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Marshmallow is available for adoption from Special Bunny Rescue in Seattle.
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can I get that in writing?
I'd love to adopt you, Marshmallow, really I would, but my bunny overlord would probably object.
Please, make me second to last.
I just want to nom his ears.
Someone please put the pin back in that little grenade!
It seems to me that Susan 4:05 has a sensible survival strategy. She didn't specify that she would bring the writing instrument so as to avoid the nefarious rabbit sneaking in disappearing ink, but she gets points for prudence. Now Jane 5:52 clearly just wants to throw her life away. Why? What happened in that short two hour period?
Ok. I'll take him
I have never liked marshmallows in my Hot Chocolate. It was just an inkling I had. Now I see why.
If only we lived in the US I would have him in a heart beat, beautiful,he would make a fine pal for SPeedy
He looks grumpeh.
That Marshmallow conceals a heart of pure STEEL!
Good grief, I meant "Susan 5:52."
Yep, stole mine.
Stay puffed marshmallow bun!
I am inadequate to care for the four bunns I have ... until my review gets better from them annually, I can't take on anymore bunns... not a good chance of them giving me a better review... they are hard to please! But, i would come get you in a heartbeat if I could take care of you, too!
thats the bun for an evil mastermine if I ever saw one!
Well, 6Bs, between your present and earlier confessions and Fleetie's ruthless critique, your application would not be accepted. I don't feel prepared to speak for Marshmallow, but you may be the second to last destroyed based on your kindly regret and realistic bowing out. Hey, someone else jump in and give Marshmallow a chance!
@kellish: Oh for sure! That should be Dr. Evil's bunny!
All right, gather around all you evil masterminds who are not bunns! What will you give for this rabbit?
I can't imagine that if any hoomin wandered into Marshmallow's presence, he or she would be able to leave without him! I know I couldn't. That is why I try to avoid situations in which I would begin collecting bun masters ... I have no frontal lobe ... cannot resist the bunneh ...
WIll you spare me if I promise never to brush your fur?
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I just finished this dye today! I am trying to figure out if this stencil is a keeper or not. It will all depend on what you all say! This stencil was cut on a plotter but took me 4 hours to pull all the unwanted vinyl away from the vinyl I was using for the stencil. Would you buy a disc with this design on it and how much would you pay for just the dye job ( don't include the disc)? This will also help me with pricing and such. Thanks in advance!
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You are the man. Obviously, that took alot of time and patience to create. The question is not how much people will pay. It should be how much is your time worth ?
how much would it cost to have this dyed on a disc then?
this disc is nasty... i would definitely pay 25 plus pay for the disc. keep this as a dye
Awesome dye! but if you look at it from a business standpoint. It's not worth your man hours alone. Even at min wage. You're looking at $36 dollars for your labor. Add the disc and shipping, that's an expensive disc. How about selling a stencil kit to disc golfers? Kind of what they sell now for pumpkin carving?
Anyway to cut down the man hours? Is it possible to use a computer and laser cutting the stencil?
Nice..have to agree with Rescue. $20 + disc is still way cheap,your undercutting youself with man hrs alone.Dark color might also run afoul when your looking for that stray shot.You might be looking at min $40.That starts to get steep,but then someone might just surprise you.your work is top shelf,no bargin basement shopping.
Man that is nice, as was already said... that is a lot of work, but I am sure that if you do it a number of times, you'll get faster at weeding it. You should do up around 3 or so list them for $25 plus disc cost, then put a note on there that they can pick the disc the disc color and the dye color if they like. Then maybe you can sell it right to them and skip eBay and eBay charges!
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West Nile virus (WNV) is a mosquito-borne flavivirus (single-stranded RNA) that primarily infects birds but occasionally infects horses and humans. WNV was first isolated in 1937 from an infected person in the West Nile district of Uganda. Until the viral infection was recognized in 1999 in birds in New York City, WNV was found only in the Eastern Hemisphere, with wide distribution in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Europe.(1-3) In 2002, a total of 3,389 human cases of WNV infection were reported from 37 states (794 cases in Illinois); 2,354 (69%) presented with meningoencephalitis, 704 (21%) had West Nile fever, and 331 (10%) had an unspecified illness.(2) Overall, the WNV epidemic in the United States was the largest arboviral meningoencephalitis outbreak documented in the Western hemisphere. In addition, 33 cases of probable WNV infection occurred among persons who had received blood components in the month before illness onset.(3)
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1. Petersen LR, Marafin AA: West Nile Virus: a primer for the clinician. Ann Intern Med 2002;137:173-179
2. Petersen LR, Roehrig JT: West Nile Virus: a reemerging global pathogen. Emerg Infect Dis 2001;7(4):611-614
3. Brinton MA: The molecular biology of West Nile Virus: a new invader of the western hemisphere. Ann Rev Microbiol 2002;56:371-402
4. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Provisional Surveillance Summary of the West Nile Virus epidemic. United States, January-November 2002. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2002;51(50):1129-1133
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Jimmypop, no worries bout the question. The stem in the final product only extends about 12" out the bottom.
I also know Aledo well. Built many many miles of fence around there for two of the biggest ranches in that area. And yes, living in Texas this last summer was a mofo!
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Norm, all the metal around the sign is 1/8" x 6" and was hand rolled around the cutout faces, tacked little tabs every couple of inches on the inside to give me a shoulder to force the plate to. Lots of c-clamps and leverage on my part. The tight parts were heated with a rosebud and "pre-formed" prior to fitting on the main body. Whole thing tacked out and then mig'd out.
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During my rounds to catch up on what's happening in the animation world I discovered a couple of articles by Amid Amidi of Cartoonbrew. Amid was a member of AN for many years but his knee jerkism, baseless accusations, general intolerance and his own misguided sense of altruism compelled this animation critic historian (in other words not an animation artist) to leave AN in a very public huff.
Now he's reporting on a huge news item... huge I tell you!
The Art Institute of California is forcing their students to buy books they don't really need!
Articles posted on CB:
Animation Teacher Faces Termination For Refusing To Sell His Students Unnecessary Books
Amid Amidi
August 12, 2012 2:57 am
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Ed Hooks Explains Why His Popular Acting Book Is No Longer Available To Art Institutes Students
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August 13, 2012 2:39 pm
It's important that news stories about corruption in the education system should be exposed. It's ironic that that corrupt animation journalism is doing the exposing. But, at least he's getting out there.
