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Recently, I read a pundit who talked about how a huge percentage of baseball prospects come from relatively few states; California (mostly Southern California at that), Texas, Florida and Georgia. The Baseball America guys once talked about an "All North Carolina" team and how good it would be (BA is based in Durham, NC). It got me thinking: how good of a team could you put together of prospects with ties to Virginia? Having grown up in Virginia and having had the opportunity to play with and against a number of guys with pro ties over the years, I thought it'd be interesting to put together the "All Virginia Team."
Using mostly the handy Baseball-reference pages, I looked up players who were either born in Virginia, went to a Virginia-based high school, or played baseball at one of Virginia's universities. There's also the fantastic Baseball Cube website (www.thebaseballcube.com) that has very in-depth player databases searchable by high schools that shows every player on a professional or NCAA team by school, which sometimes has better records than B-R.com. The players here had to be active in the Majors in 2012, though as it turned out there's enough guys with Virginia ties to make a full starting team. Feedback is welcome.
Here's a roster:
- C: Brandon Inge (born and HS in Lynchburg, college at VCU)
- 1B: Mark Reynolds (HS in Virginia Beach, college at UVA)
- 2B: Will Rhymes (college at W&M)
- SS: Ryan Zimmerman (HS in Virginia Beach, college at UVA)
- 3B: David Wright (born in Norfolk, HS in Chesapeake)
- LF: Michael Cuddyer (born in Norfolk, HS in Chesapeake)
- CF: B.J. Upton (born in Norfok, HS in Chesapeake)
- RF: Justin Upton (born in Norfok, HS in Chesapeake)
Backups: Brandon Guyer OF (HS in Herndon, college at UVA), Rich Thompson OF (college at JMU), Jeff Baker Util (HS at Garfield in Woodbridge), Brandon Snyder IB/OF (HS at Westfields in Chantilly). Erik Kratz C (college at Eastern Mennonite)
Ok, so we're a little weak up the middle. Zimmerman played SS in college but I can't find a legitimate shortstop out there. Rhymes was just signed by the Nats to a minor league deal and isn't likely to make the opening day 25-man roster save for injury. Inge hasn't caught regularly in a few years. But how about the hitting prowness of this lineup? BJ Upton-Cuddyer-Zimmerman-Wright-Justin Upton-Reynolds is a pretty powerful group. Coincidentally, I put in Kratz because I find it amazing that someone who played baseball at Eastern Mennonite is actually in the big leagues. By B-R's records, he's the SOLE alumni of that university to have ever even played professional baseball.
Starting Pitchers:
- Justin Verlander (born outside of Richmond, HS in Goochland, college at ODU)
- Mat Latos (born in Alexandria)
- Daniel Hudson (born in Lynchburg, HS in Virginia Beach, college at ODU)
- Joe Saunders (born in Falls Church, HS at West Springfield, college at Va Tech)
- Tim Stauffer (college at University of Richmond)
Backup starters: Danny Hultzen (born and raised in Bethesda, college at UVA); an exception to my "active in 2012" rule but clearly the most high-profile tied-to-Virginia prospect in the game right now. John Maine (born in Fredericksburg, HS in Stafford) had a decent stint starting for the Mets, but he's yet to get back to the majors after a shoulder surgery in 2010).
A pretty good 1-2 punch, including arguably the best pitcher in the game. Hudson has some potential. Saunders is more of an innings eater lefty, but he's made a pretty good career for himself already. Stauffer had elbow surgery in August 2012 and probably isn't ready for opening day, but he's the best I could find.
- Bill Bray (born and HS in Va Beach, college at W&M)
- Javier Lopez (HS at Robinson in Fairfax, college at UVA)
- Michael Schwimer (born in Fairfax, HS at St. Stephens in Alexandria, college at UVA)
- Sean Doolittle (college at UVA)
- Sean Marshall (born and HS in Richmond, college at VCU)
- Cody Eppley (college at VCU)
- Sean Camp (born in Fairfax, HS at Robinson in Fairfax, college at GMU)
Backup Relievers: BJ Rosenberg (born in Newport News), Jeremy Jeffress (born and HS in South Boston), Clay Rapada (born in Portsmouth, HS in Chesapeake, college at Virginia State). Seth Greisinger (McLean and UVA) as an honorable mention.
Not bad depth here; I suppose Marshall could close, Bray be the loogy, Camp be an 8th inning guy, Eppley a 7th inning type and the rest be middle men. I like how Sean Camp was born, raised, went to high school and played baseball in college without ever leaving Fairfax.
Other random Virginia School trivia:
What's the best producing college in Virginia? Pretty easily its UVA, with 117 pro players in B-R's database and 30 guys reaching the majors. Virginia Tech, ODU, Richmond and VCU are all grouped a bit behind UVA in terms of pro player development. Amazingly little Liberty University has matriculated 59 players to the pro ranks.
At current, UVA has 6 active alumni in the majors. William & Mary, ODU and Richmond have 2 each, and a slew of lesser baseball-playing universities have one each (all of which are mentioned above).
What's the best producing High School in Virginia? Pretty clearly the high schools in the Virginia Beach/Chesapeake area have been producing some serious baseball talent lately, but even the Upton brothers ended up going to different high schools. Both Virginia HS in Bristol and First Colonial HS in Virginia Beach list 8 pro player alumni with 2 pros each.
Closer to home in Northern Virginia: Garfield has 7 total players with Pro experience in the database, 3 of which have MLB experience. Robinson HS in Fairfax has 6 pros/3 MLB experience. Fairfax HS also has the same; 6 pros, 3 with MLB experience.
Of course, these numbers pale in comparison to some of the baseball factories in the major baseball-producing states Florida and California. Hillsborough HS in Tampa boasts 41 pro alumni and 10 with MLB experience, including Gary Sheffield, Dwight Gooden, Carl Everett and our own Elijah Dukes. Lakewood HS in Orange county has 57 pro alumni and 12 MLB experienced players, though not nearly of the name quality of Hillsborough's graduates. Sarasota HS in Florida also boasts 57 pro player alumni, 14 MLB pros including our own Ian Desmond. There's a HS in Oakland called McClymonds that has two Hall of Fame alumni (Frank Robinson and Ernie Lombardi), a host of other famous names from 60s and 70s but which hasn't generated a pro player since the mid 1970s. Lastly Polytechnic HS in Long Beach has 47 pro alumni but an astonishing 18 guys with MLB experience, headlined by Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn and possibly future hall of famer Chase Utley.
Who is the Greatest player to have Virginia Roots? You could make arguments for Verlander, Wright, Zimmerman or the Upton brothers (probably in that order), but how about one Lou Whitaker, born in Brooklyn but somehow ended up matriculating from HS in Martinsville, Virginia, where he was drafted in the 5th round by Detroit. Billy Wagner (born in Tannersville, HS in Tazewell and college at Ferrum) is another guy from Virginia with a long, successful career. Long-time Oriole Al Bumbry was born in Fredericksburg, went to HS in King George and attended Virginia State.
However, there's only one Hall of Famer with Virginia Roots that I can find: Eppa Rixley, born in Culpeper, HS in Charlottesville and he pitched for UVA before being signed as a free agent by Philadelphia. He ended up pitching 21 years in the majors and was selected to the Hall of Fame by the Veteran's committee in 1963 shortly after he died.
(Post publishing note: in 2015 an enterprising blogger at the hallofverygood.com put together a list of the "best baseball player" from each of the 68 teams to make the *basketball* March Madness tournament, and for the Virginia schools he mentioned Rixley as well as others. A fun read).
(Editor's Note: you may feel free to stop reading now; Below here is all pretty obscure stuff and only probably interesting to myself and my dad, or people who happen to grow up in the area and are familiar with Vienna baseball. In fact, I kind of got into a rat-hole of reminiscing for this section, thinking back to the good old days. I won't be offended :-).
My Personal experiences growing up and playing in Northern Virginia: I played Vienna youth leagues from 1977 til 1989, played in Vienna Babe Ruth and graduated from James Madison HS in Vienna in 1989 for reference.
