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Michael Musto columnist for the Village Voice has come out with a bi-phobic, anti-scientific column titled Ever Meet a Real Bisexual? questioning the legitimacy of bisexuality.
"Everyone always says they're bisexual, blabbing on and on about how "sexuality is fluid, and I don't really like labels"--but usually I find these are just gay men who are afraid to come out. I know there are real bisexuals out there--mainly because I've heard that there are--and I do think it's a lovely idea to actually crave sex with people regardless of gender. I'm just wondering how real a phenomenon this is, as opposed to a smoke-and-mirrors coverup designed to keep antsy gays in the closet.
Most of the guys I know who say they're bisexual end up doing Bette Davis impersonations after a few drinks, and when you invite them to an all-girl bar, they get excited, thinking you mean Splash. But do you know anyone who REALLY is equally attracted to both men and women and effortlessly glides between those two dating pools without a second's thought or self-consciousness? If so, do you ever suspect they're full of shit?"
Suggesting bisexuality is a phenomenon, or that bisexual men are closeted liars is offensive and outright wrong!
Contact Michael Musto and tell him biphobia has no place in the Village Voice.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Michael Musto: "Are Bisexuals Real?"
Michael Musto columnist for the Village Voice has come out with a bi-phobic, anti-scientific column titled Ever Meet a Real Bisexual? questioning the legitimacy of bisexuality.
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I agree with Michael.
- April 7, 2009 at 11:28 AM
- Queers United said...
Anonymous, bisexuality is a scientific fact, sexuality runs along a continuum as demonstrated by Kinsey and others. Plus, who is anyone to deny anyone else's right to self-determine their identity and label. What if I said I don't believe whatever your sexual orientation or gender identity is, is legit.
- April 7, 2009 at 11:31 AM
Here we go again with people jumping to unfounded conclusions. Musto did not make the statements the author of this blog suggests, those are the blogger's ill-conceived conclusions obviously based on a comprehension problem with what Musto DID write.
You people are so anxious to find something, anything, to be offended by that you've started manufacturing shit just so you can claim you're offended. Get over it. You cheapen the instances of real offenses by your "crying wolf" all the damn time. Just stop it already.
- April 7, 2009 at 11:54 AM
- Queers United said...
I'd suggest you re-read his column and it clearly shows no jumping to conclusions. Bisexuality is discussed as a "phenomenon", concept, 'conspiracy' and distortion.
- April 7, 2009 at 11:58 AM
I'm going to break this into several parts.
1) The post is his post in full repeated with all the context of his original work, demonstrated by the ability to click a link and read the original verbatim piece in full. Anonymous's "manufacturing outrage" thus is Fox News BS completely demolished by the fact that there was no secret context. THIS IS HIS F-ING QUOTE
- April 7, 2009 at 12:02 PM
Of course they are REAL! One of my favorite quotes from one of my favorite movies: "Some things are true whether you believe in them or not."
- April 7, 2009 at 12:04 PM
- Cerberus said...
2)Anonymous indulges in the old habit of all oppressors to attack the oppressed for having the bad manners of pointing out social and pervasive injustices in attitude and action (aka the humorless feminist line of attack and the "looking for outrage" line of attack usually leveled against anti-racism activists). Such attacks are also well-documented as means to disrupt a narrative and thus attempt to block critique. It is also similar to the accusations of racism are worse than actual racism lines of defense seen in racism discussions.
- April 7, 2009 at 12:06 PM
- Cerberus said...
3) And this is important. Does Michael and his commentators even understand what bisexuality is? It's not being "equally attracted" to both sexes nor does it require one to "effortlessly glide" between both groups. It's an orientation, not an F-ing CHOICE. I mean, does he even get that or what the whole anti-gay line of attack is about? Orientation is who you are, what you are attracted to, not a rock-hard determinism of behavior or your ability to navigate internal and external homo and bi-phobia or your relative comfort levels with sexual arenas. There is a spectrum overall and I would argue that out-bisexuals are probably more likely on average to be higher up on the Kinsey scale than lower because of all the homophobia in this culture (hence why a bi person may be more interested in same-sex, because then they can't just be "bi-curious", indulge in porn or the occasional outlier fling or threesome, or just deny it as easily).
- April 7, 2009 at 12:12 PM
- Sabertooth Screaming Lemur said...
How arrogant to think that to be "really" bisexual, one must conform to HIS definition of what it is!
What a jerk.
- April 7, 2009 at 12:17 PM
- Cerberus said...
4) Riffing off the last, I guess my SO has been lying her ass off. Never mind that she has sexual attractions in unequal levels to both men and women. Never mind that she is now operating almost entirely in the lesbian community both in dating and activism. Never mind she also has a formerly male life partner and another long-distance boyfriend. Yeah, Kinsey 5 dating hard in the lesbian scene who has two (well, one and a half) boy relationships going on, how his head would spin at the thought (yes, many bisexuals are also fully monogamous and may even be included in the number of "hard" gay people he thinks are super-gay).
Sorry for the staggered post, but this stuff is particularly annoying especially dating a bisexual. Kinsey made this nice report based on deep scientific observations into human behavior and it still seems to woosh over people's heads who should have been the first to clue in. It's like talking to a black homophobe or a jewish racist and scratching your head because you'd expect them to be the first to get it.
- April 7, 2009 at 12:18 PM
- Cerberus said...
Oh by the way, I say all this fully disagreeing that sexuality is fluid. The real science doesn't support fluid sexuality and it seems to be being used to try and say all women are bisexual and all men are rock-solid straight or gay which always seemed like a sexist frame that didn't scan with the exact defenses of most sexuality is fluid pushers.
That said, I fully believe that people's recognition and comfort or even understanding and expression of their sexuality is open and fluid and can be radically altered by big stimulae like falling in love with an outlier (say someone you don't even lust for) or finding out that your types stimulae response is higher than your specific gender stimulae. What you are is probably fixed, figuring that out is often a life-long "fluid" process.
- April 7, 2009 at 12:23 PM
- Kajivar said...
We're real, I assure you.
- April 7, 2009 at 12:24 PM
Michael Musto is a complete dick; he likes to be inflammatory and thinks we all hang on his every word. I don't pay attention to pretty much anything he says really.
- April 7, 2009 at 12:29 PM
For those who doubt the validity of bisexuals - Hello. Here I am. I'm a bisexual female and let's clear up some fun misunderstandings.
"But do you know anyone who REALLY is equally attracted to both men and women"
It's usually not a 50-50 split for liking both sexes. Just like you don't like all brunettes just because they're brunette, Bisexuals don't like ALL guys and ALL girls. For me it's liking the person. I tend to be heavily on the girl-liking side but I still like guys. It's just a bit rarer for me to find the particular qualities I seek in guys. But some do have them. :)
"and I do think it's a lovely idea to actually crave sex with people regardless of gender"
Just as being gay isn't just about sex, neither is being Bi. We're not greedy lust-mongers. It's not about lust. It's about love. As in snuggling on the sofa watching a movie. Holding hands walking in the park. Talking late into the night over a cup of hot chocolate. Playing air hockey together. It's about love.
Another fun myth? Bis can't be monogamous. Bi people like monogamy too. There are a lot of polyamorous people who identify as bi ALSO, though. And people confuse the two. They're separate things. Just because I like blondes and redheads doesn't mean I have to date both at once to be fulfilled. It's a difference in who you're attracted to. Not a "must have one of each" requirement.
There are other myths, but that's a start. :)
Now you've all met the mythical Unicorn. ;) My name's Heather and I'm Bisexual. We exist.
- April 7, 2009 at 12:32 PM
- Cerberus said...
@ Heather
Nooo! You must be a phantom. Musto said, there are no real bisexuals. You must be a demon from the nether realms to trick my lying eyes. Begone!
I sent him a post...does he not get that he's got the same theory of orientation as the anti-gay anti-science whackaloons?
- April 7, 2009 at 12:37 PM
- Queers United said...
I asked him if gay men are real, I told him he may just be a closeted bisexual and that gays are a phenomenon. I then proceeded to say how ridiculous that assertion was, but it was equally as stupid as his column.
- April 7, 2009 at 12:40 PM
- T. R Xands said...
Biphobia is so sad, I say this as someone who unfortunately used to engage in it. Bisexuals EXIST, I believe that sexuality isn't just "set". Trying to deny the existence of a whole group like...hey...it's like homophobia! Wow, good going Musto & friends.
- April 7, 2009 at 2:51 PM
- KipEsquire said...
That's a line straight out of Torch Song Trilogy. I suppose that makes Harvey Fierstein an anti-gay bigot too.
- April 7, 2009 at 3:06 PM
I am not bisexual (I'm gay), and I have never met anyone who said they were bisexual (most of my friends are gay/lesbian/transgendered and a handful are heterosexual. Regardless of this, bisexuality is just as valid as my sexuality. I believe we're all born with our sexuality, and no one has any right to deny us our rights just because some of us weren't born with the sexuality of the mainstream. That's my two-cents.