Here's the thing folks. If you think the matter about the Art Institute franchise forcing students to buy unnecessary textbooks is bad, that pales in comparison to the info that's come my way over the years. Sometimes when their teachers discover how questionable the Art Institutes schools really are and out of a good conscious decide to resign, many of them are actually paid off to keep quiet about their methods.
That's right ladies and gents. They pay hush money.
So while super slooth Amid is looking at the book issue, when it comes to the Art Institute schools, it goes a lot deeper than that.
This is one reason why we're here folks. Who in the animation community critiques the critics?
If you're looking to enroll in a quality animation / art oriented school or program, do your homework. There's no need to go into a massive amount of lifelong debt just to learn the basics. There are other options available to you. And if you do decide to go to an expensive degree oriented school, make sure it's one that requires a review of your portfolio as a condition of enrollment.
Re: CB and Art Institutes - oh the hypocrisy
Best advice anyone can give to a prospective art, design and/or animation student presuming the school assessment is an honest one.
I've seen way too many young recent graduates with "Masters" degrees in computer animation who couldn't find a job and had to move to another field because they really didn't have what it takes. I can only imagine how much they owed in student loans and other debts.
It's a tough and competitive field these days.
Re: CB and Art Institutes - oh the hypocrisy
I've had several students that came to me after they graduated or finished their time with the Art Institute franchise. They all speak poorly of their experience and feel they didn't get what they should have gotten while they were there in terms of an education. Whenever I'm asked to recommend a school I make it a point to mention that AI is something to be avoided.
I also tell my students not to trust the people behind Cartoonbrew. The site can get you exposure but the sincerity they pose in helping artists is fake. If they cared about animation artists and were genuinely interested in building a better community then why do these guys see us as the enemy. That's how twisted their perception is. They may know who worked at Termite Terrace but they are self serving elitists who aren't artists and who look to control artists just as much as any non-creative studio executive.
Check out their site for news and videos but don't trust them. In their own way they're just as bad as any Art Institute school. Personal experience has taught me that lesson.
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Where would cartoon brew be without artists? nowhere. They thrive off the content from students and artists who are way more talented and productive than they can hope to ever be. Well, actually I commend Jerry Beck for trying to get classics re-released onto DVD and being concerned about preserving the artform, however Amid tends to push his own dogma in every publication he has done. Notice how neither of them ever mention anything related to anime and yet most of what the East produces is leaps and bounds above the quality of the west not only in displays of draftsmanship but also in content. But I guess that isn't considered "cartoons"
It takes Amid 5 minutes to bash someone in a post. It takes an artist years to make a short film. And do you really need someone to tell you what to like and what not to like. Do you need someone to review something for you? Are people incapable of forming their own opinions?
Artists get joy out of creating and normally that creating is done not only to entertain or amuse the artist but also other people. Most of the time that is the point of creating. Since Amid lacks that skill he needs to achieve this same type of attention all his heroes have had. Maybe he does that by posting Flame-inciting topics drenched in his biased kerosene. Then he can sit back and be all giddy while watching the comments roll in. He can CHOOSE which ones to approve to make sure none are contradicting his points...but wait, sometimes he will let one slide if he feels he can undermine and cut up the poster with some witty rebuttal. I can bet you that he doesn't approve the posters comments after that. Especially if they call him out on his bullsh*t. Guess who is always on top!?
At the end of the day its a distraction. It's a divide and conquer tactic. Artists are so busy playing siskel and ebert against each other. It breeds this pathetic insecurity by the nature of anonymous posters being able to criticize without consequence. Instead a more productive thing could be addressing the problems with the industry the union and corrupt executives, but that rarely happens. the latter is what this site is for. truth.
Re: CB and Art Institutes - oh the hypocrisy
You nailed it sorryguyz.
If I was pulling that stuff on the old forums I could've saved myself a lot of grief. Years of it in fact. I've heard from many people whose comments never got posted on cartoonbrew and have been deleted from their respective Facebook sites as well for no reason. They weren't being malicious or anything. Guess what they had to say didn't fit into the 'leading the conversation' propaganda.
I'm still dealing with crazy people from the old forums. A few minutes ago I heard from someone from those days still bitching about something. That's my reward for hosting an open forum for all those years.
The more time passes, the more I ignore these mean self centered hypocrites, the more I focus on creative things, the more that nightmare fades away.
Re: CB and Art Institutes - oh the hypocrisy
Seems like a hugely positive thing, though, Amid did by putting this piece into the light. However, since I come here all the time, I never would've known about it if it weren't for you, Charles.
Thanks for calling attention to it. And remember to balance the negative stuff disgruntled artists throw out with the positive stuff, because as you know, at the end of the day balance matters.
Re: CB and Art Institutes - oh the hypocrisy
The Art Institute, several years ago, tried hard to recruit me. One of their recruiters asked me for $20,000 by the Friday of that week. That's when I decided to sever all contact with them.
That experience was suffered just months after I left my film school (keep in mind, this is seven, eight years ago) after over two years of hard work, and learned that the credits I had earned there were not transferable.
Be wary of any private school that is A.) for-profit, and B.) owned by a corporation. Be wary.
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Be wary of any private school that is A.) for-profit, and B.) owned by a corporation. Be wary.
I'd say beware of any school, public or private, that accepts students who shouldn't go into this field and can't provide the training needed for success.
Re: CB and Art Institutes - oh the hypocrisy
I gave up on Cartoon Brew a long time ago.
One thing I learned from many blogs and forums is that many of these armchair critics have once aspired to be animation artists themselves. Even the very few who let us in on their insight with valid arguments are still caught up in the dogma behind their personal preferences.
One of my friends was correct when he surmised that the Internet has in some way ruined the cartoon community. No one knows how to enjoy cartoons anymore.
Re: CB and Art Institutes - oh the hypocrisy
Reviewing portfolios of prospective students is something I do as a condition of enrollment. It helps me to discern if they're right for our program and vice verse. If I feel like they're better suited to head into another direction I let them know. Schools like the Art Institute franchise won't turn anyone away. It's all about the sale. Like a car dealership.
Had a great conversation with a friend the other night who knows Cartoonbrew intimately. Man, what a treasure trove of info. I had my unpleasant experiences with them but I didn't realize the level of bias and corruption that's involved in what they do on an editorial level.
Seems to me more people are starting to figure them out.
Re: CB and Art Institutes - oh the hypocrisy
Many years ago (like 18) I had a gig teaching at an Art Institute. We were just starting up their animation program and I had to start without any equipment for pencil testing or recording their work. Those first few classes were all flipbooks and cameraless techniques. It took me a little while before I discovered their recruiting techniques were based more on getting warm bodies than students who were right for the animation discipline.
