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Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Comic 840: Seriously LAME
[ALT: Not to be confused with Serious PuTTY, the Windows terminal client where everything is in Impact.]
True story: the last thing I wrote before reading this comic had silly putty in it. GOOMH etc etc.
I guess Randy thinks that things that are serious tell other things not to touch them? I can only imagine that it stems from the scenario that xkcdsucks canoness "RavenzOMG" has envisioned:
After many attempts to grope, fondle, or otherwise lay hands upon Megan, and her repeated insistence, "I'm serious, don't touch me," the two phrases have become inextricably linked in Randy's psyche. So when he was sitting around, worrying that his busy schedule of stalking has finally robbed him of the ability to make a comic, he started creating a list of objects. The third one (after 'Megan' and 'oral sex', neither of which are objects in the traditional sense of the word) was 'silly putty.'
"But silly putty is already silly!" ejaculated Randall, lamenting his fate. "If only it was serious!"
Then the words "if only it was serious" echoed with heavy distortion and that ascending-harp "entering-a-dream-sequence" noise played while the surroundings got all swirly, and Randy envisioned the most serious thing he knew: someone saying "don't touch me."
Ladies and gentlemen, this is how your joke sausage was made.
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68 comments:
- AnonymousDecember 29, 2010 at 8:22 PM
What the fuck, Randy? This doesn't even make any sense.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 29, 2010 at 9:26 PM
I'm pretty sure Randall would have said "If only it were serious", and then told everyone that he remembered to use the obscure subjunctive mood. And then made a comic where Stick Fill-In is correcting someone at an inappropriate time for grammar corrections, who happened to use "Was" instead of "Were". The punchline is the Stick-Man-At-Fault replying, "Damn it, [Name]."ReplyDelete
Wait, did that comic already happen? It sounds familiar.
oh shit, did i fuck up the subjunctive case? THE BLOG IS CANCELLEDReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 29, 2010 at 9:35 PM
This is yet another jab at religion. Many faiths are renowned for a prudish attitude towards sexuality, and have an implied aversion towards human contact as dirty and sinful. Randall is saying that these people are too serious. They should want to be touched, like a pair of forever-young atheist scientist nerd chic hispters getting it on all day in a ball pit.ReplyDelete
Randall should get over this hang up. Religion is a fact of life, dude, learn to deal with it.
- AnonymousDecember 29, 2010 at 9:38 PM
Oh God oh God Redux has been completely deleted what will I do every day after reading xkcdsucks now?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 29, 2010 at 9:51 PM
Wait, what? Where exactly is the review here?ReplyDelete
I'm not trying to sound like a jerk here, I'm seriously asking. I don't see any critique of the comic whatsoever-just a spoof comic and a tangent about said spoof comic.
I don't mind the Randy hate, but I believe you've gone over the edge here, Rob. Could you please actually focus on the comic, rather than using very old and stale material to make up the review?
And yes, I know it's "not meant to be serious" as you've said before. That doesn't matter-the point is that the not being serious part wasn't funny, which was the point of it.
actually, the /point/ of it is to vomit a hundred or so words on the screen so people can bitch about the comic in the comment threads. if you happen to be mentally retarded and find my shit funny, so much the better.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 29, 2010 at 10:00 PM
Actually, I like these new posts more than ever. xkcd is too horrible for a serious analysis to really appeal to me any more.ReplyDelete
- SemicolonsDecember 29, 2010 at 10:27 PM
Thank you for posting this so quickly, so i can also quickly express how much i hate this comic.ReplyDelete
The joke: The silly putty is serious.
The quality of this joke is far below the standard required by Boy's Life magazine when selecting jokes from 12 year old kids around the world.
Classics kid jokes like "How do you make a hankie dance? But a little boogie in it!" are far superior to this joke. Seriously think about the two jokes, and honestly tell me which one is better.
This past week of comics has made me go from hatred to pity then back to hatred. I can't decide which is worse; the fact that randy summarily ignores all criticism, or the quality of the comics.
Also fuck the subjunctive; we aren't spanish.
- AnonymousDecember 29, 2010 at 10:55 PM
@Anon 10:10ReplyDelete
See, that's not what I was getting at. No one is coming to this blog to see a completely serious analysis-that'd be boring. I just think the reviews should at least touch on the basic elements of a comic, rather than having the whole review be a "lol randy loves megan" joke. Like the art, story (or lack thereof) etc.
- AnonymousDecember 29, 2010 at 10:56 PM
I meant "Anon 10:00" x]ReplyDelete
my opinion is carefully weaved into every post, like a golden thread in a garment woven entirely of shitReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 29, 2010 at 10:59 PM
""But silly putty is already silly!" ejaculated Randall"ReplyDelete
i lold
Today's Blub Cheese is somewhat related.ReplyDelete
- Jonathan DevonshireDecember 29, 2010 at 11:33 PM
Well... as a follower of XKCD (recently read the whole thing, so i DO agree that there is a decline in quality), I have to say that i've been agreeing with a lot of what Rob has been saying on this blog.ReplyDelete
However... today you just went over the edge. in the past few months, the only comic on this site that made me laugh was the guest comic from that QC guy... and then comes this one.
Seriously, Rob, when a comic comes along that is good, don't harp on it. you had nothing against it except a personal bias called "how am I going to insult today's comic", and when you failed to find anything, you reverted to ad hominum. This is a quality comic, like one randall hasn't produced in a long time; the simplicity of the joke (like you've been asking for the entire time!) and the lack of overdevelopement allows the reader to get the joke on his own time, and the irony of it allows for much humor. this is pretty much up there for my all-time favorite XKCD comics there are, and this is coming from a fresh perspective.
Good job, Randy, if your read this, you made a good one. keep it up.
And before you try to disassemble my post by calling me a complete idiot, once again I agree with a lot (you know... the actual comic critique. not the ridiculous attacks on character) of what you've been saying on this blog. You just took it too far for this one.
wait wait wait. THIS is the comic where someone insists that I'm only making fun of it because of some self-imposed obligation to do so, because it's actually a good comic and I should just shut up?ReplyDelete
THIS comic? seriously? someone thought this one was funny? I mean, even ignoring that earlier this month I said I liked a comic without qualification--this comic was a boring, unimaginative piece of shit. I can't even fathom how boring of a human you would have to be to find "LOL SERIOUS PUTTY" to be a joke worthy of defending.
- Jonathan DevonshireDecember 29, 2010 at 11:49 PM
My complaint is just that for the first time in months, randall made me laugh in one of his comics for the simplicity and "out of left field" element of his joke.ReplyDelete
Isn't that what you've been asking for? You've been complaining over and over again about how "this joke could've been good, but randall overdid it", and now this comic comes along with a perfect stop, no overthinking, and a simple pun.
Check the forums too, there're people on the XKCD forums who share my views. they found it funnier than usual.
But what I'm saying is that you didn't find it funny because you went in with a closed mind. Jokes will never be funny if you walk in expecting them to not be funny. I've been keeping an open mind, and agreeing with your (valid) comic critiques. But this wasn't a critique, this was an attack.
- AnonymousDecember 29, 2010 at 11:56 PM
Ha, people on the forums finding this comic funnier than usual is more scathing criticism of XKCD than this blog could ever provide.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 29, 2010 at 11:59 PM
We get it, the comic sucks, we are all in agreement of that, but seriouslyReplyDelete
Your "Randy is stalking Megan" shtick was funny once. It's beyond stale by now. Where does this shit even come from? Did he mention a person named Megan once?
