and are equally bad for you. In fact, to ensure proper function of your body and optimal gut health, it is important to ingest a diet full of high quality fats like those found in fish oil and avocado.
While changing your diet will definitely have an impact on both your gut health and sleeping habits, it is crucial that you also take care to create a routine around your eating habits, because your intestinal microbiota exhibits daily oscillations that are influenced by feeding rhythms, leading to time-specific compositional and functional profiles over the course of a day. Try to eat your breakfast at the same time every day, limit your coffee intake (and please don't drink it after 2pm if you're wanting uninterrupted sleep!) and eat your dinner before 7pm to allow plenty of time for your body to digest it before it begins the busy work of healing itself while you sleep.
Take time to balance your meals.
Your body will thank you later!
In a perfect world we'd all be eating a wonderfully balanced diet that would effortlessly provide us with everything we need for healthy body function with none of the nasties, but sometimes even if we're trying to eat all the right things our bodies might struggle to absorb them correctly. This could be due to a similar internal erosion that creates Leaky Gut or a naturally occurring deficiency in your body, so it may be necessary to take supplements to help support your body and give yourself the best shot at a great night's sleep.
Probiotic supplements will help to even out the balance of good and bad bacteria in your gut (both of which you need to perform at your highest level), magnesium and zinc will help to reverse some of the damage to your gut caused by inflammation, and essential fish oils omega-3 will help to repair the intestinal walls if you're suffering from leaky gut.
Ultimately, our eating habits and our sleep cycle are irrevocably entwined. One cannot function properly without the other, so it is vital that we do everything we can to avoid damaging toxins and help our bodies to repair themselves.
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Saltspring Island is a place where you can disconnect from the, "real" world and rediscover what truly matters in life.... your relationships with people, the land, the community and most importantly with yourself.
My first introduction to this special place was during a trip with my husband Michael, in the early 90's. We were newly married, young, broke and without many travel miles under our belt. Saltspring seemed like a vaguely appealing place to visit and most importantly, fit our humble budget. Michael had spent every summer there since he was a baby and always talked about what an amazing place it was growing up for him and his family. Knowing how broke we were, I couldn't help but think how cute it was, that he was trying so hard to sell me on the wonderment of a Saltspring trip vs. the appealing allure of some far flung exotic resort destination that we clearly couldn't afford.
As it turned out, he was absolutely right and ever since I set foot on that little piece of paradise, I have fallen under its spell. The same spell I'm sure many others have fallen under. Perhaps it's the wonderfully peculiar people who reside here, or the faint aroma of the briny salt air, the winding country roads, the pastoral beauty or even the pristine lakes that draw people here. Or just maybe, it's the stunning mountain ranges that allow for magnificent views of the rocky shorelines that seem to protect this place from the craziness of the world beyond. Whatever it may be, there is something undeniable about the appeal of this place.
In stark contrast to this peaceful backdrop, is the surprisingly robust commercial activity found in the village of Ganges and to a lesser degree, Fulford harbour and Vesuvius Bay. It's the perfect combination of an unexpected city energy mixed with the tranquility that one would expect on a small island. I particularly like the energy and feel of Ganges in the summer. There are plenty of restaurants and cool food trucks that would appeal to the most discerning foodie. Many focus on top quality local ingredients and environmental sustainability… they had me at hello!!! The cherry on top for me, is the high end, trendy home decor and clothing stores that seem to have sprung up over the last few years. Every summer, I look forward to shopping at some of my fave places like: Twang and Pearl, Thrive Lifestyle, The Wardrobe, Mondo and the The Salt shop to name a few. Saltspring is set apart from many of the other Gulf islands because anything and everything you need or want can be found without ever having to go off island. Although these added amenities make the island even better, they are only a small part of what keeps us coming back every year. Another bonus is that Saltspring is perfectly situated to use as a springboard for island hopping if your feeling adventurous.
