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News Roundup: 4/10/2009

In response to the worldwide economic crisis, the punk-rock outfit Against Me! will charge only $10 for tickets during the bands spring tour. We wanted people to come out and be able to afford it, no matter what, said frontman Tom Gabel. The tour launches tomorrow night in Gainesville, FL. [Spinner.com] Rock Band users will be able to emulate Slash (we mean Buckethead& no, we mean& wait, whos playing guitar for Axl Rose nowadays?) when the entirety of Guns n Roses Chinese Democracy is made available to the video games fans. The downloadable content will hit XBox 360s, Playstation 3s, and Wiis on April 14th. [RollingStone.com] Ryan Adams  musician, author, Mr. Mandy Moore  has unveiled his latest headline-grabbing venture. Having recently shunned music altogether, Adams is now embracing death metal with Werewolph, a side project featuring growled vocals and aggressively gloomy lyrics. Werewolphs website features a pizza box/pentagram logo, as well as several songs with such lyrics as, Were the maggot police, eating brains / Ripping peoples eyes out when they try to use the Stairmaster. [Spin.com] A former Massachusetts police officer recently plead guilty to urinating on a fellow concertgoer at a Metallica concert in January. Joseph Houston, who lost his job after the drunken incident, will avoid jail time if he undergoes treatment, stays on probation, and pays approximately $2,500 to his soaked victim. [RollingStone.com] Following a cringe-worthy interview with CBC Radios Jian Ghomeshi, actor/musician Billy Bob Thornton received a chorus of boos during a recent performance by his band the Boxmasters in Toronto. [MTV.com]

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Uptown A, 8:30 AM: you lost your contact lens & were on your way home - m4w - 24Reply to: pers-1036236335@craigslist.orgDate: 2009-02-15, 8:15PM ESTYou came and sat across from me somewhere around 42nd or 59th, with what looked to be a somewhat sad and embarrassed expression though I couldn't quite tell. I was struck by it, whatever it was exactly--and then it turned out that some of it must have had to do with your contact lens, because it slipped out and fell on the floor. You said it was all right, you were on your way home--and I wanted to find a way to ask where you were heading home from on a Sunday morning, after Valentine's day no less, and what it could have to do with the way you seemed to be feeling. But I couldn't think of any way of asking this that wouldn't be incredibly awkward for both of us, so I just lapsed into silence. Finally I might have been on the verge of asking you something else, but just then the conductor said the train was going to go express and I decided to give it up so that I wouldn't be late on the second day of my crappy temp job. I regretted it as soon as I got back on the platform, of course, regretted not at least staying to add a little more detail to our strange half-encounter, and eventually had the idea of letting it play out (in whatever climactic or anticlimactic way) on here. So, the usual closing--if you (or maybe even someone you know who's vaguely heard the anecdote about the lost contact lens--though who knows how likely that is to be repeated as an anecdote) do somehow manage to find this, I'd be very interested in hearing back from you.A.Re: Uptown A, 8:30 AM: you lost your contact lens & were on your way home - m4w - 24That's my girl, asshole.Re: Re: Uptown A, 8:30 AM: you lost your contact lens & were on your way home - m4w - 24From: pers-1036236335@craigslist.orgAre you serious? To be honest, that's a relief to me (if it's true), because now I can just dismiss the whole thing.Do you mind giving me some kind of detail, though--you can phrase it in any way that fits your mood, like "She said that there was some asshole who was wearing..."--so that I can feel sure that this isn't just a joke?A***UPDATE - Post Script***P.S. Re: Re: Uptown A, 8:30 AM: you lost your contact lens & were on your way home - m4w - 24From: pers-1036236335@craigslist.orgI'd still be interested to have you elaborate a bit; you can even make up some detail if you're not actually telling the truth. (Maybe I even made up some or all of it myself, so I'd be forced to agree with your lie? But maybe you feel sure that this isn't true, in which case...)

Forgotten gem

A comedy that is timely and timelessIT IS tough to make a two-hour death-knell entertaining. Is there anything amusing about not wanting to die? Yes, if you are lucky enough to see Exit the King, a largely forgotten work by Eugene Ionesco, a 20th-century French absurdist playwright. Directed by Neil Armfield, this new production at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre is darkly hilarious. The shows success has much to do with Geoffrey Rush, a gifted Oscar-winning Australian actor who is here making his Broadway debut. With Mr Armfield he has written a new translation of the 1962 French original, gently revitalising what he has called a forgotten masterpiece. More to the point, he delivers a feverishly brilliant performance as King Berenger I, a 400-year-old monarch on his last wobbly legs.