- April 7, 2009 at 3:09 PM
... And, I personally believe that there are more GLBTQ people in the world than the mainstream is aware of or will admit. From what I've seen (and have met), I think in reality (this includes those who are closeted, in denial, etc.) more than 50% of the world's population is GLBTQ. That's my opinion based on my experiences meeting a great deal of people around the world. And no, I don't mean sexually! :)
- April 7, 2009 at 3:14 PM
I think that trying to figure out another person is seldom a fruitful experience. As Gene Roddenberry said: We should rejoice in each other's differences.
I personally am gay but know two bisexuals. One of them initiated the dating process with me, watched me fall in love with him, then dumped me claiming that he was straight but that maybe someday he might turn gay (try to figure that one out!). In the meantime, he wanted to be friends. I freaked out, and no longer have contact with him.
The other one I've never been intimate with. We've known each other for 20 years. He is a good friend who says that he enjoys sex with men and women equally but has never fallen in love with a man, nor expects to.
So, let's not try to figure out what it means to be bisexual if we can never understand it. Let's be glad that all kinds of sexuality exist, and let's just be responsible for our actions, honest about what we want, and glad about the wonderful varieties of human sexual orientation.
- April 7, 2009 at 4:12 PM
- Word Geek said...
THIS guy is calling BISEXUALS full of shit? Please, a little irony and self awareness here, Musto!
- April 7, 2009 at 7:27 PM
- Charlie said...
I'm real and saying i'm not only leads to the confusion of being a bisexual in a world entrenched in the false gay/straight binary...
- April 7, 2009 at 11:27 PM
- WhiteDwarfStar said...
Hi, I'm a bi guy. We're here and we're queer and you WILL have to deal with it, monosexuals of the world. (Kisses and hugs to the non-haters, of course.)
What is it with the biphobia on the part of Musto, Savage, et al? Do they feel threatened? Did old boyfriends leave them for women? What?
- April 7, 2009 at 11:58 PM
- The Angry Fag said...
I actually agree with him because it is not a new stance. Dr. Ruth and, if I remember correctly Dr. Joyce Brothers as well, expressed similar opinions in their newspaper columns a few years back.
If you look at it from a relationship stance bisexuals do not exist though. They will either settle down with some one of the same sex and become homosexual or someone of the opposite sex and become heterosexual.
- April 8, 2009 at 1:47 AM
I tend to agree with Harvey Fierstein in Torch Song Triology: "I'll believe there are bisexuals when I meet one who lives with his boyfriend and sneaks out to see his girlfriend."
Studies are great but my personal experience is exactly what Musto said.
- April 8, 2009 at 4:11 AM
- Queers United said...
What several comments here are demonstrating are a failure to understand bisexuality. A monogamous bisexual (which most are) settling down with one gender, does not render them straight or gay. They are still bisexual but have chosen to be with this one partner. They are still attracted to the other sex as well.
- April 8, 2009 at 9:51 AM
Why would anyone pretend to be bisexual, when that fact is that we are less accepted and more persecuted than gays or straights?! It took me so long to figure out who I was. I suffered though the indecision of my sexuality for years! My parents always told me they'd accept me no matter who I turned out to be and when the time came that I questioned my sexuality, I was so torn! I was attracted to women, but I was just as attracted to men. I waffled for a long time. "Am I a lesbian? No, I'm attracted to that guy, I must be straight. But wait, I think I'm in love with Amanda, so I am a lesbian! (to years later) I'm in love with John, so I guess I am straight." Everyone made me think there was something wrong with me. 'You have to choose one' they said. But sexuality ISN'T a choice. It took me a long time to accept that there is such a thing as bisexuals and I was one. And still no one understands! "Well, you must lean more towards one than the other," they say. No. I don't. "You're just experimenting," they say. No. I'm not! "I guess you can't be monogamous, because you need one of each," No! I don't!
And I am shunned by the gay and lesbian community! They tell me I make a mockery of who they are! I can't talk to girls, because as soon as they find out I'm bisexual, they run away, saying I'll leave them for a man. I made a speech at my GSA club and none of them knew any of this. I even had a previously proclaimed gay man come out during the Q&A as bisexual, crying, saying he'd been hiding and saying he was gay, thinking there was something wrong with him because he liked women too.
This emotional displacement of bisexuals needs to stop and articles like this encourage the opinion that we don't belong.
- April 8, 2009 at 10:00 AM
- Steve Tabarez said...
Personally, it is clearthat though many of you advocate discourse and debate, if it does not meet with your conformity view that anyone questioning the validity of any "sexuality" not seen as heterosexual, you pounce, villify, and attach the hate-monger/intolerant moniker to. That is wrong. I think Must raises some pertinent questions, whether I agree with them or not. Many do question this term bisexuality. And what it means in the realm of committed, enduring relationships-yes, monagomy(HUSH MY MOUTH! That is so UN-QUEER). Why is it wrong to question this new sexual-fluidity term that we are being forced to embrace and include our sexual freedom lexicon and atttitude? Isn't doing that the same as acting like the religious right, authoritarian, tyrannical way of shutting down open debate? STEVE TABAREZ
- April 8, 2009 at 10:33 AM
- WhiteDwarfStar said...
"New" sexual-fluidity term? Do your homework, Steve. I swear, it's like the 1970s never happened sometimes.
My "conformity view"? Learn to write. And stop trying to kick the "B" out of "LGBT." Like it or not, bisexuals exist, and hetero bigots hate us as much as they hate gays and lesbians. It is STUPID to try to erase us.
- April 8, 2009 at 10:03 PM
- Emma said...
Ugh, there are so many things wrong with this article. Other people have mentioned most of them, but one more thing that bothers me is that he seems to think a "real" bisexual "effortlessly glides between those two dating pools without a second's thought or self-consciousness?" Seriously? OF COURSE we're self-conscious about it, when there are so many people questioning our very existence! I always feel weird talking to my straight friends about women I'm attracted to and talking to my lesbian friends about men I'm attracted to. Less so for the latter, but still, my bi friends are the only ones I feel totally un-self-conscious about telling, for instance "wow, that girl is really hot... and so is the guy she's with."
- April 9, 2009 at 1:29 AM
- The Bi Avenger said...
"Studies are great but my personal experience is exactly what Musto said."
Haha that's the best piece of stupid shit I've read all day. "Science is great and all, but when it comes down to it I don't care about actual *facts* - my personal experience trumps everything." What a fucking dumbass!
@Steve Tabarez
I don't think you understand what "queer" means. You also have no grasp of history. Go read a book.
- April 9, 2009 at 5:08 PM
Typical biphobic trash from the Village Voice and a biphobic gay man.
Yes bisexuality does exist in men. The idea that it doesn't is pure bull shite and bisexual erasure.
No, not everyone is bisexual. Also not all bisexuals are 50/50, some greatly prefer men and can pass as gay but they're not gay/homosexual.
I find it hypocritical that gay men like Musto deny bisexuality when just 20-30 years ago heterosexuals were doing the same thing to homosexuals saying that being gay was really a mental illness, the person was confused, or choosing to be homosexual, and other pure BS that heterosexual society puts upon us queers.
Also, to the person who said that a guy who likes women but just wants some dick every now and then isn't bisexual is an idiot since if a guy is heterosexual/straight he's not going to want sex with a man at all. Stop watching so much gay porn and reading erotic fiction.
I just enjoyed a bisexual man last week: A hot masculine divorced hockey dad who likes a little mansex during off times with his gf. He can suck dick as well as he can lick pussy, and (extra points) he kisses like a Cassanova. I'll take his type anyday over a tattooed, pierced, goateed, or primped gay-ghetto denizen.
- April 9, 2009 at 5:26 PM
I wrote him a nice message. Using his "voice" to destroy those who are struggling to be heard is not a funny thing.
- April 10, 2009 at 3:12 PM
I believe Mark Simpson said it best:
"Fear and loathing of male bisexuality is something tends to bring heterosexuals and homosexuals together. Instead of pondering the possibility that public attitudes towards male bisexuality are a truer, less censored indication of what many people actually feel about male homosexuality in general and its enforced incompatibility with masculinity, gay men too often rush to condemn bisexual men and reassure heterosexuals: don't worry, you're not being homophobic when mouthing off about bisexual men coz we hate them too!"
- April 12, 2009 at 7:12 PM
- Dae said...
WTF?!!! this is absolutely absurd!!! i wonder what he would think of pansexuals...which is what i am!
- April 14, 2009 at 10:35 PM
He probably doesn't even know that pansexuals exist nonetheless that a pretty great percentage of "straight" people have had bisexual tendencies once in their lives. What a shame.
- April 29, 2009 at 4:49 PM
well they must be real since so many people claim to be bi....but all the bisexuals i've slept with ( we're talking men of course cuz women are a completely deifferent subject) claimed they'd rather suck dick then lick a pussy and it's my test if you don't crave pussy if you don't get arouse by it don't want to do to it all the nasty things that a gayman would do to a huge cock....then i think you're gay and just saying you bi to...well i don't know why that's their problem....
but funny thing is that most of bi men i've slept with have never had a relation ship with a guy and don't really want one but they do want to be in a relationship with a woman though...but they don't crave her pussy they just love her for??...who she is i guess.....
basically with men it's simple and i think deep down inside all bi men are really gay but they're so afraid of it that they've convinced themselves that they like girls and they do!....just in a different way....so i guess they're real
- September 24, 2009 at 10:18 AM
Your all idiots. True bisexuality means being equally attracted to both sexes. Look it up. Even the actual research states this. Which is why bisexual is still a controversial topic.
