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Go-Go Boy Special-Ed Teacher Fired For Using School Email For Craigslist Hookups
A New York special education elementary school teacher and part-time dancer was fired Tuesday after a fellow teacher caught him using a class email account to set up Craigslist hookups.
According to the New York Daily News, Matthew Maleski, 32, worked as an occupational therapist at the Upper East Side's P.S. 183 for over a year. He was fired when a co-teacher found responses to "sexy Craigslist personal ads" — including photos of him in his boxers and nothing else — in their shared school Gmail account.
Maleski also appears in the YouTube video, "I Just Wanna F*ckin' Dance!" (below, NSFW), a promo for a monthly dance party in San Francisco last year featuring drag queens, go go boys and Andrew Christian Underwear models soaking down a car and, of course, each other.
In the video, Maleski is billed as a special guest and, in the breathlessly typed words of the NYDN, is "grind dancing," "gyrating his chiseled body" and flaunting "his ripped abs."
All right, besides that NYDN reporter, who else needs a cold shower?
Stupid for getting caught.
That's all.
Matt needs to spend less time working on his perty abs and more time using his brain.
This is so incredulous that it almost seems as though Matt WANTED to get caught.
Hes foking stoopid!
Perfectly justified firing.
He deserves to be fired. He also needs to make up his mind does he want to be a stripper "go go boy" or a special education teacher . And the fact that he was foolish enough to use a shared email account proves he's too dumb to be teaching & and should stick to. Exactly what he's good @. Which is stripping most likely escorting and making bad choices . This guy has no business teaching kids. Although he probably feels he's entitled to do whatever he wants because he's a go go boy lol
Matthew Maleski apologized for the racy emails that offended the teacher who had been sharing the email account with Maleski; he said he had sent the emails during non-work hours using his cellphone, which had automatically linked up a number of his email accounts — including the one from PS 183. The emails were described as having attached pictures of himself clad only in boxers to his email responses to Craigslist's notorious personal ads, according to officials.
Read more at http://americanlivewire.com/matthew-maleski-fired/#fCLbDkXIj8kbKtwp.99
Don't know that much about cell phones as I barely use the one I have.
So I could see something like that happening.
The guy shouldn't have used school e-mails, and the school can absolutly fire him.
Just curious, would the other teacher have complained if he was straight and the e-mails were to women on match.com though?
@Cam: If he'd sent photos of himself in his underwear to those women, then yeah, probably.
Guy's a dumbass, pure and simple
There may be more to this story. I first read about this story on a different site, and according to that site's version, the emails were sent from his phone. He updated his phone or it was reconfigured (sorry, I don't remember exactly what it said), so he didn't realize that his work and personal email accounts became synched. So maybe this really was a big mistake…who knows.
However, it should serve as a warning to all who want to be teachers: you are ALWAYS being watched.
@Fidelio: Had to be. It's not like email accounts are hard to come by; why else would you use a work one, especially a shared account, for that kind of business?
Stupid asshole!
What the hell is wrong with him for doing that on a school email system? In this day of smart phones and tablets, and all the different ways to get online, he could have used that instead of the email the school has.
LOL… Too Funny…
Stupid is as stupid does.
Geez!….He obviously made a mistake!….so typical of the hate on this site for cute guys!…..
Seriously, most of you guys need to lighten up. The guy made a date using email. Its not like that is a crime. If he were straight no one would have cared. He sent a picture in boxers…also no big deal and not illegal. Way too harsh to fire him for that.
The real question is: Why the hell does a guy that sexy need craigslist? And Queerty has presented yet another face palm inducing moment from the gay community…
well that was stupid mistake.
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You're still making good sense I see.
Hope you're doing well.
He obviously did a mistake and it is not appropriate to do so during the work time but I don't think that he had to be fired for that in this sense. It does not matter what he does in his personal life… Which another part-time job he has… I bet he would not go further then just using his school's email account during the lunch break… Fire for not proper using the school's email…This is crazy!!!!
"Don't shit where you eat" as the saying goes . . .
Nonetheless, taking someone's livelihood away for a peccadillo like this seems a bit extreme. The world has become so prudish.
No article I've read mentions what kind of hook-ups these were. Rather, they're letting us connect-the-dots and assume they were gay. For the record, the majority of those hunky dancers and bartenders at Splash & XL are straight, and so are the models on the pages for hook-up sites like Hornet.
Straight people hook-up, too.
@Pete: I suspect the implication is meant to be that the hook-ups were *paid.*


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A recent LPI workshop (summarized at the 32nd LPSC and AIAA Space 2001 meetings) addressed the scientific and engineering issues of NEA sample return. Participants of the workshop, and others, constitute the panel.
The astronomical study of asteroids and the laboratory study of meteorites contribute considerably to the issues identified in the NASA Space Science Strategic Plan by providing unique insights into the origin, evolution and chronology of the solar system, presolar materials. the origin and survival of life on Earth, and solar activity and the space environment. These studies have reached a point where asteroid sample return is scientifically essential. Returned samples would be from known geological context (crater, crater rim, crater ejecta, intercrater plains, regolith, bedrock, ponds, etc.) on known asteroid type, would include new primitive materials too weak to survive atmospheric passage, and would provide ground truth for interpreting astronomical spectra. The samples could be subjected to a depth and breadth of study not available by robotic techniques, and they could be archived indefinitely pending future ideas and analytical techniques. The data would provide new insights for the interpretation of existing meteorite and asteroid data so there would be a net multiplying effect. In view of their number and diversity, sample return from multiple asteroids is required, but if the targets are well chosen and there is coordination with international partners, a scientifically rewarding first look would require sample return from as few as 3-5 asteroids.
The success of the NEAR-Shoemaker and Deep Space 1 missions, and the rate of NEA discoveries, mean that NEA sample return is technically feasible with Discovery-type missions. Furthermore, robotic exploration of NEAs is a logical next step for NASA's solar system exploration program, being intermediate between the Moon and Mars in complexity, and such missions will have popular and governmental interest.
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ANN ARBOR -- From their homes 30 miles apart in Northwest Indiana, Mitch McGary and Glenn Robinson III watched Thursday night's NBA draft amongst friends and family.
McGary, a Chesterton, Ind., native, was joined by 40 partygoers in his family's garage.
One town over, Robinson was surrounded by over 80 guests. His mother, Shantelle Clay, who works as an event planner, rented a ballroom in Merrillville, near their home in St. John's, Ind.
So separated only by a stretch of I-94, but connected by two years spent together at Michigan, each watched and waited on Thursday. First, they each saw former teammate Nik Stauskas get sent to the Sacramento Kings with the No. 8 pick.
Then McGary's time came around 9 p.m. ET, when the Oklahoma City Thunder selected him with the 21st pick overall pick in the draft. About an hour later, Robinson had his moment. The Minnesota Timberwolves picked him in the second round, 40th overall.
Friday brought introductions to their new worlds: McGary caught a flight to Oklahoma, Robinson to Minnesota.
"I've been reaching out to Glenn these last couple weeks -- we're still pretty tight, best of friends, even though he went with a different agency (for representation)," McGary said during a during a Friday teleconference with Michigan media.
When the Thunder made their pick on Thursday, McGary said he "didn't know what to do."
"I thought my whole house was going to come down because it was so loud in the garage," he added.
McGary said he called Michigan coach John Beilein roughly three minutes after being drafted.
"I just thanked him for everything he's done for me through the adversity that I've faced," McGary said. "He's always been there for me -- always stuck through it no matter how high or low, he's always been there supporting me."
In Oklahoma City, McGary smiled his way through a welcoming press conference on Friday afternoon. Labeled as a "mystery man" of the draft, thanks to a sophomore season trimmed to only eight games, the curiosity was ripe.
