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Thanks to lifetime Eagles fan, season ticket holder and Curly R reader/lurker Wilbert Montgomery for the tip: As current Broncos and former Redskins receiver Brandon Lloyd heads off to the Pro Bowl, his team's lone representative, he has a message for his three old clubs, the 49ers, Redskins and Bears:
Gee who could ever have seen that coming.
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Wednesday, December 29, 2010
You Stay Classy Brandon Lloyd
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Sunday, December 26, 2010
Game 15: Redskins (5-9) at Jaguars (8-6)
May Take in 60 Words or Less: The notion that Donovan McNabb's agent could go on the attack and not be representing his client is total bullshit. Donovan is simply trying to avoid confrontation so he lied to Kyle Shanahan. Simple as that.
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Saturday, December 25, 2010
Season's Greetings from The Curly R
From all of us at The Curly R, best wishes for this holiday season, and I hope Father Christmas brings you some special gifts too.
-Ben Folsom
Other Curly R season's greetings: 2006 :: 2007 :: 2008 :: 2009
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Sunday, December 19, 2010
Game 14: Redskins (5-8) at Cowboys (4-9)
My Take in 60 Words or Less: For the first time since 2003 I am taking the opponent to win. That's right, I switched both my pool picks to Cowboys.
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Friday, December 17, 2010
Talk About Rapid Response
Go Skins dot Org, the great abstract cartoonist of the Redskins, already has artistic reaction up, Albert Haynesworth and Donovan McNabb just chilling together on the bench. Go check the rest out here.
The Benching is now a national news story, not sure what Mike Shanahan was going for here, he sure looks like an asshole right about now.
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I Hope this Guy Is Still Around
Bringing down the wrath of Redskins fans
If you are the guy running the Fire Mike Shanahan blog and you have not posted since September and you are still there and want some traffic, I would suggest you check the headlines.
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Let Me Be Clear
I'll speak slowly for the trolls and nitwits and the head coach
There are three reasons putting Rex Grossman in the game, even for a play, is a bad idea:
1. There is a better quarterback on the roster. His name is Donovan McNabb.
2. The better quarterback is healthy.
3. The better quarterback is under contract for 2011.
These reasons notably do not include any discussion of Rex Grossman's ability or standing, nor of the price paid in trade for Donovan McNabb, because both are moot. Mike Shanahan has officially turned a segment of Redskins fans to rooting against their team just to be sure he gets the point. Nice work genius.
Donovan McNabb: Reuters Pictures from here.
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Are you fucking kidding me
What the fuck is this fucking shit, I sit here minding my own business eating my lunch when I see a headline pop into Redskins Insider:
Rex Grossman to start over Donovan McNabb Sunday
That would be this Sunday, at Dallas, bitter NFC Beast Division rival Dallas, a team the Redskins can still sweep in the season series.
And Mike Shanahan is going to bench Donovan in favor of Rex Grossman.
This is really over the line, I have watched how coach Shanahan has handled himself this season and I am very disappointed, cutting Ladell Betts then Willie Parker and Larry Johnson left the team with no experienced tailback backing up the injury prone Clinton Portis and Ryan Torain, the Albert Haynesworth standoff in training camp went too long into the season and hurt the defense. Benching Donovan in the Lions game then spinning bullshit about it. Cutting the holder after the kicker missed two in a winnable game then making up a bullshit excuse.
Maybe that year out of football did nothing to shrink his ego, maybe he is mad with the power Dan Snyder has given him, maybe he is showing off for his son, maybe he just wants to piss Redskins fans off, maybe he really needs to see the place burnt down before he can rebuild it in his own image.
Whatever the deal, this is wrong.
And it is not just wrong because I support Donovan and want to see him play and get some return on that investment. It is wrong because the team will net nothing by playing Rex Grossman.
Washington may win Sunday with Rex, sure, even Danny Wuerffel won games as a starter, that is not the point. The point is that we already know everything we need to know about Rex. He has had his shot, he was in Chicago for six years and could not hold the starting job the year after he took his team to the Super Bowl. His success came largely from the scheme the Bears employed at the time and he is a turnover machine. Years of future success in Washington will not be achieved with Rex Grossman under center.
You only sit a healthy established starter at the end of a season when you have no postseason to play for, and when that starter may not be there next season. But Dono is under contract so it is the team's option, not the player's to have him back.
If Mike Shanahan was serious about seeing what is in the kitty for 2011 he would be starting John Beck, the darling of Kyle Shanahan, my guess is that head coach Shanahan would not start John Beck on a dare meaning this is not about Rex or the future, it is about putting Donovan in his place.
And all the bullshit about lowest rated passer and worst season of his career, that is all bullshit. This is just wrong and win or lose Sunday Redskins fans just lost some more faith in their team.
Some quick reaction I have received in person, by phone, email and text since 11:30 am when the story broke:
Lifetime Eagles fan, season ticket holder and Curly R reader/lurker Wilbert Montgomery, via email: Talk about a place in total chaos at this point. I thought Shanny would prevent this sort of shit from happening. Didn't DMac have an over 100 passer rating last week?
The wife, Mrs. Curly R, via phone: They have no idea what they are doing, didn't they cut the holder after the kicker messed up?
Former co-worker Rob, via phone: Dude our team is sooooooooo dysfunctional.
Eagles fan and former roommate James, via text message: Sexy Rexy to start? McNabb out of gas or out of favor?
Post your quick reaction in comments.
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Looking Back On When Donovan McNabb / Was A Nappy Headed Little Boy
Serioiusly who has my activator
Working on a midday post about butthurt Eagles fans pissed that Donovan McNabb is not in the running for the Pro Bowl following the 2010 season because for him to have done so would have meant Philadelphia's 2011 draft pick from the trade that brought Dono here would have accelerated from a fourth rounder to a third.
