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But, before I get on with all the daily happenings, I REALLY wanted to share my latest news with all of you!! I found out this week that I made it into the internationally distributed Pretty Toys Magazine for the month of July! I simply can not express how excited I am about it. :-) I knew it would be coming up at some point, but did not know which issue I would be placed in. I am also thrilled with the fact that this issue contains my first ever tutorial! So, if you want to know what the tutorial is all about, you will have to get the magazine!!
I am delighted to be included in this issue and honored to share it with some very talented artist from around the world. This magazine is really fantastic with limited advertisements and chock-full of the stuff you want to see and read about! Pretty Toys Magazine is available in both digital format and hard copy. Just in case you were wondering why the price for the hard copy is so high, it is because it contains very little advertisement AND it is a beautiful, high quality magazine. When I received my first hard copy back in January, I was really impressed by how well it is made...it's almost a book! It's gorgeous! You will not be disappointed. To purchase your copy, you can follow this link: http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/781758
Now that we have that bit of news out of the way, it's time for show and tell! In truth, I am not sure you will be able to really see all the work that I have accomplished in this past week. Especially since what was left is the "fur" details. I still have a little bit more clay to add to the face area in order to blend the facial hair to the neck, then obviously the sanding must be done. And yes, it is going to be a bear of a job to sand this critter. :-D But, it will be all worth it in the end I think. Sorry about the poor lighting. I was in a hurry when I snapped the photos, but I think they are well enough for you to see the detail work. You will have to let me know what you think of the progress so far. I really do enjoy hearing your feedback on my projects! Of course, looking at the pics here on my monitor...they look horrid! LOL So, you might want to click on the picture so that it will enlarge for you to give you more details and a better view. :-P
The final thing I have to share with you this evening is that I have listed 4 items up for auction this week. Yes...FOUR!! I know, I must be crazy. But the truth is, I REALLY need to make some room in my studio because I'm bursting at the seems for needed space. It would be wonderful if you folks would help me clear out my inventory. You will find the items are listed at super great starting prices, not to mention, there is a little something for everyone in different price ranges too! Three of the items are relisted items, but there is one new one up on the block today, "Jack-Be-Nimble"! I really love this piece, especially if he is displayed with the correct lighting, he makes for a FABULOUS display because his shadow seems to dance with him...like the shadows from a flickering flame! Whomever takes this one home will be getting a real treat! Then, of course, there is my coveted "Joy Ride". I know someone really wants to buy this one and in truth, I am shocked he has not sold yet. His starting price is so stinking low it does him a disservice! But, nonetheless, I can not keep these forever. I create them for the satisfaction of passing them on to you, the collectors. So, please, someone out there, make me EXTREMELY happy and buy "Joy Ride" and give this lovely beast a home that will cherish him as a family heirloom as he deserves! And, then there is the troll, "Captured" because you can not have a dragon without a troll. And, I have to say, the pictures do not do this piece any justice whatsoever. He is awesome! Ever since I moved back in October, I have found it VERY difficult to get good pictures of my work. I just have not found the right set-up yet, though I keep searching for it. Anyway, I thought he deserved another whirl round in the town of Ebay. And, since he was so dark and scary, I thought I might as well put "Ruby" up too since to me, she is somewhat "gothic" in a way. LOL At any rate, I hope that there are 4 collectors out there who would fall in love with one of these and give them a forever loving home. They are great pieces and worthy of an collection...big or small. Again, there is something here for everyone, from the new collector all the way to the distinguished collector.
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So, there ya have it folks, that's been my past week in a nutshell. So stay tuned and hopefully soon you will see the finishing of the mighty polar bear project! I hope you have enjoyed reading and following along so far. Again, I really enjoy your feedback and comments. It is always nice to hear from all of you out there. And, don't forget, I also have my other blog running too. Hopefully tomorrow, I will be debuting the next item for the Every Witch Way Lane blog store. You can get an early sneak peek of the item over there at www.covenofcrones.blogspot.com
As always, thanks for following along with me on my figure sculpting journey at The Pixie Knoll!


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This was the next version I saw of the Ivanhoe story. This is an A&E mini-series, and it is fabulous. Just as I watched the first one for Sam Neill, I tuned into this one for another actor, this time, Valentine Pelka. He's one of those British actors most people have never heard of, but I love love love him. He plays Maurice de Bracy, which delighted me no end, after loving Stuart Wilson in the same role.
What I found was a rock solid mini-series that was gripping start to finish. It has an unfair advantage over the 1982 version because it is a mini-series. With a running time of 270 minutes, it has room for character growth and depth that the other versions, of course, don't have, and it uses them wisely. This is also a much grittier, more "realistic" filming of the story. The characters look dirty, scroungy, and like they belong in the time period much more than the 1982 version.
The cast? Really, they're unrivaled here. Everyone of them looks and fits their role and turns in above standard performances. No cheese here! Ciarin Hinds gets the plummy Brian de Bois-Guilbert role and he is perfect. I may have loved Sam Neill, but I can't say I truly cared about his Bois-Guilbert. Not so this time, I was much more invested in the character. (But again with the unfair mini-series advantage of having so much more time and space...) Susan Lynch is Rebecca, and she, also, shines. The two play off each other very well, and their scenes are some of the best in the mini-series. James Cosmo plays Cedric, and, as opposed to the complaining version in the 1982 version, this Cedric is fierce, and definitely more action less talk, and definitely no whining. He'd be a scary stern father that you wouldn't want to mess with. (You know, I don't think I've seen James Cosmo in anything but period/fantasy movies. I can't even picture him in modern day clothes!). Stephen Waddington is Ivanhoe, and is more than adequate. Valentine Pelka makes a most excellent de Bracy, even more honorable than Stuart Wilson's, and if I hadn't already been in love with actor and character, this would have cemented it! Christopher Lee is even here, being absolutely terrifying as the rigid head of the Knights Templar. Everyone else fills in their characters nicely.
Special credit goes to Sian Phillips who has a brief but absolutely priceless appearance as Queen Eleanor, who meets with her two feuding sons. It might just be my favorite scene in the film. At the very least, it's the one that made me grin the most! Brilliant dialogue as she verbally lashes her two sons. Now this is a powerful and smart Queen! She's so good, you almost wish there was more scenes with her!
The only extremely minor downside is this version does not appear to have had a big budget. There are not hundreds of extras available to storm the castle or fill in the stands for the jousts, or even to populate Prince John's castle, which seems woefully understaffed. This didn't actually bother me because the rest was so good, but I've heard other complaints that it's "too small" in scale. Rubbish. I'll take it just as it is.
So, yes, this is far and away my favorite version of Ivanhoe. It's true to the story, has a great cast, great scenery, and is meaty. A&E got this one right!


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Recent years have seen a number of great tight ends come out of Athens, including current stars Aron White and Orson Charles. During Vince Dooley's final seasons as the Georgia head coach, Georgia had its first tight end reach All-American status. Troy Sadowski was a four year starter under coach Dooley. Sadowksi was known mostly for his blocking skills, as he helped clear holes for All-American tailback Tim Worley.
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Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Happy Birthday! Itadakimasu!
Being sick sucks. More so because I have no energy to cook and no appetite. It's sad, really. This week, however, I mustered up enough energy to pull together a great dinner for my beloved's 30-something birthday. I took a trip to my local Asian grocery store and picked up the ingredients for Shabu Shabu, a Japanese hot pot dinner. Following the excellent instructions of Cooking with Dog, I assembled my meal.
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I wasn't going to host a co-op this year, but an amazing opportunity presented itself! Ken Kilb, a recent graduate from the Waldorf teacher training program at Alkion Center in Ghent, NY contacted me wanting to volunteer his time as a Main Lesson teacher for a homeschool co-op. Between the two of us, we think that we can organize a nice grades co-op, and have a kindy program going on for younger siblings. This would be mostly for grades 1-5, and we would do the typical main lesson block rotation as at a Waldorf School. Blocks would be math, language arts, nature study, putting on a play, form drawing (freehand geometry), etc…. we would also do lots of projects, circle games and songs, farm chores every morning and share a lunch.
This would be hosted at my home and farm (Pownal, VT) Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 8:30-12:30ish with optional and occasional Mondays. If you are interested in a Waldorf experience for your children, this would basically cover it for you…and Ken would give suggestions for things to do during the rest of the week should you want to make this your central "curriculum".
This is such a great opportunity to have a Waldorf teacher willing to donate his time just because he "wants to help start a Waldorf co-op and help homeschoolers". He is a single guy, so we could probably repay him in premade dinners and baked goods for his regular work week. He works as an RN in Albany. He has lived in several anthroposophical communities, including Fellowship in NY for four years.
