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Published: 2001/11/19
by Dean Budnick
Dan Bern's New American Language
Dan Bern has a dream. Well okay, he has several. Review his deep catalog of music, a portion of which appears on his five releases, hundreds more which he dips into in the live setting and you'll see that these topics include both the profound and profane (the Oklahoma City bombing, Marilyn Monroe's hypothetical marriage to Henry and not Arthur Miller, the Jonesboro, Arkansas school shootings, Chares Manson's last name and his own testicles to name but five). But on the title track of his new album New American Language, Bern intones:
"And I have a dream of a New American Language
One with a little bit more Spanish
I have a dream of a new pop music
That tells the truth, with a good beat and some nice harmonies
I have a dream"
These lyrics inform much of the interview that follows. It is well-worth noting, though, that New American Language is Bern's most robust disc to date, containing a number of wry pop-culture-inflected musings but also touching on broader topics as well with Bern's signature wit and vigor. In addition, he is backed by a full band {the International Jewish Banking Conspiracy] not only on the disc, but also on his current tour, which concludes in Anchorage, AK on December 15. An evening with Bern offers discursive monologues by turns trenchant and surreal (sometimes simultaneously so), oft-twisted audience participation and above all else, plenty of engrossing, ruminant music. Stop by www.danbern.com for more details.
Budnick- I'd like to start out and talk about the role of tradition in American music and how significant it is to your own efforts.
Bern- On the one hand there' so much to draw from but it's kind of like being the ninth brother in the family of eleven and you have to struggle sometimes to establish your own identity.
Budnick- You have that song Taking Woody, Bob, Bruce, Dan Blues" [on Bern's last release Smartie Mine] which touches on the issue. In writing and performing, to what extent do you think a musician should be mindful of heroes and influences?
Bern- I think that comes out in the music itself, in the style and obvious inescapable sounds, cadences, rhythms and rhymes. Like in that song, I feel that those guys are older brothers and they all were four-sports stars in high school and everybody loved them and they've got a million trophies on the shelf. Then its like you feel like you wanna do those sports too and you have the right and the ability too and all the teachers will say "Ahh I had Bruce in my class. He was really good. I loved him, he was a great kid." [Laughs] Then you can quit or take a complete departure that might not be you or you can just keep going and find your own voice.
Budnick- You had your own struggle along these lines?
Bern- For a long time when I was singing I would actually hear somebody else's voice because I was so familiar with those voices and they were such a part of how I came to be doing what I was doing. These reference points can provide support as well as be crutches. But in my case it was gradual and a process because I started to shed those things. Sometimes they outlive their usefulness in a certain way, not that you can't go back to them and revisit and get the same thrill that you got before but you stop relying on them for your own expression.
Budnick- Well to return to your sports metaphor, one difference is that they were playing on a more level playing field, in that radio in particular tended to embrace a wider span of sounds. Nowadays things have become more atomized, with rather tight niches.
Bern- I don't know to what extent those guys paid a whole lot of attention to radio, Maybe Bruce and Bob at some point. And although they weren't Elvis in terms of a million number one singles, they did have access to that. I have operated under the assumption that I have no access to any of that but maybe there's a freedom there too. I can do anything I want and there's no thought of any restriction, there's nobody telling me, "Well if you just cut nine of these verses," (laughs) or "This is not a suitable subject matter," or whatever. Again, it's a double-edged sword. People who are writing for radio have a certain discipline but there are restrictions.
Budnick- Have you ever given serious consideration about doing what needs to be done to become a pop radio hero? You reference a re-imagined pop music in the title track of New American Language
Bern- In times gone by I may have said, "God, if I could just get a song on the radio" But people have said that the worst thing that could happen is to get just one song and that's the only song people know you by. They suggest that it would not be a satisfying thing. It's weird because people will ask for songs and I'll have no idea how they would have heard them and oftentimes I didn't even know them anymore.
Budnick- Let's talk about your live shows. At times you can be a forceful presence on the stage. In your mind what responsibility does a performer have to an audience?
Bern- I think some musicians feel a huge responsibility to their audience. I talked to Janis Ian once and she's been playing "At Seventeen" for a while now. I said, "Do you ever get tired of singing that song?" She said, "No I sing that song at every show because that's what people come to hear and I'm responsible to them in that way." Some musicians feel a very spiritual connection to their audience, some feel that this might be the only time in the month that people come to sing, dance and let go and they feel almost a religious responsibility to provide that.
Budnick- How do you feel?
Bern- I do feel a lot of that. I feel incomplete unless someone comes away from one of my shows and they've laughed, cried, sung and maybe danced depending on the situation. Interaction is really important, connection is really important. Although you can't run out there and have their experience for them. I think it changes from show to show and tour to tour. Right now in these timesRight after September 11 I thought, "How can I go tour now?" which in a few days morphed into "Well I have to go tour now, it's the only thing to do." I'm not a fireman or a demolitions expert. So right now I'm not feeling as demanding of the audience as I sometimes have. There have been times when I've been confrontational, when I insisted that they participate in certain things and pushed and cried until that happened. I guess I'm feeling a little bit gentler right now and I think that people are coming together and I feel like my job right now is to provide fun and music and a place to feel something real and connected.
Budnick- I can remember at one of your Berkfest sets you were up there by yourself and everyone was sitting down listening, except for one woman who was twirling near the front of the stage, really slowly. I would imagine that is something you didn't see, at least not in the early days of your career.