- October 6, 2009 at 10:45 PM
Forget the bisexuality debate (BISEXUALS EXIST, and I much prefer them to gay men for several reasons- one being that I'm a transman, the other being I prefer very masculine men [and I haven't met many gay men who are like that IRL]), I dislike the implication here that a gay man really isn't gay if he isn't either camp or a club kid.
Which puts my metalhead, academically involved ass in the "straight" pile, even though I don't have romatic/sexual feelings for women.
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I come from a family of teachers (two uncles and an aunt), married a teacher and both my brother, daughter and myself have been trainers in our particularly fields. So teaching is in the blood there somewhere. My husband taught physics, and quickly found that to admit to this fact brought to an end any social conversation.
I did toy with the idea of becoming a teacher myself, but my Aunt Edith (right) put me off. She won a scholarship to Fleetwood Grammar School, riding the four miles on her bike in all weathers. She became a teacher at Burn Naze School in Thornton Clevelys (a poor area of town in the 1920's and 30's) and had a keen memory for past pupils (particularly black sheep) and humorous incidents such as excuse notes, written for absences. Unfortunately her memorabilia from her teaching days must have been thrown out at some stage as I never came across it following her death - such a pity.
Here is my first school photograph from the 1950's.
I counted a class of 46 - double today's standard for class size! We sat in serried rows of battered individual desks with inkwells, and I remember chanting our times tables, copying handwriting, the hated mental arithmetic sessions which I dreaded, and of course reading which I loved.
Playing the triangle in my infant school percussion group is one of my earliest school memo.ries. I was not too pleased at being given this instrument. Like everyone else, I wanted the favourite choice - the sleigh bells.
Eve Wednesday afternoon we gathered in the hall for community singing and I learnt such patriotic songs as The British Grenadiers, Hearts of Oak, The Bonnie Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomond, Bluebells of Scotland and my favourite Men of Harlech, sung with much gusto. Sea shanties were also popular as we swung from side to side to sing What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor? Are these now all forgotten, as I doubt that children are familiar with them today?
I liked Miss Jones (Latin). Unusually for me, one day I was brave enough to write on the blackboard the jingle "Latin is a language as dead as dead can be. It killed off all the Romans and now it's killing me!" Fortunately when she walked into the classroom she saw the humorous side of it.
Miss Mutch (German) scared me. She was from the Shetland Isles, bit of a bean pole, with cropped grey hair and given to wearing viyella checked blouses and v-necked pullovers. She was burdened with the schoolgirl ditty of "If you miss Miss Mutch, you don't miss much". I felt doomed from my first German lesson when my attempt (in front of the class) to pronounce a lovely German "Ich" came out as "Ick". Still I persevered. She was a good teacher, her lessons stuck with me, and I can still get-by in tourist German when abroad.
I feel I went through education at the best of times, inspired by some dedicated teachers. School days were happy days.


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House says concealed carry licenses from other states OK in Oregonh/t NRA-ILA, via SNW.
Published: Monday, March 21, 2011, 5:19 PM
The Oregon House voted Monday to throw out the welcome mat for out-of-state visitors packing heat and concealed weapons permits.
On a vote of 40 to 17, the chamber approved a bill that would allow people who have permits from other states to carry concealed guns while visiting Oregon.
Two former law enforcement agents Democratic Rep. Jeff Barker, D-Aloha, and Republican Rep. Wayne Krieger, R-Gold Beach carried the bill, which now goes to the Senate for approval.
Currently, Oregon doesn't recognize licenses issued by any other state, though a license from this state is honored in just over a dozen others.
This is the second piece of legislation concerning concealed handguns to pass through the House in a week. A bill blocking the release of information about who carries concealed weapons passed on Thursday by slightly larger margins.
While the law is aimed at license holders from other states, it could also potentially open the door to reciprocity with some 37 states in all, said Krieger. Oregon handgun owners, concealed carry, are receiving a definite benefit, he said.
Only one representative spoke against the legislation, Mary Nolan, a Democrat from Portland.
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Now it goes to the senate...
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Looking to get more popular on Facebook? Alex Melen will sell you 1,000 "likes" for about $75.
Melen runs an Internet marketing company. About six months ago, companies he worked with started coming to him more and more with a simple problem: They had created pages on Facebook, but nobody had clicked the "like" button.
"You would go there, and there would be two likes," Melen says. "And one of them would be the owner. And people right away lost interest in the brand."
For the right price, Melen can fix that.
Facebook knows an incredible amount about hundreds of millions of people — what they like, what they want, who their friends are, where they live. This is the key reason why investors think the company is so valuable. But that value only holds up if the data is real — if all those people actually like what they say they like.
When Melen sells likes to a company, he goes through an intermediary, who in turn could be working with people anywhere in the world. The people on the other end are just doing it for money. They get paid a very small amount — 10 cents, say — each time they like a company.
"Right now on the black market, you can actually buy and sell bundles of Facebook account credentials," says Ben Zhao, a computer science professor at UC Santa Barbara. "Tens of dollars or hundreds of dollars for hundreds or thousands of Facebook accounts."
In some cases, there are no people involved at all. Those fake accounts are controlled by robots and create fake data. (Melen says all his likers are real people.)
The people who pay Melen for likes range from an LED light bulb company to a publicity company for a reality show.
The show had 95,000 Facebook fans already, but it wanted about 25,000 more. These likes really matter to television networks, which sell advertising based in part on the number of likes they have.
Facebook knows this sort of thing is going on. And the company has created an elaborate system to root out bad data. It has social bot hunters whose job is to track down fake Facebook profiles and kick them off the network. But it's still happening.
Another company that sells likes showed us a Nashville country singer who was a client. She had a lot of likes — mostly from Egypt.
Facebook's resume has some impressive stats: 901 million active users, 3.2 billion likes a day, 125 billion friendships. And for those stats, they're selling this week as the company goes public.
NPR's Steve Henn and Zoe Chace of Planet Money report on one downside to numbers that big.
STEVE HENN, BYLINE: The reason Facebook is so precious right now is they have this great story. It goes like this. They have 900 million users.
CHRIS DELLAROCAS: These people have revealed their personalities, their interests, their desires, their passions - everything.
HENN: That's economist Chris Dellarocas. He studies social networks at Boston University. Facebook sells ads against all the data they have, and that's their main revenue stream. But Dellarocas says Facebook could do more.
DELLAROCAS: This is, in some ways, a blueprint of our global society.
HENN: Facebook could help businesses to find employees. Intelligence analysts could use it to predict revolutions. But these ideas only work if this data is real and reliable, if this blueprint Facebook has created is accurate.
ZOE CHACE, BYLINE: Yeah. The more valuable the data gets, the bigger the incentive to mess with it, to rig the game. I want to introduce you to someone that's using Facebook a little differently from what Dellarocas imagines.
So you sell Facebook likes to your clients.
ALEX MELEN: Yes. We could make you the Facebook page. We make you a Facebook design. We could get you the friends. So kind of the full spectrum.
CHACE: Welcome to the warehouse district of Little Ferry, New Jersey. Right above the loading dock, I found Alex Melen. He runs Melen LLC. It's an internet marketing company. And he provides Facebook likes to people and companies for about $75 per 1,000 likes.
HENN: Liking something on Facebook means you're a fan. It lets a company talk to you. So clicking that little blue thumbs up actually has value. This company supplies likes for cash. It sells them. So I go in and I say, I want 200 likes. How much?
CHACE: Right. And when you go in, it's exactly what you'd expect. About 10 guys, computers, beer cans, Red Bull, iced coffees. The oldest one there is Melen. He's 28.
CHACE: He started the social part of the business six months ago. Companies he worked with were coming to him more and more with this simple problem. They'd create this Facebook page and then they wouldn't get any friends.
MELEN: You would go there, and there'd be like two likes, and one of them would be the owner. And people right away lost interest in the brand.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: (Unintelligible)
MATT PREPIS: 1000 targeted Facebook Likes.
CHACE: This is Matt Prepis. He runs the part of the company that deals with Facebook likes. He's checking his email.
PREPIS: They sell LED light bulbs. They currently have 77 fans, and they would like some more.
CHACE: The LED company wants U.S.-based likers. Melen charges a premium for that.
MELEN: And once we find a supplier that says OK, I have the--2,000 likes or 5,000 likes or whatever the client ordered, we just place the order with that network, and then they fulfill it.
CHACE: So who is it that's actually clicking the like button for cash?
PREPIS: Danny Longshanks, Camel Love, Vida, Elvis Adon, Bruce Buffalo...
CHACE: Well, it's people from all over the world who are found on work-from-home sites.
PREPIS: And if they get paid 10 cents per like, then they like it. You know, even 500, the over month total. You're making $50 a month that probably took them, in total, maybe 20 minutes to do.