Anyway, if anyone is interested, or if you would like to know more about Waldorf education, please contact me at firstname.lastname@example.com
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Saturday, September 20, 2008
How About Some Chicken?
This evening I felt like cooking something for my boyfriend and me. Yes, it's been awhile since I've actually done any home cooking...seems like we've been doing more takeout than anything else these last few months. Since I had some lovely chicken thighs and legs in the freezer, I opted for this simple yet very tasty dish from Mark Bittman's cookbook, "How To Cook Everything". Keep in mind that your kitchen may get very hot during the cooking process but luckily for us, it was a cool, breezy day here in Southern California, and our smoke detector only went off once. Enjoy!
Roast Chicken Parts With Herbs and Butter
4 tablespoons of butter
1 whole chicken (3-4 pounds), cut up (I used 4 legs, and 4 thighs)
Salt and freshly ground pepper
Combination of herbs (I used dried herbs--thyme and basil)
1. Preheat oven to 450 degrees F. When hot, put 1 tablespoon of butter in a roasting pan and place it in the oven--leave it there until the butter is melted.
2. Add the chicken, skin side up, season with salt and pepper, and return the pan to the oven. Combine the herb and the remaining butter in a bowl and mix until blended.
3. After the chicken has cooked 15 minutes, spread about 1/4 of the herb/butter mixture over it, turn, add another quarter of the mixture and roast another 10 minutes. Turn the chicken over again (now skin side up) and add another quarter of the herb mixture.
4. Cook until the chicken is done (you'll see clear juices if you make a small cut in the meat near the bone), a total of 30-40 minutes (mine took about 25 minutes to cook).
5. When serving, drizzle the melted butter/herb sauce over the chicken and serve with Japanese udon noodles also drizzled with the butter. Hope you like!
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Hey Henny! That looks delicious! Sounds good with the udon noodles!
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That does sound quite easy, and I just happen to have some chicken in the freezer as well!
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The star of the hosts and defending champions of the Under-17 World Cup has said the expectations are getting higher...
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Nigeria Under-17 striker Stanley Okoro has admitted that expectations on the team to host and win the FIFA Under-17 World Cup have been very daunting.
"It is a very daunting task [to win the competition] and this is even more so with recent results of the other national teams, the Super Eagles and the Under-20 team," said the Heartland FC forward, who is nicknamed 'Little Messi' after the Argentine superstar.
"All the same, I wish to use this tournament to make a name for myself."
Okoro, 16, is a left-footed winger who is often played on the right flank. He is fast and blessed with a good dribble.
He is the most experienced player in the Nigerian squad having featured for Heartland in both the Premier League and the CAF Champions League, where the Owerri outfit have reached this year's final.
He has proved his class with goals during the team's pre-tournament matches in Qatar, Ghana and the Gambia.
This tournament has already produced several Nigerian players like Victor Ikpeba, Nwankwo Kanu, Celestine Babayaro and Wilson Oruma, who have gone on to establish themselves at full international level.
Coach John Obuh told Goal.com that he would have done a great job if some of the boys in this team go on to star for the full international team as well.
"If I could have five to 10 players from this team in the senior national team in the next five years, then I'll be a fulfilled man," said Obuh, who helped Kwara United win promotion back to the Nigerian top flight last season.
Nigeria open the tournament on Saturday against Germany, the team they defeated 2-0, twenty-four years ago in China to win the first of their three U-17 World Cups.Samm Audu, Goal.com


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So there is the most amazing maple tree outside my office. Everyone kept walking past it today, commenting on it's gorgeous red colors and how pretty it was. Too bad I spend 90% of my day, facing my computer monitor, which puts my back to this spectacular deciduous phenomenon. (I have a wonderful vocabulary - jealous?).
The reception door locks at 6:00 each night, even though we are open until 7:30. This means if you leave to use the restroom you have to have your keycard with you to swipe back in. Most people don't realize this until they throw all their weight into the door, which is glass, and look shocked when it doesn't open. One of these days we're going to have a 'Hulk Smash" moment and that is going to be very hard to explain to the building management.
The most popular cubicle decoration right now are the gourds that look like mini pumpkins. I can assume they are so popular for two reasons (1) They cover multiple holidays and (2) they can become projectiles if a battle ever erupts between departments.
Yesterday I spent an hour reading comments on FML.com and came to realize that my job is glorious compared to many others. For example - I don't think I am hated by everyone I work with, nor do I think I would ever be fired by text message.
I didn't go on vacation anywhere this year, which means I didn't use quite a bit of my vacation. I could practically take every Friday off for the rest of the year, but I love Casual Friday's so much that I don't want to sacrifice the ability to wear jeans in the office. What am I to do?
If you follow me on Twitter (which you all should - @TheOfficeScribe) then you know yesterday I spent some time working on an itinerary for a couple of coworkers who were set to leave for Kenya today on a work trip. And not just a normal itinerary, but a humorous one filled with side stories and having very little to actually do with their trip. Sadly, today I found out that their trip was canceled at the last minute. But fear not, rumor has it someone is taking them to see "The Lion King 3-D" which is practically the same thing as going on safari, right?
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Every time I fly over the northwestern corner of the Kenai Peninsula, I marvel at the number of lakes that make up the Swan Lake and Swanson River Canoe Routes and think about ways to explore them. Ways that don't involve hiking in hip boots on soggy trails in the rain with a full pack on my back and canoe on my head while being tormented by mosquitoes.
Call me soft, but I like to travel fast and light and mosquitoes drive me absolutely insane, so I've pretty much given up on traveling deep into this wilderness from May to October. I have the utmost respect for those dedicated canoeists out there who paddle and portage the system during the summer months, and I'm sure they have fantastic experiences, but it's just not for me. Fortunately, however, summer always ends in Alaska, and when the lakes finally freeze, the Swan Lake and Swanson River Canoe Routes open up to skaters. Then, wild ice season begins.
There are a number of roadside lakes up Swanson River Road and out Swan Lake Road that are great for ice skating and are easily accessible to anyone with a vehicle and a pair of hockey skates. If you want true roadside skating, you'll need to head up Swanson River Road at least as far as Weed, Dolly Varden and Rainbow lakes. Park your car, put on your skates, step onto the ice and go (after you've checked the thickness of the ice, of course).
Other lakes on Swanson River Road, such as Mosquito, Silver, Forest, Drake and Skookum lakes, require a short hike in to get the goods. These lakes are beautiful, slightly removed from the truck traffic on the road and can be great fun when the conditions are good.
If you want to really explore the Swan Lake and Swanson River Canoe Routes that depart from Swan Lake Road and link multiple lakes together in a wide-ranging tour, you'll need some specialized skating equipment that will allow you to tackle the many portages more efficiently than you can with hockey skates.
Constantly lacing and unlacing your skates with frozen fingers and changing into hiking boots and back into skates for the portages, or — yikes — hiking in skate guards? No. To get deep into the system to the truly wild ice in a way that's fast and fun, you'll need Nordic skates.
Nordic skating was developed in Sweden (långfärdsskridsko), but it is also quite popular in Norway (turskøyting) and Finland (retkiluistelu) and is slowly catching on in Alaska (obscurenichesport). Nordic skating is all about going far and fast with a minimal amount of effort.
Imagine effortlessly gliding through a blurring landscape at dreamlike speeds with the freedom to go in any direction you choose and you'll have some sense of Nordic skating. It's always exhilarating and when conditions are perfect it can be downright euphoric. You're not just walking on water, you're flowing across the top of it catching wolves by surprise.
Nordic skates aren't really skates as much as they are long, hard steel blades (50 centimeters or so) with cross-country ski bindings mounted on top. You use warm, comfortable Nordic ski boots and clip into the bindings as if they were skis. Your heels, and your mind, remain free. Since clipping in and out of the bindings takes mere seconds, you can go from skates to boots and back to skates in less time than it takes to say, "I love portaging these mosquito-free trails without a canoe!"
Nordic skates allow you to cross large lakes in a matter of minutes, unclip for the portage, hike the trail in your ski boots, and then clip back into your blades when you reach the next lake. After a few tours this fall, I'm fairly certain that when the ice cooperates, Nordic skating is the most efficient way of exploring the Swan Lake and Swanson River Canoe Routes. It's also extremely fun if you like to go fast and spend time in the wintry woods far from the madding crowd.
As the smaller lakes on the peninsula started to freeze up in late October, I planned my first mini-tour off Swan Lake Road. If you intend to spend any time in this area, summer or winter, Daniel Quick's book, "The Kenai Canoe Trails: Alaska's Premier Hiking and Canoeing System," is invaluable. For skaters, Quick's book is useful because it has the depths of most of the lakes in the system.
