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Publog review of brusselsMonday, February 17, 2003
Firstly apologies for the slight delay in getting this typed up but I'm sure you'll agree it was worth the wait…
sensible reviews and directions to almost all the bars mentioned here on the Time Out site.
Last weekend, to celebrate publog regular and all-round good chap Tim Hopkins' thirty three and a third birthday, we took a trip to Brussels in lovely Belgium where we undertook to drink thirty three and a third* different beers between five of us in the space of one day.
*thirty three beers would be drunk, a favourite decided upon and then a second and a third drunk of that, DYS?
As the junior publogger amongst us I was given the task of scribe using the very handy beer mats which only have adverts on one side. Tasting notes were written against each beer, at least where there was something interesting to say and whilst we were still capable of coherent speech…
NB: although the word "bar" is used throughout Brussels bars are generally a lot more pub-like than, say, their French counterparts.
We started the day in the very lovely Mort Subite bar, which has retained it's belle epoque interior, not to mention it's own range of beers. The following beers were tasted:
Mort Subite Faro: [TE & PB] reminiscent of brothers bar perry (a good thing)
Mort Subite Blanche: [TH] cheesecake hairspray
Mort Subite Peche: [MH] mmm, peachy
Palm (draught): [PB] metallic, like out of date Skol
Maes (draught): [TE] poly-blend
Chimay Blanche (draught)
From there we moved on to a brusselois institution Toone, the puppet theatre (seemingly run by south western so-called comedian Jethro) which handily is also a bar.
Leffe Blonde
Atomium: [TH] beer of the future!
Rodenbach: [PB] lairy lucozade
Barbar: [TE] honey goodness
As the service was a little slow (not to blame the barmaid who was on her own and having to deal with a lot of punters) we moved on to a bar we had visited before called Bon Vieux Temps (I think), which is hidden away down a little alley.
Westmalle Triple: [TH] blond beer gravy
Borgogne des Flanders: [SH] probably my favourite, dark and meaty
Vieux Temps
Corsendonk Blanche: [TE] g'donk a donk donk
We then made the first trip of the day to our spiritual home in Brussels, The Lop Lop is an anglophone bar which shows Sky Sports and has a beer list as long as your arm, oh and a piano which can be played by random punters.
Piraat: [TE] aaaarrrrr(gh)
Leffe Triple: [PB] church
Lindemanns Peche
Roquefort 10
Judas: [PB] didn't make me cross
Orval: [TH] gooseberry perfume
Hlecht Blanche (sp?)
Vitkap Pater: [SH] ruin…
We then went for some food in a Cameroonian place which was nummy.
Biere Gingimbre: [TE &TH & PB] overwhelming favourite of the day. However, on thinking about it later, this was almost certainly a blonde biere mixed with ginger beer, ie SHANDY…
Brugs (or possibly Hooegaarden)
at this point there were also cocktails based on RHUM (yes, really spelt like that!!) and, indeed, just RHUM, drunk…
Tim had been suggesting all weekend that we visited our next bar, La Fleur en Papier Dore, which Time Out informs me was once home to surrealists, hmm, makes sense...
Duvel Blanche
Chimay Bleu
Here, at the bottom of the second beer mat, I have simply written "RUIN!" and indeed this is where we encountered the ghost of ruin present.
In order to escape we returned to Lop Lop where we were subjected to a rather awful "jam session" and pointed at a young courting couple.
Jacobin (gueze)
Satan Gold
Moving swiftly on to Bar Da Da, another weekend favourite, we reached (and passed) the magical 33 that had been our target.
Tuborg: [PB] NB: this does not count towards the target as it is danish.
Jupiler: [SH] tasty for a cooking lager
Bush: [TE] ha ha, mouthful of bush (this is paraphrasing)
Gueze Boon Lembeek
Here, the ghost of ruin past, the first FACKIN PANK in Brussels, was encountered, and a nicer nutter one couldn't hope to meet.
As a responsible reporter it was at this point (after another round including deux genivevres (belgian gin), rather than the vieux genivevre I had asked for…) that I made my excuses and left. Hardier souls than I returned to Lop Lop in an attempt to reach the third of any particular drink had so far. Although this mission was eventually unsuccessful, the ghost of ruin yet to come was met and thus, along with three visits to Lop Lop, there was also a third nutter.
what i did on my holidaysTuesday, July 2, 2002
what's that you say? an update? with my reputation? anyway here is a basic glasto review/list of things we did. certain bits of this may be expanded on in various other fora over the next few weeks...sliding scale goesgrebt > monkey chews > rubby the way, not that i'd want to alienate peoople with in jokes or anything...Thursday:brothers bar: grebtperry: grebtsinging random song words over dance records: monkey chewsbbc rave thingy in middle of markets: RUB x 10,000FridayShibusashirazu Orchestra: grebt x lotsbettina motive (saw in error): rubgoldblade: GREBTTelepop musik: monkey chewsBritish sea power: monkey chewsIddly-widdly: monkey chewssitting by the beer tent in the markets in the sunshine for three hours watching the world go by: super grebtnice ginger man giving me some spf 45 suncream: grebthearing nelly furtado doing get ur freak on whilst eating pie and peas: rub (pie and peas grebt though)mercury rev: rub (apart from pete's singing)osymyso in the rizla cafe: super extra grebtglitchcore 3 lions: fortunately absent...racialist glasto cutting off blak twang after abt 15 mins: SUPER RUBdancing in the rizla cafe for abt three hours waiting for freelance hellraiser: grebt, via monkey chews to rub when he didn't show (well not before 1.30 anyway...)Saturdaymonster breakfast baguettes: grebtbaby genius (heard from tent): rubvalentine (also heard from tent): also rubperry for breakfast: no commentSeckou Keita: grebtreading the saturday grauniad whilst listening to "world" music: islingtonparkinsons: missed due to perry/senegalese shennanigansDAD STOOLS: BEST THING EVAHsitting for another three hours in front of the beer tent in the markets: still grebtbrendan burns: grebtdreadful drag act recommended by alang: well rubseafood: monkey chewswhite stripes: somewhat surprisingly grebtbeta band: monkey chewsmis-teeq: grebtgrebtgrebtdancing outside a stall selling wine to 3 cds of 60s/70s hits with abt 100 other pissed people til 5am: grebt (according to mypete)SundayAmy Newton (heard from tent): very very rubThe Maker (heard from tent): monkey chewsthe maker proclaiming that they'll be headlining the pyramid next year: risiblerolf harris: grubt (ie old classics grebt, sub midnite oil songs abt conservation rub)seeing the second half of the footy: grebtbrazil winning: grebt alsotompaulin: grebtsitting by the dance tent drinking beer: monkey chews (quite windy)article in the observer by a "glastonbury widow": grebtelbow: ar$e more likebelle and sebby: grebtgrebtgrebtgorkys: zygotic monkey chewsrod (FOUR SONGS ONLY i hasten to add): rubair (walking past): prog noncesenseoddessey to cabaret tent: worth itcharlie chuck doing EXACTLY the same act as ever: DONK-EHMondaypeeing it down JUST as we'd finished taking the tens down: RUBRUBRUBcoming home: rub ;)shower: grebtwill this do?
Bootleg Call (do you see?)Saturday, February 16, 2002
Those of you who were at the last sussed may have noticed a large number of unusual mixes. This is because me and Tom have recently become obsessed with the nascent BOOTLEG craze that is sweeping the nation. The link there is to boomselection, the leading (only?) website devoted to such classics as Stroke of Genie-us, Smells like Booty, and the seemingly ever expanding "Intro Inspection" by Osymyso (12 minutes and counting). It also has a fan site/archive which makes it lots easier to find the tracks to download.Meanwhile, work continues apace on my own contribution "Get Ur Jumper On"...
What the FLIP!!!Monday, February 4, 2002
for some reason i seem to have become altavista's favourite site, which has led to some bizzare referals. i'm fourth on the list for marilyn manson stuff, third for velvet goldmine pics and, 38th for, ahem, crack lego...I suppose more bizzare is that people have clicked on the link...