Bern- As I've grown up and loosed up I've come to welcome an ever-widening spectrum of people who are listening and do whatever. Maybe ten years ago it was important to me to feel like everyone was hearing every word, digesting every word I'm saying. But now I feel that if someone wants to express themselves while I'm playing that there's infinite room for that. If I see someone painting or dancing or stripping off their clothes, whatever, that's alright. I'd rather have them doing that than feeling like they have to be stiff like they're at a lecture. It makes me freer.
Budnick- Now you're out with a band. Was the decision to tour with a group a reflection of that attitude?
Bern- Well I think we pick up more rhythm and more melody and it's just more musical. There are some restrictions, though, I guess you could say. I'm less likely to totally go off on tangents but I think we pick up a lot. It's much more likely that people will dance, and I think its a richer musical thing, a bigger experience- a bigger experience for me and a bigger experience for somebody who's there watching. It's a less literary experience. It's less like a book reading.
Budnick- Since you brought that up what do you think is the relationship literature and music?
Bern- I think a song is lyrics, melody and rhythm all worked together. Or let's say words and music, words and melody, because I think rhythm is in both, the lyric and the melody, so it's half of the equation. To me if there's a twenty minute musical jam that's great but that's not a song. If a poem is read, it's obviously a hugely rich thing but it's not a song. A song is the words wrapped together with the music, so the literary aspect is part and parcel of it, it's just not the only thing. People come up to me and say, "You're a poet," and I say, "Thank you" but in my mind poetry is without the music. I understand the poetic strains of it, how it resembles poetry but we say "His swing was poetic" so we use that term loosely. To me a poem is strictly just the naked words on the page.
Budnick- Moving back to the band, I know that when you perform by yourself you do so without a setlist, just allowing the show to flow as you see fit. To what extent have you modified this approach with the group?
Bern- When I started out by myself and I became more comfortable that allowed me the freedom to depart and not feel like I was lost or that it's okay to be lost because I knew how to bring it back. I think it's also a function of the audience. Certain audiences will allow for more of that than others. With the band, we just played a show in Dallas and the guitar player said, "Man you're becoming like Zappa as a band leader." It was a crazy, crazy show. It was like I was conducting an orchestra at times and in two a half hours we played seven actual songs and the rest was just other stuff. It was very improvisational. Right now we're at the beginning of a tour but once we have everything really nailed down then that allows for freedom and improvisation.
Budnick- Are you able to draw on your full catalog of music with the band?
Bern- They're all very aware and encouraging of that. A couple of them probably know three or four hundred of my songs and the other two probably know a couple hundred, and I always have the freedom to just play something by myself or play a section by myself. I think that all of the shows we've done so far have been pretty different and we've covered a fairly big swath of the kind of things I'm likely to do. It seems like every show we do we covers new ground.
Budnick- How would you place your latest release, New American Language within the context of your work?
Bern- I think as a record it's the best one. I spent a lot more time with it than any of the others. I think there's a lot of songs on the other records that I still do and always will be important and relevant and special for me but with those I felt like I had moved on before they were even out. It was hard sometimes to go off on a tour with those records and play more than a couple of songs. This one feels different. At this point I feel more connected to this one than I did with the other records at a similar point. After September 11 I was really glad that we made the record that we did. For instance if we had made Fifty Eggs and then this happened I think it could have felt obsolete and not the right tone. This one grew out of a lot of changes, the millennial changes and some personal stuff that almost mirrored that, so it was very personal and much less pop culture-driven, so it feels maybe a little more timeless than the others.
Budnick- Was it difficult winnowing down songs from among the hundreds you have?
Bern- It always is and the funny thing is while you're trying to narrow songs down you're also continuing to live and reacting to the process so new songs get written. Like "Estelle" [From Dan Bern] got written while we in the studio doing that one, and "God Said No" got written while we were in the studio doing this one. I find that lot of songs emerge while we're in the process.
Budnick- I can imagine certain people taking issue with "God Said No," particularly if they're not listening that closely. How do you react to that sort of feedback?
Bern- I try to remain neutral in that I sort of throw out the highs and the lows. Somebody can come and tell me that listening to a song got them through a suicidal moment and saved their life and at that point I'm glad. "Thank you for telling meand where did I put my coffee cup?" And somebody can tell me, You're the antichrist," or "Why did you do that, it was too painful I couldn't hear that?" I have this song "New York City 911," a lot of it is almost reporter-like, sort of like "Oklahoma" or "Kid's Prayer" along those lines but about September 11. Of all the songs I play people react particularly to that one and mostly positively but sometimes someone will say, "That song was too harsh, too painful, I couldn't hear it." That's one side of the coin and I say, "Thank you for telling me that but it's important for me to write it. It's important for me to play it. That's what I do and not everything is for everybody."
Budnick- I'd like to move back to the new release. You sing "I have a dream of a new pop music That tells the truth, with a good beat and some nice harmonies." Do you think that possible?
Bern- I think it's always possible. That's a dream that you almost have to have, a meaningful yet widely heard and accepted music is what every musician and generation looks for I think. Phil Ochs wanted to do that. That's why he got into that Elvis gold lame suit. He wanted to combine Dylan and Elvis, I think he wanted to find that new music that told the truth and sounded good.
Budnick- Do you think we're any further down the path than he was [Editor's note: Ochs took his own life on April 7, 1976]? And if you do, what makes you think so?