Despite that a number of students I had there managed to make it into the animation industry and make a career of it. Sadly this had much more to do with their inherent talent and drive than anything the school did for them. In fact, I'd say they succeeded despite of their experiences.
I have heard that AI schools vary greatly in quality from one location to another, kind of like fast food franchises. Unfortunately it sounds like they've only gotten worse in the many years since I worked at one.
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- Abdelbari Khiar
- Blida
- Algeria
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Loving or being loved?
If you have been asked to choose between the person you love and the person that loves you, who would you choose?
Lena Gorska
Jan 10 2013: The state of 'being in love' has much more to do with hallucination than a real feeling.
- +3
We tend to dream and idealize our partners ... True love is unconditional and thus very rare in modern world.
Jan 12 2013: Hi Lena;
What do you mean by " Unconditional Love " ? I hear this most of the time, but everyone has a different definition of it !
Lena Gorska
Jan 12 2013: Felling unconditional love you expect nothing in return accepting everything which is given to you...I think most of people experience this kind of feeling towards their immediate family members. We unconditionally love our parents, brothers, sisters and kids...For no particular reason. For alll and nothing at the same time.Jan 15 2013: I would have to chose the person I love.
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If I were to chose someone I don't love, it would be dishonour not only to them but to me. I would have a feeling of regret, and I would probably end up leaving this other person. I have had time in my life were I have had to open up to the person I love, and I had my heart ripped out from my chest. It wan't a good feeling and don't wish it to happen to me or anyone again but it's something you have to do. To this day I'm glad I told her how I felt, and I was able to move on. And I'm now starting to love again because the heart can heal.Jan 13 2013: As long as both of them are me, it doesn't matter. Beyond that, it's a matter of ego gratification.
Jan 14 2013: I completely agree with you !
W. Ying
Jan 11 2013: Obviously,
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As a parent, I choose the person I love --- the child.
As a child, I choose the person that loves me --- the parent.
As a spouse, I never choose.
As a friend, I choose both.
(For details, see the 1st article, points 1-8, at https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=D24D89AE8B1E2E0D&id=D24D89AE8B1E2E0D%21283&sc=documents)
Jan 12 2013: We're not talking about the obvious part, it's obvious, isn't it ? :)
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Jan 11 2013: Dear Abdelbari,
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The information you provided leaves room for too many assumptions. You are asking it, that shows it truly matters to you. The answer for your question 'as is', is neither. Do let them both know - kindly and gently - how you feel. And Let them both go on with their lives. In time, the real thing will present itself to you, it is mutual & bilaterally symmetrical :-)
Jan 12 2013: Hi Juliette,
Actually, this maters to me but not with this sense, I'm sure that I love but not that I'm loved :p I asked the question because I love to see how people think about things like this, I think this is an eye opener and I need this a lot in my life, and because I love to read comments like yours ^^
For me, this question has no answer even though I would choose the person I love if I had to choose, choosing the person who loves me in expense of the person I love seems selfish to me, but reasonable at the same time because we tend to think that this person will love us as we love the other one. " It is mutual & bilaterally symmetrical :-) " This is the perfect and the ideal situation :3
May I ask you another question ?
You mother and your daughter have to die and you can save only one of them, who would you choose ?
. .
Jan 12 2013: Hi Abdelbari,
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Your first question is the most important question in this life. Because that is the only thing each person can choose for themselves. We don't choose the people we are born into. We choose friends, environments, we choose our life mates. The most important thing, I feel, is how that choice is made. We must be most careful with people's hearts. You are right to say that this is an idealistic view but there is never been a time when we could see the importance of sticking to it so clearly.
Your second question, is easier to answer, though much more painful ( because I have been accused of having a heart:-). We don't have a choice in the birth/death area my friend. That is in much mightier than all of our intelligence put together. That said, I'd do my best to keep them both alive to the last breath.
Anne N
Jan 11 2013: Well, this depends. How about people who you love and who love you back?
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In the scenario that the person I loves doesn't love me back and I don't love the person who loves me, I would choose the person I love. After all, even if the person that loves me cares for me and I do not care for him/ her, I would not feel happy or satisfied or want to receive that love. However, if I pick the person that I love, I have to be aware that that person may not "choose" me as I chose him/her. Secondly, if I picked the person who loves me, I would be forging a "friendship" or "relationship" with that person although I would not really want to. That would not be fair to him or her as well.Jan 10 2013: Of course the first thing all most any one will choose is the one i love because of the emotions that we have for this specific person plus the teenagers (im one of them) will defentley choose this option basicley because we dont really felt life yet and dont really know what feelings we should stick to but if you gone trough some "love dramas" in life and you think about it just for a five minutes you will choose the person who loves you basicley because you know the dont want to hurt you and becasue they feel the same about you as you think about the one you love.
so i would choose the one who loves me because of what i already said and because you can LEARN how to love. :)


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wow this thread really escalated quickly. im gonna have to sit down and read it all when i get the chance soon. love you all bros have a good day
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I used to a lot.
Now only when Im in Holland or Prague away from the kids.
Can't wait for them to be out of the house....im moving to washington or colorado.
We can disagree about religion. We can disagree about politics. but if you like the first three prequels of Star Wars just go ahead an unfriend me right now.
I smoke weed from time to time but anyone telling people that they should try hard drugs just for the hell of it is either extremely misguided or ignorant. You obviously have never known good people and/or friends that have been consumed by drugs due to underlying issues such as ADHD, depression, anxiety. It's all fun and games until you replace Fruity Pebbles with cocaine...
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Commonwealth Cedar Spills
David Savona
Posted: May 2, 2012
Thomas Person, a former software executive who worked with wood in his spare time, was getting deep into his new-found hobby of smoking premium cigars. He immersed himself in the subject, reading books, surfing websites, and he soon found himself intrigued by cedar spills, the thin strips of wood used to light a cigar in the most elegant of fashions. So he wanted to buy some—and found none. So he turned to his woodshop and decided that he was going to make some himself.
Person had worked for a company that was acquired by Adobe, and soon found himself without a job but with sufficient funds to allow himself to do what he wanted, rather than what he must. He turned his attentions to making a cedar spill.
The definition of spill as a small piece of wood or paper used to light a fire dates back to the 14th century. For cigars, lighting up with a cedar spill allows for slow, unhurried toasting of the cigar's foot. Spills cannot light themselves—you light them with a match, lighter or even on the flame of a candle—then use the strip of wood to toast the foot of your cigar.