Even though life has been good to us and our budget is just a bit bigger... we don't choose to stay in a luxurious spa like resort although they have them there. We stay in what could best be described as a modest little 10x10 bungalow with a "very modest" outdoor cooking facility on St. Mary's lake. You read that right... four full size human beings spending a week together in the equivalent of a garden shed and we LOVE every minute of it. Although I have to admit, I don't love the shared bathroom facility or the hike to get there in the middle of the night. Lets just say the nighttime wildlife encounters can make for some pretty funny family stories. This year we had the option of taking a full size cabin on the lake and we all told the owner we would rather stay in the small bungalow... Even he was shocked that we didn't at least want to rent out two bungalows now that the girls are older and bigger. We've discovered that tight quarters make for close families and although we might not be able to live like this everyday... we always seem to leave the island with a renewed sense of bonding that is strengthened after every trip.
Saltspring is the largest of the gulf islands easily accessible from either Vancouver or Victoria British Columbia by ferry or float plane. Traditionally, part of the Coast Salish people's territory, Saltspring has benefitted from the richness of the many cultures that have had the privilege of calling it home. It's beginnings were built upon a patchwork of interesting people from different cultures that still resonates among the locals today. About half of the early settlers to the island were African Americans who left from San Fransisco to escape the racism that existed there 1858. They were then followed by Europeans, Australians and other Americans who had come to Canada in search of gold. Among the early settlers were a number of former Hudson Bay company employees who brought with them several Hawaiians and Japanese as labourers. As one could imagine, the adversity involved in settling a new land, helped to bridge the differences of this motley crew of people and led to strong bonds of friendship. Since the 1930's tourists began flocking to Salt Spring... and the rest is history.
Aside from being known for its mild climate, Saltspring boasts fertile soil, abundant seafood, large fruit harvests, famous lamb, artisan cheeses and now even some great wineries. Tours of these wineries and cheese producers have become quite popular. It really is a paradise and has been referred to in the New York Times as, "one of the prettiest artist towns in North America." As for me, I absolutely love the relaxed feel of this place, from the hippies (many shoeless lol!!!) that still gather in the town centre every summer, to the artists, crafts people and farmers who set up every weekend to display their latest creations at the popular Saturday market. If you love to people watch this is definitely the place for you!!! If you can't be there for the market don't worry... on almost every street throughout the island you'll find signs and sandwich boards directing you to locals selling their wares. If you're a foodie you'll absolutely love the Tuesday market!!! This is my favourite market, it gives me a chance to chat with farmers, chefs and foodies alike.
The words of Dejan Stojanovic the well known philosopher/poet, seem appropriate for describing how Saltspring makes me feel...
"I've visited many places, some of them quite exotic and far away, but always I returned to myself."


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Friday I put Flowersz up for a Caverns of Time – Durnhold run in the hopes that I could complete that lingering Escort Quest. It didn't look good at first, food we spent ages looking for a Tank for our group. Eventually our druid was persuaded to respecc and took up the post of Tank. All this waiting and respeccing took around an hour. After that it went pretty well, glaucoma the entire run only took 50 minutes! Only 3 deaths in total, all in the last fight, one of them Flowersz. And quite importantly the two of us that had quests both got them completed without any problems or confusion.
I'm particularly proud that in the last fight I managed to to self rezz and then almost immediately after rezzed a hunter that had died a couple of minutes earlier during a break between waves. Actually, looking really closely at the logs I didn't do it, it was the Shadow Priest, I was out of range. But I did try.
The self rezz was definitely worth it – we didn't wipe and the heals were probably needed.
I even remembered to cast "heroism" a few times, one of my least used, but groovy party buffing, spells.
Looking at the logs although only a small number of my spells failed because I was out of range, quite a few chain heals only healed one person. Here's my chain Heal analysis:
2 bounces:22
1 bounces:23
0 bounces:32
Out of Line Of Sight:2
In Global Cooldown:1
Out of Range:3
Clearly I need to be more aware of where the other players are positioned since 40% of my chain heals are only healing one target – a Lesser Healing Wave is more Time,Mana and Healing efficient in these cases.
I think most of these poor chain heal cases were in the final fight where the party got quite spread out which is bad practice anyway.
Looking at the party 3 of the members were from the "Random" guild so it was pretty much a guild run, which in turn goes some way to explaining why the run was a good one.