Reading this blog post was much more aggravating than reading the comic it's about. That is a goddamn achievement.
"Reading this blog post was much more aggravating than reading the comic it's about. That is a goddamn achievement. "ReplyDelete
THANK YOU. it's about goddamn time someone recognized my achievements around here
GUYS! It's not that funny!ReplyDelete
- Sherlock HolmesDecember 30, 2010 at 12:16 AM
People on the forums most likely to think highly of xkcd gave xkcd praise? Stop the fucking presses.ReplyDelete
what baffles me is that this dude is not only earnestly defending this one, he honestly believes that the only reason I think it is utterly indefensible is because I go into the comics thinking they will suck. I went into 829 thinking it would suck and didn't.ReplyDelete
this latest one I was actually feeling relatively neutral towards XKCD going in, since lately he had a few 'almost funny but ruined by Randy's Randyness.' and then he vomited this shit on the page.
look, it's fine to like terrible things. but to assume that all reasonable people like the terrible things you like just makes you a dumbass.
- Jonathan DevonshireDecember 30, 2010 at 12:51 AM
I guess i'm just going to bow out saying that your last comment there can be completely turned around.ReplyDelete
"look, it's fine to hate nice things. but to assume that all people hate the nice things you hate just makes you a dumbass."
I was stating my opinion, which is contrary to your opinion. you seem need a wakeup call that there are, in fact, opinions other than your own. hell, I've probably disliked some comics that you've liked.
meh... idk why I bother coming here every time I see a comic I like. you manage to find the absolute worst interpretation.
- AnonymousDecember 30, 2010 at 1:01 AM
I completely agree with Jonathon Devonshire here. Him and Anon 11:59ReplyDelete
The Megan joke was completely random and unfunny. Rob, I think you need to stop feeding the easy-to-please XKCD haters, and actually try to REVIEW the comics again. I used to agree with a lot of your reviews, but lately...there's almost never anything to actually agree with. Just a blatant, bland and overused attempt at making Randy look bad to appease your audience.
- UndercoverCuddlefishDecember 30, 2010 at 1:09 AM
god randall i am so sick and tired of you making your comics suck in exactly the same ways over and over how is rob supposed to write something new and interesting if you dont give him anything to work withReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 30, 2010 at 1:09 AM
Anyone seen the latest goatkcd? That's some serious putty!ReplyDelete
Just as an aside, I use PuTTY probably a dozen times a day, and I know exactly what the Impact font looks like, and I still no idea what the fuck is going on in the alt-text. The alt-text alone is enough to earn this comic the "shittiest xkcd evar" award, Mr. Devonshire notwithstanding.ReplyDelete
If I still liked XKCD I would like this comic, but it is far from gold and not worth defending. It is structurally sound and he did not try too hard, granted. But its a relatively weak joke. AKA: Boring to review.ReplyDelete
You know what's not boring? Ravenzomg's edited comic, that was fucking funny you humorless turds. And with redux officially in the shitter I wholeheartedly support extended and unneeded commentary about Randall's supposed characiture of a love life.
- AnonymousDecember 30, 2010 at 1:55 AM
I wouldn't be surprised if Randall's Impact font ignorance was on purpose, so that he could show how he has never actually used Windows, making him the coolest cunt in the decapitation queue.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 30, 2010 at 1:57 AM
Like many xkcd comics, this one's funnier if you move around the panels:ReplyDelete
I mean there's only so much you can do with a joke like this, but at least put the punchline in the right spot.
- AnonymousDecember 30, 2010 at 2:08 AM
Here's a gem from the forums:ReplyDelete
"I, also, thoroughly enjoyed this one. I thought it was clever, even before I was aware of the existence of 'Silly Putty'."
- AnonymousDecember 30, 2010 at 2:17 AM
normally i agree with you rob but i actually thoroughly enjoyed this comic. the joke is that silly putty is meant to be touched and played with, and serious putty, being the opposite of silly putty, has a strict no touching policy. the presentation is funny and i actually laughed out loud at thisReplyDelete
I think the joke had plenty of potential to be funny by keeping it simple for once, but that last line, "Don't touch me", was absolute shit. That's not even a serious thing. Personal space is not a thing that only serious people have. That's a thing that really proves that he needs to stop trying to touch people. Randy, you are fucking creepy.ReplyDelete
The alt text...just no. Taking the simple idea that was almost funny and turning it into shitty, obscure nerd humor for the "secret punchline" is just terrible.
reading the last two panels of today's dinosaur comics made me think of robReplyDelete
goomh rob
- AnonymousDecember 30, 2010 at 6:19 AM
get out of robs head ryan northReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 30, 2010 at 6:57 AM
People are actually defending this comic. The comic in which Randall decides to stoop down to first grader level! Way to go, guys, way to defend your high-IQ fanbase!
This comic is bad. But so bad! Someone even touched already what I thought: the punchline is wrong. And weak, but wrong. As I said before, there's no connection between the Putty being serious and the "Don't touch me" line. In fact, he should have looked at his sketch of an idea("What if Silly Putty was actually SERIOUS?") and scrapped it. But hey! This is Randall Munroe! He NEVER scraps any idea, even if it involves a giant vagina!
I'd defend this comic, if it wasn't so stupid. Or if Randall somehow acknowledged this is, indeed, a very weak joke. If he admitted this was a ver silly(oh, LOLS) joke but he was having some trouble to come up with anything better... but no, this seems to be his best. A toddler pun.
Finally, why would people like this? IIRC, the xkcd fanbase is (self-appointed) one of the most clever around, so why take this herpety-derpety stupid joke with glee? Well, beyond it being xkcd, nostalgia. Look, guys! It's that toy you used to play with! LOL, GOOMHR!
AAAAAAAARGH! Way to ruin my day, you scumbags!
RE: Rob's postsReplyDelete
I find them endlessly amusing because I enjoy hyperbolic, aggressive, undistilled hatred. It is a guilty pleasure of mine and, like Lewis Black, Rob happens to usually be somewhat better at it than I am.
Of course I may simply be functionally retarded, who can tell.
RE: anon 6:19
You mean "get out of rob's endless folds of fat ryan north" (yes, that's right, a rob is fat joke. I am as clever as randy)
Like I said on the forums, I'm using this the next time some idiot tries to tell me with a straight face that xkcd is the smartest webcomic on the net. This is something my 8-year-old cousin could come up with.
Okay, is that goatkcd just the same photo of some dude's anal hole over and over again? Or what is it?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 30, 2010 at 7:24 AM
Welcome to the internet, IanReplyDelete
- Super ExtruderDecember 30, 2010 at 11:14 AM
Ian, that is the goatse man from back in the internet's more primal days when tricky links didn't send you to lame things like Rick Astley. Back then, a thoughtless click would treat you to a massive gaping anal cavity.ReplyDelete
Some genius thought he would see what would happen if the goatse man replaced the final panel in each XKCD comic. It is amazing how often the comic is improved.
The Randy-as-stalker song may be getting tired, but I at least can appreciate that writing a straightforward review for a comic this awful would be a painful experience. Still, I must wonder if the ability of xkcd forum-goers to show up and mutter "oh, he didn't even review the comic lol" isn't even more painful still. This comparative pain conundrum shall haunt me, no doubt. At least until we are all dragged screaming into the endless void of the mole-abyss.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 30, 2010 at 1:10 PM
Fun fact: if you say "mole", the Mole will appear! =DReplyDelete
So, once upon a time in TV Tropes(Boo! Rotten vegetables, and all that, I know...) there was this session which was to discuss internal logic, but then in the XKCD page someone decided to attack the xkcd hate. The haters attacked back(me included, but as it turned pointless to discuss with fans that think stick figures with floating heads are an actual style I decided to let it be) and the page was scrapped. It's still scrapped, but then I decided to look the subjective tropes session for XKCD.