The best player from Northern Virginia in my youth experiences was one Pete Schourek, who was two years older than me and graduated from Marshall HS in 1987. An enduring memory from my youth was watching Schourek blast a home-run to the townhouses beyond the RF fence at Marshall against Mike Nielsen (the ace of my own high school) in 1987. Schourek turned down a scholarship offer to Auburn and took 2nd round bonus money from the Mets. Schourek's career lasted 10 years in the majors and his best season was an 18-7 year that resulted in a 2nd place Cy Young finish. The word at the time was that the Dodgers wanted to draft him as a hitter; his power from the left-hand side was quite superior. I often wonder if his would have made it as a hitting prospect; he had such natural lefty power in high school. (Click here for the Connection's Schourek profile in their "top 100 athletes" series from 2000).
Other notable pro players from the 3-4 year period right around my draft year who I played against at various points:
- A.J. Hernandez, who was the star of the local Herndon/Reston/McLean Babe Ruth all-star teams that had Vienna's number year after year in the late 80s. He played one year of low-A ball.
- David Carroll, a tall, rangy left-hander who dominated Chantilly baseball for years. He was a 6th round pick in 1991 and made it to AAA before washing out. We played against Carroll's teams in the Credit Union in the early 90s.
- Lonnie Goldberg, who was on the same HS team as Schourek at one point; played at George Mason, drafted in the later rounds and played 5 seasons of minor league ball.
- Bill Pulsipher, who was a dominant player in the area and was drafted in the 2nd Round by the Mets in 1991 out of Fairfax HS. He made the Mets rotation by age 21 and looked decent before getting injured and spending the rest of his MLB career struggling in the bullpen. His b-r.com page shows his drive; he was still playing professaional Indy ball as late as 2011. (Pulsipher Connection profile from 2000).
- His 1991 Fairfax HS team also had one Brian Buchanan, who was a 1st round draft pick after attending UVA and played 5 years in the majors. Imagine; one high school team with a 1st and a 2nd round draft pick in this area. Amazingly Fairfax HS didn't win anything more than its District during this time.
- Robin Jennings: a 1990 graduate of Annandale who did a year of community college and the got drafted under the old Draft-and-Follow rules by the Cubs. He played in parts of four major league seasons spread across 12 minor league seasons, including his last minor league season with the Washington organization in 2007 at the age of 35, fully 4 years after last appearing in a uniform. I can't specifically recall playing against Jennings like I can recall playing against these other guys though. Maybe in fall ball.
- (post-publishing edit thanks to Tom Davis in the comments): Robinson slugger Steve Dunn. He absolutely deserves to be on this list somewhere. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Dunn_(1990s_first_baseman). 1988 Robinson graduate, 4th round pick by Minnesota, he played parts of two seasons in 94 and 95. The Twins released him, he played one more AAA season for Cleveland (putting up decent numbers) but either quit or was released and not picked up again.
Goldberg and Schourek, along with Marshall's #2 pitcher Steve Makranczy led Marshall to back-to-back state championship games in the late 80s. Steve played on a number of fall teams with me and still plays in the local DCMSBL league. Schourek still suits up for teams in the Industrial League, and according to a couple of random friends, plays in an ultra-competitive basketball league along side other former Division 1 players in the area.
Speaking of my own HS of the time; I was always amazed we didn't fare better. Thinking back to 1988, my HS started an entire team of guys who either went pro or played division 1 somewhere. The 3 leading pitchers played at Radford, BYU and GMU respectively, our starting catcher went to BYU. Our 1B played at William & Mary. Our middle infield combo both played at UVA. Our 3rd baseman was a full ride player at NC State. In the OF, one guy played at GMU and went pro, another guy played at Montgomery College. That's a LOT of talent on one HS team for this area, and they never advanced in the Regional tournament.
The best local player of my draft year (1989) was a fellow by the name of Doug Newstrom, born in Quantico and who went to HS at W.T. Woodson in Fairfax. He went to Arizona State and was a 7th round pick after his Junior year but never made the big leagues. Newstrom was the cornerstone of a Woodson team that went undefeated in 1989 and won the state championship (they also won in 1990). My personal experience playing against Newstrom; the fall-league baseball teams of that time period were essentially city-specific all-star teams of the guys who didn't play football, and the competition was great. The Woodson varsity team to-be in the spring of 1989 got all their guys together to get a "test run" of their team and they romped to the fall league 16-18yr old championship game. Our Vienna-based team was a rag-tag collection of guys who attended Madison, Marshall, Oakton, Paul VI and O'Connell but who had Vienna zip codes, but we were good and we also reached the championship game. It was on a cold November day at Falls Church High School. We faced off against Woodson's ace (Mark Bauch, the same guy who would go 13-0 the following spring en route to the Virginia State championship) and promptly knocked him out in the first inning without retiring a batter, racing to a 6-0 lead. Our pitcher (Jeff Ford, who attended Oakton and played college ball at a small school somewhere) tried to keep the Woodson team at bay throughout the 7 inning game, but they fought back. In the bottom of the 7th trailing 6-5 and with two outs, the Woodson team put a couple guys on and Newstrom came to bat. Newstrom connected on a towering drive to right field; I thought he had just hit a walk-off homer. Our right fielder (Steve Paasch, another Oakton graduate) reached over the RF fence, jumped and caught the ball for the 3rd out and the championship. It was one of the two or three best games I was ever a part of.
Editor Update: my memory apparently failed me: turns out Newstrom was actually a year behind me (he was born just a few months after me but was a school year behind). He led Woodson to a 2nd consecutive VA state title in 1990 before committing to ASU. I got a nice shout-out from one Rob Paine months after this post with a link to this great feature of Newstrom, with a great photo.
Best player from my high school Alma Mater (James Madison HS in Vienna): probably one Mike Wallace, who was picked straight out of high school, was in the majors by 22, and out of the majors by 26. Wallace seems like he should have played longer; he was a lefty with decent numbers both in the majors and in his final seasons in the minors. But he was retired at 28. He signed on with MASN as a baseball pundit in 2011. However it is worth mentioning one Jay Franklin, who graduated from Madison HS in 1971 and was the 2nd overall pick in that year's baseball draft. Its hard to imagine a DC-local kid at this point in the evolution of the draft ever going higher, so Franklin likely holds the title for "highest ever local draft pick" for the forseeable future. He tore up the Northwoods league and earned a call-up to the majors as an 18 year old. I'm guessing he got hurt though, because he missed the entire 1972 season. He appeared in four more minor league years before retiring at age 24, having just reached AAA. Another guy who seems like he should have played longer.
Editor addition: thanks to anonymous comment for reminding us about Bobby Brower, whose baseball-reference.com page is missing the fact that he went to Madison HS. He was one heck of an athlete, earning FOUR varsity letters his senior year of HS. He attended Duke University, playing both football and baseball before focusing on hardball. Despite being an All-ACC selection, he went undrafted, got picked up by Texas and eventually fought his way to the major league team. He was traded to the Yankees after a couple years with Texas but struggled for playing time in New York, getting dropped back to AAA where he stayed through 1990. A brief comeback in 1992 went for naught and Brower retired at the age of 32. And I'll add one Ronnie Slingerman, whose name keeps popping up during research of these early JMHS teams and who remains active in the Vienna baseball community.
Btw, the Fairfax Connection news papers featured all three of these players in their "Top 100 local Athletes" series done in the year 2000. Click here for Wallace, here for Franklin and here for Brower's bios, all three of which go in to much greater detail than I have here.
Baseball-reference.com's records are somewhat spotty on my high school; they list only 7 pro players and 2 major leaguers from my HS, but we know there are several more with pro experience, just counting guys I've directly played with (among others; Chris Burr and Billy Emerson). BaseballCube lists 28 guys in their database, though not all played pro. David Driver with The Vienna Patch did an article on Wallace in October 2012 and discussed several other Madison grads who have made the majors, some of whom are not correctly attributed in B-R.com either. One such player is Jim McNamara, who I'm familiar with because he used to substitute teach while I was attending the high school and he was famous for being manipulated into wasting an entire period talking about his baseball playing days instead of teaching any material.
