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I wanted to have a wreath hanging in the dining room so I took an old wreath and glued in pink roses, peonies, and other flowers. Then I added some teacups and voila! A teacup wreath!I am heading to the beach with Hubby and one of my little grandsons today so I'll stop by and visit you all later. Thanks for visiting and I hope you all have a wonderful pink weekend.
Saturday, 14 August 2010
Pink Saturday
I wanted to have a wreath hanging in the dining room so I took an old wreath and glued in pink roses, peonies, and other flowers. Then I added some teacups and voila! A teacup wreath!I am heading to the beach with Hubby and one of my little grandsons today so I'll stop by and visit you all later. Thanks for visiting and I hope you all have a wonderful pink weekend.
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Teacups and roses...two of my favorite things! Love the wreath!ReplyDelete
Just beautful!! I have a wreath in my Den that I added transferware tea cup and tea pot ornaments to.
Sandi,Every time I stop by your blog its beauty takes my breath away...ReplyDelete
Its all so pretty and pink, and just dripping in roses.
I very much love your wreath,and you really do have a tea cup in it!
Have a grand time at the beach.
Blessings Tracy
In my blog description, I say that I love beautiful things...like teacups and flowers. Your wreath definitely fits the bill. It is SO pretty!!ReplyDelete
I hope you are feeling better and that you are having the time of your life with your son and his family. I've missed you...but family will always come before the computer.
Have fun at the beach. I'm "green with envy," as the beach is one of my favorite places. Unfortunately, I now live in a land-locked state and haven't been in over 2 years.
Blessings and hugs,
HPS SandiReplyDelete
Your teacup wreath is very pretty & I love the red toile curtains! Enjoy your Family time at the beach!
Happy Pink Saturday, Sandi....ReplyDelete
Your wreath is just breathtakignly pretty! I love roses with teacups and it looks like you used one from your banner? Rose Chintz by Johnson Bros. My china, too!
HI SANDI,ReplyDelete
Oh, this is so cute...I couldn't see the teacups at first...but then you had the close-up photos :) :) What a great idea and very pink :) :) Have a great time at the beach with your family!!! Love and hugs from Oregon, Heather :)ReplyDelete
Hello Sandi.This is such a gorgeous idea.ReplyDelete
Very pretty. Great job.
Happy Pink Saturday!
♥ Regina
Hi Sandi! This is adorable!ReplyDelete
Be a sweetie and happy Pink,
Shelia ;)
Can I steal your idea? That is way too precious! MarciaReplyDelete
Love your wreath, cute!!!ReplyDelete
Happy Pink Saturday!
G'day Sandi ~ I did one a few years similar, LOVE IT!ReplyDelete
Have a beautiful PS summer weekend.
TTFN ~ Hugs, Marydon
What a pretty pink wreath! Happy Pink Saturday and have a great weekend!ReplyDelete
Hope you had fun at the beach-very pretty wreath!ReplyDelete
What a pretty wreath, and I love teacups!
Nice Pink wreath, Happy Pink Saturday! Enjoy your weekend! XOXOReplyDelete
Cute idea. Happy Pink Saturday!ReplyDelete
A very cute idea. Love the tea cups. Hope you had a great Pink Day.ReplyDelete
beautiful pinkie things. I never knew I liked pink....but I think I do now.ReplyDelete
Beautiful tea cup wreath, my friend, full of all the things I love!! Enjoy your company and have a happy, happy Sunday and upcoming week~love and hugs~VickiReplyDelete
Hi Sandi Girl!ReplyDelete
Hope you had fun at the beach today.
Just wanted to stop by and say hello and look at your pink post.
I love the idea of adding teacups to your wreath. Great idea and very pretty!
Do I see lovely toile draperies on the window....so pretty.
Good Afternoon Sandi, What a delicate and sweet wreath with teacups! I sure hope you are feeling better and that you'll share lots of photos of your recent family get-together.ReplyDelete
I can tell that this post took a lot of time....it is wonderful. Your story is very touching. I think I need to do the same thing with my original china set- I never use it and it would make someone happy! I am sorry it took me so long to to my post. This summer has been so hectic. I run as fast as I can.This weekend we had a merchant event in Old Colorado City and a Car show and last night dinner guests...whew!ReplyDelete
I am delighted to have you visit me and I read every comment. Please forgive me for not being able to visit you all as there are so many of you lovely bloggy friends now. I will visit as much as possible. I wish you a day filled with JOY!
Also, due to the amount of spam I've been getting, I have had to set Comment Moderation. ~ Sandi


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As someone who's obsessed with patterned paper and scrapbooked for over half my life, designing for scrapbook product has always been at the top of my "design bucket list."
It's taken lots of patience and a few years attending the Craft & Hobby Association's annual trade show (CHA) to finally get my wish! A good friend and fellow designer, Laura Passage, worked with me to design A Fair to Remember, a mini theme collection for Echo Park Paper Co. inspired by State Fairs. It launches a little later this month at scrapbook stores around the country.
NOVEMBER UPDATE: The most surreal thing happened to me was when I stopped by a scrapbook store on my way home from a family vacation this week. I found this mini kit on one of the store's end cap displays. What a great milestone moment!


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What You Need to Know About Software Asset Management in the Era of SaaS
For software as a service (SaaS) applications, the purpose of an effective software asset management (SAM) strategy is less about compliance than with bring you own device (BYOD) or even traditional application access. "The number of licenses purchased regulates the access to an application," says Jesse Frye, director of product marketing for LANDesk. "Providers aren't concerned about auditing."
Many challenges surround licensing, productivity and management costs. A robust SAM solution can assist with the following key issues associated with the ever-growing appetite for SaaS.
Enabling reclamation: "It's common for businesses to purchase 200 licenses for a particular SaaS application, but only 50 people use it," Frye says. "You can only negotiate a more favorable contract when your organization's actual needs are known."
A SaaS-aware SAM tool can help businesses figure out a best-practices approach. Once a SaaS application is added to a SAM solution's inventory database, the SAM tool can track which users access the application, when and for how long.
Reducing underutilization: Because the purpose of adopting any application is to improve productivity, driving utilization is critical, Frye points out. "One organization that implemented LANDesk Management Suite discovered only 2 percent of its Microsoft Office 365 licenses were in use," he says.
"They realized they needed to provide better training and change management to improve adoption in order to achieve the original efficiency and productivity goals for the Office 365 implementation."
Controlling SaaS sprawl: Because any individual or department can purchase a SaaS license, many organizations are experiencing an expansion in the flavors of SaaS tools in use by their employees. Often when a user has a tech support issue with an application, they contact their organization's help desk. Soon, the cost of supporting disparate apps may add up.
By using a SAM solution, IT departments can review SaaS tools adopted across the organization, discover where application standardization makes sense and put proper controls in place. In this way, SAM reporting tools can help IT departments become proactive in minimizing SaaS application sprawl.
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It all started with Pinterest. Isn't that how it always begins? Late one night I was dreaming about being a gardener. How hard can it really be? I mean I've never gardened before? A little soil and a little water and BAM plants. That has to be how it works right?
Then I came to my senses and decided to start small. A little container garden on our deck would be fabulous. I started a little backyard Pinterest board. I starting pinning and then I found the garden of my dreams. A standing herb garden. I did what any modern wife would do, I starting sending standing container garden DIY pins to my husband #bless.
We started planning and purchasing lumber. We've affectionally named him HERB. Currently he holds some basil, oregano, peppers, and sage. Isn't he the best? Here's how he came to be:
We used this template to build HERB. We used pressure treated lumber. This picture was after we made all the cuts.
The tutorial was fairly straight forward. Although if we had to do it again, we would use a Kreg jig to secure the corners. This version of HERB is a bit wobbly, but it totally gets the job done. The weight of the plants and soil make it secure enough. I have big plans to make another one for next year with more herbs and veggies. We will try it again with a Kregg jig and let you know our thoughts!
The hard part is finding the plastic utility tub to fit in the wooden garden. We looked all over our local Home Depot and came home empty handed. We finally found one at Lowe's right by the Quickrete. We drilled a few holes in the bottom for water drainage and planted our herbs.
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Charm Double Duty Makeup Brush Set
Between the two of us, I prefer using individual brushes versus committing to one whole brush set. What I do is take out a brush (or two) from the sets I have and then stock the rest in their pretty kits, waiting for the day when I need all of them together! That usually happens when I travel. It's just more convenient to bring one coordinated, compact set instead of piecing together which full-sized brushes to pack.
I also like bringing brush sets when I do makeup on other people, or do demos in events. It's neater to look at and again, doesn't take up a lot of space in transit. ^_^ But that's me. I like compartmentalizing my makeup life! If you're starting from zero, I still would recommend that you get a brush set. It should have most of the things you need, plus it'll give you enough time to think about which individual brushes to invest in.
Charm has always been a solid source of awesome brushes, and recently it came out with the Double Duty Makeup Brush Set (P1,599). This features four dual-ended brushes, one lip brush, and a hot pink roll-up case. The brushes aren't anything you haven't seen yet from Charm - remember the Charm Essentials Pretty in Pink Vegan Makeup Brush Set? - but I find the case and the double-endedness to be unique propositions from the brand.
These brushes are good together, but you can pair them up as you need them. The case itself has these velcro closures that allow you to quickly take out any brush you might need for the day - and put them back, when you're done! You can even remove all the brushes and just install your favorite ones when you travel.
The carrying case rolls up nicely due to the fabric flaps strategically placed on the sides. You can actually add more than five brushes if you feel like it.
Now on to the actual brushes included in the set. You'd get the following duos: Powder Brush and Andgled Blush/Contour Brush, Liquid Foundation Brush and Concealer Brush, Blending Brush and Eyeshadow Brush, a Crease/Detail Brush and Eyebrow Brush, and finally a Lip Brush that has a long cap.
The brush hair is soft and densely-packed. I find the face brushes excellent when it comes to application! My favorite is the Liquid Foundation/ Concealer Brush and the Powder/Blush Brush duos since they pretty much sum up my face base routine.
The eye brushes are not as impressive, however, mostly because I prefer to use animal hair brushes when I apply eye makeup. They're fluffier/somewhat coarser compared to synthetics. I get better color pay-off and blending with animal hair.
For synthetic brushes, however, they perform well enough. I still got the eyeshadow look I wanted even though I found the Eyeshadow Brush and Detail/Crease Brush a bit stiff and dense. The latter two characteristics are great for applying wet eye makeup but not for powdered ones. Otherwise, I have no complaints about the rest of the brushes.
Overall, I would still recommend the Charm Double Duty Makeup Brush Set if you love having useful brushes when you travel or apply makeup out of the house. It's a really convenient set as you can pack what you need without having to bring too many tools in one go! The advantage of synthetic hair is that it's super easy to wash/wipe compared to animal hair, so that's one thing to consider.
If you prefer animal hair though, this might not be what you're looking for. I'd be interested to see Charm come out with an animal hair version even though it's faux.
How about you - does this set look interesting? Are you due for a new brush set?
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New York City's notoriously cramped quarters are about to get even smaller, as Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced yesterday a proposal for "micro-unit" apartments that will be just 300 square feet.
But you don't need to wait until the apartments, which will be built in Kips Bay and cost some $2,000 a month, are completed to feel like you're living in a glorified closet.
These are the smallest apartments currently on the rental market for rent in Manhattan (compiled with help from Realtor.com). Some are even smaller than 400 square feet, technically making them illegal under current New York regulations.
There is hardly enough room for the mice in these homes.
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Kissinger Stumps for McCain
BOSTON, MA -- John McCain spent the morning with someone who knows a little bit about foreign policy: former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
Kissinger endorsed McCain earlier this year but today at Boston's historic Faneuil Hall, he made a rare appearance on the trail to speak about the divisive state of the world today and the role of the United States in making it better. He said McCain was the best candidate to bring the U.S. together and to deal with upheaval around the world.
Kissinger told the story of how he met John McCain and his father at the White House and gave a glowing endorsement of McCain.
"I have not this actively participated in political campaigns before and it shows the importance I attach to election of Senator McCain," Kissinger said.
"We are in a very divisive period in our history and we have to bring the country together...The world is in an enormous change it requires compassionate American leadership and I think the senator is the candidate to provide that."
Kissinger talked about Iran's nuclear ambitions, the shift of power from the Atlantic to the Pacific, energy, and the environment.
Meantime, McCain commented on Time magazine's selection of Person of the Year, saying, "I understand that, probably, but my man of the year is one General David Petraeus, our general who has brought success in Iraq."
McCain also talked about his recent trip to Capitol Hill, which interrupted his campaign schedule yesterday.
"I had to go to Washington last night because for the 40th time on the floor of the Senate, the Democrats tried to impose a date for withdrawal and even cut off the funding for the mission and the young men and women that are in Iraq," McCain said.
"I regret that. I regret that because I don't think any objective observer could draw any other conclusion than the fact that we are succeeding in Iraq."