In the meantime, check out that 'do. No gauge on the year, Dono has hosted five NFC Championship Game press availabilities. Any Eagles fans out there, help me out with the date.
Uncredited image from here. With apologies to Stevie Wonder for the title.
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Thursday, December 16, 2010
Come On Washington Post, Get It Together
Like the Redskins: Great idea, poor execution
Back in September, just a couple of games into the 2010 season, the Washington Post launched an iPhone app called Football Insider, a brilliant play designed to bolster the flow of eyeballs to what is already consistently the most popular topic of coverage for the paper, the Washington Redskins.
A great appliance app in concept and basic design, Football Insider pipes Redskins related content in three categories: stories, game coverage and photos. Stories are subdivided into blogs, featuring Redskins Insider, DC Sports Bog and Hard Hits with LaVar Arrington, articles from the print edition and columns; game coverage includes play by play, box score and general info like weather and for home games traffic and stadium transit; the photos are the same galleries as the paper publishes with game recaps.
Considering how much of my time is spent F5ing Redskins Insider I downloaded it immediately then with the use of a handy black app called Rename, relabeled it simply Redskins.
The 1.0 version was terrible, it kept crashing from the game menu and I stopped using it. Version 1.0.1 came out a few weeks later and not only featured the spiffy image of Donovan McNabb as you see above, the 1.0 version simply had a generic burgundy helmet with no Redskins logo, the app also... started working. No problems, no crashes, could access all menus and all content would refresh as expected.
About three weeks ago version 1.0.3 appeared and I upgraded, immediately problems came back, new annoying problems.
It crashes, most notably when I move from the stories section to the games section, though not as often as the 1.0 version. The most annoying thing is the app's inability to refresh itself. Under versions 1.0 and 1.0.1, when you switch away from the app and come back, it respawns, you see the splash image of Donovan as the menus are refreshing content.
Now, once you open it and then switch away and come back, the app takes you straight back to the content menus, not the splash page, which would be fine if the content updated automatically, BUT IT DOES NOT. In order to get the menus to refresh, I either have to go through the annoying process to shut down a rogue app, or restart the whole phone. Occasionally after a crash it will respawn and not be able to reestablish its data connection, hence the image above, in these cases I hit the Home button then go back to the app and oh yep everything is just fine again.
Cannot get much in the way of support either, the Support link on the iTunes online page for Football Insider links back to generic Washington Post help page, if there is a thread or a topic on the Football Insider app then I am not able to find it easily.
Maybe I should not bother expecting a decent app until I get a decent team.
Screencap of aborted app load by me.
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Wednesday, December 15, 2010
A Picture of Dorian McNabb
Less than a year and look how much it has aged
Right now I am a depressed and confused Redskins fan, depressed because we are hurtling toward yet another postseason in which I watch lots of football yet none of it includes my beloved team and confused because I am getting lots of mixed signals about quarterback Donovan McNabb:
Donovan McNabb having his worst season since his rookie year in 1999? Donovan was a rookie out of Syracuse that year, coming from the college ranks where he made his living on his legs at least as much as his arm. In his rookie season he split time in Philadelphia with Doug Pederson, appearing in twelve games and starting only six. He finished the year with 948 yards passing and a 60.1 passer rating. The next season he assumed the starter role and had it every year barring injury for the next ten seasons.
Looking at Donovan's numbers over the years though, I do not see a guy that is dropping off the cliff, in fact if Donovan can pull his passer rating up seven tenths of one point, the whole story goes away and god forbid he could get it two and a half points up, with another game or two like the Tampa Bay game and a 100.7 rating, then not only is 2010 not his worst as a starter, it is not even next to worst. Plus I think the strict measure of a guy by his passer rating is lazy.
Let us walk some of the other stats. Games: Averaging 13.4 per season over career, if we remove the first season when he was part time then it is virtually unchanged at 13.5 games per season. Donovan has already played thirteen games this season, one more and he busts over his career average.
Completion percentage: A career average of 58.9 percent, 2010 number is 58.3 percent, still well within reach to bust over with three games left and if not is teetering right the average at sixth tenths of a point less. I count four seasons with a lower completion rate and one a virtual tie.
Attempts per game are nearly four per game over career average, not a surprise considering the Redskins have had an unsettled tailback position all season. He can still sling it and the coaches are not compensating for some perceived dropoff, they are telling him to GET THE HELL OUT THERE AND THROW IT.
Passing yards / passing yards per game: In terms of his per game average, Donovan is nearly 35 yards per game over his average and if the season ended now 2010 would be the third highest per game passing yards in his career. Looking at total passing yards, Donovan already has more total passing yards in 2010 than in four of the seven years he has played thirteen games or more.
It is not all rosy though, Donovan's touchdown passes are dangerously near a career low, he will need to throw two more to tie his non rookie career low, oddly enough those career lows came in one season where Donovan played only nine games and in another where he played all sixteen.
Interceptions are already at a career high by two, one of the great statistics on Donovan coming into Washington was that he was one of the least intercepted passers in league history, even though Donovan is having his worst INT year ever, check the big board for quarterbacks: seven guys, including two named Manning, have as many or more than Donovan.
Sacks are also dangerously near career highs, 2010 is already Donovan's second worst year for sacks, two more and he ties it. Of all the stats that we can apply other players' performance to, this is the one that I place the most on others, the crappy offensive line the Redskins have in 2010.
The last stat to look at is long passes, Donovan has thrilled Redskins fans with the ability to connect on long passes, Jason Campbell had the arm but not the time, chemistry or accuracy to make them like Donovan has this year, then you look at his stats and 2010 is just middling in his late year performance, since 2004 Donovan has tossed eleven or more passes of forty yards or more five time in seven years. The guy can still sling it.