Another Honor for Peck

It is time for another All-Star game for Cornell recruit, Errick Peck, a 6'6" forward from Cathedral High School in Indianapolis. Peck was selected to compete in the George Hill City-County All-Star Game at Arlington High School on April 18. Peck will play with the City All-Stars in a game featuring 3 Purdue recruits as well as recruits from Louisville and Butler among other Division I programs.Below are the rosters:County All Stars -- Greg Rice, Ben Davis; Justin Reid, North Central; Damon Ellison; North Central; Marcus Jackson, Lawrence Central; Aaron Evans, Roncalli; Casey Coons, Franklin Central; Patrick Bade, Franklin Central; Stephan Van Treese, Lawrence North; Jeff Robinson, Lawrence North; Blake Beasley, Decatur Central; Alex Dye, Decatur Central; Michael Barton, Roncalli; Ed Hazelett, Warren Central; Javon Brown, Warren Central.City All Stars-- Andrew Smith, Covenant Christian; Errick Peck, Cathedral; Kelsey Barlow, Chatedral; Patrick Paligraf, Cathedral; Jarrett Hamilton, Catehdral; Phil Freeman, Arlington, Pa[ Kennedy, Bishop Chatard; Howard Stevenson, Broad Ripple; Justin Butler, Tech; Morgan Cook, Heritage Christian; Gabriel Paulone, Indiana School for the Deaf; Erick Gray, Cardinal Ritter; Tommy Eggleston, Heritage Christian.

how do you like your pizza?

I like pizza to be thin-crusted, crispy and with loads of toppings.

I hate pizzas that are thick and soft they taste like ordinary bread to me.