Since small, shallow lakes freeze before large, deep ones, you can research which lakes will freeze first and plan accordingly. As I drove past Dolly Varden Lake on my way to the Nest Lake trailhead just before Halloween, there was open water visible from the Dolly Varden campground. After driving a few miles down the road and making the short hike to the shoreline of tiny Nest, however, I found stout ice 4 to 5 inches thick.
I generally only skate if the ice is 2 inches or thicker and I base my estimations of thickness on the spidery cracks that stretch across the lakes like frozen veins. I don't carry an auger or a drill (too heavy) and I always assume that I could go through the ice at any time.
For this reason, and because I generally skate solo, I never step out onto ice without a pair of ice claws (isdubbar is the Swedish term) for self-rescue. Ice claws are basically spikes with handles that will allow you to haul yourself out of the drink should you be unlucky enough to go through. I made mine out of wooden dowels and nails and, fortunately, I haven't had to use them yet.
After one slow lap around Nest Lake to check the thickness of the ice, constantly looking down and slightly ahead, I did a couple of quick crossings and admired the views of the Kenai Mountains. I then unclipped from my blades near an obvious portage and hiked on the frozen tundra next to a creek with open water over to Duckling Lake.
Since Nest Lake isn't a part of the canoe route system proper there are no marked portages, but if you like maps as much as I do, route finding between these relatively unexplored lakes is part of the fun. You really get the sense that you're going where few people ever go, though there are plenty of animal tracks.
After a couple of circuits on Duckling Lake, I unclipped again and hiked over to Kayak Lake, which has some nice nooks and crannies to explore. From Kayak Lake it was another short portage on frozen ground over to Willow Lake, and after a few laps there I headed back to Nest Lake. I was definitely dawdling while ogling the beauty of my surroundings, yet this little tour of four different lakes still took less than two hours.
It really is astonishing how fast you can travel on quality ice and how enjoyable it is to move gracefully (most of the time) through this terrain with warm, dry feet. Best of all, there are no pesky mosquitoes.
After a brief warm spell in early November where lakes across the peninsula experienced some thawing, things got cold again by the middle of the month and the larger lakes visible from Swanson River Road began to freeze all the way across. Buoyed by my success at Nest Lake, I decided it was time to see Swan Lake.
It was Black Friday, so with a curious mixture of Tchaikovsky and Steely Dan running through my head, I set out for the lake that Quick describes as the "granddaddy of all lakes" in the Swan Lake and Swanson River Canoe Routes.
As I signed in at the East Entrance trailhead I wondered how many people had ever visited Swan Lake under their own power without a canoe. A few Nordic skiers and snowshoers, perhaps? The odd trapper?
Incidentally, there are active traplines in this area and at least some of them are marked. For this reason and a couple of others (open water and high speeds) I leave my dogs at home, despondent, when heading into this neck of the woods.
To get to Swan Lake you have to cross Portage Lake (one minute), Portage Lake No. 2 (30 seconds), Birch Lake (two minutes), Teal Lake (one minute), Mallard Lake (one minute) and Raven Lake (one minute). The portages between the lakes generally take five to 10 minutes, with the longest portage — between Teal and Mallard — taking 15.
If you do the math, you can see that a Nordic tour out to Swan Lake requires about five to 10 minutes of actual skating (if you skate directly from portage to portage) and 30 to 40 minutes of hiking. All of the portages are clearly marked with brown signs and it was always a bit of a thrill to see the sign on the shore (yes, I'm easily amused).
Ultimately, I made it out to Swan Lake in a little over an hour after stopping to take some pictures at various points along the way.
Swan Lake is a very large lake and the ice cover did not inspire confidence when I arrived. It was clear and without cracks around the edges — obviously new ice — making it difficult to determine how thick it actually was, and there appeared to be wet spots a few hundred yards offshore. Open water? Being the conservative solo backcountry traveler that I am, I decided to turn around and take a more leisurely tour back on the ice I knew was safe.
I skated the perimeter of each lake and paid closer attention to my surroundings instead of simply shortcutting from portage to portage. I was amazed at how busy some beavers have been clear-cutting the aspens on Raven Lake and I finished up with a few swooping laps on excellent ice at Birch Lake just as the skies partly cleared, revealing a breathtaking view of the pink-hued Kenai Mountains.
The day after Black Friday it snowed. White Saturday. Deep snow typically signals the end of the skating season — at least until the really large lakes like Skilak and Tustumena freeze up later in the winter. But I wanted to get out for one more tour on the canoe routes before the new snow bonded to the ice below, so I headed up to the West Entrance of the Swan Lake Route on the last day of November for some powder skating.
One to 2 inches of new snow on top of the ice is definitely still able to be skated. It looks really cool as your skates slice through the snow to the ice below, but be warned — the snow hides cracks, lily pads and other things that can send you crashing down hard and in a hurry. It also makes it impossible to determine the thickness of the ice just by looking, so it helps if you know the history of the ice beneath the snow before you set out.
There was a truck parked at the West Entrance trailhead that Sunday morning, and under ordinary circumstances I would have kept going to an unpeopled spot in search of solitude, but I figured the truck's owner was probably ice fishing and I had my heart set on skating to Spruce Lake and possibly connecting over to Swan Lake by way of Trout Lake, so I set out following their sled track.
It became immediately apparent that this tour was not going to go as smoothly as my first trip out to Swan Lake. There were the aforementioned lily pads, barely visible as slight bumps beneath the snow, which sent me lurching more than once. There was also open water at every portage, which required a bit of navigation to avoid turning the experience into a triathlon (skating, hiking and swimming).
In addition, snow now covered the rooty trails and manmade plank boardwalks, slowing the hiking speed from carefree cruising to careful walking. The snow also packed up into the toe pieces of my ski boots and into the bindings on my blades, which slowed the transitions. Luckily, the isdubbar is the perfect tool for clearing this snow out and I continued on, albeit at a slower pace.
After passing two fishermen trying their luck at open water near one of the early portages (and doing quite well from the looks of it), I noticed fresh ski boot tracks on the portage beyond them. The tracks went out and back and the return tracks were only hours old. Amazing! Someone had Nordic skated this route earlier in the day. It must have been the one truck I saw heading out on Swan Lake Road as I was on my way in.
Now I was curious. Who was this person and how far did they go? I followed their tracks across Canoe, Contact, Marten and Spruce Lakes to the portage to Otter Lake. I noticed they were using poles and that they kept going on to Otter. I decided I wouldn't be going any farther in that direction and skated back on Spruce to see if the tracks re-emerged at the Trout Lake portage.
Sure enough, it appeared that this mystery skater had linked up Otter, Rock, Loon, Swan, Cygnet, Konchanee, Gavia and Trout Lakes before making their way back to Spruce. Clearly, a Nordic stud (or studette) had passed this way.
As I made my way back to Swan Lake Road, I was energized by the fact that someone else had been out Nordic skating on this particular day, in this particular place.
Someone thought it would be fun to do a Nordic skating trip on the Swan Lake Canoe Route in the snow on the last day of November. And it was.
Pete Snow is an education professor at Kenai Peninsula College who likes to skate on wheels, blades and skis, depending on the surface conditions of the planet.


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I got the hops from a friend at church, picked them up for me at eBrew (the wine/brew store in Charlotte). I didn't get around to planting them this morning, cause I was working so I stuck them in the 'root cellar'. Did I tell you about that? I dug a hole 18" in diameter and about 3 3.5' down. Put a few rocks in the bottom, and stuck a metal trash can inside with a lid. So I will use that for keeping my water cool, or like I did last night, I stuck the hop rhizomes (female root stock hops) in the bottom to keep cool since I could not plant this morning. Anyway, it stays below 60º in it, probably closer to 50º right now.
We stopped by Aldi today after work, I was hoping to get another hose. They did not have them, but they had raspberry plants, ever bearring for $6.19 with tax, for two plants. So, I thought it was a good buy, and raspberries are probably my FAVORITE berry. Though currants and gooseberries I am thinking might surpass them. :) Anyway, back to raspberries. I planted them on the fence.I planted both of them on it. I dug a pit pretty deep for the first one, and quite wide. Added 3 buckets of kitchen scraps, a shovel full of manure, mixed dirt on, and put bone meal that I had made. (I dried bones and used our old blender (doesn't hold liquids) to grind them up, worked well!) I put in a drain from the hole that I dug, as I am doing with all the plants I am planting on the fence. The drain for the apple tree goes down to a herb I have, the drain from niagara grape vine leads down to the comfrey I got. The drain right near the manure pile leads down to silverdollar, a ornamental plant of some sort I think. And the drain I put in under the mulch, that leads to the top deep bed where we planted onions. Well, it keeps the soil right there nice and moist. I love doing drains! I dig out a trench, put rocks in the bottom, and then sand on top, then soil on top of the sand.