HENN: Or these Likers might not be people at all. Ben Zhao is a computer science professor at UC, Santa Barbara. He says there are much cheaper ways to get a supply of likes - social bots. These are fake people controlled by a computer. Or you can buy compromised accounts.
BEN ZHAO: Right now on the black market, you can actually buy and sell bundles of Facebook account credentials, tens of dollars or hundreds of dollars for hundreds of thousands of Facebook accounts.
HENN: And those fake accounts create fake data.
CHACE: Melen says all his likers are real people. And it's not just LED light bulb companies who want them. He told me about a publicity company for a reality show - a major network with a major star. They had 95,000 Facebook fans already. They wanted about 25,000 more to click like. These likes really matter to television networks because they sell advertising based on the amount of likes they have.
Originally, Melen was making a couple thousand a month with this service. Now, he says it's much more.
MELEN: Especially with the launch of Facebook Timeline, which has been pushing having that number right on your page. As soon as you go to someone's page, you see that number right there. And as soon as that started rolling around, we've got more and more clients that kind of want to have that bigger number.
HENN: This is not what Facebook intended when it launched its new layout.
CHACE: No. Facebook's entire premise is that they have an authentic social graph, made up of real people with genuine interests. Paying for likes screws that up. And there's quite a few businesses out there selling stuff like this.
HENN: Now, Facebook knows this is going on, and they've created an elaborate system to root out bad data. But some of it is still in there.
CHACE: For example, one company that sells likes showed me this Nashville country singer who was a client. She had a lot of likes. But then I check what city the fans are from, and they were primarily from Cairo.
HENN: Egypt. Now, data, good data, is what makes Facebook so valuable. That's what's convinced investors this company could be worth $100 billion.
CHACE: That price tag also creates another incentive. It now pays to mess with Facebook. I'm Zoe Chace in New York.
HENN: Steve Henn, NPR News, Silicon Valley. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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It's no secret that every NASCAR driver has a handful of tracks that they love going to each season. Jimmie Johnson, for example, must salivate every time that Charlotte, Dover or Martinsville come up on the schedule. And what about some of the other big-name drivers? Where does Dale Earnhardt Jr. run the best? And what track does Carl Edwards always have circled on his calendar? Let's take a look.
Carl Edwards, Homestead-Miami Speedway
Edwards' best track on the schedule is the season-ending race in Homestead-Miami.
In nine career races at the mile-and-a-half racetrack, Edwards has posted seven top-10 finishes, with five of those ending up in the top five.
The 560 laps that Edwards has led during his Homestead career are the most in the track's history.
Clint Bowyer, Sonoma Raceway
While most people would guess that Bowyer's best track is either New Hampshire or Richmond, he has statistically been the best on the road course of Sonoma.
In eight career starts, Bowyer has posted one win and finished in the top 10 on six occasions. Bowyer has an average finish of 9.1 on the road course and has completed all 887 laps that have been run there during his career.
Though he has posted multiple wins at both New Hampshire and Richmond, he has only posted a top-10 finish in 15 of the 30 races that he has run there combined.
Kevin Harvick, Chicagoland Speedway
Kevin Harvick won the first two races at Chicagoland Speedway and has continued to run strong there ever since. Of his seven career Chicagoland top-10 finishes, six of them resulted in a top five.
Only two other drivers, Johnson and Tony Stewart, have posted more top-10 finishes in Chicago than Harvick. His average finish of 10.5 also is third-best among drivers who have started at least eight races at the speedway.
Jeff Gordon, Sonoma Raceway
Darlington, Indianapolis and Martinsville are just a handful of tracks that Gordon has won at least four races at and posted a top-10 finish in more than half of his career starts on. But ultimately it was his Sonoma dominance that earned it as Gordon's favorite track.
Other than Tony Stewart, who has two wins on the track, Gordon is the only driver with multiple victories in wine country. In 21 career starts at the tricky road course, Gordon has amassed five victories, including three straight from 1998 through 2000. He has posted 17 top-10 finishes and even won the pole for five of the races.
Brad Keselowski, Talladega Superspeedway
Keselowski's first career win came in his first start at Talladega Superspeedway. It was a finish that saw Carl Edwards' car nearly end up in the grandstands, and third-place finisher Ryan Newman had the whole front end of his race car nearly torn off.
Since that race in early 2009, Keselowski has scored a second win on the 2.66-mile track. He also has posted six top-10 finishes in nine career starts, and has led at least one lap in all but one of his appearances there.
Dale Earnhardt Jr., Daytona International Speedway
If you were to think just in terms of recent history, you might assume that Michigan would be Earnhardt's favorite track. But over the course of his career, Earnhardt has become a restrictor-plate master.
Earnhardt's only two wins driving for Rick Hendrick have come at Michigan. The first came in 2008 and the second was last year. However, in his Michigan career Earnhardt has posted just 10 top-10 finishes in his 28 career races. In the same number of starts at Daytona, he has posted 10 top-five finishes, out of a total of 16 top 10s.
Jimmie Johnson, Martinsville Speedway
You could make a case for most of the tracks on the Sprint Cup Series schedule as being a favorite of Johnson's. But the five-time series champion has been dominant at Martinsville more than any other track.
In 23 career starts at the paperclip-shaped oval, Johnson has posted eight wins. He has failed to post a top-10 finish in only three of those events, and 16 times he ended his day inside the top five.
Johnson also has been particularly strong at Charlotte and Dover over the course of his career, with 13 wins combined between the two. He swept the races in Charlotte in both 2004 and 2005, but has scored just one win at the facility since. In 23 races at Dover, Johnson has averaged a ninth-place finish which is bested by only his average finish at Phoenix, and of course Martinsville.
NASCARRundown: Playing favorites - Identifying NASCAR superstars' favorite tracks
It's no secret that every NASCAR driver has a handful of tracks that they love going to each season. Jimmie Johnson, for example, must salivate every time that Charlotte, Dover or Martinsville come up on the schedule. And what about some of the other big-name drivers? Where does Dale Earnhardt Jr. run the best? And what track does Carl Edwards always have circled on his calendar? Let's take a look.


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Dear Santa,
10. I want my cold to go away. I'm sick of being sick. And thank you to everyone who suggested I use the neti pot, but there is no way on earth that I am going to purposely pour water up my nose thankyouverymuch. I try to avoid getting water in my nose while swimming so I'm sure not going to drown myself on purpose.
9. I thought about asking for peace on earth, but I think we can all agree that's a pretty tall order. Instead, I'm asking for peace in my house. Just one glorious day of peace, really. Just a couple hours of peace would be nice. Ok, just enough peace for me to finish this blog post.
8. I want to be a size 4. OK a 6. OK, I just want to fit my butt back into the clothes I wore before I ever got pregnant with Austin. I will accept gift cards for liposuction. I'm not above plastic surgery.
7. I want Alice. How nice would it be to have someone to cook dinner every night and to do the laundry and help fix things when your middle daughter, not wanting to look "positively goofy," refuses to wear her glasses and rides her bike into a picture.
6. I want 2 more hours in my day. Wait, that's still not enough time. I want 4, no 6, no make that 8 more hours in my day. Yes, I want an additional 8 hours of time every day. Hmmm, can the school day last an extra 8 hours too?
5. I want to be done changing diapers. I've been changing diapers for more than 14 years straight! I've had at least one, sometimes 2 and even 3, kids in diapers for more than 14 years. Enough is enough. No more diapers! Just say no to diapers!
4. I want a new set of measuring spoons because Joe keeps grinding mine up in the garbage disposal since he doesn't check to make sure nothing is in there before running it! I mean, really! Duh! He's obliterated nearly every measuring spoon (and a fair number of cake decorating tips too!) I own. And no, it is not my fault for leaving them lying around in the sink. Absolutely not.
3. A pair of Dansko or Sanita clogs in every color and pattern. Size 38 please. Thanks to my readers who got me hooked on these. I love my shoes!
2. A full 8 hours of sleep without being kicked in the butt or the face by toddler feet.
1. I'd like a do-over on my life from ages 18-22. Although if I had a do-over, I probably wouldn't be here in this same position today. Hmmm, I'd miss my kids. But if I'd never had them, then I wouldn't miss them because I wouldn't know they ever existed. But what if I had a do-over and I screwed things up even worse than I did the first time around? Then I'd be stuck and I'd have to kick myself for thinking the grass is greener. But maybe my life would be spectacularly fulfilled if I could do things over. OK, so my final answer is - I want a do-over with the option of undoing what I undid.
If that's too much for Santa to handle, then I'll just take a new manicure set because for some unknown reason, my kids have swiped every clipper, pair of scissors, file, and cuticle pusher thingy out of mine. They insist they didn't do it, so I suppose it's possible they disappeared into the mysterious "single sock" black hole, but I'm doubtful.
Thank you Santa.
Oh P.S. I'm sorry I ate the cookies the kids left out for you. But don't worry because I washed them down with a glass of wine so the milk is still here for you to drink.


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Sorry for the obstruction of the watermarking...but a girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do. Someone mentioned the coding to prevent "right clicking" but a person can steal the pics from "View Source" or screenshots...so this will have to do for now.