The 22-year-old was asked about his surgically repaired back, responding that it feels "great" and that he plans to participate in NBA Summer League action. Off the stage, he was asked about the failed drug test in the NCAA tournament that resulted in a one-year ban from NCAA competition.
"It was a lot of similar stuff (he's been previously asked), but I've been handling it pretty well," McGary said.
McGary spent the afternoon alongside Stanford small forward Josh Huestis, the Thunder's 29th overall pick, meeting team personnel and taking tours. During the press conference, both players said they want to bring energy and toughness to Oklahoma City.
The franchise doesn't need much more. It already features stars Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook and has appeared in three of the last four Western Conference finals.
Robinson, meanwhile, was introduced in Minnesota earlier in the day on Friday. He admitted that Thursday's draft was a long waiting game. The 6-foot-6 guard had hoped to be a first-round selection -- touring the country for 18 pre-draft workouts in an attempt to prove his worth -- but instead slipped to the middle of the second round.
"I was really excited and as the selection show went on, I got kind of nervous, you know?" Robinson said during his press conference. "But I knew my name was going to be called."
It was indeed, along with that UCLA guard Zach LaVine, the Kings' first-round pick and his new teammate. LaVine played only one year of college basketball, but is well familiar with Robinson.
"I was watching Glenn when I was a senior in high school," LaVine said. "(ESPN SportsCenter's) Top Ten plays would come on and I'd see him just jumping out the gym, dunking on somebody. So I was like, 'OK, this dude, he might jump higher than me.'"
And that's saying something. LaVine was considered one of the athlete athletes in the draft.
The theme of the day in Minnesota, though, was that the duo will bring more than athleticism.
"We feel like the sky's the limit for them," said Timberwolves general manager Milt Newton.
Minnesota finished the 2013-14 season with a 40-42 record.
"We both have all the pieces and all the potential in the world," Robinson said. "I definitely think we'll take full advantage of this opportunity to play for the Timberwolves."
Projected as a first-round pick in the 2013 draft last summer, had he entered, and as a lottery pick in the 2014 draft after he returned to U-M, Robinson was asked what he learned by spending another year in college.
His answer: "Leadership."
Robinson didn't express any regrets, despite his stock falling as a sophomore at Michigan.
"Coach Beilein really has a system that fits well to the next level," Robinson said. "He has his system, but there are times that we have the freedom to kind of play. … It gave us a chance to succeed. That's the only reason I'm up here today -- because I was able to fit in that system and play within the team."
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Consider Wednesday's Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association and Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference openers in Grand Rapids to be extra special.
The Calvin and Hope men's basketball teams tip off league competition against each other, and the Aquinas and Cornerstone men's and women's squads each will resume their longtime rivalries in league openers.
Those games might be intriguing for the fans, but they do not present favorable circumstances for the participating coaches.
"I like seeing Hope when it's, like, the last or the second-to-last game of the league rotation, but it is what it is," Calvin coach Kevin Vande Streek said.
"Obviously, it will again be interesting."
Hope (7-4) defeated the Knights (5-6), 79-76, in the consolation game of the Grand Rapids Sports Hall of Fame Classic in November. The Flying Dutchmen hold an 87-85 edge in a rivalry that began in 1920.
"I don't particularly like it," 33-year Hope coach Glenn Van Wieren said of the Dutchmen opening league play with Calvin. "I prefer getting some league games under our belts first, but it's our turn in the rotation to start out against each other.
"What I also don't like is that our students aren't back to school until next Monday. There isn't that buzz on campus. The hype and student involvement make the tradition of Hope-Calvin."
Calvin students return from their holiday break today, and classes resume Wednesday.
Van Wieren is 646-215 overall, and 44-40 against Calvin.
Vande Streek is 259-78, and 15-23 against the Dutch.
Cornerstone men's coach Kim Elders is puzzled why his Golden Eagles' WHAC opener with Aquinas again falls on the same night as the Calvin-Hope showdown.
"I don't know how those schedules have worked out that way the last few seasons," said Elders, whose Eagles (12-4) won the Hall of Fame Classic.
"I do know this is a tough way to start our league schedule, and the WHAC is tough this year, with us, Aquinas, Davenport and Siena (Heights)."
Aquinas coach Dave Hammer notes his Saints (10-6) have to face Cornerstone twice during league play.
"We have to see them at some point, so why not Wednesday?" he said. "What Wednesday night shows is what great college basketball there is in West Michigan."
Cornerstone women's coach Carla Fles already has led the Eagles (7-8) against several nationally ranked teams in the nonconference season.
the other coaches, I wish we had a couple more wins, because we haven't
been able to win those close games against rated or top opponents,"
Fles said. "But playing good
competition prepared us for a big game Wednesday, and for WHAC play.
"I'm ready to play Aquinas, to see where we stack up."
The Aquinas women will start WHAC action against the Eagles with a 10-5 record.
"We have to play one another twice at some point, so it might as well be now," coach Linda Nash said.
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ABBOTSFORD BC - The Abbotsford Heat of the American Hockey League (AHL) is pleased to announce in conjunction with the AHL and CBC, that three Abbotsford Heat games will be featured on the CBC this season.
Abbotsford will host the Toronto Marlies (Toronto Maple Leafs affiliate) on Sunday, January 16th, and will travel to Winnipeg to battle the Manitoba Moose (Vancouver Canucks affiliate) on Sunday, January 23rd and Sunday, March 27th.
"Our team is excited about once again being part of the AHL Television Broadcast on the CBC," comments Heat President Tom Mauthe. "The broadcast not only features our team and the AHL to all hockey fans on national television, but also showcases our great facility, (the Abbotsford Entertainment and Sports Centre), and the wonderful community and region that the Abbotsford Heat calls home."
The Heat's three game feature on CBC will be part of a ten game AHL package featured on the CBC this season. Last season, the Abbotsford Heat and Toronto Marlies participated in the first AHL game broadcast on the CBC. The game drew a national audience of 200,000 viewers. The ten game 'AHL on CBC' package will feature all Canadian affiliated AHL teams. Attached is the full AHL on CBC schedule...
"AHL on CBC" to feature 10 Sunday afternoons in 2010-11
Sunday, Oct. 17 - Binghamton at Toronto, 1:00 ET
Sunday, Oct. 24 - Oklahoma City at Hamilton, 1:00 ET
Sunday, Nov. 21 - Hamilton at Toronto, 1:00 ET
Sunday, Dec. 12 - Toronto at Hamilton, 1:00 ET
Sunday, Jan. 16 - Toronto at Abbotsford, 2:00 ET
Sunday, Jan. 23 - Abbotsford at Manitoba, 1:00 ET
Sunday, Feb. 27 - Manitoba at Toronto, 1:00 ET
Sunday, Mar. 6 - Hamilton at Toronto, 1:00 ET
Sunday, Mar. 27 - Abbotsford at Manitoba, 1:00 ET
Sunday, Apr. 3 - Manitoba at Toronto, 1:00 ET
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Ryan D. LaPlante, the former Kentwood High School student charged with making threats to bomb Kentwood, is now in custody at the Benton County Jail in Kennewick.
LaPlante, 19, was booked Thursday morning, according to jail records.
LaPlante failed to show up for his scheduled King County Superior Court appearance Monday to be arraigned at the Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent for making threats to bomb or injure property in March at the Covington school.
A $15,000 bench warrant was issued for LaPlante's arrest after he failed to appear in court, according to Ian Goodhew, spokesman for the King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office. The judge set a new court date of June 20 for LaPlante to appear.
King County prosecutors have charged LaPlante with threats to bomb or injure property in connection with an emailed threat March 29 to the principal that caused the school to evacuate 2,000 students and staff and be shut down for a day.