NEW SUSSED for 2002Saturday, December 29, 2001
Sunday is the new Thursday, oh yesh. On 10 February sussed returns at its new venue, The Cellar, just off Cornmarket. There is a 12.30 license, which is nice, and prolly cheap drinks if you come early. still finalising costs/start times, but it's likely to be no more than 2 squid and has a quote from nunununa on the flyer.In other sad sussed news, it seems likely that dear old Latinos may be no more. Awwwww.
yeah, yeah, ok, whateverMonday, November 26, 2001
Hi kids, thanks for keeping coming back on the off chance there might be an update. I dunno, weblogs seem *so* last year daaaarlinks... Anyway, Club Sussed is taking a Christmas sabbatical, and will hopefully return somewhere exciting and new in the new year, due to the fact that wednesdays at latinos sucked serious ass. Any offers, suggestions greatfully received.
s'pose i should update...Wednesday, August 29, 2001
not that i've got much to say or anything, tum ti tum. have i told you about friends reunited yet? I mean, clearly i have if we've been in the pub, but a link seems appropriate. hello people from school/college looking at this. I've actually met someone i hadn't seen for a couple of years, and got an email off someone else, which is nice. still haven't actually got round to paying the fiver yet though, reliance on free things on the interweb, hmmm...Am now placing bets on when yahoo will buy FR and also on when ILE overtakes ILM.
YAY, 1000 hitsFriday, July 13, 2001
it's only taken 6 months to reach what freakytrigger gets in an average afternoon, but i still feel warm and fuzzy inside. If you were looking at this site at about half 5 today at some sort of educational establishment , you were the lucky fousandth viewer and you may win a prize, perhaps.To celebrate here are some game to play, as it's pretty much the end of term anyway:mini golfthru the wall (with SPACE HOPPERS)(nicked from starry)
red robot space invaders type thing aw, lovely explodingdog
The ones who brought you...Tuesday, June 26, 2001
bring you, not "the only rhyme that bites", but SUSSED 2 - "i've lost my indie nite, can i have yours?", although despite Tom's campaigning, there will be NO SLOW DANCING, oh no that's right out!Details:
Thursday 5 July
10pm til 2am
Club Latinos, The Plain, Oxford
Possibly competitions, special guest djs and stuff, not to mention things...
Just a bit of fun...Thursday, June 7, 2001
So I was talking to these socialist guys on saturday afternoon, can't even
remember which faction they were from, i think it was the Judean People's
Front, although it could have been the People's Front of Judea, and this guy
was trying to convince me that not voting was a serious political statement,
that because parliamentary democracy isn't working too well at the moment we
should ignore it til it goes away. Well I'm sorry but I don't really fall
for that, I *like* parliamentary democracy, in a perverse way i also like
first past the post as an election system cos you get the results almost
straight away, rather than three days later as you do with PR, but that's
just the waffling punditry junkie in me talking :)
Anyway, let us drift back in time to see where this all came from...
83, dad was the returning officer for the local polling station which, as it
happened, was directly opposite our house. The only thing i remember really
was watching him doing the seals on the boxes as it finished, and having
home made corned beef pie for tea, which was to become an election staple,
due to the fact that it could be eaten at any point of the day and the fact
that mother was rather good at making it. It was also the day a young toothsome chap with wayward hair become our MP...
87, by this point dad was a leading member of the local party, at
this time I was constantly been given 50p to shove leaflets through the
doors in our street, and had developed the seemingly de rigour hatred of
thatch. I remember vividly the crushing disappointment of waking up the
next morning (after a relatively early nite, come on i was 13 and it was a
school nite) and the first thing i heard was the telly downstairs saying SHE
was still in charge.
The late 80s were basically the labour party in our house, it was great, cos
it was the north east we didn't have to worry about losing local elections
of any kind. Dad did offer me party membership for my 14th birthday, but
mother was against, I think she was still holding vague dreams that i'd end
up at oxbridge and then be blackballed for being some sort of lefty...
At this point having Tony as an MP didn't mean much, obviously we thought
he'd do alright in the party, but he and his wife "Sherry" seemed like nice
enough people. Another image that I recall from this time was about the
social chapter. HER and major were obviously dead against it but the
socialist group in the eurpoean parliament had A4 flyers printed up with all
the details of what we'd get and lovely they were too, nice shiny posh paper. Now I don't know how
much you know about the size of european constituencies, but they are HUGE
and I'm sure we had the entire north east's supply of these bludy things
stacked in our garage, they were never delivered to anyone, there's probably
still some there now and we haven't lived in the house for 10 years...
92, a glorious sunny day if i remember, and annoyingly I was just a month too young to vote, but i thought, this is it, surely, can't everyone see
they are a bunch of incompetant useless bastards!!! I went to bed once the
best result was a hung parliament, hopes dashed... (although according to this maybe that sheffield rally wasn't entirely to blame)
now, was it 94 or 95? Anyway, I woke in my grotty student bedsit to the news
that John Smith had had a massive heart attack, and within, ooh, quarter of
an hour Dennis Healey had said Tony should be the new leader, which i
thought was cool, if a little premature. That all the work that had been
done by my dad and john regan and anty birbeck and micky terrance (all sadly
no longer with us) would get some sort of expression if tony was in charge,
these were the blokes who supported him when he had nowt (well apart from
that healthy barrister salary and the private education, but you know what i
mean, *politically* nowt), taught him about the local area, all that sort of
97, things *had* to get better really didn't they? It was my
first vote in a general election, and the first one i knew we could win,
that if we didn't we mayaswell just drown ourselves in our own shit to save
the tories the bother of doing it to us. I voted labour. Not sure why, they
stood no chance in Cheltenham, Lib Dem would've been sensible, there was
always a chance that after the John Taylor debacle of '92 that it would go blue
again, but i had to vote Labour, 18 years of hate had been leading to
And now, well, Oxford East has *always, always* been labour, due to the
Cowley Motor factory being slap bang in the middle of the constituency. I'm
voting Socialist Alliance, mainly due to the work of one man, step forward
the man who makes Michael Howard look like a hippy, yes it's Jack Straw. I
cannot belive the indignities they put tortured and repressed people through
just to get a chance to live in a county like this. Yes it's a protest
vote, it'll make very little difference, I doubt they'll even keep their
deposit, but it's just something about labour that makes me want to slap
their wrists and say, come on! sort yourselves out!!
So i'll go and put my cross on the bit of paper, but frankly it'll
be with a heavy heart that things haven't really got that much better, after
not only INDIE, but also SCHMINDIEWednesday, May 30, 2001
As Tom so graciously points out, Thursday June 21 sees the start of our fantastic new indie nite SUSSED. I'll link to the flyer once I've got a decent one to scan (does anyone know why my version of quark wont save our flyer as jpegs?) but for now, here's the blurb off it, innit.
Thursday 21 June 10pm-2am @ Club Latino, The Plain, Oxford.
Ł3 to get in, fun and frolics, djs carsmile, cabbage & cockfarmer on the decks
An evening of indie loveliness, featuring all yr favourites, including belle & sebastian, pulp, hefner,
the smiths, weddoes, baxendale, arab strap, mbv, delgados, suede, charlatans, badly drawn boy, hmhb, britney, kenickie, dinosaur jr, flaming lips, helen love, earl brutus, elastica, blur, dexys, ash, beck, ricky spontane, yoyos, jam, kinks, small faces, t-rex, bowie, a bit of northern soul,
y'know, good stuff you can dance to...
Sounds good to me ;)
Hi! I'm Troy McClure...Sunday, May 13, 2001
You may remember me from such memes as "The Weather Forecasting Toaster" and "All Your Base are Belong to Mo Morgan". Today we're talking about Groening-Tourette's Syndrome, ie an inability to see donuts and not say "mmmmmmmm, doooo-nuts" or to say "doh!" whenever you do something wrong.It's only funny because it's true.Link via somewhere, frankly i can't remember, I think it might be that one with a funny name, but it'll be everywhere in about a week...Postscript, it *was* the one with the funny name (sorry Brooke).
Gigsmile is BACK! in ancient Japanese poetry format!!Tuesday, May 8, 2001
Finally updated gigsmile (please can someone think of another name for it? please?)
I may write like this
in all the reviews I do
for rest of the year
or not.
Election MadnessTuesday, May 8, 2001
News of cheating in the polls is already under way. Apparently those pesky Danes are trying to fix it for the Greeks. Whatever next? The baltic states not voting for each other? The site also features the SCARIEST INTERNET GAME EVER. LOOK AT HER SCARY MOUTH!!
Rumours of Terry Wogan providing a sarcastic voice over as Hague gets his arse kicked, John Snow in a revealing sequinned number and Hothouse Flowers playing between the polls closing and the first results have yet to be made up...