So let us dial back the Donovan is having teh worst yaer of his lief bit, I am not buying it.
Donovan McNabb is on pace to set Redskins franchise and personal records for passing yards? Wait I thought he was having his worst year evar as a starter? Then how can that headline be true? Well let us look at the numbers: At his current pace, Donovan should throw for 4156 yards in 2010 if he plays all sixteen games. That would be more than he has ever tossed in his career, he has never been a 4000 yard passer ever.
This number would also place Donovan ahead of 1986 Jay Schroeder and 1999 Brad Johnson for the most passingest Redskin of all time, for a franchise that has been in continuous operation since 1932.
Worst year ever = best year ever.
Wait, Donovan McNabb might get benched down the stretch? The latest ginned up story, principally credited to FOX's Jay Glazer, is that backup quarterback slash fumbler Rex Grossman is being prepped possibly to start or replace Donovan. For his part, Donovan was dismissive (op. cit.), and head coach Mike Shanahan was as you might expect evasive in talking about it.
This is of course bloody ridiculous. You only sit a veteran like Donovan at the end of the season if he is hurt or if he may be gone the next season and you really need to see what you have on the bench. And we all know, Super Bowl and NFL credentials or otherwise, that Rex Grossman is not an unknown quantity. Hell he may be starting caliber for all I know any more, alls I am saying is that we know everything we need to know about Rex and John Beck is certainly no option when you have a healthy Donovan McNabb. There is your fast path to cascading boos right there.
Stay with him and play with him, whatever ails the Redskins in 2010 it is not Donovan McNabb.
Photo by me of my still new Donovan McNabb number five jersey, I have only had it since 27 September 2010 and the numbering is already coming off the nylon, compare to my Santana Moss number 89 jersey I have had since the 2005 postseason, I wore that jersey for every game until this season and washed it at least twice a year and the numbering on it still looks great. Is that some sort of metaphor? With apologies to Oscar Wilde for the title.
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Sunday, December 05, 2010
2011 offseason starts now
A complete humilation today against the Giants, I am embarrassed right now to be a Redskins fan.
We knew there would be growing pains, we knew Mike Shanahan and his system would not turn the Redskins into a Super Bowl team in one season. We knew all this and expected to see the team struggle at times.
What we did not expect was an organization unable to field a basic NFL team. The struggles we imagined were oh man that was a close loss and damn that one play, not hey shit guys that was six turnovers today and why can't Chris Cooley catch the ball.
8-8 looks really optimistic at this point.
Metaphor as photo by me of the three year old Redskins Christmas tree ornament my eight year old son accidentally dropped today.
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Game 12: Redskins (5-6) at Giants (7-4)
My Take in 60 Words or Less: Are you there god? It's me Ben, if you have to give us a demoralizing blowout where the Redskins are the child being fed live to the giant python, at least please don't let have Donovan McNabb get hurt.
In other news,
Santana Moss, Albert Haynesworth, LaRon Landry and Carlos Rogers are all inactive. Great. (Ed. note, looks like Santana was a go after all, mot making much of a difference through one quarter. -Ben)
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Thursday, December 02, 2010
What Should I Do?
Jamie Lee Curtis?
Comedian slash Redskins fan slash radio host Danny Rouhier is out with his week twelve video that I first thought was supposed to represent Danny's internal dialogue then I see in the video description that it is a parody of a LeBron James commercial, not only do I not know this commercial, I am not even sure I could pick LeBron James out of a lineup because you see I AM A FOOTBALL FAN.
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Wednesday, December 01, 2010
The Folsom Point 11/30/2010: Beginning of the End
It's a blog. NOT FUCKING TWITTER!
Wherein we discuss the end of meaningful Redskins football in 2010.
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Glenn Beck Embraces DPRK's "Juche" Philosophy
Independence Park is an independent socialist state representing the interests of all the conservative Americans. The community is the Juche-oriented socialist state which embodies the idea and leadership of Comrade Glenn Beck, the founder of the commune and the father of socialist America. His idea and the achievements made under his leadership are the basic guarantee for the Republic's prosperity.
The socialist system of Independence Park is a people-centred social system in which the masses of the working people are the masters of everything and everything in society serves them. In accordance with the nature of its socialist system, the park defends and protects the interests of workers, peasants and intellectuals and all other working people who have become masters of state and society, free from exploitation and oppression.
It is the fundamental revolutionary task for GBTV to achieve the complete victory of socialism by strengthening the people's power and vigorously performing the three revolutions the ideological, technological and cultural and to reunify the country on the principle of independence, peaceful reunification and great national unity.
Under the leadership of the GBTV, the American people uphold the great leader Comrade Glenn Beck as the eternal President of the the Park and are speeding up the historic march to carry the revolutionary cause started by him through to completion by inheriting and carrying forward his ideas and achievements.
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Updating Old Yard Sale Prints With Spray Painted Frames (And Mats!)
We found these babies at a yard sale and haggled them down to $10 a pop. Let's call them our twig & berries.
We immediately thought the extra tall shape of the frames would be perfect for either side of our bed above the glass based lamps on the makeshift just-for-now side tables (they're way too small and don't have any drawers for storage) on this very unfinished side of our master bedroom:
We definitely had plans to change out the art. They're prints of the berries and wildflowers of Alaska (which is kind of fun and fitting since we honeymooned there) but they felt a bit too grandma for us.
But we loved the long rectangular shape of those $10 frames. So we hung them up, just to see what we were dealing with. Don't mind all the blank space on either side of the walls, we still have furnishings to add to fill up this cavernous room. And once we change out the side tables we might rehang the art a bit further out from the bed or higher up depending on the new furnishings.