Person turned to the cedar sheets that come inside many cigar boxes. He split one into a workable spill, lit it, then began lighting his cigar. "The charcoal fell on my shirt," he said. Unhappy with the result, he turned to a woodmill, and asked for veneers of Spanish cedar (a wood that's actually a type of mahogany), the kind of wood used to make most cigar boxes and to line humidors. Spanish cedar has only a faint aroma, low moisture content, and does not have the strong aroma of aromatic cedar, which would ruin a smoke.
He enlisted his cigar smoking friends and began testing, from thinnest to thickest. After the thinnest sample burned like a fast fuse, nearly taking out his eyebrows, he turned to a safer and more scientific experiment, locking the wood in a vise before lighting them up.
"I called it burn testing," he said. "I wanted something that looked neat, something that comes to a point."
He settled on a strip that was far thinner than the sheets found in cigar boxes, then had them cut into a shape roughly 11 inches long, thicker at the end where it was to be held, and getting thinner and thinner, up to a rounded tip making it easy to light on a match, lighter or candle. His spill was ready.
Commonwealth Cedar Spills get their name from the Commonwealth of Kentucky, where Person is based. The spills, which are patent pending, come "60 plus" to the box, which retails for $30. Each gives about 30 to 40 seconds of burn time, plenty of time to light your cigar.
are elegant and fun to use, and take some time to get your cigar going,
putting you in the mindset to relax and smoke. "It's roast and toast,"
he says. "Don't scorch and torch." They're not for outdoors use, nor are
they for those who are in a rush. And they can be a little messy. Take a
look at this video we shot showing the proper technique of lighting up
with a cedar spill.
The company can customize the spills with names, logos or sayings for an additional charge. They went on sale recently, and are presently in a small number of shops. For more information, visit cedarspills.com.
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Float Dub — May 2, 2012 3:57pm ET
They're cool. But 50 cents a pop? Damn.
Bradly Belko — May 2, 2012 4:56pm ET
I think these would be good if you had friends over for a smoke.
Andrew Stevens — Darwin, N.T., Australia, — May 3, 2012 7:44pm ET
I've bought a box.
After your first purchase refilling the box gets cheaper. Plus the specialize in personalizing the box and spills for each customer. Won;t be using them on every cigar i smoke but they'll prob replace my matches for a while
Thomas Person — louisville, KY, USA, — May 8, 2012 4:59pm ET
We are just trying to bring back a rather old tradition that really adds value to the cigar smoking experience. Whether you buy a box or a bundle you are getting the highest quality material and a personalized item. Hopefully you will start seeing spills within cigar maker boxes you purchase right off the shelf; stay tuned on that point or check out our website for more updates - cedarspills.com
Keep on herfing!
Tom Person
President, Commonwealth Cedar Spills
Sydney Liquete — Philippines, — May 11, 2012 8:11am ET
They don't ship to the Philippines?
Daniel Boggiano — Woodhaven, NY, USA, — May 18, 2012 10:05pm ET
I grabbed a box too. Looks like a nice way to add to the relaxation of cigar time.
Thomas Person — louisville, KY, USA, — June 21, 2012 1:47pm ET
I am happy to say that we will be shipping internationally later this year, at least that is the plan. Things can happen but it seems this will com about this fall.
Rose Baumann — July 17, 2012 12:28am ET
I do historical reinactments and I love the thought of Bringign it back around.
Gary Bazdell — Ottawa, ON, Canada, — August 2, 2012 5:10pm ET
Interesting, but I do have rather expensive lighters that have "relax" built in.
William Collier — Tooele, UTAH, United States, — May 17, 2014 1:08pm ET
I'm a fairly seasoned cigar smoker of about 18 to 20 years, one thing I learned early on was that how you light your cigars is almost as important as how you store and maintain them. When it comes to lighting a cigar the old way has always been thin strips of cedar or wooden matches, now many cigar smokers use fancy pretty jet flame lighters to light their cigars which looks cool but it changes the cigars flavor, and not in a good way..
Using lighters of any kind can ruin the flavor of a cigar, the reason behind using cedar strips or wooden matches is that it helps maintain the cigars balance and flavor profile, because with lighter fluids your sucking the fumes of the burning gasses through the entire cigar and it changes the tobaccos properties and the flavor profile. Wooden matches do a pretty good job of keeping a cigars flavors, but a strip of cedar will actually bring the flavors out even more. There's a reason cigars are stored in cedar vaults and cigar boxes and humidors and all that kind of stuff, and it's because the properties of cedar helps to keep the cigars stable and allows them to continue aging and the longer a cigar ages the better it gets, and as long as the cigars are maintained at the proper temperature and humidity they will continue to age and never go bad, some smokers like higher humidity content and some like lower levels, personally I prefer to keep my sticks at the 67/69 range and it has always maintains my cigars perfectly for years that way, I have cigars I've had aging in my humidor for ten years or more that continue to only taste even better the longer I age them and it makes a fairly decent cigar into a pretty damn good cigar. I'm in no hurry to smoke an average cigar and can wait as long as I need to.
So anyways back on topic, so lighting your cigars with cedar strips or wooden matches is much more then just looking elegant or cool or whatever, there's a specific reason behind it and that is that your cigars will simply taste better. Try an experiment for yourself, take three cigars that are the same label and blend and light the first one with a lighter, any kind will do, and toast and light your cigar and smoke it about a quarter of the way where the flavors are starting to really kick in and then sit it down and take a sip of your whiskey to cleanse the palate a little and then light the second cigar with a wooden match, make sure to let all the sulphur burn off before using it to light your cigar because you don't want to be sucking sulphur through your cigar, and smoke the second cigar until the flavors are starting to kick in again while smoking it compare the taste between the first and second cigar, put it down and take another sip of whiskey, compare the aftertaste between the first two cigars you tried and then take your third cigar and light it with a strip of cedar, and again smoke it to the flavor kicking in point and you should be able to taste the difference between the first two cigars and the third cigar? Instead of putting down the third cigar smoke that puppy to the nub and it will only get better with each puff.