Product: 4 out of 5
Packaging: 3 out of 5
Overall: 4 out of 5
Price: $8, Walgreens and other drugstores
Color Tested: "Plush"
Would I buy it again? Yes because the product is awesome, but No because I hate potted lipglosses. :)
The L'Oreal HIP Line is growing and is definitely catching a huge audience with their new products and pigmented colors. They recently added a new product to the line- their Jelly Balms, which I compare as a decent dupe to the MAC Tendertones.
First of all, I personally am not a fan of "balms", or potted glosses where you have to stick either a lip brush or your finger in...hence I passed on the Tendertones from MAC simply because I know that if I DID buy it, it would end up in my junk drawer because I would never use it.
But lo and behold, I walk into Walgreens (my second home, lol), and saw these new jelly lip pots from L'Oreal. They come in a wide range of sheer, yummy looking colors, I got a sheer baby pink color called "Plush". I immediately thought of the Tendertones as soon as I saw these.
So how do they compare? Well even though I don't own any of the Tendertones, I have tried them, and they are a bit sticky (just as I expected) and since I always have my hair down, me and sticky don't go together. However, it's not TOO sticky, so I can live with it for the most part, and I DO love how they have different ranges of sheer color in the Tendertones. The L'Oreal Jelly Balms are an awesome dupe of the MAC Tendertones, they feel about the same in terms of texture and consistency except they are NOT as sticky to me and of course they too feel moisturizing on the lips, so there is no noticeable difference among the two. The color is also sheer with a touch of pink, and they both come in pots and smell awesome! This jelly balm smells and tastes like cotton candy. I would say the only difference is that the MAC Tendertones seem to have a bit more product in it than the Jelly Balms BUT it could also be the jar just making it look like there is more.
Also, the Tendertones are $14.50, whereas the Jelly Balms are a reasonable $8.
Overall? Whether you are a MAC addict or not, these Jelly Balms are hard to pass up!
With MAC's "Myth" lipstick as base:
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L'Oreal HIP Jelly Balm vs. MAC Tendertones
Sorry for the obstruction of the watermarking...but a girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do. Someone mentioned the coding to prevent "right clicking" but a person can steal the pics from "View Source" or screenshots...so this will have to do for now.
31 comments
- Kimberly said...
the hip line is buy one get one free this week.. did you get anything else? :)
- June 25, 2008 at 10:13 PM
- ilurvemakeup said...
I waaaaaant!!!
- June 25, 2008 at 10:36 PM
- Christiana Divine @ Memoirs of A Shopping Addict said...
oOo. i really like the color you got too. :) may have to check these out someday... no time soon because i'm on a no buy. LOL. :)
- June 25, 2008 at 10:42 PM
- Vanessa said...
Hi Kimberly- No I got these last week actually, that's how long it takes me to review things, LOL. So I probably missed the lil sale at Walgreens...darn it!
- June 25, 2008 at 10:56 PM
- Anonymous said...
i hate dipping my fingers inside pots of balms too! so gross!
i love the color on you! you have super juicy lips! thats in a non-lesbian way! LOL
ps: i just wrote down a HUGE list of "NYX / WHAT TO BUY" and i used your hauls and reviews as basis. :) thanks! your blog has been and always be my inspiration! :)
- June 25, 2008 at 11:11 PM
- Katrina said...
Good job on the water marks!
Very smart move. I saw other pictures from this 'stealer' from a YouTuber and asked teh YouTuber if she knew this 'stealer' and she said no and is thankful to know because it was rinsing her bandwith.
Love the review as always.
- June 25, 2008 at 11:18 PM
- christy. said...
Oooh I definately have to check these out now! :) Do they smell?
- June 25, 2008 at 11:23 PM
- Makeupguru said...
how do i add you to my blog?
- June 26, 2008 at 12:48 AM
- Nic Nic said...
Man, I wish L'Oreal Hip line was available here! lol
Anyway the balm looks really pretty on you, there's just enough hint of a color :D
- June 26, 2008 at 4:42 AM
- rmcandlelight said...
Yes, I saw these in Walgreens last week and was debating to try one. I walked away but this week I went back and they have buy 1 get 1 free. I did purchase the plush jelly balm and loreal hip also have 5 new duo eyeshadows in metal metallics. I got all of them. I love them. Can't wait for your review on these.
- June 26, 2008 at 5:37 AM
- MakeupByRenRen said...
i'm actually a potted balm girl, lol...and i've been kinda paranoid b/c i used my tendertones like 8-10 times a day...this is definitely a good backup especially since it's buy one get one free...and it's even cheapter than the MAC one with my discount!
- June 26, 2008 at 6:27 AM
- Anonymous said...
My friend would love these but I have to agree with some of the other people. They strike my as icky, and they always seem to melt all over my dresser.
- June 26, 2008 at 7:42 AM
- Aswathy said...
The color you got is defintly great. It looks just the perfect pick.
- June 26, 2008 at 7:50 AM
- Askmewhats said...
this looks great! i guess L'oreal is really coming out with great products and good dupes !!! Love your review and you're so cute with watermarking! LOL its the right thing to do
- June 26, 2008 at 7:59 AM
- Kimberly said...
Aww if it was only the week prior I'm sure they'll let you return it, buy it again and get the free one.. That way you can try a bolder color ;)
- June 26, 2008 at 8:45 AM
- Ethereal Prey said...
wow the HIP line is expanding! So Sexy! but does it have spf in it?
- June 26, 2008 at 8:52 AM
- Vanessa said...
Kimberly- I should just go back and get 2 more colors! LOL, maybe other HIP items I haven't tried...
Ethereal Prey- Nope sadly no SPF... :(
- June 26, 2008 at 8:56 AM
- Thushaa said...
It looks so pretty! I hate the fact that all of these things come out almost a year or so later in Canada. I have yet to come across the L'Oreal Decrease and the gel liners!
- June 26, 2008 at 9:23 AM
- Alyssa said...
Oh, I can use this one... woo hoo~ I have to be very careful with products with SPF. I'm so glad this one doesn't have it, because I couldn't get the one from MAC. I need to check out Walgreens.
- June 26, 2008 at 11:12 AM
- Gee said...
I don't like potted glosses either!! Great review though for those looking for an alternative!
It's a shame that girl stole your pics and now you're forced to watermark like crazy!!
- June 26, 2008 at 11:13 AM
- xoxo Jaimie said...
I can't stand potted lip glosses either! i just wanna be able to slick it on lol. And I'm digging the watermarks on your pictures. They don't detract from what you're showing but its gonna make it harder for people to take it now.
- June 26, 2008 at 11:48 AM
- Anonymous said...
ooo the color is really pretty!
btw, i think it's better that you have the watermarks on the images because even if you disable right-clicking, they can still press PrntScrn, copy, paste, crop the picture & edit it..
- June 26, 2008 at 1:20 PM
- The Home Spa Goddess said...
I want these so bad. I'm a HiP junkie and I'm always on the lookout for new HiP. They are BOGO at Walgreens this week. You can get all of the colors for only $30. A great deal.
Also, the right click thing dosen't work on Mac computers anyway.
- June 26, 2008 at 3:03 PM
- Anonymous said...
Nessa, I had the same feelings about the Tendertones, but now that I have 2, I cannot believe that my lips lived without them. Whoa-wee, my lips are super soft and supple!!
- June 26, 2008 at 3:04 PM
- Anonymous said...
You can right click on Macs. Hold down "Ctrl" key and Mouse Button. You will see the option like on a Windows OS computer.
- June 26, 2008 at 3:46 PM
- yummy411 said...
can't wait to see these in my local store!! i'm not the potted balm type of girl either! but yuuummm! thanks for the heads up!
- June 26, 2008 at 6:35 PM
- ' * : . b | u 3 . : * ' said...
wow the HIP line keeps coming out with more and more MAC dupes....I just wish they'd hurry up and release the stuff in Canada too! the only HIP stuff we have so far are the eyeshadows, pigment and shadestick dupes.
- June 26, 2008 at 7:53 PM
- Maria said...
woow it looked really pretty on your lips, especially you applied myth before.. looked very natural but sexy!! too bad it's not available in here.. :(
- June 26, 2008 at 9:49 PM
- Nanzy said...
Ohh pretty! I haven't seen it around here in Hawai'i. grrrr
- June 27, 2008 at 5:13 AM
- IchigoBunnie said...
wow...Loreal is really duping everything from MAC.
and I agree...I dun really like pot-type packaging because it's a hassle and messier to dip with your fingers than to be able to use the product straight from the applicator.
despite that this is more affordable version of the Tendertones, $8 seems steep to pay for balms since lipglosses with full pigments already cost that much (or maybe it's because I'm way too cheap XDD!). Too bad they didn't put more pigment in--I think these jelly balms would be more worth it for that drugstore price. But it does look pretty though :3
thank you so much for reviewing Vanessa! :)
- June 27, 2008 at 11:50 AM
- (g)ezebel said...
potted lip glosses/balms = lipstick brush = pain in the butt.
i loooove the bare one without the base. so very pretty and natural.
- June 27, 2008 at 1:38 PM


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Monday, June 23, 2008
(sort of) Sunday Sound Out
all these cool sites/blogs everyone is posting is soo going to get me in trouble. How am I supposed to get anything done around the house with all these new blogs to visit??