LaPlante told King County Sheriff's Office detectives he emailed the threat because he was angry that he did not graduate in 2012 after attending Kentwood for four years, according to charing papers filed May 28.
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The column that says people can't wait for Jersey Fresh to arrive.
Good afternoon!
The shoppers at Marlboro Market Saturday afternoon were weirdly just standing around.
They''d glance toward the door now and then, but, for the most part, just stood there.
Something we don't know about, we asked a worker?
"No, they're just waiting for strawberries,'' she said.
"And corn.''
Sure enough, before the cashier could ring up a bag of $2.99 peanuts, another girl came in the back door with a small box of fresh strawberries.
"How many ears of corn did you want?'' she asked another waiting customer.
"Six ears,'' came the answer.
The waiting was over.
Jersey Fresh is here.
Saturday is the celebration of the first anniversary of the grand opening of the Bridgeton Amish Market on Shiloh Pike, in Hopewell Township.
It will be just as busy as it was the first day.
Join recently published local author, Marianne Lods, for a book signing event at the Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts, 22 N. High St, Millville, at 7 p.m., on Thursday evening, June 27, in the Gallery.
Lods will give a short presentation about the writing of her non-fiction novel and the journey she took to complete it.
Questions will be welcome.
Lods will also read a few select passages from this story of intrigue, heroism and love during WWII.
Bring your copy of the "It's Been A Long, Long Time," to be signed.
Books will be available to purchase.
Joyce Vanaman says the book is excellent.
If you're signing up for any of Pat Witt's classes this week at the Barn Studio of Art, some suggestions:
1. Never use the word "guys'' in conversation, no matter hows appropriate it seems.
2. Hang up your own coat and carry your own supplies, even if mom and dad brought you.
3. Leave all electronic equipment elsewhere.
4. Take a bamboo shoot home with you or bring a panda with you, if you have one.
5. Call 856-825-5028 for more pet peeves.
Let's get the broken windows on the highway fixed in Shiloh, Councilman Everett Newkirk.
You've heard the broken window theory, right?
Let's all meet at the Hopewell Municipal Building Monday at 7 p.m. and see what Gary Simmerman hath wrought.
"Oh, it's not just me,'' he'll protest. "There are some great people on this economic committee.
"They just asked me to head it.''
Over the last few months, the township's economic development committee has been investigating and discussing the steps necessary to develop an economic development strategic plan.
With the approval of township committee, it has retained the services of Salmon Ventures Limited to assist with the process.
As part of the due diligence and in an effort to secure valuable input from the community, the public meeting Monday.
That means Tony Surace will be in town again.
He's big in Salmon Ventures.
He helped raise the funds to build Jim Hursey Stadium.
Surace may never have called for the pass to the fullback over the middle during his coaching days at Millville, but he's your man for big fundraisers.
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Sixteen Northland high school robotics teams waited anxiously to hear what kind of task their robots will need to do for this year's robotics competition.
Teams will need to construct a robot that can carry an exercise ball across an arena.
Each team will have to work with two other teams from different schools to complete the task.
"In the kit of parts there is a basic drive train that is going to get your robot on the field and get it moving. Its different every year, every team makes a different robot and today we get to decide what we are making," said co-captain of the Duluth East Dare Devil's team Anna Karas.
The teams have six weeks to build their robots. Competition starts in February.
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These are real cookies. They're thin & crispy gluten free chocolate chip cookes. They're kind of cookie that you really should stop eating in bed, on account of the crumbs. Your husband asked me to tell you that. Don't shoot the messenger.
Who could blame you, though? They're a masterpiece of gluten free cookie-art. And they're simply delightful when you crumble them up and sprinkle them on ice cream. You just might want to give them as a gift to someone special.
And these same cookies are also metaphorical cookies. They are going to help us do some learnin'. You see, there is no "best" chocolate chip cookie. The Internet is littered with the "best" of this recipe, and the "best" of that recipe.
But "the best" is personal. It's private! Some like their cookies thin & crispy (like me). Others swear by a nice thick and chewy gluten free chocolate chip cookies. They like a cookie meal.
But can't we all just get along? Sure we can. Let's go along to get along, and have our own cookies just as we like them.
Did you think that all chocolate chip cookies were created equal?
To make these thin and crispy, these cookies have more granulated sugar than brown, less egg, and more butter. And the way you prep them for baking really matters.
If you want them to look beautiful and graceful on the edges, you must flatten the dough into disks.
If you simply drop them on the baking sheet and bake, without pressing them into disks, they will be all wrinkled and craggy on the edges. Not so beautiful. They'll also be a little too crispy on the edges. You see, as it melts onto the baking sheet, a ball of cookie dough will melt first around the edges. The center will follow after a few minutes of baking. And that means they'll need to bake longer just so they're not raw in the center.
If you want these gorgeous cookies to be in your kitchen, just follow the recipe just so (and not in your own special way).
Cookies as metaphor. It is too a real thing.
|Thin & Crispy Chocolate Chip Cookies: how they get that way (+ recipe)
- 2 1/2 cups (350g) high-quality all-purpose gluten-free flour
- 1 1/4 teaspoons xanthan gum (omit if your blend already contains it)
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 1/4 cups (250g) granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup (109g) packed light brown sugar
- 16 tablespoons (224g) unsalted butter, melted and cooled
- 1 extra-large egg at room temperature, beaten
- 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract
- 2 cups (12 ounces) semi-sweet chocolate chips, tossed with 1/2 teaspoon cornstarch
- Preheat your oven to 325 degrees F. Line rimmed baking sheets with unbleached parchment paper and set them aside.
- In a large bowl, place the flour, xanthan gum, baking soda, salt, granulated sugar and brown sugar, and whisk to combine well (working out any lumps in the brown sugar). Add the butter, egg, and vanilla, mixing well after each addition. The dough will be soft.
- Add the chocolate chips and cornstarch to the cookie dough, and mix until the chips are evenly distributed throughout.
- Drop the dough by the tablespoon on the prepared baking sheets, leaving about 2 inches from one to the next as they will spread during baking. With wet fingers, press down evenly on each tablespoon of soft dough to make a disk, smoothing to ensure a circular shape.
- Place the first baking sheet in the center of the preheated oven and bake, rotating once, until lightly golden brown all over, 7 to 10 minutes. Allow to cool on the baking sheet until firm, about 5 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
- Repeat with the remaining baking sheets, one at a time.
If you do not press down the dough, you will get wrinkled edges that crisp unevenly, as the edges of the dough will melt onto the baking sheet before the center does.
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No matter what IMDB.com says, and no matter what you read on the dust jacket of the book on which the movie was based, director Steven Soderbergh wants you to know that "The Informant!" is not -- repeat, not -- an agri-business thriller.
"That is so not accurate," he said in an interview in April when the subject of his latest movie, starring Matt Damon, came up. "No, it's a comedy, actually. It's based on a true story about a price-fixing scandal, but we sort of turned it into a dark comedy, because I felt, at its heart, it has one of the best building blocks for a comedy that you can have, which is a lie that escalates out of control. That's what the movie is."
Based on the book by Kurt Eichenwald, the movie stars Damon as an executive at a major U.S. food conglomerate who helps federal investigators in a case against his employers. Before long, however, they discover that he might not be the best informant.
"This guy ... starts off by telling this little fib -- and then that thread gets pulled, and your mouth is hanging open when you find out what the sweater was that this thread belonged to," Soderbergh said. "It's a pretty fascinating story."
"(If) you read the book, you'd say that (it's an agri-business thriller), but that's not what we did."
"The Informant!," which is rated R for language, opens Friday (Sept. 18) in wide release.