The Affair Becomes a Love Triangle

My last story left off in the late 1970s. After my 1975 trip, I wouldn't be able to get back to the World until 1986. It sat at the back of my mind to make a return trip, but things got in the way, like college, jobs, layoffs, moves, lack of funds and the like. By the very early 80's, I had met Mr. Answer, and after a few years, we decided to get married. We originally wanted to go to Hawaii for our honeymoon, but just starting out, we didn't have much money, and Hawaii is expensive. We sat down with a travel agent to explore our [meager] options. "Well, how about Disney World?" he asked.YES!! Why didn't I think of that? He set us up with a package that included 5 nights at the Howard Johnson on Hotel Plaza Boulevard, tickets, including the new park that had opened in 1982, EPCOT Center (Woohoo! A NEW PARK!), Discovery Island, and River Country, plus one lunch. We couldn't afford to stay at any of the Disney resorts, which then consisted of the Contemporary, Polynesian Village, Fort Wilderness, the Disney Inn and the Village Resort. The Grand Floridian and Disney's first moderately priced hotel, the Caribbean Beach, were still under construction. As our wedding date approached, we found we were far more excited about the honeymoon trip than we were about the wedding and reception! Finally, after months of planning, it was time to go to the World! Mr. Answer had never been, but was a fan of Disney's films, and of their technology and innovative techniques. We were both anxious to see them in action at EPCOT Center. EPCOT stood for "Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow". Walt Disney's original concept was to build an actual community, but when all was said and done, EPCOT became more of a permanent World's Fair than anything else. The "community" was built nearby in what was then called Lake Buena Vista Village. Model homes, townhomes, unique Treehouses, and apartments were built, but due to politics that I won't get into here, the homes were never sold or used for personal dwellings. Instead, for the first couple of years, they were rented out to corporate entities, and they later became The Disney Village Resort and were rented to guests. Anyway, back to our first look at EPCOT. Entering the turnstiles, we were both completely blown away by what lay before us. The beautiful geosphere that towered over us! The fountains and gardens! The clean modern architectural lines! We explored Futureworld pavilion by pavilion, savoring every detail. Somewhere, I had gotten a copy of a guide (Birnbaum's?) that advised us to tour the parks clockwise; and when given the choice, to always choose the left-hand queue. To this day I still tend to follow that advice, but now that I've shared it with all of you, everyone will do it and I'll have to learn to tour counter-clockwise and choose the right-hand queue. I'll have to break 25 years of habitual veering to the left. My lasting impression of that first trip to EPCOT Center was how absolutely visually stunning the park was. It was artful and modern in Future World, yet tempered with gorgeous plants, trees, fountains and lagoons. Spaceship Earth was majestic. It truly was an icon, so beautiful when seen from anywhere in the park. Now that the Millennium Wand is finally down, I can't tell you how happy I wias to see it a couple of weeks ago in it's original pristine state, and to view it the way it was meant to be viewed. Unfortunately, the granite monoliths will still stand in what was originally a more wide-open area blocking that wonderful fountain beckoning you to move toward it and into Future World. I hope against hope that someday, the plaza will be returned to something like it originally was, with that lovely plexiglass sculpture in the middle of the fountain and with flower beds instead of boulders which interrupt the entire flow of the plaza. I think I miss the rows of palm trees that framed the geosphere the most, but I did read recently that the oak trees surrounding Spaceship Earth will be removed and replaced with palms. These days, the plaza is most definitely lacking in Feng Shui and sports a rather cold and uninviting look. Removing the Leave a Legacy kiosk at the bottom of Spaceship Earth, and the sales/photo area on the west side of the plaza is a huge start toward restoring it to it's original beauty and flow. With Epcot's 25th birthday coming on October 1, 2007, it looks like this park will finally be getting some much-needed attention,along with a re-dedication ceremony. But that is now, and I want to talk about the early days. Besides the name and the entrance plaza being different in 1986, there were some other things that made the park differ from the Epcot of today. For instance, Innoventions didn't exist. Those buildings were known as Communicore East and West. Spaceship Earth had a different show and a different narrator. The Universe of Energy also had a different show: There were dinosaurs, but no Ellen. The Wonders of Life didn't exist yet. I guess that pavilion has come full circle, since it pretty much doesn't exist today, either. A pavilion called Horizons, featuring a trip through the possibilities of the future where you could choose your own ending, was located where Mission:SPACE now stands. In the space station area of the queue in Mission:SPACE, you can still see the Horizons logo. The World Of Motion, a great "dark ride" about transportation with a track that went up the outside of the show building and a catchy theme song, stood where Test Track is today. That strange looking building perched on the lagoon between Test Track and the Mexico Pavilion didn't used to be just a bathroom and first aid stop--It used to be a counter service restaurant called The Odyssey. Meanwhile over in Future World West, a brand new pavilion called The Living Seas had a ride called the "Sea Cabs" that took you on a slow, very short ride around the aquariums. No one had yet found Nemo. Next door at the Land, there was a fun show called Kitchen Kabaret, with an earworm theme song called "Veggie Veggie Fruit Fruit". Yes, my friend Flo and I can still do the entire show complete with song, even though it closed in 1994, when it was replaced by "Food Rocks". Flo, this one is for you: "He won't forget the lickin' he got from that big chicken, so now he gets his poultry from the store..." The Kitchen Kabaret theatre used to be where Soarin's queue is now. And last, but by no means least, was my favorite Future World pavilion and ride, Journey Into Imagination. Why in the world the original ride was gutted and destroyed is beyond me. The original ride with DreamFinder and Figment was such a wonderful sensory experience, filled with sounds, smells, and colors. The White Room featured an incredibly beautiful glass wall. When you were done with the ride, you could go upstairs and play in the Image Works. That rainbow neon tunnel was so much fun, as were the pin tables and giant kaleidoscopes. As if that wasn't enough, you could then go see a 3D film called Magic Journeys in the attached theater, and then go outside and play in the leapfrog fountains. Today, we're on the third, better by light years than the second, but still lame version of the ride, the ImageWorks is now downstairs and features not much in the way of imagination, the theatre houses Honey, I Shrunk The Audience, which is possibly the strongest of the three attractions, and luckily, the fountains have all survived intact. Phew! The Rumor Mill has been buzzing lately with tales of a major overhaul for the whole pavilion, to which I say, "hurrah!" Back to 1986. Leaving Futureworld and moving into World Showcase, each pavilion transported us to those far-away places we had not yet even dreamed of visiting. The only time I had been outside of the US was a car trip to Canada around the Niagara Falls area. Since then, I've been lots of places including Mexico, China, England, France and Canada, and World Showcase turns out to be a pretty darned good representation of these countries! World Showcase in 1986, like Future World, was different from the one we know today. The Norway pavilion wouldn't debut until 1988. My favorite pavilion, Morocco, with its incredibly intricate tile work, had just opened in 1984. The other pavilions have remained much the same, occasionally changing out displays, revamping old rides, updating films, and changing theater seats from lush and comfy to cheap, hard and easily broken. (You guilty pavilions know who you are!!) Some of the restaurants have undergone changes as well. Le Cellier used to be a "buffeteria," for instance. This is where we chose to have our "free" lunch that came with our package. I had prime rib for lunch. How very decadent! Mostly what I remember about dining on this trip was how bad both the food and service were everywhere around Disney property! Our best meals were at the HoJo coffee shop in our hotel. One really bad meal stands out for me: We ate dinner at Captain Jack's in the Disney Village. My steamed shrimp had been cooked into oblivion, and were served as tasteless mush. The service was worse than the food. My husband and I joked about how bad the restaurants were on that trip for years after that, even when they had vastly improved. Unfortunately, on our most recent visits, we're seeing a return to the bad food and service of the 80's. In the entertainment area, there was a nighttime spectacular on World Showcase Lagoon called "Laserphonic Fantasy". This show was actually the third show on the lagoon since the park opened. The first two were "Carnival de Lumiere" and "A New World Fantasy". If we saw Laserphonic Fantasy, I have no recollection of it. I do have vague memories of airplanes trailing colored smoke over World Showcase Lagoon and some bizarre boats on the lagoon during a short-lived daytime spectacular called "Skyleidoscope". It took us at least two full days to explore all that EPCOT Center had to offer, and I'm sure we still missed a lot. I still recall how much my feet hurt after pounding around the park for hours in flat sandals. What was I thinking?? Since then, I have never gone to the World without at least two pairs of tried and true comfy shoes or sandals. Lesson learned! Of course, we thoroughly covered the Magic Kingdom as well, since my husband had never been before, but we seemed to concentrate our attention on EPCOT Center. We tried to use our River Country tickets, but the day before, a guest had run his rented boat aground on the berm that separated RC from Bay Lake, so it was closed, darn it! We never did get to RC until the 1990's just prior to its closing. At least we got there. I don't think we made it over to Discovery Island either, with all there was to do at the bigger parks. As we flew home from our first Disney adventure together, we mused about the things we had missed, so of course, we'd have to make another trip to see those things! It was then that I knew my husband had fallen in love with the World, much like I had a few years earlier. Our next trip would be in 1989, a few months after the Disney-MGM Studios opened. Next time, a look at the World of the late 80's. Anita Special thanks to Brian Martsolf for the use of his extensive postcard collection! Postcard Scans are courtesty of Brian Martsolf who has an online guide to WDW Postcards.