The Party:
Alexiell 70 Female Draenei Hunter [Random] IOP Score:36
Czaria 70 Female Draenei Priest [Random] IOP Score:155
Sonofgloin 68 Male Dwarf Hunter [Tactical Chaos] IOP Score:85
Windfour 68 Female Night Elf Druid [Random] IOP Score:128
Flowersz 70 Female Draenei Shaman [Munqui Tribe] IOP Score:102


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Elements of a Craftsman Kitchen
Let's get this bit of reality out of the way right now. The Craftsman kitchen never really existed–at least not in the form that we would like to imagine.
For one, the emphasis of the Craftsman house was more on the exterior and on interior areas other than the kitchen. More importantly, the kitchen in the early 20th century did not occupy the vaunted places that it does today. And in high-style Craftsman houses, such as the pictured Gamble house of Pasadena, CA, the kitchen was a place for the help, not the residents.
So, what's a 21st-century person--accustomed to lavish kitchens--to do? Solution: fake it with the next best thing. Taking the spirit of the Craftsman house, we present to you--with a liberal creative license--a way to create a Craftsman kitchen.
Essential Elements
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- Cabinetry
- Colors
- Lighting
- Flooring
- Counters
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Awesome Cabinetry
Any self-respecting Craftsman kitchen will have amazing cabinetry. We include this as our first step because, if you're going to spend the money, you'd better put it in the cabinets.
This movement was characterized by fine woodworking and craftsmanship. Are you willing to spend big bucks for custom-built kitchen cabinets? Probably not. But at the very least, you can look for kitchen cabinets that are hardwood or hardwood veneer, rather than thermofoil or soft woods.
Manufacturers like Crownpoint even have an Arts and Crafts series that allows you to buy into that distinctive geometric look without having to build it from scratch.Continue to 3 of 7 below.
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Muted or Earthen Colors
The reigning color aesthetic will be muted earthen colors or neutrals. Think grays, creams, rusty reds, muted green, soft browns, and off-whites.
You can go with any paint manufacturer, but we've chosen a few Valspar colors which Valspar itself says represents an accurate Craftsman palette:
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- Winter Calm
- Opal Slate
- Seafoam Storm
- Sharkfin
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Drop or Chandelier Lighting
Forget the can or track lights of contemporary kitchens. Instead, you'll want drop, pendant, or chandelier lights. Pictured is about the most Mission-y style chandelier light you can find for your kitchen.Continue to 5 of 7 below.
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Wood, Linoleum, or Wood-Look Tile
This is easy: Your Craftsman kitchen will have solid hardwood flooring. Stick to darker stains and stay away from ultra-glossy finishes like the so-called piano finish.
Because hardwood isn't always the best choice for kitchen flooring from a functional standpoint (moisture is the problem), consider laying tile that looks like wood.
Alternatively, you may care to floor your kitchen in retro-patterned linoleum.Continue to 6 of 7 below.
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In that quintessential Craftsman house, the Gamble House, kitchen counters are made of wood.
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Another great idea is soapstone. Soapstone counters are light-gray at first, then take on a charcoal gray color after application of mineral oil, keeping with the muted and neutrals color scheme.Continue to 7 of 7 below.
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by Dan Goldin (@post_trash_) and David Anthony (@DBAnthony)
Welcome to FUZZY MEADOWS, our weekly recap of this week's new music. We're sharing our favorite releases of the week in the form of albums, singles, and music videos along with the "further listening" section of new and notable releases from around the web. It's generally written in the early hours of the morning and semi-unedited... but full of love and heart. The number rankings are arbitrary and we sincerely recommend checking out all the music included. There's a lot of great new music being released. Support the bands you love. Spread the word and buy some new music.
*Disclaimer: We are making a conscious effort not to include any artist in our countdown on back-to-back weeks in order to diversify the feature, so be sure to check the "further listening" as well because it's often of "countdown" quality too.