So even though they say these cedar spills are elegant and cool and remind you to take your time, the reason for using them has nothing to do with taking your time or the elegance of it, it's because cedar when burning is going to help bring out even more of your favorite cigars flavors, and enhance the overall flavors in the tobaccos, it's even a bit nostalgic because it's the way old Cuban cigar makers have been lighting their cigars for generations because they know what few others do about how to get the best taste and enjoyment out of their cigars. As for me I use 4 1/2" inch wooden cigar matches to light my cigars, however if I have strips of cedar available your damn straight I'd use them before a match any day of the week, it's always a good thing to take your time and enjoy your favorite cigars as much as possible. when I'm into a really good smoke I always hate for it to end especially if I get that one exceptionally delicious smoke that I never want to end and makes me wish every cigar in the box tasted as great as that one did.
I always keep the thin sheets of cedar that come in a lot of cigar boxes and cut them into small 3" inch long strips about 1/2" inch wide and I can pretty much come out with enough strips to light every cigar that came in the box with the cedar sheet, yeah I'll probably buy a box or two of these strips and use them when I don't have my own strips because they are a bit on the expensive side but are probably worth the price to keep my cigar smoking up to par. One thing I always noticed when living in Florida is that every little cigar factory I bought cigars from always had little bundles of cedar strips to give their customers that bought their cigars and I always took a handful to light my cigars with and haven't lit a single cigar with any type of lighter since, and probably never will again..
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- Thomas Anderson
- Portland, ME
- United States
This conversation is closed.
If humanity is going to continue on like it is, then it should probably take things to a new level.
Football fields should be 200 yards. Golf courses should have 600 yard 'par 4' holes, and be 50 holes long. Basketball hoops should be 15 feet high, and the court should be twice as big. Race cars should be moving 800 miles per hour. The computer I am using should have every single song ever written on it. Bowling should have 20 pins. Chess should have 7 more pieces on each side, or better yet, they should have 4 sides going after each other. Mt. Everest should have a ski slope on it. There should be a 10 lane highway from Cape Horn to Cape Town, with a 10 lane bridge across the Bering Strait, and this highway should have no speed limit. Soccer fields should be 3 times as big, and the goal should be half as big, and there should 20 players on each side. There should be a ship that holds a million people, and a plane that holds 5000 people. There should be a whole new wealthy population of trillionaires. Dart boards should be half the size, and dart players should have to stand twice as far away. There should be a bridge from Hawaii to California. The baseball pitcher's mound should be twice the distance: There should be a 4th base, then perhaps a 5th base. There should be 100 more places just like Hollywood.
Any other suggestions?
Closing Statement from Thomas Anderson
Thank you very much for all of your input! I need to find more ways of venting about the values of humanity. I do not see why we continue to let people suffer unnecessarily.
May 20 2013: Hello Thomas, my New England neighbor:>)
I personally think it is time to take ourselves to a new level of learning and growth, rather than the growth of our "stuff". While I believe technology will continue to improve, perhaps we (humans) will be seeking more ways to use it effectively for our own growth, and the improvement of our world? We can always hope!
Based on what I observe in our world, including here on TED, it seems like a lot of people are going back to the basics, and seeking knowledge and growth in themselves, which may contribute to more peaceful growth in our global community:>) Call me Pollyanna if you like!
May 20 2013: I hope so. :)
You don't want a 10000 horsepower speed racer?
May 20 2013: LOL....oh yes....just what I've always wanted! Actually, I don't want to part with my 2004 ford ranger, which serves me quite well:>) It hauls fire wood, which is given to me, carries my bike, skies and kayak nicely, and accomodates gardening "stuff":>) My last vehicle was a chevy S10, which I had for 13 years, and it ran GREAT! Finally had to part with it because the body was challenged from the salt put on the roads in winter....you probably know about that too!May 24 2013: I'm hoping as much as I can, I can promise you that, Colleen ;)
You can call me Uni-Monk :>)
Cheers :)
May 25 2013: AWWWW Yes Anna (Uni-Monk)..........HOPE.......may we always have it.....
Barry Palmer
May 20 2013: The air, water and earth will be free of ANY pollutants.
- +2
NO war and NO crime.
Milk shakes with triple chocolate and triple malt and three cherries on top.
Steve C
May 23 2013: Yes, football fields should be 200 meters long & football-American, baseball, & golf should be abandoned altogether, (but not miniature golf or ladies' fast-pitch softball!)
- +1
Race cars should have a limited amount of gas - say, ten gallons; if a racer goes too fast & lowers his fuel efficiency thus, then too bad for him. Also, races should include right-hand turns & be on/off-road, and have to actually do something useful: like deliver mail.
Bowling should have warps in the lane, like miniature golf.
Chess should be 4-D (or at the very least, 3). ("simple" has its value.)
Soccer fields should have trees in them, be ten-times as big, and have ten-times the players, no coaches, & five balls.
Mt. Everest should also have a zip-line and a tram to the top.
There should be 0 places like holly-wood.
There should also be motel-zeppelins that house a thousand people & stay in the air for months, and when you want to leave, just skydive or grab a glider.
Hockey goals should be moved out five feet to allow more play behind the goalie, who should wear half the current amount of quote-unquote padding.May 20 2013: ?
Eradicating old systems, games or hobbies is not going to change the world. Studying them and inventing new, better ones will.
Chinese numerology is very interesting. Just a suggestion.
Best wishes.
May 20 2013: Good point. This is just my very, very indirect way of saying we need way more hospitals and science labs, and a lot less restaurants.
Someone from Norway studying Chinese Numerology...we don't see that in Maine too often :)
May 20 2013: Hi,
I don't study it, my father did and told me about some parts of it when I was a child, enough to understand that there's something very interesting there.
Best wishes :)May 20 2013: humanity (a sweeping but convenient term) is a cesspool of talent. it always has been. the internet is allowing many people to realise this for the first time.
don't let the bastards get you down..
May 20 2013: Nope, they wont! Thank you!
Try for 5000 TED credits! :)May 20 2013: I love that: 'a cesspool of talent'. That's fantastic. Combining mindless neglect with priceless riches.The diamonds in the dung. Remembering hope while mired in despair. The vomit-covered vagabond superstar. Poetic. One of the most interesting phrases I've seen in a long time. Thank you for that.May 20 2013: Yup, let's think big: Wise leadership that demonstrates active concern for citizens and the environment, eliminating the wasted $trillions and human capital in welfare, social services, unions, humanitarian efforts, and environmental activism - won't need those anymore. Economic systems that incentivise the above and penalize exploitation, apathy, prejudice. Rehabilitation combined with excellent education for all so instead of 2mil incarcerated fellow citizens, we have 2mil reformed and/or not-needed-to-be-reformed productive societal contributors (read: taxpayers). Bio-engineered products, buildings, everything so we work in tandem with the living earth and beyond. But unfortunately, what could happen first is tech far surpasses social constructs in productivity resulting in massive unemployment and class division. People keep multiplying and 10bil fight for fewer real jobs while 'leadership' sells improvement. The wealthy throw money at 'programs' but the boards of directors can't justify the expense or the competition. Apathy, disenfranchisement, and criminality become a generational psychosis and we discuss how to minimize 'that population'. Someone discovers another kind of bomb and we all wait for it to be over. Now, about that 600 yd par 4 - Never! ;)
May 20 2013: And 2000 yard 'par 6' should be average!