We definitely liked the shape of our new frames, but we weren't crazy about how the warm wood tones sort of clashed with the darker tones in the thrift store wood candle holders on either side of Sir Ram above the bed…
… along with the leaning mirror, and the leather chair in the corner:
And yes, we're aware that not all couples aspire to sleep under a giant resin ram head. We are indeed a rare and special breed. Akin to centaurs and unicorns. Speaking of that above-the-bed stuff, we originally mentioned that the maybe-too-small-art might go, but months later it's still there and has strangely grown on us.
But back to the yard sale frames. I actually decided to do something completely insane for me when it came to them (but totally ain't-no-thang for anyone else). I opted to spray the frames with oil-rubbed-bronze spray paint. I know you might think that given my recent ORB kick (here and here and here) this isn't news. But, you my friend, would be wrong-O with a capital O. Why? Because virtually every frame that we own is white (both in this house and our first one) and we must own five million of them! Dark frames have never been our preference. White is my eternal jam..
Until now, apparently. Total curveball. At least to a white-frame loving fool like me.
I'll spare you the spray painting play-by-play (you can find some general tips here) except to point out these two things:
- the glass was so tightly fitted that I worried I'd break it if I tried to remove it before spraying – so I just covered it with newspaper
- I laid each frame up on a big ol' rock from the yard so the sides wouldn't stick to the "drop cloths" and peel off the finish when I picked them up
While I was at it I carefully removed the mats and sprayed those white for a cleaner look.
Now brace yourself for the hottest picture you've ever seen on the internet:
My white mom legs + black dress socks = sexy beast. I can't believe I'm sharing this, but the whole dark sock thing is actually a spray painting trick I implement nearly every time. Instead of worrying about getting rogue drips on my shoes or flip flops (or my feet, which I could then track into the house) I just don some dark socks, spray to my heart's content, and slip them off at the backdoor so I don't track anything in (and don't have to worry about scrubbing my feet or ruining my favorite shoes/flip flops). As for the rest of my outfit, I'm nude. Just kidding. I wear painting clothes that I do not slip off at the door (big drips only seem to fall on my feet).
A few minutes after snapping that photo was when John and I both started giving each other crazy eyes. Which means we were both having strange and exciting ideas (ideas that are completely unrelated to bedding each other under the ram – get your mind out of the gutter).
John: "What if we put those old botanical-looking prints back into these now that the mat and frame is all updated and graphic?"
Sherry: "Just to be suuuuure we're completely over them – I agree!"
So we hung them up and we really liked them. So we are in fact completely under them (you know, as opposed to over them as we originally anticipated). Sure, they're still a little grandma, but they're also something we could picture in Elle Decor or House Beautiful (with more than a $10 price tag on them). And most of all, they make us smile.
Here's where I'll stop to acknowledge that not only is hanging a big white ram head over your bed one of those
personal preference things maybe-I'm-crazy things, art in general is definitely a place where all folks on the internet won't come together and sing kumbaya. But we're loving our twig and berries – er flowers and berries. I mean it's not like we'll ever entertain in our bedroom – so we don't have to worry about what other folks might think. Which I hope is nothing weird and kinky due to the ram. Yikes.
Speaking of weird, we got an embarrassingly huge kick out of hanging the berries on J's side and the flowers on my side. You know, because ladies have flowers and guys have berries. Too far? My deepest apologies.
Then something crazy and completely unexpected happened (manage your expectations, our lives are not that interesting).
John decided to exercise his veto power on the leafy duvet cover that we ordered around seven months ago.
Didn't see that coming did you? See, back when the duvet cover was one of the first things we bought for our house (deeply clearanced from West Elm) John agreed that we could get it (we have a full agreement agreement, meaning we're not allowed to buy things without both being ok with it). But he only agreed with one stipulation: that it wouldn't necessarily be a forever choice. He reasoned that it was affordable enough and I loved it enough not to keep me from ordering it (I was so worried it would sell out and I'd forever regret it slash hold it against John The Tyrant). But he asserted that if someday he should decide that he no longer liked it I would have to be open to looking for something else that we both could love – especially if the price was right and we could sell this baby on craigslist or something.
At the time I grinned and nodded, never thinking that day would actually come. But wouldn't you know it, John loved those 10 dolla (holla!) yard sale art infinitely more than the compromise duvet. So he decided we should revisit the whole new-duvet-cover-idea and leave the art as-is (since it was kinda circus-y and compete-y to have them both going on at the same time). And you know what? In an even more shocking turn of events I agreed.
Maybe we're just sentimental suckers and sleeping between prints of wildlife from the place we honeymooned is our idea of romance? Maybe we think rams and flowers and berries somehow belong together? I don't know. Either way, the leafy pattern in the duvet cover was fighting with our new leafy art so I stripped things down to our white duvet insert from Ikea and we stepped back to survey the scene.
The weird white duvet insert was definitely more compatible with the art than the competing leafy duvet cover, but not quite perfect. Meaning a white duvet cover isn't going to be what we go for. We're hoping to find something with less of a bold pattern and more of a subtle texture (like a soft chevron or crosshatched design or something striped or something else entirely). The jury is still out on what will come home with us, but we're planning a few HomeGoods and TJ Maxx runs just to see what's out there. And maybe even an Ikea road trip.
The lesson? Grrrrr, don't compromise. Just hold out to find something you both love. Oh well, hindsight is 20/20, right? And I like to think the Alaska prints "found us" because it was meant to be. And we certainly had our fair share of decorating mind-changing in the first house, so it's only fitting that we work in a few control-alt-deletes in this house too (look honey, it's a bad computer joke that I threw in just for you).