Best player ever from my college Alma Mater (James Madison University): probably one Billy Sample, born and raised in Roanoke and who played at JMU from 1974-1976. He was drafted in the 10th round, played for a decade or so and hung 'em up in 1986. Mike Venafro was born in Takoma Park, went to Paul VI in Fairfax and then JMU before putting together a 7-year career in the majors, retiring back in 2006. JMU is actually a pretty decent baseball school; we've made the NCAA tournament 11 times and several times recently, and made the College World Series in 1983 (getting blasted by eventual champion Texas and Stanford for a 2-and-out appearance; the wikipedia page is funny, JMU has no "notable players" listed. Coincidentally; look at some of the talent playing in that tournament: Bonds, Schiraldi, Clemens, Larkin, Sabo, McDowell, Incavilia. Three future Hall of Famers). However I can only find one JMU alumni who appeared in the majors in 2012; the aforementioned Rich Thomas, who appears to be a 4th/5th outfielder.
Best player I played with or against post youth/High School: After high school we played in a local amateur league for a year, then put together an entry into the Credit Union, which was a powerful amateur league in the area (which is now part of the Industrial League). After a brief baseball hiatus spent mostly playing softball (there was no 19+ league in DCMSBL at the time; you had to be at least 30 to play in the league for many years), I've been playing consistently in the DCMSBL since 1998.
In the early 90s, we had a local guy named Kevin Gallaher pitch for us periodically. He had Vienna roots, went to O'Connell and then played at St. Bonaventure (none of which btw is on his baseball-reference page but is on his baseball Cube page). I got to catch Gallaher here and there and he had pretty good stuff. Apparently his stuff got better his senior year at college and he was a non-drafted FA signee. Gallaher made it to AAA before calling it quits at age 29. His next move: to appear on the reality TV show "Married by America" (it didn't work out: his bride-to-be left him at the alter).
In the Credit Union, we played against some serious talent, but I was too young to remember most of them. A couple notable names that I do remember were Steve Norwood, brother of the infamous Buffalo Bills kicker Jeff Norwood, who played alongside his father Del Norwood on the Apple team. Norwood was a local legend, a longtime coach at W&L in Arlington (he won 10 straight district titles in the 60s and 14 overall at the school; the field is named after him) and had to be in his 70s at the time but could still throw a knuckle-ball by the semi-pro calibre players of the Credit Union. Local legend amateur player Pete Groves pitched against us in the league; he now leads the Fedlock teams that have won many national MSBL titles (he supposedly reached AAA but I can't find any records of him playing pro). We picked up a random guy off a wait list named John Bonfield who had pitched at Yale; he was one of the better pitchers i've ever played along side. He could throw 8 different pitches but had a failing for "enforcing the unwritten rules of the game" at the most unideal time. He once purposely hit a guy who he thought was stealing signs with the bases loaded in a close game.
In MSBL, the best players I played against didn't necessarily have direct professional ties. The Gouveia siblings (brothers of former Redskin Kurt Gouveia were feared sluggers in the league). Garland Cooper was competitive against players half his age; he played in the Valley league but never pro. Ira Holland (who played college at Howard and was drafted before returning to school) was probably the most feared hitter in the league in the early 2000s; guys from that era still ask us about him. The ace pitcher of my current team Jason Martino signed out of HS but only played one year of rookie ball before getting set aside by his drafting team.
Anyway; if you've read this far, I hope you enjoyed my own little personal history of playing ball in this area.


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Friday, July 25, 2008
Freud Would Have a Field Day
Friday, July 25, 2008
Don't ask me for details; I have none. I will say, however, that if wedding cakes are meant to be symbolic, this couple is really looking forward to the wedding night. C'mon: banana towers? With apricot rings on the tips? At the epicenter of some kind of icing/oat/fruit explosion? (Ahh, but were they wild oats? Oh!)
"Sure, no, of course we believe you guys when you say you just wanted a 'healthy alternative' to traditional cake. And that 10 minutes you spent feeding each other bananas in front of everyone? Sure, that was kind of awkward, and the kids are asking a lot of questions now, but we know it was just 'cuz you both really like bananas. A lot."
Say, do you suppose this was the bride's going-away cake?
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- Reverend Shari said...
Look at the smirk on the little girl's face. Says it all.
- July 25, 2008 at 10:37 AM
I hate to admit it, but that... creation... almost looks rather delicious.
But besides that, you KNOW that little girl in blue is the only one in the picture who truly understands the awkwardness and irony of the situation unfolding before her. - July 25, 2008 at 11:00 AM
- MaryO said...
They just keep getting better! Another ROTFLMAO!
- July 25, 2008 at 11:20 AM
Wow, the base of that "cake" looks like a gigantic pile of sick. Ewwwww.
- July 25, 2008 at 11:40 AM
This is the funniest blog I have ever seen and I hope nothing I make is ever, ever on it. Ha ha.
- July 25, 2008 at 12:05 PM
That little girl in the blue looks like she totally gets it!
- July 25, 2008 at 12:13 PM
Wow..I is that even a cake? haha It looks like someone literally just tossed some fruit and cake chunks on a table and stacked some bananas on top. I am horrified.
- July 25, 2008 at 12:30 PM
- carly said...
What I find so deeply disturbing is the sly smirk on the 10-year-old's face in the background...like she knows what's up. Er...no pun intended.
- July 25, 2008 at 12:38 PM
- Kev said...
Aside from the "cake" I bet that guys mullet is......glorious.
- July 25, 2008 at 12:51 PM
Oh my goodness!
If you're still looking for ugly cakes: http://uglyweddingcake.com/
And please keep this site going. I need a good laugh now and then. - July 25, 2008 at 12:52 PM
What is with the guy in the madras plaid suit and fez in the background?
- July 25, 2008 at 1:07 PM
- oº˚ Homeschool Mom˚ºo said...
I have no idea what these people are thinking -- can you say RED NECK -- LOL -- Look at the way the people are dressed -- Wish I could of seen the wedding itself -- Only can imagine what that was like. Thanks Talk Later
- July 25, 2008 at 1:11 PM
- anewc2 said...
If I were the happy groom I might be a little bit nervous about how easily the bride takes a knife to that ... cake.
- July 25, 2008 at 1:31 PM
- Faith said...
What are they even cutting? Down the center of one of the bananas? It makes no sense...and looks disgusting.
People are weird. - July 25, 2008 at 2:13 PM
- Tara said...
I just love your site!!!
- July 25, 2008 at 2:38 PM
- badfae said...
Maaaaan...that thing is just a *mess*! It looks like they emptied their garbage disposal onto the table.
- July 25, 2008 at 2:41 PM
- Z_gal said...
A friend just sent this to me and I've since been laughing, guffawing, cringing, and crying my way through your entries. Blessings upon you and your house for running this site!!
Also, I'm manager at a custom cake shop (JetCityCakes.com) and while I hope our work wouldn't horrify you too much, I sure feel more confident in our work after seeing what some of the trained monkeys out there are doing.
Thank you thank you! - July 25, 2008 at 3:33 PM
- Nicki Leone said...
that cake reminds me rather forcibly of the scene in Galaxy Quest when the pig lizard is digitized on board and arrives inside out.
- July 25, 2008 at 3:53 PM
- NetDiva said...
So I was actually *at* this wedding. It was at a mansion in Sonoma, CA. The couple is a pair of artists, and not even slightly rednecked. But I'm laughing my ass off at this thread!
- July 25, 2008 at 3:59 PM
- giz said...
Symbolism - ok, that's totally coyote ugly.
- July 25, 2008 at 4:21 PM
- Cakespy said...
A friend of mine just alerted me to your site. All I can say is...I love you. This is one of the most awkward / awesome cake scenes I have ever seen.
- July 25, 2008 at 4:57 PM
I feel less concerned about the phallic symbolism by the fact that that thing looks less like a cake and more like a giant heap of random ingredients. Yeesh!