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A comprehensive metabolic panel, or CMP, is a group of blood tests that give an overview of the body's metabolic function and chemical balance, according to MedlinePlus. A CMP may be ordered as part of a routine check up, to monitor a chronic condition or to help diagnose an illness.
Kidney and liver function, electrolytes, acid/base balance, blood glucose and blood proteins are all measured in a CMP, explains LabTestsOnline. Test results that fall outside the normal range may indicate a condition that needs treatment. Kidney disease, liver disease and diabetes are examples of conditions that can be diagnosed or monitored by a CMP.
There is little preparation required for a CMP, notes MedlinePlus, although an accurate blood glucose measurement requires fasting for at least eight hours. Otherwise, a phlebotomist performs a routine blood draw, or venipuncture, for the test.
The CMP is related to the basic metabolic panel, or BMP, states LabTestsOnline. The basic panel is an eight-test subset of the 14-test comprehensive panel. It doesn't contain the liver and protein tests like the comprehensive panel does. A doctor usually chooses a comprehensive panel when he wants a broader overview of the body's functioning or is monitoring a specific condition.


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Echoes of Power
Part 61
Bright and blinding colors danced before his eyes, changing from deep purple to emerald-green to golden-yellow, all mixed up in a whirlpool of thousands of shades, spinning round and round into infinity. It took him a few long minutes to realize where he was, his eyes were blinded by the brightness around him and when he finally was able to open them without feeling excruciating pain burning his retinas the teenager saw the reddening sky over his head as the sun was starting to set. He turned his head slowly and noticed he was lying on the ground on his back in the small alley.
Alexandre tried to get up but his whole body felt like it was on fire and like it had been completely broken. He was about to let out a groan when everything came back to him. He sat up quickly, ignoring his pain as if he couldn't feel anything, but quickly regretted it when he felt his head start to spin and almost fell back down, struggling not to faint again. He looked around for the creature, fearing that it might attack him again, but saw no sign of it. Had he dreamt it all? Had the attack really happened?
A stinging pain in his right side as he slowly got up, leaning on a nearby trashcan, made him look down at his torso. His jacket and his tee-shirt were still torn up and he could see clotted plot splattered over the cloth, covering the area where he should normally have been able to see his skin. An already half-dried up pool of blood was also visible where he had been lying to a few moments earlier. No, it had indeed happened! But what was that thing? he thought as he straightened back up. Why had it attacked him? And where had it gone? He took a tentative step forward and winced at the pain that made every muscle and nerve in his body scream.
He must've been injured quite badly, almost certainly having a few if not all bones broken in his torso… He knew he had to get back home to take a look at all of this, he didn't know how he was going to explain all this to his father though. The light-haired young man looked around for the creature once more, making sure that it wasn't hiding somewhere again before taking out his phone from his pocket. The screen was broken a little, perhaps when he had fallen to the ground, but he still managed to see the time it displayed. 19:42. He had been out for almost two hours! He also checked the date, doubt suddenly appearing in his mind, but was relieved to see it as still the same day.
At this point, waking up a few days later wouldn't have surprised him much more than the rest. Not waking up at all would have seemed almost logical, he had gravely wounded after all… Or at least he felt like it, plus the creature, whatever it was, had tried to strangle him to death, he was extremely lucky to still be alive… The teenager suddenly shivered. How was he still alive? Hadn't the creature really been trying to kill him? He looked around again as his he tried to understand what had happened but no answer came to him; all he knew was that he had been lucky. Very lucky.
That's when he noticed the trace of ash on the ground, a step away from him. He was almost sure it hadn't been there earlier. What the-? His interrogations were interrupted when he realized that despite him being alone until now, anyone could come at any moment and he didn't want to have to explain what he didn't understand himself. Slowly he began moving again, picking up his bag with great effort, and shot one last look at the spot where he had been lying before walking away. His right side was extremely painful and it took him almost twice as long as usual to travel across the last hundred meters from there to his house. He had decided to only look at his wounds once he got there, preferring to minimize the risk of fainting again, and the knowledge that any brusque movement might make things worse made him extra careful.


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Our 2nd Season in Marsoulas/
By: Suzanna Hamer (IDA intern)
This summer I was given the opportunity to study and image prehistoric cave art in Marsoulas, alongside an eclectic and extremely talented mix of people. I arrived in Toulouse and, speaking no French, promptly got lost – an impressive feat if you've ever seen the size of the airport. I hurried to meet Roger Michel and company at the villa, and we got started the next morning. I was lucky enough to take a class about prehistoric cave art so I knew at least a little about it, but I wasn't ready for how breathtaking it would be in person. The first cave we visited was Niaux, which features huge caverns and walls covered in depictions of various creatures. It was hard to imagine how people used to create such realistic images under flickering torchlight, and how paintings that were made thousands of years ago could still have such an incredible effect.
The entrance to the Marsoulas cave is hidden, tucked into an unsuspecting curve in the road. Only experts would know how to get there, and thankfully we were with two such people: Gilles Tosello and Carole Fritz. We were able to fully explore the cave – this included a lot of crawling and wiggling through tight spaces, and even a little swimming through caverns at the end. Using reflectance transformation imaging (RTI), we captured many of the ancient art in the cave that had been previously vandalized or damaged. There was a feeling of reverence in the cave, knowing you were standing somewhere that had only been accessed by a few humans in the last 16,000 years. Drawings of bison and other animals were carved into the walls, but for me, the piéce de résistance was a drawing that Gilles and Carole believed to be of an actual human. It was far down in the cave, and only one person could view it at a time, but we managed to image it with RTI. Hopefully with this RTI technology, people will be able to learn more about these prehistoric caves and the astonishing people who inhabited them.