May 20 2013: Ahhh! I think i'll take up bowlingMay 20 2013: There are always pro's and con's Higher or lower?
adesh saxena
May 20 2013: i can take a walk on pond or sea and
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Fly alone without help of big machines.
May 20 2013: I agree.
Scott Bell
May 20 2013: :-) I like your approach. However, I believe your "Humanity" perhaps references a certain segment of society.......there is maybe an undercurrent of growing Simplistic Sanity that is naturally accelerated by the Coliseum-Loving Masses. The Armstrongs, Kardashians, and any Reality Show of the World plays an important role in helping to slowly awaken people. Sanity is a State that is most easily defined by the contrasting Insanity that is running amok. We know what we are, at least partially, by examining what we are Not. To be sure, extremism in many parts of society will increase. Horrific events like Newtown will increase. Control by governments will increase. We, all of us together, are trying to wake ourselves from some kind of horrible dream. It's not difficult to see the insanity on a daily basis. Extremists are just louder than the rest of us. Damn I'm preachy.
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W. Ying
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Our instincts will be able to detect
invalid (harmful) happiness.May 19 2013: Plane seats should be over 2 feet wide! What a joy if that were to happen.
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May 19 2013: I hope so. :)May 25 2013: You're a true futurist, Thomas. I don't see how any of your improvements could fail to come true.May 23 2013: Yes ! Good Ideas ! Also, I get disappointed sometimes when I accidentally drive by a Coffee Shop, and then I have to drive yet another 1/2 mile before I reach another one. I think Coffee Shops should all be owned by the exact same company, and they should be no more than 500 yards from each other, no matter where you go.
With Hockey, how about make the net half as big, and the game twice as long. :)
May 24 2013: "With Hockey, how about make the net half as big, and the game twice as long. :)"
...that would probably make spectators more eager to follow the game...'cause it would be easier to follow, it's as simple as that ;) And think about the judges, too, there would be less mistakes! :)
Best wishes.
May 24 2013: and they would sell wayyyyy more food and drinks, and TV commercials could be longer...and they would have to make more sticks and skates, and maybe the arena would have to put in more comfortable chairs... hee hee
May 24 2013: ...and don't forget - less mistakes = less potential for uproar and violent behaviour among fans and/or teams and judges!May 22 2013: But who would want to watch a hockey game where it take two hours to skate from one end to the other?
I'd say that most distances and numbers are based on a balance of challenge and comfort. Fewer people watching then boring games, on TV, will make commercials less profitable.
But Mt Everest.. yeah!


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Sound Transit's East Link light rail extension project is bringing high-quality rail transit to Redmond with service starting at two stations in Overlake in 2023. One station will be located at the north end of 152nd Ave NE, adjacent to SR 520, in Overlake Village while the other station will be at the Overlake Transit Center near the intersection of SR 520 and NE 40th St. Once the project is complete, travelers from the Overlake Transit Center will enjoy 10-minute trips to Downtown Bellevue and 30-minute trips to Downtown Seattle on tracks separated from automobile traffic.
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In 2007 the Redmond City Council adopted the Overlake Neighborhood Plan, which calls for a transformation of the Overlake Village area to a vibrant and walkable urban village with jobs, housing, and retail.
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An Afternoon with Ken Duncan
Although I wasn't impressed by Comic Con in San Diego this year, I have to say that there was a major highlight in my trip to California. I had the pleasure and honor of meeting a true Disney legend, master animator Ken Duncan, and getting to spend the afternoon with him. He was nice enough to invite me and my wife to his studio in Pasadena and have lunch with him.
Ken and I had exchanged a few emails back and forth within the last few months and so before I flew out to L.A., I reached out to him and asked if he would be available to meet. Honestly, I just wanted to shake hands with the guy and tell him how much of a fan of his I was. I didn't expect for him to be so gracious and generous with his time.
It was an amazing experience. He showed me a bunch of work that he and his studio had/were working on. Among the clips he showed me was a pencil test of his famous Jane scene in Tarzan:
Looking back, I probably should have asked him a billion smart questions on how he achieved that performance, how he was able to make those drawings appear as if they were really thinking, but as he scrolled through the frames, I was like a kid in a candy store with a grin from ear to ear. It was hard for me to think of anything else except how masterfully done the scene was and how surreal the moment was. He gave a brief explanation of how x-sheets work, something that I mentioned to him that I admittedly had always had trouble grasping. He also explained how x-sheets are utilized within their cg production pipeline in a new system they've pioneered. I could imagine myself working for Ken and soaking up SO MUCH. I learned more from Ken in one day than I have working on my own as a freelancer for months. Ken, my wife and I then headed off to a Brazilian restaurant where we had lunch.
He gave me great insight as to what feature animation is like now vs. what it was like in the mid-late 90s.
I walked away with two major attributes about Ken. 1. He is extremely creative and is enthusiastic about embracing new looks, styles and genres within animation...in any medium (2d or 3d). That says a lot, especially from someone who was in the big studio system for as long as he was -a system that hasn't always embraced change or ingenuity. And 2. Ken exemplifies a characteristic of a certain breed of animation artists that I've been so fortunate to have encountered on numerous occasions in my career -a successful artist with the willingness to share information and extend a hand to other up and coming artists. It reminds me of the type of creative individuals you'll find here on Animation Nation that are always willing to help,...like Charles, Snake and TStevens among others.
My afternoon and lunch with Ken was something that I'll never forget. I can't...he picked up the bill, so I owe him lunch next time .
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Ken Duncan is an amazing artist. Always creating and always sharing.
I have little hope for Disney when they let guys like Ken and countless other talents walk out the door.
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Yeah what a huge business blunder. Even if given the opportunity, I don't see him going back either. He's working on so many diverse projects at his studio and he's such a fan of experimenting with new styles, that I don't see how he could work at a more creatively rewarding studio than his own.