1. SUPERTEEN | "Sodium Pill"
Salem, MA's SUPERTEEN are back, and with their return comes another incredible record, once again proving them to be Massachusetts' best kept secret. No one likes a secret though, they make people nervous, so let it be known, you need to be listening to SUPERTEEN and their upcoming album, Over Everything (due out later this month on Sad Cactus Records). 2016's Isn't A Person was one of our favorite albums of that year, and two years later, the band sound better than ever. Keeping their signature ramshackle qualities at the forefront, first single "Sodium Pill" is an apt introduction to the album, a clamoring and chaotic song with a surging pop-centric core shinning underneath the mess. The band switch between a loosely shouted harmony to straight up divergent paths, layering in a way that's as glorious as it is reckless. There's nothing haphazard about it, SUPERTEEN are deliberately challenging your ears to pick the song apart, and it just doesn't much more gratifying. - Dan Goldin
2. COREY FLOOD | "Soft"
Philadelphia's Corey Flood may take their name from a character in a Cameron Crowe movie, but the band never plays their hand as heavily as someone in a Crowe film might. The two songs they've released from their debut EP, Wish You Hadn't, show them embracing opposing parts of post-punk and goth music. Where "Feel Okay" had a harsher, mechanical feel, "Soft" is the poppier side of the coin. The song bounces in a way that's less dour but no less affecting. The chorus sneaks in the side door, surprising you with how quickly the song seems to reach its payoff. But it's Corey Flood's ability to retreat back into a moodier space that makes it so powerful, as the band shows a mastery of mood—and an ability to write simple earworms—that makes both songs worthy of being played on repeat. - David Anthony
3. ONEIDA | "All In Due Time"
New York's Oneida have been making freaked out experimental art punk for over twenty years now and at no point have they shown any signs of slowing day. They're still creating at a steady mind expanding rate, still collaborating (2016's What's Your Sign with Rhys Chatham), still riding Kid Millions' unpredictable rhythms in every skronky direction. Set to release new album Romance in March, the album's first single "All In Due Time" stampedes, but does so with a reserved spaced out drift. Guitar echo bounces around with alien melodies, rattling around the hyperkinetic nature of the hypnotic yet spastic beat. It's actually one of the more straightforward songs Oneida have shared in a very long time, but it's still Oneida, and there's plenty to discover with repeat listens. - Dan Goldin
4. VARIOUS ARTISTS | "Post-Trash: Volume Three" LP
It may come as a surprise, but we really love this compilation... then again, of course we do. Featuring many of Post-Trash's favorite new artists (David Nance, Gemma, Shady Bug, The Royal They, Booji Boys, etc) and many of Post-Trash's favorite established artists (Deerhoof, Tera Melos, Gun Outfit, Bad History Month, etc), the compilation covers a wide margin of rock and it's most brilliant. It's all for a great cause too, raising money for Mariafund.org and the hurricane relief efforts in Puerto Rico. It's free, but chip in if you can! Maybe it's just me, who knows, but I love every song and I can (and have) listen to all 51 songs from start to finish, on repeat. - Dan Goldin
5. NADINE | "Oh My" LP
People love to frame musicians new bands through the lens of their previous—or, in this case, concurrent—acts. It makes sense that Nadine gets compared to Phantom Posse, Nadia Hulett's other band, and Ava Luna, whose members back Hulett in this project. And while there are traces of those bands in Nadine's framework, the record fully embraces expanse, allowing the band to chase whatever thread they've found themselves stuck on. As a result, the record darts across genres, allowing them to embrace sultry neo-soul compositions, big dance breaks, and even some borderline prog compositions. It makes for a record that's thrilling both because you never fully know where it's going, but while remaining cohesive in spite of that. - David Anthony
1. ANNA MCCLELLAN | "Nail-Biting Song"