You're not! That's the beauty of it.
Now a question for SSO: Did you nurse all of your children and for how long?
Yep, I nursed them all for varying lengths of time. Brooklyn was the longest at 15 months.
Hey! You should do a blog on regional lingo. My mother-in-law is from New York and says "stand on line" as opposed to "stand in line". She also says "pocketbook" as opposed to "purse".
ROFL! My good friend Denise lives on Long Island and when we were in Minnesota a couple months ago, she said to our waitress, "I'd like a seltzah with lemon."
The waitress asked, "What?"
"A seltzah with lemon, please."
The waitress looked thoroughly confused and looked to the rest of us for clarification. Unfortunately we were just as stumped as she was.
"A seltzah! Seltzah!" Denise couldn't figure out why no one knew what the heck she was talking about.
"Ohhhh. I think she wants a seltzer. Is that right, Denise?"
"What's seltzer? Is that like soda?"
It was pretty funny, wasn't it Denise? ;) LOL!
(Then she reached into her pocketbook to pay for it.)
SSO question: Does Jackson not like getting his hair cut or is it you that likes it long? I noticed your other boys have their hair short and he's the only one who doesn't.
I have no idea. He wants it long. Whatever. It's just hair which is certainly not worth fighting about in my opinion. I'm just going to start calling him Jackie.
Question for the next SSO: What bizarre things have you said to your kids that you never would have imagined the need to say? For example, we have been heard telling our 2 1/2 year old: "A sock is not a tissue," "No eating snow/ice that's been on the ground for five days!" and "Toothpaste does not go in your eye!"
Here's a list of a few things.
One other Q: Are you a member of the Fiengold Program and if so do you think that it is worth the almost $100 a year?
I am. I'm not sure if it's worth it though. I like that Feingold takes the guesswork out of figuring out what products/brands have artificial ingredients, but you can just read labels to figure out the same thing. However, as Feingold points out, some artificial ingredients are kinda hidden in food because manufacturers don't necessarily list every thing on the label. The actual product names in the Feingold book are products that they've researched. You can also use their message boards to get recipes, ask questions, and get support and answers from other members.
Wow all 6 to the dentist at the same time?? What were you thinking?
Clearly, I wasn't.
I have to say that baby over on the right with the chocolate all over it's face just cracks me up, is that one of yours???
LOL Yep, that's Brooklyn.
Is it bad that I'm giggling as I'm picturing you with the six kids at the dentist on a conference call? Really, I wish you luck (which reminds me that I need to call my dentist tomorrow to schedule a check up, thanks!).Shall I assume that you've officially started back on the Feingold diet?
No, it's good that you're giggling. I love when my misery can make others laugh. ;)
And oh yeah, we're back to the diet!
I'm sorry for the rough day! Will Jackson resist going back on the diet now that he's had a little taste of "freedom"? Or does he see the changes in himself and want to get back to feeling calmer?
He's resisting despite the fact that he knows it helps him out. It's tough. I rarely buy anything off the diet to have in the house. I cook the same way for all of us. But then the other kids complain that they don't get junk food because of Jackson and why are they getting punished. If I let them have something off the diet, then Jackson gets upset that they get something that he can't have. I try really hard to make additive-free alternatives to whatever they crave. If they want Twinkies, for example, I make sponge cake and cream filling from scratch for them. Still, it's tough. We really stick to the diet at home, but I let the other kids have contraband goodies if they're out without Jackson.
Are there any summer camps in your town. We have several day summer camps that the rec center puts on. It would give you a "break" from some of the kids and it's educational too.
That's true and we do have several camps and activities I could sign them up for. Last year I put them in summer school for the first time ever. Honestly though, I actually do like having our days free so we can just pick up and go someplace and do something fun whenever we want. I don't like getting up and going early in the morning. Besides, if I sign one kid up for a camp, I have to sign them all up and it gets pretty pricey to do that.
P.s. Box there yet? Jenn T.
Yes! And I couldn't find what I did with your email to thank you. (This woman, Jenn, sent my kids a box of information and goodies all the way from Alaska. And check this out - Jenn not only lost 83 pounds (which is an amazing feat in itself!), but she competed in her first triathlon in May. Not only did she compete, but she crossed the finish line in only 87 minutes! Inspiring, no?)
Thank you Jenn!
Austin sounds like a hoot. Does he keep the other kids in stitches? No, he's usually the kind of guy who can't walk down the hall without reaching out and slapping a passing sibling. Then, when I yell "Austin!", he looks at me with mock innocence and says, "What? What did I do? I was just walking down the hall!"
So this comment has nothing to do with your post but… I read this article in the Trib and thought of you. Algonquin and Lockport are both getting a Sonic. http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-thu-sonic-jun19,0,6796223.story
Woo Hoo! They're building them in Country Club Hills and Aurora too! Yay!
Okay, that running narrative is pretty freaking funny! Go Austin :) Keep being strange. You'll be a wonderful adult who thinks outside the box someday.
Ha! Outside the box, you say? In kindergarten, Austin came home with a paper that had a picture of a dog, a cat, a fish, and a table. It read, "Circle the one that does not belong." He had circled the fish. I asked him why he circled the fish. It was clearly the table that didn't belong. He looked at me like I was stupid and said, "a fish doesn't have four legs." And so it began.
Given that finances play the largest role in determining where you live, have you guys considered moving now that your writing career is off to a successful start? I'm sure any day now the older two kids will be dying for space of their own. P.S. Your house always looks great in pics-better than mine and all I have is a husband and two dogs!
I think we'd have to get divorced first as I want to live someplace warm and very close to the ocean. Joe, on the other hand, would be content in the snowy mountains. And thank you, but nope, my house if pretty much ALWAYS messy!
Question -Do you still sell on ebay as that is how I first heard of your blog.And if so, what is your selling name now - just so I can have a good laugh....(in the nicest sense!) :)
I haven't sold anything in a long time. I have a few things to sell right now, but I just haven't found the time to list them. My ID is the same one I've always used - dawnm5723.
Hi Dawn, I am typing to you right now from Joliet, as we have traveled all the way from Calif. to visit my in-laws...We passed the sign for the Brookfield Zoo, so I know you can't be far from here. We may take my niece and nephew there tomorrow.
I took my kids there on Friday too! Did you hear Brooklyn screaming and me yelling at Jackson while you were there?
Wow Dawn, I just noticed the time you posted. Do you ever sleep?
Not nearly enough. I miss sleep.
I love your blog and am a faithful reader! Can I please copy and paste your friend's cancer videos and petion into my blog (as well as your intro to this piece? I would love to help get word out. Of course I will give you credit link back to your blog.
Absolutely!!!!!!! I should have written that. Everyone, please feel free to copy the videos and pass them on!
How come the search that deal with "body functions" lead to your blog?
Maybe because bodily functions and kids go hand in hand. Or perhaps it's because I've been changing diapers for almost 14 years straight.
(Just wait until I'm a bit older and need a colonoscopy!)
Dawn, sorry the second zoo trip wasn't quite as ... calm? as the first one. It always seems to happen that way, doesn't it? I must say that I admire your restraint, as I probably would have turned around and not gone to the zoo if little cartridges were flying around my car. Again, I'm a mean mommy!
Yeah, I was tempted to do just that, but then it would have punished all my other kids who were behaving and it would have ticked off my sister who was meeting us there, you know?
I love the pictures. Thanks for posting. My apologies if you've answered this a dozen times, but how do you attach the photos? Do you upload to photobucket or a similar site? (Maybe you just tape them to your monitor?)
I'm not sure I understand. I just click the little icon that looks like a picture and then insert them.
now that you mentioned your sister, i wonder how your family (parents, siblings) reacted to your pregnancies and you having a big(ger) family?
They think I'm crazy.
The little bit we can see of your sisters face bears a strong resemblance to your own.
Yep - add 3 inches to my height and take 50 pounds off her weight and we're the spitting image of each other.
Where are Lexi's glasses? And did she get a hair cut? She looks really grown up! I didn't recognize her at first.
Wow! Good eyes! I'm impressed. She "forgot" her glasses that day and I didn't realize she didn't have them until we got to the zoo. If you look really closely at the picture of her on the leatherback turtle, you can see that her eyes are a little crossed. That's what happens when she doesn't wear her glasses even though she insists she can see without them.
And yep, she got her hair cut short. It's cute and I don't have to fight with her to comb out all her tangles anymore!
And thank you for all your suggestions of pastry/alcohol combinations! Who knew there were so many of ua who think about reaching for cookies and beer after a stressful day!
Frozen Girl Scout cookies go fine with a good Merlot.
Beer and Cookies... Works for me!
I think the beer and cookie thing is an nice start. Now, have it served in Hawaii by a young, shirtless man that has a striking resemblance to Johnny Depp and you've got yourself a party!
I have had beer and cookies days, and I only have two kids.
Beer and chocolate chip cookies right now.
yes. beer and cookies go together. go for it! although i prefer bailey's and ice cream. :)
Chocolate chip cookies go with anything
Of course beer and chocolate chip cookies go together! I'm surprised you haven't tried that combo before.