So yeah, we're thinking about selling the old duvet cover on ebay or craigslist. There are some on there for over $100 and we only paid $42 for our king-sized guy thanks to sales and coupon codes. So who knows, maybe we can recoup the entire cost and list it for $45 in great-but-slightly-used condition. We shall see…
As for what the kids think, Clara toddled into the bedroom and gave the new art two thumbs up (not lying, but she does happen to do that gesture a lot). And Burger gave it one paw sideways. He's such an art snob.
Do you guys have any duvet cover switches or "rewinds" going on? Has anyone else had their man exercise veto power in a surprising but serendipitous-in-the-end way? Does anyone else spray paint while wearing black dress socks or sleep under a white resin ram? Yeah… probably not.
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I think they look absolutely wonderful!
Love the slightly retro feel of the prints. Let me know if you are selling the duvet!
I second the request for an ebay notice. :)
I've loved that Duvet cover ever since I saw it on YHL. Are you sure you want to part with it?
Those frames look great! amazing how the prints pop once they're not against a light greenish colour!
I'm glad you guys kept the prints! I was kind of sad at the beginning of the post because all I could think was that I actually kind of love them! Glad the two of you ended up loving them too!
I was thinking the same thing. Noticed the prints before the frames. :)
Exactly what i was thinking! I love nice botanical prints. I think they're not grand'ma at all.
same here. I was thinking me, me, me! Send them to me LOL. They look great.
I LOVE IT!! The prints are awesome and yeah, the plain duvet already looks better. Chevron sounds awesome! I love the vibe of your bedroom now without the duvet. Kinda funky and eclectic. Awesome!
I actually really love your prints and how they're kind of an homage to your honeymoon.
Thanks for the laugh! Also, I have a pair of grody old hot pink flip flops that I spray paint in. My husband hates them. He threatens to throw them away on a semi-regular basis.
Very nice! I love the paint color of the bedroom walls — what is the brand + name of it?
This one made me gigglesnort. Spray painting in nothing but black dress socks, a romantic tryst under the ram's head, twig and berries, HA!!! You funny, lady!!!
The verticality of the "art" in your inspiration image works because the room is narrow. It doesn't seem to work very well in your uber wide room.
I'm really bothered by the lights blocking the "art."
I think you either need much wider/taller artwork, or just wide.
Sorry… not feeling this at all.
Your video this morning, however, was pretty damn funny. Gotta admit.
I've been eagerly checking my mailbox for a sleepover invite for months. I even have black socks and pasty white legs all ready to go. I'll fit right in. Come on!!! It'll be fun!
Still, please don't leave the light blocking the prints. It looks sloppy.
So you're saying there's a chance. YES!
I think that the lamps in front of the art really works, because it covers the titles/print on the bottom. From a distance they have a subtle wallpaper look to them, that is just lovely for the space. As for the sides, they're obviously incomplete. Once there is storage or furniture over there, these prints will definitely prove to be the ideal, unobtrusive solution to the blank walls.
We've come a long way, $herdog. Aren't you glad you gave love a chance?
Notice too that I ignored Stacy's comment. Typically I'd jump all over that. But I've learned that there's just no helping some people.
Aren't you proud of me?
No fair… now you're changing your comments. I can't keep up.
Choosing love,
You said it, Bob. So glad someone else agrees that the lamps blocking the bottom of the framed prints is irksome. I was all ready at the beginning of this post to email Sherry to beg that you sell the prints to me – so I'm glad you saw the charm in them eventually. Lovely (except for the placement…)
I agree. I don't like the lamps covering up the art. LOVE the art though!!
I think the vertical frames work in this room simply because of the bed. Once the corners are filled I think it will be a good way to separate the bed from the rest of the room. A little oasis, if you will.
I agree, however, about the lamps covering the frames. I kind of get what you guys were going for with the layering, but I think they're just a tad too low. Maybe if the lamps only covered the mats, and not also the bottom of the prints? This would also lessen the amount of blank space near the ceiling.
Digging the art and even the naked bed insert. More importantly, this post was the funniest thing I've read in a while. You are seriously deranged (and I say that lovingly).
You made the right call scrapping the duvet. Although I thought it was playful and fun, it was a bit too whimsical for the direction of the space (especially with the new Alaskan prints). I also think the ram head and accompanying pieces work better without the West Elm duvet.
P.S. Started a Pinterest today, I have no clue why I waited so long…
Also, in one of the pictures it appears you painted the wood candle holders? Or was that just funky lighting? Perhaps a tease of what's to come?
I saw that they read pretty teal in one of the pics and I actually really liked it.
Wow I love it with the plain white! We have a crazy Paisley duvet that I totally thought my boyfriend was going to veto but he loves it http://annabelvita.com/paisley-bed-pie-aka-a-fabric-factory-threw-up phew! (the pics are from my old messy bedroom when we shared a room in a house share, ick)
We did a little bedroom switcheroo this weekend. Feels so good, doesn't it?
Just goes to show you that a house is always a work in progress! I love changing out duvet covers for a new, fresh look.
too far? never!
I LOVE white bedding. It looks so cozy to me. As for our rewinds–they happen often. Really often. Sometimes it is an oops, let's try that again. And sometimes it is, oh our 17 month old can reach/destroy that let's try again. It keeps things fun and interesting and I never get sick of anything.
I sell things all the time in the online classifieds. It's actually how we budget for all of our projects 'round here. It also keeps us clutter free. Out with the old to fund the new. I am currently selling a zebra-print rug that last year I loved, and in our new house…not so much. It's okay. Actually, it's more than okay–it's LIBERATING.
Sherry/John, I can't see your photos anymore – either on your website or in my Google reader. I love reading your blog and the pictures totally enhance the experience. Please help!
Oh my gosh, Sherry, I'm loving this new arrangement, and I'm loving the white duvet. I really am. It lets all of the really cool, and totally random, things in your bedroom stand on their own.