Previously on "Fuzzy Meadows," we've swooned about Anna McClellan's incredible songs, saying things like "it just doesn't get much better" and refraining from writing things in all caps like "ANNA IS THE BEST!" In case you are just tuning in though, the Brooklyn-via-Omaha songwriter is set to release her sophomore album Yes And No on Father/Daughter Records, an amazing collection of beautiful and bleak unfiltered pop. "Nail-Biting Song" is at times twangy and plucky, but usually weary and dejected, McClellan's voice is sincere and radiant, balancing an oft-depressed look into unshakeable anxieties with a hint to knowing optimism. The beauty of it all is so well defined between her voice and piano even as things become increasingly "unglued." Anna McClellan's music is so damn important, and "Nail-Biting Song" is a perfect example of her narrative power. - Dan Goldin
2. MIRANDA WINTERS | "The Futuristic District"
The past four years have proven one thing, Melkbelly have never written a bad song. Since their debut EP, Pennsylvania, they've come out swinging with the best blend of sweet pop melodies and devastating noise punk abandon we've ever heard, so it should come as no surprise that a new solo track from guitarist/vocalist Miranda Winters would be yet another smash hit... even without the colossal rhythms. "The Futuristic District" is a prime example of Winters' pop sensibilities, a radio friendly alt-pop song that's as infectious as your favorite "buzz bin" fuzz ballads. - Dan Goldin
3. PALM | "Rock Island" LP
In the world of overground music publications, math-rock gets a bad rap. Perhaps that's why Palm has largely avoided the tag, because though they slot into that space, they also pull from such classic influences it can be harder to spot. Where Shadow Expert saw the band embracing the heavier end of their sound, Rock Island runs pop music through the grinder. The record shows that band's capability for twisting a composition in a million different ways, always finding a new manner in which to manipulate the stand verse-chorus construction. Not only that, the band uses their borderline inhuman guitar sounds to write riffs that twist your perception of where notes begin and end. At its core, Rock Island is evocative because it shifts how you think without feeling like it's trying too hard, which is what the best math-rock bands have always done. - David Anthony
4. LOMELDA | "Audiotree Session"
While Lomelda has always packed a punch on record, their live shows are something to behold. There's an extra sense of urgency in the band's live show, as Hannah Read's voice feels as if it's reaching into your chest and pulling out the parts of you that you try to keep hidden. It's an emotional experience, and it's captured perfectly in this Audiotree session, where the band shows itself as being able to replicate their recorded material while adding a new dimension to it all. Plus, if you watch the video in full, you get some great basketball talk, which is always welcome. - David Anthony
5. KAL MARKS | "Springtime In January"
Sometimes concern for our environment comes in strange forms. Take the video for Kal Marks' latest single, "Springtime In January," a deranged and blistering song about the ever growing threat of climate control's rapid destruction. The video, directed and animated by Carly Lieberman, captures a raise of alien trash spiders as they take over in the sleaziest of invasions. Things get weird, real weird. Speaking about the video's concept though, Lieberman shared: "I like making problems seem trivial by presenting larger less manageable problems. Carl (of Kal Marks) told me this song was about climate change, which is a clumsily managed problem created by humanity. So I started thinking about what would have to happen to make the self destruction of the entire earth seem like less of a problem. This video is about becoming so caught up in small scale problems, that we end up completely blindsided by the more damaging ones." If this is what it will take to make people realize... I guess we better send in the alien trash-spiders. - Dan Goldin
6. QUEEN OF JEANS | "More To Love"
Philadelphia's Queen Of Jeans make music that feels out of time in the best possible way. On "More To Love," it's clear that the band's reference points are decidedly vintage, having likely studied the Motown catalog and the discography of Phil Spector. The song doesn't sound at all dated, instead offering a modern spin on these kind of big, hook-heavy songs. It shows that Queen Of Jeans isn't concerned with following any specific trend and, instead, finds themselves working toward a sound that never goes out of style. - David Anthony
Further Listening:
HABIBI "Nedayeh Bahar" | RICK FROM PILE "Work" (Boxfish Session) | COOL GHOULS "CCR Bootleg" | SUMAC "WFMU" LP | RENATA ZEIGUER "Wayside" | OPERATOR MUSIC BAND "Moto Komplete" | PALEHOUND "Carnations" | DAMAGED BUG "Pilot's Pipe" | PALM "Composite" | MIND SPIDERS "Furies" LP | WOOING "In Colour" | YOUR FOOD "Leave" | DABRYE "Lil Mufukuz" (feat. MF DOOM) | SUNWATCHERS "II" LP | FRIGS "II" | ANGEL OLSEN "House Of Strombo Session" | HOLY MOTORS "I Will Try" | WOODEN SHJIPS "Staring At The Sun" | LUCIE VOID "Love Song" | LUGGAGE "Ditch" | CAR SEAT HEADREST "Cute Thing" | VUNDABAR "Acetone" | WHORES "Mental Illness As Mating Ritual" | GREAT GRANDPA "Teen Challenge" | BICHKRAFT "Yonder" | DUSTY PATCHES "In The Dark" (feat. Nnamdi Ogbonnaya & Tatyana Gaona) | LONG NECK "Will This Do?" LP | THE SKULL ECLIPSES "Pillars" (feat. Felicia Douglass & Baba Maraire) | BECK "I'm Waiting For The Man" (Velvet Underground cover) | RUSSIAN BATHS "Slenderman" | ROBERT EARL THOMAS "What Am I Gonna Do"
A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS "Never Coming Back" | DATENIGHT "On The Block" | THE MESSTHETICS "Serpent Tongue" | OLDEN YOLK "Vital Sign" | BAT FANGS "Boy Of Summer" | BIG BAND "Options" LP | ED SCHRADER'S MUSIC BEAT "Riddles" | ANNA BURCH "Quit The Curse" | HOOKWORMS "Each Time We Pass" | HOLY MOTORS "Signs" | THURSTON MOORE "Mx Liberty" | GIVING UP "Stone" | THE MEN "Rose On Top Of The World" | GREG JAMIE "When I Get Home" | JOHN ERROL "Dead Man Walking" | GIRLPOOL "Picturesong" (feat. Dev Hynes) | KING TUFF "The Other" | WENDYFIX "Swinging Softly" | SEGO "Cigarette Kids" | ULTIMATE PAINTING "Not Gonna Burn Myself Anymore" | FACS "Skylarking" | HOLY WAVE "Adult Fear" | FREAK HEAT WAVES "Self Vortex" | CASSANDRA JENKINS "Live In Foxen Canyon" LP | RUSSIAN BATHS "Whats Your Basement" | TWIN FOXES "Self Endowed" | ERICA ESO "Gun-metal Grey" | THE BRONX "Night Drop At The Glue Factory" | AMERICAN PLEASURE CLUB "All The Lonely Nights In Your Life" | DUSTY PATCHES "Filthy Four Track Machine I + II" LP | REVERENCE "Live Exorcism 2017" LP


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Ah April Fool's. A day dedicated to hoaxes, practical jokes and pranks that are sure to get a few people in trouble.
Which is exactly what happened to 25-year-old Connor McLaughlin when he decided to play a hilarious prank on his parents which did not go down the way he thought it would.
Currently travelling in Australia, Connor decided to tell his parents he was coming home for Easter for a surprise visit when really he was still in Sydney.
Tagging his parents on Facebook, Connor made his 'surprise' public writing:
Finally touched down in the UK. Nice little Easter surprise for my mum and dad. Can't wait to see everyone and sleep in a comfy bed for a couple off weeks before finally heading back.
Typical for it to be raining in Manchester and I've only got shorts and t-shirts packed!
Posting a photo of a rainy plane window with the Manchester Airport tag on it, Connor's prank was complete as his parents were fooled.
It wasn't until he shared a photo of himself enjoying a beer on Bondi Beach in Sydney writing 'I'm not back in England, I'm sorry, I'm going to hell' did his family realise they had been pranked.
I'm going to hell… I'm sorry Mum ??? #AprilFoolsDay pic.twitter.com/n05qoTwe4N
— Connor McLaughlin (@_ConnorM) April 1, 2018
Not expecting his parents to be hoodwinked so easily as he is always 'winding them up', Connor was surprised when they fell for trick.
He told UNILAD his mum did not react well when she found out it was all a joke:
She didn't see it for about an hour and then she rang me. I ignored it the first time to keep her on edge then text her saying 'I'm just going through security'.
She text me back saying it best not be a wind up so I googled a Manchester arrival photo and sent her that. She believed it.
All my mums' friends commented on it saying how nice it is that I'm home. I left it another 40 minutes before uploading the beach photo.
All my friends started sending me private messages laughing and saying they can't believe they fell for it.
My dad wrote on Facebook saying I had them fooled for a bit then he realised that I'm always doing stupid stuff like this and knew I was joking.
My mum didn't message me back for about 20 minutes. I wasn't sure if she was to angry to message me back or in my room making sure it's ready for my return. She found it funny in the end and said she had believed me for a bit until my dad figured it out.
I think I'm disowned now. I think the locks will be being changed as we speak.
1. Yes my mum found the funny side to it ….. eventually
2. My dad abused my on Facebook about it
3. Please stop sending me tweets about my last name 'bet your parents aren't "mc 'LAUGH' lin" anymore ??
— Connor McLaughlin (@_ConnorM) April 1, 2018
While his parents may not have seen the funny side straight away, Twitter certainly did with his post receiving 5,000 likes at time of writing.