Alright, hops. I got two kinds, Casecade and Mt. Hood. It sounds like I will get about 3lbs from each this year, but a lot more next year. And next year or the year after that I should be able to give you quite a few hop rhizomes and plant more my self!!!! Not only can hops be used for beer, but you can make tea, or even flavor wine with them. You add them fresh to a white wine and it gives it a nice flavor and aroma. Hops are only bitter when you boil them. Hops can grow up to 40+ ft high in one growing season! Though more tipically 25ft. I cut down branches from a poplar tree, and cut down one long one in particular, a 12ft long one, about 3 inches diameter at the bottom. I stripped it of branches and tied two strings to the top of it. I than dug a hole where I am planting them (really hard to explain where, best to show you when you come) and put the branch in the hole about 18" down, I put two rocks at the base and filled in with some dirt, tamped the dirt around the pole and than added more. I added two 5 gallon buckets of horse manure to the dirt around the hops (they need to be well fertilized). I did about the same for the other one. I am more than pleased with the hops, and look forward to a fun growing season with them. They should be really fun to watch and grow!
On Saturday my dad helped me finish up putting shingles on the back wall of the greenhouse. That should add a little more insulation this winter, and hopefully catch some sun and warm up the greenhouse. The peas in the greenhouse are flowering (4-5 plants) and I am hoping to get some pods pretty soon.
For more information on growing hops, go to: http://www.growinghopsyourself.com/ also do some searching around. I am planning on doing some research on the benefits of hops, if there are.
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Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Hot Movie: Inception
I keep hearing great things about this film, so I looked it up online and found a review by Rolling Stone I thought I'd share. I personally tend to agree with their opinions, so I thought I'd pass it along. Enjoy!
The mind-blowing movie event of the summer arrives just in time to hold back the flow of Hollywood sputum that's been sliming the multiplex. Inception, written and directed by the visionary Christopher Nolan, will be called many things, starting with James Bond Meets "The Matrix." You can feel the vibe of Ridley Scott's Blade Runner in it, and Nolan's own Memento and The Dark Knight. But Inception glows with a blue-flame intensity all its own. Nolan creates a dream world that he wants us to fill with our own secrets. I can't think of a better goal for any filmmaker. Of course, trusting the intelligence of the audience can cost Nolan at the box office. We're so used to being treated like idiots. How to cope with a grand-scale sci-fi epic, shot in six countries at a reported cost of $160 million, that turns your head around six ways from Sunday? Dive in and drive yourself crazy, that's how.
Peter Travers reviews Inception in his weekly video series, "At the Movies With Peter Travers."
That's what happens to Dom Cobb, a professional invader of the subconscious played with action-star ferocity and emotional heft by Leonardo DiCaprio. Corporations, like the one run by Mr. Saito (Ken Watanabe), hire Dom and his crew to get inside people's heads. Joseph Gordon-Levitt, as Arthur, and Tom Hardy, as Eames, are hilarious and scary-smart as grown-up gamers playing with life and death at Dom's command. Did you know that getting killed in a dream is the best way to wake up? They do. Ellen Page's Ariadne is the newcomer on the team, a student who learns as she goes, just like the audience. "Whose subconscious are we in now, exactly?" she asks at one point. You may feel her pain.
Peter Travers picks the season's can't-miss films and the ones with a bad vibe in his summer movie preview.
Dom's new job of head-case espionage, the one he claims will be his last, involves more than extracting info from the subconscious of Fischer (Cillian Murphy), the son of a dying industrialist. It requires Dom to plant an idea into Fischer's dreams. That's inception, baby, and it's a killer. The job also stirs up dangerous memories in Dom of Mal (Marion Cotillard), the wife and mother of his two children, a mystery woman (and, oh, man, can Cotillard exude seductive mystery) whom Dom literally can't get out of his head.
Get more news, reviews and interviews from Peter Travers on The Travers Take.
I'll say no more, except that Inception rewards the attention it demands. The visuals, shot by the gifted Wally Pfister on locations from the steaming heat of Morocco to the snow-capped Alps, are astounding. One segment, in which a freight train barrels through a traffic-clogged street, is jaw-dropping. Just as impressive is the way Nolan stays true to the rules of his own brain-teasing game. The film's demonstration of the three levels of dreaming is certain to inspire deep-dish discourse to rival the Lost finale. But anyone who's ever been lost in the layers of a video game will have no trouble rising to Nolan's invigorating challenge to dig out. Dom claims that the "most resilient parasite" is "an idea." In this wildly ingenious chess game, grandmaster Nolan plants ideas in our heads that disturb and dazzle. The result is a knockout. But be warned: Inception dreams big. How cool is that?
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Paleontologist Meave Leakey has made significant contributions to our understanding of
human origins, continuing the legacy begun in 1931 by Louis S. B. Leakey
with his discoveries of ancient fossils in Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge.
Over the years the Leakey family members—Louis, Mary, Richard, Meave,
and Louise—have received numerous National Geographic research grants.
completing her first degree at the University of North Wales, Meave
came to Kenya to work for Dr. Louis Leakey at his primate research
center near Nairobi. At the same time she collected data for her
doctoral dissertation, which she completed in 1968.
In 1969, at
the invitation of Richard Leakey, Meave joined a field expedition to the
paleontological site of Koobi Fora on the eastern shores of Kenya's
Lake Turkana. This launched her long-term work on the Turkana Basin
research project. Meave has worked at the National Museums of Kenya
since 1969 and was head of the division of paleontology from 1982 to
2001. In 1989 she became coordinator of the museums' field research in
the Turkana Basin. Her work at nearby Kanapoi in 1994 yielded some of
the earliest hominids known, dated at more than four million years.
The Leakeys currently
run a research station at Lake Turkana to facilitate data collection and
the study of new specimens. Their ongoing annual expeditions to this
area continue to recover important hominid and faunal remains. In 1999,
on a National Geographic-sponsored expedition to the Turkana Basin,
Meave and Louise uncovered a 3.5-million-year-old skull and partial jaw
believed to belong to a new branch of early human named Kenyanthropus platyops. This remarkable discovery, announced in the journal Nature, has profound implications in understanding the origins of mankind.
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|Dr. Ndunguru is explaining to students how to use equipments in the laboratory.
|Dr. Ndunguru is showing students a chat on how cassava diseases affect cassava.
|A group Photo
Disease diagnostic for sustainable Cassava productivity in Africa project is a 4 years (2013-2016) regional project co-funded by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Department for International Development (DFID). Granted to Mikocheni Agricultural Research Institute (MARI), Dar es Salaam, Tanzania as lead Institution and Coordinated by Dr. Joseph Ndunguru. It is implemented in 7 countries: Tanzania; Kenya; Uganda; Rwanda; Malawi; Mozambique and Zambia to improved cassava productivity.
|Dr. Ndunguru is explaining to students how to use equipments in the laboratory.
|Dr. Ndunguru is showing students a chat on how cassava diseases affect cassava.
|A group Photo
|A group Photo of MARI staff
|Dr .Joseph Ndunguru (Left) pose for a photo with students from Oulu University, right is Dr. Fred Tairo.
|Dr. Ndunguru giving Tanzania Directory Book to Student from Oulu University(FINLAND).
|Dr. Ndunguru showing students from Oulu University (FINLAND) a Tanzania Directory Book.
|Dr. Ndunguru giving out a t - shirt to Matts Varis student from Oulu University in Finland.
|Ulpu Pyy receiving a T- shirt from Officer In charge Dr. Joseph Ndunguru.
|Mika Pitkanen shake hands with Officer Incharge Dr. Joseph Ndunguru.
|Niko Tapionkaski receiving a T- Shirt from Officer Incharge Dr. Joseph Ndunguru.
|Raimo Prakkari shake hands with Officer Incharge Dr. Joseph Ndunguru.
|Dr. Matelu Receiving a Publication Award from Officer Incharge Dr. Joseph Ndunguru.
|Its time for Break fast looking on is Deogratius.
|Beatrice Chalamila a Principal Agricultural Officer Sharing a moment with staff.
|Emmanuel Msangi having a happy moment, this was during a Break fast gathering.
|Dr. Linus Masumbuko having a breakfast with other colleagues.
|Dr. Peter Serruwagi line up for a Breakfast on his left is Maliha Saggaf.
|Its time for tea, Officer Incharge Dr. Joseph Ndunguru is having a tea.
|Staff line up for a Breakfast.
|Staff Line up for Breakfast.
|Dr. Fred Tairo giving a lecture to researchers.
|A PCR Machine
|Our drivers Mapambano Kisendi and Shabani Ramadhani pose for a photo
at Nzuguni show ground in Dodoma Region.
|Dr. Ruth Minja from MARI listening to a researcher, this was during the agricultural show at Nzuguni
in Dodoma region.
|Dr. Aloyce Kullaya (right) getting explanation from a researcher.
