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Ok, like I was going to blog everyday, right? And I haven't, okay? So sue me.
I've had pneumonia. Pure, utter, total exhaustion. But what are you supposed to do? One of the docs here said he had it and couldn't get out of bed for four days.... Well, sorry. I have to work. And cook. And clean. And walk the dog. And finish moving. And go to the store. And play with my babies. And do laundry.
I'm holding firm on the no-dating rule. Hasn't been hard, as I haven't met anyone who can make my heart beat faster. It's sad and pathetic, but true.
I am getting my hair cut tonight. What a wonderful thing! In less than an hour, I'll have a new look. Good or bad, it doesn't matter, because it will grow out.
The Princess has strep butt. What's that? Ha. You never heard of it? Ha. I couldn't figure out why she would have a diaper rash, but she did. So I just kept slapping on the Butt Paste. Then I'd forget about it until the next time she mentioned it. Finally had her in to the doc for her check-up. He took one look and said "Strep Butt." I guess it sounds better than peri-anal streptococcus. Nice. 10 days of oral and topical antibiotics later, 3 clear days, and now it's back. Poor munchkin. She was on crutches a couple weeks ago for a sprained ankle. Darn, she was cute, and I didn't get a single pic. We'll stage some this weekend, maybe.
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Scissor Sisters: I want you to FUNK me!
I can't believe I let this happen again. This has been probably the 3rd year in a row that I've vowed to go see the Scissor Sisters in action and once again, I can't go. I even led the charge about 4 months ago when I heard they were coming. They're performing tonight at Zepp Tokyo and tomorrow night at Gan-Ban @ Ageha which just so happens to be the same night that Hello Kl!tty will be spinning at Ninja (Die Antwoord) @ Trump Room (but more about that later).
The Sisters and I have a history. Listening to their first self-titled album and "Ta-Dah" helped get me through some low times when I first moved to Tokyo. My poor ex-housemate would hear songs like "Return to Oz" and "Get it Get it" on loop every night without fail (smile Mel ;)) To say that I am sorely disappointed to miss them would be an understatement. I fear I'll just go and wallow in my self-pity while I watch vids on their Vevo.
Enjoy these remixes of their latest album"Night Work"
Scissor Sisters – Any Which Way (Carte Blanche remix)
Scissor Sisters – Fire With Fire (Starfuckers remix)
Scissor Sisters – Invisible Light (Siriusmo remix)
And an oldie but no doubt a banger
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Hmmm, I think I might just play that last one on Thursday… Hopefully I'll see you when you're back in Toks again soon. Kl!ttytronic x
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Yes, your poor housemate! But I'm a big fan now! Thank God is dem you had on replay and not Ozzy Osbourne!(>_<)
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By Marnie Eisenstadt and Dave Tobin
Staff writers
Kirk Butler was homeless in Syracuse for years. He slept on benches or in camps under bridges and begged for money. He kept himself warm with heroin.
Almost two years ago, he decided to get clean and come inside.
When he did, he heard voices. So Butler kept a little baseball bat in his new apartment.
The change was so hard that for the first week he had to sleep back at his old place — a park bench.
Safety wasn't walls and a door. It was being able to see the sky. It was not having to talk to strangers in the hallway.
» Photo essay: Life on the street
Butler, 61, is like many in Syracuse's growing population of homeless people. He was broke, he had a longtime drug addiction and he is mentally ill: Butler has been diagnosed with schizophrenia.
Michelle Noce and Tim Wilkin recently died under some of the same bridges where Butler used to sleep. Earlier this month, Noce, 42, was found beaten under a bridge near Herald Place. Wilkin, 40, died in an accidental fire under the McBride Street ramp to Interstate 690.
Syracuse's homeless population has grown 35 percent since 2010, according to data tracked by the homeless service providers in Onondaga County.
That is another symptom of the national recession. The people who used to show up at the shelters once or twice a year are now there all the time. Every night, the county's shelters are pushed to the limit. They put cots in the aisles. Then, chairs and benches.
On any night, about 400 people sleep in some kind of temporary emergency shelter in Onondaga County, the agencies say. On Tuesday, the number was 418. Last year, 3,986 different people slept in shelters. In 2010, that number was just under 3,000, according to Liddy Hintz, director of emergency and child welfare services at the Salvation Army, who maintains the database.
This year, it will be about 4,600. That's more than a 50-percent increase over 2010.
Compared to those figures, the number of homeless people living away from any shelter is small. It's 50 or fewer, said Jim Taylor, chairman of Homeless and Housing Coalition of Syracuse and Onondaga County, which is made up of groups and agencies that serve homeless people.