Linky linky, link linkTuesday, April 24, 2001
Somewhat controversially i have decided to list some websites/blogs for you to go and look at:
My ATP Photos
Ken's ATP Photos
Calumn's blurry ATP Photos
Ree's blog
Groke (Tom E's return to blogdom)
Pumpkin Publog
CrockeryAlso had my first rather odd search engine referral today, not including strange italians searching for "hipsters", ITALIANS, IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR TROUSERS GO HERE!! Anyway, someone visited the site having searched for "adreena sex", whatever that may be...
shambolic, useless, disorganised scouse gets!!Saturday, April 21, 2001
God bless 'em, the one and only ricky spontane continue their carefully planned assault on the pop world. No doubt the final details of the gigs will be announced the usual 36 hours after the event. Listen to the songs though cos they rock.
Early 90s Shoegazers in Destruction of Caribou Mating Habitat Shocker!!Thursday, April 12, 2001
Just read this in G2, which seems to prove the (admittedly rather tenuous) link between The Scene that Celebrated itself and Dubya's Artic oil exploration (it's about halfway through the article). What next, Chapterhouse responsible for foot and mouth??
oh dearWednesday, April 11, 2001
Things completed from the previous list:half a gig review, then i went to the pub, fuck it, this is meant to be a hobby not a jobgo and look at crow atak instead, innit...
busybusybusybusyWednesday, April 4, 2001
Things to do tonite:Write up the last three gigs I've been toWrite something humourous about being/not being a geekFind out about the socialist alliance and write about it for to the pollsHave a bathWorry about whether the parisian connection is going to turn up tomorrow niteSort clothes etc out for the weekendRecord tapes for peopleEatBounce around getting excited about the weekendEt-bleeding-cetera......
king of the atendimentos all the hippiesSaturday, March 10, 2001
More excitement from the wibbly wobbly web. Need to Know pointed me to this, a fantastic translation device for the 21st century, which translates through 5 languages with the usual impeccable accuracy of babelfish and turns the first two lines of the song that inspired this weblog's title into:Sebastian, you in a dispersion are, you you were a sleepy that she has
king of the atendimentos all the hippies. Applicable or has distilled
the instruments the queen?the phrase "hours of fun" springs immediately to mind...
twenty four hourMonday, February 26, 2001
part-tay peeeepuul
Paul Morley adds this rambling, downright confused piece to the rising tide of hype surrounding the film of the Factory empire. From what Morley says it seems to be a sort of Velvet Goldmine-type job except without the name changes, based on the "legends" rather than the "truth". And he keeps seeing ian curtis everywhere...
mmmmmmmm, installationThursday, February 22, 2001
So i went for a shitty job interview at the Fabian Society that was the epitome of bad interviews, me "uuuurrrrmmming" and failing to finish sentences, them giving me NOTHING and asking what i think i'll be doing in ten years time. Anyway, once it was over i met Meg on Oxford Street and we went to see some fantastic ART in the old C&A of all places, where Michael Landy is reducing everything he owns to little bits, FANTASTIC it is, i could have stood and stared at the conveyor belt going round all day, looking at all the stuff he has, and watching the blue boiler suit clad art students cataloguing, smashing and breaking all of this STUFF. It finishes on Saturday, but if you are reading this in London or you are going to London, GO AND SEE IT!Also that baxendale band have put several songs on their website for downloading. Both Fascination and Ghetto Fabulous are, erm, fabulous, innit :)
Why Middle Class Student Wankers Should Shut Up And PAY THEIR FEESFriday, February 9, 2001
Annoyed? Too fucking right I'm annoyed. For the past two nights I've had to walk past a bunch of students who are at risk of being expelled from Oxford Uni for failing to pay their tuition fees. I say SHUT THE FUCK UP AND PAY you middle class WANKERS. Fact: 50% of oxford students have been to public school, so their parents are used to paying for education. Fact: those on a very low income pay NO tuition fees, in fact only those whose parents have an income over around 30k have to pay the full amount. Surely this is the most self centred student protest ever. "Oh mummy and daddy won't be able to have that extra week in Provence now that they have to pay for something they've been paying for the last 13 years".
I suppose what really pisses me off about this is I've had to sit with people in their early twenties who failed to perform at school, for whatever reason, and explain to them that if they want to come and do A-levels or an access course, or even learn to read and write, now that they're a bit older they will receive FUCK ALL support from the state, whereas 18 year old mummy's boy who has just fallen out of a public school and on to a Uni course gets three years of free money to piss up the wall in the student's union.
Listen, you can't have expansion in higher ed and keep it free, because if you do those who missed out first time will have even less support than they currently do, these twats complaining about having to pay are effectively denying those who missed out first time of any kind of chance. They are saying that's it's more important for them to ponce about for three years than it is for some poor bugger to get GCSE Maths and English so they're not pushing trollies or flipping burgers for the rest of their equally valuable lives.
Education IS a right and not a privilege, but surely the right to be able to read and write is more important than three years of social anthropology for a bunch of privileged wankers...
Ewing Watch UpdateTuesday, February 6, 2001
Following last week's nightclub assignation, rising internet superstar Tom Ewing, 27, has found himself the focus of a bizzarre impersonation attempt on "cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" Sinister.After minutes of highly investigative reporting by this reporter*, this post was found conclusively NOT to be by handsome, man about town Ewing but by some sad git who had:
SET UP a fake hotmail address
JOINED the faddish cult of sinister
WAITED AROUND for two weeks in the nursery
POSTED a slightly-out-of-date-by-this-point piece of satirical writing (first brought to the list's attention by this reporter) in an attempt to besmirch the reputation of this fine upstanding member of the web community.Rumours of queues forming for this week's Strange Fruit already, on the possibility that debonair Tom may put in an appearance have yet to be denied...*i.e. E-mailing him and asking him
Public Information AnnouncementMonday, February 5, 2001
Some time ago on I Love Music, I wondered aloud as to what David Quantick was doing these days, following the demise of Select. Well he sent me an e-mail today to inform me that he's going to be on xfm soon and has been writing The Junkies, an internet sitcom with Peter "Chicken Lollies" Baynham and Sally "mmmmmmmmmmmm" Philips, which is quite humourous, but takes pissing ages download, as these things tend to do...
Still, could be worse, he could have turned into Stuart "another funny thing about the 70s/80s/christmas records/please give me some more money to be smug and annoying" Maconie.
Oh I've started this as well, suggestions for a decent name for it and/or free gig tickets greatfully appreciated.
Confusion aboundsSaturday, January 27, 2001
Whilst compiling a really sad list, one of the contributors confused the hell out of me by saying that Hopkins had name-checked me. I had to read it about five times before i got the rather confusing reference, I'm only little.
Tom very generously links to me following much consumption of cheap shitty lager at studey disco, but fails to mention the young lady who came up to him and said "excuse me, are you Tom from Freaky Trigger", surely fame of a Martha Lane Fox-type level can only be around the corner...
JESUS, MARY, MOTHER OF GODThursday, January 25, 2001
OK, so it didn't take me long to crack, i went to NME to listen to the new manics song, I couldn't stop myself. After the relative return to form of "masses" and talk of gigs in Cuba, could like probably my favourite band ever squeeze something half descent from their pie-inflated frames? Could they finally become the New Order to their pre-holy bible joy division? Or could they record the only song of theirs to make me laugh out loud in disbelief...Oh dear, it's the latter. All the little quotes on the site say "spector blahblah beach boys blah" but to me the one overarching influence on this is Joe BLOODY Meek! the organ bit in the middle is excrutiating. Lazy and turgid, two words i never thought i'd find myself associating with the manics. If Simon Price wasn't handing out flyers for shitty midweek clubs outside marilyn manson gigs, he'd be turning in his grave...
NME stuffSaturday, January 20, 2001
Dancing about Architecture features this review of nme.com, which praises the site to the skies.However (i bet you knew that was coming), when i were but an internet virgin about three and a bit years ago, it was so much better. Tim comments on the site still building it's community, but back then there really was a feeling of community, you'd see the same ppl in the chat room, who also posted on the msg board, and conversation was actually fun, rather than just 16 year olds swearing at you. I met loads of lovely fluffy people there, who i've kind of lost contact with now due to my disillusionment with the site.
On buying this week's nme i discovered that they had reinstated holly's demo hell from the maker, unfortunately they haven't got it on the website yet, so if i could point you to the bottom of page 50 and the following "review":
"firing on 8"
"Formed in the summer of 1999, Zipgun set about turning music back to the decadent side." Fancy. This would appear to entail the emulation of nasty 80's rock bands, vocals gruff and sneering, guitars sullied. Sex may or may not have been had. There are also some choice screechy female backing vocals. Oh, and some funky bits. You don't, therefore, need me to tell you that the effect is one of muted, short-lived hilarity and ultimately, sleep.