I think cookies and baileys definitely sounds like a better mix than beer.
How about Baileys and chocolate chip cookies? I have a great recipe for Kaluha brownies too.
I'm pretty sure any combination of alcohol and junk food go together at the end of that kind of day. Or for lunch on that day...
Oatmeal Cookie recipe serve in Old-Fashioned Glass1/2 oz Grand Marnier® orange liqueur1/2 oz butterscotch schnapps1/2 oz Bailey's® Irish cream
Beer and chocolate chip cookies sounds like a party to me.
Hard liquor sounds better than beer. after a day like that... Hit the bag of chocolet chips, skip the cookies all together... and than have a few shots.
Posted by Dawn at 10:51 PM
30 comments:
- Kalynne Pudner said...
May I please have the contact info for the author of the last "beer and cookies" suggestion in your post? I think we're soul sisters.
- June 24, 2008 at 1:13 AM
Hi Dawn!! I really love your blog, if you dont make a post, I will keep clicking your blog the entire day :)
I have been wondering for a long time, is the little girl from the St. Jude children's research thing Brooklyn? It's one of the commerical on the side of your blog. I think she looks like Brooklyn.
- June 24, 2008 at 1:54 AM
- Michemily said...
I like the "(sort of)" at the start. Nice try.
- June 24, 2008 at 3:22 AM
Wow Austin is one smart cookie. Is he planning to be an engineer or an artist or architect or something similar when he's older? With that attention to detail at age 4-5 he will go a long way!
- June 24, 2008 at 4:47 AM
LOL, great suggestions for pastry/alcohol combos! And right as I was finishing a glass of Bailey's and half a box of Ferrero Rocher!
The person that said Bailey's and icecream is a woman after my own heart. I pour the Bailey's right over the top of the icecream!
- June 24, 2008 at 6:48 AM
- Mum-me said...
You seem to be very patient about people asking you why you would have a big family and how your family reacted etc... I have six children myself, and at times it really annoys me. When someone, who has no children, sarcastically says "Don't you know what's causing it? (the pregnancies)" I sometimes want to say "Yes I know what's causing it - would you like me to explain it to you so you can have a chance at being successful?"
- June 24, 2008 at 7:43 AM
- lawnajo said...
I LOL at the story of Austin circling the fish instead of the table. I think a lot of people don't give preschoolers/kindergarteners enough credit. I teach pre-kindergarten classes and every once in a while we get a kid like Austin that makes us look at the world a little differently. Thanks for the good laugh.
- June 24, 2008 at 8:23 AM
- Mabunny said...
Ok Dawn, I always read your SSOs, and this one absolutely cracked me up when I read the answer about Austin in kindergarten where he circled the fish instead of the table?
My juice almost got spit all over my keyboard on that one, saved the keyboard, but since i put my hand in front of my mouth now its all over my nightgown...
Thanks for the laughs!
- June 24, 2008 at 8:31 AM
- Knitty said...
I would like to post a link to your blog on my own, under a blogs that I am reading section, on blogger. Copying this link never works though. Is there a secret I don't know about? (Conspiracy theories abound!) I've not had trouble linking any other blog so I am puzzled.
Thanks for any help,
- June 24, 2008 at 8:48 AM
- Morrighan said...
...although i prefer bailey's and ice cream. :)
Yumm-YAY. How did you guess?
- June 24, 2008 at 9:06 AM
- candi said...
If you haven't tried that Oatmeal Cookie recipe, you really should. Tastes like the real deal, and no chewing! Ny daughter introduced me to these when she turned 21.
- June 24, 2008 at 9:16 AM
- Gail said...
Hey, I read what you said about Lexi and not wearing her glasses makes her eyes cross...ME TOO! It's annoying!! Hopefully she doesn't have it as bad, I (since the birth of my second) have got to wear my glasses all the time or I get headaches...from my eyes crossing. Dang astigmatism!! Lasik in a few weeks will hopefully knock that out...praying and crossing my fingers really hard on that one!
- June 24, 2008 at 10:04 AM
- Heather said...
Love your writing! Your kids and your attitude about them crack me up. And thanks for letting us know the baby with the chocolate on its face is Brooklyn. That pic cracks me up!
- June 24, 2008 at 10:06 AM
We finally got a Sonic in our town (Vancouver, WA) a month or so ago. It has been such a good thing. We went on vacation to Anaheim last year and fell in LOVE with Sonic. We were so sad we didn't have one and thought we never would because of our weather. We were wrong!!!
- June 24, 2008 at 10:32 AM
- Jennifer Engel said...
Dawn I asked my husband how he would answer question on if you have a dog, cat, fish, and table.... he replied "depends on how you look at it:
dog, cat, fish are animals...table doesn't fit
dog, cat, table have a prime number of letters... fish doesn't fit
dog, table, fish are useful things... cat doesn't fit (my favorite by the way)
There's hope for your son yet.
- June 24, 2008 at 12:02 PM
- Rachel said...
By the way - the kids complaining that they don't get junk food because of Jackson's diet... totally normal.
But they may not realize that it's helping them feel better too.
My sister whined for years about my mom's strict no-sugar diet for our family because of my kidney problems.
Then my sister was diagnosed as a severe juvenile diabetic. A regular diet could have killed her.
God works in mysterious ways. Stick with the good mothering!
- June 24, 2008 at 5:30 PM
- Tam said...
Thanks for your blog. A good sense of Humor is really the best way to deal with most of what life throws at us. Especially Motherhood;)
- June 24, 2008 at 5:33 PM
Ok so, this is a bit scary.. but I decided to ask my husband that same question, and he looked at me like I had two heads when I asked him why he picked the fish? He said with that look like I was crazy.. "It doesn't have four legs". I think I now have an idea of who your son will be when he grows up :) He never will. my husband is ever the practical joker, he hides my cereal bowl while I get the milk, and I end up finding my bow of cereal in the fridge with milk already poured thinking I'm going crazy. He's truly hilarious, end forever young, but just funny how he gave me exactly the same response to that question.
Even scarier? I picked the fish too. my reasoning was that the fish was the only one that needed water. You'd think "to live" would have followed that thought, making me realise the table didn't fit, but no.
P.S. I'm a chocolate chip cookies with a good old tall glass of milk girl. I go through a box of cookies very fast some months.
And what the heck is Sonic? did I miss a post? I'm from Canada, so I've never heard of it.
- June 24, 2008 at 5:43 PM
I actually think that Austin is correct in his answer when he said the fish is the odd one out.
Anyway it shows clever tactics in problem solving - he will go far!
- June 24, 2008 at 6:15 PM
- TheHMC said...
Your Austin sounds like my second oldest....
I had an SSO question for you but by the time the comment window popped up, I'd forgotten it already. Do you suffer from Mommy Brain like I do? It started as Pregnant Brain and then morphed. I forget my kids names on an hourly basis now.
At least they're good sports. My 8 year old will usually look at me and laugh when I go "YOU! What's your name again?"
- June 24, 2008 at 6:42 PM
- Robin said...
I LOVE Austin's response to the "One of these things is not like the other" paper! That's Fabulous!!!!
- June 24, 2008 at 8:34 PM
- Nikki said...
Hi Dawn! I have another suggestion for cookies and alcohol. Take chocolate cookies (not chocolate covered ones, ones that will absorb liquids), alcohol of your choice like brandy, and whipped cream. Spread a piece of foil on the bench. Dip biscuits in the alcohol for a few seconds, long enough that the biscuits will be soft in a day or so, spread with cream, repeat, sticking them together in a log in the middle of the foil. When there are no more biscuits, cover log with cream, add grated chocolate, wrap up with the foil, put in fridge for a day or 2 (or less LOL). Rip the foil off, cut on diagonal to serve...or eat straight from foil if you're alone. My mum took this to a dinner party once, and it was mistaken for garlic bread and put in the oven! You can also do a kid's version using orange juice instead of alcohol :)
- June 25, 2008 at 7:48 AM
I must add to the 'alcohol/sweets' combo comment...my absolute favorite is beer and Ben & Jerry's Phish Food. Something about the way the chocolate blends with the beer....lol.
- June 25, 2008 at 9:11 AM
- Snicker said...
I saw your post about whether membership in the Feingold program is necessary. We've been using the program for a very long time and I know reading labels is only a start.
The dues are $82 to join but renewals are less.
- June 25, 2008 at 2:03 PM
- Angie said...
Here's some dialectical idiosyncrasies for you. In Kentucky we don't call carbonated beverages soda or pop. They're all "Coke", regardless of brand or type. In addition, all facial tissues are Kleenex.
Then there are the pronouns:
Y'all - "You" (plural)
Yer-in - "Yours" (Only ever heard my hubby and in-laws use this one. Still cracks me up.)
Yourn - "Yours" (another hubby special)
- June 25, 2008 at 3:02 PM
- ummmhello said...
Grrr... I see those dang Sonic commercials ALL the time... and there are NONE in Chicago!
- June 25, 2008 at 8:39 PM
I had to laugh at all the beer and cookies comments. We leave Santa beer and cookies at Christmas. My oldest (7) tells eveyrone this and we get very strange looks. I just tell everyone we're Irish and German (I am and by proxy the kids are from me), and they seem to understand.