But there is anecdotal evidence that something is happening with this group of hard-core homeless.
Their numbers seem to be growing and their problems more visible. Aside from the two deaths, there have been reports of fighting between panhandlers for the good spots. Businesses near high-traffic, high-yield corners have complained of homeless people harassing diners and making messes.
The outreach workers say they used to know almost all of the homeless who hung out on the streets. But now there are new faces, many of them younger men. Service providers don't know where those people are coming from or why they're here.
City police, too, have noticed the increase, said Deputy Police Chief Joe Cecile. They see more people on the streets, more people panhandling and more unfamiliar faces. But they have not noticed an uptick in violence or reports of trouble, Cecile said.
A mostly empty van
A little before dusk most nights, Tremaine Crawford leaves the Rescue Mission in an unmarked black van with a cooler of sandwiches and juice boxes. He drives from homeless camp to homeless camp, checking on the people and delivering food, clothing and blankets to the takers.
Onondaga County has six homeless shelters run by nonprofit agencies. The county Department of Social Services, which helps to fund the shelters, also puts families up at local hotels.
The Rescue Mission is for single, sober men over 18. Men who can't give up the bottle or drugs for the night are welcome at the Oxford Inn, run by Catholic Charities. Catholic Charities also has overflow apartments that are always full and the Dorothy Day House for women. The Salvation Army has a shelter for families and another for women.
Driving the Rescue Mission's van, Crawford has come to know all kinds of homelessness. There are "fliers," people who hold signs asking for money and who live in shelters. There are homeless who live under bridges and receive an income — Social Security, disability payments or veterans benefits — using another address.
Since Crawford began his job in March, not one person has taken him up on an offer to take shelter.
That reluctance to come in, say those who work with the homeless, is a longstanding challenge.
"They have to come out from under the bridge," said Dan Sieburg, Rescue Mission's director of housing, who rides with Crawford.
For many homeless people, money isn't the only problem. Last year, 857 of those served in shelters reported having a mental illness, according to data collected from the agencies. Another 473 said they were alcohol abusers and 588 said they were drug abusers.
You need an address
Near the Townsend Street 690 ramp, close to where Wilkin died in the fire, Crawford pulls the van off the street, hops out, runs around a vine-covered fence to a tent-like assemblage of mattresses, blankets and plastic tarps.
James Hill and Cindy Gonzalez crawl out and sit in an opening. As fliers, they hold signs asking for money near the Townsend Street ramp. Hill says they make about $10 a day.
Crawford brings them sandwiches and leaves a few for others.
Hill, 31, says he's been homeless 12 years. Gonzalez said she's been homeless one year, after being evicted from her apartment in the Valley. They met at a drug and alcohol rehab program, they said.
Both were upset over the recent deaths. Hill says he'd once had his own tent burned down while he was away.
Another man who stays in the camp, Randy, walks up. He has a black eye. His face is weathered and greasy. He's been drinking. He looks at the visitors and launches into a curse-filled tirade. He knew Noce, he said. He tried to get her help, but no one would help.
"Because we didn't have a (expletive) address," he says.
Crawford stays behind with him alone for a few minutes. When Crawford returns to the van, it's minutes before he speaks. He's shaken.
As Crawford drives away, Sieburg talks about getting help to Hill and Gonzalez. As long as they don't have an address, they can't get in "the system."
"The system can be very beneficial," Sieburg said. "It can provide you with food, shelter, an apartment and public assistance. But it can't if you're under a bridge."
Too many rules
Coming in also means breaking the connections they've made under the bridge, moving to places they see as scary.
The men's shelters are both open rooms with beds inches apart. They're loud and crowded. There are rules. If someone is outside because they don't like strangers, that environment is a hard sell.
Near Hiawatha Boulevard, Mike shares a camp with his sister, Jeannie, and her husband, Jay. Mike's built an insulated shed with tarps. Sometimes people throw things at them and spit on them, they say. But they have no interest in coming to a shelter.
"The Oxford Inn, that's like a prison sentence," Mike said. ''They call it the House of Pain. If you're not a fighter, you're not going to make it down there. The Rescue Mission? Too many rules. We tend to drink our beer. You can't drink and stay there."
And Jeannie would have to go to a women's shelter.
Mike said he grew up in abusive foster homes and dropped out of "the system" at 14. He survives on flying, making between $16 and $28 a day. Sometimes it's enough for food, tobacco and rolling papers and a $5 shower at a truck stop. Sometimes, it's not. So they have to choose.
A different approach
Homelessness is getting attention and money. Many agencies use a combination of public and private money to run shelters, outreach programs, counseling and housing programs.