There it is, listed in "Nightmare Fuel", strip 647. "Scary".
...I'll be frank, guys, sometimes I feel ashamed of being part of that wiki! But there you have it: 20-something people feeling old because younger people weren't alive when important stuff happened. That's nightmare fuel for these people.
XKCD's fanbase is really, really a place of shame...
- AnonymousDecember 30, 2010 at 2:10 PM
So now people are idiots for laughing at simple jokes? Really.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 30, 2010 at 4:37 PM
@Rob on Dec 30 12:00 amReplyDelete
Hey hey HEY now. Don't get ahead of yourself. I said I hated THIS post. But you can never hope to match the awfulness of Randy's 836. You might as well give up trying to live up to Randy. Just because you strike gold once doesn't mean you have any talent.
- AnonymousDecember 30, 2010 at 4:51 PM
Two people just posted a link to 840 on Facebook within 15 minutes of each other. And no way they knew each other did it.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 30, 2010 at 7:32 PM
2:10 There's nothing wrong with finding amusement in simple things. People are idiots for accolading simple jokes though, especially when there's nothing in the presentation of the simple joke that would have taken any actual work or adds any interest, extra especially when the joke is simple enough to be the type of thing that a pre-teen would easily come up with.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 30, 2010 at 8:43 PM
Is webcomics.me officially gone and dead now?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 30, 2010 at 9:02 PM
Well...#841 was the dumbest thing I ever read.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 30, 2010 at 9:05 PM
With Redux and webcomics.me both gone, I am beginning to suspect that maybe that really wasn't the Redux guy trolling around.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 30, 2010 at 9:19 PM
841: That was a really long setup for a really mediocre joke.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 30, 2010 at 9:20 PM
Let's just ignore #841 and pretend it never existed, mmk? Or alternately, pretend these two Void Creatures are quirky characters we've come to love over the previous 840 comics, and this is just [Void Creature 1] being [Void Creature 1] to [Void Creature 2]'s dismay.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 30, 2010 at 9:36 PM
The joke in 841 is that listening to anything with really poor sound quality is not a big deal. The additional joke is that people who act like elitists over operating systems are justified and people who act like elitists over audio equipment are not, and there is a very important reason for this distinction and Randall does not know what it is or acknowledge it.ReplyDelete
The bonus joke is that Randall despises what he makes a living doing.
I actually kind of like the joke in 841 but that setup was way too long. As such, I can't say I liked it, but I thought it sucked less than a lot of the more recent ones. Cutting out the second panel would improve the comic fairly well. Wouldn't make it great, but it'd be better than it is now.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 30, 2010 at 10:34 PM
...who said Webcomics.me is dead? I'm sure I didn't stop writing weekly there!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 30, 2010 at 10:36 PM
Mole, that is just because you are a necromancer. Which is strictly better than liking it while it's dead.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 30, 2010 at 11:26 PM
Like a number of commenters here I also liked this comic and laughed out loud at it. It's a simple but unexpected subversion.ReplyDelete
And yes "don't touch me" is a serious thing for putty to say. Putty that is usually silly and touchable. Simple, no?
Though apparently jokes that are simple are for CHILDREN ONLY.
- AnonymousDecember 30, 2010 at 11:51 PM
This is the best write up since Carl left by far. I laughed twice and I appreciate that. Is Rob finally coming into his own? Will this prove to be just a fluke? Find out next week on xkcd Sucks!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 31, 2010 at 12:30 AM
Making fun of audiophiles is good enough, but Randall's missed the train entirely. Virtual Dynamics Judge~~ReplyDelete
- Discus MasterDecember 31, 2010 at 12:32 AM
So I guess what he's trying to say, in the midst of that wild swing between Xbox games and FLAC files and living room sound systems (which are apparently all equivalent regardless of which side of that argument you are on), is that base information is more important than aesthetics. It's a compelling argument. In fact, I don't think I'll bother listening to Prokofiev anymore. I'll just read the music sheets.ReplyDelete
anonymous 1:55 is right about the order. That's impossible to dispute.ReplyDelete
Everyone else is right about the "punchline" - if Silly Putty's motto had been "Touch me!" then it would have been perfect. But it wasn't (it was "Nothing Else is Silly Putty!") the current punchline is weak though not impossibly so.
some current event: "Oh my God, we're officially in a double dip recession!"
A household use for the putty: "You still need to put me in that gap in the bathroom window."
A distortion of the motto: "Nothing here is silly, buddy!"
It also could have blown a hole in the wall when bounced against it.
However, the "it has a bad punchline" argument is weaker than the order argument. This should be a psychological test of some kind.
I don't wish to disparage anyone on the autism spectrum, but if Randall's representative, perhaps sequencing jokes is simply one of those things autistic/Asperger's people aren't prone to do well.
- Jonathan DevonshireDecember 31, 2010 at 2:12 AM
Marion Delgado: that can actually be open to debate. Of all the alternatives that you suggested, the others would either be too weak or overdone. For example, a household use would have removed the "short and sweet" from the comic, as well as the current event would have been overdoing it. Using a current event would also have removed attention from the main element of the simple joke.ReplyDelete
after all, as Frank Lloyd Wright wrote, "Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art".
to put it simply... the simplicity of the comic highlights its brilliance.
now, 841... terribad.
- AnonymousDecember 31, 2010 at 5:47 AM
I'll say it for the last time before leaping to 841: the problem with 840 being a simple and silly(fuck it, I'm nog gonna apologize for the unintended pun!) joke is that xkcd is not the place for such silly things. XKCD is a comic that grew in fame for featuring stick figure comics with hard science elements, most obscure to most people. It has then built a fanbase that boasts about having higher than average IQ and mocks its detractors for not getting the jokes(most of the time, falsely; we get the jokes, they just aren't funny). Not to mention all the times I see xkcd mentioned in my Twtiter timeline with the word "genius" dangerously close to it.ReplyDelete
Then Randall makes a joke worthy of a 3-year-old kid, and somewhy the fans still praise it as Randall's greatest accomplishment, instead of recognizing this undermines their self-given reputation of ingenuity(not that it wasn't already undermined by Randall's constant pandering to high schoolers). A pun that's not only stupid, but makes no sense, and should have been scrapped while it was still a sketch(does Randall even make sketches, though? Tricky question...)
Are there brilliant things that are incredibly simple? Why, yes! Are all things simple brilliant? Fucking no, or else every hand turkey ever made would be a fucking work of art of the highest quality!
...let's get to 841.
Firstly, it's verbose. It almost reminds me of Subnormality, what with Randall filling almost every white space in the panel with speech. And that for a punchline that isn't really worth it. So, audiophiles care too much about audio quality, amirite? But fear not, Randall is to defend the poor and oppressed non-audiophiles!
I wonder some things, thouch... such as whether this conversation is made out of snippets from some forum discussion Randall had(minus the witty retorts, that's just Randall's esprit de l'escalier). I wonder how could Randall permit himself to put the girl in the "bad side" of the discussion in this comic. And I wonder why did the girl hang up in the last panel, when it'd make more sense for the guy to hang up right after his punchline. But, then again, the hang up itself is PPD.
To be honest, the punchline is clever. I just don't care about the subject. At all.