|Margareth Lupembe showing students how tissue culture bottle looks like.
|Dr. Linus Masumbuko explaining some things on a farmer about Coconut Products.
|Beatrice Mruma showing Kids from Canada coconut products.
|Dr. Linus Masumbuko welcoming a farmer at MARI pavillion.
|Dr. Fidelis Myaka Director of Research and development and his assistant
Dr. Hussein Mansour listening to Beatrice Mruma from MARI.
|Dr. Deus Mbazibwa Showing students tissue culture bottles how it looks like.
|Dr. Ndunguru giving a explaination on how to deal with cassava disease to Dodoma RC Dr. Rehema nchimbi.
|Dr. Joseph Ndunguru welcoming Dr. Rehema Nchimbi the regional commissioner for Dodoma
to the pavillion looking on is the Director of Research and Development.
|A group photo of Rwandan team and MARI team.
|Gervais picking a CBSD symptomatic leaf in a Cassava field as Deogratius Mark,
looks on to seem that things are done properly.
|Students in the Lab.
|Dr. Sseruwagi talking to Rwanda team members on disease assessments.
|Marie Mutumwika assesses Cassava Mosaic Disease.
|Dr. Sseruwagi leading Rwanda team to the field training.
|Marie, Deogratius Mark, Cansilde, Peter, Marie Claire and Gervais visit Rab Karama
in Eastern province - Rwanda during the field training on assessment of Cassava virus


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The question...Who will be the left handed power bat? The answer is...Da Meat Hook?
The Tigers are overturning every possible stone in their desperate search for a powerful left handed bat. Under one of those stones, Dave Dombrowski has found a switch hitting DH/1B/3B/LF jack of all trades. Good news, right? Well, maybe not. The "Jack of all trades" is Dmitri Young, who fits the "Master of none" part of the equation.
Da Meat Hook is headed for a rehab stint in Lakeland. In case you were wondering, Betty Ford has not opened a clinic in Florida.
As Dmeat may be back in the Tigers pitcture, it's time to do something TWFE loves, and hasn't done since the days of Darko. What might that be? A Pro and Con exercise!
Pro: Dmeat can play 3 positions.
Con: He plays none of them well.
Pro: He's has a history of being a good hitter.
Con: Expecially of 21 year old women.
Pro: Young swings from both sides.
Con: When punching 21 year old women.
Pro: He has shown power from the left side.
Con: When punching 21 year old women.
Pro: He connects for a good average from the right side.
Con: When punching 21 year old women.
Pro: He can DH.
Con: Because you want him nowhere near glove leather...Or 21 year old women.
Pro: Da Meat Hook is in the best shape of his life.
Con: If you like a pear shape.
Pro: Now that he's in better shape, his speed has increased.
Con: When running from bench warrants.
Pro: Expect the all you can eat buffets in Lakeland to have a spike in sales.
Con: Liquor stores can only hope for a relapse.
Pro: He brings something to the clubhouse.
Con: That something being clubhouse cancer, cliques, and police investigations.
Pro: Young is a role model.
Con: Example #1 of Dmitri's influence is his brother Delmon, who uses umpires as batting tees.
Pro: Dmitri is already under contract.
Con: So is Nook Logan, and I don't want him anywhere near Detroit either.
Pro: Da Meat Hook coming back may end any trade talks for a left handed bat.
Con: Who needs Bobby Abrau when you have Dmitri Young?
So Dmitri Young may be back in a Tiger uniform. As if Jim Leyland doesn't have enough on his managerial plate. Well, we know Dmeat's plate will be full...


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Here's the first of (what I hope) many posts on Neoteric Melodies. I originally posted this record on Shotgun Solution, 9/6/2008. I recently got a request for a re-up of it and thought it would be a good record to start things off with. Eventually, I plan on transferring all of the post 1990 records from Shotgun Solution to this site.
Dean Dirg are a German four piece that formed in 1998; their first gig was in a graveyard the following year. In my previous post of this record, I described Dean Dirg's Sound as, Really red with some of the Quirkiness of the Hives; I think I'm still feeling the same about them now. If you want to look into these guys some more, here's a few places to start.
Myspace Facebook Dean Dirg.Net
Line Up (on this record) -
Doph - Vocals
Clauss - Guitar
Torsten - Bass
Borge - Drums
Prügelprinz Records 2007
Sunday, November 3, 2013
Dean Dirg - Raus
6 comments:
- Milord Teum said...
thanks bro and good luck in this new blog
- November 4, 2013 at 2:52 PM
- Frank Miller said...
Your welcome Milord and thank you for the comment.
- November 4, 2013 at 9:11 PM
- Rémi T said...
Longue vie to Neoteric Melodies !!
- November 29, 2013 at 3:27 PM
- Frank Miller said...
Thanks Remi.
- February 9, 2014 at 2:09 PM
Thanks for turning me on to Dean Dirg! Good luck with the blogs!
- February 19, 2014 at 12:15 AM
- Frank Miller said...
Your welcome Damian, thank you for the comment.
- February 19, 2014 at 5:51 PM
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The Tempest is Shakespeare's poignant farewell to the world of the theatre, and due to the skill and panache of the cast and crew, it has become a similarly bittersweet departure for myself and the other graduating actors. (It's currently running until Feb. 21 in the David Chu Theatre.
The characters are portrayed with a stunning scope of ethos; each player from the ethereal Ariel to the earthy Caliban, a hero and a villain in their own right. The cast has woven the experiences and ambitions of all these fantastical fellows into an experience engaging enough to be relatable to even the most jaded of modern viewers. The stage crew has helped to transform the play from a rambling set of scenes into a well-oiled production. The sorcerers working light and sound have proven that they are more than masters of bringing magic to the stage, assailing the set with the full ordnance of the David Chu Theatre.
Congratulations to the UCC and BSS students involved in the show: Prospero, Alex Czegledy; Ferdinand, Charlie Watson; Caliban, Atef Abedin; Stephano, Can Hepkarabelli; Trinculo, Graham Burton; Alonso, Andrew Barron; Gonzalo, Jake Bradshaw; Sebastian, Ross Graham; Antonio, Ben Caldwell; Francisco, Jack van Nostrand; Adrian, Graeme Joel; Boatswain, Nestor Grandal. As well many volunteers throughout the community made the production possible.
Lastly, to our directors Judith Macdonell and Heather Crawford — whose committed, dedicated and steady hands have been sculpting the show since September and pushing us to discover fresh nuances every time we step on the stage — we couldn't have gotten here without you.
— Alexander Czegledy IB2


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Wednesday, 9th August 2017
18:00 - 19:30
IMPACT Leadership in Public Life Course Opening Evening
The IMPACT Leadership in Public Life Course is our training programme designed for Christians with a passion for political engagement at every level.
It is designed to deliver a balance of theory and practical experience for those Christians who would like to pursue involvement in politics and government. The course is structured to teach participants about relevant topics in the context of Christian leadership in public life. If you are interested in a Christian view on leadership in roles such as being an MP, Councillor, Peer, Ambassador or even a School Governor, this course is for you.


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Best restaurant chains for families
Little conveniences add up when choosing a family-friendly restaurant. Let's count down some great options!
Whether you're just stopping for a quick bite to eat while running errands with the kids in tow, or planning a casual night out away from the routine of planning and preparing dinner, it's good to have healthy choices at restaurants that are family-friendly! You'll appreciate options that are budget-wise and still offer nutritious food with quality ingredients, as well as the convenient amenities that make the outing easy: high chairs and booster seats for the little ones, plus crayons and games to keep children occupied until the food is served. Luckily, there are great chain restaurants that specialize in serving families with kids.
Red Lobster
What's not to like about a restaurant that encourages kids to eat fish? Four of the seven dishes on the special Kids' Menu are seafood. These meals come with steamed veggies or fruit slices, and with the addition of juice or low-fat milk, they have just 12 grams of fat in under 350 calories. For kids who turn up their noses at fish, there's also a grilled chicken option. Red Lobster operates 693 locations spread over 44 states.
Souplantation/Sweet Tomatoes
Known as Souplantation in California and Sweet Tomatoes in other states, this chain is located mostly in western and southern states with 121 locations. Their centerpiece is the long salad bar with over 30 ingredients to choose from, and they also have eight made-from-scratch soups and three pasta choices on the daily menu, as well as low-fat muffins, frozen yogurt and plenty of fresh fruit choices. A family of four with small children can eat a filling, nutritious dinner here for around $25. The kids will especially enjoy "Kids' Night" featuring clowns, balloon artists and pint-sized entertainment.