Bern- Speaking personally, I never thought I'd get to the point where I can go from coast to coast Alaska to Florida to the Northeast and across the Midwest. When I do, there are people I have no idea how they got there and no idea how they know the songs. When you're seventeen you dream that by the time you're eighteen you'll be playing for millions but you work through that and now I feel like I'm ahead of the game. So faith, man, I keep a lot of faith. Faith in everything right now. It would be easy to say. "What's the point, if I open an envelope I might die. If I get in a plane to see my honey I might die," and it's easy to say "Forget everything." But then you realize that's always been true, it's just more apparent and obvious right now. But I approach everything with faith. For instance I'd much rather be hanging home with my honey right now than running around the country with a bunch of guys in an RV but with all of us, we don't put it in so many words but there's some belief that it's important.


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My Ghoul Friday
I've tossed this idea around for a long time, and finally sat down to put it together. I think it's pretty cute.
I wanted to put together very simple sculpture displays in jars. I've started with a group of ghosts (below) and a family of owls in a nest (left).
I like the idea of having Halloween sitting on a shelf like a preserve, just as you would with peaches or other summer fruits that remind you of warmer days during the winter.
I'm going to make a pumpkin one as well, and bring all three to my next convention to see how people respond to them. Perhaps I'll make an entire series for the fall if folks respond well. We'll see.
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Here I am, rushing around, trying to get ready for next week's convention, and I realize I haven't introduced you to a couple of minions that will grace my table. I've taken a moment out of the madness to post one of them.
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Neville smiles, careful not to show his teeth, and continues on with his pumpkin lantern lighting the way.
It's been a while since I've seen these figures grace my worktable. Perhaps that's why Series 7 of my Plague Doctor collection has 9 figures in total instead of 4 or 5.
They still need touch ups, and when that's done, I'll add them to the Art Ghoullery so those who'd like a closer look can take a peek.
Brimston straddles the line between bat and demon. While he was not born of the deepest fiery depths (else he may have been named Brimstone with an e), he still has some nasty personality traits.
He constantly produces a slime - from his nose, eyes, and mouth - that inevitably coats everything he comes in contact with. This includes his trusty staff from which he displays the day's trophies. The slime is like a pheromone-signature: one sniff and other creatures know he owns a particular item (or has at least made a claim on something).
Brimston spends his day collecting: shiny objects; squishy objects; smelly objects; foul objects. Generally speaking, if it's shiny or gross, Brimston must have it. And if it's both? Even better.
He prefers to travel at night, but has been known to venture out in the daylight when he's on the trail of a particularly coveted target.
Mad Melvin is a trapper. He tracks, catches and skins smaller animals - possum, chickens, rats, that sort of thing - and barters for goods with their pelts.
Fur is fur, and meat is meat. He does not have discerning tastes or preferences. Anything smaller than him and furry is fair game (except guinea pigs. Mad Melvin loves guinea pigs. If you were ever to visit his shot gun shack by the river, you may be shocked to find dozens of the little critters sitting on arm rests and on top of the radio and under the table, munching happily on browned lettuce).
Melvin's spent most of his life scurrying around in the brush or down city alleyways, moving very much like the vermin he tracks.
He's constantly talking to himself and snickering. With the exception of the guinea pigs, Melvin lives alone - no friends, no family - and that's how he likes it.
At the end of a long day, if you stand outside the shack, you can hear scratchy records playing and Marvin's boot-heels clacking on the floorboards. You might even catch his silhouette - a shadow against the firelight - twirling past the window as he whoops it up.
I still have 2 more minions to finish, plus two more to post, so I thought I would combine 4 little guys together.
They've all been posted in the Art Ghoullery, so if you'd like to see more images or read more of their story (though these folks have short bios), head over there. Starting from left to right:
Nervous Nelly may be a black cat, but she doesn't care for creepy things.
Franklin likes to bust a move at the legion.
Grumpy Gus will attend your Halloween party, but he won't like it.
Woody is hopeful you'll think his ears are endearing.
I've commented before on this blog on my odd subconscious aversion to classic Halloween characters or icons. Yes, I make pumpkins. But if you go back through my catalogue of minions, you won't find too many recognizable Halloween classics.
There's nothing wrong with that, it just surprises me.
A while ago I made the the Witch in the Woods, but she still didn't fit that archetype. Which again is fine.
This time, I dove in with focus: pointy hat. Black scraggly hair. Greenish skin.
Wilhemina lives in the suburbs. Her lawn is unkempt. The shutters of her house are falling off their hinges. Junk mail overflows her mailbox. Her garden houses weeds.
The neighbours frown in her direction while chatting on manicured grass, listening to their cherub wind chimes. None of them would dare complain to the old woman who lives alone, who is often seen in jogging pants and oversized t-shirts (clothes she refers to as her costumes). I mean, who wants to tell the unattractive old lady who lives with too many cats that she's lowering the property value of the neighbourhood?
Besides, they reason, on Halloween she always comes out dressed in that witch outfit, and all the kids love her. She's just a harmless old lady.
It's best they don't give her a hard time.
They would learn very quickly she isn't as frail or helpless as they assume she is.
Dirth digs a bad mood. He thrives off them. He breathes them in.
He spends the majority of his time visiting places where he's most likely to find them. Places like the parking authority office, music venues with cancelled headliners, courtrooms, and traffic jams.
The more irritated people get, the more energetic Dirth feels.