- July 25, 2008 at 5:55 PM
Thank you so much for this blog. I found it this evening and I don't think that I have ever laughed so hard in my life. I went through and read the entire thing. But not without a couple of breaks to calm down cause I was having difficulty breathing I was laughin so hard. Great work, and keep 'em coming!
- July 25, 2008 at 8:10 PM
Just found your sight and these cakes are hilarious! I do love the creativity on the Bond-style cake though!
- July 25, 2008 at 8:54 PM
- kisekileia said...
That's not a cake, that's a fruit explosion.
- July 25, 2008 at 10:13 PM
- Jondi said...
The fact that the groom is wearing a cowboy hat that doesn't even match the tux is just the tip of the icing in this picture. From the groom's hat, to the horrible "cake" to the plaid guy wearing a fez! LOL
- July 25, 2008 at 10:14 PM
- Sleepwalker said...
This blog and accompanying commentary are hysterical. Some of these ummm, masterpieces would defy belief if not for the photos. I so wish my grandmother was still around to see the stuff on this site. She professionally decorated cakes for decades and would have been laughing her ass off just as I have been doing.
- July 25, 2008 at 10:52 PM
- Crystal said...
I have scrolled through all of your entries and I'm laughing so hard I'm crying. Thanks for the great blog!
- July 26, 2008 at 1:31 AM
- Eryn said...
I'm guessing raw foodists.
- July 26, 2008 at 2:53 AM
- CanadianSwiss said...
Thanks to a blogger buddy, I landed on your site and think it's awsome! Keep it up :)
Now about that cake... Wishful thinking?? - July 26, 2008 at 4:54 AM
- Seoul Brother said...
Sweet Jesus Marimba! If any one photo would reanimate the corpse of Diane Arbus, it would be this little gem. I never thought I'd live to see the day when you could combine the following words: "John Waters Chicken-Fried Hot Mess."
I don't think I've laughed this hard since that time at Six Flags with way too much caffeine, ephedra, funnel cake, and Dr. Pepper. - July 26, 2008 at 7:50 AM
I was just lead to your site via Craftzine...congratulations - this is one of the most hilarious sites I've ever seen. Case in point - this latest post...it literally takes the cake! (Sorry, I couldn't help myself - like you haven't heard that a million times already?)
Thanks so much for making me laugh so hard - good humor is a very necessary part of staying sane on this planet!
Keep up with all your great postings...
Marie - July 26, 2008 at 8:27 AM
- Mama Fabun said...
I'm 90% sure I saw the groom riding a bike and drinking a canned beer at the park by our house yesterday. Or maybe it was his twin.
- July 26, 2008 at 10:24 AM
The wedding itself was an affair to remember:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/culturesubculture/sets/72157600690395125/ - July 26, 2008 at 11:06 AM
and what's with the "white drizzle" around the bottom dark cake. beautiful!
- July 26, 2008 at 1:51 PM
If you go to the link that danger ranger provided and view pictures of the wedding......you can understand the cake.
Sort of. - July 26, 2008 at 3:15 PM
They describe it in the original wedding photo site as a Wedding Cake Installation - does that make it better, or worse?
- July 26, 2008 at 7:21 PM
I think it's supposed to be a group of mushrooms, but I'm not entirely sure.
- July 27, 2008 at 6:44 AM
well, the ten year old girl was only 8 at the time. the cake was produced by a bay area artist who has had exhibits from here to NYC. (ever heard of the de young? yes, it's a museum of some notoriety and he's had exhibits there as well as a myriad of other galleries in SF) at the request of the bride who is something of a fruit fanatic.
there were costume changes at the alter, gifts proffered for those who had gone before us, and a myriad of stories made around and about the fortunate folks who attended this most fantabulous event. if you weren't invited it's probably because you weren't connected to this particular group. it's for the best, you would have hated it, especially if you "don't get it," you know what i mean? call it an exclusive affair for the creative forward thinkers of our time and leave it at that, eh?
as a personal aside, i only hope every wedding i go to is this memorable, poignant and stunning. i'm SOOO tired of the ordinary! i can't distinguish one of my cousins weddings from another and i certainly can't recall what their wedding cakes looked like. think about it folks... - July 28, 2008 at 4:08 AM
oh.... the mushrooms came later. i assure you.
yummmmy! and the cake was super tasty, too. it surely wasn't that "non-descript" "white cake" most folks serve. what is "white cake," anyway? good grief!
i was fortunate enough to attend the wedding and had the time of my life. all you critics should ask the happily married couple how they pulled off such magic at their wedding, and maybe you could try to match it rather than wasting time picking cakes from a book - focus on the overall experience for each other and for your guests.
wish my wedding had been that thought provoking, beautiful and creative.
costume changes at the alter to symbolize their welcome of each other, and comprise to each other as they embrace one another in their "forever." how beautiful is that? AND the cake was yummy! visual and edible art, what could be better? start thinking out of the "cake" box, folks!
i'm publishing as "anonymous" to afford the couple some privacy. there is a reason you weren't all invited, afterall. - July 28, 2008 at 4:17 AM
- CakeEater said...
Hahaha. Oh..please..stop....my side hurts!
It looks like a carcass on the table, bare ribs sticking up!
AND the "anonymous" defense only makes it that much better! "It was an inspirational wedding, I doubt people with such small brains would begin to comprehend."
I've seen gorgeous artistic original non-"white undescript" cakes in my career - this isn't one of them! - July 28, 2008 at 11:46 AM
Y'know, Other Anonymous, it's possible to have a "unique" and "interesting" wedding without making a "cake" (I use the term loosely) which looks like a compost heap.
I do think that if it tasted good it doesn't matter a damn what it looked like, but how do you even serve something like that? It'd be impossible to "slice" something that's just a pile of ingredients. Small shovels would be necessary, methinks. Or salad spoons? - July 28, 2008 at 6:55 PM
- Muse said...
OMG is that Screech?
- July 28, 2008 at 10:52 PM
- tejanota said...
wait!!! i think i saw this wedding profiled in a tv show somewhere (probably food network?). is that possible?
at any rate, i KNOW i've seen this elsewhere, and i definitely remember being horrified by "installation."
anonymous one, if you actually have to *call* yourself a "creative forward thinkers [for] our time," um, then you're probably NOT one. - July 29, 2008 at 1:47 PM
ROFLAO!! I feel terrible for the couple - in a hilariously, sick way! Who knew that hat would make their 'alternatively designed cake' look like road kill?
I seriously thought the bananas were representing the 'rib cage'. Darn hat! - July 29, 2008 at 4:13 PM
- Molly said...
Lordy. I actually know the guy in the plaid suit! But the cake... no.
- July 31, 2008 at 5:11 PM
- em said...
Maybe the guy in the hat is a hunter and the cake represents a load of dead elephants and those are suppose to be the tusks sticking out of mess of corpse elephants
- August 3, 2008 at 3:16 PM
- no one said...
Oddly, I think that it looks like it'd taste delicious.
But that looks more like the sort of thing you'd have at a bachelorette party than a wedding, I think. - August 5, 2008 at 5:07 AM
I think they're obviously supposed to look like shrooms.
- August 5, 2008 at 3:22 PM
- HumbuckerChapell said...
my apologies if someone already said this, but is that K Fed-meets-Snoop in the background?
- August 7, 2008 at 10:44 PM
Oh God. The most disturbing thing in my opinion is the background.
- August 10, 2008 at 2:06 AM
- Yvonne said...
As I read in one of the other comments, these two are artists... Yikes. I'm an artist and I'm sure glad I didn't go with a cake like that. It does look more like a fruit explosion and mess than anything else.
(though I'm sure that whole banana feeding was totally awkward for everyone else) - August 10, 2008 at 8:43 AM
- Unknown said...
you critics should ask the happily married couple how they pulled off such magic at their wedding
I'm guessing because they had their wedding overseen by the Magician's Alliance, judging by the guys in the backgrouynd. - August 15, 2008 at 12:31 AM
Oh Anonymous One, it's pretentious "artsy" people like you that give artists a bad name. Weird or eccentric doesn't always = artist.