- SemicolonsDecember 31, 2010 at 9:02 AM
841 made me laugh. Randy actually sat down, and wrote out a joke. He told that joke, then stopped writing dialog in the comic. This might be the first single-joke no-awkard-after-joke-dialog comic he's written in years. And the joke made me laugh!ReplyDelete
I guess if you write hundreds of forced comics, one of them might be funny after all. Did Randy just brute force humor?
On second thought, the set up is a bit too wordy, but i'm just gonna enjoy this funny joke and pretend they were all this funny.
Rob will know he's got a follower if the next xkcd involves a beer with the brand name of "Subjunctive."ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 31, 2010 at 11:36 AM
Goatkcd 841 would've been perfect had "No, this is a joke:" been in the panel before last.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 31, 2010 at 1:22 PM
841 was just too damn long. Anyone seeing the comic will just skim the panels for keywords and jump to the last bit. And even the zinger takes too long to deliver. Try saying the sentence out loud: "I'll tell you later - you wouldn't appreciate the punchline over this 12kbps cell phone codec".ReplyDelete
Seriously, who the fuck says something like that? Prose should be economical.
- AnonymousDecember 31, 2010 at 6:18 PM
Holy shit! 841 is actually kind of funny.ReplyDelete


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NEW YORK RADIO — updated (again) edition
Check out this new interview on the Busted Halo website.
I'm going to New York next week. I'll re-post the dates here. But while I'm there I'll be doing some radio. Here's the info.
Monday Aug. 27 (or Tuesday Aug. 28, if you want to think of it that way) at 2 AM I'll be on the Joey Reynolads Show on WOR radio AM 710 in New York. More info about the show is here:
At 1:45 PM on Aug. 28 (Tuesday) he'll be on the radio show "Soundcheck" on New York's WNYC
more info about that is at:
Here's the previous gig list (remember, attendance is mandatory, any of you who think I already get plenty of butts in seats at these things, think again):
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• August 27, 2007 at 7 PM at The Interdepedence Project at Lila Center 302 Bowery at Houston (this will be the most like a formal lecture among all the NYC appearances) RSVP soon, space is limited.
• August 28, 2007 at 7:30 PM Barnes & Noble in Greenwich Village 396 Ave of the Americas at 8th Street, New York, NY 10011
Montreal, Quebec:
• August 30, 2007 at 7 PM at McGill University's Education/Counselling Psychology Department 3700 Rue McTavish Room 233
Boulder & Ft. Collins, Colorado:
• Monday September 10, 2007 - 7:30 pm Boulder Bookstore 1107 Pearl Street - Author Event
• Tuesday September 11, 2007 Noon - Colorado State University Bookstore - The Lory Student Center at CSU Ft. Collins, CO
• Tuesday September 11, 2007 7 PM - CSU Anthropology Club The Lory Student Center at CSU, Ft. Collins - Author Event
• Wednesday, September 12, 2007 Interview for Elevision TV show. Be part of the live in-studio audience! Doors close at 7pm. The show will be at Trilogy, 2017 13th St. in downtown Boulder
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• September 22 to 25, 2007, Tokei-in Temple, 1840 Hatori, Shizuoka City, 421-12 (Prior registration is required. See http://www.dogensangha.org/sesshin.htm for details)
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• Oct. 6, 9:15 PM - my movie "Cleveland's Screaming" will have its Cleveland priemier at the Cleveland Institute of Art's Cinematheque
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Akron, Ohio:
•November 7,2007 at the Akron Public Library I think I'm on at 7PM. I'm certain it's either at 7 or 8 PM. More details later...
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What if you could have theMost of us have a list of things we'd like to do to improve our home. I don't think I know anyone who lives in their ideal home.
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How would it look?
But, do you find yourself saying "If only..."
If only I had hardwood floors, then I would be happy with my home.
If only my appliances were beautiful stainless steel, then I'd have my dream kitchen.
If only the furniture came from a high end furniture store instead of a thrift store and hand-me-downs, then I'd love to entertain.
If only my walls weren't decorated with children's hand prints and the floor with toys, then I could decorate my home with beautiful things.
If only my house was bigger, then. . .
If only we had enough money to make home improvements, then. . .
The problem with the "If only's" is that you choose to delay your happiness and miss out on JOY you could be having right now.
If you learn nothing else from my blog, I hope you learn that every day you should do a little something to find the JOYS of home. That's my goal. Let me illustrate with photos of my own home.
Our main bathroom looks picture perfect. It's not! The tile floor has cracks, the top drawer falls out if you pull it too far. The cabinets are low end wood laminate and the sinks have rust stains that cannot be removed.
I could have chosen to live with the "If only's." Instead, I painted the cabinets, replaced the hardware, and stocked the linen closet with fluffy white towels.
The flooring in our home was not pretty, at all. If I lived in "If only" land I would not have torn out the ugly carpet and tile, painted the subflooring and personalized our stairs. Would I love to have beautiful hardwood? Of course! But look at the creative opportunities that I would have missed. The kitchen has the same cheap cabinetry as the bathroom and the appliances are white. It had the ubiquitous U-shape of the 1970's until we decided to tear it apart and make improvements on a budget of a thousand dollars. The "If only" attitude would have robbed us of wonderful memories of working together and of preparing our turkey on top of the washing machine because hubby was installing the sink on Thanksgiving morning.The beautiful fireplace I told you about yesterday is still not finished. It's missing the surround on the firebox. No one notices because I painted the whole thing black and loaded it with pretty candles. Would I love to have a finished gas burning fireplace? YES, but I can enjoy it this way until our finances allow us to finish it. Our master bedroom has painted subflooring and a master bath that needs major work. The furniture is from the thrift store, the draperies are drop cloths, the walls are painted with mistints. But it can still be beautiful and on a budget.
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Therefore, if we know and appreciate the importance of proper nutrition to maintain good mind and body health, why then do the prison systems seemingly overlook the need for well-balanced meal plans and access to healthier foods? Could hunger be a significant cause of inappropriate behavior inside prisons?
Some would point out that inmates get three meals a day and have access to commissary foods, so why should they be complaining? Those who visit inmates understand that most meals the inmates receive (including at the Butler County Prison) are based on caloric intake instead of traditional nutritional guidelines.
If the lack of proper nutrition is just a simple matter of not enough taxpayer dollars, does that give the county or state prison systems the right and justification not to provide the basic human necessities for health and life?
On March 1, 2003, an article in Psychology Today spotlighted studies on the connection between the lack of proper nutrition and criminal behavior.
Bernard Gesch, a scientist and former probation officer in the United Kingdom, was inspired to further his research after he noticed that his young offenders showed behavioral improvements while taking vitamin supplements. Later, Gesch conducted an experiment at a maximum-security prison in the United Kingdom involving 231 inmates.
To one group he supplied the inmates with daily capsules containing vitamins, minerals and essential fatty acids; the other group received a placebo.
He found that those who received the supplements broke prison rules 25 percent less often than those taking the placebo. Yet, more remarkably, the greatest reduction was for the more serious offenses such as fighting and assaulting guards, which dropped by 37 percent.
His control group showed no change at all.
If Gesch is correct, it is a welcome discovery that could revolutionize the rehabilitation of criminal offenders and ease conflicts inside our prisons.
We at the Friends and Family of Inmates Support Group, which meets at 6 p.m. on the second Monday of each month at the Mental Health Association, 140 N. Elm St., hear time and time again that our loved ones often are hungry.
I challenge those officials who are responsible for prison food allocations to carefully examine what they are feeding the inmates.