He never directly contributes to the storm clouds over the heads of those he watches. It's more satisfying to stumble upon the brooding beings and lap up their negative energy without expending effort.
Lucky for him, there's an endless supply of grumpiness in this world. He'll never go hungry.
Ever since I started to make the Plague Doctors, I've wanted to incorporate hats into my minion creations. In fact, I didn't know why I hadn't before now. And with encouragement from a fellow artist a while back, I decided to have at it. So here's Jerome, the first of the bunch to be finished donning a chapeau (hat-tip to Dave the Dead).
Jerome isn't very bright. His conversation skills are limited to inappropriate jokes that are made worse by his lack of comedic timing.
He interrupts people. Belches. Talks too loud. Has offensive body odour and his breath is heavy with the smell of rotting gums.
But even social pariahs crave companionship, and one day Jerome realized the best way to make friends is to join groups. He believed he would have a captive audience, and if he simply paid his dues, people would have to tolerate him.
It never occurred to him he could be kicked out of groups. Sure, they didn't all kick him out. Some of them just started changing the location of the next meeting and conveniently forgot to tell him, leaving poor, clueless Jerome waiting all night in burger joints, bowling alleys and even empty parking lots. Perhaps it was a blessing he never pieced it all together, standing alone under streetlamps or at a table littered with fast food wrappers and empty ketchup packets.
Must be the flu, he'd think to himself as he finished off his third helping of fries.
So Jerome just makes it a point to join as many groups as he can, from knitting circles to the local association of bonsai pruners. It's a small town, and with the odds stacked in his favour, he eventually stumbles upon one of the gatherings before the week is through, happy as a clam and without a dark thought in his heart.
In case you missed it (and why would you, since I know most of you, like me, have been known to worship at the house of Davis), Frog Queen recently posted an interview (read: ramblings) of yours truly on her blog. Much thanks to her for taking the time to do so, and to everyone who left such heartwarming comments.
In other news, it's time to unveil Fernicus who stands out among his minion brethren both in colour and behaviour. Tall and stately, he moves slowly and with grace, never in a rush, never a glimpse of anxiety beneath the calm exterior.
Fernicus is often heard chanting quietly in a soothing, melodic, deep voice. When the spirit takes him, he will pause, raise his head, and amplify the sound. His voice resonates, his word-song similar to that of a Gregorian chant. And in the distance an identical sound answers: is it a second voice or simply an echo?
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This is your place to talk about the funny, sad, outrageous things that are happening in your life -- whenever you're ready.
Last summer, I had a huge tumor taken out of my uterus. I realize that isn't terribly remarkable, but six months before the tumor was removed, I had a healthy, eight pound, baby. Yes, he and the tumor were roomies!
I'm not sure when I actually noticed the oddly hard mass in my gut. I was quite overweight, so it could have been there for years. Then I got a wake-up call, in the form of my dad's quintuple (that's FIVE, y'all) bypass, and dropped a lot of bad eating habits.
Over the course of a few months, I lost 50 pounds. I felt awesome, but that's when I noticed the thing. After consulting Dr. Google (because I know how doctors love that), I determined that I had a uterine fibroid and made a doctor's appointment. I got way more than I bargained for.
"You're pregnant."
I watched her face for a moment, looking for any indication that she was joking. Her mouth didn't even twitch.
She shook her head and began to explain that this tumor business was nothing more than what she estimated to be a five month pregnancy.
"So...I don't have a tumor?"
"No, I really don't think so. I want you to have an ultrasound to confirm. "
Now I was really freaking out because if she was right, I was only four months away from my very own episode of "I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant." After she'd had enough traumatizing for one day, she gave me an order for the ultrasound and sent me to the hospital.
"So I'm pregnant AND I have a tumor?!"
The ultrasound tech was polite, if a little cold, and pointed to the tiny egg sac. "I'm guessing you're about five weeks." (Not five months, HA!) She waved her hand over another part of the screen. "And this is the tumor..."
"Yes, and it's pretty big, so you may not be able to carry to term."
I finally worked up enough nerve to ask what I should do. The tech shrugged as if I was supposed to know these things. "You should find an OB. Call around and see who has openings."
She handed me a CD and a few printouts from the ultrasound. "Here you go...congratulations!"
Congratulations, indeed. My only comfort was knowing that I had actually been right about the tumor. So much for my half-hour of reality TV fame.
My stomach was in knots for the rest of the day, in anticipation of my boyfriend's reaction. I broke the news practically the second I walked in the door, and it felt like an eternity waiting for his reply.
"If it's a boy, can we name him Remington Winchester?"
I had been holding my breath, and let it out in a super attractive snort/laugh hybrid that might have been embarrassing had I not been so incredibly relieved.
If the other doctor and technician had been giant stormy rain clouds, my OB was a lovely ray of sunshine. She dismissed my fear of being high-risk right away. Still, I couldn't get the comments out of my head. It was going to be a long nine months.
I ended up having an uneventful pregnancy otherwise. Not once did I throw up, my heartburn was pretty minimal, and somehow my blood pressure stayed low the entire time. There was one week, right after the Fourth of July, that really sucked: round ligament pain kicked in and the tumor outgrew its blood supply, causing me to be in serious, stabbing pain almost 24/7. The only way I could keep it at bay was to lay on my side, curled into a ball. Even then, sometimes the boy would punch or kick the fibroid and cause jolts of pain to tear through my abdomen.