Onondaga County spends $2.7 million a year funding shelters and other programs. It also spends hundreds of thousands housing people who can't find a spot in shelters — last year emergency hotel room stays cost the county $465,000.
Syracuse and Onondaga County received more than $3 million in one-shot federal stimulus money to help get people out of shelters and into housing. Beyond that, the federal government provides $7 million a year to fund programs.
But trying to help the hard-core homeless is a mission that needs more than money; it needs innovation.
Catholic Charities has 35 apartments opening up that might be a small answer.
Taylor, the homeless coalition chairman and executive at Catholic Charities, said the recent deaths prompted the group to try to identify those living outside the shelters and find a way to bring them in to the apartments.
This could be different. They wouldn't have to stop at a shelter first. They wouldn't have to stop drinking. They could come together. They would just have to come inside.
In 2007, the city broke up two homeless camps after complaints of violence. The residents of one entire camp — on Pearl Street — eventually were convinced to come inside to apartments run by Catholic Charities, Taylor said.
Sometimes, one person will come in and friends who are still outside will visit. The person who comes in becomes a bridge, Taylor said.
Jim Delaney used to live on the streets. He said he tried to convince Noce to come in. But he couldn't.
"When people live on the street, they have a tendency to give up after a while. You get used to it," he said. "I lived on the street off-and-on for 10 years."
Steady pressure from his mother and sister brought Delaney in. He now lives in an apartment.
Butler, the 61-year-old heroin addict, said he came inside for a different reason. He overdosed four times in a row. Once in the men's bathroom at a library, he said.
"I saw the coffin closing," Butler said, sitting on a bench he used to use for a bed in a pocket park on South Salina Street.
He stayed nights at the Oxford Inn while he spent his days on an ugly ride, detoxing cold turkey from heroin in an outpatient program.
In the nest
Near an old factory on the city's north side, Crawford, the Rescue Mission van driver, carries a sandwich and some juice boxes across an overgrown parking lot and into some bushes.
On the other side of the bushes is a sprawling mound of glass and plastic bottles, food tins, rags and bits of paper. It stretches 15 feet across at the bottom.
It's like a nest: Tucked inside is Brian Jay Edwards, 51.
There are books strewn around him; Edwards likes science fiction and horror. And there's a transistor radio.
Edwards says he had a stroke. His speech is slurred and he has lost use of his right arm. Before the stroke he drew a lot. He has sketchbooks full of drawings, some realistic, some more like fantasy comic books.
He's been there, in that nest, for four and a half years. For a while, he says, he stayed in an apartment of a friend who had a crack addiction.
Crawford asks Edwards if he needs anything.
A belt, Edwards says. And some things for winter.
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Managing in Complexity – convergence of ideas
Do you believe in synergy and synchronicity? I do.
Over the past few weeks I have been seeing a real convergence of ideas from companies, experts and people I meet, suggesting that there are some fundamental deep-seated differences between organisations that manage complexity and change successfully and those that don't – and that we should be able to identify and measure these, for the benefit of our clients.
Those of you who follow my blogs will know that I have been saying for some time that complexity is not linear and managing complex projects successfully demands a move away from 'command and control' style project management to one that supports and nurtures emergent behaviour and new forms of organisation. (I took my original cue from the work of Eve Mitleton-Kelly who runs the Complexity Group at LSE).
It is encouraging that the recent IBM study ('Capitalizing on Complexity') takes a similar view of business complexity, suggesting that the ever-increasing scale of complexity in business places new demands on CEOs to be more creative. One CEO in the IBM study concludes that "The complexity our organization will have to master over the next five years is off the charts — a 100 on your scale from 1 to 5."
And today's Sunday Times actually has an article (Complexity may be inevitable but it must be managed) about the need for companies to simplify in the face of complexity. It also identifies the non-linearality of complexity and accepts that levels of complexity are rising.
So complexity is the 'space' within which I want to be able to offer help and support to clients, whether it's project (narrow focus) or business (wider focus) complexity.
Convergence of ideas
In addition to the IBM study and the Sunday Times article, here are some of the other ideas that are converging:
1st and 2nd Order Project Management
Michael Cavanagh (http://mcavanagh.com/) has identified that managing complex programmes demands a different approach to that required to deliver simpler programmes – what he calls "2nd order PM", focusing on some of the soft aspects of change, where 1st order PM focuses just on the project outputs.
Michael refers to "Bureaucracy – when you know what to expect" and "Adhocracy – when you don't". I have for some time used a similar distinction, first encountered when reading Thomas Docker's white paper on project complexity (he is Chairman of CITI):
- Complicated = not simple, but ultimately knowable (such as installing a new comms network)
- Complex = not simple and never fully knowable (such as restructuring and merging two departments)
(Interestingly, a discussion about complexity on BBC Word Service Radio this morning with Nassim Nicholas Taleb (The Forum: 12/03/2011), used exactly those terms…more synchronicity!)