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Mcleod Ganj, (swimming pool)10 kilometers from Dharamsala
(Little Lhasa) is the new home ofthe exiled people of Tibet
led by the Dalai Lama. India offered them refuge and they
have converted this hill station into a wonderful home for
Tibetan art, tradition and culture. Tsuglag Khang, The Dalai
Lama's temple complex, is the life-blood of the town. Located
a short walk away from the bus station at the center of town,
the complex houses the Namgyal Monastery (which trains monks
for rituals associated with the temple), the main temple and a
smaller shrine that houses a huge gilded statue of the Buddha,
along with two smaller, but no less impressive statues of
Chenresig and Guru Rinpoche. In addition, the Dalai Lama's residence
and administrative offices are in the complex.


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kissing (unless, of course you have an official slutbag jumpoff.)
Friday, July 31, 2009
Don't knock it till you try it (Pt. 1): Tasting Skeet.
kissing (unless, of course you have an official slutbag jumpoff.)
Thursday, July 30, 2009
I love you But I Wish I Could Quit You (Pt. 1): BBW Skin Flicks
If you answered no to this question, you are undoubtedly a boldfaced liar and most likely also a Jay-Z lipped, Craig-Mack Faced hater. Keep it 100. Everyone has a vice. C4 likes "acting", and had it not been for the fact that he's my right hand man (no homo), I'd have called him straight up gay for that. Nevertheless, I am being very candid today in sharing one of my own vices with the general blogsphere. Viewership has not been at its highest lately and in thinking of how Mr. Keep it 100 could ensure that he was giving his fans exactly what they wanted, I came to the only logical conclusion...keep it more one hundred-er {sic}.
Yes, I admit that I've fought this urge for many years, denying the countless claims of my friends that "Showrock likes fat hoes." While I admit that in the beginning I did have a penchant for huge tits and curvaceous culos, I could safely say that my tastes were centered in the realm of girls as thick as a bowl of Quaker oatmeal...key word...'Thick'.
As the years passed I started liking even bigger bottoms and more humongous Tetas, to the point where yes, I watched a few BBW (Big Beautiful Women) films. Pretty soon my morning ritual of watching Onionbooty and Assparade clips turned into a secret craving for ChubbyLovin (shout outs to Jimmy Diamond)Fatcinema and BBWBomb.com. Yes, I was officially watching big girl porn, and liking it. As you can see, I am in desperate need of a C4 intervention as the potential for disaster is eminent and I have finally decided to man up and face my demons...
I love you But I Wish I Could Quit You (Pt. 1): BBW Skin Flicks
C4: I really wanna intervene kid, but I feel like I'd be doing a disservice to fat women all across America. If you like big, beautiful women than just embrace it my dude.
Show: You see, the problem is that I don't think I do. It's almost as if I like the attributes of Ass & Titties so much that I am almost willing to put up with flabby thighs, big stomachs and double chins. Stretchmarks and cellulite don't really bother me, but I'd much rather have over sized knockers on a smaller door frame, if you know what I'm saying...
C4: Ewwww. Ok, I see your point. Knowing you, you probably have a solution already mapped out in your head. Let's hear it...Sigh...
It's funny you should mention that you six-packless hater. LOL.
Check it out. Like everything in this world, watching BBW porn has its O.J. simpsons (get it? Pro's and Cons...Lol). This being said, how then, does one decide whether popping off knuckle children to scale breaking beauties is a detriment or aid to ones physical and mental well being. At first glace this seems like an easy question to answer...
Secretly skeeting away your carnal desires for fat women is extremely healthy. Not only will you build up stamina and last longer in bed, you will also be much more relaxed and therefore apt to deal with your hot (non-fat, but extremely annoying) dime piece girlfriends. Yea right...If only it were that simple.
In actuality, using lewd images of fat women as masturbatory aids will only lead to you subconsciously developing the notion that fat women = hot, curvaceous sluts. This, my friends, is extremely unhealthy! Newsflash, there are fat women who are ugly (see Mo'Nique. No I'm not hating...her swagger is at 110, but even if she weighed 110 lbs, she'd still be ugly.) Even worse than this, there are also fat women with no boobs or assess. (Someone must've pissed off God.) Insert obligatory humanitarian comment: Large women should be treated like PEOPLE (or walking ATM's) and not merely cushiony bubble wrap for protecting ass and titties. LOL.
Letting your subconscious make this association will not only cause you to unfairly pre-judge a large (no pun intended) segment of society, but also cause your drunken brain (primed to go after easy targets aka sluts) to miss out on all of the skinny and physically fit whore-bags out there. Yes, that's right...while you're out there popping skeet pellets and bukake balls into your little hungry hungry Hippo's mouth, someone is off poking more skinny hoes than a heroin syringe. True story...I mean, real talk. LOL.
In the end I guess this means that BBW porn will have to go the way of pregnant woman and Midget porn and slowly diddy bop its way off my harddrive. I've thought abut this long and hard, and while it's never easy saying goodbye, I must at least make a valiant effort.
Goodbye Syrianna and the Backside Babes, Goodbye Scarlett...
Goodbye Samantha 38G...
Goodbye Monica Erotica... Goodbye Elizabeth Rollins...& Goodbye Maria Moore...
Pinky, Sarah Jay, Olivia O'Lovely, Cherokee, Gianna and Maritza you gals can stay...but lay off the french fries and chicken nuggets.
Live, Love, Keeping it 100
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Save your Relationship: Don't Ask Don't Tell
Now that I have your undivided attention (like a strippers legs before she gets paid), I am going to tell you why you should listen to relationship advice from a self proclaimed misogynist and degenerate. If I am able to keep any Latina woman who READS THIS BLOG DAILY relatively happy (and by that I mean I haven't been stabbed yet), I must be doing something right...now, I do not expect you all to live as I do, but I do expect you to at least shut the f**k up and let me disseminate my advice. Hey, don't click that computer window shut...I'ma learn yall something (Green Mile voice.)
First off, it's OK to call women bi**ches just so long as its used as a universal term for ALL women (don't single people out), it is not done so maliciously or disrespectfully, and so long as no woman hears you. Secondly, relationships are like institutions. Yes, that's right...I have broken down interpersonal interaction, feelings of love, care and companionship to their barest elements, and have discovered that combined, they are just like anything else, an institution to be managed.
The Army. The Army (or military) is the longest standing institution, simply because it is about taking care of business and achieving an end result, adhering to a strict "don't ask, don't tell" policy along the way. Church.
I now see eyes opening up as people are finally understanding the analogy. Regardless of whether your wifey is a head nurse (LMAO) or a drill Sargent, you must treat your relationship like an episode of M*A*S*H (do the young'ns even know what that is?)
In the end, loose lips sink ships. Tell your woman everything and your relationship is destined for failure. Here's why...
There are certain things which are just plain wrong in a relationship. I am not going to name these things because both women and men universally accept them as not permissible, fu**ed up and outright disrespectful. Other things, however fall into what we shall call grey areas. Grey areas represent those things which you know your woman may not approve of, but which you genuinely believe are OK to do. To fall in this category, an act or thing must be relatively safe, not interfere with your relationship, not involve the process of defrauding anyone and not house the possibility of bringing STDs back to wifey (sorry guys, safe sex still hasn't achieved grey area status and only multiple bottles of Grey Goose will allow you to convince yourself that head with a condom is a "Grey act.")
At the risk of blowing up every male on earth's spot and compromising the don't ask don't tell policy, I will not offer specific examples of grey acts from my own experience. I will, however, make some up.
Fingering a stripper, getting a handjob while blackout drunk, meeting an Ex Gf for drinks, sharing a bed with another female (and not hooking up), getting numbers you don intend on calling from girls at the club. These are all relatively grey acts, and while MANY women may disagree, they cannot deny that no one will be harmed by them not knowing about the situation. As a matter of fact, if they found out, they'd be mad, so why tell them and risk having the badyear blimp fly over your house! You know as well as I do, women are like elephants...they don't forget sh*t and are illegal to hunt. LOL.
Now...Women. Don't think you gals are off the hook as you have your own grey areas. Going out with male friends, flirting with personal trainers, wearing sh*t to the club that's so tight it screams "I'm loose" (and single). Is that it? Wait..no. Going on vacations with girlfriends, letting herbed out guys buy you drinks and get you in V.I.P., texting your exes and setting up that "in the event of a break-up" booty call. Yall ain't sh*t. Just like us.
Stay out my phone and I'll stay outa yours. Keep throwin it at me like Mcnabb and ill keep Geico-ing that pu**y. Keep Washing the dishes and I'll keep cooking the food (or vice versa). Keep going to planned parenthood and I'll keep giving you the $250...KIDDING!!! Obama: "Showrocka, you stupid. I aint f*ckin with you...."
Live, Love, Viewing things however I want...Owwwwwwww
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Six Pack Progress...Yea Right!
In case you couldn't tell, I'll be the guy commenting in Azul...that's blue for you non-bilinguals.
Six Pack Progress Week 1
A lot of cats out there been gulping down Haterade like they sucked it out of Sheyla's nipples since I told the world that in six weeks I'd go from the sexy futhamucka with a little extra to love (pause) who you saw last week, to one with the even more unfair advantage of a toned six-pack.
"I've seen your gut, you're getting the tattoo," they said. Well they can all eat a dick up til they hiccup and hurl, because at the end of the first week I already dropped 2.5lbs, ya dig?!
The nappyheaded stud ran 5.6 miles, biked 5.7 and ellipticaled another 2.6 in the past week for 13.9 miles of total cardio in the five days I did it.Ninjas don't know man, C4 don't f*** around ya understand, especially right after you tell him he can't do something.
Hahaha. No Homo. You F**king Wish C4. No Way in Hell. See Below for Show's Opinion on C4's Progress.