Jelly Beans

I've recently been quite enjoying those little things called Jelly Beans (specifically Jelly Bellies). I must admit that I may enjoy them a little too much. I don't consider myself to be a candy kind of girl, but more of a chocolate lover. However, I found that the kids enjoyed getting one Jelly Belly as a little reward if they did their homework, made their beds..you get the idea. The only problem was that when no one was looking I had a tendency of sticking my hand in the Jelly Belly bag and grabbing a handful and munching on it on a daily basis. What is wrong with me???? Seriously??? Anyways, yesterday was the final day of this foolish Jelly Belliness as I was eating one I noticed I that one was rather hard. I just spit it out and thought it was "defective" and didn't think much of it until a few minutes later when I noticed a hole in on of my back molars. My filling came out...Great!!! I called the dentist and they said "can you make it here by 2pm?" that's in an hour...so I packed up the kids and off we went. That morning I had taken the kids to get their hair cut as they were scheduled for pictures at 5pm at Sears. I figured I could fit everything in except my workout. The filling that came out was a tooth that really needs a crown. My dentist has been trying to talk me into getting one for the longest time, but insurance only covers half. So he just filled it and off I went. I think I will get a crown on that tooth in the summer as I'd hate to be away somewhere when the filling falls out. We got to the mall at 2:30 pm cause Kamden had a Build a Bear certificate that expires at the end of the month and she wanted to buy a new bear (puppy) with her money---by the time we finished up there we still had 2 hours left till our pictures. So I thought we'd go and check and see if they could fit us in early...you never know unless you check...Luckily they had room. The kids did their pictures and everything worked out great. We got home and my tooth was bugging me for the rest of the evening and there was no workout to be had yesterday...luckily Friday I have a scheduled day off, but now with juggling around I will be doing todays workout tomorrow and yesterdays workout today...make sense...fun times!!!

Great Directors Who Started with B Movies

Some B films are loved because they're just so bad, but some are loved because they're just so good -- a palpable talent resting beneath the haze of badness. I'm not talking about the guys who spend years honing their technique and then head back to the world of B to make a flashy feature (Grindhouse), but those who are born out of that wonderfully bad wasteland -- the men and women who kickstart their career with blood, chills, and pulp, and then grow into high-buzz filmmakers and talent. Not everyone can start with a critical masterpiece, so what can be better than a little silly fun? It certainly beats a crappy first movie that no one wants to see. Read on to learn of seven big Hollywood names who kicked off their careers with the wonder of B-movie filmmaking. These directors have talent, awards, and a healthy serving of critical success, but it all came out of began with our beloved B's. Maybe they knew how to start their careers, or maybe Roger Corman simply has the best eye for killer talent.