Why do I care, you ask. Why type out this demolition of some poor little unsigned band? Because, BECAUSE, zipgun are the blokes i used to be in Carsmile with, back in the day, and it warms my heart to see their first national press, honest...
drew *is* a internet genius pt 9800374838274Monday, January 15, 2001
I'd be surprised if anyone reading this doesn't already know about the wonders of LEGO PORN. If fact, I'd just be surprised if anyone was reading this, to be brutally honest. Go on, make my day, send me a mail, someone? anyone? anyone?
bueller? bueller?
Slight ReturnMonday, January 15, 2001
Out on Saturday nite at Strange Fruit, when a noise came from the speakers. "Arurr rur, arurr rur, tickety tick ter tick, tick tick" it went, and suddenly a shiver went down my spine, as i thought "Oh BUGGER, I've left Cannonball out of the overplayed records of the 90s list." I guess it must be the six months i've had with very few indie disco nite's out, with the exception of the ever-terrible-in-a-really-good-way-ee-i-remember-when-i-were-18 panic, which frankly is the 20somethings version of talking about the blitz, "we had nowt but neds atomic dustbin when i were a lad, AND we were happy" etc.
Blast from the PastSunday, January 7, 2001
So I'm bored and trying to see if anyone on n*pster has got any songs by old cheltenham bands. Failing in this, I go for the inevitable google search, which throws up The Ideal Home Page, last updated about a zillion years ago, in fact shortly before they did their infamous gig at JD Peppers, the night the floor collapsed. It also includes very very very short audio snippets, that are about 10 seconds long, and all their reviews and stuff.
Top 10 Overplayed Indie Disco Records of the 1990sSaturday, 6 January 2001
There She Goes - The Las
Killing in the Name of - Rage Against the Machine
Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
Step On - Happy Mondays (followed by)
There's No Other Way - Blur (followed by)
The Only One I Know - The Charlatans
Fools Gold (9.53 mix) - The Stone Roses
Loaded - Primal Scream
Song 2 - Blur
ANY SONG from "The Stone Roses"
I worked out about a year ago that having been at (on average) an indie disco once a week for the previous seven years, I had spent A DAY OF MY LIFE listening to killing in the bastard name of, a record i do not, and have never considered, owning. As you can see, with the exception of Song 2, these are all records from the start of the decade, and which have all become (ahem) classics, but i would happily never listen to any of them again, especially the mondays/charlatans/blur megamix which indie djs seem to be incapable of NOT playing in close proximity to each other. Maybe it's the provincal nature of Cheltenham's indie djs, the need to get the crowd of people dancing, where the majority have more mainstream tastes, but it does seem to be rather endemic at indie events i have attended around the country, even in that London.Perhaps, as Tom suggested the other night, it's because there have been no dancable indie records released in the last 5 years...
Sad Xmas Silly IdeaMonday, December 25, 2000
Prompted by friends on IRC chat, here is a link to some crappy old band's songsI also received the ltle bk of txt msgs for christmas, which includes such classics as MHOTY (my hat's off to you), WUCIWUG (what you see is what you get, rather than the more traditional WYSIWYG) and PITA (pain in the ass), which gives a whole new meaning to the hosts of this lovely weblog...if you have any exciting txt msgs or emoticons you can send them to firstname.lastname@example.com apparently. Personally i think i'l just send them abuse ;) (oh dear)
INTERNET THEIVERY!!!!!!!Saturday, December 23, 2000
Some CHEEKY french automobile type company has registered carsmile.com, the bastards...I found out when starry was webstalking me the other nite. I also found lots of random mentions of carsmile via the wonders of google search. Here are some pics i found (only one of them is me, can you guess which?)me?me?me?me?ah, the wonders of the modern interweb...
Thursday, December 14, 2000
Where were you when you heard? Yes, after seemingly hours of rumour, the maker becomes the latest casualty in the music paper wars, merging with the NME after next week, mind you they're both shite now, but i think a lot of my musical loves and prejudices were formed by reading the music press during my formative years.I know it might be cool or hip to say that one's musical tastes are the result of scouring rack after rack of mouldy vinyl in smelly indie shops or reading cutting edge fanzines, but for a kid growing up in the sticks (like me) the music papers used to be my only link to the outside world, this was when mark goodybags was doing the evening session, and madchester had just been invented. I'm sure i'm not the only one with a large pile of NMEs and MMs in their mum's attic/garage/cupboard under the stairs...so effectively this is the end of, well something, possibly an era, especially as the word brand is mentioned heavily in the statement, wonder what swells will have to say about that...
Saturday, December 9, 2000
So I'm meant to be writing up last weekend for this diary project i said i'd do, and i've had a terrible attack of deadlineophobia, which i suffered from constantly through college, but which i thought i'd probably got over by now, but it turns out i haven't which is a right pain in the arse, and means any plans i had to attempt to launch any kind of journalistic flights of fancy are probably incredibly unlikely.sighI suppose i'm meant to put links and stuff in here, but i always get the feeling that i'm the last to know about things, anyway, here's my favourite ranting forum of the moment I Love Music. There are lots of different questions to rant about, and some of my more eloquent friends contribute quite regularly, which is nice, cos they rarely post to the list any more.Oh, and S Club 7 are the tools of satan, obviously.
Thursday, November 30, 2000
Oh dear, seems to be rather a long time since i updated this, oh well here i am now.Lots of things have happened too, been to New York (which was well cool)(and which there will be pics of soon, once i finish the last film), been to gigs, lost out on winning members of belle and sebastian in on line auctions and generally sat in pubs and stuff.This weekend I'm writing a diary of my weekend along with about 15 other people, most of whom i don't know, and then we'll put it all together an see what it looks like. Fortunately I intend to have a rather exciting weekend exploring what the muppets at NME have decided to christen NAM, possibly the worst acronym since NWONW. Completely co-incidentally i will be seeing a whole swathe of bands who are mainly acoustic, so i will use this opportunity to see if any of them are any cop, and if it's any more of a scene than any of the last half dozen NME constructs.Tonite we have tompaulin and vigilance black special, saturday brings the genital waves, and sunday lowgold and alfie. I shall be drowning in lightly strummed acoustics by next week, and probably railling against the fools at kings reach towers who lazily hump these groups together, that's the plan anyway, lets see how it goes...
WORST BAND EVER!Monday, October 30, 2000
Yes, children, I have seen a band sooo atrocious, so utterly lacking in anything that even vaguely interested me at any level, that I am officially declaring them WORST BAND EVER. And let those who have reckoning understand the name of this beast, and it is QUEEN ADREENA. So basically you've got this horrendous turgid chuga chuga tune free industro-prog-goth-metal trying to sound ever so important and doom laden, whilst some entirely uninteresting, virtually naked woman screams "oh i'm mad, look at me everyone, look at me and feel my pain, oh oh i'm sooooooooo artistic and sad, wearing hardly any clothes cos i'm so artistic and i think i'm going to pretend to fight the guitarist whilst he plays the guitar behind his head as though that will impress us. then i'll wrap the mike wire round my neck lots of times cos that'll make me look fucked up wont it. oh and if i bang the mike against my head that'll be even better oh is it time for another 5 minute chugachuga solo"
To be honest i think i'm making it sound rather more interesting than it was... I think my main difficulty here is not so much that these people actually think they are doing something exciting, important and challenging, a thousand art school/6th form bands have been guilty of that. But these people are GROWN UPS, for fucks sake, none of them will see their mid 20s again. They used to be daisy chainsaw. They were quite funny then. "Love your money" even had a tune. To call this sludge is to be rather disrespectful to primordial gloop.Should know better are the three words that immediately spring to mind, too many drugs are another three. The funny thing is, the venue was rather busy, and although i suspect there was a proportion of the audience who are the sort of people who slow down to watch car crashes, there were people who were clapping and cheering, to my utmost amazement. I just wanted to go up to each and every person who was applauding this care in the community as entertainment and ask them why, why WHY?????? but by the time they finished alcoholic stupor was approaching and i just wanted to dance and forget about it...That'll be the end of the RAWKist revival then
rockist?Saturday, October 28, 2000
I seem to be spending a disproportionate amount of time lately watching bands that could only really be described as RAWK. With the exception of Broadcast, all my recent gigs have been of the loud guitar/large distortion/small children jumping up and down in ridiculously large trousers genre. One of these (The YoYos) could even be described as BLOODY GREAT. Am I, in fact, reverting to my teen years of rockness, or is this just a passing trend, because all the indie bands are sat on their arses staring at their navels whereas rock bands compulsively feel the need to tour shitty little venues thinking that if the combined capacity of all the gigs they do in one year equals 70000 it's the same as playing one night at wembley...