I know Show is reading this, crying, running around the Internet trying to find harder beats, cuz of course he picked out some buuuuulls*** thinking this was gonna be a walk in the park, cuz C4 wasn't gonna go hard. But NAW! I got more fire in me than a racist cop with gonorrhea chasing down a successful Jewish black guy who just boned his wife, ya dig?! (In C4's defense I did pick some bullsh*t beats at first thinkin I could just breeze through, but on second thought, I'm reconsidering. Michael Jackson's Man in the Mirror and Liberian Girl have been scrapped along with a few Chris Brown Beats. LOL. )
Keep hating too. I luuuuv dat, biiiiitch!
P.S. I am C4 and I haven't included any progress pics because I am full of sh*t and haven't run no damn 10 miles. The nearest McDonald's is only .25 miles, and I take the bus! Hahaha. I like encouraging people to be healthy, but I'm starting to think I should've just bet C4 that I could outdo his exercise regimen while drinking no other fluid (no homo) than Guinness! Oh well, I've got a 1 day album to mentally prepare for. Paz.
Live, Love, Laughing at C4
Monday, July 27, 2009
"Showrock you're Cool, But Your Friends Can Eat A D**K (Pt. 2)"
5. Bait & Switch:
4. Money, Money, Money, Money...Mo--Naaaaaayy
3. I'd like that Comment stricken from record
2. Puff, Puff Pass
1. Payback's a bi*ch!!!
Well, there you have it...if there were ever a poster for "Assholes Anonymous," I'd have some nominees for the photo shoot. Hope you enjoyed and continue to enjoy the posts. Nappyheadedbros: champions of educated ignorance.
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Sunday = Blog Sabbath
No I am not just being lazy people, as evinced by the fact that I'm still Twitter-ing (I refuse to say tweeting... It's gay), but this whole blog sabbath thing is something I've been planning for a while. I need time for taking care of technical blog stuff , website maintenence, de- hangovering myself and searching for delictible d cups.
Also, I cannot post what I really want today at the risk of ending an otherwise happy marriage... Man y'all know I get myself into some shit!!!!
Live, love, rest...
P.S there was a nigga in the club last nite doing the thriller dance in Adidas flip flops. Smh.
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Beth Chapman & Dred Hardy
Que the fu* k pasa gente?
I Just woke up from a night of drunken debauchery with my man Scoochie man lefleur (pause, no homo). In case I didn't mention it before ( so random freeloading niggas wouldn't show up), it was his girls bday and a small shindig was thrown. Chicken wings, titties and yak? You know your boy Show aka 'Dred Hardy' was in the building.
Now... For those of you about to infer anything based on the above picture I will keep it 100 and say, "no ni**as that's not his girl and I ain't about to clown him... At least not this time." This I say, as my boy has yet to convert to the other white meat and authenticate his palate via fine dining a la delectible swine. I, quite frankly, think he's missing out, as white women have bigger ti**ies. Nevertheless, I digress...
To make things funnier, in addition to the above pic ( which I don't remember taking) I found this directly afterwards.
If you do not see the inherant irony and hilarity of this "pair" of coincidences , you probably should be watching re- runs of Coolio's Rules instead of reading this blog.
Anyone who follows us on Twitter should find this even funnier as an entire covo between myself and Sammy (mylifesaflic) consisted of whether or not I could skeet over my " female friend who I refuse to call a girlfriend"'s head and land it on one of those plush porcelin pillows. No offense.
We also debated whether or not she returned with slob on her teta...I'm tellin you, you need to follow us on Twitter. We are funny guys ( no homo) in real life.
This being said (ha, I managed to get all my catch phrases in, in a short post), I am off to go see some real ( or silicone) breast-is-is-ists. It's too nice to be inside looking at assparade.com and I, for one, have an entire world in which to indulge, if only for the sake of chronicaling it tomorrow via my bastardization of the English language.
Live, Love, Margaritas (preferibly 4 at a time)...and with titties.
- sent from my muthafuc*in iPhone
Friday, July 24, 2009
You Remind Me of My 1990 Honda Civic...
I try and try again but I cannot help but constantly center the blog around themes involving bi**hes...and women. This being said (copyright), I must tell you about the life changing revelation which has altered my whole perception of the female population. Whereas before I viewed women like drums, "due to their being "loud (and obnoxious), having banging bodies, and possessing the uncanny ability to make every man on the planet say "I wanna tap that", or "Damn I wish she'd let me beat it up" (the pu**y...not domestic violence), I now see the error of my ways. Women aren't like drums at all...you can't hit them with sticks, they don't sound good with guitars and there's no funny movie about them starring Nick Cannon.
WTF! All these years of theorizing (and fantasizing about making rhythmic cadences with the body of my English teacher) seem to have been in vain...unless....possibly woman could be something better than drums...
C4: "You mean like lifelong companions or homie-lover-friends?"
Showrock Obama: I was thinking more like Guitar hero, you know...a one wo-man band or something.
Needless to say, All my comparisons were beginning to fall far short of passing the Showrock reliability test and I was beginning to think that maybe I should just give it up and resign myself to a life of thinking of women merely as human beings. Just then, at that very moment, a female friend (yes ni**a, a FEMALE!), enlightened me by updating her facebook status. See below:
*smashin* anotha definion of sex. In my opinion not everyone should use this word. Not every man out there is actually puttin in work to the point where damage is being done. So, if your one of the many men that uses this word & doesn't live up to it, STOP before u get sued. That is what you call false advertisement.
Damn. I'm reading this like word Kat? I ain't smash? I ain't put it down like that ? Jk. The status was not only true, but also funny as hell. Reading this every dude out there is starting to question his own pipe game (no homo). I'm actually blogging and simultaneously texting the girl who wrote this just to make sure i wasn't wick-wick WHACK! Either way, f**k it. Still love ya Kat, and if you keep talkin sh*t I'll just have to monkey f**k your weave out sometime in life before you get married! KIDDING.
In all seriousness though, the four aforementioned sentences, did change my view of view of females for the better. Women aren't mere sex objects, eye candy or personal assistants...they're like cars! We need them, even though maintenance is a pain in the ass, and life without them would suck as much as catching a bus in a torrential downpour. Thanks Kat for helping me see the light.
Seeing as how women are like cars, it is important that you know how to treat them or you will end up on the side of the road stranded. Sure some cars look better than others, but it's ultimately up to you if you want that dependable old Honda, or the flashy 7 series Bimer which comes with an Lease you may not be able to afford.
Just like when dealing with women, TLC will keep your car from acting up, and while a key in the ignition is guaranteed to get her revved up, you can usually pop start her with a variety of cylindrical household objects. LOL.
Now...here's the interesting part, and the part which most applies to us men. Kat was right, bragging about your driving skills and then running off the road is as embarrassing as crippling yourself in a demolition derby. This being said, keep it 100. If you get into a fender bender with the pu**y, you do not have the right to say you smashed, as you merely caused a"dent".
This is similar to a woman claiming to have had a " bumper tap while listening to Snoop's Doggystyle album" when she really had a"rear end collision while eating a salad!!" LMAO. Keep it 100 ladies, none of yall like to admit you've been in a rear end collision and be labeled as a bad girl...I mean driver...but we know the deal. Every driver has a little Danica Patrick in her. Grrrr.
What happens when you total a car beyond repair or decide to drive drunk (or high on E-surance..lol), and have an accidental collision? That, my friends, is what insurance is for! If your "vehicle" is inoperable and has to be in the shop for a while, you, my dude, did some serious damage! You truly smashed!!You Geico-ed that pu**y...I mean, automobile.
This, of course is a good thing, only because a.) it was you who smashed your whip rather than someone else, and b.) you had protection (insurance) so no you shouldn't incur any unexpected medical bills at planned parenthood...did I just say that? I meant so you don't incur any unexpected medical bills at the doctors...I'm such a scatter-brain sometimes. LOL.
Love me or hate me I prove a damn good point.
Fellas: treat you're automobile well, wax it and keep it shining or you know what will happen...You might get carjacked. Suckaz.
Ladies: make sure you have adequate coverage and if he can't Geico that p***y, you better tell him to send his little lizard home and find a man that's a little more PROGRESSIVE.
Live, Love, Having a "Smashing Good Time."
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Showrock you're cool...but your friends can eat a d**k (Pt. 1)
And now...On to the meat (no homo) of the post (pause).
Me and my friends do some crazy, f**ked up shit. Funny thing is, we do these things on such a regular basis that to us it seems mundane, boring and run of the mill. Luckily for us, everyone doesn't live like this so we at least get the pleasure of feeling cool while recanting our often shameless and always hilarious acts. Certain acts, however, cross the line from just plain funny to outright rude, criminal or wrong. These top tier stories of seemingly despicable acts represent the best of the best displays of debauchery and frat boy-dom, and according to Showrock himself (3rd person reference)...these are the things that dreams are made of. LOL.
At the risk of people thinking I'm all about braggadocio, mysogony and self appreciation I am going to go this entire post without telling stories about myself. This will also help me earn some brownie points with all the ladies I've managed to seriously offend. Actually, these chickenheads will probably just hate me even more for allowing my friends to be bigger di*ks than me (no homo) without intervening. Ahh well, I don't care for those vagina monologues from hating A-cupped pizza faced heifers anyway....remember? I'm the Nappyheaded asshole (as some girl with a sucky blog once claimed).
Now, these things being said, the last time I gave you a list of reasons to hate Showrock, it was a response to a girl calling me a d**khead and telling me to eat a di*k. How rude! I mean I did put pics of her on the internet, but whatever....everyone needs to be exposed once in a while. It's healthy. This time, however, a girl who shall not be named said that I was an asshole because I hung with assholes (no anal). Anyone who reads my blog knows how I respond to accusations like this...with verifiying evidence which proves the point of the accuser! That's right, If you think I'm an ass because I hang with pricks, I will prove you right! My friends are Pricks (albeit funny ones), and here's why...
Degenerate friend: Probably. F**k.