That cake is a monstrosity. - August 15, 2008 at 11:46 AM
Okay how could you post this without commenting on the uh... white splatters that appear to have been um... liberated from the bananas? I meant that is the best part of all!!
As for miss forward thinking artist and the rest of her clan... yuppie fakes do not artists make! I'm not getting this from the photo only from your entries. Giver yourself another pat on the back for being so creative! Way to go you! - August 16, 2008 at 9:06 PM
To me it looks like the "artist" woke up the morning of and said "OH CRAP! I forgot to make the wedding cake they asked for! Hmmm let see... Its suppose to be art right???...Hey if those guys with the buckets of paint thrown on the canvas can do it so can I!! It will be considered a masterpiece! No one will ever know, I forgot. I can throw it all on a table in heaps and call it ART! Now off to the store to see what they have.
- September 9, 2008 at 6:04 PM
Oh, so easy to mock people and their creations out of context. I was enjoying the site until I saw my friends being mocked. This situation leads me to question the culture of ridicule exemplified by many of the comments above.
Both the bride and groom are wonderfully nice people, as well as creative, driven and productive artists. They will accomplish more meaningful things in the next year than the rest of us will in our entire lives. I would gladly exchange their talents for mine.
This entire site is about belittling the artistic sense of others, and still manage hypocrisy of the righteous in their condemnation of the couple's defenders.
Art is simple, you like it or you don't. There is nothing wrong in saying, "I do not like this artwork." It is reprehensible, condemnable ignorance to say this is not art and the people who make it are not artists.
Perhaps you should consider not including photos of people for your ridicule. Stick to the cakes.
David - September 25, 2008 at 8:48 PM
- Mudhooks said...
At first I didn't realize it was fruit and thought they were cutting into something that was supposed look like a half-eaten animal carcass.
I like the look of concentration on the groom's face! "Careful how we dissect the ribs, honey!" - October 13, 2008 at 3:59 AM
It is obvious that this picture was sent via a guest of this wedding. So I think it only fair that we get to laugh at it-as they seemed to be laughing too.
- October 14, 2008 at 3:47 AM
"Fruit Explosion Wedding Cake"
Bringing a whole new meaning to "cherry bomb"
The girl looks like she totally gets it! Either that or she's thinking:"HAHA! They paid $230 for that thing!"
And what on earth is up with the plaid suit? - January 11, 2009 at 12:27 AM
"I was enjoying the site until I saw my friends being mocked."
So it's OK too mock the rest of the world, but not your freinds? Wow that's nice of you.
Anyway, if they mind the cake being made fun of, I'm sure they can speak for themselves.
If their happy with their wedding as it was, cake and all, then what makes you think they'd care that much? - April 16, 2009 at 8:12 AM
I'm so very late to the party here, but all I ave to say is that the gentleman in the plaid suit is totally rockin' that fez.
- August 10, 2009 at 2:31 PM
- Ichigo said...
"Profanity, mean-spirited remarks, anonymous criticism & blatant advertising will not be published".
I may even privately agree with some of the sentiments proffered here, but I find many comments here to be very mean-spirited indeed. The cake is one thing, but it seems commentators are really out of bounds in making some rather nasty personal assumptions about the people in the photo and their lifestyle. I find this dismaying and distasteful. I think a line's been crossed and I wish that 'Jen' had as much reaction to comments like these (as well as blatantly racist comments I've seen attached to other cakes since I found this site recently) as she does defending her grammatical and orthographical mistakes that are gently pointed out to her. - November 19, 2009 at 1:09 PM
Hi Ichigo,
Now I get to be defensive. whoopie...
First off, Jen doesn't tend to defend her errors. We pretty much just fix them, say whoops and move on.
Secondly, admittedly, some not always nice comments do slip through. But censorship is a slippery slope. If someone were to say, "What an ugly cake," shouldn't we reject it since the baker might find it hurtful? I assume that you take issue with the phrase "Red Neck," maybe even ascribing it "racist" or "bigoted" connotations. Though it may not sooth you, I can tell you that many of my friends here in the south are proud of the term Red Neck and would gladly describe themselves as such.
And lastly, please point out anything you see that would be considered "racist." (The most overused and least understood word in the English language.) Please feel free to e-mail me directly at info (at) cakewrecks.com with anything you find.
ps. The folks in the picture have seen this post and are fine with it. Is it possible you're taking up offenses where it isn't warranted? Just a thought...
pss. With all the bigoted, racist, prejudiced, mean and vulgar blogs and websites out there, why pick on us? I don't know... - November 19, 2009 at 1:32 PM
I just finished reading this whole thread and I gave John a standing ovation!!! You tell 'em, John!!
- November 29, 2009 at 4:19 PM
- Cupcakes Lady said...
Lol...yeh the smirk says it all. lol xx
- October 7, 2010 at 3:29 PM
- Haiku Joy said...
Cake installation:
Slide Apricot A onto
Banana B. Glue.
wv: desses
Desses lots of fun to look at. - July 13, 2011 at 6:19 PM
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Sciatica, also known as lumbar radiculopathy, is a pain that originates along the sciatic nerve, which extends from the back of the pelvis down the back of the thigh. The sciatic nerve is the primary nerve of the leg. It is also the largest nerve in the entire body.
What Causes Sciatica?
Frequently, sciatica is caused by a herniated disk in the spine that presses on the sciatic nerve. Other causes that may put pressure on the sciatic nerve may include the following:
- Obesity
- Poor posture
- Tumor
- Abscess
- Blood clot
- Awkward sitting position
- Any nerve disorders
- Piriformis syndrome, or entrapment of the nerve by muscle and connective tissue
Sometimes a cause for the sciatica cannot be identified.
What Are the Symptoms of Sciatica?
The following are the most common symptoms of sciatica. However, each individual may experience symptoms differently. Symptoms may include:
- Lower back pain that radiates down the buttock and back of 1 thigh
- Pain that extends from the buttock down to the foot
- Numbness (in severe cases)
- Weakness (in severe cases)
The symptoms of sciatica may resemble other conditions or medical problems. Always consult a doctor for a diagnosis.
How is Sciatica Diagnosed?
In addition to a complete medical history and physical examination, diagnostic procedures for sciatica may include the following:
- X-ray – A diagnostic test that uses invisible electromagnetic energy beams to produce images of internal tissues, bones, and organs onto film.
- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) – A diagnostic procedure that uses a combination of large magnets, radiofrequencies, and a computer to produce detailed images of organs and structures within the body.
- Electromyography and nerve conduction study (EMG and NCS) – A diagnostic procedure conducted together that records and analyzes electrical impulses in the muscles. During the EMG, thin needles are placed in the muscle to record electrical activity. The NCS is often done along with the EMG to determine if a nerve is functioning normally. Electrodes are then placed in various locations on the skin along the nerve pathway. When stimulating the nerve at various places, the doctor can then determine the specific site of the injury.
What is the Treatment for Sciatica?
Specific treatment for sciatica will be determined by your doctor based on:
- Your age, overall health, and medical history
- Extent of the disease
- Your tolerance for specific medications, procedures, or therapies
- Expectations for the course of the disease
- Your opinion or preference
Sciatica usually heals on its own with rest and time. To help relieve the pain, treatment may include:
- Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medications
- Heat or cold applications to the sore muscles
- Movement (keeping your body in motion minimizes inflammation)
- Surgery (to repair a herniated disk if one is present and if the condition persists)
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"My last couple of performances came against top-ranked guys and I won both pretty decisively. I'm very excited to get the opportunity to fight for the title." - Eddie Wineland
Seven years is a long time to wait, but Eddie Wineland is ready to reclaim what he believes is his. In 2006, the Indiana-native became the first ever WEC bantamweight champion by defeating Antonio Banuelos via first round knockout. This June at UFC 161, Wineland will have the opportunity to compete for the 135-pound strap once again when he squares-off with interim UFC champion Renan Barao in Winnipeg.
The Brazilian phenom has been a wrecking ball in the bantamweight division, as he's collected five consecutive victories inside the Octagon since coming over from the WEC, bringing his current unbeaten streak to an unbelievable 33 straight. In his most recent showing at UFC on FUEL TV 7, Barao defended his interim title by submitting surging young talent Michael McDonald in the fourth round of their tilt.