I mean, it's not like i'm listening to this stuff at home, unless mrs carsmile puts it on, it's very much badly drawn boy, the delgados and wheat hogging the d drive at the moment.
The next week seems set to continue this trend, Queen Adreena and Little Hell tonite and an actual RAWK disco for halloween.
Maybe it's time to get the denim jacket out again and see if i can find the old guns n roses t-shirt...
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University of Iowa News Release
Dec. 12, 2011
Hawkeye Poll: Gingrich still leads, but support may be softening
Newt Gingrich continues to retain his frontrunner status in Iowa among candidates seeking the Republican presidential nomination, but his support in the state may be declining, according to a University of Iowa Hawkeye Poll released today.
With the Iowa caucuses just three weeks away, Gingrich retains his lead over Mitt Romney, with 29.8 percent of likely Republican caucus-goers indicating that they would vote for Gingrich and 20.3 percent of the respondents supporting Romney if the caucuses were held today. Ron Paul placed third with 10.7 percent. Among other candidates, Michelle Bachman had 8.5 percent, Rick Perry had 8.2 percent, Rick Santorum had 5.3 percent, Herman Cain had 4.4 percent, and John Huntsman had 1.5 percent.
Cain's announcement to suspend his campaign occurred midway through polling. A comparison of responses before and after his announcement on Dec. 3 shows his support decreasing from 6.5 percent to 2.9 percent. After Cain's departure from the race, the survey found support for Gingrich dropping from 37.7 percent to 24.4 percent. The prime beneficiaries appear to be Paul, whose support increased from 7.1 percent to 13 percent; Perry, who went from 4.8 percent to 10.4 percent; and Santorum, who went from 2.7 percent to 7.0 percent. The percentage of respondents who were not sure who their choice would be also increased from 5.6 percent to 13.8 percent. Cain supporters appear to spread out among the other candidates in the race.
Frederick Boehmke, associate professor of political science in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and faculty adviser of the Hawkeye Poll, says that although Gingrich is currently in the lead, he may be losing support.
"Gingrich's 29.8 percent share among likely GOP caucus-goers still gives him a nine-point lead over Romney, but our results show that his support may be starting to slide as it has with previous frontrunners," Boehmke says. "The gap has closed to 5.1 percentage points even though Romney's support has changed very little."
Gingrich's lead over Romney is smaller among "very likely" caucus-goers, with 29.0 percent stating they would vote for him if the caucuses were held today compared to 22.6 percent who identified Romney as their preferred candidate. This gap widened among those "somewhat likely" to attend the caucuses, with 31.2 percent supporting Gingrich and 16 percent supporting Romney if the caucuses were held today. Among "very likely" caucus-goers, Bachmann placed third with 11.2 percent of respondents.
Similar results occur among "strong" Republicans—28.9 percent would vote for Gingrich and 23.1 percent would vote for Romney if the caucuses were held today. Gingrich's lead is larger when looking at Iowans who identify as Republican but "not strongly." Of those, 35.9 percent would vote for Gingrich and 20.7 percent would vote for Romney in the caucuses. Of those who identified as "not strong" Republicans, 8.6 percent said they would support Paul.
"Gingrich faces at least two obstacles according to our data," Boehmke says. "His run at the top may be starting to tail off as it has for previous front-runners. He also faces the challenge of turning out his supporters on caucus night, which will be critical since the gap between him and Romney is narrower among 'very likely' GOP caucusers and 'strong' Republicans."
Caroline Tolbert, professor of political science in CLAS and co-author of the 2011 book Why Iowa?, says campaigning in Iowa matters for support on caucus night.
"Bachman, Santorum, and Ron Paul have campaigned extensively in Iowa, while Gingrich has spent little time in the state. Romney built a strong network of support in Iowa four years ago that voters remember today," Tolbert says. "Candidate support among strong Republicans and very likely caucus-goers is our best predictor of success in the caucuses, given expected low turnout. While Gingrich is polling well, his minimal staff and grassroots organization in Iowa suggests he may be unable to turnout supporters on Jan. 3 to the same degree as the others."
In Iowa, Independents can register to caucus on caucus night. Of those who identified as Independent leaning Republican, Gingrich still leads (32.3 percent), but Paul (18.5 percent) is preferred over Romney (13.2 percent). Paul fared well among all Independent groups (19.6 percent).
Tea Party supporters may be mobilized this election. Seventy-four percent of likely Republican caucus-goers support the Tea Party. Among respondents who "strongly" or "somewhat" support the Tea Party movement, Gingrich's support is more than twice as high as Romney's. Sixteen percent of supporters would vote for Romney, while 33.8 percent would vote for Gingrich. Bachman had the backing of 11.5 percent of Tea Party supporters and Paul 10.8 percent.
"Gingrich has become the Tea Party candidate in this race, and this bodes well for him," Tolbert says. "Turnout of Tea Party supporters on caucus night could be key to his success in the state."
Romney does better among those who did not express support of the movement, with 38.6 percent of those who "neither support nor oppose" and 36.9 percent of those who "oppose" the movement supporting him.
Preference between the two front-runners varied due to basic demographic factors. Romney received slightly more support among female Iowans than among male Iowans; 23.7 percent of female Iowans would vote for Romney if the caucuses were held today, while 17.6 percent of male Iowans indicated the same preference. In contrast, more male Iowans expressed support for Gingrich (34.4 percent compared to 24.1 percent of female Iowans).
Romney's greatest support came from respondents aged 70 or older (27.9 percent), with other age groups ranging from 11.7 percent (aged 18-34) to 18.8 percent (aged 55-69). Preference for Gingrich was steady across all age groups. If the caucuses were held today, 25.2 percent of Iowans aged 18-34, 35.8 percent aged 35-54, 24.6 percent aged 55-69, and 31.5 percent aged 70 years or older would vote for Gingrich.
Detailed analysis of the poll follows. Topline results for the polls are available at: http://news-releases.uiowa.edu/2011/december/121211Caucus_Hawkeye_Poll_topline.pdf. Poll methodology is available at:http://news-releases.uiowa.edu/2011/december/121211Caucus_Hawkeye_Poll_Methodology.pdf.
Satisfaction with the candidates
Of likely caucus-goers, 11.4 percent either supported "someone else," said they "don't know" who they supported, or refused to respond.
Among likely caucus-goers, 35.0 percent were "very satisfied" with their choices for the Republican nominee, 52.9 percent were "somewhat satisfied," and 12.0 percent were "not satisfied." Of Romney's supporters, 33.5 percent were "very satisfied" with the choices compared to 42.0 percent of Gingrich's supporters.
"These results suggest a very fluid race," Boehmke says. "No one candidate has put together a strong coalition of very satisfied voters. Until they do, support will likely continue to shift between candidates all the way through caucus night."
Effect of gay marriage attitudes
Iowans' attitudes toward gay marriage had some influence upon their preference for a Republican presidential candidate. Romney received support from approximately 25 percent of respondents who said gay couples should be able to legally marry or be in civil unions, and 14.4 percent of respondents who said gay couples should have no legal recognition. Gingrich had more support from respondents who answered in favor of civil unions (31.7 percent) or no legal recognition (30.4 percent), and far less support from respondents in favor of legal marriage for gay couples (17.0 percent).
Despite Gingrich's current success, it could come down to a close race in Iowa. With only 35 percent of likely caucus-goers indicating that they are "very satisfied" with their candidate choices and 11.4 percent of likely caucus-goers still undecided or supporting a candidate other than the major candidates, success in Iowa will depend on who can turn out their supporters on caucus night.
Four years ago, the Hawkeye Poll was the first to see Barack Obama moving closer to then-leader Hillary Clinton among Democratic caucus-goers, and to indicate Mike Huckabee was gaining traction with Republicans. Obama and Huckabee would go on to win the state's first-in-the-nation caucus in January 2008.
The Iowa caucuses will be held Jan. 3, 2012. For related stories and information, visit the UI Election 2012 website at http://www.uiowa.edu/election.
About the Hawkeye Poll
The list of GOP candidates included: Bachmann, Cain, Gingrich, Huntsman, Paul, Perry, Romney, Santorum, "someone else," and "don't know."