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When is a hole in a kitchen wall a good thing? When it doubles as a unique refrigerator, Mary Frances Hill discovers Robert McNutt's Mount Pleasant apartment is like none other in the city, thanks to his eye for antiques and an ability to live without modern conveniences.
Nearly every inch of the century-old, 600-square-foot apartment rented by the restorer of antique lighting is covered in vintage flair. In the elaborate bathroom, for example, a sink spigot hails from the early days of the Bank of Nova Scotia at Granville and Davie, and the 100-year-old bathtub is fitted with a web of silver-exposed piping leading to a rainshower shower head.
Call it Mr. McNutt's Wonder Emporium.
McNutt is a fervent collector, and a careful one. He gets his dates right, acquiring items from 1870 to 1915 only, to match the era of the apartment block where he's made his home for the past 15 years. There's the antique fireplace delivered from Cleveland, the doorknob from the Vanderbilts' summer house in Newport, Rhode Island, and the rebuilt vintage chandeliers in every room.
But it is when McNutt, who works at Architectural Antiques on Main Street, describes his inner sanctum to people who have not had the fortune to visit, that attention is drawn to one of the oddest pieces: The so-called cooling cabinet.
The concept is deceptively simple. A hole in the upper kitchen wall brings a breeze that circulates straight into -- and up and down -- the cabinet. McNutt stores his food on the cabinet's six shelves, constructed from strong mesh.
Without the ability to freeze food ( "Who needs ice? It's overrated," he says) or keep produce fresh in the cabinet for long periods, McNutt shops more like the Europeans, purchasing food every few days. And that has benefited both his health and social life.
"When people have refrigerators, you find science experiments [with your produce]," he says. "The way I shop, you develop a bond with the people you buy your food from because you see them every day."
Still, there are drawbacks. "I found a pigeon trying to make a nest in my 'fridge,'" he adds.
When McNutt moved in, he was also surprised to see an access point for a vacuum on the wall near the entrance to his suite, and discovered the apartment block boasted a vintage central system.
Finally, after a decade looking online and in antique stores in various cities, he found a woman in Baltimore wanting to sell the circa-1910 contraption on eBay. "I had been looking to the ends of the earth for this," he says.
After some wrangling, he bought it for $26, paid $1,000 for the delivery from Baltimore, and another $1,000 for additional pipes and parts. His landlord allowed him to install the body of the system -- or what he calls "the mother ship" -- in the building's basement.
McNutt blames his predilection for purchasing such rarities on his association with fellow hoarders, eccentrics, collectors and antiques buffs. He also scours eBay for eclectic parts for his rare items.
"My favourite [rationalization for collecting] is, 'I was in the wrong place at the wrong time, and I didn't know how to say no,'" he adds.
Above the parapet
Michelle Hopkins talks to the onetime owner of a penthouse in Crosstown who was seduced by an century-old wall around the roof
In more than two decades as a Vancouver realtor, Ken Leong has seen more upscale condominium buildings than he can count.
But when the RE/MAX agent entered Beatty Street's converted Crane building, which is almost 100 years old, he fell under its spell.
So captivated was he with the penthouse suites, he bought two units, one for himself (he has since sold it) and one purely for an investment. Granted, that's not necessarily surprising for a canny realtor, but besides all the noteworthy architectural features, double-hung sash windows, original steel/iron support columns, one thing had really sold it to him. The original parapet wall -a low, protective barrier at the edge of a roof, terrace or balcony -had been kept in all its glory in one of the penthouse suites.
"When I was on the roof," says Leong, "I could see all the original, architectural details ... all the brick and coolness was all around me. I could see the whole city skyline on the southwest corner where the parapet wall faces."
The Crane building, which also features bird prints in the concrete floor of some of the suites, is in Crosstown, located between Gastown and Yaletown. City hall records state the old Crane building was constructed in 1911 and used by the Crane plumbing supplier as a warehouse until 1956. The eight-storey building at 540 Beatty was converted by Townline Homes into 59 suites.
"I've seen nearly every building in town and this one stood out," adds Leong. "It's the first, or one of the first, concrete warehouses to be built in Vancouver and it's so historically interesting.
"Vancouver is such a unique city, and all of a sudden, instead of taking an old building back to its bones, some builders are keeping the heritage details and incorporating them into the living space."
Other richly detailed work that Leong appreciated in the time he lived there included the original brick feature-walls and exposed concrete ceilings. As soon as Leong entered the hallways on any floor and eyed the vintage radiators, he was reminded of long-gone years.
The east side of the 500 block of Beatty Street, where the Crane building is located, is a fully intact, historically significant streetscape. The building retains its distinctive heritage character, and Leong sees it as a portal through which we can appreciate other eras, and ourselves.
Tripping the light: Fantastic
A Georgian-style heritage home woos new owners with its 'mini rainbow' prism show, Michelle Hopkins finds
For more than a decade, retired teachers Janet Neufeld and husband Ken Elmer would walk by the Georgian-style heritage home -- known to neighbours as the Eakins House, after the original owners -- and admire its grandeur.
They were especially intrigued with the way light danced off the original leaded window panes at the entrance of the historic New Westminster home.
"When the sun hits the bevelled glass in the late afternoon, you see hundreds of prisms," says Neufeld. "If you catch it at the right time, the foyer becomes awash with a series of [them] ... like mini rainbows."
So when the 1910 house went up for sale in 1992, the couple was quick to tour the property, finding that it had much of its original material, including wainscotting, fir stairs, oak floors, radiators, and even some wallpaper. "I fell instantly in love with everything about it ... the corner lot across from a park, the huge backyard and the extra bathrooms [there are four]," says Neufeld.
Needless to say, they bought their 5,600-square-foot dream home. And, nearly 20 years later, Neufeld still delights in the dancing shadows of shifting light -- the prisms of brilliant colours through those nine bevelled-glass panels.
To look around the four-storey house means making one enchanting discovery after another, such as the 15 radiators and four fireplaces that still warm the home. "Although the noise the radiators make sometimes startles overnight guests, I can tell you which radiator makes what noise," says Neufeld, laughing. "I know every creak and sound in this old house."
Neufeld smiles as she recalls having her adult children use the "hired help or secret stairs," which leads upstairs from the kitchen at the rear of the house. They sealed the laundry chute, however, because it could be a fire hazard. "But it does still work," says Neufeld, adding the expansive foyer has been used for a number of television commercials and for the Fox television series Millennium.
"There's a friendly feel to this old house," she says. "We simply love it."
Claudia Kwan explores how three homes attracted their owners
Simon Boniface and Pricille Nowicki's life together in Greater Vancouver began with a simple typographical error. Nowicki, then living in her native France, attempted to e-mail a friend with the same first initial and last name as Boniface, at a popular web-based e-mail service. The message ended up in Boniface's inbox, and began a six-month e-correspondence that culminated with Nowicki flying to Vancouver for a visit in July 1999.
Two years later, she made the move permanent, immigrating to Canada. In 2005, the couple began looking for a Tsawwassen-area home. It took two failed offers until they found the right place, with an expansive south-facing yard that echoed the cottage farm-like surroundings in the small French village of Saint-Sauveur-sur-Ecole where Nowicki had grown up.
In the lush green backyard, one thing stood out: a gnarled pear tree, so wizened they thought it surely must be dead. Despite its shrivelled appearance, something told them to leave the tree alone, even as they carried on with moving in.
A few months later, they noticed tiny, pale green pears with their distinctive shape fruiting on the tree -and plenty of them. So many, in fact, they could hardly make the pears into tarts, compote and preserves fast enough. Moreover, the pears were amazing -intoxicatingly sweet and bursting with juice.