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Some of our favorite Twitter feeds aren't even people. One of them is a Portland institution: Packy the Elephant, who goes by @PdxPacky. He likes to dish on what the other Oregon Zoo animals are up to and he often comments on current events -- when an earthquake hit Clark County last month, he tweeted, "Here at the zoo, we don't have a Richter scale. Quakes are measured by the number of penguins that fall over."
It got us thinking (and believe us, that's a sight our editor would pay to see): What other Portland institutions oughta have Twitter feeds?
@PortlandLoo: There is actually a Twitter feed with this handle (get it -- handle?), but it's all official and boring. What we need is @FakePortlandLoo:
Sheesh. What part of "flush toilet" do people not understand? #yuck
I wonder if the city would let me get a sponsor. Like Secret. Or Axe. #holdyourbreath
Nobody loves me the way Randy Leonard did. #callme
And we definitely need @BensonBubbler:
Shoo, snot-nosed toddler. I said SHOO.
Shoo, large doggie. I said SHOO!
Sir, are you familiar with the "Parks and Recreation" water fountain episode? #noneofthat
We sense an opportunity for @PortlandiaStatue:
I had the name "Portlandia" first. Don't forget it. #grumble #notfair
Hey @IFCPortlandia -- the check for all my appearances in your credits is in the mail, right? Right??
When Poseidon holds his trident, he's a god. When I hold my trident, I'm a Gorgon. #doublestandards
Not to mention an opportunity for @JoanofArcStatue:
@PortlandiaStatue I'd take a trident over a banner. #respect
@PortlandiaStatue Also, you get to be on a building. I'm in a traffic circle. #dizzy #fumes
Aaaand the @TriMet bus has stalled again.
Wait, the Pioneer Square @UmbrellaMan wants to get in on this Twitter thing:
So many honkin' huge burritos, not a single bite. #hungry
Do I look like a pit stop for pigeons? Oh. Right. #lifeofastatue
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Just after 9 p.m., the band walks on stage and hears its name echoing through Boston's TD Banknorth Garden: "Ladies and gentleman, opening for Coldplay, from West Springfield, Massachusetts ... Fendline."
Until 10 days ago, Fendline's bass player Dan Barkyoumb could hardly believe it, either. The band had barely played in Boston, much less played before 19,000 people in Boston's largest arena.
But thanks to a contest to find an opening act for Coldplay, along with a video of its song "Break Me Slowly," the unheralded West Springfield quartet could be making its garden debut Aug. 4.
"We're starstruck just thinking about it," said Barkyoumb, 22, who is finishing up studies at Fitchburg State College. "This is just something that came out of nowhere."
Actually, the news came out of Barkyoumb's e-mail last Thursday when he spotted an announcement that Fendline was selected as one of 15 finalists to open for Coldplay, the chart-topping band that has become the closest thing to British rock royalty since U2.
To help promote its Boston show, Coldplay and Lynn-based radio station WFNX invited bands within 150 miles of Boston to audition for the opening act by submitting videos. Similar contests are being run in five other cities, including Hartford where Coldplay is performing Aug. 2. The Pam Autuori band, whose members include graduates and staff from Suffield Academy, is competing in that contest through WTIC radio.
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With the field narrowed to 15 semi-finalists in the WFNX contest, voting by fans on the Coldplay Web site will narrow the field to three by Thursday, with Coldplay itself making the final selection.
Formed in 2002, Fendline, formerly known as Carpe Diem, has played bars, small fund-raisers and college parties. All four members are longtime friends, and began playing together while attending West Springfield High School.
Listing O.A.R and local favorite Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers as inspirations, Fendline won a battle of the bands contest at the Majestic Theater in West Springfield in 2002; played Boston rock club The Paradise; and opened for Kellogg last year, among other highlights.
Perhaps the band's biggest challenge, other than getting booked at Western Massachusetts clubs, was surviving its post-high school scattering, as two members remained in West Springfield and two attended college in eastern Massachusetts. Despite the obstacles, the band has 25 original songs and a slew of covers.
Nothing on the band's resume, however, has prepared it to open for Coldplay, Barkyoumb acknowledges.
After surviving the cutdown to 15 bands last week, the band met for its regular weekend practice session in Holyoke and discussed ways to raise its profile for the contest.
"We're from Western Mass. so we're the underdog in this contest," said Barkyoumb. "Having lived in eastern Mass. (while attending college) I know some people there don't think much about Western Mass. This is a chance for us to show them what we can do."
In what could be dress rehearsals for the garden show, the band plays Friday at 9:30 p.m. to 1 a.m. at Boston Billiards in West Springfield and Saturday at Maximum Capacity in Chicopee at 4 p.m.
For now, the band ranks sixth among the 15 acts in votes tallied; to get to the finals, Fendline needs to move up three slots.
As a band that takes requests at shows, Fendline is now making one to its audiences.
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The Pelagian tendency of popular Christianity in our day-which Christian Smith called "moralistic, therapeutic deism"-can be further substantiated by the studies of sociologist Marsha Witten. In All Is Forgiven: The Secular Message in American Protestantism, Witten revealed her results from studying the texts of 47 sermons on the parable of the Prodigal Son (Luke 15:11-32), delivered from 1986 to 1988 by various pastors in two denominations: the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and the Southern Baptist Convention. She begins the book by recounting an afternoon on Good Friday 1990. Listening to J. S. Bach's St. Matthew Passion, "with antiphonal choirs calling out sorrowfully to Jesus in his grave," the daily mail arrived and Witten opened the thickest envelope first. It was promotional material for a new Baptist church launching in her area with the following message:
Hi Neighbor!Witten, who describes herself as a non-Christian, uses this anecdote-St. Matthew's Passion contrasted with the new church's promotional materials-to frame the conclusions she arrived at after extensive studies:
At last! A new church for those who have given up on church services! Let's face it. Many people aren't active in church these days.
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Well, folks, another Super Bowl has come and gone.
Somehow last Sunday the National Football League once again wedged a game into breaks between commercials to settle the annual question of who the best team is.
And just in case you're one of those who use the breaks between million dollar commercials to refresh your drink or to pile another plate high with nachos, you missed quite a game, as the Baltimore Ravens fended off the San Francisco 49ers 34-31 to claim the Lombardi Trophy.
That's right. If you fell into a carbohydrate-induced coma aided by the comfort of that La-Z-Boy recliner during the more-than-30-minute power outage at the New Orleans Superdome and are just now waking up, the 49ers erased a 28-6 deficit and made it a game.
How about that?
After the game I was briefly hopeful that the competitive level of the contest would have been enough to erase a bit of the memory of the hype and hoopla that can overshadow the biggest football game in the world.
Now, however, mere days after the game, I realize that it is in part the hype and hoopla that make the game so memorable. In my earnest, pure football fan heart I wish this weren't so, but let's be real here — the circus that played out at this year's Super Bowl was just too juicy to deny.
So, to appease my pure football fan heart and satisfy my need for sensational human interest stories, I'm going to list a few of the things that I'll remember about this year's game, on and off the field.
Harbaugh vs. Harbaugh. From a human interest angle, it doesn't get any better than head coaching brothers Jim (San Francisco) and John (Baltimore) squaring off in a Super Bowl. Here's a bonus question for you: which brother is the youngest? If you guessed Jim, based on the sheer amount of attention-seeking tantrums and headphone tossing on the sidelines, you got it right! Jim is 49, John, 50.
Joe Flacco. Before the game much of the tongue wagging about the fifth-year starting quarterback for the Ravens touched on whether he was an elite quarterback. In four games during Baltimore's playoff run this season, Flacco earned a 117.2 quarterback rating, throwing 11 touchdowns with no interceptions. In New Orleans Flacco finished 22-of-33 in the air with three touchdowns, earning himself the Super Bowl XLVII Most Valuable Player award. Welcome to Club Elite, Mr. Flacco.