Caucus-goers are self-identified. Participants were asked how likely they were to caucus, and for which party. A total of 277 respondents indicated they were "somewhat likely" or "very likely" to attend the 2012 Republican caucuses. The margin of error for the likely caucus-goer subsample is plus or minus 6.0 percent.
Respondents were asked whether they were "very likely," "somewhat likely," "not very likely," or "not at all likely" to attend the 2012 caucuses. Among all registered voters contacted, 42.1 percent said they were "not at all" likely to caucus, while another 19.7 percent said they were "not very likely." These two groups were not considered likely caucus-goers. The remaining 37.8 percent said they were "very likely" (22.9 percent) or "somewhat likely" (14.9 percent) to caucus. A second screen then asked which party's caucus the voter planned to attend. Of the initial screen of likely caucus-goers, 1 percent could not name a party and were dropped. Approximately 36.6 percent of the original registered voter sample is thus classified as "likely caucus-goers." Of the total original registered voter sample, about 23.4 percent are considered likely Republican caucus-goers.
The poll was conducted by the Hawkeye Poll Cooperative, comprised of UI faculty and graduate students in political science. The faculty adviser for the poll is UI Associate Professor of Political Science Frederick Boehmke. The poll used the facilities of the Iowa Social Science Research Center, directed by UI Sociology Professor Kevin Leicht. UI Professor of Political Science Caroline Tolbert is a member of the Hawkeye Poll Cooperative and author of Why Iowa? The poll is a teaching, research, and service project of the Department of Political Science in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. CLAS and the Provost's Office fund the poll.
STORY SOURCE: University of Iowa News Services, 300 Plaza Centre One, Suite 371, Iowa City, Iowa 52242
MEDIA CONTACTS: Frederick Boehmke, Hawkeye Poll, 319-335-2342 (office), 716-866-9277 (cell), firstname.lastname@example.com; Caroline Tolbert, Hawkeye Poll, 319-335-2358 (office), 319-621-8452 (cell), firstname.lastname@example.com; Tom Snee, University News Services, 319-541-8434 (cell), firstname.lastname@example.com; Kelli Andresen, University News Services, 319-384-0070 (office), 319-330-9951 (cell), firstname.lastname@example.com; Natasha Altema, Hawkeye Poll, 404-625-3372 (cell), 319-335-3844 (office), email@example.com


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Early Game: Grab your Meki Pendant and 2 health pots and put your first point into Mystic Shot. Go either mid or into a lane with a partner (Ezreal is too squishy to even think about solo laning!) You can either spam your mystic shot to last hit minions or to harass other champions. Once you get about 1k gold, you can head back if you wish, and buy your Tear to start farming it and your level 1 boots.
Mid Game: Ok so now you should be around level 7-10 depending on whether you went mid or are laning. If you went mid, you start ganking about this time if you can to get some cash and finish off your Manamune and get your Vampiric Scepter as soon as possible. After you get those items, you should be doing pretty good if you are aiming your skill shots right (this DOES take practice, it's not as easy as people think.) Once you get your first Bloodthirster, either jungle to farm up the bonuses or just farm creep waves, whichever you want.
Late Game: Now you should be around level 14-16, with your Manamune, Mercury Treads, and atleast 1 Bloodthirster finished. Once you finish the second, grab your Last Whisper, this should help against those tanks that seem to take just no damage whatsoever from you. You should be hitting pretty hard if both of your bloodthirsters are farmed.
Your ult can be used for both finished off those people you can catch or when your tank initiates a team fight, taking off a chunk of health of any enemies caught in it's path. (I love Amumu for his ult xD)
Ok, I know you are looking at the build and saying "Wtf, there's seven complete items up there??" Well thats because they are condition dependent. If your doing pretty good and not dieing a whole lot, get the Infinity Edge. If you seem to be dieing in almost every team fight then grab Frozen Mallet.
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Saturday, August 16, 2003
black(out) cat & cups
spending the afternoon with a delicious black cat, which is lovely served in intelligentsia's own logo cups.
these are the great italian-sized bar cups from ancap; sturdy, comfy, fit snugly on the saucer. all good. cute.
for those -- what, the 3 coffee lovers left maybe? -- who haven't yet tried the "new" black cat, it's a sweet, full coffee, with a roasty anise fragrance, great dutch cocoa & spicy-thyme thing going on. long dry finish.
creamy, lightly syrupy body that thinly coats the back of the demitasse spoon. soft, generous crema.
the batch i got was roasted to some oil -- not really oily, but more than patches of oil. beyond what i'd call medium-dark maybe into lightly dark dark?
more than other coffees i've had recently the black cat coats the tongue. actually colored mine an amusing milk-chocolate-on-the-face hue.
i made it on silvia after 20 mins. and again at about 60 mins. that is a maybe slightly cool silvia, and a maybe slightly hot silvia.
black cat didn't seem too picky, and was good both times in a classic 27 second double.
it grinds very nicely. i set the mazzer at 4 notches to left of the arrow decal and went to town. it's just an easy coffee to work with not finicky.
plus, i love that doug gave me a born-on roast date: 8/11.
iirc, doug likes the black cat at about 72 hours rest, so maybe mine was a bit past absolute perfection, still within the realm of ideal.
did i forget to say doug zell rocks?
now let's talk about black cat in milk. the cappucino cup doug sent is just a joy to hold, with a good no-dribble rim.
the cocoa taste of the coffee sings out in milk, so in an italian-sized cappucino, there's almost more of a hot-chocolate feeling than a coffee one.
i made the cappucino in carlos expobar, just shoving the cup under the spouts and pouring for 18-20 seconds.
what's interesting is that no matter how fine the grind, i'm discovering that carlos pours faster than silvia. that is, the time before the coffee "mousetails" lightens is always shorter than on silvia.
i wonder if this is caused by carlos' professional-style pre-infusion? it's not his filter hole size, because i am now using the stock silvia double basket in carlos as an experiment. . .
what's new is that with his lower temperature i am slowly and painfully coming closer and closer to the level of microfoam i can achieve on silvia.
which causes my husband to complain that i should just switch back to the rancilio for good (hey glenn surlet, have you been talking to mr. right?) because he loves the foam probably more than the coffee!
however, i did manage this afternoon to pour a sloppy heart latte with carlos' foam, so i am perhaps getting somewhere at tortoise speed. . .
let me just repeat that i'm loving the black cat and the cups. in wilder moments i perhaps fitfully consider decamping to chicago to sit on doug's doorstep and asking him to autograph the saucers for me. . .
then i remember -- chicago. . .!
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Friday, August 15, 2003
coffee during the great blackout
so i was in my office at ground zero at 4:08pm yesterday with a project due at 4:15. entire day had been a mad scramble.
then, boom. the blackout. we lost all power immediately. since by now we at the great little company i work for are well-practiced in fleeing manhattan over the brooklyn bridge on foot, we did so.
i happened to be wearing isaac mizrahi straw mules with wooden kitten heels. perhaps not the best shoes for such a trek. but about 500,000 people went over the bridge with me at that time, and i must say the view was lovely.
along the way people were good humored, telling jokes, stories. . .some young african-american men were singing a frankly vulgar impromptu rap song about the blackout, 'hos, and bush. . .(the president i think but perhaps it was a double entendre) anyway you probably can figure out the gist.
on the bridge the general consensus was that mayor bloomberg has definitely lost any hope for re-election now. not that it was his fault, or that the city agencies were unprepared. (long-time readers know bccy is absolutely no fan of bloomberg.)
but really -- new york needs more power strategies and he should have figured that out after 9-11. same goes for gov. pataki too.
all in all it was a tremendous day to run over the bridge light-heartedly with your fellow new yorkers in all their fabulous and fascinating variety.
got home to bklyn finally at about 5:26pm. i love isaac and his shoes, but my feet hurt.
mr. right and i decided to hang upstairs in our still house until dinnertime, when we strolled down the street to a local turkish restaurant with a pleasant garden.
the local wine store was pouring the last of its somewhat-kinda-chilled italian white and handing out cheese on the street corner. a few people had set up bbq grills in the street.
the atmosphere was decidedly festive. everyone hung out along the brooklyn promenade to see a dark manhattan -- except for downtown below city hall, where most wall street buildings had acquired their own generators after 9-11. there the lights blazed merrily.
catch a clue, bloomberg! but eventually everyone treaded home, dreading the usual blackout ritual: the ceremonial eating of the ice cream before it turned to soup.
mr. right and i had a pint of super-primo dark chocolate gelato, which we devoured with great sorrow and anguish by candle light. we listened on our battery-operated radio to the intrepid reporters of wnyc as they phoned it in: "yup, no lights."
then bloomberg spoke, promising power in "3 or 4 hours." in your dreams, mean mayor mike.
amazing. i awoke at 7:15am to no power and desperate for coffee. but naturally, i have no pre-ground coffee in the house! and no way to grind it short of mortar and pestle!
thus i dug out my trusty bodum french press, heated some water, and cracked open a tin of illy espresso pods the wonderful todd of wholelattelove had given me.
you guessed it -- 6 coffee pods into the french press, measured in the water at 200 degrees, let 'em steep for 4 mins. and wa-llah. best use of coffee pods ever.
as i was drinking my morning coffee, the phone rang. my boss; no work today. as i hung up the phone. . .power! everything lit up like a movie set at exactly 8am.