My doctor was always pretty laid back, but there was one thing she stressed the whole time: I needed to avoid a C-section if at all possible. Having the fibroid increased my risk for hemorrhaging by quite a lot.
It should not have been a surprise, given how everything had gone so far, that at my 36 week appointment I learned that my little stinker child (who had been head down the entire time) was now breech and wouldn't be able to turn thanks to the enormous mass he shared my uterus with. I was crushed with the news that I would now most definitely have a C-section. Convinced I'd bleed to death on the table without ever seeing the baby I thought I'd never have, I scheduled the surgery and tried (pretty unsuccessfully) not to cry until I got to my car.
My C-section was pretty uneventful, as C-sections go…my doctor was all sunshine and rainbows, as she tends to be. I remember bits and pieces of the actual operation, like the anesthesiologist showing my boyfriend pictures from a recent hunting trip over my head. I also remember asking what was smoking, and then realizing they were cauterizing the incision as they cut. Being awake while your body is being cut open is a trip.
There was an awful lot of shoving and pulling, and I thought I was going to fall off of the table. Finally, finally, they brought my boy over and held him near my head so I could see him. I cried a little, because there he was, living and breathing and whole and beautiful. And extremely pissed, judging by the wail he let out. He had a head full of thick black hair, which prompted me to whisper (well, I thought I was whispering, but apparently not so much), "Thank God he isn't a ginger!" For the record, my doctor (who was still in charge of sewing me up) has red hair and a few freckles. Lucky for me, right after I said that a nurse peered into the gaping hole that was my abdomen and exclaimed, "That thing is HUGE!" Everyone else in the room stopped to gawk at the giant tumor, and after a short discussion they all agreed that it must be named Fred.
Due to the extremely high risk of bleeding, Fred was left alone for the time being. I healed from my C-section and began my life as a new mom, and six months flew by. I met with my doctor, and discussed options for Fred removal. She thought the DaVinci robot would be the way to go, as it would be far less invasive than a regular surgery. An outpatient procedure, less recovery time…I was so excited that I called to get a consultation as soon as I got to my car.
Of course, my insurance wouldn't cover the procedure because it was done through an infertility clinic. It looked like I would be going the old-fashioned route and spending a week in the hospital. At least I would be getting this bowling ball removed, though, right?
And then my insurance company decided that having the three-pound tumor removed wasn't really all that medically necessary, and denied my surgery. Again. My surgery date was nearing, and it was starting to look like I would never get it approved in time, but my amazing doctor began an appeal process that she was sure would work. The insurance company fought her every step of the way, requiring me to jump through more hoops than a circus dog. Finally, after more ultrasounds and paperwork on my part, and possibly threats from my doctor, the insurance company caved. I would be getting Fred removed! When I heard the news, I finally allowed myself to be excited…I would be able to wear pants that fit! I would be able to lie on my back again! I would be able to poop normally!
I'd be lying if I said that last one wasn't the most exciting part to me.
I went in for my pre-op bloodwork the day before, and while she was draining me dry the nurse started talking about how painful this surgery would be -- she'd had it done a few years ago. "Way worse that having my son without drugs," she said, "He was nine pounds and ripped me from one hole to the other, if you know what I mean! Never thought I'd experience anything that awful, but then I had this surgery…"
As if the horrendous mental picture she gave me wasn't enough, she looked at my orders again and sighed. "I see we're reserving some blood for you…Well, you're going to need it! Looks like you're going to be a problem patient."
"Oh honey, you just hang in there. I'll be praying for you!"
Gee. Thanks?
I had assumed this would be much like my C-section, in terms of recovery. After all, she was making all of the same cuts, and something was going to be removed from my uterus. The only difference was that I would be asleep this time. Now I worried that the recovery was going to be awful.
The morning of July 2nd, we dropped my boy off at my mom and dad's on our way to the hospital. I was given my surgical gown, and visited by all of the people that would be attending the surgery. The last thing I remember was sitting on the bed in the OR, waiting to get an epidural (the doctor wanted to make sure the area was really numb). My anesthesiologist was pushing something into my IV and I asked what it was. "This is just something to keep you calm," she said. It was apparently a mind eraser, because I completely blacked out after that.
I have pictures on my phone from recovery that I don't remember taking. My first post-surgery memory was holding an ice cream bucket that contained my tumor, and asking if I could please show it to my boyfriend. I'm not sure what went through the minds of the people that witnessed me being wheeled to my room, propped up in my hospital bed and clutching my tumor in its bucket. I also remember shaking the bucket a lot to hear it bang on the sides…It was heavy and far more dense than I had imagined. My boyfriend called it a cannon ball.
My doctor released me to go home the very next day, much to everyone's surprise. Apparently, no one expects to find you shuffling around your hospital room at 5:30 a.m., less than 24 hours after having a giant tumor removed.
Recovery wasn't even close to the nightmare the phlebotomist described. At my final post-op appointment, my doctor handed me the pathology report and I was a little surprised to read that Fred weighed three pounds. That may not sound very heavy, but when it's hard as a rock and hanging out in your abdominal cavity…well, it gets a bit uncomfortable. It's even more uncomfortable when the three pound tumor in question is sharing your uterus with your eight-pound baby.
All in all, the experience wasn't so horrible. Do I want to do it again? Uh, no. Am I upset that it happened? Not at all. I tweeted the tumor in a bucket picture, and Jenny Lawson (The Bloggess) retweeted it. My blog got thousands of hits that night and I gained some loyal readers. It's kind of the craziest thing that's happened in my life (thus far), and it makes for a good story.