"It was more than a surprise," Boniface says. "It was a gift." (Not unlike the fluky way in which they met.)
In the three years since they moved in, the couple has planted plum, cherry and fig trees, as well as blueberry bushes, and looked after the pear tree. They have just welcomed their first child, a daughter, and continue to take in crops from the pear tree.
"When I look at the [pear] tree, it reminds me of what can happen when you put the work in to nurture something," says Nowicki. "It shows you what can grow out of nothing."
From a story of new life, we move to a story of death -but far from a grim perspective. Instead, what Kimberley Hintz sees from her kitchen window every day is peaceful eternal repose.
Her back fence butts up to the Fraser cemetery in New Westminster, which has been in use since 1869. It's so close, the UBC librarian can read the gravestones while standing in the backyard. Her favourites are the military ones that date to the Great or Second World War, and the ornate family stones with moss growing on them.
"When we first saw the house on MLS [the Multiple Listing Service of homes for sale], it was exactly what we were looking for. But we said, 'Oh, but it's right by the graveyard,' " recalls Hintz. They weren't sure if it would seem 'creepy.'
But after visiting the home, it all just felt right -the 1912 house belonging in its surroundings, enveloped in history in the oldest city in British Columbia. And it wasn't even that foreign to her. While growing up in small-town Saskatchewan, Hintz's family would often occupy a Sunday afternoon by driving out to country graveyards and walking around.
Now Hintz is counting the blessings of the graveyard's location. It's better than a view of a mini-mall or the back of a parking garage, and there will never be a huge development built there. What's more, the neighbourhood looks great dressed up for Halloween and it's incredibly quiet, she adds. Even fears about teenagers partying in the graveyard at night never materialized.
Recently, their next-door neighbour died, after living in his home bordering the graveyard for more than 30 years. Some plots became available, and now he is buried in a spot visible from his former home.
There's a continuity there that Hintz and her husband Craig Lederhouse have already begun explaining to their two-and-a-half-year-old daughter.
"We say, 'That's where people go to remember people who have died. When people die, they need to go somewhere,' " she says. "We shouldn't just pretend that people don't die. People were here before us."
That circle of life and death is something that made an impression on the realtor Ken Leong, who recounts his own grace-notes purchase on these pages. He figured he had heard all of the stories, until he showed a house in Vancouver's West End to a married couple in their late 30s.
"The woman said her grandmother had owned the home for a long time, and that as a little girl she remembered spending time there," says Leong. She pointed out some of the character elements in the Victorianera home, and relayed stories from childhood. Decades -- and a few owners -- later, the couple ended up buying the house in a private sale.
"The probability of that property coming around just as she [the granddaughter] was in the market is mind-boggling," Leong says bemusedly. "Buying at that moment in time -the chances seem infinitesimal."
For Leong, having a sentimental attachment to a place could mean a greater sense of community, or spending more time and money on renovating an older home.
However, he offers one caveat when it comes to falling in love with homes with unique features. What might seem like a positive to one purchaser could be a drawback to another. Then there's the possibility of a subjective buyer having unrealistic expectations for resale of the home, or of overpaying in the first place.
Still, if you fell in love with it, he concludes, chances are someone else will, too.


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YMCA Delaware is accepting nominations for five acclaimed awards that honor women from the community for their efforts to eliminate racism and inspire and empower women.
YMCA Delaware is accepting nominations for five acclaimed awards that honor women from the community for their efforts to eliminate racism and inspire and empower women.
Winners of the awards will be honored at the YMCA's Awards Luncheon March 20 at Hotel du Pont in Wilmington. The following are the five awards:
The Trailblazer Award honors a woman who has made outstanding contributions to her profession and/or professional organization through leading initiatives that break new ground for the advancement of women and which distinguish her as a role model in a particular profession or field of work.
The Genevieve Gore Young Woman's Leadership Award honors a young leader who demonstrates a strong commitment to social justice.
The Leadership in Racial Justice Award honors a woman with outstanding commitment to eliminating racism and fostering social justice by eliminating barriers to equal access to social advancement for all people.
The Rita Turner Award honors a woman who exemplifies both empowering women and eliminating racism, actively engaging women within her company and/or community and serving as a mentor to young women.
The Advancement of Women Award honors a woman for her exceptional commitment to the mission of YWCA Delaware to empower women to realize their full potential in business, home, political and community endeavors and encourages others to serve as advocates for social change.
For more information, call (302) 655-0039 ext. 230. Nominations are being accepted through Dec. 31, fax all forms to (302) 658-7548 or email to firstname.lastname@example.com.


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In a press release issued by Camden County, the planning and zoning administrator acknowledges the commission and their legal representatives have been involved in negotiations with Gary Prewitt, the developer of Shady Gators to resolve zoning issues.
In a press release issued by Camden County, the planning and zoning administrator acknowledges the commission and their legal representatives have been involved in negotiations with Gary Prewitt, the developer of Shady Gators to resolve zoning issues.
The zoning discussions appear to have opened the door to talks about zoning a 30-acre parcel of land that has never been properly zoned to make way for a parking lot.
The press release was issued in response to an article about parking issues that ran in a recent Weekend Lake Sun. In the article, Prewitt discussed the failure to resolve parking problems near the Gator venues and Camden on the Lake. He did not discuss the zoning issue in the article.
Camden County and Prewitt have been in litigation for several years over the zoning of the Lazy Gators property. The county has, so far, been unsuccessful in shutting the venue down. Prewitt operates under a catering license.
In spite of the negotiations, there was no resolution. County officials have confirmed there has been nothing submitted to planning and zoning for consideration.
In the release, Camden County Planning and Zoning Administrator Don Hathaway said he, in conjunction with the Commissioners Kris Franken, Beverly Thomas and Cliff Luber, along with Ryan Harding, counsel for the planning and zoning, entered into discussions with Prewitt and his legal staff, at their request, to review possible options for layout and rezoning of the Lazy Gators property on Sweet Williams Rd. in the Horseshoe Bend area.
Hathaway said the proceedings were instigated under closed door policies and at the request of Prewitt's legal counsel. The county agreed to nondisclosure of the proceedings until after his formal submittal of an application for rezoning or permits to construct the related projects.
The meetings were held on on March 28, April 16 and April 30, 2013.
Hathaway said Prewitt did submit sketch plans to planning and zoning at the first meeting for proposed site options for the Lazy Gators complex. The issues of required parking for the development which is currently deficient, sanitary sewer facilities upgrades, and public transportation and street improvements, were all discussed as possible infrastructure improvements that would require verification of adequacy for any expansion of the development to proceed. Required platting, and permitting for the development in accordance with provisions of the Unified Land Use Code were also outlined.
Rezoning approval from the Planning Commission from the current R-1 to B-1 or B-2 district, with Conditional Use Permit, was discussed as a requirement for any outdoor entertainment activity. The last submittal for review on possible rezoning and site plan approval appeared to propose use of the property similar to the current level of use with added restrooms and reference to a marina.
Hathaway said it was when the two sides got together a second time that the discussions shifted from the issues of rezoning of the Lazy Gators Complex, to a request for review of a potential satellite parking lot located near the Gators complex.
Hathaway said discussions and reviews with their engineer were ongoing and the county conducted a plan review for the parking lot ahead of an actual application for construction. That was done, he said, to provide the developer and engineer the necessary ULC code requirements for storm water management and erosion control along with zoning review of the proposed parking lot site that was necessary to allow B-1 zoning of the parking lot while providing the necessary required buffer zones and screening for the proposed parking where adjacent to residential districts.