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We are getting close to Saying Goodbye's release date. You know what that means, more Saying Goodbye excerpts. :) :) Here is another one from chapter one.
***Saying Goodbye, a paranormal love story, is now available for pre-order for $1.99***
Childhood sweethearts, Michael and Erica, thought they would have the prefect life together—the career, the house, the kids, the grandkids, the dying old holding each other's hands. What they hadn't planned for was for a car accident to take Michael's life and leave Erica to face her future alone.
However, after discovering that Michael's spirit has the ability to occasionally interact with the human world, they begin to wonder if they can't make his presence on Earth permanent.
Although, with so many years gone by, can they reignite the flame that had fueled their teenage romance and more im-portantly can they live with the sacrifices they must make in order get back the future they lost?
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Mushroom & Brie Wellington
- prep time30 min
- total time 75 min
- serves 6
This dish is worthy of presenting at the table, to be carved, at holiday time or any special occasion. A filling of thyme-scented mushrooms and melted Brie are revealed when the golden puff pastry is sliced. An onion cream sauce adds full flourish, worthy of a main course, although it can also be served as a side dish.
Courtesy of Anna Olson.


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Lucy in the Sky
There's a point at which this joke stops being funny and turns sad, and it's very early in its over two hours runtime.
There's a point at which this joke stops being funny and turns sad, and it's very early in its over two hours runtime.
The fact that Midnight Traveler even exists is a bit of a miracle.
Roger Ebert on James Ivory's "Howards End".
"The Ballad of Narayama" is a Japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. What a space it opens…
An article about the 4K restoration of George T. Nierenberg's "Say Amen, Somebody" currently receiving a limited theatrical release.
An article about the second annual Ebert Symposium, "Creating an Inclusive Cinema and Media Ecosystem," scheduled for Friday, September 27th at the University of Illinois…
An article about the 4K restoration of George T. Nierenberg's "Say Amen, Somebody" currently receiving a limited theatrical release.
An article about the second annual Ebert Symposium, "Creating an Inclusive Cinema and Media Ecosystem," scheduled for Friday, September 27th at the University of Illinois…
A reappreciation of a Billy Wilder classic.
FFC Seongyong Cho looks back at Alan J. Pakula's twisty thriller Presumed Innocent.
On three films from TIFF, including dramas starring Liam Neeson and Susan Sarandon.
What's new on Blu-ray and streaming, including Booksmart, John Wick 3, and The Dead Don't Die.
More moviegoers see films on video in some form than ever before -- whether streaming on demand, cable or satellite, instant download services, DVD or Blu-ray. Even high-profile pictures become available to home viewers before or at the same time as their theatrical release. Reviewing them is a job for... The Demanders!
"The Magic of Belle Isle" (109 minutes) is available via iTunes, Amazon, Comcast, DirecTV, VUDU and other outlets. A limited theatrical release begins July 1.
Rob Reiner's "The Magic of Belle Isle" is an Easy Button of a film, as generic and conventional as its title. If you ever wondered what a Hallmark Channel original movie would be like if you threw some A-list talent at it -- namely Morgan Freeman and Virginia Madsen instead of, say, Jeffrey Nordling and Kristy Swanson -- here's your answer.
Freeman stars as Monte Wildhorn, an alcoholic in a wheelchair and "writer (of westerns) nobody reads." His books, once popular, are now out of print. Monte's nephew (Keenan Thompson) deposits him in the idyllic lakeside town of Belle Isle to housesit. Nephew's ulterior motive, of course, is that he will be inspired to stop drinking and start writing again, but the embittered Monte is a hard case. "Toss it in the garbage," he says of his typewriter. "She's a black-hearted whore, and I'm done with her."
So what will it take to turn this curmudgeon into a softie? Guy Thomas' simplistic script leaves nothing to chance. How about saddling Monte with a lazy old dog named Ringo (yes, Ringo) that has a penchant for licking itself? No? Well then, how about introducing a single mother (Madsen) who is going through a divorce with three -- count 'em -- daughters: one adorable, one precocious, and one sullen? Still not enough? Well then how about adding to the mix a mentally challenged boy who hops around the neighborhood and whom Monte takes under his wing as his "sidekick?"
"Extraterrestrial" (90 minutes) premieres simultaneously on June 15th on DVD and all major on-demand platforms. It also opens June 15th in limited theatrical release.
If you've seen the 2007 thriller "Timecrimes," you already know that Spanish writer-director Nacho Vigalondo has a noteworthy knack for developing big ideas (in this case, time travel) on an intimate scale. "Timecrimes" marked a promising debut, with Vigalondo in full command of limited resources: With only three central characters and a tightly restricted location, he executed a cleverly conceived plot with stylish economy and Hitchcockian flair.
With his second film, "Extraterrestrial, " Vigalondo presents another, more intricate exercise in thwarting expectations. Imagine the bloated-budget excess of a blockbuster like "Independence Day," with dozens, maybe even hundreds of gigantic alien spaceships hovering ominously over Earth's major cities. Now take the same alien invasion scenario, eliminate 99% of the special effects and spectacle, and shift its focus to four lovelorn apartment dwellers in an abandoned city (in this case Madrid) as they proceed to confuse each other with a comedic succession of lies.
Now you've got "Extraterrestrial," in which the only E. T. is... well, I'm not going to spoil it for you, but here's a clue: Think of Vigalondo as the anti-Roland Emmerich. He has no apparent interest in epic battles requiring Will Smith to save the world against slimy, monstrous aliens. Instead, Vigalondo attempts an audacious bait-and-switch, keeping his "epic" sci-fi entirely in the background while focusing on what is, essentially, a farcical rom-com about three guys in love with the same woman. It's a daring attempt at genre-bending that doesn't always pay off, but it's a refreshing alternative to uninspired, play-it-safe blockbusters.
"Indie Game: The Movie" (103 minutes) is available on iTunes on Demand, VHX Direct Download, Steam and directly from the filmmakers.
A debate that occasionally rages over at Roger Ebert's Journal deals with whether video games can be considered art. Mr. Ebert does not believe so, and his belief has inspired numerous gamers to respond with fury. Some suggest titles that allegedly illustrate the artistic side of online games. Others suggest that a certain film critic is a crabby old man who need not concern himself with a more youthful pastime. Truthfully, I don't give a crap about the "video games as art" argument; it's an arts major argument and we science majors aren't in the business of artful designation.
But the debate popped briefly into my head while watching "Indie Game: The Movie." This smart, incisive documentary by Lisanne Pajot and James Swirsky follows four men who create online games they feel are extensions of themselves. One speaks of taking all his vulnerabilities and flaws and putting them into his games. Writers do that with novels, painters do it with an easel, and a lot of times, the result is considered art. "Indie Game" shows the creative process in making a game, including graphical design and the crafting of game plot and character. It's like painting a picture and writing a short story, both valid art forms. This is certain to fuel the fires under this debate.
"Sexual Chronicles of a French Family" (76 minutes) is available via IFC On Demand.
Let's play a game. It's 3 AM and you can't sleep. A channel roulette session with the remote control stops your TV on a certain network synonymous with softcore erotica. Do you: a) Roll your eyes and keep flipping the dial before falling asleep to some warped infomercial?
b) Realize you need something more substantial and order "Chicks Who Dig Odienator 29" off the Adult On Demand Channel?
c) Drop the remote and make a date with Rosy Palm and her Five Sisters? If you answered a, Alex Trebek is here to say "OOH I'M SORRY!!" We've got some nice consolation prizes for you as you leave this blog. If you answered b, I thank for your $9.95, but you will also have to leave this blog. Today's entry is most definitely not your speed. But if you answered c, have I got a movie for you. It's called "Chroniques sexuelles d'une famille d'aujourd'hui" or "Sexual Chronicles of a French Family," and you can watch it in the privacy of your own home. I won't tell, and I certainly won't cast aspersions. After all, I pitched this movie to review here at The Demanders. After discovering the title, and its French origins, my exact pitch to our editor was "Mmmm! FILTH!" So this sinner casts no stones.
Unfortunately, this sinner has issues with this "Chronicles of Labia," the least of which is how to review a movie like this. I could take the high road, but if you've read this far, you are expecting me to traverse the lowest road possible. To review a comedy, one must admit if it inspired laughter. To review an erotic picture, one must more uncomfortably cop to whether it resulted in the upping of a body part that isn't a thumb. In that regard, I respectfully submit that this film didn't do it for me. I expected something a little less squeamish (read: dirtier) than what I got.