Michael's 2nd order PM includes the use of "adhocratic" leadership, system thinking, outcome management and experiential learning – "learning in the experience, not from the experience" – a great distinction which fits well with David Snowden's "Probe > Sense > Respond" approach to complexity, in his Cynefin framework. i.e. act in the uncertainty.
Overload tipping point
In the capability assessment that forms part of the Project Readiness Healthcheck, we assess the capability of the organisation to cope with change by looking at its culture and process management capability. But clearly another factor must be the sheer number of change initiatives being loaded onto the shoulders of the poor managers. I suspect that there is a tipping point, beyond which nothing new gets through.
A recent report from the Economist Intelligence Unit, "Leaders of change – Companies prepare for a stronger future" says that change programmes are "consuming ever more corporate resources" but adds that on average only 56% of change initiatives are successful. The report suggests that the limit of how many initiatives a company can absorb is, on average, just 3.6 changes annually. That average doesn't tell us very much, unfortunately. It would be useful to know on what variables it was based – and to be able to assess an organisation's overload factor as an indication of how well it would cope with further change.
What is the tipping point? 100% overloaded? 200%?
The strategy is obviously to get managers to STOP doing stuff…which fits with the idea that one answer to complexity is to simplify the customer and employee experience, i.e. simplify your processes… but that needs a strong, well-supported argument, based on research. Some work on overload was done by Rebecca Henderson at Harvard way back in 1981, but the details of this are not available and I haven't seen anything since. Time we focused on it again!
Investing in an organisation's capability is key to longer-term success
That's so obvious, it shouldn't need saying, but how often do you come across organisations where they only really pay lip service to their Investing in People values? So it's great when one comes across something that confirms the importance of consistently paying attention to developing and maintaining a strong set of core values and supporting people to trust, share and become empowered to 'invent their own route to the future'. Following up the Overload work by Rebecca Henderson at Harvard produced this gold nugget:
When the CEO's priority is to hit the revenue targets, performance seems to go up. So that becomes the strategy whenever the company comes under pressure. However, work done by Nelson P. Repenning and Rebecca M. Henderson at Harvard suggests that this apparent causality may lead to a "vicious cycle of accelerating decline". Their (very technical) paper: 'Making the Numbers? "Short Termism" & The Puzzle of Only Occasional Disaster', suggests that the more the focus on revenue targets diverts attention and resources away from developing capability (i.e. their people and processes), the more the company risks disaster longer term. Again, there seems to be a critical "tipping threshold".
So it seems that developing a strong, sustained cultural and process management capability enables an organisation to be flexible and achieve performance targets when the pressure is on, without detriment to its long-term survival.
That fits right in with our Change Equation principle that the management of change is not a subset of project management and cannot be achieved within the lifecycle of a change project – it has to start earlier, continue throughout and go on after the completion of the project. In other words it requires a separate, continuous thread of capability development to reflect, transmit, embed and maintain the organisation's core values. That is the recipe for sustained growth and survival.
So what do organisations who are good at managing change have in common?
- Have strong, congruent values, embodied and disseminated from the top
- Follow a 'grow-your-own' and 'pick-the-best' approach to talent and skills
- Take care with their people – 'they are our real assets' (and mean it)
- Involve their people in 'creating their own route to the future'
- Set performance targets from the 'outside in', taking a systemist and holistic view of the organisation, where individuals are recognised to wear multiple hats
- Recognise the dangers of overload, manage out unnecessary processes and invest in change management
- Understand how to cope with complexity, are able to simplify and build in flexibility and adeptness for change.
That's my list, off the top of my head…what's yours?
And what tools have you got to measure all this?
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Fire Door Test – Wood vs PVS
I came across this video, from Dorset Fire & Rescue Service. It shows a fire test on two different types of doors. One is a UPVC door and the other is a fire door.
The fire is started behind the fire door and then some 30 seconds later a fire is initiated behind the UPVC door. Both doors are now closed and we wait for the effects of the fire to take place.
Initially, it does appear that the fire door is leaking more smoke at 4:30 seconds.
However, at 6:30 seconds, you can see the lower section of the UPVC door start to disfigure from the intense heat. The fire door remains the same with smoke getting through the top section of the door.
At 9mins the lower panel section of the UPVC door has developed an opening, allowing smoke to disperse rapidly. The fire door has stayed relatively the same.
At 11mins, the lower panel of the UPVC door has completely disintegrated, and the flames are bellowing out. The fire door has smoke escaping from the top and on one side of the door, but the door is intact and not warped in any way.