Out go the lights. Not exactly sure what happened here, but during the opening minutes of the third quarter half of the power at the Superdome went out. And stayed out for an agonizing 34 minutes, delaying the game. Although the cause of the outage is still under investigation, reports are that an abnormality was detected in the power system, triggering an automatic shutdown. Personally, I'm thinking that the whereabouts of all employees of CBS TV – the network that aired the game – should be verified. With 30 seconds of commercial air time ringing up an average of $4 million, the extra commercial time must have been a boon for the network. Just saying.
Jacoby Jones' return. The Baltimore speedster and kick returner made history with the longest return in the history of the Super Bowl. Jones took the opening kickoff of the second half on Bourbon Street and returned it 1.4 miles for a touchdown. Okay, 108 yards, but that's still a long, long way.
Ray Lewis. The final thing I think I'll remember about this year's game was the Saga of Ray Lewis. Always a controversial figure because of his troubled past – Lewis was indicted on murder and aggravated assault charges for his involvement in the stabbing deaths of two men at a club in Atlanta in 2000 and eventually pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice – Lewis did nothing to change the minds of detractors leading up to this year's game.
Lewis was accused of using deer antler velvet spray to speed his recovery from a torn tricep this season. Deer antler velvet spray is banned as a performance enhancing drug by the NFL. Deer antler velvet spray is also fun to type. Seriously, try it. Deer antler velvet spray. Anyway, Lewis responded by calling the allegations a "trick of the devil" designed to distract him from the task at hand. Next time Satan should probably try harder. Lewis finished the game, his last as an NFL player, with seven tackles, four solo and three assisted, and, more important, a Super Bowl ring.
Lewis was last seen riding off into the sunset astride a mighty 12-point buck, waving the Lombardi Trophy in the air, hollering, "Take that, Beelzeebub!"
How's that for hype and hoopla folks? I can't wait for next year. Go Hawks.
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Cecil E. Miller, 86, of Amarillo died Friday, Nov. 3, 2006.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday in Schooler Funeral Home Brentwood Chapel, 4100 S. Georgia St., with the Rev. Dru Ferguson officiating. Burial will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in Oak Grove Memorial Cemetery in Irving.
Mr. Miller was born July 27, 1920, in Collinwood, Tenn., to Samuel and Octa Miller. He graduated from Collinwood High School and went on to attend business college.
He married Ruth Carpenter on April 16, 1944, in Texarkana. He began his career with United Transport and later with Jack Cooper Transport as the terminal manager that lasted 49 years until his retirement in 1988. He enjoyed yard work and took pride in his yard. First and foremost was the great love he held for his family and friends.
He was preceded in death by his wife in 1998; three sisters; and two brothers.
Survivors include two daughters, Cheryl White and husband Larry of Irving and Janet Varela of Amarillo; two sons, Forrest Miller of Los Angeles and Joseph Carl Miller of Denver; a brother, Newt Miller of Florence, Ala; eight grandchildren, Rebecca, Wade, Regina, Rachel, Lisa, Jose, John and Anthony; 14 great-grandchildren; and his special companion, Ivy, his Boston terrier.
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The argument broke out following a double-reverse in practice; one that began with Mark Sanchez as the lead blocker for wide receiver Stephen Hill and one that ended with Sanchez on the ground.
Antonio Cromartie, who was responsible for spilling Sanchez, heard from Santonio Holmes immediately. The two went back and forth as teammates began to realize it wasn't a friendly exchange.
Cromartie was walked away by a teammate. Holmes, who continues to rehab from a Lisfranc injury, shook his head.
The moment, which was swept under the rug shortly after, summed up well what has been a frustrating time for Holmes. He would like to be on the field but he can't. He would like to be in on the next play and stick up for Sanchez, but is relegated to coaching.
He spends most of his nights in a hyperbaric chamber in his house repairing his shattered foot. He would not say whether he could jog yet when asked yesterday.
"Learning how to walk again," Holmes said, when asked what the hardest part of this process. "It's been that hard to get the feeling of your body to move in an everyday motion you've been accustom to for so many years."
Holmes was also not sure whether he would be ready for training camp, and would not fully commit to being prepared for Week One, either. When asked what he was able to do, he said: "working out."
"To have something like this happen just kind of puts a damper in your whole physical ability to do anything," he said.
It also puts a damper on the wide receiver situation in general. Rex Ryan began his press conference yesterday lamenting the dropped passes in Tuesday's mandatory mini camp. At least three more – from Jeremy Kerley, Jeff Cumberland and Stephen Hill – punctuated the team's second mini camp practice yesterday. With Holmes sidelined indefinitely, the unit remains a work in progress inside a system starving for vertical threats.
"You should be surprised if anybody drops the ball," Ryan said. "Yesterday I was surprised when we caught it.
"We've got to get that figured out: to catch the football. Whether it's focus or having your hands in the right spot. The old thing around the clock. Catch the football. You're an NFL player, catch the football. We expect it caught."
Holmes will rehab at the Jets facility during the break, which begins following today's practice.
The mercurial wide receiver represents both a crack in the team's recent past and a bright spot in their future. Outside of a public meltdown in 2011, Holmes has repaired his relationships around the locker room. His coaches praise him as an excellent technician whose skills will shine in the West Coast offense.
He says he is still close with Sanchez.
"I signed back because of him, so nothing's changed," Holmes, who accepted a pay cut this offseason, said.
Perhaps his biggest undertaking, though, is the mentoring of Hill, a second-year receiver with a limitless ceiling. Holmes laughed when asked about Hill yesterday, saying his name over and over like Hill was his troublemaking student.
It's what he pours his focus into as the rehab slogs along.
"All we can do is continue talking to each other and building him up and continue to build him as if he's the next Megatron (Calvin Johnson)," Holmes said. "He saw this guy play and he saw the progress that he'd made throughout his career and that was one of the things that I spent time talking to him about yesterday, is how can we build Stephen Hill into being that complete guy."
Holmes is determined to be part of a better receiving corps when he comes back. Before his injury, he had the power to change that instantly.
For now he waits anxiously on the sideline, restraining himself from jumping in.
"It's a learning phase for all the receivers," Holmes said. "They have a long ways to go and hopefully we clear everything up come training camp and before the season."


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The Internet is a daily tool for increasingly more people. According to Statistics Finlands survey, as many as 89 per cent of those aged 16 to 74 use the Internet and three out of four use it daily. Forty-three per cent of persons entitled to vote used an election engine before the latest elections. Smartphones are purchased most by persons aged under 45 and men, on the other hand.
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The purpose of the survey on Use of information and communications technology is to produce data about ICT usage in households and by individuals. The data are used for the development projects of Finnish information society and for compiling pan-European information society indicators.


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According to Race Director, Alan Brookes, "We're really excited to announce the late addition of Deressa Chimsa to our 2013 Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront field. Anytime we get an athlete of this calibre, and with such consistency, it's very special. To the best of our knowledge, he will be the fastest marathoner ever to have competed on Canadian soil, and adds a real ZING to this year's race!" Here's Paul Gains' latest feature. Enjoy the read. Enjoy the race!
TORONTO. October 1st. The $35,000 course record bonus has proven to be a popular discussion point amongst Ethiopian runners these days as Deressa Chimsa Edae is the latest of his countrymen to enter the Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon.
The IAAF Silver Label race is set for Sunday October 20th and features no less than three athletes who have run faster than Kenneth Mungara's 2010 course record of 2:07:58 with another handful within a minute of that standard. The depth is something that has race organisers delighted as the race quickly approaches.
Chimsa ran a spectacular 2:05:42 at the 2012 Dubai Marathon and has run under 2:08 five times in the past three years.