"Sexual Chronicles of A French Family" is Cinemax with subtitles, or "Le Çinemax." It has the same frustrating "hide the good stuff" camera angles as your average straight-to-cable softcore knock-off, and the same repeated positions. In its defense, the film does not contain Cinemax's ubiquitous bad boob jobs, the ones so dreadful that they turn breasts into triangles, squares and other shapes nature never intended for headlights. The boob job in this film looks fine. "Chronicles" also has a more intriguing plot than any sex film on cable at 3 AM, though this is somewhat squandered.
"Hemingway & Gellhorn (160 minutes) debuts on HBO May 28th, and will be available on HBO Go and HBO On Demand May 29th.
"If two people love each other, there can be no happy end to it." -- Ernest Hemingway
by Odie Henderson Philip Kaufman's epic HBO movie "Hemingway & Gellhorn" is old-fashioned, corny as hell and not above using cliché. None of these characteristics is necessarily a bad thing, especially if the filmmakers know they are employing them. This film evokes the rainy Sunday afternoon old-movie fare I grew up watching on TV, movies with a tough, macho hero, a smart, brassy dame and the undeniable chemistry between them. Kaufman updates the formula to modern times with belts of profanity and jolts of sex, but "Hemingway and Gellhorn" maintains the feeling of an era long since passed, wherein its leads could have been played by Gable and Harlow or Bogie and Betty Bacall.
The titular characters are Ernest Hemingway and his third wife, Martha Gellhorn. Gellhorn is widely considered one of the greatest war correspondents in journalism history, covering wars well into her 80's. Yet, she was constantly overshadowed by her more famous ex-husband. Theirs was a torrid affair, started while Hemingway was married to his Catholic second wife and continuing through their coverage of several wars. "We were good at wars," Gellhorn said, "and when there was no war, we made our own." The screenplay, by Barbara Turner ("Georgia") and Jerry Stahl ("Permanent Midnight") is filled with prose like this, and I enjoyed devouring every purple morsel of it. "Hemingway and Gellhorn" even opens with the now-elderly Gellhorn telling us what a lousy lay she was.
"Norman Mailer: The American" is available on Amazon Instant video. It is also available on DVD. Criterion has announced a two-disc Eclipse Series DVD set of Norman Mailer-directed features for release August 28, 2012: "Maidstone" (1970), "Wild 90" (1967) and "Beyond the Law" (1968).
Watching "Norman Mailer: The American," I was struck by the similarities between Mailer and Charles Foster Kane. And it's not just that director Joseph Mantegna (not the actor) at one point employs the title card for "Citizen Kane's" faux newsreel "News on the March" to setup some archival footage. Or the fact that "American" was originally the proposed title for Orson Welles' masterpiece.
Both films grapple with taking the full measure of a man who had significant influences on his times (Kane is fictional, but he was legendarily based in part on newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst). As Mailer's life unfolds in all its glory, controversy and infamy, dialogue from "Kane" ran like a crawl through my brain. "Few private lives were more public... and he himself was always news." And: "Here's a man who was as loved and hated and talked about as any man in our time." But finally: "It's not enough to tell us what the man did, you've got to tell us who he was."
"Johnny Carson: The King of Late Night" (120 minutes) premieres on PBS' "American Masters" at 9:00pm Monday, May 14th (check local listings). The film will also be released on DVD and Blu-ray on July 17th.
As I reflect on my life, I grow increasingly grateful for having witnessed the greatest half-century in the history of the United States. Consider just a few of the crucial events that have shaped us during the past 50 years: The civil rights movements for African-Americans, women and the disabled; the assassinations of JFK, MLK and RFK; the war in Vietnam and its domestic fallout; landing on the moon and exploring the outer reaches of the universe; the global trauma of AIDS and seemingly perpetual threats of war and terrorism; and, perhaps most important, the emergence and meteoric rise of the digital age, exemplified by the Internet and social media with the power to literally change history through an exponential expansion of human connectedness.
If you've witnessed these decades through the multicolored lenses of popular culture, the rewards have been astonishing. Consider the careers we've seen in that time: Dylan, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Neil Young, Springsteen, Madonna, The Clash, U2, Nirvana... Don Rickles, Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Eddie Murphy, Tina Fey... Clint Eastwood, Martin Scorsese, Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Steven Spielberg, Werner Herzog... We could all make our own long lists and we'd all arrive at the same conclusion: The past half-century has been nothing short of phenomenal.
And one way or another, it all comes down to "The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson."
"Get the Gringo" is available on DirecTV. A wider VOD release, along with DVD and Blu-ray releases, will follow later this year.
"Inmates with guns, that's kinda new," Mel Gibson's Yanqui with No Name (or fingerprints) growls in "Get the Gringo." "I've got a lot to learn about this place." And there is a lot to learn about El Pueblito, a Mexican prison that makes Shawshank look like Otis Campbell's quaint little cell on "The Andy Griffith Show."
Never mind how he got there, it's how he's going to get out that gives "Get the Gringo," formerly titled "How I Spent My Summer Vacation," its Peckinpah-flavored juice. It's potent stuff: gritty and grungy, but not without hard-boiled humor. With a nod to the late Dick Clark: It's got good beatings and you can dance to it, depending on your taste for mariachi music. I rate it a 7.
"Booker's Place: A Mississippi Story (92 minutes) is available on-demand at iTunes and Amazon starting April 26th. It will be theatrically released in Los Angeles, CA on April 25, 2012. and New York on April 27, 2012.
"Booker's Place: A Mississippi Story" asks a question about documentaries to which I admit I've not given much consideration: Can a documentary negatively affect the lives of their participants? For Booker Wright, an interviewee in Frank DeFelitta's 1966 NBC documentary, "Mississippi: A Self-Portrait," his appearance cost him a severe beating, the bombing of his business, and potentially his death 7 years later. Wright's "crime" was to speak too bluntly about life as a Black man in Greenwood, Mississippi. "Booker's Place" investigates the ramifications of DeFelitta using footage he knew was incendiary, yet invaluable to his role as one who documents the truth. Did DeFelitta also commit a "crime" in allowing the footage to be broadcast, assisting in the eventual fate of Booker Wright? Wright's granddaughter, Yvette Johnson and Frank's son, Raymond DeFelitta, answer this and more in their must-see documentary.
The elder DeFelitta's documentary aired on NBC at the height of the civil rights movement. Hidden for decades in a vault, "Mississippi: A Self-Portrait" resurfaced as Frank DeFelitta and his son were cataloguing the numerous documentaries Frank made for NBC in the '60's. At the same time, Booker Wright's granddaughter, who had never met her grandfather, was writing a blog about her discoveries researching him. Although Johnson had heard of his NBC appearance, her searches for the footage yielded nothing but dead-ends. After the younger DeFelitta heard of Johnson's blog, he contacted her. Their meeting sent them on a journey for answers to their central questions. DeFelitta wanted to know how much, if any, effect his father's documentary had on Booker Wright; Johnson wanted to know more about her grandfather, and whether his comments were intentional or, in her words, the work of "an accidental activist."
"Sleepless Night" (103 minutes) is available on demand through various cable systems, Vudu, iTunes and Amazon Instant, starting April 17th. It will be theatrically released in New York and Austin, Texas on May 11, 2012.
by Odie Henderson
A stolen bag of cocaine, a kidnapped kid, corrupt cops, a shaky camera and a dance club the size of a Super Walmart configure Frederic Jardin's "Sleepless Night," a frenetic French action film that will either get your heart or your head pounding. This is a relentless genre exercise, both exhilarating and exhausting. Its numerous showdown set pieces feature foes in gun battles, foot chases and fisticuffs. Our protagonist uses whatever's handy to subdue his opponents: People's noggins get hit with doors, bread, dishes, bullets and the cleanest part of the commode. Gendarmes go from corrupt to virtuous and vice versa, film speeds vary from slow motion to sped up, and narrow escapes coexist with near-misses. With this much activity, sensory overload is all but guaranteed.
Vincent (French comedian Tomer Sisley) is a corrupt cop who begins his day by robbing 10 kilos of cocaine from the henchmen of José Marciano (Serge Riaboukine). Marciano's godson is shot, but not before Vincent is stabbed and both he and his partner are seen by one of Marciano's men. Marciano knows who robbed him, and he also knows Vincent's son, Thomas, would make a great bargaining chip for the return of his yayo. The gangster kidnaps Vincent's son and demands the exchange be made at Marciano's restaurant-slash-dance club, Le Tarmac.