In defeat, "Mayday" became yet another example of what happens when you fail to solve the puzzle Barao brings to the table. But for as challenging as this task has proven to be, Wineland believes he has what it takes to get the job done, and will be carrying momentum of his own when the two bantamweights collide on June 15.
The former WEC bantamweight title holder is coming off dynamic back-to-back victories over top competition in Scott Jorgensen and Brad Pickett. Following his win over "One Punch", Wineland was hoping to get a top ranked opponent for his next outing, but when the UFC came calling with a title shot against Barao, the 28-year-old mixed martial artist / fireman could barely contain himself.
"It's funny because I was at the firehouse when I got the text," Wineland said. "When I read the message I ran into the kitchen, kicked the chair, threw my phone, and started screaming. It is the most excited I've ever been to get a fight. It is the fight that everybody wants and the one that every fighter at 135 pounds is trying to get to. Everyone wants that championship fight and right now I'm sitting in that seat.
"I think the UFC knows I come to fight and put 100 percent into it. My last couple of performances came against top-ranked guys and I won both pretty decisively. I'm very excited to get the opportunity to fight for the title.
"I won the first WEC bantamweight belt and when Zuffa took over I lost it," Wineland added. "I think it's just me coming back to claim what's mine. If you trace the lineage, the UFC belt is technically the first WEC belt. It was my belt originally and I'm coming back to get it."
The matchup between Barao and Wineland will feature two of the most dangerous fighters in the bantamweight division. Both have shown the ability to finish their respective opposition in consistent fashion and each possesses the power to end a fight with one clean shot.
While Wineland acknowledges the problems in dealing with a versatile skill set the likes of what Barao brings to the table, the New Breed Academy-trained fighter also believes his boxing and wrestling are the perfect neutralizers for Barao's attacking style.
"I think I'm a bad matchup for [Barao]," Wineland said. "I don't believe he's fought anyone like me and vice versa. I've never fought anyone like him but I feel I pose more problems.
"I'm not trying to give up too much of my game plan, but I throw a lot of straight punches and he's been open there in the past. The fastest way from point A to point B is a straight line and that is something we have been training for years. I do have a brawler style if need be, but I'd like to keep it technical, pick him apart, and take him out when it's time."
With a long-awaited title shot providing the ultimate motivation, Wineland is looking to make this year the best chapter of his career. That being said, stepping into the Octagon to compete for the bantamweight strap is a stark contrast to where things appeared to be heading two years ago.
After a disappointing 2011 where he dropped back-to-back outings against Urijah Faber and Joseph Benavidez, Wineland rebounded in impressive fashion by notching victories in both of his showings in 2012. The momentum has his confidence at an all-time high, but rather than describing the swing as a return to form, Wineland feels his success is the result of everything finally falling into place.
"When I first started training with my strength and conditioning coach about four years ago, he told me we weren't training for the fight six weeks down the road, we were training for two years down the road," Wineland said. "It all makes sense because all of my numbers have gone up consistently. Everything has gotten stronger and faster and has fallen into place. It's almost exactly as he said. Here we are four years later and everything is falling right where it needs to be."
The bout against Barao may be sitting on the horizon months from now, but this hasn't stopped Wineland from lighting the fires of war. In addition to his time preparing in the gym, the Chesterton-based fighter has applied his own version of "war paint" by growing a handlebar mustache.
The look harkens back to the days of bare-knuckle shipyard dust-ups and has Wineland itching to put up his dukes and let the fisticuffs fly.
"I have three months of work into it and another three months to go before the fight," Wineland described about his mustache. "I think it should be pretty gnarly by then. I'm going for the 1920's gentlemanly toughness. It's that 'I am super-nice but I'm tough as sh**, so don't mess with me' look."
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In 1946, when my grandfather mustered out of the army and married my grandmother, he set up what looked like the ideal family at the time. His wife quit her job and he started work driving a crane in a Massachusetts quarry — a job he would do for the next 40 years, working up to six days a week, sometimes 12 hours a day. When I asked him if he faced any challenges raising his three children, he replied, "I never did. My wife took care of all that. She brought the kids up." This arrangement came with a rigid hierarchy: "She worked for me," said my grandfather of his wife. "I always said, 'You work for me.' "
By the time my mother and father met in Dracut High School in 1963, the same year that Betty Friedan published The Feminine Mystique, more and more people were starting to question this division of labor between men and women. The following year, Congress formally abolished sex discrimination at work. I was born in 1970.
"I wanted to be closer to you than my father was to me," my dad told me when I interviewed him for my book, The Daddy Shift. "I wanted to participate more in my kids' lives." Even so, my parents never questioned for a moment that he would make most of the money and she would change most of the diapers.
By 1988 — the year I graduated from high school — only 29 percent of children lived in two-parent families with a full-time homemaking mother. And like many Baby Boomer couples, my parents split in 1991 — the same year I met the woman who is today my wife. By the time we became parents in 2004, my wife and I were stepping into a family landscape that was totally different from the one my grandparents faced in 1946.
For one thing, we never assumed that one of us was the natural breadwinner and the other a natural caregiver — instead, we saw those as roles that we would share and negotiate over time. For a year, I took care of my son while my wife went to work, and as we visited San Francisco's playgrounds, I met other stay-at-home dads, gay and lesbian parents, single mothers and fathers, and multiracial and immigrant families. I watched these disparate kinds of families manage to knit themselves into a community.
The right-wing "family values" movement has painted these trends as a crisis, but no one I know experiences them that way. Instead, we seem to share a positive (if often unarticulated) vision of the family as diverse, egalitarian, voluntary, interdependent, flexible, and improvisational.
Many people hold these ideals without necessarily being conscious of their political and economic implications — and they're not making politically motivated choices. In researching The Daddy Shift, for example, I didn't interview any breadwinning moms and caregiving dads who adopted their reverse-traditional arrangement for feminist reasons. They almost always framed their work and care decisions as a practical matter, a response to brutally competitive labor and childcare markets.
These day-to-day challenges can prevent us from seeing the bigger picture. We tend to see decades of battles over divorce, single moms, interracial marriage, same-sex marriage, and even immigration as isolated "issues." In fact, each of these issues is a frontline in a wider conflict over family ideals.
Each is part of a larger debate about what kind of society we want to be: one rooted in solidarity, cooperation, nurturance, and inclusiveness, the other in ideals now being most forcefully articulated by the Tea Party movement.
Today's parents are pioneering new relationships among moms, dads, neighbors, relatives, and community, largely in response to challenging economic conditions — and they're doing it with little or no support from marriage, divorce, and medical leave policies designed to support married, heterosexual, nuclear families. Those policies need to change, and we're the ones who are going to have to change them.
Economics have always shaped family. For most of human history, extended families were consolidated business units, growing and making what they needed to live and then selling the surplus to other families. The sole-male-breadwinner, nuclear family came with the rise of industrial capitalism, when fathers marched off to factories and mothers tended homes that became more mechanistic and consumerist as time went on.
Today, we are in the throes of another economic and technological evolution that is transforming our most intimate family relationships. As money and people move across borders, barriers against intercultural marriage are dissolving. Today, one in seven new marriages is interracial.
Meanwhile, jobs are becoming more portable, less stable, and more technically demanding — and the recession has hit hardest in male-dominated sectors of the economy.
For almost every decade for the past 100 years, more and more women have gone to college and work. Over the past three years, men have been much more likely to lose their jobs than women, who are concentrated in fast-growing, high-skill industries like health care and education. Between 2009 and 2010, men with college degrees saw their median weekly earnings drop 3 percent while the income of women with degrees grew by 4.3 percent. Today, young women's pay exceeds that of their male peers in most metropolitan areas.
These trends have changed the way moms and dads relate to each other and to their children. As men lost the ability to reliably support families on one income, families responded by diversifying.