Mimi's Cafe
In 24 states with over 145 locations, Mimi's gives bibs and hand-wipes to every family with young kids, and the restrooms have convenient changing tables. Children get a free "appetizer" plate loaded with things like crackers, Cheerios and oranges to keep them busy and satisfied until the entrees arrive. The restaurant has a big selection of beverages for kids, including whole, reduced-fat or fat-free milk in either plain or chocolate. The variety on the Children's Menu pleases even picky eaters, with choices like a turkey dinner or spaghetti, served with sides including fresh veggies, fruit, applesauce and mashed potatoes.
A popular item on Chipotle's new Kids' Menu is the Taco Kit: kids choose three ingredients to take back to their table and fill their own tortillas. The food quality is excellent -- all dairy products are hormone-free, and most of the meat is antibiotic-free. Chipotle makes the effort to reduce salt content in their meals, and their crispy taco shells have just 10 milligrams of sodium. It's a safe place for kids with common food allergies, since every restaurant is completely peanut and tree-nut free. Part of the Chipotle commitment to the local community is that each restaurant locally sources at least 50 percent of one produce item. There are 1,050 locations in 35 states.
Red Robin
For pure fun, children love the wacky antics at Red Robin: balloons, a birthday club and frequent appearances by the Red Robin mascot. Parents like the improved Children's Menu with healthier choices: grilled chicken, veggie burgers and imaginative side dishes kids really like, including carrots with dip and icy cantaloupe wedges. If your child has food allergies, Red Robin has a detailed (but easy to understand) ingredient guide to help you make choices. Red Robin restaurants are in 40 states with 451 locations.
More tips for eating with kids
Family-friendly Seattle restaurants
Great ice cream and dessert places in Ohio


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By this, I took his meaning to convey that he believed all films from that period would just have to be a snoozefest, and I first said "Ah! I see that you have not been reading my blog!" or else he would already know my answer to that one. I answered in the negative, of course, and then he followed up with, "But aren't those films in black and white?" I told him that like films of all decades and types, that many were and many weren't, that color had been used in varying degrees and permutations nearly since the beginning of film, and that I enjoy (or don't) films from all decades, including silent movies. This answer stunned him.
Of course, since I can't shut up about these things when asked, I launched into a lengthy exposition of exactly what I love about older animation and why I am fascinated with them, and all on the company clock. Naturally, my boss wandered past while I was flailing my arms and jumping about excitedly and pointing my finger to prove my point numerous times. The problem, though, is that my points will never be proven, mainly because the people to whom I profess my love of older movies, animation, comics, books, and just swell stuff in general will rarely if ever take the opportunity to discover for themselves the sublime pleasures awaiting them with just a simple Netflix queueing or trip to the library. And just why do some people assume that if something isn't made in the last 20 years, then it has to be boring or unworthy of attention?
Part of this can be discovered when casting a glance at some people who obsess on Betty Boop. The girl has maintained a fairly high profile over the last 75 years or so, even though she has relatively few onscreen appearances since her heyday in the 1930's. Her merchandising is constant and omnipresent in pop-cultural gift and comic shops throughout the world, and I have met many a person (not all girls) who have Betty Boop items in their homes. The common factor in all this Boop idolatry? The bulk of them have barely ever seen a classic Boop cartoon, if at all. I don't find this odd; perhaps they simply saw her gear in the store, thought she was cute or embodied characteristics of their own personalities (her "hottie on a motorcycle" stuff seems to be uniquely popular, for all the times I have run into it), and purchased her mousepads, refrigerator magnets or dolls as a result.
But, would these modern consumers watch one of her cartoons and find it boring? Until I can form a case study, I can only answer for myself: I find her films, even the later ones that even I find somewhat rote and formulaic, fascinating. Case in point: Is My Palm Read from 1933. On a dark and eerie night, we find ourselves outside a building with a huge neon sign. It reads "Prof. Bimbo Reveals Past - Present - Future" and just below this glowing script, two flashing images catch our eye: a phrenologist's map of the human head and a palmist's guide to the lines of the hand. The images keep flashing faster and faster until the hand's thumb moves over to touch the nose of the head, and gives one could possibly the filmmakers' true feelings to all of this pseudoscientific hooey. Inside the shop, we find Bimbo and Koko the Clown bowing in obeisance to the shadow of a witch on a background curtain. The shop is outfitted with Oriental rugs and jars, with incense burning out of the holes in the tops of the jars.
A cat sits by the window with its tail poking through a hole in the wall. Through the window, we see a smartly dressed Betty Boop, who strides up and yanks on the cat's tail twice, causing the cat to act as a yowling doorbell (though there is no apparent door). Koko peers through the peephole (always an appropriate term where Betty is concerned) but he can't see anything. He moves the hole a few times about the wall until he gets it at the right spot to view their beauteous visitor. As she awaits entrance into the parlor, Betty pulls out a lipstick. When she turns it, the lip gloss inside turns out to be the beret of a small buggy painter, who produces a pallet of paints and applies a fresh coat to Betty's lips. Koko closes the peephole, ducks his head through his legs backwards, and tells Bimbo, who is dressing in a swami outfit for the occasion, that "It's Betty Boop!" Koko pulls on a bellcord, and outside the shop, a scroll unwinds which shows the inside of an elevator. Betty, who is dressed more like a high-class lady than she ever did in her long career, daintily steps into the magical box of the scroll, and the doors close and give the impression that it is moving upward. But inside the parlor, the cat merely opens a door in the wall which is cut perfectly to the shape of Betty Boop, wide-brimmed hat and all, and the boys both speak-sing "Hi-dee-hi-dee-hi!" when she enters. The cat turns out the light, and the backlit Betty's shapely torso and legs are revealed though she is wearing a long dress. The boys conclude their admiration by saying in tandem, "Ho-dee-ho!" and then the lights go back on.
Bimbo crosses his arms and bids Betty to "Walk this way!" She crosses her arms just like him, puts on a stern scowl, and follows him to a crystal ball, where she parks herself on a comfortable floor cushion. Bimbo utters some hocus-pocus mumbo-jumbo, and concentrating on the ball, declares "We will reveal the naked truth of your baby days!" The picture in the crystal ball goes hazy and then opens on the image of, quite literally, a naked little baby Betty cavorting in a washbasin. She tries to wash herself, but the soap slips from her grasp, and she tips the basin over. She is left bawling in the nude on the floor, but a kindly coatrack tips a towel over her naked bottom, and then tips its regards with a hat in her direction, and then Betty closes the sequence with a toddler version of "Boop-boop-bee-doo!" The ball goes hazy again, and Bimbo says, "I see you now on a steamer bound for a foreign land!" The image of an ocean liner bounced about by massive tropical waves comes into view, and the lead smokestack holds up an umbrella to fight against the pouring rain. Fists of water rise up and punch the ship fore and aft, and then finally grab the craft and shake all of the passengers out into the open sea. The smokestack kindly blows a pair of smokerings and then tosses them over the survivors like life preservers. The survivors, save one, float away as the ship is pulled under the waves, leaving poor Betty Boop soaking wet and floating all alone in the middle of the ocean. Luckily, she is on a real life preserver, and there is a desert island not far away.
The tide crashes the shore, and its clawing hands try desperately to gain purchase on the island's sands, but are inevitably pulled back to sea, though doomed to repeat the sad action throughout infinity. That is, until Betty Boop washes ashore, and the left hand of the tide is compelled to pat her soothingly on her upended bottom. "Hey!", she cries. "Keep your hands to you!" Betty, clad in her traditional extra-mini flapper dress and high garter, rises from the beach and sets off to search the island. At her cries of "Hello!" and "Boop-boop-bee-doo" she receives only faint echoes of her squeaky voice, but when she asks "Is anybody here?", she receives a loud and bellowing "NO!" She steps behind what she believes to be a large boulder to change out of her wet things, laying them across the rock to dry; but the rock turns out to be a large tortoise, and it wanders off, leaving Betty standing in her rather revealing undergarments. She runs away and hides behind a bush for cover from our eyes. She reaches up for a flowering plant, realizes she is being watched, blushes, and excuses herself. She pulls the plant down, affixes the flower to her hair and fashions a hula skirt from some of the leaves, and steps out. (She apparently has no problem wearing her bra as a bikini. Neither do we.) Betty starts to sing a modified version of Irving Berlin's All by Myself as a large smiling caterpillar approaches:
"All by myself in the morning
All by myself all the night
I'm all alone, not a single soul is near
No one else is here
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear!"
All by myself all the night
I'm all alone, not a single soul is near
No one else is here
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear!"