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On last night's season finale of GLEE, the gang from New Directions took Manhattan. Unfortunately, they left logic and reason back in Lima Ohio.
Note to writers Ian Brennan (pictured above), Brad Falchuk and Ryan Murphy : When it comes to your hit Fox show, we're willing to forgive an awful lot. So if we're expected to believe that New Directions — which has spent the better part of two seasons trying to make Nationals would leave it until the VERY LAST MINUTE to write, not to mention choreograph and costume an original song — so be it! If you want us to buy into Mercedes and Sam as a couple — who at last count have shared, what… two scenes together — fine! That said, we have to draw the line somewhere and what we are completely and unwilling to look past is last night's absurd opening scene that had Rachel Berry — who we're fairly confident could hit a high note before she could take her first step — buy 13 tickets to Broadway's Cats, a show that even Quinn knew closed 11 years ago! Suffice it to say, it's precisely that type of lazy and mindless writing that has us wondering if penning 22 episodes of GLEE per season has simply become too much of a burden for three people to bare.
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Look, we get it. As anyone who follows Kevin Williamson's Twitter feed can attest, writing a season's worth of television is a soul-crushing, time-consuming and sleep-preventing exercise. So much so that we're not even going to pretend to imagine the amount of time demanded by a show that doesn't just involve incredibly complex production numbers, but a seemingly never-ending parade of memorable one-lines as well.
What we will do is ask the slightly awkward albeit painfully obvious question: Has the time come for GLEE to hire an actual writing staff? Are writers Ian Brennan, Brad Flachuk and Ryan Murphy too busy approving those special edition gold-plated GLEE lunchbox to take the time necessary to dream up coherent plots and believable characters? If last night's lacklustre season finale, coupled with an equally uneven sophomore season has illustrated anything, the answer is a resounding yes.
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Book Title: The Obsession
Author: Nora Roberts
Genre: Romance/Thriller/Suspense
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Synopsis – At 12 yrs old, Naomi Bowes followed her father into the woods one night and stumbled upon a shocking & disturbing truth. From that moment, life would never be the same for Naomi, her mother, and her brother, Mason. Years later, Naomi's past follows her wherever she goes, making her develop a nomad-like attitude for her job as a photographer, bumping around from place to place. In the present order of events, Naomi is in her late twenties and decides to root herself in a small town by purchasing a huge house in need of many repairs. She befriends the town folk and even finds love in Xander Keaton, the town mechanic. While Naomi busies herself with taking pictures and bartering them for odds and ends needed around her house, and sparks fly between her and Xander, her horrific past resurfaces and she can't help but blame herself, and want to retreat into a space where she hasn't opened her heart and life to others.
My Review – if you're familiar with my blog, you'd know I love most of what Nora Roberts writes, how she writes, her manner of storytelling. It's the way I love my own stories to be. A dash of romance tied in with mysteries, suspense and thriller.
I must admit I had an inkling of the climax in this book but not because of a weak plot. I'm just an alright detective(hehe). This book was very character driven. The characters were fully explored and examined, their growth and progress added to the story. Without all of this meaningful clutter, I don't see how the main plot would work as a whole book. Overall, I would recommend it as it doesn't narrow in on just a romantic story. That's just a fraction of what this book is about. Without selling the story away, I'll say it's a tie in of murder, mayhem, healing, strength.
*Before heading into this book you should know that there are some dark moments, mentions of rape, torture and murder by a disturbed serial killer. *
Thanks for stopping by. Happy reading!
Xo Kat


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July 2017: Before we move out to Nelson, we meet with the wonderful Valérie D. Walker for some training in indigo dyeing.
August 2nd: We arrive at the Oxygen Arts Centre studio space, assemble our supplies and tools, and begin initial preparation of our indigo dye vat!
August 3rd, 2017: All the fabric is cut to size and scoured, and the indigo vat is fermenting, so it's time to tie, clamp, wrap and/or fold our fabric for dyeing.
August 4th, 2017: Our first indigo vat looks ready for dyeing!We prep the second indigo vat and follow through with some test dips in our first vat.


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12 The human body has many parts, but the many parts make up
only one body. So it is with the body of Christ.
17 Suppose the whole body were an eye–then how would you hear?
Or if your whole body were just one big ear, how could you
smell anything?
18 But God made our bodies with many parts, and he has put each
part just where he wants it.
21 The eye can never say to the hand, "I don't need you." The
head can't say to the feet, "I don't need you."
22 In fact, some of the parts that seem weakest and least
important are really the most necessary.
27 Now all of you together are Christ's body, and each one of
you is a separate and necessary part of it.
Scripture says we are a Body — not just that we are "like a
body." You ARE connected to everyone who acknowledges Jesus
Christ as Lord — whether you like them, or think they are
necessary, or not. Whatever happens to ANY member of the Body
does have an affect on EVERY member.
Remember this the next time you are tempted to speak ill of
another believer, or mistreat them. Even if they don't believe
exactly like you, or go to the same church — they are still
connected to you in Christ. So be nice to your Body!
SAY THIS: I am a member of Christ's Body on earth. Today I will
let Jesus Christ manifest His love and wisdom through me.