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Thursday, August 14, 2003
up dog sir yes sir
i imagine camoflauge sticky mats. but seriously, proof that yoga is totally mainstream now.
and here's a woman who's made the right move!
i wish her all success in the coffee business, which, as far as i can tell, is just about the most female-friendly and supportive trade there is.
she needs, however, to hook up with one of my favorite groups, women in coffee. . .
and her new shop will definitely succeed if she serves these fabulous chocolate cookies (and with a nod to bruce cole today, log on your own bad self in: saute, wednesday) from jacques torres. mr. right adores 'em!
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Wednesday, August 13, 2003
4 reasons doug zell rocks
doug zell rocks because he's sweet enough to take time from his day to chat with a coffee lover;
doug zell rocks because after he's been sweet enough to take time from his day to chat with a coffee lover, he sends you the latest greatest black cat blend;
doug zell rocks because after he's been sweet enough to take time from his day to chat with a coffee lover, he sends you the latest greatest black cat blend, and tosses in a cappucino cup and a demitasse with the cool intelligentsia logo!
this isn't some kind of unusual thing either, apparently. it's the corporate philosophy over there. that's just the way intelligentsia works.
and that's the 4th reason doug zell rocks.
in other coffee news, that silly show queer eye for the straight guy briefly embraced coffee yesterday. it was pretty amusing to watch "jai," the so-called "culture vulture," run over to buy some flavored "swiss chocolate" whole bean coffee from new york's chelsea coffee company.
well, i delivered my flavored coffee spiel yesterday. add the straight guy to that 25%!
then jai attempted to teach the truly hapless straight guy how to use a cafetiere, or french press. amusing. "french press: makes the boldest coffee," proclaimed the intertitle.
while jai showed him how to boil water, pour it on the grounds, and then press down, i started to freak out. wait jai!
he's supposed to time the thing for a couple of minutes! stir the coffee! let it bloom! and what about the water tempera. . .
oh, never mind. i do measure the temperature of my water with an instant-read stick thermometer every time.
more seriously, we haven't done people any favors by introducing them to coffee equipment if we don't tell 'em how to use it correctly. still i do applaud jai's effort.
and i have a special little bodum timer that sits on the shaft of the press below the knob that dings when the coffee's done steeping. why they don't sell this useful little gadet on their website, i have no idea.
of course, this is how i enjoy that yrg from gillies i keep rambling on about. . .
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Tuesday, August 12, 2003
horse latte-tudes
but how does it foam? can you pour a heart or rosetta latte?
and what's interesting about this release is not the new fabulous snickerdoodle macaroni mustard flavored coffees, but rather the fact that flavored coffee is the fastest growing sector of the market.
i knew about 20-25% of coffee lovers adore their morning french vanilla-hazelnut (hello, hy chabbott, wherever you are!) but its increasing popularity speaks to me as sign from heaven pointing to the public's dissatisfaction with the poor quality of most people daily coffee experiences.
i mean, if your regular cup tastes blah, why not the liverwurst and mango chutney? still every coffee has its own audience, and that's all good. coffee culture is a big tent to which we welcome everyone. . .
if people move from boring commercial coffee up to flavored specialty, at least there is the opportunity for them to learn about and be exposed to finer beans.
and then maybe when they taste a wonderful caramel cup of truly premium coffee, they will experience the epiphany. . .
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Monday, August 11, 2003
weeping, gnashing, weeping
we here at bccy try to keep abreast of new coffee developments, which unfortunately means we run into some real horrors.
for example, i have spent most of this summer actively avoiding the new nescafe "coffee" concentrate product.
since i never go to the coffee aisle in my local supermarket, i am fortunately spared the sight of such things. but sometimes they sneak up on you: this steamy morning i came into work to discover a colleague actually had a bottle of this stuff on their desk.
while i was brewing up my usual morning yrg from don schoenholt's gillies, she was happily shaking up her french vanilla cafe in a travel cup with her thumb over the sip hole.
the web page on this product is just fearful. i was relieved to discover that the so-called "chocolate mocha" flavor does contain real cocoa. the question the faq doesn't answer: does it contain real coffee?
or is it that grade 8 by-product trash? i mean, this is exactly the application for this kind of "coffee."
i so sweetly asked my colleague what she liked about this product.
of course, it is cheap and theoretically convenient. and more importantly, almost unbearably sweet. . .made as recommended with whole milk or half-n-half, it delivers that fat-n-sugar combo americans everywhere crave. as ted lingle of the scaa cleverly observes: "this is the ice-cream market."
dear readers, please resist these crimes against actual pleasure. take time to enjoy your life with premium specialty coffee instead of stirring some chemicals into a dash of milk with your thumb at your desk while you simultaneously attempt to peruse an excel spreadsheet. . .
these supposedly convenient products are actually robbing you of the quality coffee experience you deserve. think about it. . .
it takes only minutes to make stunningly lovely iced coffee drinks -- if you don't trust me, trust don schoenholt!
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Sunday, August 10, 2003
another case where it all comes together like pizza dough
long-time readers know i've written about colombian president uribe before. he's interesting to me from a number of angles: yogi, comes from a coffee family, in charge of a number of interesting programs to develop higher-quality coffee in his country. . .
for example, his plan to open juan valdez coffeeshops around the u.s.a. the first was originally planned for miami last year, but actually i think may instead open here in new york next year.
this article highlights his success as president and notes his habit of practicing yoga nidra. this yogic technique has also long interested me.
in the "it's a small world category" actually i recently discovered a lovely lady with whom i often do yoga is an old school chum of uribe's sister, and her mother works with a charity for disabled people that has long been associated with the uribe family's support.
those of you who don't practice much yoga, and may not have time for meditation, might enjoy trying yoga nidra at home. it's true it takes about 20-40 minutes, which seems like a lot of time for crazed new yorkers.
for you, i've suggested trataka, or candle-gazing. i understand k. p. jois takes this practice seriously himself.
once again, i was discussing this with yoga regular and massage therapist seth asher when a newer yoga student piped up that her husband swore by 3 minutes of trataka a day.
if only my smoke alarm wasn't so sensitive. . .
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The Commission fulfills the mandate to enhance awareness on human rights and civic duties as a constitutional mandate under article 59(2) (a) which is 'to promote respect for human rights and develop a culture of human rights in the republic; and 'to formulate, implement and oversee programmes intended to raise public awareness of the rights and obligations of a citizen under the Constitution'. In order to develop and sustain a culture of human rights, the duty bearers and rights holders (the public) need to be aware of their rights and be sufficiently empowered to claim them. The mandate is fullfilled through;
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The program initiated efforts to infuse the Human Rights Based Approach (HRBA) in the public sector. This is being done through trainings geared towards enhancing the practical application of this approach. HRBA addresses five key questions: Who is left behind; why are they left behind; who is responsible; what needs to be done and what resources are required? HRBA also Identifies right holders and duty bearers and aims to fill their capacity gaps; Promotes institutional and behavioural changes of duty bearers; Leads to optimal utilization of resources; Shifts focus from average targets to disparities beyond the targets; Empowers rights holders to claim their rights; Prioritizes the rights of marginalized groups; Promotes participation and information sharing and Enhances accountability for results and process. In this light, the program has engaged the offices of the Prime-Minister on performance contracting, Ministry of State for Planning and National Development and Vision 2030 to ensure that Human Rights standards drive the formulation and evaluation of policy cycle process.