Hathaway said "it is imperative that all construction projects in Camden County receive the same direction and abide by the same applicable code provisions for compliance with federal, state and local laws and regulations."
The plans for the parking lot construction were submitted for the project and reviewed with their engineer, Miller Companies. The revised plans were complete and ready for issuance of permit subject to zoning and platting approval by the planning and zoning commission and final approval by the county commission.
As with any project in the county grading and land disturbance permit issuance was not dependent upon zoning approval, and was offered as an option to accelerate the construction at the site, however the permanent parking lot improvement installations and use of the lot was dependent upon securing zoning approval through Preliminary Plat and Development Plan approval with proposed B-1 rezoning request property filed with the County Planning & Zoning office, according to Hathaway.
The offer of At-Risk permits was also discussed and offered by commissioners to Prewitt. He was informed, Hathaway said, of the required conditions that would allow the county to issue an at-risk permit. The conditions included approval of rezoning could be issued upon as well as a preliminary plat/development plan, prior to final approval by the county commission.


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CCMS Communicator - December 14, 2012
The CCMS will not be implemented in January 2013. We anticipate a June/July implementation timeframe.
This week the CCMS Project Team returned from a 7-week project pause. The Team needs to update the overall project plan to identify a new implementation date. We will share this new date with you within the next 2-3 weeks.
MIS used this break to concentrate on Data Readiness and to finalize the CCTS data conversation project plan. We have included a list of upcoming readiness workshops. Notices will be sent as the dates are confirmed. Meanwhile, BCCD continued to focus on Organization and User Readiness.
Now is the best time to pro-actively prepare for implementation. Communication, training, and preparation are vital elements of any successful implementation plan. Communication is perhaps the most useful of these elements.
In the beginning of this project, the CCMS Project Team established an e-mail account to easily facilitate two-way communication. Discussion among end users is always encouraged. However, it is important that we hear from end users about each phase of this project. Agency POCs are urged to collect and e-mail comments or questions to us.
Beginning January 1, 2013, the CCMS Help Desk will begin utilizing the CCAP Problem Escalation Procedures. We will only accept problems or requests from one person (or alternate) per agency. CCAP staff will submit responses from individual staff requests for new or reset passwords; duplicate certificates, and CCTS problems to agency experts only. The agency expert will need to discuss the Passwords Guidelines with staff and instruct them on how to complete their password request.
CCAP Help Desk staffer, Rick Lloyd, has announced that he will be retiring on December 31, 2012. We appreciate all of Rick's hard work and dedication and wish him well.
Hopefully, each CCMS user has taken the Net Learning courses, reviewed the on-line training materials, and participated in on-site training classes. The CCMS Training Team is always looking for ways to improve the quality of training. We are developing a second TTT class. Each TTT has been asked to complete a training survey. Responses from this survey will let us know how we're doing, and how we can better meet your training needs in the future.
The following chart provides a list of completed or pending CCMS Readiness Workshop Webinars. If you would like copies of slide shows, or would like to have a particular workshop repeated, let us know. Also, if you would like a workshop on any specific topic not listed, let us know.
The DHS Debit Card Unit is currently finishing the processing of debit card applications they received up to 8/30/12. It is currently taking twelve weeks or more to process the applications for debit card. Providers will be paid a paper check until the debit card is received and activated by the provider. If a provider has properly completed a debit card application, included a copy of their driver's license or state ID card, and it was mailed to the DHS Debit Card Unit after September 1, 2012, they should not complete another application.
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Auditions for Rolla's dancing talent show are Feb. 9
Do you think you have the right dance moves?
If so, you have the chance to prove it at a local dancing talent show based off the popular TV show, "So You Think You Can Dance."
For the third consecutive year, the Ozark Actors Theatre (OAT) will present "So You Think You Can Dance: Rolla Edition."
This year's event will take place Saturday, Feb. 16, at 7 p.m. at the Cedar Street Playhouse, 701 N. Cedar St., Rolla.
For those who would like to take part in the dancing talent show, auditions will be held Saturday, Feb. 9, from 1-4 p.m. at AndFlew! Studios, located at 717 N. Pine St., Rolla.
Dancers of all styles, ages and levels are welcome to audition, according to Gessell Frisbee, an OAT board member and owner of AndFlew! Studios.
"Some people think you have be a professional dancer, but you don't have to," she said, noting that anybody can audition "if you're willing to get up there and have fun."
The dancing talent show is a fundraiser for OAT, Frisbee said. The first event was held in 2011 and has been sold out ever since.
"We needed another fundraiser for the winter season and I came up with this idea," Frisbee said. "I'm a dancer and own AndFlew! Studios, so it's what I do. It was just a natural fit."
Past performances have included ballet, jazz, hip hop, swing dancing, clogging, ballroom and line dancing among other types of dances.
Most of the dancers who have performed in past events are from Rolla, but a few came from Jefferson City and Springfield, Frisbee said.
There will be a youth division and an adult division. Past prizes have included trophies for the top three winners in each division as well as choreography awards and judges' choice awards. Additionally, there will be other prizes donated by businesses.
Fifty percent of points are assigned by the judges, and 50 percent will come from the audience, so performers are encouraged to bring their friends and families to support them. The judges will provide feedback for each of the performers.
This year's judges, who all have a background in dance/performing arts, will be Hannah Bagnall, of Rolla, Carla Williams, of Springfield, and Susana Bose, of Jefferson City.
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This story is part of a series from Code Switch — NPR's new team covering race, ethnicity and culture — about America's demographic shift from a mostly-white country to a truly multiracial one, and the other cultural transitions we'll see as a result.
Say "rapper" and many people often envision a scowling, surly guy who prowls the stage jabbing a finger at his audience. Jay-Z with his Scary Mask on. Ice Cube snarling.
Jonathan Park is different. He's an energetic 27 year-old with a sapling waist and an impish grin topped by a sketchy moustache that still hasn't come into its own. And his work tends to be like him—playful, cheeky and smart.
Park's known onstage as Dumbfoundead--or Dumb, for short. It's a high school handle that came from the glazed expression friends say he wore in class. Put Dumbfoundead in YouTube's search bar and you get scores of videos. Like "24KTOWN," where he ponders the responsibility of repping his Koreatown neighborhood, near downtown LA.
As hip-hop has spread beyond its African-American origins to become a global phenomenon, Asian artists have become prominent in several aspects of the genre. South Korean b-boys (a.k.a. "breakdancers," but that term has gone out of fashion) have won the world's largest b-boying competition, "Battle of the Year," five out of the last ten years. (In that same time, an American team has finished in the top three only once.)
But as Dumb explains, Asian-Americans aren't nearly as prominent on the mic.
"Asians DJ-ing," he sighs. "The back bone of hip-hop. We're on the back burner, behind the scenes."
Dumb believes Asian rappers didn't step to the mic in large numbers initially because they hadn't figured out they could broaden the genre with their own cultural spin. They pictured rap as African-American, and hesitated to break that mold:
"I think a lot of Asian rappers when they were first coming up, they were specifically trying to cling on to black culture. But it's really about understanding all cultures, because that's the route that hip hop went."
Cultural critic Oliver Wang is an assistant professor of sociology at Cal State University, Long Beach, and a music reviewer for NPR. He's studied hip hop and its relation to Asian communities for 20 years, and believes Dumb's observations about Asians' place in the genre are on target:
"I think (he) makes an excellent point in the ways Asian-Americans have become involved and have become prominent as DJs and b-boys." Wang agrees "But it's really as rappers that they face the limitation of being less visible."