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I'm a little late to the party here, but by reading your account of the meeting, Jose, I was able to gain some rare insights into what it takes to be the character animator Duncan is.
Greatly enlightened by this account.
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I've never heard a bad thing about Ken Duncan. Back when I was in school I had two teachers who were classmates with him at Sheridan. One of them actually hooked a few students up with Ken while they were on a trip to LA. Apparently Ken took them around the studio and gave them a lot of great feedback.
If you haven't heard the 3 part Ken Duncan Animation Pod Cast it is very cool.
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Ken Duncan being awesome--remarkably, this seems to be a universal consensus!
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2012 Season:
Made 10 starts behind the dish … recorded a two-run homer vs. FGCU (4/20) … registered her first hit of the season at Jacksonville (4/14).
2011 Season: Named Atlantic Sun All-Academic and Atlantic Sun Conference Scholar-Athlete … played in 46 games, making 36 starts … tied for the team lead with five hit-by-pitches and ranked second with seven doubles … reached base safely in 10 consecutive games from 2/18-3/4 … hit a home run in her only plate appearance vs. Campbell (4/22) … recorded a double in three straight games from 3/25-26 … hit .393 (11-28) with six doubles and five runs scored from 3/11-26.
2010 Season: Named to the Atlantic Sun All-Academic Team … saw action in 29 games, making 19 starts … started 11 games as the designated player, four in right field, two at first, and one at catcher and in left … posted first collegiate hit vs. Presbyterian (3/20) and belted first home run as a Buc on 4/23 vs. N.C. Central … also went 3-for-4 with three runs scored and four RBIs vs. N.C. Central … went 3-for-4 with a run scored and an RBI vs. FGCU (4/3).
High School: Is one of two Lady Buccaneer players from Unicoi County High School …. hit .396 with two home runs for the Blue Devils in 2008 … named All-Conference, All-State, and All-District as a catcher in 2008 and 2009 … was named the Most Promising Underclassman and Sweet 16 catcher by the Johnson City Press.
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In 2003, in a song called "Earthbound," singer Rodney Crowell name-checked a writer he admires a lot: Mary Karr, who has written searing memoirs, including the best-seller The Liars' Club, as well as several books of poetry.
Crowell sent that song to Karr, along with a letter. Now, almost a decade later, the two have collaborated on an album of songs they wrote together. It's called Kin, a nod to their parallel lives growing up along the Texas Gulf Coast. Crowell sings some of the songs; other singers include Norah Jones and Emmylou Harris.
"I admired Mary's work very much," Crowell tells NPR's Melissa Block. "From the time someone gave me The Liars' Club, I immediately went into a world where I grew up. And I remember, when I finished the book, I actually thought, 'You know what, I need to write songs with her.' "
Crowell and Karr's partnership was strengthened by the common experiences in their upbringing.
"We met in this Greenwich Village bistro, all dressed up in our cool clothes and our short black jackets," Karr says. "Within about 10 minutes, we both knew that we had ridden our bikes behind mosquito trucks and breathed in all that DDT. We both left that place like our hair was on fire, and then neither of us wrote about anything else for 30 years. So we were both haunted by the same place."
Both came from families troubled by alcoholism and violence in the home. They explore that theme in "Momma's on a Roll," sung by Lee Ann Womack.
"I remember he had those first two lines: 'My momma loves daddy like he's spreading on molasses thick / Momma thinks daddy's just a backwoods, cornbread hick,' " Karr says. "And I remembered, when I was a little kid, saying, 'Momma plus Daddy equals trouble.' We used to say it when they'd start to drink."
Kin is Karr's first musical project of any kind. Crowell says that's one of the things that excited him most about the collaboration.
"There are certain choices you make as a songwriter, based on vowel sounds and melody and chord changes," he says. "I was looking for those opportunities where the choices that the poet would make would make the songs more interesting. I love it. [I thought], these songs are taking a shape that they wouldn't have taken if I was doing this on my own."
"And Rodney was able to shoehorn those phrases, like 'salt grass open plain,' " Karr adds. "It's hard to get a phrase like that into somebody's mouth in the course of a melody. And he was able to wedge those things in in a way they felt natural."
This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Robert Siegel.
And I'm Melissa Block. Back in 2003, in a song called "Earthbound," the singer Rodney Crowell name-checked a writer he admires a whole lot...
RODNEY CROWELL: (Singing) Earthbound - Tom Waits, Aretha Franklin, Mary Karr.
BLOCK: ...Mary Karr, who's written searing memoirs, including the best seller "The Liars' Club" and several books of poetry. Well, Rodney Crowell sent that song to Mary Karr, along with a letter. And now, almost a decade later, the two have collaborated on an album of songs they wrote together. It's called "Kin," a nod to their parallel lives growing up along the Texas Gulf Coast. Rodney sings some of the songs; other singers include Norah Jones and Emmylou Harris. And the two songwriters join me from Nashville. Rodney Crowell and Mary Karr, welcome to the program.
MARY KARR: Thanks for having us, Melissa.
CROWELL: Yeah. Thank you.
BLOCK: Rodney, what was it about Mary's writing that inspired you to put her in the song?
CROWELL: I admired Mary's work very much. You know, from the time someone hand - gave me "The Liars' Club," as I got - I immediately went into a world where I grew up. And I remember, when I finished the book, I actually thought, you know what, I need to write songs with her. And one of the songs on the record, "Momma's on a Roll," actually, a short time after that, I sort of started tinkering with the idea which we later got together and finished off and made into a real song. So it all worked.
BLOCK: Let's listen to "Momma's on a Roll." This is Lee Ann Womack singing here.
LEE ANN WOMACK: (Singing) Daddy loves momma like he's spreading on molasses thick. Momma thinks daddy's just a backwoods cornbread hick. Momma plus daddy equals trouble when they start to drink. Me and my sister pouring liquor down the kitchen sink. Momma's on a roll.
BLOCK: You know, I'm listening to this song and thinking about what I know about both of your backgrounds from the writing that you've done, both of you from families with a lot of alcoholism, a lot of violence in the home. Tell me about this song and how the songwriting worked together.
KARR: I remember he had those first two lines - my momma loves daddy like he's spreading on molasses thick, momma thinks daddy's just a backwoods cornbread hick - and I remembered when I was a little kid saying, momma plus daddy equals trouble. We used to say, you know, when they start to drink.
BLOCK: And that's the next line of the song.