At 12mins the UPVC door has completely disintegrated top and bottom. However, the fire door is still holding back the fire and showing little signs of any structural defects.
After the fire was extinguished you can see there is no longer a UPVC door. The fire door is still in place, charred, but fully intact.
What this kind of test highlights, is it is important to make sure you have the correct type of door protecting your escape routes and fire compartments. Furthermore, it is important that your fire doors are not wedged open and have the appropriate self-closing device.


text: NORI AND QUINOA TITIKAKA ROLLS1. Pour 4 cups of boiling water into the pot and turn on the stove. Leave it there. 2. While water is boiling, cut the tofu into the cube and chop the shiitake mushrooms without stem and carrots, cucumber and avocado into strips for the filling.3. To prepare the seasoning for the rice, have the 6 tablespoons of rice vinegar and then add 3/4 teaspoons of salt and a teaspoon of sugar.4. If water is boiling enough, pour the rice and quinoa which must be very well washed and then leave it for 40 minutes on the stove. 5. When rice is done, sprinkle the dressing which we made it alreay with teaspoon, spreading evenly throughout the rice and quinoa. 6. Put the nori seaweed on the the mat known in Japan as Tatami and put the rice in the middle of the nori seaweed. Please fill the half of nori seaweed and put our filling like avocado, tofu, carrots, shiitake mushrooms and cucumber. (option: you can put anything you want) 7. Put a little bit water at the end of nori seaweed to make seaweed stick with the other end of it and roll it up. 8. Slice the nori and quinoa titikak rolls into the bite-size and serve them deliciously.Quinoa: it's a grains and psedoucereal but it does not belong to the family of grains as wheat, belong to the family of chenopodium, which contains all the amino acid. It is produced in the high pleteau of the Andes, well known in Peru as well as in Bolivia and northern Chile. Quinoa was sacred to the Inca people and for the pre-Inca people also. it gave people almost all the protein and amino acid they needed.Avocado: it has an abundance of omega 3s and many essential vitamins.


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A Sandwich a Day: Turkey Sandwich at Ted and Honey in Cobble Hill
A new sandwich every day.
In this great city of ours, one could eat a different sandwich every day of the year—so that's what we'll do. Here's A Sandwich a Day, our daily look at sandwiches around New York. Got a sandwich we should check out? Let us know. —The Mgmt.
The Turkey Sandwich ($9) at Ted & Honey may not reach the heights of poultry greatness, but it's a solid union of mild smoky turkey, sharp dijon mustard, and plump, tender apple butter. The mustard brings out, rather than covers up, the turkey's sublte gaminess, and the surprisingly lovely apple butter adds some sweet to the pungency. Havarti and arugula come along for the ride, but they're kind of incidental: a little green, a little creaminess, but not much impact. That's okay; turkey, mustard, and apple is enough to satisfy.
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Cheesy music and cheesy commercials. We hate them, we love them. And we can't stand their music, but sometimes, we find the coolest songs.
From my childhood I remember this commercial of a group of friends driving in their Volkswagen car, sun roof down, starlit sky the only thing lighting the windy road, and "Pink Moon" by Nick Drake playing. I had NO idea who he was at the time, I was like 7, and we didn't have internet. Yet that artificial moment sank deep within the pockets of my brain, and I looked up the lyrics later in life to find out I was in love with someone who died back in the 70s. Nick Drake, baby, you could have been it. Probably for the best though. My hubby and I are stars aligned.
Then sometimes we're like, gross, too much cheese. Especially when we hear that ridiculous song paired with a silly commercial. Yet there's something about those corny, funny commercials that pull you in, and make you want to buy anything that they have to offer. Seriously anything!
But why? Why?
WHY do I want to stuff my face with that Cheesy Burger and fries, when I KNOW it's bad for me, but really I don't even care. (I really don't. I'd go to In-N-Out right now if I could. I love hamburgers.) However, if an image dances across the screen, with this orchestral music, the cheese is melting over the meat, the tomatoes, dewy, red, and the bacon looks like it's even sizzling. DAH DAH DAH DAH!!! And you're sold. You're dancing out the door to buy yourself that big mac. Or at least I am.
So let's be candid. I love burgers and I love cheesy music. But if someone asked me, do you like 'Oh baby, baby, baby OH!!!" by Justin Bieber. I'd say no, no I don't. Even though I used to sing it with my little sister to make her smile. But is it my favorite music? No, no it's not. Sorry, Justin, I guess I'm not a Belieber.
So what's the deal?