Total Recall showing on ITV2 by DigiGuide Staff

Total RecallTotal Recall, showing Tuesday April 21st on ITV2 at 9:00pmSet in 2084, this classic but brutal sci-fi action thriller stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as Douglas Quaid, a lowly construction worker from Earth who has been plagued by constant dreams of Mars.Unable to afford to visit the red planet, Quaid decides to have the memory of a trip to Mars implanted in his mind by Rekall Inc, a firm specialising in memory implants. Bad move. Things go disastrously wrong and Quaid is launched into a dangerous world of espionage, mutant rebels and alien conspiracies.Released in 1990 and directed by Paul Verhoeven, it's one of Arnie's less wooden performances and there's even the odd gag amidst the OTT violence and effects. And Sharon Stone turns in a powerful performance as Lori, who may - or may not - be Quaid's loving wife. Good stuff.Did you know? The film is based on Philip K. Dick's short story We Can Remember It for You Wholesale. View the full reviewGet a reminder when Total Recall starts...

Easter Bunny has been BUSY

The kids have hinted a few times that they have been wanting to have an Easter Egg Hunt. I wasn't sure if I was up for the challenge, but after reading Running Man's comment I realized that this would be a great tradition to start and I probably don't have too many years left to do it as they won't be believers of Mr. E. Bunny for too many years to come. I began the process on Friday and hit good old Wal-Mart. Trevor and I decided that we didn't want to pump the kid's full of chocolate and decided to just get them a few pieces. We thought it would be a better idea just to get them a Nintendo DS game each, which is exactly what I did. Friday night following our outing at the movies to watch "Hannah Montana The Movie" and after the kid's were tucked away in bed I began coming up with clues for the hunt. I think I probably worked on it for an hour and half and came up these ten clues (some of them are pretty cheezey, but the kids are only 6 and 8): Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} CLUE #1 Roses are Red Violets are Blue This is where you go When Brushing teeth is what you do. CLUE #2 I just arrived…something that is new. Look inside the blue box for a treat for just you two. CLUE #3 C-D-E-F-G-A-B-C these are some notes you can play on me. It’s been a while since you played the , but play a song and you will find me. CLUE #4 Do you like to run races? Well put on your running shoes, but don’t tie your laces. Then you’ll find something that’ll Give you smiley faces CLUE #5 Eating-Eating is something you love to do. Look inside your lunch kit and you’ll find something Just for you. CLUE #6 Homework is never fun to do, but the place you put It when it’s done is the place you should Look for a little fun CLUE #7 Hoping to find something that’s really neat? Go outside where the birds like to eat CLUE #8 The newspaper goes inside this box. Look inside and you will find something That really rocks CLUE #9 There is a vase underneath the picture of the family. Look inside and you’ll find something That is super crazy CLUE #10 This is the final clue Wet clothes get dried in these type of machines. I hope you had fun and always remember what Easter really means J After spending the afternoon/evening at my parent's place we came home and played some games with the kids and then we put them to bed and started hiding the clues. I can't wait till tomorrow as I think they will have a blast. Tomorrow after church we are off to Trevor's parent's place for some more food. Man alive...I love food and after this weekend I am going to really have to buckle down on what I put in my mouth. My half marathon is coming up here pretty darn quick. Only 2 weeks away....tomorrow is only 1 hr and 20 on the bike, so that's not too bad...I better get to bed....

Kate McClelland and Kathy Krasniewicz Memorial Service

The drawback of being on Facebook and Twitter is that I sometimes think I've written about something, only to discover that no, it was part of a FB/Twitter conversationIn January, after the ALA Midwinter Conference, ALSC members Kate McClelland and Kathy Krasniewicz were killed in a car accident on their way to the Denver Airport. The New York Times wrote a beautiful article about the two women; the ALSC blog collected memories of the two women, and posted other updates.Kate McClelland was the vice-president/president-elect of ALSC. Following ALSC rules, Thom Barthelmess was appointed to be vice-president/president-elect.If you've clicked through any of these links, right now you're realizing what a loss this is to these women's families, friends, library, and the profession.Perrot Memorial Library in Old Greenwich, Connecticut is holding a Memorial Service on March 20. Full details are at the library blog.Cross-posted at A Chair, A Fireplace, & A Tea Cozy.