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USF Clips No. 9 Northwestern
Sept. 4, 2010
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San Francisco, CA – USF men's soccer opened the 2010 season with a flourish, upsetting No. 9 Northwestern 1-0 in the swirling fog Friday night at Negoesco Stadium. With the victory the Dons (1-0-0) collect their highest ranked triumph since downing No. 9 Cal 2-1 in 2007.
Freshman Tanner Smith made an instant impression in his first collegiate match scoring on a give and go play from senior forward Bryan Burke, unleashing a curling shot into the upper left corner from the top of the box in the 39th minute. The Alaskan finished with a pair of shots on the night – both on frame and nearly scored on his second attempt after the intermission.
"We asked the team for 90 minutes of hard work, competing as a team with good enthusiasm," USF head coach Erik Visser said. "We really looked to especially establish ourselves defensively and I think that's what the team did today. They played hard for 90 minutes. They competed hard. By defending well for 90 minutes, especially in the second half I think we wore them down and we were able to create some really good scoring opportunities. Tanner Smith scored a great first goal."
USF held a 12-10 shot advantage for the contest, 5-2 in the first half. The Wildcats had a commanding 9-4 lead in corner kicks and at one point in the second half attempted four in a 10 minute stretch. The Dons defense rose to the occasion and did not surrender.
Northwestern emerged from halftime with an offensive flurry and created opportunities in the first 10 minutes of the second period. The Dons regrouped and seized the initiative from there and created multiple legitimate scoring opportunities. Wildcat goalkeeper Jonathan Harris made several brilliant plays to stymie San Francisco.
"The second half we had some great opportunities to make it at least two or three to nothing, but they had a couple chances as well," Visser said. "Overall I'm very pleased. It was a very good start."
Burke and Smith led the Dons with a pair of shots apiece and eight Dons attempted one shot. Oliver Kupe and Piero Bellizzi each fired a pair of shots for the Wildcats.
Sophomore goalkeeper Brendan Roslund (1-0-0) collected the win with four saves in his fourth career shutout. Harris (0-1-0) suffered the loss and made four saves in his season debut.


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Rockland shows off gay pride
Hundreds turned out in Nyack for a day of celebration for the LGBT community yesterday.
Rockland County's annual gay pride celebration drew hundreds to downtown Nyack. The day of celebration for the LGBT community was put on by the local non-profit Volunteer Counseling Service.
Food, face painting and local vendors were just a part of the festivities meant to continue a much bigger conversation. "I'm here today because it's a beautiful day in support of gay pride. We've come a long way in many, many years and I'm here to support it," says Donna Tabeek.
Many who turned out for the event say they were also there to celebrate marriage equality which passed in New York in 2011.


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Infection is a board game where players are viruses trying to reach the nucleus of the cell. Viruses can only enter the game if they match the correct amino acid. The concentric circles of the cellular board game rotate after each play, mimicking the dynamics of a cell. Each organelle that the viruses encounter has different effects on the play.
Design Team: Rachel Batzer, Jillian Cairns, Kim Zalatan, My Vu, and Tom Cervantes with instructors Adele Phillips and Ilan Moyer


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TH Forums Highlights: Is Organic Better, Slow Food and More
TreeHugger Forums is nearing 1,000 green topics, the good, bad and ugly aspects of the green world continue to come out, in an increasingly diverse range of ideas and thoughts. To add your own flavor to the green goodness that's brewing, register for free and log in today. Here are some of the recent highlights...
1) river-runner say, "Joseph Newman as far as I am concerned is probably one of the most important ideologists of our future. He has been kicked in the arse by the fed, humiliated by corporate America, and has the nuts to keep on going. This bloke has (many years ago) invented a way of providing energy with close to 0 electrical power". He's been a hot topic in the forums lately; why doesn't the rest of the world know him?
2) Forum user mglass ponders whether eating organic might actually be bad for the environment. "According to a recent article in The Economist, this might be true. Read more about it here and voice your opinion!"
3) As long as we're talking food, forum user gizzigoo says, "I'm not sure if any of you have heard of slow food, but in Australia it is very linked to organic local growers and it is also a social thing, about enjoying our foods and an appreciation of what we have. A firm defence of quiet material pleasure is the only way to oppose the universal folly of Fast Life." More good discussion after the jump...
4) MoonGlue says, "Every weekend I try to make one change in my area. It can be as simple as writing thank you letters to enviornmentally aware companies, to setting up a vegitbale [sic] garden for friends, to calling local officials and making suggestions and thank yous." This week, it's a letter to the Governor of Virginia, asking to remove plastic bags from its stores. "Everyone get your pens out for an hour once a week, and write to your leaders. It's a small thing to do!"
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From Tampa/St. Petersburg
- Take Interstate 275 North to Interstate 4 East toward Orlando.
- Continue on Interstate 4 for 57 miles to exit #58 (County Road 532/Osceola-Polk Line Road).
- Turn right onto County Road 532/Osceola-Polk Line Road) and continue east for four miles.
- Turn left onto US 17-92 (also named S. Orange Blossom Trail) and continue for four miles to Poinciana Blvd.
- Turn right onto Poinciana Blvd. and travel south 4.7 miles to Reaves Road.
- At Reaves Road, turn left and continue for two miles to Pleasant Hill Road.