- June 25, 2008 at 8:52 PM
- babyboyg said...
Your comment about eating cookies in Hawaii got me thinking...
I love your blog and think it'd be really fun to hang out with you.
I actually live in Hawaii. If you'd like to come for a visit, I'd be happy to show you around and even give you a place to stay, in exchange for you making me laugh. I'm not sure all your kids would fit in my house, though, so maybe you could get them a hotel room :-)
What do you think???
- June 26, 2008 at 11:29 PM
- Blackman Blog said...
- June 27, 2008 at 11:49 PM
- Kate said...
Loved, loved, loved Austin's answer!! As a former middle school math teacher (no snide remarks or groaning), I would have started salivating if I had gotten an answer like that. What great fodder for classroom discussion! I used to love problems that had more than one answer or finding multiple ways to come up with the same answer. Anyway, just had to share!
I'd tell you to watch out for that one, but...
- June 28, 2008 at 4:02 PM


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Take a look at Tuesday night's wrestling results against St. James.
Weight Class: Wrestler:
106 (W) Julian Burnham (WHS), fr., def. Dalton Gan (STJ) by pin fall in first minute.
120 (L) Daniel McCarthy (STJ), def. Lauren Webber (WHS), jun. by pin fall at 1:23 in third round.
126 (W) Nick Farmer (WHS), sen., def. Sean Hunter (STJ) 11-5 after taking a 9-2 lead into the third round. Coach Jeff Davis said he was "great on [his] feet" after the match.
132 (W) Jordan Guimont (WHS), fr., def. Samuel Bunyard (STJ) by pin fall with less than 1:00 left in the second round.
138 (L) Seth Thompson (STJ) def. Paul Wallace (WHS), jun., by pin fall at 1:08 in the third round. Davis advised him to "stand up and escape" throughout the match.
138 (W) Neevan Lucena (WHS), fr., def. Anthony Williams (STJ) by 13-6. Williams gave five points for clasping violation and Lucena earned three points late for a near fall.
145 (L) Daniel Davis (STJ) def. Jesse Thornton (WHS) jun., by pin fall with :08 left in the second round.
182 (W) Brandon Fancher (WHS), fr., def. Robert Watson (STJ) by pin fall with :27 left in the second round.
152 (W) Derrick Sax (WHS), fr., def. Aaron MacFarlane (STJ) by 8-0 shutout. Davis told Sax to "keep fighting" the entire match. Sax earned six total near-fall points.
152 (W) Matt Burris (WHS), jun., def. Taylor Busche (STJ) by pin fall with :17 left in the second round, which came after a reversal.
152 (W) Aseante Taylor (WHS), fr., def. Camron Orlando (STJ) on a pin fall with :47 left in the third round. Davis fired him up saying, "This is a six-minute fight."
160 (W) Todd Angel (WHS), fr., def. Mason Ragland (STJ) by pin fall with :48 to go in the first round.
160 (L) Marshall Woosley (STJ) def. Teague Jones (WHS), sen., by pin fall with 1:17 left in the second round.
182 (W) Anthony Randolph (WHS), jun., def. Grant Brooks (STJ) by pin fall a minute into the first round.
195 (L) Jake Gleason (STJ) def. Chazden Stribling (WHS), soph. by pin fall at 1:10 in the first round.
HWT (W) Griffin Ketchum (WHS), jun., def. Marcus Bradshaw (STJ) in 12-5 decision. Ketchum earned all 12 points by takedowns.
106 (W) Nathaniel Perez (WHS), fr., def. Dalton Gann (STJ) by a cradle pin fall in the third round.
138 (W) Paul Wallace (WHS), jun., def. Chris Palmer (STJ) by pin fall at the :33 mark in the first round.
182 (L) Robert Watson (STJ) def. Sean lackey (WHS), fr., by pin fall with :41 to go in the second round.
Assistant Coach Lucas Smith's comments: "That's a goot way to start out the season. A lot of our young kids got to wrestle, and some kids that might end up being in the varsity lineup later got a chance to showcase themselves and prepare for later in the season. [The wrestlers] have been picking up a lot of the stuff we've been doing in practice and they carried it over tonight on the mat."
Smith added that the team will need more conditioning and will work on individual faults in practices leading to the Nov. 29 duel at Ozark.


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Two dogs available for adoption
Sweetwater Animal Control currently has two dogs available for adoption. One of the adoptable pets is a white female dalmatian mix dog from last week's batch of adoptable animals, as well as a brown and white male chihuahua from last week. According to Sweetwater's new animal control officer, Don Kite, animals that are picked up are kept for a minimum of three days, but he tries to keep them from a week to 10 days.Dogs and cats are available for adoption for a $15 fee and the cost of getting the pet vaccinated for rabies. The pets are required to have their vaccination before they leave to their new homes.The pets shown will be available for adoption until this Friday, Nov. 25, 2011. For those interested in adopting a pet, call the Sweetwater Animal Shelter at 236-6139. If there is no answer, just leave a message and they will get back to you the same day or the next day.The Sweetwater Reporter will begin printing photos of adoptable pets each week if they are available at the Sweetwater Animal Shelter.


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Soooo....I have teamed up with Crest and we are giving away 2 brand new boxes of Crest's Advanced Seal Teeth Whitening Strips (which I just did a review on below!) to 2 LUCKY WINNERS (one box each person)!
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The winner will be announced (hopefully) this weekend! Good luck!
The runner up winners from my last contest are SarahPuffy and Pinkiiiish! Congrats ladies! Prizes are brand new China Glaze, Revlon, and NYX nailpolishes to one winner and a hair clip, Revlon Eyeshadows, and an Avon Blush to the other! :)
And like I mentioned in my last post, I bought a mini laptop for easy traveling (it fits in my purse!) from HP.com, and it's super light, not even 3lbs.! It's a baby compared to my Macbook...


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Visions of kicking back and working from the beach with a piña colada in one hand and an iPad in the other are no longer just flights of fancy for many workers. Businesses are finding that it really is possible for employees to work remotely on their own devices without losing any productivity.
As a result, many companies are measuring the benefits of employees working remotely against the logistical issues inherent in developing a mobile device management plan.
There are many tangible benefits of BYOD (Bring Your Own Device), including:
The risk in BYOD is that these devices can potentially expose security vulnerabilities not directly supervised by IT staff or addressed by corporate antivirus solutions. This is where the need for mobile device management comes in.
Tablets and smartphones are arguably less secure than desktop PCs and laptops because they lack pre-installed malware protection. Most computers include at least a trial version of an antivirus suite, but for the newest mobile gadgets, individual users and IT managers are on their own to search for and install mobile endpoint security management.
This vulnerability has not escaped the attention of hackers, who unleash creative new threats like SMS text messaged-based attacks on a daily basis. The old-school virus, while still annoying, does not hold a candle to the damage caused by these new approaches in cybercrime, which include more sophisticated Trojans, keyloggers, phishing attacks and malicious apps than ever before.
Enforcing a ban on these devices is a near impossibility, but there are options for businesses on a tight budget to maintain security:
If you determine that an MDM service is appropriate, how do you choose one? Use the following as a mini-checklist to cover the major recommended features:
Many businesses are only just becoming aware of the burgeoning BYOD trend and the necessity of protecting mobile devices. Small- and medium-sized businesses without large IT staff and corresponding big budgets need a solution that protects them as much as the larger companies. Fortunately, the MDM trend is heading towards more affordable and easier-to-manage solutions, which is great news no matter how big or small your company is.
Mobile devices in the workforce are here to stay. Develop a plan to manage them before they cause havoc in your company.
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With family or with friends – the BAVARIA C50 is about the pleasure of sailing, but it's about relaxation too. Together you can enjoy a fabulous time on water or on land, and with a lot of people. That's because, as well as a three, four and five-cabin version there is even a six-cabin version available. As with the BAVARIA C45, the C50 comes in three different equipment levels: 'Holiday', 'Style' and 'Ambition'.Hoger4
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Home Performance with Energy Star
A version of this article appears in the March/April 2003 issue of Home Energy Magazine.
March 01, 2003
Those who are charged with enforcing building performance standards in Canada's newest territory have miles to go before they begin.
The EPA reported that 37,000 homes earned the Energy Star label in the first three quarters of 2002.When all the statistics are in, the total number of Energy Star homes should exceed 50,000 for last year, and 100,000 for the program since inception.Almost all of these were new homes.Another program, Home Performance with Energy Star, is an effort to use the extensive and growing awareness and credibility of Energy Star to promote whole-house, building sciencebased energy improvements in existing homes. While the goal of Home Performance with Energy Star is to save energy, its market-based approach and message address a range of customer needs—from comfort to durability to health and safety.The approach emphasizes consumer education, value, and one-stop problem solving. How does an existing home earn the Energy Star label? Energy Star is not creating a new or secondary label for existing homes.Any home, whether newly built or 80 years old, that receives a HERS score of 86 or higher is Energy Star rated. (For more on HERS, see "How Do You Score a House?"HE May/June '95, p. 30.) &...
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