Two weeks ago his training partner, Seboka Tola, was forced to withdraw from the Toronto race due to an injury and Chimsa was only too pleased to step into the spot. The pair train with the Demadonna Athletics group under coaches Gebeyehu Berihun and Gemedu Dedefo.
"I was looking for a marathon in late October or the beginning of November but my manager and coaches are always working to do the best for me," says the 26 year old Chimsa. And, just in case people were wondering about his preparation he reports he is ready to chase the Toronto course record.
"My training is going very well. I can't compare it with other races because they are different seasons but I prepared well for this season. I dropped out of the 2013 London Marathon because of sickness."
"Of course I know the Toronto course record. I'll follow the pacemakers."
Like many of his country's finest runners his upbringing under rather difficult conditions sowed the seeds for an impressive running career. Moving to Addis, to join the Demadonna Athletics training group, has provided the practical impetus for success.
"I grew up in the village of Kore Edo near the city of Holeta Genet," he says. "My parents they are farmers and I have two sisters and three brothers."
Chimsa has performed well on the world scene since taking up marathon running in 2008. His debut race was in Dubai that year and he finished in 2:10:06. A year later he ran two minutes faster on that same course with a new personal best of 2:07:54. A study of his extensive curriculum vitae reveals consistency like very few have achieved.
In addition to running fast marathons Chimsa represented his country well at the 2012 IAAF Half Marathon Championships in Karvana, Bulgaria claiming the silver medal in a time of 60:51. Then in October of last year he finished 2nd in the Frankfurt Marathon in 2:06:55.
Records tend to fall when all the conditions are right. The Toronto course is fast, the field is strong, and several pacemakers have been employed to help attack Mungara's record. As so often is the case it will come down to weather conditions. Chimsa can be expected at the front of the pack chasing that record.
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text: Virginia McIntyre (nee Williams), passed away Au-gust 3, 2012, after a pro-longed illness. Beloved mother of Cheryl Nelson (Ronald) Monaco, grand-mother to Nicole (Adam) Saltzman; Natalie Monaco. Cherished mother of Can-dace Nelson (Rolfe) Steck; grandmother to Erin Steck Silvestri, PhD. (Dr. Nicho-las) Silvestri; great-grandchildren, Ella and Henry; youngest granddaughter, Lauren Steck. Ginny was a devoted mother and friend. She gra-duated from Warren High School, Pa., 1946; James-town Business College, 1947. Ginny had been a member of the First Pres-byterian Church in James-town, NY. She loved danc-ing and was an avid bridge player. She was preceded in death by her infant brother, Leo; parents Gladys and Lewis B. Williams. A graveside memorial service is planned for Sat., Sept. 1st, @ 11:00 a.m., in Shin-glehouse, Pa., Maple Grove Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, greatly appreciated memorials may be sent to the Arthritis Foundation Upstate NY Chapter, 3300 Monroe Ave., Suite 319, Rochester, NY 14618.


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The End of the Big Bop
It's likely many of the people who'll lament the passing of The Big Bop - the Queen and Bathurst club that was Toronto's home to metal, hardcore and other music with a notable underage following - are the sorts of people whose opinion isn't usually sought. Many of them can't vote, don't buy much, and certainly won't be among the clientele for the new tenants rumoured to be taking over the space - an American home furnishings chain that specializes in the loft market.
With the passing of the Bop and its three stages - Kathedral, the Reverb and Holy Joe's, in descending order of size - one of the last obstacles to the gentrification of the intersection, long considered a tough nut for developers, will disappear, but due to the club's customers and reputation, the reaction has been surprisingly muted. Dominic Tassielli was the owner of the Big Bop until three years ago, and the manager since then, on a lease renewed monthly, and during his decade and a half running the place, he saw it host everything from grizzled punk veterans like the Dayglo Abortions and the Cro-Mags to the nascent versions of bands like Billy Talent, Alexisonfire and At The Drive In.
Looking back, Tassielli says that there's no particular show that he remembers as fondly as the response he's gotten from a core group of customers he didn't know existed. "For the last two months that we were closing, I've been getting so many kids coming up to me and thanking me for the last 10, 12, 14 years that I've given them a venue where they could come and have fun. There aren't that many all-ages clubs, and I never thought we had a regular clientele, that we had a live venue and people just came for shows, but there were kids who came here maybe 30 times a year."
"It didn't matter what show - coming here and just having a good time. And I think seeing a lot of these bands that have made it - 14 years ago they might not have had a stage to play on, and who knows if they would have kept up with the music. Now they've moved on to bigger and better things, and who knows if they stuck to music because they played here maybe five or ten times a year."
Whoever the new owners are - and the leading rumour favours CB2, Crate & Barrel's "urban" subsidiary - they won't be starting from scratch with a new building. The building that's housed the Big Bop since the mid-80s is heritage landmarked, though it's hard to tell from its scabby, purple-painted exterior or the scuzzy, well-worn space inside.
It was the mid-80s when the Ballinger brothers, Lon, Stephen and Douglas, took over the Holiday Tavern, a down-at-heels nightclub whose scuffed retro decor had gone from stage shows featuring jazz and R&B acts to mid-day drinkers and end-of-career strippers, and a final gasp of life booking new wave acts like Gene Loves Jezebel and a weekend residency with the Shuffle Demons.
They gave it the winsome name it sported until this weekend, and a garish makeover that splashed new wave graphics in neon colours all over the the old tavern, which Tassielli painted over in the mid-90s with the assertive purple hue for which its underage clientele would know it. It was a dance club under the Ballingers' management, but turned to live music after they left for New York to make their reputation with premiere event space Webster Hall.
Before all of that, however, it was a Masonic lodge whose false domed ceiling can just be glimpsed over Reverb's dance floor. Called the Occidental Hall, it lost its top two stories and a magnificent mansard roof in 1948 when the Holiday was opened, decapitating a roofline that met its looming neighbour to the east, the recently redeveloped Burroughes Building. In an article in NOW magazine, Toronto architectural historian Alec Keefer called it a "desecration," and one that was only magnified by the massive 2008 fire that leveled most of the wood-framed block of buildings further to the east.
Tassielli says that the landlord is committed to putting $3 million into a renovation of the building, which will make it "quite the landmark," and workmen currently gutting the basement say that they'll start work on the rest of the place on Sunday, just hours after the last band plays its last note.
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I had some good times there, at some parties thrown by Sunshine Wayne.
Always loved wandering through the warren of rooms, never knowing where I would find myself, or who I would bump into.
Still, as long as the building is being loving restored, as opposed to what happened where the IT night club was simply torn down, I suppose it's just a sign of the times.
The Great Hall further down on Queen West can always serve as the new party spot, if people wish.
I have no idea how it still has "heritage landmark" status.
I never hung out on any of the floors much, but it's kind of sad that it's turning into a condo furniture store. (Do we need another lifestyle store?) Still, I can't wait to see what they do with the restoration; the building has 'great bones' and I'm glad it's a heritage site. Too bad they lopped off the top a while back, though!
If its such a big hit, this is a great opportunity for someone else to fill the void, Do IT, DO it Do it!!!1
The bigger picture as someone else mention is that it puts a serious blow on mid sized venues in this city for all ages shows. Now you may not give a shit about that, but I can guarantee you that there has been many local bands and touring bands, and music fans (of many different genres) that have made their way through that venue over the years (and maybe even some you like) and are fully aware of how this is going to affect the local music scene considerably for playing to all ages audiences. There is still going to be many 19+ venues to play at... but now options for All Ages shows is significantly lower.... and that is the key thing some of you are missing... ALL AGES shows at a mid sized venue... local bands booking out the Opera House is really not viable, its too big.... so what else is there right now?