Wow, it's incredible how much better that art looks now! I never would have thought of spray painting a mat. I agree the bedroom looks better and can't wait to see the new duvet cover you find.
When we remodeled our kitchen last year my boyfriend vetoed the cabinet finishes, pulls, and countertop colors I picked first. Now that the kitchen is done I love it and am so glad he vetoed – we ended up with beautiful, classic choices that are so much more timeless than what I picked out first!
Wow! I love the new look. The white comforter looks so fresh in there now.
I like it! I think you should set a price on your duvet cover and then let everyone who wants it submit their names and you do a drawing with the winner paying the price.
I looked and looked for it awhile back and couldn't find one reasonable – didn't want to pay the high price that ebay sellers were asking. You always do a great job.
I'm loving the white duvet. Its much more calming than the floral, even though the floral one is very cute. It think it was just too busy.
Love the long frames beside the bed. Its a great look. We're sorta rocking the same thing, except instead of art its windows. Similar, yet different.
I'm looking forward to what you guys pick, since the paint color and curtains were all picked based on that duvet! It looks awesome without the duvet (too much pattern with the prints), so it looks like I'm a convert, too.
Yeah, actually, I had that really bright and bold purple/orange/hot pink duvet cover from Ikea on my bed all winter and I recently changed it out for the white one I originally bought and voila, everything feels better. I love that changing one thing can change an entire room. :)
I really love the art, especially with the updated frames and mats! And I think they are more nerdy botanical than grandma, and that is a compliment. :)
Love the new art! As far as duvet covers go, I have two that I switch back and forth throughout the year. They both match my bedroom decor and it makes me feel like I have a new room every few months!
I like lists and I know you do to. Therefore …
1. Did you purposefully make your title to have another meaning? Because I definitely laughed. And then I got a mental image of some twigs and berries on top of some ..other… twigs and berries.
2. Does it bug you that one painting is slightly more faded than the other?
3. I was sure you were going to paint the frames white (which would have looked fab with other prints and your old duvet) but I do really like the soft wall color with your white bedposts and the ORB frame). You sure are tricky.
4. Would you consider a softer colored ottoman with your new decor?
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Totally obsessed with those prints. And I cannot believe you got them for $10 a piece. What a wonderful find and a bargain.
Great idea about spray painting the mats for the picture frames. You can get an uniformed look with picture frames from different stores without having to buy all new mats. Love it.
I was secretly and self-centered-ly glad you decided not to stick with the plain white. Maybe when the whole bed area is more "complete" it would look great, but as with the unexpected leaves and berries find, I love seeing how you get creative with color, pattern, and texture. Keep it up!!!
Also, I'm just beginning my foray into the world of spray painting – small house, so there's not much to spray, so thanks for the tips! :)
Awesome! You guys are hilarious, wrong in the best way.
i love the botanical prints (and the "wink wink" factor, too!) may i suggest the west elm pintuck duvet? very elegant and adds nice texture. it never looks wrinkly because it's supposed to be that way! we have the white one and really love it, but they have other soft colors that i think would look great in your room, too. also, ORGANIC cotton! :)
I love the square tuck! If it weren't for the big puppies and long nails I would buy one!
My parents have a similar bed cover in the "guest room" (I'm the only over-night guest but I'm not allowed to call it my room anymore and no, I'm not bitter) and while it's gorgeous, it catches on everything. I don't have raptor claws but good lord if my nails don't get caught on it. And books. And pens.
I love the look of the pintuck duvet. But after sleeping with it for some time every tuck ripped. It was excruciating to try to pull the covers up and hear rrrriiip. It also did some funky color fading thing in the wash. To West Elm's credit they took it back. But it broke my heart because I LOVED it. My sister-in-law hates it for the same reason.
oh man! sorry, guys! we've heard our tucks ripping a few times when we've yanked on the duvet too hard while making the bed, but it hasn't been a big problem for us. we've had it about 9 months, i think. i was thinking it wouldn't be too difficult to re-sew the ones that come undone if it becomes noticeable, but so far it's not.
I wondering if the DIY version I first saw on pinterest would hold up better. http://www.projectprettyblog.com/2011/07/diy-pintuckknotted-duvet-cover-tutorial.html Certainly a labor of love since she said it took her a while. But how awesome would it be to casually say you made it?
So fun. That Country Living reference is gorgeous.
I like that you stuck with the original art! Especially since they have sentimental value to both you and John. We're currently debating what to put over our living room sofa. I want a large, modern photo to counterbalance some of our more traditional furniture. And some of the images I've pulled are from our wedding and honeymoon.
Is the print on the left sun-faded or just more muted shades than the one on the right?
I love the new art! There is something very vintage (and of course sentimental to you guys) about them.
Have you thought about putting the two frames where the ram head and sconces are? It might be a better balance? Just my two cents!!
I love the color palette of your boudoir! So serene!
I love those prints (for I am a total plant nerd) and *really* love them with the darker frames and white mat. That's what I would done.
We're currently looking for a new duvet cover! We'll be moving up to a king bed soon and I'm already on the hunt. I adore white bedding, but we have two cats who shed a lot. :(
I totoally cracked up when I saw your sock picture .. bawhahah .. this is too like me .. and probably everyone else .. lol
THANK YOU FOR KEEPING THOSE ART PRINTS! As soon as I saw them and you said they were "too grandma" and that you would probably replace them, my heart *melted*. They are so rustic and carefree – the perfect artwork to put into a modern house to give it a "We aren't trying to hard to be super-duper modern, we just work with what we love!" look.
Old-fashioned prints usually only look old-fashioned because of a) their frames, and b) the surrounding furniture/decor. Updating the frames was the perfect idea, and I'm thrilled you two kept the art. LOVE THEM!