If you combined that repetitive lyric with a commercial of someone eating a Chipotle burrito, I would literally beg my husband to take me out "Oh Baby Baby Oh, take me out." Because hello! Guacamole. HEY! To almost completely change subjects. I heard they have queso now. Speaking of queso… CHEESY! Actually if you're from Texas you probably HATE their queso. Sorry Chipotle.
Here's the thing.
We love cheesy music. But we don't. We're too cool for the cheese and repetition. We're so into saying which next undiscovered, indie musician is the best right now, but really, we're not going to be loyal to them. Let me explain.
Feist. You remember Feist right? She had her song licensed to Apple for their commercial. "One, two, three, four, tell me that you love me more…." You remember that one? Well because that song got licensed to Apple, a lot of her fans quit being her fans. They felt like she sold out. That's what I mean, people who loved her music quit loving it, because a commercial made it cheesy. They were loyal, until she made money on something with too much cheddar.
Which is sad, because she had a fabulous song that made a ton of cash. And I get it. Her song was written from a deep place of the heart, for mending, healing, and working out the tough times. As a musician my art means to much to me, and to have a big time company take it and shred the intended meaning to pieces for their cheesy commercial is so discouraging. She even had to take a year off to regain her perspective on music.
But let's ask this.
What about the people who got to listen to her because of the commercial? What about the hearts who were touched and actually understood the meaning behind the polished, shining, dancing mini iPods? Her fans were hurt, she was hurt, but what about the people just discovering the glory that is Feist? Like when I discovered Nick Drake. Who knows, perhaps it's the reason I only drive Volkswagens.
I feel like there has to be a balance.
There must be a balance of listenable, relatable, but also authentic songs written from authentic musicians for authentic brands. Deep crying out to deep. Blessing people with tunes and images that all people can celebrate. Where fans aren't sad because their fave artist didn't have to "sell out," and artists don't feel like they got screwed, but rather feel that their music blessed peoples' ears and lives.
That's one of our goals at Synchoney. Is to pair authentic, and often times, music from local DFW artists, with videos from brands that have a good heart, and a spectacular craft. Sounds like a win-win to me.
So you tell me, can there be authentic cheesy? I would never deny having more cheese in my life. I mean, have you seen me and my hubby? We really love each other. And it's real, and it's so cute, you could cry tears of gouda.


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Powerhouse political artist/activist Banksy reimagined the iconic intro to The Simpsons last night. The clip starts innocuously enough, the idiot bullies lopping the head off a Springfield statue and rodents running across the landscape.
However, at the end of the intro, when Homer is pushed through the Simpsons' garage into the family room, the ordinary tableau of the animated family in front of the TV abruptly shifts to a dark critique of commercialization: animators pushing out animated stills, factory-like; Simpsons dolls stuffed with rat guts; and a deflated unicorn (absurd and heartbreaking at the same time) being abused by a worker producing empty entertainment.
Nice to see that the creators of The Simpsons are once unafraid to critique the structures they work within.
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community, dog food, dog treats, dogswell, himalayan dog chews, himalayan yak chew, local businesses, merrick, pet store a, pet store B, petsmart, primal raw, rawhide, shop local, zukes
Yesterday, I picked out some treats for a Secret Santa package exchange on one of my dog forums. I hope the recipients will be as happy with the selection as I was when picking them out. And I'm assuming they don't read this blog in the meantime — though it's a lot to assume that just because one doesn't have a dog blog, doesn't mean they don't read them…
It's a grab bag for a couple of dogs who are lucky enough not to have any food allergies: Himalayan yak cheese dog chews, Zuke's salmon formula training treats (a real favorite around here), Merrick beef tripe and liver steak patties (which smelled so powerful, they've got to be good). The clerks also threw in a couple sample pieces of Dogswell Veggie Life — chicken and sweet potato, and chicken and apple. Our dogs don't get any processed chicken or beef, so I decided to pass along the freebies.
Their human is also getting some cute dog and Shiba-related trinkets. I'll be announcing a giveaway later this week which will include an assortment of said items, so I will present those later.
All of the canine edibles come from "Local Pet Store A", which is probably one of my favorite shopping places to buy anything, not just dog necessities. It's not the biggest, cleanest, most spacious, or most well-lit pet store in town. But the people that work there make it more than just a site of commerce. I get a lot of pleasure from browsing the aisles, amused by the variety of pet goods, specialized formulas and novel proteins, packaging aesthetics, brand names, possibilities. This local pet store offers a range of sensations that I just don't get at PetsMart, Petco, or online pet food retailers.