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Immigration, Families, Inequality, Race and Ethnicity, and Globalization
Andrea Gómez Cervantes is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Kansas. Andrea is a fellow at the American Sociological Association, Minority Fellowship Program (2017-2018) and a receiver of the National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Award (2017-2018). At the University of Kansas she has worked as Research Assistant at the Center for Migration Research and served as Teaching Assistant for various sociology courses in the department. She earned her B.S. in Sociology with a minor in French at Grand Valley State University in 2011. Andrea's research investigates immigrants' integration, immigration policy, and social inequality. In her current work she explores the intersections of legal status and race/ethnicity via the spillover effects of immigration law and its enforcement on the everyday lives of immigrant families and communities in the Midwest of the U.S.


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The quadrilateral ministerial meeting will come after an initial agreement made in the meeting of senior diplomats from Iran, Egypt, Turkey and Saudi Arabia in Cairo last Tuesday.
Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu, Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr and Saudi Deputy Foreign Minister Abdulaziz as well as the new UN-Arab League special envoy on Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, will attend the meeting of the so-called Contact Group on Syria.
Salehi is due to hold separate bilateral meetings on the sideline of the meeting.
Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir Abdollahian had represented Iran in the first previous meeting.
Earlier reports said that during the Cairo meeting, Iran proposed that Iraq, as current president of the Arab League (AL) and a key neighboring state of Syria, and Venezuela, a member of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Troika, join the coming meetings of the contact group on Syria.
The initiative for forming the quadrilateral contact group on Syria was put forward by Egypt's first post-revolution President Mohammad Mursi at a recent emergency meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
Meantime, Salehi said originally, the Egyptian President had suggested a gathering of four countries, but Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad suggested that two further countries should be included in this group.
The proposal went under further discussions during a recent phone talk between the Iranian and Egyptian foreign ministers and was also a topic of discussions between senior Iranian and Egyptian officials on the sidelines of the 16th heads-of-state summit meeting of the NAM in Tehran late in August.
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Moeller, author of "Compassion Fatigue: How the Media Sell
Disease, Famine, War and Death," was a featured speaker April
19 in Whitley Auditorium. The
presentation was part of the university's International Week, April
14-20. Moeller spoke about the ways in which American media coverage
of certain international issues influences our ability to understand
the world. She
drew the conclusions for her talk and her book after examining the
coverage of international crises by television, newspapers and news
magazines during the 1980s and 1990s.
Moeller's book"Compassion
Fatigue" is required reading in some School of Communications
classes. She is also the author of "Shooting
War: Photography and the American Experience of Combat." She
earned a Ph.D. in the history of American civilization and a master's
degree in history from Harvard and she earned a bachelor's degree
at Yale.
She is an assistant
professor in the college of journalism at the University of Maryland.
She previously taught at Brandeis University (where she was director
of the journalism program), Princeton University and Pacific Lutheran
University, and as a Fulbright professor in international relations
at universities in Islamabad, Pakistan and Bangkok, Thailand.
Moeller has
been a columnist, writer and photographer, working for or contributing
to numerous publications, including: the Atlanta Journal Constitution,
the Boston Globe, the Christian Science Monitor, Ms., the Philadelphia
Inquirer, the Seattle Times, the Washington Post and Washingtonian
magazine. She actively consults on new media.


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I am the hidden gem of Tsuru!That's it.Seriously.Nothing but mountains and supermarkets. Bundai dori (University street) is good for bars, quite a lot of good mountain walks and then the rest is just supermarkets
I have yet to try the katsu place, even though I've heard many rave reviews.Would anyone happen to be able to give me the name of it and possibly a Google Maps link? There's also the Indian place-- any info on that? I personally go to Kawaguchikko whenever I want a quick Indian fix since it's closer for me than Tsuru.


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Just throw your best family-sized chocolate bars at us and concede trick-or-treat defeat.
*And now, direct from the Whorrifiles, I hereby gift you with this irresistible blast from the past (below), in anticipation of Piggly's 2016 Hallowe'en outing. During which she will be dressing up as a ... well, I think I'll just pull a Donald Trump here and 'keep you in suspense.' Unlike his bullshit campaign, this suspense will be worth it!
This. This adorable face. The joy, the innocence — the sheer PIGGLY WIGGLINESS of it — this is exactly the tonic I needed after a solid week of trauma that included the funeral of a national hero and the explosive news that Jian Ghomeshi's private life is no longer a mystery, it's a horror movie. (Click here to read the latest shocking allegations, but I warn you, they are both NSFW and unfit to share blog space with a precious nine-month-old cherub. No one will compare ME to Mama June!)
This photo of my granddaughter taking her very first Halloween costume for a test drive is like a shot of overproof sunshine. It's even more adorable considering that the poor little pudding just got over her first cold … and in the nick of time too because I am really counting on eating all the chocolate she gets when she goes trick-or-treating.
We won't trouble ourselves with the niggling issue of just what the hell is she dressed up as (A kitten? A zebra? Big Ears Teddy?) because when your cheeks are this goddam squeezable it doesn't matter. The candy is going to pour into that trick-or-treat receptacle like Bombay Sapphire into a bucket. What? Why are you looking at me like that? Isn't that how everyone drinks it? Yes I tipple a bit but I'm an excellent grandma, you assholes! *slaps pasties onto bared drunken bosoms* HALLOWEEN! Woohooo!!! Two more sleeps, Piggly Wiggly!