With his friends also finding the prank amusing, Connor admits despite his parents' reaction he will be up for doing something similar:
Yeah I'll probably do it again, always up for a laugh and prank. It's my dads birthday next so I'll think of something for that.
When I actually do return home I don't think anyone's going to believe I'm actually back.
Connor may also have some making up to do to his mum before he returns home from Australia.
If you have a story you want to tell send it to UNILAD via [email protected]
Emily Murray is a journalist at UNILAD. She graduated from the University of Leeds with a BA in English Literature and History before studying for a Masters in Journalism at the University of Salford. Emily has previously worked for the BBC, ITV and Trinity Mirror. When Emily isn't writing about topics including mental health and entertainment, you can find her at the cinema which is her second home.


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In October, while I was on a trip in southern Mexico, reporting on the aftermath of a devastating earthquake, my grandfather had a stroke. About a week later he was dead. Because I was still waiting on my Mexican residency permit and couldn't leave the country without permission from the immigration office, I didn't make it home to Baltimore in time to see him. He'd slipped toward death with unusual speed. He was a wonderful man, but never a patient one.
He left behind a dinged up 12-year-old Toyota Highlander, which my grandmother offered, very generously, to give me. This, I figured, might be my best chance to populate my new home in Mexico City with the detritus of my previous ones; I guess this is what you call settling down. So in the first week of January, I packed my things into my grandfather's truck—a cargo heavy with over-determined symbols—and started the long drive south from my parents' place in Baltimore to Mexico City, where I'd moved about 18 months before after just shy of five years living in India. Friends in Mexico told me this was the most American thing they'd ever heard, both sentimental and cinematic, which they did not seem to mean as an insult. A friend in Los Angeles said the whole thing sounded like a post–Almost Famous Cameron Crowe movie, which I took as an insult whether he meant it that way or not.
Skirting the eastern edge of the Appalachians, I stopped in Damascus, Virginia, where I feasted on wild venison and farm-raised vegetables, prepared by excessively generous friends of friends of a friend, and fired a crossbow for the first time.
I stopped outside Asheville for breakfast at a place called Hickory Nut Gap Farm and when I asked if getting sausage and sausage gravy was too much, the woman behind the counter said, "Absolutely—but you should go for it." (I did. It was too much. It was great.)
In Atlanta I was moved by the Buford Highway Farmers Market, where that foundational American myth, the Melting Pot, manifests unexpectedly in the beautiful banality of a grocery store, its aisles divided by region and country, each one populated by people from everywhere.
In Oxford, Mississippi, I visited Faulkner's leaf-strewn grave and, at chef Vish Bhatt's Snackbar, ate one of the best restaurant dishes I've eaten in recent memory: collard-wrapped catfish griddled crisp and served under a drizzle of curry leaf-butter, a perfect Keralite pollichattu rendered in the flavors of the Deep South (Asha Gomez would adore it). The dish was a one-two punch of Proustian nostalgia and total surprise; it tasted like India—like home—and like the American South, a foreign country.
I ate hot tamales smothered in chile and a physics-defying lemon meringue pie in the Delta.
I ate thin fried fish, crunchy as chicharrón, at a seafood joint called Middendorf's on the edge of Lake Maurepas.
In New Orleans, where a friend and colleague from Mexico City, Felipe Luna, met me for the rest of the drive south, we ate po'boys that were basically banh mi, goat cheese–stuffed King Cake, hulking free happy-hour oysters, and drank a half-dozen frozen Irish coffees despite the weirdly frigid weather.
In a place called Donner, we stopped at Chester's Cypress Inn for shatteringly crisp fried chicken, frog legs, and gizzards, and took directions from a guy who told us that Whiskey River Landing in Henderson, Louisiana was the place to be for live zydeco and dancing on a Sunday evening.
Leaving Donner, we followed a road that ran parallel to the Atchafalaya River. We must have driven past the bar three or four times before realizing that, to get there, we'd have to drive up over the levee that separated us from the gray, moss-dripping swamp on the other side, framed in Whiskey River's windows like a Dalí: miniature and strange and vaguely sinister.