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Although I can't knock Little Mix or Katy Perry for signing on to put their names against beauty accessories they'd actually use, I can't see the logic behind this range. In fact, when it landed in my inbox I actually laughed out loud and proceeded to tweet the breaking news to see if I was the only one that saw the comedy value. The products aren't actually bad, offering a basic level of styling with no glitz or glamour (oh the irony) and an affordable price point of only £3.00-£4.00. However, I just can't see who this would appeal to. If you're a true TOWIE fan, surely you want to look flawless and need some high powered products and a subscription of fake tan, not a cheap and cheerful hairspray in a bright pink bottle? Maybe there are a barrage of teenage Joey fans foaming at the mouth and awaiting this line and I'm just too old to understand it. What do you think?
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A while back, I wrote a post tying the release of WWE's Rise and Fall of WCW DVD with some of my experiences surrounding the WCW New Blood Rising pay-per-view. The release of the DVD and the date of the PPV event are very close, albeit years separated.
This time around, with today being WWE's annual SummerSlam event, I wanted to take you back to a fond memory spurred by my father's recent birthday (August 18th).
SummerSlam has always been one of my favorite annual events, going all the way back to the inaugural show in 1988 from Madison Square Garden. Back then, pay-per-view was not widely available in Canada (and wouldn't be for several more years), so I had to wait until the VHS tape was released to see the event.
In 1989, the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver, BC hosted a live closed-circuit broadcast of the second SummerSlam event, which boasted a main event of Hulk Hogan and Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake versus Randy "Macho Man" Savage and Zeus (actor Tiny Lister of Friday fame reprising his role from the Hulk Hogan movie No Holds Barred).
You can imagine a young boys excitement when my father decided to get tickets and take me to the closed-circuit viewing…my first live PPV event.
The Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver is interchangeably known as the PNE Coliseum, and it resides on the grounds of the annual PNE event, the Pacific National Exhibition. The PNE features roller coasters, carnival, livestock shows, concerts, you name it. It's kind of like a ramped-up county fair. Unfortunately for my father and I, SummerSlam came right smack-dab in the middle of the PNE, making parking a nightmare. Scratch that, it wasn't a nightmare, it was impossible.
Every parking lot on the grounds was full. Adjacent parking lots were full as well. I'm not sure what we did, but I think we may have just paid a local resident to park in their driveway (that used to be common in the area before the city put the ixnay on it). We finally got the car parked what seemed like a million miles away from the area and began to race there on foot, knowing the event was already starting.
We very quickly realized that we would have to pretty much walk around the entire perimeter of the PNE grounds to get to an open gate that would let us in. Everything was fenced off due to the fair to keep both vehicle and foot traffic under control. Then my dad came up with the idea of scaling a chain link fence to get into the grounds in order to get to the arena faster. Now, I will have to be careful how I word this … My father is a larger man. I was silently afraid that he might a.) not be able to scale the high fence, or b.) embarrass himself, thereby embarrassing me.
It was really quite silly to be so concerned. In his younger years, my father was quite an athlete, excelling at both soccer and judo. Of course, he made it over the fence with no problems, and encouraged me to do the same, which I did.
This is where the story gets good…
There was a couple behind us watching us do this. A guy and his girlfriend, I presume. It just so happened that they were also heading to the arena to watch SummerSlam. They quickly realized we were onto something by scaling the fence, and proceeded to follow us. The girl made it over fine. The guy? Well, he didn't fare quite so well.
The problem with chain link fences is that sometimes they are a little spiky on top. If you are a fella, you have to be aware of this to ensure you don't injure your delicate man-parts. I would assume it is the same for the ladies, only if you are a lady and have man-parts, then scaling a fence should be the least of your concerns.
Anyhow, this guy wasn't paying close enough attention. He climbed up, swung one leg over, and the crotch of his jeans got a little snagged on the top of the fence. He didn't get hurt or anything, his pants just got caught. He wiggled around a bit up there (which looked REALLY weird) and managed to get free. Feeling that he was in the clear, he went to swing his other leg over the top of the fence for the descent. This is when it all happened. His jeans got caught again. This time, quite badly. REALLY badly.
I think when his pants got caught the first time, it left a little hole in his pants. Fences can be mean, cruel, horrible things, and they will capitalize on any weakness they detect. Well, I can only assume that has this guy swung his second leg over the fence, the little hole got snagged and became a much bigger hole. At the same time, he was all tangled and caught up to the point where he was stuck up there. He wriggled and jiggled around, trying to get free of the evil fence's grip, and then it happened…
Before you knew it, this poor man was hanging upside-down from the fence. Arms were flailing. Legs were kicking. The crotch of his jeans (or what was left of it), solidly and tightly wound around the top of the fence still. Seriously. Picture a guy hanging head-first from a fence totally stuck and defenseless. That was this guy.
And in case you are wondering, I have no earthly explanation for why neither my dad or I tried to help him out. I do know that all the while, his girlfriend just stood there and let it happen, so technically, she is a worse person than we were. Left to his own devices, he finally did a sort of a sit-up and tried to free himself. I guess the strength of the denim of his jeans finally gave out, and he looked like he was repelling to the ground – using his pants instead of a rope.
I don't think I have to tell you that his pants were destroyed. Well, the legs of his jeans were fine, but his tighty-whiteys were on full display. In fact, the entire fly and crotch area of his jeans were gone, and his pants were only still intact on the sides. In other words, he looked like a dude in his underwear wearing chaps. And now he had to walk through the middle of the PNE fair, and then into an arena filled with thousands of wrestling fans.
My dad and I finally made it into the arena, although we missed what was a fine match between the Hart Foundation and the Brain Busters. It was worth it. While we missed the match, we bonded as father and son should. By watching a man completely humiliate himself in public. Obviously, I have never forgotten that day, or the lesson we both learned…
We are better at climbing fences than that guy.
My dad just celebrated what I believe was his 67th birthday. Way to go, dad! In addition to that, he's decided to leave his job at the Manawatu Standard to pursue more exciting, personally fulfilling endeavours. Knowing him, that'll just lead to even more crazy stories to tell.
Oh, I don't think my dad ever even liked wrestling. He just put up with it for my sake. In doing so, he took me to a gazillion live shows as a kid, and we continued to go to shows together into my teenage years. he even took me to my first-ever indy show, which I suppose indirectly led to me becoming a wrestler myself. And when I did, he was always a million percent supportive.
Yup, my dad is a pretty awesome dude.
Actually, he could very well be the reason why I look forward to SummerSlam ever year. Because I know that when I think of SummerSlam, I always think of our fence-climbing, pants-ripping adventure.


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Providence, RI (PRWEB) May 05, 2016
Emily Ellyn, best known as the Retro Rad Chef from Food Network, will be a keynote speaker at the 20th annual National Education Conference for Personal Chefs. Chef Ellyn has appeared on "Food Network Star," "Cupcake Wars" and most recently as the winner of "Cutthroat Kitchen." She's also a culinary educator and food writer, who writes for "edible" magazine and is the Cake Genius at "Cake Central" magazine. She is among almost 40 speakers who will address the personal chef attendees.
"It's an honor and a privilege to be invited to this year's USPCA Conference," said Chef Emily. "I'm excited to share my love for culinary, and certain I'll find inspiration in the exchange of thoughts and ideas with fellow speakers, sponsors, and attendees. I look forward to being part of this year's conference and celebrating the association's 25th anniversary."
Registration is now open for the Conference, which will be hosted at the Omni Providence Hotel in Rhode Island from Thursday, July 7 through Sunday, July 10, 2016. The event, hosted by the United States Personal Chef Association is the largest gathering of personal chefs anywhere and is filled with sessions on everything a personal chef needs to become successful, including business development, sales and marketing, cooking techniques, and hands-on classes.
Chef Emily grew up harvesting food and raising animals on a farm in rural Ohio. Eager to dive into the culinary field, she worked in Cleveland's top restaurants and started her own catering company while still in high school. Upon leaving Ohio, Emily graduated with a degree in Restaurant Management from the Culinary Institute of America (CIA) in Hyde Park, New York. There, she worked as a teaching assistant until moving to Paris to attend graduate school at Academie Internationale de Management. Emily then went on to earn two master's degrees in Hospitality Management; one in Paris and one from UCF's Rosen College of Hospitality Management in Orlando.
"We are thrilled to host Chef Emily at this year's Conference," said Larry Lynch, president of the United States Personal Chef Association. "Chef Emily's story is one that all personal chefs can relate to and one that we know will inspire our attendees to take their businesses to the next level."
USPCA members can attend the conference for $525.Nonmembers can attend for $600. To register or learn more about the USPCA's National Education Conference, visit http://www.uspca.com/conference.