Men have developed emotional and interpersonal skills by taking care of children — since the mid-1990s, the number of hours dads spend with kids has nearly doubled — and women have gone to school and to work. In the eyes of many couples, equity between parents has moved from a nice ideal to an urgent matter of survival.
And it's a strange but true fact that these changes to the structure of heterosexual families are what's driving acceptance of gay and lesbian marriage and parenthood. In August of 2010, Judge Vaughn Walker explicitly recognized this connection when he overturned Proposition 8, an amendment to California's constitution that defined marriage as being between "one man and one woman." In his decision, Walker wrote:
"The evidence shows that the movement of marriage away from a gendered institution and toward an institution free from state-mandated gender roles reflects an evolution in the understanding of gender rather than a change in marriage. ... The exclusion (of same-sex couples) exists as an artifact of a time when the genders were seen as having distinct roles in society and in marriage. That time has passed."
But however equally moms and dads share the load, this economy is not easy on families as a whole, and parents are increasingly reaching out beyond their nuclear units to grandparents, neighbors, and friends. They're building extended families based on both blood and affinity, and relying more and more on their communities.
As the Pew Research Center reports, "The multigenerational American family household is staging a comeback — driven in part by the job losses and home foreclosures of recent years but more so by demographic changes that have been gathering steam for decades." Today, more Americans live in a multigenerational home than at any time in the past 50 years. According to Pew, this shift has been driven in part by the arrival of immigrants who prefer to live in communal situations — a way of life that research says helps them survive economic distress.
In a five-year longitudinal study, sociologists Ross Parke and Scott Coltrane compared how Latino and Anglo families in Riverside, Calif., coped with layoffs and money problems. They found that Latino families were astonishingly resilient, largely because they shared resources among a large network of extended family.
Based on their findings, Parke and his colleagues argue that Anglo families have a great deal to learn from Latino families: "We often assume that immigration is a one-way process," the researchers write in Greater Good magazine. "This is an oversimplified view that ignores the mutual influences between cultural groups." In their view, the fusion of new, more equal gender roles with extended-family values like sharing and community can create a 21st-century family form "that is better anchored by extended kin, neighbors, and communities committed to the common good of our children."
In my own community, I've seen their vision put into practice. My friend, Viru Gupte, grew up in India, where most marriages are still arranged by parents and communal life remains very strong. "In Indian cities, the people around you become your family," says Viru, who was raised in Delhi. "The kids practically grow up in their neighbors' apartments. You just walked in whenever you wanted, and they fed you."
I met Viru because he had consciously attempted to recreate that way of life in our San Francisco neighborhood. He struck up a conversation with me one day at the neighborhood farmers market and then out of the blue invited me to an all-dad outing he had organized. "You have to work very hard to have a community here," he later said. "It requires planning."
Viru has taught me a lot about the relationship between family and community. I don't think I'm alone: Motivated by a shrinking economy, native-born families are starting to integrate these attitudes and values into 21st-century family life.
My friend, Corbyn Hightower, is a bisexual, breadwinning mother, who has one child with her ex-wife Mimi and two children with her husband Larry, a stay-at-home dad. When she lost her job at the start of the recession, Corbyn and Larry decided to join forces with Mimi and her new partner, Patty. They sold their belongings in Texas and moved back to California, where Corbyn had lived with Mimi.
Today, Corbyn, Larry, Mimi, and Mimi's partner all live within a half-mile of each other and, through many twists and turns in their personal relationships, all four have served as parents to the three children. As Corbyn writes in an essay for the site I help edit, Shareable.net:
"The agreement was always that we are in this together, and that our broken and vulnerable contingent would find strength and security in the tribe. Since that union was forged, more jobs were lost — and gained — but we weather those storms as a group, and not alone anymore. If one has a bill that cannot be paid, another is there to find spare change under couch cushions."
Corbyn's family is surviving under enormous economic pressure, but she's not getting much help from our political system. It's never a political decision to love another person, but political decisions can support, or hurt, our personal ones.
Banning same-sex marriage hurts some families, and it does nothing to strengthen heterosexual families. Fighting against paid parental leave or food stamps or health care in the name of "small government" makes life harder for all of us. It's time for today's families, in all our diversity, to find our political voice and reshape society.
It's no secret what social policies could lessen inequality, nurture family diversity, and rebuild community: They include paid, mandatory leave for both parents on the birth or adoption of a child, universal early childhood education, and funneling resources to schools in poor and working-class communities. In countries like Sweden, decades of generous paternity leave have gradually leveled the domestic division of labor between mammas and pappas — and had a measurably positive impact on the health and educational outcomes of both kids and parents. We will never realize such policies in the United States unless we as parents, both moms and dads, speak out together.
I think the first step is to follow the example of my friend Viru, and begin by talking to the people you see in your neighborhood and beyond, and helping each other out with babysitting, casual work, and sharing stuff. Viru's case illustrates the degree to which immigrants are infusing our neighborhoods with a stronger sense of interdependence.
We can make a difference by welcoming the insight and energy of folks like him. We can also form communities that include all of today's families. For example, we can welcome fathers into caregiving situations or take the commitments of gay and lesbian couples seriously. As part of this process, we need to articulate to each other what values make us strong and what ideals we try to live by.
It can't stop there: Building community is critical, but I think it's equally critical to leverage the power of that community for social change. We can help each other by voting, marching, speaking out, and clicking for the policies that will nurture all of our families.
Being an activist parent is very different from youthful activism. Total commitment to the cause is not usually possible, at least when kids are young, because it competes with commitments to our partners and children. But raising a child has taught me many things about social change: to be patient and persistent, to try to see the world through the eyes of others, and to never give up on the people in my life.
Fatherhood in my family did not change overnight; it took three generations, and it would be silly to think that evolution will stop with me. We stand on the shoulders of the generations before us—and our children will stand on ours.
This article is reprinted with permission from Bainbridge Island-based YES! Magazine's Winter 2011 issue, What Happy Families Know.


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The Little Theatre of Alexandria celebrates the holiday season with a return of Charles Dickens' heartwarming classic "A Christmas Carol."
An endearing portrait of mid-nineteenth century England, the age-old tale features Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserly Victorian humbug, who travels with ghostly guides through Christmas past, present, and future to find the true meaning of the holidays. Replete with special effects, lavish Victorian costumes and the ever-precious Tiny Tim, this family-friendly seasonal reprise is drawn from the original text and perfectly adapted for the stage by Donna Ferragut.
Under Robin Parker's smooth direction this holiday special sparkles like freshly fallen snow.
A "Christmas Carol" runs through December 18. For tickets and information call 703-683-0496 or visit www.TheLittleTheatre.com.


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Emirates Airlines provide such a memorable inflight experience that travelers want to fly with Emirates again. If you are a US resident and planning a trip with Emirates Airlines soon, then this article will be very helpful to you. Go through the guide and learn how to plan an illustrious trip by contacting the Emirates Airlines Office Cotonou representatives.
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Why Must You Choose Emirates Airlines?
- It is an official 5-star Global Airline.
- Approximately 56 million passengers fly with Emirates Airlines every year.
- It provides you with the world's best inflight entertainment.
- Emirates Airlines flies to 157 destinations with a fleet size of 270.
- It is considered the world's safest Airline for COVID-19 passengers initiatives.
Emirates Airlines Office Cotonou Address
Emirates Airlines strictly advise the passengers not to visit the office in the pandemic yet if you want to, here is the address:
Satguru travel (Agent office), 01, Boulevard St Michel
B.P 5208 Cotonou Benin.
Google Maps link: https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=40.6440808,-73.7818507&query_place_id=ChIJubjX_u9YwokRgpTxfI4bTxI
Emirates Airlines Office Cotonou Other Contact Details
Instead of visiting the Emirates Airline Office in Cotonou, you can contact the customer service or a travel expert by using any of the following methods:
- Emirates Airlines Office Cotonou phone number for general queries: +18007773999.
- Head to the official website (www.emirates.com) and scroll down the page to click on 'Contact US'. On the Contacts page, click on the 'Start Live Chat' and talk to an Emirates travel expert.