While she sings, a large frog hops in to check her out, and in a nearby grass shack, three leering and lascivious ghosts eye her greedily. The shack itself comes to life as she starts to sing another verse, and with palm tree hands, it grabs poor Betty and stuffs her hungrily into the shack's mouth/door. Betty stands in the center of the shack, scared and shivering, fearing for the worst. First, a ghost pops out of the walls to frighten her even more; then, as she opens the door to escape, another ghosts blocks her way; and when she eyes the window, a spider rudely weaves a grid of silk bars across its expanse. Betty is trapped, but she finds a piece of driftwood and scrawls the word "Help" on it. She holds it to the window, but another ghost grabs the makeshift sign and throws it in the fire. Luckily for the girl, the fire is more than happy to oblige in aiding her, and when the sign burns, her message comes out written in the smoke that emits from the shack. Riding along the beach on a preposterously thin steed is Bimbo, decked out as a sailor and searching, of course, for Betty. He spies the call for help, and rides to the shack, whereupon he enters it and starts brawling with the ghosts. We cannot see the melee, but it is fierce enough for the palm trees to act as fists and pound the outside of the cabin in savage defense.
Soon, Bimbo pulls Betty out of the shack, and they run to the beach with a plethora of ghosts in tow. He has a boat parked on the sands, and it is powered by a squirrel with a paddlewheel. He feeds it a nut to get it started, and then holds another nut in front of it to get the squirrel running at top speed. The scene shifts back to the fortune parlor, and Betty swoons dreamily at the adventure, declaring "My hero!" Bimbo stands up, removes his beard and swami outfit, and Betty cries "Bimbo!" He replies, "Betty!", but then a ghost crawls out of the table, knocking the crystal ball aside, and yells "Bunko!" Then the ghost and a dozen more pour out of the hole in the table and chase after the loving couple. Suddenly, and without transfering device, they are all back on the island. First, Bimbo fires a palm tree's fulfillment of coconuts at the spectres; then he waylays them briefly by snapping another palm tree's top at them after he and Betty climb up it to the top of a cliff. Finally, Bimbo and Betty crawl through a log but hang off a cliff-set tree on the other end. As each ghost crawls out, Bimbo kicks them down and out of the chase as the film irises out in the middle of the action.
If you find that boring, then you are a lost cause. I find it tremendous fun, and love the rampant though innocent naughtiness at large in the film (Bimbo, though he is her boyfriend, can't help himself but ogle her when she enters the room, and is more than willing to share her shadowed gorgeousness with his pal Koko). Boop's fully-dressed self at the beginning contrasts nicely with the barely clothed ingenue pursued by dog and ghoul alike throughout the latter half of the film. The Fleischers' swipes at the occult business are also timely and fun, there is a gentle mocking of melodramatic stereotypes, and like most of the early Fleischer Boops, true surrealism figured heavily in the scene and tone jumps in each film. I wish there were more of the song before the ghosts take over, but this is a minor quibble. But I would never consider this film, a film from the 1930's, to be "boring". Rest assured, there are many films from that decade, as in any, that are worthy of your turning over on the couch and finding a better time in taking a nap, but this, and the other Boops are not those type of films. Again, I am beside myself how anyone could look at this film and not be captured by its spirit and breathless imagination and style.
But, most Americans don't want style and imagination: they seemingly just want to watch what every other American wants to watch. Several times in the last few weeks, I have noticed numerous talking heads on various news programs discussing the "America's" obsession with American Idol. They bring on guests to explain the latest controversies, and while I do not watch the show at all, I somehow know the names and faces of these idiots from my originally self-educating but seemingly worthless effort to follow the happenings in the world, but instead of hard news and facts, I only get Idol product placements and breathless name-dropping from the would-be "journalists" who populate these moronic pundit-fests. Even on a show I like, such as Countdown with Keith Olbermann, whose host claims to despise and not "get" Idol at all, still follows the corporate carrot-on-a-stick and teases with an upcoming Idol update, though sneeringly, throughout his show until the last six minutes of his program. People, you can have your Idol; just leave me the crap out of it. You see, the problem I am having with the "media experts" that are consulted by the heads on these shows, are their claims that you are missing out on a connection with the rest of America if you don't watch American Idol.
Connect with America? Me? America has been wrong about nearly everything about which it is purportedly united: our idiot President and his trumped-up war; the Super Bowl obsession; gangsta rap; Tom Cruise and Arnold Schwarzenegger movies; SUV's and Hummers; karaoke; giant-ass weddings and large families; ridiculous corporate-derived holidays; Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals; and the bulk of items on any Top 20 sales chart in any publication. And America is dead wrong about American Idol, and I will have none of it. I have spent eons trying to seek out commonality with my fellow Americans, itching to meet new and interesting people and share knowledge and stories. I have midwesterner's blood running through my veins, and like my dad, who can start a conversation with anyone at the drop of a hat, I do enjoy talking to people when I meet them... until they get stupid.
So, when is America going to make an attempt to connect to me? Why should I do all the heavy lifting in the relationship? When is America going to drop by my place and share a bowl of popcorn with me over a handful of Betty Boops and Bugs Bunnys, follow it up with a Val Lewton or Kurosawa flick, and then down some non-cardboard pizza while listening to some Zappa, Nick Cave or Robyn Hitchcock and/or reading some old Spirit or Pogo comics? A note to those who have spent years assuming that I am a weird guy: I am weird by dint of personality, but my personal interests are not that out there. You see, there are plenty of people who like what I do, and I am not the devil. [Editor's note: There is no devil.] Once in a while, America's interests do cross with mine, and then we all like The White Stripes for about fifteen minutes, albeit, for different reasons. But, this happens very rarely. The crap shows stay on television, and the Fireflys of the world get cancelled to be replaced by a show about car obsession. Overall, there is nothing special or unique about my likes, obsessions and interests... it's just that America doesn't like them.
On second thought, I wouldn't want America dropping by my place. They wouldn't wipe their feet at the door (or even take their shoes off, and half of them, you wouldn't want them to); they would complain about the lack of piss-thin beer in the fridge; and they would take up most of the couch (and that would be just one of them doing that; where would I fit the rest?) The main problem is that we wouldn't be able to hear any of the movies or music because most of them would be talking and gossiping over the action, and those that weren't would be obsessing over their self-deluded beliefs that they could be the next American Idol. A good portion of them would not hesitate to prove their shrill "talents" right in my living room, and after I Van-Goghed both of my ears off, I would have to show America the door.
America, go home. You are not wanted here. I declare your interests to be far worse than boring. They are idiotic. You have gotten the society you deserve. Enjoy your American idolatry, and call me when the show has run its course. Hopefully, it will be many, many years before I hear from you, and your collective brain will have rotted from the pap and pop you have been viewing and hearing.
I'm going to watch another cartoon from the '30's...
Is My Palm Read (Max Fleischer Studios, 1933) Director: Dave Fleischer
Animators: William Henning and David Tendlar
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The award started in the 1960s, was discontinued, then revived about 15 years ago.
Some of the winning stories have been doozies:
*The faculty member who, while carrying a new refrigerator, damaged the ceiling and sheared off overhead sprinklers, starting a flood.
*The graduate student who spilled 400 gallons of bovine blood (for a coagulation study) off the back of his pickup truck on Pacific Avenue NE, causing a major traffic jam.
*The administrative assistant who lost a chicken sandwich in her desk, and forgot about it. Two months later, the stench was so bad that maintenance workers demolished a wall, thinking there was a dead animal trapped inside.
*The faculty member who wrapped an ether-soaked rat in a towel, placed it in a refrigerator, and went home. The resulting explosion the next morning took out 26 windows in the D-Wing.
"When you make a goof like that, you cringe and hope you won't get nominated," says Lynett Kimmel, the department's graduate program assistant who won last year for sending a grad school application to a prison inmate.
"Sometimes too much attention is made to advances in science," Walsh says. "We just like to honor those who have moved science in the other direction."
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You may notice above the panel where you meet Uncle and he's speaking that it reads "(song)." This is because when my stepdaughter Carmin read this part she thought that would make it clearer that the great Monkey Bunny is singing and that the scene is a story within a story.
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WOW! I never thought that something so very easy could be so absolutely delicious. I mean-there weren't even dishes to wash, just a cutting board and a knife. This recipe serves only 1, but it could easily be made to serve as many as needed. Just make an individual foil parcel for everyone, and oh, if serving to company, plates may be needed!
I've been alone a lot these days, especially now that scupper started preschool. I've been really busy though, and I am starting school in the second week of April. So expect a lot of quick and easy meals like these and in single portions. Gone are the days of cooking for friends, Oven Roasted Tomatoes, and individual Spanokopita triangles. In fact, half the time, I've been eating vegetarian products from the supermarket. So coming soon will be reviews of a lot of things one finds in the organic veggie section of the supermarket and creative ways to use them efficiently to create easy, healthy meals.