And, Wang says, it's a Catch-22: until the commercial gatekeepers who distribute rap understand that Asian rappers are worth promoting, there will be fewer for aspiring Asians to see and be inspired by.
Dumb has been very visible, partly because he is one of a very few Asian-Americans who are succeeding as rappers. Oliver Wang says this is partly because Dumb is very good at what he does, and partly because he is so prolific: "On his You Tube channel, I feel like he's dropping a new song every 2-3 months or so."
Go to YouTube, and you'll catch Dumb rapping about everything from the ode to his K-town neighborhood to dropping his gold-digger girlfriend:
Dumb's variety of subject matter has earned him a devoted following of Asian fans, both here and abroad — but it's also widened to be embraced by people of other ethnicities and cultures as well.
That was evident last month, when he played the Howard Theater, in Washington DC, the crowd was multiracial. And multigenerational. (Some older people really had come to see Dumb, because they were fans or curious. Others had escorted their teen children and were patiently waiting until the concert was over so they could go home to something more understandable. Luther Vandross, maybe, or D'Angelo.)
As critic Oliver Wang noted, being Asian-American in a genre that's considered the natural province of black and brown artists might get Dumb into the room, but he can only stay there if he's good:
"In a way, he has to be sort of extra good to win people over and get beyond their skepticism. I definitely don't think anybody's going to be giving him a pass because he's an Asian."
And Dumb doesn't want them to. "How are you supposed to know if you're getting dope or not?" he shrugs. "If everybody is, like, 'I'ma support you because you're Asian...'" he trails off, clearly irritated. "Ya gotta have some kind of criticism, you know what I mean?"
This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Melissa Block.
I'm Robert Siegel.
And, of course, throughout today's program we're following events in Boston and we'll have more updates later in the hour. But for now, we move onto other stories. And today, we introduce a new team here at NPR. It's called Code Switch, and it will cover race, ethnicity and culture. And this week, Code Switch is exploring how culture in the U.S. is changing amid huge demographic shifts.
BLOCK: And today we have a story about hip-hop. It's a genre long dominated by African-Americans. There are, of course, white and Latino rappers as well. But one group has remained largely offstage: Asian-Americans.
NPR's Karen Grigsby Bates introduces us to a Korean-American rapper who has built a multiracial fan base.
KAREN GRIGSBY BATES, BYLINE: Meet Jonathan Park. He's an energetic 27-year-old with a sapling waist and an impish grin, topped by a sketchy moustache that still hasn't come into its own. He was born in Buenos Aires, but raised in the U.S. And his autobiography is written in hip-hop's cadence.
Here, Park tells us how his mom brought him to this country.
BATES: Park is known onstage as Dumbfoundead or Dumb, for short. It's a high school handle that came from the glazed expression he wore in class. Put Dumbfounded in YouTube's search bar and you get scores of videos, like "K-Town 24/7," where he ponders the responsibility of repping his Koreatown neighborhood, near downtown L.A.
BATES: Others are clips of Dumb going head-to-head in freestyle battles with black and Latino rappers, some young, some way older.
: Hey I was going to put some money up for this battle. But this dude ain't worth a penny. I use to know the average rapper and trust I've marked me plenty. But I haven't served a senior citizen since I worked at Denny's.
BATES: Dumb will straight-up tell you that there could be, there should be, more Asian-American rappers in hip-hop. Dumb says Asians' traditional modesty usually only allows them to be onstage in supporting roles, not front and center.
: We played the back burner a lot. You know, like the Asians DJ-ing, the back bone of hip-hop. You know, the backbone. We're behind the scenes.
BATES: Dumb believes initially Asian rappers didn't step to the mic here in large numbers, because they didn't see anyone who looked like them rapping.
: I think a lot of Asian rappers when they were first coming up, they specifically just cling on to, like, black culture. But it was really, you know, it's about kind of understanding all cultures because - and that's where the route that hip-hop went.
BATES: In other words, hip-hop has gone from black to global. You can hear it from Mumbai to Mombasa to Montevideo.
Oliver Wang is a cultural critic and assistant professor of sociology at Cal State University, Long Beach and a music reviewer for NPR. He studied hip-hop for 20 years and says Dumb does get some attention because he's one of the few Asian rappers people hear. But Wang warns, he's not just a racial curiosity.
OLIVER WANG, BYLINE: He's a very good rapper in terms of he's got great flow, he's got great presence on the mic.
BATES: But so do a lot of rappers. Wang says what sets Dumb apart is how prolific he is.
WANG: On his YouTube channel, I feel like he's dropping a new music video for some song every two, three months or so.
BATES: Go to YouTube and you'll catch Dumb rapping about everything from the ode to his K-Town neighborhood, to dropping a gold digger girlfriend.
BATES: And thanks to his ability to riff off just about anything, Dumb's audiences are changing. The large Asian fan base he enjoyed initially has become more diverse. That was evident last month when he played the Howard Theater, in Washington, D.C. Although he opened for a white rapper named Watsky, lots of people had come to see him. There were plenty of Asian fans but there were also significant numbers of whites and African-Americans.
Fifteen-year-old Brandon Lim considers Dumb a pioneer.
BRANDON LIM: I feel like Dumb, he's just out there because of all the battles he's been in and TV appearances. I don't know, I feel like, so, he's one of the representatives to show that Asians can do hip-hop, too. So...
BATES: Kyra Williams and her friend Kayla Washington are both 17 and African-American. Kayla says her favorite song is about Huell Howser, a folksy Los Angeles TV host who died late last year.
HUELL HOWSER: Well, hello, everybody. I'm Huell Howser. You know, we've been...
BATES: Kyra liked that Dumb could connect that loss to his life.
KYRA WILLIAMS: His flow is really good and it's a tribute song. And he talks about, it's like real stuff that happened in his life and friends that he's lost. And I think that's really interesting and that's really - it's really real.
BATES: Real is what Dumbfoundead is after. As critic Oliver Wang noted, being Asian-American in a genre that's considered the natural province of black and brown artists might get Dumb in the room, but he can only stay there if he's good. Rap, Wang says, is a meritocracy.
WANG: So I think, in a way, he has to be sort of extra good in terms of winning people over and getting them passed that skepticism. I definitely don't think anyone is going to be giving him a pass because he's Asian, though.
BATES: And Dumb doesn't want them to. He insists he'll keep honing his craft until rap fans of all races consider him, in his words, the dopest MC out there - period.
Karen Grigsby Bates, NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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At the moment yesterday's rally has eased as market participants are once again focusing on the slowing of the global economy and the impact that will potentially have on oil demand growth along with what is expected to be a weekly oil inventory report (EIA inventory report to be released tomorrow morning) that is currently projected to be biased to the bearish side with builds projected for both crude oil and refined products. The market is concerned about the possibility of a supply impact if the evolving geopolitical situating in the Middle East is elevated further. However, the current supply situation is more than balanced as OPEC is producing about 1 million barrels per day above their quota (latest from Reuters) with Saudi Arabian production around the 10 million barrel per day level and based on statements by the Saudi Oil Minister the 10 million barrels per day level is expected to continue through November at least. As has been the case for an extended period of time there is no shortage of crude oil anywhere in the world even with the Iranian sanctions impacting Iran's oil export level.
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The white caped crusader appeared Tuesday on a wall just off Borgo Pio, a tiny cobble-stoned street near St. Peter's Square. In typical superhero fashion, Francis' right fist is thrust in the air, leading him in flight, while his left clutches his black satchel. "Valores," or values in Spanish, is written across it.
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