- Leave a message on Emirates Airlines Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Emirates/.
- Tweet to us: https://twitter.com/emirates.
- Connect with us LinkedIn message: https://www.linkedin.com/company/emirates/.
Emirates Airlines Application
Now booking a flight with Emirates Airlines, shortlisting the hotels, renting cars; in short exploring the world can be done with the snap of your fingers. Emirates Airlines present an application to manage your trip from the comfort of your place. Download link for the following devices are given below:
- iOS devices: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/emirates/id935307149.
- Android devices: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.emirates.ek.android.
Download the Emirates application on your mobile phone and personalize your inflight entertainment playlist without heading to the nearby Emirates Airlines Office in the Cotonou.
How to Book a Flight with Emirates Airlines Online?
The online flight booking procedures for Emirates Airlines using applications and official websites are quite the same. Here are the general steps, follow and book the most-suitable flight in no time.
- Open an internet browser and click on the 'URL bar', write 'www.emirates.com/' and hit the 'Enter' button.
- Click on the 'Search flights' from the given options.
- On the next page, under the 'Where and When' tab, click on the 'Round trip' if you wish to book a return ticket as well. Else, click on the 'One way' option.
- On the 'Departure Airport' tab, choose an airport to start your journey from.
- On the 'Departing' tab, choose the date of leaving from the calendar.
- Click on the 'Arrival Airport' tab and choose an airport.
- On the 'Returning' tab, choose a date of returning.
- Choose 'Class' for both the flights by dragging down the 'Class' tab.
- Click on the 'My dates are flexible (+/-3 days) if you are not sure about the dates.
- Under the 'Passengers' tab, drop down the 'Adult', 'Children', and 'Infants' tabs and validate the number of passengers traveling with you.
- If you have a 'Promotional Offer Code', enter it in the required tab and then click on the 'Search Flights'.
Note: In case you have entered the wrong destinations or dates, click on the 'Change Search' link and go back to the first page.
Important: You will be taken to your departing location's website. For example, if you choose 'NY, Cotonou' as your starting point, you will be taken to the Emirates Airlines Cotonou website automatically. The prices will be shown in '$' so that it is easy for you to compare the flights. |
- Now, scroll through the list of the available flights and select a flight for Inbound and click on the 'Continue' button.
- Then, select one for Inbound and click on the 'Continue to Passengers' tab.
- Here, enter the details as per the number of passengers traveling with you.
- Choose a 'Title' – Mr., Mrs., Ms., or Undisclosed and then enter the 'First Name' and 'Last Name'.
- Enter a GDRFA Application Number' in the required tab if you are a UAE resident.
- If you have traveled with Emirates Airlines before, do not forget to enter the 'Frequent flyer number'. Otherwise, you cannot take the special benefits.
- In the next column, enter the 'Date of Birth' – Date, Month, and Year.
- If you want to add the Tax number, click on the 'Yes' and enter it.
- Confirm the number of 'Passengers' traveling with you.
- Under the 'Primary contact number', choose the type of 'Contact Number' you want to provide.
- Then select the 'Country or Territory' and provide the 'Number' in the next tab.
- Check the 'Set SMS reminder' to receive SMS regarding your flight updates.
- Under the 'Email Address' type an email ID and click on the 'Subscribe to special offers' and choose your 'Country'.
- Then, hit the 'Continue to Options' tab and complete the payment method to book the flights.
After following the quick online booking steps, your tickets with Emirates Airlines will be booked. Now, before taking your flight make sure you are done with the formalities. Call on the Emirates Airlines Office Cotonou Phone Number to resolve any reservation queries.
Emirates Airlines Office Cotonou Number for Baggage Allowance
Before checking in to the airport or Emirates Airlines Office Cotonou, you must be aware of the Emirates Baggage policy. Baggage allowances on any Emirate flight depend on the fare of a passenger. Here are rules and fees for baggage as per your 'Class'.
Class | Flex Plus | Flex | Saver | Special |
Economy | 35 Kg | 30 Kg | 25 Kg | 20 Kg |
Class | All Fare Types |
Business | 40 Kg |
Class | All Fare Types |
First | 50 Kg |
Dimensions for Carry-on and Checked luggage are given below:
Carry-on | Checked |
55 cm x 38 cm x 20 cm | L + H + W = 150 cm |
For further query, call and solve all your Emirates Airlines Flights Baggage queries.
Online Check-in Procedure for Emirates Airlines Flights
Passengers can use the Emirates application installed on their mobile phones or the official website to perform online check-in. Here are the correct steps to check-in via Emirates Airlines website.
- Open an internet browser and type 'www.emirates.com' in the address bar then hit the 'Enter' button.
- Click on the 'Manage Booking or Check-in' from the given options.
- On the 'Manage Booking/ Check-in' page, click on the 'Last Name' and provide it.
- Then, provide the 'Booking reference' in the next tab.
- Hit on the 'Check-in' tab and you will be checked in successfully.
In case you are not being able to check-in online for technical or internet issues, contact Emirates Airlines Office Cotonou staff immediately for troubleshooting. As the check-in process needs to be done 1 to 24 hours before taking the flight.
How to Check the Emirates Airlines Flight Status?
To learn about the status of your booked flight you can connect with the travel expert by dialing the Emirates Airlines Office Cotonou general inquiry number or follow the enlisted steps to check online:
- Open an internet browser and type 'www.emirates.com' in the address bar then hit the 'Enter' button.
- Click on the 'Flight Status' from the given options.
- On the 'Flight Status' page, choose one among 'Route' and 'Flight Number' options.
- If you choose 'Route',
- Enter the 'Departure airport' and 'Arrival Airport' one by one.
- Click on the 'Departure day' or 'Arrival day' and enter the dates accordingly.
- If you choose 'Flight Number',
- Enter the 'Number of Emirates Flight'.
- Provide the 'Date'.
- Then click on the 'Check Flight Status' and the status will be shown on your screen.
If the status is not clear, contact the travel experts by calling the customer care service or head to the nearby Emirates Airlines Office in the Cotonou.
How to Cancel Emirates Airlines Flight?
If you are planning to cancel your trip and are running out of time to visit the Emirates Airlines Office in the Cotonou for the cancellation process, don't worry! Here is the online procedure of canceling Emirates tickets that will save your time and cancel the reservations in no time.
- Open an internet browser and type 'www.emirates.com' in the address bar then hit the 'Enter' button.
- Click on the 'Manage Booking or Check-in' from the given options.
- Provide your 'Last Name' and the 'Booking reference' in the required tabs.
- Hit on the 'Manage Booking' tab and open the edit page.
- Now, find the option of 'Cancel' and hit on it.
After following the steps mentioned above, your fight tickets with Emirates Airlines will be canceled. You will receive a notification on your registered phone number or email ID regarding the cancellation process.
Emirates Airlines Office Cotonou: Help Desk
By dialing the Emirates Airlines Office Cotonou phone number that is, you can get help regarding the following problems.
- Cancelling Emirates Airlines flights.
- Can hotels be booked on the Emirates website?
- Baggage policies, rules, and fees.
- How to choose a seat on Emirates flights?
- Baggage allowances.
- Covid-19 testing and protocols.
- Lost my baggage inside the plane.
- Refund policy.
- How to carry excess baggage?
- My baggage is damaged.
- Do we have to pay for changing tickets?
- How to reclaim UDF?
- How can my service animal travel with me?
- What is the process of transfer between Emirates and Qantas in any country?
- Travel requirements before taking an Emirates flight.
Emirates Airlines Customer Service Numbers for Other Countries
Emirates Airlines Office New Zealand | +64508364728 |
Emirates Airlines Office UAE | +971600555555 |
Emirates Airlines Office Spain | +34912757792 |
Emirates Airlines Office Germany | +4969945192000 |
Emirates Airlines Office United Kingdom | +443448002777 |
We hope you find this article helpful while planning your dream trip with Emirates Airlines. We are sure you are going to bookmark this page for the next time you want to travel. If you think we have missed anything regarding the information of Emirates Airlines Office Cotonou, drop a comment and we will get back to you with its answer.
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