Whiskey River is essentially a plywood box built out over the bayou and might well be, based on what little I've seen, the most perfect bar in the U.S. Couples spun across the dancefloor, like tall, angular Jody and her serious, pint-sized dance partner, evidently—at least to me, the visiting homosexual—the resident queer person (think Truman Capote at the rodeo); like lovely, radiant Kimberley and her bear-like boyfriend, who moved more gracefully than anyone else there. Smoking was allowed inside and beer was somehow both cheap and good. Every time a customer left a tip, the bartender rang a bell. Whiskey River adds a lot of wings to heaven.
Standing at the edge of the dance floor—the Mexican and the Gay, surely the setup for some kind of joke—Felipe and I were approached by a guy in a camo hat and cowboy boots. I flinched and slouched onto a stool, weakened by the weight of my mid-Atlantic suspicions, made heavier by my years in India, where my sexual orientation was, at least in theory, punishable with jail time.
He asked where we'd come in from.
I said Baltimore.
"That far?" he wondered.
Felipe answered, "Mexico City."
He looked at us incredulously and asked, "Where in the hell is that?" Felipe explained. The guy in the hat flashed a smile and nodded, said it was cool for us to have come so far, and told us to have a good night and a safe trip. I stood up from my stool, happy and a little ashamed, and thanked him.
The whole night was like that, punctuated by clichés that turned in on themselves as they played out to the tune of accordions and stomping feet. Clichés like my ugly gut reaction to the guy in the camo hat, and the surprise that none of us ended up being the punchline of his joke. Clichés like Kimberley and her impossibly graceful boyfriend, the very picture of a former high school romance well on its way to happily ever after. Surprises like the only time all night that he stepped away from her, only to take our Cowboy Capote in his burly arms and swing him gorgeously over the floorboards.
Bells were ringing left, right, and center. It was, Felipe said, the sort of place that could make you believe in Hollywood love stories, sentimentality and all.
As soon as we left the bayou, Mexico emerged on the horizon, like the plains laid out below the crest of a hill. It was there in Houston's taco trucks (though not in the ice storm that we brought in from the east), in the big flat expanse of East Texas, and, when the weather cleared, in the hot bright sun that bore down on us like a flashlight.
Even still, Felipe and I both heaved sighs of relief as soon as we entered Laredo. After days of silent towns without a soul in sight, of houses shuttered against gray skies and cars sealed tight as though pedestrianism were an airborne contagion, it was a joy to be in a place where families—some white, mostly Latinx—filled the streets, where speakers blared banda, where evening brought everyone out for beer and food and conversation about adolescent nights across the border in Nuevo Laredo and how rapidly things had changed there in the last decade, courtesy of the drug war—not, it goes without saying, for the better. It felt good to be in a place where life took place in public rather than behind closed doors. It felt like the world coming out of hibernation.
We left Laredo at dawn the next morning. Entering Mexico, a border agent inspected the car and my paperwork and, seeing that the vehicle was registered in my name, eyed me as incredulously as the guy at Whiskey River. She declared everything "muy legal" before waving us through. It was embarrassingly easy given the horror of crossing the other way.
We drove over the deep concrete trough that cradled the slow-moving Rio Grande, which, at least in the dry chilly winter, wasn't very grande at all. Like most land crossings, it was, culturally and geographically, if not politically, a formality. Mexico had begun many miles earlier and the U.S., with its malls and guns and sun-blitzed industrial optimism, wouldn't end until many miles later.
When people write about planes, they write about how flying truncates distance, but almost never about how it invests borders with meaning they don't, or shouldn't, have. Flying makes travel an event, as sudden and dislocating as moving to a new city or the death of a person you love.
Driving gives time physical features, makes it legible, not as a unit of currency, broken into hard, discrete coins, but as a rate of change, gradual rather than seismic. When you travel by land, arrival happens in gradients, in brands of beer and the texture of frying batter and subtle shifts in the light. Time and place, home and away, exist on continua, connected by the pulse of white lines on asphalt, not divided by borders.
Three days after leaving Laredo we reached Mexico City, driving in over the volcanoes as a heavy storm cloud opened and showered us with a spasm of unseasonable, unexpected hail—the same bad weather I'd brought from Baltimore down through New Orleans and Houston. The sun went down and the lights came up in the valley and I was surprised, as I always am, by how good it felt to be home, wherever the hell that might be.
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