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Resiliency for Appalachia- Youth Overcoming Trauma
The RAPP project is funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and is a category III network member of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network. The primary goal of the RAPP project is to bring evidence-based, trauma-informed treatment to the children of Southern West Virginia. RAPP is a collaboration between FMRS Health Systems, Inc.; Southern Highlands Community Mental Health Center; and Seneca Health Services, Inc. Therapists across the three comprehensive agencies are trained in evidence-based treatment models to better serve our region. RAPP is working to change how all child serving agencies approach children and families by facilitating trauma informed care training throughout the region.
For more information about RAPP or to schedule a Trauma Informed Care training please contact the RAPP Project Coordinator, Leah Kidd at 304-256-7100; email@example.com
Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)
PCIT is a type of family therapy used to help improve family relations. It is an evidenced-based treatment model with highly specified, step-by-step, live-coached sessions with both the parent/caregiver and the child. It is targeted towards families with children ages 3-7, but can be modified for children as old as 10. The goals of treatment are improvement in the quality of the parent-child relationship, a decrease in child disruptive behavior problems with an increase in prosocial behaviors, an increase in parenting skills including positive discipline, and a decrease in parenting stress.
Trauma Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)
TF-CBT is a type of therapy used to help children and adolescents who have suffered a traumatic life experience. It is an evidence-based treatment model targeted to treat children and adolescents ages 3-21. TF-CBT has the strongest research evidence of any treatment model for traumatized children. (NCTSN 2014) Key components of TF-CBT include use of gradual exposure, education about child trauma and trauma reminders, parent skills education, relaxation skills for youth and parent, affective modulation and cognitive coping skills, trauma narrative processing and enhancement of safety skills. A traumatic grief component is also offered. Goals of treatment include a decrease in child behavior problems related to post traumatic stress such as depression, anxiety and anger, while increasing the youth and family's ability to cope with stress.
Adolescent Substance Abuse Services
Outpatient treatment is a good option for those whose substance use is just beginning or for those youth returning home from more intensive treatment. This allows the young person to remain at home, while receiving individual and supportive group sessions; teaching healthy coping strategies to deal with the pressures of young adulthood. Adolescents (14 years and older) may seek treatment for substance use disorders without parental permission.
SMART Recovery groups for adolescents (14 – 18) are available at the Regional Youth Service Center – RAFT. SMART Recovery also provides support for family and caregivers at no additional cost. To find out more about how to attend a SMART Recovery group or if you want to know how to refer a teen to substance use treatment, please contact LaShanda Spence, MA, MSW at 304-256-7100.
Children's Mobile Crisis Response
The FMRS Children's Mobile Crisis Response team helps helps youth who are experiencing emotional or behavioral crisis by interrupting the immediate crisis and assisting youth and their families in becoming safe and supported. Crisis specialists and a parent support specialist provide support and teach skills necessary to return youth and families to routine functioning; maintaining children in their home or current living situation, school and community whenever possible.
Who is appropriate for Children's Mobile Crisis Response?
Children ages 0-21, experiencing behaviors such as suicidal or homicidal ideation, physical aggression, self-injurious behavior, running away, sexual aggression or substance abuse.
Children that demonstrate behaviors that are unmanageable at home, school, or in the community.
Children that are at risk of placement, or are currently placed in an acute setting and cannot return home without extra support services.
Children must be living in Raleigh County, WV. (Children living in Fayette and Summers Counties will also be considered.)
How do I get the Children's Mobile Crisis Response Team to help?
Call the Children's Mobile Crisis Response Team (CMCRT) before the crisis occurs.
Members of the team will be glad to meet with you and your family to discuss concerns and assist with crisis planning. Just call 304-256-7100 and ask to speak with a member of the Children's Mobile Crisis Response Team. A team member will schedule a time to meet to discuss services available at your convenience.
What happens if I call the Children's Mobile Response Team for help? A Crisis Specialist will gather information about what is happening, including where the crisis is occurring and who is involved. An initial determination will be made regarding safety and level of crisis response necessary. When appropriate, a team will be dispatched to meet the youth in the community in order to de-escalate the situation and support the caregivers involved. Assessment, intervention, skills training and crisis planning will occur on scene.
Help is just a phone call away:
Call 304-256-7100 and remember to ask to speak with a member of the Children's Mobile Crisis Response Team
Children's Wraparound Services
"Wraparound" is a process that is designed to help groups of people involved in a family's life, work together to support the family and their child who is returning from, or at risk of being sent to, an out-of-home placement in order to receive services. "Wraparound" is based on the belief that youth make progress when family and community are involved in their care and treatment. The process is used to support families by bringing a group of people together as a team for planning and delivering supportive services that build on family strengths, and address critical unmet needs to accomplish the outcome of keeping families together.
The youth considered for the program must be in parental custody and living in Raleigh County (surrounding counties will be considered); are between the ages 0 to 21(with priority given to youth between the ages of 5-12 and 17-21); have a diagnosis of a severe emotional or behavioral disturbance, that impacts their daily function; are currently in or at risk of placement in an acute psychiatric hospital or and out-of-state psychiatric residential treatment program; and could be served in the community successfully and safely with extra support.
To participate in the Wraparound Program, families must voluntarily agree to receive services in their home and community. For more information about applying for Wraparound please contact The Children's Wraparound Facilitator at 304-256-7100.
School-based Mental Health
The Expanded School Mental Health program is a collaborative effort between FMRS Health Systems, Inc. and Raleigh County Schools, designed to address the emotional and behavioral difficulties that negatively impact school performance, grade point average, and the development of healthy relationships with other students and school authority figures; and optimize overall student health and well-being. The program is housed within Beckley Elementary and Stratton Elementary schools and is designed to operate throughout the regular school year.
Expanded School Mental Health is for all students!
Tier 1 services are preventative education for all students. School staff and a FMRS service coordinator work together with students to develop healthy coping strategies, learn bully prevention skills and healthy expression of feelings.
Tier 2 services are for students at risk and positive peer role models. Students meet in small groups to learn about relevant topics such as violence prevention, anxiety management, etc. Integrates crisis services with interventions the school provides to students who may be struggling.
Tier 3 services are intensive services for children needing individual/family therapy. Students may be referred by a teacher, counselor or family member. Requires parental permission and completion of an FMRS intake which can all take place conveniently at the school.
For more information contact your child's school and ask to speak with the FMRS School Based Service Coordinator.
Beckley Elementary: 304-256-4575
Stratton Elementary: 304-256-4604
Mabscott Elementary: 304-256-4595
T4 Academy: 304-256-4555
Outside of school hours call FMRS at 304-256-7100 and ask to speak with the School Based Service Coordinator.
Regional Youth Services
The Resources for Adolescent and Family Transformation (RAFT) Center, is the Regional Youth Service Center for Region 6. The center is a collaboration between FMRS Health Systems, Seneca Mental Health, and Southern Highlands Community Mental Health. The goal of coordinating an array of outpatient services for youth with co-occurring substance use and mental health conditions.
The RAFT Center is located in Beckley and serves eleven counties in the region including Pocahontas, Webster, Nicholas, Greenbrier, Fayette, Summers, Monroe, Wyoming, Mercer, McDowell and Raleigh.
The mission of the Regional Youth Service Center is to decrease the stigma associated with "getting help." The RAFT Center is a welcoming environment where youth and families can find support and are able to seek services in a more relaxed setting.
The goal of the RAFT Center is to become a hub of excellence supporting professionals that serve the youth and families of Region 6.
The RAFT Center provides training and information regarding
Evidenced Based Therapies available in the region
Peer Mentoring
Substance Use Prevention & Intervention services
Suicide Prevention & Intervention
Youth Mental Health First Aid
Circle of Parents
SMART Recovery
Positive Behavior Support
Regional Resource Directory
Power of You Campaign
For more information or to request a trainer please contact: RYSC Coordinator: Amy Thomas, MS at email@example.com
Parent Peer Support
FMRS provides a Parent Peer Support Specialist to help children and families navigate services and ensure they receive the most appropriate level of care. Parent peer support is typically used when a family has multiple needs due to caring for a child with severe behavioral or developmental problems. The Parent Peer Support Specialist can assist the child and their family in navigating complex systems by providing advocacy and linkage/referral to community resources. The Parent Peer Support Specialist facilitates parent support groups and meets one on one with families throughout the region.
Life Space Crisis Intervention (LSCI)
FMRS Health Systems, Inc. is a certified Life Space Crisis Intervention national training site.
Life Space Crisis Intervention (LSCI) is a nationally recognized, professional training and certification program sponsored by the Life Space Crisis Intervention Institute of Hagerstown, Maryland.
LSCI is an advanced, interactive therapeutic strategy for turning crisis situations into learning opportunities for children and youth with chronic patterns of self-defeating behaviors. LSCI views problems or stressful incidents as opportunities for learning, growth, insight, and change.
This non-physical intervention program uses a multi-theoretical approach to behavior management and problem solving. LSCI provides staff a roadmap through conflict to desired outcomes using crisis as an opportunity to teach and create positive relationships with youth.
LSCI is provided to all FMRS employees working with youth and families. Trainings are available 1 to 2 x each year and are open to partnering agencies. For more information contact the Director of Children's Services at email@example.com
The LSCI manual is available online through PRO.ED publishers. For details on requirements for this certification program, go to the Life Space Crisis intervention website:


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Scientific and Organizing Committee
All members of the Division which organises this conference are ex officio members of the
scientific and organizing committee of the conference (click here)
- Dr. Gregory T. Papanikos, President, ATINER & Honorary Professor, University of Stirling, UK.
- Dr. Chris Sakellariou, Vice President of Administration and Finance, ATINER & Associate Professor of Economics, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
- Dr. Yannis Stivachtis, Director Social Sciences Division, ATINER & Director, International Studies Program Virginia Tech – Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, USA.
- Dr. Sharon Claire Bolton, Vice President of Research, ATINER & Professor, The Management School, University of Stirling, Scotland.
- Dr. Thanos Patelis, Head, Psychology Unit, ATINER & Research Scholar, Fordham University, USA.
- Dr. John Pavlik, Head, Mass Media and Communication Unit, ATINER & Professor, Rutgers University, USA.
- Dr. Yorgo Pasadeos, Director, Social Sciences Division, ATINER & Professor Emeritus, University of Alabama USA.
- Dr. Breea Willingham, Academic Member, ATINER & Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, Plattsburgh State University of New York, USA.


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Elegance and fashion are the first factor to leave a good impression in the hearts of people.
Elegance and fashion are not exclusive to women only. Every man in this world should have the same duties and he must take care of himself, and see the latest fashions to choose what suits him!
For answering this question, we have to know the right choice depends on three main factors:
1- The age
2- Decorum
3- Body shape, and the color of the skin.
There are certain conditions that must be considered when you're purchasing a shirt, Jacket, suitable perfume for you, and pants.
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Flowers are Forever
My mother and I have built a solid relationship and I have realized the bond we share is very important for my journey in this thing called adulthood. She has always been a great role model and pushed through even when she didn't feel like it and for that I am grateful. I know you're wondering why I am pouring out my feelings about my mom... but I am just very grateful for everything she does for me and how she continues to put a smile on my face which leads me to this dress! This dress!!
During one of our fun family outings to Disney Springs, we stopped in the Free People location. Free People is one of my favorite stores. The bohemian selection of flowly fabrics, mixed prints, feminine silhouettes, interior and quality captures me every time. As I scanned the great selection of clearance items, I spotted this dress that was absolutely stunning! The print was bold and the dramatic sleeves sold me! If that wasn't enough, the back was completely exposed. I mean, talk about making a statement! This dress was perfect and I had to have it.
Photos by: Shay Captures
My mom saw how much I loved this dress and didn't hesitate to purchase it for me. This dress will always be special to me and I can't wait for the perfect occasion to wear it. It makes me feel confident, sexy and comfortable. I chose to keep the accessories simple with a lace up heel to make the dress the focal point. What's that one piece you had to have and what makes it special to you?