And the thing is, there are at least half a dozen other local retailers that offer this kind of familiar, friendly shopping experience, all within easy driving distance. I think we're lucky to live in such a dog-friendly area of the world, where there are so many off-leash dog parks and pet stores offering a holistic, local, and independently-distributed goods. I'd like to keep this a great place to live with dogs by shopping locally, whenever I can.
Reasons to shop local:
- You save money. When we first moved here, I assumed that corporate stores were capable of offering lower prices simply because they have the capacity to purchase mass supplies. However, I found my locally-owned pet stores to have quite competitive pricing.
For example —
- PetSmart's price for Royal Canin, 10 lb., $31.99
- Local Pet Store A's price for Taste of the Wild, 15 lb., $29.99
- PetSmart's price for Deli Fresh refrigerated dog food, 2 lb chub, $9.99
- Local Pet Store A's price for Primal Raw grinds [just meat, needs supplements], 2 lb chub, $4.99
- Local Pet Store B's price for Natural Balance dog food roll, 2 lb. 8 oz chub, $8.99
So you can get a greater quantity of a better quality food that isn't even available at the national chains for less at your local store? Awesome!
- You get better discounts. PetSmart has what they call a "PetPerks" card, which entitles you to "exclusive" prices on a rotating selection of stock each week. And they'll also subscribe you to their mailing list so you can get spammed and told what to buy. Big whoop. It's hardly a perk at all, in my opinion.
Several of my local pet stores, on the other hand, offer cumulative discounts. At my most frequented store, for every $100 I spend, I can take $10 off my purchase of any "accessories" (i.e., not food or flea meds — treats, toys, nutritional supplements and most hardware are okay). So while there are limitations, I can basically spend that discount on something I probably would have bought anyway.My local stores also offer running discounts on certain brands of food — buy 10 bags of Primal Raw, and get $5 off the next bag, for example. So while you won't find coupons for Canidae or Solid Gold or Orijen in your Sunday circulars, there are still ways to get discounts on brands of dog food that aren't distributed through national chains. Which leads me to my next point…
- You get a better selection. In preparation for this entry, I visited my nearest PetSmart to check out their dog food aisles. While there are at least six long, fully-stocked aisles, I was not impressed by the illusion of variety that was offered. Frankly, there's little difference between Pro Plan, Beneful, and Purina One, since they're all part of the Purina family. Royal Canin's marketing strategy offering differently-packaged kibble labeled by breeds is just laughable, playing up gullible pet owners' beliefs in breed exceptionalism. What was on the shelves, with the exception of Blue Buffalo and Wellness (the latter of which is a fairly new addition), was of average quality at best.
Most disappointing to me is their selection of sturdy, long-lasting chews at PetSmart. Nearly everything they offered was rawhide-based, which many dogs have a problem digesting. While our dogs have never encountered any problems with rawhide, I prefer to give them other chews whenever possible. At the chains, I've had a hard time finding alternatives. At local pet stores, I have found pig's snout, chicken feet, beef trachea, ostrich lung, natural shed antlers, deer shank bones, and much, much, more. My local stores also offer a ton of other edible dental chew brands that, frankly, are superior to the handful of common brands I've found at chain stores.
Photo taken 10 August 2010. Bowdu surveys the rawhide selection and remains unimpressed.
The thing about non-national brands is that you have to be willing to explore. I try a lot of things for the first time when I buy them from little stores. I have to watch and gauge my pets' reactions to determine if I'll buy them again. When in doubt, examine packaging, read ingredients lists, poke and prod and ask the sales clerks for assistance (benefits of shopping in person versus online!).
- You contribute more directly to your immediate community. This is obvious, right? But spending money at a locally-owned pet store goes another step further than keeping the money within the local economy. It's also about sustaining the community in both quantifiable, financial terms and qualitative, social means. I don't know of any local pet store owner who started their business with the goal of making tons of money. Aside from filling a market need that they felt wasn't being met elsewhere, the "selfish" but ultimately profound reason was that such a business allowed them to earn a living in a pleasurable way. In a perfect world, we would all be working jobs that we enjoyed, while contributing positively to the world around us. The pet stores that I frequent create spaces for exactly the types of community-enriching commerce that I'd like to see more of.
- Local stores are more likely to sponsor adoption events with a variety of local rescues. This is not to say that national chains don't also participate in adoption activities; the better-managed stores do have connections with local animal shelters, and will make a conscientious effort to rehome pets whenever possible. But at least in my experience, I have seldom seen national chains make space for older or "special needs" pets. Rather, they primarily rehome puppies and kittens — the easiest ones to sell. And these adoption events are frequently spearheaded by corporate interests such that the event becomes more about advertising, or how much free, branded stuff you can give away for every adoption, and less, I think, about animal welfare as an organizing event unto itself.