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The MFA in Writing & Publishing's curriculum is designed to equip students with skills to navigate pragmatic aspects of the writing life, as well as to learn the philosophies, concepts, and craft practices inherent to artful writing. It is intended to enhance literary community on campus and beyond, by offering significant exposure both regionally and through digital arenas to a wide array of career possibilities in the arts.
Our curriculum is characterized by:
- Cross-genre, cross-disciplinary programming with possible specializations in Stage & Screen and Young Adult literature in addition to Poetry, Fiction, and Creative Nonfiction.
- An industry-facing approach, offering students hands-on experience in the literary field, as well as an understanding that writing, as a mobile skill, is applicable and relevant in every creative sphere.
- A diverse line-up of faculty and visiting artists, writers, editors, and publishers, and active participation, mentorship, and collaboration between students, faculty, and visitors.
- Flexible and varied course offerings, shaped to respond to the needs of each incoming class.
- Opportunities for partnership and exchange between MFAWP and the six low-residency programs at VCFA (Film, Graphic Design, Music Composition, Visual Arts, Writing, and Writing for Children & Young Adults.)
MFAWP's coursework is a combination of semester-long and 3-week modular classes. The variety of course structure provides dynamism in MFAWP's 15-week semesters.
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Modular Classes are made up of several 3-week intensive workshops and seminars, built around common themes, and taught by various faculty members, a model that offers students wider exposure to faculty during their MFA study.
Modular themes range from specific topics such as "Hybrid Forms" or "Flash Fiction" to the general like "Revision." Modular classes include students from all genre specializations. In other words, poets, fiction and nonfiction writers, stage & screen, and hybrid-form writers will learn together, sharing invaluable cross-genre perspectives. Faculty will also come from various genre and cross-genre backgrounds. More course Descriptions.
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"Publishing & Fieldwork" is an example of a semester-long class required of all first-year students. In this 6-credit class, students become an editorial team, generating content and making a publication from start to finish. The course also offers field seminars and slide lectures about the history of publishing and the writer's role in creative disciplines, visits from guest writers, editors, and publishers, and trips "into the field" to learn about literary roles outside the classroom. More course descriptions.
Thesis Seminar
Thesis Seminar, required of third-semester students, is a semester-long workshop course often team-taught by cross-genre faculty members. This is a focused opportunity to develop thesis material, with the benefit of classmate and faculty commentary.
Thesis Advisory
Following Thesis Seminar comes the fourth semester Thesis Advisory, an in-depth, concentrated independent advisory between student and single faculty member, which culminates in the submission of a thesis manuscript. Students can write a single-genre, 100-page creative thesis or a multiple-genre or hybrid-genre thesis.


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There is an urgent need to have tsunami warning sirens in Suva City, along Queen Elizabeth Drive and Walu Bay if we want thousands of people in these areas to be tsunami ready.
This is evident as many people along Queen Elizabeth Drive and Walu Bay could not hear the tsunami sirens from Lami Town and USP during the live test this morning. Suva City does not have a siren.
Fijivillage was on the ground and also spoke to other contacts who confirmed that they could not hear the Lami siren at the Royal Suva Yacht Club while others could not hear the USP siren past My Suva Park Police Post going towards Veiuto Primary School and Suva Grammar School.
When asked by Fijivillage on the highly populated areas not hearing the sirens, National Disaster and Management Office Director Anare Leweniqila says the reason for the exercise is to test the range of the sirens and to install sirens in the new areas.
When we asked when sirens will be installed in these areas, Leweniqila says this will happen within weeks.
It was earlier revealed in a National Disaster Preparedness meeting that plans are now in place to have fully functional tsunami warning sirens in various parts of the greater Suva area by the end of this year.
The current assessment for national disaster preparedness is clear that more tsunami warning systems are needed for people living along coastal areas in the country.
There will be 5 new sirens in the Suva Municipal Area in addition to the two tsunami warning sirens located at lower USP campus and in Lami Town.
The proposed sites for the new sirens are Rifle Range Road, Naboro Waste Disposal Plant, Suva City Centre, Old Parliament House in Veiuto and Walu Bay.
We have also asked the NDMO about the plans for other coastal areas including the Coral Coast, Nadi, Lautoka, Labasa, Savusavu and other areas.
There is confirmation that future plans have been put in place for Tsunami Warning Systems in other large population areas around Fiji.
This will be prioritized on population density with Nadi to be the next location for construction after Suva.
They will then put sirens in Lautoka and Labasa.
Meanwhile, some people in Lami and the Laucala Bay area had no idea what was happening when the tsunami warning sirens were tested at around 10 o'clock this morning.
The siren located at Nasevou Street in Lami was tested a few times in short intervals while the siren located at USP was switched on for a long period of time.
Fijivillage spoke to people around the area.
Some people knew what it was, some thought it was an annoying sound, some thought it was an ambulance while others wanted to know where it came from and what it's for.
The live test of tsunami sirens in Laucala Bay and Lami Town was conducted by the National Disaster Management Office between 10 and 10.30 this morning.
Permanent Secretary for Disaster Management Meleti Bainimarama says the exercise is part of on‑going work to improve tsunami early warning systems and to increase knowledge and understanding of tsunami risks.ADVERTISEMENT Listen to the latest news on our 5 radio stations Legend FM, Viti FM, Radio Sargam, FM96 and Navtarang.