And if you still don't get it, why don't you go by the Kathedral tonight, where you will have 5 local bands, made up of people that have been playing and supporting the venue and all ages shows for the last 12+ years, featuring Matadors, Heatskores (reunion show), and TerrorChargers (members of the 3Tards)... who will be putting on a FREE show because they understand how much the venue has given them over the years... on Facebook alone there has been over 1100 people saying they are wanting to go to the show and support the venue one last time (and this is for a venue which holds about 350-400)... that right there is pretty obvious that people do care. Maybe it will open your minds a little... my guess though is that it still wouldn't.
Moved away long ago, but I always got a kick out of the goth and metal kids still at it, several nights a week.
Its re-assignment to selling condo furniture better suits the kind of people who live downtown nowadays. Angry youths don't come here anymore.
I'd be curious to see what they do, as architecture aside, anything new in that space have SOME nod to the previous incarnation.
that place is such a shit hole, and attracts the same.
Can someone answer me this...
These people are bums/homeless/degenerates....yet they manage to own dogs?
These people can barely feed themselves with the chump change they have managed to bug people to give them, so where exactly do they get the money to pay for dog food/vet bills/etc??
Knowing their money goes to booze and drugs it appalls me these people are allowed have dogs.
Such a waste.
"Toronto the Bland" indeed.
1989 the number, another summer
Sound of the funky drummer
Toronto is just littered with wild dogs....
Very similar to Eastern Romania in that way...
Stupid Gypsy.
Unless you liked textile and fabric stores.
Good Riddance. It's a shame that a music venue is going, but I think the Big Bop brought more bad than good.
Call me when the public libraries start closing down.
Right crazy sluts those two were. Good times. I'll miss them.
Case closed.
Good to hear how rich you are though.
Right behind the building in the ally across from the Pizza Pizza, its a haven for drug using asshats that frequent the area.
If this is the local talent you speak of, well then you have a far different definition of talten than the rest of us do.
I prefer rock, not acid rock.
I always see drug deals going down in front of it.
We got to have a Holy Joe's sendoff on Sunday which was really wonderful.
Very sad to see it go.
the new venue is called The Rockpile www.therockpile.ca
it's at dundas w and east mall, right by hwy 427.
opening night is april 10th
We didn't say a word to eachother, we didn't have to...as quick as a bullet we each grabbed a case and ran off! Needless to say, we shared our good fortune with a few fellow broke friends and had one of the best nights of our lives. Warm beer never tasted so damn good!
We didn't say a word to eachother, we didn't have to...as quick as a bullet we each grabbed a case and ran off! Needless to say, we shared our good fortune with a few fellow broke friends and had one of the best nights of our lives.
Warm beer never tasted so damn good!
I went to a number of great shows there and always had a good time.
My memories of the Big Bop are nothing but good.
Late 80's, early 90's...great place to be on the weekend.
I'm glad I was able to experience and enjoy it.
I hope young people in Toronto have similar places to go today.
.When we found Webster Hall in NYC in 1990 i knew it was the end of our run .....We have all been together in NYC ever since ...Some old timers may remember some of our other clubs .........Just to make a wry comment......Its too bad so many of you sound so hostile.Lighten up folks lifes too short to be so bitter sounding ..Take care you fun folks and come see us in NYC someday and to so many ....thank you for the fond memories Toronto ...
Is the Diamond Club still around?
Another time I "rescued" these 2 beyond-cute Chinese girls from some clown who was hassling them on the street...the next week night they brought me cookies, and a thank-you note in the most adorably mangled English you ever saw....
I once let a naked black kid on roller skates in, who was being chased by the cops..lol..turns out he was white, and covered in shoe polish, and was at some AIDS benefit, and didnt have a change of clothes..
Then theres Frances..who stole my heart..
Then there is some not so fond memories...they had a hip-hop gig there in the Bop one night..they brought in private security, while us regular squad guys worked the Reverb for a Filipino dance..many cute Flip girls...I went downstairs to check on my friend Rachel, who was running a small bar in the back pool area. Anyway, downstairs were some jerks from Scarborough...who had "dissed" some twits from North York, and even though the MC tried to calm everyone down..I heard the distinct balloon-popping sounds of gunfire..everyone dropped..except me..cuz I was wondering who thought it was New Years Eve.....Once I clued-in I too went down..such as it was for some back then.
After a pause, the screaming started, and the place emptied out...some kids were trying to get out through the Bathurst-side crash door exit..normally my job would have been to keep them away from that door, but this time, I was helping them get out..the whole door came off its hinges straight down..and I was half way to Front before I stopped and realized Id forgotten about Rachel...so I ran back, went in..grabbed her, and we bailed out and hid in the alley by the Paddock...after a few minutes, she realized that she'd forgotten her coat and her till...so feck..sure enough, I went back again...the place was cleared out, and the lights were on, so she got her kit, and I sent her upstairs to the office.
On the floor was a body..a kid was dead..a hole right between the eyes...his head was surrounded by a pool of the reddest blood Id ever seen...it pooled and swirled...I stood there for a moment trying to make sense of the blood mixing with the crud and rice grains(?!) on the filthy checkered floor.
He was still breathing..but he was out....I knelt down and said..something like "Ambulance is on the way kid, hang in there"...I dunno if it made any difference..I checked for a pulse..it was still there..I slapped him gently on the cheeks...I guess to see if he had a reaction..a man there telling me not to do that...his mouth full of blood...I thought for a moment about mouth to mouth...I didnt.
The emergency guys finally come...the cops too...my "supervisor", some tough punk, made himself scarce...he'd seen nothing anyway, but he knew a night at the station giving statements isnt how he wanted to spend his time..I stayed..I felt dejected and awful....I told the ambulance guy what I had done..asked if it would have made a difference if Id given him mouth to mouth..he said..."The kid was dead before he hit the floor...his body was just still working." That felt.."better" somehow.
The staff that hadnt run off were all collected in the Bop by the cops...I gave a statement to some uniformed officer...at once point I wanted to look outside the front doors, and was immedicately hit by this spotlight from some news crew....I ducked back in....This kids body lying there almost in the middle of the floor....under these spotlights..like a freaking movie..everyone stayed as far away from it as they could..the Ambulance guy said they had to wait for a doctor to officially declare the kid dead before they could haul him away. Eventually a TTC bus came and took us all to division..and we signed up to be interviewed....like a dummy I went to call Rachel first, so by the time I got back, my name was at the bottom of the list, so I had to wait all night, and wasnt interviewed until sunrise....I said the same thing I said here..and to the uniformed cop. Id seen nothing. I contributed nothing to the investigation.
After I got out, I walked back through some park west of Bathurst and Queen, back to the Bop..they'd drawn some circles on the sidewalk in front where theyd found casings I guess....I walked all the way back to Parkdale where I lived..since I was too messed up to do otherwise.
Later on Dominic told me he thought that someone who was eager to show off his new Yankee-bought gat (probably) had fired into the ceiling..one of the bullets struck a concrete support, and bounced into this kid..it could have easily been me...since where I was standing with Rachel was directly in line with the kids body, and the door where the punk had fired from...that was pretty chilling. I heard other stories that the kid was screwing around with some guys girl..I dunno..
I saw his face in the paper...just a kid..16 or 17.
I quit shortly after that...moved to Vancouver,...then to Australia and Japan for a decade...now Im back...after a Jays game we walked by it..in its new form...thank god that awful purple is gone..and its a bit nicer to look at.
So, thats what the Big Bop is for me...so Im glad its now just some sterile yuppy store.


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Reports: Michael Strahan Gets Regis Philbin's Seat
When he walked away from the game of football roughly four months after winning that elusive Super Bowl ring in 2008, former New York Giants defensive end Michael Strahan received some criticism for making what some people considered a slightly premature decision. But ever since, the former NFL Defensive Player of the Year has been changing hearts and minds with his work in front of the bright lights. And now, it looks like Strahan's charm has persuaded CBS television producers.