- Local stores are more responsive to feedback. Heard about a great new product that you wish you could get in town? Tell them about it, and it may be on the shelves as early as next week. Don't like the fact that the store resells puppies and kittens from unethical breeders? Tell them, and then don't shop there — it's more likely to affect policy changes at a small business than a major corporation where decisions are made at an entirely different level, perhaps in another part of the country altogether.
A corollary to this is that local pet store owners are more likely to know your name not just as a bunch of letters on your credit card slip. As a smaller store with a small staff, it didn't take me long to recognize everyone that works at Local Pet Store A, and for them to remember me and my dogs in return. But at PetSmart, I see different folks working the cash registers nearly every time (granted, I only go once in a blue moon!). They often seem to be young, bored looking teenaged clerks who are probably just discovering how mind-numbingly dull the corporate world can be. In other words, the working conditions and the nature of the job results in high turnover, unless store policies foster a supportive work atmosphere by giving employees some kind of personal investment — which can be as simple as allowing them to dress the way they want. Or allowing them to bring their own pets to the store. Or playing the music they feel like playing, if they want to put anything on the speakers at all…
Which leads me to my last reason why locally-owned stores are more deserving of your shopping dollars than national pet stores…
- Your local store is less likely to play annoying Christmas music on repeat. And when I'm doing my holiday shopping this month, that makes a difference.
So maybe we have it good in the Bay Area, but I have to believe that other parts of the world have great locally-owned pet supply and feed stores, too. What's it like in your neck of the woods? If you don't know, check your town's business directories and find out.
And if you really can't find a locally-owned store worth patronizing on a regular basis, I dare you start one.
Photo taken 5 December 2010. Lovely clutter at my local pet store.


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My definition of family has expanded quite a bit the past several years. Anyone who truly knows me, I will do anything for my family, both blood and chosen. I am blessed to have developed many friends who have turned into family. And sometimes those people come from the most unexpected of circumstances.
I would say I have four types of family: blood, Arbonne, paddling, and everything in between. They have different places in my life, and I do not discriminate with whom I love. They span all genres, sexuality, and age. I give readily, but rarely do I give myself. I do not trust easily, and I readily hide myself because I thought it was easier that way. This is an error in judgment, and it's a constant battle I fight with myself. To be worthy of giving that trust.
In truth, it is easier that way. It is much easier to show façade rather than to tell the whole truth. To pretend everything is perfect. Be the highlight reel for people. One of my best friends says that "he has barely scratched the surface of me" after being friends for more than a decade. But it's a lie. I love my life, and it's not perfect. They are not mutually exclusive.
One of my consistent challenges is to be vulnerable. I am certainly not unique in this aspect. I would go even further to say a majority of people when they broke down to the basis of their fears that it would rank very highly. We seek perfection in our society. I have written about this, and I am going to extrapolate further. It is much easier to portray the lie of perfection, then to tell the actual truth behind the mask. The truth is almost without exception, messy and multi-layered. There is no easy "fix."
My closest family members are the ones I trust without question. The ones who ask and push the questions that no one else wants to ask when necessary. They push us out of our comfort zone into a whole new reality and space. Which is often terrifying, because we have often lived and believed our own lie for far too long. They help us confront the truth, which is often deeply buried and disturbing.
Blood family doesn't often push that boundary for some reason, at least not in my family as of late. I am still puzzling all this out, and everything is becoming clearer. Not crystal yet, but it's getting there. Our own minds are often our biggest obstacles. As one friend of mine put it, "Stop using your big, beautiful brain and just do it." Put your faith in trust, as terrifying as that may be.
I am working towards putting my trust in consistent vulnerability, and making myself known to everyone I love. It is scary. It is messy. And the effort and pain is worth it. I am worth it. It is one of the hardest aspects of personal growth I am pushing through. It's another step towards my progress to being the best me.
I am the vault for people. People tell me things that they don't tell anyone else, and I value that trust as sacred. I have rarely put that amount of trust into other people. And that is where one aspect of my self-worth breakdown is. When people trust you enough to tell you their innermost thoughts and feelings, you are worthy of doing the same for them. You not only deserve that amount of trust that people place in you, but they also deserve the same from you. It is not a burden to them. I will repeat because I have felt this way my entire life: it is not a burden to them. It is a comfort of reciprocity. If there is not the same amount of trust, they will pull back from you. And it hurts. I have only now just realized why the pull back happened. Loyalty and trust must go both ways.
I have lived most of my life in fear of being hurt by trusting the wrong people. It is a path I am striving to banish. If you find this true about yourself as I have, and you realize the pedestal you place yourself on both undervalues your needs as a human being and the gift of your truest self to others.


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