Also, a big Y.E.S. to replacing the duvet! I am with John… I think it's pretty, but a little too "college dorm room" for you folks. I think something subtle (either solid or patterned) will open up your design possibilities in that room. :) Great job!
This is pretty much exactly what I was going to write, so — amen, Stacy!
I agree! I've been prowling the streets looking for my very own vintage prints and was about to be so sad if you tossed these gems, especially with the honeymoon-connection. And I'm digging the ORB frames!
Oh, Sherry — you crack me UP! You and John are always verbally crafty (in addition to your, you know, CRAFTY craftiness), but you outdid yourself with the puns, wordplay, and altogether fun language in your post today. Hooray for great writing!
Love the after! And I had a feeling those prints would work out… there something very Anthro about them.
The hubs and I finally agreed on a duvet and "look" for our bedroom and I hate it. It's white walls with a grey duvet and that's about it (I blame Pottery Barn for making it look so chic on their website). So now I am struggling to make a change and I the duvet might be first since we don't want to paint. We shall see!
Ohh, I just did the same thing! Except our duvet was not such a good deal, meaning it was a someone-bought-the-ridiculously-overpriced-duvet-off-our-wedding-registry price. Eek. I tried to love it; scratch that, I DID love it for all of two months, and then I spent another six months convincing myself I did love it, until it went off to get cleaned, and looking at the bare sheets made me swoon.
It never made it back. It's now kept in my closet, you know, so when that person does come to visit, I'll be sure to have it on. Gulp– I hope I remember.
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LOVE LOVE LOVE! Admittedly, I am the biggest sucker with a capital OMG-S for white bedding, but I just love the change in your bedroom by adding those prints and removing the old duvet! The color on the wall looks so different and everything looks so much more soothing and relaxing and just simply lovely, but still manly enough for John and Ram. Nicely done!
Yay! I secretly NEVER liked that duvet. Can't wait to see what you find to replace it!
Just gotta comment on my comment: I secretly never liked that duvet, BUT it's what got you to the green curtains that are perfect in the room, so I think that's why fate brought the duvet into your life.
Love this post! The twigs and berries, hillarious! I love the prints and don't think they're too grandma-ish. Those prints have wonderful little details that make them so interesting and the colors are so pretty! Can't wait to see which duvet you guys pick out!
LOVING the way the white duvet insert looks in your room. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE. We've done our guest room in a pale aqua with white bedding, and I absolutely love how crisp and fresh it looks. But, for you guys I know it's a temporary thing and I can't wait to see what you end up picking.
Not loving the art, though. Personally, it's a little too old fashioned for my taste, but taste in art is a very personal thing, so you loving it is what matters. But your bedroom is coming together nicely. I'm always so excited to see what's next.
(And any post that has a Burger pic is a definite favorite of mine!)
I refinished my first picture frame this weekend. I bought a very gold bamboo-ish frame with blue matting and an ugly print, and this weekend I painted it with a shimmery black Folk Art Paint. I left the matting and added a Sharon Montrose Print. It looks awesome now. Just had to share my success too.
Thank God I read this. I just posted in my own blog how I spray painted my right foot silver while wearing flip flops and now have "Crypt Keeper" colored feet with sandal lines. THANK YOU for posting the sock trick ! I will so do that next time!!
seriously adorable! I need to thrift more often….like NOW
This is my favorite post I've ever read here. I think its because of your choice of his/her sides on the grandma art. :)
Love watching the evolution of your rooms.
Those are SO cute! I absolutely love them and I think they add a lot to your room – just finishes it off perfectly! Our next project is our master bedroom and I have no idea what to do for artwork…
Ooooh those are so cool. I love the way you styled them into your space.
I like the black frame and the white mat – totally updated the art! I love the look of old botanical prints.
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In my anatomy class we finally started dissecting the cats, but, of course, before you can actually dissect anything, you must skin the cat. We're dissecting cats because when my teacher was a student, he dissected a cat and thus knows the most about their anatomy and how the process works. Some facts about the cat that my partner and I have chosen to dissect. First, you should know that I'm a cat person and so I was very careful to pick a cat that I liked and appealed to me. Our cat's name is Garfield, he's an orange tabby cat and we believe (based on the amount of fat we found on his belly and neck) he was a little pudgy during life.
When we pulled Garfield out of the bag, I cried a little bit. I'm a cat lover so dissecting a cat isn't at the top of my to-do list. His post-mortum position was as if he had been clawing for help, a position that you'd find at Pompeii, sort of. His arms were up near his head, mouth was open (supported by a sponge cube), tongue rolled up in back of mouth and his eyes were shut. We laid him down on the dissecting "plate" and grabbed our scalpels.
It hadn't hit me until we were actually about to begin, that skinning the cat meant literally taking the skin and fat off until there was just muscle. Garfield still had fur and a lot of it! Now why the cats weren't shaved, I don't understand but regardless I still had to skin the cat using my hands and a scalpel. To start the skinning process, one must pierce the skin at the sternum and slice laterally down the ventral side of the cat, making sure not to cut into muscles. After my partner (who was completely unaffected by the dead cat on the table) had done that with scissors, I used my scalpel to cut around the base of the neck and up both of the forelimbs, stopping at the paws. For a cat dissection, the skin on the head, tail and paws isn't removed. We used our fingers to peel the skin away from the abdominal muscles before we began slicing away.