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Fulton NY - Fulton resident Janet Dann looked up from reading her morning paper Thursday morning and saw a flock of 20 wild turkeys in her neighbor's yard.
"Woo," she said.
Dann immediately called her neighbor, Sarah Patrick, who was so shocked -- and a bit nervous -- that she called the Oswego County 911 Center at 9:15 a.m.
"I've been here for years and I've never seen a wild turkey in my yard, let alone 20 of them," said Patrick, who lives on Utica Street. "I wouldn't dare go outside. They look peaceful enough, but I don't know if they'd attack. They're just wandering around, pecking away. I'm not going to take any chances."
Patrick said she also called her son, Robert, who lives in Granby.
"Get your guns," she quipped. "We've got free dinners."
The turkeys eventually flew away, but Patrick and Dann said they are still amazed at what they saw.
"I'm a birdwatcher. It was great. You didn't need your binoculars," Dann said. "It was amazing to see them fly. They're so big. That was my fun for the day."


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Had two stories in Monday's paper that drew multiple comments. One was yet another follow on President Barack Obama speaking at Kalamazoo Central's graduation, this time reporting that the White House wanted all the grads to fill out a background form. The other is on Portage's plan to have four classrooms divided between two elementaries in which first-graders will receive Chinese language instruction.
The pseudo controversy on the Obama story comes from conservatives who fear Obama will use graduation to pass out the purple Kool-Aid and convert the K-Central Class of 2010 to socialism. Actually, my sense is that Obama's speech will be much like the one printed in yesterday's Parade magazine, in which Obama extrolled the virtues of education and encouraged today's graduates to be the leaders of tomorrow. Hardly controversial stuff.
In Portage, administrators are all hyped about getting Chinese instructors from WMU to teach the language at Portage at no cost to the district. But trustee Melanie Kurdys is questioning whether the project is such a good idea -- that it could detract from the district's core mission.


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For some these would be whole lifetime experiences yet you've crammed then in to just a few days. Your reports continue to amaze.
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We made the drive from Dunedin to Te Anau fine. We managed to find a 4 bed dorm room which we got all to ourselves - we are getting good at that :) it helps with it being low season which means the place isn't too busy. The backpackers place we actually wanted to stay at was closed as the owners were on holiday, but a sign on the door told us to try next door where we found a room no problem and the lady at reception told us she would try to ensure she didn't put anyone else in our room. We booked ourselves on a trip to Milford Sound for the following day. We got an awesome deal - buy one ticket and the other person goes free! Pretty cool!
Overnight and the following morning the whole area had been hit by a snow storm which forced the closure of a number of local roads, including the main road out of town to Milford. So our trip was canceled. We were gutted, one of the best sights to see in NZ is the glacial fjord at Milford Sound so we decided to stay on another day and move our booking back to try and make it the following day as weather reports suggested the weather may improve and that the roads could clear. However the following day only bought further disappointment. The snow had bought trees down which meant the road was still closed :(
In the mean time we had pretty much exhausted all the other things to do in the small town of Te Anau. We had even gone to watch a movie shot from a helicopter above the Fjordland National Park to give ourselves a taste of what we were missing. The film was great, just stunning scenery filmed with a classical music soundtrack.
With more bad weather threatened we decided reluctantly to skip out of town and move on to Queenstown. We got a refund for our trip and left feeling pretty disappointed to have missed out.
The drive to Queenstown was icy and slippery in parts but we made it through no problems
We had booked to stay in budget accommodation but when we arrived the room they showed us was in such a bad state that when we complained they upgraded us to their top of the range room! Not bad! :)
When we wondered around town we saw that the tour company we had booked to go to Milford Sound with had an office in town offering trips from Queenstown. When we told them the story of our cancellations, they offered us the same deal we had paid for in Te Anau (buy one get one free) on a trip leaving the following day which was actually more expensive as the journey was longer, but they were confident that the road was going to be open again - so we went for it hoping it would be third time lucky!
The following day we got up early - 6am for a 7:15 pickup, both of us half expecting another cancellation..
It's difficult to talk about New Zealand and the countryside, and mountain scenery here without over-using using the words "stunning", "amazing", beautiful", and "epic", and the journey to Milford Sound took us through some of the most amazing and stunningly beautiful epic scenery we have seen so far! Made even more jaw-dropping by the fresh deep covering of snow. About 45cm of fresh snow had fallen.
Once we arrived at Milford, we boarded the small cruise ship the Milford Adventurer for our 2 hour cruise around the fjord. The fjordland scenery was truly immense! Huge mountains with vertical cliffs carved out by ancient ice flows. Mitre peak, the highest of these mountains is the tallest mountain in the world to rise directly out of the sea, it is just over a mile high. What's also staggering is that there is just as much mountain below sea level as there is above it. We saw so many amazing waterfalls too, all gushing with extra water from the melting snow and ice. We also had a small pod of 5 or 6 bottlenose dolphins who came to splash about alongside our boat for a while. We also spotted a penguin, and some NZ fur seals too.
The bus didn't get us back to Queenstown until about 8pm so it was a long day
Queenstown also has a cable car ride which you can take up high into the mountains above town for spectacular views of the town, lake Wakatipu, and the surrounding mountains. I'll upload the photos when I get a chance.
We bought a 1 day introductory snowboarding lesson for beginners. It was awesome. We went to Mount Cardrona and hired all the necessary gear, and spent the day learning how to snowboard. It was great fun! Both of us spent quite a bit of time falling over and suffered more than just a few bumps and bruises, but by the end of the day we were both whizzing down the mountain with relative ease! We're already planning on doing some more snowboarding in Chile or Argentina now :)
Our next journey took us to Fox Glacier - it's only coincidence that it shares the same name as the famous mints! The drive took us over the Crown mountain range and via the Haast pass, one of the highest mountain pass roads in the entire country. The temperature changed from about -2 to about +7 degrees as we came over the mountains and arrived on the west coast of NZ
We stayed for just one night in Fox Glacier, enough time for us to go on a few treks to take in the sights of the glacier itself which was pretty cool. You could pay to have a guided walk, or even take a helicopter flight to land on the glacier so that you could walk in amongst some of the ice formations. But these were ridiculously expensive, particularly when you can walk up to the main face of the glacier for free yourself anyway. So we didn't bother. The different shapes carved in the ice looked like some kind of modern art ice sculpture rather than something created by mother nature. Very interesting. And its not every day you can say you've climbed up to a glacier and gone to the beach on the same day! :)
Having been on the road for quite a while we decided a couple of rest days were in order which we took at a place called Hokotika where we found a lovely small hostel. We've not done much for a couple of days and have enjoyed the chance to re-charge our batteries before we push on towards the North Island next week.
However this evening after we had eaten our dinner we were sitting in the lounge of our hostel when we felt an earthquake. Mike the guy who runs the place here came rushing in to see if we were ok. It was probably all over in no more than 15-20 seconds but the whole building shook and it caused the plants and light bulbs in the ceiling to swing about a fair bit! The most strange sensation. Looking on the web the quake registered a 7.0 on the Richter scale, but the epicenter was 230km deep near Wellington on the north island so we would only have felt a small fraction of it being so far away. And with the epicenter being so deep, it doesn't seem to have caused any major damage in Wellington either thankfully as we are heading there in the next few days. Still - a bit of a dramatic event to have witnessed!
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OMG!! What can I say it's certainly a lifetime's adventures packed into 9 months. Continue to enjoy and we will continue to read with avid interest, hope you manage to stay clear of further earthquakes stay safe and look after each other. I feel quite tearful at the thought of all your wonderful experiences, hope you had a fab birthday Mya love from from us both mum and dad xxxxxxx