Cod and Veggies in Foil Parcels
(for a more elegant presentation, use parchment paper and serve with boiled parley new potatoes or stuffed baked potatoes)
- 3-5 ounces cod or other firm fleshed white fish
- one large handful of baby spinach
- one handful of carrot matchsticks or julienned carrots
- 5 spears of asparagus, cut on the diagonal
- 1/2 of a small leek, cleaned and thinly sliced
- 3 thinly sliced lemon round
- olive oil
- sea salt and black pepper
- butter
- preheat oven to 400 degrees
- put the handful of spinach in the center of a large piece of aluminum foil
- somewhat evenly distribute the carrots and asparagus over the spinach
- put the fish in the center of the veggies, lightly drizzle all with olive oil, and sprinkle all liberally with salt and pepper
- put the leeks on top of the fish, add the lemons, and dot everything with butter
- wrap up the foil to make a parcel and bake until fish is opaque, about 15-20 minutes.


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Gurgaon, May 26 (IANS) Two thieves from Uttar Pradesh's Rampur, said to be involved in at least 16 thefts in the city, have been arrested, Gurgaon Police said on Thursday.
Police said Akhtiyar and Yunus were arrested by Crime Branch head Bijender Kumar and his team from the Sector 57 market here.
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20 June 2006
I'm so proud
(Are you sensing that this may not be as simple as it sounds? Because otherwise why would I bother blogging about it?)
I had forgotten that there were a few issues with my car. First, a pile of crap a foot high on the passenger seat and floor.
Books, magazines, files, reporters' notebooks, lunch tupperwares with mystery food scraps, empty water bottles, all piled up in true Suebobian pigsty fashion.
(If you are saying "Oh, it can't be that bad" go over to Bamboo Lemur Boys are Mean to Their Girls and ask Gandhi Rules. She lived with me. She will tell you).
Hey, give me a break. I've been busy.
But then there was more in the back seat. Doesn't every So. Cal. girl have a ski pole in her car on the day before Summer Solstice? Suebob does! (To whack marauding Pit Bulls, that's why).
A spare purse, some shoes, one sock and yes, of course right on top of the pile - underwear. Underwear? They were from the Vegas trip. I had left them in Mr. Stapler's luggage and had retrieved them at lunch and, well, there they were.
The poor woman had to be wondering what she had gotten herself into by now.
Then - the smell. Oh, God, the smell. One spilled cup of milky coffee plus three 80-plus degree days equals THE SMELL. It was enough to knock you back a bit.
Yes, nice woman, welcome to my car. Feel free to stick your head out the window. Everyone else does.
And in other news...
I have been meaning to share some of my city's lovely public art with you.
We start with something simple, a historical mural downtown. Nice, colorful, typical.
Along the river trail there are pieces of art about every kilometer or so. I like these brightly colored tile mosaics. This one represents the oilfields that enriched this area in the past and still do to a lesser extent today. My dad worked in the oilfields for decades.
Then things start to get a little weird. This one, titled "Orange Trail" is metal balls that look like real oranges, affixed firmly to the earth and set in a bed of gravel. I suppose this is some kind of tribute to the fact that this was a big citrus growing region.
Here's the part where we make the transition from public art to public "What the hell are you doing with my tax dollars?" Behold:
That is not the only one. There are a zillion of these. Ok, at least a dozen. They are all the same - a concrete base with some odd nonsensical quote using the word "mark" in it, topped by a large rusting piece of industrial metal. Every single time I see them I get pissed off by how ugly and stupid they are. I am GLAD people graffiti them, that's how much I hate them. And I hate graffiti.
Do you get this quote: "Land held in common by a community. Question mark." Huh? It seems like they are not speaking of the English.
Here's another, just to prove that there are more than one. Goldie is not impressed, either.
I forgot what this one says, and I don't care.
Next art tour, I will show you our multi-million dollar arty bus shelter that fails to protect anyone from the elements. On slow rainy news days, the newspaper can always have fun by sending a reporter out to talk to the sodden people beneath and remind the community how much that monstrosity cost.
What ever happened to statues of dudes on horses? Or just horses? Because if we are going to have public art, I would like it to be something you can sit the kiddos on to take a nice picture. Is that too much to ask?
6 comments:
- gandhi rules said...
I love the metal oranges.
I can vouch for Bob's unruly car.
- Janet Evening said...
They are convenient places to photograph dogs...
- super des said...
when I moved to NY I was a bit taken back because I was so used to the CA nonsense. You want guys on horses? We got 'em! They're really big on some guy named Washington here. Anywhere you go, there he is. Sometimes multiple places in the same park.
- spotted elephant said...
I love the metal oranges too. The first thing I'd do if I was there was go up and try to rearrange them. Good thing they're firmly planted.
I like sculpture, but I don't like those post things.
- SUEB0B said...
The oranges are surprising and funny, that is for sure. Of course I thought "Good! Spilled oranges! A snack!" but it was not to be. I just really, really hate those other things.
- Survivin said...
The oranges are great. But the piece that mentions communit and question mark. All I can say is bad return on investment. Thanks for the laugh, I needed it. And if you are as busy as I am, no one blames you for having a messy car.


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New Years Day Temperatures in the 20's did not detour the handful of skiers from getting out on the river.
The New Years Day Polar Bear Ski was a fundraiser event for the Missouri Disabled Water-ski Association.
U.S. Water Ski Champion and Creve Coeur resident Kevin Day has been coming to this event for 27 years.
To date, Kevin has raised over $86,000 for the charity. The money raised is used to purchase specialized water-ski equipment for the disabled.


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Now that the season is winding down I want to give a big thank you to everyone involved in racing. This has been one of the funnnest years I've ever had. Sure I've gotten annoyed a couple of times, but hell I put half the WoW team on the deck at least once and so far no horse head in my bed so I figure it all works out.
Seriously, Thanks everyone for just plain racing with me and being cool cats.


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I started this blog for one reason. My love of Jack Handy. Sometimes I forget that, but then I run into another quote and just laugh and laugh.
"I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it." - Jack Handy
I found this gem while reading zenhabits - 20 Things I Wish I had Known When Starting Out in Life. The post lists lessons learned from the author's life so far. I love number 10. If I had known this at a younger age, I would have done much more with my photography. Instead, I let it slide in favor of making a living. It was my loss.
I'd like to add one to the list.
21. Trust is earned and should not be automatically granted. It's one of those life lessons that if I known, would have saved me from dealing with many bad people. Trust is something developed over time and linked to how people act and what they do, rather than because of status or position.
I've learned my lesson. Trust is earned.


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I was "introduced" to nuun last year when I was following bloggers participating in the Hood to Coast relays. All the ladies seemed to really like the product and I liked that they were tablets you could add to your drink versus lugging around multiple bottles. Although, living on an island I wasn't sure I would stumble upon this product but always kept my eyes out for it as I really needed an alternative to the diluted down Gatorade as my runs were increasing in distance and my doctor was not happy with my drink choice.
One day I was blessed when I saw it on the shelves of a local sports store. I grabbed some vials - Tri-Berry and Fruit Punch - and checked out. It seems this was new to the store and the cashier was eager for my product review. Hmmm....sorry, I haven't really tried it yet and yes, I am buying two vials since I have heard it is yummy and good. Each vial contains 12 tablets and one tablet is good for 16 oz of water. There is a breaking line in the center of each to easily split it into 8 oz servings and yes, I have even broken and half in half for smaller cups of water....just yesterday.
To date I have tried Tri-Berry, Fruit Punch, Strawberry Lemonade, Grape, and Citrus Fruit. Grape is my least favorite but it is still drinkable. Keep in mind, I am not a huge grape drink lover though. I have trained and raced with nuun and for the most part, I have had no issues. I have even wrapped spare tablets and tucked in my pocket for enhancing water on a half marathon course. It works great as long as you don't drop the tablet. I did that during a training run where I was practicing my technique.
For the one time nuun did not settle well it was during the Run for the Whales and I think it was my fault, not nuun's. You see, I got so annoyed I was misdirected on the course that I forgot to keep hydrating. By the time I remembered, I think I was on the verge of dehydration and nothing would have settled well. There is some fizziness when the tablet dissolves and I know to some that may be a concern. Like I said, I haven't had any real issues.
But what I like most about nuun is that it is portable and I always have a vial in my purse. I drink it even when I am not running. Yesterday I felt my water needed a little boost...or I did. I put in 1/4 of a tablet and it was just the refreshing lift I needed. I have also had many nights recently when at the end of the day my stomach is just restless and nauseous. I am really attributing that to stress with work but I am ending my day with a cup of nuun (1/2 tablet in just over 8 oz of water). It is a good end of day drink and I head off to bed afterwards for a good night's sleep.
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Today I am grateful for:
- The 2 3/4 tablets of nuun left in the vial in my purse
- My determination to run every day
- Patience
- My coffee break run at work yesterday....even though I had no socks
- The week is almost over