The muscles were connected to skin by connective tissue, which is called the subdermis. The subdermis was right underneath the middle layer of skin, the dermis. The subdermis is made up of connective and fatty tissue and helps the body with insulation, energy storage and making sure the skin stays on the body. This is the thickest layer of the three layers (epidermis, dermis, subdermis). The connective tissue has different appearances depending on placement. If it was right on top of a muscle it was white and slightly thick and we used tweezers to remove this tissue and at other times (when peeling the skin back) the tissue simply looked like cobwebs that we sliced through easily with a scalpel. Garfield happened to have a lot of subdermis on his body and thus, in some areas (like the chest and arms) cutting was really easy, but in others, like the belly and the back we had to put in a lot of effort to remove the skin completely. The most difficult part about skinning was making sure not to slice into or completely destroy any muscles. My partner and I did a fine skinning job on most of the cat, but we ended up slicing out the trapezius muscles on our cat. I'm not really sure how it happened, but I think we must have mistaken it for connective tissue or the amount of connective tissue between the muscle and the subdermis was thin, making the muscle "stick" to the skin really well. Another difficulty was having to cut around the base of the tail (and since Garfield is a boy, the scrotum), because the tail and scrotum can't just be peeled off with the rest of the skin; they were cut around.
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After I tweeted Scoble's post, a good friend (who also is a top executive at a major Internet company) wrote a humorous direct message to me, saying that respected Scoble "is now a lot less respected."
Now, that's a bit harsh. But, Eric Quanstrom (Sorenson Media's VP Marketing & Strategy) and I discussed Scoble's post yesterday and ruminated on it. We considered Scoble's rationale and reached these conclusions:
First, if you are Evan Williams (CEO of Twitter), just sit back and enjoy the ride -- let Scoble and others inflate the value of your company. Don't even try to justify ways to monetize your services, because once you do, then the number crunchers will come in and quickly deflate the value of your company. Gone will be the hype of $5-10 billion -- now, critics will be able to poke holes in your monetization story. So, be patient -- and let Scoble and others speculate. Their speculation, in turn, will lead to real investor speculation and even more hype -- and that ultimately will benefit Twitter investors in a big way.
Second, while it sounds "nice" and "logical" that Twitter ultimately will be able to monetize its services in a big way by introducing "business services", let's take a closer look. Yes, it is absolutely true that virtually every company -- including my own, Sorenson Media -- is trying to harness the power of Twitter to build customer relationships and better market itself, that does not mean that Twitter itself necessarily will be the one to generate real cash from those efforts. Look at the plethora of Twitter-related services and apps out there right now? These aren't Twitter itself -- but they harness the power of Twitter and give businesses many of the services and tools they need right now. And, this Twitter eco-system will only grow and grow.
So, yes, Twitter is a phenomenon -- and its growth is beyond remarkable. As Scoble writes, the entire world (literally) is obsessed with Twitter and feels the need to tweet itself -- "I Tweet. Therefore, I am." And, yes, Twitter is unlike any other service out there, providing the world's collective consciousness at any given moment in time (something that even almighty Google and Facebook cannot do) (how can Google even effectively present real-time Tweets as part of its view of world domination to "search everything" -- how will it rank Tweet X v. Tweet Y?).
But, how much is owning the world's collective consciousness worth?
As a stand-alone business, certainly nothing close to $5-10 billion. Let's not forget that, apart from Twitter's unknown plan to monetize itself (I have doubts that Twitter will ever be able to monetize its services in any meaningful way), its operating expenses must be enormous -- and those will only grow and grow as more and more Tweets will include video and other rich media. (As I just recently wrote, Google's YouTube has precisely the same problem.)
But, whoa Csathy, not so fast! Let's get back to Google's mantra to "search everything." How can this be true when it cannot do what Twitter does -- i.e., search the world's collective consciousness right now? THAT is Google's Achilles Heel! And, that, ultimately, may be Twitter's path to billions and billions. Google needs Twitter (in the words of that classic disco song, "If I can't have you, I don't want nobody baby!). And other tech behemoths (Microsoft, anyone?) need to keep Twitter out of Google's hands.
So, it ain't "business services" that will lead to the salvation of Twitter investors. It will simply be an old-world auction -- supply and demand. And, direct monetization has little to do with it.
(But, Google -- tread cautiously here (I know that is a very bold statement for an individual like me to say to a tech titan). You already lose hundreds of millions of dollars annually running YouTube. If you add Twitter to the fold, you will need to deal with this same issue -- but now doubled.)


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Video game behemoth Bioware has once again come through for its gay fans. After providing same-sex romance options in its Dragon Age games (and catching flak for doing so), they've done the same thing for the third edition of its wildly popular Mass Effect series.
gaygamer.net posted this tweet from Mass Effect executive producer Casey Hudson.
This is the news that fans of the series have been waiting and hoping for. I've played through the first two games multiple times, as both the male and female versions of the lead character Shepard, and it was frustrating to have limited romance options, especially since so many of the other characters were so space bangable.
Space hotties Kaidan, Thane, Jacob, and Joker
The female Shepard was allowed to have both female and male romances, but the male Shepard was limited to straight coupling (and neither Shepard was allowed to romance the hottest character, the adorkable, wisecracking ship pilot Joker).
As gaygamer points out, Hudson does not specifically state that Shepard will be the one allowed same-sex relationships, but Bioware must know that's what fans want.
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I want to share my DeviantArt Cute Monsters Design Challenge entry with you! I hope you enjoy him, and please reblog if you wish :3
I entered the contest a little later in the game, so I'll need all the help I can get from you guys and gals, to get this little guy some attention! If you are a member of DeviantArt, you can log in and click the "I'd Wear This" button on the right hand side of the page to vote for him (you can vote for as many shirts as you like over there— check em out!).
My cute monster is the TimeCat! His shape is based off a sketch of mine from the background of some storyboards I've been working on recently. Painted digitally in Photoshop with a Wacom Tablet.
TimeCat can get himself into a little bit of trouble, but he's a loyal friend for all time!
Feel free to share this with your friends and thank you for looking! *hug!*
Vote and reblog, buddies! This is a super cute shirt, from a lovely artist who deserves to win~
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