KARR: Exactly. It was very much a collaboration, very much back and forth, and you never know who you're going to meet when you meet somebody. Rodney and I talked on the phone. We meet in this Greenwich Village bistro all dressed up in our cool clothes and our short black jackets. And within about 10 minutes, we both knew that we had ridden our bikes behind mosquito trucks, you know, breathed in all that DDT, and we both left that place like our hair was on fire, and then neither of us wrote about anything else for 30 years. So we were both haunted by the same place.
BLOCK: Well, when you sat down to write songs together, did you find yourselves sort of changing the way you wrote to fit the other if you were swapping lines back and forth, that you maybe had to adapt a little bit so that it would sound like the same voice?
CROWELL: Oh, I really like addressing this question because one of the things that I wanted to do - there are certain choices that you make as a songwriter based on vowel sounds and melody and chord changes, and I was looking for those opportunities where the choices that the poet would make would make the songs more interesting. And I love it. I just could say, ah, these songs are taking a shape they wouldn't have taken it if I were doing this on my own.
BLOCK: Can you give me an example of that, Rodney?
CROWELL: Oh, it's a, you know, when I was tinkering with the melody on "Anything But Tame," which opens the album, I'm singing...
(Singing) ...when our feet were tough as nails...
...that a vowel sings in a way against the chord change, and Mary listened to it, you know, and I was really proud of this first version. She said, well, it's OK, you know, but she said you're - and our feet weren't like nails, they were like horn, which is true. You know, horn is an organic thing. It's like cuticle, really. And it really, truly is what our feet were like as children. They weren't like nails. They were like horn.
BLOCK: And that one won. That's the line.
CROWELL: (Singing) When our feet were tough as horn and our eyes were sharp as flint, our hearts beat like two war drums. And you tracked me by my scent.
The funny thing about the true word, the more I sing it, the more I became, ah, that's the word. That sings even better than I thought nails. So I learned something from Mary the poet there about that word and about choices we make, you know, at certain places in the melody, which I am the richer for having had that experience.
KARR: And Rodney was able to shoehorn those phrases, like salt grass open plain. It's hard to get a phrase like that into somebody's mouth...
BLOCK: That's a lot, yeah.
KARR: ...in the course of a melody. And he was able to wedge those things in in a way they felt natural.
CROWELL: (Singing) And you said I don't want to be tamed down. I just want to saddle up, ride my broomstick pony along some salt grass open plain.
BLOCK: I'm talking to Mary Karr and Rodney Crowell about the album they wrote together. It's called "Kin."
ROSANNE CASH: (Singing) Sister, oh sister...
BLOCK: "Sister Oh Sister," Rodney, this is your former wife Rosanne Cash singing this song.
CASH: (Singing) ...I miss your shadow.
KARR: She knocks it out of the park. She does an amazing job.
BLOCK: There's this incredible image in this song of you and your sister, your older sister, dancing on the oyster shells in a parking lot.
CASH: (Singing) Cross that parking lot expanse. On them oyster shells we danced while some cowboy watched you twisting through the porch screen.
KARR: That was actually a real story about my sister. There - Rodney and I went to the same juke joints in Vinton, Louisiana, where you could drink when you were 18. And my sister was 14 and I was 12. We drove to Vinton, Louisiana, to The Big Oaks Club where Jerry Lee Lewis used to play. I mean, it was one of the great Louisiana roadhouses. I was 12 years old. I looked like I was 7. And, of course, they wouldn't let us in, so we stood out in the parking lot and danced, did the twist in the moonlight. And, of course, all these old leering cowboys in The Big Oaks Club are looking at my 14-year-old sister like she's a pork chop.
KARR: And so I'd always wanted to write something for my sister who - oh, in some ways, all my books are for my sister in a way. She was my compadre with these lunatics we share DNA with.
CASH: (Singing) Sister, big sister, you've been my seawall. You've been my flood. You're in my blood. I thank God for you.
BLOCK: Mary, no temptation to sing on this album at all?
KARR: Rodney has tried to get me to sing, but Rodney wants me to humiliate myself. So, no, I have no temptation to sing.
BLOCK: What's it going to take?
KARR: Right now, you know, alcohol and firearms. And I haven't had a drink in 25 years.
CROWELL: Hey, I got her to write songs that became a record. I think I can get her to sing.
KARR: It's never going to happen.
BLOCK: I don't know.
KARR: Let's put some money on it, Miss Melissa.
KARR: I say 50 bucks. Fifty bucks says I'm not going to sing. If you...
BLOCK: Rodney, should I take that bet?
CROWELL: I think you should take it.
CROWELL: (Singing) Oh, God, yeah.
BLOCK: Well, Mary Karr and Rodney Crowell, it's been so much fun to talk to you. Thanks so much.
CROWELL: Thank you.
KARR: Thanks, Melissa.
CROWELL: (Singing) I'm a mess.
BLOCK: Musician Rodney Crowell and writer but not singer Mary Karr. Their album out next week is called "Kin."
CROWELL: (Singing) I'm a mess. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Passover, the Biblically-ordained Festival of Freedom will be observed by Jews the world over starting on Monday evening and concluding at nightfall, April 22. Interested personnel can observe the festival at the traditional Jewish Passover Seder to be held Monday, 6:30 p.m., in the Main Post Chapel's Activities Room. The suggested donation is $15. Call 533.4748 for reservations.
The essence of the celebration is an elaborate ritual built around a specially prepared meal held on the first two nights of the holiday. The meal is called "Seder," a Hebrew word meaning "order," which refers to the order of the various elements of the worship service in which participants partake of various symbolic foods: Matzah, unleavened bread; Karpas, seasonal greens dipped in salt water; Charoses, a mixture of chopped apples, nuts, raisins, wine and cinnamon; and Maror, bitter herbs (usually horseradish).
The drama of the story of Passover unfolds in a special book, the "Hagaddah," "Narration." It describes the story of the Jews' enslavement in Egypt at the hands of the Pharaoh and their subsequent redemption under the leadership of Moses.
The principle idea of the observance is that each person is to consider himself a slave who experiences freedom for the first time. The process involves the whole family. The drama of the occasion teaches the lesson that freedom must never be taken for granted, and that everyone has the responsibility to see that the blessings of freedom are extended to all human beings.


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Shy student Kai is desperate to visit his girlfriend in France, whether she likes it or not. When a spot of smalltime gangstering offers itself as a route to an airfare, he bites -- little suspecting that his evening, his travel plans and his relationship are all about to be set seriously off kilter -- Sharply choreographed and winningly eccentric, this is a total delight and a tremendously confident debut.
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